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It's difficult to designate an obvious villain in the European Union's stalled budget negotiations. Virtually all 27 member states are advancing mostly national interests in what's supposed to be the world's largest team effort. That is why few observers expect E.U. leaders converging on Brussels Thursday for another round of budget summitry to come away with a mutually acceptable compromise. Indeed, no agreement may be the best agreement for all concerned.
The Feb. 7 and 8 summit seeks to establish the E.U.'s budget for the 2014–2020 period — a quest that went nowhere when leaders last huddled to talk finances in November. On the face of it, the cause of the impasse is fairly simple. Fiscally conservative countries like the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark want to see Europe's budget cut in the same way that spending by national governments has been slashed to remedy debt-plagued public accounts. Countries like France, Poland, Italy and Spain, by contrast, generally seek to maintain or inch up current E.U. funding levels and redirect money saved through austerity to other economic and social programs capable of stimulating slumping growth. If that seems like déjà vu all over again, it is: those are largely the same fault lines that split northern and southern E.U. members over how to respond to Europe's financial crisis.
(MORE: A Deeply Divided European Union Faces Budgetary Cliff)
Though a degree of progress toward a budget compromise has been made, literally billions (of euros) of differences must be overcome to reach a deal. An original package of $1.3 trillion for the seven-year period (a 5% rise over the current budget) was revised in late 2012 to $943 billion, under pressure from the U.K. and its allies. London wants the total outlay lowered to under $900 billion, while Germany is aiming for steep but less drastic reductions than Britain. France and its backers want a final amount lifted closer to $980 billion, while E.U. officials reportedly view $920 billion as the most likely figure all members will be able to agree upon.
That may be wishful thinking on a number of levels. Though U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron does have some continental backing in his efforts to whack the next European budget down, his recent proposal to hold a national referendum on continued British membership in the E.U. has left him with a rather anti-European radioactive glow. His apparent slow back-out of the E.U. is even being cited as the disastrous example other members must avoid at all costs. Indeed, in launching a counterattack in the budget tussle, French President François Hollande suggested the real confrontation under way was between pro- and anti-Europeans. Addressing the European Parliament on Feb. 5, Hollande painted the budget battle as part of a struggle between people committed to a more integrated, united and activist Europe, and those looking to shrink Europe down to its smallest possible size and turn it into a deregulated, toothless free-trade zone where national interests trump common European social and economic ambitions.
"A Europe with differences is a Europe where states — not always the same ones — decide to go ahead, take on new projects, unblock funds, harmonize their policies and to go beyond the base of common competences that we've created and that must remain intact," Hollande told European legislators — who, for the first time ever, will be allowed to approve or reject any budget E.U. leaders (might) agree upon. "Savings, yes; weakening the economy, no!"
(MORE: Is the E.U. Nearing a Landmark Banking Deal?)
But behind the wider collision of ideological and economic views lies a less virtuous slugfest between opposing camps of rebate brats and agriculture hogs. The first group is (again) led by Britain, which has steadfastly defended the refund Margaret Thatcher obtained in 1984 compensating the U.K. for funds it paid into the E.U. and didn't get back through programs or payments. That rebate now runs about $4.8 billion annually — even though European critics argue the flow of payments to and from Britain has been corrected since Thatcher's time.
Worse still, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Austria have over the years obtained rebates to address their heavy contributions in reimbursing London — "refunds on the rebate," as they are known. Backed by Italy, Spain and other nonrefund recipients, Hollande has railed at the U.K. and its allies for blocking reductions in payments they get, while hypocritically insisting on huge budget cuts elsewhere.
To that refund nations reply "CAP" — or Common Agricultural Policy, which accounts about 40% of all E.U. spending (down from 70% in the mid-1980s). Boasting Europe's largest farming sector as it does, France has dug its heels in to prevent any significant CAP cuts in the new budget — and in doing so has gotten solid support from big agricultural members like Poland, Spain and even Ireland. Detractors say the CAP funds farm activity the market won't otherwise bear — and creates subsidized surpluses that hurt farmers in other regions like Africa.
Nevertheless, advisers to Hollande said during private briefings this week that the notion of further French compromise on CAP is as risible an idea as the U.K. surrendering its Thatcherian rebate would be. Little wonder, then, that those Élysée officials also advised against expecting quick results flowing from the Brussels summit.
Yet even if the blockage remains and no new budget is agreed upon, there are reasons to believe members may view failure with a mix of satisfaction and regret. If no deal can be reached before the current seven-year plan expires, rules call for the 2013 budget to be used as the basis for successive years, plus 2% for inflation.
Were that to happen, Britain and its partners would be denied the steep cuts they were after — but keep pocketing billions in rebates for years to come. France and its backers would lose the refund fight — and fail to notch up spending to simulate growth across Europe — but prevent any enormous slashes generally or big hits to the CAP. In fact, the only thing that would really suffer from the E.U. failing to agree on the budget is the notion of European unity and cooperation itself.
MORE: 50 Years After Landmark Treaty, Can France and Germany Save Europe?


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Robot Devil
Secondary character | |||||||
Robot Devil | |||||||
Age | At least 749 | ||||||
Date of birth | Before 2275 | ||||||
Gender | Male | ||||||
Species | Robot | ||||||
Planet of origin | Earth | ||||||
Profession | Ruler of Robot Hell | ||||||
First appearance | "Hell Is Other Robots" (1ACV09) | ||||||
The Robot Devil (also referred to as Beelzebot) is the dark lord of Robot Hell, where robots of Robotology are sent after having sinned. As the ruler of Robot Hell, he spends most of his time dishing out ironic punishments and gambling with souls.
It is unknown when or why the Robot Devil was built. He was likely built before or around 2275, when the Fairness in Hell Act was signed into law. He is a member of the Church of Robotology, punishing those who sin against the teachings of the Church for eternity (1ACV09). At some point in his life he came across Calculon. He made a deal giving Calculon acting ability, and collected on that deal in 3004 when he took his ears (4ACV18). He has a holiday home in Hell's Kitchen in New New York that he bought from Kathie Lee Gifford's head some time ago. He was also once a member of Mrs. Mellonger's holophonor class.
