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nA daughter, Meegan Amber Rimbocchi, was born April 30, 2009, to Tiffany Larmore and Tony Rimbocchi of New Milford. Maternal grandparents are Michelle Larmore of Bantam and Lynn Ucker-Larmore and Merton Larmore of New Milford. Paternal grandparents are Nicholas and Mary Ann Rimbocchi of Washington Depot.
nA daughter, Leah Katherine Brunner, was born May 17, 2009, to Andrea and Christopher Brunner of New Milford. Maternal grandparents are Robert and Lori Giannini of Middlebury. Paternal grandparents are Arnold and Susan Brunner of Smethport, Pa. She has a sibling, Katelyn.
nA daughter, Samantha Grace Chepren, was born May 28, 2009, to Rebecca and John Chepren of New Milford. Maternal grandparents are Ro and Rich Henebery of Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Paternal grandparents are Fran and Jack Chepren of Middleboro, Mass.
nA daughter, Lillian Grace Fortier, was born June 7, 2009, to Caroline and Jesse Fortier of New Milford. Maternal grandparents are Niel and Susan Andersen of New Milford. Paternal grandmother is Lynne Fortier of New Milford.
nA daughter, Alexa Grace Hoadley, was born June 9, 2009, to Lisa and Bill Hoadley of Kent. Maternal grandparents are Shirley and Pat Howe of Kent. Paternal grandparents are Zita and Vincent of Monroe. Alexa has five big brothers, Billy, Tyler, Clay, Jake and Austin.
nA daughter, Iris Elizabeth Gaudenzi, was born June 12, 2009, to Stacey Iris and Michael Joseph Gaudenzi Jr. of New Milford. Maternal grandparents are Steven and Carol Bennett of Land O' Lakes, Fla. Paternal grandparents are Lee Ann Gaudenzi of New Milford and Michael Gaudenzi Sr. of Sherman.
nA daughter, Claire Nancy Flora Wheaton, was born June 16, 2009, to Carla Jeanne and Matthew Craig Wheaton of New Milford. Maternal grandparents are Nancy and Bob Maurice. Paternal grandparents are W. Arnold Wheaton.
nA daughter, Jennifer Marie Weggeman, was born July 17, 2009, to Kimberly M. and Philip Weggeman of New Milford. Maternal grandparents are Joan and Vic Oricchio of Brookfield. Paternal grandparents are Mieke and John Weggeman of Woodbury.
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Louis van Gaal will have money to spend in January if he still believes his Manchester United squad is not up to scratch.
Van Gaal was by far the biggest-spending manager in the Premier League this window, splashing out just short of £150million to sign six players.
The United manager hopes Luke Shaw, Ander Herrera, Marcos Rojo, Angel di Maria, Daley Blind and Radamel Falcao will help him achieve the first goal in his three-year plan – Champions League qualification.
But Press Association Sport understands Van Gaal has already been told there is yet more cash available to him if he feels his squad is still too short on quality come January.
United have shown they are prepared to spend big to land their targets this summer and there is a feeling that the same rule applies for January, even though the winter window rarely throws up opportunities for clubs to sign the best players in Europe.
Van Gaal has told his scouts to monitor Kevin Strootman as he recovers from a serious knee injury.
But a representative of the Roma midfielder, Fabio Parisi, said no bids have been received for the 24-year-old, who Van Gaal knows well from his time with Holland.
"There is no kind of interest on Strootman. He is recovering from his injury and will be available soon to contribute to Roma's cause," Parisi said.
"For the rest, I say that is just talk and there is nothing, it's all just speculation from England."
Some were shocked by the decision to let Danny Welbeck leave for Arsenal given that he had been at United since he was eight-years-old.
Former assistant manager Mike Phelan said United's "identity has been broken" with Danny Welbeck's departure to the Emirates Stadium.
But senior figures at the club insist United are not going down the same 'Galactico' route as Real Madrid, who regularly spend exorbitant fees on players like they have done recently to sign Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez.
The club's hierarchy are assured by the fact that Van Gaal has already promoted the likes of James Wilson, Jesse Lingard, Reece James, Tyler Blackett and Sam Johnstone to the first-team squad.
Van Gaal has also been told by the United board he will have the final say on whether the club takes part in exhibition games this season.
The Old Trafford hierarchy were considering organising money-spinning one-off matches across the globe during the season due to the midweek windows created by the club's failure to qualify for the Champions League.
With United already out of the Capital One Cup, yet more gaps are available in the schedule.
But it is understood the board are happy for Van Gaal to decide himself whether any exhibition matches should take place.
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Since the advent of Peter Jackson's mega-budget Lord of the Rings movies, Middle-earth has become set in many people's minds as a wonderfully dark, atmospheric environment, populated by shadowy forces such as Saruman's distinctly terrifying Uruk-Hai and Orc armies. The Hobbit treads a rather lighter path for the adventures of Shireling Baggins, presenting Tolkien's world in a vibrant, colourful setting, with cute character art and perky music. But don't let all this talk of kiddy-friendly graphics discourage you from taking a look at Vivendi Universal Games' interpretation of the classic text. The Hobbit may differ in both look and feel to the licensed EA titles, but you'll still feel as though you're experiencing Tolkien's mythical world, with familiar areas from the book including Rivendell, Mirkwell and Laketown amongst the environments encompassed in the journey.
Embarking on the legendary quest armed initially with a stick and sack of stones, you'll fend off foes in a platform-action-style adventure which sees Bilbo go from timid Shireling to hobbit hero. As in the epic text, the tale begins with a group of nine dwarves recruiting the home-loving hobbit as a master thief for their mission to recover stolen ancestral gold from under the fiery snout of Smaug the dragon. The group head for the Lonely Mountain, stopping along the way to fight it out with a variety of Middle-earth's less-than-friendly inhabitants, such as giant spiders, murderous goblins and bloodthirsty trolls.
After completing a number of quests, you'll aquire additional weaponry with which to dispense the slavering hordes with greater ease. Amongst the upgrades on offer are a sword and, later in the game, the one true ring. Yup, you can get your sweaty mitts on THE Ring, and run around invisible for short bursts. Very handy for getting out of some sticky situations.... In addition to the main action, there's also an ingenious minigame that'll require Bilbo to call upon all his skills as a master burglar. Unpick locks within a set time to open the minigame up to multiplayer possibilities, then challenge friends to matches.
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Frost & Sullivan Applauds Ostendum's Development of Multiplexing, Disposable Chips for the Lab-on-Chips Nanodevices Market
07 Jan, 2014, 08:00 GMT
-- The group is focused on developing sensitive biosensors, and less expensive optical systems, with the aim of improving the performance of LOC devices
LONDON, Jan. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) nanodevices market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Ostendum R&D BV (Ostendum) with the 2013 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Leadership. Ostendum is a group of companies focused on the development and production of fast, highly sensitive, portable, easy-to-use and cost-effective biosensors for the instantaneous detection of micro-organisms and biomolecules, including biomarkers, proteins and nucleic acids. The group has successfully created proprietary LOC nanodevices, based on an integral optical technology platform developed by Aurel Ymeti, who is the co-founder and CTO of Ostendum, during his doctoral research that was previously highlighted in Technical Insights of Frost & Sullivan. Ostendum's LOC nanodevices have detection limits that are at least 100 times deeper than currently available LOC devices.
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Ostendum's chip has at least four independent sensing channels, one of which is used as the reference channel, while the other three constitute the measurement channels. As the latter three can be used to perform the simultaneous detection of three different analytes, it confers the device multiplexing capabilities. Using Ostendum's technology, one can analyze most complex samples such as full blood or whole milk.
The company has constructed a novel method of measurement, wherein one analyte or class of analytes is detected selectively. It involves the pre-coating of each measurement channel with a unique receptor layer. The receptor, typically an antibody, can specifically bind to one class of micro-organisms or biomolecules, whereas the antigen is specifically bound at the measurement channel. This feature distinguishes the product, enabling the user to pre-coat the LOC system with the desired receptors or use pre-coated disposable LOC systems provided by Ostendum.
