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Earlier this week, SI.com published its Twitter 100, a list of Twitter feeds that Sports Illustrated staffers considered "essential to their daily routine for finding news, information and entertainment from the sports world."
Today, we offer a counterpoint: The Deadspin Twitter -100*, our list of the 67 worst sports-related Twitter accounts. We adhered to no criteria while compiling this list, and we did not work exceptionally hard on it. Hope you hate these Twitter feeds as much as we do.
1. Joe Cowley (@cst_Cowley), columnist
Sexist piece of shit whose Twitter avatar makes him look like a violent half-wit.
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2. Rick Reilly (@ReillyRick), columnist
Everything you despise about Reilly, condensed into one tiny, loathsome space.
3. Mike Soltys (@espnmikes), ESPN PR flack
Pravda central. Proud, humorless, and beyond reproach.
4. Gregg Doyel (@GreggDoyelCBS), columnist
What's worse than a troll with a national platform? A troll with a national platform who keeps tucking his tail between his legs on Twitter.
5. Hockeyy Insiderr (@HockeyyInsiderr), rumormonger
Painfully fake NHL rumors combined with screenshots that are photographs of his computer screen. No wonder 30,000 have been fooled.
6. Stephen A. Smith (@stephenasmith), screaming head
Peeps got jokes.
7. Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur), columnist
Handwringer. Lobs milquetoast commentary from the ramparts of every easily defended position in sports. "Canada's best sportswriter."
8. Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay), NFL owner
Drunk. Can we say drunk? Big drunk.
9. Peter King (@SI_PeterKing), columnist
This man still doesn't know how to properly answer fanmail on Twitter. You answer FIRST, then RT the question. Otherwise ... CHAOS.
10. Jason McIntyre (@TheBigLead), blogger
The type of person who ruins jokes, hits "reply all" on emails, and wears the band's T-shirt to their concert.
11. Sarah Phillips (@SarahPhilli), scammer
Our old grifter friend still sends out meaningless sports tweets and (still) deletes half of them.
12. Not Bill Walton (@NotBillWalton), parody account
Hey, Bill Walton is a blowhard. It'll be super-funny to make lame jokes in a blowhard voice, right? Right?
13. Faux John Madden (@FauxJohnMadden), parody account
Unfunny jokes that you probably heard in a slightly different format minutes earlier.
14. Spencer Hawes (@spencerhawes00), Philadelphia 76ers center
Man who is rich because he won the genetic lottery is concerned about socialism ruining his country.
15. Paul Bissonette (@BizNasty2point0), pro hockey player
Meathead who isn't half as funny as he thinks he is. No one could be as funny as he thinks he is.
16. LeBron James (@KingJames), Miami Heat small forward
People who use Twitter just to Instagram pictures of their food are the worst. LeBron James is one of those people.
17. LaVar Arrington (@lavarArrington) radio host, former NFL linebacker
Retweeted compliments, all-caps babbling, and a quick block on anyone who dares question his football knowledge.
18. Arian Foster (@ArianFoster), Houston Texans running back
The NFL's leading faux-intellectual. Some of his tweets might be thought-provoking if they weren't trying so hard to be thought-provoking.
19. Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather), professional boxer
Oh, you bet another exorbitant amount of money on a meaningless sporting event? Thanks for the update, Floyd.
20. Skip Bayless (@realskipbayless), professional troll
A man who somehow succeeds at being worse than the countless parody accounts of him.
21. Roddy White (@roddywhitetv), Atlanta Falcons wide receiver
He's seeking the answers to life's most pressing questions.
22. Dont'a Hightower (@zeus30hightower), New England Patriots linebacker
Murderer of pizza rolls.
23. Dan Gilbert (@cavsdan), Cleveland Cavaliers owner
A constant reminder that in America, a bumbling old man can become a millionaire and own an NBA franchise.
24. Craig James (@craigjames32), alleged mass murderer
Now he's murdering the English language.
25. Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard), NBA reporter
Sources close to Chris Broussard confirm that Chris Broussard can't be bothered to credit anyone other than Chris Broussard.
26. Warren Sapp (@warrensapp), former defensive lineman, NFL Network analyst
If Warren Sapp's account came up to you at a party, you'd lie about having to go to the bathroom in order to get away from it.
27. Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS), baseball insider
Thin-skinned and incapable of proper capitalization. Has a feud with Buster Olney, which is like having a feud with your milkman.
28. Keith Law (@keithlaw), baseball writer
Has Olbermannic tendency to engage with trolls via manual RT.
29. Mike Wilbon (@RealMikeWilbon), ESPN personality
Still treats Twitter as if you're lucky he deigns to be on it.
30. Major League Baseball (@MLB), official Twitter account of Major League Baseball
This account is run by a secret cabal of the lamest dads in America.
31. Lynn Hoppes (@lhoppes), plagiarist
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32. Jay Paterno (@JayPaterno), self-deluder
Your drunk, uninvited uncle at the dinner table who's always trying to change the subject.
33. Sports By Brooks (@SPORTSbyBROOKS), internet guy
Single-note microtweeter. Chief Inspector Brooks will crack this Penn State case wide open, in 140 characters or less.
34. Chris Jones (@MySecondEmpire), magazine writer with a capital W
"Let me tell you folks about the agony and ecstasy of a little craft I like to call... WRITING." Tweets thank-yous to admirers like he's signing autographs outside Toots Shor's.
35. Tom Scocca (@tomscocca), Deadspin managing editor
Random subway-lunatic screaming fits, trivial whining, and petty, condescending feuds. Uses hostile retweets as one drawn-out humblebrag.
36. Rampage Jackson (@Rampage4Real), UFC fighter
Sad that a good fighting nickname is wasted on an attention-needing creep.
37. Joe Rogan (@joerogan), comedian, UFC personality
None of you can handle his scathing views on everything! He tells it like it is. Or he's just shitty. Either one.
38. Chad Dukes (@Chaddukes), radio host
Arrington's meathead radio partner. His old Twitter background was him pointing a gun at you.
39. Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte), Olympic swimmer, epic bro
May as well just tweet dialogue from old episodes of Laguna Beach.
40. Mike Greenberg (@ESPNGreeny), ESPN radio host
ESPN's answer to the DJ 3000. Those clowns at the BCS did it again. What a bunch of clowns.
41. Mark Schlereth (@markschlereth), ESPN NFL analyst
Talks to players on Twitter during games as if they can actually hear him.
42. Eric Stangel (@EricStangel), head writer for The Late Show
The world's most obvious sports jokes, expertly designed to be retweeted by 70-year-old newspaper columnists.
43. David Portnoy (@stoolpresidente), proprietor of Barstool Sports
Spews Boston-tinged diarrhea that New England college bros eagerly lap up to regurgitate later while taking pickup hoops too seriously.
44. Frank Isola (@FisolaNYDN), Knicks beat writer
As bitter as he is excitable. Declares games over after two minutes of the first quarter. Will not stop telling you about that time he saw James Dolan's car.
45. Dan Levy (@DanLevyThinks), lead writer at Bleacher Report
Self-appointed ombudsman of everything.
46. Peter Gammons (@pgammo), baseball writer
Pppppp f//
47. Ethan Sherwood Strauss (@sherwoodstrauss), NBA writer
Seems to regard Twitter as a massive graduate-level semiotics seminar. Excuses dumb comments by saying he's just "starting a conversation."
48. Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi), baseball writer
Baseball writers can be an insufferable bunch (see: Heyman, Jon), but Ken Rosenthal's smirky sidekick beats out all comers.
49. Matthew Cerrone (@matthewcerrone), director of digital media for SNY
Demonstrates social media expertise by asking people why they unfollowed, the Twitter equivalent of handing out a post-date questionnaire.
50. Incarcerated Bob (@incarceratedbob)
WFAN caller who guaranteed LeBron signing with the Knicks. Earned his nickname after he punched a Pats fan, which shouldn't even be illegal.
51. King Kaufman (@king_kaufman), writer-program manager at Bleacher Report
Once-great columnist now d/b/a as Bleacher Report's designated mouthpiece. Wears inferiority complex as if it were a handlebar mustache.
52. Bethlehem Shoals (@FreeDarko), founder of FreeDarko.com, co-founder of The Classical
Remember how FD used to have those pictures you weren't sure you understood in every post? Like that, but without the words in between. Or any pictures.
