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Situation Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
Joesph walked Chuck, a potential new employee, through his company. He briefly went over the safety precautions of a couple machines, their uses, and regular day-to-day activity. Joseph was very impressed with Chuck's qualifications and knowledge on the workings of his business. Chuck was applying for a position in shipping. Joseph took him by the wall where a single dollar hung up. He proudly explained that it was the first dollar he ever made, almost 20 years ago, when the business first started. Finally Joseph brought the man outside and showed him his parking spot. Chuck thanked Joseph for the tour, but then directed Joseph to put his hands over his head.
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What happened?
HintOne word is more important than the others.
AnswerJoseph was a counterfeiter, and Chuck was an undercover police officer. Joseph's business was to create counterfeit bills.
Chuck finally had the evidence to arrest Joseph when he showed him "the first dollar he ever MADE".
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Next Saturday is Senior Prom Night for the Millersville High School. This always-anticipated event has had the student gossip buzzing all week. While many of the couples going were no surprise, as they'd been dating awhile, some couples would make the Senior Prom their first date. Determine the full name of each couple, and whether the Senior Prom is each couple's first date or if they'd been dating previously.
1. Dave Larsen didn't ask Ms. Green to the prom. Mr. Finch went to the prom with Ms. Jenson.
2. Thomas and the girl he asked to the prom had been dating previously.
3. The three couples who had not been dating previously were Mr. Barr and Susan, Joe and Maryann, and Ms. Swift and Edward.
4. Cindy Parker didn't go to the prom with Thomas but she did go with a boy she had dated previously.
5. Collette, whose last name wasn't Green, went to the prom with the boy whose last name was Mann.
6. Mr. Leach, whose first name wasn't Joe, went to the prom with a girl he hadn't dated before.
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49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is one of the fastest rising players in the NFL and his college coach will stop by Pro Football Talk on NBC Sports Network to talk about his former pupil.
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The escalation of global sanctions against Iran has deepened not only the country's isolation from the rest of the world but also fissures within.
The divisions – exposed by the 2009 protests of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection – are not only political. They have also seeped into the country's private sphere, fracturing families, alienating friends and colleagues, and creating new tensions in everyday interactions – particularly between the lower-income, often more pious citizens and the more wealthy urban classes.
While ordinary Iranians have continued to live their daily lives, they do so with a latent fear that Iran's social and economic pressures may one day become too much to bear.
A new film, which won a Golden Globe last weekend, depicts these ruptures beautifully – without ever mentioning politics.
In "Nader and Simin: A Separation," director Asghar Farhadi juxtaposes love and despair, Iranians' yearning for their homeland even as they seek to leave it, mirroring the hopelessness many Iranians feel about the future of their country.
The film, which premieres in Washington tonight and Boston next weekend, has been hailed by film critics and directors inside Iran and won great international acclaim as well. It received the Golden Bear for Best Film and Silver Bears for Best Actress and Best Actor ensembles at the 2011 Berlinale Film Festival and has been put forward as Iran's official candidate for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards Feb. 26. It has already won awards at film festivals in the United States, Australia, Croatia, Russia, Britain, Spain, and parts of Asia.
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"A Separation" centers on the predicament of Nader and Simin, an upper-middle-class couple seeking a divorce. Nader's wife, Simin, wants to leave Tehran for the United States in hopes of achieving a better future for their 11-year-old daughter, Termeh, while her husband wants to stay in Iran to care for his father, whose mental health is deteriorating.
The symbolism is palpable. Nader, Simin, and Termeh's US visas require them to leave within 40 days, a period which in Iranian tradition marks the mourning period after a loved one's death.
Simin is mourning the loss of her homeland and wants to make a fresh start in America. But when the couple decides to separate and she packs her bags to leave, Nader's father – Agha Joon – calls her name and takes her hand. Simin has shown him love, and he doesn't want her to leave.
The metaphor poses a dilemma to viewers: Must Iranians leave their homeland in order to attain a better future, or should they stay and try to care for – and possibly change – their country, even as it appears to be wasting away?
"There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things," says Mr. Farhadi, the director. "I'm not judging whether one is right or wrong.... Everybody has a certain element of what could be considered as wrong or bad, but they do it for reasons we can understand," he says.
Stark disparities in class, religion
Iran's unrelenting social, economic, and religious constrictions are aptly portrayed in A Separation, whose characters peer into one another's lives through see-through partitions, transparent shades, and glass windows.
After Simin leaves, Nader hires Razieh, a deeply religious woman, as a housekeeper and caretaker for his father. Razieh is pregnant and travels two hours by bus and taxi with her young daughter to get to and from Nader's apartment, but takes the job because her husband is unemployed and deeply in debt.
The seemingly ordinary decisions made by the characters lead to a series of terrible consequences, revealing stark disparities in class and religion that lie at the heart of Iran's social fabric today.
Farhadi insists A Separation is not meant to antagonize any one of the characters, or judge the deceptions they engage in.
"Everybody has a certain element of what could be considered as wrong or bad, but they do it for reasons we can understand," he says.
In the film, Simin emphatically states she wants a divorce, but in truth wants Nader to ask her to stay. Razieh is proud of her honesty and devotion to Islam, yet lies to her husband about working in the home of a single man. Nader lies to a state judge about knowing of Razieh's pregnancy, but tells Termeh the truth, ultimately encumbering his young daughter with the decision of whether or not to lie to the judge as well.
"In a sense, human agency has decreased," says Farhadi. "The characters are inherently good, but their environment pushes them to fight with one another."
At the end of the film, when Nader and Simin proceed with their divorce even after Agha Joon's death, the final decision of whether to live with Nader and stay in Iran, or leave the country with Simin, lies with their child, Termeh. It is a great burden for an 11-year-old to bear alone, but it is something she must do, according to Farhadi.
"Termeh represents the future generation in Iran, which will eventually attain freedom," says the director. "But in Iran, we think democracy means comfort, when in fact freedom means having to bear responsibility, which is difficult. Thus Termeh is experiencing freedom: but it is painful."


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Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and director.
His film roles include federal marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals, the villain "Two-Face" in Batman Forever, terrorist William Strannix in Under Siege, Agent K in the Men in Black films, Texas Ranger and Rancher Woodrow F. Call in Lonesome Dove, Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, a Texas_Ranger in Man of the House and Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Jones has also portrayed real-life figures such as businessman Howard Hughes, executed murderer Gary Gilmore, Doolittle Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter and baseball great Ty Cobb.
Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (née Scott), a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, an oil field worker; the two were married and divorced twice. Jones, an eighth-generation Texan, had a Cherokee grandparent. He was a resident of Midland, Texas and attended Robert E. Lee High School.


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Jewish World Review Feb 24, 2014 / 24 Adar I, 5774
Defining the Obama years: Historians already are drafting the president's legacy, which he still has time to change
By David M. Shribman
JewishWorldReview.com | Everything today is faster than it used to be, but this seems astonishing: Historians already are shaping their assessments of Barack Obama's presidency.
That's in part because the president has courted historians — Michael Beschloss, H. W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Robert Caro, Robert Dallek, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Kennedy, among many — so assiduously.
But Mr. Obama wasn't alone in welcoming intellectuals into his circle. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was surrounded by them, including the agricultural economist Rexford Tugwell, who eventually wrote four books about FDR. So was John F. Kennedy, whose circle included the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., author of a Kennedy biography that is still consulted by students of the presidency.
But Mr. Obama apparently tempted fate when he made an astute comment to David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker: "At the end of the day, we're part of a long-running story. We just try to get our paragraph right."
