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package org.apache.tez.runtime.library.cartesianproduct;

import org.apache.tez.dag.api.EdgeManagerPluginContext;
import org.apache.tez.dag.api.EdgeManagerPluginOnDemand.EventRouteMetadata;
import org.apache.tez.dag.api.EdgeManagerPluginOnDemand.CompositeEventRouteMetadata;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.apache.tez.runtime.library.cartesianproduct.CartesianProductUserPayload.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

public class TestFairCartesianProductEdgeManager {
  private EdgeManagerPluginContext mockContext;
  private FairCartesianProductEdgeManager edgeManager;

  @Before
  public void setup() {
    mockContext = mock(EdgeManagerPluginContext.class);
    edgeManager = new FairCartesianProductEdgeManager(mockContext);
  }

  static class TestData {
    int srcId, destId, inputId;
    Object expected;

    public TestData(int srcId, int destId, int inputId, Object expected) {
      this.srcId = srcId;
      this.destId = destId;
      this.inputId = inputId;
      this.expected = expected;
    }
  }

  private TestData dataForRouting(int srcId, int destId, Object expected) {
    return new TestData(srcId, destId, -1, expected);
  }

  private TestData dataForInputError(int destId, int inputId, Object expected) {
    return new TestData(-1, destId, inputId, expected);
  }

  private TestData dataForSrc(int srcId, Object expected) {
    return new TestData(srcId, -1, -1, expected);
  }

  private TestData dataForDest(int destId, Object expected) {
    return new TestData(-1, destId, -1, expected);
  }

  private void testEdgeManager(CartesianProductConfigProto conf, String vName, int numTask,
                               String groupName, TestData cDMEInvalid, TestData cDMEValid,
                               TestData srcFailInvalid, TestData srcFailValid,
                               TestData inputError, TestData numDestInput,
                               TestData numSrcOutputTest, TestData numConsumerTest)
    throws Exception {
    when(mockContext.getSourceVertexName()).thenReturn(vName);
    when(mockContext.getSourceVertexNumTasks()).thenReturn(numTask);
    when(mockContext.getVertexGroupName()).thenReturn(groupName);
    edgeManager.initialize(conf);

    CompositeEventRouteMetadata cDME;

    if (cDMEInvalid != null) {
      cDME = edgeManager.routeCompositeDataMovementEventToDestination(cDMEInvalid.srcId,
        cDMEInvalid.destId);
      assertNull(cDME);
    }

    cDME = edgeManager.routeCompositeDataMovementEventToDestination(cDMEValid.srcId,
      cDMEValid.destId);
    assertNotNull(cDME);
    CompositeEventRouteMetadata expectedCDME = (CompositeEventRouteMetadata)(cDMEValid.expected);
    assertEquals(expectedCDME.getCount(), cDME.getCount());
    assertEquals(expectedCDME.getTarget(), cDME.getTarget());
    assertEquals(expectedCDME.getSource(), cDME.getSource());

    EventRouteMetadata dme;
    if (srcFailInvalid != null) {
      dme = edgeManager.routeInputSourceTaskFailedEventToDestination(srcFailInvalid.srcId,
        srcFailInvalid.destId);
      assertNull(dme);
    }

    dme = edgeManager.routeInputSourceTaskFailedEventToDestination(srcFailValid.srcId,
      srcFailValid.destId);
    assertNotNull(dme);
    EventRouteMetadata expectedDME = (EventRouteMetadata)(srcFailValid.expected);
    assertEquals(expectedDME.getNumEvents(), dme.getNumEvents());
    assertArrayEquals(expectedDME.getTargetIndices(), dme.getTargetIndices());

    assertEquals(inputError.expected,
      edgeManager.routeInputErrorEventToSource(inputError.destId, inputError.inputId));

    assertEquals(numDestInput.expected,
      edgeManager.getNumDestinationTaskPhysicalInputs(numDestInput.destId));
    assertEquals(numSrcOutputTest.expected,
      edgeManager.getNumSourceTaskPhysicalOutputs(numSrcOutputTest.srcId));
    assertEquals(numConsumerTest.expected,
      edgeManager.getNumDestinationConsumerTasks(numConsumerTest.srcId));
  }

  /**
   * Vertex v0 has 2 tasks, 2 chunks
   * Vertex v1 has 30 tasks, 3 chunks
   */
  @Test(timeout = 5000)
  public void testTwoWayAllVertex() throws Exception {
    CartesianProductConfigProto.Builder builder = CartesianProductConfigProto.newBuilder();
    builder.setIsPartitioned(false).addSources("v0").addSources("v1")
      .addNumChunks(2).addNumChunks(3).setMaxParallelism(10).setNumPartitionsForFairCase(10);
    CartesianProductConfigProto config = builder.build();
    testEdgeManager(config, "v0", 2, null, dataForRouting(1, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 3, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(10, 0, 0)),
      dataForRouting(1, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 3, EventRouteMetadata.create(10, new int[]{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9})),
      dataForInputError(1, 0, 0), dataForDest(1, 10), dataForSrc(1, 10), dataForSrc(1, 3));
    testEdgeManager(config, "v1", 30, null, dataForRouting(1, 2, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 0, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(10, 10, 0)),
      dataForRouting(1, 2, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 0, EventRouteMetadata.create(10, new int[]{10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19})),
      dataForInputError(1,0,10), dataForDest(1, 100), dataForSrc(1, 10), dataForSrc(1, 2));
  }

  /**
   * Vertex v0 has 2 tasks, 2 chunks
   * Vertex v1 has 30 tasks, 3 chunks
   * Vertex v2 has 1 tasks, 4 chunks
   */
  @Test(timeout = 5000)
  public void testThreeWayAllVertex() throws Exception {
    CartesianProductConfigProto.Builder builder = CartesianProductConfigProto.newBuilder();
    builder.setIsPartitioned(false).addSources("v0").addSources("v1").addSources("v2")
      .addNumChunks(2).addNumChunks(3).addNumChunks(4)
      .setMaxParallelism(12).setNumPartitionsForFairCase(12);
    CartesianProductConfigProto config = builder.build();
    testEdgeManager(config, "v0", 2, null, dataForRouting(1, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 12, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(12, 0, 0)),
      dataForRouting(1, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 12, EventRouteMetadata.create(12, new int[]{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11})),
      dataForInputError(1, 0, 0), dataForDest(1, 12), dataForSrc(1, 12), dataForSrc(1, 12));
    testEdgeManager(config, "v1", 30, null, dataForRouting(1, 4, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 13, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(12, 12, 0)),
      dataForRouting(1, 4, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 13,
        EventRouteMetadata.create(12, new int[]{12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23})),
      dataForInputError(1, 0, 0), dataForDest(1, 120), dataForSrc(1, 12), dataForSrc(1, 8));
    testEdgeManager(config, "v2", 1, null,
      null, dataForRouting(0, 13, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(3, 0, 3)),
      null, dataForRouting(0, 13, EventRouteMetadata.create(3, new int[]{0,1,2})),
      dataForInputError(1, 0, 0), dataForDest(1, 3), dataForSrc(0, 12), dataForSrc(0, 24));
  }

