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Name: Seth Schoen
Member since: 2000-03-31 03:12:50
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Homepage: http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/
I moved my personal diary to http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ at the end of March 2001.
I'm Staff Technologist of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
I wouldn't mind consulting work.
I live in San Francisco and it seems that a lot of my life at the moment is centered around free software: I met many or most of my friends, got my old job, and got my old and new apartments through Linux user groups and Linux user group connections.
Most of my participation has been as an activist or evangelist. Although I've submitted bug reports and patches to various projects, I have not written or maintained any widely used free software. But I still do a fair amount of LUG stuff (mailing lists, meetings, installfests, presentations, protests...).
I was one of the main developers of the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card, which some of you may have in your wallets; recently I've also created a new BBC project.
I've become a sort of amateur intellectual property and license geek, including hanging out on a bunch of lists concerned with legal issues. I've been involved indirectly in DeCSS-related things, and I've been involved with looking at and discussing free software licenses.
My interests outside of free software are various and include recreational mathematics, book collecting, and other activist sorts of things. You can find out more from my web page.
www.loyalty.org itself is the web site for Californians for Academic Freedom, a hypothetical group of California loyalty oath opponents. But I haven't fixed that site in quite some time.
We haven't posted an official release announcement, but we did release LNX-BBC 2.1 (get a torrent, or do lame old direct download). They're going to be sold through the EFF store and the FSF membership program, and of course you can sell your own if you like. Business-card CD-R blanks have prices comparable to those of regular CD-R blanks a couple of years ago.
I've had this silly momentary obsession with hacking our releases so that their MD5 checksums start with "bbcbbc", or perhaps so that both their MD5 and SHA1 checksums start with "bbc". I've been experimenting with some Python code which appends bytes to a given document in order to cause it to have a hash with chosen properties. Fortunately, you can't choose more than a few bytes of the hash, as a practical matter, but my success in this makes me want to encourage people to actually read the whole PGP key fingerprint when you're signing a key. Some people sort of doze off in the middle of verifying a fingerprint.
To make a checksum start with "bbc", you only have to examine about 4096 possibilities, and to make it start with "bbcbbc" (or "bbc210") it would be about 16777216 possibilities. Soon after that, we start to run into trouble.
Zack suggested the right approach: you don't hash the whole file every time, you hash the original file, save the current state of the digest, and then see what the output of the digest would be if you updated it with any of some thousands or millions or more of alternatives. In my code this is done with a loop containing a digest.copy(), digest.update(), and digest.hexdigest(), which work properly with Python's md5 and sha modules. It takes only a few seconds to run for a short string.
Bram is famous; Jack Valenti sent personal letters to each of the five Commissioners of the FCC, mentioning BitTorrent downloads of TV shows as an argument for expanding technology regulation. The letters are signed "Warmly, Jack" -- by hand.
I know of two useful BitTorrent patches floating around; I wrote one (to make --responsefile and --url basically optional) and Aaron Swartz wrote another (a command-line downloader with a single status line, like wget).
I'm pretty busy with EFF stuff and still keeping my diary over here.
I got a lot of attention not long ago for my diary entry with notes from our meeting with the Microsoft Palladium developers. That was a surprise; I didn't know that so many people were reading my new diary. I guess even more are reading it now.
The meeting was about four hours at the EFF office in San Francisco, and some of the people who are in charge of Palladium answered our technical questions, with no NDA. So that was interesting, and I see I'm not the only one curious about the results.
We aren't going to have a new version of LNX-BBC ready for LinuxWorld. We'd been hoping to, but we got caught up in the strange world of pivot_root. I did manage to rewrite "rdev" in one line of Perl, even though I'm not a Perl programmer. :-)
We also had a hard time getting in-person meetings together, and our volunteer usability tester got pregnant! At present, we have a rough outline for a revamped boot sequence using linuxrc. The old version simply used an initrd and never changed the root filesystem to be anywhere other than the RAM disk, but now we're getting more ambitious, and we're using an incredible mix of filesystem types. We have found possible uses for tmpfs, FAT, ext2fs, iso9660, cramfs, romfs, and the cloop compressed block device driver all within the same project. So we are becoming true boot sequence geeks.
I do hope that the new LNX-BBC version will be out before people have forgotten about our project. It's gotten some nice reviews in the past, and thousands of people are still carrying them in their wallets, but as the old discs crack, memories will fade, too. We've got a big CVS tree using GAR, Nick Moffitt's cool build system (which is the basis for the much-more-famous GARNOME, even though GAR was actually designed for the LNX-BBC project).
Our GAR tree now builds about 90% of the binaries which we shipped on the previous version -- in a repeatable, reliable way, from upstream sources. As Nick says, it's like an equivalent of BSD ports, but for gmake on Linux.
I'm hoping to be at DEF CON, USENIX Security, and LinuxWorld in the next three weeks. After that, I don't have any concrete plans, but I'm sure I'll be back at CPTWG before long. We need more free software people at standards meetings and consortium meetings where DRM work is being done. A lot of the people who are doing DRM standards have never heard of free software before. (Some of them are actively hostile to it, but not all.)
In other news
You can find out lots of other news by reading Vitanuova. Of some free software interest: we are continuing to fight the "broadcast flag" mandate and other parts of Hollywood's legislative agenda. This also is something I wish more free software people would get involved in. The problem is that, when I describe how the broadcast flag works, people break out laughing. They apparently don't believe that something so silly could become Federal law. But I tell you that it's by narrow escapes and hard work that it isn't Federal law today.
The Palladium people are going to come back during USENIX Security to meet with us again and share more details, which I expect I'll write about in my web diary. I've also put in an inquiry with TCPA to ask the TCPA committee to visit EFF and give us their own overview. (Contrary to what some people believe, Palladium and TCPA are distinct and have different technical characteristics.)
That riddles archive is a lot of fun. I have found a horribly inefficient solution to the "100 prisoners and the light bulb" problem.
Development of the new LNX-BBC is going pretty well, thanks mainly to Nick Moffitt's cool GAR system (an integrated build environment implemented in gmake). I think there will be a new release early this summer. It's been almost a year since the previous release (1.618).
I got a nice new computer at work; our sysadmin put Red Hat 7.3 on it and I realized that it's been a long time since I had a Linux desktop with current software on it. There are unfortunately plenty of things I don't recognize, and features which come as a surprise to me, like large file support.
I'm spending most of my time working on EFF court cases and understanding and fighting Hollywood's legislative agenda. It's extremely worth reading this MPAA document, called "Content Protection Status Report", which sets out quite lucidly what America's most powerful copyright companies want and expect to accomplish in Congress in the near future. Among other things, they'd like to see a watermark detector legally required in every analog-to-digital convertor, in order to deal with the "analog hole" (the fact that you can avoid DRM restrictions by starting with analog media).
I'm calling it "Hollywood's new science-fiction and horror summer blockbuster".
EFF and others are having a party to celebrate Dmitry Sklyarov's return home. The party is in San Francisco on Wednesday evening. Or gurer be or fdhner.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of Airbus moved to head off any concerns about a dip in profits or political interference at the European planemaker as France and Germany edged towards a shake-up of parent group EADS on Monday.
In an interview, Fabrice Bregier told Reuters he was confident that Airbus EAD.PA would ride out what some analysts fear could be a bumpy transitional period without either sacrificing record production or seeing its profits sag.
But he conceded Airbus was set to drop behind U.S. rival Boeing in the traditional race for orders and deliveries this year, even after grabbing almost 200 new orders in November.
"We are not in a hurry," Bregier said. "We will achieve more than our target of 650 orders this year."
He said development of the A350, the Toulouse-based company's next major project, was on track after a delay of up to six months announced earlier this year. Airbus had also come to grips with problems of wing cracks on the A380 superjumbo.
Airbus expects to meet a target of delivering 30 superjumbos in 2012 as it catches up from a slowdown caused by the flaws in several components on each wing. Next year, deliveries could slip below 30 before exceeding that level in 2014, Bregier said. Airbus is sticking to a breakeven goal for the A380 by 2015.
Bregier, a former defense executive who controlled Airbus operations for six years before becoming head of the largest EADS division in June, pledged to keep a grip on efforts to deliver the company's seven-year backlog of jets as CEO.
"If we do that, we will grow year on year," he said. "We have the potential to increase the profitability year on year for the next 4-5 years."
Some analysts have expressed concerns that a projected slew of loss-making early deliveries of A350s sold at launch prices and a potential slowdown in demand for current-generation planes could dent profits at mid-decade.
Buoyed by demand from Asia, Airbus has started producing its A320 narrowbody planes at a record 42 a month, but has found the ramp-up was "painful" for some of its suppliers, Bregier said.
It is anxious to prevent a dip in deliveries as airlines shy away from the current model to focus on the revamped A320neo, a fuel-saving model due to enter service from 2015.
Bregier said Airbus would not aim for higher production until the A320neo was at full speed from around 2018. Airbus has a "few hundred" current-type A320s left to sell in 2015/16.
The company has yet to make a decision to increase planned production for the A330, which it had said was threatened by China's refusal to confirm orders in protest at European Union airline emissions rules. The EU agreed to freeze the scheme last month.
Bregier was speaking as governments fine-tuned a deal to alter the corporate structure of Europe's largest aerospace group, bringing in Germany as a direct shareholder in EADS for the first time, while reducing industrial proxy shareholdings.
"I am very optimistic that Airbus will continue to be supported and that we will have free hands to do what is necessary for Airbus's success," Bregier told Reuters.
Airbus has become steadily more integrated after starting out more than 40 years ago as a consortium of national entities. But there have been signs of renewed tensions over jobs.
Industrial and diplomatic sources say Germany is withholding part of a 1.2 billion-euro loan, designed to help Airbus build the carbon-composite A350, in a row over the allocation of work.
Germany is expected to take a 12-percent stake in EADS, matching France on the basis of voting rights.
Declining to confirm that would be the case, Bregier said: "This is subject to confirmation, but with 12 percent as a shareholder, you can influence 12 percent of the company."
He added he was confident the loan dispute with Germany would be resolved and signaled a possible shift in rhetoric in a dispute with the United States over whether such aid is legal.
Global trade rulings against aid for both Airbus and Boeing have failed to resolve the world's largest trade dispute.
Asked whether Airbus could do without such support for its next generation of aircraft, Bregier said: "Yes - if there is a level playing field, which is very difficult to obtain, because the WTO found heavy subsidies going to Boeing.
"We have China, Russia, if everybody plays the game, my answer would be yes, definitely."
Both companies have called for a level playing field throughout the marathon dispute, but Bregier appeared to open new ground by openly saying this might mean zero support.
Boeing however dismissed the comments.
"The World Trade Organisation has already ruled that all government launch aid to Airbus, totaling billions of euros, was illegal," a spokesman said. "Only when this illegal practice stops, can we discuss a level playing field."
Airbus sold 646 planes between January and November, Bregier told Reuters, just shy of a target of 650 for the year.
After adjusting for cancellations, net orders stood at 585 and deliveries at 516 in the period, leaving Airbus behind its U.S. rival for the first time in several years.
Boeing, catching up on last year's record A320neo orders with its new 737 MAX, has sold more than 1,150 aircraft.
Additional reporting by Jane Barrett and Sarah Edmonds; Editing by David Holmes, Helen Massy-Beresford and Alastair Macdonald

