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We've done it. After three trips to Mustang Country International where we shot photos all day during three 10-hour stints, the interior in this '72 Mustang convertible is finished.
Keep in mind, though, that all the work wasn't completed while we were there. Mustang Country's restoration shop probably spent another two days working on this project to redo the seats, get both new door panels built, restore and repaint the console, repaint the rear trim panels, and generally do all sorts of other tasks.
For those of you following along, this is the third and final installment of this undertaking. The best way to get a clear idea of what was done is to go back and reread the previous two stories in the Sept. and Oct. issues.
To summarize, we began with redoing the door panels, installing a new dashpad, and putting new carpet in place. While the car was getting new floor pans installed at Crook Brothers Body Shop, Mustang Country rebuilt the seats using new upholstery from CJ Pony Parts. That second how-to, presented last month, focused entirely on rebuilding the car's driver seat since it was totally worn out.
Once the car was back from Crook's, we jumped right into the work shown here. The interiors in '71-'73 Mustangs are complex and some items might require special attention. But once they're done, they look nice. Take a look at the finished results and see for yourself.

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Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Bowman Jr., Mill Hall, observed their 40th wedding anniversary Aug. 20, 2011.
They were married by the Rev. Robert Kulzer at Faith Tabernacle Church.
Mrs. Bowman, the former Cathy A. Paulhamus, is a native of Jersey Shore. She is the daughter of Helen S. Paulhamus, Salladasburg, and the late Floyd L. Paulhamus. She is employed by Jersey Shore Hospital, Tiadaghton Health Services, Lock Haven.
Mr. Bowman, a native of Lock Haven, is the son and stepson of Dean L. Sr. and Pat Bowman, Mill Hall, and the late Nancy Bowman. He is self-employed.
They are the parents of a daughter, Tia M., Mill Hall, and a son, Dean L. III, Altoona.
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Just as promised Part Two is everything Part One wasn't. Twenty-five albums not listed in the previous installment, proving that 1991 was a year that consisted of more than just U2's Achtung Baby and Nirvana's Nevermind. Yep, there were other albums and I can't wait for the 20th Anniversary Edition of that Fatima Mansions album.
25) Teenage Fanclub — Bandwagonesque: Kids who grew up in the 1980s pretty much expected that all bands given any kind of push were automatically terrible. So, the 1990s skewered that average. Not that there still weren't moments where I pitched Sister Double Happiness and got asked "How about Crash Test Dummies instead?"
24) Dire Straits —On Every Street: The final Dire Straits album features several session musicians in addition to a band that has neither Pick Withers nor David Knopfler, but then the mega-successful Brothers In Arms used the same floorplan and it sold like hotcakes, assuming that people buy a lot of hotcakes. Do they? There's no questioning which one's pink here. It's Mark Knopfler. You gentlemen work for him.
23) Richard Thompson — Rumor And Sigh: Though a great guitarist and songwriter, Thompson had trouble focusing his albums. Productions were often thin and just when he caught a groove he'd do a polka or some tune that made you want to throw the LP out your basement window (sorry mom!). But this one, in those days when CDs were catching on, had too many songs, but you could patch it together and make it perfect and under 50 minutes if you desired. I desired.
22) The Fatima Mansions — Berties Brochures: For all the praise heaped upon Nirvana and the Seattle sound, it would've been nice if audiences weren't so monolithic and could enjoy other things at the same time. Multi-task people! And by that I don't mean enjoy Garth Brooks and Guns N' Roses, I mean explore the great unknown. This mini-album is, like the rest of their catalog, incredibly hard to find. Yeah, physical media is dead. Just trust those streaming services to provide for all your listening needs! Great, if you're not picky.
21) Morrissey — Kill Uncle: Without Johnny Marr there to ensure that enough music had been prepared, Morrissey wrote his lyrics into a void. He still wrote the kind of songs others dreamed about, but the music was tentative. He learned on the job that when you find good collaborators, you don't let them go.
20) The Mekons — The Curse of the Mekons: Their curse is their inability to ride whatever wave is moving in front of them. They've done everything from punk to country to post-punk and beyond, but they've never done it in the proper order or with the right people looking their way. In thirty years, they'll be huge. Or not.
19) Spacemen 3 — Recurring: Sometimes you just want to sit in a room and drool.
18) Warren Zevon — Mr. Bad Example: In the long underexposed career of Warren William Zevon, there are many moments not known as "Werewolves of London" that are worth your time and attention. This album is a case in point. If you do not own it and do not have it committed to memory, you are doing yourself and your loved ones a grave disservice. Rectify the situation before it's too late. I have wasted my life.
17) Nirvana — Nevermind: Watching Nirvana become the biggest band in the world was quite the event. Bands that made music like them never made the charts with any authority. Why would it be different this time? Yet, in a matter of a few short weeks after its release, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was everywhere. Kids who never left their barstools for anything "alternative" in their lives, suddenly came to life. It was strange.
16) Metallica — Metallica: The 'Black Album' had the hits. Finicky metalheads dismissed it, while others heard it as another step in their continued evolution. Interesting to see how conservative metalheads really are. For all that perceived wildness, many want the rules strictly followed and enforced.
