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When Will The Contented Classes Rise Up In Rebellion?
By Ralph Nader, Commondreams.org
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When will the people who recognize just how bad things have become for the most vulnerable—and the nation at large—unfurl the flag of rebellion against the plutocrats and the autocrats?
For all the rhetoric and all the charities regarding America's children, the U.S. stands at the very bottom of western nations and some other countries as well, in terms of youth well-being. The U.S.'s exceptionalism is clearest in its cruelty to children. The U.S. has the highest infant mortality rate of comparable OECD countries. Not only that, but 2.5 million American children are homeless and 16.2 million children "lack the means to get enough nutritious food on a regular basis."
The shamelessness continues as the youngsters increase in age. The Trump regime is cutting the SNAP food program for poor kids. In 2018, fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP than in 2017. To see just how bad Trump's war on poor American children is getting, go to the web sites of the Children's Defense Fund and the Children's Advocacy Center.
Trump brags about a robust economy—still, however, rooted in exploitation of the poor and reckless Wall Street speculation with people's savings.
"Until the contented classes wake up and organize for change, history has shown, our country will continue to slide in the wrong direction."
Trump's pompous promises during his presidential campaign have proved to be a cowardly distraction. He claimed he would take on the drug companies and their price gouging. The hyper-profiteering pharmaceutical goliaths are quietly laughing at him. Worse, Trump continues their tax credits and allows them to use new drugs developed with taxpayer money through the National Institute of Health free of charge—no royalties. Even though he talks tough, Trump lets these companies sell imported medicines manufactured in China and India with inadequate FDA inspections of foreign plants.
Torrents of Trump tweets somehow overlooked H.P. Acthar Gel, a drug produced by Mallinckrodt to treat a rare infant seizure disorder, which increased in price from $40 per vial to $39,000 per vial! Other drug prices are booming cruelly upward, while Trump blusters, but fails to deliver on his campaign promises.
For years our country's political and corporate rulers have saddled college students with breathtaking debt and interest rates. Student debt is now at $1.5 trillion. Both corporations and the federal government are profiting off of America's young. In no other western country is this allowed, with most nations offering tuition-free higher education.
On May 2, 2019, The New York Times featured an article titled, "Tuition or Dinner? Nearly Half of College Students Surveyed in a New Report Are Going Hungry."
When you read the stories of impoverished students, squeezed in all directions, you'd think they came out of third-world favelas. At the City University of New York (CUNY), forty eight percent of students had been food insecure in the past 30 days.
Kassandra Montes, a senior at Lehman College, lives in a Harlem homeless shelter. Montes "works two part-time jobs and budgets only $15 per week for food… [She] usually skips breakfast in order to make sure that her 4-year-old son is eating regularly." Montes said: "I feel like I'm slowly sinking as I'm trying to grow."
When you don't have a living wage, have to pay high tuition, are mired in debt, and live in rent-gouging cities, where do you go? Increasingly, you go to the community college or college food pantry. In a nation whose president and Congress in one year give tens of billions of dollars to the Pentagon more than the generals asked for, it is unconscionable that students must rely on leftover food from dining halls and catered events, SNAP benefits, and whatever food pantries can assemble.
The CUNY pantries are such a fixture in these desperate times that they are now a stop on freshman orientation tours.
As long as we're speaking of shame, what about those millions of middle and upper middle class informed, concerned bystanders. They're all over America trading "tsk tsks" over coffee or other social encounters. They express dismay, disgust, and denunciations at each outrage from giant corporations' abuses, to the White House and the Congress' failings. They are particularly numerous in University towns. They know but they do not do. They are unorganized, know it, keep grumbling, and still fail to start the mobilization in Congressional Districts of likeminded citizens to hold their Senators and Representatives accountable.
For Congress, the smallest yet most powerful branch of government, whose members names we know, can turn poverty and other injustices around and help provide a better life for so many Americans. These informed, concerned people easily number over 1 percent of the population. They can galvanize a supporting majority of voters on key, long-overdue redirections for justice. Redirections that were mostly established in Western Europe decades ago (For more details, see my paperback, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier than We Think).
These informed, concerned people—who don't have to worry about a living wage, not having health insurance, being gouged by payday loans, and having no savings—were called "the contented classes" in The Culture of Contentment, a book by the late progressive Harvard economist John Kenneth Gailbraith. His main point—until the contented classes wake up and organize for change, history has shown, our country will continue to slide in the wrong direction. He said all this before climate disruption, massive money-corrupting politics, and the corporate crime wave had reached anywhere near their present destructive levels.
The question to be asked: Who among the contented classes will unfurl the flag of rebellion against the plutocrats and the autocrats? It can be launched almost anywhere they please. A revolution can start the moment they decide to prioritize the most marginalized people in this country over their comfort.
Class Struggle Inequality Rebellion
This is one of the many issues of our time which require more than simply knowing about and understanding how we came to be in such an unjust and cruel situation, although it's nothing new to say the least.
Infarction
Methinks that Ralph Nader has drifted off into wishful thinking to believe that the "contented class" will ever do anything to jeopardize its sinecure.
My suggestion at the Kingman Democratic Central Committee Meeting that they use their planned "Pay It Forward" campaign to help the area's numerous homeless people was swiftly but firmly rejected, with expressions of, "What about the liability and the insurance if we gave them a night's stay at a motel?"
Hypocritical bastards is what they are! They are more interested in the pitiful amounts of campaign money that they are raising at their garage sales and their $20/plate picnic "Meet and Greets" with the State Party chosen candidates, who don't even have a chance of winning in this God-besotted haven of gun-loving Trump supporters. All of their candidates are firmly white and well-heeled society types, fit to rub elbows with the "upper-2%" minions of the Plutocracy that runs the State Democratic Party in Arizona.
The attitude that the relatively wealthy, college-educated liberals are failing in their duty to the unwashed masses is so strongly resented by those masses that they keep voting for the likes of Trump, BECAUSE he comes off as an ignorant, stupid, hamburger-eating "common man."


''The Butterfly Effect'' was a very special period for us. When we released our album ''Skins'', the band had so much frustration inside that we went in studio right away to work on the follow-up to that record. Raw, heavy and uncompromising were the guidelines that we had set for ourselves. During that period of change, we saw a new lineup coming together and formed a bond that was quite special. We achieved one of our biggest goals which was going on tour in the United States and that was a blast.
Over the last couple of years, we got a lot of footage from behind the scenes that was always meant to be kept to ourselves, and also some killer live footage that we wanted to release at some point. This year, I had the idea of mixing both together to give everyone a closer look inside Projekt F and commemorate a time that we'll never forget. So here it is, our new music video for ''Fatman''. Hope you'll enjoy!
We'll have one more surprise before the end of the year but until then, Happy Holidays to everyone!
So here it is, our first single called ''Killing on the Dance Floor'' from our new EP ''1986''. When we started working on our new album, we messed around with sounds and for fun, we did a synthwave track that was never intended to be released. However, we are such fans of that style of music and had so much fun doing it, that we decided to simultaneously work on a synthwave EP and our next album. We hope you'll enjoy these songs as much as we did making them. For those of you who want more heavy stuff, you'll be pleased sooner than expected!


