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The one response I too often get when I ask people to get involved in saving our country is that they would but …
What they are really saying is they want someone else to do it. They want someone else to carry the water for them. It's rare that we can find someone willing to do the work.
But, one such person is Josh Tucker.
He is not well known, but is definitely what we need. Running against the much too well-known Lynn Jenkins, Josh is a true conservative with credentials that reflect his focus on a quaint document called The Constitution of The United States. Maybe you've heard of it? George W. Bush infamously stated, "It's just a piece of paper." Barack Obama regularly violates it. Lynn Jenkins regularly votes for bills that violate it. The result is a bankrupt country that violates what civil rights we used to have. The Constitution is the basis of our Republic — it is not just a piece of paper.
Lynn Jenkins has repeatedly voted for increasing the national debt. When the Republicans held all the power in the House of Representatives, where all spending bills are supposed to originate, according to the Constitution, she and 86 other Republicans voted with the Democrats to give in to demands that amount to blackmail.
However, our Congressmen, Congresswomen, and senators all take an oath of office that goes: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States." They then almost immediately violate it.
Some examples of this include providing aid, our taxes, to foreign countries, subsidizing farmers, providing foodstamps, buying Russian-made helicopters to give to Afghanistan, continuing to fund undeclared wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, funding Obamacare by caving in to his demands when the House of Representatives had the power of the purse, continuing to vote for increases of the national debt by trillions of dollars, transferring our taxes to Russia via aid to Ukraine, and violating our right to privacy by voting for Internet companies and telephone service providers to surrender our information to the National Security Agency. These are neoconservative policies, not conservative. Lynn Jenkins is a neocon.
She has supported each of the above policies. She also supports continuing our undeclared wars against various countries, which is also a neoconservative viewpoint and at odds with true conservativism.
Imagine a country where we actually obey the Constitution. Josh actually believes in such a land. He is willing to insist all legislation be Constitutional or face a nay vote.
It's also worth noting that Congresswoman Jenkins is getting less conservative the longer she is in office. Her first time she rated an 87 percent, the second term 70 percent, and now she gets a 56 percent for the current term, according to The Freedom Index published by The New American Magazine. She is rated further left than some Democrats.
Missouri Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver rates 13 percent higher as a conservative. Colorado's three Democratic members of Congress similarly rate as more conservative.
Lynn Jenkins is great at one thing, though: self-promotion. With all the emails, unsolicited calls, flyers, letters to the editor, and townhalls, she never misses an opportunity to tell us how great she is doing.
However, the stats tell us a different story. You can find more about her challenger at his website, tuckerforcongress.com, or his Facebook page Tucker4KS2nd.
Josh does not have the name recognition that Lynn Jenkins has and almost no campaign money. What he does have is genuine honesty and values, uninfluenced by power. Those are attributes Lynn Jenkins lacks. I hope you will investigate his positions for yourself and then join me and many other genuine conservatives in supporting him in the primary Aug. 5.
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Panama seeks first win for new coach, welcomes Roland
The Brandon Ellis Era for Panama High School football did not start the way all Razorback fans would have liked, losing 44-6 to Spiro Sept. 1 at McClain Stadium.Tonight, however, the Hogs (0-1) hope home-field advantage will help as they welcome the Roland Rangers to town for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff at George Ollie Stadium."It's always good to play at home," said Ellis, who is in his first season after coaching at Gore. "It's going be a big home opener for us. We anticipate a big crowd. We had a great crowd at Spiro. Playing at home is a lot better atmosphere."


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Colbert blows up show's official Twitter account
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert is done with the "Colbert Report" Twitter account.
He teamed with one of Twitter's founders, Biz Stone, on Monday's show to symbolically blow up his show's Twitter account. The account has been removed from Twitter.
A tweet from that account, controlled by Comedy Central, created controversy last week when it showed a photo from last week's show that some Asians deemed offensive. A CancelColbert hashtag was created and ignited an online debate over the limits of satire.
Colbert's defenders suggested the tweet was taken out of context.
Colbert directed his fans to his personal Twitter account with more than six million followers instead.


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Market Basket employees not worried about jobsBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
August 20. 2014 7:52PM
TILTON — Market Basket employees were taking turns standing in protest of their store's management Wednesday, doing so on their work breaks with full consent of their managers.
Some of their signs ask shoppers to boycott their store. Others promote their favorite store executive, Arthur T. Demoulas, who has been fighting for control of the company.
Despite the anti-Market Basket signs and the clamoring to incoming shoppers to stay away, none of the workers protesting Wednesday afternoon said they were worried about their jobs. And none said they had looked for new jobs since the battle began.
Arthur T., they believe, will win the battle, and win it soon. And then, things will go back to normal.
"I have no doubt, we're going to win," said Dylan Bernie, a worker from Tilton.
"We are not afraid," said employee Jayson Wiles of Laconia.
"I have never protested like this before for anything, so this
The full-timers are still working full-time hours at the store, carrying out all of their own duties as well as the tasks that part-timers used to perform. "Some of us are cleaning areas we've never worked in before," Chase said.
The store's vendors are still delivering most products, workers said. But there has been little need for resupply of shelves, as few people are shopping at the store.
Area residents seem to be showing their support for the workers by boycotting," said Bernie. "Mostly the shoppers are out-of-staters, tourists, people from Florida."
About 1 p.m. Wednesday, when the grocery department staff took its break, the parking lot was empty, as it has been for more than a month.
"There's only one register operating in there now, and at this time on a Wednesday, in the middle of summer, every register would be very busy; there'd be traffic here," Chase said.
Workers said they get their news from Market Basket employee Facebook pages, and the news of late has been good.
"It's about to happen, and I don't see it falling through," Chase said.
"We're a strong family," Wiles said of his fellow employees. "We'll deal with whatever happens."
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//print the given string to the LCD at the current cursor position. overwrites, doesn't insert.//While I don't understand why this was named printIn (PRINT IN?) in the original LiquidCrystal library,//I've preserved it here to maintain the interchangeability of the two libraries.void LCD4Bit::printIn(char msg[]) {
If the old method was still supported and the change was clearly documented in the code and wiki then I don't think it would be a great inconvenience to existing users.
what would happen then if I have a 2 line lcd and i did LCD.println("A"); LCD.println("B"); LCD.println("C"); would the last line roll off and lcd showingABor would it scroll up showingBCor would it wrap around to the top showingCB
I'm planning to include a LiquidCrystal library in Arduino 0012. The API mirrors the Wiring one
I'm planning to include a LiquidCrystal library in Arduino 0012. It will support both 4 and 8 bit modes (though is there any reason you'd want to use the 8-bit one?). The API mirrors the Wiring one (http://wiring.org.co/learning/libraries/LiquidCrystal/index.html) - using the same print() and println() functions as the Serial class. The code is at: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/arduino/trunk/hardware/libraries/LiquidCrystal/#_trunk_hardware_libraries_LiquidCrystal_


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This week…..on 55…..
The tenth episode of 55. Oh how time flies. It seems like it was just yesterday that you were nothing more than just an idea in my head. I just can't believe how fast you have grown. Before long we will celebrate your 21st. I can't talk about this right now. Sorry. Moving on. I know what you are saying…Jeremy has finally lost it, or dude it's just a story. You would be right either way. I am just glad that this week it was not as eventful as last week and that I will be able to take time out to make fun of Shawn once again….I feel like I neglected him. Poor lil guy. Well here we go. Once again, I share with you the 55 most ridiculous things I have heard, had to debate, or just thought about this past week. This …..is….55
1) Mark Schlabach has once again released his "Way too early Top 25" for college football this upcoming season. Check out where he ranks the Cards here
2) He also ranked Texas…..there goes his credibility with me
3) Sorry Charlie
4) Still a little salty………
5) Saturday Preston Brown & Hakeem Smith played in the East-West Shrine game. Both played well but evidently nobody cared enough to post tackling stats on any site anywhere….
7) Oh great SpongeBob is back…..anyways
8) The University of Louisville has purchased the Cardinal Club, an 18-hole championship golf course and 212-acre complex in Simpsonville, Ky. which serves as home to the U of L men's and women's golf teams. The facility will be rebranded as the University of Louisville Golf Club
9) It really was long overdue….great purchase by the University
10) Louisville midfielder Charlyn Corral was selected to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America Team the NSCAA announced on Wednesday
11) Sources tell me…..Shawn wears Underroos……Finally a Shawn joke!!!!!!!
12) Sorry bud…I felt I had neglected you. Moving forward


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text: This document is a draft copy of Dr. King's Hungry Club Speech, in which he speaks on the subject "America's Chief Moral Dilemma." He states that the dilemma is "the means by which we live have out distanced the ends for which we live." Dr. King thoroughly discusses the three major evils that contribute to this dilemma: the evil of racism, the evil poverty, and the evil of war. He also discusses the progress of the Civil Rights Movement as it enters a new phase of fighting for "genuine equality."


