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Pariahs' Progress: On Isolationism
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Bourne’s transnationalist plea “had much in common with religious dialogue,” Nichols observes. He is thinking particularly of the jeremiad, the Puritan sermon form that lamented the moral corruption of the community and recalled it to righteousness. Bourne was no Puritan, but he was a stern moralist, especially about the impact of war on the “intellectual class.” Intellectuals who craved proximity to power were falling all over themselves in their (mostly rhetorical) enthusiasm for the cleansing powers of battle, and when the war came they were little disturbed by the jailing of its opponents. As Bourne observed, such prowar intellectuals as Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly of The New Republic were more concerned with maintaining a largely fantastical faith in their own “immediate influence” than addressing any such pedestrian matters as the protection of free speech. Here as elsewhere, Bourne identified a recurring pattern. As became clear when Bill Keller, then the executive editor of the New York Times, David Remnick of The New Yorker and Paul Berman of The New Republic supported Bush’s ruinous invasion of Iraq, the siren song of righteous war continues to seduce large sectors of the liberal intelligentsia.
Promise and Peril
America at the Dawn of a Global Age.
By Christopher McKnight Nichols.
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Jackson Lears teaches American history at Rutgers University. He is the editor of Raritan: A Quarterly Review and the...
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For Margaret Thatcher as for today’s happiness industry, there is no such thing as society.
Republic or empire?
Debate over the US entry into World War I provoked the emergence of modern isolationist thought. Certain fundamental principles acquired prominence: a commitment to neutrality in deed as well as word with respect to foreign wars; a populist insistence that declarations of war require the support (perhaps by referendum) of the people; and a suspicion of bigness in all its forms worthy of William James—big business, big government, big lies.
Even the Socialist Eugene Debs spoke an idiom that evoked the Jeffersonian republican tradition and appealed to farmers as well as workers—or at least so Debs hoped. He wanted to unite them all in a cooperative commonwealth. Debs had used this appeal effectively in the 1912 election, when he won 6 percent of the electorate, and the coming of World War I offered Socialists the further possibility of siphoning off some of the antiwar vote, which was considerable. Opposition to the draft united the South and the Midwest. Debs hammered away at militarism from a Jeffersonian position: a standing army “means a military autocracy,” he warned, “and it can mean nothing else.” Debs and other antiwar speakers could play on anti-British sentiment among the farmers, who felt deprived by the British blockade of wartime markets for wheat and cotton. And sentiment was often accompanied by action. Resistance to the draft surfaced in the Green Corn Rebellion of 1917, when 500 Oklahoma farmers began a protest march to Washington, only to have it interrupted by the American Patriotic League and state marshals. Throughout the country, including New York and other Eastern urban centers, draft resistance and evasion were epidemic; upward of 3 million men (about as many as were drafted) never bothered to register.
Amid widespread popular opposition to the war, Congress took the draconian measure of passing the Espionage Act in 1917 and the Sedition Act in 1918; together, they made blind obedience the law of the land. In February 1918, in Canton, Ohio, Eugene Debs was anything but blindly obedient. Don’t worry about treason to your masters, he told a crowd of working men; worry about treason to your own core principles. This was the speech that got Debs arrested, convicted and jailed for treason. Addressing the jury, he concluded: “Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Paine and their compeers were the rebels of their day…they were opposed by the people and denounced by the press…. But they had the moral courage to be true to their convictions, to stand erect and defy all the forces of reaction and detraction; and that is why their names shine in history, and why the great respectable majority of their day sleep in forgotten graves.” Released after nearly three years, Debs was a prematurely old and broken man. But he had shown that the isolationist tradition could embrace Jeffersonian republicans alongside democratic socialists.
In 1919, the debate over US entry into President Wilson’s League of Nations fostered the emergence of conservative, hypernationalist isolationism in opposition to the league. Its critics were US senators dubbed “the irreconcilables” by the press. Senator William Borah of Idaho was the most interesting and influential among them. Borah was specifically concerned with Article X of the league’s covenant, which spelled out the doctrine of collective security: it committed US troops to fight aggression (as defined by the league) without national debate or Congressional authorization. Borah wanted national freedom of action. Unlike his fellow irreconcilable Republicans Robert La Follette and George Norris, Borah had supported the war, albeit reluctantly. But he remained committed to civil liberties, animated by a Jeffersonian populist view that overlapped with Debs’s in important ways. Associated with the newly formed American Civil Liberties Union, Borah deplored African-American disenfranchisement and derided Wilson’s schoolmasterish boast that we would “teach” Latin American countries to “elect good men.” Yet he also supported restrictions on immigration for the conventional xenophobic reasons: he wanted to keep alien agitators from promoting revolution and refugees from diluting native stock. Still, he posed populist challenges to executive power with discomfiting directness: “Is there any guaranty of peace,” he asked, “other than the guaranty which comes of the control of the war-making power by the people?” This question suggested others: Could democracy survive the hegemony of the national security state? Or would “control of the war-making power by the people” cease to exist under the new regime envisioned by the interventionists? Despite his provincialism (or maybe because of it), Borah probed these essential issues.
He was “no absolute isolationist,” as Nichols makes clear. He supported trade and arms limitation treaties; he believed that economic interdependence among nations was inevitable and perhaps even necessary. In 1934, surveying American foreign relations since World War I, Borah distinguished between trade and politics. We had entered into profitable trading partnerships overseas, he acknowledged, but “in all matters political, in all commitments of any nature or kind, which encroach in the slightest upon the free and unembarrassed action of our people, or which circumscribe their discretion and judgment, we have been free, we have been independent, we have been isolationist.” Isolation and independence were twinned.
Borah also made common cause (at least temporarily) with the “new internationalism,” the post–World War I pacifist activity promoted by Emily Balch and Jane Addams in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. The most notorious pacifist crusade of the period—notorious, at least, in the eyes of subsequent historians—was the movement to outlaw war, which culminated in the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. For historians within the Washington consensus, the belief that nations could end war by making it illegal has always been the ultimate pacifist self-delusion. Nichols does his best to take the movement seriously, defending it mainly from Borah’s point of view. America should join in making a safer world, Borah believed, provided its sovereign rights were upheld. In the end, he and the other Americans included important caveats to Kellogg-Briand that preserved US autonomy. No restrictions were placed on wars of self-defense (an elastic category) or on wars invoking the Monroe Doctrine. About this matter, the Washington consensus is right: it is hard to take such a document too seriously, however benign its intent.
Still, pacifist and isolationist sentiments continued to grow in the United States during the 1930s, culminating in the Neutrality Acts and finally in the Ludlow Amendment, which would have required that all declarations of war be submitted to a popular vote, unless the United States had been attacked. The measure failed when it came to a floor vote in 1938—to the great retrospective relief of the foreign policy establishment. If members of that group regarded Kellogg-Briand with amusement, they viewed the Ludlow Amendment with alarm, for they thought it showed how far isolationist sentiment had seeped into the body politic. To be sure, there was room for debate about the practicalities of this proposal, but what outraged the establishment was that Congress had even considered the possibility of a democratic foreign policy. Quelle horreur! C’est impossible! And so, indeed, it has proven to be, in the decades since isolationists were excluded from permissible debate.
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Dilemma: 285SLi vs 295+PPU
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I'm using an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 board. My initial plan was, to use 2 GTX285 cards in SLI. I then got to reading about dedicated PhysX cards etc., and seeing as I have a 9800GTX+ lying around, I figured that it would be really cool doing the 2 GTX285 AND the 9800GTX+ as PhysX card.
However, this proved to be impossible with the layout of my Asus motherboard, and so I started looking around for either a PCI-E x4 card to use for PhysX, or a PCI card, as I came across a thread.
A guy says, that the probably best thing to do is just using any proper PhysX card with a good graphics card, and save some money instead of using SLI.
So, I'll ask you guys:
I assume that the 285SLI setup will be better than the 295+PPU, but how much? There's a considerable amount of money to be saved.
Also, will using the 9800GTX+ as a PPU limit the 295 in any way? I saw someone saying that it would bring down the better card to the lesser card's clock speeds.
I hope someone can enlighten me a bit on this :)
Thanks in advance,
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Here in Denmark, we have 14 days of full refund, if the buyer decides they don't want the product anyway.
I was thinking if it would pay off changing my Asus P6T Deluxe v2 for a ASrock x58 SuperComputer which does actually have a PCI-E x16 port placement that allows 3 cards that take up 2 slots..I'm just not sure it's worth the hazzle, getting third slot for a PPU.
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Yes, surely, but would dedicating my 9800GTX+ or PhysX not give an even better performance? I mean, it's just gonna lie dormant anyway :) | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/268879-33-dilemma-285sli | dclm-gs1-261220002 | false | false | {
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Bios not recognising sata hard disk drive
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My pc froze a couple of weeks ago so did a restart. Nothing happened but DISK BOOT FAILURE , INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
Wouldn't run the recovery of course so i have tried a new HD. Still same message, but don't have system disk. PC is HP and came preloaded with XP and Hp programs. Only disks are my HP Recovery set which should load everything but I am being told that there is no HDD. Only DVD drive is listed in bios. Where do I go from here? Bought new laptop (which is how I can ask this) but really want my pc up and running. I should add that someone has checked my original hdd and lent me eternal caddy to transfer the data still on it to new HDD. HOW can I get my hard drive recognised? SATA by the way, but Bios only searches for IDE and naturally cannot find it. Please help!!!!
If I read your post correctly, the PC does not recognize the old drive _and_ does not recognize the new drive. If that is the case, your motherboard may be shot. Unless both drives are bad.
First question: is that the case, that the BIOS doesn't see either the old or new drive? Can you try changing cables and which SATA port you are using, to see if the problem is something so simple?
Second question: Since you have the old drive in an external caddy, can the notebook that you have recognize the drive and see the data on it? If so, your recover is fairly simple, but your PC is shot.
Third: Why do you say that BIOS only searches for IDE? Do you have IDE and SATA ports and only the IDE ports are seen, or do you mean that the SATA ports are set to IDE mode, which is still (for some reason) the default?
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PC Monitor Shutting Down While Playing Games and/or
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Ok, so I made 3 upgrades to my computer recently. I wanted a new CPU and stronger GPU for gaming. I got the 6 core Thuban AMD CPU, and I got the Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 Ti. Also, b/c of the GPU, I also got a 500W power supply (this GPU requires minimum 400W) . I got everything installed by a technician. The first night, I played through 5 chapters of Super Meat Boy with no problem. But once I started playing Skyrim, the problems began. The first time, after maybe about 30 minutes, my monitor just shut off without warning, but my tower remained on. My new power supply has a switch, so I just flipped it, waited a moment, and rebooted. I tried running Kingdoms Of Amalur, and that was even worse. Once into the main game screen, it lasts I think less than 10 minutes before the monitor fails and shuts off. This happened every other time I tried to play Kingdoms of Amalur since (my PC was serviced Saturday morning, and I started trying out games Saturday night, 2 days ago). Surprisingly, last night when I tried running Skyrim, it actually lasted pretty long before the monitor shut down, considering Skyrim is such a demanding game, but I think it lasted about 30 minutes, just like the last time it failed. However, more concerning is that, I also tried Super Meat Boy again, and this time I played in window mode so I could maybe see what really happens. I could not even get halfway through Ch 1 before I got a brief blue screen which I didn't have enough time to read what it said.
Finally, I also do video encoding. Specifically, H.264 encoding. So, I have my program set to use the max number of cores. Twice, I encoded a short video (3-4 minutes), and both times, the monitor shut down almost immediately after the encoding was done, and the tower remained on. If I was doing a longer encode, the monitor would fail before it could even finish.
Unfortunately, I have deduced several possible causes, but cannot thoroughly confirm what the cause is.
- GPU overheating: the GPU does have it's own fan, and I updated to the latest drivers.
- CPU overheating: Before the guy serviced my rig, I noticed that the heatsink and fan which came with the cpu had thermal paste on it already. I pointed this out to him, and thought that that paste would be enough. I knew beforehand that 6 cores would generate more heat, but I thought the factory paste would be good enough. I may have been wrong, and given the fact that video encoding is almost purely CPU driven, and the fact that my encoding caused shutdown, I believe my cpu overheating is the most likely cause, hopefully, better thermal paste would fix the problem.
- Power Supply: In theory, my power supply should be more than sufficient for the GPU I installed, and I'm sure it was installed properly. This might be a stupid question, but could it be my electrical outlet is not sufficient enough? I think I have 3-4 other devices plugged into the power surge, including my monitor and printer.
- DirectX 11: My initial setup was dual-core, integrated graphics with 256MB VRAM, and DirectX 9.0 c. , and a 250W power supply. Despite these inferior specs, I never had this problem before with this PC, even while playing Skyrim (which I played many hours, at about 13 fps).
- DVI-to-VGA Adapter: I'm having to use this until I buy a monitor with an HDMI port. I'm not sure if the adapter is screwed all the way in or not, and I never had any problem when I had a direct connection. Since the tower itself does not shut off when this problem occurs, could my monitor connection be faulty?
That's all I can think of at the moment. Here is a quick reference:
Power Supply: 500W
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 Ti
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 "Thuban" 1045T 2.7 GHz 95W TDP
RAM: 5 GB (2 GB x 2, 1 GB x1)
What do you mean by the monitor is shutting down? Does it stop getting a signal from the PC while still showing standby mode? Or does it's light turn off.
If it is a case of the monitor fully shutting down then your PC isn't at fault...nothing it could do would shut down the monitor.
turn the monitor on in a quiet room without the pc on. listen for a little click when you hit the button... when you have the pc on and the monitor shuts off again listen for a little click...
if the click sounds like a cheap lighter being pressed (ie and electical arch snap) its likely the monitors psu is failing... this is typical for cheap high dpi monitors...
i had this issue with my old hanns g and it turned out to be a known fault...
if theres no clicks try turning the monitor on again if it stays off then it may be a bios issue such as the battery is dieing.
if your pc starts with the wrong time and date then this is likely the reason that the monitor is turning off... my m8 had this issue with his . replacing the battery fixed it.
lastly either bad drivers or bad signal from the gfx card telling the monitor to turn off. if this is the case then hitting the power button on the monitor should bring it back on. if you then see no signal then the gpu is the problem if the picture returns then you need to check the event logs and see if the gfx driver lost the hardware and couldnt restart the card... if this is the case change the driver...
just for security also check your gpu temps...
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I opened up my rig last night, and discovered that my power supply was installed the wrong way. The bottom vent is facing the roof of my tower. Could this be causing my PSU to overheat and crash the system?
goldensun87 said:
Wow, that almost has to be it. Play a game and let us know, but please try to capture and share that blue screen with us. Maybe a camera? I know this sounds ridiculous but if we had the error code we'd have a solution.
I run my PC with the fan pointing up into the case rather than down. Unless your PC's interior is HOT then that wouldn't be the cause. Many people run their PSU facing like that because of dust and such entering from under the case.
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Ok, brought it back from my technician's. After troubleshooting all possible causes, we narrowed it down to the CPU. I suggested that maybe the provided thermal paste was not good enough, and although this may be the case, he decided that it should not be. Also, by the time we decided to call it a day, the computer was not even making it all the way to complete startup. He described it as 'locking up'. So, we have determined that the new cpu is most likely defective. Until I order a replacement, I will be going back to him on Friday to re-install the original cpu (which is a dual core athlon processor). Hopefully, IF everything starts working properly again, we will know for sure that the new cpu was the culprit... | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/330878-28-monitor-shutting-playing-games | dclm-gs1-261240002 | false | false | {
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ASUS G73SW Republic of Gamers or Vortex from pc specialist
Last response: in Laptops & Notebooks
Hey everyone,
I have a budget of £1000-£1400, I'd much rather spend less but want to best bang for my buck - primarily gaming machine with some programming and movie watching on the side
Just found an asus g73 for £1145 (specs below).
ASUS G73SW Republic of Gamers 17.3-Inch Gaming Laptop, Full HD (1920x1080) LED Backlit Display, Intel Core i7-2630QM (Quad-Core with Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz), 8GB DDR3 Memory, 500GB 7200RPM HDD, DVD Combo, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M (1.5GB 192-Bit GDDR5), 802.11n, Bluetooth, USB 3.0, HDMI, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Should I get that or the below machine from pc specialist
vortex II 17.3 with i7-2630qm, 4gb ddr3 ram, amd 6970 2gb graphics card, Gigabyte LAN & killer wifi, and 2 year warranty for £1212 (heard I should get an ssd drive, so with a 120gb ssd and 240 gb Hd comes to £1316)
The Vortex II is mucchh better for gaming. The GPU is ranks twice as high.
The RAM is standard, but not premium standard. But more 4 is enough. I wouldn't go with 8, 6 is a good number.
Enjoy that awesome laptop! :)
Thanks hpfreak I'll go with the vortex, I can only choose 4,8,16 1333mhz samsung, or 4gb (2x2gb) or 8 (2x4gb) 1600MHz Kingston. Should I get the faster Kingston or will the samsung suffice (I'll email to ask if they can do one 4gb and one 2gb).
Also, thoughts on upgrading to an ssd hd - is it worth the big cost difference or would I be better to get a faster CPU?
Don't worry about the hard drive. It is somewhat worth it, but I don't use one, and I have no need for one either (I have a g73.) It will make Windows boot faster, and it will improve games a tad. But like I said before, I don't use or need one, and I play games on max with no problem.
You'll benifit from getting the extra gigs, but 4 will suffice, besides, if you were to upgrade, you'd be paying a lot of extra money for those 4 GB of RAM, You can just stick to the 4 GB.
For gaming, that Vortex laptop is your best bet, if you want to also do programming, video editing... business related stuff, the Asus would give you a few nice features.
Stick with the Samsung 4 GB 1333 Mhz, :)
Your CPU is fine, upgrading will make the price go much higher... And the performance increase wouldn't be worth it. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/69781-35-asus-g73sw-republic-gamers-vortex-specialist | dclm-gs1-261250002 | false | false | {
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1. Character from The Simpsons, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.
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One who truly enjoys, supports, and loves BEER (mainly craft beer, and homebrew). This may include hopheads, beer snobs, brewers, homebrewers, and even or in combination with brew masters.
On who sees beer as a lifestyle, culture, and/or art form.
One who takes beer seriously enjoys every aspect of it (The craft, creation, taste, aroma, design, brewers, breweries).
One who educates people about beer, real beer and opens them up to styles they never knew about.
Those who read beer blogs, beer review sites or follow breweries. Those who take more photos of beer than anything else. Those who review beers, or write beer based blogs.
Those who's social media revolves around beer.
"I'm going to the beer festival with my fellow brewheads"
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by Lacey June 17, 2004 add a video add an image
Victoria's Secret is that she really buys her underwear from Walmart.
"Let's go buy some extremely overpriced g-strings at Victoria's Secret."
by lacey May 07, 2005 add a video add an image
1. a response in agreement with someone
2. a football playin, drinkin in the forest, sophomore girl rapin, in the closet jock
1. Wanna go get fahkin faced dood?
Yah, dood!
2. Check out those yah doods over there gettin fahkin faced.
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It means basicly the same thing as "Oh shit" or "fuck a duck". Not intended to be used in a sexual way.
haley: "well shit mom i spilled my drink!"
jo ann:"Well fuck me dead"
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Synonyms for Gero: keeper, sexy, wonderful, silly German
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1. Ashburn
Ashburn, VA is a town in Loudoun County located between Leesburg and Sterling. The original town was built as a vacation spot for people in Washington, D.C.
But, nobody cares about that...
Today, Ashburn is an upscale planned community with some odd quirks: Despite being built by several developers, every, single, house has the same floorplan. Ashburn homes are rather large, exceeding 4,000 SqFt. Yards around these houses are smaller than the houses themselves and one can easily see into their neighbours' house as they are never more than six feet apart. No place of business is open past midnight in Ashburn, excepting gas stations. This, coupled with the youth of Ashburn's propensity for soft drugs, has caused many a drunk or stoned youth to trek to 7-11 and mill inside for at least a half-hour. Every adult in Ashburn is obsessed with fitness and is compelled to bicycle in the middle of the road regardless of whether trails are paved on both sides.
Out-of-towner: - "I had the hardest time finding your place, every house looks the same around here!"
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Confused Mom: - "Our windows almost touch, we can read your newspaper when your curtains aren't drawn; I'm sure it was an accident"
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Stoned Kid: - "Slurpeeeeeeee!!1!"
Biker: - "Yay!" "I'm biking in the street!!!"
Angry Man in M6: - "What are you doing?" "Go ride the W&OD like everyone else!!!"
2. Ashburn
A upper-middle class suburb of Washington D.C. where average income is $130,663 and local kids are known to be addicted to various different drugs due to excessive time and allowances.
"So where you from, ho?"
"Oh well I grew up in Ashburn, I don't know if you know it..."
"Heallz yeah I know it, dat's where all da rich crackers live"
"well... actually...
3. Ashburn
Silent, Killa
'Ashburn Someone you don't notice but quiet but deadly'
4. ashburn
it is a rash due to friction on the posterior {booty}.....
I fell down the stairs, now my ashburn.
I had mexican food yesterday, now my ashburn.
I got an ashburn when i sat on the hot pavement.
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1. Blowmich
A word created by combining "blow", "me" and "sandwich". It is said before or during oral sex when you get hungry and want a sandwich. For best results, say to a woman.
Gimme a Blowmich Bitch! I'm hungry and I need a wet dick!
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4. Chunged
When a male reproductive organ is inserted into a female oesophagus to a sufficient depth to induce a gag reflex which is swiftly followed by CHUNDERING EVERYWAAAA!!!!
I Just shafted this bitch so hard in the face that she Chunged into the alley till it flooded.
1. chunged
basically means being stoned, with puffed up eyes
have u been blazin cos u look chunged
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2. Chunged
To Chung someone or to be chunged:an act in which you raise the hopes of a person only to demean them in a matter of seconds by simply repeating the last thing said in a questioning and excited tone.
John:Hey man,do you have any gum?
Andy:Gum??:D(in an excited tone)
John:Yea!!!:D(also now excited due to your excited reaction)
Andy:no.....(in a plain tone)
John:Awwwh(now feeling demeaned)
Andy:i CHUNGED ur ass!!:D
3. chunged
chunged is to be stoned on drugs i.e weed or pot.
also try these words:
oi i gt chunged last waz off da hook, i cant even memba wat i did!
5. chunged
"Man, it is freezing cold out here."
"Just like your mother. You just got chunged."
6. chunged
When your face turns red after drinking alcohol.
Damn look at Andy. He's chunged!
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5. Dubya
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15. dubya
Basically, the good ol' USA was considered the best country in the world. Then this loser Bush guy came and, well, like the stock market and reasonable gas prices, the rest is history. The reason why China will someday rule the world and why immagration to Canada will soon hit record highs. The reason why Osama Bin Ladan is still alive. The reason...okay, I'm done ranting now.
Did you hear? Dubya got shot by Condoleeza Rice! Joy to the world!
16. dubya
please refer to dumbass
that dubya really needs to be castrated
by 69 December 23, 2004 add a video add an image
17. Dubya
by Calypsion September 17, 2005 add a video add an image
18. Dubya
Nickname for our current president, see fascist
Dang it, Dubya is not a true conservative but a republicrat! Dubya would rather kiss up to communist China rather than keep Taiwan safe from those subversive mainland China communists!
19. dubya
American "president" (well, I do admit that he won his second term fair and square-- which makes me want to move to someplace sane like Nigeria) who seems to think that America should be run by rules that worked extremely well for a band of pastoral nomads in the Middle East a couple thousand years ago. Also tends to make speeches in which he uses words like "freedom" and "liberty" a lot without really appreciating what they actually mean. Makes me think of a cross between the medieval Norwegian religious fanatic King Olaf the Lawbreaker and "Big Brother" from Orwell's <i>1984</i>.
Dubya is a doubleplusgood duckspeaker.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
by Usman Bello February 07, 2005 add a video add an image
20. dubya
dubya - nickname for George W Bush, the President of the US.
President Dubya is the son of the former head of the secret police (CIA), who was also formerly president of the US, AND a former vice-president.
His questionable victory in the US was partially due to the voter results in a state where his brother was govenor. Also, the lack of voter participation by potentially democratic or independent voters helped the more organized Republicans tip the scales. (along with a little trickery)
Being Mad at Dubya is like being mad at the wall during a shadow puppet performance. He can't even language correctly. He provides enormous amounts of entertainment with his lack of speaking ability and obvious lack of intelligence.
While self-admittedly not one of the great linguists, he has provided us with such treasures as:
"They misunderestimated me"
"Reading is the basics for all learning".
"Clearly it's a budget, it's got a lot of numbers in it."
"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning"
"I admit it, I am not one of the great linguists"
There's Dumb, Dumber, then there is dubya.
21. Dubya
Dubya it's nuclear not nucular
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1. Internet Troll Personality Disorder
Internet Troll Personality Disorder (ITPD) is characterized by a persistent pattern of obstructing of on-topic discussion in online forums and comment threads. People afflicted with ITPD may purposefully present themselves as being inappropriately sexually provocative or racist. Often times they disingenuously express strong emotions with an impressionistic style, pretend to throw arbitrary tantrums, and never hesitate to contribute absurd, non-sequitur remarks at any perceived opportunity.
The etiology of ITPD is still being researched, but scholars agree that afflicted individuals usually enjoy some type of unfulfilling (and unsupervised) employment situation where they have access to computers with internet connections.
Guy #1: So Dean got fired?
Guy #2: Yeah, PLUS he's facing CRIMINAL charges of harassment by wire. You see, someone who Dean was harassing, via the internet, traced his IP address to one of our company's computers. So...
Guy #1: So, good 'ol Dean was bored at work all the time, and this is just another classic case of Internet Troll Personality Disorder, huh?
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1. Man Drescher
A man who exhibits similar traits as Fran Drescher including big black hair, a high pitched whiny voice, pale skin, and a flaboyant fashion sense. Usually found in, or originate from Queens, New York.
"I hate going to the movies with Jimmy because he talks throughout the entire thing. His voice is so loud and nasal. He's such a Man Drescher."
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1. Ninj
To do in the fashion of a ninja.
I'm ninjing like a pro, baby!
2. Ninj
To have sex, usually very quietly and in a fashion that will avoid detection. From the phrase "Ninja that bitch."
Most often heard in the gerund form "ninjing".
Yo, no ninjing on the mountain!
3. Ninj
ninj (v.): to act in such a manner that could be construed as causing trickery, disruption, and/or pain on those who instill one's wrath
Ninj (n.): any one of a number of people who enjoy, and in fact take delight in, causing mischief and trickery on those who deserve it; i.e., mauling someone
v. "I'm gonna ninj you, you bloody prick, if you ever say something like that again!"
n. "I am so a ninj!"
4. Ninj
to act like or immitate a ninja
im a ninja i ninj things
5. Ninj
anything you want it to mean fitting the situation.
Damn you ninjed up that shot.
You look like a Ninj.
This Concert is hella Ninj.
6. ninj
To steal or take wrongly; to hijack; to snatch; most synonymous with "to jack"
One who ninjes is a ninjer, or in ghetto parlance a ninja.
that guy totally ninjed my pen
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1. Tashi Ceiling
The inability to get anything higher than a triple kill in a Halo title.
"I was playing some Reach last night and I kept hitting the Tashi Ceiling."
"That sucks man, I was cleansing bk's all night."
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1. Athileptic
An athileptic is a person that believes they possess great athletic skills, but their in-game performance more closely resembles an epileptic seizure.
Can be used as a noun or an adjective.
Tyrone: I thought you said Mike could play?
Petey: He said he could.
Tyrone: Looks athileptic to me.
Petey: I won't pick him up next week.
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6. chez
a boy who likes to plait his hair.
is that a girl or a gay guy?
no it's just a chez.
8. Chez
Student 1: Dude how did you do on that test?
Student 1: Dude you're so chezzy!
9. Chez
Chez is so delicious and tasty lets get Chez for everyone.
10. Chez
gross or dirty material. could be anything.
If an old battery operated machine was inspected, and the batteries over time, had leaked and created a substance that was sticky and a mess, that would be chez.
"scrape all of that chez outta there man"
11. Chez
Unattainable Woman: A girl who all members of The Brotherhood wanted to tuck into, knowing full well they wouldnt stand a hope in hell (2007)!
"Blimey look at that girl over there - Im going to crack on!" "Don't be silly mate, she's a bit of a chez"
12. chez
A large multitude of cheese.
The past tense of cheese.
You put lots of chez on that burger.Therefore it is a chezburger.
13. Chez
A term that is short for the word Bitches.
14. Chez
The wild, unkept, hairy pussy
Isaac: Yeah i saw up her skirt and it was total chez... She should buy some underwear, and a lady bic!
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1. sack-o-reha
a large burlap sack filled with diareha which individuals are placed into as a form of punishment.
"you have 5 seconds to get to your room or else your getting ten minutes in the sack-o-reha."
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1. scarfie
A Kiwi university student. Specifically, a student at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
person 1: "There were heaps of scarfies at $1 draft night at the Captain Cook pub."
Person 2: "No shit"
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2. Scarfie
A Muslim woman who wears the head scarf just for show. Who doesn't understand the significance of it and has promiscuos, shallow, and wild tendancies.
I don't know why that girl wears the hijab. She has the worst reputation. She's such a scarfie!
3. Scarfie
Awesome muslim women who observe the hijab donning the headscarf, particularly one that attends the U of C who incorporates a doily'ish piece into hers making her stand out from the rest of the 'uniscarfies'
Man 1: There's a lot of scarfies around here eh?
Man 2: Yeah, but they're all rich with mansions and servants back in Lebanon.
Man 1: Scarfie Power
4. scarfie
Someone who is ultra emo and needs to let the world know how sad they really are by wearing a scarf at all times throughout the year.
Goto any emo punkrock show to view this species of emo kid.
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1. to slosh
To wiggle or slither the dick around inside of a vagina that is too loose.
The man's dick was sloshing around in the whore's loose vagina.
Mortimer said to his frat brothers, "Man, my dick was sloshing up in that shit."
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Congress should not go easy on GM if it does approve a bailout, but Congress has shown no sign of going easy on the auto giant. The idea of setting auto executives scurrying to produce a business plan is nothing short of brilliant. I've got suggestions for what such a plan should include. But first and foremost, it should be focused on one word and one word alone: green.
No more SUVs and gas guzzlers. Even in the truck division, GM could make its heavy-duty vehicles much more fuel efficient and price them so that they could only be purchased by commercial ventures. Private citizens who want to drive guzzlers should be priced out of the market and should instead be forced into low-mileage cars. GM got into this mess because instead of leading the consumer market in the right (read that: green) direction, it catered to America's sick addiction to gas guzzlers. Now's the time to lead, not cave in.
Dan Beuke of BusinessWeek writes:
End of discussion about higher mileage rules. For years, honest efforts to boost fuel efficiency were snuffed out in Washington by Detroit and its fellow travelers in Congress. Enough. I say we build right into bailout legislation a 40-mpg average for cars by 2020. That's up from 27.5 today, and a big step up from the 35 mpg goal that Detroit is supposed to achieve. I don't care how they get there: Build cars that burn corn cobs—or For Sale signs, for that matter. Just get there.
America cannot afford to have GM go under any more than it can afford to lose Citicorp and AIG and all the rest. And the market seemed to understand that on the day before Thanksgiving, when GM stock was up by about a third in midday trading on hints that Congress was closer to acceding to GM's come hither pleas. I know there's no such thing as fairness when it comes to business and money, but what's sauce for Citicorp ought to be sauce for GM, too.
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I'm all for having higher gas mileage vehicles, especially SUVs, we'd love to have such a thing.
In our small animal veterinary house call practice, we'd love to have an SUV that gets 30+ MPG, our current 2004 Ford Expedition with 116,000 miles gets at best 16 MPG. Why do we have such a vehicle? To carry the supplies, drugs and equipment we need to do the job, not to mention the occasional large dog that needs to be transported. Some weeks, we drive 1000 mles per week, its a nice comfortable vehicle that does what we need. Some people and businesses need such vehicles and always will.
Why should these be priced that only "commercial enterprises" could afford them? Such a scheme would only cause these businesses to raise prices to compensate - a hidden tax. Also, any SUV owner (business or not) already pays more in gas taxes and likely personal property tax not to mention sales tax on the initial purchase. $4.00+ gas cost $120.00 or more for a fill-up, yesterday was $1.59 per gallon a nice reprieve not likely to last.
When a replacement is needed (hopefully two or more years from now) we'll survey the available SUVs and hopefully be able to choose from a reliable very fuel efficient SUV type vehicle which the market will hopefully be (still) demanding.
John of VA 9:49AM December 01, 2008
There was no way that Americans could afford $4.00 gallon gas & $400K homes without something serious happening, like it did this past September. Step into reality, we put ourselves where we are today. And still, people just can't understand that NOW is the time to do something to stop the bleeding.
Erbe suggests a great point and one I thought of as well. It won't hurt anyone for us to get a car that averages 40 mpg. That's what GM should have done long ago - but profits get in the way of what's best for the country. Politics and politicians (with considerable stake in the petroleum industry) have not demanded that GM do something about gas mileage. The Asians and Germans can manage to do it - why, what would give them incentive to produce a car with high MPG? Wow, it shouldn't be any surprise - the price of gasoline.
Even if you don't agree with the term "green" for the myriad of reasons spouted here, think about your wallet. I scratched my head every time I paid $40 for gas that was only $20 for the same car two years ago. Double in two years? Should I have expected to pay $60 to fill up that same car in two more years? That's preposterous and fiscally insane! My pay won't double in two years, it didn't from two years ago. Should the petroleum industry make a profit - of course they should. Although, you should wonder how and why, instead of saying "WOW" when it's announced that a certain company it made $40 billion in 2007!
Erbe is right - if GM wants a federal bailout, Congress is in a position to expect/demand cars that get 40MPG. I don't agree that gas guzzlers should be banned to private citizens - let them buy them if that's what they want. Status, prestige, or whatever the motivation won't allow them to drive fiscally/environmentally smart cars. But these guzzlers should require a separate piece of paper to be signed when picking up their new vehicle - "NO BAILOUT ALLOWED".
But then like a good friend told me once, "You can't argue with stupid."
John Paulson of VA 2:42AM November 28, 2008
Human-caused climate change is being "promoted with religious zeal . there are fundamentalist organizations which will do anything to silence critics. They have their holy books, their prophet, Al Gore. And they are promoting a story which is frightening us witless using guilt and urging penance." It is difficult for non-scientists to engage in the debate over what causes climate change and whether or not it can be stopped by new taxes and slower growth, because dissenting voices are shouted down by true believers in the scientific community who claim they alone have the authority to speak.
The debate on Global Warming would indeed be over if the religious hysteria in support of it were made to subside.
RETROGUY of CA 1:00AM November 28, 2008
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You guys really need to get off his back.... he did nothing ethically wrong... the only thing he could have done was state that he was targeting cutthroat..and make it clear he wasnt targeting salmon (even though fishing techniques are identical). He didnt make it clear what he was targeting so you cannot just assume he was targeting salmon... because he caught salmon. Im almost positive the guy saw that the waters were open and went fishing just to see what he could catch. If you show up on the salt, you have a chance of catching a wide variety of fish which may or may not be legal to keep, if he had said that he caught a yelloweye rockfish (also not legal to keep and highly unlikely to be caught there) and released it, you people would not have jumped on his back...you would be commenting on how weird it was that he caught it. Regardless if he caught and released these fish...he was not targeting them..and did not keep them.. if the regulations were meant to completely close the waters to fishing than they would state just that..and people would not be permitted to dip any line in the water. | http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/forum/index.php?threads/spring-mid-sound-coho.13256/page-2 | dclm-gs1-261580002 | false | false | {
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A tense high-seas standoff between Chinese and Philippine ships has gripped the two Asian nations since April 10, when 12 Chinese fishing ships were caught by a Philippine naval ship in an ocean area near Scarborough Shoals in the South China Sea.
Both the Philippines and China claim sovereign rights over the area. While the Philippine naval ship tried to apprehend a crew from the Chinese fishing fleet, two Chinese-government-run maritime surveillance ships, Haijian 84 and Haijian 75, rushed into the fight to stop the Philippine vessel, creating a standoff that continues.
A week later, China dispatched its largest and most advanced “fishery administrative ship,” Yuzheng 310, to reinforce the Chinese fleet, further escalating tensions.
Since the beginning of the standoff, China’s war cries against the Philippines have saturated leading government-run Internet forums. Various high-ranking Chinese uniformed officers and military analysts have urged waging war to punish “the little country,” the Philippines.
The Philippine government remains adamant in claiming its sovereignty over the area and demands that Chinese ships go home.
But China blinked on Tuesday by recalling two of the three largest government ships from the area of the Scarborough Shoals as some behind-the-door diplomatic negotiations appeared to be in the works.
The Manila government responded by sending two more naval ships to the area to beef up its posture in the faceoff, causing China to explode yet again with protests and condemnation.
Meanwhile, the Philippines has vowed to take the issue to an international arbitration agency, a move China opposes.
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Fear of Hill move called unfounded
In November, a hearing before a House subcommittee delved into concerns that federally sanctioned online gambling could “cannibalize” state lottery revenue. A lottery director from New Hampshire testified its lottery and casinos tend to draw from the same customer pool, but poker players tend to be much younger than the lottery’s demographic of 35 to 60 years old. Therefore, cannibalization might be a more relevant question 20 years down the road.
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I disagree with the second line.
You need multiple strategies. Each guild is different and has a different set up, so it's better to have each guild choose his best strategy. When a guild can't get the sole strategy working, but find another one that suits their needs better, they will look down upon the wiki as being bad. It's something we want to avoid. Ths, it would be better to get multiple strategies...
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Amy Lord was kidnapped, robbed and murdered
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - Police believe Wilbraham native Amy Lord was a random target. 22News is working for you with tips on how to protect yourself if you're ever in a similar situation.