"By confining the samples containing the test fluid to the microfluidic inlet of the LOC system, the device offers continuous flow, enabling the monitoring of samples in-line and in real time," said Frost & Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe. "It guarantees continuous flow and homogeneity by means of a micro-pump located in such a way that the channels are specifically addressed on the chip."
In addition to multiple applications in human healthcare, Ostendum's technology platform is applied in veterinary and plant health, food and beverage, environment and security monitoring. Similarly, LOC devices can be utilized for onsite drinking and waste water analysis, untreated (raw) milk, beverages and food sampling, among many others.
Ostendum's LOC nanodevice will find wide application in early disease diagnostics, especially for cancer and heart diseases. Some of its future applications could include food analysis, e.g. species-specific (Halal) tests, safety, environmental monitoring and R&D pharma.
Ostendum is currently speeding up the development of its LOC system to be pre-packed and pre-coated as a low-cost disposable. In the context of this development, Ostendum is preparing to increase its device multiplexing capabilities to aid the simultaneous detection of up to ten different analytes in a single sample.
Frost & Sullivan finds that being an industrial partner with the University Twente, the Research Institute for Nanotechnology, MESA+, and the High Tech Factory initiative, Ostendum is positioned as an innovator leader in Europe. As evidence of its commitment to extend its technology's application to diverse markets, Ostendum has applied for a portfolio of selected patents.
"However, beyond all its superior features, it is the technology's portability, easy-handling, light weighting and minimal power requirement that make it suitable for a broad spectrum of applications and industries," noted Van Cauwenberghe.
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Ostendum is a group of companies that commercializes Lab-on-a-Chip optical biosensing nanodevices for detection of micro-organisms, biomarkers, (bio-) molecules and nano-particles. Ostendum develops and produces both the necessary hardware and software, including its own Lab-on-a-Chip system. Ostendum's Lab-on-a-Chip interferometric nanotechnology is unique, being completely label-free, instantaneous - analysis is performed literally within minutes - and extremely sensitive, being at least 100 times more sensitive than all currently available competing detection methods. This has enabled, among others, detection of various bacteria in whole milk, numerous viruses in (human/patient) serum and many biomarkers in plasma and full blood without time-consuming pre-concentration handling, contributing to faster analysis and savings on operational costs.
Ostendum's technology, which is qualified by Forbes as one of the "13 Amazing New Nanotechnologies", is versatile and broadly applicable in areas such as human healthcare for (early) disease diagnosis and as a tool for personalized medicine at point-of-care, veterinary and plant health, food and beverage safety, drinking/waste water monitoring, biological warfare and R&D markets.
Ostendum raised venture capital from the public-private incubator fund UT International Ventures and from Achmea, the largest health insurer of the Netherlands.
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While we will probably never find a Garfield spin off as hilarious and existentially depressing as Garfield Minus Garfield, this comes close.
The artist behind Hetfield the Cat took the pretty great idea of using Metallica lyrics to express the despondent life of America's most overwrought cartoon cat.
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Resident Evil 5 HD Walkthrough S-Rank Chapter 2-2: No Damage
You'll eventually come to a part of the path covered in some stagnant, shallow water. It's at this point that enemies begin to appear on-screen as you move forward. Some of these foes are of the Cephalo variety, meaning you'll need to deal with them once, and then once more once that huge snake-like creature pops out from where their head once was. Your Ithaca shotgun will go a long way here. When you reach another fork in the road, first head right to the dead end, where myriad goods can be acquired from the breakable objects there. Then, swing leftward, slaying more enemies as you go, with your lantern-toting partner in tow. When you reach a bridge, cross it. But first...
|BSAA Emblem #10 - ...you'll want to grab the tenth BSAA Emblem, which is in your direct vicinity. When you've reached the bridge gapping the chasm so that you can proceed forward and ultimately out of the dreary cave, head to the middle of the bridge, but don't yet cross it. Instead, look to your right. A thin veil of water will flow down the rockface to your right, and sitting amongst the water and rocky terrain is the emblem, rather-obviously sitting there.
Moving forward from the bridge, you'll see more of what has become a typical scene in this cavernous section of the chapter. You'll need to deal with more Majini, and use, many of them indeed turn into Cephalo once slain. You'll also have the opportunity to collect many more items, tucked safely in barrels and boxes around every corner. When the path splits once more, you'll want to explore both forks, since there are items to be found on both paths (and both paths reconnect to form a single path once more). Once you see light streaming into the cavern, you know you're headed in the right direction.
Before heading towards the light to finally leave this dark cavern (and that pesky, cumbersome lantern) behind, you'll actually want to head leftward (if facing the daylight) to seek out a small, out-of-the-way chamber. There's a treasure chest here containing a valuable treasure, Diamond (Oval), which you won't want to leave without. With that in hand, you can then head towards the light. Once at the light source (which is, unfortunately, artificial), you can use a crank on the wall to force a nearby gate open. Your partner will then run through to another crank and keep the gate open permanently while you deal with a trio of enemies that ambush you at this location. Once they're felled, reunite with your partner at the entrance to a wide-open, well-lit chamber.
This chamber represents a sort of free-for-all that you're going to have to survive. You'll be inundated with over a dozen enemies of various types, mostly in the form of typical Majini. However, you should expect to fight at least a half-dozen Cephalo as well, and these particular foes will necessitate the use of some firepower, whether it come in the form of a shotgun or grenades, because if more than one is attacking you at a time, you're going to find yourself in considerable trouble otherwise. Your best bet here is to simply tuck yourself in a corner on the first floor and let the foes come to you. And come to you they shall. Reload rapidly and make your shots count, and keep your partner nearby with some curative items, just in case.
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Cayce, Henry Petty (1819–1875)
Henry Petty Cayce, a Texas soldier through five wars and thirty years, was born at Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, on September 5, 1819, to Thomas Dodson and Hannah (Stanley) Cayce. The family came to Texas in December 1829, and Thomas Cayce received a league of land on the Colorado River, just below the present Wharton-Matagorda county line. Where the road from Columbia to Goliad crossed the river he built a ferry that became known as Cayce's Ferry. In the fall of 1835, just a few days after his sixteenth birthday, Henry Cayce, under the command of Captain Goodwin and Philip Dimmitt, rode to Goliad to capture La Bahía from the Mexicans. Early in November 1835 Dimmitt sent Cayce on special duty, under Capt. Bailey Hardeman, to move an eighteen-pound cannon from Dimitt's Landing, at the mouth of the Lavaca River, to San Antonio for use in the siege of Bexar. Twenty men from the Bay Prairie area started on the trip. They were joined along the way by others, including twenty members of the Mobile Grays, until they numbered seventy-five. They pushed and pulled the cannon for almost 200 miles and made it to San Antonio two days after the Mexicans surrendered. Some say they surrendered because Gen. Martín Perfecto de Cos knew the cannon was coming. Cayce went back to Goliad and was discharged on January 14, 1836, when Dimmitt and the Bay Prairie men were sent home. He received a bounty grant of 320 acres for this service.
Cayce returned to Goliad with some of the men that were marching to join James W. Fannin, Jr. He was still at Goliad when Fannin started the retreat to Victoria and was sent a few miles ahead of the main body of troops to guard some wagons. When Fannin and his men were surrounded, Cayce and the others with the wagons eluded the enemy and escaped. Cayce made his way to the Colorado River and found Sam Houston and the Texas army. Houston believed the sixteen-year-old-boy was too young to fight another battle, and he sent him to guard the women and children in the Runaway Scrape. This caused him to miss the battle of San Jacinto, and he always regretted it.
After the war Cayce's father sent him back to Tennessee to finish his education. He studied law and returned to Texas four years later. He came home just in time to learn of the death of his brother, George Washington Cayce, who was killed by Comanches at the Council House Fight in San Antonio. In March of 1842 he joined Albert Clinton Horton after the invasion of Rafael Vásquez. In September he joined Colonel Horton again when Gen. Adrián Woll and a thousand Mexican troops captured San Antonio.
