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tracing out membrane buttons
some of you may remember awhile back I was asking about VFD's and such to make a lathe variable speed. Long story short I did it by gutting a treadmill and using the motor and control boards.
Everything works fine, however I want to add my own push buttons in place of the membrane buttons and totally get rid of the treadmill console board.
There are a total of 15 buttons that do various functions and 8 wires that go into a ribbon cable that was plugged into the control board. I have unplugged the ribbon cable and replaced the 8 wires with 8 leads (just some CAT5 cable I had laying around.
Here's where I am confused. In order to get something to work I have to touch three leads together, not two. So I figured that's weird but I went with it and one by one I found three lead combinations that worked for each function. So I figured I had all the buttons figured out and what wire combination I needed to get that function to work.
I thought great I'm good to go and can put in my push buttons I'll just have two leads on one side of the button and one on the other. WRONG!
I for the life of me can not figure it out. For example if I have something like orange, orange/white, and green be my start button and I wire it to one button it works fine, but if I add another button and it's something like orange, brown, and green/white it goes haywire and starts another function randomly, or it does nothing at all.
I've tried to trace it from the membrane switch console itself just following the green lines, but I can't seem to get it right.
Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I've never dealt with membrane switches before, why does it need three leads? Shouldn't it just be "power" and "switch leg"? What the heck is the third one and how do I deal with it so I can add just normal push buttons????
Chances are that the membrane switches are not switching current (power and switch leg), but rather completing a ground (that otherwise floats) on the circuit board. You'll need a schematic of the circuit board to figure out how this thing really works. I doubt that there's anything special about the switches themselves.
"And the switches may me wired in a matrix (that is, you can hook up 16 buttons with 8 wires which are scanned with some sort of keyboard chip)."
This is very likely.
The switches are making a connection between a row and column that is decoded.
Interconnections are very expensive, thus the desire to reduce their size by scanning.
Even most push button phones do this.
Three columns, four rows.
Only seven connections to decode 12 buttons.
so what are my chances of being able to do what I want to do?
I pulled apart the two layers of the membrane and traced everything out. I thought once again I was on the right track, but it looks like some buttons are using 4 wires instead of my original thinking of three. One lead appears to go all the way through every button, so I'm thinking it's a ground or some sort of common. I can get some of the buttons to work (start and stop) but when I start adding things like ramp up and down it causes problems. Like if I add ramp up, my start and stop buttons will no longer work. It's extremely frustrating.
There has to be a way and I need to find it. I pretty much have to now since I tore apart the two layers. I've heard of other people replacing them with push buttons, of course they didn't go into detail as to how they figured it all out.
You have 8 wires, so what you are looking at is a 4x4 switch matrix in to a micro-controller.
4 leads are scan-out and 4 leads are scan-in - that will give you up to 16 identifiable switch combinations.
You would need to use an oscilloscope to identify the scan-out leads and then identify which switch sends the pulse train back to which input.
While you can replace the membrane switches with other momentary contacts switches, what's the point? You still need the micro-controller to interrupt the input and produce the desired result and output.
Unfortunately, taking apart most membrane switch circuit boards and reassembling them, greatly reduces their reliability.
Can't you just relabel them?
As far as the three leads, I think it's just coincidence you're getting a response. While it could be some sort of very unusual switch matrix, it's really quite doubtful.
"While you can replace the membrane switches with other momentary contacts switches, what's the point? You still need the micro-controller to interrupt the input and produce the desired result and output. "
How!? That's exactly what I'm trying to do is just replace them with simple normally open, momentary contact, push buttons.
I have the controller. It's pretty small and I'm going to put it inside of an enclosure, on the outside of the enclosure I will have my new push buttons to do the various functions. This is all mounted to a pendant arm on the lathe that I can reposition to be out of the way as needed when working on turnings.
As to what the point is, the treadmill console board was rather large and ugly. I don't need nor want a huge plastic board just to do basic functions. Plus I'm going to be eliminating some of the functions too, like the workout routines, calories burned, etc...
I took another look at it tonight. I have the two "sides". One side has three pins that go into a ribbon, the other 5, so two ribbons total of 8 pins, wires, leads, whatever you want to call them. On the side with only 3 pins it appears that it goes from one of pins, through all of the function buttons, and then out another pin. That makes absolutely no sense to me though how that would work. If two pins are basically one, why even have the second? Is it feeding something (voltage? ground?) through all the function keys and than back into the board?
I'll trod back into the shop and try to make sense of it. It seems so simple yet so difficult. I was expecting to be able to just trace everything out, find the two leads I would need and bam be done with it...
