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Japan's Recovery Looks Like The Real Thing
At the bustling Tokyo railroad station, commuters no longer grimace in front of the neon stock ticker at the main Marunouchi entrance. There's no need: The Nikkei is up some 56% over the last year. Car buyers who in recent years favored mini subcompacts selling for under $10,000 are suddenly putting their money down for luxury sedans. And vacation bookings for the Golden Week celebrations that kick off Apr. 24 are up 3.3% in 2004 -- the first increase since 2000. Not only will more Japanese be soaking at local hot spring resorts this year but more will be sunning themselves on the beaches of Maui and Bali.
After years of fits and starts, it looks like a real recovery is under way in Japan. Of course, some grizzled Japan-watchers are skeptical. Everyone said Japan was on the mend back in 1996, when the economy clocked 2.5% real annual growth. But that upturn got crushed by the Asian financial crisis a year later. In 2000, a 1.1% rebound in gross domestic product quickly turned into a two-year deflationary slide, as Japan's tech sector crashed and U.S. demand evaporated.
But this time feels different. The U.S. recovery and hypergrowth in China have stoked Japanese exports for almost a year now. Stock buybacks, improved earnings, and steady restructuring among Japan's big listed companies have boosted average return on equity to 6% in 2003, from virtually zero in 2001. On Apr. 12, the government reported that Japan's current-account surplus for February had shot up 46%, year-on-year, to $20 billion, the eighth straight monthly advance. That followed an eye-popping 135% leap in January's trade surplus. Plus, signs of vigor in the local economy prompted the Bank of Japan on Apr. 9 to upgrade its outlook, noting that "improvements in business sentiment have been spreading across industries." Even Japan's long-depressed service sector is showing signs of life. Retail sales jumped 1.7% in February over the previous month, the highest growth rate since 1997.
So far, then, it looks like this recovery has legs. Coming off a 2.7% GDP expansion in real terms in 2003, most economists forecast 3% growth this year. Corporate sentiment as measured by the BOJ's most recent Tankan quarterly survey registered its most buoyant results since 1997. The poll tracks willingness to invest and hire among 10,000 companies. And the sharp rise in the price of commodities such as cement and steel due to demand from China is giving Japanese players pricing power. A Nihon Keizai Shimbun survey of 1,426 listed companies indicates that pretax profits in the fiscal year ended on Mar. 31 rose an average of 15.6%, the second year of robust gains.
Japanese consumers, who responded to a dismal decade by hunkering down, are beginning to snap out of it. Household spending jumped 5.2% in February over a year earlier, driven by rising pay, overtime, and bonuses. Innovative retailers such as Aeon Corp., which sources from China and offers discount pricing, are thriving. With $33.3 billion in annual sales, Aeon has just passed Ito-Yokado Co. as Japan's top retailer.
And if the recovery holds up, a lot of pent-up consumer demand could be unleashed. Two years ago, Akiko Kondo, 42, a housewife in suburban Tokyo, could barely make ends meet when her husband's summer bonus was slashed. Now, she is more upbeat. "I'd like to buy a DVD recorder, if we have a chance," she says. "That was unthinkable before."
What could send this Japan recovery into a tailspin? The main threat would be an economic train wreck in China, where an overheated economy is forcing Beijing to try to rein in lending and economic growth. If the Chinese economy pulls up sharply as a result, dial back forecasts for Japan -- since the mainland now accounts for some 30% of its economic output.
The other issue is the health of the financial system. The number of nonperforming loans continues to shrink -- down 10%, to $300 billion, for the half-year ended in September. That's an impressive improvement, though a rebounding stock market and stronger corporate earnings have helped. However, an Apr. 7 International Monetary Fund report points out that regional banks, which account for 44% of Japan's dud-loan figure, remain a big headache. The upshot: Financial regulators can hardly rest easy. Also, any uptick in interest rates would sting both highly leveraged companies and the government, which depends on ultracheap debt to fund services. Public debt now tops 144% of GDP.
Most important of all, Japan will continue to suffer from its own demographics. Japanese 65 and older already make up 18.5% of the population, a number that will rise to 30% by 2030. A graying population doesn't consume as much, or work as hard, as a younger, more dynamic nation. In short, Japan still has a difficult future. But this cycle is showing strength. The Japanese, at long last, can relax and enjoy Golden Week.
By Brian Bremner in Tokyo


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Rosehill trainer Kim Moore met rival Paul Sutherland yesterday to discuss the possibility of a stable merger.
Sutherland, who is expected to announce his retirement from training this week, was loath to comment on the particulars of the proposed agreement, but it is believed the successful trainer would work under Moore should they combine.
"We've had discussions and have a few things to sort out. Whatever happens has to suit both Kim and myself," Sutherland said last night.
Sutherland trained a double at Rosehill on Saturday when Lil Elsa and The Man scored impressive wins, with the latter ridden by Moore's apprentice, Jay Ford.
Following the win of The Man, Sutherland foreshadowed his likely departure from the training ranks.
"At this stage, I'm still training," he said. "But something will happen later this week. At this stage, The Man will either run at the Gold Coast at his next start or on Saturday week in Sydney."
Lil Elsa upset a plunge on the John Hawkes-trained Sunshine Sam when winning on Saturday. It was Lil Elsa's third win from as many starts.
"Lil Elsa will have one more run in Sydney and then go for a break," Sutherland said.
Trainer Gai Waterhouse was spotted in discussions with Lil Elsa's owner after the filly's victory, in which she set her third class record.
"She's a very nice filly and the owner will have lot of fun with her," Sutherland said.
Sutherland has about 20 horses on his books and 14 boxes at Rosehill. Moore said she had 30 thoroughbreds, 20 of them in training at her stable, which backs on to her Rosehill home.
Moore refused to comment last night on any likely takeover of Sutherland's team but confirmed there had been talks.
"I've spoken to Paul but there's still a lot to work through," she said.
