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Casey Elementary School ( Lubbock )
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Casey Elementary School is a place of kind School belonging to the County of ( Lubbock ).
The closest populated place is that of Wolfforth that is0.55 miles far from Casey Elementary School.
Casey Elementary School is also 14.74 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the Saint Mary of the Plains Hospital Heliport .
The weather forecasting are available for the town of Wolfforth , that is 0.55 miles far from Casey Elementary School .
The Zip Code of Casey Elementary School is 79382.
Besides Casey Elementary School in the County of ( Lubbock ) there are the following places of kind School . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
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Day twenty-one: How'd you get your hair like that?
For day twenty-one of the #denverhair project, I decided to hop on the TBT (Throwback Thursday) trend but one day early. That means that today is TBW – Throwback Wednesday, and this installment of "How'd you get your hair like that?" comes from a one Bruno Mars concert at Red Rocks that took place a few weeks ago (read my previous posts from this show here and here).
Meet Lena, a school teacher down in Texas, who has been growing out her hair for the past four years. Lena's locks are amazing. I love them. And for two reasons in particular:
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Sure. I love learning about everyone's perfect and natural hair that somehow becomes wonderfully styled just by waking up. But for some of us, our hair needs tending. Sometimes twenty minutes, sometimes forty-five and sometimes two hours. Some of us do whatever it takes (and spend however long it takes) to achieve the look we are going for.
I have no doubt that if Lena were to do absolutely nothing with her hair, it would look just as beautiful. But hard work is hard work – whether it's out in the field or in front of the mirror -and Lena, your hard work has paid off.
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China kindergarten class poisoned, 2 kids killed
BEIJING -- Two children died and another 30 were sickened in a mass poisoning at a kindergarten in southwestern China, authorities said Friday.
Investigators identified the toxic substance as a powerful rat poison, but did not yet know how it had been ingested Wednesday in the kindergarten in Yunnan province's rural Qiubei county, according to a statement from the provincial government.
Food served at the school, the Jiajia Kindergarten, has been tested and found to be safe, the statement said. The particular type of poison was outlawed years ago as a threat to human health, but remains in circulation.
State broadcaster CCTV said that the school began accepting students last year despite not being fully licensed, a common problem in China's vast and largely impoverished hinterland.
Apart from the victims, aged 4 and 5, another six children remained hospitalized while the others had been released and returned home.
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Chinese schools have suffered a series of mass stabbings and other attacks by mentally disturbed people or those bearing grudges. There have also been incidents of school staff administering medication without authorization.


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TGIF was one of the most-loved blocks of programming ever to hit us '80s babies. The families and situations typified what we all wanted in America in the late '80s: big families full of love, odd romantic triangles, nannies, nerds, dweebs, flashback episodes, and people getting pies thrown in their faces (and minorities whenever you could fit them in there somewhere too were always good).
Here are our favorite TGIF shows from 1988 to 1999, when it officially started sucking. You don't remember Baby Talk?
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9. Just The Ten Of Us We're pretty sure no one else remembers this show, about a fat basketball coach and his family. But you know who was hot--the daughter played by Jamie Luner. She was arguably one of the hottest redheads on television when we were little, next to Miss Yvonne of course.
8. Hangin' With Mr. Cooper We knew no one personally who liked Mr. Cooper. Its only saving graces was Holly Robinson Peete as Vanessa, and maybe En Vogue, who did the theme song.
7. Dinosaurs (One Season) Dinosaurs was about a family of dinosaurs that was like a prehistoric All In The Family. Somehow we sensed an Italian vibe off the dinosaurs. Like you just knew that somewhere in the past Earl Sinclair was putting dinosaurs heads in rock vices.
6. Step By Step Step By Step reminded us how hot Suzanne Somers was, and it kept Patrick Duffy on our national radar a little bit longer. The world would've been a darker place without Sasha Mitchell, erstwhile karate champion and the poor man's Keanu Reeves.
5. Boy Meets World The only thing we liked about Boy Meets World was Topanga, the thick-and-sexy friend of Cory's who ruined us for the rest of our lives. We've been chasing Topanga ever since. She had a bitch face. Also--can't forget Mr. Feeny, who looked like he enjoyed scotch and talking sports cars.
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3. Family Matters Family Matters chronicled the ridicule and belittlement of a neighborhood nerd. In today's climate he would've shot the Winslow family to death. Steve Urkel is probably somewhere working at Apple for Steve Jobs and making an iPhone for your dog. The dude was building his own robots and making elixirs to turn him into Stefan, who was basically a walking penis. You'd think you would wanna be his friend.
2. Perfect Strangers Perfect Strangers wouldn't fly today, since it was about an illegal immigrant skirting the system for his own nefarious and sexual gains. Mypos, his supposed homeland, wasn't even a real place, and Balki was just an Eastern-bloc spy (and mildly retarded). We knew all that when we were just six years-old. Don't be ridiculous, you know it's true ... partly.
