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Senior Nansy Damianova's 10.0 on floor in her final Huntsman Center routine capped a 198.025-197.600 Utah win over Georgia.
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This gymnastics meet had to be seen to be believed and since there wasn't room for another body in the house, it's lucky the Pac-12 Networks televised the Utah-Georgia showdown to a live audience. In a perfectly scripted finish for the home team, No. 5 Utah beat No. 6 Georgia 198.025-197.600 before an oversold Huntsman Center crowd of 15,224. It was a season-high score and the fifth-best score in school history for the Utes, who finished the regular season with a 10-3 overall record.
Locked in a tie with its fierce SEC rival with just three competitors remaining for each team, Utah poured it on down the stretch and the crowd, raucous all night long, went wild when senior Nansy Damianova scored a 10.0 on the floor in her final Huntsman Center routine. Georgia Dabritz had actually clinched the victory for Utah one routine earlier with a 9.95, and her gem was preceded by a 9.925 by Becky Tutka. But Damianova's 10.0 was the icing on the cake.
"I didn't have a perfect start because I tried too hard on bars," said Damianova. "My goal was to go out and have fun on floor, which is my favorite event. I've been waiting for that 10.0 for so long, so it was very emotional to finally get it."
Damianova's 10.0 was the second in two weeks for the Utes, with Dabritz receiving her first perfect score on floor last week at Michigan.
Before the Utes iced the victory on the floor, they had already won in the stands. Utah finished the year with a school and NCAA gymnastics-record 14,376 attendance average to win its 30th gymnastics attendance title and its fourth all-sports women's attendance title. The crowd of 15,224, the sixth largest in school history, easily pushed Utah past Alabama gymnastics (12,826 season average) and Tennessee women's basketball (11,600 average) for the title.
"It's unbelievable the support we get here. It's such an important part of our program," said coach Greg Marsden. "A big part of why many of our gymnasts come here is that crowd out there and the support we get from our university and the community."
No one left disappointed as the Utes and the Gym Dogs went toe-to-toe from start to finish. "Georgia is a great team and they did a great job tonight. It's exciting for us because that's the challenge you want, especially at the end of the season. We beat a very good team that was at or near its best tonight," said Marsden.
Marsden and his gymnasts were especially happy about the balance beam, where Utah exploded for a season-high 49.500. "We've been waiting for that beam score. I've been saying that we need to get beam to around a 49.300 (to compete for a title) and we did that and more."
Said Tory Wilson, who along with teammate Kailah Delaney and Georgia's Lindsey Cheek, tied for beam with career-high 9.925 scores, "That beam was what we do every day in practice. We've stepped up our mental game and it's finally starting to show up in competition."
Wilson and Delaney also tied for first on vault, as did Dabritz, with a 9.95. Their string of 9.95s to finish the set gave the Utes a lead they never relinquished, although it steadily dwindled until late in the last rotation.
After taking a 49.575-49.325 first-event lead (Utah on vault and Georgia on bars), Georgia closed to within a tenth of a point on the second rotation, 98.950-98.850.
Ironically, the Utes picked up only another half tenth on their dominating beam performance; one that saw all six Utes score a 9.85 or better, with a 9.90 from Mary Beth Lofgren and 9.925s from Wilson and Delaney. That Utah led by just a tenth and a half (148.450-148.300) heading into the final rotation was due to a season-best 49.45 on floor by Georgia.
When UGA's Brittany Rogers scored a 9.90 on beam as the No. 3 beam worker, the Gym Dogs moved into a tie with the Utes. But when Tutka (9.925), Dabritz (9.95) and Damianova (10.0) went on a tear, Georgia was countering with a (non-counting) 9.45, a 9.925 an a 9.80, securing the victory for the Utes.
Next up for the Utes are the Pac-12 Championships on Saturday, Mar. 22 in Berkeley, Calif.


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Guintoli must be thanking his lucky etoiles that he got out before the team imploded. You could almost say they did him a favour!
Liberty do more double-speak than Ecclestone and Ron Dennis put together, but their announcements are too transparent as they try unsuccessfully to disguise their imminent collapse.
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Sembawang MRT station, constructed as a part of the Woodlands MRT Line that was laid out in the 1990s. This station has the largest number of bicycle stands than any other MRT station on the Woodlands MRT Line.
In 1990, the government decided to build the Sembawang MRT station as a provisional station. But with URA's 1991 Concept Plan to make Woodlands a regional centre for northern Singapore, the station was picked to be part of the Woodlands MRT Line to serve to the residents of the proposed Sembawang New Town.
On old habit among Sembawang residents was revived and incorporated into the design of the Sembawang MRT station. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, when the Naval Base and other British bases were still operating, a common sight was bicycles passing between Sembawang and Chye Kay village ferrying uniformed personnel. When the British withdrew in 1967, the use of bicycles dwindled. The centralising of civic activities at Sembawang New Town and the introduction of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) have revived the two-wheels. Workers from the Sembawang Shipyard put up a request to the Land Transport Authority (LTA) for a bigger bicycle parking area at the Sembawang MRT station as many of them cycle to work. Sembawang MRT station becomes equipped with 350 bicycle stands, the largest number of all the stations on the Woodlands MRT Line. The station has two bicycle parks within its precinct and both are exceptionally well-utilised with at least a hundred bicycles seen parked at one time, even at 3 or 4 am when the trains are not running.
To increase commuter comfort, bus bays at the MRT stations on the Woodlands MRT Line are located right at the entrance of the station. The bus bays are 36 m long, much longer than the 14 m bus bays in the older stations, allowing up to three busses at one time. All the bus bays are sheltered with four m high roofs. Additional features of the MRT stations along this route include covered linkways, overhead bridges with escalators and conveniently-located taxi-stands. The MRT stations are also fitted with real-time electronic display boards with information on train schedules, service disruptions and diversions and mobilisation exercises. The 19 new trains added to this line are specially designed with improved automated public address systems, better propulsion systems and extended braking systems for smoother rides.
There are four shopping units at the Sembawang MRT station, spread over 1,489 sq m of commercial space. The shops are located with greater visibility and easy accessibility in mind, on the concourse at one side of the station, unlike in older stations where one would have to walk a longer distance to reach the shops. The station, a distinctive building, has a kampung-style roof.
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Better layouts for six new MRT stations. (1992, November 19). The Straits Times, p. 22.
Clearer messages smoother rides on Woodlands trains. (1992, December 14). The Straits Times, p. 26.
