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Dolphins close but not quite there in the red zone
I was watching Monday Night Countdown on ESPN the other evening when Trent Dilfer and Steve Young began talking about Sam Bradford and his struggles in the red zone. And, of course, I brought the conversation home to South Florida.
To Chad Henne.
To the Miami Dolphins' offense.
And to their red zone problems so far this season.
"You don't make your money in between the 20s," Dilfer said of playing QB. "You make your money from the 20 in against pressure."
Young, a Hall of Famer, agreed.
"The easiest thing to do is go between the 20s [but] inside the 20s is graduate work," he said. " .. you got to realize that for a lot of players that's the final step for them -- how to put it in the end zone. Because nobody is really ever open in the red zone. It's not just against the blitz but also zone.
"A lot of times young quarterbacks will say, 'Read the defense, do a nice job, drop the ball down, and kick a field goal.' And after about 16 field goals in a row you realize that's not the job. You have to throw somebody open."
Again, they were talking about Sam Bradford. But it all applies to Henne and his play so far in 2011. He's had relatively high success moving the team up and down the field between the 20s. But inside the 20s, the Dolphins are ranked No. 31 in the NFL with an unacceptable 60 percent scoring percentage.
Henne has to learn to throw receivers open. He has to learn to make precise, accurate throws and make them with anticipation -- something he's struggled to do at times. Against the Texans, Henne completed 3 of 8 passes inside the opponent 20 yard line for 16 yards and 1 TD. Not very good.
So there is that.
But ...
Miami's struggles in the red zone are not all Henne's doing. Not by a long shot. The Dolphins have struggled the first two games to rush the ball when it counts most. That is very frustrating.
And Dolphins' receivers haven't exactly helped Henne, either. No. 1 receiver Brandon Marshall has had two opportunities in the end zone that have hurt his team because he had two drops of potential touchdowns -- one against New England and one against Houston.
One of those at first to me seemed like a late throw by Henne. I said as much on the live blog. But I was wrong. Looking at the throw in the following series of screen shots sent to me by reader Justin Reader, it is obvious Henne threw an amazing pass to Marshall from the 16 yard line in the fourth quarter on Sunday.
Miami was trailing 16-10 at the time. Matched against former Dolphins DB Jason Allen, Marshall is in man-to-man coverage:
Marshall drop 1
Marshall beats Allen (no surprise) and the ball is in the air with about eight yards to spare between the players and the end line.
Marshall drop 2
Ball's almost there. Five yards to spare between players and the end line. Allen is watching helplessly.
Marshall drop 3
Marshall's got it. The ball is in his grasp. Now he must hold on and get both feet in bounds. He's got about four yards to work with.
Marshall drop 4
Still looking good. He's got three yards to secure the ball and get his feet in bounds. Allen? Helpless.
Marshall drop 5
This is now looking like a TD. Just hold on, Brandon Marshall!
Marshall drop 6
Whoops! Ball is no longer in Marshall's grasp. He basically flipped it away as he was trying to secure it.
Marshall drop 7
Yup, this is not going well. Now we have to hope Allen doesn't catch the rebound for an interception.
Marshall drop 8
Incomplete pass. Marshall had it in his grasp. He would have had room to tap his feet in. It could have, should have been a touchdown that put the Dolphins ahead 17-16.
Instead Dan Carpenter had to kick a 34-yard field goal to make the score, 16-13 in Houston's favor.
Marshall completes this catch, the game changes. The mood changes. Momentum shifts. Miami's red zone results change.
Instead, I'm writing about the team's red zone problems. Bottom line:
Somebody's got to make a play. Miami's playmakers have got to make a play. If they don't, we shouldn't call them playmakers any more.
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DKM, did you watch the game against philly and the game against the giants? Braford did not look like a Frachize QB. I'm not saying he won't become one but he's not there yet. I actually think he regressed when they brought in mcdaniels to be the OC.
He took the team close to playoffs last year because of their schedule and the fact that NFC west is like a BCS league instead of NFL.
I realize that fantasy points don't matter...but Henne is ranked 7th on the QB list with 45 pts. just behind Rodgers & Fitzpatrick.
But ahead of Vick, Rivers, Sanchez, Ryan, Flacco.
Point being, statistically Henne is having a pretty good year.
But in reality, he still sucks in the red zone when it matters.
Craig I agree. I don't think Bradford looks any better than henne right now and neither are frachize QBs right now.
Marshall has been making Henne look bad for 2 years now. Blown routes, drops, dirty looks, not getting open. Marshall is a playmaker? Yeah right. More like whiner, crybaby, diva that cannot live up to the hype. I will take a 40 y.o. Terrell Owens right now over this POS.
Chad Henne outta grab him by the facemask the next drop pass or dirty look he gets. And Chad, do it on national tv. Marshall is garbage.
Jeez do you see the receivers Bradford throwing too. No one! TE No one! O line! Worst than Dolphins! I wouldnt take Bradford over Henne right now, but he will be a pro bowler is 4th season. MArk my words!
NJ fins, you hit the nail on the head.
Our Alfa receiver shows spirts of a low tier #1 WR,
But most of the time shows he is at best a good to average #2.
I think he can be a real good #1, but he needs to follow the game plan, or work on hand signals with his QB if he is breaking routes.
After the Cleveland game they should fly straight to San Diego and get ready for the Chargers, and no time off, keep them in the film room until they all know there jobs.Can't do it, time to find a coach who will demand that they get there head out of there.... and see the sun. Bill
The Dolphins look like a bunch of individuals not a team. No one on either side of the ball elevates anyone else. Henne's obviously trying but he may be more of a B than an A. Thought JT would be the defensive glue, and he may help down the road but not yet. Have generally been a Sparano backer but am starting to waiver.
DKM, I think Bradford is a franchise QB also.
And some of the things you said are true. Bradford has a far better line than we do, but our receivers are better, our TE is about the same, and our running back here are worse than there.
the point is, Bradford also has red zone issues. And it is more the talent around him that makes that difficult. It is the same story with Henne is what most are saying.
the point is, there is not reason to doubt Henne can be a franchise guy, but the pieces around him would not allow God himself to be a franchise QB here in Miami.
Who cares about Sam Bradford. QB is not our problem. When you can't punch the ball in from the 5 with 4 plays, your alpha receiver drops TD passes, and your placekicker screws the pooch on a couple of chip shots, it doesn't matter what your QB does between the 20's or anywhere else.
This team is not prepared to compete.
Is Sparano really calling plays now? Does anybody know this for a fact? Dog help us...
What's Marty Schottenheimer doing? I don't care how old he is. At least we'd get IN TO the playoffs.
Here's a nightmare...you want to talk about Cowboy castoffs? Let's go get Norv for HC after he gets canned this year. That'll be another 3 years lost from my life.
go fins.
Boulder, totally agree. Neither is a 'franchise' QB at this point.
DKM, respectfully you're simply buying into the media hype on Bradford and nothing else at this point. I like the kid and I think he has a chance to be good but he's not there yet and to simply annoint him that is foolish.
You mention 'Bradford had better numbers in his rookie year than Henne had in his 4th'. Huh? How is that evern possible? Henne hasn't even played 4 years yet. This is technically his 4th year, although he did sit on the bench his rookie year, so I'm not sure what you would have liked him to have done that season. Games played Henne is just reaching the two year mark. So your boy Bradford is only about 14 starts or so behind him....just so we're talking about things accurately.
DKM, go back and look at Bradford's numbers closely last year and compare them to Henne's. Really not a huge difference. Certainly not enough to CLEARLY say one guy is franchise, the other guy is not. A reminder, both teams finished 7-9 last year and both teams are 0-2 this year.
Bradford's numbers are exactly the same as Henne's...They are both 0-2.
Craig M,
I meant his third year jeez I would think your smart enough to realize this. Anytime a rookie QB stats are comparable to a 3rd year player at QB thats a problem. I dont care about media hype I like to form my own opinions because I know and love football thank you very much!
What are we? The team that rebuilds with old has-been players from Dallas. Come on Ross grown some. Get rid of TS and Ireland and we're ready for some football.
Henne is obviously good enough to start in the NFL or he would have been gone after last year.
I see good energy between him & Daboll on the sidelines...unlike old father time who stayed up in the booth.
...but, there is a difference between good enough to start in the NFL & being an alpha leader who brings out the best in those he leads.
Brady does it, so does Rodgers. Their god given leadership abilities inspire others to give 110%.
IMO, Henne cannot inspire to that degree and therefore will never ascend to the upper level of QB play needed to carry a team deep into the playoffs.
Sorry guys, its my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
Like Ive been telling everyone on here Henne just a servicable guy.
the element of surprise allows for an average team to play spoiler or create an upset and makes good teams unbeatable. right now no one is expecting miami to be really good, that would be a surprise, so would better tackling, better play from the recievers and all around better defense. right now miami needs the element of surprise in the form of unexpected play calling and formations. it wasn't a big surprise that brady ran the hurry-up, but it was a big surprise that they practically used it the whole game as they also did with the triple tightend set. this wasn't expected and therefore made a good team(the pats) unbeatable. the fins playing up to their ability would be a big enough surprise in istelf but that's currently NOT an option, so we must resign ourselves to the fact that we are an average team that needs trickery to pull off the upset. maybe after we master the more complex issues like a successful hurry-up, using players correctly to exploit their talent, our version of the triple tightend set(which other teams are already starting to impliment)just maybe after that we can work on the basics like tackling and coverages. nonetheless the exploitation of a successful gadget used unpresedently will reap rewards as did the pats in game 1.
DB, the end zone fade is a depth/timing/spot play. Henne's fade pass was awful in NE, and to boot it was thrown to flatline.
Posted by: Poizen | September 21, 2011 at 09:16 AM
Poizen, 4-5 goaline fades/jump balls in that game. 3-4 to Marshall. 2 of em in a row that sailed out of bounds. Stop focusing on the 1 to Hartline, which also sailed out of bounds.
Kris, with that said, of course Marshall deserves some criticism! Sometimes he plays like Ginn, dropping the game winner on Monday night vs. the Colts. I felt the same way watching Marshall drop that ball. He gets payed big money to make those catches.
Aside from that drop, I think he has played well though. He had the drop on the goalline vs. NE but he was also blanketed on the play. He & Henne had a miscommunication on another goaline play where henne threw in & Marshall expected out & almost got picked.
Realistically, it's a new offense, 1st game, those are to be expected.
I don't know which picture of Henne you're referring to. I actually tried to convince people to not buy into the ravings of how good practices were & how they looked in preseason. You see all the jumping ship & discontent now?
None of this should surprise anyone with 2 eyes & a fully functional brain.
Coaching & managerial incompetence coupled with a roster with 48 mediocre players & 5 very good players equals a sub .500 record. We're right on schedule!
I see the Browns are 2.5 half point favourites this week. That sounds about right to me. The 'Phins should continue to be under-dogs until they show something different.
However, I'm going out on a limb and saying they will win the game this week. First time I have picked them all year. I'm expecting a different team to show up Sunday. I think this truly is a MUST win game. Lose this one and I don't believe there is any hope they can save their season. I'm optimistic they will be better as a road team and that Daboll will know how to attack the Cleveland defence. Call me a fool for thinking this but I just can't believe this team will go out and lay an egg every single week.
henne is a pro bowler on belichicks team RIGHT NOW as is Marshall....its all about the coaching and the schemes...Marshall would be the beast he is supposed to be in NE...fire the coach...talent is there....motivation from sparano is not....he is not a leader
would be nice to continue to be pleasntly surprised by d thomas.....a breath of fresh air hard running and a nice burst....like i said the talent on this team is much better than its collective performance week in and week out,,,, COACH NEEDS TO GO
djrob...with all due respect there is no way Henne is a pro bowler on the Pats.
He cannot make the reads that Brady can...and as we established this morning, he cannot make the throws needed (or the calls) in the red zone.
Henne is a middle of the pack, average QB who may get a bit more effective in the correct system, but not "pro bowl" better.
I'm coming to that realization also. I belive that day is coming. This team can't continue to be mediocre and expect things to remain the same. Nobody can say at the end of Sparano's time that he wasn't given every opportunity. The results just aren't there and that means change.
Yes, BM sometimes drops catchable balls. On the bright side, he wasn't dropping many passes in the corner of the end zone last year. Progress!
Yeah Marshall droped that catch..But what about the other drop that hit him in his hands..He's a QB and team killer.He seems to have a mental block.
What about the fade they threw him in the endzone..Why run a quick stop and go with a WR thats 6'4..He dosen't have the ablity to get out quickly after the stop?
im just saying that Jeff Fisher, Rex Ryan even Chan Gailey would have the O playing much differently than Sparano has these guys playing...you cannot argue that Sanchez has better tools than Henne...he throws two picks a game and no one says boo up here because he is put in position to recover both by the staff and the Dee....Once you lose the locker room and JT has to roust the team out of real practice BS, its over...hate to say it cuz i couldnt wait fo rhte opener i was bullish on this team, but they seem to have mailed it in already....cant tackle, cant catch...then you cant win games
guys, go read crowders comments on the ss joe rose blog if you haven't yet.
How many times do we have to hear/read those agonizing words "Henne has to learn to...."For crying-out-loud!Checkdown Chad has been a starter long enough that inexperience can no longer be an excuse for incompetence.Sure BM drops too many passes(perhaps he should be docked for each drop),but Henne is more to blame for the lack of scoring.And another thing that infuriates me--the Fins passed on several opportunities to upgrade the TE position,but again failed miserably to help this offense.Would someone please call Palmer's agent?
henne is beyong horrible
Bottom line this team cannot win in this division when you look up and see Belicheck, and Ryan leading better teams against us. Brady and Sanchez are also both leaps and bounds ahead of Henne, say what you will of Sanchez but he has total control of that offense the guys respect him and he is a leader. I wish Pennington never fell into our lap 3 years ago Sparano wouldn't he here now and we'd be markedly better team now. That year screwed us. Everyone drank too much kool aid and now here's the hangover. Folks season over, hope that some young guys can get playing time and get better because entire staff is gone by 2012. 3-13 is a clear possibility, we are a bottom 5 organization. Truth sucks and hurts but it is what it is and the truth is this team doesn't believe in it's coach and most of the guys play without heart. New attitude needs to be brought to Miami.
Sorry, you can't blame Henne for dropped TD passes or missed FGs and that was the difference in the Houston loss. You also can't pin DT's fumble on Henne. Too many mistakes across the entire team for Henne to overcome by himself.
Zero accountability and poor coaching are to blame. Pointing the finger anywhere else is just a diversion.
This team has the talent to win but doesn't. That's a coaching issue, pure and simple.
Its almost like the Dolphins don't have any redzone plays. They think their playbook works between the goal lines all the time.
When are you going to get it through your head this team has no MANAGEMENT worth mentioning.
Heck, didn't they take a day off instead of working on their red zone offense? They always talk about the HUMP but never do anything about the HUMP. A HUMP to me means SPENDING the money to get someone to help us get over the HUMP.
I have an assignment for you and your crack staff.
How many times has Marshall been targeted in the redzone? Should be easy to figure out. Sparano keeps stats on everything including how many times a player needs to take dump.
Mando: "Tony, how many times has Marshall been targeted in the redzone"?
Tony: "We haven't had the chance because he's plus two on the taking a dump numbers".
I might be wrong but I don't remember that many times Marshall was even targeted in the redzone. If I am correct then why isn't our best WR being targeted in the redzone? If I am wrong then its been some quiet targets.
@I'm Chaos
So who do we blame besides Henne? Is it your position everyone is to blame EXCEPT Henne?
Are you Jeff Ireland?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
If we were 2-0 you would be thanking Henne. So why is it if we're 0-2 Henne is not the blame?
@Finsfan Ralph
Exactly!!! How many times must we hear how Henne needs to grow? How many games must we hear how Henne needs to make those throws? How many YEARS must we hear Henne needs to prove himself?
Too many times, games and years for Henne to get his stuff right. Yet, here we are AGAIN going over the exact same stuff we've been going over for the last 4 years.
Joe Rose: "What do you see as the biggest problems, from general manager to coach and on down"?
Its the truth Mando. Its the truth...
Back @ Tony Suckrano
You can blame Henne for the things he's responsible for. But you can't blame him for things that I mentioned. Once he lets go of a pass somebody has to catch it, once he hands off someone has to carry it without fumbling.
Once he drives the team within FG position, somebody has to kick the field goal.
Are you saying all of those responsible for those things are off the hook because they're not the QB? I'll never agree. EVERYONE has to do their job. And right now, they aren't.
Now account for the pass that was perfect that Brandon Marshall flat out drops and he's 4 of 8 for 32 yards and 2 TD's. That's excellent. Amazing how 1 dropped pass from the supposed best WR on the team takes the QB from Excellent to not very good.
what is henne like 5 and 25 on 3rd downs.?.
u ain't winning chit with those #'s.
The ball was a little overthrown. Look how far away from Allen the ball is in the 1st picture. Does it really need to be thrown that far, at the very limit of Marshall's reach? Granted it's "catchable" but Henne didn't help Marshall much and the OL probably didn't help Henne much. All around poor teamwork that falls on Sparano's shoulder. It's a domino effect with all fingers pointing to the ring leader, Sparano.
We will be in the running for a new head coach this year as I just don't believe this team will do any better than 9 and 7 and could do as bad as 6 and 10. Niether one of these results would ensure Sparano keeps his job. I honestly think the phish should turn over every rock in looking for a new head coach rather than just signing Cowher or Fischer because they have big names. Different sport but great example of a leader is Joe Maddon of the Tampa Bay Rays. Maddon was by no means a big name signing by the team but they evaluated him and decided he would be the right man for the job. He coaches a small market team in a division with two of the biggest spending teams in the MLB. Every year Maddon brings his 56 million dollar roster up against Red Sox and the Yankees. These teams triple the amount of money spent by the Rays on talent. How can the rays win in this division? His players don't make errors play good defense and he knows which pitcher to put in against which hitter. He knows his teams strengths and other teams weaknesses. His players believe in him and it shows on the field. Rather than sign another big name FO and coach Ross god help him should actually dig deep and find the right man for the job not the big name for the job. Who the hell was Shula when he got to Miami? Who the hell was Shula when he left Miami? A hall fame winningest coach in the NFL. Think smart not big.
I like the no huddle but when the quarterback completes only 12 of 30 passes hard to run it consistently.
Hi guys
Been reading but not posting a lot...I agree with CraigM a lot...these red zone problems are COACHING issues....ive been saying it a while...the team is collectively very very good....but the coaching is poor...I really think Sparano is limited...he has shown that as he hasnt been able to even sort out the Oline of which he is an expert ( supposedly).
I reckon he is a ra ra guy and not much else...basic drills...basic practices....says a few obscure things etc...
He is not getting the BEST out of this group at all....its COACHING.!!!!
Don't forget that Clyde Gates dropped that pass going across the middle around the 15-yd line that would've easily gone for a first down if not all the way to the end zone - can't anyone make a catch on this team when it counts?
Plain and simple Henne was forced to play it too safe until this year and is timid on the fade routes. He waits a split second too long out of fear the receiver won't be open, and he leads them too much out of fear of the interception. Despite this obvious weakness, he looks much better and showing toughness by standing in there time and time again after getting drilled due to another missed block. If there is a young QB available next year who is a clear long term upgrade then we should take him. I applaud Ireland for not succumbing to pressure to overpay a washed up veteran who may get us to 500 at best. How bad would Hasselback or Mcnabb look behind this blocking. The TE has developed into the #1 weapon for most teams, but we have to keep ours in to help the worst RT in the league. God decision to tap the Cowboys rejects hall of fame on that one and hand him the starting job Sparano/Ireland. Please move Carey back to tackle and play somebody , anybody else at guard. Carey wasn't great at tackle, but clearly better than Columbo. And he sucks as a guard.
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The Oklahoman Editorial Published: June 11, 2012
When James Anaya, United Nations special rapporteur for the rights of indigenous people, visited Oklahoma last month to take testimony from American Indian tribal officials, we questioned the point of the whole exercise.
Anaya was supposedly interested in how the United States aligns with the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But as we noted at the time, there are few places where tribal citizens are more embedded in the broader culture than Oklahoma.
Now, it appears we have an answer. During a recent appearance in Catoosa, American Indian activist and legal scholar Walter Echo-Hawk declared the U.N. declaration “would restore the rights of indigenous people taken away by colonialism.” Echo-Hawk went so far as to claim the U.N. declaration may “change the course of history” and would have to be implemented through “advocacy, litigation, legislation and changes in social policy.”
Those statements bring to mind the debate over “reparations” for slavery. In both cases, you have people who never personally experienced a particular historical injustice demanding that other people who never personally committed the injustice pony up cash even though neither one was an actual victim or perpetrator.
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There haven’t been a lot of bright spots in the Celtics’ season, Avery Bradley has been one of them — healthy in his fourth NBA season he has broken out to average 14.8 points a game, shoot 36.5 percent from three and as always be a pesky, impressive defender on the perimeter.
But now he could be lost for a stretch, too.
Bradley limped off the court early in the second quarter, went straight to the locker room and did not return to the game Tuesday in the Celtics’ loss to the Heat, as reported by A. Sherrod Blakely at
There was no word officially on how long he’ll be out, but there is this.
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We've all read those blogs that "reveal" the parts cost of a fill-in-the-blank, Kindle, iPod, or Palm Pre. If you ask me, this simplistic, by-the-numbers gambit overlooks most of the costs of bringing a product to market.
First and foremost, products, all products, are priced to what the market will pay. I don't care if it's a 16-ounce bottle of Poland Spring water, Coldplay concert tickets, or a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, retail prices are determined by what the market will pay. And luxury products have higher profit margins than mass market stuff. Oh really?
But the mindless rash of blogs that purport to add up the parts costs, for example $39.51 for the display, $15.96 for 8 gigabytes of flash memory, $15.41 for components, and $12.39 for the 3-megapixel camera, to calculate the cost of anything are hugely misleading. The writer merely subtracts the parts cost from the retail price and concludes the difference is the "profit."
Does the writer assume the company's factory doesn't pay rent or for electricity or heating and air conditioning? And that the factory labor force works for free?
These articles completely ignore other costs, such as research and development and engineering expenses associated with creating say, a Kindle. Manufacturers also pay significant licensing fees for technology used in their products.
Shipping costs of large products such as flat-screen TVs must be factored in before determining the final cost to the consumer.
Oh, and what about the online or brick and mortar retailer? They have their own set of expenses for rent and employees. Some of whom might need health insurance. … Read more
Are SACD and DVD-Audio dead yet?
It's interesting. Tens of millions of homes are equipped with multichannel home theater systems, but multichannel music is a dead issue. Stereo rules the roost, for going on 50 years.
Ten years ago it looked like stereo's days were numbered--the two new multichannel formats, SACD and DVD-Audio, were on track to be the next big things. Funny, it didn't work out that way. I cover the subject in detail in my "Whatever happened to 5.1-channel music?" article that appeared in the July issue of Stereophile magazine.
Obviously, 5.1-channel sound makes sense for movies and home theater, mostly because 5.1 was an outgrowth of theatrical film-sound technologies stretching all the way back to the 1950s.
Every attempt to bring surround music into the home without video has flopped, big time. Are you old enough to remember the rise and fall of quadraphonic in the 1970s? What was needed was a surround format that didn't require music lovers to invest in new playback gear. Surely such a format would prove the viability of music surround...wouldn't it?… Read more
Sound vs. picture: What's a better investment?
A good friend of mine is still fuming over picking HD-DVD over Blu-ray. He's held the grudge so long he just recently dumped the player and even some of the discs and bought a Blu-ray player.
I know another guy who's steamed that his $2,000 6-year-old receiver doesn't have HDMI switching, so to get Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio he plays his Blu-ray over the receiver's 5.1 channel analog inputs. Fine, but the receiver doesn't do any sort of bass management over its analog inputs. The sound isn't so hot.
Do you know anybody who bought a plasma TV in 1999 for around $10,000 who still uses it as their primary display? I don't, but I'd bet most of those buyers are on their second or third display by now.… Read more
What's so great about high-end audio?
It's the hi-fi's job to produce the sound of music encoded in a recording.
Does how well or how accurately it produces the sound affect musical enjoyment? I'm not so sure about measurements; they just define distortion levels, power rating, and frequency response, but they don't have all that much to do with good sound. Good sound is much harder to nail down; we like what we like. You know good sound when you hear it.
Studio recordings rarely sound "live," or even realistic. How could they? Chances are the band never played the entire tune together "live" in the studio. Their music was patched together from bits and pieces, overdubbed, pitch corrected, rhythm corrected, EQ-ed, dynamically compressed, and processed in a gazillion ways. Of course, a lot of that also goes into modern "concert" recordings. So what constitutes a good sounding recording is pretty impossible to define. Play it back over a great system and what do you hear? Does it get your blood pumping?
So the question really is, does the music fully engage the listener? Sometimes, the better the hi-fi, the more music the listener hears, the more they like the music. Why that is? I don't know. … Read more
How big are Howard Stern's ratings?
Stern loves to count the 20 million Sirius XM subscribers as listeners, and his rabid fan base believes him!
Come on, that's a huge stretch, even for the former "King of all Media." Intentionally equating potential audience with actual listeners is classic Stern BS. The former King never made another movie or wrote another book. He's the King of Satellite Radio, and he works for a company that NEVER posted a profit during his reign (it continues to post losses every quarter). Sirius XM stock has been lingering around thirty-three cents a share for the past month or so.
I'm just waiting for Stern to advise his buddy, Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin, to boost profitability by eliminating all of the other channels. Stern is the big draw, so why waste resources with all those other channels? I wonder how fast the 20 million number would plummet.
Before the Sirius XM merger "Daily News" writer David Hinckley reported that "Arbitron has released its first-ever ratings for XM and Sirius, covering April-June 2007, and they show that in an average week, 1,225,000 listeners at some point heard Stern." That's the TOTAL for the week, so at any given moment, Stern has maybe a few hundred thousand listeners. Anyway you look at it, that's a sorry ratings number for the former terrestrial radio god.
Arbitron also said that one other satellite channel--XM's "Top 20 on 20" - topped a million during that April-June 2007 ratings period. Since Sirius XM doesn't release its internal ratings, we don't have any way to verify Stern's claims, or other satellite radio shows' numbers.
On today's show Stern admitted that, yes, he has fewer listeners than he did when he was on terrestrial radio, but wouldn't go so far as to say lots of terrestrial radio personalities have far more listeners than he does now.… Read more
Face it: The best stuff is expensive
Here at CNET we write about all sorts of gadgets and toys, but I've noticed that when I write about high-end gear I get the biggest reaction.
I like hearing about stuff I can't afford, like the recent road test of the $80,000 Jaguar XFR. The big sedan can hit 162 mph, can stop from 150 in 6 seconds, and it's a ball to drive fast. Funny, the road tester never mentioned fuel economy. There you go, people don't buy $80,000 cars for their practicality, they buy them to be seen in and for how well they perform.
High-end audio isn't so different, but it's more private. High-end buyers' families and friends are the only ones who'll ever get to be bowled over by the sound and looks of their spectacular audio systems. So while you've probably heard of Jaguar, chances are you're less familiar with high-end audio brands. I'm here to help raise awareness of quality audio.
I write about the world's best audio gear for "Home Entertainment" magazine, and I recently had the pleasure of testing the Burmester 032 integrated stereo amplifier ($22,495) and B25 speakers ($11,995/pair). Burmester is based in Berlin, Germany. The company builds the sort of hi-fis a Jaguar owner would buy.
The 032 amplifier's sculptured metalwork is drop-dead gorgeous. The amplifier's front and sides are covered by machined heat sinks. They provide optimal cooling for the stereo 240-watt-per-channel amplifier's output transistors, eliminating the need for noisy fans. Burmester components, fully decked out in chrome, are a startling sight to behold. … Read more
Poll: Are concert ticket prices too high?
Let's face it: Musicians' income from CDs and downloads is on the wane, so they have to make a buck where they can.
Ticket prices for local venues in New York City can be pretty steep. Small jazz clubs can easily run $30, plus a two-drink minimum.
Steve Knopper's "High Ticket Prices Could Hurt Concert Business" article in Rolling Stone at least pointed to relative "bargains" among the big summer tours. Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen's shows have ticket prices under $100; Dave Matthews Band's seats go for $32 to $75; Pearl … Read more
Sirius XM sticks it to subscribers
How's the Sirius XM satellite radio monopoly working out for subscribers? Not so well. Now that Sirius XM is the only game in town, it's nudging up fees for subscribers. Nice!
Could the subscriber losses be attributed to recent price hikes? The … Read more
Can hi-fis ever sound like real music?
Audiophiles are on a quest; we're always lusting after the perfect fill-in-the-blank (speaker, amplifier, turntable, CD player, etc).
Catch is, perfect gear wouldn't automatically make every recording sound life-like. At that point the gear wouldn't have a sound per-se; the recordings' sound would be laid bare.
I wrote "How high do you want your fi?" for the April 2009 issue of Stereophile magazine, and I'm still getting a wide range of feedback about that piece from readers and friends.
I'm defining a "perfect" hi-fi as one that's indistinguishable from the sound of live instruments. No hi-fi has ever fully recreated the sound of a symphony orchestra, jazz group, or rock 'n' roll band. Solo instruments fare better, i.e. guitars, flutes, and vocals; you can almost get a glimpse of their sounds over the best high-end systems. But a drum kit? Piano? No way!
Audio components are far from perfect, so it's no surprise their sounds aren't 100 percent convincing. As imperfect as the gear is, the recordings themselves are even further away from documenting the sound of vocals and instruments.
The age-old analog/digital divide is the least of it. The musicians do their thing, and then the microphones, their positions relative to the instruments, the skill and imagination of the engineer/producer/mastering team's use of equalization, compression, processing, etc., create the sound we hear.
Pop or rock music is rarely played by the complete band, with vocals, live in the studio. Out-of-tune singers and players are pitch-corrected, drummers' off-kilter rhythms are tweaked, there's not a lot of there there to reproduce. Most recordings are so heavily processed they could never sound real.… Read more
Do major record labels have a future?
Record stores are fading fast, the big labels--EMI, Sony/BMG, Universal, and Warner--are on their last legs, and commercial radio stations rarely play new music. The big music retail chains: Tower, Virgin, and HMV are all gone.
People still listen to music, it's how they hear it and find it that's changed. Oh, and they don't want to pay for it.