There are 8 wires that come off the signal control board for the function buttons. Whatever combination of wires is needed to get a certain function is what I'm after. I can get certain functions to work but I know it's not right and I can't get them all (like I said I have to use three leads instead of two).
From this signal control board another set of wires goes down to the motor control board. From what I understand you press a button, it goes to the first control board, interrupts the input, if it's a motor function it sends it down to the motor controller to control the motor.
As I said, I have/had everything working fine. The only thing I'm after is figuring out the buttons so I can relocate them and put them on push buttons.
Unless you can determine what lines are rows and what are columns you are facing a real uphill battle.
The scanner logic is pretty simple.
It drives one line at a time and looks to see if any connection has been made by a switch.
It knows what line it is driving, and what line is now connected to that line.
That allows it to determine what switch is closed.
You might be able to play around and figure it out, but an oscilloscope would make it a lot easier to identify the output lines from the keypad decoder and the input line back to the decoder.
I have had to design circuits to do this every few years for different applications.
Hopefully no one used any of the common tricks to further reduce the interconnections.
now I feel like I'm at a complete loss....
using my meter to test continuity I traced pin 1 along the board. Half way through one of the buttons I lost tone (it was reading something like 25 ohms).
I kept the one lead on the button and moved the other from pin 1 to pin 8 and I got tone again. Can anyone explain that? From what I think is going on, pin 1 and pin 8 are virtually the same (electrically speaking they follow the exact same trace) but it's like it has too much resistance or something and can't make it all the way through the board or something so pin 1 stops half way through one of the buttons and pin 8 takes over and finishes.
I have no clue, I feel like I'm loosing my mind and grasping at straws. I've got to get something figured though and get my shop back up and running.
As for figuring out what is rows and what are columns, I think I can very easily. Overlaying the two membranes on each other I can see the grid very clearly. But it still doesn't make sense to me that I need to touch three leads together to get a function and not just two. I know it's not just a coincidence either. I get NOTHING with just two leads touching. Of course this frustrates me to no end though because I feel so close yet so far away. I'd have to double up wires on one side of a push button, but of course doing that causes problems the more and more buttons I add because more and more wires get connected together and act as one. So SOMEHOW I need to come up with a button that will momentarily close three connections and open all three when the button is released.
"So SOMEHOW I need to come up with a button that will momentarily close three connections and open all three when the button is released."
It is a 3-pole single throw switch. Often abbreviated to 3PST or 3P1T.
You could also use a 3 pole double throw switch (3PDT or 3P2T) and simply not connect the second position contacts.
Higher resistance sort of goes along with flex membranes.
While rigid printed circuit boards are very low resistance since copper foil is present, the flex membranes cannot use as solid and thick of a conductor.
Double feeding is not uncommon to keep the resistance low enough for operation at low logic voltages.
The input impedance of the chips can be very high, so not a lot of current is required.
Some membrane switches do not even use DC voltage.
They sense the coupling produced with an AC wave through a finger that is near the two (or more) lines.
A single exciting line may be used for all the switch positions, while the other two 'contacts' are to sense the capacitive coupling at each position that indicates the button has been 'pushed.'
Membrane keys typically use a conductive (but not zero resistnance) material to bridge the two conductors. It's a common failure mode and we even have some brush on goo that rejuvenates it.
You have ZERO hcance of figuing it out with a simple continuity beeper.
I think I have it figured out. I took pictures of the membranes and sent it to some electronics guru. I was right in that I need to close three contacts instead of just two. So I guess at least my original work of finding all the three lead combinations for each function can be utilized.
He recommended I get double pole single throw (DPST) buttons. The ones I've found are pretty pricey though considering I need so many. I'll look into what you suggested, Brick. I don't want to fork out $35+ per button.
Thanks for all the help!!!
I'm starting to get the feeling that although you called them "membrane switches" what you may actually have "capacitive switches." While the keypad may be similar looking at first glance, it's a different technology altogether.
Save your money until you know for certain - if capacitive switches, you can not replace them with momentary contact switches.
The only way to know for sure is to reconnect the switch panel and use an oscilloscope to see what the signals are on each lead of the ribbon connector. Then analyze what pressing each key does.
It's also not a good idea to troubleshoot these I/O ports with a multimeter, especially with a continuity tester, as they can easily do damage to the ICs.
If it is a capacitive switch you are probably out of luck.
You might be able to use simple switches depending on how the capacitance is being sensed, but for at least some designs an actual switch will not work.
DPST buttons are not very common and will likely cost more than DPDT buttons.
DPDT are a pretty common switch.
ALCO switches (now TE Connectivity) are very good.
Switches have never been inexpensive, with push buttons higher than toggle switches.
just wanted to give an update.
