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Beyond its premier university, Berkeley brims with colorful boutiques, haute cuisine, and a sense of humor.
On a recent summer evening, with the sun hanging low over the Golden Gate Bridge, Anthony Sandberg stepped aboard a 36-foot yacht and eased it into San Francisco Bay. Salt spray licked the bow and a cool breeze puffed across the water. Another day in Berkeley was coming to a close. Wait. Drop anchor. Not Berkeley, Calif., aka Berserkeley, renowned epicenter for all things offbeat? Where were the anti- Styrofoam activists? The eccentric artists? They— and the rest of Berkeley's 100,000 residents—were milling about onshore somewhere, just across the bay from San Francisco, enjoying a vibrant place that exists beyond the realm of clunky stereotypes. "Everyone seems to have an image of Berkeley," says Sandberg, founder of the OCSC Sailing school. "They'll tell me, 'Hey, whoa! There's yachting in Berkeley? I never would have thought that.' Sure, there's yachting, and a whole lot more." That much becomes clear when you take time to explore the city, from its scenic marina through its vibrant commercial districts to the forested hills of Tilden Regional Park. Only then does Berkeley emerge in its full dimension as a destination brimming with outdoor beauty and activities, cultural attractions, and some of the West's finest cuisine. For visitors, the challenge of Berkeley isn't finding points of interest but deciding where to start. One solution is to think like a local and regard Berkeley as two entities: the university and everything else. The world-renowned University of California invigorates much of Berkeley's cultural life. Among the institutions rising from its campus are the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, each of which serves as a vital center for the visual arts. Exhibits spotlight works by established masters (Gauguin and Pollock, for example) and by rising stars of the avant-garde; digital artist Jim Campbell says his recently displayed mural-size installations "use chilly technology to capture fleeting moments of human warmth." Screening rooms showcase films by household names (Hitchcock, Welles) and lesser known personalities such as video pioneer Joan Jonas.Two other UC-run venues, plush Zellerbach Hall and the outdoor Greek Theatre, provide contrasting settings for some of the biggest draws in the performing arts—the Alvin Ailey dance company, say, or the Berkeley-born band Counting Crows.
Retail shops along the edge of campus appeal to student tastes and budgets: inexpensive ethnic eateries and trade-inyour-old-jeans clothing stores. Cafes abound, as do community gardens and compelling bookstores; both Black Oak Books and Moe's stock a broad selection of new and used titles.
"The independent bookstore isn't exactly a flourishing business model these days, but it's still alive in Berkeley," says Moe's manager, Gene Barone. "And having the university here doesn't hurt."
Just as the school has shaped the city, so has the city helped shape the school. Take August Vollmer, Berkeley's original police chief. Though he lacked a formal higher education, Vollmer established the nation's first criminal justice program at UC-Berkeley in 1916.
Another first: Berkeley is considered the birthplace of California cuisine. Credit goes largely to Alice Waters, whose Chez Panisse opened here in 1971 and remains a kind of culinary icon, known for its emphasis on local and seasonal ingredients. Other standouts, such as Lalime's and Rivoli, bolster the notion that Berkeley has one of the finest dining scenes in the West.
"In Berkeley you have people who are willing to put their money where their mouth is," says Bruce Aidells, cookbook author and founder of a gourmet sausage company bearing his name. "In other places, people spend their disposable income on an RV or motorboat. Here, we don't think twice about spending $4 on an heirloom tomato."
Ground zero for this mind-set is the neighborhood surrounding Chez Panisse. It's known as the Gourmet Ghetto, an apt name for a district that blends the bohemian with the bourgeois. Here you'll find the Cheeseboard Collective, a worker-owned cooperative that sells a staggering variety of cheeses and baked goods at reasonable prices. It's also where you'll come across Epicurious Garden, an upscale culinary mall that features takeout sushi, chocolate truffles, and champagne sorbetto.
When shopping for ingredients to use in their own kitchens, locals often go straight to the source. Berkeley farmers' markets, held year-round in three different locations, teem with the Bay Area's natural bounty. Customers can track the change in seasons through the markets' shifting wares, from the satsuma mandarins of early winter to the asparagus that signals spring.
At any time of year, a couple of snarky nicknames for the city get tossed around. The People's Republic of Berkeley. Cambridge of the West. The monikers have their roots in 1960s campus activism. Berkeley, after all, was home to the historic Free Speech Movement, a precursor to student protests across the country, and People's Park, a counterculture landmark that has been the staging ground for countless rallies.
Today, though, the free market is alive and well in the People's Republic. Look towards Fourth Street. This chic shopping strip is lined with fine restaurants such as Eccolo, serving spit-roasted chicken and handmade ricotta ravioli in rustic Cal-Italian dishes, and O Chame, where delicate salads and soba noodle soups stand out on a menu of subtle Japanese cuisine. These restaurants rub elbows with specialty shops including Erica Tanov (women's designer clothing) and the Gardener, purveyor of beautiful, functional home accessories. If an albino python is what you're after, try the East Bay Vivarium. Note: That 90-pound Asian water monitor lizard is named Taz, and he's not for sale.
Just west of Fourth Street, Berkeley's breezy waterfront and elongated pier allow for stellar views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge.
University Avenue, the broad thoroughfare stretching up from the bay, reflects the city's varied international flavors, with Pakistani, Thai, and West African restaurants, taco stands, and jewelry stores glistening with Indian gold. At Sari Palace, the cloth wraps are available in kaleidoscopic colors. Just off University on San Pablo Avenue, Indus Village cooks up lively curries including achaar murgh, a simmered chicken and spicy pickle dish that nearly melts your teeth, though in a pleasant way.
University Avenue dead-ends at the UC-Berkeley campus, which gives way to Tilden Regional Park in the hills to the east. The park's merry-go-round and scaled-down steam train make sweet diversions, as does Little Farm, where kids can pet calves and feed celery and lettuce (organic or not) to goats. Anyone possessing a green thumb will enjoy the Regional Parks Botanic Garden, which features the most complete collection of native California plants you're likely to find anywhere.
Berkeley, for its part, features a fairly complete collection of Californians, as evidenced by the annual "How Berkeley Can You Be?" celebration. Participants have included nudists, animal rights parodists, and Buddhist monks. Though nudity has been banned (the city does have its limits), the event retains a very local spirit. How Berkeley can you be? Good luck trying to count the ways.
Photography by Robert Holmes
This article was first published in September 2008. Some facts may have aged gracelessly. Please call ahead to verify information.


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|2012-11-17, 18:54
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Age: 33
yeah arsenal looked great today shame it only happens in patches and united had their dud game of the season today, they always have one or two, luckily the other teams have many still hate that happens.
|2012-11-17, 19:47
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Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
Huge for morale, but Spurs was a man down and collapsing and Arsenal still looked inconsistent in defense. This will be dangerous against firmer teams, as was proven by some of the season's matches.
Bless Santi though. I almost (*almost*) don't miss RVP.
|2012-11-20, 11:48
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ばか =)
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Age: 33
Predictions for tonights and tomorrows champions league group stage ties?
I'm going for united to be thrashed by galatasaray (as fergie is united youngsters)
Juve to beat chelsea
Benfice to beat celtic
and city to loose to Real
|2012-11-21, 11:31
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ばか =)
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Age: 33
I couldn't believe that news when I heard it this morning, mean he only lost 3 games in a row, give the dude a break. Clearly the fans wanted him there but Bitch face Roman had other plans. Ah well this can only help united gain a hold on the title tis season depending on city's performances.
