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Attention supporters of Ron Paul: You might be able to repurpose those presidential yard signs.
In an interview with ABC News ranging from marijuana laws to defense cuts, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) talked to Jonathan Karl about the future of the Republican Party as well as his presidential plans. "I'm not going to deny that I'm interested," the son of the libertarian icon said. Yahoo reports that, "While Paul is quick to add that he isn't ready to make a decision about a presidential bid yet, he is not hesitant to say that the Republican Party needs a new message."
"I think we have to go a different direction because we're just not winning and we have to think about some different ideas," the senator told Karl. One one the planks Paul would have party policymakers rip out of the Republican platform is that covering the "war on drugs."
While he claims to personally oppose the legalization of marijuana, Paul says states should retain the the right to determine pot policy — something voters in Washington and Colorado did in November. "States should be allowed to make a lot of these decisions," Paul says. "I want things to be decided more at a local basis, with more compassion. I think it would make us as Republicans different."
Although he doesn't suggest a complete legalization, Paul does recommend relaxing the penalties for violating drug laws. "I think for example we should tell young people, 'I'm not in favor of you smoking pot, but if you get caught smoking pot, I don't want to put you in jail for 20 years,'" Paul says.
In the illuminating interview, the scion of the godfather of the liberty movement suggested taking the scalpel to the sacred cow of defense spending, yet still evincing a more temperate (read: easier to sell to party power brokers) attitude than that of his famous father.
"How about another compromise?" Paul told Jonathan Karl. "Republicans who think military spending, myself, who think national defense is important, should compromise and say, you know what, not every dollar spent on the military's sacred, we can reduce the military spending, that's a compromise."
Many libertarians and supporters of the senator's father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), would wish to see a much stronger stance on military cuts, calling for an end to undeclared foreign wars, overseas military bases, and "nation-building" exercises, something Senator Paul did not call for in this interview.
Are Senator Paul's foreign policy views truly more "interventionist" than those of his father? Speaking on foreign aid and U.S.-Israel relations, Senator Paul said, "For President Obama to stand up today and insist that Israel should once again give up land, security and sovereignty for the possibility of peace shows an arrogance that is unmatched even in our rich history of foreign policy."
He also stated in a letter to Commentary magazine in response to being labeled "anti-Israel":
Foreign aid is another example of how our meddling often hurts more than its helps. In my proposals to end or cut back on foreign aid, some have made accusations that my proposals would hurt Israel. Actually, not following my proposals hurt Israel.
We currently give about $4 billion annually to Israel in foreign aid. But we give about $6 billion to the nations that surround Israel, many of them antagonistic toward the Jewish state. Giving twice as much foreign aid to Israel's enemies simply does not make sense.
Our aid to Israel has always been to a country that has been an unequivocal ally. Our aid to its neighbors has purchased their temporary loyalty at best.
These countries are not our true allies and no amount of money will make them so. They are not allies of Israel and I fear one day our money and military arms that we have paid for will be used against Israel....
There are many differing opinions about both foreign and domestic policy within Israel.... This is as true in Israel as it is in the United States. The notion that there is an unassailable consensus concerning Israel's best interests, within the Republican Party, the United States, and even Israel itself, is simple not true and never has been.
Senator Paul does not explicitly call for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, nor does he come out in favor of it in the way that most Republicans do. Either way, the Constitution does not give Congress or the president the power to take money from citizens of this nation and funnel it to foreign governments, even ones that are "unequivocal allies."
Senator Paul's father is perhaps more unequivocal in his opposition to foreign aid. "Morally, I cannot justify the violent seizure of property from Americans in order to redistribute that property to a foreign government — and usually one that is responsible for the appalling material condition of its people. Surely we can agree that Americans ought not to be doing forced labor on behalf of other regimes, and that is exactly what foreign aid is," Ron Paul wrote in his book The Revolution: A Manifesto.
Speaking of aid to Israel specifically, Congressman Paul said in 2007:
My position is rather simple, it's not anti-Israel. My position is neutrality. My position is to not get involved in these fights. And I think we would be better off as Americans and it certainly would be a lot cheaper for us. We're spending way too much money and we're going broke with this policy [of sending financial aid to foreign countries] and I think it just gets us into trouble.
On the subject of going broke, in the ABC interview, Senator Paul also addressed the issue of the "fiscal cliff": "Our message should be, as it always has been, we want to grow the economy, we want more jobs, and the way you get more revenue up here [in Congress] is by more economic growth."
When asked about the "fiscal cliff" and the impending expiration of the Bush tax cuts, Paul responded: "There should be a compromise, but the media has defined it to be only one compromise. Republicans must accept raising taxes. How about another compromise? Democrats should compromise also — entitlements and welfare, the spending can come down."
When asked if he would oppose every bill that raises taxes, Paul seemed to hedge when given the opportunity to declare his absolute disavowal of tax increases. "I think it's a mistake to raise taxes. I won't vote to raise taxes," Paul said, chuckling.
"Period? None?" Karl asked. "I'm not going to raise taxes," Paul said.
Finally, when asked about Mitt Romney's failure to win a single battleground state and the GOP loss of senate seats, Paul pointed to a few points where Republicans could improve their message, especially with regard to voters on the West Coast, New England, and "around the Great Lakes."
"We're getting an ever dwindling percent of the Hispanic vote," Paul says. "We have to let people know, Hispanics in particular, we're not putting you on a bus and shipping you home." Surprisingly, Paul then admits that he wouldn't "rule out" support for creating a "conditional path to citizenship" for those who have lived illegally in the United States for a protracted period of time.
"I'm not going to rule out that we can't figure out an eventual way if you've been living here for 10 or 20 years you can become like the rest of us," Paul said.
Ron Paul has given his final speech as a congressman and has run his final campaign as a presidential candidate. Whether or not Rand Paul can fill his father's shoes will be in large measure decided by whether he can faithfully follow the polestar of the Constitution or whether he adopts compromise as his guiding light.
Photo of Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.): AP Images


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Hi Jo, I am new here.I need your help. "I am sorry to disturb you",here "to disturb" used whether as an adjective or adverb?
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As you watch the video, look at the examples of verbs + ing (the gerund) and verbs + infinitive. They are in red in the subtitles. Then read the conversation below to learn more. Finally, do the grammar exercises to check you understand, and can use, verb + ing and verb + infinitive correctly.
