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Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society offers Civil War record research on Nov. 13
November 6, 2012 · 1:50 PM
ARLINGTON — The Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society will provide a free hour-long presentation on Civil War pensions and other records on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 1 p.m. at the Arlington Free Methodist Church, located at 730 E. Highland Dr.
This presentation will assist anyone with ancestors and families who were involved in the Civil War, so that they're able to find the records that are available to those who know where to search.
Eric Stroschein is a well-known professional genealogist and is particularly knowledgeable about researching military and land records from numerous sources. Stroschein will explain to attendees how to use the resources of the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Currently Stroschein is the president of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and a frequent presenter at regional and state workshops of genealogists for beginning and experienced researchers.
And on the first and third Wednesday of each month, Mary Buzzell will teach people how to use such programs as Legacy and Family Tree Maker from 1-3 p.m. at the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society Library, located at 215 S. French Ave. in Arlington, next to the old high school building.
Please call 360-435-4838 for more information about this free class, which is open to anyone interested in organizing their research, whether it's for two generations or 20. You will receive individualized help and answers to your questions from Buzzell, a knowledgeable instructor.
For more information, about the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society visit their website at www.stillgen.com, or visit their Library on Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays, at 215 S. French Ave. in Arlington, next to the old high school building.
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by Mike Masnick
Mon, May 6th 2013 12:27pm
Filed Under:
copyright, copyright trolls, errors, lawsuits, sloppy
by Mike Masnick
Fri, Apr 19th 2013 4:30pm
Filed Under:
amateurs, blame, boston bombing, cnn, corrections, crowdsourcing, errors, journalsim
It's Not About Whether Amateur Internet Journalism Is Good Or Bad, But That It Happens And Will Continue To Happen
from the look-forward,-not-back dept
Except, that's ridiculous. Mathew Ingram points out that people attacking Reddit for this are missing the point, which is true by a wide, wide margin. First of all, as he notes, mainstream news folks also got parts of the story wrong. As we noted yesterday, the mainstream TV folks got a hell of a lot wrong. Hell, the NY Post even put the wrong two guys on the cover and falsely claimed that the feds were seeking them.
But the bigger problem is this idea that it's "Reddit" or, as some people have argued) "the internet" against the legacy media. That's not true at all. Everyone made mistakes during the rapidly changing story, but only on Reddit did you actually see the details of the process. The legacy news organizations present things as if coming from a place of authority, while Reddit is like an open newsroom where anyone can jump in. The conversation about Tripathi, for example, was about whether or not Suspect #2 was him -- it wasn't based on a declaration that it absolutely was him. Furthermore, when you look at the reason why the story actually spread, it was after some more known "press" names retweeted the initial tweet from Greg Hughes, which claimed (incorrectly) that Tripathi's name went out on the police scanner (ironically, he posted that about a minute after posting "This is the Internet's test of 'be right, not first' with the reporting of this story").
But here's the real issue: people can fret about all of this, but it doesn't change one thing: this is going to happen and continue to happen. People are naturally curious and they're going to talk to people when there's a news story going on and they'll try to figure things out. That happens all the time in newsrooms already before stuff goes on the air or is officially published. It's just that the public doesn't see the process. On Reddit, or anywhere else that the public can converse, it does happen in public. The problem is to assume the two things are the same. Furthermore, it's even more insane to blame "Reddit" or "the internet" as if those are singular entities that anyone has control over. They're not. As Karl Bode noted, they're just massive crowds of people.
An even better point was made by Charles Luzar, who noted that "the crowd doesn't implicitly profess its empirical correctness like the media does," but rather admits quite openly that it's a process in action. Further, he notes that even if the crowd presents false information before finding factual information, that's still "effective crowdsourcing" and, if anything, provides a greater role to the media to be effective curators of the actual facts.
In the end, it seems likely that this incident will actually help a lot the next time there's a big breaking news story, because (hopefully) it will give people more reason to be at least somewhat skeptical of stories coming out, but it's not going to change the fact that groups on various platforms are going to talk about things, and often try to do a little sleuthing themselves. Sometimes they'll get it right, and sometimes they won't -- just the same as many others. It seems like a much better focus looking forward is in providing more training and tools to help the world be better at it.
by Glyn Moody
Wed, Apr 17th 2013 3:59pm
Filed Under:
austerity, economics, errors, policy, reinhard and rogoff
'Intellectual Bulwark' Of Austerity Economics Collapses Because Of Three Major Errors
from the getting-it-wrong dept
Amongst economists and those who draw on their thinking, the names Reinhart and Rogoff are well known for work published under the title "Growth in a Time of Debt," which sought to establish the relationship between public debt and GDP growth. The key result, that median growth rates for countries with public debt over 90% of GDP are about one percent lower than otherwise, and that the mean growth rate is much lower still, has been cited many times, and invoked frequently to justify austerity economics -- the idea being that if the public debt is not reduced, growth is likely to suffer badly.
Given the economic, political and social importance of that finding, many have tried to reproduce it, but failed. A post by Mike Konczal on The Next New Deal blog explains how three researchers finally succeeded -- with surprising consequences:
In a new paper, "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff," Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst successfully replicate the results. After trying to replicate the Reinhart-Rogoff results and failing, they reached out to Reinhart and Rogoff and they were willing to share their data spreadsheet. This allowed Herndon et al. to see how how Reinhart and Rogoff's data was constructed.
In his post, Konczal goes on to give a good explanation of just what went wrong. Correcting those three major errors produces the following result:
They find that three main issues stand out. First, Reinhart and Rogoff selectively exclude years of high debt and average growth. Second, they use a debatable method to weight the countries. Third, there also appears to be a coding error that excludes high-debt and average-growth countries. All three bias in favor of their result, and without them you don't get their controversial result.So what do Herndon-Ash-Pollin conclude? They find "the average real GDP growth rate for countries carrying a public debt-to-GDP ratio of over 90 percent is actually 2.2 percent, not -0.1 percent as [Reinhart-Rogoff claim]." [UPDATE: To clarify, they find 2.2 percent if they include all the years, weigh by number of years, and avoid the Excel error.] Going further into the data, they are unable to find a breakpoint where growth falls quickly and significantly.
That is, not only is there no significant difference between countries whose public debt-to-GDP ratio is over 90%, and those with much lower values, there is apparently no critical number above which growth falls catastrophically. Put another way, from the corrected research, there does not seem to be any reason why the public debt-to-GDP ratio cannot keep on rising while preserving normal levels of growth.
That clearly runs entirely contrary to the current dogma that public debt must be reduced at all costs in order to keep growth at a healthy level. As the authors of the new paper conclude (pdf):
RR's [Reinhart and Rogoff's] findings have served as an intellectual bulwark in support of austerity politics. The fact that RR's findings are wrong should therefore lead us to reassess the austerity agenda itself in both Europe and the United States.
That debate about public debt reduction and the need for austerity measures certainly won't stop just because a key justification for the approach has been found to be completely wrong. But it's worth noting that alongside the major political ramifications of this new finding, there is another, rather less contentious, conclusion to be drawn.