Cayce married Mary Francis Slade on November 29, 1842, in Matagorda County, and subsequently started buying land in Wharton County. He became a prosperous farmer with extensive holdings. He owned many slaves but was a kindhearted man and never sold any of them.
In 1846 he served with Gen. Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War and fought at Matamoros. He was elected county commissioner of Wharton County in 1848 and served until 1852. In 1861 he joined the Confederate Army and was commissioned a lieutenant in Col. Joseph Bates's Fourth Texas Volunteer regiment. On October 22, 1861, Cayce placed an advertisement in the Columbia Democrat and Planter asking for volunteers to join the "Flying Artillery." One of the first to answer the call was his sixteen-year-old son, Henry P. Cayce, Jr. Father and son rode off to fight this war together. Henry Cayce spent four years using the big guns of his artillery battery to keep the Yankees from invading the Texas coast. By 1865 he was a lieutenant colonel and was sent to Louisiana to stop the Union forces from overrunning Texas from the east.
After the war he returned again to Wharton County. His slaves were gone, the land was overgrown, and he had no money. He practiced law in Wharton for a few years, but the problems of Reconstruction were too much, and he decided to move on and start over again. In the winter of 1873 he set out for Coryell County with his wife, most of their nine children, and many members of both of their families. Many illnesses and some deaths occurred on the long, cold trip. The caravan stopped in Milam County to rest and to let Cayce practice law for a while because they needed the money. But without recovering from the cold and exposure of the trip he died, on November 26, 1875, and was buried at Davilla in Milam County.


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Signaling device generates an alarm to warn or indicate somebody or somebody by producing an audible sound or visible alert in case of emergency or other alert applications. The devices are linked with control panel and are installed at precise locations in such a way that when needed the people can be alerted and corrective measures can be taken. With a motive to minimize the losses that occur due to natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcano eruptions and others, safety measures can be taken by using signaling devices. Signaling devices are proved to be very important in security and safety management such as earthquake warning system, mining safety system, heavy rainfall warning system, Fire alarm system & traffic signaling. Signaling device monitors the parameters and generates safety alarm during undesirable situation. These devices are designed according to the requirements for specific applications such as fire alarms are designed using fireproof material.
Technological advancements of signaling devices is the prime trend for signaling devices market. Upsurge in the urbanization, government attention on enhancing industrial safety by implying safety rules & regulations and rising demand for safety equipment are the major driver, propelling the growth of global signaling devices market. Whereas, high installation-cost and deficiency of skilled professionals are few of the factors hindering the growth of this market. Several industries such as warehouse, manufacturing, mining and marine use machinery that are dangerous to operate and can be unsafe if not handled correctly. The safety of the workers is always a priority in all industries. This demand for safety resulted in development of a range of products identified as signaling devices. These devices are competent of sensing errors or faults and sending warning signals to evade or decrease the chances of accident. These devices have proven to be suitable in mitigating the expected accidents and detection of malfunctions in smooth running of the manufacturing or production processes.
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"Jesse Stone: Thin Ice," Starring Tom Selleck, Delivers 15.1 Million Viewers
"The Amazing Race 14" Dashes to Its Best Deliveries in Viewers and Key Demographics
"60 Minutes" Places First in Viewers
CBS placed first in viewers on Sunday led by the CBS MOVIE SPECIAL: JESSE STONE: THIN ICE and the best deliveries in all key measures for THE AMAZING RACE 14, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for March 1.
From 9:00-11:00 PM, JESSE STONE: THIN ICE, the fifth movie in the Jesse Stone franchise starring Tom Selleck, was first in households (9.3/14), viewers (15.13m), while averaging 3.5/08 in adults 25-54 and 2.2/05 in adults 18-49. Compared to the last JESSE STONE movie (on Tuesday, May 22, 2007), CBS added +2.09m viewers (from 13.04m, +16%).
At 8:00 PM, THE AMAZING RACE 14 was second in households (6.3/10) and viewers (10.75m) while averaging a 3.9/09 in adults 25-54 and 3.0/08 in adults 18-49. Compared to last week, THE AMAZING RACE was up +43% in households (from 4.4/07), +18% in adults 25-54 (from 3.3/07), +15% in adults 18-49 (from 2.6/06), +17% in adults 18-34 (from 1.8/05) and added +2.94m viewers (from 7.81m, +38%). This is THE AMAZING RACE 14's best delivery in all these measures.
At 7:00 PM, 60 MINUTES was first in households (9.0/15), viewers (14.12m), second in adults 25-54 (3.4/08) and averaged a 2.2/06 in adults 18-49. Compared to last week, 60 MINUTES was up +55% in households (from 5.8/09), +48% in adults 25-54 (from 2.3/06), +38% in adults 18-49 (from 1.6/05) and added +4.94m viewers (from 9.18m, +55%).
For the night, CBS was first in households (8.5/13) and viewers (13.78m).
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Several years ago now, Darren Moffat, Casper Dik and I started swapping e-mail about how pathetic it was to still be using the traditional 8-character-password unix crypt() routine in Solaris, and how we could architect something to be much better.
The result was the Solaris Pluggable Crypt Framework, as was announced:
- A project exists within Solaris engineering, to integrate a pluggable crypt() routine into Solaris, which will allow use of arbitrary password-hashing algorithms, of arbitrary lengths, etc, in Solaris.
- Interoperability with Linux/*BSD MD5- and Blowfish-based hash algorithms is a goal of the project
- If I remember right – and I may well be incorrect, as I am not responsible for this aspect of the project – the release is scheduled for Solaris9.
I am consulting with the team/doing development work with them, on account of my (erm) extensive experience with crypt() implementations…
- PAM was considered as a solution for this, and it was decided to not be the appropriate vehicle for delivery of an alternative crypt() routine, because (in summary) PAM is essentially an API for user-interfaces (/bin/login, ftpd, etc) – as opposed to an API for interfacing to the directory-services within which the password entries reside; consider "getpwent()" and family.
Pluggable Crypt was rolled-out in Solaris 9 (Update 2, if my memory is correct?) and we were quietly pleased that our users suddenly reported being able to transparently use a mixture of Traditional, Linux-MD5 and Blowfish hash algorithms. GNU Autoconfig (aka: "./configure") spotted it immediately, next time Darren built Apache. All was cool.
Incidentally, we didn't get any awards or anything, but that's management for you. It was a nice example of co-operation inside the company because I was at that point actually working for Sun Professional Services, and not really an engineer.
The hook which permitted us to implement "Pluggable Crypt" was the presence of a dollar-sign ('$') as a field separator in the latter two kinds of hashes. We took that as a style cue, and designed the new crypt() shim so that lack of a '$' prefix causes a fall-through to the "traditional" algorithm.
After several weeks of considerable argument (three extremely opinionated and notoriously frank security programmers designing a API, it must have been funny to watch from a distance behind smoked glass) we decided that for a given ciphertext:
…that "foo" – the token being terminated by a dollar or comma – would be used to look up and load a shared library in crypt.conf(4), and that the latter would be at liberty to re-interpret the ciphertext as it willed.
We argued over the design using the following two ciphertexts as examples of desirable syntax:
…which are essentially the same algorithm and might possibly be implemented by the same shared library, but which would have different output syntaxes. The mechanism we created could permit this.
Provided with this wonderful power I mused what I could do in order to highlight the new features it provided, and so we came up with the SunMD5 Hash Algorithm that would be written exclusively with the purpose of annoying people who write brute-force or dictionary-based password guessing engines.
In short: for annoying people like me.
After some
beer consideration of the problem, I concluded that password-cracker writers:
- really hate hash-algorithms which allow large, near-infinite, clash-free numbers of salts.
- really hate hash-algorithms with large, variable, possibly near-infinite round-counts.
- really hate hash-algorithms which make precomputation/table-lookup impractical.
