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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 1/31/12
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
MR. CARNEY: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here on this glorious Tuesday afternoon.
As you probably saw in some paper that we put out today on the one-year anniversary of the Startup America initiative, the President is sending a detailed Startup America legislative agenda to Congress to expand tax relief and unlock capital for startups and small businesses that are creating jobs as well as important visa reforms that remove undue obstacles for high-skill immigrants and recent graduates that contribute to our economic competitiveness.
Small businesses, particularly young firms with high growth potential, create most of the net new jobs in our economy. Yet in the last several years, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of new businesses launching annually has fallen by an unprecedented 23 percent.
Last week in the State of the Union address, the President noted -- rather, asked Congress for a bill that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Today he sent a legislative agenda to the Hill that includes cutting taxes for small businesses, building on the 17 small business tax cuts he has already signed into law. I'll repeat, the 17 small business tax cuts he has already signed into law.
The President is proposing to expand and make permanent zero capital gains on small business investments to reward job creation with a 10 percent income tax credit on new small business payroll, permanently double the tax deduction for startup expenses, from $5,000 to $10,000, and extend 100 percent depreciation for qualified property through 2012.
The legislative agenda also includes initiatives to get capital to the companies that need it, growing small businesses, growing companies; also initiatives to relieve the backlog of employment-based immigrant visas, as I mentioned at the top, and several other initiatives. I think you've seen the paper on it; I just wanted to remind you of that.
And with that, Ben Feller.
Q Thanks, Jay. A couple topics, please. I wanted to follow up first on the exchange the President had yesterday during the Google+ town hall with Jennifer Wedel -- if I'm pronouncing her name correctly. He, at the end of that exchange, asked to get her husband's résumé to help him out. Is this something that he plans to do now when he campaigns and hears people's individual stories, to get down to that level of collecting résumés? Is that something that he thinks is part of the job of President?
MR. CARNEY: Well, I think he very much enjoys and looks forward to talking to regular Americans out in the country. Yesterday's interview was an opportunity to do that in a unique way here from the White House in a virtual gathering.
Much as he does when he reads the letters that are culled for him from Americans every night, he gets to experience the American economy through the eyes of folks out there who are living it, and that was the case in this exchange yesterday. So I think it just reflects his deep interest in the individual stories that Americans have about their lives, how they're experiencing the economy in different parts of the country. And he will certainly have that kind of engagement, as he has in the past, going forward.
Q Do you think, though, in doing that engagement, is that the kind of strategy that can be effective, sort of one-on-one --
MR. CARNEY: It's not a strategy. It's not something we planned or anticipated yesterday. It obviously depends on when he meets folks out on a bus tour, for example, or in some other forum out in the country. Or through the interview yesterday, it depends on what the conversation is like, how it unfolds and what the concerns are, or the observations that the individual makes.
So there's no strategy here. It's more -- it's very much about how he responds to and reacts to folks who tell him their stories.
Q The CBO has a report out today on the deficit and unemployment, and it projects unemployment to stay at 7 percent or higher through 2015. I know the administration has cited CBO often a fair scorekeeper. Does the White House think unemployment will remain that high three years out?
MR. CARNEY: Well, I will leave that to our economists to evaluate and judge, and I think we've put forward our own assessments. I would simply note that we are -- it's important to look at trajectories and trends. And as you know, when the President was sworn into office on a much colder day three years ago, almost exactly, we were losing that month almost 800,000 jobs -- just in the month.
That pace was one that the country experienced for a sustained period of time. We'd lost 8 million jobs. And if you look at it -- you can find this in a lot of places, but a chart that shows unemployment -- or employment loss and employment growth from the six months before the President took office, and it hits its bottom right about when the President's economic policies begin to take effect, some of the tough decisions he made on the automobile industry, the Recovery Act, dealing with our financial sector. And since then it's gone like this.
The fact is this hole was so deep that we have a long way to go before we are where we need to be. But that's the direction you want to be in, the 22 straight months of private sector job growth, the -- I always get it wrong -- eight quarters, seven quarters -- 10 quarters of economic growth -- very conservative in my analysis.
So I don't know what, and would never, myself, predict what the unemployment rate would be in a year or two or three from now. I know that the economic policies that this President has put into place, working with Congress and then, when necessary, without Congress, have had the effect of reversing the most dramatic negative trend in employment since the Great Depression.
Yes, Reuters.
Q Thanks, Jay. One of the other forecasts that the CBO had was an estimate the deficit would remain above a trillion dollars in 2012, which would make it the fourth consecutive year of being above a trillion dollars. So as the President campaigns for reelection, what's his message to voters on why they should have confidence in his ability to control the deficit over the next four years?
MR. CARNEY: Well, it will be very much what he said in the State of the Union; it will be what he has put forward on numerous occasions, including when he laid out his proposal last fall for a broad, balanced approach to deficit and debt reduction.
As you know, Alister, I won't recite all the statistics about the economic freefall that this country was experiencing when the President took office, which came on top of a sustained period of growing deficits and debt after two wars that were unpaid for, an expansion of Medicare that was unpaid for, two enormous tax cuts that benefited overwhelmingly the wealthiest Americans that were unpaid for -- that resulted in an eight-year process that began with surpluses as far as the eye could see and ended with significant deficits. Add on top of that the recession -- the Great Recession, the near depression -- and you had a set of circumstances that had a negative impact on our deficit.
The President has put forward a very comprehensive proposal, a balanced approach to deficit and debt reduction. He worked very hard with the Speaker of the House to achieve a grand bargain that would have required tough choices from both Democrats and Republicans, but would have achieved a significant goal of long-term debt control.
Unfortunately, he was and Democratic leaders were willing to make those tough choices on their side and, unfortunately, on the other side the decision was made to walk away. But that deal remains available. The President hopes that Republicans will this year, even, decide to come together and work together towards a balanced approach, in keeping with the principles of the Simpson-Bowles commission, of the Domenici-Rivlin commission, of every bipartisan effort that's looked at this, as well as the President's proposal.
And also, I think it's important to step back and remember that a lot of people talk about Simpson-Bowles, which was created because of the President's initiative, would not exist without the President's initiative because the Senate Republicans backed away from doing it legislatively, but let me point out, already this President has signed into law discretionary spending cuts that exceed those in Simpson-Bowles -- exceed the ones in Simpson-Bowles. Already he has demonstrated, as the members of the super committee can tell you, his willingness to do reforms to entitlements that are very significant. What has been lacking thus far is any willingness to deal with revenue in any meaningful way by the Republicans. And that is just not the approach that the broad base of the American public feels is the right way to go.
Donovan, how are you?
Q Thanks, Jay. I just want to ask about the photos of the raid on the Osama bin Laden compound. There have been reports that some of them may be released.
MR. CARNEY: Was that in the British media? (Laughter.)
Q No, that was actually in the Atlantic Wire -- thank you. The President had said previously that he does not favor the release of any of these photos. Couldn't there be portions of the imagery that could or should be released without implicating national security?
MR. CARNEY: I honestly have not seen those reports. The President's position on the release of images of Osama bin Laden, in particular, was very clearly stated at the time and has not changed. I would have to either refer you to the Defense Department on the broader question of other photos that may exist, and I can take that question as well.
