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Coronavirus: A warning from history
Indian pangolin. Some people believe coronavirus entered the human domain because the pangolin (found in Africa and Asia) is considered a delicacy in China
ADELAIDE - I spent 32 years working in various capacities within the health, hospital and aged care sector.
It was a continuous learning experience for me and one which, despite the anxiety and distress it sometimes generated, was richly rewarding in providing insights into the nature of humanity.
A fascinating part of my long term learning experience was working in the public and environmental health division of South Australia's department of health.
Over a period of about four years I was exposed to information relating to all manner of public health issues ranging from the basics of disease, dunnies and drains through to the more esoteric but no less important worlds of radiation physics, pharmacology, food technology, epidemiology and communicable disease.
Public health as a speciality is often regarded by doctors as a slightly quaint branch of medicine, a place where failed clinicians tend to congregate.
This is a very unfair characterisation of the discipline which is undoubtedly the most important and effective in protecting overall public health.
Imagine what sort of world we would live in if the sewage system ceased to function properly or the water supply became tainted or, as we are now discovering, a new and lethal communicable disease got loose.
The great fear that has haunted public health specialists for many decades is the possible emergence of an organism which was so virulent and so fast moving that it would leave our health systems playing a desperate game of catch up while it wrought havoc across the world.
Let me tell you, there are some very, very scary organisms out there that fully justify this fear.
The COVID 19 virus (coronavirus), horrible as it is, does not rank amongst the most virulently lethal communicable diseases that might one day confront us.
History has provided many horrible examples of diseases that have killed huge numbers of us in very short order.
The best known is, of course, the black plague (Yersinia pestis), which wiped out at least one- third of Europe's population when it first appeared there in the 14th century.
It carried on killing humans across the world in great numbers well into the 19th century before effective preventive and treatment methods finally brought it under control.
The last known case in South Australia was a sailor who contracted the disease at Port Adelaide in 1919.
Still, there is no room for complacency, as the black death is still with us, notably in parts of Africa. Rather startlingly, cases continue to be reported in the USA from time to time.
Other hardly less virulent communicable diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid, diphtheria, poliomyelitis, cholera and yellow fever cut a swathe through humanity for centuries before large scale immunisation finally brought them under control.
Less virulent but still serious so-called "childhood diseases" like measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella and scarlet fever are also well controlled.
Influenza, a disease that most people erroneously regard as innocuous, still kills around 3,500 Australians every year. This is despite a large scale and very effective vaccination program.
So successful have public health services been in suppressing communicable diseases, that many people in the so-called developed world have become very complacent about the risks attached to such illnesses.
Indeed, we now have the anti-vaccination movement which is based upon the utterly wrongheaded belief that vaccines are in fact more dangerous than the diseases they are designed to suppress.
This belief is only possible because the incidence of these diseases is now so low that people have completely forgotten how much harm they once did and, in fact, can still do.
This has led to a resurgence of cases of diseases like measles and whooping cough. Although the associated death rates are still low, the distress and residual disabilities that are caused by a disease like measles, notably partial or total deafness, can be life changing events.
It is important to understand that, almost without exception, communicable disease arises from human interactions with something in the environment.
So, the black plague was transmitted by the bite a flea carried by the common rat, while yellow fever probably first passed from primates to humans in Africa during the 18th century. Cholera has existed for many millennia and humans contract it by drinking from a contaminated water supply.
The essential lesson from the origins of all these diseases is that we ignore the environment we live in at our considerable peril.
This brings me to COVID 19 (the virus) which is now raging rampant across the globe. This is one of a large family of Corona viruses which exist in our environment, mostly without causing humans any harm.
This disease made the jump from an animal species to humans only a matter of a few months ago. Where and when this occurred is not yet clear but it seems to have originated in the so called 'wet' animal markets in the Hubei Province of China. These markets specialise in the sale of exotic animal species for human consumption.
It is a peculiarity of Chinese culture to eat such animals. Usually, humans stick to a diet of animal protein derived largely from domestic animals or wild animals that have been hunted for food for many centuries.
Whatever the causal mechanism, it turns out that this virus is very easily spread by human to human contact and is unusually virulent compared to most other viruses of its type such as the common cold.
The overall death rate appears to be not less than one percent which is 10 times higher than that of influenza, but could turn out to be as high as 3.5%.
Italy is currently reporting a death rate of around 7% but there may be particular factors in Italy, such as its higher proportion of the population over age 65 years that is skewing the death rate upwards.
The speed with which this virus has spread has been simply incredible.
In a globalised world, crossed daily by tens of thousands of air journeys, the virus has arrived almost simultaneously on every continent and seems destined to invade literally every corner of the planet within a very short time.
The health impacts have been profound enough, with many people dying very rapidly and our health systems being overwhelmed by the need to admit and treat the 20% or so of victims who need hospitalisation.
The race is on to develop a vaccine for the virus and no doubt the winner of this race will make a vast fortune.
But even if everything goes well, a vaccine will not be available for another year or so. By that time, the virus will have wrought huge harm across the globe.
In the meantime, international air travel has ground to a halt, tourism as an industry collapsed more or less overnight, the supply chains for many goods and services have been serious disrupted and the world's finance markets have once again frozen as lenders try to figure out which individuals or companies seeking their funds actually have the capacity to survive the current downturn and pay them back.
Financial experts are trembling at the prospect that the world's gigantic debt mountain (K1,090 trillion and counting) will finally collapse as many debtors are either unable or unwilling to repay creditors.
Once again, it will be the taxpayers who foot the bill of trying to save the worthy as well as the profligate from disaster and, in so doing, spare us all the catastrophe of a full blown economic depression.
Currently, there is no expert or analyst who believes that the world will escape a serious recession and many believe that the impact will linger for years, not months.
We are witnessing the much feared but long expected 'black swan' event, which by its nature is unforeseen and unforeseeable. Black swan events are characterised by their extreme rarity, their severe impact, and the widespread insistence they were obvious in hindsight.
History says that when the dust finally settles after the virus is tamed and some semblance of economic order is restored, we will very probably draw the wrong conclusions about what caused this debacle and either take no remedial action or the wrong action.
This is certainly what happened after the global financial crisis and there is no reason to have confidence that it will not be repeated by the world's current political leadership, who are committed to the dangerously unsustainable neo-liberal economic model which I believe lies at the very heart of this debacle.
For me, the lesson is that we have to put a stop to the rapacious exploitation of the natural environment that is a necessary corollary of the neo-liberal mania for economic growth at any cost.
The virus is an example of what happens when our apparently in-built human desire to exploit anything and everything around us leads us to indulge in behaviours that are far riskier and potentially more damaging than we seem able to realise.
It is extraordinary that someone's desire to profit from someone else's desire to chow down on a bat or pangolin can lead to a pandemic that will very probably kill millions of people and disrupt the entire world economic system.
We need to urgently rethink the whole idea that never ending growth and consumption of resources is a sustainable economic philosophy. It plainly is not.
Surely it is long overdue to contemplate the idea that economic activity is meant to be a means to an end, being a sustainable and reasonably comfortable life for humanity generally, not an end in itself.
Also, surely it is wrong at every level, moral, ethical and even from an economic standpoint, to have a system whereby the winners accumulate wealth beyond even that of entire nations, while the majority remain in sometimes abject poverty?
The virus should be a wake up call for those of us living in the so-called developed world that we are not going to be immune from the consequences of ill advised exploitative behaviour in even the most remote corners of the globe.
We will not be able to sit here, fat, dumb and happy, while bad things happen to other people.
While I am quite sure that the world will be a different place when the virus has run its course, I am pessimistic that it will be a better place unless our children and grand children can show that they are much smarter than us and develop a much more sustainable, environmentally sensible way of running an economic system that is manifestly fairer and more equitable in the way it distributes the benefits of human work and ingenuity.
I believe that the path to such a system will be found in a major revision and restructuring of the current system, not the invention of an entirely new approach.
The total upending of the system has been tried in the past, notably the communist experiment, with disastrous results. Progressive reform seems to offer a more sensible way forward.
If we or our successors fail to do the hard work of reforming the current socio-economic system to achieve a better balance with the environment and in the distribution of resources, then further events like COVID 19 will be inevitable.
As I said previously, there are many very much scarier things out there than this virus. For example, the class of organisms called hantaviruses include things like ebola fever, which kills 70% of its victims.
If something like this gets loose, then discussions about economic theory will very rapidly be rendered utterly irrelevant.
For this reason, I believe that we would be wise to see COVID 19 as not just the terrible disease that it undoubtedly is, but also a warning from history that we must change our ways permanently or suffer from further 'black swan' events that are likely to be even more hideous and life changing for us all.
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Again on the topic of freedom of the press, that is, of reporting news, today there are reports from sources in Russia that have gained headlines with news reporting by CNN and others. These reports are quite scary.
Example is: "It is rare for doctors to fall from windows in Russia, but Shulepov was the third health worker to fall out of a window in the country in the past two weeks."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/04/europe/russia-medical-workers-windows-intl/index.html
This does appear to be of incidents that are "curiouser and curiouser." (Sadly that is not of the jolliness intended by that saying originating from author Lewis Carroll in 'Alice in Wonderland.')
One report puts a possible cause for these incidents as "likely reflect the stress doctors are under in an underfunded system during a pandemic".
Maybe readers will become more cautiously curious.
Posted by: Lindsay F Bond | 09 May 2020 at 04:35 PM
That's a very interesting article Lindsay.
