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Another day, another euro for Nokia—on Thursday the company announced yet another set of disappointing earnings, sending its stock tumbling down around 11 percent as of this writing.
Despite the fact that Nokia sold more Lumia phones (5.6 million) in the first quarter of 2013 than it did in the last quarter of 2012 (4.4 million), investors are not convinced the company is back on the right track.
While the Finnish mobile giant reduced its first-quarter net loss in 2013 to €272 million ($357 million) compared to its staggering loss of €928 million ($1.2 billion) in the first quarter of 2012, the company also sold 32 percent fewer smartphones than it did in that quarter. Worse still, sales of its entry-level Asha phones fell by 46 percent, too.
"The shortfall is in the cheaper mobile phone side, where both volumes and average selling prices came lower than expected," said Hakan Wranne, analyst at Swedbank, in an interview with the BBC. "That is of course a bit worrying, since that has been their bread and butter business in the Devices and Services unit."
Other analysts worried that Nokia's window of opportunity to capitalize on its previous strong position in the basic phone market is rapidly narrowing.
"Even with Lumia doing better, we still care about [low-end phones]," said Nordea analyst Sami Sarkamies, in an interview with Reuters. "Nokia is still a second-tier player in smartphones, and it's only because of its position in mobile phones that it's still relevant."
As we've reported previously, it's been a rough few years, as the company came late to the smartphone party and has suffered as a result. Nokia's rating was downgraded in April 2012, which prompted the Finnish giant to sell its corporate headquarters (only to lease it back again) as a way to get some much-needed cash in early December 2012.


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Sisters Karen and Shellie Poole grew up in England's Essex County loving music. With aspirations to join the world of pop, the sisters began writing quirky, playful music and dubbed themselves Alisha's Attic, a reference to a fictional character they had imagined that was one-part Karen, one-part Shellie. A homemade demo of their Prince-meets-Kate Bush music was sent to the Mercury label and soon their dreams were becoming reality. Sessions with various producers were abandoned, but the talented duo marched on, writing and programming the foundation of their debut on their own. Dave Stewart was brought in as producer and with the finishing touches finished, Alisha Rules the World debuted the band in 1996. Promotional tours, opening for INXS, a slot on the Lilith Fair tour in America, and the successful "I Am, I Feel" single brought the sisters 600,000 in sales in the U.K. and an instant loyal fan base in the U.S. Released in 1998, their sophomore effort, Illumina, was more mature and supported by the faithful but failed to make much a dent in the charts minus the kickoff single, "The Incidentals," which reached a U.K. high of 13. The House We Built from 2001 saw the sisters getting deeper and more introspective with their writing. While it was a well-regarded release with critics and fans, Alisha's Attic soon fell victim to a large purge of Mercury's roster. The sisters decided to dissolve the band and carry on with solo careers. Karen went on to be a songwriter, writing hits for Kylie Minogue, Sugarbabes, and the Shapeshifters. Shellie changed the spelling of her name to Shelly to mark change and carried on as a solo act. She married Ally McErlaine from the Scottish band Texas in 2001 and released the album Hard Time for the Dreamer in 2005. Also in 2005 was a brief, live reunion of Alisha's Attic when Karen joined Shelly for two songs during a gig in Shepherd's Bush Green. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi
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The Rehnquist Court belongs to history. William H. Rehnquist will likely be seen as one of the three most influential chief justices in history, surpassed perhaps only by John Marshall and Earl Warren. Whether that influence was, on balance, benign will be one of history's great debates.
There will be little dispute that Rehnquist was a great leader and effective administrator of the Supreme Court and the national judiciary. He ran a tight ship in the great marble temple that houses the court. Every justice with whom I have spoken in recent years has noted that the court was functioning well under his leadership. Because of the power of his intellect—many law clerks thought him the smartest justice on a generally smart court—he quickly grasped the key issues in each of the complex and numerous cases that came before the court. As a consequence, he was able to lead the court's discussions in conference with efficiency and dispatch. Some colleagues thought he presided over these confidential sessions with too much efficiency, sometimes unduly limiting discussion. But all seemed to prefer his strong hand to the wandering, confused leadership of his predecessor Warren Burger. The effect of installing a new chief will be more profound than we can easily grasp. The new chief—if he or she comes from outside the court—will face a daunting task of leading such a powerful and experienced group.
Rehnquist could be gracious in social settings. Although I was of the "other party," he was warm and welcoming when I became acting solicitor general, inviting me over for tea and discussing how he thought the office could best be conducted. More recently, at a dinner at our home the night before I interviewed him publicly at Duke University Law School, he was relaxed and witty, discussing movies and popular culture with sparkle and, almost, verve. On the bench, he was another story—a most fearsome and incisive inquisitor. His questioning was sharp, and usually fair, but at times unnecessarily abusive to inexperienced advocates. He did not suffer fools gladly.
What is most important, however, is Rehnquist's jurisprudential legacy. In no small measure by the sheer power of his intellect, he made state sovereignty once again a central principle of American constitutional law. When serving as the court's most junior justice, he boldly authored a dramatic dissenting opinion in an otherwise routine case called Fry v. United States, a dissent joined by no other member of the court. In his first articulation of his theory of state sovereignty, he frankly stated that his position rested on "no explicit constitutional source" but rather on a "right inherent in [Ohio's] capacity as a State." As my Duke colleague Jefferson Powell noted in 1982, Rehnquist was "neither a strict constructionist nor a practitioner of judicial restraint."He sought, in Fry, to create a natural law of federalism, and over his lifetime, he essentially succeeded. The lonely position he took in 1973 had, by the end of his chief justiceship, become the law of the land.
History may judge favorably Rehnquist's success in asserting state's rights and the corresponding limits on national power. But on the Sunday morning of a week in which we have experienced profound embarrassment at our failure to rescue of tens of thousands of Americans in New Orleans, states' rights and limited national power seem particularly and starkly outmoded concepts.
The most profound and important aspect of Rehnquist's state sovereignty jurisprudence was his successful effort to minimize the power granted to the national government by the Civil War amendments. The 14th Amendment was designed to enable future Congresses to guarantee rights of Americans everywhere against their own state governments. I believe that Rehnquist's state-sovereignty jurisprudence unduly diminished the nationalist triumph at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and unjustifiably marginalized the impact of the great Civil War amendments. But few, if any, in our history have been as effective in this ongoing debate as was he.
Chief Justice Rehnquist's most significant jurisprudential contribution will not ultimately be states' rights, however, but the steps his court took firmly to entrench the supremacy of the judicial branch over the president, the Congress, and the states. The Rehnquist Court has not hesitated to place judicial limits on the executive branch's treatment of detainees, even in time of war, and robustly to defend freedom of speech. This court has been quick to set aside acts of Congress because it disagrees with the social judgments of the officials who had been elected by the people of the United States. Nor did the court hesitate to step in ahead of Congress to decide a disputed presidential election.
The potential impact of the court's repeated and confident assertions of judicial supremacy have been underappreciated, largely because the exercise of that authority by the Rehnquist Court has been controlled by the two justices close to the moderate center of American political life—Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor. If the court were to move sharply to the political left or right, that foundation of judicial supremacy and disregard for the judgment of other branches of government could lead to truly profound consequences.
Will William Rehnquist's exaltation of the judicial role turn out to be good for America and its people? As I noted here at the end of the chief's final term, it is too early to tell. Way too early.
Over more than a decade with no changes in composition, the Rehnquist Court became like a family. Most striking is how much the other justices—even those who often profoundly disagreed with him on the most critical issues to come before the court—seemed genuinely to like their friend Bill Rehnquist. There has been little public comment about his extraordinary physical struggles to finish the past term. The other justices, and all those who work at the court, were deeply moved at what they consider to be his truly heroic performance of duty. It was Rehnquist at his best.


