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Monthly Archives: October 2011
A Hands-On President–On Your Wallet, That Is
Remember the woman in the YouTube video who was convinced that, once Barack Obama was president, she would no longer have to pay to gas up her car? She pretty well summed up the intellectual basis for Obama's 2008 campaign. One would think that by now, even the stupid know better–after all, where was all that money supposed to come from? Michael Ramirez explains: »
Is Global Warming Causing Hurricanes?
Of all the claims that the alarmists make on behalf of anthropogenic global warming, perhaps the most outrageous is that hurricanes–think Katrina–are becoming more frequent and more severe as a result of human activity. Actually, hurricanes have not become either more frequent or more violent, which one might think would put the issue to rest. But the alarmists know they have reporters on their side, so inconvenient truths won't be »
From Clarence Thomas to Herman Cain
Politico's attack on Herman Cain this morning, and subsequent events, have been eerily reminiscent of the Democrats' ambushing of Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearing. Has anyone checked to see whether Anita Hill ever worked for the National Restaurant Association? Cain, like Thomas, is defended vigorously by everyone who knows him: "It's just not Herman," says Sibby Wolfson, who was Cain's executive assistant from 1997 through his first campaign for »
Herman Cain at Pillsbury
Today's big news story is the revelation that while he was with the National Restaurant Association, Herman Cain was accused of some sort of impropriety by two women. It is impossible to know what to make of this story. Apparently no formal claims were brought, Politico's description of the events that gave rise to the complaints is too vague to evaluate, and the amounts reportedly paid to the women in »
The gang that couldn't shoot straight
Minnesota liberalized the law allowing citizens to arm themselves in the early days of the administration of Governor Pawlenty. The law vastly expanded the right of Minnesota citizens to acquire licenses to carry guns, a right formerly subject to the unfettered discretion of local police chiefs or sheriffs. Liberalization of the law carried out a long-standing Republican commitment and was of course the subject of daily hysteria in the local »
Who Is Barncat Jones?
I have no idea. But maybe someday that question will resonate along the lines of, "Who is John Galt?" Barncat is a musician and satirist of considerable talent. We linked to his Elvis Presley parody, "The Solyndra Song," here. Now Barncat has come out with "Hope & Change," a Springsteen adaptation sung to the tune of "Glory Days." Which seems appropriate, given how far behind him President Obama's glory days »
A One-woman Wrecking Crew, Revisited
A long-time reader comments on one of our "picks" from last week – a Politico piece about Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin's relentless attacks on Rick Perry: Ben Smith's Politico story about Jennifer Rubin reminded me of several Power Line posts from the last presidential cycle. Back then, a former blogger on this site, noting Rubin's attacks on three major Republican contenders, called her "a one-woman wrecking crew." What amused »
Debating Miss World, With Illustrations
Beauty pageants and debating are two of my favorite things. My youth was misspent–not, unfortunately, due to too many beautiful girls, but rather because I devoted an inordinate amount of time to competitive debate. These two interests collided Friday night, as 122 Miss World contestants descended on Cambridge University, and in particular the Cambridge Union Society, which bills itself as the world's oldest debating society. The topic of discussion was »
Population Bomb Epic Fail, Part 2
Steven Den Beste and a number of other commenters anticipated much of my second planned installment about the arrival of the 7 billionth human being tomorrow, noting that the issue is irrelevant to the Left: all that matters to the Left is gaining power. Any issue will do. But it is hard to credit the Left even with good intentions when you see how quickly the institutions they set up »
Was This News Story Scrubbed? Vote On It!
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that yesterday, a small group of "Occupy Minnesota" demonstrators were augmented by representatives of local unions: Union leaders headlined a day of OccupyMN street theater Saturday, capped when about 300 protesters marched peacefully across downtown Minneapolis, denouncing the region's three biggest banks. "Banks got bailed out — we got sold out!" was one of several chants delivered during the march. So, what unions were represented? »
Killing Castro
Edward Jay Epstein writes: We are now approaching the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and every year since I first wrote on this subject in 1965, I am asked "Was Oswald alone, and, if not, who was behind the assassination?" While researching Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, I interviewed Thomas Mann, the former US Ambassador to Mexico in 1976. He told me »
Sunday morning coming down
I found an excuse in a post a few years back to refer to John Fogerty and his Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Proud Mary," which I asserted was "great." This was too much for John Hinderaker. He entered a brief dissent: Familiar, yes. Beloved by bands who play at wedding receptions, yes. Less annoying in CCR's original version than in Tina Turner's cover, true. But "great"? Uh-uh. The issue raised »
A unified theory of left-wing causes
Steven Den Beste comments on Steve Hayward's population bomb post: Isn't it interesting that no matter what the current global crisis is, according to leftists, the solution is always the same: a benevolent world dictatorship of the enlightened elite, and mass transfer of wealth from rich nations to poor nations. That's what they want to do about global warming. It's what they wanted to do about overpopulation. It's what they »
Halloween, the Sequel
Unfortunately, it isn't a movie. It's reality. Barack Obama is presiding over, and helping to create, the scariest economy since Jimmy Carter. Michael Ramirez shows what makes us all shudder with horror: »
Moscow 1963
In the summer of 1963, my father was one of six lay delegates from the American Lutheran Church to the Fourth Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation in Helsinki, Finland. A Google search reveals that the assembly lasted from July 30 through August 11, but my parents were gone pretty much all summer. My older brother and I spent the summer in Annapolis, Maryland, with our uncle the spy and »
Reporting From St. Paul's
The various "Occupy" movements around the world are remarkably similar. More akin to a crime spree than a political movement, the occupied zones quickly degenerate into hell-holes. A reporter from the Daily Mail joined the occupiers outside St. Paul's Cathedral under cover, and filed a report accompanied by lots of photos: The 12th meeting of the General Assembly of the London wing of the international revolution against capitalism is not »
Population Bomb Epic Fail
On Monday, the world's 7 billionth person is expected to be born. Somewhere. Look for the media and the usual worn-out handwringers to strike up the usual dirge. I'm sure Paul Ehrlich has a full dance card for the day. The "Tom Friedman Random Column Generator" app can retire early for the day, after disgorging "Hot, Flat, and Even More Crowded, Oh, And By The Way, Did I Mention That »


