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Computers may be naturally fluent in binary, but how might they fare with learning human languages? Computers were tested by playing the game Civilization. Random chance let them win about half the time...but then they started reading the instruction manual.
MIT researchers gave their AI this particular challenge because winning a game like Civilization is so complex. At first, the computer only had the most limited of knowledge, as a press release explains:
It begins with virtually no prior knowledge about the task it's intended to perform or the language in which the instructions are written. It has a list of actions it can take, like right-clicks or left-clicks, or moving the cursor; it has access to the information displayed on-screen; and it has some way of gauging its success, like whether the software has been installed or whether it wins the game. But it doesn't know what actions correspond to what words in the instruction set, and it doesn't know what the objects in the game world represent.
From that starting point, the computer eventually managed to win the game about 46% of the time. It reached that success rate by playing the game a bunch of times and being able to gauge how successful its different actions were, maximizing the actions that led to victory and minimizing those that led to defeat. In and of itself, that's moderately impressive but nothing too amazing. But then the researchers gave the computer access to the instruction manual.
Researcher S.R.K. Branavan explains:
"Games are used as a test bed for artificial-intelligence techniques simply because of their complexity. Every action that you take in the game doesn't have a predetermined outcome, because the game or the opponent can randomly react to what you do. So you need a technique that can handle very complex scenarios that react in potentially random ways. [Instruction manuals are a] very open text. They don't tell you how to win. They just give you very general advice and suggestions, and you have to figure out a lot of other things on your own."
So then, if the AI was going to get anything useful out of the instruction manuals, then it really would have to understand what they were saying and figure out how to apply them. And the results? The computer's success rate skyrocketed from 46% to 79%, an absolutely massive leap. According to the researchers, that suggests computers really can learn meaning of words through interaction with the environment around them.
Brown University computer scientist Eugene Charniak backs up just how impressive this finding is:
"If you'd asked me beforehand if I thought we could do this yet, I'd have said no. You are building something where you have very little information about the domain, but you get clues from the domain itself."


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Jimmy Kimmel Secretly Replaces Premium Starbucks Coffee with Regular Coffee; No One Can Tell the Difference
To see if people could tell the difference between Starbucks' new $7 Clover-brewed "Costa Rica Finca Palmilera" reserve coffee and the regular stuff, Jimmy Kimmel sent a staff member to the streets of Hollywood to pull the ol' "Folgers switcheroo" on unsuspecting passers-by.
Except, instead of putting regular coffee in the premium coffee cup, Kimmel simply forewent the premium coffee altogether.
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Political 'Harassment' Claim Refuted – May 29, 2010
Daniel Mintz
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HUMBOLDT – A DA candidate's belief that Eureka humanitarian Betty Chinn was the target of politically-related "harassment" has been refuted by Chinn.
Chinn had been listed as one of DA candidate Allison Jackson's endorsers on her campaign website but Chinn's name was recently removed from the list. Asked why, Jackson e-mailed a statement explaining that Chinn's "public support was impacting her personally" and so her name was removed.
"I am deeply troubled that she has had to endure any type of harassment due to her support of me in this election," said Jackson.
But Chinn said that she asked that her name be removed because she didn't intend to be an endorser. "I stay out of politics," she said. "It's not my area, my area is helping the poor."
Chinn also wants to clarify that she hasn't had to deal with any harassment. "This is a loving community and to come out and say that I've been harassed is not true," she said. "I came here from communist China, I've never felt that I've been mistreated by anyone here."
The first and only time Chinn met Jackson was at an event last February, Chinn continued. "I never said I support her, I did say that I admire her and what she's doing," she said, adding that the feedback she got after being listed on Jackson's website was benign.
"Some people did tell me, 'Betty, I know you never get involved in politics,'" Chinn said.
How did the supposed endorsement emerge and what constituted the perception of harassment? Jackson said that Chinn was with Rex Bohn, one of her friends, when they met last February. "I asked Rex to contact her to ask if I could use her name and was told that she supports me," Jackson continued.
She said that in mid-May, Chinn left a phone message indicating she wanted her name removed. When Jackson asked Bohn about it, "All I was told was that she'd received numerous contacts who told her it could jeopardize her work," Jackson said.
She said she wrote Chinn a letter thanking her and explaining that "I felt ill that anything from this could affect her work because I care about her so deeply," Jackson continued.
Attributing the situation to miscommunication, Jackson emphasized that she truly believed Chinn had endorsed her and that after hearing she'd gotten numerous phone calls about it, she was concerned for her.
"I am deeply saddened by all of this and the way it's been spun," said Jackson.


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The Morality of Human Rights
39 Pages Posted: 9 Jun 2013 Last revised: 22 Jun 2015
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Morality of Human Rights
The Morality of Human Rights
Date Written: June 4, 2013
[For a later version of material in this paper, see these two papers: "Human Rights Theory, 1: What Are 'Human Rights'? Against the 'Orthodox' View" (2015), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2597403; "Human Rights Theory, 2: What Reason Do We Have, if Any, to Take Human Rights Seriously? Beyond 'Human Dignity'" (2015), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2597404.]
In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what never before existed: a truly global morality. That morality — which I call "the morality of human rights" — consists not only of various rights recognized by the great majority of the countries of the world as human rights, but also of a fundamental imperative that directs "all human beings" to "act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." The imperative — articulated in the very first article of the foundational human rights document of our time, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — is fundamental in the sense that it serves, in the morality of human rights, as the normative ground of human rights.
I begin, in the first section of this essay, by explaining what the term "human right" means in the context of the internationalization of human rights. I also explain both the sense in which some human rights are, in some legal systems, "legal" rights and the sense in which all human rights are "moral" rights.
Then, in the longer second section, I turn to the inquiry that is my principal concern in this essay: Why should one take seriously the imperative that serves, in the morality of human rights, as the normative ground of human rights? That is, what reason or reasons does one have, if any, to live one's life in accord with the imperative to "act towards all human beings in a spirit of brotherhood"?
This essay, the final draft of which will be published in a symposium issue of the San Diego Law Review, was my contribution to the conference on "The Status of International Law and International Human Rights" that was held at the University of San Diego School of Law on May 3-4, 2013, under the auspices of the School's Institute of Law and Philosophy. Some of the material in this essay is drawn from my new book, Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States (2013). Most of the material here that is not drawn from my book was first presented in a lecture I was honored to deliver at Santa Clara University in March 2013, under the auspices of the Bannon Institute of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education.
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Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that Apple has announced its latest iPhone — the iPhone 3G S.
The third iPhone to be released since the first was launched in the U.S. in 2007, Apple claims the iPhone 3G S is faster and more powerful than the current iPhone 3G.
