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MIAMI — LeBron James went from goat to hero to goat to hero in the span of 50 exhilarating and exhausting minutes against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday.
It was a microcosm of James' NBA Finals performance against the San Antonio Spurs: great one game, not great enough the next.
It was difficult to tell which way it would go for James in Game 6.
After a rugged first three quarters, James produced when Miami needed it most, with its season slipping away into disappointment. He scored 16 of his game-high 32 points in the fourth quarter as the Miami Heat outlasted the San Antonio Spurs 103-100 in a back-and-forth overtime affair, forcing a winner-take-all Game 7 in Miami on Thursday (9 p.m. ET, ABC).
"It was by far the best game I've ever been a part of," James said of Game 6. "The ups and downs, the roller coaster, the emotions, good and bad throughout the whole game. To be a part of something like this is something you would never be able to recreate once you're done playing the game. And I'm blessed to be a part of something like this.
"And I'm happy about the way we dug down and was able to get a win. It didn't look like we could muster up at some point in the game."
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James also had 11 assists and 10 rebounds for his second-triple double of the series, his fourth Finals triple-double and his 11th postseason triple-double.
His three-pointer with 20.1 seconds left cut San Antonio's lead to 94-92, and after Kawhi Leonard made 1 of 2 free throws, Heat guard Ray Allen made a three with 5.2 seconds left to force overtime.
James' 7-foot floater in the lane with 1:43 left in overtime proved to be the winning shot.
"Everything we do starts with him," Allen said. "If he has great energy, if he has bad energy, we feel it, the rest of the team. So one thing I always try to make sure I do with him is to make sure he understands how his aura, his energy has an effect on the rest of the team. And we always need it to be great energy.
"He has a great motor out on the floor, the way he starts games, the way he closes out quarters, defensively the way he plays. With that we follow suit. So it's a terrible burden, but for one guy, he has to make sure that he always keeps the energy and that positivity flowing in the right direction, because we do all follow suit."
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For much of the game, James seemed on his way to one of those empty triple-doubles, which look nice in the box score but yield a loss. He posted one in Game 1, when the Spurs won another thriller.
James made three of 12 shots through three quarters. Miami trailed 75-65 at the start of the fourth quarter.
"I was struggling shooting the ball," James said. "We were struggling. And they took a commanding 12-point lead to start the fourth. After we came out before we entered the ball, I basically just told myself, give it all I got. If we go down losing, I'm going to go down with no bullets. I'm going all out. I can be satisfied with the results.
"That's exactly what I did. I just tried to play both sides of the floor on a high, intense level until I had no more left in the tank."
During a 20-7 run in which the Heat took an 85-82 lead, James scored 11 points. Oddly, James played much of the fourth quarter and all of overtime without his trademark headband. It fell off as James dunked a Mario Chalmers missed shot with 9:00 left in the fourth quarter.
"I don't even remember the play much," James said. "I was just focused on the job, the task at hand, and just trying to be aggressive, just trying to figure out ways I could help the team get back into the game. And you know, I guess the headband was the least of my worries at that point.
Heat guard Dwyane Wade said, "I've never seen him play without his headband that long, since his rookie year."
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As great as James played in the fourth, he also had a turnover with 39.9 seconds left in regulation. San Antonio's Manu Ginobili made three free throws on the next two possessions, putting the Spurs up 93-89 with 28.2 seconds to go.
James' three-pointer started the wild comeback.
"An absolute desperation and will," Spoelstra said of James. "To do it on both ends, obviously he had an extremely tough cover with (Spurs guard Tony) Parker, making every play for us, really aggressive, able to get into the paint. But just gave us that life when we were down by 10."
For a while, it looked like James wouldn't match his stellar production in elimination games. He entered the game averaging 31.5 points, 10 rebounds and 6.4 assists in 11 games with his season on the line in the playoffs.
He matched it and then some. In posting his third triple-double in an elimination game, James joined Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Wes Unseld, Jerry West and Bill Russell as the only players to record a triple-double in a Finals elimination game.
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James was spent after playing 50 of 53 minutes, including all 29 minutes in the second half and overtime. He let out an old-man groan as he got up from his post-game news conference.
"Fatigue is a part of the game," James said. "You've got two teams fighting for an NBA championship. Not only are they going all the way taking the tank all the way down to E, they're also using their reserve tank.
"But I don't think fatigue played a part in the game. I think both teams had a will to win. We just made one more play at the end of the day."
Now, one more elimination game for James and the Heat.
"It's the last game of the season," James said. "You have to muster up all the energy that you might have. It's not about X's and O's at this point. They know what we're running. We know what they're running. We know their personnel. They know our personnel. It's about getting stops defensively, staying in it mentally, not turning the ball over, and making a few shots.
"The best team will be crowned Thursday night."
The Heat need James to be great one more time.
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Aroldis Chapman, huh?
Even still, it is - at the very least - interesting to hear that the Jays are kicking the tires on the live-armed defector. With the Red Sox and Yankees interested, and the unproven Cuban reportedly looking for a contract in the $40M-$60M range (what!?), it's a pipe dream for the Jays to actually be "in" on the player (see what I did there?).....but the fact the team is even being mentioned in rumours has to count for something, yes? Yes.
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I'm not exactly clear on the legal issues with regarding the status of defectors, but Aroldis plying his trade in Canada might not be such a tough sell, hypothetically speaking. I would think it may be easier to get his girlfriend and child over to Canada than the States due to the better diplomatic relations, but that's just a guess at best. Though with the current interregnum, it may be too late to get in on the Aroldis bandwagon, unless the Beest has given the okay and has used Madame Zorba to channel the next President to get the all-clear.
Still, offering anything over 40M to an unproven pitcher seems like it may explode the pay structure of the team, though Wells' albatross of a contract pretty much does that already. Still, an alleged 102 MPH fastball would be awesome to have, just to see the Yankee's lumber-wielders flail away listlessly. Actually, just to embarrass the Yanks, I'd sign him.