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By Jeff Caplan, NBA.com
VIDEO: Wolves head coach Flip Saunders talks about Andrew Wiggins' potential
HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — Don't cry for Andrew Wiggins.
That's the message delivered by the last two men who coached the No. 1 Draft pick. When the Cleveland Cavaliers finally shipped Wiggins — shunned by LeBron James since the day the King announced his return to Cleveland six weeks ago — to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Kevin Love on Saturday, he joined Chris Webber (1993) as the only No. 1 picks since the NBA-ABA merger to be traded before ever playing a game for the team that drafted them.
A sad end to a long, strange summer for Wiggins? More like an eagerly anticipated beginning, says Rob Fulford, Wiggins' high school coach at Huntington Prep in West Virginia.
"Andrew is such a good kid; he's just a classy kid, very humble, very respectful," Fulford, now an assistant at Missouri, told NBA.com this week. "I think this whole process with the trade rumors, he could care less. That kid just wants to play basketball. The fact that LeBron never reached out to him, Andrew could care less what LeBron James thinks of him."
Throughout this saga in which the Cavs selected the Toronto-born Wiggins No. 1 and watched him flash his promising skills during the Las Vegas Summer League all the while trade rumors swirled and LeBron sweet-talked Love, Wiggins, 19, handled the enormity of the situation with graceful maturity always accompanied by a warm, playful smile.
It didn't surprise Fulford, who saw such characteristics from the time Wiggins arrived at Huntington Prep to enormous fanfare to the day he left for Kansas as a McDonald's All-American. His departure included a heartfelt thank-you note to the people of the Huntington community published in the local newspaper.
"You have to understand, this kid, the media circus was around from the beginning when he got here in August of his junior year in high school until he left Huntington in May of his senior year after graduation," Fulford said. "It was just a circus. I think it prepared him for what was going to happen at Kansas and even now he's used to it, and I think he's handled it really well. With the parents that he has, both have been professional athletes, I think it helped that he's been kind of groomed in that manner."
All Wiggins wanted, he reiterated during several interviews over the last month, was a place to call home, a place where he feels wanted. And so Wiggins will not flank the game's greatest player on an instant contender in Cleveland, but instead will embrace replacing the fed-up Love as the next great hope for the long-languishing Wolves.
Fulford keeps in relatively close contact with the long-limbed, 6-foot-8 phenom, typically through text messages. The message he's received loud and clear is that Wiggins is excited to make his own name for a franchise in need of a leader.
"Andrew's going to be a superstar," Fulford said. "This gives him a platform from Day 1 to kind of be the guy, and he's ready for that."
Earlier this month, Wiggins' former coach at Kansas, Bill Self, said nearly the same after telling reporters that Wiggins had told him he hoped Cleveland would trade him.
"Even though, in a weird way, everybody would love the opportunity to play with LeBron because you're guaranteed winning, for the longevity of his career, he needs to develop that mindset to be the guy for him to be great," Self told reporters. "And I think being in Minnesota will help him do that."
For glum Wolves fans, the Love fiasco has the potential to yield a happy ending after all. The greatest fear for an organization is it will never come close to recouping equal talent when forced to trade a disgruntled All-Star. Wolves president and coach Flip Saunders has reaped a haul as strong as anyone could expect.
In the three-team trade, Wiggins heads to Minnesota with the Cavs' 2013 No. 1 pick Anthony Bennett and Philadelphia's consummate pro, Thaddeus Young, 26, a solid immediate replacement for Love at power forward.
They'll join a cast that includes 23-year-old, potential All-Star point guard Ricky Rubio, veteran guards Kevin Martin and J.J. Barea, emerging center Nikola Pekovic, small forwards Corey Brewer and Chase Budinger, Wiggins' fellow Huntington Prep alum and quick-learning 2013 first-round pick Gorgui Dieng, and high-flying '14 first-round pick Zach LaVine.
The fit in Saunders' up-tempo plans should suit the slashing Wiggins well. Fulford said Kansas' high-low attack that included big man and No. 3 pick Joel Embiid didn't always afford Wiggins the driving lanes he craves, turning him into a jump-shooter.
"He's going to have more space to work with," Fulford said. "And he's extremely … I won't say he's impossible to guard in space, but he's close to it."
Love's Wolves never made the playoffs, a six-year span that included exceptionally disappointing endings to the last two seasons. Nobody should expect a rapid ascension this season in the competitive West as the Wolves again transition, but young and athletic, Wiggins' new team is stocked with upside and should be an exciting squad to watch grow.
"I don't think there's any question he'll have a great rookie season. He's groomed for this," Fulford said. "In college he got better the year he was there, but he'll be a better NBA player than he was a college player, and he was an All-American at Kansas, so sky's the limit for him.
"It's one of those things, him being on a team where it's kind of really going to be his, I think, is a good thing for him."
So shed no tears for Andrew Wiggins. Or the Wolves.

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Staff writer
Editor's note: It is this newspaper's general policy to not publish articles based on anonymous sources. This article is an exception because the lessons from the victim of this scam outweigh the need to include the victim's name.
Many of us have dreamed of winning the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes and finding ourselves on easy street for the rest of our lives.
On Aug. 24, a Peabody woman — who requested anonymity — got a call from a man who claimed he was with PCH (although it became clear in hindsight he wasn't), telling her that she was the winner of $2.5 million dollars and that she would receive her winnings just as soon as she sent more than $2,000 to cover the "license" in the state of Oklahoma.
She was skeptical of the man's claim to be from Publisher's Clearing House from the beginning. She said she was not an enthusiastic "winner" and was irritated by the frequency and length of his phone calls.
"I bet he called more than 100 times," she said. "I know I have 22 messages on my answering machine from him. Sometimes he talked more than an hour. I knew the drawing for the Publisher's Clearing House would be on Aug. 31, but he kept saying I won for the month of July. He really wanted that license money."
She said he seemed to know things about her and about the community. He made reference to Mayor Larry Larsen and others. Eventually he told her he had a meeting with government officials like the Kansas Secretary of the Treasury, county officials, Larsen, and some city people.
"He said everyone was happy for me. He finally convinced me to send the fee and told me how he wanted it sent and where to send it.
"Now I feel pretty silly, but he just wore me down. I guess I thought that if I took care of that license thing, the prize money would eventually arrive and then he would quit calling me at all hours of the day and night," she said.
On Aug. 28, she got a bank money order and had Sue Klassen at the Peabody Post Office fill out the information for the express mail package the man had demanded she send. Klassen assured her that it would arrive in two days.
The woman reported that information to the man when he called to see if she had sent the money. The next day, Aug. 29, he called the post office to see if, in fact, the express package had gone out.
Another postal clerk was on duty that day and was having a problem getting the computer to track the package. While she waited, the man chatted in a friendly fashion. He told her she had a nice voice and asked if she was single.
"He just gave me the willies," she said. "I didn't think he should have been so cozy and some red flags went up immediately."
She asked if she could call him back because her computer was responding and he said to skip it, he would call her back later.
"But he never did," she said. "In the meantime I found the handwritten receipt from the day before. I recognized the customer's name as someone as someone I knew fairly well. I felt pretty uncomfortable about the whole thing so I called the lady and asked her about it. I thought, 'oh no' when she told me what she had sent and why."
The clerk called Klassen and they discussed the situation and decided it was probably fraud. Klassen called the Postal Inspector Service in Omaha, Neb., and the postmaster in the Oklahoma town where the express package with the check would end up. Within a couple of hours, the postmaster in Oklahoma received a fax with instructions to intercept it. The action put a stop to the delivery of that piece of mail.
On Thursday morning, a man arrived at the Oklahoma post office and said he was there to pick up mail for the sister of the Peabody woman who sent the package. He claimed the sister was the person to whom Klassen had addressed the express package.
The Oklahoma postmaster refused to give him the package, told him they knew it was a scam, and that the Postal Inspector Service had been contacted. The man became angry and left the post office.
On Friday morning, Klassen got a call from the Topeka general mail facility, saying the express package was there and would be delivered to Peabody on Saturday morning.
The Peabody woman got her check back and finally unplugged her phone to avoid repeated calls from the angry scammer in Oklahoma.
The woman still has some issues to clear up because although she has no credit cards, does no business online, and did not give him her banking information, she admitted he does have her Social Security number.
She planned to get in touch with the Social Security Administration as soon as she could after the Labor Day holiday.
She said she is grateful to the two postal clerks who went the extra mile to ensure the interception and return of her check. In addition, she said she has learned a lesson she would like to pass on.
"If anyone gets a call like I did, don't give in to them. Don't tell them anything, hang up if you have to, and then run in the opposite direction … just as fast as you can."