After certain verbs we use the -ing form, and after other verbs we use the infinitive. Sometimes we can use either form and there is no change in meaning. Occasionally we can use either form and there is a change in meaning.
So what's the rule for whether we use the -ing form or the infinitive?
Sorry, there isn't a rule. You have to learn which verbs go with which pattern.
The verbs followed by -ing include enjoy, mind, stop and recommend.
I told him you really enjoy cooking.
Would you mind helping me?
It didn't stop raining all day yesterday.
Daisy recommends trying Alfie's tiramisu.
The negative is verb + not + -ing.
Imagine not having pizza! I eat it all the time.
Verbs usually followed by -ing
stop finish imagine suggest recommend avoid mind miss risk enjoy
I thought you could say: 'I recommend that you see that film'?
Yes, you're right, you can. But we're not looking at the more complex patterns with that or an object today.
OK, what about the verbs followed by the infinitive?
These include decide, want, promise, plan and forget.
She decided to go with Elliot instead.
I wanted to visit Rome.
She promised to take me there.
I planned to go to some real Italian restaurants.
She didn't forget to phone.
The negative is verb + not + infinitive.
They decided not to make pizza.
Here are more verbs that are usually followed by the infinitive:
hope offer fail agree forget manage learn afford arrange ask expect would like decide plan promise want invite
What about the verbs that can be followed by either form?
These include start, begin, continue and bother.
It started raining. or It started to rain.
Don't bother waiting for me. or Don't bother to wait for me.
The verbs like, love and hate can be followed by -ing or the infinitive when talking about repeated actions.
I love reading long novels. (British English or American English)
I love to read long novels. (American English)
But when we are talking about situations, we use the -ing form.
Paulo loves living by the beach in Rio.
Do you like working as a waitress?
So, 'I love learning grammar rules' or 'I love to learn grammar rules' are both OK?
Exactly. But there are some more verbs which can be followed by -ing or the infinitive, but the two options have different meanings, for example remember and stop.
I never remember to lock the door, and my mum gets really angry!
(remember + infinitive = remember something and then do it)
I never remember locking the door, but when I go back and check I always have.
(remember + -ing = remember something you did before)
She stopped smoking three years ago.
(stop + -ing = to not do something any more)
It was hot, so we stopped to have a drink. (we stopped walking)
(stop + infinitive = to not do something in order to do something else)
Let's stop to have a rest now.
OK, later on you can try to remember all the patterns.
Daisy: What's up, Oli?
Oliver: Hm? Oh, nothing.
Alfie: Oh come on, something's wrong.
Oliver: No, seriously ...
Daisy: Don't tell me, you invited Amy to go to your class dinner but she decided to go with Elliot instead ...
Alfie: Well, you like cooking, so lunch isn't the problem. I know! You want to wear your favourite T-shirt but it's got tomato on it.
Oliver: No! Well, yes, that too – I don't know how to clean it but, no, that's not the real problem. It's … well ... it's Mum.
Daisy: Have you had an argument? When did she phone? Oh, I hate missing her calls!
Oliver: She hasn't called yet, don't worry.
Daisy: So what's up? Come on! Just tell us! I don't like seeing you like this, Oli!
Oliver: Well, she's in Italy. And she promised to take me there. I was looking forward to going. I planned to go to some real Italian restaurants to, you know, have some real Italian food, so I could try to make some at home. And I wanted to visit Rome and Venice and Florence and Siena and ... well, she hasn't even remembered to phone or to send an email or anything!
Daisy: No, but she will. You know she's always so busy. She never stops working. Or maybe she's had a problem. But it'll be cool, she'll phone.
Alfie: Do you know what you need? You need to have some fun! We can pretend to be in Italy!
Daisy: Pretend to be there?
Alfie: Yes! Let's do it! You wanted to practise cooking Italian food, didn't you? So ... here's a cookbook. We just need to choose a dish and then we need to buy ingredients. You cook, Oliver, and I know how to make a great tiramisu. Daisy, you get some Italian music – we can eat in the garden, like at a pavement café.
Daisy: Alfie, you're mad. You're wonderful and mad, and I love doing mad things ...
Sophie: Hi, guys!
Oliver/Daisy: Hi, Mum!
Alfie: Hi, Sophie!
Daisy: How's Italy?
Sophie: Oh, it didn't stop raining all day yesterday, and today it's foggy! It's impossible! I can't see anything or go anywhere. I'll have to come back next month. Oh, and Oli, would you like to come too then? Gennaro Falcone, the famous restaurant owner, has offered to teach you some of his most popular recipes. I told him you really enjoy cooking.
Oliver: I'd love to go, Mum! Thanks!
Sophie: So. What are you doing? It looks ... interesting!
Think about your week. What do you enjoy doing? What do you not mind doing? And what do you avoid doing if possible?
Hi Jo, I am new here.I need your help. "I am sorry to disturb you",here "to disturb" used whether as an adjective or adverb?
Hi sam10, In your example, 'disturb' is an action, so it is a verb. Here are some more examples with the verb 'disturb':
Am I disturbing you?
We didn't want to disturb the neighbours.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to disturb you.
Does that answer your question? Best wishes, Joanna (LearnEnglish Teens team)
Hi LearnEnglish Team,
Is it correct to say, "I'm inviting you FOR dinner" or should it be, "I'm inviting you TO dinner"? Please help me.
Thanks, Pest
Hi again LearnEnglish Team,
Can someone help me out with my previous question please?
Thanks, Pest
Hi PestR,
You can say both of those. They are both correct.
Unfortunately, we can't always answer individual user's grammar questions immediately. We do our best, but sometimes we're just too busy! Can I recommend www.linguee.com? On this website you can search for a word or phrase and see many examples of how it was translated in different contexts. I find it's better than other translation tools because you can which option really makes sense for what you want to say.
Why don't you try it and come back and tell us what you think? :)
Best wishes,
Joanna (LearnEnglish Teens team)
Hi Joanna,
Thank you very much. I find that website really useful.
Could you explain me the patterns with 'that' or an object after those verbs?
Hi Monisa! Thanks for your question.
One thing to notice about a couple of verbs on this list - 'recommend' and 'suggest' - is how they work with 'that'. For example, you can say:
Clara's teacher recommends applying for university this year. (General recommendation)
Clara's teacher recommends that she apply for university this year. (Recommendation specifically for Clara)
Notice that it is 'apply' not 'applies' in the second sentence. This is an example of the subjunctive in English. We use this with verbs like insist, demand, recommend, suggest to talk about a situation which is recommended, desirable or demanded. For example:
The headteacher demands that he leave the school at once.
