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The Three Leakers and What to Do About Them
Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy
Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles
What should we make of Edward Snowden, Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, and Julian Assange? Their names are known across the globe, yet the actions that made them famous have also driven them to lives of intense isolation—in hiding, in prison, or in a foreign embassy. They have been lionized as heroes and condemned as traitors. Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), and Manning, a low-level army intelligence analyst, are responsible for the two largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the nation's history.
Manning released to Assange's website, WikiLeaks, about 720,000 secret documents from the State and Defense Departments, and Assange published them on the Internet. The NSA still doesn't know the full extent of the information Snowden stole and passed on to the journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Barton Gellman, but it estimates the number to be 1.7 million classified documents, concerning some of the US's most closely guarded secret surveillance programs.
The federal government views Manning and Snowden as criminals. It tried and convicted Manning for violating the Espionage Act and he was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. (Manning subsequently announced that he was changing his gender, and hereafter would be known as Chelsea.) The government has charged Snowden with stealing government property and violating the Espionage Act, although he has thus far evaded trial by obtaining temporary asylum in Russia. And the Justice Department has empaneled a grand jury to investigate Assange, who is holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London seeking to evade extradition to Sweden for alleged sex crimes.
The prosecutors in Manning's trial repeatedly contended that Assange actively encouraged Manning's crimes. In November, however, a Justice Department official told the The Washington Post that Assange would not likely be prosecuted for publishing Manning's documents. According to former Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller, "if you are not going to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, which the department is not, then there is no way to prosecute Assange." But the grand jury investigation continues.
Others praise Manning, Snowden, and Assange for exposing our government's secret and legally dubious activities at home and abroad. Snowden's revelations about the scope of NSA electronic surveillance have touched off a much-needed national and global debate about privacy in the digital age. Indeed, because of his influence he was rumored to have been the runner-up to Pope Francis for Time magazine's "Person of the Year." Manning's and Assange's disclosures had much less dramatic effect, but they, too, revealed a host of potential abuses, including US troops in Iraq killing civilians, the US State Department spying on foreign UN officials, and a secret agreement between Yemen and the United States to permit US drone strikes there on the condition that they not be publicly admitted.
These leaks, the most significant since Daniel Ellsberg made the Pentagon Papers available to The New York Times and The Washington Post in 1971, raise anew the question of when it is justified to disclose classified information to the public. Some advocates of transparency seem to treat any exposure of secrets as an unmitigated good; this appears to be the philosophy behind Assange's WikiLeaks. But that position is morally untenable; there are undoubtedly good reasons for secrecy in many aspects of government, especially foreign relations, and particularly during wartime. And there are many legitimate bases for condemning disclosures, particularly when they reveal the identities of sources and methods of foreign intelligence.
Security hawks consider any unauthorized disclosure of classified information unacceptable, stressing that cleared employees take an oath not to disclose such information, and that no government can operate without some secret deliberations and covert actions. But this, too, is an untenably extreme position. History demonstrates that secrecy is used not only for legitimate purposes of national security, but too often to shield illegal or embarrassing activity from public scrutiny. Even the most ardent security proponent must concede that the benefits from revealing illegal abuses of authority will sometimes outweigh the costs of disclosing those secrets.
If neither extreme is acceptable, how should we distinguish legitimate from illegitimate leaks? The Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, passed in 1998, marks one effort at striking a balance. It provides a way for individuals to disclose classified information regarding a "serious or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of law," but only to members of congressional intelligence committees, and only after initially presenting it to the NSA's inspector general and the attorney general. This law, however, provides no protection for revealing information to the public, and has been used only rarely. Whatever balance it struck in theory has proven largely irrelevant in practice.
To understand why, imagine if Snowden had gone to the NSA's inspector general with information that the agency was collecting large amounts of "metadata" on every American's phone calls—i.e., records of who they called, when, and for how long they talked—storing the data for five years, and searching through it. What would the inspector general have done? As the NSA's defenders repeatedly emphasize, the metadata program was blessed by all three branches. The Bush administration instituted it and Obama maintained it. Fifteen federal judges on the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court—or FISA court—declared it lawful. And Congress reauthorized the Patriot Act provision upon which the program was based, even after being informed of the program (albeit in a limited and anodyne manner designed not to raise any alarms).1
Given these circumstances, the inspector general surely would have responded that there was no basis for disclosing it. But even if Snowden had been given a green light to bring the NSA's activities to the attention of the intelligence committees, the problem was not that those committees were in the dark, but that the American people were. As Snowden put it in a videotaped interview from Hong Kong at the time of his initial leaks, "These things need to be determined by the public, not by somebody who was simply hired by the government…. The public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong."
The reactions that Snowden's disclosures have sparked suggest that he was onto something. The only parties kept out of the "checks and balances" so often lauded by the NSA's defenders were the American and global publics—in other words, the people whose privacy was at stake. As long as the program was kept under wraps, all three branches of government were willing to tolerate it. But once it became public, that changed dramatically. On December 16, the first federal court to assess the legality of the NSA's telephony metadata program in a public, adversarial proceeding declared it likely unconstitutional. US District Judge Richard Leon ruled that the mass collection and search of metadata invaded US citizens' reasonable expectations of privacy, and could not be justified without a warrant and probable cause.2
Two days later, the president's own expert panel, which included a former acting director of the CIA, raised serious questions about the wisdom and propriety of the program, and recommended forty-six reforms to rein in the NSA, including an end to the NSA's bulk collection of telephone records, more judicial and legislative oversight, and a requirement of specific presidential approval for spying on foreign leaders.
Members of Congress have introduced more than thirty bills to restrict the NSA. The most important bill is cosponsored by Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin in his thirty-fifth year in Congress, and Senator Patrick Leahy, the veteran Democrat from Vermont. Sensenbrenner, an architect of the original Patriot Act, says that he never imagined that it could authorize what the NSA has been doing. And Silicon Valley is also urging reforms, arguing that the NSA's practices have not only damaged privacy, but undermined their businesses—and the US economy—by eroding trust in the confidentiality of US-based Internet services.
At the end of December, US District Judge William Pauley III in Manhattan, disagreeing with Judge Leon, ruled that the NSA's program was constitutional. Judge Pauley reasoned that Americans have no legitimate expectation of privacy in the phone numbers they call, and therefore have no constitutional basis for objecting to the NSA's mass collection and searching of that data. If an appeals court finds the NSA program unconstitutional, review by the Supreme Court is almost certain.
In the end, the Obama administration, Congress, and the courts should all act to curb NSA spying. More targeted surveillance, subject to closer judicial oversight, should replace the NSA's current dragnet approach. How the conflict ultimately will be resolved will not be known for some time. But one thing is clear: none of this debate would have happened without Snowden's revelations.
Consider what we have learned from Snowden's leaks and the further government disclosures that they prompted:
(1) Since 2006, the NSA has been systematically collecting records on every phone call every American makes. It has done so on the basis of NSA lawyers' secret, strained interpretation of a Patriotic Act provision that authorized the collection only of records "relevant" to an investigation of international terrorism. The NSA argued that it can collect everyone's phone records, regardless of any connection to terrorism, on the theory that the records might in the future become "relevant" to a terrorism investigation. But on that theory, what records couldn't the NSA collect?
(2) Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied under oath about this program when asked in a congressional hearing whether the government was collecting any kind of data on millions of Americans. Clapper answered "no," but Snowden has shown that the NSA was doing precisely that.
(3) Under another statute, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the NSA has engaged in far more intrusive surveillance—including reviewing the content of e-mails, Internet searches, and chat rooms—of persons it believes are foreign nationals overseas, even if they are communicating with US citizens here. It may do so without any individualized suspicion that the target is engaged in criminal or terrorist activity. The agency has tapped the phones and e-mails of some of our closest allies' leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
(4) These NSA programs were authorized in secret by FISA judges, but have often violated the terms under which the courts authorized them. For example, in 2009 FISA Judge Reggie Walton castigated the NSA for illegally reviewing thousands of Americans' phone data over two years, and imposed a temporary requirement (later lifted) that all searches of the database be preceded by judicial approval.3
(5) Within the United States, the NSA has been collecting not just records of Americans' phone calls, but of their e-mails as well. E-mail data is often even more revealing than phone data (identifying, for example, the e-mail groups and political and religious organizations with which one communicates).
(6) The NSA has been collecting cell phone location data and e-mail address lists from outside the US on a vast scale, data that tracks phone users' every move around the clock and reveals e-mailers' closest associations.
(7) The NSA has not been satisfied even with all of these powers. It has hacked into the overseas links between Google's and Yahoo's data hubs, vacuuming up enormous amounts of data, subject to no statutory or judicial limits whatsoever. And it has inserted vulnerabilities into private industry's encryption codes to enable it to hack into them more easily.
(8) Finally (at least for now), the NSA has been cooperating in potentially disturbing ways with its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), apparently exploiting loopholes that allow the NSA to do things GCHQ could not, and vice versa.
And Snowden is not done yet. Reports of new programs, initiatives, and targets break weekly if not daily. In short, Snowden's disclosures portray an insatiable agency that has sought to collect as much information as it possibly can, most of it relying on secret interpretations of law, often exploiting the fact that the law has not caught up to technology.
The NSA notified members of the Senate and House intelligence committees of the program, and made some information available to other members of Congress. However, it did not disclose the questionable reasoning of the FISA courts upholding the program. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee reportedly barred the program's disclosure to other House members. And while senators were allowed to examine a classified letter reporting on the program, they could not bring any staff members with them, and could not take notes or copy the letter. They could review the letter only for a limited period of time, and could not discuss it with their colleagues or the public. ↩
For a discussion of Judge Leon's ruling, see my article " The NSA on Trial," NYRblog, December 18, 2013. ↩
Declassified Order of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, March 2, 2009, at www.dni.gov/files/documents/section/pub_March%202%202009%20Order%20from%20FISC.pdf. ↩
See Barton Gellman, "Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission's Accomplished," The Washington Post, December 23, 2013. ↩