Nadarajah, I., & Kee, J. (1996, January 21). Residents prepare for easier life with Woodlands MRT line. The Straits Times, p. 24.
Station names for Woodlands line have ties to surroundings. (1991, November 20). The Straits Times, p. 3.
Step off the bus and into the MRT station. (1996, January 31). The Straits Times, p. 19.
Tan, C. (1992, December 10). More retail space for Woodlands MRT stops. The Straits Times, p. 26.
Tan, C. (1992, November 19). Another station added to Woodlands MRT line. The Straits Times, p. 1.
Woodlands line tells train times. (1996, January 28). The Straits Times, p. 27.
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Woodlands commuters get real-time timetables. (1995, April 29). The Straits Times, p. 3.
Yeo, G. (1996, February 8). MRT shops: What works and why. The Straits Times, p. 43.
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I don't think is one of your better works Mike. Doesn't seem memorable like the rest of your works. Surprised it was yours when I clicked the thumbnail.
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I think it is awesome, and very creative like always. I recognize the bracelet right away.
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Tesla Coil Experiments
How to construct a Tesla coil that will give a 10 to 12 in. spark.
Procure a tube 4in. In diameter and 16in long. Some cereals come in tubular containers which will answer very well for this purpose. The pieces A and B are of wood; shellac is used to join the parts together. Avoid the use of nails in this construction.
After applying two coats of the shellac to the secondary tube, wind it closely within 1/2 in. of either end with double cotton-covered No.25 wire. Then give two coats of shellac to the windings, being sure the first coat is absolutely dry before applying the second.
The base and uprights should be made of well seasoned wood which should also be shellacked. Fasten four glass push-pins to the base as shown in Fig.1. These serve as insulators.
Some weird effects that you can get with a Tesla Coil
- In Fig.3. shows how to adapt the Tesla Coil into an Oudin coil with just a few alterations. The experiments are shown in Figs. 5,6 and 7.
- When the 2 wires in Fig.5. are connected to the binding posts of the secondary and are left to point vertically in the air then long streamers wave about producing a weird effect.
- The experiment in Fig.6 produces a cone of light. Two wire hoops, one 12 in, in diameter and the other 3 in, in diameter are connected with the secondary, and the lead wires are so bent that the hoops are separated by 5 or 6 in.
- When a gap is made as shown in Fig.7, a spark 10 to 12 in. is obtained.
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Thomas goes on to explain about the use of high frequency electricity and X-ray. He details how to take X-ray photograph by exposing your hand or another object over a plate holder. The X-rays penetrate he light-proof side easily. He suggests that the time of exposure can only be determined by trial but he recommends that a good printing negative can be made by holding the plate holder 5 in. from a 6-in. tube and exposing it for 2 minutes.
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My CGEM takes way to long to assemble and align for school out reach. I find I'm not doing it anymore and want to change that. I had thought a T Rex or Discmount might be the ticket, but now I am thinking tracking would be a big plus as lines get long and view times kinda short.
I'd like to put a TEC 140 on it and it sounds as though it could handle it weight wise. Only for grab and go or outreach, NO IMAGING.
The OTA, diagonal,dovetail and EP should weigh in at 26 or 27 pounds.
Am I thinking about the right mount, how long is the alignment process for the Mini Tower and is it a proven mount ???
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I just ordered one of these from Steve Forbes at Trapezium telescopes for much the same reasons. He tears them down and upgrades them. You should give him a call. Sorry, no first hand experience yet myself.
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hi.. i have both the MT and the MTPRO and without any hesitation i recommend the MT over the pro any day.. The MT firmware is so much better and the mount is way better when trapezium has done there bit on it. The pro has bigger axials but inferior bearings.. I do not recomend the pro , its too expensive and you can have the mods done to the MT and save some money.
I have been using the MT for 2years now its just remarkable how accurate it is .. the pro i have been using for 12mths and is just not as accurate.
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First, I like what you are doing with JP. I know Baretto left some pretty big shoes to fill, but you seem to be up to the job while still leaving your own style on the strip.
Second: it seems the Comics Kingdom server is now clamping down on hotlinking and url referring, so the scrips that I use on my site to make custom Comics Kingdom pages (such as the link you use to reference a Judge Parker strip) no longer seem to work.
Nick Theodorakis
- Paul said...
Mr. Manley,
King Features still is listing Eduardo Barreto as the artist on Judge Parker at their site, kingfeatures.com. I am enjoying your take on Judge Parker, but would like to see a little more photo realism, ala Stan Drake. At times it's there in the strip, so I know you have it in you. :)


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Hey guys,
I'm looking to pick up a new night riding light. Something that will last me at least 3 hours. My old light isn't cutting it anymore and I'm seeing more and more affordable solutions out there.
One light that interests me is the Gemini Titan for $110USD.
I read Colleen's in depth review against the Magicshine somewhere on the forums. Okay I will provide the link here.
Anyone have experience with this light? I was thinking about just getting a Magicshine too, but would like to try out this company.


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We began our work with Vermont Brownie Company when it was just a bite-sized idea in the minds of its founders. We started with naming, logo design, brand development and positioning, and continued with a detailed marketing plan designed to build market share with grassroots tactics and a limited budget. Despite these constraints, the foundation of a successful brand began to take shape.
Our launch strategy included a cost-effective packaging design system, an e-commerce web site, print materials, email marketing, public relations, and advertising—plus various incentives including introductory and bounce back offers—all designed around a playful brand personality with wide appeal.
We continue to collaborate with Vermont Brownie to build their brand, uncover new opportunities, and promote their continued success.
About Vermont Brownie Company
This new Vermont company has a simple mission: to make the best gourmet brownies from scratch using local, wholesome ingredients. In just a few years, the company has enjoyed rapid growth and expanded its offerings while sustaining a culture of giving back to its community.
Vermont Brownie Company became an overnight sensation with its appearance on the Food Network's Throwdown! with Bobby Flay, winning the show's brownie-baking contest. It has continued to gain attention through appearances on Fox Business Network's Selling It! and with features in a variety of regional and national media.


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May 24, 2016
The scores are in and the news is good for Leon County students enrolled in the summer reading camps.
More students than expected can now call themselves fourth graders.
Officials say the numbers show the struggling readers are better off now than they were just a few months ago, even if they have to repeat the third grad.
The nearly 300 Leon County third graders enrolled in the summer reading camps can now close the chapter on their six weeks of intensive instruction.
Just Days after putting their knowledge to the test the "SAT 9" scores are here. Seventeen percent of the students scored higher than the national average. That means 42 of the 250 students will start the school year as fourth graders.