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To make the wasabi smashed potatoes: Boil potatoes in salt water until fork tender, about 10 to 15 minutes. Strain and place in a big bowl. Add wasabi, soy milk, salt, and pepper and smash together. Don't over-mash.
To make the Teriyaki Sauce: Heat a saucepan on medium, add mirin, tamari, honey, sesame oil, garlic, and ginger, bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Strain the sauce to remove garlic and ginger.
To make the Pepper-Crusted Tuna Steak: Coat tuna steaks evenly on all sides with freshly-cracked black pepper. In a frying pan, heat the canola oil on high heat until smoking. Place steaks in frying pan and baste with teriyaki sauce. For medium rare steak: cook for 1 minute, flip and cook for another minute.
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Elise Molnar and the Crimson will travel to California March 11-17 (photo courtesy Harvard Athletic Communications).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's water polo team will face some of the toughest competition in the nation next week as the team travels to California during spring break. The Crimson will matchup against three ranked teams in five games during the six-day trip.
Schedule (All Times EST)
March 11 at No. 16 UC Santa Barbara, 3 p.m.
March 12 at Whittier, 6 p.m.
March 16 at No. 19 Long Beach State, 6 p.m.
March 17 at Cal Baptist, 12 p.m.
March 17 at No. 8 UC Irvine, 9 p.m.
The Crimson (8-5, 1-1 CWPA Southern) is led by junior Aisha Price and senior Devan Kennifer, who have each put up impressive numbers this season. Price leads the team with 37 goals, while Kennifer has added 34 scores to go along with her team-highs in assists (22) and steals (49). Senior Monica Zdrojewski has also contributed 22 goals, 20 assists and 25 steals.
Dukes Named Player of the Week
Ariel Dukes stopped 32 shots over the course of four games at last weekend's Harvard Invitational to earn the CWPA Southern Division Rookie of the Week award March 8. The freshman had 10 saves, her most of the weekend, in a 13-8 win over Bucknell and also added an assist in the victory. Dukes totaled two assists and three steals during the four-game invite.
The Crimson in California
This will mark the 13th consecutive season that Harvard has made a trip to the Golden State. Last season, the Crimson went 2-5 during its spring break trip with wins over Santa Clara and Fresno Pacific. Over the last 12 season, Harvard owns a 26-26 record in California.
No. 16 UC Santa Barbara
The Gauchos (11-10) are led by Shelby Haroldson, who has registered 54 points (19 goals, 35 assists) and a team-high 31 steals. Bryce Winton is the team's leading goal scorer with 24.
Harvard has not faced UC Santa Barbara since 2003, when it lost 12-4, and trails in the all-time series, 2-0.
The Poets (4-7) began the year ranked No. 6 in the country, but have since fallen out of the rankings. Most recently, Whittier dropped four straight games at the Posada Royale Invite.
The Crimson and Whittier have met on one previous occasion, an 8-5 Harvard win in 2000.
No. 19 Long Beach State
Long Beach State (4-8) started the season just 2-6, but has rebounded to win two of its last three. The 49ers beat No. 20 UC San Diego and Santa Clara last week, but fell to No. 2 Stanford. The Beach is led by junior Melissa Matheson's 20 scores, while sophomore Kelly Ringel has stopped 106 shots in goal.
The Crimson fell to the 49ers, 14-7, in 2000 in the only previous meeting between the two schools.
Cal Baptist
The Lancers (8-7), which is receiving votes in the most recent CWPA poll, is on a four game winning streak entering the week. Petra Kovacs has been the most prolific scorer for Cal Baptist, as the senior has found the back of the cage 27 times this season.
The Lancers own a 4-1 advantage in the all-time series against Harvard, including wins in the last two meetings in 2007 and 2008.
No. 8 UC Irvine
The Anteaters are the highest ranked team on Harvard's schedule, as UC Irvine is ranked No. 8 in the latest CWPA poll. The 'Eaters have played four teams ranked in the top seven, going 1-5 against the nation's top squads. Jessy Cardey leads the 'Eaters with 19 goals.
This will be the first meeting between Harvard and UC Irvine.


