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1950s locker room prank behind S. Dakota slaying
MADISON, S.D. – From the moment 73-year-old Carl Ericsson rang his old high school classmate's doorbell in January, verified the man's identity and then shot him dead, the question had been what prompted him to confront a man he hadn't even spoken to in years.
The startling answer, a prosecutor said Friday, was a 1950s locker room humiliation that festered in Ericsson's mind for a half-century.
"He said that a jockstrap was put on his head," Kenneth Meyer said. "It's the only thing he's ever mentioned in talking to law enforcement."
Ericsson, who a psychiatrist said suffered from anxiety and depression for years, last month pleaded guilty but mentally ill to second-degree murder in the death of Norman Johnson.
"I guess it was from something that happened over 50 years ago," Ericsson told a judge then. "It was apparently in my subconscious."
He was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
Johnson was a track star at Madison High School, and Ericsson a student sports manager. The prosecutor said he had no other details about the locker room story, which never was corroborated.
"I know of no one that remembers it or acknowledges it other than Carl," Meyer said.
He also declined to say whether in Ericsson's telling, it was Johnson who put the jockstrap on his head.
Beth Ribstein, Johnson's youngest daughter, said she couldn't understand how someone could hold onto a grudge for so long.
"It was just goofing off in a locker room," Ribstein said, shaking her head.
Ribstein, 50, addressed the court before Ericsson was sentenced, and accused him of envying Johnson's success in the Madison community.
After high school, Johnson played college football, earned a bachelor's and a master's degree and returned to Madison High to teach and coach for more than 30 years.
More than 600 people — about one-sixth of Madison's population — attended Johnson's funeral, including one of Ericsson's family members. Johnson was well-liked and respected across the community, Ribstein said.
"I can't blame you for being jealous of dad," she said to Ericsson.
Ericsson himself was no failure.
He had lived in Wyoming before returning to South Dakota and settling in Watertown, a town nearly an hour north of Madison. He has been married to his wife, Deanna, for more than 44 years, is a North Dakota State University graduate and recently retired from a 25-year insurance career, his attorney, Scott Bratland, has said.
But Ericsson was not well. In an affidavit supporting Ericsson's change of plea, psychiatrist Robert Giebink wrote that Ericsson has a long history of anxiety problems and suffers from "severe and recurrent depression that is, for the most part, treatment resistant." Giebink said Ericsson was significantly depressed and suicidal when they first met in January.
"Thinking was irrational. Judgment was impaired," Giebink wrote. "He made the comment that he wished each night that he would not wake up in the morning."
Investigators first learned of a potential past incident between the two from Ericsson's brother, Madison attorney Dick Ericsson. Ericsson said in the arrest affidavit that "there was an incident where Norm Johnson did something to Carl."
Dick Ericsson has refused interview requests and declined comment again Friday. No published phone listing could be found Friday for Ericsson's wife.
In brief comments to the judge Friday, Carl Ericsson did not address the grudge but said he would like to tell Johnson's widow, Barb, that he was very sorry for what he had done.
"I just wish I could turn the calendar back," he said.
Ericsson pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in February and requested a jury trial. But Meyer and Bratland announced May 1 that a deal had been reached. The first-degree murder charge could have carried the death penalty if prosecutors chose to pursue it.
A defendant can be sentenced to the state penitentiary under South Dakota's "guilty but mentally ill" law. Treatment for the mental illness can be given in prison, or the inmate can be transferred to other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Social Services for treatment and then returned to the penitentiary to complete his or her sentence.
Johnson's oldest daughter, 52-year-old Terri Wiblemo, noted in court that Sunday is Father's Day, and each year her dad looked forward to enjoying his favorite meal of fried chicken, potato salad and rhubarb pie.
"We miss my dad very much," she said.


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Missouri State Highway Patrol to oversee security in Ferguson
FLORISSANT, Mo. — The Missouri State Highway Patrol will take over supervising security in the St. Louis suburb that's been the scene of violent protests since a police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager, the governor announced today.
Gov. Jay Nixon made the announcement that security will be overseen by Capt. Ron Johnson of the Highway Patrol after the local police response drew heavy criticism. Nixon said the change is intended to make sure "that we allow peaceful and appropriate protests, that we use force only when necessary, that we step back a little bit and let some of the energy be felt in this region appropriately."
Johnson, who is black, said he grew up in the community and "it means a lot to me personally that we break this cycle of violence."
"Ferguson will not be defined as a community that was torn apart by violence but will be known as a community that pulled together to overcome it," Nixon said at a news conference.
Crowds have gathered to protest since Saturday's shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. On Sunday night, some residents were seen looting stores, damaging buildings and vandalizing property. Since then, officers from multiple departments in riot gear and in military equipment have clashed nightly with protesters, who chant, "Hands up, don't shoot," a reference to witness accounts that Brown had his hands raised when he was shot.
Police have used tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse large crowds, including on Wednesday night when some people threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at officers.
Nixon, who has faced increasing criticism over suggestions he has not done enough to calm tensions, said local police will still be involved in providing security, but under state supervision.
Earlier today, President Barack Obama appealed for "peace and calm" on the streets.
"I know emotions are raw right now in Ferguson, and there are certainly passionate differences about what has happened," Obama said. "But let's remember that we're all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes the belief in equality under the law, respect for public order and the right to peaceful public protests."
Obama, speaking from the Massachusetts island where he's on a two-week vacation, said there was no excuse for excessive force by police in the aftermath of the shooting. He said he had asked the Justice Department and FBI to investigate the incident.
St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman said officers on Wednesday night tossed tear gas to disperse a large crowd of protesters after some threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at officers. More than 10 people were arrested in Ferguson.
"In talking to these guys, it is scary," Schellman said of officers on the front lines of the protest. "They hear gunshots going off, and they don't know where they're coming from."
Residents in Ferguson have complained about the police response that began soon after Brown's shooting with the use of dogs for crowd control — a tactic that for some evoked civil-rights protests from a half-century ago. The county police force took over, leading both the investigation of Brown's shooting and the subsequent attempts to keep the peace at the smaller city's request.
County Police Chief Jon Belmar said his officers have responded with "an incredible amount of restraint" as they've had rocks and bottles thrown at them, been shot at and had two dozen patrol vehicles destroyed.
The city and county are also under criticism for refusing to release the name of the officer who shot Brown, citing threats against that officer and others. The hacker group Anonymous released a name purported to be that of the officer today, but the Ferguson police chief said later that the name was incorrect.
Twitter quickly suspended the Anonymous account that posted the officer's purported identity and personal information. The site's code of conduct strictly forbids the publication of private and confidential information without permission.
Police have said Brown was shot after an officer encountered him and another man on the street. They say one of the men pushed the officer into his squad car, then physically assaulted him in the vehicle and struggled with the officer over the officer's weapon. At least one shot was fired inside the car. The struggle then spilled onto the street, where Brown was shot multiple times.
