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Omnova Solutions Inc. (OMN) Drops 5.6% on January 18Equities Staff Follow |
Omnova Solutions Inc. (OMN) was one of the Russell 2000's biggest losers for Monday January 18 as the stock slid 5.6% to $4.89, a loss of $-0.29 per share. Starting at an opening price of $5.05 a share, the stock traded between $4.83 and $5.13 over the course of the trading day. Volume was 129,576 shares over 907 trades, against an average daily volume of 107,324 shares and a total float of 45.82 million.
The losses send Omnova Solutions Inc. down to a market cap of $224.06 million. In the last year, Omnova Solutions Inc. has traded between $8.62 and $4.83, and its 50-day SMA is currently $6.48 and 200-day SMA is $6.95.
The stock has a P/E Ratio of 34.9.
Omnova Solutions Inc is engaged in producing emulsion polymers, specialty chemicals, and engineered surfaces for commercial, industrial, and residential end uses. Its products include chemicals, pool liner films, laminates, and upholstery.
Omnova Solutions Inc. is based out of Beachwood, OH and has some 2,320 employees. Its CEO is Kevin M. Mcmullen.
For a complete fundamental analysis analysis of Omnova Solutions Inc., check out Equities.com's Stock Valuation Analysis report for OMN. To see the latest independent stock recommendations from Equities.com's analysts, visit our Research section.
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Russell's indices differ from traditional indices like the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or S&P 500, whose members are selected by committee, because they base membership entirely on an objective, rules based methodology. The 3,000 largest companies by market cap make up the Russell 3000, with the 2,000 smaller companies making up the Russell 2000. It's a simple approach that gives a broad, unbiased look at the small-cap market as a whole.
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Madison County is two weeks out from the Region Tournament and the Red Raiders have one scheduled match between now and then.
Saturday, the Red Raiders head to Elbert County for the Blue Devil Open as the wrestlers turn all their attention to individual training and performances.
"Training this time of year has to be more intense," coach Richie Houston said. "We wrestled above our seeds this past weekend."
According to Houston, several wrestlers stepped up to the challenge.
"Isaac Ruiz and Kyle Gordon really stepped up their game," he said. "Steven Resby was solid and consistent, while Kyle Bates knocked off some tough competition and placed above his seed."
Last Tuesday, Jan. 18, Madison County defeated both Jackson County and Elbert County at home to finish out the season 14-11 in dual meets. The Red Raiders beat Jackson County 42-33 and defeated Elbert County 54-18.
Last weekend, Jan. 21-22, Madison County competed at Alcovy in the East Metro tournament.
Rockdale County, Commerce and Clarke Central were overall the top teams. Madison County finished 12th just behind Jackson County. Apalachee finished 16th and Winder-Barrow was 20th.
At 145 lbs., Isaac Ruiz earned top honors while Resby at 171 lbs. and Gordon at 189 lbs. brought home third-place victories. Bates placed fourth at 160 lbs.
The 8-AAAA Region Tournament at Habersham Central is next week, Feb. 4-5. Following region, the wrestlers will head to the east sectionals, Feb. 10-11, to determine who earns a trip to the Gwinnett Arena and the state championships. Sectional is hosted by Loganville.
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ECU Volleyball earns 2011-2012 AVCA Team Academic Award
Congratulations to ECU's Volleyball team for receiving the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award. The award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.
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Over the holidays we wanted to have our closest friends over for a special dinner... and then we got busy and now it is almost February. So, I'm making it up to them by hosting a Valentine's dinner party complete with an all Barefoot Contessa menu.
Here is what I'm planning :
Parmesan Crisps
Caramelized Bacon
Slow-Roasted Beef Tenderloin (I can't get enough...)
Balsamic-Roased Brussels Sprouts
Truffled Mashed Potatoes
Chocolate Cassis Cake
What do you think? Too much? Too rich? Or just right for an indulgent holiday...?
I love how this white rose that was mixed in with the pale pink ones opened up completely. It looks like a real garden rose.
Here is a link to the step-by-step instructions with flower buying tips (Trader Joe's for these, $15).
Notice, I decided to change the vase after I had completed the arrangement. I love how the footed vase gives the table a more fanciful, ornate feel - very different than the clean modern vase, which I also love. It is so interesting how such a small choice, like a vase, can completely influence the entire feel of a table/party.
Here are a couple of photos that show you what's going on adjacent to the dining room to help you get a feel for the mood - the fire is roaring.
... and Mr. is cuddled up in his spot.
Salted Caramel Turtle Puddles. Yes, they are as good as they look. Maybe better. This is the second batch I've made in 4 days... the first went too quickly. AND they are the easiest candy I've ever made. Easy and amazing... dangerous.
Here is the recipe for the "Puddles" - they are sooo good.


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No Big Security Changes in Firefox 4 Beta 1
Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 4.
The striking differences are in the user interface; for instance, tabs default to the top of the window, a la Google Chrome.
Read AppScout's announcement of the release of Firefox 4 Beta 1.
In fact, security changes seem almost nonexistent in this version. The "What's New in Firefox 4 Beta (revision 1)" in the release notes doesn't mention a single security feature. This Features page has one: new privacy controls.
There seem to be 2 themes to the new privacy features: one is the claim that version 4:
Makes it easier to know what info websites are gathering about you, what they can do to your computer and what they're allowed to know about you.
Unfortunately, from what I can see, the privacy and history user interfaces are almost exactly the same as in version 3.6. Perhaps these features are not yet implemented in beta 1.
The second is about how version 4 attempts to plug a privacy hole in the CSS :visited selector which, in combination with the JavaScript getComputedStyle() function, can allow a malicious site to examine your browsing history.
Mozilla's strategy for blocking abuse is somewhat incredible:
getComputedStyle (and similar functions like querySelector) will lie. They will always return values as if a user has never visited a site.
There will also be limits to the styles and some other features that can be used for visited links. It's not clear to me if this has been implemented in beta 1.
This entry on hacks.mozilla.org explains the matter in more detail.


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Showdown Looms in Egypt, Protesters Back ElBaradei
Egypt's political leaders showed no sign of backing away from confrontation as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians kept up their demonstrations against President Mohammed Morsi. Egypt's main opposition groups, meanwhile, singled out Mohamed ElBaradei as a leader they would rally behind. Matt Bradley reports.
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... the the ... so nice if you need it as hundreds of thousands of protesters massed in Cairo is to risk led to protests against President Morsi ... will have a live report from Cairo ... right here right now on the New Saab good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable ... Paul mossy showing no sign of backing down just one day ahead of the mill trees ultimatum ... to result the crisis ... and with the de tails will Street dolls Matt Bradley joins us now from Cairo ... man's what is the latest ... we're seeing several resignations for ... as Morsi's staff and just today as we foresee ... or to lead men in general ... CC ... we yesterday ... announced that Morsi at about forty eight hours orders result of political crisis was brewing industries and also hour ... before the military each of these outside but they are what exactly the kind of intervention that mean that stuff may ratchet up the ... pressure ... C T has until tomorrow afternoon ... to really come to ... an agreement with the opposition with the military will take some sort of ... now the use of them has been some rising in cabinet resignations is using them and take mold them and simple I think the crowds implicate the millet re ... absolutely the crowds and the opposition are demanding that Mr Morris stepped down and that's really ... that's really ... their position it's going to stay that way until the end of the ultimatum Sbarro ... the opposition is in us to not settle for anything less than Mr Morsi's resignation ... and all they really have to do list ... it's all hold their ground ... and the military aid will be well in a more stable bought against the military's ultimatum so ... really the endgame year for the opposition is just do not they had to call an error in law ... states ... can now when we sing live shots now of masses of people ... packed into race class ... and looks from the peaceful is that you'll sense of the situation in Cairo on the ground now ... in fact for people reported killed in C savages across the river from Cyprus where any images that you see ... so while most of the marches and demonstrations are quite useful ... there are ... some dents in quite a few clashes on the fringes of the formal ... political events ... now we know that in in in the last election which will see ... one of the baby ... the Muslim Brotherhood was the most organized ... of all the ... potential ... in our potential role as ... who could step in to buy a roll on of the millet re right now who does the opposition wants ... already know some parts of the opposition are calling for the head of the constitutional Court to step in Adidas Stuart for their first transition ... but really there isn't much of an alternative to President Morsi right now ... the opposition decided on the paradigms of Nobel laureates in the former head of the International Atomic energy Agency ... and the former president and that your new chips ... is that it is he was going to be the one to speak for the opposition ... now whether or not has the prosperity ... in an election against an Islamist candidate ... is yet to be determined ... content will will see what happens I'll know you'll be on the case ... with this and reporting into telling us tonight thank you very much Matt Bradley of The will Street gentle ...


