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[Note: This interview, although posted by me (Rory), was actually conducted by Brian Keller - our
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So you want to use Team Foundation Server… but how do you get all of your existing data from your current source code control or bug tracking system over to your shiny new TFS server? That's what the Team Foundation Server Migration Toolkit is designed for. Matthew Mitrik, Program Manager for TFS Migration, talks about the tool his team is building which will help make it easier to migrate to Team Foundation Server.
For more information, check out the following blogs:
Migration Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/tfs_migration/
Robert Horvick's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/roberthorvick/
Component Software (mentioned by Matt during the interview): http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/Converter/index.htm
Update: The original title + description for this interview was accidentally swapped with that of another upcoming interview. This has now been corrected.
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rschrieken wrote:Are there any plans for migration from TFS to TFS? Comes in handy if you need to consolidate to a central infrastructure
Hey I am new to this TFS. Could anyone please guide from where to start as I want to learn and master this amazing technology. Thnx in advnce
Ditto what Sheirkhali says. This interview, while interesting in itself, would probably have been more beneficial after there was something to show, rather than vague plans, understandable since the product is in development now. Overall these interview have been very helpful though. Nice job.
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What is the difference between presently and shortly? They seem to have rather similar meanings.
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Presently has two meanings: currently and shortly. So, one difference is that shortly does not mean currently. Otherwise they mean pretty much the same thing.
Ngrams shows that shortly is more common than presently. If we take into account the fact that the results are context-agnostic and the fact that a fair portion of the uses of presently found by Ngrams was in the sense of currently, we can conclude that in the sense of soon the word shortly is far more common than presently.
Certainly the senses of presently and shortly overlap -- senses of the first include "Before long; soon", and senses of the other "In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly" -- but the sense "At the present time; now; currently" of presently is not uncommon, and the sense "of short duration" or "terse" of shortly likewise. In these latter senses, neither word substitutes for the other.
I say "not uncommon", above, because instances of presently with the meaning "at the present time" occur frequently in Google books but the meaning "after a short while" occurs more frequently.
ngrams for presently,shortly shows that presently was more common than shortly before the early 1800's, and mostly vice versa since then; but their frequencies do not differ significantly enough to allow any particular conclusions to be drawn.
I like the tone and content of the above responses. Yet, there may be a subtle distinction in use.
A social superior might say, "I'll be with you presently". But it would seem rude and out of place for a social inferior to say the same thing.
On the other hand, "I'll be with you shortly" appears socially neutrally. As likely to be used by an inferior or a superior.
Yes they are synonymous with other in the sense something will happen "in the near future" . " The book will appear shortly" "The shooting of the movie will start presently"
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Looking forward to seeing these recruits play up on the hilll. All of them. Utah, Michigan, BYU and Arizona State. Go Utes!
- 6:19 a.m. May 6, 2013
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I love our BCS Pac 12 membership.
Combine that with our top 5 finishes lately, BCS bowls, BCS wins, undefeated seasons, last team in nation to beat Alabama in a bowl game, there are clear reasons the days of byu winning the recruiting wars are over.
The future of football in Utah,
is UTAH
- 7:15 a.m. May 6, 2013
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Congrats to all the kids who have done so will. Best wishes and stay healthy.
- 7:37 a.m. May 6, 2013
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Chris B.
The future is always what Ute fans say...Utah is the future, the problem is that it is not in the present!
Two to three years from now we will read from Chris B., "The future of football in Utah is Utah"
But it is good to always keep hope...perhaps some day the future might come...not.
- 9:36 a.m. May 6, 2013
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This Barton kid grew up in Park City and I knew his family well (we were in the same ward). He was a lot younger than me but I have always been impressed by him. He is a sharp kid. Obviously a great athlete, but also a great student and person. Very humble. Great pick up for the Utes!
- 10:33 a.m. May 6, 2013
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Unfortunately, my little sister forgot to mention Utah's steady decline
since those halcyon days of 2008... from undefeated, Top 5, Sugar Bowl winner to
losing record, unranked, bowl no show in only 5 years. Two full seasons in the
conference, and we still haven't beaten a PAC 12 opponent with a winner
record yet.
Despite our bluster, we were clearly only the third best team in the state last season.
#16/#17/#19 Utah State(10-3)
unranked/#26 BYU(8-5)
unranked/#61 Utah(5-7)
- 10:49 a.m. May 6, 2013
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BYU fan here...
Presently, Utah football has been pretty good. It's Utah that won the Fiesta & Sugar bowls. They've also won three in a row against BYU.
So, I don't know what you've been watching, but it's been our team that keeps talking about the future.
- 10:53 a.m. May 6, 2013
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Christy B,
Just a little FYI on winning the battle.
Frison= No offer from BYU
Havili=No offer from BYU
Finau= No offer from BYU
Jackson= No offer from BYU
Not to hard to win a battle that you are the only one in. lol
- 11:45 a.m. May 6, 2013
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Chris B has not clue about football or sports in general. The only thing he can say is he loves the PAC 12. I don't know why he likes it so much Utah probably doesn't like it much because they never win.
- 12:39 p.m. May 6, 2013
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"Barton is the highest rated prospect to come out of the state of Utah in
the last decade and will be looked upon to anchor the Ute offensive line for
years to come."
You never know what's going to happen until they start competing at the college level, but this is still great to hear.
- 12:40 p.m. May 6, 2013
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Nice job Dan. Looking forward to your insight in the DN.
- 12:55 p.m. May 6, 2013
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There are some pretty impressive 2014 recruits for Utah from Utah (which constitute all their early commits). There are also some pretty impressive recruits for BYU, but four of the five early commits are from out-of-state so they didn't make it into this article. It's great to see that both schools are off to a good start for the 2014 class.
- 2:40 p.m. May 6, 2013
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ChristyB ignores the obvious "Unfortunately, my little sister forgot to
mention Utah's steady decline since those halcyon days of 2008"
What you see as a decline in results is actually a steep incline in challenge.
- 3:01 p.m. May 6, 2013
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I would have to say that both programs are down at the moment. Utah is getting kicked around in the PAC-12 and BYU basically has no offense. BYU can boast its bowl appearance and win, but Utah can claim in-state bragging rights because of its 3 wins over BYU. Neither program, nationally, has anything to crow about. Trash talking BYU and Utah fans are like a pair of junkyard dogs fighting over the last bone.
- 3:34 p.m. May 6, 2013
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I suppose the future is brighter as the 2nd or 3rd place in the Independent league, right?
I'm happy where Utah has landed. Make no mistake year two in the PAC12 was a disappointment but year one Utah was in the hunt for the PAC12 championship game right up through the last game of the season which is far more exciting than a regular diet of Idaho, Idaho State, New Mexico State etc. etc.
Now that BYU has a real schedule, lets see if the Cougs can do better than 8-5 or even 5-7.
- 3:56 p.m. May 6, 2013
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So people can tell who is commenting:
Chris B is an enthusiastic fan who talks football and talks trash against Utah's main traditional rival. But, he does talk football.
Christy B is nothing more than an ad hominem attack.
- 4:43 p.m. May 6, 2013
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bballjunkie, BYU not having offered Barton or Havili appears to be more a matter
of recruiting ineptitude than a statement that those players aren't good
enough to play at BYU. Of BYU's 5 recruits:
Dawe: no other offers
Dye: no other offers
Pau'u: no other offers
Nacua: one other offer (ASU)
Warner: two other offers (NM State, Wash State)
"Not to (sic) hard to win a battle that you are the only one in. lol"
I will say, however, that BYU's LB prospect Warner looks pretty good and should be an impact player, so if he stays, congrats.
- 5:02 p.m. May 6, 2013
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It is interesting that nearly all the elite athletes in the state are going to the University of Utah or other BCS schools. That alone says a lot about the decision of BYU to go independent.
- 5:17 p.m. May 6, 2013
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That's not the point for Chrissy and anyone else who wants to compare a "battle or war over in state recruits" the two teams better have offered them to make that argument. If BYU would have then kudos to the utes however, they didn't offer any of them. Stop with then the comparing of BYU list, which consist of 1 in state kid. Not even in the same discussion. Thanks though, love ute fans.
- 8:02 p.m. May 6, 2013
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Last 5 NFL drafts
Utah has 15 players drafted
BYU has 4.
- 8:14 p.m. May 6, 2013
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@bbjunkie - your comment about offers, while factual, is extremely off-base.
There are a lot of reasons the Y wouldn't make an offer. One of the
reasons could be academic standards, another could be poor recruiting for not
going after the player. A third could be that the recruit flat out told them he
wasn't interested in playing in Provo.
When your recruiting lineup is filled with 4 and 5 star kids, you can use the excuse your team didn't make an offer. Until then the fact is that 6 of the 7 players in this article are going to schools in major conferences and Utah picked up 4 of the 5 staying in state.
- 8:39 p.m. May 6, 2013
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And Korey, a THREE star recruit, who played over at East High, the Ute
'farm' team down the hill, went to ASU... and the Utes didn't
even offer him... blah blah blah.
So much for all the talent lining up at Utah because of their PAC10.2 membership.
- 9:46 p.m. May 6, 2013
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It is much easier for Utah. There are far fewer kids who can meet the requirements of BYU. Utah will take about anyone who can play so they may get more early commits from in-state. Time will tell how these players do. They have been given a chance. Now it is up to them.
- 9:49 p.m. May 6, 2013
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UTAH's recruiting/offered 4 of the top 6 WEST DEs, including the top 3.
Korey Rush is not ranked in the WEST top 10 DEs. Not to say he's no good, but just simply to further illustrate kids we're targeting and kids we're not targeting. The fact he happened to play at East H.S. is wholly irrelevant.
Meanwhile, byu's relentlessly cornering the market on 2 star recruits, w/few exceptions.
- 11:29 p.m. May 6, 2013
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Nice to see Utah taking care of business recruiting wise on the home front. Now
it's time to get back to our winning ways. Last season was extremely
- 7:42 a.m. May 7, 2013
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wow people... I've come to realize that preseason rankings and recruit
rankings are a complete waste of time. It's just another way for
businesses to profit off of people who can't help but buy into the hype.
The game is played on the field. The reality is, byu will get most of the players they want/need, and utah will get most of the players they want/need. It's the coaching and work ethic of the players when they get to college that matters.
I don't understand why Ute fans bash on byu. Yes we have beaten them consistently, but we haven't been so great either. I also don't understand how byu fans could possibly think their team is better than the utes... Both sides should just keep quiet until game time.
- 8:52 a.m. May 7, 2013
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4 years ago all these players had byu offers, and half would be committed to them. How quickly things have changed and now bronco doesn't even seem to try to recruit against Utah any more. Up until 2 years ago all players in the state when asked who there top schools where all listed byu, even non lds players and Kids that grew up Utah fans would throw the y out there. The last 2 years none of them even mentions the y. Bronco seems more content going up against the aggies for players.
- 9:05 a.m. May 7, 2013
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Utah's steady decline began while the Utes were still in the MWC. Trying to pretend that it's nothing but a factor of increased competition is simply ignoring reality.
- 10:18 a.m. May 7, 2013
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The utes have two advantages in recruiting - lower academic standards and lower personal conduct standards. They make Whit's job easier.
- 10:25 a.m. May 7, 2013
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"Utah's steady decline began while the Utes were still in the MWC. Trying to pretend that it's nothing but a factor of increased competition is simply ignoring reality."
Huh? Just a couple of years prior to PAC-12 entry, UTAH was in the process of yet another brutal curb-stomping of byu, folliwed by straight whooping Alabama in yet another one of their BCS Bowl Games and, consequently, finishing ranked #2 in the nation by their actual play, as opposed to having it Mythically/Erroneously assigned to them, the former beating 4 teams finishing ranked, including 2 in the top 10 and the latter not even remotely playing one, single team to be found in the final rankings.
You speak as if we've had a full-decade or something pass by since then....No knowledgeable UTE Fan was confused about the need to build the requisite-depth mandatory, in order to successfully play against a week-in, week-out grind of a schedule, annually, an entirely foreign-concept to byu, we all know, although this upcoming season will have slightly fewer weeks-off in-between the tougher teams on the schedule, like Idaho, NMSU, etc., annually.
- 11:02 a.m. May 7, 2013
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And leave it to 4601 to surface and put forth, in typical fashion, yet another
utah county feel good/coping mechanism by way of a Myth, in the Spirit of
Desperation commonplace these days in this region, but you also feed directly
into the hands of LDS naysayers, in general, w/your overall presentation in
which you try extra hard to behave as utterly unChristlike as you possibly
- 11:12 a.m. May 7, 2013
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Really you have first hand knowledge of who BYU offers and who they don't? Great argument...not at all. Your post is not even in the same conversation! Nice thoughts!
- 11:35 a.m. May 7, 2013
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Utah's steady decline began while the Utes were still in the MWC. Trying to pretend that it's nothing but a factor of increased competition is simply ignoring reality.
Over the last 5 years (3 MWC and 2 PAC-12 seasons):
Utah went 33-6 in the MWC
SOS: 56, 75, and 50
Utah is 13-12 in the PAC-12
The difference is Utah has lack of depth playing in the PAC-12, in particular at QB. Depth will take time to build. Getting the top in-state recruits is crucial in building depth. Good to see Utah is now the top choice for in-state recruits.
Go UTES!
- 12:16 p.m. May 7, 2013
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Do you honestly think that BYU would have turned any of the players you mentioned away? If you believe that; maybe I can interest you in some ocean front property here in Spokane.
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Very "reasonable" comments. Kudos to you. From a BYU fan.
Personally I am OK about trashing idiotic statements from idiotic fans, but it is hard to talk smack about the Utah football team when they have beaten us head to head the last 3 years. I just don't get people who do.
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We're not holier than thou! We're not obsessed with U! And we prefer two star recruits. With grit!
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2008 #2/#4/#5 13-0
2009 #18/#18/#24 10-3
2010 unranked/#26 10-3
2011 unranked/#39 8-5
2012 unranked/#61 5-7 no bowl
From #5 to #24 to #26 to #39 to #61 the continual downward trend is blatantly obvious.
Blame it on increased competition if it helps you sleep at night, but that still doesn't change the fact that the Utes have finished lower in the rankings every year since 2008.
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Yeah... I have no problem with rivalry smack, that's half the fun of the rivalry. I just don't understand why people use recruiting rankings or other kinds of rankings as smack talk ammunition. I personally don't talk smack. I was born and raised, and currently am living in Provo, and I am LDS so naturally most people around me are byu fans. I don't rub it in when Utah wins, I don't talk smack before the game, or after. However, if people want to talk smack about what is actually relevant (results on the field), I am ok with that. Just don't see how rankings of any kind matter when it comes to the rivalry.
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There are only a handful of samples that no longer work. Head & Shoulders Shampoo, one of the men colognes are the 2 that I can think of.
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text: For those of you that have been waiting for a tutorial on "how to draw a Care Bear easy", here is the lesson for you. Oddly I have been getting requests for Care Bears. I haven't seen or heard anything about these lovable bears since forever. I don't know how anyone could forget about these guys, and girls because they are really cute. I'm not old enough to have really enjoyed these popular bears when they first came out because they have been around since the eighties. Hopefully this tutorial will help make drawing a Care Bear easy. I think I'm going to call it a night because tomorrow is another day. Have fun people.


