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This function does not work. I wanted to set a 500 millisecond timer on it.
comp_list.onmouseout = window.setTimeout(function (){
if (hasClass(comp_list, 'block'))
removeClass(comp_list, 'block');
removeClass(comp_drop, 'active');
}, 500);
You are assuming that the function knows about comp_list and comp_drop. This would be the case if they were global variables. Are they?
Yes, they are global.
I fixed the function but now it just doesn't do what I want. I want it to have a delay when I mouse out. setTimer is just says for it to stay visable for 3.5 seconds. How do I get the delay effect?
setTimeout(function (){
if (hasClass(comp_list, 'block'))
removeClass(comp_list, 'block');
removeClass(comp_drop, 'active');
}, 3500);
You seem to be assuming the function is not being fired after 3.5 seconds rather than the function is not doing what you expect it to do.
A simple debug step would be to put a couple alerts in the function. One so you are alerted when the function is executed and two what the conditional is true.
setTimeout(function (){
alert("function entered")
if (hasClass(comp_list, 'block'))
alert("hasClass satisified")
removeClass(comp_list, 'block');
removeClass(comp_drop, 'active');
}, 3500);
I am being alerted while i'm still hovered over com_list. I want this to only set the timer / delay after I leave the drop down menu.
In sounds like you have the onmouseout event tied to a <SELECT>.
Now there are two components to this the select box itself and the dropdown list. As soon as you move onto the list your mouseout event is fired. That is the dropdown list is not an extension of the control.
He's a little test html
<script type="text/javascript">
var theselect;
window.onload = function () {
theselect = document.getElementById("idcomp");
theselect.onmouseout = function () {
setTimeout(function() {
}, 1000);
// -->
<select id="idcomp" name="comp">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
<option value="6">6</option>
Whilst your in the confines of the select itself you will not get the control (unless you are experiencing the time delay). If you make the dropdown list appear and move very slightly into it the alert will be given.
Might this be the cause of your problem?
You can avoid all of these problems by using an onchange handler instead of an onmouseout. This will only fire after you have made your choice. Here is the script.
var theSelect;window.onload = function () { theSelect = document.getElementById("idcomp"); theSelect.onchange = function () { setTimeout("alert('hello')", 1000); }}
Please note that I have changed the way you wrote the timeout. The first component only needs to be a javascript statement, so you can get rid of the function call and use the script directly as I have done.


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Permit or permission?
The countable noun permit (pronounced /ˈpɜ:mɪt/) refers to an official document that allows you to do something or go somewhere. The uncountable noun permission refers to when someone is allowed to do something. It does not refer to a document:
You need to have a work permit before you can work.
You need to have a work permission…
I have a parking permit which allows me to park on the street outside my house.
I have a parking permission…
We use the word permission with an infinitive with to:
Could I have your permission to leave work early on Friday?
We applied for permission to build a house here but our application was refused.
("Permit or permission ?" from English Grammar Today © Cambridge University Press.)
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The Abbott government will be able to reduce Australia's tax burden "over time", Prime Minister
The May 13 budget is focused on a rapid return to surplus, including new revenue-raising measures, to give the government room to contemplate major tax reforms at the 2016 election.
Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson warned early this month that average workers would soon face higher marginal tax rates of 39¢ in the dollar because of bracket creep.
Federal cabinet's expenditure review committee met this week to flesh out across-the-board cuts that will include everything from welfare to the defence budget.
A range of welfare supplements and additional payments that have proliferated over the past decade are also in the razor gang's sights.
"Every Australian is going to be asked to contribute to the budget repair," Treasurer
An overhaul of Family Tax Benefit B, paid to single income families with a stay-at-home parent, looks likely to rein in the policy's cost forecast of $4.9 billion by 2016.
Government sources told AFR Weekend Australia simply "can't afford" the family payment paid to family earnings up to $175,000 a year.
Savings of $1.75bn a year
There is speculation the Commission of Audit report, expected to be released within the next fortnight, will recommend scaling back the Howard government-era payment which supports stay-at-home mothers.
Economic modelling by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling has found the government could save $0.5 billion a year if eligibility for Family Tax Benefit B was restricted to families earning $100,000 a year.
But Fiona Sugden, executive director of community advocacy group The Parenthood, said families that receive family tax benefits are already on the edge financially.
"These are people on pretty low incomes and what we have found is there is a really serious impact on the children, not just the adults," she said.
She said Labor's decision to cut sole parent payments by up to $160 a week had pushed families into debt.
Mr Abbott was asked on Wednesday whether he could rule out raising taxes after revelations in TheAustralian Financial Review that the government was looking at raising taxes in the budget.
"This is a government that believes in lower taxes, not higher taxes and this is obviously a government which wants, even before the bulldozers start working on Bringelly Road [near the proposed Badgerys Creek airport site], to get rid of the carbon and mining tax," he said.
"That obviously brings the tax burden down. We want lower taxes not higher taxes.
"The best way over time to ensure that we get the tax burden down is to boost economic growth."
Acting shadow treasurer Tony Burke said that if the prime minister could announce new road funding on Wednesday , "he can come clean on tax hikes planned in the budget".
The Australian Financial Review


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"[Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Husam Zaki,] responding to the recent calls from Lebanon and Egypt to open the Rafah crossing, said that the decision was not one under Israeli control, but rather an Egyptian decision that took into account the best interests of Gazans.
Zaki defended Egypt's policy saying that by opening the Gaza Strip crossing Egypt would allow Israel to wash their hand of Gaza, and the burden of the occupation would fall on Egypt.
Foisting the consequences of the Israeli occupation and siege of Gaza onto Egypt would put the issue of Palestinian autonomy in Gaza at an impasse. The only result of opening Rafah would be an end to the Palestinian cause, Zaki said.


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Mellow case thin on details
HARRISBURG - Former Senate Democratic Leader Bob Mellow is guilty of something. That much we do know.
We also know it is serious.
It's a felony.
He signed a plea agreement with the federal government filed with the U.S. District Court in Scranton on March 15.
Two weeks ago, he entered a guilty plea to "conspiring to commit an offense against the United States and to defraud the United States."
Mellow, 69, of Lackawanna County, served in the Pennsylvania Legislature for 39 years.
He is former president pro tempore of the Senate.
He was an "icon" in his district, officials say.
There's even a park named for him in Scranton.
In 2005, he was one of the legislative leaders who backed the middle-of-the night pay-jacking that had to be repealed four months later in the face of rampant voter anger.
We know Mellow's plea involved mail fraud, filing a false tax return and using Senate resources -- his district office- - for campaigns.
He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Beyond that we don't know much.
It was a guilty plea skimpy on the facts.
What kind of deal did the feds cut?
It includes a clause that says specific "legal and factual" issues regarding Mellow's conduct will be determined at a pre-sentence hearing or at his sentencing hearing.
It's alleged he used Senate staffers to do campaign work.
But we don't know who they are and whether they still work for the Senate Democratic Caucus.
We don't know how often they did it or on what dates.
We don't know who in his staff ordered them to do it.
We don't know how much state time through their salaries was stolen.
We don't know whether state resources were used -- phones, fax machines, computers.
By definition "conspiring" means a deal with others.