The Beatles didn't get a big, fat advance when they signed a record contract. They hooked up with EMI to make records; the band couldn't do it by themselves. Luckily for the Beatles, they had a terrific producer, George Martin, who encouraged John, Paul, George, and Ringo to keep growing. Without Martin the Beatles might have been just a minor footnote. He set the scene and created the right environment for the Beatles to bloom.
The artist/producer relationship is crucial, and back in the day, the great labels--Motown, Stax, Electra, Atlantic, Columbia, Blue Note, and Warner Brothers--had the best producers. The labels promoted the music and got it on the radio.
Nowadays, any 12-year-old could make a record in his or her bedroom, put it up on a site,and sell it. Up-and-coming local bands do the same--but without the input and direction from the right producer, the band won't tap its full potential. … Read more | http://reviews.cnet.com/8300-5_7-0-8.html?categoryId=9738545 | dclm-gs1-016950000 | false | false | {
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on a Linux machine with kernel 2.6.32, how to enable klips i found that for enable klips mus enable
in kernel config.
but patch only available for 2.6.23- and for newer kernels, there is no patch. in kernel configs i cant find anything.
how can i enable that in 2.6.32, or there's other way to use klips?
i want to load custom crypto algoeithm and use by ipsec, is klips right way? or any other solution is for that?
excuse me for my bad english.
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KLIPS was another IPsec Stack used a while ago. Modern Linux-Kernels use NETKEY
There are many differences, the most obvious is that there isn't any ipsecX interface anymore.
If your documentation says something about KLIPS it's maybe outdated and will lead to more problems.
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by MikeBabcock (#46442865) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS?
In fact this is precisely why I wish there were something like a comp.sci wiki. A lot of this knowledge should be easier to access for people who didn't need a full degree to get where they are but realize they have a problem to solve and need a better way to do it than posting their current code on stackexchange.
Comment: This isn't a story (Score 1) 417
by MikeBabcock (#46442857) Attached to: School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA
Yes, the possibility of doing wrong is obvious but that root CA installation is very common when dealing with 802.1x authentication with Windows clients. Its a side-effect of how stupid Windows' handling of certificates is.
cf. this vendor's suggestion https://kb.meraki.com/knowledg... to disable certificate checking altogether to make it work instead.
Comment: Re:It's fascinating (Score 2) 247
by PhilHibbs (#46427363) Attached to: BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban
The number of slashdotters that bleat about "teh evil corporations that break teh law!"
But support bypassing copyright law and getting their content for free because "information must be free".
It may be the same thing, but it isn't necessary the same people. We aren't a borg collective who all think alike. Some people defend Free Software, which requires copyright law in order to exist. Some people download all the torrents. There may be a cross-section that does both, which is as you say hypocritical. But the existence of that cross-section does not invalidate the opinions of those who consistently hold one position or the other.
Also, not all laws are created equal. Some people may support political measures such as export controls and sanctions, while not supporting copyright. If you broke the speed limit last year, does that mean that you are not entitled to justice if someone assaults you today?
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I am using jquery validate to check the existing phone number in my database. I am using jquery validate remote attribute for this.
remote: {
url: "ajax-checkmobile.php",
type: "post",
data: {
cust_id: function() {
return $("#cust_id").val();
However this is preventing the submit value being passed on form submission via POST.
<input name="Submitcustdata" type="submit" class="chromeButton" id="Submitcustdata" value="Edit Customer" /></td>
After removing the above code submit value gets passed correctly. Any idea what could be preventing value from being passed
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jquery is jquery not php. do not put random keywords. – Marcin Orlowski Aug 31 '12 at 16:34
@WebnetMobile.com he wrote PHP because he is using jquery to make an ajax request to PHP, which is relevant for some. – Kristian Aug 31 '12 at 16:35
the problem describes issue on JS side only. the fact url points to php script is irrelevant. – Marcin Orlowski Aug 31 '12 at 16:37
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validate stops the post from happening from occurring in order to validate. that is by design.
so, if its not submitting, then its thinking that the field is invalid, i'm guessing.
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I have developed the following code, which I use in the context of submiting forms using AJAX. This is not exactly your case, but the same code will make your <input type="submit"> value to be submitted:
function submit_click() {
var $input = $(this);
var name = $input.attr('name');
if (typeof name == 'undefined') return;
var value = $input.attr('value');
var $form = $input.closest('form');
var $hidden = $('<input type="hidden" />').attr('name', name).attr('value', value);
$form.find('input[type=hidden][name="' + name + '"]').remove();
$(document).on('click', 'form.ajax input[type=submit]', submit_click);
I use the class="ajax" in the form element to activate this code. You can change according to your needs.
What it does? It creates a hidden form input with the same name and value of the clicked submit input. So, when the post happens programatically later, the value is properly submitted.
Ah, you asked what could be preventing value from being passed... the validation plugin catches the form submission, and performs its stuff. After validating, it triggers the form submission. When this happens, it is not the <input> element click which is trigerring the form submission anymore. It is the JavaScript code of the plugin. So, the "<input>" click event is lost. This is why it is not submitted. (Makes sense? If this explanation is not well written, let me know.)
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I create one global ChannelFactory connection to my WebService (in global.asax) and I access this CannelFactory from every web-request. My WCF-Service uses:
InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.Single
ConcurrencyMode = ConcurrencyMode.Multiple
.Net 4.0
no security, no metadata exchange
Now my questions:
1) Is it better to create an own ChanelFactory for every incoming request that accesses the WebService and to increase the connection limit in my WCF-Service, too?
2) When there are some concurrent requests to my WebService (the server has much simultanious requests), will they be queued or will the global ChannelFactory process/send every request simultaneously?
If so, will the ChannelFactory take care for the thread safety on the client side?
Thank you very much for your help!
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I have been using cached channel factories for quite some time in a sizable project and have not had any issues so far. If the naming follows the standard understanding of factories and their results it should be a fair use to keep the factory along and dispose of its results (in this case the channel).
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I'm setting up a new machine and am using 64-bit Python 2.6.6 on Windows 7. I installed a pre-compiled version of setuptools.
When I run setuptools from an administrator (or user) command shell, it spawns a new command window and then closes it after completing. I'm unable to see any output.
easy_install --help
Every time I've installed setuptools before has been on 32-bit Python and of course the behavior is as expected (output in the same command window).
There are two related questions already in stackoverflow. The first one appears identical to my problem. However, that question was incorrectly closed as a duplicate of this second question.
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It needs administrator privileges. The second question answers your question. – Rafe Kettler Apr 25 '11 at 4:14
No, that actually wasn't the solution (and it also didn't solve the problem of the first question). Running the command window as an administrator did not solve the problem. While the symptoms were the same, the issue appeared to be with the compiled binary I installed. – davenaff Apr 27 '11 at 16:35
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I was ultimately able to resolve this. I believe it was the result of the compilation method used for the setuptools binary.
I had originally used the compiled binaries that were available here:
I just had to uninstall the setuptools binary and install one available here:
Presumably you'd also be able to compile your own version should you need a win64 binary. I had tried installing 32-bit Python and again used a binary from the first link, but had the same problem. Using the compiled 32-bit version on pypi (of course on 32-bit python) solved my issue.
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I am writing an application that I want to store, retrieve, sort, and search data. I am using Java and I have the GUI and some functionality written already but I have no idea how to store data in Java. I have done a VERY little bit of work with SQLite when I was writing an app for my android phone and was looking for something like that maybe.
I need to store information that is linked to each other, for example think of an address book. The name, address, phone number, email address, etc. would be linked to each other and go together for one entry in the address book. Similarly I need to store a large amount of data in this way and be able to search it for needed data. I would also like to be able to retrieve the data in a fashion that I could get the address value for "name".
I need to know the easiest way to accomplish this. After googleing it I found information on Java DB but I don't know if this is exactly what I am looking for or how to use it.
Please answer by providing me with information on what to use to store the data and if possible point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to use it.
Thank you.
I appreciate the Help but I am still not getting it. I want to use SQLite and I followed the link that Kristian Antonsen gave and I downloaded the SQLiteJDBC thing but now I am lost. I am clearly in new territory here and completely lost.
Can someone give me an "idiots guide" on how to use this and make it work in my application?
Thanks again.
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I admire your persistence in teaching yourself this stuff. – DOK Jan 5 '12 at 23:14
Thank you. I am doing what I can – Dead_Jester Jan 5 '12 at 23:36
@Dead_Jester it seems that you should start at stackoverflow.com/questions/41233/java-and-sqlite — they list several options which could be of help to you. The wiki page they refer to, ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/VDS/VDSDevelopment/UsingSQLite, seems to be moved now. If it won't work, let me know, I'll find it again :) – alf Jan 6 '12 at 10:01
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There are lots of ways to accomplish this, here's a few
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Ok, so I can use SQLite, good. Now the link you posted gives another Stack Overflow Question with multiple answers. Which answer do you reccomend? The one talking about David Crawshaw or the one talking about wiki? – Dead_Jester Jan 5 '12 at 23:29
@Dead_Jester The link now points to Bernie Perez's answer - that's the one with an actual implementation example. How familiar are you with SQL? – kba Jan 6 '12 at 8:23
@Dead_Jester What is your problem? Where are you stuck? I just downloaded the example program I linked and used this SQLite JDBC driver and tested it. The example works flawlessly. – kba Jan 6 '12 at 14:15
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A very simple and easy to use database you can use is db4o. The good thing about db4o is that you can store plain old Java objects in your database! No need to map them to tables and back!
Alternatively, if you like to use the SQL language (similar to SQLite), you can use H2DB. JavaDB, is also another option. Both of H2DB and JavaDB can be used as embedded databases and distributed with your app.
If you decide to use SQL, you need to learn JDBC (Java Database Connectivity). It lets you communicate with the SQL database of your choice. If JDBC seemed too level for your taste, then you can learn JPA (Java Persistence API).
However, IMHO, unless proven otherwise, db4o seems the best option for your use case and situation in my opinion.
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I would like to support Kristian Antonsen on his comment because HashMaps are the best method to store data in Java. If you want to store data in alphabetic order, TreeMap is the more convenient way.
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Jdbc(Java DataBase Connectivity) is also a useful & important concept when u need to connect with the database – sonu Jan 5 '12 at 23:23
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Aside from what Kristian Antonsen already mentioned, I should also mention Hibernate. I just recently picked it up by going through a series of YouTube videos such as this playlist
From what I gathered, it is a better solution that's built on top of JDBC (which can be tedious).
I would suggest you make the decision based on what your project needs and the time you have.
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In order to use SQLite, try following this discussion: Java and SQLite
The old version (I believe it still holds):
The Easiest Way: serialize your data object on exit, de-serialize it on startup. For a sample application, prototype, or a quick test it works wonders, and does not require much coding.
For downvoters: yes I do use this approach every time I need to start with something. I don't need to worry much about details, and I know I can change my persistence layer later on. It does help to postpone important storage decisions until I know what kind of data I have.
Less easy way would involve a database, but that requires a proper data design—if you don't share it, it's hard to recommend anything specific. The reasonable choices could be SQLite, mySQL, MongoDB or almost any other database. What fits better in your case is hard to say.
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to downvoter: care to explain? – alf Jan 5 '12 at 23:17
I'm not the downvoter, but alf, where are you putting the serialized data? In a file, in a database, in server memory, or what? – DOK Jan 5 '12 at 23:20
@DOK a file of course. By the time you need more than one node (and have the real problem, which may as well render embedded databases as SQLite useless), you usually have enough experience so that you are not asking such questions. – alf Jan 5 '12 at 23:23
So your answer is not for newbe's because you assume the user knows how to serialize data to file, and not for experienced users because they would know about serialization anyway. That seems to be a reason to downvote in my book (no, I didn't do it either, no viciousness from me in this case). – owlstead Jan 6 '12 at 3:28
@owlstead when I was learning Java, JDBC was considered less newbie technique than serialization... So YMMV. Anyway, got the point, thank you. – alf Jan 6 '12 at 10:03
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When I press the Print Screen button in a Wine window, Ubuntu handles the event. Is there a way to get a Windows-like behavior so that the screenshot is saved to the clipboard?
This probably isn't possible, since Wine's just a compatibility layer, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
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I have a thesis which has two bibliographies. It includes a list of publications and a reference list.
The reference list should be unsorted, or rather, sorted in order of appearance, while the list of publications should be sorted by date.
I have used biblatex to do this. To sort the references by order of appearance I have used the sorting=none option in the preamble, and I have generated the list of publications by using
but have noticed that this in fact sorts the publications by name.
I have seen this: biblatex style with multiple bibliographies in one document, which seemed to indicate that sorting separate bibliographies with different sorting options was a coming feature. I just updated biblatex now, and it doesn't seem to be here yet.
Is there some way of forcing the list of publications to be sorted by date? I tried setting the presort, sortkey and sortname fields manually, but that did not seem to work. Any hack solution while waiting for the new biblatex version would be appreciated.
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One way to do it might be to actually cite the publications in the order I want, but then those citations would appear in the text. Is there some way I can tuck away these dummy citations? This would be a pretty dirty hack. I hope there is a better way. – Katt Jan 24 '12 at 23:20
Biber has this functionality but the interface in biblatex is not implemented yet. It's planned for biblatex 2.x – PLK Jan 25 '12 at 7:44
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Use \nocite to "cite" the publications in the order you want.
author = {Author, A.},
year = {2001},
title = {Alpha},
author = {Buthor, B.},
year = {2002},
title = {Bravo},
keywords = {pub},
author = {Cuthor, C.},
year = {2003},
title = {Charlie},
keywords = {pub},
author = {Zuthor, Z.},
year = {2000},
title = {Zulu},
Some text \autocite{B02,A01}.
\printbibliography[title={Reference list},notkeyword=pub]
\printbibliography[title={List of publications},keyword=pub]
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At the moment you can't have different sorting schemes for different bibliographies, this still has to be implemented.
There is a way around this limitation which I use, but it probably won't do the trick for you: I often have a bibliography and a filmography. While the bibliography is sorted nyt, the filmography should be sorted by titles. In this case you can use the \DeclareSortExclusion command to get different sorting schemes:
Here I can simply define that the various names shouldn't be used for certain document types. Of course, this will only help you if the reference list uses different document types than the bibliography.
EDIT: The possibility to have different sorting schemes is now available in the dev builds and will be part of 'biblatex 2./biber 1.0'. If you're not afraid of Github and building your own Perl programs, you can have this functionality already.
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Many thanks for the "you can't have different sorting schemes for different bibliographies", @Simifilm - I just now need something like that, and I couldn't really confirm if this was an existing option in biblatex or not... Thanks also for the workaround tip - cheers! – sdaau May 24 '12 at 7:26
See my EDIT: This is now available in the dev tree. – Simifilm May 24 '12 at 11:41
Thanks for that note, @Simifilm - cheers! – sdaau May 24 '12 at 16:11
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This one's a classic, and with 10 to 50 million installs, it should be. Most of you have probably heard of it, but for those who haven't, it's called Barcode Scanner and you're going to want to get it.
Barcode Scanner is pretty straightforward. Open up the app, line up a barcode in between the rectangular viewfinder, and you're off to the races. If you're scanning traditional barcodes, Barcode Scanner will give you price comparisons on whatever product you're looking at as well as user reviews.
What really makes Barcode Scanner something you'll want to download is the fact it scans and reads QR codes. For those who don't know, QR codes are those black-and-white squares found at the end of all of our app reviews. They usually contain data like a text file, or in this case, a link to an app on the Market. Having Barcode Scanner at your disposal means you can just scan the code and get taken to the app in the Market, no searching necessary.
Barcode Scanner also has some cool sharing options. You can send information you scan to someone via a text message or you can share it on any number of networks you've downloaded on your phone. That includes email, bluetooth, or in my case, Google+. It's another simple and intuitive way to get the word out about something you scanned and makes it easy on others trying to access the same information.
Barcode Scanner is completely free to download and totally ad-free as well. It's a small app with no frills about it. You can scan barcodes (and QR codes) and that's about it.
If you've got an Android phone, you probably already have it, but in case you don't, download links and a few more screenshots are after the break.
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This is awesome like goggles, amazon, and shop savvy
I love the oxymoron of having a barcode to scan in order to download a barcode scanner.
JustEric says:
It's not an oxymoron, but yeah, I thought the same thing :)
icebike says:
Even dumber is the idea of sending a Barcode in a sms message.
Phone can take a picture of their own screens to interpret the image.
Completely unmentioned is the uption that lets you share a webpage via Barcode Scanner which displays the url in a qr code on your phone so your friend can just use Barcode Scanner to shoot your screen. It's faster than a text message when you want to send a url to some other device in the same room.
GandalfIAm says:
*ROFL* I can't help but agree!
TwinkieFGR says:
I still have this installed, because a couple apps require it, but I never actually launch it, I use Google Goggles for all my barcode-scanning needs.
blackbyrd says:
I like having this app, but often it takes forever to focus & capture.
@ the architect. Jumbo shrimp = oxymoron, this situation is more ironic.
'Jumbo shrimp' is debatable as an oxymoron since it is the same as 'large crustacean'.
Living dead is an oxymoron.
ssummer says:
Never tried it as I feel the permissions are excessive for a "simple barcode scanner". Read and write contact data, read browser's history and bookmarks? Really?
I'm not going to get into a debate about why the author needs those permissions. As well intentioned the reasons for these permissions may be, developers change.
zhecht says:
A vCard can be embedded into a QR code (a lot of business cards recently use this). Therefore, barcode scanner needs to be able to write contact data if you want to import someone's contact info from a QR code.
The barcode scanner app can also display a QR code on screen with your contact info or with a link from your bookmarks, if you want to share it with another phone, which is why it needs bookmark permissions.
See http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
conchchowder says:
Whatever happened to simply clicking on a link? Whew!
EeZeEpEe says:
You're limiting yourself to being on a web browser. Barcodes for apps are on posters, magazines, ads, etc. that are not on a computer or smartphone screen.
jean15paul says:
I have 5 different barcode scanners (Barcode Scanner, ShopSavvy, ScanLife, RedLaser, and Google Shopper) on my phone. I've been meaning to get into all of them and figure out which is best, but I haven't made the time.
Anyone have any insight?
amojeba says:
I wouldn't mind seeing a Comparison done by AC. Comparing all the barcode scanners, the pros / cons of each.
I think a lot of people would appreciate that
That would be awesome!
MaryBeth#AC says:
I would definitely love this!
Skidmark911 says:
I know, I'm weird, but I rarely hold my phone in landscape. This app would be great if it would fix the screen when you hold the phone vertical. it still works perfectly fine vertically, but the buttons are sideways. - just a suggestion for a great app. Thanks.
bunta says:
once i started using Google goggles, i've never looked back.
grjaime18 says:
does someone knows how can i share everything i scan with my laptop ? to look the bar-code in the search bar of amazon using the laptop?
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The Mercedes-Benz S-Class debuted in 1972 and stands as the flagship vehicle for Mercedes. It also stands as the best-selling luxury flagship sedan in the world. As the largest car for one of the foremost automakers on the planet, the S-Class is privy to the latest and greatest technology that the Mercedes technical wizards dream up.
The 2012 S-Class, in the United States, is available in several iterations, most changes falling within the drivetrain. In fact, there are seven drivetrain options: S350 BlueTEC diesel with 4Matic all-wheel drive, S400 Hybrid, S550, S550 4Matic, S600, S63 AMG, and S65 AMG. The options range anywhere from a base price of $93,425 all the way up to a very steep $211,775.
The current version of the S-Class hit American shores in 2006. New to the US S-Class lineup for 2012 is the S350 BlueTEC 4MATIC, which is an all-wheel-drive, diesel-powered 3.0-liter V6, fitted with a turbo charger.
For 2012, Mercedes-Benz announced they were doing away with their highest-end luxury sedan line: Maybach, which shared underpinnings with the S-Class. Thusly, the S-Class now stands at the top of the range. Delightfully for buyers, the 2012 S-Class more closely resembles the Maybach line than ever before.
The S-Class body has always been rather rotund, leaning perhaps more toward the bulbous side than some of its more chiseled Mercedes underlings. The 2012, however, is a bit more angular, even if only slightly so. The faint bodylines are distinctly Germanic but are easy on the eye.
The S-Class buyer wishes to have the finest without shouting about it. Passers by who recognize it immediately appreciate the S-Class, as its confidence is palpable. Other German luxury flagships lean more toward the boastful, chrome-encrusted exterior. But if you didn't have your eye out, you might miss the S-Class entirely. This makes it the ultimate under-the-radar luxury sedan.
Even the technology has been cleverly disguised. Hidden within the front grille is a radar sensor, which operates the adaptive cruise control. We'll get to that, however, in a bit.
Close your eyes and imagine for a moment what the interior of a $100,000 sedan might look like. Got it? Chances are you're way off the S-Class mark. If you were expecting jaw-dropping luxury and technology that invoked a feeling of being 20 years in the future, you may want to look at the Audi A8L instead.
The S-Class interior is, admittedly, one of the finest in the world and certainly the nicest in the Mercedes sedan line. But it's not what most people would deem a one-hundred-grand interior. The interior, like the exterior, is subtle.
The seats are wrapped in lovely perforated leather fitted with fully electronically adjustments. The air bladders under the leather allow for full customization of the feel and comfort of the front two seats. The seat dynamics are electronically controllable as well, and massagers are standard for the driver and front-seat passenger.
When turned all the way up to "2," the dynamic seat side bolsters will inflate and deflate in conjunction with the curves of the road, actively holding both the driver and passenger's bodies through the corners.
And the navigation and entertainment screen is a piece of German magic that, from the driver's perspective, appears as a satellite navigation map and, for the passenger, display a DVD movie-both on the same screen.
Most newsworthy of the 2012 S-Class line is the S350 4MATIC. It is the first diesel-powered S-Class in the US market since 1996. The benefit of a Mercedes diesel is three fold: excellent fuel economy, lower environmental impact than gasoline engines, and long-term durability. These attributes might come as a surprise, so we'll break them down.
Diesel engines are naturally more efficient than their gasoline-powered cousins. Mercedes engine and fuel management systems enhance that further. Featuring direct injection, electronic fuel injectors, four valves per cylinder, and a variable nozzle turbo charger, the S350 is capable of an EPA estimated 21 MPG in the city and 31 in the highway.
As for having a lower environmental impact, Mercedes' BlueTEC system injects-of all things-urea into the catalytic converters in conjunction with a diesel particulate filter to significantly diminish diesel exhaust emissions, effectively eliminating most inherent diesel detractions.
While it might only make 240-horsepower, the 3-liter V6 diesel engine generates 455-footpounds of torque. Like most of you, we don't know exactly what torque is. We do know, however, its abundance in the S350 makes a rocket ship of this German land yacht.
Step up from there to one of the gasoline-powered AMG models and you're looking at a luxury sedan with as much or more horsepower than a Lamborghini Gallardo. But if you are interested in the AMGs, be forewarned that the engine and exhaust release such a menacing growl that your 'under-the-radar' status will be tossed to the wind.
Driving Impressions
The S-Class is a supersized vehicle, but it doesn't feel as massive as it actually is. This is due to several key designs.
First: handling. Holding up the S-Class body is an air suspension system, which irons out any and all bumps in the road. Unlike American luxury sedans, the resulting suspension feel isn't floaty and disconnected. Instead, you feel tied to the road but without the bumps and bruises that come with less-than-perfect asphalt. With a push of a button, however, you can set the air suspension to ?sport' and stiffen up the ride. It is noticeably more firm but not overly so. Though we like a more sporting suspension in most vehicles, we vastly preferred the standard ?comfort' setting in the S-Class.
Turning radius is oftentimes one of the challenges of large cars, but the S-Class absolutely and delightfully enjoys the opposite. You'd need to look back several decades to the ?70s before you found another car that can turn as sharply and smoothly as this big Benz. The S-Class is huge but can turn into tightly angled parking spaces with no effort at all.
Secondly: power. A 240-horsepower diesel doesn't sound like much for such a large car, but what makes the whole difference is the 455-footpounds of torque. Put your foot to the floor and a wave of power generated from all four wheels moves the planet backwards, and the S-Class forward. The power-especially from a smaller diesel motor-is incredible. It's manageable, smooth, and intoxicating.
Look to the top at the S65 AMG with a whopping 621 horsepower and the acceleration is even more fun.
Lastly: adaptive cruise control. Now found on more than just the highest end vehicles, it is nonetheless impressive. Set a speed and the system uses radar the monitor traffic in front and around your vehicle. If the flow of traffic slows, the system slows your car, keeping a pre-set safe distance. It will slow your vehicle to a stop, if need be and back up to the set cruise speed, as the flow of traffic accelerates. At first, using it is a nerve-wracking, nail-biting experience. Once you ease into it, you won't want to drive on the highway without it.
When first behind the wheel of the S-Class you're acutely aware of the size and scope of the vehicle but its quickly forgotten. Turn on the seat heater (or coolers), turn up the Harman Kardon stereo, set the adaptive cruise control and melt into the lap of luxury.
Not Perfect, But Still the Best
Mercedes boasts that many consider the S-Class the finest vehicle in the world. We can see why. While the S-Class is pretty enough to meet at the altar, and drives like a dream, it doesn't do anything that other luxury sedans can't do - it just does most of them better.
What other $90,000+ European flagships are there? The Audi A8 and the BMW 7 Series.
The Audi A8 has a more luxurious, better-looking interior than the S-Class but due to the heft of the A8's V8 engine, doesn't handle as well. The BMW 7 Series feels younger, lighter, and more like a large sports sedan than a luxury tourer. Admittedly, the 7 Series is a little flashier than the S-Class, which is fine for some, but we prefer the looks of something more subdued.
When it's all said and done, the S-Class enchants and provides an unmatched driving experience, at least at the 100-grand mark. There are other cars with similar features and performance for considerably less money, but the respect you'll feel and receive behind the wheel of the S-Class is worth every penny if you're looking for a ride worth of international diplomats and royalty.
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Horses are easy to maneuver through abandon car traffic jams. They are also easy, relative to cars, to re-fuel with lots of readily available food sources. Unlike gassing up a car, you aren’t limited to gas stations where there is likely to be lots of debris and rotting corpses.
6. They are the second best form of transportation when going through a drive-thru:
5. Their smiles:
Aw, horse smiles are the sweetest.
4. Their teeth:
Would you really want to eat an animal with teeth like this?
3. What this girl says:
2. Some of them have funny hairstyles:
1. You can ride them places!!!!
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Album of the Year?
Few artists translate classic Southern folk motifs into modern pop terms as flawlessly as Lucinda Williams , yet the Nashville-based singer has always been an outsider in the world of country music.
A wistful storyteller who has a sharp eye for detail and a gift for simplicity, Williams is a writer's writer best known to country fans for penning "The Night's Too Long," which Patty Loveless took to the Top 20, and "Passionate Kisses," which was a crossover hit for Mary-Chapin Carpenter and earned Williams a songwriting Grammy.
Emmylou Harris, another country star who has covered Lucinda's music over the years, is among those who feel the Louisiana native is an example of the best of what country claims to be, and that it is country music's loss that Williams is completely out of the loop.
Her edgy, raw sound and direct, brave lyrics have enough bite to keep Williams off today's refined country airwaves, but no roots music fan should be without her long-awaited new album, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road. Largely written and recorded in Nashville with help from Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale and Harris, it is the best collection to come out of Music City in years. The album--only her fifth since her 1979 debut--was released this summer on Mercury Records to universal acclaim, receiving perfect or near-perfect marks in publications such as USA Today, The Village Voice and Entertainment Weekly. The current cover of Rolling Stone reads: "Lucinda Williams - The Making of a Masterpiece"; the aricle inside calls Williams "America's greatest songwriter" and describes Car Wheels as a "heartbroken country classic." It is an album with no missteps, no unnecessary frills, sung in a voice as clear as the perfectly aimed stories it tells.
Williams, 45, has acutely absorbed the Southern music and culture she has been surrounded by most of her life, so she is able to construct regional imagery and character without relying on lazy stereotypes. It's been said many times that she is to Southern music what Flannery O'Connor is to Southern fiction.
Much of Williams' new album is set in backwater Southern towns and two-lane country roads where Loretta and Hank play on the radio. A flavorsome mix of mandolins, accordions and Dobro and acoustic guitars also firmly root Car Wheels in the South. Melancholy, aching, filled with longing, Williams' soprano conveys both strength and vulnerability. No wonder Emmylou feels the gritty, soulful singer should be at the very center of country music. But Williams' love and respect for traditional country music runs so deep that she's proud to be a maverick by contemporary country music standards, where style and formula are often rewarded more than substance and inventiveness.
"I don't want to be identified as a country artist today," Williams says with typical candor in her raw-honey drawl. "The country music that I know and love isn't what is being called country these days. So, I certainly don't want to be tagged as a country artist. There's just a lot more freedom in the other world--the rock world or whatever you want to call it--than there is in the country market today. Maybe I wouldn't have minded being called a country artist back in the old days when Loretta and Tammy were at the helm. I mean, look at what used to be the norm compared to now. There's no comparison."
Williams sings with a down-home twang in her voice, but she also knows her way around blues songs like Howlin' Wolf's "I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)," Robert Johnson's "Ramblin' On My Mind" and Lil' Son Jackson's "Disgusted." But whereas her first album, Ramblin', is an adequate collection of blues covers, her last few albums are much more--the work of an artist who has internalized the blues.
The new album's third track, "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten," is a good indicator of what feeds Lucinda's music. Inspired by two books of photography--Birney Imes' Juke Joint and Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia Portraits--the song depicts a Mississippi beer joint where Robert Johnson sings over in a corner by the bar; a man who tests his faith by taking up serpents; and, last, two lovers who lean against the railing of a Lake Charles bridge. The individual verses present three separate (seemingly unrelated) images; collectively, however, they represent the themes that dominate Williams' music: the blues, Southern gothic and personal relationships.
"It was this stream-of-consciousness kind of thing," Williams says of penning "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten." "It just tumbled out. I initially thought nobody would know what it means. I questioned it a little bit at first, but then I ran it by my dad and he said it made sense. It passed the test."
Dad is Miller Williams, an early civil rights advocate and college professor who wrote President Clinton's 1996 inaugural poem. Surrounded by a creative environment at home, Lucinda grew up around her father's writer friends--Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski and Flannery O'Connor among them. Her father's students were welcome at any time of the day or night. They'd come over for dinner and hang out afterwards, drinking Jack Daniels, talking about art and politics until the wee hours of the morning.