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Rated 3 out of 5 by DMBH from Beautiful, but it split after 12 uses I purchased 2 of these bowls about 6 months ago and I use 1 of them about 2-3 times per week. I love it because It is great for chopped salads using one of those rounded knives like they use to chop salads at subway and other restaurants. The size and the shape of this bowl are perfect! I only gave it three stars because even though I wash, immediately dry and treat it with mineral oil after every single use, it has already split. It split below the top ring, so I can still use it, but its still a bummer that it split.Date published: 2015-07-13Rated 5 out of 5 by kduffysi from Awesome Salad Bowl I purchased this bowl several years ago for myself, and absolutely love it! It is perfect for serving large salads and always looks great on any table. In the past few years, we have given it as a wedding gift several times for friends & family and they always share that they absolutely love it! It is the perfect gift that couples will have for years to come.Date published: 2015-06-26Rated 5 out of 5 by SuSu2 from Owned over 3 years and still beautiful The key is in the maintenance in the beginning. Yes, washing and drying immediately, but also treating with mineral oil before the 1st use and often the 1st few months. After that, you can relax and treat when they look a little dry or remember to.. Somehow they enhance the experience of a caesar salad, like one you would get in a really fine restaurant. I recommend Howard Butcher Block Conditioner.Date published: 2015-06-26Rated 2 out of 5 by Giglang from Beautiful Salad Bowl The cherry wood salad bowl is certainly a work of art, however, it has split. I am very careful--never soak & always dry immediately. I purchased the salad bowl six months ago.Date published: 2015-01-01Rated 5 out of 5 by cooksastorm from perfect gift! This bowl makes the perfect wedding gift. Almost any couple will move for a few years, and this is one classic gift that won't break. Alone, it's beautiful and fits anyone's taste. Depending on what you want to spend, you can add to it: salad making accessories, cookbook, servers. (Get one for yourself)Date published: 2014-02-26Rated 5 out of 5 by Aceto from beautiful salad bowl I gave this bowl as a wedding gift. I got to see it and was so impressed with the quality and beauty of the wood. It is large enough to serve salad when having company, and makes a wonderful presentation!Date published: 2013-03-11


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Manny Being Manny, This Time in Taiwan
Manny Ramirez, a 12-time MLB All-Star, opted out his of one-year contract with a Taiwanese baseball team after only three months. The WSJ's Jenny Hsu tells Michael Arnold about the impact even a little Ramirez had in baseball-crazed Taiwan.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Security in any computing environment is a system of processes, people, and machines. Security for any size organization doesn't just happen; you must plan it. Part of that scheme is database security enabling different types of users to access different levels of data. SQL Server 7.0 has new features to let you plan database security with more precision—and more complexity—than you can with SQL Server 6.5.
The basis of the Windows NT and SQL Server security architectures is a system of users and groups. In addition, SQL Server 7.0 introduces several types of roles, including fixed-server and fixed-database roles—sets of permissions associated with a specific type of functionality. Roles are the hottest new part of SQL Server 7.0 security. A group is the unit of security within NT, and the database role performs that function within SQL Server 7.0. Groups can contain NT users and other groups, but roles are more inclusive and might contain SQL Server logins, NT groups and users, and other roles.
Plan your security by arranging users into groups and database roles; this setup lets you allow or deny access to whole ranks of users at once. Together, groups and roles are powerful tools for database security: Users are in an NT group for Windows NT security access needs, and database roles for specific SQL Server access.
Integration with NT
SQL Server 7.0 security is better integrated with NT and provides greater flexibility than earlier versions of SQL Server. To access SQL Server 7.0, a user passes through two levels of security, a process similar to earlier versions. First, users encounter the authentication system. Second, users encounter the permissions system.
The authentication process verifies that the user has the authority to connect to SQL Server, and to use a database. Two server authentication modes exist:
- NT authentication: When users attempt to connect to SQL Server using their Windows NT account, SQL Server verifies that the Windows NT account is authentic, and then verifies that either the Windows NT user (or a group the user is a member of) has been authorized to log in to SQL Server. A connection using a Windows NT account is referred to as a trusted connection because SQL Server trusts that Windows NT has properly verified the user's identity and authenticity.
- Mixed-mode (Windows NT and SQL Server) authentication: Mixed mode lets users connect to SQL Server using either the Windows NT account or a SQL Server account (referred to as SQL Server authentication). Users who connect using a Windows NT account can use trusted connections in either NT or mixed mode. However, when a user connects to SQL Server over a nontrusted connection (meaning they attempt to log in using a SQL Server login account), SQL Server checks to see whether the login account and password are valid. (The documentation states this process enables backward compatibility, but this process is also a requirement for connections from non-NT systems and Internet clients. The phrasing in the documentation suggests Microsoft will remove nontrusted security over time—not a great omen for mixed-platform systems. However, if Kerberos (in Windows 2000, formerly Windows NT 5.0) handles future security validation, non-NT systems providing authenticated Kerberos tickets will be able to access SQL Server—at least theoretically.
After you have successfully logged in to SQL Server, you must switch to a database. You must have a valid user account in each database you wish to connect to. This user account is separate from your login. Every database (except Model) that ships with SQL Server 7.0 has a guest account, so anyone with a valid SQL Server login can connect to them. However, if you create a new database, it won't have a guest account by default, and no one except the database creator will have access. Database access can be granted to a SQL Server login, a Windows NT user, or a Windows NT group.
After security has authenticated the account, you enter the permissions validation stage. There, SQL Server defines the activities the user has permission to perform.
