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2015, December 18 | Friday 4:29 pmby Peter Samuel
Some $39 million of state and local government funds are needed to support plans for the $82m Downtown Hotel and Conference Center (DHCC) project in Frederick. Developer Plamondon Hospitality Partners is committed to putting up $43m which pays for the hotel portion of the project. Other costs are the Conference Center $13 million, Parking Deck Six $16m, and land, utilities, roads and sundry items $10m. Capital costs are proposed to be split investors 52.5% and governments 47.5%. Government funding is proposed to be split State $16m, City $16m, County $6m (all $s rounded to nearest million.)
Most of the state funding is to come from a state agency Maryland Stadium Authority, the City money from borrowing against parking revenues and potential property taxes. The County contribution is expected from a hike in the hotel tax county-wide, and potential property taxes.
Sketchy 'tax increment financing'
The financing leverages these various forecast revenue streams by the planned sale of revenue bonds of different kinds. Revenue bonds are secured against the forecast revenue streams which are used to pay the interest and amortize or pay off the debt. There is as yet no detailed financial plan despite the MOU. For example it is as yet unclear what future revenue stream the Maryland Stadium Authority would use to fund the near $15m it is expected to raise according to the City's MOU. Outside Parking Deck Six's use of the City's parking fund to borrow another $13m, the City and County propose to use tax increment financing (TIF) – borrowing $5m based on the dedication of the estimated future increments or increases in property tax from the DHCC site. Another source of public funding thrown into the mix is an increase from 3% to 5% in the county hotel tax, estimated to yield over $4m. There are several other 6-figure or sub-$million fundings listed in the MOU recently approved by the City.
"No impact on taxpayers" – insupportable claim
City officials say repeatedly that the government funding won't impact taxpayers. For example the MOU executive summary states "The proposal calls for the facility to be privately owned and operated with no impact to resident taxes and no on-going subsidies…." (p10 of the Executive Summary to the MOU with the last clause bolded in the original)
Unfortunately this is untrue. There are several impacts on resident taxes, and they grow over time.
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) freezes the tax on any property going to the general fund of the City and County at the pre-development amount, dedicating the increase (or 'increment') of property tax to service the TIF debt. Since tax for the general fund from the property within the designated TIF district is frozen at pre-development dollar levels other taxpayers will have to carry more of the burden of supporting city and county services. The cost of these services will usually go up because of inflation, or population growth, or political pressure to do more. The hotel development itself may generate extra demand for local government services – for policing, trash collection, street maintenance etc. Year by year the TIF district or districts will pay less of their share of overall city and county taxation – as all the increase in TIF district property tax is legally dedicated to service and pay off the TIF debt.
Hotel tax to be jumped two-thirds
The DHCC scheme also envisages increasing the County's tax on hotel stays. These are to be jumped by two-thirds – going from 3% to 5%. Anything which raises the cost of hotel stays in the County raises the cost of visiting, and makes us less competitive with other jurisdictions. If our elected officials were serious about encouraging tourism and visitors they'd be working to lower the hotel tax to help make our hotels more attractive to use, rather than raising their costs.
Further what's the justice of adding to the costs of all the established hotels, many of them economy hotels for people paying their own expenses, in order to subsidize the new swanky high priced hotel and conference center for people on corporate or government expense accounts? Hit up the regulars staying at the economy motels off the interstate to support the corporate and upper income establishment in the fancy downtown is the essence of the DHCC's proposed financing.
Any scheme to subsidize one selected business project to the tune of 47.5% of its capital cost has several consequences:
- it hugely advantages the chosen business relative to competitors
- competitors lose business, lay off staff, and may even close
- others want similar tax arrangements and so the diverted increment in taxes grows, squeezing the general fund forcing extra taxation on those without TIF
Supporting non-viable projects has consequences
Since government is supporting a non-viable business, one which cannot otherwise cover costs with revenues it misallocates resources away from efficient business toward less efficient business and reduces overall productivity and real incomes. That is basic economics.