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#Life#Parenting Siblings#Pregnancy#got pee sticks?#The Flinger Family
After knowing Mr. Flinger for nearly twenty years now, seven years of those married, six of those as best friends, and 5 years of dating, you'd think I kinda know the guy a bit. You'd think that. And you'd be right. Mostly.
For some reason I've been approaching this whole birth control thing completely wrong. I've been approaching it like a women, with logic and emotion. *We* don't want to have children, so *we* need to find a solution that works for *us*. *We* need to get a cost effective/low impact solution. *We* don't need the Mommy (hi) to be an emotional wreck from the hormones of Birth Control Pills (also? I can not be counted on to take them thus making their reliability around 2%) or the IUD*. *We* don't like condoms. *We*... Read more
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The BoyChild will not let me set him down. What-so-ever. At all. Nada. Zilch. No-go. W.T.F. This means I have about thirty-two minutes at the end of the day when Mr. Flinger gets here to do bills, clean, make dinner, eat dinner, pee, shower, and workout. Oh! And type! And write thank you cards! And give myself a pedicure because OY. Did I mention Oy? OY.
This too shall pass. I know I know. And if I was really obnoxious and deeply troubling I might say something totally gross like, "I just enjoy this time because one day he'll be fighting me off and I'll miss the days of carrying him around in the sling every goddamn minute of the day."
In other news, I took a pregnancy test. YES! That's right! Internet, I made it an entire... Read more
Just got the call: HCG is less than five. We can :: ahem :: resume "normal activity" and start trying whenever we feel comfortable.
I'm drinkin' some wine tonight, baby! Bring on the BABY MAKING.
*upon hearing this news Mr. Flinger says, "Activity as normal? Can't we do better than once a month? Come on, Man, throw me a bone." He forgot about the the experiment already? Jeesh.
Read more#Pregnancy#got pee sticks?#TTC
Here is the kind of information you would get from me if you saw me on the street today.
"Yea. I'm almost five weeks pregnant. Yea. So it's not going well. Yasee, I peed on another stick today. And, well, it's not darker and I KNOW they say it doesn't matter but it has to, right? Doesn't it make sense if your HGC went up it would get darker? Yea. I thought so. So anyway, I had another blood work lab today because the nurse isn't pleased with my score of 47 on 17 days past ovulation. Oh, we know when I ovulated because I took this ovulation strip. Oh, it's so neat, it'll tell you when your egg is about 48 hours from being released. Crazy, hu? Anyway, so I had to go back in and now they're saying things like...
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Because I can convince a nun she's pregnant but not that she's a lesbian 23/May/2006
Two weeks late. Grumpy but not bitchy. Weepy but not pissy. Tired. Sore boobs. Pukey.
Wow. This. Is. Really. Getting. Old.
Maybe it's all those women I sleep with. Yathink?*
Oooh, Internet, before you run around spreading rumors, lemme just say that I've stayed up late to see my hunk-o-hunk-a-burning-manhood on the Country Music Awards (which I despise) just because someone said he was on. And in the five
sentences he was on, I realize there is no way I could ever... Read more
"Babe, my uterus hurts."
"When is your period due?"
"I dunno. I'll have to check my archives."
Read more#Social Clutz Loveable Spaz#got pee sticks?
No, it's not the latest porn movie hitting the Internet, it's what my Doc said after I admitted to peeing away hundreds of dollars in pregnancy sticks. After last week's episode, she demanded I take a blood pregnancy test because, let's face it, I was whacked and a week late. Also, regardless of how many fake positive or real negative tests I take, I still believe I'm pregnant. Hell, I can be bleeding like a stuck pig and think I'm pregnant. Trust me. Or don't. Read it for yourself.
Anyway, so she calls with the results telling me, upon my... Read more
I swear to you, I can convince a nun she's pregnant. No, Really. I could. I think I have a problem. There should be a name for this. "reallybadguessingatpregnancysymptoms-drom" or "howthehellcouldIpossiblybebutIthinkitanyway-drom" or "mynippleshurtlet'sassumeit'sababy-drom" 'cause y'all. Every. Effing. Month.
One of these days the girl-who-cried-pregnant will actually GET pregnant and there will be no people to give a rat's ass. "Yea. Right" they'll say. "Uhhu.. SUUUURRREEEE." And "Are you SUUREEE you didn't just pee on a used stick?"
Thus is born, a new category,... Read more
Y'all… I am not just feeling pukey.. I am hunched over the sink dry heaving. Why? Seriously? Here's the theory.
Read moreI'm starving. I'm so hungry, y'all. I'm hungry enough that page 83 of Harry Potter had me drooling. Oh, it's not the main point of the chapter. Unless, of course, the fact that Harry Potter eats onion soup and bread has some large meaning to the whole wizarding world. I'm sure it doesn't. But it has a whole hell of a lof of meaning to my world. Mainly, my belly.
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It took a few days, but a representative of Anonymous (as far as there is such a thing) has given Gizmodo a manifesto of sorts, explaining Friday's DDoS attack against the CIA.
One of Anonymous' Twitter mouthpieces claims the hacker collective just took down CIA.gov. It's definitely down. If this is what it looks like, it could be Anon's greatest hit so far.
Ever since watching James Bond as a child, we've all dreamt about spy toys. Secret cameras, hidden guns, that kind of thing. Well here's the real deal, straight out of the KGB vaults.
Today, the US president said every soldier in Iraq is coming home, leading many to believe The War Is Over. Except it's not. Getting humans out of there is great, but the fact is war today doesn't need humans at all.


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Bodacious BBQ: Boosting the flavor in grilling recipes. Treatments for chicken breasts, pork tenderloin and salmon patties. (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune) |
Bodacious barbecued chicken breasts
Prep: 20 minutes
Marinate: 20 minutes
Cook: 15-22 minutes
Servings: 4
Note: In their latest cookbook, "100 Grilling Recipes You Can't Live Without" (Harvard Common Press, $16.95), Bill and Cheryl Jamison describe this dish as a "fool-proof version of the all-American backyard classic: juicy chicken coated in sauce with a few charred and chewy edges." Their secret? Using boneless, skinless breasts pounded to an even thickness so all portions are cooked through at the same time.
Barbecue sauce:
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup molasses
2 tablespoons each: packed brown sugar, butter
1 1/2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons yellow mustard
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt or coarse sea salt
1/4 teaspoon each: freshly ground black pepper, chili powder
1/2 cup water
3 to 4 tablespoons bourbon
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (6 to 7 ounces each), pounded to 1/2 inch thick
1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt or coarse sea salt
1. Combine the ketchup, molasses, brown sugar, butter, Worcestershire, mustard, onion powder, salt, pepper, chili powder and water in a medium saucepan; heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to a bare simmer; cook, until thickened lightly, 5-10 minutes. Stir in the bourbon; simmer, 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; set aside about half of the sauce to serve with the chicken at the table.


