text: VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Improve Administration of the Provider Performance Pay and Award Systems, GAO-13-536, Jul 24, 2013: "The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) performance pay policy has gaps in information needed to appropriately administer this type of pay. The performance pay policy gives VA's 152 medical centers and 21 networks discretion in setting the goals providers must achieve to receive this pay, but does not specify an overarching purpose the goals are to support. VA officials responsible for writing the policy told us that the purpose of performance pay is to improve health care outcomes and quality, but this is not specified in the policy. Moreover, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has not reviewed the goals set by medical centers and networks and therefore does not have reasonable assurance that the goals make a clear link between performance pay and providers' performance. Among the four medical centers GAO visited, performance pay goals covered a range of areas, including clinical, research, teaching, patient satisfaction, and administration. At these medical centers, all providers GAO reviewed who were eligible for performance pay received it, including all five providers who had an action taken against them related to clinical performance in the same year the pay was given. The related provider performance issues included failing to read mammograms and other complex images competently, practicing without a current license, and leaving residents unsupervised during surgery."


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Google recently decided to club all their privacy policies into a unified version. The reason Google provided was that they wanted to provide a personalized experience by combining all the information across the services they provide.
However, this change has caused a lot of people to become paranoid. In fact, Google has also received warnings from the EU among others. People have been deleting their Google history so that Google does not hold this information any more.
Well, is that enough? Actually not, so the good folks behind "Joy of Tech" have come up with a foolproof way on "How to keep Google from watching your searches".
Do make sure to follow all the steps . And yes, it is Friday and this was another episode of our Friday Fun .
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First Look: Cocktails at Radiator Whiskey in Seattle, WA
Note: First Looks give previews of new drinks and menus we're curious about. Since they are arranged photo shoots, we do not make critical evaluations or recommendations.
Six months ago, Radiator Whiskey's bar manager, Sara Rosales, was hiding her craft-cocktail making tools in a kit under the bar at the Holiday Inn where she worked, awaiting that special customer who would come in and ask her for a real drink. Dan Bugge, veteran restaurateur and owner of Seattle's venerated Matt's in the Market, was that person—and he was on the look out for just the right cocktail aficionado to head up the bar program across the hall at his latest venture, Radiator Whiskey.
Rosales's palate for bitter liqueurs and the deep, rich flavors of whiskey, plus her eagerness to move up to a bar with a real cocktail program fit perfectly with Bugge's vision: to bring originality to a bar by hiring from outside the old boy's club. Not to mention she made him a mean Manhattan that day.
At Radiator Whiskey, the giant barrel façade that dominates the back of the bar has taps not only for the eponymous house spirit (aged from local 2Bar Whiskey) and a few other rare whiskeys, but also barrel-aged cocktails. Wood dominates the decor: the tap handles were built from chair legs by the chefs, Tyler Palagi and Charlie Garrison. The bar shelves were made from shipping pallets, and apple wood makes its way all over the menu, smoking both meats and the rye that is the base of the Frisch cocktail.
The Frisch is one of the five variations on the classic Manhattan (others include the Einstein, Oppenheimer, McMillan, and Bohr, with a wink to the science/history geeks out there), which make up half of the printed cocktail list, with the other side offering signature cocktails, like the Showgirl, which was named for the view out Radiator's windows onto the Déjà Vu's marquee. When Rosales told the gentleman's club's manager about the drink, he left her a stack of free passes to the club to hand out when she served it. With Buffalo Trace Bourbon, Ramazzotti Amaro, and house-made rhubarb bitters, the flavors are exactly the deep, bitter ones that epitomize the Radiator menu.
"Amaro and whiskey don't make salad cocktails," Rosales says, explaining the cocktail list's affinity for the kitchen's rich smoked meats: pairing drinks to lamb neck sloppy joes or beef lip terrine is all in a day's work for her. Italian bitter liqueurs fit well as a slightly sweet tool in her kit of alcohol for Radiator, which also includes peaty Scotches, smoky mezcals alongside whiskey.
Check out the slideshow for a peek at the cocktails at Radiator Whiskey »
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All right, robots: you've bested our professional wrestlers and our penalty kickers. But as long as San Francisco 49ers kicker Joe Nedney has anything to say about it, field goals belong to the humans.
Nedney went kick for kick earlier this week with Ziggy the Combot, a 154kg entrant in the upcoming RoboGames out in San Mateo, California. And while Ziggy can consistently clear 60 yards (55m) under controlled conditions, it fell victim to the same pitfall that's undone so many promising rookies: the pressure a prevailing headwind.
So thank you, Joe Nedney, for defending our collective honour. And Ziggy, I'm sure they'd be more than happy to make some room for you on my beloved Redskins. [RoboGames via BotJunkie]


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Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) is one of the most in depth sandbox MMOs ever created. The SWGEmu is a valiant effort at reviving this once great game.
Forum to contain threads regarding major patches, minor patches and hotfixes to the game.
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Jess Reinhardt swam a conference-record 51.72 in the 100 fly, placing 10th at nationals, Friday.
The Liberty swimming & diving team is currently in the 41st position after Jess Reinhardt's 10th-place finish in the 100 fly on day two, Friday at the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in Minneapolis, Minn. Reinhardt broke her own CCSA record in the 100 fly, placing second in the B final and 10th overall by swimming 51.72 during the evening session. By placing 10th, she earns the highest finish to date by a Lady Flame at the NCAA Championships, while receiving All-America Honorable Mention honors. Reinhardt is the second All-American in program history, after Brye Ravettine, who placed 13th in the 50 free at the 2012 NCAA Championships. A native of Gatton, Queensland, Australia, Reinhardt earned an evening swim by finishing 13th during morning qualifying. Her time of 52.07 during prelims lowered her existing conference record of 52.14, which she clocked during the 2014 CCSA Championships. During the morning session, the Lady Flames' 200 medley relay competed, serving as the first relay team in conference history to swim at the NCAA Championships. The quartet of sophomore Kendall Hough (25.61), senior Emilie Kaufman (26.96), Reinhardt (23.85) and junior Meghan Babcock (22.53) went 1:38.95, finishing 26th overall. The Lady Flames defeated Arkansas, Duke and Boise State in the event. Kaufman, contesting her first individual event at this week's national meet, placed 24th overall out of 49 competitors in 100 breaststroke trials, recording a 1:00.32. She entered the meet ranked 21st in the field, with a seed time of 1:00.01. The 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships wrap up tomorrow, with morning prelims beginning at noon (EDT) and finals starting at 8 p.m. (EDT). Kaufman will swim the 200 breaststroke, while Reinhardt contests the 200 fly.


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Chicken-Artichoke Hearts Salad
(Tavuklu Enginar Kalbi Salatasi)
Artichoke hearts, 340 ml canned, in quarers, rinsed, drained
1 cup chicken pieces, cooked
1 cubanalle pepper, sliced
7-8 mushrooms, sliced, boiled in lemon water
1/4 cup Turkish kashar or asiago cheese, cut in cubes
1/4 cup fresh walnuts or lightly toasted walnuts, crumbled
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp oregano
Mix the main ingredients in a medium-sized bowl. Whisk all the salad dressing ingredients, pour all over and toss. Place in a salad bowl and serve.
You can make this salad using the the leftover turkey or chicken from New Year's Eve...
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An intimate elopement in Big Sur, CA
Crystal and Justin's spring elopement was a beautiful and intimate celebration with their closest loved ones at Post Ranch Inn. With an incredible view of Big Sur's sparkling waters, the ceremony was perfect! Evynn LeValley Photography captured their day.
