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If a biped is an animal that walks on two feet and a bicycle is a vehicle that operates on two wheels, what in the world is a bipartisan?
No such creature exists. But in Washington parlance, to be bipartisan is to be virtuous, understanding and open-minded. The bipartisan is someone who prefers to "get things done" rather than to "bicker." He or she "sees both sides," can "work with anyone," puts aside "petty partisanship" -- partisanship, it seems, is always "petty" -- and can "rise above" or "go beyond" existing categories, battle lines and "stale ideas." (It's amazing that any idea someone opposes goes stale, often from the moment it's expressed.) Bipartisans like it when they are described as "statesmen" rather than "politicians."
Many people in Washington love being called bipartisan, but presidents like it more than anyone. In fairness to them, being bipartisan goes with their job description. As presidents like to say, they are the only members of the federal government elected by the entire country. (I'll decline here to make any Bush vs. Gore jokes.) And in dealing with Congress, presidents almost have to be bipartisan to win on anything.
Bill Clinton never managed to get the bipartisan thing going -- his health plan was a bad start, and his problem with that White House intern divided Washington into brutally partisan camps. But he sure had the language down pat. When he would regularly attack "the brain-dead politics in both parties," everyone nodded and smiled. Even if you're a partisan, you know for sure that you're not one of the brain-dead ones.
George W. Bush ran on what was almost certainly a more solidly conservative and Republican program than Ronald Reagan's. You'd think that would be called partisan. But Bush is masterful at linking a partisan program to soothing talk about the need to work together, and he spent his whole campaign talking about how well he worked with Democrats in the Texas Legislature. Never mind that some Texas Democrats are so conservative that they'd have trouble making it in the Republican Party in my native Massachusetts. Bush did the bipartisan rap extremely well, and it worked.
In his first address to a joint session of Congress this March, Bush offered a line for bipartisanship's greatest hits that must have made Clinton jealous. "Year after year in Washington," Bush declared, "budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument:" -- "old, tired" is an excellent usage in this rhetorical sweepstakes -- "on the one side, those who want more government regardless of the costs; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need." Of course, not one existing human being would place himself or herself in either of these camps. Whichever side of the argument you dislike is perfectly parodied in this pairing. And Bush comes out at the absolutely golden mean.
Since I was once accused by my brilliant friend David Brooks of being what he called a "beyondist" -- that is, I was one of those "beyond left and right" guys -- I should probably tread carefully here. So lest I seem old and tired, not to say stale or, God forbid, petty, it's time to include one of those "to be sure" paragraphs.
To be sure, there is a lot of needlessly nasty partisanship about. We're getting into the habit of taking genuine partisan differences and repackaging them as attacks on an opponent's character. That just creates junky politics which turn off all but the most partisan. And, yes, politics is full of false choices. Who says that you can't be pro-feminist and pro-family at the same time; or pro-market and pro-government, or pro-environment and pro-growth? It's often true that some issues really can be settled better by compromise and, yes, bipartisanship. As a practical matter, there isn't a senator or congressman around who doesn't like to have someone from the opposite party cosponsoring his or her favorite bill. As John Harris of The Washington Post pointed out recently, the surest sign a Democratic senator wants to be president is the heroic effort he'll make to pair his name with John McCain's on some piece of legislation.
So if I believe all this, why am I complaining about bipartisanship?
The largest problem is that bipartisanship -- as should already be obvious -- is often invoked in an entirely phony way. A bill supported by all the Democrats and just two Republicans -- or all the Republicans and just two Democrats -- is described as bipartisan when it is anything but. The word "bipartisanship" is used for a partisan purpose. What could be more dishonest than that? It gives both partisanship and bipartisanship a bad name.
In Bush's case, there was a clear disconnect between his sunny approach to Democratic legislators as individuals and his resolute insistence on pushing for his tax cut by whatever means were necessary. He talked bipartisanship one day, and then went into the state of a vulnerable Democratic senator the next to pressure that Democrat into voting with the Republicans.
Most conventional definitions of bipartisanship would hold that if Bush wanted a genuinely bipartisan tax bill, he'd have negotiated with a broad, representative group of Democrats. Together, they would have come up with a smaller tax bill benefiting the wealthy much less than the Bush bill does. It would have passed with a massive and real bipartisan majority.
Bush, of course, had a right to do what he wanted, and his strategy may work from his point of view. Conservatives in his party are certainly happier with him because he didn't pursue a bipartisan course. But only the staunchest Bush supporter could see what he did as genuinely bipartisan.
Interestingly, Bush has pursued a bipartisan strategy on his education proposal, playing up not to conservative Democrats or even conservatives in his own party, but to Ted Kennedy. Here is an issue where bipartisanship works, because the groundwork had been laid over many years through many cross-party conversations and compromises. And some of the issues involved -- federally mandated testing of students, for example -- split both parties. On this issue, bipartisanship is not only real but also essential.
Even more insidious is using the slogan of bipartisanship to undermine the opposition's right to engage in legitimate debate and attack. Not all partisanship is petty. Democrats who oppose Bush's tax cut (or Republicans who opposed Clinton's health plan) may have been partisan, but they believe -- or, in the case of the Republicans, believed -- that something important was at stake. To dismiss their arguments as just "partisanship" is a lazy way not to listen to the arguments.
There have been large differences in our country along partisan lines over issues ranging from slavery to the New Deal and, more recently, from health care to big tax cuts. Abraham Lincoln was a proudly partisan politician, but you can't write off his stand on slavery as "petty partisanship." Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were both partisans, in pursuit of serious agendas. There are many cases in which vigorous debate is both more honest and, in the long run, more productive in resolving differences.
So yes to bipartisanship, when it's appropriate and when it's real. But let us resolve to oppose brain-dead bipartisanship -- in both parties.
E. J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.