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Editorial: Jim Adams The GOP choice in Council Dist. 4EDITORIAL STAFF
August 19. 2014 6:14PM
We elect people to the Executive Council for their sound and sober judgment. At least, we should. Jim Adams, running for the District 4 council seat, has that, and Republicans would be well represented by making him their nominee.
Adams has the sort of management skills and executive experience sorely needed on the council today. As district manager for the U.S. Postal Service in New Hampshire and Vermont, he ably managed a large agency with a large budget. A councilor's primary duties are to examine contracts and a governor's top personnel decisions, and Adams has the experience to make himself a genuine check on the governor's power in both of those areas. His resume is impressive, and his story is the kind Republicans would benefit from showcasing. He started out a blue collar guy working for the post office, but he worked his way all the way up to Washington, D.C., becoming chief of staff to three different postmasters general. The duties of an executive councilor? He can easily handle those.
Adams also is a real fiscal conservative who can be trusted to vote against wasteful spending. Republicans in the district might have heard Adams' primary rival, Robert Burns, dismiss Adams as a postal worker, a union guy, and an establishment stooge. They should ignore the clownish buffoonery coming from Burns, who is trying desperately to distract voters from the fact that he got only 42 percent of the vote against Chris Pappas in 2012. Had the Republicans put up a better nominee last time, Pappas might not be on the council today.In Executive Council District 4, Jim Adams is the obvious choice for Republicans.


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Blouse with great sleeves
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by Anjovis
Helsinki, Finland
A blouse with bishop sleeves has been on my to sew list for quite some time now. I used a pattern #108 from Burda magazine 8/13. This was the first time I made cuffs with buttons and I was a bit worried how it would work. Now I know one should never doubt own skills since I am very happy with how all the details in this blouse worked out :) This fabric is 100% viscose and just lovely to wear on these first autumn days.
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Nov 17, 2013, 06.53 AMby CarolynD
This blouse looks really great.
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love it.
Aug 25, 2013, 03.30 PMby Anjovis
Thank you all so much for your lovely comments! I really love this blouse and think the sleeves are just the best :)
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Fantastic blouse and great job! I love the sleeves especially.
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I really like the look of your blouse, very feminine and the fabric is cute!
Aug 25, 2013, 08.40 AMby Oksana Starzhynska
Beautiful classic blouse. You have a lady look.
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Lovely! You did a great job and I love the sleeves – looks perfect :)
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The blouse is lovely. The cuffs and sleeves are beautifully made. It looks so nice on you.
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Aug 24, 2013, 04.28 PMby kihli
Your blouse is beautiful and looks great on you! I'm sure you will get a lot of wear out of it in autumn!
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Very nice. I love it! Good job!
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Great sleeves, indeed, and great cuffs and buttonholes! I like the neat fitting with the loose sleeves, and you look great in it!
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I really like it tied up. I'm surprised at how nice the neckline looks even though its so simple. It looks really cute on you.
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Two Louisiana governors, Huey Pierce Long from the 1930s and Murphy Foster from the 1890s, remarkably, The Courier columnist who called himself "an Oldtimer" knew both well enough personally to compare their governing styles.
Two Louisiana governors, Huey Pierce Long from the 1930s and Murphy Foster from the 1890s, remarkably, The Courier columnist who called himself "an Oldtimer" knew both well enough personally to compare their governing styles.
"Oldtimer," almost certainly the pseudonym of T.B. Easton, who edited and published The Courier for many years before selling the publication to John B. Gordon in 1937, compared the two deceased governors in his "Shadows" column in the Feb. 4, 1937 edition, under the heading "Was Huey Long a dictator?"
"Undoubtedly, he was and probably the most ruthless one the state has ever seen," Oldtimer wrote. "Yet he did not exercise as complete a control over the political machinery of Louisiana as did some of the former governors."
The columnist then recited typical anti-Long language, along with partial justifications for his behavior. He does not say, either way, but his words suggest that he was more pro-Long than anti.
"A great deal of Long's vindictiveness was aroused by the bitter and uncalled for attacks upon his character and qualifications during his first campaign for governor, by individuals and newspapers whose methods were perhaps as reprehensible as anything ascribed to Long.
"He was called 'piffler,' 'fool,' 'clown' and given various other uncomplimentary titles which, if he were human, must have left deep and abiding rancor in his heart.
"As his political strength grew and his tongue let loose some of the vitriol for which he was famous, they began to call him 'tyrant,' 'dictator,' nor did they hesitate to attack his personal life, even besmirching the name of woman in their frantic efforts to defeat him. Small wonder that, when he became all-powerful, he remembered his enemies with vengeance. With the power given him by the masses he forced through the legislature many so-called dictatorial laws aimed at his enemies. His sway over the people was so tremendous that he was able to elect or defeat at will candidates for state and parochial offices for Congress and even the Supreme Court and thus gained dominion over the entire commonwealth of Louisiana.
"But Long never at any time had such appointive powers as were employed by Murphy Foster during the eight years he served as governor, from 1892 to 1900."
Foster came to a governorship having vast appointive powers held over from the system left intact when post-Civil War Reconstruction was replaced by a new Louisiana constitution approved in early 1900.
"Foster," Oldtimer continued, "appointed all of the police jurors, school board members, and even the constables and justices of the peace and held sway over political 'rings' in every parish that carried out his wishes in respect of other offices. He reorganized the 'ward boss' system in New Orleans and made it the most powerful political ring in the South, which our own Gabe Montegut, who hated Foster with all his soul, prophesied would not be broken for thirty years.
"Old Timer knew Huey Long when he was a young traveling salesman 'making his territory' years before he ever dreamed of becoming a political factor in Louisiana.
"He (Oldtimer is referring to himself) was with Huey when he made his first announcement for governor in 1924. It came about this way, Huey, who at that particular time was Railroad Commissioner, was standing with Mrs. Long at the entrance to the court house when Old Timer greeted the two.
"In the conversation that followed, Huey remarked that he was going to enter the gubernatorial race and thought there was no better time or place to give out the announcement, and wan ted to know where he could go to prepare it.
"The writer (again, Oldtimer) escorted him to the Chamber of Commerce office where the secretary, A.W. VanPelt, wrote the statement dictated by Huey which was wired into New Orleans dailies. Thus began the career that eventually wrote Huey Long's name across the political firmament visible to all the people of the earth."
Thus, the way Oldtimer recalled it, Long's first announcement of his candidacy for governor was written in and telegraphed from, Houma.
(Oldtimer's discussion of Gov. Foster's dictatorial style and its effect on another Houma politician, next week.)
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When: 1-5:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17
Where: Chattanooga Convention Center, 1 Carter Plaza
Admission: $8 in advance online, $10 at the door
Website: www.timesfreepress.com/bridalaffair
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• $300 gift certificate good toward DJ service from Sound Force
• Uplighting package from Luma Designs
• Gift basket of cabernet wine from DeBarge Vineyards and Winery
Why drive all over town planning a wedding when you can make one appointment at one place Sunday, Feb. 17, and visit more than 100 vendors in one convenient location?
Bridal Affair, the annual bridal expo presented by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, will fill the Chattanooga Convention Center exhibition hall with about 160 vendor booths.
Vendors representing all aspects of wedding planning on hand -- from jewelers giving tips on diamond selections to travel companies advising couples on honeymoon destinations.
In fact, before the expo concludes, one lucky couple will win a grand-prize honeymoon trip for four days and three nights to Cancun, Mexico, courtesy of Choo Choo Travel. According to Angela Doggett, Times Free Press events manager, the exciting trip includes airfare, airport transfers, hotel and food amenities.
That trip and other sponsor gifts will be awarded immediately following the 4:30 p.m. show of fashions for the bridal party. Winners must be present to win.
Doggett said the latest trends in gowns and tuxes will be presented by Monica's Bridal, David's Bridals, All Dressed Up, Ever After Bridal & Formalwear, Men's Wearhouse, Giorgio Men's Warehouse and Boutique Couture.
In addition to sponsor prizes, every vendor at the expo will offer some type of giveaway, discount or samples to engaged couples visiting the show. Forte Strings will play music in its space.
Rebekah Hargrove, owner of Just Shoot Me photo booth, said she'll offer a discount on a photo booth rental for the first brides visiting her at the expo.
Vendors decorate their booths lavishly at the expo to show what they can add to a wedding. It will be hard to miss Flowers by Gil & Curt, where Curt Hodge says they'll have a 6-foot-tall pedestal arrangement in a booth decorated in a black, white and silver color scheme.
Gil Cartwright says they'll be creating bouquets that will be carried by the fashion show's models. The floral work will be displayed in their booth before the runway show so that girls can get a closer impression of their work.
Sharika Wilson of Simply Elegant party rental company will have a reception display set up featuring the newest in table skirts.
"It's a ruffled skirt that looks almost like a wedding cake. It's tiers of ruffles from the top of the table to the bottom. You pair it with a stretch chair cover and an elegant centerpiece. No extra colors or sashes are needed on the chairs," she says.
As this area's largest bridal show, Bridal Affair will offer couples all the information they need to make decisions on bouquets to buffets for the day of their dreams.
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BAKER � Two of three north Okaloosa County teams going to a state competition next month to display their teamwork skills are from Baker School.
BAKER � Two of three north Okaloosa County teams going to a state competition next month to display their teamwork skills are from Baker School.
Brittany Rock, Victoria Voorhees, Adrian Smith, Blake Phillips, Hunter Carnley, Rage Lafata, Elizabeth Lukas, Jaclyn Tipton, Daniel Thornton, Nastya Bateyera, Kayleigh Patterson and Eileen Brown will represent two of 64 Odyssey of the Mind teams competing April 6 in Orlando.
Odyssey of the Mind � or OM � challenges students to work together and solve problems using critical thinking methods. Each team must select from one of five problems on odysseyofthemind.com. Options range from designing gadgets to performing a skit within a given period.
Rock, 18, and her team of mostly seniors must build a structure that can support a certain weight � using just balsa wood and glue.
"You can't solve the problem any ordinary way," she said. "It has definitely taught us to look at things from a different perspective."
The second team, which comprises younger high school students, must script a skit involving a documented architectural structure and at least two musical performances.
"During the play, there are three works of art that are stolen and are recovered by two characters," Thornton, 16, said.
In their journey, the characters must return the items to the rightful place, he said.
Both teams must write scripts, build sets, design costumes and build devices, should the problem require one.
Each member plays a role.
"We just have a list of things to do and everyone just picks something to work on," Lafata, 17, said.
Baker�s OM teams frequently participate in state competitions.
"They have been going to state probably since the �90s," said kindergarten teacher Carol Hansford, a longtime club adviser and the Emerald Coast OM�s regional director.
In preparation for this year�s tournament, both teams� members said they are meeting regularly to ensure their presentations stand scrutiny.
Students think their OM skills will pay off in the future.
"I always wanted to be an author, so thinking outside the box always helps," Tipton, 15 said. "Who wants to write a book with ideas somebody else has already used?
�This really helps me with what my career goals are."
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Matthew Brown at 850-682-6524 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbMatthew.