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The Local History Museum, housed in the Old Court House since 1965, includes among its valuable items of postal history a set of the earliest Natal stamps as well as the Hurst Collection of Stamps and the Stephen B Rich Collection of Zululand stamps.
All mail came to Natal by ship and was sent by messenger from the Customs House at the Point to the town of D'Urban, the very first post office being the home of Mr Schonneberg at the beach end of Gardiner Street.
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before addition of north and south wings
In 1879, the Court House was loopholed (providing gaps for defensive action). In 1910 the building was taken over for municipal purposes - the Estates Department was housed there until 1961. There was a danger that the building might be demolished but fortunately it was saved from this fate. Renovation took place in 1965 and the following year (100 years after the original opening) the Old Court House became the home of the Local History Museum under the inspired and knowledgeable curatorship of Mrs Daphne Strutt.


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Like many people, I like the aesthetic of American Apparel clothes for kids--for babies in particular, it seems like the only place to get plain, bold-colored (meaning non-pastel) clothes not cluttered with pictures and logos for various things. The only problem is the price. I mean, $11.50 for a onesie? Are you shitting me? I love my kid, and you know, it's nice that they're American made and everything, but...no.
Then, when I was tooling around the internet looking for some plain T-shirts for our freezer paper stencil projects, I found this company called Rock Bottom T-shirts, and among many other things (I think they mostly deal in plain T-shirts and sweatshirts and things of that ilk) I noticed that they sell, huh, what do you know, plain, bright-colored onesies not cluttered with pictures or logos. I thought there was a pretty good chance that they would be made of that really rough, scratchy cotton, but I ordered a few to check them out and no, the cotton is nice and soft, good construction, washes up well, and the colors really are very bright. I would compare them favorably to those Gerber onesies that you can buy in a big five-pack. These shrink up the same way, but to my hand, they are softer. And the colors! Love the colors, want to lick them. For the price, I could not say no. At the time I ordered the onesies, they were actually having a sale, so they were even a full dollar cheaper than they are listed for now (and if you don't need a snap-bottom onesie, these short sleeved lap tees are a good alternative and also at a full dollar cheaper) which means I was able to get this big, admittedly indulgent pile for the price of two American Apparel onesies.
Will they hold up? The real question is, do they need to hold up? We're talking about baby clothes, after all. It's a race to the Goodwill bin anyway, so who cares?
(And yes, when I have things in different colors, I need to order them all ROY G. BIV--I can't help it, it's a disease.)
At Nina's third bili check in as many days, she's down to 13.8, and an ounce shy of her birth weight. We're going to keep letting her get some sun (our house is unfortunately a low-ceilinged ranch devoid of natural light in most rooms, but the kids' playroom was a sunroom in its former incarnatiom so we'll just hang out there as much as possible for the weekend. One more weight and bili check on Monday, after which poit, hopefully, we'll be released on our own recognizance.
(Gorgeous quilt a gift from the lovely and talented Ramona Bates, a plastic surgeon, prominent medical blogger, and quilt-maker extraordinaire. It must have taken a lot of hard work, thank you so much again!)


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I worked later than expected, and I'm too tired to write what I sort of had in mind. That said, I am not sufficiently tired to say (and to do so with some woids stolen from the Late, Great Rob Smith), Whoever released this beast into a Westfield, New Jersey pond ought to be dragged off and shot.
Don't give me any of that "Yo, Jimbo, it's just a baaaaaaaaby, and it wouldn't have lived through the winter" crap. Remember, little ones have a habit of becoming big ones, and this is one of a species known for surviving just fine, thank you, since pre-farookin'-historic times.
Like I said, da poipetrator ought to dragged off and shot and the baaaaaaaaby ought to be shipped off to Florida, where they have a strange affection for these loathsome creatures.


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Keri Russell's home burglarized, neighbor's home robbed, police say
New York City police say thieves broke into Keri Russell's Brooklyn home while she was sleeping and stole a laptop, jewelry and a purse.
The 37-year-old star of the FX show "The Americans" was asleep when she heard footsteps and voices at about 3 a.m. Wednesday. Police say she then found a window and front door open and her belongings missing. She called 911 but didn't see the intruders. It wasn't clear if anyone else was home at the time.
Soon after, a 70-year-old neighbor awoke to find a burglar inside and called 911 with a description. Police canvassed the area and arrested a father and son. Some of the stolen property was recovered.
Police say the two are being investigated as possible suspects in the burglary at Russell's home.


