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Check out the best dressed for 2008. People never steers us wrong, they know what's good. Our girl Rih Rih made it in the number 2 spot, second to Kate Hudson who just shits on everybody. Thank god for stylists right? right. On second thought maybe people should make a best PERSONAL STYLE THAT YOU COME UP WITH YOURSELF list. Almost everyone on here dresses similar except for Sarah Jessica Parker, but she's almost completely influenced by Patricia Field....hmmm celebrities today, can't do anything themselves.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Check out the best dressed for 2008. People never steers us wrong, they know what's good. Our girl Rih Rih made it in the number 2 spot, second to Kate Hudson who just shits on everybody. Thank god for stylists right? right. On second thought maybe people should make a best PERSONAL STYLE THAT YOU COME UP WITH YOURSELF list. Almost everyone on here dresses similar except for Sarah Jessica Parker, but she's almost completely influenced by Patricia Field....hmmm celebrities today, can't do anything themselves.
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jhud n punk
so why is j.hud engaged to Punk from I love New York 2?
Tell me WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I thought he was gay.
Posted by kimmie e at 1:20 PM 3 comments
my baby is misunderstood...BUT I UNDERSTAND U BOO
If you know me personally you know that I have a strange obsession with Trey Songz. He's MY LIFE! Like seriously, have you looked at him. He's just great! I had the pleasure of meeting him and getting his autograph last year in Richmond. I was talking on the phone and I looked at him and he looked at me and he smiled and he asked me my name and i was like, "uh uh ummmm" and he said, "ummm" and laughed and then i said, "Kim" (sigh). The time of my life.
He has a new song out called "misunderstood" (again with the Nina Simone sample). Apparently he's misunderstood (I understand you boo!). He gets on so much shit...i just love it
so hood, so vulgar, so TREY..my bay (sigh)
you shit on Chris...i like him, but i LOVE YOU...cop the album, its old but if you don't got it, GET THAT SHIT...
O AND ITS A FREESTYLE...both SONG and RAP...love u boo
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
why facebook is spinning out of control by kimmie e
i can see EVERYTHING you do...and it creeps me out. It also creeps me out because on your news feed you can see everything that i'm doing. So CREEPY. And am I trippin' or have the status' gone completely out of control. Sucks. DAMN YOU FACEBOOK..my addiction!!!!
Posted by kimmie e at 11:21 PM 3 comments
Labels: sh*t to put in ur facebook
I often sit back and think about the "L" word. No, not "lesbian" you stupids, LOVE lol. Yes Love, the word we hold so close to our hearts, or we believe that it in itself is the only function our hearts provide (forgetting the whole circulation of blood to sustain life thing). I love LOVE and I love being in love, but I no longer feel the love. Where is the LOVE people and if you know where it is tell me what 1-800 number I can call to get me some of that truth. dig? Whenever I am not in love, lust, or just casually talking to some nigga fool, I feel like i'm missing out on this big secret. You know those times when you come home after this bomb ass party and brotha you used to talk to was lookin right, but you just don't have the balls to give his ass a call, so you sit in your house while you watch your roommates go galavanting into the night sky in pursuit of some good lovin' or lustin'...whatever. As Americans we are constantly reminded that if we find that one special person everything will miraculously be OK. Will love make it OK? Or will love just blind us?
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black people also like TYLER PERRRY
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Monday, September 15, 2008
things black people love
Posted by kimmie e at 6:16 PM 7 comments
things that black people laugh at
1. your bad ass kids...black people are infamous for laughing at other people's bad ass children. expecially white people's bad ass kids. Everyones sitting there laughing and thinking, "why don't they just beat his little ass?" I always like to watch little white kids and hispanic kids run all around stores and break shit. Their parents look so stressed and sooo upset, like "God why ME". A little ass whoopin would fix that shit right up.
2. bad ass track...I love this! I love when black people laugh at other black people for having the WORST tracks/weave imaginable! When you see a sista walkin down the street with a head full of CLEARLY fake blonde and red tracks it makes you question the sanity of the race in general? Did some other black person actually TELL you that you looked GOOD? 9 times out of 10 they were lying and wanted to really see if you would actually walk out of the house with lion pelt sticking out of your scalp. MY PEOPLE! get it together lol...
3. when people kiss their dogs...so i just saw your dog go and lick another dog's ass and then i saw you run up and kiss your dog on the lips!? that means that you just kissed that previous dog's dirty ass. once i was in a park with some friends and this dog was kissin alll over this man's face. we all stood there and shook our heads...repeatedly...and then of course we laughed.
4. when there is no sweet tea at mcdonalds...maybe WE don't laugh, maybe I just laugh because i hate sweet tea, but everyone else be mad though lol...until they say they ran out of apple pies, that's justs trifflin!
5. when you see a junkie lean...a junkie leanin in the middle of the street is kind of like watching a race. everyone's commenting, saying things like "look he's gettin' lower", "naw wait he's about to hit the ground...", "i bet you 10 dollas that nigga fall", "damn he def just popped back up, he bet' not ask me fo a dolla!"
6. when people dance with no rhythm...we just feel embarrassed for you
7. pornos...porn is funny. lets face it, watching two people having sex is just hilarious. They moan and groan. i just laugh because real sex ain't like that my dudes. porno provides insight into how white people look like naked too. Everything's all pink...yea pink..weren't you curious? O and black pornos are the funniest, cuz its just like, "why?", "wasn't slavery enough?", "you know your mama would beat your ass if she saw this shit!"
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Labels: tha top 10
Friday, September 12, 2008
Posted by kimmie e at 2:03 AM 2 comments
u jus mad cuz ur ass i old
everyone shud watch the boondocks
but this shit...
this shit right here nigga
this shit right here
this shit is krytakronakonalite nigga
and im still hung off the libation...my nigga
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
drunk and hot girls
im drunk
should u kno that yes u shud
ive been so anti i dont kno what the hell is going on in the world
yay grey goose
ooo and i copped the new missbehave
everybody get it
tooo dope...santogold? o yes!
AND it says autumn 2008...does this mean i wont have a copy for novemba?
my birthday month?
say it aint so my dudes! o and they have a new "shop" on karmaloop...im coppin that sweata, so dont bite me....
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
a letter to the public
dear queenie valentine reader,
i know i have been away for sometime now and for that i am sorry. :( However I am full of logical excuses. WORK And SCHOOl..and SOCIAL life or what's left of it. AND not to forget my internet was acting like it was on some serious crack. I had to sit on the phone with Dell, while some foreign man explained to me in almost perfect English that I had to re-buy a warranty for the third time in order for them to fix my internet problem! Ugh...technology can be so ridiculous sometimes. I'm going to try my best to keep up with the Jones' and keep ur wondering bright minds entertained. lol. While I've been gone some interesting things have happened:both party conventions, the VMA's (which i quickly wrote about last night), classes began, i quit one of my jobs, i made my first ebay purchase on my roomates computer, and i dont know of anything else because im being so so so ANTI and so self absorbed into my own life that i forget to google and find out a lil sumin sumin bout rih rih, britney, and some new brooklyn rap group...i have now come back to work. look forward for new ish..and bare with me plz
kimmie e
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Monday, September 8, 2008
but this was even though her ass broke...
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Kanye VMA
ok ok ok
i kno ive been away but my computer is broken (o boo). however im using my roomies...
im currently watching the VMA's and Kanye is performing. I don't know anything he said. What song was that? Is he a singer now? Is he Nelly? Why?
i wanted u to rap kanye
i wanted u to do the kanye
but u failed...and im sad about it
boo u
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Labels: Kanye West, VMA
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Although I'd rather not exploit a love, singer Rihanna is said to be broke. Poor child only has about $20,000 to her name. This is all surfacing after, now ex-accountant Patricia Williams was fired and she says for no good reason, although Rihanna found that most of her money had been missing. Williams denied and Rihanna kicked that ass to the curb. Apparently Rihanna has paid more out of pocket expenses than you would think because her label refused. Hit after hit later here she stands broke. Quennie V won't watch you demise, we'll wait, shit's only gonna get better.
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The $490 22-inch NEC MultiSync P221W is a great performing alternative to super high-end and superexpensive professional monitors such as the $1,450 Eizo ColorEdge CG222W. The NEC has wide viewing angles, a robust and easy-to-use onscreen display, accurate colors, and several useful ergonomic options. However, it only includes DVI, VGA, and S-Video connection options with no extras such as USB ports or card readers. This is where the Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP steps in. Dell recently lowered the price of the monitor to $550, only $60 more than the NEC. Also, the Dell monitor includes a larger screen and many more connection options. Its performance isn't quite as good (especially in color accuracy) as the NEC, but it makes up for its higher price with its feature count. So, if color accuracy is what you desire, the P221W is one of the best monitors for it. However, you may be disappointed by its feature list.
