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Originally posted by dotdotdash
I'm not shure i can follow you here...in which possible way does Defiance show any strength of an MMO? It doesn't even have a functional chat.
Are you by chance confusing the strengths of an MMO with mindless, anonymous zerging? Since Defiance shure has it's fair share of the latter.
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My new motto; Nothing worth saying takes less than a giant wall of (kinda)structured text! :D
So; I can't drive around in a post-apocalyptic world like in RAGE (the game) AND SHOOT mobs (etcatera) with my VEHICLE's GUNS (forward fixed / decoupled whatever) AT WILL? Personally - to me- there could be nothing more interesting than jumping into my vehicle and shooting mobs around, and than getting out of the vehicle, and finishing them in person (and style:D) :(:(:(
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Joined: 3/13/12
This game is D.O.A.
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Joined: 7/24/05
"Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering" -Master Yoda
I see this game unfortunately ending up like APB, great combat and graphics but populated by elitst vulgar brats with nothing better to do than grief others.
The only way to make the game have more longevity and not end up failing or even being sold and resold like APB is to add features like engaging social system, crafting, housing, and RP supportive content. Otherwise it is fated to be a forgotten mediocre FPS IP just like APB.
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I'm enjoying the beta weekend so far. It's a really enjoyable game, though I have no illusions of it being a 1000+ hour title for me, I'm thinking it's worth a purchase for when I need a break from GW2.
I agree with the preview. Pluses and minuses.
Biggest pet peeve is the UI on the PC. Obviously designed for consoles and not very intuitive.
Oh, the animations. Most are passable. The animation in the cut scenes is better than in game, so I'm guessing those were all motion captured. However, there is one animation that makes me wonder if Trion really gives a crap about the quality of the game" The Jumping animation. It's the same low gravity moon jump animation found in Rift. Probably the worst jump animation in any MMO in the past decade. It earned universal scorn in Rift and I am dumbfounded that they didn't bother to make a proper jump animation for Defiance, but rather just copied what is one of the biggest fails of MMO animation in the history of the genre! Why Trion, Why? What the heck is wrong with you guys!
Anyway, yeah, fun so far, looks good, great cutscenes, nice environment. There is definitely some potential here.
Want to know more about GW2 and why there is so much buzz? Start here: Guild Wars 2 Mass Info for the Uninitiated
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Joined: 6/13/07
I played this continuously since the last Beta. The UI, while still bad, is much better than it was. Trion said their UI guys were totally swamped in this last phase. Definitely console base that they've been revamping towards legit PC use.
The last alpha build was surprisingly stable. I often played for hours without a forced disconnect, or a glitchy mission. Lots of tweaking going on though, making the game a little tougher in my opinion. Shields were less effective, guns got tweaked, etc. Thankfully, costumes got a little easier to get too. Still, character creation was severely underwhelming.
Biggest issue for me is that this does not feel like, at present, a $60 game. Twenty, or twenty-five, maybe. I expect the price to drop after the show finishes the season, so if you are on the fence over this one, you could revisit it in a couple of months.
I did actually enjoy playing it though. Pretty much light machine gun and shotgun, til I got this very nice machine pistol drop....
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What I really do not understand is why players do not give up to WASD in favor of much much much better use of mouse. To me hurts only watching such videos yet immagine I would still use that sill combination that once was mondatory. Like horse riding that have been replaced by cars.
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Originally posted by RolleZ
Some random guy said it will be DAO..seems legit.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
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Originally posted by bestever
Maybe the fact that I never once saw any amount of people even close to "massive" in the game the whole time I played? Yeah, that's probably it. By the way, Battlefield and Call of Duty aren't mmos either.
And considering they've handed out keys like water, the fact they can't even get people to stick around during beta when the game is completely free tells me what's gonna happen when it comes time to cough up dough for it.
EA CEO John Riccitiello's on future microtransactions: "When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip, and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you're really not very price sensitive at that point in time...We're not gouging, but we're charging."
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"I've been fortunate to spend time with Trion's persistent world shooter (they're trying to steer away from the term "MMO" lately"
Some gaming companies have realised that the old WoW template is not generating money like it used to. They know shooters make money, perhaps more than any other genre, so the persistant world shooter was born. Trouble is how long before we have a slew of these on the market? Two years, five at most, then its back to square one. The idea may be to get in quick and be the big daddy like WoW was, time will tell.
"The shortcuts, once you get them down, help a lot but overall it's clear as day that it was designed from the ground up for console players."
Playing on a PC? Then its simple, wait to two to three months after launch by which time this will be sorted out before you buy.
"The latter of which looks like a slightly more forehead-endowed human with a wide nose bridge."
I recon that must be easy for make up artists to do as it has been used in so many SF generes.
"And since you can essentially unlock every skill and item with one character, what incentive is there to replay the game's content?"
This is the archilles heel of the MMOFPS, no replay value. MMO's have an issue with keeping players past end gameplay as it is and this won't help.
"Another woe? The character animations are suspect. I can't think of a better way to put it."
Once again wait till a few months after launch when that sort of stuff gets sorted out.
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Originally posted by OG_Zorvan
So youre basing its "massiveness" on the number of people youre seeing in a beta with a limited number of players, not the full release version of the game? Wonderful logic. I guess any game that doesnt have X number of players anymore (X being whatever you personally feel is massive enough) is no longer an MMO by definition because "i dont see tons of people everywhere".
Funny thing about definitions though. Theyre based on actual facts, not the whims and opinions of random people who dont even know what the terms mean. The game has the ability to hold a large number of players in the same world who can interact with eachother. That is what makes it an MMO. Games like Call of Duty and BF simply cannot do that which is why, unlike Defiance, they are not MMOs.
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Originally posted by kaiser3282
See, the real funny thing is, I've been to this rodeo so many times , it's now just a pattern. i point out why the game is going to fail, people who refuse to believe it will fail come in with assinine arguments, then I come back later after the game fails and say "Told ya so."
EA CEO John Riccitiello's on future microtransactions: "When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip, and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you're really not very price sensitive at that point in time...We're not gouging, but we're charging."
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I am not sure why people are so deadset on defending the current state of the game, it is really horrid. These people have nothing to worry about, there is no sub anyways so it isn't like it will go F2P. If anything, maybe all the negative attention the flaws get will get those things fixed faster.
Trion may have done wonderful things with rift but this game is just so incredibly bland. It feels like the gaming equivelant of eating plain cream of wheat, and I am about as interested in playing with a bowl of plain cream of wheat as I am in playing this game.