Microsoft is moving in the direction of Windows NT integrated security, and strongly suggests that you use Windows NT integrated security whenever possible. Do note, however, that if you are running the desktop edition of SQL Server on Windows 95 or Windows 98, Windows NT integrated security is not available, and you will have to use SQL Server Authentication security.
The four types of roles in SQL Server 7.0 are fixed server roles, fixed database roles, user-defined roles, and application roles. Let's examine each one.
Most companies formally conduct database work with distinct functional assignments. SQL Server 7.0 has structured these assignments into roles, from the server level down. The concept is sensible, but many users' work will likely stretch across multiple SQL Server roles, which Screen 1 (page 57) shows.
Roles are a great idea, but they have drawbacks. On the plus side, users can have more than one active role at a time, and a user can belong to more than one role in a database. Roles can contain NT groups and users, SQL Server users, and other roles. Security is more scalable with roles, and aliases are no longer necessary (although they are still supported for backward compatibility).
In earlier versions of SQL Server, an alias lets a user temporarily assume the identity of another user within the database. Thus, the user can perform actions as the aliased user. One purpose of this design was to let a backup DBA temporarily impersonate the dbo if that user were unavailable, or simply to support multiple DBAs in a database. However, in some environments several users have been aliased to dbo permanently, which lets them have complete control of the entire database. This approach has advantages for senior developers who are trusted users of a database. However, roles have replaced aliases. You can use roles to replace this functionality (add the senior developers to the db_owner role if you must), but you can also give them much more granular rights than you could with aliasing.
Many basic maintenance tasks, such as creating databases or managing files, required sa privilege until now. Thus, either the database administrator (DBA) performed daily basic tasks and management, or less experienced or skilled users had to have sa privilege. This arrangement was a problem for both security and human resources. Now, you can assign those users to an appropriate role, restricting security and making it more manageable.
On the negative side, the overhead of complex roles seems too great for small systems. If you have only a few actual database management roles and can match them to SQL Server 7.0's role concepts, the system is easier to control. But for large corporate environments, even planning the roles could be a nightmare. Predefined roles mean almost all users will have several roles most of the time. Keeping track of this security system across hundreds of servers and thousands of users is a major challenge.
Fixed server roles. SQL Server defines these roles at the server level and they exist independently of any individual database. Fixed server roles are permissions containers. They each have internal permissions that you are unable to give to users or logins with the GRANT command. To give users the rights to perform some operations on SQL Server, you simply add them to the appropriate role. Any member of a fixed server role can add other logins to that role. Restricting these roles to a small group of users is a good idea. You need to maintain a balance between the need to accomplish work and the need to restrict access. Generally, users are not malicious, but in an environment in which it's easy to damage entire business systems, you must carefully manage roles, especially server roles. In SQL Server 6.5, if you connected with system administrator rights you were always shown as the standard security login, sa. SQL Server 7.0 introduces the sysadmin fixed server role. You need to add any logins that need system administrator rights as members of this role. The sa login still exists for standard security mode on the desktop and for backward compatibility. Additionally, SQL Server 7.0 has six other fixed server roles, each containing a subset of the capabilities of the sysadmin role. Obviously, for a small administration team, these roles are not needed; sysadmin will likely be the only role needed. Table 1 shows the privileges associated with fixed server roles.
Fixed database roles. SQL server defines these roles at the database level for each database (Table 2 shows the privileges associated with each fixed database role). Each member of a fixed database role has the role's permissions. The db_owner fixed database role in version 7.0 is functionally equivalent to the dbo user in earlier versions of SQL Server. Again, a dbo user is the one and only user who actually owns the database. Just as with the sysadmin role, anyone who needs full administrative control of a database should be added to the db_owner fixed-database role.
Unlike fixed server roles, only a member of the db_owner role can add another user to a role.
User-defined database roles. When a group of users needs to perform a specific set of tasks in SQL Server and no equivalent NT group exists (or you are using SQL Server logins), you can add a role to the database. This role exists only in that database. For example, a company with many branches might create a user-defined role for branch staff to view customer information, but not more sensitive data, within its main database.
Application roles. SQL Server implements application security at the database level. Application roles allow you to turn off the currently logged in users' permissions, and enable only the permissions that have been given to an application role (and, of course, to public). Application roles may be password protected, and once they are enabled, they are enforced until you log out of SQL Server. Application roles are great for controlling users and their use of the database, no matter what application you use to access SQL Server 7.0. Some situations, however, require customizing security to deal with specific applications, especially those with complex databases or particularly large tables. Microsoft created application roles for the corporate market in which many users need various levels of data and application security is critical. They are particularly well suited for three-tier environments, such as when you're using Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) components or Internet Information Server (IIS) to access SQL Server.
Users should access data only through applications. Normally, only small or relaxed environments let users access ad hoc querying. Application roles manage application access. The major differences between application roles and the other roles are:
- You cannot add users to application roles; they gain permissions by using the application.
- You can optionally protect application roles with a password (which is a good idea).
