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Who is this Hillary Clinton of which you speak?
The thing is, she is propelled by invisible forces. Those invisible forces are a formidable organization that's set up a huge number of state offices, and built up a base. It's not sexy, so it doesn't get written about. Plus, it's amorphous. What's a reporter gonna do, interview fifty precinct captains, seven county volunteer coordinators, and four superdelegates? Or is a reporter going to spend a couple hours having the pants charmed off him by the only politician in America more charming than Bill Clinton?
Hillary who?? Wasn't she one of the people that played Fallon Carrington for one season during Dynasty? Wow, and just to think she is running for the White House. I never heard about that.
The mainstream press isn't paying enough attention to Hillary Clinton?
Hillary is running? Man, I coulda sworn it was BILL Clinton campaigning.
I think Hillary is a great politician. Should she receive the nom, she will have my support. But I hope, and continue to believe, that Obama is the candidate to support.
The Clintons bring way too much baggage to the White House. I am not down with the same two families running the nation for such a stretch of time.
Change gonna come. It has to.
i bet the MSM totally changes its narrative now.
They really should pay more attention to Hillary, especially the blatantly false mailings she continues to send out.
Until Obama started out-polling Clinton leading up to Iowa, I thought the coronation of Hillary was well underway in the MSM.
hilary can suck my cock, only i'm certain she wouldn't be very good at it.
Come on!
The media has never acted like there were more than three Democratic Party candidates in the race, and will not pay any attention to any third party campaigns other than Bloomberg's. Saying that Hillary "doesn't exist" to the NY Times, when she is one of the few candidates who it actually treats seriously, is completely insane. She's been a major media star for over 16 years, has had every day of her participation in the 2008 election covered for over a year, and represents a state that includes the incredible media market of NYC.
Sorry if the NY Times doesn't just mindlessly repeat Hillary's campaign's talking points, and treats Obama's candidacy like the unlikely, outsider campaign that it is. The fact is that the media was ready to just turn over the keys to Hillary, and has mainly expressed surprise AFTER Iowa that, lo and behold, there seems to be a real race after all and they aren't sure who will win. I know that may be difficult for Hillary, but she's hardly being oppressed right now.
erica, can't you see the terrible alternate reality where Hillary wins the nom, takes Obama as her VP, and then loses the election by about 1% of the national vote for the Dems AGAIN?
Now you see, No. 10, I wasn't going to call ECB insane for thinking that HRC is invisible in the mainstream media.
But only because one shouldn't pick fights with someone who buys their ink by the barrel....
Okay, ECB. I want to know when we're going to see the following headlines:
"HRC propelled to victory in Nevada simply because Mexicans hate Blacks!"
"HRC's alleged outrage over casino caucus sites hypocritcal when it was her that asked for them in the first place-- when she thought she would get the union's endorsement!"
"White women supporting HRC as a 'feminist act' are blinded by their own internalized racism and white priv!"
"Obama calls HRC on her bullshit and asks her, where, exactly are these 35 years of experience!"
"Competetion of the Opressed Championship Declared: BLACKS WIN!"
"Breaking News: WOMEN WERE NEVER ENSLAVED OR LYNCHED IN AMERICA!"
My point is that what the media IS printing is as significant as what they're NOT printing, and if HRC was anyone else, they'd be having a field day with this shit. But they're not, because Obama hasn't resorted to playing dirty and because, at the end of the day, he's still Black and this is still America, a racist mother fucking country. HRC is a tool of oppression.
Dear liberal media: Please stop pretending Hillary Clinton doesnt exist.
Good Lord, you're so full of shit.
@12, I will call ECB insane for thinking HRC invisible. Indeed, ECB was complaining as loudly as anyone else about how they wouldn't shut up about the whole "tears" moment.
Oh, I think I've heard this fairy tale before.
Writing letters to yourself again, ECB?
Oh, this reminds me of another aspect of politics as usual that the Obama campaign has been such a refreshing break from: the incessant carping about media bias or, for that matter, an unfairly stacked deck of a process. You listen to Bill Clinton vent and you'd think Hillary is the most unfairly treated individual in the history of American politics.
Wow. Just wow. A good psychologist could maybe help with that persecution complex. They might even be interested in studying our friend Erica; most people who have the affliction believe that *they* are the ones being persecuted. Going all vicarious and frothing at the mouth over imagined slights of *someone else* may be Erica's ticket into psychology textbooks everywhere.
The media is pretending Hilary Clinton doesn't exist. Really.
you seem to be a-okay with the media pretending john edwards doesn't exist. wasn't he your candidate of choice up until, like 2 weeks ago?
anyway, i think what you mean to ask, "please stop pretending obama is the odds-on favorite for the nomination." no one is pretending she doesn't exist. they just *wish* she didn't. i can't say i blame them.
Yep and when she becomes the nominee we will have plenty more of this...(lifted from Sully)
"Pete Abel makes a good deal of sense to me:
1. McCain raises the ire of the contemporary Republican establishment because he rejects their meaner instincts. As I've written before, McCain decries torture while the Establishment excuses it. He fights pork-barrel spending while they enable it. He calls for policies to combat global warming while they deny it. He seeks reasonable compromises on immigration policy while they stoke fear and prejudice.
2. McCain represents for Republicans what Obama represents for Democrats: a meaningful step away from the last 15-plus years. I'm not saying either man will revolutionize partisan politics as we know it, but both promise (at a minimum) evolutionary progress toward a different America. And if we truly believe country is more important than party, then we owe it to ourselves to boost the two candidates who (among all their peers) represent the best hope for moving us in a post-partisan direction, regardless of our individual party loyalties."