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News Release 08-093
Small Planet, Small Star
Newly discovered extrasolar planet is the smallest known and has smallest host star
June 2, 2008
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Astronomers have discovered an extrasolar planet only three times more massive than our own, the smallest yet observed orbiting a normal star. The star itself is not large, perhaps as little as one twentieth the mass of our Sun, suggesting to the research team that relatively common low-mass stars may present good candidates for hosting Earth-like planets.
Led by David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame, the international research team presents its findings in a press conference Monday, June 2, 2008, at 11:30 a.m. CDT at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in St. Louis, Mo.
"Our discovery indicates that that even the lowest mass stars can host planets," says Bennett. "No planets have previously been found to orbit stars with masses less than about 20 percent that of the Sun, but this finding indicates that even the smallest stars can host planets."
The astronomers used a technique called gravitational microlensing to find the planet, a method that can potentially find planets one-tenth the mass of our own.
The gravitational microlensing technique, which came from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, relies upon observations of stars that brighten when an object such as another star passes directly in front of them (relative to an observer, in this case on Earth). The gravity of the passing star acts as a lens, much like a giant magnifying glass. If a planet is orbiting the passing star, its presence is revealed in the way the background star brightens. A full explanation of the technique follows this release.
"This discovery demonstrates the sensitivity of the microlensing method for finding low-mass planets, and we are hoping to discover the first Earth-mass planet in the near future," said Bennett.
Using standard nomenclature, the star hosting the newly discovered planet is dubbed MOA-2007-BLG-192L with MOA indicating the observatory, 2007 designating the year the microlensing event occurred, BLG standing for bulge, 192 indicating the 192nd microlensing observation by MOA in that year and the L indicating the lens star as opposed to the background star further in the distance. The planet maintains the name but adds a letter designating it as an additional object in the star's solar system, so it is called MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb.
MOA-2007-BLG-192L resides 3,000 light years away and is classified as either a low-mass hydrogen burning star, one that sustains nuclear reactions in its core as our Sun does, or a brown dwarf, an object like a star yet without the mass to sustain nuclear reactions in its core. The researchers were unable to confirm which category the star fits into due to the nature of the observations and the margin of error.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Bennett has been one of the pioneers in using gravitational microlensing for detecting low mass planets. He has been working with collaborators around the world to find a number of planets that are ever closer in size to our own.
For the most recent discovery, the research collaborators took advantage of two international telescope collaborations: Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA), which includes Bennett, and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE).
Researchers in New Zealand made the initial measurements of the new planet and its star using the new MOA-II telescope at the Mt. John Observatory. The observatory's MOA-cam3 camera, in one observation, can capture an image of the sky 13 times larger than the area of the full moon. Researchers in Chile made follow-up observations using high angular resolution adaptive optics images at the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory. Data from the observations was analyzed by scientists around the world hailing from five continents.
"This discovery is very exciting because it implies Earth-mass planets can form around low-mass stars, which are very common," said Michael Briley, NSF astronomer and the officer who oversees Bennett's grant. "It is another important step in the search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of other stars, and it would not have been possible without the international collaboration of professional and amateur astronomers devoted to measuring these signals."
The team has written a paper about the new planet discovery and it has been accepted for publication in the Sept. 1, 2008, issue Astrophysical Journal. In addition to NSF support, Bennett is also funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
In addition to Bennett, the MOA group is made up of astronomers from Nagoya University, Konan University, Nagano National College of Technology, and Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautics in Japan, as well as Massey University, the University of Auckland, Mt. John Observatory, the University of Canterbury, and Victoria University in New Zealand. The OGLE group is comprised of astronomers from Warsaw University Observatory in Poland, the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, and the University of Cambridge in England. Additional collaborators who provided the VLT data and analysis are from the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, and the Observatoire de Paris in France, the European Southern Observatory in Chile, and Heidelberg University in Germany.
Notre Dame's press release is available at: http://newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=28128
Related NSF press releases, including animation, audio, and video, are linked below. NSF can provide video in betacamSP format upon request.
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A Newly Discovered Solar System Contains Scaled-Down Versions of Saturn and Jupiter
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David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame discusses the most recent extrasolar planet discovery.
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This animation explains gravitational microlensing.
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This animation explains how gravitational microlensing detects planets.
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What is Microlensing?
The gravitational microlensing technique is based on a concept first discussed by Albert Einstein in the early 20th century. When astronomers observe a star, the light waves generally travel straight from the star to the telescope. However, if another star passes directly in between, even if great distances separate the two, the gravity of the nearer object acts like a lens and magnifies the incoming light.
Telescopes cannot resolve the details of the magnified image, but they do notice a peak in light intensity, and when a planet is present around the closer star, the planet's gravity adds a small peak of its own. Additional planets reveal themselves by further altering the light signals.
Astronomers can use the light-peak features to determine how large an extrasolar planet is and how far away it is from its star. This method is 50 times more likely to detect planets of approximately twice the mass of Jupiter than it is to detect planets closer to the mass of Earth. However, even relatively tiny, low-mass objects can give a strong peak signal if alignment is perfect.
Of the nearly 300 extrasolar planets discovered to date, most were discovered using a different technique, known as the radial velocity method. This technique uses the fact that two objects orbiting each other will orbit about their common center of mass. If one object is very bright (the star) and the other is very dim (the planet), the presence of the planet is revealed by the apparent motion of the star about the common center of mass.
The motion can be detected by observing the spectrum of the star. Dark lines in the spectrum, resulting from various elements in the star's atmosphere, will appear to shift back and forth as a result of the star's motion. The back and forth motion, or wobble, reveals the size and orbit of the planet. While incredibly effective, existing technology utilizing this method has so far found mainly large, Jupiter-like planets or smaller planets that orbit too close to their host stars to harbor life, but research is ongoing.
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Since 1962, this specialized research hospital in Memphis has taken on the toughest pediatric cases. St. Jude not only offers top treatment, but also is renowned for cutting-edge research in serious illnesses. In 2010, a public survey conducted by Harris Interactive found the hospital to be the number one most trusted charity in the nation, and U.S. News & World Report named it the top children's cancer hospital for 2010-11.
How You Can Help Online, go to stjude.org, or call 800-822-6344.
Make-A-Wish Foundation
This national organization fulfills specific wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. Since its founding in 1980, the foundation has granted over 200,000 wishes — approximately one every 40 minutes. Some recent wishes include: introducing a girl to Justin Bieber; publishing and distributing a comic book written by a boy with leukemia; giving a pair of adaptive skis to a former ski champion who lost use of her legs; and sending a girl who has lived with cancer for three years to college.
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How You Can Help Online, go to wish.org, or call 800-722-9474.
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
Founded by actor Paul Newman in 1988, this camp in the Connecticut countryside hosts more than 1,000 sick children every summer, and serves approximately 15,000 children a year total through its weekend and hospital outreach programs. More than half of these children come from low-income families. Campers are given the opportunity to perform typical camp activities like swimming, hiking, boating, and fishing — all of which are designed to include every camper regardless of his or her illness (there is even a pool designed specifically for children with sickle cell anemia).
How You Can Help Online, go to holeinthewallgang.org, or call 203-772-0522.
Shriners Hospitals for Children
The first Shriners Hospital opened in 1922; today, young patients receive care at 22 centers, including six that specialize in burn or spinal-cord-injury treatment. The hospital also sponsors a number of burn awareness campaigns, such as Burn Awareness Week and the New England Walk for Burn Awareness, in order to educate parents, teachers, and students about safety measures that can prevent burn injuries.
How You Can Help Online, go to shrinershq.org, or call 800-241-4438.
Save The Children
For more than 90 years, Save The Children has helped children in crisis around the world. Right now, they are conducting relief efforts in Libya and Egypt in the wake of the recent revolutions. There are currently more than a million children who are endangered in western Libya, and Save the Children is working to provide them with basic humanitarian aid.
How You Can Help Online, go to savethechildren.org, or call 800-728-3843.


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It's hard to get every last milligram of every vitamin and mineral you need on a daily basis. If you're in the Boot Camp phase (1,200 calories per day) ofGood HousekeepingThe Supermarket Diet,
's go ahead and supplement your food with a multivitamin/mineral tablet, but be sure you don't overdo it.
Look for more of the following vitamins; they're hard to get enough of -- even with the most healthful diet:
- Vitamin K: The daily value for vitamin K is 120 mcg (micrograms), but research suggests that people need more to reduce the risk of hip fracture. A multi can help make up the difference.
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If you take an anticoagulant, ask your doctor how much supplemental vitamin K you can take, if any at all.
- Vitamin D: Our need for vitamin D increases as we get older, and since the skin is less able to synthesize vitamin D from sunlight as we age, it may help to take a multi with vitamin D. That's why men and women age 50 and older may benefit from a vitamin D supplement. For adults ages 51 to 70, the requirement is 400 IU (International Units) per day, and at age 71 and older, the need increases to 600 IU per day. People with dark skin are also at risk for vitamin D deficiency since they need to spend more time in the sun to synthesize it.
You may need to take a separate supplement or, better yet, ramp up your diet for more:
- Calcium and magnesium: These are bulky minerals, so you won't be able to pack much of them into a multi. Try to get what you need from your diet or take a separate mineral supplement if your doctor or dietitian advises you to do so.
Don't get too much of the following vitamins and minerals:
- Iron: Look for a maximum of 10 mg iron in your multi. Too much iron can put at risk people with a tendency for iron overload (a condition called hemochromatosis). Premenopausal women may need a bit more iron; about 18 mg is okay.
- Vitamin A: Your maximum intake from a supplement should be 4,000 IU (international units) of vitamin A. Too much can increase your risk of hip fracture, liver abnormalities, and birth defects.
- Vitamin E: Look for around 100 IU of vitamin E. Too much supplemental vitamin E is linked to heart failure.