Design and features
The NEC MultiSync P221W has a black chassis with a matte finish that is slightly rounded on its corners. The bezel measures a short 0.6 inch long on all sides. The panel is a long 2.2 inches deep (in comparison, most 22-inch models we've tested have a panel depth of more than an inch); however, the back of the display--which houses the backlight, connection options, and ventilation system--extends another 1.3 inches, bringing the full monitor depth to about 3.5 inches. The panel width measures 19.8 inches long--slightly shorter than average for a monitor of this screen size. The surface of the screen is a slightly frosted and with a smooth matte finish.
The monitor's triangular footstand measures 10.6 inches in width, with a depth of 9.2 inches. The display weighs a fairly solid 18.28 pounds, which is not nearly as heavy as the Eizo ColorEdge CG222W that tipped the scales at 24 pounds. Although the P221W's relatively narrow footstand denies it the kind of unflinching stability of the Eizo, it is still quite stable, especially with the screen height is at its lowest setting. With the screen height raised fully to 6.1 inches, the monitor is more susceptible to wobbling. With the screen height at its lowest, the distance from the bottom of the bezel to the desktop is 2.8 inches.
The panel pivots to the left 90 degrees--useful if you prefer portrait mode. It swivels nearly 360 degrees and tilts back about 25 degrees. Also, the panel can easily be removed from the stand and then mounted (VESA-style) on the wall. There's a groove at the top back of the panel that acts as a carrying handle. Taking the too easily removable panel off the back of the stand reveals several vertically aligned hooks for organizing cables.
The NEC display includes DVI, VGA, and S-Video as video connection options; unfortunately, neither USB nor additional video connections are included. Also, there isn't an HDMI connection, which is a mainstay on most monitors. However, since NEC is pushing the MultiSync toward graphics professionals, we're not too surprised by the omission since there is no benefit to using HDMI over DVI in professional graphics applications. Accessing the connections proved fairly easy as they rest to the right of the stand; however, pivoting the display makes access a lot easier.
The onscreen display button array is located in the lower right-hand corner of the bezel and includes four buttons aligned horizontally and three vertically. Pressing the Menu button brings up the OSD in the middle of the screen. The menu includes not only controls for the usual brightness and contrast, but also an Eco mode that caps the brightness at 75 percent and 50 percent. Also, it has an Auto brightness setting that uses the monitor's built-in light sensor to automatically adjust the brightness based on the amount of ambient light in the room. Finally, with black level you can adjust the display's level of black without affecting its backlight level. With few vendors including this option in the last few years, we'd thought we'd never see it again. We're glad to be proven wrong and hope more vendors include black level adjustment in the future.
The NEC provides four color temperature selections: 5,000K; 7,500K; 8,200K; and 9,300K; as well as a 6,500K sRGB option. Four preset options are also available including Native; Programmable; Option 1, which sets the white point to clear base; and Option 2, which sets the white point to Blue base. Professional photographers covet the latter presets. Navigating the OSD was simple because the menu button labels that pop up on screen, adjacent to each button once it's pressed.
The NEC MultiSync P221W's 16:10 aspect ratio has a 1,680x1,050-pixel native resolution. The 16:9 monitor trend currently sweeping the market has given many smaller monitors higher resolutions than they were capable of at a 16:10 aspect. A 22-inch (or 21.5-inch) model, with a 16:9 aspect ratio now has a potential high definition, native resolution of 1,920x1,080 pixels as opposed to 1,680x1,050 pixels. We understand that those buying the NEC monitor would have little use for HD resolutions though, as it is geared toward graphics professionals.
Manufacturer's specifications:
Resolution: 1,680x1,050 pixels
Pixel-response rate: 8ms
Contrast ratio: 1,000:1
Brightness: 300cd/m2
Connectivity: DVIx2
HDCP compliant? Yes
Included video cables? DVI
Backlight type: CCFL
Panel type: S-PVA
Aspect Ratio: 16:10
We tested the MultiSync P221W with its DVI connection. The display posted a composite score of 94 on CNET Labs' DisplayMate-based performance tests. We compared it with the 22-inch HP LP2275w and Eizo ColorEdge CG222W, which had scores of 91 and 95 respectively. The P221W scored well in most of our color tests; however, it faltered in the 256-step Intensity Color Ramp test where we saw plenty of color tint problems and a rough transition from light to dark colors. On our black screen test, we noticed minimal backlight bleed through.
The NEC P221W achieved a brightness score of 223 candelas per square meter (cd/m2)--lower than NEC's claimed 300 cd/m2 max. The LP2275 with its brightness of 283 cd/m2 came just a few points less than HP's claimed 300 cd/m2 max. The NEC's brightness score was lower than we expected, yet bright images never looked drab. We used the P221W's sRGB and 8,200K preset to check out "Kill Bill Vol. 1" on DVD and a number of 1080p movie files from Microsoft's WMV HD Showcase. Movies on the NEC looked great thanks to the display's deep blacks and high contrast.

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First British Casualties
Now, it is often thought that Pte John Parr of the 4th Btn. Middlesex Regiment was the first British battle casualty of the War. Not true. Although he is obviously an early casualty (killed on the 21st August 1914) he was not the first British casualty.
In the early morning of August 6th 1914, with the war being only 32 hours old, HMS Amphion hit a German mine in the North Sea. Casualties on that day included 278171 Leading Stoker Andrew Collins, SS/4209 Able Seaman Albert Cowley, CH/18478 F Bates (Royal Marine Light Infantry), and K/16433 Stoker 1st Class Fred Coker
The following account of the sinking of HMS Amphion is taken from Naval Staffs Monographs. Vol 10.
At 2300 on August 4th 1914, England declared war on Germany. In anticipation of war the Konigin Luise, a former Hamburg – Holland holiday ferry, had been converted to an auxiliary minelayer by the Germans. On the night of 4th August she left her home port of Emden and steamed south through the North Sea to lay mines off the Thames Estuary. The ship resembled the steamers of the Great Eastern Railway that plied from Harwick to the Hook of Holland, and so she was painted in their colors of black, buff, and yellow to disguise herself.
Meanwhile, at the port of Harwick 80 miles north of London, HMS Amphion (Capt.Cecil H.Fox) and the destroyers of the 3rd Flotilla were preparing to sail. They departed in the early hours of the morning and by daylight on the 5th August they were well out into the North Sea sweeping towards the Heligoland Bight. A few hours after leaving port a destroyer on the screen spoke to a fishing vessel who had seen an unknown vessel "throwing things over the side" about 20 miles north of the Outer Gabbard.
At 1025 Amphion sighted the unknown steamer and sent the destroyers Lance and Landrail to investigate. The steamer was the Konigin Luise which made off at 20 knots, altering course, before disappearing into a rain squall where she began laying mines. At 1030, Lance signalled she was engaging the enemy and is credited with firing the first shot of World War 1. They were soon joined by Amphion ( which had won the fleetgunnery prize for 1914) and the German came under very accurate fire.
The Konigin Luise was only lightly armed with two 3.7cm MGs and some smaller weapons and offered little resistance. Commander Biermann brought her onto a south-easterly course hoping to regain neutral waters and draw the British ships into her minefield. However, after receiving numerous hits, the order was given to sink the ship to avoid any further loss of life. At 1222, on fire amidships and with smoke and steam pouring from her funnels, the Konigin Luise rolled over to port and sank at 55.5N 2.32E. 46 of the 100 crew were rescued.
During the action the Amphion gun crews from the disengaged side crossed over to watch the firing and showed their appreciation of good salvoes by cheering and applauding. After the action Capt. Fox mustered all hands and reprimanded the men for leaving their posts. He reminded them that they were at war and no matter what the other fellow was doing, each man was to go on with his duty and stick to it. The ship's company rather enjoyed the lecture and saw the sense in it.
The British destroyers now sighted another ship of the same shape and color of the Konigin Luise. She was flying a huge German Flag and the destroyers began their attack. Amphion recognized her as the St.Petersburg which was carrying the German Ambassador back to Germany from England. Amphion signaled the destroyers to cease fire but in the excitement of the moment they ignored the signal and pressed home the attack. Capt. Fox then put the Amphion between the destroyers and the St Petersburg to deliberately foul the range.
At 2100 Amphion and the destroyers set course to return to Harwick. Unfortunately, due to reported problems with mines and submarines, the allocated course ran very close to where the Konigin Luise had laid her mines.
At 0645 on August 6th 1914 HMS Amphion struck a mine which exploded just beside the forebridge and broke the ship's back. The explosion practically destroyed the bridge and smoke and flames poured from the slits in the conning tower. Except for one man, all the fo'csle gun crews were killed and the bridge occupants badly burnt. As the hands were at breakfast, many were killed or suffocated in the forward messdecks. This included 19 of 21 German survivors.
Capt.Fox stopped engines and proceeded aft to take charge. The ship was well down at the bows and attempts to extinguish the raging fires in the forward part of the ship failed. Abandon Ship was ordered. As most of Amphion's boats were destroyed, the destroyers sent their boats to rescue the crew.
