Ghost Recon Future Soldier Tactical Challenges Guide

Welcome to Tom Clancy?s Ghost Recon Future Soldier Tactical Challenges Guide. This page will you you complete all of the tactical challenges in the Xbox 360, PS3 & PC game?s total of 12 missions. Each mission has 3 tactical challenges.

Finishing all 36 tactical challenges will unlock the ?Master Tactician? Achievement worth 25 Gamerscore Points or a Silver Trophy, as you ?Complete 100% of the tactical challenges?. As well as earn you some weapon attachments.

The in-game tactical challenges are shown in the guides below.

Table of Contents

Index of Ghost Recon Future Soldier Guides:

This guide will show you exactly where in the Missions you can execute the tactical challenges. The tactical challenges are completed in the order you come across them in the game?s campaign.

Powerpyx?s protips:
1) If you die after completing a challenge you do not have to do it again, it will stay saved after the first completion! You can do the tactical challenges over multiple playthroughs or in Mission Selection.
2) The chosen difficulty does not matter (only for the challenges that are tied to a difficulty ? Mission 4, 6, 9, 10).
3) You do not have to reach the end of the mission to make the tactical challenge count. You can drop out after reaching the next checkpoint.
4) The enemies have the same motion pattern on every difficulty.

This guide was captured on Elite Difficulty Mode (on Solo) with 0 deaths.

Mission 1 ? Nimble Guardian

CHALLENGES:

1) Express Train: During the ambush at the cog rail station, kill all soldiers in 60 seconds
(3:39 ? 4:38)

2) No Witnesses: Don?t leave any witnesses alive in Paez?s HQ
(9:28 ? 10:48)

3) Ace of Diamonds: Execute 10 headshots while in damond formation
(11:31 ? 14:20)

Mission 2 ? Subtle Arrow

CHALLENGES:

1) Protector: Complete the mission without causing any civilian casualties
(0:27 ? 28:20)

2) Secure the Camp: Eliminate all of the soldiers who have taken control of the refugee camp
(6:26 ? 14:03)

3) Steely Gaze: Kill 10 enemies while in Magnetic view
(1:16 ? 28:20)

Mission 3 ? Noble Tempest

CHALLENGES:

1) Fast Mover: Go through the village in 60 seconds without any civilians dying
(1:23 ? 2:23)

2) Clear the Pitch: Eliminate all the mercs playing soccer without raising the alarm
(3:10 ? 5:29)

3) No Blood No Foul: Infiltrate the outpost, retrieve the data & extract without raising the alarm
(15:23 ? 22:30)

Mission 4 ? Tiger Dust

CHALLENGES:

1) Assault the HQ and take out the hostiles without any misses
(0:39 ? 4:30)

2) Destroy every enemy vehicle during the chopper gunride
(11:27 ? 12:55)

3) On Elite difficulty, take out the enemy RPG before your chopper gets shot
(13:20 ? 13:50)

Mission 5 ? Silent Talon

CHALLENGES:

1) Use the Warhound to kill at least 75% of the enemies during the mission
(3:13 ? 28:33)

2) Kill 5 or more enemies with a single Warhound Mortar
(13:31 ? 14:04)

3) Eliminate both enemy choppers without losing a squadmate
(21:44 ? 22:38)

The Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Tactical Challenges for Mission 6 start on Page 2.

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Auto insurance?can be quite expensive depending on the car you're trying to insure and the amount of coverage you want to get. The following tips will help you get adequate auto insurance at a good price.

You can hardly find anyone who would be willing to pay more for coverage that can actually be got at a lower price. This is especially true when auto insurance is at issue. The common lack of knowledge about saving methods that can effectively reduce one's insurance rates is he only problem in this case. Knowing even the basic saving strategies will help you save a lot of money and avoid paying for something you don't really need. So using the following tips will help you in buying auto insurance :

Get only what you really need

The most common mistake customers make when buying a policy is getting all the coverage, they can get assuming that it's better that way. Of course, having different coverage options with your policy is nice since you never know when you will need them, but this also pushes up the cost of your policy. As a result, you end up with higher premiums and lots of coverage options that aren't truly necessary to buy. So, the first thing you got to do is analyze your current?auto insurance?needs and outline the types of coverage that are really necessary. See if you need any other coverage options besides the mandatory third party liability and consider buying them only if they are really necessary. Otherwise it will be hard for you to avoid overpaying for insurance.