Q Jay, in the President's Google+ video chat he acknowledged for the first time the classified drone program. Why did he do that?
MR. CARNEY: I'm sorry, can you be more specific?
Q He acknowledged the drone program for the first time.
MR. CARNEY: Well, I'll tell you, since his first day in office, President Obama has directed that we use all tools of national power in an aggressive campaign to thwart the terrorist threat posed by al Qaeda and to degrade and ultimately destroy that organization. While al Qaeda has been significantly degraded as a result of our counterterrorism operations, the group continues to pose a serious threat to U.S. interests, including to the homeland. That is why we remain relentless in taking the fight to al Qaeda wherever they seek safe haven and support.
And I will also note that a hallmark of our counterterrorism efforts has been our ability to be exceptionally precise, exceptionally surgical and exceptionally targeted in the implementation of our counterterrorism operations. That was the point the President was making. This is something that President Obama has demanded. And all of our efforts, counterterrorism efforts, are designed with precision as an essential component.
Q Was it purposeful, what he said?
MR. CARNEY: Look, I would just refer you to what the President said and to note that the point he was making is that our counterterrorism efforts, by his order, include very concerted efforts to be targeted and surgical.
Q He doesn't address whether it was purposeful or not. I mean, that's what I'm asking, if he made a mistake.
MR. CARNEY: He's the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United States. He's the President of the United States. I would point you to his comments. I'm not going to discuss broadly or specifically supposed covert programs. I would just point you to what he said.
Q And can I ask you, is the transcript of the video chat going to be on whitheouse.gov?
MR. CARNEY: We don't tend to release -- we don't put out transcripts of interviews with --
Q You did the town hall, the Facebook and the Twitter town halls, I believe.
MR. CARNEY: Well, I'm just going to -- I'm sure we can make that available.
Yes, Ed.
Q Jay, two things. STOCK Act -- you put out a statement of administration policy yesterday supporting it. Senator McConnell and others on the Hill are talking about how the executive branch should also have tougher regulations on insider trading. Is that something the President supports?
MR. CARNEY: We support the STOCK Act. It's moving through the Senate. I would point out that the legislation is designed to bring Congress up to the standards that are abided by and have been abided by by the executive branch for some time now, including presently.
So I suppose I understand the attempt to divert attention from the purpose of the legislation, but we're glad that it has broad support; we support it. And I think it's important to note, because I got a lot of questions from you all in the run-up to and the aftermath of the State of the Union address about how the ideas the President put forward in his State of the Union were -- simply couldn't get through Congress. And I would note that here we are, just one week after that address, and one of his ideas is moving with great speed through the United States Senate.
Q Second topic -- the Catholic Church. It was a pretty extraordinary situation on Sunday in parishes all across the country, individual priests were reading letters from their bishops in that particular parish that were pretty much denouncing the Obama administration about these provisions dealing with contraception, Catholic hospitals and whatnot in connection with the Affordable Care Act. I guess my question would be, how does the administration justify having the federal government institute a law that basically forces people to violate their religious beliefs?
MR. CARNEY: Well, that misrepresents actually what the --
Q How so?
MR. CARNEY: -- decision about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act --
Q How does that misrepresent --
MR. CARNEY: Well, let me -- let me -- let me answer. The decision was made, as we have said in the past and Secretary Sebelius has said, after very careful consideration, and the administration believes that this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious beliefs and increasing access to important preventive services. We will continue to work closely with religious groups during this transitional period to discuss their concerns.
It's important -- to go to your point -- that this approach does not signal any change at all in the administration's policy on conscience protections. The President and this administration have previously expressed strong support for existing conscience protections, including those relating to health care providers. That support continues.
I also would just note that our robust partnerships with the Catholic Church and other communities of faith will continue. The administration has provided over $2 billion to Catholic organizations over the past three years in addition to numerous nonfinancial partnerships that promote healthy communities and serve the common good.
Q The bishops are saying just the opposite. They're saying that basically if somebody is working in a Catholic hospital and they don't cover contraception for their employees, that they're in violation of federal law. So I don't understand how you're saying that there are still conscience protections. They would violate the law, wouldn't they?
MR. CARNEY: Well, this does not direct an individual to do anything, first of all. The new guidelines require most private health plans to cover preventive services, including contraception, for women without charging a copay, coinsurance or deductible.
The guidelines were recommended by the nonpartisan, independent Institute of Medicine. The administration also released a proposed regulation that allows nonprofit, religious employers that offer insurance to their employees the choice of whether or not to cover contraception services.
After reviewing comments from the public, the administration announced that the final rule on preventive health services will ensure that women with health insurance coverage will have access to the full range of recommended preventive services, including all FDA-approved forms of contraception.
And I would just note that we will work with religious groups during a transitional period to discuss their concerns. But this decision was made after careful consideration by Secretary Sebelius, and we believe that the proposal strikes the appropriate balance between religious beliefs on the one hand and the need to increase access to important preventive services for women.
Q Last thing on this. E.J. Dionne, though -- I mean, a lot of Republicans have attacked -- but a Democrat who's Catholic, E.J. Dionne, wrote in The Washington Post yesterday that the President, in his words, "utterly botched this policy." And he said he, "threw his progressive Catholic allies under the bus." So despite everything you just read, you have Democratic Catholics saying that that's not true.
MR. CARNEY: The idea that there are people who disagree -- well, Ed, all you're pointing out is that there are people who disagree with the decision. We understand that not everyone agrees with it. All I can tell you is it was made after very careful consideration based on the need to balance those two issues and that the necessity to provide access to preventive services for women was an important consideration.
Q What about the constitutional right to freedom of religion? Is that still --
MR. CARNEY: I don't believe there are any constitutional rights issues here, but I would refer you to others to discuss that. That's not -- I understand that there's controversy and we understand that and we will continue to work with religious groups to discuss their concerns. But on the other side of this was the important need to provide access to women to the preventive services that they require.
And the thing you just read to me was a political observation. This was a policy based on the merits.
Q Jay, if I could follow up on that --
MR. CARNEY: No, let me -- let me move around here.
Q The bishop of Phoenix said Catholics shouldn't comply with this law. Will there be any consequences for not --
MR. CARNEY: I'm the wrong guy to ask.
Q Thanks. On Iran, DNI Clapper told Congress today that it appears that Iran or some officials in Iran are more willing to consider direct attacks on the U.S. right now, and what I wanted to ask you is, do you have any specific credible information about any such efforts? What is the President doing to stay aware of this? How is the administration responding? And would the U.S. support -- what did you call it -- drone program potentially applied to Iran as well or only to places with direct al Qaeda concerns?
MR. CARNEY: I would note that you began by quoting the head of the DNI, the Director of National Intelligence, who's far more appropriate a resource for answering questions about our intelligence on Iran than I am. I can tell you that broadly Iran is an issue that this President is very focused on and receives regular briefings on from his national security team, including members of his -- of the intelligence community.
We are working very closely with our international partners and allies to put unprecedented pressure on the Iranian regime to convince it to abide by its international obligations and to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions. That process continues.
We're fully aware of the fact that Iran and elements within Iran have less-than-benevolent observations to make about the United States and our interests and allies. This is obviously and always has been a very serious issue, and this President takes it very seriously.
