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The announcement this week of Oracle acquiring Xsigo did one thing: it put the focus of enterprise computing back onto Oracle for a brief moment. A number of excellent posts were written on it, including:
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- Howard Marks (Network Computing)
- Chris Evans (The Storage Architect)
- Enrico Signoretti (Juku)
- Greg Knieriemen (SpeakinginTech)
The dollar amount was undisclosed, but Chris Mellor from The Register figures it was around $800 Million, but I'm not so sure. Xsigo didn't have many customers, which means the company probably had a financial crisis looming and needed to get the best deal it could before running out of time.
The acquisition is more opportunistic than strategic. Assuming Xsigo was looking for an acquirer, Oracle may have felt it needed to make a premature decision and not miss out on something they might regret later. That would explain the confused messaging around the acquisition where some thought it was an SDN play and others saying it was part of Oracle's cloud strategy. I can assure you that Larry Ellison laughed out loud reading comments about this being a cloud play.
Oracle could care less about Xsigo's customers – they already have enough of their own. Its all about Oracle now. Xsigo's products will be discontinued and Xsigo employees not involved with technology development will be let go.
As for this acquisition being a cloud play – it's not. There are still things that happen in this industry that have nothing to do with the cloud. As others have written, Xsigo technology would most likely be used with Oracle's Exasystems as a virtual data center fabric component. If Oracle wants to sell more Exasystems they need to make them more flexible and easier to manage and Xsigo can help do that. The problem is that most people building clouds are doing it with different technologies than Oracle's expensive Exasystems.
So cloud is not the opportunity, data centers are. The ROI from this acquisition depends completely on Oracle's ability to sell more Exasystem products to people running data centers. Xsigo's role is to help generate a faster ROI from their Sun acquisition. Maybe Oracle will break even on Sun, but they have a long ways to go. Nonetheless, this is something Oracle is extremely good at – selling high-margin products to large, captive, mature markets.
Where cloud is concerned, Oracle needs to figure out what to do about Hadoop, the open source compute/storage technology that was pioneered by Google, set free by Yahoo and now has several competitive distributions. Hadoop is the technology of choice for most IT professionals working on Big Data analytics applications and it is highly unlikely there is much Oracle can do to compete with it. Cloud customers can create huge Hadoop applications on Amazon and Google today for far less money than they can build out an Exasystem data center. Hadoop won't be used for every application in the cloud, but its going to be used for a lot of things people have associated with traditional databases over the years. People wondering about Oracle's business in the cloud are advised to watch the Hadoop space and any moves Oracle makes related to it.


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Following today's announcement of Windows Phone 8 Update 3 (8.0.10512), I'm pleased to introduce Windows Phone Preview for Developers. Windows Phone Preview for Developers gives you, our developer community, access to prerelease builds of Windows Phone updates on your dev phone before operating system updates generally are available to consumers. With the update in hand early, we hope that you can use the time to exercise your code on the update and verify that your app works as you expect. If you find issues, you can fix your app and get an update into the Store before your customers get the OS update.
With Darren detailing the benefits of Windows Phone 8 Update 3, I thought it was worth reviewing the update from the developer perspective. Specifically, I wanted to hit on three topics:
Many of you asked for better ways to test your app before your customers install a new update. Starting with Windows Phone 8 Update 2 (8.0.10322), we started making optional emulator packages available to you to test your app code. With Windows Phone 8 Update 3, we are now also making the build available to developer phones via Over the Air (OTA) update.
To update your phone, you'll need to visit the Windows Phone Preview for Developers page. This page goes through everything you need to know about the preview program. Once you accept the terms and conditions, you can download the Windows Phone Preview for Developers app, which installs from the Windows Phone Store directly onto your phone and allows you to opt your phone in to receive updates. Then you can head over to your phone's Phone update setting app and get your update on.
To participate, you need to meet one of the three conditions: your phone is 'developer-unlocked,' you are a registered Windows Phone Store developer, OR you are a registered Windows Phone App Studio developer.
There are a few key elements about the program that are worth calling out:
We don't have the Windows Phone 8 Update 3 emulator images available today for download. We expect to have them available for download in the next three weeks, and we'll post additional details here when they're available.
All right, so let's dig into what's new under the hood with Windows Phone 8 Update 3. Right off the bat, let me answer the top two questions most Windows Phone developers are asking:
However, there are three behavioral changes in this update that I believe are worth pointing out:
For the first two changes, you can use the new Windows Phone Preview for Developers to give them a spin; for the third, you'll have to wait until the emulator is available.
Internet Explorer and the WebBrowser control have changed the behavior of device-width when used with @viewport and @-ms-viewport – and this change affects all resolutions for phones running Windows Phone 8 Update 3.
When the width of the @viewport or @-ms-viewport is set with device-width, device-width will return 160*the_physical_screen_width_in_inches.
Where the OS can't detect the actual physical screen size, the property will approximate it based on the screen resolution (larger resolutions having a larger estimated physical screen width) and return that.
For the most part, you won't need to know that your app is running on a 1080p phone - the existing APIs on a 1080p phone are quirked to behave as they would on a 720p phone and your app will work the same as it does today without any changes. For example:
Because of this, most devs won't need to do anything to target or test apps on a 1080p phone – the OS will take care of rendering for the resolution, the same as it does today. If you want to target 1080p phones with higher-DPI assets (e.g., images, splash screen, lock screen, live tiles, etc.), we suggest that you simply use high-DPI assets in your XAP package and let the OS properly downscale them as needed.
For those who want the app to behave differently on a 1080p phone, like rendering 1080p video streams or applying an alternative layout for larger screen devices, we have introduced a few new property values in the DeviceExtendedProperties class in the update. I'll go into this in greater detail in a few weeks when we have a 1080p emulator for you to use.
To read more about these changes, as well as other changes in Update 3 that impact developers (of particular interest are a couple cool new capabilities for those doing push notifications), check out the 'What's New in Windows Phone SDK 8.0' page on MSDN.
While we're on the topic of emulators, those of you who are setting up a clean machine with Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 RC likely have noticed that the 8.0.10322 emulators are incorrectly throwing an error saying that they require Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 in order to install. As mentioned previously, this is a known bug and we will be fixing the installation package and updating/reposting the 8.0.10322 emulators when we post the new Windows Phone 8 Update 3 emulator images.
Hopefully while you're checking out all the end-user goodness that you can get on your developer phone starting today – update your phone, enjoy Windows Phone 8 Update 3, and take your app for a spin to make sure that everything is in good working order.
While you're at it, it's also worth thinking ahead to the upcoming holiday season. There's going to be a lot of new phone activations happening in the coming months, and it's a great time to think about sprucing things up to put your app's best foot forward and welcome the new users.
I got wp8 about month ago. And i have an issue with my new nokia lumia 920. Problem is: I can download exe file from the internet on my phone. I want to download LAN driver software for my pc. But on my WP8 net browser it says WP doesn't support file type. How can i download that driver software by using my WP phone? Thx in advance.
After how many day will be available in my phone??
please a requiest for wp that it make soooooo beutifule i.e. no camparision to other smart phone.
please include also video players and supporting also MKV.
Developer preview is a great service!
Are there any Bluetooth Low Energy API's???
Got lot's of customers who are screaming for them.
@Technic_Strick: This is not new to Update 3 - my Lumia 820 running GDR2 does that too. It's correct. In order to send these emoticons, it has to send a Unicode SMS, which has a 70 character-per-message limit. You can only fit 160 characters in a message if every character is in the GSM 03.38 7-bit character set: en.wikipedia.org/.../GSM_03.38 .