Justin and I were engaged to be married on Christmas Eve 2012. We quickly started contemplating our wedding day… A wine country wedding, a run-off and get married adventure to the Maldives, or maybe something we had never really thought of – it all sounded wonderful, but nothing 100% felt right for us. Our plan was already written, yet we had no idea! We found out on Valentine's Day that we were pregnant with our first child. We could not have been more excited. Our wedding plans quickly transformed to what would be our absolute perfect day. We chose to get married in Big Sur simply because of the majestic beauty of California's coast line – the simple beauty that Big Sur offers is undeniable. Post Ranch Inn is an absolute gem that I had always wanted to indulge in and we figured what better time to splurge than for our special day. Post Ranch was incredible and arranged everything from our flowers, to our wonderful photographer, Evynn LeValley. Our guests included immediate family, my best friend and her husband and Justin's best friend and his wife – a total of 9 guests. It was our perfect circle of love, and we felt so blessed to be able to share our vows with the people that have helped to make us each who we are. Our wedding day was simple, stressless and absolutely perfect. It was a pure testament to our love for each other and for our relationship. – Crystal
- Photographer: Evynn LeValley Photography
- Makeup Artist: Rhonda Johnson, Bridalmakeupandhair.com
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Dear readers,
The following is written by Joe Hoffmann concerning news we, at the Jesus Project, have just heard this morning. Gerd Luedemann has lost his ten-year-long court battle in Germany. The ruling should surprise every critical mind, but it should be of great concern to those in the academy. Gerd writes (in regards to this piece below);
"As for Küng who is always mentioned when people hear about my case, he never went to court but settled with his university. My case is different because for the first time in history the German Supreme Court has issued a full statement on the role of theology in the university and the statement is anti-enlightenment because it plainy states that at German Universities the confession of a church or of any future religion overrides the academic freedom of a professor. That is an intellectial scandel against which the international intellectual community should protest the more so because the University of Göttingen rightly boast of being an enlightenment university (founded in 1737). And this ruling makes truely critical work at German theological faculties – both protestant and catholic – impossible."
Where the once proud enlightened scholars brought the academy into a new world of theological inquiry, the courts have rules that such inquiry has limits. This is not the first time a scholar has been quieted in German universities because of dogmatic boundaries. And unfortunately, as this case proves, it will not be the last. All of academia should be in an uproar over this incident.
Gerd Luedemann: Non sine causa…laudatus
Gerd Luedemann, Professor of History and Literature of Early Christianity in the University of Goettingen, has received word from the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany that his appeal against an earlier ruling excluding him from the teaching of New Testament in the University's Faculty of Theology has been rejected.
The basis for the Court's ruling hinges on the fact that Professor Luedemann was "reassigned" to a position outside the Faculty offering essentially the same teaching and research opportunities as his previous position. In addition, the Court decided that the confessional teaching of theology is a unique responsibility of the Theology Faculty and that its interest in retaining a distinctive identity outweighed Professor Luedemann's claim that the reassignment impinged on his academic ("scientific") freedom.
The tradition of theological education in many European countries, including Germany, differs substantially from the American situation, where ministerial training is largely the province of private and parochial institutions or, in the case of distinguished private divinity schools such as Harvard, Yale and Chicago, subject to the same guarantees of academic freedom that obtain in the university as a whole.
Professor Luedemann's distinguished work in the study of early Christianity now serves as a test-case for the entrenched and sometimes unnoticed parochialism of the European model, where—in this case–the open criticism of doctrine and theological axioms such as the resurrection of Jesus has been deemed impermissible, precisely in the interest of maintaining parochial identities. One can imagine no other area of serious study in the modern university where such a rule should be permitted to stand, or be used as the basis of a legal judgment. This case throws into bold relief the archaic nature of the marriage between Christian theology and scholarship as it is still protected by law not only in Germany, but in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Switzerland as well.
Rooted in the political compromises of the Reformation, the structure of European theological education should become a matter of concern and a priority for the educational commissions of the European Union. Cases such as Luedemann's, and earlier Hans Kueng's at Tuebingen on the Catholic side, suggest that it is feckless to complain about the regressive nature of scholarship in the Arab world when seminal Christian doctrines can prevail over common sense and free inquiry in some of the most distinguished institutions of higher learning in the world.
We congratulate Gerd Luedemann in bearing the torch in this cause–and "fighting the good fight"
R. Joseph Hoffmann, Chair
Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion;
Co-Chair, The Jesus Project
Please blog this article. Word of this travesty must get out to all and everyone.
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Postcode for SatNav: TA4 4PA
The first sod on the original West Somerset Railway was lifted as part of the cutting at the tranquil wayside station of Crowcombe Heathfield which stands at the highest point on the line, a little less than 400' above sea level.
The main station building dates from the 1860s whilst the wooden building on the opposite platform is a replacement for an earlier structure demolished by British Railways.
Similarly the signal box dates from the preservation era. The brick base was built new by the West Somerset Railway whilst the wooden top comes from Ebbw Vale in South Wales.
The station is surrounded by lovely scenic countryside and a network of lanes, bridle ways and footpaths offering walking, cycling and horse riding.
The station is not close to any major settlement and the visual charm of the surroundings has caught the eye of several TV and film directors. Well known films containing scenes shot at the station include "The Flockton Flyer", "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", the opening sequence of "Land Girls", and Ringo Starr riding a bicycle down the platform in The Beatles film "A Hard Days Night".
During operating days the station is open for light refreshments and you can be assured of a great welcome. On Gala days the menu widens to include hot savoury snacks and a coal fire to warm you during cold weather! There is also a small shop, limited car parking and an accessible toilet.
The station has a booking office and prices from this Station can be found on the WSR Fares pages.
Why not do the 'One (and a bit) Mile Walk'? Enjoy a gentle 1½ mile circular walk from the station crossing two railway bridges which gives some lovely views of the line. In between the bridges is the 'Avenue' where the majestic beech trees display stunning spring and autumn colours.
More details of this wonderful station can be found on the Friends of Crowcombe Heathfield station (FoCHs) website, and volunteer signalman Martin Southwood has collected many interesting images and information on his West Somerset/Crowcombe Heathfield station pages.
Close by are the Quantock Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a popular place for walkers, photographers and cyclists


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"Please excuse me for just one moment," Marcus says apologetically as he moves to help a gentleman with a distinctly urgent constitution that enters through the teak door behind us. Marcus is intuitive. The man has a Christmas party in two hours and is unable to find anything suitable to wear in his closet. He has come to the right place. Marcus sets to work quickly, eyeballing the gentleman's size without error and slipping him into a perfectly fitted indigo flannel double-breasted jacket (4 button/3 patch for those keeping score) and a just right shade of pale gray trousers. Within moments the customer is shown three tie options that perfectly compliment the ensemble. A choice is a made and the man is gone, happily, almost as quickly as he's arrived. Marcus smiles as he comes to rejoin me. "I am sorry about that, it happens fairly regularly at this time of year."
My visit is less goal-oriented. I've come to discover and absorb; to soak up the unexpected plays on color and texture, mixed flawlessly with elegance, sophistication and unrivaled creativity. Classic five-pocket denim is reimagined in a butter-soft wool/cashmere twill. The orange stitching is left intact, suggesting raw denim from a distance. A pale navy knit tie with small, printed ecru dots sits near a rustic English tweed sport jacket with hand-swelled elbow patches in cream suede. This kind of ingenious subtlety in design is one of the many reasons why I consider Rose & Born to be one of (if not singularly) the best men's stores in the world.
My good friend John once told me that men buy two things – Solutions to problems and good feelings. What makes Rose & Born unique is their uncanny ability to provide both without compromise.
I hope you are half as inspired by the following photographs as I am. If you ever find your way to Stockholm I highly recommend stopping by #2 Grevgatan for a coffee, a chat and a look around. It may very well change your entire perspective on how you get dressed.


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Welcome back folks, to the Azn Badger's list of the Top 10 Manliest Man Moments!
So far we've covered the head-exploding exploits of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, the unbridled savagery of Arnold Schwarzenegger's John Matrix in Commando, and the sporadic and unfocused heroism of Han Solo.
Indeed, with every entry on this list we've explored a number of different forms of MANLINESS, and today will be no exception.
Today, as we name the 7th MANLIEST MAN moment in movie history, we enter the 7th circle of MAN-DOM:
Make no mistake, Con Air is a horribly disjointed mess of a movie.