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Kevin Boehm and Rob Katz pioneered the chef-driven restaurant concept that has Chicago, and the rest of the country, begging for more. Stephanie Izard's Girl & the Goat, Giuseppe Tentori's GT Fish & Oyster, Balena and Perennial Virant are all their babies. Mr. Boehm and Mr. Katz aren't your average restaurateurs and this isn't your average interview…
How did you become partners?
Kevin: We met on eHarmony…just kidding. That's a 10-year-old joke. My best friend's wife worked for Rob's best friend; they introduced us. Rob wanted to move from nightclubs to restaurants, and I wanted to transition from the South to Chicago.
How do you divide responsibilities?
Rob: Some of it's side-by-side; some is divide-and-conquer. After 10 deals together we don't really discuss. We know what to do.
Name the other's greatest strengths/weaknesses.
Kevin: Rob's an excellent dancer but not so great at singing.
Rob: Kevin can bench 260 but has the jumping ability of my grandmother.
We already knew that. Tell us something we don't know, like your favorite hidden gem.
Kevin: I like Macello on Lake a lot.
Rob: Sai Cafe.
Go-to fine-dining restaurant?
Kevin: Other than ours? Alinea, Blackbird, Naha and Trencherman.
Rob: Ditto on all those. Also, Arami.
With Michelin Stars, a James Beard nomination and many accolades under your belt, what's the key to success?
Kevin: Hard work, a great team and being surrounded by people smarter than us.
Rob: Keeping our sensibility, growing our company the right way, always treating it like a business and not enjoying too much of our own party.
Besides Little Goat, any other new restaurants in the pipeline?
Kevin: A quick-service chicken restaurant with Stephanie Izard is coming soon to River North!
Well, that'll be something to cluck about. How do you stay in shape while surrounded by delicious food?
Both: Jim Karas Personal Training.
Rob: Gerry, my trainer, kicks my ass weekly.
Kevin: My trainer Ashley is known as 'the honey badger' – she's tough!
What's the next food trend?
Rob: We can't tell you.
Kevin: He means we won't tell you.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Rob: Shady Pines Retirement Home?
Kevin: Honestly, we'll probably be doing exactly what we're doing now.
Best advice you ever received?
Kevin: Figure out exactly what you like to do and make a career and a life around that. Sage advice from Mom.
Rob: Pay attention to the details. Sage advice from Dad


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Weight Watchers Smart Ones Fruit Inspirations meals are new recipes inspired by the natural goodness of fruit, developed with the help of Chef Devin Alexander. The Pineapple Beef Teriyaki has, according to WW, "tender beef strips and juicy pineapple in a sweet teriyaki sauce with rice," and I couldn't agree with them more.
Unlike the Fruit Inspirations Orange Sesame Chicken, which I liked but seemed to have a very loose connection with any fruit (read the review), the fruit in this meal was front and present in all it's bright yellow glory. The combination of pineapple beef with the sweet teriyaki sauce and pineapples really worked well together. If the meal had 1 flaw, it would be the rice. It is a little hard/ tough, but maybe that's the way they wanted it. I expect that texture from brown rice (on my wish list for Weight Watchers meals), but not from white rice.
A serving of Weight Watchers Fruit Inspirations Pineapple Beef Teriyaki has 260 calories, 4.5 grams of fat and 1.5 gram of saturated fat (7% of the recommended amount), 14% of the daily value of cholesterol, 31% of the RDA for sodium (740 mg), 18 grams of protein and 38 grams of total carbohydrates including 15 grams of sugar and no fiber. This meal is 6 Weight Watchers Points, probably because WW doesn't account for sodium and cholesterol - while the cholesterol is not too bad, it is the highest that I have seen in a frozen meal.
The nutrition facts of this meal are a little better than for the Fruit Inspirations Orange Sesame Chicken (less calories and fat, but more sodium). The cost was $2.92 and I would buy this again, but not if I am watching my sodium intake. 31% is just unacceptable.


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Director of the American Globe and Shakespearian expert, John Basil talks about the 'Classes' theme in a A Midsummer Night's Dream.
John Basil is Producing Artistic Director and founding member of the American Globe Theatre, where he has directed a variety of Shakespeare's works, as well as the New York premieres of PASSAGES and the award-winning VANDALS. John will lead the company into its third decade as director for Hamlet. John's book WILL POWER, How to Act Shakespeare in 21 Days was published by Applause books in 2006. For more information about John, please see americanglobe.org.


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- You have 5-6 lines to create the essential patterns of a glass.
- Leave open areas..paint the light.
- The negative shapes hold everything together like a glove.
- Your reflections always want to reflect the outward shapes and the inside pattern.
- Change the character of the edges as you paint your shapes.
- Where are your patterns? Do they they touch, butt, overlap or form new shapes? I think I took more notes than painted...
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After the Procession of the Nobles, introductions of special guests including the LaForge family, and greetings from the state, the city, the foundation, the alumni, and the staff, Don Allan Mitchell, president of the Faculty Senate spoke to the Honorable U.S. Senator Thad Cochran during his greetings.
"Delta author Walker Percy wrote a great novel called 'The Last Gentleman.' I'm beginning to think that you, Sen. Cochran, the quiet persuader, as you are sometimes known, just might be the last gentleman in the United States Senate," he said.
Cochran then gave the inaugural address "on behalf of one of his brightest pupils."
"This is a special day for me because it is special on the basis of friendship. Wherever he has been he has always made it clear his affection for Delta State. Green is his favorite color," he said.
"One of his top priorities is to expand Delta State's influence beyond this region and this state."
Cochran expressed his support of LaForge's initiative to create an even more multi-cultural environment on Delta State's campus.
"Students, faculty, and the entire Mississippi Delta can benefit from this initiative. In some cases that might mean studying or traveling abroad, in others it might be befriending international students that are already living and studying here. Bill has the benefit of world traveling and experience as a professor of law in Russia, Poland, and Bulgaria.
"These experiences and his leadership capability and his dedication to Delta State make him an ideal fit for this challenge and for enhancing Delta State's role in the international arena," he said.
After giving a thumb up to the Delta State University Chorale for their performance of "In My Life" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, LaForge then took the oath of office.
"Mr. LaForge, I charge you to preside with fairness, humility and strength, striving always for excellence, knowledge and truth. I charge you to serve the university with good stewardship, protect and defend the university, and build the university to new heights. Mr. LaForge do you accept this charge," said Dr. Hank Bounds, commissioner of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Education.
With the words "I do," and the presidential medallion around his neck, Delta State's eighth president thanked those that stood before him, giving a standing ovation.
"I grew up on this campus … came of age here … and met many of my best friends on this campus," he said.
After accrediting his "early and deep love" for Delta State to his parents, LaForge revealed the Campaign for Delta State, which has a fundraising goal of $40 million.
"This campaign will transform Delta State for years to come," he said.
LaForge ended his response with expressing six points of vision as well as emphasizing his commitment to excellence for the university.
Lovers and supporters of the green and white surrounded Delta State's new president on Friday as the future of the school was placed on his shoulders.
During his greeting Mitchell left advice for everyone, including the new president in the words of John Wesleyan.
"It is great advice to you, and to all of us assembled here today. 'Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.'"


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Concerned about causing another to err, he cries, "May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the Lord Almighty" (Psalm 69:6).
Prayed thousands of years ago, that petition is pertinent to us today. We all need God's strength, because any of us can fall and thereby bring shame to Christ's name.
The Bible solemnly warns, "Whoever thinks he is standing firm had better be careful that he does not fall" (1 Corinthians 10:12).
We are vulnerable to sin's ways and, like the Psalmist, we should pray "Test me and know my anxious thoughts" (Psalm 139:23).
That is not to say we have to cower in fear when faced with temptation. If we really commit ourselves to be men and women of God, the Holy Spirit will keep us. That is part of His blessed office work. Both God and the world have a right to expect us to be people of integrity reflected in what we do and say.
We must not stretch the truth about everyday things, such as the number of fish caught, grades on an exam, or our golf score. By the way, someone defined a golfer as one who yells fore, takes six, and puts down five!
A national ministerial journal devoted an entire issue to the subject of integrity. The graphics department prepared an unusual cover.
It depicted a minister with back to the camera, holding the Bible in one hand and fingers crossed in the other!
One article in the journal asked: "At home, in the marketplace, and in the neighborhood, do you apply the principle you trumpet forth from the pulpit"?
Several years ago, an issue of Christopher News Notes listed some searching questions:
1. Do I sometimes tell people what I think they want to hear, rather than what I really believe?
2. Do I color statements to win approval or to avoid disapproval?
3. Do I promise more than I intend — or am able — to deliver?
4. Do I tell the truth, but not the "whole truth"?
When truth is stretched, it ceases to be truth. Stretched truth is untruth. Pointing out how we should respect truth, Emerson said, "The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it." We ought to use truth, not misuse it. We are to speak the truth, and only the truth.
The word integrity comes from integer meaning a whole number, one that is not divisible. There is no such thing as partial integrity. Therefore, a person possessing it is wholly — completely, totally —honest.
That honesty prevails even at income tax time. Someone said that the IRS seems to make liars of most of us. Admittedly, returns have become so complicated that it is sometimes difficult to know just what the law is.
Nonetheless, we must do our best to be thorough and honest in our answers about income, exemptions, and expenses.
The Psalmist's prayer should be ours: "May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the Lord Almighty."


