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|Natural language, Pascal
|ActionScript, AppleScript, ECMAScript, JavaScript, Lingo, LiveCode, SenseTalk, SuperTalk
HyperTalk is a high-level, procedural programming language created in 1987 by Dan Winkler and used in conjunction with Apple Computer's HyperCard hypermedia program by Bill Atkinson. The main target audience of HyperTalk was beginning programmers, hence HyperTalk programmers were usually called authors, and the process of writing programs was called "scripting". HyperTalk scripts are fairly similar to written English, and use a logic structure similar to that of the Pascal programming language.
It supports the basic control structures of procedural languages: repeat for/while/until, if/then/else, as well as function and message "handler" calls (a handler is a subroutine, a message handler is a procedure). Data types are transparent to the user, conversion happens transparently in the background between strings and numbers. There are no classes or data structures in the traditional sense; their place was taken by special string literals, or rather "lists" of "items" delimited by commas (in later versions the "itemDelimiter" property allowed choosing an arbitrary character).
In the late 1980s Apple considered using HyperCard's HyperTalk scripting language as the standard language across the company and within its classic Mac OS operating system, and for interprocess communication between Apple and non-Apple products. The company did not oppose the development of imitations like SuperCard, and created a HyperTalk Standards Committee to avoid incompatibility between language variants.[1] The case-insensitive language was interpreted at first, but gained just-in-time compilation with HyperCard 2.0.[2]
- 1 Description
- 2 Extending HyperTalk
- 3 Descendants of HyperTalk
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Fundamental operations[edit]
For most basic operations and mathematics, HyperTalk tended to favor the natural-language ordering of predicates in a statement to that used in mathematical notation. For instance, HyperTalk used the
put assignment command that placed the variable at the end:
put 5 * 4 into theResult
whereas in the more traditional BASIC programming language (and most others), the result of a basic multiplication would be saved in a variable by writing:
theResult = 5 * 4
The HyperTalk code has the side-effect of creating the variable theResult on the fly. Scripts could assign any type or value to a variable using
put - HyperTalk was very weakly typed. Conversions between variable types were invisible and automatic; one can multiply the string "3" and the number 5 to produce the number 15, or concatenate the number 5 onto the string "3" to produce the string "35"; HyperTalk will not complain unless the types cannot be automatically converted.
HyperTalk's flow control and logic was generally similar to other common languages, using
if ... then ... else ... end if for conditionals and supporting a variety of loops based on a flexible
repeat ... end repeat syntax. Comments were prefaced with two minus signs;
-- this is a comment.
Objects, containers and scripts[edit]
HyperCard's primary user interface concept was the card, a display system that emulated an index card. Cards were normally used to store information, similar to a record in a conventional flat-file database. The graphical layout of the card was created by placing various elements like text fields and buttons on it using the mouse. A master layout "card" known as the background was shown behind the transparent areas of each card. Objects placed on the background, such as fields and buttons, would be shared as a layout among several cards, but with card-specific content. The collection of cards, backgrounds and the associated data stored in them were stored in a single file known as the stack (of cards). Collectively, all of these data-containing objects are referred to as containers.
HyperTalk functions, or scripts, were normally stored within the
script property available in many of the stack's containers. Scripts could access the properties of a container, corresponding to instance variables, using the
get and
set instructions. The script property held plain text, and had no special properties; scripts could be placed in and run from any text container, including string variables (and thus indirectly text files), imported from other stacks using the
start using command, or even user-typed text in an on-screen text field. Arbitrary text could be "run" using the
do command, in a fashion not unlike Dynamic SQL.[3]
Referring to containers[edit]
A key concept within the HyperTalk language was the way it referred to containers through a navigational system based on the visual hierarchy of the stack. Every container in the stack was given a unique ID number when it was created, and could also be given a name. Scripts could refer to objects by using either of these identifiers, along with an object type addressed using the
of operator. The
of operator used a natural language syntax that made for easily readable, self-documenting code. For instance, a script stored in a button on a card might wish to read the content of text field the user had typed into, in which case the field might be referred to in this fashion:
put the value of card field "typehere" into theValue
This script is running in the context of a button on a card, so "which card" is "the card the user is currently interacting with". In this case the code uses the
put operator to assign the value of the text field into a new variable called
HyperTalk tried its best to determine additional context and allow the programmer to "leave out" redundant code. In the case of text fields, for instance, "the value", the text typed into the field, was assumed to be the main property and was assumed to be the target if not otherwise specified. Likewise, "card fields" were assumed to be the target of commands, as opposed to "background field", so it could be left off as well. Even container types had short forms to save typing. The code above is equivalent to the short form
put fld "typehere" into theValue.
Objects within a given context, the card or background for instance, were also given a runtime number based on their z-order on the screen. To assist in using their position for navigation, HyperTalk also included a variety of ordinal and cardinal referencing systems to simplify the syntax further. Assuming the field "typehere" is the only field on the card, the code above could also be written in this fashion:
put the first card field into theValue
or alternately:
put card field 1 into theValue
The choice of addressing style was left to the programmer and any one would work in any situation. However, as is the case in most human languages, certain styles of addressing were more natural given the context of the surrounding text, and the programmer would often change styles to make the code more readable.
HyperTalk included the
me container which acted in the same fashion as the
self qualifier found in most OO languages, allowing simple access to the current container object. Less common was the
it variable, which held the value of the last operation for certain built-in operators. For instance:
ask "What is the value?"
put it into card field "display"
uses the
ask command to display a dialog box with a text field the user can type into, and when the dialog is completed by hitting Return or clicking OK, the value is assigned to the
it pseudo-variable. The code then copies the value into a card field using the
put assignment operator.
Containers of a given type were also available as collections with a pluralized version of that container type as its name - the collection of the fields on a card was
card fields. These collections were themselves containers with their own properties. Key among these was the
number property which was widely used during iterations and similar tasks. For instance, if one wanted to hide all the fields on a card, this could be accomplished with this code:
repeat with i = 1 to the number of card fields
hide field i
end repeat
This code exposes another common feature of HyperTalk, that a property might have several names and operators. In this case the
hide command, and the associated
show, act by setting the value of the container's
visible property.
hide field i is exactly equivalent to
set the visible of field i to false. A similar example was the
lock screen command that stopped visual updating, which was a short form for
set the lockscreen to true, where
lockscreen is a property of HyperCard itself—also a container. Many examples of this sort of syntactic sugar were found in HyperTalk, in order to simplify the syntax and improve readability of common code.