…and I further reasoned that:
- writing a wholly new hash algorithm would be a really really unutterably silly thing to do, but…
- aha! pumping vast and variable quantities of information through an existing hash algorithm would be reasonably computationally expensive, and the process may be tweakable to make it demonstrate the above desired qualities.
So, after some
more beer coffee considerable thought, I hit upon the following process:
- choose a PLAINTEXT, and a SALTSTRING
- push PLAINTEXTSALTSTRING through MD5, generating HASH0; let n=0
- condense HASHn into a single BIT, using MuffettCoinTossAlgorithm
- where "NNN" is a decimal ASCII representation of "n"; and where "HAMLET" is the complete 1517 bytes of "To Be Or Not To Be" soliloquy (Hamlet act 3 scene 2, copyright-free source) …
- if BIT=0, push HASHnNNN through MD5 generating HASH(n+1)
- if BIT=1, push HASHnHAMLETNNN through MD5 generating HASH(n+1)
- let n=n+1
- repeat steps 3 thru 7 for (4096+X) iterations, where X is an arbitrary positive integer 32-bit number specified in the input salt/ciphertext/metainformation.
- result:
– using base64 encoding where needed to encode binary data.
That's a quick rundown and I think it's approximately correct. I've not been drinking coffee this week so I may be a little off in the fine details, so check the source if you want verification. In terms of the blame we all argued the overall design, I did the SunMD5 algorithm, Darren the glue and Casper and Darren both the larger shared library interfaces, docs, integration and so forth.
The only blackbox in the above is MuffettCoinTossAlgorithm which I truly cannot be arsed to explain (or, more pointedly, why should I grep my mailbox archives for the design docs when you can read the source and figure it out for yourself?) – but the essence was to create something which was somewhat a function of the roundcount (strictly, there are 128 different ways it can go, since it's f(roundcount modulo hashbits)) and which self-referentially recombines bits of the previous round's hash both as dynamic-lookup-table and as data-looked-up, eventually extracting two bits from the hash, which then get XOR'ed to create a truth value. It was designed with painful memories of trying to speed-optimise DES S-boxes, plus a few hints of "let's try to align a few fetches unevenly bridging word boundaries, in case someone tries to inline it with longword fetches.".
You could try speculative computation, but then you're a masochist.
<DIG TYPE='amusing'> Aside: Reviewing the code nowadays, I'm sure it read a lot more clearly before Darren put it through cstyle. </DIG>
The benefits of the SunMD5 design:
- The saltstrings are of near-arbitrary length and can contain all sorts of stuff, including (for instance) the username as a substring, which could thereby guarantee the uniqueness of a salt within a given environment.
- The roundcount can be enormous; 1 round = (1517 * 50%) + 8 + 4 = 770 bytes pushed through MD5, so setting "rounds=904" (making 904 + 4096 builtin = 5000 rounds total) pushes 3.8Mb of data through MD5. If you want it to take longer, set "rounds=68000" and pump 50Mb through it instead.
As ever, much of the power of an algorithm is not merely how it works, but also in how you use it. The above should supply you with some idea of how it's meant to be used. In terms of the actual implementation, there's a feature which I don't like and for which there is a RFE somewhere; it's demonstrated by the following code:
# sunmd5.pl – test the sunmd5 implementation on solaris9u2 or above
# roundcount: 904 (user specified) + 4096 (builtin) = 5000 rounds total
# syntax examples
$exsalt1 = '$md5$rounds=904$saltstring$dummy';
# this one is strictly correct
$exsalt2 = '$md5$rounds=904$saltstring$';
# this one ought to be the same
$exsalt3 = '$md5$rounds=904$saltstring';
# as should this one
# test plaintexts
@words = qw( sesame abcdefgh abcdefghijklmnop );
foreach $word (@words) {
$ct1 = crypt($word, $exsalt1);
$ct2 = crypt($word, $ct1);
printf "with exsalt1: %-20s => %s\n", $word, $ct1;
printf "sanity check: %-20s => %s\n", $word, $ct2;
printf "with exsalt2: %-20s => %s\n", "", crypt($word, $exsalt2);
printf "with exsalt3: %-20s => %s\n", "", crypt($word, $exsalt3);
print "\n";
exit 0;
Basically: in order to produce correct outputs, the current parser for SunMD5 algorithm requires a dummy (or real!) ciphertext at the end of the salt-input; this is not a problem in operational usage since /bin/passwd and the other user-admin tools are meant to do the right thing, however it's not really a nice user experience for Joe Shmoe who's hacking around in perl as above.
So: when the examples with exsalt2/exsalt3 show the same output as the preceding, then it means that my RFE's gone through and the patch has been installed. Until then, be aware.
All this has been written in response to a bunch of questions from David Magda, who (over over the course of several e-mails) posed the following questions, the answers to which I shall use to wrap-up this posting:
- What advantages does the SunMD5-based algorithm have over the BSD one?
See the above; the algorithm is meant to demonstrate interesting features, innovative ideas in password hashing / what constitutes a ciphertext, and to highlight the Pluggable-Crypt framework which is now (of course) published as part of OpenSolaris.
Also: it exposes more programmers to Shakespeare, which has got to be a good thing.
- With the recent attacks on MD5 (and SHA-1), is there any thought to moving to the Blowfish-based hash as a default, or is MD5 still "good enough" for this purpose?
I reckon that given our modus operandi it's more than good enough, but for interest's sake Darren and I have long been planning an uprated version and we're considering SHA-512 as the underlying hash algorithm.
- Why another hash?
"Because People Always Want The Latest iPod" 😎
Plus, well, why not? Why can't we live in a world with a dozen different hash algorithms and support the lot of them? Pluggable Crypt is a really good idea:
WarStory: I gather that there is at least one site where old Ultrix / OpenVMS / OSF-1 ciphertexts have been imported into a Solaris environment by installing a suitable Pluggable-Crypt module, then prefixing the ciphertexts with $bc$ (bigcrypt) or $c16$ (crypt16) and performing migration from these old, weak algorithms by immediately deprecating $bc/$c16 by using the controls in policy.conf(4).
Insanely neat, huh?
Further: it allows the spooks to use their own password hashes. They really like that sort of thing. Makes them feel safe.
- Given that the Blowfish-based one is extendable by increasing the rounds, why not use it?
Because I thought it insufficiently evil, and evidently the progeny of a cryppie, rather than a cracker-programmer, mindset. 😎
Solais manpages you need to read: passwd(1), crypt(3C), crypt.conf(4), crypt_genhash_impl(3C), crypt_gensalt(3C), crypt_gensalt_impl(3C), getpassphrase(3C), passwd(4), crypt_unix(5)
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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
Simon & Schuster reports its sales were down in the third quarter, yet earnings rose, and digital sales increased 20 percent. (Publishers Weekly)
A crime writer in Texas, Nancy Mancuso Gelber, was recently imprisoned for contracting to murder her husband. (Huffington Post)
Vanity Fair visits with novelist, screenwriter, and Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes.
With hacking prevalent, the New York Times provides advice for writers and anyone else who uses a computer—how to create a proper password.
This month, to draw attention to censorship, Words Without Borders features the work of banned Chinese writers.
The Millions rounds up a rogue's gallery of literary characters who'd never be elected to office.
Author Nicholson Baker has been posting songs on YouTube. (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
Jezebel features a list of advice F. Scott Fitzgerald gave to his daughter, including: "Don't worry about popular opinion."
If you're thinking ahead for the holidays, consider the Bibliochaise, a chair that showcases three hundred books. (Daily Candy)


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Toronto – The Toronto Rock have locked up their leading scorer from a year ago, as GM Terry Sanderson announced the signing of 3-year NLL veteran forward Garrett Billings to a one-year agreement. Last season, the Langley, BC native established a new team record with 114 points as well as setting a new NLL record with 82 assists.
