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Our Page 1 story of 12-year old Teagan House highlights an organization called Hunt of a Lifetime. They offer hunting and fishing opportunities to kids up to 21 years old who suffer from a life threatening illness. Teagan has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and his muscles are deteriorating. Hunt of a Lifetime and its network of volunteers supplied everything for Teagan to become a hunter, even if just for a weekend.
The organization was started by a woman whose son's hunting dream was denied by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We have no qualms about Make-A-Wish denying a hunting dream. It seems likely that hunting doesn't fit as well with the organization's mission as, say, a trip to Disney World, It's easy to see how animal rights activists would take offense to Make-A-Wish being associated with hunting. We're sure the group doesn't want to ruffle feathers, so to speak.
Still, there are kids of all shapes and sizes out there. Some want to meet a princess and some want to hit a ball in Fenway Park… and some want to go hunting. The moose that Teagan shot was butchered and the meat given to Teagan and his family, who in turn, gave most of it to friends on a budget. That seems to be a pretty good end result.
Strafford County Sheriff Wayne Estes contacted us years ago about Hunt of a Lifetime, but the boy chosen for the hunt back then had no local connections. Anyone who reads the Rochester Times regularly knows that it is strictly a local paper. Teagan, a Rochester kid, is the first in the area to go on a "Hunt of a Lifetime," but hopefully he won't be the last.
Tell anyone you know who fits the bill about the group. Unlike a lot of nonprofits, there is no shortage of people eager to help. There were upwards of 20 volunteers helping Teagan track a moose, plus Estes and New Durham Chief of Police Shawn Bernier taught him how to handle a rifle safely. Farmington Fish and Game Club in New Durham offered honorary memberships, Thompson Center Arms gave Teagan a rifle and an off road wheelchair was donated by Chappell Tractor, of Milford.
We should mention that there are a bevy of nonprofit organizations who all want people undergoing tough times to experience something special — more than you might have imagined.
Here's a list of just some of them:
High Hopes Foundation of New Hampshire, Inc. They are dedicated to granting the wishes of New Hampshire's severely and chronically ill children between the ages of 3 and 18. Visit http://highhopesfoundation.org or call (603) 429-1010.
The Children's Happiness Foundation serves New England children, ages 3 to 18 with life-threatening or chronic degenerative diseases. Contact them at (617) 837-9609 or (800) 424-3543.
Motivating Miles Foundation, Inc. assists individuals and families facing a terminal illness to achieve acceptance, inner solace, and ensured legacy, through individualized journeys facilitating the fulfillment of lifelong desires. Visit http://motivatingmiles.org.
Benefit4Kids was founded in 1998 with its primary mission to grant the outdoor wishes of children with life threatening and life limiting illnesses. Visit www.b4k.org or call (810) 441-2579.
Challenge Air for Kids and Friends offers motivational, inspirational and life-changing experiences to physically challenged children and youth through aviation. They take children up in small planes and allow them to steer the plane for a few minutes. Visit www.challengeair.com or call (214) 351-3353 or (877) FLY-KIDS.
Children's Hopes and Dreams Foundation provides first wishes to children with life threatening illnesses. Call them at (706) 482-2248 or visit www.helpingnow.org.
Children's Wish Foundation International is dedicated to bringing joy and happiness to children with life-threatening illness around the world. This dedication has created memorable experiences for children and families in 53 countries. Online: www.childrenswish.org; or phone: (770) 393-WISH or (800) 323-WISH
The Dream Factory has chapters across the United States. It grants wishes to children with a life threatening illnesses or who are chronically ill. Visit www.dreamfactoryinc.com or call (502) 561-3001 or (800) 456-7556.
The Kids Wish Network grants first wishes. It also strives to maintain ongoing relationships with its wish kids. It has developed a funeral assistance program to assist the families of the wish kids who have passed away. Visit www.kidswishnetwork.org or call (727) 937-3600 or (888) 918-9004.
The Make a Wish Foundation grants wishes to children under the age of 18 with life-threatening illnesses. Visit www.wish.org or call (602) 279-WISH or (800) 722-WISH.
The Starlight Foundation grants wishes to seriously ill children, ages 4-18. Visit www.starlight.org/newengland or call (323) 634-0800.
A Special Wish Foundation is dedicated to granting the wishes of children from birth to the age of 21 and diagnosed as having a life-threatening disorder. This is one of the few organizations that will grant wishes to infants. Visit www.spwish.org or call (614) 575-WISH or (800) 486-WISH.
The Sunshine Foundation haso geographic boundaries. They answer dreams of seriously ill, physically challenged or abused children, ages 3 to 21. Visit www.sunshinefoundation.org or call (813) 424-4188 or (800) 457-1976.
The Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life for critically ill children and their families through three unique programs. Serving over 38,000 children each year, they have become a national leader in pediatric support services that help to ease pain, reduce loneliness and bring joy to children throughout their treatment process. Visit www.believeintomorrow.org or call (800) 933-5470.
Jason's Dreams For Kids is devoted to granting wishes to children diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. Bringing a little happiness and putting a few smiles on these children's faces is their goal — and hopefully, their parents faces, too! Visit www.jasonsdreamsforkids.com or call (732) 758-0060.
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Our Page 1 story of 12-year old Teagan House highlights an organization called Hunt of a Lifetime. They offer hunting and fishing opportunities to kids up to 21 years old who suffer from a life threatening illness. Teagan has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and his muscles are deteriorating. Hunt of a Lifetime and its network of volunteers supplied everything for Teagan to become a hunter, even if just for a weekend.


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SANFORD — A "Closed" sign hung in the window of Paras Pizza last week. Near the sign, someone had left an artificial pale yellow rose, its stem wedged between the door and the frame.
There was no notice to indicate why the popular pizzeria was closed, but word spread quickly — owner George Mitropoulos died Sunday, Oct. 14.
On another day last week, a family left a large chrysanthemum in full bloom in front of the small High Street shop, and on another day someone placed small candles on the sidewalk in front of the building.
George Mitropoulos was the "heart and soul of Paras Pizza," said his obituary. He owned and operated the business in Sanford for 44 years.
"He was definitely a fixture in this community," said Sanford resident Joe Duty, who called the Sanford News to talk about Mitropolous.
Duty, who grew up in Sanford, recalled that when he was a police officer years ago, and working the night shift, Mitropoulos would sometimes call the station before he closed and request that a cruiser come by. When the officer arrived, Mitropoulos would say he had a couple of pizzas left over and wanted to give them to "the gang," Duty recalled.
Duty said he and his fellow officers knew Mitropoulos didn't have any pizza left over, that he was being generous and had made the pies just for them.
"He was a wonderful man," said David Searles, who was walking on High Street last week and stopped to talk to a reporter in front of the shop. Searles said he lived on Mousam Street as a child, about a block from the 8 School Street shop that was home to Paras Pizza for 37 years.
"When I was a little kid, he would let me go behind the counter and take pickles," Searles recalled. "He would always greet you with a smile."
"He knew my whole family," Searles said, adding that Mitropoulos often gave his nephews a free soda or a cup of olives when they stopped in.
