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Ocean County Residential & Commercial Roofing
Majestic Exteriors is a family-owned, full-service Ocean County roofing contractor that is certified by the leading national roofing material suppliers. We offer a full range of residential and commercial roofing services to the Ocean County area including:
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Entrepreneurship Roars Back. How Do We Keep it That Way?
The Startup Boom is for Real. Finally
There's a lot of excitement over entrepreneurship and startups. Even experienced angel investors have missed or ignored the long-term decline of startups in the United States. Now the 2015 Kauffman Foundation Index on Startup Activity shows that this year there's finally good news. 2014 saw the biggest jump in year-over-year startup activity in the last 20 years, and a decisive improvement in the five-year downward trend.
Entrepreneurs are starting new companies at a fast clip. That's because there are simply more opportunities thanks to gradual recovery in the broader economy and an improving employment picture.
Who Starts All These Companies?
The report also includes some interesting—and in some cases, counter-intuitive observations about the entrepreneurs who are starting all these new companies.
1. 52.4 percent of the founders are over 45 years old. In 1996, only 38.3 percent were. The dominance of college students and entrepreneurs in their 20s has been vastly over-hyped. Experience and proven expertise definitely have their place in startup businesses.
2. Along with "consultant," "entrepreneur" has often served as a nice way to say "unemployed" since 2008. But 79.6 percent of the new entrepreneurs were starting their businesses because they wanted to, not because they were out of work. This is a huge improvement from 2010, which saw the lowest proportion of "opportunity entrepreneurs" in the history of this report.
3. Immigrants are very entrepreneurial: they're twice as likely to start new companies as people born in the United States. Immigrants are a growing force in American entrepreneurial life. More than twice as many of 2014's new entrepreneurs were foreign-born as compared to 1997.
4. Sadly, the number of women starting new companies has not increased much. 36.8 percent of new entrepreneurs in 2014 were women, close to 2008's 20-year low of 36.3 percent.
5. Venture Capitalists funded less than 1 percent and angel investors funded less than 3 percent of all new firms. Debt is the most common capital source for new startups, most of which are not scalable enough to be interesting equity investments.
Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin… and Montana
Two complementary reports rank states and metropolitan areas in the United States.
Among the states, Montana is ranked number 1, followed by Wyoming, and North Dakota. Obviously, these are low-population states. Colorado is number 4, and Denver is number 5 among metropolitan areas, up from number 8 in 2014.
Austin, Texas is the top ranked metro for 2015, followed by Miami, Florida, and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California (Silicon Valley). Rust-belt cities like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and St. Louis, Missouri, continue to see fewer new startups.
Help the Good Times Keep On Rolling
For investors and civic leaders looking to foster entrepreneurship in their local areas, Kauffman provides a wealth of tips and things to consider.
1. Play to your local strengths. What are the industries or resources that can help encourage new businesses? Not every city can be another New York or Silicon Valley. Leverage key local players like large manufacturers and colleges and universities.
2. Be open to immigrants. Your local economy needs their drive and skills. Welcoming global talent is simply good business.
3. Make a fuss about successful local entrepreneurs. They are role-models for business founders, and can attract the press and investors.
4. Does your locality have any antiquated or unnecessarily restrictive occupational or professional licensing requirements that will discourage startups? It's time to simplify and open things up to new talent.
5. Ditto local tax codes. Civic leaders would also be wise take a hard look at how hard it is to do business with your city. Is it easy to apply for permit—and to pay for them?
6. This one's for state governments: Rethink your policy on non-compete clauses. Entrepreneurs thrive best when companies are not encouraged to overuse non-compete agreements. California, for example, disallows non-compete clauses except for equity stakeholders in businesses.
Angel investors, venture capitalists, and civic leaders will all welcome the large increase in new startup activity. These are the companies of the future, who will provide returns to the investors who back them and revenue and dynamism to the cities where they grow. It's important not to take anything for granted. Taking a hard look at laws and policies would be a very good thing to do in order to keep the entrepreneurial renaissance growing.
From the Author:
Thanks for looking over my column. I have fun with writing about local business and administration matters. I'm an entrepreneur deep down, and enjoy folks who wish to grow companies and add to the marketplace.
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Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
This is one of the earliest fritillaries to emerge and can be found as early as April in woodland clearings or rough hillsides with bracken.
It flies close to the ground, stopping regularly to feed on spring flowers such as Bugle. It can be distinguished from the Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary by the two large silver 'pearls' and row of seven outer 'pearls' on the underside hind wing, and also the red (as opposed to black) chevrons around the outer pearls and the small central spot on the hind wing.
The butterfly was once very widespread but has declined rapidly in recent decades, and is now highly threatened in England and Wales.
Size and Family
- Family: Fritillaries
- Size: Medium
- Wing Span Range (male to female): 44-47mm
Conservation status
- Section 41 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in England
- Section 42 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in Wales
- Scottish Biodiversity List
- UK BAP: Priority Species
- Butterfly Conservation priority: High
- European status: Not threatened
- Protected under Schedule 5 of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act (for sale only)
Caterpillar Foodplants
The most widely used foodplant is Common Dog-violet (Viola riviniana) although it can use other violets such as Heath Dog-Violet (V. canina) and in the north, Marsh Violet (V. palustris).
Three main habitats are used: woodland clearings, usually in recently coppiced or clear-felled woodland; well-drained habitats with mosaics of grass, dense bracken and light scub and open deciduous wood pasture in Scotland.
In all habitats it requires abundant foodplants growing in short, sparse vegetation, where there is abundant leaf litter.
- Countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
- Once very widespread across Britain, the Pearl-bordered Fritillary remains widespread only in the northern half of Scotland, south Cumbria, Devon and Cornwall, and the woodlands of South East England.
- Distribution Trend Since 1970's = Britain: -61%
Pearl-bordered Fritillary (female/upperwing) - Bob Eade
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary (upperwing) - Iain Leach
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary (upperwing) - Iain Leach
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary (male) - Mark Searle
Pearl-bordered Fritillary (male)
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary (freshly emerged adult)
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary (underwing) - Adam Gor
Pearl-bordered Fritillary (underwing)
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary (male & female)
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary (egg) - Peter Eeles
Pearl-bordered Fritillary (egg)
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary (caterpillar) - Nigel Kemp
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Author Stephen Rea leads fall Writing Institute
September 2, 2011
The Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing at Loyola University New Orleans presents its fall 2011 Writing Institute, hosted by author Stephen Rea. The writing course, "Writing Well-Crafted Fiction" takes place on Tuesday evenings, Sept. 27 – Nov. 15, from 7 – 9 p.m. The cost is $250 and the class is open to the public and will be held in Bobet Hall, Room 341. The deadline to register is Sept. 13.