And all the folks who don't particularly like HRC will feel it won't be so bad to vote for McCain. So tell me, what will the McCain presidency be like cause I suspect we'll be needing to know?
Dear Liberal Media,
Your tongue is insufficiently far up my candidate of choice's ass this election. Please rectify this immediately, or I will whine at you even more.
Every Single Fucking Person with a Strong Preference in the Presidential Primaries, Apparently
Totally agree. So sick of Obama-Mania. He's OK. That's it. HRC's the real del. Boring national media, stop being so Bonkers Over Barack already.
squealing like stuck pigs.
ECB hang in there and for god's sake do not stop speaking out.
yes let's look at the record in winning presidential electionsl.
Obama: none. Never even helped.
Clinton: won two at a time when it seemed the Democrat would NEVER win again in my lifetime.
Hillary: Bill's no. 1 top advisor for oh 35 years. Helped win in Ark. repeatedly despite mudslinging that they were out of touch ultra liberals. In fucking Arkansas. Includling a come back.
Helped Bill win twice despite mudslinging that they were out of touch ultra liberals. Twice. These are 2/3 of all Democratic victories for pres. since....freaking 1968. The other one was a fluke, Carter after Watergate.
Then she goes on to win NYS Senate seat twice. Despite all her negatives and being tagged as an out of touch ultra liberal.
Now look at Obama's record:
--never won a tough fight against the GOP before he ran for US Senate. I do believe his Chicago State Senate district was rather "safe" for Democrats probably about 75% Democratic.
--never won a tough fight against the GOP WHEN he ran for US Senate.
Alan Keyes was a carpetbagging joke.
--never has been hit with the right wing smear machine.
--never participated in any meaningful way in any presidential campaign.
A big record of zero wins against a tough as shit right wing GOP smear machine.
So calm down about Hillary, you're drinking the right wing kool aid.
After the GOP gets through with Obama he is going to be perceived for exactly what he is:
an urban, Harvardish, northern, foreigner-loving, formerly drug using, peacenik, ultra liberal.
Which is why so much of US love him, BTW!!!!
Problem is, he won't know how to win in the face of that.
Hillary does.
erica is yearning for the good old days when the only coronation the media was talking about was clinton's.
seriously. coronation? did you really use that word?
for someone to use that particular word about someone OTHER than clinton and not see the blinding irony either has a good sense of humor, or is astoundingly dense.
That is exactly what will happen. It seems most HRC supporters here refuse to acknowledge that detail...
You are all in for an earth shattering disappointment or else you thrive on the drama that is HRC's presidential bid.
Either way you are setting yourselves up for He said/She said whining come the day after election day, and the Republican President John McCain is sitting in the White House.
Don't say I didn't warn all of you.
You sleep in the bed you make.
one other thing: you clearly fail to see the real, big picture story here. that is, a virtually unknown candidate has come from out of nowhere to challenge the favored candidate, who has both the name recognition and the backing of the party establishment, and who had been the presumed winner for months - "coronated," if you will, by the media.
the fact that anyone - let alone a black man with a muslim-sounding name who virtually no one knew of until a year ago - is presenting a serious challenge to the clintons is kind of a big deal, even if he loses.
also, the fact that even after 2 consecutive clinton wins, and after riding on the support of the democratic party establishment for months now, you still feel compelled to whine about inequities and double standards, speaks volumes.
also, the fact that even after 2 consecutive clinton wins, and after riding on the support of the democratic party establishment for months now, you still feel compelled to whine about inequities and double standards,
No shit. You'd think that, after public sympathy over some media coverage drove Hillary to victory (and plenty of gushing "Comeback Kid" coverage) in NH, that she'd get over it.
(Oh, but wait - ECB was evidently convinced that the sudden, last minute swell of support for Clinton was solely driven by women voters' careful consideration of issues. Yep, that's what changed in the 48 hours before the primary.)
I suppose watching ECB make up reasons why all of a sudden she thinks Hillary is so great is better than having to read her write "Libby Dole: Evil, Yet Female" or "Barbara Bush: Against Everything I Believe, But Also Vagina Having." Thank god you're at least selling out for a Democrat. Seeing you support a Republican just because she is a woman would have been pathetic. I mean, even more pathetic than this.
You think HILARY CLINTON is being ignored?
Why do you think Ron Paul supporters are so obnoxious in their publicizing of his campaign? It's because, despite beating both Guiliani and Thompson in the caucuses, they refuse to even put his fuckin name in print.
That's why they feel the need to buy BLIMPS. Blimps!!
"Libby Dole: Evil, Yet Female" or "Barbara Bush: Against Everything I Believe, But Also Vagina Having."
THAT is funny stuff!
Oh, boohoo! The "liberal" media is unfair, and to a Clinton. How dare they! I mean really, this is bullshit. You sound like a republican or that old faker Bill who needs to find himself some young pussy and just chill.
Thanks for that. I think the same thing every morning when listening to NPR. It's almost as if Obama is the lone candidate. Anyone who's educated enough on where she stands with the environment, healthcare, (not just the cute and trendy wheatpasted Obama posters) would know that she is the most qualified candidate. It's time to step back and look at what these candidates are really going to do for the country and not just play the lemming and go for what's popular.
until dennis kucinich actually gets a chance to participate in a televised debate, HRC & ECB can both suck a dick.
You yourself nail it:
"Barack Obama triumphs against all odds to defeat the baby boomers Democratic Party machine and achieve the American dream."
The bias you detect, I think, is real. But, it's driven by that fabulous narrative. So often, journalism, sometimes the best journalism, is driven by a good narrative as opposed to some so-called objective view of the truth or by incisive analysis. Obama offers a narrative like no one else in the race, like no one else in any recent presidential race - at least since 1992 and Bill Clinton himself.