You never expect to be attacked, but there are some ways to be prepared.
Boston police say 24-year-old Amy Lord was kidnapped, car-jacked, robbed and murdered. They now believe she was beaten first inside her home before being taken to five different ATM's. We obviously don't know exactly what happened, but it is a situation you may want to be ready for.
Holyoke Medical Center's Dr. Karen Ferroni teaches women's self-defense classes. "You should be thinking what's available to me to use as a weapon. What's available to get help, is there a way for me to escape. What you don't want to ever do is get in a vehicle with someone and let them take you to a second location."
Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley agrees, "I ask you to watch out for your friends and your neighbors, and I especially want to urge people not to enter an automobile or a confined area with any stranger."
Western New England University takes part in the R.A.D.(Rape Aggression Defense System) program which teaches self-defense. It can get you ready for some dangerous situations.
"If it goes to the next step and you are being attacked, you have some physical skills to get out and you have a plan of action," said Judy Curran.
Curran works at Western New England and is a R.A.D. instructor.
"The minute you're grabbed from behind, your elbow will go up to get someone away and that's the benefit of physical training," said Curran.
Dr. Ferroni told 22News if you are attacked she recommends to keep fighting. "It's a horrible situation to be in and I don't there's any one strategy that works 100 percent of the time." | http://www.wwlp.com/news/local/hampden/how-to-protect-yourself-if-attacked | dclm-gs1-261680002 | false | false | {
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A South Heidelberg Township man waived a hearing Wednesday on charges the pickup truck he was driving struck and killed a 3-year-old girl near her home at 10th and Cotton streets.
Justin A. Taylor, 18, who waived the hearing before District Judge Michael J. Leonardziak, remained free on $50,000 bail. He is charged with vehicular homicide and related offenses.
Police said Taylor, who did not have a driver's license, abandoned his girlfriend's truck near Antietam Lake in Lower Alsace Township after hitting Ja-Lexy Bobet in the crosswalk a half-block from her home June 14. He called police the next day, saying the crash was an accident and that he fled because he was scared.
Police arrested him the day after the crash while his family said they were driving him to a lawyer's office to arrange to turn himself in.
"At this point we recognize the commonwealth has enough evidence to present to a jury and we'll present our defense at that point," said Jay M. Nigrini, Taylor's attorney.
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about serving on the united states commission on civil rights. set ultimate by president eisenhower in 1957. this is about a half an hour. >>> on your screen now on booktv is a well known face for c-span viewers. that's mary francis berry. professor at the university of pennsylvania. she's also the author of several books. at the university of pennsylvania today to talk to her about this book. "and justice for all." "and justice for all: the united states commission on civil rights and the continuing struggle for freedom in america" mary francis berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission begin and why? >> well, it started in 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with secretary of state about the way the united states was seen around the world because a lot of the racism that was going on that people would hear about and read about. and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening whether it was lynching or some kind of discrimination that took place in the country. so the idea was eisenhower -- said he was going to ask congress to set up
's civil rights defendants. if we simply wait for that train wreck to occur and prosecute, that's going to be like trying to cure cancer by building more hospitals. we can't do it that way. we've got to get into prevention mode. we've got to figure out strategies to prevent, we've got to empower school districts, we've got to empower parents, we've got to empower bystanders. when my daughter was bullied in 7th grade, her friends saw it, but they were paralyzed. they didn't know what to do and they did nothing. i don't begrudge thipl for that, they are wonderful kids, but they didn't have the tools to do anything about it. so we work on those issues and we work on those and our local school district was remarkable in their reaction. but in the work that we have done, ruslyn and i across the country, we have seen too many school districts, quite frankly, that have been slow to respond. and that is why we have to come together like this. that is why we have to get out of our lane and understand that we've got to make house calls. we've got to move beyond the traditional paradigm th
involved in civil rights activity. what was going on at the time and how did howard find himself in the middle of a lot of civil-rights politics? >> guest: in atlanta, and even though atlantis is seen certainly today as one of the less racist spots in the son of, in fact it was almost totally segregated when he arrived. but, by the way, he made sure that people never thought that he took a job that an all-black women's college because he was committed to the black struggle. we're talking about 1956 when the black struggle was just beginning. and though howard did care about black rights, he was not yet an activist on behalf of those rights. but in fairly short order he and his wife became very active. i mean, his students, the first white women came of little bit after howard's arrival and even then very few. dion, black women, many of whom have been brought up in rural areas, they were slightly stunned at this white teacher. there were few other white members, but howard was a genius of -- teacher. very informal, very easygoing. he prided himself on being good at conversation an
an argument that's insane, they jump on the civil rights movement and slavery and try to latch their argument on to the history of african-americans. >> as if they give a damn or be up in front. >> you don't remember ted nugent standing in front of everyone in the civil rights movement? >> i remember him getting out of going to vietnam and being afraid to carry a gun when his country asked him to carry gun in vietnam. he was a coward, and these guys always jump on slavery and the civil rights movement. if slaves hadn't been owned by other people, there wouldn't have been slavery either. >> this is -- what's happening now is something we've been talking about for five years, and that is the extreme right, let's call it what it is, has gone on about barack obama as a socialist, conspiracy theories about secret plans to take guns and dominate the country, and now because biden comes out and talks about high capacity magazines they say finally, we finally, they have something -- >> nailed him. >> to nail on, and they are -- >> i don't want to make fun of these people because 1% of the country, 5%
pleased to announce that our administration has now restored the civil rights of more virginians than any other administration in the history of virginia. [applause] here is the plan. here in virginia, in the cradle of democracy, we enact policies that actually work. in washington, we see debt, taxes, delays, blank, and this function. but here in virginia, we see results, solutions, job growth, surpluses, and cooperation. what a difference 90 miles can make. virginia is ranked as america's most livable state and the best state in which to make a living. i think you will know that every other major national business publications puts virginia in the top three best states in which to do business. while that is all good, there are many areas where i believe we must play a much stronger foundation for the future of our commonwealth. this session, i am asking you to work with me to get a few big things done that i believe will create more jobs and more opportunities for our people. when you leave here on time, in 45 days, i want to be able to report to our citizens that our schools are on the
, one that isn't based on a weapon. also, in the south i remember reading during the civil rights period where they were hosing people down with water and the water also had a lethal impact. so i am just saying that these weapons sound, well we are not using a gun or actual bullets. but it does not actually necessarily, i am not convinced that it necessarily always takes away the lethal aspect. and i think that we have plenty of examples where people of color and low income working people have particularly been victimized by that and there was even that incident here at the theatre where that young man was brandishing another little, i don't know, he was not brandishing a gun was killed. so, i'm just afraid that if then, the option comes to you as a taser that that is where the people will go automatically. instead of having like you said, the slow down, think more. whatever. i'm not, you know, and since tasers do have a lethal, there is a possibility of that and i'm just not... i just wish that the conversation were really different here. >> i agree, i don't disagree with what you are s
. >> michael myers, director of new york civil rights coalition to i wonder, commissioner, if you would comment, a change and progress and welfare reform policies. that no man in the home rule, -- [inaudible] because the mother and the children needed a system. so now in your current policy, you are encouraging -- [inaudible] what respect they change in social values? no more is there a father in the home. now families. so you can have a situation where you are defining parents of parenting and family such as depositing of head of the household. cycle that want you to talk about the requirements and context of mass unemployment. >> i will do both of those. first, i'm glad you raised the issue about father in the household. because the other way that we sort of try to tackle the single parent family issue is that we can see a little bit on marriage and say, well, let's work with the dead, with employment programs, programs that make enforcement program a little more forgiving and understanding so that we bring them into the system. we promote, we find parenting programs. so the idea is we can ge
in the 1700's which nobody would have ever predicted would end slavery 100 years later. the civil rights movement ups and downs. i think that it is important to always know that social movements are not simple narrative of arcs of one of success after another. it is not about occupying space. it is about confronting the enormous challenges we face in america and the globe. if we do not confront of these changes, we will not have a future. one way of thinking about maybe the history of the abs and a -- ebbs and flows of social movement is to say -- for those who write the demise of this movement, which there is always a gap or you can have hope. that is the importance of the beginning of the occupy movement. it actually is a source of hope that people responded to the changes in this country that really show that there are cracks that can be exploited. and i will stop. thank you. >> ok. >> nadine. >> she actually took my answer. [laughter] that's what i was going to say. so, there is some good overlap. i guess i will talk a bit about my experience with occupy and start off with a general
and vindicating civil rights in this country. i think that's what people want to see it doing. >> when posed this question whether this is politicizing the court, they say no it is a plea for realism which is difficult for people to muster in the face of the eye doll trithat talks about the justices and their role in an american democracy. is there anything to that? >> well, i think it's quite -- much more complicated situation when you look at what the supreme court does and it has. we only discussed a few cases. it decides 75 cases every year. and nearly half of those are decided unanimously by the court. so it really requires a much more comprehensive understanding of how the court and the justices do their job. >> all right. we'll have you back again with a little more time. patricia millet, good to talk with you. i have low testosterone. there, i said it. how did i know? well, i didn't really. see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive... but when i started losing energy and became moody... that's when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. we discussed all the sy
says his civil rights have been violated. >> you know, from what i've learned, hour they're treating me seasoned my dog is not fair. i think charlie deserves another chance. >> a new conference scheduled for 1:30 this afternoon where charlie's owner says he will make a fair and reasonable proposal to the city. >>> new this morning, an update to a story we have been following in the east bay. the oakland zoo says the alligator that was found just yesterday guarding a stash of pot inside a castro valley home has died. alameda county sheriff's deputies found the gator named mr. teeth when doing a routine probation check. it was in a tank, apparently guarding 34 pounds of dried marijuana. the gator was taken to the oakland zoo where it was placed in quarantine after its owner said it was very sick. that owner is now in jail. >>> some relief for a hayward mother whose daughter was kidnapped in 1998 and never seen again. a bone fragment found in a well in linden does not match michaele garecht's dna. the well is believed to be a dumping ground for the so-called speed freak killers. in a blog
of slain civil rights leader medgar evers, will deliver the invocation. as he did four years ago, president obama will use abraham lincoln's bible when he takes the oath of office. and this time, he will also use a bible of reverend martin luther king, jr. 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of king's march on washington and the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. >>> washington's national cathedral announced this week that it will begin performing same-sex marriages, effective immediately. the cathedral's dean gary hall admitted that gay marriage is a point of disagreement, but called the decision an effort to fully include gays and lesbians in the life of the church. last year, the episcopal church approved a blessing for same-sex marriages. it remains up to individual bishops to decide how, and if, the blessing is used in their dioceses. >>> we have a lucky severson story today on the enormous prison population in louisiana, 40,0 opleehind bars, and that state's unusual attempts to pay the costs -- private for-profit jails and even rodeos. but there's no change in one of the
to everyone in prison and preserve the civil rights. thirdly, to work to reestablish the infrastructure and compensate people who have suffered damages. >> we're joined in the studio but a number of the syrian national coalition. that is his first speech in months. >> i heard in the rhetoric -- i heard empty rhetoric. he spent the first part of the speech saying there are no partners for a critical solution. then he offered a political solution that called for crushing the opposition so he could have a free hand in controlling the country. he did not operate -- he did not offer to step down. that has to be there to start negotiations. listening to him, he talked about syria and equated syria with himself. defending syria is equal to defending himself and his control. it shows us is a dictator that cannot be negotiated with. ultimately, it will be a win and lose situation. >> he says he is looking for partners witwhom to discuss a way out of the conflict. who do you think he considers appropriate? >> he does not consider anyone appropriate. he did not recognize the opposition. he said th
's support of african american entrepreneurship, civil rights and political involvement began before 1958 when he took ownership of the bar and remained constant until his death in 2003. his influence extended far beyond the neighborhood to include the larger sphere of san francisco. in 1963, jordan became the first african american to campaign for mayor of san francisco, running on a progressive platform of social justice and racial equality. the bar was a centerpiece of jordan's neighborhood community building activities and he reviedd in the upstairs unit for nearly 50 years. jordan was known locally as the mayor of butcher town, which was the historic name for the area immediately surrounding the bar. his efforts to establish a place of community and legacy within the bayview area continues for which he is known to this day. the bar continues to be operated by the jordan family, who are here today, who support the land mark designation. this concludes my presentation, if you have any questions. >> thank you. supervisor cohen? >> i think that's it. >> let's open this up for publi
or the depression or vietnam or civil rights movement, or perhaps if your parents or grandparents came from another country and settled here what it's like. only five to ten percent of the ands come up. if i asked that same question in afghanistan or pakistan or africa 90% of ands come up and i think the as great tragedy we've lost that oral tradition and a rich tradition about folklore and heritage and faith and heritage. to honor that today i'd like to share with you a little story. it's a hard cover book that came out in march of 2006. anybody have a hard cover. wave it up here. you might not want it after i say this. i got to pick the title. three cups of tea but viking told me they would pick the subtitle and they picked one man mission to fight terrorism one school at a time. i objected because obviously there's- ways to fight tear riz m with education but i said i do this to promote peace and i started 8 years before 911 and this is about promoting peace through education. i've worked afghanistan and pakistan many years and i said we need to have a tribal council. i went to manhattan in the
. patterson was a legendary newspaper man. he wrote about the civil rights movement at a time when many southern newspapers avoided dealing with it. later he served as managing editor of the "washington post" and played a key role in the publication of the pentagon papers. one of his last projects, an attempt to cut thousands of words from the king james bible in hopes of making biblical stories a little easier for the average person to follow. eugene patterson was 89 years old. last night, mallory hagan a 23-year-old from brooklyn, new york, won the title miss america. she wins a $50,000 college scholarship and wears the crown for a year. the hollywood foreign press association hands out its golden globes tonight. the ceremony sets the stage for the academy awards on february 24. in the nfl play-offs last night quarterback collin capnick led the san francisco 49'ers to a convincing 45-31 win over the green bay packers. the play-offs continue this afternoon with atlanta hosting seattle followed by houston at new england. here on cbs. thousands took part in seattle's snow day yesterday.
unemployment rate. this under a president who is -- has set a renewed commitment to civil rights, the justice department civil rights commission, and still this unemployment rate is a disastrous highs. imagine a republican in office staying down the barrel of a -- >> neil: we know that 7.8% isn't great and a jobless claims report like the one we got is hardly anything to whoop about. but i think it's a double ininto itment when the media glosses over that. and i don't kerr it's a democrat or republican in os. office. we didn't gloss over bad numbers or foolhardy -- when president bush was in office. what is good for the goose better be good for the began depth depressant see it from media's portrayal of what is at best a bumpy recovery. >> there are plenty of outrages that get ignored by the press in every administration because the press, above all, is shallow and dumb. so they just miss certain things. the effect of certain programs. but the unemployment rate is pretty easy extra track and we know what it was 50 years ago, and we can look through the continuum and know that by historyical s
the civic duty that americans have along with their civil rights. so there is a second amendment, providing that the americans have the right to bear arms. and at the same time it has the language that the right to bear arms comes along with the civic duties. and that means we have to have responsible, reasonable laws. it doesn't mean that all people can own all sorts of guns. so why do you get the pushback from democrats? i think the simple answer is because there is a lot of money in assault weapons. and that money carries with it enormous, power with the lobbyists, and that shows up in republican and democratic offices. the pressure to allow gun manufacturers and dealers putting the guns on the street to continue to make the profits they want to make is an enormous pressure on republicans and democrats alike. and it will only change when the americans' feelings are stronger than that. >> in your article on melissa's point, you point out house republicans that are in certain states, 12 members in new jersey and new york. 13 pennsylvania, 44 more from midwest. 20 from the west coast. they
summer. >>> a guy flips the bird at a police officer and ends up under arrest. he filed a civil rights lawsuit against the cops. the case got thrown out. but now an appeals court has just reinstated it. that's the cue. let's bring in our legal guys, avery freedman, civil rights attorney, law professor, in my hometown of cleveland. richard herman, a new york criminal defense attorney and law professor, he's in las vegas. and first, let me start by giving a little more background on this case. it started in may of 2006 when john schwartz and his fiancee were drooifling through rural upstate new york. schwartz was riding shotgun and as they drove past a radar speed trap, schwartz gave the middle finger salute to a police officer in the village of st. johnsonville. the officer stopped the car, continue fronted schwartz, arrested him for disorderly conduct. there we are up to speed so to speak. avery, let's start with you and the cop's explanation about why he stopped the car. apparently the appeals court thinks it's a little far-fetched. right? >> yeah, yeah, the explanation by the police
civil rights leader medgar evers. >> athena jones joining us live from washington. >> thanks. >>> nearly 30 years since a woman from new york has won miss america. >> your new miss america is -- miss new york! >> there she is, 23-year-old mallory hagen accepting the crown at the miss america pageant in las vegas last night. she tap danced to james brown's "get up off that thing." there were no meltdowns, there were a few firsts. miss iowa let the audience know she has tourette's syndrome and one comment she made is getting a lot of attention on the web. >> i personally know people who have had to go to medical marijuana for their last -- their last resort for their health care and i completely agree with that, however, i do not think it should be used for anything but recreational use in health care. >> and then there was miss montana, the pageant's first contestant with autism. >>> a whole lot of people in hollywood hope to bring home an award tonight in particular, the golden globe, the star-studded awards show that will happen evening. nischelle turner joins us from beverly hills. the
that is a civil rights issue. an advance that is widely credits a a key key development for civil rights in this movement. watch this. >> soon after the protest at stonewall 40 years ago, the phone rang in the home of a soft spoken elementary school teacher named jean manford. it was 1:00 a.m. and it was the police. now her son, morty, had been at the stonewall the night of the raids. ever since he felt within him a new sense of purpose. so when the officer told jean that her son had been arrested, which was happening often to gay protesters, she was not entirely caught off guard. and then the officer added one more thing. and you know, he is homosexual. well, that police officer sure was surprised when jean responded, yes, i know. why are you bothering him? and not long after, jean would be marching side by side with her son through the streets of new york. she carried a sign that stated her support. people cheered, young men and women ran up to her, kissed her and asked her to talk to their parents. and this gave jean and morty an idea. so after that march, among the protests and the d
's final segment for kqed in 2011 was about singer and civil rights activist jimmy. he was a talented singer, songwriter and musician in his own right. his most recent cd "going to take us all" speaks to john's deepest belief. as we say good-bye, we share a bit of it with you now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the following kqed production was produced in high definition. [ ♪music ] >> yes, check, please! people. >> it's all about licking your plate. >> the food was just fabulous. >> i should be in psychoanalysis for the amount of money i spend in restaurants. >> i had a horrible experience. >> i don't even think we were in the same restaurant. >> leslie: and everybody, i'm sure, saved room for those desserts.
, because he thought it would take away from the civil rights fight that was gripping the country at the time. >>> it is the biggest celebration that happens once every four years. we are of course talking about the inauguration of the president. all the bands, the drill teams and the stand-ins are in the capital today, rehearsing for next week's second inauguration of barack obama barack obama. athena jones is in washington to give us a sneak preview, hello. i guess they started early and i suppose they're trying to make sure they work out all the kinks, you don't want to have anything go wrong on the big day, do you. >> certainly not, you think every four years they'll try to get it right. today we've seen fife and drums, military bands, we've seen people standing in for the vice president and for president obama, as well as the first lady. and two young girls standing in for sasha and mallia to make it as close to how they expect it to be as possible next week. there's a lot of excitement here in town. we had a chance to speak with the president of the chamber of commerce about
the civil rights of homeless people. that's the idea from a state assembly member but not everyone is on board with the idea. some of the more controversial provisions of the bill have been toned down already. cbs 5 reporter elissa harrington has details of the so-called homeless bill of lights. >> reporter: the homeless bill of rights would be all about freedom from discrimination. do you feel like as a homeless person, you have basic human rights? >> no. no. been treated like dogs. >> reporter: that type of sentiment is what's behind a proposed homeless bill of rights. san francisco assemblyman introduced the legislation calling for statewide recommendations. >> basically what it's saying is, is we're not going to usurp any communities local laws about it. but we'd like to provide direction for how to alleviate homelessness. >> reporter: that means a uniform plan in every california city of where the homeless can get health care. benefits, find a clean bathroom or place to stay. he wants the goal to be to help the homeless rather than criminalize them. >> i think there's been a t
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Auto Raja to release on May 24
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Ganesh-Bhamaa starrer Auto Raja is all set to hit the screens on May 24.
The film is directed by Udayprakash, who announced the project last year. The film is inspired by late actor Shankar Nag's Auto Raja and the project was mired with several controversies as the film went through several changes. Initially, it was actor Ajai Rao, who was roped in to play the lead role. He was later replaced by actor Ganesh. After leading lady Bhamaa confirmed, the hunt for second lead was on. Chaitra Chandranath, who is presently working in Darshan's Viraat was confirmed to play the second lead, which was later replaced by Deepika Kamaiah of Chingari fame. Finally, the movie began shooting last year and completed shooting recently.
The audio of the film was launched on February 24 by non other than Sri Sri Ravishankar. There are 5 songs in the film. While Ganesh, plays the role of an auto driver, Bhamaa plays his love interest, a traditional girl. Deepika plays an important role, a modern character in the film. While there were reports that the makers were looking at releasing the film this month, the final date has been announced as May 24. State elections would come to a close and even the IPL fever will come down by the end of May. Actor Ganesh is pinning his hopes high on this flick. His films that were released last year - Munjane opposite Manjari Phadnis, Romeo opposite Bhavana and Mr 420 opposite Pranita Subhash - didn't do well at the BO. Let's hope this film works wonders for the actor this year. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-04-21/news-interviews/38709609_1_deepika-kamaiah-bhamaa-film | dclm-gs1-261850002 | false | false | {
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0.028198 | <urn:uuid:ea0b0632-bca3-4aea-8e3c-d4ae8c7f2c47> | en | 0.976232 | When the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted hybrid running back/wide receiver Chris Rainey in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL draft, it was almost immediately clear what they were doing—finding their own version of Dexter McCluster.
McCluster, the speedy hybrid player for the Kansas City Chiefs, was drafted in 2010 when Todd Haley was head coach. It's not just a coincidence that Haley is now the Steelers' offensive coordinator, and they brought on a McCluster-esque player in Rainey.
To understand how the Steelers are going to use Rainey, one just has to look at how the Chiefs used McCluster during Haley's tenure. The two are extremely similar players; McCluster is listed at 5'8" and 170 pounds, while Rainey is a hair bigger at 5'9" and 175. Their smaller size limits them to certain specialized plays, but does not render them ineffective.
That's because they both possess blazing speed and are lucky enough to have good hands, making them useful wide receivers and kick and punt returners, in addition to performing their standard running-back duties.
In fact, a look at Rainey's 2011 stats as a Florida Gator and McCluster's as a Chief shows just how similar they are:
Sure, there's a big difference between the college game and the NFL, but the fact that Rainey got greater production out of fewer receptions and had over 300 more rushing yards than McCluster last year despite having just 57 more carries makes one thing fairly clear—Rainey is even faster than McCluster.
With Rainey's proven college success, his speed and Haley's track record of involving players of his profile on a regular basis, it's pretty easy to determine that the Steelers have big plans for Rainey in his rookie season.
The clues are easy to find. Here's video of McCluster:
And here's video of Rainey as a Gator:
The similarities between the two are pretty uncanny. And with Haley, having already coached McCluster, now handling Rainey's professional development, you can pretty much assume that the McCluster video is a fairly accurate preview of what Rainey is going to look like for the Steelers this year, and every year Haley remains the team's coordinator.
It's not often you can scout one player by looking at the accomplishments of another. But the similarities between McCluster and Rainey and the McCluster-Rainey-Haley connection make it almost too easy to see just how the Haley-helmed Steelers offense is going to use Rainey this season. | http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1232127-is-dexter-mccluster-a-case-study-of-what-chris-rainey-brings-to-the-steelers | dclm-gs1-261880002 | false | false | {
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Joe Johnson's arrival ensures an All-Star backcourt with Deron Williams. By teaming up, can these two reverse a few seasons of decline?
Brooklyn's frontcourt of Gerald Wallace, Brook Lopez and Kris Humphries can do a little bit of everything, but can they be one of the league's elite?
Behind the very solid starting five is a deep bench that features Mirza Teletovic, MarShon Brooks, C.J. Watson, Andray Blatche and others. How long will it take for this unit, and the roster in general, to gel?
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0.036856 | <urn:uuid:d37aa77b-ba0c-4628-b84e-c7ce4cad0fb3> | en | 0.985682 | During the NFL Scouting Combine, there's usually at least one person that puts up eye-popping numbers, especially when it comes to the 40-yard dash. You never expect a great number to come from an offensive lineman.
Terron Armstead, the tackle out of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, had a combine that didn't exactly look like one you would expect out of an offensive lineman. He had a 34.5-inch vertical jump, second in the combine for linemen, and a 9'4" broad jump, which placed fourth.
Oh, and he had a 4.71 in the 40-yard dash; the original unofficial time was even faster at 4.65. Only Lane Johnson came even close among other linemen, running a 4.72.
This means that the 6'5", 306-pound athletic freak was faster than the majority of quarterbacks who ran in the draft, Manti Te'o and Stepfan Taylor, a running back.
Sure, everyone has already given Armstead his 15 minutes of fame after his time was posted, but who exactly is Terron Armstead? More importantly, who is Armstead the football player, the man behind the speed?
Armstead's speed comes from his background in track and field. In fact, that's why he joined the Southwestern Athletic Conference college—coach Monte Coleman allowed him to be a two-sport star there, something no other coach would permit.
In four years at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Armstead was a three-time All-SWAC tackle, and on top of that he was an eight-time champ in track and field, excelling particularly in the shot put.
Suffice it to say, Armstead is a natural athlete, and he's far from your typical lineman. Will his athleticism translate to the NFL in his position? A big, fast guy is all well and good, but he does have to know how to play.
Game film of Armstead in 2012
He was the starting left tackle throughout his senior year and played in 37 career games. He played lesser competition than most top linemen in the draft. Eric Fisher faced mediocre competition with Central Michigan, but at least he faced FBS teams, unlike Armstead.
His first big break came in the East-West Shrine Game, where he showed that he can handle top competition at the next level, and that the level of competition he faced should not be an issue.
He had 31 bench press reps in the combine, which was about average for linemen. Beyond that, he can get bull-rushed inside, something he's susceptible to.
The good news for him is that he would primarily be concerned with pass-rushers on the outside, and that plays into his strength, as his speed and reflexes show that he can keep up with NFL players.
Even better for him is that he can make plays downfield. Clearly, he's fast enough that he can keep up with a running back if needed.
NFLDraftScout.com compares him to Joe Staley, who has the intensity to be a top tackle in the league despite not playing against top teams. While a stretch, he has shown the tools to make that a nice ceiling to reach for.
Armstead was originally projected to be a third-round draft pick, late before the East-West Shrine Game and early after. After a great combine, he has shot into the second round.
He's now at the point where he can't gain on his fellow tackles. Luke Joeckel is the No. 1 guy, and Eric Fisher, Lane Johnson and D.J. Fluker will all likely go in the first round.
He can, however, continue to make waves with a great pro day and solidify himself as the best Day 2 lineman available. If he falls to round three, then I would be shocked if he slid past the first five teams.
At the very least, his floor is the Raiders with pick 66, even with Al Davis gone, and he could go as high as the 40s with a great pro day.
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Unions, Pt. II: Class Act
Unions. They're about banding together to leverage greater control over our work. The issues are about power and money--but also about social class divisions.
Stickin' to the Union: Why Teachers Like Me Support Unions
We organize--because without allied strength, we have even less control over the difficult professional work, for which we must accept accountability.
The Pink Slip Club
If school reformers really wanted the best possible teachers in every classroom, they'd select and prepare them carefully, support them diligently and fight to retain them.
This is What Democracy Looks Like
Bad Teacher Boogie
Rather than spending energy trying to ferret out the inadequate teachers, we might focus on producing, and retaining, genuinely excellent educators, creating a culture of teaching expertise.
Merits and Demerits
Once the concept of merit pay takes hold, who knows what could be incented?
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Last summer, Womanthology was big news across the comic book scene, back when the mega-anthology featuring an all-female team of creators was only a concept, the brainchild of comic book artist Renae De Liz, inspired by a tweet from Jessica Hickman, who became one of the book's editors. The Kickstarter campaign had immediate support. reaching the initial $25,000 goal in less than a day. Famed comic book creators pitched in to help the cause. Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith and Steve Niles are just a few who offered rewards for donations.
Others in the industry criticized the project, openly wondering where the money was going. Bloggers weighed the pros and cons of the fundraiser for a book that was donating its proceeds to charity, with Comic Book Alliance offering one of the most thorough analyses. Still, by the time the Kickstarter campaign closed in early August, Womanthology drew more than $100,000 in donations.
Womanthology's successes haven't gone unnoticed. IDW, which published the book, recently picked up a five-issue run of a new Womanthology series, Space.
In March, Womanthology hit the streets with contributions from about 150 artists and writers, ranging from first-time creators to established names like Gail Simone, Fiona Staples and Camilla d'Errico. At $50, it's a comic book shop splurge, but it's a necessary one. I finally picked up a copy last week and devoured it in two days. The coffee table-sized, hardcover tome undoubtedly will become one of the most influential testaments to comic book art for the decade. But not for the obvious reasons.
Much has been made of Womanthology's all-female cast of contributors. This is important for the very specific reason that women are frequently underrepresented within the industry, as creators, characters and readers. Womanthology bulldozes the myth that girls simply aren't interested in comics. There are far too many women of all ages involved in the project, and supporting the effort, for that fallacy to hold water. But gender is the least interesting aspect of the project.
What's astounding about Womanthology isn't that it gave women a voice, it's that it gave creators of varying, and often non-mainstream, styles a pulpit to tell their stories their way. With "Heroes" as the subtitle for the book, it would have been incredibly easy to follow the line, "Let's show everybody that we can do what the boys do" and stick to the same traditional superhero comics that tend to dominate the geek scene. With Womanthology, though, the theme is taken loosely. There are stories about everyday heroes teaching young people important lessons about body image and dealing with bullies. There are science fiction and supernatural tales. And, yes, there are superhero stories, but they aren't necessarily what you would expect from the genre.
Part of the project involved pairing writers with artists, which allowed for women who didn't always know each other, who often weren't from the same part of the country (or the world), to collaborate. The results are always stunning, always fluid. The mix of artistic styles is commendable as well. The influence of everything from manga to French comics, Sunday funny pages to web comics, is evident in Womanthology.
All that would have made Womanthology a winner, but the team stepped up the project by making the book a learning tool as well. Sprinkled throughout the comics are "pro tips" from the contributors, dealing with everything from preparing a portfolio to structuring your workday. There is an entire section of the book dedicated to how-to articles that explain the basics of writing, drawing and coloring comics. There are also interviews with several of the creators featured in the book and profiles of a handful of pioneering women in the industry. Every contributor has a small bio and photo included, which helps give an identity to people who often maintain a level of anonymity.
Womanthology isn't just a comics anthology. It's a call to action. You'll read it and, hopefully, will become inspired to finally take on the big project that has been in your head for months or years. You'll be compelled to make your art your way. It takes an impressive book to accomplish that.
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Trust, Precarious Treasure
by Trudy Govier
The human capacity for trust is amazing. When we trust, we move from limited evidence to expectations and actions culminating in a complex web of emotions, beliefs, and attitudes. Those attitudes structure our interpretations of other people, situations, and human nature as such. Despite the vicissitudes of our sometimes fractured social order, most of us maintain considerable trust much of the time. Overall, we have positive expectations about what other people will do; we are open to other people, and feel a basic confidence and security about how the world works. We count on other people fearlessly and confidently; we allow ourselves to depend on other people, often other people whom we know not at all. To a far greater extent than we normally realize, trust is implicit in our daily lives and our social world. Most of the time it does not betray us.
Human institutions are constructed by human beings and founded on human roles, norms, and decisions. Our boundless interdependence and mutual vulnerability in societies is fascinating. To a large extent we cope with complexity, ambiguity, and risk because we trust each other. Life is a boundless set of social interactions made possible by trust between and among people and, because that trust is pre- carious, sometimes made desperately complicated and tense by distrust and a lack of trustworthiness.
As a matter of verbal usage, trust and distrust are not restricted to human beings. We speak of trusting or not trusting many kinds of things: other people, the government, leaders, foreign leaders, other countries, the postal service, our senses, forces of nature, forces of history, pets, cars, computers, brakes, and banking machines. However, this book is not about trusting God, animals, or machines. It is about people trusting other people, whether friends and intimates or strangers, whether as individuals or in groups.
Trust is fundamentally an attitude, based on beliefs and feelings and implying expectations and dispositions. Consider, for instance, what is involved in trusting a friend. When we trust a friend, we believe that she is likely to act kindly and benevolently towards us, that she is unlikely to harm us, certainly would not deliberately harm us, that she is well-disposed toward us. We expect our friend to lend a sym- pathetic ear, to co-operate in making joint arrangements, to help out in time of crisis. There are many terrible things people can do to each other, and when we trust a friend we assume confidently - without thinking of it - that she will not do any of these things. We assume that she will not break confidences, tell our secrets, abuse our children, or try to steal our job. To trust a friend is to believe that her motivations (towards ourselves) emerge from affection, care, and concern, and not from disue, ambition, or egoism.
Trust also involves a sense of the other's competence. If we trust a friend to give advice, or care for our house or pet, we believe that she is capable of doing these tasks. If we trust her to give us comments on an essay, we believe that she is competent to do the job and that she will do it with integrity, with our best interests at heart.
Trust is typically founded on a sense of the sort of person the other is, with regard to motivations and to competence. To trust a friend is to regard her as a person of integrity, one who is sincere, caring, and dependable, both in general and in the context of this particular relationship. Trust implies expectations that have an open-ended character. When we trust a friend, we do not have a list of all the things she is supposed to do; we trust her to do what is fitting and appropriate to the circumstances and to our relationship, as situations change and issues and needs arise. When we trust, we take risks and are vulnerable. There are no guarantees, and it would be an indication of lack of trust to look for them.
Trusting another, we are willing to go ahead without a guarantee. We feel that we can rely or depend on the other, even though there is always some possibility that he or she will act in unexpected ways, or even betray us. Trust affects our interpretations of other people, our sense of what they are doing. For example, if we hear that a trusted friend has been disloyal, callous, or cruel, we will not at first be inclined to take the story at face value. If, however, we hear such things about someone we distrust, we are likely to believe them and to regard them as manifestations of serious flaws of character.
Trust is not an all-or-nothing thing. We may trust or distrust to various degrees (we may trust some people more than others). Furthermore, trust and distrust are often relativized to specific roles or contexts. We will typically trust friends to care for us, to respond in emergencies, to be fairly reliable about arrangements and appointments, and to keep confidences. But even good friends we may not trust in every respect. Suppose, for example, we know that a good friend is somewhat unreliable about money; though trusting her in general, we might not trust her to repay small loans. We are likely to regard her as a good friend, one who is trustworthy overall but not likely to repay us. We should not give her money unless we are prepared to see it as, in effect, a gift. Trust on the whole does not mean trust in every context.
Logically, contexts can be separated, and in practice we sometimes do this, as the previous example shows. Repaying money is different from driving; babysitting is different from giving competent advice about an examination. But often contexts are not fully separate, especially so far as distrust is concerned. Distrust readily seeps from one context to others. If a friend lies about a small matter or lets us down on a holiday arrangement, we may begin to distrust her in other con- texts, wondering whether she has a dishonest streak or does not care enough about us to make sure our plans work. Such seepage of distrust is quite natural, but easily destructive to relationships.
Though the word "trust" is often used vaguely and has a kind of warm, fuzzy aura about it, there is nevertheless a kind of logic or epistemology to trust. It is not entirely a matter of feeling and emotion. Trust presupposes beliefs, and often those beliefs are based on evidence. The case of trusting people 'immediately" or "instinctively" is a special one, and even here we probably have evidence - we just do not reflect on what it is, or articulate it. There are good reasons for deeming people trustworthy or untrustworthy in various respects, and there seems to be considerable agreement on these. People who are honest, reliable, and caring are trustworthy. People who are dishonest, manipulative, and uncaring are untrustworthy. We make ethical and epistemic judgments about trust, saying that we trusted "too much" or 'too little" in given cases, referring to people as too trusting (gullible) or too suspicious (paranoid). Often there are reasonable grounds for such judgments.
As exemplified in the case of trusting a friend, the attitude of trust involves the following features: A expectations of benign, not harmful, behaviour based on beliefs about the trusted person's motivation and competence; B an attribution or assumption of general integrity on the part of the other, a sense that the trusted person is a good person; c a willingness to rely or depend on the trusted person, an acceptance of risk and vulnerability; and D a general disposition to interpret the trusted person's actions favorably.
Trust exists in various degrees: we may, for instance, trust someone only a little, but more than we used to. And trust is often relative to particular contexts and ranges of action: we might trust someone in the role of snow-shoveller but not that of baby-sitter. Sometimes we trust absolutely - but that is not every case.
In trusting another person whom we know, our expectations are typically based on our experience with him or her and what we know from that experience. But when there is trust, our expectations go beyond what evidence proves: in new situations, from trusted agents whom we believe to have a capacity to initiate actions, we expect decent and caring behaviour. We have not encountered these people in such situations before; they could act badly, but we confidently believe that they will not. This kind of trust has been called thick trust.
Trust may exist not only between intimates, lovers, friends, and colleagues who know each other well and share many experiences, feelings, and problems but also between people who we have only a slight personal relationship. This kind of trust has been called thin trust. We trust many people to whom we relate in the context of social roles: the dentist, the hairdresser, the school principal, and so on. And we may implicitly trust people we know not at all - as when we buy and eat meat from a supermarket, take an airplane, or enter a hospital for surgery. Needless to say, trust in such contexts has less emotional depth and richness than trust in contexts of sexual and personal intimacy, friendship, or collegiality. Trust in these more distanced contexts is based on a relatively restricted range of experience with the other person or even - as in the cases of supermarket shop- ping and driving - on no relationship with these particular people at all.