15) Public Enemy — Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Black: I was surprised to learn that this album did so well critically. I thought everybody jumped ship with this one. It would be interesting to hear how many people still stand by it. A lot of albums get high marks due to contact highs resulting from the previous one.
14) Temple of the Dog — Temple of the Dog: Only because their bands got famous did this tribute to Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood become a "supergroup." When they recorded it, Vedder was just some dude from Southern California and Cornell was a guy in a modest underground sensation. (Soundgarden had an album out on SST!) Time takes a cigarette and fills it with famous tobacco.
13) Monster Magnet — Spine of God: Among the earliest Stoner Rockers, Monster Magnet were often misunderstood by the metalheads who were their true audience and instead they had to settle for rock critics and people who liked the Swans. As much a product of the Jersey Shore as Bruce Springsteen, MM are that element no one wants to discuss. Unlike those party kids who get drunk and fall down, MM ain't playing to no stinkin' cameras, OK?
12) Matthew Sweet — Girlfriend: Though it was never a huge hit in that mega-platinum, you-hear-it-everywhere sense, it did seem like most listeners who bought new albums (and in 1991 there were plenty of people still collecting the Grateful Dead) were playing it with the kind of enthusiasm of a surefire classic. Had it been released when Sweet's kind of pop music had a chance, it might have had a chance.
11) Chris Whitley — Living With the Law: Whitley was a dark man. The bigger budgets made his music sound foreign to the man he was. While I'm sure he liked the big budgets and the idea that he was to be a huge star, his music preferred the acoustic, low budget route where the notes cast shadows and his voice sounded like it was coming up from under the floorboards.
10) Geto Boys — We Can't Be Stopped: "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" is pretty classic, as is any song called "Gota (sic) Let Your Nuts Hang." But for different reasons. Not as essential as the self-titled previous album, it still proves that if you're going to shock people, you need to step up your game.
9) Diamanda Galas — Plague Mass: One of the interesting weirdnesses of nostalgia is how alternative and arty kids plunder a decade in exactly the opposite way that they approach their own. For all the hip kids out there who are smirking to the hits of the era while wearing their Flashdance clothes, I advise you to crank up the Kelly Clarkson and the Justin Bieber and admit that your own music won't be worth a hill of anything in two to three decades. Because your older brethren didn't find the mainstream that amusing in their day. They mostly hid and listened to this artsy stuff where rooms were cleared in record time.
8) Grant McLennan — Watershed: Everyone's band breaks up at some point and its songwriters go on to make solo albums. If your beloved band has more than one good songwriter, the situation has potential. Especially if the band eventually gets back together. Unless you're favorite band is so big and bloated that they can't even hear themselves anymore. While Rolling Stones, Ltd. fans suffer, Go-Betweens fans had it pretty good. Until G.W. had the audacity to die of a heart attack at the age of 48. Explain to me again how it is that Keith freakin' Richards is still alive?
7) American Music Club — Everclear: By still having a drummer that sometimes missed the point, AMC turned up the ambience to mask the faults and in return got an album that is hazy and dreamlike on account of that frosting.
6) Various Artists — I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen: If you think this is odd now, it was odd then. But alternative rockers were looking for alternative heroes to celebrate. Cohen was someone everyone could champion without irony. He'd been down so long that all he needed was a hand. I'm Your Man had put him back into the American consciousness. Europe never gave up. From here, he becomes Leonard the legend. That's not always what happens when Nick Cave interprets your music, but he'll take it.
5) Talk Talk — Laughing Stock: Another album recollected in tranquility and found to be quite profound. How did people miss this one? Well, it's pretty quiet, not one for drawing too much attention to itself. But for anyone who's allowed themselves to float on its static waters, well, you've likely had entirely new worlds opened to you. Seriously.
4) Blur — Leisure: While their later records would find them channeling the Kinks and Pavement, respectively, for their debut album Blur kept it pretty simple, letting the hooks do what words rarely do. A shame Americans rarely understand English.
3) Vic Chesnutt — West of Rome: You can hear the traces of his suicide in the tribute to his friend who killed himself with a nail gun in "Florida." But you can also hear his life, his whimsy, his ability to take little moments and blow them up. His life in a wheelchair may have been torture for him, but it made his music better. It really did. It forced him to slow down and take deep breaths and that gave his music its identity. Rave on, rave on.
2) Julian Cope — Peggy Suicide: Cope received strong reviews for this rather involved collection of folk meditations and extended psychedelics. His commercial aspirations were waving goodbye and he'd spend the rest of the 1990s making increasingly weird and enjoyable albums. Somewhere the Bevis Frond weeps.
1) My Bloody Valentine — Loveless: Kurt Cobain committed suicide, while Kevin Shields simply refused to follow up his greatest hit. It's not uncommon these days to hear people pointing to Loveless as the best album of its generation. I'm squeamish about speaking in those terms, but it is really good if you like getting lost in feedback. And really who doesn't?
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On spies and stratagems/Target
Operational targets[edit]
"The package"
Types of operations[edit]
There are two root types of operations, those that have an official cover and those that have no official cover (NOC).