Although it retains an identical form factor and design, the iPhone 3G S has some nifty new features. Here are 10 of the best:
1. It's faster
Apple launched the iPhone 3G S by announcing it has a faster processor, more memory and "snappier performance". Although the iPhone 3G is no slouch, it can be a little sluggish when opening and closing applications. If Apple's demo videos are anything to go by, the iPhone 3G S will be a much zippier smartphone.
2. It has more memory
Apple will sell two models of the iPhone 3G S: 16GB and 32GB. There original iPhone came with 4GB, 8GB or 16GB of storage.
3. Video recording
Wow! A smartphone in 2009 that can record video? No way! Apple critics will point to the fact that the iPhone 3G can't record video as an example of a phone that lacks some basic features, but for potential iPhone owners the addition of video recording is a real plus.
4. Improved camera
The iPhone 3G S has a 3-megapixel camera with autofocus, compared with the iPhone 3G's 2-megapixel, non-autofocus camera. It still lacks a flash, but the increased megapixel count should slightly improve photos and tapping an area on the screen to focus on is a cool feature that should make mobile photography easier.
5. You can talk to it
The iPhone 3G S introduces what Apple calls Voice Control, a voice recognition feature that allows you to make a call and play music by speaking. Voice Control can find any entry in your contacts list, and users simply have to say a name or phone number to make a call. For music, you can ask what song is playing and hear the iPhone 3G S answer, tell it to play your favourite album, or play similar tracks to the current one.
6. It has a built-in compass
A built-in digital compass is another new feature of the iPhone 3G S. We aren't sure exactly how often anyone would use this as a standalone app, but when combined with Google Maps, the compass will rotate maps to always match the direction you're facing. Now that is pretty cool.
7. Internet tethering
The iPhone 3G S can now be used as a modem, connecting to a Mac or PC via USB or Bluetooth. Although AT&T in the US won't be supporting this feature, Optus is one Australian telco that has confirmed it will be. Telstra and Vodafone are yet to announce whether they will offer tethering capability.
8. Accessibility features
Apple has included a number of features that help people with disabilities use the iPhone 3G S. These include Apple's VoiceOver function, which reads aloud what is on the screen, a zoom function that magnifies up to five times, and a white on black display option that provides increased contrast.
9. Nike+ iPod integration
Previously only available for selected iPod nano models, Apple's Nike + iPod is a fitness system that involves a Nike shoe communicating wirelessly with an iPod. The iPhone 3G S will be compatible with the system, which displays real time walking or running statistics.
10. New headphones
The iPhone 3G S will include Apple's remote headphones in the sales package. The new headphones have a multi-button remote and volume control keys, as well as a microphone to handle voice calls.
For the latest on the iPhone 3G S check out our iPhone Centre.
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|Sept. 6
"Judicial Ethics and Supreme Court Exceptionalis"Amanda Frost
American University Law School
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"Data-mining, Analysis, and Citizen Activism: Can we create a new market for monitoring and regulating economic activity and reverse the trend toward economic feudalism?"
Harvard University
|Oct. 4
|"Making apartheid work: Black workers, South African labor law, and the struggle for racial justice"
Alex Lichtenstein
Indiana University Department of History
|Oct. 25
|"Comparing Children's Rights Regimes: Sweden and the United States in the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-First"
Michael Grossberg
Indiana University Department of History
Bengt Sandin
Linköping University
|Nov. 1
|"Narratives of Infanticide: Mothers, Murder, and the State in Nineteenth-Century America"
Felicity Turner
Indiana University Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow
|Nov. 29
|"How and Why Judges and Police Bend the Law: Human Rights, Courts and Law Enforcement in the Post-Soviet World"
Sophia Wilson
Indiana University Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow
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Law, Society & Culture at Indiana
The Fall 2012 schedule is out for the colloquium of the Center for Law, Society, and Culture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. It includes some history sessions, including one by Felicity Turner, one of Indiana's two Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellows. (The other is Sophia Wilson.)


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Surveillance Video Shows Deer Smash Through Hair Salon Window
By R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter
October 7, 2019
Maybe he just wanted a little off the top?
A wild deer turned an otherwise tranquil day at a hair salon in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, into a mass of confusion, broken glass, and laughter after a deer smashed his way in the building by going through the plate glass window.
Jenisse Heredia, who owns the shop, said she was cutting her client's hair when all of a sudden, she heard a large crash.
"In my mind, I'm thinking the worst, that a car just drove into a salon," Heredia told NBC News. "I just started screaming. I didn't even know how to react."
Video posted by the salon's Facebook page shows the 6-point buck running across traffic and crashing into the large plate glass window that faces the street, sending shards of glass flying across the shop. The deer leaps over one customer who was seated on the couch next to the window and then scrambles through the salon until it ends up in the shop's breakroom. The surveillance video shows Heredia and her client moving away to avoid possibly being injured by the animal.
"Oh my God, oh my God, OH MY GOD!" Heredia says as the deer runs out of frame toward the back of the salon.
Fortunately, they didn't have to wait too long for the animal figured out it needed to find another way out. The deer left the breakroom and then ran out of the salon, getting a hair iron stuck to its antlers as it crashed through the front door.
With the obvious exception of the plate glass window and the door to the salon, Heredia said the salon didn't take all that much damage from the confused animal. The woman sitting on the couch where the deer jumped was taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
Be.you.tiful Hair Salon was back open for business on Monday, despite the unruly drop-in.


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Barack Obama won 52.9 percent of the votes in the presidential election. But that is not why he is President of the United States. He sits in the White House for one reason and one reason only: Barack Obama was Rothschildĺs Choice.
Even more startling is the goal that Rothschildĺs man has been assigned by Illuminati "chieftains" to accomplish. That goal is nothing less than the systematic dismantlement and destruction of America and its occupation by a Jewish-run Mafia. Barack Obama was chosen to become the first leader of a Jewish-ruled New World Order.
The American presidential sweepstakes is an impressive spectacle. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent by candidates who fiercely compete on TV, internet, by direct mail, and in print for the hearts and minds of American voters. Millions of words and images are heard, seen and debated. Contentious issues are vigorously discussed.
Finally, on the second Tuesday in November, millions go to the polls and proudly cast their ballots. Voila! The citizens of the U.S.A. have freely chosen their new President to occupy the White House.
It all happened just that way in 2008, didnĺt it? And a half-blood white/black man born in Hawaii named Barack H. Obama wonŚWell, didnĺt he? God bless democracy and the American way. All bow down to the peoplesĺ choice, right?
Well, dear friends...wait just a minute. I have some very disturbing news for you. What you think you saw in 2008 during that strange and tumultuous election year was actually far removed from what really happened behind-the-scenes.