It makes sense to speak of trust (and of distrust) over this variety of contexts. The attitudes called trust in each case are in central ways similar to trust between friends or intimates in involving confident expectations of benign action (competent and well motivated); an overall sense that the other person or party is basically decent and will act decently towards us; acceptance of risk and vulnerability; and dispositions to interpret the actions of the other in a positive way. Although the feelings accompanying trust vary considerably between intimate and less intimate contexts and depending on who the trusted party is, the basic attitudes and beliefs - dare I say the essence, or logical core of trust - remain the same.
We may also trust or fail to trust ourselves. For example, I may trust myself to give a lecture after minimal preparation but not to care for a dangerously ill child when I am tired. Attitudes of trust and distrust can meaningfully be extended to institutions in which various social roles are, as it were, meshed together (the government, the postal service, the university, the United Nations) and to collectivities such as nation-states. We may in some general sense trust the university and distrust the postal service; trust Britain and not trust Germany. Canada's foreign policy may indicate trust of the United Nations, less trust of Libya. We can speak in senses more or less extended of trusting seeing-eye dogs, donkeys on mountain paths, word-processing systems, "technology," or "science." But that is not the focus here.
What we live for is not It, but You. For all his emphasis on interpersonal relations, encounter, and dialogue, Buber says relatively little about issues of trust. But clearly trust is implicitly central to his out- look on the world, according to which what is most important hap- pens in "the between" - between I and You. For honest and open dialogue to occur, You and I must trust each other to speak truthfully and listen genuinely.
The attitude of trust presupposes inductively grounded beliefs and confident expectations that go further than strict induction would warrant. So it presupposes something we well know: we are creatures who reason inductively, and we have a tendency to extend our confidence beyond the evidence. If we know that someone has acted honestly on five occasions, we have a great tendency to infer that she will act honestly on a sixth; we go further to believe that she will act honestly on every occasion similar to the five we have known; many of us even have some inclination to believe that she will act honestly on every occasion, period. And we like to confirm beliefs we already hold, so we build more trust on the trust we have. A parallel phenomenon exists, sometimes counter-productively, for distrust, which also tends to build on itself. Trust is possible because we are inductive creatures who extend induction to provide ourselves with confident expectations about the future. Many of these expectations are about other people.
Trust presupposes that we make value judgments about our situation in the world; we have a sense of what would be good for us and what bad. We have a sense of what we need in the world, of how we could be vulnerable and hurt. Yet, even knowing or sensing our vulnerability, we are not always fearful. We are able to relax enough so that we do not continually struggle to defend and protect ourselves. We have some sense of other people. Who are they? What sorts of people are they? What are they likely to do? We are to a reasonable degree capable of understanding their actions, and we come to have beliefs about the likely motivations behind those actions and what kind of character or what degree of integrity is implied. In some cases our beliefs are based on discrete evidence, in others on a kind of holistic intuition or feeling about what sort of person the other is.
It may sound unattractive to speak of judging and assessing people, summing them up, thinking what they are likely to do, estimating how their attitudes and actions might be beneficial or detrimental to us. But to some degree we do this sort of thing whenever we reflect on whether or not to trust another person. And a sense of the other's character and fundamental intentions is implicit in any case of trust; we have, in some sense and by some means, come to believe or assume that the trusted other is fundamentally a good person who is unlikely to harm us.
Trust of other people is made possible by our inductively extended beliefs, our responses to others, our sense of ourselves, our position in the world, and our values. Trust is possible because we are not only knowing and believing creatures but valuing creatures who relate in a profound and profoundly natural way to others.
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In telecommunications, the dropped-call rate (DCR) is the fraction of the telephone calls which, due to technical reasons, were cut off before the speaking parties had finished their conversation and before one of them had hung up (dropped calls) This fraction is usually measured as a percentage of all calls.
A call attempt invokes a call setup procedure, which, if successful, results in a connected call. A connected call may be terminated (disconnected) due to a technical reason before the parties making the call would wish to do so (in ordinary phone calls this would mean before either of the parties has hung up). Such calls are classified as dropped calls. In many practical cases this definition needs to be further expanded with a number of detailed specifications describing which calls exactly are counted as dropped, at what stage of the call setup procedure a call is counted as connected, etc. In modern telecommunication systems, such as cellular (mobile) networks, the call setup procedure may be very complex and the point at which a call is considered successfully connected may be defined in a number of ways, thus influencing the way the dropped-call rate is calculated.
The dropped-call rate in conventional (so-called land-line) networks is extremely low and is significantly less than 0.01%. In mobile communication systems using radio channels the dropped-call rate is higher and may range for commercial networks between 0.1% and a few percent. The main reasons for dropped calls in mobile networks are lack of radio coverage (either in the downlink or the uplink), radio interference between different subscribers, imperfections in the functioning of the network (such as failed handover or cell-resellection attempts), overload of the different elements of the network (such as cells), etc.
The dropped-call rate is one of the key performance indicators (KPI) used by the network operators to assess the performance of their networks. It is assumed to have direct influence on the customer satisfaction with the service provided by the network and its operator. The dropped-call rate is usually included, together with other technical parameters of the network, in a key performance indicator known as call retainability.
The operators of telecommunication networks aim at reducing the call dropped rate as much as practical and affordable. In mobile networks this is achieved by improving radio coverage, expanding the capacity of the network and optimising the performance of its elements, all of which may require considerable effort and significant investments on the part of the network operator. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropped-call_rate | dclm-gs1-262290002 | false | false | {
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Eddie Arcaro
Eddie Arcaro.jpg
Occupation Jockey
Born (1916-02-19)February 19, 1916
Cincinnati, Ohio,
United States
Died November 14, 1997(1997-11-14) (aged 81)
Career wins 4,779
Major racing wins, honours and awards
Major racing wins
Jockey Club Gold Cup (10)
Wood Memorial Stakes (9)
Suburban Handicap (8)
Kentucky Oaks (4)
Kentucky Derby (5)
Preakness Stakes (6)
Belmont Stakes (6)
Racing awards
United States Triple Crown (1941 & 1948)
United States Champion Jockey by earnings
(1940, 1942, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1958)
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1953)
Big Sport of Turfdom Award (1974)
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1958)
Eddie Arcaro Stakes at Hialeah Park
Significant horses
Whirlaway, Citation, Ponder, Hoop Jr., Challedon, Kelso, Nashua, Mark-Ye-Well, Hill Prince, Bold Ruler, Sword Dancer, Real Delight
George Edward Arcaro (February 19, 1916–November 14, 1997), known professionally as Eddie Arcaro, was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U.S. Triple Crown twice. He is widely regarded as the greatest jockey in the history of American Thoroughbred horse racing. Arcaro was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of an impoverished taxi driver. His parents, Pasquale and Josephine, were Italian immigrants and his father held a number of jobs, including taxi driver and operator of an illegal liquor enterprise during Prohibition. Arcaro was born prematurely, and weighed just three pounds at birth; because of this, he was smaller than his classmates and was rejected when he tried out for a spot on a baseball team. His full height would reach just five-foot, two inches. Eventually nicknamed "Banana Nose" by his confreres, Arcaro won his first race in 1932 at the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico. In 1934, the inaugural year of Narragansett Park, Arcaro was a comparative unknown who rode many of his early career races at 'Gansett.[1]
American classic races[edit]
Arcaro won his first Kentucky Derby in 1938 aboard Lawrin. He is tied with Bill Hartack for most Derby wins with five, and has the most wins in the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes with six. He won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1941 on Whirlaway and again in 1948 on Citation. His other Kentucky Derby wins were Hoop Jr. (1945) and Hill Gail(1952).
Major stakes wins[edit]
Arcaro also won the Suburban Handicap eight times, the Wood Memorial Stakes nine times and the Jockey Club Gold Cup ten times. In international competition, at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto Arcaro won the 1953 Queen's Plate (Canada's most prestigious race); at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland, he won the 1954 Washington, D.C. International against the best horses and riders from Europe. In 1953 Arcaro was voted the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, and in 1958 he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Active in jockey affairs, Arcaro was a driving force behind the creation of the Jockeys' Guild. He retired in 1962, due to severe bursitis in his arm. During his career Arcaro rode in 24,092 races and won 4,779, with record setting earnings of $30,039,543. After working as a television commentator on racing for CBS and ABC, he was a public relations officer for the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas before retiring to Miami, Florida. He also worked as a spokesman for the Buick Motor Division of General Motors, for which he voiced the well-known phrase "If you price a Buick, you'll buy a Buick." For many years, he was the proprietor of a popular Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Eddie Arcaro died in 1997. His body was cremated and his ashes were interred in the columbarium at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery in Miami. Today, he remains one of the best-known jockeys in the history of horse racing, called "the Master" for his riding skills, good sense of pace and the ability to switch his whip from one hand to the other with ease during a race.[2]
1. ^ Daily Racing Form 6/29/53
2. ^ Eddie Arcaro at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Retrieved 2011-09-29.
Preceded by
Sterling Young
Jockeys' Guild President
Succeeded by
Sam Boulmetis
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Grey Teal
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Subfamily: Anatinae
Genus: Anas
Species: A. gracilis
Binomial name
Anas gracilis
Buller, 1869
Anas gibberifrons gracilis
The Grey Teal (Anas gracilis) is a dabbling duck found in open wetlands in New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands.
This is a mottled brown duck with white and green flashes on its wings. The male and female Grey Teal share the same colouration, in contrast to the related Chestnut Teal, whose male and female are strikingly different. The Grey Teal has almost identical colouration to the female Chestnut Teal and the Grey can only be distinguished by its lighter coloured neck and paler face. Juveniles are paler than adults, especially on the head.
The Grey Teal nests near its favoured freshwater lakes and marshes, usually on the ground, but also in tree holes or rabbit burrows.
The Grey Teal is a gregarious species. In Australia it is nomadic, rapidly colonising suitable habitat following rain. In 1957, large numbers fled Australia, moving to New Zealand to escape drought.
It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Sunda Teal, as Anas gibberifrons gracilis.
Widespread throughout its large range, the Grey Teal is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1]
It is often mistaken for a female Chestnut Teal, due to similar colouring.
Stanthorpe, S.Queensland, Australia
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LANC or Local Application Control Bus System, also known as Control-L is a protocol by Sony used to synchronize camcorders and cameras.[1]
LANC is a terminal on Sony as well as other manufacturers' camcorders which enables other accessories like Tripods with a control handle to control the camera with a wire connected to a LANC port without dealing with buttons on the camera itself. It is also available on many still cameras, where it is called ACC (the DSC-xxxx series of cameras).
The bi-directional protocol is made up of 8 (8-bit) bytes, usually clocked by the camera at 9600 bit/s. Each frame of bytes occurs in sync with the beginning of each video frame (NTSC or PAL). The physical connector is either a 5-pin mini-DIN connector and jack[2] or a 2.5mm 3-conductor phone jack and plug (TRS connector).[3]
In newer Sony digital Handycam(R) camcorders with 10-pin multi-A/V remote terminal jacks, LANC is available, but not directly accessible without making a custom/home-made adapter cable or a pre-made cable by Sony Part# J-6082-535-A. Sony RM-AV2 Remote Commander is an example of a LANC controller which plugs into the Sony 10-pin multi-A/V remote terminal jack.[4]
Sony "Control-S" is a similar interface, but it is uni-directional providing control-only, and not feedback from the device being controlled.
Panasonic Control-M is a similar 5-pin mini-DIN bi-directional interface and protocol which has a different implementation.
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0.032885 | <urn:uuid:e4f4d489-d806-49e6-8595-b9a64fb7ffac> | en | 0.962777 | Snack food
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"Gorp" ("good old raisins and peanuts") is a trail mix made with peanuts, raisins and M&M's
A picture of some low-calorie snacks. These include: bell peppers, endives, beetroots, apples, asparagus and tomatoes
Plain snacks like plain cereals, pasta and vegetables are also mildly popular, and the word snack has often been used to refer to a larger meal involving cooked or leftover items. Six-meal eating is a form of eating that interjects healthy snacks in between small meals, to stave off hunger and promote weight loss.
Nutritional concerns[edit]
Snack foods are often subjectively classified as junk food because they typically have little or no nutritional value,[citation needed] and are not seen as contributing towards general health and nutrition.[citation needed] With growing concerns for diet, weight control and general health,[citation needed] government bodies like Health Canada[2] are recommending that people make a conscious effort to eat more healthy, natural snacks – such as fruit, vegetables, nuts and cereal grains – while avoiding high-calorie, low-nutrient junk food.[citation needed]
A 2010 study showed that children in the United States snacked on average six times per day, approximately twice as often as American children in the 1970s.[3]
Types of snack foods[edit]
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0.029432 | <urn:uuid:34bc7632-0280-41e5-90a2-a50faf4bbc1c> | en | 0.985759 | Bladys of the Stewponey/Appendix
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Bladys of the Stewponey by Sabine Baring-Gould
In 1769 Susannah Lott was burned for the murder of her husband, at Canterbury, and Benjamin Buss, her paramour, was hanged for participation in the crime.
Catherine Hayes was burned alive in 1726. Her son, Billings, who had assisted her in the murder of her husband, was hung. "An iron chain was put round her body, with which she was fixed to a stake near the gallows." On these occasions, when women were hanged for petty treason, it was customary to strangle them, by means of a rope passed round the neck, and pulled by the executioner, so that they were dead before the flames reached the body. But this woman was literally burnt alive: for the executioner letting go the rope sooner than usual, in consequence of the flames reaching his hands, the fire burnt fiercely round her, and the spectators beheld her pushing away the faggots, while she rent the air with her cries and lamentations. Other faggots were instantly thrown on her; but she survived amidst the flames for a considerable time, and her body was not reduced perfectly to ashes in less than three hours.—"Chronicles of Crime, or the New Newgate Calendar." G. C. Pelham, June 1840.
"From a prison chaplain's MS. private prayer-book I copy, that in 1732 a woman was hanged, taken down while the body was warm, and then burnt; and this is recorded as if the process were usual, and as if women were not burnt alive then. J. HODGSON."
A poor girl of fifteen was burnt at Heavitree, near Exeter, on July 29, 1782, for poisoning her master, Richard Jarvis, with arsenic. A broadside ballad was circulated among the crowd who witnessed the execution, of which this is the last verse:—
"When to the fatal stake I come
And dissipate in flame,
Let all be warn'd by my sad doom,
To shun my sin and shame.
May I thus expiate my crime,
And whilst I undergo
The fiery trial here on earth,
Escape the flames below."
A woman was burnt at Winchester in 1783. A writer in "Notes and Queries," June 1, 1850, says: "A gentleman lately deceased told me the circumstances (of a case in 1789) minutely. I think that he had been at the trial, but I know that he was at the execution, and saw the wretched woman fixed to the stake, fire put to the faggots, and her body burnt. But I know two persons still alive who were present at her execution, and I endeavoured in 1848 to ascertain from one of them the date of the event. I made a note of his answer, which was to this effect: I can't recollect the year, but I remember the circumstance well. It was about sixty-five years ago. I was there along with the crowd. I sat on my father's shoulder, and saw them burn her. . . . They fixed her neck by a noose to the stake, and then set fire to the faggots and burnt her."
This woman was Christiana Murphy, alias Budman, convicted of coining. She was stood on a stool, and the stool was removed from under her just before fire was put to the faggots.
A writer in "N. and Q.," August 10, 1850, says: "I will state a circumstance that occurred to myself about 1788. Passing in a hackney coach up the old Bailey to West Smithfield, I saw the unquenched embers of a fire opposite Newgate. On my alighting, I asked the coachman, 'What was that fire in the Old Bailey over which the wheel of your coach passed?' 'Oh, sir,' he replied, 'they have been burning a woman for murdering her husband.'"
A full account of the execution is in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for 13th March and 18th March 1789. "This is the execution at which I was present," says another writer in "N. and Q." "Eight of the malefactors suffered on the scaffold, then known as the New Drop. After they were suspended, the woman, in a white dress, was brought out of Newgate alone, and after some time spent in devotion, was hung on the projecting arm of a low gibbet, fixed at a little distance from the scaffold. After the lapse of a sufficient time to extinguish life, faggots were piled around her, and over her head, so that the person was completely covered. Fire was then set to the pile, and the woman was consumed to ashes."
In the "Gentleman's Magazine" for June 21, 1786, is the account of the burning of Phoebe Harris for counterfeiting the coin of the realm.
In Harrison's "Derby and Nottingham Journal," September 22, 1779, is an account of another such sentence: "On Saturday, two persons were capitally convicted at the Old Bailey of High Treason—viz., Isabella Condon, for coining shillings in Coldbath Fields, and John Field, for coining shillings in Nag's Head Yard, Bishopsgate Street. They will receive sentence to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution the woman to be burnt, and the man to be hanged."
From Angliæ Notitia, by Edward Chamberlain, LL.D., F.R.S., 1676. P. 44:—"Petit Treason is when a servant killeth his master or mistress, or a wife killeth her husband. The punishment for a woman convicted of high treason or petit treason is all one, and that is to be drawn and burnt alive." P. 292:—"The Law allots the same punishment to a woman that shall kill her husband as to a woman that shall kill her father or master, and that is petit treason, to be burnt alive."
The Shrewsbury case was, I believe, the last in England. On May 10th, 1790, Sir Benjamin Hammett, in the House of Commons, called attention to the then state of the law. He said that it had been his painful office and duty in the previous year to attend the burning of a female, he being at the time Sheriff of London; and he moved to bring in a Bill to alter the law. He showed that the Sheriff who shrank from executing the sentence of burning alive was liable to a prosecution, but he thanked Heaven that there was not a man in England who would carry such a sentence literally into execution. The executioner was allowed to strangle the woman condemned to the stake, before flames were applied; but such an act of humanity was a violation of the law, subjecting executioner and Sheriff to penalties. The Act was passed 30 George III. C. 48.
It is a startling thought that in the time of our grandfathers such atrocities could have been permitted by law. We move so rapidly now, and the swing of the pendulum has been so greatly into the other extreme, that we forget that little over a century has elapsed since the last stake was kindled in England about the body of a wretched woman. | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bladys_of_the_Stewponey/Appendix | dclm-gs1-262510002 | false | false | {
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June 12, 3:00 PM ET
Fantasy Sports w/James Quintong
James Quintong
(3:01 PM)
Good afternoon, everyone! Hope all is well. Let's get to your questions. But first, Joe Mauer just tied his single-season high in homers with 13, and he's been back for less than a month and a half. Wow.
Dr. Chris (KC, MO)
what has been the deal with greinke in his last few starts?
James Quintong
(3:03 PM)
Greinke has just gotten back to more mortal levels. It was expecting a bit much for him to be great every time out, and it's not like Thursday's start was all that bad (last Friday's was, though). He's still one of the better pitchers this year. I wouldn't worry all that much.
Fred (Harlem)
I tried to sell high on O-Dog and buy low on Atkins. Now this lack of PT has me regretting the deal. is this benching short term and is Atkins going to heat up and give me the bombs i desperately need to make a push for first place ?
James Quintong
(3:04 PM)
I'm not sure about that just yet. The Rockies will have a bunch more games at home coming up, but Atkins is struggling to crack the lineup with Ian Stewart and Clint Barmes playing well. I suppose both Stewart and Barmes will cool off, giving Atkins his at-bats, but maybe not right away.
Marc (New Jersey)
David Price has been walking a ton of people lately and his lack of control causes him to pitch less than 5 innings. Should I keep him or try and trade him? Also, who could I get for David Price? I need offense (RBI, HR, R).
James Quintong
(3:06 PM)
Price's control concerns me, that's for sure. A trade will be dicey at this point, although if you can get someone who's trading for his name value (and potential for bigger things), you can get a decent bat. I seem him struggling for a bit longer, though, so you may want to deal him sooner rather than later.
Jay (Chicago)
Liriano appears to be slowly turning it around. Is this a good "Buy-Low" situation?
James Quintong
(3:08 PM)
Yeah, this would be the time to buy low. I still have some faith in Liriano, and I don't think he'll continue to be this bad all year. If you have the space and cane eat the still inconsistent starts, it might be worth the risk.
Vlad (the former impaler) (CA)
James do you see my power of fantasy relevance ever coming back?
James Quintong
(3:09 PM)
It looks like age is catching up with you. There will be some flashes here and there, but nothing on a really consistent level. I still think the average will be there, but the power not as much.
Ryan (Pacello)
With respect to Jay Bruce being a potential keeper, will he ever hit for average or is he the next Adam Dunn?
James Quintong
(3:11 PM)
Got a few questions about Bruce today. I like the power, but obviously the average needs some help. I don't think he'll stay in the low .200s the rest of the way, but it might not be much better than the mid .200s. As for being the next Adam Dunn, it's possible, although he needs to walk more if he's going to be like Dunn.
sam (indy)
what do you expect from pat burel now that he corrected his swing and feels healthy?
James Quintong
(3:12 PM)
If everything is fine with him, he's a guy with decent power who will still hurt your average. I'm not really trusting him all that much right now, though. On the other hand, it's good to have him back in the lineup to see if he can get over his early woes.
Ryan (Milwaukee)
Hey James, what are the chances Ian Stewart gets at least four more games at leftfield or at least seven more games in right? That would really help boost his value in my league but he hasn't gotten a single OF start all month.
James Quintong
(3:14 PM)
While Carlos Gonzalez hasn't done a whole lot since coming up, he's taking up one of the slots in the outfield, so there's one place Stewart can't go. Right now, with Stewart playing so well lately at third, they might as well keep him there. If anything, he may get more shots at second if/when Clint Barmes slows down.
MJ (Chicago)
Derrek Lee home runs: over/under 22
James Quintong
(3:14 PM)
I'm taking the under.
Glenn (Providence)
Gordon Beckham, currently has a .100 BABIP (granted only 27 plate appearences). Is this a product of just bad luck, or that he is overmatched and is not getting good solid contact?
James Quintong
(3:16 PM)
Probably a little of both. It probably was a bit much to expect huge things right away.
Anthony (Raleigh, NC)
Does Valverde immediately take over for LaTroy Hawkins @ closer or will it take some time?
James Quintong
(3:16 PM)
Valverde should be back as the closer whenever he's ready to go.
Ben (Chicago)
James, Are you starting Nolasco tonight, or do you wait one more solid start before activating him?
James Quintong
(3:18 PM)
It would depend on who else I've got. I think he's due for a rebound, and last Sunday's start provided a glimmer of hope.
Erik (Cleveland)
Hey James, can you answer Ryan's question from above regarding Jay Bruce becoming the next Adam Dunn...there was no answer.
James Quintong
(3:19 PM)
I did post it earlier, but there have been some issues with the new chat software we're using. Here's my response: Got a few questions about Bruce today. I like the power, but obviously the average needs some help. I don't think he'll stay in the low .200s the rest of the way, but it might not be much better than the mid .200s. As for being the next Adam Dunn, it's possible, although he needs to walk more if he's going to be like Dunn.
Mark (here)
What are your thoughts on Nolan Reimold? Because of injuries, he's starting for me and doing well. Can this last? Should I trade for a more proven outfielder?
James Quintong
(3:21 PM)
I like Reimold and his power, although he may not have crazy upside. I think the run can last, so I wouldn't go out of my way to find a more "proven" guy just yet. Although if you get a good deal, I wouldn't turn it down either.
Adam (Colorado)
Darn trying to get one simple question answered for weeks now! Who's more valuable from here on out Randy Johnson or Nolasco?
James Quintong
(3:21 PM)
Nolasco, barely.
Skyler (Boston)
What's up with Miguel Cabrera? Is this a slump or is he not 100%?
James Quintong
(3:22 PM)
Part of it could be just a slump (even the best of them can struggle), but I'm also a bit leery that the hamstring issues may be affecting him.
Travis (Nashville)
What am I supposed to do with Quentin? I can't get anything for him in a trade, and no one knows if he's going to struggle with this all season... Help please!
James Quintong
(3:24 PM)
You may just have to keep him on your DL/bench if you can. He's probably not coming back until after the All-Star break. Unfortunately, his trade value is low, so you may just have to bite the bullet for now since you know what he can do when he's on.
Matt (DC)
Hey James, what do you see from Way-Rod for the rest of the season??? . . . people were talking about his being a sell-high guy, and he got dropped in my league.
James Quintong
(3:26 PM)
I think he's a good, not great, pitcher, although his start on Wednesday does help his cause after a bunch of stinkers in a row. I'd pick him up at this point, if he's available, but I'd also keep my expectations reasonable (an ERA in the mid-3 range, for instance).
glihon (Clemson)
Tulo is 8/17 in his 5 game hitting streak, is he finally going to start producing like we thought we would?
James Quintong
(3:29 PM)
I don't think he's as great as that rookie season, but he's not as awful as recently. The Rockies have nine straight at home starting tonight, so hopefully a homestand will help his numbers even more.
Brick (Athens)
Do you think JJ Hardy is injured, or is he just in a funk? I picked him up expecting a turnaround and haven't seen much yet.
James Quintong
(3:30 PM)
Hardy can be a very streaky guy, so I'd stay patient with him. It'd be nice if he put everything together for a consistent period of time, though.
Lincoln (CA)
Is it realistic to expect 30 HRs out of Mauer this year? He is at 13 now.
James Quintong
(3:32 PM)
At this rate, it's possible, although I'm wondering when he's going to cool off. He's not going to be hitting over .400 all season, that's for sure. When that happens, the power could tail off a bit. I still think he should reach 20-25, but 30 may be pushing it.
Bob (Portland)
For those of us in keeper leagues, when can we expect to see Strasburg added to the player pool?
James Quintong
(3:32 PM)
I believe it will be when he officially signs with the Nationals.
rex (h-town)
Will Jarrod Washburn be this good all season? Or is it time to sell high?
James Quintong
(3:34 PM)
This question seems to pop up all year long, but for now, I think I believe in Washburn. He's helping in ERA and WHIP, although the wins aren't there (but it's not always his fault).
don (San Francisco)
Jordan Zimmerman tomorrow, roll him out or wait and see with that elbow?
James Quintong
(3:35 PM)
I'd be hesitant because of the elbow. Might as well be cautious with a young guy like that.
Chipper (Atlanta)
Am I too much a health risk to realistically get my due worth in a trade offer? His numbers are solid but most folks seem to ASSUME he's going down at some point. I get the logic, but does that mean he's untradeable?
James Quintong
(3:37 PM)
Definitely not untradeable, but I suppose you won't get full value for him in most cases. Package him with some other pieces and you might get the value you're looking for.
KJ (Chicago)
H2H - better value this point on - Meche or Hughes
James Quintong
(3:37 PM)
I'll go with Meche. Hughes' role is still up in the air.
Jason (Ellicott City, MD)
Jumping on the Zobrilla bandwagon?
James Quintong
(3:38 PM)
I had been for a couple of weeks already. I like the power, and the Rays are finding ways to get him in the lineup.
Inquiring Mind (Cranium)
What is Dice-K's value at this point??
James Quintong
(3:39 PM)
Unfortunately, pretty low. I'd say even the most die-hard Dice-K supporters wouldn't give up a lot for him. The control and pitch count issues worry me.
Timothy (NYC)
J! Is it possible that Javy Vasquez is a top ten SP?? My league-mates seems to think so.
James Quintong
(3:41 PM)
He's close. I've always thought he was a bit underrated in recent years. He gets you strikeouts and innings, although the ERA numbers were just so-so. Now the ERA/WHIP look great but he can't seem to get wins.
Eric (Houston)
you starting Tommy Hanson tonight?
James Quintong
(3:42 PM)
I'd take the gamble on him. He had his moments on Sunday before fading late. With a little less pressure on him this time around, I think he'll be fine.
Ted Lilly (Chicago)
Where's this correction in my stats everyone keeps talking about? This fella I know traded me away and he's been regretting it. I'm not this good am I?
James Quintong
(3:44 PM)
I've always liked Lilly, so I'm not terribly surprised by the stats. Still, though, with a BABIP in the .250 range (normal is .290-.300), there could be a slight correction in ERA. But it wouldn't be a huge change.
Alex (Portland)
Torii Hunter. Can the world ignore him any worse? Top 10 overall numbers and the only dude with 10 HRs and SBS and a .300 avg. Where's the love?
James Quintong
(3:46 PM)
Yeah, he's been overlooked lately, but I've got him in a couple of leagues and reaping the benefits. The high average is what's putting him over the top this year, so we'll see if he can keep that up. (He's a career .273 hitter.)
Jon (Orlando)
Kinsler has 15 HR this season. He hasn't hit more than 20 since hes been in the Show. Will he keep this power up?
James Quintong
(3:47 PM)
Yeah, I believe in the power. Remember, he was well on his way to maybe 25 homers last year but he missed the last six weeks of the season.
Saucy Jack (London)
Do you think Ortiz gets at least one start this weekend? His bat is pretty hot to just have him sit for three straight.
James Quintong
(3:49 PM)
I'd be hesitant putting him out there because he hasn't played much in the field in years. Yeah, it's tough to sit him, but those are the breaks of interleague play. Obviously, he'll get his pinch-hitting appearance in there, though.
Bobby Cox (Atlanta)
Do you think it's fair the way I'm treating fantasy owners of the world with my bullpen? I mean, going off who's due up in the 8th/9th to determine my closer. That's no fun for anyone, right?
James Quintong
(3:51 PM)
Ah, the differences between "real" baseball and "fantasy" baseball. Yeah, it's frustrating as a fantasy owner, but as a baseball fan, it's actually smart managing. I guess that's why both Gonzalez and Soriano have fantasy value, just not as much as owners would like.
Marco (NYC)
Who ends the years with better all-around numbers: Aubrey Huff or Luke Scott?
James Quintong
(3:52 PM)
I'll go with Scott.
Tom (Omaha, NE)
Which catcher has more value the rest of the season: Geo Soto or Russ Martin?
James Quintong
(3:54 PM)
Ugh. I guess the little extra speed will help Martin.
Joe Torre (Looney bin)
Why am I hitting Matt Kemp 8th?
James Quintong
(3:55 PM)
Honestly, I have no idea. That's a big hurt to his fantasy value, that's for sure. But I guess at least he's hitting ahead of the pitcher. Torre did have a few instances of batting the pitcher eighth and Juan Pierre ninth earlier this season.
damien (canada)
hmmm maybe if i rephrase my question to a style you seem to be answering more of. who will be better long term rasmus or fmart
James Quintong
(3:56 PM)
Better long-term player -- Rasmus. F-Mart is still a big question mark in my mind.
James Quintong
(3:58 PM)
Eric (Lewiston, ME)
Is Carpenter going to last the entire season at this level?
James Quintong
(3:59 PM)
This dominant all year? Probably not, but you know what he can do when he's healthy, so I think he's quickly moving up the charts as one of the best starting pitchers this season. I'm still buying on Carpenter.
Chung Yan Chan (NYC)
I am seriously trying to put together an all Asian team in a mid-season league... I'm thinking K. Suzuki, Ishikawa, Iwamura, Choo, Ichiro, Matsui, K. Matsui, anyone else?? Pitching is Dice-K, Wang, Kawakami, Uehara, Park, Saito..... Any chance of sucess?
James Quintong
(4:00 PM)
Well you don't want Iwamura, that's for sure. If you want to expand things out, Tim Lincecum and Johnny Damon are both half-Asian.
Slim (Minneapolis)
Just picked Mikc MacDougal. Am I going to get burned?
James Quintong
(4:01 PM)
I guess it's worth the roll of the dice. He has closing experience before. I'd say it's worth a short-term risk that you shouldn't feel too bad about cutting in a couple of weeks when another guy closes.
Jamie (Savannah, GA)
Did I make a big mistake trading Bailey for fellow rookie Wieters?
James Quintong
(4:02 PM)
I think Wieters eventually will hit, even if it takes longer than expected. But Bailey is doing his best in getting strikeouts and now saves.
TickTock (Bainbridge Island)
Why are all the questions the same? How about a real question? It seems like many teams push their starters to pitch one extra inning and lose the game (CC and Greinke from last night) Why are teams afraid to go to their BP?
James Quintong
(4:04 PM)
Well, this is a fantasy chat, so people are asking questions in that realm. But to answer your question, if you saw what the bullpens did when asked to relieve their starters, that's a reason why there's a lack of trust in the pen. I suppose it's different asking a pitcher to come in with runners on instead of the beginning of an inning. And of course with guys like Sabathia and Greinke, you're hoping they go far and not worry about the bullpen.
James Quintong
(4:04 PM)
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I went to pick up my husband from work and we saw and heard several fire trucks zoom by. So much noise. And THEN we came home to a bunch of morons shooting off fireworks! It's not exactly the Fourth of July. PopeFelix yelled out that it was December 22nd, and I followed with "Jesus Christ! It's after midnight!"
Now there's just the faint noise of the upstairs neighbor's speakers. Aaah, 1:11 am...
Sunday starts, I guess, around 11ish on Saturday night. I look up from web-surfing, and realise that I could start packing now. I change clothes and throw a few things in a bag, put some cold juice in a cooler box, and am on the road before midnight. Five minutes later I realise that I have left something behind so I turn back. I am on the road again just after midnight, driving out of town to the Alien Safari.
I find the party easily enough; find a good place to park with only a few false turns. It’s a clearing in the brush, full of oddly dressed people, some with deadlocks, some with short hair, some with new clean clothes, some crusty. The clearing is surrounded by fluorescent totem poles and paintings, and filled with the 4-4 chaos of the music. It is loud. The familiar smell of dust, incense and marijuana. There are quite a few stalls, most selling vegetarian food or tie-died clothes. There is, in fact, an actual VW bus with a peace sign sticker on the window at one of them.
I don't see too mnay people obviously on drugs (dope doesn't count), but there are a few writhing in Ecstacy or staring into the space of thier trip.
It’s all so familiar to me. I describe it to you, but to me it's a normal party, basically.
Despite my fears of an expensive party in a dustbowl with poor DJs, none of that came to pass.
I dance a bit, and take a look around. On one side, layers of images are projected onto the billowing fabric. The projection equipment is mounted on top of a VW bus, and the projectionist is standing with his head poking through the sunroof, bearded and smoking a cigarette. I can see how a lot of his techniques work: slides and those liquid hippie-toys. But I can’t work out how some of the images are done – looks most like 3-second animations, looped and spliced. Then I see a second person sitting in the passenger seat of the bus. He has a laptop computer. I chat with him. The machine is a mac, running flash animations of pictures that he draw and scanned, on split screen, and has a control-program on the LCD that schedules the graphics. Cool. In my day, of course, I did it the hard way and coded the animations from scratch on the DirectX API.
I remember for a bit the part that I don’t like about these parties. To much sitting around, cold bored and alone, whilst noise and people mill around. But then all life’s like that. I try to hold onto the good memories of this scene, and not I remind myself to hold onto this too – the dreariness that accompanies it.
I try to find the car again, and have to retrace my steps to the dance floor before I get it right. This place is a trackless maze – clumps of trees, paths, or what looks like paths, everywhere, soft sand and dead branches on the dry earth.
Over the ridge where that cars are, I can see to the south the twinkling lights of Cape Town, home to four million people, under the vast calm mesa of Table Mountain. Very few of them are even aware of the existence of this scene.
It gets a little colder, I am in a vest and long sleeve cotton top. I go and find the chai stall. The people being it are English, I can hear it. They speak in a dialect of English that drops off the end of most words. He asks me if my chai is “Aw roi” by which I think he means is it “all right”. On of the men, oriental, has in addition to the numerous tatoos that are common, rings in his ears - not through the earlobe, but within it. The rings are at least a two centimeters in diameter. That takes time and stretching.
Once the chai is cool enough to be drinkable, it is good. We talk a bit. The woman has a plain but open and honest face. I ask her why an English person would want to earn Rands (The SA currency is nearly valueless compared to the English). To travel she replies. She said she started travelling four years ago, by driving overland from London to Delhi. Each place they work enough to move on. It sounds like a great life, but I couldn’t do it. The man says they have come down from the Solipse party – that was six months ago, in Zambia. Chai and dancing keeps me warm enough.
There are a lot of tourists here – not just the usual holidaymakers from Joburg. I hear German and other languages. This is good. Cape Town people can be insular and pretentious.
There are so many reasons why outdoor parties are better than clubs. The sound is so much clearer. The air is always fresh, despite the best attempts of smokers of cigarettes and chillums. There is space to wave your arms around when you dance. If you want to leave the dancefloor, just walk off in almost any direction. And if you are male, the world is your urinal. Just duck behind a bush.
Dawn started earlier than I expected, but then this is within a day or two off midsummer. The lightening of the sky in the east gradually eats all the stars, and the rosy fingers reach out. There are few places I’d rather be on a Sunday morning than here, watching gloom resolve into forms, forms slowly acquire shades, shades get colour, all people dancing to this noise.
I didn't see half the people that I expected to meet here, but I did see Roger, Evan and Vana in the morning.
I leave around 8:30 am. Some friends are coming through at 10:30, but I want to sleep.
Well, I'm just sitting here at work, and it's really slow. I've been talking a bit in the catbox, and reading various articles on the guts of the telephone system. I may node something based on what I've read, and I may not. I dunno.
What I really should be doing right now is coding. My nifty perl mail checking program has all the features I want in it coded and working. I'm even using it on a day-to-day basis in my job. However, I haven't put in any of the idiot-proofing that I want to. I also need to work on how the output of certain commands is displayed. I just don't feel like coding right now, is all.
Hlynna did her first three w/us last night. As she says in her entry to the daylog, "already one is nuked and the other is a -7." The one at -7 has since been deleted. She got pissed about that, a bit. She got even more pissed when an editor used Klaproth to tell her she had "an obsession with her weight." I didn't see the /msg, so I don't know if said editor signed it or not. I'm told that most editors do sign their messages through Klaproth, but I got the impression from Hlynna that it was unsigned. I really hope that I can convince her not to abandon E2 over this, because I think she can make a valuable contribution to the nodegel.
