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Limp Bizkit Singer Fred Durst Performs Karaoke Version of 'Nookie'
Remember the simple days when we did it all for the nookie, the nookie, so you can take this cookie and stick it up your… Oops, sorry, we got ahead of ourselves there and drifted away on memory.
There was, in fact, a time when rock music was dominated by rap metal produced by the Fred Durst-fronted Limp Bizkit and the band's little ode to gettin' some known as 'Nookie' owned the airwaves before the millennium. It was a monster hit in 1999 that no doubt remains a karaoke fave in watering holes and dives across this great land of ours, especially for Durst himself.
Fast-forward to the present, and Durst was caught performing a karaoke verison of his own song on Monday night (Feb. 6) in Los Angeles. Showing that he does have a sense of humor, Durst also appears to get a beatbox assist from DJ Lethal. Call it the impromptu 'Nookie' remix.
TMZ reports that Durst was joined at Rock & Reilly's by 'Reno 911′ stars Nick Swardson and Cedric Yarbrough.
Durst didn't just cover his own song. He tackled other tunes, including Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy.'


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Pearl Jam Offer Condolences to Victims of Radiohead Stage Collapse
It's a sad time in Radiohead as the band deals with the death of their drum tech, Scott Johnson, who was killed over the weekend during the collapse of their stage while setting up for their Saturday show in Toronto. Three other crew members were injured.
The music community is showing their signs of support, starting with Pearl Jam. Guitarist Mike McCready tweeted, "From myself and the band, our condolences go out to the person who died and those injured from the stage collapse at Radiohead. I am saddened and hope the healing can start soon."
McCready speaks from a place of personal knowledge as Pearl Jam went through their own tragedy in 2000 when nine fans were crushed to death during an rush to the stage at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. After the tragic show, the band canceled the two remaining dates of their tour and debated retiring from music.
However, prior commitments kept them going and ended up helping them start the healing process. A month after the tragedy, the group were back onstage in the U.S., and stated that by playing and facing crowds together, they were able to start processing what had happened.
Radiohead drummer Phil Selway tweeted of Johnson, "We will miss him very much," while the band's website issued a statement that referred to him as "a friend and colleague" and recognized Johnson as "a highly skilled and valued member of our great road crew" before wishing best thoughts for his family and those close to him.
Scott also worked with such U.K. acts as White Lies and Elbow. White Lies drummer Jack Brown told the BBC, "Scott worked with White Lies on a show earlier in the year as my drum tech. A very talented man and a lovely guy all around. Glad to have known him. A big loss. RIP Scott."
Elbow's Richard Jupp added, "RIP Scott Johnson. Lost a great mate and true pro. A kinder bloke you could not meet."