Economists in Chicago systematically studied these effects under TIF and concluded: "In summary, the empirical evidence suggests that TIF adoption has a real cost for (overall) municipal growth rates. Municipalities that elect to adopt TIF stimulate the growth of (TIF) areas at the expense of the larger town. We doubt that most municipal decision-makers are aware of this tradeoff or that they would willingly sacrifice significant municipal growth to create TIF districts. Our results present an opportunity to ponder the issue of whether, and how much, overall municipal growth should be sacrificed to encourage the development of (TIF) areas." (Richard Dye & David Merriman. The Effects of Tax Increment Financing on Economic Development. Journal of Urban Economics #47, 2000.)
Daniel McGaw wrote of TIFs "…the burden of paying for (local government) services will be shifted to other taxpayers. Adding insult to injury, those taxpayers may include small businesses facing competition from well-connected chains that enjoy TIF-related tax breaks. In effect, a TIF subsidizes big businesses at the expense of less politically influential competitors and ordinary citizens." (Tax Increment Financing: A Bad Bargain for Taxpayers, by Daniel McGraw. Reason Magazine, January 2006)
The Me-too effect
Once one business gets TIF assistance others naturally want it too.
"It's only fair if Marriott gets TIF funding then Holiday Inn should get the same," Holiday Inn will say. And Hilton, Hampton Inn, Best Western etc. And why just hotels? Why not condos, retail, or factory modernization? So TIFs tend to spread, especially when they are falsely presented as costless to taxpayers and as a boon to development.
Who but a miserable grinch could possibly object to a government program that stimulated development and was costless to taxpayers?
If TIF works for a downtown hotel/conference center in Frederick why not for the stalled Galleria condo project across the canal, or the equally long discussed McCutcheon development over East Street, or… where do you stop in taking future tax revenue from the general fund for loans now to favored business developments.
Of course it is NOT costless. Far from it.
The ruinous history of TIF
Just look at its history. TIF was invented in California and first used in the mid-1950s. For several decades its use was confined to 'urban renewal projects' – 'redevelopment' or rehab of blighted buildings. Gradually it was stretched and in the last quarter century TIF became commonplace for literally all kinds of development, most of them so-called greenfields construction. California has more TIF districts than the rest of America combined.
A prominent early promoter of them in the Bay Area was then Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown. Across the Bay from San Francisco Brown pioneered TIFs for urban renewal but they have spread across the state and into 'economic development.' By the turn of the century they were being used for all kinds of so-called public-private partnerships for office buildings, stadiums, casinos, shopping malls, housing, roads, housing, power, conference and convention centers, so-called smart growth developments etc. In 2000 a bipartisan Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century, chaired by San Diego Mayor Susan Golding in its report, Growth Within Bounds (Sacramento, 2000) wrote of TIFs: "this financing tool has steadily eaten into local property tax allocations that could otherwise be used for general governmental services, such as policy and fire protection and parks" (p111). This was an early warning of what was to become a full blown fiscal disaster.
Scott Beyer in Forbes wrote: "At first glance, (TIF) subsidies don't seem like handouts, since they supposedly pay for themselves through increased revenue from new projects. But it is (always) unclear whether revenues truly increase because of these projects, or from inflation. And the money that pays for them would otherwise fund core services, causing misplaced priorities in many cities."
Beyer cites the trendy grocer Whole Foods as receiving tens of millions in public (TIF) money to locate stores in Chicago and Detroit, at the very time these city governments were struggling to afford adequate policing and to handle past debt. Chicago has used TIF to get a new a Walmart and a Marriott Hotel. (Tax increment financing is the new urban renewal, by Scott Beyer, Forbes magazine, May 11, 2015. see
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2015/05/11/tax-increment-financing-is-the-new-urban-renewal/ )
Randal O'Toole urban affairs economist in Oregon writes bluntly of the result of TIF: "TIF takes money from schools, fire departments, libraries, and other urban services funded by property taxes. By eliminating TIF, state legislatures can help close current budget gaps and prevent cities from taking even more money from these urban services in the future." (Crony Capitalism and Social Engineering: The Case against Tax-Increment Financing, Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis #676, May 2011 see http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/PA676.pdf .)
In California the TIF wheel has turned full circle. Since 2011 as state governor Jerry Brown, the very man who championed TIFs from City Hall in Oakland now denounces them as ruinous.