To me, that narrative rings true. So, while I think HRC would be an extra-competent, effective president, and her election would offer a meaningful advancement of women in a sexist society, she leaves me thoroughly uninspired.
I want to be inspired. I want a candidate that I can be excited about, who has the ability to inspire people disaffected by the DC process, who doesn't owe too much to the powers that be, who can attract throngs of young people to the polls in November, who offers a break from the past, who can signal and inspire a profound shift in the way our entire history has been driven by the oppression and exploitation of black people, and who is not related by blood or marriage to any previous president. Our generation needs its JFK. And, honestly, I think Obama could offer a lot more to this generation than JFK did to his.
Hillary, especially with a Democratic congress, has the potential to be a great president, but I don't think she offers that seismic break from the past that is so badly needed. While I think Obama's a bit in over his head running for president after only 4 years as a US Senator, and 7 as a state senator, he is all about breaking from the past.
I think a lot of reporters at the NYT, etc. also buy into this narrative. It's a good one and if your job is to tell a good story, there's a lot of appeal to Barack Obama doing what still in many way seems impossible - getting elected president of the US. Even though you'd really like HRC to get the nomination and become president, I think the way you so easily encapsulate that narrative shows that the journalist in you also responds to it.
OK, I've been sympathetic to the negative media portrayals of Clinton and skeptical of all the Obamamania, but this post is just a load of bullshit from start to finish. Clinton invisible? Hardly. She and Obama are the story, and the media abandons and besieges whichever one has had a bad day most recently, and then builds them back up to stoke up the ratings again. Edwards gets a few words but is basically treated like he's Kucinich, and Kucinich is utterly ignored. I really think Clinton has gotten the most mainstream coverage, with Obama getting a bit more play in left-leaning media (like The Stranger, which as far as I can tell posted all of Obama's MLK Eve speech and none of Clinton's.)
People need to step out of their candidate preference reality distortion fields once in a while and smell actual reality, because the rhetoric is verging on the delusional. It's times like this that I'm glad I'm undecided.
Bill @35:
Well said. And I say that as an undecided currently leaning toward Hillary or Edwards over Obama.
Hillary would be an excellent president unfortunately she is the only thing that can unify the fractured right wing right now. Judging from our past performances I will bet the dems will nominate her and we will lose again. So seriously its probably about time to see what McCain is proposing, for abortion or gays or the war, cause at the current rate thats where we're headed. I mean I'm a diehard Dem but in terms of temperment even I prefer McCain to her, not policy-wise but the majority of americans don't care about policy anyway.
I read both Obama's and Clinton's MLK speeches, and I have to say, only one of them was newsworthy. Similarly, many media outlets featured Obama's 2004 National Convention speech and neglected the speeches of the many others who spoke that day. The issue is more clear in that context, where Obama was not running for national office: the man gives newsworthy speeches, in a time when most speeches are not worth much more than a soundbite. I don't think that Hillary is getting less coverage (though that is an empirically verifiable claim, so why don't you hit Nexis and crunch us some numbers?), but I agree that the narratives being told about the campaigns are strikingly different. But then again, the implications of their campaigns are strikingly different, given the strength of the Clinton organization and the broad, improbable grassroots support Obama has created.
Erica feigned neutrality before with respect to Clinton, but it's become obvious that she now apparently feels that flag-burning is such a risk that the champion of outlawing it must be elected president. Perhaps her union-busting Svengali Mark Penn can be labor secretary and push NAFTA 2 to finally rid our nation of manufacturing jobs. Didn't Hillary's husband used to be president?
I hereby vow to donate $50 to the Obama campaign for every time ECB whines about how the media covers Hillary between now and Super Tuesday. I'm afraid I may hit the campaign finance law ceiling within 48 hours, though.
I'm with ECB.
Erica, @24 -- I agree completely. I've been wondering why more people haven't been calling attention to this. I'm in favor of HRC because she's spectacularly capable. Here in SF it's so hip to be an Obama supporter, but isn't it time to be pragmatic and get someone into the White House who has a plausible chance of repairing some of the damage wrought by the Bush Administration? We need more than a bunch of trite 30 second sound bites of hope and rainbows that sound so pretty in a narrative piece of journalism.
Erica -- Thank you. At a moment when Obama is creeping me out with his religious pander, which comes on the heels of his "Repubs have ideas" and "Reagan was transformative" and Donnie McClurkin panders, I find myself persistently wondering why the media hates HRC so damned much.
Get yer ass back there and mix me a martini, you fuckin' wining pussy.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
This is stupid.
I don't understand the Sloggers' crediting HRC for Bill Clinton's wins and time in office. Umm, HRC has never been elected president. Or governor of Arkansas. Really, it's true, you can look it up. She's not "experienced" at being a governor or president. And if she is, would you be comfortable pulling the lever for Laura Bush? And when did being an advisor count for anything? Who ever ran for office saying he or she had years of experience as someone's advisor? It's really just bullshit. She should run on her own record but not try to claim her husband's as her own.
Paging the vast right-wing conspiracy: your up-until-now successful scheme to purge all references to Hillary Clinton from the American media has been dealt a fatal blow by ECB. Please devise a new insidious plan to stop the Clintons.
I'm not really seeing the point of the update. You write this:
"the media completely wrote Hillary off after Iowa, even suggesting she should withdraw from the race"
Then as your example, you cite TPM (?!)
First off, TPM is a *blog* that, in my 3 years of reading, has never tried to hide their liberal bias. (Hell, if you think TPM is big media then you need to reposition your TFH. But I digress...)