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Consider me a career-long computer security curmudgeon. When a vendor guarantees its latest and greatest will defend the world against all computer maliciousness, I yawn. Been there; it didn't pan out.
All computer security vendors want us to think that signing on the dotted line and sending them a check will mean our worries are over. Rarely do they deliver. And although a little marketing hype never really hurts -- we're all used to taking it with a grain of salt -- some vendors can be caught outright lying, expecting us to buy what amounts to security snake oil.
If you're a hardened IT security pro, you've probably had these tactics run by you over and over. It's never only one vendor touting unbelievable claims but many. It's like a pathology of the computer security industry, this all-too-frequent underhanded quackery used in the hopes of duping an IT organization into buying dubious claims or overhyped wares.
Following are seven computer security claims or technologies that, when mentioned in the sales pitch, should get your snake-oil radar up and primed for false promises.
Security snake oil No. 1: Unbreakable software Believe it or not, vendors and developers alike have claimed their software is without vulnerability. In fact, "Unbreakable" was the name of one famous vendor's public relations campaign. The formula for this snake oil is simple: The vendor claims that its competitors are weak and don't know how to make invulnerable code the way it does. Buy the vendor's software and live in a world forever without exploits.
The last vendor to claim this had its software exploited so badly, so quickly that it should serve as notice to every computer security organization never to make such a claim again. Amazingly, even as exploit after exploit was discovered in the vendor's software (the vendor is best known for database software), the "Unbreakable" ad campaign continued for another year. We security professionals wondered how many CEOs might have fallen for the PR pitch, not realizing that the vendor's support queues were full of calls demanding quick patches. To this day, dozens of exploits are found every year in that vendor's software.
Of course, this vendor isn't alone with its illusions of invulnerability. Browser vendors used to kick Microsoft for making an overly vulnerable browser in Internet Explorer. But then they would release their invulnerable browsers, only to learn they had more uncovered public vulnerabilities than the browser they claimed was overly vulnerable. You don't hear browser vendors bragging about making perfectly secure browsers anymore.
And then there's the infamous University of Illinois at Chicago professor who consistently lambasts software vendors for making software full of security holes. He chides and belittles them and says they should be subject to legal prosecution for making imperfect software. He even made his own software programs and challenged people to find even one security bug, backing this challenge with a reward. Not surprisingly, people found bugs. Initially he tried to claim that the first found vulnerability wasn't an exploitable bug "within the parameters of the guarantee." Most people disagreed. Then someone found a second bug, in another of his programs, and he paid the reward. Turns out making invulnerable software is pretty difficult.
I don't mean to negate that professor's contributions to computer security. He's one of the best computer security experts in the world -- truly a hero to the cause. But you won't hear him claim anymore that perfect software can be made.
Remember these high-profile lessons in humility the next time you hear a vendor claim that its software is invulnerable.
Security snake oil No. 2: 1,000,000-bit crypto Every year a vendor or coder no one has heard of claims to have made unbreakable crypto. And, with few exceptions, they fail miserably. Although it's a claim similar to unbreakable software, technical discussion will illuminate a very different flavor of snake oil at work here.
Good crypto is hard to make; even the best in the world don't have the guts (or sanity) to claim theirs can't be broken. In fact, you'll be lucky to get them to concede that their encryption is anything but "nontrivial" to compromise. I trust the encryption expert who doesn't trust himself. Anything else means trusting a snake-oil salesman trying to sell you flawed crypto.
Case in point: A few years ago a vendor came on the scene claiming he had unbreakable crypto. What made his encryption so incredible was that he used a huge key and distributed part (or parts) of the secret key in the cloud. Because the key was never in one place, it would be impossible to compromise. And the encryption algorithm and routine was secure because it was a secret, too.
Most knowledgeable security pros recognize that a good cipher should always have a known encryption algorithm that stands up to public review. Not this vendor.
But the best (and most hilarious) part was the vendor's claim that his superior cipher was backed by a million-bit key. Never mind that strong encryption today is backed by key sizes of 256-bit (symmetric) or 2,048-bit (asymmetric). This company was promising an encryption key that was orders of magnitude bigger.
Cryptologists chuckled at this for two reasons. First, when you have a good encryption routine, the involved key size can be small because no one can brute-force all the possible permutations of even relatively small encryption keys -- think, more than the "number of atoms in the known universe" type of stuff. Instead, to break ciphers today, cryptologists find flaws in the cipher's mathematics, which allow them to rule out very large parts of the populations of possible keys. In a nutshell, found cryptographic weaknesses allow attackers to develop shortcuts to faster guessing of the valid possible keys.
All things being equal, a proven cipher with a smaller key size is considered more secure. A prime example is ECC (elliptic curve cryptography) versus RSA. Today, an RSA-protected key must be 2,048 bits or larger to be considered relatively secure. With ECC, 384 bits is considered sufficient. RSA (the original algorithm) is probably nearing the end of its usefulness, and ECC is just starting to become a primary player.
So saying you have a million-bit key is akin to saying your invented cipher is so sucky it takes a million bits of obscurity (versus 384 bits) to keep the protected data secure. Five thousand bits would be overkill from any good cipher, because no one is known to be able to come close to breaking even 3,000-bit keys from a really good cipher. When you make a million-bit key, you're absolutely saying you don't trust your cipher to be good at smaller key sizes. This paradox is perhaps only understood by cipher enthusiasts, but, believe me, you'd slay the audience at any crypto convention by repeating this story.
Second, if you were required to use a million-bit key, that means you would somehow have to communicate that huge mother from sender to receiver, making that communication at least a megabyte. Suppose you encrypted an email containing a single character. The resulting encrypted blob would be 1MB. That's pretty wasteful.
A "secret" million-bit cipher being split among the cloud was enough to do that crypto in. No one took it seriously, and at least one impressive encryption expert, Bruce Schneier, publicly mocked it.
The worst part was that the vendor claimed to have proof that it sold $5 million of its crypto to the military. I hope the vendor was lying; otherwise, the military purchaser has a lot of explaining to do.
Security snake oil No. 3: 100 percent accurate antivirus software Also akin to the claim of unbreakable software is the claim from multiple vendors that their anti-malware detection is 100 percent accurate. And they almost all say this detection rate has been "verified independently in test after test."
Ever wonder why these buy-once-and-never-worry-again solutions don't take over the world? It's because they're a lie. No anti-malware software is, or can be, 100 percent accurate. Antivirus software wasn't 100 percent accurate when we only had a few viruses to contend with, and today's world has tens of millions of mutating malware programs. In fact, today's malware is pretty good at changing its form. Many malicious programs use "mutation engines" coupled with the very same good encryption mentioned above. Good encryption introduces realistic randomness, and malware uses the same properties to hide itself. Plus, most malware creators run their latest creations against every available anti-malware program before they begin to propagate, and then they self-update every day. It's a neverending battle, and the bad guys are winning.
Some vendors, using general behavior-detection techniques known as heuristics and change-detecting emulation environments, have valiantly tried to up their accuracy. What they've discovered is that as you enter the upper ranges of detection, you run into the problem of false positives. As it turns out, programs that detect malware at extremely accurate rates are bad at not detecting legitimate programs as malicious. Show me a 100 percent accurate anti-malware program, and I'll show you a program that flags nearly everything as malicious.
Even worse, as accuracy increases, performance decreases. Some antivirus programs make their host systems so slow that they're unusable. I know users who would rather knowingly compute with active malware than run antivirus software. With tens of millions of malware programs that must be checked against hundreds of thousands of files contained on a typical computer, doing a perfectly accurate comparison would simply take too long. Anti-malware vendors are acutely aware of these sad paradoxes, and, in the end, they all make the decision to be less accurate.
Counterintuitively, being less accurate actually helps security vendors sell more of their products. I don't mean that lowered accuracy allows malware to propagate, thereby ensuring security vendors can sell more software. It's that the trade-offs of extremely accurate anti-malware detection are unacceptable to those shopping for security software.
And if you do find yourself buying the claim of 100 percent accuracy, just don't ask your vendor to put it in writing or ask for a refund when something slips by. They won't back the claim.
Security snake oil No. 4: Network intrusion detection IDSes (intrusion detection systems) have been around even longer than antivirus software. My first experience was with Ross Greenberg's Flu-Shot program back in the mid-1980s. Although often described, even by the author, as an early antivirus program, it was more of a behavioral-detection/prevention program. Early versions didn't have "signatures" with which to detect early malware; it was quickly defeated by malware.
During the past two decades, more sophisticated IDSes were invented and released. Popular ones are in use in nearly every company in America. Commercial, professional versions can easily cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for only a few sensors. I know many companies that won't put up a network without first deploying an NIDS (network-based IDS).
Unfortunately, IDSes have worse accuracy and performance issues than antivirus programs. Most NIDSes work by intercepting network packets. The average computer gets hundreds of packets per second, if not more. An NIDS has to perform a comparison of known signatures against all those network packets, and if they did so, even somewhat accurately, it would slow down network traffic so much that the computer's network communications, and involved applications, would become unbearably sluggish.
So what NIDSes do is compare network traffic against a few dozen or hundred signatures. I've never seen an NIDS with even two hundred signatures activated -- paltry in comparison to the tens of millions of malware and thousands of network attack signatures they should be checking to be truly accurate. Instead, we've become accustomed to the fact that NIDSes can't be configured to be meaningfully accurate, so we "fine-tune" them to be somewhat accurate against things antivirus software is less accurate at detecting.
Security snake oil No. 5: Firewalls I spend part of my professional career telling people to make sure they use firewalls. If you don't have one, I'll probably write up an audit finding. But the truth is that firewalls (traditional or advanced) rarely protect us against anything.
Firewalls block unauthorized traffic from vulnerable, exploitable listening services. Today, we don't have that many vulnerable services or truly remote attacks. We do get and have vulnerable services, such as the recent OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability, but even most of those attacks would not have been stopped by a firewall.
The websites using OpenSSL already opened the ports that OpenSSL needed to function. The vulnerable version of OpenSSL was available for any knowledgeable attacker to compromise. Today, most attacks (and I mean 99.99 percent) are application-layer attacks that require user involvement to succeed. Once the user is tricked into running something, the malicious program executes in the user's computer's memory, and the firewall can't help. The badness scoots past the firewall on allowed ports and executes on the user's desktop.
Firewalls can help only if they prevent attacks against blocked ports. But everyone allows port 80 and 443 into their networks, and those are the two ports that most successful attacks will target. You can't block them because it would bring business to a halt.
Don't believe me? When is the last time you thought, "Wow, if I had just had a firewall enabled, I wouldn't have been successfully attacked"? I'll give you full credit if you can even remember the year.
A lot of firewall vendors already know my personal feelings, and they will often tell me that the problem is only with "traditional" firewalls and that their "advanced" firewall solves the problem. Their advanced firewall is always an application proxy or filter that includes an anti-virus scanner or IDS capabilities. See above. If advanced firewalls worked, we'd all be running them, and our hacker problems would be over.
Security snake oil No. 6: Redundancy The oft-forgotten third word of the information-security acronym CIA is availability (the other two are confidentiality and integrity). As a concept, availability makes for great sales pitches. The reality, however, is that availability is more snake oil than we might like to admit.
Availability, and its sibling redundancy, drives a significant amount of hardware sales. These days, we have redundant power supplies, redundant hard drives, even redundant motherboards and CPUs. Before redundancy became a thing, I never needed the second unit. It's almost as if vendors give us components they know will fail.
I have a computer that's been running on the same hard drive, motherboard, and power supply for more than 20 years. Never had a problem. I don't even clean out all the dust. But I rarely buy a $100K server or appliance with redundant everything that I don't end up having problems with.
My first fully redundant server system ended up being a hard-earned lesson about the promise of redundancy. The system included a secondary clone of everything, with the backup unit ready to pick up where the failed unit quit, without a millisecond of downtime. I convinced my CEO to spend the extra $100K so we would never have an outage again. That promise lasted two days, when we had our first crash with the resplendent redundant system. We experienced unexpected data corruption, and that corruption was dutifully copied between the first server and the backup unit. Admittedly, the failover was flawless, with the corruption cloned impeccably between systems. My upset CEO didn't want to listen to my explanations of server system backups and RAID levels. He just knew I'd wasted his money on false promises.
Security snake oil No. 7: Smartcards Almost every company I know that doesn't have smartcards wants to have smartcards. Smartcards are two-factor authentication, which, as everyone knows, is better than one-factor authentication. But most companies think that enabling smartcards in their environments will significantly reduce the risk of hacker attack -- or stop all attacks outright. Or at least that's how it's sold to them.
Every company I know that's implemented smartcards is just as thoroughly hacked as the companies that don't. Smartcards do give you added security, but it's only a small amount and not in the places you really need it. Want to stop hackers? Improve your patch management processes and practices, and help your users refrain from installing stuff they shouldn't. Those two solutions will work hundreds of times better than smartcards.
Making the best of a compromising situation Today's computer security world is a crazy, paradoxical one. Computer security companies are collecting billions of dollars for customers who are still routinely hacked.
Firewalls, IDSes, and antivirus programs don't work. How do I know? Because most companies have all these security technologies in place, and they are still compromised by hackers, almost at will. Even our good, reliable, secure encryption is mostly meaningless. Either hackers go around the crypto (by directly attacking the target in its unencrypted state on the endpoint), or the cryptography is poorly implemented (the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug is an example).
As a result, we security professionals are knowingly accepting that our computer security defenses are partial at best, while our vendors tout their solutions as incredibly accurate and impenetrable. It ain't so. We're being sold snake oil and being told it's sound, scientifically researched medicine.
What's a defender to do?
Well, push for real solutions. Take a look at how your environment and systems are being compromised on a daily basis, and push for solutions that fix those real problems. Don't get lost in the myriad promises of computer security products.
Me, I trust the vendor who tells me the truth, warts and all. I understand his product won't solve all my ills, and I know his product can't be 100 percent accurate. Avoid vendors who claim otherwise.