I strongly suggest that you forget all about this episode.
Well, I hope that answers your question!
Best wishes,
Joanna (LearnEnglish Teens)
Thank you very much! That was, indeed, helpful. just another doubt: can these verbs be followed both by an infnitive and an -ing?
Thank you,
Glad to hear it was useful! :) In answer to your second question, no - 'suggest' and 'recommend' are both followed by the gerund and can't be followed by the infinitive.
(LearnEnglish Teens team)
I enjoy read book, listening to music, and cooking.
I go to school,after doing the homework,play the computer games.
I go to school,read book,listening music and watched TV
I enjoy hanging out with my friends, playing some sport with them or riding roler blades. I also like listening to music, reading books, painting. I watch TV and surf on the internet when I am boring.
I like listening to music
i enjot talking with my friend because i love my friend
İ like reading books in English or listening music in English.
I enjoy talk my friend BECAUSE I like my friends...
I wanna talk about my week although there are ma y mistake in y sentences but.....
Te be honest i really enjoy to study english a d read short story maybe i dont have any talent in english buuuuuuut i am trying and i hope one day i learn englisg well....
My english is ery ery bad and i dont speak even a simple onversation :(
i enjoy talking with my friend because i love my friend and them friendly they nice talking.
I enjoy watching TV, playing on computer, playing with my rabbit because i like going with my rabbit to the garden :) she likes to eat grass.
i enjoy talking whit my friends in english
Well I love dancing, writing stories and poems, watching movies, reading books, surfing the Net and painting. I really enjoy talking and laughing with my friends and gossiping as we usually do. I don't mind doing the chores and helping my sister with her homework. Sometimes I try to avoid studying, but I can't so I guess I don't mind that too.
super.very nice.
hi i am new to this site and i have found it very helpful this website is really useful for us and i really enjoy
learning english
Hi Arif! Thanks a lot for your kind comment and please keep on letting us know what you like on the site. :)
Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
I enjoy listening to the music, drawing, talking my friends.
I'm not a craftsman, but I try to drawing and my friends say that my pictures are cool. without it, I can to play on the piano and i love it)) But there are things that I do not want to do. it means waking up at 6 45 o'clock, so on weekend I'll wake up at 9 or 10. Also I hate orchestra on weekends. it's terribly!!!!!!!!
In my opinion English is best subject in our school.English videos and music help us.You can know interesting things.I enjoy learning English.In spare time I go to sport and read books.I enjoy learning English.
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If you have an iPad 2 or higher, or an iPhone 4S or higher, you will no doubt have experienced the problem of trying to show off a batch of photos to a number of people and having to crowd around a small screen. AirServer enables you to overcome this problem by mirroring – or streaming – the display of your iOS device on your PC's monitor. If you have your computer connected to a TV, it is even easier to show a photo display to larger numbers of people while taking advantage of a larger display.
The program is incredibly easy to set up and it can be configured to run automatically with Windows so you do not need to remember to launch when you turn on your computer. Besides this, all you need to do is to decide on the type on mirroring you would like to use and this will depend on which iOS device you are using. You can choose between 1:1 pixel mirroring, or choose the 720p or 1080 x 1080 high resolution settings.
You do not even need to install anything on your iPhone or iPad as AirPlay is a built in feature, so this is a big bonus. As well as being useful for holding photo slideshows, the mirroring option is also great to playing games on a larger screen or even watching movies.
What's new in 5.4.4 (see changelog for full release info):
- Fixed compatibility with various Bonjour Gateways including Aerohive.
- Improved compatibility with iOS 11.
- Fixed various minor issues.


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Our electrical contracting arm, this brand is well known and a leader in the domestic or residential market throughout the greater Melbourne, Geelong and Mornington/Bellarine peninsula areas.
Working closely with Metricon, the client and Metricon's internal sales staff, Dezign Corp has taken this inner suburban home to a whole new level.
With the owner's extensive back ground in the local real estate market, CBus was a must-have inclusion for their new home. Incorporating Saturn series switches, dynamic labeling technology and a touch screen downstairs, and Slimline predominantly upstairs, this home is indicative of the sort of work Dezign will continue to foster with our existing client base of builders.
Since handing over from the builder, the client has added further options directly with Dezign Corp. These include the introduction of a wiser system, motorized blind control and full integration of the Clipsal alarm panel. It is this ongoing service and ability to upgrade existing CBus installations that Dezign see as an enormous opportunity for future growth.
dezign Corp have been servicing the residential market in electrical and technology installation since 1955. Dezign are committed to the highest level of customer service, while facilitating installation of the latest available residential technology.
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smangersnes necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Sastre is a new consulting company that helps companies to develop effective multichannel marketing strategies to improve their revenues and profitability across all channels. Another word for multi channel marketing we use is 360 degree marketing. We focus on both offline (TV, print, newspapers, etc) and online marketing (web, mobile, mail etc) and seeks to optimize our clients spending in the channel mix that generates highest ROMI (return on marketing investments)
We have just got a new logo from designers here on 99designs, and want now to continue with stationary designs.
Today we use "Sastre - data beats opinion" - meaning that we focus on measuring every aspect of companies media spending.
The target audience are senior executives (CEOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents, CMOs) in medium to large companies. The template should invoke in the target audience the following thoughts:
PROGRESS – Movement to a goal or higher stage, advancement
INNOVATION – Creativity, differentiation, boldness
CONFIDENCE – Reliability, trust, integrity
As a startup-company we need the following;
Business Card (two sided)
Complement Slips
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to produce the winners work.
Please check out their specifications for uploading and ensure you comply.
Business Card - http://www.goodprint.co.uk/business…hp?group=3
Letterhead- http://www.goodprint.co.uk/letterhe…roup=3&o=p
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So in 10 days we'll be relocating the BBH Labs experience to Austin, Tx for the annual geek jamboree that is the South by SouthWest Interactive festival. I last attended three years ago, when I was an earnest book publisher and before advertising folk had descended in force and totally harshed the vibe, man.
This year I'm really looking forward to meeting lots of likeminds and seeing where, if anywhere, the paradigm has shifted and intend to follow @katylindemann's guidance of not going to see anything I already know anything about already, which makes for a pretty packed itinerary.
