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AROUND TOWNReining in prom expenses
If you've got teenagers, you already know how expensive high school can be. Read the full story here http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2014/04/17/reining-in-prom-expenses...Original post made on Apr. 17, 2014
Last comment by Cholo, on Apr 21, 2014 at 2:48 pm | 18 comments | 5443 Views
AROUND TOWNWatching Small Times Thieves Have Their Way @ Safeway
I'm at whits-end watching petty thieves at local retailers stealing at will with no response from the retailer. I was shopping...Original post made by Theft Prevention on Jun. 24, 2011
Last comment by Marvin, on Jun 29, 2011 at 6:21 am | 34 comments | 5430 Views
COMMENTS ON STORIESPlanning to go to S.F.'s Cliff House this weekend? Don't, it's closed
San Francisco's famous Cliff House restaurant Thursday joined other popular attractions that closed as a result of the federal...Original post made on Oct. 4, 2013
Last comment by Cholo, on Oct 5, 2013 at 12:20 pm | 2 comments | 5425 Views
AROUND TOWNStaples Ranch
A group called Friends of Pleasanton started collecting signatures from registered voters this week in an effort to place...Original post made on Aug. 9, 2007
Last comment by Busy z Koszalina do Holandii, on Sep 14, 2010 at 1:31 am | 80 comments | 5422 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDSSchool board member's residency called into question
A few residents claiming school board trustee Pat Kernan is in violation of residency requirements led the Pleasanton Unified...Original post made on May. 16, 2008
Last comment by Dave, on May 30, 2008 at 12:48 am | 54 comments | 5419 Views
STATE, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONALThe top Democrats in DC decry what happened in the Senate today
The President, the Vice-President, and the Democratic leader of the Senate have come out very strongly against what happened...Original post made by jimf01 on Nov. 21, 2013
Last comment by Right, on Nov 24, 2013 at 12:28 pm | 23 comments | 5415 Views
STATE, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONALLivermore Lab part of tomorrow's Nobel Peace prize
When representatives of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) step forward tomorrow to receive...Original post made on Dec. 9, 2013
There are no comments yet. 5405 Views
AROUND TOWNNew citizens' coalition seeks to halt high-density housing projects in Pleasanton
A group seeking to halt the construction of additional high density housing in Pleasanton asked the City council last night...Original post made on Jul. 16, 2014
Last comment by Mike6319, on Jul 21, 2014 at 1:20 pm | 114 comments | 5401 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTSDriver re-arrested for Oct. 20 rear-end crash on Owens Drive
Pleasanton police have arrested a 53-year-old man on a felony drunk driving charge following an October crash that seriously...Original post made on Nov. 18, 2007
Last comment by NO WAY, on Jun 28, 2009 at 3:33 pm | 9 comments | 5392 Views
AROUND TOWNComCast dropping Channels
Hello TV Fans, If you had not noticed ComCast dropped a few channels last Nov. This is for folks that have the basic...Original post made by Don on Jan. 2, 2008
Last comment by Joyce, on Nov 22, 2008 at 8:00 am | 42 comments | 5384 Views
AROUND TOWNBernal Avenue on-off ramps at I-680 to be modified
Work will begin late Monday night, July 21, on major modifications to on and off ramps at the the Bernal Avenue interchange...Original post made on Jul. 9, 2014
Last comment by Arroyo, on Jul 10, 2014 at 11:15 pm | 17 comments | 5370 Views
RESTAURANTSthe RedCoat
Everyone go and try out the new Restaurant Downtown, The RedCoat! The food is great. ...Original post made by Sandy on Dec. 17, 2007
Last comment by Myrna, on Dec 3, 2008 at 9:31 am | 14 comments | 5357 Views
AROUND TOWNBART riders potentially exposed to measles
BART riders may have been exposed to measles by a UC Berkeley student who traveled on trains in Contra Costa and Alameda...Original post made on Feb. 15, 2014
Last comment by john, on Feb 17, 2014 at 5:02 pm | 16 comments | 5343 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDSHart Middle School plans launch of engineering academy
Hart Middle School will host an open house April 29 in preparation for its launch of an engineering academy in the 2014-15...Original post made on Apr. 16, 2014
Last comment by Pete, on Apr 28, 2014 at 2:54 pm | 13 comments | 5342 Views
AROUND TOWNSafeway shareholders approve Albertsons merger
In a move that could have far-reaching implications for Pleasanton, Safeway shareholders voted overwhelmingly Friday to approve...Original post made on Jul. 28, 2014
Last comment by Citizen Paine, on Jul 31, 2014 at 7:21 am | 23 comments | 5320 Views
SPORTSIn a RAGE over Pleasanton RAGEs registration fee increase
Pleasant Rage Girls Soccer Association (PGSA) has announced a large increase to player registration fees this year. I dont...Original post made by Concerned Parent on Mar. 30, 2010
Last comment by parent, on Apr 9, 2010 at 1:44 pm | 44 comments | 5316 Views
RESTAURANTSForno Vecchia
Has anyone been to this restaurant that recently opened where Amarone was?...Original post made by Susan on Dec. 1, 2010
Last comment by Alberto, on May 16, 2011 at 8:57 am | 20 comments | 5303 Views
AROUND TOWN2 women arrested at JC Penney after shoplifting spree, fight with store security officers
Two Alameda County women were arrested Feb. 25 for multiple felonies after a fracas at Stoneridge Shopping Center. Read...Original post made on Mar. 7, 2013
Last comment by Bob, on Mar 10, 2013 at 11:38 am | 21 comments | 5297 Views
AROUND TOWNDowntown going down?
What has happened to the standards for our downtown? I just drove down to First Avenue to see a banner for "Cigarette City"...Original post made by Concerned Citizen! on Feb. 3, 2010
Last comment by Maria S., on Mar 7, 2011 at 4:37 pm | 61 comments | 5290 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDSshocking behavior at Amador Football Game
Wow! What a surprise! We are somewhat new to the area and thought we would check out the Amador High School football game...Original post made by A surprised spectator on Nov. 2, 2007
Last comment by Jeb Bing, on Nov 6, 2007 at 3:40 pm | 49 comments | 5289 Views
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November Ballot Prop 2 Devils or Angels in the Details?
By Tom Cushing | 4 comments | 1,245 views
Who wants to move to San Ramon?
By Roz Rogoff | 1 comment | 1,162 views
Any questions for Pleasanton mayoral, council candidates?
By Gina Channell-Allen | 5 comments | 365 views


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The End of Trust Or The End of Illusions?