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I say this in many articles, talks, and books: We really are in a third age, as far as thinking about our IT infrastructures is concerned. Originally, administrators focused on each physical server on which an OS was installed. You walked around the data center and pointed to each server: "That's my domain controller; that's my Microsoft SQL Server machine," and so on. Management was performed on a per-box basis because each box ran a single OS with a single application. With virtualization, OSs were consolidated onto fewer physical boxes hosting multiple virtual machines (VMs), and we entered the virtualization age. We focused on each OS instance: "That system is running a bunch of VMs; that one's running a bunch of VMs, too." Unsurprisingly, tours of data centers weren't as popular as they had been. The management effort was similar, provisioning became a bit easier, but there were extra hypervisor pieces to manage. Each OS was still managed individually. As an administrator, you connected via RDP to a server -- if you were very advanced, you connected remotely, via System Center Service Manager -- but still managed and focused on one OS at a time.
Learn more by visiting "Enabling the Private Cloud with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012" and "Q: What are logical networks in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012?"
The Third Age
With the private cloud, we enter the third age of management. The focus shifts to the service that's being provided. The management infrastructure should manage and provision the OS as a collective, behind the scenes, allowing the focus to be on the service rather than on the underlying OS. To enable this shift to application-centric thinking, two things are needed:
- A way to easily deploy server-application instances with only a few target-specific configuration items, and the ability to move those application instances between OS instances without reinstalling or losing configuration
- A modeling capability to enable the design of services that might have multiple tiers of components (e.g., a database back end, a middleware layer, a web front end) and multiple, definable role instances for each tier so that the service can scale up or down, depending on load
Not surprisingly, Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager addresses both these needs.
Application Virtualization
Readers who are familiar with desktop technologies probably know that Microsoft acquired a company called Softricity several years ago, renaming Softricity's Softgrid application-virtualization solution as Microsoft Application Virtualization. App-V allows an application to run locally on an OS, without being installed on the OS, through the use of a virtual environment. This environment has virtual layers, such as file system and registry, in which application artifacts (e.g., files, settings) reside. This application virtualization allows applications to be delivered very quickly. No application installation takes place. Because applications each run in their own virtual environment, a major application problem is solved -- namely, application-to-application compatibility challenges, such as when application A can't exist on the same OS instance as application B. Because the applications are virtualized and run in their own sandboxed environments, they don't see one another.
The goals for server virtualization are different than those of desktop virtualization. Server application isolation is rarely required or even desirable. Likewise, real-time streaming of server applications is an uncommon requirement. What's wanted is the ability to simplify the deployment of server applications, which can have primarily manual, 100-page installation processes. Also desirable is the ability to enable server-application mobility between OS instances, so that OSs can be serviced without lengthy application downtime, by moving an application instance from one OS instance to another.
Now, the App-V technology has been enhanced to support server requirements, via Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V), a specific version of App-V that's part of Virtual Machine Manager 2012. The major differences from the desktop App-V features are as follows:
- Support for system services
- COM,COM+, and DCOM components, captured and visible through tools such as Dcomcnfg
- Virtualization of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers and classes that applications install
- Local user and group creation
- Virtualization of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and earlier websites
- SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) virtualization support
- Virtualization of application configuration and data, enabling the entire application installation and state to be easily backed up and restored
This technology means that a server application is installed once in the Server App-V sequencer environment, which creates the Server App-V packaged version of the application. There, the entire installation process is performed, and any machine-specific configurations (e.g., service credentials, hostnames, port numbers) are extracted. This packaged Server App-V application can then be quickly deployed in a consistent way, simply by passing these instance-specific settings to all the required environments (e.g., development, testing, production). This approach solves many problems that are common when deploying complex applications between environments. In addition, the deployed Server App-V application instance and all its data can easily be backed up and deployed to another OS instance, maintaining all application states. Not only is the server application virtualized, but any related configurations and data are connected to the packaged application and can easily be backed up and restored through Server App-V Windows PowerShell cmdlets, providing easy portability between OS instances.
During the creation of a Server App-V sequenced server application, the sequencer process automatically identifies many instance-specific parameters, such as the hostname and credentials. However, you can also modify the packaged application after sequencing. The person who performs the sequencing can specify additional properties from the registry, services, and XML configuration files to be considered instance-specific; these properties will then prompt for a value during the deployment of the virtualized server application. In future versions of Server App-V, I expect to see even more flexibility for extracting instance-specific values from regular text files instead of from XML files only.
Service Templates
Server App-V is designed to be combined with service templates, another new Virtual Machine Manager 2012 feature. Although you can use PowerShell cmdlets to deploy and use Server App-V packaged applications, Server App-V is designed to be used as part of a service template, which can take advantage of its easy deployment and mobility.
Few applications today are islands. Applications connect to services on other OSs, use databases, and so on. Service templates allow you to model a full service in the new Virtual Machine Manager Service Template Designer tool. With this tool, you can create application tiers on a canvas. You can then define the attributes of each required tier, along with VM templates and the applications that need to run on those VMs to allow the tier to function. You then make connections between the tiers and to other resources, such as networks and storage. For each tier of a service, you can configure the initial, minimum, and maximum number of instances of each VM that makes up the tier. Doing so enables scalability because VM instances can be added and removed as required.
The various logical networks and storage tiers can be defined or left as options, to be configured as instances of the full service are deployed. Figure 1 shows a basic three-tier service that also uses a hardware load balancer to provide balancing for the web tier, which uses a Server App-V version of Apache. This shows another powerful capability of service templates and the overall new ability of Virtual Machine Manager 2012 to manage more than just the compute fabric. If the network and storage fabric have been configured in Virtual Machine Manager (e.g., via a hardware load balancer), then those resources can automatically be used as part of a service template. When an instance of this service template is deployed, Virtual Machine Manager automatically creates all the required VMs, based on the initial count of VM instances for each tier. Virtual Machine Manager then automatically connects to the hardware load balancer, creates a new pool that contains the IP addresses of the VMs that make up the web tier, and creates a new service on the load balancer, matching the configuration that's defined in the selected virtual IP template. You can go from zero to running a full multi-tiered service in about 5 minutes.
Figure 1: Three-Tiered Service
Diving into a little more detail on the options available for each tier, the configurations will seem very familiar if you've used Virtual Machine Manager VM templates. Essentially, each tier just uses a template, which can have additional configurations that can be made as part of a normal template definition. Essentially, the service template just gives you the opportunity to make further customizations to existing VM templates, if necessary. Initially, when you drag a VM template onto a tier definition on the service template canvas, the configurations match the source template exactly. However, you can open the tier properties and make changes. Such changes can include modifications to the virtual hardware specification, but they will most likely relate to the application configuration or SQL Server configuration, as shown in Figure 2. It is through these configurations that applications can be added to a tier: The configurations give the tier its functionality and bring value to the overall service. Applications can be Server App-V virtualized applications, a SQL Server or web application, or any application that can be deployed via a script -- which for enterprise applications should cover just about anything.
Figure 2: Application Configuration
Service templates offer another great capability. Typically, after a VM is deployed from a template, it loses its connection to that template. If the template is updated, there's no way to refresh the deployed VM with the new details. But services that are deployed from a service template maintain their link to the template. You can update a service template, perhaps with a new OS Virtual Hard Disk (VHD). Or you can change the VM specifications and then point to a deployed instance of the service and tell it to update. If the actual OS VHD has been updated, the running Server App-V applications are backed up with all data and state, the new OS VHD is deployed and configured with the same settings as the VM that it's replacing, and the Server App-V applications are put back. The OS image is refreshed but none of the application configuration or information is lost. This is just one use case of updating deployed services by updating the template. The example shows the power of focusing on the service rather than on the underlying OS instances. See my video for a quick overview of service templates.
Update domains are also supported with Virtual Machine Manager templates. Suppose that I select an instance of a deployed service template and request an update to a newer version of the template. The deployed service would be unavailable because the existing VMs that make up the deployed service instance are deleted and re-created per the new service template definition. With update domains, the deployed service can be divided into multiple domains, which are basically groups of servers within the deployed service. When an update is performed, one update domain at a time is updated, leaving the servers in the other update domains available to carry on offering services and eliminating service downtime. This is key for keeping services available and is similar to a model offered by many public cloud services, including Windows Azure.
During the initial service template creation, each tier is configured with a default minimum and initial instance count of 1 and a maximum instance count of 5. However, these values can be changed as part of the tier configuration. Although the default initial and minimum instance count is 1, this value shouldn't be used in a production environment. A single instance of a tier means that the tier will be unavailable if a VM fails, likely rendering the entire service unavailable. In addition, at least two instances of a tier are required to service the tier without downtime, allowing one instance to be updated, restarted, and even re-created while the other instance continues to service user requests. I recommend using 2 as the minimum value; to maintain availability during maintenance, use a value of at least 3. These values specify only the scalability options for a tier; there's no automatic scaling of a service by Virtual Machine Manager, based on the load that a tier is experiencing. If a tier is becoming very busy, then additional instances should be added, but this doesn't happen automatically. Both the Virtual Machine Manager management console and the web-based System Center App Controller allow additional instances of a tier to be added or removed, but this is a manual action. The good news is that this scaling of tiers can also be accomplished through PowerShell and other interfaces. It's a fairly simple task to create your own processes to monitor the utilization of tier instances and to perform automatic scaling, if required -- including System Center 2012 Operations Manager and System Center 2012 Orchestrator.
The Big Jump from Virtual Machines to Services
Few organizations take full advantage of the Server App-V and service templates technologies. This isn't surprising, given how new they are; it will take time for organizations to understand and adopt Server App-V and even longer to start thinking about deploying services by using service templates instead of individual VMs. But the change will happen.
Deploying multi-tiered services isn't always appropriate. There will always be one-off applications that might not be good candidates as offered services for an organization. But taking advantage of Server App-V and service modeling will still simplify the deployment and management of even single VM services. Over time, these technologies can be a huge benefit to organizations. And as the private cloud is truly embraced and the focus shifts to the application, Virtual Machine Manager is likely to become the center point of your IT infrastructure.


