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MQTT inventors speak at TEDxNovember 5th, 2012 - andyp
Worth sharing a couple of videos of the two main inventors of the MQTT protocol – Andy Stanford-Clark and Arlen Nipper – speaking at two different TEDx events in the past few months.
First up a few months ago was Andy, with his appearance at TEDx Warwick in the UK – "Innovation begins at Home"
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More recently, Arlen went on stage at TEDx New Bedford in the US – "The Internet of Things is Just Getting Started"
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Both videos are worth watching to get some insight into what these guys are working on, thinking about, and (in part) how MQTT came about!
What do you think? Tweet us @mqttorg and let us know your views!

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Scurrying Slirrup Difficulty:
This is the first "boss" you will face, but it is optional since it appears in the west side in the junior school before you enter the alien world. This boss is so annoying that it can take over twenty fights before taking it out. Every time you fight it, the situation will be one of the following: Escape, seed then escape, or stay for some turns before escape. It never attacks, only seed, which can be countered easily using Better Slingshot. If it escapes, it runs to somewhere else and you have to follow it until you kill it. Killing it gives you plenty of doughnuts.
Gertigator Diffculty: *
This is the first boss which is capable of defeating your party. It can suck in one of your characters then spew her out onto another, which causes considerable damage. The most annoying move is that it can retreat and summon other mobs to fight you, and it will return after you destroy the summoned mobs. But that's all of it and its attacks aren't very strong. Just cast Egg Cage on the front row then blast it with Lightning and Nerve Pinch, which is by far the best damage output at that time. A few shots and it is out.
Treeman 1 Diffculty: *
In this battle you face a dormant treeman with two podders. The podders hit very hard and they heal themselves and the treeman up to full whenever they are damaged. The only thing you can do is to survive for some turns. The best way to do it is to cast Egg Cage, and Affirmation if possible on front row and have Jennifer healing. Just stay alive and the battle is over.
Power Plant Difficulty: **
This boss is accompanied by two spires, which heals the main boss when it is damaged. All of them can charge up and hit some big damage, but you can reduce the damage significantly using Egg Cage again. This boss is very low on hitpoints, only 145, while the spires have 105. Take out the spires first, then move on the main plant.
Snapdragon Difficulty: ***
Snapdragon is much more powerful than any boss you have faced so far. It has a whooping 320 hitpoints, and with two podders healing it. It has two main moves, one is to focus on a character and hits really hard, another is a flame attack which hits everyone in front row. Again, Egg Cage is essential, without it a focused attack can hit over 20. Having Egg Cage can also effectively reduce flame attack to 1-7 damage. Again, finish the podders first, then onto the main boss. Remember to kill the boss with a finisher, since it grants a lot of bonus experience which immediately gives you a level.
Treeman 2 Difficulty: ****
This time the podders no longer heal themselves, just the treeman. The treeman stay dormant until the podders are defeated, but even so the podders are powerful foes. They can easily hit above 15 if you don't have Egg Cage on. After their death, the treeman awakes and start to wreak havoc on your party. It can hit over 10 even through Egg Cage, and it has Pollinate, which either damage, drains SP or hypnotizes your whole party. Having Egg Cage on and Jennifer at the front row are essential, they can save your life. Have Nicole using Lightning and yourself using Psycho-Analysis, and it will be out eventually. Killing it with a finisher grants 500 bonus experience, which is another level.
Chive Mind - Nicole Difficulty: *******
Chive Mind - Others Difficulty: *****
Strange enough, this final boss is probably the weakest boss on its own, its strength is its huge army of Grex and two Dreamworm. The boss itself can use any skill the girl has, and absorbs hitpoints from other Grex if it has none left. Note that the boss has a certain amount of SP, which runs out very quickly, after that it can only do basic attacks. Dreamworms can hypnotize, thus take them out as quick as possible. Grex hits hard and after Pulsate, they can engulf your characters, which is very deadly as it disables them temporily and exposes the other unbuffed characters. The mobs rearrange themselves regularly so the one you are focusing on may move to the back row and become unreachable.
If Chive Mind captures Nicole, you are going to have a really hard time beating it. With your main damager down, Jennifer and yourself (probably Andrea too) become attackers in the party, yet they are no where as effective as Nicole. The trick is to try to focus on one Grex each time, even though they will move away repeatedly. Use Self-doubt may help, since it decolourizes the target and let you know which target you are focusing on. Have Andrea using Grenade, you using Psycho-Analysis, Jennifer using Nerve Pinch, and of course, Heather to Egg Cage everyone - yes, everyone, since after engulf the back row characters will be exposed. The more Grex you have taken out, the easier it will become. If you run out of SP (which will happen very soon), don't hesistate to use ALL your food available as this is the final fight.
If Chive Mind captures other girls instead, your time is much easier. Have Nicole repeat Big Bang infinitely. If you have upgraded it, you can finish the battle in three to four turns, if not, it takes longer, but still way shorter than without Nicole. Just muster all your SP food to restore Nicole's SP and blow all of them into ashes.
When all minions are dead, and boss losing all its hitpoints, it will do one last move, which absorb hitpoint from one of your characters. After that it is done.
Remember if you use Psycho-Analysis on the boss, the captured girl will execute a super move to help you in the battle, for example, Nicole will cast Lightning on all enemies, while Missy will put every enemy to sleep.
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I just wanted to add something: The Junior school has two rooms with only one door on the lowest level so it's possible to trap it there. I don't know whether this works everytime but it's possible, through clever combination and maybe luck, to trap it in one of the rooms and then block the door thus making it impossible to escape. That's how I got it.isabel wrote:Scurrying Slirrup Difficulty:
This is the first "boss" you will face, but it is optional since it appears in the west side in the junior school before you enter the alien world. This boss is so annoying that it can take over twenty fights before taking it out. Every time you fight it, the situation will be one of the following: Escape, seed then escape, or stay for some turns before escape. It never attacks, only seed, which can be countered easily using Better Slingshot. If it escapes, it runs to somewhere else and you have to follow it until you kill it. Killing it gives you plenty of doughnuts.
It tried to escape every round but when that wasn't possible it attacked.
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Four dead in shooting at Calif. tribal meeting
Four people are dead after a woman began shooting during a meeting at an American Indian settlement in northeast California to discuss the eviction of her and her son, according to Alturas, Calif., police.
Alturas Police Chief Ken Barnes said 44-year-old Sherie Lash was taken into custody after allegedly opening fire at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office and Community Center in Alturas, about 55 miles south of the Oregon border and 35 miles west of the Nevada line.
One published report said one of the victims was a police officer, but Alturas police said this is not true.
The victims were a female, 19; male, 30; female, approximately 45; and male, 50, Barnes said of the incident in northeast California.
Two more people were shot, Barnes said. One of the wounded was shot once and airlifted to a hospital and another who received multiple wounds was taken to a hospital nearby, Barnes said.
The building where the center is located also includes an educational center and a day care center with a kitchen, Barnes said. Lash allegedly grabbed a butcher's knife from the kitchen and went after a gunshot victim hit multiple times, but authorities were not clear on whether she actually stabbed that person, Barnes said.
