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Topic: Advice to Rails Beginners: Follow Conventions
If I could offer only one piece of advice to you, it would be this: follow the Rails conventions
Learning Ruby on Rails can be difficult, but applying this advice will make it much easier. Rails is an awesome framework, but there's a lot more to it than what the framework itself has to offer. The conventions and practices Rails encourages is what I consider to be one of the best parts of Rails.
There are a lot of simple conventions in Rails that are some of the first things beginners learn such as making table names plural, class names singular, etc. This article will dive into a few conventions which may not be immediately obvious.
Choose a Name and Stick With It
One of the most important first decisions when building a Rails application is naming models. Once you name a model, the only variations of that name should be the plural and singular forms of the word. Stick with the full model name in everything - variable names, method names, controller names, etc.
If you find you want to rename the model halfway through the project, don't just start giving variables the new name. Go back and rename the model in every other part of the application to keep the consistency. This is a lot of work, but worth it. It really helps to get the name right the first time around.
One exception to this is the user interface. If you would like to present the model to the user under a different name, this is understandable. Just keep everything else consistent.
Tip: When naming an model, take a look at the reserved words to avoid problems in the future.
Keep Logic in Models
It seems many beginners have difficulty determining what code to place in models. As a result, the models are very small but the views and controllers are littered with business logic. More often than not, if you can move something out of the view/controller and into a model, you should! This has many benefits, including slimming down the views/controllers, removing duplication, and making it easier to test this logic.
CRUD Controllers
For many applications there is a 1-to-1 mapping between controllers and models. The controller should have the plural form of the model. CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations are added to the controller to perform actions on the model. If you unfamiliar with the CRUD operations, generate the scaffolding and take a look at the controller.
script/generate scaffold
Try to keep a controller's operations limited to one model. If it starts messing around with other models, consider moving those operations into another controller.
Not all models have an associated controller, and not all controllers have every CRUD operation. It all depends on what functionality you need in the application.
Of course this 1-to-1 mapping between controller and model does not work for all situations. You are always free to create a non-restful controller for situations that do not fit into simple CRUD operations. For example, let's say there are Cart and Order models, and you would like to create a checkout process in your application. The checkout process is a multi-page form and does more than simply creating an order. Therefore, I recommend making a non-CRUD controller called "CheckoutController" to handle this checkout process.
Tip: If you are under edge rails (or 1.2), take a look at the "scaffold_resource" generator.
script/generate scaffold_resource
Ruby Conventions
The Rails community has for the most part adopted the Ruby Language Conventions, and I recommend you do the same. Most likely these conventions are not the same as the ones you use in other languages, but I encourage you to give them a try. You will get used to them. By adopting the Ruby conventions, it makes it so much easier to read other code, and for someone to read yours. You may still be speaking the same language without these conventions, but it is like trying to understand someone with a strong accent.
We've only scratched the surface of Rails conventions in this article, but hopefully you've gained an understand of what they are. In all further articles, tutorials, and code samples, keep an eye out for good conventions and start applying them to your project.


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By simply altering when you eat meals, you can improve your health without spending endless hours at the gym or resorting to medical procedures.
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Abstract: It is elusive how the skull-enclosed brain enables spatio-temporal multimodal developmental learning. By multimodal, we mean that the system has at least two sensory modalities, e.g., visual and auditory in our experiments. By spatio-temporal, we mean that the behavior from the system depends not only on the spatial pattern in the current sensory inputs, but also those of the recent past. Traditional machine learning requires humans to train every module using hand-transcribed data, using handcrafted symbols among modules, and hand-link modules internally. Such a system is limited by a static set of symbols and static module performance. A key characteristic of developmental learning is that the "brain" is "skull-closed" after birth-not directly manipulatable by the system designer-so that the system can continue to learn incrementally without the need for reprogramming. In this paper, we propose an architecture for multimodal developmental learning-parallel modality pathways all situate between a sensory end and the motor end. Motor signals are not only used as output behaviors, but also as part of input to all the related pathways. For example, the proposed developmental learning does not use silence as cut points for speech processing or motion static points as key frames for visual processing.
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Abstract: This position paper proposes that the study of embodied cognitive agents, such as humanoid robots, can advance our understanding of the cognitive development of complex sensorimotor, linguistic, and social learning skills. This in turn will benefit the design of cognitive robots capable of learning to handle and manipulate objects and tools autonomously, to cooperate and communicate with other robots and humans, and to adapt their abilities to changing internal, environmental, and social conditions. Four key areas of research challenges are discussed, specifically for the issues related to the understanding of: 1) how agents learn and represent compositional actions; 2) how agents learn and represent compositional lexica; 3) the dynamics of social interaction and learning; and 4) how compositional action and language representations are integrated to bootstrap the cognitive system. The review of specific issues and progress in these areas is then translated into a practical roadmap based on a series of milestones. These milestones provide a possible set of cognitive robotics goals and test scenarios, thus acting as a research roadmap for future work on cognitive developmental robotics.
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Abstract: Visual context plays an important role in humans' top-down gaze movement control for target searching. Exploring the mental development mechanism in terms of incremental visual context encoding by population cells is an interesting issue. This paper presents a biologically inspired computational model. The visual contextual cues were used in this model for top-down eye-motion control on searching targets in images. We proposed a population cell coding mechanism for visual context encoding and decoding. The model was implemented in a neural network system. A developmental learning mechanism was simulated in this system by dynamically generating new coding neurons to incrementally encode visual context during training. The encoded context was decoded with population neurons in a top-down mode. This allowed the model to control the gaze motion to the centers of the targets. The model was developed with pursuing low encoding quantity and high target locating accuracy. Its performance has been evaluated by a set of experiments to search different facial objects in a human face image set. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed visual context encoding algorithm without weight updating is fast, efficient and stable, and the population-cell coding generally performs better than single-cell coding and k-nearest-neighbor (k-NN)-based coding.
