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<title><![CDATA[An (In)security Overview on Analysis of Client-Server Software Applications]]></title>
<link>http://evilcodecave.wordpress.com/?p=181</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>evilcodecave</dc:creator>
<guid>http://evilcodecave.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/an-insecurity-overview-on-analysis-of-client-server-software-applications/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hi,
I&#8217;ve released a little paper with title An (In)security Overview on Analysis of Client-Ser]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've released a little paper with title<strong> An (In)security Overview on Analysis of Client-Server Software Applications</strong> that I think is self explainatory.</p>
<p>Here a little abstract:</p>
<p><em>The principal objective of this paper is to give a good detailed<br />
panoramic view of the Security aspects involved in Client-Server based<br />
Applications. The panoramics will be seen from the point of view of a<br />
Reverse Engineer that should be aware of the Security Problems that are<br />
directly releated to the Client-Server Software Structure.</em></p>
<p>Here you can download the paper: <strong><a href="http://evilcry.netsons.org/tuts/CSAnalysis.pdf">http://evilcry.netsons.org/tuts/CSAnalysis.pdf</a></strong></p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Giuseppe 'Evilcry' Bonfa'</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Are the Fab Four Really All That Fabulous?]]></title>
<link>http://kishorekumar62.wordpress.com/?p=889</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kishore Kumar</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kishorekumar62.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/are-the-fab-four-really-fabulous/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why do I keep getting the feeling that the Australian batsmen are better than our Fab Four?
When Pon]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do I keep getting the feeling that the Australian batsmen are better than our Fab Four?</p>
<p>When Ponting and Hussey rattle-up centuries in the ongoing Bangalore test, the Fab Four barely manage 100 runs among themselves! Yeah yeah, the Australian bowling is tighter than ours, their catching is better, the umpiring always goes against us, etc. etc., but is there a pattern to this? Or is it that our batsmen fail to deliver more often than the top Australian batsmen?</p>
<p>I took the test career statistics of the Fab Four and compared with Ponting and Hayden. I threw in Gavaskar's numbers also.</p>
<p>Here is what I found:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://kishorekumar62.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/cricket-stats-series-lables1.png" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-902" title="cricket-stats-series-lables1" src="http://kishorekumar62.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/cricket-stats-series-lables1.png" alt="" width="500" height="318" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">
<p>The above chart is a percentage distribution of the innings of each player, into a set of distinct buckets based on runs scored. For Example, Laxman has scored less than 25 runs in 50% of his innings to date (including the duck he scored yesterday).</p>
<p>As you move from left to right you can see a marked improvement in consistency.</p>
<ul>
<li>The percentage of low scoring innings (less than 25 runs) decreases.</li>
<li>The percentage of high scoring innings (century and above) increases (Dravid is the exception, falling more often in his fifties)</li>
<li>This simply means you have a better chance of seeing Ponting and Hayden pile on the runs than Ganguly and Laxman!</li>
</ul>
<p>So what we really have is a Fab Two and certainly not a Fab Four!</p>
<p>Aside: Tendulkar's distribution bears a striking resemblance to Gavaskar's. Little Masters both!</p>
<p>If you are interested in seeing the same chart with the actual count of innings in each band, click <a href="http://kishorekumar62.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/cricket-stats-value-lables.png" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Wordy, by Wordle]]></title>
<link>http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/?p=860</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lewisshepherd</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lewisshepherd.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/860/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lazy Saturday, so a quick &amp; easy retrospective post at a glance.  Here&#8217;s a &#8220;Wordle]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lazy Saturday, so a quick &#38; easy retrospective post at a glance.  Here's a "Wordle" look at my blog content going back over the past week. Click to enlarge.</p>
<p><a href="http://lewisshepherd.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wordly-of-shepherdspi.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-859" title="wordly-of-shepherdspi" src="http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/wordly-of-shepherdspi.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="213" /></a></p>
<p>You can use <a href="http://wordle.net">http://wordle.net</a> to create a word-cloud of any content - a website (by URL) or a bucket of words you paste in. I realize word-clouds are nothing new... but I think they're way underutilized in HCI.  Fun for political speech analysis; I can just imagine a newspaper front page that consisted of nothing but word-clouds from yesterday's speeches by President Bush, Senators McCain and Obama, Biden or Palin, cabinet members, foreign officials, Osama's latest video, and losing sports-team coaches.   "What'd they say?" Well, take a look.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Que demonios quisieron decir - 4]]></title>
<link>http://peninsulaofrants.wordpress.com/?p=255</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>FrillyShirtCyberman</dc:creator>
<guid>http://peninsulaofrants.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/que-demonios-quisieron-decir-4/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Volumen 4: The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches

Emma Ai wonders where&#39;s eve]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Volumen 4: The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches</strong></p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/rGlfayMNSnE'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/rGlfayMNSnE&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="88" caption="Emma Ai wonders where&#39;s everyone"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/tosswood/poortosh.jpg" alt="Emma Ai wonders wheres everyone" width="88" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>Aaaaall right¡¡¡¡ that reminds me of my cousin's parrot saying happily "I'm a bitch", so…   Where is he from and what did they tell him he was saying??? 'cause he looks really excited about the <span class="nfakPe">peaches</span> so he's obviously not aware of what he's saying, is he?.... IS HE??</p>
<p>The sound is actually not quite bad I must say, that technique I did not know and it sounds good, but what's with the lyrics and the happy-punk-rock-pop direction??? still it's not so bad…I would recommend to get a writer, if they do not look up to Blink 182 of course… or explain the metaphor or something please. And then it gets romantic (dreamed about you, woman) out of nowhere and then the yellow musketeers (plus the blue one) protect the holy <span class="nfakPe">peaches</span> (a fight of dubious success 'cause I give better punches than the frontman)… you need a new video director too.</p>
<p>Sorry Frilly, I don't really think there's need for any rant besides the song…would be too much for one session.</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="78" caption="Imightbeelvis loves chicken kebabs!"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/tosswood/shockeye.jpg" alt="Imightbeelvis loves chicken kebabs!" width="78" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>Hey, it's the guy from Helmet! Wow, who could've thought he was going to do this kinda quirky rock after being in one of the hardest rockin' bands in the world? I mean, I never thought he would take out all<br />
