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Clenbutero Hydrochloride is a powerful bronchodilator that is used to treat breathing disorders like asthma. While it's been extremely successful in such treatment plans it has never been approved by the U.S. FDA. It is, however, approved and used in most other countries around the world. Some speculate the only reason Clenbuterol has never been approved by the U.S. FDA is due to there being no need. There are several other related medications, very closely related that are already approved for U.S. use.
Beyond treating breathing disorders, Clenbuterol is commonly used as a thermogenic. In fact, you will more than likely find more Clenbuterol use in fat loss plans than anywhere else. It is a very common fat burning tool used by many anabolic steroid users. It is a long standing favorite among competitive bodybuilders and other physique athletes during contest preparation. However, it is also used by non-steroid users for its fat loss properties. You do not have to use anabolic steroids to use this compound for fat loss. We only mention that because this has for some reason become a confusing point for some.
Clenbuterol Functions & Traits:
Clenbuterol Hydrochloride is a sympathomimetic that works on the sympathomimetic nervous system. There are several receptors in the body a sympathomimetic can act on. In the case of Clenbuterol, the beta-2 receptor is the area of interest and action. Clen, as it's commonly known, actively stimulates the beta-2 receptor. Through such stimulation, this actively reverses airway obstructions and provides improved breathing for those who need it. This same stimulation can also be used to enhance the metabolic rate of the individual. Clenbuterol does not actively burn fat by attacking fat cells, but rather stimulates the metabolism by increasing the body's temperature. This occurs due to the beta-2 stimulation stimulating the mitochondria of the cells to produce and release more heat. In turn, this heats up the body's temperature (slightly), enhances the metabolism and causes the individual to burn body fat at a greater rate. In reality, the functions and traits of Clenbuterol are very simple and very straightforward.Clenbuterol has also been noted for having a strong anabolic effect; however, things are not quite like they appear. Due to the potential anabolic effect, this has caused many to use the compound in hopes of gaining lean tissue. Commonly, many steroid users have used it as an anabolic protective agent during their post cycle therapy (PCT). There is, however, a problem with this type of use; it doesn't work. Studies have shown that Clenbuterol has the ability to promote anabolic activity in animals. There have been several studies that have shown the anabolic activity of rats to increase when Clen is administered. However, there is no data that supports such anabolic activity provided when used by human beings. In fact, it has generally been proven useless in this regard as it pertains to human beings. When it comes to human Clenbuterol use, use as a bronchodilator and thermogenic are the only suitable purposes.
Effects of Clenbuterol:
The effects of Clenbuterol on the asthmatic patient are as straightforward as can be. Use of the bronchodilator opens up the airways and enables the individual to breath. There are other breathing disorders that can benefit from Clenbuterol use, but asthma appears to be primary, and it is often a welcomed medication to those who suffer. This same improved breathing could also prove useful to some athletes, especially those who can benefit from enhanced cardiovascular endurance. However, we're not talking about a strong, notable improvement and there are truly other methods that are far more suited for increasing cardiovascular endurance.
As a thermogenic, the effects of Clenbuterol are again very simple. As the body temperature increases, which again is due to the beta-2 stimulation, the individual is now able to burn calories at an enhanced rate. Body temperature goes up, the metabolism is enhanced, fat cells are stimulated due to the increase in temperature due to the now enhanced metabolism, the breakdown of triglycerides is now enhanced and fat loss occurs. It's hard to get any simpler than that.
While Clenbuterol is a powerful fat loss agent, it is not magical and will not make a fat physique lean on its own. You still have to diet in order to lose body fat, and if you don't, no fat loss will occur. In fact, even if you're using Clenbuterol you will still find you need to diet just as hard as you would without it if you are going to lose body fat. This raises an important question; why use Clen? The idea behind Clenbuterol use as a thermogenic in simple terms it to take what you're already doing right and to simply do it a little better. It's not going to melt fat off your frame, but it can rev up the metabolism and help you burn fat at a more effective and efficient rate. If you are obese or at least significantly overweight, your best bet is to forgo Clenbuterol use until you are at least a little leaner. The best time to use Clen is once you're already fairly lean in an effort to help you rid that last little body fat that often hangs on for dear life. When we dive into the side effects of Clenbuterol, we will find Clen can and should only be used for a set period of time, and it only makes sense to use it when it will be the most beneficial.
Due to Clenbuterol being best served for final touches in a fat loss plan, this is why you'll see it in many physique based plans such as bodybuilding, figure, fitness or other related endeavors. It's commonly used the last 8-10 weeks leading up to a competition, sometimes a little longer, but regardless of the specific time frame the individual is normally already fairly lean. For the average gym rat, one who doesn't compete but is looking to lean out, we can make some slight exceptions. We're not saying you have to be contest ready lean in order for their to be a benefit. If you're already in fairly good shape and looking to lean out a little more, absolutely, Clenbuterol can prove useful. But if you truly have a lot of body fat to lose, you'll be best served by waiting until your body fat is a little more under control.
Side Effects of Clenbuterol:
There are several possible side effects to Clenbuterol use, and the primary will surround its stimulating nature. No surprise, after all, Clen is a stimulant. The side effects of Clenbuterol can be very strong and often very annoying to say the least, and they will generally affect most people in one way or another. The most common side effects surround a jittery or wired feeling, shaky hands and increased sweating. Most all who use Clen will experience such effects to a degree, but they will commonly be very pronounced during the early stages of use. As the individual becomes accustomed to the stimulant, such related effects should begin to subside, but they will be so strong in some people that some will not be able to use it.
When using Clenbuterol, many often inaccurately assume that when the stimulating effects of Clen began to fade that the thermogenic effects are no longer working. Most will find that the stimulating effects will greatly subside after a week or so of use, but assuming the fat burning properties have vanished due to this lessened stimulation is highly inaccurate. The same dose of Clenbuterol Hydrochloride can actually keep the metabolism revved for as much as five weeks. Granted, by the fifth week mark it will be minimal as the body does most certainly adapt. Due to the body's ability to adapt, necessarily adjustments must be made to use. We will go over adjustments, dosing plans and total plans of use in the Clenbuterol in the administration section.
The aforementioned side effects of Clenbuterol are the most common, but there are other possible effects of note. As with many stimulating substances, some will experience headaches as well as possible nausea. One of the more bothersome possible side effects of Clenbuterol Hydrochloride will be muscle cramps. Cramps are not exceedingly common, but they will affect many people. Athletes are often at the greatest risk due to the hard and often intense training they are already undertaking. Staying well hydrated is often enough to avoid or remedy this problem, but supplementing with taurine can also help. Clen has been shown to deplete taurine, so supplementation may be necessary for some. Some may also have issues with insomnia; in fact, some may find sleep becomes extremely difficult. Again, this is very common with many stimulating substances, but with Clen it can, for some, be impossible to avoid. Clen has an active half-life that stretches to the 34 hour mark, and that can make sleep impossible for some people. Many will, however, find if they take their Clen first thing in the morning they will not have any issues with sleep, but due to the long half-life some will find insomnia occurs regardless of when they take it.
The use of Clenbuterol Hydrochloride also carries with it possible side effects that can be severe; in fact, dangerous would be a more accurate description. Such effects are most commonly associated with abuse through high doses and far beyond recommended extended periods of use. The severe side effects of Clenbuterol include high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, trembling and even panic. Some studies have also shown that Clenbuterol abuse can also lead to cardiac hypertrophy, which could potentially lead to death. It is very possible to use this compound without such effects, but as with so many things in life it will require responsible use and a thorough understanding of Clen.
Clenbuterol Administration:
In a therapeutic setting, Clenbuterol doses will most commonly be 20mcg per day, with some requiring 40mcg per day. It is possible for some to need even more, but it is rare and generally only for a short period of time. This should, in most all cases, be enough Clen to correct related breathing issues, if not, alternative treatments may be needed.
In a performance setting as a thermogenic, Clenbuterol doses will start low and generally increase overtime due to a down regulation of the beta-receptor. Most men will find starting at 40mcg per day to be perfect. Many women may also be fine with this starting dose, but many will be far more comfortable with a starting dose of 20mcg per day. As the body adapts, the dose will need to increase in order to maintain the full fat loss benefits. There are several schools of thought on the best way to use Clen in a fat burning setting, but there are only three that really make any sense. All three will work very well, but you may need to try all three at separate times to find which one works best for you.
Two Week Rotation:
One of the most common methods of Clenbuterol use for fat loss
purposes is two weeks on followed by two weeks off. This type of use
will normally continue until the end goal is reached. The individual
will start with the initial dose and increase it by 20mcg every few days
until he has reached the maximum desired or needed dose. The individual
will then hold at this dose the final days of the two week period and
then discontinue all Clenbuterol use for two weeks. At the end of the
two weeks with no Clen, the individual will begin the process again.