In the state's first 20th century decade Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger struggled with the state's collapsing municipal finances trying to use suasion to limit TIF. He left an emergency to his successor as governor, Jerry Brown. Brown said a large part of the crisis was attributable to the proliferation of TIF through the generically named redevelopment agencies or RDAs which were unaccountable to local elected officials. After dramatically suspending TIF in an 'Emergency Proclamation' Gov Brown got through the state legislature laws (AB26/AB27) disbanding of most of the TIF-issuing RDAs.
It had become understood TIF had grown into a deadly threat to the solvency of state and local governments, draining away an ever increasing proportion of tax revenues. The only way to credibly address the state and local budgetary crises and restore fiscal credibility of California was to act dramatically and decisively against the TIF agencies.
Widely derided there as an unaccountable shadow government secretly channeling money to rich and powerful businesses and for often flashy extravagances at the expense of basic schools, police and fire service, RDAs had become a huge political liability.
In 2014 Brown did agree to limited reinstatement of TIF through a law permitting so-called Infrastructure Financing Districts but these strictly limit the purposes for which TIF is permissible to infrastructure. And, most important, TIF initiatives now require 55% local voter approval. Since TIF has grown so unpopular in the very state that hatched this financing scheme and saw it grow into a monster, the financing mode is clearly in serious decline.
At heart of Chicago corruption
TIF has also been large in Chicago, where the proliferation of the financing tool was associated with endemic cronyism and corruption. The Chicago Reader reported: "TIFs aren't just a tool for economic development. They're a tool for consolidating power. At least half a dozen aldermen have told us that mayoral aides pressure them on key votes . . . by either promising to give their wards more TIF dollars or threatening to take TIF dollars away." (Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke, Shedding Light on the Shadow Budget, Chicago Reader, December 10, 2009 cited by O'Toole p15.) "They also become a tool for political fundraising since the power to grant or deny TIF districting gives officials huge leverage over property owners."
As in California Chicago's perpetual fiscal crises are attributed in considerable part at least to the fact that TIF districts now cover close to a third of the City, forcing the remaining two-thirds to bear the full tax burden for basic services.
Wikipedia documents the use of TIF:
BOTTOM LINE: TIF could be labeled a kind of fascist finance. It uses demagoguery to sell the worst of socialism's bureaucratic planning with pandering to weaker capitalists' instinct to disadvantage competitors and corner a market by tapping governmental favors.
Note again, I write all this as a supporter of a hotel (and hotels) downtown. The developers and their architect Peter Fillat have, in my opinion, done a nice job of hotel design that fits the historic district. For the hotel proper anyway, not the conference center portion of the project which sits atop the footprint of the old Birely Tannery building – setting up a fight to fully demolish the Birely that the developers cannot, and I think, should not, win. An admirable hotel-only project is jeopardized by indefensible use of future taxes and government favors, and the ill-advised addition to the hotel of a sure loser of a conference center. The conference center portion is the loser financially, and will almost certainly lose the fight with historic preservation.
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thanks for your interest in the project and for your feedback!
The intention with auto-save is to keep a very tight visual-feedback cycle: you continuously see what you write, deployed in real time.
We are very aware that this approach has its limitations, and one of your future goals is to add lightweight snapshot/versioning to projects. Might this solution work for you? Do you see edge cases in which this might work worse than simply disabling auto-save?
Your feedback is welcome and needed Thanks!
The issue is that we developers are all human. Normally in our editors/IDEs we do a bunch of work, and when happy with it, we save.
Every now and then something goes wrong... our mouse/OS/app decides that the cursor is down and is selecting content... we freak out cause it wasn't supposed to be, we click somewhere to "dismiss" the selection and find out we have actually "moved" the selected chunk of code into a new location (something we had no intention of doing).
CTRL+Z and the problem is solved (or we simply don't save, ditch any changes, re-open with our last saved changes e.g. Parachute FTW!)
Alternatively we copy/paste the wrong thing to the wrong location... highlight a chunk of text to copy it out but accidentally cut it... or the cat walks on our keyboard and types over the highlight.
However with auto-save turned on all the time, you run a very high risk that you will blow away your ability to recover if something went wrong (this is all outside of source control).
TL;DR If there is no way to turn this off, I would do ALL of my editing in my own editor... then copy/paste to HyperWeb in order to "deploy" changes. I will never (personally) use a code editor that auto-saves. (excluding to backups, or crash recovery files)
I agree that some sort of versioning is essential.Here are some ideas/edge cases:
Thanks to both of you for your valuable feedback
Version control is definitely on our list of things to implement, and it is very high on that list.
