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One man was killed and two others injured in separate shooting incidents overnight across the city, police said.
The fatal shooting occurred about 6:45 a.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of E. 29th St. in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore. Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman, said the man was shot at least once and taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died in the afternoon.
Police identified the man Monday as Dwight Cook, 28, of the same block, but provided no additional information, including a possible motive in the shooting.
The latest fatal shooting brings the city's total number of people killed this year to 49, 20 percent more than this time last year.
Two other shootings occurred earlier. The first happened at 11 p.m. Saturday, when police responded to a report of gunshots in the 2400 block of Harlem Ave., in the Evergreen Lawn neighborhood, and discovered a 56-year-old man had walked into an area hospital with gunshot wounds to his arm and leg.
The man told police he was sitting in his car when someone approached and started shooting. Police said they suspect the shooting may be connected to a dispute earlier Saturday. Western District detectives are investigating.
At 2:30 a.m. Sunday, police on patrol found a 21-year-old man in the 1100 block of Dundalk Avenue who had been shot in the arm. The man told police he had been shot while walking in the 6500 block of O'Donnell Street, in the Graceland Park neighborhood.
It happened about six blocks from a police-involved shooting last week, after city police said a man was firing a gun outside of his home. The victim's father told WJZ-TV that his son was a Navy veteran who had bought the shotgun for protection after a home invasion days earlier.
Police ask anyone with information about Sunday's shooting to call Southeast District detectives at 410-396-2422.


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This coming weekend, Nov. 3-4th, the Audubon Zoo hosts the annual Louisiana Swamp Festival on their lush green grounds. With admission to the city's world-renowned zoo and nature institute, visitors gain access to a wide range of Cajun food, music, crafts, and activities celebrating the culture of the state's earliest historic settlers.
At this festival, you will get a glimpse into the unique cultural heritage that perforates the acres and acres of Louisiana's wetlands. With daily lives revolving around the swamp, bayous, and surrounding waterlogged land, early settlers laid the foundation for what would be the vibrant and distinct cultural contributions that carry on through today. And in a city that hosts a festival for just about everything, it's only natural that New Orleans would celebrate still another aspect of its well-rounded traditions and heritage.
No New Orleans festival would be complete without a plethora of local delicacies, and Swamp Fest is no exception. Featured will be popular local dishes like jambalaya, gumbo, catfish po-boys, crawfish bread, and more, and you'll even get the chance to have your first bite of fried alligator, a Cajun specialty.
Music is another requirement for local festivals, which will be provided at Swamp Fest by such local Cajun and zydeco greats as Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, and Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots. There will also be Cajun and zydeco dance lessons around midday so you can have some two-steps to show off at the festival stages.
The Audubon Zoo's Swamp Exhibit will be the heart of the celebration, featuring alligators, bears, otters, nutria, and other natural swamp life. The exhibit will host Tous Les Soirs and the Cajun Music Petting Zoo which add to the weekend's festivities.
The event is free with general admission to the zoo, which is $16 for adults, $11 for children, and $13 for seniors and high school and college students with valid school IDs. If you'll be in the area, this is a fun and affordable festival that will expose you to many different aspects of Cajun culture and life in the swamplands.

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Testing your Internet connection's performance is a straightforward exercise. You don't need any extra software--all you need is a computer with a Web browser. But there are also a few things you can do to make sure you are getting the most accurate reading of your Internet connection. Here's what to do.
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For best results, you want to use a wired connection if at all possible; that way, you don't have to worry about interference and performance fluctuations that can occur while you're on Wi-Fi. If you have any other wired devices on your home network, plug your test computer directly into the modem so those don't interfere in your testing.
If you're stuck using Wi-Fi--say, you have a MacBook Air or a tablet or some other device that doesn't have an Ethernet port--do what you can to minimize interference. Make sure your Wi-Fi router is away from other electronic devices like cordless phones, and temporarily disconnect any other devices from your Wi-Fi network--after all, you don't want another computer on your network to download a gigabyte worth of software updates while you run your tests.
While you're at it, double-check to make sure your computer isn't downloading something in the background. Check the Task Manager on Windows (summoned by pressing control-alt-delete) or Activity Monitor on OS X, and look for network statistics (it's labelled "Network"on OS X, "Networking" on Windows). Close or quit all apps on your computer to keep apps from downloading software updates while you test your connection. Your bandwidth usage may not drop to zero and stay there, but you want it as close to zero as it'll get. If your operating system is downloading updates, there isn't much you can do aside from wait and test your connection later.
If you're having any problems with your connection, now is a good idea to reset your modem and router. Switch them off and unplug them for a few moments, then plug them back in and switch them on.
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All you have to do at this point is click the green "Begin Test" button, and Speedtest.net will check both your download and upload speed. This may take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on your network speed.
Speedtest.net isn't your only option for testing your connection; MegaPath (formerly Speakeasy) also offers a speed test, as well as what it calls Speed Test Plus, which tries to test the quality of your connection in addition to its raw speed. Your ISP might also offer a speed test tool, though you may need to do a little poking around for it.
If you want to track your connection's performance on a more ongoing basis, consider installing a utility like NetSpeedMonitor: This free tool for Windows XP, Vista 7, and Server 2003 lives in your taskbar, and will give you information on your connection's upload and download speeds. On OS X, the free MenuMeters utility will do much the same, though it will also track other aspects of system performance.
Solve problems
If your connection isn't as fast as you expect it to be, a lot of different factors could be coming into play. It could be a problem with your equipment, or it could be an issue on your ISP's end. For what to do next, see Lincoln Spector's tips on how to address a slow Internet connection. If your connection is fine but you want to tinker with it to try and get the most out of it, you can try changing your DNS server. This takes a little bit of effort, but with the right tools and a little patience, you can get a nice performance boost.
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Hamels on the hill
Today's Lineup
Rollins, SS; Victorino, RF; Utley, 2B; Howard, 3B; Burrell, LF; Helms, 3B, Rowand, CF; Barajas, C; Hamels, p.
Cole Hamels is coming off a 15-strikeout performance at Cincinnati. He joined Curt Schilling, Steve Carlton and Art Mahaffey as the only Phillies pitchers with 15 or more punch outs.