The officer involved was injured, with one side of his face swollen, Jackson said.
Dorian Johnson, who says he was with Brown when the shooting happened, has told a much different story. He has told reporters that the officer ordered them out of the street, then grabbed his friend's neck and tried to pull him into the car before brandishing his weapon and firing. He says Brown started to run and the officer pursued him, firing multiple times.
Johnson and another witness both say Brown was on the street with his hands raised when the officer fired at him repeatedly.
Associated Press writers Alan Scher Zagier and Jim Suhr and researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this story.

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Microsoft today patched 11 vulnerabilities, including one in Office that hackers will quickly exploit to launch drive-by attacks, said security experts.
As expected, Microsoft did not ship a fix for the flaw in Internet Explorer (IE) that criminals are currently using to hijack Windows PCs.
Of the 11 flaws addressed in three separate updates, only one was pegged as "critical," Microsoft's top ranking in its four-step scoring system. The remaining 10 were all marked "important," the second-highest rating.
"The one that gives me the heebie-jeebies this month is the Office update," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security. "The RTF vulnerability can be triggered simply by viewing a message in Outlook, so all you have to do is receive a [malicious] message. Then the game is over."
Storms was referring to MS10-087, a five-patch update for Office XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010 on Windows, and Office for Mac 2004, 2008 and 2011.
The only critical bug this month is in the RTF (rich text format) parser within Outlook, the e-mail client packaged with Office. "The vulnerability could be exploited when the specially crafted RTF e-mail message is previewed or opened in Outlook," Microsoft's advisory stated.
"That's a classic drive-by," echoed Amol Sarwate, manager of Qualys' vulnerabilities research lab.
Both Office 2007 and Office 2010, Microsoft's two newest suites, can be exploited using drive-by attacks launched against Outlook. Today's patch was the first critical update for Office 2010, which launched only in June.
Other researchers, including Microsoft's own security team, said that the RTF flaw was the most serious of the month's bugs, and urged users to patch pronto.
"This is one that requires no user interaction," said Jason Miller, the data and security team manager for Shavlik Technologies. "RTF is a common document format like PDF that's not blocked by firewalls or at the e-mail gateway. Once a [malformed] message hits the Outlook preview pane, remote code can be executed. You should patch this right away."
Because the RTF vulnerability doesn't require the user to do anything other than to preview a message, it will probably be exploited almost immediately by attackers, said Miller.
Microsoft patched a similar vulnerability in RTF document parsing in August with MS10-056. In that bulletin, the company labeled one of two RTF-related bugs as critical in Office 2007.
The MS10-087 update also included the first fix by Microsoft for the "DLL load hijacking" or "binary planting" vulnerability class that researchers disclosed last summer. Office 2007 and Office 2010 were both patched to protect users from DLL load hijacking attacks.
In mid-August, noted vulnerability researcher HD Moore announced that he'd uncovered scores of Windows applications that didn't call code libraries -- dubbed "dynamic-link library," or "DLL" -- using the full path name, but instead used only the file name, giving hackers an attack window if they were able to trick an application into loading a malicious file with the same name as a required DLL.
Other researchers named some Microsoft software, including Office 2007, as among those that could be exploited by rogue DLLs.
Since August, Microsoft has repeatedly declined to confirm which of its products were vulnerable to DLL load hijacking attacks, or when it would start patching them.
"For all the hoopla that came out about DLL load hijacking, this is being patched kind of quietly," said Storms.
In MS10-088, Microsoft also patched a pair of vulnerabilities in editions of PowerPoint included with Office XP and Office 2003.
The last of the three bulletins, MS10-089, fixed four flaws in the Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG), the virtual private networking (VPN) technology Microsoft acquired in 2006 when it bought the Israeli firm Whale Communications. Three of the bugs could be used by hackers to launch cross-site scripting attacks, said Microsoft.
Miller noted that Microsoft isn't delivering the UAG patches through its normal distribution channels of Windows Update, Microsoft Update or Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), but instead has told customers that they need to manually download the updates from the firm's Web site.
Apparently, Microsoft has not had time to thoroughly test the patch delivery process for the UAG vulnerabilities. "These updates will also be provided through our other standard distribution methods once testing has been completed to ensure distribution will be successful through these channels," Microsoft acknowledged in the MS10-089 bulletin.
"Administrators need to pay attention to this one," said Miller, because Microsoft has departed from its usual practice of pushing patches. "This is very unusual," he added.
In a reply to questions from Computerworld, Microsoft said that UAG does not support patching via Microsoft Update. "Plans are in progress to include Unified Access Gateway 2010 as one of the many Microsoft products that can be serviced via Microsoft Update," said Jerry Bryant, a group manager with the Microsoft Security Response Center.
Although the experts said they had not expected Microsoft to patch IE's newest vulnerability today, they agreed that the company's hand may be forced before Dec. 14, the next regularly-scheduled Patch Tuesday.
"Whether they patch it before then will depend on how many attacks pop up," said Miller.
"They'll wait and see if a critical mass of exploits appear," echoed Sarwate. "I think they have a fix ready, so if they see some movement [in the number of attacks], they'll probably release an out-of-band update."
While security companies have seen only a few attacks exploiting the IE vulnerability so far, some researchers have reported that the exploit has been added to a popular crimeware kit, a move that will probably boost the number of attacks and pressure Microsoft into shipping an emergency update.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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Blowing in the wind: How hidden flower features are crucial for bees
As gardeners get busy filling tubs and borders with colourful bedding plants, scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have discovered more about what makes flowers attractive to bees rather than humans. Published today in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, their research reveals that Velcro-like cells on plant petals play a crucial role in helping bees grip flowers especially when the wind gets up.
The study focuses on special cells found on the surface of petals, whose stunning structure is best seen under an electron microscope. According to lead author, Dr Beverley Glover: "Many of our common garden flowers have beautiful conical cells if you look closely roses have rounded conical petal cells while petunias have really long cells, giving petunia flowers an almost velvety appearance, particularly visible in the dark-coloured varieties."
Glover's group previously discovered that when offered snapdragons with conical cells and a mutant variety without these cells, bees prefer the former because the conical cells help them grip the flower. "It's a bit like Velcro, with the bee claws locking into the gaps between the cells," she explains.
Compared with many garden flowers, however, snapdragons have very complicated flowers; bees have to land on a vertical face and pull open a heavy lip to reach the nectar so Glover was not surprised that grip helps. But she wanted to discover how conical cells help bees visiting much simpler flowers.
"Many of our garden flowers like petunias, roses and poppies are very simple saucers with nectar in the bottom, so we wanted to find out why having conical cells to provide grip would be useful for bees landing on these flowers. We hypothesised that maybe the grip helped when the flowers blow in the wind."
