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What's the best way to avoid having your criminal case tried in the media? Apparently, being a member of the media can help.
Jane McGarry, a longtime and much-beloved anchor for 30 years on Dallas NBC affiliate KXAS-TV, was booked into a Dallas County jail at 3:00 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning based on suspicion of driving her Porsche while intoxicated. Like anyone else, McGarry is presumed innocent and entitled to a trial to determine her guilt or innocence.
And that's exactly what her employer has done. KXAS refused to comment on McGarry's arrest other than to say the station was "investigating the matter." On Monday night, long after other news outlets were reporting the story, KXAS soberly announced that it was "confirming" McGarry's arrest. KXAS decided not to publish McGarry's mug shot, nor did they air unflattering file footage, or post fancy graphics, or rely any of the other sensational techniques that unfortunately permeate many local news broadcasts. The tone of the station's report was not the usual indignant disapproval of drunk driving, but much more somber, like someone great had died.
The sleepy reporting on the McGarry situation could have been excused except for the fact that it was buried behind a long, sensational report on the assault charges filed in the Deion Sanders divorce case, which included unflattering file footage, fancy graphics, etc. Yes, like McGarry, Sanders also is a celebrity, but his kids (and arguably his wife) aren't and he no longer plays pro football. The interest in Sanders' divorce, like McGarry's driving exploits, is purely prurient. KXAS' reporting of their stories is a striking example of the disparate ways some media outlets decide to deliver the news.
Here's hoping for a media future where DUI defendants and divorcing couples are given the same consideration in the eyes of the media, regardless of whether celebrities or reporters are involved.
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I've been very involved in several projects this month that have taken quite a bit of my time and energy, as well as being the focus of several of my recent posts here. February is American Heart Month and the perfect time to promote awareness for the good work of the American Heart Association.
Jamie, over at hands on: we grow started a fabulous e-book called the heart project. She decided to start this project because her niece, Ellie, suffers from a congenital heart defect. (Read more about that here.) For the remainder of the month, the heart project e-book is offered as a thank you gift for your donation of $5 to support the American Heart Association. Also, there are just hours left to enter to win a copy right here on little illuminations by commenting on my post "Have A Heart".
I'd thought I'd take just a moment to disclose why I'm so passionate about American Heart Month. A couple of years ago, as we were walking through the beautiful beach house my family had just rented for a week long vacation, I started feeling ill. (We hadn't even unpacked the car yet!) I had a massive hot flash and dizziness, and a funny taste in my mouth. I went into the bathroom and splashed cold water over my face and laid down over the air conditioning vent as my knees grew weak. I felt disconnected, sort of out of it. Eventually, after several moments, but what felt like an eternity, it passed. I felt better, but weak and with a migraine for the rest of the afternoon. We were on vacation, so I'd just take it easy. I deserved this vacation.
Right before I'd left to go on vacation, I'd gone to have a tooth filled and discovered that I had high blood pressure suddenly and had to take medicine to control it. I'd just graduated after 3 years of working full time and going back to school full time carrying a full load (and often plus a few extra courses) and raising 2 daughters. The job situation in our area had just gotten really tough right before I graduated. I had not gotten my "dream job" but had taken a position with a school that promised a position I really wanted, if I agreed to work the summer. I agreed, with the condition that I could take this vacation, planned and counted on for the last several months. I'd been very stressed for months, but the stress was all over now.
During that week, I had two more "episodes". I chalked it up to hormones and the early onset menopause that I'd been told to expect after a hysterectomy several years before. When I returned home, I told my husband and he seemed concerned. One day at work, I'd gone out to get lunch with a friend and brought it back to work. Before I could sit down to eat, I felt another "episode" coming on. I went to stand by the staff bathroom to wait to get in. One of the teachers in the room directly across the hall said she looked out and saw me go white and wobbly and rushed out of the room with a chair and got me in it. The bathroom freed up and I went in and sat over the air for a minute or two and the flash passed again. I splashed water over my face and went to eat my lunch. Maybe the heat (it was July in Georgia) and hunger were partially to blame. That night, I fought my husband's requests that I go to the emergency room to get checked out. I insisted that it must be the "hot flashes". I was only 42, for goodness sake! He made me promise to get to a doctor immediately if it happened again.
A week or two later, my sister and I decided to take our 4 children up near Greenville, SC to surprise our dad. He had a special anniversary coming up and it would mean the world to him to have us all there. We drove up, checked into the motel. Our stepmom pulled up to the motel and told him some story to get him there and there we were! Surprise! They stepped into the motel room, but before we could even visit, I started to feel weak. I stepped into the bathroom and felt it coming on again. This time, it felt stronger and scarier. I knew I needed to call for help, but right outside the bathroom door were my 2 daughters and my niece and nephew that I didn't want to scare. I called out to my sister and finally got her to the door and asked her to call 911. She called but we were pretty far out in the country and the 911 operator said that if at all possible, we needed to try to get in via car, because it would take much too long for an ambulance to get out to us and back to a hospital.