And so, on Presidents Day, Politico asked a panel of leading historians for their assessment of the Obama years. From Oxford's Margaret MacMillan and Princeton's Sean Wilenz to Yale's Beverly Gage and George Mason's Jeremy D. Mayer, they filed their Obama paragraphs and, being academics rather than journalists, those paragraphs were on the long side.
I've often written that history changes with time, and so I think the president requires three paragraphs, one that might have been written at the beginning of his White House years; a separate one written now, at the beginning of his sixth year; and one that might be written at the end of his presidency. So as not to be affected by the scholars' critiques, I prepared three paragraphs of Obama assessment without consulting their first drafts of history.
Here's what might have been written as the president took office:
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the United States, still scarred by racial tensions dating to 1619, nonetheless elected its first black president. Barack Obama of Illinois wasn't so much a politician as a phenomenon. He was propelled into the White House after only two years in the Senate, where his profile was thin and his record even more so. But he displayed an uncanny ability to align his campaign with the hopes of Americans, including their genuine desire to put the hurts and humiliations of racism behind them. Indeed, hope was at the center of the Obama campaign, coming as it did while the United States was suffering from a serious economic recession. Mr. Obama ran as much against George W. Bush, the incumbent president, as he did against his war-hero opponent, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and the Democrat's innate fluency made for a compelling contrast with the less polished Mr. McCain, whose choice of a running mate with little experience and no rhetorical filters befuddled even his closest aides. Mr. Obama's ascent to the White House was a thrilling national moment of redemption and reconciliation and provided boundless optimism in the country and the capital.
Here's Mr. Obama's paragraph appropriate for February 2014:
After a bravura presidential campaign that left the country breathless, the nation's first black president was wrestled down to earth by real-world problems he inherited from his predecessor and, as time went on, by challenges he created himself or were happily delivered to him by the Republican House of Representatives, increasingly ruled by a Tea Party insurgency that managed to gain the whip hand in the GOP caucus. The post-partisan era Barack Obama promised quickly revealed itself to be more reverie than reality. He proved unable to woo his rivals, who took his landmark health-care overhaul and transformed it into a partisan battering ram — an effort that was eased by the multiple, inexplicable problems it encountered as it went into effect. For his part, Mr. Obama proved to be an inflexible negotiator, his determination more successful in alienating his rivals than in pleasing his partisan allies. The president succeeded in overseeing the killing of terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden but displayed an uncertain hand diplomatically and presided over vast expansions of surveillance that troubled those on the right as well as on the left.
Here's the paragraph Mr. Obama might still receive:
No presidential nominee since John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan ran a campaign as inspiring as the one Barack Obama crafted in 2008, when he defeated the establishment candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, for the Democratic nomination and then sailed into office on gusts of good will that thrilled the nation and inspired the world. In every regard, this president was breaking precedent. The first black chief executive, his election suggested a post-racial America and in his first year he was able to realize the dream of every Democratic president since Harry Truman by winning approval to overhaul the health-care system. But that very victory, won without a single Republican vote, signaled problems ahead, and before long Washington was afflicted by the very partisan strife Mr. Obama vowed to eliminate. Still, there were signs of hope amid the muddle and the misery. The economy took longer than anyone expected to recover from the Great Recession, but by the middle of 2014 the "green shoots" that had prompted early optimism had grown into saplings showing signs of maturing into stately oaks. House Speaker John Boehner — for most of the Obama years frustrated by the Tea Party rebellion — won a clean debt-ceiling extension in the winter of 2014 and suddenly rays of sunshine shone on Washington. Mr. Obama and the Republicans responded to that warmth and, though tensions remained and a vital election loomed, surprising progress was made on several issues, including immigration, and the two parties finally agreed on a comprehensive restructuring of the entitlement system that until 2015 threatened to strangle the American economy.
Surely other elements could be added to these paragraphs, and indeed these paragraphs, especially the last one, could be altered in tone and substance entirely. But for the writer of these paragraphs and perhaps for the reader of them, this exercise underlines how great was the potential of the Obama years and, indeed, how great the potential remains. Most of us don't get even one paragraph to write in history, to say nothing of the chance to change the country or the world. Mr. Obama can still write his paragraph. He should draft it now before others do.
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On March 31, 2012, the Honeynet Project published a draft Code of Conduct and a statement about Ethics in Computer Security Research: Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet takedown.
The initial draft of the Code of Conduct was drawn from concepts described in the The Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research that was published in the United States Federal Register on December 28, 2011 for public comment. The Code of Conduct was refined through discussion within the Legal and Ethics Committee and volunteer Honeynet Project members to help make it workable within the structure of the Honeynet Project membership for evaluating the ethics of future research activities.
The following FAQ reflects how the Menlo Report principles and proposed Honeynet Project Code of Conduct can be used to analyze and explain an action like the Kelihos/Hlux sinkholing operation. Read more »
Earlier, we posted about our operation on the Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet takedown that was conducted with by security experts from Dell SecureWorks, CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, and the Honeynet Project. On initial view, the operation seems very clear cut: the bad guys are running a botnet that is doing havoc on the Internet; on the other side, are the good guys that have found a way to disable the botnet.
The situation is much more nuanced. The Honeynet Project has been conducting security research for over a decade now and since our early days, we made it a priority to balance benefit and risks in our research. You can trace this back to when the Honeynet Project first defined "data control" as one of the requirements for honeynet/honeypot deployments. The purpose of data control was to minimize potential harm to others resulting from honeypots, which by their nature are vulnerable systems we expect to be compromised and used by malicious actors.
We do what we do because people with malicious and criminal intent are compromising and abusing millions of computers around the globe. These people do not act in ways that are moral, ethical, or legal. But in trying to counter them, we cannot allow ourselves to similarly disregard our moral, ethical, or legal obligations. If we do, we become no different than them.
We believe that pushing the boundaries in the computer security field and engaging in cutting edge research brings with it a responsibility to act in an ethical manner. Risks may emerge from botnet takedowns and the Kelihos botnet takedown operation is no different. What are the benefits? What are the risks? How do they balance each other? Do our actions jeopardize legal investigations? These are all questions that need to be considered and the outcome will determine how to proceed. In the situation of the Kelihos botnet, the determination was to proceed with the botnet takedown (see below for a detailed assessment.) In other situations, the determination and plan of action may be different. In the instance of Zeus, for instance, legal action may be necessary.
The Honeynet Project is committed to conducting research in a model, ethical, and legal way. Weighing risk/benefits – an important aspect to conduct research in such a way - is what every researcher implicitly does. However, the risk of not considering all aspects of the research exists. As a result, the Honeynet Project, under the leadership of our Chief Ethics and Legal Officer Dave Dittrich, has developed a code of conduct that guides researchers through the process in a systematic manner.
Today, we are publishing a draft of this code of conduct. We hope you find the code of conduct useful and are looking forward to your thoughts and comments.
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, an operation by security experts from Dell SecureWorks, CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, and the Honeynet Project was initiated to sinkhole infected computers in the Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet. The objective of this action was to remove from the attacker's control all computers currently infected with the Kelihos.B/Hlux.B malware by poisoning the peer lists and routing tables in the lower layers of command and control. This will prevent the botnet operator from doing any more harm with this set of infected computers.
Control of the botnet with over 129,000 infected hosts was successfully obtained. These bots are no longer in control of the botherder, and, as a result, are no longer involved in sending spam, the primary malicious activity of this botnet. The hosts resided primarily in Poland (24%) and were primarily running the old operating system Windows XP (84%). The command-and-control infrastructure has been abandoned by the gang that was operating the botnet two days after the operation. We can say that the Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet was successfully disabled.