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Abstract: We present an approach to learn inverse kinematics of redundant systems without prior- or expert-knowledge. The method allows for an iterative bootstrapping and refinement of the inverse kinematics estimate. The essential novelty lies in a path-based sampling approach: we generate training data along paths, which result from execution of the currently learned estimate along a desired path towards a goal. The information structure thereby induced enables an efficient detection and resolution of inconsistent samples solely from directly observable data. We derive and illustrate the exploration and learning process with a low-dimensional kinematic example that provides direct insight into the bootstrapping process. We further show that the method scales for high dimensional problems, such as the Honda humanoid robot or hyperredundant planar arms with up to 50 degrees of freedom.
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Abstract: The simple, but general formal theory of fun and intrinsic motivation and creativity (1990–2010) is based on the concept of maximizing intrinsic reward for the active creation or discovery of novel, surprising patterns allowing for improved prediction or data compression. It generalizes the traditional field of active learning, and is related to old, but less formal ideas in aesthetics theory and developmental psychology. It has been argued that the theory explains many essential aspects of intelligence including autonomous development, science, art, music, and humor. This overview first describes theoretically optimal (but not necessarily practical) ways of implementing the basic computational principles on exploratory, intrinsically motivated agents or robots, encouraging them to provoke event sequences exhibiting previously unknown, but learnable algorithmic regularities. Emphasis is put on the importance of limited computational resources for online prediction and compression. Discrete and continuous time formulations are given. Previous practical, but nonoptimal implementations (1991, 1995, and 1997–2002) are reviewed, as well as several recent variants by others (2005–2010). A simplified typology addresses current confusion concerning the precise nature of intrinsic motivation.
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Abstract: We investigate the effects of top–down input connections from a later layer to an earlier layer in a biologically inspired network. The incremental learning method combines optimal Hebbian learning for stable feature extraction, competitive lateral inhibition for sparse coding, and neighborhood-based self-organization for topographic map generation. The computational studies reported indicate top–down connections encourage features that reduce uncertainty at the lower layer with respect to the features in the higher layer, enable relevant information to be uncovered at the lower layer so that irrelevant information can preferentially be discarded [a necessary property for autonomous mental development (AMD)], and cause topographic class grouping. Class groups have been observed in cortex, e.g., in the fusiform face area and parahippocampal place area. This paper presents the first computational account, as far as we know, explaining these three phenomena by a single biologically inspired network. Visual recognition experiments show that top–down-enabled networks reduce error rates for limited network sizes, show class grouping, and can refine lower layer representation after new conceptual information is learned. These findings may shed light on how the brain self-organizes cortical areas, and may contribute to computational understanding of how autonomous agents might build and maintain an organized internal representation over its lifetime of experiences.
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Liquid detergent capsule ingestion in children: an increasing trend
- 1Department of ENT, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK
- 2Paediatric Intensive Care Department, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK
- Correspondence to Dr Lyndsay Fraser, Department of ENT, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Dalnair Street, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK; LyndsayFraser{at}doctors.org.uk
- Accepted 18 July 2012
- Published Online First 5 September 2012
We wish to highlight a cluster of cases we have experienced over the past 18 months of laryngopharyngeal injury following the accidental ingestion of liquid detergent capsules (commonly known as liquitabs). Five children, all under the age of 2, were admitted as emergencies with stridor and drooling after biting into a liquid detergent capsule. All were taken immediately to theatre for panendoscopy assessment. Table 1 illustrates the endoscopic findings and management for each child.
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On Tuesday, April 29, the Acton Institute hosted the conference Faith, State, and the Economy: perspectives from East and West at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. This conference was the first in a five-part international conference series – One and Indivisible? The Relationship Between Religious and Economic Freedom.
The one-night event, moderated by Acton's Rev. Robert A. Sirico, featured four prominent speakers who offered deeper insight into the question of the relationship between religious freedom and economic liberty. The speakers represented a diversity of global perspectives on the relationship between religious and economic freedom.
Rev. Prof. Martin Rhonheimer of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, located in Rome, presented on Christianity and the Limits of State Power. Rhonheimer discussed the important and inherent link between limited government and a flourishing free market, the historical roots of the free market in Christian civilization, and the danger of Christians who fail to understand the link between Christianity and a free market economy.
Following Rhonheimer, Archbishop Maroun Elias Lahham of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem for Jordan offered his perspectives on Christians and the Challenge of Freedom in the Middle East. Samuel Gregg, the Director of Research at the Acton Institute, followed with an engaging analysis on contemporary issues in his presentation Religious Liberty and Economic Freedom: Intellectual and Practical Paradoxes. Gregg revealed some of the ways that greater economic freedom may lead to greater religious liberty, using the Chinese situation as a case study.


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Kathy Hessler is a clinical professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School. She is the first and only faculty member hired to teach animal law full time in a law school. She graduated with a J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary and received her LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.
After Law school, Professor Hessler worked at Legal Services of Northern Virginia. From there she went to a teaching fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to teaching at Lewis & Clark, Professor Hessler taught in clinical programs at Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cornell Law School, the University of Dayton Law School, the Capital University School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center. In those clinics Professor Hessler worked on domestic relations, consumer, housing, transactional, public benefits, and other civil matters.
Professor Hessler was previously a board member with the Animal Legal Defense Fund and helped found the Animal Law Committee of the Cuyahoga County Bar. Additionally, she was the chair and a founder of the Animal Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and the Balance in Legal Education Section. She was also a co-chair of the Clinical Legal Education Section of the AALS and is on the board of the Center for Teaching Peace.