There was no confusion or panic. The men fell in on deck. Within twenty minutes of the first explosion all the survivors were safely on board the destroyers. Among the survivors was Midshipman E.F Fegan who would later win a VC as Captain of the Jervis Bay when it was sunk in WW2.
Unfortunately, although Amphions's engines were stopped, she still had way on and she continued turning in a circle. At 0703, just as the last boatload of survivors were taken off, she again struck the same row of mines. Her magazine detonated in a huge cloud of pale yellow smoke and the fore part of the ship completely disintegrated showering the attending destroyers with debris. There were several casualties, one 4-inch shell falling on board the destroyer Lark, killing two of Amphion's men and a German prisoner. Amphion then suddenly slid astern and sank at 0705 at 52.11N 02.36E. One officer and 150 men were lost.


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Fast Retransmit and Recovery detect a segment loss via duplicate acknowledgements. When a segment is lost, TCP at the receiver will keep sending ack segments indicating the next expected sequence number. This sequence number would correspond to the lost segment. If only one segment is lost, TCP will keep generating acks for the following segments. This will result in the transmitter getting duplicate acks (i.e. acks with the same ack sequence number)


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Five years ago, Canadian director Paul Haggis read an Italian article about a man named Father Rick Frechette. Frechette, an American, arrived in Haiti some 20 years previous for theological reasons but soon found what the children of the poverty stricken nation were in dire need of, even more so than faith, was a doctor.
Spending his weekdays studying in New York and weekends in the slums of Port-au-Prince, in 1988, Frechette attained a medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and had been working in the slums of the country's beleaguered capital ever since. Haggis, three years removed from the Oscar success of Crash and having just finished writing and directing the political film, In The Valley of Elah, was moved by Frechette's story. So much so that he booked a ticket to Port-au-Prince and went to meet the the good doctor.
"He just seemed like an incredible man so I decided to go down and find him," Haggis recalls, a slight glaze crossing his eyes. "I remember hanging out with him all day, watching him work in the slums… I'd seen poverty before; I'd never seen this level of poverty."
As night fell, the two fast friends retired to Frechette's guesthouse.
"We drank a lot of wine, ate a lot of pasta -- because there are a lot of Italians volunteering there -- and bonded. His stories are just remarkable. All the stories he's done.
"I saw what he was doing, which was so much for so little, and figured I had to do something to help."
Half a decade later, Artists for Peace and Justice, the charitable origination which Haggis heads, has raised nearly $10 million for Haiti's impoverished youth. However, at the time, few in native North America had even heard of the nation which shares an island, Hispaniola, with the Dominican Republic.
"It was very hard to get attention," Haggis says of his early attempts to raise awareness and money for Haiti. "It's the poorest country in the western hemisphere, one of the poorest countries in the world, and it's just off our shores."
"The Canadians used to go there, it was a vacation spot under [dictators] Papa Doc and Baby Doc and I think it's a country that we, the western world, helped to rape," he continues. "France, Britain, America, we did a real number on these people for a long time and so it was really important to me to start this cycle back."
Sitting on a couch in the lobby of the InterContinental hotel in downtown Toronto mere hours from APJ's Toronto Film Festival annual charity lunch – which will end with big stars like Jude Law and Alexander Skarsgard witness a moving acoustic set by The Arcade Fire, raising over $550,000 (U.S.) in the process -- Haggis recalls his initial fundraising effort, which involved Frechette, a man who spent a good portion of his life in Haitian slums, coming to Haggis' Los Angeles home to break bread with his friends.
"He didn't recognize any of them. He would say, 'You know that attractive blonde woman there?" I'd say, "Charlize Theron?" he'd say, "What does she do?" and I'd explain that she's an actress. The only one he recognized was Barbra Streisand, that he knew," Haggis laughs.
"From there I would take friends down to Haiti and show them the work that was being done and that was when we decided to start our own organization," he explains. "The donations that were being given through another organization, so much of it was being eaten up by organization costs. And I thought those were way too high so I found a way to minimize that."
And then, at the dawn of 2010, the earthquake hit and suddenly everybody knew where Haiti was.
Shortly after news of the quake's impact got out, Haggis managed to get in touch with Frechette. When he asked him what supplies he needed, Father Rick simply replied, "Cash."
Gathering $50,000 in a duffle bag, Haggis tried to make his way to Haiti but, understandably, was having little luck. Stuck at Miami International airport for two days, Haggis eventually made it to Port-au-Prince thanks to pal Sean Penn, who flew out from L.A. to give him a ride.
"I can only imagine what Dresden looked like after the war, and that's what it looked like," Haggis recalls of his experience after touching down in January of 2010. "So you see something like that and it's easy to put that on a screen to move people."
"Our main objective for APJ initially was to help Father Rick, it was more about creating a better health system. After the earthquake hit we decided it needs to be about education," Natasha Koifman, a Canadian publicist who has sat on APJ's advisory board since 2009 recalls. "We need to help Haitians help themselves"
With that new mandate, APJ set its sights on a new goal: to build the first free high school for the children of Port-au-Prince's slums.
"So January 11 is when the earthquake hit and on January 23 Paul and I planned an event at his house that raised over $4 million," Koifman explains. The Academy of Peace and Justice was completed last year.
"There are 14,000 registered charities in Haiti. Over 12,000 of those have a mandate for education. Not one of those had ever built a high school before we came around," Haggis, who drew the first concept for the school on a napkin, says. "We go straight to the people. We supply the means, the money. Our school there, which is the very first free high school for the children of the poor, is designed by Haitians, built by Haitians and administrated by Haitians.
"We let them decide what they want instead of being the neo-colonialists who swagger in saying, 'We know what's best for you.' Which is what most other folks do there. And because of that they're really ineffective."
Next up for the organization is an arts institute.
"We absorbed a film school down there. We got the money to buy a beautiful lot and we got money from the We Are The World foundation to build a recording studio, a recording school and an audio engineering school so we're slowly, well, not that slowly, we're putting together a technical school." Haggis boasts. "And bands like The Arcade Fire (whose singer Regine Chassagne has Haitian roots) are involved."
"We are effective because we can make decisions quickly and act quickly" he explains, moments before heading out to finish the final touches on the afternoon's lunch, then immediately back to Rome where he's filming his latest film, Third Person.
An artist for peace and justice's work is never done.
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The State of Washington has passed into law its own Indian Child Welfare Act, designed to better protect the rights and preserve the cultural heritage of the state's Native American children who are not able to live with their biological parents.
In the preamble to the new Act, the state declares:
The legislature finds that the state is committed to protecting the essential tribal relations and best interests of Indian children by promoting practices designed to prevent out-of-home placement of Indian children that is inconsistent with the rights of the parents, the health, safety, or welfare of the children, or the interests of their tribe. Whenever out-of-home placement of an Indian child is necessary in a proceeding subject to the terms of the federal Indian child welfare act and in this chapter, the best interests of the Indian child may be served by placing the Indian child in accordance with the placement priorities expressed in this chapter. The legislature further finds that where placement away from the parent or Indian custodian is necessary for the child's safety, the state is committed to a placement that reflects and honors the unique values of the child's tribal culture and is best able to assist the Indian child in establishing, developing, and maintaining a political, cultural, social, and spiritual relationship with the child's tribe and tribal community.


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Sit down. Get comfortable. Get Ready. Now open your eyes, open your ears and open your imagination – this is 3D.
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Bell Peppers Chicken Recipe. Quick, easy, and healthy chicken stir-fry with red and green bell peppers and a Chinese brown sauce. SUPER YUM!
There are three main elements to Chinese cooking: color, aroma, and taste, or in Chinese 色香味.
Color is very important as food is supposed to appeal visually to the eyes, and hence stimulates one's appetite.
When I was making this bell pepper chicken, I made sure that I incorporated the element of color into this dish, and used both green and red bell peppers to accompany the chicken meat to bring out the beautiful color of the dish.
Anyway, I often make bell pepper chicken for my family.
The reason is simple: it is bursting with the aroma and peppery flavor of the bell peppers and the light sauce pairs well with the chicken (click for more recipes using chicken).
I also like to add some fresh button mushrooms for an extra layer of taste to this recipe.
Anyone can attempt this bell pepper chicken recipe at home as it calls for everyday ingredients that you can get at any stores or market.
Plus the recipe is very versatile and you can use the protein of your choice: beef, pork, shrimp, or fish fillet.
For the mushroom, I like fresh button mushroom but you can also use shiitake mushroom or canned mushroom.
It is your personal preference.
Now, feast your eyes with the colorful gallery I have above.
Bon appetit!
How Many Calories Per Serving?
This recipe is only 212 calories per serving.
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Bell Pepper Chicken Recipe
Bell Peppers Chicken Recipe. Quick, easy, and healthy chicken stir-fry with red and green bell peppers and a Chinese brown sauce. SUPER YUM!