Despite having an all-star cast, Con Air isn't action-y enough to be an action movie, nor prison-y enough to be a prison movie; resulting in a film that has no fuckin' clue what it wants to do with itself.
In falling flat on it's face trying to embody the genres listed above, Con Air falls back on what many Jerry Bruckheimer financed blockbusters attempt to do, namely be "funny."
Normally this would be acceptable, (and if Michael Bay's in charge, very likely racist) however in this case most of the funny lines are delivered by DEATH ROW INMATES, making the humor just a little bit morally questionable.
Despite all of Con Air's failings, to it's credit; it remains a very watchable piece of mid-90's garbage.
One thing the movie did do right though, was give us the awesomeness that is Nic Cage's Cameron Poe.
A quiet Southern gentleman who just happens to be an Army Ranger, Cameron Poe also happens to be mullet-ed and blue jean-ed DEATH on 2 legs.
Case in point, Poe is known to be SO FUCKING SAVAGE that in defending his PREGNANT WIFE against 3 drunken yahoos, 1 of whom is armed with a knife; Poe ends up getting sent to prison for manslaughter.
Seriously man, the guy is SO FUCKING SAVAGE that in killing an armed man in self-defense, he gets sent to prison for 8 years on the grounds that he "should've known better," being as he's a FUCKING KILLING MACHINE.
Anyway, despite Poe's infinite awesomeness, Con Air as a movie doesn't exactly afford him all that many opportunities to be badass.
There's that one time he rescues a stuffed bunny through "presenting rearward" to a more than a little surprised Nick Chinlund while over-the-top rock music blared in the background:
Then there was that one time he Chuck Norris-ed the shit out of some Mexicans to the sounds of over-the-top rock music:
And I guess there was that one time he prevented the rape of that one lady from Total Recall by beating the shit out of "The Man Who Always Dies In Movies," Danny Trejo; also set to over-the-top rock music:
In other words, Cameron Poe; as awesome as he is, seems dependent on the presence of over-the-top stylings of Trevor Rabin's orchestral synth-rock music in order to get his swagger on and kill the fuck out of, well; apparently mostly just Mexicans.
Cameron Poe's not racist, there just happen to be a lot of Hispanic bad guys that wander into his path in Con Air.
At least I hope that's the case…
Thankfully, Cameron Poe's MANLIEST of MAN moments, and our 7th MANLIEST MAN moment in all of movies; involves no violence directed at Hispanics, but rather plain 'ole white guys, which of course makes it all the more PC!:
So here's the basic setup:
An impeccably dressed John Cusack and that one Irish guy from Star Trek have finally caught up to the Jail Bird, the plane carrying all of the escaped convicts AKA the bad guys.
Chasing after the plane in pair of attack helicopters, the Irish guy orders his pilot to shoot it down; while John Cusack's Vince Larkin does what he can to protect the government's property I.E. both the plane and CAMERON FUCKING POE by screaming "CEASE FIRE!" into the ear of the pilot in the front seat.
Long story short, some shots are fired, but not enough to knock the plane out of the sky.
During all of this however, Nic Cage's Cameron Poe is in the process of HULKING OUT over his diabetic friend Baby-O, played by Bubba from Forrest Gump; having just been shot in the gut by John Malkovich's unitentionally hilarious Cyrus the Virus.
Nearly brought to MANLY tears at the sight of his friends lying on the ground dieing and rapidly losing his faith, Poe does what any self-respecting MAN would do and casually DECLARES HIMSELF GOD and sets out on his way to kill a bunch of people:
Thus begins the awesomeness of MANLY moment #7.
Standing up from tending to his fallen friend, The Poe's trademark over-the-top rock music starts blaring, and shit gets real, really fuckin' fast!
Stomping down the aisle of the Jail Bird on a bee line for the cockpit, Poe throws on his MANLIEST of MAN-FACES and ascends to his ULTIMATE level of MAN-SAVAGERY:
Despite the massive aura of MANLINESS radiating from him during all of this, a couple of the bad guys foolishly step up to challenge The Poe-Dozer.
First up is a big-ass blonde, shirtless douchbag with a broken bottle that uses what little time he has left on this Earth to shout a retarded and borderline incoherent threat at The Poe-Dozer:
As one might expect, size advantage or not; going toe-to-toe with The Poe when he's in full-on Poe-Dozer Mode get's this poor shmuck beat to shit something fierce.
Quick as you can say "1, 2, 3" The Poe-Dozer brings it's blade to bear and claims it's first victim:
Not skipping a beat, The Poe-Dozer continues his march of MANLINESS, letting out an obscenely MANLY "HUUOOOAAAH!!!!!" as he steps over the fallen blonde douchebag.
Unfortunately, another bad guy pops up in The Poe's way; this time armed with a handgun.
Having seen his partner utterly steamrolled by the fury of The Poe-Dozer, the baddie wastes no time lifting his pistol and opening fire.
Unbeknownst to this particular bad guy though, The Poe-Dozer is immune to gunfire, thusly causing the otherwise debilitating injury of a bullet to the bicep to seem like little more than a minor annoyance.
… A minor annoyance that serves to ANGER the already POSITIVELY FUMING Poe-Dozer.
That being said, it should come as no surprise, least of all to the bad guy standing before him; that The Poe-Dozer goes to town on this sad sack of fuck with a motherfuckin' vengeance.
… But not before we cut to a shot of the guy having a moment as he reflects on the error of his ways:
Utterly frozen in disbelief at the sight of The Poe-Dozer's unflinching reaction to the gunshot wound, the convict finds himself unable to pull the trigger a second time.
His fate sealed, the bad guy quickly succumbs to the unrelenting fury of The Poe-Dozer; falling by the wayside after 3 consecutive straight right hands to the jaw.
At this point the music has already begun to calm down, thereby stripping The Poe-Dozer of his inhuman strength and vengeance fueled MAN-RAGE.
Fortunately, the previous 2 bad guys made up the bulk of The Poe's resistance in reaching the cockpit, with the last obstacle remaining in his way (besides the fucking door) being the effeminate cross-dressing convict, "Sally Can't Dance."
Reverting from his uber-violent Poe-Dozer Mode to the more socially acceptable Southern Gentleman Mode, The Poe sees fit to dispatch "Sally Can't Dance" in a manner that is fitting, namely that of laying the smack down with an open palm:
Huh, 'guess I lied about the "no violence towards Hispanics" in this scene.
Oh well.
Technically there's more to it, but in my eyes this moment marks the conclusion of the 7th MANLIEST MAN moment in movies.
Check back tomorrow for MANLY moment #6 on our list of the Top 10 Manliest Man Moments!
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1. Introduction to Solaris 10 Resource Management
2. Projects and Tasks (Overview)
3. Administering Projects and Tasks
4. Extended Accounting (Overview)
5. Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)
6. Resource Controls (Overview)
7. Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)
8. Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)
9. Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)
10. Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)
11. Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)
13. Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)
14. Resource Management Configuration Example
15. Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console
16. Introduction to Solaris Zones
17. Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)
18. Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
19. About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)
20. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
21. Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)
22. Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
23. Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
24. Oracle Solaris 10 9/10: Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris System Into a Zone (Tasks)
25. About Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)
26. Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks)
27. Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)
28. Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Tasks)
What's New in This Chapter for Oracle Solaris 10 1/06?
What's New in This Chapter for Oracle Solaris 10 6/06?
What's New in This Chapter for Oracle Solaris 10 8/07?
