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Amazon.com's shares booked a big day after a report showed strong sales growth in June at the company and top rival Apple was found to be violating U.S. antitrust laws with e-books.
Shares of the online retailer soared to a new high, briefly surpassing $300 a share, as investors bet the online retailer could be a big winner from Apple's loss in the courts which would give Amazon.com more flexibility in selling e-books. Shares were up $7.30, or 2.5%, to $299.63, according to preliminary calculations.
Investors applauded data from e-commerce tracker ChannelAdvisor that reported that Amazon.com saw a 31% sales increase in June versus sales from June 2012. Such a strong increase in sales growth was beyond most analysts' expectations.
STOCKS : Apple is dead money as rest of market takes off
JUDGE: Rules Apple conspired to raise e-book prices
The strong news from ChannelAdvisor encouraged investors coming into the critical back-to-school period, says Colin Sebastian of R. W. Baird. Amazon "shares tend to perform better," at this time of the year, so the timing of the positive news was a solid catalyst, he says.
Traditionally, the second half isn't the strongest for online retailers, but the ChannelAdvisor data indicates Amazon continues to woo more shoppers to do more of their buying online.
Adding to Amazon's momentum, a judge's ruling that Apple violated antitrust law by allegedly conspiring to tamper with e-book pricing could potentially hamper Amazon's chief rival's edge in selling content on its mobile devices.
The ruling, from U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, could give Amazon greater negotiation power with publishers. Amazon is increasingly dependent on sales of e-books for its Kindle readers.
Given the strength in Amazon's core retail business and high hopes for its grocery delivery business, investors are getting interested, says Shawn Milne of Janney Montgomery Scott. "Grow investors are getting warmed up to slightly better growth," he says. "There's a rekindled bullish view on growth."


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Many Americans turning to acupuncture
Source: http://www.nsnews.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Freeze+some+make+pops+home/5154999/Many+turning+unconventional+medicine/1058489/story.html?id=1058489
About four in 10 U.S. adults and one in nine children are turning to unconventional medical approaches for chronic pain and other health problems, health officials said on Wednesday.
Back pain was the leading reason that Americans reported using complementary and alternative medicine techniques, followed by neck and joint pain as well as arthritis, according to the survey by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 38 percent of adults used some form of complementary and alternative medicine in 2007, compared to 36 percent in 2002, the last time the government tracked at the matter.
For the first time, the survey looked at use of such medicine by children under age 18, finding that about 12 percent used it, officials said. The reasons included back pain, colds, anxiety, stress and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to the survey.
The risks for children using these are unclear, they said.
Complementary medicine is used together with conventional treatment, while alternative medicine is used instead. This includes such things as herbal medicines and other natural products, chiropractic techniques, acupuncture, massage, meditation and others.
Many people feel these may work better for them than typical medical approaches, with fewer bad side effects. And so-called natural products have become big business, too, with various herbal medicines and others emerging as lucrative products.
"As I look at this data, what I'm most struck with is how much people are turning to CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) approaches as part of the management of chronic pain conditions, particularly chronic back pain, but also neck pain and musculoskeletal pain and headache," said Dr. Josephine Briggs, director of the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the NIH.
"And from my days as an internist seeing patients in my office, I know that these are conditions that are hard to manage and tough to treat," Briggs told reporters.
Chiropractic care, acupuncture and massage therapy are among the complementary and alternative medicine techniques used for chronic pain, NIH researcher Richard Nahin said.
The survey results were based on responses from about 23,000 adults and 9,500 children nationwide.


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Podcast Script: Online Social Networking and Intellectual Freedom
Online Social Networking and Intellectual Freedom presented by ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom
Presenter: Welcome to the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom podcast on Online Social Networking and Intellectual Freedom. This is part of an ongoing series of podcasts created by OIF to discuss important intellectual freedom topics.
In June 2006, as the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA, the ALA Council adopted a "Resolution in Support of Online Social Networks," which, in part, resolved:
- That the American Library Association affirms the importance of online social networks to library users of all ages for developing and using essential information literacy skills; and
- That ALA asks library supporters to contact their representatives and senators to inform them about the important role "social networking sites" serve in civic participation, collaboration, etc. and about problems caused by mandatory blocking.
Since the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed DOPA in July 2006, ALA has been working to inform the library profession and the general public about the importance of interactive Web applications and, particularly, social networking Web sites.
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(Link to iwa wiki)
Presenter: One of those efforts is ALA's wiki, created specifically to address the importance of interactive Web applications. It contains a full complement of resources on this topic—and allows you to contribute your own information and links. We encourage you to visit wikis.ala.org/iwa.
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(OIF phone number & email)
Presenter: Also, before we proceed to the primary topics of our podcast, if you have any questions concerning online social networking or another intellectual freedom issue, please feel free to call OIF at 800-545-2433, ext. 4223 or e-mail us at email@example.com.
In conjunction with ALA's many efforts, this podcast will address five topics:
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(Five bullet points: Definitions, Legislation, Intellectual Freedom, Safety, What you can do)
- A brief description of interactive Web applications (including online social networking tools)
- Legislation affecting access to these applications
- Why denying access to these applications is an intellectual freedom issue
- Online safety, and
- What you can do.
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(Reads: What are Interactive Web Applications?)
Presenter: Interactive Web Application is a broad term encompassing many types of online tools, many of which allow people to communicate with each other either in real time or through posts. Examples of Interactive Web Applications are online distance education, instant messaging, chat rooms, message boards, photo- and video-sharing sites, blogs that allow comments, and even sites like Amazon.com and evite.
Insert PPT Slide 7
(Reads: What are Social Networking Sites?)
Social Networking Sites are, generally speaking, online spaces where people connect with others who share similar interests. They are used both to interact with current friends and to meet new ones, and also allow people to share information and ideas. People can post personal profiles (whether real or assumed) that are often quite detailed. There are hundreds of these sites on the Web, including Facebook, Friendster, LiveJournal, and MySpace. Additionally, sites like Flickr, YouTube, and Meetup can be considered Social Networking Sites, as they share many of these same functions in addition to their main purposes.
You can find a select list of social networking sites on Wikipedia by searching for the term "list of social networking sites."
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( MySpace screen shot; Lansing, Illinois, Public Library )
Presenter: People use social networking sites to share their thoughts, ideas, and creativity, and to meet others, to form communities, to organize, and to make themselves heard-in many cases without much regard to privacy or even personal safety. As we all know, online there's no way of knowing for certain how old your new friends are, who's seeing your photographs and videos, and who's reading your journal. And there have been some high-profile cases in which people have connected in person with those they've first encountered online, only to find out that the person had misrepresented themselves, sometimes with tragic results. It was in this atmosphere that the House of Representatives passed the Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA.