Back-to-back totals for those involved: Carlton (15-12, June 1981); Schilling (16-10, Sept. 1997); Schilling (15-10, July 1997); Schilling (15-10, April 1998); Carlton (16-6, June 1982) and Mahaffey (17-3, April 1961).
Chase Utley leads the majors with 13. According to Elias Sports Bureau, that's the most for any player in April since expansion took place in 1969. Hall of Fame outfielder Chuck Klein holds the Phillies record with 59 doubles in 1930. He had four in April (12 games).
Call to Arms
Over the last eight games (6-2 record), Phillies starters have a 3.14 ERA; the bullpen, 1.88 ERA. With Jon Lieber in the rotation and Brett Myers in the bullpen, the pitching staff has stabilized.
Phillies record for most home runs in April is 11 by Mike Schmidt in 1976 (14 games). Rollins is carrying eight into this afternoon's game. There are four more April games after today.
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From the Daily Herald near Chicago: "The answer is there's no reason to panic." It came from Cubs' manager Lou Piniella.


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First my bloggy friend and BlogHer '09 roommate Lisalicious sent me this:
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Wordless Wednesday
First my bloggy friend and BlogHer '09 roommate Lisalicious sent me this:
19 comments:
- BacktoBarnwell said...
Is that for real???
- February 4, 2009 at 2:09 PM
I very much liked that! Thanks for sharing. Beats the snot out of getting your kidneys removed via the virgina! I totally thought you'd take that ball and RUN!
Have a most glorious week!
- February 4, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- Tenakim said...
how cute! Hope you and Lisa get LOTS of pics!!!
- February 4, 2009 at 7:15 PM
- Miss Yvonne said...
OMG...kill me with cuteness!
That's it. I'm adopting a deer.
- February 4, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Allison said...
Why can't my cat do that?
- February 4, 2009 at 7:40 PM
- Ali said...
Oh that hug just about did me in!
- February 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- Jennifer said...
OMG--that video! I might have to add a deer to my menagerie!
- February 5, 2009 at 1:30 AM
- Dreyer Drama said...
I liked the picture. Very fitting.
- February 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- Petra a.k.a The Wise (*Young*) Mommy said...
*sniff. Now I need a cat AND a deer.
- February 5, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- michelle said...
Why was I the only one waiting for the bunny to pull out a shot gun? Or a lion to come out and eat them all?
Something is seriously WRONG with me?
- February 5, 2009 at 11:31 AM
- Krystyn said...
Wow...I love that drawing.
Can't see the video at work, though. But, I'm sure it's fab!
- February 5, 2009 at 11:39 AM
- BacktoBarnwell said...
And...I thought I was going to be a roommate at Blogher??? WTF. I will deal with Lisalicious later.
- February 5, 2009 at 3:44 PM
- HappyHourSue said...
B2B: you're still our roommate. We'll tell the hotel you're our son: maybe they'll leave you a cup of crayons.
- February 5, 2009 at 3:50 PM
- Caroline said...
Oh jeez...hand me a tissue! That video was so cute. Is that for real?? Oh who cares...
- February 5, 2009 at 7:12 PM
- derfina said...
Someone sent me that drawing in an email. Kinda chokes me up every time I see it.
- February 5, 2009 at 8:46 PM
- Lisa-licious said...
Oooh, that video got me.
As far as BlogHer how am I ever supposed to acheive Cougar status if we claim B2B as our son? Plus, if we say he is "our" son, people will REALLY talk! AND THEN WHEN THE PHOTOS SURFACE...
Yes, Tenakim, there will be plenty!
- February 6, 2009 at 7:41 PM
- GinSpaghetti said...
Was that not amazing?! I heard the black box convo on the news this morning. Simply amazing...
Visiting from GNO! :)
- February 6, 2009 at 11:10 PM
This is from The adventures of Milo and Otis it is a really cute movie that everyone should see. So sweet!
- February 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM
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Lebanon's Western-backed March 14 coalition has defeated a stiff challenge by the Hezbollah-led opposition in national elections to retain its parliamentary majority.
The March 14 bloc's win will reassure its supporters in Washington and Saudi Arabia, while the opposition defeat is a blow for Iran and Syria, which support Hezbollah and were hoping to counter US influence in Lebanon.
But protracted negotiations over the composition of a new national unity government could spark a fresh political crisis between the two rival camps.
A key sticking point is what should be done with Hezbollah's weapons – a question that has been at the crux of the political schism in Lebanon since the devastating month-long war with Israel in 2006. "It depends how smart March 14 plays it," says Ousama Safa, director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies in Beirut. "The election result has ripped many cards from Hezbollah ... but if March 14 has learned anything, it would be a major mistake to go after Hezbollah's weapons head-on."
Initial statements by March 14 leaders have struck a magnanimous tone, congratulating the opposition for a hard-fought race and expressing a readiness for cooperation and compromise.
While waiting for final results Sunday night, Walid Jumblatt, a March 14 leader and chief of Lebanon's Druze community, said that the opposition could not be sidelined from a future government.
"In case of a March 14 victory, we must not isolate the others," he said. "Beware of the deadly mistake of isolation."
The results of the election began to trickle through late on Sunday evening when it emerged that the March 14 bloc was gaining the upper hand in some of the key constituencies north of Beirut, in the southern town of Sidon, and in the Bekaa Valley, which were widely seen as the decisive battlegrounds in what has been the closest-fought election in over three decades.
As the results streamed in during the early hours Monday, fireworks exploded in the night sky above Beirut while motorcades of jubilant March 14 supporters drove up and down streets honking their horns.
Results reverberate in Riyadh, Tehran
The final results delivered early afternoon Monday confirmed March 14 was the winner with 71 seats in the 128-seat parliament, which included two allied independent candidates, against the opposition's 57 seats.
The margin of victory was larger than predicted, with analysts suggesting that the arrival of some 100,000 expatriate Lebanese in the days before the election swayed the result.
"I think the expatriate voters tipped the balance. They were the external variable in the elections," says Mr. Safa.