In addition to the two who were shot and injured, a pregnant woman was jostled during the commotion and taken to a hospital to be checked out, Barnes said.
The rancheria is a federally recognized tribe with 35 members, according to the tribe's website.
Barnes had no immediate information on whether Lash, who is also known as Sherie Rhoades, had previously been in trouble with the law.


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Adobe is all about enabling designers and developers to create the most expressive content possible, regardless of platform or technology. For more than a decade, Flash has enabled the richest content to be created and deployed on the web by reaching beyond what browsers could do. It has repeatedly served as a blueprint for standardizing new technologies in HTML. Over the past two years, we've delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness of the web to many mobile devices.
However, HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms. We are excited about this, and will continue our work with key players in the HTML community, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and RIM, to drive HTML5 innovation they can use to advance their mobile browsers.
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. We will of course continue to provide critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations. We will also allow our source code licensees to continue working on and release their own implementations.
These changes will allow us to increase investment in HTML5 and innovate with Flash where it can have most impact for the industry, including advanced gaming and premium video. Flash Player 11 for PC browsers just introduced dozens of new features, including hardware accelerated 3D graphics for console-quality gaming and premium HD video with content protection. Flash developers can take advantage of these features, and all that our Flash tooling has to offer, to reach more than a billion PCs through their browsers and to package native apps with AIR that run on hundreds of millions of mobile devices through all the popular app stores, including the iTunes App Store, Android Market, Amazon Appstore for Android and BlackBerry App World.
We are already working on Flash Player 12 and a new round of exciting features which we expect to again advance what is possible for delivering high definition entertainment experiences. We will continue to leverage our experience with Flash to accelerate our work with the W3C and WebKit to bring similar capabilities to HTML5 as quickly as possible, just as we have done with CSS Shaders. And, we will design new features in Flash for a smooth transition to HTML5 as the standards evolve so developers can confidently invest knowing their skills will continue to be leveraged.
We are super excited about the next generations of HTML5 and Flash. Together they offer developers and content publishers great options for delivering compelling web and application experiences across PCs and devices. There is already amazing work being done that is pushing the newest boundaries, and we can't wait to see what is still yet to come!
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I have to admit I am not a fan of the various 3rd party monitoring tools (after using a few of them in the past 10 years) mostly because of the following two reasons:
1. Lack of operation productivity. What I see from various products is just a common pattern: alerts received –> a GUI opened –> a few clicks to drill down to the "root cause"
In an environment with a few hundred sql server instances, how can you expect a DBA to have multiple clicks to just figure ONE issue on ONE instance each time?
2. Big TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) as most tools are priced on the number of sql server instances that the tool is monitoring. When you have a few hundred sql instances to monitor, the cost is usually prohibitive and can make a DBA feel bad that s/he cannot contribute to the company's bottom line.
3. Compromising my capability to design a customized / flexible monitoring framework.
All current DBA monitoring tools are "closed" system, i.e. they generate data and then consume the data internally. For example, they can collect the CPU usage of a session, and then present the data via GUI or in various reports (with PDF, HTML etc format). However, there is no easy way for me to consume the raw data directly, say, if I run the same query in two different servers with different # of CPU, and I want to compare the CPU usage by assigning a factor parameter to one server's data to level the competition ground, there is no way for me to do this with current monitoring tools.
In my observation, if a company has one or two capable DBAs, usually the company will not buy any 3rd party monitoring tools because in theory, all the functions from the monitoring tools can be made in-house and more than often, you do not need all functions from a monitoring tool (just like you do not use every feature of Windows Office, you probably only use 20% of the total features).
But I have to say all the monitoring tools have their merits and values, it is just the philosophy of making these tools that I probably do not agree with. To me, all these tools put overly unnecessary focus on GUI, the fancy reports, the multiple drill-down clicks to the "so-called" root of the issues and the complex configurations for different alerts etc, and all these mean the tools are more suitable for reporting to managers what goes wrong instead of for DBAs to add extra values for the company. For those capable/responsible DBAs, they are more willing to create their own customized solutions instead of relying on a tool that only meets 20% of their targets while paying 100% price.
If I were an architect for a monitoring tool, I'd like to design a tool with only one goal
Put productivity as #1 priority for the tool's existence.
With this principle in mind, I will provide a total library of functions for monitoring, and let the DBA (or better DBAA, i.e. DataBase Admininstration Architect) to develop the customized monitoring framework using the library. I will get rid of the GUI, and just provide a command-line interface (CLI).
I'd argue GUI is never a productive interface for repeating work (like database performance monitoring / analysis). If you look at Microsoft in server administration field, MS once won big praise for its GUI based administration (vs the traditional Unix style server administration), however, MS started to promote Powershell in the last couple of years as both a tool and an interface to manage servers. Powershell in essence is a command line tool, which is efficient and easily scalable to handle big and complex environment. Why did MS adopt this approach? To me, it is quite possible that MS realizes that GUI is not efficient when you need to manage large scale of servers, and that's why CLI is preferred.
I'd like to use an example here to illustrate why I think a CLI is better. I guess every SQL Server DBA should know about the famous sp_whoisactive tool created by Adam Machanic. To me, this is a perfect tool, which I can utilize in my total monitoring framework, esp. during the trouble-shooting period. I can use it in almost all scenarios, here are a few scenarios:
1. When my main monitoring thread finds tempdb data space usage is above the threshold, the main monitoring thread can call the sp_whoisactive (with customized parameters) and dump the info to a table, and another notification thread will read from the table, and send a well-formatted html email to me (or I can let the notification thread to dump info into SSRS service)
2. When my main monitoring thread finds high CPU / long blocking / long running sessions / high log space usage / … , the sp_whoisactive is called and the same subsequent steps will be followed.
Of course for a full scale monitoring tool library, we can add lots of features with different sets of functions (which can be implemented via CLR), such as disk space monitoring, memory/cpu monitoring, and many many more stuff that current GUI provides.
So in short, I want a 3rd party tool to be only a fact data provider whose consumer should be decided / created by DBAs. From a more abstract way, I'd argue if you want a tool that DBA will like, the tool should facilitate the DBA to add more values to the DBAs' own work with their own imaginations (not to replace a DBA's imagination), just like sp_whoisactive which is such a basic unit that I can easily embed it into my various monitoring frameworks without compromising my imagination to design the framework as a whole.
PS: My opinion may be biased as I have not researched all monitoring tools so I'd like to hear there are CLI functions in a monitoring tool. If so, please let me know and I will be more than glad to test / review it.


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UPDATED APRIL 29, 2011 AT MID-DAY: The rant which follows notwithstanding, I did watch the damn thing. What can I say, Kate Middleton's dress looked smoking, though the provence of said dress in the studios of Alexander McQueen makes me sad in ways that are hard to explain at this late capitalist moment, as did the elegantly designed advertisement that appeared as I watched the webcast on The Telegraph.
Sublime? Really? Yesterday, I posted my own take on the sublime. This thing just seems like the most perfectly targeted advertising ever. May it live here on the web, in perpetuity, even as larger answers elude us.