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An official with FOX Sports Media Group in California confirmed Monday its anti-gun and anti-hunting advertising policies after a request for clarification from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
The NSSF request asking FOX to lift its ban on firearms and ammunition advertising on Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts was dismissed with a form letter from the network. The network's form letter said the policy is for its national and cable broadcasts but said local stations or regional networks may accept advertising.
The NSSF has mounted a campaign to get hunters, shooters and outdoorsmen to write to FOX about its "ill-considered corporate policy." The foundation also said in a statement on its site that "FOX's decision to ban advertisements for lawful products owned by more than 80 million Americans is nothing more than corporate gun control – and it is certainly not "fair and balanced"."
Should you wish to contact FOX, do so at:
Corporate Headquarters FSN
10201 W. Pico, Bld. 103
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-369-1000


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Casting Kids Contest To Be Held June 23rd
The Spencer Exchange Club, in conjunction with the Sweet Owen Bassmasters Club, will again be sponsoring a Casting Kids contest on Saturday, June 23rd at the Owen County Fairgrounds on South East Street in Spencer.
The contest is designed to allow youngsters to test their basic fishing skills, have fun and provide them with an activity they can enjoy for a lifetime. Open to young people in two age groups, 7-10 and 11-14, the goals of this competition are to involve America's youth in fishing, to foster an appreciation and concern for our great outdoors and to make certain every child has fun while learning about fishing. The contest involves casting, pitching and flipping – the three basic fishing techniques – to a target. Prizes will be awarded.
The Sweet Owen Bassmasters will provide all rods and reels and instructors will be on site to help your child. There is no entry fee and registration will begin at 8:45 on Saturday morning June 23rd with the competition to begin at 9:00. During the competition there will be a drawing for rods and reels, tackle boxes and other prizes donated by the Exchange Club and the Sweet Owen Bassmasters.. There will also be a presentation by local fishing enthusiasts and an Indiana DNR Conservation officer. A parent or guardian must accompany the child. Persons with questions may contact John Fuhs after 6:00 p.m. at 829- 2133.
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How to Use the Images Illustration 1
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Questions for Photo 1
1. This view is looking from the area around the railroad crossover up the tracks of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad. Locate this view on the map shown in Illustration 1. Can you identify Battery Williams (to the left of the tracks) and Battery Robinett (behind the tent camp on the right) in the photo?
2. What clues can you identify in the photo to suggest why the two batteries were located where they were?
3. The tent camp is located between Battery Robinett and Battery Williams, near the tracks. Why do you think that might be the case?
4. The objects next to the tracks on the right side of the photo appear to be wheels for railroad cars. Why do you think there are so many of them? What might they be used for? How do you think they would have been transported to Corinth?
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Experience Cryptic's Neverwinter MMO with New Screenshots and a Teaser Trailer
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Author: edwardquilo
Cryptic's Neverwinter MMO has evolved from a co-op RPG romp into a full-blown MMORPG, but little else has been seen of the D&D title apart from a few introductory trailers. That's all going to change on PAX East, as Cryptic will show off the game to the public with a playable version. Lucky spectators might even have a chance to score some Neverwinter beta keys, so drop by the Perfect World Entertainment Booth #736, if you're headed to PAX East this weekend. For the rest of us, there's an abundance of enticing new screenshots and a teaser trailer available below showcasing Neverwinter's gorgeous world.