strings from the guitar and restring it with 2 bass strings...well at least he kept the funky alternate tuning and... oooooh, sorry, it's not Page Hamilton...it's the freaky bald dude from Live, you know, the one that dreams that he is Michael Stipe, except more Buddhist and less sexually ambiguous. Now instead of doing sad metaphors for corporeal fluids, he's just singing about <span class="nfakPe">peaches</span>, meaning, he's singing about asses. He really lost his Samadhi, innit?</p>
<p>Oh noes!!! NOW I SEE WHO HE IS! It's Dave Matthews! By all things fruity loopy with soy milk... he really lost it after Before this Crowded Streets, innit? I wouldn't be surprised if he sings about, I dunno, american babies or summink after this John Woo tribute.</p>
<p>Ahome's right, Frill-o-meister, the video is so deranged that any of our petty rants couldn't touch a flower of it.</p>
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="66" caption="Emilio loves to waste money on cds"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/iconitos/icon_professionalstoner.jpg" alt="Emilio loves to waste money on cds" width="66" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>Declino en opinar.</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="68" caption="Noisy wants to live in Cardiff"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/tosswood/iantohaha.jpg" alt="Noisy wants to live in Cardiff" width="68" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>EN LA PROGENITORA!!!</p>
<p>Tenia siglos de no oir esta cancion y creo que es mas nostalgia que otra cosa, pero admito que me entretiene. Makes sense, right? It's unpretentious rock with a quirky video. It has everything: visual<br />
jokes (love the peach tins in the tree branches), karate chop socky action, a small jaunty dance (around the 1:00 - 1:05 mark) , a "scratching the ground after the blunt of the attack" anime bit at 2:24 and 2:41 and some nifty old school kung fu movie reverse camera at 2:31 and 2:54... what else do you want on a funny video? And I mean funny "ha ha", not funny "ooooh man, they are so drugged out their skulls!".</p>
<p>I mean, yeah, we all like complex songs about depression and raining in Manchester and the numbness of the loaves of bread at Sainsbury's after they were left at the cruel Beeston sun, but this group, like<br />
Lit and Wheatus, are just having a good time, and that's what this video is: some dumb old fun.</p>
<p>Can't say anything bad about them. Oh, and the <span class="nfakPe">peaches</span>? It's a song the singer made when he was a kid. Look it up.</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="61" caption="Homo Rodans wants pies on Earth"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/yeahsure1.jpg" alt="Homo Rodans wants pies on Earth" width="61" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>¿Que haría Homo Rodans con millones de duraznos, duraznos de'a-gratis, millones de duraznos, duraznos para él? Pues para empezar tendría que asegurarme de que fueran enlatados y en almibar si los quisiera comer, porque de otra forma la cascara me causa una reacción alérgica con la cual se me inflama el paladar encias y nervio trigémino. Secondly, un millon de duraznos = un millon de botellas de rompope de acuerdo al álgebra homorodiana. Finally, me aseguraria que los productores de dichos melocotones no fueran parte de la mafia japonesa ninja ninjitsu que azota los bosques de coníferas en el hemisferio norte.</p>
<p>Está profunda reflexión nace después de ver el video de los Presidents of the USA para su rola "Peaches" la cual estaba enterrada en el baúl de mis recuerdos más remotos de la extinta Rock 101(R.I.P) Nunca me había imaginado siquiera que tuviera video, y mucho menos que el final fuera un despliegue vulgar de artes marciales. Grata sorpresa la del Sr Editor al encomendarnos esta discusión tan jugosa!!(duraznos= rompope/fructosa multiplied by jugo en el algebra homorodiana.....diviertase usted con el despeje!)</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="65" caption="Ogo would like some of whatever we smoked"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/iconitos/fookola8.jpg" alt="Ogo fuma en el VIPS" width="65" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>Ogo no pudo enviar nada porque esta juegando en el play/Ogo couldn't send anything this month because he's too busy mercing zombies on playstation.</p>
<p>Which is too bad, because he would've loved all the action on the video. I mean, with him being a gorramn fan of japanese soap operas where everyone gives "the evil eye" so everyone and fight for 4 or 5 hours (real time), he'd certainly appreciate all the kicking and licking that go on here. It's like Naruto, but without the bloody awful dialogue, dig??</p>
<p>Go watch Naruto.</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="79" caption="Frilly likes to google himself"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/iwouldewok.jpg" alt="Frilly likes to google himself" width="79" height="70" />[/caption]
<p>By the power of Gayskull's Dance Remix!! It's the ugly 90s back in action!</p>
<p>This video is soooo freaked out that I neeeeeed to do a play by play highlight out of it:</p>
<p>0:01 Oooh, clever, tins on the branches... it's about consumerism!!<br />
0:07 That sitar-lite sound warns me this is SOME HIPPIE BULLSH1T ABOUT<br />
THE RAINFOREST!<br />
0:34 "This video was brought to you by the National Fruit Association of America... because it makes you fruity!"<br />
0:37 HOLY SH1T!! A FLYING STOOL!!!!! This is like Doctor Who in the 80s!<br />
0:52 He has "<span class="nfakPe">peaches</span>" written on his skull...what is he? The white version of Prince?<br />
1:00 "Look at me dance while a stool lies dead in the floor" OH THE HUMANITY!<br />
1:16 Why is he moving his head like a deranged Alanis Morissette? Oh, wait, that's redundant...<br />
1:35 WHAT THE FUKK IS THAT?!??!?!<br />
1:45 They know something is in the woods....something BEYOND THE GRAVE!!!<br />
2:10 FUKKOLA!!! NINJAS!!!<br />
2:18 Ah, not only we are silly rockers... we have MAD FIGHTIN' SKILLS!!<br />
2:30 Kapow! BANG! BLAMMOS! POW!!!<br />
2:44 EAT YOUR HEART OUT, GOKU!!!<br />
2:50 Hey, the drummer has Vans...before they were en vogue again!! HE ROCKS!<br />
3:02 If that bit had a "Six Million Dollar Man" bionic-jump sound effect, this'd be heaven, folks..</p>
<p>So, yeah, they kick ass, anime style, without big eyes or emo-dirge blabbermouth sappy stories.</p>
<p>Damas y caballeros, los abuelos de Bowling for soup y cualquier grupo punketito que haga letras chistosas  ( y videos simpaticos).</p>
<p>And noisy, it's about asses, son... but you wouldn't know about that.. VIRGIN!!!</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="60" caption="RTD - Writer extraordinaire yeah!!"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/rtdlol.jpg" alt="RTD - Writer extraordinaire yeah!!" width="60" height="76" />[/caption]
<p>THIS SONG DELIVERS!!! You just want the ninjas to eat beans on toast, right??</p>
<p>Buncha mosquitoes, you wouldn't understand something like this.</p>
<p>Go buy my book.</p>
<p>Go buy my book.</p>
<p>Seriously, you straights, go buy my book.</p>
<p>Or I'll do a fifth season of Doctor Who.</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="78" caption="Imightbeelvis loves chicken kebabs!"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/tosswood/shockeye.jpg" alt="Imightbeelvis loves chicken kebabs!" width="78" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>I think Emilio should say something about this... or is this song too low in the evolutionary step for him?</p>
<p>Is he chicken?</p>
<p>bo-coooookkk!</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="66" caption="Emilio loves to waste money on cds"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/iconitos/icon_professionalstoner.jpg" alt="Emilio loves to waste money on cds" width="66" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>Presidents of the United States of America = One of the shittiest bands on the planet.</p>