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What's Behind the Sale of the Downtown Berkeley Main Post Office? (News Analysis)
The Berkeley downtown post office, formally the "Downtown Berkeley Main" station, is set to close and be sold off. There is concern about town regarding the fate of a historic public building occupying incredibly valuable municipal real estate. There is more to the story, though. Congress, it turns out, is waging war against the postal service, or so it seems:
Tomorrow, August 1st, the post office is required to make a $5.5 billion payment to a fund for retiree health benefits. In September, another $5.6 billion is due. The postal service has announced that it will not make these payments. (source: Business Insider (July 31, 2012): Post Office Nears Historic Default on $5 Billion Payment)
It's odd that the Postal service owes $11.1 billion to the health care fund and here is why:
According to the Postal Service Inspector General, the postal service has overfunded its pension fund (not the retiree health care fund). Pensions are funded at 105%. (source: Office of the Postal Service Inspector General (June 18, 2012): Pension and Retiree Health Care Funding Levels: Management Advisory Report)
Did you catch that? Pensions are over-funded by $13.1 billion. Retiree health care is under-funded by $11.1 billion.
Why not, then, simply move $12.1 billion from one fund to the other? Problem solved, right? And with each fund winding up with an extra $1 billlion.
Why not? Because Congress won't let them. The Inspector General writes (emphasis added): -more-


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There are, I suspect, several factors involved. The first is that everyone is a little tired. We went through this rigmarole last year, and there's quite honestly a limit to how much time and effort we can be expected to spend on a group of people whose pet project to destroy something that other people enjoy is, let's be honest here, really boring. It's a lot more fun to talk about new things, even if they don't get you write-ups in the Guardian and Slate. Second, and not unrelated, is the fact that there isn't really anyone to talk to anymore. Last year, there were a lot of people willing to carry water for Vox Day and his ilk, and to pretend that Puppygate was something other than what it clearly was, a destructive act by someone whose hatred of the Hugos fell only slightly short of his bizarre hard-on for one particular science fiction writer. Those people kept trying to start a conversation about the Hugos' politics, their supposed exclusion of particular kinds of SF or particular kinds of SF fans, and, at one point, whether of not books had spaceships on the cover, which was inevitably hampered by the fact that none of these supposed arguments could hold water. This year, and to their credit, most of the people on the Sad Puppy side opted to participate in the Hugos instead of trying to tear them down. Instead of a slate, they did what the rest of us do, and came up with a scattered, broad recommendation list. And, just as we discover every year, that turned out to have very little effect on the resulting nominations (though it might have had a little more effect if the Rabid Puppies weren't still trying to ruin everyone else's fun). But as a result, it's now become very clear that this is only nominally about politics. That what this issue is about is a dispute between the people who care about this award, and the ones who want to destroy it. And there's not really much to talk about there.
And then of course there is the matter of the nominees themselves. There was a lot of talk, when the nominations were announced, of how and whether to approach the puppies' decision to slate works that were not only deserving, but very likely to have appeared on the ballot regardless of their influence. That talk, too, has died down, for the simple reason that, despite what the puppies seem to think, none of us are susceptible to this kind of middle-school gotcha! maneuvering. I'm not telling anyone how to vote, and I recognize that different people can have different views on this issue. But literally the only people who think that awarding a Hugo to, say, Nnedi Okorafor's novella about a Namibian tribeswoman who is a mathematical genius and travels to space university, with multiple observations about the evils of racism and colonialism, would be a victory for white supremacy are the ones who have realized that they have no chance of claiming a win any other way. If you think that it's more important to slap down the puppies than give an award to Okorafor or other nominees like her, that's your call, but I don't think there's anyone who, if she does end up taking home a Hugo in August, will lament that the puppies have won. Once again, what this means is that there's not much to talk about.
Which is great on one level, and on another is worrying. Because another thing that hasn't been happening this year is the huge influx of Worldcon members buying supporting memberships for the sole purpose of protesting against the puppies' attempts to dominate the Hugos. At the moment, MidAmericon II has 5,600 members, and is on track to be a mid-sized North American convention, which probably means fairly normal Hugo voting numbers, not the outsized protest vote we saw last year. Now, as I've said many times in the past, I have a great deal of faith in Hugo voters' ability to tell astroturf nominees from the real deal, and to smack down nominees that have no business being on the ballot. But the numbers still need to be on our side. Chaos Horizon estimated that there were between 250 and 500 Rabid Puppy nominators this year. I'd like to believe that the real number is closer to the lower boundary than the higher--there can't, surely, be 500 people with so little going on in their lives that they'd be willing to spend good money just to make Vox Day happy (or whatever approximation of the human emotion known as happiness can be felt by someone so occupationally miserable). But if I'm wrong, and those people show up in the same numbers this year, then they have a solid chance of overwhelming the good sense and decency of the people who want the Hugos to be what they were meant to be, an award recognizing the excellence and diversity of what science fiction and fantasy achieved in the last year.
So, if you are a member of MidAmericon II, please remember to vote. If you're not yet a member, and you're able to become one, please consider doing so--even at this date, you can join, get your PIN immediately, and vote for the Hugos. And if you're a member and a voter, please remind others who might not be that they can still do both, and how important it is, for the future of this award and this convention, that we do so.


