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1940 Bantam 60
Rogers, MN
The American Bantam Model 65 Riviera Convertible shown here is one out of just 130 cars made with roll-up windows. It also has a... More
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1943 Bantam
Castro Valley, CA
1943 Bantam 1/4-ton Jeep Trailer, mostly solid and straight, some bed rust-through, new military tires/tubes mounted on combat rims, original pintel hitch with standard... More
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Suffern, NY
HAPPY holidays! American Bantam and Austin cars/parts bought/sold, locating services; call with needs; 1939 Bantam roadster; 1939 station wagon, restoration needed. Richard, 845-293-0937, NY;... More
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The Son That Former NFL Player Rae Carruth Tried To Kill Turns 18, Still Suffering From Permanent Brain Damage
The former wide receiver, who plotted the murder of his ex, Cherica Adams, is scheduled to be released from prison soon.
Just because the NBA can't get it together doesn't mean the ballers can't still ball. For the highest paid athletes in the league, acquiring an international players card is no problem.
In fact, Kobe Bryant is being sought so hard by the Italian league Virtus Bologna that its president, Claudio Sabatini, tells The Associated Press he's "very confident" the 10-game contract, worth more than $3 million, will happen.
Bryant, who lived in Italy from age 6 to 13 while his father played ball there, is said to still be fluent in Italian and sees the opportunity as a "dream." The AP says the president is "convinced this deal could be of key importance for the greater awareness of Italian basketball."
The 33-year-old five-time NBA championship winner will not comment on the deal until the outcome of the next set of negotiations are known. Bryant will have to register with the Italian league before the season starts Oct. 9 to be able to play.
If everything works, the MVP will get to play for Virtus Bologna and then return to the U.S. to play with the Lakers should the lockout end.
The former wide receiver, who plotted the murder of his ex, Cherica Adams, is scheduled to be released from prison soon.
Each of the men could be served a life sentence in prison.
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THE STEALERS [punk'n roll from Rotterdam]
Do you remember win Rock & Roll was about back Alleys, Drugs, hard life's, toxic women, being tough because you had to not to pose? Do you remember when Rock & Roll was Johnny Thunders, Slaughter & The Dogs, Rose Tattoo, AC/DC, Angel, and Slade?
From classic rock magazine december 2013:
Imagine Chuck Berry on ' a weekend-long crime spree with AC/DC driving the getaway car. That's the kind of super sleaze these Rotterdam widow makers peddle.
This might be the most percussive rock record I've heard in years.
Every riff sounds like a skull slamming into a wall.
Does rock'n'roll still need a "most dangerous band"? If so. l think I found 'em.
MAD BEAT [punk rock]
MAGE//STICK [punk rock]
Start @ 21.30
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CIRCOLO MEZCAL. Savigliano (CN), Via Torino 187 E
Se arrivate da Cavallermaggiore, entrando in Savigliano, ci trovate sulla destra prima della rotonda e del supermercato IN'S. Se arrivate da qualche altra parte boh, andate verso Cavallermaggiore e poi tornate indietro.


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Minster FM News
Police uncover suspected fuel theft operation
11:26am 16th May 2012
North Yorkshire Police Statement:
Three men have been arrested during a multi-agency operation targeting fuel thieves.
The suspects were arrested on Saturday 12 May 2012 when officers from North Yorkshire Police and Humberside Police joined Customs and Excise officials on a warrant at a site on Balne Moor Road, Balne, near Goole.
At the site officers discovered a sophisticated operation which is suspected of being used to turn red fuel into white fuel.
Customs officials seized approximately 10,000 litres of fuel along with equipment suspected of being used in the conversion process.
The suspects aged 70, 50 and 17 were all taken into custody for questioning and have been released on police bail as enquiries continue.
PC Tony Morton, of Selby police, said:
"Fuel theft is an issue we are taking very seriously at the moment and we are working closely with other agencies to ensure that residents and business are well protected.
"Fuel is very expensive at this time and local people and firms can ill-afford to lose it to thieves.
"We have pulled ranks with other forces and our partners to ensure that our borders are well secured and that fuel thieves have nowhere to hide."
If you would like to report a fuel theft contact North Yorkshire Police on 101..
Alternatively, Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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DETECTIVES are appealing for information after a teenage boy was assaulted in Nelson.
Around 9-30 p.m. on Saturday, February 11th, the 16-year-old was walking through Nelson town centre along Netherfield Road with his sister when three men shouted homophobic abuse at him.
An argument then broke out between the group before the men assaulted the teenager, punching and kicking him in the face.
The offenders were disturbed when a man who was passing intervened and they all left the scene.
The victim was left needing surgery for a broken jaw and police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
Detective Constable Julie Leigh said, "This was a vicious and nasty assault and I am very keen to trace the people responsible.
"In particular, I would like to speak to the man who intervened and was able to stop the assault and would urge him, if he sees or hears this appeal to contact us.
"I would also appeal to anyone else that may have been in the area at the time who may have witnessed anything or to anyone that recognises the descriptions of the offenders to contact us."
The three men are described as being of Asian heritage, aged between 16 and 19. One of them in particular was described as being of medium build, around 5ft. 8in. and 5ft. 10in. tall and clean shaven with short, dark cropped, hair. He was wearing dark clothes.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact police by calling 101 or alternatively, they can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at Crimestoppers-uk.org. No personal details are taken, information is not traced or recorded and you will not go to court.


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Everybody at da crib asking about the 12th man. All I can say is believe the hype. Best fans in sports! #SuperBowlXLVIIIchamps
Regardless of how it may seem, we are all blessed! Happy Sunday people.
Boi you ain't seen that south truly until you see an elderly woman try to eat corn on da cob with no teeth!!
A team of Destiny!! Damn near Speechless! #LivingADream #awitnessgodisgood


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Unanswered: sqlplus won't start on new oracle installation
Hello gurus,
I installed Oracle 9iR2 on Solaris 8 and cannot get sqlplus to start.
I followed the installation guide from Oracle and the software and database installed without errors. I get the following message when I attempt to run sqlplus:
sqlplus "/ AS SYSDBA"
sqlplus: not be found
How do I fix this? Thanks
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think I fixed this- need to add to .profile
I fixed it temporarily by running the script as root:
. /usr/local/bin/oraenv
This sets up ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME environment variables for Oracle on Solaris. Anyone know how to set this in the .profile for Oracle users to allow access to SQLPLUS and other Oracle applications on Solaris 8 UNIX? Thanks
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Simple add the entries in each user .bash_profile with your own values:
export ORACLE_SID=TEST1
export ORACLE_BASE=/apps/oracle
export ORACLE_ADMIN=${ORACLE_BASE}/admin/${ORACLE_SID}
export ORACLE_HOME=${ORACLE_BASE}/product/920ee
export TNS_ADMIN=${ORACLE_HOME}/network/admin
export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ORACLE_HOME}/lib
export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X/bin:${ORACLE_HOME}/bin:.
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Courtney Stodden is to renew her wedding vows to Doug Hutchison.
The 21-year-old reality star has revealed the pair - who reconciled in August 2014 - have finally announced their plans to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary by reaffirming their commitments to one another on their wedding date of June 21.
The blonde beauty said: "Our relationship right now is really, really good. We're really strong and we're very happy. We're getting ready to celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary and we're absolutely going to renew our vows for our fifth wedding anniversary. So, yeah, we're doing really, really well!"
And as to whether she plans to have children with the 55-year-old actor, she said she's not quite ready to take that step just yet.
