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Steve Bernstein gives the Arizona staff three decades of defensive experience and some long-standing focus on the college football pass coverage game.
UA's secondary should have an improved year with more continuity and direct emphasis this year. The Cats were No. 3 in the Pac-10 in pass defense a year ago and expect to be better.
In 2003, Bernstein regains coaching duties for the entire secondary after working with corners and the free safety uner the Cats' flex system a year ago.
Bernstein's most recent prior assignment before joining John Mackovic's 2001 UA staff as as secondary coach at Louisiana State (1998-89). He has worked with Mackovic at two other major programs, as secondary coach at Texas from 1992-97 and in the same position at Illinois from 1988-91.
Bernstein's wealth of coaching experience also includes stints at Colorado from 1985-87, at Virginia Tech from 1978 to 1984, at Wake Forest from 1973 to 1977, at Utah State from 1970 to 1972 and with the Quantico Marines in 1969. All were defensive secondary positions.
His experience is known nationally -- he directed a "buzz session" on defensive backs at the American Football Coaches Association convention in New Orleans early this year.
Bernstein has a proven record as an outstanding college recruiter, and contributed heavily in his first two years at Arizona. Earlier, his signees at previous jobs included a slew of University of Texas stars – Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams, All-American defensive back Bryant Westbrook, defensive back Taje Allen, quarterback and Southwest Conference MVP James Brown, All-Big XII offensive lineman Ben Adams and All-Big XII defensive lineman Shaun Rogers, a recent second-round NFL selection. UT enjoyed six consecutive top 20-rated recruiting classes with Bernstein as a key player in the process. He also recruited Deon Figures at Colorado, where he was the 1992 Thorpe Award winner.
Among his defensive backs drafted by National Football League teams were Mark Roman from LSU; Westbrook, Allen, Van Malone, Chris Carter and Lance Gunn from Texas; Henry Jones, Chris Green and Filmel Johnson of Illinois; David Tate, Solmon Wilcox, David McLoughan, Mickey Pruitt and Lyle Pickens of Colorado; Ashley Lee of Virginia Tech; and Bill Armstrong of Wake Forest. Raion Hill of LSU signed a free agent contract, as did Mickey Pruitt of Colorado, who played five years in the NFL.
In 1996, Bernstein's Texas secondary limited opponents to just four touchdown passes, the fewest in the Big XII.
Westbrook and Carter earned first-team All-SWC honors the previous year. Earlier, his work with safety Gunn helped him earn first-team All-America honors, while Malone was an All-SWC pick in 1993.
Bernstein brings outstanding bowl experience to Arizona's staff. He has coached in 11 bowl games for four different schools, most recently the 1997 Fiesta Bowl while under Mackovic at Texas in the Longhorn's 8-5 Big XII Championship season. A 1967 graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Bernstein was an honorable mention NAIA All-America pick in 1996. Bernstein joined the U.S. Marine Corps and spent three years in the service and was a decorated platoon leader in the Vietnam War. He completed studies for a master's degree at Utah State in 1972. Five of his Texas players played in the NFL, including first-round pick Bryant Westbrook, second-round pick Van Malone, third-round selection Chris Carter and later round draftees Taje Allen and Lance Gunn. He also recuited UT's star cornerback Quentin Jammer, a first-round pick last April. Bernstein and his wife, Carolyn, have a son, Todd, 32. The Bernstein File
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|Occidental College, 1967; Utah State 1972 (master's)
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|1997 Fiesta, 1995 Sugar, 1994 Sun (with Texas); 1991 Hancock, 1991 Hall of Fame, 1990 Citrus, 1988 All-American (with Illinois); 1986 Bluebonnet, 1985 Freedom (with Colorado); 1985 Independence, 1980 Peach (with Virginia Tech).


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Overall thoughts on the game
"I think this is always a fun tournament. We've got teams from all over the country - Boston, Indiana and Chicago. It's great competition, it's a great time of year to come out and hopefully we'll have a lot of families her to see some different kinds of teams."
On the long-standing partnership between Tulane and the DoubleTree Hotel
"I think we've built a great reputation here. Very few times will you have a corporate partner that stays with you for that long, but it's been a tremendously competitive tournament and I think it's been great basketball. This time of year probably makes it a little more special because there's some time off, and we're excited about it. It's nice to come back after Christmas and know you've got something exciting to get ready for."
On the way her team is playing right now
"I think the trip to Florida was really good for us. We did some great things there, had some adversity with foul trouble and with different players coming in and out of the game. The players did a great job. They really responded and we played some great basketball the last two games."
On Saturday's opponent, the Northeastern Huskies
"I'm really impressed with Northeastern. I really haven't seen them play at all and, again, it's a different part of the country so I don't know any of the players. They're very athletic, they run, they shoot the ball very well, they've got a dominant post player and they'll switch up their defenses on us. We've played a lot of teams similar to them when you look at Auburn and you look at Ole Miss and Saint Francis. It's going to be a great matchup and I think it'll be a good game."
On Sunday's potential opponents, Indiana State and Northwestern
"There's a great basketball reputation with both of them. Obviously, one is a Big 10 school. Indiana State has a great tradition over there and the state of Indiana in synonymous with basketball. It's going to be great. All four games this weekend are going to be very competitive and hopefully we get some people to come out and support us."
On what she hopes to achieve with three games remaining before the start of Conference USA play
"I want to build on what we did in Florida. We took some steps forward there with our toughness in being able to execute. I'd like to build on that over the next three games and then we start a really tough conference season. In these games, none of them are gimmes. All of these games we're going to have to earn. Hopefully we can continue to get better, people will learn their roles and we'll continue to develop those roles as we go along."

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New Arizona Billboard
re: New Arizona Billboard
by FoxMulder
Jun. 15, 2010 10:06 am
can you name any of the names of the crime victims of illegal aliens?
i bet you know the names of the politicians who coddle them
i bet you know none of the mexican politicians who didnt create an exrtradition treaty with usa or are scum
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by BcDct
Jun. 15, 2010 10:15 am
Not everyone in this country unlawfully is a criminal and those who are criminals will pay no attention to any of our laws because they're criminals!
If we devoted more law enforcement resources to catching bad guys instead of lettuce pickers, we'd all be safer.


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UMass found itself trailing by 16 points in the second half before mounting a nice comeback before narrowly missing out on the victory, falling to George Washington, 79-76, at the Mullins Center.
UMass forward Raphiael Putney again shows encouraging signs in loss to George Washington | masslive.com
The day was special as Marcus Camby's No. 21 jersey was retired and raised to the rafters, joining George "Trigger" Burke, Julius Erving, Lou Roe and Al Skinner.


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The Silk Road through Southeast Asia to China transported more than just goods. Art and ideas also passed from region to region. Buddhism may have spread from India to China as early as the first century B.C., and on to Japan soon after. This Indian tunic, with a Japanese-inspired pattern, pays homage to the spirit of cross-cultural exchange.
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The purple color is pretty and the lightweight material is comfortable for the summer. I find the cut very narrow for me personally. It is long and the slits go up quite high. Recommended for someone tall and on the slimmer side.
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These Kurtas, I ordered the second color after I wore the lighter one for a while, offer casual elegance with greatest comfort .I wear mine for going shopping, lunch dates with friends, dinners out.I wear them at home, just to feel good. The drape of the material feels wonderful.I do hand wash mine, though I don't know if it is necessary to do that. Just want to make sure I get the longest use out of them.These tunic type tops are incredibly comfortable for most occasions.Easy to dress up or down with accessories.
Just ok.
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Not as pretty as it looks online unfortunately. The colors are dull and lacklustre
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The design is much darker than shown. The accent design on sleeve and arm looks dark grey but is actually very black, not as elegant as the picture.It is a still a nice lightweight summer 100% cotton top, but order a size or two smaller than you think to get the soft fluid kurta drape.Had to return.