In HyperCard 2.2 and later, the collection of collections was also available as a container's
parts. This allowed a script to address all of the objects in a container with a single iterator.
Handling text[edit]
A notable feature of the HyperTalk container model was its handling of text. Every collection of text, whether a literal string in a program or text typed into a text field, was itself considered a container with multiple collections of containers within it. This allowed scripts to parse text using the same navigational commands as any other container. For instance, while parsing a space-delimited data file, one might want to extract the third column, like this:
put the third word of theFilesText into colThree
This syntax allowed the script to "walk" down the text to find particular data, as in this example:
put the first character of the third word of line 5 of card field "sometext" into theChar
This process of treating text as a container was known as "chunking", and the functions as "chunk expressions". These same sorts of expressions were used to handle file manipulation, along with a set of file management functions. The following code opens a known file, reads from it, extracts data, and then closes the file:
on mouseDown
answer file "Please select a text file to open."
if it is empty then exit mouseDown
put it into filePath
if there is a file filePath then
open file filePath
read from file filePath until return
put it into cd fld "some field"
close file filePath
set the textStyle of character 1 to 10 of card field "some field" to bold
end if
end mouseDown
HyperTalk also included functions for chunking strings using a substring find operation using the
in operator. The following code finds all examples of a given pattern using the
in as part of the
repeat loop, while
offset finds the location of that pattern within the string:
function replaceStr pattern,newStr,inStr
repeat while pattern is in inStr
put offset(pattern,inStr) into pos
put newStr into character pos to (pos +the length of pattern)-1 of inStr
end repeat
return inStr
end replaceStr
Lists and other collections[edit]
HyperTalk used the same chunking system to produce a structure like the array or list simply by placing data items in a variable, separated by commas. APIs that would use a custom type in other languages would accept strings in HyperTalk, parsing them out as required. For instance, the position of objects on the screen was defined by a pair of numbers representing the X and Y coordinates of the upper left corner. The following code creates a variable called pos that holds a coordinate pair, and then manipulates this to re-position all of the buttons on a card in a diagonal from top left to bottom right:
on mouseUp
put "100,100" into pos
repeat with x = 1 to the number of card buttons
set the location of card button x to pos
add 15 to item 1 of pos
end repeat
end mouseUp
item chunking expression was originally based on the comma, but later versions of HyperCard allowed this to be changed using the
itemDelimiter which offered the ability to parse arbitrary lists and structures.
Messages and events[edit]
HyperTalk used an object-oriented concept for calling scripts, with objects in the stack sending "events" that would be processed by "handlers" that declared their interest in receiving the events using the
on syntax. For instance, most GUI containers could send the
mouseUp event when the mouse button was clicked down and then released on top of that container, and a script could capture these events like this:
on mouseUp
-- place additional code here
end mouseUp
The events were first sent to the script in the object that created the event, for instance, if the user clicked on a button the
mouseUp event was first sent to that button. If the button's script object did not have a
mouseUp handler (or no script at all), it was then passed to the card, the background, the stack, any stacks whose scripts had been explicitly imported using the
start using command, the "home stack" (a user-selected always-open HyperCard stack), and finally to the HyperCard application itself.
For many simple events like mouse clicks on buttons the script would be placed directly within the object in question, the button itself. For instance, one might use the example code above within a button handler in this fashion:
on mouseUp
repeat with i = 1 to the number of card fields
hide field i
end repeat
end mouseUp
In the case where code was being called from multiple locations, or it was being used as a global handler for an event, the script could determine the original sender of the event using the
target function. Likewise, scripts could send events to other containers using the
send command and then using the navigational code to refer to the container holding that handlers code:
send "mouseUp" to card button "OK" of card "Veracity"
Combining HyperTalk's string processing with the
do command allowed for the construction of interactive interpreters by placing a text field on a card and then placing this code in the field's script:
on mouseUp
select the clickLine
put word 2 of the clickLine into linenum
do line linenum of cd fld 1
end mouseUp
clickLine is a global property that returns the name and line number of the last field clicked, in a form like "line 10 of card field 4". This code first selects all of the text on the clicked line, then extracts the line number into a local variable, then uses
do to run the text as a HyperCard script.
mouseDown message was sent to a button when the user clicked it, and
mouseUp was sent when the user released the mouse inside it to trigger its action. Similarly, HyperCard sent periodic
idle message,
mouseLeave, ... and various other messages related to navigation between different cards in a HyperCard stack, as well as user input (
functionKey, ...), and system events. As far as the scripters were concerned, there were no main event loops like in other procedural programming languages.
Controlling HyperCard[edit]
Unlike general rapid application development platforms, HyperCard stacks always looked like stacks - the menu bar was HyperCard's and not the programmer's (by default—scripting could add, delete and modify menus), the single window was a fixed size (in early versions), and in certain cases, commands that were central to the operation were part of the application itself, and not directly available in HyperTalk itself.
A good example of this was the creation of new cards, which was part of the application, not directly accessible from the HyperTalk language itself. A new card could only be created using the New Card menu item, which could be simulated in code using
doMenu "New Card". While HyperTalk called into menu commands, menu commands also invoked handlers in HyperTalk. To run custom code when the Copy menu item was selected, one would place a script in the stack using the
on doMenu itemName handler, and then examine
itemName to see if it was "Copy".
HyperTalk also provided script control over the built-in drawing tools, simply by scripting the needed changes in paint tools and simulating mouse movements using the
drag from start to end and the
click at position commands.