She told In Touch Weekly magazine: "Oh boy! I don't know if we're ready for a baby right now. We have two little fur babies, so those are kind of our babies right now. But, you never know!"
Courtney recently opened up about her mother developing feelings for her partner, which caused problems in their relationship.
She previously said: "My mom attempted to craft really inappropriate boundaries that a mother should never cross in her daughter's life and her relationships.
"She really started to fall inappropriately for my husband."


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I'm loving all the citrus colours around at the moment: the bright yellows,pinks,oranges and corals really brighten up an outfit or your mood.
I'm going to London soon for my birthday and wearing a grey dress so I was desperate for a colour to brighten my outfit up so it didn't look drab.
I thought coral was the way to go nice and bright, I've been looking for shoes for a few weeks now and not found anything, but after nosing through EBAY recently I found these coral high heels from Primark. I had to have them, think they were around £12.00 and I have to be honest I love them.
You get so many amazing things in Primark but it's not for the quick shopper you have to have the patience and time to sift through the racks because you will find a bargain if you look.
So dress and shoes and nail colour sorted I just need my clutch bag now which I want a coral one.
If anyone sees a nice one give me a shout!!!
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|homade made chicken doener, pita breads, garlic sauce & vegetables
|Home made chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream
So, despite having 4 home educated kids, doing 3 different courses and helping out my husband in his business I still make our food most days of the week. My husband does some other days and every now and then one of my kids makes food. It works out quite nicely this way. We also make sourdough bread, sauerkraut and other ferments. That doesn't mean it all always goes smooth, but it mostly does. It has actually been quite a while ago that we had take-away. We do occasionally have some pizza's or so, which are pre-made and we only have to bake in the oven. But my kids prefer home made pizza, so that is a rarity as well. I think in the last 2 months it happened once. And take-away is even longer ago.
When making your own food you have so many more possibilities than you have with processed foods. A pizza can have any type of topping you want. When I make home made pizza. I use 2 large baking sheets and put the dough on that - there are 7 mouths to feed in our house at present - then I put the pizza sauce (home made) on top and from there we have a selection of choices. Everyone can have some input. Frequently I make 2 different pizza's so that everyone is happy. And lastly we put the cheese on top. We rarely have left overs.
And then there is the pizza from the Alsace, which i learned about in Switzerland, flammkuchen. That is so tasty! It just has a sour cream / double cream topping, then onions and bacon bits on there and it goes in the oven. That also disappears very quickly and is so easy to make!
Futhermore there are any number of ways to make meats, roast, cook, fry, whatever. Any number of spices can be used to flavour them. For me garlic and onions are always on any meat. As that just makes it all so very tasty.
Vegetables. there is no limit on how you can make them. So much fun.
So despite the fact that the food companies have tried their best to make everyone think it is too much work, too difficult and no fun. I actually am convinced they are totally wrong. They are only doing this to sell their products. They have indoctrinated people into thinking this and it is patently not true. Making food is loads of fun. Especially when you do it together with family members. I prefer only have a few with me. Having 7 people in the kitchen isn't a workable situation LOL.
But having 1 or 2 people with me is really nice, you can chat about the day, or - as my husband and i often do - have a business meeting while preparing dinner.
And it is so much more tasty. You can use so many different natural ways to flavour your food. When I make chicken korma I make it the way I like it. The way I have had it from the take-away was quite a disappointment, as it also was from the supermarket. Loads of salt and not enough flavour. I have read up on korma dishes and found that the spices are where it is at. In India spices are the big thing anyway. We do not like the extreme hot spiciness from India, but we do like food from India. So when I make a dish from India I use less burn and keep the flavour.
Making soups is really easy as well. You can use any number of meats and vegetables and even mix them. You can blend or not. Whatever you like. I have a friend who tends to make a soup with the leftovers of the previous day and add some flavour that fits and there it is. Nothing difficult about that. She does always have home made broth going. So do I. There is always a broth going on the cooker or in the slow cooker.
Oh... and then the slow cooker. The most wonderful tool in the kitchen. Any stew and soup can be made in that. Cut the evening before. Keep in the fridge. Put in the slow cooker in the morning, and your dinner is done by the evening. How easy is that!
Now that I am so much more busy we actually pre-cut most of our foods on the weekend. This includes lettuce and such. The best way to keep all vegetables is in the fridge, all in separate bags or boxes. Meats all go in the freezers. I plan my meals ahead, so I know which vegetables keep longer and can be used later in the week. Some parts, that require that, we precook on the weekend already and then put in the fridge or freezer. I also make all my salad dressings on the weekend already, they keep just find in a former jam jar or such.
I recently read that Michael Pollan has said in an interview that he thinks that it is very difficult to get obese on home cooked food and I think he is very right with that. The people that I know that are doing a lot of home cooking are definitely not obese. Some may be a bit overweight, but none are to points where it becomes a big problem for their health.
I also think it is very important to teach children to cook. Mine are invited to be with me / us in the kitchen to help out from very young onward. My youngest is no 8, but she has been very good with even knives from about 6 onward. We have always let them help and all of them are very good with making foods. They all have their preferences, which is actually quite a blessing. It gives us a lot of variety. It is amazing to see the preferences between my husband, my oldest children and myself creating so many different types of foods and all similarly tasty.
My children do all loves hamburgers, pizza's, kebabs and all those things. There is no reason for them not to eat it. We just make it at home, unless there is a special occasion. But even then some of my children prefer the home cooked version.
So this is all really not that difficult when you look at it. In case you want me to talk more about specific parts of cooking at home. Please feel free to ask.


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We visited this cemetery as part of a walking tour. We enjoyed seeing an authentic New Orleans cemetery, like what you often see in the movies. Our guide said this was the cemetery used in the movie Double Jeopardy.
It's located in the garden district, which is a great place to visit anyway -- great restaurants and gorgeous old homes.
Close to the cemetery is a bookstore and cafe with tasty treats.
The cemetery is often closed on Sundays, though not always. To play it safe, go M - Saturday.
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Cavanaugh, a former member of Delta Force who now works as a protector for those rich enough to afford him and his team, is hired by a brilliant scientist named Prescott who needs protection from a powerful drug lord seeking the highly addictive drug he has invented. At least, that is what Cavanaugh is led to believe.
After Cavanaugh trains the scientist in escape and evasion, the unthinkable occurs: Cavanaugh's team is viscously attacked and entirely wiped out, and Prescott seems to be in collusion with the attackers. Now Cavanaugh must fight against his own tactics and anticipate his enemy's every move while suffering the consequences of the real secret Prescott is hiding: a unique weapon that induces fear.
David Morrell is one of America's most popular and acclaimed storytellers, with over 18 million copies of his books in print. His thrillers have been translated into 22 languages and turned into record-breaking films and top-rated TV miniseries. His 1972 debut novel, First Blood, became the basis for the Rambo movie series. A former professor of American literature at the University of Iowa, he now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"The story unfolds quickly, accelerates to warp speed, and hurtles on to a stunning climax. And amazingly, in the midst of all the mayhem, Morrell draws more than a few complex characters imbued with layered motives and capable of intelligent dialogue. A wonderfully entertaining action adventure." (Booklist)
"As one would expect from a veteran pro like Morrell, there are plenty of twists, several impressive action set pieces and a narrative that speeds like the souped-up Taurus (combining power and anonymity) that Cavanaugh likes to drive." (Publishers Weekly)
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The Troubled Dividend Tax Cut
April 30, 2003
After President Bush's tax cut plan was reduced from $726 billion to $550 billion in the House and to $350 billion in the Senate, his proposal to eliminate the double taxation of corporate profits by exempting dividends from taxation appears to be in jeopardy, says Bruce Bartlett.