<p>.</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="78" caption="Imightbeelvis loves chicken kebabs!"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/tosswood/shockeye.jpg" alt="Imightbeelvis loves chicken kebabs!" width="78" height="75" />[/caption]
<p>Would sir care to point out a better band?</p>
<p>Really.</p>
<p>Just.</p>
<p>One.</p>
<p>Band.</p>
<p>I dares you.</p>
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="79" caption="Frilly likes to google himself"]<img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/frillyshirtcyberman/iwouldewok.jpg" alt="Frilly likes to google himself" width="79" height="70" />[/caption]
<p>Wait, guys, can't you see what's happening??? THE NINJAS ARE MAKING US FIGHT!! They even messed up the layout of the page!!!! Let us not fall into temptation and deliver us into a few cocktails Noisy made for us... while we stare directly into the Barrel of a Gun, because next month (hopefully) we'll go for Depeche Mode's weirdest video EVAH!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What The Documents Says; Palin Branchflower Report; Palin Responds.]]></title>
<link>http://pacificeye.wordpress.com/?p=1317</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vienna Richards</dc:creator>
<guid>http://pacificeyewitness.org/2008/10/11/what-the-documents-says-palin-branchflower-report-palin-responds/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Alaska&#8217;s Anchorage News newspaper reports:
A legislative investigation has concluded that Gov.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alaska's Anchorage News newspaper reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>A legislative investigation has concluded that <strong>Gov. Sarah Palin</strong> abused her power in pushing for the <strong>firing of an Alaska state trooper </strong>who was once married to her sister, or by failing to prevent her husband Todd from doing so.</p>
<p>The report by investigator Steve Branchflower was made public late this afternoon by a bipartisan 12-0 vote of the Legislative Council, which authorized the investigation.</p>
<p>Branchflower's report contains four findings...</p></blockquote>
<p>By all media accounts, the former brother-in-law is far from a redeeming character...one you never want in the family...let alone around children.</p>
<p>Access the original documents here and what the report says or doesn't say.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://pacificeye.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/branchflowerreportsourceprod_affiliate7.pdf">PDF Copy of the Branchflower Report issued a few hours ago.<br />
</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pacificeye.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/todd_palin_s_subpoena_responses_10-8-081sourceprod_affiliate7.pdf">PDF Copy of Statement by Todd Palin<br />
</a></li>
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<p>Governor Sarah Palin's spokesperson responds to report.  Her statement below give a detailed explanation along with links for the public to see.<!--more--></p>
<h3>STATEMENT FROM MCCAIN-PALIN SPOKESWOMAN MEG STAPLETON</h3>
<p>For Immediate Release                            Friday, October 10, 2008</p>
<p>ARLINGTON, VA -- McCain-Palin 2008 spokeswoman Meg Stapleton issued the following statement on today's release of Stephen Branchflower's report:</p>
<p>"Today's report shows that the Governor acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan. The report also illustrates what we've known all along: this was a partisan led inquiry run by Obama supporters and the Palins were completely justified in their concern regarding Trooper Wooten given his violent and rogue behavior. Lacking evidence to support the original Monegan allegation, the Legislative Council seriously overreached, making a tortured argument to find fault without basis in law or fact. The Governor is looking forward to cooperating with the Personnel Board and continuing her conversation with the American people regarding the important issues facing the country."</p>
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<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 08-166</p>
<p>Governor's Office Responds to Branchflower Report</p>
<p>October 10, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin's communications director Bill McAllister released the following statement on the report issued today from Steve Branchflower:</p>
<p>"The so-called ‘Troopergate' incident began with Governor Palin's removal of Walt Monegan as commissioner of public safety. Today, investigator Steve Branchflower vindicated the governor by finding that she acted within her constitutional authority to remove ‘at-will' employees.</p>
<p>"However, along with several members of the Legislative Council, we question how Mr. Branchflower reached the conclusion that Governor Palin abused her power with respect to Trooper Mike Wooten. That finding required speculation and assumptions on Mr. Branchflower's part and could not be supported solely on the basis of the evidence that he collected. We agree with the comments made that Alaskans should consider the report in total rather than relying solely on the findings."</p>
<p>The Office of the Governor has released the depositions of the seven state employees named in the investigation, which include their testimony regarding internal administration discussions about Mike Wooten. The documents can be accessed at the following links:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Affidaivt_Randy_Ruaro.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Affidaivt_Randy_Ruaro.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/BaileyTranscript_8-27-08.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/BaileyTranscript_8-27-08.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/BradThompsonAnswers_Signed.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/BradThompsonAnswers_Signed.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/CommissionerKreitzerAnswers_Signed.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/CommissionerKreitzerAnswers_Signed.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/DianneKieselAnswers_Signed.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/DianneKieselAnswers_Signed.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/JaniceMasonAnswers_signed.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/JaniceMasonAnswers_signed.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Letter_SenateJudiciary_10-08-2008.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Letter_SenateJudiciary_10-08-2008.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_January-29-30-2008.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_January-29-30-2008.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_March-2-2008.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_March-2-2008.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_October-18-2007.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_October-18-2007.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_October-18-2007.pdf">http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/IvySubpoenaResponses.pdf</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[XGL Player Notes - October 10]]></title>
<link>http://xglpress.wordpress.com/?p=167</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hockeygladiator</dc:creator>
<guid>http://xglpress.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/xgl-player-notes-october-10/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bryan McCabe - left game with left knee injury
Tim Connolly - hairline fracture in lower back, out i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Bryan McCabe</em> - left game with left knee injury</p>
<p><em>Tim Connolly</em> - hairline fracture in lower back, out indefinitely</p>
<p><em>St. Louis Blues</em> - first PP line used 5 forwards (<em>Tkachuk, Kariya, McDonald, Stempniak, Boyes</em>)</p>
<p>Scoring Leaders (3 pts):  <em>Tim Gleason, Lee Stempniak, Stephane Robidas, Niclas Havelid, Mike Green, Bryan Little, Alexander Semin, Brandon Dubinsky</em></p>
<p><em>Jose Theodore</em> - pulled in 2nd period, 4 goals on 17 shots</p>