Given that the web based scheduler is, imho, 'not very fun to use' it might be that twitter or sitby.us prove to be more useful discovery tools for the good stuff, providing of course that wifi and/or 3G are in operation. We've hacked together a rough list (with agile development and rapid iterations built in!) using the web interface, the recently launched official app, an old fashioned contacts book (yes, friends and family are represented at SXSW) and have uploaded it to sitby.us where you can find it here.
Ping us if we've missed anything vital, if you want to hang out and, most importantly, to let me know where I should go for breakfast tacos now that Las Manitas has closed down!
See you there.


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Surgery to put Moore in rare Rays company
BALTIMORE -- Matt Moore will have season-ending Tommy John surgery next Tuesday to repair the ulnar-collateral ligament in his left elbow.
According to data from the Hardball Times website, of the 293 Tommy John surgeries performed on Major League players, only six have been on Rays: Moore, right-hander Jason Isringhausen (2009), right-hander Tyler Walker ('06), right-hander Seth McClung ('03) and right-hander Dave Eiland (2001 and '02).
Moore and McClung are the only homegrown Rays Major Leaguers to undergo Tommy John surgery.
Given Tampa Bay's success at avoiding pitching injuries, Rays executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman was asked if he was surprised by the recent rash of injuries incurred by the club's starters.
"No, I think if you look over the history of the game, pitcher injuries are something that in a lot of ways are inevitable," Friedman said. "It's an unnatural motion. And I think we've been more fortunate than the industry because of, A, how hard our pitchers work, and B, the tremendous training staff we have and how much they care and how deligent they are.
"... You look around the game over the last 50, 100 years. Pitching injuries happen. And we do all we can to put our guys in the best position to stay as healthy as they can for as long as they can."


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I've been fortunate enough to attend a few "hackathons" and "data jams", both inside and outside of the government space. These events often have a simple premise: bring together tech experts from different disciplines and organizations so they can create cool, useful solutions or products. The challenge at these gatherings isn't coming up with great ideas – the tough task is transforming big ideas into tangible to-do lists and, ultimately, a useful product.
The approach to FEMA's first-ever Data Town Hall was refreshing because our OpenFEMA team harked just as much about project management and results as they did about getting creative when using FEMA's data. The attendees were asked to break into five challenge tracks: GIS, Disaster Assistance Assessment Dashboard, Accessibility, API and Fire Viz; each with a specific project and private sector team lead. Then experts from the tech sector, government, and non-profits worked to "move the ball forward".
The projects were all at different stages of development – some were new ideas gathering requirements, others built upon progress from the White House Safety Datapalooza, last year's National Civic Day of Hacking, or individual effort by emergency management stakeholders.
The common thread across all the challenge tracks was a passion for using government data to make the world a better place. After the event, I asked several attendees about the next steps for their projects and how they plan to use FEMA's data. Their responses (below) show the value of bringing a variety of stakeholders together to identify and solve common problems.
- Jon Nystrom – ESRI (Geographic Information System Company)
- Noah Reiter – Rave Mobile
- Yo Yoshida – Appallicious
- Marcus Louie – Socrata
Question: Why did you choose to attend?
Jon, ESRI: I attended the event to learn more about the direction that FEMA is moving with their Open Data initiative. Having access to data gives a level of government accountability and allows everyone to participate in the mission of saving lives during a large catastrophic event.
Noah, Rave Mobile: My original reason for attending was to represent the International Association of Emergency Management (IAEM), as a member of its Emerging Technologies Caucus. However, once I learned more about the event, I was equally interested to learn more about FEMA's OpenGov initiative, particularly as it relates to accessibility.
Marcus, Socrata: I decided to attend because I loved the work done during last year's National Day of Civic Hacking, and I wanted to continue this great work. Last June, a fire exploration application was created in less than 24 hours using a sample of the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data that FEMA released for the event.
Yo, Appallicious: My reasons for attending we're a bit more personal. San Francisco is my home and unfortunately it has seen its share of disasters. I really wanted to find a way to help the city I love and others prepare for and recover after a disaster.
I've had the pleasure of working closely with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's Office of Civic Innovation and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) on a number of open data and resiliency projects. I have learned so much from SFDPH about community resilience efforts I was hopeful that I could be helpful to FEMA's efforts.
Question: Why are you passionate about this work?
Noah, Rave Mobile: All of us are committed to the development of solutions that enhance individual and group safety and security by connecting the public with public safety and emergency management solutions. The discussions around accessibility relate directly to several of our solutions, which provide timely information to 9-1-1, first responders and emergency managers.
Yo, Appallicious: I've always loved technology and public service. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to help make government more accessible to citizens, but I did not know how I could make a difference.
As open data efforts began to heat up with the federal government's launch of Data.gov and San Francisco's open data efforts, DataSF.org, a light bulb went off. I began to start thinking about opportunities to transform the way people interact with government. Data.gov, DataSF.org and other open data efforts are making government information easily accessible for developers to make all kinds of civic-minded products that make government work better.
Vice President Joe Biden has summed up how technology will transform government, quoting Irish poet William Butler Yeats, "All's changed, changed utterly. Terrible beauty has been born." It is incredible how much has changed so quickly.
Jon, ESRI: We are increasingly seeing large events affect the world and that appears to be trending upwards with the population growth and potential climate change. With events like Hurricane Sandy, support was coming in from around the globe due to the access of Open Data. With disasters, there is always going to be the unknown; designing the solutions and apps before the event will allow mission operators to make decisions based on these new data feeds and analytics.
Question: What was the most interesting thing you learned that day?
Yo, Appallicious: The information obtained from FEMA staff, including CTO Ted Okada, the Red Cross, and other industry professionals, was priceless. The most important thing we learned from the event was where some of the data sets were sitting and introductions to others in the industry that will help us complete the build of the Disaster Assessment and Assistance Dashboard (DAAD). Another important part of that day was that we discovered flaws in the third iteration of DAAD. We found this out through feedback from disaster professionals. We will iterate on and integrate this information into the upcoming build of the product.
Marcus, Socrata: There is so much more about the NFIRS data than I originally thought! There's a lot that can be done with it that I didn't see was possible in the data that was released for the National Day of Civic Hacking.
Noah, Rave Mobile: The most interesting thing I learned during the FEMA Data Town Hall was FEMA's commitment to assisting emergency management practitioners' and developers' with creating technological solutions that will enhance preparedness and safety.
Question: What did you or your project gain from having the event in person?