Who were they?
Who were the unindicted co-conspirators?
The public draws a big zero in the federal system where Mellow had waived an indictment and pleaded guilty to a "felony information."
At least we know the activity occurred from 2006 through 2010.
We know it took place in his two district offices and Harrisburg.
In numerous state corruption cases, grand jury presentments laid out in detail which legislative staffers conspired with legislative leaders to commit crimes.
People who weren't charged and were potential witnesses were publicly identified.
You knew who did what and when, at least in the form of an allegation.
Because the two prosecutors involved in this -- U.S. Attorney Peter Smith and Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis P. Zempa -- are two of the straightest arrows to serve in that office, expect everything that occurred to eventually be made public. Smith is a former state inspector general and was chief investigator for Sen. Bob Casey when he was state auditor general.
But right now, the public is getting shortchanged.
That must change.


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Analysis: Britain has exported property shows, supernannies and ice dancers to continental Europe, but these countries' homegrown production has suffered as a result, writes Chris Shaw.
Comment: US soldiers' 'trophy videos' of Iraq make uncomfortable viewing for the American government next to TV networks' coverage, says Chris Shaw.
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Chris Shaw wonders why the BBC is paying presenters silly money when it has so much more to offer them.
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Comment: One man's freak show is another man's portrayal of heroic triumph over medical adversity, but programmes like BodyShock take broadcasters and viewers into uncomfortable ethical territory, writes Chris Shaw.
Comment: This morning's footage of the bottle-nose whale swimming up the Thames was one of those classic events which play perfectly into the hands of rolling news, writes Chris Shaw.
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Trevor McDonald gave his final newscast last week. The UK's first American-style anchor, he was adored by colleagues and audiences. Chris Shaw reports.
The last broadcast of the veteran ITV news presenter could not have been more modest but it is hard to see who could take up his mantle, writes his former colleague Chris Shaw.
I'm a Celebrity returned last night looking as slick and well-honed as ever. But is it too safe, asks Chris Shaw.
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Final Analysis: How well did Eamonn Holmes, James Rubin and Julie Etchingham do on Sky News' bright new day? By Chris Shaw.
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I was a 34D with silicon gel implants which I had removed last week and now I'm a 34DD (still silicon gel implants). I'm 5'6" tall and weigh 126lbs.
I have one son, he's now 16 months old. I think it was after having him, and breast feeding that I became unhappy with my old implants so I decided to have them replaced.
I had under the muscle implants last week. I have a 16 month old baby, who weighs 25lbs. When will I be able to look after him again? Since my operation, my mother has had him full time, but I'm desperate to get him back, but don't want to risk harming my implants. He can walk, so basically the only lifting involved would be lifting him on my lap for cuddles etc as my mother can still come at night to bath him etc. I would also be required to carry him up to bed (when he falls alseep on my lap). Thanks for any advice.


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Many celiac disease patients tolerate oats, but limited data are available on its long-term consumption. This was evaluated in the present study, focusing on small-bowel mucosal histology and gastrointestinal symptoms in celiac adults maintaining a strict gluten-free diet with or without oats. Altogether 106 long-term treated celiac adults were enrolled for this cross-sectional follow-up study. Daily consumption of oats and fiber was assessed, and small-bowel mucosal morphology and densities of CD3+, αβ+ and γσ+ intraepithelial lymphocytes determined. Gastrointestinal symptoms were assessed by a validated Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale questionnaire. Seventy (66%) out of the 106 treated celiac disease patients had consumed a median of 20 g of oats (range 1–100 g) per day for up to eight years; all consumed oat products bought from general stores. Daily intake and long-term consumption of oats did not result in small-bowel mucosal villous damage, inflammation, or gastrointestinal symptoms. Oat-consumers had a significantly higher daily intake of fiber than those who did not use oats. Two thirds of celiac disease patients preferred to use oats in their daily diet. Even long-term ingestion of oats had no harmful effects.
Currently the only treatment for celiac disease is lifelong adherence to a strict gluten-free diet avoiding wheat-, rye-, and barley-derived prolamins. There is a large body of evidence to support the nutritional value [
Based on a statement from the scientific advisory board of the national Celiac Disease Society, consumption of oats has been allowed for celiac adults in Finland since 1997. The statement was extended in 1998 to apply to patients with dermatitis herpetiformis, and in 2000, also children. In consequence, about 70% of all celiac disease and dermatitis herpetifomis patients in Finland currently consume an oat-containing gluten-free diet [
Altogether, 110 long-term treated celiac disease adults were invited to participate in a health survey comprising a follow-up small-bowel biopsy and clinical and dietary evaluation at the Department of Gastroenterology and Alimentary Tract Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Finland. Patients found to be adhering to a strict gluten-free diet were eligible. Oat consumption was not an inclusion criterion. At diagnosis all patients had had biopsy-proven celiac disease, and after one year on a gluten-free diet clinical, serological or histological recovery was evident in all. The patients had been followed up in primary health care and no further routine small-bowel biopsies had been taken during the usual long-term surveillance. The study protocol was approved by the Ethical Committee of Tampere University Hospital. All subjects gave written informed consent.
A detailed dietary analysis and a history of occasional or regular consumption of gluten-containing products, oats, and fiber were assessed by means of an interview by a trained dietician and by a four-day record of food intake [
Altogether, six small-bowel biopsy specimens were taken from the distal part of the duodenum upon esophago-gastroduodenoscopy; the specimens were evaluated by the same investigator without prior knowledge of history or findings. Three biopsies were formalin-fixed and embedded in paraffin; 5-μm-thick biopsy sections were stained with hematoxylin-eosin and studied under light microscopy. Morphometric analysis by measuring villous height and crypt depth ratio (Vh/CrD) was made in well-oriented biopsy samples as previously described [
Gastrointestinal symptoms were evaluated by the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) questionnaire, which is also well-validated in celiac disease [
Serum IgA class endomysial antibodies (EmA) were determined using an indirect immunofluorescence method with human umbilical cord as substrate, and a dilution 1:≥5 was considered positive [
Differences between patients consuming and avoiding oats were compared by Mann-Whitney U test or
At the beginning of the study, the dietician observed that four celiac disease patients had committed minor dietary transgressions less than once a month, and they were excluded from further studies. The remaining 106 treated celiac disease patients, adhering to a strict gluten-free diet, were deemed eligible. As shown in
Demographic data and dietary history in 106 treated celiac disease (CD) patients.
|No Oats
|Female (%)
|25 (69%)
|46 (66%)
|Median age at time of study (range), years
|54 (36–73)
|59 (24–81)
|Symptoms and signs leading to the diagnosis of CD,
|Abdominal symptoms
|29 (81%)
|61 (87%)
|Malabsorption, anemia, loss of weight
|17 (47%)
|47 (67%)
|Dermatitis herpetiformis
|4 (11%)
|9 (13%)
|Extraintestinal symptoms a
|5 (14%)
|11 (16%)
|Screening of risk groups b
|2 (6%)
|4 (6%)
|Family history of CD,
|10 (28%)
|42 (60%) c
|Median duration of gluten-free diet (range), years
|10 (1–28)
|8 (1–41)
|Median duration of oat consumption after the diagnosis of CD (range), years
|5 (0.5–8)
|Median (range) daily intake of oats, g
|20 (1–100)
a Osteoporosis, arthritis, polyneuropathy, ataxia, mild memory disturbances, depression, anxiety, fatigue, fibromyalgia, enamel defects in permanent teeth, elevated liver enzymes; b Family history of CD, population screening; c
Altogether, 30 out of 36 subjects avoiding oats were diagnosed to have celiac disease before oat-containing gluten-free-products were permissible for adults with celiac disease; thus, after the diagnosis they all had been on a standard gluten-free diet without oats. Afterwards, one patients tried oats but he stopped using oats due to abdominal symptoms; the rest 29 did not want to start to consume oats again (partly do the fear of adverse effects). From the remaining six patients there were no data why they avoided oats.