The hue and cry over the latest Afghan killing of US troops makes one wonder why media commentators do not recognize that supposedly allied Afghans have been shooting American soldiers for years. Nathan Ross Chapman, the first American soldier to be killed in Afghanistan, died in a 2002 ambush near Khost. His killer? A teenager operating on behalf of a non-Taliban warlord unhappy about Americans altering the local balance of power. While portrayed as a new crisis that erodes American trust in Afghan counterparts, it is in fact an old problem.
Since then, the problem has significantly worsened. Afghan soldiers shot 13 of their American comrades in 2011 and are on track to surpass this dubious record in 2012 with 10 Blue-on-Blue killings this year. The author of a red team report on Afghan-American military fratricide blames this on a cultural disconnect between Americans and Afghans, an "quantity over quality" rapid expansion of the Afghan National Security Forces that brings plenty of ne'er do-wells into military service, and the lack of mechanisms for NATO personnel to hold negligent, criminal, or otherwise incompetent ANSF troops accountable. So why the new narrative about a supposed loss of trust?
Fred Kaplan's response to these unwelcome developments is an interesting case of how many seem to be sleepwalking into a recognition that American-Afghan relations are fundamentally dysfunctional. The browser heading of Kaplan's latest article argues that the latest killings are "destroying the trust necessary to rebuild the country" and represent a deliberate tactic of insurgency. By showing that not even Americans and powerful Afghans are safe, Kaplan argues, the Taliban demonstrate that no one is safe:
Insurgency wars are usually battles for the allegiance or control of the people. The objective of a counterinsurgency campaign, as Galula and Petraeus and many others have said, is to persuade the local people that we can protect them, and provide them with basic services, more than the insurgents can. If the people don't believe this, if the insurgents persuade them otherwise, the war is all but lost.
The idea that the killings have "destroyed the trust necessary" to rebuild Afghanistan is presumes that there was some kind of sacred bond between American and Afghan that was tragically shattered by gunshots inside the Interior Ministry. But there was never a kind of intimate relationship with the US and Afghanistan that Kaplan implies with his writing about Galula. Instead, there was a very rickety relationship with Afghan elites that broke down as the US discovered that those same elites, empowered as American proxies, were actually self-interested actors in a society torn by civil war. And those men looked out for their interests rather than Uncle Sam's.
In Afghanistan, the US always had a transactional relationship with the Afghan government and a preference for emergency men. Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Eazy-E of Kabul, got his power precisely because of the US reliance on local fixers. Hamid Karzai was given unprecedented (by Afghan standards) centralized control over the government. Neither of these figures, though perhaps pliant enough to US interests, really worked in favor of them. As Joshua Foust argues, the American commetariat's shock and horror over Karzai's rigged election was emblematic of a refusal to grapple with the structural contradiction posed by empowering a single man and his family and simultaneously trying to build up a broad-based government and security force capable of providing security, justice, and welfare to the Afghan people. The 2009-2010 "It's the Tribes" fad only doubled down on the mistake by lavishing US patronage on yet another set of predatory local elites.
What little incentive Karzai has, as Foust has also eloquently argued, to govern in a liberal manner is eroded by the fact that his government, though centralized, is actually wholly dependent on a personalized system of patronage to exercise power and authority. Karzai has immense symbolic power, but in order to make it real he must balance a semifeudal underlay of elites with the demands of international patrons. It is not about the character of the man but the corrupt nature of the system itself. Thus, it is unsurprising that a combination of bureaucratic centralization overlaid over a personalized patronage system would unsurprisingly produce—(wait for it)—inefficiency and corruption!
US trust in Karzai eroded when the shock of Karzai's dubious election drove home the fact that Washington was dealing with an already self-interested man trying to navigate a thoroughly corrupt system. And Karzai, if he ever trusted Washington, certainly doesn't now. This is a man, after all, who nonchalantly threatened to throw his lot in with the Taliban. If Karzai has read his history (or turned on CNN or BBC in the last year) he also probably tends to understand that the respective fates of the Diem family, the Shah of Iran, and Egypt's Mubarak do not bode well for his continued survival. Washington is a bit schizophrenic about even longtime clients. So sure, Afghan killing Americans is certainly eroding trust, but there isn't really much of that to spare of late.
Galula's bromide about the true objective of counterinsurgency campaigns is also next-to-useless when thinking about what really has challenged the United States in Afghanistan. First, Galula's description of COIN is a whitewash of what actually occured in the French colonial wars. His compatriots Roger Triniquer and Paul Aussaresses unrepentantly declared (in memoirs and treatises) that they freely and enthusiastically violated the laws of war in their efforts to destroy the enemy. And that was the objective, make no mistake about it. Informers, divide-and-rule tactics with native auxiliaries, a heavily barricaded border, and mobile intervention forces were freely employed, and failed because of the obvious: a militarily significant amount of Algerians did not want to be Frenchmen and a number of Frenchmen (including one Charles DeGualle) were content to let them go in order to save France itself from political collapse and armed terrorism by groups such as the far-right Secret Army Organization (OAS) against the French government.
Second, the objective of counterinsurgency campaigns, like any other military campaign, is to advance the political object with force. It is bizarre that when watching The Battle of Algiers, the primary lesson that seems to be taken is that a better strategy would have worked. The director of the movie, Gilles Pontecorvo, was a leftist who explicitly intended the movie to damn France's colonial policy to preserve a political order that privileged a few French colonists over the indigenous masses. If a policy is not achievable through force, then the policy itself must be questioned before a state goes to war. Instead, Kaplan and others quoting Galula believe that the same policy should be maintained—with civilian engagement substituted for the engagement of the enemy, the task that an army is ostensibly raised to perform.
Let's assume, for a second, that Galula is right, and actual empirical examination of insurgencies is wrong. COIN is about protecting the people, gaining their trust, and out-governing an enemy trying to compete for the population's allegiance through carrot and stick. Actually implementing such an idea would, of course, run the US up against a solid wall: the fact that American liberalism does not mesh with the interests of Karzai's government or the warlords and fixers that the US has backed. Even if the Taliban did not frustrate the "government in a box," creating sound governance on the ground would challenge the authority of Kabul and the warlords. And of course, the predictable response by those same Kabul grandees and warlords is to use American money and projects as another illicit revenue stream. The irony is that the success of American counterinsurgency-if designed along Galula-esque lines—would most certainly disrupt the very political system the United States helped to design and implement.
American soldiers being shot will certainly undermine trust. But given the nature of the relationship between US and Afghan elites, was trust really possible? The current media panic is disingenous because it ignores how the politics of Af-Pak created a situation that eroded trust on both sides. And the fact that 10 years' worth of Blue-on-Blue military fratricides have been ignored up until now is a sad commentary in and of itself.