P.S. I heard Rafa Benitez is favourite for the chelsea job now....
|2012-11-21, 14:21
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Looking for ONE PIECE
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sleeping Forest
it's really hard to not let things get to you. RDM was never the answer and Rafa will sink us in a hole so deep that it scares me.
Rafa is a good manager, but just like the others he will come to make money not to build a club. and Pep is not gonna sign anything until jan 2013. which will be way too late and we will have lost the league by then. then there's transition. by which time we will spend money on players that we do not need.
though saying that from what i'm reading at the moment it looks like it's gonna be Rafa.
Please, Please Rafa do the right thing and don't take the job.
and if you do make me eat my words, as unlikely as that is.
|2012-11-21, 21:36
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: London, UK
Age: 34
It's not over yet. We still have to beat Shakhtar or atleast draw the match. Though seeing how they poorly behaved against Nordsjaelland with that lack of fair play I hope we defeat them, but it won't be easy at all (in fact it'll likely be the toughest match of the group).
|2012-11-23, 02:12
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Spinning round and round~
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Singapore
Age: 27
Unfortunately it's all out of their hands now. Juve just need to draw the next game, and that's the bare minimum they'll need to kick out Chelsea from the Champions League. Chelsea all but out now unless they get really lucky.
|2012-11-23, 03:03
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Shadow of Effilisi
Join Date: Oct 2011
I really hope Juve will make a long way into the CL. Their long absence in the top level European competition feels like a gaping hole in the football world.
|2012-11-23, 03:11
|Link #4094
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
I'm in-between "YEAAHHH RAFA'S BAAAACK" and "Oh Chelsea, he'll last three months."
But seriously I don't understand Chelsea. I don't understand you Chelsea fans and why you think what you think sometimes (honest, no insult here). How was Di Matteo not the right thing when he won you Europe's highest honor on a patchjob? Why would you think Rafa would be any worse than literally any other manager in such a situation? Who would be having enough time and space to even think about building a club under Abramovich's continuous micromanagement and the threat of being thrown out? What could be done, aside from not firing RDM or maybe AVB back then?
Really, honest question, because I have no idea.
The only thing I truly understand about Chelsea is that, aside from being actually quite good at this football thing, John Terry is a dick, Roman Abramovich is a dick, and successful managers keep getting fired.
|2012-11-23, 10:50
|Link #4096
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
^Oh no, I'm not "blaming" Chelsea fans (the dick's the Roman, not the fans). I'm just seriously confused at times by what Chelsea fans think of their managers. I sort of got that AVB didn't work out, but what's wrong with Di Matteo or Rafa, etc., and I'm interested too in who they think should lead Chelsea...uh, steward Chelsea under Abramovich.
|2012-11-23, 23:57
|Link #4097
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Age: 35
If Chelsea FC fans really care about the club and are concerned about the crap done by the owner, they should make a photocopy of Manchester United fans' textbook on how to make massive protests against the owner (when the time requires action) and apply the recipe outside of Stamford Bridge.
|2012-11-24, 11:15
|Link #4098
Join Date: May 2006
Location: London, UK
Age: 34
Given that in the recent years (and even now) we've been under fire and criticism it really feels good to finally see the team playing well and getting praised for it.
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The Neighbor,
Havana, Cuba, 2011
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Rose Marie Cromwell (b. 1983) is an photographic artist originally from Seattle, Washington, and currently living and working between New York and Panama. Using photography she documents performances and still lifes that explore themes of intimacy, communication, social politics, and alternative notions of family and home. She was named one of 25 under 25 Up and Coming American Photographers by powerHouse books and The Center for Documentary Studies, and is a Fulbright Fellowship Scholar. Her first solo show was at the Diablo Rosso gallery in Panama City and she recently participated in the 1st Bienale del Sur in Panama City. Cromwell's work has been published online and in print in a variety of international magazines, including LayFlat.com and Vision Magazine, China. Cromwell completed her BFA in Art Photography at Maryland Institute of Art, and was awarded a Full Fellowship from Syracuse University where she recently graduated with an MFA in Art Photography. She is also a social practice artist, and a founder and director of the the alternative arts education initiative based in Panama, Cambio Creativo.
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The Caped Crusader celebrates his 75th anniversary this year, a feat which will be celebrated with special events all year long, including Batman Day on Wednesday, July 23.
DC Entertainment is partnering with thousands of comic book retailers, bookstores, and libraries on Batman Day to commemorate the Dark Knight's influence in popular culture.
The Iowa City Public Library will celebrate Batman Day with a costume contest and a free screening of "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm." Don your best Caped Crusader apparel and enjoy an animated film in which we Batman is investigating the murders of several prominent gangsters at the same time his ex-fiancée is back in Gotham City.
Comic book artist Eric Gapstur will draw Batman sketches for anyone who wants one during the movie.
After the film, you're invited to show us how much you know about Bruce Wayne's Alter Ego in our Batman Trivia Challenge.
The celebration begins at 2 p.m. in Meeting Room A. It is free and open to all ages.
For more information about the Library's Batman Day celebration, contact Brian Visser at (319) 356-5200.
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"Jesus Christ Accepts the Kirtland Temple as His House," Friend, May 2013, 16
Stories of Jesus
Jesus Christ Accepts the Kirtland Temple as His House
Jesus Christ commanded the Prophet Joseph Smith to build a temple in Kirtland. It would be the first temple in the latter days.
After the new temple was finished, Joseph Smith said a prayer to dedicate it. In his prayer, he asked the Lord to accept the temple as His holy house (see D&C 109:4).
A week later, Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the temple. He said: "For behold, I have accepted this house, and my name shall be here; and I will manifest myself to my people in mercy in this house" (D&C 110:7).


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It is well known that the Beta distribution serves as a conjugate prior for the Bernoulli distribution, and that when you observe a Bernouilli random variable, you need only increment the appropriate hyperparameter of the Beta distribution.
However when the Bernoulli distribution is "noisy" in the sense that you do not observe the the Bernoulli random variable directly, but instead observe a random variable that is equal to the Bernoulli random variable with probability 1-p and flipped with probability p, where p is known, and represents an error rate in observing the Bernoulli random variable, the posterior distribution obtained is a linear combination of two Beta distributions.
In the case when p=0, p=.5, and p=1, the posterior distribution is again Beta, but for other values of p, this is not the case.
In my particular application analytic tractability is important. Is there a conjugate prior that would be appropriate for this type of problem?
Failing that, it seems there might be a sensible way to update the hyperparameters of the Beta distribution in an approximate sense. Intuitively, when you observe a Bernoulli random variable with error rate p, the information you have about the parameter theta of the Bernoulli distribution is nothing when p=.5 (observations are completely uninformative) and maximum when p=0 or p=1, and somewhere in between for other values of p. More specifically, in the case when p=1 or p=0, the sum of the hyperparameters of the beta in the posterior distribution is 1 greater than the sum in the prior, and for p=.5, the sum of the hyperparameters remains the same. For other values of p, the change in the sum of the hyperparameters should be intermediate, but I'm not sure how to best choose them.


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'American Idiot' makes the journey from Green Day CD to Broadway touring show
Green Day's American Idiot might not be everyone's idea of a concept CD crying out to be transformed into a Broadway musical. But Michael Mayer, a Tony Award-winning director, imagines things that others don't.