There has been a lack of support for the dividend plan among corporate executives. This is not surprising, says Bartlett -- in fact, it is a sign that President Bush is on the right track. However, eliminating the tax on dividents would benefit corporations as well as their shareholders:
- As long as profits are double taxed, executives have a good reason not to pay dividends.
- But without dividends, shareholders are totally dependent on earnings reports to tell how well their investments are performing.
- This system is open to abuse by executives needing to hit quarterly earnings targets in order to get stock options.
- On the other hand, leveling the tax-treatment of dividends would help correct the corporate governance problem evidenced by the Enron, Worldcom and other scandals last year, Bartlett says.
At the same time, continued slow growth in the economy has made the need for short-run stimulus more pressing. The dividend plan was always more tax reform than short-run stimulus. But with full recovery still ahead and a presidential election next year, attention has shifted toward stimulus and away from reform.
Source: Bruce Bartlett, "The Troubled Dividend Tax Cut," April 30, 2003, National Center for Policy Analysis.
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Graphic: MRI image of two heads comparing control group and dyslexic group
Caption: Images of the brain reveal that normally reading adults show activity in visual cortex during the perception of visual motion. Adults with dyslexia lack this activity, demonstrating that the neurobiological basis of disordered reading can be elicited in tasks that do not involve reading. Control group is on left and dyslexic group on right.
Data from Eden et al. 1996 Nature article displayed on heads (source: cover of The Journal of NIH Research).
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Hello World,
This post is about a Python iterator class to "walk" a nested structure made of dictionaries, lists and scalars.
Without any further ado, you can view the code here as a Github gist.
Hello World,
This post is about a Python iterator class to "walk" a nested structure made of dictionaries, lists and scalars.
Without any further ado, you can view the code here as a Github gist.
This post is about web development, using Windows, in 2014. All-in-all the state of web development for developers is not-too-bad. Many of the tools I'm going to discuss here are cross platform and open source. This will be somewhat of a whirlwind tour and not a definitive guide, click the links for more information about any of the topics. This post is also a work in progress. I would rather get some information out there to the good people of the internet, rather than let this post get moldy in my 'drafts' folder waiting to be a complete work. Before we get too far however, I'm first going to talk discuss a more important question.
First, we want to provide what our customers want. For many customers this is a "web application", frequently referred to as a Single Page Application, or SPA for short. The types of applications you can build with this stack are "bigger than a breadbox" but "smaller than an elephant". Luckily, many times this is what our customer wants and needs.
You can build trivial apps with this stack, but in general, you don't want to. If you only ever have one view, then you are probably better of to let the server render it. If you have a HUGE application with LOTS of data, then this also isn't probably an ideal stack. You probably want to look for something more specialized. If you want rapid application development with ORMs, and scaffolding, this is not it (take a look at Ruby on Rails). Finally if you want a single language stack, this is not it (check out Meteor). This stack is not opinionated, it is not the new hotness.
As developers, we want a development process that is structured yet flexible, can be automated, and allows for different types of testing. We want something that is proven to work and popular enough to have continued development. If you are developing on Windows, then you also want something that works on Windows!
Below is a list of software to use. Note that all of it is free!


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A/N:Okay so this is my first supernatural fanfiction, so it would mean a lot if you would review, even if it was not too good. Anyways enjoy the story! I do not own taco bell, supernatural or any of the characters! Song for this chapter is because of you by Kelly Clarkson.
Dean, Sam and Castiel sat in a motel room taking a small break after a hunt.
Song for this chapter is because of you by Kelly Clarkson.
"Man I'm hungry. It's Cas' turn to get the food Sammy?"
"Right Dean. I'm in the mood for taco bell."
"Sounds good. Cas go down the street and get us our usuals."
"Yes Dean." Castiel teleported to the restaurant.
Dean shook his head. "Freakin' angel."
Dean and Sam sat patiently waiting for Castiel to return with their food. After an hour, Dean shot out of his chair, unable to wait any longer.
"Dammit Sam, I got a bad feeling. I'm heading off to taco bell you stay here just in case he comes back."
"Sure thing Dean."
Dean got in the impala and sped down the road. He walked inside the fast food restaurant and walked to the counter. "Have you seen a guy about this tall wearing a trench coat?"
"Yeah he just walked outside with a man about forty five minutes ago."
Dean ran outside and went around to the alley. There on the floor lay Castiel, naked and bleeding.
"Dammit Cas!"
Dean shook Castiel, hoping to get a respond. He got none. Dean dressed Castiel with the clothes that lie next to him. He then carried Castiel into the impala, laying him down in the back seat. He drove like a bat outta hell and was at the motel in no time, even though it felt like forever.
Dean pulled out his cell phone and dialed Sam's number.
"Dean did you find Castiel?"
"Sammy come down stairs right now! Hurry!"
Sam ran down the stairs and saw Dean carrying Castiel. He helped Dean carry him up the stairs. They placed Castiel on one of the beds, still not making a sound.
"What the hell happened to him?"
"I don't know Sam but we need to get some help. Call Bobby and see if he knows anyone with medical experience around here."
Sam didn't even answer Dean, inst4ead jumping into action and pulling out his cell phone. Dean could hear Sam talking, but couldn't make out the words. He didn't really care, his angel was hurt and needed help. Dean grabbed his first aid kit and fixed what he could, which wasn't much. He had no idea if he had internal bleeding or not, so they needed help and needed it fast.
"Alright Dean Bobby has a guy a town over and he will be here in less than twenty minutes. He's going to be okay Dean." Sam put a hand on his brothers shoulder, knowing that Dean had gotten close to the angel.
"How do you know that Sam? You have no idea what happened to him!" Dean yelled, taking his frustration out on his brother.
"Cas? How are you feeling?"
"Terrible. Sam do you mind if I talk to Dean alone for a moment?"
"Not at all, I'll go get us something to eat. Don't worry I got my gun."
Dean and Castiel nodded at Sam. As soon as the door closed, Dean touched Castiel's hand to let him know that he was there for him. He didn't want to let Sam see him having a chick flick moment after all. Castiel jerked his hand away from Dean's in defense and turned his head away, ashamed of himself.
Dean was completely confused. "Cas, what the hell happened to you?"
A tear slid down Castiel's face as he turned his head towards Dean. "I'm sorry Dean, I'm so sorry."
"Sorry for what Cas?"
"Dean a man violated me in that alley." Castiel couldn't bring himself to say rape. He let out a sob that he had been holding in and shook his head.
"God Cas, I am so sorry, I should have never let you go out there alone. Come here."
Dean grabbed Castiel, who flinched at first, but then melted into Dean's arms, crying into Dean's chest.
'This is going to be one hell of a trip.'


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My good friend Susan Murphy wrote an interesting post yesterday, about how small towns are social networks. She points out that small towns have led the way for years when it comes to networking and seeing social leaders rise to the top. It's a really good read and I highly recommend it.
It reminded me of something I've been thinking of for a while – how to involve the offline community more with the online one. While the likes of Twitter, Friendfeed and other social media tools are in the ascendancy, they're still only used by a relatively small number of users, personal and professional.
So how do we change this?
How about we offer real-world and relevant use to offline communities so the online ones would experience growth and understanding? If we gave examples – workable examples – and led the way in showing users how to benefit from these self-same examples?
A conversation I had with my friend and PR person extraordinaire Lizz Harmon led me to think that this can be easier than many might think.