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Out in the hills, the Middle of Nowhere still exists
When I was growing up, we lived about eight miles from a wide-spot on the highway known as Rose, Nebraska (population 2.) Our house was about six miles off the highway and about 32 miles from the nearest real town.
The most sparsely-populated area of Rock County was east of where I lived. At that time (1950s and 1960s,) no improved road went through the hills from Rose on U.S. Highway 183 to Nebraska Highway 11, the road to Burwell. You could drive through, but when you came to the end of the maintained road, you had to open gates and follow some very rough and sandy two-track pasture roads. A four-wheel drive pickup truck was recommended.
Times have changed. Nowadays, there's a road all the way through from Highway 11 north of Burwell, Nebraska, to Highway 183 just north of Rose, Nebraska. Along the way, you pass the Sitz Ranch, the Gurney Ranch, and the Rose Church. It's a beautiful drive through Sandhills prairie that is still much as God made it. The road truly does go through the Middle of Nowhere.
I don't recommend the drive if you are a timid driver who is likely to get stuck in a sandy spot (can't slow down, must keep going or you're sunk!) You also need a clear understanding of where you're going and a good inner sense of direction (or a GPS unit.)
It was a great joy to drive my kids through this wild area of southeastern Rock County several times when we went on vacations to Nebraska. I think it gave them a better understanding of what the Sandhills are like and where their mother is from.
The photos in this post were taken along the road somewhere in the hills east of the Rose Church. In the image at the top of this post, the windmill is on top of the hill so it can catch enough wind to provide water for the cattle. The water tank is in the "pocket" down below, between the hills.
The image below is taken from the hill where the windmill stands. You can see the wind-sculpted peaks and pockets of the dune formations. Indeed, the Nebraska Sandhills are grassed-over sand dunes, the largest area of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere.
One thing I should make clear -- this is not the only Middle of Nowhere. Many other remote, unspoiled, rural areas still exist in the United States -- and I'm glad that they do.


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Andrew (bunnie) Huang, who won the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 2012 Pioneer Award (for something different), is currently testing the first version of his open source laptop hardware.
It's about 120mm by 150mm by 14mm nad it has a small battery board so it should be able to fit into an average sized laptop frame (yet to be designed). Nearly the entire motherboard is open source; only a couple things required closed source firmware and the board is bootable without them.
One of the things I love about open source is that people don't tend to worry about anything other than the best possible solution. They don't try to design in some sort of crippling restriction that will lock in customers. Like, for example, Apple arbitrarily redesigning their docking port and then telling developers they can't use it in their device if it includes ports compatible with anything else. Bunnie not only used a standard SATA-style port to connect the battery and mother boards but he also make the connection for the battery itself a standard molex so you can use cheap, commonly available RC vehicle batteries.
At the moment he's apparently running through the tedious process of validating all the board's functions, but that highlights another thing I love about open source. Down in the lengthy comments beneath his post it was suggested that he include a physical kill switch for the microphone and camera. Bunnie hadn't thought of that, but recognized it as a good idea, and is planning to add the feature. It would take a year to get something like that changed anywhere else and that's assuming the developers ever heard about a good user-submitted idea.