The three errors in the original work by Reinhart and Rogoff finally came to light when they allowed other researchers to examine their model and the data they employed in it. It then became clear that the model was flawed, and that not all the relevant data had been included in the calculation. Neither was obvious from the result alone.
This reinforces a point we have made before. Alongside the results of their work, academics also need to release the datasets and any mathematical/computational models that they have used to derive them. Without those additional resources, it is not possible for other researchers to reproduce the results, which may -- as turns out to be the case for Reinhart and Rogoff's famous paper -- contain fundamental errors that completely undermine the conclusions drawn from them.
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by Mike Masnick
Thu, Jan 3rd 2013 8:26am
Filed Under:
america invents act, congress, errors, estoppel, lamar smith, patents, patrick leahy, post grant review
Congress So Dysfunctional, It Can't Even Fix The Errors It ADMITS It Made In Patent Reform
from the incredible dept
Over time, it became clear that Congress had left significant errors in. Recently some of the key people behind the bill admitted that there were errors in the bill, with Eli Lilly's General Counsel, Bob Armitage, stating: "There are a few minor errors in the bill and one major error in the bill." What's the "maajor error"? It's the part on "estoppel" in "post grant review." Basically, there's a provision in the bill which encourages people to seek "post grant review" of questionable patents in the first nine months after they've been approved. In talking about this, Congress was clear that it wanted to encourage more people to use this, and so it wanted to remove barriers. One of those was to make it clear that failing to raise issues during the post grant review shouldn't prevent those issues from being raised later. However, the actual language of the bill says that any issue that "could have been raised" can't be raised later.
As law professors Eric Goldman and Colleen Chien note, it's clear that Congress didn't mean to include this language. The committee report on the bill and direct quotes from both House and Senate sponsors of the bill (Lamar Smith and Patrick Leahy) admitted that this was a mistake:
To fix some of the errors in the AIA, Congress rushed through a "technical corrections" bill, intended to fix some of the problems with the bill. During all the fiscal cliff mess, with some back and forth between the House and Senate, they approved this bill which will be signed any moment, if it hasn't been already.By all accounts, in the AIA, Congress intended to remove the "could have been raised" language and provide a narrower estoppel for PGR proceedings. As the Congressional committee report explains, the PGR was designed to "remove current disincentives to current administrative processes." But something funny happened on the way to the Congressional floor, and the problematic "could have been raised" language was inadvertently inserted into the bill.
We're not the only ones to recognize the error. House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith referred to the AIA's PGR estoppel standard as "an inadvertent scrivener's error." Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, in advocating that the Senate adopt the technical corrections bill, said the PGR estoppel standard in AIA was "unintentional," and it was "regrettable" the technical corrections bill doesn't address the issue. Sen. Leahy expressed "hope we will soon address this issue so that the law accurately reflects Congress's intent." The PTO also thinks Congress made a mistake, saying "Clarity is needed to ensure that the [PGR] provision functions as Congress intended."
Just one problem. For a bill about technical fixes, it didn't actually address this one *admitted* major error in the original bill. Yeah, they left that one out.
Let's recap, because this is quite incredible:
- Congress spends seven years debating patent reform.
- It finally approves patent reform in late 2011, and despite seven years of debate, had a ton of clear errors in the drafting of the bill.
- The official sponsors of the bill flat out admit that there's a major error in a part of the bill that they did not intend to be in there.
- A year plus later, Congress finally introduces a bill to "fix problems" in the original bill.
- This "technical corrections" bill does not fix the one major problem that all admit was a flat out mistake in the original bill.
by Tim Cushing
Tue, Sep 18th 2012 2:57pm
Filed Under:
errors, marijuana, politics, registration, urls, vote no
Anti-Medical Marijuana Committee Fails To Register Published URL, Hilarity Ensues
from the you-can't-like,-OWN-a-URL,-man dept
It's election season, a time when man's (and more recently, woman's) thoughts turn towards shutting off the TV, radio and phone until mid-November. But! Things must be voted on, including such controversial issues as legalizing medical marijuana and authorizing dispensaries. As an opponent of weed-based medicines, you vow to fight this with every ounce/gram of your being. You set your plan in action.
1. Pick a name for your committee. ("No on Question 3")
2. Pick out a suitable URL ("votenoonquestion3.org")
3. Get your committee and its pertinent information added to the official voters' guide (both print and online.)
4. Register URL.
5. Become aghast.
Can anyone point out where Vote No on Question 3 went wrong? Here are some visual aids, taken from votenoonquestion3.org:
You see, the internet is like magic. And like most magic, it can be used for entertainment purposes. All the do-gooding in the world doesn't amount to much if you forget to register your URL. While you're busy enjoying that "new ink" smell of freshly printed Voter's Guides, someone quicker on the draw is undermining your "marijuana is bad" propaganda proselytizing information with hilariously over-the-top headlines.
The good news is that the online voters' guide sports the corrected URL: mavotenoonquestion3.com
The bad news is that the paper version will carry the old URL permanently. Of course, very few people are willing to type in a URL by hand, but as news of this blunder spreads, the fake site with the real URL will be receiving much more attention, voters' guide correction or no.
Here's the official reaction from No on Question 3 spokesman, Kevin Sabet:
"It's funny and upsetting, I guess, at the same time."Yeah. Largely the first part. And to think, the committee can't even blame a late afternoon smokeout for the mental slip.
This statement, however, seems both more on point and more disingenuous:
The group sent out a press release saying proponents of medical marijuana were tampering with the democratic process through "underhanded efforts."Sabet admits the committee made a mistake and yet, the press release attempts to paint No on Question 3 as the victim of villainous pot smokers rather than treating it like the self-inflicted wound it is.
Oh, and here's more bad news for the "No" side:
The Globe notes that the No on Question 3 campaign has managed to collect all of $600 so far, compared to the $1 million or so that supporters of the initiative have received from Peter Lewis, a longtime patron of drug policy reform.Maybe it's time to admit your fears of a weed-loaded America are overblown, especially when you've just been outmaneuvered (and outspent) by a bunch of stoners.
by Mike Masnick
Thu, Jul 26th 2012 12:18pm
Filed Under:
arpanet, corrections, errors, history, internet, l gordon crovitz, parc, vint cerf
WSJ Still Hasn't Corrected Its Bogus Internet Revisionist Story, As Vint Cerf & Xerox Both Claim The Story Is Wrong
from the how-do-you-correct-a-story-that's-almost-entirely-wrong? dept
Basically, anyone and everyone is telling the WSJ that it got this story totally and completely wrong. You might think the WSJ would start making some corrections. Instead, it's made one single correction:
by Mike Masnick
Thu, Jun 28th 2012 3:01am
Filed Under:
errors, fbi, helen winkelmann, illegal search & seizure, kim dotcom, new zealand, procedures
Yet Another (Yes Another) Error In Megaupload Case: Search Warrants Ruled Illegal
from the keystone-kops dept
The latest update may create an even bigger headache for the US in its crusade against Kim Dotcom and Megaupload. High Court judge Helen Winkelmann has ruled that the search warrants used to seize Kim Dotcom's property... were illegal. Yeah, that's going to present a problem for the US. She also ruled that the FBI broke the law in taking data from Dotcom's computers out of the country. But the illegal warrants are the big deal here:
She said the search warrants were invalid because they were general warrants which lacked specificity about the offence and the scope of the items to be searched for.In other words, it's not only entirely possible that the government won't even be able to use anything from what they seized in a case, but they may, themselves, be in trouble for breaking the law and violating Dotcom's privacy rights.