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The Slow Wine tasting, an event featuring more than 50 Italian producers pouring their wines, will be held in Chicago on January 29 at Spiaggia (900 N. Michigan). There will be two tastings - one for the trade and media from 1-5 PM, while there is a consumer event from 6:00-8:30.
This walk-around tasting is based upon the Slow Wine Guide, which honors the best producers of Italy, especially those that craft wine according to environmental sensitivity and eco-sustainable practices. There are producers from every region in Italy and they have been noted for various recognition, ranging from the best values in Italian wines to overall excellence for their type to finally the Snail award for a producer's wine that interprets the Slow Wine philosophy in categories such as territory, environment and identity.
Thus anyone attending this event will have the opportunity to taste a wide array of the latest releases from Italy, ranging from Pinot Grigio and Friulano from Alto Adige and Friuli to textbook reds such as Dolcetto, Barbaresco and Barolo from Piedmont. Among the producers pouring their wines at this event will be Planeta (Sicily), Anna Maria Abbona (Piedmont), Giovanni Rosso (Piedmont), Grifalco (Basilicata), Pieropan (Veneto) and dozens more. There will also be producers from regions such as Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Umbria and Marche, whose wines do not often receive the acclaim they deserve.
The 2014 Slow Wine Guide will be available at the tasting. Note that for the consumer event, the book is included in the ticket price of $45, while at the afternoon tasting for trade and media, the guide will be available for purchase.
Here are the links with information on registering for this event:
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1.) When the telethon begins, Zoot is shown not wearing his hat in the wide shot of the orchestra, and then is wearing his hat when he blows his note in close-up.
3.) When Bobo and Uncle Deadly, are singing "Together Again," Bobo is seen holding a spray bottle, but when the two are commanded to stop singing by Tex Richman, Bobo's hand's are empty. Then, when Bobo and Uncle Deadly are blaming each other for the singing, Bobo has the spray bottle in his hands again.
You'll remember the scene where the Muppets kidnap Jack Black in a ninja-style fashion. Let's list the characters in the car before hand, shall we? We have Miss Piggy, Swedish Chef, Lew Zealand, Animal, Fozzie, Gonzo, Scooter, and 80's Robot.
Well, that's that. Someone go put them on Muppet Wiki, please. I don't know how. Do you think you found a mistake? Let us know!
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EDGE Publications Launches Dallas Gay News and Entertainment Portal
For Immediate Release Sep 4, 2007
Dallas, TX - EDGE Publications, Inc. in partnership with the Dallas Voice today announced the official launch of EDGEdallas.com, a next-generation news and entertainment portal serving Dallas' Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community.
EDGEdallas.com delivers eight major channels of information to its readers, including daily news, business & finance, weather, arts & entertainment, health & fitness, style, sports and travel. An additional number of channels provide local coverage of nightlife, shopping, lodging, dining, plus a local business directory and calendar of events.
The site joins a family of market-leading online publications currently serving readers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and greater New England.
"The launch of EDGEdallas.com is a truly exciting next step for our brand," said EDGE Publisher David Foucher. "It offers the gay and lesbian community here in Dallas a first-ever online source of daily news and entertainment, and it offers our advertisers integrated access to a new metropolitan market."
The Dallas Voice, the largest gay and lesbian community newspaper in Dallas, has partnered with EDGE to provide a variety of local news coverage.
"The Dallas Voice is thrilled to be the local media partner for EDGEdallas.com," said Robert Moore, publisher. "This model blends traditional and new media, bringing even more exposure to the great editorial content of our newspaper."
The new publication is available at http://www.EDGEdallas.com.
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Brookfield Renewable has announced that it intends to make an offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Western Wind Energy for a cash consideration of $2.50 per share.
On July 30, Western Wind announced that it was seeking a buyer, and on Aug. 28, Brookfield Renewable acquired 16.2% of Western Wind's outstanding common shares in a single transaction and approached the company regarding participation in its sale process.
However, Western Wind says that Brookfield refused to sign a customary non-disclosure and standstill agreement that was entered into by other auction participants. On Oct. 24, Western Wind announced that the auction process was progressing as planned, with a limited number of bidders having been invited to conduct a second round of very extensive due diligence, as well as the addition of new participants, as the proxy battle caused at least eight weeks of delay in the auction process.
According to a statement released by Western Wind, some of the informal offers received from other auction participants in that second round were higher than the offer intended to be made by Brookfield. However, Western Wind stresses that those were just initial expressions of interest and that there is no guarantee that a formal offer or binding agreement will be made with those companies.


