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We had to admit it. She was a damned good saleswoman. After driving around Cape Cod for a week, buying sweet corn for 50 cents an ear at every roadside stand we passed, we just had to stop at the one in Sandwich. Their corn was $1 an ear. We wondered, what on earth could justify that price?
The owner's answer was simple, a query with a Quahog accent: "Ya tried ah cahn?"
Well that did it. We tried her corn. It was terrible. But her pitch was perfect, as if she had read Roadside Marketing cover to cover.
Gilbert S. Watts' Roadside Marketing was published by Orange Judd in 1928. Orange Judd published hundreds of farming manuals between the 1850's and the 1930's (slowing down but still in existence through the 20th century), and this is my favorite. In 1929, roadside marketing was a fairly new phenomenon, brought about by the acceleration in automobile use. At last, the consumer could drive out to a farm and buy directly from a producer, rather than from markets in cities and towns. Who knew that such a modern innovation as the car would bring people back to the land? For the first time in the 20th century, cooks would get to know their farmers and producers.
Watts' book instructs the farmer in setting up his stand, with tips on everything from how to pile produce if he was situated in a dip in the road, to where to hang his signs and price tags.
Of course, it also schools the farmer in the fine art of salesmanship: "…the salesperson should be a better judge of quality than the customer, and should give the customer the full benefit of this knowledge." Clearly, a point not lost on a certain roadside marketer near Sandwich, Massachussetts.


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Session '"Z" classes
With Spring semester in full swing, It is time to start thinking about the second eight week (or "Z") classes. Session Z courses officially begin, with some exceptions, on March 4th, 2009. If you are teaching one of these courses, it should already be listed in your course list on Blackboard. If you don't see it there, contact me so we can be sure that you have the access you need. Students will be enrolled into these classes on Monday March 2nd.

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Through the website Wonkette today, the hacker collective Anonymous released a statement on the election, and the content of the statement is an eye opener:
While some might consider this a random letter, or a jump to claim responsibility, if you step back and study the letter carefully a very clear message comes out.
They cite specific numbers. They state precisely how many tunnels are there. They cite how many passwords were attempted. But, there are key words which look innocent but, to a computer engineer, are very much a trigger.
These phrases are (our emphasis):
We noticed these tunnels were strategically placed to allow for tunnel rats to race to the sewer servers from three different states.
Now, to a normal person a rat is just that: a furry animal or a slang term for a scoundrel. But to a computer person, a rat is something radically different, a r.a.t. hack. The Remote Administration Tool hack is a method of remotely accessing a machine as if it were local. Using such a hack, you would have full access to the machine, at a level someone physically at the machine may not have. A "sewer server" is a term used to denote a hack over a secured tunnel, known as a Secured SHell (SSH), using a form of encryption designed to make it appear to be innocent background traffic.
This is not some general discussion, making claims in order to claim. They have released clear and specific details on what exactly was done, information which the people behind Orca can verify. Even more telling, however, is the name the group used for their denial of service attack:
"Oz" refers to the land in the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz; more currently, it refers to the television show Oz,which is about a prison. And the actions the group took was to attempt to hack the election into jail, locking it away. It broke, absolutely. We reported on the failures of Orca and its public face earlier. What Anonymous is claiming is that Orca's public face was a farce, a lie. It was not to coordinate poll challengers so much as to steal the election.
The little cherry on top, however, is the hint that Anonymous not only blocked the operation, but kept copies of the code and data from Orca and are planning on leaking it to wikileaks. If and when this happens, you know AI will be there.


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Jewish World Review March 25, 2013/ 14 Nissan, 5773
Where portraits tell the story of America's greatest conflict
By David Shribman
JewishWorldReview.com | In this 150th anniversary season you can explore the Civil War by reading narratives, memoirs and letters. You can examine historians' visions and scholars' revisions. You can delve into the great speeches of the era, especially those of Abraham Lincoln. But perhaps the best, and most unexpected, thing you can do is to walk into the National Portrait Gallery and be stirred by the portraits, posters, prints and handbills on its venerable walls.
The Civil War was a photographed war, the first major conflict to be recorded by camera. These pictures, especially those by Mathew Brady, are riveting and realistic. But the camera was the Twitter of the time: flashy, relatively new, full of promise, attended by overly excited early adapters. (No matter that the most moving photographs of the war were battlefield pictures, many of them staged, with bodies moved for effect.)
The old, reliable medium in the middle of the 19th century was the painting: familiar, true, centuries-old, steeped in tradition, a craft with its own conventions and a time-honored apprentice structure. Though agitated by new movements, rife with rebellion, upended by realism, it remained old-fashioned even then, in a time we now consider old-fashioned.
And so, amid all of the fancy new multimedia presentations about the war that redefined the country and redeemed its founders' idealism, we might pause before a few old paintings that speak to us still, a century and a half later. Perhaps that's because we feel the poetic intervention of the painter in these Civil War portraits, leading us to sense that our experience is shaped by someone thinking about the subject in a way less obvious to us than when we view a photograph.
It is, of course, false to say that photographs involve less human intention and intervention than paintings do, but we are conditioned, often wrongly, to think that they are records as opposed to interpretations. As George T.M. Shackelford, deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, put it: "We look at a painting of Lincoln in a way we read a poem about Lincoln by Walt Whitman."
So these portraits, many gathered from the gallery's permanent collection, aren't so much a fire bell in the night -- Jefferson's characterization of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 that put off the war for four decades -- as a whisper in the ear. And yet they are jarring to modern Americans trained to think of Civil War generals as dusty busts on a tucked-away shelf. Not so.
Here is Stonewall Jackson, strong and proud, and William Techumseh Sherman, resolute in northern eyes, despised in southern.
Here is Joseph E. Johnston, mysterious and hesitant. He and Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, bickered, much the way Abraham Lincoln, president of the much-reduced United States, fought with George B. McClellan, who commanded the Army of the Potomac but was reluctant to use it. These men engage us on the wall even though they did not engage the enemy on the battlefield.
Ulysses Grant did engage the enemy -- Lincoln explained in two words why he favored him: "He fights." The portrait of him at Vicksburg is not the Grant of legend and lore -- or of the presidency. He was young then (41), with a far-off look, for while victory at Vicksburg was imminent, victory in the war was not.
Perhaps the most striking painting is the heroic Thomas Buchanan Read portrait of Philip Sheridan on horseback, commissioned by the Union League of Philadelphia. This is not classic equestrian portraiture, but a glimpse of the Union general galloping in full fury and urgency on a horse called Rienzi toward the Battle of Cedar Creek in Virginia in October 1864. The painter actually visited Sheridan's camp to create a work of art that seethes with action.
If it is wartime determination you are seeking, you will do little better than the striking portrait of Dorothea Dix, superintendent of nurses in Washington. She brought comfort to soldiers and set exacting standards: "All nurses are required to be plain-looking women. Their dresses must be brown or black, with no bows, no curls, no jewelry and no hoop-skirts."
Now, a final word about a final portrait, this one a remarkable hand-painted lithograph of Martin Delany, the black activist, doctor and editor who lived in Pittsburgh much of his life and was an associate of Frederick Douglass.
Much about this portrait is wrong -- it shows him standing in front of Union tents, presumably as the battle commander of black troops. But there remains something strong and true about this image. Delany persuaded Lincoln to allow black officers to command black troops, and he was chosen to lead the 104th Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops in Charleston, S.C. But the war ended too soon for Delany or his troops to see action, though the point remains: Delany was a pioneer and visionary, two traits that ensure his memory today.
"He was one of the most militant activists for African-American self determination and civil rights during the antebellum period," says Ann M. Shumard, senior curator at the National Portrait Gallery. "He had gone to great lengths to catalog the professionals of color who were men of accomplishment."
A century and a half later, the Civil War and the debate on slavery that prompted it still inspire great moments in the arts. Late last month, a group of arts organizations and universities announced it would develop a dozen new theatrical works about the war. Washington, D.C., already is full of visual exhibits about the conflict, including one on the art of the era at the Smithsonian American Art Museum adjacent to the National Portrait Gallery.
But before you wander there, linger for a moment before one final masterpiece at the portrait gallery, an 1864 chromolithograph of the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments in Philadelphia. This breathtaking print portrays black soldiers and their white commanding officer at Camp William Penn, and its title is "Come and Join Us Brothers."
The lesson of the Civil War is that the conflict itself joined us as brothers, and nowhere is that clearer than in these pictures at an exhibition.
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October 23, 2013
"Then He said to them, 'Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men'" – Matthew 4:19
You cannot be a faithful follower of Jesus if you are not a fisher of men. That statement may be shocking in modern Christendom, but it's a fact. Clearly, Jesus said if we follow Him, we are to be fishers of men. In a day when being a Christian is little more than following a list of rules (which differs from congregation to congregation), this verse is quite a astounding. Simply, a life committed to following our great Leader, is a life committed to lead others to do the same.
Let it never be thought for a moment that we have the ability to make a goat into a sheep…or, perhaps in this analogy, a duck into a fish. We do not. God alone can change the nature. And yet, we are commanded to fish for men. Any supposed contradiction between these two truths is a misunderstanding of Bible doctrine generally caused by an overemphasis on one point or another. God saves, but He uses His own to reach others.
Paul was fully acquainted with the role of the Holy Spirit in drawing men to Christ. And yet, Paul said,"Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase" (1 Corinthians 3:5-7). Paul's desire was to be used by God to reach others. The New Testament is proof enough that he spent his life seeking to do this very thing.
If we are to fish, what is to be the bait? The Bible gives a clear answer to this question – the Gospel. 1 Corinthians 1:21 says, "For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe". Romans 1:16says, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek". And again, Romans 10:17 says, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God". A host of other verses could be given to validate this point. But, these are clear enough.
We cannot improve the Gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Any attempt to make the Gospel more appealing to the lost is a corruption of it. If we seek to use worldly means to reach the lost, we will draw in the world just as garbage draws flies. Clearly, this has happened often in today's Christian world to the point that many services have become little more than a "Sunday Morning Circus". Oftentimes, a supposed "Gospel presentation" is "effective" because the lost are offered what they already want (prosperity).
This doesn't mean that we cannot adapt to culture. Newspaper articles were not used in the 1st Century but are effective today. But the message stays the same. It cannot be changed. Paul spoke of adapting to culture when he said, "For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law,that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became asweak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Now this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with you" (1 Corinthians 9:19-23). He adapted personally. However, the message of the Gospel never changed.
Child of God, seek to be a soul winner (Proverbs 11:30). But, do not try to improve God's prescribed method.
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Flickr's just been updated to include some features you probably wanted.
Among them are some basics—uploading is faster and it's easier to save pics from your Photostream to the camera roll. Then the app gets to some things you've probably missed. It now auto-saves your original photos before you add a filter. If you @ mention a contact in a comment or description, Flickr tags the person. If someone mentions you, you now get a notification.
Flickr has also bumped up the resolution of the lightbox display, so your images look better in that setting. And something it needed? The ability to take a picture with the iPhone's volume up button. We like Flickr. And now we like it a little more. [AppStore]