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(Reads: "DOPA requires schools and libraries receiving federal E-rate discounts to block minors' access to many interactive web applications.")
Presenter: DOPA, as passed by the House, would require schools and libraries that receive federal E-rate discounts to block minors' access to, quote, "commercial Web sites that let users create Web pages or profiles or offer communication with other users via forums, chat rooms, e-mail or instant messaging."
DOPA would not only block minors (and, for many libraries, even adults) from accessing sites like MySpace from schools or libraries, but also is so broadly written that it could affect access to a wide array of other content and technologies, such as instant messaging, online e-mail, wikis, and blogs.
While DOPA's future remains unclear, the possibility that young people will be denied access to the use of interactive Web applications while in libraries, whether by federal, state, or local governments, is real, and affects the intellectual freedom of all library users.
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(Five bullet points: Overly broad and unclear, ignores value of IWAs, education is the key, local decision making preferable to federal laws, unfairly targets poorest communities. Perhaps each point is highlighted or bolded when discussed on the podcast.)
Presenter: ALA stressed five points in our opposition to DOPA or any similar legislation.
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First, because it is overly broad and unclear, DOPA would unintentionally block access to many valuable Web sites.
Second, Interactive Web applications are being used increasingly by businesses, schools, political organizations, religious institutions, and libraries to have meetings, present lessons, coordinate events, and gain new members. Young people must learn how to use these essential communications tools effectively and safely.
Third, as we've known for years, there's no substitute for education when discussing safe use of the Internet. DOPA, however, would block usage of certain sites in the very environments where librarians and teachers can instruct students about how best to use them and how to report and avoid unsafe situations.
Fourth, DOPA is a one-size-fits-all solution to problems best handled on the local level. Parents, teachers, and librarians are far more likely to know what is best in their communities than are congresspeople.
Finally, DOPA would restrict access to technology in the communities that need public access the most. DOPA would affect only libraries and schools receiving E-rate discounts through the Universal Service Program, thereby limiting opportunities for those who do not have Internet access at home. This unfairly denies the students and library users in schools and libraries in the poorest communities from accessing appropriate content and from learning how best to safely manage their own Internet access in consultation with librarians and teachers. It only serves to exacerbate the digital divide.
(Reads: "Interactive Web Applications and Intellectual Freedom")
Presenter: We'll readdress safety in just a moment, but first we will explore why denying access to these online social networks is an intellectual freedom issue.
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(Reads: "A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.")
Presenter: ALA firmly defends the First Amendment rights of all library users—including minors—to seek, hold, receive, and disseminate ideas. This principle is noted in ALA's basic intellectual freedom policy, the Library Bill of Rights:
A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
It is almost always the case, therefore, that legislation that restricts users' access to library resources is an infringement on intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights. This is true whether we're talking about book banning, rating systems, or Internet blocking software. The use of funding power to do so is as much of a violation of our principles as outright restrictions. Simply put, Congress should not be in the business of telling library patrons what information or resources they should be entitled to use. Nor should state legislatures.
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Presenter: ALA applies these principles further in the Library Bill of Rights Interpretation "Free Access to Libraries for Minors," which reads:
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Children and young adults unquestionably possess First Amendment rights, including the right to receive information in the library. Constitutionally protected speech cannot be suppressed solely to protect children or young adults from ideas or images a legislative body believes to be unsuitable for them. Librarians and library governing bodies should not resort to age restrictions in an effort to avoid actual or anticipated objections, because only a court of law can determine whether material is not constitutionally protected.
(Bullet list of cases: Tinker v. Des Moines School Dist., West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, and Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville)
Presenter: The U.S. Supreme Court has explicitly stated that the First Amendment applies to minors in cases such as Tinker v. Des Moines School Dist., West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, and Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville, where the Court held that:
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Speech that is neither obscene as to youths nor subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them. In most circumstances, the values protected by the First Amendment are no less applicable when government seeks to control the flow of information to minors.
(Posner's quote from American Amusement Machine Association, et al. v. Teri Kendrick, et al.)
Presenter: In dismissing an ordinance that would have banned minors from playing violent and sexually explicit arcade video games without parental permission, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals stated that "children have First Amendment rights," and further stated that:
People are unlikely to become well-functioning, independent-minded adults and responsible citizens if they are raised in an intellectual bubble.
The American Library Association believes that young people need education to navigate this world effectively and safely. Indeed, for years ALA has professed that parents, guardians, teachers, and librarians are best equipped to educate young people—and should! Neither cold technology nor legislation drafted by a well-meaning Congress can substitute for education.
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(quote from National Research Council)
Presenter: The metaphor used by the National Research Council in its study " Youth, Pornography, and the Internet" makes this message plain:
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"Swimming pools can be dangerous for children. To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences, and deploy pool alarms. All these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one's children is to teach them to swim."
(link to "Especially for Young People and Their Parents")
Presenter: Congress is right to care about the safety of children. Librarians care as much as anyone about this issue. ALA has developed a resource featuring online safety tips, called "Especially for Young People and Their Parents."
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(quote from Larry Magid, with citation "House Misfires On Internet Safety," CBS News Online)
Presenter: Libraries and schools must remain in the forefront of educating young people on the effective use of online social networking tools, whether for their personal lives or their business lives.
Indeed, Larry Magid, a longtime advocate for Internet safety for children and teens, recently noted:
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"If anything, schools and libraries should be encouraging kids to use blogging and social networking services. They have enormous educational potential for such things as writing, interviewing, collaborative research, media literacy, and photography, but even if not used as part of a formal supervised education program, they encourage kids to communicate and reach out to others."
(Reads: "What you can do" with bullet points: YALSA's Teen Tech Week Site. (link to) http://teentechweek.wikispaces.com/DOPA, http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/05/10/libraries-i..., and others)
Presenter: Regardless of the immediate future of federal or state legislation that would block access to interactive Web applications in libraries, there are steps you can take now:
- Educate Congresspersons, local decision makers, and library users about the benefits of social networking technologies. You can find several helpful ideas on how to do so at YALSA's Teen Tech Week site.
- Encourage your library to get its own profile on some Social Networking Sites, where they can provide a positive outreach to young people who may otherwise avoid the library. Meredith Farkas, a librarian, provides good tips on her site.
