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AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 Bible
888 pages
July 2012
The bestselling guide to AutoCAD, fully updated for the 2013 version
AutoCAD, the number one architectural drawing software, can be challenging to learn. This comprehensive guide has sold more than 160,000 copies in previous editions and is the go-to resource for architects, engineers, drafters, interior designers, and space planners who need to learn and use AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. From the basics of creating drawings and using commands to 2D and 3D drawing techniques, using layers, rendering, and customizing the program, this book covers it all. A Quick Start guide allows even newcomers to create an actual drawing on their very first day.
Expert AutoCAD author Ellen Finkelstein presents more than 150 tutorials illustrated with real-world drawings from AutoCAD pros. The companion website includes before-and-after drawings, bonus chapters, video tutorials, and more!
- The comprehensive, soup-to-nuts reference that even some Autodesk employees keep on their desks
- Covers AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT in complete detail, from using the interface and commands to customizing and programming AutoCAD with AutoLISP and VBA
- Begins with a Quick Start guide to help novices create a real drawing on their first day with the program
- Covers creating drawings, using commands, and specifying coordinates; working with complex 2D and 3D drawing techniques; using layers; and creating dimensions, 3D coordinates, solids, and rendering
- Discusses customizing commands and toolbars and programming AutoCAD with AutoLISP and VBA
- Includes a companion website with bonus content, video tutorials, and before-and-after drawings
AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 Bible is the comprehensive, one-stop AutoCAD resource for newcomers and veterans alike.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xxxi
Introduction xxxiii
Part I: Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Basics 1
Quick Start: Drawing a Window 1
Chapter 1: Starting to Draw 13
Chapter 2: Opening a Drawing 29
Chapter 3: Using Commands 35
Chapter 4: Specifying Coordinates 53
Chapter 5: Setting Up a Drawing 91
Part II: Drawing in Two Dimensions 107
Chapter 6: Drawing Simple Lines 109
Chapter 7: Drawing Curves and Points 119
Chapter 8: Viewing Your Drawing 135
Chapter 9 Editing Your Drawing with Basic Tools 165
Chapter 10: Editing Your Drawing with Advanced Tools 191
Chapter 11: Organizing Drawings with Layers and Object Properties 245
Chapter 12: Obtaining Information from Your Drawing 283
Chapter 13: Creating Text 303
Chapter 14: Drawing Dimensions 361
Chapter 15: Creating Dimension Styles 415
Chapter 16: Drawing Complex Objects 449
Chapter 17: Plotting and Printing Your Drawing 485
Part III: Working with Data 525
Chapter 18: Working with Blocks 527
Chapter 19: Adding Attributes to Blocks 577
Chapter 20: Referencing Other Drawings 593
Part IV: Drawing in Three Dimensions 617
Chapter 21: Specifying 3D Coordinates 619
Chapter 22: Viewing 3D Drawings 649
Chapter 23: Creating 3D Surfaces 693
Chapter 24: Creating Solids and Editing in 3D 729
Part V: Appendixes 803
Appendix A: AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Resources 805
Appendix B: What's on the Companion Website 811
Index 815
Bonus Chapters on the Companion Website
Bonus Chapter 1: Working with External Databases BC1
Bonus Chapter 2: Rendering in 3D BC33
Bonus Chapter 3: Keeping Control of Your Drawings BC69
Bonus Chapter 4: Working with Other Applications BC125
Bonus Chapter 5: Creating Electronic Output BC153
Bonus Chapter 6: Customizing Commands, Toolbars, and Tool Palettes BC181
Bonus Chapter 7: Creating Macros and Slide Shows BC205
Bonus Chapter 8: Creating Your Own Linetypes and Hatch Patterns BC219
Bonus Chapter 9: Creating Shapes and Fonts BC231
Bonus Chapter 10: Customizing the Ribbon and Menus BC243
Bonus Chapter 11: Understanding AutoLISP and Visual LISP Basics BC273
Bonus Chapter 12 Exploring AutoLISP Further BC289
Bonus Chapter 13 Exploring Advanced AutoLISP Topics BC317
Bonus Chapter 14: Programming with .NET BC337
Bonus Chapter 15: Installing and Configuring AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT BC373
Author Information
Ellen Finkelstein has been teaching and writing about AutoCAD since 1989. Besides writing computer books, she has written content for Autodesk and taught at Autodesk University. Visit her website, www.ellenfinkelstein.com, for free AutoCAD tips and tutorials.
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Bostock makes Tigers move
John Bostock completed his season-long loan move to Hull after signing a contract extension with Tottenham until 2013.
The 18-year-old midfielder, who became Spurs' youngest ever player when he made his debut two years ago, has been unable to hold down a place in the first-team squad.
Hull had been trying for some days to wrap up a deal for the England Under-19 star but were prevented from doing so due to what is thought to have been a Premier League probe into their finances.
It is unclear whether Bostock will be registered in time to make his debut in City's npower Championship opener against Swansea on Saturday.
Last week saw the teenager vent his frustration at the lack of top-flight opportunities for young English players.
He also admitted he was ready to go back out on loan after spending almost three months at Brentford last season.
The Bees opted against extending the deal, prompting Spurs boss Harry Redknapp to question the youngster's attitude.
Bostock's father hit back at Redknapp, not the first time controversy has surrounded a player heralded as one of the most gifted of his generation.
His move to Spurs from Crystal Palace two years ago proved particularly acrimonious.
The clubs were unable to agree a fee, which was eventually set by a tribunal, much to former Palace chairman Simon Jordan's disgust.

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College of Liberal Arts and Education recognizes award winners
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Platteville College of Liberal Arts and Education recognized the following faculty, staff and alumni at the LAE Arts and Letters Hall of Fame and Recognition Banquet held Oct. 4 in the Harry and Laura Nohr Gallery, Ullsvik Hall.
Dr. Daniel Leitch, Teacher Education
Excellence in Professional Development Award
The award is given annually to recognize those tenured or tenure-track faculty or academic staff members who accomplish excellence in professional development activities such as research, writing or involvement in professional organizations, performances or artistic productions.
Thomas Hickey, Emeritus, English
Arts and Letters Hall of Fame Induction
The award is given annually to recognize and honor faculty, staff, retirees, alumni and friends who have contributed to arts and letters.
For more information about the award recipients, see /news/college-liberal-arts-and-education-names-award-winners-2012-13-academic-year.
Contact: Dr. Elizabeth A. Throop, dean, College of Liberal Arts and Education, (608) 342-1151, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Following the recent clairvoyant thread, does anyone want to own up to having any sort of psychic experience, premonition, communication with the dead, or the like ?
I had a witch take a wart off my hand once when I was a kid.
It had been there a while, I showed it to her, she said she would get rid of it, a few days later it was gone.
Could be just coincidence.
I've had three premonitions which came true.
Probably selective memory and I've just forgotten the ones that didn't.
Someone I know walked in to a psychics fare and one of psychics picked her out from the crowd unprompted and told her some vague, but specific details about a recent death.
One of those ones that's a bit too good for cold reading, but not good enough to simply accept at face value.


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AIM Kl? \t rill ff of st \ff.
Maintain* Thai Nu such Adlon
Should im Taken Until Flau of llc
organUallon U Perfected.
Washington June 17.?The presi?
dent today vetoed the iriny appro?
priation hill He return.-.I the bill to
congress with a message indicating
his disapproval of th" legislative pro?
vision, which would oust MaJ. Qen.
Leonard Wood from the office of chief
of staff on March 4 next. In his mes?
sage the president said:
"Th? army of the United States Is
far too vital an Institution to the peo?
ple of the country to make it the vic?
tim of hasty or Imperfect theories of
legislation. As was pointed out by
the chairman of the senate military
committee, it is well krown that the
war college and the general staff have
been for many months engaged upon
s comprehensive plsn of reorganisa?
tion. At the preeent time, therefore.
It la especially Inappropriate. In my
opinion, to force upon the statute
books legislation enacted without the
usual deliberation and care."
Mayor tirnr to Appear Tueaday an
*? tinea* Bet?re tie Legislative
OoaassiUre From the Legislature.
Charleston. June If.?Mayor Orace
who was served last night with sub
subpoena to appear Tuesday before
the committee of the legislature and
tell whs he knowe about the alleged
gra/t. sffecting the enforcement of
th# dispensary law in Charleston, said
today that he will go to Columbia
Tuesday and give his testimony.
Mayor Grace was asked whether
I he would take any witnesses with him
end be replied that he would not. He
will tell the committee what he knows
about conditions In Chariest >n and as
he has stated before, he says he wll!
present evidence of the existing
graft h) the State jonstables and
"practically trace it to the governor's
office." as charged recently In his
official organ, a weekly paper publish?
ed here As to presenting evidence of
the actual delivery of the money col?
lected from hllad tigers to the gov?
ernor. Mayor Orace explained that
he had no witness to this transac?
tion but that he would have no trou?
ble in proving that a system of graft
existed here and he felt sure that the
committee would reach th*? conclu?
sions that he holdf. Mayor Grace
will leave *lt to the committee to
summons such other parties as the
committee may deem proper after he
has submitted his testimony.
"Swat the Fly."
For several months an expert ac?
countant searched the hooks of a
certain grain company in St. Paul
Minn., for an error >f an even hun?
dred dollat*. They spent much more
than 1100 In trying to trace the mon?
ey. And then, after having gone as/gf
the books time end sgaln. the ac?
countant ?? pencil .ran ed to stop it
an lt'?m of $14U. The pencil point
rested on the figure 1 when the figure
suddenly broke In two and slid down
the page' Cpon examination It prov?
ed that the ?uppo?ed figure 1 was a
fly's leg. The rty had undoubtedly
been crushed In the book when it was
cloeed. and one of its legs had
chanced to adhere to the page in
such s way as to make the entry of
fte appear to be exactly $100 greater.
