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There's often a lot of hostility toward "government regulations." I'm going to muse on that today, with a long general contemplation on the whole nature of this fashionable outrage. It comes in all varieties.
There are people who think laws are so needlessly complicated (a typical bill nowadays can be ten thousand pages long) that surely we can cut it all down to just a handy pocketbook. Why, Herman Cain said he'd require all laws be just three pages long, huzzah! Problem solved. That horror of complexity is a natural gut reaction. But it's not really a reliable guide to how things should be done. I doubt Herman Cain's company bylaws or operations manuals were three pages long. And how long do you think all the contracts he had to sign were? A country is way more complicated than a pizza franchise. The instruction manual for your average naval ship (all that the crew must learn and reliably follow to operate it) would fill ten thousand pages easy, and yet you wouldn't think it wise to cut it all down to three pages. That ship would be at the bottom of the sea before the year was out ("paint locker…it's okay to smoke in there, right?").
Then there are people who think regulations always just get in the way. That regulations just stifle business and slow everything down and screw everything up and cost too much to enforce ("Why can't we just do whatever the hell we want?"). That they are badly informed and always suck and just make the government too meddlesome ("And what do they know anyway?"). And such like, and so forth. But most of this hostility is based on mythology rather than fact. Not all. But most. Politics has sort of become the new religion. You pick a faith, declare yourself for it, then preach all of its myths and legends that serve to reinforce its dogma, and don't listen to reason when the facts don't quite line up with it.
I'm a moderate. I've written about political theory before. I register democrat because my political system requires me to in order to have any real influence on elections. But I don't really espouse any party line. They are all just exercises in fiction. I have sympathies with libertarians, but think their faith doctrine doesn't line up with reality as neatly as they fervently claim. I have sympathies with fiscal conservatives, but conservatives never just stay fiscal. I have sympathies with liberals, but more often than not they are just too stupid to function. I have sympathies with modern democratic socialists, but their ideas about economics often tend to be suicidally naive. I have sympathies with free market capitalists, but their ideas about economics also tend to be suicidally naive. So you can't really peg me. I do not espouse a faith.
I'm more committed to reality. And reality is messy, complicated, and does not agree with anyone's political faith doctrine. I thus see things differently. People bitching about government regulations is just the latest example that's put a bee in my bonnet. (Figuratively speaking. Obviously I don't own a bonnet. It's the 21st century. I'm more of a tuque man now.) Historically, government regulation of commerce was one of the first things people formed governments for. And in general it makes a lot of sense, and is just a logical extension of what everyone (except maybe lunatic anarchists) agree a government should always do: protect people from death and injury and fraud and robbery.
One of the oldest examples can be found in Hammurabi's Code. (You know, that 1772 B.C. law code that later the Hebrews stole, pared down, dinked all up with superstitious homo bashing and a disturbing obsession with goatfucking, and then claimed some backwoods storm god told it to them on a mountain somewhere. Hammurabi got his code from a top notch sun god, which is way better than a pinny anny storm god.) That contained, among other things, a section on building codes, the gist of which was that any builder who did shoddy work had to pay for any resulting damages, up to and including death, if any people died because of his shit work. (Note that that's one of the things the Hebrews cut out of their version; since they were just a couple steps above rock-banging primitives at the time and didn't actually build stuff, their god didn't think they had any need of building codes. Their god didn't do much thinking ahead. Stupid storm gods.)
Now it's kind of obvious that there should be a law about this. If the government is supposed to protect you from me banging you over the head with a rock, then surely the government is supposed to protect you from me banging you over the head with a house. In Sense and Goodness without God (VII.5.2-5.3, pp. 391-95), I concluded that any regulation that prevents something happening that you could sue over anyway, is a good regulation the government has every business of enforcing and will make the world a better place. Because making it into a lawsuit puts all the expense of getting justice on the victim, which is precisely what we form governments to prevent. The whole civil tort system is really just the government being lazy. (As an example, under Roman law ordinary theft was not a crime but a civil tort. Over time, as government gets more effective, it stops being lazy like that and starts taking charge of the law–evidence: now all theft is a crime.)
Another famous example is the first constitutional government of Athens. One of the very first things they did was enact and enforce government standards of weights and measures. Now it was a crime to sell someone a "gallon" of milk, after deciding on your own what exactly a "gallon" was. A pound of gold was now everywhere the same amount of gold, or you're busted. Eventually they even established an official "nut measure" (shown left). The net economic effect was tremendous: everyone now traded with and in Athens. With knowledge that the government would back anyone who got cheated by wonky weights and measures and stop that shit right out, trade flourished and the Athenian economy boomed. They became a great empire. Until they started funding a massive standing military that was constantly fighting too many foreign wars of intervention in support of big business interests that ran up crushing debts that tore down their entire empire, never to be great again. (Wait, that sounds famili…oh, crap.)
The point is, history more than confirms that government regulation of business and commerce is wise, necessary, beneficial, and better than common sense. That's why the Founding Fathers enshrined it in the Constitution as one of the fundamental enumerated powers of Congress. Article I, section 8. Not only is the power to "regulate commerce" explicitly granted, but six of the thirteen listed powers there directly involve regulating trade or business, a seventh does so indirectly (through the power to create and maintain a postal system and all necessary roads), while two more are purely administrative, leaving only four powers directly concerning the use of force (military powers), and only one (one of the two administrative clauses) concerning such indirectly (by giving Congress power to legislate the enforcement of its laws, hence authorizing the legislation of, for example, a police force). Thus, by count, the enumerated powers of Congress are more concerned with government regulation of business than any other function of government.