Briarfields Hotel is perfectly located on the North Norfolk coast to enjoy numerous countryside and water-based activities. Leave modern life behind and reconnect with nature as you explore Norfolk's raw beauty.
Sailing, canoeing, cycling, along with the simple pleasures of walking and open water swimming are on our doorstep and some of the best ways to experience Norfolk's natural beauty.
With RSPB Titchwell as our neighbour, there's the opportunity to get up close to nature with migratory and wading birds through the seasons, and wading pools to explore. We work with a number of bird experts who can offer guided walks and observations – ask our team for details.
Then there are fantastic boating trips to see the seals who inhabit our coastline, and to experience the unique beauty of Norfolk from a different perspective by water.
and Cromer – all within easy driving distance and each a pleasure to play.
Explore the coastal path or historic Peddars Way with walks that will take you across some of the most beautiful Norfolk countryside imaginable – book a break and start a wonderful adventure.


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Q: Deploy to artifactory via python script I am trying to create a python script that can deploy an artifact to Artifactory.
I am using Python 3.4 and I want the resulted script to put it through py2exe, so external libraries might create issues.
Through all my research, I found that one way is this, but I don't know how to "translate" it to Python:
curl -X PUT -u user:password --data-binary @/absolute/path/my-utils-2.3.jar "http://localhost/artifactory/my-repo/my/utils/2.3/"

How can I achieve that into Python? Or is it any either way for deploying?

A: Been trying the whole day and I've had some successful testing using the requests library.
import requests

url = "repo/path/test.txt"

    file_name = "test.txt"
    auth=(USERNAME, PASSWORD)

    with open(file_name, 'rb') as fobj:
        res = requests.put(url, auth=auth, data=fobj)
        print(res.text)
        print(res.status_code)

And py2exe had no issues with it.

A: You might want to take look at Party, either look on how they do it, or just use it directly.

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Q: how to add delay function inside the ajax function I am using ajax function to update and output the result.
how can I delay like 2 secs before the second update result get display again?
since right now, after the first update and second update, the text is the same like
'updated' I want to let user know this is the second time updated msg.
$.ajax({
  type: "post",
  url: "function.php",
  data: "ajax=updateAward&" + inputs,
  success: function(html) {

    $('#message_award').html(''); //clear previous text
//delay 2 sec then display below?

    $('#message_award').html(html) ;

  }
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A: Use setTimeout to execute a function after a delay (given in milliseconds). Here's a complete example:
$.ajax({
    type: "post",
    url: "function.php",
    data: "ajax=updateAward&" + inputs,
    success: function(html) {
        setTimeout(function() {
            $('#message_award').html(html);
        }, 2000);
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Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding
In 1981, the British royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place at which venue?
And the answer: St. Paul's Cathedral.
Photo credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Instead of the traditional Westminster Abbey, Charles and Diana selected St. Paul's Cathedral because it could accommodate 3,500 guests. Around the world, an estimated 750 million people watched the event on television.
Charles and Diana's wedding was monumental in a variety of ways. As the "People's Princess," Lady Diana was the first British citizen to marry an heir to the throne in over 300 years. As such, the event was more than fanfare-filled – it was a scene of downright fairytale.
Leaders from all over Europe were invited to the spectacle, along with America's representative, First Lady Nancy Reagan. For weeks in advance, headlines discussing where leaders were partying, what they wore, and who they were with populated British and international news publications alike.
When the day came, no ado was spared. The date was declared a national holiday so that more royal subjects could watch, an act which they did with vigor. Over 600,000 spectators crowded the British streets hoping to catch a glimpse of the happy couple. Inside St. Paul's Cathedral, the wedding's 3,500 guests did much of the same. From home, millions watched with rapture.
The wedding was famous for breaking convention in another way: Princess Diana was the first royal to omit the line "to obey" in her wedding vows (Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle followed suit). This choice was intentional, and represented an attempt to instill a greater since of agency in the role of the Princess. However liberating, it did not pass without critique for the more conservative followers of the British throne.
The wedding also represented the beginning of Princess Diana's cultural following. From that moment on, she began to solidify her role as the People's Princess, earning her a near-cult following that only grew over the following decade. Her style, charm, and honesty were a breath of fresh air in the tradition of the British throne.
Watch footage from the monumental wedding below.

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It's been awhile since I've accidentally missed my stop on a train. Usually, it means that I've fallen asleep and I'm in the middle of a very good dream. Rolling is the complete polar opposite of that. I was so awake and barely contained myself from busting out laughing out loud in public by myself like a crazy bag lady. I didn't have my Bluetooth headset to blame it on; yeah, people would've thought "crazy bag lady".
Buy a blender (or if you have once in your kitchen cupboard somewhere, bring it out), throw in your Azumanga Daioh manga and your Wallflower manga, give it a dash of Lucky Star craziness, maybe two dashes of that for good measure, sprinkle some complexity in there, pour in a healthy dose of brain juice, and hit the puree button for as long as you can. Viola! You have Rolling: a playful, intelligent, cheeky, not quite PG but not quite R rated, funny as the hot place downstairs from Heaven, high school based romp you've never seen yet and probably will not see again after this for awhile.
Have I lost you yet? No? Great! Here's a story, not about any lovely ladies, but about five guys, their resident adviser, and four beds. If you are thinking what I think you are thinking, you are going to join me at the hot place downstairs from Heaven one day. If not, you won't be safe for long if you read this manga. Bright Free High School is where our poor young heroes are currently stuck at. They go to school there, dorm there, and, the scariest thing, it's an all male campus with only one little old cafeteria lady in the vicinity. Mio Noh, rich spoiled brat that he is, was sent by his mother with all his designer duds and brand name gear to finish his schooling there but just to piss Mom off he decides to diddle dally his way there and arrives 15 days late. In those 15 days, the resident adviser, who's so mysterious we don't even get to know his name, checked in four guys for the four beds that are available in room 303.
First, you got the sophomores, the upperclassmen of the room: Il Yong Jung and Ji Myung Jo. Il Yong is a little small for his age and was raised by his grandmother. He was probably so cocooned his entire life that he now has a speech impediment and is socially underdeveloped. I mean what normal sophomore would refer to hot dogs as hot diggydy dogs and like his napkins polka dotty? Better still, what normal sophomore would run to another sophomore because the freshmen were picking on him? Ji Myung is a breed in and of himself. High and almighty Ji Myung, defender of Il Yong and laborers, lover of books and intelligence but has no idea on the practical use of the two in reality.
Then, you have the other freshmen other than Mio Noh: Chi Young Min. He is calm, he is cool, he is so cool he's practically frigid, and he is scary, definitely scary. He walks around like a smoking volcano; no one knows when, where, or why but everyone knows it's only a matter of time before his fuming and smoldering will change into explosions and lava flows that will wipe out anything that exists in his path. Lastly, you have Jay Moon. Suspected gay lover of Chi Young and moocher of all the guys in room 303, Jay moved in when the resident adviser accidentally thought he was Mio Noh those first 15 days. He walked in with Chi Young and that was it. By the time Mio showed up, Jay had made himself indispensable to everyone and had taken over Mio's bed. If he were thrown out, who would make Ji Myung's coffee in the morning, sew Il Yong's buttons back on his shirt, play Go-Stop with the resident adviser, and kiss Chi Young good morning? Of course, Jay is the only one who will not get wipe off the face of this planet if Chi Young explodes.
In the meantime, before Chi Young annihilates everything, will Mio be driven crazy by this new school, its inhabitants, or its lack of anything designer? Or will Ji Myung be driven crazy first by the mediocrity of the school or Jay's laziness? Maybe Jay will get killed by Ji Myung's overzealousness about the greatness of labor. The first time Jay only ended up naked, jumping up and down on a blanket soaked through with water and soap, and then in a body cast. If Jay dies, Chi Young will definitely explode, take out Ji Myung first, then be annoyed by Il Yong's whimpering, kill him next, and then take out Mio and the resident adviser just for the fun of it. I wonder if this comedy is going to turn into a bloody gore fest.
Below: A double page spread from Rolling, click to see at full size.