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Tomatillos & Ground Cherries
Miltomate Tomato Organic
80 days. Open, sprawling bushes are covered with fat, pointed, papery husked, 1 inch fruits. Rich flavor makes this variety great for salsa. We found that the flavor is at its peak when fruit easily falls off the plant when shaken. From Mexico.
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Physalis spp.: These tasty summer treats are even more mineral-dense than tomatoes, packed with unique phytochemicals and flavonoids.
CULTURE: Both tomatillos and ground cherries are easy to grow. Start indoors as you would tomatoes. Growing tips are the same. Direct sowing outdoors is not recommended.
DISEASES AND INSECTS: Natural genetic plant resistance is the best form of disease control. For diseases like early and late blight, a strict 3 year rotation and a sanitation program that includes destroying all the vines at the end of the year are your best defenses. Contact your local county extension agent for more information.
HARVEST: Fruit is ripe when the light brown papery husk has folded back to reveal the plump berry. Ripe fruit will soon fall to the ground.
SEED SPECS: Minimum germination standard: 75%. Usual seed life: 3 years. Tomatillo: approximately 60-65 seeds per 1/8 gram, about 500 seeds per gram. Ground cherry: approximately 150 seeds per 1/8 gram, about 1200 seeds per gram.
CULTURE: Sow seeds indoors into sterile seedling mix 6-8 weeks before your last spring frost. Plant, water lightly, and cover with plastic or a Propagation Dome to keep the seeds from drying out. When the first set of true leaves has emerged, up-pot into 3-4 inch pots and place in an area with full light and cooler temperatures (60-70°F). This will help prevent legginess. Water carefully, allowing the soil to dry on the surface between watering, but don't let the plants wilt. Fertilize with fish emulsion every 10-14 days. Seven to ten days before you want to transplant outside, set the plants in a sheltered area outdoors to harden off. Bring in or cover at night to protect from frost. After the danger of frost has passed, transplant into well worked garden soil. Blend 1/4 cup of our complete fertilizer into the soil around each plant. If you have acid soils or have been bothered by blossom end rot, a handful of bone meal should also be added. Space determinate varieties 18-24 inches apart and indeterminate varieties 20-30 inches apart. Allow 3-4 feet between rows. If your plants have become leggy, plant them deeper; the stems will actually sprout roots. Water very lightly at first, allowing the stems to adapt.. To promote early growth and better yields use season extending products such as Wallo' Waters, Kozy Coats, Victorian Bell Cloches, or Red Plastic Mulch.
INSECTS/PESTS: Use Pyrethrin or crop row covers to discourage flea beetles early in the season, when they can be most destructive. Tomato hornworms can be controlled with Bacillus thuringienses (a bacteria also known as B.t.) sold as Monterey B.t. (ZIN503).
DISEASES: Natural genetic plant resistance is the best form of disease control. For diseases like early and late blight, a strict 3 year rotation and a sanitation program that includes destroying all the vines at the end of the year are your best defenses. Contact your local county extension agent for more information.
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AB | Early (Alternaria) Blight
B | Bacterial Wilt
F* | Fusarium Wilt
FOR | Fusarium Crown and Root Rot
L | Gray Leaf Spot
LB | Late Blight
LM | Leaf Mold
N | Roundworm | Nematode
PL | Corky Root Rot
PST | Bacterial Speck
RK | Root-Knot
TMV | Tobacco Mosaic Virus
ToMV* | Tomato Mosaic Virus
TSWV | Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
TYLCV | Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus
V | Verticillium Wilt
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Heavy producers, great flavor
Jul 7, 2014 | By RJT
I've tried growing tomatillos in the past with little luck. This year I gave these a shot. Because of my bad experience in the past, I didn't stake or support these at all, but I wish I would have because these babies have gone crazy! They are huge and sprawling, covered in blossoms and fruit. I just harvested my first pound this morning and they are so delicious. We'll be growing these again next year.