The accolades and accomplishments didn't end there, as he was runner-up in NLL MVP voting to John Grant Jr. of Colorado who set a new league scoring mark with 116 points. Billings' 114 points ranks third on the NLL all-time single-season scoring chart behind Grant (116) and Buffalo's John Tavares (115).
"I'm happy to be back with the Rock," said an exuberant Billings. "We're all ready to take another run at the Champion's Cup. It's an exciting time to be a part of this organization and we hope the city of Toronto is as ready as we are."
The 26-year old sniper's most impressive accomplishment may have come on March 31st in a game against the Buffalo Bandits. The Rock won the game 15-9 in enemy territory at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY, however Billings did something that no other player had done in the 26-year history of the NLL. He figured in on every one of the Rock's 15 goals on the evening, collecting 4 goals and 11 assists for 15 points. In the process setting a team record for most points in a game, falling just shy of the NLL record held by Buffalo's Mark Steenhuis of 17 points in a game.
"The individual success is always secondary to me," explained Billings. "For every single person in our organization, last season's goal was not fulfilled. We want to play another championship game in front of our fans in May and win another Champion's Cup."
Billings came just shy of his first Canadian Senior "A" Mann Cup championship in August with his hometown Langley Thunder of the Western Lacrosse Association this past summer. After jumping out to a 2-0 series lead against the Ontario champion Peterborough Lakers, the Thunder went on to lose the series in six games. Billings led the Mann Cup in scoring, registering 7 goals and 25 assists for 31 points in the six-game championship series.
"Getting that close to winning a championship and not winning is an awful feeling," said Billings of his first trip to a Mann Cup championship. "It's something I never want to feel again, I just want to win another championship and that journey begins in January in Toronto."
Billings is no stranger to championships having won two Minto Cup Canadian Junior A championships (Burnaby 2004 & 2005), an NCAA Division I title (Virginia 2006) and a Champion's Cup with the Rock in 2011.
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It's been quite a while since we've seen Don Draper in action. Due to contractual negotiations between series creator Matthew Weiner and AMC, Mad Men season 5 will premiere on March 25th — nearly a year and a half after the Season 4 finale.
Mad Men won its fourth Emmy Award for "Best Drama" at the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in September. Mad Men is set in the 1960s and tells the story of Don Draper, a secretive and morally ambiguous advertising executive.
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Civilian deaths in the Afghanistan conflict surged 24 percent in the first half of 2009, according to a new report from the United Nations. Anger over the misuse of force has become a top issue among Afghans, prompting leaders on both sides recently to issue directives to their fighters to minimize civilian casualties.
The UN report is a bad news, good news document for the US and its Afghan allies. The 21-page report (PDF), issued July 31, found that insurgents killed almost twice as many civilians in the first six months of the year as the coalition did (595 deaths against 309). The UN said it was a "significant shift" from the first half of 2007, when insurgent groups killed 298 civilians and US and allied forces killed 265. In the first half of 2008 the split was 495 to 276.
Nevertheless, the absolute number of civilians killed by both sides continued to rise.
The new commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, issued a tactical directive earlier this month to curb the use of air strikes to "very limited" scenarios. And a new Taliban "code of conduct" manual purportedly from Mullah Omar tells insurgents to take "the utmost effort" to avoid civilian casualties.
It remains to be seen whether General McChrystal can bring down civilian casualties in the context of a US troop surge and intensification of the conflict. Some analysts say it's an issue of much greater importance to the coalition than to the Taliban.
"From the point of view of the coalition, which is supporting an incumbent government, there is nothing to be gained from civilian casualties because they can only alienate support for the government," says William Maley, an Afghanistan expert at the Australian National University. "Whereas from the Taliban's point of view, civilian casualties serve a very effective purpose: It's a way of symbolizing the incapacity of the state to protect people,"
Nearly 50 percent increase since '07
The total numbers of civilians killed by all sides has been rising rapidly as the war has intensified. The UN counted 1,013 civilian deaths in the first six months of 2009, 818 from the same period in 2008, and 684 in 2007. For some deaths, the UN was unable to determine which side was responsible.
The UN report notes that the US military and its partners began late last year to make changes in the way it uses air power to reduce civilian casualties, with mixed success.
"Notwithstanding efforts by international military forces to implement policies and procedures to minimize the impact of their operations on civilians, airstrikes remain responsible for the largest percentage of civilian deaths attributed to [progovernment forces]," the report reads.
One of the problems facing international forces, says Dr. Maley, is that airstrikes – 200 civilians were killed by coalition airstrikes in the first half of the year – have a much greater risk of causing mass casualties than the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that are the Taliban's weapon of choice.
But the Taliban's tactics are also putting more civilians in harm's way. Since 2008, the UN data shows that the Taliban have shifted towards the use of IEDs and away from the frontal attacks on security forces they favored early in the conflict. The indiscriminate nature of IEDs make civilian casualties inevitable, but in some cases civilians appear to be specific targets. For instance, 16 IEDs have been planted in girls' schools.
While Maley points out that the insurgents need to sow fear with such attacks to shake Afghan confidence in the government, new Taliban guidelines at least make a show of concern for the population.
Key: How Taliban approach Aug. 20 election
A Taliban spokesman told the Associated Press that 20,000 copies of the 60-page booklet were being circulated, which urge their fighters to avoid civilian casualties.
"The Taliban are worried that a lot of groups call themselves Taliban, especially a number of criminal groups that go on the main road and kidnap people to extract money," says Haroun Mir, an Afghan analyst based in Kabul. "So Mullah Omar is launching a campaign so the Taliban don't alienate the local population."
Whether civilian killings surge further in the coming weeks may depend on how the Taliban approach the upcoming Aug. 20 national elections. Taliban spokesmen have recently vowed to disrupt the vote. But they generally stood down during the last election in 2004, as well as during voter registration efforts earlier this year.
Some analysts suggest that the Taliban might gain more by allowing the election to go forward, banking on popular disillusionment if President Hamid Karzai wins reelection. In recent days, however, the election appears to have tightened, perhaps raising the chances of Taliban resistance.
"This time I think we are much more likely to witness attempts to disrupt the election because in a sense it's a very important moment – if the election goes off successfully... that will be politically damaging for the Taliban," says Maley.


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President Obama's fiscal year 2010 request for the Department of Education will build on the historic investment in education provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to leverage significant improvements in early childhood education, more effective reform of elementary and secondary education, and expanded opportunities for students to enter and complete a college education. The request is focused on the following areas:
Early Childhood Programs
The 2010 request will provide additional resources, on top of those provided in the Recovery Act, to help States build high-quality "Zero to Five" early childhood programs. These resources will leverage state and local investment in early childhood education, support coordination at all levels of government to ensure seamless delivery of services, and help give parents the information they need to choose a high-quality program that meets the needs of their children.
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The department's 2010 budget also will help states develop and implement rigorous, college-ready academic achievement standards along with improved assessments, including assessments for students with disabilities and English language learners, to accurately measure students' knowledge and skills.
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The 2010 request will support a wide range of efforts to strengthen the education workforce, including greater accountability for teacher and principal preparation programs; improved systems and strategies for recruiting, evaluating, and supporting teachers; and incentives for rewarding effective teachers and encouraging them to teach where they are most needed.
Scaling Up Success
The department will continue to use the Innovation Fund to identify and replicate successful models and strategies that raise student achievement, including comprehensive approaches such as Promise Neighborhoods that aim to improve college-going rates by combining a rigorous K 12 education with a full network of neighborhood-based social services. In addition, the 2010 budget will help turn around high-need, low-performing schools by giving states additional resources to diagnose and address the root causes of low performance. Finally, the request will increase funding for education research on both promising practices and the effectiveness of Federal education programs.
A Stronger, More Reliable Pell Grant Program
For decades, the Pell Grant program, the foundation of federal postsecondary financial assistance for students from low-income families, has failed to keep pace with the rising costs of a college education. Moreover, the program has been plagued by funding shortfalls that complicate the federal appropriations process and threaten the funding of other federal education programs. To address these problems once and for all, the 2010 request not only would increase the maximum Pell Grant award to $5,550, but also would index the Pell Grant maximum award to the Consumer Price Index plus 1 percent and eliminate discretionary shortfalls by moving Pell Grants to the mandatory side of the budget.