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The All-Military Classic has come and gone. Everyone involved is relieved that the original plan to play two of the games on an aircraft carrier did not happen…
The Citadel split its two games, beating VMI 84-76 on Saturday and losing to Air Force 77-70 on Sunday. I was at the latter game, along with luminaries like Len Elmore, Paul Maguire, Harvey Schiller, and the biggest celebrity of them all, General. Bulldog basketball is a hot ticket this season.
Chuck Driesell on the win over VMI (video): Link
Also included in that video are brief interview segments with Mike Groselle and Marshall Harris III. The most interesting comment came from Groselle, after it was pointed out to him that the Bulldogs had played a lot of zone defense. Groselle:
Well, statistically we've charted it…and [determined that] it's our most successful defense.
Indeed. That explains in part why The Citadel never gave up on the zone against Air Force, a decision I would not be inclined to criticize despite the Falcons' hot second-half outside shooting. Considering its personnel, The Citadel probably won't fare too well playing man-to-man defense against most opponents. If a team gets hot from outside on a given night, the Bulldogs are just going to have to live with it.
Groselle had his 23rd career double-double against VMI, scoring 21 points and corralling 15 rebounds. He was his usual efficient self, only needing 11 shots to get those 21 points and committing just two turnovers.
Against the Keydets, Groselle got help from Harris (19 points, 9 assists) and freshman Matt Van Scyoc (17 points, 7 rebounds).
The Citadel had a 25% turnover rate against VMI, a statistic that usually would result in a loss. However, the Keydets' helter-skelter style leads to lots of turnovers and lots of points, usually for both teams, as VMI is not a strong defensive squad. VMI did not shoot well against The Citadel's 2-3 zone, particularly from inside the three-point line (13-31), and when the Keydets aren't shooting well, they aren't winning.
The turnover rate for the Bulldogs against Air Force was 27%, and The Citadel paid for it. Although the Bulldogs actually led the game at halftime (30-28), in my opinion that was the half that cost The Citadel the win. Air Force was within two points at the break despite shooting 9-27 from the field and being outrebounded 20-9.
The Falcons actually led for most of the first half, thanks to eleven Bulldog turnovers. Thirty possessions, and eleven gone to waste. Some of them led to easy baskets for Air Force, too.
The Citadel averaged 1.58 points per possession in the first half when a turnover was not committed. If you just cut the actual number of TOs in half, say from eleven to five, a similar rate of offensive success would have resulted in an additional nine points (9.47, actually, but I'm rounding down).
The Bulldogs could have been up double digits at intermission, and that may have allowed them to withstand Air Force's three-point barrage in the second half. The Falcons were 10 of 17 from beyond the arc in that stanza, including several from the left corner.
I wanted the uniformed cadet in charge of securing the baseline on that side to hit one of the shooters with her waistbelt, just to see if it would throw them off.
Lawrence Miller had a good game for the Bulldogs, making six of his nine three-point attempts for a career-high 20 points, and CJ. Bray played very well (14 points, 5 rebounds). However, after an impressive debut the day before, Van Scyoc had a nightmarish game against Air Force, one filled with turnovers. Freshmen are going to have games like that, especially early in the season.
I will say that in person, Van Scyoc looks like a player. He is a legit 6'6″ and no beanpole, either. He should be able to mix it up in the SoCon without any problems. Another freshman, Quinton Marshall, had some good moments on Sunday and also looks physically ready to play at the D-1 level.
Odds and ends:
– The Bulldogs entered the court prior to pregame introductions through a veil of smoke. At least, I think that was the idea.
– All-Military Classic t-shirts were given away at the game. After every other timeout, one of the game administrators would throw a bunch of them into the crowd. I didn't get one, but as it appeared the t-shirts were roughly the same size as my cellphone, it was probably just as well.
– VMI coach Duggar Baucom's "I'm really angry" walk/stalk to the locker room at halftime of the Army-VMI game was a thing of beauty.
Next up for the Bulldogs are two non-Division I teams, Montreat (on Wednesday night) and Union College of Kentucky (Saturday night). I'm not crazy about playing non-D1 schools, but I understand that the team needs to continue to develop confidence, and winning games is part of that development. It's also a chance for Chuck Driesell to tinker with his rotation and figure out who is going to be able to help the team once SoCon play rolls around.
As for the games themselves, I'm not too worried about them. I don't foresee a Francis Marion situation; we no longer live in Dennisian times. Montreat is coming off an 86-54 loss at Appalachian State, and I think the Bulldogs could be better than App State this season. The Cavaliers have also lost to Webber International and Ave Maria.
Union College (also called the Bulldogs) looks like it may be a little better than Montreat, as it is currently on a four-game winning streak. One of its victories came against Cincinnati Christian, a school The Citadel has faced on the hardwood before.
I fully expect The Citadel to be 3-1 when Radford comes to town on November 24. It better be 3-1.
A few pictures from the Air Force game…yes, they're terrible (though arguably not as bad as Air Force's uniforms):
Filed under: Basketball, The Citadel | Tagged: Air Force, All-Military Classic, Army, C.J. Bray, Chuck Driesell, Duggar Baucom, Marshall Harris III, Matt Van Scyoc, Mike Groselle, Quinton Marshall, The Citadel, VMI |


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Obama will be off to Copenhagen to help make the case for Chicago as host of the 2016 Olympics. Either the vote count looks very good or this is somewhat bold, since Obama might be publicly rebuffed when the winner is announced on Friday.
Per these two articles (and Ladbrokes) Chicago is the current favorite. Rio de Janeiro is a solid second as a poor but colorful venue emerging nation venue in a good time zone for the North American audience; Tokyo has plenty of money for a high-tech games but is too close to 2008 Beijing; and Madrid is too close to 2012 London (not to mention Barcelona 1992).


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There have been 26 asteroid impacts recorded from 2000 to 20013 by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization's infrasound detection network. Our friend Félix Pharand-Deschênes sent us this graphic showing the atmospheric impact points. It demonstrates that they're more common, and dangerous, than we would like to believe.
All these asteroids exploded too high in the atmosphere to cause major damage on the surface. The meteor in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, was the only one big and close enough to a population center to cause material damages and injuries. In this case the atmosphere absorbed about 500 kilotons (or 1.8 petajoules). For comparison, Little Boy unleashed 16 kilotons over Hiroshima.
The worse thing, however, is that these impacts weren't predicted. They caught us by surprise. Had they entered at the right angle, they could have taken out a city like New York.
According to the B612 Foundation—an organization working to protect Earth from asteroid strikes—the 26 explosions ranged from 1 to 600 kilotons. This video explains it all:


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Panning—Motion 101
Discovering the trick of panning to stop motion was one of the most thrilling stages of his early photography, Jim Richardson says. Get his pro tips.
Contributing editor Jim Richardson is a photojournalist recognized for his explorations of small-town life. His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine.
Panning is a photographic mind game. But a very cool mind game.
Technically, you should not be able to show motion in a still photograph. After all, the image on the paper is not moving; it's not going anywhere. But your mind takes the blurred image and tries to make sense out of it. "Aha!" it says. "That's not a blurry picture; that's a horse and wagon moving very fast. I get it."
Part of our delight in "reading" pictures is the I get it part.
Panning is nothing new. It's been around almost as long as photography itself. Originally it was forced on photographers who had no hope of capturing fast moving action without moving the camera in synch with their subjects. They simply lacked film that was fast enough to give them a fast shutter speed.
Racehorses and early motorcar races were enticing subjects at the turn of the century. Photographers discovered, to their delight, that they could get reasonably sharp images and that they really liked the streaked backgrounds resulting from swinging the camera along with their subject.
The joy of that discovery never seems to fade. Discovering this little trick was one of the most thrilling stages of my early photography. I must have been 13 or 14 years old, playing with my dad's old folding Ansco (he'd moved further up the photographic equipment ladder by then). The camera had one shutter speed: 1/50th of a second—hardly enough to stop a lazy butterfly. I had a beagle named Dixie who was like a streak of lightning when it came to chasing rabbits. No way to stop that motion with a 1/50th-of-a-second shutter speed.
Panning was the answer. I must have picked up the technique from one of the photography magazines of the day. I remember thinking: You move the camera during the picture? How's that going to work?
Slowly, the concept dawned on me. If I panned along with my racing Dixie—that is, if I moved the camera in perfect synchronized motion with her as she flew by—she would actually remain in almost exactly the same place in the picture! The rest of the image would be blurred, but since she was glued to one spot on the film she would be fairly sharp.
It worked! Dixie was sharp—well, my kind of sharp at that time—and the background was wonderfully blurred. When I raced out of the darkroom to show the picture to my parents, they offered a tone of incredulous awe. That tone of their voices was music to my ears. Later that summer, the same picture elicited similar accolades from the judge at the county fair. She gave me a blue ribbon (before moving on to judge the canned tomatoes).
I was hooked.
Almost every student photographer I've ever taught has the same aha! moment when they finally get the idea. But while the concept is simple, the execution has many ways of going wrong.
So here are a few tips to up your percentage of keepers. Panning is a percentage game. One in ten good shots is major league success. One in 100 is not out of the ordinary. But that one will be worth your trouble.
- Understand the basic concept. Panning works when you move the camera in perfect motion with the subject. It's not enough to just swing the camera from side to side. You have to move it in perfect synch with your subject.
- Choose the right subject. Generally (and up to a point) it is easier to pan with a fast-moving subject than a slow one. Sprinters running sideways to you are great examples. They are moving fast enough that you can pan smoothly with their motion, and they are running in a straight line. People walking are almost impossible; they are too slow to get much blur and it's difficult to pan smoothly. Football players are tough because they move erratically.
- Use Manual Exposure or maybe Shutter Priority metering. Whichever you choose, the object is the same. You don't want the shutter speed to change while you are shooting.
- Pick a good shutter speed. This is important; however, there is no "correct" shutter speed for panning. The longer the shutter speed, the more blurred the background will be. A long shutter speed will make your subject pop out from the background, and that is good. But the longer the shutter speed, the more difficult it is to get the subject reasonably sharp. It's a balancing act. As a starting point, let's go back to the example of the sprinters running across the picture. Try anything between 1/8 and 1/60 of a second. Beyond 1/8 of a second it's really tough to get sharp, but it can be very interesting. Above 1/60 of a second, the camera will probably stop too much action and ruin the effect. Except for low-flying jets at air shows. Then you might need 1/500 second, and that brings us to our next problem.
- Find the right background. The right background is almost as important as the right subject. The background must have some detail in order to produce the pleasing streaks you are looking for. That is why the jet is a bad subject for panning when it is up against a plain blue sky. Pan all you want but the sky will still be a featureless blue. Nothing will look as if it "moved." On the other hand, backgrounds with too much contrast will often make bad backgrounds for panning. Just one person in a white T-shirt can create an unsightly white blob in your photograph. Choose carefully.
- Use the viewfinder correctly. Your viewfinder is your friend when it comes to panning. The best trick is to find a focusing mark in your viewfinder and put it on your moving subject. Now, try to keep that point perfectly aligned with your subject. Crosshairs would be perfect, but we don't have them in camera viewfinders, so we have to make do with what we've got.
- Practice panning smoothly. Fluid, smooth motion is the name of the game. No jerking, no rushing, no hesitation. Stand with your body facing where you ideally want to shoot the picture, then rotate your shoulders to pick up your subject in the viewfinder. Start shooting before your subjects reach the ideal point; keep shooting after they pass that point. Follow through just like a good golfer. And practice. Good panning shooters literally go out and just practice their movements.
- Go for the Goldilocks Effect. The combination of subject motion, panning, and shutter speed is not a precise science. Don't be afraid to adjust to conditions.
- Try. Evaluate. Retry. Experiment! There is no right way, just infinite variables that can produce interesting results. For instance, if instead of "panning" you could rotate your camera at the same speed as the turning of the carnival Ferris wheel, you might get something cool. Now try to imagine other moving objects you can synch with. By the way, looking back, I see that I shot the horse and carriage in Spain at 1/6 sec at f/9. (And yes, I shot a lot of bad shots to get this one.)