Without a valid warrant, police were trespassing and exceeded what they were lawfully authorised to do.
Justice Winkelmann said no one had addressed whether police conduct also amounted to unreasonable search and seizure, but her preliminary view was that it did.
The specific problem? The warrant did not actually state what US laws were supposedly broken -- which is kind of important, especially since this was about a case in the US and a person in New Zealand. If it's not made clear that the warrant is under US laws, then it "would no doubt cause confusion to the subjects of the searches...they would likely read the warrants as authorising a search for evidence of offences as defined by New Zealand law."
So not only do we have a weak case, the whole process in the case has been a complete joke and may mean that the US is unable to use much of the evidence it collected, can't extradite Dotcom and... has little actual basis to move forward with a lawsuit. Honestly, I'm somewhat amazed at the number of mistakes by the feds in such a case. It increasingly feels like they did this because they felt the need to "do something" right after the effort to pass SOPA and PIPA stalled out -- and in their rush to make Hollywood like them again, the feds didn't bother to actually pay much attention to the details. Sometimes it's "creative" to color outside the lines. At other times, it's called cooking up a case on trumped up charges for political reasons.
Mobile Phones Might Not Interfere With Planes, But They Sure Can Interfere With Pilots
from the okay,-perhaps-pilots-should-be-barred-from-texting dept
Somewhere between 2500 feet and 2000 feet, the captain's mobile phone started beeping with incoming text messages, and the captain twice did not respond to the co-pilot's requests.There followed a series of errors, with the pilot and the co-pilot not communicating with each other -- the pilot trying to drop the wheels as the co-pilot prepared to abort the landing -- and then both pilots becoming confused about their actual altitude. Oh, and then there was the fact that the flaps were set incorrectly.
The co-pilot looked over and saw the captain "preoccupied with his mobile phone", investigators said. The captain told investigators he was trying to unlock the phone to turn it off, after having forgotten to do so before take-off.
At 1000 feet, the co-pilot scanned the instruments and felt "something was not quite right" but could not spot what it was.
I'm not necessarily one to bemoan the way people get obsessed with text messaging these days, but I generally think that if you're flying a commercial airplane, and taking it in for landing... it shouldn't be that hard to know that it's a good idea to not worry about your phone for five minutes.
by Mike Masnick
Wed, Apr 18th 2012 10:25am
Filed Under:
cybercrime, errors, exaggeration, fud, losses
Guess What? Most Cybercrime 'Losses' Are Massively Exaggerated As Well
from the because-they're-not-losses dept
One recent estimate placed annual direct consumer losses at $114 billion worldwide. It turns out, however, that such widely circulated cybercrime estimates are generated using absurdly bad statistical methods, making them wholly unreliable.This is pretty common. In the first link above, we wrote about how a single $7,500 "loss" was extrapolated into $1.5 billion in losses. The simple fact is that, while such things can make some people lose some money, the size of the problem has been massively exaggerated. As these researchers note, this kind of thing happens all the time. They point to an FTC report, where two respondents alone provided answers that effectively would have added $37 billion in total "losses" to the estimate.
Most cybercrime estimates are based on surveys of consumers and companies. They borrow credibility from election polls, which we have learned to trust. However, when extrapolating from a surveyed group to the overall population, there is an enormous difference between preference questions (which are used in election polls) and numerical questions (as in cybercrime surveys).
For one thing, in numeric surveys, errors are almost always upward: since the amounts of estimated losses must be positive, there's no limit on the upside, but zero is a hard limit on the downside. As a consequence, respondent errors — or outright lies — cannot be canceled out. Even worse, errors get amplified when researchers scale between the survey group and the overall population.
This doesn't mean that the problems should be ignored, just that we should have some facts and real evidence, rather than ridiculous estimates. If the problem isn't that big, the response should be proportional to that. Unfortunately, that rarely happens. In fact, combining this with the recent ridiculous stories about the need for "cybersecurity," perhaps we can start to estimate just how much of an exaggeration in FUD the prefix "cyber-" adds to things. I'm guessing it's at least an order of magnitude. Combine bad statistical methodology with the scary new interweb thing, and you've got the makings of an all-out moral panic.
by Tim Cushing
Tue, Mar 13th 2012 6:13am
Filed Under:
brazil, copyright, embeds, errors, performance rights, videos
Brazilian Performance Rights Group Claims Collecting From Bloggers Was Simply An 'Operational Error' After Google Pushes Back
from the and-i-thought-google-was-just-there-to-screw-lowly-creatives dept
How quickly things change, especially for entities who find themselves staring down an angry internet. At first, ECAD seemed disturbingly untroubled by the uproar, including the memeification of its intention to stretch the definition of "public performance" to include all audible sound. But it suddenly changed its prohibitively expensive tune when hundreds of thousands of dollars were at stake.
None other than Google Brazil itself issued a blog post stating that ECAD's existing agreement with Youtube did not allow the agency to collect fees from bloggers, pointing out the obvious to ECAD's wilfully obtuse representatives:
These sites don't host or transmit any content when they associate a YouTube video to their site, and as such, the fact of embedding videos from YouTube can't be treated as a 'retransmission'. As these sites aren't performing any music, ECAD can't, within the law, collect any payment from these.Having been smacked down by its main benefactor, ECAD issued a statement of its own, claiming the whole thing was just an "error" and that it had no intention of setting up tollbooths on every website with embedded video:
1- Ecad has never had the intention to curtail the freedom on the internet, known to be a space devoted to information, dissemination of music and other creative works, and propagation of ideas. The institution also lacks a copyright billing strategy geared to embedded videos. Royalties collections for webcasting have been under re-evaluation since February 29th, and the case reported in recent days took place before then. Nevertheless, it resulted from an operational error of interpretation, which represents an isolated fact in this segment. (...)Note that ECAD has left itself a bit of an opening for pursuing these fees in the future. Supposedly it can still go after blogs but only if it informs Google/Youtube of its intention to do so. It seems the only error it feels it made was getting caught. Everything else was simply a clerical screw-up and if all ducks had been properly ordered, it would have been free to bill websites for linking to Youtube.
2- Two years ago, Ecad and Google signed a letter of intent that guides the relationship between both organizations. The document details thatEcad can collect copyright fees for music coming from embedded videos, as long as it gives advance notice to Google/YouTube. As Ecad did not send such a notification, it becomes clear that this is not its goal. If it were the case, it would have sent the notification the letter of intent requires. (...)