Second, the quote actually says that the *Hilary camp insiders* were the ones thinking she should drop out, but you attribute this sentiment to TPM? Two paragraphs later TPM writes: "another camp of insiders ... is urging her to fight on in the event of a defeat in New Hampshire". Why would you think that TPM thinks HRC should drop out? Because they reported on that first? Because Jay Rosen says so? Not following...
@43 Right on. We need more spectacular Hillary Clinton successes such as our fabulous national health care plan and a replacement war to supplement our stunning victory in Irag. Time to show those damned Republicans that we know how to run things!
"Clinton was similarly vague about how she would handle special interrogation methods used by the CIA. She said that while she does not condone torture, so much has been kept secret that she would not know unless elected what other extreme measures interrogators are using, and therefore *could not say whether she would change or continue existing policies.* 'It is not clear yet exactly what this administration is or isn't doing. We're getting all kinds of mixed messages,' Clinton said. 'I don't think we'll know the truth until we have a new president. I think [until] you can get in there and actually bore into what's been going on, you're not going to know.' We know about waterboarding. We know a lot of things. Apparently, policies condoning those things are OK with Clinton, since she says that whether or not she needs to change our policies depends on all those other, unknown interrogation techniques, not on the knowledge we already have."
Word. http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/01/playing-to-wi-1.html
So the feminist line is now that being First Lady counts as important experience towards being President? Huh.
Pre-emptive whining. Nice. Thanks for reinforcing the stereotype about feminists being unbelievably petty and stupid.
The MSM treats Hillary with kid gloves; they've never asked her what her 35 years of experience amounted to. They don't ask her why she didn't stop NAFTA or welfare elimination, what her role was as a director at Wal-Mart, her lack of initiative in the Senate, or anything else.
And her chief responsibilities regarding Bill's election were covering his bimbo eruptions, and popping out Chelsea.
As far as her politics go, Hillary is Giuliani in a pantsuit.
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Yesterday, Senate majority leader Harry Reid announced that the Senate would not be taking up health care before the August recess. But what about President Obama and his now-ignored deadline? Was he concerned at all that Congress dared to disobey him, like an insolent child? Not at all. "That's okay. I just want people to keep on working, just keep working," he said. It's nice that he's keeping an upbeat attitude, but is he grounded in reality? How much will this delay hurt the prospects of health-care reform?
• Nate Silver thinks the health-care timeout is "inevitable" and "about as likely to do the Democrats some good as some harm." "The Democrats could find themselves in a better position after the August recess, or they could find themselves in a worse one," he says. "But liberals' doom-and-gloom, conservatives' glee, and the media's nearsighted reporting are all equally uncalled for." [FiveThirtyEighty]
• Peggy Noonan says that after Obama's "filibustery and spinny" news conference the other night, she's unsure whether Obama will get any kind of health reform whatsoever. His health-care reform may be stopped "not by ideology, or even by philosophy in a strict sense, but by simple American common sense." [WSJ]
• Jonathan Chait agrees that the media is overreacting and feeding the public health-care stories "about haggling, backbiting, and legislative morass." But reform will pass because, ultimately, Democrats will "have to focus on which alternative is likely to make them better off: reform passing or reform failing." [Plank/National Review]
• Greg Pollowitz doesn't think Obama has any right to blame the media, even if after he "was just given free airtime on all the major networks, plus the cable news channels, to discuss health care" the public still doesn't support his health-care plan. [Media Blog/National Review]
• Chuck Todd and friends lay out the bottom line: "It's still hard to imagine a scenario where Obama doesn't sign something he calls health-care reform by the end of the year. But this is coming at least right now at a painful political cost." [First Read/MSNBC]
• Marc Ambinder suspects "that the ratcheting down of pressure will be somewhat of a relief to the Finance Committee negotiators. Less pressure means more time to think and to haggle civilly, as opposed to haggling with a looming deadline." [Atlantic]
• Carrie Budoff Brown and Chris Frates believe the delay "opens the most ambitious legislative initiative in more than 40 years to a month of fierce scrutiny as special-interest groups ramp up what was already expected to be a firestorm of ads, organizing, and lobbying." [Politico]
• Rick Klein says that, "yes, the opponents will be able to step up their campaign. Yes, the president loses a touch of political sway with every passing day." But the bright side for Obama is that he "and his allies can try to find a new case to make. This is moving slowly, but from the White House's perspective, at least it's still moving." [Note/ABC News]
• Steve Benen considers whether it's reasonable, as Harry Reid said yesterday, to give Republicans more time. Given the GOP's "plain and transparent strategy" of obstruction, he shouldn't be concerned about "working with the Republicans." [Political Animal/Washington Monthly]
• Dana Milbank thinks the problem with health-care reform is that "Obama isn't saying what he wants. Heeding the lesson of Hillary Rodham Clinton's failed health reforms, he has decided to let lawmakers work out the details themselves. But this strategy has deteriorated into anarchy, as each of the 435 representatives pulls the proposal in a different direction." [WP]
• Charles Krauthammer claims that, to protect his image, "Obama is quite prepared to sign anything as long as it is titled 'Health-Care Reform.' " [WP]
• Byron York believes that if health-care reform fails to pass, it'll be because of the mistrust sowed by the failed stimulus package. [Washington Examiner]
• Holly Bailey says administration officials are telling Democrats "[t]hat an Obama defeat on health care won't reflect well on other Dems, particularly those up for reelection in 2010. So far, Democrats aren't buying it." Fellow Democrats are Obama's real problem, even as he turns the GOP into boogie men. [Gaggle/Newsweek]


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As we've seen over the past month the DOE is reviving its loan program, this time under new management. Yet Cause of Action (CoA), a government accountability group, hasn't forgotten how the DOE handled applications for the Loan Guarantee Program in the first go-round. Today CoA took a step in […]
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The House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing today on "Green Energy Oversight: Examining the Department of Energy's Bad Bet on Fisker Automotive." We'll be live tweeting beginning at 2pm. 1. According to the DOE Loan Program Office, $34.5 billion of loans have created about 60,000 jobs, which is $575,000 per job. […]
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Scott Disick's problems with alcohol are the cause of the discord in his marriage to Kourtney Kardashian, a source told TMZ.