The results will bring sighs of relief and gasps of dismay from governments in cities as far removed as Washington; Tehran, Iran; Jerusalem; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Although a tiny country, Lebanon plays a pivotal role in the broader regional struggle pitting Iran, Syria, and their allies Hezbollah and Hamas against the US and its Middle East friends, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who fear Tehran's growing influence in the Arab world.
The term of the present parliament expires on June 21. Once the new parliament is seated, it will vote for a speaker of parliament, a position that in Lebanon's sectarian system is traditionally occupied by a Shiite. Nabih Berri, who has been speaker since 1992, is expected to be reelected to the post. The next step involves the president, Michel Suleiman, holding discussions with lawmakers on who should be appointed the next prime minister, traditionally a Sunni. Sources close to Saad Hariri, the head of the Future Movement and a leader of the March 14 coalition, have indicated that he will run for the post.
Crux of political schism: Hezbollah's weapons
Once the prime minister has been selected, formal consultations begin on the composition of the next government. However, initial contacts between the rival camps were expected to begin as soon as the final election results were confirmed Monday afternoon.
Hezbollah's priority in the coming negotiations is to ensure that a future government will not represent a threat to its formidable military wing.
"The majority [March 14] must commit not to question our role as a resistance party, the legitimacy of our weapons arsenal, and the fact that Israel is an enemy state," Mohammed Raad, a Hezbollah member of parliament, told Agence France-Presse Monday. "The results indicate that the crisis will continue, unless the majority changes its attitude."
Hezbollah insists that its weapons are necessary to deter future Israeli aggression, but its opponents argue that only the Lebanese Army has the right to bear arms and only the state can decide on matters of war and peace.
When the government attempted to shut down Hezbollah's private military communications network in May 2008, it triggered the worst bout of internal violence since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. The fighting ended with an agreement brokered in Doha, the capital of Qatar, which led to the formation of a new government of national unity in which the opposition held a veto-wielding one-third share. The veto power allowed the opposition to block legislation with which they disagreed, such as further attempts to disarm Hezbollah.
The March 14 coalition reluctantly accepted the arrangement, but argued that the veto power stifled government activity. Still, the Doha agreement bought a year of calm in Lebanon during the run-up to Sunday's election.
Emboldened March 14 coalition likely to pressure Hezbollah
The March 14 bloc says that while it favors a new national unity government with opposition participation, it will not repeat the offer of a veto.
"Clearly, the majority does not want to repeat the paralysis of the past year," says a senior March 14 source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The source says he doubted that Hezbollah would provoke a crisis over the one-third veto share, asking, "what is their justification?"
But some analysts believe that a new crisis is in the making with an emboldened March 14, encouraged by the US and by the scale of its electoral victory, to pursue Hezbollah's disarming.
"This result will be seen as a victory for the US and Israel. There will be more pressure on Hezbollah to disarm than before," says Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, an expert on Hezbollah.
She added that Hezbollah would consider it "imperative" that it retain the veto power in the next government.
"The outcome of the election is entirely to the benefit of the US and Hezbollah will want to mitigate that by ensuring it has the one-third veto," Ms. Saad-Ghorayeb says.


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Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that U.S. policy toward Syria is headed in the "right direction" after the White House's announcement of stepped-up American involvement.
Clinton's comments came after he was asked on MSNBC'S "Morning Joe" about POLITICO's report on Thursday that the former president had said earlier this week that President Barack Obama should act more forcefully to support anti-Assad rebels.
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"Looks to me like this thing is trending in the right direction now," Clinton said on "Morning Joe."
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The former president also said he was "amazed" by the coverage of his earlier remarks, which he noted came on the "last or next to last" question at a closed-press event with Sen. John McCain, who has been a staunch advocate of arming Syrian rebels.
Clinton said on Friday that more U.S. assistance for the anti-government rebels is the right way to go.
"I think that we should support the rebel groups more vigorously, and the White House announced that they intend to do that," he said. "They are exploring their options and right now they don't want to talk about the details and I don't blame them, because the less they talk about the details, the more likely their increased assistance is likely to be effective, and like I said, they want to see what our other allies are willing to do. So I think, on balance, this should be seen as a positive story."
( Also on POLITICO: Analysts: President Obama's no 'game changer' in Syria)
Some critics have suggested the administration is acting too late to tip the power away from the Assad regime.
Clinton also said that Obama's trip to the G-8 summit next week would provide an opportunity to win backing from America's allies on Syria.
"The president is going to be given the opportunity to talk to a lot of his counterparts at the G-8 meeting, but let's see what happens, but I do understand why they don't want to talk in a lot of detail about whatever they decide to do," Clinton said.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's forced hand in Syria)
Clinton also defended Obama for the way he released word of the U.S.'s increased involvement, saying the president was "entitled to finish his summit with the Chinese president, get his finding, be briefed" before publicly discussing more specifics about America's role in Syria.
Critics of the administration slammed the decision to have the information about new U.S. military aid to the rebels and Assad's use of chemical weapons in the conflict be released on Thursday by a deputy, rather than by Obama himself.
Also appearing on "Morning Joe" on Friday, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski criticized the White House for a "sporadic, chaotic, unstructured and directed" approach.
"I think we need a serious policy review with the top people involved, not just an announcement by the deputy head of the NSA that an important event has taken place and we'll be reacting to it," said Brzezinski, who served under President Jimmy Carter. "The leadership has to be more directed from the top down, involving the president and his top, top foreign policy advisers. Not by some casual communiqués, worded in a vague fashion."
Brzezinski said Washington was engaging more in propaganda than strategy.
"The fact of the matter is that we are threatened by sliding into a sectarian civil war in which both sides are very brutal. … I don't see any real strategic guidance to what we're doing. I see a lot of rhetoric, a lot of emotion, a lot of propaganda, in fact," Brzezinski said.


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I'm a girl who loves a bit of lippie. From Barry M's bright orange to Revlon's Red Velvet ColorStay (trust me- you won't find a longer lasting shade of scarlet out there!), I'm all about the pout. Which is why I am so excited about M·A·C's latest Viva Glam collaboration, with two of my favourite ladies, Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper, who have each had their own shade of lipstick created for the cause.