Small-bowel mucosal villous morphology was normal in 103 (97%) out of the 106 long-term treated celiac disease patients; two patients using, and one not using oats had abnormal villous structure. A high daily oat intake and a long duration of oat intake correlated with a better small-bowel mucosal Vh/CrD ratio (
Small-bowel mucosal villous height crypt depth ratios in 106 treated celiac disease patients correlated with the daily oat intake (
Based on GSRS total score, oat-consumers did not suffer more gastrointestinal symptoms than non-oat consumers (
Gastrointestinal symptom rating scale (GSRS) total score correlated negatively with daily oat intake in 106 treated celiac disease patients (
In this large cross-sectional study we showed that in celiac disease long-term consumption of oats for up to eight years had no detrimental effect on symptoms, small-bowel mucosal villous morphology and inflammation, or on humoral response against tissue transgluatminase. In contrast, the mucosal morphology was even significantly better in subjects who had consumed oats in larger amounts or over a longer time-period than in those who did not take oats (
Some studies have indicated that there is a subgroup of celiac patients who experience gastrointestinal symptoms more frequently on an oat-containing gluten-free diet than on a gluten-free diet without oats [
In the current study all celiac disease patients on an oat-containing gluten-free diet consumed ordinary oat products bought from general stores and meant for normal consumption. It has recently been shown that most commercially available oat products in both Europe and the United States are contaminated with wheat or barley, gluten levels ranging even from 200 to 8000 mg/kg (=ppm) when measured by the R5 antibody-based ELISA method [
To conclude, long-term consumption of oats proved to be safe for celiac disease patients. Oats diversifies a gluten-free diet, and enhances its nutritional quality by increasing the intake of dietary fiber. When allowed, most celiac disease patients in this country prefer to consume some oats. Pure oat products with strictly controlled production systems are nowadays available endorsing their use more widely. Long-term regular follow-up of celiac disease patients is recommended; those using oats may safely be followed up similarly to non-users.
This work was supported by grants to the Celiac Disease Study Group from the Competitive State Research Financing of the Expert Responsibility Area of Tampere University Hospital, the Academy of Finland, the Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Elna Kaarina Savloainen's fund allocated for the development of cancer treatment.
The authors have none to declare. All authors have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (3) final approval of the version submitted.


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FAA REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2007 -- (Senate - April 29, 2008)
Ms. CANTWELL. I come to the floor this evening to talk about the energy crisis, the price of oil, and how consumers are seeing the impacts of high oil prices in their everyday lives. The high price of oil is impacting businesses and many consumers can't afford to take family vacations and trips, dragging down our economy over all, and dragging us further into an economic downturn.
What I have heard today on the Senate floor from many of my colleagues is accusations and claims about what is going on and what might have transpired on various issues that might have caused the high price of gasoline and certainly the price of crude oil, which is now well over $100 a barrel. I think it is important to think about what Congress has already done and to make sure we are telling consumers what needs to be accomplished to solve the problem.
What we are hearing from analysts on Wall Street is that this issue is going to continue to exacerbate, and that oil prices will continue to rise. When we think about oil futures all the way out to 2015, still being over $100 a barrel, and oil futures impacting the physical price, it raises a lot of concerns about how the economy can sustain such a high price of fuel.
Let's start with some basics about supply and demand because many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have talked about the fact that they think oil supply hasn't been there, that growth in the numbers of people in India, China, other countries, is exacerbating the problem.
While we have seen growth in demand from other countries, this chart--starting in 1980, going all the way to 2006, and showing some numbers until 2008; the orange line is demand, and the yellow line is supply--except for some anomalies here, shows that supply and demand have kept pace. So anybody who wants to say this is all about supply and demand hasn't looked at a chart such as this showing that these lines pretty much track each other. What it tells us is that we have to look at other fundamental things that are happening in the marketplace and not just make accusations about what is going on.
In fact, if you want to look at the high price of gasoline, you can't say it is just an increase in demand. During the summer season, motor gasoline consumption in the United States is actually projected to decline by four-tenths of a percent, and it is projected to decline by three-tenths for the whole year. We are actually seeing a decline in demand. Obviously, that is not a surprise. Given the high price of fuel, people are not able to afford to continue their normal habits. But the issue isn't that the price is being driven up simply because there is this increase in demand. The high price of gasoline also isn't about the fact that there are low inventories. Some people have wanted to say this issue is about low inventories. When you look at what the industry says, here is an oil analyst who basically says that gasoline inventories are higher than the historical average at this time of the year. So there is really no need to worry about tight supply. Here is an oil analyst saying that.
It points, again, to other questions about what is going on. Some people have said: Let's blame it on renewables. Many Democrats have been big supporters of renewable energy, big supporters of getting alternatives into the marketplace, because we believe if you get alternative fuel into the marketplace, it will lower the demand on normal fossil fuel and create some competitive advantages. I know there are some people--a Governor--basically saying: You ought to repeal the whole RFS. You ought to get rid of this issue as it relates to having a renewable fuels standard. Here is the Wall Street Journal report from Merrill Lynch saying that without biofuels, the price would be even higher, and that basically oil and gasoline prices would be 15 percent higher if biofuels weren't helping to
increase the output. So it is wrong to say that somehow our focus on renewable fuels has exacerbated the situation when, in fact, it has done nothing but help the situation. In fact, I love that this Texas A&M study basically found that ethanol has increased in excess of what our renewable fuels standard was, indicating that relaxing the standard would not cause a contraction in the industry, nor would it cause a reduction in the price of corn.
The issue today is where do we go for solutions. Part of the issue is that many of my colleagues are saying it is all about more supply of fossil fuel for the United States. We have had this debate so many times in the Senate. We have had a debate about whether the United States, with 3 percent of the world's oil reserve, really is going to make a dent in increasing supply and giving consumers a chance to get off fossil fuels. We are going to have a big debate about global warming and its impact and whether we should even keep our focus on fossil fuel or accelerate getting off of it.
Many times today, even down at the Rose Garden, we hear the word ``ANWR'' again, and how ANWR was the secret recipe for lowering gas prices in America. I obviously don't support opening up drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge because it is a wildlife refuge. But I certainly don't support it when even our own Energy Information Administration has said that drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge would only reduce gasoline prices by a penny per gallon and only 20 years after we got to peak production. So at a penny per gallon, if people use 400 to 500 gallons of fuel, we are talking about a few dollars of savings there over many, many months. So the notion that ANWR would be some way of solving our problems just isn't true.