Mayer had loved the pop-punk band's music ever since its 1994 major label debut with Dookie. American Idiot, which followed 10 years later, stuck with him. Two years later, while he was directing the angsty 2006 rock musical hit Spring Awakening, Mayer floated an idea.
"I gave an interview before Spring Awakening about rock musicals on Broadway," Mayer recalls. "I said I thought American Idiot would make a great musical. Then I actually got in a room with Green Day's manager, agent and [lead vocalist-guitarist] Billie Joe Armstrong. Billie Joe came to New York and saw Spring Awakening. … I think he was relieved that it wasn't South Pacific."
Armstrong and Mayer agreed to collaborate, and the result opened on Broadway in 2010, running for a year. The touring version of American Idiot begins a two-week run at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
To bring American Idiot to Broadway, Mayer and producers including Tom Hulce (who produced Spring Awakening and played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the movie version of Amadeus) assembled a hot creative team.
Tom Kitt, who won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in drama (with collaborator Brian Yorkey) for Next to Normal, did the orchestrations. Steven Hoggett, who created the movement for the Tony-winning show Once and the just-opened Broadway version of Rocky, did his first work on Broadway in American Idiot. Mayer — now in rehearsal for the April 22 Broadway premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris — worked with Armstrong on the show's script, with Armstrong getting the credit for lyrics and Green Day the music.
Going in, Mayer says, "I had a shard of an idea about the show. I thought you could take the story, which was one kid's journey, and make it about a group of friends. You'd have a chain of unrelated experiences. Billie Joe said, 'Great. That sounds great.' "
And that's how the stage version of American Idiot plays out. More through lyrics than dialogue, the show follows the stories of Johnny, Will and Tunny, three restless friends living in suburbia. Johnny moves to the big city, falls in love with a girl dubbed Whatsername but loses himself to drugs. Will intends to leave but stays behind when his girlfriend tells him she's pregnant. Tunny joins the Army and goes off to war, forever altering his life.
The score includes all the songs from American Idiot, some B-tracks and a few songs from the band's 2009 CD 21st Century Breakdown.
The dialogue, Mayer says, got even more sparse after the show's pre-Broadway tryout in Berkeley.
"The velocity of the show was slowed by dialogue. The runaway train of it all is so intoxicating that you just don't want to do that," he says. "Over-explaining didn't seem to be our friend. I'm a firm believer that these lyrics hold a lot of psychological truth in them. I didn't want to spoon feed the audience details about the characters. The texture and poetry of lyrics, in combination with the characters and what the actors brought to it, were important."
Kitt, whose new show with Yorkey If/Then (starring Idina Menzel, aka "Adele Dazeem") opens on Broadway March 30, knew Green Day's American Idiot but took a far deeper dive into the music when he signed on to do the orchestrations.
"I listened to it constantly. I wanted to know the songs so that they'd be living and breathing inside of me every moment of the day. I knew the music had to reflect and sound like Green Day," he says. "It's a fine line between rewriting and arranging."
Some of Kitt's arrangements were driving pop-punk, some sparse, lush or quiet. Cast member Jared Nepute, who plays Johnny, says the variety benefits the show.
"There's only so much you can take before you're ready for a ballad," he says.
Still, most people who hear the music say that "it never feels like anything other than Green Day," Kitt says.
The members of Green Day were pleased too, hiring Kitt to do string arrangments for their trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!.
"Tom found the balance of how to stay true to the punk style but make it larger for the stage," says Jared Stein, the show's music supervisor.
Hoggett, despite an Olivier Award for his choreography of Black Watch and a Tony nomination for Once, calls his own work "simple." When he signed on to American Idiot, he says, "I made a mental list of things you should never do with a Green Day song. They have no choreography with their music. You can't turn it into a JLo video with people in V formation moving just for the sake of it."
Instead, Hoggett focused on character-driven movement, on helping to create three personal odysseys and, he says, "helping to fill that story, that narrative."
The American Idiot cast is necessarily young, but music director Stein says the group coming to Broward is the youngest yet, with some actors not long out of college.
"They're excited to be doing the show, and they bring that to the table, to the stage, every night," he says.
Casey O'Farrell, who played Roger in Rent for three years, is Will in American Idiot. The character, he says, is "self-destructive and distant. He pushes people away. … My show is very still, calm and real. Will is one of the most relatable characters. He's frustrated and stuck."
Nepute gets a particularly dark journey as Johnny, the guy who leaves home and gets lost in the city. The character also has an alterego, St. Jimmy (played briefly on Broadway by Armstrong), who repeatedly pushes him into self-destructive behavior. Johnny's story, Nepute says, is a powerful one.
"His overall arc encompasses so many emotions, from the highest highs to the lowest lows," he says. "It's a challenge to go to those depths...All of a sudden, you're crying your eyes out."
Dan Tracy, who graduated from the University of Michigan not quite a year ago, plays Tunny. To prepare to play a soldier, the actor did a lot of reading and research, watched documentaries and, like Tunnys before him, took a crack at reading War and Peace. He finds American Idiot rich and complex.
"From inside the work, it feels like a piece of Shakespeare," he says.
American Idiot is younger, edgier and louder than the typical touring Broadway subscription show. It speaks powerfully to a young audience, but the actors say that a show they call "smart" and "clever" has a far broader appeal.
"Our houses are some of the most diverse houses in theater," O'Farrell says. "You'll see kids in the front row, 14-year-olds with eyeliner and Green Day T-shirts who haven't washed their hair in two weeks. Right beside them are theater subscribers. And everyone is enjoying it."


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Off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) gracefully glides over a seagrass bed, chomping a large green bite before the current swiftly takes him to the next patch of grass. Off the coast of Australia, schools of fish weave between the blades, hiding from predators and feeding on algae.
And then, off the Mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S., there's me: an ungraceful human dragged by the salty current of a murky low tide. Unlike the sea turtle or school of fish, who are at home in the sea, I bob desperately; trying to decide which types of seagrass I will pull up and stuff in the mesh bag around my neck.
Last week, I traveled with three of my CI colleagues to volunteer with a seagrass restoration effort led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and others — the largest project of its kind in the world. We snorkeled in Virginia's South Bay for the afternoon, pulling up seagrass shoots and spades from the mud and hauling them back to shore, where TNC and its partners are raising seagrasses to plant in the fall. This is a massive project that has restored several thousand acres of eelgrass in four bays over 15 years.
That afternoon, I learned the importance of seagrasses to the local marine life: these eelgrass beds are significant to bay scallops, fish, crabs, clams and other marine organisms. I also knew from my work with CI's Marine division that seagrasses help filter ocean water for pollutants and protect coasts against floods and storms.
Listening to TNC project leaders talk about all the wonderful ecosystem services of seagrasses, I felt compelled to mention another important service: carbon storage.
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MS-Logon II allows for cross-domain authentication, but only works on Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
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MS-Logon I
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Right click the WinVNC icon in the System Tray and choose "Admin Properties".
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To use MS Logon under Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Millennium Edition, you also have to enable the NTLM security services by opening Control Panel, Network, Access Control, and then selecting User-level access control. Win 9.x require 2 dlls radmin32.dll and rlocal32.dll this can be found in the nexus.exe.