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Social Media Marketing Archives - Page 4 of 8 - Bruce Clay BlogSeptember 28, 2011
Keynote: SEOs Get Social with Bruce Clay — Search and Social Hawaii
Welcome to Day 2 of the Search and Social conference in Hawaii. Yesterday, we did an inner tubing event through an old sugar cane plantation's water ducts. It was very cool. Today, Bruce is going to talk about the convergence of social and search. He starts with a video called Social Media Revolution 3: Until […]
September 27, 2011
Building Communities: Search and Social Hawaii
This session welcomes L.P. Neenz Faleafine (@Neenz) talking building community. Let's get right to it. Step 1 with clients: Do an assessment of the client, interview end user, find out what they want, research the brand, don't assume what you want is what the users want. This is very important if you're a consultant. A […]
Socially Satisfied: Search and Social Hawaii
Becky Carroll, @bcarroll7, founder of Petra Consulting and author of, "The Hidden Power of Your Customer" hosts this session. This talk is about social media and employees [she says the name of the session is misleading]. What she is going to talk about applies to bigger companies but the small company should consider this. According to research, 87 […]
September 26, 2011
Wappow! Search and Social Conference Coverage
Aloha! Hosting its annual Search and Social event in Hawaii this week is Wappow!, and this poor individual has packed up her laptop and recording devices to accompany Bruce to the conference and bring you coverage from Hawaii's "Garden Island," Kauai. Even though we have a ton of work ahead (I swear!) with Bruce as […]
September 20, 2011
6 Ways for the Newbie Marketer to Define & Create Social Media Services
Lots of online marketers are just starting out on their own — some with lots of experience, some new to the industry altogether.
That means, there are many people who are still getting a handle on the service offerings they provide while they work hard to run a small business, consult and perform online marketing for their clients.
As a small business owner or consultant, it's easy to fall into the rhythm of taking on any and all social media needs a client may have without a clearly defined social media offering.
And that's what we're here to talk about today — how new marketers starting off on their own can begin to put some structure to their social media services and how to stay on top of what is most useful to clients.
Read more of 6 Ways for the Newbie Marketer to Define & Create Social Media Services.
September 15, 2011
SMX East 2011: Facebook, Twitter and SEO
Both Google and Bing say social signals are factored into their ranking algorithms for "regular" search results. No surprise. So it was also no surprise it was standing room only at SMX East Facebook, Twitter and SEO session designed for the serious search and social crowd! Danny Sullivan gave introductions with a reminder that not […]
SMX East 2011: The SoLoMo Landscape
Greg Sterling, our mod, says SoLoMo is an amorphous category and can be difficult to discuss as it's always hanging. 50+% of people access social media sites through handheld devices. Social and mobile are connected, and local is where all transactions happen — people use mobile to navigate the world at their fingertips. The three […]
September 14, 2011
SMX East 2011: Up Close with Google+ and Google +1
What does Google+ mean to SEO, PPC, Social Media and the real world? The Google+ powered panel for "Up Close with Google+ and Google +1" shares all we need to know (or at least what they are allowed to tell us) at the after-lunch, SMX East session. Danny Sullivan puts us in a Google+ frame […]
September 13, 2011
SMX East 2011: What Every Paid Search Marketer Needs To Know About Google+
Google+ debuted with an invitation only "hello" just 10 weeks ago and today we gather as SMX East takes its first up close and personal look at the who, what, where and "WTF" we should expect from Google and the +1. What we know: Google is using +1 results to make search results more personalized […]
September 9, 2011
Friday Recap: Remembrances, Dreams and Decisions Edition
In the immortal words of Rebecca Black:
Friday, Friday
Gettin' down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Do a little partying for me while you're at it. I'll be getting myself in gear for SMX East next week. Lisa Buyer and I have committed ourselves (and I do mean straight jacket committed) to liveblogging 15 sessions during the week. Plus I'll be reviving my roving reporter role for SEM Synergy along with keeping dates with some of my favorite industry and Gothamites.
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More on teenagers doing responsible things
schmeeko says: I'm sorry. I don't understand how this is a responsible thing. How do you run through $25k WHEN YOU'RE A TEENAGER?? Also, how do you not go, "Hey, where'd that come from? Baaannnnk? Wtf?" There was no responsible anything about this.
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When the ceo takes a 25 m pay - & nly hides the rest of the family payroll -
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management ? NLY get a lot of heat - and deservedly so as others have pointed out - management is on the
"family plan" at NLY and this is not good for NLY shareholders. I never see positive news for NLY = why ?
NLY is my big value loss stock - and I mean big time ! I can't say anything to support it -
you would think - in this great country of ours - we could get a president - that would be flawless -
impeccable and be a great president - for us people - but no - we seem to bring in people who have their own agendas = Obama - or the Clintons who want the power and the financial gold mine.
alas - and our country suffers for it.
getting out to vote accomplishes nothing - unless we have people that have true values !
the Clinton gang - upon leaving the white house the first time - taking all sorts of
souveniers - = anything of value in later years - this family not only has the reputation to
squeeze the white house for all it's worth. Hillary has the reputation of putting down the security
as"misfit" people. she & Leona Helmsly of hotel infamy would make a perfect couple in
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The Britishers have wrongly separated Nepal as a separate country. Why can't we negotiate with the Nepal government to merge it with India like Sikkim?
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Those who are a part of india itself are asking for independence; U think an independent country will agree to this? China will allow this to happen ?Answered by Shashi LS, 24 Apr '11 10:04 am
Let the Nepalese enjoy independence re !Answered by ani dasgupta, 24 Apr '11 09:52 am
Wow, what a nice idea. Our politicians can have hay day in extended land deals...!Answered by Dil Se, 24 Apr '11 09:42 am
Its okay , india cannot handle its own existing land properly why should it take moreAnswered by kamini joshi, 24 Apr '11 09:41 am


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An Ellington, Missouri bank manager was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for bank fraud and embezzlement charges.
In addition to the prison sentence, he was ordered to pay restitution of $1,195,696.
Eddington pleaded guilty in February to one felony count of bank fraud and one felony count of embezzlement by a bank employee
He is accused of issuing more than $1.3 million in fraudulent unsecured irrevocable letters of credit to an associate in the name of PCSB from January 2004 to October 2011. Then, the associate secured loans from other places using the letters of credit as collateral. The associate kept and used the funds from those loans. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Missouri, Eddington did not have the authority to issue any of those letters of credit and did so without the knowledge or permission of the bank.