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Military, Public Service, Regulatory
By Staff Writer | January 1, 2009
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A little-noticed provision in the fiscal 2009 defense authorization bill has set in motion the most ambitious project in years to divine and define the future for military vertical lift aircraft. The goal of the Pentagon-led Future Vertical Lift Capabilities Based Assessment (CBA) is to determine what new and better rotary-wing and other vertical-lift aircraft the armed services will need beyond what they use now or have on the drawing boards and to chart a course to ensure that government and industry can provide them.
The CBA, as it is informally known, was begun at the behest of the Congressional Rotorcraft Caucus and is led by James "Raleigh" Durham, director of Joint Advanced Concepts at the Pentagon. The law that created the CBA also requires the Pentagon to give Congress a "detailed plan to establish a Joint Vertical Lift Aircraft/Rotorcraft Office" modeled on the Joint Advanced Strike Technology office of the 1990s. Durham, a retired Marine Corps colonel and fighter pilot with masters degrees in physics and aeronautical systems, worked on the JAST program, too.
Durham told a Nov. 19 meeting of American Helicopter Society International's Federal City Chapter that while the CBA must be done by the third quarter of 2010, the "starting point" for envisioning new rotary-wing or other vertical-lift aircraft for the services is 2020.
"We're not starting with the programs of record and moving out," Durham said. "We're not going to be looking just at the missions being done by the existing programs of record. We'll look beyond that." His study isn't meant to come up with one-for-one replacements for current aircraft, he emphasized.
Durham has assembled experts from all relevant civilian and military offices in the Pentagon, U.S. combatant commands, the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA to conduct the multi-pronged project, which has three major parts.
First, an assessment of what the services' needs will be after existing and planned generations of helicopters and other VSTOL aircraft reach the end of their service lives.
Second, a strategic plan for how the military services can jointly develop future vertical lift aircraft.
Third, a science and technology plan — including an inventory of available funds and other resources — to chart a course for developing vertical lift aircraft needed after 2020.
The CBA won't be limited to rotorcraft, Durham told the AHS meeting. "Will it be rotary wing in 2020? I don't know," he said. "If it's not, what would be the changes that would have to come about?"
Durham plans an "industrial base war game" as part of the effort to help identify gaps in technologies needed in the future. He pledged to "involve industry early and often."
Congress also ordered up another report in the defense bill that has been folded into Durham's project: a rotorcraft survivability study, due in August, to assess why helicopters have suffered far greater wartime losses than fighter planes in conflicts since 1965 and to determine what can be done about it.
Rotorcraft advocates have long suggested the disparity in losses might be more narrow if rotary-wing aircraft had gotten the kind of Pentagon investment fixed-wing aircraft have enjoyed since the Vietnam War.
Durham said another goal of the CBA is to come up with strategies to put an end to a long string of cost and schedule overruns suffered by military rotorcraft programs. The Army's recently cancelled ARH-70 is only the latest helicopter program to breach legal ceilings on cost and schedule.
"What we have is a lot of programs that are not as stable as we would like them to be," Durham said.