Using two types of petunia, one with conical cells and a mutant line with flat cells, Glover let a group of bumblebees that had never seen petunias before forage in a large box containing both types of flower, and discovered they too preferred the conical-celled flowers.
They then devised a way of mimicking the way flowers move in the wind. "We used a lab shaking platform that we normally use to mix liquids, and put the flowers on that. As we increased the speed of shaking, mimicking increased wind speed, the bees increased their preference for the conical-celled flowers," she says.
The results, Glover says, give ecologists a deeper insight into the extraordinarily subtle interaction between plant and pollinator. "Nobody knew what these cells were for, and now we have a good answer that works for pretty much all flowers," she concludes. "It's is too easy to look at flowers from a human perspective, but when you put yourself into the bee's shoes you find hidden features of flowers can be crucial to foraging success."
More information: Katrina Alcorn, Heather Whitney and Beverley Glover (2012). 'Flower movement increases pollinator preference for flowers with better grip', doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02009.x is published in Functional Ecology on Tuesday 29 May 2012.
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Oh! Pears On 'World Cafe: Next'
Oh! Pears is the brainchild of Seattle native Corey Duncan, who started the 13-piece group after a split with his former band Pattern Is Movement. With two violas, a violin, two cellos, four guitars, two drum stations, a flute, a trumpet and plenty of voices, Oh! Pears creates robust layers of instrumentation and vocals on its latest EP, Fill Your Lungs.
Having just completed a European tour with TV on the Radio this summer, Oh! Pears also draws from influences such as Grizzly Bear, The Dirty Projectors and Beirut for a varied style of orchestral rock. Hear Oh! Pears' expansive and accessible sound in this week's installment of World Cafe: Next.
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Gray whale successfully defends calf from orca pod
The ocean's giants are in full-blown combat here in the Monterey Bay.
A mother gray whale successfully defended her calf from a pod of killer whales Sunday.
DRONE VIDEO: Watch Sunday's fascinating whale war
The mighty mother held her baby on her back and used her tail to fight while the orcas attacked.
"The gray whale mom was very good at protecting her calf," Nancy Black of Monterey Bay Whale Watch said.
"The gray whale mom took her calf and swam very fast to the beach shoreline and saved her calf," Black said. The calf was battered in the hour-long battle, but survived.
Gray whales retreat to shallower waters to escape from killer whales.
The same pod of nine orcas has attacked five calves since April 19. Black and other longtime local whale observers said the number of battles that unfolded over the past two weeks is "unprecedented."
"And we don't expect it to slow down any time soon," marine biologist Katlyn Taylor said.
Taylor also witnessed the mother defend her calf Sunday while on a Discovery Whale Watch boat.
"The killer whales took off at high speed to the west. It is very likely that another attack drew their attention away from the scene," Taylor said.
How are the humpbacks doing during these whale wars?
There are about 70 humpback whales in the Monterey Bay right now. Interestingly, some humpbacks charged into the middle of orca vs. gray whale attacks, blowing their spouts and making killer whales back off.
On Monday, a fight between humpbacks and the orcas was documented by marine biologist Kelsey Haines, of Princess Monterey Whale Watch.
"We saw about five six different humpback and very actively fighting the orcas," she said.
Within the huge splashes, Haines saw the humpbacks try to defend the target of an orca hunt.
Gray whale mother and baby pairs migrate north from Mexico each year. As they swim across the Monterey Bay, a deep sea canyon sets the scene for some epic battles.
Haines said the pod has killed six gray whale calves in the past seven days. Typically, there are only 10 kills documented in an entire season.
"And who knows how many more we've not been able to witness," she said.
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January 26, 2016
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In this episode, veterinarian Dr. Dennis Thomas will discuss the content of his remarkable book, Whole Pet Healing. In it, Dr. Thomas delves into the heart-to-heart link we share with our cherished animal companions, and how we can influence their healing - and they, ours. Dr. Thomas presents a case for holistic pet care backed by quantum science and explains the nature of the energetic body and the ways we can tap its extraordinary curative abilities, using techniques ranging from Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture to intention and intuition. He sheds light on our power to deliver love and healing to our dogs, cats, birds, and other pets via an enhanced human-animal connection - and how this benefit flows in both directions, helping us experience radiant love and well-being ourselves. Whole Pet Healing is a truly groundbreaking book about the depth of our relationship with our pets. Join us for an enlightening discussion that will change your view of the pets in your life.
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There are many ways that teams 'cheat' in F1 in order to get ahead. Like ordering your driver into a wall, or blocking a corner "by accident." The best 'cheats' don't break the rules, but bend them using technological loopholes. These were the ten most brilliant efforts.
10.) Renault's mass damper in 2005
Renault didn't want their cars to move too much vertically. c_beyer2 explains:
Renault first used it and other teams followed. It was basically a weight that was suspending by hydraulic springs in the nose (and some in the rear too) of the car that counteracted bouncing in the chassis. If the nose bounced up the weight would move down and vis versa, helping the car to stay planted and stable. It was banned as a "movable aerodynamic piece" even though it was mounted inside the the car and had no effect on aero...
Read more about Rob Marshall's genius invention here.
Suggested By: c_beyer2, Photo Credit: Getty Images
9.) McLaren's F-duct in 2010
The F-duct was simply brilliant. A tiny hole in front of the cockpit gave them superior straight line speed by channeling air to stall the rear wing. Using nonlinear fluidic effects to implement a logic switch for airflow was so smart that the FIA gave it a go as well creating what's known as DRS today.
Still, the original was way more interesting. Just click here to see why.
Suggested By: ThrillerWA09, Photo Credit: Getty Images
8.) BMW's turbo engines in 1986
Simply everybody was turning those turbos to eleven for qualifying, but only BMW could get close to 1,500 horsepower out of 1.5-liters. How? Well, since there were no engine limitations, it was okay to blow up engines after completing just four laps. Four very fast laps. They simply put a new one in for the race.
Let Jackie Stewart explain it to you while wearing a cowboy hat. Gotta love the eighties!
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7.) Tyrrell's weight-saving water-cooled brakes in 1984
Formula One cars all must meet a minimum weight in the name of safety and performance. Tyrrell figured out a way around the rule to make their car lighter and faster on the track.
Feel free to ask Sir Frank Williams or a certain Mr. Murray how to cheat with "water-cooled" brakes, but Tyrrell was at the peak of this game, as themanwithsauce points out:
Tyrrell's 1984 car actively racing underweight only to have the water injection system topped up with 2 gallons of water and 140 pounds of lead shot at the end to make minimum weight for the post-race inspection. A clever way to do it given that Tyrrell was not a huge economic power in F1 and their car was I believe one of the few non-turbo cars of the era.