Professor Hessler co-authored (with Pamela Frasch and Megan Senatori) the amicus brief submitted in the U.S. v. Stevens case, on behalf of 45 law professors who teach animal law. She also co-authored Animal Law in a Nutshell (with Pamela Frasch, Sarah Kutil, and Sonia Waisman) and has written numerous other law review and other articles and she is co-authoring a new books on animal law.
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- LL.M., 1997, Georgetown University Law Center
- J.D., 1987, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary
- B.A., 1985, George Washington University
Separately Published Works
- TEACHING ANIMAL LAW ACROSS THE CURRICULUM, Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming 2011).
- ANIMAL LAW IN A NUTSHELL, Thomson West Publishing (co-authored with Pamela D. Frasch, Sarah M. Kutil, Sonia S. Waisman) (2011).
Works Published As Part of a Collection
- The Role of the Animal Law Clinic, Journal of Legal Education (forthcoming 2010).
- Animals in Testing: Concerns and Consequences, GRIDA Symposium — University of Quebec at Montreal (in French), proceedings of the Japanese Association of Legal Philosophy (in Japanese), and Federal University of Bahia/Brazil (in Portugese) (forthcoming 2010).
- Amicus Curiae brief filed with the United States Supreme Court in the case of U.S. v. Stevens, (drafted with Megan A. Senatori, Pamela D. Frasch, and Laura Handzel) (2009).
- Exotic Animals as Pets, American Bar Association GP Solo, Vol. 26, No. 5 (co-authored with Tanith Balaban) (2009).
- Agricultural Animals and the Law, American Bar Association GP Solo, Vol. 26, No.5 (co-authored with Tanith Balaban) (2009).
- Mediating Animal Law Matters, 2 Journal of Animal Law and Ethics 21 (2007) and CITED in Augillard v. Madura, 257 S.W.3d 494, 503 (TX Ct. of App., 2008).
- Bridge of Hope, Journey to Justice: An Essay, Volume 3, Issue 1 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 429, (2004).
- Early Efforts to Suppress Protest: Unwanted Abolitionist Speech, 7 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 185 (1998).
- Where Do We Draw the Line Between Harassment and Free Speech? An Analysis of Hunter Harassment Law, 3 Animal Law Journal 129 (1997) and
- CITED in People v. Sanders, 696 N.E.2d 1144, 1150 (Ill. S.Ct., 1998).


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Dear Friends,
I would like to provide a brief update on the condition of those involved in the car accident on June 4. We had an opportunity to visit with the staff counselor Friday morning, and she looked good. She was about to be moved to a regular room and will not require any additional surgery, although her recovery will take a number of weeks.
The camper will undergo surgery again tomorrow as a follow up to what was done on Wednesday night. She looked much improved from yesterday.
We shared with both your wishes for a speedy recovery from the council blog. Those thoughts were much appreciated, as will subsequent wishes and comments on their speedy recovery.
Two of the campers involved in the accident returned to camp on Thursday to finish out the camp session. We also provided an opportunity for conversation with the campers on what happened with one of our staff who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. These can be teachable moments for our girls, so we worked to shape that opportunity.
We appreciate your comments for those involved. This type of response across the council illustrates the power of support in the healing process.
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The GRAPH engine allows you to deal with hierarchies and graphs in a purely relational way. So, we can find all children of an item, path from an item to a root node, shortest path between two items, and so on, each with a simple basic query structure using standard SQL grammar.
The engine is implemented as a MySQL/MariaDB 5.1 plugin (we're working on a 5.0 backport for some clients) and thus runs with an unmodified server.
Demo time! I'll simplify/strip a little bit here for space reasons, but what's here is plain cut/paste from a running server, no edits
-- insert a few entries with connections (and multiple paths) insert into foo (origid, destid) values (1,2), (2,3), (2,4), (4,5), (3,6), (5,6); -- a regular table to join on to insert into people values (1,"pearce"),(2,"hunnicut"),(3,"potter"), (4,"hoolihan"),(5,"winchester"),(6,"mulcahy");
-- find us the shortest path from pearce (1) to mulcahy (6) please select group_concat(people.name order by seq) as path from foo join people on (foo.linkid=people.id) where latch=1 and origid=1 and destid=6; +--------+--------+--------------------------------+ | origid | destid | path | +--------+--------+--------------------------------+ | 1 | 6 | pearce,hunnicut,potter,mulcahy | +--------+--------+--------------------------------+
-- find us all people we can get to from potter (3) select origid,group_concat(people.name order by seq) as destinations from foo join people on (foo.linkid=people.id) where latch=1 and origid=3; +--------+----------------+ | origid | destinations | +--------+----------------+ | 3 | mulcahy,potter | +--------+----------------+ -- find us all people from where we can get to hoolihan (4) select origid,group_concat(people.name order by seq) as origins from foo join people on (foo.linkid=people.id) where latch=1 and destid=4; +--------+--------------------------+ | origid | origins | +--------+--------------------------+ | 4 | hoolihan,hunnicut,pearce | +--------+--------------------------+
So, there you have it. A graph (in this case a simple unidirectional tree, aka hierarchy) that looks like a table to us, as do the resultsets that have been computed.
This is still a early implementation, we're still enhancing the storage efficiency (in memory) and speed, and adding persistence. We're also looking for a suitable large dataset that would allow us to seriously test the system, find bugs and assess speed. If you happen to have a large hierarchical structure, but especially a social graph you could obfuscate and give to us, that would be great!
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What's Just Like Death?
Taxes, as the saying goes, in that both are certain to come to us all. The corollary is that once government spending outpaces tax receipts by a significant enough amount, then taxes will inevitably rise. Or, at least, that should be the corollary.