Her father's teaching posts took Lucinda all over the South. Even before striking out on her own as an itinerant singer-songwriter, she lived in Jackson, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Macon, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Fayettville. As the title suggests, many of the songs on Car Wheels are about movement, restlessness and the places of the singer's youth. They form an autobiographical travelogue of the singer's wanderings, maps to places left behind.
She moved to Mexico City with her father when she was 17 and couldn't start school because she didn't have the right papers. Instead of going to classes, she spent hours in her room reading, playing guitar, and cutting her teeth on Bob Dylan and country-blues records. But it is her dad who has remained Lucinda's mentor and best critic.
"I grew up with a healthy respect for my roots as a Southerner," she says. "I think that shows a lot in my dad's writing and in my writing. He delves into his Southern roots the same way I do."
Besides holding tight to their Southern-ness and the region's cultural legacy, both father and daughter believe stories should have beginnings and endings, characters you can see, and enough sensory detail to capture emotion. "I think the more things you can describe that are distinctive to what you are talking about the better," says Williams. "Instead of just saying you're in some town, go ahead and name the town. What town are you in? Listeners are going to get a different theme from the song depending on whether you say Little Rock, Arkansas or Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There's a whole different vibe going on there. I'm trying to take you to a certain place."
The new album's "Lake Charles" exemplifies the kind of conversational tone she brings to her music. She's not just driving around with a friend listening to music, the song describes her driving through Lafayette and Baton Rouge in a yellow El Camino listening to Howlin' Wolf. The beauty is that her writing is stunningly detailed, but done so in an economical way. For Lucinda, writing is a process of elimination--removing all but the essential parts so every word and line has meaning and no words are wasted. In the sad and prideful "Metal Firecracker," named after an old tour bus, she speaks volumes about salvaging dignity from a failed relationship with one simple hook: "All I ask, don't tell anybody the secrets, don't tell anybody the secrets I told you."
The songwriter says the most important thing she's learned from her father is to make her points in the most direct and least cliched way possible. "Sometimes he'll just make one little suggestion in a song and it will make the whole thing work," she explains. "In the song 'Drunken Angel', for example, I had originally put the line "blood spilled out from a hole in your heart." He suggested I change " a hole" to "the hole," making it more direct and specific. In "He Never Got Enough Love" (from 1992's Sweet Old World album), he suggested I change "faded blue dress" to "sad blue dress." Those are the ways in which he helps me. That's how I've learned over the years. It's been kind of like having a lifelong creative writing class."
Because Williams sees her work from a writer's perspective, not just a songwriter's perspective, she's inclined to tackle subjects many of her music colleagues won't touch.
"The best poets and writers write about all kinds of different things," Williams maintains, "life and death, sex and love, whatever. For some reason poets have a lot more freedom to do that than songwriters, I don't know why. I'm trying to change that. In the poetry world, nobody even blinks an eye at writing about suicide. It's a part of life, you just write about it. You write a poem about a cat asleep in the window, you write a poem about a wreck you saw on the highway on the way home, just whatever you're going through at the time. That's really how I approach songwriting, too."
Williams' well-turned lyrics, in fact, do deal with subjects like suicide and self-destruction. "Pineola," also from Sweet Old World, is a chilling song about friend and poet Frank Stanford, who killed himself when he was still in his twenties. "Drunken Angel," from her latest album, is about musician Blaze Foley, a Houston roustabout who was shot to death during a senseless argument. "Lake Charles" is another new song about a hard-living friend who has passed on.
"The challenge," Williams relates of those songs, "is to be empathetic without being overly romantic and without being judgmental. Writing about them helps me memorialize or honor them, it sort of puts them to rest for me. Like all my songs, they start from a personal place. That's particularly true of a song like 'Lake Charles' which deals with an actual relationship that I was in with this person who died. I wasn't able to resolve it in my life, so the song was a way for me to resolve that issue. That was real important for me to do.
"It feels good to get all of that out. Writing is very cathartic for me, it's a very therapeutic process."
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NATALIYA VASILYEVA Associated Press Published:
Economists disagree.
Russia's economy grew by leaps and bounds in the years after Putin first came to power in 2000, mainly on the back of soaring oil prices. But back then, the government was able to balance its books with an oil price of only $60 per barrel. With the growing spending, Russia these days can avoid a deficit only if oil stays above $117. Urals crude is now trading at about $120.
Economists say the government may be able to afford the extra spending at this point, but it could hamper growth and leave Russia vulnerable in case of greater global economic turmoil or a drop in oil prices.
Russia has 1.8 trillion rubles ($61 billion) in a reserve fund, created from oil revenues that the government tucked away when prices were high. But even more money was sent out of the country last year, a whopping $84 billion in capital outflow, indicating a lack of confidence in the Russian economy and illustrating the difficulty the government faces in attracting needed investment.
Potential sources to cover the new expenses could include higher taxes on metals and mining industries and the privatization of some state-owned assets, as well as cutting costs and inefficiencies, according to Weafer.
Along with the campaign promises of higher wages for teachers and doctors, Putin's government has committed to spending 1.8 trillion rubles ($61 billion) this year alone to revamp Russia's armed forces. And military spending is set to grow by some 20 percent annually in at least the next two years.
Another touchy subject for Putin is Russia's relatively low retirement age of 55 for women and 60 for men.
Economists and even some Russian officials have insisted that the current pension system is unsustainable and will drain twice as much money from the budget in the coming decades unless the retirement age is raised. Putin, however, vowed throughout his campaign that the retirement age would remain unchanged.
Yulia Tsyplyaeva, chief economist at BNP Paribas in Moscow, said that while Putin's promises of higher salaries are feasible, the pension system poses a much more serious challenge.
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Schoolboy, 15, who killed fellow pupil in front of classmates in shocking gym attack is jailed for just three and a half years
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(Source: Comsoff)
Inside Uncle Sam's magical self-funding internet dream
I. Time Frame
II. Funding
The follow "cheat sheet" sums up the plan:
+/- $25-30B USD
- $ 5.0B USD (4G deployment one time expense)
- $ 3.0B USD (WIN fund)
- $10.2B USD (Public safety network)
$9.6B USD (leftover funding; used to cut deficit)
III. What America Gets Out of the Plan
So what's the verdict on the plan as a whole?
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RE: That Pesky Constitution
By eggman on 2/11/2011 3:52:39 PM , Rating: 2
Health care is not a right, is it?
RE: That Pesky Constitution
By SlyNine on 2/12/2011 8:24:06 PM , Rating: 1
No, it is not. I believe it should be, Everyone here spends more money on healthcare than they know.
1. Most bankruptcy filed for medical reasons the people had health insurance when they started accumulating debt, guess who foots those bills, You do.
2. When someone waits until a situation is grave to go to the doctor ( which happens A LOT with people without medical insurance) The bills become astronomical and they never pay. Guess who pays the bill. YOU DO.
3. Health insurance isn't something that the free market should have anything to do with. There isn't a product that can be improved. They don't make anything, all you have is greedy people trying to get your money and give you as little in return for it as they can. Tell me how this is any better than government run health.
4. We pay MORE per person in this country because of how we handle health care. You would SAVE money with socialized health care. Do you honestly think you're getting a good deal from your health care provider? Even if you are getting it from work, that money still comes from somewhere. You would probably pay less in the tax increase than the money your employer could give you. And lets not forget
Most bankruptcy for filed for medical reasons is filed from people that had insurance when they started accumulating medical debt.
ya ya I get it, you guys think the government shouldn't do anything and have a huge bias against anything socialized. While I agree with that in many ways, something should be socialized.
RE: That Pesky Constitution
RE: That Pesky Constitution
RE: That Pesky Constitution
By SPOOFE on 2/13/2011 10:46:23 PM , Rating: 2
Guess who pays the bill.
Cry me a river; the taxpayer pays the bill because the populace recognizes how ugly the world would be if hospitals plain refused treatment if they didn't think you could pay. That's why there's a Federal law requiring them to provide treatment. But it's pretty dishonest to insist we need a law to mitigate the negative, inherent consequences of another law.
If you live where there's avalanches, you take measures to protect yourself from avalanches. But if someone's CAUSING avalanches, you take steps to stop him from causing avalanches. Why should everyone else suffer because of a handful of deadbeats?
Tell me how this is any better than government run health.
Choice. People tend to prefer it.
We also don't have people waiting ten months for necessary surgery, nor are they banned from paying for such surgeries out of their own pocket. For every lousy thing you can say about privatized health care, there's a lousy thing to say about government-run health care.
You would SAVE money with socialized health care.
Just as McDonald's SAVES money by using crappy ingredients.
RE: That Pesky Constitution
By SlyNine on 2/14/2011 8:06:00 AM , Rating: 1
Nice second guy to start out with an emotion appeal.
Are you suggesting that the hospitals refuse treatment? Is that your answer??
Ok I just want to be clear that this is the answer, we just send people that cannot take care of themselves out to die.
And seriously, These walk in clinics do not take more then 30min to treat people, and they are FREE. So don't try and lie and say they wait for 10 months, THEY DO NOT. On average people in this country wait longer for health care.
RE: That Pesky Constitution
By eggman on 2/14/2011 3:40:51 PM , Rating: 2
Do you have first hand experience of government run health care?
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AT&T predicts an extra 1 million smartphone sales for 2012
Source: Economic Times
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RE: Why no unlimited option?
By quiksilvr on 12/6/2012 9:45:38 AM , Rating: 0
Oh, whatever. Like less than 1% of the customers that actually do this would be enough to cripple their network.
RE: Why no unlimited option?
By FITCamaro on 12/6/2012 10:26:15 AM , Rating: 3
You don't think if they offered unlimited LTE data that more people would do tethering? It's faster than the internet connection many people can get at home. And then they don't have to pay two bills.
People just doing normal usage on a PC tethered to their LTE device would cause problems. Watching tons of youtube videos, streaming Netflix and Hulu, etc.
Now I'm not against an unlimited option being offered, but I can see why they wouldn't allow it. I do think caps given the cost need to rise. 1GB should be $15/mo. 5GB should be $30.
But again, don't like the cost then don't pay for it. We aren't entitled to cheap mobile data plans.
RE: Why no unlimited option?
RE: Why no unlimited option?
By V-Money on 12/6/2012 11:21:34 AM , Rating: 2
Unfortunately those 1% of people could easily cripple your network. With that said the data caps are insane. Whats the point of having 4g if your data cap prevents you from using it.
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The EU calls for Microsoft to remove security features from Vista
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RE: Too late?
By FITCamaro on 9/12/2006 9:15:49 PM , Rating: 2
I think the EU is just trying to come up with crap. As with XP, if you don't want to use the Windows firewall, just turn it off and install your own firewall and antivirus suite. What about the European customers out there who don't want to have to go out and buy seperate antivirus and firewall software? I'm sure they're in the majority here since most people buy OEM POSs that don't come with anything but a 30 day free trial of either Norton or McAfee.
I'm really getting tired of the EU. If I were Microsoft I'd tell the EU f*** you and if you don't like it, don't buy our OS. The corporations there will still buy Windows.
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Corporate taxation
Wake up and smell the coffee
Starbucks’s tax troubles are a sign of things to come for multinationals
See article
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It is hard to compare the effectiveness of taxation between these two countries (U.K. and U.S._ considering the big differences of what is offered by each nation to its citizens. In other words, how can a country that offers almost no health coverage to the population be considered a good example? (I'm not talking about U.K.)
Low rates of taxation are not synonym of effectiveness. And it gets even worse if we bring issues like the military budget, overall insecurity (considering developed countries numbers), subsidies, bailouts, etc.
Raising tax levels can indeed be nearly impossible in a democracy where the population of voters is already used to paying such rates - despite a few exceptions among wealth people like Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan... meaning that this is probably not an option for campaiging if you seek election.
So we have a population that lives within an insecure environment that at the same time can't afford to get sick. On the other hand we also have a society that can't give up on carrying guns for their own protection (which can be legit, maybe), in a process that also feeds the powerful industry of gun manufacturing.
Then why don't submit that industry to a similar treatment that was (and still is) being applied for industries like cigars and alcohol? By overtaxing the gun commercialization, the revenues could be redirected to increasing health care. Not to mention another problematic scenario from american society that is the prohibitively expensive cost of higher education.
The result could be that an important industry of the U.S. wouldn't be so stressed while at the same time the purchasing of weapons would be discouraged by these extra barriers. The population could also gain from enhancement of the welfare state in the most powerful country in the world (something that most american people simply seem to not know what is). And no politician would have to worry about the burden of being labeled as a 'raiser of taxes' (at the same time being able to be recognized as someone that actually targeted the growing problem of internal violence).
On a more philosophical note, this mindless pursuit of unending profit by companies looks a bit stupid to me. Nothing is going to perpetuate to eternity, so why not find a purpose that at least serves our lifetime. Such incredible waste of amazing minds for a few more dollars in a bank account.
Though the companies are not doing anything illegal but they are certainly not being ethical.
However, these companies are avoiding tax to increase overall profit. Why not government invest in these companies and be a shareholder of that profit? Its kind of win-win situation except for the fears of nationalization or govt taking control of the company by becoming a major shareholder.
free wheelie
I think that fiscal competition is not the same "beggar-thy-neighbor" game as devaluing your currency (or letting it fall) to spur exports. Some countries, like Ireland, have gained from foreign firms opening business there in terms of added jobs and all related benefits (also for State coffers) by offering both A cheap tax regime and a flexible jobs market.
It's up to governments, in spite of near-empty coffers, to provide a business-friendly environment. In lean times the general public may be enraged at the extensive use of all available loopholes by both rich individuals and large multinationals, but government had better not to pander to those feelings. Britain is reputedly business-friendly, so the Tory government is highly unlikely to crack down on these tax arbitrageurs, notably when they create real jobs.
Government should instead go back to the drawing board and devise a more streamlined tax code. They should watch closely the current debate in America, which may end in fudge but has identified the key issue of having a lower tax rate by increasing the tax base and this is the best regime for corporations.
Agree with shaun39 on VAT already being a tax, so Starbucks has been paying lots in taxes, not to mention creating employment. Disagree though with eliminating corporate tax.
The other problem no one has mentioned is not just British. When Starbucks decides to pay HM Treasury more tax, it implies it will pay less tax in other jurisdictions.
Just how much it squeezes smaller countries, where there is less transparency, remains to be seen, or indeed, may never be made known.
The Oxford University Study showed that whilst the UK had a competitive marginal rate of corporation tax, the taxable base was severely uncompetitive.
The government just abolished capital allowances for industrial buildings, for example, to compensate for the lower marginal rate.
Our rate of CT is just not competitive enough! The reason people tax-dodge like this is clear.
One (at least partial) solution would be an EU-wide tax regime. But if the Economist keeps posting stupid articles like it did on the front page last week, we will never get anywhere.
Britain owns Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the BVI, etc. They could just wipe these local authorities out or, better yet, give them to the USA. I acknowledge that this only eliminates part of the problem, but it's a big part of the problem, and forcing people to move their money to Singapore instead is a somewhat dissuasive burden.
edmcw in reply to AsherNC
Good point. Most of the tax havens are actually subject in one way or another to the sovereignty of a supposedly respectable OECD member.
Copied from Wikipedia:
The Bahamas (UK)
Cyprus (EU)
Liechtenstein (EU)
Luxembourg (EU)
Monaco (EU)
Panama (OK, independent)
San Marino (EU)
Seychelles (OK, independent)
Campione d'Italia, an Italian exclave (Italy)
Jebel Ali Free Zone in the United Arab Emirates (OK, independent)
Labuan, off the coast of Brunei (Malaysia - OK not OECD)
Curaçao (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Bermuda (United Kingdom)
British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)
The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey (United Kingdom)
The Isle of Man (United Kingdom)
Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom)
Alaska (United States)
Delaware (United States)
Florida (United States)
Nevada (United States)
Texas (United States)
South Dakota (United States)
United States Virgin Islands (United States)
Wyoming (United States)
+Switzerland (which with much tougher diplomacy from the EU could be brought into line).
Compared to the mind-numbing diplomatic difficulty of reaching multilateral commitments on many issues, tax havens would seem to be a quick win. A straight bilateral EU/US deal or even unilateral action by either to restrict the activity of tax havens would get rid of most of the problem in a single stroke. Never has the time for doing so been higher.
Unfortunately, an individual tax-payer is not allowed to be a non-resident Bermuda citizen to pay taxes in Bermuda.
This is no joke, and I have no links to Mcdonalds what-so-ever , but these days they do make a fantastic coffee at a fraction of the cost that Starbucks is asking you to pay. Mcdonalds has really sharpened up their act in all sorts of ways, having suffered adverse publicity a few years ago. I would recommend them as a protest competitor to Starbucks. Google and Amazon are another matter entirely.
In Switzerland we are no strangers to the extreme wealthy and smart corporations to pay close to zero taxes. Ingvar Kamprad, Michael Schumacher and the tycoons and hedge fund managers if Zug are out of the regular tax codes. But they are not out of the law. They apply the law. They are not to blame. To blame are the voters who allow politicians and law makers to create two tier legal systems for the lucky view corporations, trusts and very wealthy to stand outside the social contract. No, doubt to their very own persona gain. Shame on Swiss and British voters.
surfson in reply to ChemieLK
Spoken like a well informed engineer @ChemieLK: There is no way a working family can keep abreast of backroom political malfeasance. I do not blame the voting public but the courts that are supposed to apply EQUITY but who seem to have lost their dictionary and their sense of duty to protect the un-aware.
These laws can be invalidated and the damages remedied but the judges have lost their balls and replaced them with Christmas ornaments whilst the rest of us can eat cake.
Merry Christmas your Honor.
Corporate taxation is rapidly becoming a joke. Global supply chains and the rise of the internet-based commerce and services make tax avoidance increasingly easy for multinationals, with smaller competitors consequently bearing an unfairly higher tax burden.
Why not transfer the tax take elsewhere? A carbon tax would be much easier to collect and should be politically achievable if introduced in tandem with corresponding corporate tax cuts.
Mike the Face
Ahhh yes, the great cranial challenge at running a business. Such complexities, so many conundrums, and so many tax havens to choose from to "invest" all that meagre hard earned profit.
Back at the end of the previous millanium, when Senator O'Bama modestly tried to gather the interest of Congress to maybe regulate the booming growth in quasi criminal off shore tax havens, he got nowhere, primarily because the enormous strock market returns from unregulated American countries moving off shore continued to climb. So Senators and Congressmen looked the other way, nudge nudge, wink wink. Later, when he became President, at a meeting of the G20 in Toronto he tried to gather a few modest international regulations and linguistic definitions that might slow the growth of off shore tax havens. No such luck..
Today, there are almost as many off shore tax haves to pick from as there are Star Buck franchises where free, family friendly western business's can safely invest all that surplus profit and mingle with all those cash only drug barons, war lords, dictators, oligarchs, arms merchants and international criminal gangs who are experts at moving surplus cash around. Why not learn from the best. Obviously the returns have been enormous as the organized criminal friends of capital soon came up with the grand derivative scheme right after the back dated stock option secretly went through the corporate world.
I mean, what else do these guys have in mind when they gather at those libertarian think tank holiday camps, over priced restaurants, luxurious private clubs and golf resorts in the tropics?
Guarantee Annual Income anyone?
You see, once you get that through you can then hack that evil socialism back one little nick at a time without having to constantly whittle away a nickel and dime at a time at over a couple of dozen welfare and pension programs.
Derivatives, stock options and tax schemes are nothing compared to the possible returns on imposing and then shrinkkng a GAI.
It seems counterintuitive to attack the businesses that skirt taxes legally. Sure, they might be conducting some less-than-exemplary evasion tactics, but they are operating within the law and trying to stay profitable. Perhaps the laws should be re-written to prevent these occurrences from happening. It seems Starbucks is trying to do the right thing (by paying more tax then called for) so rather than attack the corporation, let's look to the political leaders to restructure the laws.
Coffee Cup
I want Stabuck to do business in my country! You are welcome here: bring jobs, prosperity for all. Come here where we will embrace you warmly. (no irony intended)
Well, so much for the idea of activating our dormant subsidiary in the UK next year to coordinate EU business. Our CEO and his family are planning to relocate to Britain for at least part of the year, but there are surely better choices. Profound and important issues are wrapped up in the Starbucks matter, with much to be said on all sides. Still, however stimulating the discussion may be, I'm discovering that, when my personal butt is on the line, I'm going to advise against sailing into a political mess like this one.
And why exactly are the businesses themselves being targeted and not the politicians that ACTUALLY MAKE THE LAWS! Hello people, these companies are not doing anything illegal.
Alex Kilgour in reply to JakeRose
There is the Letter of the Law versus the Spirit of the Law.
By the Letter of the Law they aren't breaking any laws. By the Spirit of the Law they are violating the intent behind the law. By moving profits to low-tax nations by over-paying their own subsidiary for various services and/or materials they are intentionally moving their profits away from taxation.
jgunnc in reply to JakeRose
Sure - Tax reform in the US, and "tax transparency" and "exchange of information" between tax authorities in different countries, are policy reforms currently in process, which is why this article is timely.
The "arms-length" principle for transfer pricing (or more precisely, how to identify abuse of transfer pricing) is well accepted, but of course the devil is in the details. It might have been plausible (taken on its own) that Starbucks might have been making losses in the UK, except when it became clear that profits were accruing in places where there was clearly no value added. This is a hallmark of abuse of transfer pricing, but tax authorities in country X need the cooperation of the tax authorities in county Y in order to document the problem. Unfortunately, tax havens have little incentive to cooperate with other countries, which is why the OECD countries are putting more and more pressure on tax havens to cough up information.
We elect parliaments and governments to decide who should pay and how much tax should be paid. The grand-standing politicians whould be ashamed of themselves. When companies operate across borders, governments have to co-operate across borders. The EU provides the initial most effective means of cooperation, but Britain is inching towards the EU exit.
However, every democrat should boycott Starbucks. To the injury of employing aggressive, but legal, tax minimisation it has added the insult of deciding how much tax it will deign to pay.
"George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, has responded to the furore over Starbucks, Google and Amazon by promising to use the country’s imminent chairmanship of the G8 club of rich countries to wage war on tax havens. Politicians elsewhere, also facing swelling deficits, may join him in that."
Good for them. Now let's see if anything comes out of it, or if they're too stuck sucking the corporate teat to actually pay attention to the needs of the government they work for and the people it serves.
pheebel_wimpe in reply to Melissia
The imminent "war" against tax havens is just a smoke screen for public consumption, meant to deflect attention from high tax governments' impotence on their lack of tax competitiveness. Most of the multinationals implicated in the article expanded in Europe with regional headquarters and operations in any of the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Three of those four are EU members. This is not a case of employee-less shell companies; there is substance in these low-tax jurisdictions. Higher tax EU countries can whinge, but so far, they can't force other countries to increase their corporate tax rates, and they can't stop companies from engaging in legal tax arbitrage. Can American mutlinationals be faulted for picking the most tax efficient means of expanding in Europe?
KarlW in reply to pheebel_wimpe
They're still selling loads of coffee here. That means they're making lots of profit from dong business in this country while putting competitive pressures on other, supposedly fully contributing places.
The British aren't asking for anybody to pay more than they're making from being in Britain. This is about hiding the true profits you made by operating in a country by shifting it around international subsidiaries. We need some plain and simple tax rules that are concise.
Starbucks? Aren't they Fair Trade and all that stuff? Awesome! See, for Socialists, there's never enough other people's money - they'll always beg and threaten for more. Starbucks, Amazon, Google, these companies are run by decent people who are sympathetic to socialist whining, but they still have a business to run. After enough abuse by the left, will they join conservatives/republicans? Unlikely. But there is another way.
So yes socialists, please, tax those evil multinationals 200%, and beyond! Hike those taxes to the moon. I think libertarian message will be finding a lot more receptive ears if those trends continue.
Belisarius85 in reply to Malkavian
Starbucks wouldn't have gone "Fair Trade" if it didn't benefit their bottom line. Their shareholders wouldn't agree to it otherwise.
They should continue to pay as little tax as legally possible. It's the governments job to enforce tax compliance.
damianbrody in reply to Malkavian
I'm sure you are a decent guy Malkavian, yet because you are just a man without any real power, the government can bully and tax you at its will. On the other hand, big corporations are powerful, so the government think twice before messing with them.
I don't think is fair big corporation pay little taxes just because they can fight back the bully.
I think you're quite right belisarius, and i'm sure the same applies in this situation. I don't know what kind of profits sbux gets from britain but I would be surprised if this 10m was considered anything more than a minor marketing cost.
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Gorilla with Baby Gorilla
Visit a family of gorillas on your next family vacation.
(Photo: Terra Incognita Ecotours)
Have you ever looked a beautiful pristine place shining brightly on your computer’s screensaver and thought how much you would like to be there right now?
For some people, a couch, cold drink and a decent video rental make up the key ingredients for their perfect vacation. What is a vacation anyway? The dictionary defines the word as “time away from work”, but for many of us, the ideal vacation doesn’t just mean a quick escape from the job, but an escape from the day to day lives we’ve become accustomed to. Working the 8-5 jobs leaves many drained and wondering what else the world has to offer. A plastic plant gathering dust next to the computer screen we stare at all day is never going to satisfy the need for a healthy dose of nature.
Nominated as “Best Tour Operator” in the 2006 First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards, Terra Incognita Ecotours, is a tour operator that has left many clients impressed. Terra Incognita founder, Gerard Caddick, spent many years working to conserve endangered species in South America before starting a business in the travel industry. Caddick’s tours include trips to Rwanda where visitors can spend the day with wild gorillas, to Costa Rica where it is rare to leave without having seen toucans, parrots and monkeys in the jungle canopy or Borneo where orangutan’s and elephants are a common sight.
Gerard Caddick, explains what makes eco-tours special ones: “I would say that what makes our trips different is that we’re focused on taking people to natural areas to experience the wildlife and cultures that occur there. So its very different form a beach vacation or cruise. There is an educational component where you learn about wildlife and nature issues.”
The Terra Incognita website provides a list that defines an ecologically responsible tour:
Minimize impact,
Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect,
Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts,
Provide direct financial benefits for conservation,
Provide financial benefits and empowerment for local people,
Raise sensitivity to host countries’ political, environmental, and social climate,
Support international human rights and labor agreements.
Small Sloth
Have this little fellow join you for breakfast.
(Photo: Terra Incognita Ecotours)
There really is something out there for anyone. A jungle safari might appeal to the more adventurous while a laid back cruise would seem more appealing to someone who just wants to sit back and relax.
The difference between an eco-tour and booking a trip on your own is that an eco-tour allows the traveler to give something back to the country that they visit.
“We made the decision early that that everyone’s involvement [in the local culture and habitat protection] would be a monetary donation,” says Caddick, “On every trip that we offer, there is a component of the tour costs that goes to a local conservation organization. Our logic was that we are targeting the baby boomer generation that has more money than time. People want to do the right thing, but they don’t have the time to do conservation or volunteer work, so they provide funding and get involved in that sense.”
Some examples of where tourist dollars go when traveling through Terra Incognita include: Project Angonoka to protect the most endangered tortoise in the world-the ploughshare,which is found solely in Madagascar (http://www.biaza.org.uk/public/pages/conservation/projects/angonoka.asp),
to the Belize zoo, to the Tropical Education Center and to the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP) where veterinarians have the risky job of roaming through the jungles and treating injured gorillas. The MGVP project can be proud of having increased the Mountain Gorilla population by 17% in the past 20 years. (http://mgvp.32ad.com/)
A lot of thought is put into where Terra Incognita donates this money. “We like to find local conservation organizations,” continues Caddick, “We never give a whole lot of money, meaning it is not in the millions, so we want to make sure that what we give is wisely spent.”
Terra Incognita’s most popular and unique tour is the trip to visit the incredible Gorilla in Rwanda: “Sitting face to face with a mountain gorilla is a life changing experience,” says Caddick emotionally, “everyone we’ve taken to see these gorillas has been moved by the whole experience. I’ve seen grown men weep. Imagine coming face to face with something three times your size and marveling at how incredibly gentle and compassionate these creatures are. The Mountain Gorilla tour involves waking up at 5am where the lodge owner knocks on your door with tea or coffee at hand. Breakfast starts at 5:30am and the group heads out to start the trek through the jungle at 6am. There are seven Gorilla families in the area, and each visitor is assigned a group. It takes 1-3 hours to reach the gorillas and one hour is spent with them when they are found. They only have human interaction 1 hour a day. After the experience, you go back to the lodge and relax till the cocktail hour starts at 6pm and dinner at 7pm.”
A major concern for travelers is their budget. As with anything, careful research will provide a travel solution for everyone.
Italian Shore Village
Smart growth cluster-homes, ala Italia.
(Photo: A Closer Look Travel)
Kara Black, the owner and manager of A Closer Look Travel (http://www.acloserlook.travel/), recently became focused on sustainable travel. Black decided to specialize in social change travel and runs one of the few travel agencies that specialize in eco-tourism. Black explains how varied eco-tours can be: “The prices of eco-tours are diverse; you can find luxury deluxe ecotourism or you could do a home-stay which is extremely in expensive.”
St. John Island Vacations (http://www.caneelbay.com) is an example of a luxury vacation. As with anything, you get what you pay for, and being pampered, fed, massaged and entertained at the one of the most beautiful island escapes in the world does not come cheap.
Ecotourism does not mean that your trip involves backpacking through rugged terrain or working in a rural village to earn your keep. These are options, but not what defines eco-tourism.
A Closer Look Travel offers other types of tours to individuals wishing to make a direct impact by staying with local families and working in the area to pay for their stay. Kara Black explains that “you could stay in a ghetto in Brazil or in the Dominican Republic. Of course you would be housed in fairly safe accommodations and get tours of the living conditions of the people that live there so it is not a white washed tour. You would have the opportunity to purchase a well for a family that provides much needed water, or work in a health clinic or in a school to help educate local children. An example of a typical day on one these adventures include staying on the outskirts of the poor area in a sort of Bed and Breakfast, where you take a group transport to a clinic and work on a variety of tasks like talking with parents, observing the situation and assisting in ways where you don’t need medical expertise. You listen to people who work there, learn what their issues are and end up being donors to these programs. After a morning working at a clinic you would have lunch off site and then take a group bus to say, local archeological caves. Afterwards everyone enjoys time shopping at the beach district and receives a nicer meal for dinner. These types of tours are offered all over the world such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, the Dominican Republic, South and Central America and Honduras.”
Penguins in Patagonia
Penguins in Patagonia.