We are pursuing a course that because of the United States' leadership has united the international community and isolated Iran; made clear to the world that it is Iranian behavior that is the issue here. And we will continue to work along that path, even as, as the President has noted, we will not remove any option from the table in dealing with this issue.
Q Can I ask you a quick one also about housing? The President indicated to us today that tomorrow he will be sharing some --
MR. CARNEY: You asked him a leading question.
Q And he grabbed it, and then let go. But -- so can you tell us any more about that? Is that going to be an FHA deal? Is he asking for legislation? Or is this purely stuff that the administration can do on its own, and will you preview some of it for us?
MR. CARNEY: I won't preview any of it. I will simply point you to what the President said in the State of the Union about a proposal that he would elaborate on to make universal the potential for homeowners who are responsible and making their mortgage payments to be able to refinance their loans and save on average I believe $3,000 annually.
When he does speak to this issue, he'll provide more details on that, as well as some of the other housing initiatives that he talked about in the State of the Union. But I'm not going to get ahead of the President.
Q But it would require congressional action?
MR. CARNEY: Well, it might, but I'll let him describe it.
Q Thanks, Jay. Back to the CBO numbers, the deficit projection for another year of trillion-dollar deficit is based on the idea that the law remain the same now and the Bush-era tax cuts not expire. Does the President still believe that for -- taxpayers under $250,000 a year should be able to continue to get the current income tax rates?
MR. CARNEY: Well, he does, and he also believes as he has for a long time that the Bush tax cuts for upper-income Americans should expire. They I believe cost $800 billion -- is that correct -- annually. And that's a big figure when you talk about a trillion-dollar deficit.
So what the CBO numbers also don't include are our policy initiatives that would significantly reduce the deficit further if implemented by Congress, including a balanced approach. And let me just say in terms of the Bush tax cuts and taxes in general that the President believes that we should have broader tax reform guided by the -- in part by the so-called Buffett Rule as a principle.
But in terms of the Bush tax cuts, yes, the President believes that Americans -- families making under $250,000 should not have their taxes go up, but that the upper-income tax cuts that Bush implemented and which were very, very costly and in this time of significant deficit should not -- as he has said in the past, should not be extended.
Q And on the jobs side, where the CBO projects that unemployment will actually go back up over 9 percent during 2013, does the President think that the -- that there is -- that the jobs ideas that he talked about or they've set up, haven't several of those already gone through the House? The problem is the Senate?
MR. CARNEY: The ones he talked about today?
Q The ones that he sent today in terms of for the small business --
MR. CARNEY: I would have to take the question. I'm not sure specifically which pieces of legislation you're --
Q Will it change the way he deals with Congress? They've been back for a week now. He's done the State of the Union address. And there are some -- some of these ideas he keeps saying Republicans should agree. Will he just simply send things up? Will he change the way he will deal with the Republican and the Democrat --
MR. CARNEY: No, he'll continue to try to work with members of both parties in Congress, leadership and rank and file, to reach a consensus on measures that -- like tax cuts for small businesses or investments in infrastructure that have traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support.
I mean, you are right that -- well, I mean, the holdup has often been the House Republicans, but there have been -- there has been obstructionism in both chambers.
I would note on the CBO projections that they do not include obviously this President's policies for job creation and economic growth, which if implemented would -- as outside economists have made clear -- increase growth and increase job creation.
Q Let me go back to the health insurance regulation for a second. You made the point that it was Secretary Sebelius's decision. But isn't it the President's decision? And isn't he the one responsible --
MR. CARNEY: Well, sure --
Q -- ultimately?
MR. CARNEY: It's an HHS -- as I understand it, an HHS process, but we -- the President concurs in the decision and in the need to find an appropriate balance between religious beliefs and access to preventive services for women.
Q But it's been pointed out by a number of people that it would have been easy to find a compromise that didn't require Catholic hospitals to go against the beliefs of their faith in order to serve everybody.
MR. CARNEY: Well, I'm not sure that -- it's easy to say that things are easy when you're saying it from the outside. The balance here that was sought was found, an appropriate balance between religious beliefs and the need for access to preventive services.
Q It was quite clear that a lot of people don't feel that there's any balance here, that it is, in fact, an infringement of their ability to practice their faith.
MR. CARNEY: Well, again, Bill, I can keep telling you our view. I certainly appreciate that there are folks out there who disagree, but this was done with a full awareness of the concerns that have been expressed on both sides of this issue, and a decision that was made on the policy merits that also weighed the very issues that I described.
I think it's fair to say that while there are those who take issue with the decision, millions and millions of Americans -- American women will have access to preventive services, as they should, appropriately, though the health care reform bill.
Q Jay, thanks. Going back to the drones, President Obama said that drone strikes have not inflicted huge civilian casualties. How can the administration be so certain that there hasn't been a large civilian toll?
MR. CARNEY: Kristen, I'm going to attempt to forestall any further questions about potentially covert programs by saying that everything I can tell you about it is on this piece of paper, and I'm just not going to -- I'm not going to acknowledge or confirm any of that.
I will tell you that, as I said at the beginning, that our counterterrorism efforts, by the President's direction, are very targeted, very surgical and precise, and this is the point the President was making about the fact that because that approach is taken there are limits to casualties and damages.
Q But if the President acknowledged the drones, why can't you?
MR. CARNEY: Again, I'm just going to point you to what he said and not discuss further this issue.
Q But it's a façade. It's silly.
MR. CARNEY: Bill, I'm sorry.
Q Thank you. Sorry if this has been asked already. On these horrible so-called honor killings among some Afghans in Canada and Afghanistan, how can the administration negotiate with the Taliban when these kind of things are permitted by Taliban members?
MR. CARNEY: Well, Connie, as you know very clearly that our conditions for reconciliation include a commitment to abide by the Afghan constitution, to lay down arms, to renounce association and fealty to al Qaeda -- the first part I think addressing the issue that you raise, which is abiding by and being governed by the Afghan constitution includes respecting minority rights and women's rights.
So in the Afghan-led process of reconciliation, those are the conditions for Taliban reconciliation, participation in the process. Those elements of the Taliban who don't abide by those conditions will not be reconciled.
Q Thanks, Jay. I'm not sure whether this is going to fall into what you just laid out as your quarantined territory -- (laughter) -- but --
Q Give it a shot. (Laughter.)
Q During that interview yesterday, the President talked about in some detail places where these strikes were being carried out in Pakistan. And it's also well known that part of the arrangement Pakistan and the U.S. have had over time on this is the U.S. doesn't say much about this, if anything; Pakistanis don't have to acknowledge publicly how much of it is actually happening. If the Commander-in-Chief comes out in a public forum in this kind of detail, discussing an operation in another country, isn't there a risk that you're going to make it much tougher to continue carrying out these operations?
MR. CARNEY: I appreciate the question, Mark. I will simply say that the point the President was making, in not very much detail, was that through a decision that he made and a directive that he gave, considered effort is made to be very surgical and precise in the implementation of our counterterrorism efforts, and that -- the purpose being to limit unintended casualties and damage in those efforts. But I'm not going to get any more specific than that. And I think it's important to note that that is the point that the President was making in his comments yesterday.
