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Enron's Got Nothing on Rick Berke!
The New York Times' hyped-up poll story.
When Howell Raines took over as editor of the New York Times, semi-paranoid Times-bashers on the right predicted he'd turn the dignified daily into a blatant crusader for liberal causes, infusing it with the slightly intemperate, self-righteous populism that characterized his version of the Times editorial page. The 9/11 attacks, which coincided with Raines' formal ascension, calmed these fears. Few readers would argue that the Times did anything but an excellent job covering the attacks and the resulting war in Afghanistan.
But now normalcy has returned—and the Times is in the middle of a huge, slightly intemperate, Raines-like crusade about Enron. Last Friday, I counted 14 separate Enron stories—and that's not including the two full pages of hearings transcripts, two editorials, and three op-ed pieces. Sure, Enron's collapse is a big deal, but this is not "follow the news" coverage. This is a mandated-from-above-throw-the-whole-staff-into-the-story news campaign. Such campaigns can produce great journalism, but they also typically produce distorted, propagandistic journalism.
Example? Richard L. Berke and Janet Elder's weird, front-page, above-the-fold report on the Times/CBS poll conducted Jan. 21-24. The poll contains 74 questions and yields many potentially newsworthy tidbits. Reading over the raw results, I was struck by:
- The doubling of Sen. Tom Daschle's "unfavorable" rating since June.
- The sharp drop (57 % to 47% since December) in the percentage of Americans who approve of "the way Congress is handling its job."
- A strange, 16-point net gain for Bush, since the summer, in a face-off with the congressional Democrats over who is "more likely to make the right decisions balancing the federal budget." (This, even as Bush spent the surplus!)
- Another large gain (46% to 58%) in the "favorable" rating of the GOP, beating a smaller (53% to 58%) gain for the Democrats.
- A measurable increase in the percent who think Bush "cares about the needs and problems of people like you."
- A truly bizarre decrease (57-50) in the percentage of people who think Bush favors the rich.
- Perhaps most significant, a sharp decrease (66% to 55%) since last March in those who say it is "very" or "somewhat" hard for them to keep up with their bills—and a big increase (33% to 45%) in the fraction who say it is "somewhat" or "very" easy to keep up with their bills. This could be considered hard evidence that the recession really has already ended. (Both numbers were better than in the same poll in 1995, a boom year.)
From this cornucopia of data, what did Berke and Elder pick to write about? That most of those surveyed (by a 45-10 margin) say "executives of the Enron corporation had closer ties to members of the Republican party" than to "members of the Democratic party."
By itself, this isn't a surprising result since executives of the Enron corporation had closer ties to members of the Republican party than to members of the Democratic party. Duh! The Times' unstartling discovery might be interesting if its poll showed that the percentage who see these closer ties had grown, but the poll doesn't show this because the question wasn't asked before.
It would also be significant if the poll showed that this closeness substantially tainted Republicans—as in the headline the Times' crusading editors gave to the piece: "Poll Finds Enron's Taint Clings More to G.O.P. Than Democrats." But there's not much evidence to support the "taint" headline either—since, as noted, the Republican "favorables" actually climbed more than the Democrats' numbers. Also, 61 percent of those polled said it wouldn't affect their vote if their congressman had actually received contributions from Enron. (Twenty-seven percent said they'd be "less likely" to give their support.)
The poll's one, non-trivial anti-Bush finding was an actual increase, from 44 to 58 percent, in the percentage of people who thought "members of the Bush Administration" are "mostly telling the truth but hiding something"—shortened to simply "hiding something" for hype purposes—about their pre-collapse Enron dealings. Yet the percentage who thought the Bushies were "mostly lying" remained unchanged, at 9 percent, despite a week of Enronomania. (The shift was from the "undecided" column.)
What's missing, of course, is an indication that the public cares very much that "members of the Bush Administration" may be hiding something about Enron. Berke and Elder try their best to suggest that the public does care, ominously intoning that the "perception could pose a threat to Republican candidates in the midterm elections." [Emphasis added.] ("Could" is such a great word!) But it's a difficult case for the Times reporters to make when the poll shows both overall Republican gains and Bush's "favorables" holding steady at very high levels (82 percent).
Berke and Elder try to fill this gap—the caring gap—in an extraordinarily bogus third paragraph. It begins:
In a demonstration of how the public's concerns have shifted in recent weeks, the economy has now supplanted battling terrorism—albeit by a slight margin—as the issue people want their elected officials to make a top priority. [Emphasis added.]
There are a number of things wrong with this sentence. The first is that it's false. The full results of the survey, which were linked to in the Times story on Sunday but have now (suspiciously!) disappeared, don't show the economy supplanting terrorism as a concern because the economy never ranked below terrorism as a concern. In fact, "terrorism" was listed only on the last two surveys, for an obvious reason. Before Christmas, the economy (according to my annotated printout of the now-vaporized charts) was picked by 21 percent of those surveyed, while terrorism was picked by 13 percent. In last week's poll, 20 percent picked the economy while 14 percent picked terrorism. If anything, that signals a small shift away from concern about the economy, toward battling terrorism—the opposite of the trend Berke and Elder dramatically announce.
Concerns about Enron, specifically, don't make the survey at all. Berke and Elder would clearly like their readers to think that concern over the "economy" can be equated with concern over the failed Houston energy company. After their false assertion about terrorism, and a reference to public opposition to deficits, they blithely assert that, despite Bush's high popularity,
"… it is unmistakable from the survey that he must also contend with the twin political predicaments posed by Enron and the economy." [Emphasis added.]
As they say, the wish fathers the lie. There is no evidence in the poll that Enron is a "predicament" for Bush on a par with the state of the economy (including the general rise in unemployment). It's certainly not "unmistakable."
Berke's not a very insightful reporter, but he doesn't usually get things completely wrong, so this smells like editor-induced error—specifically, error introduced by an editor rewriting Berke and Elder's piece so it meshes with the Enron-promotion campaign sanctioned at the paper's highest levels! You might say it is unmistakable from the story that the Times must contend with the twin journalistic predicaments posed by ideological bias and institutional self-interest. Members of the Raines Administration are mostly telling the truth but hyping something!
P.S.: Berke and Elder also say:
[T]he poll found that the Republicans' drive to make a high-profile villain of the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, has not succeeded. He is still a virtual unknown.
