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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Great English Subjunctive Mood
Anyway, let's begin with today's topic of grammar---the subjunctive mood. Yes, I know that I've browbeaten this topic in the past, but it's a very important rule in grammar so it must be browbeaten lest the masses forget how it is used. Aha! There is that tricky subjunctive conjugation in "lest the masses forget". Here, the verb "forget" is in its third person plural present subjunctive conjugation. Unfortunately, in Modern English, there is no difference between the plural present subjunctive and indicative unless it be conjugated in a negated form ("unless it be conjugated" is subjunctive, too!!!).
Really, generally speaking, though, the English subjunctive is nominal. It plays a small role in our grammar because our language has syncretized over the last 400 years. In inflectional languages such as French, Spanish, and Latin, it plays an enormous role. In fact, in Old English, the subjunctive played a huge role. This was mainly because of the fact that modal verbs hadn't formed yet and verbs inflected more.
The subjunctive in Modern English is normally considered a relic of the Old English subjunctive---the remnants of a once vast conjugational system that is now virtually extinct. One form that is a virtual relic is the past subjunctive "were" form, which is used often in hypothetical or conditional situations:
Example: If I were in charge of this project, I would fire you.
Of course, normally one would expect to see the conjugation "was" collocated with the pronoun "I", but not here because this is a remnant of the Old English past subjunctive. In Modern English, all other verbs in the past subjunctive look just like the past indicative:
Example: If he ruled England, he would have you hanged for such effrontery.
As you can see, "ruled" looks just like the past indicative, but it really isn't---it's actually a past subjunctive form. In Old English, there was a difference between the past indicative and past subjunctive, but, in Modern English, this is no longer the case except for the verb "to be".
Personally, if you should find this rule to be difficult to understand, then you're in luck. Many grammar books now consider this pedantic rule to be optional. Even though this may be true, it is still considered a sign of an educated speaker. Furthermore, it is used by many literati in an effort to enhance their writing. The subjunctive can give a formal and archaic tone to one's writing so that may be the reason for its being so popular in the literary world. Below are examples of some literary subjunctive forms:
O that I were a man!
Far be it from me to tell you what to do.
Be they big or small, I will crush them all!
If this be treason, make the most of it!
There are present perfect and past perfect subjunctive forms, too. Had you asked earlier, I would have posited some examples for you to look at. Aha, again! There's the past perfect subjunctive in that last sentence. Although the past perfect subjunctive is regularly common in modern parlance, this is not so for the present perfect subjunctive. In fact, people usually gasp and cringe at the mere presence of the pure English present perfect subjunctive when it is uttered in a conversation. Here are a few examples of it:
It is necessary that each candidate have lived in his respective state for at least five years.
In the event that he have finished all of his work, he may go home.
I won't pay her unless she have completed all of her chores.
I pray that he have seen the error of his ways.
I hope that this might not have been too difficult for you to understand. It is not all that difficult. Well, thanks for listening, my friends and I shall talk to you later. Ciao!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Formal Grammar: The English Subjunctive Revisited From Its Death Throes
- It is a good idea that you be a fastidious grammar student. (active simple present subjunctive)
The boss desires that all employees be working while she is gone. (active present progressive subjunctive)
It is desirable that she have incorporated her references in her exegesis. (active present perfect subjunctive)
The parents demand that the child have been cleaning his room for at least an hour before going out to play. (active present perfect-progressive subjunctive)
If I were a wealthy man, I would not be working here. (active simple past subjunctive)
The teacher would not have to yell if the class were behaving. (active past progressive subjunctive)
If I had eaten my vegetables when I was younger, I wouldn't be so short now. (active past perfect subjunctive)
If the boy had been studying as he has claimed repeatedly, he would not have failed the test. (active past perfect-progressive subjunctive)
The prosecutor insisted that the defendant be found guilty for his crimes. (passive simple present subjunctive)
It is vital that alcoholic drinks be being drunk by only adults age 21 and older at the party tonight. (passive present progressive subjunctive)
It is essential that references have been incorporated in your exegesis. (passive present perfect subjunctive)
The panel asks that the final report have been being compiled by the staff. (passive present perfect-progressive subjunctive)
If your car were damaged in an accident, then you could sue for damages. (passive simple past subjunctive)
If I were being mistreated, then I would tell you. (passive past progressive subjunctive)
If your house had been damaged by the storm, then you could have filed an insurance claim. (passive past perfect subjunctive)
If the pumpkins had not been being smashed by kids, then we would have had dozens for Halloween. (passive past perfect-progressive subjunctive)
While these examples might be that of formal English, the subjunctive can occur in far less formal statements. Here are examples of some formal situations and less formal situations wherein a person can see the subjunctive:
- How about I be the pitcher?
- God help us.
- Subjunctive be damned!
- It was, as it were, a miracle.
- Come Sunday, we'll be ready.
- I wish you were here.
- Be he dead or alive, bring him to me!
- The powers that be have spoken.
- I may be able to answer that if I be permitted to speak.
- If it please the court, I shall take the stand.
- I want you to do it so that it be done correctly.
- Whether he allow it or not, we'll do it anyway.
- I pray that we not fail.
- I hope that you be on time for once.
- God forbid he run for office.
Okay, these are some more examples of the subjunctive in English. As you can see, it might not be so ponderous as you might have thought it would be. Many people say it all of the time without even noticing. I figured I should bring this up again lest it be forgotten by the canaille.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Drunken Fisherman
The Drunken Fisherman
It is not a mystery that poems elicit different feelings and images from people of all ages, races, and creeds. It is possible that one poem could evoke a feeling of empathy from one reader who bethinks himself of times he, too, had something similar occur whereas another reader may have a feeling of despondency from the same poem. It is this credo that works are intrinsically subjective that can make understanding and critiquing poems the most enjoyable because it is incumbent upon him who reads them.
In the poem, The Drunken Fisherman by, Robert Lowell, a person may picture himself fishing along a river bank, which can evoke, from the reader, feelings of serenity. Whenever I read this poem, I feel as though I were somewhere far away, having escaped all of my troubles and worries, with only the grassy knolls and the sound of the running river between me and all of the hardships of my life.
This feeling is especially elicited in the lines, "I cast for fish that pleased my eye/ Truly Jehovah's bow suspends/ No pots of gold to weight its ends" (2-4). These lines can tell the reader that the main character is doing all of this for recreation. The words, "no pots of gold to weight its ends" evoke this feeling that the fisherman is not doing this for his livelihood.
This poem can also elicit a feeling of somberness and finality to its reader after the fisherman, in the poem, catches his fish. This feeling is consistent in the lines:
Only the blood-mouthed rainbow trout
Rose to my bait. They flopped about
My canvas creel until the moth
Corrupted its unstable cloth (5-8).
In these lines, the reader can picture that the fisherman is only catching rainbow trout and that they are dying as he puts them in his basket. The death of these fish produces this somber feeling of finality for the reader. The words "flopped about" portray how the fish are trying desperately to escape from the fisherman's basket but to no avail.
It is unknown to the reader whether the fisherman might actually want to catch rainbow trout. The "gap" in this poem could be the fact that the fisherman really does not like rainbow trout. This can be inferred when the fisherman states, "I cast for fish that pleased my eye" (2), but then avers that, "Only the blood-mouthed rainbow trout/ Rose to my bait" (5-6). Here, one can picture that the fisherman is looking for certain kinds of fish, but the lowly rainbow trout are the only fish that are biting for him. In the end, the fisherman just concedes to this fact and places the fish in his creel.
The passing of time and sheer solitude of the fisherman's surroundings are also exemplified to the reader in the lines, "A calendar to tell the days/ A handkerchief to wave away/ The gnats" (9-11). Here, the word, "calendar" exemplifies this feeling of the passing of time whereas the handkerchief that is being used to swat the gnats portrays the fisherman to be in a serene area somewhere deep in the wilderness. This evocation of the passing of time can also be seen in the lines, "O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot/ Let suns stay in or suns step out" (17-18). In these two lines, the reader can infer that the sun is rising and setting and that the fisherman's surroundings are growing colder and then warmer. This seems to be signifying the changing of days.