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Posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 by Jim Norrena
Graduate Program in Design student Jesse Geller's Home Street Home earned highest honors in CCA's R.A.W. Video student contest. Want to cast your own vote? Details about CCA's first-ever R.A.W. Video Audience Award coming soon!
R.A.W. Video Contest Winners Announced
The results of CCA's annual R.A.W. Video contest (real artists @ work) have funneled in, and despite the popular notion Film majors can easily handle any whoop-de-dos or moguls to wheel into first place in such a juried video competition, this year's top-awarded student is Jesse Geller of the Graduate Program in Design. His Home Street Home video, a great mini-epic about his free-riding journey from New York to San Francisco, compares the bike cultures of each city as well as illustrates why CCA is his "home away from home, away from home."
2010 Winners
First Place: Home Street Home
Jesse Geller (Graphic Design)
Second Place: i ride my bike . . .
Robin Tilby (Film Program)
Third place: Will Manville: Bike Art
Ted Hayden (Film Program)
(Note: 2009 R.A.W. Video winner for CCA: A Creative Culture of Critique)
Fourth place: Two Wheels Attached to a Frame
Jim Allison (Film Program)
(Note: 2009 R.A.W. Video winner for Pave the Way; and 2008 R.A.W. Video winner for Learn Create Live)
Fifth place: As Easy as Riding a Bike
Max Batt (Graphic Design)
(Judges asked Max how he got the bike chain to move in his video: "In order to animate that bike chain," Max revealed, "it had to be treated as animated text. So what I ended up doing was creating a new font and swapping out the letter V for the image of one single chain link. That way I could repeat this new V over and over to create the animated chain effect. I think there ended up being like a thousand Vs or something. It was crazy.")
Special Distinction
Kimberly Bainum (Film Program)
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Suzanne Baxter (Graphic Design)
Comments from Film Chair Rob Epstein
Film Program chair Rob Epstein, the Lance Armstrong of filmmakers—with no fewer than two Academy Awards, five Emmy Awards, three Peabodys, and Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships shared with Telling Pictures partner and CCA visiting artist Jeffrey Friedman—had this to say: "The overall quality of entries this year was very impressive. It was a challenge to come up with just five so-called winners, but they do represent a broad range of submissions from several different CCA programs. . . . I love the humanity of the piece [Robin Tilby's i ride my bike), and the fact that she had faith in its simplicity." Rob also praised Ted Hayden's Will Manville: Bike Art (about the CCA senior painter who practices bike art): "Good choice of subject, well shot, edited, and constructed."
About Jesse Geller's Winning Video
"I've always relied on bikes to get around," admits Geller. "So when I saw the R.A.W. Video contest was focusing on CCA's bike culture, it seemed like a perfect opportunity for me to share one of my passions. I decided what I really wanted to do was tell a story—a personal account of my transition to San Francisco and CCA. Having ridden my bike in New York for over 5 years, every time I get on my bike in San Francisco, I'm struck by the differences between each city's respective bike cultures. And because cyclists experience travel from a very different perspective than pedestrians or motorists, I included that experience, too."
Geller's hip, time-elapsed depiction of "CCA bike culture (as you see it)," the designated theme for this year's contest, made his two-minute video bunny hop to first place among a record number of more than 40 submissions! "I think it was a great concept and gave students direction for their videos," shared Director of Student Life Noki Seekao. "Additionally, from a Student Life perspective, it encourages students to use alternative modes of transportation as well as align themselves with the college's values."
R.A.W. Is an Interdisciplinary Opportunity
Despite many of the submissions representing CCA's Film Program, it's important to note that in addition to Design taking the lead, other non-Film submissions included Animation, Graduate Program in Fine Arts, MFA Program in Writing, and Photography. Whether it's the R.A.W. Video contest or the new R.A.W. Photography contest, this unique contest unites CCA's student population in creative ways regardless of discipline.
Each R.A.W. Video participant was encouraged to review previous years' awarded entries to grip his or her sense of the creative range this contest rides. However, equally challenging for the filmmaker is upholding the designated theme, which in the past has included "the culture of critique" (2009) and the "CCA experience from a student's perspective" (2008). Got an idea for next year's theme? Send to Senior Marketing Manager Clay Walsh.
To enter the contest students had to create videos that followed specific submission requirements: (1) maximum two-minute length; (2) high-resolution digital video; (3) included audio.
This year's jury was composed of eight judges (a combination of staff and faculty including Film Program chair Rob Epstein, and Graphic Design and First Year associate professor Jim Kenney) reviewed all submissions and deliberated accordingly. Final results were determined using a point system: first choice = 5 points; second choice = 4 points; third choice = 3 points; fourth choice = 2 points; and fifth choice = 1 point.
"I truly feel CCA's bike culture comes across in not just the winning videos, but also all the other entries in to this year's R.A.W. Video contest," said Walsh. "The bar was raised really high this year, and I enjoyed the variety of styles and approaches—from animation to motion graphics to documentary. Very inspiring!"
And as this feature nears the crossing line, a wheel-spinning note of appreciation is due to the folks at Mike's Bikes, who supported this contest by offering $50 gift certificates to each of the winners as well as official Mike's Bikes water bottles to all participants!
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Hindsight is 20/20, but today had all the makings of a day a short-term traders should sit on their hands - monthly options expiration, Friday before a holiday weekend, in the heart of earnings season, in a market that has already been extremely choppy so far in 2014. The result was in fact an often perplexing day with more weakness under the surface than the 0.25% gain in the Dow might suggest.
Let's start with earnings. As far as the Dow goes, Strength in the credit cards after American Express (AXP) earnings helped offset losses in Intel (INTC) and General Electric (GE). Morgan Stanley (MS) is not a Dow component, but its strong report and 4.37% gain helped brighten the outlook for the financials after a dismal report the prior day from Citigroup (C). If you are struggling to find a trend in earnings, it's because there hasn't been one. Since the market bottom in early 2009 earnings have been a bright spot in the markets that many bulls have hung their hats on, but right now it seems like companies are consistently struggling to eke top expectations with cost-cutting alone.
Tech was very choppy today on a stereotypical OpEx Friday, with perhaps a slight bias to the downside. Apple (AAPL) showed the most notable weakness, selling off 2.46% after demand for the iPhone from China Mobile users was much more tepid than expected. Amazon (AMZN) continued to hold up well with a 0.96% gain. Twitter (TWTR) finished up 2.69% but bulls were hoping for much more after Twitter started hot out of the gate but continued to fade as the day went on.
Solar stocks were unable to build on yesterday's impressive double-digit moves in Solar City (SCTY) and Sun Power (SPWR) as both of those stocks reversed following early strength. The ags also took a step back today, with CF Industries (CF) holding up best among the names we watch, which include Mosaic (MOS), PotashCorp (POT) and Agrium (AGU).
Biotech stocks continue to stand out and ignore the broader market. The Biotech ETF (IBB) continues to stair-step higher, while Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT) was able to find some footing with a 5.50% gain after an EXTREMELY volatile seven trading sessions. Gilead (GILD) was listed on Off the Charts early this week as a breakout candidate and the stock has performed very well, breaking out yesterday and continuing higher today despite market weakness.
The retail sector is the biggest red flag in the market right now. Lululemon (LULU) is gasping for air, dropping another 2.66% today after last week's outlook warning. Other names on our radar to get hit to varying degrees this week are Best Buy (BBY), JC Penney (JCP), Nike (NKE), Under Armour (UA), Wal-Mart (WMT), Target (TGT), and Starbucks (SBUX).
Nobody can accuse the market of being dull this week, and with options expiration out of the way I think traders would be more than happy for the volatility to continue. While we may not get the macro trending action in indices that we saw in 2013, there is great opportunity right now to use relative strength rules to identify the many divergences in the market right now.
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This funny quiz is all about the naughty things you may have done in your life! It's great fun to fill out and find what your bail amount is! Then you can reveal to your friends how much your bail is set at! You can post this on a Facebook note or on Tumblr.
This brand new Facebook and Tumblr quiz game is super fun to fill out and show to your friends. This funny quiz game is all about a house party which happens in your house when your parents are out for the night. Fill out this quiz story as you go along and by the end you'll have a funny story about how a house party happened at your house and what went down at the party with your friends! Make sure you tag your friends
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Here's a funny survey game for you to fill out on Facebook and show to your friends. It's full of funny questions for you to answer about your life, personal things, relationships and more. Your friends will be sure to like and comment on your Facebook note and then they can copy the note and fill it out themselves. Tag your friends in the note so they can see your answers to the funny questions in this quiz!
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Looking for something to do if you're bored at school, college or at home? Copy and paste this fun quiz about your life and things you like to a Facebook note and answer the questions to show your friends a bit more about yourself. It's fun to fill out and your friends can like and comment your Facebook note. Then they can also copy and paste the quiz to fill out too.
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This Facebook note survey is for boys ONLY. If you're a guy and you likes cars, girls and sports this is the quiz you need to fill out. It's fun to fill out a Facebook note quiz when you're bored at home, college or work and then show your friends the answers.
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This is the ONE word Facebook note quiz that you can fill out and show your online friends. When you answer this quiz, you must only use one word for each of your answers. Some of the quiz questions are about your favourite things, your personal life, your relationships and your secrets. So answering with Facebook quiz note with only one word will be tricky!