When Bender sinned against the Church, the Robot Devil collected him and prepared a series of agonizing, ironic punishments (1ACV09). Fry and Leela found Bender in Robot Hell and challenged the Robot Devil to a fiddle contest after he informed them of the Fairness in Hell Act. He began by playing a bit of Antonio Bazzini's "La Ronde des Lutins" - in response, the duo beat him over the head with his gold fiddle and escaped, much to his chagrin. By Xmas Eve 3002, he had been arrested and spent time in a New New York prison (3ACV03). He was released in time for the Big Robot Party, where he was to be destroyed along with every other Robot on Earth (4ACV08).
After he and the other Robots moved the Earth by collectively venting their exhaust, he returned to Robot Hell and continued to practice his music with his Robot Demons until Fry and Bender showed up again. Fry wanted new hands so he could play the holophonor without practicing, and the Robot Devil made a deal to give him the hands of any robot on the Wheel of Robots (4ACV18). However, the Wheel landed on him and he agreed to give Fry his hands. He came to regret that decision and set in motion a convoluted plan to regain his hands, culminating in an elaborate, impromptu song during Fry's opera. After threatening to marry Leela, Fry agreed to give his hands back and the Robot Devil returned to Hell to play a poker game with President Nixon.
He loaned himself and his band out for the Turanga-Fillmore wedding in 3007 (5ACV03), possibly because he knew it would end in tragedy. After the universe started dating Yivo, Bender approached the Robot Devil about gaining a "damned army" to take over the world. He agreed on the condition that Bender surrender his first born son, but to his surprise Bender eagerly agreed (5ACV04). Later, the Robot Devil attended the violet dwarf star implosion but instead witnessed the birth of the Last Encyclopod along with everyone in attendance (5ACV16). He later attended Bender's 100th Delivery Party (6ACV12) and the wedding of Donbot's older daughter (6ACV14).
After Bender was killed by Lynn and became a ghost, the Robot Devil made yet another deal with Bender saying that if Bender killed Fry then he would be restored to his old body (in retaliation for Fry taking his hands) (6ACV19). But Bender eventually decided that he couldn't kill Fry and would rather spend eternity in Hell. Bender took over and managed to destroy the Robot Devil's body, and after their ghosts returned to Earth the Robot Devil took over one of his replacement bodies. But he did not get to keep Bender since Bender was saved by Robot God.
Abilities and traits
The Robot Devil possesses many unusual abilities. He can summon fire at will and can cause it to appear in his hand or on his finger (1ACV09, 6ACV19). He is also shown to be strong, as he ripped Bender's arm off with a tug of his wrist. He is also an accomplished singer and can play a solid gold violin without any trouble (1ACV09). He is also allowed to murder humans in his bargains, as when Leela agreed to let Fry be killed if she lost the fiddle contest (1ACV09).
He also has several abilities which seem almost mystical. He can cause a pen to appear in his hand out of thin air, and is the only thing other than Robot God that can see robot ghosts. He has also shown some control over Robot Hell, causing flames to burst up from the ground (6ACV19). He can also swap hands with anyone by doing a quick move (4ACV18) and is one of only two robots who can free a robot ghost from Limbo (6ACV19).
Despite his image as an evil lord, he has a very high pitched scream which manifests when he is in pain (1ACV09), and he considers Bender to be even more brutal than he is (5ACV04).
The Robot Devil is played by Dan Castellaneta, most known as the voice of Homer on The Simpsons, in all his appearances except for "A Tale of Two Santas", in which Castellaneta wasn't available so that Maurice LaMarche instead did the voice.
Castellaneta modeled the Robot Devil's voice after Hans Conried, a character actor and voice actor whose credits include Captain Hook in Disney's Peter Pan and Snidley Whiplash in Dudley Do-Right.[1]
There is a collectible toy of the Robot Devil, featured in the Toynami Futurama series 1 to 3 as a build-a-bot.
Image gallery
Robot Hell, where the Robot Devil lives (1ACV09).
The Robot Devil with his band of Robot Demons (6ACV19).
The Robot Devil offers Bender one of his infamous deals (6ACV19).
Additional Info
- In June 3011, the Robot Devil told Bender's ghost (6ACV19) that he and Fry "once traded hands" (4ACV18) and that his still stank "of candy corn".
- After possessing his new body, after his old one was destroyed by Bender's ghost while saving Fry, his fingers changed from a claw-like appearance to a cylinder-like appearance more typical of Futurama robots. Since all of his replacement body's fingers were not claw-like, it's possible that he sharpened them on his own.
- Despite being the actual (robot) devil, he is surprisingly faint-hearted and skittish.
- In his debut, Hell is Other Robots, Robit Devil seems to be quite a bit larger than in subsequent appearances. He originally appears to be quite a bit taller than Fry or Leela, but later he seems to be around their or Bender's height.
Bender: Aw, hell- I mean, heck.
Robot Devil: 'Salright, you can say that here.
Prisoner: [To Bender disguised as Robot Santa.] Hey Robot Santa, when you see the Robot Devil... tell 'im I'm'a comin'!
Bender: [Walks to next cell.] Hey that guy says...
Robot Devil: I HEARD him!
Robot Devil: Can I have my hands back?
Fry: No!
Robot Devil: You're not nice!
Robot Devil: You can't just have your characters announce how they feel... that makes me feel ANGRY!
Robot Devil: Wow, that was brutal even by MY standards!
Bender: No backsies.
Bender's ghost: So what's happenin' to me? And I'll take my answer in ANY form but a song!
Robot Devil: [Already set up for a showstopping number.] Oh, you're no fun!
Robot Devil: You see, Bender, it's simple. You're a ghost!
Bender's ghost: A g-g-g-g-ghost?!
Robot Devil: No, just the regular kind.
Robot Devil: That's the laughy part!
(When Calculon proposes playing his one-man show in Robot Hell)
Robot Devil: Oh, God! Haven't they suffered enough?!
See also
- ^ DVD commentary for "Hell Is Other Robots".


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Syrian President Bashar Assad will deliver a speech on Sunday in a rare address to the nation, state media said, as rebels fighting to topple his embattled regime pressed ahead with an offensive on the capital.
The official Sana news agency said in a brief statement Saturday that Assad will speak about the latest developments in Syria. The speech would be the first by the leader since June, and comes amid intense fighting between government troops and rebels on the outskirts of Damascus.