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License to Parent with Trace Embry equips parents with the tools necessary to produce families that accept and live out the biblical worldview for the purpose of fulfilling the Great Commission. They equip parents with these tools via their weekly 30-minute radio program and our one-minute daily features...Posted on March 28, 2012
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has filed the first lawsuit by a private business against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in opposition to the recently finalized HHS mandate requiring universal insurance coverage of...Posted on March 23, 2012
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Susan Rice encouraged Congress to change federal law that currently withholds U.S. dollars from UN organizations that admit Palestine as a Member State without a preceding agreement between Israel and...Posted on March 23, 2012
The issue of posting television public files online stirred debate this week between Republicans and Democrats in Congress and the FCC. In a hearing of House Financial Services & General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, which oversees...Posted on March 23, 2012
The State of Alabama is siding with the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) in its court challenge of the federal government's universal contraceptive mandate. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange stated...Posted on March 23, 2012
First it was the Media Matters story earlier this year – the revelation that the liberal news "watch dog" group had been funded by another liberal foundation specifically to target Christian broadcasters, like Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and Dr. James Dobson and Focus on the Family, for investigation...Posted on March 21, 2012
In a House subcommittee hearing on Monday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was peppered with questions about his support for a rule that would require TV broadcasters, and possibly radio stations in the future, to post on the Internet everything in their "political files" regarding political as well as issue-advocacy...Posted on March 21, 2012
For one night only, Fathom Events and actor Kirk Cameron will be presenting the live movie theatrical event, Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure on Tuesday, March 27 at 7:30 pm ET/ 6:30 pm CT/ 5:30 pm MT/ 8:00 pm PT...Posted on March 21, 2012
Joni Eareckson Tada, the founder and CEO of Joni and Friends International Disability Center, has been named the recipient of the Wilberforce Award from BreakPoint and The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. The award was named after the British parliamentarian William Wilberforce who successfully...Posted on March 21, 2012
There is some surprising information about where we get our news, according to the Pew Research Center. In their annual State of the News Media Report released this week, Pew found that radio is holding its own, with a majority of Americans (51%) still getting their local news from radio, outdistancing both newspapers...Posted on March 21, 2012
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LifeWay Men, a new men's ministry within LifeWay's church resources division, hosted Dallas pastor, speaker, author and NRB member Dr. Tony Evans during their Kingdom Man Live webcast, today at 12 p.m. EST / 11 a.m. CST. As a launch for his new book Kingdom Man, which presents concepts for...Posted on March 14, 2012


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Who is the best trickster in Japan? Let the games begin!
When a village is terrorized by a lion, the hunter Kambili wishes to track down the beast. But his wife Kumba warns that the lion is an evil wizard. This is an adaptation of a Malinke story.
When the north wind blows away the flour carried by a baker's young son, he sets out on a journey to insist it be returned. This Norwegian tale shows the value of perseverance nd gifts of nature.
A poor, hungry man has to pay for simply smelling soup! Here comes the wise Turkish folk hero Hodja to the rescue. What will he do to help?
In the African pourquoi tale, long ago people could take bites of the delicious sky whenever they wanted to. People gobbled and gobbled and gobbled the sky. Soon the sky had to make some changes.
This is a Lakota Indian tale about Iktomi, a lazy trickster who cannot be bothered to hunt for himself. Instead, he plays tricks and steals rather than earn an honest living. Will Muskrat teach him a lesson?
Can Kanchil, the little mouse deer, trick a few crafty crocodiles with giant teeth?


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Survey: U.S. Adults Conflicted on Password Security
The survey, conducted in June, asked over 2,200 U.S. adults about both their feelings for online safety and their online habits. 88 percent felt at least some concern that their personal data might be used without their knowledge; 59 percent were extremely concerned.
Despite these concerns, respondents admitted to engaging in risky online behavior. 69 percent use the same password on multiple websites, a serious problem. Half don't change their passwords regularly. And 64 percent opt for the convenience of storing their credit card information on shopping websites, where it could be stolen in the event of a data breach.
Those who do take a more active role in security wind up frustrated. 31 percent of those admitting to unease about online data never use the same password for multiple sites, and 50 percent of them claim they change their passwords regularly. It's not surprising that 82 percent of these groups occasionally forget a password—it's only natural if you use a different password for every site, or keep changing passwords. 73 percent feel frustrated about the precautions they need to take. You can view the full survey online on the Dashlane blog.
In truth, authentication for significant shopping or financial transactions using merely a password is archaic. We really need to get past the believe that passwords offer security. Two-factor authentication, either biometric or using a physical object that's part of the security system, is much more secure.
Alas, two-factor authentication needs to be implemented at the website level. You can't just decide to use it yourself. Until better security becomes widespread, a password manager like Dashlane or LastPass will at least take the frustration out of using strong passwords, different for every site.
For more from Neil, follow him on Twitter @neiljrubenking.


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As most of you already know, two classic lost ingredients have started peppering liquor stores again–absinthe and crème de violette. I found the Lucid absinthe about a month ago, but it was only last week that I finally tracked down this beauty:
The first damn thing I did with it was to mix a proper Aviation, using Paul Clarke's recipe on Serious Eats.
What a revelation. The violette lifts this drink above the clouds, and it's easy to picture yourself in the cocktail lounge of a Pan Am Clipper sipping this drink.
Then, last night, I remembered my vow to work through the absinthe cocktails in the Savoy. I grabbed my copy and started flipping through. I don't really have a plan to work through them in order or anything like that. If a drink sounds good and we have all the ingredients, I'll test it out. So it's just coincidence that I landed in the A's, with the Atty Cocktail.
I don't know the meaning of the name. While stomping around on eGullet, Erik Ellestad suggests that it might come from the common abbreviation for attorney–which is ironic, given that Mrs. Bitters is a lawyer-coddler. Erik notes of the drink that
it is a fascinating, elegant and complex thing, with the hints of Absinthe and Violet trading each other for flavor dominance as you sip.
Couldn't put it better myself. I didn't quite use his proportions, instead crunching through the math in my head to adapt the Savoy formula (one part vermouth, three parts gin, and three dashes each of violette and absinthe) into an ounce-based recipe.
So, my version of the Atty.
Atty Cocktail
- 3/4-oz. French vermouth
- 2 1/2-oz. gin (I used Plymouth)
- 1/4-tsp. crème de violette (Rothman and Winter)
- 1/4-tsp. absinthe (Lucid)
Stir and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.
The drink suffered from a not-long-enough stir, so be sure to either stir it well or shake it to make sure it's properly chilled.


