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The teams announced the trade Wednesday night. The 28-year-old Del Zotto had a goal and three assists with the Canucks this season and has 54 goals and 161 assists over 10 NHL seasons. |
Schenn, 29, had only played in eight games for Anaheim this season after signing with the Ducks as a free agent in July. He has 30 goals and 113 assists in 11 seasons. |
TiVo announced it has extended its StopWatch service from 20,000 to 100,000 TiVo subscribers. |
StopWatch, the ratings service TiVo is pairing with its digital video recorders (DVRs), catches and delivers second-by-second anonymous research data used to compile ratings. |
TiVo says the increased sample size will provide users with data 25 times larger than any other ratings database available through other panel-based measurement sources. This increase also allows TiVo to produce stable ratings measurements in lower viewership cable networks, which are currently not measured including N... |
TiVo also announced Monday that the roughly 750,000 subscribers with broadband-enabled TiVo DVRs will now be able to order Domino's pizza directly through their television set. |
"Pizza on-demand" has been a popular interactive TV demonstration at cable trade shows over the years and a real commercial application launched by Time Warner Cable's Oceanic Cable in Hawaii. TiVo's version will allow subscribers to order pizza for delivery or pick-up and track delivery timing, right from th... |
The deal with Domino's comes with various advertising entry points on the TiVo user interface including Gold Star Sponsorship, Program Placement, Interactive Tags in live TV spots, and through Music, Photos, Products, & More by clicking on "Order Your Dominos Pizza Now." |
"Joining forces with Domino's Pizza creates an effective marketing and commerce tool for Domino's while enhancing and further distinguishing TiVo as the ultimate way to watch TV with a closed-loop advertising experience," said Karen Bressner, TiVo's Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales, in a statem... |
HD DVR for satellite-TV platform's subscribers expected to launch in second half of 2009. |
New mobile site allows subscribers to schedule recordings on the go. |
When I worked in Africa, the local baboons would steal the corn when it was getting large enough to harvest. If enough of the crop was taken, it meant starvation for the families. Traditionally, women and children guarded the crops, but baboons could seriously bite, and would attack women and children. So men, who were... |
But with the modern world, often the younger men would have jobs in the cities, and those left behind were often women or old men, who would be attacked by the baboons. |
So every harvest, Brother Charles, who had a gun permit, would go out to the fields and shoot the marauding monkeys. He would then arrange their body parts around the fields, and place the head on the stick. This sent a clear message to the baboons: attack the field, you’ll be next. And it worked. The monkeys would see... |
When Bush attacked Iraq, he essentially placed the monkey’s head on a stick, for all to see. The message was clear: Attack us, and you’ll be next. Support terror groups who attack us, and you will be held responsible. |
And it worked, although many of the successes rarely got headlines. |
Well, when Congress voted against Bush last week, Congress has now taken down the monkey’s head. |
As Mark Steyn points out, the Democrats want only to defeat Bush, but what they have done is prooted the defeat America in the eyes of the world. |
And what no one is discussing is what this means for the rest of us. |
The decision for Bush was “damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Bush chose war, but if he had chosen peace, he would still be blamed for the increase in terror, for the same reason that terror increased under Clinton: Because the weakness of the West is what encourages those who fight the West. |
But alas, there is a “third front” in the war: Pacifism. Sweetness and light. Or for those of us of an older generation, “Peace in our time“. |
Back to the 1990’s, when peace was reigning. |
So now the report says that these Algerian terror group are not only responsible for 20 percent of Iraqi suicide bombs, but have links with the Moroccan men who bombed Madrid…. It sounds like “peace in our time” didn’t work, and if I lived in France or Spain, or even in London, I would worry. |
Yet there has been success in the global war on terror, and a pull out of the US from Iraq will mean increased terror for Africa and Asia. |
And there is one way that the Iraq war has indeed “encouraged terrorism”. Terrorism was there before, but, if you read the entire NYTimes article, it notes that it is the success of suicide bombings in Iraq that has encouraged AlQaeda to use that tactic elsewhere. |
Yet here and there below the headlines are stories of success that you might have missed. |
—A UN report on how Somali’s short lived Islamicist take over was enabled by Egypt, Syrian and Libyan training, and Saudi money, and trained with Hezbollah. The press barely noticed Somalia for ten years, and when the Islamicist took over, they started to spin as another failure for Bush. Then, voila, Kenya and Ethiop... |
—-Is there a connection between the American “surge” and the Saudi’s sudden friendliness with Israel? If so, it will to be ignored by tn American press and Congress who don’t know a Sunni from a Shiite. (Quick: Is Hezbollah Shiite or Sunni? Why does Saudi Arabia fear Hezbollah?)— Pakistan , who has been rooting out jih... |
The danger of AlQaeda in Pakistan is now increasing, according to the NYTimes, but the dirty little secret is that they have been there for years. |
—Today’s bombing of Muslim and Hindu civilians on a train in India bring up a little noted point: That the country with the second highest number of terrorist attacks is India. India’s anti terrorism effort is expanding with other countries in that region, especially to increase security in shipping and air transportat... |