A Less Costly, More Reliable Student Loan Program
The department's guaranteed student loan program (Federal Family Education Loans) includes subsidies for private lenders that have needlessly cost taxpayers billions of dollars over the past 30 years, while also subjecting students and families to uncertainty because of turmoil in the financial markets. The 2010 request would stabilize the postsecondary student loan programs and save taxpayers $4 billion annually by originating all new loans in the direct lending program (Direct Loans).
Helping More Students Enter and Complete College
The administration also will simplify the student aid application process, but it is not enough to simply enroll more students in college; we must do a better job of giving all students, especially students from low-income families, the support they need to complete school. This is why the 2010 request includes a new, five-year $2.5 billion Access and Completion Incentive Fund that will support innovative State efforts to improve college completion rates for low-income students.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Wieslaw 'Wes' Glon, a 29-year veteran on the Penn State coaching staff, has been named the Head Coach for the Penn State men's and women's fencing teams. Glon led Penn State to the NCAA title this past year as the interim head coach.
"Wes Glon is the perfect person to carry on the amazing legacy of Penn State fencing," said Dr. David Joyner, Penn State's Director of Athletics. "He has already won an NCAA Championship and has proven himself to be an accomplished coach. His long history of commitment to Penn State and the student-athlete experience is outstanding. This is an exciting day for Penn State fencing and we very much look forward to having Wes carry on our proud and storied tradition."
Glon took the reins as Interim Head Coach in August and quickly set about the task of leading Penn State to its 13th NCAA Championship, an NCAA record. Glon led the Lion men's team to a 22-3 overall record while the women compiled a 16-10 mark. Glon then led Penn State to the NCAA title as eight Nittany Lion fencers earned All-America honors, including sophomore Kaito Streets, who won the NCAA men's saber individual title. He was named 2014 Coach of the Year by the United States Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA) for his efforts.
"It is an honor to be named the head coach of the most successful fencing program in the country," Glon said. "I will strive to continue the tradition of success and integrity that the Penn State fencing program is known for nationally. I look forward to the challenges ahead and to the opportunity to continue Penn State's legacy of success."
Glon joined the Penn State fencing program as assistant coach in 1985 and he has been an integral part of every success Penn State has achieved during his tenure. Previously, Glon served two years as the assistant men's coach at William & Mary College where he worked with the saber team. Prior to his tenure at William and Mary, he assisted with the Austrian National team in Vienna.
Known internationally as one of the top fencing officials in the country, Glon has directed numerous finals at the United States National Championships, Olympic Sports Festivals, and other international tournaments. Glon has coached the U.S. teams for the Junior and Senior World Championships (1990-93), the Pan American Games ('91) and the Olympic Games ('92 and '96). In 1996, Glon was named Co-Coach of the Year by the U.S.F.C.A.
A native of Poland, Glon won his country's highest fencing honors in saber six times between 1975-81. He won a bronze medal at the 1979 World University Games in Mexico City, finished fourth at Romania in 1977 and seventh in Bulgaria in 1975. From 1977-81, Glon was an assistant professor of physical education at the Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw. He left Poland in 1981 and arrived in the United States in 1983. Glon earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in physical education at the Academy of Sports in Warsaw.
Glon is married and has two daughters, one of whom, Nicole, was a senior on this year's Nittany Lion women's fencing squad and helped lead Penn State to the NCAA crown. Fans are encouraged to follow Penn State Fencing via Twitter www.twitter.com/pennstateFEN and on Penn State Fencing's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pennstatefencing.


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Selena Gomez wrote a heartfelt note to her BFF Demi Lovato that was read out loud at Demi's 'Seventeen' magazine cover luncheon in Hollywood Jan. 4
Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato have been best friends since they were seven years old and auditioning for Barney in Texas. Now, nearly a decade later, the girls have been through their ups and downs, but remain close. In fact, Selena even wrote a revealing note dedicated to her friend, which was read to everyone at Demi's luncheon celebration for her February Seventeen magazine cover.
Here is what the 19-year-old former Disney starlet said:
Demi, first I want to say that I am sorry that I cant be here with you today, but I just want to say first how proud I am of you. Knowing you since we were seven and watching you become the person you are is truly amazing.
I was there when you sang in front of 10 people knowing all of the words to your songs and I was there when you sang in front of 14,000 people, still knowing all of your songs. You have something that you know has been hard for me to have at times. You have courage — courage to want to change to be better for yourself.
The amount of respect that I have for you is indescribable. You have gone through one of the hardest chapters in your life and I praise you for wanting to share that journey and walk away from it all as a better person. Thank you for trusting me and wanting me there during that hard time. I hope you know how much I love you and how proud I am of the role model that you have become.
Last year, Demi was admitted into rehab for emotional and physical issues and has said Selena was one of the only people who stood by her side, supporting her. Are you surprised Selena admitted Demi is more courageous than she is? Do you think they'll be friends forever after going through this?


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Michael Bradley was bad but maybe that isnt his fault
BRIAN SCIARETTA - Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Bob Bradley today announced his Gold Cup roster and while most of the obvious picks were made, the surprising omissions and inclusions will be talked about a lot in the days and weeks ahead.
The most obvious omission on the roster is that of FC Nurnberg's Timothy Chandler who, according to most reports, was initially invited by Bob Bradley to be on the team but was either dropped or withdrew after discussions with his club.
This decision has a lot of people concerned over Chandler's international future but it more closely resembles a conflict between Nurnberg and the US as opposed to the German national team and the US. The facts strongly suggest that the club is trying to protect a key player that it will rely on heavily next year. Nurnberg is generally a small club that overachieved this year but normally fights in the bottom half of the Bundesliga.
Chandler is one of the team's most promising young players and they want to assure that he is well rested heading into his first full season as a first team professional. A key fact in all this is that Nurnberg's preseason begins on June 26 and if Chandler played in the Gold Cup, he would have no break from the game during the offseason.
While clubs cannot refuse to release a player for the Gold Cup, the decision clearly fell on Chandler who likely went along with the wishes of his club.
As for a potential switch with to Germany, it remains most unlikely Chandler will all of a sudden leave the US setup. It is very rare for a player who is playing for one national team to switch to another national team without some sort of falling out of favor with the coach. By all accounts Bradley wanted Chandler and Chandler initially wanted to go.
Should US fans be worried about losing Chandler? Perhaps they should a little because during the last five months he was one of the top fullbacks in the Bundesliga. But the odds still greatly favor that he will play the US. Chandler has gone on record saying how much he liked playing for the US in March and that he did not like his experiences with Germany at the U15 level.
Germany has yet to show any interest in Chandler since the U-15 level and making the German national team is extremely difficult. It is unlikely he will want to leave the US national team where he can play in perhaps three World Cups and be a key player for the next ten years. For Germany, it is still a long shot he will make the team with only 15 Bundesliga appearances under his belt.
The inclusion of Freddy Adu is also very surprising pick as he has struggled for most of the past four years since making the move to Europe. However now he is on his fifth team during that span and he has begun to see some success with Rizespor of the Turkish second division.
The real issue is whether he will still be able to help the US team but, unfortunately, the low level of play of the Turkish second division does not offer any real glimpse as to whether or not he will be effective on the international front.
Adu clearly has a good friend in Bob Bradley because his performance in recent years does not make him deserving of this callup. The fact is that very few coaches in recent years who have seen Adu every day have felt he could help their team.
Adu is unlikely to start at the Gold Cup but he will likely be asked to be an offensive sub off the bench. Bradley has a lot at stake in Adu's callup. If Adu plays well, Bradley looks like a genius for believing in a player that has had a lot of hype but has produced few results. If Adu struggles, fans will wonder why Bradley felt the need to call in a player playing at a level far below the standards of the US national team.