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There isn't a more fitting setting for Watch Dogs 2, or a more appropriate home for the Central Operating System (ctOS), than a fictional take on the San Francisco Bay Area. Considered by many to be the hub of technology and connectivity – a place where the populace happily embraces tech and has little concern for how their data is used – the Bay Area is a natural fit for version 2.0 of ctOS, a new and improved version of the sprawling software that collects and controls information in the world of Watch Dogs. Keeping all that data under tight control can lead to abuse of the system, something Watch Dogs 2's protagonist learned the hard way when ctOS wrongly identified him as a highly wanted criminal. Having learned what happens when technology turns against you, he's now bending ctOS to his own purposes to fight back.
Meet Marcus Holloway. He's a young hacker from Oakland who uses his unique talents to bring the fight back to ctOS with the help of hacker collective DedSec. Just how good of a hacker is he? For starters, Marcus can hack just about every mechanical or electronic thing in the game. That could mean the phones of every nearby pedestrian (which now make a great distraction), parked vehicles and even cranes or forklifts that can be moved to reach a previously inaccessible area. This ability extends further than before, because Marcus can also remotely take direct control of other vehicles as if he were driving them, which in immediate terms is handy for creating distractions, making roadblocks for enemies, and indulging in a little recreational mayhem.
Marcus can get a little more personal than that. All of the people walking through the streets of San Francisco can be hacked in some way, letting Marcus manipulate situations from a safe distance on a person-by-person level. If direct confrontation isn't your thing, he can even tag an enemy as an immediate threat, prompting the police to interfere and arrest people. The hacks only get bigger from there, as electric, traffic, communication, and other large-scale systems are all vulnerable to Marcus and DedSec.
In instances where Marcus needs to get up close and personal with some unsavory folks, he'll have the tools for the job. His advanced 3D printer enables him to craft everything from disposable drones to weapon upgrades, but in general terms, Marcus has an assortment of both lethal and non-lethal options (including a taser and his trusty thunderball, a cue ball attached to a length of paracord) to get any job done as he sees fit.
He's also a better driver than Aiden Pearce was, and big steps have been taken to make driving in Watch Dogs 2 a more accessible, more rewarding experience. Each vehicle offers a unique feel, and you'll probably want to try them all while bombing down San Francisco's iconic hills at a hundred miles an hour.
A World of Options
Marcus has personal reasons for going after ctOS 2.0 and those that control it (or who want to control it), but the broader goal in Watch Dogs 2 revolves around DedSec, its anti-ctOS hacks, and how Marcus' leadership helps expose the corruption of the system and help his group's popularity grow. The main goal is to attract more followers from around the Bay Area, who will in turn put their resources and computing power behind helping DedSec achieve its missions.
Success is based on completing missions in Watch Dogs 2, but the mechanics of how Marcus and DedSec accomplish that is entirely up to you. If you're the kind of player that wants to incite chaos from a distance, creating distractions with vehicles or Marcus' personal drones, then you can do that. If you want to take a more direct approach and rush in shooting, you can do that. Maybe you want a mixture of the two that involves sticking bombs to a hacked vehicle? Or maybe you want it to stay completely unseen, like you were never there at all. Whatever your preference, Marcus' abilities are there to help you accomplish the open-ended missions in any way you see fit.
It's not just the missions themselves that are open-ended, either. Watch Dogs 2 tears open sandbox narrative like never before: the world is littered with missions that you can do in any order, each with storylines attached. You can also ignore them in favor of side missions, or just explore the world on your own time. Whatever you do, it will contribute to your follower count and bring you closer to the game's ending.
San Francisco Diversity
Watch Dogs 2's interpretation of the San Francisco Bay Area includes representations of six well-known Bay Area regions. including San Francisco (the game version of which has three distinct regions), Oakland, Marin County, and Silicon Valley. There are neighborhoods within each of these regions that are filled with the kind of people, architecture, and landmarks you would find in their real-life counterparts. For example, the Silicon Valley area has a lot of techies, students, and sprawling tech-company campuses; the Downtown area offers more verticality with its skyscrapers and construction aesthetic; and Fisherman's Wharf even has its trademark colony of sea lions.
Watch Dogs 2 is scheduled for release on November 15 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Keep your eyes on UbiBlog for more Watch Dogs 2 coverage.


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COSTA MESA — A lengthy team meeting followed the game Tuesday night for the Costa Mesa High girls' basketball team.
"We talked about confidence and taking open shots," Coach Nichole Maddox said. "We passed up on a lot of shots today."
The Mustangs failed to get any separation in the Orange Coast League either. Laguna Beach blew out the hosts, 56-27.
Laguna Beach (15-3, 3-2 in league) moved into a second-place tie with Costa Mesa (12-8, 3-2) and Godinez (3-2 in league) halfway through league play. Estancia (5-0 in league) is alone in first.
The Breakers have size inside, but Costa Mesa just had trouble making shots. Only one player made more than two field goals. That was junior Alexa Loredo, who led Mesa with 10 points.
Costa Mesa was actually in the game early, but seniors Molly Settles and Rachel Witter each picked up two fouls in the first quarter. With the starters on the bench, Laguna Beach began to pull away.
Sheena Reskey's baseline jumper, on an assist by junior point guard Danielle Obong, pulled Mesa within 15-14 early in the second quarter. But the Breakers ended the first half with nine unanswered points.
Laguna Beach was in the midst of a 21-2 run that lasted well into the third quarter. Freshman Jackie Cenan, who nearly outscored the Mustangs by herself with 24 points, did much of the damage.
Coming into the game, Cenan led the league in scoring at 18.9 points a game. On Tuesday night she added 10 rebounds and seven steals. She made 10 of 12 free throws.
"That was a quiet 24," Laguna Beach Coach Mark Lewis said. "She's a heck of an athlete, a very instinctive player. I thought she settled herself well in the second half. I don't know if she was jittery or trying to do too much in the first half, but she certainly settled herself at halftime."
Junior center Jane Wallin added 11 points for the Breakers, and freshman Alexandra Lewis scored 10.
Loredo was the only Mesa player with more than four points. Settles and Jacqueline Guerrero each had four. Aubriona Mathis chipped in a basket and 10 rebounds.
"I'm very pleased with how the girls played," Lewis said. "A good team win. I just thought that our rotations defensively were really good. Everybody had their head in the game, and we were really tracking the ball well. I thought we just moved well on defense."
Maddox, whose team had its lowest point total since a 61-28 loss to Tustin on Dec. 28, said her team can bounce back. Costa Mesa plays at Godinez on Thursday.
"They've just got to know that they can do it and have the confidence that they can do it," she said. "We're at a point where it's up to them to want it more than the other team. Anything's possible. We're still right in it. We just have to hope the numbers fall our way."
Laguna Beach, meanwhile, plays host to Estancia in a key game Thursday night. The Eagles won the teams' first meeting, 60-55, at Estancia on Jan. 15.
"We're capable of beating anybody when we play the type of basketball we're capable of playing," Lewis said. "I think we proved that here tonight."
Orange Coast League
Laguna Beach 56, Costa Mesa 27
LB – Cenan 24, Wallin 11, Lewis 10, Humphries 5, Even 5, Overstreet 1.
3-pt. goals – Lewis 2, Even 1.
Fouled out – None.
Technicals – None.
CM – Loredo 10, Settles 4, Guerrero 4, Obong 3, Mathis 2, Ford 2, Reskey 2..
3-pt. goals – Obong 1.
Fouled out – Ford.
Technicals – None.
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Like most nights ;) I was flipping through the latest holiday catalog from Pottery Barn when I stopped to look at their personalized ornaments. I was drawn to the simplicity of their glass etched ball... you know the one:
And, because this is how my brain works, of course I thought "I can totally do that myself! Tonight!"
And so I did. :)
I had half a box of these plain glass ornaments down in the basement, left over from a project a few years ago. You can buy a box of 12 for just $4 or $5 at most craft stores around the holidays, less if you catch them on sale.
I grabbed some plain contact paper and cranked out a small "V" on the Cricut.
You'll want to use the outside of the cutout, not the cutout itself, because you'll be putting etching cream in the negative space.
I didn't take a picture of the etching cream on it, but you can use your imagination.
Put a thick layer of cream over anything you want to be etched. Let it sit for about 5 minutes.
Rinse off the cream with water and remove the contact paper.
Then put it on your tree and feel good about yourself. :)
10 minutes, start to finish.
Catch as Catch Can
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In its August issue, Automobile expands on a story in AutoBild last month indicating that a new Mercedes-Benz Fl gelt rer — that's 300 SL gullwing to you, Yankee — was being readied by the company's AMG division. According to the magazine, the 750 hp supercar, reportedly due to be slotted into the AMG lineup above the SL65 in 2011, will have the AMG-built 6.2 (6.3) liter V8, tweaked with a pair of turbos and linked to a seven-speed, dual-clutch tranny. The suspension will be mechanical (no air springs). They're even talking about a 1,000hp SLR overshadower to come later. Exactly. The 2010s are going to be fun!
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Well, the zombie boom continues around the world, and leave it to a Japanese director to come up with something so outrageous, so gauche, and so tasteless, that one can only wonder why someone hasn't thought of it before. The title says it all. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead.
Brought to us by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, the co-director of Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl and director of another Japanese zombie schlock film, Zombie Self-Defense Force, this horror/comedy film takes audiences to new levels of undead indecency and reverse necrophilia, featuring a cast of notable AV (adult video) actresses such as Asami (The Machine Girl, RoboGeisha), Arisu Ozawa, Yui Aikawa, and Saya Kobayashi (currently one of Japan's hottest AV stars). According to the Japanese description
Undying rape spirits that have taken the form of human men descend upon helpless women in this sexy/horror/action film. Incidents of rampaging men raping women break out across Tokyo. Refusing to die even after their heads are lopped off and their hearts shot out, it seems that the only way to defeat these creatures is to sever the ****s from between their legs…
Well, if that doesn't sound like a fun-filled romp for the whole family, then I don't know what does! An official selection of the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 (February 23 – February 27), the Japanese DVD will be released on March 2, followed by a late-night theatrical event with several other films at Theatre Shinjuku on March 3, with some of the cast and crew in attendance. More info (in Japanese) can be found on director/writer Tomomatsu's blog. You can also Like the film on Facebook here.


