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A genealogy blog to encourage people with Pakistani ancestry to have fun researching their family trees.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Graves in Karachi
Jannatul Baqi Graveyard at Hub River Road, S.I.T.E.
* Azeempura Cemetery, Shah Faisal Colony
* Bagh-e-Ahmed (AMI's Karachi Chapter Cemetery)
* Essa Nagri Graveyard, Main Sir Shah Suleman Road (officially declared closed)
* Gizri Cemetery, D.H.A.
* Mewashah Cemetery (officially declared closed)
* Jannatul Baqi Cemetery, Hub River Road, S.I.T.E.
* Leemo Goth Graveyard, Haji Leemo Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal
* Metrovill III Graveyard, Metrovill III, Gulshan-e-Iqbal
* Mian Goth Cemetery, Malir
* Model Colony Cemetery (New), Malir
* Model Colony Cemetery (Old), Malir
* New Karachi Cemetery, New Karachi
* Old Morraro Cemetery, S.I.T.E.
* P.E.C.H.S. Cemetery, Tariq Road (officially declared closed)
* Paposh Nagar Cemetery (officially declared closed)
* Sakhi Hassan Cemetery, North Nazimabad (officially declared closed)
* Peer Bukhari Graveyard, Mannoo Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal
* Pehalwan Goth Graveyard, Pehalwan Goth, Gulistan-e-Johar
* Saudabad Cemetery, Malir (officially declared closed)
* Shah Faisal Cemetery(Colony Gate), Shahrah-e-Faisal (officially declared closed)
* Shanti Nagar Graveyard, Dalmia Road, Shanti Nagar
* Wadi-e-Hussain Cemetery, Super Highway (Wadi-e-Hussain.com)
* Gora Kabristan, Shahrah-e-Faisal.
* Bani Israel Graveyard
Zoroastrian (Parsi)
* Parsi Dar-e-Meher (Fire Temple), Dr Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota Road.
In Urdu, a grave is called a qabar and a graveyard/cemetery is called a qabarstan.
Which cemeteries have you visited? How did you find them? Did you think the cemetery was being well looked after? How important is it for the future generations that gravestones are preserved? Leave a comment below or email me at pakistani_g[at]hotmail.co.uk
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- Morten said...
Hi Anon
Here in Norway, the genealogical society has established a public database consisting of close to 2 million entries for gravestones in cemeteries/graveyards. For quite a number of these entries you can also see pictures of the tombstones. One of the purposes of this database is to preserve the visual of the tombstones for the future, as the graves normally are reused after many years and the old gravestones are taken down. This way family and later descendants have a place they still can visit online and remember that person who were burried in that grave.
You can visit the database here:
Tombstones and cemeteries in Norway
- July 21, 2010 at 11:13 PM
- Anon said...
Thats a great idea Morten :)
- July 23, 2010 at 3:01 PM
I have visited the sakhi Hassan one. It is in terrible shape. It is too small and most of my family's kabars are missing :(.
- February 26, 2012 at 5:51 AM
- Anon said...
Anonymous, it is a great shame that many graveyardsin Pakistan are in poor condition. Someone needs to do something about this and also to ensure future descendants have some way of knowing where their loved ones were buried.
- February 26, 2012 at 10:19 PM
- Woreker said...
I am working on computerization of Graves record of Karbala Bagh commonly known as Janat ul Baqyeh Grave yard located at Saeedabad Hub River Road Karachi
Link id www.karbalabagh.simplesite.com
- April 25, 2016 at 5:55 PM


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A woman Afghan member of parliament was shot and wounded shortly after several gunmen kidnapped a deputy minister in separate incidents in the capital Kabul, officials said on Wednesday.
The two attacks, along with a spate of deadly violence in the capital in recent weeks, have raised questions about the ability of Afghan forces to maintain security as international troops prepare to withdraw from the country by the end of the year.
Mariam Koofi was shot in one of Kabul's upscale districts late on Tuesday after an argument with a member of the security forces, the interior ministry said in a statement. Her injury was not life threatening.
A man was arrested and an investigation was under way.
Earlier on the same day, gunmen kidnapped Ahmad Shah Wahid, the deputy minister of public works, as he was travelling in his car to work, officials said.
No group has taken responsibility for Wahid's kidnapping, but abduction is a lucrative business in impoverished Afghanistan and scores of Afghans and foreigners have been captured and money demanded in return for their release.
The kidnap of such a high profile politician, however, is rare.
The attacks come just over a week after Afghans went to the polls to elect a new president. Early results show no outright winner, meaning a likely run-off between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-world bank official Ashraf Ghani.
Final results are due on May 14, with a run-off at the earliest in late May.
President Hamid Karzai, who has been in power since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001, was not eligible to run for a third term.
Afghanistan's allies praised the April 5 vote as a success because of a high turnout estimated at 60 percent of 12 million eligible voters and the failure of the Taliban to stage high-profile attacks.
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Federal authorities charge that Tavon White, an inmate known as "Bulldog," took control of the Black Guerrilla Family gang at the Baltimore City Detention Center soon after his arrival in 2009 on an attempted murder charge. He is seen here in a 2009 mug shot from the Anne Arundel County Police Department.
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The Home Turf update for DC Universe Online goes live today and lets players set up their own base of operations. Does anyone know if there's a DC-equivalent of IKEA?
A post on the PlayStation Blog discusses the details of the update and primes players on what they can do with their new cribs. The most important features of home bases are the Mainframe and the Control Panel. The Mainframe can be thought of as your own personal tech concierge. And the handy little terminal known as the Control Panel lets you relocate and rename your base, as well as decorate it. You can feng-shui things like a R&D Station, Broker, Mailbox, and Banks.
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The Mainframe lets you unlock awesome new mods and features that will give your hero or villain a leg up in battle. Some of these include Orbital Strikes, Supply Drops, Sidekicks or Accomplices, and a small group of Back-Up heroes or Henchmen. Everyone needs an entourage, right?
Aside from the Home Turf goodies, DC Universe Online is also adding Tier 4 solo challenges, set around Ace Chemicals, Steelworks, Arkham Asylum, and Stryker's Island. More Player vs. Environment content is always welcome! Check out the blog post to read up on the rest of the details.
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Tice appeared on Fox Business News this afternoon.