53. Wright Thompson (@wrightthompson), senior ESPN writer
Hey, it's a Wright-a-Day calendar!
54. Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra), baseball blogger
Get a room, baseblogger.
55. Justin Goldman (@TheGoalieGuild), columnist
A pseudo-poetic answer for everything. With regard to goalies, the correct answer is usually "random variation."
56. Tommy Craggs (@tcraggs22), Deadspin editor-in-chief
The ultimate in too-good-for-Twitter passive-aggression. Petulant, defensive, withholding. Another prick with a studiedly obscure avatar.
57. Will Leitch (@williamfleitch), writer, Deadspin editor emeritus
A flyover-country refugee with some hay tucked in his city-slicker suit pocket for effect. Garrison Keillor without jokes. Cardinals suck.
58. Jeff Pearlman (@jeffpearlman), writer
Brutally conventional conventional wisdom about sports, politics, and buttocks.
59. Hockey Buzz Eklund (@eklund), rumormonger
A source of bad hockey rumors so blatant he lists his phone number in his bio. TSN could be reporting your next prank phone call.
60. Dwight Howard (@dwighthoward), Los Angeles Lakers center
Likes to tweet about taking dumps, kind of like the one he took on Orlando.
61. Jay Feely (@jayfeely), former NFL kicker
It's as if someone stuffed the corpse of William F. Buckley into soccer cleats and let him periodically fall face-first onto the keyboard.
62. Pete Prisco (@PriscoCBS), NFL writer
Odious anti-union propagandist. Bad at football, worse at foreign affairs.
63. Colin Cowherd (@ESPN_Colin), ESPN shock jock
Facelifted race-baiting honky exemplifies the perils of Twitter for sports yakkers: who needs three hours when your ideas all fit in 140 characters?
64. Jay Mariotti (@MariottiJ), master of media
Hideous American grotesque farting out dumb half-thoughts between court dates.
65. Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason), columnist
Insecurity so enormous, it has its own ecosystem. Retweets compliments. Thinks he's Omar; is Valchek. Unclear on how the internet works.
66. Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell), soulless sports business reporter
Headlines? "Talking Haircut Thinks All Human Activity Can Be Expressed Via Minute Fluctuations In Commodity Values." Shill. The worst.
67. Deadspin (@Deadspin), sports blog
Dumb in-jokes amid an endless string of misleading headlines—for the benefit of all the people who follow Deadspin but don't read Deadspin.
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Our DC Meetup is going to be a "Who's Who" of tech celebrities.
In a few short days, TechCrunchers from across the country will pack their bags, hop on a plane or a train, and venture to the nation's capitol. That's right, ya'll — the TechCrunch DC Meetup + Pitch-off is happening, on Tuesday, whether you like it or not.
And this time, we've wrangled up some impressive judges and guest speakers to join the party. Tickets are still available for $5, and will be available for $10 starting Monday.
During our pitch-off competition, where local startups will be given one minute to impress and delight judges, we'll be joined by four of the most brilliant minds in D.C. venture capital, as well as members of the TechCrunch staff.
Plus, SmartThings CTO Jeff Hagins will hop up on stage for a brief interview to discuss building a hardware company based in D.C., competition in the home automation/IoT market, and where we'll go from here.
SmartThings has raised a total of $15.5 million to make your home smarter, getting plenty of media traction and attention at CES this year. We're more than thrilled to have Jeff attend our party and chat with us for a bit.
So who are these mystery VCs, ready to dole out judgement, praise and advice?
Take a look:
Mark Levine – Core Capital
Mark Levine is a Managing Director at Core Capital Partners in Washington, DC. Core was formed in 1999 and is an early stage technology venture capital fund with $350 million under management.
Core has invested in 52 companies doing business in data analytics, cyber security, enterprise data mobility and cloud computing infrastructure markets.
Mark Levine's career in venture capital began in 1997 when he founded GCI Venture Partners, an early stage technology fund that was a first intuitional investor in webMethods, one of the most successful software IPOs in NASDAQ history.
John Backus – New Atlantic Ventures
John Backus is a co-founder and Managing Director of New Atlantic Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in cybersecurity, ecommerce, mobile, higher education, digital media and the business of healthcare. Based in the national capital region, John is a seasoned technology investor and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience investing in and managing rapidly growing companies. Before becoming a venture capitalist, he co-founded US Order, which revolutionized online banking, went public in 1995 and was sold to Visa. John serves on the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the Center for Public Policy Innovation (CPPI), Invincea, Spotflux, AppTap and PokitDok.
Additionally, he is Chairman Emeritus of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Board of Directors, the founding Chairman of the NVTC TechPAC, and Chairman Emeritus of the Wolf Trap Foundation Board of Directors. He has served as a technology policy adviser to Virginia governors Gilmore, Warner and McDonnell and has contributed his views to The Washington Post, Fortune, VentureBeat and the Huffington Post. John began his career at Bain & Co. and Bain Capital, where he was the first management consultant to take a full time operating role in a portfolio company. John holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Standard University Graduate School of Business.
Dayna Grayson – New Enterprise Associates
Dayna joined NEA in 2012 and focuses on investments in business-to-business companies including SaaS (software-as-a-service), digital media, financial technology and business services. She also invests in consumer internet companies particularly at the seed stage with NEA's seed investment program. She is a Director of OnShape Technologies and SocialRadar. Dayna founded the NEA Studio in 2013 where entrepreneurs with non traditional backgrounds, such as design, work in residence with NEA. She actively advises startups pre-funding and has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School.
Prior to joining NEA, Dayna was an investor at North Bridge Venture Partners in Boston where she focused on seed and early stage digital media, consumer internet, and SaaS investments. She was involved with companies including Camiant (acquired by Tekelec), Tapjoy, and Viximo (acquired by Tapjoy), where she was interim CEO in 2009.
David Hall – Revolution
David Hall is a Director at Revolution Ventures and is responsible for investment sourcing, execution, and oversight, for Revolution Venture's portfolio companies. The companies with which David has worked closely include Revolution Money, GramercyOne, Vinfolio, Koofers, SnagFilms, Personal, as well as Revolution Ventures' recent investments in BenchPrep and HomeSnap.
Prior to Revolution, David was with The Washington Post Company as Director of Planning and Development. He has also held positions as manager of Business Development for Akamai Technologies, Inc. and senior financial analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.
David received a B.A. in Economics from Morehouse College and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
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TNT's Dallas Sizzles in Its Sexiest Season Yet
A philandering husband with the initials J.R. A drunk Sue Ellen. A major revenge plan involving Cliff Barnes. TNT's Dallas reboot is looking more than ever the way the show did in its '80s heyday. After securely establishing its own roots over the past two seasons by introducing a compelling new generation of Ewings, producers are now freely embracing the soap's rich history.
"I think this is a sexier, more fun season than we've had before," executive producer Cynthia Cidre says. "There are lots of references to the old show in a really fun way." Those nods include the fact that most of the Ewings now live at Southfork Ranch; another grand wedding (this one will find Jesse Metcalfe's Christopher enjoying a romp in the barn, just as Ray and Lucy did back in 1978); and Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) falling off the wagon - hard.
Sue Ellen's descent back into alcoholism, which began at the end of last season with the death of J.R. (Larry Hagman), gets worse as she watches her son, John Ross (Josh Henderson), repeat his father's wicked ways. Newly wed to Pamela (Julie Gonzalo), John Ross continues his affair with his stepcousin Emma (Emma Bell), who is living across the hall. "I wanted Sue Ellen to be front and center this season," says Cidre. "And she really does have a hell of an arc. I think it's some of the best acting Linda has ever done."
Initially hesitant to retread a storyline she thought had run its course and fearful of disturbing recovering alcoholics who look to sober Sue Ellen as a source of inspiration, Gray has made peace with the plot and is having a blast. "I love that she was running for governor [in Season 1] and she's now headed for rehab," Gray says. "It keeps me excited about playing her."
"I think it's going to take fans back to when Sue Ellen used to get really down and drunk," says Henderson, whose character is most impacted by his mother's relapse. "It takes him back to being a kid and seeing her drunk. It really gets raw, emotional and gut-wrenching."