Marcus, Socrata: For starters, none of us knew each other before the event, so simply holding the event allowed us to coalesce around a shared interest. Setting aside a day to learn more about the data and to discuss its possibilities was helpful for everyone. The event was a good start to building momentum around this particular effort.
Yo, Appallicious: There is no better way to get feedback while still in discovery phase then being at an event like this. Bringing professionals together to work through concepts is an extremely efficient and effective way to develop the best possible product. It also gave us many different ideas for inclusion in the product, how best to launch it and who we should be thinking about partnering with for it to be successful.
Question: What phase of the innovation cycle is your project in, and what are the next steps for moving in to the next phase?
Noah, Rave Mobile: Whereas most of the other working groups have considerable data sets to work with, the Accessibility Team will likely need to establish a data set and, specifically, a knowledge base of its own. The technological elements of our team's solution are perhaps easier to develop than is the sourcing of the information for the knowledge base that our solution will leverage. Therefore, we have tentatively identified two parallel objectives for the next phase of our project. The first is to begin to compile various needs that individuals might have during a disaster (i.e. an interpreter or vehicle capable of accommodating a wheelchair) and then begin to compile the available resources for individuals with various needs. Simultaneously, we will begin designing the public-facing user interface for the sharing and receiving of these preparedness resources.
Jon, ESRI: We are just in the beginning. We are looking for use cases for developing open data and feeds into useful tools for State and Local responders.
Marcus, Socrata: We have a couple of prototypes that were built last year. These were built in 24 hours and without access to subject matter experts. The result is that we developed some really great looking data exploration tools, but we are not sure whether they are actually serving anyone's needs. Instead of starting from the data and seeing what we can do with it, our next step will is to focus on the stakeholders and their needs and the build tools around that.
Yo, Appallicious: We are currently narrowing the scale and scope using the feedback from this last meeting and over the next two weeks we will begin development of DAAD. Stay tuned!
Finally, I'd like to offer a big "thank you" to all those who attended our first-ever FEMA Data Town Hall. Look for more updates in the coming weeks as the OpenFEMA team continues to check in with project owners and track progress. For more on FEMA's open government initiative, visit fema.gov/openfema. If you're a developer, I encourage you to check out the API for FEMA data to dig deeper into our open data sets.
Editor's Note: FEMA is providing this information about third-party products as a reference. FEMA does not endorse any non-government organizations, entities, or services. The views expressed by Data Town Hall participants do not necessarily represent the official views of the United States, the Department of Homeland Security, or the Federal Emergency Management Agency.


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But aside from individual interest in family matters and the consequent inclusion of historical information, there is a special and pertinent value in this work, for instead of being an affair which some would heedlessly consider lightly, the effect on the student of these matters is known to be an inspiration, because through understanding the hardships and the successes of our ancestors, and reading of worthy feats, one certainly becomes imbued with an esprit de corps which builds character, and good results invariably follow.
In the times when the French and Indian wars were engaging the attention of every colonist from Maine to Florida, who never was able to rest easily at home lest the savage pillage his house within the high palisade, the settlements near Albany, although protected in the crude fashion of that day, were the subject of attack time and time again. This was, in part, because the vicinity of Albany was the seat of settlement of several tribes of continually warring Indians, principally the Mohawks and Mohicans. Not only were the bergs of Albany and Schenectady surrounded in entirety by stockadoes, and the villagers warned not to build outside of them, but the residents erected their dwellings for defense, much in the manner of individual forts, by providing their walls, massive in those days, with portholes through which the musket could be directed at the enemy; and such houses, although rare, are still standing there. Notable among these conflicts with the aborigines and French was the frightful massacre at Schenectady in the winter of 1690, when few in the peaceful village were permitted to escape the tomahawk, and later on the Beukendaal massacre shocked the settlers, fraught with as high a percentage of brutal murders.
When the French wished to possess the land in America, their armies came by way of the Adirondack lakes, as a facile passage from Canada, and Albany had to be the resisting point to save the other sections of the country. The orders issued in Europe by the higher officials who directed operations, were generally to the effect that Albany must first be taken; but it never was a place which suffered conquest. Its citizenship was composed of such men as would extract the lead from their windows in order to have it cast into bullets, and naturally such valor was indomitable.
Some fifty years after the massacre mentioned, the French were once more decidedly active, and it was necessary to check them before they came further south than Ticonderoga, or, at worst, Fort William Henry, on Lake George's southern end. The region in and about Albany was then given over to the massing of troops, and under General Abercrombie, in 1758, a large army was gathered and the raw recruits drilled. It was then that "Yankee Doodle" was composed by the surgeon in his army, while in the camp at Greenbush.
In the Revolutionary period, the citizens sacrificed everything down to the condition of depriving themselves of their cattle, which were driven from their fields to supply the soldiers, while produce had to be brought in in such quantities that, when winter approached, the inhabitants made an appeal that they could not survive the winter if the drain continued. The best citizens were turned into officers, and the stories of their lives, headed with such names as Generals Schuyler, Ten Broeck and Gansevoort, furnish us to-day with both interesting and instructive reading. It was in 1777 that Albany was made the center of attack by large armies of British troops, planned to attack it from the north by General Burgoyne; from the west, by General St. Leger, proceeding from Oswego, and Lord Howe, coming up the Hudson. It was a brilliant enterprise and a fierce campaign; but the men of Albany were victorious.
In its later life, the people of this section of the country have placed themselves creditably on record in the walks of peace, and one finds commerce, the arts and sciences, represented most worthily. There is no reason to gloss over the list by generalities, for definite cases are readily to be cited; but one should take up these families one by one and read them thoughtfully. The entire country never furnished a more wonderful scientist than Professor Joseph Henry, born in Albany, who successfully demonstrated there the feasibility of his invention of the electric telegraph. The military men, lawyers, artists, authors, clergymen and doctors, have been among the foremost, and added a luster to a section of the country which furnishes itself as a topic for a history.
For the benefit of those who seek details about this section of the state, as regards its topography and legislative formation, besides the more important information in other lines, there has been added a section of this work, devoted to this subject.
Many persons will take special interest in salient features about the early settlers, and for their benefit a compilation of names and facts about six hundred different families, who arrived in that part of the State before the year 1700 has been purposely made. With the idea of making a creditable, authentic and full record of these families, each person associated with this work has put forth his best endeavor in the hope of affording abundant satisfaction.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Accounting for GIS
Stay with me here.