- October 25, 2009 at 4:40 AM
- October 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Even the Yankees might not be willing to spend that much on him given how high their payroll is currently.
Then again, if they don't win the World Series, all bets are off.
- October 25, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Yankees payroll is high?
A rhetorical question, maybe, but how high is high for the Yankees?
- October 25, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- Mark said...
The scary thing is that the Yanks payroll has dropped this year. It was almost 10 million lower than last year...
And they'll have another 32 million off the books when Damon/Matsui/Nady are gone at the end of the year. They still have to replace Damon/Matsui, but they have a fair amount of cash to play with.
- October 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Looks like Bart Given's site was hacked.
- October 25, 2009 at 3:38 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Excellent use of "the player."
It makes sense because the Red Sox are a smart, well run organization. Yeah, I said it.
While I want J.P. to get his ring, I'd appreciate it if he didn't get it with the Red Sox. But you're absolutely right about that organization.
- October 25, 2009 at 11:41 PM
- Christopher said...
Why would you want/care if JP gets a ring??
- October 26, 2009 at 12:16 AM
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update: in the online G&M http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/lebrons-no-traveller/article1337865/
Blair gets the word direct from the GM's mouth - no pursuing of Chapman.
Bad info from MLBTR, I guess...
- October 26, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- SP said...
So, the Indians swooped in an took Manny Acta
- October 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
The Clevelands are Acta-stealers. I hate them.
I actually feel okay about the Jays not going out on a limb for Aroldis. That's a lot for a guy who might not turn out to be anything more than Jose Contreras.
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Primer: Security Information and Event ManagementBy David F. Carr | Posted 2005-08-04 Print
The latest twist on how security information and event management systems are helping companies' security log information.
What is it? Security information and event management (SIEM) systems help you gather, store, correlate and analyze security log data from many different information systems. This data may prove valuable as part of a network security organization's immediate response to an attack, making it possible to see, for example, all the virtual private network connections that were active when a behind-the-firewall server came under attack. Or in the case of an incident discovered after the fact, such as the theft of credit card numbers, the system could produce reports for police and regulators from the archived log data.
Why is it important? As the volume and importance of security log data grows, it becomes crucial to store it in a compressed format and have better ways of analyzing it. Measures such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have emboldened auditors to require that log data be kept longer in case it is needed for an investigation. Gartner security systems analyst Amrit Williams says applying this requirement to all systems, rather than just financial ones, probably goes beyond the letter of the law. Nevertheless, many of his clients cite pressure from auditors as a reason for buying these security systems, which cost between $100,000 and $500,000.
Who are the vendors? Most major security and systems management vendors have a security information and event management offering. Gartner says the leaders are specialized software vendors, such as ArcSight, e-Security, Intellitactics, netForensics and Network Intelligence; it also gives high marks to Computer Associates' eTrust Security Command Center.
How difficult are these systems to implement? Quite difficult, says Gartner's Williams, given the complexities of gathering log data from so many systems. Most early system software required companies to set up clustered relational databases as the storage mechanism, an obstacle for organizations with little experience using them.
Network Intelligence was the first vendor to win significant market share with a system appliance, which simplified deployment because it came preconfigured with a database for storage. Other vendors, including Cisco (with its acquisition of Protego), have appliance-based offerings, and Symantec is beta-testing an appliance for release this fall. Despite the advantages of appliances, SIEM software will retain market share with customers who want more control and ability to customize than an appliance allows, or who want to extend existing enterprise storage, according to Williams.
Who is using it? Regulated industries such as utilities, financial services and health care are big on these systems. Sean Curry, infrastructure engineering manager at Calpine, an operator of electric power plants, discovered he needed a better way of managing log data after the firm started using virtual private networks, rather than dedicated telecommunications lines, to connect to 103 remote locations. That saved the company about $140,000 per month, but it also meant establishing firewalls at each of those locations, with log entries generated every time a VPN connection was established.
"We're logging 60 gigabytes of data per day, 1,200 events per second," Curry says. As the storage requirements for that data outstripped capacity, Calpine pulled older records offline. Though the records were archived on tape rather than deleted, auditors complained that they weren't readily available for analysis.
Using a Network Intelligence appliance, Calpine can retain more information online in a compressed form and produce more sophisticated reports, more quickly. Curry also runs reports for human resources on whether employees are violating "acceptable use" policies by, for instance, downloading pornography.
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You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
View the properties of the data source pool by using this command syntax:
$ dpconf get-ldap-data-source-pool-prop -h host -p port \ [-M unit] [-Z unit] pool-name [property...]
In this command, -M and -Z refer to the units in which you want data to be displayed. The M option specifies the unit of time. The value for -M can be M, w, d, h, m, s, or ms, to represent months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, or milliseconds. The -Z option specifies the data size unit. The value for -Z can be T, G, M, k, or b, to represent Terabytes, Gigabytes, Megabytes, kilobytes, or bytes.
If you do not specify a property, all properties are displayed. The default properties of an LDAP data source pool are as follows:
client-affinity-bind-dn-filters : any client-affinity-criteria : connection client-affinity-ip-address-filters : any client-affinity-policy : write-affinity-after-write client-affinity-timeout : 20s description : - enable-client-affinity : false load-balancing-algorithm : proportional
Configure the properties that are listed in Step 1.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-source-pool-prop -h host -p port pool-name \ property:value
For information about how to configure the properties of a data source pool for load balancing and client affinity, see Chapter 20, Directory Proxy Server Load Balancing and Client Affinity.