Q Well, could that in fact have the opposite effect? Could it in fact be something that helps smooth over a tough situation with a foreign country?
MR. CARNEY: Again, I'm just -- I'm not going to elaborate beyond what the President said and beyond the general principle that I've stated.
Yes, sir -- and then David.
Q Getting back to Ben's opening questions on this résumé conversation the President had yesterday. What exactly is going to happen to the résumé that -- from this guy? And what are you going to do about the inevitable tens of thousands of résumés that are going to be sent here because of that?
MR. CARNEY: Well, I can simply say that my understanding is the résumé has been sent and received, but the -- I don't have any further guidance to give you on what might happen beyond reviewing it. And I think -- to go back to my discussion with Ben -- the exchange reflected the President's sincere interest and concern in the experiences of folks out in the country and how they're dealing with what remains a very tough economy, even as we continue the recovery that we've been engaged in now for 10 months, that there are a lot of folks out there who are looking for work. The high unemployment is proof positive of that. And this President's energies are focused on doing everything he can to grow the economy and create jobs, to alleviate that kind of anxiety, that economic insecurity that this conversation reflected.
So it was a snapshot into the fact -- into the world that reflects that we have a lot more work to do. We have to continue to take action, to build the economy -- to grow the economy, to create jobs, to build the infrastructure necessary to have a foundation for further economic growth in the future. While we have made progress we still have a long way to go in what we --
Q Jay, who received this guy's résumé? And again, did the White House --
MR. CARNEY: I don't know who specifically received it.
Q Okay, but the wider question -- I mean, you guys already receive a lot of résumés here. What's going to happen to the -- thousands of people are going to be sending résumés.
MR. CARNEY: Again, I don't want -- I'm sure that's true. I don't -- I have received a few.
Q Labor Department? Small Business Administration? What's happening?
MR. CARNEY: I just don't have -- I don't know. I don't know at this point. I'm sure it will be reviewed, which is what the President said. And again, this person's story reminds us that we need to keep focused on doing what we can to grow the economy and create jobs, because while we have created more than 3 million private sector jobs over the last 22 months, while the economy has created those jobs, the hole is quite deep. Eight million is a large number that was -- jobs lost caused by this recession.
So that's why the President is going to keep at it. That's why the President put the proposals forward that he did in the State of the Union address, and why you'll hear more from him in the coming days and weeks and months about the things we should be doing to move the country forward.
Q I just wanted to follow up on that same conversation the President had. The woman who talked about sending a résumé said that her husband was out of work -- and she blamed it on the fact that the administration -- rules regarding the H1B visa were too lenient and too many foreigners were taking the jobs that maybe her husband would be able to get.
Today the President, I think in his bill that he sent over to Congress, talked about maybe loosening the cap on immigration from certain countries to attract more skilled laborers. And I think his response to her indicated he believes, in fact, that in some fields there's a shortage of qualified folks and we need to attract the skilled laborers from overseas.
My question, generally, is: Is the President concerned that there might be a feeling of xenophobia or something going on out there when the economy is this tight and there are some concerns that reflect in that question from the woman?
MR. CARNEY: No -- well, I haven't talked to him about that specifically. But I think that the President's position, which you state clearly, is that we need to make it more possible for highly qualified people who are being educated here, or coming from abroad to work here, build businesses here, grow the economy here, create jobs here -- that is a message that you hear from business leaders across the country, especially in the fields of technology and engineering and the like, so -- which doesn't take away from this individual's experience at all, but the broader picture is one of a need for more engineers, a need for more highly skilled, highly educated workers to help us grow those industries in the United States that will be the foundation for our economic future.
Q Thanks, Jay.
MR. CARNEY: Last one. Yes, ma'am.
Q Thank you, Jay. Will President Obama have any policy change toward North Korea this year?
MR. CARNEY: I'm sorry, will he what?
Q Will President Obama have any policy change toward North Korea this year?
MR. CARNEY: Policy change?
Q Yes.
MR. CARNEY: I don't anticipate it. I took some questions about this, about North Korea during the leadership transition. But I wouldn't -- obviously I can't predict the future in terms of what might transpire on the Korean Peninsula and with North Korea, but there has been no policy change.
Thank you.
Q Is the President going to the auto show? There has been a lot of talk about it.
MR. CARNEY: I've seen those reports, and I guess I could say that if he were I wouldn't acknowledge it from here. (Laughter.)
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I LOVE the book by Cheryl Mendelson called "Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House". It is chock full of incredible information and very well organized.
While reading, I got to the chapter about caring for your bedroom. On page 660, Ms. Mendelson advises us to air out our bed and bedroom at least an hour every day.
"Each day when you arise, air the bed. Open the windows, if possible; throw the bedcovers back over the foot of the bed. (If the bedding will otherwise drag on the floor, stand a chair at the foot of the bed to support it.) Let the bed stand this way, unmade, while you shower and eat breakfast. The bed should air for at least an hour if you are going to work, or even longer if you are staying home. This helps immensely toward keeping the bed feeling and smelling fresh until you next change the sheets."
WHY exactly should we bother to do this???
"While you are sleeping, you breathe about two pounds of moisture, along with breath odors and flocks of microorganisms, into the air, your pillow and your bedding. You also perspire, perhaps a cup's worth, and exude skin oils and body smells. And you use up the room's oxygen and replace it with exhaled carbon dioxide. When there are two or more people in the bed or the room, these effects are multiplied. All this explains why, if you sleep with closed windows, the room has a characteristic stale morning smell (although you might not perceive it until you leave for a few minutes and then return.) Unless you leave the bedcovers pulled down and the windows open for an hour or two, the moisture you have left in the bed either does not evaporate or evaporates very slowly, which makes for an environment in pillows and mattress in which dust mites, molds, and other microbial life have more of an opportunity to multiply. Opening the windows lets in new air to dilute the pollutants (microbial and particulate), carry them off, and bring in fresh supplies of oxygen."
Good gracious alive!!! (That's what I said when I first read this!!) Just thinking about all the ickiness that she describes is so, ugh, disgusting!!! Needless to say, after reading this, I started letting our bed air out daily. I do not always open our windows each morning, but I do when it's not incredibly hot, freezing or raining. I want our bedrooms as fresh as possible. And thanks to Cheryl Mendelson, I can achieve that more easily now.


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Today is the Beginning of the Rest of Our Lives
You probably have noticed there's been a change to Lord Flea! I have changed the "look" of the blog, after nearly three years with the same "theme." Thank you very much, WordPress, for making available so many interesting ways for us to express ourselves. If anyone doesn't like the new look, please let me know.
Besides the new face I've also decided to start something new with the ideas I'll be sharing here. Instead of random thoughts that come into my mind, usually just when I'm sitting down at the keyboard, knowing it's time to write a post before people think I've gone off sailing again, or visiting the moon in my private rocket ship … I will be writing on a very definite, and to me, a very special subject. I won't tell you what it is until my next post. A surprise! So be sure to tune into what we're going to be singing about here on Lord Flea … where we sing as ONE.
