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1. U.S. v. Brehm (Assault at Kandahar Airfield)
Sean Brehm pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury resulting from a stabbing that occurred at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan in November 2010. According to court documents, Brehm was working as a contractor for DynCorp International at the air terminal when he got into an argument with an unidentified man and stabbed him. In July 2011, Brehm was sentenced to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release.... more»
2. False Claims on Iraq Police Training Contract
DynCorp International settled a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit alleging it and its subcontractor, The Sandi Group (TSG), submitted or caused to be submitted false claims for payment under DynCorp's contract with the State Department to provide civilian police training in Iraq. DynCorp agreed to pay the United States $7.7 million to resolve allegations that it submitted inflated claims for the construction of container camps at various locations in Iraq. TSG agreed to pay $1.01 million to resolve allegations that it sought reimbursement for danger pay that it falsely claimed to have paid its U.S. expatriate employees working in Iraq.... more»
3. Worldwide Network Services v. DynCorp (Breach of Contract)
Worldwide Network Services LLC (WWNS), a minority-owned telecommunications firm, alleged that DynCorp breached its contract and racially discriminated against it. WWNS worked as a subcontractor to DynCorp in Iraq and Afghanistan under the U.S. State Department's International Civilian Police training contract. WWNS claimed its employees were subjected to racial epithets, banned from meetings and in some cases forced to leave Iraq. In summer 2006, DynCorp decided not to renew its contract with WWNS. In May 2008, a federal court awarded WWNS over $17 million in damages. In addition, DynCorp paid WWNS $3.2 million in unpaid invoices. DynCorp also prevailed on one claim in its countersuit, for which WWNS was ordered to pay $178,000. In February 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated and ordered a retrial on the punitive damages award.... more»
4. Use and Possession of Military Passes with the Intent to Defraud
On November 20, 2005, Thomas Nelson Barnes III, who worked for DynCorp, was arrested as he returned from Iraq. DynCorp [acquired by Veritas in December 2004] was responsible for implementing an identification badge program for U.S. military personnel and civilians. Barnes was charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. of the ability to secure the military and operational areas of the International Zone in Baghdad. In May 2006, he pled guilty to one misdemeanor count of theft/embezzlement of U.S. property and was sentenced to 30 days jail at the direction of probation followed by 1 year supervised release and 30 days home confinement. He also had to pay a $25 special assessment and was debarred for 4 years, ending on December 4, 2010.... more»
5. Longest v. DynCorp (Submitting False Claims to the Government)
On May 29, 2003, Gloria Longest, a former accounting manager for DynCorp International filed a lawsuit under the False Claims Act alleging that DynCorp submitted false claims to the government under International Narcotics & Law Enforcement Affairs contracts with the State Department to assist with South American counter-narcotics operations. Longest alleged DynCorp overcharged the State Department for employee expenses under the contracts between 1997 and 2003. The case settled pursuant to a confidential agreement in September 2008.... more»
6. Overcharges in Providing Fuel to a Police Academy in Amman, Jordan
The January 30, 2005 Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) report to Congress notes that an audit requested by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) estimated that DynCorp may have overcharged the government as much as $600,000 in providing fuel to the INL-administered police academy in Amman, Jordan. The State Department Inspector General's audit of the contract confirmed INL's estimate of overcharges and found a basis for an additional claim of $85,000. DynCorp reimbursed the government $600,824.... more»
7. Human Trafficking in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Ben Johnston)
According to media reports, Ben Johnston worked as an aircraft mechanic for DynCorp in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Johnston filed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) suit in Texas court alleging DynCorp employees and supervisors had been engaging in various illegal activities, including sex trafficking, and that he had been fired for reporting these activities. Just hours after another former DynCorp employee, Kathryn Bolkovac, prevailed in an employment suit (see DynCorp instance "Human Trafficking in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Kathryn Bolkovac)"), the company settled Johnston's case out of court.... more»
8. Human Trafficking in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Kathryn Bolkovac)