(Photo: A Closer Look Travel)
There are also opportunities to work with local habitats by planting trees or monitoring wildlife. Black continues to describe a tour that would appeal to travelers who want to completely immerse themselves in nature: “In the Earth Watch expedition up the Amazon, travelers stay in huts owned by the local tribes. You get to these huts by a dug out canoe boat. When you stay in your hut you hope you can sleep in because at night you stay up late studying cicadas via black light. During the day you go on wildlife excursions, and then you come back and enjoy dinner made from food grown locally. Afterwards you will stay up for several more hours and attract insects with the black light to count them.”
Tropical forests or third world countries are not the only popular travel destinations offered through Black’s travel agency: “You can stay at a ranch in Hawaii on the side of a volcano while reforesting native trees, another one of our trips includes a stay on a hilltop castle in Tuscany where guests learn how to do all the organic farming and learn how to sustainably harvest everything. You learn a lot about the history of the area and how locals live their lives.”
Unfortunately, even ecotourism can have negative impacts if not managed properly. The psychology behind travel has changed tremendously over the years. In the past, people did not give a second though about trampling through jungles or riding jeeps across the Sahara. As traveling became easier and the world smaller, many people decided to take advantage of the situation and sought adventure in pristine jungles, deserts and oceans. Over time, these areas degraded and the environmentally conscious noted changes in the land, an increase in pollution and changes to the local society as a whole. Hotels along beaches, garbage at camp sites, eroded paths in jungles, the overuse of water at golf resorts and the displacement of locals are all negative impacts of the non-environmentally conscious tourist.
To read detailed accounts of the negative impacts of tourism visit UNEP at http://www.uneptie.org/pc/tourism/sust-tourism/env-3main.htm or Tourism Concern at http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/index.php?page=home.
Bearing in mind that the tourism industry has grown substantially in the past 20 years, the answer to the predicaments mentioned above are to change the way we travel, rather than to eliminate tourism to certain destinations completely. In fact, 10.8 billion dollars were spent by international tourists traveling to the U.S in the month of September 2007. This huge sum is proof of what a large market tourism is.
Highlands of Peru
The breathtaking highlands of Peru
(Photo: Eco Tours Online)
Egyptian born Kareem Hagar tried escaping the overpopulation and pollution caused by the tourism industry by visiting sites that tourists did not know about. In an effort to preserve the few areas in Egypt that were still intact he and his friend, Anthony Chamy, were inspired to create EcotoursOnline after moving to Canada. http://ecotoursonline.ca/.
“We never really considered this product to be a business at first,” says Anthony. “Kareem and I were raised in Egypt and a lot of the places we went to as kids are ruined now. Kareem went out on his own trying to find deserted beaches and oasis in the desert in an attempt to escape mass tourism in the area- the areas just lost their charm. I started tagging a long with him and soon year after year the group got bigger as more people joined who were interested in visiting areas unknown to tourists. When the groups got to be as large as 10-15 people, we saw potential for a product.”
Hopeful that they could protect the areas that remained, the duo started up a company with the purpose of educating the public about the importance of preserving the variety of archaeological wonders and cultures in Egypt.
“We found local people with the same passion for their country,” continues Anthony, “and we used their contacts and experience to create a unique itinerary. Visitors will have the chance to spend time with family and kids. Of course we are going to see the sights-the pyramids-but that’s just a side, where seeing what the country and it’s people are really like is the main issue. Our groups have been invited to weddings and dinners. A lot of our activities will also be participative tourism. Half a day might be spent with a fisherman where we help him built a boat He gets paid for his time and can sell the boat we helped make later on. We help you find hidden treasures and by traveling with us you’re no longer a tourist, you become a friend.”
Madagascar Thread Store
Colorful threads from Madagascar -
wear these to work on Monday!
(Photo: Eco Tours Online)
Chamy and Hagar knew that preventing tourism completely was not the answer to preserving an area: “We have a big responsibility with this business. People are going to travel anyway. If we don’t take them they will end up going on their own. We show them a different side of the country and educate them so they learn to travel with respect for the future. People are spending thousands of dollars when they travel and this money is usually taken OUT of the country where the money is spent. These tourists completely ignore local culture where the only contact they have are with local housekeepers or servers…A lot of people do not know how bad things are for the country. In Cancun, for example, you don’t know what you’re doing wrong when you spend 600 dollars and are sunning yourself on a major hotel’s beach resort. We want to make it obvious.”
Another argument against ecotourism is that it is just the first step in the slippery slope to mass tourism. By sending people to pristine areas, they gain popularity and more people end up visiting the area. However, by creating an industry from a rain forest by providing trails or a bird watching tower, it is in the local’s interest to preserve the area rather than to destroy it in favor of a golf course or logging.
Caddick expresses a similar opinion: “There probably is some truth to [ecotourism evolving into mass tourism]. The more popular gorilla trekking is, the more people go there, the more lodges are built and the more of an impact there is. But I think the best way to engage and empower people to be concerned and be advocates for the environment is to educate them and have them enjoy these places. We can’t just lock them away. If people aren’t inspired and touched by it they can’t protect it. [Why would they want to?] You don’t want to love a place to death, but how does one set that level? You are going to have an impact whether it is just one person or thousands, but you don’t want to see places get locked away where only scientists have access to certain areas. If no one experiences it, then no one is going to want to protect it. It is a double edged sword.”
EcoWorld’s 2006 EcoTour survey “A Vast & Beautiful Planet,” describing some of the ecotours available on the planet. Since then, ecotourism has become even more popular. This is good news, but with an increase in popularity, potential travelers need to be careful when researching their options to ensure that ecotourism is not just a name in the company but the real thing.
Another thing to remember is that even though ecotourism is not the traditional tour or what many of us are used to, it is a great and affordable option to see parts of a country we would never find on our own. Many tours also offer travelers the opportunity to change the itinerary to enjoy areas you are specifically interested in. Kara Black has the following the advice: “People should not be scared of sustainable travel options. It’s a lot like normal travel and people can have the same kind of comfort and meet a lot of the same goals but they can actually add some richness to the experience as well. You can have a luxurious experience or a rustic one. You do run into a lot of bugs in the tropics&but it can be just as comfortable as your other travel arrangements if you plan ahead. [Plus, it wouldn't be the tropics without all the cool insects]”
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1. olive oil
2. 4 lamb shanks
3. 2 medium red onions, sliced thinly
4. 250 g mushrooms, sliced thinly
5. 6 garlic cloves, crushed
6. 1 cup red wine
7. 1/2 cup port wine
8. 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
9. 1 1/2 cups water
10. 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
11. 1 teaspoon dried thyme
12. 8 sun-dried tomatoes, roughly chopped
13. 2 -3 teaspoons beef stock granules ( depending on brand and personal taste)
14. 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
15. 2 -3 tablespoons cornflour
16. parsley
1. Heat a little olive oil in a large fry pan, add shanks and brown all over. Remove shanks and wipe pan clean.
2. Heat a little more oil in pan add onion, mushrooms and garlic, cook stirring until onion softens and mushrooms brown slightly.
3. In a large saucepan add onion mix and all the other ingredients, except cornflour and parsley, return shanks to pan.
4. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat to low and cook covered about 4 hours or until lamb is falling off the bone. My shanks were quite meaty so time will vary depending on sizes of shanks.
5. Remove shanks and cover with foil to keep warm.
6. Mix a little water with the cornflour and add to liquid, bring to the boil and stir until mixture thickens. (It will not be super thick just a nice gravy consistency.).
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Aaron Hernandez has been mentioned as part of an ongoing murder investigation. Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images.
A roller coaster day of conflicting reports appears on the verge of ending with an arrest warrant issued for Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in connection to an ongoing murder investigation in Massachusetts.
According to ABC News, citing a spokesman for the Attleborough District Court, Hernandez is the subject of a warrant drawn up on obstruction of justice charges citing the destruction of potential evidence linked to an execution-style shooting death. ABC reported that a warrant has been drafted but not yet issued by the court and the warrant does not include a murder allegation.
On Monday evening, the body of Odin Lloyd, 27, was discovered by a jogger in an industrial space near Hernandez’s home and not far from a car that had been rented in Hernandez’s name. According to police, Lloyd was shot in the back of the head. Published reports indicate the slain semi-pro football player may have been dating the sister of Hernandez’s own girlfriend.
Also according to reports, Hernandez, 23, was seen with Lloyd hours before he was killed. He was already questioned by police, but it has been reported by several outlets that the video security system at Hernandez’s house, which could contain evidence used the investigation, was destroyed, as was the cellphone he turned over to authorities. Sources have been quoted as saying Hernandez handed over his phone "in pieces" to police. The destruction of those key pieces of evidence are believed to be at the center of the obstruction of justice charges.
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0.032844 | <urn:uuid:84c8a9e5-62c8-40bc-b611-19e7f653b62d> | en | 0.976532 | Philippine authorities Friday began a formal inquiry into a collision between a ferry and a cargo ship which killed at least 80 people and left 40 missing, as they considered calling off the search for survivors.
Navy boats and helicopters continued to scour the waters for those still missing from the St Thomas Aquinas ferry, which sank quickly after the collision off the central island of Cebu on Friday 16.
The captains of both vessels involved were summoned by coastguard and maritime authorities to shed light on the disaster, said Commodore Gilbert Rueras, an official of the inquiry board.
"We have a clearer picture of what happened," Rueras told reporters without providing any more details.
Local media reported that during the inquiry both captains said they were in the correct sea lane and had tried to reach each other by radio but failed to make contact.
A total of 750 passengers and crew of the 870 on board the ferry were rescued. Many of those still missing are suspected to have become trapped inside the sunken wreck.
Authorities are discussing a proposal to wind up the search for survivors by Saturday and focus on retrieving the dead, said provincial civil defence chief Neil Sanchez.
"We're still hopeful (of finding survivors) but the reality is chances are really very slim," he said.
Divers who have been pulling out corpses from the sunken ferry this last week Friday spotted more bodies in the vessel but were unable to bring them up, said Sanchez.
"There are areas where they see bodies floating. Some are tangled in ropes and tarpaulins. But they need to clear the area of debris first because it is a safety hazard," he said.
The cargo vessel, Sulpicio Express 7, was damaged but did not sink.
Meanwhile Sanchez said technical divers hired by the ferry operator have plugged a hole in the sunken ship that had been leaking bunker fuel, polluting nearby mangroves, fishing grounds and beach resorts.
Ferries are one of the main forms of transport across the archipelago of more than 7,100 islands, particularly for the millions who cannot afford to fly.
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#4 - Sleepnow (08/18/2012) [-]
Oh god what a genius!
#1 - relevance (08/18/2012) [-]
I waited and waited for some random phrase but when he said "Child Porn" I couldn't stop laughing. First Thumb for you good sir.
#3 - frickbot (08/18/2012) [-]
cracked my **** up.
#5 - skeeder (08/19/2012) [-]
>start video
>its really quiet
>damnit i cant hear what he's saying
>turns volume up really high
>speakers blast the command
>MFW sister walks in with "wtf is wrong with you face"
User avatar #2 - immortalfear (08/18/2012) [-]
I know a dog that does that to the word "bumblebee" the codeword for his laser pointer.
User avatar #7 - chaostatic (08/19/2012) [-]
My mother tried to show me this once, using my phone. I'm now fairly certain that I'm on every federal watch list because she typed in "dog child porn" in order to find it.
User avatar #8 to #7 - xenophaigus (08/19/2012) [-]
If you were put on a federal watch list for only using the words "child" and "porn" together only once, I'd have been jailed 10 years ago
User avatar #10 - baham (08/21/2012) [-]
and of course HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAYAA is in the suggested vids immediately after
User avatar #9 - schmitty (08/19/2012) [-]
While this is quite funny, I think it could be better if it was a word or phrase the dog owner said on a semi regular basis that way he wouldn't be able to figure out why his dog keeps freaking out.
User avatar #6 - Tastygiblets (08/19/2012) [-]
Click on the top left related video when this video ends.
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#21MrHayes77Posted 6/9/2012 9:35:28 PM
GOLD_sonic posted...
Well the Blue Toad has the boost and the Yellow Toad can fly.
This is fact.
Is it wrong to have a fangirl crush on Chun Li?
#22SullyTheStrangePosted 6/9/2012 11:07:39 PM
Everyone's the same just so no one's left out. Not saying I agree with it, but that's the truth.
Besides, if they were different, Nintendo might be forced to... gasp... let us select our character!
All's fair in love and war, kid.
#23mhbigbossPosted 6/9/2012 11:19:01 PM
GOLD_sonic posted...
I bet the Red Toad can punch through walls?
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#24slugbossPosted 6/9/2012 11:50:55 PM
Are toad hats suppose to be a yoshi egg? savages.
#25hyliamanPosted 6/10/2012 6:27:23 AM
I read that Yellow has a higher voice than blue, and this applies to the Galaxy games too. But I was playing NSMBW with friends today and tried to listen for it. Seems like complete bunk though.
Complaints have a purpose. One voice becomes one hundred becomes one thousand. Enough common complaints among a crowd is sure to reach it's intended target.
#26MarblesbunbunPosted 6/10/2012 5:45:11 PM
MrHayes77 posted...
mrplow8 posted...
Yeah, Luigi doesn't jump higher at all. All of the characters control exactly the same.
Apparently the NSMB games don't consider higher jumping Luigi canon.
It is canon in the Mario universe, but they want equality in the multiplayer games so everyone doesn't just pick the same character.
and now I want to play Mario 2 US.
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Publication numberUS3786809 A
Publication typeGrant
Publication dateJan 22, 1974
Filing dateSep 7, 1972
Priority dateSep 7, 1972
Also published asCA1001916A1, DE2345089A1
Publication numberUS 3786809 A, US 3786809A, US-A-3786809, US3786809 A, US3786809A
InventorsKitrilakis S
Original AssigneeTecna Corp
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Device for treating infants having breathing difficulties
US 3786809 A
A device for treating infants having breathing difficulty has a rigid, externally grooved ring to one side of which is attached a clear, flexible, plastic envelope adapted to contain the infant's head and provided with a connection for a flexible hose leading breathing gas under pressure from a suitable source into the envelope. The other side of the ring is spanned by a flexible, plastic diaphragm overlying the groove and held in engagement with the ring by a quickly removable contracting band deforming the diaphragm material into the groove. The diaphragm has an opening therein encircled by a collar adjustable into close contact with the infant's neck. The envelope has a slider-closed major access opening and various fittings for minor access and monitoring connections.
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[73] Assignee: Teena Corporation, Emeryville,
[22] Filed: Sept. 7, 1972 [21] Appl. No.: 286,968
[52] US. Cl. 128/191 [51] Int. Cl A61m 16/02 [58] Field of Search... 128/19] R, 191 A, 1 B, 204, 128/202, 203, 185, 145.5, 140, 142, 142.3,
FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 226,883 10/1910 Germany 128/1423 Primary Examiner-Richard A. Gaudet Assistant Examiner-Henry .l. Recla Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Lothrop & West 5 7 ABSTRACT A device for treating infants having breathing difficulty has a rigid, externally grooved ring to one side of which is attached a clear, flexible, plastic envelope adapted to contain the infants head and provided with a connection for a flexible hose leading breathing gas under pressure from a suitable source into the envelope. The other side of the ring is spanned by a flexible, plastic diaphragm overlying the groove and held in engagement with the ring by a quickly removable contracting band deforming the diaphragm material into the groove. The diaphragm has an opening therein encircled by a .collar adjustable into close contact with the infants neck. The envelope has a slider-closed major access opening and various fittings for minor access and monitoring connections.
8 Claims, 8 Drawing Figures DEVICE FOR TREATING INFANTS HAVING BREATHING DIFFICULTIES In recent years there has been considerable progress in treating difficulties occurring, particularly in newly born infants and which inhibit their proper breathing. The difficulties are sometimes referred to as hyaline membrane disease and sometimes referred to as idiopathic respiratorydistress syndrome. Some newly born infants, especially infants of very small size and premature, have substantial difficulty in breathing, to the extent that there is severe mortality from this cause. Various treatments of the difficulty have been proposed and utilized with different degrees of success. Recently, an advance has been made in connection with a treatment process utilizing a supply of breathing gas, primarily air and oxygen administered to the infant under superatmospheric pressure for a protracted period; for exampie, from say one to about fourteen days. Germane reports are Treatment of the Idiopathic Respiratory- Distress Syndrome With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure" by George A. Gregory et al. published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 284:1333-1340 (June 17), 1971, and Putting Pressure On Hyaline, Medical World News for Jan. 14, 1972, pages 2732.
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a device for treating infants with breathing difficulty in a successful and economical fashion.
Another object of the invention is to provide such a device which does not substantially interfere in any way with the normal care and treatment of the infant.
A further object of the invention is to provide such a treating device which can readily be accommodated to different infants.
Another object of the invention is to provide such a device that can quickly and easily be removed from the infant in the event of an emergency.
A further object of the invention is to provide an economical device that can be utilized for one individual and then discarded.
A further object of the invention is to provide such a device that is readily stored and is easily portable.
A further object of the invention is to provide a device for treating infants which can easily be accommo dated to variations in care required by individual infants.
Other objects together with the foregoing are attained in the embodiment of the invention described in the accompanying description and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a side elevation of a device in actual use;
FIG. 2 is a plan of the device, portions being broken away;
FIG. 3 shows part of the device near the ring;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-section on the line 4-4 of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a partly sectioned elevation showing a backing plate;
FIG. 6 is an elevation of the backing plate;
FIG. 7 is a cross-section of a modification; and
FIG. 8 is an elevation of part of the FIG. 7 device.
While the device can be embodied in various different configurations and sizes for adults as well as infants and can be used in a number of widely differing ways, it has with considerable success been embodied especially for infants as illustrated herein. In this instance the device is primarily used in connection with a support 6 such as a table or bed or crib on or within which the infant 7 can lie. Adapted to rest lightly on the sup port 6 and to establish an upright, frame'like structure is a ring 8 (See FIG. 7). Conveniently, this is fabricated of a clear plastic material and preferably has an elliptical shape such as would result from cutting the ring obliquely from a circular tube. The interior surface 9 of the ring is circular cylindrical, as is the exterior sur face 11, except that circumscribing the ring exterior is a groove 12 half-circular in cross-section.
Secured to the ring by any suitable means, such as an adhesive or by heat sealing, is an envelope 13 conveniently fabricated of one or two sheets of transparent, flexible plastic material of any suitable configuration and preferably secured in edge-closed form by a peripheral, adhesive or heat seal margin 14. The plastic is flexible enough so that it can diverge from an initial, relatively flat condition, particularly at one end, to the generally elliptical shape of the ring 8 where the envelope and ring join.
, Also adapted to engage the ring 8 is a diaphragm 16 of very soft, flexible, plastic material of a size that can easily span the ring and overlie the surface 11, particularly the groove 12. The diaphragm is held in tight engagement with the ring and is quickly attachable thereto and detachable therefrom by use of a contracting band 17. This is conveniently of an elastomeric plastic or rubber. It is of circular cross-section and, when relaxed, is of slightly less extent than the ring. The diaphragm is first stretched over the ring, and the band is then enlarged momentarily, arranged around the ring and then relaxed and seated in the groove with the diaphragm intervening. A close, virtually air-tight connection is thus made, but, if desired, the band can quickly and easily be withdrawn from the groove and the diaphragm freed from the ring.
The diaphragm, as particularly shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, has an opening 18 therethrough of generally circular configuration. The opening 18 is to pass the head of the infant and then circumscribe the infants neck and make a relatively air-tight abutment therewith. To that end the diaphragm 16 is provided with a pair of side rings I9 and 21 of quite soft, flexible plastic. Around their outer peripheral edges 22 the side rings are both heat sealed to the material of the diaphragm. At their inner peripheral edges 23 the side rings are heat sealed to a continuous tubular strip 24 of similar, very soft plastic. The side rings and the strip constitute a deformable and inflatable annulus. Leadking into the chamber 26 defined by the annulus is an air tube 27 having a suitable closure valve 28 or knot therein.
The envelope 13 is provided with a number of devices for facilitating its use. Extending for a large fraction of the length of the envelope on the upper side thereof is a slide closer 31 having a slider 32 thereon. The closer preferably has continuous margins with airtight interleaving when closed. When opened by manipulation of the slider 32 the resulting closer opening is large enough to receive the hand or hands of an attendant and to afford adequate access to the head of the infant.
Also passing through the material of the envelope are closable access fittings 33 and 34 with integrally formed, tightly engaging caps 36 thereon. Usually but one of the fittings 33 and 34 is utilized at a time, but they are both provided for ease in connecting adjacent equipment. When not in use the closed caps 36 are air- 3 tight. One of the fittings; for example, the fitting 33, is connected tightly to a flexible hose 37 extending to a source 38 of breathing gas for the infant.
In most instances the breathing gas is supplied from a source of such gas at superatmospheric pressure. The pressure furnished is subject to regulation by a controller 39. To monitor the instantaneous pressure, the envelope is also provided with a tubular fitting 41 having a detachable closure cap 42. A tube 43 is attached to the fitting 41 for transmitting the pressure within the enclosure to the breathing gas source 38. For convenience in displaying the interior pressure the envelope also has a fitting 44 connected by a tube 46 to a suitable gauge 47. An attendant, even at a remote location, can observe the pressure and pressure variations within the envelope. In addition, there is afforded a closable fitting 48 having a displaceable top 49 so that particular implements, such as tubes or thermometers, can be introduced to the envelope in the general vicinity of the mouth and nose of the infant. Gas discharge can be by leakage or through one of the fittings at a rate to maintain the desired envelope pressure.
In the use of the device, the diaphragm can be assembled as described on the ring and with the envelope. When the chamber 26 is uninflated the infants head can be introduced through the opening 18 into the interior. Since the material of the diaphragm is extremely soft and deformable, there is no difficulty in doing so. Alternatively, the diaphragm in a limp, unattached condition can be first put over the infants head and can come to rest around the infants neck. The diaphragm can subsequently be secured to the ring by subsequent attachment of the band 17.
In any case, when the opening 18 loosely encircles the infants neck, the valve 28 is opened and a slight pressure is introduced into the chamber 26 through the tube 27. The chamber is thus deformed from its flaccid, relaxed state into an inflated annulus of decreased internal diameter. The wall 24 lies against the skin of the infants neck and makes a close abutment therewith. Since there is no seam in the wall 24, there is no likelihood of any injury to the infants skin. The pressure within the chamber 26, even though slight, is sufficient to ensure either a very moderate, planned leakage between the wall 24 and the infants neck or substantially no leakage at all. The flexibility of the diaphragm and of the associated annulus is such that the infant can move with respect to the apparatus or can be moved with respect to it without any special strain or force being exerted and certainly without any injury to the infant.
The envelope is put into a closed condition by operation of the slider 32 and connection of the various tubes 43 and 46 and particularly of the tube 37. The closures 36 and 49 that are not in use are snapped shut. The envelope is thus substantially sealed hermetically. By operation of the regulator 39, a regulated supply of breathing gas is furnished through the tube 37 and inflates the interior of the envelope. This then takes on a shape different from its collapsed, relatively flat shape and arrives at a configuration substantially as shown in the figures, so that the envelope is away from any contact with the babys face and at least most of its head. Should the air pressure at any time suddenly fail and the envelope not be subject to internal pressure, the extent, position and stiffness of the ring 8 are sufficient so that the plastic envelope cannot fall into contact with the babys face and obstruct its breathing.
By observing the gauge 47 and by regulating the controller 39, there can be supplied to the infant a continuous or pulsating stream of breathing gas at a superatmospheric pressure. This is effective, as and to the extent set forth in the publications above noted, to foster the continued existence of the infant and drastically to redice the mortality otherwise occurring.
In some instances the apparatus is slightly modified by the provision of an intermediate humidifying attach ment 51 in the tube 37. The attachment is supplied with moisture through a tube 52 and affords the desired humidity within the envelope.
It is intended that the infant reside in the envelope for a period of several days. To permit the infant to be cared for during that time, the slider 32 is intermittently moved to afford an opening. From time to time the fitting 48 can be utilized for a feeding tube, for other intubation, for thermometric measurement and the like.
When the infant is able to live outside of the envelope, it is a simple matter to remove the various attachments, remove the band 17 to detach the membrane, deflate the chamber 26 so that the opening 18 enlarges, and to withdraw the membrane and envelope from the infant. The plastic portion of the structure; that is to say, the ring, the diaphragm and the envelope, can be appropriately sterilized for reuse or are economical enough so that they can be completely discarded.
It is sometimes the case that the diaphragm 16 is so soft that the internal pressure causes excessive external bulging. To prevent this and to serve as an additional stabilizer, there is provided, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, a stiff plastic baking plate 61. This has three rolled or inturned edges forming flanges 62, 63 and 64 arranged frictionally to engage end overlie the adjacent positions of the assembled ring 8 and band 17. The plate 17 has an inverted U-shaped cut-out portion 66 of adequate extent to pass the infants neck.
When the parts are otherwise assembled, the backing plate 61 is slipped into position, as shown in FIG. 5, and underlies the diaphragm 16. The diaphragm under pressure deforms against the backing plate and is supported even against large internal pressure. Even so, the backing plate can be quickly removed from the ring 8 for emergency disassembly.
If the pneumatic annulus around the infants neck is not desired, it is possible to substitute an arrangement as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 In this instance, the ring 8 and contracting band are as before but retain a soft rubber diaphragm 71 generally like the diaphragm l6 and used with a backing plate 61 if desired. The diaphragm 71 is formed with a slightly conical soft rubber, preferably integral, collar 72 having a size only slightly larger than the infants neck. A range of collar sizes is made available. The diaphragm 71 is slipped over the infants head until the collar is properly positioned around the infants neck. This alone may afford a sufficiently close fit. But is is usually supplemented by a strip 73 of flexible material faced with hooks and loops, such as a Velcro fastener. One end of the strip 73 is secured to the collar 72. The other end of the strip, in use, is lapped over the secured end as far as necessary to reduce the collar 72 to the proper neck size for the infant.
With either apparatus an environment can be easily and quickly and economically furnished to alleviate breathing difficulties and to provide an ambiance of selected pressure, moisture, temperature and quietness without interfering with easy observation, monitoring and care.
What is claimed is:
1. A headenclosing, flexible envelope having an upper sheet and a lower sheet united on all sides but having a margin defining an opening at one end, a rigid ring defining an aperture large enough to pass over a persons head, means for securing said margin to said ring around said aperture, said ring being of a size to hold said upper sheet of said un-inflated envelope away from the face of a persons head inside said envelope, a flexible diaphragm having an opening and having a margin and disposed in position on said ring to span said aperture, means for holding the margin of said diaphragm on said ring, an annular member secured to said diaphragm in a position surrounding said opening therein, means for conforming said annular member to a persons neck located in said diaphragm opening, and means effective when said annular member surrounds a persons neck for inflating said envelope to move said upper wall farther away from the face of a persons head inside said envelope.
2. A device as in claim 1 in which said ring is substantially elliptical and defines an elliptical shape for the adjacent parts of said envelope and said diaphragm engaged therewith.
3. A device as in claim 1 in which said annular member is a tube joined to said diaphragm and having a relatively flat and continuous inside surface, and means for inflating said tube.
4. A device as in claim 1 in which said envelope is made of flexible material distensible substantially into a predetermined shape by the pressure of the gas supplied thereto by said supplying means.
5. A device as in claim I for use on a substantially horizontal surface in which said ring has a lower supporting surface adapted to be disposed substantially horizontally and has side surfaces inclined to the horizontal when said lower supporting surface is substantially horizontal.
6. A device as in claim 1 including a rigid plate overlying the exterior of said diaphragm, and means for removably engaging said plate and said ring.
7. A device as in claim 6 in which said plate includes means defining a U-shaped cut-out portion adapted to pass a persons neck.
8. A device as in claim 6 in which said ring and said plate are the only rigid supports for said envelope.
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U.S. Classification128/205.26
International ClassificationA61G11/00, A61G10/00, A61M16/06, A61G10/04
Cooperative ClassificationA61G10/04, A61G11/00, A61M16/06, A61M2016/0627
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Yumi Kimura (木村 弓) is a Japanese singer and lyre performer. She was born in Osaka, Japan, and became famous in 2001 for her song “Always With Me” (いつも何度でも, Itsumo Nando Demo), which served as the closing theme to the popular 2001 anime film “Spirited Away” by Hayao Miyazaki.
Kimura and Miyazaki had great admiration for each other’s works. She was so moved by his 1997 film Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime, もののけ姫, in Japan), that she wrote a letter to him, enclosed with a copy of her album. Miyazaki wrote her back and mentioned to her about a film he was currently working on titled “Rin the Chimney Cleaner” (煙突描きのリン, Entotsu-kaki no Rin). Hoping Miyazaki would use her material on this film, Kimura, with her lyricist Wakako Kaku (覚 和歌子), wrote a new song titled “Itsumo Nando Demo” (Always With Me). Miyazaki did like the song, and intended to use it, but the Rin project was eventually scrapped.
Later, Miyazaki started working on his next film “Spirited Away”, and listened to the song again. Throughout the entire production, he would listen to it obsessively. He would later realize that Kimura’s song about finding inner peace meshed perfectly with his coming of age story of a girl who finds her inner strength.
Kimura worked with Miyazaki on “Howl’s Moving Castle”, providing a song for it.
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1. 50
The Griswolds, headed by Chevy Chase, are taking what could be one of their last family vacations.
2. If you enjoy an occasional taste of mental junk food, you might find Las Vegas Vacation worthy of a springtime dollar-cinema visit. Otherwise, hold out another decade for sexagenarian Chevy in Palm Springs Vacation.
3. Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
Series regulars Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and Randy Quaid (who joined for "Christmas Vacation") are all back for more, and thank God for Quaid, who injects a few bracing shots of mangy humor into what is otherwise a lukewarm brew.
4. 38
Chase, like his Vacation movies, are things of the past. This is a series that should have died with the '80s. Instead, inexplicably, it has limped on into the '90s.
5. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
Chase is a veritable black-hole of mirthlessness who sucks every ounce of fun out what might otherwise be a fairly diverting comedy.
6. Why, if Chase is such a funny guy, does he make such unfunny movies?
7. Reviewed by: Bruce Walker
After a somewhat promising opening, the movie falls flat.
8. Throughout this lame film, directed by Stephen Kessler and written by Elisa Bell, situations are developed -- complicated directions to a hotel room, Clark clinging to the face of Hoover Dam, Ellen the object of Mr. Newton's seductive charm -- and left to wither without a payoff.
10. Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
There is nothing more memorable about Vegas Vacation than the flatness of the writing in Elisa Bell's script and the uninspired direction of first-timer Stephen Kessler.
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This is a fun movie and does not deserve the negative score that it has. Is it as good as the original? No, but it is entertaining and IMO better than European Vacation. Full Review »
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I loved the Vacation movies, even European Vacation which was panned by the critics. But Vegas Vacation? I almost chuckled once but otherwise this movie was ridiculously bad. No wonder it went straight to DVD! Full Review » | http://www.metacritic.com/movie/vegas-vacation/critic-reviews?dist=neutral | dclm-gs1-019110000 | false | false | {
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TMI question about leaking amniotic fluid.
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TMI. for serious. if you don't like hearing about other people's bodily fluids click away quickly!
So over the weekend I was having some.. um.. fun with DH and things got very very... wet. kind of watery wet, not thick or gooey (I told you, TMI) So I got a little worried that somehow that was amniotic fluid leaking out. Since then it has been really hot out and I am finding that my underpants are damp during the day, but I am sweating and I know things get dischargy anyways during pregnancy.
During my last pregnancy I had to be induced at 37 weeks due to mysteriously low levels of amniotic fluid (as measured by ultrasound- not super reliable from what I know have read) but it makes me pretty paranoid that I am slowly leaking this time (no confirmed leak last time, just mysteriously low..) as I do NOT want to go that route again. Pitocin is NO friend of mine and is not invited to this birth.
Is anyone else experiencing this, or know what I am talking about??? please? redface.gif
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Amniotic fluid has a *smell* that, once you've learned it, is unmistakable. Do you remember smelling that during your first birth? If your underwear smells like sweat and/or urine, or has no scent, it is NOT amniotic fluid. Regardless, your body is always producing more fluid- make sure you're drinking enough, and extra until you know for certain. Any midwife/doula/L&D nurse/OBGYN should be able to confirm whether or not it is AF. It probably is NOT amniotic fluid, but if you are stressing about it, see someone!
If there is a real leak, make sure NOTHING enters the vagina, and check yourself for signs of infection (fever). Once your water has broken, every cervix check or anything else that enters the vagina increases yours and your babies risk of infection.
My mom helped us clean my bedroom and mattress after my first son's birth (water broke at 2a, and I had excess AF), and after nearly 30 years of not being around amniotic fluid, she knew *exactly* what the smell was.
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The Ph of amniotic is different fom other....uh, bodily secretions...so if you have access to test strips of some kind you could check that. DH had some for his saltwater tank, but I think they sell them for gardening, etc., as well
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thanks for that suggestion. I have done a little googling and it looks like if it WERE a true leak, it would be constant and very very wet- like having to change clothes, liquid dribbling down the legs sort of wet. Its nothing near that. just damp, and it was pretty hot today and I'm a sweaty person anyway. I've been sitting in my dry pjs for the last several hours and they feel dry so.... I think I'm ok.
I will watch for fever etc. Interesting about the smell thing- I have read such contradictory things about that! Some sources say AF has NO smell, some say it has a sickly sweet smell, some say it smells like bleach or chlorine, some say it smells like men's ejaculate fluid.. so I don't know at all about that.. I don't have any pH test strips around but if my worries persist I will contact my midwife. Unfortunately she is out of the country and using a backup that I'm not familiar with, but I will call her if I think I need to.. thanks!
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I have 2 boys.1 is almost 6 and the other will be almost 8 months at Christmas.I'm starting to stress...this is the 1st year I've tried to cut out plastics,MIC,etc..I don't want to get a ton but the more ideas,the better!
What I've settled on so far:
For baby-
Uncle Goose Blocks
brown bear book
hungry caterpillar book
diaper covers
I'm needing another toy or 2..the only things he has right now is a starbright giraffe and lifefactory teethers..otherwise he plays with spoons,bottles,etc..
I'm thinking Maple Landmark maybe?I was going to get something from here.They said their stuff is made in USA but a thread on here from several years ago said China...
For older ds:
board games
a couple of wood building kits
some eco play dough
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I would not support maple landmark because they have terrible customer support. However I am a Vermonter and love supporting Local that is not a company Id choose.
what about fabric gifts, handmade is just great also how old is your older ds?
post #3 of 7
Check etsy?
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Older ds is almost 6
What do you mean about Maple Landmark having horrible customer support?this makes me sad..I was going to buy several things from there.
post #5 of 7
For baby, HABA has some great grasping toys. I also like their pull toys, although your baby will be a bit small now. Maybe next year.
For your older boy, there are lots of building toys that you've probably found. I know you said that you're cutting out plastic, but magnatiles are awesome. Other thoughts-- at that age, my boys still liked to dress up, and costumes, props, and capes were big hits.
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I wrote a whole reply and it never posted. gurr
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I have a 10 month old who has access to a lot of her older sibling's natural toys. Her favorites are plain wooden blocks, some wooden bowls I found in the thrift store, some Holtztiger woodland creatures (those things have seen daily use for YEARS), a kathe kruse doll, and a little piano (not natural but she loves it). She's not yet into the wooden cars, but her sister was at a year old - the ones with the big wooden wheels and no extra parts to come off. She's also not into the stacking cups or stacking rings yet, but I'm sure she'll come around. She had a little bear rattle she likes too, but she's starting to lose interest. She's starting to like the play kitchen food but mostly just mouths them - so it's good they're plain wood. She likes the play silks but only if Daddy is playing peekaboo with her. (Silks are also something we've had around for years now, in daily use.) And she has a Bolga basket that she loves putting her things into and taking them out again. And books! She loves books. You can often find cool things in the wood section of the thrift store that aren't meant to be toys but work anyway. I guess you can't be 100% sure they're non-toxic but for untreated wood you can use your personal comfort level. DD has a vase and mortar and pestle and set of wooden spoons that she loves to play with. They're all made of wood and very sturdy, don't splinter, etc. She plays with them daily.
My 6 year old likes puzzles, Lego, and this year he's getting a Playmobil castle set. You can find them in wood, too... He's also into cars and setting up scenarios with blocks. You could get him a set of unusual shaped wooden blocks. He's also into books and art supplies and outdoor toys. Bilibos are plastic but are really versatile and fun. How about games, like board games? Or a child sized instrument? Mine really wants a guitar (but he's not getting it yet). If he likes to help you cook you could get him a fun shaped cutting board... although I guess that might not have a huge cool factor. :)
I'd say get him a marble run as those are awesome, but the marbles are a choking hazard for baby. Dominoes OTOH usually are too big to choke on even if one or two get lost around the house. And you can set up lots of fun courses with them.
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I'm trying to find a way to make a program run truely quiet,
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Answer: Redirecting all output to a var for post processing?
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If collecting all output in the same variable is OK for you, then using Tie::STDERR would do the job:
use vars qw($OUTPUT); use Tie::STDERR \$OUTPUT; *STDOUT=\*STDERR;
You might want to save the value of STDOUT if you would like to print something after you are done filtering etc.
Answer: Redirecting all output to a var for post processing?
contributed by zigster
Sorry I dont quite follow, if you want to make your program run quietly then just dont print anything to stdout??!! Could you not just concat any messages to an internal variable instead of printing. If you really want to
Do you mean that you want to capture stdout/stderr of a program that you fork? If that is the case then you could connect the child process to the parent via pipes and capture the op directly from the pipes (see below).
If you really want to capture stdout in this way you could wrap the program in a fork as in this incomplete example.
if ($pid = open(CHILD,"-|")) { while (<CHILD>) { $data .= $_; } print $data; } else { exec ("ls"); }
If you want to keep all the code in one module you could replace the exec with your parent code.
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'Expo" was bad for his health. The office was a haze of smoke, the tables littered with cigarette stubs floating in half-full coffee mugs and mayonnaise-smeared sandwich wrappers from fast-food joints. (Larsson's dinner of choice was a McFeast & Co., the Swedish equivalent of a Quarter Pounder value meal — only instead of a Coke he ordered whole milk.) He was in the office every night after leaving TT, and all weekend. He drank obscene quantities of cheap coffee and suffered from insomnia. He begged friends for funding, conducted research and trained his young staff, some of whom he had recruited as teenagers. The kids adored him; he handed out his e-mail address freely, and responded to anyone who wrote to him, often at startling length. "He was the great old man who knew everything," says Mikael Ekman, who went to work at Expo when he was 19.
The staff loved listening to Larsson's stories. A few times, he talked about a girl who had been gang-raped by teenagers in the woods outside of Umeå when he was a kid. He sometimes claimed that the teenagers were his friends, that he was there, standing by while the crime unfolded, and that his sense of guilt had inspired him to devote his life to defending women against violence. Kurdo Baksi argues that this girl was the main inspiration for Lisbeth Salander; the original Swedish title of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was Män som hatar kvinnor — "Men Who Hate Women." But Larsson later told a colleague at Expo that he had heard the story secondhand. For all his friends knew, he'd made the whole thing up.
These embellishments hardly mattered to his admiring staffers. Ekman was drawn to Expo after reading Larsson's book on the extreme right when he was just 15. When he noticed that his high school dance had been overrun by skinheads, he called the Expo offices to speak with Larsson, who responded immediately. Before long, Larsson was encouraging the teenager to go undercover as a mole in his local Nazi youth organization. Ekman joined the National Socialist Front, attending meetings and reporting his findings. Daniel Poohl, who became editor of Expo after Larsson's death, also began as a teen mole, infiltrating a Nazi youth journal. He debriefed Larsson, who taught him strategies to maintain his cover. Larsson hadn't just created a magazine. He had created an agency for boy detectives.
The biggest pressure Larsson felt — more than the fear of being assaulted by right-wing zealots or the challenge of publishing a magazine with a staff dominated by writers and editors in their 20s — was money. Although he was perpetually broke, he gave little thought to his own personal finances. He neglected for so long to cash the $6,000 advance he received for a book about a racist Swedish political party that he co-wrote with Ekman, the publisher begged Ekman to walk Larsson to the bank.
Larsson was tired of worrying about Expo's future, tired of relying on Gabrielsson, an architect, to organize their finances, tired of carrying his life's savings in the pocket of his jeans. "I'm fed up with having to go around with my hat out, begging for money for Expo," he complained to a friend. "Nobody cares, nobody gives us any money. I need a one-time solution."
His father was right: He needed to write something commercial.
In 2002, Larsson and Gabrielsson took a vacation to the Stockholm archipelago. He put aside his work for Expo and decided to try again at a novel. There was a growing international market for Scandinavian crime fiction, and no one knew more about the genre than he did. In place of the traditional detective, he would have an investigative journalist. This character would be the grown-up version of a popular children's detective — only instead of taking Tvillingdetektiverna as his model, he would use Astrid Lindgren's know-it-all boy detective, Kalle Blomkvist. He would be an idealized version of Larsson — a national celebrity who tells his paramours things like "I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life." ("Going to bed with him," Larsson writes, "was not threatening or complicated, but might be erotically enjoyable.")
Blomkvist would be a hard-charging reporter at Millennium, a fantasy version of Expo: "The magazine began as a real outsider . . . its circulation has grown and today is 21,000 copies monthly." But Blomkvist would be secondary. The novel's main figure would be the adult incarnation of a different Lindgren character: Pippi Longstocking.
In Lindgren's stories, Pippi is a jester and prankster — a nine-year-old girl with superhuman strength who lives on her own. Larsson, well aware that Lindgren was the bestselling author in the history of Swedish literature, later made a point of emphasizing the Pippi Longstocking connection. "What would she be like as an adult?" he wondered in the only interview he gave about his novels before his death. "What would she be called? A sociopath? Somebody suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? I made her like Lisbeth Salander, 25 years old, with a ginormous exclusion complex. She knows nobody and has no social skills whatsoever."
Instead of being endowed with physical strength, Salander is a hacker magician. With a few keystrokes on her laptop, she can access every piece of information in the world. But the parallels between Lisbeth Salander and Pippi Longstocking are gestural at best. When he tried to explain the main character of his novels to his brother, Larsson reached for a closer analogy.
"She's like Therese," he said.
When Therese Larsson was growing up, she saw her uncle as a heroic figure. Whenever he visited from Stockholm he would tell her stories about the terrifying adventures he had while hitchhiking through Africa, about the time that a gang of Nazis had jumped him outside of a Stockholm restaurant or the time an assassin had waited for him outside his office. When the stories became too scary, her mother sent her to bed. But she would tiptoe to the door of the living room and sit there, listening to the sound of his voice.
Larsson didn't visit Umeå often — he always had an excuse about a deadline that needed to be met. But he corresponded regularly with his niece by e-mail, Therese sending short notes and receiving what seemed to her like novel-length responses. He was an adult she could confide in, a role model and teacher who wasn't a parent, with whom she could discuss life as a teenager in Umeå. She appreciated that he was honest with her. He disapproved, for instance, when she told him that she had moved in with her high school boyfriend.
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Usual utilities, phone, cable, electric are paid by the tenants including new account set up fees.
Around here, some renters pay oil/gas and some don't, depends on conditions, ours do and they pay for whatever is in the tank when they moved in.
Our insurance on our house went up 75% because we are not the primary dwellers.
Most renters of homes don't own lawnmowers (expense and headaches at times) and sometimes, they don't want to mow, they want a service to come and do it.
Unkept property = little furry creatures moving in.
Landlords usually hire the service or they do it themselves to keep an eye on things (like my dh).
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"I don't know if he had a knife or not, but let's say he did have a knife. Three trained officers have no way of handling the situation except to shoot him dead in the street?" said Ellen Eggers who marched in the rally.
Undercover gang officers stopped Gutierrez as he was walking home and fired six shots, hitting him once in the back. Those who knew him say, he wasn't in a gang. An autopsy showed Gutierrez did have meth in his system.
Gutierrez's family and supporters are calling for an independent investigation into his death.
"We need to be here to organize and support the struggle to jail the cops that killed Luis Gutierrez. There's no justification for this," said Gerardo Sanchez, a Gutierrez family supporter. | http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/ktxl-news-woodlandrally,0,7212741.story | dclm-gs1-019760000 | false | false | {
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Excellent snaps sent back by a NASA probe craft during a rendezvous with the comet Hartley 2 have revealed that the spectacular "jets" of glowing gas which make it so spectacular result from dry ice subliming in its interior.
The nucleus of comet Hartley 2 belching dry ice, imaged by the EPOXI spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
A little bit of dry ice fabulousness
NASA's EPOXI* mission has seen the former Deep Impact spacecraft - which successfully bombed the comet Tempel 1 with an impact missile in 2005, gleaning valuable data while so doing - subsequently reassigned to mount a flyby past Hartley 2. During the past five years the probe has carried out cunning gravity-assist flybys past Earth in order to intercept the hurtling comet, and a week ago it zoomed to just 700km from the freezing spaceball. This time, however, there was no impact probe.
This excellent clip from NASA explains:
Since the Hartley 2 intercept last week data has beamed down from the EPOXI craft to NASA's receivers on Earth, and boffins have been eagerly crunching it. Already, traditional notions of how comets work have been upset.
"Previously it was thought that water vapor from water ice was the propulsive force behind jets of material coming off of the body, or nucleus, of the comet," says Professor Jessica Sunshine, who is deputy top boffin for the EPOXI mission.
"We now have unambiguous evidence that solar heating of subsurface frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice), directly to a gas, a process known as sublimation, is powering the many jets of material coming from the comet," continues the prof. "This is a finding that only could have been made by traveling to a comet, because ground based telescopes can't detect CO2 and current space telescopes aren't tuned to look for this gas."
Sunshine and her colleagues believe that it may be commonplace for comets' spurting of gas and dust from their nuclei into their gassy coma, or tail, to be driven by dry ice rather than wet.
"The dry ice that is producing the CO2 jets on this comet has probably been frozen inside it since the formation of the solar system," comments Sunshine's colleague Lori Feaga.
According to the EPOXI pics, Hartley 2's nucleus is peanut or dumbbell shaped, 2km long and 400m across at the narrow point of the neck. The comet-probe boffins expect many more interesting revelations from the probe data, which is still streaming in at a rate of 2,000 images a day.
Many more excellent pics, animations etc can be seen here, courtesy of NASA and Maryland uni where Sunshine and her team work. ®
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Hope you kick your addictions Jodie.
1912 days ago
Uncle Don
Don't they say,any publicity is good publicity? Maybe she'll get a job with,"Moms on Meth".,or maybe......just maybe,..'Better Crackheads and Junkies" Good luck with all that! Uncle Don.
1912 days ago
why are all these GOLD DIGGER guys getting custody of the children they never work and they don't take that good care of kids as a women would
1912 days ago
Is this "little Stephanie" on full house??? I thought she would have done better in her life..Hope she can pick herself up and dust herself off and live life to the fullest W/O drugs and Alcohoc
1912 days ago
omg. i love the show full house and i can't belive that sweet little stephanie actress is like THIS! its carzy!
1912 days ago
All you on here making nasty comments, do you know these people? Better yet, to those that are parents, are you telling me you don't occasionally have a drink or two. Grow up! She didn't loose anything. She is already living at her parents house, so not much of a stretch for one of them to be there when she has the baby. And to haha.... once an addict, and that makes a person bad? People can be an addict and go into recovery and get better, but just like someone on a diet that slips and has a cookie or candy bar one time, the addict may slip too. I know I did a few times, but have now been clean and sober for over 12 years! So don't be so know all and nasty when you obviously know nothing!
1912 days ago
God, please help this woman thru this difficult time. Heal her and make her strong. The child needs a mother also.
1912 days ago
Well, the little girl needs a good home and daddy dont sound 2 straight himself. I pray that he doesnt abuse her with his bad habits.
1912 days ago
Wow that's so sad, I used to love Full House, and she was so sweet.
1912 days ago
I agree with B.
1912 days ago
She should go on the next season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew.
1912 days ago
I hope that people can understand that addiction is a disease and not something you "choose"... some people can experiment with alcohol and never drink again and some experiment with alcohol and it will end up totally consuming their life. So, She has a disease and it needs to be treated. Some people think that alcoholics don't love their children, well, Most of them do, very much, but the problem is that the alcohol or whatever drug it is they are using consumes them so much that they put it first before anything else... Once you take the addiction away, for most alcoholics a lot of healing can happen, and for a lot of people, it's harder to heal than others. So Jodie I doubt you even read these darn comments, but hang in there and get sober for YOU and your kid, He's young now and can forgive you easily... the older he gets though, the harder it will be for him to forgive you if you don't straighten up and you will be spending years of your life in such horrible regret... Trust me I know..... Think about making your son the reason for your "addiction to being sober" I wish many blessiings on you and hope things get better....
1912 days ago
5. How Rude!
Posted at 2:22PM on Dec 17th 2008 by rdgr
Hahahaha!! This was the best comment, rdgr! :)
1912 days ago
meth addict and alcoholic.....ha it figures. another hollywood loser. whats with you people? cant find anything better to spend your money on? thrilled to death they took away your right to be a mother without are not even close to being a real mother.
1912 days ago
Lil Wayne Fan
Thats just wrong lil girls need a Mother I don't understand why she can't have her since she lives with her parents this guy is just in it for the money cause she is still living off her Full House money cause everytime Full House is showen they still get paid for it and he is another K-fed living off the ex's money.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., departs the Capitol en route to the White House after President Barack Obama invited top lawmakers to discuss an end to the government shutdown, in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Earlier Wednesday, Republicans rejected Democratic demands to vote on legislation ending a two-day partial government shutdown without changes to the nation's three-year-old health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans insisted they wanted to shut down the nation's 3-year-old health care overhaul, not the government. They got the opposite, and now struggle to convince the public that responsibility for partial closure of the federal establishment lies with President Barack Obama and the Democrats.
There's ample evidence otherwise, beginning with Speaker John Boehner's refusal to permit the House to vote on Senate-passed legislation devoted solely to reopening the government.
In the days leading to the impasse, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said he would do "everything and anything possible to defund Obamacare," including a filibuster against legislation to prevent a partial closure of the federal government.
In the House, Rep. Jack Kingston told reporters his Georgia constituents would rather have a shutdown than Obamacare, and Rep. Tim Huelskamp added recently that in his Kansas district, "If you say government is going to shut down, they say, `OK, which part can we shut down?"'
Ironically, Republican leaders urged the rank and file not to link a defunding of Obamacare to federal spending for fear the unavoidable outcome would be a shutdown that would harm the party politically.
Yet Boehner, who survived a conservative-led attempt on his tenure in January, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who faces a primary challenge from a tea party-backed rival in Kentucky, were unable to prevail. Instead, they were steamrolled by Cruz, his allies in Congress and Heritage Action, Club for Growth, the Tea Party Express and other groups that have used the issue to raise funds.
The strategy in effect, Republicans negotiated exclusively with themselves in the days leading to the shutdown as they sought the demise of "Obamacare."
First, they passed legislation demanding the health care law be defunded in exchange for a bill providing essential government funding.
When the Senate rejected that, they scaled back.
Instead, they sought a one-year delay in the law, combined with the permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices and creation of new barriers to contraceptive coverage for women purchasing insurance.
That, too, was torpedoed in the Senate.
The next GOP demand was for a one-year delay in the requirement for individuals to purchase coverage, along with a provision that would oblige the president, vice president and members of Congress and their aides to purchase insurance under the same system as the rest of the country without receiving the customary employer contribution from the government, for which they work. The principal impact of that is to raise the cost of insurance dramatically for thousands of congressional aides and political appointees of the administration.
That, too, fell in the Senate.
There have been ideological retrenchments, as well.
Despite their long-held positions against government mandates, House Republicans agreed beginning last week to leave in effect requirements in the health care law they have refused to embrace in the past. Among them is a requirement for insurers to cover individuals with pre-existing conditions and another to allow children up to age 26 to remain on their parents' plans.
All are politically popular, although rarely mentioned by Republican lawmakers who say the country clamors for a total repeal of the law.
Despite pledging in the 2010 campaign to "repeal and replace" the law known as Obamacare, Republicans have yet to offer a comprehensive alternative. Efforts to create one have been hampered by opposition from conservatives to some of the mandates they tacitly agreed last week to leave in effect.
Conceding as much, Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said that as a conservative, he had often found during Obama's presidency that his choice was "between something bad or (something) horrible."
Republican unity, so valuable in pushing to reduce spending in the past three years, shows signs of fraying.
Even before the shutdown began, some moderates said it was time to shift the fight against Obamacare to another arena and allow the government to remain open. A handful of conservatives, backed by outside groups, rebelled when GOP demands for changes in the law were scaled back.
"I feel like we're retreating," said Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., while the conservative group Heritage Action said it opposed the last in a series of GOP maneuvers because it fell short of "fully defunding the president's failed law."
Restlessness grows.
In the Senate, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., says routinely, "We're in a box canyon," and Sen. John McCain of Arizona observed, "We can't win" when it comes to using a federal spending measure to squeeze out concessions on health care.
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The upper-case "A" and lower-case "a" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet.
In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also capital letters, capitals, caps, majuscule, or large letters) and smaller lower case (also minuscule or small letters) in certain languages. In the Latin script, upper case letters are A, B, C, etc., whereas lower case includes a, b, c, etc. Here is a comparison of the upper and lower case versions of each letter included in the English alphabet (the exact representation will vary according to the font used):
The lower case is the normal and more common variant, contrasted by the upper case, which is used for special purposes, for example as the first letter of a sentence or a proper noun. Languages have capitalisation rules to determine whether an upper or lower case letter is to be used in a given context, but there can also be stylistic variation.
Divided upper and lower type cases for movable type
Bicameral script[edit]
Williamsburg 18th-century press letters
Most Western languages (particularly those with writing systems based on the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Coptic, and Armenian alphabets) use letter cases in their written form as an aid to clarity. Scripts using two separate cases are also called bicameral scripts. Many other writing systems (such as the Georgian, Glagolitic, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, and Hangul alphabets, not to mention Chinese or Kana character sets), make no distinction between capital and lowercase letters – a system called unicameral script or unicase.
If an alphabet has case, all or nearly all letters have both forms. Both forms in each pair are considered variants of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and will be treated identically when sorting in alphabetical order.
In scripts with a case distinction, lower case is generally used for the majority of text; capitals are used for capitalisation, acronyms, and emphasis (in some languages).
Capitalisation is the writing of a word with its first letter in uppercase and the remaining letters in lowercase. Capitalisation rules vary by language and are often quite complex, but in most modern languages that have capitalisation, the first letter of every sentence is capitalised, as are all proper nouns.
Capitalisation in English, in terms of the general orthographic rules independent of context (e.g., title vs heading vs text), is universally standardized for formal writing (informal communication, such as texting, instant messaging, or a handwritten sticky note, may not bother, but that is because its users usually do not expect it to be formal). In English, capital letters are used as the first letter of a sentence, a proper noun, or a proper adjective. There are a few pairs of words of different meanings whose only difference is capitalisation of the first letter. The first-person pronoun "I" and the interjection "O" are also capitalised. Initialisms or acronyms are generally written in all-caps in American English, whereas British English only capitalises the first letter of an acronym (pronounced as a word) – or none if it is regarded as an everyday word.[3] Lower case letters are normally used for all other purposes. There are however situations where further capitalisation may be used to give added emphasis, for example in headings and titles or to pick out certain words (often using small capitals). In some traditional forms of poetry, capitalisation has conventionally been used as a marker to indicate the beginning of a line of verse independent of any grammatical feature.
Other languages vary in their use of capitals. For example, in German the first letter of all nouns is capitalised (this was previously common in English as well), while in Romance and most other European languages the names of days of the week, months of the year, and adjectives of nationality, religion and so on generally begin with a lower case letter.
Exceptional letters[edit]
• The German letter "ß" primarily exists in lower case and is capitalised as "SS" (but see Capital ß).
• The Greek letter "Σ" has two different lower case forms: "ς" in word-final position and "σ" elsewhere. In a similar manner, the Latin letter "S" used to have two different lower case forms: "s" in word-final position and "ſ" elsewhere. The latter form, called the long s, fell out of general use before the middle of the 19th century.
• The Cyrillic letter "Ӏ" usually has only a capital form, which is also used in lower case text.
• Unlike most Latin-script languages, which link the dotless upper case "I" with the dotted lower case "i", Turkish has both a dotted and dotless I in upper and lower case. Each of the two pairs ("İ/i" and "I/ı") represent a distinctive phoneme.
• In Dutch, the digraph "ij" is capitalised as a single entity, "IJ".[4]
Related phenomena[edit]
Similar orthographic conventions are used for emphasis or following language-specific rules, including:
Stylistic or specialised usage[edit]
Case styles[edit]
All-caps and title case in New York Times (10 November 1919, on Arthur Eddington's solar eclipse experiment).
• ALL CAPS: only capital letters are used. Capital letters were sometimes used for typographical emphasis in text made on a typewriter. However, long spans of Latin-alphabet text in all upper-case are harder to read because of the absence of the ascenders and descenders found in lower-case letters, which can aid recognition. With the advent of the Internet, all-caps is more often used for emphasis; however, it is considered poor netiquette by some to type in all capitals, and said to be tantamount to shouting.[5]
Example Rule
The Vitamins Are In My Fresh California Raisins Start case – capitalisation of all words, regardless of the part of speech
The Vitamins Are in My Fresh California Raisins Capitalisation of the first word, and all other words, except for articles, prepositions, and conjunctions
The Vitamins are in my Fresh California Raisins Capitalisation of the first word, and all other words, except for closed-class words
The Vitamins are in my fresh California Raisins Capitalisation of all nouns and the first word
the Vitamins are in my fresh California Raisins Capitalisation only of nouns
The vitamins are in my fresh California raisins Sentence case – capitalisation of only the first word, proper nouns and as dictated by other specific English rules
the vitamins are in my fresh California raisins Mid-sentence case – capitalisation of proper nouns only
Headings and publication titles[edit]
In English-language publications, varying conventions are used for capitalising words in publication titles and headlines, including chapter and section headings. The rules differ substantially between individual house styles.
The convention followed by many British publishers (including scientific publishers, like Nature, magazines, like The Economist and New Scientist, and newspapers, like The Guardian and The Times) is to use sentence-style capitalisation in titles and headlines, where capitalisation follows the same rules that apply for sentences. This convention is usually called sentence case. It is also widely used in the United States, especially in newspaper publishing, bibliographic references and library catalogues. Examples of global publishers whose English-language house styles prescribe sentence-case titles and headings include the International Organization for Standardization.
Among U.S. book publishers, it is a common typographic practice to capitalise significant words in titles and headings. This is an old form of emphasis, similar to the more modern practice of using a larger or boldface font for titles. This family of typographic conventions is usually called title case. The rules for which words to capitalise are not based on any grammatically inherent correct/incorrect distinction and are not universally standardized; they are arbitrary and differ between style guides, although in most styles they tend to follow a few strong conventions, as follows:
• Most styles capitalise all words except for closed-class words (certain parts of speech, namely, articles, prepositions, and conjunctions); but the first word (always) and last word (in many styles) are also capped, regardless of part of speech. Many styles capitalise longer prepositions such as "between" or "throughout", but not shorter ones such as "for" or "with".[6] Among such styles, "four or more letters (≥4)" or "more than four letters (>4)" are the typical (although arbitrary and conflicting) threshold rules.
One British style guide mentions a form of title case: R. M. Ritter's Oxford Manual of Style (2002) suggests capitalising "the first word and all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, but generally not articles, conjunctions and short prepositions".[7]
Special case styles[edit]
• CamelCase: first letter of each word is capitalised, spaces and punctuation removed. If the very first letter is capitalized, as in "CamelCase" (or "PowerPoint"), the term upper camel case may be used; this is also known as Pascal case or bumpy case. Lower camel case describes a variation, as in "camelCase" (or "iPod" or "eBay"), in which the very first letter is in lower case. CamelCase derives from computer programming, but it has also become rather common in brand names of information technology products.
• Train-Case or spinal-case (depending on whether or not the first letter of each word is in upper case, respectively): similar to snake case, but spaces are replaced by hyphens, instead of underscores.
Metric system[edit]
In the International System of Units (SI), a letter usually has a different meaning in upper and lower cases when used as a unit symbol. A unit symbol is normally written in lower case, but if the name of the unit is derived from a proper noun, the first letter of the symbol is written in upper case (nevertheless, the name of the unit, if spelled out, is always considered a common noun and written accordingly):[9]
• 1 mS, a small measure of electric conductance.
• 1 MS, a large measure of electric conductance.