While it may not sound like much, school officials were only expecting seven percent to make the grade.
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Aug. 12, 2014
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - The Patriot League will have four contests broadcast on American Sports Network for fall sports, including a pair of football games and one each in both men and women's soccer.
Both of the football contests will be shown in September. Fordham heads to Villanova on Sept. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in a matchup of teams in the top 15 of FCS preseason polls, while Georgetown visits Colgate on Sept. 27 at Noon to open the Patriot League schedule. In addition, the Lehigh at New Hampshire contest on Sept. 13 at 3:30 p.m. has already been picked up as an ASN telecast through a package announced by the Colonial Athletic Association.
The soccer contests each feature late-season matchups in the Patriot League race. Colgate is at Boston University on the women's side on Oct. 22 at 7 p.m., with Army and Navy squaring off to close out the men's regular season on Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. from PPL Park in Chester, Pa.
American Sports Network ("ASN"), a collegiate sports initiative to be broadcast on a number of Sinclair Broadcast Group's television stations, launched last month and has entered into comprehensive sports rights agreements with a number of NCAA Division I conferences including the Patriot League. These local, live, exclusive games will be broadcast in different regions of the country. Sinclair's broadcast stations will either be carrying the games and original content as part of the primary program line-up (generally on the Company's CW and MyNet affiliates) or as part of second channels (sub-channels of the primary station's signal), complimented by access and distribution on digital platforms.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is the largest and one of the most diversified television broadcasting companies with affiliations with all the major networks. Sinclair's television group will reach approximately 38.9% of U.S. television households, including pending transactions.
The Patriot League will have additional games broadcast on ASN in both the winter and spring seasons in 2014-15. In addition to Sinclair, the Patriot League has a national television partnership with CBS Sports Network. Patriot League institutions are in four of the top eight media markets, and five of the Top 28. Additionally, the Patriot League Network, powered by Campus Insiders, offers more than 800 live events during the 2014-15 academic year, in addition to hundreds of pre-produced stories and promotional pieces.
The Patriot League continually demonstrates that student-athletes can excel at both academics and athletics without sacrificing its high standards. The Patriot League's athletic success is achieved while its member institutions remain committed to its founding principle of admitting and graduating student-athletes that are academically representative of their class. Participation in athletics at Patriot League institutions is viewed as an important component of a well-rounded education.


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Philosophy & religion
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Dr. Ryan Hickerson
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email: email@example.com | location: HSS 322
Mission Statement
The Philosophy and Religious Studies Department seeks to nurture the development of reason--a thoughtful, informed, and critically reflective intellectual conscience ready to identify and reassess basic assumptions--within the College community generally but especially within our students. The essence of philosophy is to question, inquire into, and think critically about fundamental principles, whatever the field, but above all the principles of philosophy itself. Consequently, for philosophy to be true to itself, no such assumption as may be found in a mission statement can ever be wholly settled and taken for granted.
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Love Minecraft? Check out Scrolls!!Written by Jes S on 07/01/2012
The creators of Minecraft have begun working on a new game that will soon be released.
While it is not an open world construction game like Minecraft, Scrolls instead dives into the world of collectable card games and turn-based battles. The game includes many single and multi-player modes including friendly matches, tournaments, and ranked battles.
On the battlefield, your goal is to destroy three of your opponents' five idols at the other end of the game board. Your deck of cards help the battle with creatures, spells, enchantments, siege weapons and more at your disposal. Get a scroll in your deck and use it wisely to defeat your opponent
Mojang notes on their blog that when you purchase the game, "you will not start out with all the scrolls available at your disposal. As a young apprentice, you have managed to gather just enough scrolls to venture out into battle, the rest will need to be earned. As you explore the world and win your battles, you will earn gold. Gold which in turn can be used to obtain new scrolls or gear. On top of this, buying Scrolls will give you a free subscription of a new scroll every week."
Check out the game trailer here: http://youtu.be/Tsaix5q3VEU
Scrolls will be released soon even though like Minecraft it is not quite finished. Start gaming now and get ahead of your friends as new updates are coming soon!


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Ouyang Xiu [Ouyang Hsiu] (1007-1072) was one of the greatest men of letters of the Sung Dynasty. Fighting against the rigid form of essay writing in his time, Ouyang Xiu advocated the revival of an older free style. His monumental New History of the Five Dynasties open a new vista of unrestricted prose. He served as a high official in the court and left many works to posterity.
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I was browsing through Alibaba.com today and searched for folding bicycles. I found a trading company owned by the manufacturer of King bicycles. They list many different types of folding bicycles that they can sell in quantity, including some that look exactly like a Brompton and exactly like a Dahon Jifo. The funny thing is that the listings actually have photos of the brand-name bicycles but the descriptions don't match the photos. There is a Brompton-like bike in either steel or aluminum alloy frame but with 20" wheels in the description.
Alibaba verified this supplier as being actually in existence at the location they claim, but that's probably just the trading company Hangzhou Mylot Import & Export Co., Ltd.
I've asked the supplier contact for photos of the actual bike they're selling, not the branded bikes. I'll see if he actually responds.
Here are some of the bikes:
20 inch steel frame fork china light folding bike, View light folding bike, Kingbike or OEM Product Details from Hangzhou Mylot Import & Export Co., Ltd. on Alibaba.com
12 Inch Alloy Frame Fork China A Bike Folding Bicycle - Buy A Bike Folding Bicycle,A Bike Folding Bicycle,A Bike Folding Bicycle Product on Alibaba.com
12 inch alloy frame fork china folding bike disc brake, View folding bike disc brake, Kingbike or OEM Product Details from Hangzhou Mylot Import & Export Co., Ltd. on Alibaba.com
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PETA Denies It Was Behind Kim Kardashian Flour Bomb
By Mack Rawden 4 years ago
Just because PETA hates fur doesnt mean the organization put someone up to dumping flour on Kim Kardashians head. Thats the message coming out of the animal rights group's camp today following the fallout from yesterdays utterly bizarre situation. The reality star was at the London Hotel in West Hollywood on Thursday to launch a new perfume when she was blindsided by a pissed off, flour-wielding activist. White powder was poured all over Kardashians head before her attacker sprinted into the night.
According to E! News little is known about the assailant save the fact shes supposedly short and Asian, shouted fur hag prior to the flour bomb and was not working under orders from PETA. The protest group released a statement in the wake of the attack distancing itself but also sympathizing with the mystery woman. Heres an excerpt
"PETA has tried everything from polite letters to public protests, but Kim Kardashian has not been moved by the news that animals are beaten, electrocuted, and even skinned alive for real fur garments. Whoever threw that flour may reach her when our polite appeals did not.