According to media reports, DynCorp International hired Kathryn Bolkovac as part of a UN-administered police task force to train local police officers in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bolkovac, who was investigating human trafficking and forced prostitution, sent an e-mail to supervisors and UN officials alleging UN staff and DynCorp co-workers were participating in sex trafficking. She sued DynCorp in a British employment tribunal, claiming she had been unfairly dismissed. The tribunal ruled in her favor and awarded her $173,000. Within hours, DynCorp settled a case with another former employee, Ben Johnston, who alleged DynCorp employees were involved in sex trafficking and other illegal acts (see DynCorp instance "Human Trafficking in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Ben Johnston)"). DynCorp eventually dismissed several employees in Bosnia for "unacceptable behavior."... more»
9. EEOC v. DynCorp (Sexual Harassment and Retaliation)
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged DynCorp International violated federal law by subjecting employee James Friso to a hostile work environment based on his sex and by retaliating against him after he complained. According to the EEOC's lawsuit, from November 2006 through January 2007, Friso was subjected to harassment based on his sex by a male co-worker while working for the company in Taji, Iraq. The EEOC also alleged that DynCorp transferred Friso to a lower-paying job at another work site after he complained to management about the harassment. In January 2012, DynCorp settled the lawsuit, agreeing to pay Friso $155,000 and provide anti-harassment and anti-retaliation training to its employees.... more»
10. State Department Inspector General Review of Camp Falcon Support Contract
A State Department Inspector General review found problems in a Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) contract with DynCorp to provide operations and maintenance support services at Camp Falcon in Kabul, Afghanistan. In addition to weaknesses in the performance of fuel operations and static security guard services, the IG calculated that INL overpaid DynCorp by as much as $940,000 for meals. The IG recommended the government seek reimbursement of $157,000 from DynCorp for food service overcharges from November 2009 through January 2010.... more»


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I saw this photo on Flickr. Does anyone know how it works?
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It looks like it's used to demonstrate how those large mountain-side telescopes work... movement-wise. Maybe not.
It's not all Lego! Not good! It uses K'nex pieces as well! It looks like it uses a comp screen to show the views or whatever.
i noticed it was K'Nex also. don't know what the point is thouugh,
One of the Flickr groups led me to a page for what looks like an astronomy conference (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/). From there, I read through the Agenda to find the presentation by the telescope's creator (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/program/presentations/HTU_threadsafe.pdf). I also had to do a little sleuthing, but it also looks like the presenter is tied to a Virtual Observatory project (http://nvo.noao.edu/).
From what I can tell, it looks like the guy was using an NXT and LabVIEW to prototype how multithreaded autonomous astronomy might work.
Thanks, nxteach. But...what is "multithreaded autonomous astronomy"?
Don't know. I imagine a telescope sitting in some remote location, servicing requests from many users on where to point the thing. Maybe it needs to make decisions about what order to service the requests in, to minimize how much time the scope spends tracking to the next location in the sky? Or maybe the telescope controls itself based on what the observation images look like. It "sees" star A, then some computer software fires off requests to look back at stars B and C to do some sort of comparison. But looking at those stars fire requests for D, E, F...
In other words, I'm way out of my depth here and just making wild guesses. :-)
I'm speaking off-the-cuff here, especially since I can't find the presenter info mentioned...
When you have multiple users wanting to guide a large remote 'scope, planning how to handle the requests can get tricky. For instance, let's say we want to view three stars, one low in the east, one low in the west, and one in the southeast, in a single night. If you execute those observations in that order, there's two problems: (1) you're spending a bunch of possible observational time slewing the telescope all over the sky (it would make more sense to hits targets in order of how close they are to each other), and (2) by the time you've completed observing the eastern (rising) star, the western (setting) star may already be too low to observe. This gets even tougher if you have some observations that really need to be made a certain specific times (transits of exoplanets or moons), and worse yet it has to be dynamicly changed based on weather (if there are clouds on the western horizon, no sense in wasting that observing time on the westernmost target that you can't see anyway while clouds start rolling over your other targets).
I have enough problems setting up manual observing list on some nights, with satellite observations as well as lunar and stellar target, and asteroids. And I have considerably more processing power than my NXT (at least I *think* so...)