I don't think we would ever have a toggle to disable autosave, but that would probably be redundant with proper save/snapshot/versioning and branching in place. If you think differently please let us know because we strongly belief that always keeping the "feedback loop" between what you write and what gets deployed is one of the core values of HyperDev as a product
As long as the end result is "if autosave cant be disabled, but I can go back in time to a previous snapshot to recover from an accident" then I'm ok with it.
However like I originally stated, I would personally prefer the ability to disable it. There's a good reason why I don't have autosave turned on in ANY other piece of software I use... Because when (not if) the 'fit hits the shan' I don't want to lose anything. Nothing will cause customers to leave faster than lost data.
(note autosave as a "backup" is 100% fine, and desired!, just not as the control of the actual file)
I have a couple of concern with auto-save
You could be executing incomplete code... sometimes this could be dangerous!
I know it's not normal that we'll be writing shell scripts here, but while I was (to get Dart working), it was constantly executing while I was typing commands. In some cases, half-typed commands are valid and do things you don't want. Eg:
mkdir mything
This could end up creating directories called m, my, myt etc. if it was being executed as I typed.
Obviously it's not a great example, but if you're writing code that manipulates data in a server-side datastore maybe there could be similar issues.
Sometimes it can also just be annoying... I was tweaking some CSS and I got interrupted.. when I looked back at my screen, the live app and reloaded and the styling was really broken so I'd totally forgotten what it the styling tweak I was trying to make was (because I couldn't see the original bad version). Sometimes it's handy to see your app as it was while you're deciding how to fix something.
Finally... sometimes you're causing so many reloads (and they may be slow, eg. if it's installing npm packages) that it's hard to know if what you're now seeing in the app is caused by the reload from your last keystroke, or when you were halfway through typing something. Sometimes I find myself waiting around and scanning the logs window trying to figure out whether it's rebuilding again or my change was bad.
I really think there's value in allowing people to disable it. I'd rather have to press Ctrl+S after every change to have the app reload and at least know it's loading what I wanted and not some intermediate state.
How about something like Etherpad's timeslider feature? It literally saves every single keystroke ever and gives you a slider to go back arbitrarily in time. (Actually Etherpad's implementation is kind of broken, but that's the idea.)
Probably a bad idea.
But I like the idea of a simple Checkpoint aka Snapshot button. And maybe that's what should trigger a deploy too. [EDIT: I'm really loving the idea of having the tightest possible feedback loop but @DanTup has a pretty compelling counterargument.]
I don't like the idea of just letting some people turn off autosave.
This seems to be going nowhere really, really fast.
I'll be blunt. If I don't have finite control over when I can save each individual file, I will ABSOLUTELY NOT be using this software, plain and simple. Even if everything else it does is the best thing ever created in CS history.
I'm not saying turn off autosave for everyone, I'm just saying there is a HUGE community of developers that have been burned more than once when software "tries to guess what we want". By providing the option to turn this off and present a discrete Save button is incredibly simple, I'm failing to see why there is such stubbornness to give users what they want?
If I am working on a project... and I have 3 files I'm "working on" shuffling bits of code back and forth between them as I re-factor... trying to deal with 3 individual timelines to scrub back on to get back to the state I want is going to be a real pain in the butt. If however I can work on them... then every 5 min or so when I'm confident I like the state I'm at... I can save them (or a set of them) then I'm good.
For anyone that still isn't grasping the issue here, pretend while you edit your code right now in your favorite editor/IDE that every ~30seconds your code is auto-commited and pushed to your repo! Is it backed up? yes. Can you roll it back if you need to? yes. Would it be a royal PITA? you bet!. It is much better if the person that knows how good/stable the code is - is the one in charge of saving/versioning.
Hi scunliffe,
don't be worried, we hear you Your comments raised interesting conversations and thoughts inside our team, and we are carefully considering every feedback that our users are sending us.