So here it 2nd ever daylog. Probably not my last, though I seldom feel like noding one. And WHEN I feel like a noding a daylog, there is a reason for it. It is something I do NOT want to forget, so that even if it fades from my memory, I will always have a way to look back, and remember.
Here it starts...
It had already been a week since I'd last sawn Amanda. Amanda, the pretty American exchange student who came from Seattle, liked Rock music and thought it was so cool to have someone here in Germany who she could talk to in her home language. We'd met 3 times already...well, 4, counting the first time we met, at this Punk music gig in the local Jugendzentrum. After that followed a night in a "Grunge-Disco" in Darmstadt, then a couple cups of coffee a couple days later and then watching Pulp Fiction and The Usual Suspects at my house while my Mom and sister were in Scotland for the weekend.
It sounds like I had it made, eh?
Well, you don't know me. In all that time we spent doing stuff, not ONCE did I touch her. SHE was the once who touched my knee, laughed at a joke and gave me a playful shove. But did I do anything? No. I was too afraid to make a first move, too damned scared to even hint that I was interested. And so the weeks went by, until yesterday.
I asked her if she wanted to go ice skating with me and my "crew". She said yes. I shaved, brushed my teeth, styled my hair, threw a caffeine pill. Zipped over to my friend Timon's house. We were running late, but eventually we got outside and jumped into Timon's car. Then the door wouldn't close. The clock was ticking. We finally took his Mom's minivan. Still, yet again, Fate was somehow against us, the windshield almost completely iced over, the road also.
But we made it to Amanda's place, 20-25 minutes late. My heart jumped as I saw her, still there. But once again, nothing seemed to work. The road being a virtual lane of ice, we couldn't make it to Frankfurt. So we went to our favorite pool bar. And that is when the evening turned for the better.
Sure, my heart was hammering and I had the constant feeling of being very pukesick, but we played a couple of good games (we guys lost, damn). Now, some things, like Amanda buttoning down her shirt somewhat, or her supposedly jealous look as Timon's ex-girlfriend came up to me and gave me some tips on the next shot were things I heard of afterward. Maybe she just overheard the "tips" the girl had gave me, which, in fact, were actually tips on what "moves" I should make next, if you catch my drift. In any case, I finally pushed myself to strategically place an arm behind her headrest on the bench we were sitting on. SHE DID NOT MIND. You must understand, gentle noder, this was an outright shock to me. "This kind of thing works?", was the first thing that went through my mind. Had I been so inept at reading her body language? Had she wanted this all along? Human warmth? MY human warmth?
Now, this was of course on a Sunday, though everyone had Christmas break anyway, but Amanda didn't want to get home all to late. But before we drove everyone, including her, home, we hit our local tavern, the "Klamotte" for an hour or so. A cozy place, relatively cheap, lot's of people you know. And so here we spent the better part of the hour talking about our parents, drugs, music...
Finally, though, it was time for her to go. We dropped off everyone else, first. During this time, we cozied up a little on the back seat..., not what you think. Just sitting there, close to each other, my arm around her. But still, a wonderful feeling, something I wouldn't trade for the world. Did we kiss that night? No. It didn't seem right, too much people, not enough privacy. But that didn't matter to me, not at all. Even after two hours, after hanging out at Timon's for a while, I still fairly bounced home.
And here it ends...
I'm seeing her next weekend.
Update: I DIDN'T see her the next weekend. She didn't have time.
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It was neither a convincing nor a funny fake news story, and the link in the email didn't actually work, but still, Tapper, that intrepid newsman, forward the email about how torture memo author John Yoo had been arrested in Italy to the "internal news distribution system."
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What a qwerky world we live in . Trying to justify and/or Quantify every thing we do or say. Honesty must be the hardest thing in life for most of us.For most, fail miserably at total honesty.IF YOU TAKE AN HONEST LOOK AT YOURSELF that is !!!!!!!!!
Where did you grow up?
All over the U.S and Canada
Where do you live now?
What is the highest level of education you have attained?
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What's your favorite sport or sports?
What kinds of jobs have you held? Industries too!
public works, Farming,construction,emergency services
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The state of our economy, human rights,
If you claim a political party affliation, which is it?
anything not including George Bush's type
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Xinh Mun, Puoc of Laos
Prayer Month: June 2010
Focus: South Pacific and Southeast Asia
Country: Laos
People Name: Xinh Mun, Puoc
Population: 9,700
World Population: 34,000
Language: Puoc
Primary Religion: Ethnic Religions
Progress Status: 1.1
% Adherents : 0.00 %
% Evangelical: 0.00 %
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Xinh Mun, Puoc of Laos
Introduction / History
According to a 1985 source, there were 2,164 Puoc people living in northern Laos. They primarily inhabit villages along the Et River in the Xiangkho District of Houaphan Province.
Strangely, the Puoc were counted as a distinct ethnic group in the 1985 Lao census, but were not listed in the 1995 census. It is likely they have been incorporated into the Pong ethnic group.
The majority of Puoc, more than 11,000, live in neighboring areas of Vietnam. In Vietnam the Puoc are officially known as the Xinh Mun. Despite their similar-sounding names, the Xinh Mun are not related to the Singmoon ethnic group in Laos, who live near the Thai border.
Puoc communities are often mixed with the Tai Dam. Puoc women also wear clothing and headdresses similar to the Tai Dam. They wear a short vest that has a row of silver buttons carefully made in the shape of butterfly wings.
Three generations of the same family living under the one roof is common among the Puoc. Their homes are separated into two main sections. One section called the plang is reserved for single men or guests of the family. It also contains the altar for worshiping spirits. The second part, called the xia is the main section where the family sleeps, cooks and eats.
The two main family names among the Puoc are Vi and Lo. Each lineage shares a certain animal that is sacred to them.
Puoc women are in the habit of chewing betel-nut, which stains their teeth black. Black teeth "are so highly esteemed that one never sees a white tooth save in the mouth of a very young child. Betel-chewing tends to darken the enamel and chut is carefully rubbed on to intensify the black, for it is a common saying, 'Any dog can have white teeth'."
The region inhabited by the Puoc on both sides of the Laos-Vietnam border has received very little Christian witness in the past. The nearest community of believers is probably near the city of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. None of the Puoc in Laos reportedly follow Christ.
Prayer Points
* Pray the long-neglected area where the Puoc live would soon be saturated with the Gospel.
* Ask God to make the Puoc hungry to seek for the Truth.
* Pray the Puoc would have a godly remnant in their midst, as a witness to those who don't know Him.
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I would like to know if there is a closed form expression for the expectation of log(1+x) when x is a gamma random variable.
Thank you.
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Yes, you may need Digamma function. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamma_function – Anand Jan 11 '12 at 15:58
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If $X$ has the gamma distribution with rate $\lambda$ and shape parameter $n$, you're asking for $$ J(\lambda, n) = \frac{\lambda^n}{\Gamma(n)} \int_0^\infty t^{n-1} e^{-\lambda t} \log(1+t)\ dt = \frac{1}{\Gamma(n)} \int_0^\infty s^{n-1} e^{-s} \log(1+s/\lambda) \ ds$$
Using Maple, I get
$$\Psi \left( n \right) -\ln \left( \lambda \right) +{\frac { {\mbox{$_2$F$_2$}(1,1;\,2,2-n;\lambda)}\lambda}{n-1}}+{\frac { \left( -1 \right) ^{-n}\pi }{\sin \left( \pi n \right) }}-{\frac { \left( -1 \right) ^{-n}\pi \Gamma \left( n,-\lambda \right) }{\sin \left( \pi n \right) \Gamma \left( n \right) }} $$
which seems to be correct when $n$ is a non-integer. For integer values of $n$, the result seems to be $\frac{\Gamma(n,-\lambda)}{\Gamma(n)} Ei(1,\lambda)$ plus a polynomial in $\lambda$ of degree $n-2$.
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I may be mistaken, but if you are making the change of variable $s = \lambda t$, shouldn't there be an extra factor of $\lambda$ outside the integral?
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President Benigno Aquino on Monday thanked China for funding a P5.3 billion (S$160.17 million) water improvement project in Angat Dam and underscored the importance of cooperation and respect among neighboring nations.
"If you mean stand down our statements, I think we will maintain our sovereign rights over our Exclusive Economic Zone," presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said in response to China's statement that Manila should withdraw from disputed areas because it had no military might to defend them. "That is something we will not give up."
"We thank China for the funds it provided so that this important project can be implemented," Mr. Aquino said in his speech.
He said "strong relationships with neighboring countries" would help the government respond to problems and needs of the Filipinos.
"We are one in the world in our advocacy: A world where each individual, each community and each country is being respected and recognized for its innate dignity," Mr. Aquino said, apparently referring to the territorial dispute between Manila and Beijing.
Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing sat a few meters away as the President spoke. Reporters tried to interview the ambassador but she declined comment on Mr. Aquino's speech and the grounding of the Chinese Navy warship in Philippine territory last week.
Lacierda reiterated the government's desire for a peaceful resolution of its conflict with China. But he also made it clear that Panatag Shoal (Scarborough Shoal) was not a disputed territory because it is within the country's Exclusive Economic Zone.
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A beginner's guide to telecom jargon, part 8
This week, I explain what a geo-fence is, why a feature phone is really just a dumb phone with a niftier marketing title, and why companies love rebates.
Alignment: Look, it's another code word for layoffs. While not exactly the best example of telecom jargon, it's a relevant term given Nokia's decision to "align" its workforce, which means shedding 3,500 jobs on top of a prior plan to cut thousands of other jobs. It's in the same vein as synergy and redundancy, fancy words that mask the ugly truth that a lot of people are getting canned.
Feature phone: This is the industry's term for any phone that isn't a smartphone, which runs on a more complex operating system that can run applications. You have to admire the marketing spin on what is essentially a dumb phone.
I, for one, hate using the term, and have largely stuck to calling them basic phones.
Feature phones are in a phase of gradual decline as people jump to smartphones, which are getting more affordable. Leap Wireless CEO Doug Hutcheson said he expects smartphones to cost $100 or less without a contract by the holidays, just slightly more expensive than a feature phone.
HTC's global marketing chief, Jason MacKenzie, boldly said he sees his Rhyme smartphone as a better upgrade for feature phone users than the iPhone.
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Pandora pushes out HTML5 site redesign, lifts cap
In just a few short years, Pandora's apps for iOS and Android have become an ever-present part of the smartphone experience. But as the company's growth in mobile exploded, its Web-based player was stuck in the past with a design that no longer matched the look of its apps or standalone Pandora One desktop software.
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Microsoft just declared that browser plug-ins' best days are behind them, but Adobe is working hard to disprove the notion with its Flash Player.
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Assistant editorial page editor James Freeman on Milton Friedman's legacy. Photos: Getty Images
Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for 1976—at a time when almost all the previous prizes had gone to socialists. This marked the first sign of the intellectual comeback of free-market economics since the 1930s, when John Maynard Keynes hijacked the profession. Friedman's 1963 book "A Monetary History of the United States," written with Anna Schwartz (who died on June 21), was a masterpiece and changed the way we think about the role of money.
More influential than Friedman's scholarly writings was his singular talent for communicating the virtues of the free market to a mass audience. His two best-selling books, "Capitalism and Freedom" (1962) and "Free to Choose" (1980), are still wildly popular. His videos on YouTube on issues like the morality of capitalism are brilliant and timeless.
In the early 1990s, Friedman visited poverty-stricken Mexico City for a Cato Institute forum. I remember the swirling controversy ginned up by the media and Mexico's intelligentsia: How dare this apostle of free-market economics be given a public forum to speak to Mexican citizens about his "outdated" ideas? Yet when Milton arrived in Mexico he received a hero's welcome as thousands of business owners, students and citizen activists hungry for his message encircled him everywhere he went, much like crowds for a modern rock star.
Once in the early 1960s, Friedman wrote the then-U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, John Kenneth Galbraith, that he would be lecturing in India. By all means come, the witty but often wrong Galbraith replied: "I can think of nowhere your free-market ideas can do less harm than in India." As fate would have it, India did begin to embrace Friedmanism in the 1990s, and the economy began to soar. China finally caught on too.
By the way, he rarely got angry and even when he was intellectually slicing and dicing his sparring partners he almost always did it with a smile. It used to be said that over the decades at the University of Chicago and across the globe, the only one who ever defeated him in a debate was his beloved wife and co-author Rose Friedman.
Milton and Rose Friedman Corbis
The issue he devoted most of his later years to was school choice for all parents, and his Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice is dedicated to that cause. He used to lament that "we allow the market, consumer choice and competition to work in nearly every industry except for the one that may matter most: education."
As for congressional Republicans who are at risk of getting suckered into a tax-hike budget deal, they may want to remember another Milton Friedman adage: "Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with."
No doubt because of his continued popularity, the left has tried to tie Friedman and his principles of free trade, low tax rates and deregulation to the global financial meltdown in 2008. Economist Joseph Stiglitz charged that Friedman's "Chicago School bears the blame for providing a seeming intellectual foundation" for the "idea that markets are self-adjusting and the best role for government is to do nothing." Occupy Wall Street protesters were often seen wearing T-shirts which read: "Milton Friedman: Proud Father of Global Misery."
The opposite is true: Friedman opposed the government spending spree in the 2000s. He hated the government-sponsored enterprises like housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In a recent tribute to Friedman in the Journal of Economic Literature, Harvard's Andrei Shleifer describes 1980-2005 as "The Age of Milton Friedman," an era that "witnessed remarkable progress of mankind. As the world embraced free-market policies, living standards rose sharply while life expectancy, educational attainment, and democracy improved and absolute poverty declined."
Mr. Moore is a member of the Journal's editorial board.
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Nature genetics 2012;44(11):1227-1230.
PMCID: PMC3715052 PMID: 23042117
Nature genetics 2012;44(3):291-296.
The genetic association of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) to rheumatoid arthritis risk has commonly been attributed to HLA-DRB1 alleles. Yet controversy persists about the causal variants in HLA-DRB1 and the presence of independent effects elsewhere in the MHC. Using existing genome-wide SNP data in 5,018 seropositive cases and 14,974 controls, we imputed and tested classical alleles and amino acid polymorphisms for HLA-A, B, C, DPA1, DPB1, DQA1, DQB1, and DRB1 along with 3,117 SNPs across the MHC. Conditional and haplotype analyses reveal that three amino acid positions (11, 71 and 74) in HLA-DRβ1, and single amino acid polymorphisms in HLA-B (position 9) and HLA-DPβ1 (position 9), all located in the peptide-binding grooves, almost completely explain the MHC association to disease risk. This study illustrates how imputation of functional variation from large reference panels can help fine-map association signals in the MHC.
PMCID: PMC3288335 PMID: 22286218
3. A Simple Method for Analyzing Exome Sequencing Data Shows Distinct Levels of Nonsynonymous Variation for Human Immune and Nervous System Genes
PLoS ONE 2012;7(6):e38087.
To measure the strength of natural selection that acts upon single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in a set of human genes, we calculate the ratio between nonsynonymous SNVs (nsSNVs) per nonsynonymous site and synonymous SNVs (sSNVs) per synonymous site. We transform this ratio with a respective factor f that corrects for the bias of synonymous sites towards transitions in the genetic code and different mutation rates for transitions and transversions. This method approximates the relative density of nsSNVs (rdnsv) in comparison with the neutral expectation as inferred from the density of sSNVs. Using SNVs from a diploid genome and 200 exomes, we apply our method to immune system genes (ISGs), nervous system genes (NSGs), randomly sampled genes (RSGs), and gene ontology annotated genes. The estimate of rdnsv in an individual exome is around 20% for NSGs and 30–40% for ISGs and RSGs. This smaller rdnsv of NSGs indicates overall stronger purifying selection. To quantify the relative shift of nsSNVs towards rare variants, we next fit a linear regression model to the estimates of rdnsv over different SNV allele frequency bins. The obtained regression models show a negative slope for NSGs, ISGs and RSGs, supporting an influence of purifying selection on the frequency spectrum of segregating nsSNVs. The y-intercept of the model predicts rdnsv for an allele frequency close to 0. This parameter can be interpreted as the proportion of nonsynonymous sites where mutations are tolerated to segregate with an allele frequency notably greater than 0 in the population, given the performed normalization of the observed nsSNV to sSNV ratio. A smaller y-intercept is displayed by NSGs, indicating more nonsynonymous sites under strong negative selection. This predicts more monogenically inherited or de-novo mutation diseases that affect the nervous system.
PMCID: PMC3368947 PMID: 22701602
4. Locus category based analysis of a large genome-wide association study of rheumatoid arthritis
Human Molecular Genetics 2010;19(19):3863-3872.
PMCID: PMC2935861 PMID: 20639398
5. Refining the association of MHC with multiple sclerosis in African Americans
Human Molecular Genetics 2010;19(15):3080-3088.
PMCID: PMC2901136 PMID: 20466734
6. Functionally defective germline variants of sialic acid acetylesterase in autoimmunity
Nature 2010;466(7303):243-247.
Sialic acid acetylesterase (SIAE) is an enzyme that negatively regulates B lymphocyte antigen receptor signaling and is required for the maintenance of immunological tolerance in mice1, 2. Heterozygous loss-of-function germline rare variants and a homozygous defective polymorphic variant of SIAE were identified in 24/923 Caucasian subjects with relatively common autoimmune disorders and in 2/648 Caucasian controls. All heterozygous loss-of-function SIAE mutations tested were capable of functioning in a dominant negative manner. A homozygous secretion-defective polymorphic variant of SIAE was catalytically active, lacked the ability to function in a dominant negative manner, and was seen in 8 autoimmune subjects but in no control subjects. The Odds Ratio for inheriting defective SIAE alleles was 8.6 in all autoimmune subjects, 8.3 in subjects with rheumatoid arthritis, and 7.9 in subjects with type I diabetes. Functionally defective SIAE rare and polymorphic variants represent a strong genetic link to susceptibility in relatively common human autoimmune disorders.
PMCID: PMC2900412 PMID: 20555325
7. Recent positive selection of a human androgen receptor/ectodysplasin A2 receptor haplotype and its relationship to male pattern baldness
Human Genetics 2009;126:255-264.
Genetic variants in the human androgen receptor gene (AR) are associated with male pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia, AGA) in Europeans. Previous observations of long-range linkage disequilibrium at the AR locus are consistent with the hypothesis of recent positive selection. Here, we further investigate this signature and its relationship to the AGA risk haplotype. The haplotype homozygosity suggests that the AGA risk haplotype was driven to high frequency by positive selection in Europeans although a low meiotic recombination rate contributed to the high haplotype homozygosity. Further, we find high levels of population differentiation as measured by FST and a series of fixed derived alleles along an extended region centromeric to AR in the Asian HapMap sample. The predominant AGA risk haplotype also carries the putatively functional variant 57K in the flanking ectodysplasin A2 receptor gene (EDA2R). It is therefore probable that the AGA risk haplotype rose to high frequency in combination with this EDA2R variant, possibly by hitchhiking on a positively selected 57K haplotype.
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The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00439-009-0668-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
PMCID: PMC3774421 PMID: 19373488
8. Partial correlation analysis indicates causal relationships between GC-content, exon density and recombination rate in the human genome
BMC Bioinformatics 2009;10(Suppl 1):S66.
Several features are known to correlate with the GC-content in the human genome, including recombination rate, gene density and distance to telomere. However, by testing for pairwise correlation only, it is impossible to distinguish direct associations from indirect ones and to distinguish between causes and effects.
We use partial correlations to construct partially directed graphs for the following four variables: GC-content, recombination rate, exon density and distance-to-telomere. Recombination rate and exon density are unconditionally uncorrelated, but become inversely correlated by conditioning on GC-content. This pattern indicates a model where recombination rate and exon density are two independent causes of GC-content variation.
Causal inference and graphical models are useful methods to understand genome evolution and the mechanisms of isochore evolution in the human genome.
PMCID: PMC2648766 PMID: 19208170
PMCID: PMC3329227 PMID: 22233601
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38 terms
central nervous system
brain and spinal cord, CNS
peripheral nervous system
all the nerves that branch off of the CNS
autonomic nervous system
controls involuntary functions of the body
sensory neuron
receives and carries messages to the CNS
motor neuron
carries messages from the CNS to the working muscles and tissues
carries impulses towards the cell body
carries impulses from the cell body to the next dendrite
space that message must jump over
surface of the brain, 1/8 of an inch thick
folds and wrinkles in the cortex
three protective coverings around the brain and spinal cord
two sides of the brain
a natural protective device of the body where messages are relayed directly to the motor neurons before they reach the brain
a test that measures the electrical activity of the brain
a bruising of the brain
myelin sheath
fatty coating around the axon
disorder caused by an electrical imbalance in the brain
viral infection of the CNS, found in saliva of infected animals
multiple sclerosis
myelin sheath around nerve fibers is destroyed
alzheimer's disease
brain cells are gradually destroyed
inflammation of the cells of the brain
cerebral palsy
results from brain damage done to the brain
C.A.T. scan
a test that measures the densities of the brain
largest section of the brain, responsible for intelligence, memory, senses, and morals
helps coordinate muscle activity
medulla/brain stem
controls involuntary functions
pins on hands
to show how big or little our nerves can be
bursts of uncontrolled electrical impulses, "electrical storms"
grand mal seizure
lasts 2 to 5 minutes with convulsions
petite mal seizure
lasts a few seconds and may just stare off into space or speak out
move things out of the way, put something soft under their head, call for help, allow them to rest after the seizure, cover them for modesty
hold them down, put anything in their mouth, give food or drink
sympathetic nervous system
responds during times of emergency, "fight or flight instinct"
parasympathetic nervous system
returns the body back to it's normal state
down syndrome
results from one extra chromosome
right brain
responsible for shapes, art, colors, and music
left brain
responsible for letter, numbers, and language
concussion signs
loss of consciousness, unequal pupil size, vomiting, can't maintain balance, loss of memory
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PaperShow review: Presentations made snappy, fun
If you are a frequent presenter and are tired of the mouse and keyboard, your presentations could be significantly enhanced by this new alternative input device.
It's called the PaperShow, a product announced last Monday by Canson, a French company. The kit include a specialized Bluetooth pen, special paper, and a USB Bluetooth adapter. Basically, the kit allows you to write, scribble, sketch, etc. on the paper by hand and also digitally at the same time.
I tried the kit for a few days and found it work as intended and was quite fun. It's rather expensive, however, … Read more
Let the top down on Jasco's Convertible Mouse
Laptop mice are supposed to be smaller than average ones to save space in your bag, but do they have to be so small that only Stuart Little can use one? I'd rather sacrifice a little extra room in my bag for a comfortable mouse, but Jasco offers a peaceful compromise.
The Jasco Convertible Mouse looks similar to other laptop mice; it has a retractable USB cord, contoured buttons, and a small scroll dial, but the real difference is in the top slider that extends out the back to provide extra space for your hand. I tested both sizes … Read more
Logitech keyboard-mouse combo is pricey, but darned near perfect
New modular accessories bring wireless HDMI, built-in DVD to Sony Bravia TVs
The Bravia Internet Link is getting some siblings. Sony is adding three new accessories to its product line: the Wireless Link Module (DMX-WL1), the DVD Link Module (DMX-DVD), and the Input Link Module (DMX-SW1). Like the Internet Link, the new "Link" accessories are also designed as modular add-ons to specific current and recent Sony Bravia flat-panel LCD TVs. By snapping onto the TVs backside, they should still allow for a reasonably thin profile.
The $150 Input Link Module adds four HDMI inputs to compatible Bravias, while the $200 DVD Link Module adds a "built-in" upconverting DVD player to the mix. But it's the $800 Wireless Link Module that's the highlight of the new line. The two-part system includes a wireless video transmitter and a receiver (the latter of which snaps onto the back of the TV). Put the transmitter near your equipment rack, plug in up to five HD sources (four HDMI inputs, one component), and they're wirelessly transmitted to the TV for distances up to 65 feet (according to Sony). Video sources are limited to 1080i resolution, however, and it's unclear if there's any compression or lag (the latter is a big frustration for gamers). The Wireless Link Module is scheduled to hit in October, while the other two are already available.
Are any of these worth buying?… Read more
Doppler radar detects speeding hearts
Wacom Graphire gets new nom de plume: Bamboo
In technology circles, hitting the quarter-century mark makes you positively ancient. That may be the impetus behind Wacom's decision to update its logo at the same time as it jettisons the Graphire brand for consumer pen tablets, redesigning and rechristening them with the trendier moniker "Bamboo."
Two models launch the series. The Bamboo Fun--doesn't it cry out for an exclamation point?--targets the popular growth segment of project-oriented imaging enthusiasts largely defined by scrapbookers. It comes in two sizes and four colors--black, white, silver, and an electric blue--and features big, friendly looking programmable buttons and a … Read more
Convert any laptop into a tablet for $130
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Executive Summary
Elections can, and often do, matter for markets, but not necessarily for the reasons investors tend to emphasize. For example, there is little historical evidence that markets perform better or worse depending on which party occupies the White House. There is also no concrete evidence that markets do better under divided government, a myth that seems to have taken hold thanks to the bull market of the 1990s.
However, while the political alignment of a government has had little discernible impact on market performance, policy does. Economic positions, such as tax policy, have in the past influenced how financial markets behave. For investors looking to handicap the impact of November's elections, we believe there are three policy prisms through which to judge the outcome: potential for avoiding the "fiscal cliff," impact on tax policy, and the extent to which the outcome raises or lowers the likelihood of dealing with longer-term imbalances, specifically the unsustainable nature of the current entitlement system and the growing dysfunction of the US tax code.
In the near term, investors should focus on the elections' implications for the fiscal cliff, specifically the pending changes to tax rates. Given the fragility of the US consumer, should all or most of the fiscal drag hit on schedule, the risk of a recession would rise significantly. Any outcome that limits the fiscal drag is likely to be viewed as a positive, particularly as it relates to tax rates. In the past, rising marginal tax rates have exerted a modest, but significant, negative impact on equity markets; from an investing standpoint, investors should be more concerned over rising tax rates than lower government spending in 2013. The longer-term issue is broader tax reform, as the US tax code-particularly its growing instability-is arguably acting as an impediment to the recovery.
However, perhaps even more important for investors could be the impact of the elections on the longer-term economic and fiscal environment. The elections may determine at least two critical issues: entitlement and tax reform. Fiscal pressure will finally hit a tipping point later this decade as the full brunt of demographic shifts begins to hit pension and healthcare obligations, even though deficits are likely to fall in the coming years. The next administration is the last chance to adjust these programs before large deficits become structural. Should the election results fail to bring about a consensus on entitlement reform, the consequences could be even higher debt burdens that will impact the US economy for decades and be a game changer for the markets.
As investors begin to handicap the elections and discount their significance, we believe they should view it from the perspective of which configuration is most likely to tackle these problems. On that score, the recent polarization of Congress suggests that divided government is likely to make the task more difficult. As of this writing, that still appears to be the most likely outcome.
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If nothing else, the parties and participants will be more familiar. After a summer spent familiarizing ourselves with the nuances of Greek politics and the acronyms for the latest European bailout funds, a fall spent focusing on the more familiar-though arguably no less dysfunctional-Republicans and Democrats might be welcome. However, while the landscape is more familiar, the potential dangers are just as great. Whatever happens, the elections will matter for financial markets.
The backdrop to the elections is the US economy, which, while doing better than Europe, is struggling. By any metric this has been the weakest recovery in the post-World War II period. The consumer is still coping with the twin burdens of too much debt and too little income. With overall GDP growth at barely 2%, the economy remains dangerously close to "stall speed," a condition in which any exogenous shock can push the United States back toward recession.
This is the first reason the elections matter-the "fiscal cliff." If the elections produce another partisan and divisive outcome, this will, at the margin, make it more difficult to address the fiscal cliff in the relatively short period between the day after the elections and January 1. On the other hand, any outcome that allows for a quicker and more definitive solution should be market-friendly.
The elections also matter for the longer term, perhaps more so. Put simply, the day of reckoning is approaching for the United States to finally address its unsustainable fiscal path. In the absence of significant reform, the three large existing entitlement programs-Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid-will eventually consume the entire federal budget. Under current policies, by the end of the decade budget deficits are scheduled to start to rise again as the costs of Medicare and Medicaid explode. If structural reforms are not introduced during the next administration, the trillion dollar plus deficits of the past four years will eventually become structural, with significant long-term impacts on the markets.
The second long-term issue is the tax code. While never a paragon of logic or simplicity, in recent years it has become much worse. The proliferation of temporary provisions adds to the economic uncertainty and further discourages investment and spending at a time when the economy is struggling with anemic demand. Again, given the numerous headwinds facing the economy-a consumer deleveraging, uncertainty over the European Union and deteriorating demographics-over which the government has little or no control, it seems unnecessary to compound these issues with a tax code increasingly resembling a Rube Goldberg contraption, and an ever-changing one at that.
Myths Surrounding Elections and the Markets
Before addressing the issues that are likely to drive financial markets in the coming years, it is worth dispelling two myths that seem to persist about how elections impact the market.
Myth #1: Party affiliation of the president alone influences market returns.
There is little to no evidence to support this. Over the past century, which party occupies the White House has had no discernible or consistent impact on US equity markets. Since 1900, when a Democrat has been in the White House, the average return for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has been around 8.5%; for Republicans, the average has been around 6% (neither average includes dividends). When you adjust those averages for the market's volatility-the standard deviation on the DJIA's return has been roughly 22% over the past century-the numbers are statistically the same.[1] The party affiliation of the president has had no consistent influence on stock market performance.
Myth #2: Divided government is good for the financial markets.
Following the halcyon days of the 1990s, many investors have come to believe this. The argument goes that divided government moderates the worst instincts and excesses of each party. Another variant on this theme is that under divided government spending is constrained, as the parties will generally not agree on spending priorities. As a result, spending is low, tax receipts pile up and surpluses abound.
This was certainly true in the 1990s, but that seems to have been an anomaly. Looking at the last century of data, there is no evidence that divided government produces better returns. In fact, while the numbers are not statistically significant and should be taken with more than a grain of salt, in the past equities have actually done better when one party has controlled both Congress and the White House (see Figure 1).
The boom in the 1990s was a function of many factors: a secular drop in interest rates, the taming of inflation and a productivity surge as business integrated new technologies on a large scale. To be fair, there was also some modest spending restraint, but much of that can be attributed to the peace dividend following the end of the Cold War. None of these factors are repeatable nor can they be attributed to a government split by political affiliation.
Furthermore, while investors sometimes attribute the modest deficits and eventual surpluses of the late 1990s to Washington's temporary parsimony, there was another, more important factor at work-strong and unusually steady economic growth. The mid-to-late 1990s produced above-average revenue growth thanks to a booming economy. Not only was the growth strong, but it was also remarkably consistent to a degree rarely seen in the past and not seen since.
Between 1994 and 2000, government revenue increased by 8.3% a year, well ahead of the average since 1980 of around 5.3% (see Figure 2). Even more impressive was its stability. During that six-year period, the revenue growth range was relatively tight, from a high of 10.8% to a low of 7.4%.
Unfortunately, conditions are very different today, and the political composition in Washington is unlikely to change the underlying fundamentals that are hampering growth. From the perspective of the economy, the headwinds of the three Ds-debt, demographics and deleveraging-will exert a drag on growth regardless of the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. From the perspective of investors, the secular drop in inflation and interest rates has run its course. Having done so, no matter who wins in November we are unlikely to witness another round of multiple expansion similar to the 1990s.
What Does Matter: Policy
None of the above implies that the outcome of these elections is irrelevant for financial markets. While politicians cannot fix much of what ails the global economy, sensible economic policy would help mitigate the damage. There is also quite a bit that politicians can do to make matters worse. In short, the elections will matter a great deal. In one sense, typical political hyperbole is probably justified in that these will be pivotal elections for the economy and the country's economic future.
There are a number of issues, both long- and short-term, that can only be solved in Washington. The absence of progress will likely worsen the economic malaise and in the case of the fiscal cliff push the United States back into recession. On the other hand, real progress on taxes and entitlements could remove at least some of the headwinds holding back growth.
Starting with the fiscal cliff, it's worth quantifying just how significant a headwind this could be. Under current policy, the United States will experience roughly $600 billion of fiscal drag in 2013, with the lion's share in the form of higher taxes (see Figure 3). This fiscal drag will be equivalent to roughly 4% of GDP, a particularly large amount for an economy barely growing at 2%.
There are two reasons the fiscal cliff poses such an existential threat to the recovery. First is its size: the full brunt of the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and spending cuts would mark the largest fiscal drag in decades. The size of the tax hikes alone is equivalent to roughly 3.5% of GDP. By comparison, the next largest was a tax hike equivalent to approximately 1.7% of GDP in 1968, followed swiftly by an economic contraction in 1969.
The second risk revolves around the fragile state of the recovery. Despite four years of deleveraging, household debt is still at 112% of disposable income, versus 90% as recently as 2000 and a long-term average of 78% (source: Bloomberg, as of 6/30/12). Even with a perpetuation of the low rate environment, debt levels still appear unsustainable, suggesting several more years of deleveraging. In addition to high debt levels, income growth has been anemic over the past four years.
Furthermore, whatever small income growth consumers have enjoyed has been flattered by rising transfer payments from Washington. Since 2008, more than half of all growth in disposable income has come from increasing transfer payments. To the extent these are also impacted by the fiscal cliff-for example, extended unemployment benefits expire-this will further cut into disposable income growth, of which there is little to start with.
Should the fiscal cliff hit without substantial change, there is a reasonable chance that the US economy will slip back toward recession early next year, a view shared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The latest CBO estimates (May 22, 2012) suggest that the fiscal drag will result in the economy contracting by approximately 1.3% during the first two quarters of 2013 and growing a paltry 0.5% for the entire calendar year. In addition, to the extent that the fiscal cliff looks likely, both businesses and households are likely to cut back their spending in anticipation of the hit, a factor that could exert a drag as early as fourth quarter of this year.
Should this occur, stocks are vulnerable. While equity markets have certainly discounted slow growth, valuations are not so low as to suggest that investors expect another recession. Evidence we're slumping toward that outcome is likely to push stocks lower and volatility higher.
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From an investor's standpoint, there is another concern: historically, rising individual tax rates have been negative for stocks, even when higher taxes have not led to an outright recession. Figure 4 provides a partial history of major changes to the tax code. While there are certainly exceptions, in the past rising marginal rates have not been good for stocks.
Since 1917, rising taxes-defined by a higher top marginal rate-have been associated with lower equity returns (see Figure 5). While the impact is not massive, historically changes in the top marginal tax rate have explained a significant portion of US equity market returns.
In fact, a simple model regressing annual equity returns on changes in the top marginal tax rate actually produces reasonable results. The model assumes an average return of approximately 8.6%, very close to the long-term average for the DJIA of around 7.2% net of dividends. The basic formula is that for every 1% increase in marginal rate, DJIA return tends to drop around 0.5%. Not huge, but the relationship is statistically significant. Interestingly, there has been no similar relationship between changes in government spending and equity returns. If the past is to be prelude, then from the perspective of an equity investor, the pending tax hikes - not a reduction in government spending - are the real risks to the market.
Entitlement Reform: Our Can-Kicking Days are Coming to an End
These elections will likely influence financial markets well beyond 2013. From healthcare to military spending, the composition of the next government will influence both growth rates and how that growth is allocated. For investors, there are at least two big macro issues to focus on-entitlement spending and tax reform. Let's start with the former, which is simply unsustainable, a condition that will probably become apparent before the end of the next presidential term.
According to the Census Bureau's 2010 report, over the next decade the number of Americans 65 and older will increase from 40 million, or 13% of the population, to 54 million, or 16% of the population. And due to longer life expectancy, as well as the large number of aging baby boomers, the percentage of Americans over 65 will continue to rise with time. By 2035, there will be 77 million Americans over the age of 65, accounting for approximately 20% of the population.[2]As we discussed in our June Market Perspectives (see "Not so Golden Years"), this will wreak havoc with the US entitlement system.
Historically, US taxes have equated to approximately 18.5% of GDP. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2050 the combined costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will exceed this level. In other words, without massive tax increases (or changes in programs), within 40 years these three programs will consume all the revenue of the federal government.[3]
In addition to the question of unfunded liabilities, there is the more immediate problem of ever-growing federal debt. The longer these issues remain unresolved, the more debt will add to an already significant burden.
As of the end of June, US gross federal debt was approximately $15.7 trillion, equivalent to roughly 97% of GDP. Looking at debt held by the public-which excludes those Treasuries held by the Social Security Trust Fund-the picture looks slightly less threatening. But even under this calculation, federal debt is roughly $10.5 trillion, up from less than $5 trillion as recently as 2008. Assuming current law and policies are extended-known in budget parlance as the extended alternative scenario-by 2022 publicly traded federal debt will exceed 90% of GDP, and by 2026 it will exceed its historical peak of 109%.
Leaving aside the moral and political issues, debt of this magnitude is likely to exert a significant economic drag. In their recent paper "Debt Overhangs: Past and Present," Carmen Reinhardt, Vincent Reinhardt and Kenneth Rogoff quantified the impact of large sovereign debt burdens on growth.[4] The authors find that prior instances of debt levels above 90% of GDP are associated with an average growth rate of 2.3% (median 2.1%) compared to 3.5% during lower debt periods. In other words, high debt burdens reduce long-term growth rates by roughly one-third.
Even more important is how long this debt "hangover" impacts growth. The average duration of debt overhang episodes was an astonishing 23 years.
To state the obvious, should we allow to this occur, it would be a game changer for US financial markets. While investors have reconciled themselves to another year or two of sluggish growth, there is little to suggest that the market has discounted another one to two decades in the slow lane. Such an environment would require rethinking long-term assumptions on earnings growth and margins, and by extension what is a reasonable multiple for a market.
