There's some things you should know when planning a trip to the Disney parks.
For people who have never stepped foot onto a Disney park before, the first trip can be exhilarating, magical, and worth the expenses. Amusement parks of all kinds, however, can be tricky to navigate at first if you don't have some advice going in.
Here are some insider secrets and common sense rules that can help people make the most of their first visit to the Disney parks.
Sometimes Disney weather isn't so magical.
Whether you're in temperate Anaheim or humid Orlando, it's best to prepare for the worst when it comes to weather. Apply sunscreen before leaving the house, even on a mild day, and take the bottle with you just in case. It's also smart to bring a compact umbrella and cheap, disposable ponchos. Even if it doesn't rain, you can always use the ponchos for a water ride like Splash Mountain to avoid getting drenched.
In the event of rain, step inside an indoor location to eat or look at souvenirs while waiting for it to pass. Rain can shut down some rides, but it also drives out a lot of crowds. Be patient and remember to never yell at Disney cast members for things outside their control. After all, a torrential downpour can put a damper on their day too.
Don't pay for photos you can take yourself.
Opt for a more secluded area and take the picture yourself.
There are often photographers placed throughout the park who will offer to take a professional photo of you and your family. You'll typically find them at the front entrance or in front of iconic Disney landmarks like Cinderella's castle. Instead of waiting in long lines to pay for a picture, choose a spot slightly off center and ask a fellow park goer if they can take a picture for you. Professional photos look great, but you can easily achieve a similar photo for free.
Do your research before heading to the park.
It's always good to have a plan in place when going into a Disney park. Discuss with your family or friends which rides they're most excited about and create a checklist. You can even take a virtual tour of Disney World prior to visiting to get a good understanding of its layout. If you would rather play it by ear, arrive right as the park opens and go immediately to the farther reaches of the park. If you work your way from the back of the park forward, you can avoid the worst of the early morning crowds.
Outside of the general day plan, be ready for worst case scenarios by choosing an agreed upon meeting spot in the event of getting separated. Sidestep possible panics by packing a portable charger in your bag to charge your phone throughout the day and always bring physical park tickets with you in case a mobile version fails.
It's worth getting a Fastpass to avoid long lines.
A Disney Fastpass is a complimentary perk that accompanies a park ticket. With a Fastpass, you can make reservations for rides and entertainment events up to 30 days in advance. The Fastpass line is always shorter than the regular line and can mean the difference between an hour-long wait and a 15 minute one.
Another pro tip: The My Disney Experience and the Disneyland Mobile apps help with ride wait times and come equipped with park maps and character locations.
Bring snacks and water, just in case.
Food can get expensive at the Disney parks.
While Disney parks open early in the morning, most food carts and restaurants open slowly, with some not opening until closer to 11 a.m. Make sure you eat a large breakfast before you head to the park, and prepare snacks that will stave off hunger throughout the day. You're going to do a lot of walking, so bring a refillable bottle of water whether it's a hot day or not. You can also ask for a cold cup of water at a quick-service station if you forget your water bottle at home.
The food at Disney parks can be expensive, but it's difficult to walk around the park without the scent of fresh churros wafting your way. Eating park food for every meal can be pricey, but you can always save up for a single treat like Storybook Treats' ice cream or a turkey leg the size of your arm.
Come early and leave early if you want to avoid the crowds.
While the fireworks are great, the crowds are not.
To ensure a fairly easy entrance and exit, it is best to arrive early at the park and leave before dark. There will still be a flood of people even in the early morning, but the beginning of the day is when the park will be at its emptiest. Many park goers stick around for the evening fireworks show, which is as spectacular as it sounds. However, if you don't want to leave amidst a mass of park goers, you should probably leave early and watch the fireworks at home.
Indulge in a single souvenir or give yourself a waiting period.
It's easy to get caught up in the excitement and spend excessively.
Disney may be "the happiest place on Earth" but it is also one of the most expensive places on earth. There are countless stores, carts, and restaurants located throughout the park ready to sell you hats, pins, and fridge magnets at every turn. It can be tempting to spend money, especially after you've saved up for so long.
But before you start picking up toys and early Christmas gifts, try to exercise restraint. It's great to have souvenirs that will remind you of your incredible trip to Disney World, but your wallet might regret it later. Wait until the end of the day, and if you're still thinking about that Lilo and Stitch coffee mug you saw hours before, then go for it.
If you're traveling with children, plan a kid-friendly trip.
You can read as many lists like these as you can, but only you know what's best for your family. If you're traveling with small children, research kid-friendly rides and check the height requirements for Space Mountain. If you're on your honeymoon, pause to take that cheesy photo by Cinderella's castle.
The main goal is to have fun, and if any issues do arise, you'll feel prepared to face it head on and continue creating magical memories that will stay with you for years to come.


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Khushi ( Happiness; ) is a 2003 Indian Hindi romantic comedy film released on 7 February 2003. It is a remake of the 2000 Tamil film Kushi. This film starring Fardeen Khan and Kareena Kapoor in main roles and was directed by S. J. Suryah and produced by Boney Kapoor. It was a flop at box office.

Plot
Khushi tells the story of a boy and girl, who are in love, but are kept apart by their inflated egos.

Karan is born in Kolkata, while Khushi is born in a village in Uttarakhand. Karan intends going to Canada for further studies, but, due to an accident, is forced to enroll in the Mumbai University. Khushi's father believes that she has studied enough and should now marry a boy who is ready to be his ghar-jamai. But Khushi insists on pursuing her education at Mumbai University.

At the University, Karan meets Khushi through common friends, Vicky and Priya. These common friends fall in love with each other and it is up to Karan and Khushi to bring them together. In the process, the two fall in love. But with ego in the way, the two never get to express their love for each other till the time comes to bid goodbye. In the ending it is revealed that Khushi and Karan are celebrating their 9th wedding anniversary.

Cast

Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack contains 6 songs, all composed by Anu Malik. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 1.2 million units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's tenth highest-selling. The song "Jiya Maine Jiya" was taken from the song "Cheliya" from the Telugu movie Kushi.

References

External links

2000s Hindi-language films
2003 films
Films directed by S. J. Suryah
Films scored by Anu Malik
Hindi remakes of Tamil films

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The 71st National Independence Day.
The 71st National Independence day was celebrated at the venue specially prepared in front of the District secretariat Jaffna. The Government Agent hoisted National flag at 8.45am.
Mr.N.Vethanayakan Government Agent, Additional Government Agent, Staff of the District Secretariat, religious dignitaries, three service commanders, students and the public participated.
The Government agent in his independence message stated that our ancestors laboured in unity to win the freedom and we should remember them unity and brotherhood should be observed among the communities in our country in order to ensure the strengthening of peace to bring prosperity.
The dance programme of school children, parade and cultural events were carried out by the students.T he cultural events which reflect Tamil culture also took place. After that, the trees were planted by the Government Agent and the Commander of the security forces Jaffna at the District secretariat Jaffna.