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Q & A: Handling Binge Eating and Stress Eating...
We all have crappy days. You feel cranky or a little moody and seek comfort in food. It happens to all of us, but what happens when the eating gets out of control? And you start to worry. In this quick discussion from Dr. Fuhrman's member center he gives some advice:
Question: I've developed a rather bad binging habit over the last year or so and am trying to curb it. But I am wondering if you have any strategies you would recommend to help get me over the hump? I have read some places that eating on a strict schedule, very specific foods may be helpful. Is this an approach you would consider?
I tend to binge in the afternoons & evenings. I make it through the morning, but run out of willpower later on. I can binge on anything, even lettuce and celery .Just to have something to put in my mouth. Stress can trigger it too. Right now I am trying hobbies to take my mind off food, but do you have any advice on how to structure my eating?
Dr. Fuhrman: When you are in your moments of saneness, remove the unhealthy food choices and dump them. At least, then when you overeat, it will only be on good stuff. But, the most important thing is to only eat 3 times a day. That is two meals and one snack (or small meal). Lay out the entire meal on table before you start to eat.
Try to decide how much you intend to eat at that meal and then put all the food away and do not go back to get more. Getting rid of the snacking habit is the most important thing. After dinner clean up the kitchen and go brush and floss and stay away from all food after 7:00 PM. That is very important too.
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That is good advice, but so hard to do for most people. RIght now, I am snacking on dates as I type this, at 7:45pm, well aware that I should not be eating this late! I tend to fall prey to this eating only when I am really stressed out, and then like you said, anything in my mouth will usually do. I choose healthy things such as nuts and fruit or organic dark chocolate (or dates!) but when I need to chew, there is no getting around it. Fortunately, I eat healthfully all day and do not have a weight problem, but the fact that I do have an emotional "need" for food at times is nonetheless disconcerting. I feel your pain.
Might I suggest a flavorful herbal tea with some stevia or raw honey instead of food? This often works for me. I splurge at the health food store on great herbal teas with exotic flavors. Then in the evening, my worst time to snack, I have a cup in a nice fancy mug or tea cup, and enjoy. This ritual is a saving grace for me. I hope it works for you!
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Grobe Fruit Farm began 120 years ago in 1889 when Allen Grobe's Great, Great Grandfather Henry arrived from Germany. Annette, Allen's mother, says she is blessed to have a son who wanted to continue the family tradition.
Along side Allen, are his wife Laurie, mother Annette and sister Anita Grobe Edwards. "Without the help of these women, I wouldn't be where I am today," Allen said.
Allen graduated from Michigan State in 1990 after studying Fruit and Vegetable Production & Management. In 1990, the apple cider press was added to the farm. "Balk Juice," our Apple Cider Pasteurizing and Bottling Cider business began in 2006.
Grobe Fruit Farm won the Cider Contest in the Fabulous Food Show Cleveland 2007-2008.
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There has been a global launch of NTREEV SOFT's combat strategy game Second Earth. Simultaneously released in more than 130 countries around the world, Second Earth is available for free on iOS and Android devices.
Second Earth is a sci-fi strategy game in which players have to grow and defend their own planets by upgrading troops, gathering treasures, strategically deploying facilities like Plasma Cannons, Bunker, and Air Turrets to defend against attack from other players. Second Earth features prompt deployment of the troops. Because it takes no time to mobilize the armies, such as Hammers, Wild Crabs and Dark Angels, players can fight continuously and grow their bases quickly to enjoy a fast-paced game. There is the ability to make upgrades to the battle units and to use unique strategies in combing forces and in the fighting of the battles.
There is multi-play mode but also single-play mode where a player invades AI planets created in various ways. There is a Facebook link so that players can enjoy the game with their friends.
Second Earth is available for free from the Apple App Store www.itunes.com/appstore and at Google Play. For more information on Second Earth, visit the game's Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/SecondEarthGame.


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The Bridgeport woman who died in a fiery crash on I-95 in Fairfield on Sunday has been identified as 27-year-old Yvonne Sokol. The car Sokol was driving crashed into the back of a tractor trailer truck then went under the trailer and caught on fire, according to the Minute Man News Center on March 31.
A 911 call came in about 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, reporting a vehicle accident in the northbound lane of I-95 in Fairfield. When the first responders arrived, the driver was stuck in the car under the tractor trailer truck and it was on fire.
The responders worked together, with one group of firefighters putting out the fire and the other fire fighters using the hydraulic tools to free the woman from the vehicle. The tools needed to extract her from the vehicle included a lift to get the truck off the car. She was the single occupant of the vehicle.
The woman didn't have a pulse when she was freed from the vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene. It took 24 emergency response personnel to extract the woman from the car. The accident is still under investigation today.


