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Last week, I wrote a piece for Reason in which I took a close look at the USA PATRIOT Act's "lone wolf" provision—set to expire at the end of the year, though almost certain to be renewed—and argued that it should be allowed to lapse. Originally, I'd planned to survey the whole array of authorities that are either sunsetting or candidates for reform, but ultimately decided it made more sense to give a thorough treatment to one than trying to squeeze an inevitably shallow gloss on four or five complex areas of law into the same space. But the Internets are infinite, so I've decided I'd turn the Reason piece into Part I of a continuing series on PATRIOT powers. In this edition: Section 206, roving wiretap authority.
The idea behind a roving wiretap should be familiar if you've ever watched The Wire, where dealers used disposable "burner" cell phones to evade police eavesdropping. A roving wiretap is used when a target is thought to be employing such measures to frustrate investigators, and allows the eavesdropper to quickly begin listening on whatever new phone line or Internet account his quarry may be using, without having to go back to a judge for a new warrant every time. Such authority has long existed for criminal investigations—that's "Title III" wiretaps if you want to sound clever at cocktail parties—and pretty much everyone, including the staunchest civil liberties advocates, seems to agree that it also ought to be available for terror investigations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. So what's the problem here?
To understand the reasons for potential concern, we need to take a little detour into the differences between electronic surveillance warrants under Title III and FISA. The Fourth Amendment imposes two big requirements on criminal warrants: "probable cause" and "particularity". That is, you need evidence that the surveillance you're proposing has some connection to criminal activity, and you have to "particularly [describe] the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized." For an ordinary non-roving wiretap, that means you show a judge the "nexus" between evidence of a crime and a particular "place" (a phone line, an e-mail address, or a physical location you want to bug). You will often have a named target, but you don't need one: If you have good evidence gang members are meeting in some location or routinely using a specific payphone to plan their crimes, you can get a warrant to bug it without necessarily knowing the names of the individuals who are going to show up. On the other hand, though, you do always need that criminal nexus: No bugging Tony Soprano's AA meeting unless you have some reason to think he's discussing his mob activity there. Since places and communications facilities may be used for both criminal and innocent persons, the officer monitoring the facility is only supposed to record what's pertinent to the investigation.
When the tap goes roving, things obviously have to work a bit differently. For roving taps, the warrant shows a nexus between the suspected crime and an identified target. Then, as surveillance gets underway, the eavesdroppers can go up on a line once they've got a reasonable belief that the target is "proximate" to a location or communications facility. It stretches that "particularity" requirement a bit, to be sure, but the courts have thus far apparently considered it within bounds. It may help that they're not used with great frequency: Eleven were issued last year, all to state-level investigators, for narcotics and racketeering investigations.
Surveillance law, however, is not plug-and-play. Importing a power from the Title III context into FISA is a little like dropping an unfamiliar organism into a new environment—the consequences are unpredictable, and may well be dramatic. The biggest relevant difference is that with FISA warrants, there's always a "target", and the "probable cause" showing is not of criminal activity, but of a connection between that target and a "foreign power," which includes terror groups like Al Qaeda. However, for a variety of reasons, both regular and roving FISA warrants are allowed to provide only a description of the target, rather than the target's identity. Perhaps just as important, FISA has a broader definition of the "person" to be specified as a "target" than Title III. For the purposes of criminal wiretaps, a "person" means any "individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, or corporation." The FISA definition of "person" includes all of those, but may also be any "group, entity, …or foreign power." Some, then, worry that roving authority could be used to secure "John Doe" warrants that don't specify a particular location, phone line, or Internet account—yet don't sufficiently identify a particular target either. Congress took some steps to attempt to address such concerns when they reauthorized Section 206 back in 2005, and other legislators have proposed further changes—which I'll get to in a minute. But we actually need to understand a few more things about the peculiarities of FISA wiretaps to see why the risk of overbroad collection is especially high here.
In part because courts have suggested that the constraints of the Fourth Amendment bind more loosely in the foreign intelligence context, FISA surveillance is generally far more sweeping in its acquisition of information. In 2004, the FBI gathered some 87 years worth of foreign language audio recordings alone pursuant to FISA warrants. As David Kris (now assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's National Security Division) explains in his definitive text on the subject, a FISA warrant typically "permits aquisition of nearly all information from a monitored facility or a searched location." (This may be somewhat more limited for roving taps; I'll return to the point shortly.) As a rare public opinion from the FISA Court put it in 2002: "Virtually all information seized, whether by electronic surveillance or physical search, is minimized hours, days, or weeks after collection." The way this is supposed to be squared with the Fourth Amendment rights of innocent Americans who may be swept up in such broad interception is via those "minimization" procedures, employed after the fact to filter out irrelevant information.
That puts a fairly serious burden on these minimization procedures, however, and it's not clear that they well bear it. First, consider the standard applied. The FISA Court explains that "communications of or concerning United States persons that could not be foreign intelligence information or are not evidence of a crime… may not be logged or summarized" (emphasis added). This makes a certain amount of sense: FISA intercepts will often be in unfamiliar languages, foreign agents will often speak in coded language, and the significance of a particular statement may not be clear initially. But such a deferential standard does mean they're retaining an awful lot of data. And indeed, it's important to recognize that "minimization" does not mean "deletion," as the Court's reference to "logs" and "summaries" hints. Typically intercepts that are "minimized" simply aren't logged for easy retrieval in a database. In the 80s, this may have been nearly as good for practical purposes as deletion; with the advent of powerful audio search algorithms capable of scanning many hours of recording quickly for particular words or voices, it may not make much difference. And we know that much more material than is officially "retained" remains available to agents. In the 2003 case U.S. v. Sattar, pursuant to FISA surveillance, "approximately 5,175 pertinent voice calls .. were not minimized." But when it came time for the discovery phase of a criminal trial against the FISA targets, the FBI "retrieved and disclosed to the defendants over 85,000 audio files … obtained through FISA surveillance."