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Chef Pepin bring art of cooking to homeless
ANSONIA -- Renowned chef and author Jacques Pepin watched approvingly Tuesday morning as culinary students at Emmett O'Brien Technical High School prepared meals for the homeless, assisted by a self-proclaimed "good cook," Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Wearing a white toque and an apron over his blue sweater, the governor pounded and rolled dough to make baguettes and helped prepare butternut squash, tapping elbows with students squeezing by with trays of bacon, ground beef and vegetables.
The elbow-tapping is kitchen etiquette, Malloy explained to students working near him. Although Pepin and Malloy consulted several times while preparing three separate meals for residents of the Spooner House homeless shelter in Derby, the governor seemed to know his way around a commercial kitchen.
He made Thanksgiving dinner for his family, but Malloy's specialty is meatballs and they were on the menu Tuesday. The 40 Spooner House residents will be getting spaghetti and meatballs, meatloaf and mashed potatoes and ground beef with butternut squash. O'Brien students also prepared apple tarts for dessert.
"O'Brien Tech is one of our biggest partners in the community," Spooner House executive director Susan Agamy said. Students will also prepare and serve a separate meal Thursday to shelter residents, she said. "We have wonderful meal teams, but we rarely get meals prepared by the caliber of Chef Pepin."
All of the meat and produce came from Connecticut farms, and Tuesday's program was originally planned for Farm to Chef Week in September, said Linda Piotrowicz of the state Department of Agriculture. Malloy was in China that week and the program was rescheduled, she said.
Herb Holden, of Broad Brook Farm in East Windsor, provided the meat from his herd of 75 beef cattle; the apples came from Rogers Orchards in Southington. All of the produce was donated by the growers, Piotrowicz said.
Pepin, a Madison resident, has been very supportive of the state's locally grown program, the agriculture department spokesman said.
Andrew R. Doba, Malloy's spokesman, said the governor had conversations with Pepin about doing the joint event, where the French chef and cookbook author would mentor students. "The governor is a big believer in the state's vocational-technical schools and we're convinced that they are job incubators," Doba said.
Before the cooking class, Malloy toured the other shops in the school.
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Critics fear plan may lead to rationing
I have to concede that this headline is perfectly accurate, though I would say that the conservative opponents of health care reform are afraid of so many things that the sub-title could as accurately read, "Critics fear plan may lead to single payer," or "Critics fear plan may lead to socialized medicine," or "Critics fear plan may lead to the END of AMERICA as we KNOW IT!" So I would take the bogeymen of the right wing with the proverbial grain of salt.
What they are raving about is "Comparative effectiveness research," or CER, in which various therapies are compared against one another to see which works better. It sounds simple and inoffensive enough, doesn't it? Isn't that the whole point of science and evidence-based medicine -- to conduct experiments and use them to guide medical decision-making?
Yes, but, if you are an lobby with an interest to defend, say you make a large number of expensive drugs or implantable devices which may or may not be more effective than pre-existing, cheaper products, you have a powerful interest in protecting your bottom line by blocking or discrediting CER. And if you are a political opportunist opposed to Obama's health care reforms for ideological reasons, then this is an easy chance to frighten away support for reform by screaming "rationing!"
Just for the record, if, as the sober-eyed "health economist for the conservative Heritage Foundation" gravely warns, this does result in "restricting treatment options based on a government-run board's interpretations of research," it is important to understand: that is not what rationing is.
Rationing is generally understood to mean the practice of restricting allotments of resources due to scarcity. As applied to health care, this generally means that certain therapies are not covered, or that only a fixed number of persons are allowed to get them. Think of waiting lines for knee replacements, or managed care plans who refused to cover bone marrow transplants for breast cancer (which, ironically, were not effective any way). That's rationing.
It is something of a sad statement on the bizarre poltical world we are about to enter that people can posit things such as "care that is not deemed most effective should be covered" and "research should not determine whether procedures or drugs will be paid for" and still be taken as serious, rational, good-faith participants in the debate. Of course if there are therapies which are ineffective, we should stop paying for them! Of course if there are comparably effective therapies, the cheaper one should be favored! Anybody who cannot agree with simple principles like these is either stupid or corrupt.
My point, however, is that, if this came to pass, if there were some "government board" arbitrating the efficacy of competing therapies based on CER (which there is not, and no proposal to create), that is still not rationing! It is evidence-based medicine, writ large across a health system.
A health system, I hasten to add, that is consuming 17% of the GDP, and increasing in size year after year.
So it would not necessarily be a bad thing, implemented properly, to have guidelines based on good research showing clearly which treatments work better, and are cheaper. And I will agree in advance with the inevitable commenters that a restrictive, inflexible, heavy-handed managed care approach to cutting off less-effective or more-expensive treatments would be a bad thing. But I can imagine market-driven incentives, as outlined in the linked article, that might work well, such as " a tiered system that requires patients to pay more for treatments that are seen as less cost-effective." Imagine that -- care which is more effective, and costs less.


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So Ron gets his time off , Ben Wallace gets a slap on the wrist, Bill Walton pitches a fit ("The shock, dismay and sadness have not diminished at all with time" CHILL OUT JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, IT'S NOT LIKE A KENNEDY GOT SHOT), that fat kid who looked like Turtle from Entourage gets his dome dented by Jermaine (don't worry, when he's done raiding J.O.'s financial holdings he be able to cop a fine new Marc Jacobs head-piece), and David Stern let the thunder roll down the mount.
I don't really have anything to add other then:
1. Ron should've gotten maybe 30 games, at the most.
2. This whole, "How will we the fans protect ourselves from the raging fury of rogue NBA players vaulting into the stands" line of thinking can be answered quite easily: MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T DROP THE N-BOMB/TALK SHIT ABOUT A GUY'S FAMILY/TELL PAUL PIERCE YOU HOPE HE GETS STABBED AGAIN/THROW SOLID OBJECTS AT PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T WANT STEPHEN JACKSON TO PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Indy is fucked, yes. But I think Billy Hunter will get the O'Neal suspension knocked down. While young J.O. did probably inflict the most damage (see aforementioned chooch with knuckle imprint on his face), he was basically protecting what is supposed to be a player's sanctuary. If he comes back and they can stay in the hunt until Jackson returns early next year, Indy could still make noise. Peace out, Dunny Artest. May you menage with Allure and chomp Paxil til the '05!