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MS-Logon II
In addition to the first implementation of MS-Logon (MS-Logon I), MS-Logon II is able to do cross-domain authentication, i.e. the user account can be in another domain than the computer account.
Manual configuration
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Automated configuration
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nbatak wrote:sure you can.
working on 2008 class,it should be released soon.
nbatak wrote:Class 2008 finished.
I will start working on 2007 as you wish.
skoadam wrote:can i put these cfs into my missing cfs pack?
mj-air1 wrote:Can you make a 2007 draft class and a healthy rook Greg Oden...
Mile23 wrote:Awesome work!!!!
Nick wrote:
For people who want to make fictional classes, here's some rules of thumb that i would encourage people to follow:
- I know it's tempting but try not to make prospects over 75 ovr, unless you're talking about a once-in-a-generation type of prospect. Even when players like lebron and durant were rookies it would've been pretty hard to justify a 75+ rating. And try not to have too many players over 70+ unless you intend for it to be a strong draft. 5+ players over 70+ is a strong draft, and should be RARE.
- Don't be afraid to have plenty of players rated under 60. Players do improve pretty significantly in 2k12.
- Potential: 74 is the magic number. Any potential over that will basically mean that the player will turn into a star, especially if they're only 19. This is because player potential ratings actually increase from year to year for a player. So try to limit potential being 75+ unless you want the player to become significant in the league. Remember that the point of fictional draft classes is to reduce over-saturation of star players.
- The most significant rating increases are seen between the ages of 19-24.
- The difference between 65 and 75 for potential is HUGE. 25-64 for potential is essentially the same thing. 80-99 is essentially the same thing too. But the difference between 68 and 71 is big. One potential pt can mean the difference between turning into star or not in some cases. run some tests and see for yourself!
- Read & follow this thread for great info on potential: http://www.operationsports.com/forums/s ... p?t=518205 ...some of these dudes are running tests and the results are interesting.
- Also check out this guy's thread for ideas: http://www.operationsports.com/forums/n ... nside.html ...he was what inspired me to release my own fictional draft class (i've always just made them for my own use). He is basically the god of this stuff lol so head over there and check it out.
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juduking wrote:I have the CFID list for the 2012 draft if you would want or need it. Or I would be willing to do that class. I'm working on the missing classes from the 2000 decade. I did 03,still need to finish 01,04,05, and 06 but I can do 12 too.
juduking wrote:I have the CFID list for the 2012 draft if you would want or need it. Or I would be willing to do that class. I'm working on the missing classes from the 2000 decade. I did 03,still need to finish 01,04,05, and 06 but I can do 12 too.
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Documentary charting the rise and rise of the Hitchhiker's phenomenon, from the humble beginnings of the radio show to the recent multi-million dollar budget movie. Features previously unseen footage of the late creator Douglas Adams and behind the scenes action from the original radio and TV series. Interviews include Adams's widow Jane, original cast members, and comedians who have found inspiration and originality in his work.
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HAVELOCK � Ferry operations have restarted across the Neuse River after more than a two and a half day shut down because of the recent winter storm.
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The 20-minute runs across the Neuse River halted at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday as the winter storm moved in bringing heavy sleet and snow.
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�We�ve had nothing but glare ice here. It�s been three inch thick glare ice,� Kinner said.
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Bella is clumsy in gym once more, but what will she do to herself this time?
this is the first story i have ever finished with these characters (in other words-my FIRST fanfic ever). i also cut alot out, and i am sorry that it is a little short, but what i did cut out was not needed. disclaimer- all of the characters i wrote about are not mine, but do belong to Stephenie Meyer.
1. Chapter 1
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The bell rang, "time to go to gym." I sighed.
"Try not to hurt yourself," Edward said, "Or others." He added quickly.
"I'll try, but I think that is impossible for someone like me." I teased.
"Nothing is impossible, love." Edward corrected.
I guess he was right, if there are such things as vampires and werewolves, it just about proves it. "Just incase, I will be close by." He warned.
"Skipping?" I asked as I raised one eyebrow.
"I just don't feel like math. Everything that teacher is teaching I probably learned 50 times. Plus, Alice saw someone getting hurt with a protractor; it wouldn't be a very good idea if I was there."
"oh." was all I could say. Lucky Edward, he got to miss math.
"Bye, I will see you later." I said as I opened the door to gym. I liked the idea of seeing him later, without that thought I could never get through a day.
"Good bye, Bella." He replied. He simply brushed my cheek with his icy hand and walked in the direction of his car, right next to the gym building, as he promised.
Even though his hand was cold, it felt like it was warm and comfortable. I somehow liked it, it felt right. But the fact of what we were doing in gym today broke my thoughts. Oh no. it was even worse then I could ever imagine. We had to play baseball.
I got dressed in the girl's locker room with shaky hands. What if I hurt somebody? What if I hurt myself? What if……. Questions were going on and on in my jumbled up head. Edward would probably be listening. I could make a fool out of myself in front of everybody and him, although that wouldn't be the first time.
I purposely went to the back of the line. If I got lucky, we would run out of time before it ever came to me. But I was wrong. It wasn't even a half an hour before it reached me. I walked up unwillingly to take the bat. In my hands, it felt like a dangerous weapon.
Just one little clumsy moment without the bat, I could probably take out two too three people and myself. But with this baseball bat, I could hurt a lot of people.
STOP! I ordered myself. I am going to get through this, if it's the last thing I do. I survived a sadistic vampire attack, I can defiantly handle a baseball game..... or maybe not.
To make matters worse (like it could get any worse) i recognized the girl that was pitching. When we were in the basketball section, I fell and took her down with me. She pitched the ball with a dirty look on her face, sneered, and I forgot to swing.
"Strike one" coach Clapp called. His face looked worried, like so many people around him. The girl had a smug look on her face and then pitched. This time I swung, but I missed the ball and mike's head by inches.
"Strike two." Coach Clapp called again. I could swear I heard him muttering 'it's almost over'.
"Sorry Mike." I muttered to him. He was the catcher for the other team.
"That's ok, Bella. Just keep your eye on the ball." he encouraged. Like I haven't heard that onebefore. But I was desperate, so I tried doing it. But I guess I am not very good at multi tasking, because I forgot to swing.
I felt a hard and painful smack on my left eye. I fell back, hitting my head in a very painful spot. I was passing out. The last thing I heard was the gym door opening, foot steps running towards me, and a velvet and wonderfully familiar voice calling my name.
I felt ice on my eye, and Edward's hand lying softly on my head. I opened my right eye, only to find I was in the school nurses office. "What….?" I began.
"Oh Bella, your awake. I got worried. I should warn you though, your eye looks horrid." Edward said. I let out a groan.
"How did you know?" I asked.
"I told you I would be listening. When I saw you fall through coach Clapp's head I didn't think, I just ran." Edward admitted.
I could feel my head ach and the soreness of my head. "What's the verdict?" I asked unwillingly. Edward sighed before answering.
"A black eye and a concussion, I think. It's been a while since I have been to medical school." He verified.
"Wait, you have been to medical school?" I asked. Nobody tells me these things.
"Well, somebody has to keep Carlisle current." He said.
I thought that over as the nurse came over. "You're free to go if you feel up to it." The nurse said.
"I'm ready. I don't feel bad at all. I feel much better." I insisted. I had to lie. I hate the mint green walls of this building. The nurse nodded and walked away.