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The sources told TMZ Disick promised to lay off the drinking and so far so good. At a gig Saturday at Harrah's Pool After Dark, he didn't take a single drink, brining home $50,000 while he was at it.
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Can Businesses Influence Vote on Hawaii Civil Unions Bill?
But, as Time.com reports, a number of big businesses are urging the governor to sign the bill, which would open civil unions to both same- and opposite-sex couples. Those businesses include the Hawaii Medical Service Association (the state's largest health insurer), Time Warner Cable, Marriott International, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, March & McLennan Companies, and Aon Corp.
These companies were no doubt influenced by a report from the University of California, Los Angeles's Williams Institute, which determined civil unions would mean a financial boon for Hawaii. Same-sex couples alone would spend between $4.2 million and $9.5 million on civil union celebrations over the next four years, the institute estimates.
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By Sgt. Benjamin Crane (100th MDB Public Affairs)January 17, 2013
COLORADO SPRINGS Colo. -- Being an enlisted ground-based midcourse defense air defender is not easy or glamorous. But it's an important job very few get to do. When it comes to getting promoted as such, that's a process as rare as the air defenders themselves.
Ground Based Midcourse Defense is the system utilized to defend the nation against ballistic missile attacks. The only unit in the Army given that mission is the 100th Missile Defense Brigade, which makes the T3 identifier a unique military occupation specialty.
In addition, this multi-component brigade is spread among three different states' National Guards -- Colorado, California and Alaska. So when it comes time for a promotion, Soldiers not only have to impress those in their state, they have to make it through a review process between the three states.
For there to be any upward mobility, the three states' National Guards have found a way to review these Soldiers and pick out those who fit the criteria in which to be put on top of the promotions list.
Sergeants Major from each state meet twice a year in one of the three states to meet face-to-face and review each Soldier's packet. While this is a common practice for all states, what is unique is that three different states, with three different promotion systems combine for the purpose of evaluating GMD missile defenders for promotion.
"The creation of the tri-state board specifically was because of the missile defense mission," said Sgt. Maj. Herald London, state Sergeant Major for California. "It's the uniqueness of the 14 series that makes this process necessary."
To avoid having to travel to the same location each time, the board is rotated between Alaska, California and Colorado.
"This year, the fall board was to be here at the brigade, in Colorado, and the spring board will be held in California," said Staff Sgt. Kimberly Pinney, an administration non-commissioned officer for the 100th MDB.
Typically these meetings take place at the state's headquarters, and getting the Soldiers together who make the decisions presents its own sets of problems.
"Getting the Sergeants Major to pick a day, with their busy schedules is very trying," said Pinney.
But once they all get in the same room is when all the work in this unique process starts, said London.
"They go a little farther than most (enlisted promotions board) board processes would," said London. "You wouldn't have E-9s looking at E-4s and E-5s in a normal EPS process. You would have E-7s look at them. But because this 14 series is a very narrow band of Soldier pool added with the complexity of the mission, if you're not in space and missile defense you're not going to understand it and how they work."
They look at about 15 Soldiers who have already been selected by their own individual states boards.
"What's interesting is that this process has survived several changes of senior enlisted leaders and continues to get better," said London.
The sergeants major have to evaluate all the Soldiers who carry the 14 series MOS. From that list, they must select the most qualified Soldiers to be put on the promotion list. Their primary goal once they determine criteria is to find Soldiers who have the qualities and job experience/locations that can separate them from the crowd.
The 100th MDB and its subordinate units, Detachment One, located at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and the 49th Missile Defense Battalion, at Fort Greely, Alaska, are the only positions that this MOS can be promoted at, and they are the place in which NCOs can get the unique development to make themselves competitive for the next grade. This is one of the many reasons a tri-state board is used.
"It's the idea of the 'whole Soldiers concept,'" added Pinney. "It's not just one or two things that make a great Soldier. It's everything."
Soldiers can make themselves stand out by having good physical training and marksmanship scores, but also by being willing to work at two or three different locations that the 100th MDB occupies.
Getting picked out the crowd is only half the battle. There are slots that need to open. But to even be considered to get promoted, one has to make it on the list by being selected in the tri-state boards.
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Cedarburg wrestling snaps Port Washington's 12-year run in North Shore
Port Washington finally met its match.
The Pirates wrestling team entered the season with a 12-season winning streak in the North Shore Conference, a run that included dual meets and conference tournaments. It was the longest conference winning streak in southeastern Wisconsin, and now it's over.
Cedarburg beat Port, 41-25, on the road Wednesday night. The Bulldogs, who are ranked second in the Journal Sentinel's area rankings, sealed the victory with freshman Sean Ipsarides' pin at 132 pounds and then closed out the dual with victories from junior Max Stahnke at 138 pounds and junior Jason Isparides at 145 pounds.
Cedarburg also got pins from freshman Colton Ryan (106), junior Duncan Isbister (170) and junior Kyle Polum (285). Senior Justin Seeke (182) scored a technical fall.
Congrats to Wauwatosa wrestling team
As I wrap up the week, I like to congratulate the Wauwatosa wrestling team, which snapped Pewaukee's 48-match winning streak in the Woodland Conference Wednesday with a 32-16 victory.