Hey people, I hate to piss on someone else's wedding, and it's not exactly a cutting edge position to hate on the royals. As my favorite wedding-related Tweet read, "People who don't care about the royal wedding are so edgy." So, uh, yeah, the issue here is not that I'll pretend not to care about the royals. My issue is that the world cares way too much about them — myself included and, hey, the self-regarding royals themselves included too. I can barely stomach the occasional affectation of the minor rock stars (and, sometimes even worse, art & classical world stars) I find myself in contact with; I definitely can't stomach the affectations I, myself, need to put on to do the job I do within various creative communities.
So, why exactly am I supposed to care about the affectations of a group of people for whom affection seems a point in and of itself?
Without further adieu, a kind of **** you to all things royal from Crass founder Penny Rimbaud, who talks at length here about the death of his friend Wally Hope. Kick back and relax because this sucker takes about 40-minutes, it rambles and digresses, picks-up and slows down, and covers everything from the hippie movement to Stonehenge to the birth of Crass and all the connections therein. Over 25 minutes in Rimbaud complains "We're under a time sort of confine now." Dude that's not even English! And he's English!
Note: It was filmed by Gavin McInnes, the co-founder of Vice, a dude who admirably got off one culture cash-in train mid-journey to do his own thing. (As McInnes's Wikipedia entry reads he is "often credited with starting the contemporary hipster movement." Ahem. We'll save complaints about that for another blog post.)
For more on Crass dig into this blog's archive or, better yet, I'd suggest starting with this article I wrote for LA Weekly in 2008. Or, for a bit of counter-programming, peep this official program from today's event (aka the longest JPEG ever) after the jump (via The Daily).
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by Janet Gilmore
My husband, Hugh, is not the only person in this house who knows how to read. I do, too. In fact, I read some books last year, and will probably do the same this year and every year after that.
But I don't enjoy fiction very much. It's all lies. Writers make it all up! And the better the book is, the more frustrating it is for me because I've invested time and emotional energy in the reading and whether I love or hate the characters, I have lots of questions to which there are no answers because THEY'RE NOT REAL PEOPLE! THEY'RE FAKE! There is no answer to the question of what happened to Madame Bovary's daughter or will any man marry grown-up women as bossy as Alice up out of the rabbit hole or Dorothy back from Oz. Drives me crazy. I choose not to spend time with folks who don't exist. I have enough problems in my real life.
There is an exception to this rule, however. I do like a mystery book every once in a while. It's so mysterious. So little pretense. Someone done it — who? I know Good will prevail at the end, and Evil will be punished, but I have never, ever been able to figure out who the killer is before the dénouement. Never.
The writers of those potboilers are so clever that I'm mildly confused by the end of the first plot twist, heavily confused by the second and hopelessly lost after that. If I'm told near the end that the murderer might be Cedric, I wonder, "Cedric? Who's he? Where did he come from? I want my money back! Oh, right; this is a library book! Never mind!"
Then I must go back through the text looking for Cedric to see what elevator he stepped off of and exactly when he accepted the delivery of a barrel of the world's most poisonous acid/monkeys/ green vegetables.
So I read the end of the book first. That's right. I read the last chapter first. Then I go back and read the rest of the book. That way, everyone is happy. The author, if alive, is happy, because I have a copy of the book, I know who-done-it, and I have the pleasure of accompanying the sleuth on his journey and knowing more than he does. The process of the investigation and discovery is the interesting part to me, more interesting than who actually committed the crime.
Because almost no one listens to audiocassettes any more, the Andorra Library in upper Roxborough has de-accessioned some audio books on tape. I picked up a 12-cassette copy of "Final Curtain" by Ngaio (pronounced Nye-o, the "g" is silent) Marsh (1895–1982), who was from New Zealand and wrote like a dream. The plot of "Final Curtain" is wonderfully rich, and the language is delicious. And how about that Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard, eh?
I intended to listen to the tapes only while driving in my car until the thought struck me, "Wait a minute! I bet the library has BOOKS, too, not just tapes! Why don't I get the book that goes along with the tape and read it on the sofa or in bed along with the tape? I could bring the tapes in from the car! That way, I can read AND listen, and if I fall asleep, maybe I can absorb the plot subliminally."
It worked fine at first. Using headphones in consideration of the other readers who live here, I was able to ignore the mess in the kitchen and the stinkbugs hurling themselves into the halogen light bulbs and stinking. I settled into bed with the book and matching tape, read the last chapter, said, "Aha!" and immersed myself in the question of "Who killed Sir Henry Ancred?" even though I already knew the answer.
However, I fell asleep three nights in a row at Cassette #12, just near the end, and I had to listen three times on three subsequent nights before I "finished" the entire book. Listening to a recording of the text while reading the actual words helped me visualize and remember what was going on in the book. In fact, that technique might help students who are stuck with some required reading thing they can't stand. There may not be a way to make "The Odyssey," "Mythology" by Edith Hamilton or Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" enjoyable, but perhaps more comprehensible.
Falling asleep only increased curiosity. "What happened last night?" I asked Hugh at breakfast recently. "I was reading 'Final Curtain,' but I don't remember much about it."
"You fell asleep with the tape still running and all the lights on. I had to take the book away from you, shut off the tape player and turn off the lights."
I toddled off to begin my day, already impatient for nighttime and the reward for a day of hard work — reading time. Even if I already know whodunit.


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Never knew they sold bulbs shaped like skulls.
Though I'm not a big fan of blacklights - they make my eyes hurt.
I love the idea of them and the strange light cast from them is wonderful, but when I look directly at them, I get a weird pain in the center of my eyeballs.
I probably have glaucoma or something.
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Skull Blacklight
Never knew they sold bulbs shaped like skulls.
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this pretty perfectly matches your new title banner!
- September 28, 2010 at 8:47 PM
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You're right.
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The problem with these incandescent black lights is that they really don't do much beyond creating a fire hazard. They don't put out much UV, and they use an absorption coating to block most of the visible light they make, which turns it all to heat, so they're hotter than normal incandescent bulbs. If you want real UV, you have to use a real fluorescent style black light.
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Beer is central to the lives of Czechs to a degree that few, if any, countries can match. One recent study shows that per capita, Czechs drink the most beer in the world, and it's not all that close. They consume 20% more beer per person than the second place country, Ireland, with Germany a close third. I've always liked Czech pilsners that is far and away the most popular style with their dry, bitter clean flavor. I still remember the revelatory experience of trying Staropramen on tap for the first time at the outstanding pub Lucky Baldwin's in Old Town Pasadena in the mid-90s. I finally understood what the inspiration was for all these American beer giants whose main purpose appears to be selling lifestyle or image rather than flavor.
Like in many European countries, however, the beer industry is dominated by a small handful of national (to international) brands such as Pilsner Urquell, Budweiser Budvar, Krušovice, Gambrinus and Staropramen (I prefer Budvar and Staropramen from the above list). I knew from a past visit that there are smaller, local breweries. Years ago I had visited the generally well-regarded tourist trap U Fleků which showed to me a different side of Czech beer, and on a recent visit I figured I'd try to learn more about the small artisinal producers in a country with a rich brewing history. A quick search led me to Restaurace Kulový Blesk, which is a fairly easy 15 minute walk (or one metro stop ride) from Wenceslas Square in central Prague. They pride themselves on a fairly extensive selection of beer only from small Czech producers.