Cognizant of these concerns, Congress tried to add some safeguards in 2005 when they reauthorized the PATRIOT Act. FISA warrants are still permitted to work on descriptions of a target, but the word "specific" was added, presumably to reinforce that the description must be precise enough to uniquely pick out a person or group. They also stipulated that eavesdroppers must inform the FISA Court within ten days of any new facility they eavesdrop on, and explain the "facts justifying a belief that the target is using, or is about to use, that new facility or place."
Better, to be sure; but without access to the classified opinions of the FISA Court, it's quite difficult to know just what this means in practice. In criminal investigations, we have a reasonable idea of what the "proximity" standard for roving taps entails. Maybe a target checks into a hotel with a phone in the room, or a dealer is observed to walk up to a pay phone, or to buy a "burner." It is much harder to guess how the "is using or is about to use" standard will be construed in light of FISA's vastly broader presumption of sweeping up-front acquisition. Again, we know that the courts have been satisfied to place enormous weight on after-the-fact minimization of communications, and it seems inevitable that they will do so to an even greater extent when they only learn of a new tap ten days (or 60 days with good reason) after eavesdropping has commenced.
We also don't know how much is built into that requirement that warrants name a "specific" target, and there's a special problem here when surveillance roves across not only facilities but types of facility. Suppose, for instance, that a FISA warrant is issued for me, but investigators have somehow been unable to learn my identity. Among the data they have obtained for their description, however, are a photograph, a voiceprint from a recording of my phone conversation with a previous target, and the fact that I work at the Cato Institute. Now, this is surely sufficient to pick me out specifically for the purposes of a warrant initially meant for telephone or oral surveillance. The voiceprint can be used to pluck all and only my conversations from the calls on Cato's lines. But a description sufficient to specify a unique target in that context may not be sufficient in the context of, say, Internet surveillance, as certain elements of the description become irrelevant, and the remaining threaten to cover a much larger pool of people. Alternatively, if someone has a very unusual regional dialect, that may be sufficiently specific to pinpoint their voice in one location or community using a looser matching algorithm (perhaps because there is no actual recording, or it is brief or of low quality), but insufficient if they travel to another location where many more people have similar accents.
Russ Feingold (D-WI) has proposed amending the roving wiretap language so as to require that a roving tap identify the target. In fact, it's not clear that this quite does the trick either. First, just conceptually, I don't know that a sufficiently precise description can be distinguished from an "identity." There's an old and convoluted debate in the philosophy of language about whether proper names refer directly to their objects or rather are "disguised definite descriptions," such that "Julian Sanchez" means "the person who is habitually called that by his friends, works at Cato, annoys others by singing along to Smiths songs incessantly…" and so on. Whatever the right answer to that philosophical puzzle, clearly for the practical purposes at issue here, a name is just one more kind of description. And for roving taps, there's the same kind of scope issue: Within Washington, DC, the name "Julian Sanchez" probably either picks me out uniquely or at least narrows the target pool down to a handful of people. In Spain or Latin America—or, more relevant for our purposes, in parts of the country with very large Hispanic communities—it's a little like being "John Smith."
This may all sound a bit fanciful. Surely sophisticated intelligence officers are not going to confuse Cato Research Fellow Julian Sanchez with, say, Duke University Multicultural Affairs Director Julian Sanchez? And of course, that is quite unlikely—I've picked an absurdly simplistic example for purposes of illustration. But there is quite a lot of evidence in the public record to suggest that intelligence investigations have taken advantage of new technologies to employ "targeting procedures" that do not fit our ordinary conception of how search warrants work. I mentioned voiceprint analysis above; keyword searches of both audio and text present another possibility.
We also know that individuals can often be uniquely identified by their pattern of social or communicative connections. For instance, researchers have found that they can take a completely anonymized "graph" of the social connections on a site like Facebook—basically giving everyone a name instead of a number, but preserving the pattern of who is friends with whom—and then use that graph to relink the numbers to names using the data of a differentbut overlapping social network like Flickr or Twitter. We know the same can be (and is) done with calling records—since in a sense your phone bill is a picture of another kind of social network. Using such methods of pattern analysis, investigators might determine when a new "burner" phone is being used by the same person they'd previously been targeting at another number, even if most or all of his contacts have alsoswitched phone numbers. Since, recall, the "person" who is the "target" of FISA surveillance may be a "group" or other "entity," and since I don't think Al Qaeda issues membership cards, the "description" of the target might consist of a pattern of connections thought to reliably distinguish those who are part of the group from those who merely have some casual link to another member.
This brings us to the final concern about roving surveillance under FISA. Criminal wiretaps are always eventually disclosed to their targets after the fact, and typically undertaken with a criminal trial in mind—a trial where defense lawyers will pore over the actions of investigators in search of any impropriety. FISA wiretaps are covert; the targets typically will never learn that they occurred. FISA judges and legislators may be informed, at least in a summary way, about what surveillance was undertaken and what targeting methods were used, but especially if those methods are of the technologically sophisticated type I alluded to above, they are likely to have little choice but to defer to investigators on questions of their accuracy and specificity. Even assuming total honesty by the investigators, judges may not think to question whether a method of pattern analysis that is precise and accurate when applied (say) within a single city or metro area will be as precise at the national level, or whether, given changing social behavior, a method that was precise last year will also be precise next year. Does it matter if an Internet service initially used by a few thousands—including, perhaps, surveillance targets—comes to be embraced by millions? Precisely because the surveillance is so secretive, it is incredibly hard to know which concerns are urgent and which are not really a problem, let alone how to think about addressing the ones that merit some legislative response.
I nevertheless intend to give it a shot in a broader paper on modern surveillance I'm working on, but for the moment I'll just say: "It's tricky." What is absolutely essential to take away from this, though, is that these loose and lazy analogies to roving wiretaps in criminal investigations are utterly unhelpful in thinking about the specific problems of roving FISA surveillance. That investigators have long been using "these" powers under Title III is no answer at all to the questions that arise here. Legislators who invoke that fact as though it should soothe every civil libertarian brow are simply evading their responsibilities.