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The guy who knocked out Suge Knight showed up at court today to deal with a warrant issued for his arrest. He thought he settled it -- but he's dead wrong.Guy Who Doesn't Want His Name Out There skipped a court hearing yesterday, triggering the bench warrant. He showed up in court, worked out something with the prosecutors, and the warrant was recalled. But here's the problem: he didn't stick around long enough to face the judge, so his continuance didn't go on the record. The court has just reissued the $40,000 bench warrant since the GWDWHNOT didn't come back today. So, again, he is a wanted man!Stay tuned ...
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I really like the idea of using muffin tins to make something besides cupcakes. At a recent B&B stay, we were served breakfast eggs (with cheese and salsa) that were cooked in muffin tins. So when I saw the following kid friendly recipes in the February 2006 issue of Parenting magazine, I was glad to finally have some recipes to try out.
Taco Bowls
Yield: 20 taco bowls
- 10 6-inch flour torillas
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 1.25-oz package of taco seasoning mix
- 8-oz. package shredded reduced-fat monterey jack cheese
- 8-oz. package shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
- Preheat over to 350 degrees.
- Trim about 1/2 inch from the edge of each tortilla with clean scissors or kitchen shears. Push the trotillas into nonstick muffin tins and bake for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a nonstick pan, saute turkey over medium heat, breaking apart large chunks and stirring occasionally until the meat is cooked through, about 10 minutes. Add taco seasoning mix and 2/3 cup water and simmer meat about 5 minutes.
- Fill each tortilla cup with 2 tablespoons of cooked ground meat and top with a large pinch each of shredded cheeses.
- Bake 10-12 minutes until the cheese is melted and cups start to brown.
- Serve with salsa.
- Use another kind of ground meat, meat substitute, or shredded pork or beef. This would be a great recipe for leftover meat as well.
- Use corn torillas instead of flour – better tasting and more fiber.
- You can also serve with avocados.
- Try using non-fat refried beans instead of meat.
Pizza Bites
Yield: 16 pizzas
- 13-oz can premade pizza dough
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup shreeded reduced-fat mozzarella
- 16 slices pepperoni
- Preheat over to 350 degrees. Roll out pizza dough to a rectangle about 10×13 inches. Cut out circles with a 3 inch cookie cutter.
- Press each circle in bottom of muffin tins and bake 10 to 12 minutes or until dough is golden. Remove from oven.
- Top each piece of dough with 1 tablespoon each of pizza sauce and cheese. Top with 1 slice of pepperoni.
- Increase oven to 400 degrees and return tin to oven for 5 to 10 minutes until cheese is melted and golden brown.
- Substitute veggies for pepperoni.
- These would make great finger food at adult parties, too.
- Great use for leftover sauce.
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We are in the business of helping people. Period.
Strengthening communities around the world is a core part of AOL - - as a company it is in our DNA - - built into our mission of culture and code. One of AOL's core values is about helping people, and to date, AOL has donated more than 70 billion impressions to over 500 nonprofits that our teams, advertisers and consumers care most about.
Monster Help Day is AOL's company wide volunteer day, in which AOLers worldwide take time outside of the office to help their local communities. This year marks AOL's 6th annual Monster Help Day and we expect it to be our most impactful day yet. The following stats are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what we're unleashing:
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- 3,000 AOLers volunteering internationally
- 50 non-profits positively impacted from our service
- More than 85 projects around the world
- AOLers in 27 cities across the globe are getting involved
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AOLers have volunteered over 50,000 hours in their respective local communities during AOL's annual Monster Help Day. As a company, employees are given 3 days a year to volunteer outside the office. Get involved by seeing how you can support your local community and follow our impact with #AOLMHD and #AOLGivesBack on monsterhelp.aol.com.
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Editor's Note
Weak States and the Savage Wars of Peace
David Sogge
Stabilising Fragile States
Joseph Siegle
Engaging Fragile States: Closing the Gap between Theory and Policy
David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy
Fragile States and Violence: The Limits of External Assistance
Lothar Brock, Hans-Henrik Holm, Georg Sorensen, and Michael Stohl
Goodbye to Good Governance? How Development Discourse Copes with State Failure
Tobias Debiel, Daniel Lambach, and Birgit Pech
The Failing State in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Afghanistan: A Seriously Disrupted State
Amin Saikal
Failed-State Status and the War on Drugs in Mexico
Adam David Morton
Giving a State a Bad Name? Kyrgyzstan and the Risk of State Failure
Cai Wilkinson
Bringing State Theory Back In: Why We Should Let Go of Failed States
Shahar Hameiri
Nation-Building Interventions and National Security: An Australian Perspective
Michael G. Smith and Rebecca Shrimpton
Book Review
Ending in Tears: Britain's Uneasy Relationship with Cyprus
Rachael Gillett
Volume 13 ● Number 1 ● Winter/Spring 2011Failed States
Bringing State Theory Back In: Why We Should Let Go of Failed States
Our diplomacy and development capabilities must help prevent conflict, spur economic growth, strengthen weak and failing states, lift people out of poverty, combat climate change and epidemic disease, and strengthen institutions of democratic governance.1
Similar assessments of the global security environment have in the last decade been made by the United Nations, the European Union and the governments of the United Kingdom and Australia, to mention but a few.
Indeed, concern over the potentially adverse security implications of state failure has been translated into a greater willingness in the post–Cold War era—particularly since the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States—to intervene in states perceived as fragile and at risk of failure. State-building—the supposed solution to the problem of state failure—comprises a varying mix of coercive and non-coercive measures aimed at strengthening the capacity of intervened-in states to perform the functions of modern statehood adequately. It is now applied not only to conflict or post-conflict situations, but as a precautionary measure to "a wide spectrum of developing countries, both in war and peace".2
A Problematic Concept
Consequently, it is imperative to examine the concept of the failed state and its potential limitations, both for making sense of the situations to which it refers and for the proposed solutions to these. The main argument herein is that the concept of the failed state has been implicitly understood through two dominant notions of state capacity: a neo-liberal institutionalist variant and a neo-Weberian institutionalist variant. Despite some important differences between these occasionally overlapping approaches, they share a number of problematic characteristics.
First, capacity is articulated in a way that obscures the highly political and contested nature of all projects of state-building, whether internally or externally driven. Second, the state and its institutions are abstracted from the social and political conflicts that accompany processes of capitalist development, whether preceding or driven through state-building interventionism. As a result, the notion of the failed state is highly descriptive, seeking to evaluate existing situations not on their own merits, but in terms of an ideal/typical state of either a neo-liberal or neo-Weberian kind. It is thus a "negative" way of understanding the complex social phenomena to which the concept of state failure is applied: it tells us what is not happening, rather than what is happening. The failed state is therefore a concept with very little analytical merit that obscures more than it reveals and that should be dumped unceremoniously by researchers.
A way out of the failed-state cul-de-sac is through a more rigorous integration of state theory into the study of so-called failed states. Particularly useful is the branch of state theory associated with scholars like Nicos Poulantzas and Bob Jessop. These scholars and others working in a similar vein, rather than fetishise the state, view it as a social relation and the functioning of its institutions as an expression of social power and never-ceasing struggles between coalitions of interests—classes, class fractions, distributional coalitions and other societal groups—over power and resources. State capacity in this sense represents the capacity of state institutions to privilege some interests over others—a relational attribute based on particular political and ideological environments formed in the context of particular patterns of economic development.
In what follows, I go on to discuss the limitations of the neo-liberal and neo-Weberian institutionalist conceptions of state failure and then proceed to provide a brief overview of the utility of another approach, which is based on social-conflict theory and grounded in state theory.
State Failure and the Limits of Institutionalism
Morten Bøås and Kathleen Jennings have recently argued that the failed-state label is applied selectively when it is in the interests of powerful governments to do so. While this argument is generally true, it is nevertheless impossible to deny the emergence of a commonsensical notion of what state failure means. Manipulation of the term for political reasons is therefore restricted by the development of a large body of knowledge that shapes both the nature of the problem and the solutions to it.
The typical definition of state failure is based on the idea that there is a minimum set of functions every state must be able to perform adequately. In other words, state failure is defined in terms of the existence or absence of state capacity across various functional, institutional and geographical arenas. This tends to create a spectrum of functionality, with strong states at one end, failed or collapsed states at the other extreme, and various other weak or fragile states in between.
There are, however, two prevalent ways of defining state capacity in the literature: one that could be described as neo-liberal institutionalist, and the other neo-Weberian institutionalist. These are not neatly separated, as many scholars straddle both camps, and indeed the notion of state "capacity" is strongly rooted in the Weberian tradition. Nonetheless, there are important dissimilarities between the two approaches, pertaining to how they define state failure and explain its origins, and to the solutions they prescribe for it. Both, however, are limited by their propensity to treat state capacity as something that stands outside social and political struggle, or any social relation for that matter. This leads to an emphasis on evaluating whether particular states approximate pre-existing institutional functionality benchmarks, thereby failing to account for why certain institutions emerge in the first place and why they operate the way they do. Below I discuss each of these approaches individually.
Neo-Liberal Institutionalist Conceptions of State Failure
For neo-liberal institutionalists, the notion of state capacity refers to the ability of the state to provide hospitable conditions for liberal, market-led development to occur. State failure/fragility and social conflict are seen as corollaries of poverty and underdevelopment. The latter, in turn, are viewed as rooted in the failure of particular states, because of poor governance and bad leadership, to benefit from the opportunities provided by global markets. State failure is thus seen as fundamentally internally generated, with the way out requiring that states make themselves more attractive to foreign private-sector investment. This way of conceiving state failure has been particularly influential in the actual practice of state-building, primarily because of the dominance of development assistance organisations in this field.
Intellectually, neo-liberal institutionalism combines the normative preference of neo-liberalism for extending liberal market relations into all social, economic and political spheres, with a focus on the institutional prerequisites of successful market-led development. It thus owes more to new institutional economics (NIE) than to neo-classical economics. Within the world's major bilateral and multilateral international development organisations, chiefly the World Bank, this way of understanding development and the state's role in it has become dominant since the mid-1990s because of the inescapable failures of the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) of the 1980s and 1990s in terms of both implementation and outcome. SAPs used conditionalities to promote rapid liberalisation of trade and financial flows, privatisation and public-sector cutbacks, as a way of energising the private sector and reducing government debt in recipient countries. During this period, the state was typically seen as an obstacle to economic development. However, with many developing states experiencing a decade of zero or even negative growth, and with financial crises rocking Mexico, Russia and East Asia in the 1990s, the state made an impressive comeback and came to be seen as crucial for successful development outcomes. Unlike in the Keynesian post-war era, though, the role of the state was circumscribed to that of providing and guaranteeing the "right" institutional environment in which liberal markets could blossom—a set of institutions, policies and even social attitudes often called "good governance".
As the above implies, the association of development outcomes with good governance was not made in the context of a growing interest in failed states, but had its own intellectual and institutional trajectory within the international development assistance industry. In fact, the linking of aid effectiveness and good governance was initially seen as reason for pulling out of "poorly performing" states, many of which are now described as "fragile". In the wake of the 11 September attacks, however, when failed states came to be seen not only as a humanitarian problem but as a core security concern, mainstream donors began to think about ways of assisting the emergence of environments conducive to liberal market-led development even when these environments were not there. In this manner, pre-existing ideas about what constitutes suitable institutional supports for markets were extended into the state‑building sphere.
One prominent example of what effective statehood might mean in practice for neo-liberal institutionalists is provided by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). The CPIA is a questionnaire designed to help the bank's staff evaluate the institutional quality of recipient states. The CPIA comprises sixteen criteria in four clusters: economic management, structural policies, policies for social inclusion/equity, and public-sector management in institutions. In each category a state is ranked from one to six, with one indicating an unsatisfactory performance for an extended period. States that score poorly across several criteria are defined as "fragile". The CPIA comprises a ubiquitous neo-liberal ensemble. As Andrew Rosser argues:
The criteria that make up the CPIA emphasise the importance of deregulated markets, conservative macroeconomic and fiscal policies and public administrative and other institutional structures that provide transparency and accountability.3
The assumption therein is that the sole way to ameliorate state weakness and alleviate conflict is through market-led development, which can be achieved only if the right institutional processes are in place. This is a point of divergence between the neo-liberal and neo-Weberian approaches because for the latter there can be more than one path to successful economic development.
This way of understanding the role of the state is underpinned by a conception of politics as "a set of external factors hampering the natural functioning of markets".4 Hence, the criteria by which effective statehood is measured, the institutions that issue public policy, and the capacity with which these institutions are supposedly imbued, are all depoliticised and abstracted from actual social and political relations, particularly those associated with capitalist development. As a result, neo-liberal institutionalists end up measuring the degree to which particular states approximate the neo-liberal ideal type, through exercises like the CPIA, but they have a hard time explaining why particular situations deviate from it, and an even harder time achieving the governance objectives they desire in practice. The neo-liberal institutionalist conception of state capacity, and hence of state failure, is a descriptive category and not a way of explaining the complex social phenomena to which it ultimately refers.