If the next administration cannot begin to make a dent in the fiscal position, investors should reconsider the long-term argument for US stocks, or at the very least demand a larger discount to reflect a secular deceleration in growth rates. At the same time, under this scenario, the risk of Japanese-style stagnation becomes more of a threat, and investors may need to reconcile themselves to a semi-permanent state of low yields.
Spin the Wheel: Next Year's Tax Rate
In addition to entitlement programs and the debt build-up, the tax code has arguably become a significant impediment to growth, not just in the distant future but today. While this topic could consume many tomes, consider two aspects that are most impacting US competitiveness-high corporate rates and the growing instability of the tax code.
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The United States now has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world. While it is true that a series of loopholes and credits means that few companies pay the marginal rate, the high rate coupled with complexity has become an unnecessary burden on business (see Figure 6). Nor is it clear that the current code is producing much revenue. As a percentage of GDP, corporate taxes are 1.2% and were as low as 1% in 2009, down dramatically from their recent peak of 2.7% in 2007. While some of this is clearly due to the impact of the recession, today's numbers compare poorly with other recessions. In 2001, tax revenues were still 1.5% of GDP and in 1992 they bottomed at 1.6% of GDP.[5]
Furthermore, the United States is the only industrialized OECD country that continues to employ a worldwide system of taxation. The high tax rate and the potential for double taxation, while somewhat mitigated by provisions such as deferral and the foreign tax credit, harm the ability of US companies to compete against foreign companies that face little or no home country tax.[6]
There is a second issue that is adding to the uncertainty plaguing business, as well as individuals. Whether Republican or Democrat, most would agree that predictability is a desirable feature in a tax code. Unfortunately, over the past decade the US tax code has moved in the opposite direction.
There are different ways to measure this, but simply consider the growing number of temporary provisions embedded in the tax code. In contrast to the 25 expiring expenditures in the 1985 tax code, 2010 had more than 141 provisions that would expire within two years. Many of these provisions were renewed again with the passing of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.[7]
The absence of clarity is arguably another headwind restraining corporate spending. Given that the corporate sector is the one segment of the US economy with the wherewithal to dramatically increase spending, lingering uncertainty over the tax code is an unnecessary hindrance. There are bipartisan efforts currently in both the House and Senate to study ways to improve the tax code. A political outcome that supports those efforts and leads to more certainty could help spur some increase in capital spending and potentially hiring, and with it faster growth.
Will Anything Be Settled In November?
From an investment standpoint, the best outcome in November would be some consensus that enables government to begin to tackle both the short- and long-term policy issues. What are the odds that this will happen? As of today, the most likely scenario is a continuation of divided government. Whether that translates into a consensus on reform remains to be seen.
Starting with the presidency, despite the weak recovery most factors still favor a second Obama term. This rests on several principles. First, the odds greatly favor an incumbent. Since World War II, only three sitting presidents have lost re-election: President Ford in 1976, President Carter in 1980 and President Bush, Sr. in 1992. In all three elections, the sitting president was hampered by a primary challenge from their party's flank, something that President Obama has not had to contend with. Second, most polls still show a small but meaningful lead for the president. More importantly, polls in swing states further favor the president.
The election will be won or lost in the Electoral College, and will ultimately depend on a few key swing states. Currently, the electoral math provides more paths to victory for President Obama than it does for Governor Romney. Based on analysis by The New York Times, Obama has 217 likely electoral votes, with 185 solid, while Mitt Romney has 206 likely votes, with 158 solid. While exact numbers differ, most analysts acknowledge the existing math.
The counterpoint to the above argument, and the main reason the election is likely to be excruciatingly close, is the economy, and more specifically the jobs market. No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won re-election with the unemployment rate above 7.4%. As of May, unemployment stood at 8.2% and few economists expect it to be much different on Election Day. That said, given the advantages of incumbency and the realities of the Electoral College, the odds still favor a narrow victory for the president.
Turning to the Senate, current polls suggest that whichever party controls the Senate in 2013 will enjoy the narrowest of margins and no party looks even remotely likely to capture a filibuster-proof majority (60 seats or more). Currently, Democrats hold a narrow majority of seats, 53 to 47. That is likely to narrow even further in 2013, if for no other reason than that the Democrats will be forced to defend more open seats.
Senate Democrats are defending 23 seats, while Republicans need only defend 10. Just as with the president, incumbency confers a huge advantage in Senate races, suggesting that Republicans are likely to pick up several seats. The most likely outcome next January is a Senate nearly evenly divided, with no party holding more than a one or two seat majority. Given Senate rules, the minority party will still be likely to hold most legislation hostage. Absent a major swing, it looks highly likely that the House of Representatives will remain in Republican hands.
A more quantitative look at the odds supports the likelihood for a continuation of divided government. The Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) is currently pricing in roughly a 70% chance of divided government in the elections (22% chance of a Republican sweep, 10% chance of a Democratic sweep).[8]
Assuming this is the case, what are the prospects for more compromise, or at least more compromise compared to the last Congress? While it has become a cliché to say that Washington has become more divided and compromise more difficult to reach, there is actually a fair amount of evidence to support this thesis.
Figure 7 measures partisan votes in the House of Representatives. Based on this study, it is not an exaggeration to say that politics is more partisan than at any time in living memory. The two parties are more ideological than at any time since the post-Civil War period and it is simply becoming rarer for Congressmen to cross party lines on a vote.
Nor is this dynamic confined to the House. Most people typically think of the Senate as the more deliberative and less partisan body, but using the same methodology, polarization in the Senate is also at the highest level since the late 19th century. This situation is likely to be exacerbated by the retirement of several moderates from the Senate. The hard fact is that in the current environment, compromises like the 1986 tax reform or the 1996 welfare reform look unlikely.
Never put off until tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark Twain
For several years now the US government has faithfully been following Mark Twain's admonition. Whether due to an historically high level of partisanship or an all too human desire to avoid hard choices, Washington has been unable to provide any long-term solutions to issues as far ranging as entitlement spending to the nature of the US tax code. This has hurt financial markets, but to the extent that other countries were in worse shape-at least nobody speculated as to whether the United States of America would exist next year, a comment that doesn't hold for the European Union-the circumstances were not as dire as they might have been. To date, the United States has benefited in a very real way from Europe's dislocations. As Europe has faced an existential crisis, the dollar has rallied and yields have plunged. Rightly or wrongly, investors rushed to what has been perceived as the last safe haven.
However, in a few months' time market attention is likely to shift 3,000 miles to the West, from Brussels and Berlin to Washington. The risks surrounding European banks and sovereign debt will not go away, but this fall US politics are likely to increasingly drive investor sentiment. From the fiscal cliff to the long-term solvency of the federal government, markets may not be as forgiving of further procrastination.
In the near term, bitter and divisive elections that produce more stalemate will make it more difficult to avoid the pending fiscal drag. Even assuming this can be postponed, US economic growth is dependent on a number of structural issues: a sensible overhaul of the tax code and reforms of the long-term entitlement state. If the elections make either of these more likely, a rally is probably justified. If, on the other hand, we wake up on the morning of November 7 with continued divided government and no consensus on reform, an inconclusive outcome in other words, Europe may no longer be the biggest problem child in the global economy.
[1] Source: Bloomberg. Standard deviation is a measure of how widely values are dispersed from the average value (the mean).
[2] Census Bureau, U.S. Population Projections. Accessed at, accessed February 10, 2010.
[3] Investment Outlook, PNC, E William Stone, CFA CMT, June 2012.
[4]Debt Overhangs: Past and Present, Carmen S. Reinhart, Vincent R. Reinhardt, and Kenneth S. Rogoff. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, April 2012.
[5] Tax Policy Center Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. Accessed at, accessed July 3, 2012.
[6] Statement of the US Chamber of Commerce. Hearing on the Need for Comprehensive Tax Reform to Help American Companies Compete in the Global Market and Create Jobs for American Workers, May 12, 2011.
[7]Lessons from the 1986 Tax Reform Act: What Policy Makers Need to Learn to Avoid the Mistakes of the Past, Jason Fichtner and Jacob Feldman. Mercatus Center, George Mason University, April 2011.
[8] US Economic Viewpoint, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, May 30, 2012.
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Comment: Re:SO, does it look the same as it did in 1969? (Score 2) 267
by Alioth (#45702027) Attached to: Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander
No it's not 40 year old tech.
People drove a car on my route to work perhaps 70 or 80 years ago. But that doesn't mean my Honda Civic is 80 year old tech. While the outcome is the same and the principles are the same, the technology used to make that journey now is quite different.
Comment: Re:P1 = Jet Li, Gary Kasparov, David Beckham Visa (Score 1) 113
by Alioth (#45670107) Attached to: StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa
Where I draw the line is:
* Does it involve strenuous physical activity?
* Does it entail some level of risk greater than just every day activity?
* Does it involve competition?
If it does, it's a sport in my book. If not, it might be entertaining, it might be fun, but it's a pasttime. Starcraft 2 fails on the first two counts. Golf fails on the first two counts in my book. Snooker fails in the first two counts. I think of all these things as perhaps being entertaining and highly competitive, but not really a sport much less athletic. Motor racing does require all three, as does football, rugby, cricket, tennis, arm-wrestling etc. so I consider them sports. Motor racing for me falls into the set of sports but falls outside of the set of athletics (although you need to be in good shape to be a competitive motor racer in many categories, and it does involve strenuous physical activity).
by Alioth (#45669233) Attached to: StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa
Generally I wouldn't call a Starcraft pro an athlete, nor would I call Starcraft a sport (I wouldn't call chess a sport. I wouldn't even call golf a sport - it's a pleasant past-time, but not a sport). Don't mistake this for me devaluing gaming tournaments - I enjoy them, I watch pro-league SC2, I've even participated in a few Starcraft tournaments and I play too much SC2 for my own good. But even playing in top level SC tournaments does not make you an athlete nor does it make SC2 a sport.
Comment: Re:Jackpot (Score 1) 610
I don't know what you mean about classic UK bank numbers but at least bank account numbers that have been around since MICR writing was put on cheques do have check digits. However, there is absolutely no standardization on these check digits and different banks use different algorithms (there aren't many algorithms in use but different banks may use the same algorithm in creatively different ways). There is a file you can download with the rules to apply depending on sort code. (I know this because I had to write a Java library to verify sort code/account combinations that were being read from the MICR codeline on a cheque).
If you ever need to do it, this website tells you how: http://www.vocalink.com/products/payments/customer-support-services/modulus-checking.aspx
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Comment: It was a dark and stormy night... (Score 1) 225
by Alioth (#45661095) Attached to: Doom Is Twenty Years Old
Well, perhaps not a dark and stormy night, but a dull, windy and wet winter Saturday afternoon.
I was playing Doom on my 486, with headphones on on said dull afternoon. I had been playing a while and was really into it - Doom actually has great atmosphere with the music and the sounds of the various creatures and monsters shuffling around the map, and especially good atmosphere when played in a dimly lit room with proper headphones that cover the ears.
So my friend who I lived with at the time comes back from wherever he'd gone for the afternoon. In this place we rented there had been left these bean bag things for propping open doors. My back was to the door, and my friend seeing me fully engrossed in the game picks up one of these small bean bag frogs and throws it at me. The bean bag landed on my shoulder at the EXACT MOMENT one of those demons that go "Whoooooooooooo!!!!" (the ones that fire rockets) appeared behind me on the same side as the shoulder on which the bean bag had landed...
I almost died of heart failure right there on the spot. I certainly screamed like a little girl.
Comment: Doom tourney (Score 1) 225
by Alioth (#45660439) Attached to: Doom Is Twenty Years Old
We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Doom this year at RetroEuskal (which is held within Euskal Encounter in Bilbao, one of Europe's largest LAN parties with about 5000 people who bring their machines (Euskal Encounter itself has been going for 21 years now, it came out of the Amiga demoscene and still hosts quite a bit of demoscene stuff).
Here's the video I made of the tournament. Proper e-sports with prizes and everything :-)
We also had a tournament in November at RetroMañía at the University of Zaragoza.
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theodp writes "The Commercial Appeal's Marc Perrusquia takes an in-depth look into how Steve Jobs got the liver he needed in Memphis. "Steve Jobs' 2009 liver transplant in Memphis gave the tech icon two more years of life," Perrusquia begins. "It gave life, too, to a complicated, divisive debate over multiple listing, the legal but little-known practice of getting on waiting lists at two or more hospitals. Though it favors the rich, multiple listing is giving numbers of ordinary Americans a chance. A chance to survive. A chance for a new life." Adding fuel to the controversy over Jobs' transplant is a new revelation that before calling 'dibs' on a mansion purchased by Jobs for his recuperation, the Apple CEO's liver transplant surgeon took up residence in the two-story 5,800-square-foot Italianate home for a period of two years during which time Jobs' lawyer and friend, SF attorney George Riley (who's also worked as Apple's outside counsel), personally covered the estate's property taxes and utilities. "It strikes me as a potential conflict of interest," said NYU bioethicist Arthur Caplan. "It strikes me as straining ethical credulity to have him there saying, 'Well, you know, I just lived here. I was just lucky. And this guy just chose to pay my rent.'""
Comment: Re:Went down, then came back. (Score 4, Interesting) 110
by Alioth (#45608469) Attached to: China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions
No, Bitcoin isn't "pegged" to any and all currencies, it's free-floating. Rather too free floating and volatile as the case may be.
The problem with Bitcoin isn't the absence of a central issuer, but right now the problem with Bitcoin is its extreme volatility. At the moment it's almost useless as a currency and it's being used as an instrument of speculation. It's far too volatile for any merchant (perhaps except the black market) to take seriously since it's value relative to all other currencies swings so wildly and so quickly and you have to convert BTC into your local currency to be able to use any funds transferred to you for the mundane things in life like buying food, electricity, housing etc. If I want to sell a thing worth about US$1200 in BTC, if I sold it at 9am today for 1BTC and waited a whole 15 minutes to convert this to USD, in the intervening 15 minutes I would have lost around $300 because of a wild swing in its value that happened over a period of just a couple of minutes.
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Barty made a positive start, but once Ivanovic made the first break to lead 4-2 she took almost total control to ensure the tie would be decided in the mixed doubles.
Tomic put Djokovic under pressure right from the start, holding five break points in the opening game. Djokovic survived that threat and held a break point of his own to lead 5-3 but netted a backhand. Tomic then broke serve in the next game with a crosscourt forehand winner and served out the set.
He kept up the pressure in the second set. He failed to convert a break point to lead 4-3, but won his sixth break point at 5-4 and then served for the match.
"I played a very, very good match and I'm just happy after the training the last few months, that it's all coming good and the training's paying off,'' Tomic said. "Hard work does pay off. I'm still improving but I feel this today was a very good sign. I've got to continue playing like this.''
Playing in front of more than 13,000 in the sold-out arena, Tomic admitted to feeling nervous.
"Very difficult to play the first few games,'' he said. "It's very hard playing against a player like Novak and come out relaxed. But I'm happy the way I came out. I was serving really good and the whole match was on my side because my serve was working really well.''
Djokovic was gracious in defeat.
"He played really well. He deserved to win,'' Djokovic said. "I knew I was coming here to Australia really late and it still takes time for me to get used to it.
"But I'm not taking anything from his win. He played terrific. He's in great form. I was always on the back foot and he was the better player.''
Earlier, Italy came from behind to beat Germany 2-1.
Francesca Schiavone rallied to defeat Tatjana Malek 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 and level the tie for Italy after Tommy Haas resisted a solid challenge and defeated Andreas Seppi 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7). Italy then won the doubles 6-4, 7-5.
On Thursday, the United States team of John Isner and Venus Williams plays the Spanish pairing of Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues for a place in Saturday's final. Australia also faces Italy.
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i just want it to do the most basic things, such as:
-creating simple objects, ie.:cubes,spheres,planes. positioning and rotating them
-managing simple lights just to let things really look 3d.
-positioning camera
-writing text on the screen
-refreshing the screen so that the 3d scene would show
(-maybe transparent objects)
all the stuffs i came across yet are way too complex.
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all the stuffs i came across yet are way too complex. Please name them, possibly with an explanation why it was too complex. – Nobody Aug 27 '12 at 19:40
"all the stuffs i came across yet are way too complex" - Well, what you're trying to do, 3d graphics, is pretty complex. – Christian Rau Aug 27 '12 at 19:41
i tried to avoid 3d game engines, cause i thought they would focus on fancy details, physics and lightnings and shaders... so i tried ogre3d, but the first tutorial was like 500 lines in 6 source files, showing nothing but an ogrehead. and there was like 20 lines barely explained. i want like the stupidest 3d library possible. that ogrehead tutorial should be about 40 lines in one single cpp file. i dont want anything to be configurable. – user1628314 Aug 27 '12 at 20:19
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Well, if you're looking for a 3D library, I'd say go for SDL and OpenGL. Combine those two and you get pretty much the basics in 3D rendering (an SDL window with OpenGL rendering context).
As for tutorials, since 3D stuff is usually complicated, I like this site for video tutorials and this one for a written reference.
Not to start the never-ending SDL vs SFML debate, but I do believe a low-level functional approach of rendering is necessary before moving on to tools like SFML. Again that's just my opinion.
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SFML doesn't do any magic high level stuff that SDL doesn't; it's just more pleasant to use in C++. – Cubic Aug 27 '12 at 20:04
It does some Networking which isn't standard in SDL I believe. But yes, when it comes to graphics it only makes SDL more developer-friendly, like sprite rotation for example. – Jean-Marie Comets Aug 27 '12 at 20:11
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You could try Irrlicht or Ogre3D but you'll have to see for yourself what suits you best. Notice that 3D graphics are by no means "easy". There are many things to consider, although as long as you're just going to create simple geometrical objects then using OpenGL or Direct3D directly shouldn't pose too much of a problem, even if you are a beginner, either (the official D3D tutorials include examples on lighting and texturing too).
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You may want to check out SFML
Main features
Portable SFML compiles on standard platforms like Windows (98, 2000, XP, Vista) and Unix systems (Linux, Mac OS X). As the library grows up, support for more operating systems will be added.
Object-oriented SFML is written in C++ and provides an efficient, object-oriented design. It relies on standard patterns and idioms to provide a simple and robust framework.
Easy to use SFML aims at being easy to manipulate. Effort is put on internal code to provide the simplest public interface.
Flexible Instead of being one big API, SFML rather contains a lot of small packages, that can be chosen and combined according to the intended usage. You can use only the base package to get input and windowing, as well as the full graphics package with sprites and post-effects.
Easily integrable SFML can be used in one or more windows, and/or can be integrated in existing interface components. Integration with existing graphical user interface (GUI) libraries is easy, so that you can add SFML views into complex interfaces built with Qt, wxWidgets, MFC or whatever.
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SFML is a 2D library, I believe. – Rapptz Aug 27 '12 at 19:52
Not really, but it doesn't support 3D on it's own (except when directly using OpenGL). – Cubic Aug 27 '12 at 19:52
It's very easy to use if you combine it with some basic OpenGL, I don't think you can find any easier 3d frameworks to work with. – Bugster Aug 27 '12 at 19:53
Why on earth would you use GLUT when you are using SFML? – Cubic Aug 27 '12 at 19:54
SFML does supports OpenGL context just as well as SDL – Jean-Marie Comets Aug 27 '12 at 20:00
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I am doing a customized keyboard, but I don't know how to show it in uitextfield. How can I do this ? (I use UIView as my keyboard and design in file nib.)
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You need to write this;-
From Apple Docs:-
The custom input view to display when the text field becomes the first responder.
@property (readwrite, retain) UIView *inputView
Discussion If the value in this property is nil, the text field displays the standard system keyboard when it becomes first responder. Assigning a custom view to this property causes that view to be presented instead.
The default value of this property is nil.
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I'm combining sox and lame to generate a new music file, but in order to do everything on one line using pipes, it seems necessary to 'mark' the output and input boundaries with a - character. I've inherited this code, so let me show.
sox $DIRNAME/$BASENAME -e signed-integer -r 8000 -c 2 -t wav - trim $POSITIONS | lame -v -V4 --resample 8 - $DIRNAME/${NOEXT}.mp3
The - between wav and trim is the output file, and the - between --resample 8 and $DIRNAME/${NOEXT}.mp3 is the input file.
I'm trying to find further information on this, like whether any character can be used, or if - is special in this way. What is this called, and what makes it work?
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Many Unix command-line utilities use "-" as a shorthand to mean "don't use a real file here, use stdin (or stdout) instead". Sox is one of these programs:
This is from the sox manpage
SoX can be used in simple pipeline operations by using the special filename '-' which, if used in place of an input filename, will cause SoX will read audio data from 'standard input' (stdin), and which, if used in place of the output filename, will cause SoX will send audio data to 'standard output' (stdout). Note that when using this option, the file-type (see -t below) must also be given.
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By convention, unix and friends use - to represent stdin and stdout.
It's not 100% universal, but it's a pretty widely used.
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In your example, it's the same thing as
Try to replace your - with it, you will see.
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"-" is often use as a convention instead of a file name to say "use the standard input (instead or reading for the file) or standard output (instead of writing to the file)". This is not a feature of the command shell (i.e. bash), so in that sense, it is not a special character. It is a feature of some commands (like in your case "sox" and "lame") and is very useful to chain these commands through pipes.
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I'm receiving intents in a broadcast receiver (declared in manifest), details of which I am 'logging' via b'cst intents received by my 'MainActivity', whose receiver updates the contents of a text view and is registered within the MainActivity code.
I'm wondering if there's a way to keep the contents of the MainActivity text view updated even if the MainActivity doesn't have 'focus' (i.e. another activity has been started). I appreciate that the b'cast receiver of the MainActivity will become unregistered upon pausing, but feel there ought to be a way to do this.
Any ideas?
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You should do all of that on the "onResume" of the activity, just when it gets to the foreground.
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One of solutions is to use a handler inside receiver, and in that you call a static method inside your activity...inside that method you can update or whatever you need to do with your text view...
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This sounds like it might work- I'll read up on handers and give it a try. Thank you! – Dave Fussell Nov 2 '12 at 8:05
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Recently i am seeing a number of issues that are happening in our custom based browser but its not happening in the browsers like mozilla or chrome.
One example is mouse cursor i have given a custom cursor to it onmouseover of a window. This is working fine in Mozilla, chrome and in IE but not in the Adobe Air browser we created. I can see the custom cursor but there is lot of flickering between the custom cursor and the normal mouse pointer.
Is this an issue or there is an work around for this to support the adobe air browser? I am using Adobe AIR 3.4.
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You are actually asking various questions here. It would have been better to create one regarding the mouse cursor problem, and another one regarding the general support of the Adobe AIR browser with OpenLaszlo. – user1587219 Nov 27 '12 at 14:45
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I haven't heard anything about Laszlo testing Adobe AIR apps, especially with the AIR releases in the past two years. The AIR browser has never been supported officially.
I'm assuming that you are still embedding an SWF into a HTML page for your AIR app. When using AIR with OpenLaszlo, I'd always generate an ActionScript 3 based AIR app (not embedding an app SOLO compiled to an SWF into an HTML container). That way, I can use Flash Builder to debug any problems, which makes things a lot easier than debugging embedded SWFs. If you plan to deploy a DHTML runtime app, there's of course no way around embedding the OpenLaszlo app into an HTML container.
Update: Flash 10.2 and higher support native cursor integration (native here means operating system), which provides MUCH better performance. Here's a general description of the API in an Adobe blog post: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/native-mouse-cursors.html
It's technically possible to use the native cursor with OpenLaszlo, I've created a proof-of-concept - but it only works with a heavily modified version of the LzMouseKernel.as class (from the SWF9 kernel files in the LFC), since the kernel will always reset the cursor for various mouse events. And since native cursors require at least Flash 10.2, this is only possible with the SWF11 branch of OpenLaszlo.
I suspect that the problems you are seeing are connected to the way OpenLaszlo enables custom cursors (which is done by hiding the native mouse cursor and moving an sprite around following the invisible mouse cursor position).
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Thanks for the information.I will see what i can do in AS3. – karthick Nov 26 '12 at 8:42
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Is there any way to access a file into assets folder by name with regular expression?
Only selected one file but obvious the suffix into the name
Something like:
aFD =SessionManager.getAppContext().getAssets().openFd("box*.png");
The case:
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You should get all files from assets folder
AssetManager amgr = getAssets();
String[] list = amgr.list("./");
for(String s : list){
Log.d("File:", s);
//check if filename is what you need
if (s.contains(what you need OR regex pattern)){
//do staff
You can view all files and take only what you need, by using REGEX or contains()
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My question was oriented if the Android API would resolve it in a transparent way. However this response is valid. – Zeus Monolitics Feb 1 at 16:25
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Just walk through the list...
for( String fileName : getAssets().list( "" ) ) {
if( fileName.endsWith( ".png" ) ) {
// here's your image
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I wrote this code for get a file path name from assets directory by regular expresion:
public String getFileNameFromAssetsByExpresion(String dirFrom, String nameExp) {
AssetManager am = SessionManager.getAppContext().getAssets();
String nameRetExp = null;
try {
for (String s : am.list(dirFrom)) {
// check if filename is what you need
if (Pattern.matches(nameExp, s)) { nameRetExp = s; break;}
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
return nameRetExp;
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When I create a new project using "ASP.NET MVC3 Web Application" template in Visual Studio 2010 I get a project with web.config that among other stuff has this in <system.web><compilation><assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
Now this section controls the list of assemblies that are referenced during ASP.NET precompilation - the process that turns .aspx, .ascx and .cshtml files into .NET assemblies.
Those files are used for "views" and typically contain code for displaying web page elements. I've carefully looked through the contents of System.Web.Routing namespace and I can't find anything there that would be useful in a "view".
What's the purpose of referencing System.Web.Routing in <compilation> section of web.config?
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if you remove those assebmly you will get a compiler error. because all Controller will look for RouteData values as soon as they requested. – Ravi Feb 21 at 9:18
@Ravi: How often do you have controllers in .aspx files? – sharptooth Feb 21 at 11:17
i never use aspx for mvc. i use razor. actually why you are interested in this route dll. it's needed to get the routedata values for views. – Ravi Feb 21 at 11:22
@Ravi: Great, how many controllers do you have in your Razor views? I'm interested because I don't get why it is referenced in compilation section which is what I say in my question. – sharptooth Feb 21 at 12:22
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First of all, I don't know if this is the right place for this kind of question. Please tell me if it is not.
For a demo of a monitoring application. I want to force some sendports and orchestrations to get an instance with suspended and dehydrated messages
How can I do this in BizTalk 2013?
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To get a suspended message: Just create a receive port and a receive location without a send port that matches the subscription. This will create 2 suspended messages: your actual message and a routing failure.
To get a dehydrated orchestration, create an orchestration with a delay shape that waits for example 1 hour. It will not stay active, instead it will dehydrate.
Hope this helps!
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Dankjewel:) It will work! – Nick N. Jul 1 at 12:26
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any idea why project dependency (Visual Studio) affects linker settings (C++)? I thought that it's enough to chceck linker settings (Additional depend...) or pragma in source code. It's not a big problem, I'm just curious. Thanks.
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If I understand correctly, you are referring to the feature that, when you check project B as dependency of project A, B gets linked into A. This is just for usablility. In that case, Visual Studio knows that it has to check B for changes (and rebuild if necessary) if A gets build. It's really just convenience.
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If you set your project dependencies correctly then you don't need to add any additional dependencies in the linker tab. What's more, dependencies set correctly ensure that the matching build configuration is linked rather than you having to make sure you set the correct additional directories in the linker.
In general it's best to use the project dependencies to organise your linkage where possible and only add truly 'additional' libraries directly to the linker tab.
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I have experience with Java and Python, but this is my first time really using C, for my first assignment also haha.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to convert an unsigned char to a bit, so I would be able to get/set/swap some bit values.
I'm not looking for someone to do my assignment of course, I just need help accessing the bit. I came across this Access bits in a char in C But it seems like that method only showed how to get the last two bits.
Any help or guidance is much appreciated. I tried Googling to see if there was some sort of documentation on this, but couldn't find any. Thanks in advance!
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google bit operations in c, then look for getbit, setbit, clearbit, things like that. – Charlie Burns Oct 9 at 23:33
possible duplicate of What are bitwise operators? – Carl Norum Oct 9 at 23:35
I'd say stackoverflow.com/questions/47981/… is a better dup as long as the poster knows a character is stored as a number in C – lsiebert Oct 9 at 23:50
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Edit: Made changes in accordance with Chux's comment. Also introduced rotl function which rotates bits. Originally reset function was wrong (should have used the rotation instead of shift tmp = tmp << n;
unsigned char setNthBit(unsigned char c, unsigned char n) //set nth bit from right
unsigned char tmp=1<<n;
return c | tmp;
unsigned char getNthBit(unsigned char c, unsigned char n)
unsigned char tmp=1<<n;
return (c & tmp)>>n;
//rotates left the bits in value by n positions
unsigned char rotl(unsigned char value, unsigned char shift)
return (value << shift) | (value >> (sizeof(value) * 8 - shift));
unsigned char reset(unsigned char c, unsigned char n) //set nth bit from right to 0
unsigned char tmp=254; //set all bits to 1 except the right=most one
//tmp = tmp << n; <- wrong, sets to zero n least signifacant bits
//use rotl instead
tmp = rotl(tmp,n);
return c & tmp;
//Combine the two for swapping of the bits ;)
char swap(unsigned char c, unsigned char n, unsigned char m)
unsigned char tmp1=getNthBit(c,n), tmp2=getNthBit(c,m);
char tmp11=tmp2<<n, tmp22=tmp1<<m;
c=reset(c,n); c=reset(c,m);
return c | tmp11 | tmp22;
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Thank you, simpler than I thought – user1730056 Oct 9 at 23:59
My function has to take (unsigned char c, int n), how would I approach these using ints instead of an unsigned char for n – user1730056 Oct 10 at 0:08
@Robin Odd choice to use 1 based indexing instead of 0. – koodawg Oct 10 at 0:24
@koodawg Agree :) – Igor Popov Oct 10 at 0:37
Cool. Idea: an idiomatic alternative for reset(). unsigned char mask = ~(1u << n); return c & mask; – chux Oct 11 at 15:03
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First of all let's emphasize that syntax rules don't work alone, but they need the correct Content-type header to be fully interpreted by the clients. Currently web pages cannot be served with the correct XHTML header because Internet Explorer doesn't understand that.
The first advantage usually mentioned is that XHTML requires pages to be well-formed: true, but when browsers treat them as (malformed) HTML nothing enforces this rule, so it's up to you being a disciplined developer -- but you can be as disciplined writing good well-formed HTML too.
Another point often mentioned is that XHTML promotes the separation between content and presentation, but even in this case it doesn't really offer anything that can't be done with HTML -- it still depends on the developer since nothing is enforced, and no exclusive tools are offered.
So why do so many developer (including those of famous CMS/blogging softwares) still use XHTML syntax instead of directly writing what those pages will become anyway (i.e. plain HTML)?
Related fact: Stackoverflow uses HTML strict.
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XHTML is cool because of the mysterious X in it ;-) – Gumbo Jan 31 '10 at 13:37
Oh wow I didn't know HTML strict RULEZ, thanks for informing us in the form of a question. – Bjorn Tipling Jan 31 '10 at 13:41
I welcome all downvotes, but I would like to hear your opinion too – Matteo Riva Jan 31 '10 at 13:46
Internet Explorer is not the measure of all things. – Felix Kling Jan 31 '10 at 13:51
Felix, I wish it wasn't, I really do. It would make a lot of things easier. – Matteo Riva Jan 31 '10 at 13:57
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Using XHTML states an intent, don’t underestimate that (but don’t overestimate this either). Web standards are politics: if nobody cares, nothing is gonna change. Using XHTML (or HTML5) signals “yes, we are in fact interested in the continued development of the standards.
Furthermore, while clients certainly don’t enforce XHTML rules with a text/html content type, design tools still can do this. XHTML is much easier to support for editors than real HTML (with “real” I mean the whole ugly SGML package). There are good XHTML validators that do much more than HTML validators can (e.g. Schneegans’ XML schema validator).
All in all, many arguments against XHTML are in fact straw-men that aim at some of the poorly-formulated arguments for XHTML. For instance, Microsoft is responsible of publishing long lists of purported XHTML advantages (such as semantic web design). Attacking those arguments is like reductio ad absurdum. But there are good arguments for XHTML.
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From the wiki:
It's up to you which one you choose. There is no real difference in terms of what the user sees. Whichever you choose, please try to make it well-formed and make sure that your HTML/XHTML validates and follows the standards.
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Opera’s MAMA project showed that less than 5% of all passed validation (see dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama-markup-validation-report). And I doubt that those 5% were XHTML only. So validity is probably not the point. – Gumbo Jan 31 '10 at 14:14
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This probably isn't the actual reason, but it makes them parsable using a regular XML parser.
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Well there are HTML parsers too – Matteo Riva Jan 31 '10 at 13:42
Not in all environments. – SLaks Jan 31 '10 at 13:42
I think this answer is along the right lines, if you also take into account the possibility of using XSLT to transform documents and XML Schema to validate them. There is a very broad set of tools available for working with XML, far more so than for HTML. – Phil Booth Jan 31 '10 at 13:51
This is a very valid point, but - like you said yourself - I doubt it's the real reason why XHTML is so popular. – Matteo Riva Jan 31 '10 at 13:56
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Sadly, XHTML syntax isn't as widely used as the XHTML doctype. You'd think people would be conscious about it, but a lot of the time (at least a few years ago), an XHTML doctype was used mostly because HTML 4 was being "dissed". That hasn't stopped people from continuing to use HTML syntax though. Open ended <li> and <p> tags, non-terminated <br> and <img> tags, tag attributes not enclosed in quotes, and more hypocritical nonsense.
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Sure they can, provided you're prepared to use content negotiation to serve a application/xhtml+xml content type to those user-agents that say they accept it.
There a number of reasons both good and bad why xhtml is so widely used. Jay Askren has a point about people who use XML in other contexts, (I'm one of them), but I doubt if that accounts for much use. If there is a good reason why XHTML is popular, it's most likely that the orthogonality of XML is a very seductive idea. It's simply easier remembering "Always close every tag, always quote the attribute values" than trying to remember all the rules about when you can safely omit tags and leave attributes unquoted etc., even though it results in a more verbose document.
There are other reasons like the fact that it's easier to indent your code if every opening tag has a matching closing one, and if you do, you've got a pretty accurate picture of the DOM laid out in the source code, which can aid with scripting. But I doubt that this is a primary reason.
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I suspect a major reason xhtml is so popular is cultural and historical more than anything. XML became quite popular some time ago and it is still used quite heavily. It is good for for defining a data model that can be sent over the wire using webservices. There are lots of tools/technologies that work with it such as xslt and many others. It is natural for a developer to use html which is structured like xml, even if there is no real advantage just because they use xml in other contexts.
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What's the easiest way to use a linked list in python? In scheme, a linked list is defined simply by '(1 2 3 4 5). Python's lists, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], and tuples, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), are not, in fact, linked lists, and linked lists have some nice properties such as constant-time concatenation, and being able to reference separate parts of them. Make them immutable and they are really easy to work with!
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So you have profiled you working code and determined list operations to be a significant bottleneck that you need to replace them? – ironfroggy Nov 12 '08 at 1:52
This might help you visualize it.. pythontutor.com/… – user1889082 Dec 9 '12 at 7:41
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Here is some list functions based on Martin v. Löwis's representation:
cons = lambda el, lst: (el, lst)
mklist = lambda *args: reduce(lambda lst, el: cons(el, lst), reversed(args), None)
car = lambda lst: lst[0] if lst else lst
cdr = lambda lst: lst[1] if lst else lst
nth = lambda n, lst: nth(n-1, cdr(lst)) if n > 0 else car(lst)
length = lambda lst, count=0: length(cdr(lst), count+1) if lst else count
begin = lambda *args: args[-1]
display = lambda lst: begin(w("%s " % car(lst)), display(cdr(lst))) if lst else w("nil\n")
where w = sys.stdout.write
Linked lists have no practical value in Python. I've never used a linked list in Python for any problem except educational.
Thomas Watnedal suggested a good educational resource How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Chapter 17: Linked lists:
A linked list is either:
• the empty list, represented by None, or
class Node:
self.car = cargo
self.cdr = next
def __str__(self):
return str(self.car)
def display(lst):
if lst:
w("%s " % lst)
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You are right about (not) using LLs in Python. They are simply too low level. – Ber Nov 12 '08 at 19:01
It's not like LLs have no use. Here is an OrderedSet recipe by Raymond Hettinger, code.activestate.com/recipes/576696 – u0b34a0f6ae Oct 14 '09 at 10:35
It depends on how algorithmically involved your code is. It is naive to claim something has no practical value just because you yourself have never had to use it – Casebash Oct 26 '09 at 1:03
Representing cons and car through lambdas is indeed beautiful, but not the fastest way to implement a linked list. – pmr May 19 '10 at 12:20
Linked lists are great if your code needs to reference the previous/next item based on the current one. With python lists you'll have to keep passing indexes around, or use the index method - which will not work when the list contains duplicate values. – lkraider Aug 23 '10 at 22:37
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For some needs, a deque may also be useful. You can add and remove items on both ends of a deque at O(1) cost.
from collections import deque
d = deque([1,2,3,4])
print d
for x in d:
print x
print d.pop(), d
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This is clearly the best answer. Here's the correct link to the deque docs: docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.deque – Emil Stenström May 20 '12 at 14:04
@EmilStenström: while deque is a useful data type, it is not a linked list (though it is implemented using doubly linked list at C level). So it answers the question "what would you use instead of linked lists in Python?" and in that case the first answer should be (for some needs) an ordinary Python list (it is also not a linked list). – J.F. Sebastian Oct 19 at 20:26
@J.F.Sebastian: I almost agree with you :) I think the question this answers is rather: "What's the pythonic way to solve a problem that uses a linked list in other languages". It's not that linked lists aren't useful, it's just that problems where a deque doesn't work is very rare. – Emil Stenström Oct 20 at 20:46
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I wrote this up the other day
#! /usr/bin/env python
class node:
def __init__(self):
self.data = None # contains the data
self.next = None # contains the reference to the next node
class linked_list:
def __init__(self):
self.cur_node = None
def add_node(self, data):
new_node = node() # create a new node
new_node.data = data
new_node.next = self.cur_node # link the new node to the 'previous' node.
self.cur_node = new_node # set the current node to the new one.
def list_print(self):
node = self.cur_node # cant point to ll!
while node:
print node.data
node = node.next
ll = linked_list()
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how would you be able to go through the list and search for a specific node with specific data? – locoboy Aug 25 '11 at 17:17
@locoboy the code to do that would be similar in logic to the code in list_print(). – Dennis Dec 11 at 19:28
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Here's a slightly more complex version of a linked list class, with a similar interface to python's sequence types (ie. supports indexing, slicing, concatenation with arbitrary sequences etc). It should have O(1) prepend, doesn't copy data unless it needs to and can be used pretty interchangably with tuples.