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From Facebook Credits to Nintendo Points to Bitcoins, everyone loves a good digital currency. And coming in May, Amazon will be the latest to join the fray. The online retailer has announced its plans to roll out "Amazon Coins," which will be used for Kindle Fire owners to purchase games, apps, content, and in-app purchases on their tablets.
Amazon is currently touting the new service to mobile developers, encouraging them to make sure their apps support the new payment method by April 25.
Any purchases made via Amazon Coins will still give developers the same royalty payments as if the user paid with a credit card. And unlike some digital currencies that have confusing conversion rates (cough, Microsoft Points, cough), one Amazon Coin will equal one penny.
In order to introduce people to the digital payment method and hopefully lure them into a state of Amazon Coin addiction, Amazon will be offering tens of millions of dollars in free coinage to Kindle Fire customers. The official press release did not specify exactly who would be entitled to the initial free giveaway and how much each user will receive.
Keeping customers coming back for Amazon Coins will be an interesting proposition. After all, Amazon already has multiple ways to pay — retail store gift cards, digital gifting, etc. Offering a payment option that has a more limited scope is a tricky sell. Amazon will likely continue to offer special promotions and offers to get customer dollars locked in to high-margin digital content as opposed to physical products on Amazon.com.
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(CNN) - As a ballot initiative to ban same sex-marriage comes to a vote in North Carolina this week, Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday he was "absolutely comfortable" with the idea of same-gender marriage.
"I just think that the good news is that as more and more Americans come to understand what this is all about, it is a simple proposition: Who do you love? Who do you love? And will you be loyal to the person who love?" Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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While he did not touch on the North Carolina initiative, his comments were consistent with his message on the controversial issue in general. He added, however, that it's the president, not he, who sets the administration's policy.
President Barack Obama, who once opposed same-sex marriage, has taken the official position that his views on the issue are "evolving." He says at fundraisers that there is much work do be done, leading many supporters in the LGBT community to believe that he would support same-sex marriage in a second term.
Biden, on the other hand, has more room politically to speak on the topic. Sunday, he said he was encouraged by what he sees as a shifting culture, one more welcoming to the notion of same-sex marriage, and pointed to a popular TV show as a catalyst for such change.
"I think 'Will and Grace' did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody has ever done," Biden said, referring to the former NBC comedy about a gay man and a heterosexual woman living together in New York City.
Asked if the president would support same-sex marriage in a second term, Biden said he didn't know the answer. But he pointed to the Obama administration's repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, a move that now allows gay and lesbian members of the military to serve openly.
Some on Twitter seized on the vice president's words to question whether the White House was signaling a change in position on the issue ahead of the election. But David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Obama's re-election campaign, made clear that there is no intended split between the president's views and those of the vice president. Axelrod tweeted:
"What the VP said - that all married couples should have the same legal rights - is (precisely) POTUS' position."
The White House tried to shut down speculation that the administration's position on gay marriage has "evolved" when a spokesperson for the vice president put out a statement after the interview, saying his words mirror the president's position.
"Vice President Biden was echoing the President's position: that committed and loving same-sex couples deserve the same rights and protections enjoyed by all Americans, and that we oppose any effort to rollback those rights. That's why we stopped defending the constitutionality of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges and support legislation to repeal it. Beyond that, the Vice President was expressing that he too is evolving on the issue, after meeting so many committed couples and families in this country."
Responding to the interview, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a leading advocacy group for LGBT rights, also put out a statement.
"We are encouraged by Vice President Biden's comments, who rightly articulated that loving and committed gay and lesbian couples should be treated equally. Now is the time for President Obama to speak out for full marriage equality for same-sex couples," Michael Cole-Schwartz, the group's communications director, said in a statement.
In the past, Biden has expressed support for gay marriage. In a December 2010 appearance on "Good Morning America," he said, "I think there's an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage."
- CNN's Ashley Killough contributed to this report.
A reasonable and responsible man. The republicans are doing their best to come up with a response that can show their disdain, but will try to temper said response in an effort to cull some votes form the lesser enlightened among the populace. It won't be long before the Bashing begins. Hate seems to be a cornerstone of the republican party.
The Corporatist (Fascist) republicans are the ones trying to control everyone's personal lives. They want to take away every God-Given Free Will CHOICE that Americans have.
Obama/Biden 2012
Clinton/Warren 2016
Biden made the point that the culture is changing. That is something that everyone is needs to note. There are some who don't like that, but the only constant is change. It would be nice if people would be willing to let people live their lives as they chose to.
This isn't news! He's just as brain-washed as Obama. Sick.
Thank you, Mr Biden. We need more people like you in this world.
Biden is only comfortable with it because it is election year. Why wasn't he comfortable with it last year, or the year before that? Quit drinking the obama kool-aid, and think for yourself for once.
Nice to hear some news that's hopeful & rational....
Those whoso want to reduce the size of government are so intent upon telling others how tolive; the fundamental conservative contradiction. Perhaps they are not really conservatives after all, just proto-facists.
It's simple: If we want to say that we're a country of freedom, then we have to respect the choices people make about who they love and want to share their lives with. Period. What is so complicated about that? The only people who feel threatened by the choices others make are those who are insecure about their own choices.
Wow – a voice of reason – a rarity these days. Much preferable to the angry, hateful Republicans.
Joe Biden (and every so-called Catholic who supports abortion and gay marriage) should be excommunicated. To receive the Lord at Mass while holding heretical views is an insult to Him.
i use to pretend i was an astronaut why cant they pretend there married
Regardless of what old Biden thinks, perversions remain perversions. Can't change nature of things by passing stupid laws. Only nature can change nature.
and Dick Cheney still resents his Daughter even with his new heart......
Thank God I dont support neither political parties. I am glad to be a non-voter
Guess thats why his name is Bi-den
So Osama bin Laden was right when he left a message saying that to assassinate Obama leaving Biden in charge would be beneficial to al Queda. And with the dumbos who like Biden, then al Queda will never be defeated.
I could not have said it better myself. Well said!
I've not been a Joe Biden fan up until now. My respect for him just went up significantly! All human beings deserve to have the same rights and freedoms. People should be allowed to marry the one they love. This in no way undermines the marriage of anyone else; it's a personal matter. Good going, Joe!


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BOURBON, MO (KTVI/CNN) - A 6-year-old boy who went missing in August, along with his mother and her boyfriend, was returned to the custody of his father after he was found hidden in an attic crawl space that had been nailed shut.
Father Ryan Jones was reunited with his son Braedence Jones Tuesday, five months after the boy disappeared following a visit with his mother, Aubrey Ferguson, who did not have full custody of the 6-year-old.
"It was the first thing we did: give him a big hug and tell him how much we love him," Jones said. "I'm just happy Braedence is back, that they were able to find him."
The boy's mother and her boyfriend, Woodrow Ziegler, were arrested after authorities executed a search warrant on a home in Laclede County, MO. Ferguson, Ziegler and Braedence were all inside, with the mother and son hidden in a crawl space in the attic.