One project I've been tossing about since I first started playing with the beta HW is a tracking platform. I've got an 8" Dob I just love, but it would be nice if it could track automatically... which actually shouldn't be too hard at all with the NXT and two motors. The biggest problem is getting them firmly mounted to drive the platform.
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'Course, having taken a 2nd look at the conference, it apears it was about transients. This is where a rare brief event is detected, and the detecting device sends out an automated email to the humans, as well as redirected other large telescopes autonomously to observe the event before it goes away. These sort of automated or "robotic" colloborations have been very successful in catching things like the afterglows of GRB's and the rising portion of a supernova lightcurve.
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Hi Guys,
I built the model in question. I'm writing a newsletter article about the conference and stumbled across this blog. To answer some of your questions:
1) I prefer open standards. K'Nex permits larger, lighter structures. They also have parts that mate with LEGOs (classic, not technics, per se). Maybe LEGO should sell parts that mate with competitors?
2) "Multithreaded autonomous astronomy" would be building interoperating networks of telescopes to accomplish observations related to multiple projects using adaptive scheduling - with minimal human guidance.
3) Pretty much all professional telescopes are sited in remote locations, often served poorly by power, transport or communications networks. A lot of the challenge is in building standards robust against extreme challenges. One of the speakers discussed the need for heaters to keep robotic telescopes operating in Antarctica. His heater might be described by others as a "flamethrower".
4) It is indeed all about scheduling for multiple users, multiple projects as the Earth moves underneath us, the weather changes, etc. But this describes regular astronomy, not just autonomous astronomy. To those challenges, add adaptively scheduling out of a queue filled by numerous investigators, add a market-driven paradigm for trading time on one telescope for time on another (typically with very different cameras), add rapidly varying or moving celestial objects - in particular, add the capabilities of fully untended, robotic telescopes. (Big telescopes are quite fragile and finicky and rife with strange legacy requirements.)
5) Celestial transients are anything but rare. A supernova in a galaxy observable from Earth occurs about once a second. (The hard part is knowing what direction to look - although neutrino telescopes can in principle predict a supernova before the flash of light arrives.) There are hundreds of thousands of known asteroids. A large fraction of the stars you see when you look up are variables of one sort or another. They've gotten so good observing the sun with techniques similar to seismology that they can "see" sunspots on the far side of the sun.
6) Several large telescopes are being built to constantly survey the sky for such transient events. Hundreds of small robotic telescopes will soon be deployed that can productively follow up on these discoveries. The missing parts are what the conference was about - the standards for describing the celestial events so decisions can be made about what to observe next - and the standards for commanding multiple robotic facilities to do what you want once you figure out what that is.
7) ...and we're down to the NXT telescope. I need not belabor the fun factor. The NXT processor is, however, easily powerful enough to pilot a telescope. I really can't consider the brick a toy. LabVIEW is also a professional package that we use to drive several of our instruments, for instance. I got the excellent new Java NXT book the day before the workshop started. I'll be doing future development using Java. The model shown is a functioning altitude-azimuth mount. Making actual optics wasn't really the point. As discussed above, the point is to have networks of telescopes operate with a common purpose. I plan to get at least one more NXT, preferably four or more, so they can work together via bluetooth.
The difficult part is really to figure out how to communicate with the target audience of humans at astronomical conferences the issues we're focusing on - making the NXTs play well together seems very straightforward.
I do need to rebuild the gear boxes a little better and I would like to assemble another telescope purely out of technics parts - but the resulting model will likely turn out quite a bit smaller.
For those who want to explore more, the conference website is http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired. And yes, the VOEvent standard derives from a Virtual Observatory project.
Hi guys, I just ordered my NXT kit speificaly because I want to try to roboticize my telescope (4.5" Newtonian on a eqitorial mount) . Then I found this thread.
Rob: Can you post or provide a link to the softwhere? LabVIEW or Java or whatever you can.
My kit should arive monday, If I can make this work I'll get a big dobsinian and add motors to that.