We got to the hospital, and I finally got all checked in. I was describing the symptoms to the nurse as they began to take my pressure, and hook me up to monitors. She held my hand but seemed to swallow hard and make a face when I said I thought it was probably hot flashes from early menopause. I was hooked up to monitors and the doctor came in as I was trying to reach my husband back home at work. I apologized to the doctor and handed my dad the phone try my husband, Duncan. The doctor told me he would really like to speak to Duncan himself. I heard the doctor tell my husband that they were going to admit me, and that he needed to get to the hospital 4 hours away immediately. The doctor stepped away and they talked for a minute and he turned to me. He took my hand and very gently told me that I had not been experiencing menopause, I'd been having small heart attacks. As we spoke, I had another one right there. In very short order, I was whisked away to the cardiac ICU, where I spent the next 10 days.
Since then, I've changed a lot of things in my life. Some things I've done a better job at managing than others. One of the major messages to me was that often, heart attack symptoms in women are often not the Fred-Sanford-clutching-his-chest-yelling-"Elizabeth-I'm-coming" variety of symptoms. Often, women experience the following symptoms:
- shortness of breath
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- indigestion or pressure feeling in upper chest
- lower chest discomfort
- back pain
I'm thankful to have gotten such good care and a second chance.
I'd like to honor all those who have heart issues. Here are a few friends that wanted to honor family and friends:
- me!
- my stepdad, Fred
- Jamie's niece, Ellie
- Beth's mom and dad, Robin and Michael Favro
- Shali's grandson, Jacob
- Debbie's mom, Elsie
I'm now organizing our Jump Rope For Heart event at our preschool. We're planning a variety of heart healthy exercise stations (all involving jump ropes) for our Jump Rope For Heart event Feb. 29th. If you'd like to help sponsor me, click here to go to my Jump Rope For Heart page. We've got 6 classes competing in the event and fundraising, so our class can use all the help we can get!
We've been practicing, and having a lot of fun, too! Yesterday, we hooked up the boom box outside and did the limbo!
We managed to get in a quick found of tug o' war, too!
Thanks for taking the time to stop by. I know this isn't my "usual" type of post, but it's something I feel passionate about. If you'd like to honor someone you know with heart disease or a defect, honor them here by leaving their name in the comments.


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Well, despite my more negative impression of this year's VMworld conference, it still really paid off. There I learned about stateless ESX deployment. Using this information, I was able to build in my lab, after a couple months of trial and error, a highly robust VMware environment, fully managed and licensed, using the midwife scripts I modified for this effort. And configuration is hands-free.
Here are the system components:
- SERVER – HP c7000 Blade Enclosure with sixteen Bl465c blades, two 4 GB FC modules, and four VC Enet modules
- Each blade has two dual-core AMD CPUs, 16 GB RAM, two 72 GB SAS drives (hardware RAID-1), two embedded gig NICs, and a mezzanine card with two more gig NICs/iSCSI initiators and two FC HBAs
- NETWORK – Cisco 6509 with two SUP 720 cards, two 48 port LC Gig-E fiber cards, and four 48 port gig copper cards
- MANAGMENT – Dell 1850 with two 146 GB SAS drives (hardware RAID-1) for management and boot services
- STORAGE – Scavenged proof-of-concept totally ghetto Dell Optiplex desktop with four internal 1.5 TB SATA drives (software RAID-10 formatted with tuned XFS) providing 3 TB of NFS shared storage
- Scavenged HP IP-KVM box for OOB-management of the two Dells
Here are the steps I took:
- First I had to update all the firmware on the blade server. This includes the two OA cards for the Onboard Administrator, the Virtual Connect software, the iLO2 software for each blade, the BIOS on each blade, and the Power Management Controller firmware. There is a particular order this is done in, and it is not easy, but it really needs to be done. The fixes that come with these updates are often vital to success. Overall, I spent a week researching and updating. I set all the blades to boot via PXE.
- Next, I built the storage server. I really had no choice – nothing was available but a Dell Optiplex desktop. It had four internal SATA ports available, and room for four 1GB RAM modules. It also had a single dual-core Intel CPU and PCI slots for more NICs, and a PCI-Express mini-slot as well. I had to order parts, and it took a little while, but once done, it had a total of four gig NICs (one embedded, two PCI, one PCI-Express), four 1.5 TB SATA drives, and 4 GB RAM. I loaded it with 64-bit Ubuntu-9.04, hand-carved the partitions and RAID-10 setup, formatted the 3 TB volume with XFS, tuned as best I knew how, and then put it on the 2.6.31 kernel (I later updated it to 22.214.171.124). There were no BIOS or other firmware updates needed.
- I then built the management server on the Dell 1850. It only has one power supply (I cannot find a second one), but it does have 8 GB RAM and two dual-core CPUs. I loaded 64-bit Ubuntu-9.04 on it afte installing two 146 GB SAS drives in a RAID-1 mirror (hardware-based). I also updated the BIOS and other firmware on it.