There is an 8-bit mode that offers 140 characters per message, but it doesn't specify which specific character set is in use, so there's no guarantee that the receiver will see what the sender typed. The 7-bit character set supports escapes to add a 'Basic Character Set Extension', but again, no indication in the message of which extension was used by the sender. Therefore Windows Phone only supports the 7-bit character set and Unicode.
See blogs.msdn.com/.../10406100.aspx for some commentary on the character count behaviour - I don't know if there's a fix in GDR2 or Update 3 for this.
Thanks - I'd suggest either (a) the Preview program support forum @ go.microsoft.com/.../p or (b) the Windows Phone [consumer] UserVoice forum @ windowsphone.uservoice.com
For issues outside of the developer platform, I'm not the most efficient communication channel. Folks on either of those two channels better know where to land the feedback/bugs.
Experience I guess, I am not a developer, just an enthusiast. But anyhow when you are sending a text in GDR3 preview if you use one of the colorful emoticons the text will use */70 instead of */160 for calculating how many messages to send. Not sure if recipients actually receive more than one message. The only setting that I think that may be related that I changed is the Settings -> Keyboard -> Advanced -> "Switch back to letters after I type an emoticon" Thanks.
What kind of bugs? In the update? APIs? OS/consumer experience?
Hey Cliff, were can we post bugs that we find in GDR3?
@StevieBallz - We've been wanting to do this since 7.5 OS Beta also - I believe the engineering team is quite glad to finally have the infrastructure and process up for you guys again, and my team is ever so happy to bring it to you guys.
@Martin Anderson - The 3rd row is screen size dependent, not resolution. The DeviceExtendedProperties is in the general property bag for use by XAML apps too. I have a post on developing for 1080p screens, but I'm saving it for when the emulators are available as it wouldn't do you guys much good just yet. And I'd recommend asking your warranty question on the support forum, as I'm definitely my fine-print-skillz are not quite sufficient to be defendable beyond my own mind. Once you get upgraded to final state, it should not be no different from a phone that only went from TA'd release to TA'd release, but I don't think '..because Cliff said so...' would stand up with your RSP if your MO challenged you on it. :)
Thank You for great WP Preview Program. You are awesome!
mine is stuck at preparing to install 100% :(
Here is the link to get GDR3.
I have a couple of questions that have not been addressed here yet...
- The extra row of tiles on the Start Screen. Do they appear as a setting on phones above 720p, or only for 1080p devices?
- The new additions to DeviceExtendedProperties for providing alternate layouts for large resolutions. Is this only for Direct X apps, or can XAML apps also provide alternate UIs for phablets etc?
- If we load Update 3 onto our developer registered phones, they are void of warranty. Is the Warranty restored when the updates are official launched? My dev phone is also my personal phone...
I'm glad to read this; developers are important for WP and now Microsoft seems to be looking for a closer relationship. Now it's time to work towards the same but with end users.
Thank you for finally offering this early adopter program to us! Awesome, the question is WHEN can we download it ?
Great news. Will official change log beb available anytime soon? I am wayting for support of AES 256 and i want to know if it is in or not.
That's great guys! Love DesertedRoad Developers :)
Fantastic!! Awesomeness!!
Thank you for finally offering this "early-adopter" program to us! It's been a long time coming, but I'm thrilled to be a part of it.
Happy to see the preview capability again. It was great to test before GA release with WP7.5 and I really missed that opportunity with the last two WP8 updates.
Makes total sense. This will allow devs to be ahead of the game.
Can't wait. :D for the Windows Phone Preview for Developers page
This looks like a great step forward. Thanks for implementing.
good new, we'll wait Windows Phone Preview for Developers page :D
Can't wait to get my hands on GDR3. Thank you WP team!
FINALLY !!! Thanks MS :)
I'm assuming the "Windows Phone Preview for Developers page" will be available later on today?
Good to hear that!. Btw. that different -ms-viewport behavior is already in GDR2 update, we've had to fix it by detecting the OS version and using different CSS styles in our app.
Awesome news! Compliments for the awesome work
Very awesome thanks guys! Love all the hard work to make it better for developer's.


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Duff Beer Distribution was first set up in early 2011, specialising in the import and distribution of The Legendary Duff Beer.
Having seen the growth of The Legendary Duff Beer brand in mainland Europe and further afield we felt the brand could work well within the UK market.
Initially we thought the brand was great, but needed to see what the beer inside was like, upon sampling we realised that it really is a premium German pilsner style beer that has to follow all of the German purity laws – unlike most other beers from around the world – simply, our final conclusion was that we needed to bring this brand to the UK market.
Shortly after the company was born, becoming the UK partner and distributor for the brand. Initially we worked purely as an online portal so that all in the UK could finally taste The Legendary Duff Beer which had previously only been available to our European friends.
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Ruler on Ice? This race in Lithuania used to take place on a frozen lake! Photo by Adomas Rutkauskas
Annual beach race at Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain. Photo by Cristina Quicler
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Youth participates in the races in Blang Bebangka, Indonesia. Photo by Heri Juanda
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Swedish photographer Kalle Gustafson took some spectacular photos for the ATG (Swedish Racing Commission)
The third leg of sporting event Naadam in Mongolia is a massive horse race. Photo by Adrian Seah
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My faith in Washington was restored to some degree this week. A bipartisan budget deal, where both parties made concessions for the betterment of the country came into play and passed the House. Democracy works, and it's beautiful.
Then our fabulous Sen. Jim Inhofe decided budget reform was boring and a wiser use of his time would be protecting his government from the tyrannical force of the gays.
Inhofe and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) joined forces to create the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, a law aimed at protecting churches from being denied federal tax exempt status by defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.
Inhofe released the following statement in regards to the legislation with a few of my annotations.
"The United States has long been a beacon of light in the arena of liberty." I suppose that's true except for the smattering of European countries with more freedoms than we we have, but ok.
"When it comes to religious freedom, our founding fathers intentionally set out in the very first amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect religious institutions from government. It is not the federal government's job to pressure people or private businesses to change policies or values that run counter to their moral beliefs." Most of the founding fathers despised religion, so no. I also like that religion should be separated from government, according to Inhofe. Unless of course a religiously based policy aligns with his beliefs. Too bad hypocrisy doesn't stop anyone from being elected. "This is why I've joined forces with my colleagues in the Senate to ensure those who hold the religious conviction that marriage is between a man and a woman are protected from any possible future retaliation from the federal government for this moral value." And yet again, he's back to using religion in government as long as it works in a manner he agrees with.


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Please note: These are just rumors, so treat them as such. That being said, quite a few of them seem too good not to be true. You can watch the press conference via live stream on the Official PlayStation blog June 6th at 5pm PST (8PM EST)
This has to be something Sony must address fast and hard. From the hacking and subsequent takedown of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service, to the hacking of Sony Pictures and websites, the past couple of months have been brutal for the company's image. Sony has done a great job of offering a "Welcome Back" package with free games and the like, but folks want to be reassured that their data, especially their credit card info, is safe with Sony before they plug those digits into their PlayStation 3's again.
Bottom Line: Expect Sony to not only address security concerns, but to speak directly to increasing the protection for the PlayStation consoles.