Whether your goal is to perfect your short stories, to get your literary novel onto bookstore shelves, or if you simply enjoy writing for yourself and want to master the basics, this course will suit your needs and improve your fiction writing.
Students will have their work read, edited and discussed, and will also read and critique other writers. The program will be flexible, informal and tailored to the interests of the students, no matter their age, writing ability or experience.
Rea is originally from Northern Ireland but has lived in New Orleans since 2004. A former national newspaper journalist in the UK, he is the author of the book "Finn McCool's Football Club," a tale set against Hurricane Katrina centered around the Mid-City Irish pub.
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Cupcake Wars Four bakers compete for the opportunity to have their cupcakes served as part of the Miss America Pageant. 8 p.m. Food
Criminal Minds Ken Olin guest stars in this episode as a writer whose wife went missing a year ago. When his daughters disappear on the anniversary of that day, Rossi (Joe Mantegna) and the team are summoned to investigate. 9 p.m. CBS
The Blacklist A witness against a dangerous drug lord — against whom Liz (Megan Boone) had testified — goes missing, and Red (James Spader) thinks the culprit is a man who is responsible for hundreds of abductions. 9 p.m. NBC
Flipping Vegas Scott learns that 17 cats are still living inside the "pet-friendly" home he purchased. 10 p.m. A&E;
Saturday Night Live Kerry Washington hosts with musical guest Eminem. 11:29 p.m. NBC
Austin City Limits Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell play favorites as well as songs from their joint album. Midnight KOCE
Promised Land Matt Damon and John Krasinski write and star in this drama about fracking. 8 p.m. HBO
Killing Them Softly Brad Pitt stars as an underworld enforcer sent after novice criminals who robbed a mob card game. 8 p.m. Showtime
Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC
McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET
Today David Gregory; YouTube award ceremony. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC
Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC
State of the Union With Candy Crowley Holding up Obama nominations over Benghazi: Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.). Panel: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) David Maraniss; Neera Tandem. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN
CBS News Sunday Morning Kenny Chesney; Kevin Kline; Doris Kearns Goodwin. (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS
Fareed Zakaria GPS Spying on allies: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, former Minister of Defense, Germany. America's counterterrorism capabilities: Former NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden. Lessons from three terms as Mayor of New York: Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I-N.Y.).. Climate change: Michael Bloomberg; Jim Kim, the World Bank; Judith Rodin, the Rockefeller Foundation. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN
Face the Nation Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.); Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.); former NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden. David Sanger, the New York Times; David Ignatius, the Washington Post; Jan Crawford; John Dickerson. Co-authors Dick Stolley and Alexandra Zapruder ("The Day Kennedy Died"). (N) 8 a.m. KCBS
Meet the Press Affordable Care Act: Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.). Affordable Care Act: Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.). Elections: Chuck Todd. Panel: Bill Kristol; David Axelrod, Bob Woodward, the Washington Post; Katty Kay, BBC. (N) 8 a.m. KNBC
This Week With George Stephanopoulos Affordable Care Act rollout: White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer; Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). 2014 elections: Nate Silver. Rob Lowe ("Killing Kennedy"). Panel: Matthew Dowd; Van Jones; Peggy Noonan. (N) 8 a.m. KABC
Fox News Sunday Affordable Care Act: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. Affordable Care Act rollout: James Capretta. Benghazi; plan to introduce an abortion bill: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Charles Krauthammer. Panel: Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.); Julie Pace; Karl Rove; former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC
Reliable Sources Coverage of the News of the World trial in Britain: Emily Bell; Peter Jukes. Differences between British and American coverage of high profile court cases: Jeffrey Toobin; Lin Wood. Reporters' objectivity and biases: Bill Keller; Glenn Greenwald. Fusion TV: Christina Norman. Guest host: David Folkenflik, NPR. (N) 8 a.m. CNN
MediaBuzz Barbara Walters ("The View"). Lauren Ashburn; Juan Williams; Tim Carney, Washington Examiner. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC
60 Minutes The Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba; Lamborghini cars. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS


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It can be seen in the 2019 Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries from 14 to 22 June.
New English Annual Exhibition 2019 Catalogue No. 181
Medium: Oil
Size: 66 x 76 cm
The New English Art Club is part of the Federation of British Artists
The New English Art Club is a registered charity No. 295780
Patron HRH The Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, OM
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Pennsylvania Congressman Jason Altmire Is The ManPSAMP HAS MOVED! CLICK HERE TO GET TO THE BRAND NEW SITE! NOW!
Look, I'm not going to get into any great detail about his policies or anything like that, but Jason Altmire is now the man.
He's a congressman from the Fourth Congressional District in Southwest PA, mainly covering Beaver, Mercer and Lawrence Counties.
The second-term Congressman used time on the US House of Representatives floor to praise the Steelers for winning their unprecedented 6th Super Bowl ring.
As Jason says, there are 31 teams in the NFL...and then there are the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Rants. A Long, Vaguely Coherent Rant.
I feel a rant coming on. And I think I'm just going to run with it – to purge out everything that might come out, so if this reads like a rambling stream of consciousness type post, well, either enjoy, or don't read, whatever suits.
Dear America:
What the hell is wrong with you people? How are your election campaigns this… disturbing?
I've been trying to understand the mindset of the Republican voter for a very long time, especially in the context of the red/blue state thing. I don't get it. I can't wrap my head around it at all. The only way that Republicans can get any support, obviously, is by getting people who are so poorly informed that they can't see that their interested are not represented by the GOP to vote for them. I guess xenophobia, scapegoating of the poor, and outright lying really do work. And it's amazing, as an outsider, to see it happen. Nothing stuns me more than watching the right rail against the "liberal media", which is just a giant myth that they've created. In their mind, in their narrative, "liberal media" means any outlet that will not simply spin a story exactly the way they want it. They seem to lack a basic understanding of what actual journalism, which I think is a dying art, is all about – to look at the story from as many angles as possible and to report it accurately. There's no such thing as "conservative news" or "liberal news". Or rather, there shouldn't be.
I console myself a bit by realizing that generally, the worst of the commentators (regardless of their alignment on whatever political spectrum you want to use) are really only ever preaching to the choir. If you're listening to the screed of the likes of Rush Limbaugh, it's not like you're an informed, intelligent, politically pragmatic character. In all likelihood, you're listening to him, because the message – the racist, anti-woman, xenophonic, right wing message is already something you believe. I'd like to think that a rational person hearing Limbaugh for the the first time would simply laugh and say, "What's this guy's problem?" or dismiss it as some sort of poorly executed satire. But I guess I'd be wrong.