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The success of advanced persistent threats (APT) is reportedly so pervasive that detecting and defeating them with any consistency may seem to be a hopeless battle.
[In depth: What does APT really mean?]
Based on news reports and multiple statements from U.S. officials, hackers from China breach the systems of all kinds of U.S. businesses, from major newspapers to defense contractors and cutting-edge technology companies, and remain undetected long enough to make off with billions in intellectual property and sophisticated weapon designs.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and officials from the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have called the power of APTs the security challenge of the modern era.
"Cyber is one of those quiet, deadly, insidious unknowns you can't see," Hagel told U.S. troops in Hawaii. "It's in the ether -- it's not one big navy sailing into a port, or one big army crossing a border, or squadrons of fighter planes ... This is a very difficult, but real and dangerous, threat. There is no higher priority for our country than this issue."
APTs are also no longer solely the domain of nation-states with vast resources, nor are they focused only on espionage or attacks against military and other government entities. They are "living" on networks in IT, energy, news, telecom, manufacturing and other sectors of the economy.
But according to a number of security experts, while it will probably never be possible to eliminate them entirely, it is possible to detect APTs and minimize the damage they cause.
"There are solutions -- the sky is not falling," says Wade Williamson, senior security analyst at Palo Alto Networks. "A lot of times security folks use APTs as an excuse for failure, but it shouldn't be. There are technologies that can help."
Williamson is among those who also argue that detecting and defending against APTs effectively will take more than technology. In general, he says, "the biggest change we need is not one of tactics, but strategy. Security must evolve to become a very creative discipline.
"Historically, security held the view of saying no to requests and blocking 100% of threats. Neither of these maxims is practical today. We need security professionals to be inquisitive -- to be looking out for the things that don't exactly make sense, and to ask themselves what it could mean, and how they should look deeper into the issue.
[The processes and tools behind a true APT campaign: Overview]
"We will always need automated security that blocks bad things," Williamson says, "but we also need creative, engaged security experts to be looking for the creative, engaged bad guys on the other end of the connection."
That said, there are a number of practices security experts recommend for organizations that are serious about the battle with APTs. In no particular order of ranking, they are:
[APT attackers getting more evasive, even more persistent]
1. Use big data for analysis/detection
The word from RSA Executive Chairman Art Coviello during his keynote address at the 2013 RSA conference is, "The whole game here is to shift away from a prevention regime -- big data will allow you to detect and respond more quickly."
That is endorsed by people like Aviv Raff, co-founder and CTO of Seculert, who notes that prevention from the perimeter is impossible; therefore, detection must be "based on the ability to analyze data, which must be gathered from and analyzed over sustained time durations. And that's where big data analytics enters the picture."
Of course, that takes an investment in analysis tools. "IT does not have the automated tools needed to identify infections in a timely manner," says Brian Foster, CTO at Damballa. "Instead they just have a ton of data. The industry needs to provide big-data approaches to IT for detecting infections in their network."
Williamson agrees in part, calling big data useful in detection. But, he adds, "The most important point is that the attack itself has spread out across multiple steps and technologies and our view of security of must break out of its 'silo' view to be comprehensive as well."
2. Share information with the right people
According to Anton Chuvakin, writing on the Gartner blog last year, the bad guys share "data, tricks [and] methods" much better than the good guys. "It is considered acceptable to sit on the 'hard-earned' knowledge of ways you used to detect that proverbial advanced attacker while your peers in other organizations are being owned by the same threat," he writes. "And the cycle of suffering continues!!!"
To get an edge over APTs, he writes, organizations must share information in a way that helps them but doesn't benefit the attackers and doesn't violate laws or regulations governing the sharing of sensitive information.
Beyond the legal considerations, however, there are also economic constraints to sharing information. Brian Krebs, a former reporter at The Washington Post and author of the blog Krebs on Security, says he has seen progress in information sharing, but also efforts to hoard it to exploit it financially.
"The past few years have seen the emergence of several companies that make decent profits selling and exploiting this intelligence, so there remains a fair amount of tension between sharing and hoarding information about threat actors and indicators," he says.
3. Understand the "kill chain"
This is a so-called "phase-based" model to describe the stages of an APT attack. Those stages include reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploit, installation, command & control and actions. As Lysa Myers, a virus hunter for Intego, put it in an InfoSec Institute article, "In essence, it's a lot like a stereotypical burglary -- the thief will perform reconnaissance on a building before trying to infiltrate it, and then go through several more steps before actually making off with the loot."
[The processes and tools behind a true APT campaign: Reconnaissance]
Obviously, the closer to the beginning of the chain that one can detect and stop an attack, the better. Damballa's Foster says attackers "leave a trail of breadcrumbs that can lead right to the infected system. Understanding and analyzing this kill chain can be the key to implementing the appropriate defense controls at the necessary stage."
4. Look for indicators of compromise (IOCs)
This is connected to "kill chain" understanding. No organization can stop every attack, so the IT team needs to know how to look for symptoms -- or breadcrumbs. "This includes looking for the unique ways that an APT might communicate out of the network. Any unique DNS queries or websites it contacts are common IOCs," Williamson says.
"APTs will often customize their tools to their own needs, which will often provide the anomalies needed to distinguish an APT from normal traffic," he says. "They will also use a variety of common applications like remote desktop applications, proxies or encrypted tunnels to communicate.
Unusual use of these and other applications can be key to finding a true APT. This, of course, requires IT to have a very solid baseline for what is normal in their networks."
Williamson says tracking user anomalies can help as well. "For example, users talking to an SQL server may be normal on the network, but very abnormal for a particular user."
5. Test your network
This can include active analysis or sandboxing. "One of the best ways to determine if something is bad is to actually run it and see if it behaves badly," Williamson says.
[Microsoft says government snooping constitutes an APT event]
Blogger Krebs adds that while there are vulnerability management tools to help close obvious holes, "there is no substitute for periodically hacking your own networks (or paying someone else to do it) to find out where you are vulnerable. As the saying goes, everyone gets pen-tested, whether or not they pay for it."
Krebs says he leans toward hiring someone from the outside. "To use a tired but apropos analogy, it is often quite difficult to see the forest for the trees when you are standing on the forest floor. Often, it takes an outsider who has a more holistic -- and perhaps unbiased and APT-trained -- view of things to spot a more systemic problem."
6. Support more training for APT hunters.
Edwin Covert, a cybersecurity analyst and subject matter expert at Booz Allen Hamilton, argued recently in a post on Infosec Island that the industry needs a "new training model" for APT hunters, since the standard skills of an information security specialist are not enough.
"APT mitigation requires the ability to see things that are not readily apparent," he writes. "The CISSP [Certified Information Systems Security Professional] was designed for technical managers, not APT hunters."
Covert isn't downplaying the CISSP designation, since he holds it himself, but he says those with APT training will notice anomalous files that "most administrators and even security personnel" will not.
And the need for specialists is critical. Covert quotes SANS Institute Director Alan Paller as saying there is a need for more than 30,000 APT specialists, but that "only about 1,000 to 2,000 have the necessary skills to combat the numerous real-life scenarios happening in today's organizations."
This story, "6 Tips to Combat Advanced Persistent Threats" was originally published by CSO.
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- 7 'crackpot' technologies that might transform IT
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On June 14, 2015, the Israeli cabinet passed a bill authorising the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails. The bill, which is now awaiting its second and third reading in the Knesset, raises serious ethical and human rights' concerns both within Israel and worldwide.
The cabinet's endorsement process was led by the Internal Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, who considers hunger strikes to be a new 'weapon' of the Palestinian prisoners 'with which they are trying to threaten the State of Israel,' as he wrote on his Facebook page.
"Security prisoners are interested in turning hunger strikes into a new kind of suicide attack that would threaten the State of Israel. We cannot allow anyone to threaten us and we will not allow prisoners to die in our prisons," said Erdan in an interview for the Times of Israel.
Erdan's push to reopen the parliamentary deliberation comes amidst the last year's unsuccessful attempt to enact the law, which was halted by the dissolution of the Israeli parliament in June 2014, and the recent upsurge in hunger strikes among the Palestinian detainees.
The Israeli Medical Association (IMA) and the Physicians for Human Rights strongly condemned the renewal of the legislation process declaring the bill's provisions 'unethical' and 'violating the international law'.
"There is a broad consensus in international law and in the global medical community that force-feeding a prisoner on hunger strike against his will is forbidden, as it violates the prisoner's right to autonomy over his body and to dignity, as well as breaching fundamental rules in medical ethics," said B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, in its 2014 statement.
The force-feeding of prisoners either through food tube, or intravenous treatment, seriously contravenes the Patient's' Right Law enacted in 1996 and places "responsibility on physicians to carry out invasive treatment of prisoners," said Leonid Eidelman, the chairman of the IMA.
Eidelman personally instructed doctors to observe their ethical guidelines and international conventions and therefore refuse to provide any forced medical treatment that would oppose their patient's will.
"Instead of force-feeding prisoners who are humiliated and whose lives are in danger, Israel should deal with the demands of the hunger strikers – through the ending of administrative detention," says the chairman of the Physicians for Human Rights, an Israel-based NGO.
Administrative detention, a colonial relict from the British mandate era, is a widely used practice by the Israeli military authorities. It allows for a repetitive detention of a person without any concrete charges or a proper trial.
"We urge the international institutions to intervene because every prisoner has the right to launch a hunger strike to express his outrage of the Israeli mistreatment," said Hassan Abd Rabbo, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Detainees.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Daniel Buren, Inside (Centre of Guggenheim), 1971
Daniel Buren, Inside (Centre of Guggenheim), 1971. Installed for one day.
I came across this color reproduction of Buren's 1971 Guggenheim piece over the weekend. This title is different - I thought it was called Peinture-Sculpture. Maybe one title is for the piece and the other for the exhibition, like with the latest exhibition The Eye of the Storm and the big centerpiece Around the Corner? Doesn't he have another title for the gel-covered windows at the top, something like The Rose Window? Isn't it all one piece? Why the different titles?
Here's Daniel Baird's Brooklyn Rail article on Buren's 2005 Guggenheim installation.
I blogged the Daniel Buren lecture, part one here and part two here.


