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Creep of the Week: James Dobson
D'Anne Witkowski
Hello LGBTQ Americans! Are you ready to enslave "people of faith throughout these United States of America?"
Because the U.S. House just passed the Equality Act and, according to James Dobson, that's our job now.
I don't know about you, but I'm not prepared. Also, full disclosure, I'm not interested. The "people of faith" Dobson is talking about have done a fine job subjugating themselves by living in fear of two men kissing or a woman in control of her own uterus. Also, note that I didn't use the word "enslaved" because let's not just throw that word around like hundreds of years of that shit didn't happen in this country and foster the deeply entrenched racism black and brown people are still dealing with.
Dobson, however, is particularly tone deaf on this topic.
"In the history of our nation, there have been times when evil was so apparent — and so heinous — that they stand in infamy decades later," he wrote for Charisma News. "They include the Dred Scott Decision on slavery in 1857 and the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. Now, we are faced with another such tragic moment in American history."
Dred Scott, you'll recall, affirmed the rights of slaveholders and was horrible. Roe v. Wade legalized a medical procedure. Not horrible. I get that Dobson thinks it is, but it isn't.
And now Dobson is comparing the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect LGBTQ people, to slavery and the thing he thinks is the worst thing ever: abortion.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, "The Equality Act would provide consistent and explicit non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people across key areas of life, including employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally funded programs and jury service."
This sounds perfectly reasonable. And, in fact, the majority of Americans think LGBTQ people should be protected from discrimination. But if you only asked people who don't think that LGBTQ people are actual human beings, I suspect that number would drop by a lot. And no doubt Dobson is in that category.
Why is Dobson so afraid of the Equality Act? Because civil rights laws give LGBTQ people a legitimacy that he wants to continue to deny. Dobson calls the Equality Act "breathtaking in its scope" and he's not wrong. It's pretty momentous.
The HRC explains, "Decades of civil rights history show that civil rights laws are effective in decreasing discrimination because they provide strong federal remedies targeted to specific vulnerable groups. By explicitly including sexual orientation and gender identity in these fundamental laws, LGBTQ people will finally be afforded the exact same protections as other covered characteristics under federal law."
Why, if this passes the Senate (it won't. Mitch McConnell is a ghoul), then bakers might have to make cakes for same-sex couples and employers can't just fire someone for being trans and landlords can't kick you out of your home for being gay!
According to Dobson, "This legislation will represent one of the most egregious assaults on religious liberty ever foisted on the people of this great nation. It therein imposes a thinly veiled death-sentence to the First Amendment to the Constitution."
Wow. That's some hyperbolic shit right there. A "thinly veiled death-sentence to the First Amendment?" Can someone please let Dobson know that the First Amendment isn't "Freedom to use your religion as a weapon against people you don't like?"
Dobson continues, "We must not remain silent as our historic liberties are gutted by Democrats and their friends in the LGBT movement. They will enslave us if they prevail. We must let our voices be heard, first in the U.S. Senate, and then to the world."
Okay, first of all, just about every right-wing conservative Christian has his or her own radio show so I don't know what he means by this "remain silent" business. Also, a blanket right to discriminate is a "historic" liberty only in that it belongs in the past. With slavery.
Dobson ends with, "Viva biblical values and beliefs."
I know what you're thinking: isn't "viva" Spanish? Yes! It is. And after vowing to continue to make life as miserable as possible for LGBTQ Americans, Dobson launches into an impassioned plea that we stop ripping Spanish-speaking children from their parents at the border and putting them in cages because it is unchristian.
Just kidding. He did not. That would require some sort of moral code that cared about other people. Somebody should send Dobson a pamphlet or something about Jesus.
D'Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.
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Бербатово је насељено место у градској општини Палилула на подручју града Ниша у Нишавском округу. Смештено је на јужном рубу нишке котлине, у подножју планине Селичевице, удаљено 10 км од центра Ниша. Године 1878. имало је 45 домаћинстава и 375 становника, а 1930. године 132 домаћинства и 687 становника. Према попису из 2002. било је 364 становника (према попису из 1991. било је 367 становника).
Овде се налазе Запис крст (Бербатово), Запис храст код споменика (Бербатово), Запис храст код гробља (Бербатово), Запис Милошевића орах (Бербатово), Запис Стојановића крушка (Бербатово) и Запис крст код гробља (Бербатово).