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NEWPORT BEACH — If the Newport Harbor High girls' water polo team is leading headed to the fourth quarter, junior goalie Cleo Harrington waits for the words from Coach Bill Barnett.
He said them again Saturday afternoon, going into the fourth quarter of the Holiday Cup third-place match.
"If they don't score, we win," Barnett told Harrington, loudly enough that everyone on the pool deck at Newport Harbor High could hear.
Corona del Mar didn't score in the fourth quarter. Newport Harbor was on its way to posting a 7-4 victory in the third-place match, getting a bit of payback after losing the Battle of the Bay match last week.
Senior co-captain Elissia Schilling and junior Christina O'Beck each scored three goals, as the Sailors also rebounded from a 7-6 loss to Santa Barbara in the semifinals earlier Saturday. Foothill handed CdM its first loss of the season, 9-7, in the other semifinal.
Foothill went on to win the tournament for the second straight year, pulling away in the second half for an 8-4 victory over Santa Barbara.
Newport Harbor's junior varsity team placed a strong ninth in the tournament after outlasting Palos Verdes in triple overtime, 7-6, in the ninth-place match.
Better shooting was key for the Sailors' varsity team (6-3) against CdM. They were down 3-2 late in the second quarter after CdM freshman Maddie Musselman scored on a pass from senior Morgan Stewart.
But Schilling scored on a long outside shot before halftime, then the Sailors scored three consecutive goals in the third quarter, one each by Schilling, O'Beck and senior Carolyn Smith.
"You have to make the goalie stop the ball, and we didn't do that the last time we played them," Schilling said. "A lot of our shots were wide or over the cage, so we worked on our outside shooting a lot. It definitely showed in this game … Everyone played great today too. The last time we played CdM, there was a lot of miscommunication."
Musselman scored again bar down before the third quarter ended, trimming the Newport lead to 6-4. But O'Beck provided the final goal, on a short lob at the shot-clock buzzer with 2:44 left to play in the match.
"I think today we really played as a team," said O'Beck, who also had a pair of steals. "We're coming together."
Harrington made eight saves for the Sailors, who shut out CdM for a period of nearly nine minutes in-between Musselman's goals. Senior defender Avery Peterson had a pair of field blocks, and senior-co-captain Carly Christian drew two exclusions for Newport, which opens Sunset League play against Edison on Wednesday.
Musselman had two goals, two steals and a field block for CdM (5-2), which may lose its spot as the No. 1 team in CIF Southern Section Division 1. Ally McCormick and Eliza Britt also scored for the Sea Kings in the third-place match, Genevieve Weed had two steals and her sister Erica made three saves.
CdM Coach Sam Bailey saw his team look tired at the end of the long tournament. The Sea Kings had to play the third-place match just two hours after their semifinal loss to Foothill ended.
"Foothill plays a really physical game and they were really heavy on us," Bailey said. "The girls took four days off, and hopefully they were conditioning. Even if they were swimming, I'm pretty confident they weren't doing a lot of legs, and that's on me … It was tough. I think a lot of it comes down to conditioning."
CdM will get a significant boost next week as its Greek senior transfers, twins Stephania and Ioanna Haralabidis, become eligible. They can return to action in CdM's Pacific Coast League opener against Irvine on Friday. Bailey said they will step right into starting positions, but he's happy with his team's overall progress.
"They've shown that they're capable of playing with anybody," he said. "Beyond playing, they're capable of beating anybody. They've shown the depth that we have in our program … I think that's the biggest thing that's come out of this first month of the season."
Newport Harbor was edged by Santa Barbara in the Holiday Cup semifinals, despite holding a 4-2 lead at one point in the second quarter. Santa Barbara senior Kelsey O'Brien, who had a game-high four goals, scored the game-winner on a counter-attack with 4:03 left.
The Sailors had one last chance, calling timeout with 15 seconds left. Schilling's backhand shot at set went off the post in the final moments, and the rebound went to Peterson in front of the net. But Santa Barbara caused a ball-under call to force the turnover and secure the victory.
Christian and Schilling each scored twice in the semifinal loss, and Harrington made six saves. Schilling and Peterson combined for eight steals.
"That was a tough game, but any time you lose you want to be able to bounce back and win," Schilling said. "At least we split today, instead of going 0 for 2. At the beginning of the year we make a goal list, and one of our goals is to make top three in every tournament."
CdM, meanwhile, was thwarted by Foothill. Coach Jeff Colton put in a freshman goalie, Kenzi Snyder, instead of his usual senior starter Kelsey Rowland. Snyder made big plays down the stretch to help Foothill, and the Sea Kings didn't score after Genevieve Weed's power-play strike with 5:58 left narrowed CdM's deficit to 8-7.
Weed had a game-high four goals, and McCormick added three. Senior Cassidy Papa was held scoreless but had four steals and drew three exclusions.
Nikki Stansfield, Katy Schneider and Cana Manzella had two goals each for Foothill.
Newport Harbor's junior varsity team got a sudden-death goal from sophomore Chanel Schilling in its win over Palos Verdes. Schilling had three goals in the game and Ellie Reid scored twice, while Maddie Goodell drew two penalty shots and also scored. The Newport JV squad, which also beat Huntington Beach, 9-5, in a ninth-place semifinal, went 3-1 in the tournament. The team achieved Coach Brian Melstrom's goal of a top-10 finish.
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This Month in HIV: The Truth About HIV/AIDS Denialism
An Interview With Clinical Psychologist Seth Kalichman, Ph.D.
June 2009
They're ridiculous questions, of course. If you're reading this, there's a 99.9 percent chance you agree that HIV does exist and it can cause harm. After all, the virus has been isolated in laboratories.1,2 We have blood tests that can determine how much of the virus lives inside a person's body.3-5 Scientists have even taken pictures and videos of it.6
And, of course, there is also the terrible, mind-numbing, physical proof of what HIV can do. Globally, more than 25 million people have died from the virus in the past 30 years, and 33 million people are estimated to be living with HIV right now.7
Just 12 years ago, being diagnosed with HIV was almost invariably a death sentence in the developed world.
But then, right around 1996, the skies cleared, hope spread and men and women started regaining weight and strength. Thanks to focused research, amazing scientific discoveries and the tireless work of activists, combination antiretroviral therapy brought new life to HIV-positive people who thought they had none left. Within a few years the AIDS floors in AIDS-designed hospitals throughout the U.S. emptied out.
Many HIV-positive people who took these new antiretroviral medications shook off death and slowly regained their energy.8 Some even grew strong enough to return to work and some HIV-positive women felt confident enough to fulfill their dream of having a child. This transformation was one of the most amazing success stories of modern medicine.
Speak to a person living with HIV who survived the early years of the epidemic, and you can still hear the wonder in his or her voice, as well as sense the mourning and even disbelief with respect to the hundreds of thousands of people who suffered a nightmarish litany of illnesses and died and couldn't partake in the miracle.
Yet there exists a small group of people oblivious to these remarkable successes. And it's not a world of people with any actual hands-on experience: None work in HIV medicine providing care or conducting HIV research. None seem to have witnessed the miraculous rebound of so many HIV-positive people after their initiation of HAART [highly active antiretroviral therapy]. None of them volunteer or work for any of the hundreds of HIV/AIDS organizations across the U.S. catering mostly to poor and underinsured people living with HIV. None are AIDS activists who have transformed HIV care and policy.
No, these people scoff from afar at the successes against HIV. They call themselves "AIDS dissidents." We in the HIV community call them "denialists." They are led somewhat indirectly by a tenured professor named Peter Duesberg, who is not a medical doctor. Together, this small but vocal group of people write and theorize and blog. It's like a hobby for them.
And even though they have no hands-on experience -- remember they have no medical training and no first-hand experience with patient care -- they claim to know more about HIV than all the HIV physicians, nurses and activists in the world. Among their claims is that HIV does not cause AIDS, because either HIV does not exist9 or, if it does exist, it is harmless.10 Other denialists claim that HIV tests aren't accurate.11
It's an impossible scenario, if you think about it. No one can control that many people. But they believe it and they are looking for willing recruits who'll buy into their theories.
Every now and again, this group wins a dollop of attention from the media. But this attention is always short-lived and the denialist movement retreats back into well-deserved obscurity.
So why am I talking about them? Because even though they're irrelevant, they can still do damage. Each HIV-positive person who is pulled in by their misinformation and ends up not starting life-saving HIV treatment is one life that may be lost. Denialists can only be ignored to a certain extent. It's our responsibility to inform the world about HIV, and that includes informing the world about the harmful information that denialists dish out.
The question is: Why do these people do what they do? Why do they continue to deny the truth about HIV and AIDS? Why do they persist in the face of overwhelming evidence? We'll be looking at this subject in this, as well as the next, episode of This Month in HIV. First, we'll meet someone who went underground and learned how this group works. In our next episode, we'll talk to patients who have been duped by them and well-known activists who have dealt with them.
So let me welcome clinical psychologist Seth Kalichman, who is also a professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut. He recently completed a fascinating book, titled Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy, in which he looked into this odd group of people. He'll try to help us understand how the AIDS denialist movement came to be and what keeps it going.
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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Terry wants new Lampard deal
Chelsea captain John Terry has waded into the debate over Frank Lampard's future, revealing the squad are desperate for the England midfielder to remain at Stamford Bridge.
Lampard, 34, is contracted to the Blues until the end of the season and the lack of any news about an extension has been a source of much discussion in and outside the club. Lampard has scored 13 times this term despite seeing his playing time become more limited than in previous campaigns, leaving him on 199 goals for the side he joined in 2001.
Chelsea fans appear united in their desire to see Lampard remain on the books after his existing deal expires and Terry was unambiguous about his own views as club captain. "Frank has so much more to give and he has been an inspiration to everyone at the club," Terry told newspaper reporters.
"He has got years ahead of him and we all hope they will be spent here at Chelsea. We all hope that's here, but if not he has certainly got years ahead of him.
"I am not even going to entertain the idea of him playing for another club."
Although Lampard is two years older than Terry, the former England captain sees enough of the midfield man up close to be sure he can maintain his standards for the foreseeable future.
"Even at his age, he is still the best trainer by a million miles," continued Terry
"He works so hard and for him to get that many goals, kids can look at that and think: 'he is just in the right position'.
"But believe me it is a lot of hard work before and after training, working on his strengths and his weaknesses.
"I think that you can see he has always been very fit naturally anyway. That's despite the hard work he puts in before and after training."