The two week rotation schedule is very effective, but there is also a problem. During the off periods you have no Clen in your system, and as a result, a two week period with a decreased metabolic rate. This does not mean you won't be burning fat during the off week periods, as long as you're dieting you should still lose fat, but you are giving up the enhancement.
Continuous Use:
Due to the body's ability to adapt to Clenbuterol, continuous use is
very hard for some to get their head around. When we consider that the
stimulating effects of a noticeable nature began to wane first, the idea
of continuous use for some doesn't make any sense, but we assure you
this method of use can work very well. Remember, the same dose of Clen
can keep the metabolism revved for up to 5 weeks.
With this type of use, the individual will begin with the starting dose of 20-40mcg per day and hold at that dose for 2-3 weeks. At the end of the 2-3 week period, the individual will increase the dose by 20mcg and hold at that dose for another 2-3 weeks. From here, the individual will increase the dose 20mcg every 2-3 weeks as needed until the diet or total Clen use comes to an end. This type of use will keep your metabolism revved the entire time. It may not experience as great of an increase as would with a massive or very frequent increasing in dose schedule, but it will be a steady and continuous enhancement. There will be no period in the diet during Clenbuterol use that the individual doesn't enjoy the metabolic enhancement.
In Between:
The final preferred method of Clenbuterol use falls in-between our other two discussed methods. This type of use will last for 4-6 weeks and can be an excellent way to use it for the individual who is only using it the last few weeks leading up to competition. The individual will start with 40mcg per day and increase periodically until he reaches the maximum desired or needed dose and will hold at the maximum dose the final 7-14 days of the plan. The increases in dosing will not be as dramatic as the two week rotation schedule but stronger than the continuous plan. At this stage, if more Clen is still needed, the individual will need to wait 4-6 weeks before beginning a new phase. This makes this type of use best for those who only need a short period of metabolic enhancement.
Regardless of the type of schedule you use, the maximum Clenbuterol dose will normally be 120mcg per day. Some may find 140mcg per day to be acceptable, especially some men, but no one should for any reason surpass the 140mcg per day mark if they are going to avoid cardiac damage. Regardless of the total dosing or plan of use you use, Clenbuterol use should be kept at no more than 16 weeks of total use. 16 weeks of total use per year should be your guide. For the individual competing in more than one show per year at different stages of the year, we can make exceptions. However, this individual should try to keep the total use as close to a 16 week total every 12 months as possible for safety reasons.
Availability of Clenbuterol:
Clenbuterol Hydrochloride is widely available, very affordable and extremely easy to find. However, there is no Clen manufactured in the U.S. and any one purporting to sell you U.S. brand Clenbuterol is lying to your face. There is no such product. As for international brands, they are in high supply and very easy to obtain. Most all anabolic steroid suppliers carry Clenbuterol, and it is rarely counterfeited. You will also find Clen is readily available from many suppliers of various medications outside the anabolic steroid market. The black market supply of true pharmacy grade Clenbuterol Hydrochloride is extremely high, especially online.
Another option for a Clenbuterol purchase is through a research chemical lab (RCL). RCL's have in recent years popped up all over the online market and are legally allowed to sell items like Clen and other non-scheduled items to U.S. customers so as long as it's for research purposes only. Due to the necessary research label, it will not come in its original tablet form but rather as a liquid that the individual can simply drink. However, while this is a loophole in the law, if the individual isn't making the purchase for research reasons he is technically breaking the law. If law enforcement wanted to make an issue out of this they very easily could, and it would be on you to prove the research claim. However, it is a loophole that while it may not always exist is taken advantage of by many people.
Buy Clenbuterol Online - Warning:
You can buy Clenbuterol online affordably and very easily. In fact, this will be the only way many will be able to purchase the substance. While it is not a controlled substance in the U.S. those who live in the U.S. and buy Clenbuterol online are breaking the law. The exception would be making a purchase from an RCL for research purposes only. Again, an RCL purchase is very common, but it does come with potential problems. Under dosing can be an issue, but the most common issue is an unstable product. Some RCL's do not do a very good job with their manufacturing, and while this rarely presents any danger it will lead to the product becoming useless rather fast. Some RCL's also manufacture their products in a high concentrated way, and this can make it very hard to dose. You can find RCL Clen that comes dosed as strong as 200mcg/ml, we've even in the past seen it at 300mcg/ml and this can be a difficult product to dose. However, there are some fantastic RCL's out there who make great products that are far easier to dose, but they are heavily outnumbered by RCL's you should avoid. Researching any RCL heavily before making a purchase is beyond important.
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Clenbuterol Reviews:
Clenbuterol Hydrochloride is an excellent thermogenic, but again it is not a magical fat loss substance. If you use it, you will still need to burn more calories than you take in if you are going to lose body fat. Granted, Clen will help you burn calories at a higher rate, and in reality this could mean your caloric deficit wouldn't need to be as great as it would without Clen. However, if you're truly going to get a solid benefit out of it you should diet just as you without Clen and view the Clenbuterol as an added bonus. Get the most you can out of it; after all, you cannot use it non-stop, and as it can be a little annoying due to the stimulating effects you might as well maximize your use to make it worthwhile. Most importantly, while it can help you lose body fat at an accelerated rate, especially that last little bit of stubborn body fat, responsible use remains imperative. This is not the most dangerous substance on earth by any means, but abuse can get you into trouble. Severe abuse can even lead to death and that's not worth any amount of fat loss. Use responsibly, listen to your body and diet hard, and you will ensure your Clenbuterol Hydrochloride use is worthwhile.


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The NHL Closer is written by the five Star Trek: The Next Generation enthusiasts from Melt Your Face Off. When not attending conventions, they can be found in their makeshift Holodeck, where they practice putting the moves on a virtual Counselor Troi. Set your phasers to stun, Deadspinners, because Weed Against Speed has the Bridge.
If the Stanley Cup Finals were played out in the Star Trek: TNG Universe, one could say that Sidney Crosby, for the first time in the series, finally proved that his commission as Captain of the USS Penguin was fitting as he scored the first two goals in an incredibly entertaining 3-2 Pittsburgh victory over the visiting Detroit Red Wings.
The entire Q Continuum (NBC, Gary Bettman and the NHL) were very pleased with the outcome of last night's game. In support of Captain Crosby, Marian Hossa (2 assists) played the role of Commander William T. Riker and Adam Hall (goal) was Lieutenant Commander Data in this completely tired nerdy analogy.
The Penguins finally solved the newly-discovered ladykiller that is Chris Osgood late in the first period as Crosby scored the first goal for Pittsburgh in the series. The loyal fans in the Igloo rejoiced. And they were all wearing white, except for these douchenozzles. Crazy!
Sid the Kid put the Pens up 2-0 2:34 into the second period when Marian Hossa fired a shot which Osgood could not control and Crosby was there to bury the rebound home. Crosby pumped his fist and bedlam ensued.
Alas, Detroit wasn't about to quit so easily and they rediscovered their game in the latter half of the second period. Johan Franzen, shaking out the cobwebs resulting from recurring headaches, cut the score in half at the 14:48 mark. The score remained 2-1 Pens as the second period closed out.
The third period would be the most entertaining period thus far in the series, as the squads got physical, finishing every check and going after every loose puck. Osgood was a bit shaky at the outset, but held on. Unfortunately, he was finally beat after Gary Roberts worked hard to get the puck deep, and Adam Hall bounced a shot off Osgood's leg for a 3-1 Pittsburgh lead 7:18 into the third.
Of course, Detroit kept up the pressure as Tomas Holmstrom clanked one of the post. Mikael Samuelsson scored on Marc-Andre Fleury with 6:23 left in the game and things quickly became very interesting. Fortunately for the Penguins, they held on and ensured they would not be swept. Final Score: 3-2.
For the first time in three games, Marc-Andre Fleury outplayed Chris Osgood, making 32 saves and winning for the 19th straight time at the Igloo. Game 4 will be Saturday night on NBC.
Perhaps we will be fortunate enough to once again have Alexander Ovechkin appear during an intermission as he did last night. Much to the chagrin of the studio crew, Unfrozen Caveman Hockey Player refused to pick a winner in the Finals, even when pressed, which is more than you can say for the outfit he chose to wear. Eurotrash has never looked so…poorly kept?
* Hockey Blogfather Greg Wyshynski purchased Chris Pronger's Hockey-Reference.com page and held a contest to see what slogan would be used. Check out the Final Five slogans and vote. Yours truly sponsored Derek Boogaard's page, you wanna fight about it? [Puck Daddy]
* I have no idea what they will have up when the NHL Closer is posted, but I'm sure it will be entertaining and terrifying all at the same time. [The Pensblog]
And finally, Steve Carell playing hockey. How could that be a bad thing?