Was Barack H. Obama, in fact, Americaĺs choice? Did he win based on merit according to the consensus of the electorate? The title of my newest video holds the surprising answer to this all-important question: Rothschildĺs Choice: Barack Obama and the Hidden Cabal Behind the Plot to Murder America (Available in DVD only).
The ninety minutes of documentation in this video reveal how one man, and one man alone, in 2008 chose Americaĺs new President. And that choice was made long before most Americans had ever even heard the odd and remarkably unconventional name, "Barack Obama." Yes, Obama was Rothschildĺs Choice.
When President Obama visited Egypt, people there hailed him as the new "Tutankhaman, Pharaoh of Egypt." Amazingly, this cover of Time was
clearly intended to promote the same ideaŚone more example of Rothschild's mind-bending psychological control techniques.
Lord Jacob Rothschild is the fourth Baron de Rothschild and rules a vast empire as the current head of the planetĺs most illustrious bloodline. Who are the Rothschilds? Few Americans know of the terrible power and influence of this wealthy Jewish dynasty. But believe me, the leaders of this world know of Jacob Rothschild and his kin.
Politicians like Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, and, yes, Barack Obama tremble in fear when the name "Rothschild" is so much as mentioned in passing.
The power of the Rothschilds is greater than the combined influence and authority of the Democrat and Republican Parties. The red shield, the Rothschild Family crest, holds sway over all the nations of Europe, and many a government has toppled because a Rothschild was displeased with its performance. New Yorkĺs Wall Street and Londonĺs "The City" financial districts stoop to hear Rothschildsĺ instructions, and national currencies alternatively shrink or boom in value, depending on their favor. As it is recorded in Revelation 18, "the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed (become) rich..."
The Rothschilds, above everything else, are Zionist Jews. The hidden cabal ruled by Rothschild always make sure a Zionist politicianŚbe he Democrat or RepublicanŚis sworn in as President of the worldĺs greatest superpower. The last U.S. president to violate this cardinal rule was Richard M. Nixon, whose spirited rebellion against Americaĺs Rothschild Jewish faction was short lived and tragic in its demise.
Barack Obamaĺs mysterious emergence as a political superstar was no fluke, no flash-in-the-pan. Obama had been meticulously groomed and trained since youth to becomeŚget this!ŚAmericaĺs First Jewish President. Dare I repeat?ŚBarack Obama is Americaĺs first Jewish President. No, not by DNA, not according to the flesh, but regardless, a Zionist Jew; and the Jew part is so ingrained in his nature that the worldĺs most influential billionaire Jewish Illuminati honor him as a devout Zionist who can be trusted. Obama, the Jews say, "has a Jewish soul." Obama is Jewish "in his gut," says one top Jewish politico.
Now, Communism is Jewish, and Obama is also a dyed-in-the-wool Communist. History confirms that the Red Terrorĺs chief movers and shakersŚKarl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon TrotskyŚwere ideologically Communist. But more significant, these architects of extreme socialism wereŚand this is paramountŚJews. Jews by race, Jews by conduct and goals. So, too, is Barack Obama both Communist and Jewish, his Jewishness being a matter of spirituality, ambition and affiliations.
As I show in my new video, Barack Obamaĺs white mother was a Communist, his white grandparents were Communists, and the black man who mentored him from youth, Frank Marshall Davis, was also a Communist. Davis was, moreover, a perverted, bisexual dope-head and a bigoted racist. Davis, who became a father to young Barack, once wrote a book about his own dark sexual exploits. He bragged of "spanking" sex-crazy white women and of having swinger parties with depraved white women. His unusual ties as mentor and teacher of Barack Obama are revealed in my video.
Obamaĺs most intimate Chicago associates were, and are today, Communists. Virtually all are Jews, and most are gay. Indeed, Barack Obamaĺs whole life has been a sordid cesspool and saga of Communist instruction, Zionist philosophy, intensely perverted homosexual buggery, fer-vent anti-Americanism and a "Hate Whitey" form of black racism. What we have here is a President whose agenda is alien to our Constitution, a man committed to Marxist aims and a Zionist Police State.
Surrounding Obama in the White House and in Washington, D.C. is a frightening array of Jewish radicals and Zionist agents of influence. Jewish controllersŚincluding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and chief political advisor David AxelrodŚmonitor and guide Obama in his work of destruction. Behind them all is a hidden cabal led by the powerful Rothschild family. President Obama and our cowardly Congress have already given Rothschildĺs Wall Street cronies over sixteen trillion dollars in the ongoing "Economic Recession" scam.
Our national wealth has been plundered by these madmen and still, they want more. With Rothschildĺs Choice, Barack H. Obama, sitting at the pinnacle of world power, they intend to grab it all. And who can possibly prevent them from achieving their sinister aims?
Americaĺs prosperity is in tatters; our Constitution, our vaunted liberties and freedoms, and everything we and our ancestors have workedŚand died forŚare now in great jeopardy. We are hanging by a thin, gossamer thread to the last vestiges of our American heritage and way of life. Will we allow Rothschild, his hidden cabal, and his Chosen, President Barack Obama, to sever this single, frayed thread and put an end to the nation that once was a beacon of light to western civilization and to the whole world?
My fervent prayer is that, with Godĺs help, we will gather up our inner courage and, whatever the cost, bravely stand up to tyranny and make a last stand for truth and righteousness. We havenĺt much time. As Jesus said, we must work now "while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work." (John 9:4)
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In 2001, as the dot.com boom turned to bust, CEO John Chambers of Cisco saw a massive $460 billion of Cisco's overall stock market value evaporate before his eyes. Game over? Not really. At that moment, Chambers started a reinvention of the company — from a "cowboy" mentality where people worked in silos to a collaborative approach. It has paid off so far. Revenues are up 90% since 2002, while profit margins are up to 20.8% from 16.3%. And Chambers earned the #4 spot on our best-performing CEO ranking, published last month by Harvard Business Review. Not bad.
Chambers created the following 5 pillars to drive collaboration, an approach we can all learn from. These amount to what I call disciplined collaboration in my book Collaboration: focus on business value, tear down barriers, and create a new organization architecture. (Full disclosure: last autumn I met with the top 50 leadership team at Cisco to discuss collaboration; the information here is all from public sources, however).
1. Change leadership style. It started with Chambers himself. You can't create collaboration if you're an excessively command-and-control leader. By his own admission, Chambers used to be just that. But as he told the Financial Times, "The hardest thing you do as a leader is to change something that is working well. And yet I believe that companies and leaders who do not change will get left behind. And so I had to move from a command-and-control leader (to collaborative)." Collaborative leadership means "letting go" by involving others in decision making, listening to ideas, finding common ground, and striking compromises.