As for whether or not the act worked, initial reports indicate no. Kardashian supposedly laughed off the brouhaha, changed clothes and immediately returned, likely with no opinion change on the validity of wearing fur. Well keep you updated if the short Asian woman gets apprehended or if Kris Humphries soon to be ex-wife makes any more public statements. Until then, keep your fur in your closet, or bring a shield if you decide to leave the house wearing a mink coat.


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I Like It Like That
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The historic Fania recordings of salseros like Ray Barretto and Willie Colón have been sampled countless of times by artists in the electronica and hip-hop genres - underscoring the fact that the coolest Fania sides are ideal candidates for the remix treatment.
This album features remixes by some of the top DJ/Producers from around the world including Louie Vega, Gilles Peterson, Aaron Jerome, Joe Claussell, Bugz in the Attic and SHH. Remixes from this album were launched at one of the largest events at the 2008 Winter Music Conference in March, The Roots Party. These exclusive remixes were released to hundreds of the top DJs from around the world and are now in their rotations.
This album is already slated to be one of the top remixed albums of 2008. Several of the remixes are charting on top dance music charts around the world.
Pete Rodriguez - I Like It Like That (Aaron Jerome Remix)
Hector Lavoe - Mi Gente (Louie Vega EOL Remix)
Willie Colon and Ruben Blades - Plastico (Bugz In The Attic Remix)
Hector Lavoe - Alejate (Joaquin ''Joe'' Claussell Sacred Rhythm Remix)


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YOUR VOTE NEEDED: Pick the top Tivoli video contest winner
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Everyone loves contests! And the IBM Tivoli Software Products Rock contest was no exception.
The ability to submit a video has closed but now the voting for the grand prize winner is in YOUR hands.
The Global Tivoli User Group (GTUG) council has narrowed their top video winners down to these three videos
1. Interview: "IBM Tivoli Software Products Rock"
Submitted by: Richard Whybrow from a major car rental company provides a glimpse of his IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) setup, operation, plus Help Desk Services Infrastructure and Systems Management.
Submitted by: Michelle Varner.A business man is making a sales call to demonstrate the value add that Tivoli products bring to a business, but has also brought along a few friends to demonstrate how those products rock.
Submitted by: Nathan Cable. This 10 minute how-to video will show you how to install the TSM backup client on a RedHat Enterprise Linux server, complete with GUI and service-based scheduler. Targeted at TSM admins who may not have extensive Linux experience, or Linux admins new to TSM.
Take a few moments to view the videos and vote for your favorite. To vote you'll need to be a member of the Global Tivoli User Community. If you are not a member already, free membership is only 2 minutes away from your ability to vote for your favorite. Become a member today by clicking here.
Voting privileges are available until November 16th. Winners will be announced on November 23, 2010.
The grand prize winner will receive an iPad so be apart of history and vote today!
Who is your Hero? Mine are...
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A friend, co-worker, neighbor, service people or a family member?
Heroes are ordinary people who have accomplished extraordinary things in life and in some way have touched your life.
The dedication and support of these people who volunteer their time and energy for ultimately the greater good of the product they work with on a daily basis is incredible.
Have you ever talked to or watch a leader facilitate a user group meeting? They do it all: organize agendas, communicate to the members, attain speakers, answer questions, motivate the membership/keep the drum beat going, prepare the meeting rooms, do the post meeting activities, and so much more. So much of these tasks could not be done without their drive and passion.
Picture: The Global Tivoli User Group (GTUG) council at Pulse 2010
These user group leaders who are ordinary people do accomplish extraordinary things for the user community and so TODAY I, as the Global Tivoli User Community Manager, salute you for all of your hard work and service to keep the user community one of the strongest user communities IBM software has the privileged of supporting.
See these "heroes" in action....attend one of the 30+ user group meetings taking place in the next 7 weeks. For more information on user groups check out the Global Tivoli User Community website.
Come collaborate with me.......Who are your heroes? What have they done that makes them your hero?
Do you want an Apple iPad too?
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Everyone wants one....the iPad is the hottest technology today and you too have a chance to win it for FREE.
You ask HOW?
All you have to do is enter the IBM Tivoli Software Products Rock Video contest, by producing an Interview style, Technical presentation or Product tutorial video that is no less then 2.5 minutes and less then 1GB showing Tivoli products in a positive light. Read the contest rules here.
The contest ends on Friday, October 29th so don't delay!
Check out this fun and playful video submission.....
You could be the winner of the contest and win an Apple iPad too! So don't delay and plan today.
As the Global Tivoli User Community manager I'd like to know if you plan on producing a video. With only a handful of submissions right now you have a greater chance of winning an iPad, iTouch, iPad Nano and other great prizes.
New Tivoli Monitoring and Application Management Wiki
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Tuesday, October 12 marked the launch of the new Tivoli Distributed Monitoring and Application Management wiki. This wiki previously used the Confluence wiki technology and was hosted by IBM developerWorks. It has now been migrated to the Lotus Domino platform, which is the same wiki technology that Lotus uses for all of its external wikis. This is the first Tivoli wiki to migrate to the Domino platform. Here is the link: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/tivmonitorwiki.nsf
The new Tivoli Distributed Monitoring and Application wiki includes many new features that were previously unavailable to customers, including the following:
For questions or feedback about the new wiki, contact Denny O'Brien (email@example.com).
New OMEGAMON Integrated Information Center
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Did you know that there is a new integrated information center for Tivoli OMEGAMON products? Check out this excerpt from an article recently published by Sharon Sabsay, an information developer with IBM Tivoli:
IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE customers install, configure, and use a number of components and products that must work together. These tasks are well-documented, but it can sometimes be difficult to find the right information at the right time. So a new, task-oriented information center has been created to supplement the existing Tivoli OMEGAMON XE product information center. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring and OMEGAMON XE information center (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1) contains the documentation for all the IBM Tivoli Monitoring products, the OMEGAMON XE products, and their shared infrastructure components. The documentation is organized by product.
The new OMEGAMON XE Integrated Information Center (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v42r1/index.jsp) is dedicated to the OMEGAMON XE products and their shared infrastructure. In the center, information is integrated by task, rather than separated by product. Special information developed for the center helps you get started quickly and guides you through the documentation. Use the new collaboration features to rate information, add comments to pages, and read and reply to comments added by others.