Moore will start Spinning Con in Thursday's Tattersall's Club Cup at Randwick, with Ford to ride.
"Spinning Con ran in the Villiers at his last start and didn't handle the Randwick track that day," she said. "We struck a wet track in the middle of summer after having no rain. I hope the track is better on Thursday in order to give him a fair chance."
Moore said Spinning Con would tackle the Underwood Cup at Rosehill following the Tattersall's Club Cup.
Ford, who was yesterday booked to ride a horse for Waterhouse at Warwick Farm on Saturday, needs just one more win to have his apprentice allowance reduced from three kilos to two kilos.
"He's on fire and is riding full of confidence," Moore said of her stable star.
"He's riding very patiently and not panicking. Jay's a very good young rider and you are going to hear a lot more of him in the future."
Ford rode a winning double at Randwick last Friday.
Moore also said she was excited about the prospects of a two-year-old Lion Hunter filly she has in her care.
"She's by the same sire as Lil Elsa, so I hope she goes as well as that filly," she said.
"Mark Waugh has a share in her and she should be ready to trial in a couple of weeks."
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HMCS North Bay
HMCS North Bay
|HMCS North Bay
|North Bay, Ontario
|2 January 1942
|Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood, Ontario
|Laid down:
|29 September 1942
|27 April 1943
|25 October 1943
|5 June 1945
|Pennant number: K339
|Honours and
|Atlantic 1944–45[1]
|Sold for mercantile use
|General characteristics
|Class and type:
|Flower-class corvette (modified)
|1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons)
|208 ft (63.40 m)o/a
|33 ft (10.06 m)
|11 ft (3.35 m)
|16 knots (29.6 km/h)
|7,400 nautical miles (13,705 km) at 10 knots (18.5 km/h)
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HMCS North Bay was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for North Bay, Ontario.
Flower-class corvettes like North Bay serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were different from earlier and more traditional sail-driven corvettes.[2][3][4] The "corvette" designation was created by the French as a class of small warships; the Royal Navy borrowed the term for a period but discontinued its use in 1877.[5] During the hurried preparations for war in the late 1930s, Winston Churchill reactivated the corvette class, needing a name for smaller ships used in an escort capacity, in this case based on a whaling ship design.[6] The generic name "flower" was used to designate the class of these ships, which – in the Royal Navy – were named after flowering plants.[7]
Corvettes commissioned by the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were named after communities for the most part, to better represent the people who took part in building them. This idea was put forth by Admiral Percy W. Nelles. Sponsors were commonly associated with the community for which the ship was named. Royal Navy corvettes were designed as open sea escorts, while Canadian corvettes were developed for coastal auxiliary roles which was exemplified by their minesweeping gear. Eventually the Canadian corvettes would be modified to allow them to perform better on the open seas.[8]
North Bay was ordered 2 January 1942 as part of the 1942–43 modified Flower-class building programme. This programme was known as the Increased Endurance. Many changes were made, all from lessons that had been learned in previous versions of the Flower-class. The bridge was made a full deck higher and built to naval standards instead of the more civilian-like bridges of previous versions. The platform for the 4-inch main gun was raised to minimize the amount of spray over it and to provide a better field of fire. It was also connected to the wheelhouse by a wide platform that was now the base for the Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar that this version was armed with. Along with the new Hedgehog, this version got the new QF 4-inch Mk XIX main gun, which was semi-automatic, used fixed ammunition and had the ability to elevate higher giving it an anti-aircraft ability.[8]
Other superficial changes to this version include an upright funnel and pressurized boiler rooms which eliminated the need for hooded ventilators around the base of the funnel. This changes the silhouette of the corvette and made it more difficult for submariners to tell which way the corvette was laying.[8]
North Bay was laid down by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. at Collingwood, Ontario 29 September 1942 and was launched 27 April 1943. She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy 25 October 1943 at Collingwood.[9] North Bay had one significant refit during her war career. The refit took place at Sydney, Nova Scotia beginning on 11 December 1944 and finished mid-February 1945.[10]
Service history[edit]
After workups North Bay was assigned to the Royal Navy-controlled EG 9 based in the United Kingdom. She arrived in the UK March 1944 just as the decision was made to exchange the corvettes for frigates in the group. She returned to Canada in April.[10]
After arriving in Canada, North Bay joined the Mid-Ocean Escort Force (MOEF) as a trans-Atlantic convoy escort. She was assigned to escort group C-4 and remained with them until departing for refit in December 1944. After working up in Bermuda, she returned to MOEF this time as a member of escort group C-3. She remained with this unit until the end of the war.[10]
North Bay was paid off 1 July 1945 at Sorel, Quebec and laid up. She was transferred to the War Assets Corporation and sold for mercantile conversion. In 1946 she emerged as the 1,104 GRT refrigerated cargo ship Kent County II under a Bahamian flag.[10][11] In 1950 she was renamed Galloway Kent and in 1951, Bedford II.[9] The ship was deleted in 1992.[11]
- ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ^ Ossian, Robert. "Complete List of Sailing Vessels". The Pirate King. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. (1978). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons & Warfare. 11. London: Phoebus. pp. 1137–1142.
- ^ Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II. New Jersey: Random House. 1996. p. 68. ISBN 0-517-67963-9.
- ^ Blake, Nicholas; Lawrence, Richard (2005). The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy. Stackpole Books. pp. 39–63. ISBN 0-8117-3275-4.
- ^ Chesneau, Roger; Gardiner, Robert (June 1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships (1922–1946). Naval Institute Press. p. 62. ISBN 0-87021-913-8.
- ^ Milner, Marc (1985). North Atlantic Run. Naval Institute Press. pp. 117–119, 142–145, 158, 175–176, 226, 235, 285–291. ISBN 0-87021-450-0.
- ^ a b c Macpherson, Ken; Milner, Marc (1993). Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy 1939–1945. St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-052-7.
- ^ a b "HMCS North Bay (K 339)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ^ a b c d Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. p. 98. ISBN 0-00216-856-1.