Suggested By: themanwithsauce, Photo Credit: Getty Images
6.) Brawn's double diffuser in 2009
Formula 1's rules explicitly stated that a rear diffuse could only be so big, but Brawn F1 managed to contour the whole shape of the car to act like there was a second 'double decker' diffuser area stacked on top of the one the rules intended. Other teams protested it was illegal, but it was so effective that it practically secured Brawn the championship.
I you want to win a championship on a tight budget, this is how to do it:
- Use Honda's money to develop an innovative new car.
- Buy the team for one pound once the Japanese got fed up with Bernie and all.
- Win everything while the rest tries to catch up spending millions in the process.
Suggested By: Braking Bad, Photo Credit: Getty Images
5.) The Williams CVT in 1993
Not only did Williams use an active suspension, they also pioneered a continuously variable transmission to their advantage. Axel-Ripper knows why:
I believe they figured that you'd save almost a second of lap time with a CVT.
Why? First, those .050s shifts add up. Second you are ALWAYS in the correct gear to give the most available power at all times. Even with 7 or 8 speeds, you still wind up not being at 100% power at all times, something a CVT will do.
Suggested By: Axel-Ripper, Photo Credit: Getty Images
4.) The twin-chassis Lotus in 1981
DOWNFORCE, DOWNFORCE, DOWNFORCE! This is what Wikipedia has to say about the Lotus 88:
The 88 used an ingenious system of having a twin chassis, one inside the other. The inner chassis would hold the cockpit and would be independently sprung from the outer one, which was designed to take the pressures of the ground effects. The outer chassis did not have discernible wings, and was in effect one huge ground effect system, beginning just behind the nose of the car and extending all the way inside the rear wheels, thereby producing massive amounts of downforce.
Suggested By: Gino King, Photo Credit: Getty Images
3.) McLaren's rear brake in 1997
The original MP4/12 had one pedal too many. McLaren was eliminating understeer and wheel spin in any corner quite efficiently until photographer Darren Heath discovered the trick.
Suggested By: kevinbotz, Photo Credit: Getty Images
2.) Benetton's traction control in 1994
We don't know if Red Bull have given Vettel his fourth championship with the help of traction control or not, nor if Michael Schumacher started his winning career by cheating or not.
All we know is that the hardware was there, the software was there, and the team boss ordered his second driver into a wall 14 years later just to win a race.
Suggested By: Arch Duke Maxyenko, Great Job, Photo Credit: Getty Images
1.) Brabham's fan car in 1978
Designed by the legendary Gordon Murray, the Brabham BT46 was literally sucked to the ground by a huge fan stuck on the back of the car. Other drivers complained that the fan picked up stones off the track and shot them at following cars. It won its first race, and it would have won many more, but Brabham agreed to give up the technology after months of development for the sake of the sport.
The fan car was too effective, too out-of-the-box for its own good.
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The Colorado Rapids will be without designated player Shkelzen Gashi this weekend against D.C. United after the striker ran onto the field of play in the 95th minute Saturday to celebrate Marco Pappa's game-winning goal against the Los Angeles Galaxy.
The MLS Disciplinary Committee announced the suspension Thursday.
Gashi, 27, was the Rapids' splashy offseason acquisition to provide punch for an anemic offense. However, the two-time Swiss Super League Golden Boot winner will miss the first of Colorado's two nationally-televised games this season.
In addition, MLS said the Rapids' Albanian striker was fined an undisclosed amount.
Colorado takes on D.C. United at 3 p.m. Sunday at RFK Stadium on ESPN 2.
Shkelzen Gashi was suspended one game for entering the field of play during the 95th minute of Colorado's 1-0 win over LA Galaxy. (Provided by MLS)


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There's been lots of news this last week. Here are the big items:
Closing Soon
West Side Story and Promises, Promises have just announced that they will close on Broadway on January 2, after playing 748 and 291 performances, respectively. West Side Story has had quite the run – an admirable revival that played to positive reviews and celebrated great attendance throughout. Promises, Promises, which opened to very poor reviews, ended up pulling in many more patrons than anyone thought after Sean Penn's Tony Award appearance (and on-screen heterosexual kiss with his co-star, Kristin Chenoweth). The closing comes soon after announcements that Kate Finneran, who received much critical acclaim and a Tony Award for her performance in the show, would be departing the production.
Fela! will also be closing its doors on January 2, after a bit of celebrity casting in the role of Fela's mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Pop star Patti LaBelle has stepped into the role created by Lillias White and will continue until the show's final performance in January.
Casting Announcements
Elf has now been fully cast and will star Sebastian Arcelus (Jersey Boys, Wicked, Rent) opposite Amy Spanger (Rock of Ages, The Wedding Singer) alongside an ensemble of big name stars, including: Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, Mamma Mia!), Mark Jacoby (Sweeney Todd, Show Boat), George Wendt ("Cheers," Hairspray), Matthew Gumley (Addams Family), Valerie Wright (Steel Pier), Michael McCormick (Curtains) and Michael Mandell (Big River).
The biggest casting excitement is over that of the star-studded Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which includes the likes of de'Adre Aziza, Laura Benanti, Danny Burstein, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mary Beth Peil, Sherie Rene Scott and now Justin Guarini. If star power is worth anything, this show will bring in the crowds. Whether they'll recoup with the size of the checks they've got to be writing for this cast is another question altogether…
As to casting changes, American Idol winner Jordan Sparks has joined the cast of In the Heights and gave a stunning rendition of "Breathe" at this year's Broadway on Broadway. Constantine Maroulis left Broadway's Rock of Ages to tour with the production, and has been replaced with Broadway newcomer Joey Taranto. Ryan Jesse will be stepping into the role Sebastian Arcelus is vacating in Jersey Boys on October 12, but most everyone else appears to be staying put.
Show Previews
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Elf and Priscilla Queen of the Desert all had premiere performances this last week, the first on Good Morning America and the other two at this year's Broadway on Broadway. Check out the songs below. What do you think?
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Become a Producer
And then there's a new category of news – Ken Davenport is producing Godspell on Broadway and is inviting anyone with $1,000 to help him do so. It's what he's calling "the first ever community produced Broadway musical." Shares are available at $100 a pop, with a minimum purchase of 10. For more information or to become a producer, go to www.peopleofgodspell.com.


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02 April 2020. Hesdin, Pas de Calais, France.
Coronavirus - COVID-19 in Northern France.
Older locals head to the re-opened street market for their weekly supplies in a slight easing of lock down rules. For the first time since government restrictions came into force, the main market in Hesdin has been permitted to re-open. The historical town has hosted a usually vibrant and bustling market since the Middle Ages. With stall holders limited and many suffering huge financial losses, those selling food today were happy to be back to work despite the ongoing risks posed by coronavirus.