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I have a nutrition network of 20 sites which share the same hosting account, though different C class IP's. They were interlinked and suffered a massive traffic drop after penguin. I have decided to stop interlinking them for SEO purposes but I'd like my user to still visit them because they are in related niches.
If I display them on my site using javascript, will google penalize me still for doing a link scheme?


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I guess the title says it all... Any ideas as to why? I tried removing potentially offending 32-bit libs (this is a 32-bit title) inside the game's lib32/ folder (I already have 32-bit libs installed). Alas, no dice. The worst part is that the game immediately exits when started without reporting a single error. All suggested fixes on the Frozenbyte forums have yielded no progress.
On a somewhat related topic, other games also exhibit problems, like Crayon Physics Deluxe.


text: Here is a creature that is also from the soon to be new game "Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch". Today I will show you "how to draw Flutterby", step by step. Unfortunately I can't find any information on this griffin looking creature at all. All I can do is wait for a bio to come out, then I can update this description with information that some of you may enjoy reading. In the mean time, I guess you're gonna have to tackle drawing Flutterby without knowing his character background. I will be back in a jiffy so stay tuned in. Adios mi amigos!


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The Duplicity of the Ideologues
"Almost 70 years ago, a new world order was born from the rubble of World War II, built by and around the power of the United States." Yet today, Robert Kagan laments, "that world order shows signs of cracking, and perhaps even collapsing." Wherever he looks, Kagan sees evidence that "something is changing, and perhaps more quickly than we may imagine," he writes in the New Republic ("Superpowers Don't Get to Retire"). Indeed, "the signs of the global order breaking down are all around us."
These changes "signal a transition into a different world order," one bearing troubling similarities to the 1930s. The origins of this prospective calamity are plain to see. Don't bother to look for material explanations. "If a breakdown in the world order that America made is occurring," Kagan writes, "it is not because America's power is declining." The United States has power to spare, asserts the author of The World America Made. No, what we have here is "an intellectual problem, a question of identity and purpose." Feckless, silly Americans, with weak-willed Barack Obama their enabler, are abdicating their obligation to lead the planet. The abyss beckons.
Writing in the New York Times, columnist David Brooks hails Kagan's New Republic essay as "brilliant." A more accurate appraisal would be slickly mendacious. Still, Kagan's essay also qualifies as instructive: Here in some 12,700 carefully polished words the impoverished state of foreign-policy discourse is laid bare. If the problem hobbling U. S. policy is an intellectual one, then Kagan himself, purveyor of a fictive past, exhibits that problem in spades.
That Robert Kagan, a bona fide Washington insider, currently housed at the Brookings Institution, possesses very considerable talents is doubtless the case. A well-regarded historian, he is also a skilled polemicist and an ideologue. Here he combines all three callings to fashion a historical narrative that advances two claims. The first enshrines the entire period since 1945—until Obama sounded retreat anyway—as a kind of golden age when freedom, democracy, and liberal values flourished as never before. The second attributes this golden age almost entirely to enlightened American leadership. Policymakers in Washington, he writes, manifested a "sense of global responsibility that equated American interests with the interests of many others around the world."
Neither one of these claims stands up to even casual scrutiny. Rather than describing the prevailing realities of the post-1945 era, phrases like "world order" and "global responsibility" obfuscate. Purporting to clarify, they merely gloss over. Kagan employs these as devices to beguile, while constructing a version of "truth" that ignores inconvenient facts. There's a name for this technique: It's called propaganda.
The "world order" of the decades following World War II exists only in Kagan's imagination. You'd hardly know it from reading his essay, but the postwar world was divided into three distinct camps: the American-led West, the Soviet-led Communist bloc, and the so-called Third World, which had its own problems, unrelated to the East-West rivalry, to worry about.
Furthermore, even to refer to these as camps involves considerable oversimplification. Within each, sharp divisions existed. Nominally allies, France and the United States frequently found themselves at odds, for example. Although Communists ruled Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito refused to take orders from the Kremlin. Some countries—Yugoslavia offers one example, Castro's Cuba another—consciously sought to keep a foot in more than a single camp. Then there was Israel, which occupied a camp all its own. After President Richard Nixon's famous visit, so too did China, openly antagonistic toward the USSR, but by no means part of the West.
To the extent that we can credit this disorderly conglomeration with producing anything worthy of note, its chief accomplishment was to avoid a cataclysmic third world war. Here, the United States, sole practitioner of nuclear warfare and possessor of the world's largest nuclear arsenal, did play a role. Yet apart from sheer dumb luck, what kept Armageddon at bay was not far-sighted global leadership on Washington's part but prudent self-restraint.
In October 1962, when Nikita Khrushchev's rashness handed John F. Kennedy the chance to liberate Cuba from communism, the president judged it the better part of valor to cut a deal instead. Rather than confrontation, he opted for negotiation, offering the Soviets an unearned concession—in exchange for their missiles out of Cuba, ours would come out of Turkey. Cubans remained unliberated.
Similarly, when brave Europeans under the boot of Soviet dominion periodically rose up—East Germans in 1953, Poles and Hungarians in 1956, Czechs in 1968—Washington's commitment to freedom and democracy took a backseat to its preference for avoiding a potentially climactic East-West showdown. In each case, the United States stood by as the Kremlin brutally restored discipline in its empire.
Of course, much like the Soviets in Eastern Europe, Washington asserted the prerogative of policing its own sphere of influence. When it did so—overthrowing regimes not to its liking in Guatemala, Iran, and South Vietnam, for example—the "promotion of a liberal world order" did not rank high in the list of American motives. So too with the roster of despots, dictators, and kleptocrats that the United States assiduously supported. From Batista and Somoza in the 1950s to Musharraf and Mubarak in the past decade, a regime's adherence to liberal values seldom determined whether or not it was deemed a worthy American ally.
Such matters do not qualify for inclusion in Kagan's celebration of American global leadership, however. Guatemala he simply ignores—not worth the bother. Iran gets mentioned only as a "rogue state" with an inexplicable hankering to acquire nuclear weapons. As for Vietnam, Kagan contents himself with an ambiguous reference to its "uncertain and unsatisfying" outcome, as if the war were a risky stock purchase that still might show a modest profit.
Other disruptions to a "world order" ostensibly founded on the principle of American "global responsibility" included the 1947 partition of India (estimated 500,000 to one million dead); the 1948 displacement of Palestinians (700,000 refugees); the exodus of Vietnamese from north to south in 1954 (between 600,000 and one million fled); the flight of the pied noir from Algeria (800,000 exiled); the deaths resulting directly from Mao Tse Tung's quest for utopia (between 2 million and 5 million); the mass murder of Indonesians during the anti-Communist purges of the mid-1960s (500,000 slaughtered); the partition of Pakistan in 1971 (up to 3 million killed; millions more displaced); genocide in Cambodia (1.7 million dead); and war between Iran and Iraq (at least more 400,00 killed). Did I mention civil wars in Nigeria, Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sudan, Congo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone that killed millions? The list goes on.
Kagan mentions none of those episodes. Yet all occurred during the Cold War, when the United States was, in his words, "vigilant and ready to act, with force, anywhere in the world."
By what standard does a system in which such things occur qualify as a "world order"? With the United States reacting passively to human misery on an epic scale (where not actively abetting the perpetrators), what is the operative definition of "global responsibility" that squares with U.S. behavior? If, as Kagan argues, "the American project has aimed at shaping a world different from what had always been, taking advantage of America's unique situation to do what no nation had ever been able to do," then how can it be that such awful events persist?
The answers to these questions are clear. First, to the extent that a postwar liberal order existed, it was fragile, tentative, and incomplete. It was a club. Membership criteria were strictly enforced. Residents of the Anglosphere were in, of course. So too were certain favored Europeans. After a time, Japan and South Korea gained entry. As far as Washington was concerned, however, most others could fend for themselves.
Second, in defending this less-than-global order, American leaders by-and-large understood what Kagan refuses to acknowledge: The United States wielded limited power and influence. For the most part, these leaders sought to husband that power. Rather than "ready to act, with force, anywhere in the world," they confined their actions to places and situations thought to matter.