I know a lot of people have talked about refinery capacity, and I think you need to talk to the oil companies about refinery capacity and why they have not expanded. I know my colleague Senator Boxer has been out here many times talking about how she had to stop consolidation in her State because they didn't want to keep a refinery open. But I know this: We know it is not environmental regulation. In fact, according to this CEO of an oil company:
We are not aware of any environmental regulations that would prevent us from expanding our refinery capacity or siting a new refinery.
So we know it is not about environmental regulations. That is not what is stopping them either.
Some people have said: Don't take the tax incentives away from the oil industry; don't do that because somehow that is what is keeping the industry afloat. The industry is making record profits. They are making so much profit they don't even know what to do with the profit. They are buying back their own stock.
We know this: We know the President of the United States, George W. Bush, said:
With $55 oil, we don't need incentives for oil and gas companies to explore.
It is way above $55 a barrel. So I take him at his word that we don't need incentives to continue to explore at that level.
Let's talk about what is the issue. Let's talk about what is the problem we need to solve, for which we need to be responsible to consumers, to businesses, to the economy, and to make sure we continue to deal with this threatening crisis.
I know one oil analyst who looked at these markets. And maybe the man on the street, if you ask him, he thinks something is going on in the oil market. He doesn't think it is about supply and demand. He didn't happen to see that first chart I put up, but he knows something is going on because he sees the irregularity of prices. But this analyst said: Unless the U.S. Government steps in to rein in speculators' power in the market, prices will just keep going up. Basically he is saying that speculators have too much power in the market right now, and unless the Government does its job, the prices are going to keep going up.
So it is time for us to act. It is time for us to get smart about this.
It reminds me of the debate we had when the Enron crisis hit the electricity markets. It probably took well into 2001, when many people said: Do you know what, this is all about environmental regulation, or, this is about not enough refineries, and it is about the fact that there is a supply shortage. They came up with all these things.
So as 2002 rolled around and as more and more investigation was done, we found out that, no, it was actually manipulative schemes by various individuals within a very large organization--actually several organizations--that purposely manipulated the electricity markets. They did this so they could short supply and drive up the price.
Now, Congress acted in 2005. We said--after we found out all the facts, we heard all the terms: Death Star, Get Shorty, all the various schemes that had been manipulated--we kept thinking: How could this happen when we had a Federal Power Act that said, on the wholesale rate of electricity and natural gas, you have to have just and reasonable pricing. We thought that is a clear enough message for people. But, in fact, it was not. It was not a clear enough message. It cost my State billions. It cost California's economy billions. So what did we do? Congress made it illegal to use manipulative devices or contrivances in the electricity or natural gas physical markets, and we greatly increased the penalties for market transparency violations.
Now, why did we go to the extent of doing this? We could not believe that such activities were in some way a gray area and that somehow people were still confused post-Enron that this kind of activity was OK. Some people said: Well, you already have the electricity and natural gas markets under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. What else do you need?
But I was very proud that Congress passed this legislation. Since that law has been on the books, since 2005, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as it relates to electricity and natural gas markets, has been aggressive about pursuing this power and using it.
What have been the results? Well, the result has been making market manipulation illegal when it comes to oil and natural gas, so that they have had 64 investigations, 14 settlements, $48 million in civil penalties, two ongoing market manipulation cases that could net over $450 million in civil penalties, and a dramatic increase in self-reporting and self-policing. It is like one of my staffers said: If you want people to straighten up, let them know there is going to be a cop on the beat. Let them know there is going to be someone investigating these activities and we are not going to tolerate it, and people will start obeying the law. So we did that.
In 2007, we decided that if this kind of pervasive activity was still continuing in the natural gas and electricity markets--if that was still happening--maybe there was some correlation here with what was happening in the oil markets, because clearly, after looking at all those charts we just went through about supply and demand, and everything else, we could not understand what was happening. We have had oil company executives tell us that the price of oil today should be at somewhere between $50 and $60 a barrel given where supply and demand is. Oil company executives are throwing up their arms saying: We don't know why the price of oil is well over $100 a barrel. So we, in the Energy bill in 2007, passed a law saying it is time to make the same laws we have for natural gas and electricity apply to oil markets. We said that any person who uses, directly or indirectly, ``any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance'' in connection with the wholesale purchase of crude oil or petroleum distillates--that that was illegal and that Congress made violations subject to penalties of up to $1 million a day. That is $1 million a day because we believe, if you are doing these kinds of activities, every day that you have engaged in those activities you should pay a fine for that.
Now, where are we today with this authority? Because some people say: Well, you passed a law. Is it working? This law does not really go into effect until the Federal Trade Commission adopts rules and puts them into action. That is what we are waiting for now. My colleagues on the Commerce Committee have urged the FTC to hurry about this task, that it is so important to our economy and to consumers to hurry about this task. I know Senator Reid has encouraged them, Speaker Pelosi has encouraged them. So we are in the process now of hoping that the FTC will implement this rule and give proper notice but start the process because once the marketplace knows--just as they did in natural gas and electricity--that these kinds of activities will not be tolerated, we might be able to make a dent in what is happening with this excessive speculation in the energy markets.
Well, let's look at what exactly the market manipulation behavior is that we are concerned about. We basically have said we are interested in whether companies have manipulated the supply, whether they have given false reporting, whether they have cornered the market, and whether they have engaged in any kind of rogue trading. Those are the things we are concerned about.
Well, let's talk about supply manipulation for a second because that is something for which people might say: Well, it is just about supply and demand, and how do you pass a law about supply and supply manipulation? Believe it or not, there are good Federal statutes on the books starting with a lot of case law and a lot of history. What we are saying is, we do not want any artificial influencing of supply in the energy markets. We do not want someone creating something that is not a normal part of business but is artificially used to create a shortage--for example, diverting or exporting marginal supply in tight markets. That is, we know
the market is tight on oil. You can go back to that chart on supply and demand. They pretty much track very closely. So it is a tight market. When you have an event like Katrina, it is even tighter.
Our question is, Did somebody export supply outside the country just to create a shortage in the United States and drive up the price? Have we had hedge funds holding crude oil ships off the coast just so the price will go up for a few more days?
That is the second point: holding supply deliveries temporarily to boost prices. We have people now who are major players in the oil market who really are not the end users of crude oil supply. They are just big financial movers in the marketplace. They are not taking the delivery of oil because they are out there delivering it to various jobbers or what have you. They are there for a financial investment.
In fact, we want to know if some of these inventory management strategies that have basically reduced physical supply--and basically everybody just trades their reserves on paper, and everybody just trades the paper around, where that, in fact, does not have much transparency to it. So we do not know how much that creates that management system in and of itself. Where we used to have 30 days of crude oil supply, thereby, the market was not so tight. Now we have this paper inventory system. We do not know what that really means. We do not know how much supply is really in reserve. Is that being used to manipulate supply?
Then, obviously, what we saw--I just think back to the Enron days when people said: Oh, no, no one would ever shut down a powerplant just to short supply. They would never do something like that. It must all be about the fact that really something was wrong. Well, we found out that there were purposeful shutdowns of various powerplants to short the market and to drive up the price. So we want to know if there are unnecessary and untimely ``maintenance'' shutdowns just to impact supply in the marketplace of oil.
