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SEVEN SPRINGS, Pa. – Seven Springs Mountain Resort has been selected as the East Coast's number one terrain parks and number one halfpipe by Transworld Snowboarding magazine. This marks the second consecutive year that the popular Laurel Highlands resort has been named in the national resort poll. In 2009, Seven Springs had the number one halfpipe and had the third best terrain parks on the East Coast.
This year's selection for top halfpipe comes as the resort's terrain park staff managed to the take Superpipe to new heights last season. Typically, the Superpipe measures 450-feet in length with 18-foot walls. Last season, thanks to the abundant snowfall and engineering by the staff, it measured just short of 600-feet in length.
The resort's jump from third place to first place terrain parks can be credited to the staff's creativity, ingenuity and commitment to providing the best experience for riders of all abilities.
"It's clear from our readers' great riding experiences at Seven Springs this past winter, that the resort's continued commitment to its parks and pipes has resulted in hard-earned East Coast superiority," said Annie Fast, Editor-in-Chief, Transworld Snowboarding.
"Seven Springs is officially on the map as the place to go on the East Coast for the consistently best park and pipe riding. We stand behind these rankings," added Fast.
"Holding both the number one pipe and the number one park category on the East Coast is quite an honor," said Joel Rerko, Director of Action Sports at Seven Springs. "We are showing our dedication to the terrain parks and youth at Seven Springs. Achieving this goal took our entire team and I hope everyone is as excited as I am."
The November issue of Transworld Snowboarding is on newsstands now.
About Seven Springs Mountain Resort
Seven Springs Mountain Resort, located in Seven Springs, Pa., is the perfect place for family vacations that create lifelong memories. Each year the family-friendly resort hosts more than one million overnight and day guests who enjoy a vacation that includes the finest skiing, snowboarding and golf that Pennsylvania has to offer, the exhilaration of sporting clays, the ultimate in relaxation at the luxurious Trillium Spa, a variety of dining options that range from intercontinental cuisine at Helen's Restaurant to the variety of delicious buffets offered at the Slopeside Dining Room to the quick fix options like pizza and sandwiches to satisfy any craving.
Seven Springs Mountain Resort can accommodate more than 5,000 overnight guests in its recently renovated 416-room, 10-story high-rise hotel, nearly 1,200 condominiums and townhomes, eight cottages and 15 chalets.
With more than 60,000 square feet of meeting space available, Seven Springs also hosts more than 1,000 meetings, conferences and banquet groups per year.
Located within 200 miles of the major metropolitan areas of Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Cleveland and Washington D.C., Seven Springs is easily accessible from either exit 91 or 110 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
For more information on Seven Springs, visit www.7springs.com or call (800) 452-2223.


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Zalmay Khalilzad, a one-time supporter of various neoconservative campaigns, served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the President George W. Bush presidency. He now serves as a counselor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies[1]; as president of Khalilzad Associates, an international consulting firm[2]; and as a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy.[3]
During the height of the "Arab Spring" in early 2011, Khalilzad was an outspoken critic of the Obama administration's response to events, arguing in a March 2011 Washington Post op-ed that it was "inadequate to both the challenges and the opportunities arising from the political turbulence." Underscoring his belief that the United States could dictate events, Khalilzad wrote: "In Iraq, Tunisia, and Egypt, the United States should steer the transitions underway toward full democratic consolidation. In Iraq, we need to assist in the implementation of the recent power-sharing agreement and prod the government to deal with corruption and improve services. In Egypt and Tunisia, we can increase the odds of stable democracies emerging by leveling the playing field between moderate, secular democrats, and their Islamist and sectarian opponents." Khalilzad apparently saw a need to deter a purported Iranian threat in the region, writing: "We can do so by making sure good election laws are put in place and by providing liberal parties and civil society groups with assistance to counter the aid that Iranian (sic) and others provide to Islamist parties."
In the same article, Khalilzad promoted ousting Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, writing that it was "the immediate challenge" of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Pitching themes promoted by many neoconservative figures,[4] Khalilzad argued that the overthrow of the Libyan dictator would bring about a "pro-American" government that would help counter Iranian influence in the Mideast: "Gaddafi's overthrow and the consolidation of a liberal, pro-American regime would bolster prospects for reform in Iran and Syria by countering Iranian propaganda that the current revolts are Islamist in character and directed only at partners of the United States."[5]
Khalilzad has repeatedly warned of a threat from Iran, especially when it comes to Iraqi affairs. In a November 2010 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he wrote: "Iran is playing a dangerous game right now in Iraq. Seven months after Iraq's inconclusive election, Tehran has emerged as the key power broker in the country, expanding its regional influence by fostering sectarianism and a government dominated by it. If we hope to prevent a serious strategic setback, American leadership is required immediately." Khalilzad promoted active U.S. interference in the Iraqi government.[6]
Along with other former Bush administration figures who served in Iraq—like former "mayor of Baghdad" Jay Garner—Khalilzad has kept close contacts with Kurdish leaders as part of business ventures, including serving as a paid advisor and as a board member for DNO, a Norweigan oil company and major player in the Kurdish oil market. He also sits on the board of the American University of Iraq in Sulaimaniya.[7]
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In early January 2007, the Bush administration announced that it was nominating Zalmay Khalilzad, at the time the ambassador to Iraq, to succeed John Bolton as the U.S. representative to the United Nations. Replacing Khalilzad in Iraq would be Ryan Crocker, a veteran diplomat who once opposed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein because of the sectarian strife that would ensue.[8] In announcing the nominations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: "If confirmed, Ryan and Zal will have two of the hardest and most consequential jobs in the world."[9]
Khalilzad was an original member of the Bush presidential foreign policy advisory team from 2000, when he headed the Bush-Cheney Defense Department transition team. He became an adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and then shifted to the National Security Council, where he worked under Rice. After briefly serving as presidential envoy to Afghanistan, in late 2002 President George W. Bush appointed him "special presidential envoy and ambassador at large for the free Iraqis." In 2003, he became the ambassador to Afghanistan, a post he held until 2005, when he took over as ambassador to Iraq.[10]
A longtime associate of key hardliners and neoconservatives within the Republican Party, Khalilzad's membership in the U.S. foreign policy elite dates back to the early 1980s, when he was recruited by Paul Wolfowitz to serve on the Reagan administration's State Department policy planning staff, which produced the notorious 1992 draft Defense Policy Guidance.
In his book Rise of the Vulcans, author James Mann writes that Khalilzad was one of a handful of staffers brought on by Wolfowitz to serve on his staff at this time who would go on to form, "over the following two decades, the heart of a new neoconservative network within the foreign policy bureaucracy." Other members of Wolfowitz's staff at the time included I. Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney who was indicted for allegedly giving false testimony to the special prosecutor; Francis Fukuyama, the famous author of the end-of-history thesis who eventually turned against his erstwhile ideological brethren in announcing his opposition to the war in Iraq; Alan Keyes, the former presidential candidate and outspoken conservative; and James Roche, an associate of the hardline Center for Security Policy who has served as secretary of both the army and air force in the administration of George W. Bush.