Huh? As noted, Daschle's "unfavorable" rating more than doubled, from 7 to 15 percent, and is now higher than his "favorable" rating, which is stuck at 11 percent. Though Daschle's not well-known, that's the sort of shift in "favorable-unfavorable ratio" that terrifies a potential presidential candidate (and makes him compromise on stimulus packages). If I were running the Daschle Demonization Campaign, I'd look at this poll and ask for a raise.
Update: It turns out that Andrew Sullivan is also on Berke's case, making many of these arguments and some of his own. Plus his site showed me a way to get to those elusive complete poll results. (They're here.)

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UNH gridders finish 5th in poll; coach honoredBy JOHN HABIB
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 06. 2014 10:59PM
Sean McDonnell rarely talks about polls and rankings during the regular season. But on Monday he didn't mind addressing the fact his program finished fifth overall in The Sports Network FCS Top 25 College Football and the FCS Coaches polls.
The No. 5 ranking matches the best final ranking in school history. In 2005, UNH also finished No. 5 with an 11-2 record. That team entered the post-season ranked No. 1 in the country, won a first-round game and lost in the quarterfinal round.
"I'm just happy for the entire team, particularly our senior class who wanted to set a legacy for this program," said McDonnell, who was named Monday as the Fall 2013 Division I FCS Football Coach of the Year by CaptainU, a college sports recruiting agency.
In his 15th season at the helm McDonnell led the Wildcats to a 10-5 overall record after the team started the season at 1-3. They bounced back strong, qualifying for the FCS tournament for a national-best 10th consecutive year.
The season ended with the program earning its first semifinal appearance. The Wildcats lost 52-14 in Fargo, N.D., to North Dakota State, which went on to beat Towson 35-7 for its third straight FCS national championship Saturday.
McDonnell said reaching the semifinals was a major accomplishment for his program.
"I mean the final ranking is one thing, but getting to the semifinals of the national tournament was phenomenal. Our seniors can always look back and say with pride 'look what we did' for the program. The seniors, every player on our roster, gave us everything a coach could ask of them. So I applaud them all."
The Wildcats remained a top-25 team in the The Sports Network poll for the 140th straight week. It's currently the longest active streak in the nation since Oct. 1, 2012, when Montana's weekly streak in The Sports Network poll was halted at 195.
UNH's 10-spot jump to the final No. 5 ranking (the Wildcats were ranked No. 15 in the previous Sports Network poll before playing North Dakota State) is the best in school history dating back to the 1990 season.
The Sports Network and FCS coaches polls both, in order, had North Dakota State (15-0) at No. 1 followed by national runner-up Towson (13-3), Eastern Washington (12-3), Eastern Illinois (12-2) and UNH (10-5). The Wildcats were the only team with five losses ranked in the top 10 in both polls.
McDonnell said his team was at a crossroad following a 44-28 loss to Towson on Oct. 5, dropping the team's record to 1-3.
"After that game our team held a players-only meeting and we started practicing on Sundays from that point on," said McDonnell. "Our seniors were determined to get us back on track and they led the way."
UNH won three straight after losing to Towson, lost to William & Mary and proceeded to win six straight including playoff wins against Lafayette (45-7), Maine (41-27) and Southeastern Louisiana (20-17) to reach the semifinal round.
"Bottom line is we had our backs against the wall after losing our fourth season game to William & Mary," said McDonnell. "We all knew we couldn't qualify for the tournament if we lost a fifth game during the regular season. Again, it's a testament to our seniors and team that we stayed focus and worked hard to win all those games down the stretch."
McDonnell, who owns a 114-71 record in 15 seasons, won the Eddie Robinson National Coach of the Year award in 2005.


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As a furniture maker with a fondness for the Federal period, I'm interested in the ellipse-shaped decorative details that regularly appear in furniture from the era. When I study these details, I think of master craftsmen of the day and wonder how they drew and cut elliptical shapes.
So I turned to one of today's masters, Will Neptune, to learn more about drawing and cutting this intriguing shape. Here, I'll share with you several of the tricks and techniques he taught me.
Like the old masters, you need to have a basic working knowledge of geometry that can be used to lay out the cavities for ellipse-shaped inlays and stringing, and to generate pleasing elliptical shapes for tabletops, door panels and more.
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When working with ellipses, the first thing to understand is the difference between a true ellipse and a false ellipse. A false ellipse is two different-sized radii blending together at four intervals around an oval shape. A true ellipse, on the other hand, is an ever-changing series of radii. But if you lay out a false ellipse on top of a true ellipse, you'll see they are very close to being exactly alike.
Why is this important to furniture craftsmen? The difference comes when laying out an ellipse. If you first lay out the false ellipse on paper, you know the four key center or swing points. Knowing these locations, you can connect a hand tool to a trammel-beam or a router to a circle-cutting jig and swing the arcs of the ellipse. Using the false ellipse provides accuracy and repeatability, and it saves time. In many cases, using a false ellipse is the smarter choice.
While it is easy to draw a true ellipse using the old "string and nail" method, it isn't always easy to apply that method to a tool in the shop. But it helps to understand the true ellipse and how it's drawn. Nails are driven into two points known as the foci (the plural of "focus"). The size of an ellipse is determined by the total distance between these two points and the length of the string that moves around them. To set the string length, a third nail is placed on the minor axis at the widest point of the ellipse and the string is then tied as it loops around all three nails. The third nail is then removed.
Once the nails are set and the string is taut, you are ready to scribe an ellipse. When you draw it, notice that the length of the string on either side of the pencil tip changes as it moves along. This variance occurs throughout the scribing of the ellipse, but the total length to the foci is continuous at every point throughout the ellipse.
Endless arrays of ellipses are formed by the location of the foci. The farther away from one another the points are, the more squashed the ellipse. The closer together the points, the more the ellipse resembles a circle. In fact, if the foci are at the same point, it forms a circle.
Video: See an ellipse plotted in less than four minutes using "Method 1" as described in this article.
More video: See a true ellipse drawn using two sticks that slide in perpendicular grooves.
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I don't expect honesty out of Democrats (or any liberal/socialist/neo-communist type), so why would I expect an honest appraisal of this thread from them?...They think a con-man Messiah is going to walk on water and put a unicorn in every driveway with pots of gold stolen from the rich and given to the poor...I will laugh when their "hope" just becomes another broken promise and their dollars become nothing but "change."