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bradn wrote: I will remove the cutouts, don't need them unless going >30 knots anyway
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I read on a forum page that they tried to do use cutouts, similar to formula, but there was no improvement until roughly 30 knots, since most of the time when racing, you are not going anywhere near 30 knots they removed them.
what about having the back corners on slight angles, this might help to drive the board onto its leeward rail for going upwind?
I read somewhere that they have also tried putting a slight vee in the nose, but it was hard to control and had no advantages at all.
Do you think that you could point higher on the diamond tailed board because it could rail easier? (maybe the square tailed board could not because of the corners digging in - assuming that the front of the board lifts up slightly as well when going upwind on the rail )
was there a big difference in the fins of both of the boards?
does anyone have any other ideas instead of tri fin setup with 2-5 degrees cant? (except north)
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IBM is expanding the intelligence gathering functions available to its security-event management (SEM) product QRadar Security Intelligence Platform, as well as designing a virtual-appliance version of it that works on the VMware platform.
QRadar, which IBM gained in its acquisition of Q1 Labs last fall, can already receive and correlate information based on 400 sources of security data. Now it will also take in the IBM X-Force feeds of real-time threat intelligence, providing both a dashboard view to security managers as well as allowing them to set up a SEM rule to trigger alerts based on the information.
By later this spring, QRadar will be also outfitted to take in threat information from IBM's database protection product, Guardium, as well as link to the IBM Identity and Access Management product and IBM Endpoint Manager. Plus, IBM is adding support in modules for third-party products, including Symantec DLP, Websense Triton, Stonesoft's Softgate.
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"With more context and data sources, like IBM Identity and Access Management, QRadar can look up a role, saying this is not consistent with what they're doing," he says, pointing out this could be the basis for an alert of suspicious activity. In another scenario, QRadar could detect records flowing out from an internal corporate database across the network and going to a known internet hot spot, and that event could be flagged immediately with an alert.
In addition to expanding QRadar's capabilities to synthesise information through a larger source of threat intelligence, IBM is creating a virtual-appliance version of QRadar that would work in the VMware ESX environment — though not yet for the vSphere cloud computing platform.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Maggie Westfal, who led the Bulldogs in goals (8) and points (24), has earned first team All-Ivy recognition for the second straight year. Five other Yale players were honored as well. Megan Ashforth, Sophia Merrifield and Becky Brown were named to the second team, while Caitlin Collins and Miyuki Hino received honorable mention recognition.
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On Yesteryears' days, Ann drops her father off around 9:00 am, runs her errands, and gets her hair styled. She even joins friends for lunch once a week. She then picks her father up sometime between 3:00 and 4:00. Ann cheerfully described how much her father enjoys the activities and socializing with other men.
Mary nodded thoughtfully. She decided to find out more about the Yesteryears program.
Back at home, Mary called the Information and Assistance Line to get information on enrolling in Yesteryears. When she asked about enrolling Bud in the program, the resource line staff promised that a case manager would call her to schedule an appointment.
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After the assessment, Mary called Yesteryears to schedule a visit. She set up an appointment to meet with the program manager while Bud participated in some activities.
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Mary had a tour of the site and reviewed the activities on the schedule for the week. She was impressed; there did not seem to be a dull moment at Yesteryears. The staff encouraged Mary to leave Bud for the afternoon to see how he liked the program. She decided she would.
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The call for requests to participate, which were due July 10, were expected to result in a six-month study contract valued at $680,000.
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Kirk Johnson, chief curator and vice president of research and collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, has been appointed the Sant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, effective Oct. 29, 2012.
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Kirk Johnson, chief curator and vice president of research and collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, has been appointed the Sant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, effective Oct. 29.
As a vice president of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Johnson is part of a team that leads the museum and manages its $40 million annual budget. The museum, which receives 1.4 million visitors per year and has a staff of 400, launched a $170 million capital campaign in 2005.
"Kirk brings an established national and international reputation as a top scientist, educator and museum administrator to the National Museum of Natural History," said Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian. "He is a perfect match to lead the museum—among the very best in the world—into the next decade."
Johnson will oversee more than 460 employees, an annual federal budget of $68 million (museum's federal budget in FY 2012) and a collection of more than 126 million specimens and artifacts—the largest collection at the Smithsonian. The Natural History Museum hosts an average of 7 million visitors a year. Its scientists publish about 500 scientific research contributions a year.
"With his extensive experience in research, collections and use of social media for public outreach, Kirk will greatly enhance all we do at the National Museum of Natural History," said Eva J. Pell, Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science. "I look forward to working with him."
As chief curator at the Denver museum, Johnson oversees a 70-person research and collections division (including curators, registrars, librarians, archivists, conservators, technicians, administrators and assistants) and manages its $3.5 million annual budget. He is responsible for the museum's 24 collections, and he led the completion of the museum's first comprehensive long-term collections and research plan. He has served as a curator of paleontology since he joined the museum in 1991.
From 2001 to 2006, Johnson was the chair of the museum's department of Earth sciences. Between 1991 and 1995, he was one of two scientists who led the development of "Prehistoric Journey," the museum's permanent exhibition about the history of life on Earth. From 1989 to 1990 he was a postdoctoral research associate in the department of botany at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He was a marine geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in California from 1982 to 1983, and he has been a research associate at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle since 1991.
"Natural history museums are incredible places where people have the opportunity to interact with scientists, scientific discovery and to experience the wonders of the world," said Johnson. "As a scientist and a communicator, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead the nation's natural history museum into the 21st century." Johnson's research includes the study of the geology and fossil plants of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains from 34 to 145 million years ago. He also studies the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary extinction event and the origin of major ecological communities known as biomes. Between October 2010 and July 2011, he led an excavation in Snowmass Village, Colo., that recovered more than 5,400 bones of mammoths, mastodons and other ice age animals.