  /**
   * v0 with group g0 {v1, v2}
   * Vertex v0 has 2 chunks
   * Vertex v1 has 10 tasks
   * Vertex v2 has 20 tasks
   * Group g0 has 3 chunks
   */
  @Test(timeout = 5000)
  public void testTwoWayVertexWithVertexGroup() throws Exception {
    CartesianProductConfigProto.Builder builder = CartesianProductConfigProto.newBuilder();
    builder.setIsPartitioned(false).addSources("v0").addSources("g0")
      .addNumChunks(2).addNumChunks(3).setPositionInGroup(10).setNumPartitionsForFairCase(10)
      .addNumTaskPerVertexInGroup(10).addNumTaskPerVertexInGroup(20).setPositionInGroup(0);
    testEdgeManager(builder.build(), "v1", 10, "g0", dataForRouting(0, 4, null),
      dataForRouting(0, 3, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(10, 0, 0)),
      dataForRouting(0, 4, null),
      dataForRouting(0, 3, EventRouteMetadata.create(10, new int[]{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9})),
      dataForInputError(3, 0, 0), dataForDest(2, 34), dataForSrc(0, 10), dataForSrc(0, 2));
    builder.setPositionInGroup(1);
    testEdgeManager(builder.build(), "v2", 20, "g0", dataForRouting(1, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(6, 1, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(4, 33, 6)),
      dataForRouting(1, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(6, 1, EventRouteMetadata.create(4, new int[]{33,34,35,36})),
      dataForInputError(1, 33, 6), dataForDest(0, 66), dataForSrc(1, 10), dataForSrc(6, 4));
  }

  /**
   * group g0 {v1, v2} with group g1 {v3, v4}
   *
   * Vertex v0 has 2 tasks
   * Vertex v1 has 4 tasks
   * Group g0 has 2 chunks
   * Group g1 has 3 chunks
   */
  @Test(timeout = 5000)
  public void testTwoWayAllVertexGroup() throws Exception {
    CartesianProductConfigProto.Builder builder = CartesianProductConfigProto.newBuilder();
    builder.setIsPartitioned(false).addSources("g0").addSources("g1")
      .addNumChunks(2).addNumChunks(3).setMaxParallelism(10).setNumPartitionsForFairCase(10)
      .addNumTaskPerVertexInGroup(2).addNumTaskPerVertexInGroup(5).setPositionInGroup(0);
    testEdgeManager(builder.build(), "v0", 2, "g0", dataForRouting(1, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(0, 1, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(10, 0, 0)),
      dataForRouting(1, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(0, 1, EventRouteMetadata.create(10, new int[]{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9})),
      dataForInputError(1, 0, 0), dataForDest(1, 10), dataForSrc(1, 10), dataForSrc(1, 3));
    builder.setPositionInGroup(1);
    testEdgeManager(builder.build(), "v1", 5, "g0", dataForRouting(3, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 1, CompositeEventRouteMetadata.create(10, 20, 0)),
      dataForRouting(3, 1, null),
      dataForRouting(1, 1, EventRouteMetadata.create(10, new int[]{20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29})),
      dataForInputError(1, 15, 0), dataForDest(1, 25), dataForSrc(1, 10), dataForSrc(1, 3));
  }

  @Test(timeout = 5000)
  public void testNumPartition() throws Exception {
    when(mockContext.getSourceVertexName()).thenReturn("source");
    when(mockContext.getSourceVertexNumTasks()).thenReturn(10);
    when(mockContext.getVertexGroupName()).thenReturn(null);

    CartesianProductConfigProto.Builder builder = CartesianProductConfigProto.newBuilder();
    builder.setIsPartitioned(false).addSources("v0").addSources("v1").setMaxParallelism(100);

    edgeManager.initialize(builder.build());
    assertEquals(10, edgeManager.getNumSourceTaskPhysicalOutputs(0));

    builder.setNumPartitionsForFairCase(20);
    edgeManager = new FairCartesianProductEdgeManager(mockContext);
    edgeManager.initialize(builder.build());
    assertEquals(20, edgeManager.getNumSourceTaskPhysicalOutputs(0));
  }
}