In what Gray calls an homage to Hagman's favorite storyline from the original series, John Ross will have his mother committed, just as J.R. did three decades earlier. "There is a powerful confrontation between John Ross and Sue Ellen in the kitchen that is my favorite scene of the season," Gray says.
At Bobby's urging, Sue Ellen will reluctantly move into Southfork so her concerned family can look after her - joining Bobby and Ann (Patrick Duffy and Brenda Strong), John Ross, Pamela, Emma, Christopher and Elena (Jordana Brewster) at the ranch. When John Ross brings in contractors to design an addition, the plans do not sit well with purist Uncle Bobby. "It's been amusing," says Henderson. "The cast always jokes that we are supposed to be Texas billionaires, and yet we're all living under one roof."
Not to mention swapping beds with the people under said roof. "We keep it in the family," says Henderson with a laugh. "We all live together; we might as well marry the same people in the same place." At Pamela and John Ross's wedding party - only two years after she married his cousin Christopher - John Ross asks Chris to be his best man. "He tries to put his best foot forward and make the most of an awkward situation," Metcalfe says. "But it's a slap in the face and will turn into a pretty depressing scene."
Thank goodness for the alluring Heather (90210 alum AnnaLynne McCord), a rebellious ranch hand with an abusive ex and a 5-year-old son. "Heather is a breath of fresh air," says Metcalfe, and "a welcome distraction" for Christopher, who is getting over his breakup with first love Elena. (Just wait until he learns that she's scheming with nemesis Cliff Barnes to bring down the Ewings.) "It's a very grounded, human story," Metcalfe says. "Christopher sees himself in Heather's son and wants to shield him from the pain of abandonment he experienced himself."
And in keeping with the season's nostalgic theme, Metcalfe finds a parallel between the Christopher-Heather romance and the love Christopher's father, Bobby, found with single mom Jenna Wade back on the original series. "When you have 13 years of story to draw upon," Metcalfe says, "it only makes sense that we would be inspired by what came before!"
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The Pentagon Papers Donald Rumsfeld Doesn't Want You to See
When Donald Rumsfeld released his memoir Known and Unknown, he made a big deal out of putting thousands of documents from his archives online in a sop to transparency and accuracy. But he didn't put them all online. And we've found some of the papers that Rumsfeld would have preferred to toss down the memory hole.
The Rumsfeld Papers web site, which launched earlier this month as a complement to the memoir, is a collection of Rumsfeld's memos, speeches, and other documents going back to his days as an undergraduate at Princeton in the 1950s. The idea, according to a researcher he hired for the project, "to get more information in people's hands" because "he really thinks the free flow of information is critical to a vibrant democracy." Rumsfeld himself compared the digital archive to a sort of legit version of Wikileaks.
More power to him! Except Rumsfeld, of course, only posted the information that he wanted to flow freely. The other stuff—like his callous attempts to keep John Walker Lindh from getting speedy trial, his effort to whitewash the Pentagon's detainee policy, and the friendly op-eds he tried to plant in newspapers—he left out. Luckily, we were able to get a hold of some of the papers from his days as defense secretary that Rumsfeld reviewed and deliberately withheld from the archive.
Rumsfeld used the Freedom of Information to gather some, but not all, of his papers in researching the book. So we filed a FOIA request with the Pentagon asking for everything Rumsfeld asked for, and everything he received. Last week, we got a partial response, including roughly 100 pages of memos he wrote in 2002 and 2003 that the Pentagon handed over to him. We checked against the Rumsfeld Papers, and almost none of them were there. None of the missing memos are particularly damning, but they do show Rumsfeld's cavalier attitude to the legality and reality of the war he was busily conjuring prior to 2003. (Click on the images to see larger, readable versions. Or go here to read the entire document.)
"I don't really care what happens to Walker at this stage." Here is Rumsfeld in January 2002 arguing that John Walker Lindh, an American citizen who had been wounded in battle and captured in Afghanistan three months before, should be sent to Guantanamo Bay instead of handed over to the Justice Department for a civilian trial—even though the military had concluded he couldn't provide any more intelligence and wanted to get rid of him. "[T]he military doesn't want him anymore," Rumsfeld wrote. "We could put him in Guantanamo Bay until we are absolutely sure we are not going to get anymore information about him or from him." A few hours later, in another memo, Rumsfeld acknowledged that Lindh should eventually go to the Justice Department, but said he still wanted to hold on to him a little longer and couldn't understand why everyone wanted Lindh to get a speedy trial: "I am curious to know what the rush is."
"Perfectly legal, proper, and historically correct." On January 16, 2002, Rumsfeld ordered Jim Haynes, the Pentagon's chief lawyer, to draw up a memo explaining "why we are holding people, what we do with them, how we are treating them, how we categorize them, and why it is perfectly legal, proper, and historically correct." If that sounds like an attempt to backwards-justify an ad hoc detainee policy that had bee crafted with zero regard to the law, that's because it is. Despite Rumsfeld's smug certainty, Haynes ginned up a memo explaining exactly what Rumsfeld asked him to, but he hit a little snag from then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales: "Gonzales is concerned about the assertions...that the United States has determined that the detainees are not entitled to POW status, because of diplomatic sensitivities, and because some disagree with the conclusion." Denying Afghan prisoners the protections of the Geneva Convention was a cornerstone of the Bush Administration's detainee policy; for Rumsfeld to encounter his first resistance to the notion after he had decided that the whole thing was perfectly legal is telling. It's as though no one had bothered to actually write any of it down, and think about the law, until after it had already been crafted. The "perfectly legal" interrogations at Guantanamo didn't even begin until January 2002, the same month Rumsfeld requested his legal whitewash. The White House quickly resolved the Geneva Convention issue by ignoring it, and within months interrogators at Gitmo were up and running with a routing based on the infliction of "physical and psychological pain."
"Keep referring to our 'plan.'" Here's a 2003 memo to Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice offering some propaganda advice in fighting the accurate impression that they invaded Iraq without considering the consequences: "With opponents saying we had no 'plan,' it is important that we keep referring to our 'plan.'" More important than actually developing a plan to turn things around. At the time Rumsfeld wrote that, U.S. military casualties in Iraq totaled 486, roughly ten percent of what they would eventually reach.
"He asks that we help get it placed." These two memos, written during the run-up to the invasion, show just how similar the campaign to gin up support for war resembled a routine political campaign within the Pentagon. In September 2002, Rumsfeld asked Doug Feith to draw up a collection of "the things Saddam Hussein and his administration have been saying" for distribution to "members on the hill who are friendly." In other words, oppo research. In December 2002, Rumsfeld wrote to Lawrence Di Rita and Torie Clarke, his principal flacks, that former ambassador to Iraq Bill Eagleton was willing to help spin the press on Rumsfeld's 1983 visit to Iraq, during which he was photographed shaking Hussein's hand. "Eagleton was the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad when I was there in the mid '80s," Rumsfeld wrote. "[He can] put duress on a lot of these articles that are being sent around." Eagleton credited the U.S. with trying to reign in Hussein's use of chemical weapons at the time, presenting Rumsfeld as a force for peace rather than a supplier of U.S. weaponry. Handwritten at the bottom of the memo is note to Clarke, apparently from an aide, saying Eagleton would write an op-ed defending Rumsfeld but needed "help gett[ing] it placed." It doesn't appear that Eagleton ever wrote his op-ed.
"Speed up the vetting." Here's Rumsfeld urging, in 2002, that the CIA and NSA "speed up the vetting" on Iraqi opposition groups Rumsfeld wanted to arm and train. This is presumably the Iraqi National Congress, led by Ahmed Chalabi, who, had been vetted more closely, wouldn't have succeeded in feeding so many lies about Iraqi WMDs into the White House and media.
"They have an audit problem." Another memo on an Iraqi opposition group—still presumably the Iraqi National Congress—informs Paul Wolfowitz that, even though "they have an audit problem and...seem unwilling to tell [the State Department] how they are spending the money," the group was still receiving $6 million a year in U.S. funds.
You can read the whole batch of memos Rumsfeld deemed unfit for publication here.
Rumsfeld's office didn't respond to questions about why these documents didn't make the cut. In his defense, Rumsfeld describes the library as a "work in progress" and says more documents will be added over time. But there's no obvious reason why these memos—all of which were already in electronic format and fully declassified—couldn't go up on the site along with thousands of contemporaneous records that were posted. And these are only some of the documents that Rumsfeld got from the Pentagon and didn't post—the office of the secretary of defense is still processing our request and will release more records soon.