While I 've been wary of Clive Hamilton's articles in the past this one seems well supported.
Donald Trump's blustering and attempts to make the virus and China an election issue doesn't really help because it simply makes the Chinese more secretive.
Posted by: Philip Fitzpatrick | 09 May 2020 at 04:03 PM
Dear Chris - "Political vetting is now required before publication is permitted" according to opinion offered by Professor Clive Hamilton.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/it-would-be-unwise-to-dismiss-donald-trump-s-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-20200507-p54qyg.html
Not allowed to be published in China are "words noting that the outbreak originated in China".
Scarier than any virus is that knowledge is not shared and worse, not available when it is most needed.
Australia's prime minister Morrison has called for an inquiry into the actual knowledge of this virus Covid-19, the reach of which must include historic events of actual occurrence in China.
"A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria, which are not purely economic" -
R H Tawney, 'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism' (1926)
Posted by: Bernard Corden | 23 March 2020 at 09:21 PM
I have written an entire book about rampant unfettered neoliberalism and laissez faire economics with its deification of the Friedman doctrine and its impact on workplace health and safety. It reviews the gig economy with its McJobs and franchising arrangements involving organisations such as the Retail Food Group, 7-Eleven and Domino's Pizza.
It also reviews Kevin Rudd's home insulation program and the emergence of industrial diseases such as mesothelioma, black lung and silicosis. It offers an alternative using a sophisticated ecoliterate transdisciplinary approach.
It is pretty comprehensive with over 350 pages supported by 40 diagrams with a bibliography containing more than 6000 references and a comprehensive glossary and hyperlinked index.
It is available via:
https://www.humandymensions.com/product/the-great-safety-charade/
All proceeds are donated to the Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross Sydney.
One thing is becoming abundantly clear as the coronavirus epidemic rapidly escalates and that is that any government based on neo-liberalism ideology is the worst form possible to deal with a crisis of this magnitude.
This is most apparent in the USA, the home of laissez faire capitalism, where confusion reigns supreme and the virus is uncontrollably rampant, but it is also now becoming evident in Australia.
At the moment there are huge queues of people outside Centrelink offices who have lost their jobs because of the lockdown of businesses trying to get unemployment benefits.
The staff in these offices who have survived the purges by the current government have very little chance of dealing with all these people. It beggars belief that no one in the government realised this would happen.
In the forty years or so that neo-liberalism has informed economics the world has seen government organisations and services privatised in the mistaken belief that private business can do a better job (and make a fast buck in the process).
In Australia the current government has indulged in an orgy of outsourcing, casualization, cost cutting and 'trickle down' favours to big business.
This has left us with inadequate levels of healthcare, education, welfare, public housing, aged care, child care, law enforcement and a plethora of other services. The purging of public service numbers has ensured that what remains has to struggle to fulfil its roles.
A similar situation also pertains in Papua New Guinea but its causes are more to do with corruption and incompetence.
It is therefore no surprise that the government's response to the crisis in both places, as they realise they don't have resources to deal with the crisis, has been chaotic with confusion, indecision and delays being overriding characterisations.
The Australian government still seems preoccupied with its economic stimulus measures while the health aspects take second place.
Pumping money into the business sector is hardly going to help support ordinary citizens get through the crisis.
As Van Badham, a 'Guardian Australia' columnist notes, "To believe that private businesses will suddenly redirect their entire rationale from money-making into selfless acts of collective public service to cope with catastrophe is at best a determined misreading of capitalism".
She goes on to add that "if there's hope to cling to, it's based in the universal realisation of Australian households that a transformation of our economic system is imperative to our reconstruction, and survival.
"It was the same realisation that built the better, fairer, more resilient Keynesian systems of regulated, socialised welfare-state economies in the wake of the Depression and the Second World War".
If we get through this crisis in reasonable shape there is still the crisis of climate change to deal with. That crisis is ever gaining momentum even as we are preoccupied with corona virus.
We will no less need a form of government that supports people rather than just wealthy corporations if we are to get through that crisis and whatever new crisis comes later.
Posted by: Philip Fitzpatrick | 23 March 2020 at 05:47 PM
I'm still working in the PNG health system. Kudos must be given to the government here for taking the right actions rapidly. Admittedly, we do not have sufficient resources for properly treating severely infected people but rational and effective prevention is not rocket science and has been instituted.
Posted by: John Mackerell | 23 March 2020 at 01:31 PM
Henry Giroux is always a good read and has obviously been swigging the raspberry cordial:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/28/cult-like-ignorance-is-death-trump-and-the-coronavirus/
Posted by: Bernard Corden | 22 March 2020 at 11:45 AM
The trajectory of coronavirus has many sinister consequences, which include Schumpeter's gale of creative destruction that will enable the rapid onset of artificial intelligence and even eugenics.
My thoughts regarding government stimulus packages are "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" - Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
It's a scary thought.
Many years ago, I read (or heard, can't remember which) someone with far greater understanding of the world economy than me, state that we cannot continue to grow at any cost.
An economic model that labels negative growth as something akin to the creature from the black lagoon, is neither wise nor sustainable.
The raping of our planet for money is quite simply wrong. The power wielded by corporate monsters is wrong.
I liked the throw back to recent history where Chris used the sheer stupidity, greed and callous nature of the US banking system to highlight just how poorly governments learn.
Whilst many people the world over, lost businesses, houses, marriages and even their lives, the sickening banking execs continued their self-centered pillaging of the money industry and continue it today.
I remember the Goliath automotive industry execs flying into Washington in their fleet of private jets to demand congress bail them out, such was the utter disdain shown by these corporate land leviathans to the average tax paying citizen.
Unfortunately, I fear history will repeat itself. We are lumbered with a PM and associated gaggle of mediocre to poor misfits on the benches who refuse to act prudently, which is lunacy even if they genuinely believe their closed minds are right.
Big money buys anything it wants and the average citizen can do nothing about it. This crisis will worsen before it runs its unknown course and even whilst we take stock of the many failed businesses, large and small and the bankrupted population, we will hear again about how we must continue to grow, to rape, to pillage and the deaths of many people will simply be another footnote in history.
The sad part of this, is that there are viable and sustainable alternatives, but it risks the money-grabbing addiction of the elitist few who know intimately how to control a government and they play these political stooges and the general populace like puppets, with threats, bribery and deliberately false marketing.
It's worked for them in the past and it will work again for them in the future.
Posted by: Ian Ritchie | 22 March 2020 at 10:46 AM
Here's another essay from Counterpunch worth reading:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/20/the-virus-and-capitalism/
Posted by: Philip Fitzpatrick | 22 March 2020 at 09:33 AM
It was most reassuring to see and hear our federal minister for disease offering advice about social distancing following the gatherings at Bondi Beach.
Previous roles include a sinecure with McKinsey and Company, the organisation behind the Enron scandal back in 2001 and the recent opioid epidemic that swept across the US via Pardue Pharmaceuticals.
Indeed McKinsey's fingerprints can be found at the scene of some of the most spectacular corporate and financial debacles of recent decades.
https://www.greghunt.com.au/about-greg/biography/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/mckinsey-how-does-it-always-get-away-with-it-9113484.html
The chair of Safe Work Australia also spent several years with McKinsey and Company in Washington DC on think tank row. Other senior executive roles included tenures with Westpac and Broadspectrum, which provided facilities management services at the Manus Island hellhole.
https://www.icmi.com.au/diane-smith-gander
https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/manus-island-ruling-upsets-800m-broadspectrum-bid-20160427-gogixw
Due diligence indeed.
Simon, re your comments on the late Malcolm Fraser AC CH GCL PC. I have a read of Mary Alexander's 'Life & Spaghetti' in The Standard News of 15 July 2011 and Michael Thorntons 'Jackaroo'.
One of my many Irish Setters was called Dubliner Jackaroo by his breeder, a bank johnny from Adelaide. My girls and I happily called him Jacky. Slainte.
Posted by: William Dunlop | 21 March 2020 at 02:25 PM
I thought it was a splendid essay too Lindsay.
Simon's response is on the money too.
A very well crafted piece that rivals anything on Counterpunch, including Jonathan Cook's recent offering:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/19/a-lesson-coronavirus-is-about-to-teach-the-world/
Rich, thoughtful and well informed article. Thank you, Chris.
Like many people who have lived deeply in developing countries, and been exposed to crises people in 'developed' nations see only on TV or at the movies, this observation hit home for me:
"We will not be able to sit here, fat, dumb and happy, while bad things happen to other people."
As the coronavirus spreads in Australia, cases currently doubling every 3-4 days, and people are urged to isolate, Bondi beach is packed. The privilege of ignorance, or perhaps the ignorance of privilege.
Moving to Australia in the late 1970s, after most of my childhood overseas, felt like landing on a different planet.
There were hospitals, TV, toilets, cars and petrol stations, shops, and I could drink safely from almost every tap.
The rest of the world was the 'news', usually mentioned only when something really bad happened, and then only as an 'oh dear' moment, and then back to sport and weather. It was a bubble I could not, and still cannot, fully comprehend.
The coronavirus is putting a pin in that bubble, proving that the real world is still there, was always there, and can be a scary and dangerous place.
Climate change is another pin, but has not yet pierced the thick defences of ignorance, privilege, and nationalism and racism.
In some ways I feel sorry for my age-mates who've only known the bubble. It hasn't prepared them for the realities of life on this planet.
Even bloody Malcolm Fraser got it - "Life wasn't meant to be easy." But there's hard, and there's real hard.
Coronavirus, climate change, our ageing public infrastructure, loss of public discourse (e.g., politicians who run on lies) all attack the ruling paradigm of invulnerability, security, and certainty.
The world can be a difficult place, especially if we don't co-operate, and lack leaders who inspire and instill shared purpose and care.
As Chris says, hopefully coronavirus is a wake-up call to the fact that we are all deeply connected, and that we must respond with joint action and care to this, and other immediate dangers such as climate change.
Respond collectively perhaps even to the wicked problems of poverty, disease, famine, and war. Imagine.
But early signs, like the sacking of supermarkets or the packing of Bondi, suggest the bubble or privilege is still strong. Until it isn't.
Like the quote attributed to Hemingway: 'Gradually and then suddenly.'
Posted by: Simon Jackson | 21 March 2020 at 11:37 AM
Of all my dalliances at reading PNG Attitude, I can recall none more noteworthy (nor more broad in reach) than this by Chris Overland today.
Posted by: Lindsay F Bond | 21 March 2020 at 09:22 AM