- 5 fresh button mushrooms
- 8 oz chicken breast, cut into pieces
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 5 slices ginger
- 1/2 green bell pepper, sliced
- 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced
- 1/2 tablespoon Shaoxing wine
- 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon Shaoxing wine
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 dashes white pepper
Marinate the chicken with all the ingredients in the Marinade, for 15 minutes.
Mix all the ingredients in the Sauce in a bowl, stir to blend well.
Heat up 1 tablespoon of the oil in a wok and stir fry the chicken until the surface turns opaque, or about 80% cooked. Dish out and set aside.
Heat up the remaining 1 tablespoon of the oil and stir fry the ginger until aromatic. Add in the the bell peppers and stir-fry until you smell the peppery aroma. Transfer the chicken into the wok and stir to combine well with the bell peppers. Add in the mushroom and the Sauce (stir it before using so there is nothing settles at the bottom), stir fry continuously until the sauce thickens and the chicken is completely cooked. Dish out and serve immediately.


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On Tuesday 10 September, around 100 protesters tried opening the road that leads from Qariut village, situated between Ramallah and Nablus, to the main road that connects these two cities. Ever since the Second Intifada, the road has been closed for Palestinians by the Qariut checkpoint, supposedly for security measures. Today, the road can only be used by the Israeli army and settlers living in the neighboring Shilo settlement, built on land belonging to Qariut. As a result, settlers can reach the main road in five minutes, whereas Palestinians need to take a detour of up to an hour.
The action was organized by the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee.. "In the past, every committee would organize actions separately, but for the past year and a half, we have been working together and coordinating our activities," one of the coordinators explained.
A number of roadblocks and flying checkpoints were put in place by the Israeli army to prevent the activists from reaching the demonstration. The soldiers even had a list of the activists' names ready to arrest them when trying to pass. Five activists were arrested at the second flying checkpoint, about a dozen at the third. According to the volunteers, the military might have deducted the time and place of the action by monitoring their phone calls or Facebook accounts. "We try to arrange everything face to face to avoid these situations, but when you are coordinating with a big group of people, you have to communicate some details over the internet or on the phone," one of them added.
Salah Khawaja, the coordinator of Ni'lin's Popular Struggle Committee, being arrested at the protest.
By the time the second group reached the place of action, around 100 demonstrators that had arrived to the meeting spot beforehand had already been driven up a nearby hill by Israeli soldiers. Salah Khawaja, the coordinator of Ni'lin's Popular Struggle Committee, was arrested at the place of the demonstration and would be released again the next morning.
At the end of the day, the activists did not succeed in opening the road, but according to Mahmoud, coordinator of al-Massara's Committee Against the Wall, opening the road was not the most important thing that day. "The rope has eaten (sic) from the rock," he said. "When you pull up water from a well using a rope and a bucket, after a while, the rope will start to fray from rubbing up against the rock. That is what we did today."
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Horoscopes: week beginning May 26
ARIES: Arian natives are a touch confused about some aspect of their life during May 29, 30, paralysing action. It's good to stop and think about the problems at hand. May 30, 31 is a great time to escape from the harsh realities of life and indulge yourself in the fulfilment of personal needs. There are others who are willing to assist you.
TAURUS: Taurus has doubts about something they are striving to attain during May 29, 30: a financial vulnerability exists or there is a weak link in a chain of communication or line of thought. Your dreams inspire new goals during May 30, 31 and are more achievable because you possess the skills and desires to achieve them. This is a very creative time.
GEMINI: Gemini natives tend to stumble as they climb that career ladder during May 29, 30, so you need to ensure you fully comprehend any situation you are about to tackle: place things in context. Beauty, compassion and humanity will guide you on your life path during May 30, 31, with many incorporating such elements into their career path. Artistic and creative trends assist.
CANCER: Information you are receiving may well be misleading during May 29, 30, even if it seems to come from an authoritative source. All people make mistakes so, if in doubt, double check. Beautiful and dreamy thoughts tend to weave a magical spell in Cancerian lives during May 30, 31. This makes for delightful interactions on a social level.
LEO: You need to make yourself fully aware of the fine print in any policies you hold as they may well be problematic during May 29, 30: the same goes for any financial communications. Things tend to run smoothly during May 30, 31 for leonine individuals, ensuring the easy management of personal relations as well as financial interests. Plans run smoothly.
VIRGO: With your eyes set on something personally important to you, it is possible that misunderstandings could arise between yourself and your partner during May 29, 30: don't make assumptions. Beautifully romantic trends weave magic into the lives of Virgoans and their partners during May 30, 31. An empathic bond ensures understandings are reached.
LIBRA: A vulnerability exists in the Libran constitution during May 29, 30, so try avoiding excessive use of alcohol, cigarettes and other toxins; minimise exposure to contagions. Libran individuals are at a creative premium during May 30, 31, ensuring that any work produced is outstanding, particularly if elements of design are important factors.
SCORPIO: Uncertainty associated with a child or romance can raise anxiety levels during May 29, 30. It's important to make sure of your facts then and keep track of children. There are so many ways in which love can touch your life during May 30, 31, whether romance casts an enchantment over you or idealistic involvement with a child fills your heart with joy.
SAGITTARIUS: It seems that misunderstandings disturb domestic quietude during May 29, 30. Sagittarius needs to clarify plans and ideas with other family members. Your home is a place that you can truly relax during May 30, 31, with the predominant mood there being compassionate and quiet; an aura of safety envelopes you.
CAPRICORN: Don't believe all you read and hear during May 29, 30, as there is an element of fantasy or illusion around it. Situations need to be put into perspective. Gentleness characterises most of your interactions during May 30, 31, whether you are talking with a neighbour or relative, or sauntering along a boulevard and engaging absolute strangers.
AQUARIUS: Flawed communications tend to give rise to misunderstandings over money during May 29, 30. Take the time to clarify important details, for losses may occur otherwise. You'll particularly enjoy those activities that earn you money during May 30, 31, for you are surrounded by both opportunity and ideal circumstances; you do things with style.
PISCES: Piscean individuals are prone to flights of fantasy making it difficult, sometimes, for others to reach you. Such a situation arises during May 29, 30: come down to earth. Pisceans seem to be at peace with the world around them during May 30, 31 as harmonious influences gently sweep them along in their wake; you are buffered against adversity.
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WASHINGTON — The fiercest shouting match of this campaign season isn't necessarily "vote for Obama!" versus "vote for McCain!"
In some states, it is "voter fraud!" versus "voter intimidation!"
Republicans allege Democrats and their allies are trying to subvert the voter registration system, and perhaps the election itself, with an avalanche of inaccurate or fraudulent new voter registrations.
But Democrats charge Republicans are trying to deter would-be voters by discouraging registrations and by requiring voters to identify themselves, in some cases with state-issued photo identification such as a driver's license.
In one sense, this is simply the intense political combat one would expect to see three weeks before an election, with each side using an issue to fire up its loyal supporters.
But some election officials are struggling with substantial problems as they try to avoid a fiasco on Election Day, Nov. 4.
Republicans have made a group called ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the chief villain in the home stretch of the campaign.
Their allegation: that ACORN has been flooding election officials in states from Nevada to Connecticut with thousands of erroneous and fraudulent voter registration forms.
In Jackson County, Missouri, (which includes Kansas City) election officials said this week that fraudulent registration forms had been handed in by ACORN canvassers.
Nevada raid on ACORN
In Las Vegas, investigators from the office of Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, served a search warrant Tuesday on the ACORN office, as part of an investigation into allegations of voter registration fraud. Miller's agents seized computer hard drives and boxes of documents.
Video: Hardball ACORN defended itself in the Nevada incident, saying its workers verify the information on new voter registration cards before turning them in to election officials.
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But ACORN did acknowledge that some errors were made.
"While the vast majority of our voter registration canvassers do a great job, there have been several times over the past ten months that our Las Vegas Quality Control program has identified a canvasser who appears to have knowingly submitted a fake or duplicate application in order to pad his or her hours," the group said in a statement.
It complained that "It was surprising that law enforcement officials appeared suddenly at our Las Vegas offices yesterday, because ACORN and its attorneys have already been proactive in providing information about problematic cards and any employee suspected of misconduct."
President Bush won Nevada in 2004, but recent polls show Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain statistically tied in the state with his Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama.
Obama ties to ACORN
Obama has long had ties to ACORN. In 1995, he was one of the attorneys who represented the group in a suit against the state of Illinois for not implementing the federal "Motor Voter" law which makes it easier for people to register as voters. And the ACORN political action committee has endorsed Obama.
Campaigning in Mosinee, Wisc., on Thursday, McCain responded to shouts of "ACORN!" in the crowd by saying, "There are serious allegations of voter fraud in the battleground states across America…. You've seen these are serious allegations, my friends, and they must be investigated, and they must be investigated immediately, and they must be stopped before November the 4th so Americans will not be deprived of a fair process in this election."