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AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN IN 2006-07: Appeared in 10 games for UCSD during the season... Played 10 minutes in his collegiate debut at San Diego State on November 15... Scored his first three collegiate points in the 62-52 victory over No. 4 Seattle Pacific on November 24, burying a 3-pointer in only four minutes of action... Recorded two assists in four minutes off the bench against Cal State Bakersfield on January 13... Had two steals along with one point and one rebound in nine minutes off the bench during the Triton's season finale win over San Francisco State.
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MADISON (AP) — Economists say new jobs numbers being reported by Gov. Scott Walker's administration are a more accurate reflection of how the state is doing.
But even if the figures released Wednesday, May 16th are accurate, the 23,300 jobs created in 2011 are far from the 62,500 needed per year for Walker to meet his 2010 campaign pledge to create 250,000 by 2015.
The new figures cover both private and public jobs while Walker's promise was only for public sector jobs. Still, the new numbers based on a census of Wisconsin employers
instead of a much smaller survey show a net gain of 23,300 jobs instead of a loss of 33,900 jobs.
University of Wisconsn-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky says the data is more accurate. Wells Fargo Fund Management economist Brian Jacobsen agrees.
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Could a flock of pigeons reshape French attitudes to business? French slang for "fall guys", the pigeons have proven their point and got the government to back down on new capital gains taxes for small business. François Picard's panel looks at the pros and cons of starting a company in a no-growth economy.
- Marie EKELAND. Co-founder, France Digitale;
- Stéphane DEHOCHE. President and CEO, Neolane;
- Corinne NARASSIGUIN. MP, French citizens abroad (North America);
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Gun talks stall over universal checks
As Senate Democrats get closer to putting together a comprehensive package on new gun control legislation, negotiations to find bipartisan support for expanding background checks on gun purchases have stalled, despite some quiet lobbying by Vice President Joe Biden.
At the same time, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is trying to build support inside and outside the Senate for her controversial assault weapons ban. That's going to be where the action is for the next 24 to 72 hours — whether or not she can move the ball and get the ban out of committee onto the floor, where it will face certain opposition from Republicans and some Democrats from conservative states.
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Wednesday, Feinstein will oversee a Judiciary Committee hearing on the assault weapons ban.
"It will be, I think, an interesting hearing," she said, but refused to elaborate on what she anticipates for Wednesday's session.
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John Walsh, the U.S. attorney in Colorado, and Edward Flynn, chief of the Milwaukee Police Department, are scheduled to testify, as well as a relative of a shooting victim from the Newtown, Conn., massacre. Rep. Sandy Adams (R-Fla.), who has strongly opposed any new gun-related bills, will also testify.
While Feinstein continues to push the assault weapons ban, the closely watched bipartisan talks to expand background checks have failed so far to lead to an agreement.
Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have been negotiating on the background checks, but Coburn says they have failed to reach agreement on his top concern: that no permanent record keeping of gun purchases be made a result of background checks.
Coburn is also upset that Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has scheduled a committee markup for Thursday, preferring instead that Democrats wait for a deal before proceeding with any votes, either in committee or on the floor. Republicans are likely to use their option to delay the markup for another week.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat and NRA member who is seen as key to any deal on guns, is more optimistic about a potential deal on background checks.
"I think it's a legitimate concern [Coburn] has from an individual [standpoint] and we're looking at working and trying to work through all of that," said Manchin, who has also been involved in negotiations. "We're making great strides; I really think so."
Biden has been privately consulting with Manchin on the status of the bipartisan talks, according to Democratic sources.
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PASADENA — The Stanford defense had a ball trying to tackle Wisconsin star back Montee Ball in Tuesday's 20-14 Rose Bowl victory over the Badgers. It wasn't easy, but holding the Doak Walker Trophy winner to 100 yards on 24 carries, allowing an 11-yard TD run, was a lot better than most teams did against the Badgers this year.
"Ball is a great athlete," Cardinal linebacker Trent Murphy said. "He's a low, hard runner. You have to get two or three guys and try to corral him. We all try to do our job. I didn't do much that stood out, but I was doing my job."
"Ball is tough," Stanford defensive end Henry Anderson said. "He is a great back. He spins out of a lot of tackles. He's shifty. You have to gang-tackle him."
The Badgers are known for their massive offensive line and this year's team was no exception.
"They had some big guys up front," Anderson said. "They are one of the best offensive lines we've faced all year."
The Cardinal defense had seven players with five or more tackles, but none with more than nine tackles. Translated: It took a village to slow down Ball. Wisconsin gained just 301 yards of total offense, 218 of those yards on the ground.
"We had trouble in that second quarter," Cardinal safety Jordan Richards said. "We wanted to come out in the second half and get some three-and-outs. And when we needed the turnover at the end, we got it. It was like we have done all year. We have played a lot of those games this season."
Stanford's Usua Amanam had a late interception that iced the game. Amanam, from Bellarmine-San Jose, was tabbed the Defensive Player of the Game of the Rose Bowl, basically for making that one defensive play.
Of Stanford's 12 wins, eight have been thrillers.
"That's the type of game we like to play," Richards said. "That is our style."
Linebacker A.J. Tarpley led Stanford with nine tackles, six solo. Tarpley just barely missed out on an interception in the first half, but the ball went through his hands and was caught by a Badger. Stanford linebacker Shayne Skov had eight tackles in what may have been his final collegiate game. Richards had seven tackles, including the only sack of the game by either team, plus another tackle-for-loss.
Defensive end Ben Gardner, who hails from Wisconsin, had a good game, making six tackles. It was Gardner who knifed through to tackle James White at the goal line as the Cardinal held the Badgers from scoring from the 1-yard line.
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Oct. 28, 2008 - Coalition forces apprehended 11 suspected terrorists today as they continued operations to dismantle al-Qaida in Iraq networks throughout the country's central and northern regions, military officials reported. Coalition forces operating south of Kirkuk captured a wanted man believed to be a weapons dealer with connections to al-Qaida operatives in the Hamrin Mountains region. He also is believed to be a local al-Qaida leader who has contact with other regional leaders, officials said.
In Baghdad, coalition forces detained two suspected terrorists, including a wanted man believed to conspire directly with regional al-Qaida leaders. Following his capture, the wanted man, who reportedly also is a financier for the organization, led coalition forces to a nearby residence, where they apprehended an alleged foreign terrorist facilitator.
West of Baghdad in Karmah, forces apprehended a wanted man who officials said intelligence reports indicate is an al-Qaida financial facilitator.
Forces targeted al-Qaida supply networks during two related operations near Tikrit, north of Baghdad. During the first operation, coalition forces captured an alleged logistics facilitator for al-Qaida in the Tigris River Valley region. The wanted man identified himself to coalition forces at the time of his capture. The man then led ground forces to a second location, where they detained another wanted man who intelligence reports suggest is one of al-Qaida's leaders in Tikrit.
Coalition forces captured four suspected Kataib Hezbollah terrorists in Abd ar Rahman, east of Sadr City. Kataib Hezbollah, also known as Hezbollah Brigades, is a terrorist group believed to receive funding, training, logistics and material support from Iran to attack Iraqi and coalition forces using what the military calls "explosively formed penetrators" – roadside bombs designed to pierce armor-hulled vehicles – and other weapons such as rocket-assisted mortars.
Acting on intelligence information, coalition forces targeted the residence of a suspected Kataib Hezbollah administrator with close ties to network leadership. Coalition forces approached the targeted individual's residence, where they detained four of his associates without incident.
In operations yesterday:
-- Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division's Company A, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, detained an operative of an Iranian-backed enemy group during a targeted raid in the Rashid district's Hayy Aamel community. The patrol returned to a combat outpost with the suspect, who was wanted for indirect-fire and roadside-bomb attacks.
-- Soldiers from the same brigade's Company C found a roadside bomb composed of four 57 mm anti-aircraft rounds encased in concrete in a house in the Rahid district's Hayy Jihad community. A coalition explosives ordnance disposal unit responded to the site and found the bomb had no initiating device. Company C soldiers also seized three 120 mm mortar rounds, two 155 mm rounds and 10 pounds of homemade explosives attached to an egg timer while conducting a security patrol in the same community.
-- Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division's Troop B, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, responded to a tip from an Iraqi citizen and found an identical bomb, consisting of four 57 mm anti-aircraft rounds encased in concrete, in Rashid's Hadar community. The homemade explosive had a washing-machine timer and a cell phone, but was not wired to the explosives that were hidden in brush about 10 feet from a local school. An EOD unit responded to the scene to disarm the bomb.
-- Iraqi soldiers searching the Adl Clinic in Baghdad's Mansour district found a false wall hiding eight homemade hand grenades with fuses.
-- Iraqi soldiers arrested a man after finding two bombs in the underbelly of his vehicle in the Mansour district.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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At the end of the dock, will she find —
Her own end? Will she find a kind —
Soul who wants to save a lost one?
There's nothing new under the sun,
She doesn't want to reach the dock's ledge to jump —
Into water, to drown, heart ceasing its thumping.
No one thinks they could reach this point,
No one sees beyond their own point.
Blind to the sad, anxious hoping,
Someone will throw her a life rope.
If she knew how to swim, maybe she could fight back?
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Your lack of thought, with no empathy — she's pleading,
You don't try to learn or listen, she keeps bleeding.
She said,"Not to judge a book by —
It's pretty cover, how it looks."
She pleads, "Listen to Atticus,
Walk around in my skin," pick —
Wisely how you react; she's scared of descending,
At the end of the dock, desperate to not be.
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Throughout the history of Middle-earth, there have been many Dwarf realms. These realms were:
- Khazad-dȗm. The most famous and greatest of all the dwarf kingdoms. Located in the Misty Mountains, it was the home of the Longbeards. It prospered for thousands of years until the Dwarves awoke the Balrog which drove them from Khazad-dȗm, it was then renamed Moria ("Black Pit" in Sindarin).
The Dwarves returned to Moria in the Fourth Age, lead by their leader Durin VII. It is said that the halls of Khazad-dȗm were filled with the sounds of hammers once again, and was prosperous till the fading of the Dwarven race.
- Nogrod and Belegost, located in the Blue Mountains. Nogrod was the home of the Firebeards, and Belegost the home of the Broadbeams. Nogrod was severely damaged during the War of Wrath and Belegost was damaged as well, leaving the Firebeards and the Broadbeams to either rebuild their halls or, as many did, relocate to Khazad-dȗm in SA 40.
The Ered Luin would later become a refuge for much of Durin's folk who established Thorin's Halls during the latter Third Age.
- Exiled Kingdom in the Grey Mountains, were the great halls of which many of Durin's folk relocated to after being exiled from Khazad-dȗm. The Dwarves of the Grey Mountains became very prosperous in their new halls. for over 500 years they mined and defended their halls from the Dragons of the north and the Orcs from the west. Until, finally Cold-drakes forced them from the mountains, and killed their king Dain I.
It is possible that the Dwarves returned to the Ered Mithrin, and retook the ancient halls, though Tolkien never states that this happened.
- The Kingdom under the Mountain, was one of the greatest kingdoms of Dwarves. Located at Erebor, it was founded by Thráin I, but was abandoned by his son, Thorin I. It was resettled by Thrór. but years later Smaug sacked the mountain and drove the Dwarves out. Thorin II Oakenshield refounded the kingdom in TA 2941.
- The Iron Hills, were a range of small mountains rich with iron, inhabited by Durin's folk. They were colonized after the Dragons forced the Dwarves to leave the Ered Mithrin.
- The Glittering Caves of Aglarond, were a cave system in the White Mountains behind Helm's Deep. Gimli son of Glóin led a colony there after the War of the Ring.
- The Orocarni (Red Mountains), were a mountain range in the far east of Middle-earth. They were inhabited by four of the Dwarf clans, but not much is known about them, or the exact location of this mountain range.


