text: North America 22 November 2012 The American people were mis-sold the General Petraeus scandal It wasn't about security. It was about sex. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up When the CIA director and former chief of American operations in Afghanistan resigned after admitting an affair with his hagiographer, a serious disconnect could be seen in the US coverage between the reasons the media wanted us to believe they found this scandal fascinating – security issues, personal privacy issues, unprecedented access issues, the hint of espionage and the smell of treason – and the reasons the media actually found this scandal fascinating: Broadwell's looks, the age difference between the two, the narrative of a powerful man brought low by his libido, and the stoicism of the betrayed spouses. At the height of the story the internet rang with national security implications and thrilling spy narratives, hacked emails and clandestine communications. "If girlfriend was trying to access Petraeus email & FBI investigating, there's possibility she could be charged w espionage. Honey trap?", the Telegraph's former Washington bureau chief, Toby Harnden, tweeted after the story broke. But now that the dust has settled, America has to come to terms with a difficult fact: this wasn't about security. It was about sex. Headlines promising lines of enquiry like CNN's "is Petraeus' pillow-talk a security threat?" have so far borne scant fruit because everyone already knows the answer, which is: yes, but really no greater than background levels. A public servant is either professionally trustworthy or not, and an affair rarely changes this – the possibility of blackmail notwithstanding. The greatest American security breaches in recent history have been ideological leaks, not honey-traps. Broadwell was writing a book about Petraeus, not serially seducing generals for the KGB. 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The papers took his challenge and Hart was snapped within two days with a model called Donna Rice on a friend's boat, unfortunately named "Monkey Business". In Britain the tabloid press is unapologetic about printing saucy gossip for it's own sake, which means many politicians – Boris Johnson, for example – can wriggle free of being caught 'in flagrante' simply by saying "yes, so what?" Sex always sells, but a scandal doesn't necessarily kill a political career in Britain unless there hubris or hypocrisy are also involved. But Clinton, who famously cheated on his wife in the Oval Office – a sin of sins in the holy of holies – was nearly impeached for it, a punishment previously reserved for Nixon for the Watergate cover-up: a genuine scandal of political misconduct. But despite a divorce rate of 50% or higher, today's American public, especially those parts dominated by a Christian value-set, demand personal perfection from politicians. The media industry, courting their audience share, goes along for the ride. (An unpleasant side-note is that the blame has fallen much more on Paula Broadwell than on Petraeus. He has come out of this mess looking like someone with a forgiveable weakness for women that many seem to expect of powerful men. It is Broadwell who has been made the villain; a temptress who betrayed her family for personal gain; while his wife Holly Petraeus, in a breathtaking display of callousness, has been condemned in the more unsavoury corners of Twitter for being too old and too unattractive to hold on to her husband. Even the LA Times, struggling to make sense of this issue, ran a schizophrenic column by Megan Baum entitled "The Frump Factor and Holly Petraeus" which bemoans the sexism of Holly Petraeus's treatment with one breath and describes her as "an unlikely partner for a staggeringly accomplished man" with the next.) 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Dennis Crocker is the ambassador to New Vegas for the New California Republic in 2281. His full title, according to Ambassador Crocker's note, is 'Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary'.
Ambassador Crocker began his political career as a mayor in NCR sometime before 2261, and worked his way up through the ranks. He was the head of Kimball's campaign for his successful run for NCR Council, which he attributes to why he has his current position. Crocker is a strong believer in diplomacy and hopes to unite the Mojave Wasteland under the NCR peacefully. However, his work has made very little progress since Mr. House refused to even meet him in person after signing the New Vegas treaty.
Ambassador Crocker is the third successor of the title of ambassador to the Strip following Susanna Edith, and is in his seventh year of Ambassadorship in 2281. He keeps himself busy with day-to-day paper work and aiding the NCR police in keeping troops in line on the strip. Though he hopes for the annexation of New Vegas, he has little hope for success, and believes his predecessors expected too much of Mr. House in this area. Crocker believes once the Legion is no longer a threat to the Mojave, negotiations may be able to proceed at a better pace.
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
|This character plays Caravan.
|They can bid 2000 caps.
|This character starts quests.
- Things That Go Boom: Crocker wants you to start diplomatic ties with the Boomers. After you finish the quest Volare! and have become idolized by the Boomers, you can speak to Pearl and ask her for support during the Battle of Hoover Dam. Once it is done, you can return to Crocker and tell him that the Boomers are now on NCR's side.