Edit: Just fixing the damn UI would warrant it a second look. With no graphics customization options I am not sure if these puddles of mud are the high-res textures or if those were taken out to make the download smaller. It would also be nice to see just what it is that is dragging performance down when everyone is on screen at once, as it is only using 50% of each gpu, isn't coming close to maxing any cpu core, and isn't harddrive thrashing either. If this is just the engine, then what the hell are they expecting us to do at the ark events? I can't stand playing shooters at sub 60 fps, let alone ugly shooters at sub 60 : /
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Joined: 2/27/07
Another thing that does not get mentioned enough, the UI for the PC sucks. Expect to play this game on the console.
Originally posted by nttajira
you guys hype bad game amazing like alway , you have make me buy so many shitty game since 2 year ... i will reply because i have play this game in all the beta .
1- that in no way , shape or size a mmo game , if you call that a mmo then all shooter game online are also mmo , because most of them are more mmo that defiance , in defiance you pick skill nothing else , are you kidding me for calling that a mmo ??? . you got no item with stats customization , nothing
2- console GAme , warning WARNING , console port , here you go for update and so on , that not something nice when you play a pc game trust me
3- console UI , the computer ui are the worst you can ever get , all screm CONSOLE .
4- in this game you shoot monster , get exp , pick skill , and kill some player , get some poor done quest , get exp , kill , pick skill , NOTHING ELSE TO DO . also they are no chat channel , you feal like you are playing a single player realy fast ....
hope i have save some money for some people , dont buy into the hype guy !!
I guess you never actually played the game.... It most certainely is a PC game and an MMO it was ported to consoles and yes while the UI could be better for PC it is still a PC mmo first and foremost. Also by your definition no game in the last almost a decade are really mmos...
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Originally posted by OG_Zorvan
You pointed out why the game is going to fail? Well damn. I must be hallucinating. Because all I see is your claims as to why it is supposedly not an MMO while clearly not even knowing what the term actually means. Not a single word in there about wether or not it is going to fail, or why.
What was that again about assinine arguments?
Originally posted by DeniZg
I actually applaud the way the class is done. It's an mmo shooter not an mmorpg we don't need another game that is all about freaking spamming 1 - 0 + f1-f10 + alt+1 - alt+0. This is a nice clean method and allows for a more borderlands like setup and far more customization when you break it down. Yes you only have 4 skills at first but you can only at max have about 10 of the perks on at any given time at your highest end + one main skill. Those perks actually allow you to customize. Look at it this way. The other option is button spamming and frankly a shit ton of "magic" looking skills would be asinine. The skills that do exist are technology based skills to make you faster, stronger, invisible or to send a decoy out. This isn't an mmorpg and it's not meant to have like 20 + skills on screen at any given time.
Originally posted by Baitness
First off the game actually looks pretty good it's far from ugly you may not like the art style and while its not crysis it is good looking for an MMO. You gotta keep in mind these things cant be crysis level or it'd lag to high holy hell (see early days of WoW in iron forge as an example....) Second there are graphics options from high to low (there used to be more options available under the custom option too but they seem to of been taken out for the time being but will hopefully be put back in) You don't maybe see some of the closer up visuals in the video that well but http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/678/defiance201303151751275.png (if it lets me post that) shows how well the game can look
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Originally posted by OG_Zorvan
If i go by negztive nancies on these forums every MMO is a fail. Who care what few loud mouths claim? if we starting listening to likes of you not a single MMO is worth playing. So yeah *yawn* indeed.
Same song and dance every time a MMO is about to release.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
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One day in, i didn't find the UI that bad at all, just takes some getting used as it's not like every other game, maybe it's just people who don't have half a brain that find it that awful.
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I really like this. Do you do all of your work on black(paper)? If so what is the up-side? Does it help not having to worry about background color? Just curious!
Nice work. Jjcurry has asked a good question. I would like to know that too.
Thank You jcurry & Charlie!!! I mostly use Canson Mi-teintes paper (mostly because when I started painting that was the only thing I could find in Guatemala) It has two sides each one with a different grain; I like the softer side which I identify as the one that doesn´t have the sticker on it. I have found that as negative space, black works perfectly so yes I do tend to leave just the the color of the paper when I think it will help the painting, anything else you want to know feel free to ask
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This report examines the high school completion, college access, and postsecondary success of immigrant youth (ages 16 to 26) in Washington State, where one in four young adults is an immigrant or child of an immigrant. The report provides one of the first cross-system analyses of the educational experiences of first-generation (foreign-born) and second-generation (U.S.-born with immigrant parents) youth in the state.
Join MPI as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas discusses the application process and policies that the agency has announced to implement the administration's deferred action program.
This fact sheet provides an estimate of the number of DREAMers—unauthorized immigrants potentially eligible for a two-year reprieve from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative—based on eligibility criteria outlined by the Department of Homeland Security. It also offers a detailed analysis of the demographic characteristics of prospective beneficiaries.
African immigrants generally fare well on integration indicators, with college completion rates that greatly exceed those for most other immigrant groups and U.S. natives, this report finds. The United States, Canada, and Australia disproportionally attract better-educated African migrants then do the United Kingdom, France, and other European countries.
Texas has the second-largest number of English Language Learner (ELL) students in the nation. Using a unique longitudinal data set that tracks ELL and non-ELL students in Texas from first grade through high school, this report examines the trajectories and performance of individual groups.
A discussion on the gains that young adult immigrants or the U.S.-born children of immigrants have made in education and employment, with speakers: Michael Fix, Jeanne Batalova, Andrew P. Kelly, Raul Gonzalez, and Margie McHugh.
The story of immigrant integration in the United States has historically been one of generational progress, with the gains for second-generation Hispanic women particularly impressive, as this report reveals. It profiles first- and second-generation young adults ages 16 to 26, examining this diverse population's education and career pathways.
This report explores the migration patterns and demographics of Black African immigrants in the United States, examining their admission channels, human-capital characteristics, and labor market performance. The authors also provide an analysis of these immigrants' integration prospects.


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LPGA golfers and tournament benefit local causesWritten by Christine Senack | | firstname.lastname@example.com
In addition to energizing the local business community, the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic always creates a buzz amongst the nonprofit organizations throughout our region. Although income and expenses are still being finalized, the tournament has contributed more than $5.75 million to 110 Northwest Ohio Children's Charities since its inception in 1984. Additionally, the tournament has donated more than $1 million to the Ronald McDonald House of Northwest Ohio.
