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220. I am not in a position to challenge what
Tam Dalyell has asserted about what happened here in 1967 in connection
with Vietnam but I can say that not many people seriously believed
that we could deploy troops to Vietnam when we had our hands so
full in Borneo and in Aden.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) It is hardly a procedural matter.
(Mr Dalyell) The quick answer to that is that what
Harold Wilson was asked for was symbolic. I used Lyndon Johnson's
phrase, "only a battalion of bagpipers". That was all
that was asked for.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) But they made a lot of noise.
Chairman: I do not feel we need to pursue
that particular matter.
221. It would perhaps be useful at this stage
to summarise because I think we have been skirting around the
issue I was going to ask questions on anyway, Chair. The issues
that we have all been skirting around and one of the issues we
have raised with the Speaker is about bringing much more transparency
into the order of speakers to make sure that people are certain
that they are being called or being considered to be called. Would
you agree that speakers' lists printed prior to debate without
any indication as to when they are being called, on the assumption
that you will be in the House for the whole of the debate, could
be a positive addition to the workings of this House?
(Sir Patrick Cormack) Yes, but subject to my free
hour or whatever.
222. Tam, this is surely something you feel
very strongly about.
(Mr Dalyell) It depends on the length of speeches.
Again, forgive me being historical, but there was a Deputy Speaker
who was a small, peppery, bad-tempered but immensely sharp man.
He was a former Lord Provost of Glasgow. He had learned his trade
with Glasgow City Council. Sir Myer Galpern I will treasure. On
one occasion he just said to me, "Stop blethering",
and that was the end of it.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) And he succeeded?
(Mr Dalyell) Yes. He was jolly right. I do think that
a Deputy Speaker or Speaker should have the power and the confidence
to stop people when they have wandered off the point. Rude, sharp
they may be but immensely effective. One did not blether twice
with Myer Galpern.
(Peter Bradley) The first observation I would make
is that I think it is appropriate that Iain should have had to
wait so long to put the question since he was first elected in
2001. I feel quite strongly about this. I know that this is a
sensitive issue for the Speaker, as it has been for previous Speakers,
and I believe it is his view, shared by others, that if you publish
speakers' lists you discourage people from attending the chamber
because the only people who will attend are those who will be
on the list. I take absolutely the opposite view.
223. Hear, hear.
(Peter Bradley) We have now got to the point where
Members of the 1997 intake and certainly of the 2001 intake have
in many cases given up any expectation of being called to speak
on the major issues of the day because they have to wait while
the hierarchy of Members have their turn, to the extent that they
are not now putting notes into the Speaker's office because they
do not want to sit on the green benches for six hours in the futile
expectation of having their say. We also should bear in mind,
and I was thinking about this when we were answering the original
questionTam is upset by my use of the word "hierarchy"
and perhaps I can explain what I mean at a subsequent time. I
was thinking when Sir Patrick was answering the previous question
about speaking and the great speeches. There are many Members
of this House who actually are not great speakers and have no
pretence about being great speakers. They have other talents and
other strengths and, frankly, if they are not going to be able
to make a contribution to the debate in the chamber they may just
as well be elsewhere answering the other demands of the job that
we do, whether it is in committee or at a desk or following some
issue or cause or campaign of their own. I think it is very important
that we have speakers' lists, that the way that the Speaker selects
people for that list should be transparent. That does not mean
that he or she should not have discretion to alter the order as
the opportunity or the need demands, but at the moment some Deputy
Speakers will not even tell you halfway or three-quarters of the
way through a debate whether you are even likely to be called.
I know that we all should respect the chair and respect the chamber
and respect the House, but my argument is that if the chamber
does not respect Members and the demands on their time and their
ability as adults to make choices as to how to spend their time
then it is hardly surprising that increasing numbers of Members
do not respect the chamber as much as others would like them to.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) Perhaps if the Speaker is reluctant
on lists your Committee might consider suggesting an experiment
in certain major debates and just see how it does work. I do not
think it would lead to the depopulation of the chamber. I think
it would encourage people, especially if we had this spare hour.
224. I think you have made a very good point
with regard to questions in regard to an emergency debate and
Peter's information is revealing but we knew that generally that
was the case. On things like emergency debates on Iraq would it
not be fairer and more honest and more democratic, rather than
do it, as it has clearly been done, on a hierarchical basis, whatever
Tam feels, being the Father of the House, to have a ballot of
the Members who put in their letters to the debate to be pulled
out and allowed to speak? At least there you would get a cross-section
of Members across all the years and the parties making a point,
because, although it probably would not have changed my mind in
the way I voted (and I voted the same way twice on both the debates
because I was opposed to the issue, I regret), it does raise questions
in my mind that this has been rigged by the Government to reduce
debate and I think at the end of the day if we want to see it
fairer and across the board it would be better for a ballot to
be held of all Members interested to talk.
(Mr Dalyell) No, no, no.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) Certainly not. I actually think
that the Speaker does choose without fear or favour. I have been
here nearly as long as the Father of the House and I have missed
out on a number of major debates, so I know what it is like, but
I think that if you had a ballot you actually could run the risk
of having all people with one point of view. I think it is terribly
important that the Speaker is able to take account of many things,
including length of service, including the line that the Member
is likely to take, so that the debate is indeed balanced. The
reason that I am anxious to have this free hour is that then there
is that extra element of spontaneity which really does give people
a chance to be buttoned down and be noticed.
225. This is a very critical part of our debate
and our inquiry.
(Dr Taylor) I would certainly welcome the transparency
of having a list. It would help one to plan one's life much better.
I did go with the new Members in the smallest parties to a meeting
with Mr Speaker just ten days or so ago and he outlined in detail
how they keep track of Members when they have spoken, when they
have stood and have not spoken, and how they fall over backwards
to try and maintain a fair way of calling people. Obviously, from
what people have said, some people do not think that that works.
I would certainly welcome a list, as I welcome time limits for
backbenchers when there is a vast number who want to speak.
(Mr Dalyell) I am not unsympathetic to Iain Luke's
line of argument, but there is one point I would wish to put to
the Committee. If you have ten-minute or eight-minute speech allocations,
psychologically everybody who is called thinks that they have
to speak for eight minutes or ten minutes. I have never been part
of a hierarchy, I assure you. I spoke on Iraq for four minutes,
said everything that I needed to say at that time, and it was
considered rather odd that I had spoken for only four minutes.
If people can say what they wish in four minutes or two minutes
they might be given credit, incidentally, the next time round.
226. A couple of our witnesses today talked
about how you select people and Peter Bradley said that the method
of selection for a list should be transparent. I find, by the
way, Peter's evidence characteristically well argued, partly because
I agree with every word of it. Sir Patrick Cormack also talked
about getting points. Might it not actually be the case that attendance
in debates, of actually standing and not getting called and so
on, in a way gives you a kind of points rating? I do share with
Peter the thought that there is really a real effort by the Speaker
to try and recognise that you have been there for a very long
time and have not been called, but I have to say, Chairman, that
I have no feeling that that applies at all in the case of many
Deputy Speakers and they seem to have very little knowledge of
what the Speaker's database is. I do not know how that information
percolates through. If it was possible to have some sort of building
up of points, and that might be partly through just attending
the chamber, it might be trying to get called to speak and failing
to do so, expressing an interest in a point and being constantly
rebuffed, and if we managed to codify that a bit it would not
alter the Speaker's capacity to regulate the debate and it might
not end up completely fair, but it might give people a greater
sense that, just because you are not known and the Deputy Speaker
does not know what side of the debate you are going to be on,
you are not actually ever going to get called, and therefore he
is never going to know what side of the debate you are on because
he is never going to find out because he has got this list of
people who are always miles above you in terms of the pecking
(Sir Patrick Cormack) A points system, yes, I think
you could do that. I do believe that for those who attend regularly
in the chamber some recognition should be made of that fact. We
all know that there are some people who, come what may, unless
there is something really personal or pressing, are there for
Question Time day after day. They are in the chamber, they seek
to take part, and I do believe that those people should frankly,
whatever their seniority, be given a degree of preference over
the fewand we all know who they arewho come in perhaps
once a week for Prime Minister's Questions and grab a particular
seat and then are not seen at all for the next week. There are
some on both sides of the House that fit that category and I think
that assiduous attendance should bring its own reward.