Eddington is also accused of not discussing the unauthorized letters when it came up a bank board meetings. The total value of the letters of credit issued and thus the potential loss to the bank for this scheme, was approximately $1,340,896, however, based on loan defaults to date, PCSB is liable for approximately $674,336. Eddington approved a nominee load to two bank customers on March 11, 2010. He reported the loan of $45,000 to the bank, but did report he was receiving the proceeds of the loan. That particular scheme cost the bank $58,500.
From February to October 2011 Eddington created fake PCSB money orders funded by advance from customer line of credit to get cash or pay his bills. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eddington forged the customer's name of customers he knew did not monitor their loan histories and who did not have access to their account online. He would then tell the teller the customer had come into the bank earlier that day and he was handling the transaction for the customer. He also would sometimes deliberately not mail the customers he targeted their bank statements.
In another instance, Eddington did not tell the bank loan committee that one of his associates would be receiving more than $50,000 cash from a $249,000 loan. If they had known that, they would not have approved the loan. However, the loan was approved on August 4, 2011. The collateral for the loan was also misrepresented because the associated provided a fraudulent title insurance policy as part of the loan application.
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text: Posted Online: Dec. 13, 2012, 6:17 pm Richard Orlich Comment on this story Photo: Richard Orlich Richard Allen Orlich, 88, of Bettendorf, formerly of Munster/East Chicago, Ind., died Dec. 12, 2012. Visitation is 10 a.m. with memorial services at 11 a.m. Monday at Chapel Lawn Funeral Home, Schererville, Ind. Local arrangements are by Halligan-McCabe-DeVries, Davenport. He was born Nov. 21, 1924, in East Chicago, to Sam and Bessie Orlich. He married Sophie Grynecki. Surviving are his wife; children, Rich Jr., Patricia, Nancy, Jim, Ken, Karen Mora, Janet Prieboy; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.


text: At least 407 Texas school boards now have now passed a resolution calling for the legislature to reexamine the state's accountability system. The resolution–sponsored by the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)–asks the Legislature to "develop a system that encompasses multiple assessments, reflects greater validity, uses more cost efficient sampling techniques and other external evaluation arrangements, and more accurately reflects what students know, appreciate and can do in terms of the rigorous standards essential to their success, enhances the role of teachers as designers, guides to instruction and leaders, and nurtures the sense of inquiry and love of learning in all students." The resolution's "Whereas" section also includes a long list of reasons why the overmphasis on testing is hurting our schoolchildren. You can see the list of districts that have passed the resolution here.


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Wild Colors said...
Sounds great as long as we still have the option to just invite people to be friends with a particular character. There are a couple of good real life friends I'd want to share my real ID with, but otherwise I want some privacy when I'm running around on alts (let alone when I'm playing other games!)
I'm pretty sure this is going to be battle.net account-wide. Meaning that they will be able to see you no matter what you're doing. Its a bit much, but its no different than facebook or some other social networking application.
I agree with the privacy bit though. Including an "invisible" option would be very wise on Blizzard's part.


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langiszero said...
Exercises for people with brains:
1. Count how many times the pro-mandatory crowd has resorted to vicious verbal attacks against posts arguing against the supposed benefits and necessity of mandatory authenticators.
2. Same as #1, but only include comments that also claim that the other side "isn't listening."
3. Count how many people honestly believe that hackers are wizards that can do the impossible. Compare to how many people honestly believe in ghosts. The results should amuse you.
Fun times.
I posted a challenge around page 6/7-ish, challenging people to get my account hacked. I provided three character names and the server they're on. Here they are again: Arlia, Homard, and Makubex on Fenris. If it's as easy to get hacked as so many are claiming, that should be MORE than enough.
I'm an honest guy: if I get hacked, I'll not only return and admit it, I'll get a freaking authenticator. As I said before: BRING IT ON.
I don't believe anyone has said that specific accounts are targeted and "hacked". So your challenge is moot. And a very attractive strawman.
Account are compromised through relatively low effort activities such as the spread of keyloggers and phishing. There are other possible attack vectors, but I think they are all relatively low probability.
Why should a miscreant go to the effort of trying to compromise your account when he can instead spread a keylogging trojan via BitTorrent and get other people's account information sent to him?
langiszero said...
And why do you think those activities work?
No amount of authenticators are going to stop people from falling for web scams. Wow, their WoW account is safe; too bad nothing else on their machine is anymore, thanks to downloading and opening that attachment from their friend's email address in that email that said friend would never write.
Those activities (phishing, keylogging) work because, like it or not, there are enough people using the internet who are not "computer people". Would you trust your parents to secure their computer? Your neighbor? The clerk at the grocery store? Any one of these people could be playing WoW, and susceptible to account compromise.
In a perfect world, we would all be technically savvy enough to protect our computers and data. However, it's not a perfect world. And we all have to deal with the consequences of that. Blizzard has no way of determine who is and who is not capable of securing their computer.
As this discussion is about Blizzard's authenticators and the security of your WoW account, I am going to choose to ignore your irrelevant conclusion regarding total system security.
I am neither opposed to, nor in favor of mandatory authenticators. On a voluntary basis, I am of the opinion that you are not doing all that you can to protect your data and WoW account if you do not have an authenticator. Even though I was at low risk of compromise I chose to get an authenticator. Prior to getting the authenticator I was already:
1) Running a Juniper Netscreen SSG-5 appliance at the edge of my home network. It has the Anti-Virus, Deep Inspection and Web Filtering features enabled. They are all configured and active. My screening and policy rules are restrictive.
2) My OS and all applications are patched and up to date. My OS choice is irrelevant to this discussion, but I do run Mac OS X. Just because there are presently no known WoW keyloggers for it today does not mean there won't be tomorrow.
3) I run AV on my system daily and against any downloaded file.
4) I do not use BitTorrent/Limewire/the current P2P client du jour for acquiring music/warez/whatever. I do use BitTorrent for downloading LINUX ISO's related to work, but they are AV scanned and I confirm the MD5 and SHA1 checksums before use.
Even with all of that, I chose to get an authenticator.
Ultimately, as things stand today, it's your choice to get an authenticator or not. You pay your $15/month to Blizzard and you accept their TOS. If they change the TOS to require an authenticator, you will get to choose to accept the new terms, or to cancel your account.
langiszero said...
Thank you, Sherlock, for pointing out the pathetically obvious. "And a bird goes tweet" and whatnot.
Irony: my commenting on total system security is irrelevant... yet you chose to go into wildly explicit detail into the nature of your home network. Pot, kettle, black? I think so.
And yeah, I'm not doing everything I possibly can to secure my WoW account. I could go and actually buy network security appliances (you could have said "router" btw, and yeah that particular comment isn't relevant, so please don't take 5 paragraphs to point that out) and Battle.Net Authenticators.