- Having these components in place, I studied the blade server to see what I could get away with, and ultimately decided to use each NIC on a blade server to support a set of traffic types, and balanced the likelyhood of traffic demands across them. For example, Vmotion traffic, while it may be intense, should be relatively infrequent, so it shares a V-Net with another type of traffic that is low-bandwidth (the alternate management network). Altogether, I ended up with a primary management network on up V-Net, Vmotion and the alternate on another V-Net, storage traffic (NFS and iSCSI) on a third V-Net, and VM traffic on its own V-Net. Each V-Net maps to the its own NIC on a blade, the same NIC on each blade.
The physical network design:
For the V-Nets, the management network went on NIC 1 as an untagged VLAN. It has to be untagged, because when it boots up, it needs to get a DHCP address and talk to the boot server for its image. Since it comes up untagged, it will not be able to talk out to the DHCP/PXE server if the V-Net is set to pass through tags. The other V-Nets support tagged VLANs to further separate traffic. Each V-Net has four links to the Cisco 6509, except for the storage V-Net, which has eight. Two links form an LACP bundle from the active side (VC-Enet module in Bay 1), and two make up an LACP bundle (or etherchannel) from the module in Bay 2, which is the offline side. This is repeated for the other networks across the other modules in Bays 5 and 6. Bays 3 and 4 house the Fiber Channel modules, which I am not using. Everything is on its own individual private 10.x.x.x network as well, except for the VM traffic net, which will contain the virtual machine traffic.
The storage design:
Like I said, a really ghetto NFS server. It does not have enough drives, so even though it would be overkill for a home PC, it will not cut it in this situation. I expect it to run out of steam after only a few VMs are added, but it does tie everything together and provides the shared storage component needed for HA, Vmotion, and DRS. I am working on an afforable and acceptable solution, rack-mounted, with more gig NICs and up to 24 hot-swap drives – more spindles should offer more thoughput. I bonded the NICs together into a single LACP link, untagged back the the Cisco, on the NFS storage VLAN. Once working, I stripped out all unneeded packages for a very minimal 64-bit Ubuntu server. It boots in seconds, and has no GUI. Unfortuately, I did not get into the weeds enough to align the partitions/volumes/etc. I just forgot to do that. I will have to figure that out next time I get a storage box in.
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It is also on a very minimal 64-bit Ubuntu-9.04 install. Ithas four NICs, but I only use two (the other two are only 100 MB). The two gig NICs are also bonded into one LACP link back to the Cisco, untagged. The server is running a stripped down 2.6.31 kernel, and has VMware Server 2.0.x installed for the vCenter Server (running on a Windows 2003 server virtual machine). On the Ubuntu host server, I have installed and configured DHCP, TFTP, and gPXE. I also extracted the boot guts from the ESXi 3.5.0 Update 4 ISO and set up the tftpboot directory so that each blade will get the image installed. On the vCenter Server virtual machine, I installed the Microsoft PowerShell tool (which installed ActiveState PERL), and the VMware PowerCLI tool. I also downloaded the midwife scripts and installed Notepad++ for easy editing. The vCenter Server VM is on a private 10.x.x.x net for isolated management, but this gets in the way of the Update Manager plugin, so I still have some work to do later to get around this.
Really key things I learned from this:
- The blade server VC-Enet modules are NOT layer-2 switches. They may look and feel that way in some aspects, but they, by design, actually present themselves to network devices as server ports (NICs), not as more network devices. Learn about them – RTFM. It makes a difference. For instance, it may be useful to know that the right side bay modules are placed in standby by default, and the left-side are active – they are linked via an internal 10Gig connection. I know of another lab with the same hardware that could not figure out why they could not connect the blade modules to the network if all the modules were enabled, so they solved it by disabling all but Bay-1, instead of learning about the features and really getting the most out of it.
- Beware old 64-bit CPUs. Just because it lets you load a cool 64-bit OS on it does NOT mean it will let you load a cool 64-bit virtual machine on it. If it does not have virtualization instruction sets in its CPU(s), you will run into failure. I found this out the hard way, after trying to get the RCLI appliance (64-bit) from VMware in order to manage the ESXi hosts. I am glad I failed, because it forced me to try the PowerCLI/PowerShell tools. Without those tools, I seriously doubt I could have gotten this project working.
- Learn PowerShell. The PowerCLI scripts extend it for VMware management, but there are plenty of cool tricks you can do using the base PowerShell scripts as well. I am no fan of Microsoft, so it is not often I express satisfaction with one of their products. Remember where you were on this day, 'cuz it could be a while before it happens again.
- Name resolution is pretty important. HA wants it in a real bad way. Point your hosts to a DNS server, or give them identical hosts files (a little ghetto, but a good failsafe for a static environment). I did both.