We've already heard about calls for raising the top income rate to 90%. Now Marc Pascal, writing at The Moderate Voice, lays out a more comprehensive plan:
The first of several stimulus packages has just passed but it is just the beginning of our efforts to address our immediate and long-term economic problems.
After 2010, the federal operating budget will face trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. They have to be addressed for the long-term prosperity of our country and our future credit-worthiness in the world.
Eventually every American has to dig in and pay more taxes to help our country and our fellow citizens. We must put in place the laws and mechanisms to steadily increase taxes after 2010. We have to owe up to our massive public and private financial messes. Cutting federal earmarks and waste will not eliminate even half the annual deficits. The federal budget gap will require increasing taxes by over $500 billion by 2011. Fiscally irresponsible and spoiled children hate to hear this news but it's our only choice for our collective long-term prosperity.
It is true that people don't want to hear this, and I don't think that is limited to "fiscally irresponsible and spoiled children." Indeed, the inevitable raising of taxes was one of the arguments against the stimulus package, so I'm not sure to whom Pascal is referring.
A number of prominent publicly-minded millionaires and billionaires including Warren Buffet have recommended higher income taxes on themselves and their friends for several years. Certainly Mr. Buffet has been right more than most politicians and it's time to effectuate his recommendations. Their altruistic economic view may simply be a rational response for their long-term preservation and that of the nation as a whole.
Actually, their view is not altruistic at all. The very rich, with the financial means to hire the very best in tax advice, are quite skilled at arranging their affairs so as to minimize their tax burden. When Warren Buffet clamors for raising taxes on the rich, you can be sure that he does not intend to pay as much as he possibly can to the federal government. However, those in the middle income brackets surely will. Buffet and brethren simply hope that those taxpayers will somehow be mollified by the fantasy that "the rich are paying their share too."
On to the plan:
The Bush tax cuts should expire by their own terms by 2010 and marginal income taxes will return to the rate of 39% for incomes over $250,000. Additionally, and instead of capping executive pay, we should create a new marginal tax rate of 49% for earning over $1 million.
That is actually a somewhat more reasonable plan than some that have be floated, but still a pipe dream in terms of raising tax revenues to cover the trillions in spending contemplated (and as yet revealed) over the next four years. Even if the rich were to pay every possible penny of their income above $1 Million in taxes at that rate, how long to do you suppose they would do it for? If you had a choice of living quite comfortably and making around a million dollars, knowing that you'd keep something close to 70% – 75% of the money, would you really continue working hard enough to earn more than that if you knew you would only receive 50 cents on the dollar?
If there are any short-term tax cuts, they should be combined with long-term tax increases. The 2009 FICA payroll tax for social security is a 6.2% tax rate on every dollar earned up to a gross annual income of $106,800. For more than a decade, everyone has agreed that to save social security (without increasing the retirement age, the tax rate, or lowering the average monthly benefits of just under $1,000 per person) the best solution is to raise the taxable income limit so the wealthy contribute more to the entire system. We could provide both a short-term economic stimulus to the majority of Americans and save social security for the long term.
Let's lower the FICA social security tax rate for rest of 2009 and all of 2010 to 5.5% but raise the income limit to $250,000. In 2011, let's raise it to 5.75% and set the income limit to $500,000. By 2012, the rate would be 6% and the taxable income unlimited. This would simply parallel the 1.45% FICA tax for Medicare and Medicaid imposed on all earned income. Its rate will probably have to be raised to 2% after 2010 to pay for existing programs and any expansions of benefits.
Again, not an entirely unreasonable plan considering the alternatives. But what's never mentioned when someone suggests raising the income level for FICA is that, while more tax revenue would be raised, federal liabilities would also be increased. That's because the government is simply taking more money now and promising to pay more benefits upon retirement. That does nothing to reduce the burden of current spending, which was supposed to be the point of the tax increases.
As near as I can tell, this part of the plan would have the effect of hastening the looming entitlements crisis in exchange for perhaps pushing the current one off down the road a bit. The end result looks more like a perfect budgetary storm as the bills we're racking up today and the entitlements we've promised in the future, begin to overlap.
Across the political spectrum, most people agree that our various transportation, water/sewer, and electrical grid infrastructures have been long neglected. Infrastructure spending is the best use of government stimulus money because more jobs are created both quickly and over the long term. Just to modernize our existing infrastructures systems will cost at least 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Furthermore, we must also invest in new energy technologies, mass transit and high speed rail lines – all of which will cost billions more. We can't put off such spending and we have to be honest about paying for them over the foreseeable future without resorting to further borrowing.
This is a part of the supposedly Keynesian argument that government spending provides a greater multiplier than private spending. Of course, as Bruce has pointed out before, if that were the case then why have private spending at all?
Furthermore, I really don't understand how government spending on infrastructure and energy technologies creates jobs.
In the infrastructure realm, once a government project is done, then the job disappears. If the job is done quickly, efficiently and completed on time then it's not government work the job just disappears that much more quickly. And after that? How does a brand new bridge create a job after it's built? Even worse, what happens if the project turns out like the Big Dig in Boston (which seems to be much more likely)? Sure people will have jobs for longer, but the supposed benefit of the structure will shoved further into the future and the taxpayers will be on the hook for a lot more than they signed on for. How does that sort of project stimulate the economy?
With respect to new energy technologies, I'm all for it. But with the government choosing which technologies to fund, how do we know we're getting the best there is to offer? That's not typically the case where government picks winners and losers. And just because something is "green" does not mean that it is efficient, beneficial to the economy, and/or capable of saving anyone money in the short (or long) term. In fact, it probably means the opposite of one or all of those things. Instead, why doesn't government get out of the way and allow nuclear power plants to be built, thus saving taxpayers billions of research dollars. That's technology that we already have, and it's green. Otherwise, these sorts of proposals are little more than a massive wealth transfer from one group of people to the politically favored few. There is nothing stimulative about that.
