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I found this problem, and so far I am stumped. I was wondering if anyone wanted to solve it with me, or help me calculate eigenvectors, or just give insight on my questions.
Consider a system of two spin-1/2 particles interacting through the Hamitonian $$H = A(S_x^2 − S_y^2) + BS_z^2,$$ where $A$ and $B$ are constants and $S_x$, $S_y$ and $S_z$ are the three components of the total spin of the system. Find the energy spectrum and the corresponding eigenvectors.
It's been awhile since I did QM, and I know you can't have simultaneous eigenvectors of more than one measurement of spin along an axis, but how does that relate to this problem where there Sx^2 and Sy^2 are in the hamiltonian? I've been trying to work out 4x4 matrices, but I can't find good eigenvectors, but even then I am confused how applying a pauli matrix (say for x or y) transforms the eigenvector to another eigenvector, which I think is another example of not being able to define simultaneous eigenvectors etc. How would one start this problem? I will break it down to S^2 and Sz terms, but there will be remaining terms, will they just not contribute to the energy spectrum? If someone much more knowledgable than me could solve this problem easily and post it, that would clarify so much to me. For now, I'll try to read Feynman's lecture on the subject.


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Let $G$ be a Lie group, and let $\underline{G}$ denote the sheaf of smooth $G$-valued maps, i.e. for a smooth manifold $M$ we have $G(M) = C^\infty(M,G)$.
What are conditions on $G$ that imply that $\underline{G}$ is acyclic, i.e. the sheaf cohomology $H^n(M,\underline{G})=0$ for all smooth manifolds $M$ and all $n>0$?
It is clear that soft, flabby or fine sheaves are acyclic. I am interested in concrete conditions on the group $G$, e.g. like smooth contractibility.
EDIT: Daniel's answer below answers my question in the case that $G$ is abelian, using the classification of abelian Lie groups. So let us concentrate on the case that $G$ is non-abelian. The condition I am looking for is supposed to imply the vanishing of the set $H^1(M,\underline{G})$. This set can be defined for example via Cech cohomology. Its geometrical meaning is that it classifies principal $G$-bundles over $M$ up to isomorphism.

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — At least a dozen new subpoenas were authorized Monday by a New Jersey legislative committee investigating a plot by aides to Gov. Chris Christie to create traffic gridlock on the George Washington Bridge, apparently for political retribution.
The panel also agreed to take additional steps to enforce subpoenas to two key figures in the bridge scandal that is engulfing the administration of the Republican governor and possible 2016 presidential candidate.
Former Christie campaign manager Bill Stepien and fired deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly have asserted their right against self-incrimination and refused to comply with the subpoenas. The panel on Monday voted to reject those objections and continue to seek most of the documents. Four Republicans on the panel abstained, saying they were not given ample time to review the complex Fifth Amendment arguments.
Committee chairman John Wisniewski would not name the new subpoena recipients until they are served, possibly by Tuesday.
However, The Star-Ledger reported that the recipients include Christie's office, his reelection campaign, several Port Authority officials and the State Police aviation unit, which oversees the governor's travel by helicopter.
The committee's actions follow last week's deadline for 20 people and organizations close to Christie to return subpoenaed documents. All but a few have sought more time. Lawyers for Stepien and Kelly asked that the subpoenas be withdrawn.
"Ultimately, (that is) what the inquiry of the committee is — who knew what when, and who authorized this, and why," Wisniewski said Monday.
None of the subpoenaed documents has been released publicly.
The U.S. Attorney's office is conducting a parallel criminal investigation.
The traffic jams happened on four mornings in September, when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the George Washington Bridge, blocked two of the three approach lanes from the town of Fort Lee, apparently to punish the town's Democratic mayor. The resulting backups delayed emergency vehicles, school buses and commuters, sometimes for hours.
Five people close to Christie have lost their jobs, including the governor's top two Port Authority appointees, Bill Baroni and David Wildstein. Wildstein, who appears to have overseen the lane closings and is seeking immunity from prosecution, said in a letter last week "evidence exists" that Christie was aware of the lane closings while they were occurring. That's earlier than the governor has said he knew.
The administration has denied Wildstein's claim, made through his lawyer, and has since circulated a memo discrediting Christie's former No. 2 man at the agency.
As the troubles for Christie's administration deepened, other allegations have attracted the attention of federal authorities.
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer said two Christie cabinet members told her the city's federal storm recovery aid would be tied to whether she supported a redevelopment project the governor favored. The city on the Hudson River sustained heavy damage from Superstorm Sandy. Christie's office denies the accusations.
Officials in Hoboken said they will not grant interviews to a lawyer for Christie or turn over documents regarding the mayor's claim.
Christie attorney Randy Mastro requested all the documents that Hoboken officials have provided to the U.S. attorney's office in the case. But Zimmer's lawyer questioned whether it's appropriate for the governor's office "to be investigating itself."
The Record newspaper first reported the request and the response.


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A mafia traitor was beaten to death with a hammer and then eaten by Serbian gangsters, police believe.
Officers said Milan Jurisic, 37, was killed in Madrid by criminals from the Zemun Clan, a mafia group from Belgrade.
His remains were then ground up with a meat grinder, cooked, and eaten, according to a confession by another Zemun Clan member, Sretko Kalinic, nicknamed "The Butcher".
Later the gang reportedly threw the bones into the River Manzanares in the Spanish capital.
This week, police found bones in the river and the apartment where the killing apparently took place in 2009.
Jurisic is thought to have betrayed his fellow gang members by stealing money from them.
He was on the run after being convicted in his absence of assassinating Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003.
Kalinic confessed to the murder after he was arrested in the Croatian capital of Zagreb in 2010.
Police believe the murder and subsequent cannibalism was led by Luka Bojovic, a Serbian gangster arrested in Valencia last month.
Bojovic was also on the run after being accused of assassinating Djindjic.
Inside Bojovic's apartment in Valencia police found documents backing up Kalinic's account of the killing.
The murder is being investigated by magistrate Fernando Andreu at the National Court in Madrid.


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Fr. Ernie Davis, a pastoral provision priest incardinated in the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph, sends along this Youtube of the Missa Orbis Factor which his Anglican Use Community will be using during lent. I'll let him explain:
On the first Sunday of Advent we begin using a setting of the Mass that will be new to us, Missa Orbis Factor. Beginning in the 19th Century, Anglicans began recovering some of the ancient Masses for use in the Anglican liturgy. Music composed by Merbecke for the 1549 Book of Common Prayer followed Archbishop Cranmer's directive that each syllable should be sung to only one note. We will use his setting during Lent because its simplicity fits our time spent in the desert of Lent.
In the early 20th Century, Charles Winifred Douglas adapted at least two of the ancient Masses for the Book of Common Prayer – Missa Marialis and Missa de Angelis.
In the late 20th Century, David Hurd adapted the Missa Orbis Factor for Rite II of the Book of Common Prayer. Rather than using Hurd's setting in modern English, we will be using the ancient setting in Latin, which provides a double challenge for us.
If they practice well, the choir at St. Therese will approximate something like the following:


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By Carol Cory, president of the Rotary Club of Chicago Far North, Illinois, USA
Gathered by the river in Iligan City, Philippines, my team of three Rotarians and four volunteers watched as 3,000 candles floated in the air, one in commemoration of each of the men, women and children who died as a result of the December flash flooding caused by a typhoon.
Earlier in the day, we had toured the devastation, and heard heart-wrenching stories of loss. We carried basic school supplies, clothing, and food to those in need, and took part in an ecumenical prayer service involving a bishop, a Muslim imam, and a local religious leader.
A young mother shared her pain at the loss of her children, but in her grief expressed hope for a better future. It was the most poignant example of the way the community has been coming together following the tragedy, and the work being done by the Bayanihan Foundation, which we were there to support.
Our team was on a two-week trip organized by the Rotary clubs of Chicago Far North and Iligan, Philippines, in support of the Bayanihan Foundation, an organization founded by a Rotarian "to enable Filipinos to improve their lives in empowering and sustaining ways." Dale Asis, a native Filipino living in Chicago, had the opportunity to return to his homeland during a fellowship in 2007. Witnessing the poverty, plight, and tension between Muslims and Christians, he was determined to do anything he could to help.
Our trip to these breath-taking islands was a marvelous example of the ability of Rotarians to work together, and with other non-governmental organizations, to help promote peace and bring about change.
In the province of Cebu, we took part in an event organized by local fishermen to seek a solution to the destruction of their precious mangrove trees by developers. The tree-planting ceremony included a meal of fine fish, tasty fruits, and energetic music, followed by a day of enjoying the spectacular beaches.
Another afternoon, we took part in a meeting of four Iligan Rotary clubs focusing on peace, led by a member of our team who is trained in conflict transformation and a Rotarian with a peace education background. The Filipinos shared how destructive the conflict between Muslims and Christians had been on their island, and came up with provocative ideas for change. Several people noted the importance of teaching young people to be tolerant of other religions, and to break the cycle of prejudice that gets passed down from parent to child. A future event was planned to have an inter-faith couple share the lessons they had learned in understanding and appreciating each other's backgrounds.
During our trip, we saw how the whole community, Muslim and Christian, had come together to deal with life after the typhoon. We left encouraged that this spirit of unification could be built upon, and that with Rotarians taking the lead as the prime movers, the community could take great strides toward building peace.


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I'm glad that we returned to India (R2I) and have a verdict on the R2I experiment. In the summer of 2012, we are moving to America.
Why R2I didn't work out – the important stuff
Immediately after returning to India, I started and ran a web design consulting company and helped startups with their product definition, branding and design. One of these was listed as a top 10 startup to watch in India by a major publication. Another one is getting good traction with VCs. We are very proud of them. Starting and running a consulting business in India was challenging on 2 fronts:
Finding people with the right skillsets was extremely difficult. We spent 2 hours daily looking for candidates. Mostly, they failed in having usable domain skills. We tried several permutations – hiring from other industries (print, advertising), hiring from universities directly, poaching seniors from competitors. We got a strong team together but at some point I realized that it would be increasingly harder for us to find more talented people. This was the single biggest obstacle to scaling the business and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
Continue reading: R2I Return to India 2010 – 2012: Prashant's conclusions