- Remember those Enet modules? Remember all that cool LACP stuff I mentioned? Rememeber RTFM? Do it, or you will miss the clue that while the E-net modules like to play with LACP, only one link per V-Net is set active to avoid loops. So if, on your active V-Net, you have two LACP links, each for a different tagged VLAN, and your NFS devices won't talk to anyone, you will know that it is because it saw your iSCSI V-Net first, so it set your NFS link offline. Meaning, the iSCSI link on Bay-1 and it's offline twin on Bay-2 both have to fail before your NFS link on Bay-1 will come up. Play it safe – one LACP link per V-Net per bay. Tag over multiple VLANs on the link instead. The E-net modules only see the LACP links, and do not care if they support different VLANs – only one is set active at a time.
- Be careful with spanning tree (this can be said for everything related to networking). Use portfast on your interfaces to the E-net modules, and be careful with spanning tree guards on the Cisco side. In testing, I would find that by pulling one of the pairs in a link, it would isolate the VLAN instead of carrying on as if nothing had happened. Turns out a guard on the interface was disabling the link to avoid potential loops. Once I disabled that, the port-channel link functioned as desired.
- Doesn't it suck to get everything working, and then not have a clean way to import in VMs? I mean, now that you built it, how do you get stuff into it? I ended up restructuring my NFS server and installing Samba as well. This is because when importing a VM from the GUI (say, by right-clicking on a resource pool), the "Other Virtual Machine" option is the only one that fits. However, it then looks for a UNC path (Windows share-style) to the .vmx file. I could browse the datastore and do it that way, but for VMs not on the NFS datastore already, I needed to provide a means for other labs to drop in their VMs. Samba worked. Now they can drop in their VMs on the NFS server via Samba, and the vCenter Server can import the VMs from the same place.
Currently, we are restructuring phycial paths between labs for better management. It is part of an overall overhaul of the labs in my building. Once done, my next step is to start building framework services, such as repository proxy servers, WSUS servers, DHCP/DNS/file/print, RADIUS/S-LDAP/AD, etc., etc. I also need to wrap in a management service framework as well that extends to all the labs so everyone has an at-a-glance picture of what is happening to the network and the virtual environment. One last issue I am fighting is that I am unable to complete importing VMs I made on ESX 3.5 U2 earlier this year. It keeps failing to open the .vmdk files. I will have to pin that down first.
The end result?
- If I run the midwife service on the vCenter server and reboot a blade, it is reloaded and reconfigured within minutes.
- If I upgrade to beefier blades, I pop them in and let them build.
- If I update to a newer release of ESXi (say, update 5 or 6), I extract from the ISO to the tftpboot directory and reboot the blades. The old configs get applied on the new updated OS.
- All configs are identical – extremely important for cluster harmony. No typos.
- If someone alters a config and "breaks" something, I reboot it and it gets the original config applied back.
- If I make a change to the config, I change it in the script once, not on each blade individually. This also allows for immediate opportunity to DOCUMENT YOUR CHANGES AS YOU GO. Which is just a little bit important.
As stated before, this is an overview. I will add more detailed articles later, which will include scripts and pictures as appropriate. I am at home now and do not have access to my documentation, but once I get them, I will post some goodies that hopefully help someone else out. To include myself.
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IDY28000 Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Bureau National Operations Centre Satellite Notes for 0600UTC Chart Issued at 5:00 pm EST Wednesday on 08 July 2020 A weakening cold front moving through southwestern parts of WA is associated with cold air in its wake. A complex system of low pressure systems and a developing cold front lies further south over the Southern Ocean. Patchy low cloud across TAS, VIC, southern NSW and adjacent SA under the influence of a high pressure system. Elsewhere, high cloud is drifting over parts of central WA, while onshore flow is delivering maritime cloud and showers for parts of the eastern seaboard.


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The Non-Baseball Fan Guide to the Playoffs (Remix)
Jeff and Allen have been very busy
all season long and with the playoffs in full swing, they thought it
might be nice to bring in some relief writers. Today their friend from
college, Frank, gives us his take on the playoffs.
World Series? Of course I'm not watching the World Series. Are the Mets playing? No. Even the Yankees I could stand watching. But these two lameass teams? No way, man. No New York, no Frank.
In fact, I don't even want to talk about it. It's bad enough that the Mets completely s**t the bed this season. I don't want to hear about the f*****g Yankees and the no east coast finale. Actually, I don't even want to talk to you at all right now. You know why? Because you're an enema. No, you're my enema…
….Shut up, dude. Of course I know what I said. No, I didn't mean to say enemy. I meant enema. You know, like your continued existence cleanses my colon.
Seriously, though. I'm not even sure I know where San Francisco is. Is that down in the Village or something? If you want to be straight about things, the Giants are technically a New York team anyway. I guess it would be weird to have the baseball Giants and football Giants in the same town but who cares? And what the hell is in Texas? Nothing I want to see, that's for sure.