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So, for those of you who said that I was an opportunist, why don't you call up Chris Moore and ask him if anything I said was untrue? Would an "opportunist" offer paying full price for a kite, a kite that he thought he was getting for a serious discount?...Would an opportunist insist on the wrong kite getting into their hands before sending the actual kite I expected in the first place?...That is how I conducted myself, and if you fuckhead shit-for-brains have any question as to the truth of what I have said here, call Chris and ask him.
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DENVER – The Colorado Avalanche started the night by handing out a letter of apology to their fans over the lockout-delayed season and trying to soothe any hard feelings through giveaways and promotions.
Then they really won them over with their play on the ice.
Gabriel Landeskog and David Jones scored 1:35 apart in the final period to help Colorado rally for a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night in the Avalanche's home opener.
After the final horn, Colorado players skated around the rink and waved their sticks to salute the revved-up capacity crowd.
"It was unbelievable," said Landeskog, the 20-year-old captain of Colorado. "I think this was the best crowd I've played in front of at the Pepsi Center. It just feels great. To be away for so long and to come back and to see so many fans here and how loud they were and how into it, I think it felt like they missed us just as much as we missed them."
The fans certainly appreciated the offensive skills of P.A. Parenteau, the newest member of the Avalanche. Parenteau scored an insurance goal in the third period to help the team bounce back from a season opening loss in Minnesota.
Known for his passing, Parenteau showed he can find the net, too, especially when he's left all alone.
"Anytime you can score your first goal in your first home game, that's a good feeling," said Parenteau, who had 18 goals and 49 assists with the New York Islanders last season. "As the game went on, we played a much better game."
Kyle Clifford's goal in the opening period gave the Kings their first lead of the season and, given the way Jonathan Quick was playing in net, looked like it just might hold up. Quick was turning back everything thrown at him.
That is, until Landeskog beat Quick with a shot off a rebound early in the third. That gave the Avalanche some much-needed momentum against one of the best goaltenders in the league.
Soon after, Jones followed by sending a wrist shot over Quick's outstretched glove on a power play.
"We knew that if we kept pushing we were going to get one," said Landeskog, who was presented the Calder Trophy at centre ice before the game after being named the league's top rookie last season. "And if we got one, we knew we could get more on Quick. He's a good goalie, but we were pushing him all night it felt like."
Precisely what Quick expected out of the youthful Avalanche.
"They play with a lot of pace so you expect that every shift," Quick said.
Staked to a lead, Semyon Varlamov made it hold up as he finished with 28 saves.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Kings are winless two games into the season. They lost 5-2 to Chicago last weekend, dampening their banner-raising ceremony.
Any reason for concern, especially given the shortened season?
"I don't worry," Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. "That doesn't really solve much, does it?"
Los Angeles even had Anze Kopitar back in the lineup after he missed the season opener with a knee injury. Kopitar injured his knee shortly before the lockout ended in a collision while playing in Sweden. He has led Los Angeles in scoring in each of the last five seasons.
But Kopitar's presence couldn't help get the Kings' offence on track. He didn't have a shot on net in nearly 20 minutes of play.
Clifford gave the Kings the early lead off a rebound late in the first period. He set up the play, too, by dishing an outlet pass to Jordan Nolan, who lined a shot off Varlamov's pads and straight to the stick of the hustling Clifford.
It could've been more, but the Avs killed off two penalties.
In an attempt to win back fans, the Avalanche released an apology letter before the game, saying the organization understands the frustration.
"We do not take lightly the responsibility of ensuring that your experience exceeds the level of passion and enthusiasm that you provide our sport, team and players on a daily basis," the letter read.
It was signed by team governor Josh Kroenke, general manager Greg Sherman, coach Joe Sacco and Landeskog.
The team also played a "welcome back" video for the fans and gave out gifts such as season tickets.
But a win, well, that was the best makeup present the Avs could've given.
"They were waiting for something good to happen," Sacco said. "It took us a little over one period to do that. But once that happened you could feel the electricity in the building. It was fun for our guys again to play in front of their home fans."
Notes: Los Angeles placed defenceman Matt Greene (back) on injured reserve Monday. … Avs F Steve Downie left the game in the second period with a knee injury. … Avs F Matt Duchene took a puck off the chin but still played after trainers stitched up the cut.


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Students at Missouri S&T, including Josh Buehrer of Liberty, Mo., developed two plans to curb erosion of and beautify Yadkin Creek, which runs through the middle of Steelville.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The leader of the Cayman Islands government on Thursday rejected calls to resign over his arrest on suspicion of corruption, calling the investigation a plot by political enemies who are trying to weaken him and smear his reputation.
Premier McKeeva Bush shrugged off the allegations during a visit to Jamaica's capital on Thursday, two days after he was arrested by the British Caribbean territory's police and a day after being released on bail until early February.
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said they are looking into allegations that Bush misused his government credit card and abused his office by importing explosive devices without valid permits. He was arrested at his home on Grand Cayman on Tuesday morning and interviewed by investigators for two straight days.
No charges have been filed, but police describe their investigation as "very active."
There has been a growing call for Cayman's leader to step down since his arrest, which surprised many supporters and critics in the famed Caribbean tax haven. But after giving a commencement address to college graduates in Kingston, a defiant Bush said he has done nothing wrong and intends to stay on as premier.
Bush described Gov. Duncan Taylor, who represents the British monarchy in the three-island territory, as his "enemy." He implied his arrest was orchestrated by the Britain-appointed governor and other political foes.
"We are a British overseas territory and as such it is run by the governor and the commissioner of police. And so I can't miss that it is nothing but a political, very vindictive political witch hunt," Bush said.
A spokesman for the governor, whose post is largely ceremonial, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
In Jamaica, Bush said he wanted to reveal the "whole story" behind his arrest but his lawyers advised him not to speak specifically about the allegations. He said he was confident he will be vindicated in coming months.
"I would just say that I have done nothing wrong," he said. "I have made a lot of friends and I have made a lot of enemies. There are a lot of jealous people in a very small island."
Bush had been scheduled to receive an honorary doctorate for public service Thursday from Jamaica's University College of the Caribbean. But the school's chancellor, Herbert Thompson, said school officials decided to wait the outcome of the investigations.
But the Cayman leader did address the university's fall graduates as commencement speaker. Among other things, he advised them to be tenacious, always play by the rules, and tell the truth.
"A reputation takes a lifetime to build and a moment to dismantle," said the 57-year-old Bush, who made only a few passing references to his troubles during the address.
Bush's arrest has been the talk of the Cayman Islands, where zero direct taxation, financial secrecy and the global money it has lured have transformed the tiny territory into the world's sixth largest financial center.