Although sometimes described as a skillful, moderate diplomat, his numerous policy proposals and support for hardline advocacy efforts over the years seem to belie this characterization. In a New Yorker interview (December 19, 2005), Zbigniew Brzezinksi, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, described Khalilzad as a "broad-minded pragmatist and insightful strategist."[11] But others conclude that Khalilzad's ideology of U.S. supremacy has resulted in a long series of foreign policy disasters. Foreign policy analyst Anatol Lieven said in 2002, "If he was in private business rather than government, he would have been sacked long ago."[12]
A native of Afghanistan, Khalilzad obtained his master's degree at the American University in Beirut. Khalilzad enrolled in the doctorate program at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Albert Wohlstetter, a fiercely anticommunist military strategist who became political mentor to a number of leading neoconservatives, including Khalilzad and Wolfowitz.[13] Wohlstetter believed that a first-strike nuclear weapons doctrine was essential to achieving and maintaining U.S. global dominance-to securing what militarists called a "permanent peace." Wohlstetter's theory of dominance through U.S. military superiority-and the overwhelming use of force-became a core idea in neoconservative strategic thinking.[14]
While at the University of Chicago, Khalilzad formed lasting political bonds with the likes of Wolfowitz and Ahmed Chalabi, the notorious former leader of the Iraqi National Congress. Khalilzad also worked under Wohlstetter at his Pan Heuristics consulting firm, which had contracts with the State and Defense departments. Khalilzad earned his Ph.D. in 1979 after completing a dissertation on Iran's nuclear program.
Khalilzad joined the Reagan administration after a teaching stint at Columbia University and a one-year fellowship with the State Department sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. Khalilzad directed the U.S. effort to provide military, logistical, and humanitarian support to the mujahideen resistance to the Soviet occupation and successfully advocated that these fundamentalist "freedom fighters" receive heat-seeking Stinger missiles-a couple of hundred of which remained in the hands of the Islamist militants and associated warlords after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan. The well-armed mujahideen came back to haunt the United States after many of them joined al-Qaida and the Taliban. In addition to his focus on Iraq, Khalilzad supervised U.S. policy with regard to the Iran-Iraq War.[15]
Khalilzad also worked for Wolfowitz when he later served as undersecretary of defense for policy during the last two years of the George H.W. Bush administration. Then-Defense Secretary Cheney tasked Wolfowitz with producing a military strategy for the post-Cold War world. The resulting 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) articulated for the first time a proposed strategy of U.S. global supremacy based on overwhelming U.S. military power. Khalilzad was given the job of doing the actual drafting of the DPG, working in tandem with Wolfowitz and Libby, as well as an outside group of advisers that included Richard Perle and Wohlstetter. The draft guidance, which was toned down after a surge of criticism following a New York Times report on the classified document, outlined a national security strategy that, in hindsight, seems to have served as a blueprint for neoconservative efforts during the 1990s to craft a new rationale for U.S. military activity throughout the globe.
Although the White House rejected the draft, the document had its supporters, as James Mann points out in Rise of the Vulcans. Khalilzad told Mann that Cheney was impressed by the document, allegedly telling Khalilzad: "You've discovered a new rationale for our role in the world." Neoconservatives outside government, like Charles Krauthammer, were also impressed. In a Washington Post column, Krauthammer asked: "What is the alternative? The alternative is Japanese carriers patrolling the Strait of Malacca, and a nuclear Germany dominating Europe.".
Nor did the draft DPG entirely disappear after the White House rejected it. According to Mann, the revised final version produced by Libby merely softened some of the hard edges of the earlier draft while preserving some of its core concepts, such as actively shaping the security environment, acting alone when necessary, and maintaining a dominant edge in military capabilities. Many of the ideas contained in the draft DPG would also be revived repeatedly over the next decade and serve as a broad framework for building a new neoconservative consensus, whose preeminent expression would ultimately arrive in the form of President George W. Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy.
During the Clinton administration Khalilzad was based at the RAND Corporation, where he founded the Center for Greater Middle East Studies and was the director of strategy for the think tank's Project Air Force. Khalilzad also served as board member of the Afghanistan Foundation, which advocated that the Taliban join forces with the anti-Taliban resistance. While at RAND, Khalilzad in 2001 coauthored with Abram Shulsky, a Straussian scholar who headed the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans in the lead-up to the Iraq War, a paper that was entitled "The United States and Asia: New U.S. Strategy and Force Posture."
Khalilzad's close connections to Islamic extremists in South Asia and to the oil giant Unocal have been the subject of sharp criticism. As Truthout opined in a 2001 piece, "Simply put, Khalilzad's appointment means oil. Oil for the United States. Oil for Unocal, a U.S. company long criticized for doing business in countries with repressive governments and rumored to have close ties to the Department of State and the intelligence community. Zalmay Khalilzad was an adviser for Unocal. In the mid-1990s, while working for the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Khalilzad conducted risk analyses for Unocal at the time it had signed letters of approval from the Taliban. The analyses were for a proposed 890-mile, $2 billion, 1.9-billion-cubic-feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project that would have extended from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. In December 1997, Khalilzad joined Unocal officials at a reception for an invited Taliban delegation to Texas."[16]
Despite his connections to the Taliban, which were developed when he aided the Reagan administration's anti-Soviet activities in Afghanistan, Khalilzad quickly changed his tune when Osama bin Laden's connections to the group surfaced.
In 1997 Khalilzad was a charter signatory of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) founding statement of principles, and he signed two subsequent PNAC letters. A January 1998 PNAC letter to President Bill Clinton, cosigned by Wolfowitz, Perle, Rumsfeld, and Bolton, among others, warned: "We may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War." The PNAC letter said that the policy of containing Iraq had failed and advocated "removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power." Warning that Iraq would almost certainly develop weapons of mass destruction, the PNAC associates concluded: "Although we are fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing to do so are far greater."
Earlier, in 1997, Khalilzad co-wrote with Wolfowitz an article for the neoconservative Weekly Standard titled "Overthrow Him," which called for using military force to overthrow Hussein. They added: "Military force is not enough. It must be part of an overall political strategy that sets as its goal not merely the containment of Saddam but the liberation of Iraq from its tyranny."
Immediately prior to joining the George W. Bush administration, Khalilzad codirected RAND's Transition 2001 Panel, which included some 40 foreign policy elites, including a number of influential hawks and neoconservatives. It aimed to provide the winner of the 2000 presidential campaign with a blueprint of priorities on national security policy.[17]
Among the books written or edited by Khalilzad are Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information in Warfare; United States and Asia: Toward a New U.S. Strategy and Force Structure; Aerospace Power in the 21st Century; and The Government of God: Iran's Islamic Republic, which he coauthored with his wife, Cheryl Bernard. In 1995 Khalilzad wrote "Losing the Moment? The United States and the World after the Cold War," a Washington Quarterly essay that articulated the need to assert U.S. supremacy in a unipolar world. Khalilzad earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the American University of Beirut, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.[18]
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[1]Center for Strategic and International Studies, "Zalmay Khalilzad," http://csis.org/expert/zalmay-khalilzad.
[2]Gryphon Partners, "Our Team," http://www.gryphon-partners.com/our-team/.