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Governments want more of your data, but copyright holders are getting slightly less active in requesting tweet takedowns.
The social/news/media network published its second Twitter Transparency Report today in conjunction with #DataPrivacyDay. Twitter's goal is to be open about revealing how many government requests it gets for user information and DMCA copyright takedowns. Its first Transparency Report was published seven months ago, in July.
"These growing inquiries can have a serious chilling effect on free expression – and real privacy implications," Twitter's legal policy manager, Jeremy Kessel, wrote in the post. The data shows that governments and copyright holders are plenty interested in Twitter. Not so much in tweeting, however.
Since January 1, 2012, Twitter has received a total of 1,858 information requests, 48 removal requests, and 6,646 copyright violation notices. Government requests are up from 859 in the first half of the year to 1,009 in the second half, while copyright violation notices are down slightly, with 3,378 notices in the first half of 2012, and 3,268 in the last six months.
The United States continues to be the 800-pound gorilla of data-hungry countries. It was responsible for 1,494 of those 1,858 information requests in 2012 — a full 81 percent of all the requests received by Twitter. Sixty percent of those come via subpoenas, 11 percent via court order, another 19 percent via warrants, and 10 percent through other channels. The most common type, subpoenas, are generally used to obtain a Twitter user's email address and IP (internet protocol) addresses. They do not require a judge's sign-off.
How do you know if your data has been requested?
Twitter says its policy is to notify you if at all possible, but it only notified 24 percent of people whose data was requested. That's simply due to the fact that, in some cases, the network was prohibited by law from notifying users, and in other cases, Twitter did not comply with the request due to insufficient data or a withdrawn request.
Copyright notices are the big kahuna of takedown attempts, with 3,378 notices in the first half of 2012, and 3,268 in the second half.
Only 53 percent of those 3,268 requests were successful in getting tweets taken down, but they still affected 7,205 user accounts and caused 5,557 tweets to be "withheld," Twitter's new process for removing but not deleting offending tweets.
Recording industry watchdog RIAA accounted for only 120 of the takedown notices, a 14 percent drop. The lion's share were from Websheriff, which is an online service that finds and reports the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials — but many of these were probably also music-related, as the service calls itself "the Music Industry's top web enforcer."
Why are so many of the government data requests coming from the U.S.?
According to Twitter, that is simply because it is based in San Francisco. That's a little surprising, given that far less than half of Twitter users are U.S.-based, and according to some reports, China and India are more active on the network (although that is disputed by others).
I wonder if data privacy advocates would agree with Twitter's reason.
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Richard Rolle of Hampole
English hermit and mystic
Born at Thornton, Yorkshire, England, circa 1290, he was educated at Oxford and in Paris from 1320-1326, before entering into the life of a hermit on the estate of a friend, John Dalton of Pickering in 1326. After several years of intense contemplation, he took to wandering across England, finally settling down at Hampole where he assisted the spiritual development of the nuns in a nearby Cistercian community. He died there on September 29. Rolle was very well known and his writings widely read during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was one of the first religious writers to use the vernacular. A cult developed to promote his cause after miracles were reported at his tomb, although the cause was never officially pursued.
His works include letters, scriptural commentaries, and treatises on spiritual perfection. Perhaps his best known writing was De Incendio Amoris . He also wrote a poem, Pricke of Conscience. In one of his best-known works, The Fire of Love, Rolle provides an account of his mystical experiences, which he describes as being of three kinds: a physical warmth in his body, a sense of wonderful sweetness, and a heavenly music that accompanied him as he chanted the Psalms.
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Heralded as one of the great English mystics of the Middle Ages, Richard Rolle's religious adventures have been venerated since the 14th century. In the Fire of Love, Rolle describes his divine encounters by dividing the nature of the experience into three unique stages. Rolle describes the first stage as the sensation of spiritual fire, a glowing presence accompanied by a feeling of physical warmth in his chest. Rolle says that the second stage is marked by an overwhelming sense of peace and joy, a taste of sweetness in his soul. Finally, Rolle explains how in the third stage the glorious song of angels resounds, signifying his union with God's divine love. Rolle's artistic re-telling of his encounters enlightens us to the powerful religious experiences of Christian mystics during the medieval period.
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Interview: Don't Get Mad, Get Elected! A conversation with Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai
Don't Get Mad, Get Elected!
A conversation with Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai
Jailed, harassed and vilified by the autocratic regime of former President Daniel arap Moi, Wangari Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement (GBM) of Kenya, which has supported the planting by women of over 20 million trees in that country since 1977, while also advocating for better governance and human rights. In December 2002, Maathai was elected to Kenya's Parliament as a member of the Green Party in the country's first free election in decades. In January 2003, she was appointed Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources, and Wildlife. She was recently named an 'Elder of the Burning Spear' for services to Kenya by President Mwai Kibaki.
Last November, Nourishing the Planet Program Director Danielle Nierenberg and senior fellow Mia MacDonald met with Maathai in Nairobi. Here are excerpts of their interview.
WW: What's it like, going from being a prominent government critic to being part of the government itself?
WM: People were very happy that I was elected. What they don't quite appreciate is that if you're not the minister, there are many things you can't do because you are now working under another person. I try to be persuasive, but [things are] not moving as fast as I would have liked.
One of the major challenges is that we inherited a system that had been riddled with corruption and looting of public resources.
WW: What does your being in government mean for environmental activists around the world?
WM: Many of the environmentalists with whom we started in the 1960s and 1970s did end up in government, and a number of them became ministers. Sometimes when I'm frustrated I remember José Lutzemberger in Brazil. He was minister for the environment [1990 to 1992] and we were all very excited about that. Then he felt so tied up that he resigned. Because many of us are driven by idealism rather than politics, we have to train ourselves to be patient.
I'm very excited, actually. Sometimes when I go into Parliament I reflect that to be in this house is a very big privilege. There are 222 of us [members of Parliament] in a country of 30 million people, and there are 16 or 17 women. I try to remind myself of the responsibility.
WW: What are the most important lessons from your work with the Green Belt Movement that you can apply to your work in government?
WM: One of the most wonderful things we did was to [help] ordinary people become seedling producers-what we call 'foresters without diplomas'. Our main thing was to try to make people understand the linkage between good governance and conservation-how an environment that is well managed helps to sustain a good quality of life. That is what produced the tree planting campaign. We created a movement that was not only taking action to save the environment, but also was about the responsibility we have as citizens, to change the government.
I'm working with the Green Belt Movement to continue producing seedlings in the thousands. I'm waiting for the ministry to be able to say we can buy these seedlings. If we said we can buy these seedlings, we would get them in the millions. You'd put a lot of people to work in the rural areas. You'd be putting money into the hands of very poor people and they'd be working for it.
WW: What initiatives are you working on?
WM: I wanted to start a national tree-planting day, and I thought that Easter would be a wonderful time. It's a long weekend. Kenya is almost 85 percent Christian. People here are crazy about religion and Jesus and crucifixion, and to get the cross somebody has to go into the forest, cut a tree and chop it up. I thought there would be nothing better for the Christians to do than to plant a tree and bring back a life, the way Christ came back to life.
WW: What are the main challenges Kenya's environment faces?
WM: How to recover forest cover, save our wildlife, give ourselves adequate water, and curb pollution. Forest cover has been reduced very quickly, to about 1.7 percent [of the country's area]. The level recommended by the UN Environment Program is about 10 percent, at the very minimum. Two-thirds of our country is arid, semi-arid, and desert. We are an agricultural country and we are very vulnerable, with the Sahara Desert right here. We need to increase forest cover, and the only way you can do it is by involving the people.
WW: Is reforestation really possible, despite population and development pressures?
WM: It is doable. We have a high population pressure, but we tend to congregate in the one-third of our country where we have water and good soil and forested mountains. But two-thirds is out there and should be utilized more. I've been advocating forestation in those areas with exotic species of trees that grow fast, are commercially exploitable, and [until now] have been planted on the mountains. We should plant fewer of those exotic trees in the mountains, and more indigenous trees there, because we also want to protect the catchment areas and the diversity of plants and animals.
Exotic species can do very well in dry areas. But this is also something that will require some convincing, because for the last 80 years or so we have been planting exotic species for the timber industry, cutting indigenous forests to replace them with exotics. Slowly, they will see sense in taking plantations of exotic species to other areas.
WW: What about corruption and land grabbing, which was a focus of your work with GBM?
WM: We have sent all the foresters home, because so many were corrupt and were destroying the forest. They are being re-interviewed to see whom we shall keep and whom we shall let go.
Involving the public [in managing the forests] is very important, because the public has been persuaded to perceive the forest as being the property of the government-none of their business. These foresters were able to destroy forests while the public watched. The public didn't raise the alarm and it was left to a few organizations like ours. But the more people get involved, the more we can fight corruption at the local level.
The other area where we are fighting corruption is in the wildlife sector. Our biggest problem there is poaching, and we also have conflicts with wildlife. Wildlife needs vegetation, and animals are coming onto farms looking for food and then people complain. We are trying to go back to Parliament and have a law giving us the mandate to compensate [people who lose livestock or property, or are injured by wildlife]. On one side we compensate, [and] on the other side we are saying, 'You must rehabilitate the forest with indigenous vegetation so that we can give the animals their habitat and reduce that conflict.'
WW: Are you thinking being in government may not be for you?
WM: No, no, no, no, no. For me it is the next step and a very, very important step. I sit in Parliament sometimes and remind myself, 'You're really making laws here.' If a law is made then you actually have an opportunity to influence future generations.
WW: What's been the impact of your gender on your work?
WM: If a man had been endowed as I have been, he would probably have been able to accomplish much more because the opportunities would not be so controlled. But I also know that I've been lucky because I have gone through many stages in my life-some successful and some not. I think that many women, especially in Kenya, relate to my story because they can read something in it that reminds them of their own story.
WW: Do you see yourself as a role model for women in Kenya or even globally?
WM: A lot of women were very encouraged by the fact that I won an election. Maybe it would have been different if I had been [appointed]. They would probably have said, 'Oh, some man somewhere decided to give her a position. I represent an ordinary woman-it's very different from coming into a position because of your inheritance.
Sometimes I've had difficult times, and I think having those and overcoming them for women is very important-[showing] that you don't have to be down and out. You can get back up. That's what a lot of women relate to. I also think that's what men relate to now, because they figure, well, the story stopped being the story of a woman who is belligerent or a woman who is resisting being put in a certain place.
WW: Do you see running for president one day?
WM: Well, that is far-fetched right now. What I'm interested in is to see that I can make an impact in the government. What the future brings, I really don't know. There are a lot of very vibrant young men and women coming up; by the end of the second term I'll probably be feeling I'm too tired.
WW: Do you think former Moi government officials are saying, "I can't believe that troublesome women got in there"?
WM: People who were in the Moi government are probably confused. They probably don't believe I can sit still and not be shouting at them. At the same time, I marvel at the fact that they are not in the government and we are.


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EVANSTON, Ill. — The body of a Long Island teen who was last seen leaving a weekend party at Northwestern University has been found in a harbor near the school's suburban Chicago campus.
Authorities say the body of 18-year-old sophomore Harsha Maddula was pulled late Thursday from a harbor in Wilmette, a town north of Evanston.
Northwestern spokesman Alan Cubbage says Maddula's wallet was found on the body, which showed no signs of foul play.
Maddula was last seen after midnight Saturday. A relative says he went to the party with several friends and disappeared after he and several others left for another party.
His parents and other relatives arrived in Evanston on Monday from Long Island to join the search for the pre-med engineering student, who had been recently diagnosed with diabetes.