Shoppers, many wearing masks were mostly maintaining their social distancing with people happy to be out and able to meet and talk with other people. A lot of shoppers were elderly people who have been trapped in their homes for weeks. One shopper complained of 'la misère,' - the misery of this virus and being stuck in her home.
Anyone leaving their home must carry with them an 'attestation,' in a effect a self administered permit to allow them out of the house. If stopped by the police, one must produce a valid permit along with identification papers. Failure to do so is punishable with heavy fines. Movement in France has been heavily restricted by the government and today's market re-opening was a brief return to normalcy for many able to escape the confines of their homes.
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Update: my full review is here.
I finally had the chance to have some time alone with the new Leica M (2012 Typ 240) this evening at an event held by Leica Malaysia for the 2012 Maybank Photo Awards (you've got until the end of October to enter here; I'm serving as head judge). Advanced note: it was a pre-production prototype, with the SD card glued in because the image quality is nowhere near final. I'm told there will be some notable improvements between this version and the production version; it's mostly to do with the firmware. I won't be drawing any conclusions on image quality, because it's simply impossible to tell at this stage. Please excuse the crappy product shots, I was using my old iPhone 4.
And that brings me to the first point: the LCD is now enormous. And a huge improvement on the old one; it's now a 3″, VGA unit that's on par with the rest of the market – it makes an massive difference to the whole experience. You can judge sharpness on it; exposure is still of course best done with blinking highlights and histogram. To go with the new LCD is a new, cleaner menu system with functions grouped into sensible clusters; there are more of them, but the M remains a camera that you pick up and shoot. M9 shooters will of course be at home after they figure out what the extra two buttons do – the one on the front is for focus peaking; the one at the top is to record a movie.
The M now has live view, and a neat focus peaking feature that only activates when you turn the lens, and disappears with a half-press of the shutter or when you leave it for a while. I presume it works based on a sensor interacting with the rangefinder cam. The next thing you notice is the loss of the RF frameline illuminator window; it's now LED backlit in either red or pale blue-white; both are very visible. I actually miss the old frameline preview lever; perhaps I was one of the few. There isn't any more information in the finder, though.
There are four things that make the new M feel much more polished: firstly, the shutter release action has lost the notchiness of the M8 and M9; it's a light half press to lock exposure, and slightly more pressure with a clean break to exposure. The shutter itself is a lot quieter and lower vibration; it simply feels better damped. Secondly, the whole thing is just faster – shuttling around the large 24MP DNG files was fast, and there was no waiting for the camera to zoom in/ scroll around. It simply felt snappy; easily as fast as my D800E (!). Next up is selectable metering: you now have the old centerweight, but also spot and matrix; I didn't get a chance to test matrix extensively but it seems a lot less prone than the M9's meter to drastic underexposure when you have a bright point source in the frame. This is a good thing for night photographers; as is the new sensor. I could only judge off the rear LCD, but it appears that we've now gained some significant high ISO performance – 3200 looked pretty good, with 6400 being useable. Once again, without seeing actual files, this is far from conclusive.
Although the body seems larger than the M9, it's in fact identical in size to the old one. To accommodate that larger LCD and keep the lines intact, the scroll wheel around the d-pad has now moved to the top right corner, partially hiding behind a thumb rest. I was a bit skeptical about the utility of such a small nub, but it does feel much more secure in the hand than a regular M without a ThumbsUp – which is a good thing, because with the hotshoe serving double duty as an EVF port (didn't get to try this, unfortunately) you won't be able to attach any grip accessories. The prototype I handled also had the optional handgrip and wrist loop. I didn't particularly like the feel of the loop because it didn't feel comfortable – quite possible I had the wrong size installed for my hands – but the grip definitely improves handling. This one was a blank dummy, but I believe the final versions will have functional ports.
The big question of image quality, and utility of other functions like video will have to wait until I have a final production sample to review – I'm told that will be sometime around December. I'm looking forward to a number of things: firstly, shooting wides without having to use an accessory finder; trying out some macro work without the Visoflex and bellows, and finally, putting my favourite Zeiss ZF.2 2/28 Distagon on the front in a useable way thanks to a Nikon F-Leica M adaptor I've had lying around for some time.
All the signs are extremely positive that the M is a huge step forward from the outgoing model. Feel is an important thing; the M feels a bit more 'button-ey' than the M9-P, but also more polished. That said, I do like the simplicity of the M9-P – with the ever increasing number of features, I can now see the sense in keeping the product lines separate; the more features the camera has, the more settings and menus are going to be required to tame it. This does somewhat dilutes the photographic purity of the M – but then again, I'm not a videographer and I'm perfectly happy shooting 28/50 on my rangefinders. Now if only they'd do a Hammertone M-E with the new sensor…MT
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Chinese search newbie Jike takes on Baidu and Google
It's government-owned but promises 'natural' search
Chinese government-owned search engine Jike took another step towards competing with the big boys, Baidu and Google, a year after its launch by announcing advertising on the site.
Jike was set up by state mouthpiece the People's Daily and launched to great fanfare by former ping pong superstar Deng Yaping in June 2011.
Up until now it has been finding its feet, slowly expanding its search services beyond news to include web pages, images and video, launching an Android app and readying a commercial strategy.
It's looking to attract particularly small and medium sized firms to advertise on the site and plans to offer free advertising for up to 1,000 SMEs in the next three years, according to China Daily.
A Jike statement translated by the state-run paper notes that "Jike.com still has a long way to go compared with Baidu or Google", adding that its goal is to "transmit information in a fair and barrier-free manner" and "provide the most natural search results to its users".
Well, as natural as search in the People's Republic can be, given the massive government-imposed censorship of online content.
The site looks almost identical to market leader Baidu, even down to the blue and red colour scheme, and will have to do something pretty special to make a serious imprint on the market.
At the moment it doesn't really seem to have a USP, while its domestic rival - which has a market share of around 80 per cent - has expanded into the cloud storage, mobile and browser space.
Google, meanwhile, seems set on antagonising the authorities with a new feature designed to notify users when their searches are being blocked by the censors.
For the record, Jike roughly translates to "immediate" in Mandarin, although the name was apparently also chosen because it sounds a little bit like "geek".
Its owners at the People's Daily unfortunately don't seem to have checked the Urban Dictionary to see what other meanings are floating around.
These range from "bitchassness times four" to "One who rides shotgun in a vehicle and yells out verbal insults to pedestrians walking about", and a LOT worse in between. ®


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Portrait Paintings in Google Earth
Wednesday, 1st August 2007 by James Turnbull
Your average portrait painting isn't very large or, in the case of the Mona Lisa, it's surprisingly tiny. That said, we have found one or two giant portraits which are viewable from above.
To start, Anne Frank can be seen painted on the playground of Anne-Frank-Realschule, a German Six-form high school.