- When users activate an application role, they temporarily lose all permissions to the user account and other groups or roles they belong to.
Application roles effectively limit users while they use applications, providing a high degree of security.
How to Set Up Roles and Modify Role Membership
You can set all these roles in either Transact SQL (T-SQL) or Enterprise Manager. To add logins to fixed server roles, select the server required, expand the security folder, and then highlight the attribute Server Roles, as in Screen 1. Right-click on the role you wish to modify and select Properties. Select the General tab and click Add (if you are adding a new role). You will see all available logins in the list. Select the login you wish to add to this role. To add a user to a fixed database role, expand the databases folder and expand the database required. Click on the Roles option to see all available roles in the database. Again, select properties for the role you wish to modify, and just as before you can add or remove users from any role. To add a new user-defined or application role, select the server and database required, right-click on the Role option, and select New Database Role (you will see a screen similar to Screen 2). You can designate the role as an application role (and optionally set a password) or a standard role. Click Add to add new users to a standard role. After you create a role, you can open it and click the permissions button. This action will bring up a screen similar to Screen 3. Now you can set permissions appropriate to the role within the database. This option is not available for fixed database or fixed server roles.
The SQL Server Create Login Wizard
SQL Server's Create Login Wizard is easy to use and has enough onscreen information for inexperienced users; however, don't let beginners near it. The Security Wizard lets users select an authentication mode and grant access to security roles and databases. This wizard is another feature of SQL Server 7.0 Microsoft aimed at the unskilled user and small company market in an attempt to simplify complex and advanced software. Surely, no DBA will use this tool to assign roles to all users. The Security Wizard doesn't include all the available configurations and finer details. DBAs in organizations with many users will avoid this wizard.
Assigning Permissions
SQL Server 7.0 includes permissions similar to permissions in SQL Server 6.5: object permissions, such as SELECT and UPDATE; statement permissions, such as CREATE PROCEDURE; and implied permissions, which only members of roles can perform.
Permissions are assigned with the GRANT, REVOKE, and DENY statements. GRANT permits a user to work with objects or to issue statements. (SQL Server 7.0 doesn't permit cross-database permissions because permissions are assigned to users, not logins.) DENY is a new statement and a reserved word; it prevents users from gaining permission through any other GRANT. DENY always overrides any other granti.e., if you have the select permission on the authors table, but you belong to the sales role, which has been denied select on authors, you won't be able to select from the authors table. This is true regardless of the order in which the statements were issued. REVOKE removes a previous Grant or Deny.
On objects, DENY has a specific parameter, CASCADE, which cascades the denial through a tree of accounts starting with the specified account. This parameter denies permission to the specified account and to all those accounts granted permission by the account being denied. You must use CASCADE when you issue a DENY on a grantable permission; otherwise, an error message is returned.
Granting object permissions requires forethought. When you grant permission to a user (NT user, NT group, SQL Server user, or SQL Server role) for an object, you can optionally specify the WITH GRANT OPTION parameter. GRANT WITH GRANT OPTION lets an account give the same permission to any other user account. After you use this parameter, you no longer have control over which accounts receive that permission. The situation can become a recursive nightmare. However, the saving grace is, by default, only members of the db_owner or db_securityadmin roles, or the object's owner can issue a GRANT to use an object to another user. GRANT... WITH GRANT OPTION applies to both role and object permissions.
Permissions are cumulative in SQL Server 7.0. If a user is a member of multiple roles (or Windows NT groups that have been given database permissions), the user receives the cumulative total of those permissions. The exception to this is that DENY is always preventative, regardless of other rights a user may have. This applies to PUBLIC as well, so don't DENY select to PUBLIC (because then no one can access the object).
More Flexible, More Complex
Although many features of SQL Server 7.0 try to reduce the level of skill required to support it, other facilities increase difficulty. Security has become much more flexible in the new version, but it has also increased in complexity.


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WASHINGTON -- Wednesday's presidential debate promises sharp contrasts. One candidate wants to repeal Obamacare, one candidate invented it. One opposed the auto industry bailout, one takes credit for it. One doubts the scientific consensus about climate change, one believes in it. One wants to "voucherize" Medicare, one wants to save it. One dismisses nearly half of Americans as a bunch of moochers, and one claims to champion the struggling middle class.
It promises to be an epic clash: Mitt Romney vs. Mitt Romney. Oh, and President Obama will be there, too.
In theory, the first general election debate is a trailing candidate's best opportunity to hit the reset button. New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie, doing surrogate's duty on the Sunday morning shows, acknowledged that Romney has had a "tough couple of weeks" but promised the debate would change just about everything.
"This whole race is going to be turned upside-down come Thursday morning," he said on "Face the Nation."
In practice, debates are rarely decisive. Only in a few presidential elections have they demonstrably moved the needle. Perhaps this is one of those years, perhaps not. It seems to me that Romney's prospects Wednesday night will depend heavily on his ability to explain why he has taken so many different positions on so many issues.