?The Hay. Flour and Feed Journal.
Swst Uio Fly.
Be up to date. Swat the My; ( lean
up. boost; brighten up.
??n with the battle.'' swat the My.
I.et nj truthfuly say there are no
fllex on us.
atop! Look! Usten! swat the fly.
Kternai vigilance should he your
w.il' h w<?rd ?w it the My.
The fly 1? g home wrecker ? Miff
M.t(k*ard < d? hackw.ird ? >h time
In your Might, give me i its *w ittef
Just for tonight.
When the Mv ? omea In Ifcg door,
good health goe.*i nut the window.
TH not work that kills men?tls
worry?Swat the fly.
i.ptie drops of Mannt an, Mtthi drops
of rain, swat the fly right gg the eye
again, again, again.
Though greati.- autaumberedt Issel
sg g| public health ire waging a
great battle, and victory Is assured, If
we keep on swatting the Mv.
thir impulse?Swat the fly.
Ill AEROPLANES JBOLLIIE.
hf.adon collision in fha\< i:
Two Army OlbYcrs Killed In Accident
at Douul, Fnrncv?First Disaster of
the Kind in History of Axial ion.
Special to The 1 >aily Item.
Doiiai, Franc*', Juno Ii'.?t'apt. Du
Boll and Lieut Meymore, Iwo army
aviators were instantly killed this
morning when their ueroplams
crashed together in a h?-ad-??n collis?
ion whll? tiyinK over the military
Held in I dense fog. This is the first
disaster of the kind in the history of
aviation whleh has been ho fruitful
of death end disaster.
KASTFRN STA Ii AT FLOH FA IF
.Some 100 Delegates and Hruml Om
cers Attend Fifth Annual Meeting
of the Order.
Florence. June 1$,?The MM a
annual grand lodge of the Order of
the pastern Star is in session here,
with the grand worthy patron, D. A.
O. Ousts, the worthy matron, Mrs.
Tallulah Cudd, and the grand secre?
tary. Mis* France? Bennett, all in
attendance with about 100 delegates
beside. They are being entertained
by the local chapter.
Last night was a public reception
and lunch of salad and sweet courses
and welcoming addresses and re?
sponses by membera of the grand
Today has been a buainess session.
The reports of the grand officers were
received and show progress in the
past year, seven new chapters having
been "ranted dispensations.
The order is now represented in
South Carolina by 54 chapters, In
almost every county in the State. The
Kastern Star Is assisting the Masons
materially In the fund for the Masonic
home and has besides a charity fund
for It own disposition.
The programme tomorrow includes
a visit and picnic at Muldrow's mill,
whi h will be a public funotion.
Toiight the local chapter exem?
plifies the work of the order.
BANK t<> OCCUPY SIDEWALK.
City Council <? runts Hunk Permission
to F.xtentl Hullding Over Side?
At a speciul meeting of council
held Monday afternoon for the pur?
pose of hearing a request of the oltt
cials of the Hank of Sumter for the
use of space on the sidewalk for their
Ml building. it was decided to
grant the request made by the offi?
cials of the bank and the new build?
ing or parts of it, will extend as much
as six or seven Inches over what was
formerly the sidewalk.
As the matter stands so far as
the reporter of the Item could learn
this morning. tho request of the bank
for space to extend the bast; of pilas?
ters over the sidewalk for about three
Inches was first made at council
meeting a week ago. At the time
the petition waa deferred until Wed?
nesday when the members of coun?
cil after investigation, decided to
grant the request. Alderman Wright
voting against granting it.
Later it was found by the contrac?
tor that oven more space was neces?
sary and a second special meeting of
council was called to hear the request.
As the matter Ig understood tho i ??
quest was made for permission to
have the building extended praeti
? ?illy ilnt'c inches o\.-r the sidewalk
and Ilten the base of the pilasters
WOVld extend about three further
than the base of the building, thus
in aii encroaching on |he sidewalk
abotll Ml or Seven hohes. This vii
granted for Main street and it is un?
derstood that the building will ox
lend Ihe same amount over the side
n aik on Liberty street.
Aldermen Wright and Glenn voted
a? ilnai granting " ? petition.
News Note*. IVoin Hcmhcrt.
Rem bort, June 17. Farmers are
laying by com ami so peg plantlni la
the order of the day. Crops art- pret*
ty oloaf "f gram ;md are looking well.
Mtasee Kate liotnansteln or Colum?
tnd Kntlly Crelghton wore in sum
ter lasl Friday and Saturday,
We neat thn( one of our tin.- looking
yoUllg rio-n wall be married Thursday,
Jon.- Itth,
Msears. Bunk Jackeon, UcnJ, San?
ders. Virgil Corhott and Ham Lenolr
of Clemson, and Iktvld Lencrir of por?
tcr'n Charleston* are at home again
Prof. Jeene H, Jackson, principal
of Fort Qntnee High school of Qeor?
gia Is with us ag tin.
Mrs. Wallace Handera and nor
daughter, Mies Theresa, dined with
.\h . I: m. James Sunday.
Mlaa Courtcnoj Atkinson spenl the
Habbath of the Itth with lo r brother,
.1. it. Atkinson of Hagood.
? I lagood."
If n i;. i?. Lee has gone to Qreene
boro, Si <\. to \isit her daughter al
Hint pln< a
KYKH OF <.<>v?l> t.ovu.KN MKNT
K\Pi:ins ox SUMTER.
Adoption of City Manager iMau of
Municipal (Jovornioeni Attracts Nu
tionai Attention to Runter and Tlie
PiacUcnl Workings of System Will
bo Watched With Utmost Intercut
b> students of Business Methods
Applied to City.
Following UP the telegram <?f Sec?
retary Richard s. Childs, congratu?
lating Suinter on the adoption of the
city manager plan of commission gov?
ernment, the National Short Ballot
Organization wrote to the Chamber of
Commerce for a synopsis of the Act
tunider which Sumter adopted the
new form of government, stating that
it was their intention to propo.-e and
distribute throughout the United
States a pamphlet describing the Sum?
ter plan and its advantages. "You
can rest assured that every step you
take will be watched by us with the
utmost nterest."
In addition to the pamphlet, which
will be issued in time for distribution
at the Convention of the National
Municipal League In Los Angeles, next
month, the short Ballot Organization
has issued the subjoined circular for
Immediate distribution to 1,200 news?
papers and commercial organizations
in various parts of the United States.
If the oily manager government does
nothing else for Sumter it will give
the Gttme Cock City the greatest
amount of valuable advertising that
a town of the size ever obtained by
any means.
The Short Ballot Organization
"Sumter Plan" circular is as follows:
Why Not Run a dig dust Like a Pri?
vate Business Cor|M>rutlon'.'
This was the question put to the
people of Sumter. on June 11th. By
an act of the last legislature they had
an option between the stereotyped
commission plan with three separate
heads and the City Manager plan,
which had been discussed and approv?
ed over the length and breadth of the
land but never adopted by any city.
Sumter took the hit in her teeth and
by a three to one vote adopted the
one which applies the tried-out prin?
ciple of organization which no private
corporation would think of abandoing.
There had been no question about
the success of the Galveston plan. It
had done away with bosses, and put
the people In power. It had succeed?
ed In cutting out graft by tlxing re?
sponsibility for everyything which
was done or left undone. It had sav?
ed the people's money.
At the same time there was no rea?
son to suppose that the exact Gal?
veston or Oes Molnes types were the
last word on simplified government.
They had unquestionably succeeded
because of certain sound principles
Which lay beneath the form.
The new Sumter law preserves these
principles. Responsibility is settled
upon three men. who can do anything
that the city can do. They are not
to be hampered by having to work
through elective Olerks. There is a
short ballot. In other words. There
are to be no ward lines and petty
local jealousies.
So far as the well-known Commis?
sion type was followed. But when it
came to the matter of organization
it was found to be ill-adapted to the
local needs. The regular commission
plan would necessitate three paid
managers, as heads of departments.
Pew men, who were really competent,
could be found who would undertake
public service under the Inadequate
salaries which the city could offer.
11*000 and $1000 per annum, and de*
vote the necessary amount of time to
the details of city business. Further
toft it was regarded as folly to try
to secure good administrative super?
visors by popular election. With the
same amount of money It is thought
poslble to secure one good man who
win take over the management of the
city's affairs, He need not be a local
resident. The winde country may be
taken as a Held for selection. He will
have ;?n opportunity to introduce mod?
ern accounting and efficiency meth?
ods ami generally to impress his per?
sonality on the city, and will lie In
in line for promotion later on to .-mi?
liar work In larger cities.
Under the Sumter plan, however,
the elective commissioners will be
responsible for all the acts of the city
manager, for he will hold office ;'t
their pleasure. There \g therefore
no da nger thai he will build up o
^patronage through the appointing
power, because every Incentive will be
to appoint efficient subordinates who
will uphold his band-, and not polit?
ical hacks who win "queer" his rec
old by loafing on their Jobs and In
fl.-.ting i\is budget,
lly relieving the commissioners of
administrative detail it will be pos?
sible to gel the ttbleSf citizens to de?
vote the small portion ol time which
Will he requited to dlTCCl the rity's
business. The salaries of ihese men
will i)o nominal ($300 for the mayor
Ia mi $200 for the nthers,)
Thus far the hrst time is Introduced
into American city government the
principle! of concentrated responsi?
bility, a -?hurt ballot ;;?.ti expert ad?
Bleaae Crowd Objects to Jones link?
ing Reply?Lyon Shows Evans'
Special to Tin- Daily Item.
Blahopvllle, June 19.?Two fea?
tures marked the campaign meeting
here today and added zest to the
campaign. Bleats in his speech at?
tacked Judge Jones" record and when
Judge Jone? attempted to reply, in
accordance with an agreement made
hy the candidates at Sumter Tuesday,
Bleate and a crowd of his supporters
at tirst objected to his making any
reply. The matter was settled after
a short while by the crowd allowing
Judge Jones to proceed.