The M·A·C AIDS Fund was established in 1994 to support men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS globally. Through a series of celebrity collaborations (past names include Dita Von Teese, Pamela Anderson and Missy Elliott) , Viva Glam has raised over $150 Million in 67 countries to date. And that's exclusively through the sale of Lipstick and Lipglass. Who knew make up could be so empowering?
100% of proceeds from the sales of the Lipsticks (which will set you back at a mere £12.50 each, or £12.00 for the Lipglass) goes to the M·A·C AIDS Fund, and be assured, charity never looked this good. Whether the sexy bubblegum pink Gaga takes your fancy, or the lush coral red Cyndi is your thing, you can now pucker up for a very good cause. As Lady G put it herself 'Lipstick is a symbol of womanhood and inner strength'. Mwah!By: Yasmin Eshref, 30.03.2010 | Comments (0)
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Panasonic has announced the first model in what should prove to be a revolutionary new camera system. The Lumix DMC-G1 is the first camera to feature the new Micro Four-Thirds lens mount system, allowing most of the advantages of a digital SLR in a more compact body format.
The main differences to the existing Four-Thirds system, used by both Panasonic and Olympus in their current digital SLR ranges, are a 50 percent shorter mount-to-sensor distance (approximately 20mm) and a 6mm reduction in lens mount diameter. This means that lenses, particularly wide-angle and long-zoom types, can be smaller and lighter. The new mount also has more electrical connections, allowing more sophisticated in-lens systems, such as Pansonics's MegaOIS optical image stabilisation system. The G1 can also accept existing Four-Thirds lenses by means of an adaptor.
The G1 camera itself is smaller and lighter than a conventional DSLR. It dispenses with the traditional reflex mirror and pentaprism optical viewfinder in favour of a fully articulated wide-view three-inch monitor, with a resolution of 460,000 dots and 60fps refresh speed. It can rotate 180 degrees horizontally and 270 degrees vertically and has 100 percent frame coverage, with the same 3:2 aspect ratio as the sensor. The camera also has an electronic viewfinder with a massive 1,440,000-dot resolution, 1.4x magnification and 100 percent frame view. It employs "RGB 3-independent sequential illumination to produce 180 fps for each of the three colours", so it sounds like it should produce a good smooth, sharp view, essential for accurate manual focusing.
Despite the smaller lens mount the Four-Thirds sensor remains the same physical size as in previous models. The G1 has a 12.1-megapixel Live MOS sensor combined with Venus Engine HD image processing. The sensor is protected from dust entering the camera by a Supersonic Wave self-cleaning system.
The G1 is aimed at first-time users, so it has a feature set similar to Panasonic's high-spec compacts, including Intelligent Auto with Intelligent ISO Control, Intelligent Exposure, Face Detection AF/AE, Intelligent Scene Selector and AF Tracking. For more advanced users it also includes My Colour mode, with adjustable colour, brightness and saturation. It also has a Film mode, which simulates the results from many different types of film. Although the press release makes no mention of it, it's probably safe to assume that the G1 has manual exposure options as well. The camera features HDMI output, enabling connection to compatible HD TV sets.
As well as the new camera, Panasonic has also launched two new lenses to go with it, the LUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm/F3.5-5.6 ASPH and LUMIX G VARIO 45-200mm/F4.0-5.6, both of which feature the Mega O.I.S. optical image stabilisation system. Also available are a range of accessories including three external flash units, a soft case, a remote shutter release and several shoulder straps. Unlike digital SLRs, the DMC-G1 will be available in a range of colours, initially black, red and blue. The DMC-G1 and its lenses will be available from November 2008, at a price to be announced closer to the launch date.
Of course this launch does raise an interesting issue of what to call this new type of camera. It's not a DSLR, since the "R" part of that acronym refers to the reflex mirror, which the G1 doesn't have. Since photographers and camera journalists all over the world will wince with pain every time someone in marketing or advertising refers to the new camera as a DSLR, we clearly need a new term. How about Interchangeable Lens Compact, or ILC for short? Make your suggestions in the comment section please.


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Virginia in general this summer– and the Albemarle County Fair over the years have been notorious for devastating thunderstorms. This was no exception on August 28, when a massive storm rocked most of the county and wreaked havoc on our beloved Fair. As the evening storm rolled into the fairgrounds, attendees swarmed into the tents for protection.
When the high winds and heavy rains hit the big exhibition tent, disaster struck as heavy-duty stakes pulled loose from the muddy ground and the tent began to collapse. In a gripping moment of fear, people raced out of the tent. Others were helplessly trapped.
Miraculously, only a few people suffered minor injuries. Fire and Rescue squads were on scene immediately, working fast and furiously to gain control over the scene.
The following morning was a sobering experience. As the Fire Marshall assessed the safety of the grounds, fair workers and exhibitors sifted through the remains of the exhibition tent. Farmers and 4-H kids tended to their livestock, which had survived the night without incident.
Surprisingly, everyone seemed to be upbeat, thanks to the pride they have in the Fair and their gratitude that it wasn't worse.


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Dustin Ackley had three hits to back six shutout innings from Erasmo Ramirez as the Seattle Mariners posted a 3-0 Cactus League victory over the Chicago Cubs.
Ramirez scattered four hits and struck out four while walking none.
Kyle Seager and John Buck each had a sacrifice fly for Seattle.
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Like other health professionals, homeopaths honor the special role that surgery and surgeons have in health care. Homeopaths are not against surgery, because certain conditions are simply not treatable without it. At the same time, however, surgery is often performed unnecessarily. It is performed when other, safer measures can be effectively used. It is performed too early when the body can sometimes heal itself. And it is performed inappropriately, primarily because surgeons only know surgery and don't know what else to do (the law of hammers pervades many professions: when you are a hammer, everything becomes a nail).
Even when surgery is successful, this does not necessarily mean that the person is "cured." Surgery may, for instance, remove an abscess, a tumor, kidney stones or gallstones, or other diseased parts, but because this removal doesn't change the underlying pathological processes that created them in the first place, it is understandable and even predictable that people tend to reexperience their ailments.
Even if the ailment seems to have disappeared, homeopaths do not believe that a curative process has always taken place. While the initial complaint may have been eradicated, sometimes more serious pathology develops shortly after the surgery. Although doctors tend to believe that this is a "new" disease, homeopaths theorize that the surgery probably suppressed the original ailment.