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Q: MySQL record UPDATE should fail but does not. Why? here is an interesting situation.
I start a transaction with MySQL. My transaction involves 3 related queries.
Each query must succeed, and if not then none should be written to the database.
Now... on purpose, for the 2nd query...which happens to be an UPDATE query... I changed
the pk value identifying the record to be updated to an invalid (non-existing) PK value. I wanted the 2nd query to fail for testing purposes.  The query is fine, it is just that the c_id value is wrong (the record I'm trying to UPDATE does not exits).
The problem is that the query is executed with an "OK"...
mysql> UPDATE tableX SET bal = 4576.99 WHERE c_id = 3789;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 0  Changed: 0  Warnings: 0

This is a problem because the error (is error from my perspective since a key record that must be updated was not updated in a chain of related queries) was not caught and the transaction thus did not abort and rollback, instead the process goes on to the 3rd query which also succeeds and then the transaction is committed.
So, I find it strange that such an error is not caught by MySQL or not labeled an error by MySQL.
Any insights as to why or how to fix?

A: It is correct, 0 rows were updated.
If, for your logic, that is an error you should test the number of affected rows and then raise an error if that number is 0:
  DECLARE count INT;
  UPDATE tableX SET bal = 4576.99 WHERE c_id = 3789;
  SELECT ROW_COUNT() INTO count;
  IF count = 0 THEN
     CALL raise_error;
  END IF;

error will make the transaction rollback.
To raise an error just call a routine which doesn't exist as explained on this SO question:
How to raise an error within a MySQL function
further info about row_count():
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-functions.html#function_row-count

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"Earmuffs!" Cover your ears if you're too young, but if you're of a certain age, you'll be astonished to hear that it's been 15 years since "Old School" enrolled at the multiplex.
Released on February 21, 2003, the modern-day answer to "Animal House" made Will Ferrell into a bankable movie star, put future "Hangover" director Todd Phillips on the raunchy-comedy map, helped coin the phrase "Frat Pack" to describe the loose brotherhood of movie comedy stars that included Ferrell and Vince Vaughn, and introduced a variety of bizarre hazing rituals to American college fraternity life.
Like midterm exams, "Old School" keeps reappearing, at least in rotation on cable. Still, as often as you've watched it, there's much you may not know about the college comedy. So read on and study carefully; there may be a pop quiz later.
1. "Old School" was actually Phillips' third movie about hard-partying college students. The first was his 1997 documentary "Frat House." Phillips took that movie to the Sundance Film Festival, where he met fabled comedy filmmaker and "Animal House" producer Ivan Reitman. Reitman turned Phillips toward comedy and produced his next two films, campus farce "Road Trip" (2000) and "Old School."
2. The idea for a movie about three early-middle-aged men trying to return to their irresponsible fraternity days came from Phillips's friend, ad man Court Crandall. He earned a story credit on the film, though the final screenplay was written by Phillips and his writing partner, Scot Armstrong.
3. Armstrong and Phillips wrote the part of Bernard with Vaughn in mind, having been impressed by his comic performances in movies like "Swingers" and "Made." But Vaughn had done such a good job of establishing himself as a serious dramatic actor that the studio didn't want him for "Old School." "They didn't think I could do comedy!" Vaughn marveled in 2015. "Todd really had to push for me; I think he even told them to watch me on Letterman, to see that I could be funny."
4. That's Phillips, by the way, playing the guy who knocks on Luke Wilson's door early on and says, "I'm here for the gangbang."
5.Patrick Cranshaw had been acting in films for 50 years before "Old School," but it was his role as lube-wrestling frat brother Blue that finally made him famous at age 84. He died three years later, but not before hearing countless fans greet him with Ferrell's line, "You're my boy, Blue!"
6. The three leads (Wilson, Vaughn, and Ferrell) teased each other on set. Wilson recalled Ferrell telling him he was sorry he hadn't yet seen Wilson's performance in "Legally Bland." Wilson shot back with a warning that "you might just want to keep one foot back in TV just in case this whole movie thing falls through."
7. The house that Wilson's friends transform into the home of their new fraternity is a real residential house located on Pasadena's Bushnell Avenue, on a two-block stretch that has been used for locations in several Michael J. Fox movies. The same house appeared in "Back to the Future Part II" (Biff steals a kid's ball and tosses it onto the house's balcony), while down the street are George McFly's 1955 home from the first "Back to the Future" and the house where the 1955 Lorraine lived in that movie -- a house that was also where Fox's character lived in "Teen Wolf."
8. The college scenes were largely shot in Los Angeles at UCLA and USC. There's one helicopter shot of the campus, however, that may look familiar. It's actually flyover footage of Harvard University, which Phillips recycled from "Road Trip," though no ground scenes in either film were shot at the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.
9. Who's the wedding singer who inserts subliminal profanities into the lyrics of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"? It's Dan Finnerty of The Dan Band, an act that became the toast of Hollywood nightclubs by performing a repertoire of songs made popular by female singers. A comic who's married to Kathy Najimy, Finnerty would perform similarly inappropriate songs in Phillips's "Starsky & Hutch" and "The Hangover."
10. Also, the church where Ferrell gets married showed up again two years later in Vaughn and Owen Wilson's "Wedding Crashers."
11. The last day of the shoot was devoted to the Mitch-a-Palooza party, the one that starts with a surprise performance by Snoop Dogg and ends with Ferrell streaking through town. Ferrell had already shot the streaking sequence -- and yes, he ran naked for real, apparently horrifying local lookie-loos who had no idea they were going to be treated to full frontal Ferrell -- but he needed some liquid courage to drop trou in front of the rap icon. "To actually be in front of Snoop Dogg that close naked," Ferrell said, "that was more intimidating than anything."
12. Snoop Dogg so wanted to play Huggy Bear in Phillips's upcoming adaptation of "Starsky & Hutch," that the director was able to persuade the rapper to cameo as himself in "Old School" as a condition for landing the role he coveted in Phillips' next movie.
13. After his scene was complete, Snoop summoned Vaughn to party in his trailer. Wilson was miffed to find out about the revelry later; apparently, no one had invited him.
14. The budget for "Old School" was reportedly $24 million. It made back $76 million in North America and another $11 million abroad.
15. "Old School" not only made Ferrell a breakout star, but it also led to the coining of the term "The Frat Pack" to describe the group of comic actors and frequent collaborators that included Ferrell, Vaughn, Luke and Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and others.
16. In 2006, Armstrong wrote a script for a sequel, "Old School Dos," that would have sent the trio of aging frat boys on spring break. Ferrell and Vaughn nixed the idea as being too much of a retread. Wilson, however, was game, though he said he understood Vaughn and Ferrell's position. "As funny as those guys are, they are pretty damn thoughtful and would hate to squander the goodwill of the first one with one where it just seemed like the studio was just trying to cash in."
Indeed, in 2016, Wilson was still game, saying, "I, of course, would do it at the drop of a hat."