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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has stated on Twitter that a Windows Phone app is currently in development and should be available soon. The establishment is a popular choice for consumers in the UK and an app for the platform will surely be welcomed by those who enjoy mobile banking while on the go.
@sharpmango Hi we are in the process of developing one, it will be ready soon. RL— RBS Help (@RBS_Help) January 22, 2013
RBS joins a number of banks across the globe who have already released apps for Windows Phone. Details on the RBS app are sketchy, but we can imagine it would support tight security, account management and fund transfer functionality. Natwest should also sport a similar solution with RBS being the parent group. We'll update with more information when available.
Thanks, Abu, for the tip!


text: Daniel Pfenniger wrote: >> There is a cost to *EVERYTHING* > > Well, not really surprising. The point is to be quantitative, > not subjective (fear, etc.). Each solution has a cost and alert > people will choose the best one for them, not for the vendor. Sadly, not always (choosing the best one for them). *Many* times the solution is dictated to them via some group with an agreement with some vendor. Decisions about which one are best are often seconded behind which brand to select. I've had too many conversations that went "we agree your solution is better but we can't buy it because you aren't brand X". Which is not a good reason for selection or omission of a vendor. > If many people choose IKEA furniture over traditional vendors > it is because the cost differential is favourable for them, > even taking all the overheads into account. Agreed. But furniture is not a computer (though I guess it could be ...) > When commodity clusters came in the 90's the gain was easily a > factor 10 at purchase. In my case the maintenance and licenses > costs of turn-key locked-in hardware added 20-25% of purchase > cost every year. With such a high cost we could have hired an > engineer full-time instead, but it was not possible because of > the locked-in nature of such machines. The self-made solution > was clearly the best. For some users, this is the right route. For Guy Coates and his team, for you, and a number of others. I agree it can be good. But there are far too many people that think a cluster is a pile-o-PCs + a cheap switch + a cluster distro. Its the "how do I make it work when it fails" aspect we tend to see people worrying online about. I am arguing for commodity systems. But some gear is just plain junk. Not all switches are created equal. Some inexpensive switches do a far better job than some of the expensive ones. Some brand name machines are wholly inappropriate as compute nodes, yet they are used. A big part of this process is making reasonable selections. Understanding the issues with all of these, understanding the interplay. I am not arguing for vendor locking (believe it or not). I simply argue for sane choices. > Today one finds intermediate solutions where the hardware is > composed of compatible elements, and the software is open source. > Some vendors offer almost ready to run and tested hardware for > a reasonable margin, adding less than a factor 2 to the original > hardware cost, without horrendous maintenance fee and restrictive > license. The locked-in effect is low, yet not completely zero. > This is probably the best solution for many budget-conscious > users. Yes. This is what we stress. We unfortunately have run into purchasing groups that like to try to save a buck, and will buy almost-but-not-quite-the-same-thing for the clusters we have put together, which makes it very hard to pre-build, and pre-test. Worse, when we see what they have purchased, and see that it really didn't come close to the spec we used, well .... I fail to see how being required to purchase the right thing after purchasing the wrong thing that you can't return, saves you money. We have had this happen too many times. >> Heinlein called it TANSTAAFL. Every single decision you make carries >> with it a set of costs. >> >> What purchasing agents, looking at the absolute rock bottom prices do >> not seem to grasp, is that those costs can *easily* swamp any >> purported gains from a lower price, and raise the actual landed price, >> due to expending valuable resource time (Gerry et al) for months on >> end working to solve problems that *should* have been solved previously. >> >> There is a cost to going cheap. This cost is time, and loss of >> productivity. If your time (your students time) is free, and you >> don't need to pay for consequences (loss of grants, loss of revenue, >> loss of productivity, ...) in delayed delivery of results from >> computing or storage systems, then, by all means, roll these things >> yourself, and deal with the myriad of debugging issues in making the >> complex beasts actually work. You have hardware stack issues, >> software stack issues, interaction issues, ... > > You forget to mention that turn-key locked-in systems in my experience > entail > inefficiency costs because the user cannot decide what to do when I can't mention your experience as I don't have a clue as to what you have experienced. Vendor lock in is IMO not a great thing. It increases costs, makes systems more expensive to support, reduces choices later on. Yet, we run head first into vendor lock-in in many purchasing departments. They prefer buying from one vendor with whom they have struck agreements. Which don't work to their benefit, but do for the vendors. > completely ignoring what is going on. Many problems may be solved in > minutes when the user controls the cluster, but may need days > or weeks for fixes from the vendor. A balanced presentation should > weight all the aspects of running a cluster. Yes. Doug's presentation did show you one aspect, and if you want more to "balance" the joy of clustered systems, certainly, his work can be expanded and amplified upon. > >> >> What I am saying is that Doug is onto something here. It ain't easy. >> Doug simply expressed that it isn't. > >> As for the article being self serving? I dunno, I don't think so. >> Doug runs a consultancy called Basement Supercomputing that provides >> services for such folks. I didn't see overt advertisements, or even, >> really, covert "hire us" messages. I think this was fine as a white >> paper, and Doug did note that it started life as one. > > You may have noticed that this article was originally written on demand > of SiCortex... That wasn't lost on me :(. Actually one of the things we are actively talking about relative to our high performance storage is "Freedom from bricking". If a theoretical bus hits the company a day after you get your boxes from us, our units are still supportable, and you can pay another organization to support them. We aren't aware of other vendors doing what we are doing that could (honestly) make such a claim. Even the ones that use the (marketing) label of "Open storage solutions". Yeah. Open. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/jackrabbit phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615