Still in Germany, we can see a likeness of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart painted in chalk outside Cologne Cathedral. I think someone should head down there and put some money in the guy's hat.
Our last portrait we have to admit isn't actually a portrait painting, but may well be a reproduction of one of Picasso's paintings through the medium of field.
I've found suggestion that the original is a portrait of Marie Therese Walter but that might be a red herring, as I can't find any portraits of her that even resemble the field.
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Sorry folks, I have a lot to say, but with Hurricane Sandy having rolled through my neighborhood on Monday night, I have limited Internet access and limited time.
We were very lucky. We still have electricity, and our home suffered only minor damage to its roof. We were not flooded.
My kids have been out of school all week, and my office in New York City remains closed. Even if it were to open, I have no earthly idea how I would get there with no trains or busses running and only one or two ways into the city via car. This is going to be interesting.
Both my kids have been real troopers, but the disruption in routine is harder on Ryan, and he's hanging in there. We spent one scary night (Monday) sleeping together in our living room out of fear of trees toppling on the house. Ryan went right to sleep and at least got a partial night's rest. I was very proud of him. The biggest problem right now is combatting boredom.
In the meantime, here are some shots of the aftermath from around my neighborhood. I hope that everyone in Sandy's path came through the storm safe and sound. If you are able, please consider a donation to the American Red Cross or another worthy relief organization.
Related articles
- Hurricane Sandy leaves surreal scenes in its wake (photoblog.nbcnews.com)
- Pictures Of New York City After Hurricane Sandy (warnewsupdates.blogspot.com)


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Here's a scary thought: Rennie Curran says one of his goals is "being more violent in my tackling".
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And with this, Jeff Owens will never have to buy another meal in the state of Georgia for the rest of his life.
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I'm not sure if this was said tongue-in-cheek or not (and don't forget that the earlier quote about Richt attributed to Junior turned out to be bogus), but if it's true, it's a little strange.
A reporter joked with Mark Richt before Thursday's news conference that Lane Kiffin had called Richt "a good buddy."
The compliment might have seemed a bit odd after Kiffin had reportedly made some less-than-kind statements about Richt's recruiting abilities earlier this year, but the Georgia coach at least attempted to appreciate the olive branch.
"Well, that's good," Rich said with a wry smile. "I need friends."
Maybe the Laner's starting to worry that none of the other kids will sit with him at SEC Media Days.
Filed under Don't Mess With Lane Kiffin
By now, I presume most of you have heard Senator Hatch's announcement that the Senate Judiciary's antitrust subcommittee will hold hearings on the BCS. (If you haven't, the Wiz has a good summary here.) While certainly upping the rhetorical ante with the usage of the term "un-American" – something previously reserved for the likes of smelly hippies opposed to the Iraq War and Michael Schiavo – makes it sound like the subcommittee will be loaded for bear, it's hard to take someone who says this…
Many of you may not be aware that when I was in high school, I had a promising future in football. But things didn't work out. BYU already had a half-back, and I couldn't seem to go to my left. Well, some things never change. I still don't go to the left.
But on a serious note, I am pleased that the Judiciary Committee is examining the competitive effects of the BCS because the notion of basic fairness is called into question by the current BCS system. I believe there is value to ensuring fairness in our society whenever we can. And while life may not be fair, the moment that we stop caring that it isn't, we chip away at the American dream.
… completely seriously.
And if you read Tony Barnhart's post on the subject yesterday, he makes a good point about antitrust and the BCS.
… And finally, the BCS doesn't violate antitrust law and the folks who will investigate the BCS already know that. If you've ever cracked a law book you know that.
Tom Rhodes of the Atlanta firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell is one of the best antitrust lawyers in the country. He could barely contain his amusement when I asked him a while back if the BCS violates antitrust law.
"If this was illegal somebody would have already sued them a long time ago," Rhodes said. "Tulane thought about suing in 2002 but they got their lawyers all cranked up and didn't file."
On the other hand, anybody who's ever cracked open a lawbook can also tell you that there's a nuisance value to any threatened legal action that has to be evaluated. Even if a lawsuit is a loser, it still means that the other side has to expend time, effort and money to defend it. Sometimes it really is much more cost effective to settle, even when you're in the right.
And the one comment from these Congressional clowns that should give the lords of the BCS pause for thought is this one.
"The BCS system leaves nearly half of all the teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year," a joint statement read.
That doesn't sound like something that can be bought off with a "plus-one" format. If Hatch and his cohorts on the subcommittee are serious about redistributing college football revenues from the haves to the have-nots – and I thought Obama was the only socialist in Washington! – that has the potential to set up a major clash with the BCS conferences. Bernie Machen's naivete aside, what SEC president, for example, is going to hand over some of that new TV money to the likes of San Diego State?
And, yes, if you think about it, that's where the fight is headed. If Congress favors a large scale postseason, that's bound to impact the regular season. CBS simply isn't going to fork over the same bucks to the SEC in a "December Madness" world.
How hard is government willing to push on this? It seems ludicrous to contemplate, but impossible to discount completely. One thing seems clear to me, and that is that if things get too far, the BCS conferences are far more likely to take their ball and go home than to roll over for the likes of Hatch. Maybe in the end we'll be looking at the birth of a college football super division of eighty or so schools out of this. That actually might be a very good thing. Even if Orrin Hatch never got the chance to crack the two-deep at dear old BYU.
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A top Senate Republican staffer says Gov. Jan Brewer broke a commitment that she would call lawmakers back to the Capitol for another special session so they could ask voters to end the Independent Redistricting Commission and put redistricting back in the hands of the Legislature.
Senate Majority Chief of Staff Wendy Baldo said Brewer made the commitment on Oct. 31, the day before the governor called a special session to remove Colleen Mathis as chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission in order to secure the 20 Senate votes needed for her removal.
Now, Baldo said, the governor's aides are telling legislative leaders that Brewer wants to see the Arizona Supreme Court's opinion on its reinstatement of Mathis before moving forward with another special session.
Several Republican senators backed Baldo's version, but the Governor's Office and the top House Republican say that's not what happened.
Brewer spokesman Matthew Benson "flatly" denied the accusation.
"The governor pledged to keep an open mind about the potential of a special session on Proposition 106 (the ballot measure that created the IRC), but at no time did she commit to carrying out a repeal," Benson said.
And House Speaker Andy Tobin, one of the meeting's participants, said the governor said she would consider asking lawmakers to call a special election for a repeal, but never pledged she would do so in exchange for the Senate supporting her removal of Mathis.
"The governor did not commit to a (ballot measure). She was open to it, but she did not commit," Tobin said.
Baldo told Arizona Capitol Times Brewer made the commitment during a conference call with GOP legislative leaders and their aides. She said then-Senate President Russell Pearce told Brewer – who was in New York promoting her book at the time – that he had 18 votes in the Senate to call a special election to repeal Prop. 106, the 2000 ballot referral that created the IRC.