As it stands now, ECAD has backed completely away from this plan. But, once the furor dies down and recedes into the past, I wouldn't be surprised to see this sort of tactic deployed again, if not by ECAD, than certainly by another "aspirational" performance rights organization.
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It's not your imagination: Memory gets muddled at menopause
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More dads are choosing to stay home with the kids, and loving it
My one-year-old son, Finlay, is stowed in my backpack carrier. He ignores the rain dripping through the trees and happily munches a rice cake, while his older sister, Amelia, holds my hand and skips along the trail. Keith, a "dad" friend, pushes his one-year-old in a jogging stroller beside us. "Hayden was up all night," he sighs. "Nothing worked." I nod sympathetically and tell him my son needed to be breastfed three times during the night. The conversation rambles as we walk, but inevitably drifts back to our kids. As we follow the path through the wet woods, trailing this trio of toddlers and swapping stories about parenting, it suddenly occurs to me that this is our "baby group." This is how dads connect.
Minority report
One generation ago, the idea of stay-at-home father was foreign; two generations back it was unthinkable. While daytime dads are still a minority in Canada today (13 percent in 2007, according to Statistics Canada), they are becoming more commonplace every year. It's a different dynamic for everyone, but the benefits to a family willing to explore non-traditional roles can be incredible. Dads experience a stronger connection to their kids; moms are empowered to pursue meaningful careers; children flourish in a nurturing environment where a parent is always present.
Are dads different?
Do men bring a different perspective to daily life? Perhaps, but the differences may not be that profound. Bill Rieger works for the Coast Guard in Sandspit, BC, and is home with his two-year-old son, Anten, for 21 days at a time. While he relishes the opportunity to spend so much time with Anten, daily life as a dad does present its challenges. "One of the difficulties is that I'm 'Daddy,'" he says, explaining that when Anten has a tumble, he instinctively wants his mom. "She's very much number one on his list. He wants to be cuddled, and maybe I'm not naturally like that." But just as newborns crave contact with both parents, toddlers thrive on different parenting styles. The approach might be different, but dads do provide a nurturing environment. "Maybe I tell him to 'brush it off' sometimes," Rieger admits, "but I'm always trying to make sure there's the same level of comfort as he gets from his mom. Anten's wants and needs are number one."
"I'll call you right back," Darcy Mathews tells me from his home in Victoria. In the background, there's a sleepy wail from his toddler, Arlo. "He's been doing this lately," Mathews explains when he calls back. "He goes down for a nap, then wakes up about 10 minutes later, and I have to cuddle him back to sleep in our bed." Mathews, an archaeologist studying for his Ph.D., recently took on the role of primary caregiver when his wife, Holly, returned to her job as a molecular biologist. "Most people in our situation — two working professionals — put their kids in daycare," he says. "We didn't want to do that." Instead, he and Holly decided that one of them should stay at home. He now studies in the evenings and on weekends, sometimes taking Arlo to meetings, the university library and even into the field for research. "If I really need to distract him," he laughs, "I give him my iPod. That keeps him busy for a really long time." But if Arlo needs his dad — to play or for reassurance — he drops everything. "My priorities are Arlo and Holly."
Darren Bouwman, a stay-at-home dad also based in Sandspit, struggles to find differences between his parenting and his wife's. "You know what? I can't see my day being a whole lot different," he says. "We like going for nature walks. It's something I have a passion for and I like to get the kids involved in that as much as possible." But Bouwman does admit that his wife arranges more playdates. "She's a bit more social than I am," he explains.
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On Monday, November 12 the IRC in Tucson will host its annual Volunteer Appreciation Night, a formal event to recognize and appreciate the over 100 volunteers who supported the IRC this past fiscal year. This event will include a light dinner along with individual recognitions and awards. We are honored and privileged to have such a committed group of volunteers supporting IRC operations. For more information and to RSVP, visit this link.
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Nearly four years after leaving for Real Madrid in a world record £80million deal, Ronaldo will be back at Old Trafford on March 5 to try and help his current team knock his old one out of the Champions League.
It is bound to rekindle memories of the brilliance Ronaldo brought to the Premier League in his six-year stint with the Red Devils, as well as trigger thoughts about whether it ever could be revived.
Ferguson has spoken optimistically about the prospect in the past - and he still won't rule it out completely.
However, in sober analysis, the Scot is not convinced it will ever happen.
"I don't see it," said Ferguson.
"I would love to think it. Maybe when he is about 39 and you are coming past my grave, but it is fanciful thinking really.
"First of all how much would it take to get him from Real Madrid?
"Secondly I don't think there is any chance they would want to sell him anyway.
"You never know. I don't know when his contract finishes and he may want to go to another club at some point in his career. Of course I would hope he'd want to come here. But that is a long way off."
Ronaldo's return is fixed though. And Ferguson knows the player he spent £12.24million on to sign from Sporting Lisbon as a 17-year-old in 2003 represents a significant threat to his side's hopes of progression in Europe's most prestigious competition.
So much so that Ferguson's first thought when he heard the draw was to check the small print of that world record transfer.
"Our contract with Real is that he can't play against us," laughed the Scot.
"I think it would be a disgrace if he played against us. It would be no loyalty."
Although Ferguson rates Ronaldo alongside Lionel Messi as one of the best two players in the world, he is reluctant to grade the 27-year-old alongside his own star men, save to confirm he is amongst the elite.
"I have been very fortunate to have had (Paul) Scholes and (Ryan) Giggs and Eric Cantona, who were all fantastic players.
"He is certainly in that bracket."
Yet Ronaldo is not the only side issue to a mouth-watering last 16 tie.
For Jose Mourinho, the man many regard as Ferguson's likely managerial successor, will be in the opposition dugout, just as he was in 2004 when his Porto side dumped United out of the Champions League on their way to winning the tournament.
In addition, United won just one of 10 matches they played against Chelsea when Mourinho was at the helm.
"I don't have a great record against Jose so I will have to put that right," said Ferguson.
"We have not had a really good European game for quite a while and this is a big opportunity to step forward in European football again.
"But the main focus will certainly centre around Cristiano.
"He has courage, like all the great players.
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In times long past when the world was still young but the northern gods had grown weary, Loki the Trickster invented chess.
Except for the knight the moves were the same as those of modern pieces. The knight could move either horizontally or vertically around the board but its range was limited to two squares. It had little more power than the humble pawn.
Those early games in Odin's Hall were long, drawn-out affairs. Only the daily journey of Sol and her fiery chariot could be used to mark the passage of time. Although such protracted games suited Odin the Wise, his son Thor was more restless. When he became impatient he hurled thunderbolts at his opponents to force them to move. Odin called such play "lightning chess" and predicted that it would never be popular.
As the Age of Aries gave way to that of Pisces, followers of an itinerant Mediterranean Carpenter brought their gospel to the northern lands. People flocked to the new religion and the Old Ones realised that their influence had waned. They took consolation in Loki's new game and became even less involved in the affairs of humankind.