The other feature of the meeting
was the exhibiting of court records
by J. Fr?ser Lyon showing the rec?
ord of Barnard B. Evans. At the
close of Lyon's spech Evans made a
denial of the charges and stated that
the records were false.
The other speeches came off as
scheduled and the meeting was an
orderly one. There was a good
crowd out to hear the candidates.
Walsh's Directory of Sumter Distrib?
From the Daily Item, June 19.
Walsh's Directory of Sumter, Vol?
ume IV, 1912, was distributed to
subscribers yesterday. As were the
directories for previous years this
volume is neatl> printed in large type
on good paper and is substantially
bound. The compilation of the di?
rectory was can-fully done by ex?
perienced directory men and is as
complete and accurate as a book
of the kind can be made. It will be
found useful by business men and
others who may want to find out
who lives in Sumter and where they
live. In addition to the list of
names, whites and negroes being
listed separately, considerable other
information of value is incorporated
in another chapter. The list of names
contains approximately 2,735 whites
and 2.107 negroes. As only heads of
famalies and unmarried adults are
listed, it is not possible to make an
accurate estimate of the total popu?
lation of the city from the directory.
If it is figured that each head of a
family stands for three person?1 ?
himself, his wife and one child?the
white population of Sumter is 7,
205 and the negro population 6.321?
a total of 13,626. Hut this method
of tiguring population is -'in uncer?
tain thing, ami the writer is not
committing himself to any figures.
The only thing he is willing to assert
as a fact is that the census takers
two years ago said they found only
8,109 people in Sumter. They were
supposed to be stating a bed rock
fact, but many of us never believed
it, for ail Sumter people believe that
there are more of us than 8,109. We
know Sumter is the biggest 8.000
town in the country.
Sweet tiirl (Graduate.
Chicago Post.
Observe the noble girl who has com?
pleted her college education.
See her, with her dimpled chin rest?
ing in tin- hollow of her white palm,
gazing out into the future with
thoughtful eyes.
What problem! may she now he
What mJghtly movements for the
uplifting of the race may she be plan
r ft
Jack of her are the yeans of Study
and application. The great minds of
the centuries have given her Of their
b.-st. All that science and philosophy
ean cull from the universe or ndnd
and matters is hers.
And now she is ready for the future,
There is a hopeful gleam, a confident
light in her eyes.
She speaks:
'Some of those hack numbers at
home will sit up and take notice when
i ?et off the train in this new pannier
skirt Bull of mine!"
The story of how a Georgia farmer
is running u political race In an auto?
mobile with his wife and daughters as
eampaign managers and his headquar?
ters at home on the furm, I? going
around the world, it was tirst made
? feature of in the New York news?
papers, und from America's metro?
polis it ei. pt to London and Paris,
with the consequence that Plain -Iii"
Price of Oconee has all unconsciously
furnished an example to the farmer!
,,! the w hi.- world, for nearly each o
HlC stories stresses the ]?1 OgreSSlVe
nesa of a farmer who owned an auto,
und the Intelligence of a farmer'! wlf<
nnd daughter who are able to be hi
helpmeets In a big political flghl
well as in weeding the garden,?Co
lumhla Record,
CAME HERE To INSPECT C ITY
AND To TELL PEOPLE OP
Mi: \si RKs to PREVENT
Sumter the Fifth Place to iu> Inspect
ed?iuh'U iiiii. Spartanburg, Flor?
ence uiul Oraiigchurg Having Al?
ready iievn Inspected?Thirty in
spectDTS in Party?Public Meeting
in Chamber of Commerce Hall In
Afternoon at ti o'clock.
From the Daily Item, June 19.
The South Carolina Fire Prevention
Association is in this city today en?
gaged in inspecting the premises and
buildings all over the city and, at a
meeting tonight, when the inspection
is completed, to be held at 6 o'clock in
the Chamber of Commerce hall with
the city council which the public is
cordially Invited to attend, steps will
be discussed and preventative meas?
ures advised by which Sumter will in
future, if they are followed, be en?
abled to prevent many of the fires
which have in the past visited this
There are in attendance thirty
special representatives of the largest
and oldest fire insurance companies
in this country, they will meet witn
the city council in the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce at 6 o'clock
this afternoon. Every one is invited
to attend this meeting, especially the
property owners and business men
who have the interest of Sumter at
This association is composed of
those who are interested in the reduc?
tion of the terrible fire waste in this
State, being members of the National
Association that is conducting a
"Clean Up" campaign throughout the
The movement was started by the
State and special agents of the differ?
ent fire insurance companies, but
every one interested is eligible to
membership and urged to join and
help toward putting a stop to the use
ess fire waste.
The annual ash heap in America is
too great to be fully realized when ex?
pressed in figures?a little over $600.00
per minute?for North America?the
loss in human life is no less stagger
ng, a disgraceful monument to Ameri?
can carelessness. The aim of the as?
sociation is to help reduce this loss
and for this purpose, meet in some
town in this State each month for the
purpose of making a detailed inspec?
tion of the congested or mercantile
district, asking that owners and occu?
pants follow their suggestions as to
the best way of avoiding fires in
their individual buildings. Usually
the suggested changes are so simple
as to be overlooked, but experience
has taught the fire underwriter that
fires can only be avoided by close at?
tention to the simplest of precautions,
stich as ";ishes in wo< den boxe.-. '
"stoves without metal protectors."
"wooden spittoons." "spittoons tilled
with saw dust." "accumulation of
trash in closets or basements." (Th'^e
have been the defects most frequently
noted during previous inspections.)
I This Inspection has nothing to do
with the advancing or lowering of
insurance rates?its aim is fire pre?
vention, and when the fire loss ratio is
lowered the rates will be less as they
are increased with the increase of
South Carolina has led the United
States in a number of things?led the
Confederate States out in 1X61?She
was "hot" then and in a different
sense is still hot?having one of the
greatest fire loss ratios in the United
States! A large percent of this loss
is due to carelessness in neglecting
the simplest precautions, it is thii
element of the fire hazard that the
association is trying to bring before
the public and tor this reason asks
the hearty co- operation <?f the proper?
ty owners, reali ing thai without their
support very little will be accomplish?
ed and with their aid a great deal
will he possible.
o. H. Wleiige* Di??|H?4>. of ?Ku Bales
of Last Year's Growth.
si. Matthews, June is.?o. H.
Wienges of Singleton is busily engag?
ed today in loading for shipment bis
last year's cotton crop which he has
just sold. The number of bales is
580 ami the *um total realised is ap?
proximately $30,000. Mr. Wiengos
has about 50 iiiics more of unglnned
hid taib d cotton which bo win put
on the market at his leisure, An av?
erage price Of 10 1-2 colds was paid.
Marriage at lti-lt<illt*.
Blshopville, June 11, Mr. Geo, M
Skinner, of stokes Bridge, ami Miss
Alma Andrews, of Blshopvllle, were
quietly married at the residence of
the bride's mother here Sunday. Mr.
Skinmr Is a prosperous young farm?
er, while his bride is one of Bishop
Vllle'i most popular young ladies. For
several months past she has held the
position of bookkeeper for Heath
I Massey-Morrow t 'ompany.
Advisor) Board of Itrirtlm Meet?
Decide lo Hold Bargain \\??-u in
The Advisory Board of the Retail
Merchatna' Association held ? meet?
ing on Friday and decided to na vi a
big bargain week in OctObar. Presi?
dent Ltvy was authorized to appoint
the committees to arrange for this
special week. It is planned to have
?peclal features each day. street races,
etc., and to add a number of new at?
tractions that are certain to draw
large crowds to the city. The Sum?
ter Band will be engaged for the
week. Last year the merchants of
the city held a very successful bar?
gain lay. It has now been determin?
ed to make this the biggest thing of
its kind in the State. The merchants
have started this far in advance so as
to secure the best possible results.
An extensive advertising campaign
will be carried on and will cover the
entire Pee Dee section of the State.
The Advisory Board further determ?
ined to protest against the order of
the State Railroad Commission rela?
tive to the Northwestern Railroad
schedule. Ninety per cent of the peo?
ple along this line have requested the
re-instatement of the schedule in
force prior to February 11, 1912
which gave all those living along the
line, an opportunity to trade In Sum?
ter and return to their homes the
same day or to make connections with
their trains at all points on the line.
On May 14th the Commission made
an order re-instating this schedule
which was satisfactory to Camden,
Sumter and the Board of Trade of
Summerton and generally to the small?
er towns but later because of a peti?
tion signed by a few individuals liv.ng
near Summerton. a hearing was held
in Sumter. The testimony at this
hearing was overwhelming in favor
of the old schedule. The Commission
has, nevertheless, given out another
order which leaves the present sched?
ule as it is and adds practically noth?
ing to the service now rendered,
Sumter folders may be secured at
the Chamber of Commerce and will
be gladly given to anyone who may
desire to mail them to friends out?
side the city.
All aboard for Columbia on Tues?
day. July 9th. This will be a great
meeting of the business men of the
When your child has whooping
cough be careful to keep the cough
I loose and expectoration easy by giv?
ing Chamberlain s Cough Remedy as
may be required. This remedy will
also liquify the tough mucus and
make it easier to expectorate. It has
been used successfully in many epi?
demics and is safe and sure. For sale
by all dealers.
Hon. Walter Hazard of Georgetown
has decided not to enter the race for
congress in the Sixth District.
A sprained ankle may as a rule be
cured in from three to four days by
applying Chamberlain's Liniment and
observing the directions with each
bottle. For sale by all dealers.
Fifteen Candida tee are out for the
House of Representatives in Charles?
ton county. They are: N. B. Barn
well, j. M. Connstley. n. L. Erck
mann. Hugh Ferguson. C. Norwood
Hastie. L. F. Melti. II. fj. Sensensy.