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text: By Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran is weighing a more confrontational strategy at possible renewed nuclear talks with world powers, threatening to boost levels of uranium enrichment unless the West makes clear concessions to ease sanctions. Such a gambit - outlined by senior Iranian officials in interviews this week - could push Iran's nuclear program far closer to the "red line" set by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for possible military options. But it also suggests that economic pressures and diplomacy have pushed Iran to the point of considering an ultimatum-style end game in efforts to seek relief from the U.S. and European sanctions, which have targeted Iran's vital oil exports and its ability to use international banking networks. Mansour Haghighatpour, deputy head of Iran's influential National Security Committee in parliament, told The Associated Press that the hardline negotiating formula under consideration would put Western negotiators on notice that failure to ease sanctions could open the way for uranium enrichment above 20 percent - currently the highest level acknowledged by the Islamic Republic. That would mark a dramatic move toward the threshold for warhead-grade material at about 90 percent and certainly bring a sharp escalation in calls for military action from Israel and others in the West. Iran denies it seeks nuclear weapons, but there have been suggestions it could ramp up uranium enrichment for future projects such as nuclear-powered submarines. "The West now has a chance to strike a deal with Iran," Haghighatpour told the AP in an interview. "Perhaps we may need to produce nuclear fuel for large commercial vessels that need 60 percent purity." There are no immediate plans to resume nuclear talks between Iran and a six-nation group including both Tehran's foes and allies: the permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany. Full-scale negotiations have been on hold since the last round ended in stalemate in June. At the time, the West stuck to its major demands: Iran must stop enriching uranium to 20 percent purity, shut down its underground Fordo enrichment site and ship its 20 percent stockpile out of the country. In return, Iran was offered civilian plane spare parts and 20 percent-enriched nuclear fuel for its medical research reactor in Tehran. But there was no move to ease sanctions - which have grown even tighter since the last negotiating session. To Iran, the proposed package was a nonstarter. Many compared it to swapping diamonds in return for peanuts. So far, Iran has publicly repeated its positions that it was willing to bargain over 20 percent enrichment as part of step-by-step moves to lift sanctions. Iran also wants an international pledge that it has the "right" to make its own nuclear fuel - at least at lower levels for its energy-producing reactor. The tougher line outlined by officials has not been made public, and it's still unclear whether it will be adopted as a negotiating position. But the fact it's under review suggests Iran is eager for a sweeping deal to lift sanctions and could try to jolt the West with a now-or-never choice: Roll back the sanctions or face a stepped up Iranian nuclear program. "The West feels sanctions are biting and this is forcing Iran to return to the negotiating table. That's wrong. We never left the table. Sanctions have been harmful but will never make us give up our nuclear activities," said lawmaker Hossein Naqavi, spokesman for the parliament's Security Committee. "Pressures, sanctions and military threats won't make us retreat." The White House has indicated it would be receptive to landmark one-on-one talks with Iran in parallel with the wider diplomatic process. Iranian officials this week said the country had no plans to meet directly with Washington envoys. On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi predicted the stalled talks with world powers could resume as late November, after the U.S. presidential election. Haghighatpour, the security committee official, said Iran would have never increased the level of its uranium enrichment from 3.5 percent to 20 percent if the West had provided fuel for the research reactor, which produces isotopes to treat cancer patients. "Some 850,000 Iranian patients need nuclear medicine every year. We wanted fuel for our research reactor but the West refused. We had no option but to increase enrichment to 20 percent and make it ourselves," he said. "It's the same today. They can reach a deal with us now or face a new situation." Many Iranian lawmakers and conservative clerics have said in recent months that Iran should enrich uranium to higher levels for proposed vessels such as nuclear-powered oil tankers. Iran currently has no such ships. Nuclear-powered vessels other than warships are rare, and the International Atomic Energy Agency has said in the past that nuclear-powered merchant ships would be uneconomical. But Iran's deputy navy chief in charge of technical affairs, Adm. Abbas Zamini, said in June that Iran has begun "initial stages" of designing a nuclear submarine. The West has raised concerns that Iran might cite submarine and other nuclear-powered vessel construction as a justification for producing weapons-grade 90 percent enriched uranium. Nuclear submarines are powered by fuel ranging from 20 percent purity to more than 90 percent. Many U.S. submarines use nuclear fuel enriched to more than 90 percent, the same level used to build atomic bombs. 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What a way to finish the 2015 cycling season but with my first crash on my road bike. Our local cycling group had a few new guests and we were having really great time, too, despite the cold weather.
We were riding the Sunset Hill Route, only this time we road up over Castle Hill and then hooked around on Tauton Lake and then took Plumtrees down into Bethel. It was great to discover that Plumtrees had recently been paved and the Black Butter was simply delicious!
The climb up Sunset Hill went well but it was heading down through the hairpin turn where disaster struck (me). Going into the turn, I had too much speed and it happened so fast but all of a sudden my rear tire went out from under me and I was sliding on the road towards on coming car. Fortunately for me, the driver was going slow and stopped right of way. All I can think of was I hope I stop in time.
My hip hurt and forearm hurt but it didn't feel like anything was broken. My breastbone hurt, too, but again, it didn't feel like I broke any ribs - I know what that feels like from my mountain biking days.
Riding down to the bottom of Sunset Hill, I split off from the group and headed home. Paul and Gavin stuck with me most of the way. While my hip and forearm hurt but injuries felt superficial and I was fine riding. My only concern was the ribs.
When I went down, I was in the drops so I think I instinctively shielded my chest with my the flat part of my arm and my hip was probably second to the pavement. My right hand caught some the pavement, too, and getting hope I found my knuckles were a bit bloodied.
After showering I went right to the ice. Right side of my chest hurts but no burning pain when breath deeply, which tells me no broken or cracked ribs. Maybe a little bruising but nothing I haven't dealt with before. Looks like I might be riding the trainer for awhile now and skiing with probably be out of the question for the next week but we'll see how I feel in a couple of days.


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Best-in-class desktop NAS addresses protection, sharing and sync for up to 120 users
LAS VEGAS — January 4, 2017 — At this year's CES® trade show, NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTGR), a leading provider of networking equipment for homes and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), is announcing three new series in its award-winning ReadyNAS Network Attached Storage (NAS) product family: RN420, RN520 and RN620. Now faster than ever before, the new desktop NAS solutions offer small and medium businesses the ultimate network storage platforms. With five levels of unrivaled data protection, 10 Gigabit copper Ethernet (10GbE) network interface on selected models, and expandable storage capacity, the new product lineup based on Intel® technologyoffers outstanding performance, versatility and scalability.
The new ReadyNAS products bring:
- Ultimate performance: The industry's highest performance NAS product portfolio, at multiple power, capacity and price points, meeting every SMB need
- Unmatched 5 levels of data protection: Complete, reliable and cost-effective protection for company files, databases, and virtual machines
- All-inclusive backup and recovery : NETGEAR ReadyDR™ is an on-schedule, automatic snapshot-based backup to a second ReadyNAS that enables businesses to recover and restore data from the latest backup and quickly get back to business
- Intuitive and unified management app: Setup, monitor and manage ReadyNAS from the palm of your hand through the NETGEAR Insight app for iOS and Android™
- Seamless File Sharing: Unified storage platform for sharing files among Windows®, Mac®, and Linux®-based computers, and remote or cloud locations
- Secure Private Cloud: Access data from anywherewith NETGEAR ReadyCLOUD®, and select folders and files to share with partners, clients, or internal teams
"NETGEAR ReadyNAS solutions are designed with business needs in mind. No matter the size of the business, our portfolio scales accordingly. These new additions to the ReadyNAS product line are no exception," said Richard Jonker, vice president of SMB Product Line Management for NETGEAR. "We collaborate closely with customers and partners to design storage products that leverage the latest technology and bring performance and ease-of-use to businesses every day."