"I don't trust these people; I want to take you to Carlisle. He is not working today, so he will be home." Edward said as we walked over to his car. It was raining and I staggered a couple times from the dizziness of my head. Edward caught me each time with a concerned look on his face. I noticed so I spoke up too not make him worry.
"I'm fine really." I insisted. But Edward knew me better then that. I could tell he was not buying it for a second. So I decided to move to a different topic. "Do you have a da-ja-vu felling, or is it just me." I laughed weakly as I got into the car. It was a relief to be sitting down.
"No, it is not just you, this dose remind me of the blood typing incident." Edward agreed as he started up the car. I looked at the speedometer; Edward was driving really fast now.
My eyes skimmed the dashboard and his CD's shoved into the tiny compartment below the stereo. That's when I noticed the clock. "Holy crow, school already ended?" I asked in disbelief. How long was I really out for? Edward, already guessing what I was thinking, answered my question.
"Well, you were out for a little over an hour. That nurse was a bit annoyed that she had to stay longer." he clarified. But then something came to mind.
"Oh, no! How did your family get home?" I really hope they didn't have to run home in the rain. Great, just another reason for Rosalie to hate me. But to my relief, Edward said exactly what I wanted to hear.
"Don't worry, Carlisle picked them up." he said. We were already pulling up to his house. I tried to flip the mirror from the ceiling down, but Edward stopped me. "I don't think you want to see." He warned.
"Oh please, I think I can handle it." I said. He took his hand off my wrist and gestured for me to look in it with a 'have it your way' type of expression. I flipped it down and looked in the mirror.
"Holy crow." I whispered.
I was too shocked to scream. I looked at myself in the mirror. At least, I think it was me. The girl staring back at me had a black eye, and for a second, it looked like she survived a herd of elephants walking over her. I groaned. "I would say I told you but I don't think that would help." He said.
"That's alright; I was going to look at myself eventually, anyway." I said.
We were walking to the front door. "It really doesn't look that bad." he sad, trying to make me feel better. Yes it does, I thought to myself. "Carlisle, could you come here for a second?' Edward called into the house. Carlisle was by my side in a flash.
"Bella, what happened to you?" he asked politely, but his I eyes looked unsurprised-yet curious.
I explained everything really fast to him. I just wanted to get it over with. Besides, I didn't have to ask Alice to know that there was going to be a lot of questions like that in the near future. But Carlisle just nodded. "I suppose you want me to look at her to see if anything's wrong, right?" he asked Edward.
"If it's alright."
"Yes of course. Alice can you take a brake form Rosalie and get my bag for me?" Carlisle asked to the ceiling. There seemed to be a conversation that was to quite for my ears to here.
"Rose." Edward started to warn. Carlisle beckoned us to fallow him to the kitchen table. I sat in a chair that Edward pulled out.
i Then Alice was suddenly there handing the bag to Carlisle. The she turned to me. "Bella, you should really stay out of gym, it is a hazarded to your health. But don't worry it will get better." She held up one finger and her face went smooth. "Yes I promise it will." She smiled. "I'm really sorry, but I can't stay. Rosalie is having fashion crises." She said as she rolled her eyes.
"And if I'm not up there, well, I don't think I need to finish that sentence." She said. I just nodded. I was too tired to do anything else. She quickly pecked my cheek and darted out of the room. Then Carlisle checked my head, neck, and eyes to see if anything else happened to me.
"You should be fine Bella; you just have a sore spot on your head and a black eye, which should both heal up soon. But for now, take it easy." He directed me. Then he turned to Edward. "See if you can get her out of gym; tell the coach its Dr.'s orders." He said smiling.
"I will see what I can do." He said nodding.
And with that he picked me up and carried me to the door. "Good bye Bella." Carlisle called.
"Bye." I mumbled. Passing out takes so much energy out of me. "Goodbye Alice." I said.
"Bye Bella!" Alice called from the top of the stairs. Then I heard Rosalie yell something at her. She ran back into Rose's room.
As Edward carried me to his car I realized something- Even though I was going to be completely humiliated at school, it will all seem like nothing, because I have something that nobody else has. I have my true love, Edward.
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I have been sitting on this blog/thought for awhile but it's even more timely now with the Global Payments breach (Reported first by Brian Krebs on his security blog). Global Payments is a merchant acquirer that has contracts with retailers for handling the processing of card transactions (credit card, debit cards, gift cards of all brands). Though the information about the breach is still being assembled, it is estimated that information about 10 million+ accounts was lost. Though Global specializes in "mom-and-pop shop" transactions, the company itself is very well established ($167 Billion worth of transactions last year alone). This breach happened in spite of having decent security measures in place. What is worse is that the data stolen is full " track 1" and "track 2", which means using that stolen data, one could easily produce counterfeit cards. (Be on the lookout for unauthorized charges in your account – it is hard to dispute a transaction when someone swipes a card unless you catch it early – I can tell you that from personal experience).
The problem lies in the whole complex payment systems that were developed years ago for payment transactions. In those days, security was not on everyone's mind. That was partly because because most of these systems ran on private networks (and leased lines) and the hackers those days were not that savvy. It is sad, but true, that it is much cheaper for the companies to deal with the breaches than to make their systems more secure. You might recall a serious breach with Heartland Payment systems a couple of years ago, where they lost about 130 million cards. Last year hackers stole payment card information for more than 100 million customers of off Sony's PlayStation Network. Suffice it to say – that in between these events, there were multiple smaller breaches that went unnoticed.
If you are a security architect and are wondering how you can safeguard your company from such disasters, we here at Intel can help you. While we have many solutions that can help in various areas, I would like to talk about a particular solution, our Tokenization Solution – Intel Expressway Tokenization Broker (Intel ETB).
A few years ago, PCI-DSS released a new directive that opened the door for a new concept called tokenization. Of paramount importance when dealing with sensitive data is the overarching need to keep it secure. Up until a few years ago, that was done by encryption. While an encryption solution is very good for what aims to achieve, the attendant issues ended up becoming major issues (key management, key rotation, encryption strength, etc). If a hacker catches a transaction in flight, or hacks in to the systems and catch that transaction in memory/ process (where the data might be in clear) the issue becomes even graver.
In order to avoid this, PCI-DSS released a directive (and updated it late last year with PCI DSS 2.0 Aug 2011) for tokenizing the PAN (Primary Account Number) information. At the heart of this directive is the fact that if you create a true random token (i.e., format preserving surrogate) there is no way that a hacker who intercepts that message can get the original information back. Hence, there is no monetary loss if someone were to capture the token in flight or from storage.
Intel provides hardened proxy Token Brokers that one can either slide in front of or in back of any application (we do support almost all standard protocols and data formats) that can sit in the line of traffic and perform these tokenization actions. Essentially that means very little or no work is required on the applications/API/services side. By sliding our proxies in the line of traffic, you can ensure that all of the channels are secure and that no one can sneak in.
An application needing original data can come back to Intel ETB and then be provided with the original data. This can be either a side call (as in a call to an API to reverse the data) or via an in-line reverse translation, so that the receiving application will receive the original data without a need for modification. In this scenario, only the necessary applications (or the proxies) would know where to go to resolve the token. Such an application would need to be white listed. Moreover, the connection could be made as a 2-way mutually authenticated SSL that would establish the identity of both sides, ensuring that the information travels securely end-to-end.