Chairman: Before I ask John Burnett to
come in and then Rosemary McKenna, in the answers you give to
the next question you would include a response to whether or not
you would like to see a list of those who have applied to speak
in alphabetical order, or a list which is published in the order
that the Speaker is likely to call them to speak. I do believe
that both are relevant and it would be interesting to know what
our witnesses think.
227. I think the Speaker is very much more open-minded
on this matter of lists than has been suggested, and I would cast
the Committee's attention back to our meeting at Speaker's House.
I agree with Peter Bradley on this matter and I also agree with
Sir Patrick who has set out his view about the etiquette of the
House. The point I would put is, if there was a list and you were
on it and you did not obey the etiquette, well then, you are struck
off it and you do not get to speak. There is a similar arrangement
in the House of Lords. I strongly support it and I am also strongly
supportive of a chronological list so that people know when they
are going to come up. Peter is quite right to say that there are
many other compelling duties that we have in this place other
than performing in the palace of varieties, which is very important
but it is not the only thing we are here to do.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) I am slightly in favour of a
list that is not chronological because I believe it would encourage
attendance. I am in favour of the list but I am rather in favour
of it not being chronological. Then you know that you are going
to be called but you do not precisely know in what order. I want
to clarify something I said earlier. I do think it is crucially
important if you are speaking in a debate that you are there until
you are called and then for at least the two speeches after and
then you come back as soon as you can. That is why I would favour
it being non-chronological.
(Mr Dalyell) I am a dinosaur who just thinks, in answer
to John Burnett, that if anybody has more important things to
do then they should not put in to speak at all.
(Peter Bradley) They do not. That is the whole point.
The fact that Tam did not get called in the Iraq debate I think
is the exception rather than the rule. I am glad he has shared
our experience of that though. Let me take issue with what Sir
Patrick was saying when he was talking about seniority of Members.
I think there is a very important principle at stake here. There
should be no senior or junior Members of Parliament and when I
talked about hierarchy, Tam, I have tabled some evidence which
you may not have seen but is my analysis of the Iraq debate in
September and the Iraq debate last week, both of which show a
very heavy preponderance of what would be considered by some to
be the senior Members, the Privy Councillors, former ministers,
those with long service, in preference to those who were elected
in 1997 and 2001, and the vast majority of MPs in this House have
been elected in 1997 and 2001. They get very little look-in. Only
three Labour MPs elected in 1997 participated in either debate
and none from the 2001 intake. I think that is pretty telling.
This principle of seniority is utterly alien to me because it
means that we have at least two categories of Members of Parliament,
one of which is a second-class category which renders our constituents
second-class constituents. When we are elected to this House we
should have equal rights each with another and equal opportunity,
all things being equal, to speak for our constituents in the chamber.
I have to say to Iain Luke that I would not support the idea of
a ballot, frankly, because I think it is important that there
should be a proper matching of backgrounds and parties and points
of view and experience to have a really vital debate, and I also
agree that once people understand what the rules of combat are
they should comply with them and, if they do not, they should
suffer the penalty. In other words, if you are selected to speak
you must pay respect to others in the debate both before and after
your speech and so on, and if you do not it will be quite clear
that you will suffer next time. However, other than those rules
of engagement, there should be no discrimination against a Member
on the basis of his or her seniority, juniority (if that is a
word), party or background.
(Dr Taylor) I would just like to support Peter Bradley
about the ballot. I would not like to see that, and I very much
agree with Sir Patrick that I would like to see a list but I do
not think it should be a chronological list.
228. On the list issue, I am broadly supportive
of a list, but let me bowl you a googly, which is the point the
Speaker will come back with, interestingly enough, which is that
if we have a list every Member will have to apply for every debate
because you and I will get a letter in our postbag the week after
a debate saying, "Why did you not apply to speak in the Iraq
debate?", "Why did you not apply to speak in the hunting
debate?", "Why did you not apply to speak in whatever
debate?" Would we get into a situation where the list actually
becomes self-defeating because we all have to bid all the time;
otherwise our constituents think we are not interested in the
business of the House?
(Sir Patrick Cormack) I do not take that point because
I think that the Speaker should regard the letters that he receives
as entirely confidential and nobody has to say whether they have
written to the Speaker. All the Speaker does is that he says,
"These are the Members I have selected", on whatever
grounds. I do not want to get into a long debate with Peter Bradley.
I probably should have used the word "experience" rather
than "seniority". Mr Bradley used it himself. He said
it was one of the things you had to take into account and when
he looks at the evidence he will find that that was what he did
say. I think that that should be confidential and the list should
be published and then you do not have to tell your constituents
or anybody else. It is entirely between you and Mr Speaker.
229. I am probing you on that.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) Indeed. I would like to re-plug
my idea of having this period in the debate when there is this
genuine opportunity to catch the Speaker's eye. I would only support
the list if that were there as well.
230. Would you have a limit to all the speeches
that are asked of members during that hour?
(Sir Patrick Cormack) Yes. During that hour I would
have a time limit and that would be for the Speaker to say whether
it was six or ten minutes or whatever.
231. I know the problems the Speaker faces from
the experience I have had this afternoon.
(Peter Bradley) We are talking about two different
kinds of experience. The experience I felt Sir Patrick was referring
to was experience in the House which relates to longevity of service.
The experience I was talking about in selecting speakers for debate
is their knowledge of or commitment to the issue under debate,
which I think is somewhat different.
(Mr Dalyell) David Wright's point about constituents
asking, "Why didn't you even reply?" is very valid and
here again we are faced with the laws of unintended consequences.
232. I find your analysis very powerful. 71%
of the Members of Parliament in the Labour Party came in after
1992 so that is from 1997 onwards and yet only 7% of them were
called in the debate and I hope that Tam will have a really good
read through that because it is quite a powerful argument about
being called in debates other than through seniority. Sir Patrick,
I agree with you completely on the list, provided there is no
publication of people who apply and there is a time when the Speaker
can use judgment. I do think that would increase people's time
in the chamber. Peter, have you done any analysis on how many
senior members spoke in both debates, because I think that is
important as wellnot just how many people were not called
but how many people were called to speak in both debates?
(Peter Bradley) That was the question I was hoping
you would not ask me. It is an absolutely sensible question but
I have not done that analysis. I can reveal to a startled nation
that Tam spoke in the first debate and that Sir Patrick spoke
in the second, but whether they spoke in both I do not know. The
reason why in the analysis I have referred to the proportion of
Labour MPs as opposed to members of the House in general is because
the Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs do not suffer the same
congestion that Labour MPs do. Because of the ping-pong, it is
rather unlikely that if a Conservative or a Liberal Democrat is
standing that they will not get called. Sir Patrick's experience
in recent years at least will be rather unrepresentative of other
members of the House. Sir Patrick will always get called not because
he is such an eloquent orator, although I am sure that is an important
factor, but partly because of his seniority, because that is the
current system, and largely because of the numbers game in the
House of Commons. That is why the newer intake of Labour MPs is
effectively being disenfranchised by the current convention.
233. We did in the Conservative Party have a
not dissimilar problem in 1983.
(Mr Dalyell) I am getting a bit restless about this
because much has been made of my seniority and speaking on Iraq.
The fact of the matter is that I have spoken on nothing else.
I did not speak on the Queen's Speech; I did not speak on the
Budget and I saved myself for Iraq. How much is it about seniority
or the fact that I have been to Iraq, one of the very few who
has, on two occasions?
