Liz Cheney challenge to Enzi echoes GOP divisions

CHEYENNE, Wyo. Liz Cheney says her GOP primary challenge to Wyoming's senior U.S. senator is about sending a "new generation" to Washington. But it has all the hallmarks of the same divisions that have roiled the Republican Party nationally for years.

While he's no moderate, incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi has shown he is willing to compromise occasionally with Democrats, such as when he supported a sales tax on Internet purchases.

But Cheney, the elder daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, suggests that such compromise often isn't good enough for a true conservative.

"I'm running because I'm concerned about the direction of the nation," Liz Cheney said Tuesday. "I think it's time for us to say to ourselves, 'Can we continue to go along to get along in Washington?'"

Several Republicans senators elsewhere have faced tea party challengers questioning their conservative credentials. In Indiana, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar lost in a Republican primary last year to Richard Mourdock, who went on to lose to Democrat Joe Donnelly.

In Utah, tea party favorite Sen. Mike Lee ousted three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett in 2010. And Sen. Orrin Hatch fended off a tea party challenger to win a seventh term last year.

The winner of Wyoming's Republican primary just over a year from now will be a heavy favorite to win the general election. Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in Wyoming by a margin of more than 3 to 1.

Wyoming hasn't had a Democrat in its congressional delegation since 1979, the year Dick Cheney succeeded retiring Democratic Rep. Teno Roncalio to take the state's lone U.S. House seat.

Challenging any incumbent is a brazen move in Wyoming. At least until now, the state has shown considerable deference to those established in office.

Liz Cheney described herself as a tea party sympathizer. She called the movement favoring low taxes as a "force for good in terms of getting people focused on fiscal issues."

Liz Cheney, 46, is the older of Dick Cheney's two children, both daughters. Married with five children, she was a resident of Virginia until recently. She and her husband bought a home last year in the posh northwest Wyoming community of Jackson Hole.

Asked why voters should oust Enzi, a powerful incumbent, in favor of a rookie, Liz Cheney said seniority isn't necessarily an attribute.

"I think that part of the problem in Washington today is seniority," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "I think it's time for a new generation, for a new generation to come to the fore. I don't see seniority as a plus, frankly."

Enzi announced he would seek re-election Tuesday, more than six months earlier in the political cycle than he has declared his bid in the past.

"Working behind the scenes ? this is what I have been doing since I was elected, and this is what needs to be done," Enzi said by email through a spokesman.

He immediately won the endorsement of colleagues in the Senate, including the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

"Our support will be there for Mike," said the committee's chairman, Republican Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas.

The other two members of Wyoming's congressional delegation, both Republicans, came out quickly in support of Enzi. Sen. John Barrasso and Rep. Cynthia Lummis praised Enzi for his long service and knowledge of Wyoming issues.

The race promises to be hard-fought. Enzi has had few serious Democratic challengers ? much less Republican ones ? since he was first elected to the Senate in 1996. He remains well-liked around the state as an affable former shoe salesman and mayor of the coal-mining city of Gillette.

Enzi, 69, takes pride in keeping a lower profile and remaining much less partisan than most of his colleagues. He often refers to his "80-20" rule ? that opposing parties usually can agree on 80 percent of the details of any given issue ? as a model for Republicans and Democrats to work together.

He handily won re-election in 2008 with more than 75 percent of the vote.

Liz Cheney's interest in the seat has been an open secret for months, dating at least to her purchase last year of a home in Wilson, a community in Jackson Hole, listed for $1.9 million.

She appeared onstage with her father at last year's state Republican Party convention. It was Dick Cheney's first public appearance since he underwent a heart transplant, and father and daughter have been working on a book together.

Since then, Liz Cheney has made frequent appearances at county-level GOP events in virtually every corner of the state. She also has been in the national public eye as a Fox News political commentator.

Wyoming political veteran Chris Rothfuss said Liz Cheney's candidacy might be a sign of the divisions that have roiled the national Republican Party for several years, with GOP officeholders being challenged from within their party if they are seen as too willing to compromise with Democrats.

Rothfuss, a Democratic state lawmaker who lost to Enzi in 2008, said Liz Cheney's challenge reflects "everything that's wrong" with partisanship in national politics.

"I would also say that the reason that Liz Cheney is running out of Wyoming rather than what in effect would be her home state of Virginia is because we're basically seen as a much cheaper option in trying to obtain a Senate seat," said Rothfuss, a chemical engineer.

But make no mistake, the Cheney family is well-established in Wyoming? an important qualification for anybody seeking major office in the state.

While Liz Cheney was born in Madison, Wis., her announcement pointed out that the Cheney family has roots that go back more than 100 years in Wyoming.

Liz Cheney holds a law degree from the University of Chicago and has worked as a lawyer for the State Department and the Agency for International Development.

Yet she said Wyoming always has been where her heart is.