The tournament offers a variety of visibility and ticket sponsorship packages for businesses supporting the event. Everything from advertising on the back of parking hangtags to leader board advertising provided opportunities to underwrite the event and raise funds for charities. National City Bank, Toledo Edison and Promedica signed on as lead sponsors of pro-am events, while Merrill Lynch sponsored the annual gala dinner and Columbia Gas gained visibility and supported the event on the "Quiet Paddles."
Owens Corning supported the event this year with the lead sponsorship and by lending the marketing power of the Pink Panther to every event logo. Since 2003, Owens Corning has been a title sponsor of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic to help put Northwest Ohio on display for the world every summer and help raise millions of dollars for children's charities in the Toledo and surrounding community.
Charities receiving funds from the 2008 Tournament are Anne Grady, Assistance Dogs of America, Bittersweet Farms, East Toledo Family Center, Kids Unlimited, Area Office on Aging "Kinship Navigator Program", Lourdes College "Children's Education Outreach Program", The Miracle League of Northwest Ohio, Serenity Farm, Sophia Center "Families and Schools Together Program", The Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank, Toledo Seagate Food Bank, Wood County Gift Exchange, Ronald McDonald House Charities and the JFOCC Scholarship Fund.
Spring boarding off of the official LPGA festivities, The Toledo Children's Hospital Foundation hosted an elegant dinner featuring golf legend, Nancy Lopez, to benefit the daily operations of the hospital. A lead sponsor of the event was Loft & Home Essentials providing store gift certificates to all attendees.
"We love giving back to the community," said owner Mona Shousher. "It makes us feel more intimate with the community, not just as a business, but as a friend of the community."
Lopez donated a round of golf to a Toledo Children's Hospital fundraiser earlier in the year and spent part of the day visiting the children in the hospital.
"I saw what the community has done. It is a fabulous hospital for children. It opens your eyes to everything that Toledo has built," she said.
In appreciation for Lopez' commitment to the Toledo Hospital, a signed golf club was auctioned off at the event with the proceeds going to AIM for the Handicapped, which is a charity Lopez chairs in Dayton. AIM teaches movement to children with disabilities.
Upcoming events
Music Under the Stars 2008. An 8-week series of musical events featuring the Toledo Concert Band, conductor Sam Szor, commentator Gordon Ward, and local guest artists. These family-friendly concerts take place Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at the Toledo Zoo Amphitheatre, located at 2700 Broadway, concluding Aug. 31. An estimated 2 million loyal audience members have attended since its inception. Free thanks to sponsoring businesses. Visit toledosymphony.com or call (419)241-1272 for more information.
July 25 Bow Wow Bash. Guests will enjoy live entertainment, dancing, and a variety of great grazing foods and drinks. Raffles will be available throughout the evening with all proceeds to benefit the Humane Society. Tickets are $40. Cash bar. Find out more at toledoareahumanesociety.org or call (419) 482-7101.
PHOTO: Dr. Kathy Carlson, Nancy Lopez, Alan Brass, Dana Fike and hostess, Barbara Steele enjoy an evening to benefit Toledo Children's Hospital.
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No, it is not Hillary or Bill Clinton that has woken up from a stupor; it's the media. Either because they were guilted into some self-reflection by Saturday Night Live or because the Clinton team's harping on biased media coverage took its toll, the media seems to be dropping its reverential tone toward Barack Obama.
Jake Tapper on NAFTA-gate: "And in fact, the story seems today more alive than ever. That is, if the press does its job." Clinton goads them further with this, reported by MSNBC:
I would ask you to look at this story, substitute my name for Sen. Obama's name and see what you would do with this story. That's what I would ask you to do. If some of my economic advisers had been having private meetings with foreign governments basically saying ignore what I'm saying because it's only political rhetoric, I think it raises serious questions.
And Howard Kurtz devotes an entire column to the question of whether Barack Obama's soft coverage (I suppose we can now all admit publicly that is was soft) is toughening. Kurtz cites an exchange in which Obama was finally asked about dropping his flag label pin, asking if it signifies "the end of a long period in which the media have gone easy on the man who could all but clinch the Democratic nomination in tomorrow's primaries." The heightened media coverage is one more reason (in addition to some brightening poll trends) why Clinton, I think, will be sticking around for quite a while after Tuesday.


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I am definitely looking forward to tonight's 60 Minutes special on foreclosure fraud. In it, the head of the FDIC, Sheila Bair, will call for a cleanup Superfund to cleanse the country of toxic mortgages.
Banks so poorly handled documentation on millions of mortgages that many today cannot prove that they own the homes they want to foreclose on. The resulting rash of lawsuits from people seeking to save their homes has one of the government's top banking regulators worried that the torrent of litigation will delay the real estate market's recovery.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Sheila Bair tells Scott Pelley banks should be forced to contribute billions to a clean-up fund that will help stressed homeowners stay in their homes and stave off lawsuits – there are 30,000 already – that threaten the economic rebound […]
Like last year, banks are expected to foreclose on a million mortgages this year, a scenario that could generate more lawsuits over mismanaged paperwork. "I think that this litigation could easily get out of control," says Bair. "…We're already feeling like we're falling behind it," She thinks a large clean-up pool funded by the banks that would pay homeowners to accept a bank's ownership claim without a lawsuit is necessary. "I would assume it would be billions [that the fund would need]," Bair tells Pelley.
It sounds like 60 Minutes actually got this and reported it correctly. Lynn Szymoniak, one of the leading experts in foreclosure document fraud, is profiled in the piece. You will see forged paperwork, misidentified dates, and fabricated documents.
Now, regardless of what you think of the proposed mortgage settlement, and the banksters' counteroffer, it's important to note that what Bair's talking about would have to exist separate from that. Attorneys General or even federal banking regulators do not have the authority to waive claims in state courts on behalf of homeowners. So this Superfund would be a separate event.
And the more banks resist it, the more liable they will become. In an important case this week, a judge in Alabama dismissed a foreclosure because the bank failed to comply with the pooling and servicing agreement for transferring mortgages to the trust. This would be a stunning ruling if applied broadly, though whether or not it will stand as precedent across other states remains to be seen; it's far too early in the process to determine that. But we know that banks simply did not convey mortgages to trusts properly as a general rule. Foreclosure fraud can be seen as a coverup for that original sin. And if state courts are starting to make rulings based on that sin, banks will be stuck and unable to pursue foreclosures on tens of millions of loans. [cont'd.]