234. The question has been asked about three
times and answered four times. That was about the seniority issue.
Tam's contribution and the statement about seniority appearing
to be a relevant factor in choosing the members who speak has
already answered that question. There is another important issue
about the ballot. I agree with Sir Patrick that there has to be
a balance about the printed list, but there has to be a flexibility
within that. I have sat through part of a debate where I have
never stood up but as the contributions were being made I felt
there was a contribution I could make. That flexibility is not
there because they have a list already set up and that is something
I would like to see expanded upon. When we talk about balances,
there is one very big issue and that is the imbalance of the Labour
Party versus everybody else. There is a 104 government majority
and if you are looking seriously to have a balance within Parliament
one of the things that must be changed is the ping-pong because
the ping-pong works out on the basis that it is one from one side
and one from the other. Many times I have been in the chamber
when there have been 20 or 30 Labour MPs standing and other parties
scurrying to get people in so they can speak. That is an extremely
unfair position and it is also a very unfair position when the
minority parties, both Plaid Cymru and the SNP, have pro rata
speeches in the chamber that are far greater than that of any
back bencher. When I go back to my constituency, constituents
quite rightly say where was I; why was I not in that debate; why
could I not do that? They see in the Scottish papers that other
Scottish MPs can get in, namely from the SNP. That is a very unfair
system and if we do look at changing certain things one of the
things we must look at, surely, has to be the ratio of speakers.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) It is extremely difficult. It
is very fair to raise the subject and your Chairman, Sir Nicholas,
was right when he referred to 1983. I was along with him one of
that large majority, frequently, I might say in a minority in
that large majority on things like the poll tax and so on, and
finding it difficult to get my point of view across. I have been
there; I have done that, or failed to do it, as the case may be.
This is something where your Committee has to weigh up the very
powerful arguments on both sides. There is the argument Mr Hamilton
has put and I concede it is a powerful one, that the Labour Party
has, as a result of the will of the electorate, far more members
than the other parties put together and therefore, yes, Mr Bradley
is right. I have a better chance of being called than if I was
sitting on the Labour side of the House. Against that you have
to weigh the longstanding convention which pertained throughout
the Thatcher years when we had that big majority that the Speaker
always alternated one side to the other and, in his alternation,
brought in the minority parties. What you cannot do is have a
system which so discriminates against the minorities that they
are excluded at the expense of a huge majority. One of the answers
to your question might be that you concede that you have to pay
the price for electoral success by this slight imbalance. It is
not for me to say what your Committee should decide but merely
to indicate some of the issues that I believe you should address.
235. From the chair, Sir Patrick, do you believe
that the Speaker should have the discretion to call two members
from the same side if there is a huge demand from both sides of
the House because of the current imbalance in the House in order
to ensure that as wide a section of opinion can be expressed?
(Sir Patrick Cormack) Yes. I think probably he should.
I think the Speaker must have as much discretion as possible.
I am a great believer in giving the Speaker a lot of discretion
but I think that if he is going to do that that is where he should
also be able to exercise the discretion by saying, "Yes,
I will do that, but they will be shorter speeches." I do
not think you have to say that every speech must be a maximum
of ten or eight minutes. You can well say, "Yes, I am going
to do this", just as he has the discretion at the moment
to treat the Liberal spokesman in the same way that he treats
the Tory front bench speaker. He might say, "If I am going
to call two from the government side, those two people will have
to pay the price of a slightly shorter speech." These are
the sorts of things that the Speaker would be able to do. I was
for three years the Deputy Shadow Leader of the House so I have
been through this, through the usual channels. I would be happy
to endorse that sort of approach because I think Mr Hamilton has
a perfectly valid point.
236. Bearing in mind there should be equality,
government against opposition, because opposition is so difficult
and the huge power of the government and its machine, we must
be able to speak against them and have equality of time.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) Yes.
237. Mr Dalyell, would you like to comment on
(Mr Dalyell) I think the discussion is distorted by
the issue of Iraq. Can I turn back to another issue, namely the
miners' strike? It was quite right that the Speaker should repeatedly
call members representing the National Union of Mineworkers. I
at the time represented three pits. Did I ever speak on it? No.
Did I attend the debates? Yes, every one because I thought I had
an obligation to do so, but without uttering a word.
238. Some of these problems might solve themselves
because if Sir Patrick's point is taken on board that the courtesies
of the House are respected what Peter Bradley has seen happening
would not be able to happen because the whips would not be able
to go scurrying and find someone in the tea room to make up the
(Peter Bradley) It already does happen because very
frequently one convention of the House will conflict with another.
One convention says that you should be there throughout the debate
if you expect to be taken seriously and called but, at the moment,
what tends to happen is that you will have some members on the
Labour benches standing up fruitlessly, hour after hour. That
is the tip of the iceberg because many people who feel strongly
about the issue have spent a day or so researching and writing
a speech before they even get into the chamber. While they are
standing up fruitlessly, a Conservative Member of Parliament may
wander into the chamber and within five minutes be called.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) That should not be allowed.
(Peter Bradley) We are pong-pong, ping, ping-pong.
239. If there is no time limit, you will find
that the third parties get squeezed out because the extremely
long length of speeches by the Conservative benches tends to mean
that the one to four ratio between third party and Conservative
Party means that hardly anyone else gets called.
(Sir Patrick Cormack) I hope that as a result of your
deliberations there will be a guide to the proper etiquette to
be observed so that members will be penalised if they flagrantly
disregard that. I also think that the Speaker, again with his
discretion, should have the power to do what Sir Myer did do on
a number of occasions and say, "That is enough." The
Speaker does it now sometimes in question time. He did it three
times today. I think that is a power that the Speaker can reasonably
exercise after a period. It places great burdens upon him but,
if your Committee came up with a guide and he was then enforcing
it, it would have the endorsement of the House's own committee
on procedure.
Chairman: We intend to make reference
to the courtesies and traditions of the House but I believe I
am correct in saying that the Speaker himself has recently sent
out a letter to all members of the House outlining the courtesies
of the House which he wishes to see implemented and respected
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First round:
A MURRAY GB (9) V F VOLANDRI Ita
5-1 - Murray retires hurt
First set:
Murray 5-1 Volandri - Murray retires hurtMurray wrings his right wrist after a forehand and then crumples over after another - this looks serious, I think he might be toast. The trainer is on and Murray looks very distressed perched on the edge of his bench.
Apparently his wrist "clicked" as he played the shot - you've got to wonder about his French Open prospects. "I was playing the best match of my life," says Murray as he's pawed at by the trainer. "I can't play," says Murray, but the trainer is going to strap it and spray it and see how he goes. Murray, the little trooper, is going to battle on. He wins the first point, but that's all folks, he emits a primeval roar after his first forehand, hurls his racquet to the floor, says some rude words and then concedes. Not much of a birthday that, almost as bad as my 15th when I got a pair of plastic telephones off the Roman Road market from some cousins who thought I was still six.
Murray 5-1 VolandriLovely bit of touch from Volandri, feathering a drop-volley to move to 30-0, but Murray gets a point back with a vicious backhand return. Another fierce return from Murray and Volandri is being severely outmuscled. Murray then displays some cheek, lobbing Volandri at the net before putting away the volley. A smashing backhand winner makes it advantage and an unforced error makes it three breaks to one to Murray.
Murray 4-1 VolandriMurray serves up a double fault and Volandri then plays his best shot so far, a fine cross-court forehand winner for two break points. Volandri blows the first one, sticking a forehand wide, but converts the second, Murray tamely putting a forehand into the net. Volandri displaying some spunk.
Murray 4-0 VolandriVolandri wins his first point before Murray crashes a two-fister down the line. Murray has a bit of a moan about a line call on Volandri's serve, but it just clipped. Volandri gets the better of a rare rally, winning the point with a wrong-footing backhand.