- Find other benefits of this technology at YALSA's Social Networking Toolkit
- Continue to visit ALA's interactive Web applications wiki at wikis.ala.org/iwa. Links to all these resources can be found there.
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(Excerpt from 2d paragraph; quote from Supreme Court.)
Presenter: The interactive nature of social networking sites does not diminish the protection extended to social networking sites under the First Amendment. This applies to adults, as well as to minors.
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Ten years ago, the Supreme Court described the Internet as a "dynamic, multifaceted category of communication [that] includes not only traditional print and news services, but also audio, video, and still images, as well as interactive, real-time dialogue. Through the use of chat rooms, any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox. Through the use of Web pages, mail exploders, and newsgroups, the same individual can become a pamphleteer. As the District Court found, 'the content on the Internet is as diverse as human thought'. . . . We agree with its conclusion that our cases provide no basis for qualifying the level of First Amendment scrutiny that should be applied to this medium."— Reno v. ACLU 521 U.S. 844, 869 (1997)
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Presenter: This concludes the Office for Intellectual Freedom's podcast on Online Social Networking and Intellectual Freedom.
Please let us know how we might be able to improve this podcast or the resources we've discussed with you.
You can reach OIF anytime at email@example.com or 800-545-2433 ext. 4223.
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Skip to comments.Michelle Obama: 'If Its Good Enough for Our Kids, Its Good Enough for All of Our Kids'
Posted on 11/19/2012 9:22:56 PM PST by Steelfish
Michelle Obama: 'If Its Good Enough for Our Kids, Its Good Enough for All of Our Kids' "We have hosted youth workshops on everything from modern dance to classical music to spoken word poetry." NOV 19, 2012 BY DANIEL HALPER
At an event at the White House for the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program awards program, First Lady Michelle Obama praised arts in children's education by saying, "if its good enough for our kids, its good enough for all of our kids."
"[It is so critical that we preserve arts education in our schools," said the first lady. "It is absolutely critical because we know how important it is for our childrens development. We all know. Every one of us who are here in this room will do whatever it takes to make sure that our own kids get access to sports and music and arts and recreation. So if its good enough for our kids, its good enough for all of our kids, right?"
For that reason, Obama said, she's helped promote in children's education from the White House.
"And thats one of the reasons why weve worked so very hard, and its been a labor of love to make sure that the White House is a showcase for Americas rich cultural life. And weve worked to open our doors as often as possible to as many young people as we possibly can. We have hosted youth workshops on everything from modern dance to classical music to spoken word poetry and so much more. And were looking for another four years to do even more," said Obama.
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Yea!!!! We're all going to Cancun, and a private school!
Sorry MO, you don't select or in anyway imagined or otherwise establish the guidelines for my household.
Ain't happenin.
Take it to your bank.
I don't think that is what she meant.
Eat your peas.
Sorry MO, you don't select or in anyway imagined or otherwise establish the guidelines for my household.
Ain't happenin.
Take it to your bank.
Dang it! Ya beat me.
...where she getting her talking points, Joe Biden?
I agree, when am I meeting the king of spain?
Who needs to bother with teaching history and the Constitution. According to the Obamas, when they took power in late 2008, they said that history has to change.
That is the issue with you Moochie.
You presume to know how I should raise my kids.
You presume to know how I should live mylife.
Mrs. Obama, I want yoo to know that I am not proud of you, and I never will be.
Nope. Not buying it. My kids are better, my kids deserve better.
Moochelle, you mean like all-expense paid spring break vacays in Spain and those little get-aways with just you and the girls? Yeah baby, for ALL our chilrun!
Michelle Obama thinks that art is important for children's education.
Okay. Got it.
Why is this news exactly?
What about that EXPENSIVE PRIVATE SCHOOL you send your kids to?
And don't forget basketball............
Yeah, but first you KILL all the CHARTER schools for underprivileged black children in DC....like your imbecile of a husband did.
Just wow.
And to think that we're just watching this happen.
I guess the First Lady has it all figured out.
Too bad the luxury of figuring things out for ourselves is being taken away by these know-it-alls.
Here is the absolute:
A personal relationship with Jesus Christ is good for MY kids... it is good for ALL kids.
Dear M/0 ,,, Your family is only to be used as a good example of a very bad example for American families ,,, "DO AS I SAY AND NOT AS I DO" ,, is hardly leading by example .
Now don't pick on the black woman or the congressional black caucus may come down on you. It's racist! (do I need an /s tag?)
I'm waiting for the day someone promotes actual primary subjects in school, such as reading, writing and math.
We can't master these essentials and keep ignoring them; why should I be concerned about "the arts" until my kids learn essential skills?
i think art and music and language should be in schools. it's good for children to have creative expression early because it stays with them. THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE IN ADDITION TO real english, real math, real science, and real history, not howard zinn history. of course that means a complete overhaul of a union libtard driven corrupt education establishment. but i think monkey bars should be on play grounds, didge ball is great and self esteem course for children are crap. but i'm old. i certainly don't need some incompetent fat-ass entitlement creature telling me how to do anything.
The condescending, affirmative-action, equal-opportunity Worst Lady opens her pie-hole again.
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The Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 event at the London 2012 Paralympic Games was laden with favorites: Jonas Jakobsson, Zhang Cuiping, Dong Chao and the USA's Sergeant First Class Josh Olson (Spokane, Wash.), yet none of these greats made the podium in 2012. Olson finished in 12th after two difficult rounds with 579 points.
In a range known for its difficult conditions, the Royal Artillery Barracks proved to be the equalizer as some of the top shooters struggled with wind, light and Paralympic pressure. Olson, who was situated on the left-hand side of the range, dropped only four points after the third string and was in a good position for the final. He struggled from shots 30 to 40, losing five points as a distinct shadow split the target in the morning light. Olson rebounded in the fifth string with 100 points and then ended with 96 points.
"It was a tricky day-the winds were switching constantly and flags were blowing is every direction," said U.S. Paralympic Shooting coach Bob Foth. "After 50 shots, he was projected to be in the final, but I think the combination of timing [running short of time at the end] and the rhythm of shooting didn't work to his advantage. His strategy was well thought-out for today, he felt confident and knew what to expect and he did a good job preparing and dealing with the tough conditions in London. It was ultimately a dramatic match."