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Not even a smidgen lol! Now let me assure you that any look of pink on any of the DT cards are purely as a result of dodgy photo taking, no flouting of the rules here lol!
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|2007-05-15, 20:54
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Cool Cat
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: New York, U.S.
I'm one of the few who picked Miyuki. Sometimes stereotypical characters are nice . It was a hard decision, at first I thought Konata (for what she likes), then Tsukasa (she's so cute), then I arrived at Miyuki (Kagami is a little to quick to anger, though most people seem to like her...similar to the huge Suiseiseki fanbase). But I agree with Konata, Miyuki is pretty perfect.
|2007-05-15, 21:51
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|2007-05-16, 03:18
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:love: Tsukasa :love:
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if only i had watched episode 5 before voting i would have voted for tsukasa....
her "balsamic vinegar" scene really captured me...
she won me over even more in ep 6 especially the ending sequence...
but kagami is a close second to my favorite list so i guess i don't mind...
i guess i'll just vote for tsukasa in the next poll... that's if the new characters won't captivate me....
|2007-05-16, 07:43
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Fujiko's lap pillow <3
Join Date: May 2007
let's see....
konata : sure she's fun, and have much *dangerously too much* in common with me...wait, she's even more hardcore than me XD
miyuki : dunno...she's type-casted as the moe-turned-flesh butsomehow it doesnt' click...urrmmm...too much exaggeration by konata maybe. and her habit of starting/ending her sentence with "o hazukashi nagara" is just..
tsukasa : have i said before that i always dig twins ? i guess i haven't . she's even cuter than miyuki imo iRL sense
kagami : i'm a sucker for tsunderes, go figure and she has a twin sister
so my vote for kagami, though i agree that the chemistry between the characters is what made this show enjoyable kagami without konata won't work and vice versa
a bit off topic, does akira really have a huge*or considerable* fanbase ??
because for me...she's extremely predictable and annoying to boot
(sorry don't mean to offen the fans...just my honest opinion )
|2007-05-16, 07:52
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 37
Akira...love her hate her she'll just grumble up and complain. LOL but she sure does entertain me with her pyscho-moeness then becomes cute.
I wonder if Konata and Akira will ever meet? THAT would be the bomb!! XD
BTW Miyuki 4 votes
|2007-05-17, 09:19
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Lima - Peru
My vote is for Konata. I like her a lot, she reads and watches a lot of manga and and anime, and plays music videogames , just like me. And I like the work from her seiyuu (Aya Hirano). Kona-chan Rlz!!
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|2007-05-17, 12:41
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 37
poor Miyuki...she is'nt even in double digits yet. Seems the ditzy, clummsy, booby and attractive looking girls are not quite as hot as before. Looks like OTAKU girls and Tsundre's are in now.
But you know what they say...it's the character development that counts and not the attitude.
|2007-05-17, 12:59
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: California
I'm going with Konata. She's the kind of character that I've always wanted to see in an anime. I can relate myself to her too much, It's like the makers watched me and put me up on an anime. (Creeeepy thought too. O_O) Otaku's are just awesome. I bet she could beat me in ANY game, and people say I'm hard to beat... XD;
I'll have to go secondly with Kagami. I like how she was planned out, and how she can sorta snap when forced to. (Mostly by Konata.) She's nice to her sister, yet doesn't fully understand Konata. I start to like Kagami more as the series unfolds.
|2007-05-18, 10:47
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 37
OMG!!! konata with 70 votes!!! Wooo~~!!! Seems to me the Konata rules the main character poll...2nd Kagami.
I wonder if ever there's a poll for all the characters I wonder if who's going to be on top?
|2007-05-18, 13:14
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Witch of Betrayal
Join Date: Jan 2006
mania builds character!
as do insanity, violence, god complex, and other cool extremes...if a character doesn't have some of these traits, they don't get points from me. though it's also true that such characters need something to anchor them to reality. that's what the other characters are for.
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The effort to revive State Street, the famous shopping district in the Windy City that includes such venerable institutions as department store Marshall Field's and the Chicago Theater, have hit a bump in the road.
Since the Street was reopened to vehicular traffic in the mid-1990s, following the city's failed attempt at creating a bus-only transit mall, it has been reinvigorated. The north end of the street is now a theater district with four major theaters and the south end became an educational corridor.
But an annual survey of the State Street/Wabash Avenue shopping district shows that the vacancy rate among specialty stores climbed to 13.9% this fall, up from 4.5% a year ago. Average asking rents tumbled more than 30% during the period, falling to $39.29 per sq. ft. from $56.34 a year ago.
"These results signal a clear reversal of fortune in the generally positive trends posted over the past 12 years," says Mike Shields, executive vice president of Chicago-based Northern Realty Group, which has conducted the survey for the past 13 years. The vacancy rate is the highest it's been since 1994, when it registered 10.3%. Northern Realty's retail survey tracks about 2.8 million sq. ft. in the State Street and Wabash Avenue corridor that stretches from Wacker Drive to Congress Parkway.
The 125,000 sq. ft. of vacant space is attributed largely to the recent closing of a 3-story, 56,000 sq. ft. Toys "R" Us store at Madison and State. Toys "R" Us is seeking to sublease the space. Another 35,000 sq. ft. of retail space in two vacant buildings located immediately south of the toy store is being marketed. More bad news came earlier this year when long-time retailer Carter Jewelers closed.
Further compounding State Street's problems is nearby Block 37, an undeveloped, 2.85-acre site located across from Marshall Field's in the heart of the city. Shields describes Block 37, which has been renamed 108 N. State St., as a missed opportunity. "An outsider will look at it and wonder why it's vacant," Shields says.
For more than a decade, several projects were proposed for Block 37, but none came to fruition for a variety of economic reasons. Arlington, Va.-based Mills Corp., which in June was named the new master developer for the site, is negotiating a letter of intent with city officials. London retailer Harrod's has expressed a strong interest in occupying the block as an anchor tenant.
Shields believes that these big blocks of available retail space present an opportunity to clarify the nature of the area. "Right now, I think the street is in dire need of an identity," he says. Shields points out that in addition to anchors Marshall Field's, Carson Pirie Scott & Co., and Sears, State Street also is home to T.J. Maxx, Filene's Basement, Borders Books & Music and Old Navy. "There is such an extreme variance in the target customer. It's everybody and nobody."
Brent Minor, vice chairman of the Greater State Street Council, believes State Street needs to capitalize on the 65,000 college students in the south end of the Loop. Those academic institutions include DePaul University, Roosevelt University and Columbia College, to name a few. "There is a series of retailers interested in that market, including clothing and music stores," Minor says. He also believes the street needs an upscale grocer.
Minor's vision is for State Street to evolve into a 24/7 community. A vibrant theater district is part of that plan because it creates demand for additional restaurants and shopping. To that extent, Minor notes a positive trend. "Our stores are open longer now than at any time in the last 10 years."