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GM Jesse Kraai reviews Vassily Smyslov, his favorite player of all time. Jesse claims studying Smyslov's endgames helped him become a Grandmaster.Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian March 24, 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian Grandmaster and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight times (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov twice tied for first at the Soviet Championship (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.
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The Veresov Opening is characterized by the moves 1 d4, 2 Nc3 and 3 Bg5. It's a perfect weapon for those who wish to steer the game into relatively unchartered territory and to set their opponents problems from the outset. The Veresov is a flexible opening and White may choose lines that are either positional or tactical in nature. International Master Jimmy Liew has played the Veresov successfully for many years, and in this book he invites you to join him in a study of his favourite opening.
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While almost everybody is spending 95% of his opening preparation time on major lines, there are some tricky players including strong GMs (I am not an exception) who prepare for their opponents some side lines, which contain many an underwater reef. I decided to collect those secondary openings in one single DVD. From now on openings such as the Pirc, the Scandinavian and the Alekhine Defences will not appear to you in your nightmares any more. The 1.e4 player should be actually thank Black for choosing these openings, since he is providing White with a better centre, a stable advantage and generally speaking pleasant play. The only thing White needs to do is to spend some time studying the lines. I will not bother you with encyclopaedic approach. There is a more practical way.
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1...b6 is a dynamic defense which allows Black to steer the game into relatively unchartered territory, where White players are unable to relax and rely on their 'opening book' knowledge. A major attraction of 1...b6 is that it can be employed against all of White's mainline openings, including 1 e4, 1 d4, 1 Nf3 and 1 c4. In this book, International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examines all the important variations after 1...b6. Using illustrative games, he explains the main positional and tactical ideas for both sides, provides answers to all the key questions and tells you everything you need to know about successfully playing 1...b6.
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Following one of the comments by a reader on my post last week about using the linear actuator, I thought I will do a blog on using motors - especially non NXT motors with your NXT kit.
The following list some ways of leveraging your motor collections and tells you how to control the various types of motors from your NXT brick:
1) Direct connection of a NXT motor to a NXT
This is the most obvious - and it is the easiest to program - either using the motor block and move block that comes with NXT-G - or a quick sequenced programmed using the on brick editor.
Given the NXT motor has a rotation sensor built in, this is the most flexible method - giving a variety of ways to program the motor action - including specifying the number of turns or number of degrees.
(2) Direct connection of a TECHNIC motor to a NXT via cable
If you have one of the common TECHNIC motor that used to ship with many recent models before Power Function motors came out - the easiest way is to use a NXT conversion cable. The cable (item #8528 at shop at home) comes with 2x2 studded connector plate on one end and an RJ12 plug on the other end. The cable also comes with a LEGO 9797 Education base kit.
This way you can use a simple Motor block to control the TECHNIC motor directly from the NXT - the motor derives its power from the NXT.
(3) Direct connection of a PF motor to a NXT
If you have some Power Function motors - from any of the latest TECHNIC and Creator models from 2008, then the PF motors are another option:
Powering it from NXT is not that simple - you need two cables:
(4) Controlling the PF motors / train motors via IR-Link from a NXT
This is one of the best option for larger robots: The HiTechnic IR-link is a sensor that allows the NXT to control up to 4 sets of motors simultaneously. The motors does not derive the power from the NXT - but instead from its own PF power supply. The IR-link controls the motor using InfraRed signals. The company that made IR-Link (HiTechnic) also give you the NXT-G block so you can program it.
Edit: You can use this method for controlling both XL and Medium Power Functions motors as well as the train motors /IR-receivers that shippd with the new LEGO RC trains such as this one. [Thanks James, for the comment]
When I first tried this method a year ago, [see my review on BrickJournal) I did not like not being able to control the speed / power of the motor: The IRLink could only turn on or off the motor - you can not change the motor power - like you do with a direct connection methods above.
However, the guys at HiTechic have been busy - and recently I been playing with a beta version of a new NXT-G block that will support the Power Function PWM Combo mode. This will allow one command to control both motors and also allow selectable brake and float for each motor. I will post a link to the download location as soon as this is publicly available.
Why not drop us a comment and tell us how you used non NXT motors in your own NXT projects?