Mitropoulos grew up in Greece, the youngest of seven sons, according to a 1997 Sanford News article by Ann Fisher. He married his wife Stella in 1957 in Kalamata, Greece, and they moved to the United States. They settled in Dover, N.H., where he became a barber. While living in Dover, Mitropoulos told Fisher, he learned the art of making pizza from a friend and fellow Greek, Ernest Paras, of York Beach, whom he referred to as "the pizza man."
In 1968, Mitropoulos bought Paras Pizza on School Street in Sanford. He made his crust from scratch, grew his own tomatoes and made his own sauce using Paras' recipe.
When the School Street building was gutted by a fire in March of 2005, Mitropoulos' son Peter and his wife, Michelle, bought the building at 45 High Street and Paras Pizza reopened in July.
George continued to make pizza and passed his knowledge and recipes on to his son and daughter-in-law, who began to take on more responsibility in recent years.
Up until two weeks before he died, he continued to work at the shop, greeting and talking to customers when he could no longer make pizza.
"That's what used to get him up and out of bed in the morning," Michelle said this week.
Spending time with his customers was one of the things he enjoyed most about the business.
"It wasn't always about making money," said Sanford businessman Fred Smith during a visit to the Sanford News office this week. "There are very few people of that calibre around these days," Smith said of Mitropoulos.
Smith said Mitropoulos always stepped forward and didn't hesitate to help when help was needed by a local non-profit.
The certificates and thank-you notes on the walls of the pizzeria are a testament to his generosity, and the entries in the online guest book connected to Mitropoulos' obituary on Tasker Funeral Home's website are a testament to the many lives he touched.
On Wednesday, Oct. 24, there were 95 such entries. Most were written by people from Sanford and surrounding towns, and from southern New Hampshire. But there were also entries from North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Texas and California.
"George and his wonderful pizza were a part of our 40 years in Maine. For all the time our children were young, George's pizza was a Sunday night ritual. He was a dear man and will be sadly missed. Our condolences to his family and staff," wrote Kathy and Lew Fink, of Sanford.
Jim Meunier, also of Sanford, wrote: "As I purchased the last pizza of the night Sunday, little did I know that it was truly the end of an era and that a great friend and treasure to the community was gone."
And this message was left by Carl Baron, of Grapevine, Texas: "George will truly be missed. Though I moved away ten years ago, I always looked forward to being greeted by George, 'Carl, you are home,' when I entered the front door to pick up my order. My first date with my wife in 1969 was at Paras Pizza, and George made it special. George was a kind soul and a true gentleman. The town of Sanford has lost a landmark, and I, as well as many others, will miss him."
Community mourns loss of Paras Pizza's 'heart and soul' George Mitropolous was a friendly and familiar face in town for more than 40 years
SANFORD — A "Closed" sign hung in the window of Paras Pizza last week. Near the sign, someone had left an artificial pale yellow rose, its stem wedged between the door and the frame.


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Anything scribed by Dahl is sure to be a hit, and this book just proves how amazing he is! James embarks on a mission away from his cruel aunts alongside his giant peach and the insects that it holds. It will be a big hit amongst the younger audiences, and the film adaptation is a great accompaniment. With happiness and grief mixed into one, this a children's book that allows the reader to experience it all!
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As always, Roald Dahl spins the most fantastic wonderful tales for children and James and the Giant Peach is up there with his greatest ones. It is also a wonderful animated film. Don't deprive your children of fantastic stories such as this one - there are one in a million!.
After reading The Twits and James and the Giant Peach, I discovered that Roald Dahl has a unique a style in his writing. It is a good style and I like it when he uses weird words like whizzpopping or natterbox. I found it funny when Roald was describing James's aunt Ms. Sponge. "She was like a great white soggy overboiled cabbage".
This book is the best book ever and I like the bugs because they are nice. I like also like James because he is very smart.
This book is a good book. James finds a peach, well something. and it won;t stop growing
I loved reading this book with my 11 year old daughter. The characters are fun, the story is engaging and the 'poems' are enjoyable to say out loud.
As a fifteen year old I still found myself loving this book and reading it at a quick pace, bringing it wherever I went. What I liked the most about the book was how Roald Dahl never left out the strange, scary, gory details. He wanted kids to experience all aspects of life, all the laughter and happiness, but also the sadness, grief and horror that can be strung along. Great book - I'd recommend for any age!
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Very nice book but has one bad word in it (that's why I think its for older kids) but still one of my favorite story's.(Fantasy adventure.)
James Henry trotter goes into a giant peach and there is oversized bugs in the peach, one of the bugs bit the stem off the tree and the peach rolled into the ocean,james harnessed seagulls to make them fly with the peach into the air and they landed in New york city . by michael
A little boy named James has to live with his two evil aunts after his parents die and they treat him horribly. One day a giant peach grew from their, once barren, peach tree, and James found a hole in it big enough for him to climb through. He made it to the seed of the peach and met his newfound friends that he traveled from England to America with on a very interesting journey.
I have finished the book called, "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl a fantasy book. The central idea or main idea is that James is the protagonist. He lives with his aunt. He had some magical crystals. Then one night he dropped the magical crystals on an old tree and the tree transformed into a giant peach! Then James went to look for an entrance into the peach. When he had crawled inside he found Grasshopper, Ladybug, Centipede, Spider, Worm and more. When the stem of the peach broke off it rolled all the way down there Spider had to come up and spider web the seagulls otherwise they would all sink and die! With the seagulls help and the Spiders help they have survived. Later the seagulls drop them off at the top of the Empire state building, at the top. The cops were at the base and 3 of them fainted. What will happen next?


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AT&T Inc is planning to announce on Wednesday that it will expand its Latin American reach for business customers through a collaboration with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil.
AT&T will be able to do business in 15 countries, including Argentina, Chile and Colombia, through connections with America Movil networks, according to a representative for AT&T.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The deal will also extend AT&T's reach to Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
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2009 Pontiac G8 Reviews and Ratings
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The Pontiac G8 is a modern muscle car, with rear-wheel drive and a snarly V8. Under full-throttle acceleration, the new GXP model reminds us of a Corvette, pasting us into the back of the seat as a guttural roar comes from under the hood. In fact, the high-performance GXP is powered by a Corvette engine.
Bigger than the Mustang and Camaro pony cars, the G8 is a four-door like the Dodge Charger. It's smaller than the Charger or Ford Taurus, however, with exterior dimensions close to those of the Cadillac CTS and BMW 5 Series.
The G8 is attractive, smooth and muscular with an unmistakably Pontiac nose. The interior is comfortable and tidy, with good instrumentation and nice materials. The back seat is reasonably roomy and the trunk is big. The standard cloth seats are excellent. Leather is optional, and the 11-speaker Blaupunkt audio upgrade sounds great. The G8 has a comprehensive list of passive and active safety features, including head-protection airbags, electronic stability control, and GM's OnStar telematics system. We found everything in the G8 melds together nicely.
