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The Parallel Worlds of Hair Care
By: Rob Walker, Euromonitor International
Developed and emerging markets are currently consuming hair care products in two very diverse, distinct ways—one trading down and the other trading up.
Jul 09, 2012 | 11:31 AM CDT
Urban Decay Suspends China Plans
According to the beauty brand, multiple considerations, including China's animal testing policies, caused the brand to reconsider expansion into China.
Jun 14, 2012 | 11:55 AM CDT
The Anatomy of Global Skin Tones
By: Pamela Springer
Meet consumers' needs by understanding the skin's mechanism as it relates to ethnic differences.
Jun 14, 2012 | 11:08 AM CDT
PZ Cussons Reports for Year Ended May 2012, Launches New Beauty Brands
A strong performance in the U.K. and momentum in emerging markets help buoy the company, which had reported an expectation of lower profits, and the company is targeting mom and babies and the anti-aging market with new brand launches.
May 11, 2012 | 09:36 AM CDT
P&G Moving Its Beauty Headquarters to Singapore
Citing its belief that the strongest beauty market growth opportunities lie in Asia, the company is moving the leadership of its beauty division; however, current group president Virginia Drosos is stepping down rather than move.
Apr 27, 2012 | 03:34 PM CDT
Shiseido Grows While Fighting Increased Competition
Domestic sales for the company were down, but the company's global business grew 5.6% with pushes in Europe, North America and China.
Apr 27, 2012 | 12:16 PM CDT
Sun Shining on Sun Care
By: Nicole Tyrimou, Euromonitor International
Sun care continues to grow but faces challenges such as multi-use skin care with SPF. Further diversification of sun care products with added properties and more convenient formulations will be needed to counteract this and other challenges.
Apr 26, 2012 | 09:54 AM CDT
Revlon Sales Come in at $330 Million for Q1 2012
Revlon color cosmetics and its ColorSilk hair care brand helped push net sales, and nail care brand SinfulColors has been fully integrated into the company.
Apr 25, 2012 | 09:04 AM CDT
Prestige Beauty Grows 21% in China in 2011
An increased interest in skin care products are the primary driver for this growth in China's beauty market, followed closely by prestige makeup.
Apr 24, 2012 | 10:35 AM CDT
Kao Reports 2011 Fiscal Results With 2.5% Uptick in Sales
Despite a contracting Japanese market and continuing impacts of the earthquake and a recovering economy, the company's beauty care division was able to increase market share in Japan, as well as grow in other world markets.


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I have an ATS Stage 6 Trans in my superduty in my sig. I now need to rebuild it and ATS says they will rebuild it for free but since its out of warranty I have pay for parts and shipping to them. The trans is not grenaded, it just needs clutches, seals, gaskets, bands etc... hard parts are all still good. I have re-built a few transmissions but its always been stock rebuilds and I have never done a 4R100. Basically I am looking for someone that has done a lot with 4R100s and knows their week points.
When I take the trans apart are there any mods you guys suggest doing? I have heard some issues with the 2-3 shift valve sticking. Is there a fix for this? Also this is a performance trans and I want it to shift like one (putting approx 500hp & 1000ft/lbs through it). What would you recommend to make the shifts firmer? Get rid of the accumulator spring? Remove the waveplates in the clutch packs? Mill down the pressure plates and add more clutches?
I was very disappointed with ATS's trans due to the fact that one it only has about 10k miles on it and two it felt like a stock transmission. Shift felt normal, no firmness to them. When I do the rebuild I want it to shift hard firm and fast. I also want to do any mods I can to improve it and make it last.
Anybody have any information that could help me?
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No I think ATS is being very generous with their warranty and customer support. I am not the original purchaser of the trans (it came in the truck when I bought it). They OFFERED me free labor to rebuild it. I think that is more than fair.
As for the quality of their transmissions I do not want to get into that. I have what I have and I am more than likely going to rebuild it myself. I just want to know what I should do to it when I rebuild it.
And since you have called them out on quality do you have any evidence of the poor quality? What is bad about how they build their transmissions? What information do you have to prove that their transmissions are junk? (I am not disagreeing with you just asking because if you answer those questions I will know what parts of the trans to address while I am in there).
Like I said I have rebuilt quite a few transmissions before and built some pretty ridiculous wild ones too. The problem I have with this trans is I don't know the downfalls of it; the weak points that need to be upgraded. I can very easily slap new clutches, seals, bands, and gaskets in it in a few hours but I want to fix all the known failure points as well while I am in there.
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BENTON, Ark. (KTHV) - Police have now released the name of the suspect killed in an officer-involved shooting on I-30 earlier Tuesday.
The Benton Police Department said Clifford Jones, 29, was killed after officers returned his fire during an 8-minute long police chase.
Lt. Kevin Russell with the Benton Police Dept. said officers were initiating a felony narcotics investigation around 3:30 p.m. with Jones near Gattin Road and Madison Village when the chase began. Russell said as officers approached the vehicle near the Alcoa Road exit, the driver took off eastbound on the service road toward Little Rock.
Officers driving ahead of Jones used stop sticks to safely deflate Jones' tires; when this happened, Jones fired shots at officers. According to Lt. Kevin Russell, officers then returned fire to Jones due to the serious threat they were facing. Jones then careened across the grass median of I-30 where his vehicle came to rest against the center concrete divider.
"The suspect started firing rounds off toward the officers and the officers did in fact return fire and the suspect then merged or careened on the interstate where you see it now on the highway," Lt. Kevin Russell said.
Jones was pronounced dead at the scene; however, it is not known whether he died from a gunshot wound or from wrecking his truck.
The vehicle was originally on the service road, but swerved onto the interstate during gunfire exchange. The incident caused eastbound lanes of I-30 to be shut down, backing up traffic for miles as officers investigated the incident.
No one other than Jones was injured in the chase or shooting.
"Everybody is talking about it," Ashton Gunawan said.