Neo-Weberian Institutionalist Conceptions of State Failure
That there is a sizable and diverse neo-Weberian literature on state failure is hardly surprising, given the centrality of the concept of the state for scholars in the Weberian tradition. For several decades now, neo-Weberian scholars have argued that states are not simply vessels of society, but potentially autonomous and powerful institutions:
States conceived as organizations claiming control over territories and people may formulate and pursue goals that are not simply reflective of the demands or interests of social groups, classes, or society. This is what is usually meant by "state autonomy" … Pursuing matters further, one may then explore the "capacities" of states to implement official goals, especially over the actual or potential opposition of powerful social groups or in the face of recalcitrant economic circumstances.5
For neo-Weberians, state capacity is both horizontal and vertical. Horizontally, as we can see from the above quotation from Skocpol, state capacity measures the relative power of the state vis-à-vis oppositional social forces and markets, a major point of divergence from neo-liberal institutionalists, for whom state intervention in markets, as opposed to the prevention of interference in them, is undesirable. Vertically, state capacity is measured in relation to an ideal/typical modern state:
From the outset, the modern state … represented an ideal of sovereign territoriality to which rulers aspired, but which they seldom achieved. Even Western European states today do not always reach the Weberian pinnacle in which a rationalized central bureaucracy enjoys a monopoly of organized violence over a given territory and population.6
Neo-Weberian scholars often disagree on what precisely the ideal/typical state should look like. Some take a more expansive approach that includes issues like welfare provision, infrastructure and public health, while others focus on core activities like external security—protecting the state from outside enemies. In fact, for some, influenced by Joel Migdal's "state in society" approach,7 a successful post-colonial state has to accommodate or even at times adopt more traditional forms of governance in order to become legitimate. Such disagreements aside, all neo-Weberian authors view state capacity as potentially uneven, varying across the state's different functions and institutions, as well as across geographical terrain. Capacity refers to the rule-making power of the state's institutions: their ability to plan official goals and implement these successfully.
The trouble is that defining state capacity in this way reifies a problematic distinction between state and society. To make sense, the horizontal notion of capacity requires at least two predefined entities and at least one of these to act upon and affect the other. While from this view society does not necessarily collapse when the state collapses, this approach seems to suggest that for the state to be strong it has to penetrate society and subdue recalcitrant elements. This way of viewing state–society relations has strong authoritarian hues, resembling earlier work by Samuel Huntington on political order in changing societies.8 Indeed, although in the neo-Weberian conception state capacity is freed from neo-liberal ideology, it still embodies a preference for order and stability of a particular kind, rather than a way of explaining social and political dynamics in their own right, including those associated with the disintegration of centralised power structures.
By neglecting to examine the power relations that cut across the permeable boundaries of state, society and markets and to theorise the links between social and political conflict and capitalist development, neo-Weberians remain trapped within unhelpful binaries, such as state/society and traditional/modern. The effect is to dehistoricise the development of particular state forms. Despite the relational veneer of the horizontal dimensions of state capacity, both these and their vertical counterparts embody a technical way of understanding state capacity, as both have state functionality, understood vis-à-vis the Weberian ideal type, at their core. This is because the main issue for horizontal state capacity is essentially who delivers the state's functions—state institutions or societal groups? As a result, much like the neo-liberal variant surveyed above, the neo-Weberian definition of state failure, which is premised on a particular neo-Weberian definition of state capacity, remains descriptive. It is unable to explain adequately the emergence and trajectory of conflict: the latter remains a kind of "by-product" of low state capacity. As noted earlier, the usage of the term "failed state" leads to "negative" assessments preoccupied with the degree to which particular states approximate the Weberian ideal/typical state—assessments which carry little explanatory force.
Letting Go of 'Failed States': Towards a New Approach
So far I have argued that the two main ways of conceptualising state failure—the neo-liberal institutionalist approach and the neo-Weberian institutionalist approach—are descriptive categories that do little else than measure the gap between a particular state and an ahistorical ideal/typical state, defined in terms of its functionality. This is not a useful way of examining the states often defined as "failed" or "fragile" and their societies. In this section, I provide a brief introduction to an alternative approach, premised upon the work of state theorists Nicos Poulantzas and Bob Jessop, as well as on the insights of the critical political-economy approach known as social-conflict theory. While neo-Weberian and neo-liberal institutionalism emphasise the institutional attributes of so-called failed states and in particular the capacity of state institutions to perform certain functions, both ignore the centrality of social and political conflict to the development of all states, including those of western Europe and North America. The focus on social conflict, based on a broader system-level, structural analysis of state–society relations, locates state capacity in the context of the historical development of the state and the material relations it embodies. In other words, capacity is no longer an objective attribute of "states", but a relational property of particular and historically constituted power structures.
The state from this perspective is not simply an amalgam of institutions and actors, real though these are, but an expression of power. State power is a set of complex and dynamic social relationships that shape the development and use of the state apparatus. The significance of institutions is not in their capacity as such but in the sorts of interests and conflicts they privilege or marginalise. Hence, rather than reifying the distinction between state and society, both should be seen as spheres in which power is organised and exercised. This approach seeks to transcend normative notions of statehood to understand the environments of deprivation and contestation within which state power is created, exercised, broken up or (inevitably) used to benefit particular interests.
The Solomon Islands
The example of the Solomon Islands is instructive in demonstrating the utility of this approach over the dominant ones examined in the previous section. Since July 2003, there has been an extensive and expensive Australian-led state-building intervention in the Solomon Islands: the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI). The mission's declared aim is to strengthen the capacity of the Solomon Islands to prevent state failure. RAMSI's design and objectives have been broadly shaped by a neo-liberal institutionalist notion of state capacity.
Reports making the case for intervention, such as "Our Failing Neighbour"9 by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), emphasised the link between the ethnic conflict and turbulence the Solomon Islands had experienced between 1998 and 2003 and the weakness of the modern state there vis-à-vis other more traditional societal forces. The state's weakness led to a legitimacy deficit, it was argued, and finally to the state's near collapse prior to RAMSI's arrival. In particular, issues of corruption and patronage, at times linked with the traditional Melanesian "big-man" culture, were singled out as deleterious for both the state's authority and for economic performance since independence.
Much of the blame for the persistence of such pre-modern modes of governance was laid at the feet of the British colonial authorities, who the ASPI report argued were not interested in state-building prior to their departure in 1978. Thus, on this view, RAMSI was tasked with eliminating corruption, supporting good governance in the neo-liberal mould, and building the capacity of the Solomon Islands state to continue performing along these lines once the mission ended. As in the broader failed-states literature, the Solomon Islands' problems were understood to stem from the absence or weakness of a particular ideal/typical form of state and associated modes of governance. Unsurprisingly, the solution was to create this kind of state through intervention.
The problem with this approach, however, is that it ignores the actual historical development of the state in the Solomon Islands and the real social and political forces associated with it. Indeed, "stable political parties and functioning central bureaucracies [cannot] be willed into existence outside of social conflict."10 In fact, violent conflict in the Solomon Islands emerged in the late 1990s not because of the absence of "good governance" but because of challenges that rocked the patronage networks underpinning state power. In the Solomon Islands, patterns of economic development, whose origins date back to the colonial era, have had a crucial impact on the nature of political governance and social conflict, both before and after the crisis.
The British model of economic development relied upon large-scale, foreign-owned logging and plantation operations, mainly on alienated land. With independence, rents from these operations, which flowed into the state, became crucial for the formation and maintenance of political coalitions in a state that geographically and ethnically was highly dispersed, in which transportation and communication infrastructure was very poor, and where no ideological cleavages existed between political parties. After independence, logging was permitted on customary land, which accounts for approximately 87 per cent of the Solomon Islands total. As a result, logging volumes grew exponentially. Revenue from logging became not only crucial to government finances—growing from approximately 25 per cent during the late colonial period to about 45 per cent of total export receipts by the mid-1990s—but an indispensable element in the "money politics" that provided the glue holding together the Solomon Islands' loose political coalitions and binding the capital Honiara to the archipelago's far-flung peripheries. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that since independence, election to political office has depended upon the effective redistribution of logging rents among supporters.
This system was threatened in the late 1990s when the Asian financial crisis, which hit logging exports and log prices, exacerbated the government's slow-burning fiscal problems. With debt ballooning, the government of Bartholomew Ulufa'alu had to turn to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Monetary Fund for assistance. The ADB conditioned its support upon the government's undertaking a painful public-sector reform programme, including large cuts to public spending. As the public sector employed the majority of workers in the formal economy, this alienated the public-sector unions. More problematic, however, was the decision to abolish the area councils, which were a source of income for some local powerbrokers that helped sustain patronage networks. The reforms also had awkward overall implications for the availability of cash in a state-centred patronage system. In the event, disgruntled leaders in Guadalcanal, most notably former prime minister Ezekiel Alebua, sought to extract concessions from the government by encouraging a group of disaffected Guadalcanalese youth to organise and terrorise Malaitan settlers on the island. But these leaders quickly lost control of the flames they fanned.
As we can see, the conflict in the Solomon Islands cannot be explained via references to weak state capacity, because the state that has emerged there since the colonial era is the product of a particular set of social and political power relations rooted in a particular trajectory of capitalist development. Its crisis, therefore, was a crisis of this social and political order, and not a case of state "failure".
The core argument in this article is that the prevalent approaches to defining and evaluating state failure are highly problematic and should be dropped altogether as a way of examining the complex and often violent social phenomena that occur mainly in the developing world. The neo-liberal institutionalist and neo-Weberian institutionalist approaches critically appraised in the first section are not identical, but both fail to ground the notion of state capacity—so central to their conception of state failure—in any actual social and political relations. Instead, state capacity is viewed as an external yardstick of state functionality premised upon a pre-existing notion of what an ideal/typical state should be. This understanding of state capacity is fundamentally ahistorical and neglects the central role of social conflict in the emergence and development of any state form, instead fetishising the state and its institutions and reifying problematic distinctions between state and society, traditional and modern.
To overcome these limitations, I have endeavoured to show that a more useful approach requires that we look at the state as a social relation and at state power as the contingent outcome of struggles between coalitions of interests whose emergence is rooted mainly in the political economy. Institutions, from this vantage point, are significant not for their "functionality", but for the sorts of interests and conflicts they privilege or marginalise. The example of the Solomon Islands, where a large-scale state-building intervention has been in place since 2003, is instructive. As we have seen, the crisis, which supposedly led to the near "failure" of the Solomon Islands state, was not a product of weak state capacity, as the dominant approaches would have it, but of challenges to the logging-dependent system of patronage that underpinned social and political power in the Solomon Islands. Ultimately, I urge researchers to abandon efforts to refine endlessly the concept of the failed state and its applications. Instead, they should draw on existing theories and concepts to examine the nature of social and political power in the states they are investigating and how intervention affects the distribution, production and reproduction of power.
2. Christopher J. Bickerton, "State-Building: Exporting State Failure", in Politics without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations, ed. Christopher J. Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe and Alexander Gourevitch (London: University College Press, 2007), p. 93.
3. Andrew Rosser, "Introduction: Achieving Turnaround in Fragile States", IDS Bulletin 37, no. 2 (2006), p. 2.
4. Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison, "Theorising Markets in South-East Asia: Power and Contestation", in The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, Power and Contestation, ed. Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 3.
5. Theda Skocpol, "Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research", in Bringing the State Back In, ed. Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 9.
6. Jennifer Milliken and Keith Krause, "State Failure, State Collapse and State Reconstruction: Concepts, Lessons and Strategies", in State Failure, Collapse and Reconstruction, ed. Jennifer Milliken (Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), p. 3 (italics in original).
7. Joel S. Migdal, State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
8. Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968).
9. Elsina Wainwright et al., "Our Failing Neighbour: Australia and the Future of Solomon Islands", Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Barton, Canberra, 2003 [http://www.aspi.org.au/publications/publication_details.aspx?ContentID=30].
10. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997), p. 10.