Историја
Антички трагови у атару села указују на давну насељеност овог простора. О томе сведочи и турски попис из 1498. године, који у Бербатову бележи 24 куће (8 самачких и 1 удовичка) и три воденице и са приходом села од 3835 акчи. Уочи ослобођења од Турака селом је господарио Ибрахим-бег. Бербарово и његова околина имали су посебну улогу у току Другог српско-турског рата и борби за ослобођење Ниша. У овом месту, од 26. до 31. децембра 1877. године (по старом календару), био је размештен штаб Шумадијског корпуса српске војске под командом генерала Јована Белимарковића, који је успесима у борби са Турцима на положајима јужно од Ниша, нарочито код Марковог калета и на Горици, дао изузетан допринос коначном ослобођењу града.

Живот
У даљем развоју, становништво села је све више са сточарске прелазило на ратарску привреду, а после 1955. године његови житељи се све више оријентишу према градској привреди и Нишу. После 1970. године од Габровачког манастира па путем према Бербатову почела је да се изграђује једна од викенд зона Нишлија. Око осамдесетих година 20. века у овом простору већ је било изграђено двадесетак оваквих објеката.

Саобраћај
До Бербатова се може доћи приградским линијама 22 ПАС Ниш - Габровац - Бербатово - Вукманово, линијом 23 ПАС Ниш - Габровац - Бербатово и кружном линијом 23К ПАС Ниш - Габровац - Вукманово - Бербатово - Габровац - ПАС Ниш.

Током зимског периода, до Бербатова аутобуси не саобраћају због снежног наноса на путу Габровац - Бербатово, већ аутобуси саобраћају до Габровца.

Демографија
У насељу Бербатово живи 292 пунолетна становника, а просечна старост становништва износи 49,9 година (48,0 код мушкараца и 51,9 код жена). У насељу има 128 домаћинстава, а просечан број чланова по домаћинству је 2,55.

Ово насеље је великим делом насељено Србима (према попису из 2002. године), а у последња три пописа, примећен је пад у броју становника.

Референце

Литература
 Енциклопедија Ниша: Природа, простор, становништво; издање Градина - Ниш, 1995.г. pp. 10.
 Видосав Петровић: Ослобођење Ниша од Турака 1877. године; издање Народне новине Ниш, 1997.г. pp. 63 - 80.

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 Гугл сателитска мапа (-{Maplandia}-)
 План насеља на мапи (-{Mapquest}-)

Градска општина Палилула (Ниш)
Насељена места у Нишавском управном округу
Википројект географија/Насеља у Србији