New Platforms
We already know the NGP (next generation portable) will be a show stopper, with its dual touch screens and incredible graphics. It will probably be getting a permanent name change (my money is on "PSP 2" or "PSP Dual") and we should expect to see a list of incredible games, perhaps even "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" on it. Also expect news of the PSP HD remastered games, bringing PlayStation titles back from the past with updated graphics.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play can be bought for Verizon already. The first PlayStation certified phone will be getting new cousins in the form of Android-powered PlayStation certified tablets the S1 and S2. I also would expect news of the Xperia Play making it to AT&T.
Bottom Line: 20011/2012 = PlayStation everywhere. PS3, NGP, Phone, Tablet.
PlayStation Move
The PlayStation Move will most likely be getting a lot of love. The Move already received a new attachment (the Sharpshooter) to aid it with hardcore games such as "Killzone 3" and "SOCOM 4." While there are rumors of upgraded controllers or a new PlayStation Eye (I vote "unlikely") there will be new games revealed, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear of Move support being announced for upcoming multiplatform titles. "Sorcery" may be the killer PlayStation Move game we've all been waiting for. However, biggest Move announcement will be the official release of Move.me which will allow the community to download the SDK to make Move games that can be run on the PC and PS3.
Bottom Line: Sony is going to be supporting the Move not only for developers, but for the community at large.
New PlayStation Games
As you should always expect, you will be getting news and a peek at great games. Uncharted 3, The Last Guardian, Resistance 3, Twisted Metal, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One are all games I'd expect to see at the PlayStation press conference. Additionally, I wouldn't be surprised to hear about previously unannounced games such as Heavenly Sword 2, a new God of War, a new Sly Cooper game, a new Metal Gear Solid, GTA V, one of the many new FF XIII games, and new PC/PS3 versions of DCUO and Everquest. I'd also expect to see a lot of 3D video games for the PlayStation.
Bottom Line: Lots of great PS3 games for holiday 2011 release.
I'm sure Sony has some PlayStation secrets hidden deep up its sleeve (new 3D PS3 Move version of "Eye of Judgement?"). But we'll just have to wait to see what happens. If Sony can reassure the public that the PlayStation 3 is safe, and if the Wii 2 doesn't floor everyone, expect Sony to come out ahead with the biggest announcements this year.


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Piano recital Sunday
The Garden City Piano Teachers' League presents students of Connie Loewen and Tammy Bunney in a piano recital at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of Garden Valley Retirement Village, 1505 E. Spruce St.
Students are: Landon Garcia, Damien Loewen, Jentry Foskuhl, Ileana Neufeld, Rhianna Loewen, Elena Neufeld, Shonsee Loewen, Jace Kohlhorst, Makenzie Lucas, Sydney Nanninga, Allie Strandmark, Adi George, Kaety Kohlhorst and Sarah Brandt.
Pinochle winners
Bob Baker and Mary Joseph tied for high in the two tables of double pinochle played Monday at the Senior Center of Finney County, 907 N. 10th St. Charlotte Kimsey took second place. Carol Bradford and Mary Ann Binns tied for third.
Finney Fliers 4-H
The Finney Fliers 4-H Club met Jan. 5 at the Finney County 4-H Building, with 11 members, two leaders, 10 parents and three guests answering roll call by telling what they got for Christmas.
Carrie Hall gave the secretary's report, and Tony Solorzano gave the treasurer's report. Connie Gross gave the leader's report and encouraged members to participate in 4-H club days.
Alex Solorzano led "The Candy Ball Game" for recreation. Jesse Solorzano led the singing of "Wildcat Victory."
Tony Solorzano gave a presentation on volcanoes. Christy Hall gave a presentation on how to make the "Perfect Project Talk."
The next meeting will begin at 3 p.m. Feb. 2 at the 4-H building.
Senior center pitch
Donna Preston won high in the three tables of senior center pitch played Tuesday at the Senior Center of Finney County, 907 N. 10th St. Second place went to Leonard Yardley. Elvin Hazen took third.


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He doesn't speak the language, but Roenis Elias' body English was eloquent Sunday afternoon at Safeco Field.
Preparing to work the top of the ninth inning, Elias didn't trudge toward the mound with his head down and his shoulders slumped, brooding about the murderer's row of Detroit hitters he was about to face.
Instead, he raced out of the dugout, playfully leaping over the first-base line.
Moments later — 10 pitches, to be exact — Elias completed his 4-0 shutout by retiring Ian Kinsler, Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez, who began the day with a combined 27 home runs and 106 RBIs. The trio finished the day without a hit.
Elias, who never had thrown a complete game in his four seasons of pro baseball, could have been forgiven for allowing nerves to overwhelm him. But he's wired differently than the typical rookie.
During the bottom of the eighth inning, Elias said through an interpreter, "I sat down and told myself, 'I've got Kinsler, Carbrera and Martinez. I'm gonna go back out there and make my pitches and just let them hit it.' "
When the Mariners made the surprising decision to fast-forward Elias from Double-A to the Seattle starting rotation in the spring, little was known about the 25-year-old left-hander aside the fact he escaped from Guantanamo, Cuba on a boat and briefly relocated to Mexico.
Little is still known about Elias, but details of his competitive personality are emerging.
That rush to the mound, for instance, is a habit.
"He'll beat the other team onto the field when they're trying to get off it," catcher Mike Zunino said. "He's a high-energy guy who likes to get out there and pitch.
"The biggest thing is trying to keep his emotion and energy in check. He's a passionate, passionate pitcher."
Elias wants the ball, needs the ball, has to have the ball, and he's not shy about expressing that desire to manager Lloyd McClendon.
"He goes to me all the time and says, 'I want to pitch, I want to stay in there,' " McClendon said. "And I say, 'Then pitch better.' "
Elias didn't merely pitch better than he has in any start since his 2010 escape from Cuba. By relying on a three-pitch repertoire — a fastball that routinely registers 93-94 mph on the radar gun, a curveball with a radical vertical break and a newly refined change-up — he threw the first shutout by a Mariners rookie since Freddie Garcia beat the Tigers on Aug. 24, 1999.
"I was asked earlier: What does he have to do to be successful?" McClendon said. "He just needs to throw strikes. His stuff is as good as any lefty in the league. It's quality, quality stuff. If he's throwing strikes, he's usually around late in a ballgame."
Elias began Sunday with a 3-4 record and 4.02 ERA, solid numbers but not indicative of a phenom in the midst. He was tied for third among big-league rookies in wins and strikeouts, tied for second in innings pitched, and tied for first in starts.
Striking out nine Tigers batters, while scattering three singles and allowing one walk, has a way of changing both perceptions and expectations. In less than three hours, Elias transformed from a respectable back-of-the-rotation starter into an American League rookie of the year candidate.
Through May, the award appeared to be between the Yankees' Masahiro Tanaka (8-1, with a league-leading 2.06 ERA) and the White Sox' Jose Abreu, another Cuban refugee who was named American League player of the month for April. Before missing two weeks with ankle tendinitis, Abreu, scheduled to be activated Monday, hit 15 homers.
Tanaka and Abreu remain the rookie of the year co-favorites, but Elias has at least joined them in the discussion.
"He worked ahead of guys," Zunino said. "He didn't fall behind, and if he did, he worked right back into the count. He took control of all that himself. He was ready to go on being more prepared."
"What a performance," said shortstop Brad Miller, who enjoyed something of a breakthrough game of his own — he hit a home run, his fourth of the season and first since April 11. "To go at that lineup and face Cabrera and Victor Martinez four times each? It's just what we needed. He went out and set the tone.