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"Right now the baton has been passed from the private sector leveraging to the public sector leveraging. We broke down the private securitization markets in '08, and now the Fed and the ECB have had to enlarge their balance sheets and they're going to destroy their currencies."
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Constructive Approximation and Numerical Methods in Geodetic; Research Today - An Attempt of a Categorization Based on anUncertainty Principle (1999)
This review article reports current activities and recent progress on constructive approximation and numerical analysis in physical geodesy. The paper focuses on two major topics of interest, namely trial systems for purposes of global and local approximation and methods for adequate geodetic application. A fundamental tool is an uncertainty principle, which gives appropriate bounds for the quantification of space and momentum localization of trial functions. The essential outcome is a better understanding of constructive approximation in terms of radial basis functions such as splines and wavelets.
The satellite-to-satellite tracking (SST) problems are characterized from mathematical point of view. Uniqueness results are formulated. Moreover, the basic relations are developed between (scalar) approximation of the earth's gravitational potential by "scalar basis systems" and (vectorial) approximation of the gravitational eld by "vectorial basis systems". Finally, the mathematical justication is given for approximating the external geopotential field by finite linear combinations of certain gradient fields (for example, gradient fields of multi-poles) consistent to a given set of SST data.
The purpose of satellite-to-satellite tracking (SST) and/or satellite gravity gradiometry (SGG) is to determine the gravitational field on and outside the Earth's surface from given gradients of the gravitational potential and/or the gravitational field at satellite altitude. In this paper both satellite techniques are analysed and characterized from mathematical point of view. Uniqueness results are formulated. The justification is given for approximating the external gravitational field by finite linear combination of certain gradient fields (for example, gradient fields of single-poles or multi-poles) consistent to a given set of SGG and/or SST data. A strategy of modelling the gravitational field from satellite data within a multiscale concept is described; illustrations based on the EGM96 model are given.
Two possible substitutes of the Fourier transform in geopotential determination are windowed Fourier transform (WFT) and wavelet transform (WT). In this paper we introduce harmonic WFT and WT and show how it can be used to give information about the geopotential simultaneously in the space domain and the frequency (angular momentum) domain. The counterparts of the inverse Fourier transform are derived, which allow us to reconstruct the geopotential from its WFT and WT, respectively. Moreover, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition that an otherwise arbitrary function of space and frequency has to satisfy to be the WFT or WT of a potential. Finally, least - squares approximation and minimum norm (i.e. least - energy) representation, which will play a particular role in geodetic applications of both WFT and WT, are discussed in more detail.
Local Multiscale Approximations of Geostrophic Flow: Theoretical Background and Aspects of Scientific Computing (2005)
In modern geoscience, understanding the climate depends on the information about the oceans. Covering two thirds of the Earth, oceans play an important role. Oceanic phenomena are, for example, oceanic circulation, water exchanges between atmosphere, land and ocean or temporal changes of the total water volume. All these features require new methods in constructive approximation, since they are regionally bounded and not globally observable. This article deals with methods of handling data with locally supported basis functions, modeling them in a multiscale scheme involving a wavelet approximation and presenting the main results for the dynamic topography and the geostrophic flow, e.g., in the Northern Atlantic. Further, it is demonstrated that compressional rates of the occurring wavelet transforms can be achieved by use of locally supported wavelets.
In this paper we introduce a multiscale technique for the analysis of deformation phenomena of the Earth. Classically, the basis functions under use are globally defined and show polynomial character. In consequence, only a global analysis of deformations is possible such that, for example, the water load of an artificial reservoir is hardly to model in that way. Up till now, the alternative to realize a local analysis can only be established by assuming the investigated region to be flat. In what follows we propose a local analysis based on tools (Navier scaling functions and wavelets) taking the (spherical) surface of the Earth into account. Our approach, in particular, enables us to perform a zooming-in procedure. In fact, the concept of Navier wavelets is formulated in such a way that subregions with larger or smaller data density can accordingly be modelled with a higher or lower resolution of the model, respectively.
This work is dedicated to the wavelet modelling of regional and temporal variations of the Earth's gravitational potential observed by GRACE. In the first part, all required mathematical tools and methods involving spherical wavelets are introduced. Then we apply our method to monthly GRACE gravity fields. A strong seasonal signal can be identified, which is restricted to areas, where large-scale redistributions of continental water mass are expected. This assumption is analyzed and verified by comparing the time series of regionally obtained wavelet coefficients of the gravitational signal originated from hydrology models and the gravitational potential observed by GRACE. The results are in good agreement to previous studies and illustrate that wavelets are an appropriate tool to investigate regional time-variable effects in the gravitational field.