In a surprise performance, Abdulla Sultan Al Aryani won the first medal of the Paralympic Games for the United Arab Emirates with a gold in Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1. Al Aryani, a member of UAE's 2004 Olympic team, finished 14th in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing after recovering from a car accident that left him paralyzed below the waist. He shot 694.8 total points (592+102.8) for the gold medal. The silver medalist was Reinaldo Saavedra of Spain with 590 match points and 104.6 in the final to overtake the 2008 gold medalist Jonas Jakobsson of Sweden who finished fourth. Finally, the bronze medalist was Great Britian's Matthew Skelhon with 693.2 total points for his second Paralympic medal in London.


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Topic: HOWTO: Make A Rails Plugin From Scratch
PLUGIN: default_find_options
Rails has a lot of features but the core team is very cautious about adding any new functionality. Part of what has made it such a good framework is that they don't allow features in that aren't necessary or highly useful. This means that most of the cool add-ons we'd like to see have to end up as plugins. And plugins are really hard to make, right? Well, if you follow along with this tutorial you'll be a plugin author in just a few minutes.
What we're going to do is create a new Rails plugin that allows certain models to specify how they are loaded from the database by default.
The Concept
How things work now:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
Person.find(:all) # random order
Person.find(:all, :order => 'age') # ordered by age
How things will work after this plugin:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
default_find_option :order, :age
Person.find(:all) # ordered by age!
Person.default_find_option :order, nil
Person.find(:all) # back to random ordering!
This is in response to an open ticket on the Ruby on Rails dev site.
Things to know for this tutorial:
- Lines that start with a $ are things you'll need to type into a command line
- You'll be needing to set up your own databases, everything else will be step-by-step
- This plugin won't have any built-in testing (that's much more complicated). We'll be using the application's tests
Lay a Foundation
$ rails make_a_plugin
create app/controllers
create app/helpers
create app/models
create app/views/layouts
create public/javascripts/application.js
create doc/README_FOR_APP
create log/server.log
create log/production.log
create log/development.log
create log/test.log
$ cd make_a_plugin
You just created a rails app and stepped into it. Now I'll need you to edit your config/database.yml file to point to a valid development database and a valid test database. You can ignore the production one.
We're going to create a model that we can run our tests on. To continue the example from above we'll make it a Person model.
$ ruby script/generate model person
exists app/models/
exists test/unit/
exists test/fixtures/
create app/models/person.rb
create test/unit/person_test.rb
create test/fixtures/people.yml
create db/migrate
create db/migrate/001_create_people.rb
Now you've got a model set up. Go ahead and edit the file "db/migrate/001_create_people.rb" and just copy and paste the following into it:
class CreatePeople < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :people do |t|
t.column :name, :string
t.column :age, :integer
t.column :gender, :string
def self.down
drop_table :people
And now we need to create this model's table in our database:
$ rake migrate
== CreatePeople: migrating ====================================================
-- create_table(:people)
-> 0.0040s
== CreatePeople: migrated (0.0044s) ===========================================
Now we've got a barebones Rails app. It won't do much on it's own but it's enough to allow us to build a plugin to modify it. The next step is to generate a plugin. It's every bit as simple as it should be. Because this modifies ActiveRecord and it involves default options I've decided to call it "ar_default_options". You can be more clever if you like.
$ ruby script/generate plugin ar_default_options
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/lib
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/tasks
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/test
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/README
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/Rakefile
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/init.rb
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/install.rb
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/lib/ar_default_options.rb
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/tasks/ar_default_options_tasks.rake
create vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/test/ar_default_options_test.rb
The only detail left to do before we get into some code is to hook this plugin up so it's automatically included in our application. To do this, edit the "vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/init.rb" file to look like this:
require 'ar_default_options'
Modify the way ActiveRecord Works
Pretty much all of our work will happen in just one file: "vendor/plugins/ar_default_options/lib/ar_default_options.rb".
Open it and copy the following into the file:
class << ActiveRecord::Base
Congratulations, you've just opened up the guts of Rails and reached your hand inside. We haven't done anything yet, but it's significant to know that we just opened up one of the most essential pieces of Rails code and we could add ANYTHING we want to it. Ignore the 'class <<' notation for now.
Now, our goal is to be able to specify certain values that will be used as defaults for the model whenever it calls the 'find' method on a given model. To do this we'll need some way of storing these values. But not just storing them any old place; we need to satisfy the following criteria:
- the values should be set in the class definition before any instances are created
- the values should be unique for each class/model (i.e. one table's values shouldn't effect another's)
It turns out that there's a specific way Ruby lets us do this. We're going to use the class's 'singleton class'. Basically we'll be able to use @-styled variables and set up method definitions that can be used for the class itself - not for instances of the class. The 'class <<' notation is the way Ruby lets us do this.
class << ActiveRecord::Base
# define a method for this class that takes two arguments.
def default_find_option(option_name, value)
# set our instance variable to a Hash if it's currently nil
@default_find_options ||= {}
# and add our information to it.
@default_find_options[option_name] = value
There. We've now got a class method that lets us assign values to any ActiveRecord model and they'll stay put. Let's try it out (you can type this into irb or just read along):
Person.default_find_option :order, :age
# we can also do it this way:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
default_find_option :conditions, "gender = 'Female'"
# let's check that that actually did something:
Person.instance_variable_get "@default_find_options"
# => {:conditions=>"gender = 'Female'", :order=>:age}
So we've got the values saved in there. Now we need to figure out what we're going to do with them.
Since we're trying to emulate the same functionality as when someone calls Person.find(:all, :order => :age) we need some way to throw the information we've collected at the find method. It turns out that the best way to do that is to create our own find method that jumps in front of the old one. We're going to re-route all calls to Person.find to our own method.
class << ActiveRecord::Base
def default_find_option(option_name, value)
@default_find_options ||= {}
@default_find_options[option_name] = value
# re-define the 'find' method. It takes the same arguments as the original.
def find(*args)
# this is just a way Rails finds the options in the arguments given (not important to us)
options = args.is_a?(Hash) ? args.pop : {}
# make sure our storage container isn't set to nil.
@default_find_options ||= {}
# call the find method to load up all the requested records.
# the merge method is a way to combine hashes.
Now we run into a different problem. The last line of our method calls itself! That would put us into an infinite loop. So how do we do all that database-y stuff that the original find method did? Do we have to copy-and-paste the whole original method into ours or is there some way of still getting to the original?
Ruby offers many ways to override or add-on to methods. We're going to go with a rather odd one that just happens to be the best for what we're doing. 'alias_method' is a way of copying some method to a new name. It's great for making a backup of methods that we're about to clobber.
class << ActiveRecord::Base
def default_find_option(option_name, value)
@default_find_options ||= {}
@default_find_options[option_name] = value
# make a backup of 'find' under the name 'orig_find'
alias_method :orig_find, :find
def find(*args)
options = args.is_a?(Hash) ? args.pop : {}
@default_find_options ||= {}
There we go, now we've successfully intercepted the call to ActiveRecord::Base.find and we didn't have to reinvent all the clever stuff that Rails does so well.