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What is a libertarian?
Above the entrance to the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service on Constitution Avenue is chiseled this quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Taxation is the price we pay for civilization." It is easy enough to see why government officials would want to put that quotation on display because it counsels people to be pleased with the taxes they pay. It is not so easy, however, to determine the accuracy or moral force of the sentiment expressed there. Taxation represents the replacement of the handshakes of commerce with the threat of force as an instrument for human governance. Although some libertarians think this threat is unnecessary to human governance, others think some modest use, although unfortunate, is unavoidable. This second position makes taxation a form of Faustian bargain: Some modest use of force is thought necessary to promote peaceful social order, but mere possession of the power to employ force will almost inevitably expand its use beyond its necessary limits.
In their treatise A History of Taxation and Public Expenditure in the Western World, Carolyn Webber and Aaron Wildavsky observe that all political cultures are uneasy mixtures of individualist and collectivist sentiments and orientations. In individualist cultures, human relationships are governed primarily by principles rooted in private property and freedom of contract. In collectivist cultures, contractual governance becomes rooted in common or collective property. Taxation is an instrument in a continuing war over how human relationships are to be constituted. As taxation recedes, handshakes and promises become more prominent in human governance. As taxation expands, duress, threats, and force take on greater significance.
Economists distinguish between private and common or collective property. Budgetary operations transform private property into collective property, thereby changing the governance relationships that operate within a society. An average tax rate of 40%, for instance, means that approximately 60% of the economy is organized through private property relationships, with the remaining 40% organized through collective property. This disjunction between private and collective property has a number of significant implications. One is that private property generally secures greater economic efficiency than collective property because, with private property, those who make economic decisions bear the consequences of their decisions. By contrast, with collective property, these consequences are diffused throughout the polity. Another significant implication concerns differences in the character of human relationships. When these relationships are grounded in private property, economic relationships occur in some sense among equals, in that any kind of joint activity must be mutually agreeable. In contrast, relationships grounded in collective property are those of rulership, with grantors on the one side and supplicants or petitioners on the other.
Some taxation is almost surely necessary to secure an economic order grounded in private property, and such taxation would be likely to command close to universal support. Actual levels of taxation, however, are surely significantly higher than whatever this minimal level might be. The primary line of justification that has been advanced for the power to tax is the problem of free ridership. If taxes were replaced by voluntary contributions, it would be impossible for anyone to claim that the state was involved in expropriating private property. At the same time, it is argued, people would have strong incentives to take free rides on the contributions of others. As a result, services such as civil order and national security, which we all value, are likely to be underfunded.
Thus, taxation represents a type of forced exchange, as Richard Epstein explains in Takings. This term might appear oxymoronic at first glance, but it conveys an important truth. Government, by its nature, is not limited to purely voluntary exchanges, and, as a consequence, the problem posed by free riding might make some modicum of taxation nearly universally acceptable. Under this idealized image of taxation, taxes should mirror the voluntary payments that people would have made were it not for free riding.
The difficulty, of course, is that there is no way to truly know what the pattern of those voluntary contributions would have been. In actual tax systems, forced carrying, whereby people pay to support activities they do not value, also is a significant feature. The principle of forced exchange treats taxation as a means of pricing state‐supplied services to citizens. To speak of taxes as prices, however, also has its problematical side because this simile is easily corruptible. In some cases, the forced exchanges that taxation makes possible might be beneficial to all. But in other cases, taxation will be used as an instrument for the deprivation and abridgement of property. The dark side of the Faustian bargain is that the power to tax also can be used to expropriate property, which would never occur with truly voluntary contributions. Among three adjoining neighbors, two might steal asparagus from a patch owned by the third. Should the three neighbors comprise a government and the majority support a tax on asparagus, what otherwise would have been theft will have been converted into tax policy. The best tax, after all, is always one that someone else pays, and governments offer plenty of scope to do just this.
The central feature that enables government to abridge property rights through taxation is its ability to practice tax discrimination. Consider a state that possesses an unlimited power to tax, compared with one whose power to tax is limited by a constitutional requirement of generality or nondiscrimination in taxation. If all income is taxed at, say, 10%, there is no scope for government to discriminate among taxpayers by their sources or uses of income, or by any other personal characteristic. The range of political controversy regarding taxation is limited to its rate alone.
The opportunity to practice political price discrimination greatly expands the scope for venality in politics. The possession of an unlimited power to tax increases the value of holding political office for two reasons, both of which are politically related to bribery and extortion. Economists call the political cousin to bribery rent seeking. If tax discrimination is a permissible outcome of tax legislation, interest groups will seek to secure favorable tax treatment. These policies will take the form of exemptions, deductions, or exclusions from the tax base, the consequences of which are to generate higher rates of tax applied to a narrower base. Should legislators be able to tax discriminate, it seems clear that there will be a market for tax legislation in which interest groups lobby for particularly desired tax provisions.
Economists label the political cousin to extortion rent extraction. Rent extraction is manifested in threats to tax should the tax target not respond to the demands of the threatening politician. A possible change in a tax provision can be announced and a hearing scheduled, only later to be canceled if sufficient opposition materializes, with opposition being signified by such things as campaign contributions. In this case, money is being paid for nothing but a continuation of the present tax status. In contrast, with rent seeking, money is being paid to secure some change in tax status.
A central tenet of democratic ideology is the belief that taxation is something we do to ourselves for our common benefit. Thus, it becomes reasonable to speak of taxing ourselves, in contrast to speaking of the victors as taxing the vanquished. The principle of generality in taxation, however, leads naturally to support for broad‐based taxation. Although broad‐based taxation would not eliminate all possible claims of tax discrimination, it would severely restrict the practice. A broad‐based tax on income, where the entire base is taxed at the same rate, would conform to reasonable notions of generality in taxation. There would be no scope for one's political position to influence one's tax liability. The same rate of tax would apply to everyone, and each person's tax liability would simply depend on his own income or consumption, in conjunction with the tax rate that was enacted through the political process.
Broad‐based, nondiscriminatory taxation impedes efforts to use taxation to reward or punish certain forms of activity. The principle of nondiscrimination is based on the notion that the state is neutral to all kinds of activities. Yet a great deal of tax legislation rewards or punishes specific forms of activity. Once a government acquires the power to reward or punish particular types of activity, the principle of broad‐based, nondiscriminatory taxation quickly evaporates under the heat of politics. The result is an unlimited power to tax, where the only limit on the reach of the tax collector is the pragmatic one of political pressure and votes.
Adams, Charles. For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization. London: Madison Books, 1993.
Blum, Walter J., and Harry Kalven, Jr. The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.
Buchanan, James M., and Roger D. Congleton. Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Epstein, Richard A. Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Foldvary, Fred. Public Goods and Private Communities. Hants, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994.
McChesney, Fred. Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction, and Political Extortion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Shughart, William F., II, ed. Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1997.
Wagner, Richard E. Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007.
Webber, Carolyn, and Aaron Wildavsky. A History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Richard E. Wagner
Originally published Aug 15th, 2008
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Frank Chodorov
Hess, Karl (1923-1994)
Italian Fiscal Theorists
Minimal State
Is Taxation Theft?
Taxation: How the Government Funds Itself
Are Taxes a Democratic Alternative to Charity?
Michael D. Tanner
A Libertarian Vision for Poverty and Welfare
A libertarian world won't eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged.
Neera K. Badhwar
Cronyism: A Toxic Friendship between Business and Government
When the government's rules favor incumbent firms at the expense of current and potential competitors, we all lose.
Steven Horwitz
The Social Harms of Taxing Private Wealth
Taxing private wealth isn't putting idle resources to use; it's uprooting resources already being put to productive ends in the economy.
Sanford Ikeda
"Cost" & "Price" are Not Interchangeable Economic Concepts
There is a distinct difference between the cost of things and the price of things. Cost influences price through changes in supply.
Wealth Tax Advocates Muddle Stocks and Flows
The principles of sound economic analysis shouldn't be tossed out the window when they're politically inconvenient.
America's Middle Class Gets More Welfare Than the Poor
Programs for the poor are only a tiny portion of the U.S. welfare state.
Aeon Skoble
No, the State Shouldn't Pay Homemakers
Government stipends for homemakers are back in the news–but the case for such payments falls apart under scrutiny.
Paul Matzko
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Reactions to Hayek
The Road to Serfdom arrived in the spotlight just as public opinion was turning against the New Deal.
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Reactions to Beveridge
Bolstered by support from the British government, Social Insurance and Allied Services recieved a warm & popular reception.
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: In Dialogue
Beveridge's and Hayek's dispute over expert control of economic and social policy was a manifestation of a much deeper disagreement, known as the "Knowledge Problem".
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Beveridge's Social Insurance and Allied Services
Beveridge targeted "five giants"; want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness, all needed solutions from the welfare state.
A Libertarian Perspective on the Modern American Welfare State
The American welfare state is expensive, of limited efficacy, and crowds out better options for alleviating poverty.
Michael Makovi
What Paul Krugman Got Wrong About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 70% Tax Rate
Krugman's analysis of a 70% marginal tax rate forgets about consumer surplus, deadweight loss, & the difference between marginal & total value.
David S. D'Amato
Progressives provide confused narratives about taxation, justice, and the popular will because they misunderstand what the democratic state is.
What a Good‐Faith Discussion of Socialism Might Really Look Like
Advocates of "socialism" must express their support for a set of institutions, not a set of desired outcomes.
Exploring Wealth Inequality
Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus, Ryan Bourne, & Chris Edwards
Who Wants to Retire a Millionaire?
Paul Matzko, Peter Van Doren, Michael D. Tanner, & Simon Cowan
Why is Rent so Damn High?
Paul Matzko and Salim Furth
How Taxation Affects Income Inequality (with Phil Magness)
Trevor Burrus
Why Being Poor is Expensive (with Ryan Bourne)
Trevor Burrus and Aaron Ross Powell
Bringing Wealth to the Poor (with Michael Tanner)
Can we ever downsize government? (with Chris Edwards)
Aaron Ross Powell and Trevor Burrus
Freethought and Freedom: Jean Meslier and the Catholic Church
George H. Smith
Freethought and Freedom: Jean Meslier
George Selgin, Trevor Burrus, and Tom Clougherty
How Conscious Capitalism Can Solve Global Poverty
Michael Strong, Trevor Burrus, and Aaron Ross Powell
How the Powerful Captured the Economy
Trevor Burrus, Matthew Feeney, Brink Lindsey, & Steven M. Teles
Why Does 1% of History Have 99% of the Wealth?
Deirdre McCloskey
Stealing from the Poor to Give to the Rich: An Anti‐Robin Hood Story
Daniel C. Russell
How to Fight Global Poverty
Combating Global Poverty with a Cup of Coffee
Colleen Haight
Debate: Is There Too Much Inequality in America?
Is There Income Mobility in America?
Sean Mulholland
How Raising Taxes Will Not Balance the Budget: More Evidence
Antony Davies
Will Taxing the Rich Fix the Deficit?
Are Corporations People?
Does Government Have a Revenue or Spending Problem?
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The 2011 Saskatchewan Roughriders season was the 54th season for the team in the Canadian Football League. The Roughriders finished 4th place in the West Division with a 5–13 record and were eliminated from the playoffs after a loss to the BC Lions on October 16, 2011. This marks the first time since 2001 that the Roughriders have missed the playoffs.