Imagine for a minute that you're looking to travel somewhere for your vacation. Generally, you go by what the travel agent tells you. Now, unless you're one of the very few lucky ones who've had great travel agents, the information you receive often doesn't tell the whole story. Unfinished hotels, work sites just off the beach, sewer problems – and that's just the good stuff.
I don't blame the travel agent completely – after all, their job is to sell you a vacation and that's where they make their money. I just wish for a little more honesty.
Now, imagine if you're the same person looking to go on vacation and you get your information from a town or city's Tourist Information Bureau – but via Twitter. Customer service representatives cover the account 24/7 and are able to answer any questions you might have. They're not on commission so there's no need for any imaginative descriptions.
They give you up-to-date information on places to stay and visit, local events and much more. By interacting with the future visitor, the tourist information office is doing everything right when it comes to placing its town or city in a positive light. And for small towns, it lets them keep up with their city equivalents and encourages tourism into their little part of the world.
Why stop there? Why not have councillors or Chambers of Commerce online and answering concerned citizens or incoming businesses respectively? Restaurants or movie theaters could offer discounts and incentives to anyone that brings in a printed deal from Twitter, Facebook or similar.
There's a multitude of ways that businesses in particular can encourage the online and offline communities to come together. Our job is to help them get there. Who would you want to see online and what services would you use?
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Central Florida defensive coordinator Ted Roof has confirmed he will be heading to Penn State to rejoin former co-Duke and Georgia Tech assistant Bill O'Brien.
This will be Roof's seventh different job since 2007, with stops at Duke, Louisville, Minnesota, Auburn and Central Florida before setting up shop in State College. We'll wait to see exactly what position Roof take son the staff but after being a defensive coordinator each of his past three jobs, it would be somewhat unlikely t see him take on a reduced role at Penn State.
That thought has not been well received by many on Twitter, but keep in mind that he will have assistants Larry Johnson and Ron Vanderlinden working with him for sure, and the talent could (should) be a step up from some of his previous stints so the results may not necessarily transfer to Penn State.
Or maybe they will. It's just one more of the mysteries to unwrap when the staff and team get to camps and get ready for the 2012 season. Also remember that fans were quick to turn on O'Brien, but those emotions seem to have changed their tune, for the most part, in a short period of time.
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The crisis and the coming battles
Text of a speech delivered at the national conference of the Cadres, Engineer and Services Workers Union, affiliated to the Belgian socialist confederation of trade unions, on October 21, 2010 at Blankenberge, by Stephen Bouquin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Evry in France and a leading activist of Sp.a Rood the left tendency of the Flemish Socialist Party.
Dear comrades, dear friends,
We are currently facing a difficult and complex situation. Many trade union and leftist militants are puzzled and some get discouraged. We feel that our certainties are not worth much anymore. We feel confused and that we no longer have a hold on events. In these tumultuous times it is important to stay on track and especially in the right direction. A conference is a great opportunity to do that. It allows us to examine the situation in which we find ourselves. A conference allows us to outline future perspectives, to agree on objectives and on the actions to be taken. I am very pleased to be able to make a contribution to your conference. It is truly a pleasure and an honor.
The crises are multiplying … what should we think of it?
For three years now, crises succeed one another: in 2007, during the food crisis, prices of food like rice and wheat were soaring and the oil prices skyrocketed. In 2008 it was the turn of a global financial crisis, the biggest since the Crash of 1929. In 2009, the economic recession began, followed in 2010 by the public finance crisis and later by the debt crisis too. We are currently living the beginning of a monetary crisis. To this, can be added the community crisis on a local level in Belgium, while we cannot of course forget on a global scale the environmental crisis…
In Greek the word "krisis" means "crossroad". Edgar Morin, a French sociologist, suggests that the crisis should be approached based on this definition: not as a transition, but as a crossroad. For him every crisis goes through three phases, namely eruption, disruption and a crossroad.
The first phase initiates a state of emergency that exceeds the usual processing capabilities of the system; the system's general regulations are shut down. The system then becomes so disrupted that the operating methods no longer run. The measures which are taken to stabilize the situation and the response mechanisms lock up hence the crisis becomes more severe; partly because the adverse effects neutralize the initiated action.
Then follows the second phase, disruption. Antagonisms become evident, tensions increase. Concretely, demands that must be met simultaneously multiply and become contradictory, which triggers the third phase, the so called phase of divergence or of the crossroad.
This third phase is characterized by collapsing structures. This phase often evokes salvation characters and miracle solutions. The first two phases – eruption and disruption – lead to destabilization and impotence. But this situation of divergence is characterized by a fundamental reassessment that destabilizes the system and opens up perspectives of systemic bifurcation.
I think Edgar Morin helps us gain insight into the crisis. During a crisis, everything is in motion and we have to get off the beaten paths, revise our views and our practices. In short, the routines are worthless and returning to the status quo ante is as vain as unrealistic. A radical reassessment is therefore necessary and we must be ready for that.
The crises in the last two years prove that everything is connected …
In 2008 the U.S. property market collapsed. The financial giants went bankrupt. They were short of cash and turned out to be insolvent. Households can no longer repay their mortgages and families are either forced to sell or expelled from their houses. Houses lost their value and investors got left with portfolios that proved to be full of rotten assets ("toxic assets"). Rotten for being overvalued, rotten for being unsecured.
The crisis spread around the world: the U.S. mortgage funds went bankrupt one after the other. The U.S. government intervened to help but it was too late. Then the turn of Icelandic, Spanish, Dutch, British and Belgian banks came to be carried in the storm. Faced with the risk of a general collapse, the governments proceeded to inject staggering sums into the banking system: in a few months, nearly four trillion U.S. dollars were put at the disposal of financial capitalism in the form of loans, guarantees, equity purchases, acquisition of assets or partial nationalization. Where did this money come from? Did it come from the sales of gold reserves or from money printing? No. The governments actually put on the market government bonds, obligations and other securities valid for 3, 5 or 10 years. Rapidly these bonds became the safest investment, since which state would go bankrupt? Moreover, central banks dropped their interest rates, which made the money borrowed by these central banks cheaper than tap water. Were these large sums of money invested back in the economy? Were they used to support the SMEs activity? No, because in the meantime a recession supplanted the financial crisis. Indeed, why would companies invest when the economic activity halts?
From late 2008, the world economy enters in a phase of recession, the worst after World War II: minus 4% for OECD countries and a decline of 2% to 3% in emerging economies. At that time, some maintained that the crisis also has good sides, that the crisis is always an opportunity for changes. Many saw in the government intervention signs of the State's re-emergence. We heard the swan song of neo-liberalism and that economic intervention would return along with Keynesianism. They were talking of a sustainable economy recovery plan.
No. The awakening is rude as by the end of 2009 the debt crisis began. It started with Dubai, this emirate where a tower over 800 meters high and an artificial beach have been built. But there is trouble brewing as the emirate fails to repay its creditors. In order to avoid contagion risks ("domino-effect"), the neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf saved the day by buying Dubai's debt. Then the turn of Greece comes. At that time we came across a strange acronym PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain). The markets speculate against these states: the investment funds buy debt securities massively in order to sell them in whole packages, thus decreasing the value of these securities and increasing their interest rate. Bonds are securities with a limited life which means that the buyer must be repaid after 3, 5 or 7 years. Thus states must borrow again and quickly. But meanwhile, interest rates have increased up to 8% or 10% so these states find themselves financially strangled. Behind this, lies a perverse mechanism where those whose debt was repaid are the same as those who were saved with public money and those to whom money had been lent at zero interest rate.
Public Debt in the main countries of the euro-zone (% of the GDP) – source Eurostat.