- ^ a b "North Bay (5039094)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
External links[edit]
- Hazegray. "Revised Flower Class". Canadian Navy of Yesterday and Today. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- Ready, Aye, Ready. "HMCS North Bay". Retrieved 22 September 2013.


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Build ID M16-2000-051608 Linux Will attach screenshot of how app looks after initial fresh startup. -The vertical scrollbar in the main window is missing. -Navigating with keys or scrollwheel works - for a little while. -When navigating bottom scrollbar with mousedrag an error msg in console states: no handler found for spring Looks and acts the same with two diff. wm's: sawmill0.27 and E0.16.3 Running on gnome-core-1.1.90, gtk gtk+-1.2.7
Created attachment 8764 [details] no scrollbar on right side
also: Bottom scrollbar isn't all visible - it slide things but gives no feedback on where you are on page as the scrollbar-button fills all the visible scrollbar area all the time instead of resizing correct - i think i saw another bug on that though.
strange. The scrollbar is gone if i use xfsft and is there OK if i use xfstt
erik - i mailed you from another account but i get replies to this one. Also: My attachments in bug 39415 is NOT what the reporter was seeing, so it's a separate bugs. Shall we just include it here? It's part of the same problem. My attachments wrongly placed in 39415 are: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=8743 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=8747
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It seems very strange that the scrollbar would be related to fonts, but since it depends on the font server (xfsft vs xfstt), I guess we should keep these 2 issues (scrollbar disappearance and spaced out text) in the same bug report for now at least. Later, if these 2 turn out to be different problems, we can decide what to do at that point.
removing the mentioning of tahoma in chrome/locales/en-US/global/locale/intl.css cures it all! The scrollbar comes back and all looks normal. If tahoma is mentioned there - the error returns. The arial font renders wrong everywhere IF tahoma is mentioned in that file, but not if i remove it. How about that.
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18 years ago
RKA, when the next working build is available, would you please try it with and without tahoma in intl.css, with setenv NS_FONT_DEBUG 3 before you start the program. Please do whatever tests you did when you said that arial renders wrong everywhere, and send me the output. Thanks.
Created attachment 8815 [details]
comments and various requested output
hmm additional discovery... (see comments first) The scrollbar actually *always* vanish when you make the browser so narrow that QA menuitem no longer displays. It seems to be attached to some grid/box defined by the menubar?
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18 years ago
Created attachment 8820 [details]
xlsfonts using xfsft (my normal server, the bug is active using that)
Comment 11•
18 years ago
Created attachment 8821 [details]
xlsfonts using xfstt
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18 years ago
regarding xfontsel: I have too many fonts to select via menus in it, but will add screenshot from when xfontsel was started like this: xfontsel -fn -microsoft-tahoma-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 It looks OK. (And yes - this is while running xfsft.)
Comment 13•
18 years ago
Created attachment 8822 [details] xfontsel using tahoma as displayfont using xfsft as compiled into RH's XFree86-xfs-3.3.5-1.6.0
Comment 14•
18 years ago
RKA, would you please try xfontsel with the following font (which I grabbed from one of your attachments): '-microsoft-tahoma-medium-r-normal--11-*-*-*-c-*-jisx0201.1976-0' Put 'quotes' around it so that the shell doesn't complain.
Comment 15•
18 years ago
wowsa..that DID trigger it. Long like the earlyer attachments showing the bug. Wide wide spaced. Did that bring you closer to a solution, or is this xfsft's fault?
Comment 16•
18 years ago
We're getting closer. Now please try: -microsoft-tahoma-medium-r-normal--11-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
Comment 17•
18 years ago
works OK - no oddities.
Comment 18•
18 years ago
OK, this is just a wild guess, but I suspect that the -c- in the former pattern is causing xfsft to try to turn this proportional font into a "cell" font, and somehow ending up with very wide cells for each glyph. I will ask the xfsft author to take a look at this. Mozilla is selecting that font because it comes first in the XListFonts() output. You can verify the order using "xlsfonts -u". I had a look at the output you sent me earlier, and it looks like "xlsfonts -u" returns the fonts in the order of the font path, but for each directory in the font path, it has the fonts in ASCII order. So the *tahoma*c*jis* font comes before the *tahoma*p*iso* font (because c is before p). We had a long discussion in mozilla.unix about XListFonts order, and several people urged me to honor it. I guess I still believe that this order is important. However, we now have the c vs p problem. If the style sheet asks for tahoma, how am I supposed to know that I ought to be asking for a p font instead of a c font? Tahoma is definitely a proportional font, but how is Mozilla supposed to know that? XListFonts says that both c and p are available, so Mozilla has to choose. Hmmm...
Comment 19•
18 years ago
Created attachment 8825 [details]
RKA's xlsfonts -u output showing *tahoma*c*jis* first
Comment 20•
18 years ago
hmm reading up on this - O'Reilly's "X WIndow System User's Guide" The way X deal with fonts is extremely "filterable" for a reason: different type of applications, consoles etc need different type of fonts. Charcell fonts are made for monitor displays or emulators. I can't find a single reason why not to filter away ALL charcell fonts in a GUI-based web-browser - regardless of OS. Does the windows version offer all available OEM VGA fonts for display in the browser? Does it offer the ".fot" fonts? The character cell fonts are the similiar case on unix. If xmlterm need charcell fonts then don't filter them there. But the brutal approach elsewhere; keeping them out of the rest of Moz, seems to me like a Very Good Idea. (And is also the approach xfstt takes, as you saw)
Comment 21•
18 years ago
Erik, is this yours? If not, please reassign to evaughan
Comment 22•
18 years ago
OK, I'll take ownership of this bug, but I'm going to morph it into a pure font bug. I'm changing the Summary to "Unix version sometimes uses widely spaced fonts". I've created bug 39738 to track the vertical scrollbar disappearance issue.