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Farringdon Thameslink works about to start
The Thameslink Programme has three elements: Reconfiguring track and junctions so that more routes and more trains can run through the central section; Extending platforms at local stations so that 12 car trains can run; and completely rebuilding Farringdon, Blackfriars and London Bridge stations for both of the previous reasons.
Major work work doesn't start until next March, but preparatory works ("Key Output 0") are happening now. The most significant of these is the replacement of the interchange footbridge at the north end of Farringdon station, and work on that starts next month.
Here are your before and after shots:
And here's the diagrams on the back of the leaflet:
Handily reoriented so that north is at the top. Thameslink trains use the tracks on the left, London Underground the tracks on the right.
The new footbridge will double as a new entrance to the station, which will come in handy as a lot is happening at the south end where the existing entrance is.
Update: Here's a much more detailed plan and an explanation from the planning application. A cross section is to the right - and until the trainshed roof is extended, a temporary fabric roof will be stretched across the top of the bridges.


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X Games on Monday announced the addition of three new disciplines to its Real Series, the all-video medal events featured in tandem with each of the on-site action-sports competitions.
Along with the global expansion of the X Games, for which three new international events -- in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil; Munich; and Barcelona -- will be staged in 2013, Real Ski Backcountry, Real Surf and Real Women will join the current lineup of Real Street, Real Snow and Real Snow Backcountry as medal events at X Games in 2013.
The Real Series first debuted in summer 2010 at X Games Los Angeles as Real Street. Because so many of skateboarding's stars eschew contests in favor of filming skateboard movie parts, the idea for an all-video contest was created in order to bring the two worlds together for the first time. Skateboarders submitted 60-second video parts featuring skateboarding done exclusively in city streets for a chance to win $50,000 and X Games gold, as well as an additional $10,000 in a "Fan Favorite" online bracket vote.
"It's awesome to be able to support athlete-generated content through the expansion of the Real Series," said Tim Reed, senior director of content strategy for the X Games. "The videos produced over the last three years have been top-notch and we are thrilled to grow the program and provide a global platform on ESPN networks and xgames.com for more women and men in surf, ski and skate."
Based on Real Street's success, Real Snow was added to the X Games Aspen event lineup in 2011 as a way to bring urban snowboarders into the winter-contest fold. href="https://www.espn.com/action/xgames/realsnow/2012/tignes" target="new">Real Snow Backcountry, an all-backcountry snowboarding footage contest soon followed, making its debut at X Games Tignes last March.
The underlying principle of each winter-themed contest is the same: All footage is shot outside the confines of parks
and resorts. Athletes with reputations for developing creative uses for unusual terrain features traditionally make up the invitee list. X Games gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded by a panel of athlete and industry experts during the X Games event telecasts, and fans are given the opportunity to cast ballots for their favorite video parts in a bracketed online voting contest in the month leading up to each X Games event.
For the coming year, Real Snow will continue to be a part of the X Games Aspen event. Videos will go live with the online Fan Favorite voting bracket on XGames.com on Jan. 8. Winners will be announced during live broadcast of the X Games on Jan. 27.
Joining the three existing Real Series events, Real Ski Backcountry will make its debut in conjunction with X Games Tignes on March 5. Real Surf makes its first splash on April 2 as part of X Games Foz do Iguaçu. Real Women, an all-female ski, snowboard, surf and skate multi-sport contest, will join the X Games Barcelona event lineup, with fan voting starting April 30. Real Street moves to the new X Games Munich event, with video parts dropping June 4, while Real Snow Backcountry will now roll out video parts on July 16 in conjunction with X Games Los Angeles.
"Having the opportunity to showcase women's snowboarding, skating, surfing, and skiing through video segments at X Games is
huge," says Kimmy Fasani, one of two women representing snowboarding in Real Women. "I can't wait to see what each of these incredible ladies brings to the table. It's definitely an honor to be part of."
While not all of the athlete rosters have been set for the Real Series events, confirmed athletes (list subject to change) are
as follows:
Real Snow ~ Voting begins: Jan. 8 ~
Winners announced: X Games Aspen 2013, Jan. 24-27
1. Dan Brisse, USA
2. Pat Moore, USA
3. Ethan Deiss, USA
4. Jeremy Jones, USA
5. Louis-Felix Paradis, Canada
6. Eero Ettala, Finland
7. Bode Merrill, USA
8. Frank April, Canada
Real Ski Backcountry ~ Voting begins
March 5: ~ Winners announced: X Games Tignes 2013, March 20-22
1. Sean Pettit, Canada
2. Dane Tudor, Canada
3. Sammy Carlson, USA
4. Parker White, USA
5. Pep Fujas, USA
6. Tanner Hall, USA
7. Wiley Miller, USA
8. Chris Benchetler, USA
Real Surf ~ Voting begins: April 2 ~
Winners announced: X Games Foz do Iguaçu 2013, April 18-21
1. Chippa Wilson, Australia
2. Jordy Smith, South Africa
3. Gabriel Medina, Brazil
4. Dion Agius, Australia
5. Matt Meola, USA
6. Julian Wilson, Australia
7. Josh Kerr, Australia
8. Kelly Slater, USA
Real Women ~ Voting begins: April 30 ~
Winners announced: X Games Barcelona 2013, May 16-19
1. Snowboard: Jess Kimura, USA
2. Snowboard: Hana Beaman, USA
3. Ski: Ingrid Backstrom, USA
4. Ski: Michelle Parker, USA
5. Skate: Mimi Knoop, USA
6. Skate: Leticia Bufoni, Brazil
7. Surf: Coco Ho, USA
8. Surf: Maya Gabeira, Brazil
Real Street ~ Voting begins: June 4 ~
Winners announced: X Games Munich 2013, June 27-30
1. Austyn Gillette, USA
2. Mike "Lizard King" Plumb, USA
3. Aaron "Jaws" Homoki, USA
4. Gilbert Crockett, USA
5. PJ Ladd, USA
6. Emmanuel Guzman, USA
7. Windsor James, USA
8. Albert Nyberg, Sweden
9. Danny Montoya, USA
10. Mark Suciu, USA
11. Josh Harmony, USA
12. Guy Mariano, USA
13. David Gravette, USA
14. Cody McEntire, USA
15. Albert Nyberg, Sweden
16. Shuriken Shannon, USA
Real Snow Backcountry ~ Voting begins:
July 16 ~ Winners announced: X Games LA, Aug. 1-4
1. Jussi Oksanen, Finland
2. Mikey Rencz, Canada
3. Pat Moore, USA
4. Andreas Wiig, Norway
5. Torstein Horgmo, Norway
6. Lucas Debari, USA
7. Freddie Kalbermatten, Switzerland
8. Travis Rice, USA


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According to the latest figures from industry analyst firm iSuppli, AMD's total quarter-on-quarter market share gain was greater than originally anticipated. Originally anticipated to gain 0.5 percent market share in July, AMD shot past that figure with a 2.5 percent market share gain. Intel's own market share dropped two percent over the same period, which again bucked iSuppli's original expectation of a 0.5 percent market share gain in the second quarter for the chip giant.
Before AMD fans break out the noisemakers and balloons, however, it's important to note that while AMD's 2.5 percent growth represents a solid increase compared to the first quarter of this year, the company's total market share is still down 3.1 percent year-on-year, from Q2 06's 16.4 percent to its current 13.4 percent. iSuppli's numbers don't specifically break out ASPs (average selling price) for either company, but we know AMD's ASPs took a beating in the second quarter of 2007, dropping nearly 10 percent in the desktop space according to AMD's conference call from the appropriate time period.
At this point, it seems fair to conclude that AMD's marketshare gain in Q2 2007 was largely driven by aggressive price cuts that the company cannot afford to sustain long term. At the risk of sounding repetitive, this is why Barcelona (and its upcoming desktop derivatives) are so important to AMD's future over the next 6-9 months. AMD simply cannot continue to cut prices in the face of Penryn and Intel's other competitive offerings and expect to turn a profit.


