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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — This Friday, "Guiding Light," the longest-running scripted program in broadcasting history, will go dark after 72 years when CBS pulls the plug on the daytime drama.
Disgruntled devotee Judy Ryne knows exactly how she wants it to end.
"I'd love to see all the cast members come out to the center of the stage," she says, "and then turn around and moon the CBS executives."
You'll have to excuse Ryne's enmity. A Brentwood, Calif., resident who has watched "Guiding Light" for about 62 of her 65 years, she has been ticked off since April, when CBS announced it was canceling the low-rated show.
And she isn't the only one finding it difficult to let go. "Guiding Light" debuted on NBC radio in 1937 and moved to television in 1952. So, for many viewers who followed the citizens of the fictional town of Springfield, USA, it was much more than a soapy serial. It was a cherished daily ritual — a family tradition passed on from one generation to the next.
Says Ryne, "I don't remember much from my childhood, but I can distinctly recall sitting in a big overstuffed chair with my mother and following 'Guiding Light' with rapt attention. That shared time with her is priceless."
Most longtime fans cling to similar memories. Myrna Bachiochi, 69, of San Ramon, Calif., was introduced to "Guiding Light" by her mother and grandmother before she started school in 1944. Decades later, her son watched the show during lunch breaks in his college dorm room.
"I am filled with a sense of emptiness now that it's going," she says.
Likewise, Renee DePratti, 43, of Fremont, Calif., recalls how her grandmother, who died at the age of 103 in 2001, first listened to, and then watched, the show until just a few months before her death. Grandma passed her "Guiding Light" devotion to her daughter, who, in turn, got DePratti "totally addicted" when she was 10.
And then there's Kathy Thorsen, 59, of Newark, Calif. She inherited the "Guiding Light" habit from her mother, Annie Nunes, who at 96, still watches the show. Thorsen recalls being riveted to an episode while in a hospital labor room just before giving birth to her third child.
"The baby started coming a few minutes before the show was over and the nurses needed to wheel me out of there," she says. "I protested and asked them, 'Can't it wait a minute?'"
Such are the ties that bind fans to their daily "stories." Through seven decades, they've faithfully followed the many marriages, divorces and funerals — as well as the fairy-tale romances, sexual shenanigans, murder mysteries, fake deaths and drawn-out cliffhangers — that fueled "Guiding Light." Along the way, they've taken to members of Springfield's Bauer, Spaulding, Lewis and Cooper clans as their own.
"I've sat there and bawled like a baby when some of the characters died," admits Rosemary Gaunt, 77, of Newark. "Losing 'Guiding Light' is like losing a part of yourself. These people are like members of your family."
But the family apparently wasn't large enough. According to Nielsen, "Guiding Light's" audience has fallen to 2.7 million viewers this season — down from 5 million in 1999. And the show has come to epitomize the collective struggles of the daytime drama.
In the 1960s and '70s — the heyday of the genre — as many as 19 soap operas dotted the daytime landscape. After "Guiding Light" ends, it will be down to seven. Blame competition from the Internet and cable, as well as prime-time television, which offers its own brand of melodrama via shows such as "Grey's Anatomy" and "Desperate Housewives." Reality TV has also posed a stiff challenge with its ongoing dramas that offer soapy elements.
"Viewers have discovered that real-life drama can be a lot more intriguing and fun, in some cases," says Victor Miller, who wrote for "Guiding Light" during the '90s. "Meanwhile, the networks have seen that reality TV can be done for a lot less money. Think about it: With 'Judge Judy,' you only have to worry about one set, one star, one assistant ..."
Considering the sad state of soap operas, Miller isn't surprised that 'Guiding Light' is going off the air, but that it lasted as long as it did. The genre, he points out, has failed to cultivate the next generation of fans.
"Soaps aren't grabbing the young girls," he says. "Mothers and wives are too busy to be a captive audience anymore. And Grandma's out working at Wal-Mart. So who's there to put the kid on their lap and watch 'Guiding Light'?"
Owned from start to finish by Proctor & Gamble, "The Guiding Light" (the "the" was dropped in the '70s) was created by soap opera legend Irna Phillips as a 15-minute daily radio drama. Its remarkable run on television yielded 15,762 episodes.
Over the years, it dabbled in nutty plot lines (Josh once cloned Reva), but also touched upon social issues such as abortion, spousal rape, AIDS, teen pregnancy, racism and alcoholism. Recently, it introduced an extremely popular lesbian relationship between two mothers.
"You would see changes in the world reflected on the show," says Sharon Aguilar, 65, of Concord, Calif. "As we moved along through our lives, it moved along with us. But it always hung onto its deep core of family values."
The show was also a proving ground for several big-name stars, including Kevin Bacon, Calista Flockhart, Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones.
None, however, attained the same heights of popularity as Reva Shayne while on the show. Played by multiple Emmy-winner Kim Zimmer, Reva began life on the soap in 1983 as a free-spirited vixen who would fall in and out of love with Josh Lewis (Robert Newman), and in a classic scene, once baptized herself the "Slut of Springfield."
"I think she's been married to everybody in that town," says Bachiochi. "But Reva was someone you'd want to hang out with at a party. She was so vibrant and brave and brassy."
But even Reva couldn't rescue "Guiding Light." In recent years, executive producer Ellen Wheeler tried to reverse the ratings free-fall — and save money — by experimenting with hand-held digital cameras and filming on location in Peapack, N.J. The move gave the show a more realistic appearance but didn't boost the ratings.
"To me, it just looked kind of tacky," says Miller.
Sally Polcer, a 79-year-old fan from Walnut Creek, wasn't fond of the new look, either. But nothing — except a network cancelation — could keep her from "Guiding Light."
"It was just something you got used to doing every day," she says. "I considered it to be a good addiction that never got me into trouble."
This week, the daytime "Guiding Light" comes to an end after a history-making 72-year run. Here's some trivia:
—IN THE BEGINNING: Created by Irna Phillips, "Guiding Light" made its debut as a 15-minute NBC radio program on Jan. 25, 1937. It moved to CBS television on June 30, 1952, and also continued to run on radio until June 29, 1956.
—THE LIGHT: The title originally referred to a lamp in the study of one of the show's early characters, a minister. Later, the image of a lighthouse was used in the show's title sequence.
—DISTINGUISHED ALUMS: Actors who have appeared on "Guiding Light" include Kevin Bacon, Joan Collins, Blythe Danner, Taye Diggs, Calista Flockhart, Michelle Forbes, Allison Janney, James Earl Jones, Hayden Panettiere, Jimmy Smits, Sherry Stringfield, Cicely Tyson, Christopher Walken and JoBeth Williams.
—TAKING THE BATON: When "Guiding Light" ends on Friday, the title of TV's current longest-running scripted program falls to "As the World Turns" (CBS). It launched in 1956.
—THE REPLACEMENT: "Guiding Light's" slot on the daytime lineup will be filled by a reboot of "Let's Make a Deal," hosted by Wayne Brady. It premieres Oct. 5
WHAT: "Guiding Light"
WHEN: Through Friday; check local listings for time
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Temporary solution for Edmonton's methadone clinic
Edmonton – Patients who use Edmonton's methadone clinic received some good news Wednesday.
Eight physicians are temporarily stepping in to relieve services after negotiations failed between Alberta Health Services (AHS) and three doctors who currently operate the program.