text: Hi Xavier, >>>> PPS: We've also been doing some experiments with putting >>>> OpenSolaris+ZFS on some of our generic (Supermicro + Areca) 16-disk >>>> RAID systems, which were originally intended to run Linux. >>> I think that DESY proved some data corruption with such >>> configuration, so they switched to OpenSolaris+ZFS. >> I'm confused. I am also talking about OpenSolaris+ZFS. What did DESY >> try, and what did they switch to? > Sorry, I am indeed not clear. As far as I know, DESY found data > corruption using Linux and Areca cards. They moved from linux to > OpenSolaris and ZFS, avoiding other corruption. This has been discussed > in HEPiX storage workgroup. However, I can not speak on their behalf at > all. I'll try to get you in touch with someone more aware of this issue, > as my statements lack of figures. I think that would be very interesting to the entire Beowulf mailing list, so please suggest that they respond to the entire group, not just to me personally. Here is an LKML thread about silent data corruption: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/9/10/191697 So far we have not seen any signs of data corruption on Linux+Areca systems (and our data files carry both internal and external checksums, so we would be sensitive to this). Cheers, Bruce


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For some, it's a question of anal retentiveness, and others, efficiency. But no matter your preference, the following statistics show that certain sexes simply care about it more than others.
According to Engineering Degree, only 50% of people pay attention to the orientation of their toilet paper roll at all. Of that group, 1 in 5 people get annoyed if the toilet paper is facing the opposite direction, and men are more likely to be annoyed by the situation. Another fun fact? The discussion page for Toilet Paper Orientation on Wikipedia is twice as long as the page for the Iraq War. Many more facts below:
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Jezebel unofficial poll time: Where do you stand on this issue?
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Daughter of Jase and Denise Guzman...Majoring in Biology and would like to become a sports trainer...Also competed in softball and earned the Coach's Award...favorite sports team is the Oakland Raiders...Lists her most memorable sports moment as being the first girl from California High School to compete at Mt. SAC her sophomore year...favorite movie is 'Bridesmaid' and 'Atonement'...Earned Scholar Athlete Award and was on the Principle's Honor Roll.
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The Mask of Circe
Jay Seward is a psychiatrist who allows himself to be a guinea pig for a technique for uncovering buried memories. The experiment goes too deep and uncovers things that should have stayed buried. Jay Seward fings himself answering a call he's never been aware of, and he becomes Jason (as in, Jason and the Argonauts). He believes he's been taken backwards in time. In this new place and time, two groups want him. The priests of Apollo want him to lead...
The Proud Robot
Galloway Gallegher is a great inventor--the problem is that he can only invent when he's drunk, and then when he's sober he doesn't remember what he's done afterwards. That leaves him very puzzles in trying to figure out what his other self has created....


text: > OK, we're thinking about the Asus P4T533 motherboards with 1066 RAMBUS > memory. This is a 16-node cluster upgrade. Our old network was have you considered waiting for the upcoming intel dual-ddr chipset? > kernel. Unfortunately, the Asus motherboards only have 32bit/33Mhz > PCI slots. As best as we can figure, this will shave a factor of 2 gross. I'd be astonished of the dual-ddr chipset didn't have pci-x, and quite possibly builtin gigabit. > the SSE2 instructions), and something less but still high on > memory-bottleneck problems. So the capability of the machine is being I expect that dual-PC2100 will wind up being pretty close (either way) compared to rdram1066. > PC800 motherboards with a faster PCI slot. Of course, if anyone knows > of a motherboard supporting both RAMBUS 1066 and either 64bit PCI or > 66Mhz PCI, that would be ideal, but such animals apparently do not yet why are you so set on rambus?


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'Tis the season for stocking-stuffing. Shoppers will soon be flooding stores and scanning websites in search of the perfect holiday gifts for kids. But some toys might spell big trouble in toyland, according to consumer watchdog U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). On Nov. 22, the group issued its 26th Annual Survey of Toy Safety, spotlighting toys that don't meet standards set by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and other health groups.
Which toys does PIRG peg as potentially dangerous? Keep clicking to find out...
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Research has linked exposure to so-called phthalates - compounds added to plastics to make them more flexible and durable - to birth defects, premature delivery, early onset of puberty, and low sperm counts. That's why the 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act banned products with phthalate levels greater than 1000 parts-per-million (ppm).
These glasses from Joking Around contain 42,000 ppm of phthalates.
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This sleep mask from Claire's contains 77,000 ppm of phthalates - a whopping 77 times the allowed amount.
Exposure to lead is linked to IQ deficits, ADHD, and motor difficulties in kids. Products manufactured after August 14, 2011 are only allowed to have 100 ppm of lead (the previous limit was 300 ppm). This children's book from Piggy Toes Press contains 720 ppm.
LL's Whirly Wheel contains 3,700 ppm of lead - way above the 300 ppm limit.
Spritz medals contain 140 ppm of lead, exceeding the CPSC's new standard. PIRG actually supports the American Academy of Pediatrics lead recommendations, which suggest a limit of just 40 ppm.
This Hello Kitty product contains 100 ppm of lead, equaling the CPSC lead limit for newly-manufactured toys. But PIRG says that's till 60 ppm too many.
Disney Fairy's Tinkerbell watch falls below the new government standards, at 91 ppm lead. That's still too high, says PIRG.
This bracelet contains 74 ppm of lead, exceeding PIRG's standards.
This toy bike from Honda contains 89 ppm of lead.
The CSPC uses a "choke tube test" to see what products might be choking hazards. If a toy is marketed for kids under 6 and fits into the tube, it's considered a choking risk. Some toys on this list failed the test, others PIRG thinks are too close to comfort, and still may present a choking risk.
This dinosaur from a line of Greenbrier International toys raised a red flag among PIRG's testers.
This block set from ToySmith contains small parts that are a choking hazard to children, according to PIRG.
Oscar's trash-can lid comes off easily and flunked the choke test, according to PIRG.
HABA's fruit may look pretty and pass the choke test, but they might still pose a risk, says PIRG. Even though they might be legally allowed, toys like this suggest the CPSC should increase the size of the choke tube tester, the organization said.
This green rubber grape from Iwako fits just enough in the choke tube test to cause concern. It should have a warning stating its risk, says PIRG.
The CSPSC says 4M2U's Orange Bear is a potential choking hazard for 3-6 year-old kids, and needs a label stating it.
Greenbrier International's baby blocks are missing a choke hazard warning label, PIRG says.
Rhode Island Novelty's assorted toy set fits in the choke tube tester, and is missing a warning label on its container, PIRG says.
These small balls from Sqishland are missing choke hazard warning labels on their packaging.
Think those bins of small balls are safe? Think again. Many small balls in unmarked bins fail the safety test for children under 3, says PIRG.
Cross-bows like this one contain two small balls that are potential choking hazards, PIRG says, so the packaging needs a warning label.
Keep all balloons and balloon parts away from children under 8 years old, PIRG says - especially enticing ones promoting infant birthdays and iconic toddler characters. Pieces of burst balloons are choking hazards, which is why the group recommends young kids avoid them entirely.
For "close-to-the-ear" toys, the CPSC allows a maximum of 65 dB of sound when the toy is 1 inch from the ear. This toy phone tested at 66-74 dB.
These headphones exceeded the federal CPSC standard of 65 dB. "Excessive noise could damage child's hearing," according to PIRG.
CPSC standards for sound levels from toys that aren't meant to be held close are based on noises from toys kept 10 inches away. The CPSC's maximum allowed noise level for these toys is 85 dB. This toy tested at 90-93 dB, which could potentially damage a child's hearing, PIRG says.