Compare auto insurance quotes

A lot of drivers want to get auto insurance as soon as possible. So these drivers do not spend any time on rate comparison, assuming that all the policies have the same price and buy the first policy they come across. But after some comparison shopping they could avoid additional costs and get a cheaper policy. The truth is that all insurers have different pricing methods, and you can actually get a policy that carries the same amount of coverage cheaper if you compare insurance quotes. With so many sites giving you the opportunity to do it online there's no excuse for avoiding comparison shopping, which can result in substantial savings.

Get discounts

Even if you don't know about any discounts offered by your auto insurance provider this doesn't mean that there aren't any. Some insurers won't advertise it widely but still give you a discount if you comply with their requirements. Discounts are usually offered to low risk drivers who maintain a clean driving record and don't file any claims, good students who have an average of B or higher, owners of multiple vehicles, senior citizens and drivers who have a low yearly mileage. It never hurts to ask the insurer if they can give you a discount while the result can cut your insurance costs.

Change your insurance factors

Some of the factors influence your auto insurance costs. That's why it's impossible to change such as your sex, age or place of residence. However, you can take measures to change other factors for example, your credit score, driving record or even change the current vehicle with something that is cheaper to cover.

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Blocks Where No One Has Fun

A few thoughts on how and where to do or not do an Entertainment District, from Salon.com, Saturday, May 19, 2012.

Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun

Cities keep trying to create downtown cool with dull nightlife districts. But who wants to hang out at the mall?

By Will Doig

If you took all the clich?s about horrible urban design and shoved them into 75 acres, you?d probably end up with something pretty close to Dallas? Victory Park. A pre-planned billion-dollar collection of imposing hyper-modern monumental structures, high-end chain stores, enormous video screens, expensive restaurants, a sports arena and tons of parking, completely isolated from the rest of the city by a pair of freeways, Victory Park is like the schizophrenic dream of some power-hungry capitalist technocrat.

Or in this case, his son?s. The ? neighborhood? development? ? was built by Ross Perot Jr. as an ?urban lifestyle destination.? But what it really is is an entertainment district: that swath of cityscape whose character has been preordained by a city council vote and is now identified by brightly colored banners affixed to lampposts. (The entertainment district?s close cousin, the arts district, is often lurking somewhere nearby.)

What could be wrong with a district where nightclubs and galleries are encouraged to thrive? Nothing, necessarily; done right, a city can help foster these scenes with a gentle guiding hand. Constructing an entire milieu from whole cloth, however, is where cities get into trouble. ?The problem with these created-overnight districts is that you?re trying to create a culture as opposed to letting one grow,? says Nathaniel Hood, a Minneapolis-based transportation planner. ?You?re getting the culture that one developer or city council member thinks the city needs, as opposed to the ground-up culture that comes from multiple players.?

Victory Park is an extreme example, hyper-planned right down to the performances to be held at its American Airlines Center. (?A U2 concert is fabulous,? Perot told the Wall Street Journal. ?KISS, not so good.?) But the Dallas Arts District, though less micro-managed, has struggled with its identity as well. Conceived in the 1970s by design consultants in faraway Boston, it relocated the city?s arts institutions to the northeast corner of downtown. Another planning consultancy drew the boundaries of the district, and one by one, the city?s cultural icons were moved there. Today, it contains the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Winspear Opera House. It?s home to buildings by Renzo Piano, I.M. Pei, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster. In fact, you?ll find everything in the Dallas Arts District except a lot of people, says Patrick Kennedy, owner of the Space Between Design Studio and the blog Walkable DFW.

?A district inherently becomes a single-use idea,? says Kennedy. ?Everything has to be ?art.? You end up with a bunch of performing arts spaces and when they?re not in use it becomes a vacuum.? This vacuum has made the district itself a museum of sorts, something impressive to observe but strangely inert. (The Chicago Tribune called the area ?the dullest arts district money can buy.?) It has few apartment buildings; one is the new Museum Tower, a 42-story condo residence that, as of last month, had sold only 16 of its 102 units. The Museum Tower recently made news when its glass facade began reflecting 103-degree sunlight directly into the Nasher Sculpture Center next door. Now the tower?s developers and the Sculpture Center are embroiled in a fight over which party should alter its building ? essentially, arguing over whether art or residents should reign supreme in the Dallas Arts District.