Decision 08 DashboardThe co-chairman of the McCain advisory team in charge of monitoring alleged voter fraud, former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, hinted this week at potential post-Nov. 4 litigation if Obama wins due to suspect voters who had been registered by ACORN. "The contest could go on for a very long time," he told reporters.
Danforth also said it would be "a nightmare in America" and "a total horror story" if Obama either wins or loses by a small margin "and the losing side believes it has been cheated."
Offering a professional election official's view of last-minute "dumps" of new registration applications by groups such as ACORN was Doug Lewis, the executive director of the nonpartisan National Association of Election Officials, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee last month.
'It just screws up the system'
"This unfettered, unbounded, unregulated use of third-party registrations, where they sit on those registrations right until the end and try to turn them all in at the very last minute — it just screws up the system," Lewis told the committee. "It disenfranchises voters. It's one of those things that just is frustrating to us as elections officials."
Video: Youth view Lewis added that in his years as an election official he has seen both Democrats and Republicans "dumping in" new voter registration cards at the last minute before a state's voter registration deadline. "The problem is that these groups all think that they're going to surprise the other campaign with how many people they've registered."
This week the controversy reached as far as the usually non-political offices of the Social Security Administration.
The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) which represents most of the chief election officials in the states, urged Social Security Administration Commissioner Michael Astrue to postpone this weekend's scheduled shutdown of his agency's database, which most states use to verify new would-be voters' names and identities.
MySpace-msnbc.com Decision '08State officials use the Social Security database when they cannot verify voters' identity with drivers' licenses or other state-issued identification cards.
The database shutdown is an annual event, done for maintenance.
In its letter to Astrue, NASS said that most states have voter registration deadlines "that fall a week before, the week of, or the week after the scheduled Computer Center shutdown. Holding all of these verifications until the system comes back online on October 13, 2008 could result in a tremendous surge of data."
For his part, Astrue accused his critics of partisan motives: "I regret that people unfamiliar with the facts of this situation have sought to create a partisan issue where there is none."
State officials have been reporting to NASS this week that there has been a slowdown in the Social Security database, which could create delays in verifying voter registrations.
The issues of registration and voting are sensitive in part due to the history of intimidation of black people seeking to register and vote, especially in the South, which led to the enactment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the senior African-American member of Congress, said, "It's pretty clear. You've got a black candidate for president for the first time. Do you think that the usual attempts to suppress voting among minorities are going to go down and not up? Of course not."
Furor over fired federal prosecutors
Democrats charge that the Bush administration went to extraordinary and perhaps illegal lengths to pursue voter fraud allegations.
Last month, a report from the Justice Department's inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility found that former attorney general Alberto Gonzales fired the United States attorney in New Mexico, David Iglesias, in December of 2006 after top Republicans in the state complained that Iglesias hadn't aggressively pursued voter-fraud cases after the 2004 election.
It was the ACORN issue that partly led to Iglesias being fired.
Patrick Rogers, a New Mexico Republican activist, complained in a March 2006 e-mail to a Justice Department official that Iglesias and his assistant "were not much help during the ACORN fraudulent registration debacle" in the 2004 election when the group was accused of submitting fraudulent registrations in the state.
That same motive — insufficient zeal in prosecuting alleged vote fraud — may have played a role in the firing of the United States attorney in Seattle, John McKay.
But Republicans say the U.S. attorneys controversy doesn't undercut their fundamental contention: Voter fraud has occurred and may occur again this year.
While Republicans accuse Democrats of benefiting from voter fraud, Democrats fire back that Republicans are trying to suppress the Democratic vote by too stringent rules on voter identification.
Photo ID requirement 'an abomination'?
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said a Georgia law that required residents to show photo identification when voting in person was "an abomination."
In Georgia, Schumer's DSCC is backing Democrat Jim Martin's challenge to Republican incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss as the Democrats aim for a filibuster-proof 60-seat Senate majority .
"Photo ID laws in other states, which we don't have, are barriers to senior citizens voting," said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a Democrat. "There's no support for that idea among election officials and people in Minnesota…. I think generally it is agreed that photo ID laws are designed to prevent some people from voting whether it's senior citizens or others."
But Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita, a Republican, defended his state's photo ID requirement. "The law was very narrowly crafted and well tailored," Rokita said.
The law was upheld in a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court last January. "Not only is the risk of voter fraud real," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens in the majority opinion, but "it could affect the outcome of a close election."
Under Indiana law, a person without a photo ID can cast a provisional ballot, and then has up to ten days after Election Day to get a free state-issued photo ID from a local office of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Caught in the middle of the partisan warfare over voting are the local officials who in just three weeks will have the job of administering elections across the nation.
"We are at the point where we have had so many allegations made about the process, that I'm not sure we're not doing permanent damage to the process," Lewis testified last month. "We've got to get to the point where we understand the process is more important than partisanship."
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I think chemical peels are great and not just because they are part of my repertoire as an esthetician. I like to think of chemical peels as a "reboot" for your skin allowing healthy skin appear. A series of chemical peels can help treat a myriad of skin issues. There really is no reason not to try one.
This post addresses the issue of chemical peels performed by estheticians. There are plenty of "peels" that are available for home use. Peels that you use at home provide very superficial peeling, simply exfoliation, and can help you maintain even toned, healthy skin. Chemical peels performed by estheticians have a lower pH than home use products so that they can penetrate much deeper into the skin, will normally cause you to turn red, a lot of time your skin will peel following a peel, and these peels, when performed in a series, can treatment skin conditions such as hyperpigmentation and acne. Simply put – a chemical peel performed by an esthetician will do a lot more for your skin than a home use product called a peel.
What Are Chemical Peels?
There are many different types of chemical peels, and each company that sells peels has its own series of formulations. Having said that the chemical peels used by estheticians are generally a solution that has a combination or sometimes just one alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) or beta hydroxy acid (BHA). The solution is applied to the skin, normally in layers though some peels are simply one layer, like a treatment mask. The peel is either removed at the end of the treatment or left on to self-neutralize. The acids in the peel work to dissolve the top layers of the skin creating a controlled wound and thus allowing the skin to regenerate itself.
Reasons to get a Chemical Peel
A chemical peel will:
Improve the texture of your skin
Increase the cell turnover rate of your skin
- Improve your skin's ability to hold moisture
Help your skin produce more collagen
Reduce fine lines
Decrease hyperpigmentation
Unclog pores and help clear up acne
Leave your skin smooth
Make your skin softer
Make your skin look more even-toned
Give you a "glow"
Make your skin look dewy
Improve minor scarring
A chemical peel cannot make dramatic improvements to deep wrinkles or very sagging skin. Conditions like that need to be treated with lasers or cosmetic surgery.
Who Can Get a Chemical Peel?
Truthfully pretty much anyone can get a peel as long as they don't have any of the contraindictions listed below for peels. Generally people with darker skin need to take more precautions before getting a peel and must make sure that the peel they are receiving is formulated for their skin type. The reason for this is that very strong chemical peels can actually cause more hyperpigmentation on darker skin.
Contraindications: It is generally recommended that pregnant and nursing women not receive peels since there are no studies, as of yet, about the effects of peels on fetuses or nursing babies. You cannot get a peel if you have been off Accutane for less than 6 months. If you are prone to cold sores a peel can actually bring on an outbreak so you need to take anti-viral medication before, the day of, and the day after your treatment. Also if you have a tendency to scar, are taking antibiotics, have cancer or an autoimmune disease, or have an open sore you cannot get a chemical peel.
Everyone's skin will be more sensitive to sunlight following a peel so make sure that you have plenty of sunscreen on hand after your peel, and be sure to vigilantly apply and reapply your sunscreen after a peel. Hopefully the esthetician who performed the peel will either include post-peel products in the price of the peel or have them available for purchase at a reasonable price.
Make sure that the esthetician who is performing the peel has asked you an extensive list of questions before going ahead with your peel. An esthetician must keep many factors in mind before performing a peel so that the client gets the best possible result with the fewest possible side effects. You will be asked questions about medical conditions, allergies, the products you are currently using, and the results you want to achieve. You may also want to go with a lighter peel the first time you get a chemical peel and build up the strength of your peels from there. All of these issues should be discussed with your esthetician before you receive your first peel.
How Are Peels Performed?
Before you get a peel you should exfoliate at home or have a professional microdermabrasion treatment so that your skin in properly prepped for the peel. Your skin will be cleansed and "degreased" before the peel is actually applied. This means that all surface oils and debris are removed so that the peel can penetrate properly.
How Does It Feel?
Generally you will feel a warmth over the area being peeled during the procedure. The esthetician performing the peel will either fan the area being peeled or provide you with a small electric fan to hold over the area. You may feel stinging, burning, and even itching while the peel in performed. Those sensations will stop once the peel is over. Your esthetician will check in with you throughout the peel so if you ever feel any great discomfort she or he will know to stop the peel immediately.