text: stev391 at email.com wrote: >> I have Compro VideoMate E600F analog PCIe TV/FM capture card with MPEG II A/V Encoder. I use >> Gentoo 2008.0 with 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64 kernel. There's no any support for this card on the >> V4L/DVB repository yet, so anybody help me? >> >> lspci -vvnn >> 02:00.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant Device [14f1:8852] (rev 02) >> Subsystem: Compro Technology, Inc. Device [185b:e800] >> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- >> FastB2B- DisINTx- >> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- >> <PERR- INTx- >> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes >> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 >> Region 0: Memory at fd600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M] >> Capabilities: [40] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00 >> DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us >> ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset- >> DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- >> RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ >> MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes >> DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr+ FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- >> LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <2us, L1 <4us >> ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot- >> LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+ >> ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- >> LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- >> ABWMgmt- >> Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 >> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) >> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- >> Capabilities: [90] Vital Product Data <?> >> Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- >> Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 >> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?> >> Capabilities: [200] Virtual Channel <?> >> >> dmesg >> cx23885 driver version 0.0.1 loaded >> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 >> cx23885[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver. You can >> cx23885[0]: try to pick one of the existing card configs via >> cx23885[0]: card=<n> insmod option. Updating to the latest >> cx23885[0]: version might help as well. >> cx23885[0]: Here is a list of valid choices for the card=<n> insmod option: >> cx23885[0]: card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC >> cx23885[0]: card=1 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1800lp >> cx23885[0]: card=2 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1800 >> cx23885[0]: card=3 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1250 >> cx23885[0]: card=4 -> DViCO FusionHDTV5 Express >> cx23885[0]: card=5 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1500Q >> cx23885[0]: card=6 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1500 >> cx23885[0]: card=7 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1200 >> cx23885[0]: card=8 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1700 >> cx23885[0]: card=9 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1400 >> cx23885[0]: card=10 -> DViCO FusionHDTV7 Dual Express >> cx23885[0]: card=11 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express >> cx23885[0]: card=12 -> Leadtek Winfast PxDVR3200 H >> CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 185b:e800, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected] >> cx23885[0]: i2c bus 0 registered >> cx23885[0]: i2c bus 1 registered >> cx23885[0]: i2c bus 2 registered >> cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb0 >> cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 2, irq: 16, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfd600000 >> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64 >> >> Conexant CX23885-13Z PCIe A/V Decoder >> Conexant CX23417-11Z MPEG II A/V Encoder >> XCeive XC2028ACQ Video Tuner >> >> Detailed specification is on http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Compro_VideoMate_E600F >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Marek Wasilow >> >> PS: Sorry for my poor english... > > Marek, > > At the moment there no support for this card (As you have found out already). > > No one has mentioned adding support for this card yet. However you have already started gathering the required items for adding support (as on the wiki page) > > See the other VideoMate cards in the wiki for what else is required. I have added support to the DVB side of the other VideoMate cards in a patch. However due to some of the items in the patch that worked, but cannot be explained, this patch has not been incorporated to the main DVB drivers. > > I do intend in the future to look at the analog side of these cards. However the Leadtek PVR3200H will be the first that I will get the analog going on. However I have been very busy lately and have not had a chance to look into. > > Other items that you could include on the wiki page: > * eeprom dump (read this http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-September/028529.html) > * regspy dump of all registers in all states (It is Steven Toths DScaler Regspy version that you require) > * i2c scan see the other Compro VideoMate wiki pages. > > Thanks again for creating the wiki page and contacting the mailing list. When I get around to adding support I will try to remember your email address, if not just check the mailing list. If you want to add support check out the http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/cx23885-audio/ add look at the recent changes. This will give you an idea of what is required. Marek, Mauro has sent me your email details directly. I replied to with some detailed instructions which you never replied to. I then received your second email asking for information, which I replied to again. You obviously didn't see either email. I asked Mauro to forward my emails to you directly, thinking that perhaps your ISP blacklisted my ISP. You never got any of these emails? - Steve


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Zinc: Pumpkin seeds
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The Marlins are actually doing just a bit better than this stat zombie would expect.
From a regression I ran a few years ago,
Winning Pct = .5 + 1.21*OPSDifferential
The Marlins have a .008 differential this year for a .50968 predicted winning percentage. For a 115 games, that would be 58.61 wins. They have 61. So 2.39 more wins than expected. Does not seem like a big deal. The standard error of the regression was 1.54 wins per season. So the Marlins are one win beyond that. We should also wait until the season is over to judge them. My regression equation is from the article An OPS Question.
But this issue comes from a Paul Lebowitz article called Why the stat zombies ignore the Marlins. (Hat Tip: Baseball Think Factory) Here is the relevant paragraph:
"Most of the stat zombies predicted them as winning between 66 and 74 games. But it doesn't matter whether they win 80, 85 or 90 games; whether or not they make the playoffs or fade out at the end. They've built an organization that should be admired in the way that Michael Lewis's creative non-fiction Moneyball canonized the Billy Beane A's. Lewis tried to create an "age of enlightenment" in baseball inserting the Ivy League-educated genius into the game at the expense of those who can look at an athlete and find his talent regardless of what his stat sheet says. The numbers don't fit into that kind of analysis, so it's best to ignore it and hope it goes away; but it's not going away."
So some stat zombies did not correctly predict the Marlin win total. Mr. Lebowitz does not say who they were or provide any links. Also, I don't know if any stat zombies claim they have perfect foresight. There will always be things no one can predict. For example, who could have predicted that both Jim Rice and Fred Lynn would have had such outstanding rookie seasons in 1975 to propel the Red Sox to the AL East title?
But as I hinted at earlier, stat zombies were not the only ones to "ignore" the Marlins. The following links show they were not highly regarded before the season by non-zombies:
Chris Bahr's Predictions at the Sporting News (he predicted they would be 4th)
Sporting News Power Poll (the Marlins at #20 in mlb, 11th in the NL)
CNN/SI MLB 2009 Preseason Predictions
The last one had 13 experts and none predicted the Marlins to win the division or be the wild card.
One last thing. One stat zombie, Tom Tippett, of Diamond Mind baseball fame, has done a pretty good job of making predictions. You can read about that at 2005 Predictions -- Keeping Score. Look for the 7 year composite rankings towards the end. He did a very good job of predicting standings using his simulations from the Diamond Mind game. He was a also such a good stat zombie that he got hired by the Red Sox.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Maybe Stat Zombies Ignored The Marlins But Others Did, Too
Posted by Cyril Morong at 9:06 AM
2 comments:
- Joe said...
Well, I picked the Marlins to win 81 games, so I am pretty content with that. :)
- August 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM
- Cyril Morong said...
Thanks for dropping by and commenting. 81 sounds like a reasonable prediction.
- August 22, 2009 at 1:05 PM
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F. T., & Martin, J. E. (2005). Towards an alternative notion of
information systems ontologies: Information engineering as a
hermeneutic enterprise, (46-57).
Study and
In this paper we discuss the construction of information systems
ontologies. In this context, we develop an argument for a
hermeneutic approach to ontologies based on the philosophy of
science literature. This shows the relevance of hermeneutics to the
creation of information system ontologies. The problems associated
with understanding and creating information systems ontologies can
be addressed fruitfully only if one begins by acknowledging that
databases are mechanisms for communication involving judgments and
interpretations by intelligent and knowledgeable users.
The main contribution of this paper is that information science and
technology practitioners interested in the construction of
ontologies should take into consideration a perspective of the
philosophy and history of science.
In this paper we address the discussion of ontologies and
information systems from a high-level perspective giving some
principles that can be used as foundations of a hermeneutic ontology
editor. Practical methods to solve differences and fuse horizons in
the process of building ontologies are still an ongoing work.
From JASIS&T
v. 56 (4)
Allison, A., Currall, J., Moss, M. & Stuart, S.
(2005). Digital identity matters, (364-372).
and Results: What
identifies a digital object and what criteria are needed to
reidentify it at some time in the future?