Tokens are stored in a hardened database which is nearly impossible to breach and which only Intel ETB can connect to. All the communication from Intel ETB to the database is secure and the database has a white list of only tokenization brokers that it, in turn, can connect to.
In short, by using Intel Tokenization Broker (Intel ETB) solution you get,
- Storage and processing using surrogate data and not the original data.
- Format preserving tokenization allowing the preservation of parts of PAN information for internal purposes.
- It can handle any form of data such as MS word, Excel, PDF or any other document type.
- Solution comes with the necessary security certifications (CC EAL 4+, FIPS 140-2 Level, etc)
- Allows you to secure the perimeter, secure the edge, secure the API.
- Will reduce PCI scope, Protect Card Holder data,
- It can work anywhere within the enterprise, extended enterprise, including partner locations, or in virtual environments such as in the cloud.
- Can be in DMZ due to a hardened appliance form factor.
- Results in Reduction of annual assessment costs.
- Helps with compliance issues.
- Provides a hardware based random token generator.
- Full disk encryption, database storage encryption, Secure Boot/ BIOS, Tripwire, snooping block
If you are interested either in PAN tokenization or PII tokenization (such as SS#, DOB, etc) use the bottom link to check out our solution details and reach out to me if you need further details.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/Expressway-Tokenization-Broker-Reduce-PCI-Scope/ .
Also, check out this whitepaper by Walter Conway, QSA, who is an expert on this subject.
As George Santayana once wrote, "those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it." I'm hopeful that we will be able to help our customers protect their enterprises so that hese things won't happen in the future.
Andy Thurai — Chief Architect & CTO, Application Security and Identity Products, Intel. Andy Thurai is Chief Architect and CTO of Application Security and Identity Products with Intel, where he is responsible for architecting SOA, Cloud, Governance, Security, and Identity solutions for their major corporate customers. In his role he is responsible for helping Intel/McAfee field and technical teams and customer executives. Prior to this role he has held technology and architecture leadership and executive positions with L-1 Identity Solutions, IBM Datapower, BMC, CSC, and Nortel. His interests and expertise include Cloud, SOA, identity management, security, governance, and SaaS. He holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering and has over 20+ years of IT experience.
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KUWAIT CITY, July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. plans to sell Kuwait 60 Lockheed Patriot PAC-3 air-defense missiles for $4.2 billion are part of a major effort to boost the military capabilities of Washington's Persian Gulf allies confronting Iran.
In part, the weapons, and others being sold to the gulf monarchies in a massive upgrading of their defense systems, are intended to minimize the number of U.S. forces being deployed in the region to confront an expansionist Iran.
The deal, which needs U.S. congressional approval, comes amid a major defense buying spree by the Emirates, which has one of the strongest air forces in the gulf and is arguably more strike-oriented than the Saudi air force.
The emirates leadership is mulling the purchase of the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft built by Boeing Bell of the United States.
Aerospace Daily and Defense Report said negotiations for the sale to the Emirates are now in their final stages.
On Dec. 25, 2011, the Emirates signed a $4.3 billion contract with Lockheed Martin for two batteries of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system, including two Raytheon AN-TPY-2 X-band long-range radars and 96 interceptors.
The Emirates had originally sought four batteries, with 144 interceptors and four radar systems for $6.9 billion, but cut that back in 2010.
That was the first foreign sale for THAAD, no doubt accelerated because of the deteriorating standoff with Iran and the threat to 35 percent of global oil supplies that originate in the gulf.
The contract certainly underlined U.S. efforts to rapidly build up the defense -- and strike -- capabilities of the gulf monarchies led by Saudi Arabia to counteract Iran's ballistic missile buildup and the threat from its naval forces.
Veteran Middle East defense analyst Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said U.S. President Barack Obama's administration seeks to achieve "a new post-Iraq war security structure that can secure the flow of energy exports to the global economy."
The centerpiece of this effort is the massive 20-year, $67 billion arms package for Saudi Arabia, which had its origins during the George W. Bush administration and that includes combat jets, armor, missiles and warships.
All told, the Persian Gulf monarchies are expected to spend $123 billion on arms, mainly American systems, over the next four or five years.
That's one of the largest peacetime rearmament exercises ever undertaken.
The oil- and gas-rich Emirates alone is slated to spend $35 billion-$40 billion, says Theodore Karasik of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis in Dubai, the Emirates' financial hub.
The Emirates has also signed up to acquire Raytheon's most advanced MIM-104 Patriot system, the PAC-3, with 20 launchers and four radar systems and control stations. The contract includes training programs.
The Patriot Advanced Capability -- PAC-3 -- is the variant destined for Kuwait, which currently fields older models. It bought 210 earlier generation models, with 25 launchers, in 1992. It bought 140 PAC-2 variants in 2007.
The PAC-3 system contains a fire-control section consisting of the AN/MPQ-53 or -65 radar, the AN/MSQ-104 Engagement Control Station, the OE-349 Antenna Mast Group and the EPP-III electric power plant.
The M901 launcher can carry up to 16 PAC-3 interceptors.
The United States is reportedly building a missile defense radar station at a covert location in the tiny emirate of Qatar, which borders Saudi Arabia in the southern gulf.
This is believed to be an X-band radar, probably Raytheon's mobile AN/TPY-2 system that can detect missile launches 1,500 miles away via satellite surveillance.
This system was installed at Mount Keren in Israel's Negev Desert in 2008 to improve the Jewish state's early network. The AN/TPY-2 gives Israel as much as two minutes' extra warning time than its own systems.
That X-band radar is manned by U.S. forces. It's not clear whether the one reportedly being installed in Qatar will eventually be acquired by the emirate.


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North and South Carolina have generally been cordial neighbors.
We've had our spats, most recently about our northern neighbor's efforts to take some of our state's water supply. It has been a war waged in a fairly civil manner, however, through the court system with our attorney general leading the charge.
All this could change now, given the fact advanced technology has led to the border between our two states being more clearly defined, as detailed in an Associated Press story. A few feet here, a few feet there and suddenly some proud Palmetto State property owners are finding themselves labeled Tar Heels.
It turns out 90 pieces of property were affected one way or the other when the new survey, conducted about 200 years after the last one, was conducted. The AP reported the shift occurred along a stretch from north of the Greenville-Spartanburg region to Lancaster County, just below Charlotte. ...
This seemingly minor adjustment of the border has a far reaching impact on both states. There's the economic impact for people like Lewis Efird, whose company operates the gas station-fireworks store.
Students might find themselves not just in a new school district, but rather in an entirely new state's school system. And there's the matter of property taxes. With states, counties and towns facing strapped budgets, that is sure to cause a stir.
Taxes, utilities, differing laws and regulations, school attendance zones are the biggest issues facing those affected. Both states' attorneys general offices are trying to work things out, they say, to be as painless as possible.
We can only hope people take this situation well. Some might slap North and South Carolina license plates on their cars, just for fun. Some might cover the back windows of their cars and SUVs with black-and-white oval stickers signaling an allegiance to both Carolinas.
Let's just hope this doesn't lead to another major battle between the North and South. This one, of course, would be on a smaller scale and would be a battle between two states that were once one, and that were once allies in a larger civil war.
Please, folks. Keep it civil.
The hard-core party faithful might approve of legislation to require party registration in primary elections, since eliminating open primaries could strengthen their influence over the outcome. But it would remove a moderating influence that South Carolina needs as it elects its leaders.