At least they did most of the time, with Vietnam an especially telling exception. The Vietnam War was not uncertain and unsatisfying. It was stupid and catastrophic. An accounting of what the United States got wrong in Vietnam would require an essay longer than Kagan's. The things that the United States got right in Vietnam can be reduced to a single sentence: Cynically proclaiming that "peace with honor" had been achieved, it left.
Now back in the late 1960s and early '70s, the intellectual forebears of Robert Kagan decried this decision to cut American losses. Leaving implied the acceptance of failure. Such a failure, they insisted, would hand the Communists a great victory. U.S. credibility would suffer permanent damage. The Soviets would seize the initiative. Dominoes would topple. The United States would find itself isolated and alone.
None of those gloomy predictions—similar in tone to Kagan's own forecast of "increasing conflict, increasing wars over territory, greater ethnic and sectarian violence, and a shrinking world of democracies" as the inevitable price for any lapse in American globalism—turned out to be accurate, of course.
Instead, the nation that Kagan describes as committed to doing "what no nation had ever been able to do" actually did what every great power does when it loses a war. It licked its wounds and left it to others to lick their own. That the United States made next to no effort to aid the Vietnamese and others adversely affected by the war speaks volumes about the definition of "global responsibility" that actually prevailed in Washington. But however cynical, leaving—more accurately abandoning—South Vietnam turned out to be a smart move. Doing so facilitated this nation's military, economic, and political recovery.
With the end of the Cold War, according to Kagan, Washington's commitment to promoting a liberal world order reached new heights. The signature of U.S. foreign policy during the 1990s was renewed activism. A series of armed interventions ensued. "All aimed at defending and extending the liberal world order," Kagan writes, "by toppling dictators, reversing coups, and attempting to restore democracies."
As Hemingway's Jake Barnes might put it, "Isn't it pretty to think so?" In fact, during the post-Cold War decade, with the Persian Gulf now the epicenter of U.S. military activity, "extending the liberal world order" lagged well behind other, more pressing considerations. Priority number one was to ensure the safety and well-being of the distinctly illiberal Saudi monarchy. Priority number two was to contain Shiite-majority Iran. Fear of delivering Sunni-controlled Iraq into the hands of its own Shiite majority muted U.S. enthusiasm for democratizing that country. If the choice was between stability and democracy, Washington preferred the former.
Still, if as Kagan regretfully notes (and recent polls affirm), Americans today show signs of being "world weary," it's not the events of the 1990s that have induced this weariness. No, if Americans appear disinclined to have a go at overthrowing Syria's Assad or at restoring the Crimea to Ukrainian control, it's due to their common-sense assessment of what U.S. policy in very recent years has produced.
On this subject, astonishingly, Kagan has almost nothing to say. "A generation that does not remember the Cold War," he observes, "but grew up knowing only Iraq and Afghanistan, is going to view America's role in the world differently." But what should this generation (not to mention generations that do remember the Cold War) make of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? What lessons does Kagan himself take from those wars? On this he is mute.
The reticence is uncharacteristic. Back in 1996, in a famous Foreign Affairs article co-authored with William Kristol, Kagan identified "benign global hegemony" as the proper basis for U. S. policy. It was incumbent upon the United States to exploit its Cold War victory. Armed with a combination of "military supremacy and moral confidence," Washington needed to put existing and potential adversaries in their place. The idea was "to make clear that it is futile to compete with American power." Permanent dominion was the goal. To settle for anything less, Kagan and Kristol wrote, was to embrace "a policy of cowardice and dishonor."
Even before September 11, 2001, Kagan was among those fixing their sights on Saddam Hussein's Iraq as the place to validate this approach. The events of 9/11 reinforced his determination along with his sense of self-assurance. Writing with Kristol in April 2002, he declared flatly that "the road that leads to real security and peace" is "the road that runs through Baghdad."
George W. Bush took that road. Yet much to his considerable chagrin, Bush discovered that it led to rather considerable unpleasantness. As it dragged on, the Iraq War exposed as hollow any American aspirations to global hegemony. Left behind when U.S. troops finally withdrew was their reputation for military supremacy. Meanwhile as reports of prisoner abuse, torture, and the killing of noncombatants mounted, American moral confidence lost its luster. As for the Iraqis themselves, although few Americans are inclined to take notice, today they enjoy neither security nor peace.
On all of these matters, Kagan chooses to stay mum. That is his privilege, of course. Yet in exercising that privilege he forfeits any claim to be taken seriously. As with members of the Catholic hierarchy who hoped that the clergy sex abuse scandal would just blow over or investment bankers who shrug off the economic collapse of 2008 as just one of those things, without accountability there can be no credibility.
William Buckley once remarked that the country would be better off governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University. Here's a corollary: When it comes to foreign policy, the president of the United States would be better served to consult a few reasonably informed citizens from Muncie, Indiana, than to take seriously advice offered by seers such as Robert Kagan.
If experience has brought President Obama to share in this view—as his recent ruminations on foreign policy appear to suggest—then more power to him.
About the Author
Andrew J. Bacevich is the author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (April 2016).
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Very much wish I knew enough to write so well.
I highly recommend Bacevich's books. I learned an enormous amount about the US and its military history from them.
Just don't buy them through Amazon ;)
Bacevich, as usual is plain and to the point. On questions of war and peace, power and how America uses it in the world, his is a voice always worth hearing. He speaks from a body of knowledge and experience, and from a moral tradition that needs to be at the front of our national dialogue.
Bacevich as usual is outraged by hypocrisy, and rightfully so. Supplement this essay with William Easterly's "Tyranny of Experts", an equally scathing review of Amercan support for autocrats and rightwing dictators around the world during the Cold War, with pietistic claims of supporting democracy and freedom.
Bacevich at his best! Brilliant essay, very much in keeping with the brilliant history of the CIA called Legacy of Ashes that shows that the deeper history of the post-WWII era is anything but what Kagan/Kristol crowd would have us believe.
Bacevich is right on the money, as usual. Nobody does a better job of slicing and dicing the baloney peddled by neo-conservative chicken hawks.
I concur with previous commenters. Bacevich's incisiveness and not a little sarcasm is welcome. His books are generally quite helpful, his own personal credentials of service and tragic loss of his son are more than validating. And "Legacy of Ashes" should be must-read for any on US foreign policy and especialy our so called liberty seeking "benign" involvements.
I concur with previous commenters. Bacevich's incisiveness and not a little sarcasm is welcome. His books are generally quite helpful, his own personal credentials of service and tragic loss of his son are more than validating. And "Legacy of Ashes" should be must-read for any on US foreign policy and especialy our so called liberty seeking "benign" involvements.
Wonderful article! I stopped watching the Newshour on PBS because of David Brooks. He tries so hard to sound profound but his comments are shallow and convoluted most of the time.
Forgot to mention that Robert Kagan is also Mr. Victoria Nuland. She is U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Eastern Europe and a major provocateur in recent Ukrainian events.
The Vietnam war may have been stupid and catastrophic, but it did bring down the Soviet Union.
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That's a conclusion i've never seen before! How do you come to that one?
Outstanding work Mr. Bacevich. Pithy but punchy.
As usual, Bacevich is right on the money and far more accurate and realistic than Kagan. We need desperately to solve problems here in the United States, and we are ignoring them.
I love the way Mr. Bacevich presents the truth. It's such a rare thing. I wish he were the secretary of state.
Robert Klahn
You can't make a claim as epically absurd as that without going beyond one sentence.
I'd like to ask the same question: how did our war in Vietnam lead to the fall of the Soviet Union??
Some chutzpah on Kagan's part to gloss over Vietnam as he did. That was our generation's (and Bacevich's: he served there, as did his devastatingly wounded brother-in-law George Blough, to whose memory he dedicated the book on the New American Militarism) war, and yes, it was stupid and catastrophic. A foreign policy blunder like no other, until Iraq that is. I hope to high heaven that Obama has the wisdom and the fortitude to ignore the current hysteria. Iraq looks headed for partition. The Kurds may deserve support, but I'm at a loss to see where else we can make a difference. Maliki made a lot of his own trouble and doesn't seem interested in fixing it. Are we going to help Iran one more time in ensuring Shiite interests? We did it once already in eliminating their worst enemy for them.
Readers may have seen James Fallow's tweet on Kagan and his buddy Kristol: "Great to have new tips on Iraq from Kagan and Kristol. Next up: 'How to Beat the Spurs' by Lebron James." That's about as much respect as they deserve.