Loki, ever scheming, saw that the balance of power had changed. It now lay with the Galilean and had been brought to the cold lands by that rotund, white-bearded, red-coated evangelist, St. Christopher. Loki allied himself with Chris and his Triumvirate, and although his name remained Loki in the north, the rest of the world came to know him as the Devil.
Anxious to curry favour with his new masters Loki challenged Odin to a game of chess with Valhalla as the prize.
As they set up the pieces Loki granted the Knight new powers. Like Loki himself the piece had become a thing of mischief—it could now zigzag around the board by leaping two squares forward and one to the side, or one forward and two to the side.
To his ruin Odin disdained the Knight's newfound mobility believing it to be of little consequence, and the two settled down to play. Loki drew the white pieces and opted for advantage with 1. e4; Odin naturally played d5—the Scandinavian Defence.
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Odin neglected his development and lost a piece to 13. Bxb7 and 14. Bxa6. He played 14 ...d5 offering a pawn for a discovered attack on white's bishop. Believing Loki's 15. Nxd5 to have been a blunder Odin snatched the bishop on a6, only to be greeted by contempt from his adversary. "Never miss a check, it might be mate," said Loki; and the knight, eager to flaunt its new powers, leapt to c7 finishing off the hapless king.
Thus Valhalla fell to the Master of Guile.
So it came to pass that a New Order was founded in the North and Valhalla faded into the realm of myth. But that chess game was never quite forgotten and every year on the birthday of the Galilean a celebration is held all over the world in remembrance of Loki's victory.
Merry Christmas to all and in the New Year may your knights lead the way to many victories.
In case you were wondering:
Die Götterdämmerung translates as "The Twilight of the Gods";
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A new vaccine hindered the often-abused prescription opioids oxycodone and hydrocodone from entering the brain and suppressed one of the drugs' signature central nervous system effects. The findings warrant continued development of the vaccine as a potential aid in the treatment of oxycodone and hydrocodone abuse and dependence.
April 2013
Marijuana-dependent outpatients who were treated with the medication gabapentin in a pilot clinical trial reduced their cannabis use more and reported fewer symptoms of drug withdrawal than patients who received a placebo.
January 2013
Clinical trials of N-acetylcysteine to help people recovering from drug abuse avoid relapse have demonstrated only moderate efficacy. New NIDA-supported research shows that while a low dose of the medication activates receptors associated with lowered drug-seeking behavior, a higher dose appears to activate receptors associated with increased drug-seeking behavior. The result suggests that a medication or combination of medications that stimulate the receptor GluR2/3 and block mGluR5 may work better than N-acetylcysteine alone.
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The immune system has an extraordinary ability to recognize compounds foreign to the body and eliminate them. NIDA-sponsored scientists are working to harness this ability to create vaccines that will protect individuals against the psychogenic and addictive effects of abused drugs. This animation shows one of the most promising strategies, which has already yielded partial success in producing effective vaccines against nicotine, cocaine, and other drugs.
November 2012
NIDA Program Officer Dr. David Thomas speaks about the intertwined problems of pain and prescription opioid abuse, as well as the research supported by NIDA and the National Institutes of Health to address these problems.
July 2012 Soluble-film preparations of buprenorphine suppressed heroin abusers' withdrawal symptoms with no serious side effects in a recent clinical trial. They dissolved more rapidly in the mouth than the pill form of the medication, providing faster relief.
July 2012
Sublingual buprenorphine is a safe and effective alternative to methadone for treating opioid dependence during pregnancy, finds the Maternal Opioid Treatment: Human Experimental Research (MOTHER) study, a NIDA-supported clinical trial. Women who received either medication had similar pregnancy and birth outcomes, but infants born to women who received buprenorphine had milder symptoms of neonatal opioid withdrawal.
April 2012 New research establishes that benzodiazepines cause addiction in a way similar to that of opioids, cannabinoids, and the club drug GHB. The discovery opens the door to designing new benzodiazepines that counteract anxiety but are not addictive.
March 2012 Dr. Thomas Kosten of Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Peter Burkhard of the University of Connecticut are the recipients of NIDA's 2011 Avant-Garde Awards for Innovative Medication Development Research. Dr. Kosten is developing a vaccine against methamphetamine abuse and Dr. Burkhard is developing a vaccine to counter nicotine addiction.
March 2012
New research suggests that differences in tobacco consumption reflect, in part, differences in the functional efficacy of a specific type of receptor in a pathway of the brain. In animal studies, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors with the α5 subunit played a key role in producing aversive responses to nicotine, thereby dissuading further consumption of the drug.


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We are DSDI and comprise of cash investors, realtors, and handymen who have experience in the housing market. DSDI was born out of the need left by the housing crises. There are home owners who needed help to escape a mortgage they can no longer afford and those who need a home to either live or invest in. In many cases we will purchase your home for cash! Simply fill out an application and we will get back to you with an offer. We are looking for the best win-win scenario to benefit all parties.
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David Smith is the author of the book, Bible Lessons From Our Pets. He has served in various forms of church leadership for 10 years and has managed large church facility operations for 5 years. David has a love for animals and people, and has a desire to connect others to the Lord using heart warming stories from our pets. God teaches David by using his pets, Bling and Dubz, to speak of His goodness and his love. All David seeks is for those to have an open mind and heart to see for themselves how God's creation can speak to humanity. David enjoys watching a good football game and living life's experiences with his wife, Buffy.
Post- "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you," says Job 12:7. Whether you are a Christian or not, there is plenty to learn from our funny house hold pets. From watching my cat, Bling, I have witnessed several life and spiritual lessons. Are there lessons that you can learn from you furry friend? Most certainly, yes! Below is a list of five life and spiritual applications that one can receive from their pets.
1. Unconditional love- Have you ever noticed that no matter what, your dog is always excited to see you? I have. My dog, Dubz, gives me the best greetings I have ever experienced. No matter how long I've been gone, or if I've punished him, or even if I haven't given him the attention he always wants, Dubz always greets me with a burst of excitement and love. As his tongue probes every crevice of my face, and his tail moves at a rabid pace, I see what unconditional love can look like. Now I'm not suggesting we greet each other with a great big slobbering tongue, but that our expression of love can transcend our imperfections. My dog simply forgets the perceived wrongs that I commit and chooses to love me with all his heart regardless. What if we'd choose to look past each others inadequacies and love one another? This doesn't mean that there are no consequences to our actions or behavior, but that we look at the person and not the individuals actions.
2. Fear- My Cat Bling has a funny personality. One of her favorite activities is going outside to hunt all of the disease infested rodents floating scurrying around our surrounding orchards. When she wants to go outside she will often let out a desperate "MEEOOWW" and run to the door, but when the door is open she will just stand, staring out at what she wants without stepping out of the door to attain her desires. If she wouldn't let fear take over she could have had the desires of her tiny heart, but she waited to long and the door slammed shut. God doesn't want us to live in a spirit of fear, but to boldly step into the life He wants for us.