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Clafouti. Don't you love that word? It is pronounced klah – foo – tee. It is French, of course, a country-french dessert from the Limousin region made from fresh fruit, traditionally cherries, and a crepe-like batter. It is similar to a fruity pancake or a Dutch Baby though generally less rustic in appearance.
Clafouti is surprisingly easy to make and delicious served warm from the oven, especially when served with the luscious sauce that is suggested with this recipe I found in The Oregonian some time ago. I understand it is also traditional to leave the pits in the cherries but I have a nifty little cherry pitter my long time friend Alanna, from Kitchen Parade, gave me years ago so I am not going to try that. I just don't want that kind of responsibility.
This recipe for Clafouti was great. If I were to change it I would add even less sugar to the cherries up front. The newspaper article also suggested that one or two more eggs could be added to give it more of a custard-like texture that some prefer. Experiment. It is a simple and forgiving recipe. Enjoy it as a sweet addition to brunch or as a summer dessert.
Cherry Clafouti
from The Oregonian
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup red wine
squeeze of lemon juice
zest of half a lemon
2 cups cherries, pitted
Place ingredients in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until the volume is reduced by half, approximately 15 minutes.
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Not sure why "Rug redux: Purcell blames customer's recall" [Fearless Consumer, December 8] is worthy of publishing, but I side with the Purcells.
I have known John and Mason Purcell for several years both as friends and in business, and I have no doubt that they handled the matter in an honorable and trustworthy fashion. Their closing on the Downtown Mall should be missed by all.
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I know that You all get me alredy wrong, but let me few moments to explain my self!
I am not a expert in LInux administration nor a begginer user of Linux and I feel dumb whit all other Linux distros.
The ONLY one Linux OS gived me freedom to work and enjoy it is ArchLinux, but not with new installer
wich need me to do EVERYTHING by myself just to pruff to noobs that win is only workable os there(*buntu's are not!)?
For three days i'm trying to mount the root and swap partition and I just don't get it!?
What was the Logic to make it that way? ArchLinux was not bare bone enogh and keep midiocre users away?
Please rewrite the "Installation guide"!
I'm not the only one with complains!
Thank You verymuch for the few moments You spend reading this!
No one wanted to maintain AIF, so it has been replaced by sophisticated scripts. Deal with it. Beginner's Guide is very clear about the whole ordeal, what exactly is your problem?
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The same basic steps for installation are about the same for any distro. The installer is different from one to the other. Some installers are crummier than others. The original ArchLinux didn't have a fancy installer, and if it goes back to that, well it is still KISS. I got to where I didn't even need the AIF.
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
I just came back to Arch after 5 years of OSX, and I think the new install scripts are awesome. No more guessing about what the installer does behind the scenes, the install text on the live CD is pretty good, and the wiki fills in all the gaps. The manual install method is short and sweet, I don't see what the problem is...
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https://www.archlinux.org/news/install- … -released/
It has been this long, since the AIF vanished. There has not been a single serious attempt by the community to replace it. I personally do not miss it.
This has been covered extensively here already: a search would have told you that.
Having to do "EVERYTHING" yourself is seen by the majority of the Arch community to be part of the Arch Way,
not an excuse for whining.
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Take a look at the Regional States blog at http://regionalstates.wordpress.com
Ian Mott is a Climate Sceptic and interested in the potential for new regional states in Australia, concerned by the erosion of property rights and the social contract, and promoter of the ecology and management of Private Native Forests and enhancing biodiversity through free market ecology.
Take a look at the Regional States blog at http://regionalstates.wordpress.com
We have all seen the unfolding disaster of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill as it spreads to the southern coast of the USA. The bill for damage appears likely to reach US$20 to $40 billion but a close look at the actual base numbers at play here makes it very clear that it is the collective failure of the American intellect that has turned an industrial mishap into an ecological and financial catastrophe that could punch a serious hole in the retirement savings of many Britons.
We are provided with potent images of a virulent discharge of oil and continually reminded of the estimated 30,000 - 60,000 barrels a day that is lost. See http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/bp-reinstalls-cap-after-robot-crash/story-e6frg90o-1225883840263 Like a car on an ice bound motorway, everyone from the media, the US EPA, to the politicians, all slide towards an apparently unavoidable collision with an ecological disaster with minimal avoidance effort. They are so transfixed by the assumed end result that even the most elementary mitigation options are left undone. And foremost amongst the institutional "stunned mullet" are the respective state and federal environmental protection authorities, the very same organisations that have held themselves out to the budget process as the agencies of first response.
The fatal flaw of these organisations is that their singular overriding perspective is pessimistic. Their sole focus is on the identification of environmental problems and the implementation of regulations to minimise any associated harm. Their collective myopia is so severe that they are incapable of even recognising an economic opportunity, let alone using open, functioning, minimally regulated markets to first solve the problem and eliminate harm.
Someone forgot to tell them that
"Where there's muck there's money".
But in fact, someone did. It has recently come to light that, back on the 4th of May, two Dutch companies had approached the authorities for approval to enter US waters with equipment capable of capturing a large portion of the oil as it first escaped to the surface next to the sunken platform. But no such approval was given. It seems authorities were concerned that the method left small droplets of oil when the cleaned water was returned to the sea. See http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-oil-spill-response-team-standby-us-oil-disaster and http://www.iceagenow.com/US_refused_Dutch_oil_skimmers.htm
and http://blog.heritage.org/2010/06/28/giant-cleanup-ship-met-with-puny-response-from-bureaucrats/ [courtesy Bill Pounder]
But lets take a close look at what we are actually dealing with here. A vast reservoir of crude oil worth billions of dollars, 65% owned BP, is leaking into the ocean. Each of these 30,000 barrels of oil is worth US$76.50 each so some $2,295,000 worth of valuable salvage is made available every day. Each barrel equates to a volume of 159 litres so there are 6.29 barrels in each cubic metre of oil. And the daily discharge amounts to 4,770 M3. Each cubic metre has a value of $480 and as there is 5 standard 200 litre, 44 Imp gallon or 55 US gallon, drums in each M3, then each drum full is worth $96.00 on the world crude market.
According to the RNW link above, the US authorities favoured a chemical treatment that broke down the oil, thereby extinguishing its salvage value. But Dutch research had already concluded that this method caused more harm to wetlands than the oil itself.
In contrast, each 200 litre drum of oil is of equal value to half a days pre-tax pay for an American worker earning $24/hour. Tens of millions of Americans earn much less than this, especially the 10% of the workforce who are out of work altogether. There appears to be no valid reason why an average American could not collect two drums of oil in a normal working day. But the logistics of the exercise may complicate the equation somewhat. Add an open boat, fuel and storage capacity and the break even capacity gets greater, as does the minimum effective number of workers in each team. A 3 person team with boat etc would see the minimum daily collection target go out to about ten drums, or 2m3/day worth $960, from each team. And this, aside from the obvious ecological cost minimisation imperatives, means a bigger boat to cover a wider area and renders the economics of small patch oil collection marginal. This is the volume of oil one might find in a 400m2 patch of oil that is 5 mm thick. It would require at least 300 metres of floating barrier and a pump capable of processing the 40 tonnes of water in the top 10cm.
But this only applies to American wage rates. Lets not forget that this oil spill is in the Gulf of Mexico, and there are 109 million Mexicans who are closer to this problem than most Americans. The Mexican GDP per capita is $13,600 but this obscures the fact that 60% of the population share just 26% of the GDP. And that makes 65 million people with an average share of $6,000 a year each. That works out at $116/week, or just under $24/day or $3.00 an hour. At this rate, a crew of three on a small local craft might start to lose interest in the exercise if it took them a whole day to collect a single 200 litre drum of oil worth $96.00. This is the volume one would find in a 40m2 (5m x 8m) patch of oil that is 5 mm thick.
Most could collect a whole lot more using nothing but frying pans, especially if larger storages were maintained close to the collection area. Indeed, even if there were no larger industrial scale collection efforts in operation, the entire daily discharge volume could be collected by the number of Mexicans who try to cross the US border each week.
The leaking well is just 800km, or two days by slow boat, from the coast of Yucatan where the most disadvantaged Mexicans live. And the further the oil drifts eastward to the Alabama and Florida coasts the more dispersed and fragmented the oil patches become and the more imperative the use of free market, non-american labour, becomes. The exclusive use of American labour may have some traction when dividing the benefits of production but it has no traction, nor even logic, in minimising serious ecological harm.
The worlds poor, and the not so poor, have willingly scavenged for items of value from maritime disasters for millenia. Everything from shipwrecked cargo to drifting planks and sailcloth has been removed from the environment and returned to human use, both personal and through resale. Even beached whales were seen by early humans as a plentiful bounty, and a time of opportunity, for hundreds of millenia. But for some extraordinary reason we now have a collective intellect that is capable of compartmentalising our problems in a way that leaves us wringing our hands, transfixed by an approaching disaster when a normally functioning market place would instantly recognise an opportunity and proceed to exploit it to the point where the problem disappears altogether.
For some reason, apparently beyond the comprehension of reasonable men, this oil is deemed to be still in the possession of BP when it is clearly abandoned salvage on the high seas. Yes, BP has a legal obligation to clean up the mess but why is it being deemed to remain the exclusive property of BP?
If it were not so serious it would be high comedy. The US Coast Guard and the relevant Environmental Protection Agencies have diligently applied exclusion laws, that were designed to protect fish stocks, to an abnormal outbreak of oil stocks. With scant regard for the actual ecological outcomes, they carefully 'protected' their newly discovered mobile oil patches from rapacious foreign scavengers. Well done, fellas, (wave that flag, cue photo op).
BP has every right to argue that the bulk of the responsibility, and liability, for the harm that has befallen the southern coast of the USA rests squarely on the inactions of their own agencies. The means to collect the largest oil patches when it first came to the surface was available to them, at minimal net cost after sale of salvage proceeds, courtesy of the Dutch. But this offer was declined or not responded to in a timely manner.
The means to collect medium sized patches, again at minimal net cost after sale of salvage proceeds, by their own local fishing fleet, was also declined or not acted upon in a timely manner. And the means to collect even the smallest, dispersed oil patches was also available to them, at minimal net cost after sale of salvage proceeds, courtesy of the thousands of low income Mexican fishermen who lived within three days slow transit of the discharge zone.
This proper functioning of a salvage market would have been quite capable of capturing the overwhelming majority of the discharge for as long as it takes to relieve the pressure on the discharge site with additional drill holes. And BP itself would have been the logical buyer for all that salvaged oil which it could then on-sell to its existing customers at little more than the cost of consolidating volumes. Instead, one of the best run companies on the planet now has a huge financial exposure thanks to the collective intellectual lard of the US environmental protection industry who simply cannot understand that there is always a place for free market ecology to turn entrenched notions on their head and convert imaginary problems into real opportunities.
More sinister is the revelation in the last paragraph of the Dutch article above. "In 1989, a Dutch team and equipment had already been flown in to tackle the Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster off the coast of Alaska. But in the end the US authorities sent them home." This technology has been around for more than 21 years but it is standard operating procedure for the US environmental protection authorities to reject proven harm minimisation options. One can only conclude that they seek some sort of perverted publicity gain from an unrestrained ecological disaster.
The BP legal defence team needs to take a good hard look at the option of laying formal charges of gross negligence on US authorities.
Labels: Free market ecology
Be careful now, they are after even more of your money.
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The story has just broken on the complete absence of scientific evidence for the IPCCs claim that the Himalayan glaciers will have all melted by 2035. But there is much more to the story than has been covered in the mainstream media.
Labels: Climate Change, climate scare, Emissions, glaciers, Global temperatures, Global Warming
It is November 11 again. My eldest son is just 9 weeks shy of his 19th birthday. He is the only one in the family line to carry the name of his Great Grandfather who went off to the western front at the same age. So please forgive me. When I think about the dreadful sacrifices made by almost every farming family I can only ask if we are still worthy of the rights and liberties that were protected at such a cost.
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btw, props to LeFlume for predicting 4 TO's for Feltip.
Crazy 8's owes you green rep and a BJ.
btw, props to LeFlume for predicting 4 TO's for Feltip.
Crazy 8's owes you green rep and a BJ.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to LeFlume again.
Sorry, LeFlume. Looks like I hit you up recently. Forgive me. I know not what I do.
Off topic but do you guys know where I can watch the Shumpert MSG feature online? It would be greatly appreciated
Say what u want .. but REAL TALK ....
Our 2nd unit lineup stepped up their level of performance to win this game once ISO-JR.Smith (3 fouls) were taken out of their 2nd unit lineup early in the 2nd quarter.
Big Props go to "PG-Prig, SG-Brewer, F-Cope, F-Novak, and Rasheed" that lineup played well together providing us with a great defensive-effort that gave all the 2nd unit players several shots to score, while shaking-up the Bucks players confidence in transition .. the 2nd unit lineup change the momentum of the game to favor the Knicks.
The Bucks players "Jenning, Ellis, Dunleavy, and Daniels" were looking foward to outscoring our most minute played players "Felton, JR, and Melo" our trio of ISO-Players. It didnt happen with JR.Smith spending 30 minutes on the bench watching "PG-Prig" floor leadership set the tone on offense/defense with Felton at SG, and Brewer/Novak in the same lineup.
Great Knicks WIN
Excellent win by the Knicks. They beat up on a team that has owned them at the Bradley Center in recent years. Now if the Knicks could only defeat the Nets the next time they play them it would feel better than a win against the Miami Heat.
Humility is a virtue and pride is a vice.
b4 u r talkin about miami check upcoming game vs Spurs.
I live in Cambridge Masschusetts and do not get MSG. I have watched the Knicks through NBA League Pass for the last three or four years. I have seen all the games this year and only one of them came with the MSG feed. In previous years, there was often a choice between either team's feeds so that in the majority of cases I would get Clyde, My guess is that recent problems are less the result of League Pass decisions than an MSG decision. Dolan????
Almost all home games that are not nationally televised are streamed with an MSG feed, at least that's how it works for me.