2. Change incentives. Steve Kerr, former chief learning officer at General Electric, once wrote a famous article called, "On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B." In this case, that would be "rewarding individual work, while hoping for collaboration." That doesn't work. Early on, John Chambers told his senior team that he would start measuring them on how well they collaborated. As a result, some 15% of the top management team left — those who did not like the new approach or could not do it. You may think it is bad to lose that talent. I think it is good; the key is not to have just any talent, but the right kind of talent.
3. Change the structure. If your "org chart" makes you work in silos, then that's what you get — silos. At Cisco, people worked in independent business units prior to 2001. Chambers changed all that. He broke it into a functional organization (development, marketing, sales, manufacturing etc.). But a functional structure can be just as siloed. Chambers thus layered on top of that boards and councils. They are essentially cross-functional groups consisting of 10-15 managers who join a group to pursue a $1-billion-plus (board) or a $10-billion-plus (council) opportunity. Each group pursues a new market opportunity, such as collaboration software, connected homes, mobility. By now, these groups are pursuing a staggering 30 new business opportunities.
4. Change how you work. To make sure collaboration in these groups didn't become unwieldy, Chambers and his team invented a process. It's called Vision-Strategy-Execution. First, develop a vision: what does success look like in three years? Then develop a differentiated strategy: how can we win in this market? Then move to execution: who needs to do what over the next 12 to 18 months? Work turns less collaborative as it moves to execution and specific functions (manufacturing, for instance). This process has a huge benefit: a common language. That clarifies and speeds up work. People can concentrate on the creative part of work, not how to work. Process provides a script.
5. Use new social media tools. In many companies, people sit in different buildings, locations, and countries. Work is spread out geographically these days. For Cisco, with its 60,000 employees, that can be a nightmare when collaborating. To solve this, Cisco uses its own high-definition video conferencing system about 4,000 times a week. They also use a host of other enterprise 2.0 technologies. Now people often meet virtually — that's faster and cheaper.
The biggest benefit of this approach is that Cisco can pursue many new opportunities. It's also flexible because the right people can quickly be put on a board. Executive Keith Goodwin explains how they rapidly moved into the small business segment:
"In the spring of '08 we recognized we could tap a $10 billion opportunity by better serving organizations with fewer than 100 employees. In less than two quarters, the Council was formed and shifted $ 100 million budget and some 500 engineering, marketing, sales and services headcount to focus on that market."
There are clearly risks to this 5-pillar collaboration approach, as some commentators have noted . I see two risks in particular. One is that managers get overloaded. As one executive explained; "I am on a litany of them — three councils, maybe six boards." The other risk is over-collaboration: too many boards, until one day it tips over into chaos. Obviously, Chambers need to manage this diligently. The story is still unfolding, so we can't yet declare final success. But it's a fascinating organizational story to watch.
Morten T. Hansen is author of Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results and is a management professor at University of California, School of Information, and at INSEAD, France. For more, listen to his IdeaCast on the challenges of collaboration.


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Dividend Investors: Argus Changes Equity Income Portfolio (MSFT, KO, HCP, SE, KKR, SE)
Argus Research, an independent equity research firm open since 1934, has issued a series of changes to its model portfolios now, as we are still in the early part of the year. This latest round of changes came in many portfolios, and this group is in the hypothetical equity income model portfolio.
Argus said that it is selling its position in Microsoft Corp.(NASDAQ: MSFT). While its diversity of five units is called a positive, the company is still highly leveraged to Windows. Senior Software Analyst Joe Bonner recently downgraded Microsoft to Hold on concerns about the initial uptake of Windows 8 and said that it is well behind the Windows 7 adoption curve. He also pointed out that Microsoft shares have declined approximately 11% since last year's equivalent time, and its annualized dividend yield has been about 3%.
Another DJIA component, the Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO), also has been sold in the theoretical portfolio. Senior Consumer Analyst John Staszak recently downgraded Coca-Cola after a strong run-up in the stock. He thinks that Coca-Cola's results should improve modestly in 2013, but he thinks slower sales of carbonated beverages in North America will hinder revenue and earnings growth. He also was concerned about the impact of economic weakness in Europe and slower growth in China That is after a 40% price rise in the stock, with an annual dividend yield of more than 2.5%.
Argus is adding stocks as a replacement with its theoretical cash on hand and proceeds from the asset sales. HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) is added as a health care facilities provider operating as a REIT. Its portfolio consists of senior housing facilities, skilled nursing facilities, life science facilities, medical office buildings and hospitals. With revenue and net operating income improving, Argus showed that management is a relatively heavy owner of the stock, and it also said that valuations are attractive compared to the peer group after raising its dividend.
A surprise addition in the income area is a new position in KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR) units. This is private equity and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts. The KKR units now offer a yield of about 5.9%, but Argus warns that individual investors in KKR need to be aware that they will be required to report their earnings using a K-1.
Spectra Energy Corp. (NYSE: SE) was also added to, but this is an existing position in its hypothetical equity income model portfolio. We would note that Spectra's dividend yield is listed as 4.4% now that shares are closer to its 52-week lows.
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Paul Smith! Awesome! His take on the X-Men is still one of the best (yet overlooked) artistically. Love the 80s hairstyles there.ReplyDelete
This cover just puts a smile on my face, it really brings me back. While I've read the miniseries countless times, I'd forgotten about this cover. Gorgeous work, and Maddy's classic look and Wolverine's tree trunk of a neck make up for Kitty's and Rogue's hairReplyDelete
It is indeed quite the hair fashion statement from the 1980s, isn't it!ReplyDelete
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Such a simpler time! It was a shame Paul Smith didn't draw Alpha Flight more often. Some of the things I remember at the time was that in Alpha Flight's own book, Sasquatch had been replaced with Box, Snowbird wasn't around, Talisman had left, and Shaman was about to leave also after an incident with his medicine pouch being turned inside out. It's interesting they decided to jump back to point where Sasquatch was still around. And then a couple years later, Alpha Flight #50 used story elements from the X-Men/Alpha Flight crossover to write Northstar, Aurora, and Puck out of the book. It seemed like Alpha Flight was always losing members around this time.ReplyDelete


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Anonymous Targets Fullerton Police Over Homeless Man's Death
In response to the death of Kelly Thomas—the homeless, schizophrenic man from Fullerton, California who died after being Tased and brutally beaten by police officers last month—the hacktivist collective Anonymous has announced plans to attack the Fullerton Police Department's "Interwebz" if its demands aren't met.
A brief recap: On July 5, six Fullerton officers apprehended Thomas, 37, after someone reported that a burglar was breaking into cars parked near a Fullerton bus station. Officers claimed that Thomas—described by community members as "gentle" and "polite"—resisted arrest, but witnesses dispute that. The officers beat Thomas so badly that he fell into a coma; after several days on life support, he was taken off the machines and died. Two officers initially claimed that they suffered broken bones during the altercation, but this turned out not to be true.