He wields great power within the British territory because he is in charge of finance, tourism and development as well as being head of government.
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Now, for my question - I would like to know if anyone knows of any free hex editors out there. Before you respond, I have one stipulation: I need it to be on bootable media or in some sort of bootable format. Winhex is nice, but you have to have a Windows OS running. The whole point of this is to try and view information on disks that have been wiped with DBAN.
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Steve Ballmer famously chanted "Developers, developers, developers!" in 2000, and automakers have finally heard the call. GM will take part in AT&T's Developer Summit Hackathon this weekend, sponsoring a new Connected Car Challenge.
Developers at the Hackathon will have from noon Saturday until 2 p.m. Sunday to build their apps. Winners will be announced at 6 p.m. on Sunday, and some finalists will be selected to pitch their apps on stage during the Summit's keynote addresses on Monday.
AT&T says there will be more than $100,000 in cash and prizes at the Hackathon, including a Chevy Volt. Participants in the Connected Car Challenge can use AT&T's APIs and developer resources to build their apps.
In a press release, Mary Chan, GM's Global Connected Consumer vice president, said "We're particularly interested in apps and services that enhance the overall driving experience, vehicle ownership and uniquely leverage information about the vehicle."
GM has begun to launch app integration with its MyLink and IntelliLink systems for Chevy and Buick, although these systems integrate existing apps as connected services. The latest version of MyLink, which uses an interface similar to a smartphone, will come out in the Chevy Impala later this year.
Ford has sponsored two previous challenges at the TechCrunch Hackathon, the most recent in September, with developers using the Sync AppLink APIs to build apps compatible with Ford vehicles.
The AT&T Hackathon takes place this Saturday and Sunday at the Palms Resort in Las Vegas, just before CES 2013 takes over the city.
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Hamanos honor mother with UH Hilo scholarshipUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Posted: Aug 16, 2010
HONOLULU/HILO - Wayne Y. and Laurie Hamano of Kailua have created the Momoyo Hamano Endowed Excellence Scholarship at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo to honor Wayne's mother, Momoyo Hamano, who lives in Hilo. The Hamanos started this endowment with a $25,000 gift. Thanks to the Student Access and Success Fund–a matching gift program made possible by a donation from an anonymous donor–UH Hilo is matching the Hamano's donation dollar-for-dollar, effectively doubling its impact.
The Momoyo Hamano Endowed Excellence Scholarship will provide scholarship assistance to undergraduate students at UH Hilo in any area of study. Qualifying students must have a minimum 3.5 GPA and demonstrate financial need; preference will be given to graduates of high schools on the Big Island. The Hamanos' intent is to have the scholarship support a student through four consecutive years of college, provided all criteria continue to be met.
"As the child of hard-working immigrants, my mom was never afforded the opportunity to finish high school, let alone college. We hope that the endowed scholarship in her name will make it possible for future generations of students to successfully complete a university education," stated Wayne Hamano, vice chairman of Bank of Hawaii.
Momoyo Nishida Hamano, the oldest of five children, was born and raised in the Big Island plantation town of Kukuihaele, near Honoka'a. Her parents were Japanese immigrants who worked the sugar plantation. Sadly, her father passed away when she was in the 8th grade, and her mother had no choice but to pull her out of school so she could work on the plantation and help support the family. Momoyo later worked in Hilo at Kalakaua Laundry, Kress Store, Robins clothing stores and Hilo Hattie. While she always regretted not being able to return to school, she successfully passed on her value of higher education to her two sons, Wayne, an executive with Bank of Hawaii, and Paul, an attorney in Hilo.
UH Hilo Chancellor Don Straney commented, "It is a privilege to see the launch of the Momoyo Hamano Endowed Excellence Scholarship. This is the type of commitment that will help UH Hilo open the doors to opportunity by attracting and retaining high caliber local students."
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UH Hilo is pleased to offer a first-ever series of matching gift opportunities that will greatly increase student scholarship support and help remove barriers to student access and success during these challenging times. For a limited time only, several scholarship matching packages are available, thanks to a very generous $1 million anonymous gift which enables donors to double the value of new scholarship contributions.
For more information please contact the UH Hilo Office of Development at (808) 933-1945 or email Margaret Shiba at email@example.com
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The University of Hawai'i at Hilo is a comprehensive university with five degree-granting colleges, six master's programs and two doctoral programs. UH Hilo strives to integrate culture and science, offer hands-on learning opportunities to its students and use the Island of Hawai'i as a natural learning laboratory. Enrollment has doubled since 1980 to nearly 4,000 students coming from all 50 states and more than 40 countries. Please visit www.uhh.hawaii.edu.


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Area Obituaries
Joseph Thomas Anderson, newborn, was born and died Aug. 27, 2006.
Survivors include his mother, Melissa Hunt, Gainestown; his father, Thomas Anderson, Montgomery; one sister, Shana Anderson, Gainestown; maternal grandmother, Jessie Kemp, Gainestown; uncles, aunts, great-uncles, great-aunts and other relatives.
A graveside service will be Thursday, (today), Aug. 31 at 11 a.m. at Antioch African Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery in Gainestown with Rev. Robert Taylor to officiate. Andrews Funeral Home of Jackson will direct.
Bertie Mae Powell Woodyard, 88, of Leroy died Aug. 24, 2006 at her residence.
She was born Nov. 11, 1917. She was a member of Pine Grove United Methodist Church in Leroy. She was a Leroy Senior Citizen VIP. She was a member of the Wagarville Nutrition Organization. She was a retired seamstress from Vanity Fair.
Survivors include two sons, Joe Woodyard, Leroy, Tarzan Connerly, Northport, Fla.; one stepson, George Wilder Woodyard, Choctaw, Okla.; three daughters, Juanita Conerly Catrett, Sunflower, Flora Woodyard Pettis, Mary Woodyard Guy, both of Leroy; three stepdaughters, Louise Woodyard Anderson, Jackson, Catherine Woodyard Trott, Saraland, Frankie Woodyard Havard, Chickasaw; 23 grandchildren; 44 great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren.
The service was Aug. 26 at 2 p.m. at the Pine Grove United Methodist Church in Leroy. Burial was in the Pine Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery in Leroy. Lathan Funeral Home of Jackson directed.
Ruth Eugenia Harvell, 83, of Pine Hill died Aug. 27, 2006 at Camden Nursing Facility.