That?s a defeatist choice to have to make, but the monocultures created by urban districting make it almost inevitable. At last week?s 20th annual Congress for the New Urbanism, Hood spoke about the folly that is Kansas City?s Power & Light District, an $850 million entertainment district whose neon signage is as blinding as its eagerness to be hip. But no one would mistake Power & Light for a neighborhood created by cool kids. ?Land costs are higher downtown, so you have to create something genuinely unique,? says Hood. ?It can?t just be an outdoor mall with slightly cooler bars.?

But that?s exactly what you get in the Power & Light District: themed venues catering to neatly delineated tastes, Epcot-style: the Maker?s Mark Bourbon House & Lounge (?Southern Hospitality rises to a new level?), the Dubliner (?true Irish ambiance?), Howl at the Moon (?a completely unique dueling piano entertainment concept?) and PBR Big Sky (?every cowboy and cowgirl?s nighttime oasis?). The model suggests that city life is nothing more than a selection of personal consumption experiences. But at times, the district feels more like a very enthusiastic ghost town ? one with a $12.8 million budget shortfall.

It?s not just that the developers are boring people ? the economics of single-owner districts incentivize blandness. Chain stores and restaurants can afford to pay higher rent, so they get first dibs. To boost rents even higher, tenants are sometimes promised that no competition will be allowed nearby. ?Starbucks will be willing to pay the higher rent if [the developer doesn't] let other cafes into the area,? says Hood. And forget about occupying the Power & Light District ? you?re on private property. For a full list of the rules (no bicycles, panhandling, profanity on clothing) you can consult its website.

?A true [arts or entertainment] district is always sort of moving around,? says Kennedy. ?It?s wherever the bohemians find cheap real estate.? For instance, compare Power & Light or Victory Park or even the Dallas Arts District with Boston?s Kenmore Square, which developed in the ?80s and ?90s as a wildly diverse barrage of punk venues, rock clubs, dive bars, sports bars and beloved hole-in-the-wall restaurants, all anchored by Fenway Park, bringing together an unlikely cross-section of Bostonians into one spontaneous not-an-entertainment-district for freaks, foodies and sports nuts alike. And despite being unplanned and unsubsidized (or, more accurately, because of that), Kenmore eventually upscaled in exactly the way city leaders hope for.

Kenmore Square, by the way, also disproves the conventional wisdom that the presence of a stadium or arena automatically dooms neighborhoods. ?Fenway Park is a beautiful example of a large entertainment-type building sitting in a neighborhood that?s very vital,? says Dean Almy, director of the Dallas Urban Laboratory, ?and one of the things that makes it vital is that it isn?t all about Fenway Park.?

But mainly, it shows that these districts work better without all the bureaucratic attachment parenting. A great example is Cincinnati, where, rather than busting in with relocation plans and a branding scheme, the city has designated five neighborhoods Community Entertainment Districts where aspiring restaurateurs can simply get a liquor license directly from the state for about $1,500, rather than on the open market where they cost up to $30,000.

Milwaukee has taken a similarly hands-off approach to Water Street, an area on the city?s waterfront where a fairly raucous bar scene emerges nightly. Daniel Campo, assistant professor of architecture and planning at Morgan State University, co-authored a study of the Water Street scene and identified several factors that make it work: Small, older buildings (cheap enough to open a dive bar in), flexible facades (no historic designations), open late (naturally) and located on a slightly dicey fringe of town where chaos can unfold.

Campo characterizes such spaces as areas of ?benign neglect,? neighborhoods where? entertainment zones can naturally emerge. ?These are places where no one lives, the cops don?t go there, people don?t care about that area.? He compares it to New York in the ?70s and ?80s, when the police had bigger fish to fry than kids drinking beer on the street. ?You have to be comfortable with the way these places work. There?s going to be loud people, messes on the sidewalk ? it?s not for everyone.? They?re an example of what philosopher Michel Foucault called heterotopias: ?Neither utopian or dystopian, but a paradoxical combination of both.?