Assad has rarely spoken in public since the uprising against him began in March 2011. In each of his previous speeches and interviews, the president has dug in his heels even as Western powers have moved to boost the opposition in Syria's civil war.
In his last public comments, Assad vowed in an interview with Russia Today on Nov 8 that he would "live and die in Syria."
Fighting has raged for weeks in the neighborhoods and towns around Damascus that have been opposition strongholds since the Syrian revolt began. The uprising started with peaceful protests but morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 60,000 people, according to a recent United Nations recent estimate.
The rebels are trying to push through the government's heavy defenses in Damascus, prompting the regime to unleash a withering assault on the suburbs that has included intense barrages by artillery and warplanes.
Diplomatic efforts to end the Syrian crisis have failed so far to bring an end to the bloodshed, although the international community continues to push for a peaceful settlement.
On Saturday, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal told reporters after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart in Riyadh that there should be an immediate end to the bloodshed in Syria and called for a peaceful political transition.
Saudi Arabia and Egypt have both called on Assad to step down, and Riyadh has also been an outspoken supporter of the rebels.
The president of the UN Security Council said Thursday there are important developments in efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the 21-month conflict in Syria and there could be another US-Russia meeting with international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi next week.
Brahimi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov both said after their meeting last Saturday that the Syrian crisis can only be settled through talks, while admitting that neither the government nor the opposition has shown a desire to compromise. Neither official hinted at a possible solution that would persuade the two sides to agree to a ceasefire and sit down for talks about a political transition.
But Lavrov said Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of stepping down — a key opposition demand — and it would be impossible to try to persuade him otherwise. Russia is a close ally of the Syrian government, and has shielded it from punitive measures at the UN.
It was not clear what kind of initiative, if any, Assad may offer in his speech.
Meanwhile the violence continued unabated Saturday.
Rebels and government troops clashed in suburbs south of Damascus, including Harasta and Daraya, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Fighting in Daraya alone left 10 dead, including six rebels, according to the Observatory, which relies on reports by activists on the ground.
The army dispatched fresh reinforcements to Daraya, part of an offensive aimed at dislodging rebels from the district, located just a few kilometers (miles) from a strategic military air base west of the capital, the Observatory said. Regaining control of Daraya would provide a boost to the regime's defense of Damascus.
Government troops also arrested several residents in raids in the suburb of Qatana, the Observatory said. Fighting was also heavy in the central province of Hama, Idlib, and in the southern part of the country, in Daraa, the birthplace of the Syrian uprising. Besides the deaths in Daraya, 35 people were killed around the country, the group said.
There was also fighting on the road to the Damascus International Airport, which has not been functioning since last month when clashes first erupted on the airport road, and international airlines have yet to resume flights to the capital. Airport officials have said the facility is open, but have not said which flights are operating.
Rebels frequently target government officials for assassination, and have killed several regime figures since the revolt began, including a suicide bombing in December that wounded Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar. After the Dec. 12 blast, al-Shaar was secretly sent to neighboring Lebanon for treatment of a back injury, but was rushed out of a Beirut hospital and back home two weeks later for fear of being arrested by Lebanese authorities.
On Saturday, Sana denied reports that al-Shaar had died, saying the minister is "in good health and recovering."
State media also said Syrian journalist Suheil al-Ali who worked for the Dunya pro-government television station died Friday of wounds sustained in a shooting attack in the suburbs of Damascus four days ago. The SANA state news agency blamed a "terrorist," the term the government uses for those trying to topple Assad.
In Tehran, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad discussed the conflict and ways to end it with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian State TV said. Iran is one of Syria's strongest allies.
The conflict has increasingly taken sectarian overtones, with rebels fighting the ruling regime that is dominated by Alawites, an offshoot group of Shiite Islam.
Also on Saturday, an Arab League official said the group's foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting in the coming days in Cairo to discuss ways to assist Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
More than half a million Syrians have fled violence and sought shelter in neighboring countries, including some 130,000 to Lebanon. The country's government has requested $180 million from international donors to help its efforts with refugees.
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ECE497 Project Remote Web Cam Viewer
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder
Team members: Alexander W. Drane, John Lobdell
Executive Summary
The goal of this project is to create a simple webcam based security system that allows a user to remotely view the device's web cam by navigating to a webpage. Then using buttons the user can change what camera they are viewing.
Currently we have the ability to select a camera and view the stream in a remote webpage. This view uses the browser's VLC Plugin. We have tested this with 4 webcams on the xM board.
Operating with four webcams hooked to the board causes many failures of the system to stream back the video information. We determined that this was due to the physical cameras and the overhead of the devices by testing the system with only two we cams where the issues experienced regularly with the four camera setup greatly reduced in frequency.
Investigation of how to accomplish this task took up the bulk of our time and effort largely due to the infancy of HTML5 Related standards(sockets.io and MediaStream). In the end we decided to utilize the vlc plugin when the HTML5 proved unfeasible at its current level of development. Implementing the four cameras did seem to cause some device issues that caused the webpage to not sync with the incoming feed, but this appears to be hardware related only and not from the implementation (a further explanation is later on).
Installation Instructions
Extra Hardware Required:
- Webcam 1+ (or Playstation Eye's) Max 4 without other supplementary hardware. Best performing build currently is 2 web cams on the board. 4 makes the XM Slow down too much.
- Connected to the internet.
First Download the git Repository, it is located here:WebcamFeed
xm$ mkdir WebcamFeed xm$ git clone git://github.com/jtlobdell/bbWebcamFeed.git WebcamFeed xm$ cd WebcamFeed
Install Node.js
xm$ opkg update xm$ opkg install nodejs
Verify gstreamer is available and up to date
xm$ opkg update xm$ opkg install gstreamer
One last thing must be done on the user computer. VLC Media Player Plugin must be available in your browser of choice. This can be done by downloading the software here: [[1]] and making sure during installation to install the browser plugin. Many modern browsers will guide you through this if you run into a page that requires a missing plugin.