"The boyfriend had already nailed the crawl space shut and had covered it with either a carpet or some piece of cloth and had moved furniture and other items in front of it to block it," said Lt. Arlyne Page with the Camden County Sheriff's Office.
The 6-year-old has not attended school this year, according to investigators, and Jones says the boy was filthy when he was found.
"He mentioned that he hasn't had a bath, so we gave him a bath. He had dirt caked on him," said Braedence's stepmother, Bre Dominguez.
Braedence got to open his Christmas presents Tuesday night. His family says they are extremely grateful to law enforcement.
"This is one of the happiest days we've ever had," Dominguez said. "We're definitely blessed for them. We're just so thankful. Without them, no telling where he could have been."
Braedence will return to school next week. He'll also be going to the doctor for a check-up as a precaution.
Ferguson is being held on two warrants, at least one for child abduction. Ziegler is a felon, who was court-ordered to not be around Braedence. Additional charges against both of them are being considered.
Authorities say relatives were assisting the couple in moving around a few different counties surrounding Camden County, MO, from where the boy disappeared. Anyone who assisted could also face charges.
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Background. The Lebesgue decomposition theorem states that if $(X,\Omega)$ is a measurable space and $\mu$ is a finite measure on $X$, then for every measure $\nu$, there is a unique decomposition $\nu = \nu_1 + \nu_2$ such that $\nu_1 \ll \mu$ and $\nu_2 \perp \mu$.
Let us denote the space of all finite measures on $(X,\Omega)$ by $\mathcal{M}$. Then the above is equivalent to the statement that $\mathcal{M} = \mathcal{S} \oplus\mathcal{T}$, where $\mathcal{S}$ is the space of all measures that are absolutely continuous with respect to $\mu$, while $\mathcal{T}$ is the space of all measures that are singular with respect to $\mu$.
We can characterise $\mathcal{T}$ in terms of $\mathcal{S}$ as $$ \mathcal{T} = \mathcal{S}^\perp = \lbrace \nu\in \mathcal{M} \mid \nu \perp m \text{ for all } m\in \mathcal{S} \rbrace. $$ Let us say that a subspace $\mathcal{S} \subset \mathcal{M}$ has property D (for decomposition) if $\mathcal{M} = \mathcal{S} \oplus \mathcal{S}^\perp$. Then the Lebesgue decomposition theorem says that $\lbrace \nu \mid \nu \ll \mu\rbrace$ has property D for any fixed $\mu$.
Question. Which subspaces have property D? Are there conditions on $\mathcal{S}$ that are equivalent to property D, or at least imply it? Presumably $\mathcal{S}$ should have the property that if $\nu \ll \mu \in \mathcal{S}$, then $\nu\in \mathcal{S}$ as well; is this sufficient, or are there other requirements?


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text: So who invented the "digital nervous system"? Sit down, Bill Gates -- you first mentioned it in May 1997 when you said: "I want to talk about what I call the digital nervous system." By the way, did you see the account at www.c3f.com/nty0728.html? Let's deconstruct this digital nervous system of yours. Judith Dayhoff wrote about the idea in 1990 in her book Neural Network Architectures, and she probably wasn't the first. In the literature for grown ups, it's mostly referred to as neural networks, and as just about everything is digital nowadays, we needn't pay much attention to the digital part of DNS. Just to fill you in, neural networks are an evolutionary response to the physical and chemical conditions of an organism. In trying to apply the concept to computing, you come unstuck very quickly because you can't validly compare a system where the outcome is determined by logic and the information content, with a system where the outcome is determined by evolution. To put it more simply for you, it's not even apples and oranges: it's apples and bicycles. You need to get stuck into some cybernetics and neurological texts, and not rely on Encarta, if you want to understand notions such as feedback and neural networks properly. When you realised that IBM and Oracle call on 8000 to 10,000 enterprise customers and prospects worldwide, and then found that Microsoft only called on 2500, you needed a way of opening doors for all those new, inexperienced people that you hired for additional marketing. You wanted a way to suggest that Microsoft had something to offer at an enterprise level, some insight into corporate management and systems: perhaps you even thought you could pass off DNS as a corporate vision? You wanted these new sales people to be able to offer to build a digital nervous system for a company, even though neither you nor they had the slightest idea what that would be (other than a full set of Microsoft software, of course). So this nonsense of the digital nervous system is just a sales gimmick, supported by an intellectual vacuum. Now let's fill you in on another use of DNS that pre-dates your effort. In a move that was intended to strengthen the position of European manufacturers and to redress the negative trade balance in Europe, Siemens-Nixdorf, Bull and Olivetti -- echoing an earlier move by Siemens and ICL, but this time without ICL which had become owned 80 per cent by Fujitsu -- founded software laboratories in Munich, Naples and Paris. In June 1992, Trans European Information Systems (TEIS) was founded, headquartered in Brussels, with the legal status of a European Economic Interest Group (EEIG). It was alternatively known as the European Nervous System (ENS) project -- a form of legal cartel. We can forgive those whose mother tongue is not English for using silly names like DNS, even informally. So please, let's have no more of this DNS. Let's stick to real products, not NotionlessWare. ®


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Alex Stepheson had just finished eating in one of USC's dining halls when he heard a voice shout, "Hey! Just the man I was looking for!"
Stepheson turned around to see Pete Carroll, charisma wrapped in a gold and cardinal hoodie, waving at him from a few yards away.
"Yeah, you," Carroll said. "Come over here, big guy!"
A 6-10 basketball standout recently transferred from North Carolina, Stepheson walked over to Carroll's table, unsure of what to expect.
"You have to sit out this year," Carroll said. "You ever think about playing football?"
Stepheson, two weeks into his tenure at Southern Cal, was totally caught off guard. A post-practice lunch had turned into a Pete Carroll recruiting pitch. He was living the dream of every USC frat star who pumped iron in preparation for Sigma Chi's beach party, flexed their Creatine-filled muscles in the mirror and thought to themselves, "I could totally be an asset on special teams."
For Stepheson, this was reality, and it also wasn't the first time he'd been approached by a famous football coach. His freshman year at UNC involved a similar encounter when Butch Davis cornered Alex and gave the spiel, encouraging him to check out the gridiron while making sure word never got back to Roy Williams that Butch was trying to poach one of his guys.
Both times, Stepheson, outgoing and gregarious, chatted and told Carroll and Davis that he'd consider their offers, yet both times he came to the same conclusion: He was a basketball player.
And it wasn't like he was just any basketball player. As a 6-9 freshman at Harvard Westlake High School in North Hollywood, Stepheson was one of the country's top recruit's seconds after hitting puberty.
After high school, he joined Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington, Brandan Wright, Deon Thompson and Will Graves at North Carolina in what ESPN ranked the second best recruiting class of the past 20 years (Michigan's Fab Five was No. 1). The world had been molding him to play basketball since it became clear he'd be one of its tallest inhabitants. Every second he spent away from the court was a second wasted, time he could have spent honing his craft.