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This post is somewhat related to my previous post about how I use Gmail. I've put together a single image that explains all the previous points about Priority Inbox so you can get a holistic view:
Upon arrival, email gets filtered and ends up either in the "Important and Unread" section or the "Everything else" section and this is where the user's "email check cycle" begins:
- Start by reading the "Important and Unread" section (conveniently placed at the top of your mailbox). This automatically causes mail to jump to the "Important" section. If an email is not important or doesn't require an immediate response, demote it and move along to the next important and unread mail.
- Now that you're reading important mail, process them to the best of your abilities, then send them to the archive. If you realize that you can't respond to a particular email at that moment, leave it in the Important section. Staring important mail has no effect. Next, next, next… done!
- If you have previously starred mail, you'll find a starred section (also conveniently placed below the Important section) for you to attempt to process and archive next.
- Now you're ready to read the "Everything Else" section. Reading mail in that section will not move it anywhere.
- If you read mail that you can't process or get back to at this current time, you can star it to indicate that it is "pending" or "in progress". During the next check cycle, starred mail will processed sooner than the "Everything else" section, even if you receive new mail (see point 3).
- Process the remaining mail and archive
Just to be clear, the term "processing mail" means taking an action on either replying, forwarding, labeling, deleting, or reporting spam. The final destination for mail should be the archive, unless you know for sure that you no longer need it.
I hope this post explained the general idea. If you have questions, voice your thoughts by leaving a comment.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) The Los Angeles Lakers have spent a month together now, and they still haven't won a game. They acknowledge it's a struggle to blend this new combination of talents into a cohesive team.
The Dallas Mavericks were happy to show them how it's done in a stunning season opener.
Darren Collison scored 17 points, Brandan Wright added 14, and the Mavericks spoiled the Los Angeles debuts of Dwight Howard and Steve Nash with a 99-91 victory over the Lakers on Tuesday night.
O.J. Mayo had 12 points as the Mavericks comfortably beat the star-studded Lakers, pulling away steadily in a drama-free second half without any help from injured Dirk Nowitzki. Dallas and Los Angeles both made big offseason moves that upended two contending teams, yet the Mavericks were much more together than their high-profile rivals.
``It was very satisfying to be up 16 points against that team, with all the low expectations (people had) for us,'' said Elton Brand, who had eight points and 11 rebounds in his first game for Dallas.
While the Mavericks celebrated an energizing win, the Lakers' superstar newcomers both had debuts to forget.
Howard had 19 points and 10 rebounds while missing 11 of his 14 free throws before fouling out with 2:02 to play. That's hardly what he anticipated after arriving in a trade with Orlando last August, but not much has gone according to plan in the first month for the Lakers' starters, who barely played together during their 0-8 preseason due to Kobe Bryant's nagging injuries and Howard's deliberate return from back surgery.
``It's not an excuse, but it will all come with time,'' Howard said. ``We haven't had an opportunity to really play together as much as we want, but we're going to get it. ... We're going to chip away, and we're going to get better.''
Nash managed just seven points and four assists while trying to balance the Lakers' new motion offense with his own strengths on the pick-and-roll - all while getting roundly outplayed by Mavs newcomer Collison.
``It's growing pains, and it's a struggle,'' the two-time NBA MVP said. ``We're out of sync, and we're going to probably have some more moments in games like that.''
Bryant scored 22 points while playing on an injured right foot for the Lakers, whose loaded lineup produced a largely passionless second-half effort in front of a sellout crowd expecting to see a super team capable of contending for the franchise's 17th championship - a fact acknowledged by Bryant when he addressed the fans before the game.
``As you know, we have a lot of expectations this season,'' Bryant said. ``We're trying to live up to the expectations. We're trying to bring another championship back to where it belongs, back to Los Angeles.''
Instead, the Lakers showed how much work they will have to do to challenge Miami and the NBA's best.
``It's not the way we wanted it to go,'' said Pau Gasol, who led the Lakers with 23 points and 13 rebounds. ``We know it's not going to happen for us right away, but we've just got to stick with it.''
Vince Carter, Shawn Marion and Rodrigue Beaubois scored 11 points apiece for the Mavericks, who snapped a six-game skid against the Lakers over the past two seasons.
``It's a great win,'' Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. ``If you execute in this league and have talent, you have a chance to win, and we did that. The Lakers are going to be fine. They've got a lot of new guys and a new system, but we were opportunistic tonight and got the job done.''
Dallas also contained Howard by using his career-long free-throw ineptitude against him - hardly a novel strategy, but one that worked particularly well when combined with Howard's opening-night nerves. The Lakers were 12 for 31 altogether from the free-throw line, including Jordan Hill's 1-for-6 effort - a major factor in their inability to close the gap on Dallas in the second half.
``I've just got to stop thinking so much and get up there and make them,'' Howard said.
Jae Crowder scored eight points in his NBA debut for the Mavericks, who are likely to be without Nowitzki for at least six more weeks while the German superstar recovers from arthroscopic knee surgery. Dallas also played without new center Chris Kaman, yet had little trouble matching up with the Lakers down low.
``It was energy and effort tonight for us,'' Marion said. ``We were resilient, we kept coming, and we did what we needed to do to get a win.''
NOTES: Dallas opened its season on the road for the first time since 2007. The Mavericks had opened the season against the Lakers three previous times, losing all three games. ... Howard was called for a flagrant foul in the third quarter for hammering Brand on an open shot in the lane. ... Katy Perry, Russell Brand, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Adam Levine, Jon Cryer and Los Angeles Galaxy stars David Beckham and Robbie Keane attended the game.