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イニス
Tokyo, Japan (February 3, 1997 (1997-02-03) )[1]
[[Gitaroo Man
Elite Beat Agents
Masako Harada (CEO)[1]
Keiichi Yano (COO)[1]
Takahide Hoshino (CFO)[1]
iNiS (イニス, Inisu?) is a Japanese video game developer that specializes in rhythm games. It was co-founded by Keiichi Yano on February 3, 1997. The name iNiS is an acronym and it stands for "infinite Noise of the inner Soul."
1 Games developed
Games developed[edit | edit source]
Gitaroo Man (PlayStation 2) (2001)
Gundam Pilot Academy (Arcade) (2002)
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (Nintendo DS) (2005)
Elite Beat Agents (Nintendo DS) (2006)
Gitaroo Man Lives! (PlayStation Portable) (2006)
Rain Wonder Trip (PlayStation Portable) (2006)
Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (Nintendo DS) (2007)
Lips (Xbox 360) [3][4][5] (2008)
Lips: Number One Hits (Xbox 360) (2009)
Lips: Deutsche Partyknaller (Xbox 360) (2009)
Lips: Canta en Español (Xbox 360) (2009)
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Q: AngularJS - ng-change not firing I'm setting the ng-change directive in a select element of my form but the function linked to it is not called when I change the value. I've been reading very similar questions and applying the answers I see and so far none has worked yet.
Can you see wjat I'm doing wrong?
My HTML:

Quote

                    Carrier
                    <select class="form-control" ng-model="form_carrier_id" ng-change="loadProducts()">
                        <option ng-repeat="carrier in carriers" value="{{carrier.id}}">{[{carrier.name}]}</option>
                    </select>

                    Product
                    <select class="form-control" ng-model="form_product_id">
                        <option value=""></option>
                        <option ng-repeat="product in products" value="{{product.id}}">{[{product.name}]}</option>
                    </select>

And my controller:
angular.module('quoteApp', ['angular-loading-bar']).config(function($interpolateProvider){
    $interpolateProvider.startSymbol('{[{').endSymbol('}]}');
})
    .controller('QuoteController', function ($scope, $http) {

        $scope.carriers = [];
        $scope.products = [];
        $scope.form_carrier_id = '';
        $scope.form_product_id = '';

        $scope.getUrl = function(action){return '/admin/application/quote/json?action='+ action;}

        $scope.initialize = function(){

            // Get the list of carriers
            $http.get($scope.getUrl('getCarriers'))
                .success(function (data) {
                    $scope.carriers = data;
                })
                .error(function () {
                    alert('Error loading carriers');
                });
        }

        $scope.loadProducts = function(){
            alert('HERE');
        }
    });

For me everything looks right. Can you see what I'm missing? The first select loads normally, the problem is that when I change its value the function loadProducts is not fired.
Thanks

A: I have found what was the problem. It was how I was filling the select. It has to be filled like this:
            <select class="form-control" ng-model="form_carrier_id"
                    ng-options='carrier.id as carrier.name for carrier in carriers'
                    ng-change="loadProducts()">
            </select>

A: this may not be the problem itself, however you should always use ng-options rather than <option ng-repeat>
I've seen some weird behaviour in the past due to that

A: Try using ng-options for repeating the products in your select element.
You can use ng-options as follows:
<select class="form-control" ng-model="form_product_id"
                ng-options="product.id as product.name for product in products" ng-change="loadProducts()">
                    <option value="">Select color</option>
                </select>

not as the products are set values, the loadProduct should trigger, whenever a value is selected as the ng-model would be set


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Le Krom de Pskov (en  / Pskovskij Krom) ou Kremlin de Pskov (en  / Pskovskij Kreml) ou Detinets de Pskov est le centre architectural historique de la ville de Pskov en Russie, le noyau central de la Forteresse de Pskov.
Il est situé sur un rocher, qui s'avance entre les rivières Pskova et Velikaïa et occupe une surface de 3 hectares. L'accès au krom passe par le Bourg de Dovmont, devenu un site archéologique important.

Histoire
Le premier peuplement de la partie de la ville occupée par le krom date du premier millénaire de notre ère. À la fin du  début ,
il existait là un promontoire de terre probablement renforcé par des pierres ainsi que l'église en bois de la Trinité. À l'époque de la République de Pskov (fin du  début ), le Kremlin avec sa cathédrale et sa vetché constituaient le centre spirituel, juridique, administratif et politique du territoire de Pskov. La vetché se composait de toute la population libre de sexe masculin. Celle de la ville et des villes vassales. L'assistance était dominée par une tribune où prenait place le posadnik (maire), les anciens et le prince. Une expédition archéologique du musée de l'Ermitage a découvert en 1978-1979 les fondations de cette tribune à proximité de la cathédrale de la Trinité.

Le Kremlin était entouré d'un mur de pierre surmonté d'un toit en bois d'une hauteur de 6 à  et d'une épaisseur variant de 2.5 à . La longueur du mur situé à l'est est de  et celle du mur sud de . Ce dernier était appelé « persi » (qui signifie « poitrine » en vieux russe). C'est là que les défenseurs recevaient les assiégeants. Ce mur surmontait un fossé rempli d'eau, taillé à même le roc entre les deux rivières Pskova et Velikaïa, qu'il surmontait de plus de . Aujourd'hui, la muraille est à moitié enfoncée dans le sol.

Le Krom joua un rôle déterminant durant les sièges qu'il subit en résistant aux assaillants à diverses reprises dont les dernières sont le Siège de Pskov (1581-1582) par les Polonais et le Siège de Pskov (1615) par les Suédois. Ces deux sièges se terminent par des traités de paix favorables à la Russie.