She was born June 16, 1923 in Pine Hill. She was a member of Yellow Bluff Baptist Church. She was a former cleaner at a local shirt factory.
Survivors include one sister, Gertrude Reed, Frisco City; niece and caretaker, Mable Avritt, Pine Hill; several other nephews and nieces.
The service was Aug. 29 at 11 a.m. at the chapel of O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Morris Hill officiating. Burial was in the Kelly Cemetery in Pine Hill. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
Active pallbearers were Heustis Avritt, Robert Avritt, Kevin Avritt, Vergle Goodman, John Reed Jr. and Mark Smith.
Honorary pallbearers were John D. Champion, Thurman Harvell, Rex Avritt and Danny Bender.
John DeWitt Lynn, 62, of Mobile died Aug. 23, 2006 at his residence.
He was born July 1, 1944 in Vidalia, Ga. He worked security with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Survivors include his father, John Lester Lynn Jr., Thomasville; his brother, Wendell R. Lynn, Iraq.
A graveside service was held Aug. 26 at 10 a.m. at the Choctaw Corner Cemetery in Thomasville with Rev. Philip Craddock officiating. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
A.G. Gilmore, 55, of Coffeeville died Aug. 20, 2006 at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital.
He was born Nov. 6, 1950. He was employed at Ciba Geigy Corp. in McIntosh.
Survivors include four sons, A.G. Gilmore III, Courtland Agee, Shawnte Agee, all of Mobile, Percy O'Neal Gilmore, Japan; six daughters, Toni Gilmore, Richmond, Va., Tracy Pettaway, Courtney Agee, Kendra Agee, Kimberly Agee, Shannon Agee, all of Mobile; four brothers, Larry Gilmore, Detroit, Mich., Henry Gilmore, Kenny Gilmore, Athur Gilmore, all of Mobile; four sisters, Doris Files, Detroit, Mich., Evelyn Lamar, Claudia Richardson, Patricia Gilmore, all of Mobile; eight grandchildren.
The service was Aug. 28 at 11 a.m. at the St. Paul Baptist Church of Salitpa. Burial was in the St. Paul Baptist Church Cemetery. Jackson Memorial Funeral Home directed.
Nettie Gray Fox, 76, of Walker Springs died Aug. 21, 2006 at Mobile Infirmary Medical Center.
She was born March 27, 1930. She was a member of the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church of Walker Springs. She was employed as a nurses aid. She served as a crusader counselor, church secretary, president of both the senior missionary and matron bands, member of the senior choir. She was presently serving on the finance committee, program committee and president of the pastor's aid. She was also a member of the Union Missionary Baptist District where she served as the secretary for the Association and the Women's Convention. She was also an instructor for the Sunday school congress.
Survivors include seven sons, Henry Scott, Inglewood, Calif., M. Joe Scott, Paul Scott, Tommie Scott, all of Los Angeles, Calif., Edward Scott, Benny Scott, Gregory Scott, all of Walker Springs; two daughters, Vada Johnson, Eight Mile, Vera Williams, Jackson; two brothers, Theodore Pritchett, Walker Springs, Cleon Pritchett, Woodridge, Va.; one sister, Rosie Lee Jemison, Walker Springs; 16 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren.
The service was Aug. 26 at 11 a.m. at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Walker Springs. Burial was in the Hotel Hill Cemetery in Walker Springs with Jackson Memorial Funeral Home directing.


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Brad Pitt: 'World War Z' Trailer & Poster!
Check out this newly released poster and trailer from Brad Pitt's upcoming flick World War Z!
Here's a synopsis of the film: United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt) traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself.
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World War Z, which also stars Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, and David Morse, hits theaters on June 21!
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Check out this new course brought to you by the Department of Politics and International Affairs! Starting this upcoming Fall 2013 semester, Environmental Injustice through Film will be available for students to take. Taught by Dr. John Hultgren, this course looks will consider complex questions through films that highlight different aspects of the human/nature relationship, and readings that will help us critically engage with the films. Some issues that may be covered in this course include:
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson
Here at exbii our goal has always been to provide entertainment keeping in mind the demands and taste of our esteemed members. With time story section has expanded massively and went on to become the second biggest section of exbii. With this sudden expansion we have noticed growing requests from our members for prefixes that are more suitable for story section and sub sections which will make browsing the stories easier. Today on behalf of admin team I'm proud to announce that we have accepted both these requests. Allow me to tell you more about the new changes we have implemented in story section.
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We are also happy to announce new prefixes in story section and they are
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The admin team have already started moving all the stories to their respective sub sections after giving them suitable prefixes. You can also help us out by reporting any threads which might have been wrongly categorized.
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Our teachers, the troops at homeMonday, December 17th, 2012
One of the many tragedies of the Vietnam War was the way that many soldiers were treated (or not treated) when they returned home. A nation that had been celebrating Veterans Day every 11-11-11 and mourning together every Memorial Day was largely unable to separate the Vietnam War soldier from the national anguish over the war itself.
There wasn't a New York ticker tape parade for Vietnam vets until 1985, more than a decade after the war ended. It wasn't until Veterans Day this year that Utah recognized their service in a ceremony at the Utah State Capitol.
Here's what President Obama said to Vietnam vets in comments at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial just this past Memorial Day:
You were often blamed for a war you didn't start, when you should have been commended for serving your country with valor. You were sometimes blamed for misdeeds of a few, when the honorable service of the many should have been praised. You came home and sometimes were denigrated, when you should have been celebrated. It was a national shame, a disgrace that should have never happened.
I think we will soon look back on the past 10 years or so of full-out corporate reform as a similar time, when some of our bravest, most dedicated public servants were called all sorts of names and treated like pariahs and "the problem in education" in their own country.
Secretary of Education Rod Paige called the NEA a "terrorist organization" and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan applauded the mass firing of teachers in Rhode Island as "courageous."
Yes, we need to regulate guns. Yes, we need to provide more mental health services.
But far easier to do in the short term is to completely disavow the hateful speech and hostile acts being perpetrated on our teachers. We have once again become a nation that honors our troops. We need to sport those yellow ribbons for our teachers as well.
A couple of years ago, I quoted a letter to the Tribune by Gen. Will Clark, who wrote:
Do military leaders blame their troops when a battle is lost? As a retired military officer, I know a military leader would never do that. This responsibility code does not exist for our politicians and senior education leaders…(O)ur politicians and education policy-makers are causing us to lose the war to improve education because they refuse to target a clear objective. Even worse they blame front-line teachers for that loss.