A "digger for secret" may be best portrayed in the lines, "Children, the raging memory drools/ Over the glory of past pools" (23-24). The reader may get this feeling of nostalgia from the fisherman in the poem. He seems to be reminiscing to the days of his childhood—to a time when he was fishing as a young boy and made some "glorious" catches. This evocation of magisterial catches comes from the words, "glory of past pools" whereas "memory drools" can be inferred as the fisherman's drifting into a daydream as he remembers these good times.
From a psychological aspect, the character also seems to be very reclusive and may be trying to escape from all of his troubles. This feeling of escaping his troubles can be limned from the fact that the fisherman appears to be drunk in the poem. The reader can infer this in the line, "Pouching a bottle in one arm" (12), wherein it seems as though the fisherman has been drinking. In line 23, a "whiskey bottle" is mentioned, which denotes even more the possibility that some drinking has occurred. The reclusive aspect of this fisherman is denoted from the fact that no other characters are mentioned in this poem. From the reader's perspective, the fisherman is alone in the wilderness and the fish are his only company.
In the final stanza, the reader can infer that the fisherman is upset about his catch when he says, "Is there no way to cast my hook/ Out of this dynamited brook" (33-34). The participle, "dynamited" signals to the reader that there is nothing to be caught in this brook. It also limns frustration on the part of the fisherman who seems to be cursing the brook wherein he is fishing. His question, "Is there no way to cast my hook" (33) seems to be somewhat sarcastic and rhetorical—as if the reason for not catching any fish were directly related to how he casts his hook into the water.
In the end, this poem can be interpreted in many different ways. The old axiom, "to each his own" comes to mind because each person may glean from this poem whatever he may, and no interpretation is wrong. Whether the reader think the poem is somber and reclusive or angry and sarcastic is totally subjective in nature. There is no right or wrong answer when trying to understand the meaning of any author's works. It really all depends on the reader's own response.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Semantics of What We Say
Yes, it is true that English is a syncretic language; therefore the subjunctive plays a minute role, but what little of the subjunctive that we can see is important because if someone were to say it in the indicative one time and then the subjunctive the next, all of a sudden, it would be possible to have two statements that mean entirely different things. Here's a comparitive example:
Example: John, will you make sure that my son is buckled up? (This means semantically that the speaker wants John to check to see whether his son is buckled up.)
Example: John, will you make sure that my son be buckled up? (This means semantically that the speaker wants John to guarantee that his son will be buckled up.)
Again, normally we cannot notice this because of syncretism, but whenever we can, it is important that we differentiate between the two because of its semantic and syntactic differences. Normally, though, any idiot can understand the speaker's meaning by context. This is the one reason that the subjunctive, at least in English, is a moot point.
My biggest pet peeve, though, has to be the use of "would" in the protasis of the past perfect subjunctive. I cannot understand what fool would construct a sentence like this:
Example: If he would have hit the ball to right field, he would have gotten a base-hit. (I heard this one tonight at baseball practice. My friend, Jon said it.)
Correct Example: If he had hit the ball to right field, he would have gotten a base-hit. (This is still part of the subjunctive that grammarians won't let die. May it live on and not be corrupted by fools.)
Again, it's not a big problem because any idiot can figure out what the speaker means. The big question I have about this is the diachrony of this error. Where did it come from? How has it spread? It's the same with the whole "was/were" past indicative/subjunctive constructions. There must be a reason for this diachronic shift in construction. I mean, I seldom hear the pluperfect subjunctive anymore and this is by no means a moribund area of the English subjunctive mood. Here's one that's common though:
Example: I wish this team was our actual team, except for Rubin. (This was said at baseball practice today by my friend, Stephen.)
This is just another attack on the past subjunctive wherein "were" would be the correct verb conjugation, but again, this is picayune. I'm not here to beat a dead horse; I'm here to explain the semantics of these constructions so that there be very little confusion regarding whether it be "was" or "were" or whatnot.
Remember, in formal English writing, whether it be considered didactic or not, it is crucial that you make sure that your reader understand exactly what you want him to know. You should be careful not to confound the reader in any way, shape, or form. If English weren't so syncretic, though, it would be far easier to get your point across. You just have to make due while you write your paper or whatnot.
Perhaps, one day, all of these constructions will be considered grammatically correct. As of now, though, the only concession grammarians have made is to the present subjunctive forms, and this is not a total concession. The past and pluperfect constructions still must be adhered to, or so they say, yet over the last twenty years, this, too, has started to attenuate.
It really doesn't matter, though; this is just some food for thought. Please write to me to tell me about what you think in regard to this topic. I'm curious as to what others might have to say when it appertains to the semantics of these types of construction.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Woe Is I
As you are probably eminently aware, the title explains this concept of the predicate nominative—"Woe is I"—instead of the more traditional way of saying, "Woe is me". Yes, I know Shakespeare did say, "Woe is me" and I am in no way saying that he was wrong for having said it like this. In fact, standard English grammatical rules weren't established until the mid-seventeenth century so Shakespeare had been dead approximately half of a century before English was standardized; therefore he was not wrong when he said it in this way.
Furthermore, not to rend the grammatical rules along with the semantics of this construction, but using an objective pronoun following a copula is just informal; it in no way impugns the interlocutor in any way. In fact, it may enhance a dialogue by removing the fusty nature that a phrase like "It is I" might induce. With that said, though, in formal writing, it is important that the writer follow this rule because it does produce concinnity in the paper, semantically it makes more sense, and grammarians still say it is correct, but formal.
Remember that high school and college English papers are formal bodies of work; ergo they must be stylistically formal. One must also remember that an accusative pronoun needs an action verb for it to be used. A writer cannot use an accusative pronoun as the direct object of a copula because a copula is only linking the subject with the subject predicate. There also must be concinnity in the construction of a "to be" construction with its subordinate clause. For instance:
Example: It is you [who are going to rectify this situation.]
Above, the predicate nominative is "you"; therefore the verb following the interrogatory pronoun "who" in the subordinate clause must correspond with each other; therefore it would appear to be "you are" in this situation. Below is another example so that you can see how this works:
Example: It is she who owns that land.
Now, remember that this will only be easy to spot provided "to be" be conjugated or it have a subject. It can be very difficult to spot during such times when the subject should appear to be nonexistent. For example:
Example: I want [myself] to be him.
Here, "to be" has a subject and that subject is the direct object of the verb to want, but because it's a reflexive pronoun, in this situation, it is normally omitted. The infinitive here is linking the two objective pronouns so they must both be objective. Here are some more examples below:
Example: I pretend to be her.
Example: I pretend that I am she.
Example: It's better that it be they than it be I.
Example: Yesterday, I became he [the leader].
Example: The winner was thought to be I.
Example: He thought me to be him.
Everyone reading this should be aware that this is formal English—English that one would write more so than he would speak. More so, many of these constructions can, indeed, be avoided in a paper and I would strongly urge that a writer avoid these constructions because of their stilted, pedantic constructions, but they do have their place in grammar. It should be stated, though, that a construction such as the example below can bring a connotation of strength and may embolden its audience so this construction can definitely be wise to use in a formal, persuasive paper:
"It is we, the people, who have fought for centuries for freedom. It is we who have offered our souls, our blood, and our brethren to fight against persecution and injustice. It is we who have the power to decide what is right for us and it is we who will never give up until we have what is rightfully ours."
This is a term in linguistics called "anaphora". Winston Churchill was renowned for his use of anaphora in many of his speeches. Anaphora is very powerful in persuasive writing because it causes the reader to focus on its construction. The constant, recurrent use of "It is we" is enough to cause anyone's head to turn.
All right, well that is my in-depth explanation of the predicate nominative. I hope it might have helped you a little in understanding the antiphony of prescribed constructions versus proscribed constructions regarding this topic.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
The Wife's Lament
The Middle Ages began around A.D. 500 and was a period of time that existed in Europe between Classical Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. It stretched throughout the centuries and historians believe it finally culminated around A.D. 1350, although speculation exists that it may have continued even longer.