ReadyNAS 620 series offers the ultimate performance in data storage and accessibility with dual 10GbE connectivity for 4K video multi-streaming and real-time transcoding. Based on the Intel® Xeon® processor D-1521, theReadyNAS 620 is available in 6 and 8 bay configurations for a total storage capacity of 80TB or up to130TB with an expansion chassis. It supports up to 120 users for optimized usage in high-demanding environments such as creative studios, company headquarters, or large branch offices.
ReadyNAS 520 series offers superior performance storage capabilities for up to 80 users, featuring 10GbE connectivity and superior streaming capabilities for multiple 1K or single 4K streams.ReadyNAS 520 isbased on the Intel® Pentium® Processor D1500 Series for Server and is available in 4, 6 and 8 bay configurations. It is a great addition to the ReadyNAS family for small businesses needing to store, share, and protect their ever-growing amount of company data.
ReadyNAS 420 series has been designed with small business needs in mind and offers high performance, all-in-one file server and automatic backup, at amazing price-performance levels. ReadyNAS 420 is available in 2 and 4 bay configurations. These new ReadyNAS models arepowered by the latest Intel® Atom™ Processor C3338 built around the next generation Intel® Atom™ Processor C3338 for high levels of networking throughput, enabling enterprise-grade file sharing and data backup for offices supporting up to 40 employees.
"Small and medium businesses, as well as home users, need storage solutions that allow them to access, share, and protect their data in a convenient way," said Ran Senderovitz, vice president and general manager of Intel's Wireless and Consumer/Commercial Infrastructure Group. "Netgear's new network storage platforms based on Intel® processors offer businesses a range of storage options to meet their needs now and into the future."
Price and Availability
All models are availablein populated configurations of various hard disk drive capacities.ReadyNAS models 528X and 628X are available immediately, worldwide. ReadyNAS 524X will be available in North America and Europe in January, and the rest of the world in Q1, 2017. ReadyNAS models 422, 424 will be available in Q1, 2017.
ReadyNAS 420 Series
- RN422, 2-bay, Dual GbE, diskless, $449.99 MSRP
- RN424, 4-bay, Dual GbE, diskless, $649.99 MSRP
ReadyNAS 520 Series
- RN524X, 4-bay, Dual 10GbE, diskless, $899.99 MSRP
- RN526X, 6-bay, Dual 10GbE, diskless, $1,199.99 MSRP
- RN528X, 8-bay, Dual 10GbE, diskless, $1,599.99 MSRP
ReadyNAS 620 Series
- RN626X, 6-bay, Dual 10GbE + Dual GbE, diskless, $1,699.99 MSRP
- RN628X, 8-bay, Dual 10GbE + Dual GbE, diskless, $1,999.99 MSRP
NETGEAR backs its ReadyNAS business-class products with the industry best-in-class 5-Year Limited Hardware Warranty, 5-Year Next Business Day Shipping for part replacement, and multiple support options to provide peace of mind for years to come.
Learn more about NETGEAR ReadyNAS desktop and rackmount series to determine the right solution for your business.
About NETGEAR, Inc.
NETGEAR(NASDAQ: NTGR) is a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers. The Company's products are built on a variety of proven technologies such as wireless(WiFi and LTE), Ethernet and powerline, with a focus on reliability and ease-of-use. The product line consists of wired and wireless devices that enable networking, broadband access and network connectivity. These products are available in multiple configurations to address the needs of the end-users in each geographic region in which the Company's products are sold. NETGEARproducts are sold in approximately 28,000 retail locations around the globe, and through approximately 27,000 value-added resellers,as well as multiple major cable, mobile and wireline service providers around the world. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., with additional offices in approximately 25 countries. More information is available from the NETGEAR investor page or by calling (408) 907-8000.Connect with NETGEAR on Twitter, Facebook and our blog.
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Novel Drug Shows Promise for Early Stage Breast Cancer
TUESDAY, Sept. 10A drug already used to treat advanced breast cancer also appears to shrink early stage breast tumors, potentially offering women a first-of-its-kind treatment option, U.S. health regulators say.
If approved to treat early stage cancers, the drug, Perjeta, might result in less invasive surgical treatment — or no surgical treatment — for women with HER2-positive early stage breast cancer, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.
In that role, Perjeta (pertuzumab) would be the first cancer-fighting drug approved as a neoadjuvant (first step) breast cancer therapy in the United States, the news agency said.
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration report posted online Tuesday by FDA staff members said the drug looks promising in trials. However, the report also said drug-related cardiac concerns will require additional research. A meeting is scheduled for Thursday to discuss the drug's merits.
Cancer specialists welcomed the news.
"This is tremendously exciting," said Dr. Amy Tiersten, associate professor in the division of hematology and medical oncology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
"Pertuzumab was FDA approved in 2012 for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer [cancer that has spread to other parts of the body] when it was shown that it improved survival when added to standard regimens for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer," Tiersten explained.
"But the really exciting information is when this can be translated into earlier stages of disease, where we can completely eradicate the disease and cure more women," said Tiersten.
The trial under discussion shows that when pertuzumab is added to standard pre-surgical regimens for HER2-positive breast cancer the chance of finding no cancer after this treatment is nearly doubled, Tiersten said.
Women who have chemotherapy before surgery and who achieve complete remission — no cancer at the time of breast surgery — have a much greater chance of being completely cured of their disease, she said.
Dr. Aye Moe Thu Ma, attending physician in breast surgical oncology with St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals in New York City, also voiced enthusiasm.
"We currently have limited options for neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer," she said. "I'm excited that this may provide a more specific treatment for people with HER2-positive cancer. Although survival advantage has not been documented for patients who received neoadjuvant therapy over adjuvant therapy, if neoadjuvant therapy is effective, more patients can have breast preservation surgery."
This means women can keep their breasts because the tumor size is reduced, and some women may prefer this, she said.
Roche's Genentech unit is hoping for accelerated approval of Perjeta. The FDA can expedite approval for groundbreaking drugs as long as the drug maker pursues more research to show that the medication prolongs disease-free survival.
Genentech estimates about 15,000 women with HER2-positive early stage breast cancer could receive early treatment with Perjeta each year, Bloomberg reported.
Both short- and long-term side effects will need to be examined to fully evaluate risks and benefits of this medication if it is approved, Ma added.
Pertuzumab is one of many newer biologic agents used to treat breast cancer. "These biologic or 'targeted' treatments work on breast cancer cells in a more specific way than some older treatments so that there are many fewer casualties to normal cells translating into many fewer side effects for our patients," Tiersten said.
It's a "win-win situation," Tiersten said.
About one in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime.
According to the Mayo Clinic, HER2-positive breast cancer is a breast cancer driven by a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), which promotes the growth of cancer cells.