[3]Gryphon Partners, "Our Team," http://www.gryphon-partners.com/our-team/.
[4]See, for example, Jack Ross, "Whither the Party Line on Egypt?" Right Web, February 1, 2011, https://rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/whither_the_party_line_on_egypt.
[5]Zalmay Khalilzad, "A regional strategy for democracy in the Middle East," Washington Post, March 15, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-regional-strategy-for-democracy-in-the-middle-east/2011/03/14/ABR8d1Z_story.html.
[6]Zalmay Khalilzad, "How to Outmanuever Iran in Iraq," Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703514904575602341835694642.html.
[7]Sam Dagher, "Prospects Abound Among the Kurds," New York Times, July 15, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/world/middleeast/15erbil.html.
[8]Rajiv Chandrasekaran, "On Iraq, U.S. Turns to Onetime Dissenters," Washington Post, January 14, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/13/AR2007011301372.html.
[9]"Bush to Name Khalilzad to UN Post," Associated Press, January 8, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010800469.html.
[10]Zalmay Khalilzad, State Department biography, http://web.archive.org/web/20050804160210/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/50305.htm.
[11]Jon Lee Anderson, "American Viceroy," The New Yorker, Dec. 19, 2005, http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/19/051219fa_fact2.
[12]Kim Sengupta and Andrew Gumbel, "New US Envoy to Kabul Lobbied for Taliban Oil Rights," Independent, January 10, 2002, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/new-us-envoy-to-kabul-lobbied-for-taliban-oil-rights-662688.html.
[13]Issam Nashashibi, "Zalmay Khalilzad: The Neocon's Bagman to Baghdad," CounterPunch, http://www.counterpunch.org/issam04172003.html.
[14]Eric Pace, "Albert Wohlstetter-Expert on U.S. Nuclear Strategy Dies," New York Times, January 14, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/14/world/albert-wohlstetter-83-expert-on-us-nuclear-strategy-dies.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.
[15]Joe Stephens and David Ottaway, "Afghan Roots Keep Adviser Firmly in the Inner Circle," Washington Post, Nov. 23, 2001, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3401-2001Nov22?language=printer.
[16]"Khalilzad and the Bush Agenda," Truthout, January 13, 2001, http://web.archive.org/web/20020520110810/http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.14A.Zalmay.Oil.htm.
[17]Transition 2001 Update: Bipartisan Panel Offers National Security Action Plan for the President-Elect," RAND, Transition 2001 Update: Bipartisan Panel Offers National Security Action Plan for the President-Elect, http://www.rand.org/natsec_area/products/presidentreportupdate.html.
[18]Gryphon Partners, "Our Team," http://www.gryphon-partners.com/our-team/.

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Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag are both being developed for Microsoft's unannounced next-gen Xbox, a pair of Ubisoft employees appear to have confirmed.
This should surprise no one.
thats why i liked the fact that sony announced the PS4 early, just to let the cat out the bag. Everyone knew both consoles where due out this year. why hide it, and keep these companies under NDA, when they are working on next-gen games?
Learn how business works then you wouldn't ask the question. NDAs are there for more than simply announcing a console game or details.
I know that, but still... We've known the existance of these consoles since last year. it makes no sense to hide it.
When you're in competition you keep as much as you can secret so that competitors don't steal your ideas.
On top of what Mustang300C2012 and dcbronco said, it's a key business decision when, where and how to announce your product. Especially something as big as the next generation Xbox that you invest billions of dollars into.
I like the since of mystique surrounding the new XBOX
I personally don't see how saying something everyone knew is creating a sense of mystique. Unless, you're talking about something else.
isnt what is being kept secret. Its the details of how the system is comprised that is being kept under wraps.
Ms will do their reveal when its convenient for them. Perhaps their reveal is more than what sony did. Maybe theirs will actually show the system and give price and details about how it works with live or if a new live will be released to coincide.
simply saying "we are working on a new system" and then not showing anything isnt their style. They generally are more prepared for such things because its better to address the questions people will have at the same time.
Why hide it? Glad you dont work for anyone that has to keep their projects secret. Devs have been saying "headed to nextgen consoles"... Maeaning ps/xbox... really easy
There are plenty of good reasons to hide it. For instance, you don't want to negatively impact the sales of current generation consoles before your next generation system is ready, and if you announce too early, you won't have enough content to show (those demos aren't made overnight, and the developers have to take time away from developing the games in order to make the demos ready to show). Not to mention the secrecy aspect of it, so your competition doesn't steal your ideas.
I was under the assumption that after Sony released the specs for the PS4, Microsoft was making tweeks and small changes... Or at least that was the rumor I heard.
If this is true, it's no surprise that MS is taking its time. Nonetheless, I think the anticipation is most important here. They've created quite a buzz already.
The only difference I can see between the Next Gen consoles will be the 1st party games.
Multiplats will look identical.
The deciding factor in which of the 2 is purchased will come down to what games you prefer.
Some will buy both, but I want just one console next gen....
Cannot wait til E3!
Yeah, I agree to a point. But I care less about anything other than playing quality games on a quality console. I don't care for other services (TV etc) I already pay for.
""The only difference I can see between the Nex Gen consoles is the 1st party games. Multiplats will look identical. ""
i like that ...and i hope this will be always the case
I know that I will eventually own all of them.
There will still be people counting pixels on tree bark and claiming superiority because of it.
"The deciding factor in which of the 2 is purchased will come down to what games you prefer."
That is only partially true anymore. Consoles has migrated beyond just gaming, just like (smart) phones have migrated far past just to make calls. Consoles aren't just simply dumb gaming boxes anymore.
The differentiation and competition will encompass platform, features, services, convenience, interface, games and so on.
It's not just games, but also features: The PS3 had a bluray which was a distinctive feature, The PS4 will have game streaming and we don't know if and what MS will offer to counter that. Games might look identical (probably not even that), but the question is will they play identical.
I, for one, am totally speechless.
Secrecy worked for Nintendo. Let see how it does for Sony/MS. That we don't end up with their biggest secret of all RROD/YLOD. I hope they developed their systems to last a little longer this time.
"The games are listed on the LinkedIn profiles of Ubisoft gameplay programmer Paolo Maninetti and marketing artist Phil Brolles, who state between them that both games are headed to "X720"."
~You guys better watch out, MS's Ninjas will be out for you.~
Why did they have to confirm this?
MS has obviously told devs and publishers to start leaking info about the Durango's upcoming games. They need to overshadow the recent bad press.
It's a controlled leak.
I just took a controlled leak in the toilet :) haha sorry couldn't help myself
He's right. No publisher thus far has "confirmed" such a thing. In fact, most just kept pretending on wasn't even being worked on. Nothing in business is done on accident. They very much gave publishers permission to start stating 720 exist.
Announcing a game for an unannounced console?
Can they do that?
Maybe MS has unofficially loosened up the reigns that allows the devs to at least acknowledge the Nextbox exists.
I tend to think Munky is right. Not only do we get Ubisoft aknowledging its existence and confirming games but we also get a new "leak" in the last couple of days that in a nut shell counters all the negative rumors that were swirling around the Twitter debacle.