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Place shrimp shells on a tray in a 300 degree F. oven for 30 minutes to dry. Remove. Place 1/2 cup dry vermouth in a casserole pan on a gentle heat, add the fish fillets and season with salt and cayenne pepper. Cover the pan and poach fish for 5 minutes. Place shrimp shells in a blender with 1/4 cup dry vermouth and the melted butter. Blend until a thick paste is obtained. Place sole fillets on a heated serving dish and keep warm. Place the shrimp shell paste in the top of a double boiler on the heat and add 5/8ths cup fish poaching stock, the bay leaf, thyme and a pinch of saffron and allow mixture to infuse for 5 minutes. Place the mussels in a pan on a high heat with dry white wine and cover pan. Cook a few minutes, shaking pan from time to time. Remove mussels from shells. Sieve shrimp shell mixture into scalded cream - combine. Mix egg yolks with a little of the sauce and then combine with the rest of the sauce. Heat gently until thickened and add brandy. Garnish fish with shelled mussels and cooked shrimp and coat with sauce.
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The Bulldogs got a pair of 3-under 68s from Stephen Harrison and Neal Jones, a 70 from Jonathan Burke, and a 72 from Nick Nosewicz to rally from an eight-shot deficit after 36 holes and nip Belmont Abbey by one shot.
Barton finished the 54-hole event at 871. Belmont Abbey was second at 872,
Rounding out the field were Coker 904, Mount Olive 908, Limestone 910, and St. Andrews Presbyterian 914.
Second-round leader Belmont Abbey did not post a score higher than 75 but it wasn't good enough to hold off Barton. Kasey Timms led the Crusaders in the final round with a 69.
Burke took medalist honors with a 54-hole total of 4-under 209. Connor Tomlinson of Belmont Abbey was second at 2-under 211, John Kolls of St. Andrews was third at 214, David Harris of Pfeiffer was fourth at at 215, and Scott Kegerreis II of
Coker's Blaine Rogers finished tied for ninth place with a 220 (+7) total, followed by Chris Marsh and Jimmy Gillam at 223 (+10). Stephen Frisch and Jay Goldenberg rounded out the field for Coker, shooting 242 (+29) and 245 (+32) respectively.
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HANG TIME WEST – This battle has been Sacramento against Seattle all along.
It's not Sacramento against itself, because it was inevitable the city would build a new ownership conglomerate and a new arena plan. And it's not Seattle against the NBA, because the league has been very clear in its interest in returning to Washington state.
If Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer headed the same group to buy the Kings to play in Sacramento, it breezes through the approval process. If any city other than Seattle is trying to poach the team – Anaheim, Las Vegas, Virginia Beach – Sacramento mounts a successful comeback victory and probably wins easy.
Sacramento against Seattle.
Today, for the first time, they go head-to-head, with both mayors, representatives from both hopeful ownership groups and leaders from both West Coast locations on the East Coast to make presentations to NBA officials and select owners to gather information. That leads into the April 18-19 Board of Governors meeting and a vote on the future of the Kings. And that leads to an outcome that will impact the NBA for many years.
Either a new arena is being built to keep a team in Sacramento or a new arena is being built to bring a team back to Seattle, and there is still no hint from the league office that the win-win scenario in both cities is possible. No expansion, commissioner David Stern said without wiggle room during All-Star weekend in February in Houston, the last comment on the matter.
Every indication is that this will be a very tough call for the Board of Governors, with strong arguments each way as well as counter-arguments and more counter-arguments. Statistical data will be offered as supporting evidence, and so will emotion. The pitches will be so far reaching that Seattle may promote its massive international corporate base, and Sacramento will definitely promote Vivek Ranadive as the general partner of the proposed ownership group that will make the entire league money by broadening the appeal of the NBA in his native India.
There are so many layers to this:
- If the Seattle bid is voted down later this month – if – don't be surprised if the current owners, the Maloof family, holds on to the Kings for a while. It could be a few months to step back and see who else wants to play Monopoly now that the team is on the open market, but that would be long enough to have control over trades, draft and free agency. They could still sell late in the summer and give the new owner enough time to draw more than 3,500 fans a game.The Maloofs have not ruled out the possibility of owning the Kings next season. That's more of a longshot than the July/August scenario, but the family is considering all options at this point. Including staying on and gauging the mood with a new commissioner, Adam Silver.
If Seattle is denied and the Maloofs sell? It will have to be to a group that will own the team in Sacramento. Again, the Board of Governors vote is about location. If California's capital city wins, the team stays no matter who is at the top of the masthead.
- Voting consideration No. 1: It makes sense that small-market owners would prefer competing against the local TV money of other small-market teams. Boost for Sacramento. Except that some owners, from markers of any size, could want the cut of the to-be-decided relocation fee. Boost for Seattle. (See, counters to every argument.)
- Voting consideration No. 2: Ranadive's late addition to the Sacramento group, after Stern backhanded the first offer of its attempted counter-strike, is a positive. How much of a positive is unclear. Owners have to at least be intrigued by the potential of increasing the revenue stream in India, and the relationships he may have already built as No. 3 man in Golden State ownership group can help. But the Warriors may already have been in the Sacramento camp. It is possible Ranadive will not swing a vote.
- Voting consideration No. 3: Stern, who has worked for years to keep the Kings from moving, has lost one of his most compliant voters. The Maloofs historically followed the commissioner's lead on most topics. They're clearly looking out for their best interests on this one.
- Kobe Bryant, dismissing the notion that Saturday's game at Sleep Train Arena was the last installment of Lakers-Kings, once a great rivalry before the Kings fell off the map: "They've been singing the same song for three years. Enough already." He is sort of right. This has been the Sacramento saga on a loop. But it has never been like this. There has never been a relocation vote weeks away. There has never been a Seattle.
- One important clarification: When Stern said recently an outgoing owner will not dictate where that team would play, he was indicating the decision belonged to the Board of Governors once the owner had reached a sales agreement. It did not mean the BOG can makes the initial sales agreement. The governors' power is in approving or denying a deal, not making it. Some people in Sacramento took that to mean owners can simply force the Maloofs to take a deal from the Ranadive-Mark Mastrov–Ron Burkle consortium. Not true.
- The read at the moment? Pick 'em. Both sides have precedents in their favor, both sides have strong arguments, both sides have the emotional factor of passionate fan bases. The needle likely moves based on whatever feedback comes out of today's important gathering, but this is setting up as a little more than two weeks of tension around the league, and especially around two cities.


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Intrepid Toddler's Daring Crib Escape Caught on Tape [VIDEO]
It's every parent's worst nightmare: Your toddler would rather go exploring than stay in the safe confines of his crib. So he does. Over and over and over.
One mother found herself in such a situation and couldn't figure out how her child kept escaping. So, she set up a camera in the kids' closet. Sure enough, she captured the child, whose name is Dayne, making a break for it not once, but twice.
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1981: Anker Lerret served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in Kingstown beginning in 1981
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Anker Lerret can be contacted at peacecorpsonlinedorgalerretdus
Country of Service: St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Training Group: EC-34
Cities you served in: Kingstown
Arrival Year: 1981
Departure Year: 1984
Work Description:
Bananas Systems Analyst
Yep, that was my official title. I worked under the Ministry of Finance, doing computer programming for the St. Vincent Banana Growers Association
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Married a Peace Corps volunteer I met in St. Vincent; now with three teen-aged kids in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Fox News Has Mainstreamed Pam Geller's Islamophobic Hate Speech
Research ››› ››› JEREMY HOLDEN
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Oslo, Norway, the manifesto of accused killer Anders Behring Breivik is being examined, and commenters are noting that he frequently cited fringe, so-called "antijihad" writers including Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller. Geller has long been a reliable source for Fox when the network needs or wants to highlight far-right, fringe, and extremist opinions -- and Geller has only benefited from the exposure. And now that the opinions Geller proudly holds have been connected to a horrific act of violence, Fox News' role in mainstreaming Geller and her brand of Islamophobic activism should be put under the microscope.