Perhaps one of the most esoteric poems of this time is "The Wife's Lament." In this poem, the author is a woman whose husband has gone on a journey to some unknown place and, because he is no longer physically there to be with his wife, his family members have exiled her. From the context of the poem and its prologue, it is evident that the narrator has had an arranged marriage with her husband whom she describes as "her lord." The prologue mentions that the narrator was most likely a "peace-weaver," which, in medieval Anglo-Saxon culture, was a woman who was married off to make peace between warring tribes. This was a very common practice during the Middle Ages so it makes sense that her husband's family would contemn her and thus exile her upon his leaving.
An element of medieval Anglo-Saxon culture is clearly represented in this poem by the antonomastic overtone that the term, "my lord" brings. For example, the narrator states, "First [my lord] went away from his people here," then she later avers that, "[My lord] commanded me to stay in this place." The antonomasia found in these passages clearly connotes what many historians would consider as typical truckling of a medieval wife towards her husband. The antonomastic term, "my lord," also seems to exude a type of servile fealty that a wife would have for her husband during this time in Anglo-Saxon history.
This poem also seems to exude from it a great social conflict between women during the Middle Ages. One cannot help noticing that the narrator in this poem is inferior to her husband in every facet and it is almost as though she were his property more so than his wife. The narrator seems to be almost limned as that of a vassal or a serf from the different descriptions that are given in the poem. This is very consistent with medieval Anglo-Saxon culture because women were considered to have been put on this Earth by God to serve their husbands. Because of this precept that was embedded in the culture of this time, women were brought up to believe in this notion, thus, no matter what, they served their husbands well and accordingly until death did them part.
Furthermore, the reader can also get a sense from the poem that the narrator has married into a warrior cult and her husband has left her for some unknown reason. The narrator mentions in the poem that "her lord" has gone "across the storm-tossed sea." It may be that he has gone to conquer another land or fight in some great war, which, during the Middle Ages, was common practice throughout Anglo-Saxon culture.
The notion that this family that the narrator has married into may be a warrior cult is buttressed by the belief that the narrator is a peace-weaver. If she was a peace-weaver, then she was married to stifle a blood feud between the two exogamous families. Tensions between the narrator's family and "her lord's" family may still be extant, but occluded from sight while she and her lord are married and living together. The problem that exists now is that her lord has gone on this journey to some unknown place thus she is no longer being shielded by his aegis. Without her lord's aegis, she is at the mercy of his family members and therefore their true feelings towards her come out and they ostracize her to this place in the wilderness.
The reader can further picture the ostracism of the narrator when she describes disquietly that, "Endlessly I have suffered the wretchedness of exile" and then segues into how she now resides in an "earth-cave" in the wilderness. The narrator, in these lines, is expounding her coda to the reader. This is, in essence, the end-result she receives for all of her love, devotion, and fidelity she has had for her lord—the fact that she has now been exiled by his family to live out her days in this cave underneath an old oak tree. In medieval Anglo-Saxon culture, it was common practice for a family to blackball one of its estranged members, especially a peace-weaver when the husband had either died or gone somewhere such as off to war wherein it was very likely he would never return.
Furthermore, the connotation of a blood feud in this poem can be limned through the arranged marriage between the narrator and her lord. Since these are two separate warrior cults who are trying to create some semblance of peace between each other, the one cult has offered up a peace-weaver for betrothal to a male heir of the other warrior cult. Arranged marriages and blood feuds between exogamous families, particularly warrior cult families, were rampant throughout Anglo-Saxon culture during the Middle Ages. An arranged marriage was one way to end a blood feud between different families, but, many times, the hatred for the other family was still innate within each member; therefore many of these marriages were doomed from the start. It is apparent from this poem that the narrator's arranged marriage, which was an effort to create a rapprochement between the two warring families, has failed thus irreparably sundering the two families and inexorably reviving old tensions from the blood feud.
In the end, there are many elements of Anglo-Saxon culture and heritage that can be found in "The Wife's Lament." For instance, in the poem, the reader can see how a once doting wife seems to become nothing more than a flitting memory to her husband and his family and how, through all of her pain and persecution, through exile and enmity, the ever-faithful narrator still toadies to her missing husband—"her lord" for whom she forever weeps during her state of exile.
The Hug
In every work, the reader looks at it and must infer what the author is trying to say. Usually, the reader incorporates his own political views into the work as a group such as his feelings towards different genders, classes, races, or even sexual preferences. With that being said, it is safe to assume that "The Hug" by Thom Gunn is no different. Gun, a homosexual author, writes in such a way as to capture his audience, but all the while making many feel uneasy as to what he is portraying.
When the narrator says, "It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined/Half of the night with our old friend/Who'd showed us in the end/To a bed I reached in one drunk stride," the reader clearly pictures that the narrator is a man and that the person whom he is throwing a party for is either his wife or girlfriend (1-4). The "old friend" appears to be a male, perhaps someone whom they have known since they were in school. A feminist would impugn this stereotypical way of thinking as an archetypal fancy—a conceit held within the psyche of the average individual based on what roles society places on its sexes. For instance, society's archetype would view that a man should throw a party for his wife or girlfriend and not the other way around. More so, it is the man who should be drunk and not the woman and it would be improper for the old friend to be a woman because of the belief in the roles of fidelity.
From a post-feminist view, these archetypes are ridiculous or outmoded. In modern society, it is perfectly acceptable for a woman to throw a birthday party for the man, it is perfectly acceptable for the woman to get drunk at the party, and it is perfectly acceptable for there to be another girl at her husband's or boyfriend's party. Any other way of thinking, whether it be to assume sex roles for androgynous characters or something else, is not only prejudicial, but it is abasing to women.
From a queer theorists perspective, this archetype is completely flawed. A queer theorist would ask the reader, "Why do these characters have to be mixed genders? They could very easily be all men or all women." In fact, if one were to have insight that the author, Thom Gunn was homosexual during his lifetime, he might think differently as to who these characters are. In this sense, the average reader might become alarmed at the thought that these characters might be two men who have gone to bed with each other or even two women.
When the narrator says, "I dozed, I slept. My sleep broke on a hug/Suddenly, from behind/In which the full lengths of our bodies pressed," a feminist reader might want to switch her first thought (7-9). She would argue that the woman is apparently the narrator because the man would be the one to hug suddenly from behind and then push his body up against hers. This would be predicated on the societal archetype that a man is usually the one to make the first move on a woman and that the woman is the one who must acquiesce to his advances in the end.


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The Australian dollar could see out the year with a high valuation, defying forecasts for it to fall below US90¢ as the United States economic recovery stumbles on the government shutdown and prompts the Federal Reserve to keep stimulus intact.
As long as the Fed keeps its bond purchases going at $US85 billion ($90.27 billion) a month and holds off on tapering, the greenback will remain suppressed, paving the way for a higher-value Australian dollar. The currency was fetching US94.11¢ on Friday morning after the US dollar was sold in overnight trading.
The Fed shocked markets last month when it decided the economy was not ready for a withdrawal of stimulus, triggering a rally in risk assets such as equities and pushing yields on US Treasuries lower. The decision also sent the $A rocketing above US95¢, a trend that has frustrated the Reserve Bank of Australia, which desires a lower foreign exchange rate.
The shutdown of the US public service, which is poised to stretch into its fourth day with no resolution in sight, may interrupt the momentum of the economic recovery in the US and justify further stimulus from the Fed for longer than markets had anticipated.
Economists do not see the Fed tapering until December at the earliest after the Congressional stalemate.
"I think the consensus has quickly come around that they were right not to taper," said ANZ Banking Group's head of global markets research, Richard Yetsenga. "After the September surprise, most of the discussion was around would it be in October or December. Now, I think the discussion point is, 'Is it December or January?' That's a very direct consequence of the few days of shutdown we've had so far – it just puts October out of the realm of possibility.