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What are the origins of the English Language?
The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, and Modern English. The earliest period begins with the migration of certain Germanic tribes from the continent to Britain in the fifth century A.D., though no records of their language survive from before the seventh century, and it continues until the end of the eleventh century or a bit later. By that time Latin, Old Norse (the language of the Viking invaders), and especially the Anglo-Norman French of the dominant class after the Norman Conquest in 1066 had begun to have a substantial impact on the lexicon, and the well-developed inflectional system that typifies the grammar of Old English had begun to break down.
The following brief sample of Old English prose illustrates several of the significant ways in which change has so transformed English that we must look carefully to find points of resemblance between the language of the tenth century and our own. It is taken from Aelfric's "Homily on St. Gregory the Great" and concerns the famous story of how that pope came to send missionaries to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity after seeing Anglo-Saxon boys for sale as slaves in Rome:
Eft he axode, hu ðære ðeode nama wære þe hi of comon. Him wæs geandwyrd, þæt hi Angle genemnode wæron. Þa cwæð he, "Rihtlice hi sind Angle gehatene, for ðan ðe hi engla wlite habbað, and swilcum gedafenað þæt hi on heofonum engla geferan beon."
A few of these words will be recognized as identical in spelling with their modern equivalentshe, of, him, for, and, onand the resemblance of a few others to familiar words may be guessednama to name, comon to come, wære to were, wæs to wasbut only those who have made a special study of Old English will be able to read the passage with understanding. The sense of it is as follows:
Again he [St. Gregory] asked what might be the name of the people from which they came. It was answered to him that they were named Angles. Then he said, "Rightly are they called Angles because they have the beauty of angels, and it is fitting that such as they should be angels' companions in heaven."
Some of the words in the original have survived in altered form, including axode (asked), hu (how), rihtlice (rightly), engla (angels), habbað (have), swilcum (such), heofonum (heaven), and beon (be). Others, however, have vanished from our lexicon, mostly without a trace, including several that were quite common words in Old English: eft "again," ðeode "people, nation," cwæð "said, spoke," gehatene "called, named," wlite "appearance, beauty," and geferan "companions." Recognition of some words is naturally hindered by the presence of two special characters, þ, called "thorn," and ð, called "edh," which served in Old English to represent the sounds now spelled with th.
Other points worth noting include the fact that the pronoun system did not yet, in the late tenth century, include the third person plural forms beginning with th-: hi appears where we would use they. Several aspects of word order will also strike the reader as oddly unlike ours. Subject and verb are inverted after an adverbþa cwæð he "Then said he"a phenomenon not unknown in Modern English but now restricted to a few adverbs such as never and requiring the presence of an auxiliary verb like do or have. In subordinate clauses the main verb must be last, and so an object or a preposition may precede it in a way no longer natural: þe hi of comon "which they from came," for ðan ðe hi engla wlite habbað "because they angels' beauty have."
Perhaps the most distinctive difference between Old and Modern English reflected in Aelfric's sentences is the elaborate system of inflections, of which we now have only remnants. Nouns, adjectives, and even the definite article are inflected for gender, case, and number: ðære ðeode "(of) the people" is feminine, genitive, and singular, Angle "Angles" is masculine, accusative, and plural, and swilcum "such" is masculine, dative, and plural. The system of inflections for verbs was also more elaborate than ours: for example, habbað "have" ends with the -að suffix characteristic of plural present indicative verbs. In addition, there were two imperative forms, four subjunctive forms (two for the present tense and two for the preterit, or past, tense), and several others which we no longer have. Even where Modern English retains a particular category of inflection, the form has often changed. Old English present participles ended in -ende not -ing, and past participles bore a prefix ge- (as geandwyrd "answered" above).
The period of Middle English extends roughly from the twelfth century through the fifteenth. The influence of French (and Latin, often by way of French) upon the lexicon continued throughout this period, the loss of some inflections and the reduction of others (often to a final unstressed vowel spelled -e) accelerated, and many changes took place within the phonological and grammatical systems of the language. A typical prose passage, especially one from the later part of the period, will not have such a foreign look to us as Aelfric's prose has; but it will not be mistaken for contemporary writing either. The following brief passage is drawn from a work of the late fourteenth century called Mandeville's Travels. It is fiction in the guise of travel literature, and, though it purports to be from the pen of an English knight, it was originally written in French and later translated into Latin and English. In this extract Mandeville describes the land of Bactria, apparently not an altogether inviting place, as it is inhabited by "full yuele [evil] folk and full cruell."
In þat lond ben trees þat beren wolle, as þogh it were of scheep; whereof men maken clothes, and all þing þat may ben made of wolle. In þat contree ben many ipotaynes, þat dwellen som tyme in the water, and somtyme on the lond: and þei ben half man and half hors, as I haue seyd before; and þei eten men, whan þei may take hem. And þere ben ryueres and watres þat ben fulle byttere, þree sithes more þan is the water of the see. In þat contré ben many griffounes, more plentee þan in ony other contree. Sum men seyn þat þei han the body vpward as an egle, and benethe as a lyoun: and treuly þei seyn soth þat þei ben of þat schapp. But o griffoun hath the body more gret, and is more strong, þanne eight lyouns, of suche lyouns as ben o this half; and more gret and strongere þan an hundred egles, suche as we han amonges vs. For o griffoun þere wil bere fleynge to his nest a gret hors, 3if he may fynde him at the poynt, or two oxen 3oked togidere, as þei gon at the plowgh.
The spelling is often peculiar by modern standards and even inconsistent within these few sentences (contré and contree, o [griffoun] and a [gret hors], þanne and þan, for example). Moreover, in the original text, there is in addition to thorn another old character 3, called "yogh," to make difficulty. It can represent several sounds but here may be thought of as equivalent to y. Even the older spellings (including those where u stands for v or vice versa) are recognizable, however, and there are only a few words like ipotaynes "hippopotamuses" and sithes "times" that have dropped out of the language altogether.
We may notice a few words and phrases that have meanings no longer common such as byttere "salty," o this half "on this side of the world," and at the poynt "to hand," and the effect of the centuries-long dominance of French on the vocabulary is evident in many familiar words which could not have occurred in Aelfric's writing even if his subject had allowed them, words like contree, ryueres, plentee, egle, and lyoun.
In general word order is now very close to that of our time, though we notice constructions like hath the body more gret and three sithes more þan is the water of the see. We also notice that present tense verbs still receive a plural inflection as in beren, dwellen, han, and ben and that while nominative þei has replaced Aelfric's hi in the third person plural, the form for objects is still hem.
All the same, the number of inflections for nouns, adjectives, and verbs has been greatly reduced, and in most respects Mandeville is closer to Modern than to Old English.
The period of Modern English extends from the sixteenth century to our own day. The early part of this period saw the completion of a revolution in the phonology of English that had begun in late Middle English and that effectively redistributed the occurrence of the vowel phonemes to something approximating their present pattern. (Mandeville's English would have sounded even less familiar to us than it looks.)
Other important early developments include the stabilizing effect on spelling of the printing press and the beginning of the direct influence of Latin and, to a lesser extent, Greek on the lexicon. Later, as English came into contact with other cultures around the world and distinctive dialects of English developed in the many areas which Britain had colonized, numerous other languages made small but interesting contributions to our word-stock.
The historical aspect of English really encompasses more than the three stages of development just under consideration. English has what might be called a prehistory as well. As we have seen, our language did not simply spring into existence; it was brought from the Continent by Germanic tribes who had no form of writing and hence left no records. Philologists know that they must have spoken a dialect of a language that can be called West Germanic and that other dialects of this unknown language must have included the ancestors of such languages as German, Dutch, Low German, and Frisian. They know this because of certain systematic similarities which these languages share with each other but do not share with, say, Danish. However, they have had somehow to reconstruct what that language was like in its lexicon, phonology, grammar, and semantics as best they can through sophisticated techniques of comparison developed chiefly during the last century.
Similarly, because ancient and modern languages like Old Norse and Gothic or Icelandic and Norwegian have points in common with Old English and Old High German or Dutch and English that they do not share with French or Russian, it is clear that there was an earlier unrecorded language that can be called simply Germanic and that must be reconstructed in the same way. Still earlier, Germanic was just a dialect (the ancestors of Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit were three other such dialects) of a language conventionally designated Indo-European, and thus English is just one relatively young member of an ancient family of languages whose descendants cover a fair portion of the globe.
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OSP Tools
OSP provides several stand-alone applications for physics teaching and student activities. These tools are designed for the creation of curricular packages or to support student modeling and laboratories.