There's one more (insignificant) thing to do. If we just redefine 'find' then we won't have any say in how the records are loaded if any of the other find-like variations are used (e.g. Person.find_by_age). It turns out that all these find-ey methods eventually call the 'find_every' method to do their dirty work. So that's the one we actually want to overwrite. And we're going to mark 'find_every' as a private method because that's how it's listed normally.
class << ActiveRecord::Base
def default_find_option(option_name, value)
@default_find_options ||= {}
@default_find_options[option_name] = value
alias_method :orig_find_every, :find_every
def find_every(*args)
options = args.is_a?(Hash) ? args.pop : {}
@default_find_options ||= {}
And that's it! This is a working plugin that allows you to specify defaults for how ActiveRecord loads records on a per-model basis. But just to be sure (and because untested code is scary), let's do a little testing.
Testing our plugin using a simple application
Edit the 'test/fixtures/people.yml' file that was created when we generated our model and paste the following into it:
id: 1
name: Jane
age: 25
gender: Female
id: 2
name: Mike
age: 13
gender: Male
id: 3
name: Kate
age: 44
gender: Female
id: 4
name: Bryan
age: 26
gender: Male
And put the following into 'test/unit/person_test.rb':
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
class PersonTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
fixtures :people
def setup
# empty out our options before each test
Person.instance_variable_set "@default_find_options", {}
def test_default_order
assert_equal [1,2,3,4], Person.find(:all).collect {|p| p.id}
assert_equal 1, Person.find(:first).id
def test_ordered_by_age
Person.default_find_option :order, :age
assert_equal [2,1,4,3], Person.find(:all).collect {|p| p.id}
assert_equal 2, Person.find(:first).id
def test_ordered_by_gender
Person.default_find_option :order, :gender
assert_equal [1,3,2,4], Person.find(:all).collect {|p| p.id}
def test_only_find_males
Person.default_find_option :conditions, "gender = 'Male'"
assert_equal [2,4], Person.find(:all).collect {|p| p.id}
assert_equal 2, Person.find(:first).id
def test_only_find_first_three
Person.default_find_option :limit, 3
assert_equal [1,2, 3], Person.find(:all).collect {|p| p.id}
And now for the great reckoning, type 'rake test:units' into the command line and see what comes out:
$ rake test:units 2> /dev/null
(in /www/hosts/make_a_plugin)
Loaded suite /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader
Finished in 0.076188 seconds.
5 tests, 8 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
It should be pointed out that this is very nearly the simplest plugin possible. There are all kinds of excellent enhancements that you can give to a plugin ranging from the highly useful (like real tests) to those that are simply fun (an message that pops up to folks when they install it). I recommend checking out the following resources if you'd like to pursue this further:
TopFunky's introduction to plugins 1 2
Rick Olson's (techno-weenie's) incredible plugin collection.
If you'd like to browse the code to the tutorial plugin it's available here:
http://svn.6brand.com/projects/plugins/ lt_options
And if, for some reason, you'd like to use this in any of your applications you can install it quite easily:
ruby script/plugin install -x http://svn.6brand.com/projects/plugins/ lt_options
Please leave a comment if you notice a typo or if you want help with anything. I'm getting maried in a little over a week and then I'm gone for a month so ask quickly :-)


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While the Washington state legislature has not yet approved any laws specifically addressing smart grids, the legislature has passed legislation focusing on net-metering standards in 1998. In 1979 the legislature looked into distributed generation technologies and created contractual methods for entering into solar easements for solar energy systems, this was later revised to include restricting homeowner's associations from prohibiting the installation of solar energy panels. (S.B. 5136) [2, 3]
The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission had approved demand-side management by 1996. By 2002 the Commission had approved rates for distributed generation and included net metering in 2006. The Commission has also addressed Time of Use rates for businesses but focusing on demand not energy by 1994. [4, 5]
"In August 2007, the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission decided not to adopt PURPA Standard 14 ("Time-Based Metering and Communications") as enacted in EPACT 2005. The Commission determined (1) that it is inappropriate to "require generally" utilities to deploy smart metering and time-based rates and (2) that its existing policy created in response to the 1980 PURPA standards is sufficient relative to EPACT 1252. The Commission, in its August 2007 Decision, also said that comments submitted through the course of its EPACT 1252 proceeding affirmed the existing policy's prudence. (This policy states that "time-of-day ratemaking is acceptable only if cost-justified," and all five parties who submitted comments offered evidence that TOU rates and metering are not cost effective.)
The Decision indicated that the Commission plans to consider smart metering and time-based rates on a case-by-case basis—in each utility's rate case or in "other proceedings considering the varying circumstances of each utility and each utility's customer classes"—until it determines that uniform standards would be cost effective for all consumers. Furthermore, the Commission directed utilities to consider demand response and smart metering while forecasting loads and assessing resources." [1]
Demand-side management includes interruptible accounts and energy exchange programs. Interruptible accounts have the customer de-energizes specific load on any day the company requests. Energy exchange programs have the company notify the customer that if they reduce their load they will receive an hourly credit for each hour the company requests curtailment.
Distributed generation includes cogeneration, small power production facilities and net metering installations. The price is either negotiated or a credit is carried forward to the next bill.
Time of Use rates only use the on-peak demand to determine demand pricing.
Avista Corporation
- Avista Corporation Rates
Pacific Power
- Pacific Power Rates
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- Puget Sound Energy Rates
See the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) for information on consumer-owned Cooperatives: http://www.nreca.org/members/MemberDirectory/Pages/default.aspx
Washington offers density bonuses, grants, production incentives, sales tax and use exemptions, and loans for water, wind, and solar, as well as off grid loans.