But after going undrafted and tearing his ACL last season in Greece, Stepheson finds himself on the outside looking in, hoping for a shot at an NBA roster this offseason. There are, after all, only 360 full-time jobs in the profession. Myriad talents fall through the cracks and end up playing in Europe, the D-League or hogging the ball at your local LA Fitness.
And though Stepheson has spent the past nine months recovering from ACL surgery and fine-tuning his footwork, ball handling, and shooting, previous weaknesses in his game, he'll have to have a dominant summer to crack an NBA roster.
"When I think back," Stepheson said, referring to Carroll's practice invitation. "I always wonder, 'What if I went?'"
You might have read about the Seahawks signing Darren Fells, former international basketball player, to a three-year contract earlier this week. Darren, brother of St. Louis Rams tight end Daniel Fells, is a beast at 6-7 and 280 pounds. Clearly Carroll and Schneider are obsessed with physical specimens, but are they on the cusp of the next big trend in the NFL?
And Stepheson isn't just 6-10 -- he's 6-10 and 290 pounds of pure muscle. He has a 37-inch vertical leap and hands the size of Ken Griffey Jr.'s glove. He's a "Dwight Howardesque" athlete. He's not only a giant, but he's a giant that God built solidly and proportionally. The anti-Greg Oden, if you will.
So my question is this: Would Stepheson or player that fits his profile (6-9 to 7-0, 35-inch-plus vertical leap, huge hands, excellent athlete) be unstoppable as a receiver in the red zone? Would Richard Sherman or Darrelle Revis stand a chance defending Stepheson in a jump ball from the 5-yard line? Would they stand a chance if they double-teamed him?
With the success of former college basketball players Jimmy Graham and Antonio Gates, two guys who didn't play a down of football in their underclassman careers (Graham played sparingly in a fifth season at Miami once his basketball eligibility had expired) why don't more teams actively recruit basketball players to catch touchdown passes?
Clippers forward Matt Barnes, a standout wide receiver at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, Calif., said that he and Blake Griffin were recently chatting at practice about a hypothetical that many sports fans have imagined: What could Blake Griffin do as an NFL wide-out?
Barnes is a modest guy and made sure to emphasize that it'd be incredibly difficult for a former NBA big to be an effective route-runner or deal with the physicality of the position (I agree to an extent but still argue that Dwight Howardesques could be effective in third-and-short "jump-ball" situations anywhere on the field, even if only as a decoy). But given the scenario of Barnes and Griffin lining up as receivers in the red zone, Barnes quickly replied, "In the red zone -- it'd be over."
So here's a new question: Would a poor man's Blake Griffin, say, for example, his older brother Taylor Griffin, be worth a roster spot if he only saw the field as a red-zone target? If he subbed in for a team's No. 2 receiver inside the 20-yard line to open up defenses and out-jump helpless defenders who are 6-0 or 6-2?
I hope you're emphatically nodding at this point.
Because while it doesn't make sense for Dwight Howard or Blake Griffin to forfeit millions of dollars playing the sport they love, it would make sense for the hundreds of Taylor Griffin's playing in the D-League, Europe, or elsewhere, to consider the NFL. Quite simply, and I'm speaking to agents here, it might be a more lucrative career path.
Precision passers like Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are effective in the red zone because they can throw within unbelievably small windows to guys like Brandon Stokley, Deion Branch and Donald Driver, incredible possession receivers who run flawless routes and have great hands to boot. Even Mark "Throw The Ball In The General Vicinity And Hope My Teammate Catches It" Sanchez could connect for touchdowns with Stepheson.
So why don't NFL teams go after these guys?
You might remember after George Mason's incredible run to the Final Four in 2006 its star power forward, Jai Lewis, got signed by the New York Giants. Inspired by the success of Antonio Gates, Lewis thought he could parlay his success on the court into a football career.
"A lot of NFL teams are trying to find the best athletes in the country," Lewis said at the time. "So why not look at basketball players?"
Lewis had the right idea, but the Giants were envisioning the wrong prototype. If Alex Stepheson, Miles Plumlee or Jarvis Varnado -- the list of intriguing bigs fighting for roster spots in the D-League or playing in Europe goes on and on -- could practically guarantee a touchdown in the red zone, they'd be worth more money than any non-elite wide receiver (guys other than Calvin Johnson, AJ Green, Larry Fitzgerald, etc.). The math would go something like this: Calculate how many additional touchdowns a Howardesque player would provide, then extrapolate how many additional wins those touchdowns would account for (my guess is more than two), and then assign a monetary value to the player. How much is a player worth that's netting a team two victories? $2 million? $3 million? More?
And make no mistake -- minus getting away with an egregious pass-interference penalty, there's no way even the most athletic NFL cornerback could stop any of those guys one-on-one. I'd argue that a guy like Stepheson would still have an advantage if it were two-on-one, but even if the odds were to slide back into the defense's favor with the aforementioned double defensive back scenario, picture this: The Lions sign Hassan Whiteside, the 7-footer who played at Marshall and got drafted by Sacramento in the NBA, and line him up next to Megatron at the 5-yard line on first and goal. That means the defense is devoting four cornerbacks to stop two wide-outs. That allows running back Mikel Leshoure (and his fantasy owners) to enjoy a 40-touchdown season and the Lions have created an unstoppable red zone offense. Jim Schwartz, you're welcome.
To get an expert's opinion I turned to Ernie Accorsi, one of the greatest general managers and talent evaluators in the game's history, and asked if he'd ever gone after college basketball players.
The answer was yes. When Accorsi was with the Browns, he recruited Mookie Blaylock, a point guard out of Oklahoma. He visualized Blaylock, the previous generation's Eric Bledsoe, as a return man, third down back, perhaps a slot receiver.
"We thought he was small, wasn't a great shooter, maybe he'd take the bait for football," Accorsi said. "But he wanted no part in that. It takes a special person to make that leap and I haven't done a whole lot of that [recruiting ex-basketball players] but I'll take a chance on a player that has great natural ability."
Blaylock went on to be a first-round pick and enjoyed a successful NBA career, but Accorsi wasn't off in his evaluation. Both of Blaylock's sons shunned basketball and are currently sophomores on Kentucky's football team.
When I proposed my hypothetical scenario to Accorsi, asking whether basketball big men could make the conversion to NFL red zone targets, he said, "I would have loved to have Wilt Chamberlain on my team. He was tough enough and strong enough."
"But remember one thing," Accorsi said. "A guy who is that big is also a big target and he's really going to get hit. I know there's no 7-foot corner who's going to guard him but I guarantee there's a 6-1 corner that's made out of rocks that's going to hammer him in the ribs."
One former quarterback with a solid grasp of what it's like to throw to a mammoth wide receiver is ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski. He threw touchdowns to Harold Carmichael, the tallest receiver to ever play in the NFL at 6-8.
"When we got inside that 10-yard line, we were going to score," Jaworski said. "I knew I had something special in Harold -- to get him those alley-oops, take advantage of his size and athleticism."
Jaworski studies the game with a zeal matched by few others in the profession. He watches more tape than quality assurance workers at the Scotch® factory. Over the years, "The Polish Rifle" has built strong relationships with coaches and personnel guys throughout the league and is always on the cusp of new trends and advances in strategy.