Official cover means that the agency is not only fully aware of the operation, but if there is a blow-back or agents are captured or detected, it will acknowledge its involvement. This type of decision is mostly a political and has at root diplomatic interests. The definition also clarifies the agents on how secure they will be if the mission fails, it may not only mean life or death but spending long times in captivity at times even without an acknowledgment of their capture.
Operational subgroups (OSGs)[edit]
Self contained support operations or activities. It can cover many aspects of non specific functions transport, resource gathering even multi-agency operation coordination.
Special ops[edit]
Black ops[edit]
Intelligence classification[edit]
A large part of the work of an Intelligence Agency is to process raw data and turn it into relevant information, from rumors to the information gathered from direct operation it becomes one of the most hardiest task to sift all the data into what if valid and relevant, not only today but in the predictable future. This has of course a large parallel (if not similar relation as general war and technology) to the evolution of information technology from categorization, communications to computing, as we have seen.
Solid intelligence is the gold standard in the real of information gathering. It is the top quality of the information that results from the data processing. There are basic similitudes in the general process, even if some points varies from agency to agency. From establishing source credentials, target analysis and channel safety there are a myriad of steps that are required, and mostly automated so as to validated and categorize information. Do not ever get eluded, if this carefully crafted process fails there can only be one reason, the failing was intentional and carefully planned. Note that lack of information never a failing of the data validation and categorization process.
Source analysis[edit]
- Rouge source
The concept of a rouge source is that of someone to pass or create false intelligence that not only is found acceptable by the agent (or agency). Most sources as we have seen pass some levels of scrutiny to verify that they are not a plant or source of misdirection. The problem is when a source has no clear ties to the target it is providing information or when the agent (or agency) fails to understand the motivation behind the false information provided.
Photographic identification[edit]
Data acquisition[edit]
Reading ground tracks becomes more difficult at midday as the sun's position will reduce the tracks' shadow.
"making a drop"[edit]
"dead drop"[edit]
A dead drop is an indirect delivery or even exchange. The object will be of a physical nature, information media or specific hardware. The dead drop is defined by pre-establishing a specific location for dropping the package, this will sometimes also include some sort of protocol to indicate that the drop will take place to the receiver, and may also include countermeasures in case the agent that will execute the drop thinks he is under observation, as to indicate that the content is false or that the receiver should stay away as to avoid himself being identified or captured.
Counter intelligence[edit]
"to turn someone"[edit]
The direct action of subversion of an opposing agent or asset, the creating a defector, to "bring over" that asset to work toward the agency objectives. A good operative path to advance counter intelligence, not only as a source of intelligence about the opposition but also as a way to infiltrate them, if the one turned agrees to act as a double agent or indicates someone that can be put to that task. A rotten apple can spoil the barrel if not detected in time.
There are many ways to reduce the chance of "being turned". The spy should reduce ones attachments or at least reduce the access to information about one's life, since they can be used to exert pressure, also, by not living shamefulness life that can be used to blackmail or in other ways compromise the spy.
The agency can only act pre-emptively on the selection of agents, grooming, monitor and check. This include spot checks of actions and performance, controlled dissemination of misinformation as to non-authorized sharing of information and by increasing loyalty factors and stakes. It is not by chance that traitors are often shoot.
"the double back"[edit]
A scam, is the art of using misdirection as to gain advantage over someone with the collaboration of one or more third participants that are kept unaware of the ultimate goal but are motivated by their own self interest. That are often kept in check by criminal or moral liability at the end of the process, when realizing their own uninformed implication in the affair.
Agents my be required to use this type of tactic to convince and motivate someone to work against their own best interests. More common in criminal activities this type of tactic is also used in many other contexts, even by police forces. A scam can have the secondary objectives of creating a fragility in loyalties even as to permit to establish control of a human asset trough blackmail/social coercion/exposure of liability.
A scam ultimately hinges on a combination of persuasion, misplaced trusts and self delusion, often motivated by greed.
This type of operations is extremely complex and time sensitive and is predicated in a very deep knowledge of human nature. In the operation those that define the plan are often called the brains. Even if this type of operations can fallow a preset configuration, they need be fluid enough to adapt to the specifics and be sufficiently robust to deal with rapid changes.
See the target(s) up with a lure or bait. This is done by setting up a motivator or the convincer. Consisting in starting the other parties in motion in accordance to the plan. The one placing a lead or leading is often called the roper, it does not only sets the operation in motion but will often intervene to keep those involved motivated, that is hooked.
"the tail"[edit]
This can be the function of a specif operator or a designed set of circumstances that permits the monitoring of the evolution of the plan and keeping at the same time those that are not aware of the process, distracted from any event that would permit a premature unveiling of the operation.
"blow off"[edit]
This is the end stage. It consists in terminating the action in a way that the targets are kept unaware of what transpired or put into a position that it is in their own self interest to keep silent.
Ego Massage[edit]
Honey pot[edit]
The spy may be required to perform an assassination, that is to "take down", terminate, silence or retire someone.