Geller And Other Fringe "Antijihad" Bloggers Were "Frequently Cited" In Breivik's Manifesto
NYT: "Breivik Frequently Cited" Geller's "Atlas Shrugs" Blog. Detailing the fringe right-wing blogs cited in Breivik's "manifesto," The New York Times reported:
The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the Unabomber.
In the document he posted online, Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of bombing government buildings and killing scores of young people at a Labor Party camp, showed that he had closely followed the acrimonious American debate over Islam.
Mr. Breivik frequently cited another blog, Atlas Shrugs, and recommended the Gates of Vienna among Web sites. Pamela Geller, an outspoken critic of Islam who runs Atlas Shrugs, wrote on her blog Sunday that any assertion that she or other antijihad writers bore any responsibility for Mr. Breivik's actions was "ridiculous."
"If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists," she wrote. [The New York Times, 7/24/11]
Jeffrey Goldberg: Geller "Should Be Aware Now That Violent People Look To Her For Guidance." Commenting on the Times article noting the number of times Breivik cited Geller, Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Golberg opined:
Geller is a hatemonger, but she didn't pull the trigger. Free speech means free speech. But she should be aware now that violent people look to her for guidance, and she should write with that in mind. [TheAtlantic.com, 7/25/11]
Village Voice: Geller Should Be Considered Among The "Lunatics." After noting the frequency with which Breivik cited fringe, right-wing Islamophobic bloggers including Geller, The Village Voice opined:
RTF [Conservative blog Right Turn Forever] acknowledged that Breivik followed Geller and Gates of Vienna, but while those people are known to you and us as lunatics, to RTF they are "popular not only among anti-Islam activists, but amont [sic] even more moderate types concerned about the rise of radical Islam in the West." (RTF doesn't name any of the alleged "moderate types" who follow these nuts.) [The Village Voice, 7/25/11]
Geller Routinely Uses Downright Outrageous, Hateful Rhetoric
Geller: "President Obama Is Indeed A Bastard, Literally And Figuratively." In an April 29, 2011, post on her blog, Atlas Shrugs, Geller wrote, "President Obama is indeed a bastard, literally and figuratively." [Atlas Shrugs, 4/29/11]
Geller Compared Critics Of Muslim Radicalization Hearings To "Pre-War Nazi Germany." In a March 9, 2011, post on her blog, Atlas Shrugs, Geller compared criticism of Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) hearings on the purported radicalization of American Muslims to "what it must have looked like in pre-war Nazi Germany." [Atlas Shrugs, 3/9/11]
Geller: Obama "Is A Third Worlder And A Coward" Who's "Appeas[ing] His Islamic Overlords." In an April 13, 2010, post on her blog, Geller wrote: "Obama is a third worlder and a coward. He will do nothing but beat up on our friends to appease his Islamic overlords. All this is going down while Obama plays footsie at his nuclear nonsense campfire -- sucking up to Iran's enablers while beating up our allies." [Atlas Shrugs, 4/13/10]
Geller Called Obama "President Jihad" And Said Obama Was "Advocating Jihad." In an April 1, 2010, blog post titled, "President Jihad: Obama Encouraged Violent Palestinian Muslim protests against Israel," Geller claimed Obama "is agitating Muslims against Jews" and stated:
The President of the United States is advancing jihad against the oath of office that he took. [Atlas Shrugs, 4/1/10]
Click here for more outrageous and hateful commentary from Geller
Fox News Has Aggressively Mainstreamed Geller
Geller Engaged In Fundraising For Her Issues On Fox. On June 28, 2010, Geller appeared on Fox News' Fox & Friends where she promoted her book about "the Obama Administration's War on America," discussed her campaign to place signs on taxis that state "Honor killing victims: Is your family threatening you? LeaveIslamSafely.com," and to instruct Fox viewers how to contribute to her campaigns through her website. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 6/28/10]
Geller On Fox: Developers Of Islamic Community Center Near Ground Zero "Want To Stab Americans In The Eye." On May 27, 2010, Geller appeared on Fox News' Fox & Friends to criticize the developers of the Park 51 Islamic community center in New York City:
I think that that's wrong. I think there's no tolerance there. I don't know why they'd want to stab Americans in the eye with that. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/27/10]
Geller On Fox: A Mosque "Basically Embodies The Very Ideology That Inspired" 9-11 Attacks. On May 15, 2010, Geller appeared on Fox News' Huckabee to discuss her opposition to the New York City Islamic community center, calling it "an outrage, an insult" and "humiliating to the families and to all Americans." Geller called the community center "a mosque" which she said "basically embodies the very ideology that inspired those attacks on 9-11." [Fox News, Huckabee, 5/15/10]
Geller On Fox: "All The Evidence Points To Obama's Anti-Semitic Associations." On July 27, 2010, Geller appeared on Hannity and claimed that President Obama's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a "photo op" and accused Obama of being anti-Semitic. [Fox News, Hannity, 7/27/10]
Geller Compared Islamic Community Center To A "Ku Klux Klan Shrine" Near A Black Alabama Church. On August 11, 2010, Geller appeared on Fox News' Fox & Friends and voiced opposition to plans to develop an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan. Geller said:
This is not a religious issue or a freedom of speech issue. Would you build a Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama? It has nothing to do with that. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/11/10]
Geller On Fox: "Arabic" Is "A Spearhead Of An Ideological Project That Is Deeply Opposed To The United States Of America." On February 14, 2011, Geller appeared on Fox Business' Follow the Money to discuss Arabic language instruction in Texas schools. Gellar said that Arabic "is the language of Islam and it is a spearhead of an ideological project that is deeply opposed to the United States of America." [Fox Business, Follow the Money, 2/14/11, via Nexis]
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The authentic 1912 period look is achieved through sets, dance, costumes and music. An audience favorite, The Music Man includes well known numbers: 76 Trombones, The Wells Fargo Wagon, Shipoopi, Til There Was You and more, as well as barbershop quartet numbers Good Night Ladies, Lida Rose, It's You and more, all supported by a full orchestra. The Mansfield Community of over 150 volunteer actors, singers, dancers, set builders, costume designers and technicians come together in what was billed as an "All American-dream kind of story brought to the stage."
Performance times are Friday, July 20 at 7pm and Saturday, July 21 at 2pm and 7pm. Tickets can be purchased online at MainstageClassicTheatre.org or at the door. Group and senior rates apply, and all Mansfield ISD students are free!
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Bracket Prep: UNC-Asheville, Murray State & BelmontPosted by rtmsf on March 3rd, 2012
The first three NCAA Tournament bids were earned on Saturday afternoon, so as each of the 31 automatic qualifiers plays their way into the Dance over the next week, we'll take some time to give you an analytical snapshot of each team that you can refer back to when you're picking your brackets next weekend.
UNC Asheville
- Big South Champion (24-9, 19-2)
- RPI/Pomeroy/Sagarin = #108/#123/#128
- Adjusted Scoring Margin = +4.7
- Likely NCAA Seed: #16 (First Four)
Three Bruce Pearls of Wisdom.