<p><em>Zach Bogosian</em> - welcomed to NHL by Brashear, one-sided decision against the rookie</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting....]]></title>
<link>http://wealthshare.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/analysis-behind-and-beyond-government-economic-reporting/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sovereign John</dc:creator>
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Some Biographical &amp; Additional Background Information
Walter J. ]]></description>
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<div style="margin-left:40px;"><strong>Some Biographical &#38; Additional Background Information</strong></p>
<p><em>Walter J. "John" Williams was born in 1949. He received an A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. During his career as a consulting economist, John has worked with individuals as well as Fortune 500 companies.</em><br />
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Formally known as Walter J. Williams, my friends call me John. For more than 25 years, I have been a private consulting economist and, out of necessity, had to become a specialist in government economic reporting. </p>
<p>One of my early clients was a large manufacturer of commercial airplanes, who had developed an econometric model for predicting revenue passenger miles. The level of revenue passenger miles was their primary sales forecasting tool, and the model was heavily dependent on the GNP (now GDP) as reported by the Department of Commerce. Suddenly, their model stopped working, and they asked me if I could fix it. I realized the GNP numbers were faulty, corrected them for my client (official reporting was similarly revised a couple of years later) and the model worked again, at least for a while, until GNP methodological changes eventually made the underlying data worthless. </p>
<p>That began a lengthy process of exploring the history and nature of economic reporting and in interviewing key people involved in the process from the early days of government reporting through the present. For a number of years I conducted surveys among business economists as to the quality of government statistics (the vast majority thought it was pretty bad), and my results led to front page stories in the <em>New York Times</em> and <em>Investors Business Daily</em>, considerable coverage in the broadcast media and a joint meeting with representatives of all the government's statistical agencies. Despite minor changes to the system, government reporting has deteriorated sharply in the last decade or so. -- John Williams
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<title><![CDATA[Kingston Technology's DataTraveler 150.....]]></title>
<link>http://wealthshare.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/kingston-technologys-datatraveler-150/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sovereign John</dc:creator>
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<h6>Kingston Technology’s 32GB DataTraveler 150 Makes Transporting All Digital Content on a Single USB Drive Convenient</h6>
<p><img src="http://www.kingston.com/press/2008/image_files/dt150.gif" alt="DT150" width="200" height="78" align="right" /><strong><em>Mixing Business and Pleasure is Easier than Ever</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Fountain Valley CA, — October 8, 2008</em> — </strong>Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is shipping its high capacity 32GB DataTraveler 150 (DT150) USB Flash drive. The DT150 offers the largest capacity in Kingston’s entire line of DataTraveler<sup>®</sup> USB drives and allows users to conveniently combine work-related content and personal digital content on the same drive with plenty of room to spare. Users can now transport and share entire libraries of music, photos, large business documents, and even video without ever having to change USB drives or search other portable storage devices containing specific content.</p>
<p>“The new DataTraveler 150 has broken through storage barriers by allowing users to store all their digital files ― business or personal ― all under one roof,” said Mark Akoubian, Flash business manager, Kingston<sup>®</sup>. “As file sizes increase especially with content such as music and photos, the need for small form factor storage drives with high capacities will continue to go up. The DT150 certainly addresses those needs today.”</p>
<p>Kingston’s DataTraveler 150 is fully compatible with Windows Vista, XP and Windows 2000 as well as Mac OS X 10.3 (and above) and Linux 2.6 (and above). As with all Kingston USB drive products, the DT 150 carries a fully guaranteed five-year warranty and 24/7 tech support.</p>
<p><strong>DataTraveler 150 Product Features and Specifications:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Capacities*:</strong> 32GB</li>
<li><strong>Dimensions:</strong> 3.06" x 0.9" x  0.47" (77.9mm x 22mm x 12.05mm)</li>
<li><strong>Operating Temperature:</strong> 32º F to 140º F (0º C to  60º C)</li>
<li><strong>Storage Temperature:</strong> -4º F to 185º F (-20º C to  85º C)</li>
<li><strong>Simple:</strong> Just plug into a USB port</li>
<li><strong>Convenient:</strong> Pocket-sized for easy  transportability</li>
<li><strong>Guaranteed:</strong> Five-year warranty</li>
<li><strong>Compatible Operating  Systems: </strong>Windows  Vista<sup>®</sup> (Windows ReadyBoost™ not supported), Windows XP (SP1, SP2), Windows 2000 (SP4), Mac OS X v.10.3.x and higher, Linux v.2.6.x and higher</li>
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<title><![CDATA[PayDirt$ – Real Investing, Real Property, Online]]></title>
<link>http://paydirt24.wordpress.com/?p=12</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>srumery</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Investing.  Stocks, bonds, real estate.  Flipping houses.  Ways to get rich quick.  It’s all o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Investing.  Stocks, bonds, real estate.  Flipping houses.  Ways to get rich quick.  It’s all out there, all of the time: ideas and advice, good and bad, on how to invest your money in order to turn a profit.  We’ve learned from our fathers and our friends.  We’ve taken risks and have fallen short, or we’ve come up on top and have made a bundle.  We invest for fun and we invest for our future.  We’ve all dreamed of what could be, and there are so many ways…</p>
<p>It seems clear that when the topic of investing arises, one immediately thinks stocks and bonds, 401k, or real estate in the form of flipping or refurbishing houses, or simply buying or selling homes.  They are tried (and these days not so true) and traditional investment endeavors, and we are all probably most familiar with them.  What also seems clear is that times are changing.  Doubts, fears and anxieties are running high for some—for many, perhaps.  But folks are still investing, or wanting to invest.  As the traditional avenues of Wall Street and real estate are failing us, another not-so-new avenue is coming to the forefront as a wise, reasonable and lucrative investment: <a title="Real Estate Investing Is Right For Your Future" href="http://investmentproperty.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/real-estate-investing-is-right-for-your-future/" target="_blank">land</a>.</p>
<p>Yes, dirt.  Turns out that land as an investment—historically older and a <a title="Why Land is Historically a Better Investment than the Stock Market" href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/694692/Why-Land-is-Historically" target="_blank">better investment</a> than stocks—is still alive and very much kicking.</p>
<p>A typical online search of land as investment or real estate as investment inevitably results in a dead end search as there is a lack of information out there that truly focuses on Real Property as investment.  Even more foreign to investors is the idea that quality, valuable property is available <span class="caps">FOR PURCHASE</span> online, particularly on eBay.  Skeptical?  We might have been, too, had 10 years of buying and selling property online not worked for us.  Feedback: <a title="eBay feedback for Mission Equity" href="http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&#38;userid=**mission**&#38;ftab=AllFeedback" target="_blank">Mission</a> / <a title="eBay feedback for Integrity Property" href="http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&#38;userid=integrityproperty&#38;ftab=AllFeedback" target="_blank">Integrity</a></p>