Dry cleaning[edit]
Dry cleaning, is a response to a non-wet operation (wet meaning bloody). A dry cleaning is the removal of all traces of agent(s) presence on a possible crime scene or in a location that any adversary agency must not detect interference.
It constitutes in the removal of finger prints, DNA traces and other indications of physical presence at the location.
It can also be an indication to procedures to detect if one is under surveillance, but in that meaning the term has fallen in disuse.
Most agents are trained on how to perform at least basic interrogation. This includes how to handle non invasive psychology pressure points and trough observation of reactions read the subjects body language. There are also several mechanical or computational tools to ascertain state of mind and even a crude form of computer aided mind reading is possible today. Other more proactive forms do involve mental and physical torture.
Agents are not only trained on how to perform but how to resist interrogation. There is no way to avoid being coerced into providing information even one that is not valid or complete, the "game" most favored is to first negate, then provide partial truth mixed with some form of previous established setup that actions by the enemy on it will warn that one has been compromised, fallowed by endurance to the coercion as delaying effort to make the information as less useful as possible or to enable the agency to take engage any possible countermeasures.
Body language[edit]
Today most agents should have at least a crude understanding on how to read body language, from a nervous walk and suspicious behavior, to at least have indication if the target is cooperating and telling truth of lying.
This has all to do with perception of minute details and micro-expressions that are not easy to consciously replicate, one should be aware that body language accounts a great part of how we communicate, this is often disregarded, but something that is of crucial importance in an interrogation. It provided a line of obtaining important feedback.
Most body language falls into commonsense, something that most of us learn to read without a conscious effort, but at times without a full conscious understanding of the meaning. In is not only important to understand what you read but what you transmit, how the target perceives the interrogator is almost as important as what the interrogator can read from the target. Interrogation ultimately is a dialog, a mental contest.
The brain functions are mostly all located today in the brain's structure and general to all persons, and it is why and and how we known that eye movement normally fallows the increased activity on one side of the brain or the other.
Normal "tells" (indications), include shifting of eyes (indicating unease, nervousness). Eye contact indicates interest and attempt to empathize, if it last longer it can be interpreted as dominance assertion (and even threatening or an indicative of deception, depending on the setting) while eye contact avoidance indicates fear or recognition of dominance.


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I assume the entitlement would extend to their parents health insurance.
I don't think we were supposed to sympathise with Hannah when she screwed up her job interview. I think we were supposed to cringe. I wonder if people think, because Lena Dunham is so young, she's also entitled. I think she's sending it up, but maybe not, or maybe people don't realise she is?
ITA. I didn't waitress but I'm still in a job that's way below what I studied for, still struggling to make ends meet, still looking at friends I graduated with 2.5 years ago living off their parents, not so much as waitressing, and it makes me angry.I have a lot of friends in NYC, and I live in Boston, so I can relate to how much of a struggle it is to make it on your own, in an expensive city, in your 20's as a post grad, in a crappy economy. It took me two years to find a job after graduation, but instead of living off Mommy and Daddy, I waitressed for those two years. I had a lot of friends that lived off their parents, and it annoyed me to no end how entitled some of them were. I actually like Hannah a lot, and like many of my friends, I think she just needs a little visit from the self awareness fairy.
A few others got great jobs after a year or two of living off their parents, because they had the time and resources to put into job hunting and unpaid internships. That annoys me merely on the basis that I'm jealous
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"The results suggest that prices have both short-term and intermediate-term effects on reducing traffic crashes," Guangqing Chi, assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University and demographer at Mississippi State's Social Science Research Center, and colleagues wrote.
In their research, published in two recent studies in the Journal of Safety Research and Accident Analysis & Prevention, the researchers looked at car accidents in Mississippi between 2004 and 2008, and tracked gas prices during that period. The prices seemed to affect younger drivers the most in the short-term (over one month) and older drivers and men over a one-year period.
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Magic Masters: Introduction
After the 2010 Eastern Conference Finals, I wondered where that team stood in the annals of Magic history. In 22 years there has been a lot of successes and great moments to go with disappointment and failures.
It was really hard to peg the 2010 team. On one hand, the 2010 team might have been statistically the best team in history. Results-wise and expectations-wise, though, the season was a failure for the way the team bowed out in the Eastern Conference Finals. I got the sense the 2010 team's successes would get lost in that failure. Ultimately, I ranked that team fourth among Orlando's 21 teams.
But that exercise got me thinking about where do the various teams rank in Magic history?
Sure, the 1995 team is one of the best four in team history. But are they best in team history? What about Shaq's rookie season, the first time the Magic finished at least .500 for a season? Were Tracy McGrady's teams really that bad? Which Magic teams were the worst? Did the 2003 Magic sink below the expansion Magic?
I began investigating this further, using the Four Factors (offensive rating, defensive rating, effective field goal percentage, offensive rebound percentage, turnover rate and free throw rate) and the simulation engine WhatIfSports.com (you may recall I used that for my What If? Magic-Bulls series after the Magic were eliminated from the real Playoffs). I tried to set up a way to objectively rank teams to bracket them and not merely make it my pick.