Using two N.O. SPST momentary contact push buttons I have it working. Just like I said from the start, I have to close three contacts instead of two to get a function to work. I just wanted to let you know because there seemed to be some confusion in that, that couldn't be the case.
So I have some DPST buttons on order, but for now I'm using two SPST buttons and have to press both buttons down to get a function to work. It's jerry rigged a little (for now), but at least I can turn projects until my new buttons get here and I can wire them in permanently.
$50 (for the treadmill off craigslist) variable speed lathe conversion. Not bad considering the factory wanted $800 for a conversion kit.


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I am new to this forum, this is my 2nd year SFGing, and the 2nd year that Japanese beetles keep eating my basil plants. Does anyone else have this problem, if so, what do you do to keep them from devouring all the basil. I have tried the traps and even put some dust stuff the feed-n-seed told me to use. But I would like to try to avoid chemicals. I have 11 plants and they are mowing them down.
Thanks so much!
step one: pick the japanese beetles off anytime you see them and squish them or throw them in a soapy water bucket. repeat until crazy
step two: Yell and curse at them then run around like a madman/woman cursing more and pulling out your hair.
step three: Give up and hope they don't eat the plants to the ground so there is still enough for you or spray them with chemicals so you no longer want to eat it either, but hopefully kill as many of the SOB's as possible in the process.
Repeat as necessary.
Oh one more thing for some reason I'm not having hardly any problems with japanese beetles this year. I think it's the starlings. They're always in my yard picking things out of the grass and garden. I can't say 100% because the bug off as soon as they see me, but it looks like japanese beetles they're eating......along with doing a number on my zucchini, but I'm fine with that so long as they are eating the beetles.
bought at lowe's today, window screening in a roll. Just laid in over top of the basil plants (4x4 box). Working great. Small enough holes to keep the beetles from eating but lets the water/sun in. It is very lightweight too.
Thanks for the trap idea, tried them last year, did not have much success.


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Al says there might be one. So what do you guys think? Will this actually happen? My opinion, is nope. Though I really wish I had tickets for that day, just in case . hah
I sure as heck hope so, my brother won tickets and I maybe going with him. That would be so cool to get to ride Space.
My fingers will be crossed and my camera ready! A preview ride would be great!
As awesome as it would be I have little/no expectation of it.Originally Posted by Disguy
It seems like quite the long shot, but on the other hand, they did work really hard to make sure the queue looks nice in time for May 5th, so who knows.
-Kyle, Member of the DCA Lovers Alliance
From what I've heard, they are done w/ the building of the ride, it's the insurance for it that is holding them back from opening it sooner. I can only imagine how expensive it would be to insure since the issue with BTMR.
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes....
That is a VERY interesting thought CP. I never thought about that. I had always heard that Disney was self insured for the parks. But perhaps that is not the case. Interesting indeed.Originally Posted by CinderellaPrincess
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I wouldn't think that Disney would need insurance. Their pockets seem big enough, especially since they rarely pay out claims. If an accident happens and the park is at fault, they pay, no questions. Can you imagine all the silly claims that would be made against them if it were otherwise? This is all just conjecture, of course.
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And Disneyland gets petty sues enough as it isOriginally Posted by dramaqueen
Ah, I love my MouseTales books.
But yes, I am curious as well.
For dangerous rides like roller coasters I would think that insurance is a requirement in a theme park and it may be a law.Originally Posted by dramaqueen
You have to insure your home and your car, why wouldn't you have to obtain insurance for a potentially dangerous ride?
They probably don't need it, but I bet they are still required to get it...
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes....
Here is my thought;
Since the ride is not being built in house, IE, The "Coaster" section of the ride was built by Vekoma, it probably needs to be insured from an outside source. Sure Disney settles claims every day, but they still have insurance.
Originally Posted by sir clinksalot
Exactly!!! Thanks Sir for backin me up!!
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes....
Dosh also needs to come in and approve the attraction before non employees can ride.
Hasent DOSH already approved the attraction?


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CHANDLER, Ariz., July 14, 2014 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the expansion of its instrumentation amplifier portfolio with the new zero-drift MCP6N16. This self-correcting architecture maximizes DC performance by enabling ultra-low offset, low-offset drift, and superior common-mode and power-supply rejection, while eliminating the adverse effects of 1/f noise. The result is very high accuracy across both time and temperature.
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I own DSCO have for years. So I am a realist, Cooper wasted working capital trying to manufaure and distribute himself. He got greedy and destroyed Surfaxin, they are betting the farm on Aerosurf, and if the past is indicative they will lose the farm. At this point I am holding for a buyout.
And who has the commercialization agreement? You think Easai will have the horsepower to get that out there in a reasonable time? I dont know, maybe in 2 years we might get them to hire 50 sales reps to sell it.