- UNC-Asheville is one of the smallest teams in America, sporting a starting lineup that goes between 6'1″ and 6'5″. Their next three players off the bench are roughly the same size, which means that UNCA's primary objective each night is to make the game into a full-court running affair. The Bulldogs are among the top 35 fastest tempos nationally, and you might expect them to rely heavily on the three-ball, but that's not the case. Asheville's offense instead seeks to drive the ball into the paint to shoot twos (52.5% 2FGs) and pick up fouls (77.4% FTs).
- The straws that stir the Bulldog attack are the backcourt duo of JP Primm and Matt Dickey, both all-Big South selections (Dickey was the conference POY). The pair of seniors are both capable shooters and distributors who played well in last year's First Four win against Arkansas-Little Rock and subsequent loss to #1 seed Pittsburgh. They've played enough high major teams in their careers — North Carolina, NC State, Connecticut, Tennessee in just this year — so that they're unlikely to get rattled.
- The best matchup for the Bulldogs would be another undersized First Four team that does not defend well, allowing the uptempo guards of Primm and Dickey to pick their spots and make things happen. Their next round game against a #1 seed is unlikely to matter in terms of a favorable matchup, but clearly bigger teams would be more difficult for Eddie Biedenbach's team to handle. The Bulldogs were competitive with each of the power conference teams mentioned above.
Murray State
- OVC Champion (30-1, 17-1)
- RPI/Pomeroy/Sagarin = #24/#47/#41
- Adjusted Scoring Margin = +10.6
- Likely NCAA Seed: #4-#6


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Here's a 'cross frame that will be good for the woods. The fork looks like a normal cyclocross fork but the blades are a tiny bit bigger profile and the wall thickness of the steel is about 20 % thicker than a stock blade. Nothing like having the steel where you need it the most , especially if you are riding in the back country on some rough trails. Here it is, 14 years later and I'm still doing the wavy gussetts.......kind of a nautical theme....lobsters ? Ocean ? Waves? -Makes sense to me. An engineer would tell you that the wavy line actually helps distribute the stresses over a longer distance. An engineer might tell you that I'm full of it....he would most likely be correct on both accounts. All I know is that these bikes never come back bent , not without a really good reason like hitting a tree at 25 m.p.h. ! I finally sprung for some 1/2" cro-mo tubing for making curved bridges again...I gpt really tired of looking through my scrap tubing box for the right stuff.
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Tig Team Euro 'cross fameset in the raw
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TuneIn Creeps Up on Pandora, With 40M Active Listeners
The TuneIn app keeps a low profile, despite being a much-depended-on utility for people who want to listen to audio streams and podcasts on their phones, in their cars, on their TVs and other devices.
TuneIn is now up to 40 million active users, largely in the U.S., up from 30 million in October. That's a bit behind the far more famous Pandora, which reported 52 million active users in May.
On top of that growth, Palo Alto-based TuneIn has now raised $16 million, led by General Catalyst Partners and including Jafco Ventures, Google Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Sequoia had previously invested $6 million in TuneIn, and helped move it from Texas, where it was founded in 2002 under the name RadioTime. (For a more detailed look at the company, see this profile I wrote last last year.)
TuneIn does have all sorts of competition, including Pandora, Spotify (which recently launched its own "real" Internet radio service) and iHeartRadio.
TuneIn is free and streams content as-is, complete with its original ads; for a one-time fee of $0.99, users can record unlimited radio.
The big advantages of the TuneIn app are its reliability and the range of content it offers — now up to 70,000 stations and two million on-demand programs.
To get a sense of this, check out TuneIn's user ratings, which are unusually high for such a popular app: 4.5 stars in both the App Store and Google Play.
TuneIn CEO John Donham told me his big plans for TuneIn are to improve content discovery and to raise the company's profile. On that front, I've seen some TuneIn billboards cropping up alongside the highway in recent months.
"We need to do more to build a household brand name," Donham said. "A lot of marketing will be to make people aware of all the content they can get."


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Four New Faculty Members Join New Mexico Tech
By Roger Renteria
SOCORRO, N.M., July 31, 2008 — Four new faculty members will join New Mexico Tech this fall. The new faculty feature two computer engineers, one chemical engineer, and one astronomer.
Dr. Song Fu, Dr. Jun Zheng, Dr. David Meier, and Dr. Michael Riley were all appointed for full-time, tenure-track positions at the state-sponsored research university in Socorro.
Assistant professor of computer science Dr. Song Fu joins New Mexico Tech from Wayne State University in Detroit. He recently finished his doctorate in computer engineering under Dr. Cheng-Zhong Xu in 2008. He earned his master's of engineering and bachelor's of science degrees in computer science at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. He also was an instructor and teaching assistant for five semesters at Wayne State, and has his work published in several peer-reviewed journals.
Assistant professor of computer science Dr. Jun Zheng joins New Mexico Tech from Queens College, City University of New York, in Flushing, N.Y. He completed his doctorate in computer engineering from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in 2005. Zheng was an assistant professor at Queens College since 2005. He earned his master's of science and engineering in biomedical engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, O.H. He also earned a master's and bachelor's of science degrees in electrical engineering at Chongqing University in Chongqing, China. Zheng was a teaching assistant at the University of Nevada.
Assistant professor of chemical engineering Dr. Michael Riley joins New Mexico Tech from INI Power Systems in Morrisville, N.C. Riley was a senior systems engineer and consulting research engineer with INI Power Systems, a senior research engineer at Microcell Corporation, and technician at Electrosynthesis Research Triangle. He earned his doctorate in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., in 2002. He earned his bachelor's of science in chemical engineering from West Virginia University in Morgantown. In addition to completing his doctorate, he was a research and teaching assistant and has co-filed various patents related to chemical engineering.
Assistant professor of physics Dr. David Meier didn't have to move far to join the physics department. Meier works for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on Tech campus. He earned his doctorate and master's in astronomy from the University of California in Los Angeles in 2002 and 1996, respectively. Meier completed his bachelor's in physics from California State University. In addition, he was a post-doctoral research associate and lecturer at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, research and teaching assistant at UCLA.


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The family and friends of the Washington state man found dead on a Burbank off-ramp this week remembered him as a fun-loving sports fanatic.
The man, Lee Clifford Morris of Richland, Wash., was a 26-year veteran pilot for the airline. His body was discovered along the southbound Scott Road off-ramp Tuesday evening by a passerby.
Morris landed at Bob Hope Airport on Monday and was scheduled to fly out at 7 a.m. Tuesday, but when he didn't report to work, airline officials contacted the hotel where he was staying.
Due to the location of the body, authorities had said the death appeared suspicious. But there did not appear to be any external injuries and his wallet was still at the scene, police said.
Alaska Airlines described Morris as a "well-respected" pilot who was required to undergo physical exams twice a year. A spokesman said that as far as the airline was concerned, Morris was "in good health."
It could be weeks before a final determination is made as the Los Angeles County coroner's office completes a number of other tests, including neuropathology and toxicology exams, said Assistant Chief Ed Winter.
"If we don't find anything obvious, those could take weeks," he said. "We are still doing an autopsy; it's premature for us to give any ruling on cause of death."
A family member who spoke to the Tri-City Herald, the newspaper that covers Richland as well as nearby Kennewick and Pasco, said she was stunned by the sudden death.
Though Morris was based out of Seattle, he had lived with his longtime fiancee Eileen Hively in Richland for about 10 years.
And while he had no children, Morris embraced Hively's family as his own, said Miller.
"He and Eileen's grandchildren were his life. That and his friends meant everything to him," she said.
Morris was born in Richland but grew up in Kennewick, graduating from Kamiakin High School and Washington State University.