Water Street is an example of how, when the city declines to step in, citizens will. In a less cacophonous way, Cleveland has done this with its Gordon Square Arts District, where a group of nonprofits got together and created their own urban district where theaters already existed. ?You had three very humble nonprofit organizations, no powerful boards, that just needed capital improvements,? says the District?s executive director Joy Roller. Their early efforts got $2 million to encourage arts in the area and established Cleveland as a ?thought leader? in arts-district development.

What these areas of Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Cleveland have in common is (and I hate to even utter this often meaningless phrase) urban authenticity. It?s a notion that gets tossed around a lot, but here it truly applies ? people know when they?re being handed an experience that was created by committee for purely economic purposes. Planned districts are about ?applying a label and hoping your city lives up to it,? says Kennedy. Instead, cities should ?foster a natural emergence of character. You never know what?s going to pop up.?

Will Doig writes the Dream City column for Salon.com

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Aging, hobbled Ray Allen comes through for Celtics

In this Saturday, May 26, 2012 photo, Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen (20) loses control of the ball against the defense of Philadelphia 76ers guard Evan Turner (12) as guard Jrue Holiday (11) watches during the first quarter of Game 7 in the NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

In this Saturday, May 26, 2012 photo, Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen (20) loses control of the ball against the defense of Philadelphia 76ers guard Evan Turner (12) as guard Jrue Holiday (11) watches during the first quarter of Game 7 in the NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

In this Saturday, May 26, 2012 photo, Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen (20) gets a jumper off against the defense of Philadelphia 76ers guard Jrue Holiday (11) and forward Elton Brand (42) during the first quarter of Game 7 in the NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

BOSTON (AP) ? Ray Allen was out on the perimeter like so many times before during a 16-year career in which he's established himself as the most prolific 3-point shooter in NBA history.

Only this time, he was alone.

The Philadelphia 76ers were sagging off the Celtics guard in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, essentially daring him to shoot another 3; he had already missed five. And when Allen got the ball behind the arc on the left side, near the start of the fourth quarter of a three-point game, he showed a rare moment of hesitation before shooting.

But this one was good.

Allen hit a pair of 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to overcome his early woes, and the Celtics beat the Sixers 85-75 to advance to the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat.

Game 1 is Monday night in Miami.

"I had some great looks tonight, probably the best I've seen so far this postseason. I wish I had some back," said Allen, who scored eight of his 11 points in the fourth. "It's almost like I needed the fourth quarter ... I love to get to that point, you focus a little more. But they go in when they counted."

Rajon Rondo had 18 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for his ninth career postseason triple-double, and Kevin Garnett scored 18 with 13 rebounds as Boston reached the NBA's round of four for the third time in five years. Paul Pierce had 15 points and nine rebounds, but he picked up four fouls in less than four minutes in the middle of the fourth quarter and fouled out.

Rondo opened the game with a burst ? four assists and two rebounds in the first three minutes ? but did little over the next two-plus quarters before taking over when Pierce fouled out with 4:16 to play. Rondo had 11 points, four assists and three rebounds in the fourth quarter alone, even drawing up a play during a timeout to get Allen open for a 3.

"To have the trust in Ray, after the way he was shooting the ball, to get it to him for him to make it says a lot about Ray," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. "And I think it says a lot about our team: We trust you for 48 minutes. And I thought that was huge."

Allen, 36, has been struggling with bone spurs in his ankle, and he has been visibly slower after missing the last nine games of the regular season and the first two of the playoffs. Rivers said it would be difficult to hide Allen's weaknesses on defense, but that on offense we was still a threat because "if I tell Ray to stand in the corner, someone's going to stand next to him."

Still, Philadelphia took a chance on giving Allen space for large portions of the game, using his defender to help out elsewhere. Sixers coach Doug Collins denied that they had intentionally left Allen open, but it was apparent to anyone in the building that covering him on the perimeter wasn't their top priority.

"We never want to give Ray Allen a clean look at a three," Collins said, calling Allen one of the classiest and hard-working athletes he's ever known. "The one thing about great shooters is that they are going to keep shooting. He knocked down those two 3s and gave them some distance. That's what great players do."