"My sense is, as far the carpetbagger charge, is it's from people who don't want to talk about substance, don't want to talk about the issues," Liz Cheney said.

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Donna Cassata and David Espo contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/07/17/4169576/liz-cheney-challenge-to-enzi-echoes.html

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"In every seeking soul there is a portion, be it small or great, of the light of God." - Suhrawardi: The Philosophy of Illumination; Introduction.

"The human word is neither immortal nor invulnerable; but it is the power that orders our chaos, and the light by which we live." - Northrop Frye: Northrop Frye's Writings on Education; pg. 85.

"There is something shaken and shattered in the soul of modern man. We are entering the realm of the unknown and unlived, joylessly and without much hope. We are witnessing the end of the Renaissance, and of the Humanism which was its spiritual basis. Our faith in man is shaken to its foundations. This is a time of spiritual decadence, of loneliness and dereliction." - William Ralph Inge: The End of an Age.

"At long last, however, I feel that I have come to some understanding of why man is the most fortunate of living things and, consequently, deserving of all admiration; of what may be the condition in the hierarchy of beings assigned to him, which draws upon him the envy, not of the brutes alone, but of the astral beings and of the very intelligences which dwell beyond the confines of the world. A thing surpassing belief and smiting the soul with wonder. Still, how could it be otherwise? For it is on this ground that man is, with complete justice, considered and called a great miracle and a being worthy of all admiration." - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man."And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time?" - Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present; pg. 198.

"No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's." - Goethe: Scientific Studies; pg. 37.

"Human nature has its limits; it can bear joy, suffering and pain to a certain degree, but it collapses as soon as that degree is exceeded. The question, therefore, is not whether someone is weak or strong, but what degree of suffering he can actually endure, be it moral or physical." - Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther.

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We must admit that civilization does everything for the soul and favors it wholly at the expense of the body." - Napoleon: The Mind of Napoleon; pg. 152.

"Common sense is neither priestcraft nor state policy." - William Hazlitt: The Fight and Other Writings; pg. 531.

"The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears." - Hunter S. Thompson: Kingdom of Fear; pg. 220.

"It is easier to mislead many men than one." - Herodotus.

"As pitilessly as force annihilates, equally without pity it intoxicates those who possess or believe they possess it. In reality, no one possesses it. People in the Iliad are not segregated into conquered, slaves, suppliants on the one side and conquerors and masters on the other; every human being may at any moment be compelled to submit to force. The warriors, though free and armed, submit no less to commands and insults." - Simone Weil: The Iliad or The Poem of Force.

"Anyone who shirks the labors, sacrifices, and dangers that his people must undergo is a coward. But no less a coward and traitor is the man who betrays the principles of thought to material interests, who, for example, is willing to let the holders of power decide how much is two times two. To sacrifice intellectual integrity, love of truth, the laws and methods of thought to any other interest, even that of the fatherland, is treason. When in the battle of interests and slogans the truth, like the individual, is in danger of being devalued, disfigured, and trampled under foot, our one duty is to resist and to save the truth--or rather, the striving for truth--for that is our highest article of faith." - Hermann Hesse: Reflections; pg. 5.

"For in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth,--even though it be covertly, and by snatches." - Herman Melville: Hawthorne and His Mosses.

"We are living in a demented world. . . Everywhere there are doubts as to the solidity of our social structure, vague fears of the imminent future, a feeling that our civilization is on the way to ruin. They are not merely the shapeless anxieties which beset us in the small hours of the night when the flame of life burns low. They are considered expectations founded on observation and judgment of an overwhelming multitude of facts. How to avoid the recognition that almost all things which once seemed sacred and immutable have now become unsettled, truth and humanity, justice and reason? We see forms of government no longer capable of functioning, production systems on the verge of collapse, social forces gone wild with power. The roaring engine of this tremendous time seems to be heading for a breakdown. But immediately the antithesis forces itself on our minds. Never has there been a time when men were so clearly conscious of their commanding duty to co-operate in the task of preserving and improving the world's well being and human civilization." - Johan Huizinga: In The Shadow of Tomorrow; pg. 15-16.

"Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time. One comes here again to the point in one's thinking where judgment must remain inconclusive. No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what. Expressed in medical terms it may well be that our time is in need of heroic treatment, provided it is administered by the proper physician and in the proper manner." - Johan Huizinga: In The Shadow of Tomorrow; pg. 167.

"We are a death-fearing, death-denying, death-escaping culture. And Tolkien nails it by giving the Ring the power of deathlessness." ? Professor Ralph Wood: "On Tolkien?The Lord of the Rings?A Book for our Time of Terror."