The ruling in favor of the borrower endorses an argument we have made since last year on this blog, that the pooling and servicing agreement stipulated a specific set of transfers be undertaken to convey the borrower note (the IOU) to the securitization trust within a specified time frame. New York trust law was chosen to govern the trusts precisely because it is unforgiving; any act not specifically stipulated by the governing documents is deemed to be a "void act" and has no legal force. So if a the parties to a securitization failed to convey a note to the trust within the stipulated timetable, retroactive fixes don't work. In this case, the note had been endorsed by the originator, Encore, but not by the later parties in the securitization chain as required in the pooling and servicing agreement.
There's evidence to suggest that, particularly in hard-hit foreclosure states, judges have simply had enough and are dismissing cases left and right because of shoddy paperwork. So while the banks give off a public posture of calm, in reality the continued awareness of fraud is hampering their ability to process foreclosures and locking up the system. Exposés by the press have had an impact as well: after a story by Pro Publica about a trustee blocking a mortgage modification for a borrower in Georgia, the servicer postponed the foreclosure for two months to give an opportunity for the trustee to give up and allow the modification.
The point is that it's not the captured political figures who will eventually give urgency to the banks to find a resolution – it's the judicial process. And while that may take a while, it's a potentially much more favorable scenario for borrowers than some settlement which threatens to strip away their due process rights. Bair's Superfund idea only works if it is commensurate with the level of title problems, and only if it's completely separate from punishment for fraud already committed in state courts.
Related: Katherine Porter on Fannie and Freddie's responsibility for servicer abuse.


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H!P Releases March 17
Morning Musume – 10 My Me (Album) CDJapan HMV YesAsia Morning Musume – 10 My Me (Album+DVD) Limited Edition CDJapan HMV YesAsia Shugo Chara! Clips ♪ Best (DVD) CDJapan HMV YesAsia 3 releases today,Read More »
"Shugo Chara! Clips ♪ Best" DVD Cover and Tracklist Released
Going On! / Guardians 4 PARTY TIME / Guardians 4 School Days / Guardians 4 Omakase♪Guardian / Guardians 4 Shugo Shugo! / Shugo Chara Egg! Minna no Tamago / Shugo Chara Egg! Arigatou ~OokikuRead More »
Guardians 4, Shugo Chara Egg!, Buono! – "Shugo Chara! Song ♪ Best" Album Covers Released
Left – Regular / Right – CD+DVD Edition CD Tracklist 01.Arigatou ~Ookiku Kansha!~ / Shugo Chara Egg! 02.Going On! / Guardians 4 03.Watashi no Tamago / Shugo Chara Egg 04.PARTY TIME / Guardians 4Read More »
"Shugo Chara! CLIP Daishuugou" DVD Announced
A PV collection for Guardians 4 and Shugo Chara Egg! titled Shugo Chara! CLIP Daishuugou has been announced. From the list on the image the tracklist for the DVD seems to include all ofRead More »
Shugo Chara Album Featuring Guardians 4, Shugo Chara Egg and Buono Announced
A Shugo Chara album including Guardians 4, Shugo Chara Egg!, and Buono! has been announced, title currently unknown. The album will be available in Limited and Regular versions, with the Limited edition featuring aRead More »
Shugo Chara Egg – "Arigatou ~Ookiku Kansha~!" Preview Released
A preview for the c/w to Guardians 4′s 4th single sung by Shugo Chara Egg titled Arigatou ~Ookiku Kansha!~ has been aired on the new Shugo Chara Party episode. The song for the mostRead More »
Guardians 4 4th Single Announced, "Going On!"
Guardians 4′s 4th single has been announced, it will be titled "Going On!". The title for the c/w, sang by Shugo Chara Egg!, has also been released to be "Arigatou ~Ookiku Kansha~". The titleRead More »
Shugo Chara Egg Amulet Diamond Contest Winner Announced
The winner of the Shugo Chara Egg Amulet Diamond contest has been announced to be Tanabe Nanami. She is in 4th grade of elementary school. Here is a picture of the new Shugo CharaRead More »
Hello! Project – Pucchi Best 10 Full Tracklist Released
1 Morning Musume – Shouganai Yume Oibito (5:04) 2 Berryz Koubou – Seishun Bus Guide (3:25) 3 C-ute – EVERYDAY Zekkouchou!!(4:19) 4 Pucchimoni V – Pirai! Otome no Negai (3:51) 5 Tanpopo # –Read More »
Pucchi Best Vol 10 CD And DVD Covers Released
(Left – Pucchi Best 10 Album, Right – Pucchi Best 10 DVD The covers for the album and the DVD for Hello! Project's Pucchi Best 10 have been released. The covers feature Natsumi Abe,Read More »
Shugo Chara Egg Amulet Diamond Finalists Announced
(Click For Bigger Image) The finalists for the Shugo Chara Egg Amulet Diamond auditions have been revealed. There is no set date for the selection of the winner (that I am aware of). IfRead More »
Pucchi Best 10 CD & DVD Tracklists Released
Pucchi Best 10 CD tracklist (not in order, tentative) : 1. Screen (Abe Natsumi) 2. Bye Bye (Satoda Mai with Gouda Kyodai) 3. Happy Happy Sunday (Tsukishima Kirari starring Kusumi Koharu) 4. Chocolate DamashiiRead More »
Shugo Chara Egg – "Watashi no Tamago" Release Date Announced
A release date plus some more information has been revealed about the new Shugo Chara Egg single Watashi no Tamago, which will actually not be released as a single of their own. Instead theRead More »
Shugo Chara Egg – "Watashi no Tamago" 3rd Single Announced
Shugo Chara Egg will be getting a 3rd single titled Watashi no Tamago, which will be the theme song of "Shugo Chara Doki Doki". The third single will be performed by the new ShugoRead More »
Guardians 4 – "School Days (Shugo Chara Egg Ver)" & "Itsuka Doko ka de" Previews Released
Previews of School Days (Shugo Chara Egg! Ver.) and Itsuka Doko ka de have been released on the official Pony Canyon website. HERE is the page, I had a bit of trouble trying toRead More »
New Shugo Chara Egg Lineup Announced
Starting October, Shugo Chara Egg will have a new lineup consisting of three members – Saho Akari, Fukumura Mizuki, and Maeda Irori. The fourth member will be selected through an audition: The lineup changeRead More »
Tracklist For Guardians 4 – "School Days" Released
1. School Days 作詞:川上夏季/作曲:BOUNCEBACK/編曲:日比野裕史 2. School Days(しゅごキャラエッグVersion) 作詞:川上夏季/作曲:BOUNCEBACK/編曲:日比野裕史 3. 未定 4. School Days(Instrumental) 作曲:BOUNCEBACK/編曲:日比野裕史 5. 未定(Instrumental) http://hp.ponycanyon.co.jp/pchp/cgi-bin/PC…P_SKHKETSEQ=001 http://hp.ponycanyon.co.jp/pchp/cgi-bin/PC…P_SKHKETSEQ=002 1. School Days 2. School Days (Shugo Chara Egg! Ver.) 3. Untitled 4. Instrumental 5. InstrumentalRead More »
Yuuka And Kanon In Shugo Chara Musical
What do you do if you have a succesful series? Make a musical of course! Yuuka and Kanon are confirmed for the Shugo Chara musical, Ayaka and Akari haven't but I guess they mightRead More »
Shugo Chara Egg Is Still Active
1. おまかせ♪ガーディアン 2. タイトル未定 3. おまかせ♪ガーディアン しゅごキャラエッグ Ver. (仮) Well it seems that Shugo Chara Egg is going to be in Guardian 4′s new single, and with their own version of the a-side. While browsingRead More »
Shugo Chara Egg To Be With Guardian 4 UPDATE
(Nakajima and Akari – top left, Kumai and Kanon – top right, Mitsui and Ayaka – bottom left, Risako and Yuuka- bottom left) Credit: Nayok-Kihara @ H!O So, it's official Shugo Chara Egg isRead More »


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Week 14 has come and gone, and I will wrap up this journal in a week or two with a final image of the tank.