Dreamy little drop shot from Murray takes the game to deuce and Volandri saves a break point with a solid overhead. However, Murray pulls out another plum, finishing off a lengthy exchange with a sizzling forehand down the line. Volandri saves again before Murray caps some fine scrambling with a sweet forehand winner. The Italian gifts Murray a double break with another unforced error and the Scot is flying on his birthday.
Murray 3-0 VolandriVolandri plops a backhand into the net and sticks a forehand wide before Murray wins his 12th successive point and the game with a hammer forehand straight down the middle. The Italian getting a can of whupass opened up on him by Murray.
Murray 2-0 VolandriShaky old start from the Italian, a double-fault handing Murray the game to love. That's the first break, and Volandri has yet to win a point.
Murray 1-0 VolandriIt's the birthday boy to serve first and he wins the first point, Volandri driving a forehand long. And the Scot takes the first game to love, clinching it with a fizzing forehand down the line.
1328: Players are out on court one and we'll be off in about five minutes. The winner of this match will play either Jose Acasuso of Argentina or Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain in round two.
1320: Andy Murray is hoping to kick-start his clay-court campaign against in-form Italian Filippo Volandri in the first round of the Hamburg Masters. The British number one was forced to withdraw from last month's Monte Carlo Masters and suffered a first-round loss in Rome last Monday.
World number 32 Volandri, meanwhile, thumped Roger Federer last week on his way to the last four and will be looking to do the same to Scotland's birthday boy - that's right, Andy's 20 today! Wonder what he got.

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We have been married 13 years, together 15. He's had 16 different jobs since we've been married. He has been fired at least 4 times and 3 times he's left a job with no other prospects. One of those times, he just stopped going and sank into depression - he was officially diagnosed with general social anxiety disorder. He has taken depression meds off and on since then, but has remained on them for the past several years.
When I met him, he was general manager of a fine dining restaurant. He is now working part-time at Macy's as a clerk and he is studying to sell Aflac. The Aflac thing was sort of a "because there's nothing else" kind of job. He was excited at first, but has gotten to a difficult point and I am not hopeful. He was sort of hoping that Macy's would turn into something, but of course this being the holidays it's been hard work and the luster has definitely worn off.
He's been "sick" for the past few days so he hasn't worked at Macy's, on top of being the first one to volunteer to go home if there's too many people. Since he's been "sick" he has spent most of his time in bed…which is how things started when he stopped going to that other job before being diagnosed with anxiety.
I am at my wit's end. I have had 2 jobs the time we've been married, one I held for 12 years (since before we were together) and my current job that I've had for 8. If it weren't for me, we'd be in a homeless shelter. Unfortunately, I don't make enough that we can comfortably live and we certainly aren't putting anything away for retirement.
DH is 14 years older than me and 2 financial planners have told me that he'll be fine b/c I'll be working when he retires, but I'm basically screwed since I cannot afford to put anything away. I'm becoming majorly resentful. On top of being the bread winner, I'm the one who manages our son's homework, meds, doctor appointments you name it. When DH has to (if I have to go out of town, etc.) everything slides.
I'm fearful that my son is learning this is all acceptable. I'm fearful we'll end up losing our house (which we had to put back together after Katrina). And my heart is breaking that DH cannot see what his behavior is doing to us.
If I divorce him, we'll lose the home regardless. It kills me that he'll get half of any proceeds thanks to our state's laws (even though the house is in my name). What's worse is that a divorce coupled with losing our house will destroy my son. He's having the first good school year he's had in years. I dread the thought losing all his progress.
Is there any hope?
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Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Year of publication
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- Preprint (20) (remove)
- Syntax (5)
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- Free relative constructions in OT syntax (2001)
- This paper is part of a research project on OT Syntax and the typology of the free relative (FR) construction. It concentrates on the details of an OT analysis and some of its consequences for OT syntax. I will not present a general discussion of the phenomenon and the many controversial issues it is famous for in generative syntax.
- Remarks on the architecture of OT syntax grammars (2003)
- This paper argues for a particular architecture of OT syntax. This architecture hasthree core features: i) it is bidirectional, the usual production-oriented optimisation (called 'first optimisation' here) is accompanied by a second step that checks the recoverability of an underlying form; ii) this underlying form already contains a full-fledged syntactic specification; iii) especially the procedure checking for recoverability makes crucial use of semantic and pragmatic factors. The first section motivates the basic architecture. The second section shows with two examples, how contextual factors are integrated. The third section examines its implications for learning theory, and the fourth section concludes with a broader discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed model.
- Correspondence in OT syntax and minimal link effects (2004)
- The aim of this paper is the exploration of an optimality theoretic architecture for syntax that is guided by the concept of "correspondence": syntax is understood as the mechanism of "translating" underlying representations into a surface form. In minimalism, this surface form is called "Phonological Form" (PF). Both semantic and abstract syntactic information are reflected by the surface form. The empirical domain where this architecture is tested are minimal link effects, especially in the case of "wh"-movement. The OT constraints require the surface form to reflect the underlying semantic and syntactic representations as maximally as possible. The means by which underlying relations and properties are encoded are precedence, adjacency, surface morphology and prosodic structure. Information that is not encoded in one of these ways remains unexpressed, and gets lost unless it is recoverable via the context. Different kinds of information are often expressed by the same means. The resulting conflicts are resolved by the relative ranking of the relevant correspondence constraints.
- Degraded acceptability and markedness in syntax, and the stochastic interpretation of optimality theory (2004)
- The argument that I tried to elaborate on in this paper is that the conceptual problem behind the traditional competence/performance distinction does not go away, even if we abandon its original Chomskyan formulation. It returns as the question about the relation between the model of the grammar and the results of empirical investigations – the question of empirical verification The theoretical concept of markedness is argued to be an ideal correlate of gradience. Optimality Theory, being based on markedness, is a promising framework for the task of bridging the gap between model and empirical world. However, this task not only requires a model of grammar, but also a theory of the methods that are chosen in empirical investigations and how their results are interpreted, and a theory of how to derive predictions for these particular empirical investigations from the model. Stochastic Optimality Theory is one possible formulation of a proposal that derives empirical predictions from an OT model. However, I hope to have shown that it is not enough to take frequency distributions and relative acceptabilities at face value, and simply construe some Stochastic OT model that fits the facts. These facts first of all need to be interpreted, and those factors that the grammar has to account for must be sorted out from those about which grammar should have nothing to say. This task, to my mind, is more complicated than the picture that a simplistic application of (not only) Stochastic OT might draw.
- Eventualities and different things : a reply (2005)
- "Comments are very welcome!" This basic attitude and the many ways of implementing it contribute immensely to the fascination of engaging in scientific research. I am grateful to Theoretical Linguistics for providing a public platform for this kind of scholarly exchange and I thank all commentators for their thoughtful, stimulating, and often challenging contributions to my target article. My response will address two main issues that are raised by the commentaries. The first issue is shaped by a cluster of questions relating to ontology. The second issue concerns questions of methodology pertaining in particular to the problem of judging data.