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Young Lions held to draw
Saido Berahino saved England Under-21s' blushes in their 1-1 draw with Finland on a night which saw captain Andre Wisdom sent off and goalkeeper Jack Butland caught out for the opening goal.
It was an eventful second match in charge for new Young Lions boss Gareth Southgate, whose first game at the helm ended in a 1-0 win over minnows Moldova last week.
Berahino netted that night and was on the scoresheet again in Tampere, grabbing a second-half equaliser in a European Championship qualifier that did not go to plan.
Finland took the lead in avoidable circumstances, with Butland rather embarrassingly caught out of position by a whipped, long-range free-kick by Moshtagh Yaghoubi in the 15th minute.
It was just reward for the hosts' early pressure, with the Stoke goalkeeper then tipping over a Robin Lod effort before James Ward-Prowse had England's first chance of note.
The Southampton man, making his second start for the Under-21s, again came close on the stroke of half-time, only to be denied by Fulham goalkeeper Jesse Joronen.
When play resumed, Butland was relieved to see Tim Vayrynen fire over after being beaten to the ball before substitute Harry Kane was denied moments after coming on.
England soon drew level, though, with fine work by Manchester United's Wilfried Zaha allowing Berahino to finish from close range in the 67th minute.
Southgate's side pushed for a winner but fell just short as they played the final 16 minutes without skipper Wisdom, who was sent off following an altercation with Vayrynen.


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L – Oilers 2 , Capitals 4 – Game 6 – 2013-10-14 @ 5:00 PM MST – SNETW
So the hot button topic for the Oilers these days is of course goaltending. Even Dubnyk would admit how disappointing this has been for the Oilers this year (that article I just linked makes me feel terrible for Dubnyk). I feel bad for him too, as you know he is the type that tries to carry the team on his back, even if it's questionable whether he's the guy that can. He wants to win every game, and I believe he competes hard, but there have been some questionable goals going in the net lately. When it rains, it pours for a goaltender. It's hard for a goalie to battle back once they've lost that confidence. I really hope he can regain his form. I never really thought of him as a top-level goaltender, but he was all the Oilers needed. Unfortunately, as of late, he hasn't been his usual self. He's regressed a lot. He's not making stops that he should be able to stop and you know he's beating himself up over it. My stance is that the Oilers need to go out and grab a cheap goalie as a stop gap. They can re-visit goaltending in July. Dubnyk will be a UFA then, and there will be some good goalies on the market (assuming close to status quo on contracts).
Anyways, on to tonight's game. I would have to figure that Labarbera gets the start in this one. Yakupov is rumored to be sitting out this one, again. Joanne Ireland has a good article up about Yakupov. Well, it's good and it's bad. It has a good bit from Eakins, explaining the decision. I was fine with it to begin with. I didn't really care for Yakupov's response in the article though. It worries me a little bit, to be honest. I'm the type to give most players the benefit of doubt when it comes to quotes though. So I won't read much into it at this point, and you can all go there and read and formulate your own opinions. I just didn't like the "I really don't like skating all the time, and forechecking, and hitting somebody every shift. I don't think it's my game" quote. It might not be your game, but if it's the Oilers' game, you do it. That's what I want to hear. I'll let him off the hook for now, and hope that he gets back on the ice soon and plays the team game fully. We can criticize some other players on the team for doing things like making bad passes, or pinching in at the wrong time, but I think most guys on this team are doing their best to play Eakins' system. Is Yakupov? I want to think he is. I am not going to give up on him or anything… just want to see him play the team game here and not complain about it. Anyways, enough on that!
The Oilers are playing good enough hockey that they should be winning games. Hopefully they get a good battle out of their goaltender tonight and can win this one.
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Yesterday, in our conclusion to "The Sobel Problem Redux", we noted that multiple Twitterzens think that officers are roughly equal in skill to enlisted men. (If not equal, than skilled in different ways.) Which sounded to us suspiciously...
I mean, who else argues for a "by each according to his ability, to each according to his need" ethos besides communists? And what is less communist than the red-blooded American military? Yet the political values soldiers espouse--conservative, libertarian, free market--often don't match the policies instituted by the Department of Defense. Not just don't match; they directly contradict each other.
Don't take our word for it, though. Rosa Brooks started a new blog on ForeignPolicy.com, "By Other Means", with this bold first article, "Welfare State: Meet America's socialist military." E.J. Dionne, on The Daily Show, told Jon Stewart, "What I can't understand is that the military itself is, in some ways, one of the most socialist institutions in our country." (That point starts at minute 4:40):
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How can two (albeit liberal) opinion-makers accuse the military of socialism when it embraces conservativism? As I wrote yesterday, poll after Military Times poll shows that the military, especially its officer corps, doesn't just lean but falls head over heels towards conservative thought. Only 12% of the military registers Democrat. When it comes to military blogs, they are either distinctly apolitical on domestic politics or rabidly conservative, with little in between.
Yet this conservative military...
- Votes for Republican candidates that hate Obamacare...but has its own universal health care system.
- Votes for politicians with NRA backing...but doesn't let soldiers openly carry weapons on military bases.
- Venerates the free market...but subsidizes gasoline, housing and even cigarettes on military bases.
- Believes in a libertarian ethos where the government won't push them around...but works for an organization that can tell them what to wear, how much to drink, and when to go to work (always on call).
Eric C and I don't just want to call the military socialist or communist. We want to dive deeper into this cognitive dissonance in a new series, "Our Communist Military", which leads us to the following ideas:
Theme 1: Hypocrisy and the conflict between ideology and life. Or philosophy and action. Or beliefs and practice. Embracing an ideology, but not living it. Political philosophies should be more than something we argue about in the op-eds pages and on blogs. Yet, this discrepancy--believing one thing but acting another--happens from the smallest units in the Army to the entire DoD as a whole...and even during deployment. While military leaders advocate and vote for a party which believes in small-government at every turn, they create a "big government" culture with "big government" solutions, steadfastly protecting the never shrinking Pentagon budget.
Either something is true or it isn't. If you believe in an idea, but then oppose applying it, one of the following must be true: the action is wrong or the idea is wrong. For example, either the government should sponsor scientific research, which can create technological marvels (and jobs)--as it does in the DoD's weapons procurement system--or it can't. If it works for the Pentagon, then the government probably should support scientific research in non-military sectors.
Theme 2: We can't have a reasonable debate about the military. In several of our posts, we will note that pro-military supporters--from military blogs to armed service associations to politicians--compete for votes by protecting the larger defense establishment from any and all criticism. Just pointing out the inconsistencies in unwavering conservative support for the military--for instance, Tricare isn't a voucher program; it is a state-run health care system--can get one labeled a traitor, ungrateful, unpatriotic or evil.
As we mentioned yesterday, conservative pundits usually bemoan a "politically correct", weak, self-esteem-praising American culture that "awards every child a medal." Either our society has become too soft and politically correct, or citizens should be able to criticize the military without worrying about being labeled a "traitor". Conservatives can't believe in both ideals simultaneously.
Theme 3: The defense establishment can learn from libertarians and free-market capitalism, and our country can learn from the Army's socialist policies. Eric C is an avowed liberal. I am an avowed moderate. In both cases, we agree on some points. We both agree that a properly functioning free market can inspire creativity and efficiencies. We also agree that unchecked capitalism can lead to inequality, unequal opportunities, poorly functioning societies and monopolization. In short, both libertarians and socialists have valid points. Our series will point out a lot of situations where the Army should liberalize (in a classical sense), but will also point out the amazing benefits of some socialist policies that our country should nationalize from the Army.
Because the Army definitely needs more free-market thinking. It needs the "disruptive change" that has caused such a stir on the blogosphere from Starbuck to Abu Muqawama to multiple writers on the Small Wars Journal. The army can learn from libertarians by encouraging individual initiative, rewarding personal achievement, and inspiring innovation/efficiencies from the top to bottom.
At the same time, our nation needs more socialist thinking. The Army has universal health care for all dependents because it makes for a more reliable workforce. The Army encourages education and provides generous benefits to soldiers so it can field a smarter workforce. And the Army's incentive system (read: pay) doesn't come close to approaching the excesses of Wall Street, while delivering similar performance.
All this leads to our most political point yet. For libertarianism and free-markets to survive--philosophies based on the idea that the free-market vastly outperforms government--they have to carve out a huge exception for national security. Instead of calmly, rationally comparing when the free-market both fails and succeeds, and when government does the same, small-government libertarians cling to their ideas lock, stock and barrel, while pretending the gigantic military/national security bureaucracy can do no wrong.
Either the Pentagon needs to drastically shrink with the rest of the government, or our society needs a calm debate over what government can and cannot do well--and a cost-benefit analysis of those decisions--but conservatives can't have it both ways.