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'Old' Penn Station
Statue of PRR President Alexander Cassatt
who first envisioned the Penn Station complex
One of the 1910 'Day & Night' Clocks
that adorned the entrances of Penn Station
A 1910 Penn Station Eagle as seen in 2010
Main Waiting Room, late-1950's
Concourse Clock, 1962
Concourse, late-1950's
As the 1900's ended its first decade, there were at the time about six general types of devices in use for the purpose of aiding an intending passenger to find his train after purchasing his ticket and checking his baggage. The most modern of these indicators in 1910 were the Hutchinson Indicators manufactured by the National Indicator Company (NIC) of New York. NIC had installed indicators at Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station in New York City, the Central RR of NJ Terminal in Jersey City, NJ, as well as Michigan Central Station in Detroit, the Great Northern Station in Minneapolis and Kansas City's Union Station.
The 'Day' half of the 'Day & Night' Clock statuary was unceremoniously
dumped in the NJ Meadowlands alongside the PRR mainline in 1965
Penn Station - Yesterday, 1963
Penn Station - Now
The result of this outcry was the creation of the New York City Landmarks Commission, the first of its kind in any city in the U.S. Multiple buildings and districts in New York have been preserved since, particularly Grand Central Terminal, New York's last surviving grand gateway.
The Preserved Train Indicator
|Oddly enough, at the "new" Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, in a walled-off baggage area near Track 1, there remains yet one other Train Indicator, although it has been compromised since it's original installation in 1910. It has only one "face", (originally there were four sides)...but remarkably, it survives to this day in its original location.
The eight-foot section at Whippany was saved in the midst of Penn Station's demolition in 1966 by the Morris County Central Railroad (a steam-powered excursion line operating out of Whippany, NJ in the 1960's). The artifact, with it's ornate, Romanesque crown, was subsequently placed in storage at Whippany. At the same time, the MCC also acquired and preserved the lower portion of another Indicator. Thirty years later in 1996, during the Sesquicentennial year of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Whippany Railway Museum finally erected the upper section of the Penn Station Indicator. (The surviving lower section was eventually given to a South Jersey collector of PRR items, who continues a long-term process to replicate a full-size Indicator) Today this genuine 1910 PRR artifact stands as a monument to this great citadel of transportation's past and gives Museum visitors but a glimpse of the grandeur and glory that was 'Old' Pennsylvania Station.