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Red Lobster $10 Off Two Lobsterfest Entrees
Red Lobster is offering a printable coupon good for $10 off two lobster entrees.
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I'll have two lobsterfests please!
You can also get a coupon for a free appetizer or dessert (up to $12.99) w/the purchase of two entrees if you sign up for their club. You cannot use both coupons at the same time, though.
Just tried this, coupon printed so small it's almost illegible, and highly doubt the barcode will work. Anyone else have this problem or know a solution?
@nflemming2004: Worked fine for me. Printed out regular coupon size.
Got it! Thanks!
how much is the "lobsterfest" thing?
I've never been to a Red Lobster; is it good or just decent? Is the seafood fresh or previously frozen?
@thewronggrape: It is neither good nor decent. It is reasonably edible. If you want quality seafood, go somewhere else. All their lobsters are farmed lobsters, and they're the less desirable rock lobsters unless explicitly labelled on the menu as Maine lobsters.
The positives of Red Lobster are a very well-priced menu and pretty good service. I'd compare it to an Olive Garden, but with seafood (no surprise the chains are actually owned by the same people).
I go there maybe once a year at most, only for the Endless Shrimp promotion. Not because the shrimp is particularly good, but just because sometimes I have a desire to fill myself with shrimp till I'm about to burst :)
The best and cheapest lobster will always be sold fresh on dock in New England... however, if you are landlubber who resides in the mid-west (like myself), almost all your seafood will have been previously frozen so a coupon like this can be nice.
@nflemming2004: I have had a similar problem for a different coupon; turned out to be my printer settings. Hope this helps!


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A threatening message was written on a high school bathroom wall.
This time, it was at Bowling Green High School.
Police were notified yesterday, about a threatening message on a Bowling Green High School bathroom wall.
When officers contacted school officials last night, they were already aware of the situation.
Principal Gary Fields says they took action right away.
"We immediately notified the Bowling Green Police Dept., who immediately came out and to take a look at what was written, and they have stationed some officers here just as a precaution," Fields says.
Fields says students and parents were told about the message, and students went about their school day as normal.


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Jessica Jackley '00
Impact of studying philosophy:
"When Gary Steiner assigned our Philosophy of Science class Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, he explained that this important work analyzed the evolution of science and scientific thought. Interesting, I remember thinking. I'd always been taught that science proved things and produced facts, and I was curious to witness this truth-producing process questioned..."read Jessica's full story


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How can I schedule an update to be posted to my Facebook wall, at a certain time in the future? I presume there is no official feature for doing this, but it seems like it should be possible with an external service.
For example, I often write a blog post late at night, or during the weekend. If I mention it on Facebook as soon as I've written it, nobody will see it. I'd prefer to post it the following morning, when more people will be checking Facebook.


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You are given a long length W of copper wire. How would you arrange it to obtain the maximum self-inductance? Why?
I am trying to use the equation
$$L=\mu_o n^2 l A$$
I try to solve it using a fixed length wire of 10 units, width 1mm and winding it into a solenoid. I plug in values of circumference 10, 5, 2.5 and finding the inductance through number crunching. However, I am getting a larger values for multiple loops but the answer is a single loop (ie. a circle) rather then a solenoid.
Here are the sample values I got:
$n=1; C=10; r=1.59; L=0.079 \mu_o$
$n=2; C=5; r=0.79; L=0.156\mu_o$
$n=4; C=2.5; r=0.3978; L=0.318\mu_o$
If anyone could enlighten me on the proper way of solving this, I'd appreciate it.