A House bill, sponsored by a Greenville Republican, to open primaries only to registered party members deserves to be rejected.
The influence of independent voters brings a broader view to the polls. As such, it shifts the focus of candidates who are seeking votes in the primary process. They have to broaden their appeal to a wider group of voters. They can't as easily pitch their candidacies solely on ideological grounds.
Public financing can be justified only for primary elections open to all South Carolinians who are qualified to vote. And having primaries under the authority of state and local election commissions is needed to ensure a higher level of integrity than elections conducted by the parties. The operation of primaries by election commissions also ensures that they can be held in every county throughout the state.
That's important to maintaining a healthy two-party system.
Sure, it rankles supporters of a particular candidate who believe, rightly or wrongly, that their candidate has suffered as a result of crossover voting. That possibility was most recently discussed prior to the recent presidential preference primary. ...
The fear that Democrats would skew the process clearly was unwarranted in that instance.
Closing primaries and requiring party registration to vote in them isn't worth leaving the large percentage of independent voters out of the process. Their involvement in the electoral system is beneficial to South Carolina, both in primary and general elections.


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House Democrats will hinge their entire 2010 legislative agenda on
creating jobs and reducing the deficit to avoid significant mid-term
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said those issues are the most important to political Independents, whose votes will be crucial to Democrats in 2010.
"American's have got a lot of angst, a lot of anger and a lot of fear," Hoyer told a small group of reporters on Thursday. "Whether you're a Democrat, Republican or an Independent, all the polls reflect that the economy is the major issue."
With unemployment at 10.2 percent and a new report due Thursday, Hoyer said it is crucial for Democrats to see positive news on the economy.
"If jobs don't get into positive numbers, I think the people are going to continue to be concerned," he said. "And when they're concerned they look for somebody new, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat."
Two polls released this week highlighted the difficult battleground for Democrats.
A survey by Democratic strategists James Carville and Stanley Greenberg's Democracy Corps showed Republicans maintaining a 10 point lead on Democrats among likely Independent voters. A separate poll by Research 2000 found 56 percent of Democratic respondents said they would definitely or probably vote in 2010, compared to 81 percent of Republican respondents.
The economy and polls have given the GOP a boost of confidence.
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, heartily agreed with Hoyer that the midterm elections will be about jobs and the judgments of independent voters.
But Sessions, flipping through chart after chart of grim employment trends, said things are only going to get worse for Democrats.
"What we're seeing is that this party has virtually made this country unemployable,
Sessions said. "Their policies are on trial, and the results are already in."
A strategy of focusing on jobs and the deficit could put controversial issues like immigration reform on the back burner along with other priorities that liberal Democrats say will bring out the Democratic base. But House Democrats appear to have calculated that their first priority must be to stave off massive defections of Independents.
"In terms of initiatives, I think you're going to see us focused on jobs and fiscal balance and fiscal discipline," Hoyer said. "The independents are very concerned about the deficits, but they think we ought to invest in job creation. Why? Because they just think we've got two problems: We don't have jobs, and we've got too high a deficit."
"They're right on both points," he said.
Hoyer admitted that those two objectives are "contradictory" in the short term, but said that Democrats will continue to put faith in voters' ability to understand "that you've got to invest in order to get jobs."
To show their fiscal discipline, House Democrats will look for ways to force a reluctant Senate to enact a "pay as you go" budgeting law that would require increased spending to be offset with other spending cuts or tax increases.
Hoyer also said conservative Democrats will continue to fight for a fiscal reform commission tasked with coming up with proposals for closing the gap between projected Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security liabilities and projected revenues, despite opposition from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and senior chairmen.
A jobs bill, though, will come first.
"Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs," Pelosi said Thursday, upping her familiar refrain of "jobs, jobs, jobs" in an apparent declaration of how much more important the issue has become since last month, when unemployment broke the 10 percent barrier more quickly than expected.
Democrats are eyeing major investments in infrastructure projects and proposals to help small businesses get loans. But Hoyer said the House will hit its December 18 adjournment date, meaning a major jobs bill isn't likely until January at the earliest. Initially the House had looked to conclude work on a jobs bill in December.
"I think we will take some action on jobs but I don't know that we'll have a complete jobs package [by the end of December]," Hoyer said. "We may well do some things between now and the 18th of December, but I think that we will also be doing things in January."
While House leaders believe that their ability to maintain a majority is inextricably linked to a economic turnaround on "Main Street," curbing spending may be prove to be more important to Democrats representing districts with large swaths of swing voters. Members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition have been cool to the idea of any additional deficit spending, even for a jobs bill.
On Thursday, Pelosi endorsed the idea of funding a jobs bill with money that has been allocated for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the $700 billion fund Congress created last year to avoid a total collapse of the nation's biggest banks.
"We want it -- the investments we [make] in jobs -- to be paid for by TARP funds," Pelosi said.
That would prevent the use of TARP funds for deficit reduction, but could go a long way toward rebuilding what Hoyer said was the "understandable" erosion of public confidence in Congress' ability to responsibly pull the country out of recession.
"We've made very substantial progress," Hoyer said. "But progress is not success. We've got to get into positive [job] numbers."
Hoyer brushed aside any suggestion that Democrats will lose control of Congress next year.
"I don't think we're going to lose the majority," said Hoyer, who correctly predicted Democrats would gain 30 House seats in 2006.
"I'm pretty confident about that because, again, our members are not sleeping at this point in time. In 1994, we'd been in power for 40 years and I think we became enamored with the theory that that was a given. No one's enamored with that theory."
But without being asked, Hoyer said he would not predict how many losses Democrats could face in 2010.
"I don't have a number and I'm not going to give a number," Hoyer said.


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Macworld editorial director Jason Snell, Macworld.com editor Philip Michaels, Macworld associate editor Dan Moren, and senior contributors Andy Ihnatko and Glenn Fleishman appear in this podcast. Four of them match wits in a battle to see who's got their finger on the pulse of the Mac universe. One is just the host.
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A Brief History of the Yale School of Medicine
Medicine at Yale traces its roots to the founding of Yale College in 1701. Close to 10 percent of Yale's eighteenth-century alumni, some 224 graduates of the college, practiced medicine while also serving as members of the clergy. The college awarded an honorary degree, the first medical degree given by an American university, to London practitioner Daniel Turner in 1723 in recognition of his donation of books to the school.
In 1810 the Connecticut General Assembly established the Medical Institution of Yale College, giving Yale and the Connecticut Medical Society shared jurisdiction over the training of physicians. The school opened its doors in 1813 with four professors and 37 students and conferred its first degrees the following year. Ties with the medical society were formally severed 1884. The name Yale College was changed to Yale University in 1887, and the name of the medical school automatically changed, too. The current name, Yale School of Medicine,was adopted in 1918.
Three major figures in 20th-century medicine—Abraham Flexner, Milton C. Winternitz and Harvey Cushing—were closely associated with medical school's rise in prestige during the first half of the last century. Flexner revolutionized American medicine with his 1910 report to the Carnegie Foundation, in which he recommended Yale and Harvard remain open as the only two medical schools in New England worth preserving. Swayed by the Flexner's report, the Yale Corporation redoubled its commitment to support the medical school and to strengthen its relationship with the New Haven Hospital as its primary teaching hospital. Winternitz, who served as dean from 1920 to 1935, was the architect of the school's unique educational philosophy, the Yale system of medical education, which emphasizes critical thinking in a nongraded, noncompetitive environment and requires students to write a thesis based on original research.