We compare the digital situation to the physical world of
paper with which we are all familiar and show how much of what
provides us with surety is as much to do with processes and cultural
mechanisms as it is with physical characteristics. Our conclusions
are that this issue cannot be satisfactorily resolved purely by
reference to characteristics of the bit stream, but the context and
culture that will be built up around digital objects over an
extended period of time.
New? A
careful decomposition of the problem, examining the logic of
identity, types and tokens, the role of a variety of intermediaries,
the fact that we don't experience digital objects directly but do so
through the agency of computers and software and the lack of clear
boundedness of many digital objects.
work does not, as yet, provide clear solutions but does indicate the
direction in which we should look for them.
Lin, S-J. & Belkin, N. (2005). Validation of a model of information seeking over multiple search sessions, (393-415).
Study and
The study validated the sufficiency and accuracy of a conceptual
model (MISE) in characterizing successive searches over multiple
search sessions. The
result found that the original MISE model is highly accurate but
less sufficient in the sense that all factors in the MISE model were
empirically confirmed, but new factors were identified as well.
What's New?
The original MISE model was revised, shifting from the user-centered
to the interaction-centered perspective and taking into account
factors of searcher, system, search activity, search context,
information attainment and information use activities. The new
classes of variables were defined and explained.
The study was exploratory in nature. The size of subjects was small
and the constituency of subjects was homogeneous. A larger pool of
more heterogeneous subjects could be necessary to draw a more valid
Lin, S-J. (2005) Internetworking of factors affecting successive
searches over multiple episodes, (416-436).
Study and
The study enhanced the descriptive power of the
revised MISE model in characterizing successive searches
by depicting the relationship among the factors in the model based
on empirical evidence. It also increased the explanatory power of
the revised MISE model by demonstrating how the key
information-seeking-process factors have evolved over sessions and
are affected by other factors in the MISE model.
What's New?
First, the findings helped reinforce the proposition of the MISE
model that successive searches should be considered as
problem-centered rather than stage-centered. Although information
seeking in general is a knowledge-construction process, many
information problems could be subordinated to the same leading
search goal, and the increase of knowledge in one subtopic does not
necessarily help the searches for a different information problem
under the same leading search goal.
Second, the revised MISE model can serve as a framework in
evaluating the interfaces to information systems.
The connection of different evaluation criteria to the
different MISE factors was explained.
Limitations: More research on the search tasks with different degrees of complexity and abstractness may be necessary to further confirm the validity.
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Last month, a visitor delivered a small plastic bag containing several tree seeds to the Truman Library in Independence.
The seeds had fallen from trees, still standing, that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Clifton Truman Daniel, eldest grandson of former president Harry Truman, had been presented them this summer in Japan.
Library officials hope to plant the seeds in Powell Gardens and — when saplings are sufficiently mature — transplant them to the library grounds.
"The trees, like my trip, will represent reconciliation and healing," Daniel said.
Daniel, 55, became the first member of the Truman family to travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he visited in August.
He attended anniversary observances of the 1945 atomic bombings of both cities and met with about two dozen survivors of the bombings, known in Japan as "Hibakusha." Daniel said he went as a private citizen to promote dialogue, he said — not so much about the complexities of his grandfather's 1945 decision, but about new ways to promote a disarmament dialogue in 2012.
Daniel's efforts pleased those who believe his participation in such discussions make them more powerful. Others, while applauding his interest, wondered whether he should consider expanding the definition of "survivors" to include American service members whose lives likely were spared when the atomic bombs made a traditional invasion of the Japanese home islands moot.
Some in Japan, meanwhile, wondered about the quality of Daniel's intentions. One of those was a Japanese television journalist.
"The third question of her mouth was 'Are you here to apologize?' " Daniel said recently from his Chicago, Ill. home.
"I said, 'No.'
"The next question was 'Then, what are you doing here?' I told her I was not here to apologize, but that I was there in the name of reconciliation and healing.
"But at that point I began thinking that maybe this trip had not been such a good idea."
Daniel traces the trip's origins to the late-1990s when his son Wesley, then in fourth grade, brought home a copy of "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes." The book told of Sadako Sasaki, a Hiroshima girl who died 1955 from leukemia attributed to radiation poisoning.
It also described the origami paper cranes she created while ill. She had hoped to fashion 1,000 cranes but died before completing that task.
"Wesley didn't initially make the connection between Sadako and his great-grandfather, and I reminded him of that," Daniel said.
"I thought it important for him to know all sides of that issue."
Two years later, a Japanese journalist preparing a story on the bombings' 55th anniversaries contacted Daniel, who mentioned how his son had brought home the book about Sadako.
Four years later, Daniel received a call from Masahiro Sasaki, Sadako's brother, who had seen that article.
Daniel had played no high-profile role in the debate that accompanied the 50th anniversary observances of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in 1995. Some historians had emphasized the numbing number of deaths, both American and Japanese, expected to have had occurred during a traditional invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Other historians posited that Truman may have had other options.
The dialogue was sufficiently charged to scuttle a planned exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington on the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used to deploy the atomic weapon over Hiroshima.
In the Kansas City area, a group of World War II veterans formed the Harry S. Truman Appreciation Society, whose members in 1995 laid a wreath at the Truman Library grave of the former president and saluted him for using "every available weapon" to end the war.
Annual ceremonies followed. In 1998, Paul Tibbets, who had piloted the Enola Gay, spoke. Those ceremonies continue today, now organized by the Harry S. Truman Chapter of the Air Force Association.
"We believe in what President Truman did," said Pat Snyder of Overland Park, past chapter president. "We feel that his decision saved many lives."
Though Daniel had not added his voice to this dialogue, he often has served as unofficial family spokesman. In 2010, he helped host a 60th anniversary commemoration of the Korean War in Independence.
That same year he met Masahiro Sasaki in New York.
By then Sasaki had formed a nonprofit group to promote reconciliation between the United States and Japan, and was preparing to donate one of his sister's last paper cranes to the World Trade Center Memorial. At one moment, Masahiro's son placed a paper crane in Daniel's hand.
"It was the last crane Sadako had folded before she died," Daniel said.
"He dropped it in my palm and asked if I would consider coming to Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Daniel flew to Tokyo in August with his wife, Polly, and their two sons, Wesley and Gates. Daniel said he financed the trip with some assistance from a member of the Truman Library Institute, the library's nonprofit support group.
"There are those in Japan who are still very angry about the bombings," Daniel said.