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Commentary, Economics, Public Policy Principles News, Public Policy Radar, Taxation, The Vote
Black Eye On Westerville- The Aftemath
August 9, 2009 Camp Director
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Black Eye On Westerville
…He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people…imposing taxes on us without our consent…
Declaration of Independence- 1776
NEWSFLASH to all governing bodies! There is a finite limit of income that is available to be taxed. Theoretically it is 100% of income. Practically, it is a significantly lower percentage of income.
We only feel the need to point this fact out because it is clear that a new tidal-wave of taxation is currently being generated at all levels of government. The excuses are myriad. The effects will be devastating, as are all tax increases especially during economic downturns.
So why all the talk of tax increases when Westerville residents just voted themselves, a majority of them anyway, a 15% tax-cut? Well, not so fast. It is probably just a temporary reprieve if events in Columbus are any indicator.
During the recent Westerville Income tax increase campaign we asked the question repeatedly- What's the next bite of the apple? When it became legal for cities to charge residents an income tax it was sold to residents initially as a very small bite of the apple which would eliminate the need for the hated (and unbiblical) city portion of the property tax and piggy-back sales taxes. Most municipalities went for a 0.25-0.5% income tax, promising that this would be more than enough to run the city in perpetuity. The cities would never have to ask for more to run at current levels of government. And that's the rub. Governments used new revenues to grow far larger and more intrusive than any of those early residents who foolishly voted in income taxes could possibly have imagined.
Not so city planners, professional city managers and other government "experts" who have college degrees in such "progressive" fields as Urban Planning, Regional Governance, Public Affairs, etc. The dream of 19th century "progressive visionaries" is now the nightmare of 21st century urban and suburban tax-slaves. It has been only since the mid-20th century that progressives in small to medium-sized cities created and seized de facto control of zoning and planning commissions, which were originally promoted as bodies designed to protect the freedom of use and value of private property. In fact, they have become agents of modern-day government feudal lords, dictating such matters of grave importance as street curb-cuts (vital to the survival of businesses on a street; if you're in doubt please examine the state of business in the Morse Rd and Rt. 161 "business" corridors in Columbus which have a system of virtually inaccessible "access" roads, another sign of city tyranny; these areas are also dying or virtually dead zones) grass length, the color of house paint used, the storage of boats and other extra vehicles, the type and placement of fences and even the replacement of hot-water heaters. This kind of intrusion costs money and bureaucracies must come up with new revenues to pay armies of bureaucratic "inspectors." Hence the wave in the late '70's and early '80's of income-tax increases to the 1% level. Again, that was all that the cities would ever need.
As city governments continued to grow in size, cost and intrusiveness yet more revenue became necessary. And as the resistance to tax increases grows the tactics of city leadership becomes more sophisticated and demonstrative of their desire to thwart the will of a majority of taxpayers (as opposed to the majority of voters, an extremely important distinction). As this article in the Columbus Dispatch demonstrates, cities like Columbus and Westerville use a combination of "special" election dates, usually in August to minimize voter turnout, and targeting voters who are most likely to vote for tax increases and vote in every election no matter when (the dreadful PROS 2000 campaign in Westerville used an August "special election" date with the same targeted voter strategy). Selected quotes from the article-
On the night of the election, Coleman called it the most sophisticated campaign in which he had been involved…
Brad Sinnott, central committee chairman for the Franklin County Republican Party, said timing trumped strategy for tax-backers.
"There's no doubt part of their strategy was to get this through in a low-turnout, midsummer election."
Of course, the city denies that election timing is a legitimate complaint-
But city officials insist that they scheduled an August election not for political advantage but because they need the money now.
Of course, that argument crumbles under the weight of the revelation that voter turnout was not encouraged but that…
The campaign's target audience was the small pool of voters who never miss an election, no matter what time of year it takes place.
Was the strategy successful? Clearly it was, since a grand total of 8.4% of the registered voters (52% of the 16.2% of registered voters, again, NOT taxpayers, who voted) in Columbus were able to impose a 25% tax increase on the residents of Columbus who pay taxes and, worse, non-resident taxpayers who are completely disenfranchised in municipal elections despite paying most of the taxes. And Columbus utilized the implied promise of continued expansion of social welfare spending to entice voters who pay little or nothing in taxes but receive the benefits to vote themselves largess from the public treasury.
As we have pointed out repeatedly here on this blog, cities long ago slipped into the same form of tyranny that American colonists so courageously resisted in the 1760's through the 1780's; over-regulation of the backbone of any economy, the small local business (a rapidly disappearing entity in Columbus), and taxation without representation. As noted in the quotations from the Declaration of Independence, taxes are being imposed without the consent of a significant percentage of the taxed. In fact, 42% of non-resident taxpayers (!) pay 53% (!) of Columbus income taxes (reference here) though they cannot vote and have no say in city government. Westerville's numbers are similar.
What does this increase in Columbus mean to communities surrounding it? Since Westerville employed an absurd "Tax Fairness" argument, based on Westerville residents who had to pay Columbus and Westerville taxes, in their recent successful campaign to both increase the city income tax and shift the whole burden to a minority of taxpayers who both live and work in the city of Westerville (absurdity exposed here) it is conceivable that Westerville could come back to the voters to demand, in the name of "fairness," that a new 25% tax increase MUST be passed by taxpayers (a majority of whom would be exempt from the increase, just like the last initiative). Since the city is busy using its windfall from the recent tax hike to hire zoning and planning "inspectors" and other bureaucrats to harass churches over building occupancy permits and businesses who want to remodel buildings for occupancy, buy every dilapidated or limited-use building that comes on the market thus squeezing even private small rental businesses aka taxpayers out of the market, just like they did, for instance, to the Westerville Athletic Club and taking them off the tax roles therefore cutting revenues, and otherwise throwing good money after bad on schemes that will destroy the business viability of the south side of town by imposing a Rt. 161 style "access" road ghetto upon its temporary occupants, it will probably find that it needs more revenue sooner than later and the "tax fairness" argument may have to be dusted off and modified for another run despite promises to the contrary. Think in terms of Westerville Public Schools who now claim they "need" nearly 8 additional mills to run the new Taj Mahals they have recently built or between $400 and $600 additional dollars per year from the average Westerville School District homeowner.
What should be done about this mess? Well, the first step is at least being considered. The Columbus Dispatch reports here about a bill that would allegedly restrict the use of "special elections" for the purposes of getting around higher voter turnouts. We think the bill in question is Ohio House bill HB 260 but we don't know for sure, since the atrociously written story in the Dispatch gives exactly NONE of the important details like the bill number, the sponsors or any serious attempt at analysis in depth.
The second and most important step will require, frankly, a great deal of time, effort and money to get done. The cities and those eager to use the current taxation structure of the cities for the purpose of confiscation and redistribution of wealth through disenfranchised taxation (taxation without representation) will never allow the next step without a major fight. That is, either allowing all TAXPAYERS into a city's treasury the right to vote in city elections, including tax initiatives, and requiring a number of non-resident representatives in City Councils proportional to non-resident revenue derived or, more simply, outlawing the collection of taxes from those who have no say in city government. No city will be willing to swallow either option (they will immediately hide behind The Ohio Constitution's "Home Rule" provision) without a fight and no state legislators, being political animals, have stepped up to offer any relief to agrieved taxpayers mostly because they are more frightened of the reactions of cities and corporate campaign donors than they are of the mostly quiescent taxpayers who aren't currently raising a stink.
A state constitutional amendment initiative will almost undoubtedly be required to fix this. It would be a real down and dirty political slugfest, complete with charges of greed and racism. There would be no major corporate support, since major corporations rely on the tax abatements and other city bribes to buy their support and loyalty. When cities are restricted from collecting taxes from non-residents they will have to cancel the 100's of millions of dollars in tax abatements that corporations enjoy statewide. Major corporations will put millions into the effort to stop the initiative. The campaign will be dirty and ugly. Corporatate management likes the idea that their employees are forced to pay their property taxes in their stead and without their consent.They hate the idea that employees might figure out that they operate on few if any property taxes while their employees are milked with the help of corporate management who donate to the campaign funds to pass the taxes. Politicians will line up at the corporate trough to collect money that will flow like water in an all out effort to stop the attempt to make them pay their property taxes. Many politicians that conservatives thought were their friends will be exposed as phoneys more interested in re-election than fighting the tough fight to restore truly fair taxation.
Here is a Columbus Dispatch article from late July indicating that 95% of Columbus Issue 1 campaign funds came from corporate donors, among them highly tax abated companies like Nationwide Insurance, Grange Mutual Insurance, Limited Brands, NetJets, Corna-Kokosing Construction, Wolfe Enterprises and, surprise, surprise the Dispatch Printing Company, not to mention several engineering firms, all of whom benefit while their employees suffer. The thousands they donated is a small investment against the millions they don't pay in taxes. The same holds for smaller cities which line up corporate donations in order to maintain tax abatements.
We don't tell you this to scare you away from the battle. We are being realistic. It will require real time and effort to get this problem fixed and there will be a lot of hard feelings and possibly jobs lost as employees are fired by major corporations for supporting the effort to make them pay the taxes they have maneuvered cities into waiving. It would have to be a true grass roots effort. Are you mad enough for that, yet?