You know what is in Texas that I did enjoy seeing, though? The f*****g Cowboys getting stomped by the Giants. Baseball season is done, bro. It's football time now. F**k Texas. F**k San Francisco. And you know what, f**k you, too, bro….
…Nah, man, I'm just kidding. I love you, bro. We're cool. Give me a hug.


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Vikings' Harvin Placed On IR; Out for the Year
Viking receiver Percy Harvin is out for the season after being placed on injured reserve with a severely sprained ankle. It was reported earlier this week that Harvin has a torn ligament in his left ankle. Harvin hurt the ankle when the Vikings lost at Seattle on November 4.
Harvin has missed the last 3 games and will miss the remaining 4 games this season. Harvin has 62 catches for 677 yards and 3 touchdowns. He's also run for 96 yards and 1 touchdown this season. Rookie Jarius Wright is expected to see time as the slot receiver for the Vikings going forward.
Hear more about the Vikings tonight on Vikings Live from 6-7pm on AM 1390-the Fan. The Vikings host Chicago Sunday at noon, pregame on WJON at 11am. Chicago is a 3-point favorite.


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Butler is kinda sorta like 'Hoosiers'
As inevitable as headlines saying "the Butler did it," Butler University's presence in the NCAA men's basketball Final Four has dredged up the comparisons with the movie "Hoosiers." It's a facile exercise, considering Butler's status as a relatively small fish in the NCAA pond, and its home court, Hinkle Fieldhouse, where as the 1986 movie taught us, the dimensions of the court are the same as our gym back in Hickory.
However, Butler has as little in common with the 1951-52 Hickory Huskers as the very urban IUPUI, which used "Hoosiers" as its inspiration when it made the NCAA tournament for the first time in 2003, and Notre Dame center Ruth Riley, who thought of little Ollie shooting his underhanded free throws when she hit the game-winning freebies to give the Irish the 2001 NCAA women's title. Butler is a team full of talent, beyond Gordon Hayward as Jimmy Chitwood (though Hayward looks more like he could star in "The Rade Butcher Story"), and it's had a sustained period of success, with three appearances in the round of 16 since 2003.
Four passes before you shoot Gordon, er, Rade.
Instead, the plucky high school team Butler resembles the most is not fictional, but very real — the 1954 Milan Indians, whose "improbable" Indiana high school basketball title run inspired "Hoosiers."
Despite the Cinderella story, Milan was no out-of-nowhere team in 1954. In 1952-53, Milan went 24-5 and reached the final four of the Indiana state boys high school basketball tournament under a baby-faced coach in his mid 20s named Marvin Wood. (Milan lost to South Bend Central, Hickory's opponent in "Hoosiers.") The nucleus of that team was back for 1953-54, including Bobby Plump.
The 1953-54 Milan team went 28-2 — 28 being the number of Butler's regular-season victories this year. Just like Butler, Milan mostly dominated its similarly sized competition. Despite the movie's depiction of a series of tight games, Milan cruised through the tournament, not facing a close game until its legendary 32-30 nailbiter final in Butler Fieldhouse (Tony Hinkle was still alive and coaching Butler at that point) against Muncie Central, a game won by Plump's last shot. (Plump's Last Shot 40 years later, became the name of a Indianapolis restaurant co-owned by Plump.)
Meanwhile, baby-faced Butler coach Brad Stevens, age 33, is bringing his Bobby Plump, Hayward, into the NCAA Final Four, after previous success led to expected excellence (Butler at one point was a top 10-rated team during the regular season) as the Bulldogs dominated their similarly sized competition (the Horizon League). By the way, just to close this circle, Plump played his college basketball at… Butler, and, until Matt Howard broke it during the regional final, he had still held the school's record for most free throws made.
Rade Butcher, er, Bobby Plump, er, Gordon Hayward at left. (Photo from Flickr)
This is not to say Butler shouldn't milk the "Hoosiers" connection. With the Final Four five miles south on Capitol Avenue at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, I look forward to Stevens breaking out the tape measure, and having Hayward stand on a ladder to hold one end to the rim, and Shelvin Mack on the floor holding one end on the free throw line. Stevens could call the picket fence, with Hayward as a decoy, and Hayward telling Stevens, after the team shakes its head thinking back to that game against Oolitic: "I can hit that shot."
Anyway, I presume that while Bulldogs fans want their story to end just like Milan (or "Hoosiers," for that matter), they don't want Stevens to do what Marvin Wood did after Milan's title — leave for a bigger school.
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Ars readers had a lot to read this week, and a lot of it was troubling. We'll start with a few revelations made by The Guardian and The Washington Post. The former exposed a secret document on Wednesday that ordered the collection of all metadata pertaining to all calls made by Verizon customers on a daily basis for a period of three months. Both news organizations then released information about a program called PRISM, which seemed to reveal much broader data collection by the government from Web services like Google, Facebook, and Skype.
While almost all of the companies named in the PRISM document have denied knowing about the program, President Obama stated on Friday that while the NSA is digging through telephone call metadata, "nobody is listening to your telephone calls."