The NBA's all-time leader in regular season 3-pointers ? he's 21 behind Reggie Miller in playoff 3s ? Allen missed his first five attempts from beyond the arc on Saturday night, some of them quite badly. Boston was 0 for its first 14 as a team, but when Allen passed up back-to-back open jumpers in the middle of the third, Rivers pulled him aside.

"I went over to him and said, 'Hey, listen, we're not going to have that,'" the Celtics coach said. "And I told him again, I said, 'Ray, listen, you don't ever pass up shots.'"

Rondo went over and told Allen the same thing, and then Garnett did, too, "which I thought was great for Ray to hear, confidence-wise," Rivers said. "I thought that was big for him to hear."

Allen checked back into the game near the end of the third quarter, and he found himself open from 3-point range early in the fourth. He dribbled a few steps, realized he was still open, and fired up the shot.

It went in, and the crowd rose to give him a standing ovation.

"Ray is the ultimate gunslinger," Rivers said. "You know, I was a basketball player one day. And I would've never taken that shot late in the game like Ray, after missing my first (five). First of all, I wouldn't have been in. ... It was just impressive. You felt like if he got a shot - I didn't know if he was going to make it, but I knew he was going to take it."

Associated Press

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Presidential Politics Myth #1: The VP Choice Means Something

During every presidential election cycle, a big deal is made over a party's nominee's decision about a running mate. This time around will be no exception. Many in the media have dubbed Mitt Romney the presumed GOP presidential nominee since with the withdrawal of his nearest opponent, Rick Santorum, from nomination race. They are now waiting breathlessly for his choice of a vice presidential running mate, even though his party's convention is still about four months away.They act as if this choice actually means something ? which it doesn't. But they never seem to learn. It's been proven over and over again that voters do not cast their votes for a presidential candidate based on his choice of a vice presidential candidate. It's always other issues such as the economy, war, or potential Supreme Court appointments that really resonate with voters.

Yet the American news media continues to ignore this fact.

If there was ever a year that should have done away once and for all with the myth that a vice presidential selection meant something, it was 1988. That was the year when George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis were the nominees of their respective parties. Bush selected Dan Quayle as his running mate, while Dukakis chose Lloyd Bentsen as his.

Although I thought Quayle was a great choice (and have always thought he would make a fine president), most of the country did not agree. The polls indicated that they believed his selection was a disaster on the part of Bush. Quayle was a relative newcomer to the U.S. Senate, and there were many who questioned his fitness for the second highest job in the land. There were some who even questioned his intelligence.

On the other hand, most Americans hailed Bentsen's selection as a sensational choice on the part of Dukakis. Bentsen was an experienced U.S. Senator who was well-respected on both sides of the political aisle. Bentsen was a viewed as a man who was almost beyond reproach. He had few critics. He out-dueled Quayle in one of the most memorable vice presidential debates of all-time.

Yet none of this could stop Bush from routing Dukakis in one of biggest landslides in presidential election history. And the interesting part is that Bush was never and has never been seen a particularly strong or charismatic politician. His vice presidential "liability" should have brought him down, but it clearly didn't. Apparently, it didn't even cut one iota into Bush's margin of victory.

But during the very next presidential election in 1992, they were once again waiting with baited breath for Bill Clinton's choice of a running mate, which ultimately turned out to be Al Gore. Yes, Clinton won, but he would have won no matter whom he would have chosen. Bush had already sealed his fate by raising taxes after he had promised not to.

Obviously, the choice of a vice presidential candidate should always be met with yawn ? not a breaking news report.

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Stuck with Joe: Why Obama won?t pick Hillary Clinton

No.

Not even if you see an airborne swine. Not even if they?re driving a Zamboni in Hades.

When you read a rumination--or recommendation, or prediction--that President Barack Obama will replace Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton on the Democratic ticket--the odds are overwhelming that its creator was inspired by two thoughts:

1. My deadline is an hour away.

2. I got nothing.

Yes, the Weekly Standard?s William Kristol correctly notes that Clinton?s favorability ratings are very high--higher than those of Obama, Joe Biden, and Mitt Romney. And we should not lightly dismiss the predictive powers of Mr. Kristol, who asserted on Dec. 17, 2006: ?Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I?ll predict that right now.?