We also want to know whether there is false reporting because false reporting can lead to misleading or inaccurate statements that also can hinder the marketplace.
Part of this legislation we passed in this bill is to say, in 2007, that if you gave false information, that was also subject to civil penalties of up to $1 million a day because part of this--the same in the Enron case--is it was very hard to understand these schemes. If it was not for videotapes that were put together, we would have never known exactly how these schemes would have worked just by looking at the books. So we want the Government to look at some of this information and if there are manipulative schemes. But if they provide false information, we believe that also should be a penalty.
Now, we know that in one case of natural gas--El Paso Merchant Energy--they reported nonexistent trades to reporting firms while at the same time failing to maintain certain records. They basically created false information about the trades that were going on. The result was six traders were convicted for false reporting and attempting to manipulate the energy market.
Now, the reason why this is so important to the subject we are debating today is that manipulation has happened in natural gas, and why this is so important now is because in the oil markets, and particularly in the oil futures market, we do not even have the same transparency in reporting requirements that we do with other commodities like natural gas. We have given them an exemption in the Enron loophole that was done in 2000 as part of the Commodity Exchange Act, so they do not have those reporting requirements. So we cannot even go and get some of this information to know that something like what was happening with El Paso Energy is transpiring in the oil markets, as it did in the natural gas markets.
So it is one of the reasons why we want to close the Enron loophole and to say that the trading of energy futures, which definitely impacts the price of oil today--and we will get to that on another day out here on the floor, about how the energy futures price impacts oil today, we will get to that, but for today we just know that if you do not have reporting, then there is no way--whether it is the SEC or the CFTC or FERC or the FTC--no one has any ability to get access to the information.
We also know that we want cornering the market to be illegal. Cornering the market would be exploiting the market power through excessive mergers like natural monopolies or blocking new entrants to basically corner the marketplace. We know this is something about which we have a great deal of concern. We know British Petroleum attempted to do this. Basically, they purchased excess propane in Texas, within the pipelines, to hold it from the market and then sell it high. We know they did that in trying to corner the market. The end result was that the Department of Justice and the CFTC ended up with a settlement case against them in the number of $303 million. So we know these things are happening in other energy markets, and we know they are a problem in the--potentially a problem--in the oil markets today.
We also know rogue trading is potentially a problem as well.
Mr. President, I am not going to take much more time on this issue as it relates to the high price of gasoline. I plan to continue to come out to the floor to talk about this issue about the need for the CFTC to promulgate this rule and get on about investigating the oil markets and to make sure consumers are protected.
I talked about what I think the rule needs to do. It needs to prohibit the manipulation of supply and to have a strong statute and penalty for falsifying information. It has to have a prohibition on cornering the market.
I believe that rogue trading is something else we are seeing in the marketplace. We need to have a prohibition on that. People might ask: What is that? It is employing manipulative trading schemes such as buying or selling large volumes of stock or futures contracts with the intention of influencing prices.
You can imagine, if somebody has a large position in one of these energy supplies or stocks, that basically ends up impacting the marketplace. We actually found this with the Amaranth case, in the area of natural gas. Amaranth sold large volumes of what is called next month natural gas delivery in the last 30 minutes of the market. What they did is basically crashed the close of the market. By selling large amounts of futures contracts for delivery of natural gas at the close of the market they manipulated the price and benefitted their large positions in other financial derivatives, and that ended up impacting the physical price of natural gas. The good news is the FERC, because of the 2005 law we passed, was on the beat, doing its job. Unfortunately, consumers paid something akin to $9 billion in increased natural gas costs before the FERC could get this situation under control. Now they are in the enforcement phase of a $291 million civil penalty against Amaranth. We know these situations are happening with rogue trading.
We know of another case that is similar to rogue trading and price manipulation, where Marathon Oil allegedly attempted to sell oil delivery contracts below the market prices in order to basically lower the market price, benefitting them as a net purchaser of foreign crude oil. So there ended up being an investigation by the CFTC, and today they are in a $1 million settlement with the CFTC on that issue.
All these issues, I believe, need to be investigated in the oil markets. They need to have a strong statute passed by the CFTC, similar to in 2005 for electricity and natural gas, where we can see the results of the investigation, we can see that a Federal agency is doing its job; we need to do the same thing with the oil market.
In fact, there are five things I think we need to do that would help protect consumers from high prices of gasoline. Our economy and consumers cannot afford much more.
We need to close the Enron loophole, in which that 2000 law said that online trading promulgated by Enron, they said, they don't have the same transparency, don't have to open their books or allow people to see what they are doing. We know for other commodities the Securities and Exchange Commission and CFTC look at those things to make sure there is not a manipulation in the marketplace. We cannot even get these because we gave them an exemption. That needs to be repealed. We need to require oversight of all oil futures markets. That is, as I said, the oil futures price affects the physical price of oil. If people are going to buy oil futures well into 2015 at over $100 a barrel, it is going to impact the physical price of oil today. If you can buy oil at over $116 in the oil futures, it is hard to believe that oil is going to drop much below that in the physical market. But these are markets--unlike, again, our commodities in the United States, on NYMEX or the mercantile exchange, such as corn or soybean futures, this is an exchange the United States doesn't have any regulatory impact on. We don't have the ability to look at those books, any enforcement mechanisms. We don't have the ability to protect consumers on that kind of speculation if there is manipulative activity going on.
As I said, we need to get the CFTC to finish their work. This is so important that I think the Department of Justice should coordinate all these agencies because there are futures activities, there is a physical market, and there is the falsification of information. What happened with Enron is the Department of Justice created a task force, called the Enron Task Force. It coordinated these agencies and got to the bottom of what was happening with the electricity markets and the manipulation. I think the Department of Justice should create an Oil Market Fraud Task Force to do the same thing.
Lastly, I know my colleagues will talk about this on the floor--to make price gouging a Federal crime. There are 28 States in our country that have the ability, in an emergency, to make a declaration in the event of a natural disaster, or huge anomalies in the market, and help stabilize the situation with executive power. I am willing to give that same executive power to the President of the United States. I hope he would use it.
In conclusion, there is a lack of transparency in energy trading markets. We need to fix that. This is one of the CFTC Commissioners who said:
I am generally concerned about a lack of transparency and the need for greater oversight and enforcement of the derivatives industry.
He is basically talking about this offshore exchange, where we don't have the same kind of oversight that we do. In fact, I said earlier that we have more regulation of hamburger and the future of beef than we have of oil. I will tell you that oil is critically important to our economy, and it needs to have the same kind of transparency and oversight as other futures commodities.
Last, I will reiterate that even on Wall Street, even the analysts who know what is going on in the marketplace, who know these prices are outrageous, not based on supply and demand, are saying:
Unless the U.S. Government steps in to rein in speculators' power in the market, prices will just keep going up.
An energy analyst said that this month.
It is clear the marketplace even thinks there is too much speculative power, and the answer is for us to do our jobs--for the FTC to do their job, to get the help of DOJ, and for us to make sure we are doing our job on oversight in giving consumers protection. But I think there are very few people in America who do not think these prices are out of control, that it is not normal market forces, it is not normal supply and demand, and if it keeps careening out of control, it is going to wreck our economy. It is certainly wrecking consumers' pocketbooks right now.