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Things do not just happen. Events are not just accidental, for there is a definite plan of history and everything has been pre-arranged from the beginning. God who "sees the end from the beginning" has a purpose in it all, and knows "the times and the seasons." He knows when to bless Israel and when not to bless her. Everything is under His hand.
It was "when the fullness of the time was come" that God sent forth His Son. He allowed the great philosophers, with the clarification of thought, to come first. Then emerged the Romans, famous for ordered government, building their roads and spreading their wonderful legal system throughout the world. It was after this that God sent forth His Son. God had planned it all.
There is a purpose in history, and what is now happening in this twentieth century is not accidental. Remembering that the Church is at the center of God's plan, let us never forget the pride and arrogance of the Church in the nineteenth century. Behold her sitting back in self-satisfaction, enjoying her so-called cultured sermons and learned ministry, feeling just a little ashamed to mention such things as conversion and the work of the Holy Spirit.
Observe the prosperous Victorian comfortably enjoying his worship. Note his faith in science and his readiness to substitute philosophy for revelation.... Yes, the Church needed chastisement, and it is not at all difficult to understand this twentieth century when we consider the story of the nineteenth. There is indeed a plan discernible in all these things.
God does not stop to consult us, and everything takes place according to "the counsel of His own will." God has His time; He has His own way; and He acts and works accordingly.
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i am trying to find resources on the derivation of the fundamental solution to the radial wave equation. any suggestions of or links to books, papers, and/or notes would be much appreciated. i have tried searching google, arxiv, etc. for information, but i haven't come up with anything useful yet. there's a lot of material pertaining to physics concerning using the solution, but i need the derivation.
i've been learning about solutions to the wave equation for euclidean dimensions 1-3 (d'Alembert's formula, spherical means, method of descent), and the above is my next task. if you have any general insight about the radial wave equation, this would be helpful as well. thanks!
(background: 3rd year graduate student in mathematics)
edit: if no one has any specific references to the derivation, then what about context? does the spherically symmetric wave equation mean the same thing as the radial wave equation? i know that seems like a possibly ignorant question, but to someone unfamiliar with or new to this, i think it's good to be cautious and not say well they sound the same.


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Now being called the Tour de Crash the 9th stage saw the worst of it.
On the fast descent of the the Pas de Peyrol (Puy Mary) there was a large crash with riders going into a ditch on the left and down an embankment into the woods on the right. Forced to abandon after this crash were Jurgen Van den Broeck, GC leader for Omega Pharma-Lotto and teammate Fredrik Willems, who both broke a collar bone; Astana leader Alexandre Vinokourov, who had to be carried up the embankment by his teammates, broke an elbow and his femur; and Garmin-Cervélo's Dave Zabriskie, who broke a wrist. The peloton reached an agreement to slow to allow riders in the crash to return to the peloton which allowed a breakway group to gain more time.
In a bizarre accident, with 36 km to go, in the breakaway group of Thomas Voeckler (Europcar), Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky), Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM), Sandy Casar (Francaise des Jeux), and Luis Leon Sanchez (Rabobank) Flecha was struck by an French television car that veered to avoid a tree on the edge of the road. Flecha struck Voeckler, who managed to stay upright, but took out Hoogerland who landed on a barbed wire fence.
Flecha was able to get up quickly and continue while Hoogerland required medical attention before he could resume.
Hoogerland was leading the polka dot jersey competition on the road so only by finishing the stage could he claim it.
Voeckler, Casar, and Sanchez waited for a time and then resumed their breakaway pace.
Sanchez won the stage and Voeckler took the yellow jersey and now holds a lead over Sanchez by 1:49 and Cadel Evans by 2:26.
Courage, Hoogerland on the podium:
Top 10 GC:
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar 38:35:11
2 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:01:49
3 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:02:26
4 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek 0:02:29
5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek 0:02:37
6 Tony Martin (Ger) HTC-Highroad 0:02:38
7 Peter Velits (Svk) HTC-Highroad
8 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team RadioShack 0:02:43
9 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:02:55
10 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Leopard Trek 0:03:08
The best placed Italians:
11 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:03:36
12 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - ISD 0:03:37
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