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I'm in Shenzhen, China this week for work. Shenzhen is the one of the high tech meccas in China and it's pretty crazy to consider that there are over 10 million people living in this tiny city (I was told 20 million people when you … Continue Reading
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Hello, my name is Bob. I'm from Vancouver Canada. This is a personal finance blog where I chronicle my quest for joyful life and financial independence.
In 2011, my wife and I had a financial epiphany and started our financial independence retire early (FIRE) journey. Since then, we have amassed a dividend portfolio that generates over $2,100 per month.
I wanted to use this blog to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single income family with two young kids while living in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
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A man aboard a plane that crashed on take-off twittered the experience live.
Mike Wilson of Denver told subscribers to his twitter feed that he had been involved in the incident – from which 38 people were injured and a further two remain in critical condition.
"Holy f****** shit," Wilson tweeted on Saturday night as 2drinksbehind. "I was just in a plane crash!"
The updates that followed included a blurry picture of the scene:
17:57: Ugh ... My glasses fell off in the mass exodus getting off the plane .. Can't see very well
17:58PM: This was crash #2 for me. Maybe I should start taking the bus.
18:35PM: Can't see much, but that's the crash site. http://twitpic.com/ut2c
20.22pm You have your wits scared out of you, drag your butt out of a flaming ball of wreckage and you can't even get a vodka-tonic. Boo
Twitter's impact in 2008 cannot be underestimated. What was once written off as Facebook updates without the social network has become an increasingly valuable commodity.
The ability to send short text messages out as live events occur means that people involved in fast moving or major situations can act as primary sources for the media and, of course, emergency services.