He got hooked on flying after his mom, Catherine Morris, who still lives in Richland, bought him a flying lesson after he tried a parachute jump. He went on to graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona and became a flight instructor in his hometown.
He was hired as a pilot for Horizon Air in 1986 and went to work for Alaska Airlines four years later as a Boeing 727 flight engineer.
He began flying MD-80s in 1992 and advanced to captain in 2001. Seven years later, he became a captain on 737 flights.
Miller said her brother was a die-hard WSU Cougar fan, but loved many sports, including water and snow skiing and golf.
She said he often spent spring breaks attending Mariners baseball training camps in Arizona with family and friends.
"He was fun-loving and it was very contagious," said Miller.
Morris' family plans a celebration of his life at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick.
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What could we buy with expenses repayments?
June 19, 2009 Leave a comment
The sum of £478,616 has been returned in repaid claims, but where does this money go? Or rather, where could it go, if we were a little more creative with our winnings the rightly repaid money.
(this involved me searching £478,616 on google)
Would be quite enough to keep Solva in Pembrokeshire sweet.
More than enough to award one headteacher compensation for stress after she was accused of not giving sufficient attention to the needs of Muslim pupils.
Will afford you the cost of a certain football player – one Kevin Kilbane – following Hull City's survival.
Should be a suitable amount to stump up enough in fines, after a fatal lift accident in Southampton.
Boris Johnson maybe wouldn't fork out this much for Wandle Park, Croydon.
Was too much for such a risk-taking venture for cannabis haulers.
Is in the price range of Swindon, for a Radio 1 festival.
Perhaps quite enough for a man who wants his health back.
Can be enough for a trusted treasurer who stole said sum.
Should not buy a businessman rights no other man (or woman) has, by building a house worth said amount without permission.
Surplus to how much NHS south central will set aside for fluoridation review.
Just over the amount to get Guido Fawkes foaming at the mouth (bastard!!)
Though if Parliament were up to spending £79 more, they could afford 289 duck islands with that money. (Exclusive!!)


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Peter manages and executes all aspects of KRC's strategic plan and business operation, especially around operational excellence, new business development, research innovation, talent acquisition and client management. Peter spent 20 years in various senior public affairs positions with several DC-based organizations—The Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Public Affairs Council, Grocery Manufacturers of America and The Hawthorn Group. He is the author of two books relating to public affairs measurement and has written numerous articles published in a variety of journals, periodicals and major newspapers. He is also a NCAA Division 1 Football official.


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Pitched to Tim Wright (Former Terra/Lycos CTO/CIO).
Tim knows the Internet like the back of his hand and rightfully so. He spent most of our meeting talking about how many companies he has bought or sold, all well seeming very uninterested.
Luckily I had spent time practicing pitching to a wall so it wasn't hard.
They don't seem to follow up when they say they will either, disappointing.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Allison Williams Reveals That Lena Dunham Wants to Hide Her Engagement Ring
'Girls' star Allison Williams is engaged -- but she has more than just her upcoming wedding to worry about! In a recent interview with PEOPLE, Williams revealed that her co-star (and 'Girls' creator) Lena Dunham has already made plans to hide Williams' rock.
"Lena has already threatened to hide my engagement ring, which I really hope she doesn't do. She's like, 'We're gonna have to find ways to hide it while we're shooting,'" Williams told the magazine. "I was like, 'Okay, then I'm going to hide it on part of my body that you can't see.' I know she's obviously kidding."
While it's necessary that Williams' character Marnie not be seen with the diamond, we can understand the 'Girls' star's hesitation -- she has quite the gorgeous sparkler!
Williams became engaged when her boyfriend of three years, College Humor co-founder Ricky Van Veen, popped the question in February. The engagement is so new that Williams and Van Veen are just taking the time to enjoy it.
"Literally, we have not even started thinking about the logistics of the wedding. It's so funny, even my friends are like, 'So, ballpark, just tell me what time of year, just in case I travel,' and I have no idea," she told PEOPLE about her upcoming wedding plans. "As of now, it just exists as this hypothetical thing that will happen eventually. And none of it has started to become real yet. So eventually that'll become things that we're concerned with. But for now, it's just the fun part."


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November 8, 2007
114th Monon Bell Classic by the Numbers
Five minutes: Wabash has had the ball on average five minutes less than its opponents this year
104: Wabash's opponents have had 104 more plays than the Little Giants this year
172: In spite of having the ball five fewer minutes per game and 104 fewer plays, Wabash has outscored its opposition by 172 points — 292-120.
1: Wabash has been out-rushed by exactly one yard this season. Opponents, though, have rushed the ball 81 more times than the Little Giants and average just 2.7 yards per carry.
39: Wabash has made 39 quarterback sacks on the year.
73%: Wabash's Red zone touchdown conversion rate.
61, 62, 63: Talk about balanced scoring. Wabash has scored 61 points in the first quarter of games this year, 62 in the fourth quarters, and 63 points in the third quarter. The Little Giants have scored 106 points in the second quarter of games and have outscored their opponents 167-58 in the first half.
7: Seven Wabash receivers have caught at least 15 passes this year.
5: Five Wabash receivers have caught four or more touchdown passes this year.
73.1: Matt Hudson has completed 73.1 percent of his passes this year.
92: Wabash's defense has posted 92 tackles for losses this year. Fifteen players have at least on tackle behind the line.
6: Wabash has lost the ball just six times by fumble this year. Wabash's opponents have also lost just six fumbles on the season. The record for fewest lost fumbles by Wabash is nine, set last year. The opponent record for fewest lost fumbles is also nine, set in 2005. Both records could fall this year.
406: Senior linebacker Adi Pynenberg has recorded 406 career tackles, an all-time Wabash record. He also has the record for most career tackles for loss with 65.
3: No Wabash football player has ever earned All-America honors three times. Adi Pynenberg was an Honorable Mention All-American in 2005 and a Second Team All-American in 2006.
149: Mike Russell enters the Monon Bell Game with 149 career pass receptions, tops among current Little Giants. He's scored 25 touchdowns in 35 career games.
160.3: DePauw averages 160.3 rushing yards per game.
243.8: DePauw averages 243.8 passing yards per game.
138: DePauw has scored 138 points in the first half of games this year and has outscored its opponents 138-73 in the first half.
21: Jeremiah Marks, DePauw running back, has been thrown for a loss of just 21 yards on 168 rushing attempts this year and averages 4.6 yards per carry.
39: Five DePauw receivers have caught touchdown passes of 39 yards or longer. Four have caught three or more touchdown passes this year.
269: DePauw has returned its 18 pass interceptions for a total of 269 yards, including a 42-yard touchdown return.
79: DePauw has 79 return yards on its nine fumble recoveries.
5: Wabash Coach Chris Creighton has five victories in his six Monon Bell Games.


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President Obama's appearance on the Funny or Die sketch series "Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis" on Tuesday has become a viral sensation, with over 14 million views already. But not everyone is laughing, especially Stephen Colbert.
On Wednesday night's "The Colbert Report," Colbert rounded up those who had a real beef with the leader of the free world doing a comedy sketch to drum up registration on the Healthcare.gov website. Not surprisingly, those pundits mostly existed on Fox News and "later in the day on Fox News," according to Colbert.
So what was their take on Obama's comedy turn? Unimpressed, disappointed and mostly feeling that the sketch diminished the office of the president.
On "Fox and Friends," Elisabeth Hasselbeck said, "Some would argue it's inappropriate." While co-host Brian Kilmeade called it "tragic."