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MMM Continuity - The first discussion, started by Scotty Gammenthaler, was about the status of formulation of a document transferring publication and copyrights and ownership of the name for Moon Miners' from The Lunar Reclamation Society, the publisher from the beginning, to The Moon Society. Peter promised to have proposed language ready for the next Management Committee meeting for further input so that the Board could be presented with final language at the next Board meeting on August 18th.
Image links to other sites on our homepage in the right hand column need some additions, deletions, and alterations. The suggestions made by Peter Kokh were approved. As of July 9th, they had not yet been put into effect.
Ongoing collaborations with other organizations were reviewed, and will be expanded, if and when we can find partners to collaborate on projects of interest to the Moon Society.
Membership Report - Our membership continues to grow which is an encouraging sign that most members have not been discouraged by the recent change of direction in NASA's program. The leadership is itself encouraged that the Obama Administration is putting research money in the right places to get us in a better position to ensure that when we do return to the Moon, it will be for keeps, not just another Flags and Footprints dead-end exercise.
MMM Continuity - At stake are the interests of The Lunar Reclamation Society (current publisher), The Moon Society (number one client), and the National Space Society, LRS' parent organization. The topic of discussion was suggested arrangements for The Lunar Reclamation Society, our partner NSS chapter in Milwaukee, to turn over rights to the name "Moon Miners' Manifesto, and MMM publication rights and copyrights to the Moon Society, to ensure the continuity of MMM should the Milwaukee NSS chapter dissolve.
Peter Kokh submitted proposed language as requested at the previous meeting. This language includes contingency clauses to return rights to LRS, should the Moon Society dissolve first, and to pass rights to MMM on to the National Space Society, should The Moon Society not be able to find an editor and get MMM back in print for a year after the present editor became unable to continue. In the meantime, LRS will remain the publication agent, and continue to be the agent to deal with other NSS chapters (currently eight) now also served by MMM. Again, nothing will change in the way MMM is published, except the rights to MMM, and responsibility to keep MMM going, should either the current editor and/or publisher be unable to continue. The plan will be presented to the LRS board for approval, and if this is forthcoming, to the TMS Board at its August 18th meeting.
We then discussed ideas of ways to celebrate Spaceweek, October 4-11, 2010, that would earn us some badly needed publicity. No concrete proposals were offered, so this topic will remain on the agenda.
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An updated look at chapter events.An Outpost consists of one or more members in a local community that serve as (a) local contact(s) for area members and prospective members of the Society, and which have not yet met the qualifications to be given a chapter charter. To establish an outpost and become a local contact person for the society, write the Chapters Coordinator. There is no reason why a prospective campus chapter cannot start as an outpost, one or more not-yet-organized members.
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Puerto RicoINDIA
The Moon Society is cosponsoring the Puerto Rico Space Congress to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 23-27, 2010. The conference is shaping up nicely and looks to be an exceptional one.Mexico
Mexico has finally approved its own Space Agency, AEXA, and is deciding on a headquarters site. The government and has picked a launch site in Quintanoo Roo State in the Yucatan Peninsula on the Carri bean Coast just north of Belize.CHILE - Moon/Mars Atacama Research Station - Right now, in the aftermath of Chile's recent Earthquake, focus is elsewhere, but behind the scened, organizational activities of a Chilean Center of Excellence continue.
The state of Jalisco (Guadalajara) is bidding for the AEXA HQ site, and is considering a space theme park north of Guadalajara that will include a lunar analog facility open to tourists; the MexLunarHab. We have been working in Mexico through our agent, Jesus Raygoza.
If the Moon Society's role in Chile is to expand beyond a merely advisory one, we need to develop a family of chapters within Chile to play a supporting role at MMARS. And we need to clone the Society "in Español."Our decision to spin off a Spanish Language Moon Society website and to create a number of papers and flyers in Spanish, should help promote this effort, as well as to promote the creation of Spanish-language Moon Society chapters in Mexico and in Chile, the two nations in which our efforts are currently concentrated.MMM-Spanish Quarterly Protect Update - June 7, 2010
"Manifiesto Mineros de la Luna Trimestral" - proposed title, translation double checked
Dave Dunlop, Moon Society Director of Project Development and Society President Pater Kokh, have worked on a plan to advance this project. Peter will1) solicit articles from known Spanish-speaking colleagues,
1) Solicit articles from known Spanish-speaking colleagues,This project needs not just a special Editor but an Editorial Team with members from Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, and other interested countries, including someone from the Spanish speaking community in the U.S.
2) Have Goggle translate existing and new MMM articles
3) Provide or suggest some illustrations
4) Perhaps a fresh appeal to members for a volunteer editor
5) Consult with NSS, who might want to cosponsor such a publication
In the meantime, we will address the items listed above.
Apropos, the Puerto Rico Space Congress, which the Society is cosponsoring, is October 24-27.
And the 6th Space Conference of the Americas (CEA) will be in the city of Pachuca, the capital of the central Mexican state of Hidalgo. November 15-19, 2010.
It would be great to have the first MMM-Español-Quarterly edition ready for both events, but that seems an improbable goal at the moment (which, of course means that we will give it a college try.)
See MMM-India Quarterly - a free access pdf file newsletter
MMM-India Quarterly #7was published July 1st. M3IQ #8 is set for October.
The Newly announced Moon Society India is moving swiftly to come into its own. Indian writers have contributed a major portion of the 5th issue of Moon Miners' Manifesto - India Quarterly - "M3IQ" as we have come to call it.Eventually, M3IQ will either become an all-India publication or be replaced with a new publication put together inside India. This is as it should be, and we in the Moon Society look forward to the Moon Society India organization coming into its own, with pride and satisfaction.(2) From Moon Society India leader Pradeep Mohandas
The Moon Society India is in the final stage of incorporation, and had a major presence at the SEDS India Conference April 11-12, in Vellore, 113 km west of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state, and 150 km east of Bangalore. Together with the Moon Society (International), they have started a Book Drive to collect (from US/Canadian members) books on Space, the Moon, even Mars, that we no longer need to keep in our personal libraries. For information, contact email@example.com. We hope to collect a bunch at ISDC 2010 in Chicago at the end of the month.
Those interested in helping create Moon Society chapters in India should contact
Contact: email@example.com
SPINNING OFF A Spanish version of the Moon Society Website, and a Spanish language edition of Moon Miners' Manifesto - "Sociedad Lunar" y "Manifesto de Mineros de Luna" (the editor's amateur translation attempt.)
The Moon Society Management Committee has given its support to this proposal. But more than a vote is needed. We do not have the team to pursue this goal. Instead, we must recruit such a team. We have recruited Jesus Raygoza of Mexico City who has both a wide knowledge of and interest in Space affairs and is fluent in both English and Spanish to start the process as soon as we send him a list of web pages and documents needing translation. Jesus has been working in Mexico build a Moon Society presence there as well as campaign for the creation of AEXA, a Mexican Space Agency with a small but effective budget. (Español)SWEDEN
We are looking for proficient English to Spanish Translators, webmasters, and editors.
On December 17th, we put up a temporary Spanish Homepage placeholder
The Society is involved in Mexico and Puerto Rico, as well as Chile, it makes sense to prepare outreach materials for Spanish speaking countries, including the growing Spanish speaking population within the United States. The United States is now the 2nd largest Spanish Speaking Country in the Western Hemisphere (after Mexico), and soon worldwide (eclipsing Spain).
If you can help in any way or point us in the right direction, please contact us
Write: email@example.com
Subject line: Spanish
Subject line: Spanish "at large chapter" in the USA
Subject line: Mexico
Subject line: other Spanish-speaking nations
Subject line: etc.
The member-organized Moon-Mine Project in central Sweden which we have been support, is encountering problems with the owner of the property, and Niklas Jarvstrat, project organizer is becoming discouraged. He may move to Oxford, England, UK and will look into usable abandoned mine sites in that country.
The Moon Society is looking more International every day.
This time the dates are for the weekend before Memorial Day WeekendJuly 26 - August 7th, 2011 - we are considering a number of contests and competitions
More information to follow.