Eleven new photos added today.
Four photos with notes have been added to the current end of "Nang's Story" – see right for the index.
Three photos with notes have been added to the current end of 'Rotary'.
Please browse and enjoy – and if you possibly can, please try to help us with a tax deductible donation. We spend every dollar carefully and tell you clearly how its spent. John.
300,000 people, mostly young work in the nations garment and shoe factories. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will have found several articles about conditions and faintings…. In this news item from the BBC (many other news outlets too) it explains how as 1000 workers were protesting their low wages (around $2 per day for a 12 hour day) when one man, possibly 'Security' fired a gun and wounded some of the women. Personally I doubt whether it would have been POLICE. Hired sucurity by the owner is much more likely. John.
EDIT INSERTED MARCH 4 2012. – please see PART two posted as a blog dated March 4 above. The probable gun man is arrested – THE CITY GOVERNOR is charged with the shooting! John.
Khmer Rouge Trials latest update.
See a recent blog about photos taken in 1978 that have emerged from a US foreign correspondent. The photos may be used by the prosecution of the three leaders and the woman herself -Elizabeth Becker – might be called as a witness for the prosecution. The photos show what Pol Pot allowed her to Photograph – obviosly stage managed cheery workers who were infact Khmer Roge cadre dressed as villagers especially for the photos. There are also photos of empty Phnom penh Streets.
The voa link above and the separate article below are really where, hopefully, these trials are ALL heading. Documents are being prepared for the Cambodian people so they can see confessions and apolologies and life sentences. The two articles are both about the Duch's confession about his role in orgainising and torturing and killing some 12,000 or more in S21. He appealed his 19 year sentence but instead of a shorter sentence, he will now spend the rest of his life in jail. John.
Trials continue and we as yet have no new news on any possibility of cases 3 and 4. (see earlier blogs). John.
The Khmer Rouge tribunal has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of reparations it brings to victims of the infamous S-21 prison in central Phnom Penh.
"It is crucial to show Duch's confession and responsibility to the victims," said Neth Pheaktra, a spokesman for the court.
The supreme chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal has sentenced the 69-year-old prison director to life in jail and ordered a publication of the verdict and his apology as part of reparation.
The conclusion of the case marks the first final verdict the court has made during six years of work.
Three other top leaders – chief ideologue Noun Chea, former head of state Khieu Samphan, and foreign minister Ieng Sary – are on trial in a separate case. None of them has acknowledged responsibility for atrocities committed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule of Cambodia. An estimated 1.7 million people died during the period from starvation, disease, execution and overwork.
"I acknowledge the responsibility, especially, torture and the killing," said the document referring to confession Duch made during his first trial in early 2009. The document is now available online on the court website.
Before the final verdict earlier this month, Duch originally had been sentenced to 35 years in prison by the Trial Chamber, and he was slated to serve about 19 years behind bars.
"His apology was just a small part of justice," said Bou Meng, one of the few survivors of S-21.
However, Bou Meng said he is satisfied with the life sentence.
Chum Mey, another survivor, said few Cambodians have access to the Internet and that most victims will not have access to the tribunal's new public document.
The court says it will increase its national outreach through more public screenings of the court's proceedings.
Khmer Rouge Trials – Two items of very special news.
This is a REMARKABLE piece of almost forgotten history. Elizabeth Becker was a Foreign Correspondent for the Washington Post in 1978. She was invited to tour empty Phnom Penh and various Khmer Rouge sites by Pol Pot. She took photos. Now in 2012 Elizabeth is angry that the three remaining leaders are denying their crimes. She is in Phnom Penh right now and will very possibly be a prosecution witness. SHE HAS HER PHOTOS WITH HER…and not only will we get to see them but they will remain on permanent display in Phnom Penh.
This is today's second piece of remarkable news. We will have to wait for an official response from the government but it is looking far more possible that caes 3 and possibly case 4 will go to court. Followers of the Trials and readers of this Blog will understand that although the 'suspects' names are confidential their identitity is confidentally assumed and one is a senior naval figure of the KR years who ordered the detention in S21 of Australian sailors who subsequently died in the Phnom Penh Killing Fields. Hun Sen's argument against any 'extra 'cases' is that Duch – the boss of S21 and the 4 most senior laeders was and is enough (even one of them seems to have Dementia and so far will not stand trial but WILL remain in jail) …both cost wise and for 'national stability'. The Khmer people living within Cambodia have few firm opinions on how far to go with these trials but the International Community is united in believing that at least cases 3 and 4 should AT LEAST go through the investigation stage. This is now looking more possible than before. Please read both these news items to stay in touch with Trial progress. John.
Beaudesert Rotary to the schools, clinic, Kratie and Phnom Penh!
Eight Beaudesert Rotarians have just flown back to Australia. They were here for a week. They attended two Rotary meetings – Rotary Club of Phnom Penh Metro – a Rotaract meeting and project – then it was off to Prey Veng to see our villages, schools and progress with the clinic. We had a night in Kompong Cham and then two nights in Kratie. Back to Phnom Penh and a gathering of thoughts.
The seven photos above were taken last week at our schools in Chuor Ph'av village, Prey Veng Province. Soon they will be copied and placed in the right places in the sections indexed to your right. We have 1000 children over three schools. You can see 6 of our teachers receiving their salaries and gifts and Beaudesert Rotarians talking with our students…. well, not so much talking as smiling… our students will START to learn English in evening classes for the first time this year.
You can also see our builders, Lorn and his son, Lat, receiving money to continue building the clinic.
These two extra little phone photos of clinic progress were taken on February 1 2012 and I've added them to show the very latest progress.
One more phone photo – Val O'Callaghan and her friends in Australia heard that it can get slightly less than tropical on January evenings and nights. They sent over a case crammed with woollen hats and another with hand made blankets. They are intended for the children and were gven to the children. In this photos some of the teachers are having fun trying them on.
This photo was taken on January 25 2012 and added on February 26 2012 and shows our growing Clinic nestled next to the school.
Next, we have three very special photos. If you were to check the Donors page, you would find Fleurs name. I have known Fleur for 46 years. Sadly Fleur died in December, but we will remember her forever.. Beaudesert Rotarians stand near her plaque. ( The Rose Bruford reference is the London College we both attended – along with several very significant Donors).
These next photos were taken in the largest of the local villages who attend our schools. We had a locally made lunch and walked around and saw in homes and since most of the Australians had been on FOUR previous occassions, it was a chance to catch up with old faces and growing children. Four of the photos are of Chanthou our number one helper in the villages giving thankyou gifts to the District leader Sau Ri, our policeman, our builders and the lady who looks after my home.
The two photos that follow are almost like old favourites, except they are young! Chanthay who we watch grow in the village children section with Maigin, famous for being the daughter of the lady in the 'Village Life' section on hot coals after the birth of MAIGIN. The second photo is of Da (one of the three friends in the 'Village Children' section) and her little sister – Ra. Some readers may remember a baby who was actually dying from uncontrollable worms…. we treated Ra… this is RA!
Nang has an entire section to herself. I really suggest you read that section to put these two sad photos into context. As I write it is February 3 and later today I take her back to hospital… The fact that she is alive is our miracle.. As you will read in 'Nangs Story'…she and our treatment of Nang has inspired the village and us to build the Clinic..
We change locations now. We got back in the bus and drove for 90 minutes to the village of Prey t'Baing where we find our newest school. We give them books and pay the teachers and enjoy the company of some wonderful villagers.
Our real two day holiday started in Kratie. Three photos above are sunset over the Mekong from our rooms on the top floor of the Oudom Sambath Hotel. The two Rotarians looking at the view are Linda and Mark Jackson. Linda is the current President of The Rotary Club of Beaudesert and Mark is a Past President.
The photo to your left is added today February 26 2012 but taken at sunset in Kratie on January 26 2012 of Mark and Linda. The photo around a table is the following morning at breakfast.
A few kilometres north of Kratie town is one big hill in an otherwise flat landscape. It used to be called Golden Mountain but as the threat of the Khmer Rouge was looming, the monks in the thriving Wat on the summit changed the name to Phnom Sombok (Mount Sombok) in case the KR thought that 'golden' inferred wealth.
It is still a thriving Wat up hundreds of steps. Its a place of pilgrimmage especially at festival times. The first photo is our group pausing on the climb up. The second photo is just some of the 81 statues of monks.. The first few monks in the photo show partial construction and painting.
A little further up the East bank is the National Turtle Sanctuary.
… and close by is a small palm sugar operation. Well prepared this is surely one of the most delicious tastes in the world. It's a MUCH better prepared version of the palm sugar we can get in Western Supermarkets.. It is soft, not grainy and tastes like fudge.. yummy. This photo shows the most crucial part of the process. The hot syrup is hand paddled until too thick to move!
This photo is of John in one of the Dolphin boats on the Mekong at Kratie. Taken January 27 2012 and added February 26 2012.
On our return to Phnom Penh the next day we went to a project run by Rotaract members on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Rotaract is a young persons ROTARY and in this case they are linked to their senior club, The Rotary Club of Phnom Penh Metro. Most of them are residential students at ACE (Attitude Centre for Education in Phnom Penh). There is a paragraph on ACE in the Rotary section to the right of your screen. The young Rotaractors run English classes free of charge in a poor resettlement suburb of Phnom Penh. We talked with them – they talked to us and we, believe it or not, sang Incy-Wincy Spider for them – see the two animated photos!
You can a photo of Mark next to a map showing The Khmer Empire as it was. It included almost all of Laos, most of Thailand and perhaps more recently significant, all of South Vietnam. It was in 1949 that France, the then colonial power GAVE South Vietnam, including Saigon, to Vietnam. As you can read elsewhere on ths site, it is now acknowledged by the USA that the Vietnam War had nothing to do with Communism – it was a civil war – South Vietnam or Khmer Krom (lower Cambodia) felt no bond with North Vietnam.
Thank you for getting this far in this Blog about The Rotary Club of Beaudesert's fourth visit to Cambodia. Your options now are many – scroll down through all the Blogs – look to the right and start with the 'About Us' section or any of the childrens sections. John.
Faintings in the Garment factories – WHY?
I have talked about the garment industry several times. (employs some 300,000 people at least and pays the lowest wages in South East Asia) Faintings are common and on the whole, factory owners plead innocent. All foreigners regard the factories as sheds of slave labour by default almost. There is no alternative job for the young people to earn money to send home to the Provinces.
This is a good article from an online publication called Global Voices. John.