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Taking Advantage of Team Preview
New to BW, Team Preview revolutionized competitive Pokemon. The ability to see your opponent's Pokemon gives you information that would otherwise be left unknown. I'm sure all of you know the mechanics of Team Preview, but just to recap: you and your opponent see each others' Pokemon at the beginning of a battle. You can change the order of your Pokemon, allowing you to choose your lead based on the opposing team. Now, think on this: have you ever actually taken advantage of Team Preview? Really, think about it for a moment. Unless you're a highly skilled player, I'd place my bets that you have not. This is one of the major factors that holds players back. You can get information from Team Preview that will be invaluable throughout the battle. You can figure out how to accomplish your goals and what roadblocks your opponent might have to those goals. You can figure out the best course of action to remove these roadblocks. Team Preview is one of if not the most important parts of a battle. Remember that while reading this.
One of the major pieces of knowledge you can obtain from Team Preview is the playstyle of your opponent's team. Common examples include rain offense, rain stall, and sun offense, though there are many others. Determining your opponent's playstyle is the first step toward deducing what sets your opponent might be running. Before I talk about that, I'll answer a question you're probably thinking of: how do you determine playstyles? Well, I could go on and on about different ways to categorize teams, but basically you'll just want to check if your team does well versus your opponent's team or not. Once you get that down, you can figure out sets. For example, a Latias on an offensive team is more likely to be running a Life Orb or Choice Specs set. However, on a stall team, Latias often runs support or Calm Mind. This can help immensely with guessing sets of unpredictable Pokemon. If your opponent has a rain stall team with Jirachi, you can pretty much guarantee it will be running a specially defensive set or the rare Substitute + Calm Mind set. If your opponent has entry hazards and no clear sweeper and is using Dragonite, then it is likely a Dragon Dance set. In short, reading between the lines is key for using this information in practice. However, it is not always reliable, either. There is no reason your opponent cannot run a Choice Scarf Jirachi on a rain team even though the most common set is one of the Calm Mind variants. Just as a general rule, don't rely on your skills of deduction, as there is no way you can be sure that your opponent will have a given set just because of their team's playstyle.
Obviously, you're in a better spot if you know what your opponent has coming. If they have a Volcarona, it is going to try and set up with Quiver Dance. Make a plan to prevent that from happening. If your opponent has a Forretress it will likely be setting up entry hazards. Have a Taunt user or heavy hitter out ready to prevent hazards. If your opponent has a Xatu or Espeon and your strategy relies on entry hazards, you should try and remove that impediment as soon as possible. There's also some examples with walls. If your opponent has a Chansey and you have a ton of special attackers alongside a lone Terrakion, you'll know to preserve Terrakion. Vice versa goes with Skarmory. If you have a Kingdra and your opponent has a Ferrothorn, you need to remove Ferrothorn. Essentially, you want to identify your opponent's game plan and obstacles to your game plan, preventing and removing them, respectively. If you notice a Pokemon you're weak to on your opponent's team, don't just go "gdi I'm screwed." See the ways you can deal with that. For example, maybe you're weak to SubCM Jirachi. Let's say you have a Whirlwind Skarmory and Taunt Jellicent. You also have a mixed Salamence with Fire Blast / Outrage / Brick Break / Roost. You're going to want to predict Jirachi's switch-ins and bring in Jellicent to Taunt or Skarmory to Whirlwind. Essentially, you want to prevent it from setting up. Fire Blast isn't going to do that much in your opponent's rain, but you have some Spikes. You'll want to keep phazing Jirachi out until it is weakened to a point where Fire Blast can finish it off. Now, what if you hadn't identified SubCM Jirachi in Team Preview? You wouldn't have figured out what to do until it was too late. Even if you weren't sure what set Jirachi was running, you would know to do your best at scouting it. Simply identifying threats in Team Preview saved you the match; however, be sure to note this: don't rely on these educated guesses, because in the end they are just that—guesses. Your opponent could be running any set or a creative one of their own. Maybe they have different moves than are standard. Nothing is guaranteed. While in other games you might know exactly what each playing piece your opponent has is going to end up doing, you never know for sure in Pokemon. In chess, you know that your opponent's king can only move one space in each direction and that their pawn will not be able to attack your king head on. In Pokemon, for all you know, Jirachi could be an offensively-based Calm Mind variant, not the specially defensive one you were expecting. The best way to play is to assume that if your opponent's Pokemon can carry a move to hit your Pokemon, it has it unless you determine it doesn't via scouting. Figuring out which Pokemon you should focus on scouting out is also important in Team Preview.
All of this information is worthless, however, without applying it to pick your lead and allowing the information to dictate your strategy throughout the battle. In the end, Team Preview is just another part of the game; you need to try and end it with an advantage over your opponent. There's a few terms I'll define for those of you who aren't familiar. The first is the term dedicated lead, which is, as the name implies, a Pokemon who devotes all of their abilities to leading. Usually, entry hazard leads will jump to the front of your mind when this term comes up. Pokemon such as Focus Sash Terrakion, Aerodactyl, and Froslass are a couple examples of them. Dual screens, while not that good in this metagame, are easy to set up against more defensive leads such as Ferrothorn. The breadwinner is Espeon, who has Magic Bounce to prevent Ferrothorn from setting up entry hazards. Espeon can become near-impossible for some teams to break. Azelf is another viable option, utilizing the great Speed it has to set up screens reliably. Now, there's also counters to these leads; fast Taunt users render all of them useless. However, a faster Taunt is less ubiquitous than it once was, especially with the departure of Tornadus-T. Teams with dedicated leads are almost always offensive, if not hyper offensive. Why is this, you may ask? Well, dedicated leads are generally fast Pokemon that can get their job done reliably. Offensive teams can seize this momentum to destroy their opposition. If you have a dedicated lead, picking your lead is easy, but if you don't, well, that's what is going to be discussed next.
If you don't have a dedicated lead, the goal is to end up with the best initial match-up. The player with the advantageous match-up on the first turn has an edge for the entire battle. Here's a few quick tips:
The other option you have is to just take the first steps toward achieving your team's goal. Set up that Stealth Rock. Baton Pass that Substitute. Spread that paralysis. Surprise KO that troublesome Pokemon with your unorthodox moveset. It's not rocket science; get the battle started. Look at it this way: Whichever player achieves their goal first wins. By working toward your goal right off the bat, your opponent is automatically a step behind. If your opponent is weak to one of your Pokemon, you should know to try and keep it alive.
What if you're seriously going for that good match-up, though. What if that advantage helps you more (it does)? You're going to have to take a gamble: What are the odds that your opponent will lead with a certain Pokemon? Assuming said opponent has a functioning brain, they're going to think a bit. This is a very advanced form of prediction. There are an infinite amount of match-ups possible. The only good way to do this is to use some example teams. What you'll see is exactly what is seen in Team Preview; the Pokemon.
Player 1 vs. Player 2
Using our playstyle checklist, you should find that the teams can be classified fairly easily. Player 1 has a balanced hail team. You should easily be able to see the gameplan of the team; Abomasnow sets up hail, which allows Kyurem-B to utilize a perfectly accurate Blizzard and punch holes, which allows Landorus (likely a special Rock Polish variant) to sweep. This is all made possible through a combination of reliable entry hazards and a spinner. The obvious Stealth Rock setter is Aerodactyl, but identifying the Choice Scarf user is a bit trickier. Landorus, Rotom-W, and Kyurem-B are all possible ones; however, from our previous analysis, it should be intuitively obvious that either Landorus or Rotom-W holds the Choice Scarf, with the odds slightly leaning toward the latter. Player 2 is running a sand stall team. Jirachi appears to be a SubCM or Wish + Calm Mind variant, as the team lacks any other offensive Pokemon, but it could be any set for Rotom-W and Kyurem-B both appear to be huge threats, and Forretress is going to have trouble spinning with all the Pokemon that can heavily damage it. Player 2 is at a pretty immediate team disadvantage. Hippowdon usually runs a defensive set with Slack Off, Earthquake, Stealth Rock, and a filler move. Forretress is of course going to be a physically defensive spinner that likely has one or both forms of Spikes. Of course, Forretress could be running Stealth Rock, but Hippowdon is much more likely to be running it in this scenario. Zapdos appears to be defensive also, probably some variant of SubRoost. Jellicent is obviously the spinblocker and is imperative for Player 1 to remove. Tangrowth always runs a physically defensive set. Player 2 needs to keep hazards up with his spinblocker in order to wear down Kyurem-B, so Hippowdon is a pretty nice lead. But wait! Player 1 has a dedicated lead in Aerodactyl, so he or she won't be leading with Abomasnow, which means getting sand up first will put Player 2 at a disadvantage. Instead, they should lead with something for Aerodactyl. What Player 2 knows is that their Jirachi is a Trick + Choice Scarf variant. Aerodactyl will likely Taunt to prevent Jirachi from setting up Stealth Rock, so Player 2 is in the clear. Even if Aerodactyl sets up Stealth Rock, it won't be able to do much else because Choice Scarf prevents it from switching moves. This is actually what both players do. Player 2's analytical thinking pays off, as Aerodactyl is crippled on the very first turn.
This is the type of thinking you need to have. Note that the players in the battle took less than a minute to figure this all out. It's exactly what you should do eventually. In the example, Player 2 took an educated guess and started the battle with an advantage. Now that you have this knowledge, go and try it out. In no time at all, you'll be winning games like crazy. This, my friend, is what differentiates a good player from a mediocre one.