Yes, the White House is all but publicly grousing about the way the vice president forced the president?s hand on gay marriage.

And yes, Biden has proven to be a much juicier target for the late-night comedians than the more phlegmatic President. (Jason Sudeikis? flannel-mouthed glad-handing veep trumps Fred Armisen?s Obama).

But grab yourself a cup of decaf and ask yourself two simple questions:

First, when have presidents who are up for re-election dumped their vice-presidents, and why have they done it? The difference between the reality and the Hillary-for-Joe fantasy can be measured in light years.

Second, if Obama were to attempt this, how would he explain it? Trying to answer this question with a straight face is the best way to understand why (assuming accident or illness does not intervene) it?s not going to happen.

In more-or-less modern times, presidents have dumped their veeps three times.

Franklin Roosevelt did it in 1940. His two-term vice-president, the former House Speaker John Nance Garner, was far more conservative than his president, and had broken with him on issues like the packing of the Supreme Court. The Democratic Party?s liberal wing despised Garner. At a Congressional hearing, labor leader John L. Lewis called him "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man." When Garner showed signs that he might challenge FDR?s nomination for a third term in office with his own presidential candidacy, the Democrats replaced him on the ticket with Henry Wallace, the secretary of agriculture. (Garner retired to Texas, his place in history assured by his famous aphorism--often censored--that the job he held was ?not worth a bucket of warm piss.?

Four years later, it was Wallace?s turn to walk the plank. His liberal views on race and social justice, along with a very sympathetic attitude toward the Soviet Union, unsettled Democrats who were well aware that FDR might not survive his fourth term. Out went Wallace, in came Harry Truman. Wallace got the consolation prize of secretary of commerce, until his increasingly open hostility to Truman?s Cold War policies got him booted. In 1948, he ran for president as a member the very-left Progressive Party; he got 2.4 percent of the vote, but the 8 percent he captured in New York likely cost Truman that state, and he surely made the results in California and Ohio far closer than they otherwise would have been.

The only other example came in 1976, when Gerald Ford was facing a strong challenge to his re-nomination from Ronald Reagan. Ford had to have the support of prominent conservatives such as Strom Thurmond--and the price of their support was the dumping of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. To help Ford, Rockefeller fell on his own sword by taking himself out of the running early--in November, 1975--saying, "I didn't come down (to Washington) to get caught up in party squabbles which only make it more difficult for the president in a very difficult time, when the problems of the country require his fullest possible attention.? He left the political stage dramatically, caught on camera giving the middle-finger salute at a campaign rally; and left life even more dramatically, having given up the ghost while engaged in intercourse--perhaps social, perhaps otherwise--with a woman 45 years his junior.

(Unelected running mates have been tossed as well: George McGovern jettisoned Tom Eagleton as his running mate in 1972 after news of Eagleton?s history of depression--including electroshock therapy--emerged. And ?The Passage to Power,? the new volume of Robert Caro?s Lyndon B. Johnson biography, suggests JFK might have turned elsewhere in 1964 because LBJ was no longer able to deliver a Southern state, and because journalists and Senate investigators were in hot pursuit of Johnson?s shady finances).

All of these examples, unlike Biden?s situation, involved a vice president who became anathema to a significant segment of his party. Other veeps have been retained even though they were polarizing figures: Spiro Agnew in ?72, Dan Quayle in ?92, Dick Cheney in ?04.

Which brings us to the second question.

Imagine the press conference where President Obama has to explain his decision to replace Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton. It is, to put it mildly, not likely that the press will accept at face value a Biden announcement that he has decided to step down to run Amtrak, or to retire to his beloved Scranton, Pa.

So what would the president say? That he made a mistake the first time? That he is tired of clicking on yet another website to read, ?Biden later explained...??

The one thing he could not say is what everyone what everyone with a pulse will believe: ?I?ve concluded that my re-election will be much more likely if I run with Hillary Clinton.?