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Q: Ruby NoMethodError exception calls #inspect by default I have found a weird problem in Ruby and I'm not quite sure if it is an issue or it's a feature introduced in recent Ruby versions.
Basically when we call an undefined method, we get an undefined method error as expected in Ruby. The issue is that it also calls inspect and prints out the object and all of its attributes/values. If my object is a complex one, it takes really long time to finish printing everything out and in many times it causes my local rails server to hang, especially when there is an attribute holding binary data. This issue does not seem to happen with Ruby 2.6 but Ruby >= 2.7.
For simple objects, that's not a problem but I'm specifically having the issue with this gem: puppeteer-ruby. Each object in this gem has lots of attributes and dependencies.
Here is an example, I run the following code in IRB with different Ruby version and getting different exceptions:
require 'puppeteer-ruby'
browser = Puppeteer.launch(headless: true)
browser.foo

Ruby 2.6.6
NoMethodError: undefined method `foo' for #<Puppeteer::Browser:0x00007fce2d553b30>
Did you mean?  for

Ruby 3.0.0
(irb):9:in `<main>': undefined method `foo' for #<Puppeteer::Browser:0x00007f9300550740 @ignore_https_errors=false, @default_viewport=#<Puppeteer::Viewport:0x00007f92ffbf8e90 @width=800, @height=600, @device_scale_factor=1.0, @is_mobile=false, @has_touch=false, @is_landscape=false>, @process=#<Puppeteer::BrowserRunner::BrowserProcess:0x00007f92fc5ae448 @spawnargs=["/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome", "--disable-background-networking", "--enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess", "--disable-background-timer-throttling", "--disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows", "--disable-breakpad", "--disable-client-side-phishing-detection", "--disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages", "--disable-default-apps", "--disable-dev-shm-usage", "--disable-extensions", "--disable-features=Translate", "--disable-hang-monitor", "--disable-ipc-flooding-protection", "--disable-popup-blocking", "--disable-prompt-on-repost", "--disable-renderer-backgrounding", "--disable-sync", "--force-color-profile=srgb", "--metrics-recording-only", "--no-first-run", "--enable-automation", "--password-store=basic", "--use-mock-keychain", "--enable-blink-features=IdleDetection", "--headless", "--hide-scrollbars", "--mute-audio", "about:blank", "--remote-debugging-port=0", "--user-data-dir=/var/folders/qn/kx4kb8xx5x13gx77yy2q56fr0000gn/T/puppeteer_dev_chrome_profile-20210910-25051-m7mnxb"], @stdout=#<IO:fd 24>, @stderr=#<IO:fd 26>,......very long text after this..

A: Thats interesting - inspect has always printed internal variables.
In the blame the last change to inspect was 9 years ago: rb_object_inspect#704
A simple script using 2.6:
> docker run -it ruby:2.6.6-alpine sh
#> ruby -v
ruby 2.6.6p146 (2020-03-31 revision 67876) [x86_64-linux-musl]
#> irb
irb(main):001:0> class Foo; def initialize(message); @message = message; end; end
=> :initialize
irb(main):002:0> Foo.new('hello').foo
NoMethodError (undefined method `foo' for #<Foo:0x00007f35e20e0280 @message="hello">)
Did you mean?  for

Though looking at the source for Puppeteer::Browser it seems they changed to a pure ruby implementation of the browser around 2 years ago. When they did that they introduced a lot of ivars to the class. Perhaps the version you're using changed between updating ruby from 2.6 to 3.0?
A simple fix would be to monkey patch inspect on Puppeteer::Browser, or send a PR to the maintainer - looks like the project is active on GitHub.

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The recent development of Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol (MLPPP) created a flurry of network adapters that increase bandwidth by letting you connect two or more modems in parallel. But these devices cost a few hundred dollars, plus the price of extra modems. Thankfully, FCR's LinkUPPP Turbo 3.0.2 can do the same thing without the extra cost. This software kit achieves up to 112-Kbps throughput by letting you combine the speed of two 56-Kbps modems.
LinkUPPP Turbo installs easily with a downloadable installer application that places the LinkUPPP control panel, an MLPPP extension, and electronic documentation on your hard disk. The installer thoughtfully removes any prior PPP dialers to prevent troublesome interactions. LinkUPPP Turbo inherits the extensive functionality of its previous incarnation: AppleTalk and TCP/IP support, a huge library of modem and log-in scripts (including ones for iMacs and 56-Kbps modems), and detailed diagnostics. Its elegant user interface simplifies basic configuration while providing access to advanced features, such as autodialing, redial on busy, and dynamic bandwidth expansion. Once a connection is running, you can open various status windows to display throughput and diagnostic information.
Before you connect to an Internet service provider or other remote-access server that supports MLPPP, make sure the remote service to which you connect has MLPPP enabled. LinkUPPP can dial up both connections immediately, or initially dial up one and add the second only if you need to speed remote access.
Unlike some stand-alone multimodem implementations, such as Ramp Networks' WebRamp M3I Plus, LinkUPPP Turbo doesn't depend on multiple TCP/IP data streams to achieve its rated 112-Kbps throughput. In tests, LinkUPPP Turbo hit this number consistently even with individual file transfers.