11 days since last updated on March 19, 2015 when total run was at 11,425. That is an increase of 198 in 11 days. Or an average of 18 a day. You people should be blowing up Eisai and Arena, they are letting another weight loss season get wasted.... The partnership deal with Eisai was a big mistake, they do not have what it takes to get it done here in the US let alone the entire world. Something needs to be done, this is just stupid.
National Airings 11,623
Spot Spend Rank 1,540
Spend Rank: 938
Airing Rank: 921
Were we supposed to get an announcement or 2 in the first quarter?
Psalm 14:1
For the director of music. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
Saying Cooper is dumb would be an insult to dumb people. He is inept, a liar and a their and has no clue how to run this company. Had a chance to partner Surfaxin when it was approved but got greedy and was insistent on handling the commercial launch in house. Well because of his management and lack of viable vision we are forced to choose between trying to continue the commercialization of Surfaxin which will burn cash to fast or stop and focus on Aerosurf, which is really Surfaxin anyway.
Here is a clue, even if and when Aerosurf is approved they still have to get it on the hospital formularies and into those hospitals which they have been unsuccessful at doing since approval.
Nothing goes straight up, buy the drips and sell the rips.
Contrave has not been proven to help with smoking cessation where did you come up with that?
DSCO is in trouble, why would you recommend them? On their third management and totally screwed up the Surfaxin launch in every way possible. The screwed up the Aerosurf Phase 2a study which pushed results out 4 to 5 more months.
They are begging someone to take Surfaxin off their hands and if they can't find that company they will stop commercialization of Surfaxin, holding as much capital to get through the Phase 2 a and b proving Aerosurf works so they can get a higher value to raise more money or sell the company.
I lost a boat load of money on that stock, another great drug with idiots running the company.
No one answers any more it is automated call handling software, you need the extensions to get through...
Yahoo deleted the phone numbers ha ha. Blow Up Jacks phone the number for Arena is 858 453 7200 and his extension is 223. Call it before he changes the number and extension... Ooops sorry Jack.
Get your call in before he changes his extension.... :-)
They are ignoring everyone and that is a violation of their fiduciary but at this point we as shareholders are allowing them to get away with this since we do nothing about it but post here.
Apathy is killing America at every turn.
I have been emailing management at Arena for over a year. I am sure they don't even read my emails any more, the last few times we communicated, I called a spade a spade and they stopped responding all together...
This stock goes down on good news, down on bad news, down on no news, down when Jack speaks, and up when the rest of the market is tanking. So Sadist, I just want off this Bizzaro ride.
Ok, I am done. Back to work.
Then that percentage would go down unless the Tutes bought the new shares... Same holdings but larger pool of shares.
14.54% Institutional Holding as of 12.31.2014 reported by NASDAQ, Would be nice if these folks had to report every month.
does not seem like it has found a bottom. And the catalysts for a bounce are a while away. Wonder how low this can go. I was looking for 1.50 back when the old CEO screwed up on that bad news but now I have no idea how low they are going to take this thing.
Clearly they don't want to stop Surfaxin as the drug has some value, however they need to move Aerosurf forward. So do they continue to burn cash trying to market a drug they clearly don't know how to market burning up valuable cash needed to move the studies forward, or do they suspend or sell of the rights to market Surfaxin to someone more capable of marketing it and use the cash to advance Aerosurf forward. So far results are better then expected meaning that we get more value out of moving Aerosurf forward.


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14.2: Danaus plexippus: Monarch Butterfly
Common Name
- Monarch Butterfly
- Milkweed Butterfly
The monarch butterfly has a black outline, and inside of the black border is orange color. On the edge there are white dots. Altogether, it looks like a stained glass window. The monarch weighs between .0095 to 0.026 ounces and is about 4 inches wide when the wings are open.
Man affects the monarch butterfly by using the fields and meadows that they live in to make buildings, so the butterfly's home is taken away.
The complete taxonomic classification is:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Family: Nymphalidae
- Genus: Danaus
- Species: D. plexippus
The monarch butterfly population is split into two sides of the United States; the two sides are the east and west of the continental divide. They live in milkweed plant communities. They live in places with warm temperatures. The population on the eastern side spends its winters in Mexico, and the rest of the year in the United States and Canada. In winter they can be found in high altitudes in Central Mexico. The population on the western side of the continental divide can be found in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and California in the summertime. At the end of summer the butterflies migrate back towards the coast, and they stay in areas ranging from Baja to San Francisco. When they migrate, they look for big tall trees like eucalyptus trees. During the winter, the butterflies live on moisture and body fat until milkweed grows again in the spring, and then they fly inland.