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To Our Developers — We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software. — We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don't steal our work. It has happened before.
Discussion: Ars Technica, Macworld, Global Nerdy, Techdirt, Homotron.net, Boing Boing Gadgets, Portfolio, Industry Standard, PalmAddicts, Between the Lines, OStatic blogs, Apple 2.0, I4U News, InfoWorld, Digital Daily, Geek News Central, Unwired View, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, TidBITS, TechSpot, InformationWeek, Technologizer, Webreakstuff, GigaLaw.com Daily News and VentureBeat
John Timmer / Ars Technica: A touch of Cocoa: inside the iPhone SDK
Jason Snell / Macworld: Apple makes two great iPhone moves
Joey / Global Nerdy: Apple Drops iPhone NDA
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Apple Finally Realizes That NDAs For Developers Are A Bad Idea
Tiny Dancer / Homotron.net: Apple Drops iPhone Developer NDA
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing Gadgets: Apple releases iPhone developers from NDA
Andrea Chalupa / Portfolio: Apple Drops N.D.A. for iPhone Apps
Jordan Golson / Industry Standard: Apple drops part of its NDA for iPhone developers
Andy J. S. / PalmAddicts: Apple finally drops iPhone NDA
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines: Apple drops developer NDA
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Stop the presses: Apple waved an olive branch
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Apple drops iPhone Developer NDA
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Phone SDK NDA DOA
Matthew Greensmith / Geek News Central: Apple relaxes iPhone dev restrictions
David Gonzales / Unwired View: Devs, rejoice! Apple NDA dropped for released iPhone software
Michelle Quinn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Apple lets iPhone developers talk about the iPhone
Tom Krazit / CNET News: iPhone developer frustrations melt away with NDA
Justin Mann / TechSpot: Apple drops iPhone NDA
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek: Apple Drops Developer NDA For Released iPhone Software
Harry McCracken / Technologizer: Good News for the iPhone: Apple Axes the NDA
Fred Oliveira / Webreakstuff: iPhone SDK NDA dropped
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SlingMedia Prepares To Launch Their Video Portal At Sling.com — Sling Media, the creators of a hardware device that lets users stream their home television signal to an Internet connected device anywhere (with a software download), is preparing to launch their new video portal, Sling.com.
Discussion: paidContent.org and The Equity Kicker
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org: Signs Of Life For Sling's Video Portal, Other Services; Sling.com …
Tony Smith / The Register:
US consumers flock to Mac laptops — That sound you can hear is Steve Jobs laughing after reading figures from US market watcher NPD that Apple laptops accounted for 20 per cent of retail notebook sales during July and August. — That's the key back-to-school sales period …
Discussion: Lefsetz Letter, MacBlogz and AppleInsider
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Laptop Makers Shy Away From Multitouch Technology — Apple's iPhone is making multitouch all the rage on mobile phones but laptop makers are not rushing to add the technology to traditional notebooks. — Multitouch, which lets users control applications through gestures on a screen …
Brent / The Official Netflix Blog:
New content to watch instantly — Hi, Brent here with some news about movies & TV episodes that are available to watch instantly. Today we announced an agreement with Starz Play that adds around 1,000 choices that you can watch instantly today, and will add another 1,500 by the end of the year.
Discussion: VentureBeat, Computerworld Blogs blogs, CNET News, Zatz Not Funny!, Infinite Loop, Epicenter, Engadget HD, Podcasting News and PC World
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Netflix Watch Instantly for the Mac is fast approaching. Will Apple respond?
Jennifer Guevin / CNET News: Netflix: Coming soon to a Mac near you
Brent Evans / Zatz Not Funny!: Netflix Now Streams STARZ
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Netflix Coming to Macs — Finally
Darren Murph / Engadget HD: Starz Play content added to Netflix's streaming library
James Lewin / Podcasting News: Netflix Watch Now Features Coming To Macs
Peter Cohen / PC World: Netflix Promises Mac Video Support by End of Year
New DOS Attack Is a Killer — 2:45 PM — Things are a-brewin' in Sweden. Sweden is not just home of the infamous bikini team, it is also the home of Outpost 24, an equally sexy software-as-a-service network scanning service, and the employer of my friend Robert E. Lee and his colleague Jack C. Louis.
Discussion: The Register, Errata Security and Arbor Networks Security
Robert Graham / Errata Security: TCP DoS (probably) real
Jose Nazario / Arbor Networks Security: Thoughts on the TCP/IP Stack DoS
Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
One Way to Turn a Mac Into a PC Just Got Better — There are two common methods for running Microsoft Windows and Windows programs on an Apple Macintosh, and one of those methods just got better and easier. — The first approach uses a feature called Boot Camp that comes free on every new Mac.
Nicholas Thompson / Washington Monthly:
How Fast You Can Read This Essay Online — How John McCain's techno-monopolism — will hurt the economy — John McCain is an AT&T guy; Barack Obama is a Google guy. And that's one of the most important policy differences between the two. — Think of the Internet as working at different layers.
Discussion: Gizmodo, techPresident, Crowdsourcing and Epicenter
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: John McCain Blamed for Sucky Broadband in US
Nancy Scola / techPresident: McCain's a AT&T Guy, Obama's a Google Guy
Jeff P Howe / Crowdsourcing: The Candidates on Technology: A Stark Choice
Nicholas Thompson / Epicenter: The Vast Differences Between Obama and McCain on technology policy
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Rolls Out Post-Roll Video Ads — YouTube, which has never had trouble growing an audience but hasn't yet figured out the trick for monetizing them thar eyeballs, is adding a trick from the old playbook: post-roll advertisements. As we understand it (and this has been confirmed with the company) …
Discussion: Valleywag
Jackson West / Valleywag: Commercials your new punishment for not clicking on ads
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple: A Product Plateau? — There are only so many world-changing products a company can create, but there's still plenty of room for Apple to extend established product lines — Where does Apple go from here? The question lies at the heart of the media and industry buzz that so often surrounds …
Dusan / IntoMobile:
Samsung i907 coming to AT&T as Epix — Forget about the BlackJack III. AT&T had it enough with BlackJacks, hence the next QWERTY-keyboard equipped Samsung smartphone will be hitting the carrier as AT&T Epix. — From what we can say, it's basically the i780 model with some tweaks.
Discussion: Boy Genius Report
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report: AT&T's Samsung i907 is called Epix
J Mark Lytle / TechRadar.com:
Bizarre phone lets users see through walls — Multiple sensors give us perhaps the world's oddest phone — This week's CEATEC technology show just outside Tokyo is home to not just the latest mainstream gadgets, but also some of the weirdest tech you'll ever come across.
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and Gizmodo
Tim Stevens / Engadget Mobile: Concept phone can see through walls — in theory
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo: KDDI Creates Phone Prototype That Can 'See Through Walls'
Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
Tim O'Reilly Course Corrects the Definition of Web 2.0 — eBay was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was cool. — Tim O'Reilly wrote a nice piece the other day Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm. In the post, he re-asserted the proper definition of Web 2.0. Here's a quote:
Discussion: Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, The Social Times and broadstuff
Alexander van Elsas / Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …: Tim O'Reilly nails the definition for web 2.0. Can we move on please!
Nick O'Neill / The Social Times: Web 2.0 A.k.a "The Internet"
Agence France Presse:
South Korea's free computer game model hits US — AFP - Free computer game play that is all the rage in South Korean is taking hold in a US market dominated by videogames sold on packaged disks or by online subscriptions.
The Official Google Blog:
Saving electricity one data center at a time — Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer great Internet services while taking our energy use very seriously. That's why, nearly a decade ago …
Discussion: Bits, InfoWorld, CNET News, Data Center Knowledge, PC World, Tech Beat, GigaOM, Between the Lines and InformationWeek
Miguel Helft / Bits: Google Touts Energy Efficient Data Centers
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Google CEO: How to fix U.S. energy problems
James Niccolai / PC World: Google Proposes $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan
Rob Hof / Tech Beat: Google's Green Agenda
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Google talks efficient data centers
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek: Google Data Centers 'The Most Efficient In The World'
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
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Over the last few years, Hip Hop artists and their labels have used the free album as an outlet for more creative freedom, litmus test fan interest, and as a free introduction for listeners to develop an understanding of new artists. That new tradition continued in 2012, with established artists and neophytes both using the medium to fight their way into fan consciousness. This year's collection of top free albums is a good mix: newfound veteran Curren$y teams with a new producer to sharpen his usual formula, and Action Bronson bounces back from a solid rookie year with a pair of the year's top records that laugh at the idea of a sophomore slump and establish himself as a character who belongs in Rap's colorful cast.The list also includes two of Rap's more memorable newcomers from 2012. Nomadic femcee Angel Haze establishes herself as one of the genre's most distinctive new voices, with an album that is raw in every sense of the word. Flatbush Zombies' debut fills the decreasing presence of Odd Future and Lil B, incorporating OFWGKTA's black goth and Based God's silliness into their own brand of youthful revolt.
Curren$y & Harry Fraud – Cigarette Boats
Considering Curren$y's prolific output, a five-track release appears as a meager offering from the Jet Life head honcho. Thankfully, Cigarette Boats is more of the Spitta that his fans have become accustomed to: slinky, smoke-ready rhymes with subdued production. After his major label debut The Stoned Immaculate strayed from his one-producer formula previously honed with Alchemist and Ski Beatz, he returns to his formula with Harry Fraud, known for his frequent collaborations with French Montana and Smoke DZA. The Brooklyn beatmaker's assortment of slow-cooking soul samples makes an apt seat-reclining, window-rolling soundtrack for Curren$y first-class flows. The duo doesn't reinvent the wheel here, and the EP clocks in at less than 15 minutes, but there's something to be said for consistency and quality control, and Curren$y on cruise control isn't a bad thing.
Action Bronson & Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers
After impressing fans earlier in 2012 with Blue Chips, Action Bronson returned in November with Rare Chandeliers: possibly the most engaging 40 minutes of Hip Hop this year. Armed with a fully-loaded arsenal of Alchemist instrumentals, Bronson narrates full-bellied tales of travel, dimes, food and catching bodies. Cameos by ScHoolboy Q, Roc Marciano and Evidence deliver, but they're only co-stars in the audio blaxploitation film that serves as a vehicle for Bronson's show-stealing punchlines, colorful imagery and anti-hero presentation. Alchemist continues to keep his name in G.O.A.T. producer conversations with sound beds just as eccentric as the character rhyming over them. Songs such as "Randy The Musical" and "Eggs On The Third Floor" effortlessly slither from slyly sinister to fun and carefree between verses. Together, the duo adds a whimsical edge to the hardnosed East Coast Hip Hop that the genre has been missing, and listeners enjoyed them for it.
Action Bronson & Party Supplies – Blue Chips
After a year that included two great albums (Dr. Lecter and Well Done) and a flood of Ghostface Killah comparisons, Action Bronson emerged in 2012 with Blue Chips: a project that solidified him as one of the most entertaining new personalities in rap. Fools Gold producer Party Supplies laces a varied platter of grit and soul, while Bronson splices stories of inner-city prostitution ("Hookers At The Point") and deteriorating romance ("Thug Love Story 2012") between kaleidoscopic references to gourmet food, professional wrestling and orally generous women. The Pretty Toney comparisons will likely stay put, but Action Bronson isn't going anywhere, either—and that's all that matters.
Angel Haze – Reservation
With her breakthrough record Reservation, Universal Republic emcee Angel Haze uses punchline-driven showcases as a gateway drug to lure listeners into an unfiltered diary of her personal life. And unlike many, she can tread both waters equally well. Viral songs such as "New York" and "Werkin' Girls" are chockfull of acrobatic flows, an authoritative mic presence and impressive one-liners, easing the usual "hang with the guys" worries that plague other female rappers. The album unravels to reveal nuanced vulnerability: the resilience built from homelessness, moving from state to state, and being raised by a mother who she says was manipulated by religion. Detailed songs about romance—both the hopefulness of new love, and the wistfulness of love left behind—round out the album. On "Realness," she claims, "I'm not the next anybody; I'm the first Angel Haze," and Reservation shows exactly who that person is.
Flatbush Zombies – D.R.U.G.S.
Anyone who didn't know about Flatbush Zombies before their appearance on A$AP Mob's single "Bath Salts" was more acquainted after their debut album. D.R.U.G.S.—an acronym for Death And Reincarnation Under God's Supervision—sees the Brooklyn outfit using self-produced gothic sound beds to back rock star rhymes about pussy, fighting, money and, obviously, drug use. "S.C.O.S.A." develops that cryptic bounce to a tee, and their breakout hit "Thug Waffle" pairs a more digestible version of that sound with shrieking vocals. The frenzy continues on the demented "Face-Off (L.S.Darko)," which uses splices from news reports to split verses of rebellious bars. With an outcast aura and self-contained work, Flatbush Zombies has the ingredients to be around for a while.
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While many can attest to yoga's
attenuating impact on hangovers, a Bushwick,
NY venue has stepped it up several notches. Doubling as a bar by night and
yoga studio by day, Cobra Club offers 1pm weekend "Hangover Yoga" to help patrons offset the effects of excess debauchery
the night before, throwing in a bloody mary or mimosa (after class, natch) to
sweeten the deal.
Taking a leaf from Tara Stiles, yoga at
cobra "is not meant as a means to an end but as a moment to enjoy," forgoing
chanting while keeping poses simple and close to the floor. An all-American bar
menu is replete with comfort food: hot dogs, soft pretzels with Cheez Whiz, and
vegetarian Frito pie.
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Bar co-owner Nikki Koch said she was inspired to open after
observing that following class, "I feel like the best version of myself, and
that means I want to be social. [Friends] and I always go out together after
class and drink wine … I challenge anything on the prescription market to
compete with its stress deleting, muscle unspooling power."
Unsurprisingly perhaps, news of Cobra's offerings has
proven controversial. Yet the concept is arguably so yesterday; yoga's modern
pairing with intoxicants ranges from wine
to marijuana
to the entheogen ayahuasca in the
Peruvian Amazon. Yoga
Sutra 4.1 proclaims, "psychic and spiritual powers may be inborn, or they
may be gained by the use of drugs, or by incantations, or by fervour (sic), or
by Meditation." Historically, the coupling of yoga and intoxicants has
precedent in the left-handed Kaula
tantrikas, who employed sex, drugs, and ritual to attain immortality and
While their use of intoxicants in combination with yoga is
not necessarily to attain a higher state of consciousness as with Kaula Tantra,
Cobra's owners believe that vice is part of a healthy life, theorizing
that self-criticism and guilt stemming from imperfect choices may have a worse
impact on well-being than indulgence. Some research supports this; the harder
we are on ourselves, the more it may lead to future over-indulgences. A self-compassionate
approach has much more robust associations with health and well-being.
There is a
fine line, however, between self-kindness and overt self-indulgence. While it's nice to unwind with a few drinks,
habitual/excessive extremes may exert deleterious effects. True self-kindness
entails recognition of self-harmful behavior and a willingness to hold yourself
accountable. Is becoming a regular at the bar and its weekend "hangover yoga"
classes a good use of your precious life force?
For some, the addition of yoga may be a radical improvement
and perhaps even beneficial, as for Cobra owner Koch. Yet for others prone to
over-indulgence, bar yoga may sanction routine drinking. The two "higher" paths
of Tantra, Mishra and Samaya, abstained from intoxicants entirely, instead
focusing on the rich inner world as a source of truth.
What are your thoughts on the interface of intoxicants with
the path of yoga? Do you think all intoxicants are created equal?