Johnson is on the steering committee for Earthtime, a community-based scientific initiative aimed at improving the resolution of geologic time, and he serves as the associate editor for Cretaceous Research. His professional memberships include the American Association of Museums, the Geological Society of America (fellow since 2002), the Botanical Society of America, the Paleontological Society and the International Organization of Palaeobotany. Johnson is the author of numerous scientific papers, and he has edited seven scientific volumes. He has written nine books, including his most recent, Digging Snowmastodon: Discovering an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies, which was published by the museum and the People's Press in 2012.
Johnson has a bachelor's degree in geology and fine arts from Amherst College, a master's degree in geology and paleobotany from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in geology and paleobotany from Yale University.
Clough made the appointment based on recommendations made by a search committee chaired by Pell that included Natural History Museum board chair Kathryn Fuller; board member Paula Kerger; Smithsonian Board of Regents member David Rubenstein; National Zoo Director Dennis Kelly; museum staff members Kay Behrensmeyer, Carol Butler, Susan Fruchter, Michael Mason, Richard Potts and Richard Vari; National Zoo staff member Francisco Dallmeier; and Office of Human Resources Associate Director Greg Bettwy.
Johnson succeeds Cristián Samper, who is leaving the Smithsonian to become president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society headquartered in New York City. During his tenure, Samper oversaw the renovations of several exhibitions, including the Behring Family Hall of Mammals (2003), the Sant Ocean Hall (2008) and the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins (2010). He also upgraded collections storage facilities, developed new digital outreach efforts, established the Buck Fellowship Program to train the next generation of scientists, raised more than $150 million in gifts for strategic priorities and served as co-founder of the Encyclopedia of Life, a Web-based global partnership to provide online access to knowledge about life on Earth. Samper also served as Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian from 2007 to 2008.
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Joshua Waxman is a prominent Washington attorney and friend of the late Nicholas A. Marsh, the federal prosecutor who had been involved in the botched prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens. Marsh committed suicide last year during the separate Department of Justice and court-ordered probes of misconduct in the prosecution of Senator Stevens. My recent post on the New York Times story occasioned by the completion of the still-secret report on the court-ordered probe of prosecutorial misconduct in the case prompted this message from Mr. Waxman:
There are three main points of which I think readers should be aware. First, I think it is important for people to understand that the Stevens case was not a case of partisanship run amok – it was after all the Bush Justice Department that indicted Stevens and the Obama Justice Department that dismissed the indictment.
Nor was it a situation where prosecutors unfairly targeted an innocent man. Even if one were to exclude all evidence concerning Bill Allen and VECO, the other evidence presented in the case overwhelmingly supports Senator Stevens' guilt as to the charges against him, which alleged that he failed to report on his Senate disclosure forms some gifts or liabilities greater than $260, as required by law. Indeed, as I set forth in my letter published in the Summer 2011 issue of the ABA Litigation Journal, among the most damning evidence in the case relates to a $2695 vibrating Shiatsu massage chair that Stevens received from his friend, Robert Persons, but he never reported on his disclosure forms.
Stevens took the stand during his trial and, in implausible testimony, claimed that the chair was not a gift, even though it was still at his home seven years later. Stevens testified that he never used the chair and had no idea how it had gotten into his house, but emails he sent stating his wife and daughter had a hard time getting him out of the chair after he kept falling asleep in it, and directing his staff where to place the chair in his home directly contradicted his testimony.
The subsequent investigations of the prosecutors have ONLY related to exculpatory information concerning renovations to Stevens' home performed at no cost to Stevens by VECO and Bill Allen, and there is no assertion that any of this other evidence, such as the massage chair, is in any way tainted by any allegations of misconduct. Regardless of what mistakes were made during the prosecution of the case, the evidence was overwhelming as to Stevens' guilt concerning the crimes for which he was charged.
Finally, as for the report concerning the conduct of the prosecutors, I may have more to say about that when the time comes, but for now I would just caution everyone to consider the circumstances under which the report and these investigations were conducted. One of the prosecutors, Nicholas Marsh, committed suicide during the pendency of the investigations and since Nick is therefore not available to set the record straight, it may be important to critically examine the actual underlying evidence to ensure that proper conclusions were made, not simply decisions made out of convenience based on circumstances that developed.
I understand that Nick endeavored to properly fulfill his obligations and took his ethical duties very seriously. In fact, Nick once insisted that he send $13 to someone who sent him a mug as a gift, because he wanted to ensure that he didn't violate any of the government's ethics rules. I would be happy to share more information and comments about the report if and when it is released publicly.
I think Mr. Waxman for his message and his permission to share it with our readers.


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Work on the metallic bridge over the Lungué Bungo River, in Moxico Province is in the final stage of construction. The 60 metre free-span bridge was erected by Swedish Rescue Services Agency and the Angolan National Institute of Roads with the support of WFP.
Once finished, the bridge will allow access to Luvuei, a locality which has remained isolated from the rest of the country and has considerable humanitarian needs. The bridge also constitutes a major step towards reaching Lumbala N'guimbo locality, thus facilitating the return and resettlement of former Angolan refugees living in exile in neighbouring Zambia.
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There are several ways in which to submit Matlab jobs to a cluster. This document will cover the various ways to run Matlab compute jobs on the Shared Research Compute clusters, which will include using the Parallel Computing Toolbox (PCT) and the Matlab Distributed Compute Engine (MDCE) to submit many independent tasks and to submit a single task that has parallel components. Examples are included.
Task Parallel - Multiple independent iterations within your workflow.
Data Parallel - Single program working on a problem across multiple processors.
MDCE - Matlab Distributed Compute Engine. This is a component of Matlab that allows our clusters to run Matlab jobs that exceed the size of a single compute node (multinode parallel jobs). it also allows jobs to run even if there are not enough toolbox licenses available for a particular toolbox, so long as the university owns at least one license for the particular toolbox.
Matlab Task - Individual Matlab compute job.