He was "effectively pro-choice" before he was staunchly anti-abortion. He supported stricter gun control before he opposed it. He promises to cut everyone's taxes while also reducing the deficit, but won't explain how.
Romney gives the impression of being willing to say anything he believes voters want to hear. That's why the conservative Republican Party base is so vigilant, always on the lookout for signs that Romney is wavering on the hard-line positions he took during the primaries. Softening his views on immigration, for example, might help shrink Obama's overwhelming advantage among Latino voters. But the base won't allow it.
I believe Romney's history of ideological flexibility explains why his "47 percent" remarks were so damaging. It's not that his phrasing was inelegant, as the candidate and his surrogates maintain. It's that Romney was speaking behind closed doors, among like-minded friends, and finally we could glimpse what he really believes. We could see what's at his core -- and it wasn't a pretty sight.
Of course, Romney promptly denied that the smug and callous man in that grainy video -- the one who lamented he would "never convince" nearly half of his fellow Americans to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives" -- was the real Romney.
At this point, it's unclear to me that a "real" Romney exists. If one does, however, he'd better show up Wednesday night. If there's one thing we know about presidential debates, it's that voters can often look right through the persona and see the person.
In 2000, Al Gore's decision to make a show of walking up to George W. Bush during their debate and invading his personal space was correctly perceived as an awkward stunt. And when Gore sighed condescendingly while Bush was trying to talk, voters saw a side of Gore's personality they didn't like.
If Romney plans some kind of scripted "zinger" that somehow is designed to turn the whole election around -- a variation on Ronald Reagan's immortal "There you go again" -- viewers are likely to see through the artifice. He's not Reagan.
The same holds true for Obama, of course. But we know who Obama is and what he believes. Some people like him, some don't, but the nation has seen him in action for nearly four years. His job Wednesday night is clear: Defend his record and outline his plans for the next four years.
Romney's task is more difficult. For the umpteenth time, he has to introduce himself to the American people. He has to erase the impressions left by all the Mitt Romneys we met earlier -- the clueless rich guy, the heartless private-equity baron who likes "being able to fire people," the moderate who became a hard-line conservative and then became a little bit moderate again, kind of. And he has to reveal a coherent person, one whom voters can imagine as a leader.
The question is whether such a coherent person exists. In the business world, where Romney had great success, winning means saying whatever you need to close the deal. A presidential campaign, though, is different. At some point you have to say what you really believe.


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Feb. 23, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Cordelia Link and Stephanie Shin capped off their impressive regular season performances by being selected to the Northeast Fencing Conference (NFC) All-Conference Teams. Link was a First Team Foil honoree while Shin was named to the Epee Second Team.
MIT will begin postseason competition on Saturday, Feb. 24 when it hosts the New England Fencing Championship.
Teams in the Northeast Fencing Conference include Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Massachusetts, the University of New Hampshire, Smith College, Tufts University, and Wellesley College.


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House Speaker John Boehner says he wasn't pulled into demanding concessions from Democrats to keep funding the government – he willingly joined with fellow Republicans…
Boehner had expected that the Obamacare fight would come during the next vote to raise the debt ceiling, "but, you know, working with my members, they decided, let's do it now," he said. "And the fact is, this fight was going to come, one way or another. We're in the fight. We don't want to shut the government down. We've passed bills to pay the troops. We passed bills to make sure the federal employees know that they're going to be paid throughout this."
"You've never seen a more dedicated group of people who are thoroughly concerned about the future of our country," he said of House Republicans. "It is time for us to stand and fight."
The congressman began with an anecdote from the Civil War. "I would liken this a little bit to Gettysburg, where a Confederate unit went looking for shoes and stumbled into Union cavalry, and all of a sudden found itself embroiled in battle on a battlefield it didn't intend to be on, and everybody just kept feeding troops into it," the congressman said. "That's basically what's happening now in a political sense. This isn't exactly the fight I think Republicans wanted to have, certainly that the leadership wanted to have, but it's the fight that's here."…
[T]he lawmaker thought Senate Democrats, and Majority Leader Harry Reid, would make some sort of concession on a lesser aspect of Obamacare. "I do think, though, when Boehner sent over delay and [repeal of the] medical device tax, I think he thought he'd probably get back medical device, and that would have probably been enough right there," the congressman said. But Reid and the Democrats steadfastly refused to consider any change to Obamacare, surprising Republicans again. "When [Boehner] didn't get medical device, I think he did something he didn't want to do, which was send over the member health care [the Vitter amendment barring Congress from receiving special subsidies on the Obamacare exchanges]. And I think he did that largely because he thought [Democrats] were trying to jam him." When Boehner lowered his demands to include a delay for just the individual mandate — not for all of Obamacare — Republicans thought Democrats would be open to that more modest proposal.