Now for reference type the following to get the xM's IP address. It is needed quite soon
xm$ ifconfig
User Instructions
Move to the source directory
xm$ cd ./WebcamFeeds/
The current code does not automatically direct the VLC plugin to play from the correct IP address; it relies instead on passing a hard-coded IP address to the client in the WebcamFeed.html file. Modify the following code in the file to use your xM's IP address:
autoplay="yes" loop="no" hidden="no"
width="320" height="240"
target="tcp://[YOUR_BEAGLE_IP]:8080" />
Once the installation is done, the program is ready. Run it using:
xm$ node WebcamFeed.js
Now navigate on the user computer using a web browser to your computers IP Address. Once there click on the link to the video feed page. The program will start and video should play.
NOTE: When changing video feeds the XM will randomly not load and play the feed. This we believe is due to the physical limitations of the hardware. We tested this by attaching 4 webcams to the board and found that the failure rate went up drastically. When the extra 2 webcams were removed the failure rate returned to where it was before. Since the program only ever calls one feed at a time(it changes which device it targets) this has to be a memory or hardware related issue and not due to the software.
At the top of the screen is a text box which can be entered the desired video device. Each camera is added sequentially starting at 0. Below the Set Cam button are four buttons for convenience. These function identically as entering the number's 0 though 3 into the text box and clicking Set Cam for each number.
A single video is captured from a web cam and streamed to a web page. The video capture device can be selected from the same page.
This program implements node.js and GStreamer working together to accomplish the video output and control over which video device to be viewed.
The software allows for as many video capture devices (webcams) as can be connected to the device. In the case of the Beagle Board xM, up to four cameras can be used. We only access one webcam at any given time and so the only increasing overhead on the system is that which is associated with the individual USB webcam's.
Here is a YouTube video demo of the four camera operation. A picture of the test setup is shown below:
This video starts out very slow and illustrates some of the hardware related issues that were encountered. While the most effective implementation currently is the two camera version we wished to show that four camera feeds could be accessed on the xM.
Theory of Operation
The project uses GStreamer to capture video from a webcam, convert it to video/ogg format, and stream it through Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). A diagram of the GStreamer pipeline is shown below.
The client system connects to a node.js server running on the xM. The server embeds the video stream into the web page and also contains controls for selecting a webcam for the stream.
When the server begins running the node.js script, it launches the GStreamer pipeline discussed above. When the client connects, they receive a web page containing controls for the video source and the embedded video that gets played using the VLC web plugin.
When the client uses the controls to change the video source, the server kills the current GStreamer process and launches a new one using the new video source. It then makes the client's page refresh to make the embedded video player use the new stream.
A block diagram of the system is shown below.
Work Breakdown
- Research- Research took up the bulk of our time and effort on this project due to the obscure nature of video streaming on the web using HTML5 and related tools. Most sources online advise you to use a plugin or third party software and treat the idea of using Javascript of HTML5 for this task as a taboo subject.
- GStreamer Implementation- John Lobdell investigated using GStreamer to accomplish this project. This implementation in the end proved effective and the easiest to implement.
- Program Creation- John Lobdell used his research to get GStreamer to stream a video or camera input onto port 8080 that could then be read by the VLC Media Player on a remote computer. The further integration of this into a program was done with the introduction of the VLC-plugin in an HTML document. The final program was jointly compiled by both John and Alex.
The program creation went quite fast after a working method was identified by John. Then it was a matter of putting the pieces together. The program consists of a node.js client server using the example provided in the examples/node.js folder, which provides the HTML server and controls for which video to stream. We embedded the VLC viewer into the page and pointed it to the location where the video would be streamed by an external function call in the .js file. This allowed for a simplified approach to running the needed utilities without having to port code into the Javascript language.
Future Work
Adding video capture would add true security camera capabilities to this system. In addition adding motion detection into the video selection stream would be interesting. Though this might be too much for the xM's hardware.
Having a webpage that displayed all of the video feeds at once would also be an interesting feature but this could over tax the XM's hardware or internet connection.
Figuring out how to implement this project with only HTML5 and make it so that no plugin is required by the end user was Alex's original plan but the maturity of the knowledge base for HTML5 is not adequate to accomplish this task at this time. But in the future when many of the draft standards are finished this project could be implemented without the VLC plugin.
Solving the interesting problem with the random stream failure. This issue arises when switching between streams. Occasionally the video receiver does not receive the stream even though the stream is playing across the network. From experimentation we found that as cameras were added the performance of the entire program greatly decreased. Since we only access one camera at a time the only explanation we could find was that the OS was devoting resources to the devices when they were connected thus creating a much greater overhead as cameras were added. When the cameras were disconnected the performance returned to their previous levels. With four cameras operating a noticeable increase in stream failures was observed. With only two cameras operating about 1/5 of attempts would be unsuccessful. With four cameras the failure rate was significantly higher (as much as 1/3 of attempts would fail). One possible explanation of this is the overhead causing a slow down in setup time for the video out thread compared to the load up time of the browser. While this is set up to go first if the system hanged due to lack of resources this could cause the video stream to start after the HTML file stopped looking for it. Occasionally the camera just won't turn on. We have found that signaling it again usually fixes the problem without much effort. After trying to figure out what was causing the problem we could not definitively pin down the root cause of the problem and we found no simple or effective solution for it but would like to see it fixed.
The server should automatically detect its external IP and then use it to direct the client's VLC plugin to the video stream.
The video should stream through UDP rather than TCP. UDP would have better performance, and data loss is not a major concern for low-resolution video.
Audio can be added to the video stream.
This project was quite surprising by how difficult it is to do using the new HTML5 standards. Through the research we learned that there were currently no simple implementations of what we wished to do with this project. We had originally assumed that something as common as video streaming would have a direct implementation in the new standard but in fact it is far more restricted then we expected. By splitting each of our focuses during the research stage we were able to research the use of the bleeding edge of development and the use of the common implementation and then whoever found an implementation that worked first would allow the project to progress. In addition our parallel research gave us greater insight into the potential ways of accomplishing this task then if we had both focused on the HTML5 implementation and did not allow the project to reach a dead end as it would have if we had both focused on the HTML5 method.
In the end we did settle on using the vlc-plugin to capture the outgoing stream that John setup using gstreamer. This worked exactly as we wished it to without all of the syntax fighting that took place when trying to port the HTML5 sample code into code we had the codex's for(i.e. websocket to socket.io syntax Note: websocket wanted a Microsoft related XML file which after searching for could not be found when we tried to just use websocket).