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I have an incredible father! He is a very gentle and quiet man, but funny as anything if you get to know him! He was always there for us as kids to cheer us up, talk if we needed to, one of our biggest fans as we cheered at endless high school games, etc. He has taught me many things throughout the years but I think some of the most important things he has taught me are LOVE GOD, attitude is a choice - choose to be happy, blue bell ice cream cures many ills:), work hard at what you do and make sure you love your work, you can be, build, and do anything, when in doubt - be silly, love strongly, sometimes its better to just be quiet and smile, and get outside as often as possible! I love you daddy! You are the best dad EVER!
And then there's this man! The love of my life! God handpicked him for me and I have no doubt about that! Curt you are everything I ever wanted - remember my list?:) You are the most incredible loving, silly, fun, caring, gentle, understanding, hero of a father to our kids EVER! I am so blessed and thankful God sent me a man who is the stronghold of our house, a provider, a peacemaker, and such a loving father! Your rock my world Curtis Jon Downs!!! I love you!
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One of the big stars of this year's Davos conference is International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde.
She's not just a star because she's famous and powerful. She is also getting buzz for her ability to be perfectly smooth and charming 18 hours a day, no matter how insufferable the folks are she has to deal with.
And that reputation, it seems, is deserved.
I was minding my own business in one of the Congress Center lounges this morning when who should sit down next to me but Christine Lagarde.
She was immediately enveloped in a scrum of photographers, TV cameras, and schmoozers, of course. And in the ensuing 20 minutes, she held impromptu discussions with a half-dozen folks who played musical chairs in the seat next to her.
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What better way to cap such an exhilarating year of music than by throwing a bash! San Diego based radio station 91X sculpted a fest to end all. Wrex The Halls is a festival that quickly obtained everyone's senses and got them 'in tune' with each other. Drawing in a crowd from many neighboring cities and states, Wrex, quickly became a sold out show. Those that were in attendance were able to see many musical acts and become mesmerized by eclectic tunes, crowd, and overall energy that we have all been thriving off of this year.
Taking place at the San Diego Valley View Casino Center, Wrex The Halls put on one heck of a show-clearly it sold out! Full of a few of our favorite Indie Acts! Vampire Weekend is an rock band out of New York that gives the audience exactly what they want, which is a high energy performance that will get you out of your seat! Arctic Monkeys are no stranger either! Thanks to their latest album, AM, the band has struck a chord that has made them sky rocket on the charts. Their latest single "Do I Wanna Know" has put Arctic Monkeys in a whole new light; it's a tune that definitely shows off their musical capabilities and a must-hear.
Alt-J are a British band that has been constantly on the rise. Starting off the night with a few of our favorites, the group is coming off of the release of their debut album 'An Awesome Wave'. Tessellate, off of their latest album definitely got the night started right. This group is one that needs to be on your radar for the year to come.
A nice mix of rock with folk, The Silent Comedy is a band originally from San Diego. J. Roddy Walston & The Business is an rock n' roll band hailing form Cleveland, Tennessee. Adding to the high energy of the night the group is well known for their live shows and enchanting style of playing the piano.
A band that needs no introductions, Queen of the Stone Age, headlined this years festival. Their performance got everyone intoxicated and drunkenly falling in love with them all over again. A mix of oldies as well as some samples from the new record, Queens of The Stone Age not only recapped the night in one set, but made it be known that the importance of musicality is ever so relevant and resides in most.
Wrex The Halls 2013 was a success! Sponsors included: Bud Light, Dominoes Pizza, Rockstar Energy Drink, Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, Cheba Hut, Sovo Gear, Pop Chips, Cox, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Hustler Hollywood, The Commons Bar, Uber, San Diego Food Bank, Gaglione Brothers, and Metro PCS. Thanks to 91X for putting on an unforgettable day of music!
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Gurmar is a perennial climber that is native to the tropical forests of central and southern India. The leaves of the plant are harvested just before flowering to preserve the medicinal properties contained within this plants leaves.
When chewed, the leaves actually interfere with a person's ability to taste sweetness which explains the Hindi name of 'gurmar' which translates as 'destroyer of sugar'.


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VICTOR ESPINOZA, CALIFORNIA CHROME, WINNER: "It was great. He ran like I expected him to. Everything worked out today. I wanted to try something new today so I let him go right out of the gate. I don't know if people expected me to go right to the lead but I wanted to let him enjoy his race, I just let him go. In these races, you can't just try and do too much with them. I think it's important for him to do his thing for the first five-eighths and be happy. It seems like he likes both tracks. He's been training over at Los Al but he does things so much easier at Santa Anita after having trained at Los Al. He didn't feel tired at all after the wire."
MIKE SMITH, MIDNIGHT HAWK, SECOND: "He did good. He got away a bit slow. He didn't break as well as we'd like, but in saying that, he had no excuse. The winner just beat me. I wish the outcome was different, but it is what it is."
(On California Chrome): "He's a serious 3-year-old. People should start paying attention to him now.
It was pretty straightforward, to be honest with you. Except for getting out a bit slow, what you saw was what happened. There are no hiccups after that. He (Victor Espinoza aboard California Chrome) asked his horse to run as I did and he happened to have more than I did."
ART SHERMAN, CALIFORNIA CHROME, WINNER: "I didn't think he'd be on the lead, but he was a handful today. I just told Victor (Espinoza before the race), 'You got him.' I told him he broke like that because of that Quarter Horse training at Los Alamitos . . . We all know Santa Anita's a speed-biased type of track, so it was really great to see him with the hold he had on him. It's unbelievable.
"I'm looking at the race saying, 'Well, I hope that horse (Midnight Hawk) doesn't press him too hard, but I'll tell you, when he asked him to go, he looked like a fresh horse, breaking, didn't he? Maybe I'm looking at the wrong race, I don't know. But I had a lot of fun watching him run."
Asked if the Santa Anita Derby (April 5) might be next: "Well, we'll kind of play it by ear. I needed this 50 points (see note below) and we'll kind of see what happens. Now I think I deserve to go to the (Kentucky) Derby (May 3). I don't think the distance will make any difference, a mile and a quarter. I think he'll run all day."
Asked what it's like to have the first Derby horse training at Los Al: "The people are just great. The Quarter Horse people, I got more rooters over there today, you cannot believe it. Every Quarter Horse trainer came over and shook my hand and said, 'Go get 'em, Art.' It made me feel good. They're going to be proud tonight."
BOB BAFFERT, MIDNIGHT HAWK, SECOND: "I told Mike, 'That's the horse you've got to beat.' It was a two-horse race going in. He ran good. My horse ran huge. I was a little disappointed running second– he ran with that horse, but he couldn't sustain it, and he got a little tired there at the end.
"You don't want to see a horse go out that fast. When it gets warm like this, the track gets pretty fast. It's pretty speed-biased. The horse that won it, he's a good horse."
DAVID HOFMANS, SCHOOLOFHARDROCKS, FOURTH: "I thought he ran OK. I'm sure he got tired, they ran really fast and maybe the track was a little hard for him today . . . but we'll see. We'll go from here!"
NOTES: The winning owners/breeders are Martin Perry of Wellington, NV, and Steve Coburn of Yuba City, CA. The San Felipe offered the following qualifying points for the May 3 Kentucky Derby: 50 for first, 20 for second, 10 for third and five for fourth.