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All 24 of Ireland's serving Roman Catholic bishops were hauled in front of the pope to be told that the sexual abuse of children was a "heinous crime," in what Vatican experts said was an unprecedented attempt to deal with a sexual abuse crisis that has roiled the church establishment.
The bishops were called to Rome for a two-day summit with Benedict XVI on Monday and Tuesday to discuss a scandal that has shaken once staunchly Catholic Ireland to its core – with recent revelations that for decades priests and other clergy sexually abused children while church and police officials sometimes looked the other way.
The Church's covering up the sexual abuse of children had caused a "grave crisis" that had led to "a breakdown in trust in the Church's leadership," the pontiff told the bishops.
In unusually forthright language, he told the bishops that the sexual abuse of children was a "grave sin."
He called on them to work hard to restore "spiritual and moral credibility" in the wake of two reports released last year which documented abuse and cover-ups in church-run schools, workhouses, and orphanages over 50 years.
The Vatican has admitted that sex abuse scandals in Ireland, the United States, Australia and, most recently, in Germany, have gravely damaged the standing of the Roman Catholic Church and present a "hard and humiliating challenge."
Vatican insiders say the priority given to tackling the scandal was unprecedented.
Crisis management
"I know of no other case where the pope has summoned all the bishops of a country to the Vatican for a crisis management session," says Francis X. Rocca, the Vatican correspondent for the Washington-based Religion News Service.
"They come routinely every five years but this was to talk about this specific problem. The fact that the pope met with them two days in a row is an extraordinary commitment of his time when you think of all the demands he faces."
The sex abuse scandal broke in May last year when a report ordered by the Irish government revealed that the Catholic Church covered up almost four decades of sexual and physical abuse by priests and nuns against thousands of children in state care. Serial abusers were moved from parish to parish and school to school in a successful attempt to save the careers of clergy and keep the scandal under wraps, the report said.
That was followed by another report six months later, which revealed that pedophile priests had engaged in sex abuse between 1975 and 2004 and found that several bishops had mishandled complaints made by victims.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Vatican said the pope and the Irish bishops had "examined the failure of Irish Church authorities for many years to act effectively in dealing with cases involving the sexual abuse of young people by some Irish clergy."
At a press conference, five of the Irish bishops promised to implement "significant measures" to ensure that the abuse never happened again.
Pontiff pained
They said the two days of talks with the pope had been "clear and frank" but dismissed suggestions that they had been subjected to a stinging rebuke.
"It was very, very painful for him to hear of these stories of abuse first hand," said the bishop of Ferns, Denis Brennan. "We all know that there's great anger out there and it's richly deserved. We accept that and we understand it."
The failure to tackle decades of child abuse by priests had created a "rupture" between the church and Irish society, he said. "We are determined to regain the trust of the Irish people but we know it won't be quick or easy."
The leader of the delegation, Cardinal Sean Brady, primate of all Ireland, said the church realized that it had to show "real penance, a change of heart" in order to win back the trust of Ireland's faithful.
"There have been failures in our leadership, and as one of the victim's daughters said, the only way we will regain that credibility is through our humiliation," he said. He said he had spoken to the members of a parish in County Louth last week who had expressed their disgust over the decades-long scandal.
"They left me in no doubt about their disillusionment, anger, shame and sense of betrayal," Cardinal Brady, the Archbishop of Armagh, said.
Victim support groups in Ireland and the US said the bishops had come up only with rhetoric rather than action, and called on Benedict to travel to Ireland to apologize for the abuse.
"The words coming out at the moment seem to be positive. Whether they will act upon them and whether they will go far enough is another matter," said the founder of Irish Survivors of Child Abuse, John Kelly. "We are entitled to expect that the Pope hold accountable those who committed crimes or covered up crimes, including bishops. Then he can come to Ireland and apologize," he said.
An American group dismissed the two-day summit as a meaningless public relations exercise.
"Does anyone honestly think that the very same men who ignored and concealed child sex crimes for decades will ... suddenly be part of the solution, instead of part of the problem?" asked Barbara Dorris of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
Four Irish bishops have offered to resign over the scandal but only one, former bishop of Limerick Donal Murray, has so far had his resignation accepted by the Pope.


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Just a few days ago, Paramount announced that this winter's big sequel, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, will be returning to theaters on February 28, in a longer and bolder R-rated edition that will sport a slew of additional jokes. No doubt that new cut will coax many fans into theaters, but for those willing to wait just a few more days, Paramount Home Media Distribution has announced it will release the sequel onto Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on April 1. Digital copies of the flick will be available much earlier, starting on March 11.
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is a fine enough sequel. It offers just the right number of callbacks to the first film and just the right number of new moments to let the film stand on its own. At its basic core, it's both an extremely clever commentary on the twenty-four hour cable news cycle and a bizarre excursion into goofiness. It's a hodgepodge of converging ideas and brilliant asides. It remains to be seen whether or not it will be quoted as aggressively a decade from now as its predecessor, but regardless, it should please hardcore fans for more than a few more viewings.
Paramount's big on splitting extras up with releases, and in Anchorman 2's case, the Blu-ray is where all of the extras are at. Fans who nab a copy of the Blu-ray will get the theatrical version, the Unrated version, and the Super-Sized R-rated version of the film, as well as a slew of bonus features, whereas poor DVD copies will come with nothing but the theatrical version. Of course, we still have a few more days before we can determine whether or not adding a significant number of jokes (in this case, 763) to a movie might really make it a spectacle worth seeing. But, at least you'll have the option with the Blu-ray.
The extras are the kinds of segments you usually see with comedies—that's not necessarily a bad thing, though. These include more than one Gag Reel, a Line-O-Rama, deleted scenes and alternate scenes. There will also be mashups and a slew of bonus features you might not be used to seeing with comedy releases. Again though, you'll need to purchase the Blu-ray instead of the DVD if you want to take a look at these. You can pre-order the set over at Amazon, or check out the full list of extras, below.
Anchorman 2 Blu-ray Components


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Maybe someone knows how i could update my live sites theme from a version control*) project repository.
Point is that it's really time consuming if you got your theme hosted with version control (as an open source project), have a live site that uses the theme and maybe also make it available else where. Normally that means half an hour until you got everything running after you wrote an update/commited something.
I've seen it once that a server got a "live" update via a git project, but so far couldn't find out how this would be done.
Nice would be if there's a plugin out there that does this already. Libraries or similar are also ok.
*) The Q is about Github, Bitbucket, etc. and it also doesn't matter if the solution is git or svn based.
Thank you!


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Jessica Hoff, who blogs at nebraskaenergyobserver, gives us the British-eye-view of what she described as "the atrocity" in her post Reflections on Terror.
The "atrocity" Jessica refers to is the cold-blooded murder of a British soldier by Islamic radicals. Jessica raises a number of questions in her blog post that I think deserve thoughtful discussion. I hope that Public Catholic readers can contribute to it in an equally thoughtful way.
Here, reprinted with permission, is what she has to say:
Reflections on Terror
The media in the UK has been dominated these past few days by the atrocity in Woolwich. Thanks to the ubiquity of what we call mobile phones and you call cell phones, we know precisely why the murderers did what they did. They wanted to take revenge for the deaths of Muslims in Syria,Iraq and Afghanistan. As the main cause of death among Muslims in these places is the action of other Muslims, one might stop and wonder who educated these kids; and then, when one knows, it makes sense. They were educated by hate-preachers who batten like parasites on some mosques, and who preach a message which has nothing to do with love and everything to do with hate. They have a version of what has happened since 9/11 (and earlier) and they feed these impressionable kids with it. The questions which occur to me is why that version is so easily swallowed?
Part of the answer to that is our own MSM. It took against the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq and has preferred to peddle a narrative of blaming Bush and Blair rather than one of asking what those regimes were like and why their overthrow has been a good thing; let's play politics, people, it isn't as though there is anything bigger at stake.Here, let it be said, Bush and Blair have not been helpful to their own cause. Whatever the truth of the WMD claim, it turned out to be wrong, and it may well have been an excuse to do something they thought needed doing; if so, they have both paid a heavy price for any misleading statements which may, or may not, have been made. Interesting that neither of them was prepared to make the real case – that these regimes were barbarous and needed taking down. Perhaps if they had left it with Afghanistan, where the Taliban were utterly repulsive and when Bib Laden was being sheltered, it would have been better. But what happened, happened, and the narrative in our MSM is manna from heaven to the fundamentalist Imams everywhere. They have no trouble pointing out that our own media does not believe our own Governments, which feeds into their own narrative – that there is a Crusade going on.
This is not just mendacious, it is the opposite of the truth. From Kuwait and Bosnia in the 1990s, and through to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the West has actually tried to save Muslims from being slaughtered by other Muslims. If there is a criticism of the West, it is that there is no crusade; there is an attempt to bring peace.
But here there may be a failure in geopolitical vision, albeit one which is understandable. Muslims are fighting each other because they unhappy with the way things are in their own countries. Their leaders, at least in the Middle East, have tended to be brutal tyrants who rule with a rod of iron – in that sense Assad in Syria is typical. We assume that these people want what we want – peace and stability and democracy. But where, in the history of that region is there warrant for such a belief? Take the Palestinian problem. The Arab world is plenty rich enough to have provided each displaced Palestinian with another home and money – it has chosen not to because it wishes to keep a grievance against Israel. It is plenty rich enough to spend its money on development and not guns, but it chooses the latter.
I wonder if it has occurred to anyone in power in our countries that these people do not want what we want, and that far from thanking us for our help, they don't want it. Not sure where that reflection leads, but thought it ought to be articulated. (For more great posts by Jessica Hof, go here.)