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Yesterday Jason wrote a great post on traditional tenkara lines. The traditional line and the level line have their unique feel and I like to recommend people try both to see what they think. I personally use level lines exclusively, primarily because of the ability to use different line lengths and adjust it if I want to. That's what this post is about.
I greatly enjoy fishing with a line that is attached to the tip of my rod and the length of which is generally fixed. This provides me with three main advantages: first, I know exactly how much line I have. Because of this I can easily stay away from trees behind me by (a) avoiding the temptation to strip one extra foot of line from my reel, (b) doing a very short casting stroke if there are lots of trees behind me, or (c) backcasting into a different direction or into openings in the canopy.
Second, tenkara is very quick to setup, just tie the line to the tip of the rod, and voila! You're now fishing. And, lastly, having a fixed length of line is pretty relaxing in my opinion, I can move about in a stream without managing line with my other hand, without line slipping down through the guides of my rod, and I can very effectively cast to the spot I desire without trying to gauge the distance to it.
With that being said, when I fish I move a lot. This alone would not require adjusting line length often. But, throughout a day of fishing I may start fishing a large stream in the morning, find myself in a tighter tributary in the afternoon and then return to an open and wide section in the evening. I also enjoy fishing with a long tenkara level line.
So, what lengths of lines should someone like me carry for a day of fishing?
I consider myself a very simple-minded angler and really like to keep it super simple. I hate carrying a bunch of stuff with me, and no longer even carry a bag for my tackle, though I do enjoy using a net. My entire tackle of line spools, tippet, fly box, and forceps + nipper must be confined to the pockets found in my waders, or those in my pants. That is what attracted me to tenkara to begin with.
While I strive to carry as little as possible with me, sometimes I do wish I had a different length of line with me. It's not like I'm changing lines all the time, but certain fishing areas may call for different line lengths.
There is a recent discussion in our forum where someone was trying to figure out the best line lengths to cut the 65 spools of level line that we sell. I say, start with one or two lengths and go from there. Keep it simple.
For the most part a tenkara angler will be very happy by carrying only 2 or 3 spools of pre-cut lines. For this I would suggest carrying a 10 or 11ft line (maybe a spool of the traditional line if you like its feel), then a spool of 15ft level line and a spool of 20ft level line if you fish in larger rivers as I do. A 65 spool of line will yield between 4 and 5 lines if cut this way (10+15+20+20). This combination will cover a wide range of lengths.
But, what if you just want one spool of line? Or, what if you find yourself with 20ft level line attached to your rod tip, no other spools in your pocket, and the next 200 yards of the stream is pretty narrow? I say, just cut it.
This part is pretty straightforward. All you need to do is collapse your rod, detach the level line from the tip of your rod by pulling the tag end. Cut whatever length of line is necessary. Wind the line you just cut around your hand to form a tight coil. Make sure it stays in a neat coil by wrapping one end around it. And put it in a pocket for later use.
Put this little coil in your shirt pocket, or even in your fly box.
And now, you fish those 200 yards and come to a wide part of the stream or you drive over to a larger river nearby, and find yourself wishing you had never cut your line; wishing that you still had 20ft of line attached to the end of the rod.
Pretty simple, collapse the rod again, detach the line from your rod tip, get the coil out of your pocket and join the line you cut to the beginning of the line you were just using with a blood knot!
I have included photographs of the knot below, and you can look up instructions on how to tie a blood knot online, but it's a very easy knot to tie: (1) cross your two lines to be tied, wrap one tag end over the other line 3 times and insert this tag end into the opening between the two lines, (2) do the same with the other line but with the tag end being inserted into the middle in the opposite direction, (3) as you start the knot hold all 4 "ends" and pull them in opposite directions, (4) now just pull the two main lines in opposite directions to tighten, moisten with spit as you do this or pull very slowly, (5) tighten, (6) cut tags close to the main line.
In order to use the instructions in this article I like to recommend the slip knot suggested in our literature and video below for tying the level line to the rod tip. I do not like the use of a permanent loop and girth hitch for the level line as that would require that you cut some line off every time you want to join lines. The slip knot, once learned, is the most effective and quickest knot to tie.
It should be noted that one can very effectively fish one length of line just about anywhere, and the instructions above are not likely to be necessary all that often. For example, you can be just fine using your tenkara rod with your 10 1/2ft traditional line and not bother with longer lines even in larger rivers. In this way tenkara can be likened to using a camera with no zoom, should you want to get closer to the subject (in this case the fish) take a step closer.
Furthermore, the fish is also not always just farther than you can reach. Fishing with a fixed length of line can give anglers a new focus on water that is within reach, and therefore make them fish that water more effectively. If you have a short line that is fixed in length, you'll spend less time looking at the other side of the stream, and more time looking for the good looking spots most anglers miss. In this way, having only one spool of a shorter length of line can be an asset and also a relaxing way of fishing.
I'd be interested in knowing what your favorite line set consists of! What length have you come to favor?
This is a great upgrade to the TUSA Blog site. For those of us that are having "senior" knot tying challenges especially in colder weather, I have better luck with the Double Uni Knot for conneccting two lines together. Duiring my own personal "knot wars" testing, the Double Uni tested stronger than the blood knot. Everyone ties knots a bit differently and probably has different results so I always suggest each fisherman should test their own knots for best results.
Thanks for your continuous education and insite in to the world of Tenkara.
Ehat about using perfection loops to add length to a line?
Liz, loops at the end of the line add additional points for possible snag and further drag, so I stay away from loops for joining lines together, although they would work okay too.
Another knot that I have found very useful, and easier for me to tie when joining lines, is the albright knot.
thank you so much for that information, it my seem very simple to you, but very direct for me!


A good portion of our presentation will be spent discussing the benefits of participating in the forums.
Does anyone have a story that we could share?
Learn a new technique that completely changed your workflow?
Share a tip or a trick with someone, and save them a ton of time?
Have you "met people" on the forums that you "chat" with on a weekly basis?
Do you ever find yourself saying "Oh, my friend from Australia showed me the coolest thing the other day!"
There are so many stories, I'm sure that everyone has at least a couple . . .
Who is willing to share them?