Despite calls for investigation and public protests, five out of the six officers involved in the incident were soon released back on the streets. In late July, the FBI announced plans to launch an investigation of the incident; the local district attorney's office also said it was conducting an investigation.
In launching "Operation Fullerton," Anonymous sent a letter to the Fullerton Police Department—also posted at Pastebin—criticizing the local city government for having a "broken moral compass," and making the following demands:
1) We demand the prosecution of Officers Jay Cicinelli, Kenton Hampton, Manny Ramos, Joe Wolfe, James Blatney, and anyone else involved in the gruesome beating, torture, and murder of Kelly Thomas.
2) We demand the immediate resignation of the Chief of Police in Fullerton, California.
3) We demand that the City of Fullerton immediately pay a lump sum settlement of no less than 5 million dollars to the legal survivors of Kelly Thomas.
If the demands aren't met, the letter states, "We will begin to treat the web assets of the police, city government - and any other targets we deem in support or a cause of this incident with as much mercy as was shown to Kelly Thomas. He may have been silenced, but his screams will live on forever, and we will join him as Operation Fullerton."
As of this writing, Fullerton PD's website appears to be untouched (pics of Mueller the K-9 dog = nice, fuzzy touch to your home page, guys). The LA Times reports that the city's IT staff are monitoring the situation for signs of Anonymous hacktivity. We'll let you know if anything happens.
In other Kelly Thomas news, the Times reports that Thomas' parents Cathy and Ron (a former sheriff's deputy) have filed a police brutality claim against the city, and that Fullerton Police Chief Michael Sellers is on indefinite medical leave. Meanwhile, the six officers involved in the beating are on paid administrative leave, which seems just a bit too accommodating given circumstances. Yesterday, a group of at least 200 people protested against the Fullerton PD, and also demanded the recall of three city council members plus the release of a video that supposedly shows the Thomas beating.
At least one potentially positive development from all this tragedy is that the Orange County board of supervisors is looking at ways to implement Laura's Law, which is supposed to make it easier to provide long-term, consistent medical treatment to mentally ill people. Thomas's father—who tried in vain to get Kelly committed to long-term treatment so he could receive the care he needed—seems to be on board with the proposal.


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GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) — An explosion at a Washington state home has killed Josh Powell, the husband of a missing Utah woman, plus their two young sons, officials said Sunday.
The explosion occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the two boys to the home for a supervised visit, Graham Fire and Rescue Chief Gary Franz told The Associated Press.
Powell let the boys in the house, then blocked the social worker from entering. The social worker called her supervisors to report that she could smell gas, and the home exploded.
"Everything we know right now, this has become a crime scene," Franz said.
The children had been living with Susan Powell's parents since Josh Powell's father Steven was arrested on child porn and voyeurism charges last fall. On Wednesday, a judge had denied an attempt by Josh Powell to regain custody, saying she wouldn't consider returning the two boys to their father until he underwent a psycho-sexual evaluation.
Josh Powell was under investigation in the disappearance of his 28-year-old wife from their West Valley City, Utah, home in December 2009. He claimed he had taken the boys on a midnight excursion in freezing temperatures when she vanished.
The case took a bizarre turn last year after Powell's father, Steve, was arrested for investigation of voyeurism and possessing child pornography. Josh was living at his father's home at the time, and a judge gave Susan Powell's parents custody of the boys.
Sgt. Mike Powell of the West Valley City Police Department in Utah, which is handling the investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance, said it was too soon to say how Josh Powell's death may impact their probe.
"Quite frankly, this has obviously quickly unfolded up in Washington and we're obviously just working through the details ourselves here," Powell said Sunday.
"We are in contact with authorities," Powell added. "It's obviously an ongoing situation in Washington at this point."


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Google's Native Client reaches ARM-based Chromebooks
The software for fast browser apps has taken a step beyond mainstream x86-based PCs to Chromebooks using ARM processors. But it won't reach ARM-based smartphones until later this year.
Google has finished a version of its Native Client programming technology that extends beyond mainstream x86 PC processors into the world of ARM chips.
Native Client, or NaCl for short, is designed to let programmers easily adapt the C or C++ software they've written for native software so that it can run as a part of Web apps, too. It's designed for high performance, but it's also got security mechanisms built in to counter the risks of running malicious code directly on the processor. The first version of NaCl, though, only worked on personal computers using Intel or AMD's x86 chips.
Google's David Sehr announced NaCl for ARM today with version 25 of its NaCl software developer kit, which programmers use to build NaCl programs.
The technology is designed so that programmers can bring their existing code to the Web -- for example, game designers who have written a physics engine in C++. But NaCl has been at odds with the Web philosophy in one important way, namely, that NaCl software doesn't simply run on any device with a browser.
Extending to ARM is thus an important step for NaCl, because ARM chips power almost every smartphone out there. But this version of NaCl doesn't do that -- it only works on the new ARM-based Samsung Chromebooks.
To reach mobile phones, Google is banking on a revamp called Portable Native Client, or PNaCl. It adopts a low-level translation technology called LLVM that adapts native code to a variety of processors.
"With Portable Native Client, we'll be able to support not just today's architectures, but also those of tomorrow - and developers won't have to recompile their app," Sehr said in the blog post.
With PNaCl, programmers will be able to produce a single package (with the .pexe extension rather than NaCl's .nexe extension) that will run on all supported devices. With today's approach, programmers must produce separate .nexe files for ARM and for x86.
Another major challenge for Native Client is attracting support. It's built into Chrome, but no other major browser maker supports it, and Mozilla is downright frosty about NaCl.
That'll change with PNaCl, too, Google said. The Chrome Web Store is required today to ensure software is compatible with different chip architectures, Google said in a statement. PNaCl sheds this chip-architecture constraint.
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B.C. teen paralyzed after 27-month wait for surgery
Family gave up on provincial health system and got boy spinal operation in U.S.
The Provincial Health Services Authority failed two Okanagan teens who desperately needed spinal surgery, including one who is now paralyzed from the waist down, according to a report from the B.C. Patient Care Quality Review Board.
The report referred primarily to the case of Walid Khalfallah, of Kelowna, who was diagnosed in 2004 with a spinal-curvature condition called kyphosis. At that time, the curvature in his upper spine measured 53 degrees.
In 2009, when Khalfallah was 13, his doctor insisted the boy's condition required immediate attention.
The review board report said it took 27 months before he got a date for surgery, but before that date arrived, Khalfallah's family had given up on the B.C. system, and sought help at the Shriners' Hospital in Spokane, Wash.
By that time, the curvature had more than doubled to 127 degrees and Khalfallah had to spend 10 weeks in traction before undergoing a 10-hour operation.