She's talking about a fatal police chase Tuesday afternoon that shut down part of Interstate 30 in Benton. Ashton Gunawan works nearby at Brown's Country Store and came across all this on the way to work.
"I was coming from Alexander of course, and the police, I saw police, they just started going by, and the ambulance started going by," Gunawan said. "And I called my husband, I was like 'Where are you at?' I was worried about my family and stuff."
The incident shook up onlookers, like Gunawan. She expects the talk around here to continue much longer than the chase.
"I didn't know what was going on. I was just thinking, 'I just missed something big,'" Gunawan added.
She also said that a number of people came by the restaurant to wait out all the traffic caused by the wreck. When THV 11 left the scene just after 7 p.m. Tuesday night, both lanes of traffic along I-30 near Alcoa Road were clear.
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Finely chopped toasted walnuts bulk up the yogurt dressing for this gorgeous salad from Martha Stewart's Meatless: More Than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian Recipes (Clarkson Potter, January 2013). It's simple to prepare, yet pretty enough to serve to company, either as the main course of a vegetarian meal or as a meatless offering at a summer potluck.
Arugula, Potato, and Green Bean Salad with Walnut Dressing
Recipe from Meatless: More Than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian Recipes
Serves 8
2 tablespoons white-wine vinegar
2 tablespoons plain low-fat yogurt
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/3 cup walnuts, toasted and finely chopped
Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
2 tablespoons walnut oil
1 ½ pounds fingerling potatoes, cut crosswise into ½-inch-thick rounds
6 ounces haricots verts or other green beans, trimmed
3 ounces baby arugula
1. Whisk together vinegar, yogurt, mustard, and the toasted nuts in a small bowl; season with salt and pepper. Add walnut oil in a slow, steady stream, whisking until emulsified.
2. Bring a medium saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes, and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer potatoes to a colander to drain. Return pan of water to a boil.
3. Prepare an ice-water bath. Add green beans to boiling water and cook until tender and bright green, about 4 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to ice water to stop the cooking. Drain and cut into 2-inch pieces.
4. Arrange arugula, potatoes, and green beans on a platter. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle with dressing, toss to coat, and serve.
Per serving: 122 calories, 6 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 17 g carbohydrates, 4 g protein, 3 g fiber


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June 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. is selling 211.5 million pounds ($358.8 million) of bonds backed by commercial properties in the U.K.
The notes will be the third commercial mortgage-backed securities sold in Europe this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The debt is secured by a loan made by Bank of America to Apollo Global Management LLC for the purchase of secondary quality properties, according to Matthias Baltes, head of commercial real estate financing at Bank of America in London.
Commercial mortgage bond sales slumped to 133 million euros ($180 million) in Europe this year, the least since the same period of 2008 and a fraction of the 6 billion euros issued in the first six months of last year, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. The deal is unusual because the debt is linked to 132 properties rather than to a single trophy asset, Baltes said in a telephone interview.
"There haven't been tonnes of deals done and one of the reasons is that to find the right fit as far as collateral is concerned is not that easy," Baltes said.
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We have heard your requests to develop a few more recipes with some less "traditional" ingredients, and that is just what we plan to do! Introducing the Smoky Bison Burger. Why bison?? It is lean, it is hearty, and it has a delicious beefy flavor that is sure to please. Here on the west coast, we have pretty easy access to bison in the form of steaks, roasts, and ground meat. For those of you who might not be able to find bison at your butcher's counter, check out these online bison suppliers:
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Prep Time: 5 minutesCook Time: 45 minutesServes: 4Pellet Recommendations: Hickory, Oak, or Pecan
Ingredients:1 lb ground bisonTraeger's Prime Rib RubAssorted burger toppings
Start your Traeger on smoke and leave the lid open for 4-5 minutes to establish the fire. Lightly form the ground bison into patties. Be sure the make a slight depression in the middle of the burgers to allow for expansion while grilling. Season with Traeger's Prime Rib Rub.
Place your patties directly on the grill and smoke for 25-30 minutes. Take the patties off the grill and turn the heat up to high. If desired, place a cast iron griddle on the grill grate. Close the lid and allow your Traeger to preheat.
Place the patties on the grill grate and cook for 5-7 minutes on each side until patties reach desired doneness.
Most people prefer their bison to be cooked to rare or medium rare because it is such a lean meat. We must recommend that you cook ground bison to an internal temperature of 175 degrees.
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Republic of the Rio Grande Grilled Tuna and Grapefruit Supreme Salad
- 2 1/2 Texas red grapefruits
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon minced jalapeño pepper, or hot pepper sauce
- 4 tuna steaks, 6 to 8 ounces each
- 6 cups mixed salad greens
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- 8 red onion slices
Peel and segment 2 grapefruits; set aside. Squeeze the juice from the other half grapefruit into a measuring cup; it should yield about 1/4 cup of juice.
To make the salad dressing, combine the grapefruit juice, vinegar, oil, garlic, salt, freshly ground black pepper to taste, and minced jalapeño in a medium bowl; mix well. Cover and refrigerate the salad dressing.
Place the tuna steaks in a shallow dish. Pour 1 tablespoon of dressing over each piece of tuna. Turn the tuna in the marinade to coat. Cover with plastic wrap, or place all of the tuna steaks and marinade in a plastic bag, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Light the grill. Remove the tuna from the refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature. Grill for about 4 minutes per inch of thickness for rare, 6 minutes for medium or until done to taste, turning at least once.
To serve, toss the greens with the salad dressing in a mixing bowl. Divide the dressed greens among 4 plates. Top each with a grilled tuna steak, then sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper. Spread grapefruit supremes over the top of the salad. Garnish with the cilantro and red onion slices.