Pearce reportedly told the governor that some Republican senators didn't want to remove Mathis – Brewer needed 20 of 21 Republican votes for a removal – without also putting Prop. 106 back to the ballot. He then said he needed Brewer's word that she would call them back into special session for the referral either the week of Thanksgiving or the week after, Baldo said.
"She said, 'I'd be inclined to do that, even if you don't have the votes,'" she said. "He said, 'Good, governor, that will help.'"
The pledge was less than ironclad, but Baldo said everyone in the room, including herself, interpreted it as a commitment. Pearce conveyed that pledge to his members, she said, who voted unanimously the next day to remove Mathis.
"We took it as her word," Baldo said.
However, Tobin disagreed and said he never took Brewer's statement as a promise that she would call another special session.
"She was keeping the doors open, as are we," he said.
Brewer's chief of staff, Eileen Klein, and the governor's general counsel, Joe Sciarrotta, were in the room, as were Baldo and Senate majority counsel Greg Jernigan, Baldo said.
Klein and Pearce did not return messages seeking comment.
Sen. Frank Antenori, R-Tucson, said he wouldn't have voted for Mathis' removal without a commitment from Brewer to reconvene the Legislature to put Prop. 106 back on the ballot, and added that he believes one or two other senators might have withheld their support as well. During the lead-up to the Nov. 1 special session that resulted in Mathis' ouster, Antenori was agitating for a ballot referral, saying it was too late to remove Mathis.
"I was promised by leadership at the time and several other folks that were in the room when the governor made the commitment that she was going to do it," Antenori said. "The way it was construed to me by Russell was that he told her he doesn't have the votes unless she does the special session."
Sen. Michele Reagan said Pearce told the caucus that Brewer had made a commitment on a special session for the Prop. 106 repeal, and that she believes that was the deciding factor in convincing a couple of senators to remove the chairwoman.
"There were a couple folks (for whom) that (pledge) was part of what they needed to see happen before they could commit," said Reagan, R-Scottsdale. "It was common knowledge that that was the deal that was made."
Sen. Sylvia Allen said Pearce told her that Brewer had pledged to bring lawmakers back to the Capitol for the repeal, and she was upset that the governor did not appear to be following through on it. "That's what we were told, that she had made that commitment," said Allen, R-Snowflake.
Sen. Lori Klein, R-Anthem, also said Pearce told her that he had a commitment from the governor, though she said she understood why Brewer hadn't yet called a special session. "Nobody wants to pull the trigger until we know what we're doing and what we can do to remedy this problem," Klein said.
Others, however, said they hadn't heard anything about a commitment from Brewer. Sen. Linda Gray, R-Glendale, said she doesn't recall Pearce saying anything about it.
Incoming Senate President Steve Pierce, R-Prescott, also said he couldn't "verify or deny" whether Pearce had told him or other members of the caucus about a pledge from the governor.
"It seems like it, but I don't remember. Russell had met with them and had been talking with them and I wasn't privy to any of that," said Pierce, who was elected Senate president the following week after Pearce lost his Nov. 8 recall election.
There are still 18 votes in the Senate to set a special election on Prop. 106 for Feb. 28, the day of Arizona's presidential preference election, Antenori said, and he believes there are at least 31 votes in the House. The measure would only need a simple majority.
The timing of the special election would ensure that far more Republicans go to the polls than Democrats – President Obama is not facing a Democratic challenger – which would likely boost the prospects of a ballot referral that even many Republicans believe voters would be hostile to.
Antenori said the governor now appears to be intentionally stalling so the Legislature will miss the Nov. 30 deadline it must meet to hold a special election on Feb. 28. Antenori said there is an "inherent desire" by Brewer to not refer Prop. 106 to the ballot.
"I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but it seems like now there's an attempt to wiggle out of that," he said. "I'm still holding out hope that she'll fulfill the commitment and have (a special session) maybe next week. There's still plenty of time to do it. We could come in on Monday and get it out of there by the end of the day on Nov. 30."
Benson said the lawmakers who are complaining about Brewer not yet calling them back to the Capitol for a Prop. 106 referral are unprepared for a special session. He compared it to some GOP legislators' criticism of Brewer for allegedly not doing her "due diligence" before calling them into a special session in June to extend unemployment benefits.
"Where's their language? Do they have a resolution? They've been all over the board in terms of whether they want to pursue a repeal or reforms. Do they have the votes? Talk about ready, fire, aim. I don't see how they have all their ducks in a row if they want the governor to call them into special session," he said.
If Brewer is hesitating on referring Prop. 106 to the ballot, recent polling could indicate why. Public Policy Polling, a North Carolina-based firm with Democratic ties, released poll results on Nov. 22 showing that only 31 percent of respondents approved of her removal of Mathis, while 43 percent opposed it.
And a poll commissioned by GOP legislative leaders last week showed just 36 percent of respondents supported overturning Prop. 106, according to a source familiar with the poll who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
While repealing the Independent Redistricting Commission wasn't popular among voters, Tobin said the poll he and other Republican leaders commissioned showed there is an appetite for making significant reforms to the system, including increasing the number of independents on the panel and bolstering rural representation.
"There are many of us who believe that repeal may be a high hurdle, but the opportunity for reform actually polled well," he said.
Baldo said Klein told Pierce and House and Senate GOP staff this week that the governor wants to wait to call a special session to once again remove Mathis – and to set a special election – until she finds out why the Arizona Supreme Court overturned the chairwoman's Nov. 1 ouster. Brewer and the Senate filed motions with the court on Nov. 21 asking the court for details on the ruling. If that request is denied, the court is not expected to issue its full opinion for six to eight weeks.
"I think they're all very disappointed," Baldo said of Senate Republicans.
Benson would not say definitively whether Brewer would wait for guidance from the court before calling a special session or attempting to remove Mathis again, but said getting that explanation was her "first priority."
"Once we receive that guidance, then the governor can make an informed decision about what path to pursue," he said.
Jim Small contributed to this story.


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6 NBA championships.
14 NBA All-Star Selections.
10 NBA scoring titles.
Ranked No. 1 by ESPN's Top 100 Athletes of the 20th century.
His all-time leading scoring title in one All-Star game history was recently broken by one Kobe Bryant.
Michael Jordan played the majority of his career for the Chicago Bulls before taking over a front office position with the Washington Wizards.
Have you heard of a TV show called Suits? It's my favourite drama to watch from the USA network right now and they've just started airing new episodes a couple of weeks ago. There are some minor spoilers in today's post from last week's plot.
Here it goes.
One of the leading characters, Harvey, is a senior partner in the fictional law firm Pearson-Hardman. He goes up to his boss Jessica, and says to her that he wants his name on the door. She then proceeds to tell Harvey a story about Michael Jordan because she knew this day would come.