There are four stages in the life of the butterfly. The four stages are:
1. Egg: The first stage is an egg. This butterfly will only lay it's eggs on milkweed plants.
2. Larva: The second stage is when the caterpillar hatches from the egg. It is hard to see at first, but later within two weeks it gets to be a few inches long. Usually the caterpillar has stripes or a pattern on it of yellow and black, and it has to keep shedding about 4 or more times. Caterpillars need to eat a lot.
3. Pupa: After the caterpillar has grown to a certain size, it makes itself into a light green chrysalis and changes inside.
4. Adult: The last stage is the butterfly stage. Adults reproduce in this stage.
Cell Biology
Like all other plants and animals, the monarch butterfly has eukaryotic cells. Eukaryotic cells have a nucleus and many other organelles. New cells are made when existing cells grow and divide. Some reasons cells divide are that they have to repair tissue, growth, or reproduction. Mitosis happens when the nucleus of the cell divides, and two new cells with the same DNA as the original one are formed.
Meiosis is cell division in which gametes (example: egg, sperm) are made with half the chromosomes of the original cell. Chromosomes are made of DNA with genes that have "codes" for the butterfly's traits.
Scientists say that the butterflies separated from moths 150 million years ago. Butterflies are in the moth family.
Some predators of the monarch butterfly are wasps, bees, snakes and birds. The predators who eat the monarchs won't want to eat them again because they don't like the taste. The monarch butterfly eats the milkweed plant (as a caterpillar), which gives the butterfly a strange taste to its predators. The predators don't like the strange taste. Their unique color of orange and black make them stand out and will keep predators away. The bad taste, together with the bright colors provide a successful defense mechanism. Monarchs share the defense of bad taste with the similar-looking viceroy butterfly in what is perhaps one of the most well-known examples of mimicry. Mimicry is the similarity in appearance of one species to another which protects one or both of them.
This butterfly will only lay it's eggs on milkweed plants, which becomes a food source for the caterpillar as the eggs hatch.
When monarch butterflies on the West Coast of the United States come south towards southern California, to area such as San Diego, they search for big trees like Torrey pines, redwood and eucalyptus trees.
Anatomy and Physiology
The main parts of the butterfly are the head, thorax ( the section of the body that binds the abdomen and the head) and the abdomen. Other parts include the leg, fore wing, hind wing, wing veins, compound eye, proboscis (long mouth part), and antenna.
In the fall, monarch butterflies migrate in millions from north to south. In the spring, they migrate from south to north. Monarchs stay in groups when they migrate. The monarch butterfly is the only butterfly that migrates both north and south as birds do regularly.
- Monarch Butterfly, http://eol.org/pages/2682739/overview.
- Hoskins, Adrian, Butterfly Evolution. Learn about Butterflies. The Complete Guide to the World of Butterflies and Moths. n.d.
- Hoyt, Cathryn, Evolution of Moths and Butterflies. Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute. n.p., n.d.
- Shenkman, Henry. Monarch Butterfly - Danaus Plexippus - Nature Bytes Video. http://naturebytesvideo.com/bytes_K-O/monarch_butterfly.html.
- Urban Habitat of Southern California - Nature Bytes Video http://naturebytesvideo.com/m05-urban.html.
- What Do Butterflies Eat? http://www.thebutterflysite.com/what-butterflies-eat.shtml.
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Niam Angela Helen, let me play the role of a devil's advocate and point out two or three things:
1) To lose two general elections and win the third one (third time lucky) is quite normal in recent Spanish politics: Felipe González (Socialist Party) lost in 1977 and 1979, and finally won in 1982; José María Aznar (People's Party) lost in 1989 and 1993 and finally won in 1996. Zappo —as AshtonEJ calls him— is a very special case, for in 2004 he was elected by accident, virtually no one expected it a week before the election. Rajoy lost in 2004 and 2008 and will most probably win in 2012 or perhaps 2011.
2) Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Rajoy's opponent, is even a worse nightmare for an image consultant: he is four years older than Rajoy; he is not bespectacled, but is bald; he is semi-bearded and has a very ugly nose; and his health is pretty bad, not to mention some obscure facts of his past life as a politician. He is less dull than Rajoy, that I concede.
3) 32 comments is not too bad for a TE article, especially for an article about Spanish politics. Many others dealing with many topics do not get even six or eight comments.
An image consultant's nightmare, the bespectacled Mr Rajoy is a dull candidate. He looks like a provincial land registrar—which, indeed, he was before embarking on a political career. He has twice lost elections: his party is bad at ejecting losing leaders.
Just taking a glance at the very few comments this article has provoked, proves how right your comments above are - what a spineless bore!