When I told Jaws about Stepheson and asked if a guy like that would warrant a roster spot, Jaworski said, "Absolutely."
(Cut to me fist-pumping)
"There's no question and I think clearly you're on to something," Jaworski continued.
(Cut to me fist-pumping more ardently, thinking about how I'm definitely quoting that in the article)
Jaws went on to talk about the great tight ends. In particular he praised Tony Gonzalez as a former basketball player who "has the unique ability to get the ball like it's coming off the rim or glass" and "knows how to get the ball at its apex."
"The NFL is a now a red zone game," Jaworski said. "If you just look at the Super Bowl and what happened to the 49ers, they're kicking field goals and the Ravens are scoring touchdowns. Four-point spreads. You got to find a way to be creative in that part of the field and score touchdowns ... That's where the visionaries down the road are going to find a guy to throw the alley-oop. It's going to be little things like that that I think are going to revolutionize the game. Not the spread option, not the Wildcat, I think it's going to be individual players, not plays."
One innovator whom Jaworski and I share an affection for is Chip Kelly (you didn't think I'd really go an entire football article without mentioning Chip Kelly, did you?).
But I'm going to throw my favorite coach under the bus for a second and look back at a drive that changed the fate of the Oregon Ducks' season and ultimately cost them a shot at the national title.
In their only loss against Stanford, Marcus Mariota broke a 77-yard run in the first quarter that gave the Ducks a first down at Stanford's 15.
It looked like the Ducks were about to take a 7-0 lead, but Oregon thrives on spreading the field and didn't match up well with the massive Stanford front seven in the red zone.
After a 7-yard completion on first-down, Kelly's squad got stuffed on the next three plays (of course Kelly went for it on fourth down), came out with zero points, and ended up losing the game. What if the Ducks, or any other team, had a guy like Stepheson for those types of situations? Mariota would have floated the ball up to him on first down, Alex would have plucked it out of the air while defensive backs helplessly pulled and clawed underneath him, and he'd land with the ball clasped in his mitts to the roar of the crowd.
Kelly is football's apotheosis of how creativity wins games, but his teams sometimes stall in the red zone because his offenses can't create the space they need to thrive. If he had a Stepheson-type receiver, Stanford would have at least been forced to double-team him, opening up the field for Mariota and Kenjon Barner. Clearly Oregon was one of the best red zone teams in the country (No. 8 to be exact), and Chip Kelly is as innovative as they come, but even a team like the Ducks can struggle to score touchdowns in the red zone, especially against a good defense.
But as space shrinks in the red zone, teams can gain a profound advantage by increasing their height. A team's "vertical passing game" takes on a different connotation and teams score more red zone touchdowns as a result. The Saints (Graham) and the Patriots (Gronkowski) have long understood the concept, now it's time to take it to the next level.
So here's what's going to happen. One college or NFL team is going to sign a Howardesque player who absolutely dominates. After one team starts scoring touchdowns throwing alley-oops, every team will be hitting the phones wondering what the heck happened to Dan Gadzuric.
Teams will realize that the only way to stop big men from catching jump balls is by defending them with other 7-footers. After that, we'll see elite bigs who can also run slants and hitches. That's when things will get really crazy.
The influx of bigs will lead to more littles like Jaquizz Rogers and Wes Welker -- guys far too small and quick for a big guy to tackle in the open field. Suddenly the game will be an athletic version of Twins, with various Devito-Schwarzenegger duos running all over the field trying to get the ball into the end zone.
It sounds chaotic, but it'll be beautiful because we'll see less kicking and more incredible athletes doing incredibly athletic things.
Football, at the end of the day, is the only sport based purely on athleticism. There's no other game where you could pluck a Jason Pierre-Paul off the street with four years of pre-draft experience and watch him blossom into a star. (Ezekiel Ansah is the next Pierre-Paul and he started playing three years ago.)
There are hundreds of forwards and centers playing college basketball today who because of a mediocre jump shot or bad luck won't make it to the NBA.
In the case of Stepheson, he's optimistic about his chances of signing after this summer.
"It's always been my dream to run out in Madison Square Garden," Stepheson said. "But I feel like if I gave it everything I had and I didn't make it to the NBA, I could live knowing that I gave it my best shot, and the situation didn't work out, let me try this next door."
Stepheson said he was going to devote at least the next two years to basketball. If I were the Jacksonville Jaguars, I'd give him a financial incentive to reconsider his commitment to the court.
-- Follow Tim Livingston on Twitter @timlikessports or email him email@example.com.


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The Skinny: The Canadiens used their speed to beat the Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference, but they were no match for the New York Rangers' speed Saturday afternoon as the visitors raced to a 7-2 victory in the opening game of the Eastern Conference at the Bell Centre. Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist didn't have to work too hard to post his first win at the Bell Centre since 2009. He made 20 saves and most of those shots came from the outside. Carey Price, who was a standout in the first two rounds, didn't get a lot of help from his defence and was pulled after giving up four goals on 20 shots in the first two periods.
Taking charge early: Scoring the first goal has been important in this playoff season and the Rangers took a 2-0 lead before the game was seven minutes old. Laval native Martin St. Louis opened the scoring at 4:35 when he found some room in front of Price and redirected a cross-ice pass from Dominic Moore. Mats Zuccarello made it 2-0 at 6:27 when the Rangers had lots of traffic in front of the net and Ryan McDonagh set up Zuccarello with blind pass between his legs.
Comeback aborted: The Canadiens cut the New York lead to one goal when Rene Bourque beat Lundqvist from the slot after being set up by Brian Gionta from behind the net at 12:38 of the second period, but the Rangers effectively put the game out of reach when they scored twice in a 50-second span at the end of the period. Chris Kreider took a pass from Rick Nash and beat Price on an odd-man rush at 18:59 and Brad Richards made it 4-1 at 19:48. Richards made big plays at both ends of the ice. He forced a turnover by knocking P.K. Subban off the puck in the neutral zone. Subban compounded his error on the subsequent rush when he chased Zuccarello behind the net and left Richards alone in the slot.
Power Rangers: Peter Budaj replaced Price at the start of the third period and found himself facing a string of power plays. McDonagh scored at 1:28, Derek Stepan scored at 4:11 with New York enjoying a two-man advantage and Nash notched his first goal of the playoffs at 4:36. The Rangers went 3-for-7 with the extra man while the Canadiens had three power plays and managed only four shots on net. Lars Eller scored a short-handed goal for the Canadiens at 15:22 of the third period.
What's next: Game 2 will be played at the Bell Centre on Monday (8 p.m., CBC, RDS, TSN-690 Radio) and the series will move to Madison Square Garden for the next two games Thursday and Sunday.
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1 dead, 1 injured in Milwaukee hit-and-run crash
Police searching for driver of van
One person is dead and another is seriously injured after a hit-and-run crash in Milwaukee.
The crash happened around 10 p.m. Saturday.
Surveillance video captured by a nearby auto body shop shows a man and a woman walking out of a bar in the 1300 block of West National Avenue. The video shows the two stepping into the street where they were struck by a white GMC conversion van with a ladder rack on top. Police said the van did not stop.