"A run of (48) straight is incredible," Tosa coach Kent Morin said. "You just don't see that very often, so kudos to (Pewaukee coach Ed Kurth). He's done an amazing job over the years."
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A chord progression that I used to teach in my songwriting classes at McNally Smith in St Paul is called the "Fabulous Four". These are four chords that work well together that sounds minor with a fabulous dominant chord that includes the leading tone back to the one chord (or the home tone). I have heard this chord progression on many pop songs on the radio. Now, you wouldn't do this chord progression over and over in your song, you would save it for one section to give yourself some variety. Some choose to use this as a chorus and some have used it as the main groove in the beginning and verses of their song.
Ok, here it is: Am, G, F, E.. - in that order. Basically, this progression is in the key of A minor and the last chord (E) is the five chord and leads back nicely to the first chord Am. Now, the unusual thing is the G and F chord in between, they are basically passing tones and walking down to the V chord, but they sound nice and are also the IV and V chord of the relative major key: C major. So, it's not totally wacko, but sounds different.
Now, if you are in the key of E minor, then the chords would be Em, D, C and B. Try it on piano, or guitar or whatever. Play it fast or slow, put a rhythm in there. Try singing over it and see what you think. For added variety, you could keep the baseline on the same note (except for the last chord) for added tension, or you could reverse that and keep the first chord the same while your bass line walks down. Lots to try and think about.
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Outside my local network, I view my blog with http://www.charl.info and WordPress address and Blog address both blank.
My question is: is there something I can type into the WordPress address and Blog address fields that would make my blog work inside and outside my network? I've tried just typing / but it doesn't work.
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An important component of IBM Workplace is IBM Workplace Client Technology. With Workplace Client Technology, you can develop, deploy, and centrally manage rich end-user client applications. This allows you to extend management and security features found in server-based platforms to user desktops and to other devices. These rich client applications give you the flexibility and portability of client-side applications combined with server-side control and cost-savings. Workplace Client Technology comes in two editions: Micro Edition for mobile devices and Rich Edition for desktops.
IBM Workplace Client Technology incorporates a number of standards-based components and technologies, including Java and the Eclipse 3.0 open standard. It includes central policy-based administration features such as provisioning and synchronization. Applications can run locally on the end user's machine. By leveraging the embedded EJB (Enterprise JavaBean) container and encrypted relational database, users can work offline and online. Workplace Client Technology also features a synchronized, policy-based secure data store that allows data to be stored locally until the user is ready to synchronize the data with the server (this is similar to DB2's synchronization services of WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager).
Knowing how these components fit together and interact will help you better understand how you can use Workplace Client Technology to build applications in your IBM Workplace environment. To help you get started, this article presents an overview of how Workplace Client Technology is constructed. We begin with a high-level description of Workplace Client Technology's general architecture. We then discuss the distinctions between the two "flavors" of Workplace Client Technology: Rich Edition and Micro Edition. This article assumes that you have a basic familiarity with the IBM Workplace family of products. If not, we suggest you read the developerWorks: Lotus articles, "What is Lotus Workplace?" and "New features in release 2.0 of IBM Lotus Workplace."
An overview of IBM Workplace Client Technology architecture
Consider Workplace Client Technology a collaboration of:
- A secure data store (a Java relational database). This data store is a zero-administration, pure Java relational database.
- The Eclipse rich client framework.
- A personal EJB container for running local applications. The lightweight EJB container, Extension Services for WebSphere Everyplace (ESWE), was built from the ground up by the WebSphere team for resource constrained devices such as PDAs and takes up less than 1 MB of disk space.
- The ability to download layouts and application components from WebSphere Portal.
- A synchronization framework. Synchronization of the data between the local data store and remote applications is achieved via an implementation of SynchML. Synchronization allows new features to be pushed to desktops.
- Auto-provisioning capabilities. Provisioning features allow for the creation of accounts based on policies defined for users.
To provide these features, Workplace Client Technology consists of two general layers: the JRE (Java Runtime Environment), which interacts directly with the operating system and provides basic core services, and the extension services layer, which provides user-facing features and services. The extension services layer is built as an extension to the Eclipse platform. Eclipse is an open standards set of tools for building integrated development environments (IDEs). The Eclipse platform provides building blocks and frameworks to facilitate the development of new tools via plug-ins. This set of plug-ins consists of structured bundles of code and data that allow for the extensibility of this framework to read the plugin.xml for each plug-in. The extension services layer also includes new non-Eclipse plug-ins created specifically for Workplace Client Technology.
Figure 1 shows how the main components of Workplace Client Technology fit together.
Figure 1. Workplace Client Technology architecture
JRE (Java Runtime Environment)
As Figure 1 illustrates, the JRE sits on top of the operating system. The JRE and its associated components (including the J2EE client container and Cloudscape database) form the foundation of Workplace Client Technology, upon which the Eclipse plug-ins and other plug-ins sit. The JRE consists of the Java virtual machine, the Java platform core classes, and supporting files. The JRE is the smallest set of executables and files for running applications written in Java.
The J2EE client container manages the execution of application client components for EJB access. Another component is a Cloudscape database, which is essentially a small footprint of the relational database used for the local data store. This is the standards-based Java RDBMS that can be tightly integrated into any Java-based solution.
Extension services layer
As the preceding illustration shows, the plug-ins in the extension services layer include Eclipse plug-ins as well as plug-ins created especially for Workplace Client Technology that are not part of core Eclipse. Eclipse plug-ins include the update manager, help system, preferences, and workbench components. The update manager centrally manages deployed applications. Help integration provides the client with methods to define context so that the online help will automatically launch with the appropriate context. Alerts notify the user that an action has happened, and preferences customize the desktop to present to the end user.