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The Boston Jail is situated in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Boston Jail is a part of the Boston Police Department. The Boston Police Department is the law enforcement agency that runs the Boston Jail 24-hours a day, 7 days a week.
The Boston Jail is a small medium-security holding pen for offenders who were arrested around the city. The Boston Jail does not house offenders for more than three days due to their size.
If an offender is not released back into the community, the offender will be sent off the local county correctional facility.
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That is a great question.
Since the police department is typically spread thin with patrolling the city, running the police department, and running the Boston Jail they do not have time to have their inmate search public.
So, if you need information, you will need to get in contact with the Boston Jail with your comments, questions, and concerns.
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The offenders will not be held in the Boston Jail long enough to be permitted to receive mail. The Boston Jail will return any inmate mail back to the sender. They will not forward the mail to the new facility, if they were transferred.
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It was previously stated that the offenders in the Boston Jail are only typically in the facility for about 3 days on average. During this time, the Boston Jail will attend to all the needs of offenders such as ensuring all offenders get their three meals, personal hygiene, and access to a telephone to call home.
Offenders in the Boston Jail have no need for cash.
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Offenders will have access to a telephone, which they can use to call home on. The telephone calls are not free for you to pick up with, so you will have to keep that in mind when the offender calls you from the Boston Jail. You will oversee paying for those fees.
Offenders could receive visits if they are still in a holding pen in the Boston Jail. Visits can be daily between the hours of 9 am to 9 pm.
You should always give the Boston Jail a call prior to leaving for the facility to ensure that the offender is still in the facility and has not been released or transferred to another facility.
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Nearby Jail/Prison
- Suffolk County – House of Corrections South Bay
- Brookline Jail
- Boston City Jail
- Cambridge City Jail
- Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Correctional Unit
- Mass Juvenile Detention – Suffolk
- Suffolk County – Nashua Street Jail
- Metropolitan Region – Department of Youth Services
- Somerville City Jail
- Boston Pre-Release Center
- Chelsea Jail
- Medford City Jail
- Everett Jail
- Watertown City Jail
- Winthrop Jail
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Moving History Along....Queenie's Coin
First I think you need interesting characters….people you can care about….people you are willing to invest a few minutes of your time with. Second, you need an interesting backstory…something going on in the background to move the story along …throw in a little true life to the characters and to the events of the back story and gee, you've got a genuine blockbuster.
That's what I look for when I teach history standards. In and of themselves the standards can be a little boring. Teaching in a "just the facts ma'm" kind of format will more often than not lead to a room full of students with glazed over eyes and off task behaviors…doodling, throwing spit balls, reading ahead in the text, repairing make-up, etc.
I look for the details of history that will enthrall others, old and young alike, the quirkiness of history, the stuff of history that make it alive and worth remembering.
The Civil War is a historical topic full of facts and my Georgia teaching standards are quite clear as to what students should know when they tackle that test each April. The Civil War is also a historical topic that is jam packed with great backstories and wonderful, real characters that can be used to motivate students to delve deeper into the content and analyze the context of the times and the motivation behind all of the parties involved.
The story of the CSS Hunley is interesting not just from a naval and technological viewpoint, but since I have to consider my audience and what will drag them kicking and screaming to the historical roundtable, the story of the Hunley is a gem for any serious teacher of history.
Last week for my wordless post I presented the front view of a gold coins that seem simple enough at first glance, but oh….what a story these gold coins have to tell. Homeschooling Granny made a correct assumption that the coins I pictured were indeed the coins given to George Dixon by his sweetheart Queenie Bennett as he left for war.
Highlighting literature is an important part of my teaching style and the book The Story of the H.L. Hunley and Queenie's Coin Edition 1. (True Story) by Fran Hawke and illustrated by Dan Nance (2004) is a wonderful story to share with history students from 9 to 90.
Throughout our great history men have gone off to serve our country and have received parting gifts from their loved ones. George Dixon was no different.
During the Civil War many soldiers received miniature paintings or photographs of their sweethearts, a handkerchief, scarf, or a tender love letter.
As he left in 1862 to join the 21st Alabama Regiment to serve under General P.G.T. Beauregard George Dixon's sweetheart, Queenie Bennett, handed him a $20 gold coin. George instantly placed the coin in his pocket where he carried it into war. Can't you see him sitting around a campfire at night pulling out the coin, turning it over and over in his fingers, thinking of Queenie….thinking of home?
What was given as a token of love actually served many more purposes. On April 6, 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh the coin actually stopped a bullet from injuring his leg. Dixon would have a lasting limp from the injury, but he survived because of the coin.
When he returned to Mobile he had the coin inscribed….Shiloh, April 6, 1862 My life preserver GED…and he continued to carry the coin in his pocket as a symbol of his love and devotion to Queenie as well as to commemorate his experience at Shiloh.
Dixon was unable to return to the battlefield, but continued to serve the Confederacy. He volunteered for another duty working with a new type of weapon the Confederacy was investigating….a new type of boat called a submarine. The Confederates hoped the submarines would allow them to bust the blockade that had blocked Charleston's harbor as well as several other Confederate harbors.
At this point Fran Hawke's book takes the interesting love story of Queenie and George and moves it to the sidelines a bit to tell the story of the Hunley. The text explains:
Learning and experimenting as they worked, the men molded iron plates into a sleek shape.
There would barely be room for eight or nine men, sitting on a wooden bench, turning the shaft that moved the propeller.
A long pole was affixed to the front of the submarine. It would hold an explosive, which would be jammed into the hull of an enemy ship.
Then, of course, as stories often do the plot returns to love. After a couple of disasterous tests George shared with Queenie that he was going to request command of the Hunley. He felt certain that the South should use submarines. He stifled any fear Queenie might have regarding his safety by reminding her he carried her gold coin.
George convinced Gen. Beauregard by telling him, "Sir, the Hunley is still in perfect working order. It only sank because the other crews made mistakes…The submarine is temperamental, but she is not a death trap."
Under George Dixon's command the Hunley was finally ready to attack Union ships in Charleston Harbor on February 17, 1864.
The book continues with a discussion regarding how the Hunley attacked the 200-foot-long USS Husatonic, and how the Hunley tore a hole in the side of the Union ship and sank her.
Sadly, however, the Hunley never returned to port.
The Confederacy tried to keep the loss of the Hunley secret, hoping that the Union would fear more attacks. Any hope of ending the Union blockade ended with the missing submarine and Queenie's George.
Over the years quite a few myths surrounded the Hunley and her disappearance.
PT Barnum, a late nineteenth-century circus owner, offered a reward of $100,000 to anyone who could find the Hunley for him to display in his traveling show.
More than 100 years after the Hunley disappeared, famed author, Clive Cussler, arrived in Charleston to begin his search for the submarine. He was a Civil War expert, an underwater archaeologist, and an author. "Shipwrecks," he liked to say, "are never where they are supposed to be." Cussler and his team kept looking, on an off for 15 years.
The Hunley was finally located on May 3, 1995 but it was not raised until August 8, 2000.
The book goes on to detail the painstaking efforts the folks at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston, South Carolina made to excavate the Hunley's secrets…the propeller shaft, the crew's bench, the men's clothes, pipes, pocketknives, canteens, a wallet, a brooch, and a corked bottle. The remains of the crew members were also gathered for a proper buriel.
But what of Queenie's gold coin?
Maria Jacobsen, the chief archaeologist sifted through the area where Lt. George Dixon would have sat. Through the mud she saw the glint of the lucky gold piece.
The coin is displayed today at the Hunley Exhibit at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center.
Fran Hawke's book is a perfect addition to any history classroom and can be used with any age group. The story motivates students to learn more about the submarine by drawing them into the tragic love story of Queenie and George, by strategically interchanging the back story and the historical record back and forth in such a way you are totally unaware that you are learning something.
You can see both sides of the coin here.
The website for Friends of the Hunley can be found here
A picture of Queenie and more information can be found here
6 comments:
Kind of like a rose...hmmm
- EHT said...
Yes, keeping a rose given to you by your sweetheart over a long extended time would be very similar to George hanging onto Queenie's coin. :)
- Magical Mystical Teacher said...
What a fascinating story! I want to read that book--and see the Hunley someday! Thanks, EHT.
- M-Dawg said...
What a cool story! Now I want to read more about it.
Using picture books or children's books to "hook" the kids is great. I do it with my 9th graders. I don't think it matters what age you are - they still like to be read to.
Thanks EHT! :=)
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Two wines tonight at a local hot spot, Rosso, in Santa Rosa. The first a Greco from San Francesco in Calabria, the Fata Morgana; old vines, bush trained, dry farmed and hand tended. The barkeep popped a fresh one and the flavors were crisp and chalky. A huge difference from the diffident Muscadet I'd had earlier with a dozen oysters @ Hog Island in the City. The only shape shifter was the French wine, heading south to the land of syrup. Post haste. The Greco was a perfect wine for the salad, a modified Caesar with the hot Calabrese chili sauce. It worked – and this is the gift Italy and the wines give to us: low expectations - high returns. No one would ever expect from a Greco what they would from a Muscadet. But the Greco was lithe, while the Muscadet was being wheeled into the ICU.
Not content with that, I ambled towards the Margherita. It's Sunday, after all, pizza night in Italy. But no beer, while watching the Chelsea game on the big screen. No, not a Rosso Piceno, which I was salivating over. Here I was in Sonoma, how about a local wine, to be true to trying things in their place. Nearby a woman was asking about a Grenache and the server pedaled a Montepulciano from the Marche on her. In keeping with the contrary nature of a Californian in exile, I asked her about the Quivira. "It's fab – try it." Same thing she said about the modified Caesar, The hair on my back was standing up but I wasn't paying attention. The earlier chair massage in the hotel had diverted my suspicion mechanism,. "Ok, let 'er rip, pour me a glass of the Dry Creek, dry farmed, organic, Grenache."
Dr. P. would have been in stink-heaven. The wine had a balmy garrigue and culatello pungency- not that I was bothered by that – I was hoping for a Lambrusco moment, in lieu of beer. The Grenache was almost too much of a statement – but this is California – the spawning ground of possibilities, even as it turns into a Ridley Scott third world vision.
Somewhere in the world it's always hula night.
written by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On the Wine Trail in Italy


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Former Arizona Prosecutor Leaked Gunwalking To Media
The former federal prosecutor for Arizona who resigned after a gunwalking scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious may now face ethical violations.
The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Justice said former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke leaked a memo to Fox News in 2011. The OIG said it believes Burke was trying to discredit a key whistleblower to the gunwalking operation.
The memo in question was one written by John Dodson, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent. In the memo, Dodson had recommended letting guns walk so they would be used in crimes, opening up the possibility of charging the gun buyers with federal crimes.
That practice was the same one being employed by agents in Fast and Furious. Dodson was a critic of that operation and later said he only wrote the memo to highlight what he saw as the erroneous thinking behind Fast and Furious. Burke was already under investigation when he leaked the memo.
He had told OIG investigators that he had earlier leaked information to The New York Times. Burke resigned as Arizona's U.S. Attorney in August 2011. The OIG is pushing for the former prosecutor to be investigated by ethics boards in the states where he is licensed to practice law.