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Comment 23•
18 years ago
RKA, we can't filter out the monospace fonts because they are required for CSS compliance. If a style sheet asks for "Courier New", we need to honor it. Similarly, if a Unix user's style sheet asks for "fixed" (or any other cell font), we need to honor it. The tahoma case is rather special, since the font server is making it available in more than one form. If the style sheet simply says "Tahoma", we don't know whether they want the proportional or charcell version. Still thinking about this...
Comment 24•
18 years ago
Variable width fonts spacing are tagged with a p. Character Cell fonts spacing are tagged with a c And monospace fonts spacing are tagged with an m The Character Cell fonts are one very special case of monospace fonts, only designed to be used as monitor-fonts (or in terminal emulators) Refreshing the syntax: -foundry-fontfamily-weight-slant-set width- additional style-pixels-points-horizontal dpi-vertical dpi-spacing-average width-character set (should be on one line) So character cell fonts *should not* be used in normal GUI applications. Character cell fonts are the fonts given aliases like 5x7, 6x13 etc. A character cell font is always a type of monospace font, but a monospace font is not always a character cell font - most often not, actually. Courier New and all the other normal monospace fonts look like this, for instance: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-m-50-iso8859-1 -monotype-courier new-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 My previous comparision, between OEM VGA fonts and charcell fonts is the valid one. We wouldn't want to push VGA fonts on MSWindows users, so the equivalent under Unix should also be ignored. The fact that a particular type of font exists on a system, does not mean it should be recognized everywhere. The only problem i could possibly think of was if japanese, arabic and other more pictorial fonts should happen to make extensive use of charcell fonts, but i read up on this and it seems m (monotype) or p (proportionally) spaced fonts are the normal fonts used also there. So this likely much easyer than you think. I believe Character cell fonts can safely be ignored in Mozilla.
Comment 25•
18 years ago
One more thing: The tahoma font is NOT special in that it also comes as a charcell font. Here a sample output from a: xlsfonts |grep '\-c\-' |grep microsoft -microsoft-comic sans ms-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-georgia-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-georgia-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-georgia-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-georgia-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-tahoma-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-tahoma-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-trebuchet ms-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-trebuchet ms-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-verdana-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-verdana-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-verdana-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -microsoft-verdana-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0
Comment 26•
18 years ago
Thanks for looking into it, but I really don't think we should filter out all c fonts. The user may wish to use "fixed", especially now that an ISO 10646 version is available. Also, all of the standard East Asian fonts are c fonts. I have an idea. The style sheet says: font: 3mm tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; Since it says "sans-serif" at the end of the list, we know that the author would be satisfied with a non-monospace font. So perhaps I could structure the code such that when tahoma is requested, it first looks at the proportional versions and if that fails, it looks at the m or c versions (if any). Comments?
Comment 27•
18 years ago
I think that it might be desirable for Mozilla to prefer certain font encodings over others, if they appear to be otherwise equivalent. (Note that this is the Netscape 4.xx behavior; I believe it only ever looks for ISO-8859-1 fonts in normal usage.) The current behavior seems to be that Mozilla will pick whatever encoding is first in the list and suits its needs. I'd suggest that Mozilla prefer ISO 10496 fonts, then ISO-8859-1 fonts, and only then look at other encodings (eg 'jisx0201.1976-0'). This may be especially important in the case of non-European fonts, where the normal ISO-8859 characters may well have been tweaked to better fit the other characters that are the main purpose of the font (as seems to be the case here).
Comment 28•
18 years ago
Since the problem is valid for more fonts than tahoma, listing order should be p m c for all of them really.
Comment 29•
18 years ago
My proposal was not intended to be limited to tahoma, though my wording could easily have led others to believe so. What I meant was that the code would look for the first CSS generic (e.g. sans-serif). If there is no generic font in the list, use the default generic font (from "font.default" pref). Then if that generic is monospace, we look at m and c first, p last. All other generics cause us to look at p first, then m and c. In addition to this p/m/c processing, it might also be a good idea to process the charsets in a better order. For example, we could look for fonts that are used for the language of the document first, and if that fails, use the user's language. Failing that, we could look at the rest of the charsets in the XListFonts order.
Comment 30•
18 years ago
sample URL that now renders wrong: http://www.pcworld.no
Comment 31•
18 years ago
another site is top hundred http://www.cnn.com text in top and bottom areas.
Comment 32•
18 years ago
OK, it turns out that the c version of tahoma was only generated because the user asked ttmkfdir to allow a lot of glyphs to be missing, so that JIS X 0201 became a candidate even though Tahoma does not contain many of the JIS X 0201 glyphs. Users should avoid using that (mis)feature of ttmkfdir, and also the font path should be set up so that the desired fonts occur early in the font path, by setting the font path or by editing fonts.dir, etc. Marking INVALID.
Comment 33•
18 years ago
adding relnote keyword as a reminder to myself. Verifying invalid per erik.
Comment 34•
17 years ago
*** Bug 47971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 35•
17 years ago
I just upgraded to RH 7.0 myself. Curiously, rxvt is showing the double spaced letter problem (I specify font -*-*-bold-r-*-sans-14-*-*-*-*-80-*-*, which works on every other system I use) but Mozilla displays just fine with the fonts I use.


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Switch to digital film poses hardship for independent theaters
Technology's relentless advance is poised to steamroll the Alle-Kiski Valley's last drive-in theater into memory.
The Riverside Drive-In Theater along River Road in Parks could be entering its last season this year because of a change throughout the industry in how movies are shown.
Projectors that run the 35mm film, the movie industry's staple for decades, are about to become extinct. The movie studios are replacing 35mm with digital video recorded on hard drives, according to Todd Ament, 41, of Vandergrift, who has leased and operated the Riverside since 2005.
"It's mostly the studios that want to do away with 35mm film because it costs them about $1,500 per print to put it on 35 mm versus $100 to put it on a hard drive," said Ament, who has been a theater projectionist for years.