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I'm building an application for a client of mine that will need to create routes in a PostgreSQL database.
So far so good, but I need to support edits and changes to my network and I need to support bulk imports.
I've read the tutorials and the examples available on the web and the routing part is clear for me.
My main concern is perfomance. If I try to update the network at each update, this will be incredibly slow. Here's the workflow I'm thinking for creating new edges:
- User inserts a new edge (let's call that A);
- System looks for existing edges that touches or crosses this new edge (edge B);
System splits edge B (if touches) and/or splits edge A (if crosses);
This will trigger another event at the database (recalculating the new nodes for each of B splitted parts B and B');
System looks for existing nodes for edge A;
- If nodes found, update the feature to maintain the network topology (from to node ids);
- If no nodes are found, create them and update the necessary features;
Of course there will be similar triggers for updates to the edges (this may be even more complex than the above) and deletes. For a small number of users it may be acceptable, but for bulk imports this is unlikely to work (I have three of four spatial queries being run for each update).
My bulk process will be run using async tasks (Celery). As whuber always says, if it's too slow, blaim the algorithm.
I have a similar setup with ESRI software for a customized network scheme and works well, but it's not the fastest kid on the block.
I have two ways of doing this: in the application layer or in the database. The database is a good choice IMO but I may leak the domain layer to the database and I REALLY don't want to do that. The application is being developed with GeoDjango.
What are your thoughts on this?
Can you guys comment on the algorithm?
This is a more django-specific question: can I query memcached entities using spatial queries?


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CNN reported a new bombshell in the ongoing Libya fiasco on Monday night, while the networks had already moved on from the story. CNN's Erin Burnett disclosed that "key intelligence" was left out of the post-Libya narrative given to the American public. The networks made no mention of Libya all day Monday and through Tuesday morning after being late to new developments in the story.
"[T]here were a decision made as to some of these key things that obviously are now considered to be crucial to this – essential to this attack were left out of the briefing points given to Congress and given to the American people," Burnett reported.
Burnett added that an "intelligence expert" told CNN that "the key information left out of the talking points can only mean the administration is covering something up." This story is a new development on the previous narrative, where the Obama administration's initial explanation for the attacks did not match up with U.S. intelligence which had , and evolved since the attacks.
However, CNN reported with certainty that not only were the attacks planned, but this information was withheld from the ensuing administration narrative. The networks did not report this story on Tuesday morning.
The networks were also late to the prior story that U.S. intelligence had "strong indications" within a day after the embassy attacks that they were planned and carried out by al Qaeda affiliates. The Daily Beast report on U.S. intelligence aired early Wednesday morning on September 26, yet it took until Thursday night for ABC to report it. As of Friday morning, NBC and CBS had not reported it.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Energy stocks gained Monday, riding a wave of renewed optimism about U.S. stocks as a budget deal in Washington appeared to be within reach.
Over the weekend, House Speaker John Boehner reportedly told President Barack Obama that he may accept higher taxes on millionaires if there's reduced spending on Medicare and Social Security. See: U.S. stocks gain on budget hopes.
Shares of Chevron Corp. CVX, +0.53% rose 0.8%. The oil major has offered to pay $149 million to settle two civil lawsuits in Brazil related to an oil spill there in late 2011, with final approval of the deal likely in January, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
Brazil has been criticized for the way regulators and prosecutors pursued penalties for what the industry regarded as a minor accident, with an estimated 3,700 barrels of crude dumped into the Atlantic Ocean.
The deal would settle two civil lawsuits seeking more than $20 billion in damages, although a criminal case involving Chevron, drilling rig operator Transocean Ltd. and 17 executives will continue, Dow Jones reported, citing the prosecutor's office.
Shares of larger rival Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, -0.35% rose 0.9%.
Exxon Mobil has entered talks to buy a stake in the Bowland shale gas project in northwest England, owned by Igas Energy PLC, according to a report on the U.K.'s Sunday Times.
Igas launched a search this summer for a partner to help it develop the project in Lancashire, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC RDS.A, +0.29%, France's Total SA TOT, +1.85% and Norway's Statoil ASA US:STO are also considering bids.
Exxon also said Monday it had formed a deal to look for oil off the coast of South Africa. The bellwether acquired a 75% interest in the Tugela South Exploration Right through an agreement with Impact Africa Ltd., a subsidiary of Impact Oil & Gas Ltd.
The agreement covers about 2.8 million acres offshore Durban and includes future exploration rights covering 16 million acres offshore.
Separately, the oil major has signed a technical cooperation permit with the South African government to study oil and gas potential of the deepwater Durban Basin, covering about 12 million acres. The permit gives Exxon the exclusive rights to study the area for one year. "We believe South Africa has significant potential and we will continue to look for additional opportunities there," Exxon said in a statement.
Rounding up the activity among the top oil producers, ConocoPhillips COP, +1.42% shares rose 1%.
Refiners also rose on Monday, with Tesoro Corp. US:TSO up 2.4% and Valero Energy Corp. VLO, -0.84% shares up 2%.
Coal producer Consol Energy Inc. CNX, -3.42% shares declined 0.1%. Consol said late Friday it will lay off nearly 150 employees as it completes the idling of its Fola mine in West Virginia.
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Peabody on Friday announced its first-quarter outlook, saying its U.S. sales volumes and capital expenditures will be lower in the next year.
Peabody said 2013 capital expenditures will be about half of the $1 billion it had set aside in 2012.
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Coach Brandon Rosenthal, set to start his seventh season as head coach, welcomes six new players, but also returns the bulk of last year's team.
Rosenthal, whose office is jammed with equipment, made room for Lipscombsports.com to ask a few questions before preseason drills begin.
Last year the team set records for most regular season match wins (20) and most match wins overall in a season (21). How do you top that this season?
"We need to go back to the NCAA Tournament and win at least one match. The one thing the program is missing is a big win over a top team. We have always scheduled tough. We have to break through and I think this year we have our best chance to get a couple of signature wins early and let the momentum run.
"Our goal in the next three or four years is to be a top 50 program. I don't see any reason why we can't do it. If we get a four or five more wins in a season we will be knocking on the door."
The Lady Bisons have improved their win total each season. How difficult will it be to keep that string alive?
"We have had to deal with our success and deal with expectations that previously weren't there.
"We are going to turn up the intensity. As our expectations go up I think our level everyday has to go up. It's not that our level was down last year, but having won the A-Sun Tournament Championship the year before I am not sure if we really raised the bar. And that's my fault. I have thought a lot about it. Our goals and expectations are changing. We have a great atmosphere and a great attitude, but I think everybody realizes we are going to have to go after it that much harder to do what we want to do."
This season there are six newcomers to the roster. Will any of them make an immediate impact?
"It is one of those years where we have a good, solid base, but we are also bringing in some very talented young players. If we can just get some of them going right away it should be a lot of fun. I'm really uncertain as to who will be starting.
"I expect Cortney Crocker to really show what she can do as a libero/defensive specialist. Kaycee Green is a naturally-gifted player, but she will be challenged by the intensity of the game. The one to really watch is Kory Honel. She plays with a lot of passion and a lot of drive. She hits the ball surprisingly hard. She has a great vertical. She understands the game well.
"Tory Ashcraft has played for me before in club volleyball, but has taken a couple of years off. It is going to be an interesting start for her as a junior to play again. I know her. She knows me. She knows exactly what to expect. I think she will give us some stability as the second setter.
"Amanda Rhein is a tremendous player. She is coming off an injury and we want to see how she has progressed. When she is healthy she is a very solid, all-around player. She is a very good outside hitter. She is very good on defense. She is a solid passer."
Meghan Hinemeyer, who transferred in the spring from Clemson, is another in a string of solid players who have transferred to Lipscomb to play volleyball after starting their careers at another college, What kind of impact do you expect from Hinemeyer as an outside hitter?
"We all know what Meghan is capable of doing when she puts everything together on the court. Spring was fun, but she is going be doing it day in and day out when it counts. She is very excited about that."
Speaking of transfers, Elly Kaiser joined the team last season after playing at Illinois State. What will be her role this season?
"She played tremendous in the spring. She played the libero position and really came back to where we thought she would. When we played in the spring matches she was one of the keys to why we won some of those."
Alex Kelly was named the Atlantic Sun Player of the Year and earned A-Sun Player of the Week honors three times, also a program record. What kind of impact do you expect from her as a junior?
"I expect Alex to have an even better year than last year. Alex has really come into her own this last half of year. She has worked extremely hard on her leadership ability. With the passion that she brings to the court each and everyday and the desire to continue to get better Alex will continue to be one of the top players in the Atlantic Sun.
" Another challenge that she will face is the fact that many teams will spend a good majority of their time game planning against her. We have talked at length about this and Alex is more than ready for the challenge.
Stefine "Jake" Pease provides the spark as the setter. She and Alex have played together since their days in club volleyball. What made the difference for them last season?
"Jake, for the last couple of years, has been the quarterback of the team, but she has also been a young person on the team. She has gotten over that and this is really her team.
"She and Alex have figured out how to work together. I think they have realized they both need each other on the court. The way they lead will be a huge thing for us.
"It is interesting to deal with team dynamics. There is so much passion on the team and sometimes that passion gets in the way."
Katie Rose was a formidable player as a freshman. Will she be returning to her outside hitter position this season?
"Katie played great on the outside, but we will be moving her to the middle and maybe the right side. She doesn't care where she plays. She just wants to be out on the court. Not a lot of players can transfer from position to position, but Katie is very athletic and very comfortable playing a lot of different positions. That is going to work to her advantage."
Erin Pierce, a fifth-year-senior, was often the X-factor last season. She always had the knack of being involved in virtually every play. Where does she fit in during her final season?
"When you talk about our core I think you are talking about Jake, Alex and Erin. Obviously, Jake and Alex get a good majority of the accolades. I think Erin is our X-factor. With her being a fifth-year senior this is her last hurrah. I expect her to lay it on the line. We really saw her blossom last year into a really good team player."
Amy Trykowski is another senior hoping to finish her career on a strong note. How much progress has she made since she first signed with the Lady Bisons?
"We saw a lot of potential in Amy and it was just a matter of time for her to get enough experience and to really feel comfortable. She will be challenged this year by Kelsey Neumann. I will be really interested to see what the competitiveness brings out of Amy. It is her senior year and she has worked so hard for this.
"She wants to get the ball more, just like everyone else and when she gets the ball she is efficient with it. She did some really nice things for us last year, but defensively there is a still another level I would like to see her get to and she knows that.
"Kelsey knows there is a lot of pressure everyday to give it everything she has got because everybody else is. She has worked hard in the spring to establish herself on the team. It is not just her height, but her length that is important."
Kaley Mohr's specialty is her ability to serve. What kind of a challenge is it for her to come off the bench to serve in key situations during a match?
"Kaley is a serving specialist, but she will also challenge for a spot in the back row. Most teams have at least one serving specialist. Kaley has done a great job of accepting that role. A big thing for us is that once she goes in to serve we have to continue to play defense well so we can keep her in there.
"We want her to work herself into a rhythm as a server and not try to give it everything she has on her first serve. Coming off the bench you always want to prove yourself, but we want her to be comfortable and under control. When the time is right she can go for it."
This season's roster is the deepest in terms of talent and versatility in the history of the program. What will it be like to have so many options in terms of players?
"At every position there is some serious competition. We will be the deepest we have ever been as far as looking down the bench and having viable options at every position. It will add an element to practice that we haven't ever had before. It should be a lot of fun to watch."
"One of our new players coming in said she wanted to come to a program that was doing the right things and going in the right direction. But she also wanted to go be a part of a program that was going to challenge her. She wanted to go into a situation that was very competitive where she might even have to sit for awhile."
What will be the key or keys to a successful season?
"I think it is passing. We have been a very good passing team over the years. We were pretty good last year. We were very good the year before.
"It is passing and defense for us. I don't think there is any secret to the way we play and how we score. When people look at us we don't do anything that special, but we pass well and we are able to run our offense faster than everybody else."