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The table above shows the extent to which the debts of all the euro-zone countries have been rapidly rising since the end of 2008. The slump in tax revenues because of the recession on one hand, and the increase of financing needs on the other hand resulted in a kind of scissors crisis. The debt crisis is really about the non-payment danger which threatens again the whole of the financial system. For who retains the state's obligations? Who bought these bonds? Well, they are exactly the same banks that two years ago were rescued with public money. The states therefore need to repay…and in order to repay they must borrow. But beware, they may only do so provided that satisfactory assurances are given, i.e. a consolidation of public finances. And for this to happen austerity measures are needed, enormous ones. Otherwise the states are losing their AAA rating which in the short term provokes increased interest terms. The states are therefore virtually strangled to later be siphoned by financial capitalism.
According to many analysts, the fiscal consolidation would, firstly, allow the continuity of the loans and therefore of the financing, notably financing from the EU, since it is necessary. Secondly, the consolidation would guarantee the survival of the euro which is a strong currency because Germany wants it to. It takes therefore twice as high budgetary discipline and all the countries, regardless of their socio-productive characteristics, have to level their indicators: it's the religion of the stability pact, the cult of the 3% deficit…
Faced with the non-payment threat by the "PIIGS", a solution was found in May 2010: 750 billion from the EU Guarantee Fund, which is partially financed by the IMF and the ECB. This fund is only accessible on condition that the deficit is reduced to 3% in four years time. It is not really a help but merely a way to subordinate the states and their democratic sovereignty – or what is left of it. This support is conditional, similar to what the IMF did in Latin America in the 1990s: "we can help you provided you proceed to privatizations etc…". In Europe's case, the strategic priorities are not so different: on the funding level tax burdens on capital have to be reduced and it is up to the state – i.e. the taxpayers – to clear capital's debt, or even to bail it out with some additional profits. Therefore, states do not only seek to reassure markets, but also to reduce social spending and transfer the costs of the crisis on the working people. As a result, the same measures are encountered everywhere: reduction of wages, increased retirement age, non-replacement of retired officials, reduction of the supply of public service…
Greece underwent four austerity programs in less than a year's time and it is still not over. All European countries are currently applying similar austerity policies. But these austerity measures might relaunch a recession… Paul Krugman, former Nobel economics laureate, and J. Stiglitz, former director of the World Bank, are asking the EU to not halt the programs of economic assistance too suddenly and to go neither too far nor too fast in its financial consolidation policy. They believe so because they know that the risk of an economic depression is not remote. In short, from the financial crisis we passed into the socio-economic crisis (which still persists) and then to the public finances crisis. Tomorrow there will most likely be a monetary crisis as well…
How do we get out from these successive crises? It is like squaring a circle. Either you drastically reduce expenses and you choke the economic recovery; or you increase the revenues of the state, but if you do that on the back of the population, you reduce households' purchasing power and smother again the economic activity. Thus, actually, there is only one approach: namely, rapidly adopt a reform of the taxation system, abolish tax havens and the rebate system, i.e. the loopholes available to companies (notional interests) and to the wealthier, and introduce a tax on financial transactions. Instead of letting the European Commission play the role of the members states' budget police, the left should demand a real European budget which would immediately raise the question of a move towards fiscal and social harmonization, at least for the euro zone. All these are emergency solutions: rational, efficient and, moreover, fair because they would make those responsible for the crisis pay for it. In the medium term, we'll definitely need to go quite further, notably nationalizing the financial sector because it has become today as rapacious as harmful.
What lessons can we draw from these successive crises?
Firstly, it is a systemic crisis. Everything is interconnected. It is not just a transient crisis, a recession with a financial crisis on top. No, it is something much deeper. We are actually witnessing the crisis of neo-liberal deregulation. What is the rationale behind this speculative madness which is far from being over? The answer is simple: the stock market brings more money than investments in the real economy. And so does credit! On one hand, we have seen real wages stagnate, the share of wages in added value undergo serious decrease for about fifteen years now (around -10 points), but since this evolution also reduces demand – purchasing power – then credit has to take over. Thus, credit becomes one of the crutches that maintains demand, while also supporting very high profit yields, like Middle Ages usury. In the end, billions and billions are generated in the stock markets. It is believed that money can be made out of money. That is wrong, the stock market does not create wealth and that is why we have so many speculative bubbles that burst sooner or later.
We have an enormous debt rate. This is clearly the evidence of how irrational this economic system is. When we add to the public debt, households' debt, companies' debt and financial institutions' debt, we reach 400% of the GDP for the United Kingdom, 350% for Japan and 320% for the United States.
This means that three or four years of wealth have been spent before even being produced. Admittedly this is not new, but the last time was just after World War II when everything had to be rebuilt and the growth was strong. Today we will face 10 years of slow economic growth, ranging from 1.5 to 2.5% maximum. In short, the Western economies float on an ocean of debt and it will be very hard to repay them. That leaves only about two solutions: the first is through inflation, as the debt is monetized (at 5% inflation, 100 million are only worth 95 million the following year). But inflation will cause an impoverishment of the employees, without a real wage indexation… it is therefore a risky solution. The second option is via a tax on capital, that is without affecting the purchasing power of the working population. However, this requires some degree of political courage and above all a rebalance of powers that would have to be rapidly rebuilt. Nevertheless, these solutions are only temporary. It helps while facing an emergency, but we will soon have to look further and act in a structural manner.
We must not be mistaken: we are engaged in a system that has taken a kind of leap forward. Paradoxically, we see at the root of this crisis, a crisis of overproduction. Today in the OECD countries, only 70% of production's capacity is used. In the capitalist system we only produce what will be sold at a profit; we produce according to the exchange value and not according to the use value. The economic rationality is not based on social needs but on solvent needs, especially those that can yield profits and wealth. This blind logic does not acknowledge needs such as healthcare, education, housing unless they can lead to profit making. Hence the 'marketing' of these sectors is creeping in.
The whole of world production is organized according to the rationale of valorization: the pharmaceutical industry will not do research for diseases prevailing in the developing world because they don't have social security and these drugs will not even be sold. Car manufacturers will continue to build cars even if the highways and the streets are jammed. If they don't, the competition will do anyway and steal their market share. Wholesale will continue to push for floor prices since otherwise consumers will no longer be able to purchase because of their stagnating wages. Thus, the prices of the suppliers must be brought down – who thus have to find cheap labor for fruits and vegetables picking, i.e. establish factories in foreign countries where wages do not exceed 100 Euros per month. That's capitalism: it's always more for less and less money, in order to gain more and more profits out of human labor. It is a blind and irrational system, at least on a macro-economic level. The hellish competition creates overcapacity in production while in the same time that system is not able to satisfy essential social needs. So, in the slums there are televisions but there is no potable water and there is an acute lack of food.
From one crisis to the other, capitalism will continue to cut off the branch on which it sits, namely destruct its own foundations… Marx had already understood it: the limit of capitalism is capital itself, he was essentially saying. I think that this somehow reflects nowadays capitalism's decadent nature. While it has always been destructive, now it is regressive and decadent, economically, socially and morally. This is the first big lesson I draw from the crisis. There must be a different economic system, social, sustainable and democratic. What it should look like? I cannot myself get into the details, but I think we should look towards an economic democracy and a participatory economy, where the dictatorship of the shareholders will be replaced by a debate between citizens-producers-consumers in order to set in motion an ecological and democratic planning.