I'm always on the hunt for people who are doing content marketing really well. It's inspiring to find sites that are taking this whole process to heart. It also acts as a great resource anytime I need to boost my own creativity during this ongoing hunt for the perfect piece of content.
So when I found the Vertical Response blog earlier in the year, I felt like I had hit pay dirt. I wanted to dive in a bit deeper as they have been on point with their investment in high quality and resourceful content that seemed tailored rather well for their audience in the marketing space.
I reached out to Kim Stiglitz, the Content Marketing Director and superhero behind their brand strategy, to understand a bit more about their overall plans and how that reflects on day-to-day tactics.
Hey Kim, thanks for taking the time to do this, can you tell me about yourself?
I've been at Vertical Response for five years now, originally on the conversions team. After a bit I then moved to the retention team. We started to place a lot of focus on this "content concept" so our CEO asked me to own the strategy. Last year, we really started to run with it and now you can see the results on our blog and on our social channels.
Tell us a bit about your original content strategy, how did you get started?
I think the first thing we really focused on with each piece of content was answering a common question our current or potential customers would ask. These create really powerful evergreen content pieces. It was a great first step as it was pretty easy to find the questions most related to our core personas.
And how has this all evolved for you guys over time?
Well the simple fact we concluded early was that the more relevant the question was that we answered, the more engagement the content received. We turned this into a strategy where we wanted to start simplifying complex concepts into fun ideas.
We also started strategizing heavily around where to source the most useful questions and a resource quickly sprang up: our own customer service and sales teams. These folks talk daily with current and potential customers, so it makes complete sense that we should be basing our content off of their recommendations.
For customer service, it's a great way to find customer's pain points with a product or service and respond appropriately on the blog.
And for the sales team, we ask them consistently, "What are the hurdles you are having when trying to close a deal? What are potential customers hoping for?" It bolsters your credibility to have answers to potential questions prepared and published.
These are both great insights directly into what your content strategy should look like.
Any advice for brands looking to really step up their efforts in 2014?
I think one of the key things to think about is asking in EVERY scenario, "is there a story or resource in that?"
Almost anything that happens daily at a company should be up for consideration when brainstorming blog content. Was there an interesting conversation between creative and legal? Did a client ask a really interesting question? Could you publish a post about that? So many interesting things happen in any company that it only takes a bit of creativity to think of tons of fascinating content.
I also really recommend writing specifically for tailored audiences. There's a difference between someone who reads People Magazine and someone who reads Inc. It's important to remember this and really focus on a target reader with each piece.
Got any follow up questions for Kim? You can reach her on Twitter @stiggy1 or on the Vertical Response blog here.
Zendesk - Mixing humor, resources and interesting data, Zendesk is a great resource for any marketer or small business with a creative slant.
Mint.com - Great financial planning advice for all different levels of understanding. Deep dives into complicated topics that still read simple enough for someone who just wants to learn how to save.
Whole Foods Market - Recipes, health advice and great foodie news make this a must read for any food nut. One of the most playful designs of any major company as well, which fit their personas perfectly.
ThoughtWorks - Offering any team at the company a chance to flex a little muscle, the ThoughtWorks blog offers insights into the daily operations of a software company as well as acting as an industry news resource.
37 Signals - I doubt there is a brand more honest than 37 Signals. Commonly penned by founder Jason Fried, 37 signals does a great job writing about business philosophy as well as giving a window into the daily operations of one of the internet's hottest startups.
Patagonia - As a huge outdoor nut, I love reading stories about grand outdoor adventures. Patagonia features these stories with little focus on their product.


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Q: Changing the tint of a bitmap while preserving the overall brightness I'm trying to write a function that will let me red-shift or blue-shift a bitmap while preserving the overall brightness of the image.  Basically, a fully red-shifted bitmap would have the same brightness as the original but be thoroughly red-tinted (i.e. the G and B values would be equal for all pixels).  Same for blue-tinting (but with R and G equal).  The degree of spectrum shifting needs to vary from 0 to 1.
Thanks in advance.

A: Here is the effect I was looking for (crappy JPEG, sorry):
alt text http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/d15ff241ca.jpg
The image in the middle is the original, and the side images are fully red-shifted, partially red-shifted, partially blue-shifted and fully blue-shifted, respectively.
And here is the function that produces this effect:
public void RedBlueShift(Bitmap bmp, double factor)
{
    byte R = 0;
    byte G = 0;
    byte B = 0;
    byte Rmax = 0;
    byte Gmax = 0;
    byte Bmax = 0;
    double avg = 0;
    double normal = 0;
    if (factor > 1)
    {
        factor = 1;
    }
    else if (factor < -1)
    {
        factor = -1;
    }
    for (int x = 0; x < bmp.Width; x++)
    {
        for (int y = 0; y < bmp.Height; y++)
        {
            Color color = bmp.GetPixel(x, y);
            R = color.R;
            G = color.G;
            B = color.B;
            avg = (double)(R + G + B) / 3;
            normal = avg / 255.0; // to preserve overall intensity
            if (factor < 0) // red-tinted:
            {
                if (normal < .5)
                {
                    Rmax = (byte)((normal / .5) * 255);
                    Gmax = 0;
                    Bmax = 0;
                }
                else
                {
                    Rmax = 255;
                    Gmax = (byte)(((normal - .5) * 2) * 255);
                    Bmax = Gmax;
                }
                R = (byte)((double)R - ((double)(R - Rmax) * -factor));
                G = (byte)((double)G - ((double)(G - Gmax) * -factor));
                B = (byte)((double)B - ((double)(B - Bmax) * -factor));
            }
            else if (factor > 0) // blue-tinted:
            {
                if (normal < .5)
                {
                    Rmax = 0;
                    Gmax = 0;
                    Bmax = (byte)((normal / .5) * 255);
                }
                else
                {
                    Rmax = (byte)(((normal - .5) * 2) * 255);
                    Gmax = Rmax;
                    Bmax = 255;
                }
                R = (byte)((double)R - ((double)(R - Rmax) * factor));
                G = (byte)((double)G - ((double)(G - Gmax) * factor));
                B = (byte)((double)B - ((double)(B - Bmax) * factor));
            }
            color = Color.FromArgb(R, G, B);
            bmp.SetPixel(x, y, color);
        }
    }
}

A: You'd use the ColorMatrix class for this.  There's a good tutorial available in this project.