I am not 100 percent sure I have succeeded in bracketing the teams, but I have done my best. It was with that in mind, that I wanted to create some sort of list.
As I did this though, I began to think of another historical list. Who had the greatest individual season in team history? Seriously, think about it. Was Dwight's 2011 season better than any of Shaq's seasons? Where does Tracy McGrady's 2002 season rank? Which of his four years were the best?
These are interesting questions and reveal how rich and diverse the Magic's short history has been.
I wanted to introduce an offseason series (we still have a few months before the "season" begins) where we begin taking stock of Magic history.
The Magic Masters will be Orlando Magic Daily's attempt to rank the best seasons in the franchise's short history. With that, I introduce the Magic Masters bracket for the greatest team in Magic history.
We are going to start with ranking the best teams in Magic history. Just about each day over the next month or so, I will feature one matchup with a brief summary of the teams, including my pick. But this is not about what I think. This is about what we, the Magic community, think. There will also be a poll to vote on the winner. It does not matter what you use to vote -- who would win in a matchup between the two teams, impact in Magic history, final record and results -- a diversity in thought will make this ranking richer. After each round, we will endeavor to rank the losers to create an actual list.
With that, I introduce the bracket. Again, this is just to get the exercise started and the bracketed numbers do not matter as much as the final result.
Study hard, readers, we will be voting on the first matchup soon! And we will find out who are the Magic Masters!


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With a three-game lead in the AFC West and just three games to go, you might think it'd be hard to stay on task and keep yourself from looking ahead to the playoffs.
Thinking that would be a mistake.
"The job's not done yet," Brandon Marshall said in his press conference today. "It's really easy for us to stay focused. We need one more win to get in. We're not worried about San Diego losing — we're trying to control our own destiny."
They'll get their shot at that one win and control of their own destiny Sunday in Carolina.
"It seems like when our back is against the wall we play better. I think this game is going to show us where we are at as a team. The Panthers are a Super Bowl caliber team, they have great coaches, great players and they are doing a great job. It is going to be an exciting atmosphere to play in."


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Jennifer Van Grove is a senior reporter at CNET where she leads coverage on social media news.
Previously, Jennifer was a writer at VentureBeat and a senior reporter for Mashable.com, the world's largest independent web technology news site.
She has years of experience reporting on startups, industry trends, breaking technology news stories, social media sites, and digital brand campaigns.
Jennifer also has experience in television, having introduced social media reporting to the NBC San Diego newsroom. Each week, Jennifer would interview top industry executives and startup founders live via Skype during the morning news broadcast.
Jennifer's past accomplishments include organizing the San Diego Tweetup and helping advise companies large and small on their social media strategy.
[Jennifer has also organized two separate group trips to the Price is Right, but has yet to walk away a winner. Her brother Jeffrey, however, won a car and more than $16,000 in cash and prizes (when Bob Barker was still hosting the show). Clearly, Jennifer brings luck to those around her.]
You can find Jennifer pretty much anywhere on the web under the handle "jbruin." She often tweets, instagrams, tumbles and posterizes on tech and the world at large, which means some content may occasionally be NSFW.
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StartupSD.net is a blog that connects the San Diego Web community with San Diego web news, events and collaboration.
The mission of FIRST is to inspire kids to pursue careers in Science and Technology, so when I was offered the chance to bring social media to two of their programs (both partnered with LEGO), I jumped at the opportunity. I spent 5 months working full-time in house (and 6 months on contract) helping develop the strategy around a social site to support the Junior FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League programs.
Luth Research marks the nascence of my professional love affair with online communities. Although I was hired in an IT administrative role, within a few weeks I was brought into the business development side of the company, and fairly quickly transitioned into the Community Manager position. I spent the first several months with my ear to the streets, all the while staying focused on the mission to transform the online panel into more of a community with common interests around providing feedback via online survey research.
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- Ensuring all Client research projects were supplied with the highest quality survey respondents.
- Creating neat, accurate, and accountable record keeping of panel members including new, established, invalid, sub panels and other criteria for ongoing information to establish company benchmarks and reach goals.
Multimedia Producer Evan Wexler created this infographic showing how photographer Curtis Joe Walker worked with Senior Editor Charlie White to cover CES 2011 for Mashable. Amazing what technology can do, eh?
TechCrunch getting acquired by AOL is pretty interesting to me. I mailed the team earlier today to congratulate them on their accomplishment, but I thought I'd blog a few thoughts too.
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Thursday can't seem to come soon enough. But if you haven't had enough yet, we're going to bury you with some more numbers and opinions on this upcoming series. Here we've gathered to make our predictions about the series. We've included some of the same stats we used to analyze the other Western Conference series', although deployment was previously posted here by Neutral.
What's certainly rang true throughout this week is that the numbers may give us an idea of how this series will play out, but as team captain, Joe Thornton said himself, "Everybody has zeros on the board now and everybody starts fresh, I think that's the way you've got to look at it." Anything in any series can happen. That being said, we'll take a microscope to each aspect of the game to see how these two teams will battle it out, who may have the edge to take this series.