"We're delighted that there is a plan in the making. Certainly, these patients would have been devastated if they were left to their own devices," says addictions specialist, Dr. Charl Els.
About 540 patients use the program in Edmonton.
Methadone is administered to outpatients recovering from substance abuse. It stabilizes users and is a safe long term treatment.
The contract between AHS and the three doctors who are employed within the program ends this month and that has patients concerned.
"Send some more money to our doctors, to our program. Have a little compassion for the guys that are really trying," says patient Kelvin Jolicour.
Jolicour credits the program for saving his life.
AHS says it's recruited one full time doctor and is actively recruiting others.
Health professionals say the whole situation highlights the need for more support for methadone treatment in Alberta.
Dr. Els adds the consequences could be devastating if the two sides don't come to a long term solution.
"If patients don't have regular, on-going, secure methadone, there's a high possibility, high likely-hood of people ending up in emerg., possibly relapsing to the drug they used to use," says Dr. Els.
AHS says the clinic will not close and the temporary relief will remain in place until a long term solution is found.
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"Spring Breakers" broke out at the specialty box office this weekend, taking in $270,000 from three theaters for a stunning $90,000 per-screen average, easily the biggest limited debut of 2013 and among the best ever.
James Franco, who's also starring in "Oz the Great and Powerful, is front and center in the R-rated "Spring Breakers," along with Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson.
Franco's two roles are a world apart.
Also read: 'Burt Wonderstone' Can't Take 'The Call' at Box Office as 'Oz' Repeats at No. 1
Harmony Korine wrote and directed the tale of four college girls who land in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation and are bailed out by a drug and arms dealer -- played by Franco -- who wants them to do some dirty work.
Indie distributor A24 released the film, which was produced by Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures. It debuted last week at the South By Southwest Film Festival.
The "Spring Breakers" debut made it quite a weekend for Franco, along with "Oz the Great and Powerful." The $200-million Disney CGI extravaganza took in an estimated $42.2 million in its second week and raised its overall domestic total to more than $145 million.
"Spring Breakers" will expand nationwide on Friday.
"The Master" posted 2012's biggest specialty box office opening, taking in $729,745 from five theaters for a $145,949 per-screen average. And Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" rolled up up a per-location average of $130,752 while playing in four theaters on Memorial Day weekend last year.
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Posted by Pamela on September 24, 2007
In Reply to: Tuck in posted by Victoria S Dennis on September 22, 2007
: : : An American colleague recently asked me what the phrase "tucking in" meant (in the context eating; he was familiar with the "tucking someone into bed" meaning). Although I was able to tell him, it got me wondering as to how and where the phrase originated.
: : : I hadn't really considered that it was probably a very English term; for anyone unfamiliar with it, it means to eat something - usually with great enthusiasm.
: : : Does anyone have any ideas as to the origin of the phrase?
: : : I suspect - but have no evidence - that its related to the 17th - 19th century item of women's clothing, the tucker. (Which I suspect might have also been responsible for the use of the word 'tucker' to mean food.)
: : You are tucking the food into your mouth just as you tuck your shirttail into your pants. That may be too obvious.
: : The clothing item is lace worn around the neck. Is the relationship bib-like or is it tucked into the collar perhaps?
: The Oxford English Dictionary also vouches for the idea that if you "put away" food heartily you are "tucking it in". I don't think there possibly can be any connection with the 18th-19th century tucker, which was a straight strip of lace or muslin tucked into the top of a low-cut woman's dress to reduce the amount of decolletage visible - for food to get anywhere near a woman's tucker, she'd have to splash her meal all over herself! But as "tuck in" is first recorded from 1810, and the Australian use of "tucker" to mean "rations, food" dates from the 1850s, it's quite possible that Aussie "tucker" was "what you tuck into". (VSD)
"Tucker" for food is given by the Australian National Dictionary Centre as 1833 - (perhaps from British underworld slang). Does it have anything to do with "tucker" being what you "tuck into"? Hmmm. Tucker (or tuck) meaning food is very common - we have "tuck shops" at every school in this country (shops run by the "P&C" - parents and citizens - where kids can buy lunch), and everyone here knows about the dog sitting on the tucker box (box where you keep the food). A picture of the famous pup is here: (http://members.pcug.org.au/~stmcdona/tuckrbox.html) . Pamela


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Hong Chae Park obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea, all in the field of ceramic science and engineering. After graduation, Professor Park was granted a KRF postdoctoral fellowship and worked in the University of Leeds (UK) for one year. After joining PNU in March 1988, Dr. Park visited the University of Bath (UK), Sophia University (Japan), Kyoto University (Japan), and Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan) for a short research, respectively. Dr. Park's research group focuses on the structural (including recycling of industrial waste matters) and bioceramic materials and published more than 150 papers in the refereed scientific press. Dr. Park received the Academic Prize (1993) and Technology Prize (2007) from the Korean Ceramic Society.
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1. The National Christmas Tree is situated on the Ellipse, which is a component of
a. the National Mall
b. the White House
c. President's Park
d. Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site
2. The National Christmas Tree that was decorated and lit earlier this month
a. was cut last month in a Colorado national forest
b. was transplanted from a Maryland national park
c. is a gift from the people of Toronto, Canada
d. is the same one that was decorated and lit last year
3. Celebrating "Christmas in August" on August 25th is a longstanding tradition at ______ National Park.
a. Glacier
b. Yellowstone
c. Yosemite
d. Grand Canyon
4. Over the years, hundreds of people have paid big bucks to spend Christmas Eve at the Bracebridge Dinner in
a. Grand Canyon's El Tovar Hotel
b. Yellowstone's Old Faithful Inn
c. Death Valley's Furnace Creek Inn Ranch and Resort
d. Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel
5. Many people observe birds in national parks to get information for the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count, the world's largest bird survey. Which park's Christmas Bird Count provides information about the winter bird populations of the San Luis Valley?
a. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
b. Petrified Forest National Park
c. Scotts Bluff National Monument
d. Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
6. The Festival of Christmas Past is held each December in the Sugarlands Visitor Center and the Sugarlands Training Center. That should be enough information for you to determine that the Festival of Christmas Past is an annual event staged in
a. Golden Gate National Recreation Area
b. Great Smoky Mountains National Park
c. Acadia National Park
d. Cape Hatteras National Seashore
7. The National Park Service wants to expand ______ by acquiring the Christmas Mountains, a ruggedly beautiful wilderness tract encompassing over 9,200 acres near the park's northwest boundary. However, a key Texas official vowed that he won't allow the Christmas Mountains tract to be sold to the National Park Service unless the park allows sport hunting and the carrying of concealed weapons on the property.
a. Lyndon Johnson National Historical Park
b. Amistad National Recreation Area
c. Big Bend National Park
d. Big Thicket National Preserve
8. Hidden behind Rattlesnake Springs about 23 miles from the visitor center, Slaughter Canyon Cave in _______ has a Christmas Tree Room that delights the eye. The underground room's namesake, a shimmering, crystal-decorated column "crowned in a white bell canopy as delicate as glazed frosting."