This critique of surgery is not meant to devalue its appropriate use in treating various congential deformities, structural problems, severe injuries, or life-threatening pathological conditions. As previously stated, homeopaths are not against the judicious use of surgery.
When possible, homeopaths first attempt to to see if treatment with an individualized homeopathic medicine can prevent the need for surgery. Patients and even homeopaths are sometimes surprised and impressed at the significant results that homeopathic medicines can provide--not that they can do the impossible, but they can often elicit a healing response when conventional therapeutics cannot.
The integration of homeopathic medicines with surgical care uses the best of both worlds to create comprehensive and ultimately more effective health care.
Homeopathic Medicines Before and After Surgery
Once it is determined that surgery is medically necessary, homeopathic medicines can reduce complications of surgery and augment healing so that people can recover more quickly afterward.
Surgeons commonly ask patients not to take any food, drink, or drugs prior to surgery. While it makes sense to avoid food, drink, and conventional drugs, there have never been any reported problems from taking homeopathic remedies prior to surgery.
Some homeopaths recommend Ferrum phos 6, four times a day for two days, prior to surgery in order to prevent infection and hemorrhaging.
Homeopathic medicines can also help people deal with the various emotions they are experiencing prior to surgery. Gelsemium 6 or 30 is a common remedy for the person who experiences great anxiety, apprehension, weakness, and trembling prior to surgery. Aconitum 6 or 30 is indicated when the person is terrified about surgery and thinks that he will die from it.


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The New York Court of Appeals limits the number of clinical or "non-classroom" credits that applicants for admission to the New York Bar may take to no more than 20. The credit allocation in some of the clinical programs is divided between "clinical" credits awarded for field work and non-clinical seminar credits awarded for the classroom seminar component.
Be sure that when you plan your overall program, the total number of non-academic credits does not exceed the 20-credit limit.
Differences between the Client Representation Clinic and the Experience in an Externship or a Simulation Clinical Program
The central purpose of all clinical programs is to help students make the transition from doing what students or law clerks do to doing what lawyers do, and to make this transition in a thoughtful, purposeful manner. What distinguishes the client representation programs is that the student is the lawyer -- not the assistant, not the researcher, but the lawyer. Supervising attorneys are available for consultation, but the students, not the supervisors, represent the clients and make the decisions. There are remarkably few limits on what lawyering work clinical interns can do, other than those that are self-imposed. In essence, you are an associate in a small, public-interest law firm or public-sector office.
The major difference between a client representation clinic, and the experience you may have in a summer job or an externship, is that in the clinic you are able, and expected, to take front-line responsibility, albeit in the context of an educational environment with continuing guidance, supervision, and feedback. Because clinics operate under a Student Practice Order, you are permitted to engage in the practice of law on behalf of clinic clients, and to perform lawyers' tasks that otherwise would be illegal for you to do. In most externships and paid employment, you can only assist the working lawyer, who remains primarily responsible. (Administrative law settings, such as in our Legal Services/Public Interest/Health Law Externship and the Environmental Law Externship, present unusual opportunities for student representation of clients, because at administrative hearings non-lawyers often are permitted to provide representation.)
As a clinic or an externship or simulation participant, the bulk of your time will not be spent in class. You will be doing the work needed on your cases: research, drafting, interviews of clients and witnesses, meeting with colleagues and supervisors, telephone calls, correspondence, depositions or hearings, court appearances, and so forth. Everything you do will be planned and later reviewed with your supervisor, but you are responsible for making sure that the case proceeds forward and the work gets done.
In addition to field work, all the programs have a seminar component. The seminar is not intended to do more of what law students are accustomed to doing, i.e., accumulating information in a fairly systematic, somewhat passive manner, through readings and lectures. Rather, the seminars are designed to make sure that your lawyering experiences constitute a coherent, well-organized educational program, not just "exposure to the real world." Seminars provide you with the tools you need in your work, and arise out of your work: when a case, or group of cases, raises issues of general significance, it makes sense to address these issues in a seminar format. Students should expect to contribute to discussion, not just take notes. Occasionally you may be called upon to conduct a seminar in an area in which you've developed some expertise.
All clinical courses are graded, usually, with two separate grades awarded for the clinical and the academic components. In addition, in the client representation programs we use a separate evaluation form to provide detailed feedback to students on their progress as developing lawyers.
Clinic and externship program graduates may tell you that the clinical experience gave real meaning to the doctrine they learned in other courses, and, by crystallizing what they had learned, helped them with the bar examination. Often students say that their clinic experience impressed prospective employers. An almost universal reaction is a sense of having moved a long way down the path of truly becoming a lawyer, and of having begun to learn the single most critical skill a lawyer can possess: how to go on learning, long after law school, from observing one's own performance and the work of other lawyers


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As Krista is pulled into the underword, she teams up with Blade and Shen to infiltrate the vampires from the inside and out.
Blade seeks out Rev. Carlyle to get a lead on the vampiric-ash trade, then uses Krista to get information on the super-vampire Fritz.
Blade and Shen track down a vampire who was used in Marcus's experiments while Krista visits her mom for the first time after being turned.
Blade is caught by a gang of vampires called Bad Blood, a group that Blade first turned.
Krista goes through a bloody ritual to learn where Boone is, while Blade focuses on Vanessa, who is very pregnant.
Marcus struggles to find a way to get Vanessa back from Blade before deciding that Krista might be the answer.
Blade tries to solve the murder of a cop named Flanigan who helped care for him while growing up.
One of Krista's relatives goes on a rampage and it's up to Blade and Krista to find her and give them the serum.
Krista struggles after a personal tragedy and distances herself from both Blade and Marcus.
Blade and Shen learn that the White Prince, an infamous vampire and serial killer, has made a resurgence and is working out of a Detroit nightclub.
News of the plane crash forces Blade to seek help from his new partner, Agent Ray Collins.
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia announced a significant boost to its military air power on Friday, committing to buy up to new 100 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35(LMT.N) Joint Strike Fighters, as it shifts its focus back to the Indo-Pacific as China and India beef up forces.