Arnoldus Vander Horst. Ii. S. Whaley,
H. (J. Leland. Moultrie Clement. Pat?
rick Qalvtn, James B. Morrison. s.
Rittenberg and A. W. Todd.
There is no real need of anyone be?
ing troubled with constipation.
Chamberlain's Tablet- will cause an
agreeable movement Of the bowels
without any unpleasant effect. Give
them a trial. For sale by all dealers.
LaVallteroe, the jewelry fad of Use
season these dainty ornaments have
strenghtened their hold OH the popu?
lar fancy, and deservedly so. The
slender golden ? Ins and sparkling
pendants make a < harm finish to cos
tuma of the prevlllng style. We have
a nice fresh stock of these in all the
different stones, gold bead, necks.
lockets, belt pins and mesh bags, and
many other pieces ?f few airy, that
will make an ideal gift for graduate
Our optical parlor is fitted up eom
plete; we do all our oven lenee grind
ing. Graduate optician in charge. Let
us fit and adjust your glasses.
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The Diversity Advantage: How to Handle Micro-Inequities and Bias at Work
Illinois Department of Human Rights
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (CDT)
Event Details
The landscape of the American workplace has drastically changed within the past 25 years. The more we embrace a global economy the smaller the world gets. The changes have resulted in a work environment that is rich with diversity not only with respect to race and ethnicity, but also gender, generation and a host of other diversity considerations.
However for each diversity consideration there is the potential for a diversity-related conflict among workers and supervisors as everyone wants his or her own specific needs to be met. This training identifies the on-going process of recognition, understanding and acceptance of the variety and complexity of people with whom we must interact. It gives participants an opportunity to explore diversity issues from both personal and professional perspectives through lecture, group interaction, open dialogue and short exercises.
By the conclusion of this training participants will:
- Learn to appreciate differences and how to be more sensitive to others
- Be familiar with the dimensions of workplace diversity
- Recognize the business advantages and reasons for diversity and diversity acceptance
- Have a heightened awareness of personal prejudices and biases and learn how to avoid liability
- Learn how to take responsibility for workplace diversity
- Understand generational differences and their impact on the workplace
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: Trainings with the Illinois Department of Human Rights - Institute for Training and Development are accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Illinois Human Rights Act.
A person with a disability needing an accommodation to participate in IDHR trainings should contact the Institute for Training and Development at 312-814-2477 or (TTY) 866-740-3953 or at firstname.lastname@example.com
The Institute for Training and Development requires seven (7) business days to obtain any reasonable accommodation. If for some reason you cannot attend your scheduled training, you must request the cancellation of the reasonable accommodation at least 72 hours prior to the date of training. All requests must be in writing and should include reason for cancellation. Failure to comply may result in suspension of future training privileges.
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Michael A. Bilandic Building
160 N. LaSalle
5th Floor, Room N-502
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (CDT)
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Illinois Department of Human Rights
The Illinois Department of Human Rights ("IDHR") is the state agency responsible for enforcing the Illinois Human Rights Act ("Act"). The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the areas of:
- Employment
- Fair Housing
- Financial Credit
- Public Accommodations
To learn more about IDHR please visit our webpage at: www.illinois.gov/dhr
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Steve Slaton ran for 203 yards and scored two touchdowns to lead No. 5 West Virginia past Marshall 42-10 on Saturday.
Slaton, the nation's top freshman in 2005 with 19 rushing TDs, had his second straight 200-yard game. He set a Sugar Bowl record with 204 yards in a win over Georgia in January. His 33 carries Saturday were one shy of a career high.
Slaton was the backbone of the nation's fourth-best rushing attack last season and the sophomore tore up Marshall (0-1) in just the second meeting between the state's two Division I-A schools since 1923.
West Virginia (1-0), which is 6-0 all-time against Marshall, scored on four of its first five possessions and totaled 312 rushing yards.
Slaton surpassed 100 yards early in the second quarter and had 140 by halftime.
He had a 14-yard TD run around right end midway through the first quarter and scored untouched from 16 yards out after making a hard cut to the right late in the half for a 28-7 lead.
No. 10 Oklahoma 24, UAB 17: At Norman, Okla., Adrian Peterson ran for 139 yards and scored twice in the second half, saving No. 10 Oklahoma from the embarrassment of losing a second consecutive home opener.
With Paul Thompson proving inconsistent in his return to quarterback after nearly a year away, Peterson took control in the second half running for 83 yards as the Sooners' offense became almost completely reliant on him.
Peterson got the ball only nine times in the first half, but the Sooners (1-0) went to him on 11 straight plays after halftime. His sixth carry in a row resulted in a 4-yard touchdown run.
No. 16 Iowa 41, Montana 7: At Iowa City, Iowa, Drew Tate threw for 223 yards and three touchdowns and Albert Young added 148 yards of total offense and two scores for the Hawkeyes (1-0).
Scott Chandler and freshman Dominique Douglas had TD catches for the Hawkeyes, who christened newly renovated Kinnick Stadium with a dominant defensive performance.
Iowa held Division I-AA Montana (0-1) to 10 yards rushing en route to its 19th win in 20 home games.
No. 17 Virginia Tech 38, Northeastern 0: At Blacksburg, Va., Sean Glennon threw three touchdown passes in his first career start for the Hokies.
Glennon, a sophomore who won the job vacated when Marcus Vick was dismissed from the team after last season, completed 15 of 18 for 222 yards in less than three quarters. His touchdowns went for 54, 55 and 6 yards. He was intercepted once.
No. 18 Clemson 54, Florida Atlantic 6: At Clemson, S.C., Will Proctor got off to a solid start for the Tigers, throwing for 166 yards and three touchdowns.
Proctor waited four seasons behind Charlie Whitehurst for his chance to be Clemson's starter. And while Proctor stumbled at first, he and the Tigers settled down to put up their highest point total since a 63-17 win over South Carolina in 2003.
No. 19 Penn State 34, Akron 16: At State College, Pa., Anthony Morelli threw for 206 yards and three touchdowns in his first start and the No. 19 Nittany Lions threw in some new wrinkles on defense to defeat Akron.
Replacing last year's do-it-all leader Michael Robinson, Morelli impressed early. On his first pass of the season, the strong-armed junior found Deon Butler for a 42-yard touchdown to give Penn State a 7-0 lead.
Morelli also had TD passes to Jordan Norwood and Derrick Williams for Penn State (1-0), delighting fans bundled up in rain slickers after the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto drenched Happy Valley.
No. 20 Nebraska 49, Louisiana Tech 10: At Lincoln, Neb., Zac Taylor matched his career high with three touchdown passes and the Cornhuskers won their 21st consecutive season opener.
No. 21 Oregon 48, Stanford 10: At Eugene, Ore., Jonathan Stewart rushed for 168 yards and two touchdowns before hurting his ankle, and Dennis Dixon threw for a score and ran for another for the Ducks.
No. 25 Texas Tech 35, SMU 3: At Lubbock, Texas, Graham Harrell threw for 342 yards and five touchdowns in his first start for the Red Raiders.
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Paul Del Vacchio still remembers his first bet.
He was 8 or 9 years old and it was for baseball cards in a game he and his friends had made up.
"I remember winning a big stack of cards," Del Vacchio, now 40, said this week. "It was a feeling of 'This is cool; this is cool.' "
From that high, he went to the low of losing those cards two weeks later.
That was the beginning.
From there, Del Vacchio would slowly evolve into a compulsive gambler.
He bet on horses at a racetrack when he was 12. He and a friend lost $13,000 to a bookie at 18. He made several thousand dollars on a weekend trip to Atlantic City, N.J., while he was going to college in Maryland.
He later discovered the discreet and easily accessible world of Internet gaming.
And that was the beginning of the end.
Last month, Del Vacchio pleaded guilty to embezzling almost a half-million dollars from the Pechanga Resort & Casino, where he had been working as controller. The money, he says, went to feed his gambling addiction.
Del Vacchio is scheduled to be sentenced next month and, per a plea deal with the judge in his case, the most the Temecula resident will spend in state prison is four years -- not the 21 years he faced had he gone to trial and been convicted.
Even with a stay in prison looming large, Del Vacchio is at relative peace.
That's all out of his control, he says, and all he can do is continue down the road to recovery.
He's got the support of his family, he says, and he's getting help through Gamblers Anonymous and a professional treatment center.
As he's bracing himself for prison, Del Vacchio is speaking out about his problem.
He wants to draw attention, he says, to a serious problem that's going relatively unnoticed.
With gambling becoming more and more accessible through the Internet and tribal casinos, millions of Americans every year are falling into the same trap he did.
He hopes his coming forward could prompt someone to seek help before they do something drastic, like he did.
"If it helps one person not do the things I've done, then it's all worthwhile."
'No control'
Del Vacchio, who is originally from New Jersey, had been hired to work at a casino in Las Vegas when he discovered how easy it was to gamble online.
He had moved to Nevada in 1994 because he had liked the climate and because he was a gambler. He thought that if he got close to the action, he wouldn't have to be a part of it.
And it was working.
As an accountant for a casino, Del Vacchio said, he couldn't risk being seen in one for appearance's sake. He didn't want to earn a professional reputation as a gambler who works in a casino, he said, so he didn't do much of it.
Then he found an Internet sportsbook and it offered good odds and all the discretion he needed.
At first, he said, he thought it was something he could do in moderation.
But he was wrong.
"I thought if I could control myself, control my gambling, that I could win," Del Vacchio said. "Unfortunately, I completely fooled myself because there was no control."
As if it were a drug, he got a high from gambling, he said, and, just as it is for drug addicts, the next high had to be better than the last.
He had to continue to get that rush and the stakes got higher. Soon, he was betting thousands of dollars on sporting events.