I think MS quietly loosened things up to stop the PR Nightmare spin that was happening. And this way they still can have their "big reveal" event without appearing to have caved to pressure.
"Announcing a game for an unannounced console?
Can they do that?"
pretty sure there were some mentions about PS4 games before sony announced it... but i may be mistaken.
Well I've thought all along that ms were deliberately leaking stuff just so they could gauge reaction to it. They get to see if people were pissed but still willing to swallow it, or pissed but ready to mutiny, then base their strategy on that. Im thinking maybe the specs leaks were probably close to the money but the always on stuff is not gonna happen even if at one point it might have been intended.
@nukeitall ..with respect :)
Screw all this convoluted, unnecessarily complicated crap coming with next gen.
Most people buy a console to play GAMES...These so-called services are just another way of these companies attempts to squeeze more money out of the gamer.
Let's get back to basics - We are Gamers...that's the only service that interests me.
Yep. Games matter the most to me, anything else is just a bonus.
you said it ...consoles ultimate goal is gaming
every thing else is just bouns
The other stuff isn't bad. But it shouldn't be the focus of a gaming console. You don't buy a phone to primarily surf the web if it sucks as a phone... unless you've been brainwashed by Apple. Then you'll buy old cat poop if they put "i" in front of it.
As long as the 720 excels as a gaming console, and as long as Microsoft doesn't go overboard with the fees and such, it should do alright.
Edit: Also, just acknowledging the console is coming doesn't really impact much. It's not like Sony or Nintendo couldn't find out, from hints here and there within the industry, that Microsoft WAS making a new console. So if a dev says, "Yeah, our multiplat game will be on the next Xbox," that shouldn't be a problem at all.
SHOULDN'T be.
I think the point that is missed here is that the console usually resides in the living room and MS wants moms, dads, kids and so on to be entertained by the device, not just the gamer.
My consoles are used mainly for gaming. PC, mainly for gaming and media storage. This is not the case in a lot of households. I know a few people that use consoles for nearly everything but gaming. It is more attractive to have a small console instead of a media PC, even though the media PC can and will do more.
I'm all for my console doing multiple things as long as it doesn't get in the way of gaming like the end of the 360 did. If they give us some new exclusive games and keep the always on for something other than games, MS will do just fine.
Either way, I am sure I will have a 720 and PS4 sitting next to each other by the end of the year. If Wii U gets some games I want, I will probably get that too. For now, my gaming PC is where it is at, as I am bored with the 360 and PS3.
Personally I'm not just a gamer, I love tech and how we can take what we have and combine it in awesome and interesting ways.
You say convoluted and unnecessary, I say robust and additional. Phones and TVs are a great example of taking old school and applying new ideas in a "smart" and useful way. I love being able to have apps on my phone, and watch netflix straight from my TV.
They are of course trying to make money, but I think its more from the perspective of "hey, buy my product because it has more/better stuff than the other guy". Which I dont think is a bad thing, just healthy competition. That is great for gamers.
To end my wall-o-text, I'll just say that these new features are what is going to make the decision on whether I go with Sony or Microsoft next gen. The games are so similar you cant go wrong.
I imagine your the type of person who would refuse to do any thing other on his pc then the base purpose you got it for........hey wake up son technology adapts.
Bravo, The xbox 720 is going to change the way we play games
More like change the way we watch TV.
I don't need the next xbox to change the way we play games to be honest...but I certainly do like the idea of one device that can do many things outside of gaming (related to my Television of course) AND MOST IMPORTANTLY Play games similar to what I play now...not iOS games like cut the rope but real full blown games.
This added functionality mind you needs to be super slick and super quick. While I love the added apps of the PS3 and 360 both systems are clunky to move between apps, games and Television. It needs to be a vast improvement over what we have now in order for me to be all on-board for the added features otherwise a new PC might be a better choice for me.
This next generation is like the old rivalry "SNES vs. Sega Genesis" Now its PS4 vs. Xbox 720. same thing can be said for PS3 vs. 360
Except unlike this gen where PlayStation had about 6 times the fan base of Xbox going in, this time they have about equal fan bases so it will be a real fight.
With a big 360 head start. That may be very significant in ww sales.
I think this arguing makes gaming look a bit silly though. Both machines will be good, I'm sure.
I will go ps4 for Sony games, others will go Xbox for MS games......and hardly anyone buys a Wii U ;-) ( joking....ish).
so now it's acutally called Xbox 720? bahah how lame
u want to know why they called it 360?
when they knew that there will be a ps3 and microsoft had only xbox 1, they couldnt call their next xbox XBOX-2 because in ppls mind 3 is better then 2 so they called it 3-60.
because 3-60 sounds better then 3.
that same method is used for pricing stuff like for exemple the price of a ps3 is 300$ in my shop but in the other shops it only 299$. that way ppl buy the ps3 that is for 299$ because it sounds cheaper
How is it any different from playstations;1,2,3 AND 4!
jesus thats just lame.
Sony was very creative when picking a name for each playstation system. There was a lot thought put into the Playstation 4 name.
"There was a lot thought put into the Playstation 4 name"
yeah i can sure tell/s
I heard that the watch dogs video they showed with the ps4 unveil was actually pc game play can we confirm this?
Serious??????????????????????? ?
My world just changed
I wouldve NEVER in a million years guessed that one.. Damn, that was some mind blowing news from them
damn that sucks i was hoping ps4 hog all the games
Finally enough of this bullshit we cannot comment on that topic, the people even remotely considering the next box are either launch adopters or shortly after.
The people getting a ps4 or 720 already have had their systems for 4+ yr, ms or sony won't be losing ps3 or 360 sales to the ps4 or 720.
The people getting a ps3 or 360 cheaply atm, will laugh if you tried to sell them a $500 next gen system. Why should casuals get a $500 next gen for features or apps, they likely already have a ps3, 360, or a tablet which has plenty of both.
The first 2 yrs of both systems bulk of sales will be gamers, i don't see a subscription model being worth it for non gamers.
why are people hating on this feature? i already watch sky, youtube bbc iplayer love film and netflix on mine, so why would it matter if i could watch my actualy tv through it? it doesnt make me any less of a hardcore gamer to enjoy not having to swap between my digital and my xbox to watch a series or my pc and my tv to watch a film etc etc.
It CAN be a hardcore gaming machine and a media center (pc's have for years) Dont put your own limitations on it.
It really depends what MS does with the Xbox360. If they keep supporting it that will be fine. The millions of people who own and use it as a media hub will not need xbox720. Xbox360 does everything that it needs to do. If they decide to discontinue support for it (via XBL) like they did to Xbox. Shutting down the servers. Forcing them to upgrade. Why buy it. Their Xbox Live Gold model only worked because they tied the features with people who already had an gold account. And we went along with it.
When these features shouldn't need a XBL subscription to really work. If you pay for Netflix why should you pay XBL to use it on their console (It should be for free, Like on PS3).
The Xbox720 is going to be a very hard sell. Odds are people will be choosing a different media device because people don't like it when try you pull a fast one on them. MS may have gotten a great following with the 360. The 720 for hard core gamers. Not so much for the couch potato. Unless they come out with something amazing.