"If asked to explain the history of world civilizations in one word, it would be 'death.' Of all animals, man alone knows he will die, and this has fashioned his approach to life, and indeed to all existence. Either one follows the 'prehistoric' shamans, who hope to raise the bones of the dead, later amplified to include the body in some religions, or a belief of the voyage of the soul alone to heaven dominates thought. The cognition of death has determined religion, which in turn influenced poetry, music, art and architecture, and all facets of man's time on earth. Another approach to death, the Buddhist extinction of the self, was not favored by people outside of the Orient, even though it makes sense." - Richard N. Frye: Greater Iran: A 20th-Century Odyssey.

"Power is going to defend you against the enemy. If you don't believe in the enemy then you don't believe in the power." - Arthur Miller.

"There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts." - Jacob Bronowski.

"Most creatures take the world outside as they find it and instinctively become partners with the environment. Man is the one creature who can alter himself and his surroundings, as the geologist John Hodgdon Bradley has wisely observed, yet he is perhaps the most seriously maladjusted of all living creatures.

He is the one creature who is able to accumulate verifiable knowledge about himself and his environment, and yet he is the one who is habitually deluded. No other animal produces verbal monsters in his head and projects them on the world outside his head. Language is apparently a sword which cuts both ways. With its help man can conquer the unknown; with it he can grievously wound himself." - Stuart Chase: The Tyranny of Words; pg. 13-14.

"A lie may achieve victory when truth is afraid of its own strength." - Albert Camus: Camus at Combat; pg. 38.

"Anyone who has the slightest understanding of how cultures work knows that defining a culture, saying what it is for members of the culture, is always a major, and even in undemocratic societies, a democratic contest. There are canonical authorities to be selected and regularly revised, debated, re-selected, or dismissed. There are ideas of good and evil, belonging or not belonging (the same and the different), hierarchies of value to be specified, discussed, re-discussed, and settled or not, as the case may be. Moreover, each culture defines its enemies, what stands beyond it and threatens it. For the Greeks beginning with Herodotus, anyone who did not speak Greek was automatically a barbarian, an Other to be despised and fought against. An excellent recent book by the French classicist Francois Hartog, The Mirror of Herodotus, shows how deliberately and painstakingly Herodotus sets about constructing an image of a barbarian Other in the case of the Scythians, more even than in the case of the Persians." - Edward Said: The Clash of Definitions.

"The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves." - Michael Parenti.

"We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good." - Anna Politkovskaya.

"The struggle of freedom against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting." - Milan Kundera.

"All the power and policy of man cannot continue a system long after its truth has ceased to be acknowledged, or an establishment long after it has ceased to contribute to utility. It is equally vain, as to expect to preserve a tree, whose roots are cut away. It may look as green and flourishing as before for a short time, but its sentence is passed, its principle of life is gone, and death is already within it." - Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry & Prose; pg. 275-276.

"If there is no free conversation human aggression accumulates. A man who listens only to his radio or is caught by the hypnotism of the movies must discharge his aggression somewhere else. But the civilizing sublimation of conversation does not reach him, so he cannot get rid of his aggression.

People have learned to be silent listeners. Dictatorship asks only for silent citizens. If man cannot redeem himself of his everyday tensions through words, the archaic primitive demands within him grow more and more awake. The world falls prey to his accumulated obsessions, and in the end collective madness breaks through. Let us talk now, so that we do not become mad animals!" - Joost A. M. Meerloo: Conversation and Communication.

"Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings." ? Joost A. M. Meerloo: The Rape of The Mind.

"Man is a peeping, prying discoverer of secrets." - Joost A. M. Meerloo.

"Technology, it is clear, was a means of escaping from the confines of reality, a way of liberating the imagination." - Modris Eksteins: Rites of Spring: The Great War And the Birth of the Modern Age.

"To governments that control with fear, the truth is the enemy of the state. Propaganda, censorship, and mass mind control produce homogenized thinking conforming to the will of the Controllers." - Tarra Light: Angel of Auschwitz: A Spiritual Memoir of Forgiveness & Healing; pg. 187.

"The assault upon the rationality and responsibility of man is as old, at least, as Mephistopheles." - Floyd W. Matson: The Folklore of Mass Persuasion.

"Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how." - Gregory Bateson: Mind and Nature; pg. 26.

"We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog ? though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion ? but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age." - Elmer Davis: Grandeur and the Miseries of Old Age.

"And you, chiefs and governors of the people! before dragging the masses into the quarrels resulting from your diverse opinions, let the reasons for and against your views be given. Let us establish one solemn controversy, one public scrutiny of truth -- not before the tribunal of a corruptible individual, or of a prejudiced party, but in the grand forum of mankind -- guarded by all their information and all their interests. Let the natural sense of the whole human race be our arbiter and judge." - C. F. Volney: The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature.