"We had done so many things to try and expedite him being seen and nothing seemed to make a difference," his mother, Debbie Waitkus, told CBC News.
"Everywhere I went I was crying because I thought my son isn't going to survive this and nobody's listening to me."
Government acknowledges failure
An assistant deputy minister from the provincial Health Ministry acknowledged in a letter to Waitkus dated Oct. 5 that her son was inadequately served.
"I would like to express my sincere regret for your family's very difficult experience with our province's health system," the letter said.
The report also cited the case of George Webb, of Vernon, who had a spinal condition requiring urgent surgery.
"As we were nearing two years on the waiting list, we had a very brief meeting with the surgeon who told us it could be another 18 months," said his mother, Donna Webb.
Webb eventually also abandoned the B.C. health system and was provided surgery at the Shriners Hospital in 2009, when he was 19. The operation was a success.
The board concluded that the Health Authority failed both teens, and found it had allowed Waitkus's condition to deteriorate unnecessarily.
- Walid Kalfallah spent 10 weeks in traction prior to his surgery. An earlier version of the story said he spent 10 months in traction.Oct 11, 2012 11:50 PM PT
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A translator's task – to disappear
Natasha Wimmer's acclaimed translation of Roberto Bolaño's '2666' is giving foreign works new prominence.
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In the spring of 2006, Natasha Wimmer left her job at a Manhattan trade publication and moved with her husband to Cuauhtémoc, a bustling neighborhood in the northwest of Mexico City. Their flat overlooked Calle Abraham Gonzalez, not far from a café called La Habana, and Ms. Wimmer spent many afternoons there, reading and chatting with Mexican friends.
At the time, she was working on the first English translation of "The Savage Detectives," by the novelist Roberto Bolaño, who died in 2003. Bolaño was Chilean, but had drifted in and out of Mexico City throughout his life, first as an adolescent, then as a revolutionary and littérateur.
"He was a geographically obsessed writer, especially when it came to Mexico City. He always told you exactly where he was going – down to the street, the intersection, the building," Wimmer remembers. "Café La Habana, for instance, was the basis for Café Quito," an important set piece in "The Savage Detectives." (The book, which traces the literary and political adventures of two ambitious poets, is partly autobiographical.)
"Being in the middle of that was very clarifying, and very useful," Wimmer says. "I found I understood the cultural references better, and had a closer sense of the vibrancy of the place. And that's what I wanted to capture. The book has such a quality of urgency and ease. So many other books I'd read felt willed, and this one didn't. It seemed essential."
These days, Wimmer lives on the third floor of a carefully restored brownstone in Harlem, far from the noise and traffic of Mexico City. On a snowy Saturday this month, while her husband watched their young daughter, Wimmer recounted the years – more than three in all – she'd spent translating "Detectives," and then "2666," Bolaño's 992-page posthumous masterpiece, released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux last December.
"It's been a long and amazing experience. It may be the peak of [my] career as a translator," she says, pausing. "Chances are good."
It's hard to overstate the critical fervor with which Bolaño-mania – the phrase coined by the Economist – has hit North America. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, the critic James Wood called Bolaño, "one of the greatest and most influential modern writers." The novelist Jonathan Lethem noted that, "Bolaño has proven [literature] can do anything." "The Savage Detectives" topped many best-of lists in 2007, and Time magazine named "2666" the best book of 2008.
More notable still is the commercial popularity of "2666," an unusually complex and occasionally obtuse novel. According to the Economist, the book's first printing vanished from shelves within days, forcing the publisher to rush a second order.
In recent years, US publishers have sought to establish a more international tone, partly to counter charges of American insularity. (Last October, Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy that distributes the Nobel Prize in Literature, said that American writers were "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture.")
But generally, says Jason Boog, an editor at industry blog GalleyCat, "it's the smaller presses that champion the translated works. This was a big exception" – Farrar, Straus and Giroux is considered to be one of the premier names in literary fiction – "and it paid off."
Wimmer, who first encountered Bolaño in Spanish (the novelist has also been translated into English by Chris Andrews, an Australian professor) says she wasn't surprised by the success of "The Savage Detectives," "which besides being important, was a fun book to read." The real shock was the runaway success of "2666," a book much bleaker in tone.
"2666" is split into five sections, each at least tangentially concerned with a rash of murders in the Mexican desert and an enigmatic novelist named Archimboldi. Most of "2666" is a detective story without a pat conclusion. It is from the omnipresent sense of foreboding that the book draws its real emotional ballast.
"To Bolaño, I think, Latin America was the secret heart of the world," Wimmer says. "That's one of the themes of '2666.' Latin America is the secret root of the evils of the 20th century and of the future to come. I think right now we're not feeling so secure anymore here in the US. So maybe that has driven people to [read '2666']. Maybe Bolaño is the right kind of voice for us right now."
Wimmer's career as a translator followed a decidedly untraditional arc. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in Spanish literature, she moved to Puerto Rico, where her family then had a home. She worked for a few months to save some cash, and then decided to send out her résumé to publishers. Since she didn't know much about the publishing world, she reached out to 40 houses.
FSG took the bait – "I had no idea how lucky I was," Wimmer laughs – and Wimmer moved to New York to work as an editorial assistant. Soon she was promoted to managing editor and dabbled in some manuscript work, including a handful of translated works. One of the books was "Dirty Havana Trilogy," by the Cuban novelist Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. When another editor mentioned that FSG was having difficulty obtaining a suitable translation, Wimmer asked if she could give it a try; the editor agreed, and her manuscript was accepted.
"I've always been impressed by Natasha's resourcefulness, and range," says Lorin Stein, the FSG editor who handled "2666" and "Detectives." "If a translator doesn't understand what's going on in the original language, it tends to show up in the target language. If you're not totally in control, you start erring on the side of safe. [Your best achievement it to] disappear, and that's been Natasha's triumph."
But Wimmer, who never met Bolaño, and accepted the assignment for "The Savage Detectives" only after Mr. Andrews declined, has not disappeared. As she notes, since Bolaño is not available for interviews, many literary journalists approach her for insight into the Chilean novelist's work. Wimmer is not an unskilled stand-in – her forward to the second paperback edition of "Detectives" is a deft piece of biographical and critical synthesis – but she views the role with some reservation.
"In a way, I can't be that person," Wimmer says. "They should talk to Chris Andrews or Bolaño's literary executor. At the same time it's understandable, and it's very exciting for me." These were books Wimmer spent years with – usually at a pace of eight hours a day, six days a week – and in "some ways," she says, "I know Bolaño much better than any other reader."


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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Starbucks hopes customers will be willing to pay at least $5 more when they stop in for their morning cup of Joe.