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'To grandmother's house I go...'
I agree with you and how you feel about the loss. I never knew either of my grandfathers. One died when my dad was three and the other died when my mother was thirteen.
I also feel that I have missed out on a lot.
Hi Claudia,
As always, thank you for your comments. I feel the same way as you, that we have missed out on a lot.
Jennifer, It's very sad you did not know your grandmothers. I am very fortunate to have grown up with both sets of grandparents, and believe they truly did enrich my life. It's great you are remembering them in this way, and I feel sure they know it.
Hi Ashling,
Thanks very much for your comments. I am very glad for you to have known your grandparents. I hope that you have a lot of fond memories of your time with them.
Borrowed from a booklet I once did and published:
"Tears of Joy, Tears of Sorrow"
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Hi Carol,
Thanks for your comments; as always, they are much appreciated. Sorry to make you cry. :):)
Jennifer, I am sorry you never had a grandma for cuddles & confindences. I had no grandfathers but I had my grandmothers. Our maternal grandmother was very close to my brotyhers and I, as special as our parents. Have you been able to learn about them? stories? photos?ReplyDelete
Hi Colleen,
Thanks for your comments; they are much appreciated. I have been able to learn the stories of both of my grandmothers. In fact, this blog was inspired by my desire to share their stories. Although I did not know them in person, I feel very fortunate to have been able to learn about who they were as women, and as wives and mothers.
Jennifer, heartful and evocative stories, I felt your loss and sadness...a gap that can never really be filled. While my maternal grandmother died when I was not quite 4, I have dim memories of her somehow merged with her photo in my parents' room. I also had her sister, who I suppose treated me a little like a grandchild and brought me treats. She was very kind and I was close to her, but not as a grandmother. I was very lucky that my father's mother lived next door so I was very close to her and have many, many fond memories. It really is a treasure to have a grandmother...I only hope I'm leaving my grandchildren with some special memories for the future. Sorry, that all kind of rubs it in, it wasn't meant to, simply reiterating how significant the loss of a grandparent can be.ReplyDelete
Hi Pauleen,
Thanks for your comments; they are always much appreciated. I agree it is a treasure to have a grandmother, and I think it's wonderful that you are ensuring you leave your own grandchildren with happy memories (not to mention a great family history).
Cheers to you,
Jennifer :):)
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Early bird registration to our 2012 Honeynet Project Security Workshop ends today. The workshop will be held at the Facebook offices in the SF Bay Area. Secure your spot today for the workshop or one of the eleven hands-on training sessions we are offering. You can check out the agenda and training sessions at https://honeynet.org/SecurityWorkshops/2012_SF_Bay_Area. Hope to see you there!
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The Honeynet Project will hold its 2nd public security workshop at Facebook, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area. The workshop is going to be a two day event filled with technical presentations and hands-on tutorial training. On day 1 of the workshop, Honeynet Project members and Facebook will present on a wide range of information security topics: from honeypots and social networks to cybercrime and mobile malware. Day 2 will be a day of hands-on tutorial training. Our members will teach a total of 8 courses in forensics, honeypots, and visualization. For those who want to further hone their skills in a competitive setting, we will also host a capture-the-flag event on day 2.
Event details and registration information can be found at https://honeynet.org/SecurityWorkshops/2012_SF_Bay_Area. We hope to see you there!
The Honeynet Project is happy to announce the release of the Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E.) Virtual Machine.
Do you need to analyze a piece of Android malware, but dont have all your analysis tools at hand? The Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E.) Virtual Machine, put together by Anthony Desnos from our French chapter, is here to help. A.R.E. combines the latest Android malware analysis tools in a readily accessible toolbox.
Tools currently found on A.R.E. are:
In 2011, the Honeynet Project had once again the opportunity to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. In the last few weeks, we wrapped up all projects, beta tested the code, wrote documentation, and prepared releases.
To quickly recap: GSoc (Google Summer of Code) is an annual summer program sponsored by Google, in which Google pairs up students with organizations committed to open-source. Google supports each project with 5000USD of which the students receive the lion's share. The Honeynet Project has participated in GSoc since 2009. Visit http://honeynet.org/gsoc2009 and http://honeynet.org/gsoc2010 to get an idea on what we have accomplished through this program in the last couple of years.
This year, we were able to spin up and execute 12 projects! While there are still a couple of projects that are preparing their release as part of the larger underlying project, we would like to point you to the following links that provide a summary and references to the projects that already resulted in releases:
These projects address a wide array of security problems. APKInspector and DroidBox greatly simplify mobile malware analysis; Webviz and HoneyViz explore the space of visualization of data for the security analyst; HoneySink is the first open-source sinkhole solution available; sip module for dionaea extends the capability of this honeypot into the VoIP area; cHook & cHide makes the malware analysis platform Cuckoobox more resilient against detection & evasion; AxMock is a ActiveX emulation/detection module which can be used - for example to detect drive-by-download attacks with client honeypots, such as Capture-HPC - ; the libemu extension made shellcode analysis & execution much more performant; and the wireshark plugins extend the wireshark network monitoring tool with additional forensic and analysis capabilities, such as the integration with rules from the popular intrusion detection system Snort.
This is a really impressive list of projects!
The credit really goes to our awesome students that participated in GSoc this year. We want thank them for participating in this program and choosing the Honeynet Project as their mentoring organization. They all did a great job and I very impressed with their dedication and professionalism. I think the projects speak for themselves and some of the students will continue to be involved with these projects and our community long term! The students this year were:
Also, we would like to thank the mentors and technical advisors who volunteered their time to support and mentor the students to be successful over the summer....
... and last but not least, we thank Google. The program greatly supports organizations like ours that are committed to open-source and trying to make a positive difference. We hope to be back next year :)
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Folks, Google has just announced the accepted projects on the GSoc website. We had an excellent line up of students and proposals this year and were able to accept 12 projects! Thanks for all the students who have applied this year and congratulations to all accepted!
Folks, challenge 7 - forensic analysis of a compromised server - put up by Hugo Gonzalez from the Mexico Chapter and Guillaume Arcas from the French Chapter is in full swing. Submissions are due by March 31st, so if you want to participate, you have 5 days left. We award little prizes for the top three submissions! Hope to see your submission.
Folks, we had a great day at the first-ever public Honeynet Project Security Workshop yesterday with many excellent presentations by our members from around the globe. The presentations ranged from deep technical dives around shellcode detection and mobile malware reverse engineering to views on social dynamics of attackers and ethics of computer security research.
Further, we hosted a small capture-the-flag/forensic challenge competition, which received plentiful participation - especially with the younger crowd.
We hope that everybody enjoyed the workshop. If you were not able to make it to the workshop this year, we have attached the slides to this blog post. Hope to see you again in 2012.
Christian Seifert
CEO, The Honeynet Project
Carl Pulley, a loyal follower of our Forensic Challenges, has written up an analysis on how could one determine the Apache version that generated the logs. His analysis can be found at http://acme-labs.org.uk/news/2011/01/20/apache2-version-analysis/ and http://acme-labs.org.uk/news/2011/01/21/apache2-version-analysis-data-visualisation/. Check it out!