<p>Who are we?  We are <a title="About" href="http://paydirt24.wordpress.com/about/">Mission Equity Properties, <span class="caps">LLC</span></a>.  It boggles our minds that more folks haven’t turned to property as an investment, especially in this market.  We have many a loyal following of repeat buyers who know how to invest in land but also recognize us as a trusted source for selling quality property for whatever one’s reasons are—investing, selling, retiring, and so on.</p>
<p>However, we also understand that many folks, though interested in investing outside-the-box and taking risks, are hesitant not only to buy land but also to <a title="Available property" href="http://missionauctionproperties.com/lp/" target="_blank">buy land online</a><strong>.  </strong>Perhaps they don’t know how.  Perhaps they don’t know why.  We understand and we recognize the gaps in information and the fears that may exist.  For these reasons, we have set up this blog for the novice, for the traditional investor and for the experts—those who know how to invest in land and want more.</p>
<p>Our company specializes in providing low cost, high quality property available to multiple types of investors.  Investors ranging from short term resellers to long term retirement planning.  We do all the hard work of finding the property, making it available to you.  We are proud of our process, because it works—and we do this all online!  We are always happy to share the results of our analysis with the buyers of our Real Property.</p>
<p>Are you investing in Real Property or looking to get started?  There isn’t that much information available to us online.  We want to be your source.  We have the knowledge and the resources.  Over time we will tackle many topics and highlight various properties and investment strategies.  Why are you investing in the first place?  Let us know.  Let’s discuss it here at PayDirt$.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[State of the Senate (10/10/2008)]]></title>
<link>http://electioninspection.wordpress.com/?p=1425</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elliot</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Solid Democratic (Pick-up) (1)

Virginia (Warner)

Solid Democratic (Retention)(10)


Kerry (Massach]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em>Solid Democratic (Pick-up) (1)</em></strong></p>
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<li><span style="color:#ff0000;">Virginia (Warner)</span></li>
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<p><strong><em>Solid Democratic (Retention)(10)</em></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Kerry (Massachusetts)</span></div>
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<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Durbin (Illinois)</span></div>
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<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Baucus (Montana)</span></div>
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<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Johnson (South Dakota)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Levin (Michigan)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Harkin (Iowa)</span></div>
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<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Biden (Delaware)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Reed (Rhode Island)</span></div>
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<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Pryor (Arkansas) *No challenger</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#000080;">Rockefeller (West Virginia)</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><em>Likely Democratic (Pick-up) (1)</em></strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color:#ff0000;">New Mexico (Domenici)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><em>Possible Darkhorse races (Democratic Incumbent) (2)</em></strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color:#000080;">Lautenberg (New Jersey)</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000080;">Landrieu (Lousiana)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>Leans Democratic (3)</em></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Sununu (New Hampshire)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Colorado (Allard)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Stevens (Alaska)</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>Toss-up (3)</em></strong></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color:#ff0000;">Dole (North Carolina)</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#ff0000;">Smith (Oregon)</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#ff0000;">Coleman (Minnesota)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>Leans Republican (3)</em></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Wicker (Mississippi-B)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">McConnell (Kentucky)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Chambliss (Georgia)</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>Likely Republican (Open Seat retention) (1)</em></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Idaho (Craig)</span></div>
</li>
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<p><strong><em>Possible Darkhorse Races (Republican Incumbent) (5)</em></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Cornyn (Texas)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Inhofe (Oklahoma)</span></div>
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<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Roberts (Kansas)</span></div>
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<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Collins (Maine)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Graham (South Carolina)</span></div>
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<p><strong><em>Solid Republican (Retention) (6)</em></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Enzi (Wyoming-A)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Barrasso (Wyoming-B)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Sessions (Alabama)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Cochran (Mississippi-A)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Alexander (Tennessee)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Nebraska (Hagel)</span></div>
</li>
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<p>As it stands right now, Election Inspection projects that the 111th Senate will have at least 51 Democrats (54 with leaners) 38 Republicans (41 with leaners) 2 Independents (at least one who caucuses with the Democrats) and three seats are considered to be toss-ups. I'd also like to add that I'm quite close to moving North Carolina to Leans Democratic, as the polling has been moving pretty much in Hagan's favor (in fact, I suspect that Gordon Smith and Norm Coleman will ultimately lose their seats, this would leave Democrats two seats short of a filibuster proof majority (this assumes that Bernie Sanders caucuses with the Democrats while Joe Lieberman does not). The Democrats now have a fighting chance at getting the magic 60 seat number. I'd also like to add that in the next week or so I'll be posting an initial look at which races could end up competitive or not in 2010 (I'll also start looking at the gubenatorial races as well).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cindy McCain Kept Keating Partnership After Scandal]]></title>
<link>http://wealthshare.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/cindy-mccain-kept-keating-partnership-after-scandal/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sovereign John</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wealthshare.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/cindy-mccain-kept-keating-partnership-after-scandal/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[via Huffington Post &#8230;..