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Mothers can sometimes do embarrassing things - everything from spitting on a napkin and wiping your face to trying to be cool around your friends - but what 52-year-old actress and model Elizabeth Hurley is doing with her 16-year-old son Damian has some people cringing.
Hurley has been taking pictures with her son - no problem there - but the issue some people have is with what she is wearing.
It first happened at Damian's 16th birthday party, when Elizabeth wore a very revealing dress that showed off a lot of cleavage. She posted the pic to Instagram and captioned it, "Happy birthday to my little prince @DamienHurley1. The light of my life for the last 16 years."
Many commenters feel that a mother shouldn't dress that way in front of her child, but plenty of Elizabeth's followers have her back, telling her she looks amazing and regardless of if she is a mom or not, she can wear whatever she wants.
Damian doesn't seem to mind his mom's outfits either - in fact he posted a photo of his mother wearing a French maid's outfit and stilettos, alongside him and Elizabeth's The Royals co-star Joan Collins. He captioned the pic, "The Unholy Trinity."
Elizabeth had Damian on April 4th, 2002. She said his father was businessman and producer Steve Bing, but Bing denied paternity, claiming he and Hurley only had a brief non-exclusive relationship in 2001. However, a DNA test however proved Bing was his dad. Meanwhile, Damian's godfather is Hugh Grant.
You can stay up to date with Elizabeth here and Damian here.
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With only a week to go before the election, the "rooting" and spinning from both sides has hit such a fever pitch that facts have become irrelevant.
But for those who actually care about the economy, facts are important.
So here are some facts.
First, our economic recovery over the past four years has actually been better than what might have been expected under the circumstances (a 30-year borrowing binge leading up to the financial crisis).
Recoveries after such debt binges are notoriously sluggish, and ours has actually tracked better than some economists expected.
The chart below, from economics professors Alan Taylor and Moritz Schularick, shows the projected recoveries from two types of recessions:
A normal recession (blue) and a debt-fueled financial crisis (purple).
The "channel" in the debt-fueled recession shows the expected range of recovery for the U.S. economy over the past few years. The dark purple line shows the actual US recovery, which has been better than expected.
And how about jobs?
A lot of what we've been hearing in the past few months is about how horrible our job-creation in the past few years has been.
Has it actually been horrible?
Our job-creation over the past four years has actually been just as strong as the job-creation during the prior administration!
Don't believe it?
Let's look at some charts.
Here's a chart of overall job growth for the past 12 years. Both George Bush, whose term started in January 2001 and Barack Obama, whose term started in January 2009, inherited recessions. And, as you can see, the slope of the jobs recoveries for both has been similar. Bush's slope is slightly steeper, but not much.
Now let's look at job-creation per month.
Here, too, the tracks of the two administrations have been very similar. Bush's "good period," once it finally got started, was slightly better than Obama's, but not much. (And if you think that Republicans have some super secret to sustainable job growth, you're going to want to forget all about Bush's bad period).
It's also important to separate the growth of government jobs versus the growth of private sector jobs. Here's where it gets really interesting.
Contrary to what Republicans might have you believe, government jobs expanded sharply under George Bush. And they have since shrunk under Barack Obama:
In other words, a lot of job growth in the Bush years came from the growth of government jobs. The loss of government jobs under Obama, meanwhile, which Republicans generally regard as a good thing, have acted as a drag on overall Obama job growth.
Here's a look at private sector job growth under both Presidents. Here, the slope of the recoveries is almost exactly the same:
The similarity is even more clear when you look at private-sector jobs created per month:
So, what's the bottom line?
The bottom line is that, yes, the recovery has been frustratingly sluggish. But this is no surprise. Recoveries after borrowing binges like the one we had for 30 years are generally sluggish. This is because the borrowing in the years leading up to the crisis helped fuel growth, while the "deleveraging" (debt reduction) after the crisis actually hurts growth.
And the bottom line is also that private-sector job growth under Barack Obama has been just as good if not better than it was under George Bush.
Let's say that again.
Private-sector job growth under Barack Obama has been just as good if not better than it was under George Bush.
That's not an argument. It's a fact.
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By By Richard Whittle | November 1, 2009
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A visitor to Eurocopter Deutsch- land's Helicopter Technology Park, with about 5,200 workers and engineers the chief employer in this picturesque Bavarian town, hardly senses there's a world economic crisis underway.
On the east side of the neatly organized factory, in production hangars near the famed Danube river, assembly line workers are building lightweight, twin-engine EC135 and EC145 civilian helicopters, working hard to fill orders Eurocopter booked in 2007 and 2008. On the west side of the facility, in a row of production hangars bordering a grassy park, other workers are fulfilling military contracts: building Tiger attack and NH90 TTH transport helicopters, and performing a wide variety of maintenance, repair, overhaul and modifications on six other helicopter types for the German armed forces, or Bundeswehr.
Elsewhere on the property, another 400 employees are churning out doors for commercial jets built by Airbus, which like Eurocopter Deutschland is a subsidiary of the multinational aviation giant EADS, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company. Donauwörth produced its 40,000th Airbus door this year.
The economic picture, however, isn't as rosy as it seems, acknowledged Ralf Barnscheidt, the senior vice president who heads up the facility's military work and a member of Eurocopter Deutschland's board of management.
Barnscheidt told Rotor & Wing that in the first six months of 2009, the Eurocopter Group—which in addition to Eurocopter Deutschland includes units in France, Spain, the United States and elsewhere around the globe—saw its order income drop a whopping 70 percent compared to the same period in 2008.
Production usually lags behind orders 18 to 24 months, so while the assembly lines at Donauwörth have been jammed in 2009 as the facility delivers on orders from previous years, "We are facing now, for the next year, some real problems," Barnscheidt said.
For at least some of the 5,200 workers at Donauwörth—the 1,000 or so employed by subcontractors rather than Eurocopter—the plunge in orders is going to mean a reduction in work hours, and possibly even layoffs should things get worse, he said. But that's only on the civilian side of the plant. The good news for many of Donauwörth's other workers, Barnscheidt said, is that—so far, at least—Eurocopter Deutschland has seen no cutbacks in its military orders due to the global economic crisis.
"I know that some governments are thinking about perhaps stretching programs a bit, this is under discussion," Barnscheidt said. "But for the time being, on the military side, there's no real impact."
Producing military helicopters is a major part of Donauwörth's business. Besides building Tigers for the Bundeswehr, the factory's other major military production project is the NH90. (The EC145 is the basis for the U.S. Army's new UH-72A Lakota utility helicopter, but most of the production work on that is done in Mississippi.)
The NH90 is a twin-engine transport and multi-mission aircraft weighing about 23,000 pounds, designed under NATO supervision for Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal but being built for a host of other nations as well—14 in all. Eurocopter, AgustaWestland and Stork Fokker of the Netherlands, teamed in a partnership called NH Industries, are building the NH90 in two versions: a tactical transport model designed for troop and cargo lifting, casualty evacuation and search and rescue; and a Nato Frigate Helicopter, designed for anti-submarine and anti-surface ship warfare. The NH90's fly-by-wire controls and 80 percent composite fuselage make it one of the most advanced military helicopters around, and with 530 on order, the companies have plenty of work to do on the project.
A major portion of Donauwörth's military business, though, is centered in what Eurocopter Deutschland variously calls its "Helicopter Support Center" or "National Support Center." By whatever name, the center works exclusively—and hand-in-glove—with the Bundeswehr to keep its helicopters flying and up to date. "We modernize, modify and overhaul all German military helicopters except the UH-1, the Huey," said Gerhard Zembsch, a longtime marketer for Eurocopter Deutschland who often guides visitors around the Donauwörth plant. "National military support is big business for us."
The support center regularly performs depot-level maintenance, repairs and overhauls on eight types of military helicopters for the Bundeswehr. Those include: the Sea King Mk41s and Sea Lynx Mk88s and Mk88As flown by the German Navy; Tigers, NH90s, out-of-production BO105 anti-tank helicopters, and CH-53 transports flown by the German Army; a military version of the EC135 the Bundeswehr uses as a trainer; and three Eurocopter Cougars the German Air Force uses to carry government VIPs.
"We are the so-called 'weapons systems responsible company' for them," noted Barnscheidt. "This means that we have all the technical capability we need to service these aircraft."
A purer example of the military-industrial complex would be hard to find. A civilian Eurocopter Deutschland program manager runs the support center, established a few years ago under Barnscheidt's supervision, but the deputy program manager is a Bundeswehr lieutenant colonel. The center's workforce of 800 also includes 40 Bundeswehr mechanics and 60 Bundeswehr engineers, and while they answer directly to their lieutenant colonel, "If our guy is not there, he (the lieutenant colonel) is the boss" of the entire operation, Barnscheidt said.
The support center also leans forward. Defense contractors often market ideas for changes to military products to their armed service customers but wait for a contract to actually develop new systems or equipment. The support center prefers to offer the Bundeswehr solutions for problems rather than wait for the military to come to them, Barnscheidt said. It also develops those solutions on Eurocopter's money.
"We normally offer a free-of-charge demonstrator," he said. "They can see what we are offering. They can test it. Sometimes we have to modify it a bit because we didn't get 100 percent of the needs."
For example, a couple of years ago, support center personnel heard that German CH-53 helicopter crews carrying troops and supplies in Afghanistan were having trouble communicating by radio because of the country's mountainous topography. The German Army began flying its CH-53s in that rugged country in 2003, when Germany sent troops there as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. Donauwörth has long done MRO and upgrade work on the Bundeswehr's CH-53s.
"We get a lot of information from the troops coming back from Afghanistan," Barnscheidt said. When soldiers told them about the radio problem, Barnscheidt's staff studied possible solutions on their own and decided a satellite communications system was what the CH-53 needed. They scoured the market and found one, developed a demonstrator system on Eurocopter's dime, and gave it to the Bundeswehr for testing. A contract followed, and many of the German Army's CH-53s now are getting secure voice and data satellite links that will let them communicate with ground forces on the other side of a mountain in Afghanistan—or with Bundeswehr headquarters in Berlin, if need be.
As the case of the CH-53 demonstrates, the support center doesn't only look for improvements it can offer for Eurocopter products the Bundeswehr flies. Germany's 53s were built beginning in 1978 by the former Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, long since absorbed into EADS after various earlier corporate transformations.
"We try to find synergy," Barnscheidt said, by considering whether new systems developed for one type of Bundeswehr helicopter might also work in another, no matter who built the aircraft.
The Army's CH-53s offer a prime example of that practice as well. Donauwörth has a major contract to refurbish, modify and upgrade 40 of the 82 that exist, most of which are about 35 years old and have flown more than 6,000 hours. The aircraft, built with dial and gauge cockpits, are getting new night vision goggle (NVG)-compatible "glass cockpits" with five new multifunction displays and two central display units—equipment developed for the NH90. The 53s also are getting a new four-axis autopilot developed by Eurocopter France for the EC725 Caracal, the latest version of the Cougar. The mods also include new internal fuel tanks and an electronic warfare kit.
The National Support Center also looks for synergy in timing its work. Besides the "midlife upgrade" being done on the 40 CH-53s, the facility also has three other major CH-53 modification contracts from the Bundeswehr. Under one program, announced at this year's Paris Air Show, Donauwörth is to retrofit 20 CH-53GSs—a special operations version—and six CH-53GEs with sensors, broadband radio and a FLIR (forward-looking infrared) system to locate and recover personnel.
Under another deal, 14 other Bundeswehr CH-53s are getting new IFR navigation systems. Under yet another, Donauwörth is refurbishing the entire Bundeswehr CH-53 fleet by inspecting the airframes for cracks and fatigue and replacing the tail booms and wiring. The factory coordinates all this modification work on the CH-53s to coincide with their arrival in Donauwörth for routine maintenance every 300 flight hours.
Walking along a row of 19 of them, including a couple still sand-scarred from Afghanistan, Stefan Emig, senior manager for army helicopters in the support center, said timing the work this way is a bit tricky, given the Bundeswehr's need for the aircraft. Anywhere from 15 to 19 Bundeswehr CH-53s are in the hangar at Donauwörth at any given time, and they stay an average of eight to 10 months, Emig said.
"It must go hand-in-hand with the customer to bring in one helicopter and take out one helicopter," Emig said. But "the real value for the customer is that we combine the upgrade programs with the MRO, so he gets back a helicopter that is equipped with new things."
The Bundeswehr will be relying on that for years to come, for while its CH-53s are well up in years, and the brutal high and hot conditions of Afghanistan are adding a lot of rough flying hours to many of them, it will be a while yet before a replacement comes along. The European Defence Agency has assigned Eurocopter to develop a new heavy-lift helicopter in the massive 32-ton range, with design to begin in 2011, but the project has moved slowly.
Lutz Bertling, CEO of Eurocopter, said this year that the company had begun pre-design studies and was leaning toward forming a "trans-Atlantic partnership"—that is, teaming with an American company—to build the so-called Future Transport Helicopter. There was talk a while back that Germany and France, the nations that started the FTH two years ago, might opt for something like the CH-53K, which Sikorsky is building for the U.S. Marine Corps. At a March meeting of the European Defence Agency, however, Bertling showed a slide depicting a notion of the FTH that looked remarkably like a tandem-rotor Boeing CH-47 Chinook. Nothing has been decided yet, however, and in any event, the first FTHs are unlikely to be ready for service before 2020 at the earliest.
Until then, and even with a weak economy, it appears there will be plenty of work to do at Donauwörth keeping not only the Bundeswehr's CH-53s but almost all its other helicopters flying. "This is the speciality of the National Support Center," beamed Barnscheidt. "We are really working within Eurocopter only for the German customer, independent of which kind of helicopter he is operating."