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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Enterprise' started by cooleddie74, Feb 2, 2013.
And so it begins....yet again.
Captain Archer awoke from a
hypnotic trance, surrounded by Nazi
aliens who were staring at
him, while a Black Female Hitler
stood in the shadows observing.
Not to break the flow, but before we get started, and since BlackSheHitler (tm) is my creation, I just wanted everybody to know exactly what I have in mind. She's in this. about 6.50 in.
She was wearing a blue bikini
and six-inch heels that
were decorated with little swastikas
and rhinestones mined from the
stores of some ancient mall.
Archer was woozy and suffering
Rigellian Kielbasa Bloating from Chef's
Tex-Mex chili from the previous
Gay Leather Bar Theme Night.
The Nazi aliens ordered a
colostomy bag and three beers
so that they could play
Mah-Jongg with Phlox and one
uncredited guest ensign from below
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It's very rare that the undercard occurs after the main event takes place. Barring the unexpected, that will be the case tonight at the USC Aiken Convocation Center. That's because the USCA men will face Clayton State at approximately 7:30 p.m. Or, shortly after the top-5 matchup between the school's women's teams in what has the potential of being one of the most significant games of the season.
While the nightcap of the doubleheader doesn't feature two of the top-ranked teams in the nation, it's important for both teams. The Pacers (8-4, 4-1 Peach Belt Conference) have been an up-and-down team this season. While there have been more highs for the team currently in a three-way tie for first place in the PBC East Division with Augusta State and Armstrong Atlantic State, USCA has missed some opportunities to make what's been a good start even better.
But the Pacers enter tonight's game on a good note. Coming off their first PBC loss at Columbus State, they returned home last Saturday and earned a hard-fought 82-77 win over a solid Montevallo squad. USCA's win was even bigger because it prevailed without a single point from Ronald Zimmerman, the team's leading scorer on the season.
With one of the quickest and most accurate shots in all of college basketball, Zimmerman's averaging 16.5 points per game, 10th best in the PBC. But the Pacers were able to win without him factoring into the scorebook. That's because they're a balanced team that get significant contributions from a number of players.
In the win over Montevallo, senior point guard Re'mon Nelson showed he isn't just a strong court general, he's also a potent scorer. He finished the win with 23 points and 11 assists and had a good connection with Santoine Butler, who had 21 points to go with 7 blocks. For the season, both Nelson and Butler are averaging 13.8 points per game, while Nelson is adding 7 assists per game to go with more than 3 rebounds and Butler's posting more than 3 blocks and 6.5 rebounds per game.
Paul Larsen has also been a boon for USCA in his first year with the team since transferring from Mercer. He's averaging more than a dozen points and 7 rebounds per game. He's a contributor, along with Jesse Seilern and Kinley Branch, who both do a little of everything for the Pacers, combining to average 19 points per game.
That balanced scoring has made USCA one of the top offenses in the league, ranking third in the PBC with 84.8 points per game.
Tonight's game will offer an intriguing matchup, since Clayton State (7-6, 3-3) has one of the best defenses in the PBC. The Lakers allow just 66.8 points per game, third fewest in the conference. In spite of the pedestrian record, Clayton State is still very much in the race in a crowded PBC West Division. It helped its cause with an 85-80 win over North Georgia last Saturday, when Tony Dukes scored a team-high 21 points. He was especially effective beyond the 3-point arc, where he went 5-for-7.
Dukes is averaging a shade less than 12 points per game, making him one of two Lakers posting double digit point totals on the season. Forward Omari Murray leads the team in scoring, averaging 14.4 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, which is third best in the league. He's shooting 63.7 from the field, which also ranks third in the PBC.
In this contrast of styles, the team that prevails in setting the tempo will likely win and further boost its momentum. Playing at home, the Pacers will want to ensure a victory as the heart of the PBC season is underway.
Noah Feit is the sports editor for the Aiken Standard and has been a professional journalist for more than a dozen years after graduating from Syracuse University.
Today's Game
What: USC Aiken men's basketball
Who: USCA (8-4, 4-1 PBC) vs. Clayton State (7-6, 3-3 PBC)
When: Today, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Convocation Center
USCA: Re'mon Nelson, Sr. G. Nelson is coming off a double-double and the program's all-time leader in steals is getting closer to attaining that distinction in assists.
CLAYTON STATE: Tony Dukes, Sr. G. Dukes is the Lakers' top 3-point shooter and will need to have a good game outside if they expect to stay close with the potent Pacers.


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Apparently all that frog pj sewing put me in a green mood. I'm currently knitting one green cardigan and just bought wool for a green pullover. Considering that I'm restricting my knitting time as to not exacerbate my tendonitis, I think I'm being a bit optimistic here.
Oh well it's on!
First up is my green version of Something Silver. You may have noticed I have a fondness for Veera's patterns so it's not shocking I've got one on needles. I'm almost halfway to the point where I go back into garter stitch even though my knitting time has been curtailed. Good project for tv watching, but interesting enough to keep me going.
My next green project is the Set-in Sleeve Seamless Sweater with V-Neck by Elizabeth Zimmerman. I've had this copy of Spun Out #21 for ages and just didn't get around to trying this steeked V-neck technique. V-necks are my fave to wear so I'm intrigued by the steeking. I found a bag of Peruvian Highland Wool at Elann for a great price thinking that this yarn will be "sticky" enough to steek. Plus it's a fresh new leaf green color that I adore. I may add a hint of pink to the sweater if I've got a nice pink stashed. So far I'm just in the mulling over stage.
My intention is to get a bit further along with the green cardigan before starting a pullover. I must admit, the leafy green yarn is calling from it's bag across the room. I shall be strong.