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Principal's Message
I am so proud to be the principal here at Alamo Elementary School! Our school was established in 1876 and has been in 4 locations around the town of Alamo since then. Our current campus was established in 1965 and has a rich history and culture. We have a variety of traditions such as the annual Hoedown Fall Festival, Talent Show and Halloween Parade. We have fabulous teachers that work incredibly hard, great paraprofessionals who provide support, and a classified staff that keeps the school running. Our parents contribute hundreds of hours of time and energy to bring many extra programs to Alamo. And of course, there are our students, who bring excitement, energy and creativity to school each day. We couldn't do it without everyone working together. I feel so lucky to be the principal of this amazing school!
As our students look forward to 2019-2020, I know they will be taking part in a variety of activities and events that will make this a special year. These may include a field trip, a play, a classroom project, or a friend. With the support of our staff, PTA and EdFund our students will take away from this year memories that will last a lifetime. For me, I am looking forward to the amazing Hoedown – under the lights! I also love the book fairs, Family Reading Night, the Talent Show, Halloween Parade and our many concerts and plays.
As principal of our school I get to experience many of these memories in person. You could say that I have the best seat in the house. Even if it is sometimes on the roof!
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E.g. I have a 64x48 diorama, so now I can't submit it, but I would like to : o)
This sounds reasonable. The misc category has always been for mocs which do not fit in the other categories.
I would also be very interested in the misc category not having a size restriction. I have an entry that was built with this contest in mind. It doesn't fit into the other categories and it is much bigger than the size restrictions. Thank you for considering.
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Chris Young capped a three-run eighth inning with a tie-breaking two-run homer to send the New York Mets past the New York Yankees, 9-7, on Monday in the opener of their annual Subway Series.
The Mets trailed 7-4 after six innings before Eric Young, Jr. stroked a two- run homer in the seventh off Alfredo Aceves to get the visitors within one.
Lucas Duda laced an RBI single off Matt Thornton (0-1) in the eighth to tie the game, and after Preston Claiborne replaced Thornton on the mound, Chris Young clubbed Claiborne's second pitch into the seats in left for a 9-7 lead.
After striking out Alfonso Soriano to end the seventh, Jenrry Mejia (4-0), who was sent from the starting rotation to the bullpen earlier Monday, worked around a pair of singles in the eighth to maintain the Mets' margin.
Kyle Farnsworth entered for the Mets in the ninth and issued a leadoff walk to Derek Jeter and a one-out single to pinch-hitter Mark Teixeira that left runners on the corners.
However, Farnsworth was able to secure his third save of the season by getting Brian McCann to ground into a game-ending 3-5-3 double play.
Curtis Granderson returned to Yankee Stadium for the first time since signing with the Mets in the offseason and slugged a two-run homer, while Eric Young, Jr. finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored in the Mets' fifth straight win over their cross-town rivals.
"I think tonight we just got some balls that we could drive," Mets manager Terry Collins said, referring to his team hitting four home runs. "(Yankee Stadium) is a great place for a right-handed hitter who can hit the ball to right-center field. This is a great ballpark for them."
Brett Gardner hit his second career grand slam in the setback, while Yangervis Solarte collected three hits, an RBI and two runs scored for the Yankees, who have lost three straight overall.
Jeter registered his first three-hit game since Sept. 30, 2012 in the loss.
"We would have liked to have won this game, especially having the lead late," Jeter said. "We just didn't score enough runs."
The Mets manufactured a run in the first on David Wright's RBI groundout that scored Eric Young, Jr. for a 1-0 lead, but Gardner's grand slam in the second gave the home team control.
The Yankees started the second with three consecutive singles, including Alfonso Soriano's 1,000th career American League hit, making him just the seventh player in MLB history to compile 1,000 hits in each league.
Mets starter Bartolo Colon briefly slowed the hit parade by retiring the next two batters, but Gardner jumped on a first-pitch fastball and scorched it into the seats in right for a 4-1 lead.
Travis d'Arnaud smacked a one-out solo shot in the fifth to trim the margin to two before Granderson followed Wright's leadoff single in the sixth with a drive over the wall in right-center field to tie the game.
The Yankees answered with three runs in the home half, as Soriano stroked a ground-rule double before scoring on Solarte's single to right.
Kelly Johnson then sliced a triple into the gap in left-center field to score Solarte, but the Yankees first baseman was caught in a rundown between third and home when Brian Roberts followed with a grounder to short.
After Gardner extended the inning with a single to right, Carlos Torres took over on the mound for the Mets. With Jeter at the dish, Gardner took off for second and d'Arnaud's throw sailed into center field, allowing Roberts to race home for a 7-4 lead.
Aceves replaced Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda to start the seventh and walked d'Arnaud before Eric Young, Jr. smacked his first homer of the season two batters later to bring the Mets within 7-6.


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"DC Entertainment announced today the promotion and expansion of duties for two of its key executives and a new reporting structure created to enhance and strengthen the company's three imprints: DC Comics, Vertigo and Mad Magazine.
"Bob Harras has been promoted to Senior Vice President – Editor-in-Chief, DC Comics, and will continue to oversee editorial for DC Comics. In over two years at the helm, Harras has helped guide DC Comics to unprecedented heights with the launch of DC's The New 52 initiative and September's ZERO MONTH event. The string of successes rolls on, as the Batman books continue to surprise and enthrall readers with the BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY crossover, Superman and his family of books encounter H'EL ON EARTH and the entire New 52 line heads toward the top-secret TRINITY WAR.
"'Bob is a respected and talented editor, manager and leader with a keen eye for talent,' said DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio. 'He's been integral to making DC – The New 52 the amazing success it is today. 2013 is going to build upon 2012's huge successes and we continue to be committed to providing fans with the best comics on the stands. Bob and his team have set the bar high for themselves, and we are all excited about what's next for DC Comics.'
"DC Entertainment veteran Hank Kanalz has been named Senior Vice President of Vertigo and Integrated Publishing. In his new role, Kanalz will oversee Vertigo's publishing efforts. In addition, Kanalz will continue to manage the company's growing digital business seeking innovative and integrated publishing opportunities. Under Kanalz's leadership DC Entertainment became the first comic publisher to offer its entire line on the same day in digital and print formats. Kanalz has also forged innovative industry partnerships including the recently announced deals to offer DCE graphic novels and monthly comic books Amazon's Kindle Store, Apple's iBookstore and Barnes & Noble's Nook Store.
Kanalz's oversight of Vertigo will further support newly promoted Vertigo Executive Editor Shelly Bond's vision for the imprint and bring increased awareness to Vertigo's ever-growing library of characters and properties cross-divisionally.
"'Hank's strong leadership has resulted in triple digit growth among our digital comics business,' stated DC Comics Co-Publisher Jim Lee. 'In this new role he is poised to continue DC Entertainment's digital momentum, while working even more closely with the print publishing teams, specifically Vertigo.'
"Harras, Kanalz and MAD Magazine Vice President and Executive Editor John Ficarra will report to DC Comics Co-Publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, representing DC Entertainment's three imprints."