The new technology requires new equipment such as a digital projector, a server and an audio processor. Ament said that equipment costs about $70,000, which is $70,000 he doesn't have. Because of that, the Riverside may shut down for good when the drive-in movie season ends in October.
Fading film
"This year has kind of been a bonus," Ament said. "They said they were going to do away with it (35mm) this year."
He said while studios may make a few 35mm prints beyond 2013, they will be difficult to get.
"It (35mm) won't be as plentiful because 80 percent of the industry has converted over," Ament said.
He said he likely would have to wait weeks for the few 35mm prints of feature films that will be made and sent to theaters that draw bigger crowds.
Ament said he tried to get a loan to finance the digital equipment purchase, but couldn't secure one because he leases, not owns the drive-in.
So Ament hopes he has a high-tech solution — the power of the Internet — to raise at least some of the money via an online campaign known as "crowdfunding."
A burning question
Why should people donate to a private, for-profit enterprise?
Ament said it is not just to maintain his and six other employees' jobs, but to preserve a vanishing piece of American culture, the drive-in. A school bus driver during the drive-in off season, he said he simply can't save Riverside on his own.
"I understand those who would have that concern," Ament said. "But what everyone has to remember is that 60 percent of what we collect at the box office, which is $8 for adults and $3 for children, goes right back to the studio. So the drive-in survives on 40 percent, plus what the concession stand brings in."
He hopes the crowdfunding effort gets him at least halfway — $35,000. Then, he said, he can go back to the banks and see if they are more accommodating.
"If we fail, then we are out of business and that is going to be really hard for me just to walk away from it after eight years of putting everything into it, night after night, season after season," Ament said.
A major jump
Most of the big movie theater chains like CineMark and Carmike, which operate complexes with about 10 to 20 screens, started the digital conversion in 2010.
Given the cost, conversion can be difficult for independent theater owners with one or two screens like The Oaks in Oakmont.
"There hasn't been this much of a leap since we went from silent features to the talkies," said Adam Morgan, The Oaks manager. "It's going to affect the Oaks the way it will affect most of the independent theaters: in order to survive you're going to have to adapt."
"Even in the past year it has taken a major jump forward," he said. "I think it has taken some people off-guard."
Puzzling effect
Morgan said The Oaks has been half film and half digital after purchasing a digital projector, allowing it to show films downloaded directly from studio servers or on Blu-Ray disk. He said the projector, however, is not compliant with the standards set forth by the Digital Cinema Initiative, an organization of major studios that pushed for the digital conversion.
He said that means the owners of The Oaks must invest in the new equipment as well. Morgan said he has not discussed with them about what their plans.
Morgan said he has heard about the plight of Ament and the Riverside Drive-In.
"That's the real shame of it," Morgan said. "As much as it is impacting the small theaters, it is really going to hurt the drive-ins mainly because of the fact that the drive-ins are seasonal.
"You're probably going to see more of them go by the wayside," he said.
That puzzles Morgan.
"To me, you would want as many theaters out there as you can so more people can see your films," he said.
The Motion Picture Association of America declined to comment on the conversion issue. Calls seeking comment from the National Association of Theater Owners and Digital Cinema Initiatives were not returned. The members of Digital Cinema Initiatives are the same six major studios that make up the Motion Picture Association of America:
'Better than film'
Nick Mulone, an independent who owns the 10-screen South Pike Cinema in Buffalo, thinks digital is a change for the better.
He said his theaters are on track for the conversion.
"It's in the process of getting done right now," Mulone said. "The equipment is ordered, we are just waiting for them to install it. We'll have two 3-D systems after the digital conversion."
Mulone said he tested the system for two years and said, "It is really a good system, it's a lot better than film. Its better for the managers, they don't have to worry once the movie starts, about the film becoming unthreaded."
He said the hard drives are shipped via UPS and plugged in just like a computer hard drive.
"I was at Deluxe Studios in Hollywood. ... They can make 1,500 hard drives in a day," he said. "It was pretty interesting."
Digital film is cheaper for the studios and the distributors, Mulone conceded, but said it is also better for the theater owners and movie fans.
Aside from the threading issue, Mulone said 35mm becomes easily scratched
"It picks up a lot of static electricity which picks up dust and the dust causes scratches," Mulone said.
The hard drives eliminate that problem, he said.
As for movie goers, Mulone said, "The advantage for them is that the movie is sharper, more crisp, there is no fuzzy line around the perimeter like it is with film and the sound is better."
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In Breaking Dawn, Bella and Edward have a daughter named Renesmee, who is half vampire, half human. As a result of her "mixed" status, she ages at rapid speed. In the past, before the "Dawn" of new technology, this would have been a serious problem for filmmakers who obviously want the character to look like the same person but cannot film over a lifetime.
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Bodega promises intelligent tapas plus more substantial dishes in a
lively setting.
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The French have been arguing with Spain's independently minded
Catalans for centuries over the origins of creme brulee (or, in the
latter's case, crema catalana). They're similarly styled but
different, burnt sugar-capped dishes (it's all in the way you make
the custard).
If the crema catalana with grilled fruit ($12) at Bodega is anything to go by then I'm giving it to the Catalans on points. Admittedly, Elvis Abrahanowicz's sexy, free-form scoop of citrussy custard is more French than Spanish in technique, but the result is the best of both worlds. It reclines like a Hollywood starlet, with a patch of crunchy toffee on top and a smear of bitter orange puree underneath, accompanied by a lightly caramelised brochette of grilled strawberries and blood orange.
His almond gazpacho with orange jelly and corn ice-cream ($12) is just as spectacular - a little glass bottle of almond-infused milk escorts a bowl filled with a pretty scattering of Seville orange jelly and blood orange segments. A fascinating corn ice-cream with a popcorn tuile adds humour and crunch. You pour the gazpacho over the other ingredients and, thanks to a dash of olive oil and salt, it's a wonderfully invigorating finale.