Data Tool
DataTool is a data analysis tool for plotting and fitting data from the laboratory, simulations, video analysis, or any other data set organized into columns. A click of a checkbox in DataTool allows the user to change the appearance of plots, see standard statistics for the data set or apply built-in linear, quadratic or cubic fits to the data set. DataTool also includes a number of standard mathematical functions that can be applied to the data set, allowing for further analysis and extending the range of potential fits to the data. Features of DataTool include:
Although it is a stand-alone tool set, DataTool is built on the Open Source Physics code library and integrated into many OSP and Easy Java Simulations (EJS) simulations. This means that a right-click on plots automatically imports the data into the DataTool for further analysis. This makes it easy to analyze and compare data from simulations, video analysis (especially using Tracker) and the laboratory.


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I get a lot of comments on Reel Girl about how muscly superheroes promote idealized, unattainable body types for males in the same way that skinny, big-breasted Barbies do for females.
I've written about how rigid gender boxes are bad for everyone. They are limiting and repressive. That said, the toys and narratives around muscle-bound superheroes aren't anything close to damaging the way the beauty based toys of girlworld are.
Muscles symbolize strength and power. Superman does not spend his time, in toys or narratives, brushing his hair, putting on make up, or gazing at himself in the mirror. Superman doesn't come with a plastic comb or even plastic a gym set. Superman has muscles because he, like all supeheroes, is known for what he does, not for how he appears.
As a kid– or as an adult– what would you rather be valued for: your actions or your appearance? Which would make you feel inspired and which would make you feel insecure? Would you prefer that your heroic actions, bravery, courage, and your accomplishments helped to make you attractive to the opposite sex, or your weight and your outfit?
The related topic that comes up on Reel Girl is violence. Games marketed to boys are violent and that's bad.
I don't like gore; I don't like how movies and toys marketed to boys predominantly feature war and battles. Toys should be marketed to all kids and have diverse themes and characters. But violence in imaginary play isn't bad; it's natural.
Good art evokes emotions in the reader, the observer, or the listener. All kids– and adults– experience intense emotions. Our internal, emotional world is dramatic. Art depicts that internal world, in part, though narratives and dramatic play. A child is ordered to share a toy and she may collapse in tears on the floor. She feels like her world is caving in. A narrative or a game will actually show the world caving in. You may feel like you had "the wind knocked out of you," or feel like you are "being attacked." Art shows that. Not only does art make emotional experience visible, but to be effective, it has to do so in a way that is universal. That is why, in art, you've got to raise the stakes. For example, for me, cleaning my closet is a monumental task. I approach it with fear and when I'm done, I feel as if I've scaled Mount Everest. But if I were to write a story about cleaning my closet, most of my readers would be bored to tears. Art creates a dramatic metaphor around an emotion that everyone can relate to. Instead of cleaning a closet, there is the Greek myth of Psyche sorting seeds.
People feel like the walls are caving in on them for different reasons, but every human experiences that feeling at one time or another.
As far as "boys make sticks into guns, girls make trucks into beds for their dolls," I just think that's bullshit. There are so many ways– books, toys, movies, TV, parents, teachers, doctors, and dentists– kidworld encourages and validates "boy" behavior or "girl" behavior. Wouldn't it be great if all kids were allowed to be human?


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Kelty Coromell
A super warm down bag at a super good price
Brand: Kelty
Model: Coromell
Killer Deal
Want to fly business class on a coach fare? Get the Cosmic. It saves on cost with 550-fill down, but it has sufficient fluff to provide warmth right down to the bottom of its 20°F temp rating. When a late fall night dropped to 19°F, a tester in North Carolina's Appalachains cinched up the hood and went back to sleep. And the cut is generous: "I had more than enough room to tumble and spin without tangling up," says our 5'11", 175-pound tester.
The bag packs to the size of two footballs, slightly larger than more expensive 20°F down bags, but it still fits easily in a weekend pack. The draft collar sealed out wind that howled under a tarp edge, but a tester in New Hampshire on a warmer, windless night said that the collar's loose end scratched his face. The durable 50-denier shell fabric showed no abrasion after throw-down shelter camping in New Hampshire's White Mountains. And don't worry about the less expensive 550-fill duck down causing you to shiver.
While pricier, 800-fill goose down bags are significantly lighter and more packable for the warmth they provide, the Cosmic's temperature rating is honest, and the bargain price makes up for the extra weight and bulk. $110; 2 lbs. 9 oz.; 20°FFor the warm weather camper who wants extra elbow room, the semi-rectangular Coromell features insulation throughout, unzips into a blanket, and doesn't require a companion sleeping pad.
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DROP CONVERSION removes a previously defined conversion. To be able to drop a conversion, you must own the conversion.
Do not throw an error if the conversion does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.
The name of the conversion. The conversion name can be schema-qualified.
These key words do not have any effect, since there are no dependencies on conversions.
There is no DROP CONVERSION statement in the SQL standard, but a DROP TRANSLATION statement that goes along with the CREATE TRANSLATION statement that is similar to the CREATE CONVERSION statement in PostgreSQL.


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Understanding and addressing barriers to COVID-19 testing in the Somali community in King County, WA: A Community-Driven Strategy
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09/01/2020 to 01/01/2021
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› Kakiloc is a Location-Based Social Networking Service ‹
› Discover where your friends are and what they do
› Follow them on Google Maps
› Send messages to them by SMS or Email
› Be notified when they physically reach a specific place
› Create reminder for yourself when you are near a specific area
› And even Find new friends that are visiting the same spots as you.
Kakiloc is officially defunct; this notice was sent out on 11/30/2007:
"Alain Lavoie and I (Martin Dufort) started the service as an experiment in mapping your physical location while on the move in December 2005. We quickly recognize the need to deal and put extra emphasis on supporting mobile technologies because we knew this was the direction the industry was going into. Now look at all the initiatives out there : Google Android, Nokia's new handsets, SkyHook Wireless, etc etc
Of course we were distracted by the attention needed for our other businesses, which were really needed to support us. Thanks to the success of SterlingForever, our online site for stunning the sterling silver rings and other sterling silver jewelry we were able to land on our feet. We decided to go the route of fabulous looking jewelry at reasonable prices that would appeal to a larger demographic. We chose sterling silver along with the synthetic gemstone, cubic zirconia because of their sparkling beauty, versatility, and affordable price. Sterling silver jewelry is a great alternative to the more expensive white gold and platinum. Our site's stunning collection of silver rings consists of high quality, genuine .925 sterling silver which contain other metals, usually copper, to make it more sturdy and durable. Cubic zirconia, with its similar look to diamonds without the cost is set into many of the best sterling silver rings store although we utilize other gemstones as well. Not to toot our horn too much, but this type of jewelry is really something you should look into.
But during all this time, we really wanted Kakiloc to at least migrate to a useful state.
So we work for 2 years (full-time and part-time) refining the service and adding functionalities to both the web site and the mobile applications we were supporting.But in the end, the fierce competition within the social networking space and the service's generic nature prevented us from actually gaining a sustainable user base.On November 6th, I decided to close down the service. Now the servers are actually off-line.I would like to thank all our members for registering and helping out and providing feedback about the service. But a big thanks goes out to Alain for sticking with me and my crazy ideas and trying to push this further. Your partnership was invaluable. Thanks a lot.
The Kakiloc core technology is still alive and is being evaluated for inclusion in a new service but nothing concrete yet."
You can attempt to experiment with the graphic design elements noted here. Customization seems to be coming along and soon more and impressive technology will be available.


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apt-repair-sources on Ubuntu
When I ran our setup on an instance the other day, I noticed how it failed with a "package not found" (or similar) error. After debugging this a bit, we discovered that Karmic moved from "archive.ubuntu.com" to "old-releases.ubuntu.com" (Probably diskspace or something — but who knows? :-)). And because the sources pointed to the former, it broke the bootstrap process on new and existing EC2 instances and Vagrant VMs for us. A truely consistent experience!
apt-get update is run in a chef-recipe and it exists with a non-zero status, the process is stopped. Of course there are ways to work around it (for example:
ignore_failure true), but then again, most of these workarounds are hacks and not suitable for a production environment (IMHO, of course): we often discover new sources from launchpad PPAs and so on and it's paramount to want to know if discovery failed. You cannot assume that all went well
Scalarium fixed their AMI already and updated the sources to point to "old-releases". Running instances are of course still broken.
Enter apt-repair-sources
apt-repair-sources is a small (opinionated) tool written in Ruby.
It offers:
-d), which is the default
-f), which attempts to correct all problems
The reason why apt-repair-sources was written in Ruby is, that I wanted a tool to run with only the most basic setup (on Scalarium). Since Ruby comes installed by default, it was my weapon of choice (vs. Python or PHP). Another advantage was that I had an opportunity to check out more Ruby (aside from cooking with chef) and used this project to learn
more anything about testing in Ruby (using Test::Unit).