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Puretracks abandons DRM
In brief: Puretracks has abandoned DRM in its music service, Campus MovieFest is giving away Macs and iPods, Samsung is targeting the MacBook, and Avid has published sneak preview videos of Xpress Pro 5.7. Canadian online store Puretracks will soon strip DRM from music on select independent labels, such as Nettwerk and Beggar's Banquet. While this represents only 50,000 of Puretracks' 1.3 million songs, the company says it will increase the number of DRM-free tracks weekly, eventually adding major-label content where possible. The move makes Puretracks one of the first big online music stores to carry but later abandon DRM, a move recently suggested by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Campus MovieFest to give away Macs, iPods
At the finale of Campus MovieFest, touted as the world's largest student film festival, audience members will have a chance to win Apple door prizes including an iPod video, an iPod nano, or even a Mac mini. Doors open at 6:30PM on Wednesday, February 28th at the Atlanta Symphony Hall. Site visitors can use the code "MACNN" to receive half-priced tickets, which are normally $5 for students and $10 for general admission.
Samsung targets the MacBook
Samsung is on the verge of releasing a new designer notebook line, which uses many of the same aesthetics as the MacBook, such as conscious minimalism and a thin black shell. The introductory Aura R20 will specifically compete with Apple, having a 14-inch glossy widescreen that shares the same 1280x800 resolution, bolstered by ATI's recently announced Xpress 1250 -- a new chipset said to dramatically improve on typically slow integrated graphics. Complete details of the R20 should be made available in an official announcement next week.
Xpress Pro 5.7 preview videos
Avid has begun releasing sneak preview videos for Xpress Pro 5.7, its real-time editing application for HD, SD and DV video. Desiged mainly for those without Avid support contracts, who are not elligible for the Open Beta Program. The first video deals with the open timeline, which lets users mix-and-match different video types, color-coded to user preference. No release date has been set for the final product.


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Addiction is an Equal-Opportunity Disease
If you could choose one word to describe addiction it might be devastating or shattering or maybe just plain sad. Addiction is an equal-opportunity disease and affects anyone regardless of profession, gender, age, or race. Addiction costs people billions of dollars per year; it crushes careers and relationships with ease.
The definition of addiction is the continued use of a mood-altering substance or behavior, in spite of adverse consequences leading to these behaviors. People that are addicted will use a substance or engage in an activity that is pleasurable but the continued use of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilities, such as work or relationships, or health.
The classic hallmark of addiction is impaired control over substances or behavior, preoccupation with substance or behavior, continued use despite consequences and denial. The rewards are short and the consequences are enormous. People get addicted to many different things besides drugs and alcohol. They can become addicted to sex, food, gambling, or shopping. Addiction is basically anything that is taken to an unhealthy level.
Addiction is a low that no one can ever understand unless they too have suffered the wrath of it. Addiction is a rock bottom place that is indescribable and has to be the closest thing to hell that you can get to on earth. It is grizzly, dark and ugly. But, it is also a best friend, a relationship that is always predictable, it is an escape, and a way out, which makes it difficult to quit.
Then, addiction finally reveals that there are just two forks in the road, one leads to recovery and the other death. This is when the choice has to be made. Treatment is the only choice to regain a sense of lucidity and sanity, it is the way to restore relationships, and it is the choice to make if you choose life.
Treatment is available and it is the right choice, the safe choice, the best choice. There are many options open for accepting help and all you have to do is be willing to do so. Take your life back and choose the right road, the road to recovery.


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The Times, Gainesville, Ga., on U.S. leaders could take a cue from the way Ga. governor, Atlanta mayor work together:
As the loggerhead battle of partisan squabbling continues unabated in Washington, D.C., it might behoove our national leaders to look to Georgia for an example of how leaders can come together to solve problems.
Georgia's governor and Atlanta's mayor would seem, on the surface, to be the oddest of political couples. One a seasoned, white, conservative North Georgian with years of experience as a congressman and prosecutor; the other an African-American Democrat born in New Jersey and educated in the more liberal environment of the Northeast academic and legal world.
But Nathan Deal and Kasim Reed have found they have much more in common than meets the eye, and have forged a working relationship that benefits both the state and city they represent.
Despite whatever differences in background and political philosophies they may bring to the job, they both are more pragmatic than ideological, their chief goal being to solve problems and help make Atlanta and Georgia more prosperous.
Their partnership has helped bring numerous companies and new jobs to metro Atlanta, and helped bring about the deal to build a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons. Whatever one thinks of the stadium plan, it's clear the political obstacles were no match for two strong-willed leaders willing to work together.
Deal and Reed both cut their political teeth in the state legislature where one-party dominance has largely made such compromise hard to come by.
Some decry tax incentives the state offers businesses to locate here, seeing it as a needless "expense." But they lose sight of the big picture: Yes, each job may carry a hefty price tag at the start, but if you extrapolate what that particular job means over time, it does pay off.
Add to that the double benefit of getting more people off unemployment and state benefits while boosting the tax digest and you have a long-term win-win proposition.
Reed clearly understands this. He has earned high marks as mayor, his charismatic personality and sharp mind making him the ideal leader for a dynamic city like Atlanta. He has only just begun what is likely to be a successful political career.
Many Democrats bristled at this suggestion, unsure why one of their own would endorse a sitting GOP governor so early in the process.
Fortunately, we don't have that problem right now in Georgia. For whatever issues we might have with legislative or local leaders, we at least have two men at the head of their respective parties who know how to come together and get things done.
We applaud the governor and mayor for their ongoing alliance. Here's to hoping both have several years left to come in making Georgia and Atlanta work better.
Savannah (Ga.) Morning News on juvenile injustice:
ALL GEORGIANS should be shocked, horrified and disgusted by a new federal report that says four of Georgia's youth detention centers are among the nation's worst for sexual assaults involving young inmates.
The report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics is based on juvenile inmate surveys conducted nationwide last year.
It comes at a time when Georgia is trying to overhaul its juvenile justice system, which has been plagued by reports of predatory teenage inmates assaulting other inmates and of abuse by staff members.