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Deputy shoots man with sword, gun
Deputy shoots man with sword, gun
PADUCAH, Ky. —
Kentucky State Police say a McCracken County deputy shot a 50-year-old man who brandished a handgun and a sword at him.
In a news release, authorities said Deputy Jared Rivera was called to a home on Saturday evening to respond to a possible suicidal person. The resident, 50-year-old Michael Lakin, was seen inside the home with a handgun.
The deputy retreated to his vehicle and Lakin appeared in the doorway with a sword and a handgun. The deputy gave him orders to drop the weapons, but Lakin started to move toward the deputy.
Rivera shot Lakin twice in the upper torso and an ambulance took him to a local hospital, where he is listed in serious condition.
Kentucky State Police charged Lakin with assault on a police officer.


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The Pullman Cairns International has a fully equipped gymnasium, complete with excellent cardio equipment, free weights and pin weights equipment. The gymnasium also contains two separate saunas and a water dispenser.
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Banana Bread, as far as I know, is the first thing I learned how to bake. Like a lot of children, I'd help out or play with various ingredients while my mother was cooking, but I don't recall ever actually uttering words like "I'll be in the kitchen, baking" until after the discovery of this recipe. You're now probably expecting the holy grail of banana bread recipes, and not that I've found any, but I'm sure there are better ones. What I can promise is that this recipe is simple, quick, adaptable, kid-friendly, inexpensive to make, and consistently yields a yummy loaf.
In writing this post, I tried to figure out what it is that makes me like this recipe so much. I'm sure to some degree, it has a lot to do with the fact that I grew up on it. I remember obsessively baking this, week after week, for years; I just couldn't get enough of it. But it's more than that. There's a simplicity to this recipe that's not out of laziness or a lack of creativity, but rather a true belief that the banana in banana bread should be the star. There are no extracts or spices added to alter or mask flavors, there are no secret ingredients, there are just bananas. And, in this case, that's enough.