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A few days ago, former Utah Utes star Joe Kruger probably wondered if and when the phone would ring. He'd just been released by the Philadelphia Eagles in a somewhat surprising move that left him without a home.
On Wed. Aug. 27, three days after the Eagles bid adieu to Kruger, the San Diego Chargers--and former Utah star and current Chargers coach Mike McCoy--welcomed him home, in a matter of speaking. The Chargers claimed Kruger off of waivers to reportedly bolster a depleted defensive line.
Kruger joins other former Utes--such as McCoy--on the Chargers roster, one that still stands to release another 27 players before it reaches its 53-player limit for the season opener.
The first cuts happened later Wednesday, and fortunately for Kruger he was not on that list of five players released by the Chargers.
So in order for Kruger to now make the Chargers' roster, he will need to survive two more pre-season games--as well as cuts that will sacrifice 22 more players on San Diego's roster.
A seventh round draft pick out of Utah in 2013, Kruger's career has been on a steady decline since he left school early and the Eagles drafted him. He's obviously hoping for a better outcome in the sunny climes of San Diego, a place in temperature and scheme that couldn't be more different from Philly.
With the Eagles this pre-season, Kruger had just four tackles--one for a loss--and a blocked field goal in three games. With the Chargers, one local blogger suggests that Kruger is an ideal candidate to be a backup at left defensive end--perhaps opposite backup right end and former Ute Tenny Palepoi.
With just five defensive ends currently on the Chargers' depth chart, it's a position where Kruger could make a mark--and be the player many thought he would become, coming out of Utah as an all-Pac-12 selection.
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Oct. 6, 1997
Bruce Snyder Press Conference
It was a very difficult weekend. Washington was one of the better teams that we have played against in some time, in terms how physical and focused they were. Even with all that said, we had a good week of practice and preparation. So, it was good to get back into that mode where we are preparing each week. I thought our effort was good in that game. We had a chance. Even as we let some opportunities slip away, we still had a chance late in the game. I thought we fought the entire time, but it just didn't work out. I give a lot of credit to Washington. From our standpoint, we need more offensive production. There is no question in terms of scoring. We are just not scoring enough. Our red zone, or critical zone, really showed up in this last game. We had three opportunities down there with good field position, and we couldn't get a touchdown. We didn't get field goals either. That is a concern, or an issue that we need to develop and keep working at. On our defense, I thought we did an excellent job in pass defense. They tried to mix it up and throw some earlier in the game. I thought we did a really nice job versus the pass. As it wore on, you could see their game plan changed. They ran the ball again and again. They really blocked us and gained some yards, which was discouraging to us. There were some high points and some things I am pleased with throughout the team. There were also some things that I am not so pleased with that we need to work on. We came out of it relatively healthy. Ricky Boyer has a tender clavicle and it was in a sling yesterday. I am not a doctor, but I am making a prediction that he will be fine by Saturday. We're up and running. We have everyone going.
(ON PROTECTING RYAN KEALY): We have to figure out a better way to protect him and get the ball out sooner which involves route running. The protection needs to be improved. Maybe different protections, maybe move him a little bit more than we did. A quarterback cannot stand a season every game, getting hit as many times as he did. We know it, and we need to improve on it.
(ON THE OFFENSE AND RYAN KEALY): A lot of what we do is go back five steps, and bang, the ball is out. That changes if a wide receiver is getting pressed and his route changes. Now you may have to give him a hitch step to give him one more chance to get open. Or, a linebacker runs down the middle. Things change. The one thing that is different about last year's team, is that if they didn't get the quarterback, he was off and running. He could really go. Plus, he could make throws on the run. Our ability right now isn't that. Our style has changed a bit because our quarterback has changed. But, he can move. He can move in the pocket. I think what we need to do is maybe change the launch point of the ball which takes away some of the pass rush in terms of its direction. We really weren't able to run the ball. Once we could not move the ball effectively inside, it really limited what we could do.
(ON THE OFFENSIVE LINE): We were hoping that we wouldn't have this many players shuffling in or out from week to week. Coming out of this last game, I think we feel more comfortable right now, than we have in any time before this. I mean this in that these are the five guys. We feel good about our depth. We know the five guys that we want to start. So, I think we are going to get better because of that. You'd like to start your first game with five players that never come out. We were not in that situation. Based on yesterday's running, Randy Leaphart is still limping on that ankle. Grey played very well as a center. He did a nice job inside. We thought Marvel did very well on Jason Chorak, a fifth-year All-American senior. On some things, he hurt Marvel. But, on some plays, Marvel blocked him. I felt decent about his performance. I felt good about Victor's (Leyva) performance. He is getting better.
(ON USC): I think every game is pivotal. I think every game is the most pivotal game and can set your direction. SC is certainly that in terms of the Rose Bowl. A team is not going to go to the Rose Bowl with two conference losses. One of the two teams that is going to play Saturday in this stadium is going to be out of the vote. One is going to move on, and one is not. So, the SC game is pivotal form that standpoint. We are looking down the barrel of SC, Stanford and Washington State in a row. These three games are just monumental. These games are going to be close, particularly if we win. If we win, we are probably not going to win by a lot of points. This is pivotal. Every game we have is pivotal because you are in or out, in terms of the Rose Bowl.
(ON THE TEAM REBOUNDING THIS WEEK): I am sure we will. Based on last evening's meeting and practice, I think we will. We have had a great attitude all season. Our issue is that we are not making enough plays particularly when it really counts. Our individual performance has to be better. If our individual performance gets better, our team attitude is fine. This guys just have to play better, and I have to coach better.
(ON RYAN KEALY): I think we are finding out that he is very resilient and tough to come out of that game (vs. Washington) the way he did. I think he is physically tough, and I think he has proven that he is mentally tough. He is good to talk to on the sideline. He does not lose his composure. He has the ability to listen without having his bell rung. I think he is fine. I think we need to execute the offense better, but his head is fine.
(ON THE COACHES DOING DIFFERENT THINGS): We are so early in the week in terms of actual game plan. You'd like to think that every week and every day you find the best things for the kids to do. If you can be simple and effective, their is some brilliance there. There is a brilliance to giving your players something they can handle, and that they understand. Also, it is important that you adapt your coaching to your talent. It is important that you ask your players to do what they can do, and not what they cannot do. It is amazing how many times asking a player to do something he is not able to can happen. There are some players that we know a lot better than others. We know some players' abilities better than we do that of some of the newer players. Those are the two elements of great coaching. You need what you need, but you don't need more than you need. The teams that are really rolling and are winning a lot, they recruit to their system. The players that come in can operate in that system, because that is what they were recruited to do. The teams that struggle, tend to be those that aren't strong enough to recruit that kind of player all the time, so you are adjusting all the time to the talent that is coming in. We are not going to change much, because we have recruited that way. We are learning what Ryan can and cannot do. Also, we have to get that receiving core going. Also, on protection, we have the two new players inserted in the offensive line. I hope we don't have to change much, because I really like our offense.