But what about "excessive" regulations? Do we really need hundreds of thousands of pages of fastidious government regulations? WTF is up with that anyway? Are bill drafters just babbling lunatics? Is Congress high? Is there some conspiracy afoot? Is it all just the administrative emesis of lefty control freaks? Why are just as many of these monstrous bills written and voted up by conservative nutjobs? Lefty mind control? Do liberals all just have the lamest X-men mutant power, the ability to mind control conservatives only when it will result in creating more regulations? (But when it's war or gay rights, up goes the supernatural Republican mind block?) What are all these regulations and why on earth does Congress keep voting for them? Why, in fact, so damn many of them?
Ironically, the popular myth that government regulations hinder business entails that Congress is consistently anti-business, because all regulations exist only because Congress consistently enacts them. Congress. The same Congress that everyone knows is in the pocket of big business. So business interests pay Congress to constantly, persistently, relentlessly get in their way? That doesn't make a lot of sense. Whenever you see a contradiction in your religious dogma, you should start questioning whether maybe your dogma is full of shit. So let's take an abstract tour of government regulations, categorized by how and why they come to be. You can confirm all the following generalizations by just picking up any enacted law and just reading it, front to back (the more so if you follow the insider reporting on how the bill got drafted and amended, and/or compare a bill as first proposed, with what actually gets passed)…
1. Most government regulations are in fact corporate-lobby, bought-and-paid-for loopholes, designed to help business. Mainly to help it get away with things. Take, for example, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That started as just a couple of pages. It ended up thousands of pages long. WTF? Well, most of the final draft of any banking regulations bill (like this one) consists of rules the regulated companies asked for, basically hundreds and hundreds of pages of loopholes and exceptions. These regulations are not in the way of business, but are the very things the businesses wanted so they would be less restricted! (By the actual regulations, which themselves might span only a page or two.)
Most of these rules I agree we could get rid of. For example, the original Dodd-Frank bill was short and simple and obviously the correct law to have, but it was bloated by hundreds of pages of exceptions for various companies' activities (again, exceptions the companies asked for). But you can't say this government bloat is hurting business, when in fact it's business that is asking for them and getting them voted in. At most you might say that often these vast reams of pro-business regs are hurting small business, by rigging the system in favor of big business. And sometimes that's true. Although not always…sometimes regulations that are needed, don't hurt small businesses at all, or even help them, and sometimes they do favor big business over small, but only as an inevitable byproduct: example, car safety regulations favor Toyota over some random dude with a garage and a dream to make cars out of cardboard boxes, rubber bands, and hydrazine thrusters. But let's be honest, we don't want that dude's cars on the road with us. That's right up there with smashing us over the head with a badly built house, only this time we're tossing giant flammable exploding bullets down a busy highway, which damn right ought to be illegal. But if a reg is needlessly hurting small business just to give an unfair advantage to big business, then why not get rid of it? I agree. We'd be better off without it. But that's because it would make the market more fair, and thus more free, which actually will hurt some businesses–the very businesses that, by means of these very regs, are otherwise profiting from an unfair market. Republicans play on this irony all the time, so as to frame any attempt to eliminate unfair regs as itself "unfair" (yeah, unfair to the cheaters). So they defend bad regs that hurt business in the guise of helping business, all the while claiming that government regulation always hurts business. Nice. Anyone who falls for that two-step is an idiot. (Hello, Tea Party.)
The point is, most shit regs are written by Republicans (and Big Business Democrats), not lefty control freaks. Know your enemy.
2. Once you delete all those regs (all the loophole regs, the good ones we ought to keep, and the bad ones we ought to kill), you have two kinds left. The first of those are regs that again help business by allowing them to continue doing business without harming citizens. For example: a company manufactures a product the byproduct of which poisons children through the air and ground water. Protecting children (American citizens) from poisoners is the fundamental business of government. Even a libertarian cannot claim it is not the valid function of government to stop people poisoning kids. So a government says "you can't make that product anymore because it's poisoning kids," and the company says "but we need to make that product to make a living," so the government says, "if you can come up with a way to do that without poisoning kids, we'll amend the law to let you," so the company comes back with an idea for a filtration and disposal system that will keep the byproduct from poisoning kids, and the government says "okay, we'll write into the law that if you install and use that system, without any cheating, then you can make that poison, because then it won't be killing kids." To then say that the regulation requiring companies to use that expensive filtration system is "hurting business" is simply perverse. The regulation exists to help business. It exists for the express purpose of allowing that business to continue. It is not there to get in the way of business; it's there to get in the way of poisoning kids.
None of these regulations can be done without. Some can be improved, perhaps. But not eliminated. That there are so many of them is simply an inevitable byproduct of business itself, which comes up with so many ways to do dangerous things without hurting citizens, in an enormously complex economy that produces millions of materials, chemicals, and products. The vast number of these regs thus reflects business ingenuity. In fact, their number indicates how innovative and healthy our economy is. Show me a nation with a paltry regulatory law and I'll show you a third world country (or a tax haven with no manufacturing base). In other words, these regs exist to make enterprises possible that otherwise would not be. They are thus good for business, and the economy as a whole. It's just like the instruction manual for that navy ship: our economy is so vast and complex, you can't possibly not have hundreds of thousands of pages of regs ensuring that businesses can operate without hurting or killing people or destroying their property (or liberty: many regs exist not just to protect us from, e.g., getting poisoned, but from having our privacy invaded or money stolen or speech abridged). Because there are so many things we make and do, thus so many ways to hurt people or rob or defraud them or infringe on their liberty, and thus so many rules we have to write to keep that shit in check.
3. That leaves one other kind of regulation. And that's what we often call "bureaucracy": all the rules and paperwork that seem to burden government and citizens with so much bullshit. These can be improved–reduced, simplified, smartened up (as Al Gore was doing during the Clinton administration, and Obama is trying to do) with paperwork reduction acts, rules streamlining, getting rid of badly written rules, etc.; all of which is the process of making government better that should be Congress's job. [Insert your own funny joke here about Congress being a bunch of do-nothing ass-clowns.] But in fact most of these regs are inevitable and required, due to an inevitable process of voters insisting on them. Which makes it perverse for voters to complain about them–since they asked for them in the first place, and if they were taken away they would ask for them again!