Offseason

CFL draft
The 2011 CFL Draft took place on Sunday, May 8, 2011. The Roughriders had five selections in the draft, with the first coming in the 12th spot overall, after trading their seventh overall pick to the Toronto Argonauts for the 12th and 27th selections. Saskatchewan selected defensive back Craig Butler with their first pick and were able to select Matt O'Donnell, an offensive lineman who was one of just two CIS players to be named to the American East–West Shrine Game. The Roughriders also selected placekicker Christopher Milo in case their incumbent kicker, Luca Congi, has not recovered in time from a season-ending injury sustained in 2010.

Preseason

Regular season

Season standings

Season schedule

Roster

Coaching staff

References

Saskatchewan Roughriders Season, 2011
Saskatchewan Roughriders seasons
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The 'Sir Halewyn' play of Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderod became the basis for our murderous cabaret. In Ghelderode's version, Bluebeard (Sir Halewyn) is an irresistible bard attracting fascinated women from far and near. After their mysterious disappearance, hatred towards the dark devil is spreading across the land. It is Halewyn's good fortune, or bad luck, when he attracts the attention of beautiful and emancipated Purmelende. He finally meets his match that can be both his downfall and salvation. Uncertain whether she will overpower 'her' killer, Purmelende walks towards the unknown force. Only then one can touch deadly love resembling the ocean that catches you and throws you back again.
The show performed by the JK Tyl Theatre drama studio is a loose mixture of the Bluebeard legend, the play Sir Halewyn and the presence. Our soul is still provoked by various secrets that should stay locked away. But who would not be curious?