There's plenty to entertain anyone with a savoury bent among the tapas-style dishes. Bodega slots into Sydney's trend towards casual grazing over shared plates with simple, rustic food, designed for everyone to unceremoniously dig in to. You could drop in for a quick nibble, or thoroughly investigate the exclusively Spanish, Argentine and Chilean wine list with something to mop up the fruits of your research.
The cosy room, with its lime-green splashes, exposed brick and wine wall has plenty of vim and sass. The colourful feature wall with its proud-chested bull silhouette and matador references looks like the opening credits to a movie by Bigas Luna or Almodovar.
Bare lights dangle from the ceiling like spiders and the backlit wall framing the open kitchen looks like a streaking comet shower. A bare, sangria-coloured 10-seat communal table with its stylish white Philippe Starck chairs dominates the space. The best bit is you can plonk yourself on a Starck stool in front of the kitchen and watch Ben Milgate and Abrahanowicz ply their trade at close quarters.
Inspired by Argentine-born Abrahanowicz's heritage and their travels in South America and Spain, Bodega (one definition: a corner store also selling wine) is the contemporary Spanish eatery this city has been crying out for.
It seems pretty straightforward, but Bodega demonstrates there's plenty of thought going into what's on the plate (and the wines to match it). I've tried almost all of the 25-odd menu dishes during my visits and there have been few disappointments.
My only note of caution would be to order a few dishes at a time and see how you go.
My enthusiasm resulted in a lot of food and a surprisingly hefty bill.
That wonderful Argentine snack, empanadas ($8 for three), are as good a starting point as any. The beef version, spiced with smoked paprika and cumin, is studded with hardboiled egg and black olives, with a salsa to freshen things up. The corn empanadas, rich with a bechamel base and manchego cheese, are accompanied by chimichurri, the parsley-and-paprika Argentine sauce-marinade for grills.
A vivid eggplant "escabeche" ($8) is heady with garlic, chilli and fennel; cut-to-order slices of decent West Australian jamon ($10) are pleasingly served at room temperature; pan-fried, smoked chorizo ($10) is finished with a dash of apple cider.
The highlight is morcilla ($10), Spain's black pudding. These luscious dark discs, husky with spices, make a striking contrast on the white plate. Each slice balances a pretty matchstick salad of apple and radish on top, delivering crunch and a refreshing lightness.
The fried, spiced school prawns ($12) are addictive. They're coated in a sultry blend of smoked paprika, black pepper and coriander seeds and you eat them head and all.
A stuffed tomato ($12), slightly split to reveal its contents of
yellow smoked mozzarella, is a pretty evocation of Spain's flag.
It's surrounded by a shallow moat of olive oil-jewelled tomato
consomme and dusted with a sprinkling of dried black olives. It
seems more earnest than inspired.
Piquillo peppers stuffed with bacalao ($14) is less torrid and salty than I expected, but that's because Bodega makes its own blue eye "salt cod", poaching it in milk before flaking it through potato and lifting it with a dash of lemon juice. On salsa verde it looks as great as it tastes.
Steamed Berkshire pork belly with roasted banana capsicum ($20) is as pale as a Scot in winter. The charred and slightly peeled capsicum along with a dash of sherry vinegar help cut the pork, while fresh chilli perks things up.
Boneless lamb neck ($24), cooked for 16 hours, is so unbelievably soft a slight breeze would almost break it apart. The presentation is Miro-esque with a tongue of eggplant and pinenut puree, a slash of olive puree and veal sweetbreads scattered on braised chicory with caramelised onion. It all seems a little too busy.
If desserts don't appeal, you can always try a top-shelf sherry such as the La Sacristia de Romate Pedro Ximenez ($19.50, 60ml). Now the only thing missing is the next tapas bar to wander off to for more nibbles and drinks.
The Summary: Intelligent tapas plus more
substantial dishes in a lively setting, with great Spanish wines. A
long overdue, contemporary tapas venue.
The Value: Seems good but the tab creeps up
The Chefs: Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz
The Owners: Ben Milgate, Elvis Abrahanowicz and Joe Valore
The Service: Vivacious
The Food: Modern Spanish and South American
The Wine: Small, educational range of Spanish and South American, plus great sherries; six by the glass
The Vegetarians: Great choices
The Noise: You bet
Wheelchair access: Yes
The Score: 14/20
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There are some unusually large populations of green cloverworms on soybeans scattered around the state. This is a very common insect in soybeans which always has the potential for economic damage, but very rarely causes economic damage. The populations I have seen thus far are not at the economic threshold, but were much larger than I am used to seeing. It makes sense to look at your soybeans, especially late planted or slow developing beans.
Green cloverworm is easy to find and easy to identify. These worms are light green with two thin white stripes along each side of the body. When fully grown, these slender worms are 1" to 1-1/2" long. They have only three pair of prologs in the center of their body. Most of the other caterpillars in Kentucky-grown soybeans have either 4 or 2 pair of prolegs. Green cloverworm will become very active, wiggling and looping when disturbed.
These pests are foliage feeders. They will strip the leaf tissue from between the veins leaving the veins, petioles and stems behind like a skeleton.
It takes a great many of these caterpillars to cause an economic problem. Economic threshold (ET) depends not only upon the number of green cloverworms, but also on the stage of the plants, the value of the beans, and the cost of treatments. ETs may be found in:
IPM-3, KY IPM Manual for Soybeans at: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/IPM/manuals.htm and
ENT- 13, Insecticide Recommendations for Soybeans at: http://pest.ca.uky.edu/EXT/Recs/welcomerecs.html
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It is a great honour for the Institute of Architects, Pakistan (IAP) and myself, personally, to take over as President of ARCASIA for the term 2017-18. I realize the enormity of responsibility and the expectations that the members of this 21-nation organization have from this office.
This is more so because my immediate predecessors Ar. Nui Sathirut Tandanand from Thailand (2015-16) and Ar. Pei Ing Tan from Malaysia (2013-14), who had been remarkably pro-active during their respective tenures, have set the bar at a very high level.