It won't be as space or time efficient as lisp cons cells, as python classes are obviously a bit more heavyweight (You could improve things slightly with "__slots__ = '_head','_tail'" to reduce memory usage). It will have the desired big O performance characteristics however.
Example of usage:
>>> l = LinkedList([1,2,3,4])
>>> l
LinkedList([1, 2, 3, 4])
>>> l.head, l.tail
(1, LinkedList([2, 3, 4]))
# Prepending is O(1) and can be done with:
LinkedList.cons(0, l)
LinkedList([0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
# Or prepending arbitrary sequences (Still no copy of l performed):
[-1,0] + l
LinkedList([-1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
# Normal list indexing and slice operations can be performed.
# Again, no copy is made unless needed.
>>> l[1], l[-1], l[2:]
(2, 4, LinkedList([3, 4]))
>>> assert l[2:] is l.next.next
# For cases where the slice stops before the end, or uses a
# non-contiguous range, we do need to create a copy. However
# this should be transparent to the user.
>>> LinkedList(range(100))[-10::2]
LinkedList([90, 92, 94, 96, 98])
import itertools
class LinkedList(object):
"""Immutable linked list class."""
def __new__(cls, l=[]):
if isinstance(l, LinkedList): return l # Immutable, so no copy needed.
i = iter(l)
head = i.next()
except StopIteration:
return cls.EmptyList # Return empty list singleton.
tail = LinkedList(i)
obj = super(LinkedList, cls).__new__(cls)
obj._head = head
obj._tail = tail
return obj
def cons(cls, head, tail):
ll = cls([head])
if not isinstance(tail, cls):
tail = cls(tail)
ll._tail = tail
return ll
# head and tail are not modifiable
def head(self): return self._head
def tail(self): return self._tail
def __nonzero__(self): return True
def __len__(self):
return sum(1 for _ in self)
def __add__(self, other):
other = LinkedList(other)
if not self: return other # () + l = l
start=l = LinkedList(iter(self)) # Create copy, as we'll mutate
while l:
if not l._tail: # Last element?
l._tail = other
l = l._tail
return start
def __radd__(self, other):
return LinkedList(other) + self
def __iter__(self):
while x:
yield x.head
def __getitem__(self, idx):
"""Get item at specified index"""
if isinstance(idx, slice):
# Special case: Avoid constructing a new list, or performing O(n) length
# calculation for slices like l[3:]. Since we're immutable, just return
# the appropriate node. This becomes O(start) rather than O(n).
# We can't do this for more complicated slices however (eg [l:4]
start = idx.start or 0
if (start >= 0) and (idx.stop is None) and (idx.step is None or idx.step == 1):
length = len(self) # Need to calc length.
start, stop, step = idx.indices(length)
no_copy_needed = (stop == length) and (step == 1)
if no_copy_needed:
l = self
for i in range(start):
if not l: break # End of list.
return l
# We need to construct a new list.
if step < 1: # Need to instantiate list to deal with -ve step
return LinkedList(list(self)[start:stop:step])
return LinkedList(itertools.islice(iter(self), start, stop, step))
# Non-slice index.
if idx < 0: idx = len(self)+idx
if not self: raise IndexError("list index out of range")
if idx == 0: return self.head
return self.tail[idx-1]
def __mul__(self, n):
if n <= 0: return Nil
for i in range(n-1): l += self
return l
def __rmul__(self, n): return self * n
# Ideally we should compute the has ourselves rather than construct
# a temporary tuple as below. I haven't impemented this here
def __hash__(self): return hash(tuple(self))
def __eq__(self, other): return self._cmp(other) == 0
def __ne__(self, other): return not self == other
def __lt__(self, other): return self._cmp(other) < 0
def __gt__(self, other): return self._cmp(other) > 0
def __le__(self, other): return self._cmp(other) <= 0
def __ge__(self, other): return self._cmp(other) >= 0
def _cmp(self, other):
"""Acts as cmp(): -1 for self<other, 0 for equal, 1 for greater"""
if not isinstance(other, LinkedList):
return cmp(LinkedList,type(other)) # Arbitrary ordering.
A, B = iter(self), iter(other)
for a,b in itertools.izip(A,B):
if a<b: return -1
elif a > b: return 1
return 1 # a has more items.
except StopIteration: pass
return -1 # b has more items.
except StopIteration: pass
return 0 # Lists are equal
def __repr__(self):
return "LinkedList([%s])" % ', '.join(map(repr,self))
class EmptyList(LinkedList):
"""A singleton representing an empty list."""
def __new__(cls):
return object.__new__(cls)
def __iter__(self): return iter([])
def __nonzero__(self): return False
def head(self): raise IndexError("End of list")
def tail(self): raise IndexError("End of list")
# Create EmptyList singleton
LinkedList.EmptyList = EmptyList()
del EmptyList
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Immutable lists are best represented through two-tuples, with None representing NIL. To allow simple formulation of such lists, you can use this function:
def mklist(*args):
result = None
for element in reversed(args):
result = (element, result)
return result
To work with such lists, I'd rather provide the whole collection of LISP functions (i.e. first, second, nth, etc), than introducing methods.
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Here is a simple LinkedList class based on the straightforward C++ design and Chapter 17: Linked lists, as recommended by Thomas Watnedal.
class Node:
def __init__(self, value = None, next = None):
self.value = value
self.next = next
def __str__(self):
return 'Node ['+str(self.value)+']'
class LinkedList:
def __init__(self):
self.first = None
self.last = None
def insert(self, x):
if self.first == None:
self.first = Node(x, None)
self.last = self.first
elif self.last == self.first:
self.last = Node(x, None)
self.first.next = self.last
current = Node(x, None)
self.last.next = current
self.last = current
def __str__(self):
if self.first != None:
current = self.first
out = 'LinkedList [\n' +str(current.value) +'\n'
while current.next != None:
current = current.next
out += str(current.value) + '\n'
return out + ']'
return 'LinkedList []'
def clear(self):
L = LinkedList()
print L
print L
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I based this additional function on Nick Stinemates
def add_node_at_end(self, data):
new_node = Node()
node = self.curr_node
while node:
if node.next == None:
node.next = new_node
new_node.next = None
new_node.data = data
node = node.next
The method he has adds the new node at the beginning while I have seen a lot of implementations which usually add a new node at the end but whatever, it is fun to do.
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I just did this as a fun toy. It should be immutable as long as you don't touch the underscore-prefixed methods, and it implements a bunch of Python magic like indexing and len.
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Here's a rather Scheme way to do it:
class cons:
def __init__(self, f, r):
self.__f = f
self.__r = r
def __str__(self):
return "(%s, %s)" % (str(self.__f), str(self.__r))
__repr__ = __str__
class empty:
def __init__(self): pass
__repr__ = lambda self: "empty"
__str__ = __repr__
empty = empty()
def first(self): return self.__f
def rest(self): return self.__r
I'm looking for a more python way, though, and ideally one that has easier to work with syntax than this:
>>> cons(12, cons(4, cons.empty))
(12, (4, empty))
>>> cons(12, cons(4, cons.empty)).first()
>>> cons(12, cons(4, cons.empty)).rest()
(4, empty)
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When using immutable linked lists, consider using Python's tuple directly.
ls = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
def first(ls): return ls[0]
def rest(ls): return ls[1:]
Its really that ease, and you get to keep the additional funcitons like len(ls), x in ls, etc.
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Tuples don't have the performance characteristics he asked for. Your rest() is O(n) as opposed to O(1) for a linked list, as is consing a new head. – Brian Nov 11 '08 at 13:10
Right. My point is: Do not ask for linked lists to implement your algorithm, rather use the python features to optimally implement it. E.g. iterating over a linked list is O(n), as is iterating over a python tuple using "for x in t:" – Ber Nov 11 '08 at 19:29
i think the right way to use tuples to implement linked lists is the accepted answer here. your way uses immutable array-like-objects – Claudiu Nov 11 '08 at 21:56
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I think the implementation below fill the bill quite gracefully.
'''singly linked lists, by Yingjie Lan, December 1st, 2011'''
class linkst:
'''Singly linked list, with pythonic features.
The list has pointers to both the first and the last node.'''
__slots__ = ['data', 'next'] #memory efficient
def __init__(self, iterable=(), data=None, next=None):
'''Provide an iterable to make a singly linked list.
Set iterable to None to make a data node for internal use.'''
if iterable is not None:
self.data, self.next = self, None
else: #a common node
self.data, self.next = data, next
def empty(self):
'''test if the list is empty'''
return self.next is None
def append(self, data):
'''append to the end of list.'''
last = self.data
self.data = last.next = linkst(None, data)
#self.data = last.next
def insert(self, data, index=0):
'''insert data before index.
Raise IndexError if index is out of range'''
curr, cat = self, 0
while cat < index and curr:
curr, cat = curr.next, cat+1
if index<0 or not curr:
raise IndexError(index)
new = linkst(None, data, curr.next)
if curr.next is None: self.data = new
curr.next = new
def reverse(self):
'''reverse the order of list in place'''
current, prev = self.next, None
while current: #what if list is empty?
next = current.next
current.next = prev
prev, current = current, next
if self.next: self.data = self.next
self.next = prev
def delete(self, index=0):
'''remvoe the item at index from the list'''
curr, cat = self, 0
while cat < index and curr.next:
curr, cat = curr.next, cat+1
if index<0 or not curr.next:
raise IndexError(index)
curr.next = curr.next.next
if curr.next is None: #tail
self.data = curr #current == self?
def remove(self, data):
'''remove first occurrence of data.
Raises ValueError if the data is not present.'''
current = self
while current.next: #node to be examined
if data == current.next.data: break
current = current.next #move on
else: raise ValueError(data)
current.next = current.next.next
if current.next is None: #tail
self.data = current #current == self?
def __contains__(self, data):
'''membership test using keyword 'in'.'''
current = self.next
while current:
if data == current.data:
return True
current = current.next
return False
def __iter__(self):
'''iterate through list by for-statements.
return an iterator that must define the __next__ method.'''
itr = linkst()
itr.next = self.next
return itr #invariance: itr.data == itr
def __next__(self):
'''the for-statement depends on this method
to provide items one by one in the list.
return the next data, and move on.'''
#the invariance is checked so that a linked list
#will not be mistakenly iterated over
if self.data is not self or self.next is None:
raise StopIteration()
next = self.next
self.next = next.next
return next.data
def __repr__(self):
'''string representation of the list'''
return 'linkst(%r)'%list(self)
def __str__(self):
'''converting the list to a string'''
return '->'.join(str(i) for i in self)
#note: this is NOT the class lab! see file linked.py.
def extend(self, iterable):
'''takes an iterable, and append all items in the iterable
to the end of the list self.'''
last = self.data
for i in iterable:
last.next = linkst(None, i)
last = last.next
self.data = last
def index(self, data):
'''TODO: return first index of data in the list self.
Raises ValueError if the value is not present.'''
#must not convert self to a tuple or any other containers
current, idx = self.next, 0
while current:
if current.data == data: return idx
current, idx = current.next, idx+1
raise ValueError(data)
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The following is what I came up with. It's similer to Riccardo C.'s, in this thread, except it prints the numbers in order instead of in reverse. I also made the LinkedList object a Python Iterator in order to print the list out like you would a normal Python list.
class Node:
def __init__(self, data=None):
self.data = data
self.next = None
def __str__(self):
return str(self.data)
class LinkedList:
def __init__(self):
self.head = None
self.curr = None
self.tail = None
def __iter__(self):
return self
def next(self):
if self.head and not self.curr:
self.curr = self.head
return self.curr
elif self.curr.next:
self.curr = self.curr.next
return self.curr
raise StopIteration
def append(self, data):
n = Node(data)
if not self.head:
self.head = n
self.tail = n
self.tail.next = n
self.tail = self.tail.next
# Add 5 nodes
ll = LinkedList()
for i in range(1, 6):
# print out the list
for n in ll:
print n
Example output:
$ python linked_list.py
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class LinkedList:
def __init__(self, value):
self.value = value
self.next = None
def insert(self, node):
if not self.next:
self.next = node
def __str__(self):
if self.next:
return '%s -> %s' % (self.value, str(self.next))
return ' %s ' % self.value
if __name__ == "__main__":
ll = None
for item in items:
if ll:
next_ll = LinkedList(item)
ll = LinkedList(item)
print('[ %s ]' % ll)
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First of all, I assume you want linked lists. In practice, you can use collections.deque, whose current CPython implementation is a doubly linked list of blocks (each block contains an array of 62 cargo objects). It subsumes linked list's functionality. You can also search for a C extension called llist on pypi. If you want a pure-Python and easy-to-follow implementation of the linked list ADT, you can take a look at my following minimal implementation.
class Node (object):
""" Node for a linked list. """
def __init__ (self, value, next=None):
self.value = value
self.next = next
class LinkedList (object):
""" Linked list ADT implementation using class.
A linked list is a wrapper of a head pointer
that references either None, or a node that contains
a reference to a linked list.
def __init__ (self, iterable=()):
self.head = None
for x in iterable:
self.head = Node(x, self.head)
def __iter__ (self):
p = self.head
while p is not None:
yield p.value
p = p.next
def prepend (self, x): # 'appendleft'
self.head = Node(x, self.head)
def reverse (self):
""" In-place reversal. """
p = self.head
self.head = None
while p is not None:
p0, p = p, p.next
p0.next = self.head
self.head = p0
if __name__ == '__main__':
ll = LinkedList([6,5,4])
ll.prepend(3); ll.prepend(2)
print list(ll)
print list(ll)
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i have this code but i dont know what to do next..
var toBeInsertedToAS = "";
$('<img />')
toBeInsertedToAS += $(this).attr('src')+"|";
i just want to have this output..
but as what i can see, after the loop, there's no output.. maybe because it goes to alert(toBeInsertedToAS) without loading the pictures completely.. i just want to completely load the pictures first before it will execute the alert..
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You can rearrange it a bit, like this:
var toBeInsertedToAS = [], theSetDataCount = 0;
$('<img />').one('load', function(){
if(toBeInsertedToAS.length == theSetDataCount)
.each(function() {
You can test it here, this demo loads images from http://dummyimage.com/ as a source.
The load event happens when the image loads, not a synchronous thing, though it will be instant if it's from cache. From cache also won't fire the load event in some browsers...we're manually handling that with the .each() and the .one() ensures it only runs once, not affecting our count in a funny way.
The key here is to fire the alert() (or any other function) when the last load handler runs.
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thank you sir.. that solves my problem.. anyway, can i ask for the explanation for this var declaration? var toBeInsertedToAS = [], theSetDataCount = 0; – Vincent Dagpin Jul 10 '10 at 15:26
ahh.. sir.. how about instead of alert(toBeInsertedToAS.join('|')); i will put the result first to a variable// then alert after the for loop// ?) like for(j=1;j<=10;j++){the code here that assigns the result to newVariable}alert(newVariable); – Vincent Dagpin Jul 10 '10 at 15:44
because/.. all that code above.. the whole for loop, it still has the loop outside that loop.. so, maybe, the first result for that code must be put to a newVariable[0].. then next outside loop, the second result will be put to the newVariable[1]// is that posible sir? – Vincent Dagpin Jul 10 '10 at 15:47
@vrynxzent - You can create multiple variables with a comma instead of var each time, so it's equal to var toBeInsertedToAS = []; var theSetDataCount = 0;, making an empty array and int to use. If you put this inside a loop (that's a closure, say .each()), including the variables, they'll be per-loop and you can re-use them. – Nick Craver Jul 10 '10 at 16:11
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We're the developers of a relatively complex non-game iPhone 3 application, and we're beginning an ambitious rewrite to take better advantage of iOS 4. There's a significant social element to the app, so we started thinking that we'd like to make it available on as many modern mobile platforms as possible:
• iPhone/iOS
• Android
• Windows Phone
• BlackBerry OS
• Symbian
There are several approaches to cross-platform development, and they all have limitations. No solution manages to take advantage of all a device's functionality the way a native application can. Given the complexity of our app, I'd simply like to maximize "logical" code reuse without resorting to a cross-platform framework. I'm envisioning tools that will make developing and testing apps against multiple platforms a little more seamless. What can we do to make developing on 5 platforms take less than 5 times the effort?
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I agree with Beth. I have developed a product based on the same thought process. I have a java server running on a socket, which has a client library that client app's use to connect to the server. The client abstracts out the socket piece and provides easy api's for client apps to call.
The server is equipped to handle multiple client connections in parallel, thread pool concept.
Now, since it will be a java client library, you can only run this on android. To get this working on other platforms, you can run this client piece on J2EE. This way you create a third middle layer. All other platforms can then connect using the browser.
With this done, you can now use JSON to Object libraries to expose your object (on the server side) to JSON. I haven't done this yet, but will do it in a few weeks.
Btw, I just cant get myself to use any cross platform frameworks. They promise the world, and dont mention any of their limitations upfront. Its painful towards the end of your product/app release to find out all these limitations/hidden costs.
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I'm currently thinking to this problem , and my solution would be to put all the logic server side and use an approach like Model-View-Presentation, a series of events fired by the UI that should instead be specific for the client
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Well, you can look at JQTouch, SensaTouch or maybe wait for a while to see the jqueryformobile to finally get published. If you are not in a hurry, I would already start working in jQuery, since two out of three from this list are (will be) based on jQuery as plugins
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None of these will play nice together. It's not in their perceived best interest to do so.
The best bet is to dumb everything down and keep it simple. Simplicity always wins when you are trying to sandbox multiple hostile interests.
Look to XML for all data, and then have 5 binaries to read it or push it all to a web server via PHP. All these mobile platforms will function nicely with XML because it's in their best interest to do so. Worry about branding and appearances AFTER you get the core functionality off the ground.
NOTE: Javascript is the last thing you should be looking at in the beginning. It rarely plays nicely on all platforms in the same way. So make sure that your JS layer is independent of your data layer. DO NOT INTEGRATE THEM. That would be bad. You want your Android JS to be potentially different than the JS you push on the Blackberry for example. Because you won't know how quirky it will end up being until you try it out and test your methods.
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I know you said no cross-platform frameworks, but perhaps something to look at:
Write all the core logic in javascript. Unit test that at will. Then use tools like Appcelerator to turn that logic into native code.
Then import that logic code into your native platform projects for each of those platforms, and build out the other features you feel can't be achieved properly in any other way.
For platforms they don't support right now, you might be able to find a js to native code converter, or indeed a way of hosting a js environment within those platforms.
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Push as much of the functionality as you can back to a shared web server, and try to make only the UI specific to the platform.
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Project Euler is a site with general algorithmic challenges that can be a part of just about any software but is there any challenges that focus on the overall end result of web apps? It should be compatible with just about any web framework in a similar way that project Euler can be done in any language.
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Generally, what you do in a web app, is transform data from one representation to another, pull data from a database and present it in one fashion or another. Accept data from a web page, filter and modify it and plug it back in the database. The number of purely algorithmic challenges as such are very limited (queuing, semaphores and parallelism if things become advanced). I've been doing web apps since 1997, so I'm not downplaying anybody's bread and butter here, as it IS mine .. or maybe I am just a bit jaded ;-)
I simply don't think there are enough general problems, to form the basis of a purely web app challenge site like Project Euler.
The Project Euler problems are very far from anything I have done in my professional career, which (to me) makes them a nice challenge and a great break from the daily routine.
For a non-competitive site that might serve to gather the challenges/task you propose, Rosetta Code could be an answer.
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+1 - Agreed - You wrote what I was thinkin'. – Frank V Dec 7 '10 at 15:43
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I am doing optimization of web app, where I get list data in JSON format in as large size as 1000 objects containing 100s of attributes. eval used to take lot of time to parse this large data. So after digging internet and stackoverflow for some time I got another way of retrieving JSON data from server 'Dynamic Javascript include'.
Javascript include does JSON parsing very fast, as stated in blogs.(verified with console logs in fiebug). But there is difference between the time Javascript has finished downloading and execution of the script, and huge one as high as 6 to 7 sec. Any idea, why this is happening and any ways to resolve this?
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"...eval..." - You know of the native JSON Object, do you? – Ivo Wetzel Nov 20 '10 at 14:30
No I dont, after some googling I found out that, there is native JSON object of which parse method does JSON parsing faster. But 1 more problem, I am using mootools, which overrides this JSON object and adds its method JSON.decode() which uses nothing else than eval.Any ways with which I can get my native JSON object back with having mootools together. – vishwanath Nov 20 '10 at 15:19
By looking at the source it's clear that mootools does in fact not override the native JSON object github.com/mootools/mootools-core/blob/master/Source/Utilities/… You need to use JSON.parse() to convert the strings into objects etc. – Ivo Wetzel Nov 20 '10 at 15:51
This is from mootools documentation, and I also checked with source code , there is no parse function in JSON object of mootools. mootools.net/docs/core/Utilities/JSON. Using 1.2 version of mootools. Maybe the link provided by you of later version. But I cant change to new version right now, is there any way I can get my native JSON object back with mootools running simultaneously. – vishwanath Nov 22 '10 at 12:07
After more googling also found out that native JSON object support is not there for all browsers, all versions right now. Only for IE 8 and Firefox 3.5 above... So that's not a solution for my problem. Btw I found out that this problem is there only for my machine firefox. maybe too many firefox addons making it do so... – vishwanath Nov 23 '10 at 10:12
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Answering my own question here, After more digging I found out that the problem was only replicable on my machine, And on others machine the difference between the mentioned process was very less, So guessing that this may be happening because of too many Firefox addons that I have used. Just a guess work. not sure yet.
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I have Four activity say A, B, C and D
My situation is A will start the activity B by startActivityForResult.
startActivityForResult(new Intent(this,B.class),ONE);
In other situation i will B with other situation. like
startActivityForResult(new Intent(this,B.class),TWO);
In B i need to check I need to call C or D depending requestCode. I.e if ONE need to start C else D So i need to know who to check the requestCode in the child Activity (B here )
Or in other words I want to get with what request code did B started in the Activity B
Thanks in advance
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You can pass request code by put extra.
intent.putExtra("requestCode", requestCode);
Or if you have used startActivityForResult many times, then better than editing each, you can override the startActivityForResult in your Activity, add you code there like this
public void startActivityForResult(Intent intent, int requestCode) {
intent.putExtra("requestCode", requestCode);
super.startActivityForResult(intent, requestCode);
So there is no need to edit all your startActivityForResult
Hope it helped you
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Is there really no way for a child activity to get its request code? – jeffamaphone Jun 23 '11 at 0:33
Till now to my best Knowledge, I think no other way. – Labeeb P Jun 23 '11 at 4:30
Was wondering the same thing - this is one of those things in the Android APIs that doesn't make any logical sense. – Artem Russakovskii Jul 29 '11 at 21:34
Android gripe #11. – QED Aug 23 '12 at 22:55
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The request code is not passed to the started activity automatically because it doesn't (and shouldn't) need to know this value. It only needs to know what to do and not where it was started from.
Starting an activity is really just another form of calling a method. When you call a method, you receive the result synchronously (right there where you made the call). In this case you are only passing in the information that method needs to do its work. You are not telling it where you called it from.
Starting an activity is the asynchronous analog of calling a method, in which case you receive the result in the special method onActivityResult(). In this method, you need to know what to do with the result you just received and you have the request code for this.
To make it a bit clearer why it isn't a good idea to pass the request code as a parameter, consider the example activity which is showing a product you can buy. On this activity there are two buttons labeled "Buy" and "Login" (as you are currently not logged in). Pressing "Login" will start an activity named "Login" which will try to log in the user using the provided information. Pressing "Buy" will first start the very same "Login" activity and if the login was successful, start the buy activity.
Now, the "Login" button uses request code 1 to start the login activity, but the "Buy" button can't use the same request code as it will have to do something different if the login is successful. So, the "Buy" button uses request code 2.
In the "Login" activity you might receive two different request codes depending on where it was called from, but you will need to do the very same procedure.
So, if you pass in the request code as a parameter, you will end up with code that needs to do the same stuff for a couple of different request codes, like:
if (requestCode == LOGIN || requestCode == BUY) {
// ...
} else ...
You will also end up with storing the request code constants in a central location e.g. a class named RequestCodes.
In short, the request code should only be used to decide what to do with the received result. This way you will end up with a more modular, easier to maintain and easier to extend code.
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What if it's a "manager" of sort and you want a request code to come in to "save" a certain value (value saved in extras). Another request code that would "retrive" a value (and return in extras) but within this activity they can also overall manage the saved values like renaming, editing, deleting, etc. What are your thoughts on something like that? I think it would prevent duplicating code/activities to do the same actions. – J.Romero Apr 8 '12 at 22:20
@J.Romero Don't do that, it will just complicate things. Just put that functionality in a (utility/singleton) class. You might also want to look at Handler and Service – Szabolcs Berecz Apr 12 '12 at 9:38
Szabolcs The child activity even if it "doesn't need to know this value" may need to pass the value on to the next activity in a chain. Ironically, we need to write more redundant code for this. For something that we don't need to know as much as we get more lecture to read about what what we shouldn't do. – user250343 Mar 8 at 4:22
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Hi I'm currently developing a .NET library (not a control), and considering how to provide a combined "development" and freely run-time deployable licencing scheme to work with it.
I'm thinking for developer licencing, some kind of node-locked will be just fine (file and/or server/web service), but I want to allow developers to freely distribute my software at run-time.
I was wandering if for the run-time licence, it would be a good idea to have as part of say an MD5 hash for the licence key, the calling assembly's (or executable/module - not sure) company info, or perhaps it's own strong name hash key?
It would mean my users would have to generate a run-time licence every time their software was released/distributed, but that shouldn't be too onerous, I think. This could be done from a valid dev/build licenced/node-locked machine, making the process pretty simple and painless.
This is very much an idea at this stage. I'd love to hear any thoughts people may have on this idea.
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A few thoughts about this:
• I believe it was Joel Spolsky who pointed out that you have to make the aquisition of a licence easier than breaking, sorry, "working around" the licensing mechanism of the software. Having worked with node locked software as a developer, this can be a pain in the backside, especially if you have more than one machine. Maybe look at user-based licensing (ie, my user has a single license somewhere on their profile, and if that isn't in use already you can use it no matter which machine you're on).
• I foresee problems with your dual licensing scheme of having unlimited runtime license, but still requiring a per-seat developer license for the same library. For example, what's stopping developers to 'license' a runtime for their development purposes?
• Enforcement is another problem. How do you find out if your client is violating your license agreement? Having the library "phone home" would most likely rule out its use in a lot of corporate, firewalled environments.
• How much effort would you have to invest into this scheme? Can you buy one? Can you use the time to improve your library so your clients would buy an upgrade instead?
• If there are any comparable libraries out there, check if they have any sort of copy protection. If not, forget about it straight away as you'll be handing sales to your competitors that way.
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Everyone hates licensing, so why not just use a simple license key that they set on one of your objects in their code?
I wouldn't require them to recreate the license key for every build, that would be tedious. However you could make it so that the license key you give them can be converted to a public key token, then you can see if that matches the public key token of the assemblies that call your code.
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It would help if you told us what the library actually does! But one way I would suggest is that you inherit your library from the class System.ComponentModel.Component. This will give your library access to the property DesignMode, which allows you to differntiate whether it is running in the visual studio designer or at runtime. Then you could enforce your license only if the component is running in the designer, perhaps in the constructor. .
///Do your check here
With regards to the licensing itself, you can get a lot of information from this articlelink text
Of course without knowing what your library does it is difficult to know if this is the right approach to take, but if it is something like the DataSet, which is hosted on the designer surface, this approach might bear investigating further
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It doesn't have any components at all, it's just a plain old class library. – Mark Feb 20 '09 at 17:00
That's fine. Even a dataset can be used just as effectively from code as it can from the designer. Using this approach will let you differentiate design time from runtme usage fairly easily – Rad Feb 24 '09 at 17:08
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Thanks all for the ideas and comments.
Yes, some good points to consider.
To carry on the discussion;
I'm not trying to develop an invincible licencing system here (likely that's not possible and I don't want to use dongles etc), and I am developing my own one-person project on a shoe string, so paying $3k for an off the shelf solution is never going to happen.
I just want to stop it from being easy to send a licence to another developer or "get away" with one licence instead of 5 for example. Legit users will pay up, but the determined ones will get around it no matter what, so I won't bother trying to stop them. I kind of think there should be a "Developers Honour" vibe anyway - ripping off your fellow developers is bad karma IMO. Niaieve? Probably.
In answer to the developers using a run-time licence for dev. I might be missing something here, but the idea is that a run-time licence key is generated by the customer when their software is ready to ship - i.e. built and ready to go - this then makes the licence application-locked as opposed to the machine-locked developer licence key used for developing the application.
Licence I'm thinking is just a file that gets distributed with the library, so can be switched between dev and run-time as needed. My licence code will be able to tell which licence type it is (dev/r-t indicator in an encrypted block in the licence file?)
The dev licence keys would have to be activated/created by calling in to a key-issuing web service from a tool I supply with the software. The user will supply some info like name and email address. The tool will take something machine specific. All gets sent to the web service, which returns a licence file containing the personal info (raw text copy as well?), and a hash (SHA then, not MD5!)
At run-time, my library loads the licence key file (either dev or run-time), and validates the licence accordingly (verifies node its running on or the app that's calling it). I could allow user code to call in as suggested, passing the licence key file stream.
Will this work or am I really barking mad?
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i have no idear how you could do this but any way dont use md5 its not safe, go with SHA hash instead..
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I have the following 2 pages:
• check-cookie.html, which checks to see if a user has a given cookie
• set-cookie.html, which sets a given user cookie
In IE 8, I do the following with an empty cache/cookie file:
1. Load check-cookie.html. I get a 'no cookie' output, as expected
2. Load set-cookie.html, which sets a user cookie
3. Load check-cookie.html. I get the correct 'cookie present' output
4. Delete my cookies and clear the cache.
5. Reload check-cookie.html. I still get 'cookie present' output, even though my cookie/cache are clear.
6. Close the IE8 browser and reopen it, loading check-cookie.html. I now get a 'no cookie' output.
This is documented on the Microsoft site here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/Delete-webpage-history.
Essentially, even though the cache files have been cleared, some of it is stored in memory so you need to close the browser to clear the cache fully. Does anyone know how to get around this IE limitation?
FYI, I am using the following no cache headers: Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate,post-check=0,pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache
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Your cookie is probably a session cookie and not a persistent cookie. "The Cache" in IE refers to your Temporary Internet Files folder. Session cookies are only stored in memory, whilst the browser is running, only persistent cookies are stored in the cache.
There is no option in IE8 to delete all your session cookies. The delete cookies function only deletes cookies "stored on your computer", meaning, persistent cookies in your Temporary Internet Files folder.
Your session cookies are not being cached, I think it is your expectation/interpretation of "cache" that is troubling you.
Do you have a higher-level problem or that you believe needs to be fixed? I see no issue in session cookies only being discarded when the browser exits. What's the scenario?
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Thanks for the detailed response Lee. These are persistent cookies and not session cookies (they continue to exist even after the browser closes in Firefox/Chrome). The problem here is that users expect the features that are enabled/disabled to be stored in their cookie, since they are anonymous. Clearing that data should result in settings on the page being reset to their defaults, but they continue to persist in IE. This is 1) inconsistent across browsers and 2) inconsistent with what a user would expect. Do you have any suggestions on what else I can try? – Etoke May 11 '11 at 17:42
Ah, OK. Then you're probably not using Expires and only Max-age (mrcoles.com/blog/cookies-max-age-vs-expires) - Now I wish I'd left my statement in my answer about persistent cookies are those that use the Expires header, but I thought it might have been patronizing! – Lee Kowalkowski May 12 '11 at 6:58
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I have been perusing the documentation for String today, and I saw the :sub method, which I'd never noticed before. I've been using :gsub and it appears that they are essentially the same. Can anyone explain the difference to me? Thanks!
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The g stands for global, as in replace globally (all):
In irb:
>> "hello".sub('l', '*')
=> "he*lo"
>> "hello".gsub('l', '*')
=> "he**o"
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Yeah. I understand now. In my defense, I don't think this was very obvious... Until now, that is. – Ryanmt Jul 20 '11 at 22:50
I agree with you that it is not obvious! Java calls these replace and replaceAll. But Ruby has its roots in Perl which uses the g modifier. It's just one of those things. – Ray Toal Jul 21 '11 at 0:27
Fortunately, it is now obvious. I'll know in the future. – Ryanmt Jul 21 '11 at 0:39
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The difference is that sub only replaces the first occurrence of the pattern specified, whereas gsub does it for all occurrences (that is, it replaces globally).
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Is there something equivalent to OmniCppComplete for java in vim ? I know of eclim but I think it is overkill for such a simple feature.
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Seems you have some options for code-completion above.
I would recommend also grabbing a copy of TagList, which provides a sidebar displaying the structure of your current file.
The ctags which TagList uses can also be used for fast navigation in Vim. Ctrl+] over the text "curiousMethod()" should take you to the definition of that method.
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Also found VJDE - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1213 - Need to evaluate which one is better/more up-to-date
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Judging from the amount of downloads, the last updates to the code, and the rating, your script seems to the better choice. FYI, I haven't used either. – user55400 May 8 '09 at 14:41
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I used Yii's Gii's CRUD generator for a model that has a relation defined with another model, expecting that it would create some sort of dropdown or other way to select an instance of the related entity, but rather it just showed a regular textbox.
Is this the normal behavior of Gii or did I do something wrong?
This are the models and their relations:
Model Event: relation 'Venue' => array( self::BELONGS_TO, 'Venue', 'venue' )
Model Venue: relation 'Events' => array( self::HAS_MANY, 'Event', 'venue' )
I was expecting the Event CRUD to show some way of picking an instance of Venues.
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That is just normal behaviour for Gii, when generating forms(for both CRUD and only forms), it makes all input fields textfields. So the default gii CRUD and form generator doesn't take relations into account while generating code.
We have to manually make changes to the view file, namely _form.php for the model in question, for you that is Event.
So for your requirement, you can make the following changes to that file :
/* As you have 'venue' field as the foreign key in the Event model */
<div class="row">
<?php echo $form->labelEx($model, 'venue'); ?>
<?php echo $form->dropDownList($model,'venue', CHtml::listData(Venue::model()->findAll(),
'id', //this is the attribute name(of Venue model- could be the id of the venue) for list option values
'name' // this is the attribute name(of Venue model- could be the name of the venue) for list option texts
); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($model,'venue'); ?>
To make further changes/customizations read more about CActiveForm.
Hope this helps.
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Ask for clarifications if needed. – bool.dev Feb 5 '12 at 9:13
Nope, you made it very clear already. Thanks! Worked great. – Petruza Feb 5 '12 at 14:42
@bool. Thank you so much! – Snow_Mac Apr 26 '12 at 21:03
@Snow_mac you are welcome..glad to to be of help – bool.dev Apr 26 '12 at 21:39
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Use Giix it works perfactly for what you are looking for.. no manual modifications required.
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On a page of Java's Bug Database http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4508058 it reads that Sun/Oracle will not fix the problem of Java not parsing the BOM of a UTF-8-encoded string. Since the most recent comment on this page dates back to 2010, I would like to know if there is any younger info about that? Is it still true that Java cannot handle BOM of UTF-8?
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I disagree with how how you have stated the issue, but yes: the Java encoder and decoder for UTF-8 of course makes no allowance for a superfluous BOM. BOMs on UTF-8 are really bad news, and break all kinds of things. Please never use them; if you find yourself needing to specify the file encodings, then use a higher level protocol, such as MIME headers, an embedded declaration or comment in whatever programming language it is, or via the customary file extension “.utf8”. – tchrist Mar 26 '12 at 16:59
I agree with you. However, if you want to create a UTF-8 csv file that users can open directly in Excel, then there is no way around BOM. If you don't use a BOM, it will read it as an ANSI file. (Microsoft should be sued for all the development hours their BOM has cost the world) – dstibbe Jun 8 '12 at 13:51
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Yes, it is still true that Java cannot handle the BOM in UTF8 encoded files. I came across this issue when parsing several XML files for data formatting purposes. Since you can't know when you might come across them, I would suggest stripping the BOM marker out if you find it at runtime or following the advice that tchrist gave.
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I have a home server with samba. with windows i can access and make folder(always with permission 777) like guest( no password ) without problem. But with linux, when i mkdir i can not modify this folder again. i lose already 5h to try to fix this please help me
mount my share:
sudo mount -t cifs -o guest // /mnt/3TB
ls -al /mnt/3TB
drwxrwxrwx 16 root root 0 15 apr 18.55 3TB
mkdir test && cd test && ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 2 65534 65534 0 15 apr 19.13 .
drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 0 15 apr 19.13 ..