"We are living through times where evil has manifested itself with an almost revelation-like obtrusiveness and power. We have learned to understand the medieval legends about monks who, being vouchsafed a glimpse into hell, would never smile or speak again. The apocalyptic beast let loose has become a reality to our generation, and nobody knows what is still ahead of us." ? R. J. Zwi Werblowsky: Lucifer and Prometheus: A Study of Milton?s Satan.

"Great teachers and religious leaders have appeared throughout history to reassert what has already been known, to begin again the effort to help man raise himself out of his hypnotic sleep to a more real reality." - James Wyckoff: Franz Anton Mesmer: Between God and Devil; pg. 23.

"Conscience in those that have it is unequivocal. It is the voice of God. Our judgment of right & wrong is Reason." - William Blake.

"Why should darkness grieve the heart? For night is pregnant with new day." - Sanai: The Walled Garden of Truth.

"Oh Zeus Universal, if you hear our song,
Show us again your immortal power
In this darkest hour." - Sophocles: Oedipus the King.

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Think sports gambling isn't big money? Wanna bet?

By Gillian Spear, NBC News

I'll betcha five bucks you can't guess how much money was bet on the Super Bowl this year. Double or nothing: How much do Americans wager on March Madness annually?

Sports betting is big money, and a bid by New Jersey to get a piece of the action is easily understood when you consider some of these numbers:

According to the Nevada Gaming Commission, $3.2 billion was wagered in sports bets in the state?s casinos in 2011. Of that amount, $1.34 billion or 41 percent was handled just for football.

Sports fans bet a record $98.9 million at Nevada casinos on Super Bowl XLVII, according to the American Gaming Association. After paying out to bettors, Nevada sports books earned $7.2 million on 2013?s?game.

Extrapolating from Nevada data, the financial planning website Mint?estimates that more than?$8 billion?is wagered every year on the Super Bowl alone. An estimated 200 million people making wagers on the outcome of the game worldwide.

Between $60-70 billion is illegally wagered on college football each year according to CNBC.

Thirty-three million Americans participate in fantasy football, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. The FSTA found that $1.18 billion changes hands between players through pools each year.

Between $30-40 billion is illegally wagered on Major League Baseball each year, according to CNBC. Baseball is not as big of a betting sport because of the lack of point spreads.

The FBI estimates that more than $2.5 billion is illegally wagered annually on the three-week March Madness postseason tournament each?year, according to the AGA.

As much as 25 percent of illegal wagers placed on college basketball games each year comes during March Madness, according to CNBC.

Sports book operators estimate $80 million to $90 million ? less than 4 percent of the illegal take ? is wagered on the NCAA tournament legally through Nevada?s 216^?sports?books, says the AGA.

One in 10 Americans play March Madness brackets according the data-processing website, wagersolutions.com.

If each game in the tournament were a true toss-up, that would mean your chance of filling out a perfect tournament bracket is a mere one in two to the 63rd power, or one in nine quintillion, according to USA Today.

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Mushkin Chronos GO Deluxe 240GB

As solid-state drive (SSD) prices have come down, the attractiveness of an SSD upgrade in both desktops and laptops has gone up. SSDs are one of the most effective means of improving system performance on the market, and even older systems can benefit from the acceleration. The Mushkin Chronos GO Deluxe 240GB is a 1.8-inch mSATA drive that's designed to fit into a laptop?though you could theoretically use it in a desktop, too, provided you attach an appropriate adapter. If you need a drive that fits a 1.8-inch mSATA enclosure or subnotebook, the Mushkin Chronos GO Deluxe 240GB is a great option?even in an older system. It's our new Editors' Choice for internal SSDs.

The Chronos Go family uses the same SandForce SF-2281 controller as the other Mushkin drives we've reviewed recently. The SF-2281 is a SATA 6G controller that has become increasingly popular in lower-end consumer drives. While it's several years old, performance is still excellent and the newer drives that use it typically target sub-$1 per GB price points. In that regard, the Chronos Go 240GB is something of a standout. The drive's list price is about $329?significantly higher than you'd pay for a standard 2.5-inch SSD. However, 1.8-inch SSDs aren't nearly as common as 2.5-inch models, which may account for the price difference.

If you own an older laptop, the Chronos Go could be an attractive upgrade. Slim laptops from 2008 to 2011 typically shipped with 1.8-inch HDDs to save battery power and minimize system thickness. These drives had slow, 4200 RPM spindles, small caches, and were optimized for low power, not high performance. Sizes ranged from 80GB to 250GB, with most systems falling at the lower end of that range. Performance was strictly mediocre, even compared to other spinning disks.

A modern 1.8-inch SSD will bury any such hard drive, while using very little power. Alternately, you can still use this drive in a typical desktop or small form factor (SFF) system. Since it's an mSATA drive, you'll need an adapter cable (typically available online for $8 to $12). We tested this drive with a StarTech Model MCSATAF12S mSATA-to-SATA adapter. The mSATA connector is physically different from a SATA cable and integrates power and data into a single cord rather than two separate connectors.