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I have just freshly installed Nagios on a Fedora 16 box and it doesn't seem to work. I installed nagios and nagios-plugins using yum (after installing Apache, MySQL and PHP) and changed the contact e-mail. I also configured the nagios web GUI password (nagiosadmin) and ran the config verification. Of course I also restarted all the relevant service. However, the web GUI says:
Error: Could not read object configuration data!
Here are some things you should check in order to resolve this error:
Verify configuration options using the -v command-line option to check for errors.
Check the Nagios log file for messages relating to startup or status data errors.
I already verified the configuration (0 errors, 0 warnings). I also read that this could be caused by permission problems, and gave recursive 777 to:
- /etc/nagios
- /var/spool/nagios
- /usr/share/nagios
It still doesn't work. The log has many messages similar to:
[1326273957] Warning: Return code of 127 for check of service 'Root Partition' on host 'localhost' was out of bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying to run actually exists.
I have checked that the plugins are installed, although there might be another problem with them.
Any suggestions on how I might troubleshoot this?


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A packed bus of Whaler fans and several other fans, who drove on their own, made the trip down to the Nassua Coliseum in Long Island.
A group representing Whaler Nation made quite the impression on the crowd and the New York Islanders last night. The game was great as NHL action always is. Whaler fans got their wish too as they cheered on Jean Sebastian Giguere as he earned a win making 30 saves in net against the Islanders. Most Whaler fans didn't have a rooting interest in the game but wanted to see the last active player to ever play for the Whalers do well, and he did.
Earlier in the day Whaler fans jumped on the Brass Bonanza Bus to make the trip. The bus made two stops in the Nutmeg state, one in Cromwell and one in West Haven.
There were people on the bus from just about every corner of the state. I was surprised to see so much support from fans that live in New London County. Whaler fans in New London are a good hour ride from the XL Center. Most of them told stories of how they remember the days when their parents would make the trip to Hartford just for the NHL action alone.
The message of the bus trip was to simply enjoy a real NHL hockey game and have fun but the business message was that Whaler fans want a team to return to Hartford. There is still a strong fan base and serious fan support for the return of the NHL.
The Whaler fans were not alone in the hopes of getting their message across. Nordique Nation was there as well. A large group of Quebec Nordique fans were on hand hoping that the NHL sees their support and that the NHL will return to Quebec, Canada.
The Nassua Coliseum concourse occasionally would have groups of Whaler fans talking to groups of Nordique fans. The two groups had hopes for each others wishes of getting the NHL back. The Nordiques fans loved seeing the Whaler green and the Whaler fans loved seeing the royal blue of the Nordiques jerseys. A long time ago these two teams were division rivals and even playoff opponents a couple of times.
The question most asked last night on the Coliseum concourse was; why are there so many Hartford Whalers jerseys here today?
The answer was simple because Hartford wants the Whalers back. Hartford hockey fans had plenty of talking points to share as opposed to other years. Hartford is the largest media market without a professional sports team. Hartford now has three investors looking to bring an NHL team to Hartford. Hartford's Governor has said a new arena is a question now of when and where. The mood of Whalers fans has changed from hope to feeling that they are on our their way bringing the team back.
The only disappointment came when the Islanders informed everyone that they could take a group picture on the ice but no one was allowed to wear any NHL gear even NHL gear from a team that has not played in 17 years. That was a bit ridiculous but it is their ice and their rules. Most Whaler fans had nothing on but Whaler gear so they could not participate in the group photo.
The trip was very successful and has paved the way for future trips to occur. There will be more Brass Bonanza Bus trips in the future with larger crowds. It's a great time with great fans and great Connecticut people. Brass Bonanza blared a little louder today and many believe they will hear it in Hartford again soon, thats really where it belongs.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The second-ranked UCLA Bruins swept the first three singles matches off the court en route to a 4-0 victory over No. 53 Washington State Friday afternoon at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. With the loss the Cougars fall to 15-6 overall (1-4 Pac-12 play) while the Bruins improve to 16-1 (4-0).
The afternoon began with doubles where UCLA clinched the opening point by winning at both two and three doubles. At No. 2 the nation's fifth-ranked team of Catherine Harrison and Kyle McPhillips defeated Maria Biryukova and Olga Musilovich, 8-3. At No. 3 Courtney Dolehide and Chanelle Van Nguyen closed out doubles with an 8-4 win over Charlotte Koning and Dajana Ognjenovic. At No. 1, the WSU duo of Elizaveta Luzina and Lize Leenknecht led 7-4 but could not close out the match against the nation's top-ranked team of Robin Anderson and Jennifer Brandy. The match was stopped at 7-7 once the doubles point was decided.
The match was televised by the Pac-12 Networks and live coverage began with singles play. There the Bruins extended the lead to 2-0 as Van Nguyen, ranked No. 11 nationally, defeated Leenknecht 6-1, 6-0 at No. 2. Kaitlin Ray then defeated Koning 6-0, 6-0 at No. 6 before No. 16 Brady clinched the match with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Biryukova at No. 3.
The remaining three matches were stopped with the team outcome decided. The nation's fourth-ranked player, Anderson, was in a battle with No. 106 Luzina as the Cougar junior lost the first set 6-1 but was up 5-0 in the second. At No. 4, Harrison, ranked No. 55, was up 6-3, 3-3 against Musilovich while No. 40 McPhillips was leading Ognjenovic 6-0, 5-3 at No. 5.
The Cougars are next in action Saturday when they face No.12 USC. Match time is set for noon.
No. 2 UCLA 4 def. No. 53 Washington State 0
March 28, 2014
Los Angeles Tennis Center
Los Angeles, Calif.
1. Elizaveta Luzina/Lize Leenknecht (WSU) vs. No. 1 Robin Anderson/Jennifer Brady (UCLA) 7-7 DNF
2. No. 5 Catherine Harrison/Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) def. Olga Musilovich/Maria Biryukova (WSU) 8-3
3. Courtney Dolehide/Chanelle Van Nguyen (UCLA) def. Charlotte Koning/Dajana Ognjenovic (WSU) 8-4
Order of Finish: 2,3
1. No. 4 Robin Anderson (UCLA) def. No. 106 Elizaveta Luzina (WSU) 6-1, 0-5 DNF
2. No. 11 Chanelle Van Nguyen (UCLA) def. Lize Leenknecht (WSU) 6-1, 6-0
3. No. 16 Jennifer Brady (UCLA) def. Maria Biryukova (WSU) 6-2, 6-2
4. Olga Musilovich (WSU) vs. No. 55 Catherine Harrison (UCLA) 3-6, 3-3 DNF
5. Dajana Ognjenovic (WSU) vs. No. 40 Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) 0-6, 3-5 DNF
6. Kaitlin Ray (UCLA) def. Charlotte Koning (WSU) 6-0, 6-0
Order of Finish: 2,6,3


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Dec 19, 2008 12:33 PM
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On Thursday, January 9th, 2014, Lita Ford performed to a happy and oversold crowd at the Whisky-a-Go-Go. Her feature was part of a 50th Anniversary Celebration of the venue as to her first band, The Runaways made their start there in the mid-70s.
An hour and a half set covered all the hits but what made this show extra special were the guest appearances. Former Runaways singer and bandmate Cherie Currie joined in for Living Like a Runaway. Slash, formerly of Guns n' Roses , Slash's Snakepit, and Velvet Revolver, joined in for Cherry Bomb and Black Leather.
As amazing as having an iconic guitar player and a former bandmate singing on stage with Ms. Lita Ford, singer Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple took over vocally for Mistreated, Burn and the famous duet Lita had done with Ozzy Osbourne, Close My Eyes Forever.
The whole show had many fan singing along to every song, cell phones in the air taking pictures and recording videos, most especially with her closing song of Kiss Me Deadly, where pretty much the entire crowd sang the song along with her.
This spring, Lita Ford is part of the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp in Las Vegas, Nevada this spring which is all that is currently listed on upcoming dates. But wherever she performs, the crowds always love her!


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Dialling up a modem using C++
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Here is my situation. I will be using the program in Windows platform. It is going to be a 56K external modem, connected by serial or USB cable. I thought I am going to use the RAS functions.
1) Do I have to write the code to connect to the modem or to the serial port?
2) Since the RAS function requires RAS library, which is part of the Windows Platform SDK. Do I have to download it (>900MB) from Microsoft each time I install the program into different computers? Or is there a way I can just install this particular library file into windows?
3) The thing is I don't know where to start. Is there a sample code I can have a look?
Just tell me if you need more information (Sorry, I don't know much about C++ and programming)


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