[Gawker intern Lindsay Maharry contributed to this post. Photo of Rumsfeld via Getty]


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With the recent launch of Midway Arcade for the iPhone and iPad, retro gaming aficionados have fewer hits to wish for. The publisher joins Atari, Namco, Taito, Capcom and Sega on the list of publishers who've brought their arcade hits to the iOS App Store. Still, there are a handful of classics that haven't been revived yet. Here are 14 important arcade games that you still can't get on the iPhone or iPad.
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Ed Helms ("Andy Bernard"). One of the sweetest, most genuine people I've ever met. And he was hands-down the best-dressed guy that night!
It's a club called chatroom and there's a password to get in, which is actually password. So.
[from tanster: lol!]
Did you steal a plate of sushi and run out the door too?
[from tanster: darn! forgot.]
Want to thank you ONCE AGAIN Tanster for making me cry like a baby. I am a huge March Madness college hoops guy, got my pizza and wings going at home with a couple beers. MANLY NIGHT RIGHT, nope, pics of you with the greatest cast, crew, show in the history of television wrap party! Let's just end this comment with there's a tear in my beer:)
[from tanster: aww….]
It was a pleasure meeting you at the Office Convention here in good ol' 'Skratten' back in, gee, '07! Time flies.
Thank you for your outstanding work keeping fans of the show abreast of everything great and small that went on in front of the camera, behind the scenes, and everywhere else where 'The Office' made it's presence felt!
Good luck and continued success and thank you!
[ from tanster: awww, thank you, john. great to hear from you! :) ]
Thank you for the wonderful coverage, Tanster, and for running this site for all of these years. I am so pleased that you were included in the wrap party, you have done so much over the years to keep us Office fans in the know! :)
[ from tanster: thank you, violet! more good stuff to come. :) ]
Tanster, what a true and genuine ambassador you are for us all. So proud of you !!
I keep telling myself that it's not all over on May 16th…Tanster will have behind the scenes stuff she can finally show us after that! Gotta have something more to look forward to :)
Amazing pictures Tanster! I am so jealous. Thank you for posting these and everything thing you do to keep us diehard fans informed and entertained. I am hooked on this site. I visit it 3 or 4 times daily. Thanks again.
Ps. Will there be more video of the party to post in the future? I'd love to hear Daniels' speech.
I'm so happy for you that you were included because you were there for all of us. Those photos were so wonderful and you looked very beautiful. I can hardly wait for more stories of your party time with everyone in The Office.
Fantastic pictures!! Looks like a great party!! So much talent in the room!!
[from tanster: totally!]
Great pictures…especially of you and John.
These are great! It looks like an amazing night, it's wonderful that you were invited, Tanster. I love that you had that moment with Jenna, that must have been amazing. And it's a beautiful photo, my favourite I think. She shows real affection towards you in it.
[from tanster: thanks, jessie! jenna has always been so generous and gracious. love her.]
This is my first comment although I've looked at this website nearly every day for years: Tanster, I just wanted to compliment and thank you for all the hard work you've put in to keep this site going. It has really added to the "Office experience." Congrats!
Great job covering everything over the years, Jennie. Always fun to hear what goes on behind the scenes. You made us feel like we were there, too.
Tanster – I've been with you from season 1. Thank you for all the amazing work you've done on this website and much more to keep us up to date on all things office. We love you!!!!
[from tanster: aww thanks!]
Hi Tanster… have to chime in with those that said what a fantastic site you've have. This is where I looked when I wanted accurate information of the most amazing show ever on television. Maybe I'm wrong, I've never felt like or followed a show this way before, but something about THIS show, cast, crew anyone affiliated, even people running websites like this one and More Than That… there just seems to be something kinda magical, so wonderful about every one of them. (and YOU!) I cannot imagine that many if any other shows give their fans the type of insight and peeks into the show that those at The Office gave us. The cast seemed to stay INCREDIBLY humble throughout, unless I really read them wrong. I felt that people like John, Jenna and Rainn never got past the awe and gratefulness towards their fans.
I just HAVE to mention, the party invitation was cute BUT, those at TO, never being the best at, consistency? Not sure how to put it, but it says the party was 8 pm to 12 pm. That's one LONG party! ROFL! Just had to point that out.
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(CNN) -- Hispanics are described as the largest minority group in the United States, as a burgeoning force in the electorate and as an untapped frontier of the business market. Yet these descriptions belie the complexity of the 44 million people to whom they refer.
Susana Clar, with daughters Vanessa (left) and Virna (center), says the labels "Hispanic" and "Latino" are limiting.
Even the terms used to name them -- Hispanics, Hispanic-Americans, Latinos, Latino-Americans, the Spanish-surnamed -- too tightly package the people categorized by those definitions, some observers say.
"We are mixed and we are many things," said Phillip Rodriguez, a documentary filmmaker. Many of his films, such as "Los Angeles Now" and "Brown is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Dream," explore the experience and identity of Latinos in the United States.
Latinos "very often don't share language, don't share class circumstances, don't share education; it's very difficult to speak about them as one thing," he said.
From a census standpoint, being of Hispanic or Latino origin means a person identifies himself in one of four listed categories: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban or "other Spanish, Hispanic or Latino" origin. In the latter more open-ended category, respondents can write in specific origins, such as Salvadoran, Argentinean or Dominican.
According to a Pew Hispanic Center/Kaiser Family Foundation survey in 2002, that is how most Latinos choose to identify themselves. When asked which terms they would use first to describe themselves, 54 percent said they primarily identify themselves in terms of their or their parents' country of origin. About one quarter choose "Latino" or "Hispanic," and 21 percent chose "American." But the broader terms -- Latino, Hispanic -- are the ones tossed about when the media want to discuss a "trend among Latinos," or when a politician appeals to the "Hispanic vote."
The U.S. government came up with the term "Hispanic" in the 1970s to generally refer to people who could trace their origin to Spanish-speaking countries. The term "Latino" refers to origins from Latin America, which includes non-Spanish speaking countries like Brazil. The terms are often used interchangeably, which is a point of some contention in the wider community.
But do the terms carry meaning among the people to whom they refer, or are they merely governmental designations?
"That's the way you call our people," Susana Clar, 52, said of the terms. She and her family emigrated from Uruguay nearly two decades ago, and she works as a vice president in her daughter, Vanessa Di Palma's, Salt Lake City, Utah-based communications firm.
"Either you are Latino [or] Hispanic. I'm fine with that, but I think that we are so much more than that," Clar said.
Manuel Baez, 49, a native of the Dominican Republic who owns an insurance agency in Tampa, Florida, laughingly answered the question of how he identifies himself.
"Manuel or Manny," he said, adding, "We're being put together in this package and that's too hard," he said, stressing that he didn't like labels. He continued, "Dominican-American really represents who I am, instead of Dominican or Latino."
He never uses Hispanic to identify himself because "I am mixed," Baez said. "Hispanic doesn't go with me because I don't believe that Spain was the best thing for Latin America."
"For me...there is no such thing as a Latino identity," said Suzanne Oboler, professor of Puerto Rican and Latino studies at John Jay College at the City University of New York.
"There's certainly a cultural understanding... [And] a political identity," she said, noting that the many different groups will join on particular issues such as immigration and wages.
But she stressed that it was not a homogenous group. "Not all Latinos speak Spanish, for example. Not all Latinos are going to vote Democratic... All Latinos are not immigrants."
Others, such as Carl J. Kravetz, a longtime veteran of Hispanic marketing, said similarities among the different subsets of Latinos do show a Latino identity, one partly fused through the group's experience in the United States. Kravetz heads a Los Angeles-based Hispanic advertising agency called cruz/kravetz: IDEAS.
The Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies embarked on a Latino cultural identity project last year -- when Kravetz was the organization's chairman -- to better understand a group of consumers they felt could not be adequately reached through the traditional Spanish-language market.
There is "very definitely a Latino identity," Kravetz said. It is drawn along parallels in values and ways of thinking and regardless of country of origin, the group tends to "cluster" in a few areas, he said.