"Most people would tell me 'We appreciate your coming.' But some of the meetings with survivors were very emotional."
Following the Nagasaki ceremony, a French journalist asked Daniel, again, why he had come.
"I said the trip was about reconciliation and healing," he said. "I didn't try to duck anything, but neither was I going apologize for my grandfather. He never did, first of all, and the country has not.
"But I can still reach out to these people."
Daniel recently received a grant through the United States-Japan Foundation to begin work on a book that will detail the bombings and his grandfather's rationale for them, as well as how survivors went forward afterward.
He is seeking separate funding to travel to Japan and create an archive of survivor testimony that later would be presented to the Truman Library. Partnering with Daniel on this project is Ari Beser, a grandson of Jacob Beser, a crew member on both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing missions.
"It is powerful that somebody from the Truman family would go out on a limb like this," said Kathleen Sullivan, program director of Hibakusha Stories, a New York nonprofit that arranges for survivors to share testimony with students.
"Here you have the grandson of the man who made the decision, standing in front of students with survivors, talking about why we need to rid the world of nuclear weapons," she said.
"The historical significance isn't lost on the students."
D. M. Giangreco, a military historian at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, believes Daniel's efforts likely would benefit if he considered expanding the definition of "survivor."
As detailed in Giangreco's 2009 book, "Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947," estimates of the massive casualties possible during a traditional invasion of the Japanese home islands had been prepared by officials in the Franklin Roosevelt administration. Truman became president upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945.
By that July, estimates circulating among senior Truman administration officials indicated that the number of Japanese dead could reach between 5 million and 10 million, with the possibility of anywhere from 1.7 million to 4 million American casualties. That included perhaps 400,000 to 800,000 American soldiers killed.
Those who ultimately didn't have to invade Japan can be considered survivors, too, said Giangreco. Other Truman scholars such as Robert Ferrell and George Elsey recently have expressed similar sentiments, he added.
Daniel doesn't dispute them.
"Over the years I have shaken the hands of dozens of American survivors of World War II, veterans who have told me 'I wouldn't be alive if your grandfather had not dropped that bomb,' " he said.
"Yet I have also held one of Sadako's last paper cranes in my hand, as well. So I choose to honor both — those who fought and died for our country, as well as those in Japan who were just living their lives in a totalitarian state."


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Grandparents across the country will have a lot less jingle this time next year if they make a major- and common- mistake before the end of this year. The issue? Forgetting to take what's called their Required Minimum Distribution, or RMD, before the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31.
Anyone who is 70 years or older and has money in a non-Roth IRA or a defined contribution plan such as a 401(k), 4013(b), 457, etc. is required by law to withdraw a minimum amount each year (1a, 1b).The amount is based upon your life expectancy- either yours alone or the joint life expectancy of you and your spouse.
But like much of the tax code, what appears simple on its face, is more complicated than you think--especially if you're getting forgetful, are math-phobic or don't keep good records.
Here's how to calculate the minimum withdrawal you have to make in 2012:
The first thing to notice is that your 2012 RMD is based upon what your account was worth at the end of last year so you've got to either dig out your 2011 year-end statement or contact your retirement account provider.
The next thing you have to know is your Life Expectancy Factor. This depends upon your age and marital status and it comes straight off an IRS table. You just have to know which table. There are three of them. You'll find them starting on page 86 of IRS Publication 590.
Use the Single Life Expectancy table if you have inherited someone else's IRA. The IRA account will still be listed in the name of the individual who died and left it to you. It will be titled along the line of, "Uncle Paul's IRA; Nephew Jimmy, beneficiary." In this case, age 70 is not a trigger. No matter what Jimmy's age, he must begin annual RMD's no later than Dec. 31 of the year following Uncle Paul's death.
Table II is titled "Joint and Last Survivor." Use this one if you are married and your spouse is more than 10 years younger than you and is the sole beneficiary of your IRA. First, find your spouse's age on the horizontal line that runs across the top (you will probably have to scroll through several pages to find the one you need). Once you locate the age of your younger spouse, locate your 2012 age in the vertical column on the left hand side of the page. The box where the two meet is this year's Life Expectancy Factor.
Most people will use Table III known as the "Uniform Table" to calculate their annual RMD. This applies if:
• You are single, or • Your spouse is less than 10 years younger than you, or • Your spouse is not the only beneficiary of your account
You simply locate your age and use the corresponding "Distribution Period" as your divisor in the equation above.
The last step is to notify your IRA custodian or the administrator of your company retirement plan and request a distribution equal to at least your RMD. Remember: this is just the required minimum amount; you can always take out more.
No big deal? Well, even if you're a modern day Albert Einstein, have all the information you need and know what your Life Expectancy Factor is, you can't stop the clock from ticking. Your provider must have your withdrawal processed by Dec. 31.
If you miss this deadline you will get hit with one of the most onerous penalties in the tax code: 50%! If you were supposed to withdraw $5,000 from your account and you forgot, too bad. When the IRS catches up with you, you not only have to withdraw the $5,000 and pay income tax on this, you also need to send Uncle Sam $2,500- half the amount you should have withdrawn.
No one wants to part with more money than they have to, but this big a penalty is especially onerous for seniors living on a fixed income. And, unlike other IRA mistakes you might make, there is little room for leniency.
If you overlooked taking an RMD, the best advice is to take the withdrawal as quickly as possible and fess up. "It's treated on a case-by-case basis," says Ken Hevert vice president of personal retirement products at Fidelity Investments. If you realize you forgot to take a required distribution from one of your retirement plans, take your withdrawal as soon as possible. You will also need to attach this IRS Form 5329 to your tax return for the year you take the withdrawal.
The worst thing you can do is to compound your mistake by thinking, "Oh, the IRS will never know." In fact, every IRA custodian must file an annual form with the IRS for each account owner who is 70 or older that states that year's RMD amount. It's a simple matter for the IRS computers to cross-check this. "You won't get a pass [from the IRS] if you don't take the distribution," warns Hevert.
Form 5329 is where you can explain why you forgot to take your RMD. Perhaps your spouse passed away and you were distraught, or you are a victim of Hurricane Sandy and your financial paperwork was lost, or you took a withdrawal from one account, but forgot about another one you own. It's also a good idea to talk to a tax advisor. There's no guarantee the penalty will be forgiven, but the IRS tends to be more understanding if you are forthcoming in admitting your error instead of trying to hide it.