Many of the ideas listed in Future Work would be amazing addon's to the project that would greatly expand and enhance this projects implementation.
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder


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In addition to these "Bites off Broadway" delectable offerings, there will be multiple stands with grab 'n-go sandwiches & yogurt & fruit, cookies, kettle corn, fresh fruit popsicles and more courtesy of the Park Day Parents Association, as well as sausages from Studio One Art Center. We highly recommend you come hungry!


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KOffice, like most KDE applications, has the unique selling point that the same codebase can be compiled and run on various platforms. The latest KOffice alpha release has attracted extra attention since it ships Windows and Macintosh binaries. This naturally means a much larger audience will be able to try it out and kick the tires. Techworld has an article up where they give a good overview and plenty of screenshots. Have you already tried out a KOffice alpha release?
Some clarification from my side on the article - http://blog.forwardbias.in/2008/07/koffice-alpha-8.html
Guys, we're looking for volunteers to make screenshots for 'visual changelogs' of each release.
More info at http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3545
This sounds great! We need screenshots for us who dont have space/time/whatever to download and install KDE4daily/SVN etc. I'm so waiting that kword has space around sheet, so it would look more like OO.o or MS Office. I just cant stand how the sheets are together, and I want to get just verification about this usability thing! :-)
> I'm so waiting that kword has space around sheet
Hmm? KWord has had that for about 3 years now...
It has not have space _around_ sheets, only space on it's sides but not between sheets, what is important. Or then I have not found option to get space between sheets. :-/
Ah, got it. Thanks for the clarification :)
KWord can do that too in the 2.0 series. See http://www.koffice.org/kword/pics/200606-KWord-PageSpread.png
Ah... good to know. I hope that space can be adjusted to be bigger than just a few millimeters, like between 1-15mm what can be set from options. Then it would give better usability to sheet view, so user can see more easily the difference of two sheet and how it would look on printed.
I like the new interface in KWord 2. I think that it could help encourage using semantic markup (head 1, body text, ...) rather than low level visual formatting. Some suggestions to further encourage users to do the right thing:
1) Put the semantic formatting options in more prominent positions, on top etc. For instance, the "paragraph" tool tab (which contains semantic formatting) could be the first one, rather than "style", which is low-level.
2) Include semantic character styles, like "emphasized", "quote". Maybe put them on top of the style tool tab, then put the low-level formatting (bold, italic) below a separator line?
3) Include a "body text" paragraph style in the standard template. This should include formatting to separate paragraphs (indentation or vertical white space depending on the template). Set this style to be the "next" style for all the paragraph styles, except "standard". Maybe rename the "standard" paragraph style to "unformatted" or something that does not encourage its use as the standard style.
4) Include a style browser that lets users browse, and customize, various templates for the standard formatting styles, with a live preview.
I have some more suggestions, but I'll stop here for now.
Thanks for some great applications!
Those are some good ideas, right there.
You do understand what that word means right?
I'm pretty sure he knows what unique means and that he knows what he is talking about. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unique:
1: being the only one
2 a: being without a like or equal
2 b: distinctively characteristic
3: unusual
Oh I know you want to argue that KOffice is not the only office suite that can be compiled natively from one code base on all available platforms. So please show us one known office suite that has the same feature (hint: It can't be OpenOffice - you cannot compile it as a native app e.g. on Mac from the normal code base).
> hint: It can't be OpenOffice - you cannot compile it as a native app e.g. on Mac from the normal code base
I think this will be the case for the next major release, or am I mistaken? And KOffice 2.0-final isn't released yet, either.
A few screenshots and a single notion that KOffice works slowly.
Is it a review?
I'd like to see Trolltech branch out and produce some filters for ODF and Microsoft Office within Qt that all developers and applications can access in a usable fashion. Not only would it be a big step forward for Qt and KDE applications, I'm pretty sure a lot of Qt customers would be happy as well.
Couldn't KDE just make some as part of KDELibs. A QDoc (or something like that) would be cool (and make some Qt customers happy), but I think KDoc in KDELibs would work just as well.
Perhaps something like a OpenDocument library?
Take a look here: http://dot.kde.org/1177773146/
I thought and ODF library was happening. I have seen it discussed quite a bit.
What I'm curious about is the MS support. Some people claim it isn't important because people SHOULD use open standards. I'm all for using ODF for my files. But what about the litany of files I need to open at work in a Microsoft shop? What about converting existing users' documents, even if they going to use ODF in the future?
Honestly, until you can reasonably import and export the MS binary formats, you can't expect most users to switch. I use OpenOffice when I can, and people brag up their excellent MS import/export capability, which sadly isn't all that great.
I've read why the MS formats are as complicated as they are. I understand reverse-engineering a closed, binary format with no help isn't easy.
What I don't necessary understand is why any work on deciphering MS formats isn't put into a shared library that everyone can use. I've seen it asked if KOffice can borrow the superior implementation in this regard from the OOo sources, and each time I've seen a resounding no answered, but I'm not sure why that is.
Can someone please explain why that is?
There is quit a lot of work done to get import-filters for MSOffice done and there is even a gsoc that deals with that topic. That export has lesser priority is imho even logical taken into account that MSOffice 2007 will come with an ODF-import filter. Reusing the OO.org import-/exportfilter is out of scope, just look at the code and you will see what I mean.
It's difficult because MS Word files are basically dumps of Word's internal data structures, and OOffice (which inherited their import filters from StarOffice) basically maps them directly to OOfice internal data structures. Trying to adapt this to be useful for KOffice is possibly even more difficult than writing a new filter from scratch (and this is missing manpower).
There have been several attempts to create a shared library for importing MS stuff, there was one called wvware, which was apparently shared by Abiword, Gnumeric, and the like (i'm pulling this from memory, forgive me if I'm mistaken here).
Getting the basic formatting and fonts right is easy. Getting complex OLE structures and macros out is very very difficult.
>there was one called wvware, which was apparently shared by Abiword
And also KWord. KWord still uses the descendant, wvware2.
If I remember correctly, work on wvware2 was even spearheaded by KOffice developer Werner Trobin.
> I thought and ODF library was happening. I have seen it discussed quite a bit.