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The great Western philosopher Descartes wrote that "there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me."
I think it might be Steve Jobs.
I simply could not exist without my iPod. And truthfully I'd like to think the iPod can't live without me either, as our histories are intrinsically synced. You see, I hit the market as a single chicken right about the same time the iPod hit the mainstream. There we were, both launching ourselves into uncharted territory, wondering what fate had in store for us. A suburban mom and an MP3 player, repackaged and ready to change the world. The iPod and I were partners in crime, armed with nothing more than a 99-cent song in our hearts and big dreams for the future.
Except the iPod actually had a multi-million dollar advertising budget while I just had match.com and some hand-me-down self help books. But nonetheless! We were all charged up and ready to play.
I received my first iPod as a cheer-up-during-the-divorce present. It was a great influence right from the start. I stopped stealing music from Napster and Limewire and started paying for it fair and square. I stopped smoking (eventually) and obsessively started making custom playlists. I stopped crying and started creating a new soundtrack for the happy new life that was just beyond my reach. The new tunes tricked me into feeling happy until I actually became happy, sort of a chicken and the egg thing. I loved my iPod. It was as if I'd hit the clickwheel of fortune.
Slowly but surely my family has joined the cult as well, each for very separate reasons. Two years ago Little Chick got a Nano for Christmas so she could collect the colored iPod cases and little clothes for her iDog. Last year my mom got an iPod so she could order some fancy red speakers from Switzerland that matched the new décor in her house. But she wouldn't touch her new little Nano for several weeks as if she had some sort of iPod postpartum depression. So I had to teach my dad how to use it so he would in turn teach her. Up until then my dad vociferously doubted the merit of an iPod, but once he realized you could find the most obscure western tunes and versions of jazz songs no one else had, he was a believer. For a man who's never stepped foot in a mall, he now goes regularly to check on the latest accessories at the Apple store.
This past weekend we gave my grandmother an iPod for Christmas. As she opened it, Little Chick said, "Mimi, you're going to love it. It's like a whole way of life." Mimi was just flattered we thought she could figure it out. And she caught on remarkably fast. But really, you haven't lived until you've tried to teach your grandmother how to navigate iTunes with your mother and your daughter sitting on either side correcting everything you say. Four generations of iPods in one room – now that's a lot to download.
I've been through several versions of the iPod -- the original classic, a shuffle, and a Nano. Apple keeps dropping new product designs on my head, and much like the force of gravity, I simply can't resist. This weekend my family surprised me with the new iPod Touch and I am over the moon. Forget a fancy technology review on the capabilities of the device – I am going to look like a badass in public! Yesterday morning I loaded up Little Chick so we would arrive at her school early. I rationalized that we needed to go into the Starbucks across the street to get a latte for her teacher, but really I just wanted to be seen in there during the morning rush with my new iPod Touch. Now granted there was a 12-year old little girl at the table next to me with her new iPod Touch and she was kind of stealing my thunder, but hey, I still had the magic Touch. And in the spirit of the great Southern philosopher Forrest Gump…Cool Is As Cool Does.
I'm sure self-help authors around the world would cry out in horror at my materialistic version of self-worth, but the syllogistic argument simply holds up: The iPod Touch is cool, and I have an iPod Touch, ergo I am cool.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I-Pod Therefore I Am
The great Western philosopher Descartes wrote that "there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me."
Posted by Chick at 7:38 AM
Labels: divorce, family, ipod, ipod touch, philosophy
21 comments:
- Rachel said...
I'm jealous of you and your uber coolness with your Touch!!
I have the little pink shuffle, so I'm a little bit cool :-)
This was a fabulous read! You are so much fun!
Congrats on your new toy!
- December 18, 2007 at 7:50 AM
I love this post. A family that shuffles together, stays together.
About 2 years ago, I introduced my mom to the iPod. As a professed non-techie, it was a long, hard journey. I began the lesson with helping her understand how to burn existing CDs into her iTunes. Buying and downloading music came much later. Funny thing is, when I was in high school, she liked opera, I liked punk. Later in life, I liked classic rock, she liked French music. As it turns out, she recently discovered Buck Owens on a business trip down south. I said "mom, allow me to make you a playlist" -- now we're properly "synched" as they say.
- December 18, 2007 at 10:38 AM
- Donna said...
I don't know how I lived before I got my iPod -- it is that important to me.
And yes, I am so jealous of your new Touch!
- December 18, 2007 at 11:10 AM
- mikster said...
It's all about still having the magic touch, natch.
- December 18, 2007 at 11:37 AM
- suchsimplepleasures said...
i have the iPod nano...from a million generations ago. it's cool, though. i don't mind being stunted, technologically...i'm down with my uncoolness! you, though...way too cool...never even heard of touch...so...that'll tell ya something. but...ask me about ANY generation of power rangers...go ahead, i dare ya!
- December 18, 2007 at 12:22 PM
I am still on the original iPod. It is seriously the 1976 Monte Carlo. The thing is a boat. I am so very jealous.
- December 18, 2007 at 1:33 PM
- Momo Fali said...
My daughter asked for an ipod from Santa...for me! Isn't that the sweetest?! If only he wasn't a figment of our imaginations. Sigh.
As for Mrs. Claus and the Bloody Mary...totally TRUE. We got quite a laugh out of that one!
- December 18, 2007 at 1:48 PM
- josey said...
i DON'T have an iPod! *GASP* i guess i've never really had a use for one. it always annoys me when i see people walking around blaring music in their ears. ROTFL!! like when people wear those bluetooth headsets around even when they're not on the phone? LOL! GOOFY! *runs and hides from everyone now* hahhaa!
but...i digress...i secretly want an iPod or something like it, so i can listen to music when i force myself to use the treadmill at the gym...*CRIES*...we have a satellite radio but its just not cool enough!! oh, the shame!! ;)
- December 18, 2007 at 2:44 PM
I'm not a poder..but if it works that weell for you...excellent
- December 18, 2007 at 4:48 PM
- Deb said...
So far, that is the only iPod I do not own. We have two of everything they've ever come out with (or so it seems), because my husband is an addict, too. Maybe we need a support group? Nahhhh....
I love the generations of family huddled around the screen. The new Norman Rockwell lives!
- December 18, 2007 at 9:57 PM
- Tot's Mom said...
Hmmm... now I must go and get one myself. Or perhaps, I should hint to someone that this would make a cool Christmas gift for a bored mom?? :)
- December 18, 2007 at 11:09 PM
- NeoAuteur said...
Everyone in my household has an iPOD. I guess we are an iPOD family. Nice post.
- December 18, 2007 at 11:26 PM
Aww man now I am really jealous! I soo want one of those! BTW I found this site with all these covers of Stairway to Heaven on it. Some good stuff to stick on your shiny new iPod Touch. I totally dig the Dolly Parton version!
- December 19, 2007 at 1:34 AM
I love mine too!!!
I have the 80g movie iPod...In LOVE!
- December 19, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Great, great. Love the comparison with Apple marketing budget and match.com. Congratulations on the teaching exercise,tremendous patience with the on-lookers.
- December 19, 2007 at 12:39 PM
- Seeker said...
Christine, This is the first time I came to your blog. You write really well.
Congrats on the Touch!! I'm getting my wife one for Christmas too :-)
- December 19, 2007 at 9:18 PM
- canape said...
Your grandmother has an iPod. That makes you cooler than you even having a touch one. Coolness through cool grandmas. Generational coolness.
- December 19, 2007 at 10:21 PM
Christine, you make me laugh as hard as anyone I have ever known. Love your website/blog and love this article. I can't tell you how much I outwardly laughed from this one. Ahhh, if I could only be so cool. Murray
- December 31, 2007 at 3:01 PM
- BURAOT said...
was just about to drop my entrecard. then the title got my attention... then descartes and steve jobs. i chuckled. the i shuffled.
cheers on this wondeful post.
- January 4, 2008 at 5:47 AM
- OzarkAngler said...
My wife and I are also shameless adherents of the iLifestyle. We were converted in 2006.
I just read several of your blog posts and they are very entertaining and well written. But this one was my favorite.
We believe that the iPod is THE emerging icon of the digital revolution.
This Christmas, we added a Brookstone Boombucket to our plethora of iPod accessories. I reviewed it on MY blogger blog.
- January 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM
- Lizzie said...
Christine- thanks for visiting my blog today. Just happens that this afternoon, I finally traded in my ipod mini that has been dead for a year to a new nano- I really wanted an itouch...but baby steps...At least it makes running fun again!
I love your blog too. I'm putting you on my blogroll.
- January 13, 2008 at 8:36 PM


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e i π + 1 = 0However, in Python, this isn't quite true:
If you note, the imaginary component is quite small: -1 x 10-16.
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>>> math.e**(math.pi*1j) + 1
Python is Steve's tool of choice, so it's possible to misread his post and believe that python got the answer wrong. However, the error is fundamental. Witness:
As I said, it would be possible to misread Steve's post as a complaint against Python. It is not. As he says:
$ ghci
Prelude> :m + Data.Complex
Prelude Data.Complex> let e = exp 1 :+ 0
Prelude Data.Complex> let ipi = 0 :+ pi
Prelude Data.Complex> e
2.718281828459045 :+ 0.0
Prelude Data.Complex> ipi
0.0 :+ 3.141592653589793
Prelude Data.Complex> e ** ipi + 1
0.0 :+ 1.2246063538223773e-16
I believe the results would be just as disappointing in any other languageAnd indeed they are, thanks to irrational numbers like π and the limitations of IEEE doubles.
Updated: corrected uses of -iπ with the proper exponent, iπ.