I hope we will take action. I hope the Federal agencies will get on their feet and be aggressive about protecting consumers on this important issue. I know we will continue to talk about this on the floor as we continue to pass legislation that does protect America from these out-of-control gasoline prices.
I yield the floor.
Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I say to the majority leader, I appreciate what he said on behalf of women. Washington State has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the Nation. We have a very good detection program and good survival rates. We don't know the cause of it, but we know it is very important to continue the research.
I know that in 1992, the so-called year of the woman, when we had one of the largest classes of women elected to the Congress, we saw an increase in women's health research. Why? Because women were in the Congress to say it was important to us to not have the research directed in a way that favored some of the particular programs that were about men's health.
So I thank my colleague. The majority leader is right to say we have to respond to our constituents who are concerned about this issue and want to give attention to it. Clearly, women's health research hasn't gotten all the attention it deserves in the past.
Mr. REID. Will the Senator yield?
Ms. CANTWELL. Yes.
Mr. REID. Does the Senator acknowledge that with diseases such as interstitial fasciitis, more than 90 percent of the people who have that disease are women? Women-related diseases have not gotten the attention they deserve, and one reason is because the legislature has been dominated by men.
Ms. CANTWELL. That is what we found in the 1990s, in that we didn't have enough representation to ask the hard questions, to say our constituents were not being heard on this issue and to raise this in various committees. Frankly, that was the time period when, for the first time, we had a woman on every committee in the House of Representatives. Once we got women on every committee, we asked the hard questions and increased the percentage of women's health research.
I think it is a very poignant point to the fact that, while NIH does good work, we have to respond to our constituency and, certainly, there can be discrepancies and issues that the larger public should have a say in as to health research.
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Davidson will give a special one-man stand-up show at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, where he is currently starring in Aladdin with Eastenders actress Lucy Benjamin.
All money raised from ticket sales will go to Pc Broadhurst's wife Eilisa, whose 34-year-old husband was shot in his patrol car in Leeds on Boxing Day.
Davidson said: "I was as shocked as the rest of the country when I heard about the shooting.
"She has lost a husband and we have lost a good copper.
"The last thing she needs to be worrying about right now is how to pay the mortgage and the bills.
"Hopefully, the money we raise will be able to buy her a big bunch of flowers and a whole lot more."
Tickets for the show on 26 January are available from the Mayflower Theatre box office.
Pc Broadhurst's fellow officer Pc Neil Roper was injured in the same incident, in which a third officer was also involved.
Nightclub doorman David Bieber, also known as Nathan Coleman, has been charged with the murder of Pc Broadhurst and the attempted murders of Pc Roper, 45, and Pc James Banks, 26.


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Thu Jul 18, 2013, 04:44 PM
SunSeeker (24,764 posts)
Dow, S&P 500 at record highs, up 19% in 2013
Source: CNN.com
Investors pushed the Dow and S&P 500 into record territory once again Thursday, as they welcomed a batch of strong earnings and a drop in jobless claims.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 78 points, or 0.5%, to end at a record closing high of 15,548.54. The S&P 500 also rose 0.6% and finished at a record closing high. Earlier, both indexes rose to fresh all-time trading highs.
While the Dow and S&P 500 gained traction, the Nasdaq lagged, gaining only a handful of points for the day. The tech-heavy index was weighed down by poor performing stocks like eBay and Intel.
Despite the minimal uptick, the Nasdaq still managed to close at its highest level since September 2000. All three indexes are up sharply for the year.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/18/investing/stocks-markets/index.html?iid=mkt_SF_news
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Response to SunSeeker (Original post)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 05:01 PM
lastlib (9,571 posts)
1. Buh-buh-but Obama is wrecking the economy..........
He puttin' in soshulizum, dontcha know? KEN-yun Soshulizum!
Response to SunSeeker (Original post)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 05:54 PM
bluedigger (15,070 posts)
2. This is unsustainable growth, based on...what, exactly?
Not sure what's driving it, but a hard fall is going to come.
Response to bluedigger (Reply #2)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 06:48 PM
DCBob (24,689 posts)
4. US companies are very profitable, very lean, very efficient, and have loads of cash.
A recipe for success. Meanwhile employees are underpaid, overworked, over stressed and have no cash.
Response to DCBob (Reply #4)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:20 PM
wordpix (18,652 posts)
6. +10000, success on the backs of the lowly paid worker
I'd rather have successful companies with workers making more $ and getting better benefits.
A private school that operates as a "non-profit" in my town recently applied for a zoning change from residential (homes/bldgs are taxed) to "educational" (homes/bldgs are not taxed) to buy a $2.2 million home adjacent to the school for the headmaster. The highly paid headmaster who gets excellent fringe benefits also gets free housing but thinks his home is too small for trustee parties and such (which occur only about once or twice/year). He says this 19-room historic mansion "the school" wants to buy is for "educational" purposes.
Meanwhile, the teacher salaries at this school are about $30K/year on average, the school almost went under in the 1990's, has only a small endowment, and the tuition/room+board is $65K per student, the highest in the US.
Just saying, even in education there is CEO-type BS just like Wall St. - those at the top make out while the hardworking teacher gets the dregs. And the definition of "educational" in this case is questionable, just like those "educational" political groups the IRS was looking at.
Response to DCBob (Reply #4)
Fri Jul 19, 2013, 02:58 AM
Fearless (18,417 posts)
16. +1000!
Response to bluedigger (Reply #2)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:01 PM
Glimmer of Hope (3,771 posts)
5. Ben is in the driver's seat.
Response to Glimmer of Hope (Reply #5)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 08:21 PM
Kolesar (30,970 posts)
7. He is planning to retire in a year or so
Baby please don't go!
Response to bluedigger (Reply #2)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 10:32 PM
NoOneMan (4,795 posts)
13. Cheap money
The market will plummet when QE ends. Its drops when they suggest tapering
Response to SunSeeker (Original post)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 06:03 PM
postulater (5,075 posts)
3. Somebody forgot to tell Detroit.
And my daughter who graduated as a structural engineer in December and hasn't found a job yet.
Response to postulater (Reply #3)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 09:45 PM
SunSeeker (24,764 posts)
9. Detroit is in a state run by GOP Gov. Rick Snyder, who is killing the state.
I don't know why your daughter has not found a job yet or where she lives. I wish the GOP would stop blocking infrastructure projects, sounds like that would help her a lot.
Response to SunSeeker (Reply #9)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 09:55 PM
postulater (5,075 posts)
10. We're in Wisconsin. We got Walker.
He has shut down high speed rail and refused the ACA Medicaid money. Driving Wisconsin into a hole. But at least he's enjoying the ride.
Response to postulater (Reply #10)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 10:02 PM
SunSeeker (24,764 posts)
11. I'm so sorry.
California is building high speed rail, has a budget surplus and the economy is on an upswing. But we have a Democratic Governor.
Wisconsin is a great state, and things will get better once you get out from under the yoke of the GOP.
In the meantime, you and your daughter are welcome here in Cali!