Frankly, why not take the stress out of this annual ritual and put it on auto-pilot? Virtually every IRA custodian will set up an automatic payment plan based upon your preferences. They'll even calculate your RMD so you don't have to worry about the math. My late mother-in-law had her annual RMD sent every year in mid-November. She used the money like a Christmas club account to buy presents for the family.
"People fall into different categories," says Hevert. "There's the individual who earmarks the month of a special milestone, such as at the beginning of the year. They use is to pay taxes." Others arrange to receive their RMD on their birthday and use the money to treat themselves.
According to Hevert, "Another group recognizes that these distributions are part of their retirement income plan and have them integrated into that." For instance, they might request that their annual RMD amount be divided up and sent to them in monthly checks. Or, if they have sufficient income from other sources, the RMD withdrawal can be automatically re-invested in other assets that provide a tax break, such as municipal bonds, life insurance, or annuities.
Then there are those who simply forget or get busy. A few weeks before the Dec. 31 deadline, all of a sudden they realize they still haven't taken their annual withdrawal. This is the majority, at least at Fidelity, which has more than half a million IRA accounts in RMD status. As of early November, 65% of these account owners had still not taken their 2012 distribution.
What's worse is that many people have retirement accounts scattered among several different providers. They may have left money in the 401(k) of a former employer, have a Roth IRA at a credit union, an IRA at a bank, and another invested at a mutual fund family. This means they have to calculate- and remember to take- an RMD for each account!(2)
If this sounds familiar, why not simplify your life (do you really want to get all of those quarterly statements?) and reduce the chance of making a costly mistake by consolidating whatever retirement accounts you can? IRAs can be combined, 401(k)s and other types of employer plans can be rolled into an IRA. Having all of your pre-tax retirement money in a single account makes it easier for you to keep track of how your investments are performing, eliminates a lot of paper and makes it easier for you or your advisor to re-balance your assets on a regular basis.
Oh, did I mention that this means you only have to remember to take one RMD instead of a bunch of them?
"Equally important," says Hevert, "is to make sure you have the right mix of investments to reflect this stage of your life." While it's common to grow more conservative about your investments as you age, this can be a huge mistake, especially in the current environment of historically-low interest rates. "You need to worry about inflation, rising healthcare costs and longevity," says Hevert. "When it comes to your nest egg, it's critical to have the right mix of liquidity and flexibility in the short run and [also be able to] cover your long-term risks."
If you haven't taken your 2012 required distribution(s), make this a priority.
If you have to sell securities in your account in order to generate the cash needed for a distribution remember that if your retirement assets are invested in mutual funds, the proceeds are generally available the day after you sell your shares. But individual stocks have a three-day settlement period. This means calculating how many shares to sell, putting in your "sell" order, hoping it fills quickly and then waiting for three days for the sale to settle so that a distribution check can be cut.
You're pushing your luck if you wait until the last week of December. First of all, this year there is one less trading day because of Christmas. And Dec. 29 and 30 fall on Saturday and Sunday.
Think about this: Unless you completely cash out your account(s) and pay a huge tax bill, will be taking RMDs for the rest of your life.
"Do you want to go through this every year for the next 15-20 years?," asks Hevert. "Let your IRA provider help you out." They can help you determine a suitable investment mix, calculate your distribution amount, automatically send you a check or invest the money for you, reduce the paperwork and help you sleep better knowing you will not incur the severe penalty that comes with making a mistake.
If you've got a loved one who is 70 or older, why not help them simplify their finance life this holiday? Might be appreciated more than another pair of flannel pajamas.
1a. You get some extra time if you turned 70 in 2012. Technically, the rule is that your first, i.e. Age 70, RMD must be withdrawn by April 1st of the year after you turn 70½. If your birthday fell within the first 6 months of this year, you will turn 70½ before the end of December. Thus, you have until April 1, 2013 to withdraw your first RMD. Just don't forget that you have to take a second RMA next year. This represents your Age 71 RMD and it must be withdrawn by December 31st. If your 70th birthday fell in July or later this year, you will not turn 70½ until sometime next year. So your first RMD isn't due until April 1, 2014. Thereafter, your RMD deadline is December 31st each year.
1b. There is some flexibility when it comes to company-sponsored 401(k) plans. If you are 70 or older and still working, your plan might allow you to delay RMDs until you retire (provided you don't own 5% or more of the company). Check with the person who administers your plan.
2. If you have multiple traditional (pre-tax) IRAs, after calculating each one's annual RMD, you may take the entire amount from just one of the IRAs if you wish. There are never RMDs from a Roth account.
Ms. Buckner is a Retirement and Financial Planning Specialist and an instructor in Franklin Templeton Investments' global Academy. The views expressed in this article are only those of Ms. Buckner or the individual commentator identified therein, and are not necessarily the views of Franklin Templeton Investments, which has not reviewed, and is not responsible for, the content.
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After watching the Peepcode screencast on productivity, I made it a goal to get healthier amounts of sleep. After I got Streaks, I got much, much better at achieving my goals much, much faster (which is a blog post in itself). Recently I was showing Streaks to a guy from my acting class and as an example showed him the "8 hours of sleep" calendar, where I had a streak running for weeks. "Eight hours of sleep," he chuckled. "If you get eight hours of sleep a day, you're a lucky man."
I do, and I am. It's important to get enough sleep. At the extreme of sleep deprivation is psychosis and hallucination. You start seeing shit that isn't there.
Even modest levels of sleep deprivation cause cognitive impairments, hostility, and decreased job satisfaction. That's why people say "sleep on it." Nine times out of ten, if you're pissed off about something, you'll be less cranky after a nap. Most people will chuckle at that and think, "yeah, but not me." No, I mean you. Yes, you. And you. You can't get around the basic realities of being human.
However, sometimes your sleep schedule gets out of whack. If you want to fix it, the steps are not necessarily easy, but they are simple. Most people think there's some kind of sharp delineation between morning people and night owls. I'm most often a night owl, but I've deliberately become a morning person several times. It's simple.
All you have to do to become a morning person is get up early in the morning and do something right away. Keep doing that for several days and boom, you're a morning person. As I said, it's simple, but it's not necessarily easy. Recently my internal clock got so jumbled I was routinely getting up at 2pm and going to sleep around 4am. Yesterday it got in the way of my being able to do or say anything useful at all, and I decided I'd had enough. I took some Nyquil at midnight and woke up at 7am. I got started doing stuff when I woke up; all I have to do is stay awake today, go to bed at night, and at some point during the day use hypnosis to experience deep relaxation.