a. Oregon Caves National Park
b. Carlsbad Caverns National Park
c. Wind Cave National Park
d. Mammoth Cave National Park
9. A Victorian Christmas has traditionally been staged at ______ National Historic Site, a national park in Buffalo, New York that honors the 26th president of the United States
a. Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural
b. Herbert Hoover
c. Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. Martin Van Buren
10. Designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, and bearing the name of the park in which it is situated, the 120-room ______ Lodge was built in the late 1920s, rebuilt after a 1966 fire, and restored to its original classic appearance in 1990. It still offers the only in-park lodging available to visitors. On Christmas Day, the lodge's restaurant will serve a special Christmas buffet.
a. Acadia
b. Zion
c. Rocky Mountain
d. Crater Lake
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11. During the Christmas holiday season last year, the official White House Christmas Tree was bedecked with 347 national park ornaments. One of these was an exquisite three-dimensional, hand-painted depiction of a particular park. Jack Galloway (see accompanying photo), a landscape architect at this park, had worked on the decoration at various times over a period of 17 years. Jack's spouse was Executive Director of the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts last year. From this you should be able to deduce that the park depicted on this decoration is
a. Padre Island National Seashore
b. Biscayne National Park
c. Cabrillo National Monument
d. Olympic National Park
Super Bonus Question:
12. [OK; I'll admit that this one is a stretch.] Christmas Island is an Australian possession in the ______ on which a national park -- Christmas Island National Park -- has been created to protect the habitat of the Abbott's Booby.
a. Indian Ocean
b. Pacific Ocean
c. Tasmanian Sea
d. Coral Sea
(1) c -- President's Park (a name originally applied to Lafayette Park and Square) is a National Park System unit consisting of the White House, a visitor center, Lafayette Park, and the Ellipse.
(2) d – The National Christmas Tree you see on the Ellipse is a live tree that was transplanted to the Ellipse in 1978 from the front yard of William E. and Helen Myers of York, Pennsylvania.. Several previous plantings of living trees (dating to 1973) failed because of heat and high winds.
(3) b – Christmas in August said to have originated at Yellowstone in the 1920s when a freak August snowstorm stranded visitors in the park. Although the "stranded travelers" story is bogus, Christmas in August is one of the more interesting traditions in the national parks.
(4) d -- The Bracebridge Dinner at the Ahwahnee is a Christmas holiday tradition dating to 1927. Staged eight times during December 15-26, including Christmas Eve, this year's Bracebridge Dinner offers an elegant seven-course Christmas dinner and a four-hour pageant featuring 100 singers and other performers clad in Renaissance era attire.
(5) a – Grand Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is located in south-central Colorado within the 8,000 square-mile San Luis Valley, which sits at an average elevation of more than 7,500 feet above sea level.
(6) b – The Sugarlands Visitor Center is situated near the main western (Gatlinburg, TN) entrance of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Festival of Christmas Past is a free event featuring music, demonstrations, hands-on workshops, and other attractions.
(7) c -- A permanent easement allows Big Bend visitors to cross the park boundary and access the Christmas Mountains tract. However, Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson has opposed the sale of Christmas Mountains to Big Bend, stating that this won't happen unless the National Park Service allows sport hunting and the carrying of concealed weapons on the property. Both activities are currently banned in the park.
(8) b – Slaughter Canyon Cave is a remote and wild cave that the National Park Service refers to as an "underground wilderness without electricity, paved walkways, or modern conveniences." If you want to see Christmas Tree Room for yourself, you'll need to sign up for a ranger-guided tour during the summer season (Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend).
(9) a – . The Victorian Christmas event had to be moved off-site this year because the historic house that is the centerpiece attraction of Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site is being renovated.
(10) a – The Christmas buffer dinner at Zion's Red Rock Grill will be served from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and is priced at $24.95.
(11) d – Olympic National Park occupies much of the Olympic Peninsula, which is separated from Canada's Vancouver Island by the Strait of Juan de Fuca (aka Juan de Fuca Strait).
(12) a -- The Abbott's Booby (Papasula abbotti) is a seabird that nests only in the emergent rainforest of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Christmas Island National Park was created in 1977, expanded in the 1980s, and now protects most of the island's rainforest.
Grading: 9 or 10 correct, rest on your laurels; 7 or 8 correct, pretty darn good; 6 correct, passable fair; 5 or fewer correct, nothing to brag about.


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Default Linux security rules don't allow to access network ports < 1024 to non rooted processes. A bad idea would be to start your Tomcat as ROOT. Very bad idea!!! But these's another solution. You can start your Tomcat with a port > 1024 and then redirect requests from standard ports (such as HTTP/80 or HTPS/443) to ports > 1024.
Let's imagine you bound Tomcat https connector to 8301. We'll add a rule to iptables like this :
Prequisites : switch to root (su -)
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8301
/etc/init.d/iptables save
/etc/init.d/iptables restart
Then, just check if rule is active with iptables -L
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:https
Now, you can access your tomcat threw a classic https url :)
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Government machinery lacks the will to deliver
By SADAF AURANGZAIB
May 29 - June 04, 2006
The focus of the budget should be to improve the quality of life of the citizens by reducing inflation, ensuring quality education, affordable housing and free health facilities, cheap and expeditious justice and better infrastructure facilitating the industries and to the agriculture sector.
In the light of these proposals the PAGE magazine has had a discussion with the chairman of SITE association of industry Mr. Ameen Bandukda. Let's listen to his views about the upcoming budget as well as about the economic progress of the country.
PAGE: As a representative of SITE Industrial area, what would you say about the current picture of industries here?
A.B: Currently as you know SITE industrial area is the biggest industrial zone of Pakistan, almost 3500 factories are working under it, it's the highest contributor of the government exchequer also. Its foundation was laid by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah himself. The infrastructure that we had from that time hasn't been improved much since then. Time has passed, new technologies have come about but nothing much has changed as far as infrastructure is concerned. Few things are still lacking, we need to plan proper disposal of waste and garbage which is now a very high priority because of the recent incident that took place. Discussions are taking place perhaps the outsourcing of all the waste of SITE is also being discussed. They are also in the process of treating our liquid waste and affluent treatment plant would probably be now put up in SITE by a foreign company and they will finance the project themselves and then charge SITE Ltd. for its usage even the discussions on it are about to end now. Other problems that SITE is facing are utilities infrastructure like electricity is not available as much as we need, the total requirement of SITE is 400 mega watt of electricity, and today KESC is supplying only 260 mega watts of electricity, there is a short fall of 140 mega watts, then water is a very scarce commodity in SITE as water is not available and water is actually used as a raw material in most of our textiles processing mills, in chemical industries, in beverage industries, we are not getting even half of our total requirement at SITE. Gas is there but gas prices are being hiked up every six months, its become very uncompetitive and very expensive and the cost of doing business is now being increasing not just in Karachi but also in many parts of Pakistan so this in a nutshell is the situation of SITE.
PAGE: As you just mentioned that there hasn't been any improvement in SITE area from the time of its inception however if we look into the history there are many political era's that were considered as the best era for our industries?
A.B. Let me correct my statement, I didn't say that there is no improvement since then but since everything was planned fifty sixty years ago, its outdated and it couldn't keep pace with the time where as the new industrial zone that are being coming up has the latest planning behind them so they are more up the mark than us. SITE industrial area is basically owned by SITE Ltd, which is a government organization and they have budgetary constraints so they don't have the enough money to spend on the upkeep and proper maintenance of this area which is a very big drawback that we have; secondly all the industries of SITE area are paying property tax to the local government or the district government, we are all lessee's of SITE Ltd and we are paying them rent so as such we should not be paying property tax but even though nevertheless if we are paying property tax , it should be spent on SITE, that money which is being collected by the government has not been spent on SITE at all so SITE is basically a resource draft because of which not much improvement is taking place.