Even if the situation can change in the future, our major concerns right now are:
1) We are trying to provide you with an opinionated workflow. And our opinion is that the workflow should be centered on continuous feedback. It's tough for us to give up on this if you don't provide a compelling argument for the contrary. You already have unlimited Ctrl-Z history, and we will provide you with snapshots and rollbacks, that are exactly the same, if not better, than "save when you feel comfortable". On top of that we will also provide branching, so that all of your experimental code will stay safe and happy in a separate branch. Can you please elaborate on what additional advantage "disable auto-save" would provide?
2) Disabling auto-save would make it a bit more complicated to handle the multi-member usecase. If you invite someone on your project, (s)he can collaborate with you, live, on the same code. Handling the auto-save-off case in this scenario might lead to unexpected situations.
3) If you are worried by the unexpected results of half-typed code, there is already a very simple workaround (it's not polished, but it is very effective): just remove or change the line in package.json that defines the start command. If you put a bogus command there, it will just not run your code until you feel comfortable.
4) TDD might help you feel more comfortable on the state of your refactor, there is an example app in the gallery that shows how to use mocha as a precondition for running your app: https://hyperdev.com/#!/project/blossom-scorpion
Stay tuned, we really hope to accomodate every complain and hopefully you'll end up enjoying HyperDev as well
Thanks for your feedback!
Hi etamponi,
Thanks for your reply... and yes I'm glad these thoughts aren't going to dev/null.
1.) I agree with and like the idea of continuous feedback... which I'll call "auto-deploy". however I don't feel that this needs to be tied to how and when the files are saved. e.g. if I use https://jsfiddle.net/ I have the option to choose when I want to save.. but if it also auto-deployed the changes to the preview window I think that might be a really nice feature. Thus I like the idea of auto-deploy (to a sandbox), but I don't like the idea of auto-save (other than as a crash backup)
1.b) Related to 1 above, I think there needs to be some clarity between a deployment sandbox and "production". If I am writing some SQL that runs when a user clicks a link/button...
DELETE * FROM someTable WHERE key=1234
If the app saves my content as I type... AND it is auto-deploying it to production... then what happens when I only type this much and it saves?
DELETE * FROM someTable
I'm not going to be impressed... and no level of "scrubbing" back in my timeline will un-erase the data from the DB.
(I realize this may not be applicable quite as coded above, but these are the gotchas that come into play as soon as you start auto-saving)
2.) I'm not currently using the multi-member scenario... but if this exists I think the issues with auto-save actually multiply. The reason why we use version control (without checking out and locking files like in 1995) is because 2 or more developers need to be able to work on the "last stable version" of the code at the same time. If there are no conflicts when they check their code back in, great, but if there are, then the 2nd/Nth developers need to carefully inspect and merge their changes back in. I'm failing to grasp how this will work if multiple coders are hacking the same file at the same time... but moreso I see zero productivity in providing this as a feature (on the same file) without very careful oversight/monitoring to avoid collisions. I tried this with co-workers back when Google Wave came out. It was really neat, but ultimately infuriating to try and be productive.
3.) This is contrary to current developer flow of the past 30 years. When I want to make code changes... I just make them. As long as I don't push/commit my changes, its all local, nothing breaks, no kittens are injured. To change mental behavior so that I have to first think... ah, wait... "go offline" first... then make changes... is going to be very weird.. and only serves to highlight the issue with default auto-saving.
4.) TDD is a controversial subject. While it does provide a certain level of confidence for some developers, I'd argue most seasoned developers want to get their initial ideas out without being mentally railroaded to "think different" and solve non-application problems first. While I get that some developers love drinking the TDD Kool-Aid.. I personally will likely never be one. It kills my productivity and turns coding from fun into a chore.
Admittedly I may not be the ideal candidate for this tool. I may keep it in my back pocket as a quick prototyping tool before moving the code off the tool into my regular development process/tools. Unfortunately unless there are resolutions to the above issues (1, 1b, 2) I don't think I'd be able to use this tool from "Professional Production" development... just for "Script Kiddie" tasks.
Again, thanks for your reply
I think that we are actually on the same page as for 1 and 1b, I did not get that you wanted auto-deploy while disabling auto-save! Now it makes a lot more sense, and it is exactly what we want to address with our "branching" feature, that would also provide sandboxing. I am not only an HyperDev developer, I am also a quite active user, and I had "production" code running and serving a lot of people. I had the same problems as you: I needed a sandbox (what I'd like to call a branch) for testing the new features, and then "merge" on the "production" branch. So don't give up on HyperDev too soon Check back in from time to time, I am sure we will deliver what you're asking for really soon! A lightweight branching implementation is already planned for the next few weeks.