How to List Oracle Solaris Privileges in the Global Zone
How to List the Non-Global Zone's Privilege Set
How to List a Non-Global Zone's Privilege Set With Verbose Output
Checking the Status of SMF Services in a Non-Global Zone
How to Check the Status of SMF Services From the Command Line
How to Check the Status of SMF Services From Within a Zone
Mounting File Systems in Running Non-Global Zones
How to Import Raw and Block Devices by Using zonecfg
How to Mount the File System Manually
How to Place a File System in /etc/vfstab to Be Mounted When the Zone Boots
How to Mount a File System From the Global Zone Into a Non-Global Zone
Adding Non-Global Zone Access to Specific File Systems in the Global Zone
How to Add Access to CD or DVD Media in a Non-Global Zone
How to Add a Writable Directory under /usr in a Non-Global Zone
How to Export Home Directories in the Global Zone Into a Non-Global Zone
Using IP Network Multipathing on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed
Oracle Solaris 10 8/07: How to Use IP Network Multipathing in Exclusive-IP Non-Global Zones
How to Extend IP Network Multipathing Functionality to Shared-IP Non-Global Zones
Oracle Solaris 10 8/07: Administering Data-Links in Exclusive-IP Non-Global Zones
How to Use dladm show-linkprop
How to Use dladm reset-linkprop
Using the Fair Share Scheduler on an Oracle Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed
How to Set FSS Shares in the Global Zone Using the prctl Command
How to Change the zone.cpu-shares Value in a Zone Dynamically
Using Rights Profiles in Zone Administration
How to Assign the Zone Management Profile
Example--Using Profile Shells With Zone Commands
Backing Up an Oracle Solaris System With Installed Zones
How to Use ufsdump to Perform Backups
How to Create a UFS Snapshot Using fssnap
How to Use find and cpio to Perform Backups
How to Print a Copy of a Zone Configuration
How to Restore an Individual Non-Global Zone
29. Upgrading an Oracle Solaris 10 System That Has Installed Non-Global Zones
30. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems
31. About Branded Zones and the Linux Branded Zone
32. Planning the lx Branded Zone Configuration (Overview)
33. Configuring the lx Branded Zone (Tasks)
34. About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview)
35. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
36. Logging In to lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
37. Moving and Migrating lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
38. Administering and Running Applications in lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
Perform the following steps to use DTrace functionality as described in Running DTrace in a Non-Global Zone.
global# zonecfg -z my-zone zonecfg:my-zone> set limitpriv="default,dtrace_proc,dtrace_user" zonecfg:my-zone> exit
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Leading Off: Morales Swings For HR Record; AL West Showdown
A look at what's happening around the majors today:
Kendrys Morales has homered in seven straight games for Toronto, one short of the major league record. He can match Dale Long, Don Mattingly and Ken Griffey Jr. when the Blue Jays face rookie David Hess (2-8, 5.50) and the Orioles in Baltimore. "It'd be something if he gets (the record). I don't think any of us can comprehend how hard it is to do," Toronto manager John Gibbons said. Morales has already connected off Hess during the streak, and the Cuban slugger said the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, has requested one of his bats. "It's amazing what I've been doing," he added. One of seven players in big league history with a streak this long, Morales has six home runs in 116 career at-bats at Camden Yards. He has 21 homers this season and is batting .500 (17 for 34) with eight home runs and 15 RBIs during a 10-game hitting streak.
Oakland plays at Houston in the opener of a three-game series between the top two teams in the AL West. Gerrit Cole (11-5, 2.73 ERA) pitches for the World Series champion Astros, who have won five straight and lead the division by 1½ games. Cole is 2-0 with a 2.92 ERA in four starts against the A's this season. Athletics lefty Brett Anderson (3-3, 3.47) is 3-1 with a 2.11 ERA in eight starts since coming off the disabled list, and opponents are batting just .218 since his return. Houston expects to have All-Star outfielder George Springer (quadriceps) back in the lineup.
Three years ago, Daniel Murphy powered the Mets into the World Series by going 9 for 17 (.529) with four home runs to win NLCS MVP honors in a four-game sweep of the Cubs. Now, he'll face his former team for the first time as a member of the Cubs when they host Noah Syndergaard (9-3, 3.68 ERA) and the Mets at Wrigley Field. Murphy has tormented New York since leaving town as a free agent, batting .390 with 11 homers, 43 RBIs and a whopping 1.162 OPS in 44 games against the Mets for the Washington Nationals, who traded him to Chicago last week. Jon Lester (14-5, 3.64) starts for the Cubs.
Suddenly back within striking distance of first-place Boston in the AL East, the banged-up Yankees send Masahiro Tanaka (9-4) to the mound at home against the White Sox. Carlos Rodon (5-3) starts for Chicago, which has won nine of 12.
Stephen Strasburg (6-7, 4.23 ERA) pitches for the Nationals in Philadelphia against Zach Eflin (9-4, 3.93) and the Phillies. Strasburg came off the disabled list last week after missing more than a month with a neck problem and gave up five runs in four innings vs. Philadelphia. His velocity dipped in his last inning.
Rockies right-hander Jon Gray faces Mike Trout and the Angels with his club a game back of Arizona for the NL West lead. Gray hasn't lost a start since June 12, a span of 10 outings. He's allowed four earned runs or fewer in his past seven starts — no small feat, with four of those games at Coors Field — and Colorado has won each of his past nine outings. The Angels have dropped six straight, including a three-game sweep by Houston over the weekend.
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Act Now to Extend the IRA Charitable Rollover (June 11, 2009)
Washington, D.C. - If Congress does not act this year, the IRA Charitable Rollover provision will expire on December 31. In this tough economy, every incentive for charitable giving is essential to supporting America's nonprofit community. The IRA Rollover spurs new and increased giving to orchestras and thousands of other nonprofit organizations. Please act now by asking your Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor the Public Good IRA Rollover Act.
The provision, which allows donors to make tax-free charitable contributions directly from their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA), was enacted in August 2006, expired in December 2007, and was reinstated in 2008. Growing the list of House and Senate co-sponsors for this measure can help ensure that Congress will include the IRA Rollover in any package of tax extenders it creates this year.
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Saints Row: The Third has reached more than 5.5 million players, says Rubin
Saints Row: The Third has been played by 5.5 million people, according to a tweet from THQ president Jason Rubin. Although it's not clear if the figure refers to units shipped or sold, the "hit nobody realized was a hit" had shipped 5 million units worldwide in November, suggesting it's probably the former. Rubin said this total doesn't include Humble Bundle Sales, which would round out to about 6.3 million. The next Saints Row game began life as an expansion but will be fleshed out to a full sequel.
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2007 was the year that Social Networking "got its geek on." We have that on no less an authority than CNet.
I'm predicting that 2008 will be the year that social networking, uh, does something that sounds less silly.
Like becoming useful for software developers.
Maybe you have a Facebook or MySpace page, but I have my doubts that you consider it a big help to you in your work. On the other hand, you surely do rely on social networksin the mundane sense of networks of coworkers and contacts and people you know that you can e-mail with a question in a pinch. And there are those who think they can make your use of these informal networks a lot more efficient. They think that social networks are about to become a lot more serious and useful than MySpace.
The Year of Getting Serious?
Most of the things called social networking services are website centered. At last count, Wikipedia listed more than 100 "notable" social networking sites, some quite general, like Facebook and MySpace, some quite focused, like Cyworld (young South Koreans), Sermo (doctors), CarDomain (car enthusiasts), and Advogato (free and open-source software developers). But Twitter is proof that social networking services can transcend the blog/website frame, extending social networks into IM, RSS, and SMS.
Actual social networks of people already exist and function in these media, of course; that's what they're for, largely. But the point is that social networking services are making headway in multiple media, not just sites like Facebook.
While these social networking services provide a variety of ways for users to connect and interact, arguably the defining characteristic of social networking services is a recommendation system based on trust. Social networking software attempts to enable the sharing of judgment, letting you leverage somebody else's trust and knowledge about other people, and letting you share your own knowledge and judgment. How well they work depends on the trust metrics and the model for using those metrics. Yahoo, Amazon, Slashdot, and Daily Kos all have their distinct reputation systems.
The FOSS social network site Advogato (www.advogato.org) is interesting in that it was set up specifically to test a model for attack-resistant trust metrics for peer certification. Raph Levien's model is described at the site, as well as in his Ph.D. thesis (referenced at the site). Levien claims that the trust metric used in Advogato exhibits "resistance to catastrophic failure in the face of a sufficiently massive attack. Instead, the number of bad nodes [nodes under the control of an attacker] accepted scales linearly, and with a fairly small constant, with the number of certificates from valid accounts to bogus ones. It is also easy to compute efficiently and fairly simple to understand. As such, it should find applications in...defining online communities, reliably excluding spammers, trolls, and other common annoyances."