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The R8 GT is a lighter, more powerful, better-handling version of the Audi R8 V10 you already love. Software changes wring 560 hp from its 5.2-liter, direct-injection V10 at 8,000 rpm while torque now peaks at 398 lb-ft at 6,500 rpm. Some carbon-fiber trim front and rear, along with aerodynamic improvements such as a permanent rear wing and a double-lipped splitter in front keep the car on the ground. Power is routed through the six-speed, single-clutch R Tronic transmission with paddles on the wheel--right for upshifts, left for down. Power still goes to all four wheels via Audi's patented quattro system.
What is it like to drive?
Audi didn't want to give up the basic comfortable character of the R8 when it made the GT, so it is still a fairly pleasant gran turismo cruiser, despite its significant performance upgrades. A new set of adjustable coilovers ride at each corner, lowering the car 0.4 inch. Low-profile, DOT-legal Competition 235/35 front and 295/30 Pirelli PZero Corsa R02 rubber gripped the pavement well but had noticeable chunks eaten out of the outside edge after a day of enthusiastic lapping at Infineon Raceway.
We had the transmission set in sport mode for quicker shifts but left the traction control on. The 5.2-liter V10 has huge reserves of torque, allowing you to stay in fourth gear through the carousel, for instance, with plenty of grunt delivered to all four wheels to power you out of the exit and launch you up the hill to turn seven. We did notice that the car yawed a bit more than we might have expected if we were on or off the throttle more suddenly than we should have been in turns. But it never got out of line and the stability control was never intrusive.
It's a GT car a little more than it is a sports car, but it felt sportier on this road course than, say, the standard Audi R8 or its Lamborghini Gallardo cousin. Using the built-in launch control on the pit straight, we got 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds. The carbon-ceramic brakes, which never suggested any fade despite being thrashed around the track all day, brought the car from 60 mph to a standstill in 108 feet, excellent for a car that weighs 3,538 pounds.
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You do if you have $196,800, the price without destination and before spending on any options, such as $6,000 for matte-finish paint. You could almost imagine using this as a track-day toy, one that you could easily drive to and from the track. Though we never got off the flat pavement of Infineon, we imagined it would feel Audi comfortable on most paved surfaces. How about a track-day battle royal among this, a Porsche GT3 RS, a Lexus LFA, a Nissan GT-R and a Ferrari 458 Italia? That sounds like a race series we'd pay to watch.
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Curator of Power Corporation Art Collection to Speak at the WAG
Paul Maréchal, Curator of the Art Collection of Power Corporation of Canada, will be speaking on Building Corporate Art Collections: The Inside Track at 7pm, Thursday, May 19 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Maréchal is also Co-Curator of the exhibition William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague which will have an official public opening at 8pm that same evening. Admission to both the talk and the opening is free.
Maréchal's association with Power Corporation of Canada goes back to 1990 as curator, conservator, and developer of both the corporate collection and the private collection of the family of Paul Demarais Sr. Begun in 1964 by its founder, Paul Guy Demarais, the Power Corporation of Canada collection is considered one of the country's pre-eminent art collections. The Corporation's acquisition of works by celebrated Canadian artists has aimed to trace the development and reflect the quality and diversity of Canadian art from 1800 to 1970. Committed to bringing its collection to the attention of the public and sharing it with a larger audience, Power Corporation takes part in most major national or national or international exhibitions and retrospectives devoted to Canadian art through loans of its works, thereby supporting the leading role museums play in disseminating knowledge.
Since 1997 Maréchal has taught a course in the Fundamentals of the Art Market for the Art History Department at Université du Québec à Montréal. Long fascinated with the art of Andy Warhol, he published Andy Warhol: The Record Covers 1949-1987—Catalogue Raisonné in 2008.
Approaching its centenary in 2012, the Winnipeg Art Gallery is Canada's oldest civic art gallery and Manitoba's leading visual arts institution. With a collection of over 24,000 objects spanning many centuries and cultures – including the world's largest collection of contemporary Inuit art – the WAG is constantly moving between the historical and the contemporary in an effort to engage a growing public with the power of art in our lives.
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Before creating a differential archive, you need two images to compare: an unchanged master image and an updated master image. One image is the unchanged master image that has been kept unchanged. This image was stored and needs to be accessed. The second image is the unchanged master image that is updated with minor changes. The root (/) file system is the default for the new image, but you can access this image if it has been stored elsewhere. After you have the two images, you can create a differential archive, which contains only the differences between the two images. The differential archive can then be installed on clones that were installed previously with the unchanged master image.
Prepare the master system with changes. Before changes are made, the master system should be running a duplicate of the original archive.
A copy of the unchanged master image must be kept protected from changes and available for mounting later.
Update the unchanged master image with any of the following changes.
Delete packages.
Add packages or patches.
Modify configuration files.
Add support for peripheral devices on the clone system.
(Optional) Create custom scripts. See Creating Customization Scripts.
Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
Deliver the unchanged master image in a mount point.
If the unchanged master image is stored on an inactive boot environment, retrieve it by using the lumount command.
# lumount BE_name mountpoint
Specifies the boot environment name where the unchanged master image is stored
Specifies a root (/) file system where the image is stored
In the following example, the inactive boot environment is named unchanged_master1. The mount point is the directory /a on the master system.
# lumount unchanged_master1 /a
If the image is stored on a clone, mount the clone by using NFS.
On the master system, share the clone's root (/) file system and give the master root permissions on the clone system.
# share -F nfs -o rw,root=master_system "/"
master_system is the name of the master system.
On the master system, mount the clone.
# mount -F nfs clone_system:/ master_dir
Specifies the name of the system to be mounted
Specifies the directory where the unchanged master image is stored
If you saved the image with the ufsdump command, use the ufsrestore command to retrieve a copy. For information about how to use these commands, see Chapter 27, UFS Backup and Restore Commands (Reference), in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.
Create the differential archive.
# flarcreate -n archive_name -A unchanged_master_image_dir \ options path/filename
Specifies the name that you give the archive. The archive_name you specify is the value of the content_name keyword. The name is listed in the archive-identification section.
Creates a differential archive by comparing a new system image with the image that is specified by the unchanged_master_image_dir argument. By default, the new system image is root (/). You can change the default with the -R option. unchanged_master_image_dir is a directory where the unchanged system image is stored or mounted through UFS, NFS, or the lumount command.
You can include and exclude some files by using the options for contents selection. For a list of options, see flar Command.
For a description of options, see flar Command.
Specifies the path to the directory in which you want to save the archive file. If you do not specify a path, flarcreate saves the archive file in the current directory.
Specifies the name of the archive file.
If the differential archive creation is successful, the flarcreate command returns an exit code of 0.
If the differential archive creation fails, the flarcreate command returns a nonzero exit code.