Cumulative Fenwick Close%: The graphs below represent the cumulative Fenwick (EV shots and missed shots) percentage with the score tied at any time or within a goal in the first or second period for teams over the course
H2H EV Fenwick%: Head to head even strength fenwick%, which is the proportion of goals, shots, and misses at the opponent net.
H2H EV GD: Even strength goal differential, which is even strength goals for minus even strength goals against
SAF: Score Adjusted Fenwick: Fenwick% adjusted for score effects. This stat serves as a surrogate not only for posession, but also scoring chances. So far, it is the most accurate predictor of future wins.
5v4SF/60 or 4v5 SA/60: Shots for or against per 60min TOI. This represents the amount of shots generated on the power play. The numbers are presented as the number of shots generated for or against a team if they were on the PP or PK for the entire 60 minutes of the game.
Rank:represents the rank of that team or player in the category immediately to the left.
Corsi: CORSI is similar to plus-minus, but includes every type of shot. It is the number of goals, shots, misses and blocked shots directed at the oppositions net, minus those sent toward a player's own net. This is then put into a rate stat, showing the shot totals on average if a player would have played every miinute of a 60min game.
Corsi Rank: This is the player's Corsi rank as compared to all forwards or defense with over 30 games played.
Goals/Points: This is 5v5 goals and points only.
Matt Taylor: Plank made a comment a few weeks ago that if we were to go by my predictions, the Sharks would go 82-0 and have won three Cups over the last three years.
Guess you could say that I'm a bit of an optimist.
While I'm guilty of wearing the teal-tinted glasses that paint the Sharks as a better team than they are at times, it's not always sunshine and marshmallows for me. There's definitely a bit of doubt that popped into the noggin for this series, as St. Louis is by all measures an elite team. Still, there's plenty of kittens and rainbows that keep me from jumping off a cliff.
I'm trying to be as objective as I can be, because I know that over-optimism in San Jose has gotten me into trouble in the past; I picked them over Chicago in 6 and over Vancouver in 7, for reference. Part of it is that I'm more familiar with San Jose, catching all 82 of their games and getting a feel for what they're capable of while only watching a handful of non-Sharks matchups for the Blues.
When I look at this series, I hold on to a few glimmers of hope that have been highlighted by others on the site (great work from our stats guys this year). First, it's the fact that San Jose has better top-end talent than St. Louis. No question that the Sharks top-six has more skill and goal scoring ability than the Blues group. It's not even close.
Second, I don't think you can expect that Halak and Elliot are going to put up save percentages in the .930's during the series. They had great seasons but I just don't think they outplay Niemi significantly over the course of seven games, which they will need to do, because I think there's a big disparity in the scoring ability of both clubs.
Third is the fact that in the Sharks last three losses against the Blues, the Blues scored JUST ONE even strength goal. The rest were 5-3 tallies (3), a 5 on 4 goal and some empty netters. The games were closer than they appeared, and in the playoffs (when penalties are called much less frequently), I don't think the Sharks PK hurts them as significantly as it did in the regular season.
Lastly, you have to consider the fact that this Sharks team is much different than the one that the Blues beat up most of the year (with the exception of the last game). They added a bunch of pieces which improved their depth and speed, and also shored up their defensive game as a forward group. Also, having a healthy Martin Havlat makes this team entirely different, as their record with and without him suggests.
Wrapping up, the Sharks are going to split the opening series, win two at home and then finally seal the series in seven. And there will be cute cuddly puppies and cupcakes and a unicorn. Sharks in 7.
The Neutral: I feel like I've been pretty down on the Sharks chances all week so I thought I'd look at some reasons San Jose can come out on top in this series. First of all, they own the best power play in the NHL by the shot metrics; they generate more shots (and almost certainly more scoring chances) per 60 minutes on the man advantage than any other team in the league, which obviously includes the Blues. This bodes well for the Sharks since, contrary to popular belief, power play opportunities actually tend to increase across the board in the first round of the playoffs. If call rates in the regular season are any indication, the Sharks are substantially more likely to earn a greater share of those power plays than the Blues - San Jose earned 54.5% of all power play opportunities in the games they played this season while the Blues earned just 48.9% of the power plays over their schedule. This is especially crucial because the tables are pretty much turned when looking at the teams' penalty killing ability.
As reader milanahalek mentioned a few days ago, although Alex Pietrangelo is probably the best defenseman in this series, the Sharks have more depth on the blueline than the Blues do even if St. Louis has had better results with their defense. I would gladly take Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Brent Burns and Dan Boyle over any non-Pietrangelo d-man on St. Louis. I also think the Sharks' likely third pairing of Jason Demers and Justin Braun brings more to the table than defensive disaster Kris Russell and the sturdy but one-dimensional Roman Polak.
For all the talk about the wizardry of Ken Hitchcock's system, I doubt he turned Jaroslav Halak into a true talent 0.938 SV% goaltender at even strength. One season of data (especially considering Halak appeared in only 46 games) just isn't enough to be confident whether a goaltender's talent has legitimately increased and/or his teammates have found a way to consistently suppress shot quality beyond the league norm or that it's just the variance gods at work. A better measure of a goalie's talent is his career EV SV% which is 0.925 for Halak. Know who else has a 0.925 career EV SV%? Antti Niemi. We could go on all day about Niemi's technical flaws but the guy can stop pucks and nothing else really matters when discussing goaltending. I don't see a significant difference in net between these two teams.