- Kings' Gambit: Crocker will ask you to stop the attacks against NCR civilian settlers in Freeside.
Other interactionsEdit
- When you leave the Lucky 38 after speaking with Mr. House, you will receive a letter from Crocker delivered by an NCR trooper. In the letter, he requests that you come speak to him at the NCR Embassy, agreeing to pardon you of any crimes you may have committed against the NCR up to that point.
|Other items
|On death
|Ambassador Crocker's suit
|Bottle caps
- Killing Crocker (even while hidden & equipped with a Stealth Boy), will cause NCR infamy as well as the soldiers inside the Embassy & outside the Strip to become hostile towards the player. Also, killing Crocker will start the quest Don't Tread on the Bear! (if not already given this quest), only to immediately be failed by default, due to his death. (You are then seen as a 'terrorist' to the NCR)
- Crocker wears a boutonnière, the state flower of California.
- Some NCR troops in Vegas seem to have a very low opinion of him, most likely due to his pacifistic views.
- Former Legion scout Ulysses respects Chief Hanlon a great deal more than he does Crocker. If the Courier comes to the Divide with a good reputation with the NCR, Ulysses refers to Crocker as a "hollow man," like President Aaron Kimball, possessing only "half the life Hanlon had," and even then only because of the Courier aiding him.
- On failing Don't Tread on the Bear!, Crocker will disappear from the Embassy.
- Ambassador Crocker claims he has had the position for 7 years and that he is the 3rd ambassador, following Phillip Granger and Susanna Edith (served 2 years), yet the treaty itself is only 7 years old and Mr. House only organized the Families right before it. This causes a discrepancy in the timeline.
- Crocker is the only one in the game who will bet the highest amount caps when playing Caravan.
|The following is based on the Wild Wasteland trait and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
- In the quest Kings' Gambit, after learning from Rotface that Pacer has a jet addiction, return to the embassy. After telling Crocker this information, you'll have a special dialogue option for Wild Wasteland, which causes Crocker to shout "DAMN IT, I'M AN AMBASSADOR, NOT A DOCTOR!" This is a paraphrase of an oft-repeated Star Trek quote from Bones McCoy, Damn it, I'm a Doctor not a ....
|End of information based on the Wild Wasteland trait.
- If you're wearing NCR faction armor, he may call you a soldier.
Dennis Crocker appears only in Fallout: New Vegas, and is mentioned in Lonesome Road if the player has high reputation with the NCR.
Behind the scenesEdit
Dennis Crocker was originally intended to be a Caucasian male, however, due to an error, a non-Caucasian voice actor recorded his lines. The character's appearance was altered accordingly.[1]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 If the Courier waits in the Embassy at night when Ambassador Crocker isn't around, waiting for him to appear in the morning/afternoon, he will not appear in the building. All you have to do is take your player and exit the Embassy and re-enter for the Ambassador and his secretary to appear in the Embassy. He will not always reappear though, sometimes disappearing from the game permanently. [verified]
- On the PC, this can be corrected by opening the console and entering prid 116840, followed by enable.
- Alternately, open the console and enter player.placeatme 00112640
- PC Xbox 360 Upon completing "Things That Go Boom" if you become idolized by the NCR a random MP will act as the male assassin for one who does wrong towards the NCR. He will complete his line and then attack you. Killing him does not cause infamy. [verified]
- Playstation 3 When the Courier would like to know more about the NCR, when having a negative reputation(merciful thug), the spoken text is not the same as the text on the screen. [verified]
- Playstation 3 Xbox 360 In the subtitles it says hero of the NCR while he says citizen of the NCR. [verified]
- PC While receiving the quest Kings' Gambit if the Courier asks about the other option besides assassinating Pacer, Ambassador Crocker will suggest the Courier "integrate" with the King, when the subtitles say "ingratiate." [verified]


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This HOWTO tries to solve the common problems related to package building
- Prevent installing unwanted cruft on your system by doing the build process on a chroot (as a sandboxed, jailed) environment
- Making sure that the package works for other people too who are trying it
- Automatically downloaded dependencies make process smoother
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pbuilder is a tool which is "used for creating and maintaining chroot environment and building Debian package in the chroot environment".