Del Vacchio got a job at Pechanga several years ago, where he eventually became the controller.
At the same time, even though he was making six figures a year, his gambling debt had grown to as much as $700,000.
So when he happened to discover that he could move thousands of dollars from the casino's account to his own without it being readily apparent, it didn't dawn on him, he said, that he shouldn't do it.
The gambling -- the need for that high -- clouded his judgment, Del Vacchio said.
"It was wrong, but at that point in my life I didn't know any better," he said. "I thought, 'Wow, I can live in this fantasy life. I can continue to gamble and live a normal life (as a) husband and father. I can have the best of both worlds.'
"It wasn't even a decision. It was just something that I did. It was there and I took advantage of it."
It wasn't until he had been caught last year that he realized he truly had a gambling problem.
"That's when it actually dawned on me." Del Vacchio said. "'I said for the first time, 'I am a compulsive gambler.' Once I said the words, it was like this burden came off of me. Even though it was the worst day of my life, it was the start of something. And then three days later, I found Gamblers Anonymous."
For a guy who has so much structure in his life and can exert his willpower whenever he wants to in other facets of his life -- he recently ran in the Los Angeles Marathon and he hasn't eaten a bite of red meat in 17 years -- Del Vacchio said it's mind-boggling that, in the case of gambling, he can't help himself.
"When it comes to gambling, I just can't control it," he said.
A nation of gamblers
According to experts, the more gambling becomes accessible, whether through casinos or through the Internet, the more it becomes a problem for those who can't control themselves, like Del Vacchio.
And with perceptions of gambling what they are these days, the experts say, identifying compulsive gambling as a problem and getting help isn't easy.
"Americans have always liked to gamble," said Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling in Washington, D.C. "We've always been a risk-taking society. But with the unprecedented growth of legalized gambling and the glamorization of gambling in the media -- particularly on TV -- we're seeing real changes in the way people perceive gambling."
Whyte says that between 3 percent and 4 percent of American adults meet the criteria for problem gambling in a given year. That adds up to between 6 million and 9 million adults, he said.
And the devastation this small segment of the population can cause, Whyte said, can be measured in more ways than just counting growing gambling debts.
"It's a problem a lot like serious drug abuse," he said. "It's a real small percentage, but they can inflict a lot of damage."
The council estimates that problem gambling resulted in a societal loss of about $6.7 billion last year, Whyte said, which factors in, among other things, money lost because of job loss, divorce and bankruptcy.
The council, he said, isn't anti-gambling: "We're just pro-responsible gambling."
The problem is, Whyte said, people aren't necessarily seeing gambling as being that big a problem. That means there are fewer education programs and there are fewer places where people can get help, he said.
According to Whyte, of the 48 states that have legalized some form of gambling, only 22 of them have devoted some of their gaming revenue to services for people with gambling problems. California recently jumped on that bandwagon, he said, but it isn't yet devoting enough money to services.
"There could and should be more," Whyte said.
Informed choice
The thing is, says Marc Lefkowitz, director of counselor training for the California Council on Problem Gambling, gamblers don't wear their addiction on their sleeves like other addicts do.
Looking at drug addicts and alcoholics, he said, you can tell when they've consumed too much. But you can't look at a gambler and see that they have just lost thousands of dollars on a bad bet.
"There's no drug testing for gambling," Lefkowitz said.
And when things get out of control for gamblers, the situation can get really bad.
Not only can gamblers turn to crime like Del Vacchio did, Lefkowitz says, problem gamblers attempt and successfully complete more suicides than any other kind of addict.
"They create incredibly large financial problems," Lefkowitz said. "There's no overdose in problem gambling -- you can only drink so much. But gamblers can, say, refinance their homes and take out another $200,000. It creates heavy financial problems."
The key to getting a handle on this growing problem and keeping people from turning to crime or suicide, he said, is education.
Gambling is where smoking and alcohol were several decades ago, Lefkowitz said. People need to learn that there is potential for addiction and that gambling is probably not for everyone, he said.
And then there's the dearth of treatment programs.
"There's not a lot of treatment programs for gambling," Lefkowitz said. "They're just starting now. We find that the best results are with treatment, Gamblers Anonymous and family help."
Programs such as Gamblers Anonymous and treatment centers such as A Better Tomorrow in Murrieta are out there.
But they are far and few between. A Better Tomorrow, which started as an alcohol and drug treatment center and recently started a gambling program, is the only problem gambling treatment center in Southwest County, according to its owners.
Del Vacchio recently began treatment there. He says that, with the treatment and counseling he gets there, coupled with his involvement in Gamblers Anonymous, it's easier to fight back the urges he still gets to gamble.
He'd rather focus on his recovery, he said, than his impending trip to prison.
"I know that as long as I don't gamble and I work my recovery to the best of my ability, life will get better and all this other stuff will take care of itself," he said. "It's out of my control."
Del Vacchio's last bet was on Feb. 28, 2005, just days before he was arrested.
It was a $5,000 wager on an NBA game, he says.
Unlike his first bet, Del Vacchio says, he lost this one.
Contact staff writer Jose Carvajal at (951) 676-4315, Ext. 2624,or firstname.lastname@example.com .
Do you have a gambling problem?
Following are yes or no questions that can help you determine if you may be a problem gambler.
1. Did you ever lose time from work or school due to gambling?
2. Has gambling ever made your home life unhappy?
3. Did gambling affect your reputation?
4. Have you ever felt remorse after gambling?
5. Did you ever gamble to get money with which to pay debts or otherwise solve financial difficulties?
6. Did gambling cause a decrease in your ambition or efficiency?
7. After losing, did you feel you must return as soon as possible and win back your losses?
8. After a win, did you have a strong urge to return and win more?
9. Did you often gamble until your last dollar was gone?
10. Did you ever borrow to finance your gambling?
11. Have you ever sold anything to finance gambling?
12. Were you reluctant to use "gambling money" for normal expenditures?
13. Did gambling make you careless of the welfare of yourself or your family?
14. Did you ever gamble longer than you had planned?
15. Have you ever gambled to escape worry or trouble?
16. Have you ever committed, or considered committing, an illegal act to finance gambling?
17. Did gambling cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
18. Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create within you an urge to gamble?
19. Did you ever have an urge to celebrate any good fortune by a few hours of gambling?
20. Have you ever considered self destruction or suicide as a result of your gambling?
Most compulsive gamblers will answer yes to at least seven of these questions.
Source: Gamblers Anonymous
To get help
- Gamblers Anonymous holds meetings nationwide for those who have or think they have a gambling problem. For a list of meeting times and places, go to www.gamblersanonymous.org. You can also contact GA at (213) 386-8789.
- For family and close friends of those with gambling problems, Gam-Anon also holds regular meetings nationwide. For a list of meeting times and places, go to www.gam-anon.org/gamanon/index.htm. You can also contact Gam-Anon at (718) 352-1671.
- Counseling and treatment services are also available at A Better Tomorrow, 41640 Corning Place, Suite 104, Murrieta. For more information, call (800) 517-4849.


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CRY UMM! for England, David and St George. For when the cranky conservative president in Prague put his signature to the Lisbon treaty last week, Britain's Eurosceptic press didn't know what to do. The Express had a ritual rant, of course, but it doesn't count. The real question was what the Sun, Telegraph and Mail would say.
Answer: nothing very convincing. The Telegraph contrived to lead on other yarns and opine very little (except to mumble that Dave had done his best and shouldn't be blamed). The Sun took the same line in a magisterial leader full of supposed Sun triumphs in humbling the "federal European superstate" before, halfway down a column, edging round to "the need to be realistic about the perils we face today" (ie unemployment, debt, cuts and the non-loony-tune issues that will actually decide the next election).
But the Mail, oh! The Mail! On day one, it seemed curiously muffled. By day two, though, it was ripping into Cameron "for behaving as cynically as New Labour" with "pretty sorry stuff" on a "sad day for Britain, democracy and the Conservative party". Alack, "a European superstate is born".
At which point an earlier Independent media column by the Mail's premier Eurofighter, Stephen Glover achieved sudden relevance. If the Lisbon treaty is really so threatening, so federalist, so Brussels-centric, surely we'll need more true Brits out there to cover it? Staff correspondents follow the Westminster village in obsessive detail, but such scrutiny stops short at Dover. "There are too many critics in the wrong theatre, and some of them should move across the road," he says.
Just so. He could go on now to inquire whether it's really good enough for poor editor Paul Dacre to cover an all-powerful superstate via its political staff in SW1. And, to be frank, because nobody bar the FT quite escapes the blight of shrunk or shrinking EU coverage, similar logic closes over all Fleet Street like a vice. Either – on the phile side – Europe is our future and our friend, in which case it deserves reporter-power to match. Or, sceptically, it's a dastardly plotter and liberty destroyer, in which case taking one odd bod off Champions League duty and asking him to follow the next European council meeting instead seems the very least that editors crying doom can offer.


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Hauer play
The Dutch actor sets the story straight in a new memoir
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Star-Ledger Staff
Rutger Hauer is beginning to
He sits in a dark Manhattan bar, frowning. Eyes as hard and blue and cold as Delft porcelain dart around. Then he finds who he was looking for and as she approaches he begins to growl, half to himself. And pretty soon, although his voice stays soft, the anger is apparent.
"What do you think?" he says.
"Where did this come from? I think this just started, yes? Is that true or that
not true, that this just started?"
The bartender says she's not sure when the background music started, or even how to turn it off. She apologizes and disappears. Hauer looks at her. The giant TV screen nearby remains tuned to a cowboy film on American Movie Classics. The small speakers scattered around the bar play techno-samba, unabated.
"I didn't ask for this pollution," he says bitterly. "TV screens in elevators. Commercials everywhere. Great idea. Let's have more. More and more and more."