Consequences 'could last for more than a generation'
"If this keeps going on for some days or even weeks then potentially it turns the discussion into one of January or March rather than December or January. But certainly, in the near-term, it's pushed things out. Does that imply the Aussie a bit higher? Yes, but that's also what we've seen. We're up here in the mid-US90¢ already and that's also been helped the last couple of months by the recovery of some of the numbers in China."
Congress has been unable to pass a spending bill required to pay public servants for turning up to work and keeping government enterprises running, resulting in up to 800,000 Americans being furloughed from October 1.
The stumbling block has been House Republicans' opposition to the Obamacare health policy, which – in turn – has fostered more serious concerns about the ability of politicians to agree to raise the debt ceiling when the US Treasury runs out of cash on October 17 and flirts with default.
After Wall Street executives and the president of the European Central Bank urged both sides of politics to resolve the impasse on Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund joined the chorus on Thursday.
Managing director
The US Treasury repeated its own concerns, this time predicting the impact on American households should it come up against its $US16.7 trillion borrowing limit. Likening it to an economic blow worse than the financial crisis, Treasury said: "Not only might the economic consequences of default be profound, those consequences, including high interest rates, reduced investment, higher debt payments and slow economic growth could last for more than a generation."
The Australian Financial Review


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London UK – April 27, 2012 – Moshi Monsters' debut video game Moshi Monsters™: Moshling Zoo has become the longest ever number one in Nintendo DS™ chart history by knocking Nintendo's Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training from the top spot .
Launched just six months ago in November 2011, Moshi Monsters™: Moshling Zoo has made video game history by holding the top position for a record breaking 15 consecutive weeks.
The game has fought off stiff competition from Nintendo classics such as Mario Kart DS, New Super Mario Bros, Professor Layton And The Spectre's Call and Pokémon Black Version
"This is the first video game we've ever published at Mind Candy so we're delighted and amazed by how well it has done. We're lucky to have such a passionate fanbase of Moshi players" said Michael Acton Smith, creator and CEO of Moshi Monsters.
Developed by well-renowned US based gaming developer, Black Lantern and published by Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), Moshi Monsters™: Moshling Zoo offers fans a fresh new take on the Moshi Universe by building on the popularity of the collectable "Moshlings" (pets for your pet monsters), and provides a new way to interact with their favorite characters. The game features new locations and an exclusive new Moshling - Nipper the Titchy Trundlebot. From the common to the rare, there are 52 Moshlings to collect including the elusive 'ULTRA-RARE' – find them if you can! Children can also play new mini-games, educational style puzzles, as well as win awards and trophies to take back to their zoo.
The monster success isn't just confined to the video game charts – the recently released debut music album, Moshi Monsters: Music Rox!, reached number four in the Official Music Charts this month ahead of Madonna and Jessie J with no TV or promotional airplay.
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You would not need your own dispatcher and works with all auth. Pseudo-code... (define current-user ...) ... (define prev-user (current-user)) (define unauthed-req (send/suspend ...)) (if (has-authenticator? unauthed-req prev-user) (continue) (with-authentication (cond [(equal? prev-user (current-user)) (continue)] [(has-access? (current-user) continue) (continue)] [else (access-denied+restart-ui)]))) Jay On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:37 PM, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This, in general, is the method I advise. However, the comment that >> "This doesn't allow people to, say, email URLs to one another." is not >> exactly true even when you aren't using the URL dispatcher. The >> continuation will always be invoked, but if there is extra >> authentication then it will perform that before doing work. When the >> authentication isn't there, it doesn't need to just error; it can >> request authentication and then resume the previous user's computation >> if it is appropriate. (For example, if the previous continuation was >> changing the password, then new authentication doesn't allow it, but >> if it is looking a paper review, then the new authentication would >> consult the ACL to decide if the paper review should be displayed and >> maybe it can.) >> > Jay - > > this is interesting - do you need to write your own dispatcher to make this > work? Also - does it work with form-based auth? > > Thanks, > yc > > -- Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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The title says it all. I have no idea what to get my 3 year old. He is the youngest of 3 boys, so we already have a house full of blocks, and cars/ trains/planes/books/ diggers/craft/kitchen/tools/duplo and you name it. I need other peoples ideas. Maybe there is something out there I have thought of yet. What do you do as the number of children grows? I dont' want to get more of the same and I am so DONE with little kid stuff, that we will get rid of in another year or so anyways.
She's getting a dress up trunk. I cleaned out Target's Halloween costumes on clearance. We'll put 4 or so costumes in, then she will get a couple more at Easter and for her birthday. We didn't get a trunk really but will use a storage ottoman we already have. Easy peasy and she will go bonkers
This: http://www.amazon.com/Educational-Insights-Design-Drill/dp/B00012O42W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385492639&sr=8-1&keywords=design+and+drill was the best present for my 3-yo-old (now 4) last year. At first you have to help them, but eventually they can just play on their own with it for a good 10-20 minutes at a time.
There's also a travel version.
Magnatiles are a huge hit at my house, still, after many years after they were given.
My kids also really like playmobils, although you may have lots of those. Dress up clothes were popular at that age for my boys.
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Maybe a magnifying glass with tweezers or his own wallet (to hang around his neck)?
Right now I'm really enjoying playing the game Busy Town with my 3.5 year old son. We play a bunch of games, but that one is my favorite, and it's a cooperative game, so there's no winner or loser. He also really likes Zingo and The Ladybug Game, which I also enjoy. I totally can't stand games like Chutes and Ladders that are not interesting and go on forever.
Another good gift for a three year old that likes cars in my opinion is Automoblox. They come apart and you can put them back together however you want.
If you're really on a tight budget, I found these Reusable Sticker Pads recently and couldn't believe how nice they are for the price. There are several different versions (Habitats, Vehicles, Dress-Up, Play House, Princess Castle, Make-A-Meal, etc.), though their prices seem to fluctuate on Amazon between $4 and $8 depending on the day. They also come in bundles. I'm thinking about getting a bunch to give out as gifts to kids we know.
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My daughter is almost 2 1/2. I'm thinking of getting a huggable globe of the world and seeing if she wants to learn to identify countries... she can already pick out our home state on a map. We already have a kiddie atlas that is a bit above her level so as she goes along we can learn more about the countries from that. I also figure more art supplies and coloring books can't go amiss. The crayons get shorter at an alarming rate.
This: http://www.amazon.com/Educational-Insights-Design-Drill/dp/B00012O42W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385492639&sr=8-1&keywords=design+and+drill was the best present for my 3-yo-old (now 4) last year. At first you have to help them, but eventually they can just play on their own with it for a good 10-20 minutes at a time.
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On January 1, the outgoing 112th Congress passed HR 8, the "American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012," often referred to as the "fiscal cliff" deal. President Obama is expected to sign the bill. Far short of a once contemplated grand bargain on taxes, entitlement spending and deficit reduction, HR 8 primarily focuses on taxes and results in, among other things, higher marginal tax rates for America's biggest earners. Tax provisions of particular interest to the CSU include a five-year extension of the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which helps middle-class families pay for college; making the student loan interest deduction permanent; and leaving in place the deduction for charitable contributions (albeit with new provisions reducing itemized deductions for taxpayers earning more than $250,000). It also extends through 2013 the deduction for qualified tuition expenses, certain tax-free distributions from IRAs, and a business tax credit for research and experimentation.
Overall though, from the perspective of the higher education community, the bill left much unresolved. It did not deal definitively with sequestration, pending automatic spending cuts set to take effect in the middle of the current fiscal year (FY 2013). These cuts, created by 2011's Budget Control Act, would hit a vast array of programs across-the-board, threatening CSU priority programs that aid students like Work-Study, SEOG, TRIO, and GEAR UP, as well as capacity building grant programs for minority-serving institutions and research funding in key agencies like NSF and NIH. HR 8 postponed the effective date of sequestration from January 2 until March 1, and made very modest reductions to the total amount of cuts that would be required. But with the nation due to hit its debt ceiling again in early March, temporary FY 13 appropriations set to expire March 27, and ongoing political gridlock in Washington, deep concerns remain about the fate of education and research funding in FY 13 and beyond.