Extending HyperTalk[edit]
Although the HyperTalk language languished just like HyperCard itself, it received a second lease on life through its plugin protocol, so-called External Commands (XCMDs) and External Functions (XFCNs), which were native code containers attached to stacks (as Macintosh-specific resources) with a single entry point and return value. XCMDs and XFCNs could be called just like regular message and function handlers from HyperTalk scripts, and were also able to send messages back to the HyperCard application. Some enterprising XCMD authors added advanced features like full color support (ColorizeHC, HyperTint, AddColor), multiple special-purpose windows (Prompt, Tabloid, Textoid, Listoid, ShowDialog, MegaWindows), drag and drop support and various hardware interfaces to the language.
Descendants of HyperTalk[edit]
Various scripting languages have taken their cues from HyperTalk. They are commonly regrouped in a loosely defined family named xTalk:
- CompileIt!-Talk – A HyperCard stack and XCMD by Tom Pittman that allowed compiling native 68000 machine code (e.g. for XCMDs and XFCNs) from HyperTalk code, and calling the native Macintosh toolbox routines. CompileIt was bootstrapped, that is, later versions were compiled using earlier versions of itself.
- Double-XX-Talk (?) – Double-XX was a lightweight HyperCard clone that shipped as an addition to CompileIt! and allowed running XCMDs and XFCNs without HyperCard, and even included a small HyperTalk interpreter.
- MediaTalk – The language of Oracle Media Objects, a descendant of Plus, and the first cross-platform HyperCard clone. Furthermore, the only one that was truly modular.
- PlusTalk (?) – of Spinnaker Plus (originally by the German Format Verlag), which was used as the basis for Oracle Media Objects.
- SenseTalk – The language of the NeXT-originated HyperSense and the VNC-based testing tool Eggplant.
- SuperTalk – The language of SuperCard, the first HyperCard clone, by Bill Appleton. Appleton also wrote the popular World Builder adventure construction kit.
- Transcript (formerly revTalk and MetaTalk) – The language implemented in the LiveCode (formerly Revolution and MetaCard) software platform and development environment. MetaCard was an early Unix-originated HyperCard clone that ran on Classic Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris.
- XION - Originally the language of an open-source HyperCard clone that never materialized. Now implemented as OpenXION.
As well as second-level clones like:
- ActionScript – the scripting language for Adobe Flash
- AppleScript – the main scripting language of Apple's Mac OS.
- Lingo – the programming language of Macromedia Director started out with an xTalk-like syntax, although current versions went into a direction more like JavaScript.
Many method names first popularized by HyperTalk made it into later languages, such as the
onmouseup event handler in JavaScript.[5] Although Asymetrix ToolBook is often also considered a HyperCard clone, its scripting language apparently bears little resemblance to HyperTalk.
These clones and dialects (commonly referred to under the moniker of xTalk-languages) added various features to the language that are expected from a modern programming language, like exception handling, user-defined object properties, timers, multi-threading and even user-defined objects.
See also[edit]
- Inform 7 – a programming language with similarly English-like syntax
- ^ Flynn, Laurie (1989-02-27). "Apple Ponders Standardizing on HyperTalk". InfoWorld. p. 31.
- ^ Dave Kelly, "Tools of the Trade: CompileIt! 2.0!", MacTech, Vol. 7 No. 9
- ^ Erland Sommarskog and Frank Kalis, "The Curse and Blessings of Dynamic SQL", 23 June 2011
- ^ Eich, Brendan (1998). "Foreword". In Goodman, Danny. JavaScript Bible (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-7645-3188-3. LCCN 97078208. OCLC 38888873. OL 712205M.
- ^ Brendan Eich, "Splash keynote 2011, slide 10"
External links[edit]
- Pantechnicon HyperTalk Wiki pages – excellent language reference (control structures, events, built-in functions, etc.)


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City's Revised Budget Slashes Teaching Jobs
Mayor Bloomberg says the city will need to cut nearly 11,000 jobs.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in his revised $62.9 billion budget released Thursday, says the city must slash nearly 11,000 jobs. Nearly half of the projected layoffs would be from the Department of Education; the executive budget for next year calls for a reduction of more than 6,000 teachers through layoffs and attrition. Bloomberg says absent some last minute reprieve from Albany, and quick action in Washington, the city has no choice. The mayor says the job cuts will affect every school in the system.
School's Chancellor Joel Klein says layoff notices should go out after principals have drawn up their budgets.
"The latest we can get our budgets to the schools are in June. They'll start to make decisions, and during the process in June we'll have to identify the people who are being laid off," Klein says.
Currently, which teachers are let go is entirely based on seniority rights.
Both Bloomberg and Klein want to keep the best teachers and let go of the ones they determine to be poorer performers.
The job reductions also include 400 firefighter positions. The police department will not be affected, though. The mayor has reversed his earlier proposal from January to reduce the police force by 892 officers. The reversal comes after a recent spike in crime, and the attempted car bombing in Times Square over the weekend.
Other cuts proposed in Bloomberg's preliminary spending plan are still in the budget released Thursday and include closing some public swimming pools, eliminating 20 fire engine companies, raising parking rates in midtown Manhattan, and closing 50 senior centers.
The mayor says his updated budget assumes state aid will be cut by $1.3 billion, which is what was proposed in early state plans. He accuses the state of "starving" New York City. There is no state budget in place now -- it is more than one month late.

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1. A Tribe of Storytellers
This Blog is Dead. Long Live this Blog!
This blog was supposed to be a clear and simple statement of my understanding of Judaism. It has morphed into something complicated and confusing. I think the numbering of paragraphs has something to do with this, but it is more than that. The problem is that I was trying to impress myself with my own brilliance. I wasn't writing for you but for the ages. Very narcissistic. Very silly. And very exhausting. I started to dread writing each post. I have enough things I dread, and have no need to … [Read more...]
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4.0 According to Torah, the universe is tohu va–vohu: wild, chaotic, unstable, and incapable of holding form (Genesis 1:2). God does nothing to calm the chaos, but merely calls forth form from out of the formless, "And God said…." God speaks the world into existence (Genesis 1:3).4.1 Chaos is the fundamental reality over which we spread a veneer of order through the power of speech. The world that you and I know, the world we inhabit, the world in which we seek to find meaning and purpose is … [Read more...]