Advogato exemplifies the software smarts that need to go into social networking services. But these services also need to be smart about people and social interaction: A recent IBM whitepaper asserted that social sciences would soon become more important than IT to IT departments. Whether that's true or not, those branches of computer and social science that explore the characteristics of networks, social or otherwise, are likely to be very useful in making social networking service work better.
And one insight from the social sciences that challenges the MySpace model is that we all belong to not just one social network, but many, reflecting our varied interestsincluding software development. Advogato is not the only social networking service addressing the interests of software developers. If 2007 was the year that social networks got more tech-savvy, could 2008 be the year that the tech savvy get a grip on social networking?


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Sixteen years ago Miami closed out its most turbulent decade with one final spasm of violence. The last major race riot erupted in Overtown in January 1989, after Miami police officer William Lozano put a bullet in the brain of Clement Lloyd, who was fleeing another officer on his motorcycle. The dying man crashed into a car. His passenger, Allan Blanchard, was also killed. Four days of looting, fires, and general mayhem were unleashed as a result. In those moments, it seemed as if nothing had been learned in the near decade since Miami first burned in America's living rooms. Crazy town is at it again.
But if America, or indeed most of Miami, had been reading the Miami Times, the explosion would have seemed less surprising than inevitable. As the county's only major black newspaper, the Times had its ear finely tuned to the community it had served since 1923. As in the years preceding the McDuffie riots of 1980, the pent-up frustrations of a marginalized populace were well tallied in its pages. New Times published a cover story about the Miami Times a couple of months after the shooting in 1989. It was likely the first peek many Anglo and Hispanic residents had into an insular community poorly understood by outsiders.
In 1989 the Miami Times was a vibrant advocate for blacks, due in no small measure to the long-term partnership of Bahamian-born publisher Garth Reeves and his Indo-Guyanese managing editor, Mohamed Hamaludin. The mind-meld of the charming, financially savvy Reeves and the iconoclast Hamaludin produced a paper that generally lived up to the axiom about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. Editorial positions were strong and often ran head-on into Miami's white and Cuban establishment. For instance, both men termed the riots "rebellions" against injustice. Asked his opinion of the request by some Hispanic officers to be pulled off patrols in Overtown and Liberty City, Reeves was unequivocal: "That's just part of the bullshit to get this officer [Lozano] freed. You are not going to have any real peace in this town as long as black people feel Hispanic officers have hunters' rights on their lives."
National and international black-oriented news was also featured alongside tales of the city. Yet the heart of the paper was social news -- weddings and funerals, graduations and church affairs -- the lifelines of a community. At the time, the Times claimed a circulation of 27,000 and a cool million dollars a year in revenue. Not bad for an enterprise that began its life as a sidebar to the Reeves family's successful printing business and that was largely subsidized by it for decades. But the years have altered the landscape for both black Miami and its newspaper. The community is rapidly diversifying with immigration, and dispersing with gentrification and upward mobility. The core of the old community, from which the most loyal readership has traditionally been drawn, is aging fast.
Meanwhile the Miami Times itself appears to be withering from the inside. Interviews with more than a dozen former employees of the paper indicate the problem is Rachel Reeves, the 55-year-old daughter to whom Garth Reeves handed over publishing duties in 1994. Staff turnover is constant, to the noticeable detriment of editorial quality. Common criticisms New Times heard while reporting this story centered on reporting inaccuracies, stale news, and careless spelling mistakes. "The way [Reeves] sees her readers is she's the only game in town, so that's the way it is," says Hansen Sinclair, who reported for the paper for six months in 2004. "It really could be something significant to the black community if it were run by someone else. It could be a force to be reckoned with because it's the only dominant black voice in Miami. But after I left, I took that off my resumé."
The majority of advertising comes from the public sector rather than black businesses. For instance, the county spent a jaw-dropping $400,000 on the weekly paper in 2003-2004 alone. "If it weren't for grants the government gave them, they wouldn't have any ads at all, aside from the obituaries and church ads," asserts Walter White, who sold ads for the Miami Times in 2003.
Luis M. Gomez, a former reporter, lasted only four months, which seems to be about average. "People either quit or they were forced out," he relates. "I was forced out. One day I came in on a payday and there was less than half of what should be there in my check. The business manager said, 'Well, Miss Reeves has decided to make you a part-time employee and so you're being paid per story.' I filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor based on the fact I worked many hours of overtime and didn't receive payment. The labor department agreed with me. She wound up having to pay out to a lot of people."
In 1999 Hamaludin left to become an editor at the Miami Herald, and his former position has been a revolving door ever since. This is a developing crisis for the Times. The decisions made by Rachel Reeves in the near future will determine if the paper survives or becomes merely another historical footnote.
The legend scrawled across the top of every inside page of the Miami Times reads, "Blacks Must Control Their Own Destiny." But what is its destiny? Patrick Range II, a young man whose roots in the community give him a deep respect for the institution of the Times, acknowledges that many of his peers don't share his reverence. "Those younger folks tend to look at the Times as a second-rate paper," he says. "They don't read it. I know folks have various opinions of the Times. Most of the older generation depends on it, to some extent more than the Herald. My grandmother looks for it every Wednesday evening."
Marvin Dunn, former head of the psychology department at Florida International University and a historian of black Miami, says his opinion of the Miami Times has evolved over the years. "In the beginning it was the only consistent black voice in Miami, the only autonomous paper that could stand up to the white establishment," he observes. "I have a lot of respect for the paper." But Dunn acknowledges times have changed and the paper needs to evolve with them. "I would like to see more emphasis on the diversity in black Miami," he says. "I would like to know more about the editorial process. Is it a one-person show? Do they hire quality people to ensure the kind of product a quality paper should have? I'd like to see better writing.
"What is the future leadership beyond Rachel? Is it going to pass from the Reeves family to some other entity?" Dunn continues. "I think the paper is still relevant. There's a need for it even more so today. It can't afford to lose the next generation of blacks."
Wilson Louis is the sort of person Dunn is talking about. Louis, now 21, worked at the Miami Times for about a year and a half. A Haitian American with a round face and a sweet nature, Louis began writing teen articles for the paper when he was a senior at Miami Edison Senior High School. (He's now earning a degree at Miami Dade College and working for WSVN, Channel 7.) But because more experienced reporters were leaving, he was quickly promoted to writing news stories. "At one time, only me and [another writer] were reporting," he recalls. "And I was just a high school kid. It was tough."
Louis, like a number of other Times reporters New Times interviewed, felt a connection and a duty to the community that led him to believe in the mission of the paper, even when he was frustrated by a lack of ability to fulfill it. Louis says that as a Haitian American living in a predominantly Haitian neighborhood, he hadn't had much contact with African Americans in Miami. "At the time, I didn't know what the Miami Times was," he relates. "I had heard of it. It was a black paper about the African-American community. I hadn't had much interaction with it, but through the paper I was able to bond with the African-American community. There may have been ups and downs, but overall it was worth it." Louis admits he hasn't really read it since late 2003, when he was let go.
Yvette Anderson, a former intern who wrote stories for two months in 2003, had a similar experience; she was asked to perform at a level beyond her experience in a high-pressure situation. Yet Anderson, now 23 and completing a degree in elementary education at Florida A&M University, echoes a sentiment New Times heard over and over from even the paper's critics. "Despite the paper's faults, there are stories in there that if that paper wasn't there, you wouldn't see those voices in there," she argues. "When I was there, they did have errors.... A lot of people in the community read it just to know who passed. I used to try to get my friends at Miami-Dade [College] to read it and they weren't interested. The old people keep that paper alive."