Across Europe, the average tax per gallon of gasoline ranges from $4 to $6. The U.S. federal gasoline tax is a paltry 18.3 cents per gallon with each penny raising $850 million to $1 billion per year depending upon how much Americans drive. Only when gasoline hit $4 a gallon during last summer did we start taking mass transit, buying hybrids, shunning gas guzzlers, demanding more energy-efficient cars and buildings, and seriously considering alternative solar, wind and nuclear power, and our own oil and gas reserves. The best and only way to ensure long-term energy independence is to have a serious financial incentive that hits everyone.
OK, if we accept the premise that less fuel consumption is better for Americans, then Pascal has a good point here. Of course, I'm not sure why gas station owners or truck salesman are any less deserving of being stimulated than other Americans, but that seems to be a staple of these plans. Moreover, Pascal's plan doesn't look all that much different than how transportation projects are already funded at the federal level.
While we should not enact excessive gasoline taxes, we can at least impose an additional and modest oil import fee on foreign barrels of oil.
More importantly, we should increase the federal gasoline tax from 18.3 to 75 cents per gallon, by monthly increments of about 5 cents per gallon over 12 months. The overall U.S. gasoline price per gallon by the end of 2010 should still be around $3.00 but the U.S. would have $70 billion a year to pay for our many needed transportation and energy infrastructure projects. This would be the responsible, mature, and intelligent solution for raising the necessary funds for these projects.
Presumably, Pascal means that we would charge this import fee to the American refiners who distribute gasoline in the country. And Pascal does suggest that he thinks this would be a tax on everyone, which in addition to the increased gas tax it would be. Strangely, this is the sort of protectionist measure one sees where domestic industries are beset by low-cost foreign competitors, yet domestic production is practically forbidden. Instead, Pascal wants to drive demand for gasoline down, so he advocates raising the costs of gasoline indirectly. Would that have the effect of increasing demand for more domestic oil? Perhaps. But it would certainly raise costs for all Americans, whether we all buy hybrids (which are much more expensive) or not, and again I don't see how raising prices is stimulative.
Overall Mr. Pascal's tax proposal is not altogether outlandish, and certain elements of it are almost certain to come to pass. What's so horrible is that these sorts of plans are only necessary (and inevitable) because the government has been spending far more than it takes in for quite some time now. Even if you think that the Bush tax cuts "cost" the federal government money, you have to admit that the one thing that every administration has had in common, whether Republican or Democrat, is that federal spending never decreases. Regardless of whether tax-and-spend is better/worse than cut-taxes-and-spend, the situation we find ourselves in today is precisely because spending never seems to drop, not because tax rates go up and down.
To be sure, there is nothing evil per se about deficit spending. Whether it's bad or not depends on where the money is going, and how the costs are intended to be recouped. But at some point the piper must be paid, and when that time comes one would hope that all the spending had created some wealth with which to pay him.Obviously taking money from Peter and giving it to Paul (minus a transfer fee, of course) won't accomplish that goal. And neither does building a new bridge from Paul's house to Peter's. Indeed, unlike people, the government can't work harder in an effort to "do something" and create wealth, because that's not what governments do. The only things that government is any good at is making rules and enforcing (some of) them. Although those two actions can protect wealth and the opportunities to create wealth, neither action actually creates wealth.
Thus, we're left with the unshakable propositions that (1) government spending necessitates taxes, (2) deficit spending necessitates tax increases, (3) tax increases necessitate higher prices, (4) higher prices produce less consumer spending, (5) less consumer spending results in less business revenues, (6) less business revenues means fewer jobs and less wages, (7) fewer jobs, less wages and less business revenues means less tax dollars, and (8) fewer jobs, less wages, less business revenues and less tax dollars means … more government spending is necessary?
If you believe that last one, then I have a bridge I'd like to build you. It will be ready for use immediately upon the check clearing.
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A number of prominent publicly-minded millionaires and billionaires including Warren Buffet have recommended higher income taxes on themselves and their friends for several years
I so despise this canard, because I recognize it for the empty gesture that it is. If you want to pay more, cut a check- trust me, the Treasury will not refuse.
Eventually every American has to dig in and pay more taxes to help our country and our fellow citizens.
Sorry, but I've had a bellyful of "helping" my fellow citizens. I'm sick and tired of libs preying on the generous nature of Americans in a cynical effort to fleece us out of more of our money. Ive had quite enough of being expected to dig deeper into my wallet and pay more and more while the government does nothing to cut back. I suffered the pain of filling my gas tank when fuel was over $4 / gallon while the government REFUSED to even CONSIDER reducing the gas tax. I'm on partial layoff right now, a partial that will likely become permanent as the economy continues to tank. From my perspective, the government bear a great deal of the blame for this situation.
So, I respectfully but firmly tell my fellow citizens to get bent: I've got my own worries.
I'm with docjim505 — my country and my fellow citizens can go piss up a rope.
Apparently Mr. Pascal does not believe that taxes have consequences on the actions of those being taxed. He thinks you simply raise the tax and peoples' behavior will continue as before and the government will rake in the cash. Real life is not static. It is dynamic, and people will most certainly change their behavior because of the tax increases. Thus, government will make less money, requiring higher taxes (they think), make less money………………………..
What a depressing scenario.
I am confused. Isn't the stimulus a mere temporary measure to borrow money to boost the economy and then subside?
If so, why raise tax rates? Maybe have a special surcharge, but why permanent tax rate changes?