The exclusion of Alejandro Bedoya is perhaps the most controversial decision because he has been playing very well this season for Orebro in Sweden. While Bedoya has struggled at times for the USMNT, it must be noted that under Bradley he has been playing wider in the midfield but for his club he has been playing centrally. It is for his club while playing in the middle of the field that has seen Bedoya become a consistent top performer in Sweden's top league.
When looking at the reasons for Bedoya's omission, it was likely the selection of Adu that probably kept Bedoya off the team. Both play similar positions for their clubs in attacking positions in the center of the field. Based on current form and consistency, the decision doesn't add up. Bedoya has four goals in nine games and he is regularly involved in Orebro's attack. He is playing for a better team in Orebro and in a better league in the Allsvenskan. This summer, Bedoya is likely to attract interest from teams in higher leagues while next year Adu will likely still be in the second division of Turkey.
The decision to go with Adu over Bedoya is a gamble by Bradley. He is hoping that Adu will be able to provide a spark late in the game but by not having Bedoya, he will lose out on the far more complete player.
The exclusion of Mix Diskerud was a decision that was likely after the young midfielder was selected to the roster for the March friendlies but did not get off the bench in either game. Diskerud is still only 20 years old and will be a important player for the Olympic team next year.
The exclusion of Teal Bunbury was also a surprise after he impressed in his first two caps the past year. His potential to be a good player is obvious but he has been struggling in the early goings of the MLS season. It is unclear though how much his ineffective play is the fault of Bunbury or how much it is because of a very weak supporting cast at Sporting Kansas City. It should be noted that after playing with Canada, Bunbury's change of affiliation with FIFA was completed in March and he is now permanently tied to the US team.
The decision to go with Wondolowski over Bunbury is justifiable. For most of Wondolowski's career, he was not worthy of a USMNT cap. The truth, however, is that he has been playing very well for over a year. It's also not that he has been scoring goals but rather it's that he's been scoring a wide variety of different types of goals. He should be able to dominate CONCACAF competition with the way he has played the past year.
Finally, the decision to go with Robbie Rogers was a surprise and one that will draw a lot of criticism. Rogers has been an interesting player during his past appearances with the USMNT. He has struggled quite a bit but every so often he plays well and reminds everyone there is a great deal talent in his game. In his last cap against the Czech Republic before the 2010 World Cup, he was very dangerous late in the game.
Rogers' inclusion makes sense in that there really aren't many natural wing players in the US player pool. Most of the time, Bradley is forced to play central midfielders out on the wing and away from their natural position. This is the case with how Stuart Holden and Alejandro Bedoya have been used. Rogers gives Bradley a pure winger on both the left and right sides.
All in all, it's a strong roster. The decision to bring in Adu at the expense of Bedoya was the most questionable but it is unlikely to have a significant impact on the team.
The absences of Chandler and the injured Stuart Holden deprive the American team of two of its best players in Europe this past season. Still, if the American team can compete well without a few of its best players, it will only speak volumes about the ability of the team in the future.
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Thursday June 16, 2011 6:13 pm
After all Bedoya replaced last minute injured Benny Feilhaber, but yes, Chandler could become one of the top U.S. players for the team, is DeMerit with the team? cause I believe the defense is having real problems at least during all the group round of the gold cup, not `couse they`re not good, but maybe `cause they`re not used to play in the team in that positions, I don`t know, by the way, Eric Lichaj has a lot of potential, would like to see Rogers in the gold cup `cause he has not play yet, last time I saw him was in the friendly game against Spain, and played only the 1st half. nice article man.
Mike E.
Wednesday June 15, 2011 11:09 am
Vic-10, how about Jason Kreis as coach. Or, given that interest and emotio n are lacking, Bruce Arena?
Monday June 13, 2011 1:12 am
what the US mens national team needs is a new head coach....this bob bradley system is old, its not working anymore, and players seemed bored with it. we need a new head coach with a more offensive mindset, someone like bielsa or klinsman
Tuesday June 7, 2011 4:05 am
Charles, ya gotta let rossi go! he cant wear our colors! He is an opportunist who made the selfish but best decision for his career. Italy made a bad mistake not taking him to the WC and will probably have to swallow their pride and take him to brazil or stab him in th back like he did us.
cbb1217 I agree he is a good player but young and what has he done at any level in a US jersey. Adu has decent nat experience also with the youth squads.
billy bob are you serious?! At least he would have dribbled at someone instead of some lame attempts at offense which is when any of our players actually touched the ball. Was jozy or agudelo even on that field? yup they just couldnt actually get any decent service. Freddy can do that.
Billy Bob
Sunday June 5, 2011 1:09 pm
Let me guess, Muchadu, if Freddy was given significant playing time against Spain, USA would have won by 5 goals
Friday June 3, 2011 3:45 pm
@ muchadu
Diskerud is a much better option than Adu. But I do agree the nats are in need of a playmaker and that long balls do not work.
Thursday June 2, 2011 6:06 pm
Great article, good post comments, guys. USA is not alone in lacking consistent scoring talent. From back through midfield, USA has world class players, but if we only had Giuiseppi Rossi...Born in the USA...having a surplus of central midfield talent is a nice problem - Edu, Holden, Bradley, Bedoya, and so many to include - Donovan and Dempsey are proven world class (USMNT, Everton, Fulham) wingers. Say what you want, Coach Bradley has done well with the limited scoring options and talent levels. And when davies finally arrived...he got whacked.
USA games are not boring defensive counterattacks by choice, only when USA plays Spain, Brazil, similar superior talent, we are driven back by necessity. So is everyone else, even Manchester U had to do that against Barca, and the result was 3-1 Barca. Look where we are, loads of talent at every position but the crucial one...Rossi, how could you do that? Can we give Messi a Green Card?
Wednesday June 1, 2011 1:49 am
Ok lets stop the adu bashing already. A lot of our players on the USMT do not play in La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga or the EPL. After these leagues it gets ridiculous to start comparing which ones are a little better or worse. Certainly the MLS is not a quality league as far as where the worlds best soccer is played, so lets stop hating on Freddys success in Turkey. The real question is how does the USMT creates some freakin offense! Awkward long balls and the counter attack is NOT what top ten national teams run on offense. You simply must have ball handling play makers with the skill to run at defenses with the ball and create fouls which then allows for set pieces. Also u need players who can make a quality pass!Our offense making inaccurate passes and heavy touches is boring. If you want to see skill on the ball with pinpoint passes, play adu and j.jones.Good service to Agudelo and Davies will allow us to actually score first against good teams! Our defense is solid and Donovan and Dempsey will be more dangerous with other talented mids and strikers.
If anybody has better options speak up! And yes nepotism is an ugly situation wherever it exists.
Tuesday May 31, 2011 3:57 pm
Within the past week, closely following Barca's Champions League triumph, Pep Guardiola, went on record that following the expiration of his current contract after the 2011-12 season, he is looking for new challenges, new horizions. Something that will challenge his ability to select, and develop players, and meld them into the best possible team. Something other than maintaining Barca.
It sounds like a tailor made invitation for American soccer to explore the possibilities. With all due respect for Bob Bradley (and the new contract he received after last year's WC), this could be a prime opportunity for US soccer to step up in quality and class.
If the US does not take advantage of the opportunity, England may well with Fabio Capello's resignation impending in 2012.
Bradley is a decent coach, nowhere near the best, probably somewhat in the middle of potential options. Guardiola's record and pedigree speak for themselves, and are on an entirely different level and magnitude.
At some point, if it is truly serious about winning at the highest levels, and developing American talent and play at all levels to its highest potential, US soccer must take the plunge into the deep end of the coaching pool.
In the past there was talk, and some actual attempts, to hire Klinsmann, and possibly Cruijff, but nothing came of it. US soccer needs to get ahead of the curve, and get on the ball regarding Guardiola.
Billy Bob
Tuesday May 31, 2011 8:43 am
Ah yes, Pete, but Freddy Adu has some wicked youtube highlights. They alone merit his inclusion and starting position on bradley's team.
need more knowledgable fans on this site.