3. Trust- I love taking my little Dubz out for walks around our beautiful Yakima Valley, and as we stroll along the roadway I pull his leash in close while passing cars zoom by. But Dubz doesn't understand that all I want to do is keep him from danger, and he looks at me with those sad eyes that say, "Why won't you let me be free?" I feel God can be the same way, pulling life's leash in, on occasion, to protect us from life's dangers. We may not understand, and think life is cruel, but it's not, it's just God's way of protecting us.
4. Comfort- During my dad's fight with cancer a few years ago, I was fighting too. My fight was with depression. I was faced with the immanent loss of not just my father, but my best friend. I had a special relationship with him, and I didn't know how to cope with the hole that his departure would leave. During this time my wife was an obvious comfort. But my Blinger was also a comfort to me in my time of need. She would curl up on my lap, and purr loudly as I pet my stress away. Life's worries didn't completely melt away, but for a moment the intensity of life was lessened. Bling was God's gift to me at this stage of life. Psalm 9:9 shares this, "The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, and a stronghold in times of trouble." God gave me the furriest stronghold He could, my cat, Bling.
5. Worry- If you are like me, you have a lot of worries. I am a business owner and home investor, and sometimes work isn't consistent. I sometimes worry that I will not find the right property to invest, or that I don't find enough work in my business, and if I don't, how will I pay for my impending bills? My first reaction is that I stress out, try to push along the process by hunting for leads, but that usually doesn't get me anywhere. Then I exhaust my earthly resources and trust in God. That's when God's blessings kick in. It's weird, really, when I let my worries go, God blesses me. My cat never has to worry about whether she eats, or is taken care of in any way because we take care of her, and God takes care of us. It doesn't mean that we get what we want on our time frame, but that we will get what we need on His time frame. The key, in the mean time, is to not worry………
Author Bio- David Smith is a business investor, author, and business owner with several years of experience in the housing market. In fact, he was BORN into the housing market, as his father was a private contractor, serving Washington State. Growing up in an environment with business savvy parents, David has continued to surround himself around private investors, and realtors, which has shaped David's knowledge of the housing market. David also served investors and realtors by repairing distressed and foreclosed homes, which has opened his eyes to the great need home owners and investors have in today's current market. David writes on his free time and enjoying life's experiences with his wife, Buffy.
Want to sell your home? In today's current market, several people are looking to sell their home, but with the glut of inventory are unable to do so. How do you set yourself apart from others in the same situation?
1. First step is to take the emotion out of selling your home. You may be asking, "how do I do that?" I understand the dilemma, your home has been a major part of your lives: you've built a life for yourself in your home, your kids grew up there, and memories were formed in every room. When I sold my first house I wish I could have charged a sentimental charge, but in order to sell our home I took the emotion out of the process, and listened to my local realtor as to where I should price our home. You don't necessarily need to go to a realtor, but you could easily do the market research yourselves.
2. The quickest way to turn away prospective buyers is to have curb appeal kicked to the curb. Don't let an unkempt lawn, complete with weeds, overgrown grass, and peeling paint propel all those who may be willing make an offer on your home.
3. Nothing says this home will NEVER be my home like dozens of family pictures littering your home. Great, after all the hard work of sprucing up your lawn, and when you finally have throngs of visitors all you get is a big fat, "no thank you!" It's not that your home isn't beautiful, it's just that potential buyers have difficulty seeing the memories that they could be making when there's constant reminders that other people had already made their memories. Remember to not take it personally, it's a psychological thing.
4. While you're hiding memories from prying eyes, it may be time to declutter your home. Books, movies, CDs, cloths, etc, can be a hindrance to that desired offer you are looking for. If you have extra furniture, consider renting a storage unit to give your home an airier feel.
5. Speaking of airy fairy feelings, to further enhance the openness of your home, consider throwing a fresh coat of paint on your home. But not any color will do. Don't go all Van Gogh by painting wildly creative colors, but choose a neutral color that would most likely fit a buyer's tastes. Not only does painting a neutral color add an open feeling, but it will also give your place a fresh look by covering marks, and deliver a fresh smell as well.
6. When it comes to selling your home, cleanliness is next to Godliness. Don't turn off those pesky neat freaks, just humor them until they sign on the dotted lines. Even rent yourself a carpet cleaner to work on those pesky stains, and perhaps save yourself from adding carpet replacement to your tab. On top of beautifying your pad, cleaning your carpet will help remove any allergens in the air so that people are crying because of how beautiful your home is, and not because they are deathly allergic to your dog, Fido.


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I am having all sorts of trouble with mine. It loses connectivity with the computer and I am having trouble rendering pages sometimes. My Novatel is coming Monday, so hopefully it will be a nice improvement.
well, i'm not sure if this will help any of you, but I would also constantly get those stalls on my samsung mifi. Today I went into the settings and changed my profile from "secure" to "secure auto" and I haven't had that problem yet. Something you might want to try.
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I am having all sorts of trouble with mine. It loses connectivity with the computer and I am having trouble rendering pages sometimes. My Novatel is coming Monday, so hopefully it will be a nice improvement.
I think you will be very pleased with the Novatel.
I have both and the Novatel is much more stable.
Today I got an email recommending that I upgrade the firmware. The new software is revision EC31. The main benefit they specified was additional roaming capabilities.
James Kendrick (of JK on the Run fame) wrote a nice article comparing the Samsung and Novatel wifi hotspot devices over on ZDNet. He gives a slight edge to the Novatel device due to their long time experience with this category of technology, but otherwise he rates them as essentially equivalent.
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hope some one can answer please. updated my lc11 after i unplug the usb cable i press reset button hold for 3 white leds but nothing happens just one white led stays on. i pulled batter powered device nothing but a white led tried again held reset button five mins nothing. redid update and still nothing. did i just brick my mifi?
I purchased the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot SCHLC11 at full price to replace my MIFI 2200 two weeks ago and it has not worked properly for more than a couple of hours at the time since. It keeps losing the internet connection with just one laptop and loses everything with two laptops connected. After numerous calls to tech support I finally got someone to say they would overnight me a new one. I loved the MIFI 2200 but wanted more speed. Not to sure about this device but will post more when I get the new one.
One interesting lesson I'm getting out of this widespread LTE outage is that my SCH-LC11 isn't handling 3G very well. My iPhone is holding a fairly steady 3G signal, but my LC11 is providing me a low end 1X experience (~50kbps).
An even more annoying lesson learned with the 4G outage: I switched my hotspot account back to my trusty MiFi 2200 during yesterday's 4G failure (so I could keep on working) - did the usual online activation trick which worked fine. As I completed the device switchover, I observed a pop-up window which warned me that my 4G device SIM card would become invalid after 90 days if I didn't reactivate it within that time. "No problem," I say to myself, "how long could this outage last, anyway?"