The workbench plug-in implements the workbench user interface. It defines a number of extension points that allow other plug-ins to contribute menu and toolbar actions, drag and drop, dialog boxes, wizards, custom views, and editors. The workbench includes the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT). This is a low-level operating system independent toolkit that supports platform integration and portable APIs. It provides a platform-independent Java API that is tightly integrated with the operating system's native operating environment. Another workbench component, the Jface UI framework, provides constructs for supporting dialog boxes, wizards, actions, user preferences, and widget management. Jface interoperates with the SWT. The Jface library provides components and utilities to simplify developing SWT user interfaces.
Non-Eclipse plug-ins in the extension services layer include the credential store, logging, WebSphere Member Manager, and other components. The credential store is used for storing, protecting, and retrieving user credentials. The credentials reside in a credential vault, which safely and securely holds user credentials until needed by a portlet for authentication to back-end systems.
Logging allows the application to gather and collect data to assist in diagnosing problems with applications. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services uses WebSphere Member Manager to manage member directory schemas. Member Manager handles member data or profiles in which a member can be a person, group, organization, or organizational unit. It provides an extra repository store to take care of any additional attributes needed by IBM Workplace that are not stored in LDAP. It can extend the existing LDAP schema. The service locator looks up the EJBs that do the business processing, for example, mail and calendar.
Workplace Client Technology and WebSphere Portal integration
IBM Workplace is integrated with WebSphere Portal. WebSphere Portal provides the user interface integration for IBM Workplace and access controls to pages and portlets. A template defines the Workplace application, its pages, and the application components deployed on each page. These are XML files that control the assembly of the business components, layout, intercommunications, property settings, and interaction with other templates. The business component consists of a group of related functions, such as email. Portal pages become client pages and portlets identify which view and editor parts to display on the client.
For example, for component provisioning, the application manager requests the client configuration from the server. The update manager then runs to fetch the new and updated components. Services are then used to access and update data on the backend of the server, and the perspectives are dynamically built and rendered to the user.
Figure 2 illustrates how several Workplace Client Technology components interact with WebSphere Portal components.
Figure 2. Workplace Client Technology and WebSphere Portal integration
This provides IBM Workplace Client Technology the ability for a "no-touch" deployment model, coupled with policy-based management to help reduce the cost of managing the end user's desktop environment. As an enterprise solution, IBM Workplace Client Technology gives you built-in security features, such as a local encrypted data store that synchronizes with the server environment (to support both connected and disconnected operations), and the ability to help ensure that all applications are provisioned and digitally signed by a trusted source.
IBM Workplace Client Technology, Rich Edition and Micro Edition
The architecture discussed in the preceding section applies to both the Rich Edition and Micro Edition of Workplace Client Technology. For example, both the Rich Edition and Micro Edition have server-based application management and provisioning. They both have secured encrypted data storage, synchronization, transactional messaging, and disconnected operation abilities. They both offer portability across device types and operating systems, and the applications have a user interface look and feel that is device-native and device-appropriate.
However, there are some key distinctions between the Rich Edition and Micro Edition. This section discusses a few of these differences.
IBM Workplace Client Technology, Rich Edition
Workplace Client Technology, Rich Edition is optimized for integrating multiple applications. There is an inter-component communication and an extension framework to create collaborative solutions. It has an enhanced desktop user interface integration, such as system tray, drag and drop, launch menu and icon, and support for native applications (OLE). And of course, there is the ability to have multiple user desktop configurations with preferences.
Workplace Client Technology, Rich Edition is available in three IBM Workplace products: IBM Workplace Messaging, IBM Workplace Documents, and the IBM Workplace Client Technology, Client Administrator.
IBM Workplace Messaging
Workplace Messaging provides users with integrated mail, personal calendar, and personal address book. Within Workplace Messaging, Workplace Client Technology uses Eclipse views to provide navigation, management, and display of mail folders such as the Inbox and user-defined folders. Editors to create, edit, and view emails are provided with both Eclipse controls and a pluggable rich-text editor.
IBM Workplace Documents
Workplace Documents is based on IBM Portal Document Management. This offers document editors, document life cycle management, a managed document store, administration, and security. It includes embedded editors that are available within Workplace Client Technology for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. Workplace Documents uses the local data store along with security features to provide a local document store on the user's desktop that can be governed by policies established by the administrator and that remain fully synchronized with the server-based master stores.
Administration is provided by remote provisioning capabilities along with client elements such as local database, synchronization logic, UI framework, and UI plug-ins. Workplace Client Technology automatically keeps these components current with the latest version installed by the administrator. Security features include single sign-on with any other applications running on IBM Workplace Client Technology, plus encryption of user credentials and the local data store. Administrators and users can easily grant and revoke access to documents.
IBM Workplace Client Technology, Client Administrator
The Client Administrator provides an administrative console that allows for the creation and distribution of role-based desktops by controlling access to native, rich, and Web-based applications and system services. It provides a centralized user administration and enables accounts to be remotely created and maintained. The Client Administrator is available for the IBM Middleware Solution for Branch Banking Transformation.
IBM Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition
Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition lets pervasive devices (also known as hand-held or mobile devices) access enterprise data, applications, and transactions. Micro Edition is composed of WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment, WebSphere Studio Device Developer, WebSphere Everyplace Custom Environment, and IBM Service Management Framework (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. IBM Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition architecture
The WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment provides a foundation for connecting cellular phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices to e-business. It contains a production-ready Java-powered runtime environment, tested and certified to meet Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) specifications. This supports Connected, Limited Device Configuration (CLDC 1.0 and 1.1) and Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP 2.0) for the Palm One Tungsten C and Hewlett-Packard iPaQ Pocket PC h5500.