After more than a decade of having forces first in Iraq, and then Afghanistan, Australia wants to focus on the military challenges closer to home, in line with U.S. President Barack Obama's 2011 "pivot" towards the Asia-Pacific.
In a new defence strategy, Australia reinforces that the United States remains its closest ally, but also struck a conciliatory tone towards top trading partner China, noting its rising defence capabilities are a natural outcome from its growing economy.
"The government does not approach China as an adversary. Rather, its policy is aimed at encouraging China's peaceful rise and ensuring that strategic competition in the region does not lead to conflict," the defence strategy said.
In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying noted Australia's assessment of China in the document "as a partner and not an opponent" and its view that the country's development was "beneficial to the region and world".
"We believe this embodies Australia's emphasis on developing China-Australia relations," she told a news briefing.
As part of Australia's military buildup, Defence Minister Stephen Smith said Canberra was committed to purchasing several squadrons of F-35s and would also buy 12 Boeing Co (BA.N) EA-18G electronic attack planes, modified versions of the 24 Super Hornets already equipping Australia's air force.
"This important decision will assure a first-class air combat capability for Australia through the transition period to the Joint Strike Fighter, which will proceed on its current schedule," Defence Minister Stephen Smith said.
Canberra's decision reinforces positive steps for the F-35, coming on the heels of a decision by Norway to buy six F-35s a year earlier than planned, and the Dutch parliament's decision not to reassess F-35 rivals to replace aging F-16s, despite cost overruns and development delays.
Australia's first two F-35s are due to be delivered in the United States in 2014-15. Australia will initially buy 14 F-35s, building up to three operational squadrons, of around 75 planes. The first squadron is due in service from around 2020.
The decision to stick with the F-35 will give Australia a mixed fleet of Super Hornets, Growlers and the new stealth fighters, matching the U.S. navy capability until at least 2030, Smith said.
The government also holds the option of buying a further 25 F-35s after 2030, to replace the Super Hornets when they are withdrawn from service, bringing the total of F-35s to 100.
The new defence strategy is the first reassessment of Australia's military priorities since 2009, and comes after the 2011 U.S. pivot to the Asia-Pacific. Part of that pivot included U.S. marine rotations through a de-facto U.S. base in northern Australia.
The U.S. troop deployments and Australia's 2009 military strategy both upset China, particularly when Australia bluntly told China it needed to do more to explain its military plans which it said had the potential to concern its neighbours.
China has sharply increased military spending over the past three decades and its navy is now second in size only to the U.S. fleet in terms of numbers, increasing concerns from neighbours, like Japan and South Korea, involved in a series of long-running territorial disputes.
Australia's new strategy stresses the need for both China and the U.S. to build their strategic relationship, and says Australia does not believe it will have to choose between its alliance with the U.S. and its strengthening ties with China.
"Certainly there has been a lot of diplomatic varnish put on the text of this white paper, and there is nothing in there that should offend China outright," said Rory Medcalf, an analyst from the strategic policy think tank the Lowy Institute. "This white paper will certainly be one of the last steps in rebuilding Australia-China relations."
The document also stresses the growing importance of the Indian Ocean region, with India's military growth and with two thirds of global oil shipments passing through the Indian Ocean.
The strategy said the United States was likely to remain the strongest maritime power in the Indian Ocean, although China was likely to increase its presence there in the coming decades, as 80 percent of China's oil imports go through the region.
With Prime Minister Julia Gillard's minority Labor government under pressure to find budget savings to respond to collapsing revenues, Australia's net defence budget has contracted to around 1.56 percent of GDP, or A$24.2 billion. As a percentage, spending is at the lowest level since 1938.
The new white paper makes no commitments on defence spending, but says the government remains committed to a target to increase defence funding to 2.0 percent of GDP when the economic circumstances allow.
(Additional reporting by Rob Taylor and Michael Martina in BEIJING; Editing by Paul Tait, Michael Perry and Ron Popeski)
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All matrices I consider are complex hermitian $N\times N$ matrices. None of them are Diagonal matrices. Consider a positive semi definite matrix $A$ and a matrix $B$. I am interested in the sum $C=A-\gamma B$ which $\gamma$ is a non-negative scalar.
What is the smallest gamma such that $C$ is negative semi-definite when $B$ is 1) positive definite 2) positive semi-definite?
If $\gamma=0$, $C$ is positive semidefinite, as $\gamma$ increases, the "positive semi-definiteness" of $C$ decreases. At some point, it becomes, indefinite, and after a while, it will become a negative semidefinite matrix. I want to know for what gamma this happens.
Solution of Case 1
It is quite straightforward to prove that the solution of case 1 is $\gamma=\lambda_{max}(B^{-1}A)$ which follows from expressing $\gamma$ as the solution to a generalized eigenvalue problem of $A$ and $B$ and using the fact $B$ is invertible.
(please see this MSE question for a distantly related problem, but from which solution can't be deduced for this one).


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Funeral Service for Watseka Teacher, Coach
A Saturday morning funeral service is scheduled in Watseka for Watseka High School teacher and coach Brent McTaggart. The 36-year-old product of Watseka High died Tuesday morning at Carle Hospital in Urbana. He was involved in a single-vehicle accident Saturday in Iroquois County.
Saturday's funeral will be at 10:30 am at the Watseka High School Gymnasium. Visitation is Friday 3-8 pm at Trinity Church on Route 24 East in Watseka. There's also 1 hour of visitation prior to the service Saturday.
McTaggart was an art teacher and an assistant football coach. He was a graduate of Watseka High School.
The Watseka Unit Nine School District made counselors available Tuesday to speak with students and staff.
Brent is survived by his wife, Casis, three children, Kennedy, Andrew and Addison. Also surviving are two brothers, Kirk and Todd and his parents, Paul and Linda McTaggart.


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I noticed that there have been some misunderstandings about the capabilities and other characteristics of Elerea, so I sat down today and updated the documentation. Also, I deprecated the variant with the automatic delays, because it's a difficult to handle beast. The new version is already live on Hackage. I still need to update the examples not to use the legacy interfaces, but they shouldn't look very different after the rewrite.