Joe Mullin gave us an overview of government responses to the first revelation in his article, As Senators defend mass-surveillance, Patriot Act FOIA lawsuit still awaits. Mullin recounts the reactions of Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO), who had vaguely warned about alarming interpretations of the Patriot Act before this week's information came to light. Mullin also reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told reporters on Thursday "everyone should just calm down."
Needless to say, commenters did not feel calmed, and most seemed to echo some variation of the sentiment behind the phrase "just because it's legal doesn't make it right."
"20 years ago such practices were impossible." Mynsc wrote. "Now we're being told 'relax, it's just some silly metadata.' If this goes on and is not limited, 20 years from now we'll be told 'relax, if you're innocent then you have nothing to fear if we're recording and/or listening to your conversations.'" sw!ft felt similarly: "I can't believe Senators are actually defending this. Is it me or did these people forget they were elected to represent the people?"
And wicker_man took a more macabre approach:
Senator: "Everyone should just calm down."
Public: "Yes, my Lord"
Or at least that's what the expectation is.
Perhaps that characterization is a bit dramatic, but given the scale of the leaks made this week, a little drama can be excused.
Shedding light: The Xbox One
On Thursday, Microsoft made public some firm details about the way its new Xbox One will handle physical discs and "always on" requirements for the console. In Kyle Orland's post, Microsoft details Xbox One used games, "always online," and privacy policies, the company is quoted as confirming that there will be a once-every-24-hour ping made by the console to Microsoft's servers "designed to verify if system, application, or game updates are needed and to see if you have acquired new games, or resold, traded in, or given your game to a friend."
Microsoft didn't give too many details, but it suggested in no uncertain terms that game publishers would be responsible for enabling used game sales. Loaning and renting games will also be impossible, at least at launch.
Most of our readers reacted to this news with unhappiness, with several readers saying they were most dismayed by Microsoft's Internet-connected console checks because they regularly used an Xbox from places without good Internet: rural America, a hospital bedroom with a shoddy connection, and a "Spanish island" were just some of the places where our readers regularly play from.
To illustrate the inconvenience, vernefrax gave us a hypothetical:
Scenario: The zombie apocalypse finally comes. I'm secure in my home with a generator, supply of beef jerky, and beer. I plug in my Xbox One, and cannot play....
I plug in my 360 or PS3, and game on.
Xbox One: Not Apocalypse Friendly.
UltimateLemon vaguely hinted that the decision was somewhat classist: "Presumably no one in their demograph lives in rural area or anywhere that doesn't have internet infrastructure like Redmond, Washington." Commenter Alyeska also felt that the whole setup didn't sit right, saying "Internet connection required to play single player game? Epic Fail. I have never purchased (or pirated) a game with this requirement. And never will. Baked into the system itself? Well Microsoft ensured I will remain a PC gamer for a long time."
Regarding used game sales, readers were hardly any more impressed. "You have to love corporate doublespeak." wrote ScifiGeek. "'We designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers.' In reality they take something you could always do, and allow publishers to disable it."
And Operative Alex wrote that his disappointment with Microsoft's decisions are largely idealistic: "I was wrong. I thought Microsoft would have a more intelligent way of doing things vis-à-vis used games, which is to say I thought they'd have a system where the person holding the disc could, once they popped it in, use it, and all previous owners would lose access to said game until they put a disc back in that became registered to their console. I predicted as much several times, and it turns out the reality is worse."
"I don't buy or sell used games, but I do respect the hell out of the right of people to do so, and this impacts my desire to buy one rather severely." Operative Alex continued. "I like buying games digitally, and have zero problem with that, but a physical disc is still something that should be treated like, well, a physical disc. Game studios shouldn't have the ability to say 'nope, no resales.' I should be able to make that decision, to either have the ability to resell/loan, or make the decision to buy digital."
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Ars readers certainly read a lot of heavy news this week, but not everything was so dour. Lee Hutchinson wrote a detailed review of Nokia's latest phone in Review: Lumia 928 is screentastic, camerarific. When Ars tweeted that story out, @willsmith, the editor of Tested.com, tweeted at us, "I don't think either of those are words."
Our own @Lee_Ars, never one to back down from fightin' words, tweeted back, "You're just jealiciferous of my adjectivability."
"Now you're just mad with power," replied Smith.
"KNEELIFICATE BEFORE MY WORDULENCE," Hutchinson capslockerated. We would like to point out that we pay Hutchinson a salary to write down these perfectly cromulent words.


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(Editor's note: I asked readers what they'd like to see more or less of on the blog in 2011, and reader Jennie Poppenger suggested "Famous Speech Fridays - famous women who have given exceptional speeches and excerpts of them." That's a big challenge--52 famous speeches by women--but I'm going to give it a try, with a twist. I'll be looking for speeches by women that include words about women, so you'll get not just good examples but words to inspire you. I think women's speeches about women's issues are among the most powerful, and we need more of them, given the short history of women and public speaking. We'll get started this week with a speech Coretta Scott King gave just weeks after her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in 1968.)