- Das Zustandspassiv : grammatische Einordnung – Bildungsbeschränkungen – Interpretationsspielraum (2008)
- Review of Regina Pustet : Copulas: universals in the categorization of the lexicon: (Oxford University Press 2003; 262pp) (2007)
- The renowned Grimm Dictionary (1854-1961) makes the statement that the German copula sein (to be) is "the most general and colourless of all verbal concepts" (der allgemeinste und farbloseste aller verbalbegriffe). A more concise summary of the linguistic issues surrounding the copula is hardly possible. These two properties (and the latent tension between them!) make copulas a particularly interesting and vexing subject of linguistic research. Copulas appear to be almost colourless, i.e., devoid of any concrete meaning, thus leading to the question of why such expressions exist at all, not only in German but in the majority of the world's languages. And at the same time copulas presumably provide the best window into the core of verbal concepts thereby telling us what it actually means to be a verb – at least in a language like German or English. While there is a rather rich body of research on copulas in philosophical and formal semantics including several in-depth studies on the copular systems of individual languages, copulas have received comparably little attention from a typological perspective. The monograph of Regina Pustet sets out to fill this gap. She presents an extensive cross-linguistic study of copula usage based on a sample of 154 languages drawn from the language families of the world. The analysis is embedded in the theoretical framework of functional typology. The study aims at uncovering universal principles that govern the distribution of copulas in nominal, adjectival, and verbal predications. Its major objective is the development of a "semantically-based model of copula distribution" (p.62) by means of which the presence vs. absence of copulas can be motivated through the inherent meaning of the lexical items they potentially combine with. Drawing mainly on the work by Givón (1979, 1984) and Croft (1991, 2001), who provide a functional foundation of the traditional parts of speech, Pustet identifies four semantic parameters which, if taken together, are claimed to support substantial generalisations on copula distribution – within a given language as well as crosslinguistically. These parameters are DYNAMICITY, TRANSIENCE, TRANSITIVITY, and DEPENDENCY. Pustet goes on to argue – and this is in fact the driving force behind the overall monograph – that the distributional behaviour of copulas, in turn, yields a useful methodology for developing a general approach to lexical categorization. Thus, in the long run Pustet aims at contributing to a better understanding of the traditional parts of speech, noun, adjective, and verb by defining them in terms of "semantic feature bundles, which can be arranged in [a] coherent semantic similarity space" (p.193).
- On Davidsonian and kimian states (2004)
- Davidsonian event semantics has an impressive track record as a framework for natural language analysis. In recent years it has become popular to assume that not only action verbs but predicates of all sorts have an additional event argument. Yet, this hypothesis is not without controversy in particular wrt the particularly challenging case of statives. Maienborn (2003a, 2004) argues that there is a need for distinguishing two kinds of states. While verbs such as sit, stand, sleep refer to eventualities in the sense of Davidson (= Davidsonian states), the states denoted by such stative verbs like know, weigh,and own, as well as any combination of copula plus predicate are of a different ontological type (= Kimian states). Against this background, the present study assesses the two main arguments that have been raised in favour of a Davidsonian approach for statives. These are the combination with certain manner adverbials and Parsons (2000) so-called time travel argument. It will be argued that the manner data which, at first sight, seem to provide evidence for a Davidsonian approach to statives are better analysed as non-compositional reinterpretations triggered by the lack of a regular Davidsonian event argument. As for Parsons´s time travel argument, it turns out that the original version does not supply the kind of support for the Davidsonian approach that Parsons supposed. However, properly adapted, the time travel argument may provide additional evidence for the need of reifying the denotatum of statives, as suggested by the assumption of Kimian states.
- On the limits of the Davidsonian approach : the case of copula sentences (2005)
- Since Donald Davidson's seminal work "The Logical Form of Action Sentences" (1967) event arguments have become an integral component of virtually every semantic theory. Over the past years Davidson´s proposal has been continuously extended such that nowadays event(uality) arguments are generally associated not only with action verbs but with predicates of all sorts. The reasons for such an extension are seldom explicitly justified. Most problematical in this respect is the case of stative expressions. By taking a closer look at copula sentences the present study assesses the legitimacy of stretching the Davidsonian notion of events and discusses its consequences. A careful application of some standard eventuality diagnostics (perception reports, combination with locative modifiers and manner adverbials) as well as some new diagnostics (behavior of certain degree adverbials) reveals that copular expressions do not behave as expected under a Davidsonian perspective: they fail all eventuality tests, regardless of whether they represent stage-level or individual-level predicates. In this respect, copular expressions pattern with stative verbs like know, hate, and resemble, which in turn differ sharply from state verbs like stand, sit, and sleep. The latter pass all of the eventuality tests and therefore qualify as true "Davidsonian state" expressions. On the basis of these empirical observations and taking up ideas of Kim (1969, 1976) and Asher (1993, 2000), an alternative account of copular expressions (and stative verbs) is provided, according to which the copula introduces a referential argument for a temporally bound property exemplification (= "Kimian state"). Considerations on some logical properties, viz. closure conditions and the latent infinite regress of eventualities, suggest that supplementing Davidsonian eventualities with Kimian states may yield not only a more adequate analysis of copula sentences but also a better understanding of eventualities in general.


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Colonel Gorgas had charge of the forces and he was determined to do the job well.
Colonel Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer, was the only important official of the old rgime held over.
The report of Surgeon-Major Gorgas is very pleasant reading.
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Col. Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, says this is the first intimation he has had as to the disposition of the paroled prisoners.
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Ag a mem' non—leader of all the Greek chiefs in the Trojan war.
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I can hardly walk home to my mem to bear a son in my girlhood bedroom.
And at the last moment I could not make out what I had written on my wristband as a mem.
For the native of India the supreme riddle of creation is the English "mem."
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I gave a tour of Noisebridge to a couple of hackers from Crash Space. Before the tour commenced they asked everyone in the space at the time if they would be able to stream the tour live via Ustream (totally ExCelLenT), and everybody was okay with it. There have been a tremendous amount of positive energy at Noisebridge with a lot of cool things.

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Kevin Nash posted the following on Twitter, once again discussing TNA…
The drink tossed in the first match on Impact was as close to hitting me than Jeff.Great match one huge missed detail…50 bumps 4 nothing
— Kevin Nash (@RealKevinNash) August 16, 2013
I have to agree with him.
SUCKS TO BE NASH! 😀 I say good riddance!
freak off Nash,,
Coming from a guy who only knew 5 spots…
Jealousy is a bit.ch
Nash is a jealous moron.the most overrated wrestler of alltime. Even Censorship and Hogan use. Used more moves than him.
So Kaz missed the drink…so what, didn't Kaz hit Hardy with the glass anyway
So hes saying they had more bumps in one match then he had in his whole career.
Dear nash, stop talking shit like a little bitch.
P.s. please insert favorite quad joke here.
The drink hit Hardy…you can see it dripping from his hair before it falls.
Thing is… I'm not a 'tini drinker… but that stuff looked thick… like anti-freeze thick.
Don't know what Nash saw, but the appletini clearly hit Hardy. Not that it really matters because it was a good match. It's almost like there is a deliberate smear campaign towards TNA. No one ever acknowledges the good, but they sure do scrutinize the bad. If you don't like it; don't watch it.
I hate twitter as far as wrestling is concerned because ppl knit pick apart every small detail. They make wrestling impossible to enjoy.
The Main Event was weak! The other matches were good!
Somebody list me 5 big bumps Nash took in his whole career. I am having a hard time thinking of any.
They didn't call him Big Lazy for nothing.
I think the biggest bump he ever took was the Finger Poke of Death.
Fuck Nash!!!
You expect guys drinking alcohol all ***ht to have good aim? They got the job done obviously, so what exactly is to criticize? Just sit around and wait for your text from HHH on when to run in. Why are you even watching TNA since you are WWE for life? Go watch your WWE and enjoy spending your day trying to plug the holes in them storylines. Maybe you can get a job as the towel boy at the WWE training center.
do you guys even get what he was saying? He was saying that a match that was that brutal should have had some meaning to it (ie a title..or at least a title shot)…which he is correct in saying
This coming from the guy who took the "Finger poke of doom" dive to lose the world title to Hogan to re-join the nWo red white & black???
I used to like Nash…but damn does this guy have more colors than a peacock. Watch Nash get fired from WWE or released in a few months and come back to TNA talking shit on WWE. Damn boy.
