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Celebrations of a New, Expanded Europe Are Clouded by Old Fears of Immigration
By PATRICK E. TYLER; Brian Lavery contributed reporting for this article.
Published: May 2, 2004
DUBLIN, May 1— A celebration of fireworks, light shows, church bells and dancing rolled across Europe on Friday night toward a culminating ceremony on Saturday in the Irish capital, where the 15 nations of the European Union welcomed the largest expansion of its borders ever by taking in eight former Communist states of Eastern Europe and two Mediterranean countries.
A night of music under searchlight-laced skies gave way to pomp and festivity here, where Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland, who holds the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union, was the host of a flag-raising ceremony set to the strains of Beethoven's ''Ode to Joy,'' the European anthem. He also held a banquet on Saturday night for the 24 other leaders, who flew in under heavy security.
Mr. Ahern, speaking at a news conference, called this May Day a ''day of hope and opportunity'' that finally closed one chapter of modern Europe's history of cold-war division and opened a new chapter made possible by ''the triumph of your determination and perseverance.''
Though this enlargement does not add as many people or as much raw economic power as the one in 1973 that brought Britain, Denmark and Ireland into the union, it nonetheless pushed Europe across a critically important psychological barrier, completing a unification process that began after the collapse of the Soviet bloc more than a decade ago.
The expansion creates an even larger European economic entity, at 450 million people more populous by half again than the United States and marginally stronger in economic output. But the enlarged Europe still suffers from a lack of political cohesion or diplomatic heft against the dominance of the United States in world affairs and global security.
Moreover, there was a detectable sour note hanging over the celebrations, many officials said, engendered by fears that economic migrants would flood west from the new member states to compete for jobs and welfare benefits.
Thus the expansion, so long anticipated as the fulfillment of dreams for half a continent oppressed during the Soviet era, had an ill-mannered side to it. Western nations have slapped restrictions on migration and used transitional powers to deny social benefits to Central European workers who already have become the waiters, carpenters and the nannies of the wealthier West.
In their news conference on Saturday, Mr. Ahern, along with Romano Prodi, who heads the cabinetlike European Commission, and Pat Cox, president of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, called for swift action to complete a European constitution for approval at a meeting of leaders in June. The constitution would for the first time provide a formula for streamlined decision-making through majority voting.
Up to now, decisions required unanimity. With 25 members, though, European leaders fear paralysis in Brussels and have been debating a new voting formula in a struggle similar to that engaged in by the American founders in Philadelphia. Many also want a stronger presidency, as well as a more active and clearly defined foreign policy and independent military capability. Others still fear giving up too much sovereignty to 35,000 bureaucrats headquartered in Brussels who preside over 100,000 pages of laws and regulations that will now be translated into 20 languages.
''There are enormous difficulties if we try to continue on the way we are going,'' Mr. Ahern said. ''I really do believe that the changes are essential.''
The debate over the constitution's formula that would give France and Germany more voting strength in recognition of their large populations deadlocked last December, with Spain and Poland opposing the formula because it weakened their relative weight. But leadership changes in Spain and Poland have put a compromise within reach.
On Saturday, Mr. Ahern said he would begin talks on the compromise over the weekend with Spain's new prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. ''It is an opportunity to outline to him what we are trying to achieve,'' Mr. Ahern said.
Mr. Ahern and his colleagues skirted the challenge issued Thursday by the French president, Jacques Chirac, who suggested that any member of the union that did not ratify the new constitution would have to quit or be pushed to the margins. His remarks were aimed at Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who has been forced by domestic political opposition to say that he will submit any European constitution this year to a referendum vote.
The celebrations started early Friday night, leading up to the moment of accession, midnight, for the 10 states. There were buoyant and emotional scenes in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, where old border crossings came down, eliminating the divides that symbolized the last remnants of the cold war. Down the boulevards and across the squares where people power overcame the tyrannies of the Soviet era, Eastern Europeans extolled their new sense of arrival.
Hungary's prime minister, Peter Medgyessy, told a jubilant crowd of more than 100,000 in central Budapest that although the country had long considered itself at the gates of Europe, ''The significant difference is that now we are inside the gates.''
The European Union flag, a circle of stars on a blue field, was hoisted in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta and on the Greek half of a divided Cyprus.
President Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland told celebrants in central Warsaw, ''Today our dream is becoming reality. Poland is returning to its European family.''
A sign of the times was provided by a young woman in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, who draped herself with the European flag while reveling with her friends. ''I don't remember what the Soviet Union was like,'' Jurate Rudyte, 17, told a reporter for The Associated Press, ''but I really enjoy the European Union that Lithuania is joining.''
One of the architects of European unification, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany, was one of many dignitaries who gathered to walk across the bridge over the Neisse River where Germany meets Poland and the Czech Republic. Addressing a crowd on the river bank at Zittau, an emotional Mr. Kohl told the crowd, ''The message is there will never again be war in Europe.''
In a nationally televised speech, the current chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, confronted domestic concerns about low-paid Polish workers taking German jobs by contending that the overall expansion in trade will create jobs and ''will make us not poorer, but richer.''
Despite the doubts and grumpiness across the region, Mr. Chirac exhorted his countrymen not to fear necessary reforms.
''Other great entities in the world are moving ahead faster than we are,'' he said. ''Unemployment in Europe remains high, the population is aging, our social systems are adapting with difficulty, our economies are facing heightened competition. And in the face of these challenges, it is imperative that Europe assert itself.''
Photos: At ceremonies in Dublin, the stars of the European Union's flag were the shining feature of this celebrant's elaborate costume.; From left, Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla of the Czech Republic, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany and Prime Minister Leszek Miller of Poland, raised the European Union flag over at Zittau, Germany. (Photographs by Reuters) Map of Europe highlighting previous members of the European Union, and countries that joined the European Union yesterday.