–Then there is the Philippines. Another ignored story of success in the war on terror is here in the Philippines.. Basilan Island in the Philippines was supposed to be the backup for AlQaeda training camps when Afghanistan was eliminated. However, the heroic Philippine armed forces, with help from US Special Forces adv... |
—Another unsung ally is Australia. Senator Obama showed his ignorance of the war on terror when he criticized Australia’s Howard, saying that if Howard really likes the war in Iraqi, then the Aussies should send more troops to Iraq. Obama, who grew up in Indonesia and should know better, seems blithely unaware that Aus... |
—Indonesia is also starting to fight against local terror groups. Recently, with the help of Aussies and US Special Forces, that government has had some success against terrorist in Sulewesi. The bad news however is that StrategyPage reports that Islamicists in Sulewesi are planning another big massacre of Christian... |
—Is this perhaps why Thailand has become such a hotbed of terror? The peaceful Thai have avoided military solutions, and were hoping that peace could be made by their new government. Instead, the violence has increased, with 2000 dead in the last year, and 28 bombs last weekend alone. Most of those killed were Buddhist... |
So how will this all end? |
The ultimate winner will be China. |
If the Islamicsts don’t manage to kill each other, nuke the oil fields in the Gulf, and turn Europe into a stagnant continent run by Sharia law, the growing caliphate will find themselves confronted with not the cowboy with the monkey’s head, but the dragon. |
Psst…ten to one on the dragon. |
Nancy Reyes is a retired physician living with her husband in the Philippines. Her webpage is Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket. Her experiences in Africa have made her cynical of pacifists who who underestimate the desire and ability of men with weapons to harm innocent unarmed civilians in the name of a utopian ideal... |
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STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Nick Fitzgerald threw for 241 yards and two touchdowns and ran for two more scores to lead Mississippi State over No. 16 Texas A&M 28-13 on Saturday night. |
Mississippi State (5-3, 2-3 Southeastern Conference) won thanks to an unexpected boost from its passing game, which was among the least productive in the SEC coming into the night. One week after throwing four interceptions in a miserable loss to LSU, Fitzgerald completed 14 of 22 passes, including several big gains th... |
The biggest might have been a 84-yard strike to Stephen Guidry on third-and-21 that set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Fitzgerald and gave the Bulldogs a 21-13 lead early in the fourth quarter. |
Mississippi State's defense was able to take it from there, and Erroll Thompson's interception in the end zone with 2:36 remaining -- along with Fitzgerald's 76-yard touchdown run on the ensuing drive -- sealed the victory. |
Texas A&M (5-3, 3-2) had its three-game winning streak snapped. Kellen Mond completed 23 of 46 passes for 232 yards, one touchdown and one interception. The Aggies had just 61 yards rushing. |
Mississippi State's surprising ability to throw the ball started on the opening drive. Fitzgerald completed 6 of 7 passes for 59 yards, including a 25-yard touchdown to Stephen Guidry for a 7-0 lead. It was the team's first passing touchdown in more than four SEC games. |
Texas A&M rallied to take a 10-7 lead into halftime but didn't score a touchdown in the second half. The Aggies might have had more success in the first half, but several dropped passes hurt promising drives. |
Texas A&M had some good moments but was rarely able to hit on the big plays that could have turned the momentum. Mond missed on a few long throws and the receivers had several drops. Trayveon Williams, who came into the game with 798 yards rushing, had just 26 yards on the ground. |
It was a huge game for Mississippi State's offense, which looked completely overmatched in last week's loss to LSU. If the Bulldogs are able to pass like this the rest of the season, there could be several more wins remaining on the schedule. The defense -- as it has been all season -- was excellent. |
Texas A&M travels to face Auburn next Saturday. |
Mississippi State hosts Louisiana Tech next Saturday. |
DeVry University today announced the appointment of Joe Mozden as vice president of workforce solutions. |
DeVry University today announced the appointment of Joe Mozden as vice president of workforce solutions. In this new role, Mozden will identify how the university can best prepare its graduates for today's most pressing workforce challenges. In addition, Mozden will be responsible for developing a portfolio of services... |
"Our workforce solutions team was created to foster synergy between DeVry University and employers so we can make sure that our students are prepared with the skills employers need," said Robert Paul, president of DeVry University. "Joe's track record of organizational leadership, operations management and partnership ... |
Mozden was most recently executive vice president, chief operating officer and senior vice president of strategic accounts at the Allant Group, where he built and managed business processes to improve the company's efficiency and productivity. He also established Allant's strategic account management practice, which wa... |
"When collaboration among students, educators and employers is enhanced, everyone wins," said Mozden. "Students are prepared with the knowledge and skills employers seek, and employers are introduced to candidates who meet their business needs. DeVry University is uniquely positioned to align its education and services... |
Mozden earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his Master of Business Administration in finance and international business with distinction from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. |
For more information about DeVry University, visit devry.edu. |