Against popular recommendations, I moved my CO2 diffuser next to my HOB filter's outflow. Contrary to the reduction in CO2 as I have seen reported, in my case this increased the amount of CO2 in the water. When the diffuser was against the side, there was a slow, easy flow of water past it, such that many of the CO2 bubbles simply rose to the surface and most were lost to the atmosphere before they could be absorbed. This also leads me to question why Amano's diffuser with the curved glass tubing is so high on the side of the tank. Wouldn't it be better positioned at the absolute lowest position in the tank to give the CO2 bubbles the greatest amount of time in the water as they rise? If anyone can explain that, I would appreciate it.
After moving the diffuser next to my HOB filter, the bubbles begin to rise, but the bubbles are then pushed down into the water column where they swirl around the tank for much longer and many appear to completely dissolve. All of the plants began to respond positively. The greens are now the most intense I have seen thus far, and the algae has been practically eliminated. I will likely alternate the location of the diffuser back to the corner every few weeks to try to evenly distribute the CO2.
The microsword (Lilaeopsis brasiliensis) is spreading into the dwarf hairgrass and is producing an interesting look. Right now, I like the look, but eventually it may push out the DHG.
The boraras brigittae continue to color up, but then inexplicably seem to lose color at times, creating a cycle of intensity. Perhaps it is the stress of the weekly water change. I keep the parameters (hardness) and water temp consistent when I change the water, but perhaps it is just the stress of a lowering water level and then the replacement of that water that stresses them into their pale alter-egos.
I am overrun with ramshorn snails, but they eat algae, so they remain for now. My nerite travels the tank daily, making his slow rounds, his mouth part always scraping away. If I didn't know I had Amano shrimp, I sure couldn't tell from looking into the tank. They rarely come out when the lights are on.
The prominent rock in the center of my scape is lighter than the rest. It didn't appear so when I collected it, but with the close proximity to the light, it makes it appear even lighter. That is clearly a mistake. I should have also added a little more slope to my substrate and probably should have used some substrate supports to maintain that slope. I'm sure there are many other mistakes, but I like to point out what I consider mistakes in the hopes that it will help others just starting their journey.
No pics this time, but stay tuned in a week or so for those with any interest in my feeble attempt at aquascaping.
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Employee Dies After Missoula Auto Body Shop Explosion [AUDIO]
Homes Burn, Hundreds Evacuated as Lolo Complex Fire Destroys 5,000 Acres
The Lolo Complex Fire was originally two low-priority fires that did not threaten structures. However, in the past 40 hours, hot weather and winds have fanned the fires into an official state of emergency. Now, the West Fork II fire and the original School House Fire are considered one giant threat as they burn on both sides of Highway 12.
Highway 12 Closed – Homes Evacuated Due to Rapid Growth of Schoolhouse and West Fork 2 Fires [AUDIO]
UPDATE 4:15 p.m. Monday, August 19
Mandatory evacuations are in effect in the Bear Creek area as two fires, the School House and the West Fork 2, are combining to burn hundreds of acres and send smoke billowing up over Blue Mountain raining ash on homes in Lolo and into Missoula.
Missoula County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer paige Pavalone said at about 4 p.m. Monday, that deputies were contacting residents in the path of the fires to leave their homes immediately.
"We're asking people if they're asked by a deputy to evacuate, to leave their homes right away, recover their animals and leave as quickly as possible," Pavalone said.
The Missoula County Sheriff's Office Facebook page has a minute-by-minute update of areas that are under evacuation. Just moments ago, the notice was posted that Bear Creek, Elk Meadows, Lolo Creek Campground, Sleeman Creek and Thayer Road have been advised to evacuate, and that the Lolo Elementary School has been opened as a place for evacuees to gather.
There will be a special meeting for residents in the area at the Travelers' Rest State Park at 6 p.m. Monday.
Paige Pavalone
The smoke billowing above Missoula on Monday, August 19 comes mostly from the Schoolhouse Fire, currently burning about nine miles west of Lolo.
Missoula County in Extreme Fire Danger Warning, Again
Missoula County has once again reached the highest fire danger level possible with a new "extreme" fire danger declaration by the Missoula County Fire Protection Association.
Gold Pan Fire Grows, Two New Fires Absorbed into the Complex
Southwest Montana Sees Over 24 Fire Starts in One Week, Approximately Seven Were Human Caused
The air around Missoula may be filled with smoke during the second week of August, but most of that is from Idaho, not Montana. Chris Johnson of the Lolo National Forest says that local crews have been able to keep fire starts down thanks partly to higher humidity, however, there have been multiple opportunities for a bigger blaze.