HER2-positive breast cancers are typically more aggressive than other types of breast cancer. But there are effective drug treatments, including trastuzumab (Herceptin) and lapatinib (Tykerb). Both drugs can produce side effects, including congestive heart failure, the Mayo Clinic said.
More information
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about early stage breast cancer.
Source: HealthDay
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TurnKey Appliance Development Contest: An Open Source Summer Bonanza!
Over the last few months donations have been trickling in and gradually piling up. Since there's a limit to how much beer we can reasonably drink we've been brainstorming ideas for using that money to help the project.
One of the ideas we liked the most was to try and sponsor an experimental contest which would hopefully stimulate community TKLPatch development, strengthen the community and teach as many people as possible the skills needed to customize existing TurnKey appliances and create new ones. It's not rocket science and you don't need to be a programmer or systems expert. Anyone willing to learn a few basic Linux skills can have fun doing it. If you want we'll even teach you how! (details below).
We're thinking of running the contest for the next 8 weeks. Then allow another 2 weeks to summarize the results and let the community help us decide who should win (e.g., a survey on the web site).
Winners and all honorable mentions will be celebrated in obligatory blog posts, and forever immortalized in the TurnKey hall of fame. They'll also receive full bragging rights, the undying gratitude of billions of TurnKey users, and some of our excess beer money on PayPal, which they can claim for themselves or donate to a charity of their choice.
First prize:
$1,500$100,000 + pony - Second prize: $800
- Third prize: $100
Many thanks to everyone who donated to the project! We're hoping this will put your money to good use. If you like the idea and want to increase the contest pot size, feel free to donate now and ask us to dedicate the money to that.
Help us expand the next release
We're hoping to get lots of high-quality submissions, and if we do, the timing will be just right.
As many of you already know we're in the middle of a development cycle for the new Lucid and Lenny based beta appliances and we have our hands full upgrading the existing crop of appliances and introducing new features such as backup and migration. Unfortunately that means this time around we don't have the resources to expand the appliance library horizontally and add a significant number of new appliances from scratch.
Unless... well, that's where our heros come in. Adding a new appliance to the library from a TKLPatch still requires work, but it's definitely easier than creating an appliance from scratch and that means we could get more of them done.
In other words, any high-quality TKLPatch submissions we receive from the community in the next couple of months will have a very good chance of being formally adopted into the library in time for the next release.
After that the appliance library will be frozen again for a while until the next release batch.
List of ideas
In no particular order here's a list of ideas for appliances that have been sitting in our todo list for much too long and probably won't make it into the next release without the community's help:
- By function (components not yet determined): terminal server replacement (I.e., remote desktops for thin-clients), ASP.NET replacement, web filtering proxy (e.g. privacy, ad-blocking, malware protection, content filtering), plug-in e-mail filter (e.g., spam/malware), unified threat management, load balancing reverse proxies.
- eCommerce: Magento, VirtueMart, PrestaShop, Zen Cart, osCommerce, UberCart.
- Content management: Alfresco, SilverStripe, Plone, Knowledge Tree, DSpace, Apache Roller, LifeRay.
- Messaging: DimDim, Asterisk, OpenFire, Mumble, Vanilla forum, StatusNet, Zarafa, Scalix, RoundCube, OpenEMM
- Business: SugarCRM, vTiger CRM, Open HRM, Apache OFBiz, GLPI
- Monitoring: Nagios, Cacti, ZenOSS, Hyperic, Zabbix, OpenNMS
- Infrastructure: OpenLDAP, Radius
- Development frameworks: Zope, TurboGears, jBos
- Management: eBox, ISPConfig
- Data integration: Jasper BI, Pentaho, SnapLogic
- Backup: Amanda, Bacula
- IDS: Snort + Aanval, Snorby
- Virtualization: Proxmox VE, Xen-DTC, oVirt, enomaly, eucalyptus
- Misc: Apache Solr, iFolder, IceCast, OpenVPN ALS
If you have your own ideas for appliances you think would make good additions to the TurnKey library, don't worry if they're not on the list. All contributions are welcome. Work on whatever interests you.
Sign up for a live training session
Creating a TKLPatch isn't hard. Read the documentation and still not sure where to begin? No problem. If there's interest, we'll be giving free live training sessions on TurnKey's IRC channel showing how to build an example TKLPatch step by step and answering any questions. Click here to sign up and we'll send you an e-mail with the time and date of the session.
UPDATE: The session is scheduled for July 25 2010, 17:00 UTC
A few guidelines
You can improve an existing appliance or create a new appliance by patching any appliance in the TurnKey library, including the new Ubuntu Lucid and Debian Lenny TurnKey Core betas.
If you're creating a new appliance, we recommend patching the new beta of TurnKey Core based on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. This is the latest version of Ubuntu so it has the newest packages in its software repositories.
It's preferable to install software through the package management system rather than directly from an upstream tarball. It's usually much easier to install and update software this way.
Unfortunately, sometimes this won't be an option because there's a lot of excellent open source software that isn't in Ubuntu's or Debian's package repositories. In these cases try checking if the software you're looking for is at least available as a Debian package (*.deb).
If not, that's OK. An appliance doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.
In case it isn't obvious, if you include software from outside the official package repositories, make sure it's available under an open source license (e.g., GPL, BSD, etc.). Free as in free beer is not enough. Software in official TurnKey appliances must also be free as in liberty.
Publish results as soon as you have them on the forum and/or development wiki. In general, credit for a result goes to the first person who publishes. This doesn't even have to be a finished TKLPatch, though naturally finished, high-quality submissions count moure than partial results.
To avoid duplicated effort, check the development wiki before you start working on a new TKLPatch. Maybe it's already been submitted. But if you think you can make something better, don't let that stop you!
You can work alone, or collaborate as part of a group. Your choice. There's no need to register. If you're part of a group, just document who should take credit (e.g., Hans Solo, Star Wars group).
Results will be evaluated based on a quality and quantity of all submissions, including any integration notes, TKLPatches, or documentation submitted. At the end we'll summarize the results of all participants and set up community surveys to help us decide who should win.
Have fun!
Don't forget to sign up for the live training session if you're interested. Any questions?
What?!? No Pony?
I was excited about this contest until I read the list of prizes and saw that it did not include a pony.
Pony's are available by request
Pony's are available by request, but pink pony's cost more - and are not in stock - sorry.
Maybe next time...
All this talk of pots and ponies is making me thirsty
Amusingly (for varying values of ~) pot and pony are both measures of beer in Australia.
Problem with steps 2 & 3
tklpatch fails to download
Building dependency treeReading state information... DoneThe following NEW packages will be installed:tklpatch0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded.Need to get 8410B of archives.After this operation, 77.8kB of additional disk space will be used.Get:1 http://archive.turnkeylinux.org hardy/universe tklpatch 0.93+1+ge3b62ec [8410B]Fetched 1B in 0s (14B/s)Failed to fetch http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/tklpatch/tklpatch... Size mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
wget http://www.turnkeylinux.org/download?file=turnkey-core-2009.10-2-hardy-x...
does not work.... Had to use -->
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/turnkeylinux/turnkey-core/2009....