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The cover got my attention with "the perfect post-Bond spy...move over, Jason Bourne" along with some reviews comparing this to John le Carré's style. Find out if I felt this novel and its spy live up to the hype.
Copyright: March 2012 (Thomas Dunne Books) 384 pgs
Series: 2nd in Daniel Marchant Thriller
Sensuality: mild, some adult references and innuendo
Mystery Sub-genre: Thriller
Main Characters: Daniel Marchant, British MI6 Agent
Setting: Modern day, London and Marrakesh
Obtained Through: Publisher for honest review
Daniel Marchant is undercover in Marrakesh to get a lead on Salim Dhar, who is the world's most wanted terrorist since he narrowly missed killing the U.S. president. the CIA is under pressure to hunt Salim down and they don't like Marchant on the case. Daniel Marchant, is a half brother of Salim and has the best chance of connecting with him, and maybe recruiting him to work for British intelligence.
It seems that Salim has partnering with Soviet intelligence to strike a blow against the West. In order to discover the truth, Marchant must allow himself to be recruited by Moscow with a promise of getting time with Salim. It's a role that will require him to play up his late father as traitor, an allegation that he fought long and hard to contradict. But now he must revive those old rumors and play a game of double or even triple crosses.
Daniel Marchant is an anti-hero who is conflicted with his family legacy. Although his father was Chief of MI6, he was widely suspected of being a KGB spy, and Daniel's recently discovered muslim half-brother from his father's affair is a terrorist. As a main character I had a hard time relating to him on even a basic level. For a spy he seemed to be stumbling through the entire story and I just didn't like him much. Daniel's boss is MI6 chief Marcus Fielding, a cold and calculating puppet-master trying to put Britain on top of the spy game at any cost. James Spiro, CIA Head of Clandestine Operations in Europe is a grade "A" donkey's behind and at times the U.S. has a less than pristine reputation because of Spiro. Apparently, Spiro was behind a kidnapping and water-boarding of Daniel in the previous book. One of Spiro's agents, Lakshmi Meena, is sent to Marrakesh to follow Daniel. Lakshmi could have been a great character but ended up just being a pawn of the men in charge. Her sole existence in the story is to be said pawn and doesn't seem to really have any meaning of her own.
The best setting descriptions are in Marrakesh and the surrounding Atlas Mountains. The low tech method of communication Salim Dhar uses is the Berber storytellers, and this really helped in also bringing the location to life. Even the Atlas Mountains seemed rich, but the British locales seemed flat in comparison.
The plot is not too far of a reach, but I would not classify it as a thriller (intrigue and suspense maybe). It relies heavily on the unknown. Was Daniel's father really a KGB spy rather than a strategic conduit for low level intel in exchange for a fat-cat KGB spy feeding Britain intel? Can Daniel turn Salim Dhar, or will Salim turn Daniel in the end? It was slow in several spots and it wasn't until the last third of the book that things started to keep my attention.
The climax had some tense moments making it suspenseful. The wrap-up was a bit abrupt but paves the way for more spy games with Daniel and his half brother still in the game. And as I have stated, Lakshmi is a convenient pawn, even in the wrap-up.
It is a good suspenseful espionage novel that utilizes the rivalry between British and American intelligence agencies well, but I don't agree with the comparisons to Jason Bourne or John le Carré's style.
Ratings: Good - A fun read with some flaws. Maybe read an excerpt before buying.


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I really don't understand this way of approaching security or why government agencies believe such warnings are helpful. I'm not saying we shouldn't be warned -- not at all. What I'm saying is that we shouldn't wait for a warning before we do something about security.
On Aug. 5, for instance, the FBI issued a warning that the same groups behind the unsuccessful Operations USA and Operation Israel attacks in May were planning a new DDoS attack. Their recommendations leave me perplexed. For instance, they suggest:
-- Implement backup and recovery plans. Really? We're supposed to wait for a warning on a 9/11 DDoS threat to know that we need to do this? We're in serious trouble if that's the case.
[ Yes, the National Security Agency snoops on cell phones. Here's how: NSA Vs. Your Smartphone: 5 Facts. ]
-- Scan and monitor emails for malware. Again, really? This is a recommendation? Is there truly anyone out there who still doesn't do this? And, if there is, they deserve whatever happens to their network, I say.
-- Outline DDoS mitigation strategies. Finally, something a bit more relevant. I know for a fact that most companies aren't putting much thought into DDoS defense strategy. Unfortunately, if you're hosting a server with public access, you've no choice but to consider this with the utmost seriousness. Just how seriously, you ask? Well, that all depends on how much of your company's livelihood hinges on that server.
It's an undeniable fact of our Internet life that these things will keep happening. No matter if it's 9/11 or OpUSA or a private single hacker from Russia or China. They'll continue to happen, and we all understand the need to be prepared.
DDoS preparedness is accomplished as a strategy. It involves hardware, large bandwidth, ISP collaboration, remote redundancy and other possible strategies for defense and elusion. This isn't anti-malware. You can't create a signature or heuristic against DDoS. This is sheer brute force in that you win if you're stronger, or if you're the more elusive, so they can't really get you.
And that's precisely why you need a strategy, and you need to plan it now. You can also purchase hardware -- but make it part of a strategy. Don't expect it to be the one and only thing you need to do to fend off a DDoS attack.


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We get the latest on the situation between Israel and Palestine with foreign policy experts Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. As Americans kick off the holiday shopping season, we explore the ethics in putting consumerism ahead of Thanksgiving. We get insight from...Read More


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TORONTO – Samsung is making a major move into the corporate smartphone market once dominated by BlackBerry.
The company behind the Galaxy line of smartphones — which along with Apple's iPhone dominates market share — announced the Samsung Knox on Monday.
The "enterprise mobile solution" is aimed at strengthening Samsung's position in the business to business market, which BlackBerry is also targeting with its new line of smartphones.
Enterprise customers who buy devices for many employees at a time helped BlackBerry become a symbol of mobile communications innovation and served as a stabilizing force as consumers turned to rival devices in droves.
Samsung says its Knox allows enterprise customers, who are mainly employees at government, corporate and private businesses, to use one device for both "work and play."
"The Knox solution allows employees to combine business and personal in a single device, without compromising the security that IT departments are looking for," it said in a release.
It's a direct challenge to Waterloo, Ont.,-based BlackBerry (TSX:BB), which is hoping its BlackBerry 10 enterprise service can help restore the troubled company to its former glory.
BlackBerry's new line of phones are also touted as a work-play solution — through its BlackBerry Balance feature — and the company has made other moves recently in an attempt to fend off enterprise market competitors.
"It's not surprising that competitors are scrambling to get into the enterprise," David J. Smith, BlackBerry's executive vice-president of mobile computing, said in an emailed statement.
"Whatever they announce, one thing won't change — the most secure mobile computing solution is a BlackBerry device running on a BlackBerry platform."
The company said more than 3,500 North American enterprises and government agencies are currently evaluating BlackBerry 10, more than double the number from one month ago. Many of those, BlackBerry added, are Fortune 500 companies "particularly excited about BlackBerry Balance."
Last month, BlackBerry opened up its secure enterprise service to other smartphones like the iPhone and Android devices for the first time in its history — recognizing the growing bring-your-own-device to work trend.
Just days before BlackBerry's move, an investment wing of Samsung Group — the leading Android smartphone maker — announced a "strategic investment" in Toronto-based Fixmo Inc., a software maker that specializes in data and device security.
On Monday, Fixmo announced that its "integrity solutions" will be embedded on Samsung devices.
Apple Inc. executives have also made a point of emphasizing the popularity of their iPad tablet with major banks and government agencies. The iPhone has also gained traction in the enterprise market, the executive said on the company's earnings call in January.
BlackBerry's stronghold on the enterprise market once seemed unbreakable, but a dramatic loss in marketshare in recent years and some embarrassing service outages have taken a toll.
The company's latest outage was last September, the same day that Apple's new iPhone launched in stores. The blackout affected users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for several hours.
In Oct. 2011, another outage lasted several days impacting millions of users globally.
Analysts are split on the future of BlackBerry and its prospects for sales success. Last week, Canaccord Genuity pulled back its expectations for the smartphone maker.
The investment firm said it believes that shipments of the new BlackBerry devices in February will total just 300,000 units, a far cry from its initial estimate of more than 1.75 million.
The Canadian smartphone pioneer revealed its new phones in late January at a splashy New York City event but is making them available in stages.
The U.S. release is expected to be in March, following the February launches of the Z10 touchscreen model in the United Kingdom and Canada.
The BlackBerry Q10, which will have the physical keypad beloved by the so-called CrackBerry crowd, follows in April.
It said Monday that Alicia Keys, the company's brand "ambassador," will kick off her North American tour on March 7 in Seattle, Wash., near the corporate home of Microsoft, followed by dates in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
In her new role, Keys will create music videos with the new BlackBerry phone at each stop on her upcoming tour.
Shares in BlackBerry closed Monday unchanged at $13.48 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.