The Blues also struggled to put the puck in the net at even strength, much like the Sharks. Both teams averaged 2.25 goals per 60 minutes of 5v5. And with both clubs, their lack of scoring wasn't due to a lack of effort - San Jose and St. Louis ranked 2nd and 10th in the league, respectively in 5v5 shots per 60. So with low shooting percentages at evens being the primary reason these teams weren't offensive powerhouses this season, I thought it might be helpful to dig up four years worth of shooting percentage data for each team's top six forwards. Although there's still an element of randomness even over a four-year sample, it's going to be reasonably diminished and we can get a sense of the team's actual talent levels in order to gauge whether there's a difference in finishing ability between the two clubs:
While there isn't a significant difference in goaltending talent between the clubs, the Blues' group of key forwards appears to have been better at finishing their chances than the Sharks'. 1.2% doesn't seem like a huge difference but, on average, it would be worth around 2 goals over a 7-game series. Granted, banking on shooting percentage differences in small sample sizes is a fool's errand and this is far too primitive of an analysis to establish whether St. Louis has legitimately superior finishers but it's something to keep in mind.
It's certainly not a vast disparity if there even is one and, at least at even strength, the series should come down to who can control possession for longer and thereby generate more opportunities to score. Unfortunately, the evidence points to that team being St. Louis. While I think this will be a tightly contested series and the Sharks have an edge on special teams that they'll be able to use to prolong the series, I have to pick Blues in six.
But I'd love nothing more than to be proven wrong.
Snark SD: After compiling all the numbers, these two teams look a lot closer on paper than I originally thought. We can't just assume that the thumping the sharks took on the score sheetagainst the blues during the regular season doesn't mean anything, but with only 4 games played between the two teams during the regular season, we're not exactly working with a robust sample. I also included probabilities based on the SAF, similar to the numbers I posted during the regular season.
Looking down the Corsi of forwards for the blues shows how talented as group they are. Steen has captured the top Corsi forward this year, which speaks volumes about his game, but I think a key player for the blues all year long has been David Backes. He faces some of the toughest competition for the blues, is tied for the lowest zone% and still drives play in the right direction. He's an ironman who has played all 82 games both this and last season, and has potted 55 goals and 116 over those 2 years, the most of any player to wear the blue note. I don't think the blues have as much depth in defense as they do in their forwards, but Pietrangelo and Jackman have done very well as their top pair. Their game has really rounded into form under Hitchcock's system. Suffocation is the best word I can think of to describe their team mentality, and it has worked in spades for the Blues this year.
The most consistent player for the Sharks all year has been Pavelski, and his tenacity has driven much of the success of this team. As we have documented extensively, he is counted on to take the Sharks toughest competition, and score key goals. As is the case every year, the team that often wins the series is the team with the better top line, and the Sharks are going to need to count on that if they can get past the Blues. There is no denying this year's teamis not the same as last years, who lead the league in Fenwick Close%, and I think a lot of that has to do with a decline in a number of players. Boyle, Mitchell, Handzus, Havlat, Clowe, and Murray collectively had a bad year compared to their career averages, which hurt the team as a whole. Those player's will need to regain the strength of years past in order for San Jose to make any sort of run at the cup this year. Boyle's case is interesting in that he has been progressively given more ice time and increased defensive responsibilitythrough his years with the sharks. This has significantly impacted his ability to punish opponents offensively. The addition of Burns in the offseason was supposed to relieve Boyle of some of the tough minutes, but I think we've all learned that it may take a couple years for Burns to become the all-star the Sharks expect him to be. Personally, I think this team still has a lot of depth, especially with the deadline additions, even if some player's haven't shown that this year. The core of the team has remained the same over the past few seasons, that same core that has gone to the Western Conference Finals twice in a row.
All in all, this series is going to come down to who can win the neutral zone battle. Sharks in 7.
Jason Plank: The Sharks have to hold on to what they've got. Because it doesn't make a difference if they have the Fenwick advantage or not. They've got each other, and that's a lot, to go glove-- they'll give it a shot.
Whoah, they're not even halfway there, but whoah-ho, the experts all say they're living on a prayer. If they stick to the gameplan they'll make it I swear. Whoah-ho, growing facial hair.
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It all began with family picnics to the worn old mountains one first encounters heading west from East Coast cities. These mountains seem to have different names as you travel from state to state. Still, no matter where you enter them, they become places of escape and enchantment. As a child, I had to be taken to them; as I aged, I'd escape to them when I needed refreshing. No matter when or where I went, I seldom saw many other folks. The mountains became a place for me to go to do what I couldn't do in a church; I could see and feel and hear God. I could worship God in church, but I seldom actually ran into God there.