"Instead, it's no, we're not going to negotiate, we're not going to negotiate, we're not going to negotiate," the lawmaker said. "Which means effectively you're going to try to humiliate the Speaker in front of his conference. And how effective a negotiating partner do you think he'll be then? You're putting the guy in a position where he's got nothing to lose, because you're not giving him anything to win."
"Republicans have figured out a strategy, by sending rifle-shot bills to open different parts of the government, that has put Democrats into a box of saying no. By voting no repeatedly it allows Republicans an excellent messaging opportunity of painting Democrats as refusing to negotiate," says Ron Bonjean, a top GOP strategist.
A number of Republicans who have talked to House leadership in recent days say privately they largely stumbled into the strategy, and that there is no plan for how to end the shutdown…
Kristen Soltis Anderson, a GOP pollster whose company counts Boehner as a client, agreed that the GOP's messaging challenge is "very tough."…
"That's the best case for Republicans, to be saying they'll compromise and Democrats have not. But what's the endgame?"
"We are in the midst of a battle," Cruz said. "Their position is untenable right now."
Cruz, who spoke without notes for nearly an hour, said Republicans would win the shutdown fight but offered little in the way of concrete solutions.
"How do we win?" he asked. "If you trust the media, if you trust the voices in Washington, if you even trust, god forbid, some of the elected Republicans in Washington, they say we can't win this fight. The only way to win this fight is the way we won every other fight throughout the history of the republic, which is solutions don't come from Washington, D.C., they come from the people."
"Career politicians in both parties have gotten us into this mess," he said. "But it's going to be the American people who get us out."
Backstage, a source said, Cuccinelli urged Cruz to work with Democrats to end the federal shutdown. But he did not make that point, or even acknowledge Cruz, in short public comments to some 1,100 social conservatives.
Cruz has become the face of GOP intransigence, and the conservative attorney general's effort to distance himself from congressional Republicans reflects how damaging Cuccinelli realizes a prolonged shutdown may be for his campaign…
After Cuccinelli finished [his remarks], a pastor from Williamsburg named Mark Morrow praised Cruz for being willing to shut down the government and said many now see him as the most powerful man in the capitol.
"It's about time that someone in Washington abandons the faulty notion that compromise is the best way to win," he said.
The government shutdown did not happen by accident. It is the latest manifestation — an extreme one by any measure — of divisions long in the making and now deeply embedded in the country's politics…
[I]t also could be a new normal, as confrontation remains commonplace and true compromise rare. Meanwhile, the ideological, cultural and political differences that led to this moment of extreme governmental dysfunction are almost certain to shape elections and legislative battles in the near term…
Some may rightly blame politicians in Washington for behaving badly, but in reality the clashes in the nation's capital reflect conflicting attitudes and values held by politically active, rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats across the country. Add to that a faction of conservatives in the House who are determined to disrupt business as usual and the current stalemate in Congress becomes almost unavoidable.
The bonds that once helped produce political consensus have gradually eroded, replaced by competing camps that live in parallel universes, have sharply divergent world views and express more distrust of opponents than they did decades ago. Many activists describe the stakes in apocalyptic terms…
"I don't really see a way out of it in the very short term," said Alan Abramowitz, a political scientist at Emory University who has written extensively on polarization. "We're stuck in it. There was a time when it was possible for the parties to work together, because the divide between them was much smaller. Now we've gotten to the point where it's almost impossible."
[Bareknuckle] campaigning has its advantages, as none other than Bill Clinton and Barack Obama (and, yes, George W. Bush) can attest. But winning that way makes governing more difficult.
For starters, those on the losing end aren't inclined to work in harmony with a president (or a political party) who won in this fashion. Such suspicion can be overcome, as Clinton showed on NAFTA, but only when oiled with the dual lubricants of bipartisanship and compromise—and that's important: NAFTA was the signature domestic policy initiative of Bill Clinton's first term. The Affordable Care Act was Obama's.
That's a big difference, but there's an even more fundamental consequence of bare-knuckles campaigning: It's addictive. Obama won the presidency in 2008 with an aspirational appeal. To retain the presidency, however, he and his lieutenants ran a low and mean-spirited campaign that sought to make Mitt Romney seem an unfit human being, while delegitimizing his political party.
This approach has inevitably spilled over into governing. I understand that the president is frustrated about Republicans' refusals to fund Obamacare. I share his dissatisfaction. But I also believe a president is obliged by custom, law, and the U.S. Constitution to try and make the best of things. Instead, it seems his administration has tried to make matters worse.
The shutdown isn't a new story. It's the same story as the demise of sensible gun control legislation, even after Newtown, which was supposed to change everything. It's the same story as the stalling of immigration reform. It's all one cancer, sprouting tumors of various sizes. The mass we've been staring at over the past week just happens to be bigger and uglier than the ones we beheld in the buildup.