Before the advent of mass computing, accountants were a specialized profession. In order to balance your books, generally you would have a bookkeeper or accountant who went through reams of paper, and did what most people thought was an arcane specialized job. Today, there are still accountants, they still do an arcane specialized job. The difference is that there is a standard type of application, the spreadsheet, that opened up a tool of their job to pretty much anyone.
So a portion of their job, playing with numbers, became open to millions of users. Spreadsheets, and the analysis of data, have become an essential tool for business. People can publish and analyze data in ways they were never able to do before, and have come up with many unique ways to use spreadsheets that accountants never would have. Arguably, Microsoft Excel is the most used database in the world, and the vast majority of users are not accountants.
That's what I want to see happen with GIS. I want to see applications where people are able to manipulate and visualize Geo data even without programming experience or GIS training. I think we've come a short ways toward that. Applications like Google Earth and Google Maps let you visualize data through a standard GUI interface. Maps APIs allow people with some programming skills to put a map on their site.
But nothing makes it easy. People come to me all the time and say "Here's a spreadsheet, how do I put all my stores on the web? Add in driving directions? OK now I want to add in other things..." Data driven apps are still harder to do. I think Fusion Tables is getting there, but needs more. It needs basic spatial queries (point in polygon for instance). And it needs the ability to upload other GIS data formats, not just KML.
But wait, I hear some GIS Pros cry, you'll take jobs from us! If people can visualize their own data, why would they need us? And besides, we do a much better job than they do.
It's true, good GIS pros will produce better analysis than the average person on their own. But I doubt that GIS Pros will lose jobs. What happened with spreadsheets was that whole new uses for data were developed. People created spreadsheets to track and chart all sorts of things. Sure, probably a few accountants lost jobs, but there are still almost 1.3 million accountants and auditors in the US, with their prospects growing. I think putting the ability to visualize geographic data into the hands of everyday users will increase the demand for specialized knowledge, increase the general awareness of geographic data opportunities, and only be good for the profession.
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- Joe Francica said...
Mano, I wrote about this same phenomenon back for GIS World in the early 90's. GIS will/has already become an embedded technology. The spreadsheet analogy is apt. But you need to carry it further. What is Quicken or QuickBooks? It's nothing more than a spreadsheet married to a basic database. Except, the user could care less what is underneath the covers. It just works. This was the premise for many, including myself, to write in 1994 that GIS would disappear. Has it? Not really; it's just become more pervasive and more specialized. Google Earth is the manifestation of embedded GIS into a visualization platform. And the user could care less what's underneath the covers. It's only taken us 15 more years to get to where we thought it would be back in the mid-90's.
- August 25, 2010 at 6:07 PM
- Rich Treves said...
Yup, spot on. I often refer to 'GIS George', you used to need him to visualise your data on a map but in lots of cases, now you don't. And George isn't going to be out of a job because the increase in users will ask for more things of him, and he knows about GIS analysis which GMaps and GEarth and other geoweb tools don't really handle.
- August 26, 2010 at 5:34 AM
- Unknown said...
@Joe I thought about more specialized apps like Quicken or QuickBooks, and that's a good point. They're still fairly pervasive. The thing I like about the Excel example is that it is a generalized app, and maybe that's what we should aim for, something that can do geographic visualization as well as number crunching. But I like the idea of a specialized app too, maybe that's stage 2.
- August 26, 2010 at 8:35 AM
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Chinese carriers notch 1M official iPhone 6 & 6 Plus preorders in 6 hours
10/10/2014, 06:10 pm
Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus officially went up for preorder in China Friday morning and initial reports say the country's top three wireless carriers accepted one million orders in the first six hours of availability.
Apple to reportedly miss internal launch target for Chinese iPhone 6
09/10/2014, 05:09 pm
According to a report on Wednesday, Apple intended to debut the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the important Chinese market on Sept. 9, but those plans have been delayed as the company awaits regulatory approval for the new handsets.
T-Mobile announces 'Wi-Fi Unleashed,' promises Wi-Fi calling on all new handsets
09/10/2014, 05:09 pm
At a special media event on Wednesday, T-Mobile announced its latest "Un-carrier" initiative in "Wi-Fi Unleashed," which has the company promising Wi-Fi call and text support with every new phone sold.
How Apple made the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus ready for one-handed use
09/09/2014, 09:09 pm
Rumors were confirmed on Tuesday when Apple launched the new iPhone lineup, with the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus landing squarely in "phablet" territory. But the company included some special user interface tweaks to make the added real estate manageable.
Sprint to launch new 'iPhone for Life' rental option and special subscription plan
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U.S. wireless carrier Sprint on Tuesday announced a new iPhone hardware rental plan dubbed "iPhone for Life," in which customers pay a flat monthly fee to "rent" Apple's device rather than buy it outright.
Alleged 'iPhone 6' benchmark suggests 'A8' CPU has 1GB of RAM, is clocked at 1.4GHz
09/09/2014, 08:09 am
A Chinese user who claims to have gotten their hands on a functioning "iPhone 6" has posted pictures taken with the device's camera, along with benchmarks suggesting that Apple's next-generation "A8" processor will boast a gigabyte of RAM and will run at a speed of 1.4 gigahertz.
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Apple rumored to launch loyalty rewards program alongside mobile payments system
09/08/2014, 04:09 pm
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09/08/2014, 12:09 pm
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09/08/2014, 12:09 pm
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09/08/2014, 09:09 am
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Apple's massive fall lineup reportedly causing shipping delays for other manufacturers
09/05/2014, 10:09 pm
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Apple reportedly adds CVS and Walgreens to list of mobile payment partners
09/05/2014, 06:09 pm
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09/05/2014, 08:09 am
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09/04/2014, 03:09 pm
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When Democratic Governor Jerry Brown appeared before the Assembly Budget committee last week, he did more than make his case. He called Republicans' bluff on the meaning of democracy.
By now the storyline on the state budget battle is well known. With the state $25 billion in the hole, Brown has proposed $12.5 billion in cuts to the $85 billion budget;. He wants to get the rest from voter approval of a ballot proposition that would continue temporary income tax, sales tax and motor vehicle fee hikes for 5 years.
Legislative Democrats appear willing to go along, albeit kicking and screaming because of cuts to education and social welfare programs.