More information can be found in the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE): http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=1&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=WA
State Energy Office:
- Department of Commerce Division of Energy Policy
State Authority Dealing with Energy Regulation:
- Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
- Docket Search: http://wutc.wa.gov/rms2.nsf/frm2005VwFilingWeb?OpenForm&vw2005L1FilingID=TOP#
Revised Code of Washington
Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE): http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=1&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=WA
[1] Demand Response and Smart Metering Policy Actions Since the Energy Policy Act of 2005: A Summary for State Officials, Prepared by the U.S. Demand Response Coordinating Committee for The National Council on Electricity Policy, Fall 2008. URL: http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/NCEP_Demand_Response_1208.pdf
[2] Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, Washington – Net Metering, 05/12/2010. URL: http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=WA01R&re=1&ee=1
[3] Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, Washington Solar Easements & Access Law, 04/16/2010. URL: http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=WA02R&re=1&ee=1
[4] Pacific Power, Washington Regulatory Information, Rate Schedules. URL: http://www.pacificpower.net/about/rr/wri.html
[5] Puget Sound Energy, Electric Tariffs & Rules. URL: http://pse.com/aboutpse/Rates/Pages/Electric-Rate-Schedules.aspx?Schedule_x0020_Type=Rate%20and%20Adjusting%20Schedules


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Dam Jam a success
Dam Jam a success
To the editor:
The Keweenaw Land Trust (KLT) thanks everyone who made the Hungarian Dam Jam on April 13th an enjoyable and tremendous success! KLT is currently raising funds to acquire the property that includes the Upper Hungarian Falls, historic dam, and hiking trails to create a nature area for public benefit and enjoyment. Community support is critical to accomplish this project and the Dam Jam raised over $6500 towards our goal of $40,000 by the end of April. Several people also joined KLT at the event to help us meet the 100 new member challenge that has brought an additional $10,000 from lead donors to support the Hungarian Falls project.
The Dam Jam would not have been possible without the many local musicians and bands that donated their talent to support the cause: Jonathan Soper, the Barnstormers, Trouble on the Stairs, Keweenaw Brew Grass, The Board,and Outwash Plain. We thank them for their lively performances along with Keith Riley and his crew for handling sound for the musicians.
We thank the local businesses that supported the event: Osmose, The Wood'n Spoon, Favorites Custom Apparel, the Brownstone Hall, Yarns & Threads, Quincy Footwear, Copper Island Treasures, Lakeland-Luoma Insurance, Nitrate Elimination, Pat's Foods, Roy's Pasties and Bakery, and Econo Foods.
We also thank all of the capable volunteers who offered their valuable time to help us plan, advertise, and manage the event. Most importantly, we thank all of the community members who came out to support something they really care about. The Dam Jam was truly a community celebration and the KLT is honored and humbled by the outpouring of support for our efforts to protect this special place. We appreciate each and every contribution and hope that through our combined efforts we can keep all of the Hungarian Falls undeveloped and open for the public to enjoy forever.
We are all fortunate to have many talented, committed, and generous individuals supporting our quality of life in the Keweenaw.
Evan McDonald
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Debates of March 24th, 2004
House of Commons Hansard #28 of the 37th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was budget.
- National Kidney Month
- National Volunteer Week
- The Budget
- St. Lawrence Seaway
- Surrey Central City
- The Budget
- Nicole Demers
- Pay Equity
- Rail Tourism
- The Budget
- Status of Women
- The Budget
- Women Entrepreneurs
- The Budget
- Health
- Sponsorship Program
- Health
- Sponsorship Program
- Human Rights
- The Budget
- Correctional Service of Canada
- Employment Insurance
- Veterans Affairs
- Regional Economic Development
- Human Resources and Skills Development
- Points of Order
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Canada Pension Plan
- National Ovarian Cancer Month Act
- Holidays Act
- Workers Mourning Day Act
- Official Languages Act
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Question No. 22
- Question No. 62
- Questions Passed as Order for Return
- Question No. 20
- Motions for Papers
- The Budget
- Fisheries
- Criminal Code
2 p.m.
The Speaker
It being Wednesday we will now have the singing of the national anthem, led by the hon. member for Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore.
[Editor's Note: Members sang the national anthem]
National Kidney Month
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Mr. Speaker, March is National Kidney Month. I rise to recognize this and to recognize the needs of all those who suffer from kidney disease and their families.
I also want to recognize all those who care for those suffering with kidney disease and those who conduct research into ways of coping with and curing kidney disease.
In recent years I have presented petitions from literally tens of thousands of people in Peterborough, southern Ontario and further afield who also support this cause.
These petitions were initiated by Ken Sharp, who has been on kidney dialysis all of his adult life. The petitions focused on the development of a bioartificial kidney and the designation of one of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as a kidney institute.
I urge all members to support those with kidney disease, their families, friends and the medical professionals who work to help them.
National Volunteer Week
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Bob Mills Red Deer, AB
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise today to congratulate the residents of Red Deer in advance of National Volunteer Week.
Red Deer has a long, proud history of volunteerism. Our community alone has over 18,000 volunteers.
Volunteers made this year's Scott Tournament of Hearts the smashing success it was. Organizers turned away as many volunteers as they actually needed.
The Board of Governors at Red Deer College are an example of the great volunteers we have. That makes it a true community college. The activities of the board have seen a new library completed and many other community activities organized.
We have had the World Junior Hockey championships. We sell 50-50 tickets at the Red Deer Rebel games. The Festival of Trees is a great success. We have manning the phones for the annual jail and bail fundraiser. Those are just a few of the things that the residents of Red Deer do. They always come out in force to make this truly a paradise in which to live.
Red Deer is certainly the city of volunteers.
The Budget
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Nick Discepola Vaudreuil—Soulanges, QC
Mr. Speaker, the 2004 budget lays the foundation for a better future for all Canadians. This budget has two clear objectives. It demonstrates unequivocally the principles of financial responsibility and integrity, and begins to give tangible shape to the goals presented in the Speech from the Throne.
Investing in health care, our communities, learning, the well-being and development of our children now and in the future, that is how the government puts people at the heart of all it does.
We will not throw fiscal caution to the wind, nor will we engage in a pre-election spending spree. This is a solid budget that allows Canada to begin another decade of achievement with confidence.
The Budget
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Sarmite Bulte Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the government and the Minister of Finance on its seventh consecutive balanced budget.
I was especially pleased that the government yesterday announced that it will restore its contribution to the Canadian television fund at $100 million a year over two years.
Since 1996 the government has contributed more than $800 million to the CTF. This funding has been instrumental in bringing approximately $5 billion worth of quality Canadian programming to the screen.
The messages from my constituents were loud and clear: that the CTF is essential to Canadian broadcasting. My constituent, Keith Ross Leicke, a professional Canadian screenwriter, wrote:
The CTF is a strong cultural tool in this country as it supports Canadian television shows that are written, directed and performed by Canadians.
I am pleased to note that the increased financial resources for the fund confirms this government's continuing commitment to support the production of high quality Canadian television programming.