God and Nature
2.9 The relationship between God and nature is like that of the sun and the rays of the sun. The sun doesn't choose to shine; it can do nothing else. It is the nature of the sun to shine; indeed a sun that doesn't shine is not a sun at all. Shining isn't what a sun does, it is what a sun is.3.0 And because the sun shines there are rays of the sun extending out from the sun. The rays of the sun are the expression of the sun's nature. They are not different from the sun, or other than the sun, … [Read more...]
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[The following essay is in response to a question posted on the Patheos Public Square: www.patheos.com/Topics/Faith-in-the-New-Security-State.html. I will continue with the JudaismNext book on Wednesday.]I find it curious that we are asking people of faith to speak out about NSA spying: when it comes to surveillance the NSA has nothing on God. While the NSA may be reading my email, monitoring my phone calls, and hacking my computer and smartphone, God is collecting my every thought, word, … [Read more...]
God, Part One
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3. Our Story, Our Selves Part Three
1.11 For too many Jews today Torah is a fetish be to worshipped, but for the ancients it was a Rorschach blot to be turned and turned and turned again until the imagination was on fire with new wisdom and possibilities for God and godliness.1.12 This wild and deliberate misreading of our texts—Torah, Talmud, Siddur, Zohar, and others—is what it is to be a Jew. We are the People of a Book that disappears and reappears new with each reading.1.13 If we are taught well, and we rarely are, we … [Read more...]
2. Our Story, Our Selves Part Two
1.7. Our story was once oral, and made fresh with each telling. Storytelling is intrinsically anarchic, creative, and liberating. Print is fixed, and when an oral story becomes trapped on a printed page the authority of the storyteller gives way to new authorities, often armed, terrifying, demanding, and life–smothering authorities.1.8 To keep this from happening to our story we invented the art of deliberately misreading our story, helping the story say what we need and not what we are t … [Read more...]


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This guy is so full of himself. Prayer does have an effect. Science can't always explain the miracles that do happen. This is exactly what I was saying before. A women has cancer one day and it's gone the next. Science can't explain it, It's a Miracle. A Women is stranded in a city and only has a pay phone. She calls her husbands office, the husband picks up and says "yes, who is this". Her "It's your wife", HIm "How'd you know how to get a hold of me", Her "I called your office", Him "I'm at the airport, I just picked up this random payphone that was ringing". These things happen, I've witnessed them first hand. They can't be denied. Something this guy forgot to mention.
He also never went over the answer "no". Christians are encouraged to seek out what God has to say. Not just wait. This guy is going on the assumption that we think God is a Genie in a bottle that grants our wishes. The fact of the matter is that if he was, You'd be saved, as well as Sova, And all you other guys on here. :shrug:.
The Coincidences are not. Instead of an IRS check, it's a random check for EXACTLY the amount prayed for, No name, No address, no hint to someone. Experienced that one first hand as well. There are things in this world that are unexplainable and I hope, and pray this guy comes across one soon. Then his whole "Optical Illusion" will be blown out of the water. Science is a restriction in someways, This guy proves it.
Edit: BTW, what's with the Anti-Christian Stuff? Did you go to church and feel convicted of something? Trying to justify feelings you can't understand?
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i am prolly hangin myself here but i am kinda in the middle i was raised christian and grew up goin to church but i dont know if i believe or not i am such a rational person i want proof for everything or stuff thats not proof i think luck... as for science if they cant explain something they will be able to one day look at the past at one point they couldnt explain what chose weather you were a boy or girl now they know. i know that is a shitty example but i am still in the middle of what to do. i guess i am half and half i look at facts and reasoning but i want to think there is a god
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|July 11th, 2010, 10:50 PM
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Could there be some unknown way/system that humans connect with each other that's out of our scope of science right now? Sure. I know there is between believers, it's called the holy spirit. I've experienced a person say "I think we need to pray for ......." and we did and then we get an E-mail or phone call from them saying they were in trouble last night at the same time we were praying and then all of a sudden felt a peace about it. . How does that communication work? We say God now. Could it be some form of Network we have built into us, Sure.
All I know is that I've personally witnessed prayers get answered with pin point accuracy that the only explanation was God. One being the example I gave earlier. Our youth pastor was in need of a couple thousand dollars and we prayed about it in youth group (not around the Parents) and the next day there was a knock on the door and there was the exact amount. It's uncanny the specific ways prayers are met. This is one MAJOR reason I believe what I do. But, I'm not saying the answer is always yes.
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so your saying that there is no way the people took it upon themselves to pool thier money and donate it of thier own free will? that they were forced to donate the money against thier will?
all I am saying is that you believe it be a miracle because you want to believe it is a miracle...people who beleive in ghosts and want to find proof of them always end up taking pictures or audio that proves there was a ghost there.
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For the love of all things, really? another god damn arguement about religion? oh wait excause me, it's about prayer, my bad.....
God doesn't make things happen because you prayed for it, he gives you the opportunity to do somthing, instead of doing it for you (heard that from a movie, and that makes the most sense to me), that's if you believe god does anything at all.
It's entirely more likely that when people pray for something, that it's more likely to happen because the person makes more of an effored to make it happen, or not happen. It's just like if a person truly believes that they're going to get, and the get sick, because they knew they were going to. Same thing with prayer, they pray for something, then when it happens it was because god or something else made it happen, no you made it happen for yourself. If it doesn't happen then it's not meant to be. Who knows, god may even give some people a freebie because he's in a good mood that day
|July 12th, 2010, 08:48 AM
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I watched that and all I got from it was that I wasted 8 minutes and 46 seconds I'll never get back.
I can see no real message, other than someone spent alot of time to produce that rubbish. Prayer is to help the individual communicate with God and is their business.
Who am I, or anyone else for that matter, to tell someone that prayer works for them or not?
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Sure, maybe a group of people pooled thier money together. It's possible. We have a artist come to our campus ministry every year and this year it has been very tough financially for his ministry. He was saying how they've been struggling but not telling anybody about it because they didn't want to burden them. In one single night he was offered 1500 dollars from a collection at a church he played at. That church had 12 people in it. Some guy came up to him before the concert at a Gas station and offered to buy him tires for his car, which he needed. The next week a Church, that had no clue he was in need, gave him a few more thousand because they felt the holy spirit moving them to take a collection for him. Sure, it could be Coincidence, but man, that's a stretch for coincidence even.