Fast forward to today: After confirming the 4G network was back up here in DC, I hop back onto the web to reactivate my LC-11. It's a little different this time because I not only need to enter the IMEI (not MEID or ESN interestingly), but I am also prompted for my SIM card number. After entering the SIM card number, a message pops up telling me to call Verizon to complete the changeover.
What Happened: It turns out when replacing a 4G device with a 3G device online, the SIM card is invalidated immediately (not after 90 days). My only recourse is to order a new SIM card or to swing by a store to get a replacement SIM card. Anyone else have a similar experience?
Wow! That seems crazy!
This guy went ignored (no disrespect to anyone intended) but he seems to have a logical fix to the webpage stall that makes a lot of sense. Seeing that this is likely the problem, I might pickup the Sammy 4G LTE Hotspot as I found it for a DIRT-cheap price with a two year contract.


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Redskins QB Robert Griffin (knee) resumed throwing in late-April. "Robert is doing extremely well as far as the timetable,'' RG3's dad said. "He's been doing a lot over time, he never stops. He was throwing some prior to the draft. Everything seems to be on cue. Everybody in the organization is targeting that season opener.'' Griffin's dad added that Griffin's rehab is ahead of where it was when he tore his ACL at Baylor back in 2009. "He might be a little ahead of himself in terms of doing what he did then compared to now,'' he said. "He's smarter, stronger, wiser.'' RG3 remains a question mark for Week 1, but it's been so far, so good.
Redskins QB Robert Griffin is now 4 months removed from reconstructive knee surgery. It's still way too early to get a good read on his status for the start of the 2013 season. But we do know that RG3 has yet to encounter a setback. "I'm doing great," he said. "Knee feels fine. It's about taking it slow. Each day is a better day." If he stays setback-free, Griffin will have a realistic shot of taking the field for Week 1. For now, though, he remains a risk/reward pick in early fantasy football drafts.
Redskins HC Mike Shanahan says he won't let QB Robert Griffin (knee) back on the field "unless he's 100%." Shanny also promises to keep RG3 from pushing too hard in rehab. "We need to make sure he doesn't go too quickly because he could set it back," Shanahan said. "There's time it's going to take to do it the right way. The ligament needs time to heal... When you see how hard he's working, everyone is really optimistic. But you have to let a ligament heal." Of course, it's tough to take Shanny at his word. His decision to let Griffin start last year's playoff game at less than 100% is the reason RG3 is in this spot in the first place. Ideally, the Redskins will ease him back into action like the Vikings did with Adrian Peterson this past summer.
The league has suspended Seahawks DE Bruce Irvin for 4 games for violating the performance-enhancing drugs policy. That will likely leave Seattle's defense without its top 2 sack guys from last year to open the season. DE Chris Clemons is working his way back from an ACL tear he suffered in the playoff win at Washington. The Seahawks added DE Cliff Avril and DL Michael Bennett in free agency, so one could slide into Irvin's pass-rushing role to open the season. The plan has been for Bennett to man the 3-technique tackle spot. It's also a significant blow to the IDP prospects for Irvin, who would have carried serious sleeper potential. At least the Seahawks open with Carolina, San Francisco, Jacksonville and Houston -- not the toughest slate of pass offenses.
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Bruce Irvin undoubtedly left Round 1 as the most surprising pick Thursday night. The former West Virginia Mountaineer is widely regarded as one of the class' best pure pass rushers, though. He's slight by prototype standards for an NFL DE, but he's about the same size as new teammate Chris Clemons and Indy's Robert Mathis. The Seahawks already have Clemons in place and big Red Bryant starting at the other end. That likely makes Irvin a situational rusher. He's ideally suited for such a role but might have trouble getting enough snaps to be worth an IDP pick.
2 important updates on the Rob Gronkowski back story. First, Pro Football Talk has learned that Gronk is awaiting a 2nd opinion but will "probably" need surgery to address the disc problem. Second, we've learned more about the timetable for the procedure and recovery. PFT reports that Gronk will go under the knife 3-4 weeks after the final forearm procedure. That could be Monday, or it could be later if he needs that 5th surgery. (Still following?) Then Gronk will need 10 weeks of rehab after the back surgery, according to ESPN. If our math is right, that means Gronk will be back in 13-14 weeks, assuming he doesn't need a 5th forearm surgery. The 2013 season starts in 16 weeks. If everything goes to plan, Gronk would be ready for Week 1. But he won't do much in training camp or the preseason. If he needs that 5th forearm surgery, all bets are off.
USA Today's Mike Garafolo reports that Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski has a disc issue in his back that is "being examined and could require surgery." ESPN's Adam Schefter hears that the issue is considered minor and wouldn't keep Gronk out longer than he'll be sidelined with his forearm situation. "He's going to be fine long term," a person close to Gronk said. "[He's] not worried about the short term, i.e. start of training camp." Fantasy owners should be alarmed, though. Gronkowski is only 24, but the medical problems are starting to pile up. Remember that he missed the entire 2009 college season after undergoing surgery to repair a disc in his back, although this latest issue is reportedly unrelated. He also dealt with a hip problem for a chunk of last year. Gronk needs to be considered an injury-risk in fantasy drafts this summer – even if he's ready to go for Week 1.
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport has learned that Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski is expected to undergo a 4th forearm surgery on Monday. This procedure was planned. The hope is that the infection has cleared so doctors can replace the plate in Gronk's arm. If that's the case, he should be ready for the start of training camp. But if the infection is still lingering, Gronkowski will need a 5th surgery. That'd put his availability for Week 1 in doubt.
A decision on Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski's forearm is expected in 2 weeks. That's when his antibiotic therapy will wrap up. At that point, doctors will go back into the forearm to replace the plate securing the bone. If the antibiotics haven't cleared up the infection, though, Gronk will need a 5th surgery. That one would put his status for Week 1 in serious jeopardy. We should have a much clearer picture of Gronkowski's 2013 outlook in 2 weeks time. Stay tuned...
RB Reggie Bush sees a lot of similarities between the offense he's joining in Detroit and the one he played in in New Orleans. "As far as from an offensive perspective it's a lot like what we did in New Orleans," Bush said. "It's a lot of spread-open passing. Obviously we can attack downfield, and with the running game, a lot of screens, draws and stuff like that. Basically what I did in New Orleans, so running this offensive system has been pretty easy for me." HC Jim Schwartz has also mentioned that he plans to use Bush like the Saints did. Bush averaged 8.7 carries and 4.9 catches per game in New Orleans -- 139 carries and 78 catches over 16 games. Bush should see quite a bit more action on the ground with the Lions, and he could approach 78 catches.
We've already discussed Lions RB Reggie Bush returning to a role similar to what he played with the Saints. Well, the team website reports that HC Jim Schwartz expects Bush to catch 60-80 passes. Joique Bell led Detroit RBs with 52 receptions last season. That total sat just 7 catches behind TE Brandon Pettigrew to rank 3rd on the team. RB Mikel Leshoure caught another 34 balls, while he and Bell combined for 116 targets. Expect Bush to take over a lot of those. He twice reached 70 catches in New Orleans, including 88 in his rookie season. Bush looks like a strong RB2 in your PPR league, with RB1 potential. He should be able to deliver solid RB2 production across fantasy football formats.