No, Rutger Hauer is not someone to hide his feelings, good or bad. Disappoint him, and he will tell you. Try to deceive him, and he will call you on it. He is an unadorned character, and perhaps sometimes that gets him in trouble in the world he moves in.
But it's made him, for almost 40 years, an unusual and sometimes powerfully scary actor, in films from "Blade Runner" to "Sin City." And it's made him, now, a first-time author.
The memoir, "All Those Moments," is from Harper Entertainment, and the title is a line from his speech as the uber-man "replicant" of "Blade Runner." But it's also a reference to the subject's own, wide-ranging life, from years spent with a communal group of traveling players to run-ins with Hollywood icons.
It's an unusual book for a couple of reasons. First, it actually does name names, telling stories about Hauer's most egotistical co-stars (get over yourself, Sly) and least congenial ones (cheer up, Harrison, would you?). And second, Hauer has earmarked all his royalties for his own AIDS charity, the Starfish Association.
"From the first dollar," the 63-year-old actor declares. "Usually you hear about this, it's 'a percentage,' blah blah blah, yeah, sure. But no, the first dollar I get from this goes to charity and every one after. And I enjoyed writing it, although I couldn't have done it without (co-author) Patrick Quinlan. The only craft I really know is acting."
He could say it was in his blood.
Both Hauer's parents were stage actors in his native Holland; as a child he was
often parked with relatives while they worked, sometimes as far abroad as
Indonesia -- or looked for work at home, less successfully. Despite the lean
years, he says, "they were always so possessed about the profession."
Their only son, however, was less enthused.
"I didn't have any interest," he
says flatly. "I did go to see movies, yes, but that was not a career in Holland.
You didn't think of yourself growing up to become a movie actor. And I didn't
see myself going on stage."
Hauer did see himself as a sailor, though, and at 15, he joined the Dutch merchant marine. But his color-blindness meant he could never qualify as captain, and a year of laboring as a deckhand was enough. A required stint of service in the army was even less attractive.
"At that age, you only know what you don't want to do," he says.
Out of options, Hauer finally entered acting school -- and found a calling. After graduation he joined a troupe of players determined to bring theater to the people -- this was the '60s, after all -- and traveled around the country, bounding into remote hamlets and playing Shakespeare in barns.
"It was pretty pure," he says fondly. "But the troupe abandoned its own ideals. Instead of bringing theater to the people, no, they wanted to have a theater, and have the people dress up and come to see us. So I pretty much fired myself and chose film instead. Besides, if you're with a company, they own you. Nobody owns you in film."
He had already had a small hit in Holland as the star of "Floris," a made-for-TV swashbuckler that lit up tiny Dutch screens in 1969. Then in 1973 he heard that the director, Paul Verhoeven, was casting a film based on the steamy Dutch best seller "Turkish Delight," the honest story of a rough, unromantic love affair.
"He didn't ask me to come in," Hauer says. "But I found him somehow ... And I think from the moment I walked in he knew I was right for it, I owned that character. And when the movie came out, it was unbelievable. It out-ran 'Cabaret,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' all of them. God, I could not put my mind around it."
Still, it wasn't so inconceivable that Verhoeven and Hauer didn't want to try again. Their next collaboration, in 1977, "Soldier of Orange," was a huge hit at home as well. When it, too, began playing to foreign crowds, it became clear that sleepy little Holland now had not only a famous new director but a genuine matinee idol.
"I was suddenly a movie star in a
country that didn't have movie stars," Hauer says. "Well, OK, Sylvia Kristel.
She got a lot of attention (in the 'Emmanuelle' films) because the French liked
her ass. Which was pathetic because she is really very bright... But you don't
have a lot of say in these things. People see you in a movie, they use you, OK,
fine. They use you. You keep going."
Verhoeven and Hauer enjoyed working together, but after more than a decade it was time to move on.
"The struggle we go through is
always the same," Hauer says. "He would fight for the earthiness of the
character, and I would try to find some of the heaven in him. He's a great
filmmaker but he has very little patience. He likes to do things very quick, and
that can play with the music of the scene. Emotions need time, and Paul's not so
hot on that."
Neither artist was so hot in staying in Europe, and soon found separate projects in America.
"We just don't have enough Dutch people to have our own movie industry," Hauer says. "The country is so small, and the language is a barrier (to export) -- what they need to do is start shooting their movies in English, like (Denmark's) Lars Von Trier. This is nothing new -- ever since our nation came out of the water, we've had to make accommodations with Europe. But these changes take a long time."
Hauer soon discovered, though, that American moviemaking had its own drawbacks.
"'Nighthawks,' the director had made one and a half commercials, and suddenly he's directing a movie?" Hauer asks. "Why? He was a nice man, nothing wrong with the guy, but he is not the real director, you can tell that from a mile away. The star is directing that movie, Sylvester Stallone. So this is America, and there are unions and all kinds of work rules, and now I'm on a set where all these rules are bending? And I go, well, I am not bending, even if it will kill me. And I don't mind telling them this, but this is ..."
And Hauer's eyes flash again.
"Do you hear that?" he says. "Do you hear it? This music is ridiculous. We are trying to do an interview here and this music is absurd."
He turns around to glare at the bartender. She has disappeared. He cranes his neck, trying to find a waiter in the room. Nobody. Suddenly exasperated, Hauer bolts up and stalks off. The tape recorder rolls on. Moments pass. There are voices from the lobby. Finally he comes back after a few minutes, flushed.
"And no one knows how to turn the
music off," he declares. "No one. Of course. Wonderful. Yes, keep playing and
playing music we don't want to hear. This is marvelous."
A happier moment in his life was Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner." A commercial flop when it was first released, over the years it's been revealed as one of science-fiction's most influential films; continually revived and re-appreciated (and even occasionally revised) it's due for a brief theatrical run this fall in what's being billed as the "final" director's cut before a deluxe DVD release from Warner Home Video.
"It's the most unique film I've
been part of," Hauer says proudly. "Every day you saw the little pieces of the
puzzle coming together into not even what you
thought it would be, but something better. When I saw it
for the first time, wow, I just thought, what a great piece. What a great piece.
And then to have the audience give it such a long life -- that's like icing on a
big cake."
If there's any small irritant in all of this -- and there is, for Hauer, there is -- it's that star Harrison Ford has seemed to disavow the film ever since its initial disappointing release.
"That's what makes his day, how much money something makes, fine," Hauer says. "To me, the motives of an actor don't mean anything -- it's the result, and if you do well, great. But Harrison was never part of the team. There was always a little bit of a whining contest on that set, a lot of complaints... A lot of people, I guess, didn't have a good time -- it was a tough shoot. Well, OK, it was a tough shoot, but so? So what?"
The early '80s were anything but tough for Hauer. He reteamed with Verhoeven for another medieval story, "Flesh + Blood." He fought -- and won -- the right to play the romantic lead in the chivalrous adventure "Ladyhawke." He played the slickly psychopathic bad guy in the original "The Hitcher." And, quite by surprise, he began to grow into the career he'd stumbled into two decades before.
"It was only around then that I came to grips with who I was as an actor, and that was pretty late," he admits. "I was so reluctant in the beginning to take it seriously, to take myself as an actor seriously. I don't mean bloody seriously, but to give any of it some thought, to trust my feelings. But, you know, I didn't trust anybody. We'll always find a reason not to trust people."
"Hitcher" was a hit, but it was also an albatross. The actor who has first been typed as a handsome swashbuckler was now typecast as a generic Euro-villain. Hauer slid permanently from exotic leading man to evil foreigner, and eventually became the Klaus Kinski of the movies even Klaus Kinski wouldn't do. The titles -- "Omega Doom," "Bleeders"-- tell as much of the story as you need to hear.
"All of it is a gamble, and you just have to go with it," he says of his choices. "'Mentor,' which I did recently, was actually a very beautiful story, and they got me for about $1.99 because I liked the script. And then they took it away from the director. And I asked him, 'What the hell is going on here? I'm on your side, why are you letting these people interfere?' But he was just too kind or modest or weak or something. So it happens, even with the best of projects."
Hauer doesn't waste time waiting around for the best projects, though. He likes to work -- 50 movies and TV series in the last 10 years -- and lately has had some small parts in better pictures, like "Sin City" and "Batman Begins." He keeps homes in Holland and Los Angeles (and his own Web page, www.rutgerhauer.org, to keep in touch with fans). And in between jobs, he and his wife of 22 years, Ineke, get in their 25-year-old tractor-trailer and just drive.
"The secret is very simple: Love someone to death," he says of their union. "Being married as an actor is very difficult. We are constantly negotiating geography and priorities to be with each other, and that's not easy. There are quite a few things which are not easy and you just have to try to cope. But first you have to find the right person. I had been a bit hurt before, but I met her, and it changed my life. So, yes... she is my bonny."
And so the formidable '80s bad guy goes happily into his 60s, still fighting, still filming and still happy to tell people exactly what he thinks.
"Sometimes the work is exciting and sometimes you just have to save your ass," he says. "But whatever it is, you always have to defend your own work. If this is yours, then people should not touch it, out of respect. And if they do, you have to stand up and say, 'Look, I don't like that. Will you stop it? Will you stop it now? Or do you have intentions to go on? Because if you do, I will have to kick your ass.' I don't know, I think people should express themselves. Don't you?"
The still perfect jaw is set. The porcelain-blue eyes are flashing. And it is perhaps not a coincidence that, very unobtrusively, someone has finally, quietly, turned down the music at last.


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Paul Harding On Love And Loss In 'Enon'
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding's new novel, "Enon," begins with these words:
Most men in my family make widows of their wives and orphans of their children. I am the exception. My only child, Kate, was struck and killed by a car while riding her bicycle home from the beach one afternoon in September…She was 13. My wife, Susan, and I separated soon afterward.