Dry run
A dry run can be used to essentially debug the sources on a system.
Here's the output of a dry-run, and all is well:
till@dev:~/apt-repair-sources/bin$ ./apt-repair-sources There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chris-lea-node.js-lucid.list There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/node.list There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chris-lea-redis-server.list There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/silverline.list
Here's the output of a system, where sources are currently broken:
tillklampaeckel@ulic:~/apt-repair-sources/bin$ ./apt-repair-sources /etc/apt/sources.list: http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz /etc/apt/sources.list: http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/source/Sources.gz /etc/apt/sources.list: http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz /etc/apt/sources.list: http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/main/source/Sources.gz /etc/apt/sources.list: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz /etc/apt/sources.list: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-security/main/source/Sources.gz There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gearman-developers-ppa-karmic.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic-multiverse.list: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic-multiverse.list: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/multiverse/source/Sources.gz /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic-multiverse.list: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic-multiverse.list: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/multiverse/source/Sources.gz /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic-multiverse.list: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-security/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic-multiverse.list: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-security/multiverse/source/Sources.gz
Fix it for me
Fix it for me attempts to correct the sources like this:
- sources with *.releases.ubuntu.com are moved to archive.ubuntu.com
- sources with *.archive.ubuntu.com are moved to old-releases.ubuntu.com
- sources with security.ubuntu.com are moved to old-releases.ubuntu.com
On top of these things, it will check Launchpad and third-party PPAs as well, if an issue is found, it'll just disable the entry in the sources file (by commenting it out:
Future releases will probably re-check commented out entries and also attempt to do some kind of sanity-checking of entries using the release name, etc.. These things are hard though and it might be the wrong approach to be opinionated here because e.g. Lucid packages sometimes also work on Karmic. Disabling these might break other things, etc..
Here's a run:
tillklampaeckel@ulic:~/apt-repair-sources/bin$ sudo ./apt-repair-sources -f tillklampaeckel@ulic:~/apt-repair-sources/bin$ echo $? 0 tillklampaeckel@ulic:~/apt-repair-sources/bin$ ./apt-repair-sources There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gearman-developers-ppa-karmic.list There are no errors in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic-multiverse.list
Great success!
Both modes usually exit with zero (
0), which makes it easy to include them for bootstrap processes, general trouble-shooting or periodic cronjobs etc..
Reason to not exit with 0:
- attempt to run apt-repair-sources on another distro than Ubuntu
- old-releases.ubuntu.com is down
- you run with
-f(which of course makes no sense :-))
- trollop (a rubygem i use for CLI option parsing is not found)
# sudo gem install apt-repair-sources
- install Ruby Enterprise Edition (steal Karmic here; this should be your default anyway)
sudo gem install trollop(don't use what is in apt)
- clone my repo:
git clone git://github.com/lagged/apt-repair-sources.git
cd ./apt-repair/sources/bin && ./apt-repair-sources
create a gem
- add support for Debian
- improve my Ruby
Sure hope it's useful for someone else out there.
The code is on github, and I take pull-requests: https://github.com/lagged/apt-repair-sources
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Ohio-To-Boston Flight Makes Emergency Landing
Officials say a commercial flight carrying 34 passengers had to make an emergency stop in Buffalo after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit. The plane landed safely and no one was injured. A Chautauqua Airlines flight operating as United Express made the emergency stop in Buffalo on Sunday. The flight departed from Cleveland and was scheduled to land in Boston at 12:18 p.m. Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority spokesman Dan Hartmayer says that the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and pilots decided to divert to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. The cause of the smoke was not immediately known. Passengers were being placed on other flights.


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'This Week' Transcript: Larry Summers & Mitch McConnell
"This Week" Transcript of Guests: Obama's Chief Economics Adviser Larry Summers and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Mar. 15, 2009
[*] STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning and welcome to "This Week. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
(UNKNOWN): We start with a -- just a (inaudible).
STEPHANOPOULOS: After a scary Monday...
(UNKNOWN): I've never seen the (inaudible)
The Americans have just (inaudible) more fearful than this.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Stocks climb, and the White House talks up the economy.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We're going to get through this.
(UNKNOWN): What we need today is more optimism.
(UNKNOWN): There's no safer investment in the world.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are we closer to a bottom?
Will Obama's plan speed the recovery? And how will Congress respond?
Questions this morning for our headliners, the president's top economic adviser Larry Summers and the Senate's top Republican, Mitch McConnell.
JON STEWART, HOST OF "THE DAILY SHOW": The financial news industry is not just guilty of a sin of commission.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Has the financial crisis spread to journalists (inaudible)? That, and the rest of the week's politics on our roundtable with George Will, Frank Rich of the New York Times, BusinessWeek's Jim Ellis, and Robert Kuttner from the American Prospect.
And, as always, the Sunday funnies.
CRAIG FERGUSON, HOST, "THE LATE LATE SHOW: Here's how bad the economy is. "Sesame Street" has had to lay off 67 people. Now all the characters are living in garbage cans.
ANNOUNCER: From the heart of the nation's capital, "This Week," with ABC News chief Washington correspondent, George Stephanopoulos, live from the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hello again. Those glimmers of economic hope brought some relief this week. But this morning's headlines on the government bailout has the feel of Groundhog Day.
We learned, overnight, that the insurance giant, AIG, which has received $170 billion taxpayer dollars will start paying out today $165 million in employee bonuses.
The company says it has no choice. A contract is a contract.
For the first public response from the Obama administration, I'm joined by the president's top economic adviser, Larry Summers.
Welcome back.
So let's -- let's get this straight, here. AIG informed the government this week. We know that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner complained, on Wednesday, to the chairman, and was told basically there's nothing we can do.
And I think a lot of people simply don't understand, how can this be, especially when these bonuses are going to be going to the financial products division of the company which brought the company down?
SUMMERS: George, look, there are a lot of terrible things that have happened in the last 18 months, but what's happened at AIG is the most outrageous, what that company did, the way it was not regulated; the way no one was watching, what's proved necessary is outrageous.
We are a country of law. There are contracts. The government cannot just abrogate contracts. Every legal step possible to limit those bonuses is being taken by Secretary Geithner and by the Federal Reserve system.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But, basically, I mean, tell me what's wrong with this analogy. Had the government allowed AIG to go into bankruptcy, these bonuses wouldn't necessarily have been paid.
We prevented AIG from going into bankruptcy for good public policy reasons, so why doesn't the government to have the right to at least limit these bonuses?
SUMMERS: The government -- look, I'm not a lawyer, George, and when the original agreements were reached, I wasn't part of the government and party to them.
What the Obama administration has done, based on the advice of attorneys, is done everything it can to, within the law and within the tradition of upholding law that we have in this country, to limit these bonuses.
And they have, as a result of Secretary Geithner's efforts, been scaled back.
And, obviously, this whole area is something we're going to have to look at, as we think about regulation in the future. Because no one can be satisfied with -- with what's happened. And in many cases, we just can't continue to do it -- to do it in this way.
It is outrageous. We are a nation of law, where there are contracts. And there is one other reality we have to recognize, which is that these companies have to be enabled to function, if the government is going to maximize the prospect of getting its money back.
STEPHANOPOULOS: There's a second issue that has to do with transparency. About $50 billion that went to AIG, from the taxpayers, has gone straight to their counterparties.
Now, it's been reported that these are banks like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, and some European banks, yet AIG won't say where this money has gone, won't release who these counterparties are.
And, secondly, a lot of experts wonder -- and Gretchen Morgenson asked this in the New York Times this morning. Why weren't these counterparties forced to take some kind of a haircut?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why were they made completely whole?
SUMMERS: George, both questions are very fair questions. The Federal Reserve is the party to that portion of the agreement with AIG. And my understanding is that they're working with AIG on exactly this issue and getting the legal...
SUMMERS: ... getting the legal things that are necessary for disclosures. In just what way or just when, I can't tell you.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But the president wants that disclosed?
SUMMERS: Because it's the Federal Reserve...
SUMMERS: We'd like to see as much -- we would like to see as much transparency as is legal and is consistent with -- with market functioning. We don't have the ability, under law -- and it's one of the crucial things that, as we move to financial regulation, that the president and Secretary Geithner have emphasized that we need to have, a so-called resolution regime.
It's a technical thing. But it's basically a legal framework in which you're able to work these things out by -- by not needing bailouts and instead being able to limit payments in the way that a bankruptcy does.
But it's not something, as, frankly, we saw in the aftermath of what happened at Lehman, that you can just do in arbitrary or a higgly-piggly kind of...
SUMMERS: ... kind of way.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So, again, there's nothing that can be done about it?