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The US ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, took a lot of criticism from Turkish activists when, after almost a month of street protests here, he affirmed Washington's support for Ankara in both good times and bad.
Given Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's efforts to blame his sudden political problems on unidentified "foreign agents," "Zionists," and even the American Enterprise Institute think tank, the ambassador's diplomatic niceties were prudent. A strong American rebuke would have handed Mr. Erdogan a gift by making the United States – not the demonstrations – the story in Turkey.
For all of Washington's diplomatic deftness during the crisis, however, the Obama administration has been far too solicitous of Erdogan and his increasingly authoritarian ways over the past five years. Its reasoning is based on the flawed assumption that being nice will ensure cooperation from this strategic ally that straddles Europe and the greater Middle East.
Such a calculus is just another example of Washington choosing realism over idealism in foreign affairs. In this case, it would be far better for the US to err on the side of idealism. Washington has missed an opportunity to encourage Erdogan, who presided over impressive political reforms early in his tenure, to continue Turkey's transition to a liberal democracy.
When President Obama took office in January 2009, he was determined to improve US-Turkey relations after six years of tension over the American invasion of Iraq, which borders Turkey. Mr. Obama put Turkey on the itinerary for his first overseas visit that April, and worked hard to give meaning to the "model partnership."
There were good strategic reasons for righting the relationship. When the president first took stock of US foreign policy, he must have noted that Turkey sat at the center of all of Washington's pressing foreign-policy concerns. Ankara was involved in debates as diverse and important as the future of NATO, of which it is a member, and how to ensure a unified and federal Iraq.
There was also a sense among senior US policymakers – even well before the Arab Spring uprisings – that a prosperous and democratizing Turkey, under a party of Islamist patrimony no less, could somehow be a model for the Arab world.
Relations were not always smooth, however. The sharp deterioration of Turkey-Israel relations that began with the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip in late 2008 put Washington in an awkward position between two key allies. The first half of 2010 was particularly difficult with a string of miscommunications over nuclear negotiations with Iran's and Turkey's votes against additional United Nations sanctions on the Islamic Republic. These and other incidents had US officials wondering why Turkey "wasn't acting like a NATO ally."
Obama and Erdogan met in private at a Group of 20 summit in June 2010 and hashed out their differences. It was at that Toronto summit that the two leaders gained new respect for each other and built a friendship that began an alleged golden age in bilateral relations.
From then on, strategic ties between Washington and Ankara deepened while there was a "willful blindness," according to one former US official, to Erdogan's increasingly nondemocratic approach to governing. In one odd moment in September 2010, for example, the US (along with the European Union) praised judicial reform that did not actually reform the judiciary – an urgent need – but rather made it possible for Erdogan to pack the courts.
The State Department made sporadic statements about the quality of Turkish politics during Obama's first term, including a strong statement in 2011 about freedom of the press from then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. More recently, Ambassador Ricciardone spoke out about human rights, but Turkey's deputy prime minister promptly told him to mind his own business.
Mostly, the White House, which tightly controls Turkish policy, has been silent. The Obama administration has given the Turkish government a pass on its intimidation of the press and efforts to clamp down on freedom of expression, its legislative highhandedness and use of machinery of the state to strike fear in the hearts of businesspeople who disagree with the government, and the not-so-subtle effort to write a constitution that serves Erdogan's ambition to move from the premiership to a newly powerful presidency – in contrast to the current relatively weak configuration.
Those opposed to calling out Erdogan for his authoritarian ways argue that Washington needs Ankara for a variety of important issues, and, as a result, the US should not rock the boat with a strategic ally. But this does not stand up under scrutiny.
The US has held back on criticism of Turkey's democratic deviations, and yet that has not prevented Washington and Ankara from recent disagreements over Israel, Syria, and, increasingly, Iraq. If suddenly the US sharply increased its criticism of Erdogan (as German leader Angela Merkel has done), and also moved closer to Ankara's position of more robust involvement in Syria (as Washington now seems to be doing), it is unlikely that the Turks would rebuff Washington's new approach in a fit of pique.
Finally, Turkey has moved closer to the US on Iran not because the White House has overlooked Erdogan's authoritarian turn, but rather because the Turks finally recognized that Tehran's regional ambitions threatened Turkey's own goals.
With protests in Istanbul and other cities, there is little the US could or should do to try to influence politics in Turkey. The political tumult resulting from the Gezi Park demonstrations is a Turkish story. Yet in the five years leading up to the demonstrations when the US could have signaled to Erdogan the importance of democratic politics, Washington balked based on a false assumption that it would disrupt bilateral strategic cooperation.
There is a Turkish saying that good friends "speak bitterly to good friends." In its effort to build strong ties with Ankara, the Obama administration should have taken that advice to heart. The lesson from Turkey's current drama is straightforward: The US can secure its strategic interests and maintain its ideals simultaneously.
Everyone will likely be better off as a result.
Steven A. Cook is the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.