This latest document must accelerate needed reforms. The youthful victims of these attacks are already incarcerated for breaking laws. Being sexually assaulted while in the state's custody will make their rehabilitation more difficult — and scar them for life.
None of the four facilities are in the Savannah area. They were identified as the Augusta YDC in Richmond County, the Sumter County YDC in Americus, the Eastman YDC in Dodge County and the Paulding County YDC in Dallas.
The Paulding County facility, which serves seven counties west of Atlanta, led the nation with 32.1 percent of youth inmates reporting last year that they were victimized sexually by staff or other juveniles. That's more than three times the national rate of 9.5 percent.
If three out of every 10 inmates are being assaulted, then that facility is out of control. State officials must clean house.
State employees who are using their positions to take advantage of young offenders shouldn't be working behind bars. They belong behind bars.
All told, nearly 300 boys in Georgia reported sexual abuse last year, based on answers provided anonymously by youth in custody. Georgia's four facilities were on a national list of 13 facilities with the highest rates of sexual misconduct. South Carolina was named, as well.
Commissioner Avery D. Niles, head of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, said in a prepared statement that he's "truly concerned to hear these allegations of sexual misconduct."


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Pat Buchanan: The Depardieu RevolutionCategory: General
When Socialist President Francois Hollande took office, he swiftly made good on his pledge to raise the top tax rate on Frenchmen who earn a million euros a year — to 75 percent.
The regime would now confiscate three of four dollars that the most successful Frenchmen earned. Paris also imposes a wealth tax on assets worth more than $1.7 million.
This broke it for Gerard Depardieu, the famed actor and bon vivant who has performed in scores of films in such roles as Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables" and Cyrano de Bergerac.
Depardieu put his Paris mansion up for sale, crossed the border into the Belgian village of Nechin, gave up his French passport and is renouncing his French citizenship. A tiny community of French already reside in Nechin, a kilometer beyond the reach of Hollande's tax police.
Depardieu says that this past year 85 percent of all he earned went for taxes. Over a 45-year career, he contends, almost $200 million in income has been taxed away by the French government.
"I don't like the rich," Hollande has said.
The sentiment is reciprocated. One French radio station claims that 5,000 French citizens have fled since he took office.
Hollande's regime, writes Edward Cody of The Washington Post, has all but declared Depardieu a traitor. Labor Minister Michel Sapin calls him an example of "personal degradation." Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti charges him with "deserting the battlefield in a war against the economic crisis."
"When someone loves France, he should serve," says Hollande, calling Depardieu "pathetic" and "unpatriotic."
Which raises a question for Americans. For our revolution was born of a tax rebellion against the Stamp Act, the Townshend duties and the tea tax that led to the Boston Tea Party.
Purpose of these taxes: Have the colonies pay a fair share of the cost of the French and Indian War, in which British soldiers had driven the enemies of the colonies out of the Ohio Valley.
But when farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against a whiskey tax to defray the cost of our Revolutionary War, President Washington marched out with 13,000 militia to crush that tax rebellion.
While the socialist left has come down hardest on Depardieu, he is well within a tradition of the cultural left.
As The Associated Press' Thomas Addison reports, when the British top tax rate was 95 percent in the 1960s, the Beatles' George Harrison wrote "Taxman" with the lyrics, "There's one for you, 19 for me."
In 2005, Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr moved to Monaco, where the income tax rate is zero.
Sean Connery, the first "James Bond," departed Britain in the 1960s for Spain and the Bahamas, writes Addison, "another spot with zero income tax." In the 1970s, his successor as 007, Roger Moore, also chose tax exile in Monaco. In those years of confiscatory tax rates in England, the Rolling Stones relocated to Southern France.
What does this teach us?
That socialism, the forced redistribution of income and wealth from those who produce it to those who do not, eventually forces a man to choose between himself and his family — and his government.
Socialism creates and exacerbates a conflict in loyalties. A regime that takes three of every four dollars a man earns is an enemy of what that man works to accomplish for himself and his family.
Mitt Romney was castigated for keeping bank accounts in the Caymans, Bermuda and Switzerland. Yet countless U.S. companies leave profits abroad to evade U.S. taxes.
Californians flee to Nevada, Arizona, Idaho and Colorado to escape Golden State taxes. Are they disloyal to their home state, or are they doing what is right by their families, their first responsibility?
With federal income taxes on America's most successful rising today to almost 40 percent, New York City residents will also pay a top rate of 12 percent to the state and city plus a 9 percent sales tax on their purchases, plus payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security, plus property taxes, auto taxes, gas taxes and cigarette taxes.
For many successful Americans, over half of all they earn is now taken by government. And reading The New York Times' year-end editorial, these may soon be seen as the good old days.
The Times urges Obama to consider sweeping new taxes to "reduce income inequality." Among the revenue raisers for which it urges consideration: Almost tripling the capital tax rate to 40 percent, capping deductions for high earners, restoring the estate tax to confiscatory levels, higher tax rates or surcharges on multimillion-dollar incomes and raising the corporate tax rate — already the highest in the world.
"All that would be only a start," says the Times. A carbon tax, a value-added tax, a financial transactions tax should all be looked at.
Can a man love his country and hate its government? Of course. Ask Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Ask the patriots of '76.
This un-American and egalitarian fanaticism rearing its head today may one day force just such a question upon American patriots.
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countenance Says:
January 6th, 2013 at 6:02 pm
Various state legislatures are floating the idea of exit taxes ("Confiscation of property of emigrants and rebels" — Communist Manifesto). Rush Limbaugh complains that even though he moved out of New York State in 1997, they still audit him year in and year out. And while he can afford to be audited, can you or I? What if, e.g. California gets so desperate that they start doing this against middle class ex-Californians that moved to Arizona and Idaho? They can't afford to be audited, so they'll just give in to the extortion.
Jez Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 2:56 am
Punishing success has never made society a better place. Moderate socialism in my opinion is not necessarily an evil provided the successful can still enjoy the bulk of their success, but the extreme socialism now being rolled out by Hollande literally borders on communism. It is somewhat ironic that Depardieu has received citizenship from a country [Russia] that was once the leading communist state in the world.