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it's the first time I'm trying to publish my application (FExplorer) myself (thru gosymbian) and I have received the following message from QA :
I don't undertsand, the UID abcdefgh is correct and has been given to me by symbiansigned.com !! it appears correctly in the list of all the uid's assigned to me (on symbiansigned.com)Code:Comments from the QA team: Failed QA. FAILED: Invalid UID SUMMARY: The application includes a UID not assigned to the publisher by Nokia. Our processes for signing content requires the UID displayed in the application to match a UID assigned to the publisher by Nokia. The UID displayed in your application is: abcdefgh For more information .....
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The easiest way to decorate your baby's nursery comes in peel and stick. WallCandy Arts Seasons design creates the tree of life which can be easily removed without damaging the paint of the nursery wall. You'll go out of your tree when you use this tree sticker decor from notneutral. It's a decorator touch that looks professional, but that anyone can do!
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(Concord, NC) by Tony Veneziano - World of Outlaws PR
WHATFollowing an event on Memorial Day at Canandaigua Speedway in New York to wrap up the first East Coast swing of the season, the World of Outlaws head back to the Midwest this coming weekend for events at Attica Raceway Park in Ohio on Friday, May 29 and I-96 Speedway in Michigan on Saturday, May 30. Donny Schatz, the three-time and defending World of Outlaws champion and current series point leader, was victorious at Attica last season, while 20-time series title winner Steve Kinser, who is currently second in the standings, was the winner at I-96 Speedway. Kinser is the only driver that has won more multiple feature events with the series at both tracks.WHENOn Friday, May 29 at Attica Raceway Park, the pit gates will open at 3:30 p.m. Eastern, with the grandstand gates opening at 4:30 p.m. Eastern with racing set for 7:45 p.m. Eastern.WHEREAttica Raceway Park is located Northeast of SR 4 & US 224 in Attica, Ohio. From this intersection drive 1/4 mile north on Route 4 to Lemmon Street, then 3/4 miles east to the Attica Fairgrounds.TICKETSReserved seats available in the top 5 rows of the middle grandstand. Section (D,E,F,G) will be $30 (add $2 per ticket with credit card purchase) For ticket information call the track at (419) 680-5606. On Friday, May 29 at Attica Raceway Park, general admission $30. Ages 11-15 $15. Ages 10 & Under FREE. Pits $35.
1/3-MILE TRACK WINNERSAttica Raceway Park is a high-banked 1/3-mile oval. The World of Outlaws have raced twice this season on a track that size. The winners include: Randy Hannagan (Thunderbowl Raceway) and Joey Saldana (Thunderbowl Raceway)


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Israel Burnishes Missile Shield as Mideast Churns
May 19, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Dan Williams
PALMACHIM AIR BASE, Israel (Reuters) – Israel's upgraded Arrow air defense system, designed to blow up ballistic missiles in space, could be rushed into deployment before its 2014-15 target date, a senior officer said Thursday.
Partly funded by the United States, Arrow III is envisaged as the future Israeli bulwark against Iran and Syria, with shorter-range interceptors providing protection against rockets favored by neighboring Lebanese and Palestinian guerrillas.
Political turmoil in the Middle East has focused Israel's crisis planning and a senior military officer, speaking during a rare media tour of Arrow's command center on a base down the coast from Tel Aviv, predicted a tighter production timeline.
"We've already shown how we can get systems out ahead of schedule when there's a need," he said, referring to Israel's Iron Dome interceptor, which shot down several Katyushas fired from Gaza last month during what was billed as an accelerated field trial.
Arrow's manufacturers had slated the new version for 2014 or 2015. But the officer, who could not be identified under military guidelines, said: "Don't be surprised if it's sooner."
The Arrow command center, dubbed "Defensive Sword," is one of the few Israeli military units to offer a public glimpse of preparations at a time of often dizzying regional instability.
Watching citizen revolts buffet Arab states, a few of them heretofore friendly, Israelis have preferred to fret quietly on the sidelines rather than risk been perceived as meddling.
But with the future of the stable, decades-old standoff with Syria in doubt, and arch-enemy Iran forging ahead with controversial nuclear and missile projects, Israel's air defense corps has been promoted as a strategic deterrent.
While its officers insist they can protect the Jewish state alone, the corps has practiced meshing Arrow with mobile U.S. counterparts like the seaborne Aegis ballistic interceptor.
Ensconced amid a pentagon of ochre structures in Palmachim base, protected by bunker-like steel portals and passages, the Arrow command center is staffed around the clock by a dozen officers.
Though the lieutenant-colonel in charge Thursday was careful not to answer questions about current geopolitics, the exercise playing out on his computer screen seemed topical: a Scud missile launch by Syria and its Lebanese Hezbollah allies.
The unit trains regularly, under conditions meant to simulate the stress of a real war. The commander's F2 button sets off the firing sequence for the Arrow interceptor missiles.
A battery of Arrow II — the system's current configuration — could shield most of Israel, a major in the unit said. But Israel has deployed several batteries and drilled using them against salvoes involving "dozens" of incoming missiles.
Defense sources report an interception rate of 80 to 90 percent. Back-up Arrow batteries, or lower-altitude interceptors like Patriot and the yet-to-be-deployed David's Sling, would be expected to take on missiles missed by the first volley.
As with Iron Dome, Arrow has an in-built thrift in its ability to ignore missiles determined to be on a "safe" trajectory away from residential areas.
Could such protection be extended to Palestinian cities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, should they, along with Jewish settlers nearby, find themselves facing an incoming missile?
"I'm in the business of protecting populaces, whether or not they pay us taxes," the lieutenant-colonel said.


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DJ Tyger Lilly's unconditional love for music was passed down from her grandfather, well-known jazz musician Jarius Elliott. She is constantly influenced by her surroundings, and such greats as Miles Davis, Nina Simone, and Fela Kuti. Tyger is one of the few artists to successfully blend the core of hip-hop and house with the glamour of mainstream.


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And yet another small tool that has no releases over 3 years. This could not continue any more, especially since its usability was so poor. And therefore two releases, one after another – 0.2.0, then 0.3.0 – first was just few fixes, and second improved the interface. This tool became much more useful now, we believe it. Read, install, test, and enjoy! And file bugs if you find any, of course, the tracker waits you.
New release tarball download link:
lxrandr-0.3.0.tar.xz – SHA1: 5f0e8c2db9b92bea67e89651825bbecbf72eff3e
Changes since previous release 0.1.2 (see git log for details):
The tool to tune some parameters of keyboard and mouse also got new release this month. May be it should receive more changes in version number but it got only last number changed. But well, read list of changes below.
New release tarball download link:
lxinput-0.3.3.tar.xz – SHA1: 0c278a00ae1266c2583e0e14a6352d24cae26afb
Changes since previous release 0.3.2 (see git log for details):
Another LXDE component which is widely used but still wasn't updated for few years. Don't worry, bug reports were not ignored, the update fixed most of them hopefully.
New release tarball download link:
lxtask-0.1.5.tar.xz – SHA1: af203cf9565578fc1fa2acbf99be2810b3a83c7e
Changes since previous release 0.1.4 (see git log for details):
Next release that happened this month was update on extension for LXAppearance which allows to change some parameters for window manager Openbox. No big new features, and if some of you expected to get any then we're sorry but just bugs were fixed there. But I hope it's still good, isn't it?
New release tarball download link:
lxappearance-obconf-0.2.2.tar.xz – SHA1: e6d3c3c146cfa68e933935f2387125d36b558056
Changes since previous release 0.2.1 (see git log for details):
The main icon theme based on NuoveXT2 seems to not want updates but time flows and newer auto-tools require updates in the package. Therefore it was updated and new version is released.
New release tarball download link:
lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1.tar.xz – SHA1: 643029acac6864ee04cf409af0c825085f545cec
Three years no releases were made for desktop menu package and now two releases in row: 0.1.3 then 0.1.4, because a file conflict was found in 0.1.3. No big changes, mostly translation and packaging updates.
New release tarball download link:
lxmenu-data-0.1.4.tar.xz – SHA1: f5fe57c43006cd00fe0a8f4978edd0fbad58793f
Changes since release 0.1.2 (see git log for details):
Another bugs fixing update happened at beginning of September. A simple XMMS frontend music player got next release, year later after previous. No big changes except for translations update and bugs fixes.
New release tarball download link:
lxmusic-0.4.6.tar.xz – SHA1: 69209b26aefbb0f1cd45bbb3da85526a4137c39c
Changes since previous release 0.4.5 (see git log for details):
And yet one more application that got no releases for 3 years. That does not mean it isn't loved, no, it just got no attention, seems it worked more or less. Or may be not. Anyway, few bugs were fixed and this brought new release. As always, everyone are welcome to find any hidden bugs and report them into the tracker.
New release tarball download link:
lxlauncher-0.2.3.tar.xz – SHA1: dcd681775a8e9aed8814f130abc9d6e77a97a3e5
Changes since previous release 0.2.2 (see git log for details):
After 3 years of silence in the package which some people think of as LXDE core package (though LXDE does not have one), the little bugfix release happened. Not much of changes, just some updates.
New release tarball download link:
lxde-common-0.5.6.tar.xz – SHA1: 4ce700232870db2601ca21b508e65ecc920a54e0
Changes since previous release 0.5.5 (see git log for details):
We are sorry that news come to you late but that's how it is. Yet in very beginning of this autumn next feature release of library that supports cached access to XDG-compliant desktop menus happened.
New release tarball download link:
menu-cache-0.7.0.tar.xz – SHA1: da29b2dabad0c5fff4d0a9771dff3425038166fa
Changes since previous release 0.6.1 (see git log for details):
A huge update to the GTK+ panel was released. See the list below for some changes. Full log of changes can be fund in git.
lxpanel-0.7.0.tar.xz, sha1sum: deccc11a05d4c23f10b0cefddf4fca4eaea7206b