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For those of us who have had an interest in corruption for much of our careers, there is little doubt that sometime in the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a shift in thinking within the development community about the role of corruption in the development process. The shift was tentative at first; continued reluctance to touch upon a subject that was seen to have a large political dimension coexisted for a while with increasing references to the importance of "good governance" in encouraging successful development. What were the factors that contributed to this shift? One that quickly comes to mind is linked to the falling of the Berlin Wall and the associated collapse of central planning as a supposedly viable alternative to the free market. It was obvious that it was not inappropriate monetary policies that led to the collapse of central planning but rather widespread institutional failings, including a lethal mix of authoritarianism (i.e., lack of accountability) and corruption.
The collapse of central planning in the late 1980s and the need for the international community to assist these countries in making a successful transition to democratic forms of governance and economies based on market principles made it glaringly clear that it would take far more to do so than "getting inflation right" or reducing the budget deficit. Literally overnight, the economics profession was forced to confront a much broader set of issues beyond conventional macroeconomic policy. Related to the demise of central planning, the end of the Cold War had clear cut implications for the willingness of the international community to turn a blind eye to glaring instances of corruption in places where ideological loyalties had led to episodes of collective blindness. By the late 1980s, for instance, Mobutu was cut off by the donor community, no longer willing to quietly reward him for his persistent loyalty to the West during the Cold War.
A second factor was growing frustration with the plight of people in Africa and other parts of the developing world. Gains in the global fight against poverty had begun to bear some fruit but these were largely concentrated in China, with Africa actually seeing further increases in the number of poor. I was an economist in the IMF during the late 1980s and early 1990s and distinctly remember efforts by the IMF staff—particularly in Africa—to look beyond macroeconomic stabilization to issues of structural and institutional reforms and corruption could no longer be ignored.
A third factor had to do with developments in the academic community. In particular, research on the importance of property rights, education and training, and institutions, including some empirical work which began to suggest that differences in institutions appeared to explain an important share of the growth differential between countries, and therefore have an influence upon countries' growth performance. (For a nice survey see, for instance, Acemoglu et. al., "Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth", in Handbook of Economic Growth, Elsevier, 2004). For a growing number of economists corruption began to be seen as an economic issue and this led to a better understanding of the economic effects of corruption, a topic to which we will turn in a future blog.
Also playing an important role was the intensification, beginning in the 1980s, of the pace of globalization. Globalization and its supporting technologies have clearly led to a remarkable increase in transparency and to people's demand for openness and greater scrutiny. The multilateral organizations were not immune to these influences. How could one ignore or fail to see the stashing away of billions of dollars of ill-gotten wealth in secret bank accounts by the world's worst autocrats, many of them long-standing clients of these organizations?
In parallel to these developments and further raising international public awareness of corruption, the 1990s witnessed a large number of scandals involving major political figures in some form of bribery or corruption. In India and Pakistan the prime ministers were defeated largely because they were dogged by corruption charges. In South Korea two presidents were jailed following disclosures of bribery, while in Brazil and Venezuela bribery charges resulted in the presidents being impeached and removed from office. In Italy, Italian magistrates sent to jail a not insignificant number of the political class, who had ruled the country in the post-war period, and exposed the vast web of bribery that had bound together political parties and members of the business community. There was less progress in Africa but, without question, corruption became harder to hide and the new technologies of communication proved a useful ally of increasing openness and transparency.
A related development pertains to changes in the global economy, which significantly boosted the perceived importance of productivity as a primary engine of prosperity. Globalization highlighted the importance of efficiency. Countries could not hope to maintain their presence in the global economy and compete in an increasingly complex marketplace, unless they used scarce resources effectively. And the prevalence of corruption definitely detracted from this. Furthermore, business leaders began to speak more forcefully about the need for a level-playing field and the costs associated with doing business in corruption-ridden environments.
In the 1990s the United States government made efforts to keep the issue of corruption alive in its discussion with OECD partners, further raising international awareness. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 had forbidden American businessmen and corporations from bribing foreign government officials, imposing stiff penalties, including prison terms, on those engaged in the paying of illegal bribes. Because other OECD countries were not subject to such restrictions—in fact, the payment of bribes continued to be tax deductible in most other OECD countries, as a cost of doing business abroad—American companies began to complain that they were losing business to OECD competitors. Academics sifting through the data showed that following passage of the Act, U.S. business activities abroad declined substantially, as the Act had actually helped to undermine the competitive position of American firms. These developments gave considerable impetus to U.S. government efforts to persuade other OECD members to ban bribery practices and in 1997 the OECD adopted the Anti-Bribery Convention, an important legal achievement.
Also contributing to this shift in attitude was the work of Transparency International (TI) and the publication, beginning in 1993, of its now well-known Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). That corruption existed everywhere was a well-known fact. What TI showed was that some countries had been more successful than others in curtailing it. The work of TI helped greatly to focus public attention on the issue of corruption and contributed to legitimizing public discourse on issues of corruption and thus eased the transition by the multilateral organizations into doing the same.
Transparency International was soon assisted in its efforts by the international organizations themselves. At the IMF/World Bank meeting in 1996 the Bank president, James Wolfensohn, gave a speech in which he did not mince words, saying that there was a collective responsibility to deal with "the cancer of corruption." More important, Mr. Wolfensohn gave strong backing to Bank staff efforts to develop a broad range of governance indicators, including those specifically capturing the extent of corruption. This was an extremely important development because it made it possible for the Bank, through the use of quantified indicators and data, to focus attention on issues of governance and corruption while at the same time not appearing to interfere in the political affairs of its members.
While the above goes some way to explain what contributed to shift the thinking about the importance of corruption, in our next blogs we will examine three additional issues: what are the sources of corruption, what is the economic impact of corruption and what can be done about it?
There is the demand and
There is the demand and supply side of corruption. While a lot of anti-corruption initiatives focus more on the demand side mainly Public Officers the players in the supply side in most cases are untouchable. It is important we change this approach.
The purpose of most anti
The purpose of most anti-corruption laws is to catch offenders on the supply side of corruption. Too long they have been left alone with the focus on those officials demanding bribes.
Many thanks for your comments
Many thanks for your comments. We will address this issue in forthcoming blogs. Augusto
fine report, thank you. am
fine report, thank you. am looking forward to your 3 additional issues
The corruption is endemic in
The corruption is endemic in some African countries.
About this theme I´d like to offer you my latest book "Tribute to Jonathan Makeba". It´s a book about life, dead and corruption in Burkina Faso.
You can find it at www.amazon.com
Or if you prefer you can send me a email and I´ll return with the e-book.
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Many thanks. I will be happy
Thanks you very much indeed
Thanks you very much indeed for this report.
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"It was not inappropriate
"It was not inappropriate monetary policies that led to the collapse of central planning but rather widespread institutional failings, including a lethal mix of authoritarianism (i.e., lack of accountability) and corruption".
Are you kidding? Central planning was abandoned in Africa following the institution of Structural Adjustment Programs in the 80's by IMF and World Bank. That was, as you argued, the right way to run African (and South american) economies; this was in accordance with the Washington Consensus inspired by AynRand-Reagan-Thatcher-Lucas-Prescott market-oriented policies and models. You, people at World Bank, have the ingenuity to find 1000 reasons to justify even the unjustifiable. If you look at the pioneering work by Paolo Mauro, former chief of Research at the IMF, published by the Quaterly Journal of Economics (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2946696), 7 out of 12 African countries in the sample experienced in the 80's less corruption relatively to the index set by the statistics data. We already know that corruption is the new Trojan Horse used by the international organizations (IMF and World Bank) to justify their failed recommendations and policies in Africa. Let's look at what you tried since the 60's: United Nations Decade of Development 1960-1970; Industrial Development Decade for Africa 1980-1990; Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa 1991-2000; First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006); Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty 2008-2017;... Now it's the Millenium... Where are the results ? In Cameroon, corruption, as stated by judicial authorities, account for only 0.3% of total fiscal revenue of the country since 1982. Can this be the reason why this country is still poor?
Corruption was never a taboo
Corruption was never a taboo - but I think people are talking about it more because of social media and the Internet. If someone sees something wrong right now, he just takes a picture, and then puts it somewhere on his Facebook profile or his Twitter account. That wasn't the case 25 years ago (or even 10 years ago).
By the way, in some countries, corruption is socially acceptable by the people - as long as it's not affecting them directly, who cares?
I agree that the latest
I agree that the latest technologies have raised the profile of corruption and have made it more difficult to hide instances of corruption. However, on the issue of whether corruption is acceptable to some people as long as it does not affect them, the question is how does one know that its impact is circumscribed or limited? In a future blog I will comment on the consequences of corruption and you will see how pernicious and widespread it is in its effects. Augusto
Useful background. Hopefully
Useful background. Hopefully the next few articles develop what has happened since 1997 and in particular through 2 global recessions, rapid growth in developing markets, and rapid changes in the media and ICT markets. Is there some measure of overall corruption within particular industries, geographies, etc... that has been developed?
Thank you very much for
Thank you very much for highlighting the issue and the supply side effect. Your mention of Transparency International is apposite. They have been at it now for 20 years and deserve acclaim. Peter Eigen of TI refers to civil society efforts of NGO's as the necessary third leg of the 'magic triangle' in the fight against corruption reinforcing the efforts of governments and those companies who act and don't allow their people and supply chains to engage in corrupt conduct. There should be many more of them.
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MINNEAPOLIS— Yan Gomes had three hits including a home run, rookie pinch-hitter Tyler Holt hit a go-ahead two-run double in the sixth inning, and the Cleveland Indians rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins 7-5 on Tuesday night.
Oswaldo Arcia homered in his third straight game for Minnesota, capping a five-run first where Joe Mauer and Kennys Vargas also drove in runs.
However, Indians starter Trevor Bauer settled down and retired the next 14 batters before coming out for Kyle Crockett (3-0), who got the final out in the fifth and one in the sixth.
Cody Allen — the last of seven Indians relievers to appear in the game — pitched the ninth for his 16th save in 17 chances.
Holt, recalled from Triple-A Columbus before the game, got his two-out hit off reliever Brian Duensing (3-3) to put the Indians up 6-5 with his first two career RBIs.
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He's a cutie on Mad Men 😉
Pete was referencing Rich Hall who inspired Moe Szyslak. Definitely has a lot of TV credits here in Australia.
"The wheel tore the hair off that woof's face"
FYI, those metal strips put inside books to set off the alarms if they're not desensitized are called "Tattle Tape." AND we library folks know that whole "steal several books, check out ONE" trick, so good luck getting away with it now.
Speaking of libraries, I was the girl in college who researched old Consumer Reports articles about which condoms worked best and circulated copies of that article to my closest female friends. Yes, I'm a bit nerdy.
And speaking of sex, my first porno was "Young Lady Chatterley," which was VERY loosely based on the novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Glad I saw it when I did because it took a LOT of mystery out various acts I wouldn't partake in until a few years later. I distinctly remember thinking at one point, "So THAT'S how that works."
Okay, I probably shouldn't put my real name with this post. I'll just use the nickname Petie Pants gave me at one of his shows.
Oh God. The roller skating blackman just caught me sweet. This is why I listen to these podcasts – you shit gems Pete Holmes. Thanks for the laugh.
Hello everyone! Hello Pete Holmes!
I've been looking for the Jamie Lee podcast you mention in passing in a couple of episodes. Is that a real thing, or did you take it down for personal reason? Or is it ancient aliens?
I just need to know. I can't sleep. Can't eat. I NEED TO KNOW.
I'd welcome any answer from a weirdo.
The name of the Christian version of "No Fear" shirts was "Fear Not".
What a great episode! Good content but also so fun! I kept thinking of the quote, "Honesty without compassion is brutality" when you were talking about being really honest around 1:14. I'd watch Sommer Holmes 🙂
I don't know why we're not all laughing at that… 🙂
I could listen to you talk about Mad Men for an entire show. Can you add that to the Pete empire?
You Made It Mad Men?
Maybe even get Rich Sommers back every week to talk about the show for the next 6 episodes or whatever it is we have left. I love it.
Donny Drapes!!!
Loved the episode. I like this guy a lot.
Also: Garrison Keillor was never a Lutheran he just lived in a place with a lot of them. His family was a fundamentalist sect called the Brethren (I think the Closed Brethren) which is very, very conservative.
Hard Laughin at Dad's "doot-doo-doo" joke…that alone should make up for "having" to listen to a Peteyism that might bug you a little, no? I got pet peeves that are irrational too, Just Her & can sympathize with getting irked…but Pete reads comments sometimes and I am pretty sure he'd be more likely to take your advice if it weren't covered in cranky juice. Weirdo power!
i love your show but i shut it off before keep it crispy now because it gives me the shivers with its awkwardness..! i dont care if you talk over other people because you are totally you. fuck em' they know what theyre getting into (hopefully!)
For christ's sake, Pete, stop saying "rightrightright" and LET PEOPLE FINISH THEIR GODDAMN SENTENCES! Just because you understand someone's point doesn't mean they shouldn't be allow to finish it!
Rich Summers is kind of an ironic name for a guy who grew up in Minnesota.
I haven't listened yet, but between Nerdist, YMIW and Chewin' It updating as much as they do, I just want to say thanks for keeping me occupied at work. Editing video without human interaction can make it a little crazy in my head. At least now there's voices up there.


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Giant eyeball washes ashore in Pompano Beach
Giant eyeball washes ashore in Pompano Beach
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. —
Beach goers in Pompano Beach made an interesting discovery Wednesday.
A giant eyeball from a mysterious sea creature washed ashore.
Officials said no one knows what species of animal the eyeball came from, but the eyeball is bigger than a softball.
Investigators said possible animals include a giant squid, a large fish or whale.
A man spotted the eyeball and reported it to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
"He was walking along the beach and found it and thought it looked like something cool," said Carli Segelson, spokeswoman for the commission.
The eyeball was placed on ice by the wildlife officers.
It will be preserved in formalin and sent for analysis to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.