Note, I also didn't say you were wrong. Life is alot of what you make of it. Pure and Simple.
Life, in General, is what we make of it (like I said above) but sometimes there are those things that just are not possible or explainable.
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If something we can't explain happens, I feel it's just that, something that can't be explained. Not a miracle.
We understand so little about the human brain, body, and generally about the world around us that it's often we don't have a clue what is going on.
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agree with the most that miracles do happen and things always work out if you are neg about things nothing good will happen if your positive and have faith and look at the bright side of things, good things will happen. i also think that the vid was a pile of shit i dont go to church every sunday but i do pray for people and pray for myself as well (starting new job, financial situations etc) and things always seem to work out because i have faith that it will....idk i guess im just ranting but i do with l4cx... i was told that my son had kidney problems before he was born and i just told my self that things will work out and they did he was a kidney short just cant drink liquor when hes older but it could of been way worse i figured it was gods way of saying he wont be wasted on new years and get his gf prego lol
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And of course, I can tell you about the guy who was killed in a car accident, but his family prayed to the Holy Turtle, and now he's alive! Woohoo! It's a miracle!!!
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Microsoft announced it is opening its first Utah retail store at the City Creek Center in downtown Salt Lake City.
The store, which will sell Windows-based desktop computers, laptops as well as its Surface tablet, will have a grand opening April 11 at 10:30 a.m. The rock band, Train, which released the hit song, "Drops of Jupiter," will perform after the opening. According to a City Creek newsletter, the band will perform at the Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main St. The gate for the concert will open at noon.
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In addition to PC hardware, software, and Windows mobile phones, the Microsoft store also will sell the company's Xbox 360 video game system and accessories. It also will host training classes for its products as well as be a place for community events.
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That he gave it a rip, denied only by the blistering climax of David Howell, whose final round 63 edged out Gallacher's 65, was just confirmation that the 39-year-old Scot is made of the stuff of Ryder Cup conquest.
Howell said it would be a travesty were Gallacher not selected when Paul McGinley reveals his three wild cards at Wentworth tomorrow. There is nil chance of that. Like the retired general of English football's 'golden generation', Steven Gerrard, Gallacher guarantees commitment.
His victory in Dubai in February, becoming the first player to retain the Desert Classic trophy in its 25-year history, eclipsing a resurgent Rory McIlroy and a fit Tiger Woods, confirmed him as a cold-eyed finisher on a rising career trajectory.
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My thinking tells me that NNG should not have different exe files for all different multimedia devices as long as they are on WinCE. (Exes on Android, İos etc are different for sure). ZENEC on this thread shows 9.19.584533 and mine shows 220.127.116.112746. As long as one is not interested in playing around with modifications, ux and system.ini files etc the exe should be the same. If this is true, if I keep the whole navigation folder intact and change only the exe file from this thread (backing up the original one first off course) it should work. Am I wrong to think that?


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When I'm in the rich part of town and all the expensive cars are zooming through not paying attention to any of the traffic laws because they obviously do not apply to them, i think "If they hit me, that would be my car. And I will finally get soem time offf because I have short term disability. so i would still get paid and get money from this rich jackazz tryna kill me, so i can pay off all my bills, adn go on a vacation!" then i snap back and realize at the speed they are going i might just die or get real bad brain damage.


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June 13, 2011 | While residents of Puerto Rico don't have voting representation in Congress that doesn't mean they aren't active in the politico process. Puerto Ricans made about $4 million in itemized political donations during the 2008 election cycle, with Barack Obama alone raking in $354,000 -- ranking him the No. 1 beneficiary of residents of the U.S. territory in 2008.
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- young person in the transition from childhood to adolescence age. Modern science defines adolescence, depending on the country (region of residence), and the cultural and national characteristics, as well as the floor (from 12-14 to 15-17 years). In 2011 there are more than one billion adolescents [1].
In the 12-17 years adolescent enhanced secondary sexual characteristics. The girls appear menstruation: it is a sign that the ovaries have begun to develop and mature egg. For 12-15 years, boys begin to grow facial hair, body, armpits, having wet dreams - the first sign of puberty boys.
Usually this age is called transitional. At this time, teenagers in frequent friction with her parents, one of the teens looking for himself, his purpose in life, and enjoys philosophy, seeks to learn more about the opposite sex. And there are relations between adolescents and adolescent communication.
The authors of the UN report "Situation of Children in the World" (2011) report [1], that adolescence - an important stage of human development. After all, in the second decade of life clearly manifested poverty and inequality. Young people from poor backgrounds are less likely to receive an education. They are more often exposed to violence and abuse. They are attracted to the hard work and they are forced into early marriages. In the developing world, the risk of the girls to get married at the age of 18 are three times higher than in rich countries. Early marriages are accompanied by high maternal and infant mortality and poverty, and poverty. Most of today's teens - 88% - live in developing countries. Many of them are facing enormous difficulties.
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Modeling context information in pervasive computing systems
Henricksen, Karen, Indulska, Jadwiga, & Rakotonirainy, Andry (2002) Modeling context information in pervasive computing systems. In 1st International Conference on Pervasive Computing, January 2002, Zurich.
As computing becomes more pervasive, the nature of applications must change accordingly. In particular, applications must become more flexible in order to respond to highly dynamic computing environments, and more autonomous, to reflect the growing ratio of applications to users and the corresponding decline in the attention a user can devote to each. That is, applications must become more context-aware. To facilitate the programming of such applications, infrastructure is required to gather, manage, and disseminate context information to applications. This paper is concerned with the development of appropriate context modeling concepts for pervasive computing, which can form the basis for such a context management infrastructure. This model overcomes prob- lems associated with previous context models, including their lack of formality and generality, and also tackles issues such as wide variations in information quality, the existence of complex relationships amongst context information and temporal aspects of context.
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The future looks bright, but I prefer to wait for the outcome
I don't know why all you people are whining about these concepts.