The G8 comes with a 256-hp V6, the same engine found in the brilliant Cadillac CTS. There's adequate power from the V6 engine. The base model lacks the verve of the GT model, however, partly because its five-speed automatic is less responsive. Still, it costs $3,400 less than the GT, and it delivers better fuel economy, earning an EPA rating of 17/25 mpg City/Highway.
The G8 GT features a 361-horsepower V8 that's smooth and responsive at any speed, and it makes for the most powerful sedan in this price range. Step on the gas: The thrill starts at the hood scoops, passes through the seat of the pants and spills from the GT's four stainless-steel exhaust tips as the countryside disappears rapidly in the rearview mirror. The GT's six-speed automatic is one of the smoothest, quickest shifting transmissions anywhere. Its handling character is taut, and its ride is comfortably firm. Thanks to GM's Active Fuel Management cylinder-deactivation technology, mileage isn't bad either, for such a powerful car. The GT delivers up to 24 mpg highway.
For 2009, the high-performance G8 GXP joined the lineup, powered by the same engine as the standard Corvette sports car. GM's 6.2-liter LS3 V8 generates upwards of 400 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque, and the GXP adds other performance upgrades, including an advanced Brembo brake system. It's hot. On a track it would be fantastic. Around town it feels like a muscle car. Order the GXP with the high-performance Tremec six-speed manual gearbox, and the clutch and strong torque conspire to make cruising around the neighborhood smoothly a bit of a challenge.
The G8 is Pontiac's first rear-wheel drive sedan in 20 years. It replaced the Grand Prix in the Pontiac line-up. We have Australia to thank for the Pontiac G8. It's built there by Holden, a division of General Motors, and is sold as the Commodore SS. It's been one Australia's favorites for years, and GM has had a long time to perfect it. North American shoppers seeking an engaging sports sedan with classic V8 thrust can now reap the benefits.
The G8 was launched as a 2008 model. For 2009, XM satellite radio hardware and Bluetooth connectivity come standard on all models.
The 2009 Pontiac G8 is available in three variants, distinguished primarily by engine size and horsepower.
The base G8 ($28,190) features a 3.6-liter, dual-overhead-cam V6, with 256 horsepower and 248 pound-feet of torque, and a five-speed automatic transmission. It comes with cloth upholstery, a full complement of power features, including seats, a seven-speaker sound system with single CD and auxiliary input jack, and 18-inch aluminum wheels. For 2009, XM satellite radio and Bluetooth connectivity for mobile phones have been added to the standard-equipment list.
The G8 GT ($31,555) upgrades to a 6.0-liter V8, generating 361 horsepower and 385 pound-feet of torque, and a six-speed automatic. The cam-in-block V8 features GM's Active Fuel Management technology, which switches from eight-cylinder to four-cylinder operation during light-load driving conditions to improve fuel economy. The GT also adds dual-zone automatic climate control and upgraded Blaupunkt audio with 11 speakers and six-CD changer.
Options are few. The Comfort and Sound Package ($795) for the base model adds dual-zone climate control and the stereo upgrade, bringing interior features up to GT specification. The Premium Package for the G8 ($1,375) and GT ($1,250) includes leather upholstery and heated front seats with more adjustment. A Sport Package for the GT ($600) adds sport pedals and 19-inch wheels with summer performance tires. Stand alone options are limited to a power sunroof ($900) and all-season tires for the 19-inch wheel package ($150).
The G8 GXP ($37,610) is powered by a 402-hp, 6.2-liter LS3 V8 and comes with the six-speed automatic. The GXP adds other performance upgrades, including a more aggressively tuned suspension and Brembo brake system. A six-speed Tremec manual transmission is optional.
Safety features on all G8s includes frontal airbags and side-impact airbags for front passengers, with curtain-type head protection airbags front and rear. Active safety systems include full-feature ABS, traction control and electronic stability control. There's also a tire-pressure monitor. The standard OnStar package includes a one-year subscription to the Safe and Sound accident reporting service, which will direct emergency crews to your location should the airbags deploy.
The G8 may be the largest sedan in Pontiac's line, but it's not as big as traditional domestic full-size cars. Nor is it as big as current full-size models such as the Ford Taurus, and it has a much shorter wheelbase than the Chrysler 300 or Dodge Charger.
The shape of the Pontiac G8 seems exactly what it should be: muscular but smooth, edgy but reasonably subtle. Its styling should appeal to both exes and pretty much all ages. The G8 is unmistakably a Pontiac, especially from the front, with the signature split black grille and hood scoops. The scoops, though, are restrained, almost slits, as opposed to big bulges There's a spilt air intake, also in black, at the bottom of the front fascia. With the angled headlamps and front fender flares, everything is nicely balanced and just aggressive enough.
There's another set of openings in the front fenders, visible in side view right behind the wheels. The one on the left fender is a functioning air intake, while the right side is there merely to match the left. The G8's roofline sweeps enough to disguise the fact it has four doors, and the hips above the back fenders lift fairly high, flowing into a tidy spoiler. The G8 GT and GXP feature clear taillight lenses with four polished exhaust tips, while the base G8 has red lenses and two tips.
The wheels are 18-inch and 19-inch wheels are conservative, with either single, monoblock spokes or split twin-spokes. The wheels on the GXP are flashier.
The Pontiac G8 interior is attractive and nicely finished. The base G8 and the standard cloth interior in the G8 GT are similar. The GT has a bit more faux brushed aluminum trim, and it's tastefully done. The GXP distinguishes itself with two-tone sport seats featuring GXP embroidery and a color-coordinated gauge cluster.
All G8s come with XM Satellite Radio hardware and Bluetooth capability as standard equipment. The XM comes with a complimentary three-month subscription, but the owner will pay for the service after that. Bluetooth connectivity is integrated into the OnStar system and allows hands-free phone calls through your existing cell phone.
The seats are comfortable and power adjustable, four ways in the base G8 and six ways in the GT and GXP. The GT we tested had the optional leather seats, and they were good-looking in black. The seats offer good support for sporty driving. The GXP's sport seats offer more side bolster support for very hard driving, but they're harder to slide in and out of and they feel narrower.
Instrumentation is good, although not without flaws. There's a digital battery/oil pressure gauge in the center of the dash that's unattractive and not particularly useful, and the digital gear indicator is too small to read. The speedometer and tachometer are big enough, easy to read, and appropriate to the performance character of the G8.
The power window buttons are located on the console between the seats. Some drivers will like them there. We don't. They are more difficult to locate quickly without looking than door-mounted window switches, but they do allow the front passenger to operate all the windows, too, rather than just the front-passenger window. The emergency brake handle has been designed not to take up space, and is designed to mimic the grab handle on the right. However, like other similar designs the disguised hand brake can pitch your fingers when lowered, a good way to anger a harried driver.
The rear seats offer good legroom and decent head room. The driveshaft tunnel doesn't intrude too much in the center, either. There are heating and A/C vents in the rear doors, which also have good storage pockets. The front seatbacks have nets, which make easy storage for magazines, discs or plastic bottles.
Trunk access is wide and lift-over height is reasonable. The G8 boasts provides 17.5 cubic feet of cargo space, a foot or two more than most comparably sized competitors.