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It wasn't a trap. "I think I knew what I was getting myself into," he says now.
Michael Carter-Williams could have excelled as a freshman most anywhere and could have excelled at Syracuse if the circumstances warranted. It did not turn out that way.
A dozen times during his freshman season, Carter-Williams sat on the Syracuse bench and had as much to do with the outcome as the guy at the top of the Carrier Dome (or the KFC Yum! Center, or the RAC, or the Consol Energy Center or—you get the picture). When Syracuse was eliminated from the Big East Tournament by Cincinnati, he got on the floor long enough to say he'd been there but not enough to register as having played a minute.
Over the final 18 games, he didn't even log an hour's worth of playing time. You know who gets that kind of playing time? Walk-ons. Or maybe the person covering the team for the student paper. But not a McDonald's All-American.
"My most important thing, that me and my parents discussed, is how I was going to get better every day," Carter-Williams told Sporting News. "I didn't think I was one of those players coming into college demanding that I start.
"I expected to get more playing time than I did, but that's just how it worked. That's how (coach Jim) Boeheim runs his program, which is great, because look where I am now."
And where might that be? Second in the NCAA in assists at 8.2 per game, running the attack for the No. 6-ranked team in college basketball and co-leader in the race for the Big East championship. Even with only 24 games as a starter plus all those DNPs from a year ago, he is widely projected as a top-10 pick should he choose to enter the 2013 NBA Draft.
The season has not been entirely perfect. Carter-Williams has not been. He averages 3.6 turnovers per game, so those risks he takes could stand to pay off at a slightly higher rate. He is shooting only 37.5 percent from the field and 28.9 percent on 3-pointers, although his clutch jump shots helped defeat Louisville and Cincinnati in closely competitive games.
And there was the incident at a mall before Christmas, when he reportedly was caught shoplifting from a store and paid a $500 fine to settle the issue, according to the Syracuse Post-Standard. Carter-Williams told Sporting News at the time that the incident was "a big misunderstanding."
Carter-Williams is a 6-6 point guard from Hamilton, Mass., with the kind of vision rare among point guards of any size. Even when the game's greatest passers stood out as the game's greatest passers, there at least were a few of them around at any one time: Bird and Magic and Stockton, then Stockton and Hardaway and Kidd, then Kidd and Nash, and now? Well, Kidd and Nash still are hanging on, but the vision thing just isn't common in the game any longer.
Carter-Williams has that special touch: The ability to see the potential in a play, the audacity to attempt what seems implausible, the skill to pull it off.
"There've been coaches in my past who tried to tell me 'no,' " he said. "I think it's in my game to make the tough pass, to take a chance. It's hard to explain. When I see a split-second opening, I'm going to go for it. It's also time and situation; if it's a close game, I'm not going to go for it. If we're down one, up two, I probably won't take a chance."
What Carter-Williams understands about his gift, however, is that this ability to discern openings others cannot and to deliver accurate passes that exploit these opportunities "means a lot more than just those two points." It is disheartening to a defense that believes it has defended a possession well. It is energizing to teammates who cut harder, sharper, knowing their point guard very well might find them with a scoring pass at any moment.
"It's trust in me and me trusting in my teammates," Carter-Williams said.
Carter-Williams obviously had to sense a similar degree of trust regarding his coaches last season. In the modern game, a McDonald's All-American who doesn't play as a freshman is either injured or ineligible or, as with Brandon Jennings, off in Italy playing for money.
"Definitely, there were a couple of times when it got the better of me and I lashed out at Coach," Carter-Williams said. "Those were mistakes I made. Coach told me if I wasn't yelling at him, he wouldn't know what to expect from me. I was a McDonald's All-American and I wasn't playing ... he knew I wanted to be out there.
"It was tough. I can't lie. There were some real tough days, some real frustrating days."
It was simple math that kept Carter-Williams out of the rotation last season. Dion Waiters was on his way to becoming the No. 4-overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, and he wasn't even starting. Brandon Triche started from his first game at SU but was giving up minutes to accommodate Waiters' imposing talent. Scoop Jardine was a fifth-year senior on his way to finishing with 1,295 career points, and he was yielding playing time.
There just wasn't room for MCW when the games counted.
"I was trying to get Scoop and Brandon and Dion better every day in practice," Carter-Williams said. "It taught me to be humble every day in basketball, that I wasn't going to be given anything.
"I saw a lot of guys getting time that I had played against and either I got the better of or it was good competition. I got frustrated at times and compared myself against them and this and that. But at the end of the day, I can only control myself. It definitely motivated me. To see those guys do work out on the floor, knowing that I had competed against them, it pushed me to go harder."
That Carter-Williams handled the situation so well, that he even remained at Syracuse for his sophomore year, made an impression on those who know the game best. There are freshmen with far less talent and potential and far more court time who still feel shortchanged and rush to transfer at the first opportunity.
"How he had toughness last year—McDonald's All-American, didn't play as much as he wanted to—and he certainly improved," Rutgers coach Mike Rice said. "Unlimited potential. He's so long it's not fair. It's just amazing, when you're standing on the sideline looking at his length. A consistent jumper and more strength and size and you're talking about a first-round draft choice."
A year ago, Carter-Williams had all of the same qualities and yet was a bench-warmer. Looking back, one can say he handled his first test as a college basketball player better than most.