What to Expect After a Peel
As I already mentioned first and foremost your skin will be quite sensitive to the sun following a peel so be extra vigilant about sunscreen use following your peel. Because of this it usually isn't a good idea to get peels in the summer or right before going on a vacation to a warm climate.
Following a peel your skin will feel tight and then a little dry. You may remain red for an hour or so following the peel. If you peel after the chemical peel treatment peeling will begin approximately 3 to 5 days following your peel. The extent of peeling varies according to the person and the depth of the peel. Not everyone peels following a chemical peel actually. Some people have some mild itching following their peels.
Keep In Mind
Because chemical peels are stimulating you actually need to modify your lifestyle behavior slightly following a peel so that you don't cause any unneeded irritation or hyperpigmentation to your skin. So following a peel avoid excessive exercise with sweating for a few days. Don't scrub or pick at your face. You cannot use retinol products or AHA products for at least 10 days following your peel. And avoid any sort of excessive heat source like a sauna or hot tub.
How Often Can You Get a Chemical Peel?
Generally it is best to get a peel every four to six weeks. But if you suffer from acne there are some peels that you can do every two weeks until you get the results you want. Generally it is a great idea to buy a series of four or five peels up front so that you can achieve the treatment results that you want. Also when you buy a series of peels upfront you will probably receive a discount. Consider buying a deal that allows you to get chemical peels interspersed with microdermabrasion treatments or facials. The microdermabrasions and the facials will enhance the results of the peel by helping to exfoliate the flaky skin you have on your face. These treatments will also help prep your skin for your next peel.
When Will You See Results?
Truthfully chemical peels can be a bit unpredictable. Some people see results as little as 10 days after their peels. Other people won't see results until about three weeks following their peel. And for people who receive many facial treatments a chemical peel may just enhance the normal way their skin always looks.
Sources and Further Reading
- Chemical Peels – Paula Begoun
- After Glow – Allure
The Art and Science of Chemical Peels – LNE and Spa – February 2011


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PSN Breach Details | TechSNAP 3
Posted on: May 2, 2011
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We cover the amazing details of the Playstation Network breech, we share some of the most interesting details in this episode. Following the theme of service outages, Allan and Chris share their things to keep in mind when looking at hosted services.
Plus find out why the US Government is shutting down 137 data-centers, and we wrap up with another Dropbox controversy!
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Topic: PSN Security Breech
- A new custom firmware allowed users to access the PSN development network
- The development network accepts fake credit cards and is designed for testing
- Users with access to this development network managed to pirate paid content
- Someone then managed to compromised the PSN Developers network some time between April 17th and 19th
- Developers network had increased privileges, access to content and customer data
- At first Sony claimed to not know why PSN was down
- Sony took a number of days to admit that PSN had suffered an intrusion and that it would not be back online anytime soon.
- Sony waited a week to tell customers their personal data has been exposed, likely hoping to avoid the PR black eye
- Sony claims the Credit card database was encrypted
- Encrypting credit cards with a single Symmetric key only provides limited protection. (The key must be accessible by the application that saves the card data, and so is likely to have been compromised along with the database)
- Using Asymmetric keys can be an option, where the public key is used to encrypt the card, and only the private key can decrypt it, but if used pragmatically, the private key must be accessible by the application and therefore may be exposed as well.
- Another trick is to AES encrypt each customers credit card with their password. This way the credit card can only be accessed by that customer, and cracking the encryption becomes a much bigger task, especially if the users password is stored using a cryptographic hash. A side effect of this is that the customer must re-enter their password when they wish to use the stored credit card, but this is actually good form anyway. A downside is if the credit card is required for subscription billing and it is encrypted such that the users password is required to read it.
- Sony says the CVV numbers were not compromised because they do not collect them, and therefore never stored them. It is against the PCI DSS policy to store the CVV, this is explicitly so that when databases of credit cards are compromised, the CVV is not.
- Sony says it is physically moving the PSN to a more secure facility. Was this a physical attack or an inside job? Was Sony outsourcing its network security to the data center?
Topic: When a cloud provider goes under
After the scare with amazon last week, a number of companies are reconsidering their choice of cloud provider, or of using the cloud at all. This brings to light a number of issues, especially vendor lock-in (how difficult it is to move from one cloud to another), and how much trust you put in the cloud provider from an information security prospective, as well as availability and the continued viability of their business model. Over the last number of months, 4 providers have closed down their clouds, leaving customers with many questions.
- if you close your account, will your data be securely deleted?
- their backups and replication will likely still have copies of your files even if they are "deleted", this is why your data should be encrypted
- if your data is encrypted and you hold the private keys, then you can ensure they can't read it
- if they hold the keys, and say they deleted them, that is better than nothing, but there are no guarantees
- if the cloud goes under, how can you get your data back
- if the cloud goes under, who will get your data in the end, will it be destroyed safely
Cloud is not primary storage, but acts as a convenient online archive.
Topic: US government to consolidate its data center operations
US government will close 137 data centers this year as it moves to consolidate and take advantage of the cloud. Will we see a bunch of these data centers bought up, or is the age of the small to medium sized data center over?
Government agencies have identified 100 email systems and 950,000 mailboxes to migrate to a cloud computing model as part of Kundra's 'Cloud First' initiative."
Topic: Google releases video from it's data centers to promote the security of Google Docs
- Google talks about the security at their data centers
- Google rotates the hard drives from it's servers on a regular basis, as well as when sub-optimal performance is detected (indicating failure)
- This may also have to do with google's previous hard drive reliability tests, after a specific age the chance of the drive failing increases, so it is rotated out preemptively
- Google destroys the drives by deforming the spindles and then shredding the drives
- Google anonymizes the data and fragment/shards it as well as keeping multiple replicas. If an individual server were compromised, data would be reasonably secure
comparison at ScaleEngine:
- Badge or Escort to enter main gate
- Badge and Fingerprint Scan to access building
- Man Trap (Single Occupancy check) and Biometrics to enter datacenter floor
- Individual Pods require Biometric Authentication (You can only enter PODs that you are authorized for)
- Physical Locks on each cabinet/rack/cage to ensure security of individual customers
- Telephone pass codes required for all remote-hands requests
- Location staffed 24/7/365
- Chilled water cooling from on-site well with cooling towers, fail-over to city water supply plus regular CRAC cooling
- N+2 Electrical Generation Redundancy with 1MW locomotive style Generators
Topic: More security problems, Dropbox tries to kill an open source project to protect its security by obscurity
Dropbox security problems again. Rather than fixing the problem, Dropbox sends DMCA notices.
- Using the hash of a file and an external app, you can add a specific non-public file to your dropbox via the dropbox de-duplication system (make dropbox think you uploaded it when you never actually had a copy of the file)
- A simple brute force attack could net you all kinds of interesting files
- Security by Obscurity – Dropbox security depends on keeping their client-server protocol secret, this is unbelievably bad practise.
- Using legal rather than technical means to try to maintain security will always be a losing battle


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In the 1960s, very little was understood about the essential mechanisms and functions of what were thought to be the "minor senses" — taste and smell. As a junior professor in the veterinary school at Cornell, Dr. Morley Kare became increasingly interested in this field as he investigated food choice in a variety of species. With encouragement from the government (e.g., the National Science Foundation and the Veterans Affairs Administration) and from several corporate leaders, Dr. Kare envisioned a multi-disciplinary scientific institute dedicated to the study of these senses that are so central to human health and well being.
The Beginning
In 1967, The Ambrose Monell Foundation made an initial pledge of $1 million to create the Monell Chemical Senses Center, with Dr. Kare as director. After consulting with several universities, Dr. Kare, the directors of the Monell Foundation, and administrators at the University of Pennsylvania agreed that Penn would be the ideal location for such a research institute.
When the Center opened in 1968, its organization was unusual for the times; it began as a joint venture involving academic, government, and industry scientists, when such collaborations were rare.
The Center was first housed in the old Lippincott Publications bindery building owned by Penn at 25th and Locust Streets. In 1971, Monell moved into its current home at 3500 Market Street, initially occupying just two of the building's six floors.
Early in Monell's history, Dr. Kare said, "Monell itself is a scientific experiment." The results of this experiment have surpassed hopes and expectations. From a fledgling organization, Monell has grown to be a major force in scientific research, addressing issues such as human flavor and fragrance perception, nutrition and diet, obesity and metabolic disease, population regulation, homeland security, environmental chemical exposure, and pollution effects.
Monell's growth was rapid, and in 1978 the Monell Center separated from Penn to become an independent nonprofit research institute. The two institutions continue to maintain a close relationship.
Fulfilling the Mission
The Center, now with approximately 40 PhD-level scientists, fully occupies the 60,000 sq ft 3500 Market building as well as almost 30,000 sq ft of space in 3508 Market St, which was purchased in 2008 to accommodate the Center's continuing growth.