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Forums >General Running>Stalked while running...again.
Needs more cowbell!
• 6 duathlons (1 Olympic distance)
• 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)
Roads were made for journeys...
The Monkey Games
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Time to start a running group Mace, etc, is useful if you receive good training about how to use it, like from a defense class or from the police.
To paraphrase an old poster: Today is the first day of the rest of your training. It doesn't matter where you started or how far you've come. Today is the day. Your training didn't start 6 weeks ago. Your training started the last time you hit the road. John "the Penguin" Bingham Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire
I really would love to start a group--how would I even go about doing that? I fear that if I posted flyers around that it could attract the very sort of people I am trying to avoid, unfortunately. k
I'm still wishing I could carry a tazer, though, LOL! And too bad a bow and arrow would be cumbersome--I have some seriously good aim with that device (too bad I don't hunt, huh?)!


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A Very Animated Safari: Cartoon Travelers
Does this African landscape remind you of a certain animated blockbuster?
Perhaps the home of a young lion named Simba…?
Photo: joshhough
There are few images more awe-inspiring than the primordial landscapes of Africa, filled with an abundance and variety of wildlife most Westerners only ever encounter in books, or at a zoo. It's no wonder, then, that so many animators are drawn to Africa as a setting for their shows; it's an artist's playland as well as a character's! Dozens of cartoons over the years have sent their characters to Africa, but some of our favorite animated safari-goers include:
The Simpsons
Not only does TV's most famous cartoon family head out on safari in the "Simpson Safari" episode from season 12, they head to Tanzania, stopping off at the Serengeti, Olduvai Gorge, and Ngorongoro Crater during their visit.
Their trip predictably goes off the rails after Homer manages to enrage a hippo, forcing the family to hop on a raft to escape. From that point on, geography becomes far less important than the jokes: the family's raft topples over Victoria Falls, several countries south and many thousands of miles from Tanzania, and at the bottom, they stumble upon a chimp sanctuary run by a cartoon stand-in for Jane Goodall, who actually did her research in Gombe Stream National Park, in the far west of Tanzania.
And of course the real Jane Goodall has never been an evil chimp slave-driver.
But a little "creativity" with the facts is a small price to pay to see the Simpson crew bumble their way through our favorite country!
Scooby Doo
In one of the countless reboots of the Scooby Doo cartoon, "What's New, Scooby Doo?" the gang heads out on safari, only to be terrorized by…what else? Glowing yellow safari-animal demons.
Of course the animals aren't really demons, and the villains would have got away with it "if it weren't for you meddling kids!" but we can't help it: we're partial to the outdoorsy update on the classic Scooby-Doo "hallway full of doors" gag:
Tom and Jerry
Originally released in 1962, "Sorry Safari" brings Tom & Jerry to Nairobi, Kenya, as stowaways in a big game hunter's luggage.
Like many film and cartoon representations of Africa at the time, the short plays off of stereotypes and vague ideas about Africa, rather than any specifics, and imagines safari as a chance to bag trophy animals, not a chance to appreciate them.
Maybe that's why, in the end, the hunter gets trounced first by a lion, then by a rhino, then by Jerry, the perpetually-crafty mouse: wildlife revenge.
The Lion King
No list of animated versions of the safari experience would be complete without The Lion King, likely the first, and possibly the most lasting impression of Africa most modern children form.
Something you may not have known, though, is that this animated movie wouldn't have been possible without a strong dose of, well, reality!
Not only are the species pictured in the film remarkably-accurate representations of the kinds of animals a safari-goer to the Serengeti or Maasai Mara might see (not to mention the words they might hear; many of the animals' names in the movie come from the Swahili language), the animators actually brought live lions into the studio while working on the film, in order to better capture their movements.
The entire Thomson Safaris staff loves…and sometimes lives…The Lion King.
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Bon Kurei says hi.
Recruitment Drive for One Piece!
One Piece - Forum Mutants and Masterminds Estimated Members Requested: 12 These are subject to change in the near and far future. Game Description:
Ok..., where to start? Wealth, Fame, Power. The man who acquired everything in this world, the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger. The final words that were said at his execution, sent people to the seas. "My wealth and treasures? If you want it, I'll let you have it. Look for it, I left it all in that place." Men now, chasing their dreams, head towards the Grand Line. The world now enters a Great Age of Pirates! There, but this isn't your normal One Piece. This is One Piece AT (Alternate Time), where some of those if are answered. Such as, what if Luffy didn't become a pirate? What if the Straw Hat Pirates didn't shake the World's Government foundation to its core? Well, follow me and let's find out, shall we? Last edited by zeone3000; Dec 10 '10 at 10:11pm.. |


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At the recent Mosquito-Litter Control meeting, held at the Cleveland-Bolivar County Chamber of Commerce, residents were urged to remember the ways of disposing of debris.
Ray Bell, director of Cleveland Public Works, told members of the committee that RES, Cleveland's garbage collecting company, will pick up limbs and leaves.
"Tree limbs and branches need to be less than four feet in length and less than 10 inches in diameter," he said, adding that leaves need to be bagged up for the RES workers.
Leaves should also not be moved into the street gutters as they clog the drains and aid in flooding during rainstorms.
Bell said Dr. Macklyn Hubbell, who chairs the committee, and his workers have helped a great deal in keeping city properties and yards clean.
Hubbell's crew comes from those in the court system who are trying to pay off their fines.
Bell said Hubbell often has better luck with helping people than he does.
"We usually approach them and tell them we want to help them clean up their yard," said Hubbell.
Hubbell also oversees the shopping cart retrieval program, wherein discarded shopping carts are gathered and returned to their proper stores or destroyed.
"Baskets are brought in every day," he said, adding that the person who collects the carts is paid $4 per cart and some merchants buy them back at $5.
"There is some loss. Some of the carts are damaged and then they are taken to Brown and Sons for recycling and some merchants would rather replace them with new ones."
Hubbell said the city gave the program $500 and there have been donations but at some point, more funds will be needed.