"A great game for him against one of the best lineups in the league. It's pretty sweet."
Roenis Elias isn't yet a household name. Even the correct pronunciation of "Elias'' — it's "a-LEE-us," sounds like "elitist" — figures to be butchered before he gains national recognition.
But there's no doubt the Mariners have found themselves a potential star whose response to the challenge of completing a shutout was to run to the mound, raring to go.
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His shameful behavior reveals just how much he cares about the people he pretends to help and the country he pretends to lead.
President Obama is inept, mendacious and destructive. In my opinion, his has been a failed presidency. Jimmy Carter must be relieved to be off the hook as "worst president of my lifetime." For the rest of us, however, we must suffer through the consequences of another four years of this incompetent impostor. At the end, hopefully we have both a country and some freedom left.
There are some who believe the facade cannot last for another four years. We are in a recession (regardless of what the NBER says) and are not going to come out of it under Obama. His economically and socially irresponsible policies should be apparent to any thoughtful person who has escaped the educational indoctrination of our public schools and overcome any training in the fallacies of Keynesian economics. Sadly, that appears to represent a minority of our population, at least as judged by the last election.
Ruling out mass hypnosis, how does this charlatan retain any positive approval ratings? Two factors seem responsible:
- Create greater dependency as a means to buy votes.
- Blame anyone but himself for his failures.
The dependency issue seems self-evident. It has been a key play in the Democrat election strategy since the 1930s. Obama has merely taken it to new levels with his unemployment benefit extensions, expansion of food stamps and the ease in which people can claim disability. His shameful behavior reveals just how much he cares about the people he pretends to help and the country he pretends to lead.
The blame game has been played brilliantly by Obama. It is as if he was not around during the last four years. It was Bush's fault, a Japanese storm, etc. etc. Nothing bad that happened did so on his watch. Interestingly, he claims no good things either — except when he is practicing interest-group politics. Then he goes to the gays, women, unions, immigrants, unemployed, or left-handed daughters of those who are descended from slavery with some vote-tested scheme. Even health-care cannot be claimed as an achievement as its horrors slowly emerge. Ultimately even that may be blamed on George Bush, given this guy's ability to flaunt truth and reality.
But George Bush is wearing thin as the blame target. After four years it becomes more difficult to continue to blame this modern-day Democrat version of Satan. Obama desperately needs something/someone else to blame as things continue to deteriorate. The economy, for example, is beginning to decline again, although that would be difficult to accept if you listened only to the mainstream media as they run interference for their guy.
Massive stimulus can no longer hide the distortions and mis-allocations that preclude any recovery without a complete and total wash-out of these impediments. That is coming. Obama's policies have only made matters worse. There is not a thing he can do to prevent what will be termed a "double-dip recession." The truth is that we never got out of the original downturn, which will eventually become this country's next Great Depression. I doubt whether that can be hidden for the next four years.
So, how will Obama wiggle out of this one? According to Dick Morris, that is what sequestration is all about. Mr. Morris believes that Obama's bizarre behavior regarding sequestration is a brilliant strategy that allows the president his only hope of escaping a debacle in 2014 and a bigger one in the annals of history. Bush may be gone, but not those nasty old Republican lieutenants who, through their stinginess carry on his "failed economic policies" and will be blamed for the economic hell that lies ahead.
I think Mr. Morris gives Obama and his team too much credit for developing such a strategy, although possibly there is some master planner behind the scenes who has more smarts than surface behavior suggests. More than likely, it is a conditioned instinctual response, one that Obama has used throughout his life to never be responsible for anything. It was evident in his pre-political life and continued to be so in his early days of politics when he frequently voted "Present" rather than commit to a position in the Illinois legislature. It has continued throughout his political life on the national level with Benghazi representing the latest and most blatant example. It seems to be almost an animal instinct rather than a designed strategy.
Regardless, Mr. Morris identifies what he believes is a strategy, although he does not believe it will succeed. I am not so sure given his current popularity in what is a desperate economic time.
As an aside, wouldn't it be delightful to watch a debate on this subject between H. L. Mencken and Morris. Such a contest would be a mismatch of the largest order. Mencken would wipe the floor with Mr. Morris (or any other so-called current-day pundit). Mencken would base his argument on the fatal fallacy in Mr. Morris' position — the assumed intelligence of the American electorate.
In any case, here is Mr. Morris' thinking:
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | President Obama and his media allies are pushing the notion that sequester will destroy Western Civilization. States are saying that the cuts will devastate the economy; the Pentagon insists they will "hollow out" President Obama's massive and voluble campaign against the sequester has a deep political motivation that is not apparent on the surface. He is engaging in a battle he knows he'll lose. Republicans are not going to budge on agreeing to tax hikes to avoid the sequester's spending cuts, and Democrats won't opt for entitlement cuts to avoid it, either. So why is he fighting so hard when he has no leverage and battling a measure that will take effect on March 1 if Congress does nothing — something it does rather well?
Here's the answer: He knows the economy is tanking. He realizes that we are headed for a double-dip recession. He expects unemployment to soar. He understands that his almost $300 billion in tax increases this year will drive us into recession. So he needs an out.
That's where sequestration fits in: If it goes into effect, he can blame Republican budget cuts for the economic disaster that will probably unfold this year.
It will be the GOP's fault. All the warnings of the dire impact of these across-the-board budget cuts — including a New York Times article about how states fear the economic impact of sequester — are designed to set up a massive blame game in which he excoriates Republicans for the recession.
Such a stance will, of course, be totally phony. Having raised payroll taxes by $200 billion; income taxes by $65 billion; health insurance premiums by 10-20 percent this year alone; and capital gains taxes by 9 percent; as well as having imposed a home sales tax of 4 percent, a package well north of $300 billion — Obama will blame sequester, amounting to $85 billion, for all the fallout his taxes will cause.
Obama has always survived by using excuses. The recession and unemployment were George W. Bush's fault. The slow recovery was because of the tsunami in Japan, the collapse of Greece was uncertainty over the debt limit, political gridlock in Washington is Republican threats to shut down the government. His policies are always blameless.
But now his failed policies are really coming up for a pasting. With the economy about to slip into a double-dip recession (we are likely already there) and then fall some more, he needs a super-excuse. It's hard to say that a spending cut of one-half of 1 percent of gross domestic product will be responsible.
So the big lie bears repeating again and again and again.
First it emerges as a policy statement, then as a warning and prediction, and finally it becomes an explanation and a justification — a poor substitute for a correct policy in the first place.
Obama realizes he is running out of time and excuses. Now into his second term, a falloff in the economy is less likely to be blamed on Bush and more likely to kindle discontent with Obama's policies. In bad economic times, we tend to blame the president, not his predecessor.
Obama is looking to the Hoover/Roosevelt model in which the continuing high unemployment rate in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term was universally — and correctly — ascribed to Herbert Hoover's impact on the economy. But throughout FDR's first term, unemployment dropped from a high of 26 percent in 1933 down to 13 percent in 1936.
FDR faced his own double dip when the economy crashed in 1937 and joblessness rose back up above 20 percent. The causes were the imposition of the Social Security tax — no benefits were paid out until 1940 — and the Wagner Act, which gave unions new power and radically increased wages. FDR couldn't blame Hoover anymore. So he blamed the "economic royalists." He said "the economic royalists hate me and I welcome their hatred."
So Obama is copying the FDR playbook to avoid being identified with the second dip.