Those areas include interpersonal relationships (Latinos tend to emphasize family; individuality is not as important), perceptions of time and space (they have longer time horizons and have a relaxed sense of privacy), and spirituality (religion and spirituality have a strong influence on Latino life and perception of the world).
David Chitel, the founder of New Generation Latino Consortium, a group of advertising and media companies, also said there are definite cultural ties among Latinos, particularly between those born in the United States. So much so, he said, that he and others coined the term "new generation Latinos" to refer to them.
"We're talking about people that have grown up here in the U.S. in Latino households, most likely with their parents speaking Spanish at home, eating certain foods at home, certain values and traditions that are instilled in them, from music to religious beliefs to the importance of family, these sorts of things," Chitel said. "And it creates very much an identity that is Latino."
Chitel said this group of U.S.-born Latinos should be reached with culturally nuanced media, in the same way the African-American market functions.
Still, some chafe at the labels. "Every time it comes up it just kind of annoys me and makes me mad," Anna Rivas, of Boulder, Colorado, said of her background. Her parents emigrated from Mexico before she was born, but she said she's never identified with the Mexican culture. "On a regular basis I get asked where I'm from," she said.
"And I'll usually reply, 'My parents are from Mexico.' And I don't say, 'I'm Hispanic or Latino, or I'm from Mexico,' because I'm not." E-mail to a friend
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7a. The Slaying Of The Smith's Hound By Cuchulain, And The Reason He Is Called Cuchulain
Then it was that Cormac Conlongas son of Conchobar spake: "Again that little lad performed a second deed in the following year." "What deed was that?" asked Ailill.
"A goodly smith there was in the land of Ulster, Culann the Smith, by name. He made ready a feast for Conchobar and set out for Emain to invite him. He made known to him that only a few should come with him, that he should bring none but a true guest along, forasmuch as it was not a domain or lands of his own that he had, but the fruit of his two hands, his sledges and anvils, his fists and his tongs. Conchobar replied that only a few would go to him.
"Culann went back to the smithy to prepare and make ready meat and drink in readiness for the king. Conchobar sat in Emain till it was time to set out for the feast, till came the close of the day. The king put his fine, light travelling apparel about him. Conchobar came on to the fair-green, and he saw a thing that astounded him: Thrice fifty boys at one end of the green and a single boy at the other, and the single boy won the victory at the goal and at hurling from the thrice fifty boys. When it was at hole-play they were-- a game of hole that used to be played on the fair-green of Emain-- and it was their turn to drive and his to keep guard, he would catch the thrice fifty balls just outside of the hole, and not one went by him into the hole. When it was their turn to keep guard and his to drive, he would send the thrice fifty balls into the hole without fail, and the boys were unable to ward them off. When it was at tearing off each other's garments they played, he would strip off them their thrice fifty suits so that they were quite naked, and they were not able all of them to take as much as the brooch from his mantle. When it was at wrestling they were, he would throw those same thrice fifty boys to the ground under him, and they did not succeed all of them around him in lifting him up.
Conchobar looked with wonder at the little lad. "O, ye youths," cried Conchobar. "Hail to the land whence cometh the lad ye see, if the deeds of his manhood shall be such as are those of his boyhood! " "'Tis not just to speak thus," exclaimed Fergus; "e'en as the little lad grows, so will his deeds of manhood grow with him." "The little lad shall be called to us, that he may come with us to enjoy the feast to which we go." The little lad was summoned to Conchobar." Good, my lad," said Conchobar." Come thou with us to enjoy the feast whereto we go, for thou art a guest." "Nay, but I will not go," the little boy answered." How so?" asked Conchobar." Forasmuch as the boys have not yet had their fill of games and of sport, and I will not leave them till they have had enough play." "It is too long for us to await thee till then, little boy, and by no means shall we wait." "Go then before us," said the little boy," and I will follow after ye." "Thou knowest naught of the way, little boy," said Conchobar. "I will follow the trail of the company and of the horses and chariots."
"Thereafter Conchobar came to the house of Culann the Smith. The king was waited upon and all were shown honour, as befitted their rank and calling and privileges, nobility and gentle accomplishment. Straw and fresh rushes were spread out under them. They commenced to carouse and make merry. Culann inquired of Conchobar: "Hast thou, O king, appointed any to come after thee this night to this dûn?" "No, I appointed no one," replied Conchobar, for he had forgotten the little lad whom he had charged to come after him. "Why so?" asked Conchobar. "An excellent bloodhound have I, that was brought from Spain. When his dog-chain is loosed from him, no one dares approach the same cantred with him to make a course or a circuit, and he knows no one but myself. The power of hundreds is in him for strength."
Then spake Conchobar, "Let the dûn be opened for the ban-dog, that he may guard the cantred." The dog-chain is taken off the ban-dog, and he makes a swift round of the cantred. And he comes to the mound whereon he was wont to keep guard of the stead, and there he was, his head couched on his paws, and wild untameable, furious, savage, ferocious, ready for fight was the dog that was there.
"As for the boys: They were in Emain until the time came for them to disperse. Each of them went to the house of his father and mother, of his foster-mother and foster-father. Then the little lad went on the trail of the party, till he reached the house of Culann the Smith. He began to shorten the way as he went with his play-things. When he was nigh to the green of the fort wherein were Culann and Conchobar, he threw all his play-things before him except only the ball.
The watch-dog descried the lad and bayed at him, so that in all the countryside was heard the howl of the watch-hound. And not a division of feasting was what he was inclined to make of him, but to swallow him down at one gulp past the cavity of his chest and the width of his throat and the pipe of his breast. And the lad had not with him any means of defence, but he hurled an unerring cast of the ball, so that it passed through the gullet of the watch-dog's neck and carried the guts within him out through his back door, and he laid hold of the hound by the two legs and dashed him against a pillar-stone that was near him, so that every limb of him sprang apart, so that he broke into bits all over the ground.
Conchobar heard the yelp of the ban-dog. "Alas, O warriors" cried Conchobar; "in no good luck have we come to enjoy this feast." "How so?" asked all. "The little lad who has come to meet me, my sister's son, Setanta son of Sualtaim, is undone through the hound." As one man, arose all the renowned men of Ulster. Though a door of the hostel was thrown wide open, they all rushed in the other direction out over the palings of the fortress. But fast as they all got there, faster than all arrived Fergus, and he lifted the little lad from the ground on the slope of his shoulder and bore him into the presence of Conchobar.
And Culann came out, and he saw his slaughter-hound in many pieces. He felt his heart beating against his breast. Whereupon he went into the dûn. "Welcome thy coming, little lad," said Culann, "because of thy mother and father, but not welcome is thy coming for thine own sake. Yet would that I had not made a feast." "What hast thou against the lad?" queried Conchobar. "Not luckily for me hast thou come to quaff my ale and to eat my food; for my substance is now a wealth gone to waste, and my livelihood is a livelihood lost now after my dog. Good was the friend thou hast robbed me of, even my dog, in that he tended my herder and flocks and stock for me.
"Be not angered thereat, O Culann my master," said the little boy." It is no great matter, for I will pass a just judgement upon it." "What judgement thereon wilt thou pass, lad?" Conchobar asked. "If there is a whelp of the breed of that dog in Erin, he shall be reared by me till he be fit to do business as was his sire. Till then myself will be the hound to protect his flocks and his cattle and his land and even himself in the meanwhile.
"Well hast thou given judgement, little lad," said Conchobar. "In sooth, we ourselves could not give one that would be better," said Cathba. "Why should it not be from this that thou shouldst take the name Cuchulain, ('Wolfhound of Culann')?" "Nay, then," answered the lad; "dearer to me mine own name, Setanta son of Sualtaim." "Say not so, lad," Cathba continued; "for the men of Erin and Alba shall hear that name and the mouths of the men of Erin and Alba shall be full of that name!" "It pleaseth me so, whatever the name that is given me," quoth the little lad. Hence the famous name that stuck to him, namely Cuchulain, after he had killed the hound that was Culann's the Smith's.
"A little lad did that deed," added Cormac Conlongas son of Conchobar, "when he had completed six years after his birth, when he slew the watch-dog that hosts nor companies dared not approach in the same cantred. No need would there be of wonder or of surprise if he should come to the edge of the marches, if he should cut off the four-pronged fork, if he should slay one man or two men or three men or four men, now when his seventeen years are completed on the Cattle-driving of Cualnge!"