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I normally would post this blog sometime before C2E2 2014 would start, but the fact that Easter Sunday was on April 20 and C2E2 2014 was on April 25 and I hadn't revealed my cosplay secret until a couple days after Easter meant that this blog was going to be on indefinite hold until after I was done with my C2E2 2014 blogs. Now the time's here!
Back on March 11, which was one of my cousin's birthday, I had to do what I didn't want to do, but had to do it anyway: give up meat. I found out when I was in high school (a Catholic one) that Catholics normally give up meat for Lent every year. So, in a way, I was doing the Catholic fast, but my mother had it worse: she went my church's fast.
With my church, the pastor came up with the idea that you couldn't eat from 6 AM to 6 PM, but you could drink whatever you wanted. Once 6 PM came, you couldn't eat meat. Having done a similar fast like that a couple years ago and remembering the result (I lost 11 pounds), I decided to not partake on that fast, but instead go a different route. I was still going to eat whenever I wanted, but I only limited myself on what I could and couldn't eat. Alas, this was one of the most interesting fasts I've ever had in my life and I don't know if any fasts in the future will top it.
There were 6 interesting things that had happened to me during the fast and the first two happened before the fast even began. I'll try my best to get this in chronological order, but the chances are I might be jumping around the timeline. The first interesting thing that happened to me with the fast was…
After this experience, I would have to say that it must totally suck to be a vegetarian or a vegan while grocery shopping in stores. I don't know about the internet (I haven't tried that yet), but shopping in the actual store really sucks when meat's not an option.
Trying to do some grocery shopping, I couldn't believe how many things I had to say no to just because they were either meat or had some meat in them; the vast majority of the grocery store had meat items! I had recently gone back to eating some Hot Pockets and while I've never had the Philly Cheesesteak kind (which I'm very thankful to have never done since this happened), it totally sucked to see that the only kind of Hot Pockets I could have was the 4 Cheese Pizza kind. Why!
Another type of food I love to eat are Toaster Scrambles. Unfortunately, the only two kinds that are available are cheese, egg and sausage and cheese, egg and bacon. Since they both contain meat, I had to take a pass from them. I had to take a pass at hot dogs (which was easy since they're disgusting to me now), turkey franks (which I've replaced hot dogs with), burgers, lunch meat, chicken patties, tuna and a lot of other stuff. Snacks were fine, but food just wasn't the same. I don't remember what I picked up that night, but it was a sign of things to come. But, that wouldn't have prepared me for…
The grandmother that I'm about to talk about is the one on my mother's side. The grandmother on my father's side had died in 2005, but I felt like she really died in 1999 when she had her stroke and had to relearn basically everything. She eventually stopped eating and drinking and died naturally. With the one on my mother's side, it was pretty much a long time coming.
My mother had been taking care of my grandmother ever since she graduated from college and my grandmother could be stubborn at times, but most of the times lazy. How lazy could she be? Well, I was told one time that when she had her stroke during I'd say 1997 (somewhere in between when she needed to use a walker), she got kicked out of rehab. Who does that?
Since my grandmother's been living with us all our lives, we had to sometimes deal with her dementia. I don't know if it was her dementia or something else, but there were times when she would call for me and she'd repeat it every second. Remember this commercial? Yeah, it was basically like that. Old people problems perhaps?
There were also times when I would be minding my own business and my mother would have to call me to help her get my grandmother up as she was down on the ground. How did those times happen? Your guess is as good as ours! Since she was a big lady (being big ever since she was 8), it made picking her up a hassle, especially since she didn't put any effort into getting up herself.
One last example and I'm done reminiscing. There would be times where I'd mind my own business and out of the blue, I'm hearing my mother yelling her heart out, more than any time my brother, sister or I would get in trouble when we were kids. Why would she yell so damn loud? It was because my grandmother wouldn't do what my mother wanted her to do like walk, eat her food, open her mouth to take some medicine, or something else. I guess it also doesn't hurt to mention that she was a Type 2 diabetic as well.
There were just plenty of antics that made me wish that my grandmother would die soon so that I wouldn't be bothered by it anymore, but it seemed like that was never going to happen. She had outlived so many people young and old (including one of her doctors) that I would think she'd outlive me. But on March 8, 2014 at around 12:30 PM, at the age of 87, she passed away.
Last year, during the summer, my grandmother had been going to the hospital a lot and unlike most times before, each visit was for legitimate reasons. After the last hospital visit, she was put on hospice care. When my mother told me what hospice care was about, I knew it was just a matter of time before she would pass away. A couple of days prior to her death, my mother had my brother, sister and I to the living room for a meeting and it was about her possibly passing away soon. She had stopped eating and stopped drinking and-this sounds a lot like my other grandmother's passing! Yep! Both my grandmothers died the exact same way!
Since my grandmother died a couple days before the start of my fast, that meant that funeral food was going to be roadkill. About that…
With my grandmother's passing and funeral arrangements and stuff, my mother had to put her fast on hold. I decided to stick with my guns and try to see my fast through, even though I knew I was going to be screwed. My mother planned on having the funeral take place on March 15, but funeral costs were higher on Saturday than any other day. It wouldn't be ideal to have a funeral take place on Sunday, so Monday it was.
We did have a lot of family members show up (though not all family) and the funeral took place at my grandmother's church, a church I'd never been to since the 90s since that was the last time she'd attended. I still remembered the church service taking place on the second floor and I remembered the mechanical lifting chair for the disabled being there. Guess what? It was pretty much exactly how it looked when I was last there! The pre-funeral food was located on the first floor at the room to the entrance and I basically had some snacks. I saw some people I hadn't seen in a while, but it never felt like I hadn't been there in a while; it felt like I was in another church even though it was my grandmother's church.
The funeral came and went and when it was time to eat some food, people brought some stuff over. Now, what I'm about to say next may and probably will offend some of my readers, but here goes nothing: most of the family members who came by were either fat or obese. Since I predict none of them have any exercise habits, that meant that the food that they were bringing were going to be no good for me even if I wasn't fasting and that was exactly the case.
There was practically nothing for me to eat that everybody brought over except some macaroni and cheese, but whoever made that macaroni and cheese shouldn't be allowed to make macaroni and cheese ever again. I thought I was safe with the cheesy spaghetti, but it had some ground beef in them and I didn't realize it until I already put some on my plate. Damn! Looked like I was going to have to try to eat the spaghetti and cheese part and not the ground beef part! I can't remember what else I had with it, but what I did remember was that spaghetti and cheese part and unfortunately, a little bit of the meat got in my mouth.
Did I give up my fast altogether like most people do when they fail their New Years Resolution? Absolutely not! I may have slipped up a little bit, but I wasn't going to let that stop me from reaching my goal! Oh, and a little spoiler alert: that was the only time I slipped up throughout the entire fast!
I basically couldn't wait for company to leave so that I wouldn't be tempted by the food anymore. By the time everybody had left, I was watching the Oklahoma City Thunder putting my Chicago Bulls to school while the Bulls were wearing those ridiculous green sleeve jerseys. I seriously hope Adidas stop it with the short sleeve jerseys with the NBA.
Back to topic, another thing that was interesting about this fast was that…
Since I couldn't rely on meat and I had to wait a while before I could eat some beef ravioli, one of the things I decided to do was to pick up some food that I hadn't had in a while. Food that I hadn't consumed in years! Food I had been avoiding making and picking up and the fast pretty much forced me to eat them. Which food am I talking about? First, I want to start off with pancakes.
Pancakes were basically things my grandmother would eat and they were something my mother and my grandmother's caretaker would feed her and I avoided pancakes just so my grandmother could have them since they were "her food." The day before my grandmother died, my sister picked up some pancakes from the grocery store and before any packet could be opened, she died. So, to honor my grandmother, I had some pancakes. They are pretty good and it looks like I'm the only person who eats them now, just like I found out thanks to the fast that my mother and I are the only ones who eat turkey franks. Nobody's bought any more pancakes, but as soon as I'm done with all of them, I'll buy some chocolate chip pancakes thanks to one of Gabby's blogs.