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I got lost on the way to the church.
A few weeks ago, I was heading down Wolfe Street into the complex that is Johns Hopkins Hospital when I drove past Ashland Street. I had to stop at a Citgo station for directions to get back on track.
There it was — the City of Hope Missionary Baptist Church — a two-story building that shared a block with some of the vast medical encampment that is both swallowing and saving East Baltimore. Just beyond the church were abandoned rowhomes, some of them roofless, all of them boarded up.
This particular weekend marked City of Hope's fifth anniversary. Upstairs in the sanctuary, families of all ages gathered for worship. Visitors had to stand to be recognized, and congregants came around to hug us and welcome us to the service. "God bless you," they said again and again. "God bless you."
And then the singing began. The middle school choir from Sisters Academy of Baltimore, where I work, was early in the lineup. Ten girls in white uniform blouses and black skirts or pants, looking as sincere as one should look when singing in church. This was one of their first outings as a group.
I sat next to Natasha, one of our mothers, and we clapped and tapped our feet and sang along (when we knew the words). Her daughter Perlita kept her eyes completely on the choir director and sang with the open-faced emotion that only a child can muster, a happy cherub in a choir of angelic voices.
One by one, different groups came forward to sing and dance in the front of this sanctuary. The music overpowered any sounds from the city outside, the beat thumped away any remnant worries carried into church that afternoon. We sang on.
The space grew hot and I had to take off my scarf. Across the aisle, two women broke out paper fans and began swatting the air. Still we sang and clapped.
Two hours passed. The service went on, but I had to go home and cook dinner for my children.
"Be safe," our choir director told me as I stepped out into the twilight. I walked right down the deserted street, knowing that it was safer to be there than on the sidewalk by those boarded-up buildings, where somebody could be hiding in the shadows.
City of Hope.
About 100 years ago, Baltimore was the umbrella capital of the world. It's true, we were the city that manufactured the most umbrellas. Back then, all kinds of things were built in Baltimore.
More than 70 years ago, my grandfather left his family farm in southern Virginia to work in Baltimore's steel factories. During World War II, he labored around the clock building battleships. By the time the conflict was over, he and my grandmother had paid off their house and all of the furniture they had bought on loan.
These were the years when Charm City was a great place to live if you wanted a job.
I grew up hearing stories about these times — and about a relative who helped rebuild the city after the great fire in 1904, about a great-grandmother who studied at MICA (before it was MICA) and worked for a photographer.
These days, Baltimore is well known for "The Wire." Two years ago, we had a fundraiser for our school and David Simon, the show's creator, participated in the event. The emcee introduced him as "the man who single-handedly ruined tourism in the city."
Everybody, and I mean everybody — black, white, old, young — laughed and clapped. We got it.
Sometimes I wish I could have seen the city back when my grandmother was a little girl roller-skating down Park Heights Avenue, and Bing Crosby and other Hollywood celebrities rode past in chauffeured Rolls Royces on their way to Pimlico racetrack.
But sometimes I forget that this isn't a time of prosperity. Oh, don't get me wrong; I know the economy is bad, and I can worry about money in every waking hour of the day when given the chance.
I know that vast swaths of Baltimore lie in ruins of gutted homes and poverty, that we need more than Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland, Under Armour and our good sports teams.
I know all this. But it's hard not to catch a spirit of hopefulness when 50 people clapping and singing in a shabby church in the shadow of a giant hospital in a nearly abandoned neighborhood feel like a lantern on a dark night.
It's hard not to see that those who named this little church knew what they were doing.
City of Hope.
Jessica Gregg is the director of graduate support at Sisters Academy of Baltimore. Her blog is charmcitywriter.wordpress.com.


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DALLAS – The lawyers of Haynes and Boone, LLP were recognized by the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP), a joint program of the Dallas Bar Association and Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, as outstanding civic attorney volunteers at the 29th Pro Bono Awards Reception Oct. 26. The firm also received the 2011 Gold Award for pro bono service (for firms with 150 or more Dallas office attorneys).
"Pro bono work is a part of the Haynes and Boone culture," said Alan Wright, co-chair of the firm's Pro Bono / Public Service Committee. "We thank the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program for this recognition, and I sincerely thank the Haynes and Boone lawyers who actively use the law for helping those people and organizations who need it most."During the reporting period, 122 Haynes and Boone attorneys and staff volunteers in the Dallas office worked a total of 2,003 hours on pro bono matters referred to the firm by DVAP.The annual awards program honors judges, attorneys, court reporters and legal staff who provide free legal services to indigent residents of Dallas County. DVAP has consistently been recognized as one of the country's most successful programs of its kind. In a 12-month period, DVAP volunteers gave more than 50,000 hours of free legal aid to the less fortunate of Dallas. At Haynes and Boone, the firmwide Pro Bono / Public Service Committee was formed more than 20 years ago to coordinate pro bono legal work and other public service opportunities and match them to lawyers and staff. The committee includes associates and partners, and the encouragement of pro bono service is reflected in the fact that more than 70 percent of associates and about 40 percent of partners regularly undertake pro bono work.
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You've probably been hearing a lot recently about the importance of essential fatty acids in your diet. But it's important to remember that these are just as important for your pet! Essential fatty acids (also called EFAs) are fats that are required to be in the diet, but they cannot be produced by the body, hence the "essential" in the name. EFAs have a whole slew of benefits, including proper cell membrane formation, proper hormonal processes, cardiovascular support, and digestive support, not to mention a beautiful skin & coat. Unfortunately, like most of our diets, our pet's diets are lacking many of these essential fatty acids, especially Omega-3's including EPA and DEA.
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I love the pattern on these iPhone/iPad cases from Kenzo's Spring/Summer 2012 collection. I especially like them because you can rock the same print on a pair of limited edition Vans.
Good luck getting a pair of the shoes—they've long been sold out. But you can still slap the geometric pattern on the back of your iPhone for $35 and your iPad for $55. You might be in the same camp as many of my Gizmodo cohorts, who disagree with me and think matching your case with your kicks is a horrible idea. But I dig the print, and would totally coordinate my phone with my feet.