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JavaFX - Text Effects
By Rakesh Menon on Nov 18, 2009
We can create emboss and engrave text effects by using layers of nodes and Light Effects API. In below screenshots, the first two are generated using layers of nodes and third one using Light effects API.
JankoAtWarpSpeed has many tutorials related to building of functional and good looking web sites. The tutorials can also be adapted for implementing engrave text effect in JavaFX. I followed the steps mentioned in "Two simple ways to create text embossing effect" tutorial and reproduced the engrave effect in JavaFX! The same approach can used for emboss by moving the shadow nodes in opposite direction.
For third effect, I used the SpotLight API. The values specified for this is obtained from Light Effect Sample. Another sample code is available in JavaFX API Docs of SpotLight.
<script src="http://dl.javafx.com/1.2/dtfx.js"></script> <script src="/rakeshmenonp/resource/TextEffect/TextEffect.js"></script>
To launch click on above image or
Try it out and let me know feedback.. Please do share other approach..
Also refer to stunning text effects blog entry by Jasper Potts
<script type="text/javascript">var dzone_style = '2';</script> <script language="javascript" src="/rakeshmenonp/resource/TextEffect/zoneit.js"></script>


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HEAD IN THE SAND APPROACH OF CEO'S: DEAL WITH PROBLEMSPosted in analyze the problem, BBC, Business Crises We Create, Business Crisis Management, Corporate Crisis Management, Crisis Management, dealing head-on with a crisis, don't white wash the crisis, fix the problem, head in the sand approach, HSBC Compliance failures, not duck them, Poor crisis management, The DOJ and executives who try to avoid crises, the effect of ignoring a problem, Throw an employee under the bus on January 6th, 2013 by mnayor
The head in the sand approach to solving problems is not uncommon in everyday life. The concept of not getting involved has become more rapidly adopted by our citizenry. People readily subscribe to the maxim: The less involved you are the better off you are. It is also not uncommon in business situations, including at the very top positions. More and more CEO's and other executives wish to insulate themselves and not sully their hands with messy issues, instead of solving them which is what they are paid to do.
When an organization's leadership wishes to maintain clean hands instead of confronting crises, the can is kicked down the road or left to those who do not have the authority, knowledge, or responsibility to handle. The result is often a rudderless ship, compounded problems for the organization, and a CEO who either throws other people under the bus or is made to resign leaving a bleeding hulk of a company.
Take the case of the British Broadcasting Corporation. For many years a popular, long-time host at BBC, Jimmy Savile, was suspected of sexually abusing young people, sometimes even at the premises of the BBC. The company recently came under blistering attack when it was learned that an investigation of Savile had been cancelled by the editor of BBC's Newsnight program last year. Newsnight is an important current affairs program of the BBC. Mark Thompson, the BBC's Director General until a few months ago claims to have had no knowledge of the accusations against Savile although there were many opportunities to delve into the matter if he chose to do so.
Another recent example is Stephen Green, now Lord Green. Lord Green became chief executive of HSBC in June 2003 and was appointed chairman in 2006. In December of 2012 HSBC entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ), criminal money laundering activities and agreeing to pay fines and penalties totaling $1.9 billion. According to the Huffington Post, in 2005 Green was also made aware of the bank's alleged ties with "rogue" regimes in theMiddle East. A US Senate investigation released internal emails showing how in the same year Lord Green was warned by an internal whistleblower in the bank'sMexicosubsidiary that compliance staff had "fabricated records". He was also told in 2008, two years after being appointed executive chairman, that the Mexican authorities had uncovered evidence of money laundering that "may imply criminal responsibility of HSBC".
Often, top management wishes to be insulated from bad decisions already made, and hard decisions that need to be made, even with the knowledge that, more often than not, the buck stops with them and severe harm can come to the company.
A CEO and his/her lieutenants are charged with monitoring the ship as a captain of a vessel or plane would. Rectifying what is wrong is a vital part of the job. Time does not absorb and dissolve bad decisions or situations. It only heightens the culpability of the parties who either made no attempt to rectify, or tried to white-wash them. Recently the DOJ and the SEC jointly released its 120 page Resource Guide to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) which essentially prohibits and makes criminal the bribery of foreign officials. The Act was first passed in 1977, was amended a couple of times. The Guide explains what the DOJ and the SEC look for when it investigates, including the conduct of company when it learns of violations and the remedial steps which are taken to correct violations.
The FCPA states that it shall be unlawful for a company or its officers or directors to offer to pay, pay, promise to pay or authorize the payment of any money, gift or anything of value to foreign officials, or a foreign political party or official thereof, or foreign political candidate including to any person while knowing that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly to any foreign official, foreign political party or official thereof or foreign political candidate for the purpose of influencing any act or decision of such official, inducing any act in violation of the official's duty or securing any improper advantage.
The Guide states that Congress meant not only "to impose liability on those with actual knowledge of wrongdoing, but also on those who purposefully avoid actual knowledge" and quotes H.R. Conf. Rep. No.100-576, at 920 (1988):
[T]he so-called head in the sand problem – variously described in the
pertinent authorities as "conscious disregard", "willful blindness" or
deliberate ignorance" – should be covered so that management officials
could not take refuge from the Act's prohibitions by their unwarranted obliviousness to any action (or inaction), language
or other "signaling devise" that should reasonably alert them of the "high probability" of an
FCPA violation.
It is very likely that in the future the DOJ will adopt various theories expounded in the Guide to other criminal prosecutions besides those arising from the FCPA. For example, in December, 2012, in the highly publicized HSBC money laundering case, the DOJ imposed its FCPA risk based guidelines to the bank's flawed country risk-rating methodology. It is only a matter of time before we see the "head in the sand" approach to management come under significant direct attack.
Thus, it is time for boards of directors to insist that top management take full responsibility to right the wrongs of their organizations. It is incumbent on top management, and lower levels in turn, to clarify lines of responsibility and authority, to define the values of their organizations, to impose clear lines of accountability and to review regularly issues that arise. Confronting and solving problems is a big part of the job. Basking in increased sales, profitability and market share at the expense of ignoring core issues is a dangerous path that has often set back businesses several years and cost, or should have cost some CEO's their jobs.


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When I engage reverse on the manual transmission of my 2003 Nissan Frontier pickup truck, the reverse lights tend to sporadically turn on and off. I'm trying to figure out what path to take to determine where the fault lies without hopefully having to trace and inspect the wire from the cab to rear of the vehicle looking for points where it is grounding out.
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There are only a few parts in play here. The reverse light switch in/on the transmission, the wiring to the rear of the vehicle, the tail lamp assembly, and the lightbulb itself.
I would check the bulb first. If the filament is broken in just the right way, it can cause the flashing symptoms that you're experiencing. The part number for the bulb is 3156 (single filament). If that's ok, see if you can get access to the reverse / backup switch in the transmission.
With it still in the car, test it with a multimeter to see if it reliably turns on and off (if you can access it). Alternately, you can unscrew it from the tranny to test it, but I imagine it will be difficult to get at. You may have to remove the shifter boot to access the switch, or you can try to get at it from below.
Does adding extra pressure to the gear knob (holding it in place) help when backing up? If so, that points to the switch being at fault (or to an alignment issue between the gear lever and the switch).
Check the bulb as mentioned here by JeremyP it's quick and easy to eliminate, but it's unlikely because only one of the bulbs would go out if that's the case.
Next set the parking brake, ignition on, trans in reverse. The lights should be working. Now wiggle the wiring harness from the switch where it comes out of the transmission as far up as you can reach while someone is watching the lights in the back to see if they blink on and off. Do the same for the harness running to the tail lights if you make the lights blink the open wire will be in the area where you are wiggling.
If you have a two prong switch as shown in JeremyP's answer you can simply jump across the connector on the harness side (Just make sure you use something small so you don't spread the contacts out or you will create the problem you are trying to fix) back up where you have made the lights blink before and see if they still blink. If so further inspection/repair of the harness will be required. If not it's a safe bet it's the switch, or the adjustment of the switch