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Here's an odd one. I've been reading a film book, Hollywood: The Haunted Houseby Paul Mayersberg (later screenwriter of THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, CROUPIER, and director of 1986 film maudit CAPTIVE, with Ollie Reed), which is smartly written and a fascinating snapshot of a moment during the slow decline and fall of Hollywood.
Mayersburg writes approvingly of creepy troilist Darryl F Zanuck's return to 20th Century Fox, where he scored a hit with THE LONGEST DAY and attempted to help the ailing studio over the crisis caused by the failure of mega-budget flop-a-roo CLEOPATRA. Of course, this being Hollywood in the early '70s, disaster lurked around the corner and Zanuck's second reign would prove short, painful and financially unprofitable.
But what intrigued me is the statement that Zanuck put his son, shark-eyed go-getter Richard Zanuck, in charge of production since he himself was unable to enter the state of California for legal reasons.
I figure there has to be an interesting story behind THAT.
Unless it's a tax thing, but then why wouldn't Mayersberg say so?
Anybody know?


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Timeframe: 20072010 (Santana III)
Funded by: DLR Space Agency, Bonn (BMWi)
Funded by: DLR Space Agency, Bonn (BMWi)
Project Reference: 50 YB 0710
Partner: TU-Hamburg-Harburg, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Astrium GmbH, EPAK GmbH, RHe Microsystems GmbH.
Project goal: Development of new technologies for planar electronically steerable antennas for mobile applications, including satellite communications on ships, cars and airplanes. The project covers the research and development of innovative system architectures and new antenna concepts. A special focus of SANTANA is the creation of a flat electronically steerable antenna using digital beam forming at Ka band. Now in the third project phase, a new system architecture has been developed that can handle several thousand radiating elements in parallel. This innovative concept will be presented at the end of this project phase.
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This recipe is very rich – and worth it!
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons margarine
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
4 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups oats
2-1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 (14 ounces) can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together 1 cup margarine and the brown sugar. Beat in eggs and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Stir in the oats, flour and baking soda. Press 2/3 mixture onto the bottom of a greased 9 x 13-inch pan. In a saucepan, combine condensed milk, chocolate chips and remaining 2 tablespoons margarine. Cook, stirring constantly, over low heat until chocolate is melted. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
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I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. – (Philippians 1:9, NLT)
This is my prayer for you: that your love will grow more and more; that you will have knowledge and understanding with your love. – (Philippians 1:9, ERV)
My prayer for you is that you will overflow more and more with love for others, and at the same time keep on growing in spiritual knowledge and insight. – (Philippians 1:9, TLB)
Paul, in his letter to the church of Philippi, included this verse in the first portion of what was written. He passed along his desire to see their love grow for one another, as they continued to grow spiritually. Paul's prayer back then was timeless, and not limited to the original group of recipients. Our desire and prayer for one another ought to be quite similar, for as we grow in God's understanding and insight, the more our capacity to love expands. What we receive and know begins to overflow to those around us. May we ever seek the Lord's knowledge and understanding so that we continue growing greater in our capacity to love those around us.
Lord, this too I pray,
For each one of us;
That we'd learn to see,
Others like Jesus.
For God's love is kind,
Not conditional;
Grace is His go-to,
Love made tangible.
We're called to the same,
As we learn and grow;
Equipped as we seek,
So love overflows.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that You equip us and model for us all that You call us to do. Thank You that the very things that You ask of us are those that make Your heart visible to those around us. Forgive us for the times that we have allowed our egos or agendas to get in the way of what You intended to do both in us and through us. Teach us to listen, learn and act upon that which You ask of us so that we may continue to grow and allow love to overflow. Help us to truly understand how to love those around us as You call us to love. May many come into a lasting relationship with You. Be glorified O God, as we seek You to continue to grow in our understanding and go forth to love abundantly. Amen.
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Instead, by speaking the truth with love, let's grow in every way into Christ. – Ephesians 4:15


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Outlet shopping: Where to find the best deals
Outlet malls have become a mainstay in our society. Why? Because everyone loves a bargain.
Historically, outlet shops were part of a clothier's warehouse facility- a place where shoppers could visit and actually see the manufacturing process as well. Years ago, shops like these were few and far between, but now outlet malls are located near every major city across the country. There are currently more than 200 outlet centers nationwide.
While some of the factory shops have received flack over the years for creating clothing specifically for the discount locations, others are known for their treasures. Avid shoppers can find styles from the current season at up to 80% off retail.
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1. Tory Burch: Great accessories, shoes, handbags and more from the current season, at a minimum of 30% off retail
2. Ralph Lauren: Loads of classics like polo shirts, but one-off finds from higher-end labels within the brand
3. Michael Kors: This season's "it" bag at a fraction of the price; accessories and great wardrobe finds
4. Puma: Sports apparel, sneakers, inexpensive visors, shoes ... and a great place to park a restless husband
5. J. Crew: Prepsters' heaven, with brightly colored chinos, sweater sets, playful accessories and menswear
6. Kate Spade: A vividly hued and stimulating experience, with shoes, bags, jewelry and clothing
7. Swarovski: Sparkle queens will find all sorts of quality, affordable bling here; just do some comparison pricing to retail
8. Lululemon: A Mecca for yoga enthusiasts, where stylish athletic apparel is 25-40% off retail
9. Theory: This is the store that has what Oprah called "the perfect black pants," but at far, far less than the pricey retail cost
10. Coach: Notorious for great deals on classic and colorful leather handbags and accessories
Hot tips for shopping outlets
Outlet malls can seem overwhelming, but having a plan in place is important. Consumers should be familiar with current merchandise to be able to identify clothing that may be a few seasons old. Knowing retail prices before entering a store can help shoppers make better decisions.
Shoppers should examine clothing carefully and be sure that the pieces are well-made and not damaged. Be wary of the "Suggested Retail Price," as many times those items are the ones that are created just for the factory store and are a retailer's way of tricking you into thinking you are getting a better deal.
With just weeks to go before Christmas, planning a shopping strategy is a must. Many outlet stores will open at midnight on Nov. 29 in honor of Black Friday. Many of these shops will offer door-buster sales and unbeatable prices. If you are a member of AAA, many outlets also offer special coupon books that are worth the visit to Customer Service to pick up and save even more money.


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Scrum and Agile in a Fixed Price Project Environment
A lot of people have been writing that they like what they read and hear about Agile and Scrum. They then give presentations to their senior management about Agile and they seem to like what they read and hear too. However, the biggest stumbling block is fixed-cost environment. This is primarily true for almost all services companies [and these outnumber new product development companies by a margin – my guess]. An amount of funding is bid for at the start of a project. The problem is how to come to a number for these bids.
Here are a couple of approaches to tackle this [which work for me]:
Approach One : Try using Scrum as a management tool without changing your current bidding structure. Once the team has experience with Scrum, then you should have some metrics collected. The team(s) should have an idea about their velocity and more people involved at bidding stage [think of planning for a fixed-cost project as any other Scrum planning session], the team should be able to give a good estimate for the first 2-3 sprints, even for the full
project if that is what's required. More importantly, they will ask the Product Owner/ Manager/ Client very pertinent and relevant question about priority and testing to evaluate the story. The fixed costs are based on the knowledge you have at time of planning, so you can post these on the contract too. As time goes by, and your sprints commence, the requirements will change and so will your estimates. You can negotiate them using the existing negotiation framework. However, at the end of your budget [fixed price], the product should have these functions implemented that she wanted the most.
Approach Two : Try bidding low, not in price but what are you able to give to the customer as well as be aggressive on the date when you can launch the product. Most customers and product owners/ managers would give their right leg for the same. Try it on a low risk project/ low risk client [one where you have an option of trying]. If you are bidding low, chances of getting the bid right are higher [again that's just my guess]
You may also like to read Myths about Agile Software Development and Scrum, Agile Collaboration Schemas, Agile Contracts, Contracts in Agile, Business View, Learning and Evolution and Agile Estimating.
One Response to "Scrum and Agile in a Fixed Price Project Environment"
Thank you for your post.
I'm finding a suitable approach to apply Scrum methodology for our project development. Just some questions after reading this post, if you're interested in, we can discuss more.