• 1 Mm, a large measure of length.
Case folding[edit]
Methods in word processing[edit]
Methods in programming[edit]
UpperA$ = UCASE$("a")
LowerA$ = LCASE$("A")
char upperA = toupper('a');
char lowerA = tolower('A');
This only works because the letters of upper and lower cases are spaced out equally. In ASCII they are consecutive, whereas with EBCDIC they are not; nonetheless the upper case letters are arranged in the same pattern and with the same gaps as are the lower case letters, so the technique still works.
Unicode case folding and script identification[edit]
Latin majuscule inscription on the Arch of Titus (82 AD)
Type cases[edit]
Combined case with capital letters above small letters
Late 19th-century mixed cases
See also[edit]
3. ^ "The Guardian and Observer Style Guide". Retrieved 5 March 2014.
5. ^ RFC 1855 "Netiquette Guidelines"
8. ^ "Ruby Style Guide". Retrieved 11 November 2013.
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Looking for someone who has experience printing from a web server. We are looking for someone who can develop a routine to print from a websever to a specific printer.
The use case is as follows:
A user places an order on a website, the order is processed by the site and an
entry is made in the mysql database. Logic which uses information about the order and fulfillment ques will determine where the order needs to be dispatched.
Once it is determined which Location will receive the order, the webserver will print the order information on a dedicated printer in that Store.
The printers for each store will be dedicated to this process and information about the printer will be stored in a table within the mysql db.
If you have done this in the past or know how to perform these task, please apply for the job.
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This project requires a person or a team of people to find missing data and enter them into our spreadsheets.
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You will have to find and fill in the missing data which will be telephone number (with international dialling code), email address and URL.
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Each row is considered as 1 piece of data
1 piece of data = Hotel Telephone Number + Hotel Email Address + Hotel URL
Total data will be in the region of 300,000 to 400,000
Please quote your price for the entire project.
see my attached file and complete it as well as send me back.I wanna see it that you can understand my need.
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Housing cooperatives on Central Park West in Manhattan, New York City, from left to right: The Majestic, The Dakota, The Langham, and The San Remo.
999 N. Lake Shore Drive, a coop-owned residential building in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
The word cooperative is also used to describe a non-share capital co-op model in which fee-paying members obtain the right to occupy a bedroom and share the communal resources of a house that is owned by a cooperative organization. Such is the case with student cooperatives in some college and university communities across the United States.
Legal status[edit]
As a legal entity, a co-op can contract with other companies or hire individuals to provide it with services, such as a maintenance contractor or a building manager. It can also hire employees, such as a manager or a caretaker, to deal with specific things that volunteers may prefer not to do or may not be good at doing, such as electrical maintenance. However, as many housing cooperatives strive to run self-sufficiently, as much work as possible is completed by its members.
In non-equity cooperatives a shareholder in a co-op does not own real estate, but a share of the legal entity that does own real estate.[2] Co-operative ownership is quite distinct from condominiums where people own individual units and have little say in who moves into the other units.[3] Because of this, most jurisdictions have developed separate legislation, similar to laws that regulate companies, to regulate how co-ops are operated and the rights and obligations of shareholders.
Each resident or resident household has membership in the co-operative association. In non-equity cooperatives, members have occupancy rights to a specific suite within the housing co-operative as outlined in their "occupancy agreement", or "proprietary lease" which is essentially a lease. In ownership cooperatives, occupancy rights are transferred to the purchaser by way of the title transfer.
Since the housing cooperative holds title to all the property and housing structures, it bears the cost of maintaining, repairing and replacing them. This relieves the member from the cost and burden of such work. In that sense, the housing cooperative is like the landlord in a rental setting. However, another hallmark of cooperative living is that it is nonprofit, so that the work is done at cost, with no profit motive involved.[4]
In some cases, the co-op follows Rochdale Principles where each shareholder has only one vote. Most cooperatives are incorporated as limited stock companies where the number of votes an owner has is tied to the number of shares owned by the person. Whichever form of voting is employed it is necessary to conduct an election among shareholders to determine who will represent them on the board of directors (if one exists), the governing body of the co-operative. The board of directors is generally responsible for the business decisions including the financial requirements and sustainability of the co-operative. Although politics vary from co-op to co-op and depend largely on the wishes of its members, it is a general rule that a majority vote of the board is necessary to make business decisions.
See also Strata title
A housing cooperative’s Board of Directors is elected by the membership, providing a voice and representation in the governance of the property. Rules are determined by the Board, providing a flexible means of addressing the issues that arise in a community to assure the members’ peaceful possession of their homes.[4]
In the lifecycle of buildings, the replacement of assets (capital repairs) requires significant funds which can be obtained through a variety of ways: assessments on current owners; sales of Treasury Stock (former rental units) to new shareholders; draw downs of reserves; unsecured loans; operating surpluses; fees on the sales of units between shareholders and new and increases to existing mortgages.
There are housing co-ops of the rich and famous: John Lennon, for instance, lived in The Dakota, a housing co-operative, and most apartments in New York City that are owned rather than rented are held through a co-operative rather than via a condominium arrangement.
Market-rate and limited-equity co-ops[edit]
By country[edit]
Housing co-ops in Canada have many different organizational forms. In Ontario, there are co-ownership, equity and occupant-run co-ops. In Alberta, housing co-ops are either non-equity (also referred to as "continuing co-ops") and ownership (also referred to as "strata-title co-ops"). Given that each Province has different legislation under which co-operative housing communities are incorporated and organized, descriptions of the different ownership housing co-op forms pertain often only to the Province in which they exist.
Non-equity continuing housing co-operatives exist in all provinces and territories and share common features. They can be any housing form: single detached, duplex, town-home and apartment. Their main common denominator is that once built and occupied, the co-op continues to own 100% of the units and each member/shareholder is entitled to occupy a home on the basis of some form of contract or housing agreement. Members pay a monthly fee which covers all of the co-op's costs including mortgage payments, taxes, operating costs and building replacement reserve fund allocations.
In Alberta, ownership co-ops were introduced in 1987 with the building of a twin high-rise tower development in Edmonton (Riverwind Strata Title Housing Co-operative). Subsequently ownership co-ops have been developed and built in other urban centres such as Calgary, Fort Saskatchewan, Canmore and Banff. The individual units within these co-op developments are sub-divided by using the strata title provision of the Land Titles Act, thus creating individual three dimensional strata lots. This strata sub-division is registered at Land Titles, thus creating "air" lots which have the same properties as more commonly known two dimensional land lots. In this fashion, co-op members purchase can their individual units and can register a mortgage on title. Like the continuing co-op's, ownership co-op's can be any housing form. Strata lots in Alberta are not to be confused with strata lots in British Columbia.
Equity co-ops are buildings in which individuals purchase a percentage share of the building and the land on which it is built tied to the square footage of their unit; all owners own the building collectively, with exclusive rights to occupy their own unit. More credit unions will offer financing against them than against co-ownerships. They are a relatively new form of construction, designed to encourage owner occupancy by having the building's corporation hold back a percentage of the unit's share equity to ensure owner occupancy. This legal structure is used as an alternative to condominium registration, either when the government will not allow conversion of an existing apartment building to a condominium, or to avoid the expense and difficulty of doing so.
The federal and provincial governments in Canada developed legislation in the 1970s that assisted new housing co-ops by providing start-up funding and financing through mortgages insured by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), a federal government agency. The government simultaneously began to encourage the development of co-operative development resource groups to contract with fledgling boards of directors of housing co-ops to develop co-operatives in existing multiresidential properties, in turnkey buildings or buildings designed and constructed by architects and builders with which the board contracted to deliver the service. Supervised by the board, the resource groups marketed the units to suitable members, educated them about their rights and obligations as co-operators, and established a management structure which usually included co-op employees or property management companies. Resource groups helped in forming initial policies and holding the organization together as the co-operative was developed and occupied.
It is interesting to note that, depending on your political point of view, such government payments for offsetting the housing charge could be considered a subsidy of the low-income members, or a contractual business arrangement between the government and the co-op, which helps to stabilize revenue to the co-op in exchange for accomplishing a social goal for the government for a specific period. This dichotomy is typical of the fact that a housing co-op is somewhere between a private business corporation and a social agency, and where one places it depends on one's viewpoint—and the collective viewpoint of each housing co-op. Some observers would now simply categorize these co-op as a form of social enterprise.
In Canada, there are number of secondary and tertiary associations of housing co-operatives. The major national organization is the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada (CHF Canada). Most provinces have similar organizations for their area, but many are stand-alone members of the CHF Canada, as opposed to being branches of it. Each such organization charges its member co-operatives a fee based on the number of housing units in the co-op to pay for staff to do its work. This includes advocacy to governments, setting up self-help funding and the like. These organizations do not act for individual members, and do not give members advice when the member encounters problems with the Board of their co-op. In most jurisdictions there are no organizations for members of housing co-operatives, in contrast with tenants in a traditional landlord-and-tenant relationship, who can be assisted by various tenant advocacy groups.
In Ontario, the eviction of members of a housing co-operative is governed by special section of legislation set out in the Co-operative Corporations Act.[5] Prior to a formal hearing to terminate a member's occupancy some co-operatives issue a "Notice of Concern" to request the member to attend a Board of Directors meeting to attempt to resolve an issue of arrears or other behaviour contravening the co-operative's Occupancy By-law.
If the Board of Directors of the co-operative cannot resolve the member issue, which is a cause for possible termination of occupancy rights, it can pass a motion to send the member a notice to appear requiring the member to attend at a Board meeting at which the termination (eviction) of that member's occupancy will be considered. If the Board votes to terminate an occupancy (evict), the member has a right of appeal to the membership as a whole. In order to enforce the eviction, the Board must bring an application to a judge of the Superior Court, on which occasion the member has the opportunity to present his/her case to the judge; the judge considers whether the eviction process was conducted fairly and in accordance with due process, and has a residual discretion to refuse the eviction should the judge consider it fair to do so, notwithstanding the decision of the Board. Sometimes this hearing is conducted like a trial, with oral evidence from both sides, while at other times it is conducted based only on written documents submitted to the court; the practice varies from judge-to-judge and courthouse to courthouse, and there is no consensus on the proper procedure or what right a member has to be heard. This process is different from evictions of rental tenants, which proceed in Ontario before a specialized tribunal and in which the tenant is always entitled to an oral hearing. The standard of deference that judges should show to the decisions of Boards is a controversial and unresolved issue in the law, with various cases taking seemingly inconsistent positions on the issue. As of 2012 new provincial legislation in Ontario will allow housing co-operatives to apply to a special tribunal to obtain a "writ of possession" to evict a member from their unit.
A co-operative housing community can take many forms: a traditional apartment building, scattered single family homes, townhouses or it can be the basis of an intentional community or a "living co-op" Student housing co-operatives also can be found in many parts of Canada including Kingston, Guelph, Waterloo and Toronto, Ontario; New Westminister, British Columbia); Edmonton, Alberta; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Montreal, Quebec; and Fredericton, New Brunswick.
"Building co-operatives" ("self-build housing co-operatives" in British parlance, which distinguishes them from worker co-operatives in the building trade) are formed by members who co-operate to build their homes but own their houses on completion. Some co-ops continue to own common elements such as roads, parks, water systems, etc. Building co-ops were extremely popular across Canada from the 1930s to the 1960s. Father Jimmy Tompkins helped to pioneer this concept at Tompkinsville at Reserve Mines on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
In India most 'flats' are owned outright. i.e. the title to each individual flat is separate. There is usually a governing body/society/association to administer maintenance and other building needs. These are comparable to the Condominium Buildings in the USA. The laws governing the building, its governing body and how flats within the building are transferred differ from state to state.
Certain buildings are organized as "Cooperative Housing Societies" where one actually owns a share in the Cooperative rather than the flat itself. This structure was very popular in the past but has become less common in recent times. Most states have separate laws governing Cooperative Housing Societies.
In the Industrialisation in the 19th century there were many housing cooperatives founded in Germany. Presently, there are over 2.000 housing cooperatives with over two million apartments and over three million members in Germany. The public housing cooperatives are organised in the GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen (The Federal association of German housing and real estate enterprise registered associations).
Nordic countries[edit]
A tenant-owner's association (Swedish: bostadsrättsförening, Norwegian: borettslag, Danish: andelsboligforening) is a legal term used in some Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland and Norway) for a type of joint ownership of property in which the whole property is owned by a co-operative association, which in its turn is owned by the members. Each member holds a "stake" in the association that is proportional to the area of his apartment. Members are required to have a tenant-ownership, which represents the apartment, and in most cases live permanently at the address. There are some legal differences between the countries, mainly concerning the conditions of ownership.
Tenant-owner's associations were established during the 19th century and were originally a United Kingdom-based concept (building societies). In Sweden, large non-profit organizations such as HSB and Riksbyggen has constructed thousands of properties for tenant-owner's associations. The market price of existing tenant-ownership shares is often very high, normally much higher than the original stake price.
In Finland co-op membership is a common form of real estate and home ownership. Owning an apartment in Finland usually means owning shares in a housing co-op; ownership of a certain set of shares in turn confers the right to use a certain part of the building owned by the co-op.
Except for a very limited number of co-ops that follow the strict Rochdale Principles of one vote, all Finnish co-ops are incorporated as (non-profit) limited-liability companies (Finnish: asunto-osakeyhtiö, Swedish: bostadsaktiebolag), where one share usually represents one square meter of the apartment, but may represent the whole apartment. Housing companies are regulated by Finnish law as a particular type of corporation.
Membership of a co-op is typically obtained by buying shares on the open market, most often through a real estate agent. No board approval is needed to buy shares. In some older co-operatives existing members have the right of pre-emption, i.e. the right to buy the shares at the set market price.
There is usually no requirement for members to live in the co-operative. Owning apartments for rent is a common form of saving and private investment. There may be provisions against owning shares for more than one apartment in the same co-op.
In Sweden, members of a housing cooperative (bostadsrättsförening) formally own the right (bostadsrätt) to inhabit their respective apartment for an unlimited time, a right that can be bought and sold on the open real estate market. This is one of the main forms of home ownership in the country, and a membership in a housing cooperative is generally held to be the same thing as owning (as opposed to renting) an apartment. The most usual physical/legal form is a block of flats owned freehold by a cooperative.
Each housing cooperative has their own bylaws. The members hold annual meetings in the housing cooperative, in which they elect a board of directors that take on the responsibility of managing the cooperation during the upcoming year. In most normal-sized cooperatives the board members are recruited among the inhabitants. The board sets the annual fee, secures proper administrative procedures, keeps the property in good condition, and may initiate large renovation projects when necessary. The board is also involved when a member sells his apartment (i.e. sells his right to inhabit the apartment) to someone else, as the board has to make decisions on allowing the exit of old members and the entry of new members. If the buyer of a bostadsrätt is found financially viable, the board has no right to turn down a membership application. The board is also involved when individual members want to initiate large renovation projects, or when individual members want to rent out the apartment to a non-member.
The housing cooperative is a special legal entity, regulated in Swedish law. It has the same obligations of bookkeeping and issuing annual reports as companies and it can take mortgages in the property if needed. In addition, each member may also take mortgages in his bostadsrätt in order to finance his acquisition of it. The annual fee paid by the members to the cooperative is intended to cover the operational and financial expenditures of the cooperative. The financial situation of the Swedish cooperatives vary a lot, and on rare occasions cooperatives may go bankrupt. If bankruptcy occurs, the property is sold and the remaining assets are shifted out to the members (who may stay on as tenants or try to form a new cooperative).
In existing properties, tenants may form a housing cooperative together, and then make an offer to the owner to buy the property. When such a cooperative has been formed, it automatically becomes the first prospective buyer should the owner desire to sell. The acquisition is financed by a combination of equity (i.e. the 'stakes' paid by the members) and bank loans.
In properties intended to be owned by housing cooperatives from the start, the construction company normally forms a cooperative when the building is erected, and then sells the different apartments (i.e. the rights to inhabit them) at fixed prices. When all apartments are sold, the new members take over the responsibility for the property and elect their own board of directors.
In the Philippines, a tenant-owner's association is often used as a means to buy new flats. When the cooperative is created, it takes the major part of the loan needed to buy the property. These loans will then be paid off during a fixed periods of years (typically 20-30), and once this is done, the cooperative is dispersed and the flats are transformed into condominiums.
Warminster Heights, Pennsylvania was built by the Federal government in the 1940s as housing for civilian workers; it became a housing cooperative in 1986
United States[edit]
In the United States, housing co-ops are usually categorized as corporations or LLCs and are found in abundance from Madison, Wisconsin to the Greater New York metropolitan area. There are also a number of cooperative and mutual housing projects still in operation across the US that were the result of the purchase of federal defense housing developments by their tenants or groups of returning war veterans and their families. These developments include seven of the eight middle-class housing projects built by the US Government between 1940-42 under the auspices of the Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division of the Federal Works Agency. There are many regional housing cooperative associations, such as the Midwest Association of Housing Cooperatives, which is based in Michigan and serves the Midwest region, covering Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and more.[8]
The National Association of Housing Cooperatives (NAHC) represents all cooperatives within the United States who are members of the organization. This organization is a nonprofit, national federation of housing cooperatives, mutual housing associations, other resident-owned or controlled housing, professionals, organizations, and individuals interested in promoting the interests of cooperative housing communities.[9] NAHC is the only national cooperative housing organization, and aims to support and educate existing and new cooperative housing communities as the best and most economical form of homeownership.[10]
New York metropolitan area[edit]
Cooperatives have a long history in Metropolitan New York – in November 1882, Harper's Magazine describes several cooperative apartment buildings already in existence, with plans to build more[12] – and can be found throughout New York City, Westchester County, which borders the city to the north, and towns in New Jersey that are immediately across the Hudson River from Manhattan, such as Fort Lee, Edgewater, or Weehawken.
Apartment buildings and multiple-family housing make up a significant share of the housing stock in the New York City area than in most other U.S. cities, and the cooperative form of ownership has dominated over the condominium form. Reasons suggested to explain why cooperatives are relatively more common than condominiums in the New York City area are:[13]
Most of the housing cooperatives in the Greater New York area were converted to that status during the 1980s; generally they were large buildings built between the 1920s and 1950s that a single landlord or corporation owned and rented out that became unprofitable as rental properties. To encourage individual ownership of units, the initial buyers of units (buying from the owner of the entire building) did not have to be approved by a board. Also, the rental tenants living in the building at the time of the conversion were usually given an option to buy at a discount. If the tenants were rent controlled, the law usually protects them by allowing them to stay as renters and the unit may not be occupied by a purchaser until said tenant dies or moves out. Many of these buildings, especially in Manhattan, are actually quite luxurious and exclusive; many celebrities live in them and some famous people are even rejected by the board. In the 1990s and 2000s some rental buildings in the Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach areas went through a similar conversion process, though not to the degree of New York.
Many of the cooperatives originally built as co-ops were sponsored by trade unions, such as the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. One of the largest projects was Cooperative Village in Lower East Side of Manhattan. The United Housing Foundation was set up in 1951 and built Co-op City in The Bronx, designed by architect Herman Jessor. One of the first subsidized, fixed-value cooperatives was Morningside Gardens in Manhattan's Morningside Heights.
Another dynamic also contributed to the large number of cooperatives established in the 1980s and 1990s in New York City – in this case by low- and moderate-income tenant groups. In the 1970s, many New York City private landlords were struggling to maintain their aging properties in the face of high interest rates, redlining, white flight and rising fuel costs.[19][20] The period also saw some landlord-induced arson to obtain insurance proceeds and widespread non-payment of real estate taxes – over 20% of multi-family residential properties were in arrears in the mid-1970s.[21][22] In 1977, the city passed Local Law #45, which allowed the city to begin foreclosure proceedings after just one year of non-payment of taxes, not three, resulting in the takeover of thousands of buildings, many of them occupied, by the city of New York through a legal action known as an in rem foreclosure.[20] In September 1978, the city’s housing agency, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), created a series of new housing programs designed to give building residents and community groups control and eventual ownership of in rem buildings.[23][24]
The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), established in 1974, began to assist residents of these buildings to manage, rehabilitate and acquire their buildings, and form limited-equity housing co-operatives.[18] Working with the city’s housing agency, its existing loan programs and the power to dispose of abandoned property to non-profit organizations, as well as the state laws governing the establishment of co-operatives, UHAB was able to provide low-income people with the tools – seed money, legal advice, architectural plans, bookkeeping training – to build and run limited-equity housing co-operatives. Through a long-standing contract with the city to provide training and technical assistance to residents of buildings in the Tenant Interim Lease (TIL) Program, UHAB has worked with more than 1,600 coops, preserving over 30,000 units of affordable housing.[24]
Some cooperatives in New York City do not own the land upon which their building is situated. These are known as "Land Lease Buildings" and often have significant drawbacks for cooperative owners.[25]
Student housing cooperatives[edit]
Keep Cottage, one of the eight co-ops in the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association.
Student cooperatives provide housing and dining services to those who attend specific educational institutions. Some notable groups include Berkeley Student Cooperative, Santa Barbara Housing Cooperative and the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association.
United Kingdom[edit]
Housing co-operatives are uncommon in the UK, making up about 0.1% of housing stock.[26]
Most are based in urban areas and consist of affordable shared accommodation where the members look after the property themselves. Waiting lists can be very long due to the rarity of housing co-operatives. In some areas the application procedure is integrated into the council housing application system. The laws differ between England and Scotland. The Confederation of Co-operative Housing provides information on housing cooperatives in the United Kingdom. The Shelter website provides information on housing and has information specific to England and Scotland.
The Catalyst Collective provides information about starting co-operatives in the UK and explains the legal structure of a housing coop. Radical Routes offers a guide on how to set up a housing co-operative.
In Switzerland 5.1% of all housing units are in cooperatives. The Schweizerischer Verband für das Wohnungswesen (Swiss cooperative housing federation) represents around 1,500 housing cooperatives with about 160,000 housing units.[27]
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b What is a Housing Cooperative
2. ^ Co-op Apartment Law
3. ^ Condo vs. Co-op Apartments in N.Y.C.
4. ^ a b Characteristics of Housing Cooperatives
5. ^ Co-operative Corporations Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter C.35: Non-Profit Housing Co-Operatives. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
6. ^ http://www.coophousing.org/HistoryofCo-ops.pdf
7. ^ Sazama, Gerald W. (2000). "Lessons from the History of Affordable Housing Cooperatives in the United States: A Case Study in American Affordable Housing Policy". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
8. ^ Midwest Association of Housing Cooperatives
9. ^ National Association of Housing Cooperatives
10. ^ coophousing.org
12. ^ "The Problem of Living in New York". Harper's Magazine: 918. November 1882.
13. ^ Sazama, Gerald (January 1996). "A Brief History of Affordable Housing Cooperatives in the United States". University of Connecticut.
14. ^ a b c Kennedy, Shawn G. (May 21, 1986). "Q and A". New York Times.
15. ^ Garbarine, Rachelle (September 26, 1997). "Residential Real Estate; New Financial Option for Condo Boards". New York Times.
16. ^ Romano, Jay (June 1, 1997). "Condo Boards and Loans". New York Times.
17. ^ Nussbaum,, Jay (April 2007). "Planning for the Unknown: Condominium Borrowing". The Cooperator.
18. ^ a b Carlson, Neil F. (2004). "UHAB Comes of Age: 30 Years of Self-Help Housing in New York". UHAB. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
19. ^ Allred, Christopher J. (2000). "Breaking the Cycle of Abandonment" (pdf). NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
20. ^ a b Arsen, David (July 1992). "Property Tax Assessment Rates and Residential Abandonment". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 51 (3): 361–377. JSTOR 3487318.
21. ^ Smothers, Ronald (April 10, 1983). "City-owned housing units increase". New York Times.
22. ^ Tucker, William (Autumn 1990). "The Hidden Costs of Housing Madness". City Journal. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
23. ^ Wolkoff, Michael J. (1999). Housing New York: policy challenges and opportunities. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0353-2.
24. ^ a b Preservation and Development, New York City Housing. "Development". Rehabilitation:Tenant Interim Lease Purchase Program. City of New York. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
25. ^ "Buying in a Land Lease Cooperative Building".
26. ^ Confederation of Co-operative Housing
27. ^ "Housing cooperatives in today’s Switzerland". Current Concerns (11): 11. 12 March 2012.
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Immigration is the movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native in order to settle there.[1] Immigration is a result of a number of factors, including economic and/or political reasons, family re-unification, natural disasters or the wish to change one's surroundings voluntarily.
As of 2006, the International Organization for Migration has estimated the number of foreign migrants worldwide to be more than 200 million.[3] Europe hosted the largest number of immigrants, with 70 million people in 2005.[3] North America, with over 45 million immigrants, is second, followed by Asia, which hosts nearly 25 million. Most of today's migrant workers come from Asia.[4]
In 2005, the United Nations reported that there were nearly 191 million international migrants worldwide, about 3 percent of the world population.[5] This represented a rise of 26 million since 1990. 60 percent of these immigrants were now in developed countries, an increase on 1990. Those in less developed countries stagnated, mainly because of a fall in refugees.[6] Contrast that to the average rate of globalization (the proportion of cross-border trade in all trade), which exceeds 20 percent. The numbers of people living outside their country of birth is expected to rise in the future.[7]
2012 survey[edit]
A 2012 survey by Gallup found roughly 640 million adults would want to migrate to another country if they had the chance to.[8] Nearly one-quarter (23%) of these respondents, which translates to more than 150 million adults worldwide, named the United States as their desired future residence, while an additional 7% of respondents, representing an estimated 45 million, chose the United Kingdom. The other top desired destination countries (those where an estimated 25 million or more adults would like to go) were Canada, France, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Germany and Spain.
Understanding of immigration[edit]
London has become multiracial as a result of immigration.[9] Across large parts of London, black and Asian children outnumber White British children by about six to four in state schools.[10]
Region-specific factors for immigration[edit]
North African immigrants near the Italian island of Sicily
Some states, such as Japan, have opted for technological changes to increase profitability (for example, greater automation), and designed immigration laws specifically to prevent immigrants from coming to, and remaining within, the country. Globalization, as well as low birth rates and an aging work force, has forced Japan to reconsider its immigration policy.[27] Japan's colonial past has also created considerable number of non-Japanese in Japan. Japan keeps tight control on immigration and in 2009, despite generous overseas aid for refugees, granted political asylum to just 30 people.[28] Japanese Minister Taro Aso described Japan as unique in being "one nation, one civilisation, one language, one culture and one race".[29]
Economic migrant[edit]
The term economic migrant refers to someone who has emigrated from one region to another region for the purposes of seeking employment or improved financial position. An economic migrant is distinct from someone who is a refugee fleeing persecution.
Many countries have immigration and visa restrictions that prohibit a person entering the country for the purposes of gaining work without a valid work visa. Persons who are declared an economic migrant can be refused entry into a country.
The process of allowing immigrants into a particular country has been believed to have effects on wages and employment. Particularly the lower skilled workers are affected directly, but evidence suggests that this is due to adjustments within industries.[31]
Immigration and Western social values[edit]
Many commentators have raised the issue that immigrants from certain cultures who move into Western countries may not be able to understand and assimilate certain Western concepts, that are relatively alien in some parts of the world, especially related to women's rights, domestic violence, LGBT rights and the supremacy of secular laws in front of religious practices. For instance, in many parts of the world it is legal and socially accepted for men to use physical violence against their wives if they "misbehave"; and wives are expected, both legally and socially, to "obey" their husbands.[37][38] Various behaviors of women, such as refusing arranged marriages or having premarital sex, are seen in many parts of the world as justifying violence from family members (parents).[39] A 2010 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that stoning as a punishment for adultery was supported by 82% of respondents in Egypt and Pakistan, 70% in Jordan, 56% Nigeria, 42% in Indonesia; the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion was supported by 86% of respondents in Jordan, 84% in Egypt and 76% in Pakistan; gender segregation in the workplace was supported by 85% of respondents in Pakistan, 54% in Egypt, 50% in Jordan.[40] Some people argue that Western countries have worked very hard and for a very long time to achieve modern values, and they have the right to maintain these values, and protect them from threats. In 2007, Quebec premier Jean Charest said that Quebec had values such as equality of women and men and the separation between the state and religion and that "These values are fundamental. They cannot be the object of any accommodation. They cannot be subordinated to any other principle."[41] (see reasonable accommodation). In recent years, several high profile cases of honor killings, forced marriages and female genital mutilation among immigrant communities in Canada, the US and Europe have reignited the debate on immigration and integration.[42][43][44][45][46][47] LGBT rights are another issue of controversy in relation to immigration, because homosexuality is in many parts of the world illegal and widely disapproved by society, and in some places it is even punishable by death (see sodomy laws and LGBT rights by country or territory). Some countries, such as the Netherlands, have adopted policies which explain to immigrants that they have to accept LGBT rights if they want to move to the country.[48]
By country[edit]
Jewish immigration to Palestine during the 19th century was promoted by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in the late 19th century following the publication of "Der Judenstaat".[49] His Zionist movement sought to encourage Jewish migration, or immigration, to Palestine. Its proponents regard its aim as self-determination for the Jewish people.[50] The percentage of world Jewry living in the former Palestinian Mandate has steadily grown from 25,000 since the movement came into existence. Today about 40% of the world's Jews live in Israel, more than in any other country.[51]
There were 35,638 African migrants living in Israel in 2011.[52] Nearly 69,000 non-Jewish African migrants have entered Israel in recent years.[53]
In the early 1990s, Japan relaxed its relatively tight immigration laws to allow special entry permits for foreigners of Japanese ancestry in South America to make up for a labor shortage.[54] According to Japanese immigration centre,[55] the number of foreign residents in Japan has steadily increased, and the number of foreign residents (including permanent residents, but excluding illegal immigrants and short-term visitors such as foreign nationals staying less than 90 days in Japan[56]) was more than 2.2 million in 2008.[55] The biggest groups are Koreans (both south and north), Chinese (including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau nationalities), and Brazilians. Most of the Brazilians in Japan have Japanese ancestry due to the huge Japanese immigration to Brazil in the first decades of the 20th century. Immediately after World War II, most Koreans in Japan were illegal immigrants who escaped from civil war on the Korean Peninsula.[57]
Among the immigrants, Japan accepts a steady flow of 15,000 new Japanese citizens by naturalization (帰化 kika?) per year.[58] Indeed, the concept of ethnic groups by the Japanese statistics is different from that used in North American or some Western European statistics. For example, the United Kingdom Census asks about its citizens' "ethnic or racial background".[59] The Japanese Statistics Bureau does not ask this question. Since the Japanese census asks about nationality rather than ethnicity, naturalized Japanese citizens and Japanese nationals with multi-ethnic backgrounds are considered simply to be Japanese in the population of Japan.[55]
According to the Japanese Association for Refugees, the number of refugees who applied to live in Japan has rapidly increased since 2006,[60] and there were more than a thousand applications in 2008.[60] Japan's refugee policy has been criticized because the number of refugees accepted into Japan is small compared to countries such as Sweden and the United States.[61] For example, according to the UNHCR, in 1999 Japan accepted 16 refugees for resettlement, while the United States took in 85,010, and New Zealand (which has a much smaller population than Japan) accepted 1,140. Between 1981, when Japan ratified the U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and 2002, Japan recognized only 305 persons as refugees.[62][63]
Morocco is home to more than 20,000 sub-Saharan African immigrants.[64]
Some EU member states are currently receiving large-scale immigration: for instance Spain, where the economy has created more than the whole of all the new jobs in the EU over the past five years.[68] The EU, in 2005, had an overall net gain from international migration of +1.8 million people. This accounts for almost 85% of Europe's total population growth in 2005.[69] In 2004, total 140,033 people immigrated to France. Of them, 90,250 were from Africa and 13,710 from Europe.[70] In 2005, immigration fell slightly to 135,890.[71] British emigration towards Southern Europe is of special relevance. Citizens from the European Union make up a growing proportion of immigrants in Spain. They mainly come from countries like the UK and Germany, but the British case is of special interest due to its magnitude. The British authorities estimate that the British population in Spain at 700,000.[72] Mid- and long term EU demographics indicate a shortage of skilled laborers on a scale that would endanger economic growth and the stability of numerous industries. For this reason the European Union launched an initiative called the EU Blue Card, In 2009. The EU Blue Card is initially a temporary residence and work permit. However it will offer holders the opportunity to apply for a permanent resident permit after working on an EU Blue Card for two to five years uninterrupted, depending on individual member state regulations.