A Biden-for-Clinton switch would stamp Obama as a president who is acting just like any other politician. This perception is already eating away at the most potent appeal of his first run for the White House: that he was different from the standard political mold.? Of all the poll numbers that smother the landscape, the most troubling for Obama was the CBS/New York Times finding that--by a huge margin of 67 percent to 24 percent--voters believe he changed his position on gay marriage for political reasons. (Never mind what that tells us about how remarkably the ground has shifted on that issue).

Without question, most folks believe that anything and everything a candidate says is shaped by tactical considerations. But the public manifestly does not want to hear a candidate admit that. Remember what happened to Arlen Specter, who switched parties in 2009, explaining that becoming a Democrat would make it easier for him to be re-elected as senator from Pennsylvania? That video clip was one big reason why Specter lost the 2010 Democratic primary to Rep. Joe Sestak. For Obama to take such a momentous step to strengthen his chances for survival would, paradoxically, do him significant damage.

There?s one way to know if I?m wrong about this. If sometime in the next month or two Biden comes out for an antiabortion amendment to the Consitution, the end to collective bargaining for public employee unions, and the cutoff of all aid to Israel, it means he?s decided to give his boss the running room he would need to make the switch.??
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um...can i reserve a family named the Wilcox's

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There really isn't a need for reservation...But I guess I can keep the last name safe.

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Experience Success With These Easy Self Help Ideas

Offer the solutions. You want to be the answer-guy, and that means taking knowledge headfast and learning what you can about what you do and your niche. You want others to come to you for the answers, relying on you for the guidance they need. When you have reached this point, you have reached a point in personal development where you know you are becoming something special.

Set a goal and be passionate about your goal. You need to be fully passionate about the goal you are wanting to achieve so you will to do exactly what it takes. Being passionate about your goal will also help you to make any sacrifices and compromises needed to follow through on your goal.

Rather than allowing small habits to snowball into a major relationship-tester, try to reassess your partner?s offensive or undesirable behavior differently. For example, do not resent your spouse because he or she does not clean toilets to your exacting standards. Instead, focus on how well he keeps the lawn looking nice, or how thankful you are that he even pitches in at all!

Increase your productivity by being a kind person in the workplace. When a worker spends their time being mean to their co-workers and causing tension it inhibits the ability to get work done. Yet being proactive in being kind and nice to ones co-workers helps avoid conflicts that waste time.

It?s never too early to learn personal development. Children need to be told and shown that they are capable of doing anything they set their mind to. If this is ingrained in them from the time they are young, they will develop a solid sense of positive self esteem that can stay with them throughout their life.

Acknowledge your flaws and mistakes. Don?t shy away from them for the sake of positivity. Willful ignorance will weaken you more than any flaw or mistake ever could. Positive change can come from examining your shortcomings and turning them into areas where you can learn and grow. People respect and trust someone who can admit when they?ve done wrong.

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Decide exactly how you want to live, and then do it. If we do not decide how we want our lives to go, we will end up doing something, but probably not what we really want to be doing. Other things and outside people can interfere and make the decision for us. Be true to your inner self and constantly seek that which you want to do, then do it.

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Facebook to debut at $104 billion

The IPO will be one of the largest in history.

By Barbara Ortutay,?The Associated Press / May 17, 2012

Facebook increased the size of its initial public offering by almost 25 percent and could raise as much as $16 billion. Regardless, some advertising agencies and companies say the social network won't be able to drive up advertising revenue.

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The world's definitive online social network said Thursday that it raised $16 billion for itself and its early investors in an initial public stock offering that values Facebook at $104 billion. That's more than Amazon.com and other well-known companies such as Kraft, Walt Disney and McDonald's.

It's a big windfall for a company that began eight years ago with no way to make money.

Facebook priced its IPO at $38 per share on Thursday, at the top of expectations. Now, regular investors will have a chance to buy stock in Facebook for the first time. The stock will begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market sometime Friday morning. The ticker symbol will be FB.

Facebook's offering is the culmination of a year's worth of Internet IPOs that began last May with LinkedIn Corp. Since then, a steady stream of startups focused on the social side of the Web has gone public, with varying degrees of success. It all led up to Facebook, the company that's come to define social networking by getting 900 million people around the world to share everything from photos of their pets to their deepest thoughts.