Thanks, look forward to the live training..
apt-get install tklpatch - Fixed
Thanks for reporting both issues.
Regarding the error you received when trying to install tklpatch. It was caused by a conflict within the package archive between hardy and lucid. I've fixed the issue and you should be to install tklpatch now without issue.
See you at the tklpatch session.
Thanks guys :)
Alon & Liraz,
Thanks for the updates, all seems to work well under both hardy and lucid now:)
TKLPatch Live Training schedule
The session is scheduled for this coming Sunday, July 25 2010, 17:00 UTC and will be held in #turnkey on irc.freenode.net
Don't forget about the prerequisites.
See you there.
why not use the Ubuntu Customization tool to create the live ISO
Their is a ubuntu customization tool that allows you to create custom Ubuntu version that have specific packages installes at installation. Basically you start the tool choose the linux ISO you want to start with and then modfiy the packages that you want installed during the installation. all we have to do is go ahead and create a repo list to modify that has only the packages for each distro. btw where is the beta turnkey dl at? only downside is it automatically makes you select a gui which we will later have to manually remove from the package list or set as disable by default so that it boots into rl2 instead of rl5 and allows for a user to run stratx to run the gui.
TKLPatch vs. UCK
I assume you are referring to the Ubuntu Customization Kit (aka. UCK).
I won't go into a TKLPatch vs. UCK discussion, as I have never used UCK myself, just scanned the docs. What I will say (AFAIK) is that UCK was designed with a certain use case in mind (eg. customizing the ubuntu-desktop for localization, package changes and minor tweaks) to produce a Live CD.
OTOH, TKLPatch was designed to make it easy to customize Turnkey images with a very powerful interface, and produces a TKLPatch (which in turn can be used to produce a Live CD or patch a running system).
The produced TKLPatch can then be shared with the community, not just the ISO. This provides the ability for developers to collaborate on patch development, as well as reduces the work need to leverage the patch into creating an official TurnKey image and including it in the Turnkey library.
In the spirit of open source, developers are encouraged to share their patches with the community to help accelerate development. Once we add an appliance to the project we assume the burden of maintaining it at the appliance level with regular updates. This frees you to focus on more interesting tasks (e.g., improving quality of integration, software sub-components).
TKLPatch Live Training agenda
- Resources
- What is TKLPatch
- Development workflow
- Anatomy of a TKLPatch patch
- Live demo: prototyping Drupal5
- Creating Drupal5 TKLPatch (walkthrough)
- How TKLPatch works
- Live demo: creating Drupal5 TKLPatch
- TKLPatch development FAQ + answers
- Open Q&A
TKLPatch Live Training transcript
First, I'd like to thank all those who participated in the session - naudefj, Gonzalo, amoya, MarcBSchauber, slacker2, hoschi, ghoulman, Phani, Volkswagner and all the others who were sitting in the back.
We had a great time, though a lot longer than anticipated.
The transcript is available here for reference.
Glad to hear it went well
I was keen to join in but the timing wasn't so greeat for me (3am Monday morning). Thanks for linking to the relevant irc log. I'll have a read a bit later when I get a chance.
Yeah! My Pony Dreams Come True !!!
Awesome. I will get my pony and a check to cover the expense of keeping it "housed" and fed and available for free pony rides to neighboorhood kids. I think I better up my game a notch here.
Some thoughts about this
My point of view is the following: IT IS important to view trends so to know about what are people looking for. That would surely help a project like TKL help more people and generate more value etc. But, on the other hand, new and wonderful open source projects that are build with fresh technologies and modern designs, and come to offer solutions to problems that old and popular and trendy apps have not addressed due to the difficulty of modifying their base code. So, a project like TKL could also help the opensource ecosystem presenting the final user with choices they were not aware of. And I mean "mature" or at least serious looking choices. You can test them first, see how's developing going on, lastest commits, see documentation, and finally offer appliances. That way TKL helps other opensource projects to grow, offering instant usage and the ability to test the software without having to follow complex (or not so complex) install procedures. They'll surelly be happy to post a link on their site to their app appliance, bringing their community to TKL.
Basil posts have shown me good OSS that I didn't have in my radar. It's impossible to keep track of so much good OSS. That's why sometime when you are looking for a solution, I browse the TKL Gallery (and jumbox's I must admit) to see what appliances are there and follow the links to each project to finally download one that seems to suit my needs.
Remember final users not always know what to look for. (That's why they end up installing windows anyway!).
Does this makes sense to anyone? Just my two cents on this topic.
Can we have a similiar statistics about cloud deployments ??
The reason is that people may download appliances even if they are not interested in deploying it. Just to know how it looks and how it works.
Deadline for submission
Liraz, cloud you please post a deadline for submission of TKLPatchs for the contest? By the initial post, it would be september 12? Just to have this date clearly defined.
Reasonable enough for me
Although I think two weeks will be a lot of time. Maybe one extra week it's enough. Just my 2 Cents...
My 2 cents
The gap between first and second prize is too wide , it would be nice if the gap can be minimized
2 methods are there ......
I thought it was real
Still no problem... I will continue my work .......
actually i'm a bit fooled too
I passed the information to many of my friends ... with a special mention to PRIZE MONEY :D
I just didn't get that joke earlier ..... (never went through the 'novell' section)
So now i need to correct that... "Because of less participation , they reduced the prize money "
No suitcase with $100.000? How are we supposed to feed and maintain that pony? Oh well... I'll start a request for funds online right now! Do you have a cool picture of the pony so that I can post it?
Now that's what I call a motivator!
I can't imagine my wife's happiness if after so many extra hours hacking on tkl, I can get home with that lovely pony!!! No suitcase full of money can replace the value of this prize!
Yep, thats a pony you could be proud to own!
Show off to all your friends. And cheap to feed, easy to look after. It doesn't get any better than that!
comment subscription
Is there another method to subscribet to the comments, instead of asking? ^^
It may seem that $1000 extra compared to Shuttleworth's suitcase full of money is an insignifican't amount of money, but that colorful pony seems to eat a lot, and we surely will need the extra money to buy some combs, I was looking at these ones...
So thank you very much!
The summary is here:
But some of the patches that may be of interest to you are here:
Icinga (Nagios fork)


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One of the scripts I've used a lot over the past few years is the Test-ExchangeServerHealth.ps1 PowerShell health check script written by Paul Cunningham. The red, yellow and green colour coded report generated by this script allows me to easily review the status of critical Exchange services on devices with small viewing space such as a smartphone. If you are unfamiliar with this script, further details about the script can be found in the following links:
Test-ExchangeServerHealth.ps1 – PowerShell Script to Generate a Health Check Report for Exchange Server 2016/2013/2010
Generate Health Report for an Exchange Server 2016/2013/2010 Environment
This script could be scheduled to automatically run via the Task Scheduler and this post serves to provide the configuration for the action which sometimes can be difficult to find. Note that I won't go into the details of creating the scheduled task as that could be found in one of my previous posts here:
Setting up vCheck PowerShell health check script in Task Scheduler to automatically run daily
The following is the syntax required to configure the action:
Program/script: powershell.exe
Add arguments (option): -command "& 'C:\PS-Scripts\Test-ExchangeServerHealth.ps1' -ReportMode -SendEmail"