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Okay so we can all argue about the margin of error and how only best people read this forum, but still... 400+ responses... Any person who's got a reasonable business sense would shit their pants if they saw the company that's only 6 months old leading this poll.
Maybe now we can see why the reaction from the rest of the industry was so quick and vicious, way back before Best had even shipped its first kite. They could see this happening 6 months before it did.
Now the only question is how long will the others take to react, because there is no way that there is sufficient growth in the sport to support status quo sales with Best sucking people away from the old companies. Not to mention kites haven't leapt ahead in performance like they had in previous years. Companies are starting to switch focus to relaunch technologies and systems like one-pump to keep kiters coming back for new stuff. But will these things that haven't been perfected (and could be copied eventually) really be enough to get people to ante up 3x as much money? and every year?
Also, consider this, I have many friends who kiteboard, and I do not know a single one who bought their kite through a retailer or without considerable (more than 30%) discount. How much longer can the industry continue the charade? Eventually everyone will know that only newbies pay retail. When sales start to dwindle, bro-deals will stop, and even more people will be left searching for a cheaper alternative.
There is a chance to save these companies and the shops before more people start filing bankruptcy... here's my plan to save the kite industry:
Get over the idea that kiteboarding is going to be the next snowboarding, its not. Its too difficult, dangerous, expensive, and it requires giving up your life to chasing wind. People just can't do that with kids, jobs, etc. Remember you may live in some warm place where its windy everyday, and you can kite all year, you work at a company that promotes it even... but most people don't.
So now that you know there's not going to be that explosive growth you've been expecting, you can start planning for the future...
Wipika, Slingshot, Globerider, F-One & any other kiteboarding only companies:
Get rid of these guys, you don't need them. You have the most powerful advertising engine in the world at your fingertips, and its basically free - THE INTERNET! People know your brands and will follow them. If you sold your soul to your distributors with contracts, well then that sucks. Get out of them as soon as possible.
With your distributors gone you can control kite prices world wide, you can control inventory tighter. No more excess kites at the end of the year sitting in places all over the world. You have more to deal with, but you have way less waste. You can deliver kites direct to people who live in areas without distributors. You got your distributors because you thought you were going to some day be shipping thousands each month, but it never happened and its not going to.
Just sell direct to the shops, and give them a bigger margin with the money you're not sending to the distributor. With a bigger margin they can give huge deals at the end of the year sale when everyone who doesn't need the latest and greatest goes shopping. The deals need to be closer to 40% than the current 20% that people should get anyway when getting quivers and alike.
Naish, North, Gaastra, & anyone who's got a windsurfing division:
You think you're fucked because your leashed to the distributor who does your windsurfing gear. Well can't you spin off another company like "Naish Kiteboarding" and let them sell direct or without a distributor?
Talk to your lawyers, they are smart, let them figure it out. Oh wait you hired your step brother as your lawyer and all he does is surf and smoke weed? Oh shit...
To all Companies:
Why are there 20 different companies on this list! There were so many Toby couldn't even fit them all! You guys are never going to thrive this way, there is just too many brands, too much overhead, not enough demand, and not enough differences between brands to justify them. You have all been around long enough to build up fans, they will follow you to merged companies. Imagine the best designers from several companies working together. Imagine a Splitstrut-KPO-Reflexing-Recon kite...
There is only a couple kite shops at the most near any kiteable spot, they can only carry 2-3 brands a piece... if you get the list of total companies down, you increase exposure for designs that may not have representation in a lot of areas.
Anyway, sorry for the novel... just a few ideas from an outsider. I don't really expect anyone to read this and go "Oh yeah! I never thought of that!" I'm sure they have all thought of it, but maybe they just aren't saying it. I'm just tired of all the bitching really. They all claim to be victims of the big evil company that sprung out of nowhere and started to takeover.
I really could give a shit if a few kite companies fold. They all have dream jobs, and dream jobs aren't deserved for anyone. But I do feel sorry for the shops and really want to see them survive this. The only way to keep the shops and get the rest of the kites as cheap as they should be is to get more efficient. These are just my ideas on how to do that.
...and if you read all of that, you got waaay too much time on your hands.


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RSA Tells Its Developer Customers: Stop Using NSA-Linked Algorithm
RSA Tells Its Developer Customers: Stop Using NSA-Linked Algorithm
- By Kim Zetter
- 09.19.13
Amidst all of the confusion and concern over an encryption algorithm that may contain an NSA backdoor, RSA Security released an advisory to developer customers today noting that the algorithm is the default in one of its toolkits and strongly advising them to stop using the algorithm.
The advisory provides developers with information about how to change the default to one of a number of other random number generator algorithms RSA supports and notes that RSA has also changed the default on its end in BSafe and in an RSA key management system.
The company is the first to go public with such an announcement in the wake of revelations by the New York Times that the NSA may have inserted an intentional weakness in the algorithm — known as Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation (or Dual EC DRBG) — and then used its influence to get the algorithm added to a national standard issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
In its advisory, RSA said that all versions of RSA BSAFE Toolkits, including all versions of Crypto-C ME, Micro Edition Suite, Crypto-J, Cert-J, SSL-J, Crypto-C, Cert-C, SSL-C were affected.
In addition, all versions of RSA Data Protection Manager (DPM) server and clients were affected as well.
The company said that to "ensure a high level of assurance in their application, RSA strongly recommends that customers discontinue use of Dual EC DRBG and move to a different PRNG."
RSA is currently doing an internal review of all of its products to see where the algorithm gets invoked and to change those. A company spokesman said the review is expected to be completed next week.
"Every product that we as RSA make, if it has a crypto function, we may or may not ourselves have decided to use this algorithm," said Sam Curry, chief technical officer for RSA Security. "So we're also going to go through and make sure that we ourselves follow our own advice and aren't using this algorithm."
Curry told WIRED that the company added the algorithm to its libraries in 2004 and 2005 at a time when elliptic curve algorithms were becoming the rage and were considered to have advantages over other algorithms. The algorithm was approved by NIST in 2006 for a standard governing random number generators.
BSafe has six random number generators in it, some are hash-based and several that are elliptic-curve based, like the algorithm in question. Curry says they chose Dual EC DRBG as the default "on the basis of providing the best security for our customers."
The algorithm he said had features that gave it advantages over the others.
"The ability to do continuous testing of output, for instance, or the ability to do general sort of prediction resistance and to be able to do re-seeding," he said. "Those are really attractive features."
The advisory to RSA developers reads as follows:
Due to the debate around the Dual EC DRBG standard highlighted recently by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NIST re-opened for public comment its SP 800-90 standard which covers Pseudo-random Number Generators (PRNG).
For more information about the announcement see:
The ITL Security Bulletin mentioned in this announcement includes the following:
"Recommending against the use of SP 800-90A Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation: NIST strongly recommends that, pending the resolution of the security concerns and the re-issuance of SP 800-90A, the Dual_EC_DRBG, as specified in the January 2012 version of SP 800-90A, no longer be used."
The currently released and supported versions of the BSAFE libraries (including Crypto-J 6.1.x and Crypto-C ME 4.0.x) and of the RSA DPM clients and servers use Dual EC DRBG as the default PRNG, but most libraries do support other PRNGs that customers can use. We are providing guidance to our customers on how to change the PRNG from the default in their existing implementation.
In the current product documentation, RSA has provided technical guidance for RSA BSAFE Toolkits and RSA DPM customers to change the PRNG in their implementation.
RSA will change the default RNG in RSA BSAFE Toolkits and RSA DPM as appropriate and may update the algorithm library as needed.


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Washington Group Welcomes Lora & Greg Hessby Tom Runge • September 24, 2013 Share:
A great crowd welcomed President and Mrs. Hess to the Nation's Capitol. Thanks to the generosity of Trustee Jeff Perkins '89, the event took place at the new Headquarters of National Public Radio (NPR). It was a perfect setting for the reception.
Jeff Perkins introduced President Hess by recalling the past several days were like a mini-reunion as he caught up with local alumni after spending some time in Maine with a classmate and his family. Wabash is all about relationships, Perkins noted, and he believes Lora and Greg Hess have already formed a great bond with the Wabash family.
President Hess shared his vision for the College and took time to answer several questions. Greg and Lora made their way around the room and engaged all of the attendees. In addition to President and Mrs. Hess, Director of Development Jim Brehm and Associate Dean for Advancement Joe Klen '97 attended the event.
Many thanks go to Jeff Perkins and to the members of the National Capitol Association of Wabash Men for a great evening.
Top - President Hess talks with several young alumni
Middle - Trustee Jeff Perkins '89 and President Greg Hess
For more photos from the event, click here.