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Occultation of GSC 23450183 by (704) Interamnia on 1996 December 17
M. W. Buie, L. H. Wasserman, R. L. Millis, N. M. White, R. Nye, E. W. Dunham, A. S. Bosh (Lowell Obs.), R. Stone (USNOFS), W. B. Hubbard, R. Hill (Univ. of Az.), D. Dunham (CSC), R. Fried (Braeside Obs.), D. Klinglesmith IV (Etscorn Obs.), J. Sanford (Orange City Astron. Obs.), P. Schwaar, P. Maley (Phoenix, AZ), W. Owen, L. Benner (JPL), A. S. Rivken, J. Spitale, R. L. Marcialis, L. A. Lebofsky (Univ. of Az.)
The sixth largest of the known asteroids, (704) Interamnia, was observed to occult GSC 23450183 (from the HST Guide Star Catalog) by 10 teams of observers. The chords cover the southern 60% of the profile of the asteroid. Our occultation results indicate a best fit circular profile with a radius of 164.6 km which is very close to the IRAS diameter. The residuals in the fit are generally less than 10 km but some are clearly due to topography on the object. The prediction for the event came from transit telescope measurements which indicated a formal 1- uncertainty of 94 km. The actual track was 233 km from the prediction for a 2.5- deviation. The lack of coverage on the north end of the object was caused by a concentration of stations more to the south based on the transit predictions.
We redetermined the rotation period of 8.70 0.06 hours from the data of Lustig and Hahn (1976). From our additional lightcurve observations just before the occultation, we find that H = 6.758 and the aspect was near a broad secondary minimum in the lightcurve. At the time of the occultation, the solar phase angle was 11 degrees and the lightcurve amplitude was 4%. The lightcurve also clearly shows a tertiary maximum 0.15 rotations earlier than the occultation aspect. This lightcurve structure supports the presence of topography on the object as seen in the limb fit to the occultation chords.


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Even before Obamacare's individual mandate took effect, total spending on medicines in the U.S. rose 4.2% to $329.2 billion last year, according to a study on medicine use and healthcare costs released by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics this week.
Factors driving the growth included drug price increases, greater use of the healthcare system, higher spending on new medicines and a reduction in the impact of patent expirations. And transformations in disease treatment will continue to be a game changer for Big Pharma companies. The IMS study noted that these new offerings promise fewer doctor visits and hospitalizations, better outcomes and reduced use of long-term care facilities – all objectives of Obamacare.
In a global medicine market that IMS predicts will break the $1 trillion sales threshold this year, investors looking for growth and income can find a lot of ways to play the sector. When it comes to pharmaceuticals, I like large, stable companies with strong pipelines and a dividend yield of at least 2.7%. Pharmaceuticals that have been roughed up by the market in recent weeks are an added value.
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Gold Miners Get Panned
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Gold futures have dropped 12% since their last peak in October. But the Market Vectors Gold Miners exchange traded fund has fallen almost 30% in that time.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – New Jerseyans still feel the effects of Sandy almost 18 months after the Superstorm wreaked havoc here as they continue to express skepticism that normalcy will return any time soon, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Two-thirds of residents say the state is not yet "back to normal" following the storm.
Among those who think recovery is not finished, just eight percent are optimistic that it will be complete within the next year. Another 58 percent think it could be up to five years before things return to their pre-Sandy conditions, while 12 percent see it taking up to a decade. And some New Jerseyans are even more pessimistic: 4 percent see recovery taking more than a decade, and 13 percent say pre-Sandy normalcy will never return.
"What's striking is how many New Jerseyans are still less than optimistic about Sandy recovery," said David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll and professor of political science at Rutgers University. "A year ago, 78 percent thought New Jersey was not fully back, a reasonable finding just six months after Sandy. But the number has been stuck since November, suggesting a long-term sense that putting things back together is a rough task."
Most residents also continue to give mediocre ratings to the recovery's progress. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning "not at all recovered" and 10 meaning "fully recovered," recovery of the Shore region is rated at 5.0 on average, barely changed from November 2013, and lower than the 6.2 rating recorded in June 2013. Garden Staters score recovery for homeowners who sustained damage even lower, at 4.8, while assessments of tourism and business recovery are much more favorable, both at an average of 5.9. All show little change since November.
"Despite five more months of recovery efforts, New Jerseyans do not perceive any real progress," noted Redlawsk. "The number thinking recovery is more than five years off is actually up somewhat, and recovery ratings have stalled."
Even while discouraged about the status of recovery, residents are more positive on how the state government has handled Sandy recovery efforts overall: 15 percent say very well, 52 percent say somewhat well, 19 percent say somewhat badly, and 9 percent say very badly.
Results are from a statewide poll of 816 New Jersey adults contacted by live callers on both landlines and cell phones from March 31 to April 6, 2014. The poll has a margin of error of +/-3.9 percentage points.
Sandy's impact and partisanship influence Shore recovery ratings
While New Jerseyans on average give Shore recovery middle rating, that average hides variation suggesting some pessimism. Ratings are widely spread: just under one-quarter give a 5 to Shore recovery, while another 24 percent give slightly positive ratings of either 6 or 7. But roughly the same share rates Shore recovery as only 3 or 4. Overall, about a third of residents are above 5 on the recovery scale for the Shore; a much larger 63 percent rates Shore recovery at 5 or lower.
Recovery ratings for the Shore are related to partisan allegiances and feelings toward Gov. Chris Christie. Republicans give a higher average rating (5.4) than either independents (5.2) or Democrats (4.6). Similar patterns occur based on favorability towards Christie: those favorable rate Shore recovery at 5.4, while those unfavorable rate it at 4.5. A similar pattern occurs among those who approve versus those who disapprove of Christie's job performance specifically on Sandy.
Statewide, those who were personally affected by Superstorm Sandy give progress at the Shore an average rating of 4.9, while others are slightly more positive, at 5.1. Shore residents give progress there a 4.9 average rating as well. Urbanites also average 4.9, while suburban residents report a 4.8 recovery score and exurban residents a 5.2. Those living in the southern region of New Jersey near Philadelphia, where the storm caused less damage, give the highest rating, at 5.5.
Shore residents are more negative about how homeowners who suffered damage are doing compared to others around the state, averaging a 4.2 rating. But statewide, those personally affected by Sandy score homeowner recovery the same as those who were not directly affected, both at 4.8. But having had one's own home or business significantly damaged lowers the rating to 4.4 versus 4.9 for those not reporting significant damage. As with Shore recovery, Republicans on average give a 5.3 rating to homeowner recovery, higher than independents (4.7) and Democrats (4.6).
Business and tourism recovery seen slightly better
New Jerseyans are slightly more positive about progress with the recovery of tourism and business in general than about the Shore or homeowners, with an average rating in both these areas of 5.9. Residents are most likely to rate tourism recovery rather positively, at 7, with three quarters giving it a score of 5 or higher. For business recovery, 81 percent rate it at 5 or above.
While tourism recovery is rated slightly higher by those living down the Shore (5.9) than in most other regions, those personally affected by Sandy give lower ratings than those who were not (5.7 versus 6.1). Republicans and those favorable toward Christie rate the recovery of tourism higher than do Democrats and independents, and those who approve of Christie's handling of Sandy recovery rate tourism more than half a point higher than those who do not.
As for the recovery of business in general, those living down the Shore give the lowest rating (5.5) compared to other regions, as do those in the lowest income bracket (5.4). New Jerseyans personally affected by the storm show little difference from those who were not (6.0 versus 5.9). As with other areas, those in Christie's corner once again give higher ratings than those who are not.
State recovery efforts given some kudos
Residents' assessments of the state's efforts at recovery as a whole appear more optimistic than their perceptions of individual aspects of the process. Partisans of all stripes mainly think the state has handled recovery reasonably well, though to varying degrees. A quarter of Republicans say the state recovery effort is going very well and another 59 percent say somewhat well. Independents are slightly less positive (at 16 percent very well and 53 percent somewhat well), as are Democrats (11 percent very and 46 percent somewhat well). But a majority of all three groups sees the state's efforts in a positive light. Eighty-one percent of residents who are favorable toward Gov. Christie also say the state's efforts are going well, but even among those unfavorable toward the governor, nearly half feel the same.