We tested the Mushkin Chronos Go Deluxe 240GB using a Gigabyte mini-ITX motherboard, 8GB of DDR3-1600, and an Intel Core i7-3770K. Normally we use an Asus motherboard based on Z75, but in this case, we were evaluating a mini-ITX case, heatsink, and the Mushkin SSD at roughly the same time. Since the Asus and Gigabyte board use the same chipset and we used the Intel SATA controllers on each, there should be no problem with comparing results.

Performance
The performance figures for AS-SSD reflect a drive's performance in a particular type of data workload. Sequential read/write tests measure an SSD's capabilities when reading or writing a large block of contiguous data. A single large movie or ISO image will test a drive's sequential performance (assuming that the target drive isn't badly fragmented). We compared the Mushkin Chronos Go against the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB MKNSSDCR120GB-DX (a standard 2.5-inch model SSD that uses the same SF-2281 controller) and the Samsung 840 Series 250GB. The Samsung 840 is a budget drive that uses Samsung's Triple-Layer Cell (TLC) NAND, compared with the MLC NAND in both Mushkin drives. In AS-SSD's sequential read/write tests, the Chronos Go 240GB turned in results of 489MBps and 263MBps, compared to 466MBps and 263MBps for the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB and 517MBps/244MBps for the Samsung 840. The TLC NAND Samsung uses for its budget drive offers lower write performance than the MLC NAND Mushkin uses for both Chronos drives. This popped up again in our 4K read/write tests with 64 threads enabled?the Chronos Go was slightly faster than the Chronos Deluxe in reads (216MBps vs. 182MBps) but slower in writes (201MBps vs. 215MBps). The Samsung 840 again outstripped both drives in read performance at 320MBps, but slipped behind them for writes, at 187MBps).

AS-SSD's also includes a real-world file copy test with three presets?ISO files, program files, and game files. Each type of file is a different size and includes a different amount of compressible data. As in the other tests, the Chronos Go and Mushkin Chronos Deluxe were generally tied?the Chronos Go hit 278MBps on ISO copies, 154MBps for program files, and 207MBps for game data, with the Chronos Deluxe at 265MBps, 144MBps, and 198MBps, respectively in the same tests. The Samsung 840 excelled at ISO copying at 339MBps, but fell back to second place in program and game files (152MBps and 194MBps).

Finally, there's PCMark 7, which is a different type of test. The benchmark test uses real storage workloads created by recording traces of hard drive activity when playing games, loading music or video, or copying files. These traces are used to measure the performance of storage products in comprehensive real-world scenarios. Here, all three drives ended up in the same area?the the Chronos Go 240GB hit 5,368, Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB scored a 5,244, and the Samsung 840 turned in a score of 5265. The performance difference between these drives, in other words, was fairly small.

Ultimately, the Mushkin Chronos Go Deluxe 240GB is a hair faster than the 120GB Chronos, thanks to its higher capacity and greater internal bandwidth. This is exactly the opposite of what used to be the case?1.8-inch hard drives were never as fast as 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch units, due to fundamental limitations on their power consumption and heat. The flip side to this, however, is that the Chronos Go Deluxe's price tag of $329 is nearly twice what you'd pay for a 250GB Samsung 840.

The price premium between 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch drives means that it makes no sense to buy the latter unless you really need one. If you do need an mSATA drive, however, the Mushkin Chronos Go Deluxe is priced reasonably against the other SSDs in this space. It's a purchase that could breathe new life into an older notebook with a conventional hard drive, or serve as a suitable replacement for a failed SSD that's fallen out-of-warranty. All this is why we award it an Editors' Choice for internal SSDs.

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Is Edward Snowden stuck in Russia?

Edward Snowden's announcement Friday that he is seeking temporary refuge in Russia may indicate that all his 'offers of support or asylum' from other nations are not panning out as the NSA leaker may have hoped.?

By Howard LaFranchi,?Staff writer / July 12, 2013

In this image provided by Human Rights Watch, NSA leaker Edward Snowden (c.) attends a news conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks (l.) on Friday. Mr. Snowden plans to seek temporary asylum in Russia.

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Fugitive leaker Edward Snowden says he will seek temporary asylum in Russia ? a move that suggests his search for refuge from US law enforcement may be faltering.

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With the three Latin American countries that recently offered Mr. Snowden asylum having gone silent, and with the White House, on Friday, cautioning Russia not to offer the former NSA contractor a ?propaganda platform,? Snowden apparently decided it was time to speak, emerging for a press conference Friday at the Moscow airport where he has been stranded since June 23.

Snowden expressed thanks for ?all offers of support or asylum I have been extended,? but his decision to seek asylum in Russia ? an option he turned down once already because of the restrictions Russian President Vladimir Putin said would accompany it ? suggests that those other ?offers? are not coming together as Snowden may have hoped.

Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have offered Snowden asylum, but Snowden?s decision to try to stay in Russia suggests, at least, that he is having difficulty arranging transport to those countries. Most commercial flights to reach those countries would cross either US airspace or the airspace of countries in Western Europe that are friendly to the US and that could try to force a plane down to seize Snowden.

At his press conference Friday, Snowden indicated some concern about prospects for receiving asylum in Russia, as he implored the Russian lawmakers and human rights activists present to lobby their government on his behalf. Snowden seemed to be addressing Mr. Putin directly when he stated that his actions ?didn?t do any damage to the United States.??

Putin had stipulated at a July 1 press conference that Snowden could stay in Russia only if he stopped divulging US government secrets. ?If he wants to remain here there is one condition ? he should stop his work aimed at inflicting damage on our American partners,? Putin said.

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Nokia Lumia 1020's Pro Camera app to hit 920, 925 and 928 (hands-on video)

One of Lumia 1020's main attractions is its Nokia Pro Camera app, which completes the phone's 41-megapixel camera with a bunch of handy features. In our video after the break, you can see Niina (not a typo) from Nokia demonstrating the manual focusing and lossless digital zooming. The latter actually works both ways: even if you've zoomed in before capture (and still get native 5-megapixel resolution), you can also zoom back out while browsing these photos, as the app captures both the zoomed-in 5-megapixel image as well as the full 38-megapixel image simultaneously. This way you can reframe the image and even focus on a different subject, as CEO Stephen Elop showed us in our earlier interview. But if you don't need this feature, you can simply set the app to capture just 5-megapixel images by default.

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Hernandez shows perils of idol worship in sports

Robert Kraft claims he was duped, though the owner of the New England Patriots seemed to have plenty of warnings before taking tight end Aaron Hernandez in the 2010 NFL draft. ?

The fact Hernandez was left untouched by other teams until midway through the fourth round despite his obvious physical skills was one. So was an incident while Hernandez was at the University of Florida, when the 17-year-old allegedly refused to pay for two drinks at a bar and then sucker-punched an employee who tried to collect. ?

And then there was a psychological profile from a scouting service widely distributed among NFL teams that ranked him on the bottom of the scale for social maturity and indicated there could be problems ahead. ?

?Hernandez?s ... responses suggest that he enjoys living on the edge of acceptable behavior and that he may be prone to partying too much and doing questionable things that could be seen as a problem for him and his team,? said the report by Human Resource Tactics, which was obtained by Wall Street Journal. ?

If Kraft was duped, so were fans who shelled out 100 bucks for a No. 81 jersey.? They didn?t have access to psychological profiles, didn?t know much about Hernandez other than he was a big tight end with soft hands. ?

They loved him because he could catch touchdown passes, and they cheered before last season when he was given a new $40 million contract to be Tom Brady?s biggest target. ?

Now Hernandez sits in a jail cell, charged with a murder portrayed in court documents as a cold-blooded execution. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge. He?s also being investigated in connection with a double killing in Boston last year involving a car rented in his name. ?

Millionaire sports hero one day, just another inmate the next. There may never have been such a spectacular fall by an active player. ?

During the weekend, the Patriots held an event for fans to exchange their Hernandez jerseys for others.

The conversations on the drive to the stadium must have been awkward. How do you tell a kid that the athlete he or she idolized ? whose name was stitched across their back ? is an accused killer?

There are other conversations that should be just as uncomfortable: How can parents promote hero worship of athletes when they know so little about the person in the uniform? Why are we so quick to idolize someone based simply on their ability to throw or catch a ball? ?

Hernandez is, of course, innocent until found guilty. That?s a basic tenet of our legal system, and sometimes things aren?t always what authorities say. ?

But the account of semi pro player Odin Lloyd being lured to an early morning car ride and then shot to death at what was supposed to be a bathroom stop is chilling. So is the police narrative of Hernandez?s reaction when they asked him later about a body being found nearby. They said he didn?t ask who died. ?

?What?s with all the questions?? police said Hernandez asked before shutting the door on them. He returned with his attorney?s business card, but didn?t respond when police told him they were investigating the death, according to court records. ?

This isn?t just another NFL player arrest, something we?ve become accustomed to over the years. This is uncharted territory, as evidenced by the way Kraft and the Patriots handled it. ?

Criticize them for signing Hernandez in the first place, sure, but within 90 minutes of his arrest, they cut him despite knowing they?d have to take a hit on the salary cap. His locker was quickly cleaned out, and they further washed their hands of him with the jersey trade-in weekend at Gillette Stadium. ?

?What we?ve generally seen in the past when athletes run afoul with the law, teams generally stick with their stars especially through the legal process like the Ravens did with Ray Lewis,? said Ramsey Poston, a crisis communication expert who heads Tuckahoe Strategies, a public relations firm in Denton, Md. ?This is a very different move, one that suggests to me that the organization takes its reputation very seriously.?