PAGE: Now, what loopholes do you see in the budgetary policies that have a long lasting impact on SITE industrial area?
A.B. Basically, in the budget we feel that two things should happened very significantly, one is that the budget should be totally industry friendly because we strongly believe that with the revolution in industrialization, Pakistan can leap to the next league of nation, this is what has happened in Europe and that's what happened in US. You see, if industry grows it generates employment, if industry grows your GDP grows, you have export surplus which you can sell in to international market and you can earn valuable foreign exchange also so we feel that machinery for any industry its export industry, whether its local industry as long as its for manufacturing to be set up in Pakistan and as long as it can generate employment, it should be treated free, facilities should be given to those industries. Government should not make 5% duty on that or they should not even charge any other surcharge or taxes. They should say to put up industries, make money because the more money these industries make, the more investment will take place in Pakistan. There will be more industries that will be set up, more employment will be generated which will boost the economic growth. Second thing what we are looking for is that as you must have realized that the entire taxes of the government is being collected by a small captive segment of manufacturing, industry and salaried class and this is the reason why our tax GDP ratio is very low, it is low as there is a serious anomaly over there, there are various components in the GDP who are not contributing to the taxes for example agriculture is 25%of Pakistan's GDP , among the service industry there is whole sale and retail industry which is 18% of the GDP, transportation is 11% of the GDP however collection of tax from all these segments are minimal absolutely zero so we feel that taxes should be reduced on the salaried class, it should be reduced on the industry and the base should be expanded and get more and more people into the tax net in that way the total revenue will increase for the government and those who are paying taxes will feel happy in paying taxes at a lower rate and they will not feel resentment because they will feel that everybody is paying taxes and it's a level playing field, they will not feel that I am paying all the taxes and there is another person having a great life and enjoying everything, having a Pajero and is paying zero taxes so that feeling of resentment has to go. I feel taxes should not be more than 25 % maximum on salaried class. There are lots of individuals that you see are highly paid professionals like doctors, lawyers, architects, artists they are making huge amounts of money they are tax net. People who are making millions and millions on real state dealing, on stock market operations they are not in the tax net so time has come that we increase our base. Today direct taxes need to be doubled as it is being collected by only 1.3 billion people and tax rate has to be cut down.
PAGE: What do you think why the tax base has not been expanded?
A.B. I think two things perhaps the lack of political will in certain segments for not coming to the tax net other reasons are corruption, third reason is may be complacency as not much noise has been made as has been made recently so all these factors led to have a very narrow tax base and it has fulfilled many people self interest also but now time has come to alter this.
PAGE: Do you think that government is also backing few of these classes to not to pay the tax?
A.B. I will not point out one particular club but yes there are vested interests in every segment obviously they are a powerful lobby and this is the reason taxes have not been levied across the board in Pakistan.
PAGE: Many bureaucrats are of the opinion that there isn't any need for the dramatic changes in the budget, what would you say about it?
A.B. I need there is a very heavy need for a dramatic change, one single change is that this budget should promote equity and justice for the citizens of Pakistan, this budget should make everybody equal in the eyes of law, everybody feels that they are all citizens of Pakistan. It's the high time that Pakistan government should actually invest in the people and the human resource of the country; how much we spent on the education last year 16 billion rupees out of 1098 billion rupees that is 1.4% its peanut. We spent so little on our manpower and on our citizens that human resource could never be developed nor the skilled people and the country will remain the same as it is. We feel that the government should at least invest 50 billion rupees in education in the upcoming budget and the primary focus of the budget should be on technical and vocational training so that the dearth of skilled labor would be fulfilled in that way people who are getting four to five thousand rupees could acquired fifteen to twenty thousand rupees after getting the vocational and technical training.
PAGE: Prime Minister said that this budget would be people friendly with less inflation and low prices, how do you see it?
A.B. I hope so, these are all very good things and this is what we want to have but every time the budget is there, it is being said but this should be the objective of the government whether they will achieve it or not.
PAGE: Do you think that the high interest rates are the only way to control the inflation?
A.B. Well inflation does not happen in one single day, it gradually appears and reach to higher and higher levels so things have to be done on the beginning unfortunately this was not done, the inflation started more than a year ago, at that time our monetary and fiscal policies did not control it, if they have controlled it on that time the situation that we have today would not even risen. Today I agree that inflation is very high one reason for that is the oil and petroleum prices, there are various ways to control inflation, you can control inflation through monitory policy & you can control inflation through fiscal policy, you just don't have one tool even though hiking up of interest rate is also a tool to control inflation but it should be raised gradually and not immediately, earlier it was 4% now it is 9%, you have to control it gradually otherwise what will happen is that you will control the inflation but slow down the economy so it's a cash ready to situation. You want the economy to be running but you want to control the inflation, you cannot kill both of them so that's a very big problem. Another problem about mark up rate is our mark up rates have increased so high because they are linked with KIBOR rates because it being linked to KIBOR it is shooting all the banks and the banks are making huge money. Today if you see that in the last year banks have made huge profits that also done at the cost of industry, the reason for that is that depositor is not getting anything so when you are linking the lending rate to KIBOR you should also link the deposit rate even to the poor people to KIBOR also. Banks should say that KIBOR is this much; KIBOR is 1.5% is the lending rate for who wants to borrow and KIBOR is - 1.5% for those who deposit. This is not happening, if this happen then the banking spread will get rationalized. Today the banking spread in Pakistan is the highest in the world, the only industry that is making huge profits is the banking industry.
PAGE: What budgetary proposals do you have which you think would be most effective if used in the upcoming budget?
A.B. Basically from the SITE's platform we are saying that the main stay of the government's revenue should be proxy in the kind of taxes, income tax, sales tax and customs duty and nothing else; we feel that every other surcharge, taxes in various forms should all be demolished and the government should only concentrate on these three and then nationalized them and make it across the board so everybody so that everybody is on the net. There is still double taxation taking place today for example there is sales tax and then there is excise on certain industries like on the beverage industry, on the cement industry, the cigarette industry, there is no need for that, just have sales tax and abolish excise completely, if you want increase the sales tax for those industries but collect it from one window, don't name it in two different taxes for that amounts to double taxation secondly as I said that increase the tax base, thirdly income tax should be maximum 25% on the industry and on the salaried class on the highest level on the lower level it should be less, GST at 15% is for a poor country is among the highest in the world even in Singapore the GST is 3%, GST should immediately be brought down into 10% in this budget and then ultimately to 7 or 7.5%, that should be the target because don't forget that the GST is an indirect tax and the incidence of all indirect taxes is directly on poor people, it fuels inflation. The rich people are affected less by the indirect taxes than the poor people because everything they buy wheat, sugar, car, rice they pay 15% upfront, immediately it cost to their living. The purpose of levying GST was to document the whole economy because we have a narrow direct tax base and through indirect taxes they brought everybody in, everybody who is not even in the tax base is paying GST however that objective has not been achieved much but the burden of high GST has been put on the masses so the emphasis should be more on the direct taxes and less on the indirect taxes. In Pakistan, 30% of the government revenue comes from direct taxes and 70% comes from indirect taxes, in developing country it is the opposite so the base of direct taxes should be increasing and the base of the indirect taxes should keep on decreasing so this is one thing which in fuels inflation and this is the one way to reduce inflation other than increasing the mark up rates.