The process goes like this. First some task needs doing (e.g. a police force run); someone is put in charge of it and given leeway to run it; they start abusing their leeway (graft, nepotism, embezzlement, creating special privileges for themselves or their family and friends, persecuting enemies) or screwing up (due to ignorance, incompetence, laziness, negligence, or mere human fallibility and limitations that not even the best of any men or women could overcome because they can't know everything or oversee everything); voters complain; regulations are then established to prevent it (e.g. fairness in hiring; rules governing accounting procedures to police against embezzlement and ensure accountability; rules limiting what boundaries can't be crossed, ensuring decisions are accountably and fairly made; and rules codifying past knowledge and experience to insure against ignorance or oversight, e.g. ensuring past mistakes aren't repeated, or anticipated mistakes never made; rules making decisions and information easier to access and oversee, etc.). This gets enormously complicated, but it's what the voters want, because without it, officials have too much power and end up misusing it. And when these rules are removed, often voters complain when the inevitable happens, and insist the rules be put back. So you apparently can't do without them.
The reality is that most voters don't understand what is actually required to enact their will. Thus they don't grasp the fact that preventing a particular abuse (e.g. police officers fixing tickets for friends, or taking bribes to do so) requires enacting a complex system of rules and paperwork to record what happens so it can be policed (and prosecuted, if abuses are exposed by them, as the documentation is then the evidence needed, and often the means by which the abuse is discovered in the first place, so without that, you can't stop it). Calling this "bloat" or "excessive government regulation" or "fattened bureaucracy" merely because of it's complexity is simply ignorant. They might be excessive, but that can't be decided merely by looking at how numerous and complex they are. They have to be numerous and complex. The only question is whether they can be better written. But writing them better won't reduce the number of them. We all need to grasp that reality and learn to live with it.
So. 1, 2, 3. Count up all those, and there just aren't many regs left to bitch about. So whenever you complain about there being too many rules and regulations, ask yourself which rules and regulations you mean. Do you really know they are excessive? Are you informed enough to know what actually happens when they are taken away? Do you even know why they were enacted in the first place, what abuses they were devised to stop? Do they really hurt business, or were they in fact created by business, or to make business possible? Do they really worsen government, or do they in fact make government more efficient, effective, fair, accountable, and reliable? Don't lose yourself in your political party's mythology, which is mostly just made-up stories about non-existent regulations ruining the imaginary lives of Joe the honest plumber, or falsified tales about what a real regulation does, that in fact distorts the reality of what that reg's effects actually are, and completely ignores the history of what horrible shit went on before that reg existed. Actually find out the facts first.
Do that, and I think you'll find reality is far more complicated than your political faith could ever sensibly account for. Some rules and regs need to be eliminated. Some need to be fixed or improved. But most can't. And more may even be needed than we already have. Unless, of course, you want the United States to look and operate exactly like a third world country.


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My poor mother. She must have thought someone was sick or had died. I'm pretty sure she didn't expect the news of a building burnt down. My parents reacted the way I now understand they will always react. They were relieved that nobody was sick or dead. To my parents, anything short of that is just not worth being upset over. It's a good quality and a bad quality. Sometimes, when bad things happen, you need people to say things like, "Oh My God, I can't believe it" or "I don't know how you'll go on."
My parents would never say anything like that. Their opinion is that of course you'll go on since you really have no choice.
I can't describe how empty I felt that day and for the next weeks ahead. I had nothing. There was nothing left of my things or my routine or my life. I felt very tired, like I just didn't know what to do next.
My parents gave me a credit card and told me to go shopping. I'm sure that sounds great, but it's awful. It is almost impossible to build a wardrobe from scratch. It's depressing. I remember buying a few pairs of corduroy pants, a few tops and boots and that was what I had. That was pretty much all I had for quite some time. In a way, it was easier to have very little than to make decisions about what a new life should look like. If I could go back, I would tell my 21-year-old self that there's never a rush to make your life look like something. Just keep moving forward and your life will emerge.
Oddly enough, it was probably my brother who was most affected. A day or two after the fire, my parents and brother went to see the damage. I don't remember going, but I must have at some point because I have memories of thinking how little is left after a fire. It was quite a large building of several stories and yet, after the fire, there was very little on the burnt ground. I'll have to ask my brother. He'll remember.
My brother came home from the visit very sad. He had been looking for my "diaries" — although by that point in my life I had journals. He believed that I would be most upset about losing my writing. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I would probably have looked for my jewelry first. The good thing about writing is that you can always write more. And, for me at that age, re-reading old writing wasn't that enjoyable. I had been a moody and depressed teen. My writing was not exactly a fun read. To this day, I believe that my brother has a hair clip of mine that he found smoldering in the ashes. That one gesture made me love him more than I had already loved him, which was a pretty huge amount.
I moved very soon after the fire to an apartment building located a mile from the fire. The apartment was completely empty except for a sofa and an old television my aunt had given to me. I think the sofa was probably hers too. I don't remember. The closet was empty except for a few hangers that held my tiny new wardrobe. Eventually, someone gave me an old bed and I bought a sofa. I remember that the apartment had an echo from being so empty.
It's hard for me to think about the fire or the first week after the fire. The pain was indescribable. I recall feeling like I would just melt into the ground. I couldn't imagine what I would do about anything and was paralyzed with emptiness.
But here's the weird thing.
Within a few weeks, I was enjoying my new freedom. I had very few possessions, and I liked it. I liked that my world really just revolved around me. I liked the simplicity.
It's very hard to think about what life would have been like without the fire. I don't know how long I would have stayed in that building or whether I would have ever met my best friend, who I met a few years later. Maybe every single thing in my life would have been different. I don't know.