Among the 35 percent of residents who disapprove of Christie's job performance on Sandy, most are negative about how the state is doing: 39 percent say very or somewhat well, but 58 percent come down on the negative side. Not surprisingly, among the 55 percent who approve Christie's performance on the storm's aftermath, 88 percent say the state has done at least somewhat well in its recovery efforts.
Even those who say life is not yet back to normal are more positive than negative on the state's recovery efforts, with 62 percent thinking the state has done at least somewhat well handling the challenge. This positive view fades the longer residents think it will take for the state to return to normal. Fewer than half of those who think recovery will take 10 years or more say state efforts are going well. There is little difference by region – even 61 percent of shore dwellers say the state has handled recovery efforts at least somewhat well – and virtually no difference between those affected personally by Sandy and others.
Impact of Sandy lingers
Sixty-seven percent of Garden Staters say post-Sandy New Jersey is not back to normal, while 26 percent say it is, and 8 percent are unsure. Not surprisingly, 84 percent of those in the hardest hit Shore areas say things are not back to normal, higher than in any other region of the state by double digits.
While a quarter of New Jerseyans say the state has already returned to normalcy, the rest are not overly optimistic, expecting rebuilding to take another one to five years. Partisanship no longer has a tremendous impact on when residents expect normalcy to return; a majority of Republicans, independents, and Democrats alike say it will take one to five years, though they hold that view to varying degrees. Those personally affected and those who suffered significant damage to their homes or businesses look very similar to their counterparts. Even Shore residents are mostly on par with other regions.
About half the state's residents say they were personally affected by Sandy and its aftermath. More than a quarter of those affected say they suffered significant damage to either their businesses or homes.
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The Rutgers-Eagleton Poll was conducted by telephone using live callers March 31 – April 6, 2014 with a scientifically selected random sample of 816 New Jersey adults. Data are weighted to represent known parameters in the New Jersey adult population, using gender, age, race, and Hispanic ethnicity matching to US Census Bureau data. All results are reported with these weighted data. This telephone poll included 576 landline and 240 cell phone adults, all acquired through random digit dialing.
All surveys are subject to sampling error, which is the expected probable difference between interviewing everyone in a population versus a scientific sampling drawn from that population. Sampling error should be adjusted to recognize the effect of weighting the data to better match the population. In this poll, the simple sampling error for the 816 adults is +/-3.4 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence interval. The adult sample weighting design effect is 1.29, making the adjusted margin of error +/- 3.9 percentage points for the adult sample.
Thus if 50 percent of New Jersey adults in this sample favor a particular position, we would be 95 percent sure that the true figure is between 46.1 and 53.9 percent (50 +/-3.9) if all New Jersey adults had been interviewed, rather than just a sample.
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My girlfriend has a 1998 Ford Escort. The transmission will not shift automatically and it will only shift from low to drive. Will not go into over drive. When I read the codes. There were five codes. 1. Cam Position sensor malfunction. 2. Speed Sensor Malfunction 3. Shift Solenoid A malfunction, 4. Shift Solenoid B malfunction, 5. Transmission Temp High Input. I replaced both cam and speed sensors. Also when I checked the transmission fluid level, the level was about 3 to 4 inches up from the tip of the dip stick. Not sure where its supposed to be because there is no level mark. I cleared the codes and now only get the solenoid and temp codes and the transmission still dont shift properly. What else causes these codes and what else can I do to fix the problem.
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I need to know the actual code #'s to help you solve this?
P0500- Speed Sensor
P0713- Trans Fluid Temp Sensor Circuit High Input
P0340- Cam Censor
P0750- Shift Solnoid A
P0755 Shift Solenoid B
Does the speedometer work correct?
The cam and speed sensor issues have been corrected, correct?
Can you explain any odd shifting you have noticed from the trans while driving?
Was the trans fluid a tinted color other than bright red, did it have an odor?
You have a F4E-III trans which has 4 forward gears. The codes you have mean this
0713 means the TFT sensor thinks the trans is at negative 40 degress which will greatly alter shift feel and engagement. You need to start by replaceing this sensor which is integral to the transmission harness attached to hte valve body.
0750 and 0755 are shift solenoid circuit failures. The solenoids are only sold as part of the valve body. So your looking at needing a new internal wire harness and valve body without diagnosing with ford equipment and teardown to view the trans for internal concerns.
One more question about this if you will. Can the 0713 cause the other codes
Not directly. The TFT code is a code meaning an open circuit so this means it is a fualty sensor or a wire harness issue. The harness does howeber feed all the solenoids and the TFT sensor.


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SRP Installs Solar Energy Systems – Helps 3 Nonprofits
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A New Leaf Inc., Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix and Hospice of the Valley are getting some of their electric needs directly from the sun thanks to donations of solar energy systems from Salt River Project customers. The three nonprofits were chosen to receive solar energy systems by SRP EarthWise™ Energy customers who voted… Read More →
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Lynn Paige CEO PerfectPower www.perfectpowernetwork.com When Lynn Paige, CEO of PerfectPower in Phoenix, first joined the company six years ago she lacked a background in solar energy. But it didn't take her long to see the light. She was brought in to grow the company, which designs and installs solar energy systems, focusing primarily on… Read More →


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Gulf Coast states and the Gulf of Mexico achieved a major victory today when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the RESTORE Act, which directs 80 percent of the fines and penalties collected under the Clean Water Act directly to the recovery and restoration of the Gulf Coast. U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor set this as a top priority for this congressional term following the BP oil disaster, which wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast about two years ago.
"The BP disaster caused substantial damage to our region's economy and environment. Recovery is underway, but long-term environmental and economic recovery is dependent on a guarantee that the fines collected be directed to the Gulf Coast rather than the general Treasury. This legislation ensures that our small-business owners, our fishermen, our tourism industry and others impacted by the disaster get the help they need.
"The Gulf of Mexico supports millions of jobs in the tourism, fishing, recreation and wildlife industries," Castor continued. "These jobs rely upon a healthy and resilient Gulf of Mexico. I have long said taxpayers should not be on the hook for one dime of recovery and research efforts. With this legislation today, we are holding BP and other culpable parties accountable."
Without Congressional action, the fines and penalties would be directed to the general Treasury. This legislation sends 80 percent of the money to the Gulf Coast for restoration and recovery. The maximum civil penalties under the Clean Water Act could range from $4.5 billion to $21 billion. The final amount will be based on the number of barrels of oil spilled and whether negligence is determined to have been a factor.
President Obama set the 80 percent target as a goal for Congress to pass. Castor co-chairs a new Gulf Coast Caucus, which was organized with other Gulf-state members to advocate for the 80 percent goal.
The legislation, which is included in the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012, includes important provisions that can direct funds to research institutions that are already studying the environmental impact of the disaster so they can continue their work. The Florida Institute of Oceanography, based at the University of South Florida, can be a strong candidate to receive funds. The FIO is a consortium of scientists and researchers from across the state who have been studying the environmental and ecological impacts of the oil disaster.
"Sen. Bill Nelson and I worked hard to include an emphasis on scientific research in this legislation," Castor said. "Long-term environmental observation and research is critically important to assessing the impact of the disaster on the Gulf and to keeping our researchers on the job. Our researchers at the University of South Florida and other institutions across the state and entire Gulf Coast region are making important discoveries and ensuring the health of Florida's economy through a healthy environment. We need to keep directing investments to these research efforts at USF, in Florida and across the Gulf coast."
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Pat Quinn on Welfare & Poverty
In our Illinois, we do not forget about our hardest hit families during their time of need. That's why we've helped 6,550 families in 92 counties stay in their homes through our Hardest Hit program. And more than half a million families received counseling and other resources through the Illinois Foreclosure Prevention Network that I launched last year.