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Pot on. Good eats tonight.
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Pot on. Good eats tonight.
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Its getting close to that time of year again. I think i may bring a pot for the Alabama vs aTm tailgate
I am looking to buy Mike McLemore duck calls. He was a cousin of mine and the calls have a sentimental value.
For breakfast, buy some good tamales and shred them up in a skillet and mix in some DK's, allsome!
6oz chili powder seems like a lot. Just making sure that is correct. Gonna try making it for the first time for a chili feed at work Friday.
Made some with elk tonight, was amazing.
As a side joke, we ran low on fritos but plenty of gold fish. That was the shit. I may never eat frito pie again. Gold fish and chili FTMFW!
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What's wrong with you?
google blue waffle
not knowing that I was supposed to make a post every time I made chili I am no posting to let you guys know that over the last 4 years I've made chili about 10-15 times.
I'll do better in the future of keeping the rest of you up to date on my meal preps. Do I need to also post when I heat and eat frozen chili that is left over? I do that pretty often when I'm by myself.
I add kidney beans, black beans, corn and cut up: celery, onion, bell pepper and garlic...
This is a great chili...I've been cooking chili for a long time, this is by far the best..
Good god man.
Barrett Hall
Teach your kids to hunt, and you won't have to hunt for your kids!
It's fantastic...I'm not cooking soup; I'm cooking a meal.
One ounce = two tablespoons.
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First, we will investigate our observation of non-deterministic behavior of malicious web servers. Repeated interaction with a malicious web server did not consistently yield malicious behavior. Analysis of MPack/ IcePack exploitation kits allows us to - at least partially - explain this behavior.
Figure 3 - MPack Administrative Interface
MPack can be configured via the $BlockDuplicates option to only deliver an attack to a user it hasn't seen before. If this "IP tracking functionality" is enabled, MPack exectutes the CheckAddUser function shown in Figure 5 . The user's IP address with the browser identifier are hashed (line 08) and stored in the MPack database (mysql or txt file) (lines 48-49 and 23-25). Upon repeated visits by the user with the same IP address and browser identifier, the hash is once again generated and checked for existence in the MPack database (lines 15 and 29, 30, 41-42). If it is found, an "unhappy" emoticon is displayed and no attack is delivered (line 17 and 44). (Similar functionality exist in IcePack [7].)
The CheckAddUser function explains why certain URLs are malicious and then permanently go dormant. However, this would not explain URLs that exhibit malicious behavior, temporarily go dormant (maybe one or two requests), but then exhibit malicious behavior once again; this is a pattern we observed in our study. To explain this observation, we turn to an additional attack technique of Fast-Flux networks, which we more extensively describe in our Know Your Enemy: Fast-Flux Service Networks paper. Fast-Flux networks are networks computer systems with public DNS records that are constantly changing. If a malicious URL is part of such a network, it might resolve to actual different physical machines, which will only have access to their local IP tracking database. If a client honeypot accesses the same URL repeatedly, it might actually interact with several physical machines that each trigger initially, but then permanently go dormant. From the client honeypot's view, however, it appears as if it is sporadically attacked.
Figure 4 - CheckAddUser Function