Learning about the simplified design table from Paul Marsman at question about linear patterns and configurations was one that really sticks out for me. Other than that, I've learned (and am still learning) so much from Deepak Gupta, Kelvin Lamport, Alin Vargatu, Dan Pihlaja, of course Wayne Tiffany, and others too numerous to mention, that I wouldn't know where to start.
When I started using SolidWorks there were two other people here who knew just a little bit more than I did, but I used the software more than they did, so I caught up to them pretty soon. I eventually took some classes from our VAR, but otherwise pretty much all I know about the software I learned from trial and error (with a lot of error), and here. I hate to think what my skill level would be without this forum.
I feel like I have friends all over the world, many of whom I'll probably never get to meet.
Todd.....where have you been? Well the forum is the place to pick up on stuff that you have forgotten about. Having not used the program for a few years the basics are there and some of the questions that people ask kind of make you think. Sometimes you have an idea on how to solve the problem. #1 is don't do it like that to why would you want that?
the settings have gone nuts and there are like 60,000 more than I remember there being. This is a great place to find that setting that you have been looking at all day but can't see. There are guys that know where they are and what line they are on and can take a screen shot and highlight the setting for you in 15 seconds after you ask the question.
The water cooler is a great place for simple questions like this or just for passing some time to kind of chat around. The more you learn the less you know kind of like things. I would have never found out about SLUGME with out this here and if it were not for a few buddies giving me some points to get into the top 100, which was the goal I set for starting a user group....We would have never made it.
get to write up ideas. ask questions.....answer questions.....drive people nuts....not sure why but I have had a few more people start following me today....they may be after the secrete candy recipe.....who knows?
all in all a bunch of great people on here that like to help others.
If i never found the forum i would not be nearly half as good as i am.
Participation on this forum is two sided from my point of view. Firstly there is the knowledge transfer from other users where we all share tips and techniques on how to do something we currently can't or want to improve at. Secondly there is the change movement where we give a collective feedback to Solidworks on issues that could be better and I think as a community we have their ear to a certain degree, it has some power and influence behind it.
You only have to look how the top ten list has been changed this year from previous. The first thing that you are asked before submitting an idea is "How should we allocate our 2018 R&D resources?" and this I would say was mainly due to the ONE and TWO movement. We also had the feedback on the user interface change which came in with 2016 and although negatively received the comments that were posted on here carried a large amount of weight behind them and as such within a few service packs the option to choose a classic interface was included.
I have learnt very many things in my short time in the forum. I have received help from a wide range of people all with differing specialities in skillsets and have been very appreciate of the patience they have shown with some of my questions. Although there are quite a few 'regulars' that I chat with in the forum, one person that was also very helpful and I managed to build a personal relationship with was Bernie Daraz. Apart from the fact that he was very knowledgeable with Solidworks, he was very comical and perceptive. Although it was borne out of a common poor circumstance, Bernie and I exchanged many an email covering all matter of subjects, not just Solidworks. In Bernie I found an International friend (like many others here) but one who I could really relate too outside of SolidWorks as well. Bernie understood me, knew what I felt, knew how I thought. I miss him greatly.
Long story short, the forum for me has been a gold-mine of wisdom, tried and tested. I have met (and continue to meet) some terrific people who are selfless in the way they help others. The forum is a mixing bowl of experience, ages, strengths, races, industries, practices and ideas that is spread globally. For me so far, this has helped me build better cakes! But get to know a person who has those ingredients, and you'll become a better man for the whole experience!
Forum is a value addition to SWX. It helps me to take big stride in SWX.
Todd Blacksher - Totally with Ned Hutchinson - plus there are so many awesome people here on the forum that will do anything or most anything to help out with a real problem and at the same time be able to make fun of me when I do or say something wacked out.
We can't do the same thing over and over and expect different results, searching for new ways, searching for better methods have always been my drive using SW. It pains me to see people struggle unnecessarily. I would love to mention everyone by name.but choose not to, (only because I would be afraid that I would omit somebody), but I'll just say the top 200 people here are very special people with a vast knowledge base in many different areas and have proven to me that all designs are possible using SolidWorks as a Design Tool.
For me Todd, The Forum is an opportunity daily to learn something new or different about a piece of software that I make my living using.
6 or usually more hours per day I use SolidWorks to design real world tools, dies, gages, fixtures and other components. The more efficient I am, the more versatile I am, the more accurate I am the more value I have.
One of the best learning opportunities the Forum brought me was Alin Vargatu's SWPUC - SOLIDWORKS Power User Challenges series. As each challenge unfolds I discover that SolidWorks Users have discovered a dozen or more ways to accomplish the most esoteric tasks. Usually, all but one of the methods is new to me and I discover the tool I use every day has more possibility than I ever imagined. It truly is fascinating to see what is attainable with SolidWorks.
Secondly it gives me continuous learning, increase in knowledge and discovering new ideas on how to do things. This helps me in solving my problems.
Thirdly I love to share my knowledge. It makes me feel really good to share my learning with others and help them out.
Fourthly I can share my views openly on the forum and discuss openly with other users, VARs and SOLIDWORKS employees on how we can improve SOLIDWORKS.
Finally I cherish on my relationship bond with the SOLIDWORKS community and this forum has played an important role in that.
I started using Solidworks around 2010. Before that, I was using 2 different CAD packages regularly.
At first, Solidworks felt clunky to me, because I was modeling very complex shapes and it took lots of modeling time to get done what I needed to get done.
Then I started here at Skilled, and found out that the firewall blocked the Solidworks Forums (because it blocked all "forum" type sites).
After a few years, I finally asked the IT team to unblock the forum site. All of a sudden, the answers to some of my questions were only a google search away. Honestly, looking back at it, I felt like I broke through a wall when I got access to the Solidworks Forums.
Then I started asking a couple of my own questions, and found out that I knew the answer to a couple of other people's questions and started getting a little more involved with the forums.
Then Alin started his WPUC challenges and I found out about "Face Curves" things really haven't been the same since. I wish that I knew back at my last job what I know now. It would have made Gas mask modeling so much simpler!
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I have learned more about Solidworks in the last 6 months on the Forums than I have in the last 6 years of using it on my own.