From the start, Monell's science took a true multidisciplinary approach. Academic institutions traditionally are organized by disciplines into autonomous departments that often do not readily communicate with each other. For-profit research facilities tend to investigate specific areas of biochemical, molecular, or behavioral research in a somewhat autonomous fashion. In contrast, everything possible is done to ensure that Monell scientists – psychologists, biologists, chemists, neuroscientists, geneticists and others – can and will collaborate toward the common objective of understanding the chemical senses. The Center has no departmental structure; its laboratories and offices generally are not segregated by discipline, and most importantly its staff is imbued with the ideal of multidisciplinary interaction.
An integral part of Monell's mission has always been preparation of the next generation of scientists through pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training programs. Since 1969, more than 400 PhD-level scientists have been trained at Monell. Most continue to contribute to the field through their work in academia, industry and government. The Center's highly successful high school and college internship program introduces younger students to science and research through direct hands-on mentored experience in Monell's labs.
On October 1, 2014, Robert F. Margolskee, MD, PhD, became the Center's third Director. A pioneer in the application of molecular biology to the study of taste, Margolskee succeeded Gary K. Beauchamp, PhD, who had served as Director for 24 years.
Many eminent scientists, academicians and business executives have served the Center as board members and members of advisory committees. Dwight Riskey, PhD, retired Senior Vice President, Consumer & Customer Insights at PepsiCo and current principal of Riskey Business Solutions, LLC, was elected Chair of Monell's Board of Directors in October 2007. Monell also has benefited from the leadership of three distinguished individuals who previously served as Board Chairs: J. George Harrer (former president of the Ford Foundation), Lewis Thomas (emeritus chief executive officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and National Book Award recipient) and Martin Meyerson (emeritus president of the University of Pennsylvania).
Sensing the Future
Other institutions conduct outstanding basic and clinical research on taste and olfaction. However, no other institution or group of scientists has the history, depth and breadth of Monell's multidisciplinary approach, nor can they integrate research findings into an overall vision of the field. Current fundamental studies promise to provide new insights and avenues for major progress in understanding taste and smell, just as early pioneering studies at Monell provided the basis for what is known today.
Over the past 50 years, the Monell Center has transformed the way science is done. Today, we are building on our legacy of fundamental discovery to lead the way to a healthier future for us all.
Morley Kare
Monell Center in the 1970s


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Posted August 18 2010, 2:27 AM PDT by Geoff Wood
A Humbling ExperiencePosted in Community by Geoff Wood
It's a humbling experience to sit down with a man like Ralph Jenkins. He's seen more than most people. He's done more, and given more. And he knows more. So when I have a chance to talk with Ralph, I ask a lot of questions and listen carefully.
Ralph was one of our very first agents. He joined Windermere in 1969, and was instrumental in shaping the company. He was with Windermere for 26 years, and his influence is still strongly felt. With his commitment to family and dedication to building relationships and community, Ralph set the bar very high.
Long before his real estate career, Ralph was a World War II fighter pilot who led the 510th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, known as Jenkins' Jerry Junkers. The squadron flew P-47 "Thunderbolts," and Ralph personally flew 129 combat missions. He later commanded a B-52 squadron, and retired as a full colonel.
Ralph and I talk a lot about our shared passion for flying. His stories about dive bombing, low-level attacks and anti-aircraft flak are riveting. More than once he returned to base wondering if he had enough fuel to make it. And on one occasion, he was forced to fly with the cockpit open because the plexiglas was covered with oil from enemy flak.
Ralph's stories are historical treasures. He's been on The History Channel and PBS. He is also featured at the Museum of Flight, and he has led groups around the Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field in Everett, where his P-47 vintage war plane, the Tallahassee Lassie, resides today.
I've learned a lot from Ralph — about flying, real estate and life. He has seen many changes over the years. He flew before jets. He worked in real estate before the Internet. He's lived through economic booms and busts. He's mentored generations of real estate agents, and helped countless families buy and sell homes. But some things have remained constant. His life has been all about helping and protecting others, and building trust through teamwork — values that are at the core of Windermere.
Ralph Jenkins is a genuine hero. Earlier this year he celebrated his 91st birthday, and all of us at Windermere send him our very best wishes.
Ralph, we are humbled to know you. And we are so proud to call you our friend.


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The perfume of harmony
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Jean-Paul Guerlain created Samsara for the woman of his life. His only indications were sandalwood and jasmine, which the "Lady of Samsara" particularly liked. Jean-Paul Guerlain travelled to India many times to acquire the purest sandalwood and a jasmine used only for religious offerings until then.
Samsara is a sensual version of seduction for a woman who has found harmony and balance, which is notably conveyed through the composition's raw materials.
It was at the Musée Guimet that Robert Granai found inspiration for creating the shape of Samsara. The bottle is flamboyant red, a sacred colour, which evokes through the fullness of its shape a statue of a Khmer dancer. The stopper echoes the shape of the eye of the Buddha, a symbol of meditation, which leads the way to supreme awakening.
Woody Oriental.
Harmonious, spellbinding, embracing.
As Samsara takes flight, it enwraps us in jasmine flower, which dominates the scent, before sunny ylang-ylang flower embellishes it, the better to unite it with the radiant and generous warmth of sandalwood. Lastly, iris, tonka bean and vanilla harmonise and render sublime this blend with its remarkable trail.
Samsara is the first woody women's fragrance in perfumery. It is constructed over a beautifully crafted sandalwood, used for the first time in these quantities in perfumery.


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Three more goals against on the advantage leads to 4-2 loss
Grand Rapids, Mich.-To say that the Rockford IceHogs penalty kill is plaguing them would be an understatement. Three more power play goals allowed lead to a 4-2 loss to the Grand Rapids Griffins on Wednesday night.
With their three power play goals allowed, Rockford has now allowed an AHL worst 47 goals on the penalty kill, seven more than the next closest team. Rockford's overall penalty kill now stands idle at a league worst 72.7%
For the second straight game against Grand Rapids, the IceHogs claimed the game's first goal. Rookie center Drew LeBlanc cleaned up a Jeremy Morin rebound at 5:43 on a power play, swiping his fifth goal of the season past Tom McCollum.
But for the ninth straight outing, the IceHogs coughed one up on the penalty kill. Ryan Sproul was the first benefactor of Rockford's poor penalty kill on Wednesday as he slapped home his seventh marker of the season at 17:16 to knot the score 1-1 at the first intermission.
In the second period, the Griffins would find the back of the net while on the power play again to take the 2-1 lead. Mitch Callahan's initial shot was deflected up in the air in front of Jason LaBarbera, but the Hogs goalie couldn't snag it and the puck settled in front of Callahan for him to punch in his 14th tally of the season at 17:35.
Grand Rapids struck again early in the third period to stretch their lead to 3-1. Brennan Evans cranked in his third goal of the season from the left point at 1:34 of the final frame.
While shorthanded, Rockford would notch a goal on their side to make it a one goal game. Adam Clendening skated the puck from the IceHogs zone and his shot from the right face-off circle in the Griffins end snuck past McCollum and in for his fifth marker of the season at 8:50.
The IceHogs had some opportunities to tie the contest late with LaBarbera on the bench for the extra attacker, but Brad Winchester took a slashing penalty away from the puck as the Griffins were committing an icing, resulting in Riley Sheahan's power play goal at 19:30.
LaaBarbera was tested 40 times on Wednesday and made 36 saves while McCollum earned the win after blocking 31 Rockford shots.
Next Home Game: Friday, Jan. 10 vs. Lake Erie. Face off is set for 7 p.m. The game is the first of a back-to-back set against the Monsters and game two of a three game week for the IceHogs.


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Alum's tricked-out toy truck a lifesaver for US troops
Ernest Fessenden and his older brother Christopher followed different paths. Chris enlisted in the army in 1993, right after graduating from Shelby High School. Five years later, Ernie enrolled at Michigan Tech and in short order earned BS and MS degrees in computer science.
All that time, Ernie wanted to do something important to help his brother. Then, in 2007, he got his chance. "My brother had done several combat deployments to the Middle East before, but this time, I actually had a job and could do something besides talk," says Ernie. "Part of my brother's job was to conduct vehicle inspections."
Every day Chris inspected between 20 and 100 dump trucks loaded with rock and gravel before they could pass through an entry point. "We had to crawl around and ensure that nothing was on them or in them that shouldn't be," Chris wrote in an email.
"I thought, 'Isn't there a better way to do this?'" Ernie remembers. "Many ideas seemed good on paper, like ground penetrating radar, but were very expensive."
By this time, Ernie was a software engineer for IBM in Rochester, Minn., and had plenty of talented colleagues to confer with, including five Michigan Tech alumni who work on his floor. He also applied skills he had honed as a computer science major.
"Every problem I face, I break it into smaller pieces that can be solved and build those into a larger solution," he says. "You can't solve all the world's problems in one go. You have to solve them one little piece at a time."