Sen. John McCain&#8217;s wife and father-in-law continued a lucrativ]]></description>
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<p><img src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/43047/thumbs/s-CINDY-large.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<p>Sen. John McCain's wife and father-in-law continued a lucrative business partnership with disgraced financier Charles H. Keating Jr. for 11 years after the GOP presidential nominee said he ended his close friendship with Keating in March 1987.</p>
<p>Cindy McCain's business partnership with Keating in a real-estate development between 1986 and 1998 netted her a tidy profit, in addition to years of significant tax benefits. Her father, who died in 2000, earned similar returns.</p>
<p><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/11806/cindy">Read the whole story here.</a></div>
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<title><![CDATA[State of the Electoral College (10/10/2008)]]></title>
<link>http://electioninspection.wordpress.com/?p=1419</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elliot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://electioninspection.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/state-of-the-electoral-college-10102008/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Previous versions can be found here and here)
This is the third version of Election Inspection]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Previous versions can be found <a href="http://electioninspection.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/election-inspections-updated-electoral-college-map-as-of-1052008/">here</a> and <a href="http://electioninspection.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/initial-projection-of-the-electoral-college/">here</a>)</p>
<p>This is the third version of Election Inspection's electoral college projection:</p>
<p>Map One: The Battlegrounds (All states in grey are either toss-up or leaning towards one of the candidates)</p>
<p><a href="http://electioninspection.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/electoralcollegebattlegrounds3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1420" title="electoralcollegebattlegrounds3" src="http://electioninspection.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/electoralcollegebattlegrounds3.jpg" alt="" width="448" height="290" /></a></p>
<p>Changes from previous version: Move Georgia from McCain state to Battleground (McCain -15, Battleground +15)</p>
<p>Notes on Map: Moving Georgia to the battleground is something which seems controversial, but if you read Nate Silver's excellent <a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/in-georgia-small-improvements-in-black.html">article</a> on voter registration in the state, you'll see why I've given Georgia battleground status.</p>
<p>Map Two: the Toss-ups (all states in grey should be considered true toss-ups)</p>
<p><a href="http://electioninspection.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/electoralcollegetossups3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1421" title="electoralcollegetossups3" src="http://electioninspection.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/electoralcollegetossups3.jpg" alt="" width="441" height="286" /></a> </p>
<p>Changes from previous version: Move Missouri from Leans McCain to Toss-up (McCain -11, toss-up +11), move Virginia and New Hampshire from Toss-up to Leans Obama (Obama +17, toss-up -17)</p>
<p>Notes on Map: My reason for moving Virginia from toss-up to Leans Democratic is based on the fact that three of the four most recent <a href="http://www.pollster.com/polls/va/08-va-pres-ge-mvo.php">polls</a> of Virginia have Obama leading in the state by at least 8 points. Even though I still feel that New Hampshire is a screwy state that is difficult to poll, the fact is that the polling as of late has given Obama pretty sizeable margins, so it's difficult to say that the state is anything but Leaning Obama.</p>
<p>Map Three: Projected Outcome (Obama wins popular vote by 5 points)</p>
<p><a href="http://electioninspection.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/electoralcollegefinalresult3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1422" title="electoralcollegefinalresult3" src="http://electioninspection.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/electoralcollegefinalresult3.jpg" alt="" width="442" height="286" /></a></p>
<p>Changes from previous version: Move Florida and Indiana from McCain to Obama (Obama +38, McCain -38)</p>
<p>Notes on Map: For those who remember my hypothetical <a href="http://electioninspection.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/what-would-blow-outs-look-like/">5-point</a> Obama win, this probably looks familiar, the only real difference between this map and the previous one is my giving McCain Missouri instead of Obama.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Open Mindedness and Morals]]></title>
<link>http://namkcor.wordpress.com/?p=30</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>namkcor</dc:creator>
<guid>http://namkcor.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/open-mindedness-and-morals/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Who in this world can truly claim that they are entirely open minded?  Accepting of everybody]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who in this world can truly claim that they are entirely open minded?  Accepting of everybody's beliefs, feelings, appearances, quirks, and fetishes, among other things; even if it is something they do not particularly agree with.</p>
<p>I believe that it is possible for someone to be truly Open Minded.  To accept something does not mean you must agree with it, it just means that you acknowledge it is as much a part of someone else's life, as your own feelings and such are to yours.</p>
<p>However, to be this open minded, one must ignore morals.</p>
<p>Why do I say this?  Being open minded should be considered the pinnacle of morality, should it not?  Because morals, laws, and the like, are LIMITS.  They create walls and barriers, the concept of right and wrong.  Thus closing off someones mind, as they will not accept what they feel is immoral.  It's a base human instinct to feel that something is wrong, especially if one does not agree with it him/herself.  This is not to say morals must cease to be, more as they would have to be overlooked.</p>
<p>Not only that, but it is impossible to be open minded, when one only socializes with similar and/or like minded individuals.  Take GBLT groups, alternative religious groups, or even mainstream religious and philosophical groups.  They all feel the same about most issues, and therefore group together.  They may claim to be open minded, however, they all think the same, and therefore have no experience dealing with different or even opposing beliefs and feelings.</p>
<p>I do -not- claim to be entirely open minded.  I have my own stances and moral view, and I have my own dislikes and I would oppose certain philosophies.  In fact, if everyone was entirely open minded, chaos would rule the world, and you could do anything without fear for repercussion.  The ideal point would be mid-way between close and open minded.  Closed enough to respect moral boundaries and laws, while open enough to accept man's differences, without fighting over petty things such as color or language.  This is what I strive to be, and I believe it to be the optimal state of mind.</p>