As President Obama said so movingly last night, "(T)his job of keeping our children safe and teaching them well is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community and the help of a nation."
We are all in this together, but we must never forget who is on the front lines in our schools, or forget to honor and respect them.


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World Junior Championships – Gold Medal Game
Canada 5 vs. Sweden 1
W Dana Tyrell, CAN: Did not play (injured – out for tournament).
G Dustin Tokarski, CAN: Win, 39 saves on 40 shots, *Canada Player of the Game*
That's more like it.
Dustin Tokarski showed why he's a big game goaltender, stopping 39 of 40 shots to help Canada to their fifth straight World Junior Championship gold medal Monday night.
Tokarski took a shutout into the third period before surrendering his only goal, and outplayed Sweden's Jacob Markstrom (a Florida Panthers pick to boot) for the win.
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Chance News 15
Take statistics. Sorry, but you'll find later in life that it's handy to know what a standard deviation is.
New York Times, March 2, 2006
This appears on a list of core knowledge that Brooks says will be sufficient to give you a great education even if you don't make Harvard.
From the February 2006 RSS news we have:
One primary school in East London has a catchment area of 110 metres.
23 October 2005
More on medical studies that conflict with previous studies
Humans, being what they are, it is only natural that when a study's consequences seem plausible there is no need to look too closely. On the other hand, when the outcomes go against what was expected, a great deal of inspection is called for. This was discussed here.
The Wall Street Journal of February 28, 2006 details possible reasons for why the Women's Health Initiative might have had design flaws leading to "murky results." In summary, the WSJ reported:
- Calcium/Vitamin D study
- Message: Supplements don't protect bones or cut risk of colorectal cancer.
- Problem: Those in placebo group also took supplements in many cases.
- Message: Supplements don't protect bones or cut risk of colorectal cancer.
- Low-fat diet study:
- Message: Doesn't cut risk of breast cancer.
- Problem: Few met the fat goal.
- A 22% drop in risk for women who cut fat the most got little emphasis.
- Message: Doesn't cut risk of breast cancer.
- Hormone study:
- Message: No benefit, possible increased cancer and heart risk.
- Problem: Most in study were too old for this to apply to menopausal women.
- Message: No benefit, possible increased cancer and heart risk.
More generally, according to the WSJ, "Design problems in all of the trials mean the results don't really answer the questions they were supposed to address. And a flawed communications effort led to widespread misinterpretation of results by the news media and public."
In particular, in order to reduce the number of participants for the studies, "more than half [of the women] took part in at least two of them, and more that 5,000 were in all three trials." As might be imagined, "Among problems this posed was simple burnout" which "contributed to compliance problems that plagued all three and hurt the reliability of their results."
Another problem was the difficulty of double blinding for the hormone study since any hot flashes would indicate to the patient (and to her physician) that she was in the placebo arm; to get around this impediment, the vast majority of the women recruited were well past menopause, thus biasing the results against the benefits of hormone replacement.
So where are we after 68,132 female participants, "fifteen years and $725 million later"? More than likely, the Women's Health Initiative study will be in and out of the news for some time to come because of its ambiguity.
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Economists analyze the tv show "Deal or No Deal?"
Why game shows have economists glued to their TVs
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 12, 2006
Charles Forelle
Economists Learn from Game Show 'Deal or No Deal'
NPR, March 3, 2006, All things considered
David Kestenbaum
Deal or No Deal? Decision making under risk in a large-payoff game show
Thierry Post, Martijn Van Den Assem, Guido Baltussen, Richard H. Thaler
February 2006
The authors of the research paper write:
The popular television game show "Deal or No Deal" offers a unique opportunity for analyzing decision making under risk: it involves very large and wide-ranging stakes, simple stop-go decisions that require minimal skill, knowledge or strategy and near-certainty about the probability distribution.
Here is a nice description of the game from the MS Math in the Media magazine:
- Twenty-six known amounts of money, ranging from one cent to one million dollars, are (symbolically) randomly placed in 26 numbered, sealed briefcases. The contestant chooses a briefcase. The unknown sum in the briefcase is the contestant's.
- In the first round of play, the contestant chooses 6 of the remaining 25 briefcases to open. Then the "banker" offers to buy the contestant's briefcase for a sum based on its expected value, given the information now at hand, but tweaked sometimes to make the game more interesting. The contestant can accept ("Deal") or opt to continue play ("No Deal").
- If the game continues, 5 more briefcases are opened in the second round, another offer is made, and accepted or refused. If the contestant continues to refuse the banker's offers, subsequent rounds open 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1 briefcases until only two are left.
- The banker makes one last offer; the contestant accepts that offer or takes whatever money is in the initially chosen briefcase.
So the banker is always trying to buy out the player. If he fails the player will end up with the amount in his suitcase.
The best way to understand the game is to play it here on the NBC website.
We did this playing the only the first round. We chose number 13 for our briefcase. We were then asked to choose six briefcases. We chose suitcases 3,10,12,13,19, 25. Here is the result of this round:
Our six choices eliminated the amounts 1, 50, 75, 300, 400,000, 500,000. The expected value of our suitcase is now the average of the amounts in the remaining suitcases. Making this calculation We find that this is $125,900 (rounded to the nearest dollar). The banker has offered us $29,854 to quit. So We would have to be pretty risk adverse to accept the banker's offer at this point.
In order to see if the banker's offers get better, we played a second game in which we refused all the banker's offers. With this strategy we start with an expected winning given by the average of the initial amounts which we found to be $131,478.
We then played all 9 rounds. In each round we recalculated the expected amount in our briefcase and recorded the banker's offer but refused it. Here are the results:
Expected Value
We note that the banker's offer at each round is less than the expected amount in our suitcase. While it seems clear at the beginning we are right to refuse the offer, as we get nearer the end this is not so obvious. For example, after the 8th round the only amounts available were $400, $25,000, and $1,000,000. We are offered $317,700, which is a pretty nice amount of money. If we reject it we would have a 2/3 chance of ending up with a relatively small amount and a 1/3 chance of getting the million dollars. We might well be risk averse at this point and accept the offer. However, we didn't and the suitcase the chose had the $400. Now the only amounts left were $25,000 and $1,000,000. We are now offered $367,500. Again we might think twice about refusing this. But we did refuse it and we opened the last suitcase, which had the million dollars, and so our suitcase had $25,000. If you watch the TV program you will find that most contestants refuse the banker's offers in the early rounds but accept it in one of the later rounds.