My guess is that the current priorities are on finishing and stabilizing the current implementation and have such a library as a goal post KOffice 2.0 release.
It is important to understand that moving a project-internal library to a general library module (e.g. kdelibs) is a lot of work, since one has to remove all the project specific code, adapt the project's code to cope with these changes and put lot of work in API clean up because of the more strict change restrictions of library modules.
I am very confident that everyone involved understands the importance of widespread availability of ODF capabilities, so it can be used as an almost universal format for import and export not just for files but also for clipboard or drag&drop operations.
> What I don't necessary understand is why any work on deciphering MS formats isn't put into a shared library that everyone can use.
As someone else already wrote, the Free Software office developers (e.g. KOffice, Abiword) have been working on such libraries for quite some time.
It is a bit unfortunate that the formerly proprietary code inherited by the OpenOffice.org project wasn't available in such a form and thus couldn't be contributed to a common effort.
At some point it might be possible for the OOo project to leverage the existance of the shared format ODF to create a stand-alone converter which could then be used by other Free Software projects to tranform legacy formats into ODF and read this.
"The latest KOffice alpha release has attracted extra attention since it ships Windows and Macintosh binaries. This naturally means a much larger audience will be able to try it out and kick the tires."
"The latest KOffice alpha release has attracted extra attention since it ships Windows and Macintosh binaries. This naturally means a much larger audience will be able to try it out and kick the tires."
Its good when Koffice runs successfully on Windows and Mac, the so called "larger audience" has no reason to switch to more secure, fundamentally correct Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. No wonder Microsoft offer full support for Blender developers to get the Blender run successfully on Windows.
You just said why they would switch to *nix: because it is more secure and fundamentally correct.
Don't forget, once they're using cross platform software it becomes easier and easier to switch. You may not dump your current OS, but in the future your next system could be one running all free software (few people manually install windows themselves, expecting them to install a Linux distro is IMO not realistic).
*Nix based systems are slowly becoming more common and popular (as options from manufacturers) on non-server systems, so it's becoming more and more realistic to use this strategy. Does anyone really expect people (especially non-techies) to manually install a different *operating system* just so they can use an application they've never used or possibly even seen or heard of before, giving up most all software they're used to using?
Hello Guys,
While I admire the energy/effort being placed in this product I would think that with other good/existing open source office suits (OpenOffice comes to mind) that it would be beneficial for the KDE team to focus their energy on putting together a spectacular desktop and use "all their members/developers" to ensure that KDE4.1 is built as quickly (and stable) as possible.
I doubt that Koffice will change the way people use office suites and doubt even more that it will have as big an impact/adoption as openoffice 3.0.
While I admire the tenacity (i really thought the project would lose steam) I think someone should suggest that a moratorium be imposed on extraneous elements of KDE until 4.1 is complete and stable (enough).
My question is simply this, does anyone believe Koffice really is necessary (now) and whether it would not be better that some (smaller) effort is spent to integrate/extend OpenOffice (if even a custom version of OO)?
I like what i see with Kword,Kspread and Kpresenter and I am sure it holds up well with regards to memory use and hence would be practical on small (cheap) laptops. However, in an era of Google docs, 280slides.com [http://280slides.com/Editor/ ] and ever more powerful RIAs (using AIR and JavaFX) I see most of the current desktop apps being made irrelevant in the next few years (especially when ODF and OOXML take root).So the question is how much return on investment (time and energy) will be obtained from devoting so much time to this suite (possibly a silly statement for an open source project).
Therefore, I would think that a well designed and scalable desktop with properly defined interfaces would be the better place to put focus.
-Kurt [BP]
Also there is a cool graphics app written for the AIR runtime and funny enough the performance is already quite good and with Adobe launching Acrobat.com [http://www.adobe.com/acom/] I think we will soon see internet delivered applications comparable to full desktop suites very soon.
This is assuming three things:
1) That all of the developers care about the desktop: some developers are on Windows and can't/don't use the KDE desktop. It is unreasonable to ask them to develop something they can't test!
2) That all developers want to and can develop the desktop: some developers are not familiar with and don't want to become familiar with the desktop code base. Others simply are better at developing office suites than developing desktops. Again, it would be unreasonable to ask them to develop something they don't want to develop.
3) That the office suite does nothing for the desktop: at the very least, KOffice helps test/refine the platform as used in different situations other than the desktop. At the very most, the desktop may make use of platforms developed as part of KOffice: for example, Kross started as being developed in KOffice. Other platforms, such as Flake and Pigment, may eventually be moved into the KDE libraries as well.
1) Free software developers code for what they want to because they want to. Only a small percentage are paid for it. What this means is that you can't magically reassign a team working on one project to another project. They're working in their spare time, usually from 10-20/hrs/week *on top* of whatever else they're going (ie full-time job + family + life).
If you think you're going to tell one group of people to go code on whatever KMagicPony of the week there is, you're crazy.
2) I think that KOffice actually existed before OpenOffice. So maybe all the OpenOffice devs should join us? ;)
3) People seem to like saying that choice is good, so I might as well repeat that. Although I'd say that KOffice is probably good for KDE because of its tight integration, etc. If we really wanted to, we could probably outsource most of the desktop to elsewhere and other projects, but then we cease to be KDE.
Thank you, I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment.
Good on the KOffice team, I for one, will use it.
(I know people support Open Office due to their support of legacy formats, and the "only game in town" mentality, but viewed in its own merits I feel it no amount of "push" is gonna make a nimble nymph out of it)
The original question really grates my carrot, when people like this attain positions of power, we as open source users/devs, are porked
> Adobe
Those Adobe that fails since years to compile a 64bit Flash? :)
AIR is an interesting example. it uses WebKit. perhaps you would've said the same thing about khtml 5 years ago as you just did about koffice. perhaps you even did. but had khtml not been around there also wouldn't be a WebKit and maybe AIR wouldn't've even found its feet as a result.
so why koffice?
because it was there first (before any other open source office suite), because the developers want to, because there's nothing like some of the apps in the foss world (kexi and krita in particular) and because it runs well on very modest hardware (when's the last time you saw OOo on a handheld device?).
who knows what koffice will become in the future.
and to be honest, unless you or i are working on it, it's none of our business to question it either because it's not our investment of time, energy or money.
finally, the "put more people on it and it will go faster" thing is a complete myth, just as the "if you make people not work on Y then they'll naturally work on X" idea is a myth.