Are you seeing 20/20?...Get Focused Today!
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Question: Do you know what the hot issues/concerns are today?
Answer:The IBM Tivoli User Community knows....and has created The Community Focus.
"The Community Focus is portal of information, a networking capability, and an on-line forum exchange on the latest hot topics around the Tivoli product portfolio; including information on new products and solutions from IBM Tivoli and relevant Business Partners."--www.tivoli-ug.org/communityfocus
Currently, there are four topics that are on focus:
Most of these topics have webcasts planned over the next couple months and here are a couple that are set:
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
11:00 AM Eastern USA
Thursday, October 14, 2010
11:00 AM Eastern USA
Thursday, October 21, 2010
11:00 AM Eastern USA
Improved Facilities Management, Space Utilization and Data Center Power Capacity Enable Smarter Buildings
Thursday, November 18, 2010
11:00 AM Eastern USA
As the IBM Tivoli User Community manager I strongly encourage you to sign up for these webcasts and explore the collaboration tools and resources associated with each of these topics.
Do you agree that these are hot topics? Respond back and let me know your thoughts....
Being informed and get focused today!
Important resources for Tivoli users
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Customers have often stated that there is no shortage of good information about Tivoli products. But they do admit that they sometimes have trouble finding it.
That's why, over the past two years, we've made significant strides that make it easier for our customers to find the information they need. The following links are your door to technical information about Tivoli products:
Tivoli Documentation Central: Access documentation for all Tivoli products. This includes product information centers, product and solution wikis, IBM Redbooks publications, and support technotes. Click here to access Tivoli Documentation Central.
Tivoli Wiki Central: This is your portal to product and solution wikis for Tivoli. There are currently 32 wikis available, covering more than 80 products. Here you will find best practices, scenarios, planning information, white papers, and other content written by Tivoli subject matter experts. You are also invited to contribute your content to Tivoli wikis. Click here to access Tivoli Wiki Central.
Tivoli Media Gallery: The Tivoli Media Gallery is the home for multimedia for Tivoli products. This includes demos, "How To" tutorials, podcasts, webcasts, and more. Here you have access to more than 180 videos about Tivoli products. Click here to access the Tivoli Media Gallery.
IBM System z Advisor: Are you a user of IBM System z products? If so, consider subscribing to the IBM System z Advisor monthly newsletter. The z Advisor provides you with product news and articles about IBM System z products. Click here to subscribe to the IBM System z Advisor. This landing page includes a link where you can subscribe.
Is something missing? Let us know by adding a comment.
Video contest: Here is your second chance!
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Did you hear?
The IBM Tivoli Products Rock video contest dates have been extended to October 29, 2010 through the Gloabl Tivoli User Community!
If you are a client, business partner or independent consultant this is the prefect opportunity to show your pride and share your expertise through either an Interview, Technical Presentation or Product Tutorial video today!
Maybe you have thought about doing a video but the months of July and August were just too busy. Now it's September and this is the perfect time to start planning for the final submission date of October 29.
Step 2: Decide on what type of video you plan to do (interview, technical presentation or product tutorial)
Step 3: Pick a topic/product to cover
Step 4: View the "free software" and hints and tips for the type of video you will produce
Step 5: Enlist the help of co-workers/friends to produce and plan out the flow of the video (if need be)
Step 6: Produce video
Step 7: Submit video
As the Tivoli Global User Community manager I encourage everyone to submit videos before the deadline of October 29.
The prizes of an iPad, iTouch and more are great incentives to produce a video so don't delay, plan today!
Here are a few submissions for reference:
Product Tutorial video
Inteview Style
IBM acquires BigFix: Interview with BigFix CTO Amrit Williams
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In addition to the Intelliden acquisition, the other big IBM Tivoli acquisition this year was BigFix. IBM announced the completion of the acquisition last month. And just this week, IBM announced that BigFix "now displays all virtual and physical assets—PCs , laptops, servers, point-of-sale and virtualized devices—in a single place."
I've had the pleasure of working closely with the BigFix team in the last few months as they join the IBM family. While discussing his podcast series, Beyond the Perimeter, I took the opportunity to interview Amrit Williams, CTO of BigFix.
Question: Can you tell us a little bit about BigFix?
Amrit: BigFix is a leading global provider of
high-performance systems and security management software for enterprise
companies. The BigFix unified management platform provides real-time visibility
and control through a single infrastructure, single agent and single console
for systems life cycle management, endpoint protection, security configuration
and vulnerability management.
BigFix solutions enable customers to securely manage their global IT infrastructures faster, more accurately, resulting in improved governance, control, visibility and business agility.
Question: Why did IBM acquire BigFix? How does it fit into IBM's product portfolio?
Amrit: IBM and BigFix are a great fit. The product portfolios are very complementary, the strategy and vision are well aligned and the companies' respective values and focus will drive greater innovation to the market
Product and market synergies
--BigFix offers best in class endpoint management (PCs, laptops, and distributed servers) that extends the IBM portfolio, enabling their smarter computing vision from the data center to endpoints anywhere in the world.
--Our product portfolios are very complementary, as demonstrated by the many joint customers we successfully serve today.
Strategy and vision
--We share a common vision for delivering automated service management and security and operational convergence to our customers worldwide.
--IBM intends to continue to evolve the rich capabilities of the BigFix platform and to innovate, integrate, and expand the combined solutions to address a broader set of market requirements than ever before.
Company values and market focus
--We share similar ideals and value around integrity and innovation.
--We both have a workforce that is provisioned and dedicated to solving the problems of the largest and most sophisticated enterprise environments in the world.
BigFix is part of the
Question: Can you explain how BigFix is different from other vendors in the market?
Conventional solutions rely on highly complex servers that must be in constant communication with numerous endpoint agents, receiving configuration and state data and transmitting instructions and content. This resource-intensive, high-overhead approach is not acceptable in today's highly distributed, occasionally connected endpoint environment. The BigFix Unified Management Platform relies on a single intelligent agent that acts autonomously based on policies distributed asynchronously, wherever endpoints happen to be, on virtually any network, over virtually any link. When an endpoint drifts out of compliance with policy, the BigFix agent automatically and immediately remediates the issue, ensuring continuous compliance—even if the endpoint is not connected to a corporate network.
The BigFix Unified Management Platform provides 18 IT management solutions, including security configuration and vulnerability management, using a single server, console and agent. BigFix is highly scalable, with a single server managing up to 250,000 endpoints, and works on a wide variety of platforms including Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux and virtual operating systems. Competitive solutions require multiple agents per endpoint, scores of servers, and incur total costs of ownership orders of magnitude higher than BigFix.