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Blogging Rule #32: You have to give away Best of the Year awards on your blog.
Blogging Rule #32(a): The awards have to be opinionated.
I thought of having some gyaan on movies, books and food. But then, I realised I have been out too few times this year to make any sense.
So, here I am with my list of my favourite blog posts of 2007 - in no particular order.
They are here not only because they are from my favourite blogs but I need to compile them at one place so that I can go back quickly and read them whenever I feel like!
116 Moonlit Nights: Megha's take on my favourite song is almost as beautiful as the song itself. What more can I say?
And if you think that was the definitive Bollywood post, there is one even better from a banker who - when he is not pontificating about cigarettes and existentialist angst - is a closet Bollywood buff. For all the hyperbole, excuse me please.
The Calcutta Post is from a Bong, who is not too sure if she is a ghoti or a bangal. But then her Adventures of a Bengali Bride At Her First Pujo is loaded with acute observations and deadpan humour.
My friend, Anirban, and his wife, Sujata, started their blog this year and debuted with a post on Raag Darbari. To my mind, that was a stunner because writing on Hindustani classical music accessibly is as rare as it gets and this deserves a huge audience.
And then, a couple of weeks back, he wrote An Ode to New York. Essential reading for anybody who has been exiled from Calcutta.
Nandigram would easily be the Most Searched Google Keyword from Calcutta this year. So much has been written about it that it is very difficult to make sense of the whole sordid affair. One post makes eminent sense - with just the right blend of fact and opinion.
Amitabh Bachchan has competition. Not in acting but in comebacks.
In late 2006, an Indian cricketer turned logical reasoning on its head and decided some Australian jerk was not going to decide when he was going to quit playing cricket. And while he was playing the sublime shots on field, a lot of people wished they could say "I-told-you-so".
One guy could - and came up with a magical post on a magical comeback.
Most blogs are started on a whim and most posts are written in a hurry - in an attempt of get immediate thoughts 'on air'. In this situation, it is such a pleasure to have somebody taking pains to unearth rare gems for the interested.
Dipanjan translated a Ritwik Ghatak interview - definitely the longest I have come across - and put it up. Apart from the fact that it is a very well-done translation, it is a complete travelogue across Ritwik's turbulent life and times. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
And finally, it has to be a large dose of nostalgia. Though Nilendu took off the rose-tinted glasses I use to look at the past and came up with a deadly recap of our college days. He is brutally honest and has an elephantine memory so it is rip-roaringly funny. And to protect jobs and marriages, he is not taking names. Except mine. In one episode, he calls me Vinod Kambli and in another, he accuses me of "vile, dishonest, corrupt and blatant subversion of power" in another. All three parts are required reading, nevertheless!
And I just realized that all but one of the bloggers mentioned above are Bengalis. I don't whether that can be attributed to my partisan behaviour or general superiority of my race!
On that controversial note, let me wish all a Gr8 2008!


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Barrie Antiques
In Fond Remembrance
of my dearly beloved wife
Annie Jane Bond
died 20th August 1888
and was interred in Maghera Cemetery, Co. Down on Wednesday 22nd August.
John Bond
For more funeral cards online see Ancestors At Rest. There are many there to view. You might find an ancestor or two in the collection!


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text: Hi all, someone in this list (Robert J. Brown, probably), a few months ago asked me to post one or twice a month if I had interesting results with raw ethernet on which I'm making my first level degree. Now I've some interesting results: packets loss have been decreased (even if under 300 bytes payload I experience so many loss, but probably the problem is in the used 32 bits architecture or in the fact that I use a 2.4.x kernel without NAPI, for the moment). For any other payload value (in a range between 300 and 1500 bytes) I've no losses, even with jumbo frames (achieved throughput 111 MB/sec in a point-to-point connection with Gbit ethernet cards). I've also experienced NAPI, but with a kernel 2.4, not 2.6 (next goal). Thank you for your attention and help in these months. Simone Saravalli


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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Celtic slip to bottom of group
Celtic's Champions League hopes are hanging by a thread after they slumped to the bottom of Group H with a 1-0 defeat by Ajax at the Amsterdam ArenA.
Lasse Schone, who had scored after coming on as a substitute in the 2-1 defeat at Celtic Park, grabbed the winner with a well-taken goal in the 51st minute to sink the Scottish champions who were far from their best in what was mostly a scrappy game.
Hoops keeper Fraser Forster strengthened his claim for an England cap with two good saves in the first-half which was bereft of quality and in which Neil Lennon's men hardly threatened.
The game opened up after the break. Schone struck just after Celtic midfielder Beram Kayal had missed a good chance for the visitors and before Anthony Stokes failed with a good opportunity to level.
Celtic, whose Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk was immense, remain on three points with two fixtures remaining.
Ajax move above them on four points with Barcelona having qualified following their 3-1 win over AC Milan at the Nou Camp.
AC Milan visit Celtic Park later this month before the Hoops travel to the Nou Camp in December to play Barcelona.
Celtic were boosted by the return of Georgios Samaras and Kris Commons who recovered from respective knee and hamstring injuries.
Skipper Scott Brown and Nir Biton missed out through suspension but Mikael Lustig shrugged off an on-going hip problem to take his place at right-back with Kayal coming into midfield.
Ajax coach Frank De Boer made three changes from the team that lost 2-1 in Glasgow to leave them bottom of the section with one point from three games.
Nicolai Boilesen, Davy Klaassen and Schone in for Lucas Andersen, Christian Poulsen and Viktor Fischer, all of whom started on the bench.
In a reshuffled line-up which smacked a little of desperation, De Boer moved Daley Blind from left-back into midfield and captain Siem de Jong from midfield into forward.
The decision to close the stadium roof had been taken during the day which meant the decibel level was raised to produce a great atmosphere.
However, some home fans momentarily held up an offensive banner aimed at the Parkhead club's Irish roots on what was its 126th anniversary and which may be looked into by UEFA.
The home side started with purpose and in the sixth minute Forster made a good save from Stefano Denswil's 25-yard free-kick, after Commons had fouled Blind, with the corner coming to nothing.
There was an Ajax claim for a penalty moments later when right-back Ricardo van Rhijn's cross struck van Dijk but German referee Deniz Aytekin was unimpressed.
In the 16th minute Forster came to the rescue again for the Glasgow side when he pushed away a downward header from de Jong, who had escaped Hoops defender Efe Ambrose to get on to the end of a van Rhijn cross.
Ajax were on top but there was enough slackness about their play and passing to encourage the visitors who, however, were not helping themselves with the amount of dangerous free-kicks they were conceding.
Four minutes into the second-half, after the Dutch side lost possession once more in attack, Kayal was allowed to run 50 yards to the edge of the Ajax penalty area but he blazed his drive high over the bar.
Celtic were made to pay for that moments later when Schone slipped the ball past Forster from 12 yards after working a one-two with Thulani Serero at the edge of the Hoops box.
With that, the game opened up further and Stokes had a chance in the 54th minute when he was set up by Commons but his low drive was dealt with by Jasper Cillesen.
At the other end, Schone's in-swinging corner from the left was headed off the line by Izaguirre with Forster beaten.
Ajax were leaving huge gaps as they went looking for number two and in the 57th minute James Forrest should have picked out Stokes as he raced down the right but managed to hit Joel Veltman, the only Ajax outfield player back.
Lennon's side had another opportunity in the 67th minute when Klassen was penalised for blocking Commons' pass 25 yards from goal but the former Derby player drove the ball straight to a grateful Cillesen.
Celtic's Dutch forward Derk Boeriggter replaced Stokes, Joe Ledley came on for Kayal and Teemu Pukki took over from Commons as Lennon tried another route.
Both sides continued to spurn good chances to create goal-scoring opportunities, with Forster making a save from de Jong with five minutes remaining before the unmarked Denswil headed the corner off the post and behind.
Celtic will go into the game against Milan probably needing a victory to have any realistic chance of progression.