To me, though, it makes no sense why their ideas would get support. The reality of conservatism is that it absolutely needs low information voters. It needs ignorant, easily manipulated minds who can be sold a vision of an alternate reality that they then think voting Republican (or any conservative party, since it could happen anywhere, it's just the USA is such a great ilustrator, and probably the worst case of it) will actually give them access to this world. Americans, as I understand it, grow up believing in the "American Dream", the idea that hard work will make you successful. The grow up with the idea that they can become one of the so-called "one-percent" if they just work hard at it. It's a lie. Well, not totally. They may well just end up lucky, but most of those people, they come from old money. The best way to become rich and powerful in the USA is to be born into it. Joe Sixpack, the ignorant, Rush-listening trailer trash living in the backwoods of Georgia? It's not going to happen for him. And voting Republican, as he likely does, is only going to help ensure it doesn't happen for his kids, or their kids.
Conservatives, for all their bluster about hard work, initiative, and personal responsibility, seem to view the working family as some kind of parasite, or drain on the system. This has never been put out more clearly to the American electorate than last week when Romney's "47%" video emerged. Who are those 47% who don't pay taxes? Senior citizens who paid taxes all their working lives and now are living on the Social Security they contributed to. Young families who've availed themselves of tax credits and other fiscal incentives to keep them prosperous (which were lauded by the likes of St. Ronnie Raygun himself), and people who work for minimum wage or just above it – the people who clean your schools and offices, who work unskilled labour jobs, who serve you food, do your laundry, pump your gas, and so on. These people are the invisible underclass on which the prosperity of the richest depends.
I don't want to start sounding Marxist or anything, because I'm not. In broad terms, capitalism, individual initiative, and free markets have for the most part been responsible for providing those of us lucky to live in the industrialized world the great standard of living that we have. In fact, even many of the poorest dregs of American society are still far, far better off than most of the world. I've been in Afghanistan for almost eight months now. Think you've seen poverty? Think again. And things here aren't even as terrible as they are in some places in the world. The concept of a social safety net, as miserable an existence as they may well be in North America, does not exist in most of the world. People starve to death, freeze to death, try to eke out some sort of existence in most of the world. However, there's a definite class division. And the idea of social mobility – that you can earn your way into the sort of upper crust that goes to $50,000/ticket fundraisers to hear politicians mock half the population of a country? That's a fairy tale. It's possible, but so unlikely that you're better off trying to win the lottery. And on that subject, winning the lottery only proves the point more. Even having money can't get you into that circle. If you didn't have the right parents, go to the right schools, and so on, that's a world that simply is not open to you.
That's not to say there's no point to working hard. My father was an immigrant. Granted, he came from England, and was likely a few steps ahead of immigrants today – he looked like Canadians, spoke the same language (albeit accented), and shared a cultural heritage with them. But he came to Canada with a few dollars, a job offer, and that's about it. He didn't have an advanced education. Never went to university. He left school as a teenager and started working, and realized that England in the 1960s was a bleak place. He got married, worked, saved, had a family, and is now enjoying a modest retirement. Well, less modest than many. While I was growing up (I'm 32 now), most of my friends' mothers didn't need to work for their family to enjoy a decent standard of living – or worked part-time, as my mother did. It was not the norm as it is now. I went to school with many children of very recent immigrants – tradesmen, many of them, or autoworkers. They worked hard and pushed their kids hard to succeed so they could have a better life. And it seems, mostly, like that worked. Now I have to wonder.
That said, the days of going and getting a good paying job without a lot of education seem to be gone. North America is deindustrializing. It's no shock. The industrial revolution has spread to the developing world, and with cheaper labour costs, it simply doesn't make sense not to globally rationalize production. That leaves North America (and perhaps, to a lesser extent, Europe, as manufacturing seems to remain very viable in countries like Germany) to figure out what to do next, economically. Here, we should be focused on what we've always been good at – innovation, development of new, better ways to live life and do things, invention, research, and developing knowledge-based industries. If we don't stay ahead of the curve there, we're going to be in for a world of hurt. It's often noted that Chinese and Indian universities are churning out engineers at a far higher rate than North America, and soon, innovation will all come from them. That giant underclass? It'll become all of us, because you can't base an economy on selling hamburgers to each other (I can't remember who I got that line from, but it's not original, and if you know, let me know so I can attribute it properly).
How does a party manage to succeed on a platform that's entirely based on ideas that not only have failed in the past, but that don't even sound reasonable or logical?! Romney's "platform" seems entirely based on the same tired ideas. "Let's give big tax cuts to rich people, so that they'll create more jobs." Of course, since he is one of those plutocrats, who was born into the right family and is insufferably out of touch with the average American, he's going to benefit from that, but let's leave that aside. Why do people think that this will work? Even if there's any merit to the Laffer Curve, the concept the idea is based on – it all depends where on that curve (it's actually a parabola) you are. There's no reason to believe it will work all the time.
And then there's the GOP's ideas about healthcare. They clearly live in a dreamworld. Only what, yesterday(?) Romney actually said something like, "Everyone has access to healthcare, they can go the ER." The most expensive form of care available, only available as a last-ditch intervention? This is a brilliant plan. So our folks (30+ million of them) who don't have health insurance are expected to go get emergency treatment. Then they'll get the staggering bill, and they won't pay. So who picks up the cost of this incredibly expensive, too late care? Everyone. Because prices go up while hospitals try to recoup the cost.
This. Makes. No. Sense.
This is the whole problem in the healthcare debate. You want to save money? Make sure everyone has access to care, to good, effective, preventative care. That won't guarantee that everyone will use it, but over time, it will save money. It works in pretty much every other industrialized country, since they all manage to spend less public money on healthcare, and yet insure everyone.
But we're not seeing this discussion in American politics. Instead, we're talking about personhood, slut-shaming, and how ridiculous the idea of improving access to contraceptives is. All bullshit issues. And all generally aimed at women, who it seems conservative men seem to think they can make decisions for. Again, common sense should prevail. Oh, you're pro-life (read: antichoice)? Don't like abortion? Great, then why don't you get behind making comprehensive sexual health education available to everyone, and access to contraceptives simple. That will reduce the demand for abortions! But of course, this doesn't make sense to these people. They'd rather try to push "personhood amendments" and actually seem to believe that criminalizing abortion (which they're not helping demand for by making it harder for people to prevent pregnancy!) will make it go away, instead of pushing it into shadows with real consequences to those who decide they have no other option. Nonsense. Sheer lunacy.