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Promising intervention for girls in STEM? Teams with a critical mass of women lets them 'lean in'
It's a hot topic in many countries: how to get more students to choose for STEM-subjects, especially women:
…a research team led by Nilanjana Dasgupta at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports one promising intervention, based on their research study of 120 undergraduate engineering students. They found among other things that women, particularly first-year students, participate more actively and feel less anxious when they are able to work in small groups or "microenvironments" that are mostly female or that have equal numbers of men and women compared to mostly male groups.
Still, I think it's not really a solution, as this study is done with students who already chose for engineering… Still the study is relevant for other reasons.
From the press release:
Nilanjana Dasgupta explains, "The important thing we found in this experiment is that even in learning environments where women are a tiny minority, if we can create work teams or learning teams, basically small groups with a high percentage of women, those promote women's success by reducing worry and anxiety, increasing women willingness to speak up and 'lean in,' to use Facebook CEO Cheryl Sandberg's phrase. This allows women to speak up and not worry what others think, increases confidence about their ability and ultimately lets them aspire to a career in these fields."
Results of this National Science Foundation-supported study appear today in an early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For this work, the researchers randomly assigned female engineering students to one of three, four-person groups of varying composition, 75 percent, 50 percent, or 25 percent women. Each group had one real study participant, always female, who was unaware that the others were engineering research assistants (RA) trained to behave in a consistent manner. The RAs evaluated the real participants' verbal behavior in the team.
The participant privately reported her worries, anxieties, confidence in her engineering ability, how visible she felt in the group, and her career aspirations after the team work sessions. Dasgupta and colleagues tested competing hypotheses about which gender mix would benefit women most.
The researchers found that in male-dominated fields like engineering where teamwork is common, the gender composition of small teams plays a major role in women's success. Having a high concentration of women in engineering teams allows women, particularly first-year students, to participate more actively, shrug off worries, feel confident, and aspire toward engineering careers after the team experience compared to other teams where women were a small minority or the only one.
A second interesting finding is that although teams with equal numbers of men and women reduced women's worries and anxieties in engineering, they were not sufficient to encourage speaking up. Only in teams with a majority of female peers did women show a substantial uptick in speaking up, the lead author notes. This was true for first-year students as much as for advanced students.
Dasgupta, "My take on these findings is that gender parity helped in some ways, but it couldn't address all the problems. We often assume that if the playing field is level, with equal numbers of women and men, women will participate. But in fields where strong gender stereotypes already exist, it's not enough. Overriding gender stereotypes sometimes requires creating 'microenvironments' that have more than gender parity. This may involve the occasional experience of working in small teams with a high concentration of female peers that encourage women to jump in, speak up and help their team solve technical problems."
She adds, "For young women in STEM fields who are a tiny minority in their majors, we need to create work teams or learning teams where they can focus on learning and mastery without worrying about what others think of them. I think these findings have important implication for many male-dominated fields like physical sciences, computing, technology and business. I use engineering as a case in point in this study, but the main take aways can be generalized."
These results have implications for three key groups, the UMass Amherst researcher says. For educators, "it means when teaching involves team learning, which is a big trend now in K-12, college and beyond, in male-dominated fields, we need to pay attention to team makeup to ensure that women reach their full potential."
For business managers, "it means they should pay attention to the makeup of their project teams to ensure that female employees' talents are being used, not lost, and that women feel empowered to speak up."
For parents, "it means ensuring that their daughters have a critical mass of other girls around them when they are involved in after-school activities and summer programs that focus on science and technology."
Abstract of the study:
For years, public discourse in science education, technology, and policy-making has focused on the "leaky pipeline" problem: the observation that fewer women than men enter science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields and more women than men leave. Less attention has focused on experimentally testing solutions to this problem. We report an experiment investigating one solution: we created "microenvironments" (small groups) in engineering with varying proportions of women to identify which environment increases motivation and participation, and whether outcomes depend on students' academic stage. Female engineering students were randomly assigned to one of three engineering groups of varying sex composition: 75% women, 50% women, or 25% women. For first-years, group composition had a large effect: women in female-majority and sex-parity groups felt less anxious than women in female-minority groups. However, among advanced students, sex composition had no effect on anxiety. Importantly, group composition significantly affected verbal participation, regardless of women's academic seniority: women participated more in female-majority groups than sex-parity or female-minority groups. Additionally, when assigned to female-minority groups, women who harbored implicit masculine stereotypes about engineering reported less confidence and engineering career aspirations. However, in sex-parity and female-majority groups, confidence and career aspirations remained high regardless of implicit stereotypes. These data suggest that creating small groups with high proportions of women in otherwise male-dominated fields is one way to keep women engaged and aspiring toward engineering careers. Although sex parity works sometimes, it is insufficient to boost women's verbal participation in group work, which often affects learning and mastery.
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Last Saturday I attended the Nordstrom Fall Beauty Trend Show in Bellevue, Washington and had some fun checking out new looks for fall, both in fashion and in beauty. One of the most exciting aspects of the show for me is the opportunity to see and meet pros in the beauty industry. Last year I got to meet Madonna's makeup artist and former Shu Uemura artist director Gina Brook (she's now artistic director at Hourglass Cosmetics). Saturday's pro was Nonie Creme, creative director for Butter London. I went out and got a Butter London mani/pedi for the occasion.
Of course the other exciting part of the event is getting a quick Oxygen Peel at Philosophy and then getting my makeup done. I try to pick a different brand each time and this year I went with Trish McEvoy. I picked up her new Instant Pick Me Up Lip Shimmer, new Instant Eye Lift Concealer and the Beauty Emergency Card for Eyes. I'll have more on these products for you soon but so far it is love with the lip shimmer and concealer. It's not a concealer you were everywhere. Just making at V at the top of the cheek bones towards the brow bone is enough to make you look instantly refreshed.
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Meet the 15-year-old blind quarterback hoping to reach the NFL
Jasen Bracy is unstoppable when he's on the football field.
The 15-year-old Modesto Raiders starting quarterback is completely blind — and a merciless athlete, passing the ball, running touchdowns and breaking tackles.
"I never used even once that I can't see as an excuse. Never have, never will," Jasen, who lives in Modesto, California, told CNN. "I told my team that the only difference between me and the other quarterback is that he has a different number, and that's it."
The young star grew up enjoying the sport three days a week every time football season came around, with his father narrating every detail. Immediately, Jasen says, he knew that was his passion.
"Maybe one day I'll be on TV on the football field myself," Jasen said he told himself every day. "There's no limits, and if there's something in the way, I'll find out how to get around it or over it. I'll find a way to achieve my goal in the best way possible."
Jasen has been blind since he was a young child. When he was 1 year old, he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a cancer that causes tumors in the retinas.
Over the next six years, he underwent numerous treatments, but nothing was successful. By his 7th birthday, he was completely blind. All he can tell, he says, is when it's morning or night time.
Despite growing up without his sight, Jasen never felt self-conscious or hesitant to follow his dreams. And football was just one of the firsts he was going to make come true.
Aiming for the top
When Jasen turned 13, his parents gave him an iPhone to offer more accessibility options.
He got to work, calling every football team in the area and asking if they would give him a try without his parents knowing.
"All of a sudden, one day we get a call from Coach David Nichols saying, 'Hey, I got a call from your son asking if he can come play football for us, but did he say he was blind?'" Jasen's father, Jasen Bracy Sr., told CNN.
But unlike the many other teams who rejected Jasen, Nichols, who coaches the Modesto Raiders, was ready to give him a chance.
"When I first took him on I was a little skeptical, but once I saw him as a person, I knew this kid could do anything," Nichols told CNN. "I've always accepted him, but I was like 'How am I going to do this?' Once you see him out there it's different."
Jasen shocked his team, immediately putting on the uniform and mastering techniques needed to play football without seeing the field, players or ball.
He memorized each play, including the position every player has to maintain on the field. His father stands on the sidelines, speaking to him through a walkie talkie to narrate the visuals.
"He knows where to be at, where to hand the ball off, where the kid's going to be at, he knows how to get the points," Nichols said.
Jasen has proved he's a force to be reckoned with, even leading his team to a victory in September by scoring a running touchdown during a match against a team that had rejected him.
Usually, the opposing team doesn't even realize Jasen is blind, and if they don't already know, he doesn't tell them.
"I don't tell them, not before or after the game, so they don't even think about easing up on me," he said. "I'm the quarterback, and one of the quarterback's jobs is leading the team. As a leader, I have to take control of this team, lead them through good and bad times no matter the situation I have to get us through. And I'm tough as iron. I am going to play hard."
A team that made it possible
When Bracy realized his son would be blind for the rest of his life, his first thoughts were that he would never get to see him play baseball or football, he said.
"All I know is that we are lucky the cancer didn't spread to his head or into anything life threatening," he said. "I was always grateful I still had my son, I can still talk to him, laugh and joke with him because he has a great sense of humor. I can still watch sports with him by commentating to him what was happening throughout the game."
Football isn't the only thing Jasen can do. He excels in numerous sports, including swimming, golf, baseball and wrestling. His dreams are boundless, and nothing seems out of reach to him.
But his heart, Jasen says, lies in football and his focus is on reaching the National Football League. Nichols is determined to help the young talent reach whatever goal he has in mind.
"Just seeing him, he shows me there's nothing you can't do, and that reflects on the other kids. Ever since hes been on my team, the team gravitate around him," Nichols said. "It changes their whole outlook on life. He makes the season. Even if we don't win, just having that chemistry with the team has probably been one of the best things I've ever been around."
Along with his perseverance and talent, Jasen also credits the support of his father, friends and team in making his dream a reality.
"I want to especially thank my coach for giving me the chance to put on the pads, put on the helmet, and prove what i can do on the field," he said.