Matlab Job - Submission from within the Matlab GUI that can contain one or more tasks.
Job - Job submitted via the PBS job scheduler (also called PBS Job).
Interactive Jobs
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Running Jobs with PBS qsub
Good for jobs that are single processor jobs and do not encounter any toolbox license issues. Take from old FAQ.
Using MDCE for Task Parallel and Data Parallel Jobs
Using MDCE will allow you to submit multiple jobs with a single job submission (Task Parallel) or submit a single task that is a multiprocessor (and possibly multinode) job. In order to run this type of job you must first configure Matlab for this type of job submission by following these steps;
Configuring Matlab
1. In your home directory create the MdcsDataLocation/sugar subdirectory.
2. Load the Matlab 2011a environment:
3. Run Matlab on the login node:
4. In Matlab, add the ddd folder to your Matlab path so that Matlab will be able to find the scripts necessary to submit and schedule jobs.
- Click on File and then Set Path
- Click the Add Folder button
- Specify the following folder:
5. Import the cluster configuration for sugar
- Click on Parallel and then Manage Configurations
- Click on File and then Import
- Navigate to /opt/apps/matlab/2011a-scripts and select the configuration for the system you are using, such as sugar.mat, davinci.mat, stic.mat, and so forth.
- Select the configuration for the system you are using and click on Start Validation
- All four stages should pass: Find Resources, Distributed Job, Parallel Job, Matlabpool
If all validation stages succeed, then you are ready to run jobs with MDCE.
Submitting Task Parallel Jobs
The following is an example of a Task Parallel job. The task-parallel example code, frontDemo, calculates the risk and return based on historical data from a collection of stock prices. The core of the code, calcFrontier, minimizes the equations for a set of returns. In order to parallelize the code, the for loop is converted into a parfor loop. View the m code here.
To submit the job, copy submitParJobToCluster.m into your working directory, make the necessary modifications for your job environment, and then run the code from within Matlab. This will submit the job. The code can be downloaded from here. An explanation of the code follows:


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FlashCards for Kids is a simple, yet fun, e-learning application for anyone who wants to improve English, Arabic, and French vocabulary.Audio pronunciations are available for ALL three languages. To enable French or Arabic audio pronunciations, open the "Settings" screen and set one of those languages as the Primary language.Features include:* Colorful, clear pictures have been created or obtained from royalty-free image libraries for this application. Looking at the great pictures is part of the fun for kids!* English, French, and Arabic words are shown simultaneously on the screen. If you already know one of these languages, this makes learning other languages much simpler.* The big, central sound button allows you to repeat audio pronunciations. When this button is pressed, the system auto-pauses, allowing you to hear the pronunciation as many times as you wish.* Pause/play button in the lower right corner of the screen allows you to stop the slide rotation so that you can focus on a word.* Using your fingers, you can manually advance or rewind slides. Please note that the app must be in "pause" mode for this.* Words are organized into Easy and Medium categories, for beginners and continuing learners. Easy words are mostly one-syllable and some very common two-syllable words.* A settings screen, where you can set the default language, which is the language that you will hear when audio is enabled.* Professional French pronunciation for all French words when French is set as the Primary language.* Professional Arabic pronunciation for all Arabic words when Arabic is set as the Primary language.* Professional English pronunciation for all English words when English is set as the Primary language.* Autoplay of sounds can be enabled or disabled. If enabled, every word will be pronounced by a pre-recorded voice for the language shown.* Time between slides can be set lower or higher, in case you need more time to read the words, you if you just want to zip through them quickly.* You may completely turn off all sounds, if desired. This is great if you want to review your flashcards in church.* You may turn off other languages, if you just want to focus on one particular language.


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CONRNWALL — Two Addison County men were killed on Sept. 20 when the Ultralite aircraft they were piloting crashed in a wooded area in Cornwall.
Calvin Minor, 63, of New Haven and Mark Reese, 51, of Lincoln, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident just north of Morse Road in Cornwall, according to a press release issued by the Vermont State Police (VSP) on Thursday.
Police said Reese was teaching Minor the proper techniques in piloting the two-person Ultralite. The craft was a Klaus Cruise 2, trike-style craft. It is a weight-shift controlled aircraft, with a fabric wing, using a Geo Metro four-cylinder engine.
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TICONDEROGA, N.Y. — With a final permit now in their grasp, International Paper Co. (IPC) officials confirmed on Thursday they are targeting early November to conduct a controversial, two-week test burn of tire-derived fuel in one of the boilers at the company's Ticonderoga, N.Y.-based mill.
Vermont officials and environmental groups, meanwhile, vowed to pursue legal action and corporate peer pressure to compel IPC to postpone the test burn until it installs state-of-the-art pollution control equipment at its mill.
"We are prepared to exhaust all available options to prevent this potentially toxic tire burn without… safeguards in place," Gov. James Douglas, a Middlebury Republican, stated in a press release.
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Research firm Globaldata's report, Asia-Pacific Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2013, highlights the Chinese government's commitment to renewable energy, including new laws and supportive financial measures, making China the largest wind power market in the world.
China had an installed capacity of 75,564MW in 2012, overtaking the US in 2011, and the state's 12th five-year plan (2011–2015) has a target of 70GW of wind power capacity by 2015.
Australia and India will increase their share of renewable energy projects powered by support from their governments, the report shows.
Australia's cumulative installed capacity for renewable power increased from 849MW in 2001 to 5,968MW in 2012.
Growing energy demand, limited fossil fuel reserves and global warming concerns have forced countries in the Asia-Pacific region to increase their share of renewable energy the report notes.
Japan's Fukushima nuclear incident in 2011 triggered the country to diversify its energy mix with the government introducing one of the world's most generous feed-in tariffs for renewable energy in 2012.
Thailand announced several measures to boost its renewable industry with the aim of sourcing 25% of its energy from renewables in the next 10 years.