This brings me back to my original question. Who the hell supports these people and why? Why is it that the "47%", who overwhelmingly seem to live in Red States which mooch federal tax money off of Blue States, are voting for a party which seems to despise them. What do they see being offered to them? What is to gain for them in supporting a party that thinks that people who find themselves unemployed, or who want to further their education but don't have rich parents to fund it for them, or who are raising a family are just freeloaders? And that "47%"? It's not a static population. It's fluid. People pass through periods of unemployment for brief moments, generally. They may get tax credits for having kids and learning lower income for other brief moments. In fact, I'd wager the only people who stay in that bracket a long time are senior citizens, availing themselves of benefits they paid toward for their entire working lives.
The Red/Blue thing always makes me laugh. Want to piss off a rabid Red State Republican? Highlight that California subsidizes their state. They love to rant about how California is "broke". At the state level, their fiscal position is a mess, thanks in large part to stupid populist ideas like Proposition 13, but also due to some of the demographic challenges they face. And yet, they send far more money into the Federal Treasury than they get back. Where does that federal tax revenue go? To prop up Red States. This is the perverse fiscal reality. And if they don't believe you, there's myriad sources that will support it. From notoriously liberal sources. Like, er, The Economist. In fact, just Google. There's plenty of sources.
So what's the way forward? The way I see it, it's pretty simple. First, drop this horseshit talk about yet another war. Sorry right-wing Americans, you don't get to complain about the national debt (by the way, You Built That!) while at the same time crying for war with Iran to protect the interests of a third party. Wars are incredibly expensive, which is why the Bush Administration was so keen to keep the Iraq War off the budget books. And stop talking about "uncertainty" as though electing a plutocrat who doesn't have a plan is going to fix that. What is dragging down the economy is demand slumps. It's pretty simple. People who feel unsure about their future employment prospects put off purchases because they don't want to deplete their savings, or they don't want to take on more debt for them. Less demand means companies need less labour, which causes unemployment to grow. It's a rather vicious circle.
So, what can be done? Well, let me take you back to Macroeconomics 101. We start with a simple equation:
Y is GDP (or national income, more technically, in some books). C is consumption (consumer spending). I is investment – capital investment, essentially. G is government spending. NX is net exports. Pretty simple identity.
That whole thing also can be used to assess something called Aggregate Demand. That's what's dragging down the US economy. And probably a lot of other places. So how to we spur more demand? How do we make people feel more confident to open their wallets and buy durable goods, or go out to dinner more, or travel, or otherwise just put money into the economy? What could be done?
Well, the US (and everywhere else) has something called an Infrastructure Deficit – that is, a valuation placed on the amount of work needed to be done to maintain or upgrade infrastructure. Roads, bridges, railways, ports, all sorts of things. All these things are vital to the function of the economy. Remember "you didn't build that"? The out-of-context remark that the GOP seized on? Among other things, like education, President Obama was talking about that infrastructure. In the United States, this deficit is in the trillions. So, let's flesh this out. What would happen if the government, instead of handing yet more tax cuts to the rich, instead plowed money closing this gap?
Yes, they'd have to borrow the money. But that's not manifestly evil. Hell, if the Republicans are cool with borrowing money to go to war, they should be cool with borrowing money to invest in economic growth. And if not, well, why listen to them?
Doing this work would require the employment of a large number of people. Some of the jobs will be unskilled, simple construction jobs, and to jobs producing raw materials. Some will go to engineers, skilled tradesmen, etc. Regardless, that will put money in people's pockets. They'll feel some security, and they'll start spending money. They'll eat out occasionally. They'll buy coffee while they work, beers on Friday night. They might actually feel secure enough to buy a new car, or replace their washing machine.
And then something awesome kicks in. It's called the multiplier. See, each of those businesses that those workers are now patronizing, they're seeing demand. They're making money. And they're either paying wages to workers they need, or maybe it's a sole proprietor who now too feels some security to start spending a little. Estimates on the size of the multiplier vary, but somewhere between 1.25-1.40 seem common. So gradually this growth in demand will becomes self-sustaining. As the infrastructure deficit closes, you've got some demand that's replacing it.
But why'd I put that equation up? Well, the "I" is often the problem. Critics of stimulus will readily point out that private capital investment can be "crowded out" by government spending. Except that right now, "I" is low. Firms are sitting on their cash because they don't see much value in investing in capital they don't need. So crowding out isn't likely to be a real problem. There's just not much to crowd out.
Doing this – basically Keynesianism – requires an understanding that the money borrowed now equals future obligations to be collected through the tax system. That's where Keynesianism breaks down for people – and why I argue it's never actually been done – Keynes said that spending to stimulate the economy in bad times was important – but he also highlighted that you need to use the surpluses in boom times to retire that debt or save for the next bust. That doesn't happen. Surpluses in Canada were used to give tax cuts to people (with little stimulative effect) instead of to retire the national debt back before the last big crash. Then the government made some big stimulus investments and leveled the economy out, but ran massive deficits that are harder to recoup because raising taxes is a lot less easy to do.
If we actually had an informed citizenry, this might be something that could be debated, discussed, shaped into something resembling a plan that most reasonable people could support. Then, if the US had a legislature that actually cared about doing its job rather than just trying to jockey for position in the next election (again, not likely), maybe they could actually work together to craft a solution and push it through. I'm pretty sure what the vaunted but oft-misquoted or misrepresented Founding Fathers were going for looked a lot more like that than that blind partisanship to the detriment of the national interest that pervades ow.
Unfortunately, I'm too cynical to believe that's actually possible. I know that Joe Redneck Sixpack will not be swayed from his moronic talking points, because thinking for himself requires an effort he's not prepared to make. I know that the media won't be able to sway people either. And I know that most people just won't put the thought it takes to write something like this into choosing which box to put the X in or what lever to pull or however it is you folks decide elections, so we're stuck with a system that's horribly broken. Or are we?


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A program to read Neurolucida XML files and convert them to SWC format.
neurolucida [options...] [input files ...]
Where input files are XML Neurolucida files.
neurolucida is a program that reads Neurolucida XML files and converts them to SWC format.