l'll be doing all the configuration locally only, by overriding the defaults. Another way is to make pbuilder settings to /etc/pbuilderrc
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- Install necessary packages
Code:sudo aptitude install pbuilder devscripts
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Code:## Overrides /etc/pbuilderrc # Default distribution #DISTRIBUTION=feisty COMPONENTS="main restricted universe multiverse" # Repositories MIRRORSITE=http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu #OTHERMIRROR="deb ${MIRRORSITE} ${DISTRIBUTION}-updates ${COMPONENTS}|deb ${MIRRORSITE} ${DISTRIBUTION}-security ${COMPONENTS}" # For build results BUILDRESULT=${HOME}/pbuilder/result # Hooks for chroot environment HOOKDIR=${HOME}/pbuilder/hook.d # Mount directories inside chroot environment BINDMOUNTS=${BUILDRESULT} # Bash prompt inside pbuilder export debian_chroot="pbuild$$" # For D70results hook export LOCALREPO=${BUILDRESULT} # Always include source package #DEBBUILDOPTS="-sa"
- Create a hook that allows to include local packages as dependencies. This feature is ofter necessary
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These are the file contentsCode:mkdir -p ~/pbuilder/result mkdir ~/pbuilder/hook.d nano ~/pbuilder/hook.d/D70results
This code block creates a list of the packages in ${LOCALREPO} folder for APT to use as repository.Code:#!/bin/sh echo "Executing hook: $0" cd ${LOCALREPO} dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages echo "deb file:${LOCALREPO} ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update
Hook is always executed inside the chroot environment before the build phase, and packages are available
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- Make the hook file executable
Code:chmod +x ~/pbuilder/hook.d/D70results
- Update the chroot environment, so that new modules (repositories) are included too.
(Also, If you later need to change your chroot environment, use this command)
Code:sudo pbuilder update --override-config
Building packages
- Building the packages should be as easy as
Then eitherCode:mkdir -p ~/packages/mypackage cd ~/packages/mypackage apt-get source mypackage
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Code:cd mypackage-x.x.x pdebuild --use-pdebuild-internal
- Succefully built packages are placed on ${BUILDRESULT} folder
- These packages are also used as dependencies, so if you get weird behaviour when building other packages,
clean the contents of this folder and try again
Updating the base build environment
- You should update the build environment when new updates are released for the base system
Code:sudo pbuilder update --autocleanaptcache
A real life example: nautilus
Code:# enable Ubuntu source repositories on /etc/apt/sources.list mkdir -p ~/packages/nautilus cd ~/packages/nautilus apt-get source nautilus sudo pbuilder build nautilus_2.14.1-0ubuntu9.dsc #or alternatively do pdebuild --use-pdebuild-internal on nautilus folder
- Prefer pbuilder instead of pdebuild wrapper
- pbuilder uses .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz to build the package.
- If you change anything inside the source folder, source package must be rebuilt for pbuilder (or use pdebuild instead).
- To rebuild source package
Code:dpkg-source -b folder
- /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples contains some nice example hooks, especially C10shell which is invoked when something goes wrong on build process.
You can find the build target files in /tmp/buildd.
- If you want to pass DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to pbuilder and you're using sudo, you must prevent reset of certain environment variables. Using visudo, add definition
Code:Defaults env_keep+="DEB_* BUILD* PATH"
- Default dependency resolution logic using apt-get is quite slow. To make it way more faster, change the resolver to gdebi. Add to your ~/.pbuilderrc
Code:# use gdebi for dependency resolution PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD=/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-gdebi
- pdebuild doesn't support hooks.
- pdebuild ignores BUILDRESULT variable set on /etc/pbuilderrc. You can specify it using --buildresult. see pdebuild man page for details.
- if you want to improve pbuilder's speed, check out package called cowdancer
- Useful way to clean out obsolete packages from pbuilder cache
Code:sudo pbuilder update --autocleanaptcache
- http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/d...d5&format=html
- http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/d...8f&format=html
- http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/sof...ilder-doc.html
- http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/p...rts/index.html
- Debian version of pbuilder doesn't currently have support for COMPONENTS option
- added OTHERMIRROR to ~/.pbuilderrc. This allows to use additional Ubuntu repositories. Not enabled by default.
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- added PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD to ~/.pbuilderrc. Makes dependency resolution very fast by using gdebi instead (In Ubuntu package only)


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This is before and after of my grandfathers toolbox/liquor cabinet.