PAGE: What influence do you think the law and order situation would have in achieving the pre-mandatory objectives of the budget?
A.B. Law and order situation is directly co related with the optimism about the country and also to the economic performance of the country. Foreign investors and local domestic investors both are affected by this. Whenever the law and order situation is good people would feel the good factor and they want to put in money over there as they feel their life is secure, they feel that their asset is secure and they feel that their money is secure. It is very very important that the law and order situation of the country should always be secure and positive.
PAGE: What would you say about lowering of import duties, curtailment of discretionary powers of tax administrators and the role of CBR?
A.B. I think CBR over a couple of years has reformed to quite an standard impressively so the new chairman Abdullah Yousuf is a very dynamic person and he has come up with so many revolutionary measures, I wish him all the best but a lots more has to be done in CBR; discretionary powers at all levels should be finished because discretionary powers only lead to corruption. Import of machinery for industry should be zero so that industrialization can happen at a very fast pace, import of raw material for the industry and all the raw material which is not been made in Pakistan should be at zero rate. If you want to have duties, have duties on luxury items as luxury items do not create employment, they do not generate production to the economy, they only use for conspicuous consumption which only lead to high trade deficit this year.
PAGE: On macro economic level Pakistan is progressing, how much our industries are supporting the macro economic side if we look at our export index?
A.B. Basically the economic growth that we are talking about as we have 8.4% growth last year which is a very high growth by all standards and even in the region if you see China and India, they have been having this kind of growth, Pakistan is in consonance with that. Industry is always an engine of growth and the driver of economy everywhere, today they are talking about 6 to 6.5% growth, if we are lucky may be 7% growth where from that growth would generate obviously from industry and manufacturing and also from agriculture but I feel agriculture has slow down a bit, agriculture needs to be given a boost. Agriculture also contributes to the economy 25% but the rest of the thing comes from manufacturing and service industry, they are the drivers of economy.
PAGE: Another thing that I would like to ask is about trade deficit, as it is being said that the trade deficit is getting larger even though our exports are getting better. How to bridge in the gap?
A.B. Our trade deficit is getting larger for two reasons, exports are increasing no doubt but imports are increasing on a much faster pace, one sector that is leading to high import is the high oil prices and petroleum. This is our bad luck that the prices have gone up this year. Secondly we are also importing a lot of non productive things, we have automobile coming in for over a million dollar, we are having cell phones coming in, we have got some telecom equipment coming in, and we have got lot of consumer items coming in. Today you go to the market and there you can find five different brands of corn flakes which are all imported which you don't really need so a lot of consumer items such as shampoo, soaps, clothing, footwear, toys so much of consumer item is coming that is actually increasing our trade deficit. This year the stock of 10 billion dollars goes to trade deficit which in the long run is the very dangerous sign. In the short run, I know that government have some resources and they have some non-debt creating inflows coming in which will finance this trade deficit but if this trend continues it will have a dangerous thing for the country and it will be very difficult to sustain it as lot of foreign exchange is going to it. Another reservation that I have is all the inflows that are coming in the country either in the form of foreign direct investment, privatization proceeds and remittances, all this money would now go in financing the trade deficit which is also wrong. All this money should actually go to the retirement of debt and if it doesn't go there but in financing the trade deficit this will not help the country. You can only help the country by reducing foreign debt. This is something serious and it has to be resolved.
PAGE: How would you give the solution to this problem ... I mean at one end financing trade deficit and at other end retiring debt and loans?
A.B. Government has to have two prone strategies, one is to improve your exports by promoting industrialization across the board in the country and reduce taxes, allow machinery to come in, allow raw material to come in without any duty so that you have export surplus. Today we don't have export surplus. Also control wasteful imports. If we control it then trade deficit would come in manageable limits. However after the WTO signing the government is also under compulsion as we couldn't have high duty rates for even consumer items, we have to allow access to foreign goods. But there are ways and means of circumventing that but it needs proper planning too.
PAGE: Whenever we talk of economic growth, textile industry is the only industry that comes to our mind. How long do you think Pakistan can sustain by relying on one single industry?
A.B. Pakistan mainstay today is definitely textile and textile industry is around 60 to 65% of Pakistan total industry and one reason for that is cotton is indigenous so we have the advantage of having local raw material. Pakistan is considered as a fifth or sixth biggest cotton producers of the world so that advantage has to be maintained so textile industry would always be a very important industry for years to come so it should be promoted also but having said that other industries should also be promoted as well. We shouldn't close our eyes towards other industries. The world is now going into high tech things; the world is going into engineering. Pakistan has to start developing engineering industry very soon and our mainstay should be textiles plus these industries. Though textile should not be ignored or neglected at any cost.
PAGE: What would you like to say about the Export Refinance Scheme, in what way it is supporting our industries?
A.B. Export refinance scheme (ERS) is actually a subsidy for exports. The purpose of ERS is not just to give loans to exporting industry but to have a cost to the government to subsidize it so that exports of the country could benefit; they could become competitive and they could compete in the global market and what is the advantage of these exports is foreign exchange for the country. Export refinance was given to the export industry and they were told that you have to export twice to what you get. If you get five crore rupees from the bank of export refinance you have to in turn gives ten crore rupees other wise they would be under so many penalties and surcharges. It has a lot of benefit but when you are asking for benefit you should give it at a subsidized rate. If you would jack up the export refinance and make it at par with the normal borrowing then there is no incentive for export refinance.
PAGE: What hopes do our industries keep to have a sustain growth on long term basis?
A.B. We are optimistic, the government us running smoothly and if the momentum of growth continues for the next five years then Pakistan would benefit from it but if the momentum does not continue for another two years then things will be very pessimistic.


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Newly hired West Elementary School principal Greg Gentle was introduced to the New Richmond School Board Monday night.
After fielding some scripted and some spontaneous questions from the Board, Gentle was unanimously approved as the new principal amidst applause from the more than 20 people in attendance.
Gentle spent most of his career teaching in Minneapolis in the lower grades. He gained his principal's license and planned to move with his family to western Wisconsin. Three years ago he moved to a farm just outside of Somerset and accepted a position in Woodbury.
Gentle said he has been "waiting for this moment" when he could join the ranks of New Richmond School District administrators.
Morrie Veilleux, district administrator, said Gentle's strong people skills, impeccable references and ability to connect with staff and children helped him land the job.
Gentle will take up his new position on July 1, at a salary of $85,000.
Veilleux said Gentle will become involved in the reorganization of West Elementary immediately.
In other business:
Re-elected Board members Marilyn Duerst, Chris Skoglund and Greg Gartner took the oath of office to officially begin their three-year terms.
The Board discussed and approved the concept of moving ahead with adopting five new courses to be taught in the District. There are still some logistical issues to be worked out before the classes will definitely be offered.
The first class would be an online current topics class for high school students. The second is a women's choir at the High School and the third is a biotechnology course at the High School.
The Middle School was given the go ahead to pursue a transitions class for sixth graders to help them acclimate to their new surroundings and a computer literacy class for eighth graders. These classes would be part of the rotating "Encore" courses already offered by the Middle School.