For procedures about installing an archive, see To Prepare to Install a Solaris Flash Archive With a Custom JumpStart Installation in Solaris 10 10/08 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations.
In this example, the directory for unchanged master image is named unchanged_master1. The new master image that contains changes is the root (/) directory. The new master image is compared to the unchanged master image and the resulting differential archive is then compressed. The differential archive is stored in diffarchive1.flar file. The archive contains files that are to be deleted, changed, or added when installed.
# flarcreate -n diffarchive1 -A /a/unchanged_master1 -c diffarchive1.flar
In this example, the unchanged master image, unchanged_master1, is stored on an inactive boot environment and is accessed by mounting the boot environment. The new master image is the root (/) directory. The new master image is compared to the unchanged master and the resulting differential archive is then compressed. The archive is stored in diffarchive4.flar. The archive contains files that are to be deleted, changed, or added when installed.
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By Victoria Cavaliere
NEW YORK (Reuters) — The graceful mute
swan, in lore long associated with romance and fidelity, might not meet
a fairy tale ending in New York.
The state is planning to eliminate by 2025 the entire population
of the regal wild mute swans, which its Department of Environmental
Conservation calls an aggressive, invasive species and a danger to
people and native wildlife populations.
But protests are mounting to block the plan that would use tactics
such as shooting the birds and puncturing their eggs.
"It's a ludicrous plan," said David Karopkin, founder and director
of GooseWatch NYC, a wildlife advocacy group that said the state's
concerns are overblown.
Most of the state's 2,200 mute swans — both wild and in captivity — are found in highly populated areas, in and around New York City and
its northern suburbs in the Hudson Valley.
"When people live close to each other, conflicts are inevitable, but
we don't kill each other off. But when people live next to animals
and conflicts are inevitable, we respond with lethal methods,"
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Although the swans are known to be territorial, especially when
protecting their eggs or their young, there are no known attacks on
humans in New York, Karopkin said.
The state did not immediately respond to a request for comment on
any mute swan attacks reported in New York.
Like the population control plans for mute swans already enacted in
Michigan, Maryland and Delaware, the New York proposal targets only
birds in the wild, not the ones on private lands or in city parks.
Originally brought in from Europe in the late 1800s to add flair to
American estates, mute swans are now consuming large amounts of
aquatic vegetation needed by native waterfowl and contaminating the
water with their feces, which can contain the bacteria E.Coli, state
wildlife experts said.
"With mute swans, there is considerable concern about destruction to
native habitat by this non-native species," said wildlife expert Dr.
Paul Curtis, who works in the Department of Natural Resources at
Cornell University.
The mute swan's steadily increasing population in New York over
several decades has put a strain on native species like the black
tern, an endangered wetlands bird that has now disappeared where the
swans have colonized, he said.
"I think people have sort of a romantic connection with swans...But
they need to be managed responsibly," Curtis said.
This week marked a final chance for the public to comment on the
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methods such as "oiling, puncturing, shaking, freezing, replacing or
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GooseWatch NYC said it has collected 20,000 signatures on an online
petition to scrap the proposal. State Senator Tony Avella of Queens
has introduced a bill that would put a two-year moratorium on any
elimination efforts.
"I was horrified to learn that our state wildlife agency would make
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has provided evidence to justify the elimination of these beautiful
swans," Avella said.
The black-masked, white bird's body typically measures between 50 to
60 inches in length, with wingspan reaching up to 90 inches. Despite
their name, mute swans are capable of making hissing, grunting and
snorting sounds, although they don't honk like other swans.
Over the past century, mute swans have become a symbol of love. The
birds mate for life, and when two mute swans sit beak to beak, the
curve of their long necks make a heart-shape.
Animal advocates like Karopkin said there has been little proof the
swans are damaging the environment.
"Non-native does not equal invasive," he said.
"There are many examples of wildlife in North America that were
brought here from other continents that have been successful. It's a
subjective decision that the harm is outweighing the benefit the
animals provide," Karopkin said.
But to wildlife experts like Professor Curtis, the mute swans pose
the same kind of danger to the natural habitat as other non-native
species, including the notorious snakehead fish, a predator native
to rivers and lakes in Asia and a dangerous, invasive species in
American waters.
"It's a fair comparison," Curtis said. "Because both snakehead fish
and swans are invasive, exotic species. Both have potential
detrimental impacts on the environment, and so I think both federal
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Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute published the Hard Times Report this month. The report notes that earning a college degree is still important; however, it is also important which degree. Here's an excerpt:
While graduates, parents, and journalists raise thoughtful questions about the worth of a college degree, this update confirms what we've said all along: it still pays to earn one. As we recovered from the recession during 2010 and 2011, college graduates fared better than less educated workers. Overall unemployment rates during this period were 9–10 percent for non-college graduates compared to 4.6–4.7 percent for college graduates 25 years of age or older. However, recent college graduates with a Bachelor's degree or better are still bearing the greatest unemployment risk, with unemployment rates ranging from a low of 4.8 percent to a high of 14.7 percent depending on their major. Despite the slow recovery, the overall unemployment rate for recent college graduates is 7.9 percent and the overall unemployment rate for graduate degree holders is 3.3 percent.
The report found that recent Anthropology and Archaeology graduates have a 12.6% unemployment rate, the third highest among the disciplines surveyed. The unemployment rate drops considerably with experience and a graduate degree. In fact, a graduate degree holder has a 4.6% unemployment rate, which is lower than MBA graduate degree holders (4.7%), Marketing and Marketing Research graduate degree holders (5.9%) and the field of Communications graduate degrees (ranging from 5.4% to 7.9%).
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AN INJURY-PRONE CASTAWAY INCURS A FRESH BATTLE WOUND DURING AN INTENSE IMMUNITY CHALLENGE, on "SURVIVOR: PHILIPPINES," WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3
"This Isn't a We Game" - An injury prone castaway incurs a fresh battle wound during an intense Immunity Challenge. Meanwhile, a wary castaway considers an unlikely alliance when one tribe member brings an invaluable gift to the table, on SURVIVOR: PHILIPPINES, Wednesday, Oct. 3 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Castaways competing on SURVIVOR: PHILIPPINES (in alphabetical order by tribe):
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I want to sync my calendar with a Basecamp generated ical feed, like:
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I want to sync my calendar with a Basecamp generated ical feed, like:
Can it be done?
Here is one way to get webcal feeds to show up in Outlook 2011 for Mac if you are using Office 365.
Basically, no. Outlook 2011 does not support the webcal protocol for calendar syncing. It supported Apple's Sync Services as of Office 2011's Service Pack 1, but then Apple discontinued Sync Services support as of 5 May 2011.
Microsoft, unsurprisingly, wants you to sync your calendars with an Exchange server, not via webcal.
Two links from Microsoft will give you more information:
How to sync calendars in Outlook for Mac 2011 (don't get your hopes up; it basically tells you how you can't sync) and Outlook for Mac and Your Calendars (again, tells you what doesn't work).
It's unfortunate how this doesn't work. I suggest you consider strong calendaring alternatives, such as BusyCal.