My grandmother would not allow "spirits" in her house. So in my grandfather's work shop he kept monshine, whiskey and chasers locked up in his toolbox. On family gatherings you knew you had come of age if you were invited to the workshop for a "tottie" men only please!
He was obviously a product of the depresion as he made this toolbox out of whatever scrap lumber was available. This box was made mostly from shipping crates addressed to Collins and Aikman, Roxboro, NC from Daylight Corp NY, NY (I think it was daylight, can't completely make it out)
Tried to maintain the integrety of the age, wear and tear and the original lettering. Hand sanded, rubbed with tungseed oil and a light coat of varnish. Great memories.
Some of the tools shown are original as is the moonshine.


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- I met my husband when I was ten and after eleven years of being friends, we started dating when I was twenty one — BY FAR the best surprise of my life. We got married at a vineyard on Long Island 10 months ago.
- My younger sister and I were both born at home (on purpose) and without a doubt I plan on doing the same.
- When I was little I wanted to be a marine biologist and although I'm no longer pursuing that dream, I will never stop adoring dolphins, manatees and the beach.
- Some of my favorite indulgences include a glass of red wine (preferably bold & fruity), hot lavender and epsom salt baths (so relaxing), watching The Golden Girls (now I can appreciate all of the jokes that completely went over my head when I was a kid), and foot massages (rejuvenation for the entire body!).
- My favorite season is fall, especially in the Catskills.
- I would take vegetables over dessert any day – I just don't have a sweet tooth!
- I make candles and beauty products all the time and would love to have my own line one day, as well as a boutique or spa where I could sell the line. :)
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Friands, friands, friands. I'm never sure what I think about you, sure you're simple to make but you demand expensive ingredients such as almond meal and berries. Yes, you're a good way to use up excess egg whites but are you really worth it? Apparently my friends think you are, I still remain unsure.
Friands are an Australian and New Zealand treat, but like most things they're an adaptation of something else. Apparently they're based off financier; my source for this information is, naturally, wikipedia. Any information beyond this little snippet of trivia is hard to find.
In Australia you can buy tins specificity for making friands, they're typically oval shaped. However, it's not the shape that makes a friand a friand, it's the ingredients. Friands come in many shapes and sizes - why the oval shape has become associated with the friand I have no idea. I personally prefer to bake mine in cute paper cases because they're so easy to clean up when you've finished as there's no tray, except for a flat baking tray, to wash up.
I think these friands could use the addition of coconut, however everyone I mentioned this idea to shook their heads at me and said "no!" rather loudly. Next time I'll make them with coconut and we'll see how everyone reacts.
Raspberry & lemon friands
(adapted from Use Real Butter)
makes approximately 8
125g (4 oz) unsalted butter
110g (1 cup) almond meal
235g (1 2/3 cups) icing sugar
115g (3/4 cup) plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
5 egg whites
45g (1/3 cup) frozen raspberries
Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F), place paper baking cups on a flat tray.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Cook the butter until it is light golden in colour, remove from heat and set aside.
Combine the almond meal, icing sugar, flour, baking powder, and lemon zest in a medium bowl and whisk to combine. Stir in the egg whites and mix until well combined. Pour in the butter and stir until completely combined.
Spoon batter into paper baking cups, filling each cup just over 3/4 full. Scatter a few berries on top of each friand, resist pushing them into the batter. Bake friands for 15-20 minutes, or until they are golden on top. Cool on a wire rack.


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You know that feeling you get when you're sure you've left the iron on? Or you think you might have? Or the gas. Or in K's case, the straightener (an iron for hair). You know you've left the house a thousand times before and you know that to date it has always been there when you get back – a house, not the charred remains of one – but you just can't shake the feeling that a disaster is unfolding even as you consider whether it is or not. Unfolding, that is.
And then you get the negotiation with self; well, even if it's on it was propped up on the safety thingamy at the end of the ironing board so it won't burn through anything. Or the straightener is on the bidet (did I mention we now have a bidet?) which neither of us has had the courage to use as yet so it's bone dry and, as far as electrical fire risks go, approximately a zero. More


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Linux authentication troubles? Try Active Directory
While various authentication options are available for managing Linux servers in a heterogeneous IT environment, is Microsoft Active Directory the best one?