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- 20-year-old Nicholas Teausant was arrested near the Canadian border, the DOJ says
- He is accused of trying to get to Syria to join an international terrorist organization
- Teausant is expected to make his first court appearance Monday afternoon
A California man was arrested on terror charges early Monday morning near the Canadian border, according to the Department of Justice.
In a press release issued Monday, the DOJ said 20-year-old Nicholas Teausant was arrested in Blaine, Washington, and was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
According to the release, Teausant traveled to the Canadian border with the intent of continuing on to Syria to join the terrorist organization known as al Qaeda in Iraq.
On Teausant's Facebook page, he goes by a second, Arabic, name, Ased abdur-Raheem.
According to the criminal complaint filed by the FBI, Teausant is a student at a community college in Stockton, California, and is a member of the U.S. Army National Guard, though he is in the process of being released by the Guard for not meeting the minimum qualifications.
The arrest and charging of Teausant are the result of a joint investigation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Modesto, California, Police Department, along with the San Joaquin Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to the DOJ.
According to the FBI's affidavit, Teausant used Instagram and other social media sites to connect with Islamic extremists and to express his desire to conduct violent jihad and "to be a part of America's 'downfall'"
In one communication, Teausant detailed his ideas to bomb several public places in the United States, including the day care his infant daughter attends, calling it a "Zionist reform church."
Teausant's communications with extremists and undercover FBI agents continued online and in person for about six months, ending in his arrest on Monday.
Teausant was expected to make his first court appearance Monday afternoon in Washington.
If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


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Hello there and its Susan here from Craftin' Suzie because it is my turn for Hostess Monday. I have used one on my favourite images from Digital Delights called Little Dumpling and Stork:
Now isn't he just the cutest all ready for a Special Delivery to some lucky couple! Its so easy to make it for a girl or boy just by changing the colours around or a neutral colour way if you want to make a card in advance and don't know the sex of the baby. Click on the link below to go directly to the store:
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So, let's just dive right into last night's Love & Hip Hop, shall we? After all, that's what Mona wants us to do! The episode begins as Peter Gunz' two lady loves have been pulled apart, and Tara Wallace is still trying to figure out her next move as Amina Buddafly laughs hysterically in the corner. I'm so confused. Rich Dollaz calls Peter to warn him of the debacle. It's messy, and messy isn't good for the label. Yandy Smith puts Tara in a car after promising to support her friend. So, is Amina still going to be the label's rainmaker?
Saigon is having a birthday party Joe Budden style. He's gotten back the results of the DNA test, and he's waiting to open up the envelope. Erica Jean is giggling and falling all over Grill Master Saigon until he's ready to Maury Povich himself. For some reason Erica Jean is nervous, but once it's determined that he is the father, he's over the moon. Saigon isn't ready to commit to Erica Jean until he knows he's mature enough to be honest and faithful, but he's happy to date her until that day comes. He starts screaming "The Boy is Mine" all Brandi/Monica style to the entire birthday party. So much for keeping the DNA testing discreet!
Tara waits up all night for the coward Peter to come home. Of course, he waits to confront Tara in the daylight after she's put his shoe collection out on the sidewalk. He's sorry he messed, but he doesn't want to be embarrassed by having his shoes thrown at him. Peter thinks that Tara was wrong for hitting Amina, and Amina was wrong for telling Tara about their marriage. Is this guy for real? He hates that Tara found out that Amina is his wife because it pains him to see her hurting. Yeah, keeping the marriage a secret should have been the way to go…not, oh, you know, refraining from marrying your side chick!


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – It's a disturbing trend: Young people ending up in rehab for prescription drug abuse. But it's not Oxycontin. They're getting hooked on medications used to treat attention disorders like ADHD.
Now these so-called "study drugs" are leading to life-threatening addictions, reports TV 10-55′s Katie McGee.
When Annie Gendaszek first tried a friend's ADHD medication, she was just 13-years-old. By the time she got to college, she was abusing the drugs daily.
"I really liked the effect and how they made me feel," she said. "I started lying, being dishonest and stealing," said Gendaszek.
Dr. Timothy Wilens, of the Center of Addiction Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital, says an estimated five to ten percent of young people are misusing or abusing ADHD medications.
"If you're just popping them willy nilly and you're using them in context to other substances, which is frequently occurring, that could be potentially dangerous," said Dr. Wilens.
|Velvet Mangan, of the Safe Harbor Treatment Centers for Women, agrees."Its huge," she said. "I have probably a hundred clients, and over 80 percent of them have been addicted to Adderall since they were in grade school."Rehab centers report seeing more patients because these drugs are easy to obtain and are socially acceptable.
"It's just kind of the norm on college campuses, just like drinking is," Mangan said.
"It's similar to misusing any kind of amphetamine or speed or cocaine," said Dr. Wilens. "And its going to require abstinence from that. It's going to require recovery management skills, how to fight urges, how to fight cravings."
While in rehab, patients work on emotional issues that lead to their drug abuse.
"Its not what you use, its why you're using," said Mangan. "So we focus on life skills, we focus on self esteem."
It worked for Gendaszek. She got help and hasn't used drugs for almost four years.
"It's a really sad and lonely place to be," the recovering addict said. "But there is hope and there is a solution."
Besides being harmful to your health, selling or sharing ADHD prescription drugs is a criminal offense


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Clicker 2 for FT90x is a compact development board featuring a 32-bit FTDI FT900Q microcontroller and two mikroBUS host sockets that allow you to plug in any two out of more than 100 different plug-and-play peripheral modules (called Click boards). The FT900Q chip comes preprogrammed with a fast USB HID bootloader, so you can load code into it without needing an external programmer.
If you want to use an external programmer, pads are available on the board for installing a header compatible with the mikroProg-FT90x. Header pins are included for this purpose.
The board also has two rows of pads (26 pins each; headers included) for connection to external electronics (compatible with the mikromedia shields shown in the options below), and a LiPo battery connector (for Molex 5264-2P). An LTC3586-1 power management IC allows charging of a connected battery via USB and provides 3.3V or 5V to your click boards. The mikroBUS host connectors each consist of two 1×8 female headers with SPI, I2C, UART, RST, PWM, Analog and Interrupt lines as well as 3.3V, 5V and GND power lines.
Rounding off the board's features are buttons (two User; one Reset), LEDs (two User; Power; Charge Status), and pads for connecting your own external on/off switch if the on-board switch is not convenient (e.g. if the board is going into an enclosure).
The user LEDs can be used for visual indication of the logic state on pins P34 and P18. The user buttons are connected to P35 and P2. A 12MHz crystal oscillator provides a reference frequency output to the clock multiplier PLL. A 32.7kHz crystal oscillator provides a clock for the internal RTCC.
The board measures 60.45 × 81.15 mm (2.4 × 3.2 inches). Without Click boards installed, it weighs 26 grams (0.912 ounces). It can be powered via USB or external battery.