St. Lawrence Seaway
Statements By Members
March 24th, 2004 / 2:05 p.m.
Christian Jobin Lévis-Et-Chutes-De-La-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, last week I met with marine industry stakeholders in Quebec City who were floored by comments made by the Bloc Quebecois regarding the expansion of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Since day one, the Bloc Quebecois has been misinforming Quebeckers on certain subjects, including the expansion of the St. Lawrence Seaway. I come back to this today to save Quebeckers from the tall tales of the opposition.
As the Minister of Transport confirmed yesterday in the House, the Canadian government has no intention of expanding the seaway. Instead, it intends to integrate this natural resource into a process that will revive the Canadian marine industry while respecting environmental rules.
Surrey Central City
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Gurmant Grewal Surrey Central, BC
Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate Surrey Central City, an office-retail-university complex, for winning the most prestigious award, the Special Jury Prize at the International Property Market Awards in Cannes, France. It is kind of an Oscar of the property industry.
Architect, Bing Thom, was recognized for transforming a struggling Surrey mall into a modern urban centre that is a landmark dominating the city's skyline.
Lost in the stories of grow-ops, auto theft, gang violence and homelessness in Surrey is the vibrancy of one of Canada's fastest growing cities. Construction is booming and over 800 new residents a month call Surrey home.
Known as the city of parks, it is home to North America's third largest rodeo, B.C. Hydro, Terasen, BC Biomedical Labs and TransLink, among many corporations.
Surrey, a city with heart, is a great place to live and an excellent location for business. No wonder Steve Malkowich and Gary Hollick of The Now newspaper have launched "I love Surrey" pins.
The Budget
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Claude Drouin Beauce, QC
Mr. Speaker, the 2004 budget recognizes the importance of the social economy, which is based on values we hold dear: sustainable development, equality of opportunity, inclusion of the less fortunate and community action.
This is a growing sector all across the country. In Quebec, for example, 10,000 collective businesses and community organizations employ more than 100,000 people. These enterprises produce goods and services for the market economy, but direct their surpluses to the pursuit of social and community goals
We will be investing $162 million over 5 years in this dynamic sector; $100 million to increase lending to social economy enterprises; $47 million for pilot projects supporting strategic planning and capacity building; and $15 million for community-based research on the social economy.
Our government wishes to improve the social infrastructure of communities in all corners of the country, and the 2004 budget will provide us with the means to bring this about.
Nicole Demers
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Laval Centre, QC
Mr. Speaker, on February 26, 2004, in front of more than 600 people attending the annual merit awards gala of the Quebec cooperative movement, Nicole Demers—a woman of caring and action—was honoured with the "cooperator of the year" award, volunteer category.
A recipient of the Persons Award in 2003, and praised at that time by my hon. colleague for Laval East, she has now been recognized by her peers for her commitment.
Deeply involved in the Laval community and active in many of its social sectors, she is especially devoted to the "Vivre chez soi" foundation that she recently established.
I am honoured to pay tribute to this great Quebecker, and of course agree wholeheartedly with the Quebec minister of citizen relations and immigration and the minister responsible for Laval, who said just a few weeks ago, "In Laval, Nicole Demers takes the prize for generosity".
To the future Bloc Quebecois member for Laval, I say, bravo, Nicole and good luck.
Pay Equity
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Marlene Jennings Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC
Mr. Speaker, all crown corporations must respect the Public Service Pay Equity Act. Recently, members have risen in the House to speak out against pay inequity affecting CBC employees, depending on whether they work for the French or English network and whether they are male or female.
Apparently, since these statements were made, bargaining between the CBC and the union representing these employees has hit an impasse. I am very concerned. All Canadians have the fundamental right to consult their member of Parliament and inform that member of problems with government entities.
I call today on the CBC to show respect for our democracy by bargaining in good faith with the union on the issue of pay equity.
Rail Tourism
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Jim Abbott Kootenay—Columbia, BC
Mr. Speaker, waterfalls, glacier cut gorges, forests and spectacular mountain terrain makes my constituency of Kootenay--Columbia a natural magnet for national and international tourism. Add the excitement of rail travel found all around us from Vancouver to Alberta and the U.S. northwest to Montana.
Last week I held meetings with constituents, representatives of Rocky Mountaineer Railtours and local rail proponents to discuss enhancing rail travel and tourism. Rocky Mountaineer Railtours has had 15 years of great success and hundreds of thousands of excited, satisfied clients.
Throughout my tenure as MP for Kootenay--Columbia, I have remained in touch with Rocky Mountaineer Railtour executives, working to describe our constituency's suitability for rail tourism and all the benefits it would bring to bolster our employment and economy.
I applaud and support all the rail travel proponents who are working diligently on this initiative which will benefit my constituents and show the world spectacular Kootenay--Columbia.
The Budget
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Roy Cullen Etobicoke North, ON
Mr. Speaker, a nation as blessed as ours should always aim higher and reach further. Canada is in a position to be able to launch a new decade of achievement, and we began that journey with our new government's first full budget.
Tabled yesterday, budget 2004 lays the foundation for a better future for all Canadians. This government has some very specific goals to create an even greater country, one that will give more Canadians the opportunity to succeed, to enlarge their ambitions and to pursue their dreams.
Tabled yesterday, budget 2004 lays the foundation for a better future for all Canadians. This government has some very specific goals to create an even greater country, one that will give more Canadians the opportunity to succeed, to enlarge their ambitions, and to pursue their dreams.
We have a responsibility to make sure our children and grandchildren lead even better lives in an even better land. This is the goal we have set for ourselves. A nation as great as ours should be able to reach it, and with this budget we are striving to do so.
Status of Women
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Bev Desjarlais Churchill, MB
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government has once again chosen to balance the budget on the backs of women. As child care, health care and education continue to be inadequately funded, it is women's unpaid labour that has to make up the shortfall.
Women are the primary caregivers and when health care, education and child care fall short, women take on the responsibility. I think it is time the federal Liberal government accepted its responsibility.
What do women want? At our economic summit this February, women said loud and clear that they needed affordable child care, housing and adequate health care for themselves and their families. What did they get? Nothing.
How is the 25% GDP ratio supposed to help the mother who is trying to feed her child and save up so they can go to university? How is this mother going to put money into an RESP when she cannot afford food?
There is virtually nothing in the budget that touches on the unique situation of aboriginal women. Aboriginal women's groups have been calling on the federal government to recognize their unique challenges.
The Prime Minister acknowledged the shameful conditions in which aboriginal Canadians live. Yet there was nothing for native women's groups and nothing to improve the third world conditions in which many are forced to live.