BigFix also provides what is considered high-performance systems and security management. These high-performance attributes include:
Question: What benefits can customers expect from the acquisition?
Amrit: In addition to what has already been mentioned, customers should expect to see BigFix integrate with a wide set of IBM solutions. The benefit from a highly integrated set of technologies that enable an organization to become more efficient, improve productivity and lower costs will help organizations rationalize disparate technologies through convergence, consolidation and automation, enabling focus on higher value activities.
Now that's some pretty exciting stuff! Below you'll find a video of BigFix solutions in action. Also, here's a podcast on the BigFix acquisition.
You knew it was coming. Tivoli Solutions for the New IBM zEnterprise System.
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The Market Makes Demands. IBM Delivers.
For some time, the market has been screaming for impossible complex and brawny data center computing capabilities.
Today IBM announced zEnterprise - a first of a kind technology representing a new dimension in computing. zEnterprise integrates IBM's leading technologies to dramatically improve the productivity of today's multi-architecture data centers and tomorrow's private clouds.
Consolidated, simplified management is one of the key drivers for adoption of zEnterprise, and nothing does it better or more extensively than IBM Tivoli. IBM Service Management on System z is uniquely architected to extend the value of zEnterprise by:
To extend these benefits, today Tivoli announced 4 new offerings that bring visibility, control and automation to zEnterprise:
Do your IBM Tivoli products rock? Here is your chance to win you an Apple iPad
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You could be a winner of an Apple iPad, or an Apple iTouch, or an Apple iPod Nano, or $100 or $50 cash just by creating a video on either
how your IBM Tivoli software product(s) have either helped you solve a problem, or improve performance or deliver business value.
The Global Tivoli user Community is hosting the "IBM Tivoli software Products Rock" video contest and YOU can be apart of the newest trend of creating your own video(s).
Are you interested but don't know how to start?
Read these questions and answers to find out more:
Q: What kind of video can I create?
A: You can do either an Interview style video, a Technical Presentation video or a Product Tutorial video. You can find an interview style guide, some hints and tips along with a link to FREE Camtasia video software located here.
Q: What are the criteria for submitting a video?
A: The submission must be of positive nature relating to IBM Tivoli software. If a third party software is highlighted it must show integration with a Tivoli product. The entry must be at least 2.5 minutes but no more then 10 minutes and can't be larger then 1GB. The acceptable formats are Windows Media Video (.WMV), .AVI (windows), .MOV (mac), .MP4 (ipod/psp), .MPEG, .FLV (adobe flash)
Q: What are the contest dates?
Q: Who will be judging?
For complete instructions, rules and guidelines on how to create and submit your video(s) please click here.
As the Global Tivoli User Community for IBM Tivoli I encourage you to get your video cameras out and show your IBM Tivoli pride! Happy Video Shooting!
Re: 70+ IBM experts available to answer your technical product questions on June 15
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In response to: 70+ IBM experts available to answer your technical product questions on June 15Thanks to the many people who asked over 250+ questions on just 20 products! And a special THANK YOU to the 70+ IBM Experts who were available for the various 12 hours to answer those great questions. The Archive link will soon be available. Our next Ask the Experts Online Jam session will be in early November 2010.
TADDM and TBSM Integration in Seven Minutes
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The message from IBM Tivoli customers and business partners is clear. Both groups want more information on how to integrate Tivoli products – and the quicker and easier they can do it, the better.
Phil Riedel, a solutions architect in the Tivoli Integration Center of Competency organization is helping meet that demand. He recently produced a video tutorial on how to integrate IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) with IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM). In the video, Riedel walks through a scenario that demonstrates integration between the two products in seven minutes. The video is available in the Tivoli Media Gallery at:
In addition to the video on TADDM and TBSM integration, several new video tutorials have been recently added for IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.2:
- Configuring Collections for Capacity Planning
- Configuring the Granular Warehouse GUI for Virtualization
- How to Configure Summarization and Pruning
- Granular Warehouse Overview
- Specifying Filter Criteria for Historical Collections
To access more video tutorials for Tivoli products, visit the Tivoli Media Gallery: http://www.ibm.com/tivoli/media.
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The IBM Support portal continues to improve the online service available to customers. On May 19th, the newest release of this rapidly evolving support portal, added many new updates including n.fluent , providing a key in linkage in our significant online resources now available in many local languages. This change comes on top of the recent announcement of the recognition that IBM wins ASP Top 10 Best Web Support for 2010 award for IBM Support Portal The usage and value that is delivered, grows every month, providing a rapid complete resource for customer to find the very latest infomation and solutions. To follow the latest news on the emerging IBM Support Portal updates, you can subscribe to the IBM Developerworks Blog, the IBM Electronic Support community
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Re: SSH as root
From: John Brightwell (brightwell_151_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 07/04/03
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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 11:11:38 +0100 (BST) To: firstname.lastname@example.com
I think that there's an advantage in letting people
ssh as root ... but I'm talking about using an
authorized_keys file (not root itself).
i.e. People use their own authentication but ssh -l
root (and if their key is in the authorized_keys file
they get in).
The login creates a proper audit trail (the ssh log
shows that the user logged in as root) and the user
doesn't have to use (or remember) the root password.
In this way the root password can be a complex
password and doesn't need to be bandied about. Admins
aren't tempted to use the same root password for
multiple systems.
The root password can be kept under lock and key (or
strong encryption) and only used for emergencies ...
such as, if the ssh daemon isn't running and the
sysadmin has to su at the console.
Root password maintenance and security is a problem in
many companies - admins either have to remember lots
of passwords, or they use the same one for multiple
systems or (and I've seen this) they write them down
on a piece of paper or stick them in an excel
In any of the above you can be sure that the password
won't be particularly complex and probably won't be
changed very often.
Phew... bit of a rant ... sorry bout that
Anyway ... that's what I've proposed previously, if
there's a fly in the ointment I'm keen to hear about
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Prewett [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
> Sent: 03 July 2003 20:36
> To: Paul Bauer
> Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com
> Subject: Re: SSH as root
> In my opinion, not allowing ssh as root gives you
more accountability
> (who is using root privs?); You get things like
su/sudo logs that can
> really help in tracking things down.
> I don't think that it is a security risk, but more
of an
> accountability
> risk (eg. some root removed the filesystem, but I
don't know
> which of my
> co-root users did that!)