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What cars did you cross shop before choosing the Cruze?
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3694 Views 32 Replies 23 Participants Last post by Aranarth, Nov 16, 2016
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After driving my wife's Hyundai Elantra over the weekend I was reminded why I chose the Cruze for myself. Before buying our pre-owned Cruze eco, I was the one driving the Elantra. When it was time to finally upgrade her ride, I (selfishly) wanted something nicer than the Hyundai so she can inherit it and I could enjoy the new(er) ride. Now, the Elantra is a nice econobox and is reliable, but it has zero performance appeal. For example, the engine sounds like it came out of a lawn mower and has no torque, despite the bigger displacement compared to the Cruze (1.8 vs 1.4). The handling is also forgettable, offering no confidence in corners or off/on ramps. There are some nice features, like the strong brakes (better than the Cruze), good amount of standard features and TONS of interior space. I don't know how that's the case, when the two cars are parked side-by-side they have similar exterior dimensions. But the Cruze is basically a 2 door coupe inside - which I happen to like since nobody goes in my car - but I feel that it's a huge strike against it for people with families.
When I drive the Cruze and Elantra back-to-back, I feel a huge difference in driving dynamics. It also gets even better mileage to boot. The first time I drove a Cruze was a rental earlier this year, and it blew away my expectations. I was expecting something more along the lines of the cobalt and cavalier, but not even close. I also looked at the jetta, which admittedly has a nicer interior, but sketchy reliability. I'm glad I chose the Cruze. I don't feel like I settled or had to compromise on what I wanted.
What rides were you looking at before deciding on your Cruze?
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Wow! You knocked them down 20%? That's impressive. Definitely a good value at that price point. BTW, this is my first GM car. Growing up my father would always tell us to run the other way when it came to American brands. He's a euro mechanic, so we grew up with all VWs, Audis, BMWs and Mercs. I'll admit that the GM of the 80's and 90's were nothing to write home about, but they definitely turned things around.
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The things I don't love: The transmission isn't my favorite, the 2nd gear grind was annoying until I changed the trans fluid, and the gear changes and clutch are very numb but it gets the job done and it's still a ton of fun to drive. The seats could be more comfortable, and I miss my adjustable lumbar support. The back seats could offer a little more space, but it's better than my Cobalt. I don't like filling it with premium fuel to get the best efficiency and power, but it sips fuel so I can handle an extra $4 per fill especially as it gets 400-500 miles per tank. My final out the door price after taking off incentives and GMS discount, then adding taxes and fees came out to $15,765 for a brand new Cruze. I've had it for 20 months and put 34,000 miles on it with no issues other than the 2nd gear grinding at WOT which was solved by changing trans fluid.
That is quite the list of cars you've looked at. I gotta agree about some of the pitfalls. I've had many jettas and passats that were manuals, and their clutch feel was night and day better than the Cruze. It just feels so numb and hard to gauge the release point. Getting used to it though. Other thing I don't care for is the piano black on the console. While it does look nice, it gets dirty and scratched just by looking at it.
Keep 'em coming!
As numb as the Cruze clutch is, it still feels better than a friend's C6 vette I drove. It was so light, as if there was no pedal. The engine more than made up for it, lol.
Europeans make great shifters and have good clutch feel. But I don't expect my Cruze to be tuned like, say, an M3's. It just has to be functional.
2014 or 2015 Subaru WRX
Couldn't find any 2013's with the options I wanted and it was more than I wanted to spend. Subaru stopped making 2014 WRX's in December of 2013 and the 2015's weren't released until March of 2014.
2011 Infiniti G37xS
Was my dad's company car and I could've got the buyout on the company lease for a good deal, but Infiniti maintenance made me nervous. I had worked at an Infiniti dealer for a while in the service department and the maintenance was pretty much BMW expensive.
2014 Ford Focus ST and 2014 Ford Fiesta ST
was quite ineterested, but couldn't find a dealer that even had one for me to come and look at, nevermind drive.
You may be the only person ever to cross-shop the Cruze with those models lol. Glad you found the right car for you. Related question, how does the diesel model drive? Is it particularly sluggish off the line? Does it have the typical diesel idle (ie loud)


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Fortunately, no illnesses or issues reported so far, but apparently some customers are complaining their pork patties tasted rubbery--and they were literally right.
Johnsonville Meats is recalling some 48,300 pounds of these type of raw ground pork patties because some of them contained black rubber particles. The recall was announced last last week.
At least three specific reports were made to retailers and the USDA, these products are sold across the country.
Johnsonville says these in question were sold between last September 27th and October 17th. If you have some of these, look at the 'best flavor' by date on the end of the container and if you see "3-4-2-2-5" then it's part of the affected batch. It DOESN'T mean yours has rubber in it, but the affected packages came from that production run.
You can either throw it away or return to the store and obtain a refund or credit towards another product.


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Q: Keyboard and shortcut keys not working in Android Studio in Windows I am new to Android Studio. I recently installed Android Studio 4.0. The keyboard is not working in the Editor. The text cursor just blinks but does not respond to the keyboard. It works when I press 's' but again the same problem arises when I select any text in the editor. Also, any of the shortcut keys except Ctrl + Z does not work. Please Help me out with this problem.
Thanks.

A: If set-up everything good, then close all project and open again your Android Studio....


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Capitol Letters
Ransom Note
Brown Vows Full Schools Funding If He Gets His Way on Tax Hike
By Jerry Roberts
Thu Jan 12, 2012 | 12:00am
Gov. Jerry Brown
Paul Wellman (file)
Back when gas cost 40 cents a gallon and Big Dick Nixon assured the nation he was "not a crook," National Lampoon published an iconic cover photo featuring a sad-eyed mutt, a big revolver, and a screamer headline:
"If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog," it tastefully said.
Much-lampooned, the January 1973 monthly rag came to mind during a perusal of Governor Jerry Brown's latest plan for balancing California's long-unbalanced budget. Amid its countless complexities, Brown's just-released $92.6-billion proposal, as both a policy and a political matter, boils to this:
He promises that the state in the next year will boost spending on K-12 schools and community colleges by $4.8 billion, to a total of $52.5 billion — if voters in November pass his plan for a five-year, half-cent increase in the sales tax and a new, higher rate on personal incomes above $250,000.
The catch: The defeat of his measure, which he estimates would yield the state more than $6 billion a year, would trigger an automatic $5-billion cut for public education.
"It's the most expensive ransom note in California political history," Dan Schnur, a former Republican political operative who now runs the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC, told Bloomberg News.
There are, to be sure, many other big and important issues at stake in the budget debate, which will unfold in Sacramento between now and June, when the Legislature is to approve a final budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Among them: The Democratic chief executive proposes to wipe out the projected annual deficit, now estimated at about $9 billion (a mere bagatelle compared to the $25 billion-plus in red ink he and lawmakers whacked at last year), in substantial part by imposing $2 billion in new cuts to welfare-to-work, child care, and medical programs for the poor; failure of his tax-hike ballot initiative would also cancel out several billion he is aiming at local law enforcement agencies to pay the costs of transferring state prisoners to county jails; similarly, the UC and CSU systems would also lose $200 million each if his bid for higher taxes goes down.
But it is basic public education, which by far represents not only the largest expenditure in the budget but also the loudest political constituency, that will be at the center of a huge and sprawling 2012 statewide battle over taxes and spending that now is shaping up, with Democrats howling about social service cuts and Republicans bashing Brown for what they charge is political extortion:
"This cynical, scare-tactic budget strategy once again hinges on the hope that voters will ignore their own financial problems to bail out the Democrats with another ill-advised tax increase," said Tom Del Beccaro, chair of the state GOP.
The governor, noting that most of the spending in the budget is required by either state or federal law and driven by population growth and inflation, argues that California will never begin to chip away at its mountain of debt without more revenue and an economic recovery.
"The California government is under stress," Brown told reporters as he announced his plan late last week. "We're spending, in real terms, what we were in the '70s, under [then-governor] Ronald Reagan. So we're doing the best we can, and it is a hardship."
WILL KIM K. DO HER PART? Outside the Capitol, Brown's biggest political challenge is heading off a host of competing ballot initiatives that various interest groups are also pushing for the November ballot.
Smartly calculating that putting multiple tax increases before voters essentially guarantees that all of them will be defeated, the governor has been meeting privately with sponsors, urging them to drop their efforts and join his.
One of the alternatives is promoted by the liberal Courage Campaign, which wants to slap a one-percent income tax surtax on millionaires in the state. The group has already captured national attention with an online ad using images of the trashy sex-tape/reality-TV star Kim Kardashian, famous for reasons that remain mysterious, as a case study of rich folks doing their nails instead of pulling on their oar.
The must-see Web video is at couragecampaign.org.
https://www.independent.com/2012/01/12/ransom-note/
Jerry Roberts
Only Two Elections for Santa Barbara in an Off Year
How Tax Payouts Fueled Newsom's Spending Spree
California's Economic Pandemic


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Q: Unable to fix 4 buttons in Grid Layout I tried to add 4 buttons in Grid Layout. Equally Spaced, I used colum and row Weight, but still I am not able to align all equally spaced, I am getting the output like this. Mentioned below in the image.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context="com.rahulcomp24.gridlayoutdemo.MainActivity">

<GridLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentStart="true">

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_column="0"
        android:layout_row="0"
        android:layout_gravity="fill"
        android:layout_columnWeight="1"
        android:layout_rowWeight="1"
        android:text="New Button"
        android:id="@+id/button" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_column="1"
        android:layout_row="0"
        android:layout_gravity="fill"
        android:layout_columnWeight="1"
        android:layout_rowWeight="1"
        android:text="New Button"
        android:id="@+id/button2" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_column="0"
        android:layout_row="1"
        android:layout_gravity="fill"
        android:layout_columnWeight="1"
        android:layout_rowWeight="1"
        android:text="New Button"
        android:id="@+id/button3" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_column="1"
        android:layout_row="1"
        android:layout_gravity="fill"
        android:layout_columnWeight="1"
        android:layout_rowWeight="1"
        android:text="New Button"
        android:id="@+id/button4" />
</GridLayout>

I am using MinSdk version 19.