Of course, from the very beginning, I knew that there were dangers in the mountains. There were wild creatures that I could meet and the unexpected lay just around the next corner. I soon learned to enjoy the unexpected and learned that the wild animals were really not too interested in me; they were as wary of me as I was of them. Every turn in the trail seemed always to have some new thrill: a new flower, a pretty moss, some new sound, a sudden vista or a dancing stream that I had to cross.
For a long time, I walked into the woods either with family or alone. I actually was over 40 before I ever ventured into the woods with friends or went into the mountains for multiple days at a time. There probably is no better way to know another person than to walk with them, eat with them and sleep with them in the wilderness for a few days. We usually knew pretty much where we were going on these trips and we'd plan ahead, looking over topographic maps and trying to imagine what we'd see.
What we saw and experienced always was unexpected, no matter how well we planned. The weather was unpredictable, the maps often were misleading and none of the maps indicated swimming holes or berry patches.
When I moved here, I walked with folks from church. I was a little intimidated by these young, vertical mountains. These folks taught me how to cope with sheer drops and never ending upgrades … well, I did learn to cope with these realities, sort of!
It's ironic that I discovered that walking with a group larger than five didn't work for me: Any magic, excitement or even fear disappeared. I couldn't hear the wind blowing through trees or the birds or the quiet. All of my life hiking was a chance to feel a closeness and communion with my creator … I had to get that experience back. So, today I walk with Candy or my friend Diane or one or two other folks — or alone.
Hiking alone may not be the wisest thing to do at my age, but I hike trails I know and unless I see a mother bear and her cub on the trail in front of me, I'll probably stay on the trail. And, given the weight of my daypack, I can survive for a good while on pills and power bars. At least I have a camera and can take a picture of whatever it is that is starting to eat me!
These new mountains aren't always so much different from those I traveled through years ago. These trails are some of the most heavily traveled in the Olympic National Park — and still you seldom see more than one or two other hikers.
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In a message to senior executives, Secretary Eric Shinseki said that Stephen Warren now will hold the title of executive in charge, Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer. The title change comes as the House Veterans Affairs Committee is turning up on the heat once again on the agency's ability to secure its systems and protect data.
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Documents obtained by Federal News Radio show VA's financial audit found material weaknesses, including the failure to remove terminated employees from accessing the network, and the lack of a formal process for monitoring, preventing installation and removing unauthorized application software on agency systems. House Veterans Affairs lawmakers continue to press VA to make changes to their cybersecurity posture more quickly. VA officials say they have a multi-layered defense to include outside network monitoring by external partners, active scanning of Web applications and source code, and protection of servers, workstations, network and gateways, among other security efforts.
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BlackRock, MSCI shares rise on ETF fee cut plan
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(Reuters) - Shares of market index provider MSCI Inc (MSCI.N) jumped 6 percent on Tuesday, a day after a big customer, BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), said it was cutting fees on just a handful of exchange-traded funds and none tracking MSCI benchmarks.
Shares of BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, rose about 2 percent as analysts said fee reductions at its iShares line of ETFs would have less impact on the New York firm's bottom line than they had anticipated.
MSCI shares had dropped as much as 30 percent on October 2, when another major client, Vanguard Group, said it was dumping MSCI indexes from 22 of its largest funds to save money, prompting speculation that BlackRock might make a similar move.
Vanguard said it was switching to indexes with cheaper licensing fees from FTSE Group and the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Security Prices.
MSCI has grown rapidly, thanks to licensing fees paid by ETF fund managers, like BlackRock and Vanguard. The fund companies pay MSCI to track its indexes at rates calculated as a small percentage of each fund's assets.
BlackRock had warned for weeks it would reduce fees on some of its most profitable funds to better compete with rivals like Vanguard and Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW.N).
But on Monday afternoon, it announced it would cut fees on only six of its iShares funds, fewer than analysts had expected, and would create four new low-cost funds, including three using MSCI indexes. BlackRock offers more than 600 iShares ETFs.
Under the plan, the fee on the iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF, for example, will drop to 7 basis points - or 7 hundredths of a percentage point - from the current 20 basis points.
The fee cuts will lead to an annual revenue loss of $35 million to $40 million and reduce earnings per share by less than 1 percent, Luke Montgomery, an analyst at Bernstein Research, wrote in a report.
"This is well below our base estimate," he said.
New York-based MSCI, a leading provider of indexes, risk management advice and other investment analysis services, competes with Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO)(TRI.N) in some areas.
Until Vanguard's move a few weeks ago, investors believed that MSCI, best known for its all-world and emerging market stock indexes, would be immune from price wars in the $1.5 trillion global exchange-traded fund market.
MSCI shares gained $1.57, or 6.1 percent, to $27.16 at midday on the New York Stock Exchange.
Through Monday's close, MSCI shares had lost 22 percent this year.
BlackRock gained $4.32, or 2.3 percent, to $189.69 on the New York Stock Exchange. It hit a session high of $190.87.
BlackRock shares are up 7 percent in 2012 through Monday, trailing the 15 percent gain in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
With some $3.6 trillion in total assets under management at the end of June, BlackRock is the largest money manager in the world. Of the total, ETFs comprised $645 billion - also more than any other firm.
(Reporting by Aaron Pressman; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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