Right on Aaron! And let's not forget the demise of rationality in zero sum economics. People assume a developer working on project B takes a developer away from project A. Why should Linus Torvolds have continued working on his kernel after he met RMS instead of going to work on the herd kernel? In fact the more developers work on different projects, the more different projects developers start. Maybe some ought to see if there is one in line with their thinking before starting, but it is absurd to think developers could be shuffled off to other projects by some centralized big brother. Free software is about freedom and choice. In fact the idea of terminating a project that a number of users love because it has failed to achieve a majority of users is really rather fascist. What standard or timeline should be used? Do we go for a monolithic program and eliminte choice? I thought that is why people like me were using GNU/Linux...
Finally, users refer to developers as if they were born developers, when in fact most developers learned to become developers to write code on projects they were interested in. That's how and why I learned C++. I was a user swept into an infant project when there were many alternative programs to Quanta out there. I wanted a program more to my liking and as a result my program became the most popular in it's class... like other KDE programs.
A better question than why someone is doing something they are contributing to the community is what are you doing and contributing? I view the contribution of any program that any user downloads and enjoys at a substantially higher value than any opinion that does not produce a real benefit to users, thus to the community. It is in our nature as humans to mistake intent for action and think we are doing something when we merely want to have some impact. To be clear, without people giving of themselves to make the software happen the community disolves. So I think the best rule is to never imply someone should not contribute in a given place, because there is no zero sum distribution of programming and they probably won't jump ship from their program. I wouldn't.
What is necessary is development on projects. Suggesting otherwise is ludicrous.
and right Eric!
Guess myself would just have left linux and went on to another system if KDE wasn't there in the first place and caught my attention :)
I'd rather have KDE 3.5 with a excellent KOffice. KOffice is the best office suite. OO is so slow and arcane. It's like Cakewalk. You've got layers of old code. KOffice is very fast. I like fast simple software.
Besides, KDE is not communist. People do what they want. ;)
I agree.
KOffice is fast, it is simple (from a user's point of view) and it is just doing it's job. What more can one want?
And for the really nasty things there is Latex ;-)
Does that make KDE anarchist then? lol
Seeing apps like Krita there is no doubt the answer is: YES.
Because one size or fashion does not fit all.
Why do peaople use MS Works when there is MS Office?
Why do people buy Mac when there is DELL?
Why do people use Gmail when there is Hotmail?
KOffice is not an exact copy of OpenOffice. They seem quite different.
First of all, KDE applications are meant to function in a KDE environment seamlessly, something that couldn't be achieved in Open Office or other Office Suites.
I personally do not like open office compared to KOffice because the startup times are longer, although this issue is trivial. That aside, KOffice just 'feels' better, less out of place, plus it has that famous KDE functionality going in its favour.
I really dislike Microsoft Office, so having KOffice look different is also a plus. I would prefer that KOffice act more like Kile in regards to formatting. (Kile is a Latex editor, so formatting doesn't show up until rendered)
For my last point, competition is good for the market and consumers. Who said that the only contenders could be Microsoft Office and OpenOffice? That's a rather narrow way of thinking if you ask me.
Plus I think the Open Office windows port looks horribly ugly. But that's not relevant here.
I work with adobe almost every day, and I'm really unimpressed with the GUI layouts especially in reader and acrobat.
to me the unique selling points of KOffice are a quality FOSS database GUI (kexi), a really cool imaging app (kexi), that it's small and fast and integrates nicely with the rest of my dekstop.
but that's just me.. =) congrats to the koffice team on spreading your wings further.
Personally I love Krita. It deserves more attention, especially in light that it's much better than gimp :)
Seconded. I'm eagerly waiting for the next iteration of Krita, since I liked the first one quite a lot. (Plus, it's much better integrated into KDE than the GIMP)
At the Linux Foundation Summit, an Access-replacement was given as one of the reasons one of the companies didn't switch some of their desktops to Linux. So further Kexi development and promotion is quite important.
Not that Kexi is any use to me personally really. ;) But Krita is a fun app for playing with my small drawing tablet. I'll probably try out Krita 2.0 once it hits beta or so. I look forward to the more natural brushes.
Great to see that KOffice progresses well (especially on Windows/Mac OS X). With its great technology (clean codebase, well integrated/flake) and its completeness (traditional office apps + krita + karbon +...) it has the possibility to become a major office suite.
This will for sure require some more helping hands. I am very optimistic that this is achievable due to the attractiveness of the KOffice platform (well designed and inter-platform). A bit more promotion/hype (e.g. something like Troys' "the road to KDE 4") could surely help to spread the word, too.
Well done KOffice team and keep up the fabulous work!
just to say thank you for your work on kplato, and a personal thank for Danders on his work on EV analysis,
Couldn't agree more on this. KPlato is an excellent project planner that you can't find in OpenOffice.org and I also have to say thank you very much to the authors of KPlato.
A guy wants to draw, so he takes over Krita, builds a team. We get a math library out of it. They come up with stuff no one else has, like mixing colors.
Wouldn't it be neat to do database stuff? Someone starts writing Kexi. Years, yes years later, we have something pretty cool.
And so on. Every app is a story, a reflection of someone, or of many.
The hubris is awe inspiring. Their persistence is humbling.
I would use these apps for that reason alone.
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Shaking infants and toddlers can have dangerous consequences because of their large heads and immature brains.
A baby's neck muscles can't support the stress of vigorous shaking. When the baby is shaken, its head moves in a sudden whiplash motion that can cause bleeding inside the head and increased pressure on the brain.
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Kyrillos, who denied that assertion, meanwhile, tried to tie Menendez to Corzine. After leaving office, Corzine led MF Global, a futures-trading financial firm that collapsed in October 2011, in one of the largest bankruptcies in American history. "He's pursuing a Jon Corzine economic strategy," Kyrillos said of his opponent. "Reelecting him to the Senate would be like sending Jon Corzine to the Senate."