As a Labour voting Brit that has lived in Spain since 1995 through the last year of Felipismo, 8 years of Aznar and 7 years of Zappo, I have to say that what the Spanish view on socialism is, has nothing to do with the way it is perceived in the UK.
All parties here are at least one step to the left. The PSOE is somewhere between the risable Socialist Workers party and the Communists in the UK. The PP is somewhere between Labour and a tepid Conservative party.
I'm no fan of Rajoy, my personal choice would be Madrid's Esperanza Aguirre. However, if a PP turnip ran against anyone in the PSOE, the turnip would win.
Every day the PSOE delay the inevitable will lose them even more votes. If they try to hang on until next March, they'll probably be out of power for at least a decade.
I've noticed a few 15-M, 15-J style comments on here. There's nothing wrong with protesting BUT the movement represents noone except themselves. If the movement wants to do something right, stand for office in the next elections. If it doesn't, it's just another angry mob of hooligans.
I particularly like one of the earlier comments about how Mr. Rajoy will be an embarrassment to Spain. To be honest, I can't think of anyone more embarrassing than Mr. Z. - a born liar that has destroyed Spain and like Nero - is fiddling away while his country burns to the ground.
Señor Rajoy may be, perhaps, "dull", "provincial", "a grey-bearded veteran", "bespectacled" and, indeed, "an image consultant's nightmare", but the fact is that right now there is no credible alternative to him within the 'People's Party' and, in my opinion, there is no credible alternative to a 'People's Party' government after next election, in spite —or because of— Señor Rubalcaba and the worn-out Socialist Party.
Graciano Palomo, a journalist and writer who apparently knows Rajoy very well, recently wrote a book about him ('El hombre impasible' —'The Impassive Man'). I have not read it, but I understand that one of his main theses is that Rajoy is much more than what he appears to be and he will surprise many people once he is in power. Wishful thinking? Perhaps, but he has an advantage: It will be really difficult for him to do things worse than Señor Zapatero, a ruinous amateur and arguably the worst Spanish premier since 1976.
But if he DID things even worse... I doubt that this European country would be able to survive four more years like this. In 1898, after the disastrous Spanish-American War, the British Prime Minister, the Marquess of Salisbury, exclaimed, "Finis Hispaniae!", and it would be very sad for Spain and Europe that someone else had to repeat the same words at the time of the fifth centenary of the Spanish State.
Yes, "nicksar", I'm aware of how the PP has handled regional affairs, specially in Valencia, where some of the things they've done are appalling, to say the least. I'm not going to vote for the PP, ever: too many "meapilas" and too many "franquistas".
The PP is going to win the next general elections, but if they don't implement some serious changes... who knows where we are going to end up? It might sound naive, but I'm just hoping...
I can't vote for this PSOE, not unless they bring somebody bright, competent, with a clear vision and not tainted by association with this government.
TheRainInSpain , YOU ARE SAYING Mr. Zapatero is world clown, maybe for you, because European and American and a lot of economist have been saying he is on the right path. i understand your ideology makes you to exaggerate everything, but remember you president of PP rajoy up to now after wining communities election not said mooooo, up to this time., that how really i mean really will change things. maybe if he comes and say the truth he will get more respect.
because in the world eyes, rajoy is the one looking like a clown.
what---------Galaicus2010 wrote:(I identify with the socialist party), but I hope that the PP implements the changes that the PSOE has been enable to do:
all the changes you asking for example:bring down the regional and local budgets to a manageable level. do you know all the communities that belong to PP have biggest numbers on red. so have can they do better.
spending to train people or workers, they want to cut all these programs.
increasing tax on second house all the PP people have second and third and so on, do you really think they will pass that. i don't think so.
people need to know is not only Spain in these problem the hole western world have same issues. this is a global crisis begin with banks and American financial company not Zapatero.
the world and Spain with it will never, never will be back as it was some years ago, that was illusion, so forget it.
is time for new ideas, new way of thinking, do you think Rajoy is the one.
i like to ask PP people, that are giving their opinion about this article, keep telling us go to PP web side and learn about our program.
they are funny, rajoy is on TV all day and you never hear from him any detail idea about what he will do. all we hear typical slogans, cut tax for rich people and privatize what ever left in Spain, that is still public.
Regan tried trigger down economic and didn't work, this idea that if you give more money to rich hopefully they will invest in society didn't work. and will not work in Spain or any other country.
the crisis of Spain started with aznar government and passing his law about land in Spain. his idea of wild and savage economic created the corruption in Spain in construction business that was our no. 1 economic for some time, and now we are paying for that.
at last i really can wait to see PP in power, they will have complete power and we will see what will happen. good luck!