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Blendium needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
We're looking for an anti-recycling site, something really offensive to the "green" movement. We want to demonstrate the really "bad" side of not recycling.
Motto for the site "Recycling Sucks, Take the Easy Route!"
In actuality, we are a green company that supports recycling, but want to show "the other side". We want the site to be ironic.
This site will be one of the landing pages to our recycling site.
We would expect the site to look great on a mobile device: Android / iPhone and also Blackberry and easily converted to twitter background.
Anyone interested in recycling or anyone that already recycles...
* Reflect an energetic, forward thinking company into which our customers can place their trust
* WHITE background
* Reflect a "green" idea
* Clever and creative concepts
* Modern and memorable (could be cartoonish)
* Fresh
* Exclusive look
* Use of common font families
* Clutter or ornate-looking designs
* Amateur
* No cute or hard-to-read
* Anti-aliasing for text sized smaller than 12 points (avoid this for small text)
* No trees, plants or leaves
* No border (see apple.com)
We need a 1-page website that demonstrate bad recycling behavior. We'll have videos and images to demonstrate "not recycling".
The design needs to be captivating, it's a one page site. We'll showcase the various "bad behaviors" on the one page with images and videos (and words). From each anti-green tip, we would land on the same page (this landing page not a part of this contest) saying something to the effect of "gotchta" or "ha ha, made you look".
First three showcases of anti green tips are as follows:
Choose paints that are made out of petrochemicals and that require additional chemicals to clean up like paint thinner or mineral spirits. These paints adhere the best to woods and have noxious fumes. After painting if you have extra paint, just pour it down the drain. Hide partially full cans in your garbage.
Yard clean up
Use a gas blower so you have the most horsepower to blow your leaves into a pile and then burn the pile of leaves. If you have any extra garbage, throw it there also.
Garbage. If you feel like burn it otherwise basically anything that you don't need is garbage, cans papers bottles.
The page should allow for expansion, as there will be more anti green tips to be added to the site as it grows.
This should look good on a mobile device--Android / iPhone / Blackberry
A twitter feed would be a nice touch, as would a "follow us on twitter" area.
none. This is a new site...
We're looking for a clean and forward thinking design: apple.com


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Re-Gifting Gone Bad
This lady opens a wine storage unit to find narsty rotting cheese and sausage meant for the original recipient years ago.
One in five Americans re-gift.
Here's how to do it right. Here are even more rules.
Really? Seinfeld invented the word "re-gift."
Actually, why do we "gift" at all?
What's the worst re-gift you ever got?


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Improvised musical next at McPherson
"Broadway's Next Hit Musical," an improvised musical comedy, will be at the McPherson Opera House at 7 p.m. Saturday.
"I love to book shows that involve audience participation, and this one does it in spades," said John Holecek, opera house executive director. "Each person in the audience is asked to make up a song title and write it down on a paper slip we provide. The six performers then randomly pull song titles out of a fishbowl and make up songs to go with the titles. The audience then votes on the song they like best, and right before their eyes, the cast delivers a full-blown, improvised musical comedy based on the song."
Tickets are available at the box office, by calling (620) 241-1952, or online at http://mcphersonoperahouse.org.
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Imagine that you're a citizen of a country that has just experienced one of the worst earthquakes in history. You, your neighbors, and fellow country-men are immediately thrown into danger, chaos, and destitution. As one of the fortunate survivors, you wait for authorities to provide medical care, shelter, food, and other immediate needs, but you receive little or no help. Yet, to your surprise, a large group of ordinary citizens begin organizing a massive disaster response by using blogs, twitter, Facebook, and other social media networks. Their efforts have provided you with life-saving resources. And all of a sudden, within days, digital technologies have facilitated an entire social movement around this earthquake. These are the types of stories that Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-Drop examine in their new edited series, Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood.
If you are interested in digital media and politics, there is a plethora of literature on the role of ICTs in powerful political systems in the industrialized world. However, there has been very little focus on the role of digital technology in weak states with inadequate governance systems. Bits and Atoms is a comprehensive volume that examines the extent to which ICTs can help fill governance voids in a number of countries in Eastern Europe, Sub-Sahara Africa, and the Middle East. A distinguished group of scholars attempt to answer some important questions like, "Can ICTs help fill the gap between pressing human needs and weak states' ability to meet them? Can communities use ICTs to meet challenges such as indiscriminate violence, disease, drought, famine, crime, and other problems arising from deficient and non-responsive state institutions? How does ICT affect the legitimacy of the state?"
When thinking about weak states, one may immediately think of failed, fragile, and/or conflict states, but the editors of this book use a different construct by examining "areas of limited statehood." They view the idea of statehood as a continuous variable that can range from fully consolidated states like those found Scandinavia to states with low levels of consolidation like Somalia. But as the authors point out, most states fall somewhere in between this spectrum. As noted in the book, those on the lower end, like the Democratic Republic of Congo, have central institutions that are unable to exercise a monopoly on the use of force, let alone implement political decisions. However, those that fall in the middle of the continuum have an ability to marshal force, despite their inability to provide basic services.
The central point of the book is that limited and even failing statehood does not necessarily translate into the absence of governance. In fact, the volume argues that in weak states, there is an enormous amount of governance potential that can be found in ICTs. This potential is explored by contributors like J.P. Singh, who examines how E-government programs in India have been used to improve service delivery. He finds mixed results, where the Indian state is better at providing bits (information such as online land records) rather than atoms (material goods such as offline judicial procedures). Other contributors such as Primoz Kovacic and Jamie Lundine examine how mapping platforms have empowered residents in the slums of Nairobi. Here, Kovacic and Lundine show how a small group of citizens with limited resources gather data on health, education, sanitation, and security issues to through online platforms like Ushahidi to share stories about these slums to the world. In spite of this success, the authors question the sustainability these efforts that are often done in isolation of government programs.
Taken together, the case studies in this book provide a compelling story of both the power and limitations of ICTs in areas of limited statehood. It does a fascinating job of bringing to life the various roles that ICTs can play in the complex process of governing.
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A further piece of Bank
A further piece of Bank research which is relevant here is the infoDev study of the use of ICTs in post-conflict reconstruction (see: www.infodev.org/postconflict) which presents case studies from Afghanistan, Liberia, Rwanda, Timor-leste and Tunisia,
Thanks for pointing out this
Thanks for pointing out this piece of research, Timothy. Very interesting.