DeVry University's mission is to foster student learning through high-quality, career-oriented education integrating technology, business, science and the arts. Founded in 1931, the university offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs onsite and online covering 34 different career fields within its five disting... |
A player's rating indicates his percentile rank in CAPS. fosterh1 is outperforming 90.52% of all CAPS players. A player's score is the total percentage return of all his picks subtracting out the S&P. A player's accuracy is how often that player has made correct predictions. |
fosterh1 appears to be stuck for things to say. Maybe tomorrow? |
When Kiip announced last week that that it’s powering rewards in Zepto Labs’ popular Cut the Rope mobile games, co-founder and CEO Brian Wong said it didn’t share one of the key details (because, uh, reasons) — that this is the debut of a new Kiip product called Challenges. |
The company is best-known for allowing advertisers to sponsor rewards in games and other apps at key moments, say when players beat a level. With Challenges, instead of just giving each user a reward, brands can run contests and sweepstakes and give prizes to the winners. For example, Wong said Cut the Rope players wil... |
That concept may sound familiar to readers who have been following Kiip, because it first started offering these types of user contests about two years ago, through a product called Swarm. (At the time, Wong told me that Swarm would allow Kiip to enlist advertisers in new industries like automotive, where “you can’t gi... |
Challenges are supposed to address several of the main limitations to Swarms. For one thing, they could only be activated at a specific point in the game, which meant that if a player wanted another chance to win the prize, they’d have to go back and play that same level again. Now, however, Wong said that contests can... |
Getting tired of your winter clothes, coat and snow boots? Me too. But it’s not spring yet — sorry to break it to you, although the two feet of snow on the Arts quad should be hint enough — so we need to keep bundling up to stay warm and dry. The challenge, and hey, we’re Cornell students, we do love our challenges, is... |
In 2011, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen famously wrote the startling essay, Why Software is Eating the World, in which he described how emerging companies built on software were swallowing up whole industries and disrupting previously dominant brand name corporations. Andreessen was prescient ... |
Digital technology has disrupted multiple dimensions of governance related to national security, including protection of human rights. In our brave new digital environment, roles and responsibility related to digital security for data, for infrastructure or for people are unclear. The question emerges: Can the human ri... |
We live in a world where the distinction between online and offline has effectively collapsed because everything is connected. The Internet of things and digitization of everything has spawned the era of big data analytics; algorithms facilitate governance decisions in both the private and public spheres; and artificia... |
In the past five years, virtually every realm of society has been disrupted as a consequence of “software eating the world.” None of our social, legal or political institutions have caught up with this tectonic shift, and those responsible for governing, for providing security, and for protecting our rights are reeling... |
Technology has brought many benefits to the human rights movement, but the need to focus on the challenges, and to look at the dark-side of technological advancements as they relate to human rights is urgent. Concern is growing that governments’ commitment to their human rights obligations is increasingly tenuous in th... |
Exploration about whether fundamental human rights concepts and approaches can be adapted to meet the rapidly evolving technology landscape must go into high gear. New themes need to be developed to shore up and reinforce the human rights paradigm in the digital ecosystem. |
Starting on the conceptual level, some features of the Internet and digital technology have challenged the basic sovereign state-based conceptual framework that underpins international human rights governance, something we’ll examine below in our effort to evaluate the role human rights in the digital age. On a more co... |
Let’s start with some historical context: 70 years ago at the founding of the United Nations, the commitment to protect human rights served as one of three pillars for the new international order, along with international peace and security and economic development. |
The UN and the international human rights framework were built upon the nation state system, which rested on the concept of sovereign states; geographical territorial boundaries; state obligations to citizens within their jurisdictions; and the principle of non-interference. Within this system, the human rights pillar ... |
According to this framework, the primary human rights relationship is between governments and the people they govern. Governments have the obligation to protect the rights of those within their territory and to provide security. This means governments are bound by the commitment not to violate human rights through thei... |
Several dimensions of the new digital ecosystem challenge this conception of governance. |
The Internet was constructed through open collaborations between technologists, academics and other stakeholders in an atmosphere of permission-less innovation. The digital ecosystem that emerged through this collaboration operated through open, interoperable, trans-border connectivity, and did not fit easily within th... |
The Internet was designed as a network of networks that operates without reference to geographic boundaries. Simply put, this basic design feature was inherently disruptive to the nation-state system. Recall 1996’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow, who captured this original sense of ... |