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[Primary Move] Psionics: Mykel can use his psionics to detect danger and defend against it typically, shielding himself and those closest to hm. He primarily uses psionics to attack, either using it to bash, break, immobilize an enemy, or levitate allies or weapons. He does not have enough telepathic skill to invade and or control the minds of others.
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The bonds my wives and I have built are stronger than ever, if we work together we will not fail. I will protect my wives and children in this new universe. I will help our friends and allies figure out these ancient legends surrounding the First Ones and Progenitors.
Mykel was born to a Dragoon and partner couple within the Legionaire Republic at Fortress Athen. The act of childbirth however was too great for the human mother and she died leaving the infant in the hands of a father who was at the mercy of the Legions. Fearing for his son, he traded away the only thing of value; his own life and service, the stipulations being that the boy would be raised along side other children normally, he would not be pressed into any type of service if he didn't chose it himself, and he would not be approached for service until he was 18 years old. Any training the boy would go through would be on an as-requested / chosen basis by the boy himself. The father chose to name his still infant son in the oldest of dragoon traditions, after an angel: Mykel.
As Mykel grew over the years several things brought concern to his father; first, he chose to be trained in close and mid-range combat, something that seemed contrary to the nature of his spirit-minded son. Second, Mykel seemed to have no thirst for fighting even though he was training for it, he would come home frequently with scrapes, bruises or other injuries but never a mark on his hands or knuckles. And finally, when Mykel was eleven, his father found him in their home making a trail of fire follow his finger; this confirmed a deep fear the father had, Mykel had inherited psionic abilities from his mother. Fearing what would happen should the Legions find out he made Mykel swear to never use those abilities, limiting his practice with his psionics to the privacy of their own home.
A week before Mykel's 18th birthday, his father was sent on a mission; he was the only member of the team that failed to return. Mykel's father had never kept secrets from him, he knew of the deal between his father and the Legions for his safety; he also knew that he was no longer safe in his home, with that realization he grabbed what few possessions he wanted or needed before quickly leaving and setting his destination for the one place where the Legions could never touch him...the Academy.
Mykels distrust of the Legion has been turned inside out and upside down since his addition to Unit 6, working with a Senators Son and their subsequent missions. The news of his relation to the Legion's Guyus Family and that his father kept it from him is to this day a hard thing for him, but he seems to have accepted it. He has tried to stay out of the family issues, though his wiggle room seems to be getting less and less with each one. Throughout these turmoil's Mykel has had the support of the Whisperlight twins, forming a bond with Alita and planning on including Ceilia as soon as it's possible.
With the relative freedom to explore his abilities that the Academy has afforded, Mykel has been steadily advancing his telekinetic capabilities, even getting some guidance from Isis in developing a few of his techniques. With the formation of the Hapian Alliance, Mykel fears that the time where he can avoid getting dragged into family matters is close to ending. Being a member of the Academy he's supposed to work towards peace, Mykel is afraid that to attain that he may have to cross swords with his family. He's also afraid that if it comes to fighting his family that he may not be able to finish the fight.
During a mission, when push came to shove, Mykel was stopped from finishing off his cousin Julius by Alita; the fact that he was spared by a female was more insult than the Kaiser could bear and Mykel and his wives were banished from the Legion. Taking this hard, Mykel became obsessed with Julius and may have gone off the deep end if not for being reigned in by Alita, Ceilia and the rest of Unit 6. When a Coup against Julius reared its head, instead of accepting a role and possible endorsement to become the next Kaiser by the Senators involved Mykel decided that despite the hard feelings family was more important and worked with the Unit to expose the Coup...even causing quite a commotion in the Senate Assembly Building while he was stalling to give the Unit time to find the assassin.
With the Coup averted, Mykels banishment was lifted; and after Julius disappeared due to Spiritual / Magical interferance, Hapes orchestrated a formal alliance between the Legionaire Republic and the Daemon Empire. An alliance that would be symbolized through the marriage of the Empresses sister Shinobu and Mykel. Since their marriage, Shinobu and Mykel have had a tense relationship at best; though there have been some brief tender moments. When news arrived of Neophyx's death, and Shinobu becoming the new Empress, Mykel chose to stay closer to her and help keep her safe. A task made easier with his growing psionics.
Now that things have calmed down and Shinobu has started working with Celes and Erevis, Mykel has stayed the course and stayed close. The revelation that the First Ones and the Progenitors may share a common history holds a certain intrigue for Mykel since its apparent that his Father was half-Progenitor. They mysteries of what may be dormant in his blood seem to beckon.


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Q: Kendo UI line chart sort order I can't work out how to get the categories ordering correctly on the x-axis in a kendo UI line chart. Here's my example:
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and here's a screen shot of what the output looks like:

As you can see the years are ordered incorrectly even though the data is in year order and I've specified to sort on year in the kendo data source.
Any help would be appreciated.

A: You need to convert the years from a Number to date, e.g:
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You can then even further define baseUnitStep steps.