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One of our Travel Prize 2016 winners, Masum Huq from Bangladesh, has now completed his research trip in Bangkok, sponsored by NS Bluescope, on the urban homeless and their use of urban public space as temporary shelter. He has collaborated with the local mentor Chutayaves Sinthuphan of Site Specific. We and all mentors including Patama Roonrakwit [Case Studio] and Vipavee Khunavichayanont [Design for Disasters] look forward to meeting Masum again at his project presentation in Hong Kong this September!
It is our pleasure to announce the three winners of ARCASIA Travel Prize 2016 from Country Zones A, B and C. The winners and their winning research proposals are as follows :
Masum Ul Huq
In Search of Temporary Shelter for Urban Homeless People
Buttriya Ruamthamarak
Filter Floating House
Hoi Kwan Cheung
Furniture for Flood : A System of Furniture Designed for Self-rescue upon Flooding
Theme: Water and Architecture
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The Committee of this competition is composed of the Office Bearers of ARCASIA and members of the Organizing Committee, the 38th ARCASIA Council Meeting.
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[pc-pvt-content allow="149″ message="Please log in to view content."][/pc-pvt-content]There has been little written in English regarding the food of Puglia and serious students of the southern Italian kitchen should consider the rewards of self-translating first-hand texts, however arduous.
What follows is a list of recommended books in English—with noted reservations—followed by a list of books in Italian, and then recommended reading on the subject of food itself, "Take to Bed" books.
*We've included the books of two celebrity chefs here, not because they are particularly well-written, but because they represent who is actually selling cookbooks these days. Serious readers should consider seeking out more well-traveled and authoritative authors, which is where the bulk of celebrity chefs gather their information anyway. Further, these first-hand texts are in jeopardy of falling out of print each time the world scrambles to buy another book featuring Nigella licking a spoon or Rachel and her thirty minute Sloppy Joes. If you're serious about books about food, now is the time to support your favourite authors. Still in doubt, glance at any bibliography and you'll see the same authors' names keep popping up. Those are the books to buy and they will be the books that still mean something long after the celebrity chef phase is over.
The Flavors of Puglia, Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Without a doubt, THE book on the food of Puglia in English. Jenkins can always be counted on for two things: sober and thorough research, and elegant and enviable prose. Available in its last printing in the States and England, and now born again in a recent reissue, currently available only in Italy. Buy this when you're here!
The Mediterranean Diet Cook Book, Nancy Harmon Jenkins
This book explores the vast health benefits of eating the classic Mediterranean diet- olive oil, little red meat, fish, lots of vegetables—as opposed to offering yet another "diet," as in a "weight loss diet," as the title may suggest to many. Worth buying, as many of the non-Italian and non-Pugliesi recipes have kissing cousins in Puglia. Like all her books, it's decidedly geared towards American kitchens, supermarkets. European and Asian readers will have no problem with conversations.
Holiday Food, Mario Batali*
Not even Pugliese but the book reveals profound similarities between Amalfi and Puglia, both historically poor and coastal. I also recommend it for its take on southern Italian winter foods, which are often overlooked as their season doesn't co-inside with the holidays of many.
Jamie's Italy, Jamie Oliver*
Recommend but with reservations. For those seeking Tuesday night quasi-traditional Pan-Italian menu suggestions, this is a good book to have. For anyone looking deeper than that, Oliver's habit for writing books without ever bothering to read one will continue to disappoint (he doesn't even to pretend that he didn't pick up the majority of the recipes while working for Carluccio and Rose and Ruth, in London). Still, he does beautifully what he set out to do: to provide young londonesi with the owner's manual for Sainsbury and Mark's and Spencer.
Red, White and Greens, Faith Willinger
It's with great reluctance that we recommend such a Tuscan-centric book, for two reasons: there are so many of them, and that so many of them treat Tuscany as the single cookie, the rest of Italy being little more than the wasted dough surrounding the cookie cutter, what's left there on the countertop. But it's included both for its thoroughness of content, and for its sense of actual time spent in Italy, which has unfortunately never been a prerequisite for actually writing a book about the foods of Italy. Faith knows what she's talking about.
La Cucina Pugliese, Luigi Sada
Perhaps the most famous and well-respected historical writer on the foods of Puglia. His instructions, like many on this Italian language list, appear more as strategies rather than recipes, an annoyance to many that have grown accustomed to recipes in modern English, which operate on the assumption that cooking is based on the scientific method, that results are repeatable each time. Experience cooks know that ingredients, cooking methods and even choice of vessel place scientific method far from the kitchen. The less-that-exactness of such items as un bicchiere d'olio, "a glass of oil" genuinely teaches in ways that exact amounts never will.
Oltre le Orecchiette, Tonio Piceci
Salentinboca, Tonio Piceci
Without a doubt the modern authority on the food of Puglia. The language dabbles in dialect, local slang and is particularly traditional, even if his restaurant is often criticized for the opposite. 'Scholarly' isn't too strong a word for his writing, a rarity for chefs. Particularly moving are his lists of similar items found under different names short distances from Lecce. These reveal the remarkably, even shockingly pristine quality of the culinary cannons of these small towns, many with an hour's walk of Lecce. Ex. Aggiungano una cipollina a Surbo, un cucchiaio d'aceto a San Pietro in Lama. (They add a small onion in Surbo (a 5-minute drive), a spoonful of vinegar in San Pietro in Lama (10 minutes). He is wise to go traditional with his books, as he is atypical among famous chefs, the majority that see fit to "sign" each dish, making it theirs personally, rather than theirs, as part of a community. These are the two first Italian-language books to buy for any student of the cooking of the Salento.
Honey From a Weed, Patience Gray
A quirky and intriguing peek into the life of a nomadic English cook. What astounds is how much life has been lived just below the surface of the page, such as radical relocation, new languages and the adjustment to new obstacles that, to many would stand as towering barriers. Her cooking is macho, in that cowboy, bandit and sailor sort of way, gathered snails and weeds, cooked over the pieces of a broken chair, in a black cauldron, in the middle of an open field.