I think we can also draw political lessons from this systemic crisis. Although we can talk about financial markets, financial capitalism, all this has something anonymous, something impersonal. It is no longer the big bourgeois with his cigar and top hat. But at the same time there is still a ruling class. This is the second lesson we can draw from this crisis.
This ruling class still exists and it's a very exclusive one. Indeed, during this crisis, the myth of popular capitalism, of the small shareholders, broke into a thousand pieces. Those with their small savings are left with nothing. The others, the millionaires and billionaires, they also lost but they have already recovered their losses… This class is a ruling class because of the economic power it holds, from the wealth it owns and from the weapon of economic blackmail that it uses if not from the corruption that it exerts on the democratically elected power spheres. This class defends its interests tooth and nail, it recoils at nothing. This class, this oligarchy, will not pay for the crisis, which it will make us pay and it will all it can to achieve that goal. This is the elite's own class struggle, the one that is led from above. And whether we like it or not, we will quickly realize it.
That brings me to the third lesson which is one of an ideological nature. I think we can say that with this crisis we are living the end of "the end of history". Remember 20 years ago when the Berlin Wall came down. Some proclaimed that the end of history had come because capitalism had won. Mankind had reached its highest stage; economy had found again its "natural" state. In short, there was no system anymore, only a market economy that the state didn't even have to frame, but only support it and, facilitate it. We could no longer talk about capitalism, but only about a market economy.
This crisis forces us to realize that we live indeed in a system and that this system is dysfunctional. This awareness actualizes the idea that we should intervene, act, regulate (this is rather modest, but it's better than nothing). Ultimately, capitalism does not keep its promises of universal enrichment, it betrays the hope that "everyone wins." More fundamentally speaking, the crisis of capitalism feeds the idea that we must take back our destiny in our own hand. And so the train of history can leave again. Objectively, history never really stops. But subjectively we often feel that things will never change. That belief is wrong, completely wrong. If we allow capitalism to continue, we will pay the price and moreover it will lead humanity right into a wall. In particular because there is another crisis that I still haven't talked about and I won't, that of the ecosystem including the climatic and the ocean's acidification.
Why has the right so much wind in its sails?
There were the election results in Sweden and the Netherlands, in Austria and in Flanders of course …We hear it and we read it often: a new right has the wind in its sails while the left stays behind … Many of the left wonder "why aren't we the most popular? The crisis proved us right! "… Indeed, why the reactionary right scores points? My answer is clear: their progress is a direct consequence of our decline. In other words, the strength of the right is a barometer of the left's weaknesses.
Everywhere, or almost everywhere, the left has trouble forming governmental majorities and stays in minority in the electorate, even when it slides to the centre. Remember in the 1990s and 2000s, social democracy sold whatever it had left of its ideology. It was the time of the 'third way' with Anthony Giddens as its main theorist. The market economy represented the point we could not go beyond. Tony Blair was the example not only for Gerhard Schröder (SPD German) but also for Frank Vandenbroucke, ideologist from the Flemish socio-democrats. Let's not forget he imported from Great Britain the "active welfare state", justifying Workfare because there shouldn't be social rights without obligations. But while this idea makes sense, it overlooks the fact that they are more people looking for work than vacant work positions. Thus, the causes of unemployment move from the socio-economic structure towards individuals and their attitudes. Meanwhile, further economic deregulation was taking place, notably on the stock-market level. It's no coincidence that the City of London became the biggest stock market in the world: 70% of derivatives, CDOs and other financial investment products were traded on the London stock market, thanks to the deregulations implemented by New Labour and Gordon Brown.
In a refocusing process, with speeches and relevant policies, the social-democracy disarmed its own base in respect of the dominant ideology, making of us supposedly "capitalists", "holders of human capital". For the defenders of neo-liberalism, we only have to sell ourselves on the labour market: employability, adaptability with greater flexibility constantly. The public authorities? They are inefficient and costly! Long live liberalization, competition and privatizations we were told! The public authorities must, above all, not intervene otherwise the competition would no longer be "free and undistorted". In the end, the traditional left drifted towards the centre and made itself invisible.
It is within this ideological context that the economic crisis occurred. And what happened for a moment? The government was back and many of us were pleased! But this didn't last…Today we are told we were living beyond our means and they try to convince us that the public debt is the result of an overly generous welfare state. In the absence of a clear counter-offensive ideology, people will increasingly fight among themselves, instead of against the spheres of power and the truly responsible ones. The populist right that collects a great number of votes in the Netherlands and elsewhere, associates social fraud, profiteering, parasitism with some population groups. The reason is simple: they divert the resentment to scapegoats. And thus we see that despite the numerous social struggles, the resistance to austerity, the ideological pendulum doesn't return automatically. Indeed, nothing is obvious…
Nevertheless I believe defeatism and demoralization must be avoided. Look at France: all the generations were together in the streets against the raising of the retirement age. Young people understood very well that this measure would reduce the number of jobs and that they would have to work longer in precarious situations. Until the end of the movement, two thirds of public opinion was against the pension reform. Sarkozy is only popular with less than one third of the population. The reasons are obvious: everyone has seen how Sarkozy served the rich with preferential tax regimes ("fiscal shield"), how he finances his party by the multimillionaire Lilliane Bettancourt in exchange for a preferential tax rate. Faced with his party's fall, Sarkozy launched the counter-offensive. In August, he violently attacked the Roma and expelled them (actually "deported" them since collective expulsions were carried out). He also claimed that new French nationality should be taken away. He advocated the "deprivation of nationality" and in September, the paratroopers were patrolling the streets on the basis of a so-called terrorist threat. Since Machiavelli we know that fear has always been beneficial to those in power. The media and the right are constructive allies in a kind of "political economy of fear". Sparking collective fears increases the viewing rates and pushes the frightened ones into the arms of a Big Brother state that will control and film everything.
But France shows that this does not always work. The manipulation of public opinion has its limits. On one condition, namely that people are willing to hear something different, a counter-discourse. And if you can recognize one thing in the French left, it is exactly that: it certainly had ideological drifts but it has always addressed them. A large part of the left remained critical towards the European Union; it opposed the security doctrine and the zero tolerance, and with a few exceptions it didn't run with the pack regarding terrorism and insecurity. All this allowed the left electorate to be fairly immune against various reactionary viruses.
In this respect, I believe it is essential that the left makes no mistakes about the target. The whole right is now starting a smear campaign about multiculturalism, emphasizing that migrants constitute a major problem, that migration is putting pressure on our social system… The media amplify a number of events and reset the way an issue is approached. Concretely: the issue is not "the others" but social inequality. And above all, our social system is under pressure because the capital is taxed less and less.
The more concessions the left makes to the right on a political and ideological level, the harder it will be for the left to win back public opinion. In other words, all concessions are billed twice. In the present and in the future. This also means that any concessions made to Flemish nationalism will lead to an easier takeover of the SP.a. electorate. Defending the labour world – not only the workers and the employees, but also engineers and self-employed – is something other than defend the "Flemish people". In the notion of 'people' (volk), the conflict of interests between the capital and labor disappears, to leave its place to a fake opposition between the French-speaking and the Flemish.
Within the Flemish socialist party, we often hear the same old tired drum, namely that our potential electorate can be found in the centre of our political chessboard and therefore a positioning on the left would be suicidal. I reject this statement. I believe that, at least half the population still votes without knowing what is really the left, the right or the centre. But let's suppose that they consciously consider themselves as center electorate…the question arises whether we should run after them? Why not convince them that there a better offer can be found on the left?
Well, to accomplish this, deep reform of the left would be needed. At this point, I would like to highlight a few essential elements:
This left must gain once again offer a vision on the world, on what is going wrong and on ways to bring solutions. It must once again draw a critique of capitalism as an inhuman, anti- social and harmful economic system.