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Kwame Azalius Ross is the founder and artistic director of Prophecy Dance Company and former associate artistic director of Urban Bush Women. He has studied several African Diaspora dance forms (Caribbean, Western and Central African) since the age of nine. His choreographic works encompass productions with Children of Dahomey, Ballet Hispanico, S.D.R. Films, Sylvia Del Villard Dance Company, National Song and Dance Company of Mozambique, Urban Bush Women and The Ailey School. For the past three years, Ross has been commissioned by Florida A&M University to choreograph for the Orchesis Dance Company, as well as for Kumbuka Dance and Drum Collective and Tulane University. His work has been supported by the Jerome Foundation, Puffin Foundation and with a 92nd Street "Y" Harkness Space grant. Ross is currently a faculty member at Lincoln Center Institute and Associate Professor at Long Island University. He collaborated with the National Dance Company of Mozambique, Urban Bush Women, and Lincoln Center Institute in the critical acclaim creation of Shadows Child, a work for young audiences. In 2003, Ross received a National Endowment of the Arts grant as Artist-in-Residence at the Cairo Opera House Dance Theater and the Cairo School of Modern Dance (Egypt). In 2005 he made a research trip to Salvador Bahia, Brazil to study the Orisha Dances of Candomble and work with Ilye Aiye.


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From what I gathered across this mailing list. DF can't scale nowhere close to Linux at the moment because DF still operates under the BGL.
And we won't know how well it scales until it supports the whole architecture necessary for those 4096-CPU systems, then find somebody who's willing and able to administer and fairly benchmark the system.
It's not even enough to optimize the scaling. Lock contention is also a factor of the raw performance - more attempts at locking mean a higher rate of lock contention, but then if those locks run for less time there's less chance of an actual block, and indeed less harm when the block occurs. You still get the necessary instructions (and bus lock cycles, the real killers) to do the locking, but the emergent effect is different. Really short critical paths can use spinlocks sanely, and it's not clear what can be locked by a spinlock until it's optimized enough. Even DragonFly's parallel architecture requires a sub-architecture of fine grained locking.
What I'm saying is, even if the BGL disappeared overnight, there'd be a lot more optimizing and profiling left to make DragonFly bench against Linux without humiliation. And Linux has years of head start with a much larger developer base, including countless corporate and governmental interests, plus very good technologies only it can use legally because of the patent system which pretty much guarantee its victory.
The best DragonFly can do is be so much better at SSI clustering that Linux' high-end SMP performance is considered an expensive alternative, rather than actually viable. That means also beating Linux' years of clustering development.
It's probably not too far off that if a corporation decided Linux' clustering needed improving in a way similar to DragonFly's design, it would be hacked in over a few months and would perform faster than DragonFly would for years just because of the foundation. It doesn't matter to them if it's maintainable or beautiful code, because on average for these projects the extra maintenance work is less than the work to make the code easy to maintain. And Linux' components, from the VM to the ATA to firewire to schedulers, are so often re-developed that they often have multiple alternatives for each system in the tree at any one time, with easy compile time switching. Even if nobody wants to maintain a crappy part of the system, somebody will just write an alternative and it's generally better.
This haphazard and decidedly chaotic strategy maps so well to actual real-world development that it is the obvious underpinning of Linux' success. Any look at the code will make it abundantly clear that it's not software quality that gets it places, but being so welcoming to actual development by basement hackers and corporations alike. And that's something I'm not confident any other project can repeat now. Call me pessimistic... but I'd rather be optimistic about Linux' quality improving, than hoping for another project to replace a significant share of it.
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Customer lifecycle management
Customer Lifecycle Management, or CLM is the measurement of multiple customer related metrics, which, when analyzed for a period of time, indicate performance of a business.This term was first coined by Cloud CRM vendor Salesboom.com in 2005.[1] The overall scope of the CLM implementation process encompasses all domains or departments of an organization, which generally brings all sources of static and dynamic data, marketing processes, and value added services to a unified decision supporting platform through iterative phases of customer acquisition, retention, cross and up-selling, and lapsed customer win-back.[2][3]
Some detailed CLM models further breakdown these phases into acquisition, introduction to products, profiling of customers, growth of customer base, cultivation of loyalty among customers, and termination of customer relationship.[4]
According to a DM Review magazine article by Claudia Imhoff, et al., "The purpose of the customer life cycle is to define and communicate the stages through which a customer progresses when considering, purchasing and using products, and the associated business processes a company uses to move the customer through the customer life cycle."[5]
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- ^ [1], What is it, and how important is it to your small business?
- ^ http://www.realmarket.com/required/rappdigital4.pdf
- ^ Barnett, Daniel (14 June 2013). "Customer Lifecycle Management — What Is It?". WORKetc. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ^ [2],[dead link] The concept of customer lifecycle management
- ^ Claudia Imhoff, Jonathan G. Geiger, Lisa Loftis (November 2002). "Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise". DM Review Magazine. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
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- Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) - What Is It, and How Important Is It to Your Small Business? Fast Approach [3]
- Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) - Driving towards customer retention & loyalty [4]
- Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) - delivering greater productivity and ROI for automobile dealerships[5]
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Presidencies come and presidencies go, but Richard Nixon we have with us always, an abiding point of reference in our national life. That a Broadway play based, improbably, on post-presidential interviews with David Frost from 30 years ago could win a Tony award in 2007, thirteen years after Nixon's death, attests to his imperishability as an icon, at least in some quarters. Even more broadly indicative are the ease and frequency with which his memory has been invoked thus far in the 2008 presidential campaign.
The mentions have been largely unfavorable, which is not surprising, even if it is conservative writers who are most often making them. "A Richard Nixon revival infects both parties' primaries," wrote George F. Will, referring in part to Mike Huckabee's mixing of "ostentatious piety" with "oblique nastiness," a blend thought to have been perfected by our 37th President. The syndicated columnist Michael Gerson has characterized the former mayor of New York City as "R. Milhous Giuliani," a leader presumably resembling Nixon in being a faux conservative, "a talented man without an ideological compass, mainly concerned with the accumulation of power."
Given the ideological slipperiness of her campaign, Hillary Clinton has made an especially fine target for Nixon comparisons. The columnist Robert Novak judged her operatives to be playing "Nixon tricks" when they hinted at scandalous information about Barack Obama which they had high-mindedly chosen "not to use." John Ellis observed that, like Nixon, Clinton was a fundamentally "unlikable" candidate with "resentments close to the surface," who could win election only by showing the world she was "as formidable as Tricky Dick." And so forth.