WebSphere Studio Device Developer provides an IDE for building, testing, and deploying Java 2 Micro Edition applications that run on wireless devices. WebSphere Everyplace Custom Environment is a runtime environment for the deployment of embedded applications to real-time control systems. The IBM Service Management Framework includes an implementation of the OSGI Service Platform specification that provides network delivery and management of applications and services independent of operating system. This software extends enterprise applications to a wide variety of devices with middleware that comprise versions of IBM enterprise software such as DB2e, MQe, Service Management framework, and Java runtime environments. When used with DB2e, you can leverage the advanced data management capabilities of DB2.
Testing with assured messaging software (MQe, JMS) provides access to assured messaging and financial transactions. Applications, middleware, and runtimes can be server-managed when used in conjunction with IBM Service Management Framework (SMF). Web services (SOAP) support can help enable access to applications across a wide variety of wireless and wire-line networks.
In this article, we discussed the basics of IBM Workplace Client Technology architecture. We examined the main components of Workplace Client Technology and how they fit together and interoperate. And we've looked at several important differences between the Rich Edition and Micro Edition of Workplace Client Technology.
We hope that this "under the hood" look at how Workplace Client Technology is put together will help you better understand how it works -- and how you can take full advantage of its flexible, standards-based technologies to build and manage client applications that extend the power and capabilities of IBM Workplace.
- To learn more about IBM Workplace Client Technology, visit its product page.
- The article, "Administering the rich client in IBM Lotus Workplace," discusses how to install and administer IBM Workplace Client Technology.
- Find out more about IBM Workplace by visiting the IBM Workplace resource center.
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Webhooks solve these problems by letting you register a URL that we will notify anytime an event happens in your account. When the event occurs—for example, when a successful charge is made on a customer's subscription, Stripe creates an
Event object. This object contains all the relevant information about what just happened, including the type of event and the data associated with that event. Stripe then sends the
Event object to any URLs in your account's webhooks settings via an HTTP POST request. You can find a full list of all event types in the API docs.
You might use webhooks as the basis to:
- Update a customer's membership record in your database when a subscription payment succeeds
- Email a customer when a subscription payment fails
- Check out the Dashboard if you see that a dispute was filed
- Make adjustments to an invoice when it's created (but before it's been paid)
- Log an accounting entry when a transfer is paid
Understand that you only need to use webhooks for behind-the-scenes transactions. The results of most Stripe requests—including charge attempts and customer creations—are reported synchronously to your code, and don't require webhooks for verification. (For example, with a charge request, the charge will immediately succeed and a
Charge object returned, or the charge will immediately fail and an exception will be thrown.)
Configuring your webhook settings
Webhooks are configured in the webhooks settings section of the Dashboard. Clicking Add endpoint reveals a form to add a new URL for receiving webhooks.
Stripe supports two webhook types: Account and Connect. You'll likely want to create an account webhook, unless you've created a Connect application.
You can enter any URL you'd like to have events sent to, but this should be a dedicated page on your server, coded per the instructions below. The mode determines whether test events or live events are sent to this URL; if you want to send both live and test events to the same URL, you need to create two separate settings. You may add as many URLs as you like, and basic access authentication is supported.
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If you use an HTTPS URL for your webhook endpoint, Stripe will validate that the connection to your server is secure before sending your webhook data. For this to work, your server must be correctly configured to support HTTPS with a valid server certificate. See our guide on SSL/TLS for details on setting this up.
Responding to a webhook
To acknowledge receipt of a webhook, your endpoint should return a
2xx HTTP status code. Any other information returned in the request headers or request body is ignored. All response codes outside the this range, including
3xx codes, will indicate to Stripe that you did not receive the webhook. This does mean that a URL redirection or a "Not Modified" response will be treated as a failure.
If a webhook is not successfully received for any reason, Stripe will continue trying to send it once an hour for up to 3 days. Webhooks cannot be manually retried after this time, though you can query for the event to reconcile your data with any missed events.
When viewing a specific event information through the Dashboard, you can check how many times we've attempted to send an event to an endpoint by clicking on that endpoint URL in the Webhook details section. This will show you the latest response we received from your endpoint, along with a list of all attempted webhooks and the respective HTTP status codes we received.
Best practices
Before going live, test that your webhook is working properly. You can do so by sending dummy test events from the webhooks settings pane. Understand that as these are fake, test events, they will not map to real customers, invoices, charges, or other objects in your account.
If your webhook script performs complex logic, or makes network calls, it's possible the script would timeout before Stripe sees its complete execution. For that reason, you may want to have your webhook endpoint immediately acknowledge receipt by returning a
2xx HTTP status code, and then perform the rest of its duties.
Webhook endpoints may occasionally receive the same event more than once. We advise you to guard against duplicated event receipts by making your event processing idempotent. One way of doing this is logging the events you've processed, and then not processing already-logged events.
For optimum security, you can confirm the event data with Stripe before acting upon it. To do so:
- Parse the JSON data as above.
- Grab the received
Eventobject ID value.
- Use the
Eventobject ID in a retrieve event API call.
- Take action using the returned
Webhooks and API versions
The structure of an
Event object sent in a webhook is dictated by the API version in your account settings at the time of the event's occurrence. For example, if your account is set to an older API version, such as 2015-02-16, and you change the API version for a specific request via versioning, the
Event object generated still aligns with the 2015-02-16 API version.
Event objects will never be changed after the fact. Subsequent updates to your account's API version do not retroactively alter existing
Event objects. Fetching older events using a newer API version also has no impact on the event's structure.