Yeah, sure, Apple will implement NONE of them...BUT...it gives a lot for the Jailbreak community to think about. I think the Jailbreak community is being subconsciously targeted by these "concepts".


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If you don't mind using ascii characters for your points you could try using the
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In[1]:= <<Graphics/Graphics.m
In[2]:= xdata1= {1,2,3,4}; xdata2 = {1,2,3,4};
In[3]:= ydata1= {1,2,3,4}; ydata2 = {1,4,9,16};
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In[7]:= data2 = Transpose[ {xdata2, ydata2, symbol2} ];
In[8]:= dataplot1=TextListPlot[data1];
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Essentially a 100km walk in 48 hours, all for the sake of charity.
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When Roy Williams took the floor to a roaring standing ovation at his "Late Night With Roy" extravaganza on Friday night, it marked the official beginning of the 2007-08 UNC men's basketball season. While the 2007 ACC Champions will begin preparations to improve on last season's 31-7 record at 11 a.m. Saturday morning, this night was more about celebrating a team that returns three starters and a wealth of talented depth. (Inside Carolina)
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[MLS SPOTLIGHT] Goonie magic is spreading across MLS, it seems. Four MLS games in the first two weekends were decided in the 90th minute or second-half stoppage time, including Saturday night's San Jose-Real Salt Lake game with the inevitable equalizer from Victor Bermudez five minutes into stoppage time. As a matter of comparison, only two games in Europe's big four leagues were decided in the 90th minute or later over the same period.
Bermudez's equalizer came
just four days after Alan Gordon also scored in the fifth minute of stoppage time to give the Quakes a 1-1 tie with Toluca in the Concacaf Champions League. The
goals gave San Jose 15 stoppage-time goals since the start of the 2012 season that were winning or tying goals.
MLS is averaging 0.44 goals a game in the 90th minute or later, double any
of Europe's big four leagues.
Goals in 90th+ minute, average:
0.44 Major League Soccer
0.22 Germany, Bundesliga
0.17 Italy, Serie A
0.17 England, Premier League
0.06 Spain, La Liga
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March 15: San Jose 3 Real Salt Lake 3.
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March 15: Sporting KC 1 FC Dallas 1.
DAL: Matt Hedges 90 (Video)
March 9: Portland 1 Philadelphia 1.
POR: Gaston Fernandez 90+4 (Video)
March 9: Seattle 1 Sporting KC 0.
SEA: Chad Barrett 90+4 (Video)
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38 goals
2.53 avg.
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1 game decided in 90th+ minute
March 15: Everton 2-1 over Cardiff City
EVE: Seamus Coleman 90+3.
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18 games
57 goals
3.17 avg.
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Taking time to enjoy the fruits of her labor, Mariah Carey went poolside to listen to her new music on Wednesday (March 12).
Posting a few pics of herself in a red bikini, the "#Beautiful" singer wrote, "Music is my life #Gratitude," "A moment after the studio," and "First listen after being pon de makeshift studio all night."
They love spending all kinds of quality time together, and Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are clearly great parents to their kids Monroe and Moroccan.
In a new photo post on Twitter, the "Always Be My Baby" babe and her handsome husband are pictured cuddling with their kiddos in bed.
Eager to share her Valentine's fun with her fans, Mariah Carey posted some sexy snapshots to Instagram on Friday (February 14).
Antsy to be with her man, the "Always Be My Baby" singer posted a couple of pics of herself wearing a candy heart bra in a bathtub filled with red and pink balloons.
Hard at work as always, pop diva Mariah Carey and hubby Nick Cannon went on MTV to promote Mariah's new music video for "You're Mine (Eternal)."
However, the show that the celebrity sweethearts appeared on wasn't solely geared towards business, as they were asked to reenact a scene from "Mean Girls," which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year!
Getting us all in the mood for the upcoming Valentine's holiday, Mariah Carey just released the music video for her recent song, "You're Mine (Eternal)."
In the video, the "Obsessed" singer wears a multitude of different mermaid-like dresses, and belts out her deepest longings and feelings to a slow, mellow beat.
She's been all over the Big Apple promoting her Valentine's Day tune "You're Mine (Eternal)," and Mariah Carey's latest stop is New York City's Empire State Building.
On Thursday (February 13), the R&B gal stopped by the iconic spot, rocking a skintight white dress complete with a fur shawl.
She just dropped her new single "You're Mine (Eternal)" and Mariah Carey ended up fielding questions about her Nicki Minaj feud while doing a promotional interview on Power 105.1.
When asked about her stint on "American Idol," the "Always Be My Baby" hitmaker noted, "I was very professional on that show, and that's all I have to say. I was a complete professional."
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This is a discussion on Fox News: The power of the NRA within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; On foxnews.com this morning. Interesting... WASHINGTON -- When Democrats acted last month to give the District of Columbia long-denied voting rights in Congress, the powerful ...
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WASHINGTON -- When Democrats acted last month to give the District of Columbia long-denied voting rights in Congress, the powerful gun lobby saw a target too good not to take a shot at.
The National Rifle Association's lobbyists made it clear to lawmakers that they believed the bill should include a measure to overturn the capital's gun control laws. Left mostly unsaid, but well understood by all 535 members of the House and Senate, was that failure to do so would unleash a barrage of political pain on resisters.
The result showed the strong sway the NRA has even over a Congress dominated by liberal Democrats who mostly disagree with the organization's positions. The Senate voted overwhelmingly to add the gun-rights proposal. House Democratic leaders, fearing a tough vote on the issue, swiftly scrapped plans to consider the D.C. voting legislation.
The bill hasn't resurfaced because Democrats cannot figure out how to keep it from splitting their ranks. Moderates and conservatives don't want to buck the NRA. Liberals are reluctant to be blackmailed into loosening gun laws.
The 138-year-old group derives its influence from a large and motivated base of members, particularly in rural areas and the South.
Its much younger political arm, set up in 1975, wields a carefully honed system for grading lawmakers and candidates based on how often they side with the NRA's legislative priorities. Their lobbyists tell lawmakers that they will be "scoring" specific bills -- the equivalent of saying, "We're watching you, and if you vote the wrong way, there will be consequences."