A sharp knife needs no adornment. The blade cuts straight to the bone. Such is the power, too, of Harding's prose. In 2010, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel "Tinkers," a book that told the story of the death and life of New Englander, George Washington Crosby. Now, Harding continues the story of the Crosby family in his sophomore novel.
Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers and Enon.
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Unanswered: Ingres Corruption
I've recently got BAD_ATTRIBUTE errors using IngresII on Solaris8. This error came out of the blue.
I've search the net and the only explanation I can find is that Ingres put some corrupt info in database fields.
I had to unload-reload these tables using "copydb -c" before I could get around it. That suggests that some odd control charater must have somehow got into one of the index fields that is common to about 10 tables.
The application is written using the Ingres ABF tools. Is there any way of capturing dud characters before they get to the braindead DB Engine?
Has anyone else had this?
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Are the character sets of the system from where you get the data files, equal to the system where you wont upload?
Normaly, wen is diferent, you have problems with some characters.


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Jacobsen backs Scots to upset England
PA Sport
March 4, 2008
Allan Jacobsen believes Scotland are more than capable of upsetting the odds against England on Saturday as long as they cut out the silly errors which have undermined their RBS 6 Nations campaign so far.
Frank Hadden's men currently prop up the championship table after three defeats from three outings.
However, the 29-year-old prop insists the Scottish team's performance in their most recent match against Ireland was a big step in the right direction, and if they can build on that showing against England then he sees no reason why they cannot achieve a famous win.
''The scoreline doesn't lie but I felt that we played lot more rugby against Ireland,'' said the Edinburgh loosehead.
''We went out and had a real go at them and the silly errors let us down.
''We've made a lot of stupid mistakes and that has been the main cause of our downfall, so if we can cut that out I'm sure you'll see the sort of performance which can really cause England problems.
''But we need to go into these games with that desire to play good rugby if we are going to win games in the Six Nations.''
Jacobsen has been involved with the Scotland squad since 2002, but during that time he has struggled to nail down a regular spot.
However, he has started all three of Scotland's matches in this campaign so far and after the disappointment of last year's World Cup - when he tore a calf muscle in the opening match was ruled out of the tournament - he has his sights set on making the number one jersey his own.
The Scotland team to face England will be announced at 11am and he is keeping his fingers crossed he can make it four starts in a row for the first time since the autumn of 2004.
''After the World Cup I just wanted to get back playing for Edinburgh, try to build my fitness back up and from there try to get involved in the Six Nations, so in that sense my season has gone according to plan,'' he said.
''Obviously things haven't gone well for us in the Scotland, but I've been lucky enough to start the last three games.
''Hopefully I'll get another chance against England, but I don't want to talk too much about that because I'll end up getting binned.
''If selected this will be the first time I've started a match against England, and I've never played them at Murrayfield before so, personally, I'm really looking forward to it.
''It's going to be a huge challenge, but these are the sort of games that you play rugby for.''
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April 09, 2011
Social Security was first enacted to help provide national economic security. Franklin Roosevelt stressed that point in his "Program for Social Security" speech (1935). He emphasized that there are no guarantees against the dangers of national economic down turns. However, he added that the perils of such troubled times can be reduced by employing safeguards. After 75 years, Social Security is still one of those safeguards!
North Independence Branch will be having a Social Security representative speak about Social Security basics. She will discuss what you should know about Social Security, and explain the various types of coverage it offers; since it not only helps older Americans, but covers other groups of Americans as well. She will also be glad to answer any questions. This presentation is open to anyone: those who are interested in their retirement benefits, those who want to know about Social Security disability coverage, those who want to know about benefits involving a spouse or child of a Social Security recipient, those who want to know about Social Security's administrative process. Or even those who are merely curious.
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CHICAGO (AP) Fred McGriff is joining the Chicago Cubs, after all.
McGriff, who scrapped a trade to Chicago earlier this month by invoking his no-trade clause, was dealt from last-place Tampa Bay to the first-place Cubs on Friday for pitcher Manny Aybar and a player to be named.
McGriff, with 436 career homers, is to join the Cubs on Sunday when they finish a four-game series against St. Louis.
The Devil Rays, the team with the worst record in baseball, and the Cubs reached a tentative deal July 8 that would have sent McGriff to Chicago for two prospects.
But McGriff, a Tampa native who has two small children, decided to use his no-trade clause and stay put.
''I have been thinking about it for the last two weeks,'' McGriff said. ''This decision gives me an opportunity to control my future. I had to think about everything as far as 'Do I want to play?' and 'Where do I want to play?' and 'How long do I want to play?'
''From the start I didn't want to make a hasty decision. I knew I had until July 31. I knew I had time to think about it. I didn't want to jump out and do something. I wanted to analyze things.''
McGriff got a new contract to accept the trade, one that probably will result in him getting at least $1 million more that his current contract called for.
A $6.75 million team option for 2002, which would have become guaranteed with 550 plate appearances and carried a $500,000 buyout, was scrapped.
Instead, McGriff was given a $7.25 million player option for next year, and a mutual option for 2003 was added at $8.5 million with a $500,000 buyout.
If McGriff stays with the Cubs for next season, Tampa Bay will pay $1 million to the Cubs toward McGriff's salary.
''I think time is what finally changed his mind. It just took him a while to come to grips that this was the best thing for him,'' said Andy MacPhail, the Cubs' president and general manager. ''It was never an issue about selling the Cubs. They were very comfortable with the Cubs. It was an issue about leaving home and family.''
The Cubs have scored two or fewer runs 33 times this season and their offense with the exception of Sammy Sosa has been lacking punch, especially from the left side.
Now to protect Sosa they have McGriff, a five-time All-Star who has 1,359 RBIs over his 16-year major league career. McGriff, 37, has a .287 career batting average.
''We've been doing it all year long,'' Sosa said. ''Now it's going to be different. Fred is going to help a lot and give a lot of people opportunities.''
McGriff is hitting .318 this season with 19 homers and 61 RBIs for the Devil Rays, who have been dumping salaries all season.
''It will be fun to see if I can help the Cubs get to the playoffs,'' McGriff said.
''My family has supported me and told me to do what is best for me. After the Albie Lopez trade, I realized that it could end up ugly, with me not playing. I didn't want to go out that way, I still feel I can play at this time.''
MacPhail said there would be no resentment in the Cubs' clubhouse because of the time McGriff took to make a decision.
''They want to win games and are confident Fred can help them,'' he said.
''He was the target guy for us and you can't let that die,'' said Cubs manager Don Baylor, who found out 45 minutes before Friday's 4-3 win over St. Louis that the deal was finally OKed.
''I guess the Fred McGriff saga is over and he's coming,'' said third baseman Ron Coomer. ''We'll see what happens. He's a good guy and a good player.''
Devils Rays general manager Chuck LaMar said dealing McGriff was the latest step in the club's desire to get younger and save money.
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Officials in Steamboat offer ways to help keep black bears out of the news
July 8, 2013
Steamboat Springs — The black bears in Steamboat Springs continue to be the subjects of some very unusual stories.
First they were breaking into, and getting stuck inside, Subarus.
Then, they got caught sneaking into houses.
Now, could they really be stealing wallets and phones?
The Steamboat Springs Police Department hasn't been able to confirm the latest accusation, but officers on Sunday afternoon did get a report from a transient man who said two bear cubs snagged the important items from his campsite in a wooded area south of downtown.
Police Sgt. Jeff Wilson said the man, who told police he temporarily was camping in the area while looking for work, likely was attracting bears by leaving food out.
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The incident comes as authorities here prepare for what historically has been the height of bear activity in the city.
Yearlings have learned bad Dumpster-diving behavior from the sows.
Cubs are cut loose from their mothers.
And there are many things residents and visitors can do to safely co-exist with the bears and keep them out of the news, and trouble.
First, not every bear deserves to be ratted out to the authorities via a 911 call.
"If it's just a bear walking down the street, there is no need to call," Wilson said.
But he said bears that are getting into trash, drawing a large crowd or posing some sort of threat should be reported.
Non-emergent reports can be made by calling Routt County Communications at 970-879-1090.
In August 2012, Wilson said police and Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers were responding to about six bear calls per day.
The agencies responded to seven during the weekend.
Pictures captured late last week of a crowd getting dangerously close to a pair of moose on Mount Werner Circle also has wildlife officials stressing that people need to keep a safe distance from wildlife, including black bears.
Some of the bear calls fielded by law enforcement this summer came from people who saw others getting too close to bears for a close-up photo.
It doesn't help that today's cellphones and iPads still don't have much in the way of telephoto capabilities.
"People are trying to get that once-in-a-lifetime snapshot of Steamboat but not realizing the danger of it," Wilson said.
People who don't find themselves in photo range of the wildlife also can do their part.
Precautions include ensuring trash and food is properly stored, barbecue grills are regularly cleaned and ground level windows and screen doors are shut.