If this is the Prime Minister's vision for women in Canada, he and all Liberals should hang their heads in shame.
The Budget
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Marcel Gagnon Champlain, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Finance showed once again that he cares nothing about the most vulnerable in our society. There are no concrete measures to grant fully retroactive guaranteed income supplement benefits. Yet he had no qualms about doing eligible seniors out of $3.2 billion in guaranteed income supplement benefits.
Rather than taking money from the most vulnerable to pay down the debt, the Minister of Finance would have been better advised to ask the Prime Minister to repay the money he saved in tax havens. When he was finance minister, the Prime Minister introduced Bill C-28 with its retroactive tax benefits for shipping companies.
Therein lies this government's real priority: retroactive measures for the rich but nothing for the poor.
Women Entrepreneurs
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Anita Neville Winnipeg South Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, March 8 to March 13 Canadians celebrated the Women's Enterprise Initiative Awareness Week.
This week was dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women entrepreneurs in the four western provinces. I want to recognize two particularly successful women who are this year's recipients of the awards of excellence.
Rebecca McCormack received the Emerging Business Award of Excellence. Her company, Cake Clothing, is located in Winnipeg. It has flourished well beyond her expectations. Using her knowledge and experience, Rebecca hopes to expand her company.
Rhoda O'Malley, founder and owner of Step Ahead Shoes in Saskatoon, was awarded the Existing Business Award of Excellence. The first location of her company opened its doors in 1996. Eight years later, her company thrives.
The Government of Canada, through Western Economic Diversification Canada, has initiated this program in order to build and expand businesses that would have remained merely as ideas and pipe dreams.


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quote RandomeA program that can use multiple threads will definitely be as many times better, as many more cores you have.
1 core used and 5 wasted is obviously a waste if you could have 6 of 6 in use. Virtual cores make little difference.
I don't have Excel, so I'm just speculating.
And as for the difficult to replace memory. If it's that important, I would buy 1 extra at some point, so I could replace it with in hours of the failure.
quote dave777CPU's are actually a lot more capable than you think, I had a i7 950 setup (Gen 1) that I ran 24/7 under full load, while overclocked to 4ghz, using folding @ home, only time it wasn't at full load was when the power went out, this was used for 2 years, until I upgraded this week. Same story with GPU's as I have had my 5830 running at constant full load 24/7 while mining bitcoins (ie. lots and lots of calculations) for over a year.I wonder if you have tried running your i73930k for long periods of time..like 10 hours at the maximum load....I wonder how it behaved? lets say for 8-10 hours in a row....at 95% (no over-clocking) - did you see any hints of instability in its performance?
quote dave777I have an i7 2600k, the earlier generation, and I've ran it at close to max load for around 5 hours with no problems (it was a high end game). I've also had this computer run for up to a week before I started getting errors. This is with the CPU underclocked though, since it is really hot where I am so I'd rather it produce less heat.I wonder if you have tried running your i73930k for long periods of time..like 10 hours at the maximum load....I wonder how it behaved? lets say for 8-10 hours in a row....at 95% (no over-clocking) - did you see any hints of instability in its performance?
quote ashantiquaharbin91 has it right.
server hardware is purpose built for what youre looking for, that is, sustained, uninterrupted, reliable operation.
ECC memory is also a bit slower than non-ECC memory, but for sustained operation, its your guy.
as for multicore performance, heres some info concerning excel 2007 to present:
"Most workbooks show a significant improvement in calculation speed on a system with multiple cores. The degree of improvement depends on how many independent calculation trees the workbook contains. If you make a workbook that contains one continuous chain of formulas, it will not show any multithreaded calculation (MTC) performance gain, whereas a workbook that contains several independent chains of formulas will show gains close to the number of processors available."
"Results showed calculation times ranging from no improvement to better than theoretical (2x/4x) improvement on both the dual-core and quad-core systems. Typical (median) improvement for a system with an Intel dual-core Pentium 4 at 3.0 GHz with 1 GB of RAM compared to the same file calculating in Excel 2003 was 48 percent, or a 1.92x speedup. Typical (median) speedup for a system with an Intel quad-core Xeon at 3.0 GHz with 4 GB of RAM was 76 percent, or a 4.17x speedup. Similar speed improvements were observed on other processors and platforms. Improvements beyond theoretical speedup (because of multithreading) are attributed to other performance improvements starting in Excel 2007, such as improvements to the speed of function execution."
looks like if the type of calculation youre doing is supported with multicore processing, youll get great performance gains. its scalable, so the more cores you have, the better performance you should see.
some forms of calculating are not supported by multithreading / multicores however.
"Some Excel features do not use multithreaded calculation. For example:
Data table calculation (however, structured references to tables do use MTC).
User-defined functions (however, XLL functions can be multithread-enabled).
XLM functions.
INDIRECT, CELL functions that use either the format2 or address options.
GETPIVOTDATA and other functions referring to PivotTables or cubes.
Range.Calculate and Range.CalculateRowMajorOrder.
Cells in circular reference loops."
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READING, Pa. - Proposed cuts in the Reading School District are sending shock waves through the community.
Now, Pa. Sen. Judy Schwank is taking a closer look at the budget crisis, but the problem, she said, is that there may be very little the state can do.
Members of the Reading School Board have some tough choices to make in the next two months in order to fill a $53 million deficit.
One proposal would cut 374 jobs, 22 programs and consolidate schools.
"I don't know what they can do, but I don't think closing down is a good thing," said Sam Murray, whose child attends Thomas Ford Elementary School.
Consolidation would close Thomas Ford and send those students to Millmont Elementary two miles away.
If student transportation is also cut, parents living in the Oakbrook neighborhood said their children may never get to class.
"They don't have cars to travel and take their kids. Some parents, we do, some other parents don't," said Maribel Queiles, whose child attends Thomas Ford.
"My role is not necessarily to be right on top of the budget issues, but the state needs to be a partner in helping school districts throughout the commonwealth," said Schwank, who has been talking with officials in the Reading School District.
The Berks County lawmaker is currently drafting legislation to help financially strapped districts.
"Give specific pools of money to school districts for proven programs, not just to fill budget holes, but to actually address specific programs," said Schwank.
Even if Schwank's proposed legislation passes, it would only give an additional $7 million to the Reading School District budget, not enough money to fill a $53 million deficit.
"We've got to address this," Schwank said. "No more looking for a white knight to ride in from the state with a lot of dollars to fill the hole. It may not happen, likely won't happen."
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