The Patriots should have quit there, but Kraft talked to a select group of media on Monday and said Hernandez seemed like a nice enough guy. Respectful, likable, he even gave Kraft a check for his late wife?s charity after signing a new contract. ?

Maybe Kraft didn?t read the psychological review, though it hardly matters. Because in football ? in all sports, really ? the urge to win trumps everything and teams with the most talented players win more than others. ?

It?s why baseball teams reward known steroid users with fat new contracts, and why players such as Pacman Jones keep getting chances in the NFL. Indeed, Hernandez was a winner on the field, helping the Patriots get to their last Super Bowl, where he caught a touchdown pass and led the team in receiving yards. ?

Sometimes, though, there?s a price to pay for putting winning ahead of everything. ?

Fans, meanwhile, probably won?t give it a second thought except to ponder who the Patriots might find to replace Hernandez. Not their fault he was drafted by the team, certainly not their fault he was charged with murder. ?

Besides, when it comes to hero worship, there?s always another player. ?

And, of course, another jersey to be had.
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Source: http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x853687027/Hernandez-shows-perils-of-idol-worship-in-sports?rssfeed=true

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Andray! Andrei! Andre! NBA Free-Agent Team-Ups That We Wish Would Have Happened

By Ian Cohen on July 10, 2013 2:30 PM ET

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Trying to win an NBA championship is so 2012. And this trend is a good thing ? most teams are starting to realize that as long as LeBron James draws breath, the playoffs aren?t going to do much except delay their summer vacations for a few weeks.

This is good news for fans of franchises that don?t view being a human sacrifice in the first round of the playoffs as progress. It?s terrible news for the kind of free agent that would usually capitalize on said franchises? tendency to overpay for a quick fix just to show they?re "trying." In other words, someone whose contract suggests ?franchise centerpiece,? but in two or so years will scream ?franchise albatross.? In other words, everyone who isn?t Dwight Howard or Chris Paul.

Or so we thought. Al Jefferson got three years and $41 million to be the best player in Bobcats franchise history. Atlanta will pay Kyle Korver $6 million solely to shoot 3s, which is slightly less ridiculous than the similarly sixth-seed-bound Timberwolves paying $7 million a year for Kevin Martin to do the same. I know it?s Milwaukee and all, but in Zaza Pachulia and O.J. Mayo ... It was business as usual.

Which is a shame, since we missed out on what could?ve been a banner year for low-level free-agent collusion. Wouldn?t it have been way more more fun if savvy players took advantage of the fact that most NBA teams already started ?rebuilding? for the 2014 draft by preemptively tanking the 2013-14 season? You gotta put somebody on the floor, and if you can?t get a Wade-James-Bosh ?Big Three,? you can get a colorfully named package deal all the same that?ll ensure your team misses out on the Andrew Wiggins lottery only by accident. Here are some Avengers that we wish would have been assembled, along with ready-made nicknames. Look at what could have been, Jazz fans.

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Key Republican: There?s no ?zero option? Afghan withdrawal plan

U.S. troops stop a man to search him while on patrol near Command Outpost AJK (short for Azim-Jan-Kariz, a nearby??So is the New York Times right that President Barack Obama is increasingly looking at the "zero option" for Afghanistan, opting not to leave any residual American force in the war-torn country after combat troops leave at the end of 2014?

On Tuesday, the White House offered a coy mmmmmmaybe. A top Republican lawmaker responded with a resounding no way.

The Times precipitated the latest curious discussion of how the president will end America's longest war with a report Monday that cited anonymous officials (not necessarily Americans) as saying that Obama -- spurred on by increasing exasperation with his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai -- was looking to speed up the withdrawal and increasingly looking at the ?zero option.?

Key bit: ?There?s always been a zero option, but it was not seen as the main option,? said a senior Western official in Kabul. ?It is now becoming one of them, and if you listen to some people in Washington, it is maybe now being seen as a realistic path.?

The White House had said openly in January that Obama might adopt the "zero option." On a Jan. 8 conference call with reporters, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes described it as "an option that we would consider."

And it's always been on the table anyway, at least since the collapse of U.S. negotiations with Iraq?s government about basing Americans on that country?s soil left Obama no choice but to pull out completely. So American officials always knew it was a possibility in Afghanistan.

So why now? The Times reported that "[t]alks between the United States and Afghanistan over a long-term security deal have faltered in recent months over the Afghan government?s insistence that the United States guarantee Afghanistan?s security and, in essence, commit to declaring Pakistan the main obstacle in the fight against militancy in the region."

White House press secretary Jay Carney played down the report without really denying it. Sure, he told reporters at his daily briefing, "We have made clear that the options that are available include the zero option, the so-called zero option." But "this is not a decision that's imminent," he said several times.