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Sbgilbert needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
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I'm a golfer (not to good) who has developed a magnetic ball marker holder that attaches to golf carts. Just starting. I have the holder made but need a ball marker to place on it.
I want a logo that can be die cast on a ball marker 1 inch in diameter. I would like a dimpled white golf ball in the center of an off white cup with the green (grass color) around the cup. I need the very outer diameter with a ring with IN THE HOLE inside the ring (small width on the ring). Letters should be in red with the thin ring being white. The letters should be in 180 degrees of the ring. Not all the way around the circumference. The outer ring should be about 1/8 inch.
The white golf ball should be 50% of the whole.
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HATTIESBURG, Miss.—Dwayne Davis led Southern Mississippi with 22 points as the Golden Eagles picked up a 61-50 victory over Denver Tuesday night in a nonconference matchup.
Davis was backed by Jerrold Brooks, who had 12 points, and Michael Craig, who chipped in seven points, nine rebounds, three assists and three steals for Southern Mississippi (6-0).
The win was the Golden Eagles' 17th consecutive at home—the sixth longest streak in the country—including 24 straight nonconference home games.
Denver (1-4) was paced by Royce O'Neale, who had a career-high in 22 points and five 3-pointers on 11 attempts.
Southern Mississippi led 23-15 at halftime and used a 14-5 run early in the second half to take a 41-24 advantage.
The Golden Eagles shot 50 percent (19 of 38) from the field to Denver's 33.3 percent (18 of 54), and made 19 free throws against the Pioneers' five.


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No money appropriated under sections 702g–1 and 702k–1 of this title shall be expended on the construction of any reservoir project herein authorized until States, political subdivisions thereof, or other responsible local agencies have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project, except as otherwise provided herein; (b) hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction works; (c) maintain and operate all the works after completion in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army: And provided, That the construction of any dam authorized herein may be undertaken without delay when the dam site has been acquired and the assurances prescribed herein have been furnished, without awaiting the acquisition of the easements and rights-of-way required for the reservoir area: And provided further, That whenever expenditures for lands, easements, and rights-of-way by States, political subdivisions thereof, or responsible local agencies for any individual project or useful part thereof shall have exceeded the present estimated construction cost therefor, the local agency concerned may be reimbursed one-half of its excess expenditures over said estimated construction cost: And provided further, That when benefits of any project or useful part thereof accrue to lands and property outside of the State in which said project or part thereof is located, the Secretary of the Army may acquire the necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way for said project or part thereof after he has received from the States, political subdivisions thereof, or responsible local agencies benefited the present estimated cost of said lands, easements, and rights-of-way, less one-half the amount by which the estimated cost of these lands, easements, and rights-of-way exceeds the estimated construction cost corresponding thereto: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Army shall determine the proportion of the present estimated cost of said lands, easements, and rights-of-way that each State, political subdivision thereof, or responsible local agency should contribute in consideration for the benefits to be received by such agencies: And provided further, That whenever not less than 75 per centum of the benefits as estimated by the Secretary of the Army of any project or useful part thereof accrue to lands and property outside of the State in which said project or part thereof is located, provision (c) of this section shall not apply thereto; nothing herein shall impair or abridge the powers now existing in the Department of the Army with respect to navigable streams: And provided further, That nothing herein shall be construed to interfere with the completion of any reservoir or flood control work authorized by the Congress and under way on June 15, 1936.
33 U.S. Code § 702a–9. Lands, easements, and rights-of-way; acquisition by local authorities; reimbursement; protection of United States from liability for damages
Herein, referred to in text, means act June 15, 1936, ch. 548, 49 Stat. 1508, as amended, which enacted sections 642a, 702a–1, 702a–2 to 702a–12, 702g–1, 702j–1, 702j–2, 702k–1, and 702k–2 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted "Title 10, Armed Forces" which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.