I'll get to the hypnosis in a second. First, though, when I say I used Nyquil to knock myself out, and I say I need to stay awake all day, to a lot of people it'll seem logical if the next step is using coffee to make sure I stay awake til bedtime. No. Fail. Coffee is evil. Coffee is a terrorist.
For whatever reason, using a stimulant to speed yourself up messes with your internal clock a lot more than using a depressant to slow yourself down. I'm sure a doctor could tell you why this is, and, since I've been reading a lot of medical books recently, I'm equally sure another doctor could tell you why this isn't. Doctors argue with each other almost as much as programmers; I say almost because they tend to swear less and back up their claims with research more.
Anyway, I know this coffee thing is true for me, and it's true for a lot of other people as well, probably all of them. If you want to have a healthy internal clock, you should avoid caffeine, especially at the levels of intake which many people in programming keep up. Long story short, I won't be using coffee to ensure I stay awake; I'll just work out, the way I normally do, and the physical activity will keep me going.
Now the hypnosis thing, that's different. I know how that works, and it's true for everybody. If you use hypnosis for deep relaxation, on a regular basis, you establish deep relaxation as a normal component of your daily rhythm. Anything you make a habit of tends to find some kind of balance with all your other habits, and deep relaxation is no exception.
I got some e-mail from some lunatic who told me you can't manipulate yourself into sleeping unless you're weak-willed; this has nothing to do with hypnosis. In fact if you have such strong, irrational, and irrelevant negative associations with hypnosis specifically, you can skip hypnosis, because it doesn't really matter. Any powerful relaxation technique will get you the same results, and there are plenty from yoga or the Buddhist traditions which you can use instead.
The important element is a regular pattern of daily deep relaxation. If you go into a state of deep relaxation every day, your sleep patterns will normalize themselves. One caveat: it's not at all unusual for people with chronic sleep deprivation to fall asleep during their first experiments with deep relaxation techniques. It's a very natural response, and chronic sleep deprivation is so pervasive in industrialized cultures that if you speak enough English to read these words, you're at risk for it. But naps also reduce insomnia, so as potential side effects go, it's fairly unalarming.
Update: In the past I've succeded with this but this time around it's been utter fail. My sleep schedule's a total mess. I'll update this again when I figure out the fix.
Update: Solved the problem, needed to use hypnosis more regularly and get started on something the minute I woke up. But! It's 3 AM. My insomnia came back unexpectedly when I skipped a couple meals. Too tired to go into detail - I'm eating and then heading to bed - but there's research out there on hunger interrupting circadian rhythms. If you've got insomnia and you haven't eaten all day, chow down before practicing hypnosis, meditation, yoga, or whatever.
Update AGAIN: It took me a very, very long time, but it looks like I've kicked this. I moved back to my old apartment - the same one I lived in when I was getting up at 5am every morning and going to the gym - and resumed a morning-oriented schedule within a few days. The difference: windows. The morning-friendly apartment has huge windows facing the bed that fill the room with sunshine at dawn. (Note that it may be possible to fake this.)
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The Memphis Grizzlies are one game away from dispatching the Los Angeles Clippers and avenging last season's first-round playoff loss.
They can advance with a win at home Friday night.
The Grizzlies pulled ahead in the series with a 103-93 victory Tuesday in Los Angeles. Zach Randolph, Marc Gasol and Mike Conley all scored over 20 points and Memphis only committed seven turnovers against a Clippers team that forced the most turnovers in the NBA this season.
"We played the way we've been playing the last few games," Grizzlies head coach Lionel Hollins said.
In last year's first round of the playoffs, the Clippers took Game 7 in Memphis to win and advance to the semifinals.
But now the Clippers are at a disadvantage. They know they've won some huge games in Memphis, not just the critical Game 7 one year ago.
"Last year, we went in and won Game 1 and we needed to win that game, not having home court advantage that flipped the series for us," said Clippers star Blake Griffin. "At the end of the season, we needed that win to get home- court advantage to help us out. We know what's at stake and hopefully we can use that experience and kind of harness that and realize what we did in those games to put us on top."
Griffin was referring to an April 13 road victory.
Griffin landed awkwardly on Lamar Odom's foot in practice on Monday. Griffin exited the game midway through the third quarter and never returned.
"It's unfortunate timing, a freak thing," said Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro.
Griffin is expected to play in Game 6.
Chris Paul led the Clippers in Game 5 with 35 points. Jamal Crawford was the only other player for the Clippers to score in double figures.
"We have to find a way to get everyone involved, me as a point guard, I have to find a way," said Paul.
The four other Los Angeles starters combined for 18 points. The bench, led by Crawford, who finished second to the New York Knicks' J.R. Smith for Sixth Man of the Year, tallied 40 points.
Despite being one of the NBA's best teams in recent memory, the Grizzlies have won only a playoff round once in their existence, which dates back to the 1995-96 season.
In 2011, Memphis, as an eight seed, toppled the San Antonio Spurs in the first round. The Grizzlies gave the Oklahoma City Thunder a run in the second round, but fell in seven games.
If the Clippers survive on Friday, Game 7 will be Sunday at the Staples Center.


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NHL.com draft experts predict 2014 first roundNHL.com @NHLdotcom
The scouting meetings have been finished and the draft lists have been finalized. All that's left is for 30 teams to arrive in Philadelphia for the 2014 NHL Draft and begin picking players.
That starts June 27 when the first round is held at Wells Fargo Center (7 p.m. ET; NBCSN, TSN). Rounds 2-7 will be conducted June 28 (10 a.m. ET, NHLN-US, NHLN-CA).
NHL.com's draft experts have taken one last shot at predicting which teams will select which prospect.
The list includes three centers ranked in the top four of North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting: Samuel Bennett of the Kingston Frontenacs, Sam Reinhart of the Kootenay Ice, and Leon Draisaitl of the Prince Albert Raiders. Then there's Aaron Ekblad of the Barrie Colts, who could be the first defenseman chosen with the No. 1 pick since the St. Louis Blues selected Erik Johnson with the first choice of the 2007 draft.