People need to clearly know what the left really stands for, whether it is in public spaces, in the media, in pubs or canteens. It is therefore not enough to say "we are here for you". It is largely ineffective and it still leaves all the latitude needed by the others, notably the right wing populists. Indeed, what politician would say "I am not here for you but for my own interests and I am a demagogue"…
This left should once again defy the established order; and therefore be led by individuals who are consequential/sound, selfless and do not accept compromises.
The left should again dare to be ambitious: the feasibility of the world is not a 19th old century novel, quite the opposite. Politics have nothing to do with a career punctuated by the mandates of any management board. For the left, politics have to be something else: a mandate of engagement with an exemplary function.
The left will only be relevant/ if it can clearly determine concrete targets and to realize them: we want a public bank, we want to decrease the gap between the rich and the poor, we will make the wealthy and the bankers pay for the crisis…
The recently deceased British historian Tony Judt in his book "Ill fares the land" (2010), argued that social democracy must urgently find its fundamental values again. According to him, social democracy abjured itself when it presented privatizations as progressive. At the same time, Tony Judt also affirmed that the term socialism has become unusable. For him socialism is a 19th century idea with a history in the 20th century but without any future in the 21st century and the concept of socialism has become a useless burden.
I think that Tony Judt is mistaken. The country is not tired but Judt was, and he was also demoralized, as we can all be. But one shouldn't project one's own feelings onto reality. Is socialism an insult? No! A recent poll in the U.S. interviewed more than 1,500 randomly selected Americans to describe their reactions to terms like 'capitalism' and 'socialism'.
They published the results of the survey with the tile "Socialism is not so negative, capitalism is not so positive." Only a narrow majority of 52 percent still responds positively to "capitalism". Nearly 40 percent of respondents conceive "socialism" as positive, and that in the U.S.!
Many, situate socialism in a distant future. A kind of pledged country, another end of history. And of course, if we assume the current balance of power, well, there is not much hope. But this is also a misconception. 'Socialism' in K. Marx always had a double meaning. Socialism was for him first and foremost the "real movement of concrete emancipation". This means that it consists above all in a concrete battle: any improvement of the conditions of existence, each reform is a step forward. Thanks to this conception, socialism has transcended the19th century utopian thought. Instead of being abstract or imaginary, socialism has become concrete: 8 hours work-day, universal suffrage, prohibition of child labor, social security, work contract etc.
But the daily struggle is effective only if it's oriented in a precise direction. Where there is a perspective of an improvement for all of us. And that is why socialism also embodies the idea of another world, of a social alternative with key ideas like the abolition of exploitation, of oppression and the free association of producers.
In the 19th century, people quickly understood that as long as capital has supremacy, any progress would be fragile and reversible. This is the reason why the socialist movement had also set itself the target to structurally change the social order: we're done with those up above/with the privileged, we are over with inequality in terms of power, possession and status. And this is still valid today. We must put an end with a society of classes – so that every person can enjoy the same liberty. The second definition is one in which socialism embodies "another world" or another social order.
I don't need to tell you the usefulness of a flag. No battle is possible without a flag, without a collective "I", a "we", a feeling of "companions in misfortune".
Today, in these times of crisis, the system shows its true ruthless face: nothing for others, all for us, the owning class. We must not be afraid to target the enemy: those who want us to pay the costs of their crisis; who want to steal away social rights, further undermine social security. Why should we accept this? Because supposedly there's not enough wealth? This is nonsense, Europe is rich: in 25 years time most Western European countries' GDP doubled, while the population didn't double. Thus we must ask ourselves what is precisely the problem: not the scarcity of financial resources but the distribution and the purpose of the wealth produced.
In 150 years, the labor movement has achieved a lot. The socialism of the 20th century is something we need to look at with a critical eye. Mistakes were made and not small ones. But many things were achieved and not only in Europe. Daily trade union action is an essential link of solidarity. What we have achieved on the "micro social" scale, we seek to realize on a macro level scale. Locally and globally.
Latin America has put socialism back on the agenda. So will we. And in the 21st century, socialism will be ecological or it won't be, it will be internationalist or it will not be. Socialism will defend both equality and liberty. Socialism has often been buried but it has always recovered. The system's crisis pushes towards a social alternative. The preservation of our social achievements requires that we leave the trenches for a battle that is being imposed upon us. I would therefore like to conclude with the words of the 19th century British poet Percy Shelley in his Call for Freedom: "We are many – They are few"….


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Thank you so much for the detailed explanation, Wrog. I do think the learning curve is steep if I'd like to implement a database for my particular research problem, given my current standing. however, i'd definitely make an effort to understand basics like how disks and memory work as i work along my projects, which i now feel is indispensable. the scales of my previous work just never blow up like this to remind me just how poorly my algorithms were written.
as for postgis, i have not taken a close look at it yet, and i'm not entirely sure that the database design permits the kind of flexibility i need for my actual application; i have many more attributes other than coordinates of the points that i need to take care of, so maybe coding it myself will actually be easier and faster (to meet my project deadline).
i just tried the method you suggested first and it went orders of magnitudes faster (as expected). i used this 100 point cloud to test the upper bound of the running time for all the point clouds, and with this largest one finishing within a day my calculations are now much more scalable. thank you so much!
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Loving, the new film from acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, released in the UK this Friday, tells the true story of the interracial couple, Richard and Midred Loving, played by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, from a small town in Virginia, who fell in love and got married in 1958, but then spent the next nine years struggling to live together as a family.
It's hard to believe, but back in the Sixties, in parts of the United States, it was illegal for white and non-white men and women to touch - let alone marry. Couples were criminalised and risked a prison sentence if they broke the 'anti-miscegenation' law.
"God put people of different colours on different continents for a reason" one judge explained.
Richard and Mildred got married legally in Washington DC, but were arrested in the middle of the night soon after they returned home, by armed policemen who tell them their marriage certificate - which Richard has nailed to the wall - does not count. While he is given bail, Mildred, who is several months pregnant, is locked up in the town jail for days, and then sent back in disgrace to live with her parents.
Richard comes to get her and they escape to live with relatives in inner city Washington.
Faced with such a situation, thousands of couples simply moved away to another state where the laws were more tolerant, but after a while, the Lovings miss their families and the fresh air and peace and quiet of their home town so much, they decide to try to move back. Mildred writes to the Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union eventually take up their case.
This is a guiet, very moving film, beautifully observed, with fine performances. Joel Edgerton's Richard Loving is a plain, reserved man who works as a bricklayer on building sites. He's often shown quietly milling over the design for the house he plans to build, or coming home with his spirit level and tin lunch box. "Tell the judge I love my wife " he says simply.
Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga, gives a beautiful, dignified performance as as Mildred, (who was herself part African part Native American). While Richard seems to grow quieter as the story unfolds, Mildred becomes more and more articulate in the defence of her young family.
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Loving looks set to be one of the best films of the year and has already been shortlisted for a number of awards - among them Ruth Negga - nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has put forward Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton for their roles in the film and Jeff Nichols has been shortlisted by the Writers Guild of America for Best Original Screenplay.
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Note: In 2000 Alabama was the last state to lift the ban on inter-racial marriage. 40% voted against.
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Which Georgia lawmaker benefited most from gun groups? The answer may surprise you
The Senate's vote to turn back a quartet of gun control measures yesterday afternoon, a week after the June 12 massacre left 49 dead, has brought renewed attention to the groups that advocate on both sides of the firearms debate.