From the driver's perspective, the Pontiac G8 has lots of strengths and no glaring weaknesses. From the passenger's perspective, it's quiet and comfortable. From the driver's seat, the G8 feels smaller than it is, and that's a compliment. We'd call the G8 a sports sedan, at least from the mid-line GT upward. Next to the Cadillac CTS, it's the best performance-oriented four-door General Motors has introduced in years.
The 3.6-liter V6 in the G8 is same engine as that used the Cadillac CTS. It has dual overhead cams with continuously variable valve timing, and delivers 256 horsepower and 248 pound-feet of torque at a low 2100 rpm. The acceleration is good, but the exhaust note is raspy and not very pleasing when you're hard on the throttle. On the freeway at steady light throttle, the V6 is quiet.
What we liked least about the G8 V6 was its five-speed automatic transmission. The combination simply lacks the range and overall responsiveness of the GT's V8 and six-speed automatic. We got some good miles in the base G8, over twisty roads suited for sporty driving, and in Sport mode the transmission kept kicking down multiple gears like crazy. All it really did was make the car feel rougher than it is in Cruise mode.
Further, the suspension on the base G8 doesn't have the same taut feel as that on the GT. The G8 V6 is designed for drivers who love the style but don't need lots of performance. The V6 model is less aggressive in every respect. It gets better fuel economy than the V8 and it runs on regular fuel. The G8 V8 models require premium to achieve full power.
Before the GXP came out, the mid-line G8 GT was one of best performers in the class and we found it to be an enjoyable car to drive.
We drove the GT on one of our favorite roads, from San Diego to Borrego Springs, California, with little traffic, good visibility and the desert in full bloom. We finished without a single gripe about the performance of the G8 GT in areas that matter most: engine, transmission, suspension, brakes. The GT's 6.0-liter cam-in-block engine makes 361 horsepower and 385 pound-feet of torque. The torque peaks at a fairly high 4400 rpm, but the engine doesn't feel peaky all. Overall, the GT feels trim.
Before introduction of the new G8 GXP, the GT already had more power than any production Pontiac in history (take that, you Firebird Trans-Am Ram Air big honkin' hood scoop muscle cars). Yet the GT is totally tame until you want to use that power. Then it will accelerate from 0 to 60 in 5.1 seconds and knock off the quarter-mile in 13.8, according to Pontiac. And with all the torque on tap, the engine just lopes through places and situations that require other sedans to take a harder swing.
The 6.0-liter V8 features GM's Active Fuel Management technology, which allows it to operate as a four-cylinder under light loads: When cruising at a steady 60 mph, for example. The switch between four- and eight-cylinder operation is usually imperceptible, and it edges the GT up to its EPA rating of a combined 20 mpg. That's impressive for 360 horsepower, and it was unthinkable just a few years ago. We averaged 16.2 miles per gallon in our test GT, with a little freeway mixed into hard two-lane running for a couple of hours.
Maybe the best thing about the G8 GT is its six-speed automatic transmission. Pontiac has joined the slim ranks of the savvy by making a tight-shifting automatic with manual control that's absolutely faithful to the driver's commands. It makes sport driving a pleasure in the GT.
There are three modes for Pontiac's Driver Shift Control transmission: Cruise, Sport and Manual. Cruise is fully automatic; Sport is automatic with more aggressive shift points, and Manual is, totally, manual. In Manual, the transmission will short shift, or upshift under hard throttle below redline. Sometimes that's a useful and smooth technique, and far too many manually shifted automatic transmissions are programmed to disallow it. The thinking (by some engineer, somewhere) seems to be that hard throttle means full speed means full revs. No, not necessarily. The G8 GT transmission employs rev matching for smoother downshifting, and the revs are just right. There are rational limits to the manual control, however: It won't let you downshift if the lower gear would cause the engine to over-rev, but it will allow you to reach redline and stay there. It won't upshift for you, in manual mode, unless you move the shift lever yourself. The G8 doesn't offer the steering-wheel mounted paddle shifters often used with transmissions of this type, but we didn't miss them. And for fully automatic shifting, the Sport mode is actually useful. Some aren't, because they just make the power delivery jerky. Cruise mode is true, too, for smooth cruising. You don't feel each downshift at every red light and stop sign. This transmission understands gliding, and that may be what we like best. For all its sporting characteristics and effectiveness when shifted manually, the G8 GT's transmission can be as smooth and comfortable as any luxury car's when the driver is just plodding along. The GT transmission is the same one used in GXP, and it's so effective that we might take it over the optional manual, even if we didn't drive in traffic.
The GT's suspension is firm enough, too, and its handling is tight, but the ride is never uncomfortable. This as much as anything distinguishes it from Pontiac's previous efforts to build a sports sedan, and it's a function of good development work. The steering rack is mounted forward of the front axle, which Pontiac engineers say improves response. The engine sits low and rearward in the chassis cradle, and little tricks like a rear-mounted battery helped balance the car to a 50:50 weight distribution front-rear. The G8's body is built with 80 percent high-strength steel, which allows the suspension to do its job well and helps control interior vibration.
We found the handling confident, precise and sharp. The electronic stability control is tuned like that on some of the best European sport sedans. During our hard drive to Borrego Springs, the stability control activated maybe three times, and at just at the right times, as when the rear wheels began bouncing slightly from the road surface. In that situation, some systems will cut the throttle so much the car falls on its nose and makes you curse. Not so with the G8 GT, which cuts the throttle just for a split second and then lets you continue to drive the car.
We found the ride quality of the GT excellent. Compared to the Mercedes C63 AMG, a $50,800 challenger to the BMW M3 we tested on Arizona back roads the day before we drove the Pontiac, the G8 GT's ride is more pleasing, lacking all harshness. Yet despite the general comfort we never hit a spot where the G8 GT felt in over its head, as in being too soft in a hard corner. And we tried to find that spot.
The GXP is the hottest model and can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 4.7 seconds, says Pontiac, with a quarter-mile run of 13.0 seconds at 108 mph. That makes the GXP one of the quickest sedans in its price range. The GXP is powered by GM's LS3 V8, which also serves as the base engine in the Chevy Corvette. While the GT comes with a 6.0-liter engine, the GXP gets a 6.2-liter V8. The GXP is rated at 402 horsepower, 402 pound-feet of torque. The GXP also adds more performance goodies, including a standard limited-slip differential and 19-inch summer performance tires, and it's available with a six-speed manual transmission. Fuel economy is an EPA-estimated City/Highway 13/20 mpg, landing the GXP a federal Gas Guzzler Tax of $1,700, which you'll need to add to the price.
We like manual transmissions and the Tremec six-speed manual in the GXP shifts nicely. We grew tired of it around town, however. The relatively heavy clutch pedal and strong engine torque conspired to produce a jerky ride around town; it demanded attention and skill to drive smoothly and we weren't always in the mood for this. For around town use, we'd prefer the automatic.
Pontiac developed the GXP suspension on Germany's famous Nurburgring open-road race course. It's firmer than the GT suspension but we didn't find it harsh around town.