65534 is the id for user nobody
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[2TB]"
Processing section "[3TB]"
Loaded services file OK.
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
workgroup = SAMBA
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
map to guest = Bad Password
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
unix password sync = Yes
syslog = 0
max log size = 1000
dns proxy = No
usershare allow guests = Yes
idmap config * : backend = tdb
comment = 2TB
path = /mnt/2TB
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
comment = 3TB
path = /mnt/3TB
read only = No
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
guest ok = Yes
EDIT: seems working if i mount with this argv: operm
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What is CMIS?
CMIS stands for Content Management Interoperability Services and consists mainly of two network bindings for essential Document Management operations.
CMIS is in the process of being developed at OASIS.
The CMIS Sandbox at Jackrabbit
Based on interest from various Apache Communities the CMIS Sandbox is hosted by the Apache Jackrabbit project and is open to all committers of the ASF.
Sumamrizing conversations on the dev mailing list the goal of this effort would be to build a freely available implementation and client of the CMIS specification as it grows. While the CMIS specification is still under development the early implementation will allow to give feedback to the Technical Committee at OASIS to modify and improve the specification.
The implementation should not need any Jackrabbit (Content Repository) specific dependencies but should be as portable and reusable for other implementations as possible.
Overall Proposed Architecture
The overall Architecture is separated into three major blocks as reflected in the SVN Layout.
The API represents the Java Language Bindings of the CMIS Model and therefore is used to implement both the CMIS client (that exposes the API) but also the server that allows for plug-able implementation of that.
Proposed Server Architecture
The CMIS Server is architected in a fashion that offers a Layered approach. The AtomPub and SOAP bindings are separated by the API. This allows to use both protocol implementations while just having to implement the API on any particular proprietary or standard based server. In Jackrabbit the implementation of the API then will use a standards based JCR binding to avoid and Jackrabbit specific bindings and hence allows to be run on any third party JCR implementation.
Proposed Client Architecture
To provide a general purpose CMIS Java client it is important of course provide language bindings of the CMIS Model and then implement the two protocols proposed by CMIS. This will not only be used by Java Application Developers that want to consume CMIS but also can serve as an initial test suite to test any servers interoperability.
First Steps with the CMIS Server
(To be added)
First Steps with the CMIS Client
(To be added)
Further Conversations
Find the current CMIS Discussions on the Jackrabbit List and also on the CMIS OASIS list.
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Corel DRAW is really a supreme supplier of graphics software, such as the popular Corel DRAW program. Corel DRAW has tools that permit the user to both create and edit images. The type of desktop publishing tools that you employ is determined by the kind of project. To learn more and assistance, make use of the Corel website.
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Corel DRAW is the best Desktop publishing software that empowers users to produce illustrations containing graphics, text photos. Corel has an extensive selection of tools which enable the user to edit any shape or character with ease and precision, fit text to curves and make custom color separations. It is developed and marketed by Corporation of Ottawa. This tool can open files: Adobe PageMaker, Microsoft Publisher and Word, along with other programs can print documents to Adobe PDF using the Writer printer driver, which such software may then open and edit every aspect of the initial layout and style.
Several innovations to vector-based illustration originated with Corel: a node-edit tool that operates differently on different objects, fit text-to-path, stroke-before-fill, quick fill/stroke color selection palettes, perspective projections, mesh fills and sophisticated gradient fills.
Certainly one of this software's many strengths is the large range of over 1,000 fonts that it comes with, provided both in TrueType and Postscript Type 1 format. Corel differentiates itself from its opponent in a number of ways: The very first is its positioning as a graphics suite, rather than just a vector graphics program. A full selection of editing tools allow the user to regulate contrast, color balance, alter the format from RGB to CMYK, add effects such as vignettes and special borders to bitmaps. Bitmaps can also be edited more extensively using Corel PhotoPaint, opening the bitmap from Corel and going back to the program after saving. Additionally, it allows a laser to cut out any drawings.
Expert believed it had been the first from the Windows-based drawing programs and has built about this early become far-and-away the dominant drawing package on the PC. Its biggest strength - and its biggest potential limitation - is its all-encompassing approach. In the past it has led to accusations of unfocused bloating, however with version 7.0 Corel has addressed the criticisms having a far tighter and rationalized program. Nevertheless, there's a huge range of functionality to pay for. | http://wiki2.agekuda.net/index.php/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:StuderCastro508 | dclm-gs1-264520002 | false | false | {
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By: Gary Gates
October 3, 2011
This week, the U.S. Census Bureau changed its mind about how many same-sex couples were identified in the 2010 Census. Instead of the 900,000 couples reported in data released this summer, the Bureau revised the figure downward to just under 650,000 couples. They also estimated that there were about 130,000 same-sex couples who described themselves as spouses living in every state in the Union, even though they can legally marry in only six states and the District of Columbia.
How did a quarter million same-sex couples suddenly disappear? And why are there so many married same-sex couples living in states where they can’t get married?
Regarding the first question, allow me to indulge my inner statistical geek. It turns out that those disappearing 250,000 same-sex couples were really different-sex couples. They miscoded the sex of one spouse or partner, so it just looked like they were same-sex couples. To be fair, those miscodes don’t happen very often and could include smudges or even errant pen strokes. But they don’t have to be common to wreck havoc on same-sex couple numbers.
Statisticians call this a “false positive” problem: a few errors among a very large group make them appear to be part of a much smaller group and “contaminate” that group with incorrectly identified responses. There are 63 million different-sex couples compared to just 650,000 same-sex couples in the U.S. The Census Bureau estimates that less than 5 in 1,000 different-sex couples make mistakes while coding their sex, but that amounts to about 250,000 miscoded couples. Check out this great video that they did that discusses the problem.
The answer to why so many married same-sex couples live in states that don’t recognize their marriages has nothing to do with statistical anomalies. The culprit here is the complex legal climate that same-sex couples face with regard to relationship recognition. Legally recognized same-sex relationships in the U.S. come in many varieties — marriages, civil unions, registered domestic partnerships — and states have different rules about what statuses they recognize. The federal government doesn’t recognize any of them.
Census forms provide only two options for couples to indicate that their relationship is more than that of roommates. They can say that they are spouses (actually “husband/wife”) or “unmarried partners.” If you were married in Iowa but live in Nebraska, a state that does not recognize your marriage, are you spouses or unmarried partners? What about if you’re in a civil union in Illinois? You aren’t technically married, but you file your taxes jointly and you need a divorce to break up. If it walks like a duck…
The Williams Institute conducted a survey in which we asked same-sex couples what terms they used to describe their relationship in the Census and what their actual legal relationship status was. Among couples who called themselves spouses, 70 percent were legally married, 15 percent were in civil unions or registered domestic partnerships, and 15 percent were not in a legal relationship. That last group said they considered “husband” or “wife” to be the most appropriate description of their relationship.
Complicating things further, among couples who called themselves unmarried partners, 4 percent were legally married. They thought this was more accurate because the federal government or their state didn’t recognize their marriage. About 17 percent of unmarried partners were in a civil union or registered domestic partnership.
So most same-sex “married” couples counted in the Census are in a legal relationship, but not all are married. Conversely, some “unmarried” couples are, in fact, married, and many are in legally recognized relationships that come with the rights and responsibilities of marriage.
Though the problems in counting same-sex couples can by complicated, the solutions are fairly simple. Census Bureau survey forms need to be changed. They are not up to the task of collecting clear and accurate data on same-sex couples.
Canada and the U.K. both collect similar data and use questions that reduce inaccurate or unclear responses. The U.S. Census Bureau has begun testing a version of these questions, but they need to move more quickly. They’ve done a great job of explaining just how bad the problems are. Now they need to fix them.
While they’re at it, they should take another page from their Canadian and British colleagues and collect data on all LGBT people, not just same-sex couples. Federal surveys should routinely collect information about sexual orientation and gender identity. As the primary statistical agency charged with collecting data documenting the rich diversity of the American population, the invisibility of LGBT Americans in Census Bureau data is not acceptable. The reality of American politics is that you don’t count unless you are counted. The time has come for the Census Bureau to count everyone in the LGBT community. | http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/counting-same-sex-couples-its-not-as-easy-as-you-think/ | dclm-gs1-264530002 | false | false | {
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That's what being Swift Boated is about. Prior to 2004, modern campaigns had never seen anything like it. And in the two White House campaigns that have unfolded since, nothing has approached the radical brand of prevarication that epitomized the lowly Republican attacks on Kerry.
By contrast, there's no dispute regarding the fact that 2002 SEC documents indicate that Romney was listed as Bain's chairman, managing director and CEO years after he claimed to have left the company. The only debate is regarding what that means. Romney suggests the titles were symbolic and that he had no influence over the management of the company during those three years. Skeptics suggest it's not likely that a company's president, managing director and CEO would remain permanently out of the business' loop for three years (while still drawing a salary).
Either way, the dispute hardly rises to the level of a smear campaign, let alone a Swift Boat-like assault on Romney's honor. Note that government documents support the claims about Romney's ongoing links to Bain until 2002, whereas government documents in 2004 routinely undercut right-wing fabrications about Kerry's war record.
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A month ago my toddler doesn't want to take the afternoon nap maybe 2 or 3 times a week if I get lucky. I'm getting really frustrated about this situation because when he does take it I can sleep for 45 minutes and clean a little or just enjoy the quiet moment but now I get irritating and I don't like that I do not yelled or hit him but I just don't have the patient the I usually have. Also now he goes to bed between 6:30 and 6:45 until the next day at 6 or :6:30 I just want to know if his naps are really over or is just a milestone and if is over what I can do to not be irritating or less patient. Also he doesn't take the nap on his crib he sleep on my bed with me during that time so I have to be there and see if he going to sleep or not but he sleep on his crib at night time. I really need suggestion on what to do. Thank you
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Does he have a crib or his own room that you could put him in for about an hour of "quiet time"? He could look at books or listen to soft music with lights low. That way he can sleep if he's tired or just relax while you get a little relax time also. I find it VERY helpful to do lots of energetic playing in the morning. Get outside, run errands, play hard. They have lots of energy after a good nights sleep. So in order to take a nap my little ones have to use up some of that energy! I agree with previous poster about you making sure you get your rest at night. However, I understand that he probably needs to go to bed that early because he didn't nap. Is he happy for most of the day or is he cranky and seem to be needing that nap? That would the best indicator IMO. My oldest napped until age 5, second until age 3 1/2, and my June 09 baby still naps for 2 hours (not stopping any time soon!). She goes to bed at 8:30 and wakes about 8:30am. HTH.
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It sounds like he goes to bed really early and is getting around twelve hours of sleep. Most adults sleep somewhere between 6 to 10 hours depending on the adult. My question is why aren't you getting your "relax time" then? Kids sleep pattern often take a turn at about that age and they begin not needing as many naps or naps at all depending on the child. Your getting frustrated over something that is pretty normal and going to be somewhat of a pattern for the years to come. If nothing else stop letting him go to bed so early b/c it sounds like he's combined nap and sleep time together. That may or may not help. My kids usually around two stopped needing naps unless we had really active daytime routines.
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Stephanie Flanders | 16:44 UK time, Thursday, 14 May 2009
Economists have one simple idea to contribute to the MP expenses saga. You never know, it might change the way you think about the whole thing.
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Put it even more simply, if you give someone £100 to buy a chair, you can't say for sure that he bought a chair with your money - even if he shows you the chair, and a receipt. All you can say for sure is that you made him £100 better off, and he has bought a new chair.
This might sound completely obvious. Or completely stupid. Maybe both. It depends on how much time you spend with economists (or lawyers). But this idea of fungibility gives someone with an economist's frame of mind a slightly different perspective on the revelations of the past week.
Voters are understandably angry at the thought that MPs might have been "playing the system" - and even more angry when they appear to have claimed taxpayers' money on false pretences.
But the focus, at least until recently, has mainly been on who claimed for what, and whether it was an "appropriate use of taxpayers' money" - the moats, the dog food, the fancy furniture.
You can see why those claims would catch the eye. I'm pretty fascinated by them too. But the less prurient, economist, side of my brain is less interested in the details of the MPs' claims than in how much they got.
If, like so many MPs, your MP has claimed the full amount - around £24,000 in the most recent year, then the point to note is that he or she has had £24,000 a year more to spend. Full stop.
The stories tend to focus on what the MPs say the money was spent on - and the receipts. But you might just as well ask what they did with the chunk of their salary that was no longer taken up with everyday bills - or how much of that money they would have spent, even if they weren't MPs.
Of course, all these questions overlap, and people have been interested all of them, even if the iffy expense details have grabbed the headlines.
For example, some have said it was unfair that MPs such as David Cameron have escaped criticism for claiming the maximum allowance each year, because their claims were almost entirely made up of mortgage interest and utility bills. Whereas other MPs, possibly with similar necessary expenses, have made much smaller claims, yet faced criticism for the details.
David Cameron could be spending his allowance on underground swimming pools and platinum cycle helmets. All we know is that he has utility bills and mortgage interest to pay of more than £20,000 a year.
Experts in overseas aid know the problem of old. When the World Bank or an official development agency gives money to a developing country it usually says it wants the money to go to particular priority areas - like women's education or primary healthcare. But, as they've learned to their cost, the recipient government often has other ideas.
"When you give $1bn to a developing country", a World Bank economist once said to me, "you may think you're giving $1bn to your pet project, but the reality is you're giving it to the president's."
Because money is fungible, the $1bn might appear to go into the education budget, but it frees up $1bn of domestic revenue that could just as easily turn into a new presidential jet.
On the basis of the past week, you might say the same about the expense allowance of some MPs.
It's a very old problem in development aid - and, over time, the likes of the World Bank have come up with ever more complex arrangements to solve it. They'll probably come up with an elaborate solution for MPs as well.
But you still have the basic problem that money is fungible. You never really know what people would have spent if the allowance didn't exist - or if they weren't, in fact, MPs. Though in the case of some of them, we may be about to find out.
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• Comment number 1.
So what you are saying is Douglas Hogg might not have had his moat cleaned out if the tax-payer wasn't going to pay for it? Like many other moats it would have been allowed to fill up with detritis,dead dogs and horses and the like!
• Comment number 2.
Steff, you have just depressed me more than ever. Mr or Mrs Average MP has got £24K burning a hole in their pocket.
Your question which one of sex and drugs and rock n' roll did they spent the £24K on.
Answer, giving we are dealing with Mr. or Mrs Average MP, is all three.
I just can't wait to return to some good old fashion sex scandals.
• Comment number 3.
Also worth noting in the fungiblilty(is that a word?) argument is that this money is tax free - it is the equivalent of £30,000 at 20% tax and £40,000 at the 40% rate, so it is a lot more than it looks at first glance. Many people reading these expenses claims cannot envisage ever earning £40,000 P.A.
That sort of amount would see most of us living quite contentedly, imagining a 60,000+ salary in ADDITION to this amount would see a lot of us queuing up to be an M.P. Late hours and a few nights away or not! Adding these two amounts together (before tax) giving 100,000 a year puts the M.P.s into the top 3-4% of earners in the country.
That is where the outrage originates - a great number of M.P.s are simply out of touch with average pay, and the number of hours / amount of work needed to get it in mainstream society.
• Comment number 4.
Couldn't we just build a huge hall of residence for all the MPs, in some part of London needing regeneration. The MPs would then live there rent free. We could even run a special bus to collect them up and take them to Westminster each morning; kind of a school run.
We'd have to build a brick wall to separate the political parties, as we wouldn't want any fighting in the dorms.
They'd also need separate swimming pools, but I imagine each party would have fun trying to contaminate each other's pools......
We could build it in Greenwich and then name it "Greenwich Village", to tie in with the "Westminster Village" we already have.
We could have a big competition between prospective architects, with the Prince of Wales' champion up against one of those glass and steel post-modernist types with the unruly hair but interesting suit of clothes.....
• Comment number 5.
Interesting piece of sophestry, Stephanie. You'd make a great Jesuit if they ever let women in. The difference here is that the items were the justifier of the spending. If the MPs who cleaned their pool and bought spectacular TVs could have "done a Cameron" and laid it all on interest payments they would have. Instead they were able to buy anything posssible once it went down to "good faith". The problem for them is we taxpayers are not singing from the same hymnbook. We have to follow the cathechism of HMRC and they burn heretics for expense infringements. The Hon Members just didn't expect the Telegraph Inquisition and the laiety do enjoy a nice Auto da Fe.
• Comment number 6.
I propose MPs are given salaries equating to 5 times the national average income, and get rid of allowances altogether. Their pension scheme should be contributions based. This way, we all know what they are being paid, they are being paid a good wage for a senior job, and their income is dependent on what they do to the economy.
• Comment number 7.
For most people, expenses are an exception to the fungibility of money. When I was in a senior public sector role, I could if I chose travel first class by train, and did so when I needed space to work; but we were encouraged to travel second class where practical - to save public money - and commonly did so. No-one queried my judgment in relation to particular journeys. But if I'd travelled second and claimed for first, that would have been a sacking offence - even though the taxpayer would be no worse off than if I'd actually travelled first. We need a system for MPs such that the benefit pays only the marginal cost. Most obviously, no subsidising a potentially appreciating capital asset, i.e. pay only rent not mortgage interest.
• Comment number 8.
Good article.
It's a wider problem than economics and law, and it comes down to an innapropriate faith in rationality and what many in GOFAI mistakenly struggled with as the so-called 'Credit Assignment Problem' and 'Frame Problem'.
Now we know better... don't we ;-)?
• Comment number 9.
'No exact matches for fungibility, but the following may be helpful.
fungibles plural noun, Scots law perishable goods which may be estimated by weight, number and measure and which are consumed in use.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c: from Latin fungi to perform'
I do not think fungibility is a word. But you can not say the BBC does not educate the people of Great Britain
• Comment number 10.
Toad of Toad Hall, MP. Parp. Parp.
• Comment number 11.
• Comment number 12.
7 Ex-mandarin
Well difficult to disagree, expenses are that expenses, not fun-ability, sorry, fungibility. I am curious though, do mandarins ever eat mandarin oranges.
• Comment number 13.
• Comment number 14.
#4 MrTweedy,
In Sweden they do! MPs are allocated an officila flat to use for the period that they are serving as MPs - not such a silly suggestion.
• Comment number 15.
9 grignard
Perhaps gulibility is the word. Expenses should be unavoidable costs, ie no benefit to the claimant.
As an aside - I presume that the taxpayer also has had to cover directly or indirectly the cost of the MPs trying to challenge the FOI release in court. Further with respect, is that really the right word I ask, but never mind, with respect to the grizzle on tv by some MP or Lord about how little they get in comparison to the tv presenter asking awkward questions - Funny thing is you applied for the job knowing the salary didnt you mate. If you don't like it get another job, with a bit of luck you may have to anyway.
• Comment number 16.
the economist side of my brain what an oxymoron ! Despite all the advances of modern science most of the 3rd World live in dire poverty and the West is flat broke all ably advised by economists brains ! Cavemen got to retire before 70 thats because they didnt use economists brains ! We have the technical capacity to be living the life on 3 day weeks all round but thanks to economists brains half of us dont get to see our children due to overwork and ... oh you know the rest (I recommend using NEFS instead of Economics then we can live the life). As for this money fungi I get a salary of £20K. Which I am free to spend on anything or nothing. I also occasionally get business expenses for business trips whatever my train fare is. If I put an expense in for a new hat I get sacked, If I find a 1st class ticket and I put this in instead of the 2nd class ticket I actually bought I go to Jail. Introducing the word Fungus into the debate and trying to make it technical in some sort of attempt to legitimise fraudulent expense claims just shows what bad training people get when they train to be economists.
• Comment number 17.
This seems to support the position that a block of housing should be bought within distance to Westminster - and that it should be state owned. They would then only be able to claim for travel expenses - as most ordinary people do, as their is no need for them to claim for food (they'd be buying it anyway!). The housing would then be loaned for nothing to the MP for the duration of his elected peroid, after which it would revert to the tax payer. If they chose to decorate their flat beyond basic furnishing, they could do so, but at their expense.
• Comment number 18.
16 GlenisD
I am no supporter of the pseudo-science of economics either, but if that was meant to be satire you need to be a bit wittier than that, othwerwise you just come across as wilfully ignornant. No one mentioned fungus except you.
There's not mush room (PARP!) for debate that this is wrong, Stephanie is just pointing out another and interesting perspective on it.
• Comment number 19.
If this is an analogy of what actually happens, then I would say that it is a stupid one.
We do not GIVE politicians money; they coercively TAKE (steal) it from us. We have no choice because they make the laws. Therefore, how much and what they spend our stolen money on is not the point. What we should be more interested in, is why we are being robbed in the first place.
• Comment number 20.
This is really about attitude. The ruling class was living very well during the housing bubble and along with their financial industry buddies they felt entitled to the high-life. I mean if you are lunching with the bankers you need some expensive wine and posh meals, afterall you are representing the citizens. When you elect empty suits this is what you get. People get the government they deserve. Funny how people are up in arms about this while they seek no explaination for the trillion or so that disappeared last year. Maybe these are just numbers they can grasp and connect to a face and a name. We don't know who stole the real money.
• Comment number 21.
Some of the Honourable Members obviously enjoyed what they saw as extra tax-free income and enjoyed it to the full.
Why doesn't one of the genuinely Honourable Members (one whose snout is not in the trough) do the decent thing and resign on principle thereby forcing a byelection, the issue can then be brought out into the open and fought over.
A section of the electorate can make the decision and we can move on to fixing the economy (which if no-one noticed, is still broke)
Or am I mistaken and the all of them have been fungibly occupied.
• Comment number 22.
Cannot normal labour market ecoonmics be usefully be applied to MPs' pay? Why not cut their pay until the number of candidates is reduced to a more sensible level.
Oh, and by the way Steff, congratulations on making it into the current issue of Viz magazine!
• Comment number 23.
20 @ghostofsichuan
You just stole my words, but better than I'd have put it.
Also, this does bring home that the people who make our laws and decide our taxes have absolutely no idea about the true value of money, and the actual, real cost of living for many UK citizens. I bet all those thousands of poor workers on or just above the minimum wage would love to get bath plugs and dog tins on expenses, let alone have a moat to clear out.
• Comment number 24.
I'll make two points
The first one will give a couple of examples to clarify what 'fungible' is.
The second point will look at Steph's claim that it is the bottom line that counts and essentially it doesn't matter what the money is spent on - which it does of course.
Ok, first point.
Some 'things' are fungible which means they can be replaced by things which are of the same definition.
For example, you stick a Fiver in the Bank today and tomorrow you go to the Bank and say 'Give me my fiver back'. The counter clark gives you a Fiver so you are happy.
But you haven't got the same Fiver back, because money is fungible - it doesn't have to be the same fiver, just a bit of paper which looks the same as your original fiver and has the same characteristics and interchangebility. But it still isn't the same individual item as your original Fiver.
And it doesn't matter because of the quality of fungibility of all Fivers.
next example
You borrow a bucket of water off your neighbour and put it in your water tank. Next day your neighbour comes round and says 'Give me my bucket of water back'.
So you go to the water tank and dip your bucket in and collect a bucket of water and give it to your neighbour - who is happy.
But you haven't given your neighbour the exact same molecules of water back - just a compensatory bucket of water which is the 'same' as the original bucket of water.
Thus, water (and money) can be considered as fungible items in that they can be replaced by something answering the same definition.
And 'Fungibility' means an item can serve in place of an original item, providing it is of the same thing as the original item.
Electricity paid for in advance, Stocks in a Nominee Account, spot dollars are other examples.
second point
So whilst Steph talks about 'fungible' items - the money is fungible but what the spend is on, is not fungible, it is a fixed.
And Steph didn't say the spend was fungible, but it might have been implied as if the 'spend item' doesn't matter but the 'spend quantity' is the sole consideration. Because (erroneously) money is an item that can be exchanged for anything so it doesn't matter what it is spent on.
Which of course is incorrect in that items purporting to be 'wholly necessary and essential' might very well not be necessary and essential - and therefore should not be allowed. eg
Is a Trouser Press essential ?
If yes - why hasn't everyone got one ?
(sensibly, that trouser press money was repaid)
Is a place to live within a relatively sensible reach of Parliament essential ?
I would think 'yes' so everyone has a need for one -providing they don't enter into a rent scam with their buddies, or a husband and wife claim twice for the same property etc.
So what the spend is on has to be scrutinised as essential and appropriate to avoid fraud, rip-off, scamsters, crooks and criminality.
Because surprisingly enough for a number of Politicians, life isn't just about bottom lines and 'overall spend'. It is also about wise spending and value for money to those footing the bill.
The Public doesn't want any system which allows the fraudsters to escape with their self appointed 'rewards' which are justified by
'well it is all ok as our (bad) system allows it'
The Public are disgusted and an economic perspective isn't going to change the Public's view.
Fungibility is not the central issue. Rip-off is.
• Comment number 25.
20 ghostofsichuan
No mate, you have got it wrong. Joe Public knows that he cannot get to the ones that half-inched the trill, because they are one step removed, that step being parliment. They know they can do something about the ones who have also been glad handing in parliment. This is not just about ridiculous claims where a husband and wife have two properties but they are declared as 2 second homes and two main residences, ie 4 properties, when only two exist - this is also about the fact that these expenses have been authorised - vetted and paid, a fact which seldom seems to be repeated other than by the claimants. In what way is it anything to do with the taxpayer that somebody would like their moat cleaned or their house dry rot treated. As for Stephen Fry shouting the odds that it is all okay, well Stephen I am sorry but you are the one who was advised to be a guest in Her Majestys hotel for months for fraud, please correct me if I am wrong, so you might be funny most of the time but not on this.
We all know who stole the money and who was involved. As for Lrd Turner of the SFA, sorry FSA, saying financial houses were delegating verification of income on mortgage apps downwards, so what, you cannot delegate responsibility, so get on and take some action against those involved.
There is no pain without gain, yes but the idea is not that one lot have the pain, and another seperate lot have the gain. I think this government wants doing under the trades description act, socialist, as if.
23 sisterkaff
What really bugs me about this is some of the tax will have come from people struggling on the minimum wage with kids. 20 percent of kids in this country are still in families under the poverty line. Just what sort of country is this.
• Comment number 26.
4 Mr T
Re accomodation - I suggest a spare prison ship, I think there are one or two about, be towed up the Thames and parked alongside Westminster, and offered for free. Problem sorted. Might even come with a few security bods. I gather they have jolly good accomodation, even come with water around them, not quite a moat, but the water is maintenance free so another expense spared.
• Comment number 27.
Well done Stephanie,as usual you are not getting distracted by the slights of hands and misconstructions placed on the canal retentive faustian types working for the mefirstuffallease bankers that guide the runoff from the fractional reserve money making machine ,
the real issue is the total ammount of tax free expences claimed by pollytitians doubleing up as flippers in their spare time [when they are not sleeping in the parlamiental express gravytrain on its way to palookahville]
If there was someway to halve the debt to the public purse it wouldnt matter if the "allowance"was used to float naked in the moonlight down the thames drunk on top of a japanese inflatable that repeats to the point of tedium "con eachywa my darling how about a quick bonus" and then stabbing it to create a mini boom to attract the insore rescue heloicopter.
Whilst on the subject of the thames ,perhaps prison ships could be moored up against parlamment, initialy to satisfy the inkomebents temporary requirements of overnight stay to be nearer their floating voters and later on a moor permanent basis.
As for fungi bility it brings to mind the Lootonian Moran that claimed 25,000 for dry rot treatment [it may only have been tommyrot]which no doubt included the newkitchen carpets and double glazing on top of the bottle of detol.
Then theres the Lord of the flies still at the brown stuff and his 2,500 pound roof repair ,localiesed tornado was it .
Parlamment is a breeding ground for bankerrstraining from potty training,to offbalance sheet[sheet] accounting ,only ALIEN would do it justice.
• Comment number 28.
Either insightful in a week of madness, or complete folly in a week of revelation. Not sure which.
There have been suggestions that, when MP's salaries were pegged for political reasons, the expenses regime was changed and MP's told to go and claim it by the then PM (whoever she was). In other words the expenses system was intended to be pseudo salary rather than real expenses, and the 'claims' not intended to be justified in the same way as my travel claim, but a paper exercise to make up the £24k. If that was the case, then it was a systemic device to decieve the electorate. Wrong and immoral as that may be, I find it marginally less discomforting than virtually the whole of the House deliberately stealing from the Treasury.
The distinction is important. If the £24k has become part of an MP's salary package, then taking it away will reduce his pay, reduce his ability and motivation to do the job, and further reduce the attraction of being an MP to talented and able candidates. That I fear will be the end result of the Daily Fascist's revelations this week.
Unfortunately the only way out of the mess is to include MP's salary levels in the independent review, which may result in substantially increasing their formal salaries to compensate for the loss of expenses. Not a popular policy when everyone else is feeling the pinch and and there are £2.2m unemployed.
Perhaps our favourite milk snatcher should have had the bottle to sort it out properly in the first place.
• Comment number 29.
The unavoidable corollary to the 'money is fungible' argument must be that our view of MPs is that which influence our perception. Apparently Footballers can get ten times the money that MPs get and not even attempt to do any 'good' for, or serve, society and that is OK. This must mean that MPs are some form of lower pond life from our point of view than footballers or the chief executive of BT for example. We despise MPs, yet we make not a murmur against BT's boss or footballers - why is that!!!
Come of - we get all worked up about one group but not about the other - blame The Telegraph and their cheque book journalism, not wishing to defend either group (MPS or Footballers) but MPs at least attempt to do some good, or at least they pretend to, whereas footballers just threaten referees in a way that if they were normal members of society would have them in front of the magistrate charged with affray - but apparently that is OK!!!! Hypocrisy! It is that same moral issue.
• Comment number 30.
Charles Gordonzi talking to a newly arrived MP
• Comment number 31.
#24 strategycall,
Well argued
• Comment number 32.
In the days of yore,when life was gore, there was an interesting accounting test for the "rightness" of expense claims. The question was - is it *wholly, exclusively and necessarily* for the performance of their duty. All expense claim *MUST* pass *ALL* three tests to be considered as valid !!
I seriously doubt that TV porn channel subscriptions and cleaning of moats fall into this category, regardless of the fungibility of money !!
Any claim that fails any one of these three tests are considered as payment in lieu of salary, i.e. the fungibility of the payments, and taxed accordingly !! Considering that their salary is 65k or more, all these failed expense claims should be taxed at the top rate ruling (currently 50%) !! Repayment of the moneys spent *only after being caught out, and even so, done in bad grace* is *NOT* considered to be sufficient by HMRC !!
Therefore, it seems that George Orwell is *still* right. "All animals are considered equal but some animals, i.e. the pigs, are more equal than others !!" Does anyone now still wonder why they, the MPs, will do anything to keep getting re-elected ?? Is there any other job that pays a fortune for *NO MARKETABLE SKILLS* ??
Welcome to the democratic and equitable Britain !!
• Comment number 33.
32 As Jesus said ,do not look for the dirty moat in your brothers tax deductables when you have a bmovie going through the aye of a needall in your own ,or something like that .
As for Orwell "All anymeals are deductable but some anymeals are more tax diddeluctable than others "or something like that.
• Comment number 34.
Good article. This is precisely the sort of thing that Sir Christopher Kelly will no doubt be addressing. The real issue is not the headlines-grabbing nature of some of the things purchased - it is the deceit and dishonesty brought about by not publicly acknowledging the fundamental question: which do we want?
1. Pay MPs a generous salary and say to them "you know that the job entails attending Westminster and your constituency plus travel between the two but here is a large salary (with no rights to expenses) and it is up to you how you spend it. Your constituents will tell you if you have managed things well." Presumably the salary should be graded by distance from Westminster to take account of the unequal burden of travel.
2. Pay MPs a much smaller salary and reimburse them, subject to an upper limit, for expenses that are unavoidably and actually incurred in carrying out those duties.
For many years MPs salaries have been held down either voluntarily or by edict from their leaders in order to show restraint and to give an example to the country. Without doubt low pay rises for MPs have influenced other pay settlements around the country. The population has taken note of the restraint on the basis that the MPs were within the second remuneration system - all the rhetoric and rules have pointed firmly towards this second category. Even HMRC seems to have been firmly under the impression that MPs were being reimbursed for their additional costs.
What has now emerged is that MPs have been dishonest and deceitful as they have always been operating under the first system whilst showing a public face of being under the second. For them the entire package has been "salary" and it has simply been wrapped in a slightly cumbersome administrative manner. On being given small formal salary increases they must have effectively been told to fill their boots with expense claims. Thus they have been able to paint a picture of restraint to the country whilst actually receiving significant pay rises through the back door.
They have now been found out and, not surprisingly, the country is unhappy.
The first system is undoubtedly more simple but will result in problems and inequalities as MPs use their discretion in how they spend the funds. The second is perhaps ultimately fairer but requires a lot of bureaucracy and rules defining what can and cannot be accepted as a legitimate expense. However clear the set of rules there will always be opportunities to manipulate circumstances in order to be on the chosen side - these opportunities will eat into the fairness.
• Comment number 35.
"Fungible" originated into the English language in the 17th century from the medieval Latin 'fungibilis' from 'fungi' meaning "perform, enjoy".
So there.
• Comment number 36.
Message 2 mcgrathbryan
If you want good old fashioned sex scandals then you will have to vote Tory next time.
The old saying is that with Labour the scandals are about money but with the Tories it is about sex.
• Comment number 37.
The concept of fungibility has been long understood by Politicians... to them words are fungible objects.
Our country has been debased in a number of ways for a number of years, as things ordinary people hold dear; probity, honesty, sticking to the spirit of the rules and not just the rules; all the things that go into British Fair Play and forbearance, have become increasingly disregarded by the people voted in to rule the country, and entrusted with the savings, homes and governance of the country.
I shouldn't need to say this but I will anyway 'for the avoidance of doubt' as the Lawyers say...this isn't a disguised point being made about Racis; Indian, Pakistani , West Indian and Chinese people I know display a respect for the virtues in the paragraph above.
In Government, Banking and Big business people of all ethnic groups have been busy doing the debasing----- Scottish Bankers, Celtic property speculators, Chinese, Indian, Old Etonian businessmen, and women.
IT's not a Race, Gender, or age's about a whole group at the 'top' of Society have lost the ability to make and then apply fundemental moral judgements to themselves.
The long running divergence between the governed and the governing classes has been a long time in the making but this this recession has acted as a catalyst in bringing these long running, and previously buried, rifts to the surface.
Not that issue of MP's 'organised theft' which I fungibly mean 'expenses' irrelevant in itself.
But it connects to other things like, obviously, the exposure of the Banking industry as equally venial and even into the amoral deceptions that led us into the war in Iraq.
The above examples (and there are others) are essentially connected by a thread that runs through the ruling class, and business elite,as well as down even through Local Councils (spying on their own Ratepayers--the public they are meant to serve---like a toy-town Stasi).
As in France, say, at the end of the eighteenth century, there has been a profound erosion of faith in these structures and groups with the concomitant reduction in their authority and ability to command real allegiance.
And as in pre-revolutionary France the system had rotted well before the final triggering event---then it was two years of near Famine that triggered the collapse, here it's the Depression that has exposed the fault lines.
And unfortunately for the Politicans there isn't enough Fungibility in the universe to bridge the meaning gap between 'them' and 'us'
• Comment number 38.
34 "the third way"
Use the now nationalised Olympic Village as housing for M.P's and abolish all expenses
• Comment number 39.
• Comment number 40.
I travel on public transport. I pay my bus fares. This gives me no rights at all to know how much my bus driver is paid, how well the bus company is using my money to manage their business, or to unilaterally change bus routes.
Surely the issue here should be the overall cost of government and whether we as a nation are getting value for money across all fields - education, military, health, crossrail and so on. MPs expenses are dwarved by the other expenditures of government, and while I think that many of the claims are bizarre and the amounts involved are significant compared to what most people view as reasonable, surely there are bigger issues to focus on?
• Comment number 41.
Do you know, I don't think most people give a stuff about the details of what MP's spent their expenses on. The media does, it makes good copy. Maybe on a personal and voyeuristic level it would interest us for a minute or two.
The bigger picture (and where MP's are underestimating our intelligence) is this.
If my house was burgled or I was robbed in the street I wouldn't waste a second thinking about whether the thief was going to use my money to buy drugs or pay his rent with it. I would just be angry that somebody else had taken my money or possessions for themselves when they had no right to it.
If the same thief then used a defence that he thought it was OK or he had made a mistake, would I be any less angry that I'd been robbed? No.
• Comment number 42.
"40. At 10:19am on 15 May 2009, Cyberpumpkin wrote:
Bus drivers aren't elected to run the country and set rules for the rest of us. Although they could probably do a better job than the people we do elect to be fair.
• Comment number 43.
You make a good point, and the fact that the claims can escape tax means they award a significantly enhanced purchasing power. But what moral conclusion can be drawn from a wealthy MP not claiming, when he could - he is the good guy, is he?
• Comment number 44.
#31 fdDave,
Thanks for that Dave
Of course the girl who we all have to thank for starting the exposures is Heather Brooke who played a blinder on FOI and MPs claims when everyone was trying to kick it into the long grass.
She still doesn't get as much recognition and publicity as she deserves but she is my recommendation for being knighted for services to Rentokil in pest control.
How about her as Head of the Expenses Committee.
Looks a bit of a Goth don't you think ?
A sort of a uniquely attractive feminine mysticism with a slight threat of danger about her from a studded punch up the bracket if you don't fill in the expense claim properly.
More Heathers and Goths, thats the answer.
Heather Brooke or Yvette Cooper in managing the economy ?
Bit of a difficult one that.
• Comment number 45.
"Labour minister Shahid Malik claimed the most at £185,421. Tory MP Philip Hollobone claimed the least - £44,551.
Nick Harvey MP, who is on the members' estimate committee, said taxpayers got "excellent value for money".