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Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, Manet and other European masters are currently on display as part of the Vancouver Art Gallery's Cezanne and the Modern exhibition, which opened Feb. 14. It's a rare treat to see one or two European "masterpieces" hanging on the walls of the gallery; to see so many in one exhibition is an opportunity not to be missed.
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70's Psuedo Psychic
"Uri Geller [warning: pop ups] became well known for a few scientifically unexplained phenomena. They are Telepathy... Dowsing... Bending, breaking and softening metal and other solids with the power of the mind, e.g. spoons, keys etc, more rarely plastic and glass; Fixing broken watches and appliances, and using collective power, influencing the Big Ben to stop; Moving compasses with the power of thought; Erasing computer tapes and disks; and Sprouting, causing tiny seeds (mainly red radish) to grow a few centimeters in seconds." Why not thrill to a biography of this favorite pseudo psychic of the 70s? To be frank, until just now, I wasn't even aware that he was back!
you drunkards!
Hangover? Not for long! Okay, probably not - heard some commercials for this product on my local sports radio station, and during don imus' radio show... It seems this company is promoting their "dawn808" product which you can take after or during drinking, and it reacts to the chemicals that your liver forms while trying to clean up your blood. fascinating. wonder what happens if you take this, the 48 hour hollywood diet, and some ephedra. at least they're not trying to sell samplers from the 80's.
That's FEXX'ed up!
Looking for the right job? Or a new team member? Not so fast. You might like to read about others' experiences with the company. Shouldn't this site have been shut down already? Where can one complain if the company in question lists a bogus address?
Which one is it?
The New York Times published on Sunday a very favorable report on Ken Lay. In it, they argue that he was, at least in part, wrongly chastised for his role in the Enron affair. Apparently, we are to believe that the CEO didn't know what was going on inside the company he ran. After news of the report appeared in numerous U.S. media earlier this week, the BBC today counterattacks brutally (although perhaps not intentionally), describing some of the most ruthless Enron practices - like placing the combined total salary of the top 200 executives salary at one and a half times the company's total earnings (Lay's went from 15m to 164 mil in that period). My question is simple: just what is going on here?
Missile Defense and Theodore Postol
It's about Time this guy was recognized with accolades as the premiere whistleblower in the US. Just think of all the tax money that could be saved if everyone learned what Postol already knows!
Is NMD more theology than science? It would appear so.
Is NMD more theology than science? It would appear so.
Paul Martin --or-- Sayed Anwar
Is the Washington Times perpetuating a fraud? the Palestine Media Watch is reporting on a rumour that has been floating around for a while, that the Washington Times' "Sayed Anwar" is actually Paul Martin, a correspondent out of their London office. Now while this Times doesn't boast the circulation of the NYTimes or even the LA Times, it still lands on the doorstep of the President of the US every day. How's this for journalistic integrity?
E-Bay Scammers and Internet Fraud
A Mac user scorned is a dangerous thing... Gotta hand it to this guy: persistence pays off. After being scammed with $3000 in forged cashier checques in an eBay transaction, this seller took matters into his own hands. How secure do you feel making transaction over eBay and related services? What kinds of internet fraud have you faced or fear? And most interesting of all, to what extent have you gone to correct evils done to you?
Consumer Ping
Buying on-line? We're from the Government and we're here to help you. [more inside]
Who Counts your Votes? This book published back in 1992
Who Counts your Votes? This book published back in 1992 is a good launching pad to begin the quest regarding elections and election fraud in America. Joseph Stalin had a saying: ``Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.'' When I voted on November 5, I was handed a little card stuck it in to a Diebold voting machine and presto all the votes I submitted were counted correctly right? Well I'm not sure after I read the article Diebold: The face of modern balloting at http://www.bartcop.com/110702otter.htm and some of the articles at http://www.votefraud.org/. Perhaps we Americans have handed a bit to much over to computers and the people who own the companies that make the computers and that write the code. Perhaps to restore faith in our Democracy its time to to go back a simple hand counted system, with observers from multiple parties stationed in the local precincts counting the paper ballots.
Florida Machine Records Votes for Wrong Candidate.
Florida Machine Records Votes for Wrong Candidate. OK, I know Matt Drudge isn't exactly a venerated news outlet, but he is in South Florida. And he's reporting that a West Palm Beach voter called in to a South Florida radio talk show to report that when he voted for McBride this morning the machine counted his vote for Bush. After he'd tried three times, the voter said, an observing poll worker finally acknowledged that the machine would have to be reprogrammed, since earlier voters had experienced the same problem. There is no official confirmation of this problem, but calls to the same radio show two years ago evidently foreshadowed the 2000 election debacle. I'll be keeping an eye on sites like Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo as the day wears on. In the end, what should the electorate do (in addition to initiating lawsuits) if outcome-determining irregularities surface in yet another Florida election?
Academic Fraud Watch, continued
Academic Fraud Watch, continued ...Emory University professor Michael Bellesiles has resigned in the wake of a report finding him guilty of unprofessional and misleading work. His book had previously come under fire (no pun intended) from gun advocates. (more inside, and the first link is from the NYT)
Who is Sergei Konovalov? Healer or crook?
Who is Sergei Konovalov? Healer or crook? This email came through a mailing list I subscribe to. I found it fascinating but was unable to dig up any more information about this guy. It sounds like what he is doing is similar to the faith healers in America, however there seems to be no reports of him online or in any newspapers that I can find. Perhaps the MeFi collective can debunk (or authenticate!) this guy.
A new chapter
A new chapter in the nigerian letter fraud most recently discussed here. Yes, someone actually fell for it, and cost her employer $2.1 million in the process. via fark.
"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered "Fraud!" But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed. They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, and they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again. But will there still be joy in Mudville?
You've got jail?