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The free gathering includes a popular boat-building contest, sailing demonstrations and displays, educational events and live music.
The music includes a DJ from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. , Gerry Pagano from 1 to 1:30 p.m., Johnny Nash from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m., Debra Crooks and Kwame Copeland from 3 to 4 p.m., Jeremy von Epp and Wicked Lobsta' from 4:15 – 6:15 p.m. and Downwind Run from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
At noon on Saturday, a discussion about Latitude 38-organized sailing events will be led by Andy Turpin. The magazine's managing editor will share details on the Baja Ha-ha, Pacific Puddle Jump and Delta Doo Dah rallies.
One hour later, at 1 p.m., Dan Leininger of the Maritime Institute will explain how sailors can get their captain's license.
The boat-building work will take place all day, with the launching of the two vessels set to take place in the late afternoon.


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Bettis, Greene HOF semi-finalistsPosted by on November 30, 2012 – 9:26 pm
The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced their 27 semifinalists for the Class of 2013, and among them are two former Pittsburgh Steelers, running back Jerome Bettis and linebacker Kevin Greene. Bettis was a finalist the last two years and Greene was a finalist last year.
"It's always an honor whenever you can reach the semifinalist list," said Bettis. "It's never a thing where you assume it's going to happen. Nothing is promised to you. It's always refreshing and new. I am just excited and I will go from there. I am not overly excited because I understand the process, but there is reason for excitement."
Normally there are only 25 semifinalists, but there are 27 this year because of a three-way tie.
That list will be narrowed down to 15 modern-era finalists in early January.
The Class of 2013 will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, the day before Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Yesterday hit me like a truck….I was T.I.R.E.D! I'll admit that there is very little free time in my day when I'm not thinking about all the
crap stuff I need to do…mostly stuff that is not important and can wait while I do things that are far more important. For instance:
1. Washing my duvet cover…it can wait (and what a pain to get back on!).
2. Cleaning the very bottom of the toilet that gets all dusty (hope its dust)….it can wait.
3. Make boats with my 3 year old to float in the poopy duck pond…it was important, and he's been talking about how fun it was for days.
4. Taking/downloading/editing/uploading pictures for my blog(s)…it can wait.
5. Pulling out the video camera to catch my 6 month old sit up before he's crawling away…important.
So today when I was overwhelmed I made a decision to let things slide. One less important thing each day will be swapped for something that is important…like making boats. But not quilting…that's not swappable. See?
And since I'm on the topic of "life" I'm going to add…thank you for visiting this blog. Thank you for putting up with my "life posts", and thank you for remembering that even though it says Cluck. Cluck. Sew. in the title…. I have a life beyond sewing. Kind of. :)


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I can't wait for this fight just to see how Anderson Silva attempts to rebound from a loss. It's been a long time since he's been in this position, so it'll be interesting to see if he makes any of the necessary adjustments to his training and/or technique (yes by keeping his hands up).
If he comes in like he did in his last rebound fights, I'd say he'll come out with the title. Then again those fights were 7-8 years ago, and Silva is a bit more cautious in the first round now. Either way, I'm also excited to see if Weidman can find success again and prove that it wasn't the fluke that some people say it was.


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The Conversion of Saul
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A Divine Appointment
In today's typical estimation of ministry efficiency, Philip would have been best-suited to minister among the Samaritans or evangelize in the Greek-speaking cities. But God sent him to a divine appointment with a single man. Always seek God's leading in ...Read More
Lust for Power
Simon wanted spiritual powers for his own exaltation. We are told to "earnestly desire the best [spiritual] gifts" (1 Cor. 12:31), but only for the edification of the church. Furthermore, any gift the Holy Spirit gives us must be used ...Read More
Full Participants in Grace
We have to admit God chooses some odd people to be His sons and daughters. The Bible says "not many wise … not many mighty, not many noble are called." Remember that this applies to you, too. Pray to God ...Read More
Two Men, Two Kingdoms
As we look around the cultural landscape today, we see a wide variety of spiritual practices that do not please God. Satan uses these practices to blind people to the truth and hold them in darkness. We must confront these ...Read More
Joy in Samaria
It has been said that Sunday morning is the most segregated time of the week. This should not be, for Christ is building His church from every nation, tribe, and tongue. Ask your church leaders what you can do to ...Read More
The Lord will be Merciful
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Edmonton Oilers (4-12-2) at Chicago Blackhawks (11-2-4), 7:30 p.m.