It didn't work for FDR. He suffered huge losses in Congress in 1938 and only won again in 1940 because of the looming threat of war.
Obama's blame game won't work either. Voters will pay him back for his economic stewardship in 2014. Big time.


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Why Am I Explaining This To YouNovember 14, 2012
Recently, my Jonathan Swift-style sarcasm (ie. A Modest Proposal) has drawn the annoying attention of a retarded theist or simply a fool professing belief in God. Yeah, I did suggest abortion machines as a means to help preserve the innocence of newborn children, especially for those devout and righteous Tea Party-tainted Republicans. It's evident my intention had been selfish and impractical; farcical because I do so enjoy such slapstick irony. I think hypocrisy is hysterical, as funny as the helpless pratfalls of confident idiots. But my humor carries with it no intention of purporting a worldview.
Let's get this straight. I am an agnostic and an antitheist. What that means is I have deep suspicions and disappointments in organized religions. I don't believe in God because all the literature supporting such a divine being is fallacious. Christian apologists are especially deceptive and close-minded to honest facts and theoretical possibilities. Under the pretense of religions promoting such misconceptions and incorrect reasoning in the guise of faith, herds of lazy or deficient minds are persuaded to surrender their will, power and resources often to reprobate individuals or bands of miscreants.
I'm not an atheist only because such a stance precludes my open principle of "Anything is possible," dreams can be made real and fiction leads to technological and social advances. Sure, there may be a God floating about in the omnipresent, miniscule tenth dimension but there's no one able to provide that evidence – He certainly isn't telling anyone. He isn't. There are only primitive rationalization and interesting stories and good-natured parables in any Holy Book. All of which have been written by human beings inspired by love, fear and equally beatific promise or sublime threat.
Sure, they'll pretend to answer the unfathomable such as the origin of morals, the purpose of life and the creation of man. But science has come a long way, nearly all the way, in addressing those conjured states of morose. There are legitimate answers mankind has legitimately discovered and if inquirers bother to hunt, they'll find the gaps rapidly close. Where is God? Well, he's not under my bed, and neither in my closet nor standing outside my front door…
I'm not someone evangelists or apologists should ask. I don't care. I don't care about cars, so don't ask me to troubleshoot your combustion engine. I have no interest in guns, so I'm nobody you should consult about calibers. I'm content driving from A to B and I can use a firearm quite well for my own defense or less preservative purpose. It's been said there are all sorts of atheists and I'm one of those unique sorts. Theocracy, philosophy and psychology are merely aspects of my creative writing. And I'll suffer fools only so long before I become bored and take purposeful pleasure in the poetry of mockery and disdain.
If it comes to such in order to drive away the insufferable, I've gleefully wield them with zealous mania. They're how I entertain myself and I know it's not nice. I'm not nice. If folks would read my writing, I imply as much. It's what I mean when I describe myself as visceral and male.


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A simplified example of package-level encapsulation
Here's roughly how jOOQ models SQL tables. The (overly simplified) API:
package org.jooq; /** * A table in a database */ public interface Table { /** * Join two tables */ Table join(Table table); }
And two (overly simplified) implementation classes:
package org.jooq.impl; import org.jooq.Table; /** * Base implementation */ abstract class AbstractTable implements Table { @Override public Table join(Table table) { return null; } } /** * Custom implementation, publicly exposed to client code */ public class CustomTable extends AbstractTable { }
How the internal API is exposed
Let's assume that the internal API does some tricks with covariance:
abstract class AbstractTable implements Table, InteralStuff { // Note, this method returns AbstractTable, as it might // prove to be convenient to expose some internal API // facts within the internal API itself @Override public AbstractTable join(Table table) { return null; } /** * Some internal API method, also package private */ void doThings() {} void doMoreThings() { // Use the internal API join(this).doThings(); } }
This looks all safe at the first sight, but is it? AbstractTable is package-private, but CustomTable extends it and inherits all of its API, including the covariant method override of "AbstractTable join(Table)". What does that result in? Check out the following piece of client code
package org.jooq.test; import org.jooq.Table; import org.jooq.impl.CustomTable; public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { Table joined = new CustomTable(); // This works, no knowledge of AbstractTable exposed to the compiler Table table1 = new CustomTable(); Table join1 = table1.join(joined); // This works, even if join exposes AbstractTable CustomTable table2 = new CustomTable(); Table join2 = table2.join(joined); // This doesn't work. The type AbstractTable is not visible Table join3 = table2.join(joined).join(joined); // ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This cannot be dereferenced // ... so hide these implementation details again // The API flaw can be circumvented with casting Table join4 = ((Table) table2.join(joined)).join(joined); } }
Tampering with visibilities in class hierarchies can be dangerous. Beware of the fact that API methods declared in interfaces are always public, regardless of any covariant implementations that involve non-public artefacts. This can be quite annoying for API users when not properly dealt with by API designers.
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Reference: The depths of Java: API leak exposed through covariance from our JCG partner Lukas Eder at the JAVA, SQL, AND JOOQ blog.
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Though the Ramsey School District only offers a half-day Kindergarten program, about a third of the borough's students attend a full-day program.
Parents with kids entering the Ramsey school system next year have the option to keep their kids in school for a full day, thanks to the 'Wrap Around' Kindergarten program, which is now in its fifth year.
"I always wanted to have a program like this," Jeanne Macko, the director of the Ramsey Adult School who helped create and oversees the Wrap program, said. "The problem was, we did not have the facility."
However, declining enrollment in Ramsey schools has allowed the Wrap program to take over two classrooms at Tisdale and one at Hubbard on a full-time basis. Now, both elementary schools have five-day Wrap sessions in the mornings and afternoons. So, Kindergarteners who attend class in the morning go to lunch, and then to their Wrap class for the afternoon, and kids who attend class in the afternoon attend Wrap sessions in the morning.
The Wrap program, "is enrichment-based," Macko said. "So, it's not just repeating what they learn in their regular classes, but it's definitely not just a drop-off babysitting service."
The Wrap curriculum is developed and taught by certified teachers, and is meant to compliment, reinforce and build on what is taught in the Kindergarten classrooms, she said.
According to Kathy Booth, who teaches Wrap classes at Tisdale, her students are responding to the program.
"It's a fun way to learn," she said. For example, her students do activities that reinforce the fine motor skills, writing, and math concepts they are learning in class, but also spend time on subjects and topics they don't have time for during the normal half school day, like art, science labs, and a 'state of the week' lesson in which student learn about a new state each week.
"We get such great feedback from parents and kids all the time," Booth said. "I am very thankful to be teaching [in the Wrap] program."
And, Macko said it's popular amongst Ramsey parents. Though classes are capped at 16-18 students, about one-third of the students at Tisdale and one-fourth of the students at Hubbard are enrolled in Wrap. At Tisdale, a three-day program was added, "because we really had the demand for it," she said.
The Wrap program is fee-based, so parents pay $450 a month for their kids to be a part of it. For the whole year, the five-day program is $4,500, and the three-day is $2700.
Registration for the Wrap Program beginning in September of 2013 is Thursday, Feb. 14, from 6-8 p.m. in Room 118 at Ramsey High School. Registration is on a first-come, first serve basis, and anyone who registers Thursday night is guaranteed a spot. After Thursday, registrations can be made via mail or in person at the Ramsey Adult School office. Get more information here.
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A young woman on holiday to Mykonos, the most famous of Greeces Aegean Cycladic islands, simply disappears off the face of the earth. And no one notices.