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- Drive-Independent Data Recovery: The Current State-of-the-Art, ActionFront Data Recovery Labs, August 2005.
- Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory, Peter Gutmann, Proceedings of the Sixth Usenix Security Symposium, 1996. [1]
- Hard Drive Disposal: The Overlooked Confidentiality Exposure, FInancial Perspectives, IBM White Paper, November 2003.
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- Byteprints: A Tool to Gather Digital Evidence, Sriranjani Sitaraman, Srinivasan Krishnamurthy and S. Venkatesan, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC 2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 4 - 6, 2005
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Gamilati sensational in Guineas romp
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minster of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai was present to see Godolphin`s Gamilati lead home a 1-2 when comfortably beating stable companion Pimpernel in the Gulf News-sponsored Listed UAE 1000 Guineas, the first Classic of the season and over 1600m on the all-weather.
Frankie Dettori was in the saddle on the winner who confirmed the promise of her win in the 1400m trial for this race and she seemingly relished the extra 200m and has taken the switch to the all-weather with relish. Dettori always looked confident, tracking his five rivals until producing the filly on the outside and she could not have won more easily with Pimpernel, who endured a few traffic problems early in the straight, running on at one pace for second.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed said: "She is a very nice filly with a touch of class and that was a very good performance. We have lots of options with her now with the UAE Oaks under definite consideration and perhaps then the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot or maybe the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket."
Winning trainer Mahmoud Al Zarooni added: "They are two very nice fillies and we are delighted with that. We will all have to sit down and talk about where to go next."
Trainer and jockey completed a double when Fox Hunt ran out the comfortable winner of the concluding 2810m turf Tabloid Trophy handicap. Having his first start since leaving Mark Johnston, for whom he was a close seventh in the Melbourne Cup on his final start, the winner was never far off the pace and an impressed Dettori said: "That is my first time on the horse and he has done it well. He had some great form last year and hopefully has more to offer in 2012."
The Group 3 Al Shindagha Sprint Sponsored by Gulf News, over 1200m on the all-weather, produced a thrilling finish with Silvestre De Sousa and Hitchens denying Krypton Factor in a photo finish.
It was a first winner in the UAE for trainer T David Barron, saddling his fourth local runner and the handler said: "He has been a great servant to us and this is a big win on the international stage for a lower profile yard. Super Saturday and then, hopefully, World Cup night, will be next on the agenda."
De Sousa was completing a double having landed the 1400m Meydan Classic Trial on Factory Time who relished the return to turf after two defeats on the all-weather surface. He was a second winner on the night for last season's champion trainer Ali Rashid Al Raihe after Maraheb, originally the second reserve, took full advantage of the opportunity when it presented itself in the opening 1600m Freehold Trophy handicap.
Stable jockey Royston Ffrench was in the saddle on that occasion as the four-year-old ran on strongly to deny stable companion Alazeyab.
Ffrench said: "He was very lazy early on but responded each time I asked him and once we hit the front I was always confident he would hold on. The yard have been in great form all season and hopefully it will continue."
For the second year running, the 1000m turf handicap was won by UK-based trainer Robert Cowell who, having won the race in 2011 with subsequent Group 1 winner Prohibit, landed this year's renewal with Monsieur Joe who led in the dying strides under William Buick.
Cowell said: "We hoped he would run well after a promising local debut and William has given him a great ride."


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Yes, this really is what will fill your screen about 90% of the time if you choose to be a bear in the upcoming expansion.
Nah, I'm just kidding but to be fair, druids do have a slight issue with being a bit more…chubby than their plate wearing counterparts so if you're planning on running around as a druid come Cataclysm and you're a bit leery about controlling a character that looks as though they should be skipping on those extra midnight snacks, this isn't for you.
For those of you not scared away but the unsightly fat bear, you're in luck! Being a druid has a wonderful perk attached to it, namely, versatility. Every role you can fill in a raid or dungeon, whether it's melee/ranged DPS, healer or tank, the druid can fill, and handily. What this means is that if you choose to tank as a druid, you'll never really lack for options should you want a change of pace, whether you feel like dealing some damage or saving lives.
While there are many upcoming changes to the class as a whole as with every other aspect of the game, the core role of the bear as a raid tank will likely not change.
The druid is a wonderful tank to choose when it comes to survivability and damage mitigation. Druids are blessed with the highest health pool and the highest armor value; the armor making them the easy choice to deal with hard hitting physical mobs while the higher health pool makes them an easy choice for tanking magical damage as while they'll take them same amount of damage as the other tanks, their higher HP makes them easier to keep up.
Ask any healer if they'd prefer to heal a tank that drops in spikes or one that takes a bit more damage but drops at a steady and regular pace and nine times out of ten, they'll opt for the second. Geared properly, a druid tank has a proper place in any raid encounter with their access to an in combat resurrection and Innervate and have often been chosen over their other tanking counterparts for that purpose.
Cataclysm has the further benefit of bringing some new toys to the table such as Stampeding Roar which acts as a Heroism/Bloodlust for movement speed. While such a skill may admittedly be situational, in the instances where it would be helpful, it'll be very helpful.
All of these benefits don't come without cost, however. Due to the fact that they are a class built for versatility rather than to fill a single role, their tradeoffs come in the form of a slightly bland playstyle when it comes to tanking and a noticeable lack of some of the signature tanking moves held by their brethren that lets them tank with a bit of flash and pizzazz.
As a druid, you'll never be sought after due to your ability to prevent your own death through an Ardent Defender proc, nor will you be called upon to zip across the battle like a pinball like a warrior and you lack any and all of the little perks of being a death knight (biggest of which is the ability to yank your enemy towards you).
However, as that same druid, you'll never be bored and confined to a single role in a raid. As a druid, you will save an attempt with your battle res one day and get the job done by the skin of your teeth.
As a druid tank in Cataclysm, you will become an incredibly tough, furry, and immovable rock for your squishy raid members to hide behind and they will love you for it so if all of that sounds appealing, get started on that druid today and we'll see you in the expansion, another bear added to the ranks.