Another thing I had which I haven't had in a long time is another thing that was made for my grandmother: peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I can't remember the last time I've had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but I do remember that the last time I had some, I grilled it on the George Foreman grill and it was delicious; I hadn't done it since.
Eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was pretty good, but I'll have to remember to avoid the crunchy peanut butter as that's difficult to spread on bread. I haven't had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich after the fast, but I'll try to keep it in mind in the future.
Another thing I haven't had in a while is cereal. I can't remember the last time I ate cereal prior to the fast, but I hadn't been eating cereal because I just wasn't feeling it. Not only that, but I love drinking things that aren't milk and eating cereal would kill my stomach's ability to absorb other beverages. Since cereal was an option, I just said screw it and had some, even buying some in the process.
I haven't had any cereal that tasted bad other than Frosted Mini Wheats (more because they take too damn long to consume than taste bad), but the main cereal I ate were Honey Nut Cheerios and Frosted Flakes. I did pick up some Reese's Puffs and a newly created Peanut Butter Toast Crunch and the latter was really good. I will include cereal in my mealplan in the future, but for right now, the NBA playoffs won't feel right watching while eating cereal.
The last thing I hadn't had in a while and I got back to it thanks to the fast is Ramen noodles. The main reason why I had been avoiding it is because of two reasons: I could never find a way to cook them right even when following the instructions and since I have the tendency to use Self-Checkout (15 items or less), 4-for-$1 is not really worth it. When taking meat out of the equation, it's a pretty good deal to use, especially if you're going to be buying nothing but Ramen noodles; I actually haven't done that part yet.
I picked up the Oriental flavor and the Creamy Chicken flavor and they were pretty good thanks to following these instructions and replacing ½ cup to a full cup since a ½ cup is a freaking joke. I have gone back to picking up some Ramen noodles a little bit and I won't mind bringing that back to my food menu. Next!
There were some foods I picked up that I hadn't touched before the fast and they were all practically frozen food. I picked up some Home Run Inn pizza in small packs (all cheese of course), I picked up some French Bread pizza (all cheese of course) and I picked up some Totino's Pizza Rolls (four cheese kind of course).
My mother and my sister like to make spaghetti with Ragu's Traditional sauce and the spaghetti leaves a lot to be desired if I don't use either sugar or parmesan cheese. Out of curiosity, I picked up a jar of 6 Cheese Ragu sauce and used that to make spaghetti. The result: it was much better than the Traditional sauce and I should pick some more up in the future! That wasn't the only spaghetti I made during the fast though.
On one of the spaghetti boxes, there was a recipe for making a spaghetti called Cheesy Spaghetti. It required the spaghetti noodles (obviously), pasta sauce, ground beef, creamy cheese and grated parmesan cheese. Since I was on the fast, I eliminated the ground beef part and made the spaghetti. Unfortunately, I was the only one who had some and at first it didn't taste right. But, after giving it a couple of days in the fridge and then reheating it in the microwave, the cheesy spaghetti tasted so damn good I wanted to make some again. I've yet to do it, but I will someday.
The last thing that was interesting about this fast was the final week of it. First, I'll explain the gist of the situation and then I'll go into detail about it.
I've experienced diarrhea in my life before. As a matter of fact, I pretty much experience it every year. It's not something Pepto Bismol can't fix though! But constipation? That was something I've never experienced before and it's something I don't ever want to experience ever again; I'd rather have its cousin diarrhea instead.
The constipation happened on Palm Sunday, which in itself was a weird day as it started at 68 degrees before church began, but was 50 degrees a couple hours later when church ended. The worst thing about it before constipation was that I didn't bring a sweater at all as I thought the temperature was going to be in the 70s that day; damn you Weather Exchange!
The constipation started on my way back home from church and it didn't get bad until the following day when I woke up early with the feeling of having to take a #2. Anytime I thought I was done, the feeling in my gut would tell me to go back in and unlike diarrhea, either not much would come out or nothing would want to come out at all. It was getting so bad I wanted to kill myself so that the pain would end. I obviously didn't kill myself and I couldn't kill myself thanks to me wanting to attend C2E2. I had the feeling that the pain would subside before C2E2 would happen and I was right.
Because I didn't know what I was having, I would take Peptol Bismol to no effect (I also found out that using Pepto Bismol was a bad idea anyway) and I had to look up what was happening to me. I even made the mistake of ordering some anti-diarrheal pills from Amazon because Peptol Bismol wasn't working. Once I found out I had constipation, I had to follow as many remedies as I could so that I could heal quicker, including the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, apple sauce and toast without butter) which I was forced to go through for the remainder of my fast. Also, I had to avoid dairy products at all costs, so no pizzas for me. Damn!
Of course, one of the problems that I faced with having constipation was hemorrhoids. I've experienced them with diarrhea before, but that's thanks to me being arrogant and not taking Peptol Bismol, but I couldn't figure out a way to prevent hemorrhoids from happening with constipation despite the fact that I was taking a crap "the correct way." It's a good thing there was some Preparation H around or else I might've had to cancel wearing my dance belt for C2E2.
While I was doing research on constipation, I read about the causes of constipation (not from WebMD) and one of the causes that caught my attention was emotional stress. When I saw that, I thought that's exactly what caused it! If you're wondering why I was in emotional stress, I'll have to tell you beforehand that I wasn't in a sad mood or anything; I was pissed every single day for one reason.
You would think I'd be constipated after I posted this blog from two years ago when I didn't receive any comments on the blog prior, you would think I'd be constipated after dealing with some ignoramuses while I was on Club IGN, you'd think I'd be constipated every time I watch the Chicago Bears play in the second half of every season and you'd definitely would think I'd be constipated when MyIGN wanted to scold me for posting Pics of Dat Ass @ C2E2 2013 despite warning them to leave the page if it wasn't to their liking and to not leave hateful remarks too. Surprisingly, none of them caused constipation at all.
So, what did cause my constipation? My Fighting Spirit Green Ranger helmet! Well, it wasn't my Fighting Spirit Green Ranger helmet, but rather the lack of updates to my Green Ranger helmet without me asking for updates with it arriving very late on top of that. I'll do a thorough review of the helmet at a later time, but for right now, all I can say is that I'm not doing business with MMPR Helmets USA ever again. Fuck that guy!
The good news was that the constipation lasted a week. The bad news was that it didn't end before Easter Sunday church service, so I was forced to watch the service online. A couple hours after the service was over, so was my constipation. I didn't want to believe it until I took a crap again and when I did (a couple days later), it went back to normal. What a week!
There may have been a possibility that consuming a lot of dairy products might have been the result of my constipation as well, but I'm not doing that kind of fast ever again. It was an interesting take on seeing what it was like a little bit to be vegan or a vegetarian and it opened my eyes on what I had been ignoring all my life when it came to food. I thank the fast for the experience, but next time, I better try something that doesn't affect my health.
Would I encourage any of you to take a fast like this in the future? Only if you like challenges and are planning to lose some weight. I thought that by doing this fast, I could still maintain my weight, but last I checked, I weighed 156.7 lbs; I was at 163.5 lbs before the fast.
I told poorpigg on my C2E2 2014 Day 1 Recap blog that I was a little out of shape at C2E2 2014, but I never told her that the constipation was the reason why. If you can notice on my Green Ranger cosplay, a little bit of the love handles crept its way there. Because of the constipation, it was more dangerous for me to eat standing up than by sitting down, so I had to sit while eating; I've gone back to eating while standing up and my figure's pretty much back. Now I've got to get back to 163.5 lbs or higher before Wizard World Chicago!
Speaking of Wizard World Chicago, I'll be doing some blogs on that, but before I do, I'll review my Green Ranger items minus the belt and gloves since the belt's the same belt I wore last year at both C2E2 and Wizard World Chicago and the gloves are the same gloves I wore at Wizard World Chicago last year. I've already reviewed the belt here and I've reviewed the gloves here. I'll start with the helmet since I've got a lot of things to say about it. Until then, I'm out!