We used the brakes on the GT good and hard, and never reached a point were they got hot enough to start losing stopping power. The vented rotors are big, and they meet the high performance standard set by the engine, transmission and suspension.
The GXP offers larger rotors still, with lightweight aluminum calipers provided by Brembo. The advantages here are resistance to fade after repeated hard usage and more powerful braking to take advantage of the upgraded tires.
The Pontiac G8 succeeds with rear-wheel-drive performance, style, four doors and plenty of room. If the style, space and comfort is all you seek, the base G8 is a good choice, gets better fuel economy and runs on Regular gas. Our preference was for the GT model. We enjoyed its powerful V8. It handles well yet offers good ride quality. The GXP is fun, but not ideal for commuters in metro areas, especially with the manual gearbox.
Sam Moses filed this report to NewCarTestDrive.com after his test drive of the G8 models in Southern California. J.P. Vettraino contributed from Detroit. Editor Mitch McCullough drove the GXP model in Los Angeles.


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April 25, 2006 - Enterprise Networks vs. Cisco Vulnerabilities
by Paul Proctor
First, some context. I've been in security for 20 years and started my career as a kernel programmer. However, at Gartner, my job is to serve large enterprise clients (revenue $1B and up). It's fun to play both sides with technical knowledge and the big, strategic business context but let me be up front about one thing; I gave up my hands on technical skills long ago and now I talk for a living.
When the Cisco vulnerability story first broke I was immediately drawn to the impact on enterprises. The fear and loathing that comes with someone owning your routing infrastructure was the perfect juxtaposition with the fact that few of our clients update their networking devicesever.
Many of our clients didn't understand the 2-stage nature of the attack and thought IPV6 was the problem. Cisco is responding but much of their response affects internal devices and not the precious edge devices. The best news of all is that the fear that major Internet backbone systems would be taken over by these types of threats is not as bad as I originally thought. The multi-million dollar devices that run the backbone are already protected. The bad news is that the biggest problem is going to be getting large enterprises to act differently and treat networking devices like vulnerable, patchable platforms.
The following are some excerpts from an upcoming Gartner research note advising our enterprise clients to get their act together because this time it's for real.
It has been proven that Cisco IOS can be vulnerable to remote shell exploitation. While Cisco has been responsive to initial vulnerabilities organizations must develop and adhere to Cisco IOS security maintenance practices
Organizations have traditionally had great confidence that IOS was not vulnerable to remote shell exploitation but one demonstrated case showed that it was possible. This was a two-stage vulnerability for which Cisco offered a corrected versions on all affected versions of IOS for the first known stage on August 11, 2005 and for the second stage on November 2, 2005. Another vulnerability that could lead to a remotely accessible shell was reported in November 2005.
Cisco's modular operating system ION (Q106 planned) makes it easier to patch certain subsystems without a reload but ION will only run on the 6500 series through 2006. ION is an internal name. The external name will be ModularIOS.
Cisco is working on full IOS In-Service-Software-Upgrade (ISSU) functionality to support reloading IOS without service interruption. This is particularly important for upgrading edge routers that point at or within the service provider cloud. Initial deliveries of ISSU, beginning on the Catalyst 12000, are projected by Cisco to be Q206.
IOS xR is patchable to an even finer granularity than ION but will only run on Cisco's Carrier Routing System 1 routers (CRS-1 routers), as well as the Catalyst 12000, which are largely not applicable to enterprise networks
Cisco should continue to make all versions of IOS more manageable to patch/upgrade by porting modular IOS to all supported hardware architectures and continuing to make improvements in the in service upgrade capabilities of IOS.
Cisco should enhance their existing patch/upgrade program for IOS to match other software vendors including the separation of security and functional enhancements. Cisco should create a special designation for vulnerabilities that may lead to remotely accessible shells.
The second stage is the execution of the underlying vulnerability in the timer nodes of a linked list used for memory management in the IOS kernel. It is through this second stage where it becomes possible to execute a remotely accessible privileged shell in IOS. The attacker must know specific code offsets which are unique to each build of monolithic IOS and dependent on the architecture of the device on which it is running making for hundreds of possible code offsets.
Cisco has closed this known vulnerability in the IOS kernel and expresses confidence that the vault is now secure. Gartner believes that the IOS kernel is considerably more difficult to exploit than [the user level] code in IOS but that other kernel vulnerabilities will be found. Given the increased focus on Cisco IOS in the underground community Gartner predicts that more vulnerabilities that may lead to remotely accessible shells will be found in IOS by YE06. The second vulnerability was found within 6 months of disclosure of the first.
Organizations need to put these threats into perspective without underestimating the ramifications. This is very hard to execute for a variety of reasons but the severity of a successful attack and that fact that other exploits are likely to be found makes it something organizations should address in a timely manner.
The monolithic nature of traditional IOS where a patch required a new binary image resulted in over 850 discrete production builds of IOS over 20-30 product families. This situation raises the complexity of IOS management in most large enterprises. Most enterprises are not able to keep track of which build is running on each of their hundreds or thousands of networking devices. Cisco has gone through a streamlining process to reduce the number of IOS versions about 75% from 850 discrete builds to about 150 discrete builds by YE05. Despite the reduction in IOS builds, most large organizations find themselves running dozens of different IOS versions in their network.
To address the full image replacement and reboot issue Cisco has created two new modular versions of IOS based on the Neutrino micro-kernel called ION and IOS-xR. The Neutrino kernel supports modularity by decoupling router operation from the control plane to allow patching a running IOS without full image replacement and reboot. ION is intended for enterprise use and IOS xR is for high-end carrier-class devices
ION will be supported on 6500 series devices in Q106 (planned). According to Cisco, the 6500 series represents about 50% of enterprise switching devices overall and the vast majority of enterprise switches in the Fortune 500 that Cisco sells. Cisco is also delivering IONized MPLS and IPv6 which will be leveraged by 6500 series deployments in the Service Provider segment. There are no plans to support older devices through 2006.
Another new feature in ION is an interpreted scripting language to identify simple situations and to allow the router itself to respond. It uses measures such as buffers, CPU utilization, and access control list information to provide heuristics that an enterprise can use to dynamically adjust the behavior of the device.
While ION will help the upgrade problem it's not a fix for the routers that are most prone to attack from the outside. The 6500 is a core switching platform and will be inside the firewall. Outside attacks will be against the 17xx, 18xx, 26xx, 28xx and 38xx series of branch office routing platforms that are often connected to the Internet. Cisco is working on full IOS In-Service-Software-Upgrade (ISSU) functionality to support reloading IOS without service interruption. Initial deliveries of ISSU are projected by Cisco to be Q206 but it is unclear which platforms will be supported.
Gartner recommends that organizations upgrade to modular IOS over the next year and develop more mature processes to address network device patching. To begin with, enterprises should familiarize themselves with Cisco's disclosure process and subscribe to and review Cisco vulnerability disclosures. This is a shift in perspective for most organizations. Network device patching will likely remain more challenging than server operating system patching but organizations need to move towards improved vulnerability management processes. Some Gartner clients have not upgraded IOS in over 5 years on certain devices. This is unacceptable given the changing threats against IOS, especially on edge routers.