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Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Aspen
Selected WorksInstallation ViewsThumbnails
SADIE BENNING
Untitled, 11x16 (EE)
Aqua resin, wood panel and acrylic gouache
16 by 11 in. 40.6 by 27.9 cm.
Untitled, 11x16 (FF)
Untitled, 11x16 (KK)
Wipe, Rust-oleum White, Montana Gold Blue Magic
Medite 2, spray paint, dowels and plaster
14 1/2 by 18 1/2 in. 36.8 by 47 cm.
WALEAD BESHTY
Six Sided Picture 001
Color photograph
62 by 50 in. 157.5 by 127 cm.
SARAH BRAMAN
Blue coffee
Painted aluminum and glass
23 by 19 3/4 by 28 in. 58.4 by 50.2 by 71.1 cm.
JAY DEFEO
16 1/8 by 12 in. 41 by 30.5 cm.
KELTIE FERRIS
loving u rn
Oil on canvas in the artist's frame
Canvas: 90 by 60 in. 228.6 by 152.4 cm.
Framed: 93 by 63 by 3 in. 236.2 by 160 by 7.6 cm.
Oil and vinyl paint on canvas in the artist's frame
Canvas: 50 by 50 in. 127 by 127 cm.
Framed: 53 by 53 in. 134.6 by 134.6 cm.
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Oil and collage on canvas
42 1/4 by 42 1/4 in. 107.3 by 107.3 cm.
JACK GOLDSTEIN
Signed, inscribed and dated
NANCY GRAVES
Geological Survey, Egton, England
Signed and dated 72
22 1/2 by 30 in. 57.2 by 76.2 cm.
KARL HAENDEL
Graphite and ink on paper
45 by 62 1/2 in. 114.3 by 158.8 cm.
Cat With Scarf
53.5 by 45 in. 135.9 by 114.3 cm.
CHRIS JOHANSON
Acrylic and household paint on canvas
11 3/4 by 15 1/4 in. 29.8 by 38.7 cm.
The Importance of Importance
21 7/8 by 22 1/8 in 55.6 by 56.2 cm
POPE.L
Black is Beautiful (Starry Night)
Vinyl on colored pvc
Diptych, each: 12 by 11 in. 30.5 by 27.9 cm.
Translucent Theary
Oil, acrylic and ink on panel
Hands and Wrist
Neon, unique
13 1/2 by 90 by 2 1/4 in. 34.3 by 228.6 by 5.7 cm.
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER
Confounded Moonrise
Metal and plastic computer parts, plaster, acrylic paint, oil paint and hardware
14 by 10 1/2 by 7 in. 35.6 by 26.7 by 17.8 cm.
Wood panel, plastic tarp, metal foil, iPhone, oil paint, acrylic paint, plastic mesh, silicone adhesive and hardware
Pills, leaves, oil and resin on board
72 by 54 in. 182.9 by 137.2 cm.
JACK WHITTEN
520 East Hyman Avenue
Wednesday–Friday, 11 AM – 6 PM
Saturday & Sunday, 12 PM– 5 PM
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce the opening of its new seasonal exhibition space and first presentation in Aspen, Colorado, open to the public from June 18–August 15, 2021. Located kitty-corner from the Aspen Art Museum, the one thousand square foot storefront space will host new works by gallery artists Keltie Ferris, Gerasimos Floratos, Karl Haendel, Chris Johanson, Eddie Martinez, and Jessica Stockholder, in addition to a series of thematic groupings of gallery artists in dialogue with other leading contemporary artists.
The first thematic presentation is a trio of prominent Pictures generation artists: Jack Goldstein, Annette Lemieux and Cindy Sherman. Lemieux's photographic diptych Fumée (2015) depicts the artist with her head thrown back with a cigarette and a plume of smoke emanating from her mouth. The composition, directly inspired by a Man Ray photograph, is a striking yet unusual vantage – one which, from a distance, could be construed for an active volcano. Jack Goldstein's Untitled (1981) is an early and rare work in which Goldstein appropriates a Hollywood-style film still of a soldier jumping out of a fighter plane. Goldstein creates a tension between a sense of fear or consequence in the fall and impending fight, and a sense of spontaneity and freedom. Cindy Sherman's Untitled #99 (1982) comes from the artist's Pink Robes series of four photographs, each featuring the artist in a pink bathrobe. Unmediated by theatrical or cinematic references, these intimate works raise questions about naturalism and vulnerability as forms of disguise.
The second thematic grouping looks at the practice of collage in representational and abstract art with works by Sadie Benning, Gerasimos Floratos, Pope.L, Jessica Stockholder and Tom Wesselmann. Jessica Stockholder's sprawling constructions have played a crucial role in expanding the dialogue between sculpture and painting and form and space. With the two new works presented in Aspen, Confounded Moonrise (2021) and Melodrama (2020) Stockholder merges seemingly disparate, everyday objects such as plastic computer parts, hardware, wood panels, plastic tarp and an iPhone to create holistic, colorful works that hover between painting and sculpture. An early Tom Wesselmann, Portrait Collage #9 (1959), sees the artist use printed papers, postcards, cardy wrappers, leaves and trimmed textiles to create an intimate interior. Finally, new and recent works by Sadie Benning, Gerasimos Floratos and Pope.L will round out the exploration of collage as a creative technique.
GALLERY NIGHT AUGUST 5
AUGUST 5 GALLERY MAP
Annette Lemieux
Eddie Martinez
by Andrew Travers
A Chelsea mega-gallery comes West; Mitchell-Innes & Nash pop-up runs through Aug. 15
When the coronavirus pandemic shuttered its influential New York gallery and canceled art fairs worldwide, the gallerists at Mitchell-Innes & Nash went looking for new ideas. Among them was the concept of going into the hinterlands beyond Manhattan to host pop-ups and find collectors where they were as the rhythms of life were altered everywhere. Pop-ups, they believed, could replace art fairs."We wanted to be able to supplement what was a significant part of our business," Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery partner Courtney Willis Blair said last week in their new Aspen pop-up.

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ParlInfo - Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth [electronic resource] : Pathways from School to Further Education or Work: Examining the Consequences of Year 12 Course Choices.
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[S.l.] : Australian Council for Educational Research, 2005.


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President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday 100 thousand new jobs will be created each year through Colombia's Free Trade Agreement with the United States, which started Tuesday.
"When one takes stock of winners and losers, the winners are in spades," Santos said in an interview with Radio Caracol.
"Economists say economic growth will increase from between 0.5% to 1% and [the FTA will create] 100,000 good quality jobs per year. And that's the results that interests me most," he added.
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An Oxfam report publicized Monday said the deal could bankrupt small farmers and would lead to a 16% reduction in income for Colombia's 1.8 million farmers.
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[0:55] <Laurenceb_> so why the jumper?
[1:00] <Laurenceb_> rather than boot in some jtag mode?
[1:00] <Laurenceb_> cuz you screwed up the boot pins?
[1:51] * Skummel pets PiBot and says with the same voice you use when talking to babies "oh you are a nice bot"
[4:48] <Thorn_> beta board video uploaded!
[5:55] <DaQatz> Please excuse the absence of pibot. Someone at home thought it would be a good idea to shutdown all my systems. Incluing my server.
[6:00] <DaQatz> Well, just a little annoyed.
[6:00] <DaQatz> Since that means I completely lack access to my systems till after the new year.
[6:01] <piofcube> One of the reasons I shifted all my computers up into the loft... Less change chance of pully-wrong-plug for vacuum and other distractions.
[6:03] <DaQatz> A room that well said person has no reason to be in.
[6:03] <DaQatz> Since he lacks the passwords. He would also have to literally have to pull the plugs to shut them down.
[6:07] <DaQatz> And that is one of the reasons I'm annoyed.
[6:16] <piofcube> I wonder if the IOIO for Android would be a good interface between a mobile and the R-Pi... Just getting some stuff together for projects.
[6:33] <DaQatz> Oh hmm I see to do through r-pi's io pins.
[6:34] <DaQatz> Sounds a little cumbersome to me.
[6:34] <DaQatz> Though may work well, it depends on what you're trying to do.
[15:33] <Byan> interesting "scheduled maint"
[16:36] <merlin1991> new forum is supposed to be shinier?
[22:59] <azalyn> i'm looking for the alan cox thread on the raspberrypi.org forums.. i can't seem to find it.. does anyone know if they've deleted it or something?
[23:00] <azalyn> or maybe they switched to a new url format.. but i still can't find it even with a forum search..
[23:03] <friggle> Alan Cox has commented in several threads, what thread did you mean?
[23:06] <friggle> mdavey: what's it for? link?
[23:07] <azalyn> friggle: the 'infamous' one where he allegedly criticizes the binary blob for the gpu.
[23:07] <azalyn> i say 'allegedly' because i haven't read it myself of course. i just saw it linked from the article on the register.
[23:07] <mdavey> its to keep us all busy speculating while the team get a well deserved xmas break with family.
[23:09] <azalyn> that's the forum link on the register.
[23:13] <azalyn> hm.. at least if there was a way to convert the thread IDs, but i don't think there is.. the new format seems to be a text format.
[23:13] <Dagger3> when was the elreg article posted?
[23:15] <azalyn> the register article? november 28th.
[23:17] <mdavey> azalyn: I'd suggest PM'ing or emailing Liz - she can probably convert the url for you. But be aware that they are now on holiday for a few days.
[23:20] <azalyn> i'm in no hurry. i'm just hoping it wasn't deleted or something.
[23:20] <azalyn> by pm i assume you mean on the forum itself? not here on irc?
[23:21] <azalyn> friggle: i'm reading it now. thanks.
[23:21] <azalyn> it does in fact look like this might be it.
[23:22] <mdavey> There havn't been any deletes - all the old threads are there - just the urls have changed.
[23:23] <mdavey> friggle: ah, okay.
[23:25] <azalyn> ohh, that's clever.
[23:25] <mdavey> As long as Liz still has the old db, a bunch of apache url rewriting rules could be added.
[23:25] <azalyn> ah, yeah, that probably makes more sense, mdavey.
[23:27] <azalyn> although i have seen strange forums that will link to a page with just that one post on them. which is so weird.
[23:28] <azalyn> anyways, thanks for the help guys.


Is there away to set Moviestorm to save and grab files from a network location? I would like to have the students take different jobs in creating the movie and be able to access the files from multiple computers (at different time). This way the set designer can design sets and make them available for the rest of the team easily.
At the moment, no, although it is something we have been thinking about.
At the moment, for stock sets and stock characters, your best bet is to desigate a network location for students to share stock, and let each student copy to and from that location.
Each item of stock gets it's own folder - you can transfer that folder to another user, who needs to put it in their Stock folder to use it.
how do you think it is possible to improve Moviestorm in the internet and to make it more popular.?