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Armstrong feels he is cycling's 'fall guy'
Astana rider Lance Armstrong of the U.S. arrives at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel before the Tour of Ireland cycling race in Enniskerry near Dublin in this August 20, 2009, file photo. An attorney for Lance Armstrong said the disgraced cyclist will not meet the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's deadline for him to answer questions under oath, and suggested his client would rather participate in international efforts to "clear the air." [Photo/Agencies]
PARIS - Lance Armstrong feels he is the scapegoat of a sport that has always been subject to cheating, the disgraced American cyclist said on Wednesday before criticising International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid.
Asked whether he felt he was the 'fall guy for an entire sport/system', Armstrong, who was banned for life and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping, told Cyclingnews (www.cyclingnews.com) in an exclusive email interview: "Actually, yes I do. But I understand why. We all make the beds we sleep in."
Armstrong, 41, confessed to doping this month, saying he used performance-enhancing drugs from the mid-1990s to 2005.
He believes, however, that every cycling generation cheated.
"My generation was no different than any other. The 'help' has evolved over the years but the fact remains that our sport is damn hard, the Tour was invented as a 'stunt'... and for a century all (riders) looked for advantages," he said.
"From hopping on trains a 100 years ago to EPO now. No generation was exempt or 'clean'. Not Merckx's, not Hinault's, not LeMond's, not Coppi's, not Gimondi's, not Indurain's, not Anquetil's, not Bartali's and not mine."
A truth and reconciliation process is the only way out of the crisis, according to Armstrong.
"It's not the best way, it's the only way. As much as I'm the eye of the storm this is not about one man, one team, one director," Armstrong said.
"This is about cycling and to be frank it's about ALL endurance sports. Publicly lynching one man and his team will not solve this problem."
McQuaid, who last October said Armstrong should have nothing to do with cycling, was not the first supporter of a truth and reconciliation commission, Armstrong said.
"When I was on speaking terms with ol' Pat McQuaid many, many months ago I said, 'Pat, you better think bold here. A full blown, global TRC is our sport's best solution.' He wanted to hear nothing of it," the American said.
Armstrong does not believe McQuaid is the right man to deal with the situation.
"Pat is just in constant CYA (Cover Your Ass) mode. Pathetic," he said.
Even with a governing body he feels cannot address the matter, cycling will weather the storm, the Texan explained.
"Cycling will never die, it will just simmer. Zero growth. Sponsors leaving, races cancelled - this we are seeing. This current state of chaos and petty bullshit, tit for tat, etc, will just ensure that cycling goes flat or negative for a decade plus," he said.
"Which is a real shame for the current crop of young pros the sport has."
Armstrong had already said he go into details of his doping past with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and he explained on Wednesday that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and the UCI would not be welcome at the table.
"This is a global sport not an American one. One thing I'd add - the UCI has no place at the table," he said.


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This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology.
The increasingly likely prospect of deep cuts in federal spending forced by failure of the U.S. Congress to thwart the sequestration of funds has Pentagon managers taking yet another look at spacecraft disaggregation. Under the circumstances, the notion that breaking massive, multifunction Cold War-style defense and intelligence satellites into smaller platforms can save money is understandably appealing. But on closer examination, it is not that simple. While there are military advantages to scattering military sensors and relays across space, and possibly technology/industrial base plusses too, it remains to be seen that it will be cheaper to do so.
"Disaggregation is probably the latest buzzword-bingo center square in Washington," says Peter Marquez, a former director of space policy at the National Security Council. "It seems that if you're going to talk about budgets or threats, the answer is always disaggregation. Sometimes I think we know the answer, but we forgot the question."
Appearing in a panel discussion on the subject sponsored by the George Marshall Institute, of which he is a fellow, Marquez argued that using smaller satellites for national security might be a way to avoid the built-in obsolescence that has plagued the Battlestar Galactica approach to milsats, which take so long and cost so much to build that better technology becomes available before launch, but too late to incorporate.
Another plus could be the targeting problems that splitting up space assets into more platforms could cause any power -- read China, in the wake of past performance in the anti-satellite arena -- that wants to disrupt U.S. space capability. Like the hope that disaggregation could help technology advance, the targeting argument is ambiguous. Panelists at the Marshall Institute symposium noted that combining sensors on a platform that includes missile early warning, or other strategic sensors, could have a "bodyguard" effect. An adversary probably would think twice before attacking something in space that could trigger a nuclear response on the ground.
As the Cold War superpowers work to loosen their strategic trip wires, that argument probably holds less water today than it perhaps did. But Marquez identified another downside of the capability equation: the possibility that a particular spacecraft won't be available when it is needed, although the technology is being upgraded.
"I wouldn't want to be in my old job and go into the national security adviser and say 'you know what we did last year, how we saw that missile launch? We're not going to be able to do that in five years,'" Marquez says. "That's not a good place to be."
But with today's funding uncertainty, Marquez's successors at the White House may find themselves in just that position as funding dwindles. Launch costs would almost certainly go up with disaggregation, if only because there would be more spacecraft to launch to sustain a disaggregated constellation. And because the military usually seems to find a way to jack up the cost of anything it does through gold-plating, turf-fighting and labyrinthine bureaucracy, there is no guarantee that those same factors will not play havoc with disaggregation.
Unfortunately, weather observation from space is one area the Pentagon is studying as an early candidate for disaggregation. Along with its civilian partners in the military/civil National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (Npoess) -- NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- military managers quickly learned that a good idea for cost-saving can quickly turn into another overrun. In that case, big definitely wasn't better, and the program finally fell apart after its $6.5 billion cost roughly doubled.
"To put nine sensors on the biggest bus Northrop Grumman has ever built is a really difficult integration task," says Joshua Hartman, CEO of Horizons Strategy Group and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and intelligence. "And that's after we solved the development of each of those nine sensors. We were asking them to do things that were very difficult to do. Pete Rustan used to talk about how a program should only have one or two miracles, and eight or nine miracles is not a good way to manage a . . . space acquisition program."
That isn't likely to happen again soon, Hartman says, because funding will be too tight. Research and development programs aimed at disaggregation in the $100-$200 million range may be possible, but not big "transformation" projects as in the past. "This is a long-term process that's going to take place over the next 10 to 15 years," he says.