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Astrophysicist Adam Riess shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 for his work on distant supernovae, which demonstrated that the universe was not only expanding--but that its expansion was accelerating. Now he's hunting for clues that might explain why, and one of the prime suspects is a mysterious force known as dark energy.


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For what it's worth, the following are my thoughts on what transpired on Oscar night.
The common enemy for everything that is included on Oscar night is time. In that inclusion are such items as any and all jokes, whether good or not, all singing and dancing routines, clips from the nominated movies and stars, any special non-typical events, which included a special appearance and song by Barbra Streisand, a James Bond 50-year re-cap, a presentation by First Lady Michelle Obama, acceptance speeches prior to the "Jaws" theme being played, and the one thing that apparently no one has control over — the long-winded, and I'm sure unwanted, commercials.
The "In Memoriam" tribute, although very sad and at times worthy of tears, is an important part of every Oscar night. This year's list, I'm sorry to say, left out far too many people, probably in the name of limited time. If even if a small portion of the commercials were to be vanquished from Oscar night, there's a good chance that would create ample time to include the names of those taken from us who were not recognized on Sunday night.
Here are just a few of them that should have been listed on the screen: Ben Gazzara, Whitney Houston, Dick Clark, Donna Summer, Richard Dawson, Andy Griffith, Alex Karras, Phyllis Diller, Andy Williams, Larry Hagman, Ann Rutherford, James Farentino, Chad Everett and Patty Andrews, even though she died in January of this year. Kind of makes you wonder just wherein the devotion lies, either in honoring the recently deceased or advertising just one additional product in the name of profit.
As far as rating Seth MacFarlane's job as host, heck what do I know? I'm just a retired real estate appraiser attempting to sail through life without too many bumps in the road. Watching him, however, I got the feeling that at times he was just trying way too hard to be funny while attempting to please the audience with his form of levity. And in the process of trying too hard, he often failed to bring the desired results, as evidenced by either no laughter or a form of suppressed laughter that appeared to worsen the situation due to an awkward silence that filled the Dolby Theatre.
Other than that, he seemed to be what Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner, observed as being simply mediocre. Being a good Oscar host is a challenging task in itself, and it looks as if not everyone is up for that particular task. One such person who I really enjoyed watching was Billy Crystal, but he is probably a bit tired after doing so many of the shows.
A hint for the Academy for next year's Oscar show, find someone like Crystal, if it's possible. Like the late Robert Urich used to say on his "Vega$" TV program in the late '70s as private eye Dan Tanna, "If it was easy, anyone could do it."
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Do you remember how I was lusting after the new Serge Lutens Water Lip Color? I got my hands on it a few days after I mentioned that product and unfortunately, it was a huge disappointment.
Even though I'm a beauty blogger, I still buy into the hype at times. This Water Lip Color from Serge Lutens is a great example of that. I love the perfume so I thought this product was a no brainer but not so.
At first I thought I picked the wrong shade. I picked the "sheer red" that looked more like iodine than anything else. Even after realizing that, I kept an open mind because I really wanted to love this product. When I started to apply it, I found that the color really needed some help in the intensity department. I had to apply 4 layers before I achieved the color I wanted. What was even more disappointing was how this layered color felt and lasted on my lips. My lips felt sticky and what was worse was that I could actually lick the color off my lips. Oh Serge, I really, really wanted to love you.
I hate to be negative but for as much as this product cost me, I expected greatness. For all I know, the other beauty products from Serge Lutens could be mind blowing but I know I will not be taking a chance on them given my experience with this Serge Lutens Water Lip Color. Now the perfume, that's a different story. 🙂
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Warm-up home improvements
By Hannah McKenzie
Q: I see a lot of advertisements for windows, insulation and gadgets that are going to make my home warmer and more energy efficient in the winter. How do I know where to start and what really works?
A: There are many choices when it comes to making your home more comfortable and energy efficient. You have to choose what works best based on your home's needs and your budget. You can hire a home performance contractor to assess and improve your home, or you can incrementally do the improvements yourself. There are three general areas that you should focus on.
1. HVAC duct sealing
A study by Advanced Energy in the 1990s revealed that most homes in North Carolina lose about 20 percent of conditioned air from duct leakage. That means for every $5 you spend to heat your home, $1 heats the great outdoors. I imagine my attic mice are grateful for the years I kept their home cozy.
Ducts are the flexible plastic or rigid metal chases that carry conditioned air from your HVAC unit to the interior of your home. If ducts are located in unconditioned spaces, like the crawlspace or attic, they should also be insulated.
Duct sealing is most often addressed by an HVAC professional or a home performance contractor. If you want to do the work, duct leakage can be assessed by looking for bucket mastic applied to the duct connections. Mastic is a sealant sold in buckets that has the consistency of peanut butter. It can be applied using a cheap paint brush or disposable gloves. You should also caulk the gaps where the metal supply and return boots meet the floor, wall or ceiling.
2. Air sealing and insulation
Insulation is what most homeowners think is going to make their home more comfortable; however, insulation only works if installed after thorough air sealing. Insulation won't stop heated air from rising into your attic. Air sealing all holes, gaps and chases with appropriate caulk or spray foam will stop air flow.
In North Carolina, air sealing and insulation improvements should take priority in your attic, then floors and walls last.
Home performance contractors have the experience to find critical locations that need air sealing. If you are determined to do the work yourself, FineHomebuilding.com has an excellent video series "How to Air-Seal an Attic."
You can also use snow to know where to air seal in the attic. Even when my chimney is not in use, snow does not collect around it. The snow is melted from the heat sneaking up the chimney through the broken damper and behind the crown molding that hides a large gap between the brick and ceiling. Another prime location to investigate is the attic access panel. It should be weather stripped and insulated to create a tight seal that separates your attic from your home. Otherwise heat easily leaks into the attic.
3. Windows
Replacement windows are one of the most advertised energy efficiency items. Beware that many claims for energy savings are false or misleading. Typical replacement windows can take 30 years for the energy savings to pay for the cost of the window.