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Stocks Welcome Summers Retreat
Move by a Candidate to Lead Fed Is Seen as a Boost for Easy-Money Policies
The Dow industrials made a triple-digit advance Monday, on news that Lawrence Summers bowed out of the running to lead the Federal Reserve.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 118.72 points, or 0.8%, to 15494.78. On Friday, the Dow rose 75 points, or 0.5%, to cap the blue-chip index's best weekly performance since the week ended Jan. 4.
The S&P 500 index gained 9.61 points, or 0.6%, to 1697.60. The index is 0.7% below its all-time high of 1709.67. The Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 4.34 points, or 0.1%, to 3717.85.
Mr. Summers's withdrawal also stoked a rise in Treasurys and gold prices, a decline in the dollar and gains in European stocks.
Stocks retreated from the heights of their early rally in afternoon trading, though, as investor enthusiasm about the news faded. Treasury yields and the dollar also edged up from their morning lows. At its session highs, the Dow industrials were up as many as 174 points.
The drift lower also came as several U.S. stock-options exchanges stopped trading because of a problem with a data feed providing options prices to traders. Still, stocks remained broadly higher for the session. They already have posted strong gains for September, up 3.9% for the month.
Stock investors saw losses in August—the S&P 500 declined 3.1% that month—so those who bet on continued losses have been getting squeezed, said A.C. Morgan, head of U.S. equity sales trading at UBS AG.
Because of that, "the panicky [buying] we saw in the first 15 days of the month might not necessarily" continue, he said.
Trading volumes were higher than August's low levels, traders said. They added that a broad range of investors was active.
"We're seeing all types participating in the rally today," said Doug Crofton, managing director in cash equities with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He saw "a slight uptick in investor buying across the board."
The S&P 500 is up 19% in the year to date. But corporate earnings growth has been slowing. Investors and strategists say gains have been supported by easy-money policies from the Fed, which have kept yields low and pushed investors into riskier assets to find returns.
Now, the Fed is preparing to roll back some of its stimulus efforts. Stock and bond markets have made sharp moves as central-bank officials spoke about their expectations for paring its bond-buying programs, so the choice of a successor to current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is seen as particularly important for markets.
"You see on days like today that people are watching the Fed and what they're doing more than what the fundamentals look like," said John Kvantas, who helps manage $16 billion as executive director at USAA.
Investors believed a Fed run by Mr. Summers, a former Treasury secretary who has been one of President Barack Obama's top advisers, could reduce stimulus at a faster pace than other top candidates, such as current Fed Vice Chairman Janet Yellen. They also fretted that Mr. Summers would make for a controversial and outspoken Fed Chairman, which could spark market volatility.
"Summers has been a lightning rod," said Alan Gayle, senior investment strategist at Ridgeworth Investments. "The bigger risk was him sticking his foot in his mouth."
Mr. Gayle added that continued negotiations on Syria have given investors the perception of more stability in the region, which helped set a bullish tone.
"You have to give a portion of the rally to the Syria stabilization," he said. Between Summers's withdrawal and the weekend agreement between the U.S. and Russia to dismantle Syria's chemical-weapons stockpile, "the pressure has been relieved."
Investors now will be looking ahead to the Federal Reserve's two-day policy committee meeting ending Wednesday, after which most economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect the central bank to announce it will start reducing its $85-billion-a-month bond-purchase programs.
"They've got an opening where the market is ready for" a reduction, said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management. "They're likely to take that opening, rather than surprise the market."
In fact, a delayed pullback could raise concerns that the economic recovery isn't as strong as previously thought, he said. Mr. Stone expects the Fed to cut back on its monthly Treasury bond-buying efforts by between $10 billion and $15 billion, and said that in that case, market reaction could be muted.
"I'm hoping for a yawn," he said. "There's been nonstop buildup to this, and it took so much time to get our heads around it."
In morning trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to its lowest levels for this month on the news, but it recovered from some of that decline later in the day. It settled at 2.875%, down from Friday's finish of 2.896%. Gold futures gained 0.7% to $1,317.90 a troy ounce. The dollar weakened against the euro and the yen.
The Fed news eclipsed a worse-than-expected reading on manufacturing activity in the New York region. The New York Federal Reserve's September Empire State index fell to 6.29 from 8.24 in August. It was expected to tick up to 8.5. Industrial production rose 0.4% in August, in line with expectations, and capacity utilization increased slightly to 77.8%, also in line with forecasts.
Meanwhile, crude-oil futures lost 1.5% to settle at $106.59 a barrel on the news from Syria.
In corporate news, Boise jumped after the packaging-product maker agreed to be acquired by Packaging Corp. PKG -0.31 % in a $1.3 billion deal. Packaging Corp. advanced, too.
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13 Nov 2011 10:47 PM #1
Tap event for a carousel in mvc!
how can i add tap event to a carousel using mvc?, i am able get the select event of a list using its xtype in control, but my doubt is how can i get tap event of the carousel using control?
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Hi arunc.
So, if I well understand what you want to achieve is to get the event "tap" when the user tap anywhere inside a carousel card, am I correct?Sencha Inc
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14 Nov 2011 2:29 AM #3
what i want to do is like that , imagine we have 5 item in one carousel and i want to show separate views(pages) on each item tap!
22 Nov 2011 12:03 AM #4
Get a reference the carousels element, and listen to the tap event.
carousel.element.on('tap', this.doSomething, this);Sencha Inc.
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Suppose $(B,\|\cdot\|)$ is a Banach space, $V\subset B$ a dense subspace, and $V$ is equipped with a norm $\|\cdot\|_V$ such that $\|x\|_V = \|x\|$ for all $x\in V$.
Is $(B,\|\cdot\|)$ a completion of $(V,\|\cdot\|_V)$ with respect to the $\|\cdot\|_V$ topology? I.e., can the spaces be considered the same/identical up to some isometry?


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E-mail? Of course! As a Nassau student, you get your own account through MyNCC. Be sure to check it every day. That's where we stash all the need-to-know info.
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And this fall we'll be introducing our new information commons, which we'll tell you more about soon.
Beyond computers, you'll want to check out the technology setup in the Communications Department's state-of-the-art digital audio production lab — one of 64 labs on campus, our campus radio station WHPC-FM, the online library catalog and databases, multimedia presentation classrooms, web-based and website design courses, high-tech audio-visual equipment to support your classroom instruction, distance learning resources and department learning centers.
The Audio-Visual Center is located in Building T-154 and is a unit of the Office for Distance and Distributed Learning. It provides on-campus distribution and set-up of media equipment for classroom presentations, seminars and large group presentations. Personnel may also be vailable to videotape featured campus presentations as well as classroom activities when appropriate.
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9 Jun 2012 1:36 AM #1
Changing view on button click
Changing view on button clickI have Two containers in my Sencha Architect 2.0.
The first container contains a login button.So on the click i.e. tap event of that button i want that my view changes from container1 to container2.
How can this be done.
13 Jun 2012 5:43 AM #2
I have the same issue. Would love to understand how to change views.
Seems like sencha makes it complicated.
25 Jul 2012 2:03 AM #3
yes same issue
hi I too have the same issue . will be helpfull if you send an example with just two views and button tap to switch b/w those two views please