Our federal government doesn't work, at least not the Congress, not the way it should if we're going to preserve and pass on the treasure and blessings that were bequeathed to us, not the way it should if we're going to strut around ceaselessly congratulating ourselves on how exceptional we are. We're exceptional all right, in that we can't summon the will, discipline or character to fix even those problems that most of us would like to see addressed. How many Americans doubt that our infrastructure is inadequate and leaves us at a serious global disadvantage? Few, but for all our hand-wringing, little gets done…
Because the system's the problem. The system's the illness. We justly congratulate ourselves on what the framers of our Constitution set up, but that doesn't mean we're set forevermore. It definitely doesn't mean we're in a healthy place now. And I worry that on top of everything else, we're growing so accustomed to our sickly lot that we're losing sight of its direness. For all our recurrent brinkmanship, we haven't tumbled into any abyss. So as we find ourselves on the next cliff, in the next crisis, we trust that John Boehner will snap into action at the last minute; that Democrats will eventually cave; that this, too, shall pass.
It might, because it's just a symptom. The disease, though, doesn't go away.
He's looking to the Obama White House to help start the reset: "I would ask them to start saying, 'I understand that the people on the other side of the table have the best interests of the American people at heart.' Simply recognize that. Everybody wants to do what's best for the American public. Those sorts of statements repeated on a regular basis, it's the start of dialogue. It's not concession; it's the beginning of dialogue."…
But how to do you deal with the hyper-partisan congressional bomb-throwers? "Well it's like a game of tic-tac-toe with the tantrum throwers," Voss says. "In tic-tac-toe, if you're going second, the best you can possibly do is tie—if you play the game. There's a first-mover advantage. The minute you stop playing that game the first mover advantage goes away. So you don't play their game at all. That's the way you respond."…
But Voss doesn't believe President Obama is blameless in the current situation. "I see him using a lot of emotional terms as well and that's never a good sign. The essence of what he's saying is finger pointing. When you refuse to talk, then you have blinders on…and it happens to be typical thinking of someone who either doesn't talk at all or completely gives in." That's is a decent distillation of Beltway conventional wisdom criticism of President Obama's negotiating style to date.
Within House GOP, growing consensus among members/aides is that they have till midnight Oct 16 to see how Dems move twd them (if at all)…
— Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) October 6, 2013
In meantime, they'll craft final offer, grit teeth as shutdown continues; combo deal that yields concession more impt than ending shutdown
— Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) October 6, 2013
Asked by Stephanopoulos whether that no negotiations means the country will default on its debt, Boehner responded: "That's the path we're on. Listen, the president canceled his trip to Asia. I assumed, well, maybe he wants to have a conversation. I decided to stay here in Washington this weekend. He knows what my phone number is. All he has to do is call."
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COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. – Jared Goldberg and Jacqueline Wiles conquered the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain, Colo., on Friday to capture U.S. Championship downhill titles, while Bryce Bennett of Squaw Valley earned a silver medal.
Traditionally held in February, the premier speed titles were shifted to December in order to take advantage of the world-class facility at Copper, which is operated by the U.S. Ski Team until Dec. 15.
Bennett finished just a hundredth of a second behind Goldberg, and Thomas Biesemeyer took home the bronze, .43 seconds back. Katie Ryan and Anna Marno went 2-3 on the women's side.
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By Amy Goyer , June 28, 2012 08:30 AM
As I write this post, the thermometer on our back porch here in Phoenix hits a sizzling 110 degrees. But it's a dry heat, you say?! Indeed. Nevertheless, I just fried my toes walking to the mailbox and I think the cactus in my yard is about to pull up roots and head for a dunk in the pool!
I shudder to think what it's like in humid areas of the country as temps rise. No doubt about it: it's oppressive. And for those of us who are caregivers, concerns about our older loved ones surviving the heat are paramount.
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- Arrange house calls. We have excessive heat warnings for the entire week, but when I am knocked down by a wall of heat upon opening the door I don't need the weather service alerts! My Mom had two doctor appointments this week, but I want to keep my parents cool...and inside. So I've rescheduled those non-urgent appointments, and arranged for a mobile doctor to come to her today, checking her skin-tear wounds. There are many at-home medical services, including mobile x-rays, ultrasounds, doctors and nurses.
- Stay active - inside. Of course in hot weather we all slow down a bit, but it's vitally important for elders to keep up their mobility and strength. Without ongoing exercise, in just one week my Mom can go from being able to get out of a chair by herself to needing hefty assistance. My Dad loves to take walks, but even at 10pm last night it was still over 90 degrees outside! So instead they work out with a fitness instructor in the gym and there's lots of dancing in the living room. Lately, with a little help, Daddy is becoming quite the Wii bowling afficianado!
- Keep paws cool. Dad loves Jackson like no other, but sometimes Alzheimer's disease prevents him from realizing how hot the blacktop pavement is for Jackson's paws. If it's hot enough to fry an egg, think about how it can cook our beloved pooch's pads! It's my job to ensure Jackson stays safe in the heat, including limited time outside, booties to protect his paws and lots of water.
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