What I do know is that possessions mean very little to me these days. Now don't think I'm saying I don't like my stuff. I do like my stuff. In fact, I LOVE my stuff.
But I'd be fine without my stuff. Stuff can be replaced. Even the sentimental stuff can be replaced. The stuff is actually much less of you and your life than you think it is. But it seems like a big deal when you're scared to death of losing it.


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Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.
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Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) was born in Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1914, and lived there until he was twelve, when his family moved to St. Louis. His education at the University of Missouri (1931-33) was interrupted for financial reasons, but he later (1938) received his B.A. from the University of Iowa. Tennessee Williams started writing and publishing poetry when very young, while simultaneously holding a variety of jobs-starting with a clerical position in the shoe company that also employed his father. His first real recognition came in 1940 when he received a Rockefeller fellowship and his first play, Battle of Angels, was produced by the Theatre Guild in Boston. His first financial break, which enabled him to give full attention to his writing, came with an offer from MGM, which he accepted, abandoning his job as a movie usher. After six months of work in Hollywood, he devoted his time to writing The Glass Menagerie, the initial success which established him as one of the leading American playwrights. Since that time, his plays have been made into movies, produced on TV, turned into operas and ballets-A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, The Night of the Iguana, Cut on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie, to name just a few. In May of 1969 Tennessee Williams was awarded the Gold Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died on February 25, 1983. He is the author of the following works: Baby Doll, Battle of Angels, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics' Award). Dragon Country (short plays, including In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel), The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed (stories), The Glass Menagerie, Hard Candy (stories), In the Winter of Cities (poems), Kingdom of Earth (The Seven Descents of Myrtle), The Knightly Quest (stories), Memoirs (autobiography), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Moise and the World of Reason (novel), The Night of the Iguana (winner of the Drama Critics' Award), One Arm and Other Stories, Orpheus Descending, Out Cry, Period of Adjustment, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (novel), The Rose Tattoo, Small Craft Warnings, A Streetcar Named Desire (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics' Award), Suddenly Last Summer, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, The Two-Character Play, Vieux Carre, and Clothes for a Summer Hotel.
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Volleyball Clinches Third Seed, Thrills Packed Dillon In 3-1 Win Over Mason
The Princeton men's volleyball team wanted a victory and the third seed in the upcoming EIVA playoffs, but it got something just as important Friday night.
The Tigers got momentum.
Princeton clinched the third seed and an all-Ivy EIVA semifinal with Harvard Thursday night by rallying for a 3-1 victory over fourth-seeded George Mason in front of 885 fans in a raucous Dillon Gym. The Tigers overcame a slow start to earn a crucial Senior Night win, and it will now open in the opposite side of the EIVA bracket as 15-time reigning champion Penn State.
The last time Princeton started the postseason in the opposite half as the Nittany Lions, they made it to the championship match (2010).
"This was a terrific effort against a really good George Mason team," head coach Sam Shweisky said. "The semifinals should be outstanding Thursday night. All four teams are playing well right now, and it's going to come down to who plays well in the big moments."
We're a long way from there, but Princeton took a strong first step with some impressive volleyball over its final three sets against a vastly improved George Mason squad. Junior Cody Kessel led the Tigers with 15 kills, including the match winner, and he added eight digs and three blocks.
The outside duo of Devin Stearns and Pat Schwagler combined for 25 kills and 13 digs; it was the second straight strong performance from Stearns, who is establishing himself as one of the rising threats in the EIVA.
Schwagler, who joined Kessel on the All-EIVA team last year, has been there since he was part of that 2010 championship match.
Freshman Chris Kennedy paced the offense with 50 assists, while junior libero Tony Ensbury had 14 digs. He and Stearns had a pair of wild digs to set up a Kessel kill late in the fourth, giving the Tigers their first two-point lead of the set. Stearns followed with a pair of kills, and Princeton kept the pressure on until Kessel's match-clinching win.


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He previously served as director of the Governor's Office of Economic Development and Tourism. Between 1991 and 1999, Moseley served as Denton County Judge. During that time, he was a member of the metropolitan planning organization for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, supported the passage of two mobility bond campaigns, organized the I-35 Corridor Coalition and was involved in the creation of the North Texas Tollway Authority.
Moseley is a partner in Griffith Moseley Johnson and Associates, which provides economic development and site selection consulting. A sixth-generation Texan, he and his wife, Jackie, have two daughters, Joi and Jenni. Moseley received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma.
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Luis Suarez ensured Liverpool ended 2012 in style with two goals in a 3-0 win at Queens Park Rangers.
The Reds were without manager Brendan Rodgers due to illness, but he will have been thrilled with what he saw from his sickbed in Merseyside.
The game was won before half-time thanks to two goals from Suarez and another courtesy of Daniel Agger as Liverpool recovered from a disappointing Boxing Day loss at Stoke City.
It was very much the Suarez show. After just three minutes he'd made his intentions clear, forcing a save from distance after rounding his man.
On 10 minutes it was 1-0, the No.7 receiving possession 30 yards from goal before taking out defender Clint Hill with one touch and then rolling into the bottom corner.
Six minutes later the advantage was doubled when Suarez slalomed into the box and crossed for Raheem Sterling. The ball was cleared into the Uruguayan's path and he again proved himself clinical, increasing his tally for the season to 16 in all competitions.
The home support began to turn on their team but the assault wasn't over. On 28 minutes Stewart Downing executed a short corner to Steven Gerrard, whose whipped cross was nutted low and hard into the net by Agger.
Gerrard and Jordan Henderson almost added their names to the scoresheet before half-time, while the only threat from QPR came via Adel Taarabt, whose occasional touches of inspiration denied Pepe Reina an afternoon off.