(SportsNetwork.com) - The Chicago Blackhawks aim for their third three-game winning streak of the season when they host the struggling Edmonton Oilers in Sunday's battle at the United Center.
Chicago has won its last two games, giving the defending Stanley Cup champions a 5-0-1 record over their last six trips to the ice. The Blackhawks have outscored the opposition by a combined 9-3 score over the last two outings, beating visiting Winnipeg by a 4-1 score on Wednesday before posting a 5-2 victory Saturday night in Dallas.
Marian Hossa lit the lamp twice and Patrick Sharp tallied four assists in Chicago's pasting of the Stars at American Airlines Center. Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane each collected a goal and assist, while Nicklas Hjalmarsson added an empty-net goal.
"We have a team that we feel can score with any line and our defense is great at moving the puck and jumping the play. We just try to build off each other and create offense," said Sharp.
Chicago netminder Corey Crawford stopped 31-of-33 shots fired his way. Former Edmonton goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin could get the call on Sunday for the Blackhawks to save Crawford from having to start on back-to-back days.
Khabibulin, who spent the last four years with Edmonton before signing with Chicago last summer, has only played in three games this season. The 40-year- old is 1-0-1 with a lofty 4.73 goals against average and .818 save percentage this season.
Chicago is kicking off a brief two-game homestand on Sunday and is 6-1-3 as the host this season. The Blackhawks also welcomes Phoenix to the Windy City on Thursday.
The Oilers enter Sunday having lost two straight and seven of their last eight games. Edmonton played Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia and dropped a 4-2 decision to the Flyers, who received the game-winner on Claude Giroux's first goal of the season.
Edmonton, which is last in the Western Conference with just 10 points this season, got goals from David Perron and Taylor Hall in Saturday's loss. Devan Dubnyk allowed four goals on 34 shots for Edmonton.
"I thought we started well the first 10 minutes of the game and then we took a penalty, and it kind of unraveled from there," Hall said. "They had some really good time in our end, had some really good chances. (Dubnyk) made a lot of big stops tonight, where in the past couple games we haven't been giving up those kinds of shots. It's something we have to clean up."
It's unclear if Dubnyk will get the start on back-to-back days or if Jason LaBarbera gets the call instead. The Oilers did announce the signing of veteran goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov to a one-year deal on Friday, but the outspoken netminder expects to spend time with the Edmonton's AHL affiliate in Oklahoma City for conditioning before joining the NHL club.
Edmonton has four wins in the last six overall meetings against the Blackhawks and is 4-1-1 in its past six trips to the Windy City. Chicago did take two of three from the Oilers during last year's lockout-shortened season.


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Kammy says the weekend games prove referees need more help to interpret handballs and dives.
Last Updated: 12/11/12 11:37am
Every Saturday, Chris Kamara heads to stadiums up and down the country to deliver his unique match reports for Soccer Saturday.
On Sundays you can see him back in the Sky Sports studios as he brings you all of the highlights as well as in-depth analysis of all the action on Goals on Sunday.
And then on Mondays you can find Kammy right here on skysports.com as he brings you his views on the Premier League weekend.
Read below for his thoughts on handballs, diving, zonal marking, Dzeko and more...
Defending in the Premier League has got worse
There's no doubt about it. Players don't seem to want to stop crosses any more and think it's the job of the person in the middle to head the ball. If you're a full-back, it seems you don't want someone to beat you and make you look silly, but if they cross it then it's okay because nobody can blame you. It seems to have become an acceptable part of the game, which never used to be the case because the full-back's job was to stop the cross. Nowadays we have full-backs coming on like Maicon (who changed the game against Tottenham in fairness) and people look at the offensive side of his game more than how he defends!