<p>Your opinions are, as always, welcome and encouraged; I'd love to hear your thoughts :)</p>
<p>Stay Zen</p>
<p>-- NAMKCOR</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Deborah Hewitt on the meltdown]]></title>
<link>http://wmschoolofbusiness.wordpress.com/?p=11</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wmschoolofbusiness</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wmschoolofbusiness.tl.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/deborah-hewitt-on-the-meltdown/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ecomonics professor Dr. Deborah Hewitt appeared on WRIC News Channel 8 on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. She ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ecomonics professor Dr. Deborah Hewitt appeared on WRIC News Channel 8 on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. She discussed the bailout legislation and the market's reaction to it.</p>
<p><a title="Deborah Hewitt video" href="http://mason.wm.edu/Mason/Faculty+Research/Faculty/Faculty+Videos.htm"><strong>Watch it now</strong></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Don't Conservative Pudits Write Their True Thoughts on Palin as VP?]]></title>
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<h1><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-deggans/why-dont-some-conservativ_b_133529.html" title="Permalink" id="title_permalink">Why Don't Some Conservative Pundits Write What They Really Think About Sarah Palin?</a></h1>
<p>As somebody who gets paid to put his opinions in print every day, I've always thought columnists have one, overriding duty to their readers and the profession:</p>
<p>Intellectual and emotional honesty.</p>
<p>Our goal is to channel our convictions, values and perspectives into compelling arguments, respecting facts and contrary views. Even when that means something you normally champion lands in your cross hairs.</p>
<p>Which is why I have found the story of conservative <em>New York Times</em> columnist David Brooks' latest controversy so disappointing. Because, even though Brooks dislikes GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin enough that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/david-brooks-sarah-palin_n_133001.html">he told an audience in New York City </a>she was a "fatal cancer" for the Republican party who is "not even close" to being ready for the job she's seeking, he hasn't yet outlined those observations in the biggest venue available to him: his newspaper column.</p>
<p>And Brooks isn't the only conservative pundit choking down disdain for Palin.</p>
<p>Back in September, when Palin was first selected, <em>Wall Street Journal</em> columnist Peggy Noonan let her true feelings show<a href="http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2008/09/after-palins-tr.html"> when she thought the cameras were off </a>after an appearance with GOP strategist Mike Murphy on MSNBC.</p>
<p>"I think they went for this -- excuse me -- political b---s--- about narratives," she tells Murphy, noting later "It's over."</p>
<p>But what did she say after Palin's debate performance Oct. 2 -- an appearance marked by the candidate's early promise that she wouldn't necessarily answer questions she didn't like while showing a marked aversion to responses that weren't finely crafted talking points?</p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that <a href="http://unapologetic.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/the-exponential-differential-equation/">we solved one differential equation</a>, let's try a wider class: "first-degree homogeneous linear equations with constant coefficients".  Let's break this down.</p>
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<li>First-degree: only involves the undetermined function and its first derivative</li>
<li>Homogeneous: harder to nail down, but for our purposes it means that every term involves the undetermined function or its first derivative</li>
<li>Linear: no products of the undetermined function or its first derivative with each other</li>
<li>Constant Coefficients: only multiplying the undetermined function and its derivative by constants</li>
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<p>Putting it all together, this means that our equation must look like this:</p>
<p>$latex \displaystyle a\frac{df}{dx}+bf=0$</p>
<p>We can divide through by $latex a$ to assume without loss of generality that $latex a=1$ (if $latex a=0$ then the equation isn't very interesting at all).</p>
<p>Now let's again assume that $latex f$ is analytic at $latex {0}$, so we can write</p>
<p>$latex \displaystyle f(x)=\sum\limits_{k=0}^\infty a_kx^k$</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>$latex \displaystyle f'(x)=\sum\limits_{k=0}^\infty (k+1)a_{k+1}x^k$</p>
<p>So our equation reads</p>
<p>$latex \displaystyle0=\sum\limits_{k=0}^\infty\left((k+1)a_{k+1}+ba_k\right)x^k$</p>
<p>That is, $latex a_{k+1}=\frac{-b}{k+1}a_k$ for all $latex k$, and $latex a_0=f(0)$ is arbitrary.  Just like last time we see that multiplying by $latex \frac{1}{k+1}$ at each step gives $latex a_k$ a factor of $latex \frac{1}{k!}$.  But now we also multiply by $latex (-b)$ at each step, so we find</p>
<p>$latex \displaystyle f(x)=\sum\limits_{k=0}^\infty\frac{(-b)^kx^k}{k!}=\sum\limits_{k=0}^\infty\frac{(-bx)^k}{k!}=\exp(-bx)$</p>
<p>And indeed, we can rewrite our equation as $latex f'(x)=-bf(x)$.  The chain rule clearly shows us that $latex \exp(-bx)$ satisfies this equation.</p>
<p>In fact, we can immediately see that the function $latex \exp(kx)$ will satisfy many other equations, like $latex f''(x)=k^2f(x)$, $latex f'''(x)=k^3f(x)$, and so on.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Former McCain Strategist Warns Against "Angry Mob" Nuremberg Type Rally]]></title>
<link>http://wealthshare.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/former-mccain-strategist-warns-against-angry-mob/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sovereign John</dc:creator>
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<h3>As far back as July 2008</h3>
<h1><a id="title_permalink" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/10/obama-predicted-gops-nast_n_133562.html">Obama Predicted GOP's Nasty Turn (VIDEO)</a></h1>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>================My Editorial</strong></span>========</p>