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Stainless steel ring snaffle with sweet iron mouth. Jointed center provides pressure to the bars, tongue, and jaw of the mouth. As the rider lift's their hands, this puts more pressure on the bars, tongue and roof. Loose-rings provide more play than fixed rings, giving your horse a second or two longer to react to the cue you are giving him. 3" rings, 5" mouth.
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Symmetric-key algorithm
Symmetric-key algorithms[1] are a class of algorithms for cryptography that use the same cryptographic keys for both encryption of plaintext and decryption of ciphertext. The keys may be identical or there may be a simple transformation to go between the two keys. The keys, in practice, represent a shared secret between two or more parties that can be used to maintain a private information link.[2] This requirement that both parties have access to the secret key is one of the main drawbacks of symmetric key encryption, in comparison to public-key encryption.[3]
Types of symmetric-key algorithms[edit]
Symmetric-key encryption can use either stream ciphers or block ciphers.[4]
- Stream ciphers encrypt the digits (typically bytes) of a message one at a time.
- Block ciphers take a number of bits and encrypt them as a single unit, padding the plaintext so that it is a multiple of the block size. Blocks of 64 bits have been commonly used. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm approved by NIST in December 2001 uses 128-bit blocks.
Examples of popular symmetric algorithms include Twofish, Serpent, AES (Rijndael), Blowfish, CAST5, RC4, 3DES, Skipjack, Safer+/++ (Bluetooth), and IDEA.[citation needed]
Cryptographic primitives based on symmetric ciphers[edit]
Symmetric ciphers are commonly used to achieve other cryptographic primitives than just encryption.[citation needed]
Encrypting a message does not guarantee that this message is not changed while encrypted. Hence often a message authentication code is added to a ciphertext to ensure that changes to the ciphertext will be noted by the receiver. Message authentication codes can be constructed from symmetric ciphers (e.g. CBC-MAC).[citation needed]
However, symmetric ciphers cannot be used for non-repudiation purposes except by involving additional parties. See the ISO/IEC 13888-2 standard.[citation needed]
Another application is to build hash functions from block ciphers. See one-way compression function for descriptions of several such methods.[citation needed]
Construction of symmetric ciphers[edit]
Many modern block ciphers are based on a construction proposed by Horst Feistel. Feistel's construction makes it possible to build invertible functions from other functions that are themselves not invertible.[citation needed]
Security of symmetric ciphers[edit]
Symmetric ciphers have historically been susceptible to known-plaintext attacks, chosen plaintext attacks, differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis. Careful construction of the functions for each round can greatly reduce the chances of a successful attack.[citation needed]
Key generation[edit]
When used with asymmetric ciphers for key transfer, pseudorandom key generators are nearly always used to generate the symmetric cipher session keys. However, lack of randomness in those generators or in their initialization vectors is disastrous and has led to cryptanalytic breaks in the past. Therefore, it is essential that an implementation uses a source of high entropy for its initialization.[citation needed]
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- ^ Other terms for symmetric-key encryption are secret-key, single-key, shared-key, one-key, and private-key encryption. Use of the last and first terms can create ambiguity with similar terminology used in public-key cryptography. Symmetric-key cryptography is to be contrasted with asymmetric-key cryptography.
- ^ Delfs, Hans & Knebl, Helmut (2007). "Symmetric-key encryption". Introduction to cryptography: principles and applications. Springer. ISBN 9783540492436.
- ^ Mullen, Gary & Mummert, Carl (2007). Finite fields and applications. American Mathematical Society. p. 112. ISBN 9780821844182.
- ^ Pelzl & Paar (2010). Understanding Cryptography. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. p. 30.


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A revamped defensive unit has the 2010 champs hovering near the top of the board. Joe Fortenbaugh
Although not entirely unexpected, it's come as a welcome surprise to witness the utter hysteria that unfolds in the comments section each week once these power rankings hit the website, if for no other reason than to hear from the fans who feel their team has been so egregiously wronged.
Last week saw the city of Chicago up in arms over the tenth place ranking in which their beloved Bears resided. Marc Trestman's crew was 3-0 and the Chicago faithful felt that the team's record through three weeks warranted a spot within the top five.
72 hours later and the Bears were on their way to getting run out of the building in Detroit.
Does that mean we should have had the Bears ranked higher or lower heading into Week 4? No. But it also doesn't mean those Chicago fans were wrong. And just because the Bears took a beating last Sunday in Detroit, it doesn't mean the team is going to plummet in this week's edition. In fact, Chicago's power number this week came out to an 85.0, which is the exact same number the team owned heading into their loss against the Lions.
As I've explained before, these power rankings are a long-term project that include a variety of factors. If you're looking for power rankings that simply react to what happened the week before, there are plenty of websites offering such analysis. Our aim is to look past the win/loss records (although not entirely) in an effort to identify how good (or bad) each team really is.
Think about it: The New York Jets and Cincinnati Bengals each currently own a 2-2 record. But does that mean the Jets and Bengals are football teams of the same quality? Would you bet the Jets to beat the Bengals straight-up on a neutral field?
The numbers in brackets indicate each team's Power Ranking, which is based on a scale of 1-100. These numbers can be used as a baseline to determine the point spread between any two teams on the list. Keep in mind that these numbers do not account for home field advantage, situational analysis (extra rest, back-to-back road games, divisional rivalries, etc), injuries, weather or public perception. They are merely to be used as a baseline for your initial analysis.
1. Denver Broncos [90.5]
Record: 4-0 (Won 52-20 vs. Philadelphia)
Week 3 power ranking: 90.0 (1)
2. Seattle Seahawks [89.5]
Record: 4-0 (Won 23-20 at Houston)
Week 3 power ranking: 89.5 (2)
3. New Orleans Saints [88.0]
Record: 4-0 (Won 38-17 vs. Miami)
Week 3 power ranking: 87.5 (T3)
T4. Green Bay Packers [87.5]
Record: 1-2 (Bye)
Week 3 power ranking: 87.5 (T3)
T4. San Francisco 49ers [87.5]
Record: 2-2 (Won 35-11 at St. Louis)
Week 3 power ranking: 87.0 (5)
6. New England Patriots [87.0]
Record: 4-0 (Won 30-23 at Atlanta)
Week 3 power ranking: 86.5 (6)
7. Cincinnati Bengals [86.0]
Record: 2-2 (Lost 17-6 at Cleveland)
Week 3 power ranking: 86.0 (T7)
T8. Kansas City Chiefs [85.0]
Record: 4-0 (Won 31-7 vs. NY Giants)
Week 3 power ranking: 84.0 (12)
T8. Chicago Bears [85.0]
Record: 3-1 (Lost 40-32 at Detroit)
Week 3 power ranking: 85.0 (10)
T8. Atlanta Falcons [85.0]
Record: 1-3 (Lost 30-23 vs. New England)
Week 3 power ranking: 86.0 (T7)
11. Houston Texans [84.0]
Record: 2-2 (Lost 23-20 vs. Seattle)
Week 3 power ranking: 86.0 (T7)
T12. Indianapolis Colts [83.0]
Record: 3-1 (Won 37-3 at Jacksonville)
Week 3 power ranking: 82.5 (T15)
T12. Detroit Lions [83.0]
Record: 3-1 (Won 40-32 vs. Chicago)
Week 3 power ranking: 82.5 (T15)
T12. Dallas Cowboys [83.0]
Record: 2-2 (Lost 30-21 at San Diego)
Week 3 power ranking: 83.5 (13)
T12. Baltimore Ravens [83.0]
Record: 2-2 (Lost 23-20 at Buffalo)
Week 3 power ranking: 84.5 (11)
16. Miami Dolphins [82.5]
Record: 3-1 (Lost 38-17 at New Orleans)
Week 3 power ranking: 83.0 (14)
17. Carolina Panthers [82.0]
Record: 1-2 (Bye)
Week 3 power ranking: 82.0 (17)
T18. Tennessee Titans [81.0]
Record: 3-1 (Won 38-13 vs. NY Jets)
Week 3 power ranking: 81.0 (T19)
T18. San Diego Chargers [81.0]
Record: 2-2 (Won 30-21 vs. Dallas)
Week 3 power ranking: 79.5 (24)
T20. Washington Redskins [80.5]
Record: 1-3 (Won 24-14 at Oakland)
Week 3 power ranking: 80.5 (T21)
T20. Philadelphia Eagles [80.5]
Record: 1-3 (Lost 52-20 at Denver)
Week 3 power ranking: 81.0 (T19)
22. New York Giants [80.0]
Record: 0-4 (Lost 31-7 at Kansas City)
Week 3 power ranking: 81.5 (18)
23. Cleveland Browns [79.5]
Record: 2-2 (Won 17-6 vs. Cincinnati)
Week 3 power ranking: 78.5 (27)
T24. St. Louis Rams [79.0]
Record: 1-3 (Lost 35-11 vs. San Francisco)
Week 3 power ranking: 80.0 (23)
T24. Arizona Cardinals [79.0]
Record: 2-2 (Won 13-10 at Tampa Bay)
Week 3 power ranking: 79.0 (T25)
T24. Minnesota Vikings [79.0]
Record: 1-3 (Won 34-27 vs. Pittsburgh, in London)
Week 3 power ranking: 78.0 (T28)
T27. Pittsburgh Steelers [78.5]
Record: 0-4 (Lost 34-27 vs. Minnesota, in London)
Week 3 power ranking: 80.5 (T21)
T27. New York Jets [78.5]
Record: 2-2 (Lost 38-13 at Tennessee)
Week 3 power ranking: 79.0 (T25)
T29. Buffalo Bills [78.0]
Record: 2-2 (Won 23-20 vs. Baltimore)
Week 3 power ranking: 77.0 (T30)
T29. Tampa Bay Buccaneers [78.0]
Record: 0-4 (Lost 13-10 vs. Arizona)
Week 3 power ranking: 78.0 (T28)
31. Oakland Raiders [77.0]
Record: 1-3 (Lost 24-14 vs. Washington)
Week 3 power ranking: 77.0 (T30)
32. Jacksonville Jaguars [72.5]
Record: 0-4 (Lost 37-3 vs. Indianapolis)
Week 3 power ranking: 73.5 (32)
Hit me up on Twitter: @JoeFortenbaugh
JAN 20 Tony Villiotti
Following Monday's announcement of those declaring for the Draft, a look at the numbers.
JAN 19 Jeff Fedotin
Why Dave Toub deserves a head coaching job
Chiefs' special teams coordinator has unique football mind.
JAN 16 Tony Villiotti
Reviewing 2014: Scrimmage participation by playing position
Are certain positions more reliant on early round picks?