Folks, Chengyu Song has been busy the last few weeks and made some upgrades to the honeypot monitoring tool Qebek. He has ported it from QEMU 0.9.1 to QEMU 0.13.0. As a result, Qebek's performance (boot time) is better and it no longer requires gcc 3.4. You can check it out
svn co https://projects.honeynet.org/svn/sebek/virtualization/qebek/trunk/
If you don't know what Qebek is or how to use it, take a look at our whitepaper at http://honeynet.org/papers/KYT_qebek.
Folks, holiday greetings from forensic challenge headquarter in Seattle. Mahmud and Ahmad from the Malaysian Chapter have judged all submissions and results have been posted on the challenge web site. The winners are:
1. Vos from Russia with perfect score!
2. Codrut from Romania
3. Mike from Canada
We received a total of 21 submissions and they were very competitive. The top three submissions came within a point of a perfect score and Vos from Russia actually received a perfect score. We have posted the top three submissions from Vos, Cordut and Mike on the challenge web site . As I said, these submissions are top notch and I encourage you to read through them.
With the forensic challenge 2010 coming to an end, we will be taking a little break for the holidays, but will be back in full force in early 2011.
Happy Holidays.
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In Newtown, the pastor of his flock struggles on
Priests, in the minutes before Mass, are alone.
So it was last week. With the sounds of the school band echoing down the hallways, Monsignor Robert Weiss stood alone at the chapel at Immaculate High School in Danbury, arranging the altar linens.
He was preparing to celebrate Mass for students who had graduated from the elementary school at St. Rose of Lima in Newtown, where Weiss presides. He had confirmed them all, given them all their First Communions.
It's the 40th anniversary of Weiss' ordination this year. His annual Mass at the high school should have been celebratory. But when he spoke to the students, his concern, his sorrow -- for them, for St. Rose, for his community -- was manifest. Five months after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Weiss is striving to mend a world he acknowledges may be fraying.
And so he urged the students, with rising force, to be as full of spirit as the church's early apostles going out into a hard world. Their town needs them, Weiss said.
"We're watching our community pulling apart at the seams," Weiss told the students. Trying to ignore the tragedy, he said, goes against the way of Jesus Christ.
"It's difficult to hear the story over and over," he said. "But we cannot forget it."
A day before the Mass at Immaculate, Weiss acknowledged the toll the Sandy Hook shootings have taken on him. Nine of the 26 victims -- eight children, one adult -- were his parishioners. In the days after the shooting, with Christmas looming, he had to preside at funeral after funeral.
Now, he acknowledges suffering from depression, to near-sleepless nights when restlessness keeps him awake for long hours.
His German heritage, he said, laughing, normally compels him to finish his work and have his desk clean before he left work. After Dec. 14, no more.
"There are papers all over my desk, all over the table," he said.
And, he said, he's seen the videotape of his First Communion services this year and compared it to the tapes of last year.
"There's less bounce in my step," he said.
Weiss is a squarely built man with a lined, brown face and a straightforward, unpretentious demeanor. But when he talks about Newtown, there's an air of unalloyed sadness to him.
He said he is seeing the strain of the Sandy Hook shootings taking hold in his church and in his community as a whole. Despite the enormous care people have shown toward each other, Weiss said, he worries about the problems of people living under the strain of Dec. 14 -- about increases in alcoholism, spousal abuse and divorce he fears are coming.
"Every morning I think, `How do these families walk past that empty bedroom?' " Weiss said. And, he said, it's not always easy to serve as priest when your parish is still suffering so much.
"You always have to be thinking, `Is this is the right thing to say, the right thing to do?' " Weiss said. "There's no playbook for this.
"I haven't lost my faith," he said. "I've been blessed with strong faith. Without the Lord, I couldn't do this. But I admit, my faith in humanity has been challenged."
Those who have watched Weiss in his 14 years as leader of St. Rose of Lima, and in the past five months since the shooting, said their admiration for him is unending.
"He's been such an inspiration to me, to the students," said Kathleen Casey, president of Immaculate High School.
Weiss, she said, is the chairman of the schools' Catholic Identify Council. He has always been a "phenomenal spiritual leader," she said. The day of Dec. 14, and the days that followed, proved that.
"He was a light in the darkness," she said.
"He showed us what it means to be a priest," added Maren Brady, 15, and one of the St. Rose of Lima students at Immaculate. "Not just in good times, but in tragedy."
Weiss, 67, was brought up by faithful Roman Catholic parents in Florida. At the age of 17, while walking to school, he said he heard the voice of God in his ear telling him, "Be a priest." Since that moment of revelation, Weiss said, he has never wanted to be anything else.
He studied at St. John Fisher Seminary in Stamford, then at St. Bernard's Seminary in Rochester, N.Y. He graduated from St. Bernard's in 1972 and was ordained at St. Christopher Church in North Chili, N.Y., in 1973.
He has spent his 40 years of service in Fairfield County -- in Bridgeport, Stamford, Monroe and Shelton, where he was pastor of St. Joseph's Church for 10 years. In 1999, he was named pastor of St. Rose of Lima; in 2008, he was elevated to the position of monsignor.
Harrison Waterbury, head of St. Rose of Lima's finance committee, said that as pastor of the church Weiss has been involved in all aspects of the parish.
Waterbury said that Weiss wants to know about the church's financial affairs. If any of its buildings needed repair, Weiss saw to it right away, he said.
"He's been a leader," Waterbury said. "You may not agree with him on everything. But he is the leader of the church."
Students at Immaculate, who know Weiss as the pastor of St. Rose of Lima, also spoke of his ability to bring them into the life of the church.
"I've known him all my life, and I've looked to him for direction," said Alex Gerbo, 15. "He's helped me become the person that I am."
Gerbo said that because of Weiss' strong sermons and homilies, church-going was not a duty.
"I wanted to go to Mass," he said.
Weiss said that at heart he is a parish priest. But on Dec. 14 his parish, his world, his vocation changed forever.
After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the nearby volunteer firehouse became the central meeting point. Parents hurried there, milling about, frantically using their cellphones to learn what was happening then sharing what little news there was to tell. Teachers walked the surviving students to the firehouse, and parents and children -- often sobbing -- got matched up.
Weiss heard about the killings at St. Rose of Lima. After being reassured the students at his school were safe, he went to the firehouse and spent the day there.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal was at the Sandy Hook Firehouse, too. He remembers it as a scene of enormous emotional turmoil.
"Things just rose and fell," Blumenthal said as some parents were reunited with their children while others gathered in worried anticipation until Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced there were no more survivors.
Weiss stood in the center of all of this, Blumenthal said.
"He was a rock," the senator said.
Weiss said what he remembers of that day was the strength of the parents who lost a child in the shooting.
"One would break down, and another parent would come to console her," Weiss said. "Then that person would break down, and others would come to help."
That evening, in a remarkable show of community unity, St. Rose of Lima held services, with Weiss presiding. The church was filled. Hundreds of people stood outside.
Alex Gerbo was the altar server at the church that night. "There were people lined up outside the windows, six rows deep," he said.
"There were candles everywhere," Weiss said, living proof of the Christian message: Good overcomes evil. Light overcomes darkness."