I don't think Rajoy is enigmatic. If he were a standard Galician he would be thoughtful, one of our best treats, which could you look enigmatic but it's not the same. But he has proven to be indecisive in the past, specially in 2004 when he should have politely told Sr. Aznar to, "please, shut up, I'm in charge now". He didn't and the unwise way the PP handled the 11M incidents cost them the elections.
But now everything is different: Sr. Zapatero has proven to be a disaster: a leader without a vision or communication skills. I speak for myself (I identify with the socialist party), but I hope that the PP implements the changes that the PSOE has been enable to do:
- make the justice system efficient, since a slow or inefficient justice is an invitation to corruption.
- raise the IBI (the real-estate tax), excluding one housing unit, to bring the properties prices to a reasonable level so the younger generations can have a normal life and the construction business can recover. Otherwise the country is in a sure path to suicide.
- promote entrepreneurship and continuous technical training.
- bring down the regional and local budgets to a manageable level.
- bring to end end the dual track for workers: benefits if you are old, misery if you are young. I find immoral how the left-leaning trade unions have chosen to forget the problems of the younger generation.
So... basically since the left has failed, left-leaning electors, like myself, are hoping the right implements the necessary changes... before the country falls apart...
Ahmed Limam's interesting comment has made me realize that I must correct myself and clarify, just in case, that my reference to a "presidential republic" is totally gratuitous, as some countries like France are presidential republics while others like Italy are not, but both France's President Sarkozy and Italy's President Napolitano are the heads of state of their respective countries.
By the way, another alternative to 'prime minister' and 'head of government' would be 'premier', also widely used.
Ahmed, I loved your "Canciller del Tablero de Ajedrez"! Next time I play chess I will remember it.
What about the 'Señor Guardián de los Cinco Puertos' (the 'Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports')? It sounds like a new character from the Lord of the Rings, but I actually like it! Zapatero created the Orwellian 'Ministerio de Igualdad' (Ministry of Equality), why not the 'Ministry' of the Cinque Ports, after all...
@ Laura Garcia : Apart from the US and some other countries in Latin America, every country is politically organized the same way: a head of state (either a hereditary monarch, as in your country, or an elected president) and a head of government, usually known by the generic term of prime minister. Just because in Spain and some Arab countries they use the term "President of the Government", or First Minister, or whatever variation, does not change the fact that they all play the same role, that of a prime minister, which is understandable to everybody in their native language. The only exception I know of is for Germany where, for historical reasons, the head of the Federal Government is known in English and some other other languages (including Arabic) as Chancellor, a direct translation from the German "Kanzler" (or rather these days the feminine "Kanzlerin") even if she does exactly what a prime minister does.
Can you imagine referring to Silvio Berlusconi as "President of the Council of Ministers" the literal translation of his title in Italian? Would you in Spanish refer to George Osborne as "Canciller del Tablero de Ajedrez" which would be the direct translation of his English title? Of course not, it would be absurd. You just use the equivalent term most people use, "Ministro de Hacienda" or "Ministro de Finanzas."
Laura García,
Literal translations can be mildly risky and are often misleading, mainly because of the so-called 'falsos amigos' (false friends, i.e. words looking alike in both languages but having very different meanings).
For example, if someone translated literally 'House of Lords' into Spanish as 'Casa de Lores', that would be incorrect, the accepted and correct thing being 'Cámara [Chamber] de los Lores'.
As J Rawlins explains very well, in English and in a political context, 'president' means head of state of a presidential republic, like Sarkozy in France, Obama in the USA, Piñera in Chile, and many others, especially in Latin America. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is surely not a head of state (except for Jeb Bush and some Kazakhs... see below) and therefore should not be referred to as president, but as prime minister, though PM being so specifically British & Commonwealth, 'head of government' is also acceptable.
There are some juicy anecdotes about this. A decade ago Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, when visiting Spain, adressed Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar as "the president of the Spanish Republic", and just a couple of days ago Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero was referred to while visiting Kazakhstan as "the King of Spain" (José Luis I, 2004-20...11? Let's hope so!).
To keep on topic, as for Mariano Rajoy I am among those who believe that what one must expect and demand from a politician or head of government/state is above all intelligence, know-how, seriousness and honesty, not necessarily charisma, sympathy, pretty eyes or even 'stardom'. As for his age (and experience), this should be an asset, not a problem.
By the way, if he wins next election he would become the first bearded Spanish head of government since General Miguel Cabanellas in 1936 or, from a more democratic perspective, since Prime Minister José Sánchez Guerra in 1922.
Just a few comments:
1) Rajoy will not win the next general election but Rubalcaba will lose it, because high unemployment and all bad economic things we already know.