But no one had a more widely seen dissent than the Fox News "underminer in chief" Bill O'Reilly. Colbert's "Papa Bear" compared Obama's move to Abraham Lincoln and informed viewers, "All I can tell ya is, Abe Lincoln would not have done it."
"It's true," Colbert told viewers. "You can't fight that logic. Abe Lincoln would never have done a viral web video."
Lincoln is not alone. Other former presidents who would not have done a viral web video include George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
While George W. Bush never willingly appeared in any viral videos, Bill Clinton appeared in a spoof of "The Sopranos" final scene in 2008 to help Hillary's presidential campaign.
The worst part, Colbert said, was that the president's appearance seems to have worked, with a boost in traffic to the healthcare.gov website which the administration hopes will turn into more sign-ups ahead of the March 31 enrollment deadline.


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Undermanned Pygmies Punished in Santa FeSANTA FE, N.M. September 20, 2011 – Revenge was sweet for one rugby team, but it wasn't New Mexico Tech. The Santa Fe Santos exacted retribution for the upset loss inflicted by the Pygmies last April 30 with an emphatic 53-12 victory in Santa Fe on Saturday, Sept. 10. The home team ran in nine five-point tries and booted four conversion kicks against Tech's two tries and one two-pointer.
Flank forward Mario Naranjo (#18) and his New Mexico Tech teammates scrum down in Santa Fe Saturday. The home team won, 53-12.
The Pygmies paid the price for showing up with just 17 players for 15 playing positions against an experienced club team. With 80 minutes of rugby before them, the result was almost in the books before the starting whistle.
Surprisingly, the rookie-laden student team strung together some effective passages of attack and defended well in the opening minutes. The Santos seemed on their heels as freshman wing Aaron Long collected his first rugby try by diving into the corner after eight minutes. Fly half Brock Romero angled a difficult conversion kick against a stiff breeze and Tech led 7-0.
Santa Fe only needed six more minutes to get on the scoreboard through a try from outside center Royce Beaudry on a passing play after a Tech penalty. From then on, first half scoring was the exclusive domain of Santa Fe, with inside center Pat Simons touching down two tries and Matt Kretz adding another. Along the way freshman forward Ryan Barnes suffered a sprained ankle and at the halftime break Tech faced a 24-7 deficit with a lack of fresh players.
Predictably Santa Fe put up five more tries in the second half, but mercifully converted only two as the gathering wind played havoc with kicks. Four minutes from full time wing Joe Tyson sliced through Santa Fe's defense on a run from a penalty to score Techs' final try.
Long was selected by captains Isaiah Sanchez and Blaine Trujillo as Tech's man of the match. Santa Fe's Beaudry, a 2010 Tech graduate who was named the Tech Sportsman of the Year in 2010, completed the hat trick, while former Pygmies Pat Simons and Matt Kretz recorded two and one tries respectively.
Tech's season record slid to 4-4. All of Tech's wins have been in 10-man rugby and all but one loss in 15. The team's next action is scheduled for October 1-2 in Flagstaff Arizona at the Northern Arizona Tens tournament. The Pygmies are defending collegiate champions.
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"Away We Go"!
I've been working on this blog post since October 2010. For crying in a bucket, it is time I get it OUT!
Away We Go is the most hilarious birthy movie I've ever seen. And there's no actual birth in the movie! It's star-studded and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why this Sam Mendes movie become an enormous hit. Too subtle? Nahhh… not subtle at all!
Beginning the introductions into the quirky lives of Burt (John Krasinsky) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are Burt's parents, Jerry (Jeff Daniels) and Gloria (Catherine O'Hara). The elder Farlanders abdicate their grandparenthood for a two-year stint in Belgium, leaving right before the baby's birth. During a family dinner, we get a lovely glimpse into where their son learned to be verbally effusive and picked up his sharp wit.
Because Burt's parents are leaving the country, the couple feels "untethered" and begin a search for a home by visiting different cities and a wide variety of friends and family along the way. Of course, they have no idea where the trip will really take them and we are so lucky to go along for the ride.
When you think no one could possibly top Burt's parents, along comes Allison Janney as Lily. Her dead-pan husband Lowell (Jim Gaffigan) is a great straight man for Lily's insanity. Lily gives one of the most accurate depictions of an upbeat, but terrible mother I've ever seen. And how (why?!) do I know women like her? Mean-spirited, mostly to her kids, you can see the chasm of her horrid self-esteem masked by laughter and obnoxiousness. I about spewed water out my nose when she described what her breasts looked like after breastfeeding. Poor Burt, attached to big breasts, was pretty horrified to hear Lily's caricaturistic depiction, saying, "They look like an old man's nutsack. They even grow hair on them! A hairy old man's nutsack."
While waiting for Verona's sister Grace (Carmen Ejogo), Burt and Verona watch as a little boy, maybe five years old? is tested by his mother (who they call "Performance Mom" in the script!) who asks him to name this and that object. I've always chuckled about parents that did that, wondering if I did the same thing when the kids were his age.
It is in the interactions with Grace that we're finally able to see some of Verona's tough exterior melt away.
For the Natural Birth crowd, it is when Burt and Verona head to Madison to see a family friend, LN Fisher-Herrin (Maggie Gyllenhall), that we're able to recognize the "Natural Birth Nazi" the non-crunchy crowd often sees. I've heard others say they didn't know why LN and her husband Roderick (Josh Hamilton) were in the movie at all… that they identified quite closely with their style of parenting; "Continuum… practicing the 3 S's… no sugar, no strollers and no separation." LN gives one of the best NBA lines ever, talking about why she hates strollers (which Verona and Burt bought for her because they thought she was bereft without one): "Verona, I love my babies. Why would I want to push them away from me?" I don't want to give away too much of this really, really amusing (in a knowing way!) segment. Just know you'll probably find yourself laughing and nodding all at the same time. Caricature, people… caricatures.
The pinnacle of the movie comes with our crunchy sister LN, then the movie slides downward in mood as the frenetic pace of the beginning saunters gently towards the end.
In Montreal, we meet Munch (Melanie Lynskey) and Tom (Chris Messina), a "normal" family filled with adopted children, the couple offering a glimpse into yet another facet of parenthood.
Finally, in Miami, Burt's brother Courtney (Paul Schneider) and his daughter show Burt and Verona the potential for one type of tragedy in being parents.
Perhaps not so surprisingly, the wandering couple finally find their home where none of these friends or family even live; they've found their own place, really just taking a roundabout trip to get there all along. Such a lovely ending!
Away We Go is on Netflix and running on the Pay Channels (HBO, Showtime, Starz) right now… I do hope you'll make time to see it this weekend. It's a movie that'll stick with you for a long time.


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Ayyy! Henry Winkler Added To 2013 Wizard World Portland Comic Con Celebrity Roster, Feb. 22-23-24
'Happy Days' Actor, Successful Producer, Director Joins Standout Field Also Featuring Stan Lee, Bruce Campbell, Morena Baccarin, Dean Cain At Oregon Convention Center
NEW YORK and PORTLAND, Ore., January 2, 2013 – After taking the entertainment world by storm in his breakout role as "Fonzie†in the popular sitcom "Happy Days†(1974-84), Henry Winkler established himself as an award-winning producer and director, mixing in a few well-placed acting roles like Scream and Waterboy along the way. Winkler now joins a standout roster of celebrities set to attend next month's inaugural Wizard World Portland Comic Con, Feb. 22-24, 2013, at the Oregon Convention Center.
After achieving success as "Fonzie,†originally written as a minor character but which soon earned Winkler billing alongside other series stars Ron Howard and Tom Bosley, Winkler quickly transitioned to produce the successful television series "MacGyver†and direct the film Memories of Me, among dozens of off-screen credits over the past four decades.