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Black Eye On Westerville- The "Tax Fairness" Argument
As this is being composed it is the weekend of the Fourth of July. Independence Day is always a good time to both reflect on the history of the Declaration of Independence and compare these past events with those in the present to see if we've got it right.
Currently, the most prominent argument being used by Westerville, apparently with some success judging by by the letters to the editors of the local newspapers, is the "tax fairness" argument.
The core of this argument is that the 60% income tax increase isn't really about enhancing the city's revenue, but about "being fair." This is absurd on its face because in the next breath the same city leaders cry crocodile tears about the city's infrastructure and the need for additional revenue to pay for it. But more about this blatant falsehood in a later post. In detail, the argument sounds like this; many surrounding communities have a 2% income tax and a large portion of Westerville residents work in those surrounding communities and must pay those taxes plus Westerville's 1.25% additional resident income tax less a credit for taxes paid to other municipalities of 0.95% or, currently, 0.3%. So those Westerville residents are paying municipal income taxes that add up to 2.3% of their income.
The city also does some mathematical sleight-of-hand in claiming that they will, with this 60% increase, "recapture" millions of dollars in revenues that are currently "going to other municipalities." Of course, they are recapturing nothing. They are actually increasing the overall tax burden and taking the millions of dollars that residents would have formerly had in their pockets to spend on things like books, hardware, housewares, meals out, etc. at local businesses and pouring it into the governmental black hole. The other municipalities would continue to confiscate the same amount of money (if not more) as they did before the increase. It is a well known economic maxim that a private dollar goes around 7 times but a government dollar only goes around twice. More money paid in taxes means less money for buying things. It's a zero-sum game.
The city claims that to "be fair," Westerville residents who both live and work in the city and non-resident employees of businesses located in the city must be forced to pay a 2% tax. Under the plan, Westerville residents who work in other cities will be given 100% credit for taxes paid in other municipalities, thus cutting their municipal tax outlay by about 13% from 2.3 to 2%. But, of course, someone has to pay the piper and that means Westerville residents and non-residents who work in Westerville are slapped with the 60% increase. It also means that Westerville residents who work in cities like Columbus would pay nothing for Westerville city services.
If you find yourself asking "how exactly is this fair?" then welcome to the club. There's nothing "fair" about a tax plan that shifts the burden of taxation to a targeted minority of taxpayers, especially those who have no voice in how it is spent or vote on its imposition. And this is where comparisons to past events become very important to understanding what is wrong with not only the attempt to increase Westerville's base tax rate but the way the entire municipal tax system is structured.
The Declaration of Independence issued on July 4, 1776 was the culmination of many years of abuse of power by Parliament. All of the complaints the Continental Congress made against Parliament are included in the Declaration of Independence, a document you will find most useful in this discussion, available here. As mentioned in the previous posting, the complaint we will focus on is no. 17, "For imposing taxes on us without our consent," though other complaints on the list will also come into play.
How is it that only 232 years after the issue of a document that is foundational to the understanding of the concept of liberty (a concept now lost to the "spirit of democracy;" these are not the same by any stretch or deconstruction of the definitions), the operation and the limits of our government, so little of it is known or understood, especially by government servants? One of the fundamental principles of government in the United States of America is the idea that no one without a representative voice in any government should be required to pay taxes to that government. Another fundamental principle of government in the United States is the concept that the majority is prohibited by law from tyrannizing the minority. And yet, these two fundamental principles of liberty are being not only ignored but disparaged by government bodies eager to grow their own power and control and to do so by creating and exploiting class envy to raise revenue and create a class of tax slaves.
Think the "tax slave" accusation is too harsh? Think about the city's argument for the increase. Most, they say, will actually enjoy a tax reduction and they are correct if they mean most voters. And that's exactly what they mean. Non-resident non-voters don't count in the equation. They are a voiceless non-entity to the city. They are perceived by city government as a convenient deep pocket which can be picked at the will of the Westerville voter. The fact that some of these non-voting taxpayers will now be subjected to combined municipal taxes in the 4% range (or more depending on where he lives and what kind of work he does) doesn't phase them. Why should it? These unfortunates can't vote the city leaders out. They can only pay and complain to… well, no one. When a man with no voice or power is coerced to surrender the hard earned fruits of his labor to an entity which has the power to impose financial harm or ruin and imprisonment for refusal to pay, he is a slave. That was the point of the Continental Congress way back in the late 18th century. The more things change the more they stay the same.
A man is also a slave if he has a voice in the system but can be forced to surrender the fruits of his labor to subsidize the services that others receive from the entity collecting the payments by a vote of the majority. This kind of system, in effect, gags his voice within the taxing entity. That's what is happening in Westerville and has been since 1998 with the PROS 2000 tax increase. The city wants the majority of voting taxpayers who work outside the city to vote their own self-interest by promising them an overall tax cut.
In effect, Westerville residents who work outside the city will receive a net tax cut under the city's new tax plan. All they have to do to accomplish this is shift their personal tax burden onto the backs of their neighbors who are foolish enough to both live and work in Westerville and the completely powerless non-resident taxpayers. Thus, the city increases tax revenue by using the lever of tax-relief and the fulcrum of taxation class envy to shift the burden to a powerless minority taxpayer base. The chains of tax slavery are being forged on the anvil of "tax fairness."
The city's argument for a tax shift and increase is shown to be among the grossest and most cynical kinds of propaganda, designed to play on the emotions of self-interest and tax-envy rather than the abstract intellectual concept of liberty. It is clear that true tax fairness can only be achieved by fairly and equally spreading the legitimate costs of city government on the residents of the city and on the businesses which own property here, exempting non-residents from the burden of paying for the services residents enjoy.
Large businesses should pay their fair share of taxes because they are large consumers of city services in the form of water, sewer, garbage collection, streets and sidewalks, etc. What about their voice in government? That's pretty easy actually, and it's a matter of personal choice. Any large business, if they want a voice in local government, could require some of its management personnel to live in the city limits. That would be good both for the business and the city. City residents are far less likely to propose hare-brained schemes which will, in the long run, harm their own property values or the city's environment. Absentee ownership doesn't have the same incentive. The government of the city of Westerville seems incapable of making this elementary political calculation.
And yet the city of Westerville, as discussed in the first article in this series, clings to the failed paradigm that businesses must be bribed with 50-100% tax abatements in order to remain "progressive" and keep the businesses "in the tax base." Of course what they really mean that they want to keep the businesses' employees in the tax base. The city leaders don't seem to realize that large, often absentee owned and operated businesses that aren't willing to pay their share of the tax burden don't really care for the city at all. They care for big quarterly profits which impress stockholders (by the way, nothing wrong with profit when it is gained legitimately. Accepting a pay-off in the form of a tax abatement is not legitimate, especially when it is gained on the backs of your employees). That's what makes the slap in the face of a 60% tax increase for local owners of small local businesses such a travesty; the small local business owner is the backbone of the community socially and economically. The large absentee business is a disproportionately expensive and subsidized consumer of city services. And yet the city, in the interest of additional revenue for the purpose of growing city government beyond its legitimate bounds, is willing to shift the tax burden to the local businessman.
We will be expanding on the concept of what a legitimate cost of government in the next entry.
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Black Eye On Westerville- Part 1
July 2, 2008 Camp Director
Many of the thinkers reading this might ask the questions a journalist is supposed to be trained to ask, though most don't anymore because it's more satisfying to try to steer the events than to just report them. So what questions do I mean? They are: who?; what?; where?; when?; why?; how?
First things first. Who. The "who" is the City of Westerville Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. "What" it's all about is a proposed 60% city income tax increase. Yes, that's what I said. A 60% income tax increase. From a base rate of 1.25% to 2%. The "when" is this November. Normally Westerville likes to run these kind of elections during the off-season primary times or, better yet, special elections when far fewer people vote and often only hear about the issue when they notice there's less money in their paychecks. That's exactly what Westerville did in 1998. It held a special election in August 1998, when almost no one was paying attention, for the so-called PROS 2000 tax increase. That one was less audacious, being only a 25% tax increase.
That increase was used for the purposes of buying privately owned land, removing that land from the tax pool, and turning it into park land, eliminating the revenue it formerly generated. The money was also used to build a grossly overpriced white elephant "community center" which is really a fancy subsidized health club. Full memberships (and someone has yet to explain satisfactorily to this author why memberships are required to a "community-owned" facility in the first place) to Westerville's Community Center are far too pricey for the average Westerville resident, who must pay on a "per-use" basis to use a facility he was forced to provide tax dollars to build and operate via the tyranny of the majority of voters in an election that had an exceptionally small turnout. And some facilities in the community-owned building are only available to members. Like the weight room, for instance.