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January 7th, 2013 at 8:28 am
All taxes are regressive at some point,i.e., the higher the rates the less you collect. All of this crap has been tried before and failed but the left will never learn. It is only exacerbated by the 3rd world invasion which "conservatives" champion too (provided all the legal paperwork is in order).
I think most leftists are miserable failures in life, know it and out of envy covet the wealth of others. Wealth they know they are incapable of producing. Same goes for most non Whites.
Herbert W Yuengling Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:38 am
The British indeed needed to pay for the cost of protecting their subjects from the French and Indians. The Revolutionary War was wrong.
After the Revolutionary War, Americans were taxed far more than King George would have taxed them.
Washington uses deadly force to put down the exact same thing that he once did! Pah!
I also am not against socialism. Capitalism destroys culture.
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January 7th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Current top rate in France 41% in Germany 45%. Germany is strong France is in economic decline. So i would question the high tax rate is bad theory. Citizens like Depardieu don't mind voting for big spenders but expect others to pay the bill. Same problem in USA people want gov't to do this and that but don't want to pay the taxes needed to pay for it.
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January 8th, 2013 at 2:30 am
Ironic indeed! And what's even more ironic is that now-a-days, Russia is seemingly the most conservative nation of all the white nations. 73 years of communist rule taught the Russians an ever-lasting lesson, and it looks like they've learned it. If the R word is a Rorschach test for how racially conscious a people are, then this is highly encouraging:
"Surveys show xenophobia and other racist expressions are prevalent in 50 percent of Russians. In 2006, Amnesty International reported that racism in Russia was 'out of control.'"
Then there's this:
"A Russian commentator Vyacheslav Nikonov claimed Russia's image is so negative in the West by quoting his Canadian friend: 'The main problem is that these Russians have white skin. If they had been green, or pink, or came from Mars…or had flowers sticking out of their ears, then everybody would have said – well, these people are different, like Turks, or Chinese, or Japanese. We have no questions about the Japanese. They are different, their civilisation is different. But these Russians … they are white but they have totally different brains … which is thoroughly suspicious.'"
Connect those two quotes together and you have a racially-healthy, pro-white people. If only the same could be said of Americans.
MGA Says:
January 8th, 2013 at 4:00 am
"When someone loves France, he should serve," says Hollande, calling Depardieu "pathetic" and "unpatriotic."
That comment comes from a genocidal maniac who hates the native sons and daughters of France and wants to replace them with Africans and Asians.
The triumph of socialism is the death knell of all humankind. May God overthrow the state and its minion, Hollande.
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January 8th, 2013 at 9:26 am
Libertarian truths:
When the meek receive power, their psychology changes.
Government too often turns into organized theft.
A person should be able to garden naked in her back yard, as long as she has a fence up.
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January 8th, 2013 at 10:04 am
@Counenace: They will NOT have anything left to audit by then. The dollar is going the way of Confederate money, when no one knows for sure but it's going to occur within the next 3 years at the rate things are going.
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January 9th, 2013 at 1:49 am
Time to stir the pot again.
@Herbert W Yuengling:
Perhaps a guy like me should refrain from calling it "capitalism" or the "free market" thanks to the deeply unfortunate connotation those terms have with neoconservatism. Perhaps too many people in this movement have a Pavlovian reaction where they hear those words and immediately think, "YANKEES!! BRA!! AMUURICA!! JOOOOS!!! MATERIALISM!!"
After a full year in this movement, a part of me understands that knee-jerk reaction, and yet a larger part of me says, "you guys have totally failed to separate the baby from the bathwater." Whatever you want to call the economic system that Adam Smith formulated (capitalism, the free market, or something else), the bottom line is that no other economic system can touch it. Do certain reforms need to be made? Absolutely! The Federal Reserve, IRS, and pretty much the entire bureaucracy must be abolished. We desperately need a return to the immigration system we had from 1924-1965. We must deport the tens of millions of so-called "legal" immigrants who only became U.S, citizens because they already had family here. I wouldn't be opposed to deporting every single Latino immigrant who came here after 1965.
OF COURSE we need reforms to the system. But to be perfectly blunt, it is the height of lunacy to support socialism or collectivism in any form. There was a comment left on a recent article at the Occidental Observer which echos the sentiments of both me and the people we're trying to recruit into this movement:
"According to the UN charter, every people have a right to self determination. If any one wants to set up a WHITE country based on individual's right to life, liberty, and property (pursuit of happiness) let me know. I'll sign up for that. Freedom comes with responsibility is the only motto we need to live by. The "collective" can go f*&^ itself. Same goes for the 'guardians of morality'"
Collectivism, mind you, is NOT the same thing as community. Every white American in their right mind understands the importance of community – that human beings aren't islands. Collectivism, on the other hand, crushes the individual altogether and makes him subservient to the subjective whims of the majority, or worse yet, the iron fist of the central government. Jacobite France was collectivist. Bolshevik Russia was collectivist. Maoist China was collectivist. Modern day North Korea is collectivist.
If you want to pursue a white nation based on collectivism and the "brothers caretaker" bull spit, then be my guest. The rest of us whites will take the amazing success of the historical American nation. We Americans do in fact have a very rich and wonderful history. We are not rootless. We are a real nation that exists in the real world. There are 200 million of us, and if you count out the self-loathing traitors there are anywhere from 120 to 150 million of us. We have a common blood, a common culture (with various sub-cultures), a common ideological outlook, and for the most part, a common history. We existed as an independent white nation for most of our history until we lost control due in no small part to our own racial weaknesses – weaknesses which are not insurmountable.