SUMMERS: No, there are things -- there are things that can be done. That's why, in the context of financial regulation, we're working to put all these derivatives on exchange, and so it can all be netted out across all the parties, rather than simply being a contract that somebody is saying has to be -- has to be enforced. STEPHANOPOULOS: But to be clear, the president would like to know who got these funds, and you believe that there should be a haircut?
SUMMERS: I believe that, in principle, in situations of this kind, there should be a framework that permits -- that permits haircuts, so that the situation can be worked forward.
And Secretary Geithner, as he works on financial regulation, is focused on that -- achieving that objective. But there's a very different situation...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Going forward, not looking back?
SUMMERS: That's a different situation than saying that we can just change the rules -- change the rules ex-post.
Look, if you start changing the rules, ex-post, on financial -- on these kinds of contracts, you may get a feeling of satisfaction in the short run. But the president said something very, very important, George, in his State of the Union speech.
He railed and spoke very powerfully against what has happened. And then he said, "but we can't govern out of anger."
And what's being done here -- no one wants to be doing these things. No one wants to see money going for this purpose, with all the needs that our country has.
But at the same time, if we don't contain this situation; if we don't respect laws on which people reasonably relied, the potential chaos, disruption, lack of credit, resulting unemployment will be that much greater. Those are the agonizing judgments that our financial authorities have to make.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You say we can't govern out of anger. You and the president were also trying to inspire hope, this week, on the economy; some signs of some progress, and of course, that move in the stock market this week.
Is an economic bottom in sight?
SUMMERS: George, no one can make that -- no one can make that judgment. You know, the president said something else that was very wise. He said, you know, "It's never as good as people say it is when they say it's good and it's never as bad as people say it is when they say it's bad."
Clearly, the fact that consumer spending was like a ball falling off a table through the holiday season, and that there does seem to be some sign of stability in January and February is better than if that were not the case.
But we've got an economy that's losing 600,000 jobs a month. That's probably not going to stop imminently. And so, while there is signs that some of the things that the president is doing are starting to have effects, these problems did not get made overnight. They didn't get made in a year. And they're not going to get fixed very rapidly, either.
But what we have to do is put in place a program. And the president is doing that, with jobs, with housing, with the flow of credit; tomorrow, with small business, to put in place a program that addresses the crucial problems and permits stability to be -- to be regained. But it's going to take some time.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the news on the banks, specifically?
We learned this week, from Citigroup, from Bank of America, from JPMorgan, that they were all -- claimed to be profitable so far this year.
And I wonder what you make of that, and what you think our viewers should make of that. Does that mean -- especially the real problem banks, so far, at least reported to be problem banks, Citigroup and Bank of America -- does this mean they're out of the woods?
SUMMERS: I don't think that -- I wish I could say that. I wish -- just as I wish I could say that the fact that the stock market was up meant that the country was out of the woods or the fact that consumer spending had been strong meant that the country was out of the woods.
SUMMERS: Clearly, it's better for banks to be profitable in this sense, when they're short of capital, than if they were losing large amounts of money. But there are very fundamental issues in the banking system, principally having to do with this very large quantity of so-called toxic assets that people don't understand very well.
And so they don't have the trust on which a financial system depends, and which inhibit, because of all of that uncertainty and distrust, their capacity to lend. And while this is encouraging information, it doesn't mean that that problem is being removed. It's a problem that's going to take time. And it's a problem that's going to take strong policy.
The policy starts...
STEPHANOPOULOS: But I want to get to that because it's my understanding that the president had a meeting of his economic team Tuesday night and finalize the outline of how to deal with these toxic assets. Treasury still working on the details.
Let me try to explain in layman's terms and you tell me where I'm getting it wrong. Basically the government wants to set up a public- private partnership where both the government would try to encourage hedge funds, other private investors to get into these markets to try to buy these toxic assets from the banks by putting up some money, also giving them financing.
And that if the investments made money, the government gets paid back. But if the investments lose money, the most the investors could lose would be their down payment. They're going to have the loan forgiven.
Some economists have criticized that plan, including Paul Krugman of The New York Times. And here's what he says about it. He says: "The administration would shower benefits on everyone who made the mistake of buying the stuff. Some of those benefits would trickle down to where they're needed, shoring up the balance sheets of key financial institutions. But most of the benefits would go to people who don't need or deserve to be rescued."
Your response?
SUMMERS: Well, I think it's much better to have the president and have Secretary Geithner lay out their approach so that everyone can see it. I'm not sure I understand Professor Krugman's argument. If you support this market, you enable, for example, lower mortgage rates. I think the benefits of that go to the people who really should see those benefits. If you provide support for the credit markets, you increase the supply of student lending because people who make student loans can sell them off their balance sheet and then be in a position to make new student loans.
Whether it's car loans, what have you, restarting our capital markets is essential if we're going to be able to get this credit flow going. And this credit flow is, in turn, essential for consumer confidence using...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Even if that means taxpayers taking almost all of the risk?
SUMMERS: Well, they're not taking all. They're not taking anything like all of the risk, George. No taxpayer in these arrangements is going to lose money until the investor who put up the money has lost 100 percent of their...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Of their down payment?
SUMMERS: Down -- of the money they put up. So until whoever it is who buys it, whether it's an insurance company or a hedge fund, until whoever it is who buys it is completely wiped out, the government financing isn't going to be touched at all.
And there could be a lot of care given to make sure that those in effect down payments are large enough that the government's interest is protected.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Yesterday -- earlier on Friday, we saw the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, say that he was worried about his investments, $1 trillion investment in U.S. Treasury bonds.
The president and you pushed back hard yesterday, saying that everyone should have confidence in the American economy. But I wonder, what do you think the premier was doing there? Was that saber-rattling?
SUMMERS: Oh, look, I have a hard enough time, frankly, understanding the motives of all of the things that political people here in Washington say without trying to establish the political motives of political statements that come out of China.
But I'll say this, George, what has been very striking in this time of financial distress, even with all of the financial problems that we've had, is the way in which capital has flowed into the United States. In the way in which people have seen U.S. Treasuries as a place where their money is safe, where there is a liquid and deep capital market.
Now we've got to make sure to keep it that way. And that's why the president's budget puts a lot of emphasis on the need to have the budget deficit he inherited over the next four years, and put the country's finances on a sound basis after the -- as the economy expands.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I want to get to the budget because Mr. -- Senator McConnell is about to come up, the Republican leader in the Senate. He says he has only three problems with the president's budget. It spends too much. It taxes too much. And it borrows too much. Your response?
SUMMERS: We'd love to see Senator McConnell's concrete alternatives that gets closer to a balanced budget. The situation the president inherited of nearly $1 trillion deficits, before he did anything, came at a time -- came at a time when it was a Republican president and a Republican Congress that were making the decisions.
I believe the approach that the president is taking, which represents the first serious effort to contain health care costs in many years, that is going to stop going forward the practice of earmarks, that's going to monitor every federal expenditure in this stimulus program where people can see it on the Internet, I think it's the right kind of approach. It's the largest cuts in, you know, this category, George, so-called domestic discretionary spending. Basically, the non-Social Security, non-Medicare, non-defense part of the budget, it's getting cut more strongly than it has in any budget that's been proposed in many years.
So I think what the president is proposing is a strategic budget. It is making substantial cuts, but it's also providing support in some important areas, like education, like health care, like taking the steps that are necessary to make us less dependent on foreign oil and start addressing global climate change that will let us have a sound economic expansion.
STEPHANOPOULOS: OK, Larry Summers, thanks very much for your time this morning.
SUMMERS: Thank you.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's get the response right now from Senator McConnell. He's down in Louisville, Kentucky. You heard Mr. Summers there, Senator. Will the Republicans in the Senate be providing an alternative budget?
MCCONNELL: Well, first, let's take a look at the budget the president is offering. That's his responsibility. The majority has a responsibility to lay out their plan, George, for the next few years, and they've done it. It will double the national debt in five years and triple the national debt in 10 years. It taxes too much, it spends too much, it borrows too much, as you indicated.
What I have said and our colleagues have said repeatedly, it does what the president's chief of staff -- he was pretty candid about it -- they're taking advantage of a crisis in order to do things that had nothing to do with getting us into the crisis in the first place. They want to have a massive expansion of health care. An energy tax, which many people are now calling a light switch tax, of another $600 billion. It's sort of bait-and-switch.
What we really ought to be doing here is concentrating on fixing the financial system, which you did ask Secretary Summers about a good bit, and the housing problem. But not using this crisis as an excuse to go on an explosion of spending.