Weiss admits that the pace of life for him today is trying. On a few occasions, he said, he felt as if he were representing not only St. Rose of Lima, or Newtown, but the entire Roman Catholic Church. That's not a role he ever sought.
"I'm very happy to be pastor of a church, of this little world," he said.
For that reason, Weiss said, he has not become an outspoken advocate for the issues that have arisen after Sandy Hook. While he joined with other clerics in town to ask for stricter gun laws, he's not been lobbying in Washington, D.C., on behalf of that cause.
"I have always been a very community-oriented priest," Weiss said. "I need to be here."
Blumenthal said he has seen Weiss several times since Dec. 14. His admiration for Weiss has only grown stronger, he said.
"He has been in the middle of things, physically, emotionally," Blumenthal said. "Through at all, you could see the depths of his compassion."
Waterbury said that in the weeks that followed Dec. 14, St. Rose of Lima parishioners saw sides of Weiss that he hasn't revealed in the past.
"With things so tragic, he's had to show his emotions," Waterbury said. "I think it's a good thing."
Weiss acknowledged he's looking forward to the summer. He will spend two weeks at a Catholic facility that helps priests suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. And he and the other two priests at St. Rose of Lima -- the Revs. Ignacio Ortigas and Luke Suarez -- will get a vacation in Hawaii, thanks to Immaculate High School.
But he also sees signs of hope around him in Newtown. After a long, snowy winter, the Palm Sunday service seemed to he a harbinger of spring, Weiss said. After the service, people stood outside the church talking, gathering together.
"That day, the congregation was back to the way we used to be," he said.
And, as Weiss told the students at Immaculate High School, his 40 years as priest have been "a beautiful gift from God."
"No matter how tough it's been, there have always been more blessings," he said.
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Good news for T-Mobile users as you can start to expect the HTC 8X to be available for purchase on Wednesday, November 14th. That date actually falls in line with things we've heard in the past and leaked roadmap via TmoNews only confirms that information.
Unfortunately, no word on when the just announced Nokia Lumia 810 will arrive, but it's starting to look like it may come after the 14th since it doesn't yet appear to be scheduled. Plus we still know nothing of the Samsung "Odyssey" either. Of course, like all dates, pricing and device availability news, we're sure to find out more in the coming weeks and especially on October 29th.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Eight MIT water polo student-athletes were recently named to the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Scholar Athlete Team for the 2010 season. In addition to the individual accolades, Tech also received recognition for its overall team success, posting the fourth-highest team grade point average in the CWPA.
Brian Gardiner and Nikola Otasevic were recognized in the Outstanding category, recording GPA's of at least a 3.7 on a 4.0 scale. Matt Perkins and Columbus Leonard received the Superior designation (3.41-3.70) while Gavin Darcey, Kevin Hsiue, Alex Mattfolk and John Preis were tabbed at the Excellent level (3.20-3.40).
With a 3.36 cumulative average, the Cardinal and Gray earned fourth in the team GPA award standings, not far behind Harvard University's mark of 3.39. Brown University had the top overall team mark (3.52).


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Double Bogus DMCA Takedown All The Way!
from the what-does-it-mean? dept
Throughout the video he makes it clear that his main concern is that he "doesn't like" these videos, which apparently are somewhat mean and make fun of him, but copyright is not made for censoring speech you don't like. Amazingly, Vasquez even seems to be issuing DMCA takedowns on videos that try to explain this to him, including one from HappyCabbie which tries to explain the Streisand Effect to Vasquez:
Now some may claim this is just a case of a fairly ignorant guy abusing the DMCA, but that's what happens when you provide such a tool for easy censorship. It gets abused by people to censor speech. What does it mean? It means that we have a double free speech problem all the way...


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Bernard Wasow was making light of the disappearance of a favorite topic of his work, Social Security. "It has sunk out of sight," says the senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a liberal think tank.
Well, not quite. Last week the American Academy of Actuaries issued a rare "public interest" statement advocating raising Social Security's age when an eligible retiree receives full pension benefits another two years to 69. (A 1983 law boosted the age gradually from 65 to 67.)
"Holding the retirement age constant is a certain prescription for future financial problems," the 16,000-member academy stated. "Raising it to reflect increasing longevity would contribute to solving those problems."
Such a change would be equivalent to about a 14 percent average cut in Social Security retirement benefits.
Since 1 in 4 American families receive some form of Social Security benefit and since the two presumed presidential candidates differ sharply on their reform proposals for the nation's most popular safety net, the issue will likely be in the news again before the fall election.
Certainly the Democrats hope it will. They are trying to paint Republican presidential candidate John McCain as seeking the same failed goal as President Bush, the partial privatization of Social Security for younger workers.
Social Security popped up last month when Senator McCain said during a town hall meeting in Denver: "Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace, and it's got to be fixed."
Democrats and liberals leaped on this remark. They noted that Social Security benefits have always been financed by the working generation, that indeed this money transfer accounts for one-fifth of the entire federal budget.
It remains something of a mystery what changes in Social Security McCain would advocate if he wins the election. He promises not to raise the Social Security payroll tax, but then says everything is on the table. McCain's official campaign website (johnmccain.com) lists 16 topics as "issues" and deals with them in some detail. But not Social Security.
Barack Obama's website (barackobama.com) devotes almost three pages to Social Security. It notes his opposition to both hiking the retirement age "for hardworking seniors" and to privatizing Social Security. Senator Obama's plan calls for "shoring up" the program by applying the 6.2 percent payroll tax to income above $250,000 a year. This year, the cap subject to the tax stands at $102,000 (higher than the $97,500 cited on his website). So income between $102,000 and $250,000 would not be subject to the payroll tax. His proposal, in effect, would hit only high-income folks, about 3 percent of taxpayers.
Some of McCain's past statements on Social Security are collected at ontheissues.org, a nonpartisan website that provides information about the candidates. The statements indicate he sees Social Security finances as "a ticking time bomb," that surplus Social Security payroll tax revenues should not be used to finance other federal programs (as they are now), and that workers should be allowed to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private investment accounts (described by opponents as "partial privatization"). Again, whether these are his present views remains unclear.
Any plan for changing Social Security remains highly controversial. David Langer, a New York consulting actuary, sees the actuary group's call to raise the retirement age as inappropriate for a professional group and highly conservative and political, if not partisan, in its content.
Thomas Terry, an author of the academy statement, says its statement is based on recent annual reports of the Social Security Trustees indicating that the program is in actuarial imbalance. "I'm not sure what [political] means," he says.
Mr. Langer regards Social Security finances as actually in actuarial balance in its 75-year projections for the future and not needing further benefit cuts than the 25 percent already made or in the works since 1983.
To the Century Foundation's Mr. Wasow, the Social Security system definitely doesn't have a crisis "looking at us in the face." For one thing, any 75-year projection is highly problematical. The system was created in 1935 and its first 75 years will not be reached until 2010. Its founders would not have known of the end of the Great Depression, World War II, the cold war, legislative changes, and other factors impinging on its finances since 1935.
Wasow would not automatically oppose boosting the retirement age and other measures improving the system's financial soundness. He talks of hiking the cap on payroll taxes and at the same time increasing benefits for the well-to-do, though not nearly as much as the cap hike.