You've got jail? The SEC is no longer alone in investigating accounting irregularities at AOL Time Warner. Tonight the "world's leading media and entertainment company" confirmed that the U.S. Justice Dept. has opened its own probe. This, one day after President Bush signed the so-called Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act (pdf of HR 3763) (summary). Tonight, however, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, including Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vt and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa are criticizing the President for trying to weaken the corporate fraud bill before the ink is even dry.
You've got Jail is a light hearted, easy summer reading and informative article which explodes the myth that malfeasing CEOs get sent to "Club Fed", a prison so minimum in insecurity that its really like an enforced vacation in the country rather than the more typical round of incarceration. Required reading for the Skillings, Rigas, Taubmens and every college student considering an MBA. (So is the MeFi fascination with Prison life an idle one or am I keeping the wrong company?)
'Antiques Roadshow' Expert Sent to the Pokey.
'Antiques Roadshow' Expert Sent to the Pokey. "Russell Pritchard III, a militaria expert, pleaded guilty to making the bogus TV appraisals. He also admitted defrauding artifact owners by giving them low appraisals on items, then reselling them at much higher prices and pocketing the profit." Pritchard was kicked off the show a couple years ago, when it was discovered that he was faking fabulous discoveries on the show in an effort to gain credibility. Fans of the US version of the show may remember the civil war sword found in an attic and the owner claimed he used the valuable weapon to cut watermelons. Pritchard could have received up to 135 years in prison, and $5.3 million in fines, but only received a year in prison, and ordered to repay his bilked clients $830k. I've always wondered about the credibility of the experts on that show, and whether they've ever quoted inflated or deflated values for personal gain. [via megosteve]
"The bigger the binge,
"The bigger the binge, the longer and more severe the hangover." A short history of accounting scandals and fraudulent bankruptcies that follow bubble economies.
Escrew Service.
Escrew Service. Worried about getting scammed on an Internet auction? "Just use an escrow service," is the customary advice. Not so fast. The latest auction scam is an elaborate swindle involving creation of fake escrow services, complete with convincing Web sites like www.escrow-is.com
Show called "Harassment"
Show called "Harassment" results in, well, harassment! MTV and their co-conspirator, the Hard Rock Hotel, are being sued for "invasion of privacy, infliction of emotional distress and fraud, among other things."
ORIGINAL SIN: How prices of initial public offerings were manipulated by Goldman Sachs through the illegal practice of "Laddering"
ORIGINAL SIN: How prices of initial public offerings were manipulated by Goldman Sachs through the illegal practice of "Laddering" Isn't that enronic!
Enron cheated California
Enron cheated California - The Los Angeles Times is reporting the discovery of a memo detailing how Enron manipulated prices by fraud during the power crisis while blaming the problem on powerplants.
One of their strategies was actually called 'Death Star'. Look like the Enron Empire has suffered the same fate as the Palpatine's Empire.
LA Times login: cpunks password: cpunks
One of their strategies was actually called 'Death Star'. Look like the Enron Empire has suffered the same fate as the Palpatine's Empire.
LA Times login: cpunks password: cpunks
Lieutentant colonel? Let's hire him, no questions asked.
Lieutentant colonel? Let's hire him, no questions asked. Last year, Fox News hired Joseph A. Cafasso as consultant on Afghanistan and the military. He said he was a retired lieutenant colonel with an exemplary service record, including tours in Vietnam, and rescuing hostages in Iran. The truth, however, was an entirely different matter. (nyt link: mefi/mefi)
U.S. Representative James Traficant
U.S. Representative James Traficant (D-Ohio) has been found guilty on all 10 charges he faced, including kickbacks, fraud, bribery, and racketeering. The Congressman, known for his hatred of the IRS(God bless him) and his love of pork barrel projects, has lit up the Congress with his bombastic behavior since he was elected in 1984. Controversy has never been far from Traficant, he still claims that the trial is due to the bizarre, humorous, and grotesque story of his mob-funded election to Sheriff of Youngstown. He claims that he will run as an independent in the newly formed 17th District in the next congressional election. Will he be out of jail? Does he have a chance? What is Congress going to do with him? Fascinating background information courtesy of investigative journalist Dan Moldea's website
Why aren't ghostwritten works considered frauds? Pop historians are on the rack for using unattributed passages, Milli Vanilla were shamed off the charts for lip-synching, Joe Klein was pilloried for playing coy about a book he did write. Yet Reagan's autobiography, Clinton's "It Takes a Village", and recent works by V. C. Andrews and Lawrence Sanders weren't written by the names on the jackets. Kind of odd, no?
Earthlink founding investor Reed Slatkin to plead guilty
Earthlink founding investor Reed Slatkin to plead guilty of defrauding over 800 people out of $254 million in a Ponzi scheme. Several of the victims were members of the Church of Scientology, where he was a minister. Oh, and he filed for bankruptcy too so there's no chance for reparations... I don't know how to feel!
Portrait of a Con-Artist:
Portrait of a Con-Artist: Due to the efforts of the site StopAglaia! (which was posted here earlier in the year), The New Jersey Star-Ledger printed this facinating story exposing a con woman of "Kaycee Nicole" proportions, and includes an interview with the woman in question. She's impersonated Denis Leary, Henry Rollins, and the manager for Bright Eyes, and she's conned both men an women out of thousands of dollars. Sadly, the printing of this article has caused StopAglaia! to shut down, but their forum is still up, so victims can trade info. [More Inside]
"The fraud, the huckster, the salesman are not new phenomena in America; what is new is that they now so strongly control every estate of our society." For the last few days, I've been reading the Progressive Review's Undernews, a sort of progressive news blog-by-e-mail -- and frankly, it's amazing. One of today's articles blew my mind: it's a spot-on encapsulation of What's Wrong with America Today. (Scroll down to "Derivative America and the Enron Generation." This link is to the "Latest Issue" page. Tomorrow I think it will be archived here.) Seriously, read it now. It's worth it.