The era in which the Miami Times was founded was a particularly brutal one for dark-skinned people. Miami was a tropical southern backwater in 1923 -- full of real-estate scams, fruit trees, hotels, and institutional racism. This was the year Henry Ethelbert Sigismund Reeves, a Bahamian transplant who owned a print shop, started his paper. In the early Twenties, the Ku Klux Klan was active and open to the point of sponsoring huge downtown parades and running vigilante raids through Overtown. The group bombed buildings, lynched black men, and flat-out controlled the Miami Police Department. In his 1997 book Black Miami in the Twentieth Century, Marvin Dunn detailed incidents of gruesome torture by police that bear a sickening resemblance to the treatment of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers today. A 1928 grand jury report included testimony about the police shocking men and women with live electrical wires, sometimes on their genitals. It also included accounts of numerous vicious beatings that sometimes resulted in death, in which case the department would issue a flimsy cover story about suicide or a fight.
For black workers to enter Miami Beach in those days, they had to have a police-issued ID card. Yet the paradox of segregation meant black wealth and talent were concentrated in only a few areas, most famously in Overtown during its nationally renowned peak as an entertainment hub from the Thirties to the early Sixties. After World War II, the nascent civil rights movement in Miami was jump-started by black soldiers who returned from the war with the notion that since they'd fought for their country, they ought to enjoy its freedoms on the same level as whites.
Early civil rights leaders in Miami, such as the city's first black commissioners -- Rev. Theodore Gibson and Athalie Range -- often had Bahamian roots. The Reeves family was part of that tradition. Henry Reeves's son Garth participated in the integration of public golf courses in 1949 and public beaches in 1958. The younger Reeves was also responsible for the gradual radicalization of the paper as the civil rights movement gathered speed. H.S. Reeves had a more moderate outlook than his son.
When Gibson and another black leader, Rev. Edward T. Graham, were each sentenced to six months in jail and a $1200 fine for refusing to reveal the names of members of the local NAACP chapter to a state legislative committee in 1963, the Miami Times published eloquent editorials that helped fuel church rallies in support of the ministers. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually vindicated the men, effectively killing the McCarthy-inspired witch-hunt for supposed communist subversives within the civil rights organization in Miami.
When Overtown began to be destroyed by the white community's land grab to make room for I-95 and the I-395 connector, the black middle class decamped to Liberty City and points north. Desegregation further diluted the community's economic power. Dunn counted no fewer than seven black newspapers in Miami's first few decades, including Reeves's first media venture, the short-lived Miami Sun. These papers served a population of less than 30,000 blacks, concentrated in Overtown, Coconut Grove, and portions of South Dade. Of these the Miami Times is the only one to survive. There are a few more recent tiny outfits, such as the Gospel Truth, and South Florida Newsweek, but for all intents and purposes the black paper with influence has been the institution of the Miami Times.
Besides the obvious need for a black voice in local media, the paper endured because of Garth Reeves's ability to straddle both black and white worlds. He built his father's business into one of the city's most successful black enterprises. Eventually the printing company was shut down, and the newspaper drove the family's fortunes. Reeves also parlayed his ability to network in white and Hispanic circles into profitable real estate deals all over the county. He partnered with developer Armando Codina, banker Raul Masvidal, and black architect Ron Frazier to grab a minority share of downtown's Bayside Marketplace when it was under construction.
He became a majority owner in the Peoples National Bank of Commerce. Peoples was in financial trouble when Reeves and a handful of other black investors pumped money into it beginning in 1992. They wanted Florida's only black-owned bank to remain viable. The Reeves family sank millions of its own money into the bank over several years to keep it afloat, but the institution suffered from poor management and bad loans. In 1999 the Boston Bank of Commerce absorbed Peoples, which had been targeted by federal regulators.
In 1985 Knight Ridder chairman Alvah Chapman invited Reeves to become part of the Non-Group, a powerful fraternity of the most influential businessmen in town. He was also the first black on the boards of the United Way and Miami-Dade Community College. It does not get any more establishment than that, although Reeves argued these invitations were mere tokens.
This talent for mixing socially with the same people he vehemently criticized in print has, over the years, been attributed to his genteel personal style and his ability to broker influence both ways. For instance, it is generally acknowledged that the Miami Times wielded decisive influence in electing the City of Miami's first Hispanic mayor, Maurice Ferré. The paper also ended his tenure in 1985 after he led the commission's effort to fire the city's first black manager, Howard Gary. Reeves was among black leaders to successfully lobby for Johnny Jones to become the first black superintendent of schools. In 1988 Reeves agreed to publicly support the school district's $980 million school construction referendum in return for the district funneling more jobs and contracts to the black community. Again black voters made the difference in the measure's passage.
On the other side of the equation, Reeves managed to become an icon to blacks, even though his comfortable social and economic status far removed him from the daily lives of most Miami Times readers. In 1990 H.T. Smith and a few other black attorneys organized a three-year nationwide black boycott of Miami that cost the tourism industry millions. (The boycott was sparked by the snubbing of South African anti-apartheid legend Nelson Mandela by Cuban-American elected officials, who denounced him for refusing to repudiate his old ally Fidel Castro.) Smith says the paper was instrumental in that struggle. "Every week for 150 weeks, the boycott message was disseminated when we couldn't get decent coverage anywhere else," he recalls fondly. "It was through the Times and the churches that the leaders were able to keep readers informed. It has a special place in my heart."
Yet there's another side to Reeves. One example: his neglectful ownership of the Crispus Attucks slum complex in Overtown, which residents had dubbed New Jack because it was overrun with gun-toting drug dealers and addicts. In 1999 New Times chronicled the efforts of a group of poor single mothers fighting to get Reeves to fix the deteriorating building for which he received Section 8 funding. "I don't know what [the tenants] were trying to prove, what they were trying to do to me," Reeves said at the time. "I have a reputation in this community. They weren't anybody but poor people; I think they were being used [by others who wanted the building closed]." Eventually the county canceled his Section 8 funding because none of the apartments was even close to code. The city ordered the place vacated. In 2001 it was finally demolished, leaving nothing but vacant land and roughly $600,000 in liens and fines from years of code violations.
Although the last three decades have been very good for Garth Reeves financially, they were not so kind personally. His only son and namesake, Garth Reeves, Jr., died of cancer at the age of 30 in 1982. Garth Jr. was the bright and shining hope of his father, especially with regard to the legacy of the Miami Times. Two years before his death, the younger Reeves had become managing editor. He was in line to become publisher as his father phased slowly into retirement.
With his son's death, Reeves thought he would sell the paper, but then Rachel Reeves stepped up. "What the hell am I, chopped liver?" she challenged her father, according to a 1992 Herald profile. Garth Sr. admitted he "didn't think Rachel could handle it." Rachel was two years older than her brother, and she had worked for the paper since high school (excepting the years she spent at Bennett College in North Carolina, before dropping out). Ms. Reeves, however, was always on the operations side, working her way up from typesetter, advertising clerk, and bookkeeper to business manager. Her heart was never in the news side of the paper. Where Garth is known, even now at the age of 86, to write the occasional editorial or bit of gossip for the popular "Spreading Larceny" column, his daughter has not shown similar proclivities. "Do I write? Never," she once said in a story run in her own newspaper. "This is a business."
This shift in priorities coming from the new heir apparent wasn't an issue for quite a while, as the elder Reeves slowly eased aside and his daughter became executive editor and then publisher and chief executive officer. For one thing, Mohamed Hamaludin was there. Hamaludin, now editor of the Herald's northwest and north-central "Neighbors" sections, spent more than a decade at the Times, from 1984 to 1999. A native of Guyana, he joined the staff as a reporter, but within a few months he was made managing editor. In 1994 he was promoted to executive editor as Ms. Reeves became publisher. Hamaludin declines to discuss his tenure at the Miami Times or what he thinks of it now. "I worked there for nearly fifteen years," he says. "It was time for me to explore new opportunities and for the Miami Times to get new blood."
In a 1994 story the Miami Times printed about the ascension of Rachel Reeves, the new publisher assured her readers: "We not only intend to maintain the highest standards of journalism excellence but we shall try to improve even more to ensure that our community has the best possible newspaper we can publish." Some eleven years later, this is the crux of the matter. Is the Miami Times living up to that promise?