- --forest-bounds[=RESOLUTION]
- print the boundaries of the entire forest (default resolution is 10 points)
- -d, --data-dir=DATA-DIR
- set download directory (default is a randomly generated name in /tmp)
- -k, --key=FIELD
- extraction key
- -f, --format=FORMAT
- output format (SWC or ASC)
About this egg
Version history
- 1.8
- added option --forest-bounds
- 1.4
- Support for Neurolucida v4
- 1.0
- Initial release
Copyright 2011-2015 Ivan Raikov. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. A full copy of the GPL license can be found at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


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SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Witnesses at a hearing said a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant had inappropriate relationships with female trainees and forced recruits to drink from a toilet.
In the hearing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, four women testified Monday that Staff Sgt. Ryan Deraas friended them on Facebook after they completed training, the San Antonio Express-News reported. They said he began by flattering them and then escalated into requests like asking for nude pictures.
One woman, weeping, said she would get messages saying things like "I'm horny."
Deraas could face more than 11 years in prison if he is convicted.
Other former trainees described being forced to fill their canteens from the toilet because one had been unable to recall his father's telephone number for a form. Deraas allegedly ordered two others to leave a toilet after they had drunk large amounts of water.
Nine instructors at Lackland have now been charged with misconduct. Investigators say 49 female trainees were victimized by sexual assault, inappropriate relationships or sexual harassment.


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New Hampshire's "solar skyspace easement" provisions allow property owners to create solar easements in order to create and preserve a right to unobstructed access to solar energy. Easements remain in effect for at least 10 years, unless otherwise stated in writing. A model solar easement form is provided in New Hampshire Statutes Section 477:51.
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- A description of the vertical and horizontal angles, expressed in degrees and measured from the site of the solar energy system, at which the solar skyspace easement extends over the real property subject to the solar skyspace easement, or any other description which describes the three-dimensional space, or the place and times of day in which an obstruction to solar energy is prohibited or limited;
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Flo Rida Hits the Beach in 'Whistle' Video
Flo Rida indulges in Acapulco — and in the scantily clad women on its beaches — in his new video for 'Whistle,' fully cementing it as a perfect summer song.
Flo relishes in a bevy of bikini-wearing women who splash about the surf and sand. He's predominantly a spectator, taking cell phone pics and observing over his shades at the various splashtastic goings on, including strutting and speed boats. He lounges on a bed on the beach, stands and raps alone wearing sneakers in the surf (good thing he can afford new ones!) and stares at the tiny threads on the buxom ladies.
Soon his day at the beach fades into night, where Flo keeps the party going with the gals covering up a bit more. There are bright lights, fire, dancing and, of course, Flo's flow.
'Whistle' is the latest single from Flo Rida's upcoming 'Wild Ones' album, due July 3. The Miami-based rapper said of 'Whistle' that it's "probably be the biggest record I've done yet." Though the clip isn't exactly breaking new artistic ground, there's no denying that the song is catchy as can be — so he may well be on to something.
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Mariners Insider Blog
Fun facts about Felix Hernandez's brilliant season
All of this fantastic information is provided by Mariners director of baseball information Jeff Evans
2012 Season – Is 13-5 with an American League leading 2.43 ERA in 27 starts this season…leads the AL in shutouts (5) and innings pitched (196.2), 2nd in complete games (5), 3rd in strikeouts (184), 3rd in opponent avg (.218), T3rd in quality starts (19), T6th in wins (13) and 10th with 8.42 K/9.0 IP.
Domination – Over his last 14 starts is 9-0 with a 1.40 ERA (17 ER, 109.0 IP), 5 shutouts, 100 strikeouts (8.3 K/9.0 IP) and a .183 opponent batting average (70x383) – only 2 HR allowed…tied for longest win streak of his career.
Perfect Game – Threw the 23rd Perfect Game in MLB history Aug. 15 vs. Tampa Bay in a 1-0 victory…it was the 7th Perfect Game in MLB history to be decided in a 1-0 contest, and first in the AL since 1984…struck out 12 batters, 4th-most in a PG.
Shutouts – Leads the Majors with 5 shutouts, all coming over his last 12 starts (6/28 vs. BOS, 7/14 vs. TEX, 8/4 at NYY, 8/15 vs. TB, 8/27 at MIN)…is the first pitcher since Randy Johnson in 1998 to record 5+ shutouts in 12-start span…has set a Mariners club record for a single season…joins Bert Blyleven (1989), Roger Clemens (1992) and David Wells (1998) as the only AL pitchers with 5 shutouts in a season over the last 24 seasons (since 1989).
Awesome August – Went 4-0 with a 1.08 ERA (5 ER, 41.2 IP) and 3 shutouts in five August starts…all three shutouts were by 1-0 score, becoming the third pitcher in Major League history with three 1-0 shutout in a calendar month: Carl Hubbell (July 1933) and Dick Rudolph (August 1916).
Since the Break – Is 7-0 with an American League leading 1.23 ERA in 9 starts since the All-Star break (4 shutouts)…selected to his third All-Star game, but did not pitch.
No Margin for Error – Recorded four 1-0 shutouts this season…is just the third pitcher during the divisional era (since 1969) to have four wins with the score 1-0 in a single season (all CG shutouts), joining Hall of Famers Fergie Jenkins (1974) and Bert Blyleven (1976)…Don Drysdale and Bob Gibson also had four 1-0 shutouts in 1968 (record is 5, last: Dean Chance in 1964).
Going Deep – Has 16 starts where he has pitched 7.0 or more innings with 1 or fewer runs allowed, leading the Majors, and already setting a club record (he had 15 in 2010 Cy Young season)…next closest AL pitcher is David Price with 11 such starts.
Felix Quality Start – Recorded 11 starts where he has allowed 1 or fewer runs in 8.0 or more innings pitched…nearly double any other pitcher in the Majors this season; R.A. Dickey & Bartolo Colon both have 6 such starts…Felix had 13 such starts during his Cy Young season in 2010.
Giving the Bullpen Rest – Pitched at least 7.0 innings in a Major League-high 20 games (David Price is 2nd with 19).
Stingy – Allowed 2 or fewer runs in an American League leading 19 games (David Price is 2nd with 18).
Nice Turnaround – In 14 starts since his last loss (June 12 at San Diego) has improved from 4-5, 3.70 ERA to 13-5, 2.43 ERA…during Felix's 14-start run the Mariners are 35-29 (.547).
Run Support – Has the 4th-lowest run support average in the American League at 3.84.
Something For the Effort – In 9 no-decisions has a 2.57 ERA (18 ER, 63.0 IP) with a 2.14 run support average… three no-decisions allowing 1 or fewer runs in 8.0 or more innings, tied for most by a pitcher in a single season over the last 15 seasons.