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The peak small business lobby has urged the Abbott government to reverse the abolition of tax breaks worth more than $700 million a year to the industry, saying it could save a similar amount from extending the GST to more online imports.
Council of Small Business of Australia executive director
"We as a nation and an economy would be better off supporting local businesses rather than providing an unfair advantage to businesses in other countries,'' Mr Strong said.
He said governments could save as much revenue from extending the GST to offshore online purchases. State and federal treasurers agreed in December to lower the $1000 threshold at which the GST currently applies to imported goods from overseas, and a detailed plan is due by March.
Also on Friday, Labor criticised the government for proposing to wind back tax disclosures by multinationals. Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh accused the government of allowing big business to "hide their tax affairs".
The Australian Financial Review reported on Thursday that the Coalition was considering winding back Labor laws giving the Tax Office the power to publish the total income, taxable income and tax paid by the 200 largest businesses.
"We did this to make sure that big firms paid their fair share of tax," Dr Leigh said. "By allowing firms to avoid public scrutiny, Australians could miss out on millions of dollars of extra revenue."
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Releasing the group's submission to the government's commission of audit on Friday - the first phase of the review being led by
Mr Strong says giving small businesses a better way to pay superannuation would save $3 billion.
"COSBOA has been promoting changes to the collection process for superannuation, which would save time and money for employers, superannuation funds and employees,'' Mr Strong said.
"We estimate the savings for the super funds in administration fees could be $3 billion per annum. Our proposal gives the owner of the super funds better connection to their investments and removes an onerous and complicated task from the business community, adding to the productivity of the nation."
The submission also urges the federal government to strengthen the role of the small business commissioner and slash the number of workplace regulators.
"It would be easier and more cost effective for government if an employer had one organisation to deal with on workplace issues and it would also provide savings for the regulators,'' he said.
The Liberal Party's small business policy says it will cut red tape by allowing small business to remit compulsory super to the Tax Office at the same time as employee tax deductions, with the Tax Office required to distribute these contributions to individual superannuation accounts.
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Barramundi with Macadamia and Lemon Myrtle Crust
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Recipe by JustJanS
I had a very similar dish to this in Northern Queesland. It was made with wild barramundi (much nicer than farmed) and came over an artichoke and semi-sundried tomato cous cous with lime wedges on the side.
Top Review by Vic Cherikoff
This was an easy and really good tasting dish. I found the lemon myrtle at www.sinfullyaustralian.com and followed the food links. They were most helpful and even told me of a local supplier.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- salt and pepper
- 1 egg
- 1 cup macadamia nuts, ground to breadcrumb consitency
- 2 teaspoons ground lemon myrtle, leaves (I am going to use fresh lemon thyme instead)
- 800 g barramundi fillets, cut into 4 portions (Any firm, white, large-flaking fish could be used)
- oil (for frying)
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- Season flour with salt and pepper and spread on a plate.
- Lightly beat egg in seperate bowl.
- Mix ground macadamias and lemon myrtle and transfer to a seperate plate.
- Coat barramundi portions in flour, then egg, then roll in nut mix to form a crust.
- Place a frying pan over a medium heat with a little oil and cook barramundi for 3-4 minutes on each side, depending on thickness of fish, or until crust is golden brown and fish is cooked through.
- (A high heat will burn the nuts).
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Kimberley - Don Steenkamp, the boy who killed his own father, mother and sister, turned 18 on Friday, after spending the second day of his 20-year sentence behind bars at the Kimberley Prison.
He was sentenced by Northern Cape High Court Judge President Frans Kgomo to an effective 20 years in prison on charges of murder, rape and defeating the ends of justice, earlier this weekend.
Judging from the brutality of the crimes committed and Steenkamp's lack of remorse, Kgomo indicated that this was the most appropriate sentence.
Steenkamp was sentenced to 60 years (20 years each) for the murders of Deon Steenkamp, 44, Christel, 43, and 14-year-old Marthella, 12 years for the rape of Marthella and four years for defeating the ends of justice. The three were shot dead on their farm Naauwhoek near Griquatown on April 6 2012.
The murders were committed when Steenkamp was 15 years and eight months old.
A court order prevented the media from revealing his identity because he was a minor and was protected under the Child Justice Act. However, this restriction was lifted when he turned 18.
Steenkamp will spend the next three years in the juvenile section of the Kimberley Prison. When he turns 21 he will be transferred to the adult section to serve out the rest of his sentence or until he qualifies for parole.
The 18-year-old will be considered eligible for parole after serving a portion of his sentence, on condition that the parole board of the Department of Correctional Services are satisfied that he has been successfully rehabilitated.
Steenkamp has the right to appeal the sentence and, according to the National Prosecuting Authority, all indications are that he intends to do so.
While the killer's family has been split between believing in his innocence or guilt, his grandmother, Bettie Steenkamp, 88, has chosen to forgive her grandson.
She has indicated that she will always love him, but has pleaded that he be given the necessary psychiatric and psychological help, so that one day he can make a positive contribution to society.
She also believes that, when he is released from prison, she will no longer be alive.
Deon Steenkamp's sister, Marianna Smith, said that the family can now move on.
"The investigation team did an excellent job. Based on the evidence presented in court, there was no other suspect. So we have to make peace with the outcome and accept it.
"While the sentence could have been harsher, we commend the judge for showing leniency on the side of the boy when granting him a five-year remission, given the youthfulness of the killer as well as taking into account possible psychological factors could have been at play.
"We hope that during his time in prison, the boy will receive the psychological support that he needs to be rehabilitated so that he can acknowledge the magnitude of his actions and show genuine remorse," she said.
Looking towards possible parole a Steenkamp family spokesperson added: "Should he ever be considered for parole, the family would like strict conditions to be set and a thorough evaluation of his state of mind to ensure that he poses no risk to society."
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Adding the Human Element in Screencasts
Screen video alone is not enough. You need to humanize your content by getting in front of the camera and engaging your audience. And no, I'm not talking about long-winded monologues either. Several 5-7 second talking-head elements can go a long way toward winning over and maintaining the interest of your audience.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2009). Articles>Multimedia>Video>Screencasting
Auswahl eines Screencasting Tools
Checkliste der wichtigsten Kriterien für die Auswahl eines Tools zum Erstellen interaktiver Software-Demos (engl. Screencasts). Verwendet werden Software-Demos oder Screencasts nicht nur auf Webseiten, sondern häufig auch als Ergänzung zur Technischen Dokumentation für Software: z.B. als eigenständiges Tutorial oder auch als integrativer Bestandteil einer Online-Hilfe oder sonstiger Software-Dokumentation.
Achtelig, Marc. indoition engineering. (German) Articles>TC>Video>Screencasting
Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting: Eight Characteristics to Attract Devoted Followers (Part I)
Devoted followers stay updated with each new post, podcast, or screencast, eagerly awaiting the next new one. They're intimately familiar with your content and either comment regularly or regularly return to your site.
Johnson, Tom H. Tech Writer Voices (2009). Articles>Blogging>Podcasting>Screencasting
Captivate Versus Camtasia Studio
I've been exploring Captivate lately because I wanted to translate some screencasts for a project I'm undertaking. It turns out, Captivate doesn't work so well for screencasting. Slide-based eLearning, sure. But when you have a lengthy software simulation, it fails because you can't edit the audio while watching the video play. Really? Yes. Really.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Software>Screencasting
Checklist of key criteria for selecting a tool to create interactive software demos (so-called screencasts). Software demos are not only used on web sites but increasingly also as standalone tutorials or embedded within online help files and other sorts of software documentation.
Achtelig, Marc. indoition engineering (2009). Articles>Documentation>Software>Screencasting
Common Elements of Effective Screencasts
A screencast is a video of a computer screen combined with narration that complements the video. This paper seeks to understand the common elements shared by all effective screencasts. First, I explore what a screencast is, why screencasting is important, and some applications of screencasting. Then current multimedia literature is studied and applied to screencasting. A list of the common elements of effective screencasts is proposed, using current screencasting knowledge, cognitive psychology, and multimedia documentation as a basis. The applications and genres of screencasting, as well as novel approaches, techniques, and shortcomings are discussed as well.