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When he was just 13 years old, Zach Paikin volunteered on his first election campaign. Even though he was doing only the basic tasks a young volunteer might be asked to do, he remembers the experience fondly.
He went on to be one of the founding members and co-chairs of the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC) High School Working Group and dreamed that one day he would be able to make a real impact on Canada's political scene.
This January, his dream might become a reality if he succeeds in his campaign to become the Liberal Party of Canada policy chair.
Paikin, now 20, is a McGill student majoring in Middle East studies. He grew up in Toronto and attended a French immersion school, Lycee Francais de Toronto, where he became fluent in French. Ever since he was a young child, his father, Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, would take him to political events that he was covering.
Paikin soon realized he was very passionate about Canadian politics and decided on a party he could identify with.
After volunteering with the Conservatives, the Liberals, the New Democratic Party and the Green party, Paikin found the Liberal party matched his classical liberal economic views and his ideological views on the type of country Canada should be.
"It's hard to say at age 14 that you know where you want your country to go, but watching the Liberal party retreat from power gives you an indication of where you think it's possible to rebuild," said Paikin.
From a young age, he immersed himself in the world of Canadian politics. In high school, he helped co-found and lead CJPAC's High School Working Group, an initiative designed to engage high school students in the Canadian political process.
"We were brought out to political events and it allowed us to network in the field, to train and learn simple skills in the office. The people I worked with later went on to become CJPAC campus fellows across Canadian university campus and my good friends as well."
After watching the Liberal party suffer a huge defeat in the recent federal election, Paikin knew the party needed a change and that he wanted to be involved in that process.
"We need to fix the basic structure of the party. It's too bureaucratic, it's too difficult to get involved and they're not in touch with the grassroots at all. If we're going to rebuild and move forward from this defeat, the party needs to embrace serious change and younger people are more prepared to lead that change," said Paikin.
In January, riding associations across Canada will send delegates to Ottawa for a convention, where the voting for the executive roles will take place. Until then, Paikin will be campaigning to – as he sees it – save the Liberal Party of Canada.
"There's not enough room in Canada for two or three parties on the left so the Liberal party really needs to decide what it stands for and earn back the seats we lost," said Paikin.
He hopes more young people get involved in the party as well. In addition to his political involvement on campus, Paikin also sits on the board of directors of the Mount Royal Liberal Association in Quebec and is a political columnist for the student newspaper the Prince Arthur Herald.
"I'm ready to move up, to create a national policy change. My age is not a limitation but an advantage. The executives of the Liberal party should be made up of people in their 20s and 30s, not 50s and 60s," said Paikin.
Keith Torrie, national director of the Liberal Party of Canada, agrees it's vital young people get involved.
"Our engagement ensures our values are represented in the decision-making process. We don't want to inherit a society in which we don't see our values," said Torrie. He points out that it was the young Liberals who pushed Paul Martin to make same-sex marriage legal in Canada.
"The Young Liberals of Canada mandate is to engage young Canadians in the Liberal party to help ensure the party reflects the values of young progressive, compassionate Canadians. With that mandate we have come halfway to helping shape politics by influencing a political party to choose, leaders and policies that are youth friendly," Torrie said. By running this campaign, Paikin hopes to do just that.
In the coming months, Paikin is campaigning to get himself taken seriously by the older, more experienced members of his party and prove that the change he wants to bring is necessary to the party's rebirth.
"It's not easy running this campaign, but adversity keeps me going, and it makes me more convinced of my own beliefs because I know I need to provide an alternative perspective," said Paikin. "That's what keeps me motivated."
For more information about Paikin, visit www.votepaikin.ca.


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So [Brian Cashman] did a bit of research, discovered Teixeira had a fondness for Twisted Sister ... Sure, it helped that the Yankees eventually offered $180 million over eight years, but what really wowed Teixeira was the super cool video Cashman revealed when he came to visit in the middle of December.Teixeira:
Shot in the new stadium, with digitalized images of what Teixeira might look like as he ran out of the dugout and onto the grass, the crowd at a froth, the New York skyline in the distance, the sound track blared "I Wanna Rock." Cashman pressed play.
"Hey, that's my song!" Cashman recalled Teixeira saying as he and I walked through the old stadium hallways. "I was like, yeah, we know that."
And at that point, with Twisted Sister on blast, Leigh, Teixeira's college sweetheart who is now his wife, said, "I want you to be a Yankee."
Two weeks before Christmas, I talked to [my wife] Leigh about it again, and we kind of decided that, hey, the Yankees are where we want to be. Cash might want to give Leigh a hug, because when I asked her during the process, "Where should I go, where should I go?," she'd always say, "I just want you to be happy." Finally she said, "I want you to be a Yankee," and it was a done deal. Once we got the contract figured out, it was a no-brainer for me.If Teixeira is telling the truth, then he made his mind to sign with New York one week before perpetrating the charade of his interest in the Red Sox and summoning the Boston brass (John Henry, Theo Epstein, et al.) to Texas -- which was Thursday, December 18.
So the fucker apparently wants us to believe that a Twisted Sister video was the clincher. He's coming across like A-Rod Jr. ... In the words of Fat Billy, what a dushbag.