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Celtic Christianity revisited
The second in a series of 2010 Lent blogs from Willard Roth focusing on places of particular spiritual intensity and interest across Britain and Ireland. The first piece was entitled 'Iona remembered and visited' - http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/11296
I confess that I am a Celtic romantic without genealogical roots. I am not a critical student of the tradition. I simply know deep in my soul that spiritual thirst has oft been quenched as I drank at Celtic wells. That spiritual hunger has been fed as I ate at tables of hospitality prepared by Celtic disciples. I have discovered in Celtic Christian spirituality a way of following Jesus that links earth with heaven — a way that intentionally cultivates inner and outer life, stemming from the church tradition of 5th and 6th century saints in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.
Ian Bradley, whom I know only through his writing, has explored Celtic Christianity both as a romantic and as an academic. "I remain convinced of one thing," he underscores, "that pilgrimage is its single most important and distinctive theme…a perpetual moving on, venturing out into unknown territory and meeting new fellow-travellers along the way" (Colonies of Heaven: Celtic models for today's church 2000, p197).
These practitioners of the Christian way describe the Christian life as a journey. Pilgrimage was both literal and symbolic. Monks criss-crossed sea and land on preaching and pastoral missions, yet destination was not paramount. In Stephen Lawhead's novel Byzantium (1996, p19), monk Ruadh tells his soul friend leaving with the Book of Kells on a quest to find the holy Roman emperor, Remember Aidan. Never doubt, unless the pilgrim carry with him the thing he seeks, he will never find it when he arrives.
As we move from Iona to Northern Ireland for our second pilgrimage segment, we shift focus from Columba (521-597) to Patrick, raised a century earlier in a Roman family in England. John J. O'Riordain reminds us that by the time Patrick came to Ireland, the country had already enjoyed 700 or 800 years of uninterrupted Celtic culture. Greek and Roman commentators from the 7th century BC describe the Celts as people with a strong religious sense who believed in life after death, bonded well with the living and the dead, favoured simplicity of life, had a fine spirit of hospitality and aesthetic appreciation. They had many gods and goddesses and a priestly class known as druids ("A note on Celtic spirituality," Irish Council of Churches 2005, p86).
Noel Dermot O'Donoghue, a Carmelite father, laid the foundation for my valuing Celtic ways. As my first face to face teacher during an Iona study week in 1989, he delighted me with his dry humour and insightful introduction to Celtic history, people and understandings. Noel made Patrick a human friend more than a legendary hero; he was a sensitive man who liked women.
My journal wrap-up of the week put it thus: O'Donoghue's interpretation of St. Patrick's confession, western Christianity's oldest written text, and his opening of the Celtic literary reservoir of spiritual classics couched in the practical wisdom of everyday, urge me to integrate faith with life in fresh ways for the latter days of the second millennium. Why can't a world of fairies and angels be incorporated with space missiles and computers? I am beginning to sense that indeed connections can be made.
As together we US Mennonites visit places in the Patrick story come June 2010** — such as his first church in Ireland at Saul, his purported grave in Downpatrick, his statue atop Slieve Patrick which a previous pilgrim described as "breathtaking views 360 degrees around" — I pray that all of us may make such connections. Deep in the tradition that nurtured Patrick is one of my favorite hymns: Be thou my vision, O Ruler of all. The vision of eternity is realised and appropriated day by day in the constant demands and uncertainties of ordinary life. Even in such times as these, Christian Celts dare renew hope and release vision.
(c) Willard E. Roth is a retired pastor in Mennonite Church USA, having held many posts for the Mennonite church nationally and world wide. He has also been involved with the Academy of Parish Clergy (ACP), and has a specialist interest in journalism and communications.
** Willard Roth is co-leading, with Marlene Kropf, a Celtic Pilgrimage on behalf of the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) in Elkart, Indiana. It will take place from 11-28 June 2010. For details, visit http://www.ambs.edu/news-and-publications/events-and-news/celtic-pilgrimage The Pilgrimage, which will move across Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England, is now fully booked.
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The tea party movement in Massachusetts is reassessing its strategy, if not its goals, after a very tough election.
Few predicted this environment after heady election results two years ago for conservatives such as the tea party. Massachusetts led the way in a special election in January 2010 with the victory of Republican Scott Brown in the race for the U.S. Senate seat held for decades by the nation's premier liberal, Edward M. Kennedy.
And it just kept getting better, with Republicans sweeping Democrats out of the leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives in the fall. A number of the Republicans were dyed-in-the-wool tea-partiers while virtually every Republican was aided by the ideology and the boots on the ground of tea party members.
But with tea party members and other conservatives setting their sights on the big prize — the loathed President Obama and the probability of repealing his hated healthcare law if they could elect his Republican opponent — something went terribly wrong last month.
The president was re-elected by a comfortable margin — about 4 percent in the popular vote and 126 electoral college votes — and House Republicans — including some who strongly identified with the tea party — lost elections, although not enough to lose their majority.
Locally, tea party momentum stopped, too. While Republican state Reps. Kevin J. Kuros of Uxbridge and Ryan C. Fattman of Sutton, who knocked off Democrats two years ago, retained their seats, conservative state Rep. Steven L. Levy, R-Marlboro, was defeated by Danielle Gregoire, the Democrat he unseated two years ago.
Justin Brooks, who stepped down from his Twin City Tea Party leadership post to run for state representative in Leominster, lost.
"It didn't go our way," acknowledged Ken Mandile, a co-founder of the Worcester Tea Party, the way the 2010 elections did.
"We were let down," said Mary Lotze of Leominster, a board member of the Twin City Tea Party.
"We knew we had made a tremendous impact for conservative values in 2010," she said. "Then we thought we are potentially on the same trajectory to continue" this year.
Ms. Lotze said her chapter based in Fitchburg and Leominster met at the end of last month to consider how it should change its tactics, without coming up with an answer. Despite some despair and "where did we go wrong self-reflection," she said "we're getting re-energized. We want to turn it into something.
"How can we regain our momentum, because we're not going away. We're not putting down our flags and going home," she said.
John O'Mara, cofounder of the Northboro Tea Party, refused to concede defeat. "We were discouraged by the outcome, but that does not diminish for one second our dedication to picking up where we left off before the election."
Not even the re-election of the president, who campaigned on letting tax cuts expire on those earning more than $250,000 — anathema to the tea party— should allow that policy to be implemented, Mr. O'Mara contends.
His tea party enthusiasm is undiminished, he said. "It was a relatively close election — not 60-40 — and therefore not a mandate to shift this government to the left."
Not commenting on the fact that President Bush, who implemented across-the-board tax cuts after he was elected with less than a majority of the popular vote, Mr. O'Mara said, "Taxing the rich is a moral issue.