There are dozens of people on the internet who have been victimized by her, and yet no one seemed to do much about it. So they did.
It ain't just Enron
It ain't just Enron -- This kind of pro forma reporting of "profits" is shifty, misleading, and common practice. Should us small investors be worried? Or do I need to be an accountant to know why this isn't a bad thing? And does this mean that there more Enrons out there, ready to implode in a pile of worthless paper?
SAS man exposed as fraud
SAS man exposed as fraud The BBC has discovered that Tom Carew, who writes articles from an SAS perspective for the papers and has just published a book about serving in Afghanistan, was never actually a member of the SAS at all. I just saw this interview on TV and laughed and laughed when he punched the camera. WARNING: Realplayer link
GIVER BEWARE! If you're gonna give, don't get taken.
GIVER BEWARE! If you're gonna give, don't get taken. The New York branch of the Better Business Bureau has some useful material on how to spot scams over legitimate charities. "As awful as it sounds, there may be those that seek to profit from this misery." Useful tips and information are also available at Give.Org, the Urban Legends Resource Center and the Internet Fraud Complaint Center. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but even the legitimate charities sound like scams to me. Why are there so many "disaster relief funds" forming? Wouldn't it be easier if there was just one place to give? Why all these middlemen?
How to make $4 million, the easy way.
How to make $4 million, the easy way. A bankrupt Connecticut couple starts a business and secures state, city, and private funding. Then they go out of business and disappear from the face of the earth.
Fake Hate Crime
Fake Hate Crime This doesn't help things. What was he thinking? (from fark)
How low can we go? Spammers are soliciting funds for bogus charities to help the victims of the disaster.
Pentagon fraud
Pentagon fraud $9,000,000,000. I hope this is a misprint. More inside.
Verizon sues Covad
Verizon sues Covad for creating thousands of false trouble tickets. So that's why my DSL took so long!
What goes around comes around for Rambus. Like Jacob, I will predict that Steven is not suprised about the fraud claims.
200 years
200 years to life for fraud? Crime should be punished, but this seems somewhat harsh when there's murderers, rapists, etc. on the loose
Woman lives as teen, graduates high school
Woman lives as teen, graduates high school... while living with foster families, collecting welfare, and leaving a string of sex accusations in her wake.
St. Louis Sees Specter of Vote Fraud.
St. Louis Sees Specter of Vote Fraud. Chicago hands over the title of Most Vote-Rigged City in America. Remember the Election Day lawsuit that Democrats filed in St. Louis to illegally extend voting hours (which was successful for 45 minutes)? Turns out the chief plaintiff was dead. And that's only one anecdote from this story. Will meaningful election reform ever be allowed in this country, when it would mean closing all the loopholes that are routinely used to rig the results? (NYTimes link, registration required)
Busted! DEA cooks the books to show a 'major success' in the War on Drugs.
$425 for an empty box.
$425 for an empty box. Imagine how much more it would be worth if it contained a Playstation 2. (Check his feedback, he really did send someone the empty box. "Caveat emptor"...)
A guy paid $5000 to a bank
A guy paid $5000 to a bank for a list of 4 million credit card numbers, complete with name/address of the owners. He proceeded to start making false charges to those cards totalling some $37 million. He's going to jail. My question is, what the hell was the bank thinking? Why are they selling something like that? Didn't they recognize the potential for abuse? What possible legitimate use could such a list have?
Protecting England's elderly
Egghead cracked by credit-card hack.
Egghead cracked by credit-card hack. Up to 3.7 million credit cards are believed to be stolen from the online retailer's servers.
Can you say fraud? Can you say it twice? As strange as it seems, these two are related. After Kurzweil's fraud was finally revealed, the top two execs went to jail, but there was some question about what was going to happen to the company. Well, what goes around comes around. Lernout and Hauspie bought out Kurzweil Artificial Intelligence. It seems like they picked up the corporate culture, too.
"That wasn't me, that was the guy before me!"
"That wasn't me, that was the guy before me!" This is like "A bear walked in the door and ate it" from a little kid... What scares me is that people are stupid enough to fax him pictures of their credit cards. Wait until they see their next bills!
An Australian Man who sent millions of e-mails around the world falsely stating shares in an American company would rise 900 per cent was today sentenced to two years in jail. The charges filed are believed among the first of their type made against anyone in the world. Mr Hourmouzis had pleaded guilty to two charges of making a false statement on the Internet.
"I wasn't doing anything wrong..."
"I wasn't doing anything wrong..." So says Jonathan Lebed, the 16-year-old who paid out $285,000 to the SEC to settle his pump-and-dump case. His father agrees: "He earned it. He did a lot of work. He didn't sit behind a garage smoking pot, or stealing wheels off a car." Yeah, right: after all, he bought his parents a Mercedes with the profits of his stock manipulation.


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Why do so many people freeze up and quit?
I admit it: I became a fan because of a crush.
You could do a lot worse than sharing a teenager's taste in music.
Songs for going your own way.
On writing, Simon & Garfunkel, and man-repelling band names.
Plus a tribute to Marina Keegan, the cutest pig on Instagram, and the ever-wonderful Tilda Swinton.
Plus Kurt Cobain's feminism, the oral history of Reality Bites, and more.
What's the point of art?
Human interaction: pleasures and pitfalls.
Hi, queen people! April's theme is BOTH SIDES NOW, which considers the many different answers to THE BIG QUESTIONS, whatever those are for you. If you've got a project or pitch about seeing things in a whole new light, please email it to email@example.com.
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(Tests Ruby 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, Rubinius and Jruby)
What is it?