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Holiday season: Every year, starting in December, this special feeling and excitement comes up and you can see it in everyone's faces. That's when you know that Christmas is just around the corner.
It is that one time of the year, where you feel like nothing has ever changed and you feel like a child again. (Especially since we celebrate the holidays very traditionally in Germany and stick to the same routine since I can remember).
After taking a nice and relaxing walk through the woods - (this time without snow, unfortunately) - we enjoyed an incredible dinner with the family and of course, can't wait to get our presents.
A magical time, which to me is definitely the most important time of the year ... just 362 days left ;-)
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[OS] ISRAEL/IRAN/UK/MIL - Israel may launch strike on Iran as soon as next month to prevent development of nuclear weapons
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development of nuclear weapons
Last updated at 11:17 PM on 9th November 2011
Israel will launch military action to prevent Iran developing a nuclear
weapon as soon as Christmas, intelligence chiefs have warned.
A report by a UN watchdog into Iran's nuclear ambitions `completely
discredits' the Islamic nation's protestations of innocence, according to
Foreign Secretary William Hague.
The International Atomic Energy Agency found that Iran is developing a
nuclear test facility, nuclear detonators and computer modelling for a
nuclear warhead that would fit on an existing missile.
Sources say the understanding at the top of the British Government is that
Israel will attempt to strike against the nuclear sites `sooner rather
than later' - with logistical support from the U.S.
A senior Foreign Office figure has revealed that ministers have been told
to expect Israeli military action, adding: `We're expecting something as
early as Christmas, or very early in the new year.'
Officials believe President Barack Obama would have to support the
Israelis or risk losing vital Jewish-American support in the next
presidential election.
In recent weeks, Ministry of Defence sources confirmed that contingency
plans have been drawn up in the event that the UK decided to support
military action.
But the source ruled out direct British support, adding: `Of course we are
not in favour of Iran developing a bomb - but do we think they'd use it:
Meeting the masses: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to
supporters while visiting the city of Shahrekord, of Tehran. He vowed that
Iran will not retreat 'one iota' from its nuclear programme
Meeting the masses: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to
supporters while visiting the city of Shahrekord, of Tehran. He vowed that
Iran will not retreat 'one iota' from its nuclear programme
All smiles: Ahmadinejad hit out at the IAEA, saying it is discrediting
itself by siding with 'baseless' U.S. claims that Iran is seeking to
develop nuclear weapons
All smiles: Ahmadinejad hit out at the IAEA, saying it is discrediting
itself by siding with 'baseless' U.S. claims that Iran is seeking to
develop nuclear weapons
`The bigger concern is it will be impossible to stop Saudi Arabia and
Turkey from developing their own weapons.'
Mr Hague said Britain would push for more sanctions against Tehran when
the IAEA committee meets later this month.
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, vowed not to retreat `one
iota' from its nuclear programme.
In a statement on Middle Eastern affairs, the Foreign Secretary was
critical of Israel's `occupation' of Palestinian land.
But he announced Britain will abstain on a UN vote later this week to give
statehood to Palestinians
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New Primary Care Physician Joins Topsham Family Practice
Beginning with the New Year, Midcoast residents have an additional choice when selecting a primary care provider. Deirdre B. Heersink, DO, has joined the team at Mid Coast Medical Group-Topsham Family Practice and the active medical staff of Mid Coast Hospital, providing routine and preventative care tochildren and adults. The Family Practice office opened in October 2014, co-located with Mid Coast Medical Group-Topsham Internal Medicine, in the new medical office building on Wellness Way, just off Route 196 in Topsham.
Mid Coast Receives Top Honor as Tobacco-Free Hospital, Health System
Mid Coast Hospital was recognized at the gold level in this year's Maine Tobacco-Free Hospital Network Gold Star Standards of Excellence Recognition Program. At the awards ceremony held Tuesday in Augusta, Mid Coast received its gold level recognition plaque. Vicki Koehler, RN, COHN-S, and Stacey Schmidt, RRT, were also recognized as individual Gold Star Champions for their hard work in promoting tobacco-free lifestyles to patients, staff, and visitors.
Mid Coast Hospital Enhances Recycling Efforts
Mid Coast Hospital recently enhanced its recycling efforts by adding composting to its list of environment-friendly initiatives. Beginning November 4, the Hospital implemented a new composting program that reduces the amount of garbage disposed of into the waste stream, while supplying nutrient-rich soil for gardening and landscaping.
Construction Begins on New Medical Building in Downtown Bath
Mid Coast Medical Group (MCMG), in collaboration with JHR Development, began construction on a 20,000-square-foot medical building in downtown Bath, Maine. Mid Coast leaders, medical staff, key stakeholders and community members gathered at the construction site on Thursday, October 16, to break ground on the new facility and celebrate the future of health in the community.
Women's Health Team Announces New Certifications and Treatments
Mid Coast Medical Group-Women's Health Care physicians Gregory L. Gimbel, MD, and Melissa J. Streeter, MD, recently became board certified by The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. Also known as Urogynecology, the additional specialty signifies their expertise in the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction in women.
Norwegian Health Officials Visit Mid Coast Hospital
As part of a growing relationship with Norwegian health leaders, Mid Coast Hospital recently welcomed Bent Høie, Norway's Minister of Health and Care Services, and a team of eight delegates, to Maine and the United States. Norwegian healthcare officials have been consulting with Mid Coast to better understand the importance and potential of the Nurse Practitioner role in healthcare, with plans of establishing such a program in their country.
Mid Coast Medical Group Opens Family Practice in Topsham
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Local Events Spotlight Mental Health
In recognition of millions of Americans living with mental illness, Mid Coast Health Services recently took part in two events aimed at raising awareness of mental health in the community. Both events were offered in collaboration with National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Maine, helping to support local families and individuals impacted by mental illness.
Artie's Story: Heart Attack Survivor
I went into the men's room and ... that's all I can remember ... somebody shut the lights out ... there was no sound ... no feeling ... no nothing ...
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Cared for Like Family
I recently spent a few days at Mid Coast and a few nurses were so very helpful.
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Emergency Department Breath of Fresh Air
We had just moved to Maine from Massachusetts the week before when my son stepped on a nail. He had no health insurance but we had to bring him to Emergency (he needed a tetanus shot). Having gone to Emergency Rooms in Mass. we knew (so we thought) that it would be at least a 4 hour ordeal. (One time I was there in Mass. 8 hours as was my son another time.)
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The past month I have had many new (for me) tests and experiences at Mid Coast Hospital. Everyone was kind, considerate, personable and compassionate.
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Yep. Yet another example of Charlie poking the very industry he relies on and must negotiate with directly in the eye.
And I find it refreshing. If Charlie didn't push for it, there might not be local-into-local or at the least would have taken longer, no one would carry the Superstations, and no one would advance the technology of commercial skipping or again, would have taken alot longer. Dish has done some dumb things, as most companies at times will do ("New Coke") but they also are the only ones to challenge the concept that the networks or even the FCC will determine what and how we will watch TV.