Neutrino is not inherently less secure than monolithic IOS, but the ramifications of a successful exploit are more significant. With fixed code offsets, all builds of IOS look the same to the exploit code. In a worst case, a successful exploit may be able to spread like a worm through many devices which is highly unlikely with monolithic IOS. Gartner believes that modularity to support a mature patching process is appropriate and worth this risk but clients need to understand it.
According to Cisco, ION (run-time ModularIOS) supports position-independent code where memory offsets can still vary depending upon the actual build or release of code still making it difficult to derive any consistent entry points.
IOS xR however is more vulnerable to this threat but xR only runs in very high end devices (CSR-1, 12000) in carrier environments. Relatively few of these have shipped, they exist in critical high availability environments and they are patched very aggressively. Cisco does not plan to port IOS xR into enterprise class devices.
Cisco should remain aware of this code-offset issue and continue to minimize the threat of rapidly spreading malware. However, enterprises need to be aware of this trend and use this as further motivation to more aggressively patch IOS in the future.
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While we would all love to see bug-free code in our critical applications, we must recognize the reality that we are a long way off from security nirvana. One pragmatic way to make it through until transcendence is to find ways to reliably identify unexpected behavior in our systems as it occurs, and automatically deploy counter-measures. Tzi-cker Chiueh and Stefano Zanero promise to push the state-of-the-art to new levels in the field of software anomaly detection. Their approaches are a bit different from each other, so we hope these presentations will give attendees a lot to chew on and compare/contrast. I really hope to see deployable systems based on the work of these two very bright gentlemen in the near future..... read more
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MIdrum 2 X2
The drummachine of the Anushri by Mutable Instruments is great. Olivier Gillet later expanded on it with his Grids.
My MIdrum is the concept of these generative drums, translated into a compact midi-drummachine.
MIdrum is a rythmmachine outputting midi. A good explanation of the generative principle kan be found in the Manual of Grids.
Compared to my original MIdrum, two things have changed:
- This second version is based on Grids (hence the 2).
- Interpolate between 25 drumpatterns
- 32nd note step resolution
Just to be absolutely clear: the idea of generative eigendrums is not mine. I just thankfully use ideas and code by Olivier Gillet of Mutable Instruments.
This version has 6 drum-channels.
The 12 faders and pots control channel specific parameters in groups of 2.
The first fader sets the Density for channel 1 (BD), the pot above adds to that a random amount.
The second fader scales the velocity for this first channel. The pot above selects the midi note number.
The first 3 channels are the same as those in Grids. The second 3 channels are derived from the first 3 by calculating their density based on the density of the first 3:
- Density 4 = ( Density 1 + Density 2 ) / 2
- Density 5 = ( Density 1 + Density 3 ) / 2
- Density 6 = ( Density 2 + Density 3 ) / 2
4bit turning switch to select* Midi channel: 1=1; A = 10; 0 = 16
- Led tempo [off / on]
- Midi thru [off / on]**
- Midi sync int messages(Clock+Start+Stop) thru to Midi-out [off / on]
- Midi sync [ext / int]
Top Red pushbutton: reads and *activates the switches above. It also sends CC#120 (All sound off).
Black pushbutton = Stop: MIDI sync: Stop
Grey/white pushbutton = Start: MIDI sync: Start
Bottom Red pushbutton = Tap: after tapping 4 times a new taptime is calculated. This new taptime will only be implemented after pressing Start once. So, while the MIdrum is running or not, you can tap 4 times to get the new tempo and press play once to update this new tempo.
** Midi thru will try to merge incoming midi messages with the generated drums (and clock) and repeat them on the midi out. This will work for simple note on and off messages, but as soon as continous messages are received the internal midi-clock will suffer severely.
Left Pot = Modwheel. [updated 48 times per quarter note]
Right Pot = Groove: 12 o'clock: straight, turn counterclockwise for 16T, turn clockwise for 8T [updated every quarter note]
Left fader = X & Right fader = Y: select a position on the drummap. [updated every step]
Led: visual bar and beat indicator for your non-midi-syncable-bandmate: Bar=Red & Beat=Green
Control board (8 x 16 cm)
- 12 Pots
- 12 Faders
- 1 switch 4bit
- 1 Dipswitch 4bit
- 4 buttons
- 2 Pots
- 2 faders
Motherboard (10 x 19 cm)
- 2x 4067 (beneath Control board)
- 6n137
- 1 two color led
- Arduino Nano V3.0
- bridge rectifier
The adapter input is standard guitar pedal format accepting anything about 9Vdc any polarity, it even functions at about 9Vac, just make sure the LM7805 doesn't get fingerburning hot (fingerwarming hot is ok).
MIdrum at Github
This page is presented for my personal enjoyment. I hope this page will also be an inspiration for diy-ers all over the world. This page is not meant to be a manual, so please don't contact me for guidance or support.
Thank you and enjoy.


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D10: How LinkedIn Differs From Other Social Networks
At the AllThingsD conference Wednesday afternoon, LinkedIn co-founder and executive chairman Reid Hoffman and CEO Jeff Weiner talked about how the professional social networking site, which now has 161 million members, is changing. The company aims to connect talent and opportunity at an unprecedented scale, and continues to evolve to do more and more.
Above: Swisher, Weiner, and Hoffman
So how is LinkedIn different from other social networks? "LinkedIn is not about passing time; it's about saving time," Weiner said. It's increasingly the way entrepreneurs will seek finance, investors will seek deals, researchers will seek information, and salespeople will close deals, he added.
The company does have APIs that allow people to add applications on top of LinkedIn, but its platform approach is more focused on those that connect LinkedIn with other sites, such as for publishing content and applying for a job.
Hoffman didn't think of the site as "Facebook for professionals" (in the words of conference host Kara Swisher) when it started because Facebook didn't exist then. Rather, the site considers itself a professional network. It can be very successful for job placement, but can also be much more.
LinkedIn is in the business of helping organizations hire, market, and sell. The focus now includes making things simpler, with innovations like its new iPad application; continuing to grow by branching out to other countries and offering new languages; improving its hiring and marketing solutions for companies and premium subscriptions for individuals; and trying to get people to use the site throughout the day. One way it tries to do that is with LinkedIn Today, which puts relevant headlines in front of people.
The company's most recent acquisition, SlideShare, is its largest one ever, and was bought to help expand the tools the company offers to professionals. However, the company is focused very much on building products, not just buying them, said Hoffman. It is interested in things that can help extend the platform and make it more useful.
The LinkedIn platform is part of a process that now has people in "permanent beta" and "reinventing themselves," Hoffman said.
Hoffman, who concentrates on long-term success, only checks the stock price about once a month. Its IPO was a stepping stone in the evolution of the company, but not an end itself, Weiner added. He agreed the company is focused on executing the vision of the company rather than on the stock price.
Silicon Valley is too quick to move on to new trends, in Hoffman's opinion, and he still believes in social as a trend. He made his last two investments in a social greetings company and a social network aimed at K-12.