Doesn't it defeat the purpose of the stimulus to restore confidence by having them immediately talk about raising taxes? Thye should have waited 12 months to even talk about this. Now investors and business people will have another reason to be cautious.
Also, regarding gas taxes, elecric cars are on the way to market. This tax will encourage the switch to these cars, which is fine, but maybe the government shouldn't count on this revenue for more than 10 years, because at some point most cars will become electric, if only to save on the fuel taxes. (I guess gas demand will fall, making it cheaper, so maybe gas cars won't fade away so slowly…nevertheless, like taxing cigarettes, the goal should not be to rely on these taxes for serious long term funding.)
90% !!!
The Obama Administration resembles a weekly situation comedy in that the episodes from week to week have no particular continuity between them. To wit: last week's episode featured the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and it was imperative that the federal government spend a trillion dollars to trickle down back to the people to stimulate the economy and encourage job creation.
This week's episode features Obama trying to pay-down the deficit by greatly raising taxes on small business owners, people who create jobs, and thereby take all that money back and more.


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John Falcone
FREDONIA – John Falcone, 90, a resident of Fredonia Place, Howard Street, Fredonia, formerly of Main Road, Silver Creek, died Sunday, May 5, at Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk, following a short illness. He was born in Fredonia, on January 11, 1923, the son of the late Joseph and Laura (Polvino) Falcone.
Mr. Falcone was a graduate of Forestville Central School, Class of 1940 and graduated with a Bachelor's in Arts Degree in Chemistry from the University of Buffalo in 1944. He served in the U.S. Army from 1944-1946. He started as a fruit and vegetable farmer with his father and brothers as Joseph Falcone & Sons; then with his son, grandson and brother as Falcone Farms, Inc. Mr. Falcone was a member of the Knights of Columbus Msgr O'Connor Council #5356, Silver Creek, the Faith Community of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Silver Creek, Tri-County Country Club, Forestville and PROFAC Commodity Committee. He was a former member of J. Carter Knapp American Legion Post #953, Forestville, served on various Agricultural Committees, at one time was on the Advisory Board of M&T Bank and was one of the original founders of the former American Massage, Silver Creek. Mr. Falcone enjoyed his children, grandchildren, golfing, hunting and raising Springer Spaniels.
Survivors include his wife Rose M. (Bue) Falcone, of St. Columban's on the Lake, Silver Creek, whom he married January 3, 1948, in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Silver Creek; a son, Joseph C. (Jane) Falcone, of Silver Creek; four daughters: Patricia (Charles) Nebral, of the Villages in Florida; Susan (Robert) Stenstrom, of Alpharetta, Georgia; Linda Falcone, of Forestville; Gail (Richard) Mott, of Trumansburg, N.Y.; a sister, Lillian (Joseph) Fischer, of Liverpool, N.Y. and a brother, Joseph A. (Virginia) Falcone, of Mayville. Also surviving are seven grandchildren: John Falcone, Stephen Falcone, David Nebral, Laura Gooding, Sarah Mott, Lindsay Mott and Rachael Mott, five great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by a brother, Charles Falcone, and by a sister, Minnie Falcone.
Friends are welcome to call at the Riles & Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel RC Church, 165 Central Avenue, Silver Creek, with Rev. Daniel Fiebelkorn, pastor officiating (PLEASE MEET AT CHURCH). Interment will be in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Silver Creek.
The family suggests memorial donations may be made either to St. Columban's On The Lake Retirement Home, 2546 East Lake Road, Silver Creek, NY 14136 or to Fredonia Place, 50 Howard Street, Fredonia, NY 14063. To post condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com


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Where are the tea rooms and fern-filled cafés of yesteryear? Many of them have morphed into chain eateries or trendy restaurants, and the solid, comfortable fare of that era has given way to fusion cuisine, designer tacos and Mongolian barbecue.
A visit to Belle & Maxwell's in West Palm Beach is far more than a trip down Memory Lane. Located on Dixie Highway in Antique Row, the restaurant has become many things to a variety of customers in its short life span—a place to stop, snack and recharge batteries; the venue for a light and healthy lunch; the setting for a dinner that is charming and satisfying.
The decor is straight out of the 1970s, the kind of place with which your grandmother or maiden aunt would instantly identify. A profusion of potted plants frames the cement floor, glass-topped tables and wrought iron chairs. The kitchen is open, but the cooks don't call attention to themselves—in an old-fashioned way, the customers are the stars here. Owner Michelle Taylor purchased the property nine years ago, when it was still a tea room, and expanded the location into a full-fledged restaurant in 2010.
Begin with a flatbread, perfectly cooked on a fluffy and firm crust. One selection ($12) features spinach, creamy goat cheese and a mix of roasted garlic and caramelized onion. Two homemade soups are standard items on the menu, and the lentil ($4) is richly seasoned and intense for an offering that is completely vegetarian. During the day, the kitchen offers a selection of main course salads, and half portions of those salads are available as starters in the evening. An assortment of diced red and yellow beets is strewn over arugula and garnished with more of that wonderful chevre, while a combination of walnuts, Gorgonzola and fresh sliced pear is artfully arranged on a bed of field greens (both $6).
Petit filet mignon ($23), a six-ounce cut, is tender, flavorful and seared by the grill, served with garlic smashed potatoes and a medley of fresh vegetables, and bathed in a piquant au poivre sauce. There's always a seafood special of the day, and on a recent evening we were fortunate to find cobia ($24)—remarkably tender and juicy, served in a sauce of garlic butter and accompanied by grilled asparagus.