Not that I expect any of this to appeal to you, Herbert. You're a classical conservative all the way; A child of John Ruskin. But perhaps a little Southern history will appeal to you – history so shocking that it left Hunter Wallace flabbergasted. I for one was tickled pink reading this:
"The favorable business climate so vital to the Sunbelt South's fabled economic success story was actually rooted in the historically conservative social and political atmosphere long condemned as the nemesis of southern progress. Cheap, intimidated labor, low taxes, and a cooperative rather than meddlesome government – all of these were both trademarks of the traditionalist, plantation South and keys to the Sunbelt South's appeal to business and industrial investors. The South's economic emergence demonstrated that the 'value gap' between agrarian and industrial-commercial societies had been greatly exaggerated."
As Wallace lamented in the commented section: "The conquered absorbed the values of the conquerer and were permanently changed by the experience. The modern South is obsessed with industrialization. We're the Bible Belt now. We're the "right-to-work" states."
But while collectivist whites like him lament it, the rest of white America (with the exception of white liberals, who are equally collectivist) is all like, "that's what I'm talking about!"
Whiteness + Christianity + the invisible hand = the United States of America. Love it or leave it!
Herbert W Yuengling Says:
January 10th, 2013 at 7:19 pm
I also favor the "Arts and Crafts Movement" which was led by William Morris and inspired by the writings of John Ruskin.
They were rebelling against the mass-production mindlessness of capitalism. They wanted a return to artistry.
I don't know about you, WDC, but I was, in my youth, ensnared in the mindless, numbing, reduce-everyone-to-the-common-denominator crushing system of modern capitalism.
Thank God I am free.
Herbert W Yuengling Says:
January 10th, 2013 at 7:20 pm
I am not going anywhere, Courtney.
White Dream Chaser Says:
January 10th, 2013 at 11:36 pm
Whatever its faults, the "mass-production mindlessness of capitalism" doubled the life-expectancy of everyone living in industrialized, first world countries. It also increased the standard of living to such an extent that Europeans and Americans no longer had to toil in the fields as they survived on day to day subsistence. Hard labor was replaced by soft leisure. I fail to see how this is anything less then an outstanding moral triumph, and the majority of whites everywhere in America feel the same way.


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The photographs listed below were submitted by Don Henderson. Don believes the photos were taken in the Abesville and Galena communities.Don's grandmother, Ruth Eutsler began teaching in the small school in Abesville when she was about 18, around 1930. She remained a teacher in Abesville and later in Galena until about 1955.Don would appreciate your help with identification of the people in the pictures.
The photo above was submitted by Jan McDaniel. Pictured at left is Jan's great-grandmother Florence Rosie (Bailey) Cloud, wife of Austin Cloud. Next to her is her brother George A. Bailey. Jan's grandmother identified Florence and George but not the other two women on the right. Jan believes the women might be sisters of Florence and George.
This photograph was sent to us by Cheri Mello. According to Cheri, "The only ones that are identified are the big girl on the left who looks like she is going to walk away (Billie Mack Callen), and the girl dead center with a white headband (Louise Duncan). The photo must be from around 1939 or 1940." Cheri's mother attended school in Blue Eye, Missouri so Cheri thinks this must be a Blue Eye School photo.
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Broccoli, White Bean & Cheddar Soup
Broccoli, white beans and Cheddar cheese blend together deliciously in this quick and healthy soup.
Makes 6 servings, scant 1 cup each
ACTIVE TIME: 20 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 20 minutes
EASE OF PREPARATION: Easy
1 14-ounce can reduced-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth
1 cup water
1 pound broccoli crowns, trimmed and chopped (about 6 cups)
1 14-ounce can cannellini beans, rinsed
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
1 cup shredded extra-sharp Cheddar cheese
1. Bring broth and water to a boil in a medium saucepan over high heat. Add broccoli, cover and continue cooking until tender, about 8 minutes. Stir in beans, salt and pepper and continue cooking until the beans are heated through, about 1 minute.
2. Transfer half the mixture to a blender with half the cheese and puree. (Use caution when pureeing hot liquids.) Transfer to a bowl. Repeat with the remaining broccoli mixture and cheese. Serve warm.
NUTRITION INFORMATION: Per serving: 153 calories; 7 g fat (4 g sat, 0 g mono); 21 mg cholesterol; 15 g carbohydrate; 11 g protein; 6 g fiber; 437 mg sodium; 435 mg potassium. Nutrition bonus: Vitamin C (94% daily value), Vitamin A (25% dv), Calcium (21% dv). 1/2 Carbohydrate Serving. Exchanges: 1 starch, 1 vegetable, 1 1/2 lean meat.
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Under European Union (EU) law, personal data – including your name, address or social networking profile – can only be gathered legally under specific conditions, for a legitimate purpose. Companies in the EU that collect and manage your personal information must protect it from misuse and must respect certain rights guaranteed by EU law.
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You might want to try this:
Nutri-Grain Cereal Bar
- 120 calories per bar
- 3 grams of fat
- 12 grams of sugar
- 2 grams of protein
- 3 grams of fiber
Filling: high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, blueberry puree concentrate, glycerin, sugar, water, sodium alginate, modified corn starch, etc.Reading and understanding the food label and the ingredient list is key to making healthy choices. When you read the ingredient list, remember the ingredients closest to the top of the list are more concentrated in the food item. Therefore, if high fructose corn syrup is the first ingredient in your ingredient list, this means there is a lot of high fructose corn syrup in the product you are consuming.
Better Choice: Kashi TLC Chewy Granola Bars - Trail Mix
- 140 calories per bar
- 5 grams of fat
- 6 grams of sugar
- 6 grams of protein
- 4 grams of fiber
Another popular snack item is yogurt. Yogurt is considered a complete protein as it contains all the essential amino acids you need in one food item. However, not all yogurts are created equal.
Yoplait, Low-Fat Yogurt
- 100 calories per 6oz
- 0 grams fat
- 14 grams of sugar
- 5 grams of protein
- 120 calories per 5.3 oz
- 0 grams fat
- 14 grams of sugar
- 13 grams of protein
Below are some other common food comparisons.