That is, until a body turns up on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. Then the island's new police chiefthe young, politically incorrect, former Athens homicide detective Andreas Kaldisstarts finding bodies, bones, and suspects almost everywhere he looks.
Teamed with the canny, nearly-retired local homicide chief, Andreas tries to find the killer before the media can destroy the island's fabled reputation with a barrage of world-wide attention on a mystery thats haunted Mykonos undetected for decades.
Just when it seems things can't get any worse, another young woman disappears and political niceties no longer matter. With the investigation now a rescue operation, Andreas finds himself plunging into ancient myths and forgotten island places, racing against a killer intent on claiming a new victim who is herself determined to outstep him.
"Siger's view of Mykonos (where he lives part-time) is nicely nuanced, as is the mystery's ambiguous resolution. Kaldis's feisty personality and complex backstory are appealing as well, solid foundations for a projected series." - Publishers Weekly.
"His sense of place recalls Donna Leon's Venetian series, but his portrayal of rape and murder is all his own. For collections where foreign-set mysteries circulate." - Library Journal.
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Murder in Mykonos
It is difficult to pan a book that is its author's first effort. There were indeed strengths to this read. The Greek island of Mykonos stands sharply as almost a 'character' as much as a location and the author does a solid job coloring it in.
The story focuses on Andreas,a loutish Greek homicide detective 'promoted' to the island as it's new chief of police just as a serial killer emerges in this enticing vacation spot. With the new Chief, the local police literally bungle their way into an investigation of the disappearance of a continuing stream of tall, blond single female tourists. This has been going on for years without anyone being the wiser!
The investigation turns into a rescue operation for the latest victim while the book has us wondering "who-dunnit". We want to ask the publisher "why-dunnit"....
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Murder in Mykonos
I really enjoyed this book. It was an easy read. I loved the twists and turns and really had no clue as to who did the deed! Loved the detailed descriptions of Mykonos -- made me want to visit the island.
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Murder in Mykonos by Jeffrey Siger
I really enjoyed this murder mystery by new author Jeffrey Siger. The plot held my attention and the characters were well developed. The short paragraphs with frequent breaks reminded me of the popular James Patterson stories. By leaving the killer's name to the very end of the story made me want to skip to the end of the book.
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Murder in Mykonos
Walk through the streets with descriptions of Mykonos, the interworking of the Political force and the ever present pagan gods alongside the Christian saints.
Meet Andreas the Chef of Police as he involves all the above in a mystery that has lots of suspects and bodies that keeps you guessing until the end!
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This book is a slow read in the beginning,, but worth sticking with! The characters and story build as you go. A new writer definitely worth watching. The main character makes believable decisions that ring true despite a complicated personal and political situation. Very beautiful descriptions of the setting also. This is a character I would like to read more about. Hope this is the beginning of a series.
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Murder in Mykonos
A somewhat derivative mystery that is fast moving and suspenseful. Surprisingly stilted dialogue and an unfortunate emphasis on the tortuous ordeal of the latest victim mars what is a fast paced exercise in the race the clock thriller genre. In the end this page turner will please readers looking for this type of "edge of your seat" reading experience.
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The Big Ten is considering a proposal that would give the conference the ability to impose financial penalties, suspensions or termination of employment on individuals and schools themselves.
Harvey Perlman defending the current BCS is nothing new. But when you dig into the Big Ten's position, you find room for a compromise.
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Thinking of getting out of the military, working a few years in civilian life, then -- if you don't like it -- coming back in? Thinking of getting out of one military service, and trying to join a different service?
It should be easy, right? After all, one would expect that the military would jump at the chance to enlist someone with prior military experience.
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. You see, because prior-service enlist with the same (approximate) paygrade they had when they were discharged, and because they maintain their Total Years of Active Federal Service, they are not in the same enlistment category as brand new recruits.
Record of Previous Service
The biggest hurdle (for many) prior service is the re-enlistment eligibility code ( RE Code) that the service placed on their DD Form 214 (Record of Discharge) at the time of their separation. In general, if the RE Code is "1," there are no bars to enlistment. If the RE Code is "2" for the Air Force, that person is ineligible to re-enlist in the Air Force, but might be allowed to enlist in another branch of the military, with restrictions. If the RE Code is "2" for any of the other services, the person might be eligible to enlist in either the same service or another service, with restrictions. If the RE Code is "3," the individual might be able to re-join their service or enlist in another service with a waiver (depending on the reason for the discharge). If the RE Code is "4," the individual is ineligible for re-enlistment or enlistment in another service.
Prior Service
So, what exactly is considered "prior service?" If one enlists, spends two weeks at basic training, and then is discharged, and later wants to enlist again, or enlist in a different service, is that person considered "prior service" for enlistment purposes?
You would think there would be one standard Department of Defense definition for "prior service," but there is not. Each of the services define prior service (for enlistment purposes) differently:
The Army defines "prior service" as any applicant with more than 180 days of military service, or those who graduated from military job-training (MOS/AFSC/Rating), regardless of time-in-service. Individuals with less than 180 days of military service, and/or those who have not completed military job-training are classified as "Glossary Prior Service," and are processed the same as non-prior service recruits, with the exception that they must have a qualifying RE Code (or receive a waiver) on their DD Form 214.
The Air Force defines "prior service" as persons who have served at least 24 months of Active Duty service without regard to regular component or continuous service in the Armed Forces. Individuals with less than 24 months of Active Duty are considered "previous service." Previous service personnel are classified and processed the same as non-prior service, with the exception that they must have a qualifying RE Code (or receive a waiver) on their DD Form 214. However, even though "previous service" applicants are classified and tracked as non-prior service, it's still a separate enlistment program under the Air Force recruiting regulation, and the Air Force can choose to accept or reject "previous service" applicants, depending on their current recruiting needs.
The Navy considers applicants with 180 consecutive days or more of prior active duty service as "prior service." Those with less than 180 consecutive days of prior active duty service are considered non-prior service (NPS) applicants, however they must meet RE-Code eligibility requirements (or receive an approved waiver).
For enlistment purposes, the Marine Corps defines prior service as:
- Those individuals who have successfully completed the recruit/basic training sponsored by their former service, or
- Those individuals who have failed to complete recruit/basic training, and who have been given a DD Form 214 and assigned a reenlistment code, or
- Those individuals who have fulfilled their military service obligation within a reserve component.
The Coast Guard definition is vague. They define "prior service" as "a person who has served some valid period of creditable service in any of the U.S. Armed Forces, including Reserve components thereof."
Prior Service Quotas
Each of the services limit the number of prior-service enlistments (this includes those in the Guard and Reserves who wish to enlist on active duty) they allow each year. This is because a "prior service" enlistment slot is the same as an "re-enlistment" slot. Given the choice, the military will allow someone currently in the service to re-enlist, before they will allow a prior-service applicant to use up that slot by coming back in.


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Ann Romney visits -- The wife of the Presidential candidate has a rally at the Ehrnfelt Recreation Center.
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LEE BOYCE: The Wolf of Wall Street may glamourise dodgy dealing but it's also a gritty parable to stand against other great money movies
I usually avoid the cinema - ticket prices seem to go up every time I visit, popcorn is now £4 a box and irritating movie-goers usually deter me.
But when I spotted The Wolf of Wall Street was on and with a Sunday afternoon to kill, a friend and I decided to give it a whirl.