> Jim
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I am currently running a Linksys WRT160N router on DD-WRT set up as a "Repeater Bridge". It currently serves to rebroadcast my Virgin Mobile MiFi's WiFi through this router, hence broadcasting a more powerful signal. The issue I have is sometimes the computers connected to the DD-WRT router take a while to fully connect as the DHCP is delayed for some reason as it is coming from the MiFi and the requests are all forwarded, etc. It significantly delays everything.
What I am wondering is if there is a way to get a DHCP server running on this DD-WRT router in "Repeater Bride" mode or a mode with an identical function, that way I can turn the DHCP Off on the MiFi and the delay will be eliminated.
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Teen Mom's Amber Portwood Back In Jail
December 20, 2011 02:09 PM by Perry Miller
For Amber Portwood, one of the stars of MTV's Teen Mom, things had been looking up. The Indiana Child Protection Services has just closed it's investigation and deemed her a fit parent for daughter Leah. Then a skipped probation hearing, failing to receive her GED and a drunken fight at a restaurant, among many other probation violations landed her back in an Indiana jail. Read on to see how long the troubled reality star could be in the slammer this time.
Amber Portwood will most likely spend her 2nd consecutive Christmas behind bars in Indiana. In June the Teem Mom star was found guilty of assaulting, her former fiance and father of her child, Gary Shirley. She received a suspended sentence.
After being a no-show at her most recent probation hearing, Indiana police made a visit to her house. While there they searched her purse and according to her brother, Shawn Portwood, found some "old pills" that Amber claimed were from an old prescription. When pressed, Amber could not come up with proof of ever being prescribed the pills. This incident coming only a few months after Amber Portwood completed rehab, follwing an attempt to take her own life.
This is the last in a string of incidents that put her probation status in jeopardy. The mother of 3-year-old Leah also, according to the probation violation report failed to receive her GED and get written proof to the Madison County Circuit Court Probation Department; failed to successfully complete six months of intensive outpatient anger management classes; failed to pay probation fees totaling $56; and failed to set up an IRS-qualified educational fund for her daughter with an initial deposit of $10,000. Last month she also got into a drunken altercation at a restaurant.
Shortly before her arrest, Amber was also in a car accident that was deemed to be fault for following too closely when she rear ended a car as it turned into a driveway.
Amber Portwood has a hearing set for January, 13, meaning she will more than likely spend the holidays behind bars.
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Gracie Says:
December 20th, 2011 at 11:02 pm
They need to keep her Butt in there. She needs to learn a lesson and be a better Mother to her Daughter. I want to know who said she was a fit Mother. Her Boyfriend/ Fiance or whoever he is, is just as bad. They Both need to take parenting classes and they need to stay the hell away from eachother. She should do what she does Best… sleep all day and pull the covers over her head like she always does. She should Marry her bed. Sorry my Opinion.


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Grumpy Realist on theological coincidences as regards Mark "I'm David, she's Bathsheba" Sanford:
Oddly, whenever I hear someone who claims to know God's will it exactly matches what that person wants. It's the strangest coincidence.
A city boy will never learn everything a country boy knows by instinct. A country boy will learn everything a city boy knows in six months.–Bennett Cerf
Grumpy Realist on theological coincidences as regards Mark "I'm David, she's Bathsheba" Sanford:
Oddly, whenever I hear someone who claims to know God's will it exactly matches what that person wants. It's the strangest coincidence.
Power failure. The UPSs held long enough for me to shut the webserver down in an orderly fashion.
Meanwhile, when I went to check on the details of the power failure at the electric company website:
From Bartblog:
Let's make this Independence Day National Waterboarding Day! Here's the way it would work: At each major public gathering on Saturday, July 4, 2009, have a crew there ready to waterboard all comers. Bring your conservative friends and relatives who deny that waterboarding is torture and challenge them to personally experience this 'enhanced interrogation technique' for themselves.
There's more.
Minnesota Supreme Court rules that the winner of the election won the election.
A picture is worth a thousand words (click the graphic for a larger image):
Via Delaware Liberal.
Vanity Fair explores Sarah Palin's career and campaign. I know that some persons are suffering Too Much Palin Syndrome (Palin-drome?); nevertheless, it is a fascinating article.
A nugget:
The narrative that the McCain campaign employed to explain Palin's selection and to promote her qualifications—that she was a fresh-faced reformer who had taken on Alaska's big oil companies and the corrupt Republican establishment, governing with bipartisan support—was never more than superficially true. In dozens of conversations during a recent visit to Alaska, it was easy to learn that there has always been a counter-narrative about Palin, and indeed it has become the dominant one. It is the story of a political novice with an intuitive feel for the temper of her times, a woman who saw her opportunities and coolly seized them. In every job, she surrounded herself with an insular coterie of trusted friends, took disagreements personally, discarded people who were no longer useful, and swiftly dealt vengeance on enemies, real or perceived. "Remember," says Lyda Green, a former Republican state senator who once represented Palin's home district, and who over the years went from being a supporter of Palin's to a bitter foe, "her nickname in high school was 'Barracuda.' I was never called Barracuda. Were you? There's a certain instinct there that you go for the jugular."
Vincent D'Onofrio is looking more like Raymond Burr with every episode of Law and Order CI.
A local plumbing firm's telly vision commercial includes a reference to their "family values."
I guess that means they run around with other plumbing firms in the middle of the night.
Richard Adams in the Guardian on Bernie Madoff as a distraction:
Sadly for Bernie Madoff, his fraud was straight forward: he stole money from investors and ran a Ponzi scheme. (His particular genius was not to promise fantastic, overnight profits, as is usually the way. Instead he offered solid long-term returns, less likely to attract attention.) But if he'd really been smart he would have got into selling collatoralised debt obligations, credit default swaps, mezzanine level revolving syndicated loans, tulip futures and all the rest. Then, if he'd really got lucky, he'd have got a bailout.
In the early days of the US Space Program, Wallops Island, about 50 miles north of Pine View Farm, was a major testing site.
We used to go out back to watch the rockets go up during night launches.
It's coming back to life:
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility will hold a groundbreaking today on a launch facility that will test a new rocket designed to service the International Space Station once the shuttle retires.
This is a recent launch:
Imagine living in a society where reliable police and fire protection were available only to those who worked for the largest employers. In this fictional country, people with enough money might be able to buy personal protection – but perhaps not if they'd suffered a burglary five years ago, or once called 911 for a kitchen fire.