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For those of you who think that the Internet has heralded in a new era of grass roots political opportunity, prepare to be challenged by Mr. Participatory Politics himself.
"Are big corporations afraid of the public use of the Internet? Does Congress fear the civic use of the Internet? Does the Pentagon fear the civic use of the Internet? Those are the questions you want to ask," Ralph Nader told an auditorium of college students in Washington, DC on Monday. "My tentative conclusion," he continued, "is that the Internet doesn't do a very good job of motivating action."
The former presidential candidate has a new book out, and spoke at the University of California's Washington Center, where the left coast's best and brightest undergraduates come to intern with government agencies and nonprofits. I'm teaching there this quarter, and during the question period I asked Nader whether he thought that the 'Net had made a difference.
Cyberspace is "a work in progress, to be sure," he conceded. "It's a great place to find out what's going on and to retrieve information and to raise money." But beyond that, he isn't impressed.
The standard Ralph Nader stump speech is a contradictory affair, especially when delivered to young people. First the famous consumer advocate serves up a bitter tale of overwhelming defeat, then he demands that his audience summon hope and lead the next revolution.
The synopsis goes like this: corporations are vastly more organized than anyone else these days, and enjoy a level of power over Congress that dwarfs any countervailing democratic force. "The asymmetry is greater than the military asymmetry of the Israelis against the Palestinians," Nader told the students. "They are organized to the teeth. And the people get shafted again and again."
It wasn't always so. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, he explained, his "Nader's Raiders" consumer movement won victory after victory: most famously getting Congress to dramatically upgrade safety requirements for cars. But globalization weakened unions, the right throttled Congress, and the media abandoned the cause.
"The media used to cover the story," Nader lamented. "As a story, it would unfold day after day. What we were doing on Capitol Hill, Senate Commerce Committee hearing conferences, writeups, markups. They would stay with us. Now they want to write features and win the Pulitzer prize. Well, a feature doesn't help citizens groups very much. It's a one-time thing."
And so: "we lost the element of surprise. We don't have the unions. We don't have the media. We have the Internet, for whatever that's worth."
Too much Facebook
The problem, Nader warned, is that whatever benefits the Internet offers, "it's a huge consumption of trivial time. That's the real negative. You can just lose yourself."
And to Nader's mind, it isn't worth much. The Internet has become more of an extension of market life than civic culture, he warned, the latter dwarfed by the shopping mall. Nader asked the students to indicate by a show of hands how many had ever been to a city council meeting or a court trial as an observer. Then, he queried, how many had been to Wal-Mart or McDonalds? The audience was understandably reluctant to cooperate with this rhetorical set-up, but everybody got the point.
"In fact, it's worse now than ever," he scolded the students. "You spend six times longer listening to music than we did when we were your age. And last I knew there were only 24 hours in the day. And you're always on the [at this point Nader mimicked a cell phone] 'Where are you? Two blocks away?' Massive trivialization of communications."
Sure, Nader conceded, there's moveon.org. "They generate a lot of e-mails. But then it goes down fast after that, in terms of anything else." And then there was the Obama online victory. But "they're wondering why their 13 million e-mail list isn't translating into a power force on Congress, to get his agenda through."
The problem, Nader warned, is that whatever benefits the Internet offers, "it's a huge consumption of trivial time. That's the real negative. You can just lose yourself."
He challenged the young crowd to project themselves years into the future, talking to their grandchildren. "What are you going to say to them?" he rhetorically asked.
"You know. The world is melting down. They're nine years old. They're sitting on your lap. They've just become aware of things that are wrong in the world: starvation, poverty, whatever. And they ask you, what were you doing when all this was happening: Grandma? Grandpa? That you were too busy updating your profile on Facebook?"
The audience laughed. The speaker then asked how many of them had Facebook accounts. Quite a few raised their hands, but probably not as many as actually use the service. In the end, Ralph Nader gave the impression, at least to this writer, of someone who had long ago run out of patience with the human race.
A few of the students seemed to sense this too. One pointedly asked Nader "for something that you are optimistic about." It was towards the end of the event. The man who had just told them that they were to corporate America what Gaza is to Israel's IDF hurried out a list of reasons to be cheerful: "solar energy, renewable energy, the peace movement. All kinds of things. They just need to be bigger."
Throughout the evening, Nader seemed only dimly aware that many of his young listeners were deeply committed to social causes, despite their iPhones. He never bothered to ask them what they were actually doing in Washington, DC. They, for their part, forgave his lack of real curiosity about them, honored to be in the presence of this historic advocate. Students surrounded his book table after the talk, buying his latest opus and posing for cell phone pictures with him.
"You know what they're going to do with those photos, right?" one cheerfully noted as we stood in the hall. "They're going to put them up on their Facebook pages."
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State Dept. signs off on controversial oil sands pipeline
WASHINGTON — A pipeline that would greatly expand imports of oil sands crude from Canada won't significantly threaten water in the Great Plains or have much impact on climate change, the State Department argued in a final environmental impact statement it made public Friday.
While not the final go-ahead, the environmental assessment offered a preview of the Obama administration's pro-pipeline arguments in the face of efforts by environmental groups to get the United States to take action to reduce carbon emissions. The tarlike form of oil in the sands requires more energy to extract and process, and therefore produces more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil.
At the heart of the Obama administration's arguments is the contention that Canada will expand strip mining and drilling for the very thick oil in Alberta whether or not the Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf Coast gets built.
"Climate change has gone too far. Keep the tar sands where they are," demonstrators chanted Friday as 54 people — some young, but many with gray hair — were arrested one by one in a peaceful protest outside the White House. So far 376 people have been arrested in seven days of protests.
After a series of upcoming public hearings, the Obama administration will make a final decision about whether the pipeline is in the national interest.
The State Department's environmental assessment argued that the pipeline is needed because refineries in Texas — which account for half the nation's refining capacity — have declining supplies of heavy crude from Mexico and Venezuela. The refineries could handle more heavy crude if the pipeline brings it from Canada, the report said.
It noted that a Department of Energy lab found that the greenhouse gas emissions of Canadian oil sands crude were 17 percent higher than gasoline from the average mix of crude oil consumed in the United States. But it went on to argue that the pipeline wouldn't have an effect on the amount of crude produced from the oil sands because Canada would find other ways to get it to market.
"The sense we have is that this oil sands is going to be developed and therefore there's not going to be any dramatic change in greenhouse gas if the pipeline was to go forward or without the pipeline," Kerri-Ann Jones, the assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs, said in a briefing.
A proposed Canadian pipeline to a port on the Pacific Ocean has been hotly protested in Canada and so far is blocked.
The executive summary of the report said it was uncertain whether emissions from the oil sands would increase.
However, the companies in the oil sands increasingly are going after oil deep in the ground instead of scraping it off the surface. The drilling requires more energy and creates more emissions than strip mining. The Canadian environment ministry recently estimated that greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands will triple from 2005 to 2020.
"The U.S. State Department's final report on the Keystone XL today is an insult to anyone who expects government to work for the interests of the American people," Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said in a statement.
The American Petroleum Institute, a lobby group for the oil and gas industry, issued a statement saying it welcomed the government's report and wanted it to approve the permit quickly.
The proposed pipeline would run from the oil sands of Alberta through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. An existing Keystone pipeline brings 591,000 barrels of crude from the oil sands to refineries in Oklahoma and Illinois.
The new pipeline would increase capacity to 1.3 million barrels a day and get some of the oil to refineries in Texas.
The pipeline would cross the Ogallala Aquifer, the source of water for 30 percent of U.S. agricultural irrigation. A section also would cross Nebraska's Sand Hills, where the aquifer is at or near the surface.
The State Department report said that studies showed that in no case would a spill leave the entire aquifer "adversely affected." TransCanada, the company that wants to build the pipeline, would check for several years to make sure that reclamation was properly carried out in the Sand Hills, it said.
The State Department's analysts also considered other routes that would avoid the aquifer and Sand Hills but ruled them out after considering environmental conditions and costs.
The State Department's environmental impact statement
Environmentalists put Obama to test over pipeline plan
Oil pipeline from Canada stirring up anger on U.S. Great Plains
U.S. poised to slurp up more of Canada's dirtiest oil
Indian steel for pipeline angers laid-off steelworkers


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Tenaya Capital Leads Funding Round and Joins AgilOne Board of Directors
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 17, 2014 – AgilOne, the cloud-based predictive marketing company, today announced that it has closed a $25 million Series C investment round. Tenaya Capital led the funding round with participation from Next World Capital and Four Rivers Group and existing investors, Sequoia Capital and Mayfield Fund. AgilOne will use the funds to expand sales and marketing operations and further develop its international footprint.
In support of the funding effort, Tenaya Capital's Managing Director, Tom Banahan, also joined the AgilOne board of directors. Banahan said, "We believe in AgilOne's mission to drive businesses to become more successful through predictive marketing. By marketing smarter, businesses can create long-lasting customer relationships that will pay dividends, and marketers continue to get more and more hungry for predictive analytics technology."
Due to increasing demand for the AgilOne platform, the company experienced a record year in 2013. The latest customers to partner with AgilOne to grow revenue with predictive marketing include Café Britt, Deckers Outdoor Corporation, Dot & Bo Inc., Dylan's Candy Bar, Lafayette 148 New York, Liberty Retail Ltd, Roots Canada and Tiger Direct.
"Predictive marketing is the only easy way to do precise customer targeting and deliver personalized experiences to every consumer," said Omer Artun, founder and CEO of AgilOne. "Our growth over the last year has been tremendous, and we've only scratched the surface. Our latest funding round will allow us to take the company to the next level, and we are very fortunate to have top investors by our side that have strong domain expertise and support our mission."
In addition to the news regarding AgilOne's funding round, the company also announced that it will host its Data-Driven Marketing Virtual Summit on May 9, 2014 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Pacific Time. For more information on the summit, visit the event web site and register for free today.
About AgilOne
AgilOne is a cloud-based predictive marketing platform. It is used by brands including Shazam, Sports Authority, Moosejaw and shopPBS.org. AgilOne helps marketers connect with the individual in every customer. AgilOne prescribes exactly the right marketing offer, makes each relationship more profitable, and simplifies the science of marketing. Based on a data-scientist approach, AgilOne makes big customer data clean and smart. Then, AgilOne recommends what immediate actions to take to increase revenue. AgilOne is based in Mountain View, CA and is venture-funded by Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, Tenaya Capital, Next World Capital and Four Rivers Group. The company has been featured in well-respected publications and news programs including CNN, NPR's Marketplace, Forbes, Internet Retailer, AllAnalyics.com and Digital Marketing UK. For more information, please visit http://www.agilone.com.
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