Such uses of Nixon's name suggest a powerful national consensus: we all know what the word "Nixonian" means. Yet that consensus is a superficial one, grounded in caricatures of his personality rather than reasoned assessments of his deeds. In fact, there is no modern American President whose reputation remains more unsettled. The definiteness implied in the universal abuse of his name is contradicted by the increasingly nuanced and even sympathetic judgments that scholars now render upon his career.
Any honest accounting of that career must still reckon with the indelible stain of Watergate and its damaging results, both for the nation and for the presidency itself. But historians and others point increasingly to his undoubted achievements in the realm of foreign policy, such as the dramatic restructuring of relations with China and the Soviet Union, and his many domestic-policy innovations—including in the areas of environmental protection, civil rights, and welfare reform—all undertaken during times of economic turbulence, international upheaval, and bitter internal political division. If somehow Watergate could be whited-out of the picture—a retooling of history that would likely involve a more favorable conclusion to the Vietnam war as well—he might even rank among the near-great American Presidents. But of course nothing of the sort is possible. Any evaluation of Nixon that fails to weigh his grievous faults is doomed to be just as inadequate as one that considers nothing else.
Nixon himself claimed that 50 years would have to pass before anything like a fair evaluation of his administration would be possible. He was probably right. The weight of public opinion, together with the mountain of books and articles written about him both during his tenure and after, slicing and analyzing his personality mercilessly, has been enormous. The venom he aroused is far from gone; there is a real desire, in some quarters, to have a Dick Nixon to kick around forever. Yet, with the passage of time, we can begin to see in his presidency not merely the confluence of a peculiar man with a peculiar moment but a moment when the presidency as an institution became subjected to stresses of a kind and on a scale not seen before, encountering problems that are still very much with us today.
This is why Conrad Black's lengthy new biography, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full,* is such a welcome addition to the vast literature on its subject. Not because of any new facts it might offer, but because of the perspective provided by the re-framing effects of subsequent events. Moreover, the book is a most enjoyable read, moving confidently through a wide swath of American political and social history and unfolding with a smoothness and felicity that belie the subtlety of its analysis.
Nuanced but assured in its judgments, and refreshingly insightful in its psychological portraiture, Black's Nixon seeks to give us, as its subtitle implies, a fuller measure of the man. As such, it will displease the brigades of Nixon scholars, who will likely ignore it. But the book's merit ultimately stands upon the coherence and plausibility of its account of its central subject, and in that regard Black is hard to equal.
In 1,000-plus pages, Black covers the full span of a very full life that stretched from before World War I to the first term of the Clinton presidency. High points along the way include Nixon's schooling, his work as a California attorney and Washington bureaucrat, his wartime service in the Navy, his many political campaigns, his service as Vice President and President, his descent into the "inferno" of Watergate and resignation, and his remarkable post-presidential "transfiguration" as a prolific author and globe-trotting wise man.
As he tells his story, Black firmly flicks away various misconceptions—Pat Nixon was not a "Stepford wife," the "slush fund" that gave rise to the 1952 "Checkers speech" was not improper, Nixon did not plan the infamous break-in at the Watergate, and most of the literature on Watergate itself is "self-serving claptrap"—and gradually fills in a compelling portrait of Nixon's sprawling and fascinating career. He also gives us an explanation of Nixon's inner life that is intimate and acute without being presumptuous or fanciful:
Nixon thought that he was doomed to be traduced, double-crossed, unjustly harassed, misunderstood, underappreciated, and subjected to the trials of Job, but that by the application of his mighty will, tenacity, and diligence he would ultimately prevail. . . . He seemed ordinary, and attracted the support of tens of millions of ordinary people, but he was not ordinary. He was extremely intelligent, cunning, aloof, unknowable, and demiurgically determined, all masquerading and lurking behind a somewhat ordinary exterior and often banal or even uncouth articulation.
There are two especially notable virtues of Black's account. One is his depiction of the unrelenting hardness of Nixon's early life as the son of a struggling grocer in Whittier, California, and the way he was forced to wring his opportunities and successes out of a turnip by dint of extremely hard work. As a high-school student, he rose every day at 4 a.m. and drove to the Seventh Street market in Los Angeles, where he bought vegetables, delivered them to his father's business, washed and displayed them, and then went for a full day of school, at which he was always an outstanding student. Such dutiful burdens and responsibilities were the abiding theme of a remarkably joyless and careworn youth. Yet we also see how they fueled his immense drive and his characteristic opportunism, and how he could imagine himself as a stand-in for people without pedigree, the ones he would later call the Silent Majority.
This early experience was, in brief, the source of Nixon's populist streak. "Even when he achieved positions too exalted for general attention to the less fortunate," Black writes, "his heart and his thoughts . . . were always for those who had little, who struggled, who had been shortchanged. To some degree he identified with them." That this sensibility might lead him as easily to resentment and near-paranoia as to compassion is easy to understand; it is in fact the chief liability of all populism. Such a sensibility, at once hard and sentimental, would be reinforced again and again by the professional reversals of his later life.
Second, and somewhat paradoxically, Black shows that from very early on, Nixon had an instinct for Republican coalition-building, for splitting differences and bridging antagonisms by working both sides of the ideological street. As early as December 1945, when Lieutenant Commander Nixon, USN, was gearing up for a campaign against five-term Congressman Jerry Voorhis, he not only was taking red-meat tactical advice from the famously rough political operative Murray Chotiner but was in touch with Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, a quintessential liberal Republican whom he had met in the South Pacific and through whom he sought to attract other liberals to his side. The Republicans had been bedeviled for nearly four decades by a liberal-conservative divide, beginning with the split between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft and later continued in the split between Rockefeller liberals and Goldwater conservatives. Nixon would make a political career out of walking a political tightrope between the two sides.
It was, as Black observes, "a tight-rope that he never fell off." Balancing an assertive, realistic, and strongly anti-Communist national-security policy against consistently moderate social and economic policies, Nixon was always able to put together strong, though not always winning, electoral combinations and eventually to bring his embattled party within hailing distance of majority status.
Not all of this balancing can be attributed to mere calculation, and much of it has been willfully misunderstood. The conventionally disparaging emphasis on Nixon's "Southern strategy," for example, leaves out the fact that "with no fanfare," as Black observes, he did more through his school-desegregation initiatives "to break down official racism than any President in history," excepting only Lincoln's abolition of slavery and Lyndon Johnson's extension of the franchise. This accomplishment, "like a number of Nixon's acts of selfless idealism, such as his refusal to contest seriously the 1960 presidential election," went "largely unrecognized, until historians started to unearth the facts."