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THERE were plenty of comic capers at the Story Museum this weekend as illustrators met comic book fans.
The Pembroke Street museum played host to the second comic book festival organised by Oxford-based comic The Phoenix.
The debut event last year was so popular that this year's festival doubled in size.
On Saturday youngsters met their favourite comic book artists, who were running interative workshops and creating new adventures.
Robin Etherington writes strips such as The Dangerous Adventures of Von Doogan with brother Lorenzo for the Beaumont Street comic.
He said: "We have been to every comic show in the UK and they have always been dominated by adult readers with a lot of superhero fare.
"The refreshing sense of enthusiasm here is amazing.
"It is inspiring that there are that many children who are looking at comic books and thinking they want to do it when they grow up."


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A technical glitch knocked out trading in all Nasdaq Stock Market securities for three hours Thursday afternoon, an unprecedented meltdown for a U.S. exchange that paralyzed a broad swath of markets and highlighted the fragility of the financial world's electronic backbone.
Nasdaq officials scrambled to figure out what happened and resume trading. They shared few of their findings with trading firms or the public during regular trading hours, sowing confusion across Wall Street and leaving many investors frustrated....


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Jury votes for Chase:AlinaBrendaHollyJaneNo.. i thought NaOnka voted for Chase and Holly for Fabio.
I liked the audience...Rupert, BostonRob and Terry Bradshaw.........I thought that was good to hype the next show.
It was a pretty bad season for me. Negativity throughout. Jane was the only reason why i kept on watching. When she got voted off, i fast forwarded through the finale.
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Five people were shot overnight Monday — including three people shot in two incidents in the same block in East Baltimore over a span of less than six hours, police said.
A police spokesman said commanders were meeting to determine why officers weren't in the block for the second shooting in the 2600 block of Grogan Ave, which killed a man. Five hours earlier, a double-shooting sent two men to the hospital for treatment.
Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts has spoken often about the agency doing a better of job of getting in front of retaliatory shootings, and it is common for an officer to be assigned to keep watch over a block in the wake of a shooting.
Anthony Guglielmi, the department's chief spokesman, said Col. Dean Palmere, head of the investigations and intelligence division, was meeting with leadership of the Eastern District and the patrol division to determine whether officers had been assigned there and if they were pulled off to respond to other calls for service.
The first shooting was reported at 5:56 p.m. Eastern District officers patrolling the 1300 block of North Luzerne Ave. were flagged down by a man in a white T-shirt, blue jeans and blue sneakers, who told them he had been shot.
Police identified the man as Christopher Barfield, who was conscious and responsive and told officers he was in the rear of a home on Luzerne Avenue near the intersection of Grogan Avenue when he was shot in the right arm. He also said his cousin had been standing next to him and was also shot. But Barfield didn't know where he had gone afterward, police said.
Paramedics transported Barfield to an area hospital. At 6:43 p.m., a man walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital emergency room with a graze wound to his upper body. Detectives believe he was the cousin Barfield was referring to.
Less than five hours later, Baltimore police say they found a man lying on the ground in the 2600 block of Grogan Ave., suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at 12:15 a.m. at an area hospital.
At the scene, blood filled the cracks of a portion of sidewalk in front of an unsecured vacant home, and two empty liquor bottles rested near the curb. Two groups of people declined to talk to a reporter; one woman identified herself as the wife of the fatal shooting victim, but said she did not want media coverage.
Detectives are investigating possible connections between the shootings and had no suspects or motives Tuesday morning. Grogan Avenue, which consists only of the 2600 block and is located in the Berea neighborhood, has been a frequent site of violence over the past few years.
In March 2010, Michael Holt, a 20-year-old man on probation, was found lying in an alley behind the even side of the block with a fatal gunshot wound to his torso.
In November 2007, Carlos Smithson, 22, was shot several times and killed while at a rowhouse filled with women and young children. Smithson had been scheduled to testify a few days later in a Baltimore Circuit Court trial of a man accused of shooting him repeatedly in the legs and injuring two women a block away from where he was killed.
According to reports, Smithson was shot to death just as a vigil for a 16-year-old murder victim killed in the previous year was taking place a half block away.
Across town in West Baltimore on Monday night, Baltimore police officers also responded to a double shooting in the Bridgeview-Greenlawn neighborhood at 11:45 p.m. Officers found one man suffering from gunshot wounds to the shoulder, abdomen and leg. A second man was also found suffering from gun shot wounds to both legs. Both victims are listed in stable condition at area hospitals, police said.
A preliminary investigation revealed that three unidentified suspects entered the 1100 block of North Bentalou St. and approached the victims who were in a crowd of other men. The suspects began firing on the group, police said, before the trio fled.
Baltimore Sun staff writer Kevin Rector contributed to this report.
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Obama calls for calm in wake of George Zimmerman verdict
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After a jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin on Saturday evening, reaction from political figures and interest groups poured in on Sunday, with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) pushing for the Department of Justice to open a federal civil rights probe to examine the racial undertones of the incident, and political figures on both sides of the aisle offering their two cents on a case that has captured the nation's attention.
Democrats have called the outcome a miscarriage of justice. President Obama issued a statement on Sunday calling the case a "tragedy."
"I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher," he said. "But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken. I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son."
Despite the president's call for calm, Republicans have accused him of politicizing the incident, pointing to the president's declaration in March 2012 that, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
Martin, a 17-year-old African American teenager, was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, 29, last year in a gated community in Sanford, Fla. After nearly three weeks of testimony, a jury found Zimmerman, who is half Hispanic, not guilty of second-degree murder and the lesser charge of manslaughter.
The verdict prompted outrage from civil rights groups, who believe the Zimmerman case perfectly exemplified the racial biases in the American criminal justice system.
"It was about race from the very beginning," said Georgetown University's Michael Eric Dyson on "Face the Nation." "It was a racial motivation of, it appears, of George Zimmerman when he said, 'These people get away. They always get away.'"
"We don't have to be Einstein to deduce from that particular-- you know, assertion of his that...he got a fear of and suspicion of African American youth," he added.
The next step, NAACP President Ben Jealous said, is to "focus on ensuring that our justice system continues its course."
"There may be a civil action brought by the family, but there should definitely be criminal charges brought by [the Department of Justice]," he said. "And we have asked D.O.J. to continue their investigation. They are indeed continuing, and we hope that once everything that's happened that can happen here in Florida...that D.O.J. will act and will hold Mr. Zimmerman accountable for what he has done."
To substantiate a hate crime charge, Jealous explained, the government must "show that race was a factor in [Zimmerman's] decision making. And there seems to be plenty of evidence that suggests that race may have been a factor. He called 9-1-1 a lot about young Black men that he suspected of being dangerous."
Dyson suggested the composition of the jury - six women, only one of whom was not white - may also be an issue worth examining.
A Justice Department spokesperson said on Sunday that the department has "an open investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin," and that it will continue gathering evidence to determine whether there may be a "prosecutable violation" of any of the federal criminal civil rights statutes within its jurisdiction.
Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, disagreed with the implication that race played a factor in the outcome of the case, telling CNN's "State of the Union," "I think our justice system is colorblind."
"You had two very capable teams laying out the evidence and the jury made the decision," he said. "Though there may be people on either side of this who don't agree with how it came out, we have the very best judicial system."
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, went a step further, telling "Fox News Sunday" that Zimmerman should never have been prosecuted to begin with.
"Well, from what I have seen of the evidence, I would say" Zimmerman should not have faced prosecution, King said. "I regret that this all happened. I'm sorry that it was turned into a race issue by the media. And otherwise, it would have been tried or not tried, depending on the laws and the language that was there."
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King also accused the President Obama and the Department of Justice of politicizing the case. "The Justice Department engaged in this, the president engaged in this and turned it into a political issue that should have been handled exclusively with law and order."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he believes the "Justice Department's going to take a look at this."
"This isn't over with," he explained, saying he supports the American justice system, even if he "may feel differently" about the outcome of the case.
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat who is now running for New York City comptroller, said on ABC's "This Week" that it's a "dicey position for the Justice Department to step in."
"Double jeopardy is a fundamental principle in our American judicial system, as it should be," he explained, "and so it's going to be hard for them to come back at the defendant."
Still, Spitzer said he has no doubt the system failed in the Zimmerman case.
"This is a failure of justice, I don't think there's any other way to view it. The judicial system is not perfect. And in this case it has failed," he said. "It is still the best system in the world, bar none...The jury system is what we have to rely upon, but in this case, it failed."
Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., agreed that the system failed. "I think that there's an innocent boy dead," he said on CNN. "A person was asked not to follow him, and he took a gun and killed him. And yes, I think that there should be been a punishment for that."
"I think justice will be done, eventually," he added. "There's a situation right now where a jury has ruled, but I don't think that we've seen the end of this."
Fattah said he was particularly disturbed by the fact that Zimmerman "will get his gun back."
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., when asked whether he believes the justice system is racially biased, left no room for confusion.
"Yes," he said on CNN. "I think you just have to look at incarceration rates, who's in jail and who's not. You have to look at the fact that poor people, and unfortunate, predominantly of color have the least effective defense in their cases. And you have to look at this particular case."
"I think it's right to ask the Justice Department to fully, fully pursue civil rights violation," he said.
President Obama waded briefly into the issue in March 2012, when he offered a message to Trayvon Martin's parents.
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Mr. Obama said, "and I think they are right to expect that all of us, as Americans, are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."
That brief comment drew a condemnation from Republican strategist Karl Rove on "Fox News Sunday."
"President Obama politicized this at the beginning of it, I believe, unfortunately, by injecting himself into it," Rove said. "We need a president to bring us together, not rip us apart, and I hope the Justice Department does not respond to the ill-advised recommendation of the NAACP to continue this controversy."
Mr. Obama's comments about Trayvon Martin were not the first time has ventured into the treacherous thicket of racial politics in America. In 2009, he said a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home after a break-in was reported.
Some thought the president had improperly put his thumb on the scale of an issue that was not yet resolved. The controversy that resulted led to a 2009 "beer summit" in which the professor, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, and the officer, Sergeant James Crowley, Jr., shared a beer and talked out their differences at the White House with President Obama and Vice President Biden.
And in 2008, during the height of his first presidential campaign, a burgeoning scandal over the controversial, racially tinged remarks of Mr. Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, forced then-Sen. Obama to deliver a widely-praised speech in Philadelphia on race relations in America.
"The comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through - a part of our union that we have yet to perfect," he said in the speech. "And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together." Instead, the president said, through dialogue and collaboration, "We can move beyond some of our old racial wounds...in fact, we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union."