I18n is baked right into Rails, and it's great. But if you want to place markup or links inside your translated copies, things get a little messy. You need to specify the label of your links separately from the rest of the copy. Writing HTML in your translations is even worse.
copy: "If you are already registered, %{login_link}!"
copy_login_link: "please sign in"
<%=raw t("copy", login: link_to(t("copy_login_link"), login_path)) %>
Wouldn't it be much nicer and easier to understand for your translator to have the whole copy in single label? it lets you do that:
copy: "If you are already registered, %{login_link:please sign in}!"
<%=it "copy", login_link: login_path %>
You may have noticed in the example above, that it doesn't require
raw anymore. Of course, all HTML in the translation gets properly escaped, so you don't have to worry about XSS.
Just add the following line to your Gemfile & run
bundle install:
gem 'it'
You may have as many links inside your translations as you like, and normal interpolations are possible as well:
copy: "Did you read the %{guide:Rails I18n guide}? It has more than %{advises} useful advises. You may fork the repo at {repo:github}."
<%=it "copy", guide: It.link("http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html"), advices: 100, repo: It.link("https://github.com/lifo/docrails/tree/master/railties/guides") %>
As you see above, unless the interpolation name is
link or starts with
_link or ends with
_link, you need to call
It.link to create a link. The advantage of
It.link: You may specify options like you would with
<%=it "copy", guide: It.link("http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html", target: '_blank', class: "important") %>
You may pass any kind of object accepted by
link_to as the link target, so your loved named routes like
article_path(id: article.id) will all work fine.
Want to introduce some markup into your sentences? it will help you:
advantages: There are %{b:many advantages} for registered users!
<%=it "advantages", b: It.tag(:b, class: "red") %>
Even nested interpolations are possible:
copy: "Want to contact %{user}%? %{link:send %{b:%{user} a message}}!"
<%=it "copy", link: "mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com", user: 'iGEL', b: It.tag(:b) %>
If you would like to use the same translations in your html and plain text mails, you will like the
It.plain method:
mail_copy: "Do you like %{link:Rails}?"
HTML mail:
<%= it "mail_copy", link: It.link("http://www.rubyonrails.org/") %>
Plain mail:
<%= it "mail_copy", link: It.plain("%s[http://www.rubyonrails.org/]") %>
%s will be replaced with the label, in the example with Rails. You could provide any other string containing
%s. The default is just
%s, so it will return only the label itself.
Abandoned & outdated?
Everybody hates old and outdated gems, which don't work on with the latest Rails or Ruby version or haven't been updated for ages. Sadly, rubygems is full of such gems. If you improved it send me a pull request. If I have not time to support the lib anymore, I will happily hand the project over to a new maintainer.
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The Last Mogul
Lew Wasserman, who died last summer at 89, was not only the most powerful and influential man in Hollywood over the past half-century but also the most enigmatic. Like his mentor Jules Stein, Wasserman shunned publicity, rarely spoke to the press, put almost nothing in writing and came to understand that the cult of mystery and suspicion around him--and his company, MCA-Universal--was ultimately an asset. Wasserman maintained his silence after being forced out as MCA board chairman in 1995 (at 82), despite the frequent entreaties to go on record with his own account of MCA's remarkable history and his role as chief architect of the New Hollywood. And even after the 1998 hatchet job by journalist Dennis McDougal in The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood, Wasserman declined to bow out with a self-serving (or self-defensive) mogul memoir.
Now comes Connie Bruck, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and author of two very good corporate biographies: The Predator's Ball, on junk-bond king Michael Milken, and Master of the Game, on Steve Ross and the epochal Time Warner merger. Bruck began writing about Wasserman after the Seagram buyout, and was sufficiently intrigued to start a book-length project just as McDougal's The Last Mogul appeared. McDougal's account essentially rehashed Dan Moldea's 1986 book, Dark Victory: Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, assigning Wasserman's and MCA's success not only to the ruthless exercise of power but also to longstanding alliances with politicians like Ronald Reagan and reputed mobsters like Sidney Korshak. Bruck has a different story to tell, one that jibes far better with the industry's more recent view of Wasserman, which has evolved from fear and distrust to grudging respect and, in some circles, outright deification.
Bruck's account is When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence, and the title alone, cumbersome though it is, indicates her more sanguine view of Wasserman. Bruck scarcely ignores the darker side of his "power and influence," but the overall effect of her book is to both deepen and effectively counter the earlier versions of the Wasserman-MCA saga. And rather than portray Wasserman as the last of the studio moguls, Bruck sees him as an altogether original figure in Hollywood annals. By the 1960s, writes Bruck, Wasserman had assumed "a new, imperial role of his design. There had never been one individual who spoke for the industry, and who navigated its course singlehandedly." For the next three decades, Wasserman "wielded authority over all of Hollywood"--and not as a power-hungry, avaricious tyrant but as a benevolent dictator.
Bruck ably supports this thesis in her thorough, balanced and insightful biography, which is likely to stand as the definitive account of Wasserman's remarkable career, due not only to the quality of her reportage but also her exceptional sources. Most uncharacteristically, Wasserman submitted to a series of interviews with Bruck. Though he initially agreed only to discuss MCA founder and his longtime mentor, Jules Stein, he eventually began talking about his own life and career as well. Bruck admits in her introduction that "much of what he said had a distinctly prerecorded quality," but the fact is that she got closer to the famously reticent Wasserman than any other journalist or biographer, which adds immensely to the project. Bruck also gained access to Stein's own unpublished memoirs, "as told to" Murray Schumach of the New York Times--yet another tantalizing bit of arcane MCA lore whose existence was known to Hollywood insiders, and whose unpublished status only fueled the mystery surrounding Stein, Wasserman and MCA.