To be sure, the business climate for print media in general is brutal, and no media outlet in town is as robust as it once was. Both the Miami Herald and New Times have suffered budget and staff cuts in recent years, and are smaller, paler versions of themselves at their peaks. In a 1998 message to her readers, Reeves herself spelled out the challenges facing a black press that is "steadily declining in influence and circulation."
That said, anecdotal evidence suggests the Miami Times today is little more than a cash cow for the Reeves family. The paper claims a circulation of about 21,000, of which the vast majority is newsstand sales at 50 cents per copy. It's not all that easy to find, but the reliable spots are grocery stores, restaurants, and some churches in most heavily African-American neighborhoods.
An admittedly informal survey of the advertising in the Miami Times in the past few months reveals the majority is purchased by governmental agencies -- the county, the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, the City of Miami, the school district. This was not always the case. A 1981 memo written by then-county manager Merrett Stierheim requested that county departments place a "courtesy ad" in the Miami Times and Diario Las Americas whenever legal notices were posted in the mainstream press. (The use of the word courtesy says all that need be about where the white establishment's head was even after the McDuffie riots and the Mariel boatlift set in motion the end of its political and economic dominance.)
More recently the county has been astoundingly generous to the Miami Times. In the past five fiscal years the county has spent more than $1.56 million on the paper, mostly in the form of advertising. Last year alone the tally was $400,564.48, according to public records. By way of comparison, last year the county spent about $60,000 advertising in Miami Today, a business-oriented weekly with a circulation of 30,000. Smaller weeklies, such as the South Dade News Leader, Libre, and the Coral Gables Gazette, with circulations of about 5000 each, garnered $26,000, $28,000, and almost $18,000, respectively. The county spent $13,150 on 5000-circulation monthly The Gospel Truth last year and just $28,703 advertising in New Times.
The second-largest source of advertising in the Times (in terms of space) is typically the obituaries, churches, funeral homes, and classifieds. There are some reliable display ads for Publix, upcoming movies, and small businesses such as clothing stores, but not many. Patrick Range II is the grandson of Athalie Range, matriarch of the Range Funeral Home, which often advertises in the paper. Range, a 28-year-old attorney, allows that the Times has had difficulty drawing advertising support. "I don't think the black community supports it to the level we could," he observes. "The traditional black businesses do, but the attorneys, bankers, and accountants have not really embraced the Times. I don't know whether that's a function of there not being a lot of business to be generated [from the readership]. We have a tendency in Miami that once we attain a level of wealth, we tend to shy away from our roots. Because of the lack of support, I don't think the newspaper is all that it could be."
That's certainly true, but there are other reasons. Anthony Georges-Pierre, a Haitian-American attorney with a downtown practice, says he used to pick up the paper regularly when he worked for City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, but now, in the private sector, he finds he does not. "I'll be honest, I don't really read it unless something big happens," he admits. "Six months ago was the last time I picked it up. I went to the convenience store in the Grove where they always had it, and they had only back issues, no current ones." Georges-Pierre asked the store owner why and was told the Times had stopped buying back unsold copies, thus the store would have to eat the cost if the issues didn't move. "So he stopped getting it," he continues. "My firm looked into advertising with them because a lot of our clients are blue collar with labor issues. But then when I talked to the guy where I get it, I thought, Well, if people aren't buying it, why advertise? I need the most bang for my buck."
Another explanation comes from Walter White, age 67, an ad sales rep with more than 30 years of experience. He currently works for the Coral Gables Gazette. In late 2003 he began working for the Miami Times, he says, because he thought he could do some good there. He lasted about six months. One of the problems he immediately ran into was Rachel Reeves meddling with his clients. He would sell an ad, and then Reeves, he claims, would ask him to call back the customer and raise the price. "She sent me back three and four times to raise the price of an ad I'd already sold," he recalls. "I was able to do it, but the client didn't come back."
Another problem: She would sometimes bypass White and go directly to his clients. "She called up one of my customers who'd followed me through three papers, and asked them why they weren't in the paper," he grouses. "'Did they not want to deal with black people?' [she complained.] You can't threaten people to make them advertise. My customer called me and said, 'Who is this lady?'"
Ultimately what drove White away from the paper, he says, was Reeves's alleged refusal to pay him his commission and her plans to cut his salary in half. This resulted in a standoff between the two in which White would dress for work, come in for five minutes, and then go home, judging he'd put in the amount of time for which she was paying him. "I came there because I felt I could help," he says. "The Miami Times is the oldest black paper in the South. I bet you her grandfather is spinning in his grave."
A number of ex-employees repeat similar stories of being cheated out of money when Reeves would arbitrarily change the rules by which she paid them. Candace Holloway was hired as a receptionist in August 2004. Within two months she was the front office coordinator. Shortly thereafter she began selling ads for the paper. At first things were okay, although she said customers would sometimes note the high turnover and complain about sloppy handling of their ads. Then, she claims, Reeves began taking money out of her paycheck, which wasn't terribly large to begin with because she was making about nine dollars per hour. ("And I was one of the highest-paid there," she notes). The reason, she was told, was if her customers were unhappy with the look of their ads, money would be subtracted from her pay. "If the customers dislike what they see, we have to pay it out of our own pocket," Holloway recites. "They took it right out of my check [even though] it's not my fault there's a problem."
Still Holloway kept working and outdid herself by selling $9000 worth of ads for a special insert for Black History Month. Before she could collect her commission, she got into an argument with a co-worker and was fired this past April. "[Reeves] said she was going to give me a bonus," she alleges. "It was supposed to be seven percent of [the sales]. I never got paid. I think that's why she fired me, so she wouldn't have to."
In 2000 Carmen Morris, a public relations executive who operates her own firm, sued the newspaper, claiming Rachel Reeves had refused to pay her more than $18,000 in fees when she promoted its 75th anniversary in 1998. Reeves fired her ten days before the contract expired, saying she'd failed to perform. "I did the work," Morris says now. "They didn't want to pay." Interestingly, Morris, who worked for the paper as a high school student, is still a supporter of the institution, if not the woman behind it. "It has such a potential," she says. "I respect Garth Reeves. I pray the Miami Times will find its way back to its original purpose."
Other complaints voiced by former employees include a period when Rachel Reeves demanded that everyone, including reporters, wear uniforms. The reporters in particular found this humiliating. If this seems like a crazy way to run a business, some speculate the root of it lies in Reeves's relationship with her father. It's almost as if she never grew beyond the hurt she felt at always being second to her brother in her father's eyes. By many accounts she is not an easygoing woman. People who know her have used the word mercurial when speaking of her; also the word bitch comes up often. She became a mother in 1989, to Garth Basil Reeves. In the early Nineties she suffered two mild strokes.
Critics observe that the Miami Times under her leadership has not embraced a diversifying Miami. This is reflected in the names that end up in print, the same handful of aging African-American leaders who've been circulating for decades. Are there no leaders under the age of 40? "If you go out in the hood, the average person looks at the obituary section; that and the church part of it is really a staple," asserts Overtown resident and activist Henry Crespo, who wrote a column for the Miami Times in the mid-Nineties, ran for office a couple of times, and helped lead an unsuccessful campaign to recall Art Teele from his city commission seat. "Everything else is the same -- the same people, the same stuff. As we're moving forward, you have to roll with the times. There are new minds out there, and they're stuck on something from 30 years ago."
Leo Casino, another Overtown activist, believes the paper is geared toward the black establishment and not the underclass. "I know we have an unwritten rule to not criticize blacks," he says, "but their support of Art Teele? Given his damage to the community? Look at the articles they've written. They're geared toward the upper class of blacks -- the politicians and the movers and shakers."
The 40-year-old Crespo is a bit of an anomaly in the black community. Where many whisper their discontent in closed circles, he is willing to challenge Reeves directly. "Look, sister, I don't think this is right," he remembers telling her after the paper made an issue of him being Cuban. "There are a lot of leaders out there other than the same old guard. You say I'm Cuban, but you Bahamian. You a phony just like me."
Reeves's apparent discomfort with non-African Americans extends beyond Crespo. Former reporter Luis Gomez says that after he left the Times, he heard from former colleagues that Reeves didn't like him because he's not black. "I have no way of knowing if that was true," he says.