Deal or No Deal was introduced in Australia in 2003 and currently airs in 38 countries. Post and his co-authors obtained videos of 53 episodes from Australia and the Netherlands. From these they determined, for each contestant and each round, the situation the contestant faced in terms of the amounts of money in the remaining briefcases, the banker's offer and their decision to accept or refuse the offer. They then analyze this data using a measure of relative risk aversion developed by Arrow and Pratt (RRA). The authors write:
In every game round, a unique RRA coefficient can be determined at which the contestant would be indifferent between accepting and rejecting the bank offer. If the contestant accepts the offer, his RRA must be higher than this value; if the offer is rejected, his RRA must be lower.
They also investigate how this RRA changes according to other variables such as estimated income and education.
The authors find that, for a wealth level of €25,000, an average over all the contestants gives an RRA 1.61. This estimate decreases when the wealth level decreases and increases when it increases. The degree of risk aversion differs strongly across the contestants, some exhibiting strong risk averse behavior (RRA > 5) and others risk seeking behavior (RRA < 0). They say:
The degree of risk aversion differs strongly across the contestants, some exhibiting strong risk averse behavior (RRA > 5) and others risk seeking behavior (RRA< 0). The differences can be explained in large part by the earlier outcomes experienced by the contestants in previous rounds of the game. Most notably, RRA generally decreases following losses. Contestants facing a large reduction in the expected prize during the game even exhibit risk seeking behavior.
(1) Suppose that at each round the banker offered you the expected value of the amount in your briefcase and you were only interested in maximizing your expected winning. Would it matter when you stopped?
(2) On the web version, the banker is oviously using an algorithm to determine the amount of money to offer you on a particular round which depends only on information available at the beginning of the round. Professor Post tells us:
The bank behaved in a predictable manner, with offers around 5-10% of expected value in round one and 100% in the later rounds. Also, for losers, the offers are relatively generous, sometimes exceeding 100%.
Assume that, based on this information, we make a model for the banker's offers. How would you determine the optional stopping rule?
Submited by Laurie Snell
Sexual Prediction
Predicting the sex of fetus has been around for as long as children have been born. According to Roger Dobson of The Independent (March 7, 2006) there are many "theories from the wilder side."
- Coffee: If a man has coffee before sex, the Y-sperm is more active and likely to result in a boy.
- Dreams: Whatever sex of child a mother dreams of having, she will have the opposite.
- Age: As a mother gets older, her chance of conceiving a boy increases.
- Positions: Missionary position is best for a girl, says Italian folklore.
- Underwear: Men who wear loose underwear are more likely to produce boys.
And several others which we would also view as less than scientific. Now, however, modern methods of predictions with probabilities attached exist. Unfortunately, it is difficult to tell from the article whether it is P(X|Y) or P(Y|X). For example, "The Whelan method, named after Dr. Elizabeth Whelen," and depends on the timing of ovulation, "is claimed to be some 68 per cent effective for boys and 56 per cent for girls." Assuming that boys and girls are equally likely and "effective" means P(Test Boy|Boy) = .68, and P(Test Girl|Girl) = .56, translates via Bayesian inversion to a not very impressive P(Boy|Test Boy) = .61 and P(Girl|Test Girl) =.64.
"Another technique, the MicroSort method" which depends on DNA relating to the difference in size of the X and Y chromosomes, yields "success" rates of 88 per cent for girls and 73 per cent for boys. Assuming again that boys and girls are equally likely and "success" is synonymous with "effective," this translates via Bayesian inversion to a slightly more striking P(Boy|Test Boy) = .86 and P(Girl|Test Girl) =.77.
None of these methods can compare with that of the Acu-Gen Biolab which claims 99.9 per cent "accuracy," a term which sounds like "effective" or "success" but may not mean anything because some mothers who paid $25 for the kit and the $250 for the analysis wound up with a child of the other kind than what they were told. According to the Boston Globe (March 1, 2006), "Alleging that their pregnancies had been marred by fraud, 16 women have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Lowell laboratory that promises to determine the gender of an embryo by testing the mother's blood just five weeks after conception. In the suit filed in US District Court in Boston, the women charged that despite its claim of 99.9 percent accuracy, Acu-Gen Biolab of Lowell got the genders of their babies wrong, causing confusion and distress, and then refused to make good on its double-your-money-back guarantee."
Whether believer or buyer, always beware.
1. What are the ethical implications of an inexpensive, non-invasive sex prediction procedure which is available very early on in a pregnancy? What are the implications for the anti-abortion movement and for the pro-choice adherents?
2. Comment upon the linguistic dangers of using ordinary English, as in "effective," "success" and "accuracy" for well-defined statistical concepts.
3. Are you surprised that Acu-Gen Biolab "refused to make good on its double-your-money-back guarantee"? What excuses or reasons do you think the firm would give for claiming the fault lies with the woman and not with the technique?


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April 10, 2013 — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) on Tuesday signed into a law a measure (HB 57) that will impose stricter regulations on abortion clinics, prompting opponents to warn that they might launch a legal challenge, CNN reports (Martinez/Botelho, CNN, 4/9).
The measure would require that abortion providers obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals and that abortion clinics meet the same building standards as ambulatory clinics. In addition, the bill would prohibit anyone other than a physician from dispensing medication abortion drugs, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison and a $15,000 fine for providers violating the requirement.
The bill also would require that abortion providers ask minors younger than age 16 to identify the man involved in the pregnancy. If the minor responds and the man is more than two years older than the minor, providers would be required to report the case to police. Providers also would be required to report the names of all minors younger than age 14 who seek abortions to the state Department of Human Resources (Women's Health Policy Report, 4/9).
The law is scheduled to take effect on July 1 (Cason, Alabama Live, 4/9).
Potential Implications
Planned Parenthood Southeast Vice President of Public Policy Nikema Williams in a statement said, "[M]edical experts agree that laws requiring admitting privileges for abortion don't increase health or safety for a woman," adding, "They just limit a woman's access to safe and legal abortion" (CNN, 4/9).
The law is similar to a Mississippi measure that threatens to close the only abortion clinic in the state. The clinic -- Jackson Women's Health Organization -- was unable to obtain admitting privileges at any local hospitals and now awaits a hearing before the state Department of Health on whether it can remain open.