- She established herself as the respectful messenger: King's death shocked the nation, and a few weeks later, those feelings were still strong. Any speech delivered on behalf of someone who died before he could speak is a challenge for a substitute speaker, as we've noted about a more recent speech Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered for her late husband. So before she read the core of the speech, the 10 commandments of Vietnam, she began with a few paragraphs to establish her mission to deliver his message, noting from the start: "I come to New York today with a strong feeling that my dearly beloved husband, who was snatched suddenly from our midst slightly more than three weeks ago now, would have wanted me to be present today....had he been here, I am sure he would have lifted your hearts and spirits to new levels of understanding in his customary fashion."
- She used personal detail about her husband and the speech to draw the listener in: We've talked about using details in your storytelling, so readers can picture and remember what your words are describing. In this case, Mrs. King drew the listeners into a bit of her private world early in the speech: "I would like to share with you some notes taken from my husband's pockets upon his death. He carried these scraps of paper upon which he scribbled notes for his many speeches. Among these notes was one set which he never delivered. Perhaps they were his early thoughts for the message he was to give to you today." That use of detail helped listeners to picture those scraps of paper and imagine they were hearing something intimate and private. A memorable touch.
- She gave the audience a role to play: Mrs. King asked the audience to do two things. One was to comfort her in her grief by carrying on the work of her husband. The second was to join a march on Washington. Having a call to action for your audience is a smart component of any speech or presentation, whether you want them to march or make a business decision.
- She spoke to inspire women: Mrs. King devoted the latter part of the speech to speak directly to women, and it's important to note that, in 1968, women--and even women in the civil rights movement--were decidedly second-class citizens in most settings. Here's part of what she said: "The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society. I believe that the women of this nation and of the world are the best and last hope for a world of peace and brotherhood." She followed this by reading a poem by Langston Hughes, written in a black mother's voice. Devoting this much time to speaking woman-to-woman made the speech, ultimately, her own.
Mrs. King traveled throughout the world speaking out on behalf of racial and economic justice, women's and children's rights, gay and lesbian dignity, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full-employment, health care, educational opportunities, nuclear disarmament and ecological sanity....During Dr. King's career, Mrs. King devoted most of her time to raising their four children....From the earliest days, however, she balanced mothering and movement work, speaking before church, civic, college, fraternal and peace groups.Thanks to American Rhetoric, a wonderful treasure-trove of speeches, you can hear the audio of Mrs. King's speech here and read the transcript of it here--it's worth a listen to the audio to hear how commanding and strong her voice is. And below, a five-minute excerpt of a live reenactment of the speech is on video:
If you have a great woman's speech that includes some words about women for "Famous Speech Fridays," please email it to me at info[at]dontgetcaught[dot]biz. (Photo by the Chicago Urban League, from the University of Illinois at Chicago library archives on Flickr.)
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Ray J says he's "still hurting" nearly a month after the death of Whitney Houston.
The singer and sometime reality television star was one of the people who spent time with Houston in her last days.
He told reporters at a charity event on Friday in Los Angeles: "I really miss my friend, you know. I really do. I'm still hurting."
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"I'm able to look at life in a whole different way," Ray J said. He looked down at a smartphone and said, "I always look at my phone because I've got a picture of somebody that I really love and it helps me through the day."
Ray J, who was joined by his parents Sonja and Willie Norwood, did not take questions from reporters.
Houston died in a hotel suite in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 11.


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Following a first stage of psychological testing, there are now only 192 highly talented individuals still in with a chance of becoming the new astronauts in ESA's European Astronaut Corps.
This first stage of computer-based psychological testing finished at the end of August and consisted of tests to evaluate the cognitive capabilities of the candidates, such as tests of memory, psycho-motor test, multitasking, linguistic skills, and various forms of visualisation-based tasks.
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The remaining 192 candidates from across Europe have now been invited to continue on to the second stage of psychological testing, which started at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany on 15 September and will continue until mid-December.
Almost 10 000 people originally registered as astronaut candidates through the ESA website prior to the closing date of applications on 18 June 2008, of which 8413 fulfilled the initial application criteria. From these individuals 918 were chosen to take part in the first stage of psychological testing.
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"I am really looking forward to spring 2009 when we will be able to welcome new European astronauts to reinforce ESA's Astronaut Corps," said Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA's Director of Human Spaceflight. "In this respect I am working hard together with my team in preparation of the ESA Ministerial Council, that will take place in November, so to have all odds on my side for the approval of new European development programmes. These programmes, once approved, will provide the best opportunities to employ the new talents who will join the European Astronaut Corps, and pave the way to possibly see a European citizen on the Moon."
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's Will: He Wanted Son to Grow Up in N.Y.C.