2) Nobody really knows the economic proposals from Rajoy: just the repeated message that Zapatero is a bad PM
3) Both Financial Times and The Economist have said financial system and labour reforms done by Zapatero will take time but are ok.
4) Voters have myopia: they just see the previous 10 months (which are really bad)-they don't have the ability to think and identify the best proposal
5) We don't deserve a PM who himself doesn't speak English but wants the Spanish schools to teach English.
Differences between both leaders are less than it appears. Even more important, differences between their parties are still less.
In essential issues both PP and PSOE are sticking to the same style of politics, that is to say, blind adoration of power for the sake of power itself. Both of them are presenting regularly to elections, Berlusconi-style, scores of prosecuted candidates. Both of them are plagued by nasty corruption scandals. Both of them are resisting adamantly any attempt to update the musty Spanish electoral law. Both of them, acting in a concerted way, have crippled the Spanish Constitutional Court and generally jeopardized the independence of high courts in Spain. Both of them uphold the highly inefficient administrative system set-up in Spain after the Transition, which encompasses four levels: central government, regional government (autonomía), province government (diputación provincial) and town halls (ayuntamiento).
Both of them betted heavily on the real estate bubble, combined with EU apparently never-ending grants, as the only way to prosperity in Spain. Besides wrecking the financial system and playing an essential part in the explosion of Spanish private debt, the bubble has brought endemic corruption at the town halls of all Spain; it has destroyed enormous extents of territory and landscape; it has dumped mind-boggling externalities on public infrastructures and systems, straining them beyond measure; it has drained credit from the rest of the productive system; and it has brought to Spain droves of low-qualified immigrants, who have now become the names and faces of the highest unemployment in the whole EU.
To believe that anything will change with the impending victory of Mr Rajoy is either ill-informed or disingenuous. Spain is screwed for many years, and nothing short of in-depth social, political and economic reform will bring it back to the status of a civil nation. But PP and PSOE are in reality, beyond their empty rhetoric, rigidly against reform, due to their vested interests in the current system.
Zapatero, on the othe hand, is amazing!!!!... It's amazing how he's ruined a conuntry that we have been building with a lot of work for almost 40 years. I don't now if that is "misterious" but obviously is "magic". Maybe you want him for the UK, please, take him with you. I will be very grateful.
The type and degree of the reforms needed by the Spanish economy are not unknown for both PSOE and PP. With some nuances they are being repeated almost every week for finantial outfits and respected economists, as well foreigns (the latest, Roubini, this week) as nationals.
But no political leader will dear warm the people about such remedies at the day. It is too risky. For PSOE, it would imply lose its mass of leftish and 'never-vote-the-right' voters, elbowing them out either to the abstention or to vote Izquierda Unida (a party far leftwards than PSOE). Specially right now, when PSOE has designed a candidate,wich must set a difference between his proposals and the vote-expelling measures taken by Mr Zapatero.
To be sincere is also dangerous for Mr. Rajoy. It is not a matter of his Galician roots. There is much about 'Mr. Cameron syndrome'. Spanish voters are not courageous. They will not back up a candidate setting forth too tough policies. Mainly when a large bunch of them would rather vote PSOE, and the will do if MR. Rubalcaba offer them a credible offer for believers on the 'government will do everything for you' solution.
*has had.....typo above
It seems some idiot has hasd my original comment removed-it is clearly not a case of being against the rules-but its removal removes the thread of the follow up by Pandemonium and my reply.
Re Prime Minister or President:the problem is the lack of vocabulary in Spanish;ZP,or whoever,is president of the Spanish govt NOT of Spain;he is the King's first minister.
Unfortunately,as usual,too many less informed,badly spoken,in English,Spaniards seem to contribute-Castilla La Mancha is fine in English.
I just PRAY the Popular Party will win the next general elections by A VERY, VERY, VERY AMPLE MAJORITY. They have excellent people on their economic team and they are the ONLY ONES capable of fixing this mess.
I believe that Rajoy's assessors have missed a something that David Cameron's team spotted in the UK. Before the British election, Cameron was often photographed cycling to the office. This improved his image by distancing him from traditional Tory bigwigs while aligning him with the growing numbers of 'green' voters.
The irony is that Rajoy was, in his youth, a very keen club cyclist.
Laura García writes to say that Spain has a president and not a prime minister. She is unaware that in English the term 'President' implies that the holder is the head of state - as in France and the US. Mr. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is the Spanish 'prime minister' because Spain is a monarchy and so he is not the head of state.
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Ok I looked into the Singapore books and I'm confused. There is a workbook, textbook, instruction manual, word problem book, and a math practice book for each level. Do I need all of this? What's the difference btwn level A and B? I want to get started but want to make sure I buy the right books.
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