Desserts are almost worth skipping a meal for, or at least doing some extra exercise. The roll call of favorites includes blueberry pie, Key lime pound cake and chocolate croissant bread pudding. A daily special of a chocolate walnut brownie ($6), garnished with vanilla ice cream and drizzled with chocolate and caramel sauces, is enough by itself to make us want to return.
The wine list is short and serviceable, consisting of two dozen selections. Bollini Pinot Grigio ($32) provides enough body and acidity to stand up to a range of dishes, and there is also a list of craft beers.
Belle & Maxwell's is a find. You may enter with a passion for nostalgia, but you'll leave realizing the power of fresh ingredients, precise execution and comfortable surroundings.
Belle & Maxwell's
WHERE: 3700 S. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach (561-832-4449, belleandmaxwells.com)
OPEN: Monday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
ATMOSPHERE: retro tea room
FOOD: classic café favorites
SERVICE: cheerful and helpful
PRICE: moderate
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Shock Wave Therapy
Treating PSD in Sport Horses: Surgery, Shock Wave, or Both?
Recent study results suggest that shock wave can help horses return to function faster than surgery or rest alone.
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Advances in Managing Chronic Foot Pain
Improved diagnostics and more promising treatments are putting many foot-sore horses back to work.
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Shock Wave Therapy
Equine surgeon Dr. Scott McClure explains what shock wave therapy is and how it works.
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I've found in many cases, the crushed are better tasting. I don't think they are necessarily the rejects - rather the ones that are too ripe and soft to pack whole. This is just my speculation. I can't tell you for sure this is the case. I'm not a particularly big fan of them because I don't like the bits of skin.
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Demand for storage space is increasing rapidly and suppliers of hard disk drives, solid-state drives and other technologies can hardly keep up because of the economic conditions worldwide. As a result of certain market trends, the popularity of single-platter or dual-platter hard drives for consumers will get higher, whereas average capacities of HDDs will likely slowdown the growth, according to Seagate's chief executive officer.
The demand for hard disk drive (HDD) storage was 400 exabytes (exabyte = one million terabytes) in 2011 and that number will increase towards one zettabyte sometime in 2015-2016 timeframe and then to seven zettabytes by 2020. Steven Luczo, chief exec of Seagate, claims that storage demand growth right now is over 50% in the cloud, whereas in other businesses it is 25%, which results in around 40% overall every year. Meanwhile, areal density growth is right now under 25%, which means that more drives need to be made to meet the demand for storage.
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(LONDON, ENGLAND) – Team USA endured a difficult day on Wednesday at the Olympic Games as three American boxers lost their bouts to amateur boxing powerhouses. Bantamweight Joseph Diaz, Jr. (S. El Monte, Calif.) fell to Cuban World Champion Lazaro Alvarez Estrada with heavyweight Michael Hunter (Las Vegas, Nev.) and super heavyweight Dominic Breazeale (Alhambra, Calif.) both falling to Russian opponents.
Diaz battled both his opponent and the Cuban mystique in his bout with Estrada, which was a rematch from the 2011 World Championships. The Cuban was extremely busy during the first round, showcasing the patented Cuban footwork but Diaz also enjoyed bright spots of his own, finding a home for his sharp left hand. Estrada held a 7-6 lead after one but Diaz came out firing in the second. The 19-year-old American looked to enforce his will in the second as the Cuban's output began to lower and Diaz landed strong, accurate punches. Yet the judges had Estrada up by a 14-10 margin after the second. Diaz refused to be discouraged by the score and continued to be the aggressor in the third round, pushing Estrada around and landing a wide array of punches. Despite Diaz's efforts, the Cuban was named the victor by a 21-15 final score to eliminate the American bantamweight from the tournament.
"I thought in the second round, I was landing clean shots. I thought it was going to be closer. At least me up by one, tied or me down by one but the judges didn't see it that way so I just fought my heart out the last round and tried to pull it out but I didn't get the W," Diaz said. "He's a really great counterpuncher. He's very long so its hard to get in on him but once you get in, he puts his whole body weight on you so either you'll be tired or you won't be able to get shots off on him. He's really smart, he's a really great fighter and I hope he gets the gold medal."
Hunter faced off in an ugly heavyweight match-up with Russia's Artur Beterbiev later in the session. The American heavyweight, who finally made it to the Olympic Games, following an unsuccessful run in 2008, took the first lead in the bout, holding a 4-3 lead after one. Much of the second round consisted of the two boxers in a clinch, but they still managed to put four points a piece on the board and Hunter went into the final round up one. The holding continued into the second, but Hunter looked to land shots and extend his lead. Beterbiev was able to pull the bout to a 10-10 tie and won the contest on a tiebreaker decision.
I think it got away from me but he was a better man today and he deserved it.
"I think it was a close fight and he was able to put his game plan in more than I was and he was just the better man," Hunter said. "My game plan was to make it simple and just box and use my legs, which I wasn't able to do. Make it an easy fight, 1-2-3s and keep turning and stay away from his right hand. He was able to time my jab more than I expected early."
Per AIBA Technical and Competition Rules, a tiebreaker is determined by the following. The lowest and highest judges total scores for each boxers are thrown out and the remaining three total punch counts are combined for each boxer. The boxer with highest total punch count is named the winner of the bout. AIBA does not realize tiebreaker totals.
Breazeale drew a tough bracket in his first Olympic Games, battling Russia's Omarov Magomed. The Russian's experience showed early as he landed some heavy shots on the game American and Magomed held a 5-0 lead after one. Breazeale was able to get some offense going in the second but couldn't evade all of Magomed's punches and faced a 13-4 deficit with one round remaining. He looked to mount a comeback in the third but fell short and Magomed won a 19-8 decision.