It has done so while managing to become one of the few profitable Internet companies to go public recently. It had net income of $205 million in the first three months of 2012, on revenue of $1.06 billion. In all of 2011, it earned $1 billion, up from $606 million a year earlier. That's a far cry from 2007, when it posted a net loss of $138 million and revenue of $153 million.

"They could have gone public in 2009 at a much lower price," said Nick Einhorn, research analyst at IPO investment advisory firm Renaissance Capital. "They waited as long as they could to go public, so it makes sense that it's a very large offering."

Facebook Inc.'s valuation is the third-highest in an IPO, according to Dealogic, a provider of financial data. Only two Chinese banks, Agricultural Bank of China in 2010 and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in 2006, have been worth more. They were worth $133 billion and $132 billion, respectively. By another measure ?the amount raised? Facebook ranks third among U.S. IPOs. The largest was Visa, which raised $17.9 billion in 2008. No. 2 was Enel, a power company, and No. 4 was General Motors, according to Renaissance Capital.

The $38 share price is the price at which the investment banks arranging the offering will sell the stock to their clients. In an IPO, the banks buy the stock first from the company and the early investors and then sell to the public. If extra shares reserved to cover additional demand are sold as part of the transaction, Facebook and its early investors stand to reap as much as $18.4 billion.

For a company that was born in a Harvard dormitory and went on to reimagine online communication, the stock sale means more money to build on the features and services it offers users. It means an infusion of money to hire the best engineers to work at its sprawling Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, or in New York City, where it opened an engineering office last year.

And it means early investors, who took a chance seeding the young social network with start-up funds six, seven and eight years ago, can reap big rewards. Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who sits on Facebook's board of directors, invested $500,000 in the company in 2004. He's selling nearly 17 million of his shares in the IPO, which means he'll get some $640 million. He will hold on to about 28 million shares, worth $1.06 billion.

The offering values Facebook, whose 2011 revenue was $3.7 billion, at as much as $104 billion. The sky-high valuation has its skeptics, who worry about signs of a slowdown and Facebook's ability to grow in the mobile space when it was created with desktop computers in mind. Rival Google Inc., whose revenue stood at $38 billion last year, has a market capitalization of $207 billion.

"There seems to be somewhat of a hype around the stock offering," says Gartner analyst Brian Blau.

That may be an understatement.

Facebook's IPO dominated media coverage in the weeks and days leading up to the event. CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie made headlines when he wore it to a meeting with investors as did General Motors' decision this week to stop advertising on the site ?and rival Ford's affirmation that its Facebook ads have been effective.

There are more than a few reasons for the exuberance. First, there's Facebook's sheer size and high profile. The company grew from a college-only social network to an Internet phenomenon embraced by legions of people, from teenagers to grandmothers to pro-democracy activists in the Middle East.

Secondly, it's personal.

"It's probably one of the first times there has been an IPO where everyone sort of has a stake in the outcome," Blau says. While most Facebook users won't see a penny from the offering, they are all intimately familiar with the company.

And then there's Zuckerberg, who turned 28 on Monday. He has emerged as the latest in a lineage of Silicon Valley prodigies who are alternately hailed for pushing the world in new directions and reviled for overstepping their bounds. He counted the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs among his mentors, and he became one of the world's youngest billionaires ? at least on paper ? well before Facebook went public. A dramatized and less-than-flattering version of Facebook's founding was the subject of a Hollywood movie that won three Academy Awards last year, propelling Zuckerberg even further into the public spotlight.

Though Zuckerberg is selling about 30 million shares, he will remain Facebook's largest shareholder. Even after the IPO, he will own 503.6 million shares, or 32 percent of Facebook's total shares. At the $38 share price, his stake in the company is worth $19.1 billion. Zuckerberg will control the company with 56 percent of its voting stock as a result of agreements he has with other shareholders who promise to vote his way.

The set-up helps to ensure that he and other executives keep control as the demands of Wall Street for short-term returns exert new pressures on the company.

True to form, Zuckerberg and Facebook's engineers are ringing in the IPO on their own terms. The company is holding an overnight "hackathon" Thursday, where engineers stay up writing programming code to come up with new features for the site. On Friday morning, Zuckerberg will ring the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook's headquarters a continent away.

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