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This image may look like a splatter of abstract digital artwork, but it's actually a map of the far side of the moon. A far cry from the monochromatic topical maps that we're used to seeing, these colorful maps instead document the surface reflectivity of geologic features throughout our solar system.
The different colors on these maps correspond to different features on the surfaces on the moons and planets throughout our solar system — such as basins, craters, mountains, and plains. They just serve as a different presentation of the data we've received from the various space missions, though they offer their own insights into the various rocky bodies orbiting our sun.
All images by SPL/Bancroft Media.
Artistic planetary maps: colourful images of our solar system [The Telegraph via Explore]
Map of Ganymede
Map of Mercury
Circular Map of the Moon, displaying that the far side (upper half) is more heavily cratered than the near side (lower half).
Map of the Martian Equator


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As the fight against patent trolls grinds on, stymied by government inability (or unwillingness) to fix a malfunctioning patent system, anti-troll advocates could take cold comfort this week from a particularly amusing press release.
Personal Audio has been demanding cash from broadcasters large and small for allegedly infringing its patent on delivering episodic online content—the so-called "podcasting patent." The company, which is based in Texas, makes no podcasts and does little but litigate against companies that it says are using its patents without a license, including major television video broadcasters like CBS and NBC.
But this week, the company announced that it wanted to drop a long-running case against comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla. Why? Well, he just isn't making that much money.
"When Personal Audio first began its litigation, it was under the impression that Carolla, the self-proclaimed largest podcaster in the world, as well as certain other podcasters, were making significant money from infringing Personal Audio's patents. After the parties completed discovery, however, it became clear this was not the case. As a result, Personal Audio began to offer dismissals from the case to the podcasting companies involved, rather than to litigate over the smaller amounts of money at issue."
Earlier this year, Personal Audio also dismissed podcasters Togi Net and How Stuff Works from the case.
Carolla, for his part, refused Personal Audio's offer to dismiss. A statement, which appears on the page he's using to fundraise to defend the lawsuit, says that although it's unable to comment on the proceedings, Carolla's podcasting company Lotzi Digital Inc. "intends to continue to vigorously defend Personal Audio's lawsuit and to pursue its counterclaims against Personal Audio, which include a request that the Personal Audio patent be invalidated so that Personal Audio cannot sue other podcasters for infringement."
As Charles Duan, director of the Patent Reform Project at Public Knowledge, wrote, if the case is simply dismissed, then the patent cannot be found by the courts to be invalid. Carolla "is fighting on behalf of the whole public, everyone who makes, uses, and enjoys podcasts."
So how did a company that once released magazine articles on cassette tapes ("kind of a crude form of podcasting, you might say," someone from Personal Audio once suggested) get a patent on podcasting? Just by filing a claim to the Patent Office asserting that it came up with a "system for disseminating media content representing episodes in a serialized sequence." That patent was granted in 2012, and at the time, Personal Audio put out a statement claiming that the company invented podcasting in 1996.
But in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's petition to have the Patent Office review and invalidate the patent, the advocacy group suggests that the medium of "podcasting" had already been online about three years earlier—Carl Malamud and his "Geek of the Week" podcast launched in 1993. As EFF Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer said, "If you look into the history of podcasting, you won't see anything about Personal Audio." Early this year, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that the EFF's petition had a "reasonable likelihood" of success.
Personal Audio's lawsuit is more than an irritant to podcasters. It could also be highly damaging—law suits are expensive, and as Personal Audio is discovering, podcasting is not often a high margins venture. That squares with broader trends—55 percent of companies served by patent trolls make $10 million per year or less. For this reason, many of those targeted settle or go out of business rather than fight.
Carolla's case, as well as those of the TV broadcasters', should be held before an East Texas court in September, Joe Mullin wrote in Ars Technica. Unfortunately, the cases will likely be heard before the EFF's petition is considered by the patent office—but either way, Personal Audio's lawsuits will hopefully find some real resolution this year.
In the meantime, we can derive some amusement from Personal Audio's quixotic quest. Mostly because, as Mike Masnick points out on TechDirt, representatives of Personal Audio show an uncommon willingness to talk to journalists.
Take a 2013 episode of This American Life, "When Patents Attack … Part Two!" Reporter Zoe Chace convinced Jim Logan and Richard Baker of Personal Audio to be interviewed. When she pointed out that This American Life had not paid them any license fee, this gem was the result:
Zoe Chace: So are we doing something illegal right now, though?
Richard Baker: I wouldn't comment on that.
Man: I wouldn't comment on it.
Jim Logan: We don't–I don't comment on the legalities.
For a company that seems to exist solely to exercise the limits of the U.S. legal system, not commenting on the legalities of the case is like Kim Kardashian refusing to be photographed.


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Olympic star Oscar Pistorius has broken down in tears as he appeared in court charged with murdering his girlfriend model Reeva Steenkamp.
He stood before magistrate Desmond Nair with his head bowed as the charge was read out.
Prosecutors say they intend to prove Pistorius is guilty of premeditated murder of the top South African model Reeva Steenkamp.
Local news correspondent Barry Bateman described him as "sobbing uncontrollably" as he sat in the dock.
Oscar Pistorius' father Henke leaned forward and placed his hand on his son's back during the 40-minute hearing.
Prosecutors had asked to deal with the bail hearing as a section six offence, meaning the accused has to provide exceptional circumstances to be released on bail. The defence opposes this.
The case was postponed until Tuesday, and Pistorius will remain in custody until then.
A statement on behalf of his family and management said he denies the charge in the strongest terms.
The body of 29-year-old Miss Steenkamp was discovered at the athlete's property in the Silver Woods gated community in eastern Pretoria on Thursday morning.
She had been shot four times. A 9mm pistol was found at the scene.
Local media have reported that she was shot through a bathroom door.
Pistorius, 26, spent Thursday night in custody and was subject to blood-alcohol, DNA and other tests, as forensics experts continued to work at the crime scene at his home in an upmarket gated estate.
His lawyer Kenny Oldwage said his client was "very well, obviously emotional, but fine".
Police were called to Pistorius' home at around 4am on Thursday by neighbours who heard gunshots. He is the only suspect in the case.
Pistorius made history at the London Olympics last year when he became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete at any games.
He did not win a medal but did make the semi-finals of the 400 metres and the final of the 4×400 relay, propelling the world's best-known Paralympian to the level of an international track star.
Meanwhile a celebrity reality show featuring Miss Steenkamp will still be broadcast on South African television despite her death, the producers have said.
The pre-recorded show filmed in an exotic location in Jamaica features the blonde model and several local personalities competing for prize money.
Producers of Tropika Island of Treasure said they had decided not to shelve the show, which will premiere on Saturday, two days after she was shot dead.