Similarly I could buy a boot for my car. Without one, I'm not doing everything I possibly can to protect that car.
The details of my home network were intended to illustrate that even for those who are careful, the addition of an authenticator is not a bad idea. Total system security as it applies to protecting your WoW account is not irrelevant.
"No amount of authenticators are going to stop people from falling for web scams. Wow, their WoW account is safe; too bad nothing else on their machine is anymore, thanks to downloading and opening that attachment from their friend's email address in that email that said friend would never write."
The irrelevancy is in your implied argument that a user should not bother protecting their WoW account by any means available, simply because other things on their computer are compromised. Yes, people will continue to fall victim to web scams. However, an authenticator will help prevent the compromise of their WoW account.
I would never call a Juniper SSG appliance a router. It's an unified threat management appliance which has routing functions. I would never ask a Cisco router (2600, 3600, etc), Juniper J-series or any other dedicated routing platform to handle security functions. IOS and JUNOS are not firewall releases. PIX OS and ScreenOS are.


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Flying Dutchmen Hand Olivet First Loss Of Season
A blocked punt for a touchdown and an extra point return for two points highlighted the Hope football team's 47-14 rout of previously unbeaten Olivet on Saturday.
The Flying Dutchmen spoiled their Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) foe's homecoming while improving to 4-2 overall and evening their league record at 1-1.
Sophomore Augie Mata of Holland (West Ottawa HS) returned a blocked punt 60 yards for a touchdown four minutes into the game that gave Hope a 14-0 lead. Mata also had a game-high eight tackles.
The play came seven plays after the Flying Dutchmen scored on an 11-yard touchdown run from senior Shawn Jackson of Comstock Park (Comstock Park HS).
Alma then fumbled the kickoff, and Hope freshman Zach Boersema of Holland (West Ottawa HS) recovered it at the Scots 12-yard line. Two plays later, senior quarterback Michael Atwell hooked up with senior receiver Vincent Boddy of West Bloomfield (West Bloomfield HS) for a 16-yard touchdown and a 21-0 Hope lead just 5:04 into the game.
After Olivet scored a touchdown, Hope blocked the Comets' PAT. Junior Kirby Crook took it back 98 yards for two points and a 23-6 Hope lead.
The Flying Dutchmen tacked on a 1-yard touchdown run from junior fullback Bill Brown of Lawton (Lawton HS) and Boddy on a 29-yard pass from Jackson to extend their lead to 37-14 by halftime.
Jackson rushed for 104 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries. He had an 18-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.
Boddy finished with a team-high 131 receiving yards on a game-high six catches. Atwell completed 14-of-23 passes for 247 yards and one touchdown.
Hope also snapped a two-game losing streak.
The Flying Dutchmen return to action on Saturday, Oct. 19, when they travel to Alma in MIAA action. Kickoff is 1 p.m.
Flying Dutchmen Beat Two Nationally Ranked Teams, Go 4-0 At Tournament
The second-ranked Hope volleyball team completed a rugged run through the Midwest Challenge they co-hosted this weekend, going 4-0 after a three-set sweep of Mount Union (Ohio) on Saturday afternoon.
The Flying Dutch (23-1 overall) defeated their seventh-ranked foe 25-16, 25-17, 25-16 in front of a DeVos Fieldhouse crowd of 405.
Mount Union (22-3) was the fourth nationally ranked opponent Hope beat over two days.
Junior Jenna Grasmeyer of Jenison (Hudsonville Unity Christian HS) totaled a match-high 13 kills.
Senior middle hitter Mari Schoolmaster of Portage (Portage Central HS) collected 10 kills with a team-high .500 kill percentage. She had three blocks, giving her 12 on the day over two matches.
Sophomore setter Lauren Hazekamp of Fruitport (Fruitport HS) recorded 38 assists.
Hope returns to action on Friday, Oct. 18, when it hosts top-ranked Calvin.
In Saturday's first match, the Flying Dutch rallied to edge No. 13 Wittenberg (Ohio) in five sets (25-16, 19-25, 22-25, 25-23, 15-13).
The match was the second this season to go the distance for Hope and in a row. The Flying Dutch won a five-set marathon against No. 6-ranked Elmhurst (Ill.) on Friday night.
Junior outside hitter Jenna Grasmeyer of Jenison (Hudsonville Unity Christian HS) topped Hope with 15 kills.
Junior outside hitter Anna Lynch of Lake Odessa (Lakewood HS) chipped in 12 kills, while senior middle hitter Courtney Earles of Kentwood (East Kentwood HS) and junior outside hitter Amy VanderStoep of Holland (West Ottawa HS) added 11 kills apiece.
Senior middle hitter Mari Schoolmaster of Portage (Portage Central HS) totaled a season-high nine blocks. She came within one of matching the school record blocks in a 25-point set match that Kara VandeGuchte set in four sets against Trine in 2008.
Lynch's three kills led a balanced attack during the fifth set.
Sophomore setter Lauren Hazekamp of Fruitport (Fruitport HS) totaled a season-high 53 assists.
Pair Of Two-Goal Games Lifts Flying Dutchmen Past Alma
Two-goal games from Josh Hagene and Jason Muller fueled the Hope men's soccer team to a 4-1 win against Alma at a rain-soaked Van Andel Soccer Stadium on Saturday night.
The Flying Dutchmen (9-3-1 overall) stayed in second place in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) with a 5-2 record.
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Hagene, a freshman from Caledonia (East Kentwood HS), opened the scoring with 1:02 remaining in the first half on a blast from 24 yards out. The Flying Dutchmen led 1-0 at halftime.
Muller, who leads Hope with eight goals this season, blasted an unassisted goal from 35 yards out in the 53rd minute for a 2-1 lead. The senior from Petoskey (Petoskey HS) scored 5 ½ minutes after Alma (#-#, 3-4) pulled even.
Muller tacked on a goal in the 67th minute, while Hagene finished the scoring in the 79th minute. Junior midfielder Gavin Midlam assisted on Hagene's second goal.
Sophomore goalie Ethan Beswick of Grand Haven (Grand Haven HS) made five saves for Hope.
Flying Dutch Edge Adrian At Home 2-1
Two second-half goals powered the Hope women's soccer team to a 2-1 win against visiting Adrian College on Saturday.
Midfielder Erin Jipping and forward Lindsay Bieri scored within a 14-minute span at Van Andel Soccer Stadium to help the Flying Dutch (10-2-1 overall) solidify their position in the top half of Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) standings.