Replacing a single pane window can have a big impact on comfort, especially if the window is right next to your bed or easy chair. If you're replacing a window for comfort or aesthetic reasons, it's definitely worth it to pay for an Energy Star-labeled window.
If your windows aren't a major source of discomfort, you'll be better off improving your existing windows by repairing and weatherizing your windows. Minimize air leakage by replacing latches and broken glass, repairing glazing putty, and installing weather stripping at sash joints. If you have single pane windows, install storm windows. This is an inexpensive way to keep historic single pane windows, minimize drafts and eliminate condensation. Remember that storm windows only work when you keep them closed.
Don't be overwhelmed by the task of making your home warmer. I've enjoyed incremental improvements in my comfort and power bills over the years. Decide what's important, affordable and feasible and take one bite at a time.


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Sen. Ted Cruz continues to stick to his guns on the Second Amendment.
The Texas senator is taking the same position as Syria, Iran, and North Korea in opposing United States-sponsored United Nations treaty that would place restrictions on international gun trade.
But reasons for opposing the theory are very different than those of Kim, Assad and Ahmedinejad.
Cruz took to social media on Wednesday to explain why he's against the U.N. Arms Treaty and will always oppose anything that could threaten the gun rights of American citizens, as he sees it.
Pres. Obama expected to sign UN Arms Treaty. I'll fight this & all other efforts to infringe on #2ndAmendment rights youtube.com/watch?v=P7vPTo…
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 3, 2013
Cruz elaborated on his position, saying the treaty "must be defeated" Wednesday morning in an interview with conservative radio hostBen Ferguson.
"I have long said that I will publicly and vigorously lead the fight against [gun restricion] and do everything I can to make sure the Senate does not allow it to go into effect," Cruz said.
The U.N. General Assembly met Tuesday and many voted in support of the treaty, a first-ever measure to establish better controls for the $70 billion international arms trade.
Iran, Syria, and North Korea were the only countries to vote against the treaty, stating the accord prohibited smaller countries from being able to purchase weapons for self-defense, according to a U.N. press release.
The treaty's constraints cover a wide range of conventional weapons, including combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles, missile launchers, armored combat vehicles, and some additional small arms. These items would not be transferred to countries subjected to the U.N. arms embargoes or countries that promote war crimes, genocide, or crimes against humanity.
The freshman senator said the treaty is dangerous to the second amendment and the nation's sovereignty and it may also inhibit the country's ability to help out allies in need of weapons for defense.
"There has been a pattern for a long time of giving up U.S. sovereignty to the U.N., to foreign courts, to foreign laws, and that is a pattern the Obama administration has accelerated and I think it's very troublesome," he said.
Fellow Texas Sen. John Cornyn has also shared his opposition to the treaty. On Wednesday, Cornyn spokesman Drew Brandewie tweeted a New York Times article quoting Cornyn on the subject.
"Among the opponents is @johncornyn…he said the treaty…violated the right to self-defense and U.S. sovereignty" nyti.ms/Xo2EBi — Drew Brandewie (@DBrandewie) April 3, 2013
In the article, Cornyn said the treaty was "unnecessarily harsh treatment of civilian-owned small arms," and echoed Cruz's fear of overstepping the right to self-defense.
If President Obama signs the treaty, it would then be taken to the Senate and must garner a two-thirds majority vote to be ratified.


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Lawyers ask judges to halt Guantánamo forced-feedings
Lawyers for four Guantánamo captives are asking a federal court in Washington, D.C., to put an end to the "grotesque" practice of force-feeding at the Pentagon prison in southeast Cuba.
The U.S. military defends the use of forced-feeding as modeled after U.S. Bureau of Prisons policy. But the lawyers argue that, unlike federal prisoners, these Guantánamo captives have never been charged with a crime and are held not for punishment but indefinitely as war-on-terror detainees.
"I am doing this because I want to know my destiny," Algerian detainee Nabil Hadjarab, 33, says in an accompanying declaration. "I cannot abide not knowing anymore."
As of Monday, 44 captives were designated for force-feedings at Guantánamo, said Army Lt. Col. Samuel House, a prison spokesman. The military acknowledges that 106 of the 166 captives in the prison camps are on the food protest, and said that Monday two men were getting tube-feedings in the prison hospital.
The Pentagon has about 140 Navy doctors, nurses and corpsmen are carrying out the feedings. Guards strap a captive into a restraint chair twice daily, then a medical professional snakes a nasogastric tube up the captive's nose, down the back of his throat and into his stomach to pump a nutritional supplement inside.
"There cannot be a legitimate penological interest in force-feeding petitioners to prolong their indefinite detention," says the 30-page filing by Oakland, Calif., attorney Jon B. Eisenberg and London-based lawyer Cori Crider of the human rights group Reprieve. "It facilitates the violation of a fundamental human right. The very notion of it is grotesque."
The lawyers filed the motion Sunday night, seeking a speedy hearing on force-feeding policy because Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan starts next week. If the court can't rule in time on the overarching policy, the pleading seeks "at a minimum, to enjoin any force-feeding between sunup and sundown during the month of Ramadan."
The lawyers brought the action in the name of four detainees — Hadjarab, Saudi Shaker Aamer, 46, Syrian Jihad Diyab, 41, and fellow Algerian Ahmed Belbacha, 44, — whose habeas corpus petitions are before two different U.S. District Court judges, Rosemary Collyer and Gladys Kessler.
Both judges gave the government until Wednesday noon to respond.
In past Ramadans, the prison has said it tube-fed hunger strikers at night to allow protesters to observe the fast with fellow Muslims.
But in those years only a few detainees were on hunger strike. Now, Guantánamo spokesmen will not say if the U.S. military has the capacity or commitment to conduct exclusively night-time feedings.
But at the U.S. Southern Command, which supervises prison operations, Army Col. Greg Julian said there are no plans to change "the enteral feeding policy because we are following Federal Bureau of Prison approved policy — and we will not let the detainees die.
"Until we are told to do differently the practice will not change," he said.