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Zambrano earned some clout. Soriano's out. And Lee missed another game on paternity leave for the birth of his second child.
Congratulations D-Lee, hope baby Lee and Mama Lee are doing well! Adding one baby to your 2009 stat line after writing this, just because, why not!
Had fun at the Cubs game tonight at Citi Field…until about the eighth inning that is. Zambrano, who has struggled in the two games he had prior to this one since coming off the DL had a strong outing. His control seemed to be a bit off but he still got results. He gave up a solo shot to New York's up and coming left fielder Cory Sullivan in the second inning but aside from that he was effective getting out of any self made jams and keeping the Mets off the board. From my seat in the second row of the front section of the upper deck behind home plate, I had a great view of pitches as they crossed home plate. The point of view up there (section 514 for the record) is amazing and makes it real easy to agree or disagree accurately with the ump's balls and strikes calls. I think Zambrano got robbed a bunch, but then again, was the recipient of a few gifts as well. Parnell benefited the same for the Mets so all is fair in love and strike zones.
Parnell has had a rough go of it for the Mets but he was strong through his seven innings as well. Not as strong as Zambrano though. The Cubs managed to load the bases three times in the game and unfortunately only came away with a run during the eighth inning. Timely hits was not this team's strong suit tonight and I'm sure it didn't help having Soriano on the bench and Lee's bat home by the crib.
Soriano is out indefinitely and I must say…I think we're looking at 2010. I hate saying that before we are mathematically eliminated and I love our bench guys, I just don't think we have enough to do what it takes this year. When I left Citi to the pumping fist of K-Rod and the smiling faces of Mets fans, the Rockies were up 2-0. Currently as I type this, the D-backs are up 4-2 in the bottom of the sixth. If the Rockies come back and win, putting us seven games out, I think that's exactly what we'll be, figuratively. Out. Seven is too much to over come without some ground-breaking miracle that MLB Network will talk about for ages. Without some kind of miraculous finish to the season, I think we're done. I didn't think that before I left today for the ballpark and I won't think it until we are officially seven out. But if it comes to that, I believe we're done.
I got to the stadium in time for batting practice. I don't normally get to the stadium that early and it was great. I was standing right by the outfield wall where all of the Cubs pitchers (most) were stretching and warming up their arms. Marmol looked great (too bad we didn't see him tonight). Lilly was there and I took the opp to shout some praises. Berg was having a blast with kids asking him for baseballs, you could just tell he was digging it. And Grabow was being harassed by two 10 year old kids for a baseball. The same baseball he was currently warming up with. Funny what kids don't get. Even after he said to them point blank, "I'll give it to you when I'm done with it", they still pestered him for it, asked why he needed it, and then began harassing another pitcher for the ball at his feet that he wasn't using. This guy was warming up right next to Grabow, the guy who promised them his ball. Ah, the New York City public school system.
One kid next to me during BP was pretty cool. Little Mets fan but clearly a baseball fan in general. He had asked me if I could help him point out where the Cubs were on the field during warm-ups that he had in his stack of baseball cards. Of course I could. He was very excited to see Ted Lilly in person and was hoping to get an autograph. I don't know that that happened, but it was fun taking in BP with someone who still sees the game like an eleven year old kid. Baseball the way it should be.
Once again Cubs Nation turned out and there were more Cubs fans around me than Mets fans in my immediately portion of the section. One Cubs fan who had never been to Citi before was surprised that there aren't any bleachers. 'That's just not right', he said. Funny how bleachers are such a part of Cubs baseball. He was floored that the stadium had no bleachers. As if it made the game of baseball impossible to be played without them…like the Mets' new ball field had no place for shortstop. Funny. Good guy to watch the game with. Unfortunately after we celebrated the Cubs tying it up in eighth, I was correct when I told him the Mets would take the lead again once Gregg came out to pitch in the bottom of the same inning. I really dislike Gregg. He needs to be off this team in 2010. He has done nothing but hurt this team in the greater picture and he needs to go.
Mets played great defense tonight aside from their couple of mishaps in the field. One easy pop up that should have been an out dropped in for Bradley and I believe it was Bradley again who benefited from an error at first. To make up for it all was Parnell who had bases loaded at one point and got out of it with two strike outs and then a brilliant defensive play on the mound when a shot up the middle fired at him and he was able to stop it and get the out at first. Unreal. Mets win 6-2…scoreboard watching time. Let's hope we don't let the GB mark reach seven.
Tomorrow's another day at Citi and I believe Lee will be back. No Soriano, but we'll see if Fuld can make something happen. And while Zambrano did his thing today, he deserved a win he didn't get. That's to the fault of the Cubs inability to score guy in position and keep the stranded total down. Hopefully that changes tomorrow and Marmol gets to show his stuff successfully in more than just the warm ups. Get the W tomorrow boys….Go Cubs Go!


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Peter Revson took his maiden grand prix win at Silverstone as his McLaren headed home a depleted field after a major accident caused a restart.
French GP winner Ronnie Peterson took up where he left off, securing pole position for Lotus from the McLarens of Denny Hulme and Revson.
When the race started, there was immediate drama when Niki Lauda suffered a driveshaft failure and was hit from behind by Jack Oliver's Shadow, eliminating both cars. Peterson led before Jackie Stewart eased passed him with Reutemann loitering in third. Jody Scheckter's McLaren lay fourth but as he powered through Woodcote Corner on the opening lap, the South African ran wide and spun across the track into the pit wall. He bounced back across the road and mayhem ensued as the pack tried to miss him. Jean-Pierre Beltiose (BRM), George Follmer (Shadow), Mike Hailwood (Surtees), Carlos pace (Surtees), and Jochen Mass (Surtees) were all involved as was the Brabham of Andrea de Adamich who suffered a broken ankle in the accident. It took 30 minutes to extract de Adamich from his car and a further hour elapsed before the race could be restarted and Lauda's repaired BRM was on the grid.
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Ever had a whisky older than you? Opportunities such as this don't come along very often, especially as "you" get older and older and older. When I was in my 20s, for example, finding 30-year-old scotches was relatively easy and only relatively expensive. Now that I'm 45, though, finding a 50-year-old scotch is not just logistically difficult; it's expensive by nearly anyone terms.
Case in point: the inaugural release of the Glenlivet Winchester Collection, barreled in 1964 and bottled for release this year. Want one? Sell your children; only 100 bottles are available worldwide, and each bottle will run you $25,000.
But what a bottle. Each bottle is hand-blown glass, capped with a silver stopper, and accented with gold. The bottle sits in a cabinet with a lock and a hidden key, just in case you don't sell the kids and one of them tries to sneak a sip.
I had a chance to sample one of the 100 bottles this past Wednesday, at a dinner at Le Bernadin. Along with about 30 other journalists, I had a fantastic multi-course meal with wine pairings, punctuated by samples from the Glenlivet range: the 18, XXV (25), and 50.
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All in all, this is clearly a whisky for collectors. Scotch, after all, is a luxury good, and all luxury markets have to cater to the collector segment. Glenlivet has put together a beautiful package and a tasty dram. If only I had the $25,000. Anyone in the market for kids?


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