Thanks for your thoughts on 2, we will definitely take note of that
As for 3, you're right! I would just like to provide a simple workaround for now... I am not suggesting you to take that as an habit or a definitive solution!
We don't get into agreement about TDD, but... well, this would turn into a never-ending thread and also quite off-topic, so eventually in the future we will have time for a fight (a costructive one hopefully! ) on best development metodologies
Heh heh heThanks for the quick reply.
As for the TDD discussion I'd be happy to have a fun friendly debate over it... over some wings n beer (or a non-meat/non-alcohol equivalent) should I ever be in the NYC? area. As Jeff Atwood would say, "I have Strong opinions, weakly held"... thus I'm always up for constructive debate/ideas.
I feel that there's another topic related to auto-save, something like auto-release and auto-deploy, worth discussing here.
As I currently understand, the auto-save is also triggering a (implicit) release and deploy of the code. But next to the merits of auto-save, normally I want to have control on what/where/when gets released ("yeah, this is the version that I want to give others access to") and deployed ("yes, push this to the production service.")
The current always-on save-and-automagically-release-and-deploy (as I understand it) might work for things like document editing like Google Docs, but for anyone past the novice level in developing software and using it in a production-like setting, I'm not sure.
And then there's another important discussion: how to rollback to a previous version (and specifically which version)?
This is our bet
We do think that immediate-release-and-deploy is not only viable, but also beneficial for app development. HyperDev has been build to "prove" (or... disprove, eventually) this assertion.
As for critical apps, or apps for which you don't want to risk to cause service disruption while developing, we are planning to add a "branching" feature, so that you code and deploy your branch (separately from the production deployment) until you are done and feel safe to "merge" it back to the production branch. This is more or less the same workflow you can expect on your own dev environment, with the added benefit of immediate and automatic app deployment.
On our favor, we can already say that some part of HyperDev are built using HyperDev itself So even without the "branching", we feel it is already strong enough to support the development of important apps. Of course branching will provide tons of benefits and we are working towards implementing it.
Again: it's a bet... we really believe in it, and we are all but novice programmers Let's HyperDev talk for itself, with your help of course
Ha, that never was my suggestion. Sorry if it came across that way.
Thinking bits through, there might be another area where 'auto-save-becomes-auto-deploy' is tricky, being the persistency level. How to handle schema migrations, record upgrades (and rollbacks in case of problems in production)? Normally, these are explicit actions in a release-and-deploy process.
Since HyperDev itself will also have some persistency level, and auto-save seems to be working for you, you might want to provide some documentation and helpful guides how to cater for such needs. (That is, if you are using persistency in the parts where HyperDev is used in building HyperDev.) If I may make another (and last) pointer to Heroku, I really appreciate their developer documentation, both on how to use their platform and basic features, as on how to make necessary changes when their service is changing (like platform upgrades, deprecated APIs or new features).
(Oh, and it might be us guys 'from the old world' trying to grasp how things work in your world Please keep challenging and changing our way of thinking.)
This sounds like the best of all worlds. Btw, I love the opinionatedness!
I'd just like to re-emphasize the importance of some kind of sensible snapshotting feature. I accidentally deleted a few paragraphs of code, closed the browser, and lost my undo history. It was very frustrating to be unable to recover that code in any way. This is giving me a bit of a fear of using this tool, and hesitate to recommend it, though I otherwise love it.
Autosave in combination with forced reloading has destroyed my work.
I mistyped ^A ^C and pressed ^A ^V instead. In just that moment, hyperdev first autosaved and then reloaded my project, leaving me with an almost empty file and no way to undo anything.
If I was using HyperDev for a real project and not for playing around, I'd be mightily annoyed.
Jeremy, zocky
You guys make a great point. History management (being able to rollback to automatically saved states) is definitely on our roadmap. It's a major problem for us when people approach coding with trepidation of any kind


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Personally I put them behind Cubans and the Irish, although you could make a strong argument for the Dutch, just because many of them can speak so many dam languages!