Other curriculum items included the Board's unanimous approval to purchase five sets of new text books. The books are for Middle School history, High School Anatomy, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Forensics Science at a total cost of $55,469.11.
Deb Heyerdahl, director of curriculum and staff development, mentioned that the book companies are giving New Richmond schools approximately $47,000 worth of materials to go with the books.
The Board heard a presentation by Stu Waller of Neola Company regarding school policy and planning.
Neola proposed to help the District develop and maintain new policies and by-laws for a cost of $14,000, plus $4,000 to put it on a Web site and an annual fee of $1,850 to update the information at least twice a year.
The Board tabled a decision until Waller could answer additional questions regarding Neola's services.
The Board approved the final two contracts for the new elementary school for a total of $156,790. Norton stated that construction of the elementary school is on schedule.
The Board approved a total of $8,956,171 in bids for the new high school. According to Jeff Moberg, principal, the budget is under budget by $190,976 at this point.
The Board agreed to meet at the new elementary site May 7 for a tour before beginning their work session that evening.
Veilleux reported that negotiations were ongoing with the secretary's union and that he is hoping to have the non-represented employees' contract finalized by July 1. No word on teachers' contracts.
The Board accepted Dick Forrest's retirement request.
The Board decided to join the New Richmond Chamber of Commerce.
The Board discussed reaching out to home-schooled families to invite them back into the public school.
Moberg announced that the nine valedictorians had been interviewed by KARE-11 News and the shows would be aired April 28 at 5 p.m. and April 29 at 6 or 6:30 p.m. (unless they are bumped for other news).
Moberg also said the High School sent 25 competitors to state forensics and 17 of those medaled.
Of 350 entries in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, six are selected each year, according to Moberg. This year two students from NRHS were selected.
The FFA Banquet was last week and Moberg mentioned that the New Richmond group is rated one of the top 10 in the state, with a student and a teacher winning fellowships this year.
Finally, Moberg announced that the High School Destination Imagination team competed at the state level and won first place, which means they will be moving on to compete at the globals.
The Board approved the sale of a corner of the new school site land to an adjacent neighbor to make the boundaries more uniform and provide the neighbor with access to land already in use.


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TAMPA — An intensive, nine-month federal investigation of mortgage fraud that stretched from Jacksonville to Tampa and Fort Myers has resulted in charges against 105 people, authorities said Tuesday.
U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton called Florida ground zero for mortgage fraud in the nation. He released details of an investigative "surge" in May, saying the goal was to restore confidence in the real estate market and send a message that "mortgage fraud won't be tolerated."
"This is by no means the end of vigorous mortgage fraud prosecution in the Middle District of Florida," Albritton said at a news conference Tuesday, where he touted the successful effort.
He warned that those who lie on mortgage applications will face stiff penalties, which could include up to 30 years in prison.
"You will be caught, you will be prosecuted and subject to significant jail terms," Albritton said.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said the joint investigation with the FBI and other federal and state agencies involved more than $400 million in loans procured by fraud on more than 700 properties.
Those charged in the surge range from multiple borrowers to real estate and title agents, investors and the president and owners of mortgage companies.
Tampa Bay area banks reported $213 million in losses from mortgage fraud in the last fiscal year, said Tampa FBI Special Agent in Charge Steven Ibison. That accounts for about 8 percent of the losses nationally due to mortgage fraud, he said.
"Losses that were once unthinkable are now becoming commonplace," Ibison said.
Albritton required each of his prosecutors to handle a mortgage fraud case, in addition to their regular workload.
In Tampa, the surge netted 30 defendants, who authorities said caused fraudulent mortgages that totaled more than $103 million on 313 bay area properties.
The St. Petersburg Times has previously reported on several cases in the Tampa surge, including charges against former 2nd District Court of Appeal Judge Thomas E. Stringer Sr. and convicted telemarketing tycoon Peter Porcelli.
Stringer pleaded guilty to lying on a loan application in 2004. He claimed that none of the money used for the down payment on a home in Hawaii was borrowed, when in fact he had gotten cash from someone else. He resigned from the bench in February amid questions about his financial dealings with a stripper. Stringer has worked out a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison. He's scheduled to be sentenced next week.
Porcelli of Oldsmar has been indicted on a mail fraud charge involving a mortgage foreclosure program. He's already serving 13 years in prison for a credit card scam that victimized tens of thousands of credit-poor consumers nationwide.
Seven cases among the 105 charged individuals remain sealed, but Albritton said those should become public soon.


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LOS ANGELES, March 28 (UPI) -- Embattled Georgia Coach Jim Harrick, who resigned Thursday night in the wake of an ongoing academic scandal, is now retired.
His resignation as basketball coach came less than three weeks after the scandal shamed the school into withdrawing from postseason play.
Harrick ended any additional role in the turmoil by stepping down, and afterwards, said he will not return to the bench in either college or the NBA.
"I decided it's time that I retired and that's what I did," Harrick told the Los Angeles Times in Friday's editions. "I had that right after 43 years in coaching."
Harrick had been suspended with pay since March 10, when Georgia President Michael Adams and Athletic Director Vince Dooley announced that the Bulldogs would not participate in the SEC Tournament, effectively ending the season for a team almost certainly headed for the NCAA Tournament.
The drastic move came amid allegations of academic fraud and improper benefits that prompted an investigation by the school, SEC, and NCAA. That investigation is ongoing, and apparently its findings thus far are the impetus for the settlement.
Harrick has denied any serious wrongdoing, and is confident that he will be exonerated.
"I will be in the end," Harrick told the paper. "They may find something, I don't know, but there is nothing major here."
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Harrick had three years remaining on a six-year contract that pays him $600,000 per season. The deal reportedly called for Harrick to receive a settlement of as much as $2.1 million if the school could not directly link him to alleged NCAA violations.
A statement from the school said the agreement goes into effect immediately, and will pay Harrick, 64, a total of $254,166, a figure that combines remaining base pay, radio and television payments, and a sneaker contract payment.
A longevity clause would have paid Harrick $400,000 had he lasted until Tuesday. Instead, Georgia will begin a search for a new coach, with former NBA coaches Tim Floyd and Lon Kruger certain to be on its short list.
Most of the allegations appear to revolve around former Georgia player Tony Cole and his dealings with former assistant Jim Harrick Jr., the coach's son, who was dismissed earlier this month.
This is the third straight job ending in disgrace for Harrick, who won the 1995 national championship at UCLA. He was fired from that position a year later after falsifying expense accounts and eventually was hired at Rhode Island.
Harrick changed his mind more than once in leaving Rhode Island for Georgia in 1999. Upon his departure, a woman who worked in the URI athletic department accused Harrick of sexual harassment.
On the same day Harrick was suspended for "unethical conduct," forward Chris Daniels and guard Rashard Wright were declared ineligible after a probe by the school uncovered academic fraud.
Later that week, star junior forward Jarvis Hayes declared for the NBA draft.
In late February, Cole alleged the younger Harrick sent him $300 to pay a phone bill, arranged for someone else to complete Cole's junior college correspondence courses, and gave Cole an "A" in a physical education class Cole claimed he never attended.
Daniels and Wright also took that class.