The previous year's total came to £86.8m, but was inflated by the general election as "winding up" payments were made to departing MPs. On a like-for-like basis, the increase amounts to about 5%."
25th Oct 2007 BBC News
This is an old story is it not? - MPs' £87.6m expenses claim bill
Even an extra 20,000 a year for each MP x 600 odd MPs is only 12,000,000 a year.
Look at our demographics (yawn).
• Comment number 46.
At the risk of "treading on a land mine" does this not expose the limits of empricism - the expense receipts empirically show for the record what the money has been spent on - because of the fungibility of money we don't really know what the money was spent on.
Stephanie you could apply the concept of fungibility to the recapitalisation of banks - taxpayers money was plugged into the banks to replace the credit lost through the collapse of the wholesale credit markets and used to support/restart lending to the real economy, in reality they are still largely sitting on the cash to bolster their balance sheets and fund past losses.
The British public in either case know that they have been taken for a ride.
• Comment number 47.
Ref #44,
It looks as if the World is cottoning on to Heather's good bit of investigative journalism on FOI and the expenses affair (5 years of work).
Front page article on today's Guardian2.
(new photo as well, she now looks like the winner of the Queen of the May competition. From Goth heavy rock to Elgar in an hour and a bit - can't keep up with all these changes in fashion styles)
• Comment number 48.
Stephanie, you have a beautiful mind.
The conclusion is that the only clean system for expenses is a flat rate. You receive x pounds per night away from home and y pounds per year for office costs, etc. And it remains totally up to you if and how you spend the allowance.
• Comment number 49.
All very interesting but ommits the point that it's MY money and YOUR money they are taking and spending it like its gone out of fashion when the vast majority of us are struggling to keep their heads above water.
On another matter I await the report from a committee of bankers on the profligate expense/allowance scheme opperated by our parliamentarians that resulted in greed, extravagance and quite possibly fraud. Will I have long to wait?
• Comment number 50.
WolfiePeters (#48) "Stephanie, you have a beautiful mind".
It's a girl thing.
• Comment number 51.
In the Fraud Act (2006), note how intention (i.e. the intenSional idiom 'knowing that') is key.
Listen to how politicans, lawyers (and especially spin-doctors) speak. In the end, their 'truth' comes down to nebulous, easily exploited, populism. There's the problem. You'll find scientists avoid these people, as science strives for extensionality.
• Comment number 52.
No.51. JadedJean
You're only saying that to the best of your knowledge and belief, in good faith, without prejudice......
It's just a feeling you have, which you wish to convey, not withstanding mutatis mutandis.
• Comment number 53.
MrTweedy (#52) Well, is it working? (It's a predicate logic thing, it works like garlic on some!).
• Comment number 54.
40 Cyberpumpkin
No - for the simple reason that parliment has a duty of government. The expenses issue is a culture issue, as is the fact this was fought so hard to avoid the release of the data, as is the Speakers objection to the theft of something which should be in the public domain anyway. where do you think the whole lack of control of the finance sector came from. There is no such thing as a free market, they are all regulated. Regulation is the duty of government, to balance the capitalist desire to build monoploy and exploit a market. If the regulators are corrupt then corrupt regulation follows. Why do you think vested interests have ot be declared.
• Comment number 55.
Why did you not warn us about the goat-backed securities while you had the chance?
• Comment number 56.
So Stephanie, what you are intimating is, that the £100 claimed, might have bought a chair, might have made an MP £100 'richer' or been used for another purpose, that MAY or MAY NOT have been legal?
So are you saying that it might be worth going back through expense receipts and whereabouts of MP's and see WHAT and more importantly WHO they spent their money on?
Might be interesting to see who got up to what in the days before the Iraq war or even look closely at the itemised phone bills!
• Comment number 57.
I wrote a piece on Robert Peston's blog but it may have suited this one better. Take a look if you want 'cos I aint typing it all again.
• Comment number 58.
Thank you. Now I understand far better why the economy is in such a mess. Fungibility (a new term for me) appears to be a construct of economic philosophy. You can use it to obfuscate cause and effect or intent and outcome.
Unfortunately, it is this kind of philosophy, combined with econo-science, that allows politicians to disconnect themselves from the real world - aided and abetted by academics, journalists and other experts.
So, for example, you can use fungibility to explain that an MP might appear good for submitting only expenses for rail travel to Westminster, but is naughty because he or she then uses the refund to buy pornography - in effect, at our expense. You presumably think this is difficult to distinguish from another MP that is up-front because he or she submits the invoice for the porn with parliamentary expenses. Or another who submits the expense without an invoice, because it is a small enough amount not to need one.
To my mind, there is a difference, and honourable members are honourable only if they observe the difference. It is all about intent. Fungibility is an idea that encourages muddled thinking.
The same kind of muddled thinking allows treasury ministers and officials to talk about different kinds of money, treating each differently and having different criteria for managing them. The econoscience is, no doubt, flawless. However, it makes it easier for politicians and officials to lose sight of economic reality as it affects individuals. While dealing with the billions and trillions of bailouts, using one sort of money, they ignore the hundreds and thousands and millions one the sort of money that makes a difference to citizens' lives.
When, for example, a few weeks ago Tories and Liberals talked of scrapping the ID card scheme, government spokespeople sneered that this would save only a few billion - a drop in the ocean compared with the hundreds of billions we need to save! But when a report said recently that Equitable Life policyholders should be compensated, it was apparently too expensive - presumably it required a different sort of money. I have read many comments in the last week about how the MPs' expenses are also a drop in the ocean compared with, say, the cost of Afghanistan.
The result of all this sloppiness is national ruin. I used to understand that if you looked after the pennies, the pounds would look after themselves. So, if MPs pretended that their expense "allowances" were like a household budget, maybe they would spend with care - saving a million or two. If they thought before implementing ID cards - a billion or two. Pretty soon the millions and billions add up. And by setting examples, maybe they'll teach local councillors not to fiddle expenses, and so on. And maybe benefits cheats would feel guilty too and reduce our taxes. And maybe journalists with expense accounts - then our newspapers and TV licences would be cheaper.
Trouble is, with all the stories of pigs, snouts and troughs, more and more people at the bottom of the heap will give up maintaining standards. You reap what you sow!
• Comment number 59.
Fungible, fungibility, fungi - what I really want to know is what all of this has got to do with FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN?
Oh! and who are this group the Tax Alliance?
• Comment number 60.
#57 johnno
Never heared of Copy and Paste?
• Comment number 61.
No.58. jiminhursley wrote:
"....more and more people will give up maintaining standards".
There are no rules in a liberal consumer society, just freedoms. Therefore, there are no standards, just indulgence. Our economy and society are just polite forms of anarchy.....
Roughly speaking:
17th century - puritans
18th century - rakes (reacted against puritanism)
19th century - buttoned up (reacted against rakes' progress)
20th century - half decent (wars and economic hardship kept ideas of "decency" alive until mid-1960s, then reaction set in against Victorian values)
Early 21st century - over-indulgent (further reaction against Victorian "hypocrisy and injustice")
Note, the consumer society really started with the industrial revolution in the 18th century. But what next, now that everyone has a car, a mobile phone, a computer, owns their own house?
There is no further market for us to reach and exploit. Why would China manufacture goods for British companies to sell to Chinese consumers? Hence, is China really a new market for British mass goods?
What of the scarcity of the world's natural resources, and the law of diminishing returns?
• Comment number 62.
Mr Cameron claimed £24k, on the basis he spent at least that much on mortgage payments. However, if he wasn't able to claim mortgage payments, he would still have paid them - just out of his normal salary. So, although the money is nominally paid for the mortgage, all the taxpayer really does is allow money Mr Cameron to spend £24k on unclaimable items.
• Comment number 63.
In the UK, 30,000 went into HE in the 1960s (5% of cohort), 300,000 today (50% of cohort). Student loans are good business. This bubble is far more pernicious for reasons I've given before - it changes the genetic composition of the population, dysgenically - even faster.
• Comment number 64.
#61 MrTweedy
It could be argued that consumerism started when the first tribesman decided to specialise.
"But what next, now that everyone has a car, a mobile phone, a computer, owns their own house? " That's just the point, not everybody does. These markets may be mature but they are far from satisfied - hence the variety of product offerings.
Will China's consumers take-up the slack? To some extent they will if the West can provide them with goods that they cannot make (or have the quality/cache) at home. The bigger question is will the West continue to buy solely on price alone. The target for Western producers will be to provide benefits in their products that consumers are prepared to pay for over and above the price differential. Maybe the environmental movement can be a stimulous for that - all electric cars etc.
Some posters appear to think that the 21st cenury will belong to China. I don't accept that this is a given. We do however need to re-evaluate the true purpose of our societies and adapt our behaviours.
• Comment number 65.
Here's a point or two to ponder:- Why, in the 1990s when the allegedly 'inefficient' state was 'sold off' to the people of Russia with the help of American Jewish Chicago School economists and their Jewish USSR helpers, did it nearly all end up in the hands of a small group of Jewish Russian 'Oligarchs', and why did Blair (who were Brown and Blair's fund raisers?) give so many of the latter asylum in the UK when Russia tried to prosecute them?
• Comment number 66.
65 JadedDean
Why indeed !
So that they could offshore their ill gotten gains in Britains money laundering banks stuck on their maaa'sonic spin cycle and now finding that they have well and truly plucked themselves bare.
• Comment number 67.
Was it that what was done in the UK from 1979- and in the USA from 1980- just took a bit longer because they had mixed economies?
• Comment number 68.
Sounds like there's a lot more fungi in Parliament than there's spores to be.
Perhaps people would feel better about it if they thought of it as a stimulus package for a part of the economy that's often overlooked and neglected. Underground swimming pool and platinum cycle helmet salesmen gotta eat too ya know. And where would Britain be if the platinum cycle helmet craftsmen were allowed to disappear for lack of work and this valuable art was lost to Britain forever? Something to think about.
• Comment number 69.
#34 "What has now emerged is that MPs have been dishonest and deceitful..."
Rather an oxymoron here, don't you think !!
• Comment number 70.
There are two interesting points here.
The first is about saturation of markets and the exploitation thereof. The saturation of markets is a Socialist/Communist dream where no one will want for anything. Like all dreams it is unrealistic and to achieve any dream, a very high price has to be paid. Unfortunately most people want the dream but refuse to pay the price and this is what the NuLabour crowd spun out of the picture in order to make themselves look good. What we have now is the enforced payment of that price. The massive debt overhang is a price that, not only we but our children and our children's children, will still be paying for !!
The other part of that dream presupposes that that society will be in an enclosed self-sufficient shell and there is no need for any input or output, i.e. a stable equilibrium. Britain does not have enough resources to manage that at all. Therefore, Britain has to trade in order to survive. If, going back to the premise that all other societies are self-sufficient, why then would they want to trade with Britain ??
Therefore, this idea operates on two totally contradictory principles of self-sufficiency existing hand in hand with insufficiency.
The second point about future markets is based on the word "exploit" !! If exploitation is what is desired, then that "market" is shrinking rapidly as more and more of the third world countries are refusing to be exploited any more !! Perhaps, what you really mean is "new markets to develop" !! In this case, there are still plenty of room for expansion as the African and Latin American countries are ever willing to progress and need help to make that progress. They are ever willing to trade resources for knowledge and expertise. The days of trading a handful of glass beads for Manhattan Island are over !!
Therefore, it is up to us to develop new markets that are non-exploitative in order to maintain a long-tern trading relationship with others. In other words, a win-win situation !! The Chinese are already doing it, why can't we ??
• Comment number 71.
#54 Excellently put !! It's all cultural. When the rot sets in at the top, it will find its way down and infect the whole of society !! If it's alright for the big pigs to fiddle their expenses, then it should be alright for the little pigs to do the same too !! And soon, it's all Fiddlers on the hoof, so to speak !! :-)
• Comment number 72.
Fungibilty does sound rather like a play on the old joke about being kept in the dark and fed s***. But then thinking about it, it's amazingly appropriate.
Pigs have their snouts in the trough and produce the perfect medium for growing more mushrooms and thus the cycle contiues.
• Comment number 73.
Obsession with fungible truffles has certainly distracted most sheeple from the architects and beneficiaries of the 'economic crisis'...
• Comment number 74.
Maybe overdosing on these particular magic mushrooms would render the addict with selective memory loss provoking tourettes-like outbursts like "I forgot I'd paid my mortgage off" or "I forgot Southampton is further from London than Luton" or even "I didn't know I had to pay capital gains tax when I made a ......... capital gain"
• Comment number 75.
Looks like the British House of Parliament could do with a heavy application of fungicide.
I think the MPs are going to try to make the Speaker of the House the scape-goat for their own malfeasance. Now isn't that just like politicians, never owning up to their mistakes. Where's Boomin' Betty Boothroyd when you need her? I'll be she wouldn't have put up with any of their games. Awda! Awda! Is it time to bring the old gal out of mothballs? Has she still got it in her? Will she be appearing on "Britain's Got Talent?"
• Comment number 76.
I do not believe that the things Members bought were "needs" They were the vehicle to soak up the money that they could draw - within their rules. True greed in other words.
• Comment number 77.
Bang to rights British Public. We were supplementing our less than spectacular annual salaries and yes it was wrong. A heart felt SORRY!
The rest Ms Flanders was just gravy and as they were all allegedly on a train full of it - why am I not surprised?
I read an article about a certain BBC correspondent in the Evening Standard Internet edition yesterday was it?
And yes I did close my eyes when an age was mentioned and yes I refuse to believe it - the alleged age that is. How dare they suggest she was that.... lol
But this terrific article was full of words - set out in roughly the correct grammatical order (I should talk) and I understood every word - except that - forgive the word Ms Bakewell - "oldish" adage about thinking mens eating habits. Dah Evening Standard.
Then I stumbled across this sentence just now. It fell on the floor next to my radio. "the road to the election could be even bumpier than we thought".
I mulled over it for a while and thought why? My Email is working. My doorbell too. Snail Mail even. Telephone - word of mouth.
You do know they are starting off that George Smiley radio season with "Call for the Dead"?
Twenty what? Never that
• Comment number 78.
#3 ChangEngland makes a good point that the allowance is not only fungible but tax free.
But it's also free of NI (1% above upper earnings limit) and the MP won't be making any of the 10% pension contributions they pay on their salary on since the allowance isn't pensionable. That means the GBP24,000 allowance is the equivalent of GBP47,058 salary increase.
So its supercharged fungible.
• Comment number 79.
Steph you raise such an important and more so pertinent point.
I do laugh at those condemning Chris Huhne as a trougher for buying a trouser press but ignore his boss Nick Clegg who claims the highest expenses of ALL the party leaders!!!
If I were an MP, I would have done exactly what Mr Cameron has done, which is to use the ACA to claim against Mortgage, Council Tax, Utilities, Service Charges, Insurances. Al on a LONDON second home.
None of these would trigger much attention from the telegraph as they are not controversial items to spend money on.
NOTE: John Bercow, Labours preffered candidate for SPEAKER (a Conservative) has been 1st for most of the last few years on Expenses claims, yet he is lauded as a radical reformer of parliament.
Is it just me who sees the ridiculous irony in this?
The only thing I can say about those MP's caught spending on idiotic items, is WHAT A BUNCH OF INCOMPETENTS.
The only exceptions being those that have defrauded the taxpayer, such as the home flippers, and phantom mortgage claimers.
• Comment number 80.
I usually read your essays with interest. But your piece on the fungibility of MP's expenses was quite disgraceful.
The spirit of the rule book says that the taxpayer only has to refund those real expenses incurred in carrying out the MP's necessary and unavoidable duties. Nothing else.
Your use of the term "fungible" is highly suspect. I quote from the OED :
fungible = said of a thing which is the subject of an *obligation* when another thing of the same or another class may be delivered in lieu of it.
So if Fred Bloggs owes the slate in the Dog and Duck ten shillings, he might feel able to offer a couple of dead rabbits instead.
This has nothing in common with MPs' claims for food, refurbishments, secret flipping of home ownership to dodge tax liabilities, and on and on.
The ordinary taxpayer is flayed with punitive regulation - eg if the Tax Office gets my annual assessment wrong, and I don't tell them about it, *I* am the one who will have to pay the fine.
What MPs have allowed themselves to see as fungible is perceived by the Man on the Clapham Omnibus as a total rip-off and a complete denial of democratic accountability.
I look forward to the beneficiaries of my licence fee payments taking a more realistic and sympathetic view of what the common man is having to put up with in this current economic crisis.
• Comment number 81.
Hi, I'm also an economist and I completely understand your perspective, However, I disagree.
I do not mind if an MP maxes on their allowance for a legitimate mortgage.
But I do, deeply, care if an MP spends nowt on their mortgage but £x on a duck island or flat for their child or a gold-plated plasma television for their pet chinchilla to view, whilst awaiting the MP's return. This applies even if said spending MPs are substantially under-claiming on the mortgage allowance which they could have claimed for. And, I contend this is an equally rational perspective to the particular economic one you present.
My rationale is thus: MPs are paid a salary - this is their money to spend howsoever they wish (assuming such is legal); there your analysis is sound. However, allowances are specifically for allowing MPs to have a necessary second home, which is reasonably comfortable. To mis-use allowances - even if they under-claim by far more on legitimate expenses - is immoral, I would argue.
I am not arguing for cheaper MPs (though Cameron's plea for cheaper Westminster politics, based on fewer MPs is appealing). I actually think our MPs should cost us much more per MP - e.g. a basic salary of £100k. This would pay them far more than their salary plus max allowances. (Though, they have messed this up because of the scandal - how can the public now be persuaded to pay substantially more?).
What riles with me is not the amounts spent, per se, it is the dishonesty (where does one start?), the pettiness (claiming chocolate bars), the incompetence and the utter contempt for the tax-payer - which includes almost everyone, including young children buying a VAT-charged chocolate bar. (So much for selling politics to youngsters).
So, for once, I do not think the Economics approach is the correct one. It is not a matter of opportunity cost but of historical cost; not what they spent but how they spent it, even if they failed to max their total spending.
I think my ultimate case would be the MP who claimed a court-summons of £40 back. From a supposedly competent law-maker that is a massive insult to the tax-paying, law-abiding electorate. And I do not care if he didn't claim another penny - that £40 is far too much.
• Comment number 82.
I'm not an economist, but even I can see that the second homes trough needs to be taken away! The government should provide apartments for all MPs, even if it means a compulsory purchase order on County Hall!
• Comment number 83.
PS (to my above post)
I have noticed some others on here also talk of morals etc. Ms Flanders is right about Economics - it is am amoral - viz: it is outside any and all morals; it is a form of analysis and conclusion, based on cold logic, despite Welfare Economics having muddied that stance in recent years.
This is why Ms Flanders is right in her analysis and why I argued that Economics was the wrong analysis to apply.
In case of doubt, one has to say that MPs have brought the House down upon their own heads. Their real crime is deception: not so much the deception of spurious - even false claims - but the deception wrought when they decided awarding themselves pay increases would vex voters and, therefore, they would increase their pay "invisibly" via allowances. Had they simply had the courage to properly increase their pay and suffer voter ire, then-and-there, this would not have happened. MPs regard (rightly, in my view) their basic pay as too (relatively) low and increased it cowardly, in secret. Those are their biggest sins: cowardice and deception. Makes them fairly unfit to govern, I would contend.
So, sorry, I think this is a political matter, rather than an issue of political economy.
• Comment number 84.
Count It... Don't follow it?
I must suggest that to my accountant, who in turn can pass the message on to the Tax Man when he next questions my genuine business expenses.
Don't think, expense claims for gardening, duck houses, blue movies, moat cleaning or multiple loo seats would pass muster.
Why should MPs business expenses be any different to mine, the same rules should apply.
MPs are paid by us, every penny should be accountable to the Tax Man.
• Comment number 85.
Yes, allowances are 'fungible', but the point is they should never have been so. Allowances were not originally supposed to be lump sum payments, although MPs came to treat them as such because they were unwilling to raise their actual wage. The allowance should have been for 'genuine expenses' - extra money in direct proportion to the increased expense to an individual MP of running an extra home. The problem, of course, is that it is difficult to draw the line between 'necessary' and 'luxury' when kitting out a home, and so the whole system has become rotten.
I'm not sure that it is possible at all to define a 'genuine expense', and for that reason I'd say that MPs will have to fund themselves out of their own salary, perhaps with a one-off payrise (bigger for non-London MPs). There will still be inequities, but at least that will sweep away the corruption and deceit.
• Comment number 86.
Whilst MP's and bankers have been found out and rightly so, this whole idea of 'if I can get away with it, its OK' is systemic in our culture. From MP's to cowboy builders, people are trying to pull a fast one over everyone else.
David Cameron might be trying to gain the moral highground but I don't recall him ever making such an issue of MP's expenses until forced to. He never said it was wrong and should be changed and he claims his maximum allowance.
The only way to clean up is to start again and if David Cameron wants an election every single MP should stand down and we start again. ( not going to happen) they are all guilty even if they haven't claimed because no-one stood up and said this is wrong.
The Tories are up to their necks in this one historically, as Mrs Thatcher created a non violent revolution in this Country and made it OK to think first 'what's in it for me' The Thatcher years gave rise to NIMBY's DINKI's YUPPI's City Slickers etc etc. Nothing very moral or uplifting there!!
The media and the press are equally guilty of hype, they can make claims and don't have to substantiate them. There are fantastic people in the Health Service, in the Emergency Services, in our schools working day after day doing amazing work and yet the press highlight MRSA, which in the great scheme of things is a very small part of the whole NHS and if you have sat in a hospital you will see the staff constantly washing their hands, yet the media choose to ignore this and make them scapegoats. The press & media can only ever be negative. If the media gave as much space to people who really do an honest days work, often going beyond the call of duty instead of filling their pages with total rubbish about silly celebrities who doing nothing for no-one but themselves, maybe the right role models would emerge for future generations to follow.
My understanding is that MP's are servants of the people, so not leaders and maybe if this was at the top of their job specification we might encourage people keen to serve us and not themselves?? In Sweden the Government own flats, which their MP's stay in rent free, quite simple really!!!
So whilst we are angry at first with the Bankers and now the MP's we do need to look closely at the whole picture and our whole culture needs to be radically changed. We are on a slippery slope and it will take a generation to turn things round but if we don't it will only get worse and the consequences of that for ordinary law abiiding people will be dire. We have to stop the rot now from the top down. A revolution, preferably quiet is what we need nothing less.
Politics, business, the economy, life itself are so intertwinned you cannot talk about one without the others.
• Comment number 87.
No.86. timetoponder
Whatever happened to the notion of being of service to one's country?
As Sashaclarkson pointed out, on another of Stephanie's threads, Keynes died young having worn himself out in the service of his country.
Brown says MPs can't run their expenses system like a gentlemen's club, when he really means that many MPs do not behave like gentlemen, as they serve themselves first and their country is only an afterthought. The same applies to many of the senior bankers, the media, and celebrity and consumer culture in general. Too much over-indulgence and individualism, and not enough attention to duty.
• Comment number 88.
Stephanie, this article is rubbish. Don't go soft on MPs. They should only claim for travel, accommodation and essential business costs (for which they have legitimate receipts. All the other things mentioned are living expenses and come out of their salaries. They wouldn't get away with it in the private sector and they shouldn't get away with it in the Public one. The general public are sick of double-standards in public life. If the so-called 'leaders' are going to impose laws on the status quo, theny they need to realise they apply equally to them too. Flippers are tax dodgers, pure and simple, they should be prosecuted for tax evasion. Why should MP's even have generous mortgage allowances and tax exemptions. Why excessive pensions? Expenses are the 'thin end of the wedge'.
Paying back is still an admission of guilt and anyway what about the interest on the money? They are only making token gestures which are not good enough. Standards of reform in Parliament should be set by someone outside of Parliament; perhaps even a Royal commission presided by the Queen (the only descent, credible person left that the Public can trust and a non-political one). If we go soft and let MPs handle their own reform, we fail our country. The lot should go, Parliament should be disolved and a general election forced. Daily expense allownaces are a bad idea and will only encourage more fiddling.
• Comment number 89.
I think the problem with assessing fungibility is that before that can become an issue there has to be another problem on which fungibility is dependent.
And that is the issue of ownership and/or profit.
I think all of us would agree that expenses should be consumable in nature and should not result in benefits to the claimant that exist beyond the period of work in which the expense is incurred. They should certainly never result in ownership in perpetuity.
Many of the fungibility issues go away if no claims are allowed for other than transient, consumable items. So you cannot claim for mortgage payments or mortgage interest, you have to claim for rent/hotel accommodation - or don't claim at all.
If ownership is to be allowed for mortgage payments or similar then the proceeds - all of the proceeds must be returnmed to the taxpayer, as has been said by many. But what if the house falls in value?
Should the taxpayer pay that to the individual? Suddenly it is all becoming too compex - which adds to the argument that expenses are not to be used for investment, whether on behalf of the individual or the taxpayer.
Also, you say the issue with a bathplug is not whether it is a legitimate expense, since it is - if you OWN two houses and therefore two baths then you need to have two bathplugs in working order. The issue may seem to be whether or not you would have bought it if it were not available on expenses - perhaps there is a bathplug there, but the occupant just didn't like it.
BUT - the issue only arises if you OWN two houses. If you rent then te landlord is responsible for providing a bath with a plug and therefore there is no problem in establishing what is a legitimate expense and what is not.
Removing the ability to claim for mortgage payments or any other item that would become or lead to personal property is the key to sorting out this mess.
The rest of us are slapped with a benefit-in-kind charge on our tax codes when we do that.
And... the rest of us are not allowed to claim expenses for more than two years to work in the same place - a rule that our wonderful HMRC seemed to be able to dream up all by themselves without any legislation being passed to support it - and then failed to apply it to MPs.
What a mess.
• Comment number 90.
desmoh has this spot on. The fatal flaw in Stephanie's mental gymnastics here is the fact that the items bought were used to justify the expense claims. The very fact that she only hints at her conclusion (if you think like an Economist, the details of individual claims are irrelevant) rather than categorically stating it, shows that she knows her argument is nowhere near to the nub of this issue. How could it be? Arguments based purely on Economics take no account of what people are really interested in here - who was taking the public for a ride and who was at least trying, within the rules of a warped system, to apply some kind of morality. Man on the Clapham Omnibus and the rest of it.
Taxpayers who don't get whipped up into hysteria recognise that MPs with constituencies outside of London need two homes. A 60,000 pound salary is not enought to cover the expenses of running even two modest homes given the price of real estate in this country. Taxpayers therefore are more likely to look more favourably on claims for mortgage interest and utility bills as utilising the system within the spirit for which it was intended.
MPs would have claimed for these if they could have - it is far easier to forward your mortgage payment letters and utility bills to the Fees Office, rather than collecting every little scrappy receipt for every little bath plug and made to measure shelving unit. The fact is that either:
Some MPs didn't have mortgage expenses to keep up - mainly the Tory Grandees who should be cleared out anyway.
Other MPs were too stupid to recognise how this ould look in the cold light of day. Therefore they are not intelligent enough to be in Parliament drafting and overseeing legislation. Think the Junior Justice Minister and his £2500 Plasma TV.
• Comment number 91.
Those poopooing Steph's point, consider the below example:
Scenario 1
Joe Bloggs MP owns a home in his onstituency and a 2nd home in London OUTRIGHT, no mortgage on either.
Joe Bloggs MP spends his £24000 ACA on furnishings, repairs, doodads etc at his London second home.
The Public are outraged at this troughing at the taxpayers expense.
Scenario 2
Joe Blogs MP again owns a home in his onstituency and a 2nd home in London OUTRIGHT, no mortgage on either.
This time however, Joe Blogs treats his London home as a legitimate investment and rents it out to a private tennant.
Joe Bloggs buys a 3rd London apartment and designates it his second home for ACA purposes. He takes out a sizeable mortgage (London property not being cheap) and claims Mortgage/Utilities/Council Tax on this London apartment.
He continues to make profits from his private tennant on his original London 2nd home, nothing wrong here, it's his money, his property, no taxpayers money has been spent to fund it.
He legitimately lives in his 3rd London apartment whilst in Westminster on parliamentary duties and uses the ACA to cover the costs.
The MP is financially BETTER OFF in scenario 2, yet to the public his expenses look fairer in this second scenario compared to scenario 1.
Now that we have transparency in MP's expenses, you will start to see a lot more scenario 2's with MP's situations, simply because it makes their ACA claims look reasonable and mass public hysteria in check.
So the point about fungibility is valid imo. MP's will just decide that if TV's, furnishings etc cause public outrage, they will just claim for whacking huge mortgages and utilities and spend their own money on the john lewis list items.
Many in the public would probably be surprised to learn that those MP's who have made the most personal profits from the use of the ACA have been those that bought big expensive houses in London and claimed the maximum ACA limits on paying the mortgage on these, then pocketing huge capital gains on selling the property upon leaving westminster.
Yet such a scenario looks rather benign in a Telegraph Tabloid like Scandal Expose...
• Comment number 92.
Your quote:
Sorry Stephanie but I don't see the economic merit or logic in arguing that MP's have some kind of 'excuse' due to 'fungibility'.
The same kind of argument can be used to sugest that if the money misappropriated by MP's was/had been properly used or better used in the public good, e.g. by putting a policeman on duty outside of Jill Dando's house or an extra social worker apllied earlier or court order paid early to save baby 'P' - then one or both of them might still be alive today. Sorry to use such graphic examples but the argument against fungibility is, I think, overwhelming.
This I think illustrates the spurious economic nature of fungibility outside of the free market.
The other issue with fungibility is that it sounds like a very good mindset theory for things going wrong in the evolution of a global banking and finance crisis - so let's hope that the bankers are not reading this blog!
Fungibility is what the former speaker of the House of Commons might describe in jutsification of a 'reasonable expenses claim' under the existing old green book rules in Parliament - I think that anyone can take fungibility to heart if it helps the materially minded justify a particular economic outcome or set of economic outcomes and the Economist magazine itself appears to be wrestling more and more with the social aspects of economics - economics itself is under strain. However, I see strong links between the banking crisis and the MP's expenses' allowances scandal and it is a cultural mindset link of decision making.
However, fungibility should apply (be practiced), I think, solely within the free market - and not to the UK banking sector or parliament as these are national interest activity areas.
I'd think that the simplest explanation in economic terms of misappropriated public money (by MP's) is simple waste/inefficiency - and this I think is the cardinal sin in economic terms.
Interesting 'defence' by the BBC of MP's waste and inefficiency - I note your political editor colleagues are thin on the ground and now leaving you to hold the 'political fort' on the blogs.
• Comment number 93.
A possible, long-term solution is to promote co-operative working. Businesses should be handed over to those that work in them, without compensation. A level of earnings will be set for each business whereby the highest earner cannot be paid more than ten times that of the lowest. That will also be nationally, any anomolies to be dealt with throug taxation. Simples.
• Comment number 94.
Why is it that when sense appears from madness it is always at the fringes or expressed in such a low key and diffident manner as is this blog. Could you not chain yourself to the railings in Portland Place until every BBC producer and journalist agrees to at least address the basic arguments you have raised in each and every report which bandy s about adjectives such as 'corruption' (only reflecting public anger of course!) After all there may be a strong self interest here (for the BBC as a whole) when the political class come gunning for revenge on the massive salaries and expenses at the BBC. You present your analysis as an economist, but more than that you understand restraint and circumspection and you are brave.
• Comment number 95.
After the Development analogy I do understand what you're saying Stephanie, and it's an excellent argument. Perhaps you're right, and we should be examining overall claims instead! Excellent blog, thank you.
I do however think that the detail of the claims remains fascinating, if only because it gives us an insight to the moral compass of some of these politicians and indicates what their perceive are reasonable claims. In other words, I find it amazing what some MP's felt was kind of items could be justified as vital for their day to day living - whatever the amount (or what they may have actually spent the money on)!
• Comment number 96.
Stephanie, I believe you have misrepresented David Cameron's special family circumstances and resultant special housing requirements in this article.
Accustomed as we are to such occasional errors by the BBC, is it not more than a little disingenuous for the BBC's economist and Economics editor to treat Cameron's position as equivalent to that of most other MPs when it so clearly was not?
Why is there no mention of the Cameron family's special housing needs in this article?
Why, when you attacked David Cameron's mortgage claim did you fail to mention that he required a larger than average home, specially adapted to accommodate the special needs of his severely disabled son, Ivan, including a unit for his son and his carers and nurses?
I've read - on BBC News online! - that Ivan needed 24 hour, day and night care and that Cameron and his wife and other carers slept in Ivan's rooms, which were part treatment suite, part bedroom and play room. The BBC's report of Ivan's recent sad death:
"Mr Cameron is expected to return to Westminster early next week. The family faces a difficult return to the London home they had extensively adapted to help them to care for Ivan."
I believe you owe David Cameron an apology.
• Comment number 97.
The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing Like the Truth!
It is not just a question of MP expense claims, the rights and wrongs, the rule books and a plethora of explanations as to the expenses claimed, it is about the truth of the matter, plain and simple.
Is it any wonder that the British public are so thoroughly sick to death with politics and politicians? There is no other sector with the power and will to exert a direct impact on our lives that diminishes the truth to the extent that they do! We are fed an endless stream of unmitigated lies on a daily basis, covering every conceivable subject known to man.
When I was growing up my parents instilled a very basic concept in my psyche, all lies are bad, and the truth is good, even if it hurts. The empirical difference between black and white has a very strong dividing line that is, until politicians got a hold of it and introduced the grey area.
The grey area allows manipulating politicians (and others) to stretch the truth, blur the lines between black and white, to such an extent that it has become almost impossible to recognise the truth, even when it is staring us in the face. This ever enlarging grey area has now been given the title of Plausible Deniability (to you and me lying). It allows individuals we elected to lie to us with impunity. One cannot manipulate other people with the truth, only with lies, that is a fact.
Lying is one of the most pervasive social ills in British society if not the world, it has become the norm, and people believe that the only way to get ahead is to lie, why? Because of the old adage of monkey see, monkeys do! Our continuous exposure to the culture of lying has imprinted the belief that if it works for them it must also work for me syndrome.
I watch politicians stand up utter and make statements one after another with the words, in all honesty, to be to totally honest with you, or the truth is, trust me when I say! I know they are lying, you know they are lying, and they know they are lying, so where lays the truth! The catalogue of words to disguise the truth is growing larger by the day, how many times have you heard politicians and bankers utter the following words in the last few months. Mistaken flawed, wrong, incorrect, invalid, untrue, misspoke and misrepresented, never once have I heard someone stand up and say I lied! We are left with the unenviable task of trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, the good from the bad, and the lies from the truth and unfortunately there is no instruction manual to figure it out.
How are we the public supposed to make educated and informed decisions on important matters affecting our everyday lives, when the only information we have is fundamentally based on lies (sorry mistruths) and erroneous statements. As it stands right now the only philosophy I can adhere to when I see a politician (and others) speaking is they must be lying, because their lips are moving!
There has to be a fundamental and radical change in the way that politicians interact with the general public, we need The Truth the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth or the quality of all our lives will continue to diminish at an ever increasing rate of speed.
• Comment number 98.
Ref # 97.
Well said and absolutely accurate. I have posted before on this subject and the way that politics became greyer and greyer in the past 12 years.
When Labour became New Labour by changing themselves into the Conservatives to win votes they had either changed their principles or lied (now known as spin of course to make it sound more acceptable) to us all, it worked.
It then became the norm to lie to the electorate to retain power.
The point they all missed was we don't want to be lied to, we want the truth and we will respect - not necessarily like - politicians who tell the truth.
Lies will catch up with you in the end as many MPs are discovering.
• Comment number 99.
Dear Stephanie,
Thankyou so much for existing. You are a smart cookie. I enjoy your blog very much!
• Comment number 100.
Regards all the excessive purchases by MPs, I wonder if they all still have the items purchased? or have they given them to someone else for a SMALL remuneration?
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Take this into consideration as well:
We live in municipalities where we hold our elected officals accountable for their words and actions.
We know exactly where the additional tax money is going and we have both the power and will to kick our elected officals' collective butts if they lie to us and spend it somewhere else.
When you exercise your franchise, can you guarantee the same?
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We're going to go out on a limb and say that toilet paper is pretty vital to the bathroom experience. It's already awkward when you have to ask a stranger to take pity and pass some extra TP between stalls, but this weirdness could reach previously unkown levels of discomfort if you have to cross gender lines. Pay it forward for that next patron on the potty and find a way to replenish their supply. Don't leave anyone stranded: It's hard enough in there as it is.
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execute lcb_observe, observe_callback be executed three times, why?
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I chuckled at this one.
If you head over to the definition of LCB_OBSERVE_FOUND in <libcouchbase/types.h>, you'll see something like this LCB_OBSERVE_FOUND = 0x00
The observe callback is invoked the last time with what's called a "NULL" response. This response contains NULL for key, 0 for nkey etc. etc. and signals that there are no longer any OBSERVE responses for the particular operation (typically defined by the cookie) to be invoked.
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The old timers are still there but the current Mayor does not like them so they are kept in the dark about the going on in their own department. If the brass is not kissing Mayor Pam's you know what they don't stay brass for long. That is why this should not be a politically appointed position!
The real issue isn't being a political appointment, it is there need to be term limits. You people voted her in so live with the consequenses. I suggest term limits be on the ballot in a very few years.
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"The travel and tourism industry generated... agriculture/forestry (99 jobs)."
I'm afraid I'm going to have to call bull fertilizer on this. Considering how few farmers we have in Vanderburgh County, I am highly doubtful we have a total of 99 ag/forestry jobs at all, let alone an extra 99 that were hired because of out-of-town tourists.
Some of those other numbers seem highly suspect, too...such as local residents only spending $19.9 million on "direct expenditures" (including gas, meals, and retail spending), whereas tourists brought in over $379 million for this and lodging. I personally have never seen enough tourists wandering our streets to outspend locals by 20 to 1.
Any math majors want to take a crack at checking the original report?
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