Substitute health insurance for police and fire protection, and you have one of the best – and least-heralded – arguments for universal health care, according to a small but growing number of economists.
Read the whole thing.
And from The Nation:
It's time to part ways with obstructionist Republicans and pass a strong healthcare bill with a majority vote, which is possible if efforts cease to get a handful of Republicans to cross over. Redefining bipartisanship at a time when the GOP has become a male, pale and stale party committed to deficit demagoguery and fearmongering is the common sense and, I'd even argue, pragmatic course. Instead of wasting time on recalcitrant GOP holdouts, do what Drew Westen, author of the terrific book "The Political Brain," advises to pass meaningful healthcare change: "Focus on principles, tell compelling stories, move people emotionally and send clear messages."
"Male, pale, and stale." I love it.
Actually, I hate that phrase. It generally indicates a lazy linguist.
But there seems to be no other way to characterize this.
which probably ain't gonna happen, so we need a public option.
Brendan (warning: mild language but not as bad as you hear at any school bus stop):
I realize this may be news to many of the 556 members of the House and Senate receiving government-provided health care, but here in this place called "Reality" we're in the middle of a crisis that has been building for years, and which just got worse as GM moved into bankruptcy, shedding thousand of jobs, including the "termination of health benefits and jeopardiz[ing] retirement benefits for current and former employees and their families." We have millions without care, and a lot more who are routinely denied coverage by an industry that puts profits over the people it's supposed to serve. And now you guys are signaling that maybe we won't get a public option after all? You have to be shittin' me.
Details here.
Media Matters:
In covering the Ricci case, reversing Judge Sonia Sotomayor's decision, media should not promote the myth that the reversal represents a "historic rebuke" or that Sotomayor's Supreme Court reversal rate is "high."
The bottom line is that the Supreme Court does not accept cases unless it thinks there is a legal issue worthy of consideration. This means that any case it accepts has a good chance of being reversed.
Further down the page, see the bottom line (emphasis added):
. . . it also would not be unprecedented for the court to reverse a ruling reached by a justice before his or her elevation to the Supreme Court. As an appeals court judge, Chief Justice John Roberts was a member of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which, in its July 2005 unanimous ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, alBaswed a military commission to try Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Guantánamo Bay detainee.
Roberts was confirmed as chief justice several months later, in September 2005. Then, in 2006, the Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's decision on a 5-3 ruling.
Moreover, contrary to the myth that it is unusual for the Supreme Court to reverse federal appellate court decisions, data compiled by SCOTUSblog since 2004 show that the Supreme Court has reversed more than 67 percent of the federal appeals court cases it considered each year, except 2007, when it reversed federal appeals court cases 61 percent of the time.
Why is my telly vision subjecting me to an advertisement for a homeopathic remedy for doggy pain?
Homeopathy is crap. But it appears to be really lucrative crap.


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Sony is busy today, putting up no less than three updates on the official PlayStation Blog, to discuss preparations for the restoration of the PlayStation Network, a letter from Sony CEO Howard Stringer, and details on the new AllClear ID Plus Identity Theft Protection program offering.
First up is a post from Sony Sr. Director of Corporate Communications & Social Media Patrick Seybold about preparations to restore the PlayStation Network. According to Seybold, Sony's global network and security teams have begun the "final stages of internal testing of the new system." Seybold said that all of this is an important step towards restoring PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. Full post below:
"Today our global network and security teams at Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment began the final stages of internal testing of the new system, an important step towards restoring PlayStation Network and Qriocity services.
As previously mentioned, we've been working around the clock to rebuild the network and enhance protections of your personal data. It's our top priority to ensure your data is safe when you begin using the services again.
We understand that many of you are eager to again enjoy the PlayStation Network and Qriocity entertainment services that you love, so we wanted you to be aware of this milestone and our progress. We will provide additional updates as soon as we can."
Next up is a post about Sony's plan to offer a 12-month subscription to AllClear ID Plus for free to all PSN users. Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment International have made arrangements with Debix, to offer AllClear ID Plus at no cost to PlayStation Network and Qriocity account holders for 12 months. Sony says that it will be sending out activation emails for this program over the next few days. Customers will have until June 18 to sign-up and redeem the free code. Step-by-step instructions for the program will be emailed to United States PSN and Qriocity Account holders soon.
Finally, Howard Stringer, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Sony Corporation issued an open letter to the community. In it Stringer acknowledged the frustration that PS3 owners feel, and insisted that there was no evidence that any personal or credit card information has been misused. The full letter can be found below:
Dear Friends,
I know this has been a frustrating time for all of you.
Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and impact of the cyber-attack we've all experienced and on fixing it. We are absolutely dedicated to restoring full and safe service as soon as possible and rewarding you for your patience. We will settle for nothing less.
To date, there is no confirmed evidence any credit card or personal information has been misused, and we continue to monitor the situation closely. We are also moving ahead with plans to help protect our customers from identity theft around the world. A program for U.S. PlayStation Network and Qriocity customers that includes a $1 million identity theft insurance policy per user was launched earlier today and announcements for other regions will be coming soon.
As we have announced, we will be offering a "Welcome Back" package to our customers once our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are up and running. This will include, among other benefits, a month of free PlayStation Plus membership for all PSN customers, as well as an extension of subscriptions for PlayStation Plus and Music Unlimited customers to make up for time lost.
As a company we — and I — apologize for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack. Under the leadership of Kazuo Hirai, we have teams working around the clock and around the world to restore your access to those services as quickly, and as safely, as possible.
I know some believe we should have notified our customers earlier than we did. It's a fair question. As soon as we discovered the potential scope of the intrusion, we shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and hired some of the best technical experts in the field to determine what happened. I wish we could have gotten the answers we needed sooner, but forensic analysis is a complex, time-consuming process. Hackers, after all, do their best to cover their tracks, and it took some time for our experts to find those tracks and begin to identify what personal information had — or had not — been taken.
As a result of what we discovered we notified you of the breach. Our investigation is ongoing, and we are upgrading our security so that if attacks like this happen again, our defenses will be even stronger.
In the last few months, Sony has faced a terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan. But now we are facing a very man-made event – a criminal attack on us — and on you — and we are working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the world to apprehend those responsible.
In the coming days, we will restore service to the networks and welcome you back to the fun. I wanted to personally reach out and let you know that we are committed to serving you to the very best of our ability, protecting your information better than ever, and getting you back to what you signed up for – all the games and great entertainment experiences that you expect from Sony.
With best regards,
Howard Stringer


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My Dear Aunt Sally
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