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Democrat Michelle Nunn earned the distinction of being at the opposing end of more than $1.65 million worth of attack ads and other independent expenditures from gun groups such as the NRA during her Senate bid in 2014, according to our analysis. But the lawmaker who saw the most direct money of support from firearms advocacy groups is probably not who you think: a Democrat.
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FYI, pretty soon health and life insurers are going to be asking questions regarding gun ownership to set your premiums.
I couldn't be more proud to be an actuary
But actually you're a work-shy blog troll living off your wife's paycheck and health benefits.
trolling and revealing your jealousy over a successful business person with a different opinion from you will not get you out of your mother's basement.
Get a job.
At some point, it won't be just one shooter, but multiple shooters armed with semi-automatics. This "well-armed militia" could easily be terrorists.
Wouldn't you love to hear either Georgia senator say out loud: "I support the right of terrorists to buy semi-automatic weapons." Because they just voted for that.
Both Isakson and Perdue are stooges of the gun lobby. They really do not care about anything or anybody except money and power. They have sold you out, Georgia.
No secret. Who is most easily bought? Any corrupt businessman. Only interest is money and they have already forsaken standard morality and concern for others - reneged on debts, sent jobs overseas, treated themselves to luxuries stolen from others. Are we talking Donald Trump? Of course. Are we talking David Perdue? Of course. These un-American slimeballs should not be allowed in the country. Build a Wall.
if you are too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy.
But but but....all the GA Republicans are bought and paid for by the NRA???
Keep spinning sheeple.
We all benefit from guns. We have to protect ourselves and the unarmed fools from criminals.
@MichaelHannigan1953 getting back to our last discussion, i think i would rather use the women's WC at a gay bar..................
Last year, 500+ of those 30K lived in gun-free, Democrat-run Chicago. Now they're just as dead:
@MichaelHannigan1953 Name them...I DARE YOU! ALL 30K OF THEM!!
I can name 30k Amwricans a year who disagree with your assessment that we all benefit from guns.
Let the evil that they make be the evil that they take.
Classy, @ajc! No info in the article, just a link to the "buy me" section of MyAJC.
@BG 1 @Patrickscomment The AJC has gotten progressively worse about doing this. They take a non-pay headline to link you over to a pay story so you'll use up your free quota of stories in hopes you'll buy a subscription to their sleazy rag of a paper. Reading some of the stories, it's more like the National Enquirer than a daily newspaper now days. From the quality of the writing and editing they obviously don't pay much...I've seen better writing and editing in the "Weekly Reader" than what you find here.
it didn't cost me anything to link to the article: John Barrow
@RickinWarnerRobins And yet here you are, taking advantage of the free opportunity to b!tch to way more people than you'd ever get on your own blog.
@Patrickscomment The AJC has a habit of doing this -- and I think it stinks. I have no intention of buying into the "premium" site.
Censored versions of Islamic terrorist's 911 calls released; ridicule forces White House to capitulate
@#CrookedHillary I pointed that out at length on the "Senate turns down 4 proposals" byline here this morning. Went back 10 minutes later and the entire thing was replaced by "Democrats pledge to keep fighting" addition to that byline, comments and all.
The problem, of course, is Islamic terrorism, not Chicago-style attempts to limit Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.The AR-15 sold in gun shops, by the way, isn't an "assault rifle." It's just styled to look like one.
@Black Mecca @#CrookedHillary Potato, Tater?
@#CrookedHillary A Ruger Mini-14 does everything an AR-15 does but it conveniently isn't evil.
And the standard pistol used by police fires every bit as fast: one shot per trigger pull.
@#CrookedHillary You are correct. The public cannot buy or own an assault weapon. They were made illegal in 1934. Al Capone saw to that.
it is an assault rifle: it is a long barrel gun, semi-automatic, with a detachable magazine and pistol grip.
that was the definition of assault rifle as defined by Clinton's assault weapon ban. And it worked pretty well. you sheep didn't care and we didn't have a Sandy hook or pulse night club style tragedy until the Republicans failed to renew the assault weapons ban.
Calling them "assault rifles" doesn't change the fact they are deer rifles in disguise.
And in fact not any more deadly.
They care SO much about the unborn, but children already born are just collateral damage for their hunting hobby.
"MORE DEADLY?" Dead is dead, sparky. Do you think the families burying their loved ones give a good gosh darn about your "deadly" ratings on your sporting equipment?
Do you think the families burying their dead-for-no-good-reason loved ones give a good gosh darn what you call those things?


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We've all seen those Hollywood films where scorned lovers hire a private investigator to catch their cheating spouse red-handed. You may have been wondering whether catching your ex cheating means you'll get more in the property settlement…?
If that's what you thought, unfortunately you'd be wrong.
Australia is a 'no fault' jurisdiction when it comes to divorce. This means the court will not consider who has caused your marriage to breakdown. The only ground for divorce in Australia is where there has been an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage" which must be proven by 12 months' separation.
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Infidelity by your spouse is not relevant in terms of the principles as outlined above and therefore will not be considered at all by a court in determining the property settlement. There are some circumstances in which the court may consider adjusting the property settlement as a result of a spouse's behaviour.
Where a spouse party has been a victim of severe and prolonged family violence throughout the course of the relationship, a court may determine that their contributions were made more onerous as a result and may therefore be entitled to a further percentage adjustment in the property settlement. Similarly, if a spouse party has wasted matrimonial assets in a reckless, negligent or wanton manner, such as gambling, a court may take such behaviour into account and make further adjustments in the other spouse party's favour in the property settlement.


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It was two days to Christmas in 1989. The harmattan was on. Mr Alex Ibru and his family were inside their serene and expensive Delta country home at Agbarha-Otor. Something made him leave the room for a garden chair in the patio. Soon, he realized that God was inspiring him to give up his personal use of the vast country home and instead deploy it for spiritual use.
It was a clear dialogue with the Holy Spirit, and he returned to the lounge to disclose to his wife, Maiden and their children this experience and its content. The reaction expectedly was disbelief. Mr. Alex Ibru had a choice either to give heed to this voice or not. There was no element of compulsion. But, Maiden, his wife and their children made no attempt to discourage him: 'Remember there had been before now a strong feeling of contentment at God's generosity,'Mr Alex Ibru recalls.
The next couple of hours witnesses the conflict between the flesh and the spirit. To beat off succumbing to temptation, Mr. Ibru hit the road to Warri to discuss this strange experience with the Roman Catholic Bishop for a joint effort at discernment. After reflection, dialogue and prayers, it became clear that God has entrusted Mr. Alex Ibru with a service.
After that, Mr. Ibru finalized the decision to make the country home available as Spiritual Centre by the Christmas of 1989.
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (Nov. 11, 2016) – The Milligan College men's basketball team faced one of its biggest challenges of the season on Friday night when it traveled to Middle Tennessee State, a NCAA Division I opponent, for an exhibition game. The young Buffalo squad experienced high level competition first hand and fell 102-64.
Milligan (2-2, 0-0 AAC) trailed 4-10 early and never got within six points of the Blue Raiders again. The Buffs trailed 51-29 at the half.
The second set told more of the same story and the Buffs surrendered 51 more points and scored 35.
Sophomore Will Buckner led Milligan with 10 points and was the only Buffalo to reach double digits. Bo Pless scored eight points including two three-pointers. Tyler Nichols and Aaron Levarity followed with seven points each.
The Buffaloes return to action with their Appalachian Athletic Conference opener next Wednesday. Milligan hosts Tennessee Wesleyan with tipoff scheduled for 7:30 p.m. after the women's game.