Sabermetrics – Among AL starters, ranks 1st in WPA (5.2), 1st in +WPA (16.34), 1st in FIP (2.82), 1st in Adjusted Pitching Wins (3.5), 1st in opponent OPS (.579), 1st in Adjusted ERA+ (154), T2nd in WAR for pitchers (5.2), 2nd in WHIP (1.03) and 5th in xFIP (3.28) and WAR for all players (5.3). Stats courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com & Fangraphs.com.
Adding Them Together – Over the last four seasons (since 2009), combined to go 59-36 with a 2.66 ERA and 855 strikeouts in 128 starts…over this span leads the Majors in ERA, innings pitched (918.2) and quality starts (100), and ranks 3rd in strikeouts.


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Away3D 4 Basics - The Camera(s)
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Away3D 4 Basics - A simple class explained
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Displaying Large Datasets in an Interactive Table
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Integrate Google Maps into your application
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Optimizing workflow with Flash Catalyst CS5
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Review: Blackberry Playbook Development Training
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Review: Academy Class Training
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Partigen 2.5
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Review: IntelliJ IDEA 9
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Flash Professional CS5 Review
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FreeSpin3D CS4 Review
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December 07th 2011 | Jens C Brynildsen
At the recent FITC Tokyo 2011 conference, Adobe's Lee Brimelow showed off some tech demos, based on Alternativa 3D, running on both the iPad and iPhone. While the videos are somewhat low quality, this really shows that Adobe is serious about gaming and not only on the desktop.
August 05th 2011 | Jens C Brynildsen
Many years ago, Grant Skinner released a really useful tool for modeling your applications and exporting AS2 code. It was never updated to AS3, but now there's a great alternative: Crocus Modeller is an online UML modeling application for ActionScript 3 & Flex programmers that is free (for now) and full of features.
July 13th 2011 | Jens C Brynildsen
Adobe just gave us a summer present to play with - new runtimes! The Flash Player 11 beta is fully featured, containing all you need to get started. The AIR beta is limited to just the runtime (no SDK) and is provided only to test existing content.
June 20th 2011 | Jens C Brynildsen
Today, Adobe released the final version 4.5 of both the Flex SDK and the Flash Builder tool, allowing developers to easily target both iOS, Android and Playbook devices. Now it's easier than ever to get your Flash-based application out on Android Market, BlackBerry App World or Apple's App Store.
June 15th 2011 | Jens C Brynildsen
Things are really happening with AIR these days and Adobe are iterating fast. Very fast. Just months after the release of AIR 2.6 comes a new version that is so much faster that it could almost warrant a non-dot release.
May 13th 2011 | Jens C Brynildsen
Great announcements from Adobe today: Flash Player 10.3 goes public with Android 3.1 support, the Molehill project get's it's final name and several new features in Flash Player 11 is revealed.
April 11th 2011 | Jens C Brynildsen
Today Adobe announced an update to their CS5 software with loads of new features for Flash and Flex developers. They also announced changes to pricing and how often they will push out updates.
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Huawei CEO Yu Chengdong
It looks like the other shoe has dropped with OEM manufacturer Huawei and US relations. We reported a few weeks ago that the US Congress took a strong stance against Huawei and ZTE due to their closeness to the Chinese government, accusations of IP theft and other irregularities with the company.
Now the CEO, Yu Chengdong, has taken to the social network Sina Weibo to announce that Huawei will be absent from the Windows Phone 8 launch at the end of the month and the reason is due to (translated) "Sino-US political and economic storm".
That sounds like Microsoft may be distancing themselves a bit from Huawei until this controversy blows over or in the worst case scenario, Huawei is dropped from Windows Phone 8. Indeed, through personal communication with people in the know at Microsoft the impression we were given is they do not want to talk about Huawei.
The message posted on Sina Weibo
Recently, a render and real photos of the Huawei Ascend W1 made the rounds. Featuring a 4" WVGA display and a 5MP camera, the device looks to fill in a mid-range portion of the Windows Phone 8 lineup—an area that we think is not exactly lacking.
The device is quite nice looking but as we've suggested, Huawei has borrowed heavily from Nokia (color, 2D glass) and HTC (One X's camera housing). We're not sure if that factor has played into this apparent distancing by Microsoft but we don't think it helped.
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Professor Kane Race
BA/LLB PhD UNSW
Member of the Charles Perkins Centre
A14 - The Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Professor Kane Race joined the department in 2007, after working at the National Centre in HIV Social Research at UNSW, where he also undertook his PhD in Health, Sexuality & Culture. He is a founding member of the Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV/AIDS and has published widely on the impact of HIV antiretroviral therapies on gay cultures, practices and politics. His work has explored embodied engagements with medicine across various different contexts and cultures of consumption: HIV/AIDS; sexual practice; drug use (both licit and illicit); and more recently, markets in bottled water. His current work is concerned with the ways in which online devices and technologies participate in the making of new cultures, spaces and practices.
Research interests
Kane is currently researching relations between technologies, spaces, bodies, practices and objects in the materialization of HIV/AIDS, sexual culture and the experience of drugs. As part of an ARC Discovery Grant on Changing Spaces of HIV Prevention, he is exploring the impact of online hook-up devices on gay culture, subjectivities and practices. In a related project, he explores how individuals and entities become subjects of HIV prevention in the context of new legal and biomedical developments. In other research, he concerned with the impact of policing practices on the changing materialization of drug problems, including the frames used to understand and grasp such processes. In each of these projects, he draws on affect theory, science and technology studies, queer theory and object-oriented process studies to produce new ways of attending to socio-material events and processes. A central concern running through his work is the enactment of effective care practices that maximize pleasure.
Teaching and supervision
Kane is interested in supervising conceptually driven, empirically engaged projects in the areas of sexuality; gender; health; medicine; consumption; drug use; HIV/AIDS; online culture and science and technology studies. He is particularly interested in working with students who wish to conduct insider ethnographies of cultures in which they are situated.
GCST2607 Bodies, Sexualities & Identities
GCST5902 Natures and Cultures of Bodies
Current research students
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|Gay Masculinities in Indonesia: Negotiating Multiple Masculinities between Spaces
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Current projects
Kane is currently working on a book project called Plastic Water, with Professor Gay Hawkins and Dr Emily Potter, based on the ARC Discovery Project, From the Tap to the Bottle: an international study of the social and material life of bottled water.