NHL.com's three experts agree on the first five picks: Bennett, Ekblad, Reinhart, Draisaitl and Oshawa Generals left wing Michael Dal Colle. The order in which they will be selected varies.
If teams are looking for a skilled forward, there's Jake Virtanen of the Calgary Hitmen, Nicholas Ritchie of the Peterborough Petes, Brendan Perlini of the Niagara IceDogs, Kasperi Kapanen of KalPa in Finland, and William Nylander of Sodertalje in Sweden's second division.
If defense is what your team needs, there's Haydn Fleury of the Red Deer Rebels, Anthony DeAngelo of the Sarnia Sting, Julius Honka of the Swift Current Broncos, and Jack Dougherty of the United States National Team Development Program under-18 team.
The Florida Panthers have the first pick, followed by the Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and New York Islanders.
The Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings will pick 29th. The New Jersey Devils were assigned the 30th pick as part of an NHL decision to reduce the organization's punishment for circumventing the salary cap to sign Ilya Kovalchuk in 2010.
The Anaheim Ducks and Tampa Bay Lightning are the only teams with multiple first-round picks. The Ducks have the No. 10 pick acquired from the Ottawa Senators as part of last summer's trade for Bobby Ryan, and the 24th pick. The Tampa Bay Lightning have the 19th pick and the 28th selection, acquired from the New York Rangers as part of the trade for Martin St. Louis.
The Sabres could add a second first-round selection as a condition of their trade of goaltender Ryan Miller to the St. Louis Blues. If the Blues trade Miller, an impending unrestricted free agent, prior to using their first-round pick, No. 21, that pick would be transferred to the Sabres.
That won't be known for sure until the draft starts Friday. Until then, check out NHL.com's predictions of how the first round could turn out.


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We've all been there - looking at our pathetic, standard Nissan GT-R and bemoaning its slovenly 2.7-second 0-62mph time, and 196mph top speed, and 7:24.22 lap of the Nordschleife…
Now, finally, someone at Nismo's seen sense and done something about it. Power from the 3.8-litre V6 has been bumped from 542 to 591 horsepower, torque's up from 465 to 481 lb ft.
The power's been boosted by bolting on two turbochargers from the GT-R Nismo GT3 racer, fiddling around with the intake and exhaust system, adjusting the ignition timing, and fitting some super-sticky Dunlop tyres.
Not extreme enough? You'll be relieved to learn that there's an optional super-bonkers-nutter version called the Track Pack, which replaces several bits with carbon fibre (amounting to a 64.8kg weight reduction - roughly 82 per cent of a Richard Hammond), some chassis tweaks, manually adjustable Öhlins shocks and different springs with a lighter rate.
In this guise, and in the hands of ex FIA GT1 champion Michael Krumm, it's just lapped the Nürburgring in 7:08.69. That's faster than every road car in the world bar a Radical SR8 LM (6:48), SR8 (6:55), and Porsche 918 Spyder (6:57). And we're promised it'll come in at around £124,000. Which is a lot. But still more than £400,000 cheaper than that Porsche 918. It will be available in Japan in February 2014, coming to the US and Europe later that year.
So… are we looking at the fastest real-world car in the, er, real world?
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Beer at the 2012 Olympics Will Cost $11 a Cup
Well, it appears as if the screws are being put to both die-hard alcoholics and worldwide sporting enthusiasts once again.
An unveiling of a sample menu by the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic games reveals that not only are these greedy animals planning to sell pints of beer for $11, but the concept of excessive capitalism appears to be alive and well.
It's true, while some Olympic spectators root for their favorite athletes in the games of archery, boxing, fencing and judo, others will be knuckle deep inside the dog fight taking place outside the concession stands.
According to organizers not only will a beer cost $11, but a glass of London 2012 wine will set you back nearly $8, while $4 Coca-Cola and $3 bottled water will be available for those sadistic little monkeys revealing in sobriety.
Incidentally, the only beer being sold at the 2012 Olympic games is Heineken, which in our opinion should be switched to Pabst Blue Ribbon immediately. No sane person would dare sell an overpriced Dutch brew to millions of spectators capable of ensuing a riot. Not unless they want Thunderdome!
While there are some who argue that paying $11 for a beer is better than not being able to buy a beer at all – those people can obviously get by on having just one or two. Yet for those pure bred mutts who lean on the heavy side of excess, maintaining a steady two-fisted buzz would be a lot better.
After all, while watching one of the greatest sporting events of our time is extremely exciting, doing it broke and sober is not.


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The back-and-forth between Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall and Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman continues.
Appearing on 106.7 The Fan's Grant & Danny Show, Hall concedes that Sherman is a great cornerback, but Hall continues to disagree with the idea that Sherman is the best cornerback in the NFL.
"I don't think he does crack that top three," Hall said, putting Aqib Talib, Patrick Peterson, and Darrelle Revis at the top of the list. "I'll take those three guys against A.J. Green, Dez Bryant and Calvin Johnson, who [are] probably the top three receivers in the game right now," Hall said. "I'll take those three corners on those three receivers."
Hall's case arises from the fact that Sherman stays in one place on the left side of the defense, not following the opponents' best receiver wherever he goes. Hall also points out that Sherman has two of the best safeties in the game behind him (Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas) and that the overall system makes so-so cornerbacks into great players, with Hall mentioning Byron Maxwell becoming regarded as a great corner despite being a "practice-squad player" and Brandon Browner's career resurrecting after a stint in the CFL.
Hall bases his case in part on the fact that Sherman has racked up 20 interceptions in three seasons.
"This kid seems to always get the ball when it's thrown his way, but teams always seem to throw his way," Hall said. "When you're at the top of your game, guys don't throw your way. . . . When I was that guy, I went to Pro Bowls with three picks and four picks, because teams knew, 'Heck, we don't want to throw it his way. When we do, he picks it off.' I mean I rarely got targeted in those days, but I still made the Pro Bowl. So for this kid to be at eight picks, and [eight] picks and [four], it just kind of blows my mind."
Still, Hall explained that the recent Twitter exchange wasn't personal, and that there will be no "fisticuffs" between Hall and Sherman when they see each other.
That'll happen, if not earlier, at Larry Fitzgerald's offseason charity softball game. Hall said that he's been invited, that Sherman has been invited, and that Fitzgerald has told Hall that Fitzgerald doesn't want any trouble.