The Wasserman-MCA story is largely the Jules Caesar Stein story as well, and thus a substantial portion of When Hollywood Had a King focuses squarely on the ophthalmologist whose interest in music--and making money--led to the creation of the Music Corporation of America. Stein launched MCA in 1924 as a band-booking agency in Jazz Age Chicago, and within a decade built it into a nationwide powerhouse. A brilliant and innovative businessman, Stein either invented or perfected the one-night stand, "exclusive" contracts with talent buyers, product tie-ins and, perhaps most important, "packaging," which provided buyers with a full season's bookings while giving MCA a packaging fee on top of its commissions, as well as a taste of actual production.
Stein understood power, and dealt astutely with the musicians' unions, with the new medium of commercial radio and, while operating out of Chicago during Prohibition, with the mob. During the 1930s he developed a close working relationship with Sidney Korshak, a rising mob lawyer who helped Stein navigate the treacherous waters of labor relations--and who would continue to help MCA on the labor front for decades. Stein was also a man of cultivated taste and considerable intellect. His obsession with antiques furnished MCA's far-flung executive offices for a half-century, and his fascination with tax law and the stock market proved vital to MCA's rapid growth into an amalgam of interlocking companies.
By the mid-1930s, MCA was by far the largest and most powerful booking and talent agency in the music business, whose client list (itself a closely guarded secret) reportedly included some two-thirds of the nation's top bands. In 1936, Stein made two momentous decisions. One was to move MCA's corporate headquarters to the West Coast and broaden its focus to include the movie industry. The other was to hire Lew Wasserman, a tall, lean 23-year-old publicist from Cleveland who in time would take the company far beyond even Jules Stein's grandiose dreams.


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Book Projects By You (Over 300 DIY & Craft Projects!)
As soon as we decided to number all the tips in our book over two years ago we hoped to someday create an online component where folks could upload their take on any of the projects along with the project number. And that day has finally come! So not only will folks be able to access this page right here, we'll also be linking to it directly from our book page – so if you're ever bored and want to check out a ton of reader submitted projects that have been completed after checking out our book (which will just keep growing over time) this post should eventually be chock full of them!
It's sort of like a book-related Pinterest Challenge that doesn't expire for over a year, so you can add away and come back to see what everyone else has whipped up too (you know we love to share the love!). And speaking of l-o-v-e, since there are about 500 ways to skin a cat, whether you've done something similar or put a totally new twist on something from our book, we'd LOVE to see it! Here are three of our favorites that readers have sent us/blogged about – and please feel free to upload yours underneath (which you can do even if you don't have a blog)!
- Project #120: Make Paint-Chip Art from Margaux & Steve at Young Nesters.
- Project #179: Gold Recycled Bookends from Courtney at A Thoughtful Place.
- Project #193: Sketch On A Pillow by Vel at Buhay At Bahay.
- Project #147: Make Tissue Paper Art by a reader named Alise. She doesn't have a blog, but she described her process as tracing the outline of a fish into tissue paper and cutting it out instead of making scallops/fish scales and then Mod Podging them to the canvas. I love the use of one orange fish in the group – just to make things interesting!
- Project #68: Paint A Headboard On The Wall by Kenz at Interiors By Kenz.
And now here's the part where we tip our homemade hats to you guys and invite you to share your take on any of our book projects. If you have a blog you can just link up here, and if you don't you can always add a link to a free photo sharing site like Flickr or Facebook with your pics (remember to set the photo to public so we can all see it). Here's how to upload your project:
- click on the blue "Add Your Link" button with the odd cartoon head at the bottom of this post (you might have to do some scrolling, depending how many projects are added)
- in the URL field, add a link to your specific blog post about your project (not your home page) or the Flickr/Facebook link
- where it says "name" write the project number (ex: "Project #114") as opposed to your actual name, the name of your blog, or a description of the project
We're crazypants excited to see what you guys have been up to!
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All I can think is… how did people already have time to do projects!?!
I'm still staring at the book and getting started reading it… :)
You just popped my bubble. Whomp, whomp. My blog partner/daughter and I were going to have a Young House Week in early January and feature our take on some of your projects each day. We had actually done several of these things before your book came out. We both bought your book and love it. You did such a great job, and it is SO you. Congrats, congrats!!! By the way, I commented several weeks ago that you would be on the NY Times bestseller least.
What an awesome idea! Can't wait to see what people come up with using your book as inspiration. I know I have a few projects in mind… :)
I LOVE KENZIE AND HER HEADBOARD WALL :) But I'm probably biased because we're blog friends.
Thank you for letting us host our little link party a few weeks ago, we had a great time working on it!!
What a great idea! I'm sure it will be cool to see all the different takes on the projects, and get even more ideas and tips! I'm personally still crossing my fingers that Santa brings your book my way!
perfect timing! i just finished painting our front door, need to take some pics. I was going to email them to you guys but now i'll just post here! so cool.
What a freaking amazing idea! Really inspired. Such a cool way to bring people together over things we all love — DIY and YHL!
This might rank as one of your best ideas ever. No joke.
Awesome! It's always fun to see what people come up with and the variety of ideas that one project can spark. I'm still waiting to get your book – it was on my Christmas list, so hopefully it will be under the tree! :)
As soon as I am out of the hospital next month, we'll definitely be posting our project pics! Again, you guys are seriously keeping me distracted and focused, so when I'm back home I'll share the love!
Oooh! I think this will get me motivated. I already have a dozen on my 'to dol' list!
Ooh, I'm so excited! I have two jars that are just waiting to be etched/painted for my kitchen. I can't wait to blog about it!
Thanks so much for the feature!!!
And THANK YOU FOR WRITING SUCH AN AMAZING BOOK!