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Front-runners among the 15 Democrats on the ballot are former Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson, Ninth Ward Alderman Anthony Beale, and Cook County Chief Administrative Officer Robin Kelly.
While the only area of Hyde Park included in the 2nd District is the streets east of Stony Island Avenue and south of 53rd Street, its influence on the race has been notable.
Hyde Park political figures like Alderman Will Burns, Congressman Bobby Rush, and State Senator Kwame Raoul have all endorsed Kelly and supported her campaign. Cheryl Whitaker, wife of University of Chicago Medical Center's Executive Vice President of Strategic Affiliations Eric Whitaker and friend of the Obamas, signed on to be Kelly's campaign chair.
Whitaker also saw major projects in the Hyde Park area as integral issues affecting the larger South Side, including the 2nd District, like job creation.
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The latest study has discovered strong proof that the origin of the Moon is connected with the Earth's mantle.
How was the Moon formed? This question has always kept scientists hooked and numerous heavily debated theories about how the moon was formed have been rolled out over the decades. In the latest efforts, a team of geochemists, cosmochemists, and petrologists has found an undiscovered link between Earth and the origin of Moon. The discovery works as an essential piece of the puzzle in understanding how not just the Moon but other celestial bodies such as Earth have formed. It adds to the previously found strong theory named "Giant Impact" theory, which marvellously argues that the Moon was formed by a massive collision between Earth and another celestial body.
In a study published in the journal, Science Advances, conducted by researchers from Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, has discovered an interesting angle in the origin of the Moon which is said to be inherited from the noble gases from the Earth's mantle. Cosmochemist Patrizia Will, the lead researcher at Washington University said in a statement, "Finding solar gases, for the first time, in basaltic materials from the Moon that are unrelated to any exposure on the lunar surface was such an exciting result."
How scientists discovered the link between Earth's Mantle and Moon's origin
The researchers examined six samples of Moon's meteorites from an Antarctic collection obtained from NASA. According to the study, meteorites were composed of basalt rock that formed when magma rises from the Moon's interior and cools down quickly. "They remained covered by additional basalt layers after their formation, which protected the rock from cosmic rays and, particularly, the solar wind. The cooling process resulted in the formation of lunar glass particles amongst the other minerals found in magma," the research paper mentioned.
The team discovered that the glass particles retain the chemical fingerprints of the solar gases such as helium and neon from the Moon's interior. The findings of the research strongly support that the origin of the Moon was inherited from the noble gases indigenous to the Earth. You can read more details here.