In the first approach, I really like your way. But while you don't have any guarantee of project winning chance, just wonder if it would take us much time to carry out planning for the project? And it may not bring us profit.
For the second approach, I think it should be experimented more to have a exact evaluation.
Thanks again,


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Summer calls for striped socks paired with ridiculous shoes and new reading material.
Sometimes inspiration shows up in very unlikely places (like J. Crew catalogs). I loved the colors and handwritten type treatment in these.
Not that you can tell from these photos, but it was 106 degrees in Portland a few days ago. Totally unfathomable. My brother and I couldn't take it any longer (I was sitting in my office trying to do freelance while dripping with sweat!) so we drove downtown and wandered through air conditioned stores.
I was particularly impressed with the lighting set-up in Anthropologie.
I'm on a major promo kick at the moment. These postcards just arrived and I just did a prototype of my media kit in a book format. Tune in on Monday for the outcome!
I don't really know where this week went. Between juggling freelance and painting the dining room with my brother (cue disaster; it's a good thing we're ripping out the carpet because he kept dropping the roller and the floor is covered in paint!) the days have completely evaporated. I can't believe it's already August tomorrow….
How was your week?


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In Russia, Prison Sounds Awesome
Perhaps you've heard about the raging toga parties a prison outside of Moscow was holding? Now the prison stories out of Russia are getting even better. Moscow daily Moskovsky Komsomolets interviewed "Andrei," an ex-inmate who says that if you have money you can do whatever the hell you want in prison. The Independent has translated quotes from Andrei:
"We had whatever we wanted. I even ate sushi every day," he told the paper, to which he showed photographs that backed up his claims. "We had a great table laid on for us in the camp – sushi, champagne, whisky."
Not bad! Doing nine-years for embezzlement could be worse. And it gets better:
Andrei claimed he was allowed, for a fee, to live in the hotel used for conjugal visits, which is on the camp's grounds, and leave whenever he wanted so long as he returned at night. "I put up a bar, home cinema and brought back whoever I wanted," he said.
The newspaper printed a series of Andrei's photos from the camp, including one with him and a large plate of sushi rolls and one of him on his mountain bike.
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Getting Your Mustang Ready for Spring
Roar into warm weather with good preparation and preventative maintenance
We love to pamper our Mustangs. With great regularity, we roll them into the shade, wax and detail the exterior, wipe down the interior, check the fluids, and keep tire pressure in check. These are all important elements for keeping our Mustangs in good shape.
When they're put away for the winter, it's easy to forget they're out in the garage taking a long nap. As much as we think it's good for our Mustangs to sit, it's probably the worst thing we can do. When they sit all winter, the aging process accelerates. The longer they sit, the worse it becomes.
Your Mustang's powertrain likes to be hot, with all of its parts and fluids in motion. The more you drive it, the happier it becomes. A good run down the interstate at 60 mph is the perfect environment. The engine gets good and hot, oil circulates, piston rings dance happily along the cylinder walls, seals stay flexible, valves and guides glide smoothly, transmission seals and clutches function nicely, and brake drums and rotors stay rust free.
So what should you do when your Mustang has been sleeping all winter? Before you even start it this spring, be sure to change the oil and filter. When you change the oil, fill the pan with Mobil 1 synthetic 10W-30 oil. If you have a low-mileage original that's never been apart, stick with conventional engine oil, preferably Castrol 10W-30 or 10W-40. This isn't a product endorsement in either case, and these companies do not advertise with us. They are recommended lubricants based on years of experience with both brands, approaching 1 million miles of use with Mobil 1 in all kinds of Fords. Castrol is another outstanding engine oil that has done a good job for us with great consistency. We've also experienced success with Motorcraft oil filters on Fords, both old and new. When you experience success, why change?
For that first spring startup, you want the engine's internals ready before spinning the starter. It's a good idea to pour a tablespoon of engine oil into each cylinder before starting. Then crank the engine with the starter with all spark plugs removed to coat the cylinder walls. This is probably a good time to consider a tune-up, with new plugs and an ignition kit. If you aren't concerned with originality, consider installing a PerTronix Ignitor II electronic ignition retrofit kit inside your Autolite or Motorcraft distributor. It is the single, greatest modification you can make that no one sees, and will improve performance and make cold starting a lot easier.
What Happens When You Don't...
We stress proper spring prep because the stuff you don't see can hurt your engine. Scored bearings can result from just starting an engine without proper preparation after sitting idle over the winter. These bearings are scored (damaged) from being fired dry. When an engine sits for months without running, oil eventually leaves the bearings and cylinder walls. This is why we stress an oil and filter change, pouring a tablespoon of oil into each cylinder and priming the oiling system.
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The corporate hacks keep coming. The latest target, according to cyber security blogger Brian Krebs, is the beauty supply chain Sally Beauty, a retailer that draws customers from salons and other stylists. A new batch of 282,000 stolen debit and credit cards were posted for sale this week on underground marketplaces, and Krebs believes they have been used at one of Sally Beauty's 2,600 stores. It's the latest scoop from Krebs, who has managed to penetrate the criminal underground to break major stories including the Target and Neiman Marcus hacks. He used a similar technique to help triangulate the source of the Sally Beauty data breach, working with banks to buy back some of their compromised cards and analyze which stores had transactions on each account.
Krebs says the underground marketplaces offering the stolen Sally Beauty card data were also affiliated with the same young Ukrainian man whom he has linked to sales of data purloined from Target. Sally Beauty's spokeswoman Karen Fugate walked Krebs through the company's efforts to investigate a possible breach. She said the retailer first noticed suspicious activity around Feb. 24, but so far investigators, including Verizon Enterprise Solutions, have been unable to detect any hacks.
The highly publicized Target breach, coming in the middle of the key holiday shopping season, helped drag down store traffic this winter. But investors have rallied behind the company recently as Target moves to repair the damage caused by the hack. Today, Target announced an overhaul of its security operations, bringing in a new high-level executive to replace the outgoing head of information security, Beth Jacob, who resigned today. The rash of retail-related breaches has intensified the battle between banks and retailers over who should be responsible when a store is hacked. Just minutes before the Sally Beauty news broke, the National Retail Federation submitted a statement to the House asking Congress to resolve the feud in a "holistic fashion."


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Spanish Word for cutlet
English Word: cutlet
Spanish Word: escalopa, chuleta
Now you know how to say cutlet in Spanish. :-)
Spanish Word: escalopa, chuleta
Now you know how to say cutlet in Spanish. :-)
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The Stunning Natural Beauty of Bariloche (Bariloche, Argentina)
This place was absolutely gorgeous! We arrived in the evening on Thursday just when the sun was setting over the mountains and across the lake, breathtaking. We ended up meeting two girls who were taking a break from volunteering in Santiago when we were in Castro, so we stayed at the same hostel and went out for Mexican food our first night. Bariloche is technically in Patigonia, it was...
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Popular Phrase: learn spanish | Spanish language schools | Conjugated Verb: postergar - to delay, to pass over, to postpone [ click for full conjugation ]


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"After thirty, a body has a mind of it's own." ~ Bette Midler
As I touched upon briefly last week, I find myself in the position of needing to look for a new job, and probably a whole new career. I can't really go into too much detail about why that is right now, although I hope to be able to write about the experiences that have led me to this point further down the line. For now, suffice it to say that I'm basically right back at a square that looks remarkably like the one I landed on the day after my graduation. As the number of jobs available in my sector diminishes daily it seems to be time to pick a whole new ball game.
I think that this is supposed to terrify me. It certainly did last time I tried it. But I'm actually quite excited. The more I think about it, it even feels as though this is the natural point in my life to finally be deciding what I actually want to do with it.
I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was twenty-one and first needing to decide what direction to take. I hadn't really even worked out who I was by then. And looking at the options spread out before me was like standing on the edge of an ominous black hole with no real conception of what lay in wait for me once I'd stepped inside it.
I'd never had a grown-up job before, so I had no idea what professional life was really like. Had no idea what kind working culture I would be suited to, or what work I would be best at. All I had was the crippling insecurity that came with knowing how hard I'd found it trying to fit in anywhere else before.
It's no wonder I, and so many of my contemporaries made the wrong first, second, and even third choices. With so little hard information and no real experiences to inform our decisions the odds were stacked against us.