In an emotional interview on ESPN on March 4, the elder Harrick adamantly maintained he did nothing illegal and would be cleared of any wrongdoing. The following day, his son was fired.
One of only two coaches to take four schools to the NCAA Tournament, Harrick was 67-53 in four seasons at Georgia, including 19-8 this season. The school was headed for its third straight NCAA Tournament berth.
Harrick has a career record of 470-235 in 23 seasons at Pepperdine, UCLA, Rhode Island, and Georgia. He also has a quite a record of missteps.
A year after becoming the only coach other than John Wooden to win a title at UCLA, Harrick endured a first-round exit at the hands of Princeton, then was fired when Athletic Director Peter Dalis found he had falsified an expense report.
Christine King, an employee of the athletic department, filed a lawsuit against URI which reportedly detailed sexual harassment charges and allegations that Harrick, during his tenure from 1997-99 at the school, changed players' grades and arranged for players' term papers to be written by other students.
At Rhode Island, Harrick was also dogged by rumors surrounding the recruitment of Lamar Odom, who originally committed to UNLV before the school decided not to accept his transcripts.


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COLLINGWOOD'S Luke Ball is likely to make his long-awaited return to football next week.
The 3 NAB Cup game against Brisbane, has been touted for Ball's comeback, providing he handles an increased training load.
If he plays against the Lions in the March 9 game at Etihad Stadium, the veteran midfielder will take a big step towards being passed fit for Round 1 of the home-and-away season.
The Magpies have been ultra-conservative in managing Ball, 28, who blew out his knee in Round 3 last year.
He received a clearance from his surgeon regarding his knee in December, but has required extra work to strengthen the hamstring where the graft was taken for the operation.
Ball didn't take part in Collingwood's intra-club practice match on Friday but is expected to step up his competitive work this week.
He has played 51 games for Collingwood since crossing in 2010 from St Kilda, where he played 142 games.
Collingwood is likely to have an interesting selection dilemma for the Round 1 clash with North Melbourne, as Ball and fellow midfielder Dale "Daisy" Thomas could both be available.
Thomas took a significant step in his recovery from an ankle injury late last week when he pulled up well from a lengthy running session.
Coach Nathan Buckley last week rated Ball slightly ahead of Thomas for Round 1.
"Luke could drop into full training at any stage in the next week and Dale is probably a week away from doing warm-up and full training," Buckley said.
"If 'Daisy' fully trains in a week's time, we're still a month out from Round 1.
"If he was able to achieve that, he'd be around the mark for a Round 1 start."
The revamped NAB Cup bench rules - teams will be allowed three interchange players and three substitutes - are a potential advantage for the Magpies, because the substitutes will become full interchange players if the weather is hot.
Previously Ball and Thomas could have been eased back by playing a quarter or a half in the practice match series because of the extended interchange rules.
Forward Alex Fasolo (foot) and Tyson Goldsack (knee) are likely to return for Sunday's Round 2 NAB Cup match against West Coast at Subiaco.
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More than 2,100 marijuana plants growing in two separate groves found in remote, rugged terrain near Groveland were pulled and destroyed earlier this week.
Tuolumne Narcotics Team deputies said that, had the 3-foot-tall plants reached maturity and been harvested, they could have been worth some $8.5 million. One mature marijuana plant is worth about $4,000, said TNT Sgt. Joe Romeo.
The first garden was destroyed Monday by deputies and agents from the Stanislaus National Forest and CAMP (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting). There were 2,006 plants in the garden. Romeo said his deputies are looking for the suspected growers.
The second garden had just 131 plants, but no suspects have yet been identified. Both gardens were watered with plastic irrigation piping from nearby perennial streams, Romeo said.
The marijuana plants destroyed Wednesday were growing in the same area TNT deputies raided last year, when they found about 8,000 marijuana plants.
"We were a bit surprised we didn't find more plants there considering how many we found last year in this same spot," Romeo said.
To date, TNT has found and destroyed six marijuana plantations in Tuolumne County, including the largest one ever found on the Stanislaus National Forest. On Aug. 5, TNT deputies led CAMP agents to more than 22,000 plants growing near Beardsley Reservoir. No arrests have been made in that case, Romeo said.
Marijuana growing season lasts until late September or early October, Romeo said.
"The gardens we found this week really were not all that valuable to the growers because the plants were not mature," said Romeo. "We did find one shotgun at the first garden on Monday. But it was probably only used to protect the growers from animals, and not to protect the grove."


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I'm always running late for something -- appointments, movies ... even home games. It's probably ingrained in my DNA as a female to do so.
But it's nice to know that I'm finally on time for something. I've arrived in a punctual fashion to see the Senators play some games of relevance.
After all ... it's still early.
If ever a phrase could make me cringe, that would have to be it. And yet the members of the Ottawa front office have been repeating it like a mantra: "We're only (13, 16, 18 -- take your pick) games into the season."
Why are two points in November awarded less significance than those obtained in March? Let's break this down a bit more.
Ottawa is at the quarter-season mark. After 20 games last year, there were 10 teams with records below .500: Anaheim, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Florida, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Tampa Bay and Washington.
Of those 10 teams, only Anaheim and Tampa Bay got playoff berths (sixth in the West and eighth in the East respectively). What led to the turnarounds for the Ducks and Lightning? A long winning streak.
Anaheim was mired in an eight-game skid during November, but starting Feb. 10, they went 12-2-1 -- a streak that began before, and continued long after, the Olympic break. Tampa Bay achieved its winning streak earlier still, going 9-1 after Nov. 17. Don't bother playing the "early in the season" card with Tampa's Southeast Division rival, Atlanta. The Thrashers were left behind once last year's playoffs began, finishing only two points behind the Lightning.
Atlanta's regular-season record vs. Tampa Bay was 3-4-1. Had the Thrashers won any of the four losses, it may have been their post-season to enjoy.
Want to take the evidence a little closer to home? Remember how everyone kept claiming that if the Leafs had only beaten Ottawa more than once in their eight-game regular-season series, they would have made the post-season?
That may be true, but Ottawa had secured a playoff spot, well in advance.
Again, let's look at who secured the eighth-place berth: Tampa Bay. Toronto's regular-season record vs. the Lightning was 2-1-1.
Had Toronto won one more game against them, the swing in points would have mathematically included the Leafs in the post-season, while eliminating Tampa Bay. That one loss occurred on Nov. 30.
In respect to Ottawa's current situation, it's been stated their window for change is rapidly closing. That refrain is a relevant one, after reflecting on the team that made the biggest roster alteration last year -- San Jose.
The Sharks opened with an 8-5-1 record, followed by a deflating 10-game skid, taking their record to 8-12-4. Twenty-four games into the season, they made their blockbuster trade for Joe Thornton. In the 16 games that followed, San Jose went 12-4-1, and finished fifth.
Keep in mind their move secured last season's eventual Hart and Art Ross Trophy winner, and San Jose still settled in the bottom half of the Western Conference. It's highly doubtful that Ottawa would be as fortunate in the trade department.
All of these proclamations surrounding Ottawa's early season woes have not sat well with the team's fan base.
Demand for seats always appears brisk down the stretch towards the playoffs. But lately, the front office has been brushing off the relevance of early-season games. If that's the case, why should any non-season ticket holder bother showing up in the meantime?
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Gentoo VNC, empty dialog box !! "Question" window is empty !