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Kate Middleton look-a-like hired to debut £170 version of the gown that catapulted Pippa to fame. Plus, why not dress your dog as Kate Middleton this Halloween?
BY Olivia Lidbury | 26 October 2011
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From its delicately capped sleeves to the elegantly draped cowl neck, to the tiny silk buttons running up the back, Debenhams' replica of the Alexander McQueen bridesmaid gown worn by Pippa Middleton to her sister Kate's wedding to Prince William earlier this year is not a bad copy at all.
Debenhams were so attentive to every detail, it seemed a strange decision to hire a Duchess of Cambridge look-a-like to model the dress at a photocall outside the Oxford Street branch in central London this morning.
Pippa: the bridesmaid who turned heads at the Abbey
Essex-based Jodie Bredo, who works as a PA at an insurance firm in the City, posed on a red carpet clutching a bouquet of flowers. She has worked as a Kate double for over two years after several new acquaintances pointed out the similarity between her and the now Duchess. Sadly for Bredo, her posterior doesn't have quite the star quality of Kate's 27-year-old sister Pippa whose custom-made McQueen gown enveloped her svelte curves to perfection on the big day, and ignited a national obsession.
Pippa Middleton in her Alexander McQueen bridesmaid gown in April. Right: Jodie Bredo models the Debenhams version. PHOTO: REUTERS/GETTY
A personal shopper for Debenhams has revealed how the store was inundated with shoppers looking for similar styles to Pippa's gown after the April nuptials. Since the retailer announced back in August that it was producing a replica of the bridesmaid gown (which is rumoured to have cost in the region of £20,000) and the emerald green Temperley dress which Pippa wore to the evening reception, the retailer received over 1,000 emails to the 'firstname.lastname@example.com' email address set up for customers to sign up for updates.
In pictures: Kate Middleton's fashion hits and misses
Both designs go on sale at 54 Debenhams store nationwide today. Meanwhile, there's a copy of the Duchess's wedding gown doing the rounds that will be all together more difficult to get hold of.
A dog owner on the Wendy Williams show in the US - dressed as Prince William (of course) yesterday paraded his dog, Lola, whose white, veiled ensemble complete with faux arms holding a bunch of flowers, was a 'paw' homage to Kate Middleton's wedding day look (see below).


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Launched in 1919 as the original shoemaker to the stars, Salvatore Ferragamo's bold styles were immortalized by silver screen icons like Judy Garland and Greta Garbo. An innovator in materials and design, the original master of Hollywood glamour pioneered everything from cork wedges to calfskin platforms.
Now with a refreshed creative team, Ferragamo remains synonymous with sultry cinematic elegance, with a full range of clothing, accessories and footwear. Feminine and flattering, the brand's silhouettes are crafted from indulgent fabrics and boast nipped-in waists, elegant lengths and pretty prints. Accessories take the spotlight with sleek shapes in luxurious skins, as well as a full selection of those ladylike handbags with that signature grosgrain bow.
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San Francisco and Supermayor Gavin Newsom announced plans to take the pollution-mired Hunter's Point Shipyard and build a $20 Million, 80,000-square foot UN Global Compact Center, which will serve as a "climate change think tank and green tech incubator."
Construction on the building will begin in 2011, and finish in mid 2012, serving as office space for the Global Compact, as well as house a conference center. The city also hopes the center will encourage other sustainable resource-oriented orgs to populate around the area as well.
And if you remember previously, Hunter's Point was home to child pranksters who would go around turning off the power switches on San Francisco's hybrid buses. This latest announcement seems all too appropriate. [Inhabitat]


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The Filibuster
Feel bad about slamming Peavy yet?
Mike G.
Chicago, IL
This question makes the very broad assumption that I feel anything. I don't. If I did I would already be cowering in shame because the Cardinals just dropped a series to the LOLstros.
But this is baseball. It defies feeling. It defies logic.
The Red Sox and Phillies in last place? The Dodgers and Nats routing? Peavy in control, flashing signs of the old whip-and-kill-em arm action?
Why not? It's only May. Anything could happen.
Maybe I was a bit harsh on Peavy. Can you blame me? As far as baseballers go, Jake is pretty annoying. And up until this season, all he had really done in a White Sox jersey is yap yap yap with a string of poor performances following those empty words.
I want my pitchers to pitch. Not yap. PITCH.
Jake is finally doing that. Maybe his detached latissimus dorsi is properly attached again. His velocity is back. He's hitting his spots. Why should a man being paid like a superstar get extra accolades for FINALLY fulfilling his end of the bargain by pitching like a superstar? Isn't it too late!?!?!?
For my White Sox fan brethren, I am very relieved. Yes, it is early yet, but to see Peavy, Dunn, Rios and *GULP* Gordon Beckham actually perform well makes life on the south side much easier. But again, it is May. There's plenty of baseball left.
So I won't douse that crow with Sriracha until I know I absolutely have to eat it.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says that his decision to have weight loss surgery was a personal one made for his wife and children.
"Last fall, I was turning 50 and it really was a moment of reflection for me," Christie said in an exclusive interview with NBC News' Brian Williams airing Friday, May 10 on Rock Center with Brian Williams. "And so I really just felt like for Mary Pat and for the kids that I needed to take a more significant step to try to get my weight under control so that I could have a really active next half of my life."
Before going through with the surgery this February, Christie says that he consulted with Dr. George Fielding at New York University, a pioneer in weight-loss surgery.
"I said, 'Well, do I really think I need this?' And he said to me, 'If you came in here with cancer and I told you that I had a 40-minute surgery that'd give you a 90 percent chance of cure, would you sign up?' And it just really crystallized it for me. And I said, 'Yeah, I would.' And he said, 'Well, then why wouldn't you do that to cure obesity?' Christie recalled.
Christie, who is often toted as a Republican presidential contender, has often joked about his struggle with his weight – even appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman eating a donut earlier this year. By the time of that appearance, he'd already made the choice to have Lap-Band surgery.
"I did not want to take the risk of becoming unhealthy and the ramifications that would have for Mary Pat and for my four kids. And as you know, I still have children that are in elementary school, so I got a long road here as a father and I don't want to miss any of it," he said.
Adam Rivera/NBC News
The governor said that he also consulted with New York Jets coach Rex Ryan who has had lap-band surgery himself. Christie says that he's still adjusting to not being hungry.
"The biggest thing about it for me has been I'm just not very hungry anymore and that's a huge change for me," Christie said.
While there has been a noticeable reduction in the governor's weight, Christie says he's taking his weight-loss one day at a time.
WATCH: Chris Christie sees hope for Jersey Shore
"I'm not taking any victory lap, I'm not talking about numbers, you know, pounds, all the rest of it. People will notice how I'm doing."
Editor's Note: Brian Williams' interview with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will air Friday, May 10 at 10pm/9CDT on NBC News' Rock Center with Brian Williams.
Mel Evans / AP
The N.J. politician's straight-talk and tough policies put him in the national spotlight — but after considering a presidential bid, the governor decided he wasn't ready.


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Between the smell of fresh-from-the-oven baked goods and hot cocoa, twinkling lights, array of homemade gingerbread houses and the buzz of holiday cheer, there's no better place south of the North Pole to celebrate the holidays. This year the tradition continues when Smolak Farms kicks off the holiday season with their annual Tree Lighting Festival.
The day will be filled with seasonal treats and activities for kids of all ages. From 2 - 4:30 p.m., families are invited to peruse thousands of Smolak Farms' pre-cut Christmas trees. With the selection of trees including Fraser and Balsam Fir, you're guaranteed to find the perfect tree for your annual star topper while bringing that pine scent into your home.
In addition to the pre-cut trees, Smolak Farms also has a wide variety of "Choose and Cut" trees to choose from throughout the farm. Varieties include; Fraser Fir, Balsam Fir, Douglas Fir, Concolor Fir and a few minor varieties.
After you've found that perfect tree, choose from an assortment of wreaths, holiday gifts, gingerbread houses, decorations and baked goods while children partake in a day full of activities in Santa's Workshop including free crafts for Kids in the barn, Rudolf Express Rides outside and hot chocolate and warm cider donuts available for purchase by the tree.
Come for the trees and leave with timeless memories! Don't miss this memorable holiday experience for whole the family!


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rooster wrote:paddyor wrote:rooster wrote:Playoffs look a step too far for us now as to get past Scarlets we need 1 more match point than they do out of the last few games and I struggle to see where we will get it.
Sign some Saffer backrow to replace the one that's crocked?
They were turned down on that at the start of the season so why would it happen now with only a few games left ?
There'll be a car-boot sale of them down in Thomond on Saturday.