Stand-in bosses Colin Pascoe and Mike Marsh will have warned against complacency during the interval, this being the ground where Liverpool abdicated a 2-0 lead last season to lose 3-2. One man instrumental in that turnaround was Djibril Cisse, but his afternoon was cut short by manager Harry Redknapp with 45 minutes remaining.
The second period began in the same way as the first, Suarez testing Julio Cesar, this time with a left-foot whack from just inside the area.
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Stephane Mbia also came close from a free-kick, requiring Reina to make a save following a foul on Taarabt which earned substitute Lucas Leiva a yellow card.
Despite these chances, a comeback never looked likely, though there was bad news for the visitors on 71 minutes when Jose Enrique limped off the field holding his hamstring. Suso was introduced.
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ZF-2510: Lazy loading table metadata
When instanced, a Zend_Db_Table object automatically attempts to retrieve table meta-data. This is counterproductive for several reasons - 1. Performance - An extra database call, even if the metadata is not used. 2. Complicated unit test writting process - as testing Zend_Db_Table extending classes requires a live db connection to allow the Zend_Db_Table object to retrieve its metadata, even if not used.
A better solution would be to lazy load the metadata when it is requested (for example, when the info() method is called).
You can use cache to store metadata
I am using cache to store the metadata as a workaround for this issue. However, it is still prefered that it won't have to retrieve the metadata (even from the cache) if not needed.
Why should the metadata be retrieved if not used? The cache is just a workaround to a design flaw.
Patch for this issue against r8510. Comments are welcome.
I played with two versions: 1) getter for _metadata and _cols properties 2) call _setupMetadata method when _metadata or _cols are need.
Attached patch implements second version.
The patch works well. I personally prefer the first approach, using a getter would communicate more clearly that the metadata is not automatically available
You are right, Eran. It's more clean when you use getter method. I made new patch in next few days.
modified info() method
The second patch also accomplishes another objective: allowing hard coding of the metadata and cols attributes. This would give an additional performance optimization for the truly adventurous.
Patch (with modifications) applied in r12290, with test modifications (to account for lazy loading) and addition of flag for overriding local metadata caching. Documentation also provided.
Changing issues in preparation for the 1.7.0 release.


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Out of all the Halloween candy that I've found, this is the only one that's actually fruit flavored. Have you realized that so much of Halloween candy is chocolate? I know there's candy corn to balance it out and a handful of Halloween shaped gummies, but mostly it feels like it's chocolate. There's certainly a reason for this, as chocolate is immensely popular and well loved. Even as a kid I ranked a lot of the chocolate candy I'd get at Halloween as the "favorites". This is a big reason why this mix of Mike & Ike Mummy's Mix stood out to me. Yes it was new, but also it's a fruity candy and that stood out to me.
So, I'm a little sad to report that the only thing that's Halloween themed with this candy is the packaging. Once you open the box you have normal Mike & Ike's in your hand. I'm not complaining mind you, I just don't want my readers to expect more when there isn't more. Right now there's a big ad campaign regarding Mike & Ike who are splitting up right now, but maybe they've come back together and made peace for Halloween since both their names are proudly side by side here. This is a movie theater sized box and once you open it, it's opened. There's no extra plastic or foil bag in here to help contain the candy, only the box.
Lemon: Oh, how I love lemon! This flavor is only lightly tart, so it's a good lemon flavor for those who prefer the sweeter flavors. You do get some citrus flavors, but they are very bright and are accented with the sweetness. Not as tart as I'd like, but very tasty.
Orange: The flavor is immediately really juicy and sweet. You get a nice sweet/tart notes of orange that gradually fades to just sweetness. Very tasty and great flavor.
Grape: The candy is very dark in color, it almost looks black. The taste is very authentic grape, I'm pleasantly surprised. It's like grape jam, but more sour. I even get hints on wine in the sour bits, I'm please with how complex this tastes. Normally I'm not a big fan of grape flavored candies, but this one is really awesome.
Lime: Lime can be a flavor that's really hit or miss. Thankfully this flavor is very good. It doesn't taste of floor cleaner, but you do get the notes of lime zest. Like the lemon, they're made much softer by the additional sweetness. That makes this also very friendly to people who prefer the sweeter flavors. This is much tastier than I was expecting.
Raspberry: I have to hand it to Just Born, I'm glad they went with a different flavor other than cherry for the red. The flavor is sweet and I am strongly reminded of jam. It has a rich sweetness rounded out with some tart notes and some nice floral berry flavors. It's good, but I like the lemon, grape and orange flavors way more.
I am really pleased with this mix! I am a fan for sure. I think if you're more of a fruity candy lover, you should certainly try these out. I can't say that the actual candy is the most "spooky" with all the rainbow colors, but it tastes great and that's what really matters.
Rating: Will Buy Again
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Elizabeth S. Hutchins of Dover was called home by the Lord on November 4, 2012.
Mrs. Hutchins was born February 3, 1927 in Cheswold, Delaware to the late Joseph E. Swain and Nettie E. Moore Swain.
She was a homemaker and loving mother. She enjoyed cooking and spending time with her family and her dog Josie. She will be remembered for her quick wit and generous nature.
Mrs. Hutchins was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dover.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband James O. Hutchins.
She is survived by her daughters, Roberta Evasius and her husband Richard of Sylvania, OH and Pat Poore of Frederica; and her son, R. Clayton Bedwell and his wife Joanne of Felton; her much adored grandchildren, Richard, Shannon, Ryan, Lauren, Sarah, and Lindsay; and eight cherished great grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held 1PM, Saturday, November, 10, 2012 at Torbert Funeral Chapel, 61 S. Bradford Street, Dover. Friends may call one hour prior. Internment will be private.
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Drizzled Nanaimo Bars RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1 cup butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 2 cups flaked coconut
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3 tablespoons 2% milk
- 2 tablespoons instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 tablespoon butter
- In large heavy saucepan, combine the butter, sugar and chocolate. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until melted. Whisk a small amount of hot mixture into eggs. Return all to the pan, whisking constantly. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until mixture reaches 160°. Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla.