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Q: How to RDP from one Azure VM to another with AzureAD Auth? I have multiple VM's on Azure, all enabled for AAD Authentication.
From my PC, I can RDP into any of them using my AAD creds successfully.
However, if I RDP into one of them, and then from there try to RDP into a different one, it fails with a generic "your credentials did not work" message.
Any ideas why this doesn't work? I would like to use one of them as my daily workstation VM, and be able to RDP into the others as needed.

A: For the error "Your Credentials Did Not Work"
Please check if below are the reasons for getting the error,

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*Windows Policy: Maybe Windows Security Policy is preventing non-admin users from signing in.

*Username change: If you rename your user account of other VM, it doesn't get change for the RDP connection

To know more in detail please refer this link: Your Credentials Did not Work in Remote Desktop

To troubleshoot the error, please follow below steps,

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*Try running Network Adapter Troubleshooter

*Try changing the network profile from public to private

*Try changing account Username

*Try editing windows security policy

*Try using the group policy editor

To know how to perform all these in detail please refer link.

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Red States vs. Blue States (Supply-n-Demand)
Published May 12, 2019 May 12, 2019 by Papa Giorgio
I wanted to share two articles to exemplify and introduction to a HERITAGE FOUNDATION article about competition between states. The first is this article found over at HOT AIR, and it shows the damage that distortions to supply and demand for some sort of egalitarian or environmental concern can have on productive endeavors that increase the wealth of the common man. Wealth creation in other words:
If you know anything about New York in the modern era (both the state and the Big Apple), you're likely aware that it's not exactly a friendly landscape for the oil and gas industry. The "Keep it in the ground" crowd has a lot of influence with the Democrats who control the government. That['s] why, back in 2013, when the new Constitution Pipeline was proposed to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania's rich shale oil fields to New York, activists were able to block the construction despite it already having been approved by federal regulators. Similarly, when National Grid (the local energy consortium) requested an extension to the Williams Co. Transco pipeline, they were also tied up because of the outcry from environmental activists.
Here comes the surprise that nobody could have possibly seen coming. The city and its surrounding downstate region are still expanding with new construction projects, but their energy suppliers have told them that they will not be able to supply natural gas to any new customers because they're already at capacity. (NY Post)
Long Islanders were recently hit with bad news. National Grid, which provides natural gas for nearly 600,000 Long Island residents, announced it won't be able to provide fuel for new customers if the proposed Williams Co. Transco pipeline expansion isn't approved by May 15.
Earlier this year, energy company Con Ed imposed a similar moratorium on new natural-gas service in parts of Westchester County due to limited capacity on existing pipelines. These crises are completely avoidable…
For too long, politicians like Gov. Andrew Cuomo and their ill-considered energy policies have hampered the development of safe, efficient energy infrastructure, subjecting American consumers to unnecessarily high energy costs and unreliable service.
So you don't want pipelines, eh? But you say you'd like to build more houses, apartments and office buildings? Well, you'd better figure out how to cook your food and heat your living spaces with solar panels pretty quickly because (to borrow a phrase from GoT) winter is coming. And so is lunchtime…..
The second article deals with on the one hand a Utopian [mis]understanding of alternative energy and it's own "supply-and-demand" features built into the environmentalist hypothesis (that in the end do not fit reality). I have said for years that the supply of heavy metals and lithium which are the main ingredient to make power cells for cell phones and laptops (small/reasonable), to a whole swath of them in rows in electric cars (unreasonable).
Let me explain why I just said "unreasonable." These ventures with Tesla and other manufacturers of electric vehicles are not a "supply-and-demand" by the free market. These ventures into wind, solar, and electric vehicles ONLY EXIST because our government has funded their "viability" in a world that if left to stand on their own would go out of business. The technology is old and never really worked, and the only people that buy Teslas, as an example, are the rich, and they are given a form of welfare to do so. (In other words, the rich are getting a form of bailout by environmentalists that say the rich are ruining the environment.)
Here is POWERLINE'S article in part:
"Green" advocates aspire to power the entire U.S. electrical system with wind and solar energy. How are they going to do that, given that wind turbines produce electricity only around 40% of the time, and solar panels produce electricity, in most areas, less than 25% of the time? The truthful answer is that whenever utilities build (or contract with) a wind farm or a solar installation, they also build a natural gas plant to provide electricity during the majority of the time when the "green" resources are idle. This is why wind and solar energy, unlike nuclear power, actually lock us into fossil fuel use for the indefinite future.
Of course, green power advocates don't admit that they plan on using natural gas forever. They hold out hope that electricity produced by wind and solar facilities will be stored in batteries–giant ones, I assume–so that it can be used when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. No such batteries exist, of course, which is why they are not already in use. And any existing or foreseeable battery technology would rely on vast amounts of lithium, which must be mined.
Currently, the Chinese are "rush[ing] to dominate the global supply of lithium." We do have lithium deposits in the United States, notably in the Panamint Valley of California. The Los Angeles Times reports: "A war is brewing over lithium mining at the edge of Death Valley."
Recently, the Australia-based firm Battery Mineral Resources Ltd. asked the federal government for permission to drill four exploratory wells to see if the hot, salty brine beneath the valley floor contains economically viable concentrations of lithium. …
The drilling request has generated strong opposition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and the Defenders of Wildlife, who say the drilling project would be an initial step toward the creation of a full-scale lithium mining operation.
That is the idea, I suppose.
Does it matter? There is great demand for lithium used in existing technologies–phones, laptops, electric vehicles, and so on. But the idea that batteries of any foreseeable design will combine with wind turbines and solar panels to satisfy America's need for electricity is a fantasy. For one thing, batteries of the requisite capacity would be prohibitively expensive. It has been calculated that, using the most advanced battery technology on the market, Tesla's 100 MW, 129 MWh battery in use in South Australia, it would cost $133 billion to store the electricity needs of my state, Minnesota, for 24 hours. That is more than one-third of the state's annual GDP…..
AGAIN, the immutable law of supply-and-demand will come into play in rising prices of "alternative energy" and scarcity of availability… based on egalitarian environmental concerns. N O W, here is the intro to the HERITAGE FOUNDATION article noting the differences between blue-state policies and red-state policies… much of which is based on supply-and-demand regarding energy needs:
The competition among the states is becoming more intense as businesses become more mobile. Toyota and Boeing are two high-profile employers in America that have crossed state borders because of the policy advantages of one state over another. Toyota moved from high-income-tax California to no-income-tax Texas, and Boeing, based in Washington, a forced-union state, opened a new plant in South Carolina, which has a right-to-work (RTW) law. Texas Governor Rick Perry and California Governor Jerry Brown have openly sparred in recent years about which state is more pro-business. Interstate competition allows governors and legislators to learn from each other about which policies create wealth and which policies diminish wealth inside their borders.
In recent years, governors have generally divided into two competing camps, which we call the "red state model" and the "blue state model," raising the stakes in this interstate competition. The conservative red state model is predicated on low tax rates, right-to-work laws, light regulation, and pro-energy development policies. This policy strategy is now common in most of the Southern states and the more rural and mountain states. Meanwhile, the liberal blue state model is predominantly found in the Northeast, California, Illinois, Minnesota, and, until recently, Michigan and Ohio. The blue states have doubled down on policies that include high levels of government spending, high income tax rates on the rich, generous welfare benefits, forced-union requirements, super-minimum-wage laws, and restrictions on oil and gas drilling.