Bieri, a junior from Holland (Holland Christian HS), snapped a 1-1 tie in the 69th minute with a shot from five yards out. Junior Nora Kirk of Maumee, Ohio, had the assist. It was Bieri's second goal of the season.
Jipping, a junior from Holland (West Ottawa HS), recorded her fourth goal of the season in the 56th minute for a 1-0 lead. She scored from six yards out thanks to an assist from junior Maria DeShaw of Holland (West Ottawa HS). Adrian tied the score at 1-1 five minutes later.
Junior goalie Kat Dickson of Grayslake, Ill., (Grayslake Central HS), earned the win by recording two saves. Hope outshot Adrian (8-5, 6-4 MIAA) by a 28-7 margin.
The Flying Dutch are third in the MIAA standings with 22 points and a 7-2-1 league record. They lead fourth-place Adrian by four points and trail second-place Alma by one point. Calvin is in first with 25 points.
Flying Dutch Finish Sixth At MIAA Championship
Junior Montana Leep of Hastings (Grand Rapids South Christian HS) tied for 10th place at the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Championships on Saturday.
Leep shot a team-best 89 during the final round at Bedford Valley Country Club in Battle Creek to finish at 25-over par for the 36-hole, two-day tournament.
Leep received second-team All-MIAA honors.
Hope finished sixth in the final MIAA standings with a 36-hole total of 726. The Flying Dutch shot 363 in each round.
Others to place for the Flying Dutch were freshman Elena Moore of South Lyon (South Lyon East HS) at 32nd (93-91—184), senior Mary Bradley of Pierson (Tri County HS) at 36th (95-92—187), junior Stephanie Stover of Grand Rapids (Grandville Calvin Christian HS) at 38th (98-91—189) and freshman Dominique Molinaro of Port Huron (Port Huron Northern HS) at 38th (95-94—189).
Hope Blanks Central Florida, Wins Schupan Tournament
The Hope ice hockey team iced the championship of the season-opening Schupan Tournament in Midland on Saturday, beating the University of Central Florida 4-0.
The Flying Dutchmen went 3-0 over the three-day tournament.
Against Central Florida, senior defenseman Caleb Digison of Midland (Midland HS) led Hope by recording one goal and two assists.
Senior forward Justin Glick of Fort Wayne, Ind., (Blackhawk Christian HS), sophomore forward Ryan Restum of East Lansing (Okemos HS) and junior forward Drew O'Brien of East Grand Rapids (East Grand Rapids HS) each chipped in goals for the Flying Dutchmen.
Senior goalie Drew Cook of Columbus, Ohio, (Upper Arlington HS) stopped all 25 shots he faced from Central Florida.


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BigBiker is Absolutly right.
Activision did not purchase Blizzard. VINDEVI purchased Blizzard. It then went "Hey, we have two game companies now. Hmmm... It seems kinda retarded to have them compete against each other when both work for us now, so we'll merge them together."
Yes, Vindevi has held activision for much longer. But I don't think they are so stupid to believe that they should make blizzard do things the way activision does them, because obviously there is evidence that blizzard does things differently and it works for them.
Blizzard is the company that throws out games slowly, but with exceptional quality and each one is a blockbuster.
Activision is the one that throws out games quickly, without the quality of Blizzard's titles.
The two serve different functions, obviously. Blizzard is effectively a profitable asset, although a 100% profit on 20 bucks is not as much as a 10% profit on 300 bucks.
Activision is the one that generates revenues first, profits second.
Therefore it is easy to see that really, there is no reason to merge the two companies or how they do business.
Now Vindevi might push blizzard to meet certain holiday deadlines. However, why push blizzard to meet those deadlines if activision is going to be releasing a ton of pushed titles then anyways? The two must not compete.
If anything, Activision comes out poorer in this merger than Blizzard. Activision is the factory which pushes out games. If you need games to be made for the holiday season, Activision is going to be put under the yoke before blizzard is.


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While this study may be of passing interest to those outside the National Park Service, its primary purpose is to aid the management and staff at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. The Park Service is, by its very nature, a mobile occupation. Most employees transfer several times throughout their careers, applying their increased experience to a variety of park management situations. This is generally beneficial to both resources and individuals. There are disadvantages, however. Those same employees only take their experience when they depart, but their institutional memory as well. Newcomers invariably spend a great deal of time talking with those who have been at the park longer in an effort to determine how management situations and aspects of the operation have developed. One often finds himself telephoning his predecessors to query them about this issue or that. It usually requires a year or two for new employees to become reasonably well grounded in the new park operation.
Then, too, those knowledgeable veteran employees who remain at a particular park for many years, if not an entire career, eventually retire or pass away. Thus, over time the institutional memory of a park becomes obscured, skewed through generations of retelling, and some of it is invariably lost.
In accordance with Superintendent Tony Schetzsle's request, this administrative history has been prepared as an issue-oriented treatment. It is not intended to be an in-depth operational history, nor is it a social study. Its purpose is to serve as a convenient, reliable reference for present and future NPS staff, both at the park and central office levels, to help them rapidly acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the parks development and past management. Because park issues often overlap, between planning and development, for instance, the reader will find that some elements of the story are repeated. This is unavoidable and, in fact, necessary. The author assumes that the document will be used as a reference more often than it may be read from beginning to end. For the reader's convenience, then, the primary discussion of a particular issue may lie in one chapter, while it may be synopsized elsewhere as it relates to another issue. It is sincerely hoped that the study will fulfill the needs of future managers and staff.
This work combines the contributions of many persons, though any errors or omissions are mine alone. First, the study owes much to the entire staff at Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS, who gave so freely of their time and knowledge throughout its preparation. Special thanks goes to Superintendent Tony Schetzsle, whose foresight in promoting a park administrative history will benefit those who follow. Curator Christine M. Ford played a key role as the project coordinator at the park. Her hospitality, ever-ready assistance, and well-organized archival files made my job considerably easier than it otherwise might have been.
All of the staff members I interviewed graciously made time for me in their busy schedules, and many later reviewed the draft, offering insightful comments. I particularly valued the perspectives offered by Park Ranger Lyndel Meikle, who shared her remarkable knowledge of Johnny Grant and the open-range cattle days, as well as her own recollections based on long experience at the Site. Another seasoned employee at the ranch, Cheryl Clemmensen provided insights about Con Warren, in addition to her own first-hand knowledge of the park's development. And, I would be remiss if I failed to mention the always-cheerful assistance (not to mention the cookies) offered by Secretary Sandy Berg and Administrative Clerk Tina Johnson during my visits and in response to my many telephone calls.