"I got behind pretty early. Trying to play the catch up game in amateur boxing is not going to work. I'm learning from this experience and being here at the Olympics," Breazeale said. "The trainers did a great job, every time I came back to the corner, they said stick to the game plan. I wasn't sticking to the game plan and in the middle of a bout, you can't second guess yourself and I was doing a lot of that."
Two U.S. boxers will look to stem the tide on Thursday as lightweight Jose Ramirez (Avenal, Calif.) faces Uzbekistan's Fazliddin Gaibnazarov at 9 p.m. London time (4 p.m. ET) and middleweight Terrell Gausha (Cleveland, Ohio) faces India's Vijender at 9:45 p.m. London time (4:45 p.m. ET).
U.S. Results
123 lbs: Lazaro Alvarez Estrada, CUB, dec. Joseph Diaz, Jr., S. El Monte, Calif./USA, 21-15
201 lbs: Artur Beterbiev, RUS, dec. Michael Hunter, Las Vegas, Nev./USA, 10-10 (Russian won tiebreaker)
201+ lbs: Omarov Magomed, RUS, dec. Dominic Breazeale/Alhambra, Calif./USA, 19-8
Joseph Diaz Quotes
"I had a really tough fighter with Lazaro. He's a really great fighter. Unfortunately I didn't get the W but I gave everyone the show they wanted to see. I'm glad I gave everyone a really good show. Everyone was cheering and that's what I came here to do. Unfortunately God's plan wasn't for me to get a gold medal but I'm keep praying and build myself back up."
"I thought the scoring should have been closer but the judges didn't see that unfortunately. Lazaro a really great fighter. I'm not going to give him a downgrade or anything, he's a really great fighter. He's a good boxer, a great puncher and it just wasn't my day for the judges."
"It's always like that (difficult finding the Cuban mystique), but you just have to give it your all and know that you're ready and they're human just like you so go in there and give it your all and see what the judges see."
"In the World Championships, I was trying to box him, I was trying to be a counter puncher like him but I can't do that with him because he's so long and so rangy but this fight, I was just trying to put constant pressure on him and try to get him tired. It worked, he was getting a little tired but unfortunately I didn't get the W and hands down, Lazaro is a great fighter."
"I had a really great time at the Olympic Games, it was a great opportunity and a great experience. It was a blessing from God. I'm going to back home and start my pro career."
"I felt like I was blocking a lot of shots but the judges probably saw it different. My head was moving but my guard was up at all times. But the judges probably saw that I was getting hit or maybe his punches were powerful or something. It's all good though, I just have to back home and train like I've never trained before."
"We're going to go out and have a good dinner. Finally I get to eat some French fries and cheesecake since I haven't had that for a long time so it's gonna be great."
Michael Hunter quotes
"My legs got fatigued really fast. I don't want to make excuses or anything but I got a cold a few days ago and I think that might have a little to do with it. Regardless of the fact, my legs started to fatigue a little bit and I wasn't able to stay outside like I wanted to. My foot placement wasn't there and I wasn't able to turn like I was supposed to and I've been practicing on. That's the name of the sport, to be able to execute in the fight."
"It's very disappointing, I made a promise to my father when I was little that I would win a gold medal. I happened to fail that mission and I just have to keep it moving."
"It's very upsetting, last time I got food poisoning, it was something I couldn't control. I was this close, it's hurting to me to know that I failed real early into the tournament."
"When I first got hit, I knew my nose started bleeding. He hit me with a good shot but I've had a bloody nose before and I already had a stuffy nose so I wasn't nothing more to bother me, now its blood instead of snot."
"I thought it was very close. I thought I was maybe ahead a little earlier by more than one point in the first round but that's just my opinion. I wasn't surprised by the decision."
"Usually the refs break you up a lot faster. It's hard because you're pulling on one side and he's tugging on the other. You're trying to get an angle so it was kind of a wrestling match just to get the angle off. That's kind of what it was."
"I thought he was about to take a point from me when he was checking my bloody nose. He warned me a few times so I was trying not to hold as much as I could and just do the best I could not to get a point taken."
"Yeah, it was worth it (the journey to the Olympics). I got here. I'm thankful to step in the ring on this big stage. It wasn't the performance I wanted but it was definitely well worth it. I've been getting seasoned over the last few years."
Dominic Breazeale quotes
"We have great fighters in the United States so a fighter like that isn't anything I've never seen before."
"The jab is always effective, making contact is always effective. I would have loved to have been more effective where I was popping his head back but tonight I didn't do so well."
"I was trying to stay away from his lead hand. He has a big right hook and it landed a couple times tonight and its only because I was going to the left and not to my right."
"He's a big strong guy. He can punch, he can definitely punch. I've been hit harder and tonight he was the stronger guy in there."
"Boxing is a one-man game, it's you against the other man. Unfortunately we had two men go down as well as myself but we're going to come back strong."
"Playing the catch up game is tough in the amateurs, especially when you're down five after the first round. I went back out there in round two and stuck to the game plan a little bit but deterred away from it and that's what hurt me badly."
"It's night and day. In football, you have an off-season, in boxing you don't. In football, you can play it, in boxing, you have to live it. So it's a daily basis as far as nutrition and strength and conditioning. When you're in the ring, there's no blaming anyone else. You either win and get all the glory or lose and get all the blame."
"I'm just looking forward to the next couple of years. In three and a half years I got to the Olympics for the United States, one of the best countries in the world and it's been an honor to represent my country. I would have loved to have done more this afternoon but I'm going to stick with boxing and see what I can do in the next couple years. I've got a lot to learn but I'm going to stick with it and give it my all."
"When I get in a groove and I'm throwing big strong punches, mean is not a problem for me. You can always be pretty, look at Muhammad Ali. I'm not saying I have any crushes but Muhammad Ali was a good-looking man and he did some great things in the heavyweight game."