Another former reporter, Hansen Sinclair, notes, "I'm Jamaican. She made many comments I don't want to get into."
Two other former reporters, both African Americans, say that on more than one occasion Reeves directed them to exclude whites from coverage, especially in photographs. "She would say, 'I don't want to see no white people on the front of my paper,'" one of them relates.
Apparently this edict occasionally extends even to advertisers. Susan Root, owner of African Village Gifts in North Miami Beach, experienced this last year, when, without warning, the ads she'd been running in the paper for several years disappeared. Root, 53 years old, is white. When she called to inquire about it, she was told by two Miami Times employees that they'd dropped her ad because she was white. "People said, 'If I was you, I wouldn't do business with them again,'" Root recalls. "I felt it wasn't right. Discrimination is wrong no matter who it's against. I've been involved in the black community my whole life."
Root fought for three months to get her ads back in, even calling friends in the local NAACP, and her pastor, Bishop Victor T. Curry. Eventually this worked, but she also complained to the county's Community Relations Board. "When I got back to my store the night I testified, I got a phone call from somebody in the community," she recounts. "She said, 'I think it's a disgrace what a sister will do to a sister, and I'm coming to your store to shop.'"
A couple of years ago, one of Rachel Reeves's cousins, April Young, tried to inject new life into the paper. Young, a serious and intelligent woman, had graduated from Princeton University and returned to Miami. Because she was between jobs, she offered her services as an editor to the family institution. "She had an attitude of 'We can turn the paper around,'" says a former reporter who worked there. "She had a flow chart and everything. She wanted to bring order to it." Young lasted only a few months, leaving, sources say, because she realized she couldn't have the effect she intended. Young herself declines comment: "You understand, it's family."
Neither Garth nor Rachel Reeves would consent to an interview for this story. Garth Reeves did not return numerous messages. New Times had one exchange with his daughter. "What kind of story are you doing?" she asked suspiciously. "What is it New Times wants to tell corporate Miami about the Miami Times?"
New Times wanted to write a story about the Times and how it has evolved as the community has changed. After all, New Times hadn't reported on the paper since 1989. It wouldn't be a PR piece, but it would be fair.
"Well, if you're not going to do a PR piece, why should I talk to you?" she replied. "Do your story. What can I say to you? You make me feel very uncomfortable. New Times does not do positive stories. If you are going to try to hurt the Miami Times in this community, I won't talk to you. Now, if you want to do something positive --"
And what might make her comfortable?
"Probably nothing. You could send me some questions in writing."
Would she answer them?
"I don't know. I don't have to do what I don't want to do."
Black Miami by theNumbers
Black Miami by the Numbers
More than 457,000 residents in Miami-Dade County are identified as black by the 2000 U.S. Census. This is about twenty percent of the total population. But what constitutes "black" is a tricky matter in Miami, where demographers must take into account the many thousands of immigrants who consider themselves Hispanic, Haitian, Bahamian, Jamaican, or Trinidadian first -- and black almost incidentally. If Sammy Sosa is filling out a census form, does he say he's a black man or a Hispanic from the Dominican Republic?
This is significant when considering the fortunes of a newspaper like the Miami Times, historically devoted to the African-American community. Trends clearly point to growth in the black population being driven by immigration. At least twenty percent of the county's black population is Haitian. The majority of recent Cuban immigrants are Afro-Cuban.
The 2000 census reveals other noteworthy trends. Countywide in 2000, people over 50 years old represented about 28 percent of the total population. In the black community, however, only about 19.5 percent were over 50. The median age for all county residents was 35.6, but for black residents it was 28.9. Taken together these numbers indicate that black Miami is young. This is the heart of the matter for any newspaper hoping to attract the attention of the black community.
People who remember the era in which the Times became a leading advocate for black Miami are dwindling in number. The struggles that united the community and fueled the paper's vitality have also diminished. Roughly 52 percent of Miami-Dade blacks are too young to remember Liberty City burning in the 1980 McDuffie riots. Factor in immigration and the impending gentrification of neighborhoods like Overtown, Wynwood, and Little Haiti, and the pool of natural readers shrinks further.
-- Rebecca Wakefield
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Kris Smith, age 37, Overtown NET administrator: "I read it more out of professional courtesy and because of where I work and live. If I weren't in Overtown, I probably wouldn't read it. But for where I sit and work, it's important because of its standing in the neighborhood; that paper is influential in it. The Times opened up the world of black media to me; it gave me some perspective. If I want to know about a fraternity event or a black business, I turn to the Miami Times."
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Trellany McMath, age 40, Miami Lakes Middle School teacher and a former Miami Times reporter: "I feel they are the voice of the community. A lot of news you don't hear from the other mainstream newspapers, you see in the Times. The news a lot of people don't hear about is always out there in the black community. The people I knew were excited about the paper and the positive stories. I still get it every week. I use it in my classroom because I teach reading."
Sherman Henry, age 33, president of AFSCME Local 1184: "I don't really read it. Every once in a blue moon I pick it up if someone tells me I should read a particular story. It's like reading the Miami Herald -- historically it was our paper, but now there's no real news in it. My folks read it because they have that historical connection to it."
Ted Lucas, age 33, Carol City native and founder of Slip-N-Slide Records: "It's like the grassroots of Miami. The Miami Herald gives you maybe more the global view, but down and dirty what's really happening? That's the Miami Times. People you grew up with call and say, öYou read the article in the Miami Times?' I read it maybe twice a month. They cater to an older crowd. People my age aren't reading the paper; they're working so hard they don't have time."
Tangela Sears, age 39, African-American Grassroots Coalition: "I remember as a little kid Thursday was Miami Times day. You might see the police shootings in the Herald and the domestic violence problems in Opa-locka, but you will only see the educational part of that, the workshops and programs, in the Miami Times. If a minister has an anniversary or if someone passes, we know about it. I can send something to the Herald and they may not be interested in it, but in the Times it's going to hit the ministers and it's going to bounce around the churches. They'll be around for another 100 years as long as the mainstream media continue to ignore our issues."


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I'm fond of quoting Diane Mermigas, editor-at-large at MediaPost, who is one of the finest media market watchers in the journalism business today. Her latest MediaPost column offers another sobering look at the radical changing sweeping through the media marketplace today. In that article, she notes that even though we are in an era of Big Government bailouts for financial institutions and (possibly) auto makers, old media operators will be left to to fend for themselves, and many will likely die off as a result:
What we do know is there will be no federally funded bail for media, Internet, entertainment and advertising. Big media by definition is not nimble and innovative enough to simply dump what's not working, modify what can be saved, and grow what works. There isn't much that big media companies can bank on or reliably forecast moving into 2009. They are hamstrung between deteriorating traditional costs and revenues and evolving digital business models that do not offset the losses, generating less than 10% of their overall incomes. Big media isn't just being ravaged by recession; it is being sacked by a technological transformation of enormous proportions.
I discussed a lot of the forces behind the current media meltdown in my recent PFF special report, "Media Metrics: The True State of America's Marketplace." As I noted there, this Schumpeterian "creative destruction" we are witnessing today is a normal (but gut-wrenching) part of any major technological transformation, and it need not be addressed with government subsides or interference. However, the problem for many traditional media providers is, as I noted in my special report:
there's a lot of regulating still going on as well. America's media marketplace remains subject to a wide variety of regulations… These regulations limit the ability of media operators to respond to the rapidly changing market environment. If all market players were equally hobbled by regulation, perhaps this issue would be less problematic. But these rules are applied in a remarkably arbitrary fashion, with some sectors and firms (over-the-air broadcasters, in particular) being singled out for harsher regulatory treatment than others.
Some will say, "Just let 'em die. We don't need those old media providers anyway." If that's your position, so be it, but I would hope that others (especially public policymakers) would understand the radical unfairness of not giving those players a fighting chance at survival by eliminating the archaic regulations that bind their hands as the seek to reinvent themselves.
[For additional discussion, see my essay from earlier this week, "Remember Newspapers?"]