Starting Nov. 1, Starbucks will begin collecting donations of $5 or more from customers to stimulate U.S. job growth through its "Jobs for USA" program. The Seattle-based coffee chain is collaborating with the Opportunity Finance Network, a nonprofit that works with nearly 200 community development financial institutions to provide loans to small businesses and community groups. Starbucks says 100 percent of the donations will go toward loans for firms and organizations that can add jobs or stem job losses.
Starbucks, which pioneered how Americans drink coffee, declined to estimate how much money it plans to raise, but millions of people visit its nearly 7,000 company-owned U.S. stores each day. Customers who give will get a red, white and blue wristband that says "Indivisible."
"This is about using Starbuck's scale for good," said Howard Schultz, Starbucks Corp.'s CEO.
The program is the latest effort by Schultz to address the nation's economic woes. In August, he sent more than 200,000 Starbucks employees a memo urging them to do what they can to help business thrive. Then, he asked fellow CEOs to stop contributing to political campaigns until the nation's leaders reached a long-term economic solution. After that, he hosted a national telephone forum, bought full-page ads in two major newspapers and started a website, Upwardspiral2011.org.
Schultz said he feels personal responsibility to do something to stimulate the U.S. economy. Starbucks is hiring about 200 people a day in the U.S. as part of its efforts to remodel thousands of stores and add about 200 more locations in the next year. But Schultz said he wanted to do more.
Starbucks is covering the operational costs to get loans out through the program, which will run indefinitely. Its charitable arm, The Starbucks Foundation, is giving $5 million to get the program started, with the hope that funds will be invested in communities within a month of a donation being made.
Opportunity Finance Network works with 180 financial institutions — banks, credit, unions, loan funds and venture capital funds — that give loans in low-income communities that don't have easy access to credit. The organization, created 27 years ago, has invested $23.2 billion and generated nearly 300,000 jobs through 2009.
Loans through the network have supported everything from charter schools to grocery stores nationwide. The organization found that, even during the recession, more than 98 percent of the money loaned out has been repaid, which is in line with traditional lenders.
Through the program, businesses will apply to financial institutions, which along with the Opportunity Finance Network will assess their potential for adding jobs. Preference will be given to applicants who can add jobs within six months. An outside organization will audit the program within a year.
"We want to match up every person who has $5 to share with every person who can't spare $5," said Mark Pinsky, CEO of Opportunity Finance Network.
The effort has the potential to be successful, say some experts. Community institutions succeed, they say, because they understand the needs in the areas they serve.
"I think it's a really worthy effort," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "In theory, this is a great idea and should have impact."
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Are you ready for the NHL Draft?! Come on! GET EXCITED! There might be four or five guys that play in the NHL next season taken in the first round!
Yes, the NHL Draft is a different beast than the NFL and even the NBA drafts in that the vast majority of guys taken won't see any action in the NHL next year. Hell, most of them you won't be able to see unless you're an avid watcher of the CHL or NCAA hockey. Yeah, there'll be a handful of Europeans taken as well, some even play in the KHL but there's no one in North America really paying attention to that.
In the spirit of keeping up with the fun and games on the Internet I managed to come up with the world's worst mock draft ever conceived. When I wrote this up on Saturday night/Sunday morning for part of our thought process over at Pro Hockey Talk, I really didn't read up on a lot of these guys. As the week wore on I learned more about the players and the teams and what they need so I'm already really embarrassed by a few of these picks and that's while I'll share them with you as they are. I'm here for the LOLZ after all.
I'll add my comments with the selections as well to help spice this up a bit for you. Just reading names is weak sauce, this isn't a police blotter after all. I already made it clear this wasn't like the NFL Draft.
1. Edmonton Oilers – Tyler Seguin – C – Plymouth (OHL)
Everyone else is saying that Hall will be the man here, and I like to live a contrarian lifestyle
2. Boston Bruins- Taylor Hall – C – Windsor (OHL)
This is the guy the Bruins want to get and they'll get him because, apparently, the Oilers are dumb. Hint: You can't lose with either guy.
3. Florida Panthers – Cam Fowler – D – Windsor (OHL)
He's an American defenseman with all the skills. You could see any one of Fowler, Gudbranson or Gormley go here. It'll probably be Gudbranson just because I picked someone else.
4. Columbus Blue Jackets – Erik Gudbranson – D – Kingston (OHL)
Same deal here although there's an outside chance Columbus trades this pick for a veteran player and picks. Gudbranson is the guy they'd like to get.
5. New York Islanders – Brandon Gormley – D – Moncton (QMJHL)
Given how things are shaking out, I'll be stunned if the Isles stay at this spot. They could stand to get a scoring forward prospect but if they stay here Gormley or Connolly could be it.
6. Tampa Bay Lightning – Nino Niederreiter – LW – Portland (WHL)
His nickname is "El Nino" and he's Swiss. He could end up on the Lightning. Write your own nonsensical weather joke for this one.
7. Carolina Hurricanes – Brett Connolly – RW – Prince George (WHL)
He likely could've been a top 5 pick had he not suffered a tough leg injury. As it is, he'll have to settle for being just outside the top 5. Tough life. If he falls this far, Carolina will be thankful.
8. Atlanta Thrashers – Jeff Skinner – C – Kitchener (OHL)
He's a goal scoring freak although some folks worry about his skating speed. Given the numbers he put up in Kitchener this past season (64 games, 50 goals, 40 assists) it's really tough to argue. Atlanta will be happy to have him.
9. Minnesota Wild – Nick Bjugstad – C – Blaine HS (MN)
He was Minnesota's Mr. Hockey and the Wild could stand to do something good to make the home fans not want to start a lynch mob, especially after dealing last year's first round pick (Minnesota Golden Gopher Nick Leddy) to the Blackhawks for Cam Barker.
10. New York Rangers – Alex Burmistrov – C – Barrie (WHL)
The Rangers sure could use a skilled center in their system, couldn't they? If Burmistrov falls this far even Glen Sather can't screw this one up.
11. Dallas Stars – Derek Forbort – D – USA Under-18
This is almost a unanimous selection across all drafts and from what I've heard from folks on the inside (I do have SOME connections) Forbort is the guy they really want to get at 11. I figure they'll get their man.
12. Anaheim Ducks – Austin Watson – RW – Peterborough (OHL)
So here's the first pick where I really screwed the pooch. The Ducks could stand to use some centers in their system. Badly. If Watson gets picked by Anaheim I'll fall on the floor. Twice.
13. Phoenix Coyotes – Mikael Granlund – LW – Helsinki
The Coyotes love them some Scandinavian players (Sami Lepisto, Mikkel Boedker) and Granlund would help fill the team coffers at left wing. It also helps that the kid has some slick skills on offense. Done and done.