Although we now experience instantaneous trans-border, global communication as normal, one of the radical aspects of the Internet was that it facilitated seamless global communication between individuals or groups anywhere, with people or organizations anywhere else. Individuals were empowered to reach a global audienc... |
On the positive side of the ledger, this openness has meant that evidence of human rights violations can instantly be transmitted to witnesses around the world; that human rights victims can be supported by a global community; and that activists can organize worldwide advocacy with digital tools. On the other side of t... |
Many states have woken up to this trans-border digital reality and gone into overdrive, but without understanding the consequences for universal human rights. Governments now are rushing in to assert jurisdiction over data, communications, and digital materials that flow into or out from their territory. |
States’ motives for asserting jurisdiction in the digital realm are mixed: sometimes they are motivated by a desire to protect the privacy and security of citizens online. Other times the intentions are more nefarious — to control access to information or to restrict online speech in the name of public order or securit... |
The bottom line: by facilitating digital reach across borders, the Internet has wreaked havoc on traditional notions of territorial governance. The response of states has been to assert control through legal and technical means that threaten both universal connectivity and universal human rights. Two basic governance c... |
Another significant conceptual challenge to the human rights framework comes from digitization itself. While advancement in digital technology has had many empowering social effects, the inexorable move toward the “digitization of everything” and “Internet of Things” also has meant that everything we do is now traceabl... |
In this context, the right to privacy obviously is under serious assault. Early on in the digital revolution, some prominent technology figures were fairly cavalier in asserting that with the advent of new digital connection technology, consumers had decided, privacy is over or at least over-rated. Some suggested that ... |
One big issue that needs attention is whether the digitization of everything threatens the basic relationship between citizens and governments in democratic society. More specifically, the democratic model starts with the assumption that “the people” are sovereign, and governments serve at the pleasure of the people. I... |
The fact that there are serious consequences from digitization for the exercise of other fundamental freedoms, especially freedom of expression, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association is clear. The simple reality is that when everything you say or do can be tracked and monitored, it will have a chilling effec... |
While our notions of privacy are evolving along with social media and data-capturing technology, we need to be more cognizant of the fact that it is not “just privacy” that is affected by the digitization of everything. Unchecked digitization may be slowly eroding democracy and fundamental freedom everywhere. |
A third big conceptual challenge to human rights governance flows from another trend: the privatization of governance in the digital ecosystem. Widespread adoption of the Internet has dis-intermediated many institutions and contributed to the larger trend of distribution of power away from governments to non-state acto... |
User-facing, data driven, social technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Weibo, play a larger and larger role in mediating all aspects of society, whether related to politics, education, health, news, or entertainment. Through internal policies, algorithms, and terms of service agreements, private sect... |
Other questions about governance arise from the monetization of data, which has become the primary business model and basis for the digital economy: What are the consequences of widespread monetization of data — without full transparency or adequate consent — for ownership of users’ digital footprints and control over ... |
On the security front, there are multiple dimensions where the private sector is playing an increasingly important governance role. Just starting with digital security for users’ communications and personal data, what are the responsibilities of private sector cloud services or device makers in terms of keeping our dig... |
Questions about privatization of governance responsibilities as they relate to national security, counterterrorism, and homeland security, are even more challenging. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights identifies the right to security in persons. Providing security has been traditionally understood t... |
In this vein, the UN Guiding Principles for Business & Human Rights set out at the Human Rights Council in 2011, constituted a notable effort. But these Principles reaffirmed the foundational concept that the primary human rights obligations rest with governments, and did not fully anticipate the extent to which govern... |
Finally, there is a trend toward burden shifting by governments to private sector technology companies for different aspects of law enforcement and foreign intelligence surveillance. The FBI v. Apple controversy is a case in point. The blurring of governance lines without adequate transparency or clear accountability h... |
The bottom line: As governance roles and responsibilities have shifted in the digital ecosystem, the 20th century model of human rights governance is at risk of losing salience. The privatization of governance for semi-public spaces and infrastructure means private sector companies now play an outsized role in setting ... |
Amazon Fire HD 10 review: can Amazon’s largest tablet take the fight to the iPad? |
Amazon's keen pricing means top value, but does the Fire HD 10 compromise too much to meet its price point? |
Amazon's Fire HD 10 is terrific value, but may leave you wanting more. |
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