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Silly, silly question! OF COURSE WE ARE!
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I think Canadians on the whole are very modest, even tending towards self-deprication, so it is of course ironic for a Canadian to be asking whether we are the greatest people on earth. Any true Canadian would understand that, and anybody from the States who are not as enlightened as us Canadians (see - there's that modesty again) would naturally take the question as a thinly veiled boast about our national character.
The long and the short of it is, we are the greatest, because when we make such a claim, everyone who knows Canada, knows we are only joking - I think....actually maybe I'm just confused...so who are the greatest - is it really the Americans? :-)
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If you can't manage to tech and keep a stacked tube poppit running I am not sure how if you plan to keep anything running. No offense at all, there are many things other people find very easy I cannot figure out for the life of me. All I am saying is that if your don't over think it, modern guns are a breeze to work on if they ever need work.
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I'll just tell you what electros I've had for awhile and like
A1 Fly (mine has a tadao) - What I use the most.
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All of these have worked great in the cold. Angel G7/A1 Fly maintenance is dead easy. Much like autocockers it's a couple drops of oil every couple cases and lube the reg (+ram for angels) now and then.
The only one that's been finicky is the SR with MQ2 (the mq2 specifically). The A1 Fly and G7 come with great triggers. My Karnivor and Promaster have been upgraded to have a nice triggers with bearings.
While I have little experience with spool valves. My experience with poppets has been they're very easy to tech.
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Anyway...this weekend seemed to fly by. On Saturday, I met a wonderful bunch of women a the New York City Metro Modern Quilt Guild at our second meet at Victoria's loft. And great news! We're featured today on the Modern Quilt Guild website! (And there's a picture of yours truly with one of my New Wave quilt tops.)
I did very little sewing but a number of other things were crossed off the to do list. Most importantly, we swapped air conditioners with a very nice couple. Our windows have security bars that prevent us from using a window unit (which we had) and instead we needed to get a portable floor one (which this other couple had since they USED to live in an apartment with windows like ours). We made a successful swap - woohoo! Now, Louie and I are sitting here enjoying the nice cool air instead of just the humidity.
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Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from the Old English name Aelfric, which literally means "elf-ruler" or Aeoelric which means "noble ruler." Both survived the Conquest, by which time the first element of the name had been reduced to "Al" or "El." Aeflric, Aefric, Alfric, Aluric [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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Anchee Min's historical novels about China have a clear purpose beyond entertainment or instruction. Beginning with "Becoming Madame Mao" (2000) and following with a two-volume epic about the dowager empress Tzu Hsi, the author has set out to reject traditional caricatures of female Chinese rulers as power-mad dragon ladies in favor of more nuanced, sympathetic fictional portraits.
"The Last Empress" is the second of the two novels about Tzu Hsi, who ruled China from the mid-19th century to 1908, during the waning years of the Ch'ing dynasty. It continues the story after "Empress Orchid" (2004), in which Min described how the woman rose from among thousands of imperial concubines to become the mother of the emperor's only son. The first novel ended in 1861 with the emperor's death. Because her son was 5 years old at the time and would not assume full power for years, Tzu Hsi, also called Orchid, governed the empire as co-regent along with the late emperor's childless senior wife.
Both the country and the imperial court were undergoing catastrophic changes. China's humiliating defeat in the Opium Wars forced the opening of its ports to the West, easing the way for European, American and Japanese invasions, and allowed missionaries to introduce foreign religion and culture while remaining exempt from Chinese law. The court, plagued by corruption and the constant threat of coups, was straining to pay stupendous war debts and to control widespread peasant uprisings.
"The Last Empress," a more impatiently written novel than its stately, evocative precursor, begins under these inauspicious circumstances. It is Orchid's job to raise the young emperor, Tung Chih, who has few father figures among the contentious schemers in the imperial court, and to rule a vast, increasingly besieged country while avoiding various efforts to depose her. Tung Chih grows into a recalcitrant adolescent, more interested in debauchery than responsibility, and Orchid's hopes of retiring after her son officially ascends to the throne are crushed when he dies of venereal disease. Devastated by this loss and stung by false accusations that she caused his death, Orchid is forced to name a new heir, her nephew Guang-hsu, and to begin the process of educating yet another emperor. In the meantime, China remains "like a mulberry tree nipped away at by worms," vulnerable to continuing attacks by the Japanese, who invade Formosa in 1871, and the British, who annex Burma a few years later.