To solve this particular problem, Ernie consulted with Kevin Guy, owner of the Everything Hobby shop in Rochester. They determined that a Traxxas radio-controlled truck rigged with wireless video cameras would be just the ticket. Then he told Chris what they were up to.
"At first I thought he was kidding, but a couple weeks later one showed up," Chris wrote. "We ran it under the trucks so we could get a close-up view of the undercarriage and still remain at a safe distance."
Then they started running the truck outside the gate at night. "The camera Ernie sent was also a night-vision camera, so where our eyes were blind or there was debris blocking the view, we could now watch all elements outside our gate," Chris wrote. "The funny thing was, the Iraqi people had not seen a radio-controlled car, so they were actually afraid of it and avoided it at all costs. So, it worked two-fold: as long-range eyes, day or night, and it kept them away from us, at a safe distance."
When Chris was transferred from Iraq to Afghanistan, he brought the Traxxas along. During this deployment, he was sent on patrol, both on foot and in vehicles, and used the little truck for reconnaissance.
"The Traxxas can actually go faster than the trucks we are operating under the government speed limit," he wrote. "So, it's able to advance past us and give us eyes on a target before we get there."
The little truck had an advantage over most army-issued equipment. "It is a toy, so it's fun, absolutely," wrote Chris. "But the guys here take the truck very seriously when out on mission. She comes in handy and serves us well. Even on dismount patrols, we can run the truck with the camera up to a house, an intersection, a bridge . . . and get a idea of what's there before soldiers are put in harm's way."
It regularly proved its worth, alerting Chris's patrol to three roadside bombs, which they were able to avoid safely. All that changed the last week of July, when the Traxxas took one for the team.
Chris had loaned the truck to six fellow soldiers patrolling in a Humvee who were using it to check the route ahead. While zipping along, the Traxxas's tires became tangled in a tripwire and detonated a roadside bomb. "Boom. No more truck," said Chris. The Humvee and her human cargo were unharmed, however. "The Traxxas gave her all for us."
When Chris told his brother, "I was just shocked," Ernie said. "Then I thought, he's OK, they're OK. It works. Then I asked him if he needed another truck."
Indeed he did. Ernie and Kevin Guy sent him two more. Unlike the first truck, which was used in the desert, these are waterproof to stand up Afghanistan's monsoons.
Since the first truck was destroyed saving soldiers' lives, the pair has been interviewed by CNN, ABC, MSNBC and the New York Daily News. "It's been different," Ernie admits. "I always thought of myself as a farm boy growing up in the middle of nowhere. I've never done anything to wind up on the news."
Thanks to the flurry of publicity, however, they have been successfully raising funds via their website Trucks to Troops to supply more specially equipped radio-controlled cars to soldiers in the field. Each one costs about $500, a bargain considering their lifesaving potential.
"As of right now, we've had enough to send 40 complete kits," Ernie says.
"We cannot thank you enough," Chris wrote after learning he'd receive a replacement. "She will sit in the motor pool, in a place of honor next to her rather larger companion trucks, ready to roll, ready for mission, anytime, anywhere."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers spent more on mobile data than on voice for the first time in 2012, according to a report released Monday, confirming that a shift in how Americans use their phones has reached a long-expected tipping point.
Consumers' increasing appetite for data is forcing debates over how regulators should allocate the country's wireless spectrum and how much consumers should pay for fast data service.
"What this report does is heighten the urgency that we need action," said Grant Seifert, president of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), which represents companies such as Cisco, Ericsson and Nokia. "We need a clear understanding of what's going to happen."
Consumers spent $94.8 billion on data services for their phone and other mobile devices in 2012, up from $71.1 billion in 2011.
That eclipsed the $92.4 billion spent on voice services in 2012, which has been steadily declining since 2008.
Data's domination is expected to leap to $118.6 billion in 2013, while spending on voice services will fall to $86.4 billion.
These expectations are bolstered by consumers' rapid shift to smartphones. Global sales of smartphones will eclipse the sale of standard mobile phones that connect to the Internet but don't have data-gobbling features such as apps, according to the International Data Corporation study released Monday.
The rise in data consumption is also being fueled by the wide adoption of other Internet-connected devices, such as iPads, household appliance and even high-tech cars.
The TIA study noted that U.S. mobile connections also outnumber the country's adult population with many consumers owning more than one mobile device. That is expected to happen on a global scale later this year, according to GSMA, the cellphone industry group.
Wireless carriers must improve network efficiency to accommodate the growing demand for data services, said IDC mobile analyst Ramon Llamas. In response to increasing data demands, carriers already have begun upgrading their networks to implement new technologies such as 4G LTE.
But the industry must also keep up with the growing demand for immediate, dependable connections.
Young consumers, said Llamos, have come to expect their mobile phones to do more than simply make phone calls, and manufacturers are recognizing that shift.
"For a lot of the smartphones being released right now, the primary function is to handle data," he said.
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Jantz Grodzicki Update
November 24, 2012 11:55am
"This is Chris, Jantz's dad... I wanted to first thank everyone for the heartfelt prayers for Jantz. I need to ask everyone the favor of including Jantz in your prayers as we move through this painful journey. Jantz sustained a devastating brain cell and spinal cord injury. He was wearing a layete brace and shoei helmet. We left the hospital last night with zero hope from the doctors of his survival chances. His heart stopped at the track and he was pronounced brain dead at the hospital with no response. He was however put on life support until we decided on the options available that I hope none if you ever half to face. A short while ago we received a call from the doctor that a miracle took place this morning at 6:30am that Jantz's "condition has changed significantly" he is responding to eye commands, left to right, up and down and raise your eyebrows. Still no other responses other than this. Given what we were told this is truely a miracle. The thoughts and prayers shared here and on Facebook are what have helped him to make a move off the line. The race for recovery is just beginning and we can only pray that God will pull him through. May god bless each of you and your families. The Grodzicki Family...."


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Today, I am keeping one of my New Year's Resolutions! I am packing myself off to see a new doctor for my MS (and for my whole health). Today I'm off to see a Naturopath.
For well over 2 years, I've had the very good intentions of adding Naturopathy to my medical regimen. For just as long, I've found reasons not to make the appointments. It's not like it was difficult; there is a wonderful clinic not 5 miles from my house with NDs who have a keen interest in multiple sclerosis (in fact, the clinic chief is recommended by my MS neurologist!)
I'm not using Naturopathy as an alternative to more standard "western medicine". Rather, I intend to augment and compliment my other MS treatments/procedures with the practice.
I'm sure that the battery of lab work will expose issues I've either ignored or of which I've had no idea. We always hear "horror" stories of people going to see one of these doctors only to find out that they are allergic to (fill in the blank with your favorite food products)… So, it's a little bit scary.
I found this particular practitioner when I was researching speakers for Poker Night (my Men's MS self-help group) on the topic of medical marijuana; now referred to in the medical/research world as "Clinical Cannabis".
This doc is a leader in that field of research as well as a long-time practitioner of naturopathic medicine.
This is sure to be a process. It will take a few days for my labs to be returned, I'm sure. I know it took several hours just to fill-out the medical history and pre-appointment paperwork.
I'll keep you abreast of the experience along with any pertinent findings and their remedies.
I am off to make myself healthier today! And I'm, as always wishing you and your family the best of health.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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When someone starts off a press conference answer with, "I know I'm going to get criticized for this," you know the rest of the answer is going to be something really super.
Here's how ultra-likeable Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma injects some life into his pre-game preparation.
"I know this is going to get played out the wrong way," said Auriemma, "But I'm going to say it anyway. And I know I'm going to get criticized for this. White kids are always looked upon as being soft. So Stanford's got a tremendous amount of really good players who for whatever reason, because they don't look like Tina Charles or Maya Moore, the perception out there is going to be, well, they must be soft.
"Well, I think that's a bunch of bull. I watched them play and nobody goes harder to the boards. Nobody takes more charges. Nobody runs the floor as hard. Those kids are as tough as any of the kids in the country. But people on the sports world like to make judgments on people by how they look. And it's grossly unfair."
First of all ... who says that? The best white kids are always described as "tough" and "gutsy" instead of "silky smooth" or "graceful" or even "athletic." Secondly ... yes, people do make judgments based on looks, but you're the one who brought up race. Did anyone even call Stanford soft besides Geno Auriemma? Finally, why bring something up if you know you're going to get criticized for it? (Which no one has, by the way. This story has barely registered on the news wires.) Is it to give people like me a reason to write about a tournament that's gone completely ignored because your team is so good the sport is not even fun anymore? Well, you win this round, Geno! Your reverse mind games will definitely work on me.
Oh, did I mention the women's Final Four is tonight? UConn-Stanford and Oklahoma-Louisville. The Huskies will win both their games by 30, so don't even bother.
Auriemma Says Perceptions of Stanford Based on Race [NY Times]
Auriemma Video [ESPN]
Jayne Appel, Former UConn Recruit, Now Stands in Huskies' Path [NY Times]