In no area are the effects of these competing models more evident than in tax policy changes of recent years. California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Oregon have raised their income tax rates on "the rich" since 2008.[1] In four of these states, the combined state and local income tax rate exceeds 10 percent, reaching 13.3 percent in California and 12.7 percent in New York.[2] Meanwhile, the "red states" of Arizona, Arkansas,[3] Kansas,[4] Missouri,[5] North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Idaho[6] have cut their tax rates. This has widened the income tax differential between blue states and red states for businesses and upper-income families.
Similarly, red states such as Oklahoma, Texas, and North Dakota have embraced the oil and gas drilling revolution in America. Blue states such as New York, Vermont, Illinois, and California have resisted it. Blue states have raised their minimum wages; red states generally have not.
In this study, which is a summary of our recent book with Rex Sinquefield and Travis Brown, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States: How Taxes, Energy, and Worker Freedom Will Change the Balance of Power Among States, we examine whether these policy differentials matter and, if so, by how much.
The answer is that the states' policy choices on taxes, regulation, energy policy, labor laws, educational choice, and so forth have a large and in most cases a statistically significant impact on the prosperity of states over each 10-year time frame examined on a rolling basis from 1970 to 2012. There are always exceptions to the rule, but in most cases the red state model is substantially outperforming the blue state model.
We find in particular that two policies matter most. Right-to-work states substantially outperform non–right-to-work states, and states with no or low income taxes have a much better economic record than high-income-tax states…..
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Brennan Leaked Top Secret Info That Blew A US Operation
Published August 18, 2018 by Papa Giorgio
John Brennan Leaked Top Secret Information That Blew A US Operation To Help Friends Make Money — Rand Paul
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…Paul has written an op-ed at Breitbart (here's the link) explaining why he thinks Brennan is a unique danger.
Clear evidence concerning the bias of multiple, high-ranking current and former intelligence community officials should make us think twice about letting retired intelligence officials keep access to classified information, especially if they become talking heads on television after leaving public service.
There is a great danger that vital, secret details may be revealed on television, even inadvertently.
John Brennan is no stranger to this problem.
Paul is referring to this incident.
White House efforts to soft-pedal the danger from a new "underwear bomb" plot emanating from Yemen may have inadvertently broken the news they needed most to contain.
And the operation that had placed a source inside terrorist headquarters in Yemen was shut down.
Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials.
The operation received new scrutiny this week after the Justice Department disclosed it had obtained telephone records for calls to and from more than 20 lines belonging to The Associated Press and its journalists in April and May 2012 in a high-level investigation of the alleged leak of classified information.
The informant, a British citizen born in Saudi Arabia, had been recruited by British intelligence to operate as a double agent within the group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the most dangerous franchises of the al-Qaida terrorist network.
His access led to the U.S. drone strike that killed a senior al-Qaida leader, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Quso, on May 6, 2012. U.S. officials say Quso helped direct the terrorist attack that killed 17 sailors aboard the U.S. guided-missile destroyer Cole in a Yemeni harbor in October 2000.
The informant also convinced members of the Yemeni group that he wanted to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on the anniversary of the U.S. attack that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. They outfitted him with the latest version of an underwear bomb designed to pass metal detectors and other airport safeguards, officials say.
The informant left Yemen and delivered the device to his handlers, and it ultimately went to the FBI's laboratory in Quantico, Va.
Intelligence officials hoped to send him back to Yemen to help track more bomb makers and planners, but the leak made that impossible, and sent al-Qaida scrambling to cover its tracks, officials said.
Now we get to the punchline:
On Wednesday, FBI director Robert Mueller, appearing before the Senate Judiciary committee, promised the bureau would "investigate thoroughly."
Everyone knew who leaked. And, as punishment, Brennan was made Director of the CIA.
This perfectly illustrates that pulling these clearances and most other clearances of former officials is vital…..
Posted in Geo-Political News, Middle-East, Pundits & Personalities	Tagged CIA, John Brennan, Laura Ingraham, Rand Paul, Red State, Yemen
Christians Discriminated Against By Gay Coffee Shop Owner
Published October 7, 2017 October 8, 2017 by Papa Giorgio
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That's what happens when you order a tall drip instead of a whipped, half-caf, blended, soy, mocha frappicino, blended chocolate burst!!! they brought this on themselves – Facebook Friend
Joking aside, one should know at the outset, that I agree with the coffee shop owner. He should be able to serve whom he wants and whom he does not. I posted elsewhere that if he puts up a sign saying,
"No One Allowed But Gay Middle-Aged Men In Borat Bathing Suits."
He has that right – dammit! JUST LIKE a Christian business owner can deny service celebrating same-sex marriages. This should only be used as an example of Leftist hypocrisy, but people should be ready to provide FREEDOM to counter this. I will expand on this more with media and examples… this post may be long.
RED STATE notes the following about this incident:
…I don't think I need to point out the hypocrisy here. When Indiana Pizza shop Memories Pizza merely said they couldn't cater a gay wedding to the wrong journalist looking for a head to hunt, they were threatened, vandalized, and harassed to no end. When Colorado baker Jack Phillips refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding ceremony, politicians tried to force him into reeducation programs, and called him a Nazi.
However, this is hardly getting a blip. It's certainly not getting the same media attention Phillips or Memories Pizza did. This coffee shop owner will never be forced into reeducation programs, or have to go to battle within the Supreme Court to preserve his right to refuse service to people.
Apparently, if you fall into a protected group, you can be as bigoted and intolerant as you please, while demanding everyone else straight up applaud you for so much as breathing out of your right nostril.
GAY PATRIOT wryly notes this about Red States post:
Apparently, only Christians give up their Constitutional Rights when they open a business. Gays (and Mohammedans) can discriminate against anybody they want.
My favorite part is when he threatens to sodomize his boyfriend in front of them. The LGBT activists used to claim it wasn't about buttsex, but this guy seems pretty sure… it's about buttsex
BTW, no one would sit and watch a straight couple do the same.
In a past post of mine — "Gary Johnson Is a Cake Fascist" — an example used to compare equal application of the law (a Constitutional ideal) of Bruce Springsteen cancelling his tour in North Carolina :
Springsteen explained his decision in a lengthy statement to fans.
"As you, my fans, know I'm scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also know, North Carolina has just passed HB2, which the media are referring to as the 'bathroom' law. HB2 – known officially as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act – dictates which bathrooms transgender people are permitted to use. Just as important, the law also attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace. No other group of North Carolinians faces such a burden. To my mind, it's an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress. Right now, there are many groups, businesses, and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments."
The rocker added he felt it was not the right time for him and the E Street Band to perform in North Carolina.
(Fox News)
GAY PATRIOT noted years back that Springsteen should be forced to perform in that state, using the understanding of Leftists, Christian apologist FRANK TUREK agrees:
…When Bruce Springsteen refuses to do a concert in North Carolina for moral reasons he's a hero to the liberals and the media, which are the same thing.
Imagine what would have happened if Bruce had a wedding band that refused to perform at a gay wedding? He'd go from hero to zero!
Yet, when a conservative band, florist, or photographer refuses to work at a gay wedding for moral or religious reasons, the left and the media bully those folks mercilessly as intolerant bigots. And they do so while claiming to be against bullying and for "tolerance"! (As Ryan Anderson pointed out, if it wasn't for double standards, liberals would have no standards.)
In America, a gay T-shirt maker should not be forced to print up anti-gay marriage T-shirts. And a Christian or Muslim photographer should not be forced to photograph a gay wedding.