In his will, the actor leaves the bulk of his estate to Mimi O'Donnell, and requests that their son be raised in certain cities
Philip Seymour Hoffman found success in Hollywood, but he never called it home. Now it seems he didn't want his son, Cooper, to do so either.
In documents obtained by PEOPLE, Hoffman's last will and testament includes a notable clause about his son's residence.
"It is my strong desire, and not direction to my guardian, that my son, Cooper Hoffman be raised and reside in or near the borough of Manhattan in the State of New York, or Chicago, Illinois, or San Francisco, California," it states.
The revelation comes after Hoffman's will was submitted to probate court in New York, two weeks after the actor's shocking death from an apparent heroin overdose on Feb. 2 at his Manhattan apartment.
In the document, Hoffman, 46, leaves the bulk of his estate to his longtime partner Marianne O'Donnell, with whom he has three children: Cooper, 10, Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5. He also calls for the setting up of a trust for Cooper. The will was drawn up in 2004, before the birth of Hoffman's daughters.
New York probate attorney Ann-Margaret Carrozza explains that according to state law, trusts will also be established for Tallulah and Willa. "The three of them will share the money," it will just be divided in separate trusts. The value of Hoffman's estate is unknown, as an asset sheet was not attached in the original filing, with merely a box checked stating it is estimated to be $500,000 or more.
Should anything happen to O'Donnell, her sister Suzanne was appointed back-up guardian, and most of the estate would go to Hoffman's producing partner Emily Ziff.
As for the residential clause, he added, "if my Guardian cannot reside in any of these cities," he requested his son "visit these cities at least twice per year so that my son will be exposed to the culture, arts, and architecture that such cities offer."
"That is not a very typical clause," says Carrozza. And, she adds, not legally enforceable. "That's why he said, 'It is my strong desire, and not direction.' It's a really touching statement. It's also striking he didn't include Los Angeles in his list of cities."


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The most unusual name I have heard came from a Nurse who worked with newborns in a hospital. One mother insisted on naming her baby girl Vagina. Thinking the mother was misspelling Virginia, my friend tried to help her with the spelling of the name. The new mother insisted she knew what she was doing, so Vagina it was.
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V-Sauce posted a video on names yesterday: Names
It's a pastiche of information about names, including laws, distribution, social effects, and names for names.
There's another topic here on words that have opposite meanings, and he touches on that with autoantonym.
It's a pastiche of information about names, including laws, distribution, social effects, and names for names.
There's another topic here on words that have opposite meanings, and he touches on that with autoantonym.
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Are you sure it was a case of misspelling?Knew a woman once whose mother wanted to name her Esther, but misspelled it Easter, which she bore all her life.
I once lived in the last house before the black ghetto in Fayetteville, NC. Since the ghetto had the nearest neighborhood store, I used to run errands there for my mother. (I can recall the time I had to return home for more money when bread went up from 5¢ to 10¢.)
Anyway, the way to this store led me past a house inhabited by an elderly African American woman who was known as "Aunt Easter". I knew a lot of African Americans back then, but not another named "Easter".
I have positive associations with the name, probably because Aunt Easter spent most of the days swinging on her front porch and would chat with me as I passed.
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The Easter I knew told me herself that her mother misspelled it. She too was a very sweet lady, confined to a nursing home when I new her.
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Bloomberg: News Corp Requests New Allegations In Phone Hacking Be Kept Case Secret
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News Corp. (NWSA)'s British publishing unit asked a judge to keep secret a series of new claims being made by victims of phone hacking at its News of the World tabloid in preparation for a group trial scheduled for February.
The details of the allegations, which could be used to seek punitive damages, should be kept from the public unless they are approved at a Sept. 7 hearing and added to the victims' so- called generic claims, Judge Geoffrey Vos said today in London.
The claims outline "generalized activities which we think are unsustainable" if challenged, Michael Silverleaf, the lawyer for the News International unit, said at the hearing. "They may change the approach we are taking" to the case.
News Corp., the New York-based company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, is trying to move on from the scandal after the civil case and a parallel criminal probe that began last year revealed a cover up and led to the closure of the tabloid and the arrests of more than 60 people, including another journalist today.
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McDonald's Corp. will add a third drive-thru window to some of its restaurants in an effort to increase speed and efficiency for customers, and minimize complaints about slow service.
The new addition will serve as a second pick-up window, The Chicago Tribune reported via Bloomberg. Currently, drivers order their food at the first window and drive to the second for pick up. Often, however, the order isn't ready in time and drivers are asked to pull into a parking space or designated waiting area.
McDonald's spokeswoman Lisa McComb said the proposed new window allows customers to pull forward if their order isn't immediately ready. In turn, McComb said they will be able to serve more customers quickly.
The new window is a welcome addition for disgruntled customers, according to the Tribune. Many believe a larger menu makes orders more difficult to put together while slowing down the restaurant's overall service.
McDonald's completes drive-thru orders in 189 seconds on average. This is slower than restaurants like Taco Bell and Wendy's, which take 158 seconds and 134 seconds, respectively.


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