A likely first hurdle is whether the judges will take the case. Justice Department lawyers have successfully argued in other Guantánamo suits that civilian judges have no oversight on conditions at the U.S. Navy base's prison camps, only on review of unlawful detention petitions.
The filing cites the positions of international medical groups that a competent captive has the right to starve himself, and also a recent letter from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel opposing the Pentagon's forced-feeding practices.
All four captives named in the suit were cleared for release from Guantánamo in 2010. A federal task force approved each man's transfer on condition the nations that took him in could provide security assurances. Aamer's a former British resident whose family lives in London.


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Southampton 1 Arsenal 1: Theo Walcott unable inspire win on return to St Mary's
Theo Walcott was unable to inspire Arsenal to victory on his return to Southampton on New Year's Day.
Last Updated: 01/01/13 10:19pm
The England international made his first appearance at St Mary's since leaving in 2006 but he, and fellow former Saint Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, had to make do with a point.
Southampton, now out of the relegation zone, took a deserved lead in the first half through Gaston Ramirez and matched their visitors for most of the contest.
But Arsene Wenger's frustrated Arsenal, who dropped points in the race for the UEFA Champions League, levelled before half-time when Brazilian forward Guly turned Walcott's free-kick into his own goal.
Much of the build-up to Tuesday's game surrounded graduates of Southampton's fabled Academy.
Both Walcott and Oxlade-Chamberlain started at the place they once called home, while speculation was rife that Luke Shaw, the latest star off the production line, could soon follow them to Emirates Stadium.
Clear-cut opportunities were in short supply in the first half and the opening goal came in the 34th minute thanks to shambolic defending rather than any moment of genius.
Arsenal failed on a number of occasions to clear the ball and, after seeing a shot blocked, Jason Puncheon pulled back for Ramirez to fire home just inside the 18-yard box.
The lead lasted just seven minutes, though, as Puncheon gave away a free-kick wide on the left.
Walcott swung it in and Guly directed past his own goalkeeper at the near post to send the 3,141 visiting fans into raptures.
Arsenal thought they had a second before the break as Walcott found a way past Artur Boruc, only for it to be chalked off for offside.
The home side responded well when the teams re-emerged for the second half, with a Rickie Lambert header across the six yard box just evading his team-mates.
Both managers made changes in a bid to find a winner, with Mikel Arteta coming close with a fierce 25-yard strike.
Wojciech Szczesny parried a late Puncheon strike and Maya Yoshida cleared a later cross as the match ended level, propelling Saints out of the drop zone.


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Fifteen years after the death of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur, a sex tape featuring the star has reportedly surfaced and is being shopped around to the highest bidder.
TMZ reports the five-minute recording from 1991 co-stars Digital Underground member Money B, and shows Tupac receiving pleasures of the oral sort from an unidentified young lady during a house party.
The event didn't happen in private — there are plenty of onlookers — and Tupac supposedly didn't even break stride, continuing to sing, dance, drink and smoke marijuana while the woman, shall we say, "did her thing."
While the tape doesn't depict any actual sex, sources say it looks like Tupac's about to get busy near the end.
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Ransomware Poses as Justice Department
Some users have found messages on their computers from the United States Department of Justice claiming they visited websites hosting illegal content. In actuality, the message was part of a malware infection and had nothing to do with the folks at Justice, according to researchers at Trusteer Intelligence.
Users are being infected by the latest ransomware, Reveton, as part of a larger drive-by download attack which installs the Citadel malware on to their computers, Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer and head of Trusteer Intelligence, wrote May 1. Citadel is a variation of the Zeus banking Trojan and can launch man-in the-browser attacks, log keystrokes, and intercept sensitive data such as banking, credit card, and login information.
Ransomware is a class of malware that locks users out of their computers or files and demands a ransom before unlocking them. In most instances, the computer is unusable because the malware blocks all applications except the Web browser. The ransom demand and the payment method are both displayed within the browser.
While Reveton was originally being used as a stand-alone infection, Trusteer researchers are increasingly seeing it bundled as part of a larger Citadel attack, according to Klein.
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Users infected with Reveton see a fake message claiming they had "violated United States Federal Law," Trusteer researchers said.
According to the fake warning screen, the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the U.S. Department of Justice had flagged the computer's IP address for visiting websites containing explicit or other illegal content, Trusteer found. Users are told they have to pay a $100 fine to the Justice Department using pre-paid money card services before the computer will be unlocked.
It's important to remember that paying the $100 just removes the ransom demand delivered by Reveton. Since the computer is still infected with the Citadel malware, cyber-criminals can remotely issue commands to Citadel to continue exploiting users. The malware can intercept sensitive and financial information and send it to its command-and-control servers, Klein said. Trusteer researchers have found that malware originally designed to commit online banking fraud has been adapted for more direct attacks.
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Last week's Red Stripe Xbox Deal gave us a fine sale on Sonic CD, a game that had never been discounted before. This week's game has never been a Deal of the Week before, but many of us picked it up during the Black Friday sale last year. That's right, Mush from Angry Mango will be the new Red Stripe Xbox game starting on Thursday. It's going on sale for 99 cents, down from $2.99.
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Mush is a bright and original platformer that plays a bit differently from the norm. The titular character gains unique abilities based on his emotions. Draw a smile and becomes so elated that he floats; make him frown and he sinks way down low. By switching between the four emotions as necessary, you'll help Mush solve puzzles and win a game of hide-and-seek with his friends.
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Achievement hunters will want to grab Mush as well, because this is one easy game. You can't die or lose, just like ilomilo. The only real challenge comes from grabbing all of the collectibles. Most are out in the open, but you'll probably have to hunt for a few. Check out our full review for more details!
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Mush is a 24 MB download and runs great on both Windows Phone 7 and 8. It will be on sale for 99 cents for one week only starting Thursday, April 25th. You'll find it here at the Windows Phone Store. Check back tomorrow when we'll report on all three Red Stripe Deals!