One problem, he notes, is statistics indicate longevity is on average closely associated with income. Those with low incomes are more likely to die at an earlier age than those with higher incomes. So the poor would be hit hardest by an increase in the retirement age.


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2013 Subaru Forester: New Car Review
The 2013 Subaru Forester is perfect for people looking to move out of a small car and into something with a bit more room and with all-weather capability. With the Forester, you gain an exterior design that is attractive but not revolutionary and a simple, straightforward interior that is a welcome respite from more advanced designs that can sometimes feel too technical.
Interested in the 2013 Subaru Forester? Here's what you need to know. ...
What's New for 2013?
Subaru adds standard equipment to the 2013 Forester this year. All versions include Bluetooth hands-free calling and music streaming, an auxiliary audio input jack and a USB port. The Forester 2.5X Premium gains heated front seats, heated exterior mirrors and a windshield wiper de-icer grid, but only when equipped with a manual transmission. These items are included in an optional All Weather Package for 2.5X Premium models with an automatic. A color touchscreen infotainment system is also optional for the 2.5X Premium this year.
What We Like
IIHS Top Safety Pick; standard all-wheel drive; well equipped even in base trim; panoramic sunroof option
What We Don't
Two-star side-impact pole crash-test rating from the NHTSA; unimpressive fuel economy; no high-end audio or communications system
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The Subaru Forester 2.5X is equipped with a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine serving up 170 horsepower and 174 lb-ft of torque. For the Forester, this is plenty of power, even with the added weight of the standard all-wheel-drive (AWD) system. A 4-speed automatic transmission is optional, and Environmental Protection Agency fuel economy ratings are identical for each transmission choice at 21 mpg city/27 mpg highway.
The Forester 2.5XT models have a turbocharged version of the same 2.5-liter engine, paired only with the automatic transmission and developing 224 hp and 226 lb-ft of torque. Although acceleration is better than the nonturbocharged engine, don't expect performance equal to Subaru's vaunted WRX. Fuel economy ratings are 19 mpg city/24 mpg hwy.
Options & Standard Features
The Forester comes in 2.5X, 2.5X Premium, 2.5X Limited and 2.5X Touring models, as well as turbocharged 2.5XT Premium and 2.5 XT Touring variants.
Standard equipment for the Forester 2.5X ($22,090) includes air conditioning, Bluetooth calling and audio streaming, a USB port, an auxiliary audio input jack, power windows, power door locks with remote keyless entry, power exterior mirrors, a tilt steering wheel and cruise control. A set of 16-inch steel wheels and plastic wheel covers identify this model from the outside. Aluminum wheels, a roof rack and an automatic transmission are optional.
The Forester 2.5X Premium ($25,090) adds aluminum wheels, rear privacy glass tinting and roof rails. A power driver's seat, a tilt/telescopic steering wheel and additional interior storage are also included for this model. With the standard manual gearbox, an All Weather Package is added, providing heated front seats, heated side mirrors and a wiper de-icer grid. With the optional automatic transmission, the All Weather Package is an option but a panoramic sunroof is tossed in. Both transmissions are offered with a Plus Package containing fog lights and a touchscreen audio system.
Choose the Forester 2.5X Limited ($27,990) for a standard automatic transmission, panoramic sunroof and All Weather Package, plus leather seats, automatic climate control, fog lights and more.
The Forester 2.5X Touring ($29,190) is the top-of-the-line model, equipped with dual-zone climate control, a reversing camera, a premium sound system, HID headlights, electroluminescent gauges, and upgraded interior and exterior trim. A Navigation Package adds a navigation system, a reversing camera, text messaging capability, HD Radio and iTunes song tagging to the Limited and Touring models.
Turbocharged Forester models are offered in 2.5XT Premium ($28,090) and 2.5XT Touring ($30,790) trim levels, equipped with the same features as the 2.5X plus a functional hood scoop and a rear roof spoiler.
The 2013 Subaru Forester features six airbags, anti-lock brakes and a traction and stability control system as standard equipment. Foresters with a manual transmission feature Incline Start Assist, which keeps the vehicle from rolling backward when starting out on an incline. A reversing camera is optional.
The Forester is rated highly by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), performing well in all of its crash tests. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) gives the Forester a 4-star overall crash-test rating but notes that the SUV earned just two stars in the side-impact pole test.
Behind the Wheel
Thanks to its Impreza roots, the Forester is a maneuverable crossover utility vehicle (CUV). The soft suspension makes for a comfortable ride, but it does get a little bouncy over rough terrain. The steering is nicely weighted without too much assist. Despite more than 8 inches of ground clearance, the Forester maintains its composure even in the sharpest of turns. Thank the vehicle's low center of gravity and the optional 17-in wheel and tire combination for the Forester's stability.
The standard 2.5-liter engine delivers spirited driving performance, never lagging in power but not bowling anyone over with its acceleration time, either. The turbo is a better choice for those who crave the power of a V6 engine, but it's not a high-performance engine, and its power comes on gradually rather than in a rush.
The Forester's 4-speed automatic is a real bummer, as it offers neither great performance nor great fuel economy. Oddly, the 5-speed manual isn't offered with the one model in which it would most be appreciated: the turbocharged 2.5XT. Then again, given the manual's long throws and rubbery feel, it's probably best left to the base model.
In any form, the Forester is big on room, overall comfort and flexibility. The driver's seat has an adjustable lumbar feature for added back support on long trips. The Forester's passenger seat is height adjustable, a welcome feature at this price. Rear passengers enjoy ample room and can recline their seat backs.
The Forester's cargo area is large enough for a big dog or a couple of backpacks. With the rear seats folded, the Forester offers a large, level load floor and a tall roof ideal for carrying items too big to fit in a conventional trunk. If you run out of room inside, there's an available cargo carrier that can be mounted to the roof rack and which nearly doubles the Forester's capacity.
Visibility is excellent all around. We also like the accessibility of the Forester's audio and temperature controls. However, we did find some of the steering wheel's control buttons small and difficult to decipher at night.
Other Cars to Consider
Ford Escape -- The redesigned Ford Escape can be equipped with a long list of comfort, convenience and technology upgrades that are simply unavailable for the Subaru Forester. Additionally, the Escape's optional turbocharged engine is more powerful.
Honda CR-V -- The Honda CR-V offers more modern styling than the Forester and a slightly more upscale interior. AWD is optional rather than standard on the CR-V -- one reason the Honda goes farther on a gallon of gas.
Kia Sportage -- Equipped with styling that is decidedly sportier than the Forester, the Kia Sportage offers more features for less money and a better warranty than the Subaru.
AutoTrader's Advice
The Forester 2.5X Premium offers the most CUV for the money. You get lots of cool standard features, and for a few hundred bucks more you can add the optional All Weather Package and a touchscreen infotainment system. Don't forget: If fuel economy and price are not your top concerns, the turbocharged 2.5XT trim offers more power and fun without much of a penalty in terms of fuel economy.


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Brooke Shields On Why She Joined Adult Swim's Homicidal Dog Cartoon Mr. Pickles
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