Looking up from her desk, Jessica asks,"Harvey, what was Michael Jordan's record on the Bulls?"
"664 wins, 285 losses." Harvey confidently responded.
"More than twice as many wins and losses. Do you know what his record was in the front office?"
"185 wins to 291 losses. Almost twice as many losses as wins."
The lesson Jessica was getting to is that just because someone is a star on the court doesn't mean they can translate their skills off the court.
Next time someone asks to be an officer and you don't think they're quite ready for that role yet, tell them this story about Michael Jordan that Jessica relayed to Harvey. Some people are better off playing than they are managing.
Success on the meters doesn't always translate to success in a leadership role.


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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Joe Tighe, an IT Infrastructure Consultant, has an interesting essay up over at Circle ID. He takes a hard look at Rep. Ed Markey's proposed "Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009" and makes an argument that many of us here have made ad nauseum -- regulation involves trade-offs and unintended consequences:
One of the main problems with the proposed legislation is the lack of recognition of costs to provide internet services. Some applications, such as video are bandwidth hogs and require significantly greater network infrastructure and associated costs to deliver when compared to the network infrastructure costs to deliver email access. Under the proposed legislation, services providers would have to charge the low bandwidth users (casual browsers and email readers) more to offset the higher costs of the video users. One result of the proposed legislation would be less consumer choice and a hidden "bandwidth hog tax". Today, most service providers offer tiered products and pricing to consumers and businesses to account for the additional costs to deliver bandwidth intensive applications. You pay more if you use more under the tiered pricing model. These are not "discriminatory" practices. Rather, tiered pricing and application prioritization are sound business models delivering reliable, profitable product choices and unburdened internet ecommerce. Consumers and businesses currently have choices. The proposed legislation takes away choice and increases costs to consumers and businesses.
Quite right. Read the whole essay here.
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No no wait, it's a good kind of brain-tearing!
Welome to Nuclien, a new iPhone/iPad game from James Barnard. It will test you. It will push you. It may break you. And if you're like me, you'll get really, really into it.
Nuclien has a distinctive, stark visual style that reminds me of nothing so much as the Bit.Trip games. Here's how it works: As Barnard's chip soundtrack pumps, numbers pop up onto the screen. You have a set amount of time to tap the numbers—if you tap them in the right order, they'll clear, and you'll be on to the next set. Tap them in the wrong order and the timer takes a hit. If the timer runs out, it's game over, man.
The only thing you really have to keep straight is this: Squares count up. Circles count down.
That is, when numbers are in squares, you tap them in ascending order. When they're in circles, you tap them in descending order. This sounds simple. It is not.
It's all well and good when you're doing either squares or circles, but within the space of three levels the game is throwing mixed sets at you, and suddenly you have to identify both the highest and the lowest number of a set. Or, big numbers will vanish to reveal littler numbers, which re-set the way you had been counting. It is insane, and it will make you feel like you're going insane.
On top of that, the timer gets fierce in a hurry—you'll be racing the clock, hitting last-second photo finishes, and restarting levels ten or even twenty times. It may not sound fun, but believe it or not, it is.
It's partly because your brain may not feel meant to move this way, but it is possible to improve at the game, and to force the kind of cognition required to succeed. I'm well aware that all our brains work differently, and it could well be that this particularly sort of spatial/numerical reasoning is a weak point for me. But as I gradually gained mastery over the game and have been slowly working my way through it.
A quick note about Barnard's soundtrack, which is uniformly excellent and refreshingly creative. It's a kicky, chiptuney set of jams, but it's sometimes at odds with the game, or at least it was for me. It's such a visual/reasoning game that I found I had more success when I turned the music off and played using only visual cues. That may not be the case for everyone, and it's certainly more fun to play it with the music on, but for now anyway, I have to play it sans headphones. Hopefully soon I'll get good enough that I can play it with headphones, the way it was intended.
Gird your brain, take a deep breath, and go play it. Just remember:
Squares go up.
Circles go down.
Squares go up.
Circles go down.
Nuclien [App Store, $0.99 on Sale]


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Carmelo Anthony to opt out of New York Knicks contract
Carmelo Anthony will terminate the final year of his contract with the New York Knicks and become a free agent on July 1, a person familiar with the All-Star forward's decision told USA TODAY Sports.
The person requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the situation.
Anthony, who was scheduled to make $23.3 million next season, will have suitors lined up for his services — potentially the Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat along with, of course, the Knicks.
Teams can began talking to free agents on July 1 and agree to terms but a deal cannot be officially signed until July 10.
The Knicks can offer Anthony the longest contract and most money — five years, $130 million from New York compared to four years and about $96 million from others.
This is one of the biggest decisions in Anthony's career. Anthony, 30, gets the chance to pick the team he thinks has the best chance of winning a championship. This also likely is the last super lucrative contract he signs.
While the Knicks were hoping Anthony did not exercise his early termination option, it's not a surprise the seven-time All-Star wanted to explore free agency. He has never been a free agent since the Denver Nuggets drafted him No. 3 in the 2003 draft. He signed a rookie extension with the Nuggets in 2006 and another three-year extension when the Nuggets traded him to the Knicks in 2011.
Even though in 2011 Anthony wanted to return closer to his New York and Baltimore roots, the Knicks have not advanced past the Eastern Conference semifinals in his three-plus seasons in New York. The Knicks failed to make the playoffs this season/
Knicks owner James Dolan hired coaching legend Phil Jackson as team president to bring a championship to New York. Jackson. Jackson, who played for the last Knicks championship team in 1972-73, fired Mike Woodson as coach and recently hired Derek Fisher as the replacement.


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While President Obama is making reforms to the NSA's data collection programs, a new report says the agency's collection hasn't done anything to prevent another 9/11-like terror attack. CNN's Brianna Keilar reports.
CNN's Jim Sciutto reports on several reforms to the NSA and mass surveillance, which the White House is evaluating.
Edward Snowden's legal adviser discusses the possibility of his return to the United States.
The New York Times has called for clemency for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Our panel debates possible ways forward.
A young generation of NSA hackers may be intercepting computer shipments and creating "dummy" web pages to monitor users.
Senator Rand Paul tells Wolf Blitzer that a recommended overhaul of NSA data collection doesn't go far enough.
The NSA leaker Edward Snowden, stuck in Russia where he has been granted temporary political asylum, has offered a deal to Brazil: In exchange for assistance in fighting NSA surveillance, give me political asylum. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports.
Brian Todd examines claims that the NSA intercepted phone calls coming out of the Vatican.
Wolf talks about recent NSA leaks, espionage and trust among allies with the German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle.
A Washington Post report says the NSA tapped into overseas communications links for Yahoo and Google data centers.


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