There are five abortion clinics in Alabama, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. Only one of the clinics has a physician with local hospital admitting privileges, according to Planned Parenthood (Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 4/9).
Planned Parenthood warned of an "almost certain legal challenge" to the Alabama measure (CNN, 4/9). Separately, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Alexa Kolbi-Molinas said the organization "will take all appropriate steps, including filing a challenge to block the law if necessary, to ensure that a woman in Alabama can continue to access safe abortion care."
Supporters of the bill said it is designed to improve patient safety (Alabama Live, 4/9). Bentley said he is not troubled by the prospect that clinics might close. "As a physician and as a governor, I am proud to sign this legislation," said Bentley, who is a dermatologist (Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 4/9).


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File Carving Bibliography
From ForensicsWiki
File Carving Bibliography
In chronological order, oldest to most recent
Basic Techniques
An analysis of disc carving techniques, Mikus, Nicholas A. " Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School. March 2005.
Scalpel: A Frugal, High Performance File Carver, Golden G. Richard and Vassil Roussev, DFRWS 2005
Fragment Recovery Carving
Kulesh Shanmugasundaram - Automatic Reassembly of Document Fragments via Data Compression
- Presented at the 2nd Digital Forensics Research Workshop pp. 152--159,2002
- BibtexAuthor : Kulesh Shanmugasundaram
Title : Automatic Reassembly of Document Fragments via Data Compression
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Date : 2002
Automated Reassembly of Fragmented Images, Anandabrata Pal, Kulesh Shanmugasundaram, Nasir Memon, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003.
"Carving Contiguous and Fragmented Files with Fast Object Validation", Garfinkel, S.,, Digital Forensics Workshop (DFRWS 2007), Pittsburgh, PA, August 2007.
Sector Discrimination
Yoginder Singh Dandass, Nathan Joseph Necaise, Sherry Reede Thomas - An Empirical Analysis of Disk Sector Hashes for Data Carving


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There is a bit on the net this week on Fr Corapi, but while I like Fr. Longnecker and Mark Shea if I had to pick someone to comment on his situation, I'd pick this guy.
I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose. For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are rivalries among you. I mean that each of you is saying, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Kephas," or "I belong to Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
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There is a reason why Pride is first on the deadly sin list, every priest no matter how skilled or right should keep this in mind.


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Lafayette Little League Beats Rival South Lake Charles Handily
A team that has been an obstacle to the Lafayette Little League All Star team (11-12 year old) in the past was no match for them Sunday night. South Lake Charles, who defeated Lafayette last year in the State Tournament, was eliminated by the boys from the Hub City in an 11-4 final.
After two scoreless innings, Lafayette scored a run on an infield throwing error by SLC in the top of the 3rd inning. The 4th inning then proved to be a huge one for Lafayette as they scored seven runs, capped off by a 3-run homer by Ross Gaspard. That made the score 8-0 Lafayette.
In the 5th inning, with Lafayette now leading 9-0, SLC made some noise, scoring four runs on four hits. That cut the lead to 9-4, but that would be the closest SLC got.
On the mound for Lafayette, Henry Schoeffler pitched 3-plus innings of scoreless baseball before yielding to Matt Savoie and eventually Gaspard.
With the victory, Lafayette advances to take on Bossier City in a 6:30 p.m. Monday night game. Lafayette, who lost in heartbreaking fashion to Bossier City Saturday night, must beat Bossier City twice to win the state tournament at Chappapeela Sports Park in Hammond.
Meanwhile, the 13-14 year old Lafayette Little League All-Star team had Sunday off after winning their second game of the tournament in Shreveport, defeating Jackson Parish 10-0 in five innings. Lafayette will play Shreveport Monday night at 8:00 p.m. in the winners bracket final.
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A Gadsden couple were scammed out of $540 Wednesday in a deal to purchase a Siberian Husky from a website.
A Gadsden couple were scammed out of $540 Wednesday in a deal to purchase a Siberian Husky from a website.
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A leather flight jacket, sunglasses, a leather shoulder bag and an AT&T smartphone were stolen between Feb. 25 and Feb. 26 from a residence on Reynolds Street.
A purse containing $100 was stolen between Tuesday and Wednesday from a vehicle on Roxbury Street.
A purple Chevrolet pickup truck was stolen between Tuesday and Wednesday from a residence on Stroud Avenue.
A woman's methadone was stolen from her about Feb. 13 at Gadsden Health Care on Davis Drive. She went to the hospital, and it was determined there was no methadone in her system.
A table, bags of clothing, knives, antiques valued at $500, a Sony digital camera and several pairs of shoes were stolen between Feb. 8 and Monday from a residence on California Avenue.
A 32-year-old man told Gadsden Police he was robbed Tuesday of $223. The man met with two strangers about 3:20 p.m. near the Petro gas station on West Grand Avenue in Gadsden to buy an iPad. He said the men took his money, got into their car and fled south on Interstate 59.
Joshua Adam Washburn, 30, Gadsden, first-degree receiving stolen property, accused of stealing and pawning a riding lawn mower valued at $3,500 from a woman's residence on Argyle Place, $5,000 bond.
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Estonian traitor Simm ruled to serve full 12.5 years in prison
A court in Tartu has decided that the Estonian Defence Ministry ex-official Herman Simm, found guilty of treason in 2009 and sentenced to 12.5 years in jail, has to serve his full sentence, not to be released earlier.
Estonian public broadcaster ERR reports that the ruling was made on Wednesday, June 20, about Simm, 71, who is incarcerated in Tartu Prision after being found Simm guilty of treason for passing on information to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Serviceover a period of nearly 13 years.
He was convicted in 2009 and is expected to be released in 2021 and has also been fined with 1 380 000 euros.
An ex-Colonel at the Soviet military police during the last phase of the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Simm served as the chief of the security department of the Estonian Ministry of Defence.
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Zerry @ 2018-09-19 23:04:00
Speed cameras itself cause problems nowadays. Better would be cameras meaduring average speed between points.
james @ 2018-09-17 02:42:37
@ 2018-09-15 08:49:42
AlexM @ 2018-09-13 04:15:59
But of course, BNN hasnt bothered to investigate what materials have already, secretly, been removed or destroyed !! And of course it would be nice to know exactly what changes are envisaged. Will they perhaps give immunity and protection to possibly murderers or to those responsible for sending people to the Gulags or other Siberian freezers ?? I was once told - "if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well".
Prophet @ 2018-09-10 11:24:33