There's a name for a system of taxation where a group can force another to provide a portion of the fruits of their labor to subsidize its own lifestyle. It's called tax slavery. And it's the result of a "majority" of poorly informed citizens tyrannizing the minority. This is a perfect example of democracy (as opposed to a republican government limited by law) in action. And what about private businesses that must compete in a taxpayer-subsidized market? Ask the owners of the Westerville Athletic Club (WAC) which was driven out of business because it could not compete in this kind of market. The city made sure WAC couldn't compete by refusing them a tax abatement (not enough non-resident jobs promised, you see) which made the continued operation of the private club untenable. But more on this travesty in a later part of the series.
The "where" is a formerly small and quiet suburban college town northeast of Columbus Ohio. I say "formerly" because the city fathers (and mothers) decided that Westerville needed to "grow and change with the times" and adopted city planning on an Italian model. The model in question has received high praise in the past from officials in the federal government who have employed something quite similar for some time and has been adopted by the vast majority of cities in the United States. In that model, government and business form "partnerships" supposedly for the overall benefit of the residents but, in reality, shifting the tax burden from the large businesses to the employees that those large businesses bring into the city. Those non-residents are then forced to pay city income tax to cover the costs of "necessary services" while the large businesses who hold property, which is worth millions of dollars per year in property taxes, are given large tax abatements of 50-100% for given periods, often 10 or 20 years. At the end of these terms the large businesses are given the opportunity to up the ante with more employees. Faced with the loss of subsidy, many simply leave the jurisdiction, leaving the city and its former employees holding the bag. By the way, small businesses are not eligible for this arrangement. So the small local businessman is at a huge disadvantage in an economic model where the number of non-resident employees brought in equals proportionally larger revenue to the city and, therefore, 50-100% property tax breaks for large businesses which are often absentee owned. What effect does this have on a city? It says to the small businessman, the one who keeps a downtown area vital, "drop dead, we don't need you."
The advantage to the government in this model is that thousands of non-residents are forced to contribute a disproportionate amounts of their labor to the city, yet are not allowed representation or a voice in how the money is spent. Taxation without representation, as the the founding fathers shortened the 17th complaint in the Declaration of Independence. The city that hosts the business only provides a fraction of the services to these non-residents that they do for the businesses and residents, so it is quite a boon for the city government which then, usually, uses the extra revenue to grow government, for the "good" of the residents, of course. The burden of the large remainder of "necessary services" is left mostly to surrounding cities which extract yet more of the fruits of labor from their hapless residents who work in other communities, providing a laughably small "credit" for taxes paid to another jurisdiction. Large businesses pay little or nothing beyond normal fees for the privilege of using the cities service infrastructure, a large percentage of which is necessary precisely because of the large businesses themselves.
This system creates tremendous strain on the infrastructure of small to medium-sized cities and when large subsidized businesses accept the income taxpayer funded tax abatement and subsidy bribes offered by other communities to expand their own taxpayer base, cities which cannot offer competing subsidies are left with large unoccupied tracts of industrial and/or office space ghettos which then require even more taxpayer subsidies to "redevelop" the property, which was more often than not originally developed under taxpayer subsidy. Thus, a vicious incrementally increasing cycle of tax-subsidize-tax-subsidize is created to "keep cities growing." This is where Westerville now finds itself.
By the way that Italian model has a name. We're sure you've heard of it. It was lauded as the model for the Roosevelt administration policy in its early days, by no less than Woodrow Wilson's "alter-ego" and Roosevelt operative Col. Edward Mandell House. The Italian model in question is the economic fascism of Benito Mussolini's Italy of the 1920's-1940's.
Now the "why" question. There are dozens of cities in Ohio and probably hundreds or thousands throughout the country who will try to get income tax increases past voters this fall. So why Westerville? Because the author of this series lives there. And it's easier for the author to get information about the shenanigans of Westerville's city "leaders" from local newspapers and cable outlets than it would in, say, Resume Speed Ohio's or some other place's. And the tactics and vacuous arguments we will chronicle here will be nearly identical to those used in your city. So stay in contact and hopefully you will learn how to refute or combat them.
The "how" question is what this series is all about. How the city will fight its end of the the battle and how Westerville residents who oppose the increase will fight the battle. Keep watching this space.
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100 years ago today the Titanic left port bound for her maiden voyage to America with 3000 souls onboard. Two days later, she sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic where she and more than 1500 souls remain today. A tragedy not to be forgotten.
This past few weeks I've been going through old boxes in the basement and found family photos of old ancestors and relatives. Some dating back 100 years, around the time the Titanic set sail. Some dated back even further. It got me thinking about my family's past and about the folks in the photos. I wonder who they were. Yes, there are names on the backs of some and even explanations such as "wife of… daughter of… son of…." But I can't help but wonder who they were, what their profession was, what their character was like, what they did to pass the time, what books they read. Well, ok, the last question was answered when I found the Bible published in 1880, a 132-year-old Bible engraved "Manahan". I also found 2 others published around the turn of the century, one in 1901 and the other in 1905.
The oldest looking relatives I found was this picture of David Donalson (no "D" )and Sarah Elizabeth Laltimer Donalson with baby Louella. Here is a picture of the three of them and one of baby Louella later on in live. I don't know anything else about this family other than David died a Veteran at Camp St. Louis, Mo. Feb. 8, 1863 at 27 years of age. He must have been in the Civil War. Louella's gravestone is in Jerome, Ohio.
In more recent years is a picture of my great-great grandfather, C. W. Manahan, on his 100th birthday in 1913 along with many others who were over 70. Again, I don't know much about him or what he did for a living other than he lived in Norwalk, Ohio.
Moving further along in time, I found some old photos of where my grandfather, David Peckham worked. These photos were either the Port of Sandusky or Elyria, both in Ohio.
One of his sons, my Uncle Tom, did some time in the U. S. Navy. I know it's a stretch, but it's the only sea-faring bit I could find in my family. Perhaps adventure and water runs in my family.
Ironically, today is the 36th anniversary of the death of my Uncle Tom. I discovered this after I posted my blog. Rest in peace, you will always live in our hearts.
This week's blog is riding in on the shirt tales, or I guess I should say the fish tales, of last week's blog. It's the story of how I ended up meeting with Senator Murkowski in Washington D.C.
As some of you may know, I've spent my winter sailing down the east coast through the Intracoastal Water Ways (ICW), around the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas, a set of small keys approximately 70 miles west of Key West. My fishing season is approaching so I wasn't able to sail the boat back north with Vince where it will be stored in Maryland until next fall. I needed a faster than 7 knots mode of transportation to get to Ohio, visit family then continue on to Alaska. So we rented a car.
Vince, who did the road trip with me then went back to his boat, needed to stop off in North Carolina and southern Maryland. I was looking at a map of America, figuring our route from Florida to Ohio via those states and lo and behold, Washington D.C. is right on the way. I figured, what the hay? I'll see if I can swing in and meet with my Senators about Pebble Mine. I went to each of their websites, Begich and Murkowski and saw that each had a "Coffee with the Senator". I RSVP'ed on line, it was that easy.
Now, being that I've been on a sailboat all winter, I didn't really have the kind of clothes needed to meet with a Senator. Even my best flip-flops were a bit ragged. So we stopped at a few outlet malls along the way. I gathered up what I thought was a conservative outfit. Turns out, I missed the mark completely, but so did most the other Alaskans there. Anyway, we pull into D.C. the afternoon before my morning meeting. We were going to settle into the hotel, then enjoy the warm evening by walking into historic Georgetown for dinner. Opening up the trunk of the car to grab my outfit, complete with new shoes, I picked up the box with my new shoes in them and what do I see? Mouse pooh! The tissue paper was all gone and there was mouse poop in the box. Luckily, the shoes were not damaged. But, oh no! My new sweater! I tear into that bag and find my sweater, which was also wrapped in tissue paper. Again, the paper was gone. I feared the worse. What if a mouse ate a whole in my new sweater that I got at the J. Crew outlet for 35% off? I'm in the middle of D.C. There are no outlet malls here. Where am I going to get a new outfit on this short notice? Everyone knows you can never find what you are looking for when there is a time crunch. Especially not on sale! How much will that cost. Panic was setting in as I yanked the sweater out of the bag and inspected it. Schew. Only the paper was gone, the sweater was fine.
Long story short, instead of our nice romantic evening in Georgetown we had what looked like a yard sale in the parking lot of the hotel as we pulled everything out of the trunk, pulled every piece of clothing out its bags. And at that point in time, I couldn't help but wonder why I can't have a normal life.
We never did find the mouse, only his nest and his trail of mouse pooh in bags on the back seat. I called the rental car company to switch out the car. They said they would bring me something similar to the gas sipping Nissan I was driving. They showed up with a Ford F150 4x4 four-door that got 14 miles to the gallon, but that's another story.
Anywho, that next morning I took the subway all by myself with my new outfit that didn't have mouse holes in it to the Senate building and didn't even get lost, much. I walk into Senator Murkowski's office and, of course, there is Jim, a guy I know from Anchorage. He was an old hat at this and showed me the ropes. I started chatting with Stefanie, the fisheries gal and found out we know some of the same folks from Petersburg. Then I met with the Senator and we chit-chatted about how much snow Cordova got over the winter, our mutual love of Copper River Fleece (www.copperriverfleece.com) and that both of us own too many jackets. She told me how her sons work on tenders in the summer. Then I slipped in my concerns about Pebble. She listened. And that is, as they say, the rest of the story.