I LOVE this. I had already planned to pull a Julie and Julia with your book..now I get to see what everybody else does, too. So excited!
i didn't even realize that headboard was painted. i saw the picture and thought the only thing painted were the outlines along the wall. SO COOL!
any news on whether y'all will be making a stop in atlanta yet? (please say yes. please say yes. please say yes.)
you just totally made my day! :D
Cool idea! It will be neat to have a project number in mind and then scan through and easily find others to see how someone else did it!
You guys just made me have a mild heart attack when I saw my Bloggie Bestie on your page. MILD HEART ATTACK. You should warn a girl before her BB is on like, the biggest blog on the planet.
Thanks for letting us share!
I know! I actually squealed out loud when I saw Kenz on the front page.
In line. At the bank. It was bad!
You guys have entertained us all and supported the home blogging community for so long, and I know we all love the book.
I wish one of the projects was "eat cake batter out of a bowl." I'm so all over that right now. It's that kind of day. :)
I'm pretty sure I read that one in the book… nom nom nom
Such a great idea! I definitely have added a few of your book projects to my to do list, so I definitely can't wait to link up, eventually! Ha!
I already made a headboard from your book! I just added it although don't know the #. Love the book!
Sherry and John — I am squealing with excitement to see my fish art on your site. I literally have a perma-grin, which is what I had when I finished the project. Thanks so much for your inspiration — both in the book and on your blog. I started flagging more projects from your book last night.
~Alise :-)
Alise – I love that you not only put one orange fish in the mix but that it was swimming against the rest. So beautiful but more importantly, inspiring.
Thanks, Jillian. This was done for my future nephew. My sister and her husband are avid swimmers and are going with an "under-water" themed nursery. Orange is my sister's favorite color (so that's a nod to her) but really I wanted to make sure my nephew remembers he is perfectly and uniquely one of a kind. :-)
I actually was picturing a silly take on Julie & Julia (complete with awkward photo shop poster here: http://bandbbuildalife.com/2012/10/19/we-interrupt-this-blogcast-for-a-special-announcement-yhl-in-print/)
And walking around the apartment in Pittsburgh, I realize I've actually done at least 3 of the smaller projects and never documented it as the holidays have steamrolled most of my blog plans. Will have to recreate some of the fun!
I've been inspired by the book (and your site) to semi-redo our kitchen. I've even ordered samples of tin ceiling tiles so we can pick out a color and pattern for the backsplash. I'm sure my husband would love to thank you for giving his days off meaning and purpose … and he shows it by rolling his eyes every time I talk about it. ;) http://slappyintheface.com/2012/11/old-house-meh/
So quickly people stop following directions! I don't know how you keep your sanity! People! Where it says name, put the project number!
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Included in this rental are 2 bikes, 6 sand chairs, beach umbrella,4 boogie boards, a wheeled cooler, 3 skim boards, fishing poles and crabbing equipment.One hour of free tennis daily at the Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center. Free long distance call in the continental US. The unit has wireless internet so bring your laptop and keep in touch with friends, family and business. Our villa also has a great selection of books. Best selling authors, fiction and non. Just think of all the things you won't have to pack!
'How close to the beach are you?' is the most often asked question we receive. The condominium is located just a short walk from the Atlantic Ocean and Beach.WE ARE IN THE SECTION OF QUEEN'S GRANT THAT IS CLOSEST TO THE OCEAN, A FIVE MINUTE WALK. Please read the reviews by our past renters
Enjoy all that Hilton Head has to offer in your home away from home. OUR VILLA IS A TRUE 3 BR, 2000 SQ FEET, AND CAN ACCOMODATE YOUR WHOLE FAMILY WITHOUT FEELING CROWDED. NOT ALL 3 BR IN QUEENS GRANT ARE THIS SIZE. WE ARE IN THE SECTION OF QUEENS GRANT THAT IS CLOSEST TO THE BEACH, A FIVE - SEVEN MINUTE WALK.
We come to HHI for the climate. We enjoy spending our time outdoors. Reading and relaxing on the deck is one of our favorite things. We feel very fortunate with our spacious outdoor space. It's quiet, peaceful, and the views are relaxing. If you've rented in Queens Grant before, you know that this is not true for all outdoor spaces here.
The deck is just steps away from one of the 5 pools at the resort, and a walking path along the golf course.We thought being so close to the pool might be a drawback ( noise). Not so. It is very lighlty used. So much , that our grandchildren think it's 'Grammy's pool'. Breakfast by the pool, kid's swimming, adults reading the paper in the shade of the live oak....wonderful.
In the past few years, we've added membership in the Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center . This was originally done as an attraction for our guests, but we've come to enjoy it more and more each year. There are tennis rackets and balls in the supply closet ready for your family to use. Never played tennis.... this is the time to give it a try. It's a great family activity.
Our unit has been newly painted and decorated. It is our second home, and we have made it comfortable for OUR needs. We hope to share it with you. If something needs to be done to improve your visit , please let us know.
There are three championship golf courses in Palmetto Dunes Resort; the Robert Trent Jones golf course borders our villa. In this short block, you will find a Five-Star Restaurant, general store, and an outdoor outfitter with bikes, kayaks, and much more.Use our VRBO # and get 20% off rentals at Palmetto Outfitters.
The two-story foyer, with its lovely tiled flooring, is the main entrance providing access to the second floor stairway, the kitchen, the living/dining room, and a convenient powder room. The tiled flooring extends into the fully equipped kitchen which has a door to the service court, and both a door and a pass through window to the dining room.
The adjacent living/dining room features a separate dining area with tile flooring and a table with seating for 6. The spacious living room is carpeted and has a comfortable seating group for 8 and an entertainment center with LCD TV with a DVR and DVD.If you are using the sofa bed for one of our guests there is storage( four drawers) for their clothes. A nice feature is the full-wall window that includes a slider door to the outside deck offering a tranquil landscaped view.