In a heterogeneous data center, administering access and managing identity can be time-consuming any way you slice it. With user data scattered within metadirectories or elsewhere in a company, creating single sign-on techniques for disparate data is vexing for many IT departments.
Further complicating things, solutions for Linux authentication in heterogeneous data centers are legion. Finding the right fit can be as difficult as managing the problem itself. And as system administrators weigh the options, a central question is, Do any of the alternatives trump Microsoft's Active Directory (AD)?
Most metadirectory deployments synchronize data into at least one Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory server to ensure that an LDAP application like single sign-on has access to recent data. System administrators can also create special LDAP directories for their Linux and Unix boxes. Big-box applications from IBM Corp., CA and Hewlett-Packard Co. are also available, but at a higher price point. Legacy approaches, such as Sun Microsystems' Network Information Service for password management, also exist, but experts warn that this approach often fails IT compliance regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).Is Active Directory the solution?
But many analysts say AD, Microsoft's implementation of LDAP directory services for central authentication and authorization services in Windows environments, is the answer. Instead of establishing a series of LDAP directories, maintaining a single repository in AD is much more manageable, say experts.
Why Active Directory? "Because it's there," said Dr. Ant Allan, research vice president with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. "[Active Directory] is pretty much a ubiquitous platform within most organizations."
And even as Linux becomes more central to mission-critical data center operations, Microsoft's technology still makes sense for environments with multiple points of control and multiple user identity repositories, Allan said.
Sally Hudson, an analyst with Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, said it is in the IT manager's best interest to have an AD strategy in place given strict compliance standards like Sarbanes-Oxley.
"[Active Directory] is pervasive. Users need to leverage their existing investments in AD to remove silos of identity and provide fine-grained access control mechanisms within a mixed environment," she said.Making the case for Active Directory
Centrify Corp. CTO Paul Moore, who will present a session on authentication at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco next week, said he often has to rationalize AD to Unix and Linux administrators.
"A rationale is necessary because we are trying to win over the Unix community within an enterprise; we are trying to persuade the *nix administrators within an organization that it is OK to trust AD as a master security store," he said.
And a raft of AD tools have cropped up to help make the case. Centrify's AD-syncing management and authentication dashboard Centrify DirectControl is used for centralized passwords and user privilege management on *nix machines. Other third-party applications such as Centeris Likewise Identity 3.0 and Quest Software Inc.'s Vintela Authentication Services offer similar functionality. A mainframe offering from Las Vegas-based Vanguard Integrity Professionals Inc. is also available.
Moore said there's been no history of serious security breaches with AD, even in light of the MS07-039 Active Directory update for Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 systems released earlier this month. The flaw could have allowed attackers to create malicious LDAP requests to take control of an affected system, but only if they were logged into a company's internal network, a Microsoft advisory on MS07-039 explained.
Even so, Moore said the exploit was a first for Active Directory, and the technology still boasts an 80%-85% market penetration."We often encounter two types of *nix administrators: those that have embraced [Active Directory] and those who see it as a necessary evil," Moore said. For the latter, Moore and his team highlight AD's security chops and the fact that it currently fulfills important regulatory requirements. "If you take a look at the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard [PCI DSS], a large amount of what is described there is already met by AD. Therefore, if you make AD stretch out onto non-Windows systems, you can bring PCI compliance onto non-Windows systems," he said. The Active Directory checklist
During his LinuxWorld session on August 9, Moore will provide a checklist of considerations for determining the readiness of a data center.
As a preview of his session material, Moore laid out some of the more important questions IT managers should consider when evaluating a centralized Active Directory implementation:
- What kinds of machines will you move over to Active Directory?
- Which policies do you plan to enforce on these systems?
- Which servers will have access to which systems in your environment?
- Do you really know who has access to your system today? (Even if a user ID is taken from an existing Linux server and carried over to AD, the server won't know if the ID is relevant or if it should be granted access or not, he said. This creates security and SOX compliance concerns.)
Bottom line, IT managers need to determine who has access and who should have access. They need to establish the true intersection between technology and business needs.
Email Jack Loftus with your comments and suggestions.


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Obamacare enrollment hits target goal of 7 million
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a surge of sign-ups on the last day for open enrollment, Obamacare met the White House's original target of 7 million people signing up, White House spokesperson Jay Carney said.
To be exact, 7,041,000 people picked a plan on the government run exchanges.
"We surpassed everyone's expectations," he said at the White House daily press briefing.