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Let's say you go to work, like me, and at the end of the year you get an award for doing your job. Silly, right? Wrong. That is what the "self-servicing" entertainment industries do: give awards for best film, music, TV, book, magazine, and hairstyle (well, not that).
Hello, and welcome to the world of award shows, one that will go away when TV becomes interactive and people vote for what they want. This year awards are being brought to you by--well, everyone! It normally happens in January, when entertainment groups consisting of no more than 200 people who were appointed by a politically inept process randomly select the best of last year's crop. Strangely, it's usually the same overhyped products that get all the groups' awards. Funny.
And it's a big moneymaking enterprise, involving sponsorship and hype and a lot of people paying (and thus begging) to be part of the process.
The awards biz has grown by leaps and bounds by every network on earth. Neil Patrick Harris is rich due to our insistence on a host who sings for his supper. The trend is that every organization wants to, or must, be the first to handicap the best film--or predict which blasé song or actor or drapemaker on a TV set is going to be the one that [fill in the year] will be forever remembered by.
So while televised award shows are tremendous opportunities to see our favorite singers and actors pimp their best in lights and colors and smoke (note recent Grammys), doesn't it seem that every time a performer is on TV, you just saw him telling the same joke or singing the same product? Worse is when they go on a talk show and talk about the product. Each one is always the best experience with the best crew, script, team, director, hairstylist.
A few years back I was shocked--not Casablanca shocked--to see Chris Rock appear on two award shows in the same week making the same lame joke about former Giuliani: "Rudy in a crisis is perfect--he's like a pit bull. It's great if somebody's breaking in your house. But if they're not, then, you know, the pit bull might eat your kids." Even the cool are swept up in awards mania. It's like a disease and an eye roll intertwined.
Could it be that the people who appear on those shows actually have an album or movie or book or surfboard line that was just released? Let's pause to see how much of a wink rather than a contest these programs have become. Otherwise, you'd still hear "The winner is" instead of a wince-inducing "The Oscar goes to . . ."
I have nothing against good works of people who sing for their supper, but I never got an award for being best CEO of a veteran public relations company. (RLMpr turns 20 on March 1; cards and gifts are welcomed but keep the tributes silent.) I think that most entrepreneurs and people who work for a living would find an over-the-top acknowledgment embarrassing and a waste of time.
In the near future, as everyone on earth begins to get their due for being astutely funny or formerly fat or finding a new career (thanks, Bravo and VH1 for resurrecting dead celebs), good folks who work hard to enliven the world will get deserved pats on the back and the award show business will start to seem as silly and pointless as--an award show.
So we could make a pact: we decide right here and now that all writers and all filmmakers and kazoo players did their job really well and we thank them. By law, each will receive a letter from whoever pays them that merely say: "Hey, good job!"
Entertainment is a business that sells in a Darwinian fashion. What does the best mean now? Just what's hot.
Talent matters little while shocking matters most. The most forgettable part of our culture always seems to win out. But we can change that.
That said, I'll be tweeting the Oscars Sunday the 27th. I hope I win something for my efforts!


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TORONTO, April 5 (UPI) -- Dion Phaneuf scored with 59 seconds to go in overtime Thursday, giving the Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-2 decision over Tampa Bay.
The Maple Leafs won for just the 10th time in 32 games since the All-Star break.
Tampa Bay took a 2-1 lead midway through the third period on the 59th goal of the season from Steven Stamkos, who will finish the season as the league's runaway leader in goal scoring.
Jake Gardiner tied it by tipping in a shot with 2:55 to go in regulation and Phaneuf ended it with a tip-in of his own on a shot by Phil Kessel.
Stamkos needs one more goal in Tampa Bay's final regular-season game to become the first player in four seasons to reach the 60 mark. Alex Ovechkin of Washington was the last to do so.
Ben Scrivens got the win by making 35 saves. Dwyane Roloson gave up three goals on 31 shots.