Awards and honours
Editorial Advisory Boards
- Sexualities
- International Journal of Drug Policy
- Culture, Health and Sexuality
- Contemporary Drug Problems
- Biosocieties
- Somatosphere
Other Awards and Honours
- UNSW Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences prize for Best Thesis 2004
- Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV – Board Member 2012/3
PhD and master's project opportunities
Selected grants
- Safety, risk and wellbeing on digital dating apps; Albury K, McCosker A, Race K, Botfield J, Lewis G, Kolstee J; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
- Chemical Practices: Enhancement and Experimentation; Race K, Lea T, Pienaar K; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- Global Ethics and Futures (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Miles R, Anderson W, Bleasel J, Haq I, Lea T, Griffiths P, Jou C, Poronnik P, Race K, Hickey-Moody A, Ross P; DVC Education/Large Educational Innovation Grant.
- Everyday Social Media Network; Goggin G, Vromen A, Martin F, Bednarek M, Bollmer G, Brevini B, Calvo R, Chen P, Chesher C, Driscoll C, Dwyer T, Elliot A, Hutchinson J, Mann A, Martin G, Michael M, Navarria G, Race K, Rolph D, Tormey S, Weatherall K; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
- NETWORK FOR ORGANS, BODIES AND TISSUES (NBOT); Stewart C, Anderson W, Cashman P, Cooper M, Griffiths P, Hooker L, Jordens C, Kerridge I, Lupton D, Magnusson R, Michael M, Pols H, Race K, Salkeld G, Savell K, Scott Bray R, Shewan L, Waldby C; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
- Changing Spaces of HIV Prevention: A cultural analysis of transformations in sexual sociability among gay and homosexually-active men; Race K; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- The Surveillance and Everyday Life Research Group; Marks P, O'Malley P, Martin G, Robertson S, Cleland K, Epstein C, Clancey G, Race K, Scott Bray R; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
- The Environmental Humanities Group; McCalman I, Bashford A, White S, McCreery C, Gibbs M, Schlosberg D, Celermajer D, Philp J, Robertson S, Fitzmaurice A, Giles P, Marks P, Hardie M, Smith V, Alt C, Race K, Allon F; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
- From the tap to the bottle: an international study of the social and material life of bottled water; Race K, Hawkins G; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Selected publications & creative works
Plastic water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water (MIT Press, 2015)
Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs (Duke University Press, 2009)


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Congressional candidate and former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer Arturo Carmona denied accusations of sexism leveled at him Friday by a former staffer and backed up by two prominent Sanders surrogates.
Masha Mendieta, a former Latino outreach strategist for the Sanders presidential campaign, made multiple allegations against Carmona in a Medium post Friday, saying Carmona didn't adequately address a complaint of sexual harassment, treated female staffers unfairly and was a poor manager who used campaign funds inappropriately.
Mendieta wrote that though working on the Sanders presidential campaign "gave me genuine hope that good souls were out there who respected and valued women equally ... Arturo Carmona was not one of them."
In a statement to The Times late Friday, Carmona said, "I categorically deny any accusations of sexual harassment or fiscal mismanagement made against me. I do not take this lightly."
With supporters of a road repair bill still counting votes, a coalition of business and labor leaders on Friday began running television and radio ads that target eight legislators who have not yet committed to vote for the measure.
The Fix Our Roads Coalition is spending $1 million on a statewide, week-long ad blitz that urges legislators to vote next week for Senate Bill 1. The bill would raise gas taxes and vehicle fees to generate $52 billion the first 10 years to repair crumbling roads, highways and bridges, and expand mass transit.
"We are closer than ever to finally passing a transportation funding package to fix our long-neglected and crumbling roads," said Michael Quigley, executive director of the California Alliance for Jobs, which is co-funding the commercials. "These new ads are part of an all-out grassroots, earned media, advertising and social media campaign to support passage of this bill by next week."
Before he suddenly dropped out of the running citing health reasons, former Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez was widely considered the favorite to replace Xavier Becerra in the 34th Congressional District.
With Pérez out, the race is wide open and isn't likely to be decided Tuesday, when 24 candidates compete in the primary. Instead, the top two vote-getters regardless of party are expected to advance to a June 6 election. (If any one candidate receives more than 50% of the vote Tuesday, it's all over).
Pérez offered his thoughts on the race in an interview published Friday by Politico. Some of his major points:
State Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) wants to increase services for human trafficking survivors and make it easier in court to put away their abusers.
Flanked by prosecutors and hotel industry officials at a news conference Friday in San Diego, the former Assembly speaker announced new housing and mental health assistance for victims and introduced legislation that would require hotels and motels to train their employees to spot signs of human trafficking.
Another of her proposals would expand the character evidence that prosecutors can bring forth at trial against defendants charged with selling victims for sex or labor.
The latest fundraising figures for the 34th Congressional District race are in, and they give a fuller picture of where the money has been flowing in the April 4 special election.
While there are 24 candidates in the crowded field, three-quarters of the campaign contributions have gone to just five candidates: Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, Sara Hernandez, Robert Ahn, Alejandra Campoverdi and Yolie Flores.
And with so many hopefuls vying for donors in a district with a median household income of $35,181, a lot of the campaign cash came from outside the 34th District. More than 80% of contributions where a ZIP code was disclosed came from areas outside the district, which includes Koreatown, downtown Los Angeles, Chinatown, Highland Park, Eagle Rock and Boyle Heights.
Citing a review that found widespread mismanagement at the state Board of Equalization, State Controller Betty T. Yee on Friday called for stripping the panel of responsibilities for tax administration and audit and compliance functions so it can focus on handling taxpayer appeals.
Yee's proposal came in response to an evaluation by the state Department of Finance that found board officials were improperly redirecting resources and employees to pet projects in their districts.
"In order to rebuild taxpayer trust, meaningful reform is essential," said Yee, who serves as an ex-officio member of the board. "I urge the Legislature and the governor to strip the board members of all statutory functions and permanently move these duties and assigned staff to a separate new department under the governor."
Sen. Kamala Harris opened a campaign fundraising account to run for governor in 2026, but that does not mean California's newest U.S. senator has any plans to seek the office.
Harris plans to use the account to store the $1 million in leftover funds from her successful 2014 reelection campaign for attorney general, said Sean Clegg, Harris' political spokesman.
Harris left her post as state attorney general mid-term when she was elected in November to the Senate seat opening created by the retirement of Barbara Boxer.
A California state senator wants to prevent companies from selling products that can listen in on conversations and collect personal information from unknowing consumers.
Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) has filed legislation that would require manufacturers to equip their Internet-connected devices, including toys, clocks, kitchenware and electronics, with certain security and privacy features.
Dubbed the Teddy Bear and Toaster Act, Senate Bill 327 takes aim at the so-called "Internet of Things," the inter-networking of everyday devices that some tech and privacy experts say amounts to a growing industry with little oversight.