One other point. We have already authorized this year in the first 50 days of this administration, spending at the rate of $24 billion a day, or $1 billion an hour. Another way of looking at it, just putting it in context, this $1.2 trillion that we've spent in the first 50 days is more than the previous administration spent after 9/11 on Iraq, Afghanistan and the response to Katrina.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, Senator, there's a lot of criticism there, but no alternative. And the Democratic Party and the White House are going to make a real push to paint you as the "just say no" party.
Look what the DNC has put up on their Web site. They have this clock showing that it's been 16 days, 20 hours and 18 minutes and counting since you've had a budget. An outside group called Americans United for Change is putting out this ad this morning making the same point. Listen.
UNKNOWN: The Republican response?
UNKNOWN: No.
UNKNOWN: No.
UNKNOWN: No.
UNKNOWN: So what kind of budget have the Republicans proposed to get us out of the mess they created? Here are the details.
That's right. Nothing.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So will you have a budget, and are you worried about that attack?
MCCONNELL: No, we are going to offer a number of amendments to the Democratic proposal.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But no comprehensive budget?
MCCONNELL: Well, it will reframe what the Democrats recommend for America over the next five and 10 years. And I assure you, the amendments that we offer will not lay out a blueprint for doubling the national debt in five years and tripling it in 10 years. That is not what we think... STEPHANOPOULOS: But shouldn't you have to have a comprehensive approach that lays out the tradeoffs? If you just have rifle shot amendments, you don't have to make all the tradeoffs that you have to make in the overall budget.
MCCONNELL: Well, we're just sort of getting down in the weeds here over procedure. Through the amendment process, we would absolutely reformulate the Democratic plan. Whether you have a comprehensive approach or whether you offer an amendment approach is something that parliamentarians can debate, but the point is, we're going to have alternatives, just like we had alternatives when they offered the massive stimulus package.
MCCONNELL: We would have spent half as much money, we would have fixed housing, and put money back into pockets of taxpayers. So we have offered alternatives all along the way, and we will offer numerous alternatives on the budget when it comes up.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask you about AIG. You heard me talking to Mr. Summers about that earlier, and he said, you know, he's outraged. The president is outraged and as angry as anyone else, but there's nothing the government can do. Do you accept that?
MCCONNELL: Well, it is an outrageous situation. I wrote Secretary Paulson back in October complaining about the way AIG had been doing its business.
The point here is, if you're going to take the government as a partner, the message here, I'm afraid, to any business out there that's thinking about taking government money, is let's enter into a bunch of contracts real quick, and we'll have the taxpayers pay bonuses to our employees.
This is an outrage. And for them to simply sit there and blame it on the previous administration or claim contract -- we all know that contracts are valid in this country, but they need to be looked at. Did they enter into these contracts knowing full well that, as a practical matter, the taxpayers of the United States were going to be reimbursing their employees? Particularly employees who got them into this mess in the first place. I think it's an outrage.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And on the bank plan, the president's bank plan, we're going to be seeing the final details in the next couple of weeks, but last week, your colleague, Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, made it clear that he wasn't for any kind of a bailout for these banks. In fact, he wants to shut the worst ones down. Take a listen.
SHELBY: Close them down. Get them out of business. If they're dead, they ought to be buried. We buried the small banks. We got to bury some big ones, and send a strong message to the market.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you agree with Senator Shelby? MCCONNELL: Well, I'm open to talking about fixing the financial system. I supported the financial rescue package back in October, and so I'm anxious to look at what the administration would like to do. I don't know whether it will end up requiring our consent or whether it will be done on the basis of authorization that's previously been given to them, but I'm willing to listen to them.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you're not for closing down the banks?
MCCONNELL: I'm for closing down -- a lot of that is happening already. And a number of banks have been closed down by the FDIC, as you know.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But how about the big ones like Citigroup, Bank of America, the large banks that could lead -- that some people claim are too big to fail?
MCCONNELL: Well, you know, we thought back in October, when we voted for the financial rescue package that the package was going to go after toxic assets. And unfortunately, it ended up being a capital investment. We all kind of held our noses and supported it, because they said that we're going to have a financial meltdown. 74 out of 100 senators believed that to be the case. So we'll have to see what they recommend.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you're open to it, to be clear, open to including more funds then?
MCCONNELL: I want to see what they recommend, George. I'm not just going to say, without even looking at it yet, that this makes no sense. But I have been very, very skeptical of everything that's happened since the initial financial rescue package. We're now moving into basically industrial policy, by trying to rescue the automobile companies who ought to be making very tough decisions themselves. I think skepticism among my colleagues for additional bailouts is very, very high, and that includes me.
STEPHANOPOULOS: OK. Senator McConnell, thanks very much for your time this morning. Congratulations, Louisville winning the Big Eight last night.
MCCONNELL: Big win. Big East.
STEPHANOPOULOS: See you soon.


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text: Well, it's 2016, and a few years ago Gartner reported that "By 2016, poor return on equity will drive more than 60 percent of banks worldwide to process the majority of their transactions in the cloud."Enterprises across all sectors are either in the cloud, transitioning to the cloud, or thinking about making the idea of cloud a reality.\u00a0For those who are preparing to make the move, there are a variety of concerns to consider and plan for in order to make for a smooth transition.\u00a0In addition to deciding on the right cloud provider and whether to go with a private or a public cloud, CISOs also need to think about implementing solutions for controls on access, encryption, legal and compliance issues.Russell Stern, CEO of\u00a0Solarflare, said that many financial institutions are building private clouds because they\u00a0buy so many computers that going to Amazon or Microsoft doesn\u2019t save them any money.Of greater concern than cost, though, is putting client data out into a public cloud. "The security of that has not been solved. A lot of companies talk about hybrid cloud, and they can put the less sensitive data in the public cloud infrastructure," Stern said.Whether they choose public or private clouds, the decision to move to a cloud must be centered around security. "We are being attacked so hard from nation states that the public cloud is not sufficient in security for the kind of protection these institutions need. With the public cloud, they are not exactly sure where it is," Stern said.Many agree that the public cloud environment has too many unknowns, especially for those enterprises that have to worry about compliance issues. For financial institutions, "The biggest concern is having a third party, which doesn\u2019t have to be an outsider, capture your transactions in a place that is separate from the environment running the application so that you can forensically look backwards," Stern said.Another question that should be considered before making the idea of cloud a reality is whether the cloud is a better alternative to the current IT system infrastructure. If the answer is yes, the question to follow should be how organizations can integrate their current systems with the cloud.For most legacy systems, cloud is a worse alternative, Stern said. "For modern applications, moving into cloud is easier. But there are companies that have five to 10,000 legacy applications that were written 20+ years ago."Is your head in the clouds?Five questions companies should ask a cloud service or hosting company.Will all of the applications run in the cloud, and if they will do they need additional licensing to run them?What are the security benefits of moving to the cloud?Where is the data physically stored?Do we need an enterprise-wide encryption strategy?Will we be on our own instances, or will anyone else have access to our data?In either a private or a public cloud, they need applications to behave a certain way. Unfortunately, it's not always possible to move\u00a0legacy. A workaround that will require change over a long period, said Stern, is if they\u00a0put what they can in their private or public cloud until they are able to examine which ones are worth rewriting.\u00a0Before making the move to the cloud, Alex Hamerstone, GRC practice lead at TrustedSec, said, "Settle on a definition of what the cloud is. It\u2019s really just someone else\u2019s computer. A computer that\u2019s not yours. You should know why you are you moving to the cloud. What are the advantages? Is it cost or that it is easier to maintain?"While cost is often cited as a reason for making the move to the cloud, for larger enterprises the cost of protecting all of their users can actually increase.Gunter Ollmann, CSO at Vectra Networks, said, "Instead of buying hardware and appliances with a three-to-five-year depreciation lifecycle, they are buying a service. They are now paying, typically, based around number of servers or users being protected. Their security spend can change drastically in Capex and Opex."For example, if they want to firewall their organization today, they could buy a $15,000 firewall and deploy it. "They don\u2019t care about how many users they have in their environment. When you shift to cloud, firewall spend will be based on the number of users using the cloud. The number of users protected will change the cost considerably," Ollmann said.Contracts are extremely important, and they should understand the service-level agreement and be aware of any financial considerations for whether the provider fails to meet the SLA. "Someone once told me, it doesn\u2019t matter who\u2019s liable it matters whois collectable," Hamerstone said.Where is the data located?Enterprises also should be asking exactly where--physically--their data is going to be located. "That can affect your regulatory requirements. It's definitely a red flag if the providers don\u2019t know. They should have assurance that it's in a certain facility or area," said Hamerstone.More providers are able to give those assurances as data centers are being erected across the globe in different areas to provide cloud services because laws and regulations are complex. "EU countries don\u2019t want their data leaving the EU, so it is easier to set up a data center in the EU," said Hamerstone.An established provider, said Hamerstone, has already addressed the security questions that worried security practitioners a few years ago. "They will be able to tell you what types of security controls they have in place. Ask them if you are being hosted on your own instance so that you're not hosted in the same cloud as three other companies. That way, you can\u2019t access someone else's data and they can\u2019t access yours."In terms of security controls, they should treat the cloud as they do the server down the hall, Hamerstone said, "If you have to encrypt in the server down the hall, it has to be encrypted in the cloud."One glitch to look out for, though, is licensing agreements. "Software companies will often make more money off of fines for having stuff in the wrong place. If you are moving the application, make sure you are moving the license as well," Hamerstone said.Organizations that are making the transition will also need the same classes of security technology that they have employed inside their own infrastructure, whether it's IDS or data leakage, they now require virtual versions of those to be deployed in there."They should ensure they still have the same technology and visibility of their traffic. Some will find they need to look at alternative vendors for their cloud security. Many traditional vendors do have some virtual appliances, but in general many of the newer security companies have focused on cloud and have much more mature security cloud based products," Ollmann said.Many enterprises still have reservations about moving to the cloud because they fear a loss of control in the virtual world. In reality, though, the cloud does exist in some physical space. This notion of no longer worrying about physical security is, according to Ollmann, a blind spot happening in cloud."They are still on a physical infrastructure and the physical infrastructure needs to be secured. It's difficult to monitor the physical security of a cloud provider to detect vulnerabilities that are within the physical infrastructure," said Ollmann.Enterprises should ask about security assurances in the both the virtual and physical places where their data is stored to avoid the risks of these not so well known blind spots.