Kyrillos blamed Menendez for New Jersey's economic woes, while the Democrat focused on the money and projects he said he has brought to New Jersey as its senator.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. LEWIS (D, GA-5): This bipartisan bill will provide the necessary funds to keep important transportation projects operating in States around the country. The Highway Trust Fund will run out of funding by September. We must act, and we must act now.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. CAMP (R, MI-4): [This interim spending is] needed because the Democrats' economic policy has resulted in record job loss, record deficits, and none of the job creation they promised. Democrats predicted unemployment would top out at 8% if the stimulus passed; instead, it's 9.5% and rising. In Michigan, it's above 15%. The Nation's public debt and unemployment, combined, has risen by a shocking 40% [because of] literally trillions of dollars in additional spending under the Democrats' stimulus, energy, and health plans.
We had a choice when it came to the stimulus last February. We could have chosen a better policy of stimulating private-sector growth creating twice the jobs at half the price. That was the Republican plan. Instead, Democrats insisted on their government focus plan, which has produced no jobs and a mountain of debt.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. PETER WELCH (D, VT-0): Citigroup supports this bill. Why? They're a huge lender. They understand that we have to stabilize home values in order to begin the recovery, and they need a tool to accomplish it. Mortgages that have been sliced and diced into 50 different sections make it impossible even for a mortgage company and a borrower to come together to resolve the problem that they share together.
Sen. DICK DURBIN (D, IL): 8.1 million homes face foreclosure in America today. Last year, I offered this amendment to change the bankruptcy law, and the banking community said: Totally unnecessary. In fact, the estimates were of only 2 million homes in foreclosure last year. America is facing a crisis.
Opponent's argument to vote No:
Sen. JON KYL (R, AZ): This amendment would allow bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages by lowering the principal and interest rate on the loan or extending the term of the loan. The concept in the trade is known as cram-down. It would apply to all borrowers who are 60 days or more delinquent. Many experts believe the cram-down provision would result in higher interest rates for all home mortgages. We could end up exacerbating this situation for all the people who would want to refinance or to take out loans in the future.
Rep. MICHELE BACHMANN (R, MN-6): Of the foundational policies of American exceptionalism, the concepts that have inspired our great Nation are the sanctity of private contracts and upholding the rule of law. This cramdown bill crassly undercuts both of these pillars of American exceptionalism. Why would a lender make a 30-year loan if they fear the powers of the Federal Government will violate the very terms of that loan?
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. DAVID OBEY (D, WI-7): This country is facing what most economists consider to be the most serious and the most dangerous economic situation in our lifetimes. This package today is an $825 billion package that does a variety of things to try to reinflate the economy:
Opponent's argument to vote No:
Rep. JERRY LEWIS (R, CA-51): Most of us would agree that the recent $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is an illustration of how good intentions don't always deliver desired results. When Congress spends too much too quickly, it doesn't think through the details and oversight becomes more difficult. The lesson learned from TARP was this: we cannot manage what we do not measure. We cannot afford to make the same mistake again.
Sen. THAD COCHRAN (R, MS): We are giving the executive branch immense latitude in the disbursement of the spending this bill contains. We are doing so without any documentation of how this spending will stimulate the economy. Normally, this kind of information would be contained in an administration budget. For items that have a short-term stimulative effect, most of us will feel comfortable debating their merits as an emergency measure. But there is a great deal of spending that is not immediately stimulative.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. DAVID OBEY (D, WI-7): Congress has tried to do a number of things that would alleviate the squeeze on the middle class. Meanwhile, this economy is sagging. Jobs, income, sales, and industrial production have all gone down. We have lost 600,000 jobs. We are trying to provide a major increase in investments to modernize our infrastructure and to provide well-paying construction jobs at the same time.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. JERRY LEWIS (R, CA-41): Just 2 days ago we were debating an $800 billion continuing resolution. Now in addition to being asked to pay for a bailout for Wall Street, taxpayers are being asked to swallow an additional $60 billion on a laundry list of items I saw for the first time just a few hours ago. The Democratic majority is describing this legislation as a "stimulus package" to help our national economy. But let's not fool ourselves. This is a political document pure and simple. If these priorities are so important, why hasn't this bill gone through the normal legislative process? We should have debated each of the items included in this package.
It doesn't take an economist to tell you that the economy needs our help. But what does this Congress do? It proposes to spend billions more without any offsets in spending. The failure to adhere to PAYGO means that this new spending will be financed through additional borrowing, which will prove a further drag on our struggling economy.
Proponents recommend voting YES because:
My amendment says we are going to take about $18 billion as a strong signal from the Congress that we want to support effective programs and we want the taxpayer dollars spent in a responsible way. My amendment doesn't take all of the $88 billion for the programs found by PART, realizing there may be points in time when another program is not meeting its goals and needs more money. So that flexibility is allowed in this particular amendment. It doesn't target any specific program. Almost worse than being rated ineffective, we have programs out there that have made absolutely no effort at all to measure their results. I believe these are the worst offenders. In the following years, I hope Congress will look at those programs to create accountability.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
The effect of this amendment will simply be to cut domestic discretionary spending $18 billion. Understand the programs that have been identified in the PART program are results not proven. Here are programs affected: Border Patrol, Coast Guard search and rescue, high-intensity drug trafficking areas, LIHEAP, rural education, child abuse prevention, and treatment. If there is a problem in those programs, they ought to be fixed. We ought not to be cutting Border Patrol, Coast Guard search and rescue, high-intensity drug trafficking areas, LIHEAP, rural education, and the rest. I urge a "no" vote.
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Sen. DODD: Today we are facing a crisis in the mortgage markets on a scale that has not been seen since the Great Depression: over 2 million homeowners face foreclosure at a loss of over $160 billion in hard-earned home equity; over one out of every 5 subprime loans is currently delinquent. These high default rates have frozen the subprime and jumbo mortgage markets and infected the capital markets to the point where central banks around the world have had to inject liquidity into the system to avoid the crisis from spreading to other segments of the market.
One of the fundamental causes of this serious crisis is abusive and predatory subprime mortgage lending. The Homeownership Preservation and Protection Act of 2007 is designed to protect American homeowners from these practices, and prevent this disaster from happening again. The legislation will:
In the coming months, the housing crisis is going to get worse. We will need to continue to press lenders and servicers to provide real relief for homeowners threatened with foreclosure.