- In a large bowl, combine the cracker crumbs, coconut and walnuts. Stir in chocolate mixture until blended. Press into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. pan. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until set.
- For filling, in a large bowl, beat the butter, milk and pudding mix until blended. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth; spread over crust.
- For glaze, in a microwave, melt chocolate and butter; stir until smooth. Drizzle over filling. Refrigerate until set. Cut into bars. Yield: 4 dozen.
Reviews for Drizzled Nanaimo Bars
"Just a note...true Nanaimo Bars have a luscious and creamy centre filling that is the thickest part of the bar. The chocolate layer on top actually covers the whole thing, as opposed to being drizzled."
"I loved these! Yes it was spread a little thin when making, but it tasted fine. I may try and use less chocolate for drizzling next time as it seemed to cover the whole pan."
"These were a hit with my family and friends! I wish I had looked on the comments here first before I started though, because I would have known to have done a few things differently! Like the other reviews, the filling barely covered the graham cracker crust, so I doubled the recipe on the filling, and then for the chocolate drizzle on top, I just used 2oz, of chocolate instead of the 8 it called for. I only had 2 oz in my pantry, and this worked out just perfectly! Any more and it would have been WAYYY too much. Glad others felt the same way. I thought these were really good, and everyone I have given them to, seems to love them! I will make again, and of course note the changes on my recipe."
"As others have noted, the filling needs to be increased and drizzle decreased (unless you want to cover the entire pan), but overall this was a hit with my family. I will be making it again with the modifications."
"Next time I will use the entire box of pudding mix, because the layer with only 2 tablespoons barely covered the pan of graham cracker mix on the bottom. And the chocolate layer was more a complete coverage with 8 oz, than a drizzle. Otherwise tasty!"


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Jennifer Westfeldt was a New York theater actress when she went to Los Angeles in 1997 to visit a friend. Within a week she'd landed a sitcom—Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, which co-starred Ryan Reynolds—and met a little-known actor named Jon Hamm, whom she soon started dating.
Things seem to fall into place around Westfeldt, who is still with Hamm. Before Two Guys started filming, a night of sketches she put on with actress Heather Juergensen was optioned by a Hollywood studio. It eventually became 2001's Kissing Jessica Stein, the sleeper indie hit about two straight women so disillusioned with the men they meet that they fall for each other instead. Westfeldt cowrote, coproduced and costarred. "I'm a doer," she says.
Apparently. She has since written, produced and starred in two more films, 2006's Ira & Abby and last year's Friends with Kids. She also directed Friends, which centers on best pals (Westfeldt and Adam Scott of Parks and Recreation) who hope to avoid the relationship pitfalls of their married friends with children by having a baby together without becoming romantically involved. (Hamm coproduced and had a role as the nasty husband of Kristen Wiig's character.)
Westfeldt spent two years bringing the movie to the screen, doing everything from casting to raising money to dealing with frozen camera lenses that had to be thawed with hair dryers. "Every day there is something cataclysmic," she says of indie filming. "You can't believe you don't just have a heart attack and drop dead.
"I don't consider myself a writer," Westfeldt adds, evidence notwithstanding. "I'm really an actress. But three times I've been moved enough by what I see in my peer group to want to document it."
The comic anguish of her scripts hardly reflects her own experience. "I've been a serial monogamist since the age of 12," she says. "An eight-year relationship ended in my mid-twenties, and then I met Jon. I thrive in a relationship. It's my state of being. I don't really get it any other way." Yet she and Hamm, who split their time between New York and L.A., are in no rush to marry. "We're both children of divorce," she says, "so it's never struck us as the great solution."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (May 6, 2006) - Junior Anna Marie Ricciardi (Canfield, Ohio) took home top honors in the high jump while competing at the Jesse Owens Classic, hosted by Ohio State on Saturday. The junior soared over a career-best and NCAA regional-qualifying height of 5-8.75 (1.75m) to earn first place.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 by 12 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Summerof69 Versatile and Stylish Assembly was easy and simple... Love this table because it can be used in so many different ways. Used in my small dining room as a buffet when entertaining, and also in my office for my printer, baskets with supplies, and books! So great... matches the end tables that I had previously... December 28, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by kali215 Gorgeous and sturdy! I bought this as a dual TV stand and bar for my living room based on a similar piece I'd seen at a more expensive retailer and it is really gorgeous. Despite some other reviews, the wheels do lock, and I have had no trouble with it holding my 50" television and room for wine and components on the bottom shelf. I have gotten a lot of compliments on the piece and am happy with my purchase (online). My only complaints are that it mysteriously disappeared during a 20% off promotion, only to come back in inventory when the promotion was over, and also that it did take three people to put together because a small piece wasn't shaved down as much as it should have been, but we figured it out, and again it is gorgeous. May 29, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by BPfromNBay Been loving this purchase for four years I appreciate the heavy weight and clean lines of this Aiden collection even though I placed the sofa table I bought between a wall and the sofa back and it can't even be seen. But it is just what I wanted, if maybe slightly too deep for the use to which I put it. A shelf below the top isn't always provided on consoles, and this one had a nice sturdy one, at a good distance away from the top. I didn't experience any of the difficulty in assembly that others have reported. Everything (holes, screws, etc.) matched up fine and even the simple tool included worked well for its purpose. Frankly, the hardest part was waiting until it went on sale and I had an additional %-off coupon, and then lugging it up the stairs! May 17, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by littlekob Great Industrial Influenced Design We purchased the coffee table and two end tables from this Aiden collection a number of months ago, and have been extremely pleased with the simplicity of the design and the functionality of all three pieces. We decided to invest in the console table as well, and are just as happy with it as the other tables. It was fairly easy to assemble --- having two people