Winkler, scheduled to appear at Wizard World Portland Comic Con all three days, adds to an already star-studded lineup that includes comics legend Stan Lee, Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell, "Homeland†headliner Morena Baccarin and "Superman†Dean Cain, along with a diverse collection of popular comics creators and a variety of activities, exhibitors and special attractions in the first event on Wizard World's 2013 calendar and the first Wizard World event in the "City of Roses.â€
Wizard World Portland Comic Con, produced by Wizard World, Inc. (WIZD.PK), will bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, comics, toys, video gaming, television, sci-fi, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. Admission is free for kids 10 and under, and Sunday, Feb. 24, is "Kids Day,†featuring an array of programming specially designed for children.
Event hours are Friday, Feb. 22, 3-8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 23, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 24, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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NEWPORT BEACH — Bobby Clampett had become accustomed to life behind a microphone and in front of the camera. Somewhere amid his broadcasting for CBS, he thought about going back to the game, playing on the Champions Tour when he turned 50.
He is now fulfilling a need he had. At the 18th Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, some of his best work was on display Friday. Clampett, 51, who had been away from playing competitive golf for 15 years, shot a six-under-par 65 and is tied for the lead with Olin Browne and Bernhard Langer after the first round at Newport Beach Country Club.
"I never wanted to end the rest of my life saying I wonder what I could have done," Clampett said. "I'm now here to answer that question for nobody else but me."
Clampett used to report on guys like Browne and Langer. Now, he's right up there with them in this Champions Tour event.
Browne and Langer both shot a bogey-free round. Clampett had two bogeys, but found a way to make up for that with eight birdies. Browne birdied six holes. Langer, who won here in 2008, eagled the par-four, 418-yard No. 6 and had four birdies.
The trio is just one shot ahead of Steve Pate, Bill Glasson, David Eger, Loren Roberts and Tom Kite.
Fred Couples, the 2010 Toshiba champion, is two shots back, along with eight others.
Langer played with Couples and Hall of Famer Nick Price, the Toshiba defending champion, amid a large gallery.
Langer, Browne and Clampett were grateful and pleased with their scores, considering there is a strong chance play could be cut short because of the threat of rain.
Saturday's tee times have been moved up 21/2 hours and will begin at 8 a.m. because of a high probability of heavy rain and wind. The players expect delays.
"[Friday was] a huge day because you don't know what the future is," Clampett said. "We may be playing a one-round tournament with the weather that's coming in. Then again, we may get three rounds in so who knows. When you are playing 54 holes too, it's really important to get off to a good start. I haven't done that for a while. It's nice to get a good one, a good low one, in."
Clampett said he had fun during his first round. He said he usually doesn't play as well in an opening round.
Afterward, he had his wife, Marianna, sit in during his press conference and thanked her for her support.
"I love it. Absolutely," Clampett said of playing competitive golf again.
Browne certainly enjoyed his round too.
"I really enjoy this golf course," said Browne, 52, a three-time PGA Tour winner who has one win on the Champions Tour. "This is one of everybody's favorites."
Langer, a two-time Masters champion, was methodical, and as he put it, "smart," during his first round.
Langer, 54, has had great success on the Champions Tour with 14 victories. He'll try to add another one Sunday, or before the rain comes.
He likes his chances.
"It's a golf course where everybody can win," Langer said of the Newport Beach Country Club layout, which at 6,584 yards is the shortest of three-round events on the Champions Tour. "You don't have to be long. It helps to be long for the par-fives. Even a medium hitter can do well here or a short hitter."
But the rain will provide more challenges.
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EE|Times: Does Samsung deal leave CSR out in the cold?
The recently announced CSR-Samsung deal, under which Samsung Electronics will acquire CSR's handset connectivity/location development operations and its technology, was an easy sell to the financial community. Everyone loved it.
After all, the British chip company, which originally made its name in Bluetooth chips, was losing ground in smartphones to bigger rivals who were combining more functions in a single platform. Offloading struggling business units to a lucrative buyer is a business practice highly valued on Wall Street.
But then, what's left of CSR — with no connectivity and location technologies at its core?
Fine print in the agreement
A closer look at the two companies' agreement reveals a few bullet points that the casual observer might have overlooked.
-CSR's indoor GPS technology will not go to Samsung. Its development team will stay with CSR; and its technology is neither up for sale nor available for licensing.
-CSR, in fact, has high hopes to sell its indoor GPS chips as a standalone product – lots of them – to mobile handset vendors.
-CSR isn't entirely giving up Bluetooth. It will focus on Bluetooth low-energy technology.
-CSR is not allowed to sell connectivity products (Bluetooth, WiFi) into the handset/mobile field; but the same rule doesn't apply to its location technology. CSR is "generally unrestricted" regarding commercialization of location technology (GPS) into any field.
-CSR, however, is not restriction-free for many ventures the company might contemplate in the future. The fine print in the agreement prevents CSR from selling location products combined with an apps processor in the handheld/mobile field (10 years), or granting any of its location technology rights to an apps processor company (two years).
Not bowing out
In a nutshell, CSR isn't entirely bowing out of either location or connectivity businesses. Nor is it walking away from the mobile market. (CSR will sell indoor GPS chips to mobile handset vendors; CSR's aptX audio codec has been adopted by Samsung's latest smartphone to deliver CD-quality stereo over Bluetooth wireless connectivity.)
The British company has apparently managed to keep what they view as differentiated parts of its connectivity/location technologies, while unloading increasingly the commoditized WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS technologies that are now getting integrated in mobile apps processors or baseband chips.
Well, that's the theory. But drilling down into the agreement, decipher what CSR can and cannot do for for certain periods of time in various scenarios, and the deal seems pretty complex. Has CSR put itself into a straightjacket?
oep Van Beurden, CSR's CEO, (left) says no. "The big picture [of this deal] is straightforward," he said in a recent interview with EE Times.
The Samsung-CSR agreement is about putting some of CSR's connectivity and location assets in the hands of Samsung Electronics. Samsung's semiconductor division "has been very interested in leveraging our proven technology," explained Van Beurden. These assets around the smartphone "will be more valuable to Samsung" which dominates the global mobile apps processor market today, he added.
Obviously, all the seemingly complex restrictions in the agreement are there to protect Samsung's semiconductor business. (And that of CSR's, too). It won't make sense for CSR to start doing business with Samsung's competitors while granting to Samsung a world-wide perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive license of CSR's IP rights in its connectivity and location products.
However, various restrictions imposed on CSR illustrate a number of possible, but not clearcut opportunities for connectivity and location chips in the future.
Five "high growth" markets?
Asked what constitutes CSR after the Samsung deal is complete in the fourth quarter this year, Van Beurden said that CSR is focusing on the five "high growth" areas: Bluetooth Smart; Indoor GPS; imaging (which came out of Zoran acquisition); voice & music; and automotive infotainment. CSR claims that the company holds the number one position on markets for voice &music, imaging and Bluetooth Smart. It's ranked second in automotive infotainment.
In contrast, Bluetooth Smart is still a new market; and indoor location is a market that has yet to generate actual revenue. How long CSR can sustain itself on the bleeding edge of emerging markets, especially for indoor location, is the make-or-break question.
CSR, however, is most likely to do well in the emerging Bluetooth Smart devices market. These devices are essentially enabled by Bluetooth v4.0 with low-energy technology. The industry expects Bluetooth Smart devices, which operate for months or years on small, coin-sized batteries, to proliferate in the areas of health care, sports, security and home entertainment.
From: http://cdn.eetimes.com
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