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Mariusz Gil (Strzelce Krajeńskie, 6 mei 1983) is een Pools veldrijder die anno 2013 rijdt voor het veldritteam KwadrO-Stannah.

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In zijn jeugdjaren werd Gil achtste bij de wereldkampioenschappen veldrijden 2001 in de categorie junioren en won hij zilver bij de wereldkampioenschappen veldrijden 2004 in de categorie beloften. Bij de elite werd hij onder meer negentiende op de wereldkampioenschappen veldrijden 2011.

Gil rijdt veel wedstrijden in het Belgische circuit en haalt daar zo nu en dan toptienplekken. Zo werd hij negende in Vorselaar bij een wedstrijd die meetelde voor de Superprestige veldrijden 2009-2010, negende in Gieten bij een cross voor de Superprestige veldrijden 2010-2011 en haalde verdere toptienplekken in crossen die meetelden voor de Superprestige veldrijden 2011-2012, de GvA Trofee Veldrijden 2011-2012 en de Superprestige veldrijden 2012-2013.

Gil is een van de beste veldrijders van Polen, op de Poolse kampioenschappen veldrijden won hij bij de junioren in 2000 en 2001, bij de beloften in 2002, 2003, 2004 en 2005 en bij de elite in 2008, 2010, 2011 en 2012.

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Q: Generate a matrix containing all combinations of elements taken from n vectors This question pops up quite often in one form or another (see for example here or here). So I thought I'd present it in a general form, and provide an answer which might serve for future reference.

Given an arbitrary number n of vectors of possibly different sizes, generate an n-column matrix whose rows describe all combinations of elements taken from those vectors (Cartesian product) .

For example,
vectors = { [1 2], [3 6 9], [10 20] }

should give
combs = [ 1     3    10
          1     3    20
          1     6    10
          1     6    20
          1     9    10
          1     9    20
          2     3    10
          2     3    20
          2     6    10
          2     6    20
          2     9    10
          2     9    20 ]

A: The ndgrid function almost gives the answer, but has one caveat: n output variables must be explicitly defined to call it. Since n is arbitrary, the best way is to use a comma-separated list (generated from a cell array with ncells) to serve as output. The resulting n matrices are then concatenated into the desired n-column matrix:
vectors = { [1 2], [3 6 9], [10 20] }; %// input data: cell array of vectors

n = numel(vectors); %// number of vectors
combs = cell(1,n); %// pre-define to generate comma-separated list
[combs{end:-1:1}] = ndgrid(vectors{end:-1:1}); %// the reverse order in these two
%// comma-separated lists is needed to produce the rows of the result matrix in
%// lexicographical order
combs = cat(n+1, combs{:}); %// concat the n n-dim arrays along dimension n+1
combs = reshape(combs,[],n); %// reshape to obtain desired matrix

A: A little bit simpler ... if you have the Neural Network toolbox you can simply use combvec:
vectors = {[1 2], [3 6 9], [10 20]};
combs = combvec(vectors{:}).' % Use cells as arguments

which returns a matrix in a slightly different order:
combs =

     1     3    10
     2     3    10
     1     6    10
     2     6    10
     1     9    10
     2     9    10
     1     3    20
     2     3    20
     1     6    20
     2     6    20
     1     9    20
     2     9    20

If you want the matrix that is in the question, you can use sortrows:
combs = sortrows(combvec(vectors{:}).')
% Or equivalently as per @LuisMendo in the comments:
% combs = fliplr(combvec(vectors{end:-1:1}).')

which gives
combs =

     1     3    10
     1     3    20
     1     6    10
     1     6    20
     1     9    10
     1     9    20
     2     3    10
     2     3    20
     2     6    10
     2     6    20
     2     9    10
     2     9    20

If you look at the internals of combvec (type edit combvec in the command window), you'll see that it uses different code than @LuisMendo's answer. I can't say which is more efficient overall.
If you happen to have a matrix whose rows are akin to the earlier cell array you can use:
vectors = [1 2;3 6;10 20];
vectors = num2cell(vectors,2);
combs = sortrows(combvec(vectors{:}).')

A: Here's a do-it-yourself method that made me giggle with delight, using nchoosek, although it's not better than @Luis Mendo's accepted solution.
For the example given, after 1,000 runs this solution took my machine on average 0.00065935 s, versus the accepted solution 0.00012877 s. For larger vectors, following @Luis Mendo's benchmarking post, this solution is consistently slower than the accepted answer. Nevertheless, I decided to post it in hopes that maybe you'll find something useful about it:
Code:
tic;
v = {[1 2], [3 6 9], [10 20]};

L = [0 cumsum(cellfun(@length,v))];
V = cell2mat(v);

J = nchoosek(1:L(end),length(v));
J(any(J>repmat(L(2:end),[size(J,1) 1]),2) | ...
  any(J<=repmat(L(1:end-1),[size(J,1) 1]),2),:)  = [];

V(J)
toc

gives
ans =

 1     3    10
 1     3    20
 1     6    10
 1     6    20
 1     9    10
 1     9    20
 2     3    10
 2     3    20
 2     6    10
 2     6    20
 2     9    10
 2     9    20

Elapsed time is 0.018434 seconds.

Explanation:
L gets the lengths of each vector using cellfun. Although cellfun is basically a loop, it's efficient here considering your number of vectors will have to be relatively low for this problem to even be practical.
V concatenates all the vectors for easy access later (this assumes you entered all your vectors as rows. v' would work for column vectors.)
nchoosek gets all the ways to pick n=length(v) elements from the total number of elements L(end). There will be more combinations here than what we need.
J =

 1     2     3
 1     2     4
 1     2     5
 1     2     6
 1     2     7
 1     3     4
 1     3     5
 1     3     6
 1     3     7
 1     4     5
 1     4     6
 1     4     7
 1     5     6
 1     5     7
 1     6     7
 2     3     4
 2     3     5
 2     3     6
 2     3     7
 2     4     5
 2     4     6
 2     4     7
 2     5     6
 2     5     7
 2     6     7
 3     4     5
 3     4     6
 3     4     7
 3     5     6
 3     5     7
 3     6     7
 4     5     6
 4     5     7
 4     6     7
 5     6     7

Since there are only two elements in v(1), we need to throw out any rows where J(:,1)>2. Similarly, where J(:,2)<3, J(:,2)>5, etc... Using L and repmat we can determine whether each element of J is in its appropriate range, and then use any to discard rows that have any bad element.
Finally, these aren't the actual values from v, just indices. V(J) will return the desired matrix.

A: I've done some benchmarking on the two proposed solutions. The benchmarking code is based on the timeit function, and is included at the end of this post.
I consider two cases: three vectors of size n, and three vectors of sizes n/10, n and n*10 respectively (both cases give the same number of combinations). n is varied up to a maximum of 240 (I choose this value to avoid the use of virtual memory in my laptop computer).
The results are given in the following figure. The ndgrid-based solution is seen to consistently take less time than combvec. It's also interesting to note that the time taken by combvec varies a little less regularly in the different-size case.

Benchmarking code
Function for ndgrid-based solution:
function combs = f1(vectors)
n = numel(vectors); %// number of vectors
combs = cell(1,n); %// pre-define to generate comma-separated list
[combs{end:-1:1}] = ndgrid(vectors{end:-1:1}); %// the reverse order in these two
%// comma-separated lists is needed to produce the rows of the result matrix in
%// lexicographical order
combs = cat(n+1, combs{:}); %// concat the n n-dim arrays along dimension n+1
combs = reshape(combs,[],n);

Function for combvec solution:
function combs = f2(vectors)
combs = combvec(vectors{:}).';

Script to measure time by calling timeit on these functions:
nn = 20:20:240;
t1 = [];
t2 = [];
for n = nn;
    %//vectors = {1:n, 1:n, 1:n};
    vectors = {1:n/10, 1:n, 1:n*10};
    t = timeit(@() f1(vectors));
    t1 = [t1; t];
    t = timeit(@() f2(vectors));
    t2 = [t2; t];
end


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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently reversed a lower court's decision to decertify the class in a class action brought under the Electronic Funds Transfer Act. In so ruling, the Seventh Circuit indicated that class actions are appropriate even where a successful action offers insignificant compensation to class members, due to their value as deterrents -- and further indicated that in such situations, awarding the money to a related charity might be the most feasible solution.
A copy of the opinion is available at http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14393858798341078038&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr.
Multiple affiliated companies (collectively, "Defendants") owned two ATMs located in Indianapolis. A consumer filed a class action lawsuit alleging that Defendants failed to post a notice of the fee charged for the use of its ATMs, in violation of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1693b(d)(3) (the "EFTA").
The parties agreed that the EFTA capped damages, if any, at 10% of the defendants' net worth -- here, $10,000.
The lower court decertified the class on two grounds: first, that the class members would be better served by filing individual actions, in light of the small amount of money recoverable to each member in a class action; and second, that the requirement of notice to class members could not be satisfied here, and ATM machines do not store users' names. The consumer appealed.
As you may recall, the EFTA provides for statutory damages of at least $100, but no more than $1000, for individual plaintiffs. Id. at Sec. 1693m(a)(1), (a)(2)(A). If a class action is filed instead, the class is entitled to the lesser of $500,000 or 1% of the defendant's net worth. Id. at 1693m(a)(2)(B)(ii). Courts are to award reasonable attorney's fees to the defendant where a suit is successful. Id. at Sec. 1693m(a)(3).
On appeal, the Seventh Circuit indicated that it allowed "the appeal in order to further development of class action law...regarding the issues of notice in cases in which the potential damages per class member are very slight, and the suitability of class action treatment of such cases." Here, each class member might expect to receive roughly $3.57, given the available information as to the use of the ATM machines in question.
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