A: Copy the below xml as it is and run it you would see same equally space button.
Note: You have to run it on your device to see them filling all screen space equally
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin">

    <GridLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_column="0"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_gravity="fill"
            android:layout_row="0"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:text="New Button" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button2"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_column="1"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_gravity="fill"
            android:layout_row="0"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:text="New Button" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button3"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_column="0"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_gravity="fill"
            android:layout_row="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:text="New Button" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button4"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_column="1"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_gravity="fill"
            android:layout_row="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:text="New Button" />
    </GridLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

A: You can use two LinearLayouts instead, one for each row, and also replace the parent RelativeLayout with another LinearLayout.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="2">

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:weightSum="2"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <Button
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"/>

    <Button
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"/>

</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:weightSum="2"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <Button
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"/>

    <Button
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"/>

</LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

A: You are facing this error because of your property
 ( android:layout_gravity = "fill" )
actually this is used to fill the container
check out this link
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/LinearLayout.LayoutParams.html

A: Your code snippet working fine.You might be facing issues due to some other layout parameters changes in your project.
I will recommend try to create new project and check your layout again


Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., and Evans Memorial Department of Clinical Research and Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1. The endothelium participates in the regulation of coronary vascular tone. As evidence exists from studies performed on epicardial vessels that hypercholesterolaemia impairs endothelial function, we tested the hypothesis that hypercholesterolaemia impairs coronary vascular reserve in an intact animal.
2. Domestic swine, maintained on a regular (n = 9) or a 2% high-cholesterol (n = 9) diet for 3 months were instrumented with a catheter in the left atrium for microsphere injection, a catheter in the anterior interventricular vein for venous sampling and an 82% stenosis in the left anterior descending artery. Papaverine was used to determine coronary vascular reserve. Regional coronary flow as reflected by perfusion (microsphere measurement), lactate consumption, oxygen consumption and haemodynamics were obtained at baseline, after 10 mg of papaverine and after atrial pacing at a rate of 120 beats/min and 150 beats/min.
3. Cholesterol was elevated in animals on the high cholesterol diet (350 ± 50 mg/dl versus 99 ± 10 mg/dl, P<0.001). Baseline haemodynamics were similar between groups. Baseline transmural flow and its augmentation with papaverine were comparable in the two groups in the control (circumflex) and stenosed (left anterior descending artery) zones. In both groups, perfusion increased in the control zone in response to increased oxygen demand, whereas in the stenosis zone no increase was observed in either group (P not significant for normal versus high cholesterol diet). Endocardial flow reserve in the stenosis zone was exhausted in both groups. Epicardial flow in the stenosis zone increased significantly in the normal (P<0.02) but not in the hypercholesterolaemic animals (P not significant).
4. The endocardial/epicardial ratio in the control zone at baseline revealed greater endocardial dominance in the normal compared with the hypercholesterolaemic animals (1.35 versus 1.10, P<0.01). With papaverine, similar ratios indicated a similar reserve potential in both groups. During increased oxygen demand, normal animals continued to demonstrate endocardial dominance whereas it diminished in the hypercholesterolaemic group. In the stenosis zone, endocardial blood flow dominated at baseline in the normal animals and to a lesser extent in the hypercholesterolaemic animals (1.30 versus 1.10, P = 0.10). During increased oxygen demand, endocardial dominance decreased significantly in both groups of animals; however, it remained greater than 1.0 only in the normal animals.
5. Exposure to elevated cholesterol levels did not impair an animal's ability to augment coronary blood flow in response to an increase in oxygen demand. In contrast to this lack of effect on recruitment of coronary reserve, regional coronary blood flow was altered in the hypercholesterolaemic animals.


Our weird hosts. Robots stealing your brain, Northern Ireland as a backdrop to a Hip hop dance off at the school disco, patronising an albino at a wrestling match are all themes for these ginger troubadours. Using only a Fender Bass valve amp and a vintage wood and steel resonator guitar they manage to draw you in to a strange and humorous world. Baritone voice and resonating chords with slam poetry and catchy tongue in cheek choruses. Laugh and cry with our odd, sensitive, local mountain men.
Great controlled jangly guitar sound with a voice that makes you want to listen intently with just enough falsetto and form - her live show transfixes, you try to work out how she's keeping your attention so well with just a usual band setup. She seems to tap into the Human Condition so well - hypnotically engaging with a chorus or riff that shows a sensitivity and pain that we all can identify with.
Not still or set Spook School are loosly described as punk pop but seem free to jump vocalists and not be bound up by ideas of what they should or shouldn't be. Listen without prejudice and you'll have a great night being entertained by a band that want to set you free with quirky lyrics, bouncing melodies and fuzzy guitars.
Total heartbreaker. Is she singing hymns or are these mystical stories of love and loss? The music is subdued but warm and full, it's like she wants you to drift with her through a soundscape thats sonically moody with a darkened sense of place. There's a maturity to her voice and a poetry to her lyrics - beauty and pain but never living you cold or foreign.
Glasgow's own Ray Harris seems intent on getting people dancing like no one is watching. He's opened for Nile Rogers and the Average White band and has such a free playing form. His band are such an engine and the party will well and truly be on with his brand of soul fever. Consider that there will be live disco soul and funk on a Saturday Night in a town hall in rural Aberfeldy - how can the whole world not want to join in.
"Skip a Sinking Stone" Mutual Benefit's second album was on heavy rotation last year and what a privilege to have him in Aberfeldy. Jordan Lee is a master of the subdued vocal and cinematic dreamscape and with lyrics like, "Lets take the long walk home and throw away our phones" he transcribes a deep sense of where we are all at right now. Maybe in rural Perthshire with Mutual Benefit at the helm we can finally float and on the tide of this tender music we'll drift away.
There's a playful aspect to Carla J Easton but the music is sonically richer than punk or pop. She has a youthful voice at times and the music can empty right out and what starts as a simple electronic rotation can build to almost a choral and orchestra sound.
Jamie Sutherland is of course the solo project of the lead singer of the band Broken Records. A band well regarded and signed to 4AD at one time. If Jamie sings and gives us an inkling of the songs Dia dos Namorados or The Motorcycle Boy Reigns we are not just in for a treat but a significant songwriter with a an ear for melody which is becoming rare.
There seems to be a strong influence from the Jesus and Mary Chain but their harmonies and pop sensibility keeps their sound cleaner and more welcoming. Musicianship is strong for a new band that craft great melodies.