That scoring system helps determine which candidates the group supports in campaigns. That decision can be an important factor in elections.
The group's political action committee spent $15.6 million on campaign donations during the past two years, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission. The lion's share of the money went to challenging gun control advocates, especially President Barack Obama. The rest went to support strongly pro-gun candidates.
The NRA generally avoids contributing to lawmakers who don't vote with it. Many other organizations cultivate relationships with Congress by spreading their campaign cash around even to leaders and committee heads who don't always back their causes.
"The power of the NRA is in the millions of members all over the country who believe strongly in their freedom and their willingness to fight for it," said Chris W. Cox, the group's chief lobbyist.
Many, if not most NRA members give the group's ratings an enormous amount of weight on Election Day. "The political reality ... is that gun control's a loser," Cox said. If lawmakers "vote wrong on guns, history has shown they lose."
In the case of the voting rights bill, for example, the NRA quietly put out the word that it would score a procedural measure to set ground rules for the debate -- and determine whether the anti-gun control proposal could or could not be offered. That meant a vote to advance the bill without reversing the district's gun laws could cost a lawmaker the NRA's political support. It was enough to halt the measure in its tracks.
The following week, House Democratic leaders saw a wilderness conservation measure defeated after they tried to push it through under expedited procedures to avoid a contentious vote on gun rights. The measure passed Congress on Wednesday, only after House and Senate leaders agreed to a provision to placate the NRA through language by Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., clarifying that the bill wouldn't impose new restrictions on hunting, fishing or trapping on federal land.
Gun control activists say they are baffled by the sway the gun lobby has over Congress. They argue the NRA no longer dictates election outcomes and that the group inflates its own importance.
"They operate on the principle of fear. They're trying to hold some mythical power from the early '90s over the heads of leadership that I think is totally irrelevant to what's going on today, but still has some long legs," said Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Helmke said NRA's recent efforts to demonstrate its clout are partly "a sign of desperation. They realize this is probably their last gasp in terms of trying to be the force that they used to be."
Backers, however, argue that the group is growing in influence now that former President George W. Bush, a strongly pro-gun president, has been replaced with Obama. The former Illinois senator gets an "F" rating from the group despite his stated support for Second Amendment rights.
"Right now, they're having to play a lot more defense than they ever have before, and so the NRA membership around the country is more engaged," said Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., an NRA board member and a co-chair of the newly formed Second Amendment Task Force in Congress.
Democratic leaders are increasingly aware of that, particularly because many of their new members who are responsible for handing the party their majority are either strongly pro-gun or from states and districts where gun rights is a major issue.
"Democrats want to stay in the majority, and one of the ways to keep us in the majority is not to tilt toward gun control," Boren said.
The task force recently wrote Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., warning against any attempt to reinstate a ban on the sale of assault weapons.
Attorney General Eric Holder said last month that the Obama administration wanted to bring back the expired ban. It gave the NRA and other gun rights groups an important tool that fuels the work of countless Washington interest groups: a tangible threat with which to motivate supporters.
Gun rights groups are also increasingly worried that an outbreak in violence at the U.S.-Mexico border could pave the way for a raft of new gun control measures.
"We certainly expect to have defensive fights, and those are fights that were ready for," Cox said.
The first rule of a gunfight: "Don't be there !"
The second rule: "Bring enough gun"
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So in order to eliminate the unconstitutional gun laws we have to agree with the unconstitutional idea of giving DC voting rights?
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Giving DC voting rights is unconstitutional? I thought all citizens had the right to be represented...
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Article 1, section 8, clause 17: [The Congress shall have Power] "To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States,..."
If a law giving DC a voting member of congress is passed, it is guaranteed to be challenged in court. Seems to me that the existence of the DC City Council violates 1:8:17 as well.
The 23d amendment (1964) established DC electors for president and vice-president, so DC residents can vote and be counted in presidential elections.
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I read somewhere that the whole voting issue in DC is a strategy from the Democrats to gain additional seats in congress. Don't know if that is likely or not if DC gets representation.
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Technically, DC did start allowing gun registrations, onerous as the current process is. The amendment on the voting rights bill was a rather a stronger measure---it would have dismantled the current registration system almost completely and replaced it with something pretty straightforward.
Paladin132, yes, it is unconstitutional to put a voting member for the District of Columbia in Congress. The House and Senate are defined in the Constitution as consisting of State representatives. Currently, there are non-voting members who represent the Federal territories (like Puerto Rico and Guam and, I am pretty sure, DC) and sit in the House as observers; they are called Residential Commissioners.
Nowhere in that setup are the Constitutional voting rights of any U.S. citizen violated, because the only votes guaranteed to the People by the Constitution are for Representatives and Senators, who must represent a State (and Senators only due to a later Amendment). In fact, DC is already one up on other Federal territories, because it gets 3 electoral votes for president; other territories do not.
In fact, if a voting representative for the District is ever seated without a Constitutional Amendment, I expect any state AG with any cajones whatsoever to immediately start suing to prevent enaction of any legislation voted on by Congress, because the existence of such a Representative would be a near automatic disenfrachisement of every State citizen and a dilution of State's rights in general.
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DC House of Representative. Hummmm thats a good one..
The District of Columbia now know as Washington or DC was never made part of a state, because it was run by the Federal Government.
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Washington, D.C. (pronounced /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ˌdiːˈsiː/), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and the Territory into a single entity called the District of Columbia. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city is located on the north bank of the Potomac River and is bordered by the states of Virginia to the southwest and Maryland to the other sides. The District has a resident population of 591,833; however, because of commuters from the surrounding suburbs, its population rises to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a population of 5.3 million, the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the country.
Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are located in the District, as are many of the nation's monuments and museums. Washington, D.C., hosts 174 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The headquarters of other institutions such as trade unions, lobbying groups, and professional associations are also located in the District.
The United States Congress has supreme authority over Washington, D.C.; residents of the city therefore have less self-governance than residents of the states. The District has a non-voting at-large Congressional delegate, but no senators. D.C. residents could not vote in presidential elections until the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.