Panera Bread Company: Baked Potato Soup (8oz serving)
- 227 calories
- 14.7 grams of fat (7.3 grams saturated fat),
- 807 mg sodium
- 4.7 grams protein
- 167 calories,
- 8.4 grams of fat (3.5 grams saturated fat),
- 1540mg sodium,
- 6.3 grams protein
- 790 calories
- 53 grams of fat (14 grams saturated fat)
- 1,660 mg sodium
- 37 grams protein
- 370 calories
- 16 grams fat (2 grams saturated fat)
- 890 mg sodium
- 30 grams protein
The FDA has mandated food labels for most all foods. You can find food labels and nutrition information on the back of food items and on company website's. Start by making informed choices about your food intake - EAT Well, LIVE Well!
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Women in Yoga with Manduka Ambassador Erika Burkhalter
An Intimate Evening with Eric Shaw and Manduka Ambassador, Erika Burkhalter, who will be presenting "Women in Yoga" at her home. E-mail for more information (firstname.lastname@example.com). $15
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Yoga Tune Up® Shoulders with Manduka Ambassador Jill Miller
It is through our arms that we embrace the world, but even a simple hug requires dexterity. Tight shoulders restrict breathing and compromise posture. Yoga Tune Up®: Shoulders reconditions the region from your upperback to your fingertips. If Downward Dog or Handstand present any kind of discomfort, it is likely that your shoulders are unbalanced. In this workshop, learn how to completely unlock the shoulders, elbows and wrists and free up these limbs from every conceivable angle. Embody a new understanding of shoulder anatomy through exercises derived from yoga, therapeutic conditioning, and deep tissue massage. Leave class with shoulders that swing effortlessly while pulsating with prana. Shoulder Shape Up Workshops are $65 for 1 day, $120 for 2 days and $170 for 3 days.
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Bhakti Fest Spring OMmersion is a 3-day festival and workshop retreat celebrating devotion through chanting, yoga, meditation, and community. This year's event will be held April 15-17 on 450 acres of inspiring desert land at Joshua Tree.
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Are Yoga Poses Ancient History?
LA Yoga Magazine and Manduka Ambassador Jill Miller invite you to an empowering and educational evening with Yogic Scholar Mark Singleton.
It's often said that yoga is a 5000 year old tradition from India. But what about the practices we do today? Is there really a direct link to the ancient past, or is the story more complicated? Today yoga is virtually synonymous in the West with the practice of āsana. What can we learn from the modern
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Call for Papers
International Conference on Business Ethics
Tehran Chamber of Commerce Industries & mines in cooperation with the Center for Globalization Studies, intend to convene a conference on Business Ethics on Feb 18 and 19, 2007 in Tehran.
The Conference axes are:
1- Theoretical topics in Business Ethics
1-1. Definitions and concepts of business ethics
1-2. Professional and ethical responsibilities.
1-3. Business ethics and religion
1-4. Business ethics and law
2- Customer Oriented Business Ethics
2-1. Ethical dimensions of competition in Business.
2-2. The role of business ethics in corporate success.
2-3. Ethical foundations of customer rights
2-4. transparency,selling and post-selling services in business ethics.
2-5. Ethics in commercial advertisement
3- Applied skills in ethical problem solving in business
3-1. Major ethical problems of the corporations
3-2. Procedures and techniques of ethical problem diagnosis.
3-3. Problem solving models and techniques in business ethics.
3-4. Ethical dilemmas in business ethics.
4- Non-Governmental organizations and Business Ethics.
4-1. The process of effectivity of NGOs and professional associations in developing Business Ethics.
4-2. Moral responsibilities of NGO's in relation to business ethics.
4-3. The role of civil institutions in supervision of the government performance in relation to business ethics.
5- The predictability and cohesion of behaviors of the corporations in relation to Business Ethics.
5-1. The concept of predictability and related variables.
5-2. Predictability of the corporations, trustability and corporation image building in relation to business ethics.
5-3. The relationship between the ethical responsibility and predictability
5-4. Predictability of the environment and market studies, and the predictability of the corporations.
6- Ethical responsibilities of corporations in the age of globalization.
6-1. The role of business ethics in globalizing the corporations and the economy of a country.
6-2. Ethical responsibilities of corporations in international communication.
6-3. The role of business ethics in promotion of national image in the world economic sphere.
7- The similarities and differences in ethical concepts of business in different cultures.
7-1. Traditions, customs and cultural norms and their relation to the ethical values in business.
7-2. Intercultural business ethics.
7-3. Religion, cultural diversity and business ethics.
8- Business ethics in different economic activities and ethical assessment of the corporations performance.
8-1. Case studies in business ethics (e.g. in financial services, insurance industry, banking and accounting, mining, car industry, marketing …)
8-2. the ethical assessment of corporations: models and case studies.
9- Human resources and business ethics.
9-1. Personal and ethical responsibilities in different levels within corporations.
9-2. The balance between ethical responsibilities and rights, and balance of power in corporations.
9-3. Women, children and business ethics.
10- Government and business ethics.
10-1. The government ethical responsibilities in economic policy making.
10-2. The ethical responsibilities in legislation and ethical auditing of legal procedures effective in business
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Functions in compat.php
- http_build_query() - PHP 5.0.0
- stripos() - PHP 5.0.0
- hash_hmac() - PHP 5.1.2
- mb_substr() - PHP 5.0.0
- json_encode() - PHP 5.2.0
- json_decode() - PHP 5.2.0
- pathinfo() - updated in PHP 5.2.0
All of them can be removed. I left the file there but empty for future use. In addition, pathinfo52 can be updated to pathinfo where the PATHINFO_FILENAME constant was added used in wp-admin/includes/image-edit.php:554.
comment:2 @nacin — 5 years ago
We should kill the file and the include. We know where to find the template for future functions.
Services_JSON can go too.