Just off of the living room is the master bed room, which has a king size bed with memory foam topper,a 32' flat screen TV, double closets, and a private bath with a walk-in shower. This room also has a slider door providing access to the large deck.As you can see by our photos our deck has a picturesque view which ever way you look. It is completely private and very quiet. There is a gas grill available if you should feel ambitious. Everything you need to cook a great meal is in the kitchen including the magarita glasses!
On the second floor, a balcony landing overlooks the entrance foyer and leads to the two guest bedrooms. One bedroom has two twin beds.,and the other has a queen bed. They share a connecting bath with a bathtub and shower. Both bedrooms have their own TV.
Palmetto Dunes is a 2000 acre oceanfront resort that reaches from the three miles of white sandy beach, through 11 miles of lagoons, three golf courses, and 25 tennis courts, to the bikeway under Highway 278 that provides access to the Shelter Cove Marina, shops, restaurants, and Mall. The Queens Grant section of the resort has an five on-site pools.
' There are three championship golf courses in Palmetto Dunes Resort; the Robert Trent Jones golf course borders our villa. In this short block, you will find a Five-Star Restaurant, general store, and an outdoor outfitter with bikes, kayaks, and much more.
Mike and I are retired teachers and live in Eastham on Cape Cod. We love outdoor activities. Here on the Cape we are involved in responding to stranded seals, dolphins and pilot whales. In the summer we are part of the National Seashore seal education team. Best of all we enjoy life with our grandchildren, who love the Cape and Hilton Head.
The Owner purchased this villa in 2005
After vacationing on Hilton Head for 3 years and enjoying the biking,ocean, tennis and golf we decided to purchase there. Our family and friends think it was a great idea!!
Hi Cathy
We just wanted to thank you for being able to use your place to vacation in our favourite place in the world - Hilton Head!
We really enjoyed your place. We especially liked all the little things that were there that made our stay more enjoyable such as the laundry baskets. The well-stocked kitchen, the library, beach, tennis items, bikes and so on. We loved your deck and got a lot of use out of it, and loved your kitchen, and master bathroom shower. We would definitely book again at your place, thanks you! We really felt comfortable in the furniture and loved all the pictures and knick knacks that made it feel so homey.
I wanted to let you know that the cupboard door was fixed with no problem. I also want to alert you to a couple of other things that you may or may not be aware of. We found that the living room patio door may require some attention as it kept coming off the track when you slid it open. There is only one oven mitt in the kitchen and there was only one dish cloth and towel that we could find. The TV in the master bedroom my husband couldn't get it to come on - not sure if there is some trick to it ( however I was very happy to not have a TV on J)
Anyway it's not that we are being picky but just wanted to advise you of these of these things -if it was my place I would appreciate being informed about items
Again thank you for opening up your home we thoroughly enjoyed our stay. We are glad to get back to home for some more moderate temperatures as the last week there was very hot and humid- 113 degrees!
Our fall getway to HH was fabulous...just what we needed to extent our summer! The tasteful decor and extra ammeneites made this place special. The privacy of the deck and pool was really nice, yet the proximity of the beach, resturants and shopping was perfect. Can't wait for next year to return to this condo that I now feel really is my "home away from home".
We absolutely enjoyed everything about our stay! The place was well maintained and very spacious. I look forward to staying there again and again.
This was our first time visiting Hilton Head and we thoroughly enjoyed it! This condo was in a great location - the Palmetto Dunes plantation is beautiful! We had 4 adults and 2 small children in our party and the condo worked perfectly for us - my parents stayed in master suite on the main floor and we were able to have our own space in the 2 bedrooms upstairs that share a jack-and-jill bath. The condo was very comfortable and well-stocked. The large yard area off the deck is great for allowing children to play and the pool is literally right next to the deck (our baby monitor even worked there - it was so close!) The pool there was extremely quiet - we only saw/heard other people using it 2 times during our week there. The beach is about a 10 minute walk (with a 4 year old!) and we took advantage of the beach cart and beach chairs at the house. The beach here is beautiful! We biked all over in the Palmetto Dunes plantation and even biked to Coligny Plaza one day - the bike trails everywhere are great! We used the 2 bikes at the condo - they're in good condition - and rented 2 additional bikes and a bike trailer for our party - they can be delivered right to your condo and picked up which is very convenient! My husband played the Robert Trent Jones course one day (the golf course that this condo overlooks) and we took advantage of the hour of free tennis per day twice during our week's stay. Overall, our week was very enjoyable and Cathy was extremely accommodating. We would love to go back!
This villa far exceeded our expectations. It was comfortable and homey. The kitchen was very nice and new. The beach was fantastic, and the pool was great. Bedrooms were spacious and bathrooms were nice. Place was very clean and well kept. It was all we expected plus more.
We were lucky enough to find this rental for our vacation in Hilton Head. The location was close to the beach, and all the other fun places I love, like the light house, and of course, Stacks for breakfast each morning. The rental was clean and spacious, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone.
Great vacation had by all. My family of 6 adults spent 5 days here in December and had a wonderful time. The condo has a wonderful layout, plenty of space for everyone to sleep. We used the bikes almost everyday to get around. The beach is a quick drive or bike ride away. The tennis courts were great. It is also very close to restaurants and grocery stores in town.
We would definitely consider staying here again!
Other Activities: Shopping, Kayaking, Boating, Shelling, Wildlife Viewing, Miniature golf
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What scanner and program?
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It seems like only the head of my last post was published. The scanner is Epson Stylus SX200. The preview appears sharper on the screen than the actual scanned jpg-picture if I place them side by side in the same size. it makes no difference which resolution I choose in the interval 150 - 1200 dpi.
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What format are you saving the scan in? If jpeg have you checked the quality settings?
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I scan in jpeg and the only quality setting I find is "level of compression", where I have chosen 8 on the scale 1-100.
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