<p><span style="color:#000066;">Nuremberg style McCain Rally video the only thing missing was the NAZI salute and "Heil McCain, Heil Palin".  The FBI, CIA ought to be knocking on the doors of those advocating and promoting these kinds of mob mentality. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000066;">Palin and McCain out to be told by police that hate rallies will not be sanctioned or permitted.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000066;">You want to stir up hate for America go deliver your speeches in Iran or North Korea !!!</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000066;">Here we are building a Unified America that allows dissent and free speech without sanctioning terrorist redheric. This Nazi type of propaganda has been allowed free reign for the last eight years and it must stop now. They are growing more violent in language and loading up their guns because they thought the last eight years of rule would continue forever forgetting we live in a Republic with elections of elected representatives not a theocracy with annoited appointed Leaders of the Right.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000066;">TO THE POLLS NOVEMBER 4 EVERYONE WHO LOVES AMERICA, the reich must be shut down. Their mobs must be shown that the Republic was saved by President Lincoln and saved today, we do indeed have an election not their selection on November 4.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000066;">The last two selection rigs must not stand, let us show up at the voting booths in such numbers that if they only count half the Obama votes he will still win by a landslide !!!!!</span></p>
<p>A word to the embedded media reporters.... You see now how the last eight years of cow towing to the extreme right wing has now lead them to threaten you as well. They are pissed you aren't doing your job of repeating their lies, and cheating propaganda. They are pissed that you aren't carrying their propaganda as you have done for the last eight years. You are now in danger for your lives. I could have warned you of this. When Germany gave in to the Nazis 99% of the time the Nazi became violent at the mere 1% of the time people expressed a difference of opinion. This is how it works when you spoil rich wealthy brats.</p>
<p>When John Kerry lost to these brutes he called for calm among his supporters while McCain and Palin are calling for more mob anger. See the video of their Reich leadership type response to the mob anger.</p>
<p>Duh !!!!</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">It's time to shut down the mob mentality of the right wing now,</span><br />
<span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;color:#ff6600;">sovereignjohn</span></p>
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<p>The right must not be allowed to be fooled by the neocons to riot and to allow the police to begin the crack down they so desire. We police must shut down the talk before it reaches mob action.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Instead of Bailout Smoke and Mirrors for Spolied Wealthy Brats Why not....]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sovereign John</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:rgb(0,51,51);">The rich wealthy have maintained their spoiled brat childhood tendencies that even when they make mistakes and do stupid things their rich wealthy parents will once again bail them out. We all know the story. Daddy calls his friend the police chief and junior suddenly doesn't have a DUI like the rest of us. You know the story, Daddy gets a call from the store that junior has been caught shop lifting and Daddy pays the store owner twice what they item costs and suddenly junior doesn't have a police record. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,51,51);">Today the rich spoiled wealthy boy is all grown up and the rich parent he calls is none other than his Daddy Government, you know, the one with the deep pocket of our money. So Daddy Government does what the spoiled rotten rich kid rich Daddy has always done, the bailout is on its way and will keep increasing as long as spoiled brat needs or wants it. Could be more than a Trillion. Could be Gazillions but who cares. Wouldn't want junior to endure like the rest of us now would we?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,51,51);">We need to send the&#160; SELL OUT ELECTED ASSHOLES home and get some new representation for the working class. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,51,51);">You want to help the middle working class out then tell the greedy to lower the cost of the price of their over valued homes instead of giving them the inflated greedy price they asked for in the first place.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,51,51);">Are we really this whipped that we can't demand our elected representatives do what's right anymore?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0);">Just asking.</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(255,102,0);">sovereignjohn</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The whole presidential election is a sideshow]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sovereign John</dc:creator>
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<span class="articleAbstract"><b>Many now look upon the Palin-Biden clash as a ‘sideshow’. In truth, this entire contest has become irrelevant to real-world events.</b><br />
<span class="bodyp">Sean Collins </span><br />
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<p><b>It is common now for people to say that this year’s American presidential election has generated more interest than others in recent history. Millions more have voted in primaries, registered to vote, attended rallies and watched debates on TV. It’s also been the major topic of conversation in the culture, from late-night TV comedians to workers around the proverbial water-coolers. To this list we can also now add last week’s vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, which drew a record 70million TV viewers.</b> </p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<td class="storytext"><em>The technology sector contracted when huge losses and lack of interest prompted groups to close or merge funds. But the asset class has outperformed most others over the past year so is the ailing sector set to recover? Adam Lewis investigates.</em></td>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NYT: Obama's Campaign Funding Woes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you're a liberal, you can ill afford to have <em>The New York Times</em> hot on the trail of your fundraising discrepancies.  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/politics/10donate.html?_r=1&#38;oref=slogin">This story</a> (among so many others today) should have the Obama camp a wee bit unsettled.</p>
<p>And yes, I realize some of the Mac's funds are implicated, as well, but the pattern with Obama must cause us to question whether it's the consequence of <em>deliberate</em> indifference.  Moreover, I don't think Obama's fundraising can be considered outside of the context of his broken promise to accept public funding.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Spelling Treason: O-B-A-M-A]]></title>
<link>http://conservativesformccain.wordpress.com/?p=1028</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cackcon</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <em>Washington Times</em> has a <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/10/obama-sought-to-sway-iraqis-on-bush-deal/">story</a> out today on Barack's back-door dealings with the Iraqi government.</p>
<p><em>Best</em> case scenario, Obama could spin this as poor judgment.</p>
<p><em>Worst</em> case, in my opinion, is more egregious than a simple statutory violation.  When it comes to a presidential candidate (or any American, really) <em>undermining</em> the foreign policy endeavors of a sitting president, I just don't know how you can call that anything other than "treason."</p>
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