Pr. January 1, 2012 registered immigrants in Norway numbered 547 000,[73] making up about 11% of the total population. Many are fairly recent immigrants as immigration has gradually increased [74] in Norway and per 2012 is very high, both historically and compared to other countries.[75] Net immigration in 2011 was 47 032, a national record high.[76] The immigrants come from 219 different countries. If children of two immigrants are included the immigrant population make up 655 170. The largest groups come from Poland (72 103), Sweden (36 578), Pakistan (32 737), Somalia (29 395) Iraq (28 935), Germany (25 683), Lithuania (23 941) and Vietnam (20 871) (numbers per 2012, include immigrants and children of two immigrants).[77] Children of Pakistani, Somali and Vietnamese parents made up the largest groups of all Norwegians born to immigrant parents.[78] The European and Pakistani immigrants are mainly labor immigrants while many other immigrants from outside Europe have come as asylium seekers or family members to such.
Portugal, long a country of emigration, that have created big Portuguese communities in France, USA and Brazil [79] has now become a country of net immigration, and not just from the former colonies; by the end of 2003, legal immigrants represented about 4% of the population, and the largest communities were from Cape Verde, Brazil, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, UK, Spain, China and Ukraine.[80]
Spain is the most favoured European destination for Britons leaving the UK.[81] Since 2000, Spain has absorbed more than three million immigrants, growing its population by almost 10%. Immigrant population now tops over 4.5 million. According to residence permit data for 2005, about 500,000 were Moroccan, another 500,000 were Ecuadorian,[82] more than 200,000 were Romanian, and 260,000 were Colombian.[83][84] In 2005 alone, a regularisation programme increased the legal immigrant population by 700,000 people.[85]
As the Swedish government does not base any statistics on ethnicity, there are no exact numbers on the total number of people of immigrant background in Sweden. As of 2010, 1.33 million people or 14.3% of the inhabitants in Sweden were foreign-born. Sweden has been transformed from a nation of emigration ending after World War I to a nation of immigration from World War II onwards. In 2009, immigration reached its highest level since records began with 102,280 people emigrating to Sweden. In 2010, 32000 people applied for asylum to Sweden, a 25% increase from 2009, the highest amount in Swedish history.[86] In 2009, Sweden had the fourth largest number of asylum applications in the EU and the largest number per capita after Cyprus and Malta.[87] [88] Immigrants in Sweden are mostly concentrated in the urban areas of Svealand and Götaland and the five largest foreign born populations in Sweden come from Finland, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Poland and Iran.[89]
United Kingdom[edit]
In 2011, an estimated 589,000 migrants arrived to live in the UK for at least a year, most of the migrants were people from Asia (particularly the Indian subcontinent) and Africa,[93] while 338,000 people emigrated from the UK for a year or more.[93] Following Poland's entry into the EU in May 2004 it was estimated that by the start of 2007, 375,000 Poles had registered to work in the UK, although the total Polish population in the UK was believed to be 500,000. Many Poles work in seasonal occupations and a large number are likely to move back and forth over time. Some migrants left after the world economic crisis of 2008. In 2011, citizens of the new EU member states made up 13% of the immigrants entering the country.[93] As of May 2010 the UK Immigration Minister was Damian Green, who has since been replaced by Mark Harper.
The British Asian (South Asian) population has increased from 2.2 million in 2001 to over 4.2 million in 2011,[94] while the Black British community has increased from 1.1 million in 2001 to nearly 1.9 million in 2011.[94] Between 2001 and 2009, this was part of a general trend seeing a drop in white British people by 36,000 and a concurrent rise in non-white British people from 6.64 million to 9.13 million, including Chinese, Pakistani, mixed white and black Caribbean, black African, Australian, Canadian and European immigrants.[95]
London has the largest immigrant population.[9]
North America[edit]
Large numbers of Central American migrants who have crossed Guatemala's border into Mexico are deported every year.[96] Over 200,000 undocumented Central American migrants were deported in 2005 alone.[97] In a 2010 news story, USA Today reported, "... Mexico's Arizona-style law requires local police to check IDs. And Mexican police freely engage in racial profiling and routinely harass Central American migrants, say immigration activists."[98]
Chinatown in Downtown Toronto, Ontario. In March 2005, Statistics Canada projected that the visible minority proportion will comprise a majority in both Toronto and Vancouver by 2012.
Canada's is driven by economic policy and family reunification, and is aiming for between 240,000 and 265,000 new permanent residents in 2012.[101] In 2001, 250,640 people immigrated to Canada. Newcomers settle mostly in the major urban areas of Toronto and Vancouver. Since the 1990s, the majority of Canada's immigrants have come from Asia.[102] The leading emigrating countries to Canada are China, Philippines and India.[103] India was the third largest source country for immigration to Canada in 2012, with 28,889 permanent residents admitted. This represents an increase of almost 15 percent since 2004.[104] In 2010, a record 280,636 people immigrated to Canada.[105] Accusing a person of racism in Canada is usually considered a serious slur.[106] All political parties are now cautious about criticizing of the high level of immigration, because, as noted by the Globe and Mail, "in the early 1990s, the old Reform Party was branded 'racist' for suggesting that immigration levels be lowered from 250,000 to 150,000."[107]
United States[edit]
Naturalization ceremony in New York City, 1930
Historians estimate that fewer than 1 million immigrants – perhaps as few as 400,000 – crossed the Atlantic during the 17th and 18th centuries.[108] Relatively few 18th-century immigrants came from England: only 80,000 between 1700 and 1775, compared to 350,000 during the 17th century.[109] In addition, between the 17th and 19th centuries, an estimated 645,000 Africans were brought to what is now the United States.[110] In the early years of the United States, immigration was fewer than 8,000 people a year.[111] After 1820, immigration gradually increased. From 1850 to 1930, the foreign born population of the United States increased from 2.2 million to 14.2 million. The highest percentage of foreign born people in the United States was found in this period, with the peak in 1890 at 14.7%. During this time, the lower costs of Atlantic Ocean travel in time and fare made it more advantageous for immigrants to move to the U.S. than in years prior. From 1880 to 1924, over 25 million Europeans migrated to the United States,[108] mainly economic migrants.[112] The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act meanwhile suppressed immigration from East Asia, while the Emergency Quota Act, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924, restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.[113]
German immigrant family in the United States, 1930
Following this time period, immigration fell because in 1924 Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924, which favored immigrant source countries that already had many immigrants in the U.S. by 1890.[114] Immigration patterns of the 1930s were dominated by the Great Depression, and in the early 1930s, more people emigrated from the United States than immigrated to it.[115] Immigration continued to fall throughout the 1940s and 1950s, but it increased again afterwards.[78]
The Mexico–U.S. border in Arizona.
The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (the Hart-Cellar Act) removed quotas on large segments of the immigration flow and legal immigration to the U.S. surged. In 2006, the number of immigrants totaled record 37.5 million.[117] After 2000, immigration to the United States numbered approximately 1,000,000 per year. Despite tougher border security after 9/11, nearly 8 million immigrants came to the United States from 2000 to 2005 – more than in any other five-year period in the nation's history.[118] Almost half entered illegally.[119] In 2006, 1.27 million immigrants were granted legal residence. Mexico has been the leading source of new U.S. residents for over two decades; and since 1998, China, India and the Philippines have been in the top four sending countries every year.[120] The U.S. has often been called the "melting pot" (derived from Carl N. Degler, a historian, author of Out of Our Past), a name derived from United States' rich tradition of immigrants coming to the US looking for something better and having their cultures melded and incorporated into the fabric of the country.
Appointed by President Clinton, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, led by Barbara Jordan, called for reducing legal immigration to about 550,000 a year.[121] Since September 11, 2001, the politics of immigration has become an extremely hot issue. It was a central topic of the 2008 election cycle.[122]
The number of foreign nationals who became legal permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. in 2009 as a result of family reunification (66 percent) outpaced those who became LPRs on the basis of employment skills (13 percent) and humanitarian reasons (17 percent).[123] Since World War II, more refugees have found homes in the U.S. than any other nation and more than two million refugees have arrived in the U.S. since 1980. Of the top ten countries accepting resettled refugees in 2006, the United States accepted more than twice as much as the next nine countries combined.[124] One econometrics report in 2010 by analyst Kusum Mundra suggested that immigration positively affected bilateral trade when the U.S. had a networked community of immigrants, but that the trade benefit was weakened when the immigrants became assimilated into American culture.[125]
Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status Fiscal Years 1820 to 2010
Somali-American community activist.
Year Year Year
1820 8,385 1915 326,700 1999 644,787
1821 9,127 1925 294,314 2000 841,002
1822 6,911 1935 34,956 2001 1,058,902
1825 10,199 1945 38,119 2002 1,059,536
1835 45,374 1955 237,790 2003 703,542
1845 114,371 1965 296,697 2004 957,883
1855 200,877 1975 385,378 2005 1,122,373
1865 248,120 1985 568,149 2006 1,266,129
1875 227,498 1995 720,177 2007 1,052,415
1885 395,346 1996 915,560 2008 1,107,126
1895 258,536 1997 797,847 2009 1,130,818
1905 1,026,499 1998 653,206 2010 1,042,625
The table above does not include the years 2011 and 2012. According to Permanent residence (United States), in 2011 there were 2.7 million entries entered in the Diversity Visa Lottery. So far in 2012, there has been 19.6 million participants.[when?] The numbers increase tremendously each year. There is now a waiting period held by the U.S. government to decide who will be eligible for entry as a permanent resident of the United States.
Countries of birth of Australian estimated resident population (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006[127]).
The overall level of immigration to Australia has grown substantially during the last decade. Net overseas migration increased from 30,000 in 1993[128] to 118,000 in 2003-04.[129] The largest components of immigration are the skilled migration and family re-union programs. The mandatory detention of unauthorised arrivals by boat has generated great levels of controversy. During the 2004-05, total 123,424 people immigrated to Australia. Of them, 17,736 were from Africa, 54,804 from Asia, 21,131 from Oceania, 18,220 from United Kingdom, 1,506 from South America, and 2,369 from the rest of Europe.[102] 131,000 people migrated to Australia in 2005-06[130] and migration target for 2012–13 is 190,000.[131][132]
New Zealand[edit]
New Zealand has relatively open immigration policies. 23% of the population was born overseas, mainly in Asia, Oceania, and UK, one of the highest rates in the world. In 2010-2014, an annual target of 45,000±5000 immigrants was set by the Immigration New Zealand.[citation needed]
Economic effects[edit]
The Cato Institute finds little or no effect of immigration on the income of citizens belonging to established populations.[134] The Brookings Institution finds a 2.3% depression of wages from immigration from 1980 to 2007.[135] The Center for Immigration Studies finds a 3.7% depression wages from immigration from 1980 to 2000.[136] Research indicates that immigrants are more likely to work in risky jobs than U.S.-born workers, partly due to differences in average characteristics, such as immigrants' lower English language ability and educational attainment.[137] Further, some studies indicate that higher ethnic concentration in metropolitan areas is positively related to the probability of self-employment of immigrants.[138]
According to the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, "In Europe, 28% of foreigners between the ages of 25 and 49 are unable to find work, with unemployment rates as high as 35% for Turks and Pakistanis and 60% for recent immigrant groups such as Somalis."[139]
Toronto’s unemployment rate was 6.7% in November 2010, including 19.7% among recent immigrants.[140]
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4. ^ Rich world needs more foreign workers: report at the Wayback Machine (archived December 18, 2008),, December 02, 2008. Archived December 18, 2008.
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62. ^ "Questioning Japan's 'Closed Country' Policy on Refugees". Isozaki Yumi, Journalist, Mainichi Shimbun.
66. ^ Eurostat News Release on Immigration in EU
70. ^ Immigration and the 2007 French Presidential Elections
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106. ^ Is the current model of immigration the best one for Canada?, Globe and Mail, 12 December 2005. Retrieved 16 August 2006.
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122. ^ "CBO: 748,000 Foreign Nationals Granted U.S. Permanent Residency Status in 2009 Because They Had Immediate Family Legally Living in America". January 11, 2011
127. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics, International migration
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Sacramentals are material objects, things or actions (sacramentalia) set apart or blessed by the Roman and Eastern Catholic churches, the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, the Church of the East, the Anglican churches, the Independent and Old Catholic churches, and the Lutheran churches, to manifest the respect due to the sacraments and so to excite pious thoughts and to increase devotion, and through these movements of the heart to remit venial sin.[citation needed]
Current Usage[edit]
The Catholic Church currently defines sacramentals as "sacred signs which... signify effects, particularly of a spiritual nature, which are obtained through the intercession of the Church. By them men are disposed to receive the chief effect of the sacraments, and various occasions in life are rendered holy." [1] The Catechism of the Catholic Church lists three types of sacramentals: blessings,[2] consecrations/dedications,[3] and exorcisms.[4]
The Latin Church allows the reception of certain sacramentals by non-Catholics. [5]
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that sacramentals "do not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that the sacraments do, but by the Church's prayer, they prepare us to receive grace and dispose us to cooperate with it." [6]
1. ^ Sacrosanctum Concilium 60 [1]
2. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church 1671
3. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church 1672
4. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church 1673
5. ^ Code of Canon Law 1170
6. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church; no. 1670
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Re: CSS Variables Draft Proposal
From: Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:28:14 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
On 2/14/11 3:46 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> This term is underdefined for my usage,
> and perhaps not exactly what I want, though.
> You can't put a unit in and expect to use it as a unit, for example, the "@var $foo
> px;" is perfectly fine if used as a keyword. This shouldn't be hard -
> the intent is just that you can't store a "partial value" in a
> variable and then compose it with something else to get a whole value
> (so you can't do something like "@var $foo px; p { width: 200$foo;
> }").
> I heard conflicting statements about whether "token" was correct here,
> so I just avoided the issue and used a different word. What is the
> correct term?
I think the problem you're having is that this concept of "value" is not
really exactly how the CSS spec is defined at the moment, and different
UAs have different internal concepts of "value". At least as far as I
can tell.
Offhand, I wouldn't be willing to claim that the same string is always
treated as the same kind of "value" in Gecko, even. It might well be
context-dependent. I'm not saying that's the case; just that nothing
ensures that it's not.
I agree that a raw token stream may not be the right thing due to things
@var foo 255, 255);
which could add pretty oddly if $foo is used like so:
color: rgb(0, $foo, 0);
(though in this case I think it'll just cause the whole property to be
discarded). But if we require that any close parens/curlies/brackets be
matched by open parens/curlies/brackets in the variable definition, then
it seems like a token stream with that restriction might be ok. It
would certainly make it much simpler to specify how variable
substitution should work: you just tokenize the template, replace the
$foo with the corresponding token stream, and then parse the resulting
token stream.
If you want to do this in terms of values, then you have to define
somewhere what the value sets for various properties are, which sounds
like a pretty major undertaking.
> "component value" is defined in CSS2.1, at
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/about.html#value-defs>. It's not exactly
> what I want, but it appears to be closer in intent than "token".
Hmm. So the problem is that nothing guarantees that different value
types as defined here will be syntactically distinct (and in fact
they're not). Put another way, you can't tell what sort of value it is
until you see how it's being used. That seems unfortunate.
>> Currently in a situation like that (same property specified multiple times
>> in a declaration) only the last specified value needs to be kept by the UA.
>> It sounds like your proposal is that this is no longer the case with
>> variables, right?
> Yes, though your gloss isn't completely correct, right? If you make a
> declaration block contain the same property twice, and use the CSSOM
> to twiddle whether the second one's value is valid or not, you have to
> pay attention to the first one.
Gecko certainly doesn't. Invalid stuff is dropped at _parse_ time and
not exposed to the CSSOM at all.
In particular, up until now invalid stuff has always been dropped at
parse time, since the whole point is that if you don't know what it is
you can't parse it apart from just skipping over it.
> Do you just let this case fall down a
> slow path, where you effectively reparse the block?
No; this case simply doesn't arise right now. You're introducing it, by
requiring some sort of non-parse-time discarding behavior.
>>> Scoped stylesheets (those created with a `<style scoped>` element in
>>> HTML) have their own nested global scope. Variables created or
>>> imported within a scoped stylesheet are only available within the
>>> scoped stylesheet; variables created in the outer global scope are
>>> still available in a scoped stylesheet.
>> I'm not sure I follow this. Say I have this markup:
>> <div>
>> <p>
>> </p>
>> </div>
>> with stylesheets scoped to the<div> and<p>. If I have an @var in the
>> div-scoped sheet, can the p-scoped sheet use it? Note that rules in the
>> div-scoped sheet apply to the<p> and all, in general.
> No. This is defined by HTML - I'm just restating the restrictions
> that<style scoped> applies, for clarity.
What you're stating is different from what the HTML5 draft says about
<style scoped> as far as I can tell. Again, the div-scoped sheet's
rules apply to the <p> if I read the <style scoped> draft correctly, but
you're saying its @vars do not?
>> This needs to happen to understand how variables can actually be used; see
>> above;
> Does what Bjoern wrote help here?
Not terribly, no. I'll try rereading it again to see if I can make
sense of it this time...
> It'll be overrideable, so I doubt it'll cause any problems.
You mean replaceable?
It can still cause problems even so (esp. if multiple scripts interact,
one of which writes it and one of which wants to mess with your new APIs).
> I'd also like there to be a window.css which forwards to
> window.document.css, for ease of use.
That seems to have even more scope for problems.
>>> To add a new map entry, we first define `css.stylesheet`, which
>>> implements the `StyleSheet` interface. This stylesheet is treated as
>>> an author-level sheet placed after all other author-level sheets.
>>> Creating a new map entry creates a corresponding @var rule in this
>>> stylesheet.
>> What about adding other rules to the sheet? Would they be applied to the
>> document?
> It acts like a stylesheet in the document, so yes.
So a question.... apart from the handling of !important, how is this
different from the override sheet stuff CSSOM specifies already?
>>> Variables appear as themselves in specified values. If the variable is
>>> defined and valid, its computed value is the value of the variable. If not,
>>> its computed value is the variable name.
>> I don't understand this at all, if invalid values are supposed to be treated
>> like parse errors.... What is this trying to say?
> Invalid values are no longer parse errors, since some time before you
> quoted this out of the draft.
That doesn't answer my question. Consider this style:
div { color: red; color: $foo; }
p { color: $foo; }
What is the specified value of "color" for <div>s? What is the computed
value of "color" for <p>s? How do I reconcile those answers with the
text quoted above?
>> 2) Can the type be changed via the CSSOM? I assume yes, to make Daniel
>> happy. ;)
> Yeah.
A followup: what happens if you try to change to an unknown type?
>> @var color $foo 12px;
>> * { font-size: $foo; }
>> then do I get 12px font-size? Or is the variable considered invalid if its
>> value in the @var can't be parsed as its type?
> The validity of the variable can be verified at parse time in this
> proposal, so the $foo declaration would be invalid, and no $foo
> variable would be created. The font-size declaration is then invalid,
> as it references an undefined variable.
OK (though this is not clear from the spec). Let's try a more
interesting testcase:
@var color $foo red;
* { font-family $foo; }
If I have a font with a family name of "red" on my system, will I get it?
>>> The previous suggestion seems to put the typing in the wrong place.
>>> Typing doesn't help the CSS developer in any way, as CSS can figure
>>> out types as necessary all by itself.
>> Maybe... and maybe not. It sort of depends on what variable values "are".
>> See beginning of this mail.
> I mean that you can figure out types at the time of use. You can't
> possibly infer types at definition time, as there is too much
> ambiguity.
OK, but my point is that sometimes you can't really figure out types at
time of use either, without falling back on the actual tokens involved.
>>> This would only work if the OM interfaces were carefully designed in
>>> such a way that there is never ambiguity
>> Seems fragile....
> I agree. We want to try this and see if it works, though, before
> throwing it out.
The problem is that by the time we decide it doesn't work the damage
will have been done: we'll have interfaces we can't drop for compat
reasons but that will sort of suck in actual use. See getComputedStyle
as it is currently practiced.
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Re: removing carp(4)
> In sum, I doubt that carp(4) provides enough utility to justify its
> maintenance cost. If there are arguments to the contrary, I am
> listening.
whatever difference that really makes) does involve a kernel element.
kernel device and interface is that you can attach config and
processes to a proper interface.
This behaves like an interface is expected to for all other purposes,
such as link state monitoring, routing daemons, bpf, ipfilter, passing
through to VM platforms (xen), etc etc. Adding and removing an
etherstub (tun/tap) to a bridge might not preserve the desired
semantics in a predictable fashion for these corner cases. A you've
already observed, it may work for ethernet but not so well on other
link types. It might not converge fast enough if there's some dynamic
bridge protocol (STP, TRILL) in use, either.
So, I think there's a case for at least some of it to remain in
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I am thinking of extending an irreducible cuspidal representation to more bigger group. My question is almost same with the earlier one posted by Neal Harris except the only one.
Let me first invoke his original question.
"Let $E/F$ be a quadratic extension of number fields, and let $V$ be an $n$-dimensional Hermitian space over $E$.
Let $\tilde{G} := GU(V)$ and $G := U(V)$. Suppose that $(\pi, V_{\pi})$ is an irreducible cuspidal representation of $G.$
Is there an irreducible cuspidal representation $(\tilde{\pi}, V_{\tilde{\pi}})$ of $\tilde{G}$ such that $V_\pi \subset V_{\tilde{\pi}}|_{G}$? Note that here, the restriction is that of cusp forms, not of the representation itself."
The difference between mine and his is this; While his assumption G=U(2) and $\tilde{G}$=GU(2) hit the condition $\tilde{G}_{der}\subset G\subset\tilde{G}$, a core property after the Mattew's comment on the post, but my situation does not satisfy this.
Because, I am considering the case $G=E^{\times} , \tilde{G}=B^{\times}$ where E/F is quadratic extension of number fields and B is a quaternion algebra over F with a fixed embedding $E \hookrightarrow B$. Is there no hope in this case?
Since this question is very important to me, if you leave some comment or reference treating this, I will be very appreciate to you.
(Harris's original post.
extending cusp forms)
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Looked at a slightly different way: the question of what happens when automorphic forms/repns are restricted to subgroups has complicated answers, in general. It can be treated as a problem in spectral decomposition, say in $L^2$. Another keyword is "period integral" for the integral expressions for the spectral components. Some examples are well-known in other terms: the "Mellin transform" integral that produces the standard L-function for GL(2) cuspforms can be construed (on the critical line!) as computing the spectral components of the restriction of the cuspform to the GL(1) imbedded in the upper left corner. The $GL(n-1)\times GL(n)$ integral formulas amount to computing the $GL(n-1)$ components of the restriction of a cuspform from $GL(n)$.
In other cases, sometimes it is feasible or elementary to compute periods of Eisenstein series, while the corresponding periods for cuspforms are much less elementary. (The Gross-Prasad conjectures were/are an example of this.)
In your specific situation, there are results of Waldspurger that may be approximately what you want.
Given that many of these periods/decomposition coefficients are values of L-functions at the center of the critical strip, except for trivial vanishing due to signs in functional equations, it is non-trivial to prove non-vanishing or vanishing. Thus, to ask that such a period be non-zero for exactly one cuspform would seem to be too much to ask, although perhaps very difficult to prove or disprove.
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Thanks Paul. I will search for Waldspurger's papers. – Jude Dec 25 '12 at 3:18
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We already knew that ATLUS’s mother company Index Corporation filed for Civil Rehabilitation (the Japanese equivalent of a soft Bankruptcy) a few days ago, and today we finally know who the main creditors are (Atlus, Kadokawa games, Nintendo, PC, PS Vita, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360)
Alexious + 253d ago
This game is....interesting...
herbs + 252d ago
If Dragons Crown came to Wii U
I would be so Happy
False-Patriot + 252d ago
Why? This game is coming to PS3 and Vita. You don't like it?
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Blacklash93 + 252d ago
He can't wish for it to be ported to a particular system? Is that a crime against this stupid brand loyalty people are obsessed with?
It's not like he's wishing PS3 and Vita owners can't get it.
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3-4-5 + 251d ago
Nintendo could just take like 50% stock in exchange for no debt and then Atlus games would be over in US on Wii U and 3DS more.
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PFFT + 253d ago
looks like it will be a fun game.
Abriael + 253d ago
Yeah but that's not exactly what this article is about... oh well.
Need4Game + 253d ago
Nintendo & Atlus, WIIU may as well live for decades.
Kratoscar2008 + 252d ago
SMTxFE at least means that Nintendo will have to do something about it, i say buy it. Their console still get the most ATLUS games anyways.
jc48573 + 253d ago
man, Kadokawa may as well absorb Atlus.
OrangePowerz + 253d ago
Sony or Nintendo should buy Atlus or anybody else as long as it's not MS.
Kenshin_BATT0USAI + 253d ago
I personally hope no one buys them and they become independent.
OrangePowerz + 253d ago
If they have the finances for that yes, but I'm not sure they have.
DarkBlood + 252d ago
remeber they can not be bought out by a
non-japanese so theres nothing to worry about with microsoft lol
im fine with either sony or nintendo or maybe a joint ownership might be easier
Canary + 252d ago
That's not going to happen.
As I understand it, this "mother company" stuff is a mistranslation--in Japan, Atlus is just the brand-name. The actual company name is Index. So when you hear Index is in trouble, and probably culpable, what that means is that ATLUS, itself, is in trouble.
So, really, there are two possible outcomes: they're bought out by a major publisher, or they dissolve into the ether and their franchises crumble to dust.
_QQ_ + 252d ago
Nintendo just buy Atlus already, and Platinum while you are at it.
Dark_Overlord + 252d ago
I would rather Nintendo didn't, I think they'd restrict some of the themes Atlus employ in their games (Remember this is the same company that refused the Binding Of Isaac due to it's theme)
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_QQ_ + 252d ago
Well Atlus makes plenty of their games on the 3ds,if Nintendo is okay with bayo2 i'm sure whatever reason they had for restricting the game you are talking about is gone.
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Dark_Overlord + 252d ago
I was hinting mainly at Persona, have you played them? And oddly enough they've never been on a Nintendo console (coincidence much?).
As for the bayo 2 reference it makes no sense, I don't remember Bayo shooting herself in the head once ;)
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Jyndal + 252d ago
Uh...I don't care who buys Atlus...I just want to know more about the game with the hot witch pictured above :P
lizard81288 + 252d ago
I forgot what it is called, but the Jimquisition did an episode about the game with a thumb nail of her. He says what the game is.
Dark_Overlord + 252d ago
Dragon's Crown :)
RockmanII7 + 252d ago
seriously this comment is not spam. I don't know why N4G doesn't believe me.
Apollosupreme + 252d ago
For the love of God, no, don't not buy Atlas, Nintendo. We don't to have to buy your lame duck Wii U.
MartinB105 + 252d ago
I own a Wii U, and I must say that... I still agree with you. :)
Saints94 + 252d ago
Normally I don't really care.... but the Persona Series needs to be on Sony's consoles.
Pittoo + 252d ago
Atlus? This game will never see the light of day in Europe then.
TongkatAli + 252d ago
Dragons Crown is coming out for Europe this year.
tarbis + 252d ago
Dark_Overlord + 252d ago
Have you not seen the constant bombarding of Shuhei Yoshida in relation to this XD
tarbis + 252d ago
Really? Show me pls. Imma check Yoshida's twitter now. XD
Dark_Overlord + 252d ago
I tried remembering where I'd seen it and can't :( (I'd also cleared my history a day or so ago), but it was a thread where people were posting the emails, tweets etc they'd sent :)
BosSSyndrome + 252d ago
If anyone buys em its gonna have to be nintendo. how else will they finish smt x Fe?
YoungPlex + 252d ago
It's interesting to see that Nintendo is close to the top of the list. I always felt that Nintendo didn't have nearly enough Atlus games compared to Sony platforms. Another interesting point that the author made was that Nintendo could possibly bid on Atlus to offset their debt, but realistically Nintendo would have to pay-off all the debt in order to acquire Atlus as a whole. I think it would be a genius move but not a realistic one.
tiffac008 + 252d ago
Index is currently reorganizing that is why they applied for the Civil Rehabilitation Proceedings. This is not a form of liquidation and absorption proceedings that we saw with THQ and Eidos.
So until further notice Atlus (which is profitable) should continue on making and publishing games.
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I have 3 IPs and every IP has a weight, I want to return the IP's according to its weights using the random function. For example if we have 3 IP's
• X with weight 3
• Y with weight 3
• and Z with weight 3
I want to return X in 33.3% of cases and Y in 33.3% of cases and Z in 33.3% of cases, depending on random function in C.