Weiner sees "the search operating system, the social operating system, and the media operating system as converging, since they all are making their money on advertising." He believes Yahoo, where he used to work, is well positioned in all three markets.
Hoffman thinks Silicon Valley is too quick to see companies as "heroes and demons," citing that Yahoo has more than 700 million active monthly users and lots of potential. Both think interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is the right person to lead Yahoo.
At LinkedIn, Weiner finds it important to focus on doing a few things well. The most important things to the company today are growth, and the "bulls-eye" is "professional identity." From there, he said, the company can expand out to adjacent areas.
Asked by the audience about how technology could help to reduce unemployment, Weiner mentioned improving K-12 education and vocation education, opening up the H1-B process, and using technology in better ways.
Hoffman is a fan of the "dual class" style of stockholding that has recently become popular in Silicon Valley because it allows people like him to take a long-term view.


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I am 15 and have been foolin around/ half ..........in with a few compilers. I am taking an actual computer programming class next year and I am really interested in it. I was wondering if any of u can help me. I have read a bunch of recommended books and I need help putting them into action.
I can do really simple basic stuff but I dont know much else.
If you could help me that would be great. If you have aim u can reach me at DragonSlayerTMO.
I just need explanation.
This is a really simple example of what im trying to do tell me why its not working.
Code:#include <iostream.h> //this is just a simple //explanation of what it int main() //is that I am trying to do. { //if any could help me that int a; //would be great! cout << "testing!" << endl; //Basically I am trying to cin >> a; //make it so the program does cout << "testing 2!" << endl; //both functions...i think thats //the right word anywaz! I cant return a; //seem to get it to work }; //correctly. Again any help would //be glady appreciated! { // this is line 13 int b; cout << "testing b!" << endl; cin >> b; cout << "testing b 2!" << endl; return 0; } /* Here is the error it gives me. On line 13, error c2447: missing function header*/


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UMBC head men's lacrosse coach Don Zimmerman has announced the Retrievers' schedule for the 2011 campaign.
The slate is highlighted by a five-week stretch which features four teams ranked in the Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Yearbook 2011 poll. UMBC begins that stretch on Saturday, March 5 when they travel to Chapel Hill, N.C., to take on third-ranked North Carolina. A week later, the Retrievers face off against 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium in the Konica-Minolta Face-Off Classic.
On Friday, March 18, UMBC makes the short trip down I-95 South to face sixth-ranked Maryland. That game will be WMAR-TV's lone prime-time telecast of the season with the opening draw set for 8:00 p.m.
After a March 26 home contest against former America East foe Quinnipiac, the Retrievers open their America East schedule at eighth-ranked Stony Brook on Saturday, April 2. The Seawolves were an NCAA quarterfinalist in 2010.
"This year's schedule will once again afford our players the opportunity to measure themselves against some of the top teams in the country," Zimmerman said. "The America East Conference is as competitive as ever and our out-of-conference schedule, highlighted by our game versus Johns Hopkins in the Minolta Face-Off Classic, is extremely demanding."
UMBC opens the campaign on Saturday, Feb. 19 when they travel to Clinton, S.C. for their first-ever meeting against Presbyterian. A week later, on Feb. 26, the Retrievers open the home slate by entertaining Rutgers at UMBC Stadium.
The Retrievers have one homestand, as they host local rival Towson on Wednesday, April 6 and then welcome America East foe Binghamton on Saturday, April 9. The noon game against the Bearcats will also be televised live by WMAR-TV/espn3. com.
Two of the final three games will be on the road in America East play, as UMBC visits Albany on April 16, and Hartford on April 30. UMBC's final regular season home game will be against Vermont on Saturday, April 23.
The four-team America East Conference Championships opens on Wednesday, May 5 and the title game will be held on Saturday, May 8. Both semifinals and finals will be hosted by the higher seeds. The winner of the tournament receives and automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championships.
2011 UMBC Men's Lacrosse Schedule
Sat. 19 at Presbyterian, 12:00 p.m.; Sat. 26 vs. Rutgers, 1:00 p.m.
Sat. 5 at North Carolina, 12:00 p.m.; Sat. 12 vs. Johns Hopkins%, 4:00 p.m.; Fri. 18 at Maryland (WMAR-TV/espn3.com) 8:00 p.m.; Sat. 26 vs. Quinnipiac, 3:30 p.m.
Sat. 2 at Stony Brook*, 7:00 p.m.; Wed. 6 vs. Towson, 7:30 p.m.; Sat. 9 vs. Binghamton* (WMAR-TV/espn3.com) 12:00 p.m; Sat. 16 at Albany* 7:00 p.m.; Sat. 23 vs. Vermont* 1:00 p.m.; Sat. 30 at Hartford*, TBD.
Wed. 5 America East Semifinals#; Sat. 8 America East Championship Game#.
%Konica-Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium
*America East Conference match
#Time and Site TBD.


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In late January 2000, William Safire wrote a column in the New York Times under the headline "Putinism Looms." Vladimir Putin had been acting president of the Russian Federation for only a month but Safire had already seen that the new Kremlin leader was bent on developing a "cult of personality," "suppressing the truth" and "the resurgence of Russian power." For the remaining nine years of his life, Safire often returned to the subject. He expanded the definition of Putinism as its namesake muzzled dissent, cracked down on the media, exiled or imprisoned those who opposed him, courted China as a counterweight to the United States, and did everything he could to lock the countries of "the near abroad" — fellow former Soviet republics – into a Russian sphere of influence.
Ukraine — the cradle of Russian civilization as well as its breadbasket, and a major manufacturing center of the old USSR – has always been the principal object of Russian neuralgia about Western encroachment into the post-Soviet space. Russians often say that they feel the loss of Ukraine as though it were the pain an amputee feels in a phantom limb. Yet it still came as a shock when Putin — outraged by pro-European protesters' overthrow of a corrupt and repressive pro-Moscow regime in Kyiv — annexed Crimea and fomented a secessionist rebellion in the eastern and southern parts of Ukraine.
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Putin's aggression only makes sense against the backdrop of what has been the defining theme of his presidency: turning back the clock. For years that has meant repudiating the transformational policies of his immediate predecessors and reinstating key attributes of the Soviet system within the borders of the Russian Federation. But there were also indications that, if given a chance, Putin might extend his agenda, his rule, and what he hopes will be his legacy beyond those borders. In 2005, he famously lamented that the breakup of the Soviet Union "was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." Three years later, Russia invaded Georgia and granted "independence" to two breakaway ethnic conclaves, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Not until this year, however, did Russia expand by military conquest and unilateral decree its own territory by seizing Crimea. In doing so, Putin also proclaimed the right to "protect our compatriots and fellow citizens"– i.e., Russian-speaking minorities – elsewhere in the near abroad, from Estonia on the Baltic to Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Therein lies the most malignant manifestation of Putinism: it violates international law, nullifies Russia's past pledges to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors, carries with it the danger of spinning out of control and sparking a wider conflict, and establishes a precedent for other major powers to apply their own version of the Putin Doctrine when convenient (think of China, for example, and its running feuds with Vietnam, the Philippines, and Japan over territorial and maritime claims).