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Be careful what you wish for, yesterday I was bemoaning the fact that we have had endless warm, sunny days, which seems out of keeping for November, well today it has been damp, dull and dreary so it jolly well serves me right! Added to that I have been in a melancholy mood.
To try and cheer myself up I went rooting around in the cupboard under the stairs for the boxes of Christmas decorations, surely fairy lights and baubles would cheer me up! Of course it's far too early to decorate, normally I like to decorate in the first week of December. No, what I wanted was to mess around in my
We are fortunate to have inherited a large collection of antique books, the top three books in the first picture are French books on natural history, they have some stunning engravings in them and are eighteenth century, I was trying to capture the patina on them whilst imagining who their original owners were, these books were around during the French revolution, how come we have ended up with them? What was the fate of the original owners? what kind of room or library might they have rested in?
In the second picture the books are popular British classics from the late nineteenth century, I know the history of these one's. The first four little books are Dickens and they also include wonderful engraved illustrations, I love the gold detail on the spines, I really should read them but they are so delicate I worry about damaging them and that would be awful, so I will put them back in their home on the bookshelf and admire them.
I am still resisting the urge to invest in a Kindle or Nook, I love books, all books, nothing gives me greater pleasure than a new book. My modern book collection may one day fall into the hands of someone who wonders about the original owner from a couple of centuries ago, I don't believe a Kindle or a Nook would last that long!


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Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.
Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.
Something big is going on at Gingerscraps! It's huge! There was the designer call that happened earlier, and now, we're ready to announce them! We have SEVEN new designers. Yes, you read that right! SEVEN new designers!
Oh, wow. So much goodness coming to us! We asked the designers to tell us a little about themselves, and this is what they had to tell us, and a few of the amazing products that they have to offer:
Hi! My name is Cathy of CathyK Designs, and twoboyz00 in most of the digi forums. I've been designing now for almost 5 years (hmmm… I should probably do something special for my 5-year design anniversary). I've been married to my sweetheart for 18 years and have 2 teenage boys who keep me busy. I left my engineering job a couple years ago to be around more for my boys, and I love it! When I'm not designing or scrapping, I like to hang out with my family, go camping, watch movies, and spend (waste) a little too much time on the internet on Pinterest and Facebook. I'm so very excited to be joining the Gingerscraps family, and I can't wait to get to know everyone here better! Keep checking my store for new releases, since it will take some time for me to move all my products over from my other store.
Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Quotable-Bundle.html
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Quotable-Kit.html
Add-on: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Quotable-Addon.html
Alphas: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Quotable-Alphas.html
Hiya, friends! I'm Ré, short for Cheré Kaye, the twisted and creative mind behind Cheré Kaye Designs. I've been married for almost 2 whole weeks now to a super hot husband named Chris, and we have two daughters that bring us joy and challenge every day. We live in the sticks with our little family, including one sweet old kitty named Taz. I am addicted to Friends, The Big Bang Theory, reading books on my Nook and any type of music imaginable. I've been designing for 7 years now, and paper crafting and scrapbooking since high school (which is too long ago to bring up right now!). I love creating to music, and my designs are a little shabby and funky. I can't wait to be a part of the Ginger Scraps family!
Hi! My name is Paula, and I'm the creative brain behind this little operation called Keystone Scraps. I've been married to my husband Tom for 18 years. We have 3 kids, (a boy and 2 girls all teenagers) and a small domestic zoo (2 dogs, 5 cats, and a gerbil!). I started paper scrapbooking 13 years ago and turned entirely to digital about 5 years ago. I love that I can take my laptop along and scrap anywhere with no mess or clean up! It makes passing the hours in the car waiting for kids to finish up their activities so much more pleasant!
Because we were having a hard time finding quality kits in the styles we were looking for, I started designing digital scrapbook supplies in partnership with my BFF Melissa. We formed Keystone Scraps in February 2011, choosing the name Keystone Scraps since we are both from the keystone state, Pennsylvania!A year later , I took over the reigns as a solo venture, and have been humming along ever since! Designing kits is the perfect way for me to release the creative energy that I have stored up through the day. I'm a pharmacist by trade, and there's little room for creativity there! I find inspiration in everything, but especially color. I love for my kits and scrapbook pages to create a mood or a feeling. I call my primary design style shabby Victorian, since there isn't really a name for it. I love a vintage feel, lots of elements (I'm a clusterer!), and papers that look like real paper! I am so excited to be part of the GingerScraps family!
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-The-Day.html
Spritzers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-The-Day-Spritzers.html
Graffiti: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-The-Day-Graffiti.html
Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-The-Day-Bundle.html
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/In-The-Hollow.html
Peter Add-On: https://store.gingerscraps.net/In-The-Hollow-Peter-Add-On.html
Graffiti: https://store.gingerscraps.net/In-The-Hollow-Graffiti.html
Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/In-The-Hollow-Bundle.html
Hi there! I'm Becky also known as B2N2 Scraps. I'm very excited to be joining the GingerScraps family! I've been designing for 3 years now (yikes, time sure flies!) and digital scrapping for a little less than 4 years. I've been married to my wonderful husband, Brian, for 11 years and we have 4 year old twins: Natalie and Noah. Have you figured out my designer name yet? I am returning to my teaching position after taking some time off to be home with my kids. I am a bilingual teacher and work with grades 3-6. When I'm not scrapping or designing (or playing with my kids), I love to read, search Pinterest for yummy recipes and then make them, blog about my kids, and play games. I look forward to getting to know you all! Keep an eye on my store as it will be opening on July 22nd.
Hi!! *waves to all* I'm Jill with Created by Jill Scraps and I am thrilled beyond belief to be a part of this amazing Design Team! I'm a stay-at-home-mom 2 two teenage girls (one is entering high school in the fall and one is graduating a year early in the spring…heart be still) I'm happily married to a man with more shoes then any female could ever have and currently reside in Louisiana (but I'm an East Coast girl through and through). I've been designing for almost 4 years and pretty much live on my computer! When not designing (or pinning…or re-pinning…or playing mindless Facebook games)….I'm off teaching Zumba and Bokwa classes in the evenings! Keep an eye on my store as I'll be adding more products every week! I am also currently in the midst of a collection that will be EXCLUSIVE to GingerScraps! I'm so excited and so looking forward to getting to know everyone!
My name is Jennifer also known as jmljensen and now Little Rad Trio in the digi-world. I have been digital scrapbooking since 2009 and just recently started designing. My husband (Lance) and I have been married for almost 13 years and we have 3 boys – Lucas, Reed & Tyler. Can you figure out my design name? I just had to use my boys' initials and Little Rad Trio was born. My real job is president and owner of a Managing General Agency (an insurance middleman between insurance companies and independent insurance agents). When I'm not working or designing/scrapbooking, I enjoy spending time with my family and friends.
Cut-It-Out Templates: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cut-It-Out-templates.html
Independently Proud: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Independently-Proud-Bundle.html
Just a Guy: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-a-Guy-bundle.html
I started scrapping about 6 years ago, I was a tagger and tutorial writer. I surfed around a bit on the internet and found out about digiscrapping.
I fell in love with it! I love to design templates, to make scrapping easy for everyone! I am 30 years old, I love to dance, film, and
go out for a nice dinner.
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New York City is home to an amazing abundance of wildlife. From falcons and salamanders, to deer and seals, wildlife viewing opportunities exist year-round in all of our parks and beaches. Our Rangers will guide you to the best wildlife viewing spots in New York City. Discover the amazing variety of birds that winter here in NYC. Birding programs are appropriate for all skill levels and beginners are welcome.
To enhance your experience we encourage you to bring binoculars and field guides, or ask a Ranger to borrow a pair.
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Re: st: IV vs 2SLS
Shikha Sinha <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: IV vs 2SLS
Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:31:53 -0700
Thanks, David, but which is the preferred one and what are the advantages?
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:29 PM, David Greenberg <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> There is a reason for the difference in standard errors. When you
> predict x3_hat and use the predicted value in your second equation,
> Stata doesn't know that x3_hat is not an observed variable, but an
> estimate with some uncertainty attached to it. It treats this variable
> as observed, and without measurement error. Consequently, this
> procedure underestimates the standard errors of estimates obtained
> using the second strategy. David Greenberg, Sociology Department, New
> York University
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Shikha Sinha <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> What is the difference between IV and 2sls and which is the preferred
>> method to correct for endogeneity (advantage and disadvantage)?
>> (a) ivreg2 y x1 x2 (x3=z)
>> (b) reg x3 z x1 x2
>> predict x3_hat
>> reg y x3_hat x1 x2
>> By employing (a) and (b) I get similar coeff, but standard errors are
>> different.
>> Thanks,
>> Shikha
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>> * For searches and help try:
>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
>> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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U.S. Beach Volleyball Update: World Tour Roundup
B.J. Hoeptner Evans
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@USA_Volleyball - @USAV Beach – USAV Facebook
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 1, 2012) – The conclusion of the Bangsaen Thailand Open means the conclusion of the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour for women.
The U.S. women's beach volleyball team of Jennifer Kessy (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) and April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) ended on a high note with a victory at the Thailand Open, the third Thailand victory of their career. The new U.S. team of Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) and Lauren Fendrick (Carlsbad, Calif.) placed fourth. Emily Day (Torrance, Calif.) and Brittany Hochevar (Fowler, Colo.) placed tied for 13th and Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) and Summer Ross (San Diego, Calif.) finished tied for 17th.
The men's season ended in August with the Mazury Orlen Grand Slam in Stare Jablonki, Poland. The U.S. team of Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.) were crowned the 2012 World Tour Champions with 5,280 points and $240,000 in team earnings.
For the women, Brazil's Juliana Felisberta and Larissa Franca won the World Tour points championships with 5,320 points and $241,800 in team earnings. China's Chen Xue and Xi Zhang finished second with 5,240 points and $214,300 in earnings. Brazil's Maria Antonelli and Talita Rocha were third with 4,500 points and $159,100 in earnings and Kessy and Ross were fourth with 4,360 points and $138,200 in earnings.
Among the other U.S. women's beach volleyball teams, Misty May-Treanor (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Kerri Walsh Jennings (Saratoga, Calif.) finished 11th with 3,000 points and $111,300 in earnings. Lauren Fendrick (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Brooke Hansen were 29th with 1,200 points and $34,700 in earnings. Angie Akers (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Brittany Hochevar (Fowler, Colo.) finished tied for 40th with 600 points and $16,100 in earnings.
The only teams to medal for the United States were Kessy and Ross along with May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings. Kessy and Ross finished with one gold medal (Thailand), one silver (Olympic Games in London) and one bronze (Rome Grand Slam). May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings won two gold medals (Olympic Games and Gstaad Grand Slam) and one silver (Moscow Grand Slam).
More information about the FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour is available on the FIVB web site.
The FIVB has announced that the inaugural $300,000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Cup Final will be played Jan. 9-13, 2013, in Brazil. The host city will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Cup Final, which will determine the champion country from the Continental Cup, will feature 10 countries per gender represented by one team each. Teams will be competing for prize purses of $150,000 per gender.
The 10 countries competing will include the winners of each of the Continental Cup Finals and the national federations who qualified a maximum two teams at the 2012 Olympic Games via the Olympic rankings. If the 10 vacancies were not filled with these criteria, the best country on the 2012 Olympic Games rankings not already qualified will participate.
Because the United States qualified two men's and two women's teams for the 2012 Olympic Games via the Olympic rankings, it has qualified teams for both men's and women's competitions in the World Cup Final.
Other countries qualified for the women's event are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Mauritius and Russia.
Other countries qualified for the men's event are Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland and Venezuela.
The men's event of the Hilton HHonors Beach Volleyball Challenge, which was played Oct. 20 in Honolulu, will be broadcast at 5-6 p.m. ET on Nov. 3 on NBC Universal Sports.
At the event, the U.S. Olympic beach volleyball teams of Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.) competed against China's men's Olympic team of Linyin Xu and Penggen Wu.
The women's event, which featured Jennifer Kessy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) against China's Chen Xue and Xi Zhang, will be broadcast at 3-4 p.m. ET on Dec. 1 on the NBC Sports Network.
U.S. beach volleyball players had great success at the NORCECA Beach Circuit event on Oct. 26-28 in St. Lucia as the U.S. team of Tracy Weamer (Upland, Calif.) and Kathryn Piening (Kalamazoo, Mich.) won the women's gold medal while Jon Mesko (Traverse City, Mich.) and Will Montgomery (Santa Barbara, Calif.) won the men's gold and Jeff Carlson (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Tony Ciarelli (Huntington Beach, Calif.) won the men's silver.
Three more events remain on the 2012 NORCECA Beach Circuit schedule: Nov. 16-17 in Trinidad & Tobago, Nov. 23-25 in Panama and Nov. 30-Dec. 2 in Aruba.
More information about the NORECA Beach Circuit is available on the NORCECA web site.
Florida Atlantic University has added sand volleyball to the athletic slate. Sand volleyball became the 19th varsity sport sponsored by the school in 2012.
Charlie Castillo, an assistant with the women's volleyball team, will be the head coach for Florida Atlantic's sand volleyball program.
Sand volleyball, an NCAA emerging sport, became effective in August 2011. The Owls have played in sand volleyball tournaments in the past, but played a full competitive schedule in addition to their normal indoor spring practice schedule. The duo of Alessia Pizzocheri and Joanne Marras Tate advanced to the AVCA Sand Volleyball National Championships last April.
For more news regarding sand volleyball and the rest of FAU's 19 intercollegiate sports, visit fausports.com.