was helpful --- but I think I could have handled assembly on my own. We have received many positive comments and compliments from visitors to our house. October 26, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Kelbo52 Love this table! I bought this table a week ago for my husbands office to hold the printer, computer modem and such. It looks great! It was sort of a trick to put together but with persistence I got it done. Its my fault for not reading all of the instructions before putting it together. It even says so but... anyway.... I did eventually get it together and it is great. Very sturdy. Very authentically industrial look. I really like a lot of World Market furniture. I plan to buy some chairs there very soon...once they go on a deeper discount! August 25, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Drewski Easy to put together. Very sturdy once tightened. I'm leaving a review because some of the lower rated reviews don't do this item justice. Was looking for a clean lined & understated console table to work as a media stand. This is better quality than a mass reproduction one would find on O********.com and comparable in looks to something one could spend a paycheck on at R********** H*******. The box was heavy, every thing well packaged, and easy to unpack. The weight of the pieces impressed me, and assembly just by myself, was easy enough. The trick to it was not tightening all of the bolts until every leg and bolt was put in place for the top, and then the bottom. The people that wrote the reviews about it being wobbly probably don't understand how to properly fasten a nut onto a spring washer. You don't just stop once it's tight, you need to go a couple more quarter turns to engage the spring. That makes it solid. The only down side? Small spots of the finish kinda flaked off from where the legs made contact with the holes. Still, even as a cosmetic point it's not even noticeable. Thank you, World Market. I'm very pleased with this purchase. It is sturdy and has very a clean industrial look. Your buyers understood what the customers would be looking for when picking this piece. November 20, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Chicago girl Perfect table I LOVE this console table - the industrial chic look with the metal & wood is just the look I wanted for my living room. I was trying to find something a little less expensive since everything I could find was very pricey and I need two tables. Im very glad I waited till I found exactly what I was looking for. Overall, I'm glad I spent the money! I've only have it for a couple of weeks now, so I'm not sure how the table will hold up. But the bottom shelf fits baskets very well, and is a great storage area. It is sturdy, doesn't wobble, was easy to put together (8 screws) and looks great! So far, I'm extremely pleased and hoping it holds up well! April 3, 2011
Rated 4 out of 5 by Squirrelly1 The good, the bad and the ugly I had been searching for a console table for a while and couldn't find one in the local stores. I found this online, with an attractive shipping discount. The surcharge was reasonable, I didn't have to lug it home and they delivered it up to my front door. I ordered it before a holiday weekend and it came very quickly and during a snow storm. The good is that the table is very nice looking. Unfortunately, It didn't look good behind my sofa, but it is a great side board in my dining room. The bad is the wrench that was included for assembly (use a real wrench) and the wheels aren't great, but I guess they would be mostly decorative as you wouldn't really roll a console table around. The ugly is the weird oil smell it has. It smells like motor oil. Weird. I'm going to give it a good cleaning and hope it goes away. But, I really like it. January 22, 2014
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Football: A Mind Game
With less than one week left, the final game of the NFL season is upon us, pitting the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Green Bay Packers. With six Super Bowl trophies calling the Steel City home and three under the watchful eyes of the Cheeseheads, two of the most storied franchises in NFL history are facing one another on the biggest stage for the first time.
This Sunday, Feb. 6, will feature two of the five top defenses in the league, each team readying itself for a black-and-blue, grind-it-out game. However, what has been underlying many of the games this season, and what some have claimed has affected the physicality of the game, is worry that the implementation of a new rule will affect this off-season. Prior to the beginning of this season, NFL commissioner Roger Gooddell expanded rules to limit head injuries by adding a clause that more explicitly outlawed helmet-first hits to the head and neck area. Perhaps this was the league's best defense all season.
Previously, the NFL stated that concussions from football had no long-term effects on player's health. However, a study conducted by the University of North Carolina's Center for the Study of Retired Athletes based on a general health survey of 2,552 retired NFL players, showed otherwise. It found concussions greatly increased the likelihood of depression later in life. Of the 595 players who recalled having three or more concussions, 20.2 percent said they had experienced depression—a rate three times higher than both that of the players who had not sustained concussions and the national rate.
Organizations like the Sports Legacy Institute are beginning to research the long-term effects of repeated brain trauma, revealing the potentially disastrous ramifications of concussions. Among some of the approaches being designed to limit the effects of hits to the head are new helmets constructed with better protection.
Depression: Not Just from Concussions
Although stories about players battling depression are a rarity in the NFL, the incidence of depression among athletes is similar to the rest of the population. Depression can, of course, arise for reasons unrelated to the incidence of a concussion—as it did for Terry Bradshaw. This former Steelers great and Hall of Famer is one of the most identifiable players living with depression. Bradshaw quarterbacked Pittsburgh to four Super Bowl wins in the 1970s and was elected Super Bowl Most Valuable Player twice.
Terry Bradshaw retired from the NFL in 1983 and went on to become an NFL commentator on TV. After his third divorce in the late 1990s, he was no longer able to manage his anxiety and was subsequently diagnosed with depression in 1999. Bradshaw admitted that throughout his career he often experienced anxiety attacks after games, regardless of whether his team won or lost. On many occasions, he would find himself crying for no apparent reason.
Bradshaw did not feel his identity as a football player allowed him to be "emotionally weak" and attempted to self-medicate with alcohol. Realizing this was merely leading him on a path of self-destruction, the sports icon finally came forward. With a combination of talk therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), Bradshaw has been able to manage his depression. Consequently, he has become a mental health advocate, urging people to not shy away from receiving help.