This may go a little too far. In school-desegregation matters Nixon acted reluctantly, under the compulsion of Supreme Court decisions; and the absence of fanfare, and indeed the careful appearance of reluctance, were reflections of political necessity, not political modesty, in a man who needed to hold on to his right wing. Similarly, his unwillingness to contest the 1960 election, although surely patriotic, was no less surely conditioned by his awareness that he would forfeit his career if the effort failed and gain a prize no longer worth having if it succeeded—considerations that ought to have occurred to Al Gore in 2000.
But mention of the 2000 election suggests the possibility that, far from being an historical outlier, Richard Nixon has indeed come to embody the paradigmatic problems of the modern American presidency—precisely because he was the first man to experience them in full force.
Historians of the postwar presidency generally invoke FDR as the gold standard of leadership, and view his successors as languishing in his shadow. But chances are that, for the foreseeable future, our Presidents will have to operate within a nearly evenly divided electorate, with political debate driven by hard and vocal (and disproportionately influential) ideological minorities, soft silent majorities, weak and fractious parties, and hostile, irresponsible mass media. Even an act of war directed against the nation, we now know, will not insure a lasting rallying of all branches of government, let alone the nation.
The tasks of the Nixon presidency, and the fate it met, thus form the shadow that falls across the future of the office, for Republicans and Democrats alike. The tasks include an ability to walk tightropes as well as he did, and survive the withering fire of opposition from all sides. Of Nixon's successors, both Republican and Democratic, only Ronald Reagan did not entirely succumb to this problem. Jimmy Carter gained the Democratic nomination and the presidency in 1976 by splitting the difference in his own party, and yet the result was a foreign policy too weak and vacillating to satisfy Republicans and hawkish Democrats, and a domestic policy too conservative to satisfy liberals. George H.W. Bush, although a quintessentially Nixonian politician in many respects, alienated liberals with his campaign tactics, and never gained the confidence of economic and social conservatives with his governing policies.
Bill Clinton, a more skillful tightrope-walker than either of his immediate predecessors, set himself against liberal icons (as in the "Sister Souljah" episode) and embraced carefully selected conservative social policies—so much so that his popularity flourished at the expense of his own party until his rampant personal indiscretions forced him, as an act of sheer political survival, into the arms of the same hard Left against which he had run to begin with. As for George W. Bush, he has consistently sought to shift the ideological balance between the parties by coopting liberal positions on race, Hispanic immigration, entitlements, and the like, only to reap bitterness and distrust from conservatives and liberals alike. A similar fate would no doubt befall Hillary Clinton if she succeeded to the office.
But the difficulty of presidential tightrope-walking is but one of the challenges in which Nixon pioneered. His shadow very much extends to the way his presidency ended. At the time, his being forced from office was hailed as a great triumph of constitutional government. But its legacy has been more complicated than that. In a country with hard political divisions, in which the immense size and scope of the national government means that there is always an enormous amount at stake, the temptation has become irresistible to decide issues through litigious or extra-political means, including the politics of scandal, or, as Bill Clinton once put it, the politics of personal destruction.
To be sure, democratic politics is never a pristine thing, and demagoguery is hardly a new invention. And again to be sure, Nixon, like Clinton, was on more than just the receiving end of the politics of personal destruction. But one needs to look past that fact and think about the condition of the political world as we now find it.
The criminalization of policy differences and the broad stigmatization and demonization of political opponents have been an increasingly important element of our national politics since Nixon's time. Indeed, they are now permanent features of the political landscape. Every President since Nixon has had to deal with them, and to cope with the new readiness to leak even the most sensitive information on a near-routine basis, and to invoke the tools of impeachment, congressional investigations, special prosecutors, and all the rest. As the outrageous treatment of Scooter Libby indicates, there seems no end in sight to this folly. Conrad Black's Nixon should make us stop and wonder what we have been doing to ourselves.
This brings us to the Nixonesque events in the life of the author himself. As all the world knows, Conrad Black is not only a writer but also a media baron, and lately a man convicted of mail fraud and obstruction of justice (by the same U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Libby) and sentenced to six and a half years in prison. Should that fact, whatever one thinks of the justice of his conviction, dictate the way one understands his book?
Yes, emphatically declared the reviewer in the (London) Times Literary Supplement, who found the book animated by a "highly personalized agenda" that "converts a soi-disant work of history into a prolonged partisan plea on behalf of a man as misunderstood, underestimated, and wronged as the author evidently considers himself to be." What is packaged as a "balanced" portrait of Nixon, the reviewer concluded, is better understood as "Conrad Black's apologia for Richard Nixon"—and, by extension, himself.
Well, readers will have to judge for themselves, but an apologia this book most certainly is not. There is enough of the sinister and disagreeable Nixon in Black's pages to satisfy all but diehard Nixon-haters. ("There is room for debate," Black nicely concludes, "whether he dishonored, or merely demeaned, the presidency.") True, Black's own experiences may have produced in him what might be called an elective affinity for his subject. Equally true is that Black's experiences are themselves hard to separate from the more general condition that has come to afflict our public life—a condition that first began to reach ominous proportions during the Nixon presidency and that is now everywhere in evidence. In that sense, he would be justified in seeing his own situation somewhat mirrored in that of his subject.
But there is also much evidence that Black sees his subject clear and distinct. It is hard to comprehend how, in the midst of his well-publicized trials, Black was able to produce a book of such high caliber. All the more impressive is that the elective affinity of author for subject never skews Black's judgment of Nixon, which is harsh in all the places where historical accuracy demands that it be, but generous and humane in places where those qualities are deserved but have been lacking in the past.
For Black, Nixon was "the champion of the average person, the decent toiler, the silent majority," the man who led "a perpetual revolt against the stylish, the facile and fashionable, the well born, all those . . . for whom things seemed to come easily." I am not aware of any biographical account of Conrad Black that would suggest this is a self-portrait. But it cuts to the heart of who Nixon was, and why so many hated him, and why so many more cannot forget him. That is a great deal for any biographer to accomplish.
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Cynthia Arnson commented on drug policy and U.S.-Latin America relationship in this article. "The message has been sent that the hemisphere wants to look at alternative approaches and wants the United States to be part of that discussion," stated Arnson.