President Barack Obama will address the milestone with a statement from the Rose Garden at 4:15 p.m. ET on Tuesday.
On Monday, more than 4.8 million visits were made to HealthCare.gov and 2 million calls were made to the call center, the official said.
The administration has not released details about the numbers, including how many people have submitted payment, ensuring their coverage.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office originally projected the 7 million target, which was embraced by administration officials.
Monday's crush of enrollees came despite a software bug early in the day that proved to be a fleeting reminder of the technical woes that plagued the system when it was rolled out.
"System isn't available at the moment," a message on HealthCare.gov said. "We're currently performing maintenance." But by 8 a.m. in Washington, the glitch had been resolved.
An official told CNN on Monday that the surge included a good percentage of young adults — a demographic whose inclusion among enrollees is considered key to controlling costs.
Consumers who attempted to sign up on Monday but who experienced technical problems in doing so will be given a few additional days to complete the process, the administration official said.
States running their own exchanges also cited a surge of interest. California's exchange ran sluggishly on Monday, but consumers there were given a reprieve, too. Those who didn't finish the process were given until April 15 to do so, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, said Monday.
But picking a plan isn't the final step to full enrollment — forking over the money to pay for it is. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told an Oklahoma TV station on Monday that insurers were reporting that 80% to 90% had paid.
Obamacare's primary goal is to reduce the ranks of the 45 million uninsured. It remains to be seen how that figure will be affected, though anecdotal evidence suggests many have enrolled. Until now, many Americans with pre-existing conditions had to pay sky-high prices for insurance, if they could get any at all. Often, insurers branded them "uninsurable."
The Affordable Care Act, which Congress passed in 2010 without GOP support, is considered President Barack Obama's signature domestic initiative.
The administration pulled out all the stops in the final weeks of the enrollment period.
Administration officials took to the radio airwaves by participating in 400 interviews, enlisted celebrities and athletes to promote the law, and engaged people on social media. And Obama's interview on the online comedycast "Between Two Ferns" resulted in the so-called Zach Galifianakis effect, resulting in 33 million views of his mock interview with the comedian.
While the administration is touting the first enrollment period as a success, Americans are divided over how they view the law. Last month, 46% said they viewed the law unfavorably (down 4 points since January), and 38% said they viewed it favorably (up 4 points since January), according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
Those who held unfavorable views cited concerns about costs (23%), opposition to the individual mandate (17%), and concerns about government intrusion (10%).
Those with favorable views cited expanded access to health care and health insurance (61%), followed by the perception that it will control health care costs and make it more affordable (10%) and that it will be good for the country (7%).
The telephone survey of 1,504 adults was conducted March 11-17 and had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 points.
Prof. Uwe Reinhardt, a health economist at Princeton University, said he was not surprised at the last-minute rush to sign up. "I think the prayer of the conservatives that this would collapse just didn't get answered," he told CNN on Tuesday. "It fills a need."
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Sorry in advance for a long post, but I know giving information sometimes helps with answers.
I keep about 15 or so albino corys in a 29 gallon and have raised them off-and-on for years, but have sometimes had difficulty with retention rates. The fry seem to do OK for 2 or so weeks then seem to die off (sometimes, but sometimes not).
I do not feed BBS or Microworms, nor is it really an option for a lot of reasons. Please don't debate me on this, as I know it would be much better for the fry, but it is not going to happen.
I know these fry can be raised with dry-type foods as I have done it, sometimes with about an 80% retention rate. Sometimes not. FYI, I use an anti-fungus until the fry are hatched.
I have tried the Hikari First Bites, but with some problems. I have used the Golden Pearls, usually in the 50 to 100 micron size, and occasionally used the same in the 05 to 50 micron size. With any of these foods, I place a small amount in a teaspoon, add some of the tank water to it, then use a small dropper to place in in the bottom of the tank. I typically start off with a 2.5 gallon, after a few days move them to a 5 gallon, and after a few weeks (2 or 3) move them to a 20 gallon long for grow-out. Also, I keep 5 or so ramshorn snails in the tank to clean up any waste food, etc. I move them when I think overcrowding is a problem, or they are dying off, which is the heart of the issue.