This is Money doesn't usually write film reviews, but I think The Wolf of Wall Street is worthy of a mention – the film was entertaining, funny (in places), harrowing and tickled my inner financial geekdom to boot.
Dodgy trader: DiCaprio stars at Jordan Belfort - a real-life fraudster who wrote a book based on his Wall Street experiences
And for the main, it's true. Unlike Gordan Gekko in eighties classic 'Wall Street,' Jordan Belfort – the main character in the film – isn't fictional. The film is based on his life and that's what makes this interesting and made me detest him even more.
Be warned, if you watch this film you've got to be in it for the long-haul. It's a three-hour beast. I went in clean shaven and came out with stubble. I guess it adds value to the ticket, which works out as £3 an hour.
And a second warning – the amount of swearing, casual drug use and nudity in this film is vast. In fact, this film uses the f-word more than 500 times.
But this all actually adds to the hatred I ended up feeling for these financial cowboys of early nineties Wall Street. In my opinion, they were vicious money-obsessed animals who duped thousands of people out of vast amounts of cash (more about this later).
The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort. Such was his desire to make the movie he bought the rights in a bidding war against another Hollywood heavyweight, Brad Pitt.
Criticism has been aimed at the film for glamourising the lifestyle. For me, I can see why – the parties, fast cars, mansion, helicopter, yacht, drugs, women – largely the film illustrates these scammers as 'heroes.'
In reality, they were villains and Belfort the biggest villain of them all.
Deplorable character: Despite DiCaprio doing a good job at making the audience fall for Belfort, it's clear the real-life character had a rotten inner core
In fact, according to sources, a showing of the film in the City resulted in people cheering when the main character, who had been sober for two years, falls off the wagon and starts taking vast amounts of cocaine.
But despite the glamourising, I felt ultimately pity for Belfort and his allies. Sure, they had the money and lifestyles, but the moral of the tale is this, if you do illegal things and build a fortune based on lies, the probability is, you won't win. And you will probably have the FBI breathing down your neck to strip it all away.
The bigger you are the harder the fall.
With more money came more outrageous behaviour and drug use. This was Belfort's downfall. He had two children with his second wife but lost them as his life spiralled out of control and arrest imminent.
He started by trading penny stocks in a car garage with a handful of friends after beginning a career in Wall Street at the wrong time – his first day was Black Monday and he lost his job quicker than he started.
These 'pink-sheet' stocks his company dealt with earned 50 per cent commission. His company Stratton Oakmont became so powerful via his salesman 'brilliance' that he managed to convince firms to use them as a place to perform their Initial Public Offerings.
In the end, his lavish party/playboy lifestyle and dodgy tactics landed him in hot water with the authorities. He faced 20 years in prison.
He ratted in some of his colleagues (there's no such thing as friends on Wall Street) and instead ended up inside for 22 months for the penny stock selling and manipulation of the stock market – supposedly let out for good behaviour.
Now this is where my criticism of the film comes in. Jordan Belfort is always illustrated as a 'nice' guy in the film when not doing drugs; staff worship him, the prison let him out because he is good and DiCaprio illustrates him as a classic 'anti-hero'.
Limelight: The real Jordan Belfort is back in the public eye after the movie was released
Rocky, for instance, made me want to be a boxer when I watched it for the first time. Goodfellas a gangster, so-on and so-forth – The Wolf of Wall Street, despite the lavish lifestyle illustrated, I hope doesn't make people want to make a quick buck being a rogue broker overnight.
I overheard one man on my way out saying: 'I want to learn how to become a broker like that.'
Belfort must have had an inner evil core. He tricked people out of their money – money that many of them probably never saw again.
Their side of the story is never told.
I want to know who some of the most defrauded individuals were, how they feel about Belfort and whether they saw any of their cash come back.
According to prosecutors, an agreement means Belford has to pay $110million in compensation to victims, with half of his income going towards that. But according to a number of reports, only a tiny fraction of income from book sales, movie rights and his motivational speaking gigs have gone towards to this.
None of this is clear in the movie – the victims are overlooked, as are the shady details to how much compensation he has paid back.
I would love to interview Belfort and his chums now to see how true the movie really is. But I get the feeling Belfort might be hard to reach, especially considering he now lives life as a motivational speaker and sells his training manual on his website for a whopping $1,997.
One thing is for sure, The Wolf of Wall Street is a brilliant movie and one that will make some people view Belfort as a genius crook and others as nothing more than a lucky chancer who deserved what came to him.
For me, it's easily the latter.
As his Dad said in the movie: his chickens well and truly came home to roost.
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Wall Street (1987): This classic directed by Oliver Stone starred Michael Douglas as power hungry Gordon Gekko and Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, a young stockbroker equally hungry for power and money. Wall Street: Money Never Sleep was released in 2010 and although not as impressive as the original, is still a fascinating watch.
Trading Places (1983): The Eighties was a great decade for money movies and this one proved light-hearted relief in the form of Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine. As a homeless guy he 'trades places' with Dan Aykroyd's character Louis Winthorpe and becomes a commodities futures trader with relative ease.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946): This classic was released almost 70 years ago - and is critically acclaimed. A businessman is shown by a guardian angel what life would have been like if never existed. A Christmas feel good classic.
Boiler Room (2000): This film was actually inspired by Jordan Belfort's behaviour and came more than a decade before The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Ben Affleck and Vin Diesel.
The Pursuit of Happiness (2006): This emotional movie starring Will Smith as down-on-his luck Chris Gardner (alongside his son Jaden making his film debut) was a touching look at how he made it from broke to broker. A real rollercoaster of highs and lows.
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why is a film review in the Money section????? So what if it has a financial theme, so did Wall Street and Wall St 2, and Brewsters Millions, It's a Wonderful life, Enron, One Percent, Other People's money, Rogue Trader and so on.
Hollywood itself IS the 1% and below...and they uphold the same type of obsession with greed etc. The corporates run Hollywood and this film is hypocrisy at its ugliest.
I saw it and agreed with the article it was brilliant, funny but ultimately had a sad ending for me, he made his money illegally and lived lavishly, but lost in the end, he lost his family, friends and lifestyle all because he didn't quit when he got ahead and wanted more.
I lost £18000 to a 'boiler room' scam back in 2000, at that time I had never heard of such a thing, my own fault, if it looks too good to be true it probably is but I wish I had seen the Boiler Room film before then. Still going on under many different guises and you have to be on your guard.
I think not showing the victims is the whole point...the film (and book) is from the anti-heroes point of view...they really didnt care, so it's not presented.
I thought the film made them look like lovable drug snorting, knockabout funsters, on a rollercoaster adventure in financial fraud. There was only gong to be one winner - Jordan Belfort. We never got to see the losers. Or the effect that being swindled out of their savings must have had on them.
Just watched it last night and it was not what I thought. Too much in your face. More of a drug movie than about wall street. At times I forgot and thought it was about a drug lord. The sex was overkill to the point that it took the x out of it. Most of it looked fabricated or exaggerated even if it wasn't and the ending left you empty.
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Susan Adams, Forbes Staff
I cover careers, jobs and every aspect of leadership.
Earlier this week we received a startling announcement from Ohio State University, where a professor claims to have taken a comprehensive look at the financial burden on companies that employ smokers. The average cost per year, per smoker: $5,816.
I find this number almost unbelievably high, but Micah Berman, the study's lead author, who is set to become an assistant professor of health services management and policy in the Ohio State University College of Public Health in August, claims to have done a study of many past studies on the subject, and calculated that the cost per smoker can range from $2,885 to a hefty $10,125.