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|DoS Contracting: CWC's 2nd Interim Report, the QDDR and Iraq Transition
|Amb Patrick F. Kennedy
|Implementing improvements to Defense wartime contracting
|Jacques Gansler, Ph.D.
Paul Francis (GAO)
Stuart Bowen (SIGIR)
Daniel Blair (DoDIG)
Herbert Richardson (SIGAR)
|NGOs' lessons for contingencies
|Matthew McGarry (Catholic Relief Services)
Anne C. Richard (International Rescue Committee)
Michael Bowers (Mercy Corps)
Michael Klosson (Save the Children)
|USAID plans for improved contracting performance
|Rajiv Shah (USAID)
|Better Buying Power in Defense Spending
|Ashton B. Carter (DoD)
|Ensuring contractor accountability: Past performance and suspensions and debarments
|Rear Admiral Robert J. Gilbeau, U.S. Navy(DCMA-I)
Michael Carroll (USAID)
Captain Timothy Harrington (Navy)
Scott Amey (POGO)
Dan Gordon (OFPP)
Richard T. Ginman(DoD)
Corey Rindner (DoS)
Maureen Shauket (USAID)
Dan Blalock (Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee)
Uldric L. Fiore (U.S. Army)
|Recurring problems in Afghan construction, part 2
|William Van Dyke (Black & Veatch)
Mr. Bruce McCarron (UNOPS)
Mr. Michael E. McKelvy (CH2M Hill)
Charles Mouzannar (AMEC Earth & Environmental)
|Recurring problems in Afghan construction
|Major General (Ret) Arnold Fields (SIGAR)
Major General Jeffrey J. Dorko (Army Corps of Engineers)
Mr. William J. McGlynn Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (DoS)
Colonel Wilfred T. Cassidy (USAF)
Mr. J. Alexander Thier (USAID)
|The Contingency Acquisition Workforce: What is needed and how do we get there?
|Jacques S. Gansler ("Gansler Report" of 2007)
Charles D. Grimes III (OPM)
Daniel I. Gordon (OFPP)
Kathy Ott (DoD)
James McMichael (DAU)
Charlie E. Williams, Jr. (DCMA)
Patrick J. Fitzgerald (DCAA)
Lt. Gen. William N. Phillips (ASALT)
Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford (Air Force)
Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp (USACE)
Jeffrey P. Parsons (ACC)
|Subcontracting: Who's Minding the Store?
|Edward Harrington (DoD)
Patrick Fitzgerald (DCAA)
Cathy Read (DoS)
Drew W. Luten III (USAID)
Cheryl Ritondale (KBR)
Norm Powell (Fluor)
John Supina (DynCorp)
Chris Taylor (Mission Essential Personnel, LLC)
Fred Brune (CH2M Hill; subcontractor to DynCorp)
Perry Dalby (Tamimi Global; subcontractor to KBR)
Paul Hinks (Symbion Power Services; subcontractor to Louis Berger/Black & Veatch)
Mark Kleckner (McNeil Technologies; subcontractor to DynCorp)
Marc Krens (The Diplomat Group; subcontractor to Fluor)
Jerry Torres (Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions; subcontractor to MEP)
|Total Force Policy, the QDR, and Other Defense and Operational Planning:
Why does Planning for Contractors Continue to Lag?
|Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
Lieutenant General Kathleen Gainey, Director of Logistics, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Richard Robbins, Director, Requirements, OSD P&R
Gary Motsek, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
|Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Where are we going?
|Gary Motsek (DoD)
Charlene Lamb (DoS)
David Blackshaw (USAID)
Edward Harrington (Army)
Don Ryder (DynCorp)
Kristi Clemens Rogers (Aegis)
Ignacio Balderas (Triple Canopy)
|Are Private Security Contractors Performing Inherently Governmental Functions?
|Dr. Al Burman (Jefferson Solutions)
Dr. Allison Stanger (Middlebury College)
Stan Soloway (PSC)
Danielle Brian (POGO)
Dr. Deborah Avant(University of California, Irvine)
Dr. John Nagl (Center for new American Security)
|How good is our system for curbing contract waste, fraud, and abuse?
|James Burch (DoD)
Kevin L. Perkins (FBI)
Raymond J. DiNunzio (SIGAR)
Ginger Cruz (SIGIR), Accompanied by Jon E. Novak
Donald A. Gambatesa (USAID)
Harold W. Geisel (DoS)
Mary L. Ugone (DoD)
|Reliance on Contingency Services Contracts: Where is the Management and Oversight?
|Shay Assad (DPAP)
Lieutenant General William Phillips (Army)
Edward Harrington (Army)
Jay Ward (Aecom)
Terry Raney (CACI)
|Rightsizing and managing contractors during the Iraq drawdown
|Patrick J. Fitzgerald (DCAA)
Jim Loehrl (RICC)
Lt. Gen. Pillsbury (Army Materiel Command)
Doug Horn (KBR)
Guy LaBoa (KBR)
|An Urgent Need: Coordinating Reconstruction and Stabilization in Contingency Operations PART II
|James A. Bever (USAID)
John E Herbst (DoS)
Dr. James Schear (DoD)
|An Urgent Need: Coordinating Reconstruction and Stabilization in Contingency Operations
|Stuart Bowen (SIGIR)
Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields (SIGAR)
Robert Perito (USIP)
Mark Schneider (International Crisis Group)
Seth Jones (RAND Corp)
|Coordinating Reconstruction and Stabilization in Contingency Operations
|Postponed due to weather
|Afghan National Security Forces Contract Training
|Amb (Ret) Kenneth P. Moorefield (DoD IG)
Major General Richard P. Formica
David T. Johnson (DoS/INL)
Michael Strain (DoD/CNTPO)
Donald Ryder (Dyncorp) Richard C. Nickerson (MPRI)
Fred Roitz (Xe)
|Counting Contractors, Managing the Drawdown, and DCMA/DCAA Cooperation
|Gary Motsek
Redding Hobby
John P. Hutton
Rear Admiral Tom Traaen
Lee Thompson
William M. Solis
Shay D. Assad
Charlie E. Williams, Jr.
April G. Stephenson
|State Department Contractor Oversight and Conduct
|Patrick F. Kennedy
Terry Pearson
Danielle Brian
Samuel Brinkley
William L. Ballhaus
Doug Brooks
|Linguist Support Services
|April G. Stephenson (DCAA)
John Isgrigg (INSCOM)
Greg Scmidt (Northrop Grummand)
John Houck (GLS)
Thomas Miller (L-3 Communications Holdings)
|Contractor Business Systems
|David Methot (Fluor)
David Ricci (DCMA)
Jeff Parsons (AMC-ACC)
William Ballhaus (DynCorp)
William Walter (KBR)
April Stephenson (DCAA)
|LOGCAP: Support-Contracting Challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan
|Mr. Jeffery P. Parsons (US Army Contracting Command)
Lee Thompson (LOGCAP Program Manager)
Charlie Williams (DCMA)
April Stephenson (DCAA)
|Lessons from the Inspectors General: Improving Wartime Contracting
|Stuart Bowen (SIGIR)
Thomas F. Gimble (DoD)
Harold W. Geisel (DoS)
Donald A. Gambatesa (USAID)