There's no way zonal marking is better than man-to-man
We saw Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea concede goals from set pieces this weekend and I don't think zonal marking works at all. I hear all these stats that zonal results in fewer goals conceded than man-to-man, but I watch every single Premier League goal and zonal seems to cause more problems for defenders. Once the ball leaves your zone, you're not responsible any more and it causes confusion. Peter Crouch was on Goals on Sunday last week and he said he loves to play against teams with zonal marking; he feels more uncomfortable when someone's standing on his toes.
The Danny Rose booking shows we need to educate referees
I can't get my head around that decision. Rose was booked for diving when he was clearly fouled; it was the same with Charlie Adam last weekend and Fernando Torres the Sunday before that. I'm sure referees have played football, but they've got this thing in their minds about players deliberately throwing themselves to the floor, even if there's been contact, and it's clear they're booking players when they're not sure. They're getting the interpretation all wrong. We need to take tapes down to the referees' meetings and show them which incidents are dives and which aren't. We all want to clamp down on diving, that's for certain, but it's got to be done the right way; you can't book people who are genuinely fouled just to catch the ones who are diving.
Handball has become another massive grey area in our game
This law needs clearing up. Jon Walters was on Goals on Sunday last week and he said Pierluigi Collina had been to Stoke and had told them that if their hands were by their sides then they couldn't be penalised for handball. Well, Sascha Riether clearly had his hands by his side in the final minute of Fulham's game with Arsenal and yet a penalty was given. We saw Nottingham Forest's Chris Cohen blatantly stick out his arm against Leicester on the same day and it wasn't given. Ben Shephard laughs at my statistic that 90 per cent of handballs in the box are accidental, but they are! When someone shoots at you from a yard away, you don't know where he's going to kick it! It's all down to the referee's interpretation and it leads to inconsistency - but at least it gives us plenty to talk about on a Sunday morning!
Don't be too harsh on Olivier Giroud for not taking that penalty
Olivier Giroud is trying to win over the Arsenal fans and he's taken penalties before (including a miss in the Carling Cup this season), so it was a surprise to see him not step up to try and complete his hat-trick against Fulham. His body language suggested that he wanted to take the penalty, but hindsight is a wonderful thing and if Mikel Arteta had stuck the penalty away then nobody would be talking about this. Ian Wright says you have to miss a few as a striker and you need to show your mettle by getting up there and taking it, but I suppose you need to take a balanced view.
Some players might simply be better as impact substitutes
I saw Edin Dzeko being interviewed and he said he doesn't want to be a substitute for Man City, but there's no doubt that he has had a better impact off the bench than the likes of Mario Balotelli and Carlos Tevez have had this season. Remember, he started at Ajax and didn't play that well so maybe he'd have made more of a difference as a substitute? We saw Javier Hernandez have a big impact for Man United as a sub as well this weekend and players may want to start games, but you have to leave it for the managers to decide. Roberto Mancini has taken a lot of stick lately, but he made some very good substitutions on Sunday that won the game for his team. You have to let them make those decisions.
Give Nigel Adkins a chance to turn around Southampton's season
Nigel Adkins will be devastated by the manner of Swansea's equaliser on Saturday, but after two promotions you have to give him more of a chance. We know Southampton don't want to go back down to the Championship, but I don't think you can say he's been given every opportunity to strengthen that squad. I don't feel he had enough money in the transfer window and you have to wait until January so he can try to put it right. He's done a great job in the last two years and is quite rightly a god among the fans and I hate it when I hear people say a manager has taken a team as far as he can. That's rubbish because if you give him more resources he can take them further. I was told I'd taken Bradford as far as I could, but if they'd given me more money and time I could have gone further!
The goals keep coming for Everton and West Brom
There's a lot of inconsistency in the league this season, but Everton are one of the most consistent teams. Not long ago they were beaten as soon as they went a goal behind, but that's not the case now. David Moyes knows there's plenty of goals in his side and the same can be said for Steve Clarke and West Brom. They keep amazing everybody and the likes of Peter Odemwingie, Shane Long, Romelu Lukaku and James Morrison are a consistent threat. They look really good at the moment.