All of the former staff members contacted, some of whom were retired, contributed generously of their time and recollections to breath life into historical record. Their interviews, along with those of current staff, were not only a valuable contribution to this study, but now comprise a significant body of historical information in the park archives. The untimely passing of former-historian and friend Paul Gordon, during the preparation of the final draft of this document, is a poignant reminder of the importance of recording oral history.
Rodd L. Wheaton, currently the assistant field director for Cultural Resources and Partnerships, Intermountain Field Area, served as the Rocky Mountain Regional historical architect during the era of peak restoration activity at the ranch. Rodd provided a wealth of information and personal observations that I could not have obtained elsewhere. His careful review of the draft and constructive comments resulted in many corrections and improvements in the final product. Richard A. Young, chief of the Intermountain Regional Lands Resources Division in Denver, Colorado, lent his expertise in unraveling vague points of the realty transactions. Former National Park Service employees who shared their recollections included John Albright, Nan V. Rickey. and Aubrey L. Haines. My thanks also to Frank Shaw, one of Conrad Warren's closest friends in Deer Lodge, Montana.
I am particularly indebted to Historian Christine Whiteacre, Rocky Mountain System Support Office, who graciously consented to edit the draft report. Her keen eye and sense of style added much to the final product.
Finally, I am grateful for the assistance of Librarian Nancy Silliman at the William K. Kohrs Memorial Library, Deer Lodge, Montana; the staff of the City of Deer Lodge offices, Venice Beske and Priscilla Golden at the Wyoming State Library, the Goshen County (Wyo.) Public Library staff, and Curator Vanessa Christopher at Yellowstone National Park. I offer my apologies to anyone whom I may have inadvertently overlooked.
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Tomas Vanek Revisited: Near Miss Number One
Last season Tomas Vanek posted stellar counting numbers, and a plus-minus that was through the roof. Leading enough journalists to cast a Selke vote in his direction for him to finish 14th, just ahead of the rightful winner, Joe Sakic*. The fact that Tomas usually played sheltered ice time, and couldn't check his hat ... clearly not important for these voters.
Vanek, playing mostly with Derek Roy so far this season, is struggling mightily. Buffalo fans, which are an oddly knowledgeable bunch when it comes to context in a hockey game, are split cleanly on whether this is a function of playing against better opposition, or because, and I quote, "he's not giving 110%".
Lindy Ruff weighed in on the subject in the Buffalo News on Friday.
"He's fighting a mental battle," Ruff said. "He's in a whole new situation. That line is in a whole new situation. They've got a tough challenge. They're playing against good lines now, they're pulling assignments against other teams' top lines, and it isn't as easy as last year."There were several Buffalo fans who predicted this, though most of those people didn't expect such a severe impact. Apparently it never occurred to Kevin Lowe at all.
I think that Vanek, like Roy, is a good player. But not as good as his LupulAsADuck-like season made him appear. And certainly he is not a great player.
And to be fair, his EV+9 EV-15 looks worse than it is. The EVsave% behind #26 has been a horrific .815 so far, and last year he was lucky in this regard with .940 behind him during his icetime.
The fact is that there is precious little considered evidence that suggests that Vanek is a real difference-maker. And I find it hard to believe that the Oilers would be in a different place in the standings if Lowe's RFA offer sheet had been successful. The only difference is that the team would not have a first round draft pick for five more Junes.
As far as anecdotal evidence goes, when the Minnesota Gophers coaching staff comment on the difference between current #26 Jay Barriball, and former #26 Tomas Vanek ... the alarm with "Yashin" dyno-taped on it rings loudly.
As dodged bullets go, this one was cannon-size.
* It would have been hard to complain if Pahlsson (2nd), Drury (4th) or one of the New Jersey tandem had won the thing last season. The Brind'Amour selection is indefensible.


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Can Craft Beer Save America's Economy?
History tells us that, broadly speaking, Americans generally prioritize low price over everything else. Or, as Salon writes, "discounts and quantity over premium prices and quality." But in the battle between macrobrews and craftbrews, that might be about to change.
A terrific article this week by David Sirota for Salon examines the rise of craft brews and the (possible) sea change they represent. In 2011 the overall beer market declined substantially, while the craft brewing industry increased its year-to-year sales by 15 percent. It now accounts for 5.7 percent (of the total beer market) by volume and 9.1 percent by dollars. In other words, "craft brewers are generating a much larger share of beer revenue than they are contributing to the overall volume of beer in America."
Sirota notes that in other major low-price-low-quality vs. high-price-higher-quality battles, the trend has been for major establishments to try and mimic the smaller upstarts (i.e. Microsoft copying Apple). But the macrobrew industry seems to be doing the opposite, and intensifying their old low-price/low-quality/high-volume formula.
In the competition for the future of drinking, both sides are obviously trying to exploit their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. The massive macrobrewing corporations are trying to take advantage of their size and corresponding ability to produce volume -- all while playing down the fact that their beers have little local character or quality. The craft brewing industry, composed mostly of independent small and medium-size businesses, know they can't compete in a volume game, and so they are trying to promote quality and diversity. It's a straightforward fight -- one that may seem only interesting to drinkers, but one that truly transcends the inebriation industry. It underscores both consumer shifts and questions about what kind of economy we want in the future.
Read the whole article and then come back and tell us what you think!
Read More: Can Beer Save America? at Salon
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Interesting. With still a very small percentage of the market, I don't see the microbrews taking over the beer sales. At least, not in the next 15-20 years. Cost is still a big issue for many people & cheap beer is bought by all demographics.
I still only buy craft beer. It is delicious!
Looking at the beer section in my local Fred Meyer, I'm surprised anyone buys anything but craft beers! I think Seattleites have become uber-beer-snobs, though (but I love it!!!)
The one thing the article ignores is that man of these craft breweries have made deals with much larger breweries and corporations in order to increase their distribution to a wider audience. They're still dealing with small volume/higher cost, but they see the advantage of accessing the larger companies audiences and pre-established networks - see Goose Island in Chicago and their deals with Widmer Bros and Anheuser Busch.
There is definitely something to be said for quality over quantity - though I never see the big guys going out of business (there are way too many college students for that to happen). And it could be a great lesson to American businesses, while people are often looking for cheap, quality does win out over quantity in many arenas.
Living in Wisconsin I see lots of craft brews being the dominant option on non-corporate tap lines. I think people are buying them because it's not that much more expensive for a better tasting and usually higher proof brew.
With that being said, there will always be the people that just drink to get drunk or the domestic beer drinker that doesnt care that his beer has almost no flavor or a bad taste; or care that their beer has 37 ingredients versus my 4.
and p.s. since the picture is taken and the article is ran, could I please oh please have that bottle of Pliny the Elder? Please??