While Putin has earned the ism that Safire attached to his name more than 14 years ago, the phenomenon he personifies — its content, motivation and rationale, as well as the constituencies behind it — predates the appearance of Putin himself on the scene. A number of students of recent Russian history — including some, like myself, who have dealt with Putin — can, in retrospect, trace the roots of his policies today back more than a quarter century to the battle between Soviet reformers and their reactionary and revanchist foes.
The backstory begins in the late 1980s, when Putin was a mid-level KGB officer, attached to the Second Chief Directorate, stationed in Dresden. His job was not espionage but counterespionage: that is, identifying, thwarting, defeating and often destroying the enemies of the Soviet state. In Moscow at that time, there were influential individuals who saw the president of that state, Mikhail Gorbachev, as an enemy bent on destroying the system to which they had devoted their lives and from which they had amassed power and prestige.
Gorbachev had ascended to the pinnacle of power in the Soviet Union 29 years ago with what he believed was an obligation to save the country. The status quo, he was convinced, was holding the USSR back, preventing it from competing and prospering in a globalizing world. His supporters often expressed this aspiration with a deceptively modest-sounding phrase: Russia's need to become "a normal, modern country." Yet normalization and modernization required a radical break with previous Soviet leaders, starting with Vladimir Lenin.
The vocabulary of Gorbachev's program was, tellingly, made up of two Russian words, glasnost and perestroika, and two borrowed from English: demokratizatsiya and partnyorstvo (partnership) with the West. These were not just descriptors of the Kremlin's new policies — they were antonyms of the watchwords of the Soviet internal regime and the Soviet worldview. As such, they were anathema to some of Gorbachev's supposed comrades.
In June of 1991, his own prime minister, Valentin Pavlov, mobilized an effort in the parliament to weaken Gorbachev's powers as a prelude to removing him. The proximate incitement was a plan, known as "the Grand Bargain," that Gorbachev's advisers had proposed as a way of garnering Western economic aid in support of perestroika. Lt. Col. Putin's ultimate boss in the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov, was active in this cabal. He and Pavlov saw the Grand Bargain as "a conspiracy to sell out the motherland to foreign interests."
Senior officers in the Soviet military and security services had their own version of that complaint. They were infuriated by Gorbachev's willingness to compromise, largely on American terms, in arms-control negotiations on conventional forces in Europe, the "zero option" for intermediate nuclear forces, and, most stunningly, in Reykjavik, on Ronald Reagan's proposal to eliminate all nuclear weapons.
The so-called constitutional coup of June 1991 failed, but its instigators didn't give up. The fear that Gorbachev was selling out to the West grew stronger, leading Kryuchkov and the KGB to attempt a real coup two months later. The plotters put a defiant Gorbachev under house arrest at his vacation retreat in the Crimea, then treated the world to a Keystone Kops performance of ineptitude, including a public rollout of the putative new leadership in which the front man, Gennady Yanayev, was visibly drunk.


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text: My Work Sponsored Post: New Spins on Outdoor Entertaining With JACK'S ® Pizza As I revealed last month, I am so excited to share with you my partnership with JACK'S Pizza this summer on the "JACK'S Summer Grilling" program to show just how easy it is to grill their pizza. If you haven't had a chance yet, I encourage you to head to jacksgrilling.com to find simple techniques for grilling a pizza with your family or for easy summer entertaining. The new "Jack's Summer Grilling" directions explain how to cook up the same great tasting, crispy-crust Jack's Original pizza on the gas grill that the family has come to love from the oven. Since I know my readers strive to save money on meals, I know you will also love that the incredible taste also comes at a very affordable price. Last month I shared some easy tips for entertaining from creating a fashionable spread to make your guests feel at home. Today I wanted to share some ideas for fun backyard entertaining that you may not have considered to give your guests time to really eat, mingle, and enjoy the great outdoors. Serve Food Tapas-Style To create a more playful environment for your guests or family consider serving your dishes tapas-style. To serve food this way, reconsider large dishes like a cheesy macaroni, and rethink them into small appetizers that can be munched on throughout the night. Pasta salad can be enjoyed as a tortellini skewer instead, Jack's pizza can be sliced into appetizer slices, and fresh fruit can be assembled on skewers and displayed on large platters for easy grabbing. This gives you more time to mingle and requires less time trying to balance plates. Make It A Potluck Dinner One of my favorite things to do with my family when I was growing up was to attend a monthly potluck at our church. I have always appreciated getting to try new foods and potluck dinners are the perfect way to get to try new dishes and to relieve the host of some of the food preparation. Sometimes entertaining can feel stressful, but it doesn't have to be. Ease this burden by asking each guest to bring a dish or drink to share for the evening. Offer to supply the main dish for the event, like the easy-to-grill JACK'S Original pizza, and then have them round out the menu with desserts, sides or drinks for the evening. Make It a Themed Event Whenever I am throwing a get together, I always try to think of a theme for the evening to really pull everything together. By setting a theme in place, you instantly have an idea of what dishes to serve, what type of outdoor games to offer, and what type of décor will pull your theme together. Whether it is an outdoor board game night, an outdoor movie event, a red-white-and-blue theme, or a food focused theme, themes have a way of pulling all of those great ideas you have together and make the planning a little less stressful. Consider a neighborhood family pizza night with JACK'S pizza and have guests bring fun dishes to share for the evening. Your neighbors can bring their family's favorite sides, like a summer fruit salad or fresh veggies, for everyone to enjoy with their pizza. Kids would also love a make-your-own sundae station for a fun dessert to share at the end of the evening. I hope this gives you a good start to your outdoor party planning. For more information about how to enjoy JACK'S Original pizza on the gas grill and for your chance to win great grilling prizes, visit www.JacksGrilling.com. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. and D.C., 18 and over. Ends: 7/29/13. Void where prohibited. Click here for Official Rules. http://bit.ly/114eJMa As a spokesperson for the JACK'S Summer Grilling program, I've received product samples and compensation for my time and effort in creating this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Pin It Published July 02, 2013 by: Amy Allen Clark is the founder of MomAdvice.com. You can read all about her here.


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Jennifer Aniston is sticking it to Bill O'Reilly while defending all the single moms who are doing it for themselves.
In response to comments made by Fox News host Bill O'Reilly about single mothers, the former "Friends" star defended both the traditional family structure and those who chose to pursue raising children on their own.
"Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth," Aniston said in an interview with People. "And, of course, many women dream of finding Prince Charming (with fatherly instincts), but for those who've not yet found their Bill O'Reilly, I'm just glad science has provided a few other options."
The spat started over comments the starlet made while promoting her new film, "The Switch." In it, she plays a single woman who decides to have a child using a sperm donor.
"Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," she said. "Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long."
But O'Reilly took offense, calling her comments "destructive to our society" and said that Aniston was "diminishing the role of the dad."
"Dads bring a psychology to children that is in this society, I believe, under-emphasized," he said. "I think men get hosed all day long in the parental arena."
Selected Reading: People, Huffington Post