Lions HC Jim Schwartz says that RB Reggie Bush might return kicks and punts for his new team. Schwartz indicated that return duties are nothing more than a possibility at this stage but said Bush "can change field position." Bush has always been and will likely always be the type of player that coaches want to create touches for. He has also proved rather fragile in his career. Our guess is that the Lions will ultimately limit Bush's exposure in the return game. His fantasy owners should hope for as little work as possible in that area.
Alex Smith joins pass-happy HC Andy Reid in Kansas City's new-look offense. Is that enough to make Smith a fantasy asset?
Still think waiting on QB can work, but all three champs in my three leagues all went QB first. Interestingly enough, the wait on QB guys wound up with Stafford, Big Ben, and Eli, looked fab, and they were the dormats. The problem with waiting on a QB, if you hit it, you hit it. If you miss it, well then......
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — With first-quarter earnings season on its way out, macroeconomics will retake the front seat next week in U.S. stocks.
Next week's standouts include retail sales figures and the minutes of the latest U.S. Federal Reserve's last policy meeting, analysts said.
Retail sales are seen as weak, taking some of the luster from Friday's higher-than-expected increase for a gauge of consumer sentiment.
The upbeat number helped offset some of the early losses on the wake of a $2 billion trading loss for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. /quotes/zigman/272085/quotes/nls/jpm JPM +0.58%
In the end, however, stocks mostly declined Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449 DJIA +0.06% off 34.44 points, or 0.3%, at 12,820.60. The S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025 SPX -0.06% also ended lower, down 4.6 points, or 0.3%, at 1,353.39.
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The Nasdaq Composite /quotes/zigman/12633936 COMP -0.0079% bucked the trend, if barely, up 0.2 point at 2,933.82. Stocks posted their second weekly decline in a row, with the Dow off 1.7% in the five-day period.
The news of J.P. Morgan's blunder dominated early trading Friday, but is unlikely to cast a pall over financial stocks in the coming week, said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors in New York.
Likewise, Cisco Systems Inc.'s /quotes/zigman/20039/quotes/nls/csco CSCO +0.09% warning earlier in the previous week about its "cautious" spending in information technology will be likely limited to that company, not to the technology sector as a whole, Orlando said.
They were company-specific news that by late Friday had already been discounted by the markets, he added.
In the macroeconomic front, also on tap for next week are reports on U.S. consumer prices, U.S. industrial production, and an index grouping some key U.S. macroeconomic indicators.
Stuart Freeman, chief equity strategist with Wells Fargo Advisors in St. Louis, is keen on the weekly jobless claims numbers, which will provide more clues about one of the top market preoccupations.
All in all, he sees the reports are largely favorable. "The economy is further along down the path" of recovery, Freeman said. "The U.S. economy continues to be quite resilient despite the issues in Europe."
Unlike previous years, the "sell in May and go away" adage won't be so readily applicable for this summer, he said. While some volatility is to be expected, the slow but steady pace of the recovery, and more liquidity into the markets, will hold investor's interest, he said.
Wells Fargo Advisors has placed its larger bets onto technology, materials, and consumer discretionary sectors, and it remains underweight on financials, he said.
Looming large next week is the Wednesday release of Federal Open Market Committee minutes of the latest meeting, likely to contain little surprises but just as likely to command Wall Street's attention.


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Awesome Frankel weaves Ascot magic
Frankel turned in another spellbinding performance to maintain his unbeaten record in the Queen Anne Stakes, the opening contest of Royal Ascot.
Sir Henry Cecil's colt put an early-season setback behind him to make a brilliant return to action in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury last month and he was an incredible 1-10 favourite to register his 11th victory from as many starts.
The world's highest-rated racehorse predictably tracked his pacemaker and three-parts brother Bullet Train before taking over the lead three furlongs from home. Excelebration did his best to stick with his old rival, but Frankel was once again in a class of his own as he stretched clear under Tom Queally to score by 11 lengths.
The Aidan O'Brien-trained Excelebration filled the runner-up spot, his fifth defeat at the hands of Frankel. Side Glance finished third.
The result was scarcely in doubt from the halfway stage, as Frankel moved ominously to the lead still full of running. Just for a moment it appeared as though Excelebration could shake up the market leader, but Frankel showed a quite devastating turn of foot to leave him and the rest of the field standing.
Excelebration almost paid the price for trying to take on Frankel as he tired in the final furlong, but he held off Side Glance by a neck to claim the runner-up spot.
Cecil said: "It's relief, I'm not surprised but relieved. There's no such thing as a certainty. He is a great horse and you've seen him for yourself so everybody can form their own opinion.
"He did exactly what I thought but he's still improving, Tom said he's still improving. He looks as if he'll stay a mile and a quarter so we'll leave our options open. He's in the Eclipse, he's in the Sussex, he's in the Juddmonte and the two races at the end of the year. He'll tell me what to do next, I don't tell him. It's very unlikely he'll go to the Breeders' Cup."
Queally added: "It was basically what everyone expected, so it's great that he did it. It looks like he's improving. He settled, he travelled, he got everything else off the bridle when I was still sitting there - he's amazing.
"That's his best performance. He ticked all the boxes, he did everything right. From my point of view he's been flawless in the past but I couldn't have asked for anything more. He had the perfect prep for it, Henry had no complications and we were able to do it nicely."
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Wii U launching for Black Friday?
GameStop source says new console to ship in time for popular US shopping season; other sources suggest console delayed in Europe to December due to manufacturing issues.
The Wii U may be on store shelves the week of the Black Friday shopping period in the United States, a new GoNintendo report suggests. The site references a GameStop employee's account, which also indicates that Wii U preorders will open sometime next week.
Black Friday is the colloquial term for the day after Thanksgiving. It typically signals the beginning of the holiday season shopping period and has historically been a boon for Nintendo, among others. This year, Black Friday falls on November 23.
Last year, sales of the 3DS during the week of Black Friday surged 49 percent week-over-week. Nintendo software also benefited from launching during the popular shopping week, with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword becoming the fastest-selling installment in the role-playing game series to date after its launch November 20 for the Wii.
A November release date for the Wii U falls in line with what Toki Tori 2 developer Two Tribes said earlier this year, slating the console to "probably" arrive in November.
Separately, people reportedly familiar with the matter have told CVG that the Wii U will launch across Europe in December, missing a previously projected November date. The sources said manufacturing issues with the Wii U GamePad are the reason the system has reportedly been delayed.
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Next year is a key electoral year, not only in the United States, which will hold congressional elections, but also across the Americas.
Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Costa Rica, as well as three Caribbean countries, will choose new leaders. Fortunately for most of the candidates, their countries will enter 2010 having largely avoided the severe economic recession that the United States has experienced.