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- 2 small bananas (approximately 6 inches long),peeled and cut in half
- 1 can (15 ounces) tropical fruit salad canned in juice, undrained
- 1 cup frozen, unsweetened strawberries,partially thawed
- 4 fresh strawberries
- 4 nine-ounce clear plastic cups
Place peeled bananas on a baking sheet in the freezer. Pour half of canned fruit and juice into each of 2 shallow, freezer-safe plastic containers and put in the freezer. Freeze fruit for 1 1/2–2 hours, or until tropical fruit is just slightly slushy and bananas are frozen solid. Put half of bananas and 1 container tropical fruit into a blender and pulse on high until thick and creamy; stop frequently to push fruit to the bottom of the blender. Add remaining banana and continue blending. Pour mixture into a bowl and return to the freezer to keep cold. Rinse blender and add frozen, unsweetened strawberries and remaining container of tropical fruit. Blend, stopping frequently to push fruit to the bottom of the blender, until thick and creamy.
In each of the plastic cups, layer 1/4 cup of banana mixture, 1/4 cup of strawberry mixture, another 1/4 cup banana mixture, and 3 tablespoons strawberry mixture. Smooth with the back of a spoon after adding each layer. Top each parfait with a strawberry and serve immediately. Leftovers can be covered with foil and frozen, then thawed at room temperature until slushy.
Yield: 4 parfaits.
Serving size: 1 parfait.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories: 122 calories, Carbohydrates: 29 g, Protein: 1 g, Fat: <1 g, Saturated Fat: <1 g, Sodium: 15 mg, Fiber: 3 g
Exchanges per serving: 2 fruit. Carbohydrate choices: 2.
This recipe was developed by Tami Ross, a Diabetes Nutrition Specialist and Certified Diabetes Educator in Lexington, Kentucky.


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When a question is posted on Stack Overflow what happens?
Does Stack Overflow create a new page with the title of question? If it does then how can this be done in Asp.Net 3.5, C#?
I want to know because I am also creating this type of website for my college project.


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I feel like this should be easy, but I cannot quite find a literature reference for this: We know (i.a. from the Kaplansky reference in Does Smith normal form imply PID?) that sufficient for Smith normal form as well as Hermite normal form to work is that the underlying ring be a PID.
I am interested in the case where the ring is $k[t]$, for some field $k$, and all modules involved are $\mathbb N$-graded with the "obvious" grading of $k[t]$. For a matrix $M$ representing a map between two graded $k[t]$-modules $S\to T$, it seems obvious to me that Smith normal form is computable, and about as efficient as one might hope over any ring. The presence of a grading seems to imply one should take some minute care — but the care needed seems to be almost non-existent.
Has anyone dealt with this sort of setting in the literature already? I'd rather have a good reference for this than develop everything in analogy with well-known results myself.