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I have an iPhone 4S. Software 5.0.1
I have configured the Mail to GMail. Now, I want to delete the mailbox. Here is what I do.
- Click on the Mail icon
- Click on Edit
- Click on [Gmail]
- Click on Big Red button called Delete Mailbox
- Click on Delete Mailbox prompt
- I get an error message as below - Unable to Delete Mailbox. The mailbox could not be deleted on the server.
I have tried it multiple times but to no avail.
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I've always believed (like Christians around me) that Christ's Bride is the church. However, I recently met two guys that claimed that the Bride is actually the new Jerusalem that comes down from Heaven in Revelation (3:12, 21:2, 21:10). What is the Biblical support for these two viewpoints?
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The new Jerusalem that comes from heaven in Rev 19 is "prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." (emphasis added) However, I would understand why some might think that Jerusalem is Christ's bride. In the Old Testament, Israel (or Judah or Jerusalem) is described as God's wife:
This comparison is the whole purpose of the book of Haggai as well. It's a beautiful way to render God's relationship with his people.
Contrastingly, the imagery that we have with Christ and His Bride is that of a coming Bridegroom and a bride in preparation. As the angel shouts in Revelation 19:7
Paul strengthens this image when he says in II Corinthians 11:2
The two metaphors are not contradictory. Jesus uses many contrasting "I ams:" Jesus is the Lamb, the Door, The Good Shepherd, etc. All of them are helpful, but they are only pictures. HOWEVER, this imagery of Christ and His bride persists through all the New Testament, especially in the Revelation. It is meant to typify how an engaged virgin would wait for her promised husband to come for her. That is what Christians are doing today. God was never married to a city. Jesus is not coming back for a city. The city always was a symbol for the collective people of the city, and the Bride is a metaphor for all the Christ's body.
There's no reason why God couldn't use a "bride" analogy two places in different contexts. If one day I say, "Bob works as hard as a horse" and another day I say, "Charlie can run as fast as a racehorse", that's not a contradiction because I compare two different people to horses, or compare them in two different ways. Even if it's true that God refers to himself as having two different brides, that doesn't make him a bigamist! Neither is literal, it's just an analogy.
That said, New Jerusalem is to be the home of the saved. The Church is the collection of those who are saved. So both are pretty much the same group of people.
The Scriptures usually used to justify this assertion, come from the apocalypse (Revelation) chapter 21 verses 1 through 4 and 9and 10.
Rev 21 KJV
However those assertions must be clothed in the fact that most of the Revelation is written in symbols, and many of us feel that was done because of the persecution of the Church at that time.
Using the city of Jerusalem as a symbol of the bride of Christ would be a well understood reference since Jerusalem was compared to a beautiful bride during the reigns of both King David and King Solomon. Both the new Jerusalem and the Bride of Christ were not meant to indicate the original things it should not be considered that the Bride of Christ meant the New Jerusalem per-se.


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My chain has a tendency to frequently jump off the front chainring. I have a 1x9 so it's not a front derailleur issue. It generally happens when I hit something like the lip of a driveway or sidewalk at a crosswalk, which sucks when it pops off in the middle of crossing a busy highway in town. Could my chain be a bit too loose?
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Is your front chainring on the outside or inside of the spider? Is it a converted 1x9 or did you purchase it as a 1x9?
It's most likely happening when you hit large bumps or holes in the road. It's possible that your chain is too long if you converted it from a 2x9 and didn't reduce the number of links in the chain.
If you converted it, it's also possible that the chainring is just too far away from your center line for a proper chainline when you're on your largest cog. If possible, move your chainring to the inner side of the spider. If you have a single ring crank, you may need to get a shorter BB/spindle.
Another cheaper and easier solution is to get a chain watcher. There are several types and brands such as N-stop, K-edge, Paul Components. This will sit on the inside and/or over the top of your chain on the front chainring which will help prevent the chain from jumping off the front ring. They are used widely in the cyclocross world to prevent this.


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Future of Hebron in Israel is sticking point in talks
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The Aug. 27 article "Market stalls at heart of fight for Hebron" brings up a generally ignored reality: If the Palestinian Arabs ever give up their goal of destroying Israel and decide to try to live in peace, the thorniest issue will be Hebron, not Jerusalem.
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Not really a physics junkie, and I think this is a chemistry question, but since there's no chemistry.stackexchange.com (yet) I think here is the best place.
I was just reading up on nanotech and came across the phrase "can construct 0D fullerenes, 1D graphenes...". Flags went up at "0D fullerenes" and I can't find further information about it in many places.
A fullerene is apparently any pure-carbon atomic structure, in various forms, but the zero-dimensional part is throwing me. What is a 0D fullerene?


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What I meant is you Pay adwords for people coming to you site and earn it through Adsense to an extent you paid to Adwords and that is equal to you not paying to adwords.
oh yea, that was quite simple :P
Google Adword or Pay per click/pay per impression/pay per acquisition are just one aspect of online marketing. Think beyond that SEO comes first. Social networking sites help a lot. article marketing is a good starategy and if you can have some press releases to promote your brand it works well for both branding point of view and for driving traffic.
There are various channels which are using now days for promoting websites like
article submission,,forum participation,,link building,,FLD and PLD,,blog writing and social bookmarking.
article submission,,forum participation,,link building,,FLD and PLD,,blog writing and social bookmarking.
Look in optimizing your website with SEO. Why pay for rankings when you can achieve them for free?
SEO helps! Its what we call the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic of a website on search engines via organic or natural search results on targeted keywords. Remember to do On-Page (its done within the site) first then next is Off-Page Optimization (its done outside your site).
I would rather suggest you to stress more on the search optimization which will enable you to promote your site in the most effective and affordable way.
Creating Backlink is a important role for promoting site.and by using social Networking & submitting directory you can promote your site.
Call me a traditionalist, but I recommend you buy a book about website marketing and SEO. Yes I know a paper book! There internet is full of advice and can lead in many directions and tangents. Sometimes a simple book of distilled information can go a long way to get you started.
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Linda Rutherford is Vice President of Public Relations and Community Affairs for Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the nation's largest airline in terms of domestic Customer enplanements. Responsibilities include overseeing media relations, special event planning, crisis communications, civic and charitable contributions, public relations, legislative awareness/grassroots activities, and graphic design and creative services. Prior to joining Southwest Airlines in 1992, she was a reporter for several Dallas-area suburban newspapers as well as with the Dallas Times Herald, and she began her career with Newsweek magazine in New York.
Education: honors graduate of Texas Tech University; 1988 Outstanding Journalism Graduate; and recently named one of the 2002 Outstanding Alumni of the Texas Tech College of Mass Communications.
Civic Activities: member, board of the Lewisville Independent School District's Educational Foundation; chairman, Texas Tech Mass Communications Alumni Advisory Committee; member, board of directors of the Press Club of Dallas Foundation; and member, board of directors of Friends of Texas Public Schools.
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Steven is the founder of TattooID (pronounced tat-too-eed), which provides parents with safe, fun temporary tattoos for their children, featuring their initials and contact information – ideal for crowded theme parks, beaches and other places where children might get lost. He was inspired to start his business after almost losing his four-year-old brother in crowded places several times. Steven is currently a freshman at Hunter College, studying nursing, and he continues to improve on and promote his business.


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I want to get the recent comments on all posts in a multisite network, and I want to display these ceomments in a sidebar on the multisites "mother" blog. To complicate: All blogs are forced to post in either category A or category B. I want two outputs on the mother blog, showing comments on posts in category A and a second output for comments posted in category B. Question: Is this possible?
Well it is quite possible, when using a multisite you have a few extra tables in your database. One of them is one that is called wp_site which has inside it a list of all your blogs. It looks something like
You would have to fetch all of these, and then you could fetch all other posts comments using the $wpdb->get_results more or less like so,
Afterwards you would need to check for the posts category and post it on the front side accordingly.
If you need more help, comment here, I'll try to supply more data.
There are quite a bit of plugins available to do this for you, a quick Google search will get you there.
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A list of premium plugins (one matching your exact requirement) can be found here.
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