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Deadly Stakes
by J.A. Jance
The author of four popular mystery series, J. A. Jance opens DEADLY STAKES with a prologue detailing the life of Gemma Ralston, newly divorced and looking for a makeover at Video Glam. Gemma is the product of a drug-addicted mother, removed from her care and raised by her grandparents starting at the age of two. A hint of her mother's problems comes out when her grandmother offers this advice upon Gemma's entrance into college: "find yourself some dependable young man, preferably a pre-med student, and marry him….a surgeon…the guys who make the big bucks." Gemma did precisely that, marrying Chip Ralston but divorcing him when her financial expectations were not reached.
"The rapidly moving story makes it a fascinating mystery, full of multiple suspects and numerous possibilities, but one solution. J. A. Jance fans are sure to be entertained by DEADLY STAKES and anticipating her next novel."
Jance fills the pages with numerous characters and multiple plot lines, so many that the reader has to take an occasional deep breath. But her story is well-crafted and keeps one's interest to its final word. We meet several major players before police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds comes onto the scene. Ali learns about Gemma's death from her good friend, Detective Dave Holman, at her mother's election-night defeat party. He tells her that the main evidence at the crime scene is a cell phone, lost by its owner the night before. The individual is Lynn Martinson, Chip's current girlfriend, who has spent the entire morning looking for it.
When Gemma's body is identified, Lynn and Chip find themselves in deep trouble. Beatrice Hart, Lynn's mother, contacts Ali to help her when they are arrested. The cell phone found near Gemma's body points to them as chief suspects, though there is still the mystery of the male caller who texted the 911 call about the injured woman but was not at the scene when emergency help arrived. When Ali contacts Dave to break the bad news about her daughter to Beatrice, they hear that a second body has been found in the same remote area near Gemma's. The deceased man is identified as James Mason Sanders, an ex-con who had served prison time for counterfeiting.
Puzzling circumstances involving the dead man's son, A.J., will change his life. Detailed instructions about a gift from his father, with a plea to keep it a secret from his mother, arouse A.J.'s curiosity. He leaves school and drives to the isolated Camp Verde area, parks, and follows a dead end trail. He walks exactly 300 feet, ending at a boulder decorated with a painted heart; he is to dig behind the rock and will find the means to access a large cache of funds. His father's parting words are "Have a great life." Unnerved by discovering Gemma at the scene, A.J. makes the call to 911 and leaves, before locating the boulder.
Ali investigates the possibilities in the Ralston murder, but the man found dead near her pricks her penchant for all details. She delves into the fact that Sanders leaves behind a wife and child in the area. When Ali contacts Sylvia, A.J.'s mother, about her husband's death, she learns that a college prank with three other students landed Sanders in jail. Sylvia raised her son alone, protecting him from notoriety. She reveals that Sanders had given A.J. a car for his birthday, which she had allowed him to keep, as a gift of back child support. Ali's detective temperature rises on that information. Did the man come into a big source of money by illegal means?
Before its conclusion, the book introduces multiple characters, some of whom may be external fluff. However slight their part, each has a role in leading Reynolds to the solution. The Ralston family's support of Gemma following the divorce brings out a strange family dynamic involving the deceased father, his son and daughter. The rapidly moving story makes it a fascinating mystery, full of multiple suspects and numerous possibilities, but one solution. J. A. Jance fans are sure to be entertained by DEADLY STAKES and anticipating her next novel.
Reviewed by Judy Gigstad on February 22, 2013
Genres: Fiction, Mystery
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
J.A. Jance


This is the picture that sparked my photo blog creativity once again - albeit almost 3 weeks after I took it. What I see is Amanda swinging wildly out over the body of water that she calls Swan Lake. What I think is that will never be me. What I wonder is when did I get too scared to fly?
that youth is wasted on the young.


Miranda died in my game, how do I save her? Is it possible to do? I don't have any saves older than the one for the mission, am I screwed?
Apparently you have to have gone and met her at the Citadel earlier on, and warned her about Kai Leng (she sent an email way earlier on asking to meet). The reason she is dead is because Kai Leng killed her, although it's not very obvious from the scene - the same thing happened to me and it is far too late to save her now.
To save Miranda, you MUST read the dossier on Kai Leng and meet her via a holochannel from the Specter terminal after the attack on the citadel.
During the mission, she may also die if you do not persuade her father to back down. If that fails, you have to shoot him. If Miranda shoots her father, then she be fatally shot in return and die.
My reputation was really high, so I took the Renegade option. He let her go, and Miranda survived.
You have to warn her about Kai Leng when you talk to her in Spectre Office.
Not sure does it play part in her surviving, but I also gave her access to Alliance database when she asked.
I did NOT slept with her in ME2.
If you do warn her about Kai Leng and she isn't loyal to you in 2, then she dies. If you don't warn her she dies. I only want to save her if something romantically between her and Shepard and from the looks of it nothing does.
If Miranda is your romance in Mass Effect 2 and you break up with her the first time you meet her in Mass Effect 3, then she will die no matter what actions you take in Mass Effect 3.
If you continue the romance, or did not romance her in Mass Effect 2, then you need to give her the Alliance resources she asks for in the apartment in Presidium. Continuing the romance does not mean it is locked in - you can lock in with another character later - it just means that you should not explicitly break up with her when you meet her the first time.
Hmmm i dont know. I have played through twice so far and both times talked to her about Kai Leng and she did not survive either playthrough. My hypothesis is that she has to be a past romance or at least in an imported save from ME2. Both playthroughs I have done so far have been default non-imports.
How do I save Ashley?
Can I increase the 50 save limit?
What is the war asset value of the Krogan Clans if Eve survived?
How far back in the storyline do I have to go to be able to save Eve on Tuchanka?
How do I use Gibbed Save Editor to flag a mission as complete?


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Tucker Carlson Will Be Furious After Stephen Colbert Used These 5 Words Against Him
You better believe that everyone on the liberal circuit wants to embarrass and eviscerate all those that rival their ideologies because they can't handle opposing views or counterpoints. That's a fact.
That's when they act like children – throwing temper tantrums on social media, typing their fury in all caps because they want the world to know how desperate they are.
And this was a tactic that has been used on Tucker Carlson lately and what Stephen Colbert said about him will make you furious.
Make no mistake; Stephen Colbert is the leader of the liberal pitchfork mob.
You can actually tell that because of the show's ratings in the President Trump era. Before Trump was elected and Colbert took over for David Letterman on CBS' The Late Show, of the three big shows in the 11:30 ET time slot, Colbert was a distant third.
But then Trump was elected and all of the material was about trashing conservatism every single night so liberals flocked to the show. They made it number one in late night and still holds that title today.
What you should know is that all of these hosts that spew anti-Trump rhetoric absolutely despise Fox News and all of their anchors, which includes Tucker Carlson who made the news this week over comments about immigrants flooding over the southern border at an alarming rate.
That's when Colbert said that Carlson was the "the little racist who could," which is an obvious reference to the children's book "The Little Engine That Could."
Apparently, the joke here is that Carlson is very persistent with his "racism."
Colbert continued, "Carlson's already got a reputation for flirting with racism, but last week, he took it to a racy new level. Now, if just listening to him say that makes you feel dirty and more divided, you're not alone. Tucker got a lot of heat for those remarks, but he's nothing if not the little racist who could. And he came chuggin' back up that hill on Monday with a new reason he doesn't like immigrants: He just cares so darn much about the environment."
What Colbert is referring to here is when the Fox News star said that mass immigration over the southern border was making America "poorer, dirtier, and more divided."
Carlson also said that immigration was, "hurting this country's natural landscape."
Colbert played that clip and then quipped, "Right, good point, because Americans never do that. Have you seen the desert after Coachella? I don't hear Tucker calling to deport a bunch of Forever 21-wearing white girls named Blake."
Tucker Carlson is losing advertisers right and left now because of the immense liberal backlash over his comments.
Many celebrities advocated for companies to pull their advertisements off of his show like super-producer Judd Apatow who rallied for it so hard that it nearly forced them to comply or face the pitchfork mob.
So far, two dozen companies, including Sandisk, Harris Teeter, Lexus, IHOP, Just for Men, Pacific Life, Jaguar Land Rover,and many others all pulled their ads from any time primetime slots associated with Carlson's show.
His show has declined from 36 regular ads per broadcast before his comments, to 20 regular ads – not including in-house promos for Fox content – after his comments.
This boycott mentality because liberals can't handle the reality of the situation needs to stop. Most of the illegal immigrants forcing their way into our country don't have a dime to their name. That's why they came here in the first place.
What Carlson said certainly didn't have tact or empathy but he's not wrong with his comments.
Liberals need to get a clue and stop throwing tantrums over everything that they disagree with.
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Izzy Young, a businessman, activist and founder of the Greenwich Village folk music scene who devoted decades to supporting musicians, has died.
STOCKHOLM – Izzy Young, a businessman, political activist and founding patron of the Greenwich Village folk music scene who organized Bob Dylan's first major New York concert and devoted decades to supporting other musicians, has died at age 90.
Starting in the 1950s, Greenwich Village was the center of a folk music revival that helped launch the careers of Dylan, Joni Mitchell and many others. Young, as much as anyone, made the revival possible. In 1957, he opened the Folklore Center, remembered by Dylan as "the citadel of Americana folk music" and an "ancient chapel, like a shoebox-sized institute," a vital stopping point where fans and folk performers would stop by for everything from old sheet music to obscure music books.