@ptahdunbar — 5 years ago
comment:3 @ptahdunbar — 5 years ago
ticket.16918.2.diff removes the compat.php file and replaces instances of _http_build_query() with http_build_query().
comment:5 @hakre — 5 years ago
Consolidated patch, another _http_build_query() was left in class-http.php (the only one I could find from the whole compat functions list), some references to said functions were left in comments.
comment:6 @hakre — 5 years ago
Consolidated patch, removal of class-json.php / Services_JSON as suggested
comment:7 @hakre — 5 years ago
In #16932, looking into add_query_arg() and friends I've been running over _http_build_query() again.
In this ticket we said, it's compat to http_build_query(), but it's not. The $key parameter is undefined and the $urlencode parameter is undefined.
It looks like that _http_build_query() has been designed pre 5.3.6 (makes sense) and that it's overloading optional parameters that are now used in a different context and therefore render the compat function incompatible.
The udpated patch reflects that for that one call in build_query().
comment:8 follow-up: ↓ 9 @nacin — 5 years ago
The usage of _http_build_query() is clearly reliant on the requirement to not URL encode there.
comment:9 in reply to: ↑ 8 @hakre — 5 years ago
Replying to nacin:
The usage of _http_build_query() is clearly reliant on the requirement to not URL encode there.
Will provide a fix.
comment:10 @hakre — 5 years ago
Please review.
comment:11 @nacin — 5 years ago
Looks good. We should probably also deprecated _http_build_query() unfortunately.
comment:12 @hakre — 5 years ago
comment:13 @hakre — 5 years ago
- Keywords dev-feedback added
Would love to keep the progress going. Some dev-feedback on _http_build_query() and wp_clone is appreciated.
comment:14 @ryan — 5 years ago
comment:15 @hakre — 5 years ago
_http_build_query (from php.net manual) is reflected so far (thx ryan, Related: [17603]), wp_clone still pending (is less trivial than previous changes so very much OK).
however would like to see more traction which includes close (esp. in favor of #16920) of this ticket.
Subject to opinion (but?) I think this ticket can already considered closed [that's merely self-criticism].
Feedback appreciated.
comment:16 @aaroncampbell — 5 years ago
It looks like in doing this we removed _() which is part of gettext right?If I'm reading this right gettext is optional. Should we be dropping _() back into compat.php and putting it back? See: #17064
@aaroncampbell — 5 years ago
Add compat.php back with _()
comment:17 @joostdevalk — 5 years ago
mb_substr has now been removed, apparently, but mb_ functions are not a default in each PHP install, from http://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php :
"mbstring is a non-default extension. This means it is not enabled by default. You must explicitly enable the module with the configure option. See the Install section for details."
Please put it back as it was, as it was already throwing errors on yoast.com.
comment:18 @aaroncampbell — 5 years ago
I decided to double check everything:
- http_build_query() & _http_build_query() can be removed: http://php.net/manual/en/url.installation.php
- _() cannot be removed: http://php.net/manual/en/gettext.installation.php
- stripos() can be removed: http://php.net/manual/en/strings.installation.php
- hash_hmac() & _hash_hmac() can be removed: http://php.net/manual/en/hash.installation.php
- mb_substr() & _mb_substr() cannot be removed: http://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php
- htmlspecialchars_decode() can be removed: http://php.net/manual/en/strings.installation.php
- json_encode() & json_decode() can be removed: http://php.net/manual/en/json.installation.php
- pathinfo52() can be removed according to notes: http://php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php
I don't see why we have _mb_substr() so I combined it with mb_substr() and made a new patch.
@aaroncampbell — 5 years ago
Add compat.php back with _() & mb_substr()
comment:19 @markjaquith — 5 years ago
comment:20 @markjaquith — 5 years ago
comment:21 @markjaquith — 5 years ago
comment:22 @markjaquith — 4 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
I think we're done here.
comment:23 @sanb — 4 years ago
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Symptom: wordpress 3.2 post-install complains of missing 'hash_hmac' function
Environment: My host is running PHP 5.2.11-pl0-gentoo
Fix: restore hash_hmac to compat.php
comment:24 @aaroncampbell — 4 years ago
What host are you on? If they don't have hash_hmac it means they had to explicitly disable it by using the --disable-hash switch.
comment:25 @ryan — 4 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from reopened to closed
PHP needs to be reemerged with USE=hash.
comment:26 follow-up: ↓ 28 @lloydbudd — 4 years ago
Joyent Shared Hosting has PHP Version 5.2.12 (SunOS 5.11), but defaults to --disable-json so is missing json_encode() & json_decode() and that means image editor (backend) oembeds (front end) don't work and (WordPress.com JetPack is also broken).
I wonder how common this is. I'm contacting Joyent support to see if they will change their default.
comment:27 @bsdguru — 4 years ago
json.so can be enabled in the relevant php.ini file (~/etc/php5/php.ini or ~/domains/domain.name/etc/php5/php.ini). If it's enabled by default it would not be retroactive - will follow up tomorrow morning about this.
comment:28 in reply to: ↑ 26 ; follow-up: ↓ 29 @azaozz — 4 years ago
Replying to lloydbudd:
I'm wondering what is the reason for disabling json. It seems we will be using it more and more, expecting other functions to be transferred to json in 3.3.
comment:29 in reply to: ↑ 28 ; follow-up: ↓ 30 @lloydbudd — 4 years ago
Replying to azaozz:
Replying to lloydbudd:
I'm wondering what is the reason for disabling json. It seems we will be using it more and more, expecting other functions to be transferred to json in 3.3.
Joyent's support says it is an optimization to keep the php runtime unbloated.
Looks like it's coming back with #18015: Restore compat Services_JSON (class-json.php), json_encode, json_decode
comment:30 in reply to: ↑ 29 @azaozz — 4 years ago
Replying to lloydbudd:
Yes, seems some hosts have the right version of PHP but no JSON support for no apparent reason. Don't think "unbloated" is good enough excuse, loading it as PHP code would "bloat" it far more :)


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