"You're not treating people fairly or squarely or equally. All we're doing is fanning the flames of class warfare."
Both he and Mr. Mandile, who lives in Webster, said leaders from tea party groups across the state have been meeting quietly, including in Worcester, to map out an agenda for 2013 and beyond. Although there nominally are 30 to 40 tea party groups across the state, Mr. Mandile said 15 or 20 of them are active.
What won't change, they and Ms. Lotze said, are tea party core values. Those are, Mr. Mandile said, fiscal responsibility, limited government that conforms to the Constitution, and promoting free markets.
Ms. Lotze said Twin City Tea Party members "felt we went underground a little bit" working as individuals for candidates instead of attending public meetings and rallies. Reflecting tea party strategy across the country, she said, that allowed mainstream media to say that "we had gone away" and become a non-issue, and define the group as obstructionist because of the officials that it had supported."
Indeed, Bonnie Johnson, head of the Seven Hills Tea Party in Worcester, said she put all her energies into a campaign for clean elections and her tea party chapter has stopped functioning. She was active in monitoring the polls in both the primary and general elections this year.Mr. O'Mara said Northboro tea partiers put their efforts, as individuals, into working for Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania and Ted Cruz's successful Senate race in Texas.
"You don't see as many people" attending rallies, Mr. O'Mara said, because "we found that's not the most effective way of effecting outcomes. It's much better to get your people coordinated to knock on doors or put together a phone bank."
"We are not walking with our heads down and wringing our hands," Mr. O'Mara said. "I don't see serious mistakes that we made" over the past year.
The tea party has been criticized for working against moderate Republicans such as Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, in favor of stricter conservatives, such as Richard E. Mourdock, who lost to Democrats in November. Mr. Mandile said it is not a mistake "where you're willing to take some steps backward so that in the future you can win some."
Mr. Mandile would not say if he supported Scott Brown this year, after Mr. Brown voted for the Dodd-Frank bill and for allowing indefinite detention of Americans not charged with a crime. "I would have preferred Brown to (Elizabeth) Warren, but I would have preferred to have another choice," he said.
The real challenge for the tea party, he said, is "to change the mindset of the American people as to the proper function of government, so that the people that do go to Washington will feel that they can make principled stands on some of these policies."
Because that is not yet the case, he said, he has seen no acceptable proposal to avert the fiscal cliff even though there are about 20 tea party politicians in Congress. Mitt Romney's proposal would not have done it, Mr. Mandile said, and even the best proposal he knows of, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan of a year ago, would not have wiped out the budget deficit until 2030.
Because the problem is not lack of revenue, but too much spending, Mr. Mandile said, he was unhappy even with Republican House Speaker John Boehner's proposal 1-1/2 years ago to accept $1 in increased revenue for every $4 in spending cuts, never mind the most recent post-election proposal that reverses that ratio.
Mr. Mandile said the tea party would like $10 in budget cuts for each $1 in revenue.


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Former NFL Greats Rake in Big Bucks During Super Bowl Week
Some players can earn over $50K for appearances.
Jan. 28, 2014 -- How much would you pay to watch your favorite former player from the National Football League do his end-zone dance live?
While players for the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks are the star athletes on the field this Sunday, in the days leading up to the Super Bowl, it's the old-timers who are making the big bucks long past their glory days. Former greats compete to get paid by companies for appearances before the big game, sometimes earning $10,000 or more for shaking hands for two hours.
Some players are better-suited for speaking engagements and other players can be used for less traditional appearances.
Former Cincinnati Bengals player Elbert "Ickey" Woods was booked for an event strictly to do his signature "Ickey shuffle" end-zone dance, said Robert Tuchman, president of sports and entertainment marketing firm Goviva. After his dance, Woods left.
"Super Bowl is when tons of former players come into town specifically looking to make money and work as many events as possible to collect appearance fees," Tuchman said.
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The list of participating football greats this time of year is long. Among the popular players who are booked this week are Phil Simms, former quarterback with the New York Giants, now a CBS sportscaster, and Boomer Esiason, former quarterback with the Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals, said Tuchman. Those two are particularly adept at public events because of their sportscasting work, he said.
"Both have Super Bowl experience and stories to tell from playing in the game. Both are even more popular this year because they appeal even more to New York-based companies doing events," said Tuchman, who declined to name his Fortune 1000 clients.
Fees for former NFL players at these events typically range from $1,500 to up to $40,000 to make an appearance at a large corporation's event, Tuchman said. Most players receive anywhere from $7,500 to $10,000 for a two-hour appearance, he said.
Tuchman's events typically last a minimum of two hours. For rare one-hour events, players will sometimes lower their fees a bit. Most events are question-and-answer sessions about their careers and the upcoming game.
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What determines a player's appearance fee during Super Bowl week? Players from the local market in the Super Bowl town tend to get more work. Former players from the teams that are playing in the game are also in high demand. This week, former Denver Broncos who have been active in promotions include linebacker Karl Mecklenburg and running back Terrell Davis.
Star power like that of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana, who has four Super Bowl victories under his belt, can earn $50,000 to $60,000 for an appearance. His former 49ers teammate running back Roger Craig, who won three Super Bowls, will likely earn less.
Most players fly in on Wednesday or Thursday and try to get three or four appearances to make it worth a trip, Tuchman said.
The majority of the business surrounding the Super Bowl will wrap up by Saturday night, so there's usually an exodus Sunday morning as the players head home to watch the game from their couch, said Matt Dzamba, director of sports marketing at Zambezi.
Because this year's Super Bowl takes place in the large media market of New York, ex-athletes will be visiting "Radio Row," a long gauntlet of news outlets, along with events on behalf of brand partners, said Dzamba.
For the big money, Dzamba said some athletes can earn six-figures to be a proactive "face" of a marketing program, including media appearances, social promotion and hospitality.
"Some athletes are better equipped to handle media and communicate the brand's messaging, while others are best served in a "meet and greet" capacity," Dzamba said.
In 2008, Tuchman said he booked former Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles player, William "The Refrigerator" Perry, to play at a golf tournament during Super Bowl week in 2008. But Tuchman needed Perry to leave the golf tournament early because he was booked at another event.
"It wasn't fun trying to stop him," Tuchman said, adding that he was contracted to stay. "These guys come in and try and knock off four or five appearances and then usually head home before the actual game is played on Sunday."


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