text: Our previous discussion of the Roy and Hattie [–?–] Teague family centered upon their entry in the 1930 US census. Today, we're going to follow up on two items from our to-do list: Find a marriage record for this couple, and check the Vital Statistics register for their deaths. We're looking first in the records created and maintained within Rabun Co., GA, where the couple lived in 1930.


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Tweens, rejoice -- You've still got a shot with Robert Pattinson.
The 23-year-old British heartthrob has finally put to bed longstanding rumors that his relationship with "New Moon" co-star Kristen Stewart goes far beyond hand-holding.
"I am single ... almost everything that came out about my private life is false," Pattinson tells Italian Vanity Fair in a cover story.
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"I think it happens because, really, there is not much to say about what I'm doing," he added, the New York Daily News first reported.
In the past, Pattinson has playfully dodged rumors that he and Stewart were dating.
In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer last month, the "Today Show" host tried to tease out a definitive answer on the topic from Pattinson, but he demurred.
"You're dating your co-star: Her name rhymes with 'Tristan Blewart,'" Lauer said then.
"Umm ... there was a Liston Hewitt last year! That would be true, yes," Pattinson replied.
In reality, Pattinson said he usually sequesters himself "like a recluse" when he's filming.
"I come out only to work, and sometimes to go out for dinner," he tells Vogue. "But, if you read the magazines, it seems that I have a frantic high life."


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This week the TDD team discuss their Black Friday finds, staff shakeups at TechCrunch & Mashable, the quashing of SOPA, Redditors build an alternative to the Internet, Facebook's IPO is coming, Kinect for Windows, President Obama joins Google+, and Arrested Development returns to Netflix.
Later, we discuss the potential dissolution of the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile USA merger, and rumored new cellphone devices from Amazon and Facebook.
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How to Get Paid
Referee payments will be made when games are completed and reported. It is the Center Referee's responsibility to complete a game report in Arbiter, for each game. This game report must be completed and submitted by 11:59pm on Sunday, of the same weekend that the game was played. Refer to the FAQ Section for tips on completing and submitting a game report in Arbiter. The Center Referee's report must indicate whether each of the Assistant Referees were present at the game. Failure to complete and submit a game report results in the Center Referee not receiving payment.
OVYSL makes referee payments directly to each referee's RefPay account, which is part of an on-line banking system. Every referee is required to have a RefPay account. Click Here to create a RefPay account. Upon creation of an account, please make certain to select the option to connect this new account to your Arbiter account. Since Arbiter and RefPay are owned by the same company, the linking is done right away and seamlessly. Once the referee's payment has been deposited to the referee's RefPay account, it can be transferred to any bank account at no charge.
Payments to referees are made once every two weeks. On the Monday, following the second weekend of completed games, the Referee Assignor submits a paysheet to OVYSL's President, for approval, such that payments can be made. Upon receiving approval, the Referee Assignor initiates payments to the RefPay accounts for all the referees listed on the approved paysheet.


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Let $\mathcal{P}(S^{\infty})$ denote the set of probability measures on the unit sphere $S^{\infty} \subset \mathcal{H}$ in the Hilbert space of states of a quantum mechanical system. Measurement of an observable $\Omega$ corresponds to orthogonal projection, sending $\delta_{|\psi \rangle}$ to a particular measure supported on the eigenvectors of $\Omega$, thus inducing a map $T_{\Omega}: \mathcal{P}(S^{\infty}) \rightarrow \mathcal{P}(S^{\infty})$. If we think of $T_{\Omega}$ as the transition matrix of a Markov chain, we can say that a continuum $\lbrace \Omega_t \rbrace_{t \in \mathbb{R} \geq 0}$ of observables induces a stochastic process on $S^{\infty}$.
If we let $\Omega_t = H(t)$, the time-dependent Hamiltonian of our system, is the associated stochastic process the deterministic one described by the Schrödinger equation?
What does this construction have to do with the time-energy uncertainty relation?