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Intense Debate is a cool and effective system for inspiring people to comment. Blog comments haven't had much innovation in the past couple of years except maybe for the likes of Commentluv, so I welcomed this cool new app when I discovered it searching through someones backlinks. Intense Debate keeps track of your comments and can track your commenting across the web, so long as those blogs have the plugin installed.
There are many features that intensify your commenting experiencing, and with it installed I only noticed it interfere with one other plugin, Commentluv. Other than that my theme integrated well and I didn't notice a problem with any other plugin on the blog. Intense Debate adds comment threading which allows your an easier read, especially on a heated topic. You can also reply to comments right from your email which works great with your mobile phone on the go. Since it is all run through a plugin back to the main site you get tracking for all your users as well as detailed stats like top commenters, most commented post and so on. The importing feature worked great as well, as soon as I intalled the plugin I had all my comments formatted into Intense Debate within minutes.
So now on to the link building aspect…your user profile on the Intense Debate site will get indexed on its own or, or with a little help, so with the power of dofollow this is a great way to build legit links from an authoritative website. When you setup your profile you'll be able to add in your blog, and if you name it properly you'll get an anchor text friendly link to your site as well to your RSS feed. This is great because it's one simple link and there is little room for spammers to abuse this site which I like, and makes it easier to write about without worrying the folks at Intense Debate. Check out my awesome GIMP editing skills to demonstrate where you get a link;
So I hope I can get a bunch of you to sign up and perhaps get this system going on your blogs to liven things up a bit. If you like you can add me as a friend and we can keep track of our online chitter chatter, or perhaps future flame wars :)


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'I could name you players who nicked it and didn't walk'
England's Stuart Broad has defended his decision not to walk in the most controversial incident of the first Ashes series this year, suggesting the huge row blew up because Australia had "wasted" their two referrals.
In the first test at Trent Bridge, the fast bowler edged a ball from spinner Ashton Agar to Michael Clarke at first slip but did not walk after umpire Aleem Dar gave him not out.
Australia had already used up all their reviews during England's second innings in the opening test so were unable to challenge the decision. Broad later admitted hitting the ball.
"My first comment on that whole incident is I could name you 18 or 19 players who played in an Ashes series who nicked it and didn't walk," Broad told the BBC in an interview.
"We could be here all day if I named players from the past. I am trying to think of someone in the modern game who is consistently a walker."
'It's something that got blown out of proportion'
Broad rode his luck to make 65 and added 138 runs in a seventh-wicket stand with Ian Bell, which proved crucial for the hosts as they went on the win the Nottingham test by 14 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the series.
Captain Clarke and his team mates were left shaking their heads in disbelief at the decision which sparked a huge debate on Twitter about the spirit of cricket.
"It's a really interesting debate and something that got blown so out of proportion maybe because the Australians were frustrated they had wasted two referrals," Broad said.
"It was an important moment in the game because, let's be honest, if Belly and I hadn't put on those runs, we wouldn't have won the test match so we would only have won 3-1 or something."
As it was, England won the series 3-0.
'Lehmann and me shared a nice beer'
Australia coach Darren Lehmann was handed a fine by the International Cricket Council after he accused Broad of "blatant cheating".
Lehmann later apologised to Broad for the verbal attack, which came in a radio interview.
"Ryan Harris came over to me and apologised," Broad added. "First of all he said from the players we have given him (Lehmann) a hard time and his comments were unacceptable.
"The he (Lehmann) came across and said: 'I meant it in jest' and I said, 'in black and white it doesn't look like jest to me'.
"He said something along the lines of, 'listen to the interview' and I said, 'I have far better things to do with my time', and that was about it.
"We shared a nice beer and I said, 'see you in November'."
Broad is expected to come under heavy fire from the fans Down Under when the return Ashes series starts with the first test at Brisbane from November 21.


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iBeacon: It's Time for Mobile Marketers to See the Light
Feb 13, 2014 7:50 PM PT
Never mind the Seattle Seahawks completely smoking the Broncos -- Super Bowl XLVIII may go down in history as the turning point for iBeacon.
Apple's iBeacon is an indoor positioning system based on Bluetooth Low Energy technology. Its proximity-detection capabilities enable it to send relevant information -- including, most enticingly, targeted ads -- to a mobile device.
Although Apple debuted iBeacon with the release of iOS 7 last June, it has largely been overlooked by marketers and retailers. That is changing, however. Apple has rolled it out in its own stores, Macy's is trying it out in a pilot program, and American Eagle is giving it a try. Sure, these are national retailers, but they can't provide a national platform for consumers to become acquainted with the technology.
Here's where the Super Bowl comes in. The National Football League installed wireless transmitters in Times Square and MetLife Stadium that could send finely tuned messages to smartphones, The New York Times reported earlier this month.
It would be "the boldest test yet" for the nascent technology, the Times said.
More Venues, More Success Stories
Other major venues also will be implementing the technology. Major League Baseball, for example, will have beacons installed in some 20 stadiums, including Fenway Park in Boston and AT&T Park in San Francisco, for this year's season, according to the Times.
iBeacon is well-suited for messages that are brief and to the point: Bathrooms that way, hotdogs over here. Once retailers and venues get a sense of how well it works, though -- and how well consumers respond -- the messages surely will focus more on ads and offers. Shopkick already offers geofenced marketing offers through its shopBeacon app, which is built on iBeacon.
Privacy advocates no doubt are dismayed by the increasing adoption of iBeacon -- and for good reason. Marketers can make all kinds of inferences based on the stores an individual visits -- where, when and possibly even with whom. Selling that data is then the next obvious step.
In addition to this hot topic -- which retailers likely will have to address with their customers eventually -- there are other customer-behavior issues that retailers will have to consider as targeted mobile marketing finally comes into its own.
Academic Research
If retailers intend to make an investment in this technology, they will need to have some data about what has proven to work and what has not. Some of that will surely filter out from the Super Bowl and MLB campaigns.
There are existing studies that provide some guidance about what works with consumers and what turns them off, however.
In a study about mobile display advertising, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and INSEAD considered which product characteristics touted in a mobile campaign would be most effective in increasing a consumer's favorable attitude toward the product. The team analyzed data from a field experiment covering 54 campaigns and involving 39,946 consumers.
Campaigns significantly increased consumers' favorable attitudes and purchase intentions only when "they advertised products that were higher (versus lower) involvement and utilitarian (versus hedonic)," the researchers discovered.
"This finding is explained using established theories of information-processing and persuasion, and suggests that when MDAs work, they do so by triggering consumers to recall and process previously stored product information."
Translation: Don't use the mobile campaign to introduce a completely new product or service, and don't use it for something that is completely out of context -- that is, a luxury watch during a ballgame.
Another study, published in the Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing in 2012, investigated the different effects location-based mobile ads had on men and women in both work and leisure situations.
Like most things gender-related, the findings boiled down to "it depends."
Men appeared to be more receptive to location-based ads than women, but in some circumstances women were more favorably disposed to the same mobile location-based ads based on the "specific location and task situations," the study notes.
Translation: Don't beam ads for mani/pedis to men at a baseball game. Do, however, send them to women when they are at the mall.
Although some of the researchers' findings may seem obvious, many marketers have yet to master the basics of targeted-based advertising much less the nuances of mobile campaigns. If and when iBeacon does become a staple in mobile ad tech, they will have to get up to speed very quickly. Understanding gender differences may be a good -- and easy -- place to start.


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January 27, 2014
Blog: Children Build the Foundations of Literacy through Art
More than a dozen 3-5 year-olds (and their caregivers) enjoyed an in-gallery story reading by a PAMM Teaching Artist, followed by an art activity at PAMM's Knight Education Center.
PAMM Art Storytime takes place every fourth Saturday at 1pm. Learn more.
Photos by Juan E. Cabrera.
PAMM Art Storytime is produced by Pérez Art Museum Miami with support from Peacock Foundation, Inc., Batchelor Foundation, Inc., Publix Super Market Charities, and The Israel Rose Henry And Robert Wiener Charitable Foundation Inc.