Fast forward ten years, however, and I can almost believe that the world really is my oyster.
I know who I am now. I have the confidence that comes along with the fact that now, most of the time, I genuinely know what I'm doing and what I'm talking about.
I'm no longer bluffing along blindly in the hope that no-one notices and fires me like I did in my first job. Right up to the point where they noticed. And fired me.
Before I take my next step I can make a properly informed decision. And I feel better placed to think about taking a few risks on doing what I really want because I'm able to formulate a realistic contingency plan for if things don't work out the way I've planned. I'm starting over with the self-assurance to pursue opportunities that my younger self considered out of her league.
And it's got me thinking that maybe all the pressure we put on young people to make concrete choices and to succeed right out of school, or college, or university is coming at the wrong time in their lives. I mean sure, there are some kids who decided when they were toddlers that they wanted to be doctors, or plumbers, or lawyers, or artists, and are well and truly set on their merry way to achieving those goals by the time they reach their late teens and early twenties.
But for those others. The ones who are left feeling as though the whole fate of their lives is resting on a decision that they're making as blindly as if their studies had been an extended period of spinning before they have to pin the tail on a donkey. Maybe we should be encouraging those kids to go out and gather more information, about themselves, about their potential choices, and about the world. To postpone their decisions about what they really want to do with their lives until those decisions can be more properly informed.
And maybe those of us whose time in education was long enough ago that it almost feels as if the memories happened to someone else, should be encouraged to pause to take stock and reassess our choices when we've reached a place of relatively greater stability. To make sure we didn't actually wander into someone else's dream life by mistake, instead of the one we wanted, and to be sure that we're heading boldly on the right course going into the next phase of our lives.


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Obamacare's critics justified: Our view
- Pre-Obamacare%2C sleazy insurance practices were placing millions of people in jeopardy.
- Some of the stories about people who are %22losing%22 coverage illustrate how true that is.
- Many people whose bankruptcies involve crushing health bills do have insurance%2C just not the kind that works.
Obamacare is starting to resemble a patient bleeding from self-inflicted wounds.
A month after launch, the online health exchanges where individuals are supposed to shop for insurance remain slow or unusable, except in states that opted to run their own marketplaces and did a more competent job than the administration.
As if that weren't trouble enough, critics are justifiably mocking President Obama for his repeated, untrue promise that if people liked their health plans, they could keep them. Oops. Hundreds of thousands of people are getting termination notices for plans that don't meet the strict new requirements of the Affordable Care Act. Presumably, not all those people disliked their plans.
There's no mystery about why Obama engaged in fiction. The Clinton administration's bid to overhaul health care failed largely because it would have disrupted coverage for millions of consumers satisfied with their employer-based or government plans. Obamacare doesn't terminate any of those plans, and Obama wanted to sound reassuring. But surely he knew that a major goal of his own law was to wipe out cheap coverage that was insurance in name only.
Now he can't seem to admit he overpromised and oversimplified. He and his aides compound their credibility problem by suggesting that people whose plans are being canceled "just shop around in the new marketplace" — a laughable impossibility while HealthCare.gov is plagued by bugs.
It's a mess, and no doubt not the last one that will be associated with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The law is sure to produce consequences, intended and unintended, that ripple throughout the nation's health care system.
But while the start-up problems and the president's airy advice are disappointing, it's important to keep them in perspective. Change this big is almost always disruptive and messy. In 2006, turbulence and confusion marked the early days of health overhaul in Massachusetts and the start of the Medicare prescription drug program; both are now operating relatively smoothly.
Amid today's hype about Obamacare "losers," many of whom actually stand to do well under the new law, context is important. The individual market for health insurance covers only about 5% of Americans. The roughly 80% of people with insurance from employers, or from government programs such as Medicare or Medicaid, don't need to buy coverage on the new exchanges. And the 15% who are uninsured, most notably people with pre-existing medical conditions, will have new access to affordable plans.
Nor is the pre-Obamacare status quo a viable option. Its runaway costs and sleazy insurance practices were placing increasing millions of people in jeopardy. In fact, some of the stories about people who are "losing" coverage illustrate how true that is.
Take the CBS News report on 56-year-old Dianne Barrette of Florida, who is outraged that, because of Obamacare, BlueCross is canceling her $54-a-month policy and offering her new coverage for $591 a month.
Follow-up reporting revealed that the policy Barrette wanted to keep was more of a discount plan than insurance. Had she gotten seriously ill, there was no coverage for hospitalization. So she could have been bankrupted despite her coverage, with her hospital costs passed along to others. In fact, three-quarters of people whose bankruptcies involve crushing health bills do have insurance, just not the kind that works.
That's changing, and it's about time. Given Barrette's income of less than $46,000 a year, it's almost certain she would qualify for subsidies that would let her buy the far stronger insurance Obamacare requires — with robust coverage for hospital care and a limit on out-of-pocket expenses — for less than BlueCross quoted her.
Already, though, there are cynical efforts in Congress to hold Obama to his promise by allowing people to keep — and insurers to peddle — substandard "insurance" like Barrette's. That would be a step backward.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A small group of protesters flew a large Confederate flag from the top of a parking garage next to a South Carolina arena hosting two men's NCAA Tournament games.
The group arrived Sunday morning, raising the flag from the back of a pickup truck . They planned to stay throughout the games and be on grounds as fans arrived at Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
Greenville police had the group move the truck about 50 feet away, citing safety concerns if the flag tipped.
Protesters said they wanted to make their presence known to the NCAA. The governing body lifted its ban against South Carolina holding championships in 2015.
By the early afternoon there were about a dozen protesters, many carrying Confederate flags, across the street from the arena's main entrance.
NCAA executive Dan Gavitt said in a statement the organization would not permit symbols compromising a safe environment on venue property the tournament controls. Other areas are under the city's jurisdiction, and the NCAA backed the city's efforts to manage actions concerning freedom of speech.
This regional has dealt with politically charged events the past six months. The NCAA originally placed the games in Greensboro, North Carolina. But it removed them from the state over its HB2 bill, which limits protections offered to LGBT people and relocating to Greenville.
In 2002, the NAACP held a march in downtown Greenville to protest the state flying the flag on Statehouse grounds during the NCAA regionals at the arena.
South Carolina coach Frank Martin was asked about the flag protest after his team's 88-81 victory over No. 2 Duke on Sunday night. He urged people not to judge all in South Carolina by the actions of some.
"Our state's progressive. Our state has incredible people (who are) about moving forward," he said. "But it's America. We have freedoms. People have freedoms to do whatever they want to do with themselves and their property."
Sunday's games featured North Carolina against Arkansas and Duke against South Carolina.
South Carolina was unable to host NCAA predetermined championships because of the organization's ban, which began in 2001. The NCAA regional in 2002 was allowed to remain in the state. That led the NAACP and others to turn out for a march to the arena steps in support of taking down the flag.
The issue was settled in 2015 after the massacre of nine black Charleston church goers by Dylann Roof, who was seen in pictures with the Confederate flag. State lawmakers voted to remove the flag in July 2015 and the NCAA lifted its sanctions. Roof was convicted of multiple murder counts and sentenced to death.
Hunter Meadows of Blue Ridge said the protesters did not think it fair that all Confederate flag supporters were blamed for Roof's actions.
"I didn't feel it was right when the flag came down," said Meadows, who said his ancestors fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. "We wanted to show the NCAA that we're still here."
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Rebecca Gredley
(Australian Associated Press)
Australia wants to know how it can get hugely profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google to pay more tax.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has called for submissions on a discussion paper to develop a "fairer and more sustainable tax system for the digitalised economy" to ensure a level playing field for businesses.
"The government remains concerned that some very profitable, highly digitalised companies pay very little tax in the countries in which they do business," he said in a statement on Tuesday.
Mr Frydenberg reaffirmed Australia's commitment to working with other nations through both the G20 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, to crack down on multinational tax avoidance.
The federal government has also written to Secretary-General of the OECD Angel Gurria, to offer assistance on developing an appropriate international tax system.
Facebook, Google and other large tech companies make significant amounts of money in Australia but employ very few people and use complex legal arrangements in a bid to pay tax overseas.
Submissions close November 30 via the Treasury website.