I like the fact that the NRA is playing hardball and the political game. I had to note who the NRA board member and co-chair for 2A...as I mentioned, it will be vitally important in the coming years to keep and convince more Democrats...whether you like it or not...because they hold the cards right now. The reality is politics, sadly, is ruled by fear...the fear of not getting reelected.
As we've seen in the news lately, the Brady Bunch would like you to think that the NRA is losing clout on The Hill. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Team Obama Halts Talk of Assault Weapons Ban | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.comBy Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Published Mar 28, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now the second member of President Obama's cabinet to get shot down by the White House over the politically sensitive issue of assault weapons. After meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Clinton said that reinstating the U.S. ban on assault weaponswhich was passed in 1994 and expired in 2004is one step this country could take to curb the flow of guns to Mexico's drug cartels. "These military-style weapons don't belong on anybody's street," Clinton told NBC. Within hours, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that he was unaware of "any plans" to push for such a baneven though Obama had backed one during last year's campaign.
Attorney General Eric Holder had a similar experience a few weeks earlier. After he endorsed a ban at a Feb. 25 press conference, Justice officials were instructed by White House aides to drop the issue, according to administration and congressional aides who asked not to be named due to political sensitivities. What's behind the shift? A budding relationship between the gun lobby and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill. After Holder mentioned the ban, the National Rifle Association sent out action alerts to its members and bombarded Hill offices with calls. Sixty-five House Dems dashed off a letter to Holder opposing such a ban, while Speaker Nancy Pelosiechoing the NRA's mantra on all gun-control issuessaid she backed "enforcing the laws we have now."
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre told NEWSWEEK that Hill Democrats have "learned their lesson" from 1994, when they enacted the ban and subsequently lost control of Congress. They've also learned that cozying up to the NRA can pay big dividends. Last year Democrats received 20 percent of the nearly $1.2 million that the NRA pumped into congressional campaign coffersmore than twice what it gave to Dems just six years earlier. The way things are going, this could be more than a shotgun wedding.
As has been previously stated, the original intent of DC was to prevent any one state from owning the capitol, and therefore having more power than the other states.
Anybody who thinks DC is not represented is overlooking the 535 members of Congress that already live in the District.
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I wonder if all this money and time spent on trying to ban \ control guns was put into other efforts that the problem of gun crime may be reduced further than simply just banning guns.
ie we need to ask the question what drives someone to pick up a gun in the first place ?
- bad upbringing ? spend money and time on educating people to be better parents.
- poverty ? spend money on creating jobs and affordable homes for people
- failing the above make the consequences for crime so horrible that no man would consider turning to crime, either that or lock people away for life
Seems the anti gun people have become to focused on the tools of crime and not the root causes of it.
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Protecting 'Our' Children in the Wake of the Michael Dunn Verdict
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Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which was included in the jury instructions in Dunn's trial, may have resulted in the panel's indecision on the first-degree murder charge in Davis' death. Legal experts have told Al-Jazeera America that the controversial law emboldens shooters and can confuse juries.
But just how emboldened was Dunn when he shot into a car filled with black teenagers listening to what he called "thug music"? The letters he wrote to his fiancee and family members paint a picture of a gun rights activist with sharply prejudiced views against African-Americans and deep suspicion of government and the justice system who felt he was the victim of "reverse racism." His profile is wholly consistent with extremist Republican rhetoric commonly spouted on Fox News. In fact, Dunn's views on African-Americans are so racially charged, it is a wonder he did not provoke a violent altercation sooner.
In one of his letters, Dunn complained about "how racist the blacks are up here. The more time I am exposed to these people, the more prejudiced against them I become."
In a later note, he added, "I'm really not prejudiced against race, but I have no use for certain cultures. This gangster rap, ghetto-talking, thug 'culture' that certain segments of society flock to, is intolerable."
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Dunn used a term that is increasingly common in contemporary American society in which the word "thug" is a clearly coded pejorative for African-Americans, replacing older, uglier epithets. Black Seattle Seahawks player Richard Sherman recently found himself the target of the T-word after publicly mocking a rival. Sherman shot back by insightfully reflecting that the word "thug" is "an accepted way of calling somebody the N-word now."
Dunn was also convinced that he was the victim of "reverse racism," a notion invoked by many right-wing commentators and activists to claim that whites are in fact the victims of racial discrimination. Dunn wrote in his letters, "It's spooky how racist everyone is up here and how biased towards blacks the courts are." According to him, it's really African-Americans who wield power, writing, "The blacks seem to be calling the shots in the media and the courts." Confident that he would be acquitted, Dunn made plans for his release, promising, "I'm going to find a slimy civil-law lawyer and sue this county for the reverse discrimination."
But Dunn went further in his letters, justifying armed violence against blacks and invoking standard right-wing stereotypes of blacks as welfare recipients and violent criminals, writing, "Eventually we as a society will wake up and realize that we need to arm ourselves, as the government welfare programs have produced a culture of entitlement for a certain segment of our society. These fools feel entitled to live above the law and do violence at will. Remember when your mom was robbed? At gunpoint? Black thug."
In a separate letter, he repeated his fantasy of armed violence against blacks, writing, "I think the legal system is scared of a backlash anytime there is a white-on-black incident, but don't get excited when it's black-on-black, or even black-on-white. This may sound a bit radical, but if more people would arm themselves and kill these fucking idiots when they're threatening you, eventually they may take the hint and change their behavior."
Perhaps we are fortunate to be able to see inside the mind of a person like Michael Dunn, ugly as it is. It clarifies what the struggle for justice and human rights of people of color, particularly young black men, is really about.
Articulating the hard work that needs to be done, Chimurenga made an impassioned call to action in the wake of the verdict, writing that the only solution to Dunn's mindset is: "Organizing our households and our communities around non-violent, restorative, transformative justice principles for the internal antagonisms that we have, and organizing for self-defense—which is a human right by the way—against external threats like creepy-ass 'crackers' [to quote Trayvon Martin] who don't like our music or the fact that we need help after a car accident. This is the contribution I want to make so that all of "our" children are safe. This is the work that I want to do."
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