About the 3rd week of June I had a batch of about 100 to 200 hatch. The problem was that I was leaving on vacation for a week. I used a turkey baster, got some muck out of the filter, and added it for the newly hatched fry. I also placed some fry in the back of a Whisper filter, a trick I had used previously (successfully). Another person came in once and added some plankton flake (simply crushed it up). When I got home many were still OK. I moved them to the 20 gallon, fed them mostly the 50 to 100 golden pearls, and I guess I have about 50 to 60 % left and they are now about 1/2 inch. I usually don't have any problems once they are that size.
Meanwhile, when I returned home, I had about 250 eggs, which I pulled and placed in a 2.5 gallon. The fry hatched, and after a couple days I moved them to a 5 gallon bare bottom since there were so many of them. I started them off with the 50 to 100 golden pearls again, and they seemed to be doing very well for about two weeks. Maybe I would lose 5 or so a day. That increased to about 10 or more, and bottom line, I have now lost them all. I think the bottom of the tank was clean.
When batch number 2 hatched, I had another 200 or so eggs (batch #3), (believe it or not). I placed them in a 2.5 gallon, thinking I finally had this figured out. They hatched and I guess I have about 150 or so now. They are about 2 weeks old, getting overcrowded so I plan to move them tonight. My concern is I will begin losing them within the next week or so in the 5 gallon (like with batch #2). I think I will take them straight to the 20 gallon, maybe because I had better luck with it on batch #1.
Again, sorry for the long email, and finally here are my questions:
1) Are any of you raising cory fry with dry food only, and if so, what are you using and how are you feeding it? I have heard that some of that type food will expand once consumed and bloats fry causing them to die. If that is true, it has not consistently been my experience.
2) Are you letting it soak before feeding for long, maybe 1/2 hour?
3) What fry to tank ratio do you keep for the larger harvests, and up to what size?
4) How (and do you) keep the bottom of your tanks clean? I switch between thinking I should try to keep it clean versus stuff on the bottom gives them more muck to eat? Obviously the snails leave their waste, and I try to remove it.
5) Do you have any other suggestions for food without going to the live foods? Any other dry-type products that would be available? And how would you suggest feeding it?
I would like to try other corys, but have vowed not to seriously start until I have this down pat.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and for any support.


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Book Publishers Circulating 'Talking Points' To Counter Arguments That Ebook Prices Need To Go Lower
from the fighting-basic-economics-is-never-a-good-idea deptFor a while now, we've been discussing how the pricing on ebooks doesn't make much sense, and almost certainly needs to fall. Like many industries, the book business could learn a lot from other businesses that have realized that drastically lowering the price on digital goods can massively increase sales, and better maximize profits. But, instead, book publishers seem to be pushing in the opposite direction, and trying to push the price of digital books up. We recently wrote about a NY Times article that suggested consumers might revolt if the publishers keep moving in this direction, which is actually supported by reports of how consumers are reacting to publishers' anti-consumer activities with regards to ebooks.
Given all that, I was amused when a friend "in the business" forwarded me an email message sent to a mailing list of book publishers in response to that NY Times article about consumers' potential revolt, that encourages publishers to get out there and fight back against such perceptions. The email contains a list of "myths and potential talking points." Some of which are amusing. It starts out by saying $9.99 doesn't need to be the price for ebooks, which is true, but they don't even seem to consider the notion that the price could be less (or even free), focusing only on examples of people paying more for ebooks. It then suggests that publishers start blaming the ebook device makers for "the implicit, false promise" that ebooks can be cheap. That's ridiculous. The idea isn't "false," it's just basic economics, and we've already seen it playing out in music. Why wouldn't the same economics play in the ebook space as well?
The talking points also tries to attack the claim that Amazon is losing money on every ebook sold by not actually responding to that (mostly accurate) claim, but instead directing your attention elsewhere, by pointing out that Amazon has a $50 billion market cap and can sell products like ebooks at a loss and still make massive profits. Yes, this is true. And it's true because Amazon seems to understand the basic economics of where the money is made: which is in scarce goods, not in infinite ones.
Among the other talking points is the claim that people who buy ebook readers for hundreds of dollars shouldn't bitch about ebook prices, because they're obviously rich enough to afford whatever publishers think the books should be priced at (again, ignoring basic economics). Also there's a claim that publishers are really lowering the prices on ebooks even as consumers see higher prices. While this is technically true in cases like Macmillan, where the company is lowering its wholesale price in order to get Amazon to raise its retail price, it misses the fact that this doesn't matter to consumers. Consumers don't care about the wholesale price. The talking points also included one about how publishers' deals with Apple might actually price books lower anyways -- and it seems like that particular talking point has been "anonymously" pushed into a NY Times article already.