The High Price of Self-medication—or No Medication
Another player who was diagnosed with depression after entering the NFL is 1998 Heisman Trophy winner and current Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams. Considered an oddball for his off-field behavior, Williams often shied away from media attention. Later reports indicated that Williams was beginning to experience feelings of depression in college. During his senior season at the University of Texas, Williams smoked marijuana one night and felt the mild depression he had been experiencing lift. As a result, he continued to smoke for the first years of his career, ultimately testing positive for drugs on numerous occasions. Because he was facing a four-game suspension and $650,000 fine for multiple failed drug tests, Williams retired from football in 2004.
Why didn't he simply take an antidepressant, or another legal form of treatment for depression? Ricky Williams believed that marijuana proved much more effective than the SSRIs he had taken. During his time away from football in 2004, Williams traveled to India and Southeast Asia, where he discovered that the benefits of yoga and meditation could combat his feelings of depression. He claimed these techniques were even more effective than smoking marijuana for treating his social anxiety and depression.
Williams' experiences have some scientific backup. In multiple research studies, including Mendelson et al., 2010, Descilo et al., 2009 and Duraiswamy et al., 2007, yoga and other forms of meditation have proved beneficial in treating depression as well as schizophrenia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the effects of chronic stress. However, it is important to note that in general it is not solely yoga or meditation that helps battle depression, but one of these practices in combination with other treatments.
Williams, however, continued to smoke marijuana and, as a consequence of his multiple failed drug tests, was suspended from the NFL for the entire 2006 season. Other players have battled depression in recent years, some with more tragic outcomes. Three-time Pro Bowl selection Shawn Andrews, now with the New York Giants, has battled depression throughout his career. Twenty-three-year-old Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley began experiencing depression after being placed on injured reserve. Unfortunately, he did not receive help in time and committed suicide prior to the 2010 season.
Regardless of the amount of mental health support the NFL is providing for its players, the stigma associated with depression and other mental illnesses tends to affect men profoundly. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, while men are four times more likely to commit suicide than women, they seek treatment half as often.
The Battle Behind the Game
This Sunday in the hours leading up to the Super Bowl you will see Terry Bradshaw on Fox's NFL pre-game show. With no previous knowledge you would most likely never suspect that this jovial individual, who often serves as a comic foil for the rest of the broadcasters, suffers from depression.
But Bradshaw is not the only individual on the field or on the sidelines that has experienced symptoms of depression. Just as losses come with wins, it is important to remember that with triumphs come heartaches. And as noted in the case of Kenny McKinley, sometimes those setbacks can take a tragic toll.
Some of the players on the field may be diagnosed with depression, while others may refuse to accept that they are experiencing depression. Regardless of the color of the jersey or helmet the person is wearing across the field—an athlete should extend a hand to help him off the ground—at least once the whistle blows and the game is over. As we fight against stigma and for quality information and treatment for depression, we at NAMI can find inspiration in this spirit of teamwork that extends beyond teams.
6 comments:
- SL said...
The lives of superstars who have access to any treatment they choose is a petty concern compared to the struggles of "real people." This article is a stupid excuse for capitalizing on interest in the Super Bowl. Editors, do your job of editing in the future.
- February 3, 2011 at 10:22 PM
- Amy Karon said...
Thanks for calling attention to the important issue of depression among athletes.
As you note, men seem to have more cultural hurdles to overcome related to seeking treatment for mental illness than do women. A 2008 study suggests that this is particularly true for middle-income white men(http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asoca/jhsb/2008/00000049/00000003/art00006). I wonder to what extent NAMI reaches out specifically to men, and if so, are messages targeted to subgroups of men?
- February 9, 2011 at 6:40 PM
I'm sorry SL that you don't consider football players to be real people. I'm sorry they don't have families, I'm sorry they don't have troubles, I'm sorry they're not human.
And yes while they do make money, your response shows your ignorance towards mental illness, in that it can affect anyone.
- February 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM
As a man, sports fan and someone who is suffering from depression, I would like to hear more about the treatments some of the more "privileged" people get. I have heard of TMS (Transcranial magnetic stimulation) and I'm wondering whether that is something NAMI or others have looked into?
- February 25, 2011 at 8:30 PM
- man hair loss said...
i do agree with Amy karon, it is important that we pinpoint the issue of depression in athletes. not just because they are athletes or superstars... its just that, lets admit it, society seem to be more affected if someone with a name up and blinking in neon lights of popularity is affected... i think more people would be helped more when action has been done...
- April 8, 2011 at 3:21 AM
Excellent article- way to raise awareness!!
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Espresso Granita
½ cup sugar
½ cup water
3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
3 cups espresso or triple-strength coffee
½ tsp vanilla extract brandy for garnish
whipped cream for garnish (optional)
Combine the sugar, water, and cocoa in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Cook until the syrup is clear. Remove from the heat and stir in the espresso and vanilla. Let cool to room temperature. Transfer to a container, cover, and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, about 3 hours. Pour into a 9-inch nonreactive square pan, cover with aluminum foil or plastic wrap, and place in the freezer. Once an hour, stir with a fork, scraping the crystals from the sides of the pan into the liquid center. Repeat 2 or 3 times until the entire mass is set into small, light crystals, 2 to 3 hours. Serve at once or transfer to a container, cover, and freeze. To serve, spoon into chilled parfait or other decorative glasses, letting it mound on the surface, and pour 1 teaspoon of brandy over each serving. Top with whipped cream, if desired.


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THE PARTY Guests and health experts gathered at Emory University for What's up Doc?, an intimate cocktail, dinner and lecture event showcasing the latest in health-related topics. This year, lectures focused on sleep and Alzheimer's disease. THE PLAYERS Dean Chris Larsen, Mary Hataway, M.J. Blakely, Claire Bowen, Kathy Sawyer, Claire Keys, Pete McTier THE SCENE Along with the top-notch tastes and drinks, attendees appreciated the chance to speak, interact and connect with prestigious members of Emory, researchers, physicians and experts in the health care community in a casual atmosphere. Photos by Pete Winkel