Is the Obama-Karzai relationship on the rocks? "We?ve had disagreements in the past, and we?ll have them in the future, there?s no question," Carney said. "But the core agreement here is on a future in Afghanistan that is stable and democratic and secure."

Still, the spokesman's comments at times seemed calibrated to fuel the speculation.

"The residual force -- and whether there is one -- will depend on our negotiations with the Afghans and on our assessment of the best way to achieve our policy objectives," he said. " Those objectives may be met by a residual force of U.S. troops in Afghanistan or they may be met through other means. I mean, there are other ways to train and equip security forces and there are other ways, obviously, to continue our efforts against remnants of al Qaeda."

Training Afghan forces and carrying out counter-terrorism operations have always been the two chief justifications for any residual force.

Later in the day, though, a senior Republican stepped into the fray as a kind of unlikely (and far more forceful) spokesman for the administration. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon released a written statement that seemed to flatly contradict Carney's suggestion that Obama might adopt the "zero option."

"This evening, senior Administration officials assured me that there is no 'zero option' scenario under consideration. I was assured that the United States has committed to post-2014 support to include troops on the ground. I was further informed that a 'zero option' would violate American commitments to the Afghan people," McKeon said.

"News of the 'zero option' damages our position in Afghanistan, erodes our standing with our allies, emboldens the Taliban, and demoralizes our troops. I call on the president to confirm the assurances of his senior officials and clarify his 'zero option' position," the California lawmaker said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/key-republican-no-no-zero-option-afghan-withdrawal-004128556.html

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Path 3.1 Brings Stickers to Comments, QR Code Invites and Improved iPad Navigation

Path 3.1 Brings Stickers to Comments, QR Code Invites and Improved iPad Navigation

Published on 07-10-2013 12:30 AM

Path was recently updated adding its popular stickers feature to comments as well as improved user-interface navigation for its iPad app. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, Path is a social networking and messaging service for mobile devices and the web, which launched in 2010. Much like Facebook, Path users can buy or use free stickers to respond to friends in messages (and now in comments as well). The stickers add color and depth to commentary and offer users a new way to express themselves.

While talking about stickers, Path?s launch of Xander should be mentioned. Xander is a sticker character that drools and has poor posture, but he is also ?polite, approachable, fun-loving (and single!).? As for the iPad app update, Path also added improved navigaton in both landscape and profile views. The landscape view was also given a composer button and feed.

Along with the aforementioned changes, the app also has a new layout which makes conversations just a single tap away. Friend requests have become simpler as well. On it?s official blog, Path mentioned the following: We generate a QR code for you, your friend scans it, and voila, it?s official! And a refined friends list makes it faster to find and message your friends and family so you can quickly be in touch. Those of you interested in downloading the 26.5 MB update (version 3.1) can do so for free from the App Store. Just keep in mind that the update requires an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 5.0 or later.

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Win a same-sex wedding at NZ Fashion Week

As the USA finishes up its celebrations of independence, on the other side of the world entrepreneur and fashion designer, Annah Stretton is launching a campaign to further equality in the pacific by holding a same-sex wedding on the catwalk of New Zealand Fashion Week.

New Zealand made history as the first country to give women the vote and will continue its law changing repute next month when same-sex couples will legally be able to wed. Annah is now calling on Australia to follow our lead by changing its laws and ceasing the discrimination of gay couples.

"We will look back on this and think of it as archaic as women not having the right to vote or blacks and whites being forced to travel on different sides of a bus," says Annah Stretton. "Preventing couples who love each from marrying because of their gender is discrimination at its fullest."

About Come on Oz, Say I do

'Come on Oz, Say I do,' is a campaign launched by New Zealand fashion designer Annah Stretton in-conjunction with Fashion Week, to help Australia say 'I do' at this year?s coming election. In a wedding to top all weddings, Annah is giving one lucky female same sex Australian couple a wedding of their dreams on the catwalk at Fashion Week in front of a crowd of 1000 fashionistas and supporters of same sex marriage this coming September 7th.

Competition entries officially opened July 1st and run through to July 30th 2013.

For more information and competition details visit www.comeonoz.com

Source: http://www.voxy.co.nz/lifestyle/win-same-sex-wedding-nz-fashion-week/5/160956

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Asking Seller to sell property / land separate - Zillow Real Estate ...

I am looking at buying a home that has been in the market for several years. It is a nice home, with 17 acres of land.

I want to apply for a certain kind of loan that would give me a much better interest rate. In order to meet the requirements, the house must only have 1-5 acres of land.

Is asking the seller to sell the home with 1-5 acres / the rest of the land separate acceptable in "buying" situations? I wouldn't think the owner would care as long as he gets what he wants out of the property. I was wondering if anyone has worked with similar situations.

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