Friedman, Joseph. Xchanges (2010). Articles>Documentation>Screencasting
Developing a Personal Voice in Audio: Adding Inflection
Lack of inflection pretty much defines the reading voice. If you read a paragraph of text in a normal reading voice, you won't hear much inflection. But if you listen to a real conversation, or especially if you listen to actors on TV, their voices move up and down the scale with a lot more inflection. It seems the more emotion you add to what you're saying, the more inflection you end up including.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Audio>Screencasting
Developing a Personal Voice in Audio: Avoiding a Sense of Rambling
When you write a script for a video (or when you create a general outline), you can avoid the problem of the eternal video — which I refer to as a sense of rambling — by simply keeping the video short. Don't try to cover too much ground. You can generally speak about 100 words a minute, so keep that in mind with your script. 200 words is a good length. If you don't believe me, when you watch videos, look at the video's time counter and note when you start losing your attention. My patience times out at about three minutes. So I always try to keep my videos at three minutes or less.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Video>Screencasting
Developing a Personal Voice in Audio: Avoiding Phlegm in Your Throat with Voiceovers
One of my biggest problems when narrating a screencast is that my throat gets all clogged up. I have to hit the pause and resume key every minute or so to clear my throat. Voiceover actors have learned to deal with this problem, since they often don't have the benefits of a pause and resume key. You can reduce the amount of phlegm that accumulates in your throat by chiefly doing these two things.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Audio>Screencasting
Developing a Personal Voice in Audio: Breathing Correctly
The final tip in my list of techniques for developing a personal voice in audio is to breathe correctly. This is actually the hardest technique for me, so I have saved it for the end. Strangely, in normal conversation, most of us don't have any trouble breathing. But when we start recording voiceovers, we start talking a little faster, with more energy and fewer pauses.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Audio>Screencasting
Developing a Personal Voice in Audio: Finding an Acoustic Environment
For several months I've been looking for a quiet room to record screencasts at my work. Our building has four floors for more than 600 IT professionals. I investigated more than 20 conference rooms, poked my head in empty offices, walked around unfamiliar floors, inquired here and there. When people see my looking, they don't understand what I mean by a "quiet" room. What does quiet mean?
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Audio>Screencasting
Developing a Personal Voice in Audio: Fixing Fumbled Sentences
One of my first recommendations for achieving a natural, believable voice is to employ more free narration rather than always reading a script. I recommended this because all the video tutorials on Lynda.com are narrated at the same time as they are recorded, and the less you read, the more natural your voice sounds. However, I realize that unscripted narration, even just a few sentences, can be problematic.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Audio>Screencasting
Developing a Personal Voice in Audio: Recording with the Right Microphone
I've postponed writing about microphones for several reasons. First, there are hundreds of different microphones suited for all kinds of situations, from vocal music to kickdrums to broadcasting and more. Also, microphones can get expensive, and not everyone has the same budget. So there is no right voiceover microphone for every person and situation. However, I'll try to present a simplified view of microphones.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Audio>Screencasting
Examples of Perfect Screencasts
Michael Pick's screencasts on WordPress.tv are, in my opinion, perfect screencasts. They're the best I've seen — and I'm not just saying this because the video quality is crisp and the audio is rich. Pick blends filmography techniques with screencasting. Instead of the typical screencast that focuses almost entirely on the screen, with a disembodied voice narrating at length around a cursor's boring movement, Pick fills his screencasts with eye candy and motion, moving from visual to visual as he narrates, giving you a conceptual understanding more than a detailed nitty-gritty how-to.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2009). Articles>Documentation>Multimedia>Screencasting
Five Free Screencasting Apps for Creating Video Tutorials
With all the screencasting going on in the blogosphere lately, what with tutorials running rampant across all different video sharing websites…I thought I'd share a few screencasting tools for those of you looking for a free alternative to some of those higher priced utilities. This review covers both PC and Mac utilities, and not wanting to leave anyone out…one for those running Java.
Quinnelly, Travis. MakeUseOf.com (2008). Articles>Documentation>Software>Screencasting
The Harsh Truth about Screencasts
If you watch screencasts, you probably have seen some that are just worthless. How long did you stay to watch? Not long, I am sure. Why am I being so critical? Because it is true.
Schoen, Michelle. Virtual Assistant Demo Girl (2009). Articles>Documentation>Video>Screencasting
How To Create an Effective Screencast: 18 Tips
Screencasts are quickly becoming an essential component of software documentation. They combine visual and auditory learning with text to provide a balanced learning experience. Here are some tips on how to create a screencast that engages viewers and provides maximum results for your efforts.
HelpScribe (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Screen Captures>Screencasting
How to Create Engagement and Add Integration
Now technical writers can focus on how to most effectively integrate screencasts into their documentation in an engaging manner. Video content seems to be very effective for grabbing and holding the attention of viewers, and you can leverage this to help guide them through the tedious details of your user documentation. Here are some tips for using screencasts more effectively.
HelpScribe (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Video>Screencasting
Make Yourself a Screencasting Expert
This article shares some useful tips for anyone wants to be an expert of screencasting, especially people frequently use screen recorder to create training and presentation video for education and business.
Chang, Tangyi. Wondershare (2009). Articles>Documentation>Video>Screencasting
Marktüberblick Screencasting Tools
Marktüberblick über empfehlenswerte Tools zum Erstellen von Software-Demos (engl. Screencasts). Software-Demos werden nicht nur für Marketing-Zwecke auf Webseiten verwendet, sondern häufig auch als Ergänzung zur Technischen Dokumentation von Software: z.B. als eigenständiges Tutorial oder auch als integrativer Bestandteil einer Online-Hilfe oder sonstiger Software-Dokumentation.
Achtelig, Marc. indoition engineering. (German) Articles>Documentation>Software>Screencasting
Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting
What most hobby screencasters don't know, is that screencasting is not simply the act of sitting down and recording the screen; simple screen recording was something we did four to five years ago. Screencasts have a long history, starting from "I just record my screen" to the fancy product demos you see today. Nowadays, a screencast is almost necessary for start-ups and new products, especially in the tech business.
Zeitler, Andreas. Smashing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Screencasting>Advice
Others have written about how to do screencasts most effectively. Like I said in a previous post, much of it is very useful. I just thought I'd add my own rules that I use when creating screencasts just in case anyone is interested.
Rae, Alasdair. Under the Radar (2009). Articles>Documentation>Screen Captures>Screencasting
Notes on My Latest Screencasts
I recorded the screen at 1280 x 720 pixels, because this is the minimum dimensions for creating HD quality screencasts when uploading to youtube. However, in hindsight, I would have chosen a smaller dimension and foregone the pursuit of HD. I forgot that you need an HD encoding engine to transform your videos into HD. If you record a 1280 x 720 video and upload it to youtube, youtube's HD encoding engine will make it clear even when played at smaller dimensions. But if you're working with the files locally and not going the HD route, you should record at the same dimensions that you plan to publish, because otherwise playing the videos at smaller dimensions leaves them a bit fuzzy.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2010). Articles>Multimedia>Video>Screencasting
The Problem with Speaking Conversationally in Video Tutorials
This week while watching TV I've been listening closely to the voices (separating them from the visuals on the screen). Actors aren't soft-spoken, reserved people. Actors inflect all over the voice spectrum. They have a lot of energy and drama in their voices.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2008). Articles>Multimedia>Audio>Screencasting
Review: Review of Desktop Screen Recording Tools
Screencasting to help your mom is a software buying guide to help you choose the right software for screen capture and for screencasting or recording movies of your desktop screen activity.
Agarwal, Shaijila and Monika Mital. Digital Inspiration (2005). Articles>Reviews>Software>Screencasting


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It is 24 pieces of bone using a Japanese umbrella.
Japanese umbrella is kinda mellow atmosphere with 24 pieces of bone, umbrella. Made from polyester fabric repels water better, because easy handling and care ♪ prolonged serving.
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This one. I'm I'm involved is "close to a large number of bone-round'.
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