The Cook and the Gardener, Amanda Hesser
A sober but charming first-person as written by a young American woman charged with cooking in a French chateau, and the resulting relationship with the curmudgeon of a French gardener. Highly recommended for its slice of French life and its avoidance of cliché, even if the recipes are occasionally, decidedly non-French (olive oil in Burgundy, etc). Highly re-readable, and none-the-less inviting each time.
Mediterranean Seafood, Alan Davidson
A pragmatic, but fascinating book, decidedly not about any one place (fish are listed both European and North African names). If sales have suffered—it's currently in its third addition—it's only because those that have access to the Mediterranean tend to not to seek out the methods of other places: cultural inertia breeds what to others could be called monotony. Those that do seek out the methods of other places, most likely don't have access to Mediterranean seafood. If this were not the case, this book would still appear here, just above.
Cod, Mark Kurlansky
Every so often a simple little book comes along that seems to reinvent the wheel and this is one of those books: it's about, of all things, the cod fish, and yet it's nearly impossible to put down. If you've ever wondered why Italy, a nation with so many coasts, was so taken with Scandinavian salt cod for more than a thousand years, this is a book for you.
On The Omnivores Dilemma, Michael Pollen
The food book that all self-proclaimed 'foodies' need to read. An alternative title could have been, What Sanctimonious and Smug Wealthy Folks Don't Know About Whole Foods. The 'Supersize Me' of the 'organic' movement. A brilliant book. As driving as the Davinci Codes but, well, true. Where does your 'organic' food come from? The answers are surprising, especially for those that think that paying more in pretty surroundings means becoming part of the solution.
The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
It must Have Been Something I Ate, Jeffrey Steingarten
Quirky, often laugh-out-loud funny, Steingarten's eponymous articles from his food column at Vogue (perhaps the only one on the payroll allowed to actually eat). Where too many food articles tend to be escapades in the reinforcement of truisms, Steingarten actually investigates, often exhaustingly. The overall effect is to feel like Tanto or Robin along for an adventure, but only this time the objective is how to perfectly roast a chicken, or find the perfect bottle of water.
The River Cottage Year, Hugh Fearnley-WhittingStall
The River Cottage Cookbook, Hugh Fearnley-WhittingStall
The River Cottage Meat Book, Hugh Fearnley-WhittingStall
A back to the woods, or rather, farm-type, that never lost his journalist, or broadcaster's (if you came to him through his show's versus books) appeal. His weaknesses are that he tries to appeal to the tree huggers a bit much- cooking their fresh placenta for a lesbian couple, a preference for a mouse exorcism versus the hard-science of traps. His strength is that he is just a few steps ahead of the reader in learning how to raise his own pigs, or grow his own broad beans, rather than a true farmer that can't relate to city folks in the first place. It's contagious and his books appeal on a voyeuristic, almost pornographic level: 'I wish that were me raising those rabbits in the countryside, I wish it were me that making that raspberry marmalade!' If he aims to inspire us to eat better and take an active role in that, job well-done.
Pot On The Fire, John Thorne
Serious Pig, John Thorne
What food writing should be, but rarely is. Thorne writes in a quiet, comfortable voice about the food around him, indigenous to his home in Maine. His enviable gift is his ability to write at length on subjects that few of us would—a favourite knife, a bean pot, a family restaurant that doesn't serve alcohol—making each seem like the most interesting subject on earth, if only the reader would take the time to take a closer look. By far the most important American writer on food in English, if only because he asks Americans to re-examine what they have, rather than instructing them on how to import, the overwhelming function of most cookbooks. Non-Americans will take away as much, if not more, especially as there is so little available internationally about the food of America that doesn't start with a witch hunt over introducing the world to fast food.


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UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 24: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, speaks at an event with Thom Tillis, Republican candidate for North Carolina Senate, and members of the National Federation of Independent Business at Illuminating Technologies Inc., in Greensboro, N.C., September 24, 2014. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
CHARLESTON, SC - SEPTEMBER 30: U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks to students at the College of Charleston during a town hall meeting on September 30, 2014 in Charleston, South Carolina. Paul has been speaking at a series of GOP events in the state, including the Universtity of South Carolina in Columbia. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images)
DES MOINES, IA - JANUARY 30: Democratic Presidential Candidate and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley speaks to supporters at his campaign headquarters, Saturday January 30, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa. O'Malley and other candidates are making their final pleas to the voters of Iowa with the caucus just two days away. (Photo by Steve Pope/Getty Images)
GOOD MORNING AMERICA - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a guest on 'Good Morning America,' 11/5/14, airing on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, talks during a campaign stop at the Crossroads Shooting Sports, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 in Johnston, Iowa. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
WEST ALLIS, WI - NOVEMBER 4: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker greets supporters at his election night party November 4, 2014 in West Allis, Wisconsin. Walker defeated Democratic challenger Mary Burke. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina speaks during a campaign event at Iowa State University, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, speaks after a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Ryan said he'd support more aggressive bombings in the Middle East to fight Islamic State militants after the beheading of a U.S. journalist. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., on Thursday, March 6, 2014. CPAC, a project of the American Conservative Union (ACU), runs until Saturday, March 8. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
AUSTIN, TX - NOVEMBER 4: Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during the victory party for Texas Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott after an apparent victory over Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis on November 4, 2014 in Austin, Texas. Republicans won the majority of the US Senate for the first time in 8 years after Americans went to the polls and voted in the mid-term elections. (Photo by Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)
UNITED STATES - JUNE 03: Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition second annual conference and strategy briefing held at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel. (Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call)
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum looks at his target during a campaign stop at the Central Impact Shooting Range, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 in Boone, Iowa. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Jim Gilmore makes a point during a Republican presidential primary debate, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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