Witness Steve McCarver said he heard the collision from his upstairs apartment and ran out to the street.
"(The) rain was coming down. It was like, puddles and stuff, and they were pumping on his chest, and the lady, she was laying like, right there and she was helpless too," said McCarver. "I checked the lady's pulse and she was still breathing, and the other dude, he didn't have a pulse."
Police said the man died on the spot, while the woman remains in critical condition.
Josephina Stewart, owner of El A's de Copas bar, told 12 News she knew the man who was killed.
"I can't believe it. I can't stop crying all night, all morning," said Stewart.
Stewart said the man was only at the bar for about 10 to 15 minutes. She said he had one beer and then left.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Milwaukee Police Department at 414-935-7360.


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I really don't know what's up with this supposed religious group, the Westboro Baptist Church, or what goes through their minds when they picket funerals of fallen soldiers and the like, but they really got it wrong this time by announcing they would picket the funerals of dead children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre. From what I understand, Westboro is so anti-homosexual that it blames pretty much anything bad that happens in this country on our "pro-gay agenda" angering God, who then apparently retaliates by organizing mass murders of children. Talk about a screwy religion.
Anyway, after Westboro threatened to picket the funerals of these innocent children (but haven't actually done so yet so far as I can tell), strangers from all over traveled to Newtown to form a human chain to block messages of hate from the eyes of the grieving townspeople. These human chains have been formed before at the funerals of soldiers.
This time, a line of motorcyclists formed on the streets to keep watch for the Westboro loonies. "All these guys see us and think we're bad. We're not. It's solidarity, is what it is," New York biker Jim Hannigan told a reporter. "I just felt I had to be here." Seriously, Westboro, do you want to mess with bikers?!
I don't know what kind of God Westboro Church believes in, but it's not the God the majority of people believe in. The idea that God sent down a reign of terror on Connecticut because of its gay marriage laws is absurd. But, you know, there's all kinds of nutty people in this world. I think this group only gets attention because it calls itself a church. I really feel sorry for the children (most of them children of the pastor) who are stuck in this "church."
Here's Westboro's Margie Phelps trying to explain why their group will picket the funerals -- though in reality there is no good explanation. Luckily, good people will always come out to block this kind of hatred. But maybe everyone should try a new tack and just ignore these idiots. If you look at Margie Phelps' Twitter stream (warning, it's pretty offensive), members of Westboro consider these human chains "audiences" and get pretty excited about them.
What do you think of this group?
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I just wanted to see how many different kinds of people we got going on this site :D
Just give a holler and let everyone know what area you represent!
I'm from Brampton, but for the sake of simplicity I'll say Toronto! WOO!
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Had to move from Seattle to Slidell, LA 2 years ago. A fate worse than death. Can't be openly atheist without worrying about your kids being ostracized or persecuted, and risking violent hate crimes.
Perry, GA. Which is a lot like Slidell, but with gently rolling hills and pecan trees.
That's where I'm from-- er live too. :)
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Sticker shock struck the Menlo Park City Council after staff acknowledged that the projected cost of a city hall renovation could reach quadruple the amount budgeted.
Initially the council approved $300,000 for the project, which would update features such as the 15-year-old carpet as well as reconfiguring workspace for more efficient service.
After getting the budget approved, the city then hired a consultant, Group 4 Architecture, Research + Planning, to evaluate how to better arrange the various departments contained within the city's administration building. According to the staff report produced for a Feb. 25 study session, the preferred floor plan would regroup departments by similarity, such as putting the economic development office within the finance department. Kiosks would be added on the first floor for customer self-service.
But that renovation plan exceeds the budget by about $500,000. And if one looked only at the staff report, one could be forgiven for thinking that the resulting total would then be $800,000.
Actually, it's $1.2 million. Although the report discussed the need to replace the carpet, it neglected to mention that the cost wasn't included in the $800,000 budget. New carpet, staff told the council, would add another $400,000, for a grand total of $1.2 million.
This took some time for the council to absorb.
"How much is carpet going to be?" Vice Mayor Cat Carlton asked. When staff responded with $400,000, she said, "For carpet alone?"
That would be a yes. The price tag on the rest of the renovations also sparked questions.
"Far be it from me to micro-manage," said Councilman Rich Cline, but when he oversaw similar projects of about 23,000 square feet, the cost "was so much less." In comparison, the size of the administration building is about 30,000 square feet, according to staff.
Staff said that the city expects to pay "a premium" for the work since crews will have to knock down walls and complete other carpentry tasks during weekend or evening hours, given that city hall can't shut down for extended periods.
Mayor Ray Mueller noted that city hall is already closed every other Friday, while Councilwoman Kirsten Keith asked if business functions could be housed within a temporary building to allow the renovations to proceed during normal hours. She also asked whether directing people to use computers at the library, located a short walk away from the administration building, was a more cost-effective solution than installing new kiosks at city hall.
One plus: The money to cover the cost of renovation unexpectedly became available when the state reallocated a higher proportion of property taxes to Menlo Park than expected, a $1.6 million windfall, City Manager Alex McIntyre said.
In the end, the preferred option got a lukewarm reception from the council.
"Good idea, wrong plan," Ms. Carlton said. The council asked staff to return with either more options or a greater justification of the expense.
When the Almanac asked Mr. McIntyre after the meeting why the cost of the carpet wasn't spelled out in the staff report, he said, "The carpet project is already embedded in the capital improvement plan approved by the City Council. It will happen regardless of any remodel."
The Feb. 25 discussion, on the other hand, was about whether to go ahead with a simple city hall remodel within the original budget, or proceed with the staff-preferred design, he said. "How the carpet plays into the conversation is recognizing that the carpet project will be highly disruptive to the city hall operations and since that disruption is to occur, the once-a-decade opportunity to address long-term needs seemed a reasonable conversation to have with the council."


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Upon the release of "I'd Like To Touch A Star," Steven and Sheldon Leder were enamored with soul musicians like Stevie Wonder, but more likely to be mistaken for Steely Dan. Wilson, North Carolina, although a safe distance from the coast, was well-within the event horizon of beach music's influential reach. So between regional sets by the Embers and treks to see Count Basie in some intracoastal bowling alley, the Leder Brothers kindled a manner of music they felt made dutiful nods to all of their influences. All one-thousand of them.
Oddly, Steven and Sheldon Leder were not even the most famous Leder Brothers in Wilson County when this record (and the corresponding LP, Capitol Hill) materialized. Brothers Leon and Morris Leder got a forty-year head start, opening their own Leder Brothers enterprise in 1934, a department store which still serves the needs of the Tobacco-centric city to this day. Being recent emigrants from Eastern Europe, Leder Brothers catered to all residents, Black, White, or otherwise. Once Steven and Sheldon began demoing songs, scheduling gigs and recording dates, what better name than the reputable Leder Brothers? The name you can trust? Several of Leon's children maintain the shop, a mom-and-pop (brother-and-sister, rather) stronghold for Wilson County residents seeking anything from Sunday Best suits to tube socks.
"I'd Like To Touch A Star" by the Leder Brothers
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