"Future critics, historians and scholars would insist that Guang-hsu had led a normal life until I, his aunt, wrecked him," sighs Orchid, who goes to great lengths to combat this view. Eager to please but fearful, the young man is easily manipulated by power-grabbing advisers and proves incapable of facing the continuing crisis he has inherited. More and more territory falls out of imperial control: In the mid-1880s Vietnam is ceded to the French, Korea declares independence, and peasants known as Boxers launch the beginnings of a long rebellion that would reach its apex at the turn of the century.
Forced to intervene in every conflict both inside and outside the court, Orchid continues to long for an ever-infeasible retirement. "The burden of arbitration was left solely to me," she declares, "not because I had any special competence but because nobody else could do any better." Meanwhile, the exiled ringleaders of a foiled assassination plot convince the international press that Orchid is an evil dictator, hoping that the slander will urge foreign powers to unseat her. The year 1898 brings further ruin in the form of famine, floods and widespread rioting. When the emperor falls ill, Orchid's enemies claim that she has tried to poison him; when he retreats into solitude after a nervous collapse, it's widely assumed that she has placed him under house arrest. Forced to flee Peking when the Boxer Rebellion and invasions of foreign troops ravage the country, the royals eventually return home to a much-diminished city, saddled with a permanent foreign military presence.
"The ship sinks when a female goes on board," goes an old Chinese saying that the empress tries manfully to disavow. While Orchid's dedication to her country is so absolute that she sacrifices her entire personal life, including a great love for her army commander, many times in Min's narrative she seems more interested in what the Western press and "future critics" will say than in how her own people regard her. Orchid's reign, after all, coincides with the first significant Western interaction with China, which for centuries had been a closed society.
For every generation's dream of China there seems to be a corresponding dream of Tzu Hsi. She was a dragon lady for late-19th-century Westerners who considered that image useful for their colonial aspirations. Today's Tzu Hsi, as Min's revisionist pair of novels imagines her, suits a contemporary Western audience as the vision of an empress who very nearly had it all: vulnerability and strength, motherhood and power, earthiness and dignity, compassion and ambition.
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I remember someone asking about SSI calls in PHP pages. I can't find the post, so I will assume that I either saw it in the chat, or I am getting senile.
Anyway, do you think it is possible to use .htacces to enable ssi on php pages similar to enabling .htm or .html files, or will this just disable php?
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January 13th, 2003, 07:15 AM #2
My understanding of the mod rewrite rules in .htaccess is that they are essentially doing text manipulation - so in the examples I think you're referring to, they're effectively just changing the extension of the files the user requests to an extension the server will recognise and execute.
It won't change the behaviour of PHP etc in itself.
Based on my Perl experience, I think you need to be exploring a) pulling text in from an external file via PHP (instead of an "include virtual" SSI call) and/or b) executing perl or other cgi scripts from within PHP (instead of an "exec" SSI call).
BTW - I did hold off replying to this in case someone who knows what they're talking about stepped in.
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That was Gordon in chat. As CG said, you can pull the info with php from a .txt file. Gordon did say he got it to work however and it was some other way. Gordon might have invented a bit of new coding. I don't remember exactly what he did, but check with him.
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Gordons code goes like this:

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I found another way to make the include.

<?php require_once('http://www.domain.com/directory/file.name'); ?>

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I use <?php include ("some_file.inc.php"); ?>
I don't think it matters at all what the extension is, PHP will just enter the contents of the file into the page. However, I'm fairly certain this is the standard way to include things in PHP (and having the include file end with .inc.php).
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However, I'm fairly certain this is the standard way to include things in PHP (and having the include file end with .inc.php).

The file extension is whatever you're happy with.
However, if you use an extension that is "known to the server to be php", it will get parsed by the PHP plugin if someone accesses it directly - This is why most people use .php on the end of their includes, or have .inc set in their mimetypes, etc - they don't want people to read the info contained in the files.
Setting the extension to .inc.php is just a way of telling yourself that this is not a full script, while still being "secure" from prying eyes...
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