What are these human services? They are things like child care to make sure that working parents have a good place for their children to go to, during the day. Same way with our community care, to help our seniors stay in their home, so they don't have to go to a nursing home. Same way with our persons with disabilities, for independent living. So we rejected the unwise efforts to cut the budget for those with disabilities. It's very important, even in a tough time, that we always retain our heart, our decency.
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March 2015
March was another snowy month - but no snow days! This is a picture of one of our parking lots. You can see the flakes falling.
The Early Childhood students were able to skype with a class from North Carolina. They shared songs and what they like to do during "play time" - which is also "work time".
The Kindergarten students continued to learn different games on Sumdog. There are about 20 games to choose, so they learned 3-4 at a time.
Grade 1
The first grade students continued their "unplugged" #codingchallenge creating boards to add up to 10.
They also deciphered the challenges from our partners in Taiwan.
This is another unplugged #codingchallenge board that we sent to our friends.
This was a challenge we deciphered! We found two ways to jump and add to 10.
Grade 2
In March, the second graders continued to work on their Animal Google Presentations. They learned custom animation and transitions as well as changing the theme and background. They added photos and information to their slides too!
Grade 3
The third graders continued to share and learn about their partners in A Week in the Life Project. The teachers meet online weekly to learn what to do with their students and talk about tools and activities they can do as well.
Grade 4
The students played a variety of educational games this month:
Online Typing GamesDigital Etiquette GamesGeoGuessrEcoKids Games
Online Typing GamesDigital Etiquette GamesGeoGuessrEcoKids Games
Grade 5
The students began a new project, How Big is the Earth. They also viewed 7th grade presentations.
7th Grade Presentations survey
7th Grade Presentation Videos
How Big is Earth? Project
7th Grade Presentation Videos
How Big is Earth? Project
A small group of 5th graders continued to work on the Global Virtual Contest. One group was able to Skype with Taiwan and South Africa.
Grade 6
Draw/Describe Project: The 6th graders commented on their partner's pages after they wrote their descriptions and drew portraits of their partners.
Grade 7
The seventh graders presented their Digital Citizenship presentations for Digiteen to the 5th graders.
Grade 8
The 8th graders continued their Blogging Challenges as well as improving their typing skills using Typing Club.
I participated in a with ISTE and Julie Lindsay, Getting Started with Connected Learning and Global Collaboration. We shared our experiences about global learning.
Look for events from April...soon!


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A TEENAGER has written and directed her first play - and it is now due to be performed in London.
Anna Kemp's play The Doll's Circus has made its debut at the Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex.
Now it is set be performed at the Courtyard Theatre in London as part of the Play Festival.


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Hi, What about making ACI parser aware of only Strings instead of attribute types or attribute values? Or moving ACI parser into the core? On Jan 20, 2008 12:31 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm stuck in some chicken and egg problem again... The ACDF engine uses > collections of elements to allow or forbid access to those elements. For > instance, we can forbid access to some specific values of a specific > attribute, and we use a ProtectedItem.AttributeValue element for that > purpose. > > As you can see, we have a collection of valued Attributes stored > somewhere, and this collection has been created by the ACIItem parser. > (Basically, you create a list of protected values, stores it in the > server, the parser is kicked on while adding this data into the server, > the collections are fed, and now the server is able to protect the data > by filtering them using the newly updated collections). > > The problem is that the ACIIterm parser is defined in shared-ldap, where > we have no knowledge about the registry. If we want to store those > AttributeValue elements, we have to create Attribute, and we have to use > the JNDI Attribute for that, because we can't have access to the > AttributeType registry in shared-ldap. But every element in the server > aren't anymore JNDI Attribute, so we are stuck in the mud here... Either > we translate the ServerAttribute to JNDI Attribute, or we modify the > parser to generate ServerAttribute instances. (which mean : the ACIItem > parser is moved from JNDI to some other place). > > Both choices are wrong ... So what can we do ? > > Any idea ? > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > > -- Ersin Er
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1. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)425562 Jul 20, 2004 9:38 AM (in response to 425562)Ignore my assumption about srid. 8307 is the correct value, got it confirmed from the teleatlas manuals.
2. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)91061 Jul 20, 2004 6:14 PM (in response to 425562)Hello Peter,
I've seen this problem when shp2sdo is run on one platform (windows) and loaded on another platform (unix) without running dos2unix or going through ftp.
Also, i've seen it when there is a problem between character sets - shp2sdo generates data in us ascii format. If this is the problem:
On a WINDOWS NT/2000/XP system, fix it by setting the NLS_LANG registry entry for the Oracle Home to: AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1. On UNIX systems, the Oracle initialization parameters can be set as follows:
nls_language AMERICAN
nls_territory AMERICA
Hope one fo these fixes it.
3. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)425562 Jul 20, 2004 11:59 PM (in response to 91061)Cool Dan, setting NLS_LANG to AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 did the trick! Thanks a lot, I would never have found that on my own ;)
thanks again,
4. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)425562 Jul 22, 2004 8:17 AM (in response to 425562)Hmmmm, another problem :(
Some columns of type NUMBER appear to have negative numbers for all rows in the created table and the positive value of these numbers are not the same as they are in the .dbf-file. If the latter was true, then I could easily fix this by multiplying the columns by -1.
It looks like this only happens with 'big' numbers in the .dbf-file. There must happen a conversion somewhere, since all the values for that particular column in the table are distinct, so the reader/oracle is able the handle/read 'big' numbers. (select distinct(id) from ... == #rows in .dbf)
For example: 10560001587671 (in .dbf) becomes -1322993193 (in table).
Is this a known problem?
thanks a lot,
5. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)91061 Jul 26, 2004 4:22 PM (in response to 425562)This is the first time I've heard of it, and I do most of the support for this tool.
Is the data in file correct, and the problem is during the load, or is the data incorrect in the file?
Can you make your shape file available?
6. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)91061 Jul 26, 2004 4:23 PM (in response to 91061)Sorry, by "file" in the previous message I meant the data file that the tool creates.
7. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)425562 Aug 9, 2004 6:59 AM (in response to 91061)When I open the .dbf file in MS Excel, the values are 'big' and positive (10560001587671), but when I select the same columns in the oracle dbase, the values are 'small' and negative (-1322993193). I suppose something goes wrong while loading the .shp/.dbf into the database.
Can you please send me a mail at 88058_AT_clueless.be (this mail is correct, I made a forward to avoid future spam), so I can send you an example of files where it goes wrong.
Maybe it has something to do with the NLS_LANG registry setting, which I had to set to AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 (see above)?
Thanks a lot Dan,
8. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)425562 Aug 9, 2004 7:18 AM (in response to 425562)I uploaded an example to oracle-ftp.oracle.com, in /incoming/for_88058_by_peter/ and the file is called 88058.zip.
9. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)91061 Aug 9, 2004 7:23 PM (in response to 425562)
a converter with a potential fix for this problem has been forwarded to Peter.
10. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)425562 Aug 10, 2004 2:17 PM (in response to 425562)Jup! Got it in my box.
11. Re: Problems with shp2sdo (.shp -> table)976665 Nov 28, 2012 9:31 AM (in response to 425562)I'm having the same problem! This is an incredible bug.
In my case:
0. I have in shapefiles some ID's fields (for identify each tables or join to some other) with 12 or 14 digit length (NUMBER type).
1. I correctly exported data from shp to different files with shp2sdo utility.
2. When I open .dat file I realised ID's values are completely different and shorter than It must to do.
3. If I import all data to Oracle DB, data and ID's values are still shorter than would be.
Ex: Original ID: 17240034001163
After shp2sdo in .dat: 35275019
I was looking for a solution but I did not have not found!!
Could you share your "converter with a potential fix" for that bug?