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Ideology-Commune-Labor International Opinion
Trump's advisers slander socialism: a reply to White House lies – part three
November 29, 2018 orinocotribune	Alan Woods, communism, Ideology, International, Opinion
In the third part of Alan Woods' reply to Trump's advisers' so-called empirical critique of socialism, he addresses their gross mischaracterisation of the Nordic economies, Venezuela and the USSR. Alan also refutes the accusation that socialism will inevitably lead to food shortages and economic ruin; and responds to the falsehood that socialists want to "nationalise everything".
Part one | part two
Scandinavian socialism?
"Although they are sometimes cited as more relevant socialist success stories, the experiences of the Nordic countries also support the conclusion that socialism reduces living standards. In many respects, the Nordic countries' policies now differ significantly from what economists have in mind when they think of socialism. For instance, they do not provide healthcare for 'free'; Nordic healthcare financing includes substantial cost sharing. Marginal labor income tax rates in the Nordic countries today are only somewhat higher than in the United States, and Nordic taxation overall is surprisingly less progressive than US taxes. The Nordic countries also tax capital income less and regulate product markets less than the United States does. However, the Nordic countries do regulate and tax labor markets somewhat more; thus, American families earning the average wage would be taxed $2,000 to $5,000 more per year net of transfers if the United States had current Nordic policies. Living standards in the Nordic countries are at least 15% lower than in the United States.
"It may well be that American socialists are envisioning moving our policies to align with those of the Nordic countries in the 1970s, when their policies were more in line with economists' traditional definition of socialism. We estimate that if the United States were to adopt these policies, its real GDP would decline by at least 19% in the long run, or about $11,000 per year for the average person."
This document, which masquerades as a piece of independent, scientific and "empirical" research, is no such thing. The authors have carefully selected pieces of "evidence" in order to show that socialism is a "bad idea." In reality, however, the very fact that they felt compelled to produce such a document, shows that they are worried about the growing interest in socialism.
Under the pressure of the working class and the labour movement, the capitalist class of certain countries has carried through certain measures in the interest of the workers, such as public health services. That was the case in the Nordic countries in the decades of economic upswing after World War II.
At that time, the capitalists could afford it. But the crisis of capitalism has hit Scandinavia as hard as everyone else, and instead of reforms, we now see cuts and austerity measures. As is stated in the document, it is not true that healthcare is provided as a 'free' gift of the state in most Nordic countries. Health care is only free in Denmark. In Norway, Sweden and Finland, it costs money, although there is only a nominal charge of $25–$76, which is intended to deter overuse. But this would be considered an enormous advance by most American workers, compared to the prohibitive costs of healthcare in the States.
Nordic workers have more benefits than their US counterparts, such as healthcare, education, and housing regulation. However, Scandinavia has joined the rest of the capitalist world in a rapid and never-ending race to the bottom / Image: Villy Fink Isaksen
The dismissive attitude of the authors of the document towards Scandinavia, in any case, is very dishonest. They attempt to present living standards in the USA as superior to the Nordic countries. This is profoundly misleading. Although these countries are very far from being socialist, they are ahead of the USA in many respects, thanks to the conquests made by the labour movement in the past.
The Human Development Index, which includes things such as life expectancy, places the US at number 13 in the world, while Finland is 15. But Denmark 11, Sweden is 7, Iceland is 6, and Norway is number one. Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Finland all have a higher life expectancy than the USA.
What is very clear is that Nordic workers have more benefits, such as healthcare, education, and housing regulation. And although the average wage in the US is high, that masks the fact that it is very unequal, with low-paid workers having very little money compared to their Nordic counterparts. In addition, US workers have to work many more hours, or have more than one job, to stay afloat.
But let's not get too starry-eyed about the so-called Swedish model of "socialism." The countries of Scandinavia, like all the other European countries, have nothing to do with socialism. They are fundamentally based on private ownership of the means of production and function according to the laws of the free market economy. Certain consequences inevitably flow from this fact.
The welfare state, particularly in Sweden but also in the other Nordic countries, has been severely cut back since the mid-80s. That includes making taxation less progressive and ending subsidies of dental care, etc. Income inequality has also increased dramatically. The Gini coefficient (which measures inequality) in Sweden rose from 0.2 in 1980 to 0.33 in 2013. Homelessness, mental health, stress at work, etc. have become serious problems.
In other words, Scandinavia has joined the rest of the capitalist world in a rapid and never-ending race to the bottom. And this has nothing whatsoever to do with socialism.
Capitalism can seriously damage your health
Relentlessly pursuing their vendetta against Scandinavia—and any other country that shows the slightest leaning in the direction of "socialism"—the document continues:
"The Nordic and European versions of socialized medicine have been viewed as so desirable by modern US socialists that they have proposed nationalizing payments for the healthcare sector (which makes up more than a sixth of the US economy) through the recent "Medicare for All" proposal. This policy would distribute healthcare for 'free' (i.e., without cost sharing) through a monopoly government health insurer that would centrally set all prices paid to suppliers such as doctors and hospitals. We find that if this policy were financed out of current Federal spending without borrowing or tax increases, then more than half the entire existing Federal budget would need to be cut. Or if it were financed through higher taxes, GDP would fall by 9%, or about $7,000 per person in 2022, due to high tax rates that would reduce incentives to supply the factors of production. Evidence on the productivity and effectiveness of single-payer systems suggests that 'Medicare for All' would reduce both short- and long-run longevity and health despite increasing somewhat the population with health insurance."
It would appear that the whole of the American Right views the very idea of a free public health service like something out of a horror movie. The very mention of it is sufficient to send good Republicans reaching for their Colt .45s. If the capitalists could bottle the air they would charge us to breathe! Yet a public health service is considered by the overwhelming majority of Europeans—not just in Scandinavia—as a fundamental precondition for a civilised life.
The CEA carefully avoids mentioning the exorbitant profits of the big pharmaceutical companies and HMOs in the USA. They never mention the terrible misery suffered by those millions of Americans without healthcare. They try to conceal the facts by generalising everything, citing GDP averages and income per-capita, instead of looking at the class basis of the unequal distribution of wealth in America. The lack of a decent system of public health remains a gaping hole that disfigures American society.
The authors of the document paint a frightening picture of a monster state crushing American citizens under a mountain of taxation. But if we are to finance decent public services, an adequate level of taxation is clearly necessary. The question is: who should pay the bill?
We have already pointed out that in America, as in every other country, the rich do not pay much in taxes. Almost the entire burden of taxation is placed on the shoulders of the working class and small businesses. That is why the Republican battle cry of "no taxes!" gets a certain amount of sympathy from the public. But there is no reason why taxes should hit the poor harder than the rich.
The very notion that the richest country on earth cannot afford to look after the health and welfare of its citizens is an affront to their intelligence. The question is not whether America can afford to provide good healthcare. The question is: can America afford not to do so? Quite apart from the human cost in suffering, pain and death, there is a very high economic price to be paid for neglecting the health of the population in lost hours, days, weeks and years of labour.
Good healthcare should not be a luxury available only to people on high incomes. It is a necessary investment in the future of society. The American Declaration of Independence put forward the idea that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable human rights. But how can human life be protected if there is no guarantee that the health of the human species will be maintained? And what does the pursuit of happiness amount to if men and women are constantly dogged by the fear of illness or healthcare-related financial ruin?
Freedom from fear is surely also an inalienable right. And it is a condemnation of the priorities of US society today that it places more stress on the right to make profits than it does on the preservation of the health of its citizens. We are in favour of taxing the wealthy and nationalising the healthcare sector in order to pay for free healthcare for all. For a start, all indirect taxation should be abolished as unjust and falling on the shoulders of the people who can least afford it. Instead, this should be a heavily progressive income tax imposed on the people who can most afford to pay—the rich.
But what about Russia?