The last such estimate came a decade ago from the Centers for Disease Control, which said that lost productivity and higher medical costs amounted to $3,400 a year per smoker. But that report looked at costs to the U.S. economy from smoking-related illness and death and didn't try to pinpoint costs to employers.
Berman's study breaks down the annual costs to business in the following way:
- Absenteeism: $517
- "Presenteeism," or reduced productivity related to nicotine addiction: $462
- Smoke breaks: $3,077
- Health care costs: $2,056
Berman, who will have a joint appointment at Ohio State's Moritz College of Law, acknowledges that early death from smoking could save money for employers who pay yearly pensions until the employee dies. Berman estimates the cost saving from early death to be approximately $296 per smoker.
One more intriguing thing his analysis takes into account: Smokers tend to make less money than nonsmokers. To do his calculations, Berman estimated that smokers make 15.6% less than non-smokers.
I am all for policies and practices that encourage and even pressure people to quit smoking. I am the opposite of a libertarian on this issue. I think it's great that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has extended smoking bans to parks and made it tougher than ever for smokers to light up. I applaud efforts by businesses to discourage smoking. My own mother quit because at the California Safeway Safeway where she used to buy cigarettes, the store started to keep them in a locked cabinet behind the cash register. She felt mortified that she had to keep the check-out line waiting while she bought a product that she knew everyone in her health-conscious community frowned upon. Tragically she had already smoked for 60 years before she quit, which gave her emphysema and caused her death. My uncle, who never could manage to quit, also died of emphysema.
So I'm all for policies that discourage smoking. But Berman's research and companies' potential reaction to it give me pause. My knowledge on this is anecdotal, but the smokers I know work just as hard as non-smokers. How does smoking make you miss work more than your non-smoking colleagues? How does nicotine addiction make you less productive? I think it's possible that smoke breaks enhance output rather than hinder it. Most of us grind through our days without enough time for reflection. Also if there are a number of smokers in a company, they could run into each other on their breaks and spark new ideas or approaches to problems. One of Forbes' most effective financial researcher/writers is a smoker who I also find to be among the most efficient and astute of my colleagues. He seems to be in great health, and is rarely absent. Another smoking colleague is high on the masthead and also one of Forbes' most productive and organized editors. I've known laggards who use outdoor smoke breaks as an opportunity to goof off but they are the exception, not the norm.
But given this new cost data, should companies seriously consider rejecting job applicants who smoke? Do employers have the right? In fact companies have been doing it for a long time. In the mid 1980s, Alaska Airlines became one of the first to refuse to hire smokers. In 2004 Union Pacific Union Pacific did the same. But those companies relied on their employees to self-report. Then in 2005 Weyco, an insurance benefits administrator in Okemos, Mich., started testing employees with a breathalyzer and firing those who failed. Since then the trend has accelerated, with many health care companies and hospitals urine-testing their applicants for nicotine before hiring them.
In 2007 the Cleveland Clinic stopped hiring smokers, and in 2011 Humana, the big health care company based in Louisville, Ky., said it would no longer hire smokers in its Arizona offices. Two more examples: Baylor Health Care Systems in Texas and Hollywood Casino in Toledo, Ohio. Idaho's Central District Health Department also decided not to hire smokers last year, according to a carefully reported story in USA Today. Fertilizer company Scotts Miracle-Gro doesn't hire smokers in Ohio.
I am torn on this issue. Civil liberties advocates and some public health professionals oppose the hiring bans. "These policies represent employment discrimination," Michael Siegel a professor at Boston University's School of Public Health told USA Today. "It's a very dangerous precedent." The hiring bans punish smokers, say the advocates, rather than help them quit. In the same USA Today piece, Paul Billings of the American Lung Association said he'd seen no data that prove nicotine-free hiring gets people to quit.
What does the law say? There is no federal protection against employment discrimination for smokers, who don't fall into protected classes like women and people of color. But 29 states including New York and California plus the District of Columbia have passed employment discrimination laws that protect smokers, though some exempt non-profits and health care companies. Twenty-one states including Texas and Florida do not protect smokers.
Berman wants companies to offer smoking-cessation programs. But those are expensive for employers who may prefer to hire applicants with a clean bill of health.
The, study, written by Berman and three co-authors, is being published online in Tobacco Control, a journal that's part of the BMJ Group, which is owned by the British Medical Association.
While every Smoker costs an employer in France, Germany, Uk, Canada, etc. ZERO since they all have Government run Universal Socialized health care (NHS), something that gives the essential service of health care to all their people while cutting health care costs by 50%, which means cut the Deficits & Debt in case of US, that supposedly Republicans are so worried about by $1-Trillion per Year.
Which NHS is so essential and basic to the well being of the Nation that it is 100% supported by all Conservative parties, in Europe, Canada, Israel, Australia, etc. Which NHS Republicans, Obama Democrats and the right-wing lying Wall Street owned media behind them, of course know to be essential to the well being of the Nation since the entire developed World has it, and in fact countries that they admire and have told you are "Shinning example of free Market Capitalism Success", that is Israel & Margaret Thatcher's Conservative party in UK 100% support and have.
So given the above facts, what does the Obama Admin do in 2009 after being elected into office to address the factors that lead to the US economy nearly crashing in 2008? One of which factors is lack of Government run Universal Socialized health care (NHS), as a result of which an American family of 4, or small business employing them, pays an insane and back breaking $20,000 per Year for health care costs ON TOP of the Medicare Taxes that they pay while in countries with NHS, which is all European countries, Canada, Israel, Australia, etc., you pay your (Medicare) Taxes and for which Government entitlement to Tax you all your life you get free health care for your Taxes all your life.
Obama Admin spends 1 year debating health care reform and at the end passes a health care reform that is a Monstrous 2500 page in length, a health care reform that was originally proposed by the Ultra Right Wing Heritage Foundation!
I agree that computing these costs is rather bogus. A company doesn't lose money on smoke breaks any more than it loses money on coffee breaks. Sheesh.
I think there is even a bigger issue at stake. What actually is the alternative? When econs say obesity-related or smoking-related diseases cost _society_ so much money, I believe they are wrong. If the fat smoker was a skinny runner instead, well exactly how would he die?
Seems to me if you total the entire costs for everyone from birth to death over a period of generations, health costs are a wash as far as all of society/govt is concerned. I mean if we are all healthy, then you might as well add 15 years of life expectancy to your calculations before making any broad pronouncements about costs. I mean if you're going to make assumptions about alternate futures, try to picture valid ones.
It's like drunk driving. Supposedly 40% of the 32,000 deaths on the roads are 'caused' by drunk drivers and many people think if we lowered that percentage all the way to zero, then we would have 40% fewer deaths. But that is not true. Insurance wonks who know their numbers think maybe 2-3% of the deaths are -caused- by drunk drivers. The rest are drunk drivers having accidents, not causing them.
Lots of faulty assumptions every where you look. Hindisight is not 20-20, we just tell ourselves it is same way we tell ourselves any alternative action would have resulted in utopia instead of resulting in a different situation with a different (or same) set of problems.
Your allegiance to Bloomberg's strong arm tactics is commendable, but the diminutive control freak may have gone a bit too far earlier today. According to a report this morning, Bloomberg has authorized NYPD officers to begin executing anyone caught smoking cigarettes in New York City this summer. http://www.thedailyrash.com/new-york-city-passes-law-to-begin-executing-smokers
Healthcare costs are WAY too low.