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When I heard late last week that Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander—a Republican who was apoplectic about Harry Reid's changing the Senate's hoary filibuster rules—had said the majority leader should have the words "The End of the Senate" etched on his tombstone, I imagined what Reid's reaction would be: a broad, wry smile.
In covering Reid for more than 25 years, I have seen that smile so many times. Reid is the most unconventional of politicians, one who cares little about public perception and delights in infuriating the opposition. He is the kind of guy who might walk up to Alexander and say, "Lamar, I hope you'll deliver the eulogy so people really know what I have done."
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The former boxer's ability to absorb blows and, even more importantly, to counterpunch, perhaps with an occasional hit below the belt, are the secrets of his longevity—and no doubt he will deploy them once again as the Senate fights this week over the budget deal. Unlike most of the preening Club of 100, Reid expends little effort tending to his public image. Driving home messages (the Tea Party is destructive) and advancing legislation (the nuclear option) are what energize this tireless son of Searchlight, Nev., a speck of a town outside Las Vegas where Reid's hardscrabble childhood helped produce a man impervious to most political considerations and virtually immune to criticism.
The majority leader is a mélange of contradictions—a Machiavelli with malaprops (otherwise known as Reidisms)—but you can't understand them just from the vantage point of the theater up on Capitol Hill. I've seen them revealed over a quarter century of close observation back in Nevada, where Reid, 74, has always been both a study in outperforming expectations and a political fighter with bare-knuckles ambition. Many still puzzle over this—how Reid can be at once a seemingly soulless manipulator of the process while occasionally revealing deeply held beliefs; a religious man proud of his Mormon faith who has metamorphosed into a social progressive; and an outwardly meek, bland figure whose cutthroat ways make him easily the most feared man in Nevada by politicians of both parties.
But Reid being Reid is inevitably on display when he comes back home. Consider his news-making tour of the state a few days ago, during which he managed to crassly describe Lucy Flores, an assemblywoman he hopes to install as the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, as "demographically… perfect. Young, dynamic, Hispanic," while calling another congressman from the state both a "lightweight" and " hypocritical." He even sneered at his fellow Nevada senator, Dean Heller, by comparing him unfavorably to his predecessor, John Ensign, who had an affair with his best friend's wife. "I miss John Ensign," Reid told the Las Vegas Sun. " He was a man of his word."
And then the topper, the Reidism of the week: When asked about his 2011 comments that prostitution in Nevada should be outlawed, Reid waved the white flag and said the only thing he's doing right now to fight prostitution is "not giving them any business. That's my protest."
I wonder if the brothels can survive that economic hit.
For a guy who seems perpetually joyless (he's not), Reid has been a joy to cover. His foot-in-mouth disease. His wry sense of humor—yes, he has one. His constant interference in other races. His surprising evolution on all manner of topics. But most of all, I continue to marvel at Reid's indomitability—his ability keep alive a political career that should have been entombed nearly 40 years ago, when he lost his first Senate race by 611 votes and then followed that up with a landslide loss for mayor of Las Vegas six months later.
Reid is the ultimate political survivor, and I was lucky enough to have a front-row seat for two of his near-death experiences, in 1998 and 2010. The boxing metaphors so often wielded to describe the former pugilist have become hackneyed, but it's true that Reid is the elected version of Rocky Balboa—ever the underdog, always taking a beating but somehow emerging with his hands raised upwards, battered but still standing.
To truly understand Reid, you have to go back to the beginning. To 1986. When Jim Santini launched his candidacy for the U.S. Senate that year, he could not have expected what would happen at his opening news conference.
A reporter had somehow gotten access to documents from an old, unresolved Federal Election Commission case and peppered the former congressman with questions about it. Santini, known to perspire, began sweating profusely.
That was the image Harry Reid, then an ambitious two-term congressman, and his campaign team were looking for—and they would go on to use the video from that press conference over and over during the campaign in a series of ads about the Democrat-turned-Republican with the tagline: "Which Jim Santini do you believe?"
The reporter who asked the questions had been fed the information by a former colleague who left journalism to work for Reid's campaign. It was brutal and effective; it was consummate Harry Reid.
I began covering Nevada politics for the Las Vegas Review-Journal shortly after that news conference. I was in my mid-20s and had been in Nevada for two years covering cops and county government. When another reporter left the paper abruptly, I was thrown into the hurly-burly of a nationally watched Senate race between Reid, then 46, and Santini, who had been persuaded by retiring Republican Sen. Paul Laxalt to switch parties and run as a Republican for his vacant seat. It was the beginning of my long stint covering the most fascinating figure in Nevada politics—a thoroughly unprepossessing man and manifestly terrible candidate who nonetheless achieved unlikely campaign victories and went on to reach the pinnacle of congressional power.


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It's been a while since we last ran an artist's mix-tape, so here's a pretty neat one to return with. Williamsburg indie-pop femmes Au Revoir Simone have chosen their songs carefully under the theme of 'shout outs to friends'. Each member picked three songs and then collaborated for a final track chosen by the whole band.
Heather's Choices:
I've decided to choose bands that we've played shows with that went on to become some of my favorites.
Metronomy - 'Black Eye/ Burnt Thumb'
The first time we played a show with Metronomy, I fell in love. They seemed like the all-boy version of us, but more silly and fun and with less keyboards. I wanted to dress them up in tuxedos and take them to prom, but I couldn't decide which member of the band I would choose as my date if I could make that a possibility. When they perform live, they wear touch lamps on their chests which is cooler than corsages. I chose this song because I remember that they had really excellent dance moves accompanying it when they performed it--kind of spastic and energetic at first, then they got into the groove of the song and swayed a bit Hot Chip like. Do I sound like a giddy school girl?
Dirty Projectors - 'Tour Along The Potomac'
This is awful to say, but the first time I heard Dirty Projectors, it was a few years ago at a festival in the Netherlands, and we arrived just in time for their soundcheck and I remember hearing them from backstage and thinking, "What the hell is this?" disappointedly. But they were headlining, so I watched their show. Well, I spent the entire hour watching them wide-eyed and slack-jawed in disbelief. Thoughts ranging from "That guy is a genius!" to "Those girls sing like angels!" to "What is that strange timing they're playing in?" flitted through my musically naive brain. That was when I became utterly obsessed with them. I bought a copy of every CD that Dave was selling and carried them with me like little treasures for the rest of tour. I've seen them many times since, though I've never had the courage to talk to Dave since that first show. When I really like a band I find that I'm unable to talk to them. (I once stammered a pathetic "hello" at Bjork in the Iceland Airport and she looked at me like I was crazy.) One of Dave's signature r&b style "ooooohs!" is my ringtone, and I was once standing behind him at a bagel store on Bedford Avenue hoping someone would call me so that he would hear it and just know...know that my respect and admiration is great. Anyway, this is my favorite song of theirs.
The Walkmen - 'On The Water'
Everyone talks about how The Walkmen are awesome, and their new LP is so amazing, and blah blah blah. But we played a show with them in some kind of cave in France and seriously, even then, in that smokey hell-hole, they were magic. This song really stood out for its...shimmering. The song just shimmered in the most lovely way. I coveted their keyboard--a compact Farfisa. Also, they're the nicest guys.
Erika's Choices:
Casio Kids - 'Finn Bikkien!'
I have fallen in love with this band from Norway (also on Moshi Moshi). Their songs are super catchy and fun and the fact that they don't sing in English doesn't prevent us from singing along in our tour van!
Crystal Stilts - 'Prismatic Room'
If you have a chance to see this Brooklyn phenomenon live, do it! Their shows are perfect for lazy sway dancing and stomping while still keeping your cool. They turn up nice and loud without being painful, the female drummer is amazing to watch and their keyboard player is off the hook.
Elizabeth Harper - 'Broken Adolescent Heart'
This is my friend Elizabeth who is also playing shows these days under the name "Class Actress." Her voice and song writing is so amazing and she's venturing into the dance music genre but in the most fantastic un-cheesy and un-apologetic way...kind of like Neon Neon. No fear.
Annie's Choices:
Uninhabitable Mansions - 'Do You Have A Strategy?'
OK, so it's my other band, and maybe that's why I'm picking our first single as my first track pick. I think that's ok. Especially because I think you'll like it. It's catchy.
Peter, Bjorn & John - 'Nothing To Worry About'
If you find yourself DJing at a party and desperately need a song to make the hipsters bump and grind their way through the night, choose this one. I promise, unless they are losers, they will totally go for it.
We Are Scientists - 'After Hours'
Just guessing by the fact that if one chooses to walk down the street anywhere in the United Kingdom with Chris and Keith, teenagers come running and screaming after them, that lots of people have perhaps heard this song to death. But for a lady on the move like me who lives with her head in the song, every listen is a fresh reminder of why WAS rules the school. It's fun, tongue-in-cheek, makes an emotional point, and most of all is catchy and wonderful to listen to.
Band Choice:
Still Flyin' - 'The Hott Chord Is Struck'
We found out about this band because Gary Olson of Ladybug Transistor plays in it....(and they are also on Moshi...oops) Our band is kind of obsessed with hand clap sounds, so the intro to this song makes us happy. But pretty much everything about this band is about having fun. So...in this economy, we all need a little Still Flyin'!