The defenders of capitalism have been using the scarecrow of Stalinism to frighten people away from the idea of socialism, just as parents try to frighten their naughty children by referring them to the bogeyman. The people of America are not little children, and are not so easily frightened as perhaps they used to be. But that does not stop the defenders of capitalism from dragging in the bogeyman at every available opportunity:
"We begin our investigation by looking closely at the most highly socialist cases, which are typically agricultural economies, such as Maoist China, Cuba, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Their nondemocratic governments seized control of farming, promising to make food more abundant. The result was substantially less food production and tens of millions of deaths by starvation."
Is it really true that the nationalised economy in the Soviet Union never produced anything except a collapse in production and living standards? Let us look at the facts. In 1917, tsarist Russia was a tremendously backward country. In many ways, it was more backward than Pakistan today. Before 1917 there were only around four million industrial workers in a country of 150 million, mostly-illiterate people. In other words, tsarist Russia was substantially more backward than Bolivia or Peru are today. So how did it go from being an extremely backward country to becoming the world's second power after the United States?
The truth is that the Soviet Union's transformation is one of the most remarkable phenomena in world history. For all the bourgeois lying, twisting and slandering to try at all costs to underrate and deny the Soviets' impressive accomplishments, this transformation – with no historical precedent – highlights the superiority of the nationalised planned economy over capitalist anarchy.
The Soviets' impressive accomplishments highlight the superiority of the nationalised planned economy over capitalist anarchy. In the 1950s and 1960s, the US Central Intelligence Agency admitted the Soviets had a definite edge in many fields, including space exploration / Image: Flickr, Iván Abrego
In a couple of decades, the Soviet Union built a powerful industrial base, which paved the way for educational, scientific and cultural progress. No less important were their breakthroughs in healthcare and medical science. World War II revealed the Soviet Union's massive superiority in the military field. The war in Europe was reduced to a titanic struggle between the USSR and Hitler's Germany, supported by resources seized from all over Europe. Both the Americans and the British were mere spectators up to the last minute.
After the war, and despite the loss of 27 million of its citizens—half the total number of casualties worldwide—and the destruction of most of its productive forces, so painstakingly created by the Soviet working class, the Soviet Union managed to rebuild its economy in just a few years. In the 1950s and 1960s, the US Central Intelligence Agency admitted the Soviets had a definite edge in many fields, including space exploration.
In the last analysis, the bureaucracy undermined and destroyed the nationalised planned economy. The great Russian Marxist, Leon Trotsky, explained that a nationalised planned economy needs democracy as much as the human body needs oxygen. It goes without saying that Trotsky wasn't talking about the caricature of democracy that exists in the West, where a small minority of wealthy parasites own the land, the banks and the monopolies. He was talking about the real, Soviet democracy established in Russia after the victory in 1917.
What failed in the Soviet Union was neither socialism nor communism, but a bureaucratic, totalitarian caricature of socialism.
To the enemies of socialism, the collapse of the Soviet Union is the ultimate proof that Marxism failed and socialism is impossible. They spoke about the end of socialism and communism, and even the end of history itself. However, the bourgeoisie's joy following the fall of the Berlin Wall was rather premature. The events of the last 26 years provide enough hard evidence that history is far from over. Everywhere, we witness the deep crisis of capitalism, characterised by wars, revolutions and counterrevolutions. This is the most unstable period since the end of World War II.
We might add that Francis Fukuyama, the man who coined the notorious phrase about the "end of history," now says that "socialism" ought to make a comeback!
And Venezuela?
The old B-movies of the 1950s were often horror films about alien monsters from outer space or zombies rising from the dead. But nowadays, these monsters have lost their power to shock and actually seem rather cute. In the same way, through constant repetition, the old stories about Russia have lost a lot of their impact. So, the old scarecrow must be supplemented by a new one. Here we go:
"Even if highly socialist policies are peacefully implemented under the auspices of democracy, the fundamental incentive distortions and information problems created by large state organizations and the centralized control of resources are also present in industrialized countries, as is currently the case in Venezuela. Lessons from poorly performing agricultural economies under socialist regimes carry over to government takeovers of other modern industries: They produce less rather than more."
It is interesting to note that, when dealing with Venezuela (which it mentions only in passing, without any pretence of a serious analysis) the document tacitly admits that the Bolivarian revolution was in fact "peacefully implemented under the auspices of democracy". This makes a refreshing change when compared to the constant barrage of propaganda that for 20 years or more persisted in describing Hugo Chavez as a "dictator".
As a matter of fact, Chavez won more elections and other democratic consultations than any other politician in the world. Nor can it be said that these elections were rigged, since they were scrutinised with microscopic precision by international observers, including former US President Jimmy Carter. Had the observers found even the slightest indication of electoral fraud, it would have been shouted from the rooftops by every newspaper and TV channel in the world. But no such evidence was ever found.
The USA has backed every vicious, blood-soaked dictatorship there ever was in Latin America: from Somoza to Batista and from Pinochet to Noriega. So whatever problem the gentlemen in Washington may have had with Hugo Chavez, you may be absolutely sure that the question of dictatorship or democracy had nothing to do with it.
Anastasio Somoza was well known to be a ruthless dictator, yet the United States continued to support his regime as a non-communist stronghold in Nicaragua. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) allegedly remarked in 1939 that, "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." The problem with Chavez—the only problem—was that, unlike Somoza, he was not the obedient servant of Washington.
The fact that Chavez was elected by landslide majorities cannot be explained by the authors of the document. They never mention the fact that Chavez used the money from the sale of oil to provide the Venezuelan people for the first time with free healthcare and education. The money was used to build houses, schools and hospitals. And Chavez gave the poor people a voice and a cause. He gave them hope for the future, which they never had before.
No-one can doubt the colossal popularity of Chavez, the reasons for which would be self-evident to any honest observer. In the beginning, he did not speak of socialism, nor did he nationalise anything, limiting himself to social reforms to benefit the people and a new and very democratic constitution. Despite this (or rather, because of it) the Venezuelan oligarchy denounced him as a "communist". The USA and its agents in Caracas were determined to get rid of him and they organised a violent coup to oust him in April 2002.
That coup was organised with the active participation of the American embassy and the CIA, which has been a common feature of Latin American politics for decades. The coup was supported by the bankers and capitalists (it was headed by the president of the Venezuelan employers' organisation), with the active participation of generals, police chiefs, the media (which played a key role in mobilising for the coup), and the Roman Catholic Church.
Trying to regulate capitalism instead of abolishing it leads to disaster. That is the real lesson of Venezuela, and of all other attempts to reform capitalism / Image: chavezcandanga
The coup was defeated by a spontaneous movement of the masses, and overthrown in the space of 48 hours. These facts were never explained to the US public, who for decades has been fed a constant stream of lies, distortions and falsifications intended to discredit the Bolivarian Revolution. This was, however, only the tip of a very large and ugly iceberg.
US imperialism saw in the Venezuelan revolution a deadly threat that had to be overthrown at all costs. It took steps to isolate Venezuela internationally and to wreck its economy by vicious sanctions. Together with the falling price of oil, which hit Venezuela's main industry hard, the economy was seriously damaged. To a very large extent, the crisis we now see in Venezuela was the result of the aggressive policy of US imperialism. Economic sabotage was an important part of the attempt to overthrow a regime that it saw as inimical to its interests.
It is true, however, that the present economic collapse was also due to other factors. The problem of the Venezuelan revolution is not that it went too far in introducing socialist measures, but that it did not go far enough. It stopped short of expropriating key sectors of private industry. The Venezuelan capitalists were allowed to continue their policy (with the active involvement of the USA) of sabotaging the country through a strike of capital that crippled an already weakened economy, hoarding foodstuffs and other basic commodities in order to create shortages and increase inflation.
All history shows that it is impossible to carry out half a revolution. An economy can be run on capitalist lines or on socialist lines. But it cannot be a hybrid in which elements of nationalisation and state regulation co-exist with elements of a market economy. That is a finished recipe for chaos, which is what we now see in Venezuela.