Cushing, widely regarded as the father of American neurosurgery and a seminal figure in American medicine, joined the faculty late in his career and donated his extensive collection of books to Yale. The medical school library, which bears his name, is regarded as one of the great medical historical libraries of the world.
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed in 1857 became the first African American student to receive a Yale M.D., Today, Asian American, African American and Hispanic/Latino students comprise 40 percent of the Yale medical students. The door was opened to women in 1916, when Louise Farnam, Helen May Scoville and Lillian Lydia Nye were admitted. Today, half the student body is female.
The medical school grew by leaps and bounds in the post-World War II era, fueled by the rapid expansion of the National Institutes of Health and other federal investments in science and medicine. The school's growth—from a full-time faculty of less than 100 in 1950 to more than 1,800 today—coincided with major scientific discoveries and medical advances. Yale's historical contributions to medicine include the first X-ray performed in the United States, the first successful use of penicillin in America, the first use of cancer chemotherapy, and the introduction of fetal heart monitoring, natural childbirth and newborn rooming-in. Yale doctors designed the first artificial heart pump and the first insulin infusion pump for diabetes, and it was here that the means of transmission of the polio virus was established, paving the way for the Salk vaccine. Lyme disease was identified by two Yale physicians in 1975.
More recent milestones include the first transgenic mouse, discovery of the mechanism of protein folding, which is key to understanding neurodegenerative diseases, and discovery of the mechanism of innate immunity, with major implications for infectious disease and cancer. Also: the first reliable method for early detection of autism and identification of genes associated with hypertension, macular degeneration, dyslexia and Tourette's syndrome, among many others.


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I'm trying to use x11vnc to allow users to remote control certain computers. This works fine in general, but there is one aspect I have trouble implementing. I want to restrict access to a specific user account, but the user that the X11 session belongs to is a different one.
So the situation is:
- User A is logged in at the computer
- User B starts x11vnc manually from the shell
- VNC-client V connects from somewhere to it
The problem is that I can only start x11vnc as root or as the currently logged in user, it doesn't work as any other user. Is there any way to allow a specific user to access my X11 session?


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Ah, another one of my favorites from the Encyclopedia Britannica Kids collection, "Discovering Shapes." The illustrations in this series of books are all done by different artists, but they are really great. I especially lerve the saucy monkey tour guide featured in this book. So cute!
Discover Shapes, by Tina Thoburn
Pictures by James Caraway


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Will Anti-Free Trade Protectionist Agreements Be Bad For US Citizens Too?
from the do-they-know-what-they're-doing? deptAs we've noted, the US has been using multilateral and bilateral negotiations conducted in secret as a way to craft some very one-sided trade treaties. They seem to offer pretty raw deals to the other nations involved – and correspondingly great ones for the US copyright and pharma industries. But could they turn out to have direct negative consequences for US citizens as well?
For example, recently Techdirt reported on the pharmaceutical price-fixing scheme contained in a leaked version of the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement. The way it is framed there would seem to imply that the Federal Medicaid program's preferred drug lists would be forbidden. Whoops.
And here's a troubling clause found in the bilateral trade agreements recently signed with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea:
Another section (PDF) of the trade deal seems to recognize only a limited right by Americans to create and use computer programs of their choice.Hortatory it may be, but it's there. Who's to say that the US government won't one day use the treaty as an excuse to make it happen?
It says: "Each party recognizes that consumers in its territory should be able to...run applications and services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement."
A U.S. trade official, who did not want to be named, told CNET that the language is "hortatory" and therefore not binding--in other words, it's a recognition, not a commitment to actually do anything.
The problem is that none of these back-room treaties has had the benefit of detailed scrutiny by outside experts while they were being drawn up; as a result, they may well contain clauses with unintended consequences further down the road. That's yet another reason for much more transparency during negotiations - or for avoiding them altogether.
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text: This guy is freakin nuts.Tired?!?!?! Why don't you man up and tell the truth, that he doesn't have a clue. How in good Gods name can he even make a statement like this. His entire off season mantra was play one step faster. The entire idea was to be in better shape and faster, then WTF happened? How can any Jet fan want this guy around anymore, talk about falling from grace.


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Annual or perennial herb, often rhizomed, often of wet open places, generally monoecious; roots fibrous, hairy
Stem generally 3-sided
Leaves often 3-ranked; sheath generally closed; ligule generally 0; blade (0) various, parallel-veined
Inflorescence: spikelets variously clustered; flowers generally sessile in axil of flower bract
Flower small, generally wind-pollinated; perianth 0 or bristle-like; stamens generally 3, anthers attached at base, 4-chambered; ovary superior, 1-chambered, 1-ovuled, style 23-branched
Fruit: achene, generally 3-sided
Genera in family: ± 110 genera, 3600 species: worldwide, especially temp
Reference: [Tucker 1987 J Arnold Arbor 68:361445]
Difficult: taxa differ in technical characters of inflorescence and fruit.
Perennial, cespitose or from rhizomes, generally monoecious
Stem generally sharply 3-angled, generally solid
Leaves 3-ranked, generally glabrous except generally scabrous on midrib, margin; sheath closed, back (blade side of stem) green, ribbed, front generally thin, translucent, forming generally U-shaped mouth at top
Inflorescence: spikelets generally severalmany, arrayed in raceme, panicle, or head-like cluster, each 1many-flowered, generally subtended by a spikelet bract
Flowers unisexual, each subtended by 1 flower bract; perianth 0
Staminate flower: stamens generally 3
Pistillate flower enclosed by perigynium (sac-like bract); perigynium body 23-sided or round, wall generally delicate; perigynium beak tip open, often notched; style 1, generally deciduous, stigmas 24, exserted
Fruit 24-sided
Etymology: (Latin: cutter, from sharp leaf and stem edges)
Reference: [Standley 1985 Syst Bot Monogr 7:1106]
Fully mature perigynia needed for identification, so are described under "FR" (long-persistent perigynia are often atypical); perigynium "front" faces spikelet axis; "fruit" refers to achene body (excluding beak). "Shredding" lower leaf sheath fronts become a network or fringe of veins; some others shred longitudinally only. Difficult because of many species and minute key characters; longer key statements and descriptions are designed to enhance both ease and probability of correct identification. Group descriptions are assumed in specific descriptions
Horticultural information: Many species especially those with rhizomes are INVASIVE. This is one of the most effective genera for knitting moist or wet soil.
(Group 1) Cespitose
Leaf: blade 0.20.7 mm wide, rolled, quill-like
Inflorescence: lower pistillate flower bracts pale red-brown, white-margined or yellowish-brown-margined, obtuse to awned, clasping perigynium base
Pistillate flower: style exserted, base black, persistent
Fruit: perigynium appressed to ascending, 1.93.7 mm, 1.32.1 mm wide, 3-sided to round, a bristle-like axis within, faces hairy at least just below beak, unveined, whitish to gold; fruit 1.63 mm, 1.21.8 mm wide, ± = perigynium body
Ecology: Meadows, dryish areas with subsurface moisture
Elevation: 15003700 m.
Bioregional distribution: High Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, White and Inyo Mountains
Distribution outside California: w N.America