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Sam Bush says he's still learning to play the mandolin.
"There are still many things I don't know about mandolin, and I think when you stop learning, you've played enough," Bush says. "So I hope that never happens."
The multi-
His chops are matched by his innovation. Bush's nickname is the King of Newgrass. He earned the title by helping create the genre that blends traditional bluegrass with lengthy jams and cut-and-dried rock 'n' roll. Bush also adds a spirit of hippie-dippy experimentation and a spoonful of reggae to his brand of newgrass.
In the '70s and '80s, Bush led the seminal New Grass Revival, a band that reshaped bluegrass into a more youth-friendly creature. He's always been influenced by older forms of bluegrass, but Bush grew up listening to The Beatles, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones as well. "I was a sponge for all kinds of music," Bush explains. "It was all good to me."
Now he tours the country alongside his handpicked group of trusted musicians, who supply the bass, banjo, guitar and drums. Bush chips in vocals, mandolin, fiddle and electric guitar.
"Playing rhythms on the mandolin is one of the most joyful things I get to do."
Bush spoke about why he adores the mandolin, his aversion to playing alone and his fondness for riffing on Harry Caray.
Early on, you were uncomfortable with being called the King of Newgrass. How do you feel about it now?
I've become more comfortable with it. But I'm quick to point out that there was a new kind of bluegrass that was going on in the late '60s and early '70s. That's kind of why we called it New Grass Revival, because we felt like we were reviving a style that already had variated from traditional bluegrass.
I've read that Bill Monroe told you to stick to the fiddle when he saw your mandolin technique. Why do you think he gave you that advice?
It was said that Mr. Monroe, in his younger days, was a bit competitive. I don't think he wanted to see a little kid coming along playing the mandolin so good. Or, who knows, maybe when he heard me play the mandolin, what was running through his head was: Man, that guy will never get it; he'd better stick with the fiddle.
What attracts you to the mandolin?
One of the things I love the most about it is, I love playing rhythm. Playing rhythms on the mandolin is one of the most joyful things I get to do.
Have you tried anything new--in the studio or on tour--that you think could influence the next movement in bluegrass?
It's kind of hard to know that. I've played with this outrageous jazz saxophone player named Bill Evans. He got interested in the fusion of banjo, mandolin, violin and saxophone with a jazz rhythm section of bass and drums. He called it "soulgrass."
You always perform with a band. Have you ever thought about playing by yourself?
I tried it a little bit. I played three or four shows in the late '80s. To be honest, it wasn't any fun. What I enjoy most is playing with the other musicians. Sometimes after a couple of songs, I can't think of what to play if I'm not interacting with the other pickers. The greatest fun for me is to play with others and then for us to get that circle of energy going with the audience. Then, before you know it, the whole room is involved.
What's the deal with the Harry Caray impersonation on your voicemail message?
[In Harry Caray voice.] Well, hey, Simon, you're a good-looking ball player for asking. I used to hang out with guys who would try to do Harry. [Back in normal Sam Bush voice.] We'd go around the room imitating Harry after he'd say something. We had a Harry Caray jam session.


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The retirement security of educators and other hard-working Americans is under attack.
Shrinking revenues and mounting expenses are forcing state governments to aggressively seek ways to reduce spending. Some elected officials believe that changing the structure and financing of retirement plans to eliminate guaranteed benefits for educators and other public employees is one solution to the economic challenges facing many states.
Most K-12 teachers and ESPs have defined benefit pension plans, which provide modest, guaranteed benefits. We know that guaranteeing a certain level of income in retirement helps retain highly effective professionals in public education and government. Unfortunately, various groups with financial or political interests are working hard to eliminate defined benefit plans and replace them with other types of plans, which do not provide adequate benefits and may ultimately cost more.
It's vital to educate and empower educators to speak up and talk about retirement benefits for individuals and the effect they have on local economies.
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Eagle volleyball team continues to roll
Eagle girls move to No. 7 in state ratings.
Winning is always a good thing, says Brady volleyball coach Lynne Johnson.
Winning too easily, though, can put a damper on a team's drive and motivation.
The Eagles have won five straight games to improve to 9-2 on the season.
Johnson said when the victories seem to come too easily, as they did at the Arnold triangular on Sept. 15, it can be difficult to keep a team focused and driven to play hard.
Brady defeated Medicine Valley 25-21, 25-11 and then beat Arnold 25-13, 25-11.
"The girls can get a little too relaxed," Johnson said. "Right now, I'm looking for consistency."
In the first two games against Callaway Friday night, it looked as though the Eagles might handle the Bears without much challenge either.
"When our timing is clicking, we're a pretty fun team to watch," the coach said.
Brady downed Callaway 25-18, 25-7 before the Bears came to life in the third set.
"Little things can throw a team off," Johnson said. "Sometimes when you lose that rhythm, you can get back into it. Other times you just have to hope you can play well enough to pull out a win."
The Eagles recovered after losing the third set 22-25 to win the match with a 25-23 victory in the fourth set.
"I would have liked to have seen them win in three but there's always something to learn from that fourth set," Johnson said.
The Eagles travel to Eustis-Farnam on Thursday before hosting their own invite Saturday afternoon.
Games begin with Stapleton/McPherson County playing Eustis-Farnam and Anselmo-Merna against Mullen at 1 p.m.
Brady plays Arnold and Maxwell faces Wauneta-Palisade at 2 p.m.
Matches will be played in both gymnasiums with the championship game to start at approximately 7 p.m.
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SEATTLE -- A new study finds many people aren't aware they have high blood pressure and those prescribed hypertension meds are not taking them properly.
"The reality is it's called the silent killer for a reason and that is because high blood pressure is very common, and people don't recognize they have it oftentimes until something bad occurs: a stroke, a heart attack, or another complication," said Dr. Richard Krasuski, a cardiologist with the Cleveland Clinic.
Researchers from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada looked at more than 140,000 people from 17 countries, and found 40 percent of the people in the study had high blood pressure, but nearly half of them were unaware.
Of those who were aware of their hypertension, nearly 88 percent were on blood pressure medication, but only a minority of those taking meds had their blood pressure under control.
Researchers say there needs to be a renewed effort to have everyone get their blood pressure regularly checked, and Dr. Krasuski agrees.
"We have to improve awareness," he said. "We have to have people recognize that they need their blood pressure checked. They need to have preventative care. They need make sure that they're eating the proper diets, exercising and all of these other things that prevent high blood pressure."
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Sara Jane Ostergard, 85 - October 20, 2011
Sara Jane Ostergard, 85, of Gothenburg passed away Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital.
Services are planned for 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, at the First United Methodist Church with Dr. Jeff Thurman officiating. Burial will be at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
Ostergard was born July 13, 1926, on the family farm south of North Platte to Fred and Lula (Dawson) Moore. She graduated from Gothenburg High School in 1943.
She was united in marriage to Gage Ostergard on July 7, 1946, at the Antelope Baptist Church south of Gothenburg. Her husband passed away on Sept. 19, 2011.
Ostergard was employed with Union Life Insurance in Lincoln and Farmland Service Coop and Wheelers in Gothenburg.
Along with her husband, she volunteered as a Hospice care-griever, helped make noodles at the Gothenburg Senior Center, provided food for the Red Cross Bloodmobile in Gothenburg and staffed the 4-H cafe at the County Fair in Lexington.
She was a member of the Dawson County Extension Club and the Gothenburg First United Methodist Church where she was involved with the United Methodist Woman and the projects that helped the new church building.
Ostergard was preceded in death by: her parents, Fred and Lula; her husband of 65 years, Gage.
Survivors include: her daughter, Barbara Jean (Chuck) Havlicek of Manhattan, KS; sons—Steve (JoAn) of Gothenburg, Nic (Karlene) of Callaway and John (Janet) of Grand Island; four grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; a brother, Fred Moore, Jr. of Gothenburg; special nephew, Joe (Mandy) Moore; a great-niece and great-nephew of Gothenburg; numerous other relatives.
Memorials are suggested to the First United Methodist Church, 1401 Lake Ave., Gothenburg, NE, and the Dawson County 4-H Foundation.
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