I Emerged VNC 3.3.7 which I'm guessing is stable on Gentoo Linux.
I am not behind a router, I am currently out in the WAN.
My friends want to connect via Tight VNC, when they attempt to connect, a window comes up. The title of this window is "Question".
I'm assuming the window is the connection request.
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They tell me that they are unable to connect. They aren't connecting.
Does anyone know how I can go about turning this thing off ? Since I want to be able to use VNC from my friend's house when I'm not home.
Or at least, fix this problem ?
Should I use an older VNC ?
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Re ''A Win for Affirmative Action'' (editorial, June 24): What struck me about the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision upholding the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policy is that the future of affirmative action came down to the vote of one person, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. All I can say is, thank goodness for Justice O'Connor.
But how frightening it is to contemplate the very real threat that in the event of Justice O'Connor's retirement, her replacement might be willing to undo this decision.
The Michigan case shows just how fragile our constitutional protections are and how important it is that Supreme Court nominees be willing to respect the rule of law rather than undermine it.
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unable to aquire agp
hey guys
well since i got my dual screen setup working, i decided id have a go at "trying" to set up the ati drivers.
slackware 10
xorg 6.8.1
Primary Video Card: Ati radeon 9500
Secondary: nvidia geforce2 mx440
well i downloaded the package, installed them (did the make , make install or whatever)
and it came up and said it loaded fine but it might taint the kernel or something.
so i run fglrxconfig to see if they had worked ... ran through it and tried the new config ...but i got lots of errors.
so then i thought instead of creating a new config i would just use my config which worked but replace the Drivers part with "fglrx" (seen as these are the ati drivers i just installed? )
well here are the errors i get:
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENOMEM"
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
i uploaded my log file and xorg config:
http://www.x-kane.com/misc/xorg.fglrx (i know this config worked ...and so the only thing i changed was the part where it now says Driver "fglrx" ... whereas in my original working config this was "ati")
and the log file:
any ideas?
thanks alot
edit:: i just read through the log file again and noticed this also
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
well ive jsut followed the howto on installing ATI's drivers (provided by the rage3d forums i think)
followed it TO THE LETTER.
(although there was one part - "enable chipset agp driver as (M)" - and im guessing this meant the nforce2 agp driver .... i couldnt find it in the make menuconfig)
and i ran through the fglrxconfig, selected to use the kernel AGPGART, copied it to xorg.conf
and bam ... nothing ...just a blank screen with no errors and then just a message at the bottom saying it got a fatal error or something.
i can seem to find it in the logs.
**sigh** ... where should i go from here?
oh btw - i tried then trying to use my working xorg.conf (on the newly compiled kernel with everything "supposedly" needed for the ati drivers) after i couldnt get the new config to work ...and it started but the mouse and icons were pretty much screwed up. so im back on the old kernel now.
any ideas?
almost there i think:
well i have managed to get a xorg config that works with the ati drivers ....
but when i try to enter the ati drivers into my current config ... i get an error:
X10: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X serve ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processes) with 0 events remaining.
so i disabled the load dri bit in the config (commented out) and it starts ...but i have no ati drivers ...when i do fglrxinfo it still says mesa.
here is my working config with dual screen (no ati drivers working)
and here is the one screen working with the ati drivers :
can anybody see why the first one wouldnt work without the dri part being commented out?
if not ....does this mean im gunna have to copy the parts i need from the working ati drivers into my working dual screen setup?
im getting excited :p
Thanks Alot
ah well i decided to just have a go at combining the two and....
i just dont understand though ... because nothing has changed since yesterday (besides a reboot) ... and yesterday i couldnt even get the ati drivers working on their own.
strange .....
thanks alot guys
I'm not completely sure of what you did either... Could you rephrase a bit?
You're not using external agpgart? I usually build ATi's module and use that.
im not using ati's agpgart because on the howto it says that it was "unknown" wether it worked or not, but it said that the kernel agpgart module worked fine (so i was being safe rather than sorry :p)
and its a bit hard to rephrase because ... i have no idea what i did lol.
but heres what i did:
recompiled the kernel making sure
/dev/agpgart was selected as a module
made sure MTRR (cant remember what this stand for) was enabled
and then made sure dri was disabled in the kernel .
rebooted - booted into the new kernel.
tried installing the ati drivers and then built the module like it says in the howto, worked fine (ie installed without any errors), then i did fglrxconfig (when using this config i got some errors)
so then i tried putting fglrx (ati drivers) into my working config file. still got errors.
commented out dri in the config file. and included "userinternalagpgart" "no";
it worked (ie monitors came on)... but still mesa when fglrxinfo was used.
re- went through the fglrxconfig
then i did /sbin/insmod agpgart (even though i had done lsmod and saw that agpgart was loaded)
and it worked :/
and i still have no idea why it did ... lol :p
Did you mv XFree86-whatever (generated by fglrxconfig) > xorg.conf ? I get the impression that you did, but if you didn't and just changed a field in the default xorg.conf, then you wouldn't actually be using ATi's stuff. (just checking)
yes i did :p
and i know its working because im getting 1500fps in glxgears as apposed to the measly 200 i got before :D
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Grace Reinhart Sachs is the author of You Should Have Known, a book that cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
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Labour has called on the government to slow down and limit public spending cuts after Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary, described the economic position as "calamitous".
Before a week in which youth unemployment could pass one million for the first time since the 1980s, the former Tory chancellor predicted the coalition was going to face "some political difficulty" as people began to grasp just how hard they would be hit.
"I don't think Middle England has quite taken on board the scale of the problem," he said in a newspaper interview. "That will emerge as the cuts start coming home this year. We've got to get on with it, [but] it's going to be very difficult. If someone says it's not as bad as all that, I say [they] just don't realise the calamitous position we're in.
"We're in for a long haul to get back to normality. There are so many uncertainties internationally, and I do not see a quick rebound."
Clarke has, for several months, refused to back the government's official line that the economy is definitely on the mend, stressing instead that it could be blown off course by unpredictable global influences.
While fully supporting the cuts agenda and the tough approach to reducing the deficit, he insists that these alone cannot guarantee a smooth recovery.
His comments were seized on by Labour as evidence that the coalition government should change course.
Angela Eagle, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: "The Tory-led government may have boasted before Christmas that Britain was recovering and out of the danger zone, but their decisions have meant the economy has now stalled and both unemployment and inflation are rising.
"And this is before the full impact of the VAT hike and deep spending cuts have been felt. It's time for David Cameron and George Osborne to wake up and realise their plan isn't working."
Labour is to redouble its assault on coalition policy this week when the latest unemployment figures are published. The total number of adults under 25 who are out of work has already risen to 951,000, pushing the youth unemployment rate up to 20.3%.
With the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) being abolished, and the Future Jobs Fund closing in March, analysts fear the youth unemployment crisis will deepen in the months ahead.
Clarke's analysis also follows shock figures showing that the economy shrank in the last three months of 2010, raising new fears of a double-dip recession.
Downing Street said it was "very relaxed" about Clarke's remarks, and insisted David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne had never pretended the road to recovery would be easy.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said he was disappointed that Osborne had pulled out of a debate tomorrow on the Office of Budget Responsibility.
It would have been the first full and open debate in the chamber between the two since Balls took over from Alan Johnson. Osborne has to attend a meeting in Brussels instead.ends.