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We've all seen the "lost dog" or "found dog" signs along the road, or maybe you've lost or found a dog, yourself.
The signs don't always work very well. A Facebook post can help, but now there's an app that is solely dedicated to finding your lost dog. It's called Finding Rover.
Gayle Helms deals with a whole bunch of dogs every day at her shelter, Pets Fur People. Sometimes a stray turned over to her could be a lost dog, but without a collar or microchip she would never know. A smart phone and Finding Rover may help.
"I think this is wonderful. Modern technology is just changing our lifestyle. So with the facial recognition technology a pet owner can have one more opportunity to register their animal and in the event that it's lost, or if they find a pet, to be able to reunite it with the owner," Gayle said.
It's simple: Download the app, register and open it up. Choose the camera to get your dog in the system. Now comes the hard part: taking a good face-on shot of your dog. The app has a doggie whine built in to make your dog look at the camera, but you have to be quick. The dog gets used to the sound pretty fast.
After you get the picture, you line up the eyes and the nose and enter your location and that's pretty much it.
Your dog's information is stored with Finding Rover.
"How often do you see a poster of a lost dog or a found dog? So it happens all the time and it's just one more opportunity for pet owners to protect them," Gayle stated.
Need help finding Rover? There's an app for that.
Finding Rover is a free app, and the more people that use it, the better it will work.
Click here to go to Finding Rover in the iTunes store. Here's the link to the app developer's page for more information.
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I kind of love that NBC's strategy for ratings is to revert to the most traditional television production in existence.
First Look: 'Mulaney' | EW
Robinson will play a musician who gets a job as a music teacher at a middle school. The show's tentative title is 'Mr. Robinson.'
Watch: Huell gets sitcom spinoff to 'Breaking Bad', 'Huell's Rules' | Funny or Die
First Look at Michael J Fox's new NBC Sitcom | Digital Spy
Some fans online have expressed concern that Mulaney is a multi-camera show with a live audience when the bulk of the funniest, coolest sitcoms in the past decade have been single-camera with no audience, but let me assure you that the pilot is just as dense with jokes as a single-camera show and having an audience there doesn't change the pacing of the humor too much. Some of the best sitcoms ever, from Taxi to Cheers, Seinfeld to NewsRadio, have been multi-cam, and there's no reason a multi-cam show today can't be good. Mulaney excels in the format and brings sharp witty comedy back to the three-camera world. A performer like Martin Short can feed off of a live audience, energizing him in a way that wouldn't be possible if he was just playing to a bunch of crew members trying to do their jobs and not laugh. The rest of the ensemble is packed with performers with live audience experience like stand-ups Mulaney, Newman, and Smith, SNL cast member Nasim Pedrad, and frequent SNL host Elliott Gould.
Yes! Thank you.
Please get picked up. Please get picked up. Please get picked up.
|Matt Zoller Seitz declaring 'The Simpsons' as the winner of Vulture's Best Sitcom of the Last 30 Years Tournament
NBC, Universal Television, and production company Electus are creating a pilot presentation of a comedy based on Simpson's life, written by Paul Blart: Mall Cop scribe Nick Bakay.
What?! This is actually insane.
I'm not sure if anything like this has ever happened before. Will definitely check it out once it's made the switch. So bizarre.
'Happy Days' is the most famous example of this transition, but NBC did it with Julia Louis Dreyfus' failed 'Watching Ellie' in 2003 as well.
The blog is based on the popular What Should We Call Me model. The show will focus on "five educated young women toiling as lowly assistants for high-powered Hollywood executives." The blog's creator Lauren Bachelis, who's worked on New Girl and Heroes, will write and produce with Fred Savage directed and executive producing.
It is yet to be seen whether it will be as funny as a series of well contextualized GIFs.
The series is described as a father/daughter workplace single-camera half-hour comedy set in the world of advertising. Williams would star, with Kelley writing and producing along with 20th Century Fox Television. Bill D'Elia is an executive producer, with the project likely landing at CBS.
Joe Adalian has the scoop at Vulture,
Michael J. Fox is readying a return to primetime series television, and the broadcast networks are lining up to welcome him back. Vulture hears the iconic star of Family Ties and the Back to the Future trilogy has teamed with director Will Gluck (Easy A) and writer Sam Laybourne (Cougar Town, Arrested Development) on a single-camera comedy project that's being developed by Sony Pictures Television for a 2013 launch.
Louis C.K. and former Seinfeld writer—late night host Spike Feresten are creating a half-hour sitcom for CBS. The two men, who worked together on both Saturday Night Live and the Dana Carvey Show, have written a multi-camera comedy which will revolve around a group of creative twentysomethings trying to make it in a difficult economy.
Here's 'The Walking Dead' Credits with 'Growing Pains' Theme Because the Internet Loves You | Warming Glow
All sitcom-ified dramas should use the Growing Pains theme song. It's perfect.


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Three apprentices from a Salford-based clean technology business have restored an historic engine that powered the post industrial revolution.
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For the past two years the trio from firm ENER-G have worked alongside retired engineers at the Anson Engine Museum, in Poynton, Cheshire, to restore the 1943 Brotherhood Engine, which is the size of a transit van.
It was last in use more than 20 years ago to power beer making at Kirkstall Brewery in Yorkshire.
Each Tuesday for the past two years, the apprentices have taken it in turns to work at the museum, working with other volunteers to strip down the type R63/8 371 kW (500 bhp) engine and completely restore it to working order.
Their hard work has now paid off and the engine is now, once again, in full running order and has been powered up as part of a remarkable collection of working engines ranging from very early Crossley gas engines through to modern diesels.
"This was the first time we've seen the engine working, so it was fantastic to get it running and to show it off," said Dean Mellor, aged 20, who has recently completed his apprenticeship and is a qualified production fitter with ENER-G.
"We've gained a fantastic education from the other volunteers who have years of experience in traditional engineering and have passed on to us the techniques and skills that they've been using all their working lives. It's given us a deep understanding of engines and made us so much better at engineering."
ENER-G started its engineering apprenticeship scheme in 2006, and trainees complete a four-year programme spending one day a week studying for ONC and NVQ level 2, and then HNC and NVQ level 3. The firm presented the museum with a donation of £1,500 to thank them for hosting the apprentices as part of the scheme.
It's the first time the museum has involved apprentices and according to Volunteer Coordinator Peter Wood it has been very successful. "We're all getting on in years so it's been really nice to have young people around. It's been a two way relationship in that we've benefited from their help, and they've learnt valuable skills from qualified engineers with years of experience."