A further factor that undermined the nationalised sectors of the economy was the elimination of workers' control and the imposition of a bureaucratic regime modelled on Stalinism. This helped to strangle the nascent socialist economy, leading to massive corruption, waste and inefficiency. This is precisely what destroyed the USSR, and is also places the future of the Venezuelan revolution in question.
What all this shows, however, is not the superiority of capitalist market economics over socialist planning, but the need for genuine socialist planning, which must be conducted on democratic lines. It certainly does not provide any justification for reformist half measures. Trying to regulate capitalism instead of abolishing it leads to disaster. That is the real lesson of Venezuela, and of all other attempts to reform capitalism.
Socialism in the USA
Having presented a completely distorted and one-sided picture of the kind of "socialism" that has been introduced in Venezuela, Russia and China, the authors of the document then engage in a weird and wonderful piece of futuristic imagining. What would be the effects of socialist planning if it were introduced in the USA? The authors naturally have a ready-made answer to this intriguing question:
"These countries are examples of a more general pattern of socialism's negative output effects. Such outcomes have also been observed in cross-country studies of the effect of greater economic freedom—quantified as an index of taxation and public spending, the extent of state-owned enterprises, economic regulation, and other factors—on real gross domestic product (GDP). This literature finds a strong association between greater economic freedom and better economic performance. It suggests that replacing US policies with highly socialist policies, such as Venezuela's, would reduce real GDP at least 40% in the long run, or about $24,000 per year for the average person."
So, there we have it! Socialism in the USA would mean a reduction in real GDP of at least 40 percent "in the long run," and a resulting catastrophic collapse of living standards. We do not know how long "the long run" might be. But what we do know is that living standards in the USA have been falling, or in the best-case scenario stagnating, for the majority of the population for quite some time. As we have already pointed out, many families in the richest country in the world are living on the borderline of poverty, or below it. Many people are homeless. Many more have no health insurance, and are constantly faced with the fear of falling ill.
The authors of the document, like the present incumbent of the White House itself, are blissfully unaware of these facts. For them, to paraphrase the famous sentence from Voltaire's Candide, everything is for the best in the best of all capitalist worlds. And anyone crazy enough to call this capitalist paradise into question is immediately invited to examine the situation in Venezuela, as a terrible warning of what socialism in the USA would signify.
On the basis of advanced technology, it would be possible to implement socialist planning in the USA on a democratic basis, involving the entire population. Not only the workers, but also the scientists, technicians, economists, managers and other professional people would be involved in drawing up a democratic plan of production, and also supervising its implementation.
The powerful democratic instincts of the American people, and that strong sense of individual rights and freedoms that have been inherited from its revolutionary past also provides a serious guarantee against any attempt to impose bureaucratic or totalitarian rule. On the contrary, from the very beginning, the people would be able to submit everything to a rigorous democratic scrutiny.
Do we want to nationalise everything?
The document states:
"The CEA does not expect that socialist policies would cause food shortages in the United States, because socialists are no longer proposing to nationalize food production. Rather, the historical experience with agriculture is relevant because it involved economic disincentives, central planning, and a state monopoly over a sector that was large when socialism was introduced—similar to healthcare today. The historical evidence suggests that the socialist program for the US would make shortages, or otherwise degrade quality, of whatever product or service is put under a public monopoly. The pace of innovation would slow, and living standards generally would be lower. These are the opportunity costs of socialism from a modern American perspective."
We are greatly relieved to discover that the introduction of socialism in the United States will not immediately signify a famine of biblical proportions. Thank goodness for small mercies! However, we do not know which American socialists are "no longer proposing to nationalise food production," since they are not named. Nor does the CEA define what exactly do they mean by "food production."
If they mean that we do not advocate nationalising the property of small farmers, they are quite correct. But if they mean that we are not going to nationalise the big agricultural firms and the big companies that control things like transportation, chemicals and fertilisers, and above all, the big supermarkets and food monopolies, they are very much mistaken.
In arguing against socialism, the right-wing defenders of market economics frequently attempt to frighten the middle-class, the small farmer, the small shopkeeper, the small businessperson, that "the socialists want to nationalise everything," they want to bring everything under the suffocating control of the bureaucratic state monopoly, and so on and so forth.
That is completely untrue. What socialists propose is the expropriation of the big banks and monopolies that oppress and exploit the people—not only the working class, but also the middle class and small producers. The banks, for example, rigidly control the supply of credit and charge exorbitant rates of interest and other charges that cripple small businesses. A nationalised banking system would provide a free flow of cheap credit to the small farmer and shopkeeper.
In fact, the proof that big business is profoundly hostile to private initiative and the interests of the small producer is precisely agriculture. The small farmer and his family work hard to produce the milk, butter, meat, fruit and vegetables that people need. But the farmers do not receive a fair return for their hard work. The big supermarket chains pay absurdly low prices for agricultural produce, while charging exorbitant prices to the consumer for the same produce.
But the robbery perpetrated against the small farmer does not stop there. The big transport companies take their cut, as do the big chemical and seed companies that charge high prices for the products they sell. In order to improve the position of the small farmer, it is necessary to eliminate the middleman. By expropriating the big banks and monopolies that suck the blood of small producers, it will be possible both to provide a decent standard of living for the farmers and at the same time lower the price of food for the consumer.
By expropriating the big banks and monopolies, it will be possible both to provide a decent standard of living for the farmers and at the same time lower the price of food for the consumer. This was proved in Paris in 1968, where food supplies were arranged, with prices fixed by the workers and peasants / Image: public domain
We can give a concrete example of this by referring to the great general strike that occurred in May 1968 in France. The striking workers established contact with the peasant organisations in the rural areas, and food supplies were arranged, with prices fixed by the workers and peasants. To prevent profiteering, shops had to display a sticker in the window with the words: "This shop is authorised to open. Its prices are under permanent supervision by the unions." The sticker was signed by the unions. As a result, a litre of milk was sold for 50 centimes compared to the normal 80. A kilo of potatoes was cut from 70 centimes to 12; a kilo of carrots from 80 to 50, and so on.
By cutting out the middleman, everybody gains—except the fat cats on Wall Street. But their sorrows do not particularly concern us, or anybody else, for that matter. The fact of the matter is that the small producers are already oppressed and exploited by monopolies. The only difference is that, under capitalism, these monopolies are in private hands and only exist for the purpose of squeezing profits from the labour of the working class and the small producers. By substituting state monopoly for private monopoly, the profit motive is eliminated, and the producer and the consumer both gain a tremendous amount.
Socialists have no interest whatsoever in nationalising small businesses. Actually, small businesses can operate in certain sectors of the economy quite efficiently, for example, the small corner shop or bar. There would be absolutely no point in nationalising them. We need to nationalise the big monopolies and banks because, in so doing, we obtain control of the main levers of economic life—the commanding heights of the economy—as they have been called.
Once we have control of the banks and big monopolies, will be able to plan the economy in the interests of society at large. The fundamental difference is that whereas under capitalism the private monopolies only represent the interests of a tiny privileged minority, under socialism the state and the nationalised industries will be owned and controlled by the working class who constitute the overwhelming majority of society.
This is the difference between the caricature of democracy that now exists, where no matter who sits in the White House, it is always the 1 percent of super-rich parasites who decide what happens, and a genuine socialist democracy, which hands both economic and political power to the majority of people who really create the wealth of society.
It may be that, in the long run, small shopkeepers and farmers will decide that they are better off working in publicly owned enterprises, where they will undoubtedly work fewer hours with better conditions. But that decision must be taken voluntarily by them. In the meantime, the small farmer will be free to work the land as before, but will be sure of an infinitely better deal than was the case when he was enslaved to the big banks and monopolies.
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