"The biggest thing is to remind people black bears are wild animals," Wilson said.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Symposium on Computational Scientific Discovery, AISB-50, April 1-4 2014, Goldsmiths, London, UK
We are pleased to announce a symposium on Computational Scientific Discovery on Tuesday 1 April 2014, at Goldsmiths, London. This symposium forms part of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB-50) Convention, April 1 to 4 2014: http://www.aisb.org.uk/events/aisb14 Submission deadline: Friday January 3 2014. OVERVIEW Science is fundamentally about explaining phenomena in the world. It involves an interplay between theories (hypotheses describing mechanisms or rules governing processes) and data (observations and measurements). There have been important advances in computational power, software, logic and statistical analysis techniques, together with, in many instances, an increase in the availability of data. These developments are enabling computers and computational devices to play an increasing role in the process of science. Specific developments have included: the use of evolutionary computation techniques to develop scientific theories and models, automation of the collection and analysis of data in the lab, new techniques in interpreting and analysing data, and developments in the availability of data with application to advancing science. This symposium welcomes papers on any aspect of these developments. A keynote talk will be given by Professor Ross King, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. (See, for example, �The automation of science�, Science, 324(5923), 85-89, 2009.) Website: http://generating-theories.peterlane.info/symposium.html TOPICS OF INTEREST Submissions are invited from a range of disciplines, facilitating cross-fertilisation of ideas and techniques. Examples of suitable topics are: - Computational methods for automating the generation and refinement of scientific theories and models - Computational simulation of, and assistance with, aspects of scientific discovery such as induction, insight, creativity and theory formation - Computational methods for automating the collection and analysis of data in the laboratory - Computational methods for obtaining data in the field and in cyberspace - Computational methods for extracting information from data, including pattern recognition, with application to scientific discovery - Methods for generalising the representation of data to facilitate the development of scientific models - Computational methods in inverse problems in science - Implications of computational scientific discovery for questions concerning explanation and inference in science We invite contributions from the physical sciences, biosciences, behavioural sciences, medical sciences, social sciences, mathematics, and philosophy of science. We welcome papers covering all relevant techniques and approaches. HOW TO SUBMIT Submissions should be full papers of up to 8 pages. Templates can be found at http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html. Please send your paper by email to: firstname.lastname@example.com , no later than 23.59 GMT on Friday 3 January 2014. IMPORTANT DATES January 3 2014: Deadline for submission of papers February 3 2014: Notification of acceptance February 24 2014: Camera-ready copies of final versions of papers must be submitted by this date. April 1 2014: Symposium date ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If your paper is accepted, at least one author must register and attend the symposium. Accepted papers will appear in the convention proceedings. There will be separate proceedings for each symposium. Proceedings have previously been made available electronically at http://www.aisb.org.uk/asibpublications/convention-proceedings, with each delegate receiving a memory stick containing the proceedings of all the symposia. In previous years there have been awards for the best student paper, and limited student bursaries. These details will be circulated when they become available. Further details will also appear on the convention website at http://www.aisb.org.uk/events/aisb14 ORGANISING COMMITTEE Professor Mark Addis (Committee Chair) Professor of Philosophy Birmingham City University and LSE http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff/mark-addis Professor Fernand Gobet Professor of Psychology University of Liverpool and LSE http://www.liv.ac.uk/psychology-health-and-society/staff/fernand-gobet/ Dr Peter Lane Senior Lecturer in Computer Science University of Hertfordshire http://homepages.stca.herts.ac.uk/~comqpcl/ Dr Peter Sozou Research Associate in Psychology University of Liverpool and LSE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Professor Mark Addis, Birmingham City University and LSE Dr. Ian Bradford, University of Hertfordshire Professor Fernand Gobet, University of Liverpool and LSE Professor Ross King, University of Manchester Dr Peter Lane, University of Hertfordshire Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire Dr Peter Sozou, University of Liverpool and LSE CONTACT If you have any questions, please send them to: email@example.com


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Is Minnesota's tax code rigged to promote cross-country skiing?
Minnesota residents who strap on their downhill skis at Buck Hill in Burnsville are required to pony up the state's 6.85 percent sales tax when purchasing lift tickets. By contrast, individuals who choose to explore the state's cross-country ski trails are spared the sales tax when purchasing a pass from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
The cross-country ski pass exemption represents a minuscule pot of money. It costs the state less than $50,000 in revenue annually. But it's one of nearly 300 "tax expenditures" that cumulatively result in billions of dollars in lost revenue each year.
Exact figures are difficult to calculate. That's in part because opinions differ among economic experts about exactly what should be counted as a tax expenditure. But according to a 2009 report by the Public Strategies Group, such tax exemptions, credits and deductions totaled $11.4 billion in lost revenue that year.
The single largest segment of that pot is the exemption on taxation of services such as auto repairs, accounting work and legal representation. In the next biennium, the state is expected to forego $5.4 billion in revenue by excluding such services from taxation, according to the Minnesota Department of Revenue. That's more than enough, in other words, to eliminate the state's entire budget deficit – and put a hefty down payment on a stadium for the Minnesota Vikings.
Other tax expenditure figures are nearly as gaudy. Sales tax exemptions for clothing, food and drugs (prescription and over-the-counter alike) are projected to cost the state $2.7 billion in the next two-year budget cycle. Deductions for mortgage interest payments and charitable contributions are expected to provide another $1.4 billion hit to the state's coffers.
Given these extravagant sums – and the state's unprecedented budget deficit – tax exemptions, credits and deductions would seem likely candidates for a lot of attention at the Capitol. But the topic is seldom broached in sparring over the budget between the Republican-led Legislature and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton. That's in part because of the peculiar nature of tax expenditures.
"Tax expenditures are really like the Robert Frost part of the budget. They're the revenue not taken," said Jenny Wahl, an economics professor at Carleton College. "There's no one place where you could go look it up because it's really an absence of something."
Wahl was among six academics who worked with officials at the state Revenue Department last year on a thorough review of the state's tax expenditures. The report, released in February, did not highlight specific tax loopholes that should be closed but rather recommended fundamental changes to how the state handles such expenditures. For instance, the report recommends that every tax exemption, credit and deduction be reviewed on a recurring eight-year cycle. It also calls for creation of a Tax Expenditure Commission to suggest changes based on those evaluations.
In addition, the report proposes bringing tax expenditures fully into the state budgeting process. The governor and the Legislature, for instance, could be required to make specific recommendations in their two-year budget proposals about whether to retain or drop each existing tax provision.
"It's not saying tax expenditures all have to end," noted John Spry, an economics professor at the University of St. Thomas, who also worked on the report. "But it's saying let's give them the same review."
There have been some signs at the Capitol of interest in scrutinizing tax expenditures. Early in the session, some key Senate Republicans – most notably Senate Taxes Chairwoman Julianne Ortman – indicated support for reviewing tax exemptions and credits. "What we're doing is forgoing revenue," Ortman told the Associated Press in February. "We should be viewing each of these expenditures as a spending program, and we came here to review every single aspect of state spending."
But such talk was quickly dismissed by GOP legislative leaders, and Ortman was soon reciting Republican talking points about government living with its means and additional revenue being off the table. More recently, chatter at the Capitol has suggested that tax expenditures are once again being examined by some key Republican legislators.
House Taxes Chairman Greg Davids didn't completely shoot down that suggestion when asked about it this week. "I'm not aware of much movement on that," he told the PIM Confidential newsletter. "The breaks are there. It would have to be a positive movement toward that… I don't know that we'll see that."
With less than a month left in the legislative session, there are no indications of a break in the budget impasse between the Republican-led Legislature and Dayton. GOP leaders continue to insist that any revenue increases are verboten, while Dayton proposes solving roughly half of the $5 billion budget hole through tax increases on the state's wealthiest 10 percent of residents.
That standoff could bring tax expenditures back into the mix. The key question will likely be whether GOP leaders can sell closing exemptions and credits to their members – as well as to their fiscally conservative core supporters – as tax reform rather than a revenue hike.
Economists who have studied the issue believe it presents the potential for compromise. "It's not really new spending, and it's not really new taxes," Wahl said. "It seems like the two could come together if they'd look at it in those terms."
Jay Kiedrowski, who served as finance commissioner under DFL Gov. Rudy Perpich, sees similar opportunities for compromise in reforming the state's tax code. "They might suggest that it's not a rate increase, but it's simply cleaning up some of the tax code," said Kiedrowski, who also worked on the Revenue Department report on tax expenditures. "That could be a very important distinction that might resolve the budget conflict between the governor and the Legislature. The fact that it's not in their original packet of recommendations doesn't mean that it won't ultimately be considered."
Spry points to President Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax overhaul, which dramatically lowered income tax rates but also closed numerous tax shelters and loopholes. "Was Ronald Reagan a good Republican?" he asked rhetorically. Spry further points out that lowering tax rates and broadening the base is a widely accepted principle of sound economic policy.
"I am just not capable of predicting what lawmakers will do," Spry said. "I can be hopeful they'll be guided by good economic principles. But I realize it's a political process; it's not an academic process."


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DEAR ABBY: We had a repairman in our home yesterday who needed to leave to go to the hardware store for a part. My wife told him: "I have to go to pick up my son, so here's my spare key. Let yourself back in."
Abby, we do not know this man from Adam! He easily could have copied our key—he was going to the hardware store, after all—and returned to burglarize our home, or worse. We have three young children. I realize my wife was in a tough spot. I know I should have more faith in the goodness of humanity, but I feel she put our family at risk. I'm considering having my locks changed. Your thoughts on the matter would be much appreciated.
—Protective In Livermore, Calif.
DEAR PROTECTIVE: You should not have a repairman in your home at any time unless the person is licensed, bonded, and you have checked his references. If, heaven forbid, a home is burglarized, the owners should tell the police about any "stranger" who has been on the premises.
And if you would sleep better at night knowing you had changed the locks as a precaution, then that's what you should do.
DEAR ABBY: I know thank-you notes are in order for wedding gifts, graduation presents and special anniversary gifts —but can the practice be overdone?
A woman in our group, "Bev," delights in sending thank-you notes for every little thing. She means well, but it makes the rest of us feel awkward.
Example: One day she dropped by as I was preparing a tuna sandwich for lunch, so I offered her one. We ate them on paper plates with a cup of tea. A few days later, a thank-you note arrived, which surprised me.
Abby, neither my mother nor I have ever sent or expected thank-you notes for casual visits. We're a group of older ladies who are just pleased to have friends who gather for lunch on birthdays or help each other out with small favors. We see and talk to each other often.
I don't want to offend Bev and will reply in kind to her, but have told others a simple thank you in person or a phone call will suffice for me. They agree. What do you think?
—Good Friends In Arizona
DEAR GOOD FRIEND: Because Bev may not be aware of your feelings on the subject, I think you should also tell HER that in the future a simple thank you in person or a phone call will suffice.
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