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Could the backing of Barack Obama by the mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg be "the most important news story of all time"? Was the "Frankenstorm" Sandy the disaster some, including David Attenborough this week, believed was unfortunately necessary to wake the US and the world from its slumber over global warming?
It has certainly resurrected the issue in the US, as my colleague there Suzanne Goldenberg reports, and has broken the extraordinary climate silence Obama instigated in the spring of 2009 - having decided that climate change was not a winning issue for him.
The devastation of New York and New Jersey has changed that and Bloomberg's intervention is certainly striking. His endorsement was headlined "Vote for a president who will lead on climate change", while his Business Week magazine cover was ever starker: "It's climate change, stupid."
However, people suggested hurricane Katrina in 2005 would galvanise climate action and it clearly did not. On our current trend of greenhouse gas emissions, the world is on track for 6C of warming, i.e. catastrophe. Other natural disasters, droughts, floods and storms all supercharged by climate change, have struck across the world since and caused far more human suffering than Sandy.
But what has changed is two things. First, this latest disaster has struck the most famous city on Earth at the moment it is electing the most powerful person on the planet. Second, the 2007 report from the UN's climate scientists and everything since has built an incontrovertible case that the burning of fossil fuels is a severe threat to the benign climate that has prevailed for millennia.
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The reason why Bloomberg's backing for Obama will, I think, resonate beyond the US election is that it strikes at the very heart of the inaction on climate change: the lack of political will. The low-carbon technology exists to tackle the problem, as does the clear economic case for doing so. What was missing was, as Bloomberg put it, the desire to "place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics".
The shock of Bloomberg's endorsement for Obama is clear: the mayor was elected as a Republican before becoming an independent. It's a little like London mayor and Conservative Boris Johnson backing Labour leader Ed Milliband for prime minister in the wake of the capital flooding. Some might even think that Bloomberg's attack on Mitt Romney for "reversing course" on climate change action could apply to David Cameron, who has indulged in his own politically convenient climate silence since being elected.
Only time will reveal the ultimate significance of Bloomberg's choice. But the US has been a huge barrier to international progress on dealing with climate change.
If Sandy – and this summer's record US heatwave – end up blowing Obama back into the White House with enough wind in his sails to persuade him to make climate change a winning issue, it really could have positive global consequences. If not, I shudder to think what scale of apocalyptic disaster will be needed to destroy the political cowardice among world leaders that is stoking the ever greater climate change storms of the future.


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How to Haggle with Willing Customers
Customers, especially customers from other cultures, love to haggle. They often revel in the negotiating process and look forward to haggling with a challenging businessperson.
To put yourself on an equal footing with some of the world's best negotiators, keep the following tips in mind:
Haggle with the hagglers. Don't accept a low-ball offer just to make a sale, and don't turn away a customer because the low offer insulted you.
When a customer pitches a low-ball offer, express shock and dismay. No visible response may send the message that you take the offer seriously.
Help the customer save face. Explain that if you accept such a low offer, you'll lose face with other customers who paid more.
Use the illusion of precision. Counter the customer's offer with a precise dollar amount rather than a round number to send the message that you carefully calculated the price you can afford to accept.
Never offer to split the difference. Such an offer only results in disappointing both you and the customer.
Manufacture deadlines. Give customers a fixed amount of time to haggle.
Don't focus solely on price and money. You can often throw in extras that cost you less than dropping the price.
Nip nibbling in the bud. Don't agree to throw in extras after you've settled on a deal, or the customer will nibble you right out of your profit.
Officially end to the negotiating process and short-circuit buyer's remorse. Congratulate your customer on making a wise purchase decision or investment.


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Howard Lyrics
Mr. Hughes how are you? I know it's been a while but I've been dying trying to catch your brilliant smile. People like us, we are always misunderstood. Though there's ups and downs the bad outshines the good. Howard- you're a 10 but I'm not sure this ends well. Hold it close to your heart. Whatever happened to Howard Hughes? I guess life wasn't good to you. You gave it all you got and still they threw you out for being you. Even with our success we're as good as dead.
Cause our worst critics were in our heads. Society wont except me or you and all our friends agree. People say we're done for, we're liabilities. I bought property on the thin line between genius and insanity. You wrote the book on brains and wealth and looks-we're ahead of both our times but free thinkers only thrive in history books. Howard, my dear, was it films and planes that made you this way? They spoke and we're just jokes.


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Zweena Health recently announced a new social media strategy aimed at educating and encouraging consumers to take ownership of their personal health records. The site, founded over six years ago by John Phelan, collects and digitizes patient records. Now Phelan and his team hope to promote patient engagement through various online initiatives.
"A huge challenge is to try to get consumers to think proactively about their health records -- most people don't think about any of this until they're at risk or in a hospital," Phelan said in an interview with InformationWeek Healthcare. "We're using social media [as] a way [for consumers] to learn about situations that lead up to people wanting to get a health record."
[ Is it time to re-engineer your clinical decision support system? See 10 Innovative Clinical Decision Support Programs. ]
The site's new social media strategy is centered on education, said Phelan, and making people more aware of the benefits of digitizing their health record. ZweenaHealth uses Facebook, Twitter, and other outlets to share information on the basics of a personal health record and why patients should take control of their information. "A lot of our clients tell us they didn't even realize they can have copies of their health records, or that [it's] something they should do before [a medical emergency]."
ZweenaHealth currently has approximately 500 users and has collected more than 5,000 records to date. Users also include health systems that are "forward-thinking in terms of encouraging consumers to have their health records before they get to the hospital," Phelan said. He described the site as being about consumer-centric personal health records, while offering a service that both collects and then digitizes information.
Various software programs exist for patients to collect their own information and then input it themselves into a program -- something Phelan wanted to help consumers bypass. "That was a non-starter," he said. "We have this service-plus approach where we collect records from doctors and hospitals, and then we have a team that scans and collates everything." Phelan said after collecting information, Zweena creates structured data from a patient's health record.
ZweenaHealth is also partnered with Microsoft Health Vault. "They were the first ones ...[to take] a piece of their company and devote it to consumer healthcare," said Phelan. "We created an alliance where basically, when you create a Zweena account, you're also creating a mirrored Microsoft HealthVault account."
Clinical, patient engagement, and consumer apps promise to re-energize healthcare. Also in the new, all-digital Mobile Power issue of InformationWeek Healthcare: Comparative effectiveness research taps the IT toolbox to compare treatments to determine which ones are most effective. (Free registration required.)


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This Week's ChessVideos Show: Meeting Provocation
In this week's ChessVideos show, I take a look at a fascinating battle between Zoltan Almasi and Gadir Guseinov played earlier this year. The game began as a normal (hyper-) Accelerated Dragon: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Nxd4 7.Qxd4, but took a twist when Black played 7...Bg7 rather than the usual and obvious 7...d6.
Guseinov's move invites - practically begs for - the push 8.e5. But should White play that way? It's an obvious move, but surely Black realized that too, and very likely prepared the move in advance. So what's the right way to react? It's a question not only for Almasi on this occasion but all of us when we're faced with similarly provocative moves by our opponents. I offer some answers to this general question, and show how Almasi handled it as well. It turned out that Guseinov's idea isn't as bad as it looks, but Almasi found a great way to pressure Black. Home prep or not, Guseinov was soon taken by surprise, and proved unable to solve his problems at the board.
Have a look for yourself. As always, the show is free (one-time only free registration is required) and will be available on-demand for the next month or so.


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The International Scouter's Award encourages Scouters to broaden their involvement in Scouting through participation in world Scouting activities and recognizes Scouters for their contributions to world Scouting.
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