14. St. Louis Blues – Emerson Etem – C – Medicine Hat (WHL)
He's a California kid and the fans will go nuts for him. The Blues could use some more solid talent up the middle and Etem is capable of fulfilling those hopes as he's impressed people quite a bit lately. The Blues would do well to get him.
15. Boston Bruins – Dylan McIlrath – D – Moose Jaw (WHL)
So this pick now belongs to the Florida Panthers thanks to the Nathan Horton trade and if they take Gudbranson early, they're not taking a defenseman here. If they hang on to the pick at all that is. Rumors are swirling that they'll deal this pick to collect more goodies. Still McIlrath has an awesome name, is a huge physical defenseman and he played in Moose Jaw. What else could you possibly need?
16. Ottawa Senators – Jack Campbell – G – USNTDP
He's America's hero in goal. He won the gold medal for the WJC team over Canada. That's good. He turned down a commitment to Michigan to play in the OHL. That's bad. Still, he's the best goalie in the draft and Ottawa could really use a prospect in goal at this point. Brian Elliott and Mike Brodeur won't be around forever, nor should they be.
17. Colorado Avalanche – Jon Merrill – D – USNTDP
So the Avs could use some defensemen after hitting the jackpot on Matt Duchene and Ryan O'Reilly in last year's draft. Merrill's talent is outstanding but he's got a bit of an attitude problem. Locking him up for five minutes in the room with Adam Foote should straighten him out.
18. Nashville Predators – Ryan Johansen – C – Portland (WHL)
If Johansen falls this far in the draft, I'll eat my hat. This was a total mistake on my part. Nashville, however, is praying that I am a psychic as Johansen is ranked behind Tyler Seguin as the best true center prospect in the draft (Taylor Hall is viewed more as a winger than not).
19. Los Angeles Kings – Vladimir Tasarenko – RW – Novosibirsk
A very talented Russian winger playing in Los Angeles. Where have I heard this one before and is it something we'll see again during free agency? Alexander Frolov has had a nice career in LA and perhaps Ilya Kovalchuk could be headed there next. Tasarenko, however, is KHL committed so a team picking him has to be content to wait a bit before having him, maybe, come to the NHL.
20. Pitttsburgh Penguins – Quinton Howden – LW – Moose Jaw (WHL)
A quick, two-way winger that can score goals. The question is: What could the Penguins really make great use of while they've got Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin? Well then, glad I settled that. The Pens could go for a winger or defense at this pick here though. Going defenseman wouldn't be shocking in any way at all. In other words, I probably punted this choice.
21. Detroit Red Wings – Tyler Pitlick – C – MSU-Mankato (NCAA)
All right, so he's listed as being a Mankato State player as that's where he was this past season. Truth is, he's headed to the WHL next year to "better prepare for the rigors of professional hockey." What the fuck ever, Tyler. Still, kid is talented. He's probably not getting picked by Detroit though. Oops to me.
22. Phoenix Coyotes – Mark Pysyk – D – Edmonton (WHL)
He's a steady two-way defenseman. Nothing mind-blowing, but also doesn't have many deficiencies. Sounds perfect for the Coyotes system doesn't it? I thought so too. Obvious pick is obvious.
23. Buffalo Sabres – Riley Sheahan – C – Notre Dame (NCAA)
Given how other things are likely to shake out, I can't see Sheahan lasting this long but in my pool of madness, the Fighting Irish forward will get to do his thing someday for the Sabres and he'd make for a nice fit there.
24. Atlanta Thrashers – Jarred Tinordi – D – USNTDP
This pick now belongs to the Chicago Blackhawks thanks to the Dustin Byfuglien trade. He's big, he's bruising, he's former NHL defenseman Mark Tinordi's son and he'll (likely) be playing at Notre Dame next season. If he's anything like his old man, he'll have a long and serviceable career. Fun side note: His brother Matt is going to be a freshman at RPI this year so expect to hear about him here.
25. Vancouver Canucks – Brock Nelson – C – Warroad HS (MN)
Consider this one a failure on my part. The Canucks are more than likely aiming for a defenseman here, but Brock Nelson, who is headed to the University of North Dakota next season, is a big and bad mofo. 6'3″ 205 and he's 17. Yikes. He's been moving up on draft boards of late so if he does end up being this far down in the first I'll be surprised. Also, how great is the name Brock Nelson? It's a modern day Big McLargehuge.
26. Washington Capitals – John McFarland – LW – Sudbury (OHL)
The Caps have a wealth of riches and adding fast winger with a nice wrist shot that occasionally fights sounds ideal for a team that lacks that kind of edge up front. The Caps can draft a guy like this and be content to have him develop as their minor leagues are rather full at the moment. Nice problem to have.
27. Montreal Canadiens – Jaden Schwartz – C – Tri-City (USHL)
He was the USHL's leading scorer and he's 5'10″ so he doesn't break the Habs' height barrier for forwards. It's a match made in Munchkin Land. Also, he's committed to playing at Colorado College next year. He's already won me over for wanting to play in college.
28. San Jose Sharks – Calvin Pickard – G – Seattle (WHL)
The Sharks don't need a whole lot of stuff in their organization but goaltending is a severe deficiency throughout and Pickard is one of the best you can get. Seems like a no-brainer to me but Doug Wilson is one shifty mofo as a GM.
29. Anaheim Ducks – Beau Bennett – RW – Penticton (BCHL)
You don't really see a lot of BCHL kids go so early but Bennett is pretty impressive and moving up lists late. He's also another California kid so expect a huge ovation should he fall to the Ducks… Which he may not do as the Kings could be a landing spot for him earlier in the round.
30. Chicago Blackhawks – Evgeny Kuznetsov – C – Chelyabinsk
What does a team that just won the Stanley Cup need more of? Great talent. Kuznetsov won't be in North America this year but word from Yahoo's Dmitri Chesnokov is that he's set to come to North America next year to compete for a job be it in the NHL or AHL. That's the right attitude to have as it seems there's a great fear of Russians throughout the draft worried that they'll stay in Russia and never come over. Jeez guys, didn't the wall come down 20 years ago? Let's chill out.


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I'm at 3 months and counting from B-day... baby's due date. And I'm starting to feel it. Know how distracting it is to be in the middle of writing a tense scene and get kicked in the ribs... from the inside? Very. Anyway, little kicker is coming soon, and it feels like I have way more to do than is humanly possible to get done in 3 months. Like, just for starters, writing two books. Eek! Yeah, the sad truth is, that may not happen. And that's just the first thing on my list. There seem to be a million other things that need to get done. But, I'm noticing that with Baby #3 my attitude toward a lot of those things has changed drastically from the way I got ready for Baby #1. For example...
The Man: Maybe?
Me: good enough. It'll be summer. He doesn't need clothes.
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