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Q: NTFS partition service issue with creating Windows 10 bootable USB on Ubuntu I wanted to create a Windows 10 Bootable USB for installing Windows on my old system.
I followed the instructions given in the answers to this question: How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu?
However it is not as straight forward as mentioned in the answers.
When trying to boot it up I ran into a cryptic error
Could not start NTFS partition service

Details:

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*On Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

*Downloaded Windows 10 iso from official links

*Using woeusb tool

A: So following the official steps:
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install woeusb

Throws me an error for one of the dependancies: libwxgtk
Upon some bit of googling I found this
Which is where I found the answer to my first roadblock:
Download the libwxgtk from link provided in this comment
So woeusb gets installed properly now.

More issues
UI doesn't detect the USB devices, when I open the WoeUSB app.
Tried searching multiple things online, and then settled for doing it via cmd line.
sudo woeusb --tgt-fs NTFS --device <iso-path> /dev/sdX

Before doing that, I had to format the USB device, which I did using the disks utility of Ubuntu.
And lo and behold, first cut of the Bootable USB failed to detect.
After doing some digging, I stumbled upon this
Essentially for UEFI devices, you need to format the USB with GPT rather than MBR (default).
So repeated the whole process on with formatting the USB with GPT.

Final blocker
Now the USB got detected, and when I set the boot order and tried to boot the USB, I got a rather cryptic error: Could not start NTFS partition service
Googling for that error landed me in this Github issue
Reading through the whole conversation on the issue, one thing struck me at this comment
He had mentioned that the tool worked fine with EfiFS v1 & v1.1.
That reminded me of one of the output of the woeusb cmd line run.
It downloaded the latest version of uefi-ntfs.img from rufus github repo.
So I did a little bit of digging, and found a sufficiently old version of that file here
I downloaded this, and then rewrote this image over the UEFI:NTFS partition on the USB.
dd if=<path-to-uefi-ntfs.img> of=/dev/sdX2 # find out the proper partition reference using the disks utility

Now it finally works!!

Summary - final steps

*

*Download the Windows 10 ISO from official links

*Install woeusb
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install woeusb

*

*If you run into an issue with libwxgtk dependancy, download the deb file from this link

*Install the Deb file and reinstall woeusb

*Plug in the pen drive

*Using the Disks utility, format the USB with GPT partitioning.

*And create bootable USB

sudo woeusb --tgt-fs NTFS --device <iso-path> /dev/sdX

At this point, the whole thing should work for most cases.
But in case your system is old, it might throw some error about NTFS partition service. Then follow on:

*

*Download the old version of UEFI:NTFS partition image from here

*Overwrite the UEFI:NTFS partition with this image

dd if=<path-to-uefi-ntfs.img> of=/dev/sdX2

Try again now, it worked for me!!


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I am back from the workshop "Obiettivo Matrimonio 2009" I held in Ercolano, Naples. I was welcomed in the typical, wonderful way people living in a place of such contradictions can do, and those who followed me have been able to deepen and metabolise one of the fundamentals of photography: lighting management.
The locations, so astonishing thanks to the rich history and magnificent landscapes typical of the Miglio d'Oro (Golden Mile), running through the town of Ercolano, allowed us to shoot enhancing the wonderful interior features of the eighteenth-century villas. On the other hand the shooting at Creator Vesevo, the permanent exhibition of sculptures made from lava on the slopes of Vesuvio, allowed us to liberate our creativity so to set the subjects outside thanks to beautiful landscapes and relevant artistic creations.
I am deeply thankful to the organisation of Obiettivo Matrimonio 2009 which, keeping their determination intact in the difficult times we are currently experiencing, shows how the desire of growing (and let others grow) is fundamental for every decision, especially in wedding photography. My special thanks go to Pino Coduti and Gianluca Catzeddu, the Masters I shared the course program with, and to Canon, whose support allowed us to work in such a perfect manner (also showing us, in preview, their new jewel EOS 1D Mark IV).
You can find the slideshow of Obiettivo Matrimonio 2009 here. As soon as I'm done with this post, I will be heading to the next appointment: Sposiamo il Digitale 2009, in Riccione. See you there for four intense days in full immersion doing what I love the most: photographing and sharing.
Have some great photography you all.


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Communities in Bushbuckridge demand tar road
For the past three weeks or so, there has been an on-going strike on the R40 road next to Ga-relane village in Bushbuckridge, engaging the communities of Motibidi, Masakeng, Thabakgolo and others, in solidarity towards a common goal, in the form of a tarmac road.
The budget for a tar road (that would intersect from the R40 main road through Masakeng/Thabakgolo to Shatale) had been allocated, but later discontinued… or rather silenced.
Schoolchildren continue to be the victims of such circumstances. As if that's not enough; a school was also set alight.
To this day, though, the construction of such a road has only been a dream to the mentioned communities.
Local businesses have continued to suffer the most. Motorists struggle to make their way home after, especially now that it's been raining cats and dogs. But then that's just a tip of the iceberg… they want their current councillor, Themba Nxumalo out!
For a leader that's on the other side of the fence, with a tarred road to/from his doorstep and extra security at his house; clearly their agendas are different.
He has allegedly been summoned on a number of occasions for a meeting to negotiate a way forward, and, in his response, he was quoted as saying, "Swi tshikeni, aswi dyondzangi." In Xitsonga, translated, "Leave them, they're unschooled."
Whether that's true or not, it's indeed a story for another day. For now though, "the struggle continues…"
The mentioned communities have allegedly further written to the office of the Premier, David Mabuza. To everyone's surprise, though, the only feedback they've received to date has been in the form of rubber bullets and gunshots to the unfortunate ones.
As much as violent protests are condemned, "corruption cannot be condoned as well." Answers are demanded! "What happened to the allocated budget?" The communities demand to know.
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