In arguing for approval of a new transportation package on Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown appeared to enjoy himself in refusing to shoot down a supporter's suggestion that he run for president — even as he noted his 79th birthday is next week.
Standing next to other elected officials and construction workers at the rally in in Concord, Brown argued that gas tax and vehicle fee increases are needed to address a backlog of much-needed repairs to California's crumbling system of roads, highways and bridges.
"I'm telling you the truth because why would I lie to you?" Brown said. "I don't think I'm running for office. All I've got left is lieutenant governor, treasurer and controller."


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This program helps the student learn the basics of welding technology and will prepare the individual to enter the field as an entry level fabricator/welder. The program also includes a selection of academic courses providing the student a well-balanced curriculum. Program graduates may enter the workforce immediately or transfer for more advanced training.
Upon completion of the program, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate safe work habits in welding/metal fabrication
- Identify and use a variety of techniques and materials to achieve the desired weld
- Perform quality welds on mile steel using arc and gas methods
- Layout and cut flat and structural steel
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- Show ability in structural welding, MIG/TIG applications, and advanced welding techniques
- Demonstrate welding symbol interpretation
- Attain AS Level I Welding Certification


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whoisJanuary 08, 2004
Well call me just plain out of it. Or blame it on my complete lack of Unix chops. Either may be accurate.
Until now I've been bouncing off of NetSol and putting up with the ridiculous (and highly inaccessible) image-based security widget every time I've run a whois search on an existing domain.
Google just launched a whois search, which is cool in and of itself (although the prospect of more spam doesn't thrill me). What caught my attention though, was an off-the-cuff remark by Joi Ito:
I guess this is useful for people who won't touch a command line, but I don't think I'd ever use it. I will continue to open a terminal window and type "whois google.com".
Well now, OS X's terminal does whois. Nice!
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Let us imagine, and take ourselves back, way back, lo, even five years ago. Tell someone that in the future you will recommend a Mac over Windows because of the command-line tools.
We'll leave the question of whether that is progress as an exercise for the reader.
Its been on windows for years too via http://www.cygwin.com/
Yep, Mac OS X comes with all the command line tools most UNIXes tend to have. Very handy!
As far as the SmartyPants stuff, I've noticed things like this in several sites that use it. It doesn't seem to do anything on comment previews.
"As far as the SmartyPants stuff, I've noticed things like this in several sites that use it. It doesn't seem to do anything on comment previews."
That depends *entirely* on whether you have encorporated it into your comment-preview template. It doesn't do anything in templates that have not been modified to use it: <MTSomeTemplateTag smarty_pants="2">.
Using one set of template options to *preview* comments and another set of options to finally *display* them on your blog is what produces the little circus act above.
And you can even type whois followed by an IP address to find out where that nasty spammer comes from ;-).
"That depends *entirely* on whether you have encorporated it into your comment-preview template. It doesn't do anything in templates that have not been modified to use it: ."
Ahh… See, I'm not a MovableType user (let alone a SmartyPants user), so I didn't know that. Thanks for clarifying.
My favorite site for whois and other info is DNS Stuff.
Being under certain circumstances keeping me on Windows I too was fed up with web-based whois, but discovered Cygwin a few months ago.
My personal army of command-line tools, which presumably will be on OSX, is:
And there you were, thinking of going back to windows. ;)
The commandline 'whois' command is less than convenient to use nowadays. Fortunately, being on OSX, you can define your own, more convenient to use 'front-end' to whois. Here's mine, a shellscript called 'mywhois':
[script removed. SmartyPants mangled the quotes.]
Oh %#$@!
Please remove all the ""s from the above. I put them in because you appear to use SmartPants in your comment listing template, but not (it seemed) in your Comment preview template.
The ""s were there to make sure we got straight quotes, rather than SmartyPants's curly quotes. (Since you don't allow HTML in you comments, I couldn't very well just wrap the *code* in some <code> tags, which would have had the desired effect.
I *hate* having to second-guess the comment system …
This site offers a plethera of network related tools.
Whois, IP Whois, Traceroute, etc. I discovered it while thumbing through an issue of hacker's quarterly at the bookstore one day.
Check it out if you don't know how or have no desire to touch the command line.
Jacques, my unfriendly MT commenting setup is a secret ploy to reduce comment volume to levels where I can actually read them again…
Er, but, sorry about that. Looks like it actually worked out in the end, minus the odd smart quote which I've fixed. My preview templates are both still ugly stepchildren at the moment.
Not much of an improvement, Dave. Backward single quotes (the outermost quotes on line 3 of the script are backquotes) became forward single quotes.
Don't try this script at home, folks!
try finding an applicationon your computer name Network Utilities (located in the 'Utilities' folder within the 'Applications' folder). it's a gui for whois and more
I highly encourage Windows users (bleh) to take a look at Sam Spade (http://www.samspade.org/ssw/) for their network querying needs.
Am I the only person who remembers http://www.internic.org/whois.html ? In fact, my Linux machines don't have the "whois" command–I think "dig" might be able to do whois queries though.
The best thing ever is http://whois.sc.
Just get a free account, set it to login for life, and then enjoy typing this and getting a feature-rich response page every time:
whois.sc is written in assembley language which denies any XML namespacing hosts from querry. I would suggest using a script line editor such as cobol to cache zone file requests…
Take a look at http://www.srscheck.com. It finds the registrar who registered the domain, then goes to that particular registrar to get info on the domain.


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The No Hate Speech Movement is a youth campaign to encourage young people to stand up for human rights and combat online hate speech (e.g. racism, homophobia and sexism and other types of cyberbullying).
Created by the Council of Europe, the idea is to use the web itself to combat online abuse. The movement aims to raise awareness of hate speech among young people, and teach them how to recognise when someone's human rights are being violated, and help them defend their own and other people's human rights.
A report by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights shows that minority groups (including the Roma community, LGTBI people and migrants) are the most frequent targets of all types of hate crimes, including online abuse. The abusers take advantage of the apparent anonymity of online communication.
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- Upload messages against hate speech, pictures, videos and other content you've created.
- Have you witnessed or been a victim of online abuse? Report it by sending the link to Hate Speech Watch, a platform created to map online hate speech.
- Read the nohatespeech blog. It will tell you about upcoming events and ways you can get involved. You can also follow nohatespeech on Facebook or Twitter.
- Sign the petition to establish a European Day for Victims of Hate Crime on 22 July.
- Organise an event to support the European Day for Victims of Hate Crime on 22 July 2016 in a school, youth group, or public place to raise awareness about hate crimes that have taken place in your community or country.
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