Response to SunSeeker (Original post)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 09:38 PM
Lasher (23,573 posts)
8. Uh, yay?
Sorry to go against the grain here, but I think this is something good.
Response to Lasher (Reply #8)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 10:07 PM
Fringe (175 posts)
12. Me too.
I'm just an average person making 38,000 a year. I invest 24 % of my salary for my retirement, while helping my son through college and it is not easy, but my 401k is looking good.
No way will I be able to retire without my 401k, so I did the happy today and whenever the market goes up.
Response to Lasher (Reply #8)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 10:37 PM
NoOneMan (4,795 posts)
14. Its neutral
Fake wealth. It will be gone in a flash when QE ends. It doesn't become real wealth until you sell, so if anyone wants it to be "good", sell now. Otherwise, its neutral
Response to SunSeeker (Original post)
Fri Jul 19, 2013, 02:51 AM
Skittles (113,817 posts)
15. that's very good for a socialist president


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Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Peter Donat, Raymond Barry, Josh Lucas
MPAA Rating: (for some violence and language, and for a strong sex scene)
Running Time: 1:40
Release Date: 8/8/01
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Review by Mark Dujsik
The Deep End is a strange thriller—never suspenseful, never scary—yet it maintains a tremendous intrigue that carries the whole film. I am actually quite amazed by how involved I was in a film that never engulfed me with its actual intentions. I'm not exactly sure how this material could have achieved adequate suspense, but the filmmakers cannot be criticized for not trying. The movie twists so many conventions, indulges in so much dramatic irony, it is difficult to not get caught up in everything going on. However, for a movie so intent on enwrapping the audience in a family drama, it has a major flaw: lack of actual character development.
The main twist on convention comes from the perspective of the film. It's a thriller from the point of view of a housewife. Margaret Hall (Tilda Swinton) lives on Lake Tahoe in California with her three children and father-in-law, Jack (Peter Donat). Her husband is in the Navy and away. Contact with him is rare and conversations are simple. Beau (Jonathan Tucker), her oldest son, is homosexual and in a relationship with Darby Reese (Josh Lucas), a particularly sleazy older man. Margaret has just learned all of this information after Beau was in a car accident, under the influence, with Darby. To help keep Beau out of trouble, Margaret offers Darby money to stay away from her son. Later that night, Darby comes to the house for Beau and, after a fight and out of Beau's sight, falls off a dock and onto an anchor. Margaret finds the body, and thinking her son is responsible, dumps it by some rocks in the lake.
The most interesting aspect of this twist on perspective is watching how Margaret must juggle covering up what she thinks is murder and keeping family obligations. Once the body is discovered, the police immediately suspect foul play, and Alek Spera (Goran Visnjic of TV's "ER") comes to the house demanding money for a tape that could shed suspicion on Beau. There's a great sequence in which she spends a whole day trying to get the money with the climax involving a family problem. Soon enough, the entire movie makes a complete turnaround as Alek does something completely out of character with most blackmailers. Once this event occurs, it becomes difficult to see exactly where the movie is going. Considering that until this point everything that has happened is to be expected, the twist reinvigorates the entire plot.
As I said before, the film lacks suspense, and this is mostly due to the absence of an emotional hook. The characters here are afraid to talk openly with one another. While this leads to many misunderstandings—incidents that give great potential to a thriller—the situation leaves little to no potential for drama. The degree of the audience's involvement on an emotional level to the story depends entirely on how much they sympathize with the characters. Margaret is obviously a sympathetic character because of her intentions and Beau due to his innocence, although knowing that all they need to do is simply talk to each other to correct the problem extremely detracts from any connection to either of them.
Tilda Swinton has garnered much praise for her performance here, and it is easy to see why. She is in full control of her character's emotional and psychological complexities. Yes, it's distracting that Margaret will not talk to her son, but as played by Swinton, we believe there is a reason why she won't. This is a tricky performance. It depends on many quiet moments, and this is where she shines. Note the sequence in which she discovers the body. Devoid of any dialogue, we see her thought process in ridding her home of death and evidence. If Swinton does falter anywhere, it is in her dialogue—specifically her dialect. An English actress, she sounds as though she is biting out each and every word to maintain her American accent. It is a somewhat minor quibble considering the overall complexity of the performance, but this extreme enunciation is more than occasionally distracting.
I never had an emotional investment in The Deep End, but it grabbed me on an intellectual level. That alone is an accomplishment, but it doesn't completely make up for what's lacking. I admired the film's overall craft and structure, but without capturing my complete sympathies, it misses greatness.
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"Talking Taboo: American Christian Women Get Frank About Faith" is a collection of personal essays from Christian women under 40, including Carol Howard Merritt, a Presbyterian minister, and Amy Julia Becker, a writer and blogger. The women write about "taboo" topics such as domestic violence, religious doubt, homosexuality, menstruation and sexism in the church. Publishers Weekly said the book "offers a glimpse of the diverse lived realities of Christian women and encourages the church to accept the full humanity of women." Enuma Okoro, one of the editors of "Talking Taboo" and an awarding-winning writer, speaker and communications consultant, wrote this excerpt, from a chapter on the subject of temptation. Naughty by Nature, Hopeful by Grace
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I liked Chris from the start. And he liked me. We had so much to talk about and he was disarmingly attractive in an "I rode my bike five miles to your house 'cause earlier on the phone you said you'd kill for this book" kind of way. We met at the wedding of a mutual friend. We both came alone.
"So, how do you know the couple?" It was an innocent enough question to ask the guy seated next to me at the reception.
Realizing we were both writers, we relaxed into conversation with instant ease and before we left the reception we had exchanged emails and phone numbers. It would be good to stay connected about one another's writing projects, support each other vocationally.
And that's what we did over the following months. I adore connecting with like-minded folks, especially about writing and publishing.
I would text him Joan Didion and Gail Godwin quotes about the writing life. Sometimes he would text me from conferences I couldn't attend. "Just got done speaking. Wish you were here to meet all these great writing folks!"
We shared simple email pleas for professional affirmation and healthy reminders about sticking with the challenges of work. But it wasn't simply our shared vocation that drew us together. We really enjoyed each other as people and soon became friends.
Eventually it was normal for our conversations to take tangents into other aspects of our lives: the upcoming medical exam that had me worried, his growing involvement at his church. Our slowly growing friendship felt beautiful, fitting, and life giving at this season of our lives.
Then it happened. I didn't mean it to. But at some point I started getting flutters at the "dink" of my iPhone. A text or phone message from him could easily redeem the halfheartedness of an otherwise mediocre day. At some point I started crushing on him.
Maybe things would have been different if his wife hadn't gone to her twenty-year high school reunion the same weekend as that wedding. Maybe if she had been there he and I never would have met.
I am beginning to realize how little the churches of which I have been a part have taught me about the beauty of boundaries and the reality of fine lines. No one really wants to talk about the normalcy of temptation and how, if unacknowledged, it can lead to behavior that goes against what is life giving, what is of God.
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I'm at a stand still in my game until I really get my design figured out better. I've been making diagrams of "is a" and "has a" relationships and so forth. I'm finding that what I really want to do is use "can do" relationships using small one or two method interfaces.