If Bruce has the right to deny service, so does everyone.
One person i know succinctly posted this:
The free market is the great equalizer of inequities while protecting freedom at the same time.
This idea is what Barry Goldwater was running on. Freedom. Here Dennis Prager comes to the realization that his position on Goldwaters "anti-Civil Rights Act" platform was wrong all these years:
The thinking that special rights apply to different groups of people are what totalitarian regimes proffer. Here is an example of freedom being diminished, really a backfiring of Leftist ideals on the Gay Left.
Gay Patriot writes about a recent logical conclusion of the Gay Left and their wanting to force private businesses to participate in gay wedding celebrations. With all the BIG government laws their is surely an aspect of backfire involved… I mean, the BIGGER government gets, the smaller the individual is:
…But, you know, once you let that sort of idea… that the Government can force a business to labor for others against their will… you never know where that sort of thing is going to end up.
A Denver bar has been cited by the state's Division of Civil Rights for discrimination because it refused to let a gay man dressed in drag enter. The bar is the Denver Wrangler, and despite what its name might suggest, it is not some Country Western joint. It is, in fact, a gay bar. So the state has determined that a gay bar has discriminated against a gay person
Wha-a-a-a-a-a….?
Gay Patriot proceeds to explain the bars target audience, what in the gay lifestyle apparently are called "bears"?
… [the bar] caters to a gay subculture known as "Bears," which are bisexual or gay males which tend to place importance on presenting a hypermasculine image and often shun interaction with men who exhibit effeminacy. This is evident from the pictures and statements made by employees regarding the "Bear" culture of the club and several links on the Respondent's webpage referencing "Bear" clubs … ."
That's right… a taxpayer-paid Government employee investigated and found out about the Bear subculture and interviewed bar patrons to find out what that was.
So, Gay Fascist Left, you wanted the Government in the business of policing businesses and their clientele, and now a bear bar is being cited for twink-discrimination.
Indeed, if wanting to strip one's self of individual rights and freedoms… well done. But some gays "GET IT" and fight for freedom!
Even the "supposed" Libertarian candidate wants the state large enough to force, fine, and run out of business citizens acting according to their conscience. Here is the debate portion that showed Gary Johnson was a Leftist and not a Libertarian:
I even called into the Michael Medved Show to challenge Gary Johnson on this debate:
The REAL march toward freedom was realized in this GREAT EXAMPLE of these two freedom loving lesbians fighting against the LEFT in oprotecting the freedoms of a Christian T-Shirt company owner:
Gay Patriot shot me over to The Blaze's article on this… good stuff, and I LOVE these two ladies.
Glenn Beck interviews from lesbians who disagree with the gay fascist left. [Edited for brevity and emphasis added to the really important bit that only a complete smeghead would disagree with.]
[Kathy Trautvetter and Diane DiGeloromo, a lesbian couple who own and operate BMP T-shirts, a New Jersey-based printing company, sat down with Glenn Beck Thursday night to explain why they are standing up for an embattled Christian printer who refused to make shirts for a gay pride festival.]
The lesbian couple are standing up for Christian t-shirt maker Blaine Adamson, who refused to print shirts for a gay pride festival because it compromised his values. Adamson has come under attack for his stance, but this couple supports him. The story is a microcosm for what should be happening in America as we navigate the way the world is changing.
"As a business owner, it struck a chord with me when I read the story, because I know how hard it is to build a business. You put your blood and your sweat and your tears into every bit of it. When I put myself in his place, I immediately felt like if that were to happen to us, I couldn't create or print anti-gay T-shirts, you know, for a group. I couldn't do it," Kathy explained.
Diane added, "We feel this really isn't a gay or straight issue. This is a human issue. No one really should be forced to do something against what they believe in. It's as simple as that, and we feel likewise. If we were approached by an organization such as the Westboro Baptist Church, I highly doubt we would be doing business with them.""Everybody votes with their dollars, you know?" Kathy said. "And why you would want to go with somebody who doesn't agree with you, [when] there's others who do agree with you, that's who I want to do business with."
Nice. If only all gay people were so tolerant and open-minded.
So ~ to be clear ~ we use this as an example of the Left being hypocrites, but offer a way that increases people's freedom.
"The larger the government gets, the smaller the person gets. The smaller the government gets, the larger the individual gets."
Posted in Business, Civil-Rights, Common Sense, Constitution[al], Democratic Progressivism, Dennis Prager, Freedom, Homosexuality, Legal/Law, Political Correctness, Pundits & Personalities, Religion	Tagged Abolish Human Abortion, Cake Fascist, Caytie Davis, Conservatarians, Conservatism, Constitutional Republic, Gary Johnson, Gay Bears, Gay Conservatives, Gay Leftist, Gay Patriot, Libertarian Party, Libertarian Republican, Libertarianism, Red State, Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Marriage (SSM)
Red State Job Engine
Published December 21, 2011 December 21, 2011 by Papa Giorgio
Via NewsBusters:
The establishment press will never tell their readers, listeners and viewers that the five best-performing states in job growth through the first eleven months of this year, as well as nine of the top eleven, have relatively conservative Republicans occupying their respective governors' mansions. If these eleven star performers had only performed as well as the rest of the nation, over 300,000 fewer people would be working, and the unemployment rate would be at least 0.2% higher.
As will be seen after the jump, the list, based on date released today by Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics, includes several against which the Obama administration has undertaken significant job-killing or job-deferring actions (i.e., these states have outperformed despite the handicaps, and would have done much better without them):
I wanted to say something about Rachel Maddow's "debunking" of Texas jobs,
and that is that she skews her stats on this a bit. Firstly however, minimum wage laws (which play a part in this waxing of the numbers) play a big roll in keeping people unemployed. This isn't my main point however, here are some points made elswhere:
But there's no escaping it. The number is real. Which means that if you care about putting people back to work at a time when nearly 14 million in this country are unemployed, maybe Texas has something to teach us.
Unfortunately, that's not the posture many commentators have taken. Instead, when the data from Texas emerged — touted first by Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — conservatives were quick to celebrate, embracing the jobs tally as powerful evidence of the superiority of Republican ideas as well as proof that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would make a good president. But that's overly simplistic.
Meanwhile, those on the liberal end of the spectrum immediately set out to shoot the numbers down. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, for instance, held up a giant bologna and mocked the notion of a "Texas miracle." That view, however, is too cavalier….
To be sure, Texas is not without lots of problems. And its remarkable employment growth is not without attendant concerns. But for those on the left to dismiss the state's jobs story out of hand, just because Republicans have embraced it as a showpiece, is counterproductive and foolish.
(LA Times)
While the LA Times article struggled a bit, but ended up shining at the end, the following is what Maddow and the LA Times writer didn't fully account for:
In her column for The Daily, Reason Foundation's Shikha Dalmia delves into Gov. Rick Perry's record and writes that Texas "has one of the lightest personal tax burdens in the country and a low cost of living, which are hugely attractive to out-of-work Americans. Their flocking to the state has bumped up Texas' unemployment rate to 8 percent, prompting Rachel Maddow to jeer on the air that Perry's jobs record is not a whole lot better than many other states. What she refuses to see is that while in those states high unemployment is due to anemic job growth, in Texas it is due to robust population growth. If anything, Texas offers proof that people prefer jobs, even low-paying ones, to lavish social benefits — repudiating the liberal tax-and-spend economic model.
Just wanted to include a quick rebuttal to Madcow's many, many mistakes.
Posted in Poli-Sci, Socio-Economic, Stats/Polls	Tagged Jobs, Minimum Wage, Rachel Maddow, Red State, Texas
Basil Marceaux for President (Glenn Beck Interview and Red State Endorsement)~I Will Make Them More Constituioner
Published August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 by Papa Giorgio
HotAir h/t:
Posted in Glenn Beck, Humor, Poli-Sci	Tagged Basil Marceaux, Election 2012, Red State
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