The list goes on in this nature, but it's worrisome that publishers are thinking this way. Just as we were recently discussing, they're acting like the recording industry ten years ago: hunkering down for a "war" of words, rather than actually focusing on new business models or figuring out what consumers actually want. Instead, they're trying to dictate what consumers want and hoping for some sort of magic bullet in the form of ebook readers. This is a dangerous move by publishers that can only come back to haunt them. Instead of focusing on "countering" what consumers are saying, why not actually listen to them, and look for ways to provide what they want?
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The Devil's Throat is a location in the Mojave Wasteland.
The Devil's Throat is a giant radioactive crater in the northeastern desert. There are pools of contaminated water at the bottom of the crater, and a wrecked truck in the center with scattered toxic waste barrels nearby. A dead super mutant lies at the rear of the truck.
The area is inhabited by centaurs, including the giant evolved centaur. They respawn after three in-game days when killed.
Notable lootEdit
- Combat armor, reinforced and a unique party hat - found on a dead prospector in the truck trailer.
- The unique minigun, CZ57 Avenger - also in the trailer, lying next to the dead prospector.
- The rad level in the water around the barrels normally sits around 11 per drink.
- The rad level by the barrels of radioactive waste varies from 2-8 rads per second.
- Northwest of the Devil's Throat is a super mutant camp with 2-4 super mutant masters. Sometimes two NCR Rangers will spawn in the camp and fight the super mutants.
|The following is based on the Wild Wasteland trait and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
- A Wild Wasteland encounter will occur at this camp in which an undetonated atomic bomb called The One will be present to the north-northwest of the Devil's Throat, only a few paces away.
|End of information based on the Wild Wasteland trait.
- The truck in the crater is unique, in that it does not have a motor and doors like the other truck wreckages found in the wastes.
The Devil's Throat appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenesEdit
Devil's Throat cavern is based on the Devil's Throat Sinkhole at Gold Butte National Monument in Clark County, Nevada.
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Upon returning to this location, the dead super mutant may appear alive and hostile, but with very few hit points. He will respawn after several in-game days, either alive or dead. [verified]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 When visiting this place for the first time, neither the super mutant nor the dead prospector will be there. However, the CZ57 Avenger will still be in the correct spot. Saving and reloading or returning later may fix this. [verified]
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The chocolate bar was first unveiled in June but had its launch delayed after a legal challenge from Toblerone, a Swiss division of Mondelēz, formerly Kraft Foods.
Mondelēz claimed the high street giant had ripped off its iconic nougat treat.
But Poundland claimed it has a distinctive flavour compared to the classic Swiss confectionary - and is inspired by Shropshire's Wrekin and Ercall hills not the Alps.
Poundland's lawyers argued the shape was no longer protected under trademark after Toblerone controversially widened the gaps between its peaks earlier this year.
The row has now been settled and the budget bar will sell for £1, the same price as Toblerone, but will contain 20 per cent more chocolate.
Poundland said half a million of the bars would go on sale in December in "distinctive" packaging different from the light-gold wrapper it had planned.
The deal brought to an end a three-month long legal wrangle in which Poundland tried to claim Toblerone had "irrevocably abandoned" its trademark when it changed the shape of its product.
The bargain retailer said it was launching 'Twin Peaks' "in response to the unfavourable reception" that had greeted the launch of the Swiss company's new version of the beloved bar - which had fewer chunks and thinner peaks.
"In the last 12 months we believe our customers alone have missed out on 250 tonnes of chocolate after the size of their favourite item was chopped," said Poundland trading controller Chris Burns.
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A representative of Poundland said: "Kraft (also the owners of Cadburys) complained about the shape of Twin Peaks.
"In recent years Kraft has fought hard to keep Nestle from registering the KitKat shape, but this summer it argued that it had similar rights in the Toblerone shape.
"Poundland disagreed with this.
"Following positive discussions, the first 500,000 bars, which will be on sale for £1 throughout December in their original shape, are set to be a collectors' item.
"After this Poundland will revise the shape so it better represents the outline of the Wrekin and Ercall hills - the inspiration behind Twin Peaks as a British alternative to Toblerone and offering 30g more chocolate."