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Single-Handedly Pitching 'An Improbable Life'
In the history of Major League Baseball, one of the most emotional moments came in the summer of 1993. The week didn't begin well for New York Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott. He was pitching terribly against the Cleveland Indians. His manager took him out, so...
JIM ABBOTT: I ripped off my Yankee jersey, put on my running shorts and shirt and shoes. And I left the stadium. I just went for a long kind of get-it-out run, as far and as fast as I could, to kind of get rid of some of the anger and disappointment of that start.
GREENE: But just five days later, Jim Abbott would throw a no-hitter, an extraordinary feat for a pitcher, especially for a pitcher who was born without a right hand. Abbott has written a new memoir, along with co-author Tim Brown. It's called "Imperfect: An Improbable Life."
Abbott joined us from our studio at NPR West. And he began by telling us how he recovered from that awful game against the Indians that sent him on an angry jog out of the stadium.
ABBOTT: Coming off of that terrible game in Cleveland, I had to go up against the same exact team in my next start back at Yankee Stadium. Needless to say, I knew they were going to be confident. It was getting my own confidence back up for, you know, to go out and face that team began. So, I had a great meeting before the game with my pitching coach, Tony Cloninger and my catcher, Matt Nokes. And we decided on a game plan. We'd throw a little bit more off-speed pitches and trust it. Most of all trust it. If we were going to get beat, we were going to get beat with our best stuff. And went out there in the first inning in Yankee Stadium, a nice crowd was gathering. It was a gray overcast day.
ABBOTT: I promptly threw the first pitch to the backstop...
ABBOTT: ...walked the first batter, Kenny Lofton, which isn't a good idea. He was the fastest runner in the league. But from there, the confidence started to come back. The ball went the right way and it ended up being just a magical day.
GREENE: And we'll certainly hear more of that day. But, you know, as you talk about the uncertainty at the beginning of that game and the need to build confidence, that those are themes of really your entire life. But I want you to take us back to your early years. Your parents had to face the reality of seeing a newborn son who was missing most of his right hand. And tell me how they reacted to that.
ABBOTT: Well, that was one of the real interesting discoveries for me in the process of this book was hearing that story. And they had me at a very early age. There was uncertainty in their life without the fact of me being born missing my right hand. And to hear their story, to hear of their anxiousness and their nervousness, and their concern over the future, it's been an incredible thing.
And I admire them. I think they went about it in an instinctual way. They looked, you know, at various prostheses and different things that would help me to gain more flexibility in my right hand. But ultimately, they came to this realization that a lot was given to me. And I might be missing my right hand but I was also given a lot. And that's where the focus had to be, on my left hand, and the things I could do rather than my right hand and the things that I couldn't.
GREENE: Even being a Major League Baseball player and all the attention and fame, it doesn't protect you from people who will taunt you. Tell us, if you can, about what happened when a fan made a rude comment during what was a fight on the field actually.
GREENE: You were playing for the California Angels. Take us through that.
ABBOTT: One time in Chicago, in the old Comiskey Park, we got into a little bit of a scrum with the White Sox. And I wasn't pitching. I wasn't involved in the game other than just sitting on the bench. So, I ran out there to support my teammates and kind of get in the middle of things. And as I was coming back to the dugout, a fan in Chicago yelled out, you know: What are you going to do out there with one hand, Abbott?
And, you know, I'd heard that kind of thing my whole life. And, you know, it always took me back a little bit. But my teammates heard that and really kind of, for the first time in the Major Leagues - you know, my manager Doug Rader heard that and he was irate. He tried to go in the stands, and he's yelling and screaming and swearing, and it became this big scene.
I think that story goes to the type of support and that the great encouragement that I received from managers, coaches, teammates throughout my career.
GREENE: But did you want your manager, your teammates coming to your defense? I mean how did that make you feel?
ABBOTT: It was great. I loved it. I mean...
ABBOTT: ...that's why I played sports. You know, when you're born differently, you want to fit in. You want to be a part of a team and sports called to me, that kind of unique feeling of being a part of something special.
GREENE: Let's get back to Yankee Stadium, as we kind of follow the narrative of your book. You're taking us through your life and this big game. We're back in the middle of the game and you haven't given up a hit. And I'm guess I'm wondering, Jim, at what point in the game does it dawn on the pitcher that there are no hits, that there's a big zero there, that something special might be happening?
ABBOTT: About the time your teammates stop talking to you is when...
GREENE: Because they don't want to jinx you.
ABBOTT: Yeah, baseball's stupid superstition. I remember looking up at the scoreboard after the fifth inning. And I'd been a little wild that day. I'd walked a few guys and so it didn't feel like a perfect game. And I looked up at the scoreboard and I saw that they didn't have any hits. And it surprised me. And I thought, well, this is way too early to be caught up in something like this. But from that moment on every out seemed to take on a little added poignancy.
GREENE: And, Jim Abbott, you had what was an up and down baseball career. You fought to make a comeback and you talk about the struggles of trying to hold on and retiring, you know, earlier than some players did. But it was that game at Yankee Stadium on September 4th, 1993 that really stands out. And I wondered if you could take us through that final out at Yankee Stadium.
ABBOTT: In a no-hitter, every out is like a clicking off of a clock or something. There's this countdown. Starting from that first recognition in the fifth inning, after the seventh inning, you think, well, there's two more innings and six more outs. And you get another out then it's five. And then it's four. And then it's three and you're waiting in the dugout for the ninth inning to start. And you can't wait to get right back out there.
And you run out there in the ninth inning. And people, you know, the Yankees fans are literally jumping up and down. And you're caught up in the excitement. And you're so close. And you've been through enough baseball to know that any little thing could upend this dream.
And Matt Nokes, my catcher, sat behind the plate at Yankee Stadium. He gave me the slider sign. I threw a good slider on the outside part of the plate to Carlos Barega, who hit a ground ball to shortstop that I promise you, David, took a half an hour to get there.
ABBOTT: And there it was - a no-hitter in Yankee Stadium.
GREENE: I was struck that the announcer at the end, you know, as you're celebrating on the field, never once mentioned that you pitched a no-hitter with only one hand.
GREENE: It was just that Jim Abbott pitched a no-hitter. Is that the way you wanted it?
ABBOTT: Yes. I endeavored my whole life to move past the label. Baseball gave me that chance. That no-hitter that special day in Yankee Stadium gave me that moment, when I could change the focus away from how I played to how well I played.
GREENE: Jim Abbott's new memoir is called "Imperfect: An Improbable Life."
Jim Abbott, thank you so much for sharing your story with us.
ABBOTT: Thank you, David. It's been a pleasure.
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Here is a trailer for Trespass, no not a reissue of the 1992 Bill Paxton/Ice-T/Ice Cube collaboration, rather a new movie starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage as a wealthy couple suffering a home invasion. It looks... yikes.
I mean, it's essentially impossible to ever take Nicolas Cage seriously again at this point, right? He's just wandered too far off into the shadow lands of bizarre self-parody to ever come back to the real world. And poor Nicole Kidman has... done things... to her face that just, well, make it not work anymore. So this is an odd pairing! Add to that the fact that the person herding these two weirdos is Joel Schumacher, whose had one of the most bizarre and only fitfully fruitful mainstream directing careers of the past couple decades, and you get a big ol' headscratcher of a movie.
Also, that plot. That terrible, familiar plot. I was of the mind that Michael Haneke had, twice even!, brutally and cruelly beat the home invasion/family-in-peril thriller into bloody submission a couple years ago, but I guess not. I guess we are still making these nasty, voyeuristic movies, so here is another one. Aren't you so worried about this strange bloated warlock and his android wife?? I am so worried about them! And what's in the magic electro-safe?? God only knows. I hope it's a gun and it explodes and the bullets go everywhere and everyone, even you, Cam Gigantic, dies and the movie ends. That would be something.


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