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This is a basic training on how to lead a laughter session for social clubs, corporate organizations, seniors, school children and people with special needs. You will acquire the basic facilitation skills of how to lead a group of people through laughter session and meditation. You will also learn the history, concept, philosophy and different steps of Laughter Yoga and meditation.These trainings are done by Certified Laughter Yoga Teachers for 2 days, at the end of which the participants are certified as Laughter Yoga Leaders.
To find out more about Certified Leader Trainings around the world
5 Day Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher Training (CLYT)
This is a 5-day intensive training course conducted by Dr. Kataria and authorized teacher trainers (Master Trainers). Certified Teachers can train other people as Certified Laughter Yoga Leaders and they have in depth knowledge about leading Laughter Yoga in different areas of application, along with promotion, marketing, PR and training skills.
What you will learn in Certified Teacher Training
During the course, you will learn how to lead a group of people through simulated Laughter Yoga Techniques developed by Dr Kataria, and skills of converting this simulated laughter into real infectious and spontaneous laughter without using jokes, comedy or humor.
You will also learn the powerful technique of Laughter Meditation, where you do not have to make any effort to laugh, and laughter flows like a fountain. Besides this, you will also learn how to do Laughter Yoga all by yourself.
Organization skills, marketing, advertising & PR skills. Creating a core group and leadership skills, communication skills training skills to train laughter leaders.
After completing this training, you will be authorized to train Certified Laughter Yoga Leaders, start Laughter Clubs and add more laughter to your life. You will also be trained to conduct Laughter Yoga Seminars, Workshops for corporates, companies, hospitals, schools, colleges & universities, old age homes, prisons, children with special needs etc. |
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Laughter Yoga can be value added to the following professionals - Alternative Therapist and Healers, Recreation Activity facilitators,Yoga fitness trainers and sports coaches, Occupational Therapists & Health care professionals, Psychologists and Psychotherapists,Nurses, Social Workers, Counsellors, Health Care Workers, Professional Speakers, HR and management training professionals, School Teachers, Psychologists and psychiatrists, Entertainment professionals, Actors & Singers, Clowns and Comedians, Senior care workers, Marriage and family therapists, Life coaches and alternative therapists, Sales managers, Tourism professionals & tour guides. And finally anyone who wants to add laughter and joy to their live
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Education Abroad
International Opportunities for Business College Students
The College of Business Administration and the Graduate Programs Office at Kent State University encourage business students to develop personally and professionally by engaging in any of a variety of international learning experiences.
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Both Undergraduate and Graduate business students have the opportunity to study in a country outside of the United States. You are able to gain exposure to business and culture in a global setting, while still making progress toward completion of your degree at Kent State! Each of the following opportunities is designed with business students in mind:
Florence, Italy International Business Semester:
Kent State, in partnership with George Washington University, is offering an amazing opportunity to study in one of the most beautiful and influential cities in Europe. Furthermore, explore the European market on field trips to Milan and Geneva, Switzerland, engage in workshops and guest lectures with foreign business leaders and CEO's.- Location-Florence, Italy
- Fall Deadline: April 15th
- Spring Deadline: October 1st
Study in Florence, Italy during the four weeks of June 2014! Students will enroll in two courses and earn 6-7 credits. Two business courses are being offered as part of the options: International Business (BUS 30234) and International Marketing (MKTG 45060).
- Location – Florence, Italy
- Trip: May 28 – June 28, 2015
- Priority Deadline: February 1, 2015—early application recommended
- Application: www.kent.edu/florence-summer
Geneva, Switzerland Semester:
The Kent State University Geneva Semester is your opportunity to intern with an international organization, visit historic places,meet with European officials, establish new friendships, and touch cultures different from your own. Since 1977 the Program has enrolled students from throughout the United States and Canada. Your participation may expand your resume, but we believe the experience will broaden your life.
- Location-Geneva, Switzerland
- Fall Deadline: March 10th
- Spring Deadline: September 10th
This three-week International Experience in Accounting/Finance course focuses on visiting firms and organizations related to accounting and finance in Paris and London, including the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (CASE), Deutsche Bank, and various public accounting and financial services firms. Among other activities, we will be observing an AB board meeting where International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are being discussed. The first week of the course is spent in a Kent State classroom, followed by a two week trip to Paris and London.
- Location-Paris, London, Edinburgh
- Trip: May 11, 2014-May 22, 2015
- Please email Dr. Hoffman at firstname.lastname@example.com or Dr. Hinkel at email@example.com for application details
Experience a 3 week course focusing on a combination of international marketing strategy and cross-cultural consumer behavior. Students will spend the first week in a Kent State classroom and then travel to London, England where they will experience one of the world's business and economic capitals. After experiencing London's history and contemporary business practices, students will travel by high-speed train and ferry to the historic city of Dublin, Ireland, to witness their culture, history, and business practices.
- Location-London, England and Dublin, Ireland
- Trip: May 24 - June 6, 2015
- Program Fee Deposit Deadlines
- Initial deposit - January 15th
The College of Business gives you the opportunity to study abroad in Switzerland and France to gain first hand exposure to international business and organizations. Combining lectures, visits to international businesses and organizations, and cultural excursions, you will come away with a better understanding of the context in which U.S. businesses operate in a global environment. For photos from previous trips, click here.
- Location -Geneva, Switzerland and Paris, France
- Trip: May 9-22, 2015
- Program fee deposit deadlines
- First Friday of spring semester
- First Friday of spring semester
Attend the Université Laval to experience international trade in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Take part in a program that includes a Leadership Retreat to the majestic Saguenay region, seminars, business simulations, guest speakers, and field trips to various industrial, commercial, and government organizations.
- Location-Québec City, Canada
- Trip: May 28 - June 27, 2015
ESC-Rennes has a distinctive international business program where you will learn how organizations and managers can optimize the triple bottom line - economic, social, and environmental sustainability – through a successful Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy. This experience in France includes an online pre-course, lecture and discussion, guest speakers, company visits, and personal study time.
- Location-Rennes, France
- Trip Dates
- June 16-26, 2015
- June 16-26, 2015
Academic Programs
Business students receive an international perspective throughout their studies at Kent. Those with a special interest can choose a course of more intensive focus. For undergraduate students, we offer a minor in international business. Masters students can select an international concentration. Doctoral students can minor in International Business.
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Only this and this so far, but there will be more. More paper. More, more more paper.
FINDER Posts
Sketch Cards
These are examples of the sketch cards I've been including in the Dark Horse FINDER Libraries I have for sale. Trying too hard, probably, but they give me a chance to play with color media. They're 4″x6″, marker and colored inks on Bristol. I try to include one per book, but if I get rushed for time, I may cut it back to one per order.
Old and New Incredible
This is an illusion done with light on the side of a building– nothing new, just the drive-in theater screen of yesterday– but the illusion is brilliant, and makes the idea fresh again. Imagine a city full of this (watch me flee screaming to live in a hole on the beach like a geoduck forever after), and the people who live there.
Boys And Girls Of Every Age
New art up in the shop, including some with boobies, in a Malibu Barbie kind of way. Scary, scary girl.
I am making sour-cream sugar cookies for Halloween, and of course they're all for family and friends, because otherwise I might be accused of attempting to poison the neighborhood. Man, I remember the Fudge Lady in our neighborhood– she handed out homemade fudge wrapped in saran wrap. It beat the holy hell out of Necco wafers. Anyway, I have cookie cutters in the shapes of skulls and butterflies, and I am making a flying skeleton out of Sculpey. Because I am a big big big nerd for Halloween.
I has a few books to sell
Click on that thing on the right that says BOOKS and you will see that on my Shopify site I am selling the Dark Horse collections for a little while. I don't have very many. I will sign 'em and do a little sketch card for each, and if it's a prezzie and you want it to look like it came from Jaeger, I'll wrap it up 'dragged this around the bush in a gunnysack' gift style.
Old Art NOOO, New Art YESSS
Here's my shop with new pages from DARK HORSE PRESENTS. Unsold pages from DHP #1 are now back in their beds. The remaining two pages from DHP #2 will still be up until sometime-ish tomorrow. Somebody buy these fancy vistas with the crappy perspective, I'm killing myself on 'em.
All Right, Have More Art
Added two more pages of original art from FINDER: 3RD WORLD, currently serializing in DARK HORSE PRESENTS, to the Etsy store.
Here's how it goes: I don't want a massive pile of pages up at any one time. Any given page will have two weeks to sell. As pages sell or are pulled after their two-week tour, they will be replaced. The total number of pages for sale will never be greater than ten.
So if a train leaves El Paso heading north, and a car leaves Denver heading east, who gets spaghetti first? And who killed Mrs White with the cheese grater in the oubliette? And does anybody want the rough pencilled pages, and would they pay more for a finished page if it was accompanied by its corresponding pencilled page?
Test on Monday.
Art for sale, alive, alive-o
Things are distressingly quiet here at Muppet Labs, so I have time to stick some art up for sale. Here's a cover:
Pretty, pretty color art. And hereare the first eight pages of 3RD WORLD, the story running in DARK HORSE PRESENTS.
3RD WORLD will be a full-sized book of All-Jaeger All The Time once it's done. I think I have it set up so that if you buy more than one page, you aren't charged extra, but I cain't figga out how to add to the basic storefront that shipping is high because I don't trust art to any company but FedEx.
Shipping Holiday Post-SPX
Free shipping! Everything goes flat rate so I won't die broke, but everybody who wanted my books after I ran out, get 'em now.
Next week I'll start posting about the stuff I found at SPX. SO MUCH GOOD STUFF


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