For example, renderable, controllable, ..., but it would seam to require multiple inheritance to use the approach I'm thinking of.
Anyways, long story short I'm sort of confused and don't know how to proceed.
Here is a description of the game. You are exploring planets with a robot, the planets happen to have underground bases and are protected by other robots, you explore them, you collect items that give hints on how to proceed. You use stealth to sneak through the base, you hack computer terminals and explore file systems for clues. You can hack other robots and control them allowing you to move without suspicion. You can hack robots and make them attack anything that moves etc. Blah blah, you eventually find coordinates to other planet, figure out how to get there, you go there ... Or maybe you stow away on a supply run.
Basically, all robots are controllable, there are various weapons, mostly lasers. They can be installed on any robot, you can find weapon, install them. You have an inventory. Repair kits, upgradable components like circuitry, sensors, shields, invisibility. So forth.
So I'm brainstorming ways to design a set of class hierarchies to represent all of these components.
You have items
long range weapons
continuous beam weapons
non continuous
long range emp
close range weapons
short range emp
force field shield
invisibility cloak
and then there are has a relationships,
items have models
weapons have range, damage, ammo/charge
certain items are upgradable
certain items are components used to upgrade other components
And then you have the robot class. It has a collection of models representing it's main structure. It has a configuration of weapons and upgrades, and shields and other components installed. It has an inventory, limited to a certain size.
And then there is the player. The player has information, clues, data, etc.
What kinds of structures would you suggest to model this kind of game? I guess as a start what I'm concerned with is how to represent a "robot" which is made up of models, and items which have their own models. And they need to be able to be updated through AI, or from user controls, and some of their items also can be linked to controls etc.
Is multiple inheritance using various simple interfaces a good idea, or should I try to avoid multiple inheritance all together?
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I was fishing around for some coins for the soda machine yesterday, when I found a 1974 nickel that looked strangely silver-colored — or else strangely dirty.
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Just to pick a few of the rare coins that I, personally, have come across… here are some coins you'll want to hold onto:
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Turns out, my 1974 dirty silver-looking nickel is worth a whopping… 5 cents.
But I still felt the urge to continue rummaging through all of the old coins I've been saving through the years. I mean, what are the odds that I could be sitting on something of value?
After a quick search here, this is what I found…
It's not much, but the maximum value of my coin collection looks to be around 3 dollars and 10 cents.
That's from:
- (2) 1964 silver Roosevelt Jefferson nickels (5x face value = $.25 ea)
- (2) 1959 silver Roosevelt Jefferson nickels (5x face value = $.25 ea)
- (1) 1943 mercury dime (10x face value = $1.00 ea)
- (22) 1939-1958 wheat pennies (5x face value = $.05 ea)
Unless, of course, I take this guy's site into account, which states I could get around 50 cents to a dollar for each of my 1942-64 nickels! … 88 of them at 50-cents each equals: $44! Guess I'll be holding onto those just in case. (The site claims $2 for "very fine" quality, which mine are not, so I deducted $1.50 each to account for the "well-circulated" condition of my nickels.)
Ah well… maybe my stamp collection is worth something. My mom will tell you it is. She's the one who bought most of those "plate block sets of 4" for me through my elementary and high school years! I've got a few thousand dollars worth of "mint condition" stamps — in face value alone!
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Use this coin jar calculator to find out how much your coins are worth… or try these free online coin calculators.
As a kid, we used to save up our pennies then take them down to the train tracks. We'd place a slew of them on the actual rails, then wait for a train to pass by. The trains would flatten the pennies like pancakes, turning our pennies into mini copper saucers. We'd save the flat pennies for a few years — until we decided to start skipping them (like rocks) in the river.
Then one year, my dad had me convinced that coin collecting was yet another hobby I needed to start. (That's in addition to my beer can collection, my matchbook collection, my rock collection, my keyring collection, and my stamp collection!) So my mission became to save one penny from every year, one nickel from every year, and so on. And I polished them all up nice & shiny too. (I would use a pencil eraser.) Little did I know at the time that cleaning your coin collection was a very bad thing to do. Take it from me, don't clean your coins!
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Sometimes you've gotta look REAL hard to spot what makes a coin valuable… like this 1995 penny!
Geesh… does all this coin research make me an amateur numismatist now???
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If you have a coin and you would like to know what it's worth, you have 2 options:
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I received this comment to the above article I wrote:
Hello Lynnette, nice article. However, the 1959 and 1964 Jefferson nickels that you found in your coin collection are not silver. You may be thinking of the 1942-1945 Jefferson nickels that contained 35% silver. Really, only the copper-nickel clad Jefferson nickels dated before 1942 are valued by collectors. Most post-1945 nickels are fairly common in circulation.
— Joshua (…who clearly knows a lot more about coins than I do!)
We are so glad that Josh has agreed to write informative articles about coins for us here at The Fun Times Guide to Coins. His tips are super helpful for novices, like me, who don't know much about coins. If you, too, have found some neat coins in your pocket change — or inherited them from a family member — and you just want to know roughly how much our coins are worth, then search for your specific coin in the "search box" on this page. Chances are, Josh has already written an article about your coin and you'll find everything you want to know about it… and more.
Here's the ultimate guide of U.S. Coins worth more than face value — a list of the most valuable coins you should be saving in all denominations!
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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – The Merrimack College softball team refused to allow the rainy weather to hamper its Senior Day plans, as the Warriors honored the Class of 2014 on Saturday afternoon despite their planned doubleheader against Franklin Pierce being washed out.
Head coach Jim Cardello and the rest of the Warriors moved the Senior Day ceremony inside and enjoyed a tremendous ceremony to pay homage to the eight players comprising the Merrimack Softball Class of 2014: Ashley Perry (Winchendon, Mass.); Jessica Fugazzotto (Newton, Mass.); Allison Berthiaume (Berkley, Mass.); Nicole LoPilato (Medford, Mass.); Stephanie Giordano (Leominster, Mass.); Jaclyn Giovannini (Plano, Texas); Keaira Monet Perry (Bellingham, Mass.); and Kelsey Francher (Weare, N.H.).
Each player received bouquets and special commemorative framed posters and collages from their teammates to honor their success over the past four years. The Class of 2014 helped the team reach the NCAA Super Regionals back in 2011 and led the team back to the postseason this spring.
Due to the fact that the outcome on Saturday's games had no meaningful impact on the final league standings, the doubleheader will not be made up.
The Warriors will now turn their sights to the Northeast-10 Championship next week; Merrimack will host a First Round matchup on Tuesday (April 29) afternoon, against an opponent yet to be determined at a time that will be announced later.
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Liz Strauss
Liz Strauss is an international business strategist, keynote speaker, owner of Successful-blog.com and the CEO/Founder of SOBCon. Liz has been recognized as one of The Top Ten Influencers Alive: 10 Breakout Influencers of 2011 and as number 4 on The Forbes List of Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers.
From a background of business, instructional design, publishing, and education, she is a teacher, trainer, and speaker for these times. Liz has been called the most influential "real-ebrity" on the web. She's that rare individual who deeply understands the human interactions that make business happen. A recognized community builder and thought leader with a bias toward action, Liz speaks softly and carries a lot of street cred.
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