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COLUMBUS: A lot has happened in the two years since players from Ohio State and Michigan � the Buckeyes with their heads down, the Wolverines wildly celebrating � left the field at Michigan Stadium.
After beating their rivals seven years in a row, the Buckeyes lost that 2011 game 40-34. At the time, it seemed as if the game might be the start of a tectonic shift for the two teams.
Those were dark days for Ohio State, which had seven losses that season, its most since 1897. And the NCAA was about to levy sanctions that would rock the program.
Michigan, under first-year coach Brady Hoke, captured its 10th win and appeared to have recaptured its national prominence after the woeful era of Rich Rodriguez.
That one game appeared to have begun a sea change for both of the storied programs. Or did it?
The third-ranked Buckeyes have won almost every game since and are in the thick of the national championship chase under coach Urban Meyer, who has not lost on their sideline.
�It is completely different. We were reeling my freshman year,� defensive tackle Michael Bennett said. �Then you have where we are � a really strong team that is getting better every week. The confidence is through the roof.�
Meanwhile, Hoke is dealing with yet another late-season swoon and the maize and blue have more doubters than believers.
Will Saturday�s 110th edition of �The Game� flip things yet again?
It was a nadir for Ohio State back in 2011. A season of innuendo, defections and investigations had resulted in the forced departure of coach Jim Tressel earlier that season. He was dismissed for failing to disclose that several of his players had most likely received improper benefits from the subject of a federal drug probe.
Defensive assistant Luke Fickell took over a team that was weakened further when three-year starting quarterback Terrelle Pryor jumped to the NFL.
The rudderless Buckeyes were hanging on, winners of six of their 11 games, heading into the annual joust with the Wolverines. Freshman quarterback Braxton Miller overthrew a wide-open DeVier Posey in the final minute for what could have been a game-winning 76-yard touchdown.
�It was heartbreaking,� safety C.J. Barnett said. �We let the great state of Ohio down.�
A month later, Ohio State hired Meyer, an Ohio native who had spent a year as an ESPN analyst after winning two national titles at Florida. He didn�t coach in the bowl game, which Ohio State lost in a final bit of irony to Florida 24-17.
Since then, Meyer and the Buckeyes (11-0, 7-0 Big Ten) have played 23 games and won them all � a school record.
And Michigan has fallen off its perch.
�This is a big game for us and for this program,� Michigan senior defensive tackle Mike Martin had said after the signature victory against the Buckeyes in 2011. �For us to take this step as a team is huge and it�s something we�re never going to forget, these fans, and this fan base is never going to forget.�
If not forgotten, that victory certainly has faded.
Soon after the Ohio State win, Hoke�s club beat No. 17 Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl, but has gone 15-9 since. That includes a 26-21 loss to the Buckeyes a year ago.
This year, the Wolverines (7-4, 3-4) climbed to No. 11 after opening with five wins. Since then, they�ve had dramatic upticks and lulls in production on offense. They�ve offered up yards and points on defense and, unlike almost Michigan teams in memory, have been unable to run for positive yardage.
The fans are restless. There are murmurs that Hoke isn�t recruiting or coaching up to the stratospheric standards set by the likes of Bo Schembechler, Fielding Yost and Fritz Crisler.
Some of the Michigan players remember what it was like not so long ago.
�Really, what I loved was seeing the look on those seniors� faces as they walked off, how excited they were and happy they were to beat Ohio that year,� said cornerback Courtney Avery, who sealed the 2011 victory with an interception of Miller with 39 seconds left. �I�m just hoping and working so our senior class can walk off with the same excitement.�
The Wolverines will send 18 seniors out for the final time at �The Big House� on Saturday. Might they do something to stop Ohio State�s juggernaut and create another shift?
Maybe. But Ohio State�s Bennett likes where his team is this time around.
�It�s a good feeling to know we are going back there and we have some momentum behind us,� he said. �I�m not going to say anything to get in trouble. But it will be a fun game to get a W at their place.�


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Orange Is the New Black, Grey's Anatomy, Orphan Black, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Modern Family are among the TV shows that scored nominations for the 25th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which honor outlets that depict "outstanding images of the LGBT community." ABC leads broadcast networks with three nominations.
On the movie side, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Dallas Buyers Club, Kill Your Darlings, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and Philomena were all nominated for Outstanding Film (Wide-Release).
Photos: Out and proud celebrities
Grey's Anatomy and Orphan Black are nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, along with The Fosters, Pretty Little Liars and Shameless. Nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series are Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Glee, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black, and Pivot's Please Like Me.
Days of Our Lives is the only nominee in the Outstanding Daily Drama category.
Supernatural, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Elementary and Necessary Roughness also received nominations for individual episodes.
The awards will be handed out in two ceremonies — the first in Los Angeles on April 12 and the second in New York City on May 3. Check out the full list of nominees here.


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Mass Effect Comics
Top Contributors: Samuel-IGN, Bob-IGN, Andrew Nelson + more
As of now, there are a total of five comics that take place during the Mass Effect universe. Just like the novels, Commander Shepard does not make any appearances in these. The only exception being Mass Effect: Genesis, which was an interactive comic-based game that allowed the player to control Shepard's decisions.
Comics and Comic Series
- Mass Effect: Redemption: A series of four comics serving as a prequel to Mass Effect 2, and takes place just a couple months after the beginning events of Mass Effect 2. The story follows Liara T'Soni, Cerberus, and a mission of great importance. The first issue of Redemption was released on January 26, 2010, with the release of Mass Effect 2, and the Mass Effect 2 Limited Collector's Edition included a special edition of the comic. Redemption was written by Mac Walters, scripted by John Jackson Miller, drawn by Omar Francia, colored by Michael Atiyeh, and lettered by Michael Heisler. The cover designs for each part were created by Daryl Mandryk.
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Best Utilize Your Tax Refund – Part 1
Welcome to the latest series on www.JoeSangl.com – "Best Utilize Your Tax Refund"!
About 70% of Americans expect to receive a refund this year. Are you one of them? If so, it can be a tremendous tool to start your journey toward Debt Freedom and Financial Freedom!
Step 1 Before You Spend It, Plan It
I used to have my tax refund spent sixteen different ways by the time it actually arrived. It was assigned to pay for Christmas, summer vacation, clothes, credit card bills, student loan payments, car payments, a new appliance, a new electronic device, etc.
In addition to having spent the refund sixteen different ways, I had went ahead and made all of the purchases via credit card or other form of loan.
When the refund actually arrived, it was woefully inadequate to cover my crazy spending.
Talk about feeling miserable!!! Is anyone reading this and feeling my pain, or am I the only one who has done this?
When I decided once and for all to take control of my finances, I realized the root cause of my problem.
The root cause? The reason for my crazy spending?
I did not have a plan!
Before you spend your tax refund, plan out the spending first! I highly recommend that you use the [download#3#nohits] to plan your spending. Enter the amount of the tax refund at the top, and spend it to exactly zero (Remember: INCOME – OUTGO = EXACTLY ZERO.
Start planning now – BUT don't start spending just yet. We are in the PLANNING stages.
Where should the money go? Well, that will be covered NEXT in the series!
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Thanks for the crusade your on. It has help changed the way I look at the finances God has given me. I am debt free (besides house) and you helped me reach that goal. I'm jacked up about you coming again to our church and helping our people slay the debt monster.
A career in financial planning is still lucrative despite the worldwide financial crunch. As long as money is used in our economy financial planners will be needed. You have to pay your dues to become a financial planner but once you pass the test and prove your mettle, you can expect a handsome return for your efforts.


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This guide contains information for incorporating the theme into Primary sharing time throughout the year. It also discusses ideas for the children's sacrament meeting presentation. Primary leaders, bishopric members, and others involved in planning sharing time and the sacrament meeting presentation can benefit from the following resources:
2012 Outline for Sharing Time
This document, provided in portable document format (PDF), allows you to view the same page layout in which the document was originally printed. To view a PDF document, you will need to have Adobe® Acrobat® loaded on your computer.
Gospel Art Pictures from 2012 Outline for Sharing Time
View and download large versions of pictures for the lessons in the sharing time outline.
Songs for Use during Sacrament Meeting Presentation in 2012


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UPDATE – Missoula Man Shot to Death in Ravalli County Identified [DOCUMENT]
UPDATE - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 18
Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman has released the name of the man killed Monday morning during an apparent burglary of a Victor area home as Tobias Ian Bishop, 39, of Missoula.
Bishop was shot by the homeowner after entering the residence through a window that he had broken.
Hoffman reported that his investigation to date shows that Bishop had apparently burglarized at least one other home in the vicinity prior to being shot, and that he had already gathered several chainsaws and other items near his van outside the second residence.
Hoffman said records from Arizona, Idaho and Montana revealed that Bishop had a long history of illegal activity, including burglary, assault and drug-related arrests. He was wanted on several warrants in Arizona and Montana.
Hoffman said the homeowner has no criminal history, and at this point in the investigation is classified as a victim in the incident.
A Missoula man was shot to death early Monday morning while apparently burglarizing a home northwest of Corvallis.
Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman said the resident, who was alone in his home, was awakened by noises just before 4:00 a.m.
"When the homeowner went to investigate, he found the suspect climbing through a window he had just broken to get into the home," Hoffman said. "When the resident ordered the man not to move, the suspect turned towards him. The resident, who was armed with a handgun, shot the intruder as he jumped back through the open window and ran away from the home."
Hoffman said the intruder was found dead not far away.
"When Ravalli County deputies got there, they searched the area and found the intruder lying on the ground, a short distance from the home," Hoffman said. "Emergency Medical Services had been staged to the area, and were able to respond immediately, however, the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene."
Hoffman said the dead man's name has not yet been released, pending notification of his next of kin, but did confirm that he was an adult male from Missoula.
Hoffman said the investigation is underway, and it was too soon to determine whether the homeowner would face any potential charges in the intruder's death.
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