I have tried this code :
double r = rand() / (double)RAND_MAX;
double denom = 3 + 3 + 3;
if (r < 3 / denom) {
// choose X
} else if (r < (3 + 3) / denom) {
// choose Y
} else {
// choose Z
I repeat the function 1000 and I get: Choose x 495 times and Choose y 189 times and choose z 316 times. But what I want is to get X:333 y:333 Z:334 How can the weighted random be more accurate?
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random will always be random..., unless you go with a true round robin – ratchet freak Sep 1 '13 at 15:23
Do you understand about variance in random distributions? What you've described is an example of a multinomial distribution, so the variance in each of your variables will be n * (0.33) * (0.66), where n is the number of trials. Your results will always jitter around the mean values of 0.33. – Charles E. Grant Sep 1 '13 at 16:18
For what it's worth, I just ran a variant of that algorithm using FreeBSD's rand() routine, and while it didn't look particularly balanced by eye, it never approached the skew in the results that centosuser posted. – Aidan Cully Sep 1 '13 at 17:25
-1 for the contradictory title – Dave Hillier Sep 1 '13 at 19:03
Random means having a "lack of pattern or predictability in events". Your definition of random seems a little different. Given a trillion tries you'd expect a random distribution to be approximately 1/3 1/3 1/3, but only approximately. If with only 1000 tries you got 333, 333 and 334 I would strongly suspect that the random function was broken – Richard Tingle Sep 2 '13 at 12:11
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(This part of the question was associated with revision 2 and is still quite applicable to that problem)
The standard approach to doing this is to populate an array with the appropriate weights:
[x, x, x, x, x, x, y, y, y, y, z, z]
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 1 2
and then pick one at random.
Please note that random is random. It is very unlikely that you will ever a perfect distribution.
If you want to guarantee the distribution, you need to do (mostly) away with the random.
Instead, shuffle the above array. For example, one shuffling would give you:
[x, y, z, y, x, x, y, x, z, y, x, x]
And then loop over the array again and again returning the current index. It isn't random anymore, but it will guarantee the distribution remains what you are looking for always. This is just a slightly more 'random' version of a round robin distribution.
If this is attempting to load balance something, the round robin is a better approach and you might want to consider a evenly distributed round robin:
[x, y, x, y, x, z]
This has the same distribution as above and tries to keep everything at an even distance so not as to saturate any one resource.
As an aside, to the question of rand being poor, you may be dealing with an older standard library. From rand3 man page
However, on older rand() implementations, and on current
implementations on different systems, the lower-order bits are much
applications intended to be portable when good randomness is needed.
(Use random(3) instead.)
This can be demonstrated using the following C program that spits out the consecutive low byte and low nybbles from rand(). I happen to have a more modern system and don't have access to anything that might demonstrate this low order less randomness.
You can test it on your system with the following code which looks at the low byte, low 4 bits, and low 2 bits.
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main (int argc, char** argv) {
int i, r;
int a8, a4, a2;
FILE *fp0xff = fopen("low8.out", "w");
FILE *fp0x0f = fopen("low4.out", "w");
FILE *fp0x03 = fopen("low2.out", "w");
/* 1 of 4 */
r = rand();
a8 = r & 0xff;
a4 = r & 0x0f;
a2 = r & 0x03;
fprintf(fp0xff, "%c",a8);
/* 2 of 4 */
r = rand();
a8 = r & 0xff;
a4 = (a4 << 4) | (r & 0x0f);
a2 = (a2 << 2) | (r & 0x03);
fprintf(fp0xff, "%c",a8);
fprintf(fp0x0f, "%c",a4);
/* 3 of 4 */
r = rand();
a8 = r & 0xff;
a4 = r & 0x0f;
fprintf(fp0xff, "%c",a8);
/* 4 of 4 */
r = rand();
a8 = r & 0xff;
fprintf(fp0xff, "%c",a8);
fprintf(fp0x0f, "%c",a4);
fprintf(fp0x03, "%c",a2);
return 0;
The output of this program can then be examined using ent which runs a number of tests of randomness against a stream of bytes.
Running this against the low2.out on my system produces:
Entropy = 7.982762 bits per byte.
Optimum compression would reduce the size
of this 10000 byte file by 0 percent.
Chi square distribution for 10000 samples is 240.46, and randomly
would exceed this value 73.46 percent of the times.
Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 127.6318 (127.5 = random).
Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.150060024 (error 0.27 percent).
Serial correlation coefficient is -0.002842 (totally uncorrelated = 0.0).
Which is frankly, a reasonably good random stream.
The reason I am testing the low two bytes is that you are doing things with % 9 which works only with these low bits. You may find that your random number generator is old and might need to implement your own (if that degree of randomness is something that you need to work with).
One approach would be, well, to implement your own. The Mersenne twister is quite well regarded and you can find implementations for a wide range of languages quite easily.
The other thing to do would be to shift the random number you get down 8 bits to get rid of any low order less randomness and use those bits.
You can get an idea of the poor quality of rand in some generators from Random.org.
For, example, rand() called by php on Windows produces the following:
enter image description here
(from Random.org)
Which is quite certainly, not a good random.
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round robin is good when the weights is equals ,,, but when the weights are different ,,there isn't any better solution than using the random ,,but the problem that it is not accurate – centosuser Sep 1 '13 at 15:57
@centosuser, you haven't really understood MichaelT's solution. The example he gives doesn't have equal weights. He's using the weights listed in your original post before your edit. – Charles E. Grant Sep 1 '13 at 16:26
@centosuser using any weights, you can shuffle the weighted array and loop over that. It doesn't matter what the weights are. It is also possible, that you've got a poor random number generator, and I went into that area with this latest edit. – MichaelT Sep 1 '13 at 16:42
@CharlesE.Grant Its also possible, that he's dealing with a poor random number generator. There are still quite a few of them out there. Combined with looking effectively at %9 he's often looking at the low bits which are often less than ideal. There are some approaches to addressing this (like shifting the low bits off or using a different random function). – MichaelT Sep 1 '13 at 16:44
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I would usually do something like this:
int r = rand();
if (r % 3 == 0) {
// choose X
} else if (r % 3 == 1) {
// choose Y
} else {
// choose Z
It's probably not perfect (I think RAND_MAX might give a Y instead of Z or something like that), but if the random number generator works properly, you'd expect to see a good distribution of X, Y and Z. The expected deviance from a uniform distribution would be less than the sample size you're using now.
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If you want to truly guarantee that you'll get exactly the distribution you want, you can create a pool of values that you pull from:
int xpool = 333;
int ypool = 333;
int zpool = 334;
int x = 0;
int y = 0;
int z = 0;
for(unsigned int trial=0;trial<1000;trial++) {
unsigned int r = rand() % (xpool + ypool + zpool);
if(r < xpool) {
else if(r < xpool + ypool ) {
else {
cout << "x: " << x << " y:" << y << " z:" << z << endl;
This will guarantee that you always have an exact distribution, but the order will be as random as rand() can make it. This works well if the number of choices is low, and you know how many trials you will have ahead of time.
It depends on what you want. If you want something to give a good weighted distribution with infinite trials, use @MichaelT's answer. If you want to guarantee an exact distribution and know the number of trials, the do something like this.
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The following tasks were considered for value upgrade to Windows Server 2008. However, the later decision is just to go with platform upgrade from windows server 2003 to windows server 2008 32 Bit
1. Analyze the prerequiesites before installing windows server 2008
2. Identify dependent programs and their implementation aspects & prepare a document
3. List down breaking changes in windows server 2008
4. Prepare Run Environment upgrade requirements
5. Run regression test, volume and performance test
I need details on which of those steps are relevant for a plain platform upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008
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There is not windows 2008 32bit. The only 32bit versions of 2k8 are for testing. – t1nt1n Feb 3 '12 at 6:53
@t1nt1n that is factually incorrect. 2008R2 is the first OS with no 32bit versions, 2008 still ship in 32bit versions – Mathias R. Jessen Feb 3 '12 at 8:15
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Given the little information you've provided, I'd say that all steps are relevants. If you need more details, you'll need to provide (a lot) more details yourself
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What are the differences between GNU LGPL v2.1 and GNU LGPL v3?
I know I can read the legal text and compare them, but it's a pain to understand these legal stuffs.
Can you give in a few bullet points the major changes in human language :) ?
EDIT: I know the differences between GNU GPL v2 and GNU GPL v3. I want to know the specific changes in GNU LGPL.
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Having an interest in the subject too, I took a look at the two licences. (I should first point out that I am not a lawyer, but have done plenty of contract stuff in past lives.)
The key differentiator between LGPL v2.1 and LGPL v3 seems to be one of structure. In outline, LGPL v2.1 was somewhat of a stand-alone licence, whereas LGPL v3 opens with:
In OO terms, LGPL v3 inherits from the GPL v3, overriding certain bits to allow redistribution of the LGPL-covered software as part of a "Combined Work" without requiring the release of the source (for the rest of the combined work).
So, if your prospective users might be scared off by GPL v3, then maybe it makes sense to release under LGPL v2.1.
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You could look at what Simon Phipps blogged when OpenOffice.org went to LGPL v3.
I guess this is a major point:
This is probably related to the Novell-Microsoft deal which caused "some disturbance in the force" in the open source community.
It also seems that the Free Software Foundation has made some clarifications regarding the definition of a program.
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As I'm new to the coding and unity3d I'm finding tough to set the lap timer for my racing game which is the multiplayer game.
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The unity tag is for Microsoft Unity. Please don't misuse it. – Lex Li Dec 31 '12 at 12:10
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Well in terms of just code.
Will give you the time (duh)
So you'd do something like the following
function Awake() {
startTime = Time.time;
function OnGUI () {
var currentLap = Time.time - startTime;
currentLap is the current time since the script started. So you could run the code in the "Awake()" method when the race starts. Then on screen display what the current lap time is.
Found a nice example from the Unity Developer Network that might be exactly what your looking for here
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I am dealing with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.
The main basic idea is that I create an object in my model's class function and call this function in JavaScript. The problem there is that anywhere the HTML entities are encoded.
Now in detail:
In my model's function getData(firstOpt, secondOpt, amount) I create an object that looks as follows (when I call the function in the ruby console):
[#<JobCompact build_compact_id: 324>, #<JobCompact build_compact_id: 325>, #<JobCompact build_compact_id: 325>]
Now I put this into an array (because I want to have more entries in that array later) at the first position:
data[0] = firstLang
(note: I also tried -> data[0] = firstLang.to_json)
In the end I just return the array data. Now I call the function in JavaScript:
var curData = <%= BuildCompact.getData("ruby", "rubinius", 15) %>;
And the error is: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
because it translated my result of the ruby function to: var curData = [[#<JobCompact id: 841, language: "ruby", version: "1.609481891837258" etc.
I also tried to decode the result:
var curData = htmlentities((<%= BuildCompact.getData("ruby", "rubinius", 15) %>).toString());
And many other variants of that but I cannot figure it out. Has anybody had a similar problem?
NOTE: I hope that post is NOT a duplicate because I do not know where to encode (in Ruby oder Javascript).
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Ok, the answer to MY question is:
var curData = <%=raw BuildCompact.getData("ruby", "rubinius", 500).to_json %>;
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I've given a FreeBSD to run a webserver and I always use Portmaster, but it's been installed with Portupgrade.
Is there any problem if I simply start using Portmaster?
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Portupgrade and portmaster are interchangeable. You can safely use them together on one box, since they are separated from ports database.
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I am creating very simple CMS for my organisation.
My strategy is to embed editable content between tags called < editable >. However to hide these from the browser I am commenting them out. So an example of an editable region will look like this.
<!-- <editable name="news_item> Today's news is ... </editable> -->
With the content "Today's news is ... " being picked up by the CMS and made editable in the online HTML editor.
I would like to be able to "grab" the name attribute's value as well as the content contained within the tags.
Is there a simple way to do this with XPath, XQuey type things, or is regex the best way to go ( ]esp. given that the regex will not need too much fault tolerance, since I know exactly what the xml will be, because I will be writing the code that generates it).
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why are you putting news content into a webpage and then commenting it out to hide it from the webpage? Have you considered storing this editable content in a database? I suppose I don't fully understand the concept though – Carson Myers Jun 15 '09 at 7:00
Please correct me if I am missing something very obvious but why can't you keep your editable content as 'hidden' if you want to hide it from browsers instead of adding them as comments? – Aamir Jun 15 '09 at 7:02
no reason why you can't, just I've written a number of CMS...es, and I was just having a hard time understanding the way you are storing the data. In any case, there are already a number of good answers. – Carson Myers Jun 15 '09 at 7:05
We want to display the content such as News Items ... or Main Page text .... but we want this to be editable. So you can think of the <editable> tags as placeholders, which tell our app, what content is editable. The point of this is that we do not need a DB, and can simply display flat HTML files. Our needs are very simple and this is a quick and dirty solution. – Ankur Jun 15 '09 at 7:16
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By DOM Parser, do you mean javascript? If so, this blog post suggests that you can indeed slice and dice HTML comments. And, because mentioning javascript without mentioning jQuery is a sin, here's a jQuery plugin that will find all the HTML comments for you.
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I like the idea of using jQuery – Ankur Jun 15 '09 at 7:17
The blog talks about exactly what I want to do. Good to know I am not the only one. – Ankur Jun 15 '09 at 7:19
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Most parsers are able to get comments without a problem. They will not probably parse them into a DOM structure, but you could do that with them manually once you get the actual comments.
This is an example using BeautifulSoup with Python:
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Comment
>>> html_document = """
... <html>
... <head>
... </head>
... <body>
... <h1>My Html Document</h1>
... <!-- This is a normal comment. -->
... <p>This is some more text.</p>
... <!-- <editable name="news_item">Today's news is Paolo Rocks!</editable> -->
... <p>Yet More Content</p>
... </body>
... </html>
... """
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html_document)
>>> comments = soup.findAll(text=lambda text:isinstance(text,Comment))
>>> comments
[u' This is a normal comment. ', u' <editable name="news_item">Today\'s news is
Paolo Rocks!</editable> ']
>>> for comment in comments:
... editable = BeautifulSoup(comment).find('editable')
... if editable is not None:
... print editable['name'], editable.contents
news_item [u"Today's news is Paolo Rocks!"]
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The whole point of a comment is that the DOM will not parse the content. So the whole comment is just text.
I'd be inclind to use RegEx in this case.
However if you certain the content is HTML you would create a DOM element (say a DIV) and assign the comment text to the innerHTML. The you could examine the DOM created from the element. Once you aquired what you need you could drop the DIV element which you would never have added to the current document.
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You could also use display:none on the div so it doesn't take up space or display its content, and then just leave it there with the data inside. That should work unless you run into browser compatibility issues. – teh_noob Jun 15 '09 at 7:06
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I'm pretty sure that you'd need to manually parse it via regex or another method. Comments aren't seen as DOM elements as far as I'm aware.
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Comments are DOM elements. Is just that their contents aren't parsed as XML. – Ionuț G. Stan Jun 15 '09 at 7:02
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You can use a DIV with a costum attribute like Dojo does a lot:
<div ParseByCMS="true">foobar foo bar foobaz</div>
After that you just use javascript or xslt to parse it and remove it.
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If you're using PHP.
$xpath = new DOMXpath(new DOMDocument());
// Search for comments
$comments = $xpath->query('//comment()');
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I recently enabled FileVault on Snow Leopard, and after doing so, found a directory /Users/<myusername>.4529809818604982560, containing the original (unencrypted) contents of my home directory, owned by root:wheel with permissions 700, side-by-side with my normal home directory. Does anyone know why this was created (maybe a temporary backup that didn't get erased), or whether deleting it will be harmful?
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What I always do in this case (i.e. file you think should have been deleted, but aren't sure if it's still used) is rename the file or move it someplace else temporarily. Shut down, reboot, and try to get into your account. If everything appears intact, you can mount your correct Filevault home, etc., and after a couple days haven't noticed any ill effects, then delete the old file. But of course, if things are all screwed up, just move the file back to where it was before and return to head scratching.
(PS. Before trying this, make sure there is a second account on the machine, with admin privileges, so that if you are hosed you can use that account to log back in and move the file back where it belongs.)
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Knowing who I sent a friend request to on Facebook
How can I get list of people whom I've sent friend request but they didn't accept it yet in Facebook?
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Per Facebook help:
There's currently no place on the site where you can see all your sent pending requests. However, if you go to someone's profile (timeline) you can tell your friend status based on the following.
However, there some scripts like Unfriend Finder that can track your pending friend requests as long as you add people after the script is installed.
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They are blaming Obama for spending, after Bush's accomplishments: a crippled economy, two failed wars and environmental crisis?
Is it worth your time and effort trying to engage in rational discussions with the increasingly nutty and frantic mouth-breathers on the political right? Or are were they all genetically wired at birth to become hybrids of Grandpa Simpson and Mr. Burns?
The only reason I mention this is that last night, as is my ritual, I settled in with the Wall Street Journal for my daily recon-mission into conservative "Neverland," -- a blame-free zone where the words, " Wow, we were sure wrong about that!" are never uttered.
I was doing fine, until I reached Neverland's dark heart, the WSJ Editorial Page -- a vortex of swirling nonsense where cocksure neo-cons rhetorically goose step in a tight clockwise circle -- much like that roiling red spot of hot gas on Venus that roils madly but never seems to move or change.
In yesterdays editorial the editors were wringing their hands over all things Obama, in particular his budget and related economic rescue spending. Here's how they ended that piece:
"Mr. Obama is more popular than is policies, and sooner or later the twain shall meet. For now, we are living in another era of unchecked liberal government. The reckoning will come when Americans discover how much it costs.”
That's when I spit my evening brandy out of my nose. I mean, really?! The sheer chutzpah of it staggers the mind of anyone not on heavy doses of anti-psychotic drugs.
Where does a sane person, one with a functioning memory, even begin?
First, these are the same people over at the WS Journal who supported the hyper-conservative GW Bush administration. You know, the guys who left us a world economy in near-depression, two unwon wars, and ice caps melting faster than Joe Lieberman and Arlen Specter can change their spots.
So, if as the WSJ editors warn Mr. Obama faces an inevitable day of "reckoning" over his spending, shouldn't they first "reckon" with the trillions of dollars in debt their friends in the Bush administration left taxpayers holding? Shouldn't they first ask, "how much did Bush's policies cost us?”
Well, let's see. If they can't or won't do it, we can. After all we have all the receipts, and we're still getting bills for stuff we didn't even know about until now. But we can make a start:
The first thing the WSJ's friends did when they got in office eight years ago was to eat through the nation's entire supply of seed corn, stored for them by those damn liberals, the Clinton administration. When Poppa Bush handed Bill Clinton the keys to the White House he also handed him a $290 billion deficit.
Eight years later, when Bill Clinton handed the keys to Sonny Bush he hande him a $231 billion budget surplus -- the greatest surplus in U.S. History.
Not only did those damn Clinton liberals manage a budget surplus but were at the same time able to pay down the national debt by a staggering 2.4 trillion.
Within two years the budget surpluses were gone, and the national debt was on it's way back up as the Bushies began borrowing again to make ends meet. By the time they left office they'd add another $5 trillion to the national debt.
Then, once the seed corn was gone, the Bushies started to borrow and spend and cut taxes too boot since, to quote Dick Cheney, "deficits don't matter." Suddenly now, the WSJ editors and their dwindling army of dittoheads are all atwitter over "Obama's mounting deficits."
Then there's the cost of Bush-era deregulation. Those expenses all came due just as George W. Bush was hightailing it out of Dodge last January -- just in the nick of time. The full cost of failing (or just plain refusing) to police corporate America, especially the financial services sector, has already cost us trillions of dollars, and the full cost may not be known for a decade. because all those chickens haven't come home to roost yet. But they're on their way.
Not to pile on but, then there's the cost of all the environmental degradation that occurred on their watch. Instead of addressing the mounting evidence they took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, first using phony science to deny global warming was even happening. Then, once it became impossible to deny it any longer, they changed their argument to "Sure, but there's no proof than human activities have anything to do with global warming." It was an argument designed to preclude even trying to do anything about global warming, and it worked. (Unfortunately we can't sue them like we did Big Tobacco.)
Then there's the war in Iraq. That little mistake cost us $12 billion a month for more than five of Bush's eight years in office -- in all nearly a trillion bucks down a sandy rat hole, and counting.
In Afghanistan they spent a small fortune unseating the Taliban and trying to kill or capture the actual people who planned the 9-11 attacks. On the very verge of success though the Bushies lost interest, turning their attention to Iraq before they achieved those goals in Afghanistan. In the end all the billions of dollars, (and hundreds of US soldier's lives) spent in Afghanistan achieved nothing. All they did was allow the Taliban and al Qaida to infect neighboring Pakistan, regroup and re-engage in Afghanistan, where they now control most of the country once again. Hundreds of billions of dollars down the drain there too, and also, still counting.
All that money the Bush administration spent, wasted, misappropriated, and, in the end, what did we get for those trillions? Well, we got partial ownership of Iraq, full ownership of Afghanistan, and a growing ownership share in nuclear-armed, Taliban/al Qaida infested Pakistan.
Such a deal. Yet during all that no one at the WSJ predicted Bush would "face a day of reckoning when Americans found out how much it all cost."
Obama's spending is also at historic highs. But there's "spending" and there's "spending." Governments, just as households, face two kinds of spending decisions: discretionary spending and capital-investment spending.
Discretionary spending satisfies the "I may not need it but I want it” reflex. Capital spending is money invested in things that promise to generate a return over time. Home improvements, are good example of household capital spending as they increase the value of a family's main asset, their home. That big screen TV, on the other hand, is discretionary spending.
The Bushies did very little capital investing and a whole lot of discretionary spending. For example:
Obama is investing in education, because it's going to be educated, uneducated or mis-educated, children who will shape America's future. And right now our schools are turning out an demonstrably inferior product.
Obama is investing in emerging technologies that hold the promise that someday will free us from the nut-hold of those smarmy phony Saudi "Princes." And, will begin the process of cleaning up the environment, before the environment decides to do the job herself -- by getting rid of us.
Obama is restructuring the tax code, so that those who actually go to work, and actually provide services or real producing stuff real people really need, get to keep more of what they make.
That's the opposite of what the Bush administration did when they funneled tax breaks to those who already were doing just fine, thank you very much, while producing little more than paper, much of which has turned out to be so worthless you can't even pay anyone to take off our hands.
I won't belabor the point. But for the WSJ editors to posit that voters will soon be aghast at the cost of Obama's policies, couldn't go unnoticed. Because they sure didn't notice the ruinousness policies of the Bush administration when they could have, and when they should have.
And finally, of all people on earth who should know the difference between out of control discretionary spending, and wise capital spending, it should be the guys and gals running the newspaper a friend of mine refers to as "capitalism's racing form."
But of course, the do know the difference. But they are to mainstream American politics what the Taliban are to mainstream Islam: not just wrong, but crazy-wrong.
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1. Why does Don Luis say he chose Don Jaime to hide the file?
(a) Don Jaime can defend himself.
(b) He is the only honest man he knows.
(c) He rarely talks to other people.
(d) His home is difficult to break into.
2. How did the person in the morgue die?
(a) Tortured.
(b) Drowned.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Stabbed.
3. Which of the following are one of the few things that Don Jaime can determine about Dona Adela's life?
(a) She has never been in love.
(b) She is rich.
(c) She lives alone.
(d) She hates men.
4. Who does a woman tell Don Jaime has landed in Spain?
(a) A savior of the people.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) A rival to the Spanish throne.
(d) A King from afar.
5. How does the author describe the journalist's smile?
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(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Manly
(d) Olympian.
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2. Why does Don Jaime leave the cafe early?
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Papyrus with the will of Neskhonsu
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Papyrus with the will of Neskhonsu
From Thebes, Egypt
Ptolemaic period, reign of Ptolemy II, 265-264 BC
The distribution of property of a Theban woman to her eldest son
A number of document archives have survived from the area around Thebes. These archives belonged to the 'choachyte', a type of priest who took charge of the mummified body and found a suitable tomb: either a newly-built brick tomb, or a reused rock tomb from an earlier period. In return for these services the choachyte received a fee. After the burial the priest carried out prescribed rites until the descendants of the deceased stopped paying them. At this point it is likely that the mummy was quietly moved to a repository of bodies and no further rites were performed.
The mummies and tombs in the choachyte's care were a major asset and a considerable source of income. In this will Neskhonsu gives her son Panas half her rights as a choachyte as well as one and a half houses in Thebes and half a house on the west bank of the Nile. In return Panas is expected to look after her while she lives and give her a good burial when she dies. It does not seem likely that there were female choachytes; Neskhonsu probably inherited the rights to tomb fees from her husband.
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(MoneyWatch) The 40-hour workweek has been getting a lot of attention lately. Bob Rosner's The Boss's Survival Guide advocates working less to boost productivity; Sara Robinson's recent AlterNet article on the 40-hour workweek has been shared far and wide. We all have a point of diminishing returns. From studying my own time logs, I see that mine is somewhere between 45-50 hours a week, which when you average in vacation days, half days and the like, probably comes out to a yearly average of around 40 hours per week.
But still, to hit that average of 40 hours -- or because you are personally invested in a project and enjoy it -- you sometimes need to work long days. Is there a way to work a 12-hour day and still be productive through most of that? And, bonus question, is there a way to still have a personal life on that 12-hour day?
I think the answer is yes. You just have to employ a little trick that high-mileage runners know, and that many people discover when they become parents: You split your shifts.
People trying to up their running mileage figure out that there are two ways to run 12 miles in a day. You can run all 12 at once and get it over with. Or you can split that into two runs, say 9 miles and 3 miles. This will take more time overall (there are transaction costs to starting up any activity in terms of time and energy). But it's often psychologically easier to face two shorter runs rather than one longer one. Indeed, after running 9 miles, running 3 miles almost seems like nothing.
Likewise, when many people become parents, they suddenly realize that their formal workday does have to end. A child has to be picked up at daycare at a certain time, or a nanny needs to leave or your spouse will threaten to leave you if you don't get home to help with the baby during her fussy time. So even if everything isn't done, you stop. But then, after your children go to bed, you fire up the computer and get back to what you were doing.
That latter situation pretty much describes my life. I have childcare until 6 p.m., and out of respect to my sitter and desire to see my kids, that is when I stop. I am never actually done at 6 p.m. But I'm ready for a change of pace. So I hang out with the kids, eat, relax, and get them to bed. At 9 p.m., the house is quiet. And it's back to my home office for another shift, with renewed energy. I can often crank things out until I run out of steam at 10:30 or 11 so. I know that if I worked straight through until 8 p.m., I would have a hard time getting as much done. By carving out three hours in the evening for a family and personal life, I can wring the most work out of those late night hours.
The downside? I don't watch TV. But if you don't view losing out on TV time as a huge downside, then maybe splitting some shifts could work for you too.
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BitTorrent has moved to distance itself from online piracy, insisting that the filesharing service is not intended to facilitate illegal downloads.
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"We don't host infringing content. We don't point to it. It's literally impossible to 'illegally download something on BitTorrent'," he wrote.
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"The idea of a 'BitTorrent Piracy Record' is a complete fabrication. Because there's actually no such thing as a 'BitTorrent piracy record'. Because piracy happens outside the BitTorrent ecosystem," he added.
"These so-called 'records' are presumably based on numbers from pirate websites that have no affiliation with BitTorrent, Inc. If they're corroborated using data from pirate websites, they're 'Internet Piracy Records'. They're not 'BitTorrent Piracy Records'."
BitTorrent is working with content providers to help distribute their music, TV shows and movies legally, with more than 2 million licensed works available to download through the service.
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AS GORDON BROWN prepares his budget on April 9th, he will be worrying less about the costs of fighting in Iraq than many might imagine. Though unwelcome, the bill for a short war will be quite containable and should not require tax increases to pay for it. The chancellor's bigger concern will be about longer-term pressures for higher defence spending once the war is over.
Mr Brown had already budgeted for an extra £1 billion ($1.6 billion) and he has now set aside another £2 billion. This should be just about enough. A short war is likely to cost £3.5 billion, says Mark Stoker, defence economist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. That's one Jubilee Line extension, three-and-a-half Millennium Domes or 25 hospitals.
This estimate, which covers deployment of troops to and from the Gulf and actual fighting, is based on the cost of Britain's engagement in the Gulf war of 1991, which lasted six weeks. Then, as now, Britain deployed about 45,000 troops. The number of ships, aircraft and tanks was also comparable. The total cost in 1991 was £2.5 billion, equivalent to £3.3 billion in today's money. A longer war now would increase the bill by £750m a month, estimates Mr Stoker.
One big difference is that Britain did not pay most of the 1991 bill. Four-fifths was picked up by allies, mainly Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, but with sizeable contributions also from the UAE, Germany and Japan. But although Britain will have to meet the whole cost this time around, £3.5 billion is not much when compared with the size of the economy and the public finances. In the financial year starting in April, total public expenditure will amount to £455 billion, 41.5% of GDP.
But the bills will keep coming in after the war is over. British troops are likely to be involved in peacekeeping. Based on experience in Bosnia and Kosovo, the cost of deploying 10,000 troops in peacekeeping operations for a year would come to £1.6 billion. Britain is also likely to have to contribute to reconstruction costs and humanitarian aid, which are likely to total $25 billion, according to Mr Stoker.
Unlike the immediate conflict in Iraq, some of these outgoings could continue for years to come. That matters, says Carl Emmerson, programme director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. “If the spending is one-off, it won't matter, but if it is permanently higher it will mean either expenditure cuts elsewhere or higher taxes.”
Probably the biggest worry for Mr Brown is whether the overall defence budget may now need to increase. At present, only 2.3% of national income goes on defence; 15 years ago, the figure was 4.4%. If there is more of this sort of thing, defence spending will probably have to rise by more than the 1.2% annual real increase already allocated for the next three financial years. But the chancellor can probably leave that headache until the next spending round in 2004. For the time being, the war in Iraq is affordable. | http://www.economist.com/node/1667209/print | dclm-gs1-022210000 | false | false | {
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1. Bayfront Visions 18 months ago | reply
Nice candied street shot Larry.
2. dan_1942 [deleted] 18 months ago | reply
Excellent !
3. fegbm 18 months ago | reply
Something good going on in the back of that van.
4. LarryJay99 18 months ago | reply
I suspect clothes. There were bundles of clothes out for sale. The daylight underground economy.
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