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"Poland: The Knight Among Nations". Book by Louis E. Van Norman (p. 290), 1907; later quoted in "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief", book by Francis Collins (pp. 230-231), 2006.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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Severe Asthma Exacerbation Risk Reduced with Combined Albuterol-Budesonide
Conference | American Thoracic Society International Conference
Research has indicated that a fixed-dose combination of albuterol and budesonide could better reduce the risk of severe asthma exacerbation when compared to albuterol alone.
New data published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicated that an as-needed, fixed-dose combination of 180 μg of albuterol and 160 μg of budesonide resulted in significantly lower risk of severe asthma exacerbation than abluterol alone in patients with uncontrolled moderate to severe asthma who were receiving a variety of inhaled glucocorticoid-containing maintenance therapies.
The results were also presented at with the American Thoracic Society 2022 International Conference in San Francisco.
Traditionally, short-acting β2-agonist (SABA) rescue therapy will be utilized in patients whose asthma symptoms worsen. However, SABAs are not intended for addressing worsening inflammation.
Research has indicated that a fixed-dose combination of albuterol and budesonide would reduce the risk of severe asthma exacerbation when compared to albuterol alone.
Alberto Papi, MD, from the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Ferrara Medical School in Italy, led a team of investigators in conducting a multinational, double-blind, phase 3 trial that evaluated the efficacy and safety of albuterol-budesonide as a rescue medication.
The investigative team enrolled adults and adolescents 12 years and older with uncontrolled moderate to severe asthma who were receiving inhaled glucocorticoid-containing maintenance therapies at the time. These therapies were continued during the trial.
Eligible patients were randomized 1:1:1 to 1 of 3 trial groups including a fixed-dose combination of albuterol at a dose of 180 μg and budesonide at a dose of 160 μg, a fixed-dose combination of albuterol at a dose of 180 μg and budesonide at a dose of 80 μg, or albuterol at a dose of 180 μg.
Notably, children 4 to 11 years were randomly assigned to either the lower-dose combination groups or the albuterol-only group. Among the 3132 patients included in thr trial, 97% were 12 years or older.
Papi and colleagues defined the primary endpoint as the first severe asthma exacerbation in a time-to-event analysis.
The team observed that severe asthma exacerbation was significantly lower in the higher-dose combination group, specifically by 26%, when compared to the albuterol-alone group (hazard ratio, 0.74, 95% confidence interval). (P=0.001).
Compared to the albuterol-only group, the hazard ratio in the lower-dose combination group was 0.84 (95% CI, 0.71 to 1.00) (P=0.052), and the incidence of adverse events were similar across all trial groups.
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New Ukrainian high-precision rockets system completes final test
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Photo by Sergey Zgurets
The new Ukraine-made "Vilkha" high-precision rockets system successfully completed a series of state tests, the press service of the SE "State Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch" reporting.
On 25 April, was conducted the final testing of the "Vilkha" high-precision rockets system in the south of the Kherson region. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, military leaders, experts, and military attaches from 7 countries who expressed their interest in negotiating the acquisition of new, powerful Ukrainian weapons, were present at the tests.
Petro Poroshenko noted that the production of new high-precision weapons had been organized in such a short term for the first time.
"Only two years ago, the NSDC made a decision to begin the missile program and today, we have finished testing. The missile will be added to the armory," the President said. He reminded that before 2014, the capabilities of the AFU and the missile complex had been destroyed, production had been eliminated.
More:Ukraine test-fires advanced version of SKIF anti-tank guided missile
"We have paid a very high price for that. Now, the enemy knows the potential of the Ukrainian defense-industrial complex, the Ukrainian Army. I can tell one specific figure: this missile is 10 times more precise and, accordingly, 10 times more efficient than the old multiple-launch rocket systems that have been in service since the Soviet Union times," the Head of State emphasized.
More:Ukraine conducts first "Vilha" surface-to-surface missile test
Together with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the representatives of embassies of Poland, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Indonesia and other countries were watching for the firing tests. Foreign delegations showed great interest in the new high-precision weapons of Ukraine and were impressed by its power and accuracy.
Depending on the tasks, new Vilkha high-precision rockets (caliber 300 mm) can affect both ground and water targets. They are completely made from Ukrainian components at the enterprises of the Ukrainian defence industry.
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We use ALEKS as an afterschool program to assist our students at the basic level to reach proficiency on the California Standards Test (CST). With regular attendance, over 60 percent of our students have reached the proficient level. We only ran the class for three hours a week for nine weeks. We have increased the time this year and have already noticed an improvement in their grades and assessments.
We did not have an organized afterschool program designed for the high basic student.
After school in the computer lab.
No, it is self-directed. The teachers may change this for next year to closer align with what is being taught.
Students were selected based on their CST scores from the previous year and invited to participate in the afterschool program.
The regular program is the same. ALEKS provides the prerequisite support many of these students lack.
We encourage students to use ALEKS every night. This is a struggle. The more parents understand and support this, the more likely the student will complete the assignments at home.
We explain the benefits of the program. We encourage them to go online and check out the program. Next year, we are planning a parent night to ensure they understand the login procedure and other aspects of the program.
No. This is another topic we are looking into for next year. Due to the limited budget, we cannot offer this program to all students. If we make a minimum progress goal, we can ensure we are addressing the needs of more students.
We have noticed an improvement in our students' arithmetic abilities. They enjoy the self-paced aspect and the ability to continue the work from home. Many were excited to complete their pie.
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NORFOLK, Va. – Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters received the American College of Surgeons' highest level of certification for pediatric hospital surgical programs.
This is one of just 15 centers nationwide to have earned this designation.
Dr. Robert Kelly, chief of surgery at CHKD, announced on Tuesday that the hospital's surgical program, which includes the main hospital in Norfolk and surgery centers at Concert Drive in Virginia Beach and Oyster Point in Newport News, has been verified as a prestigious Level I center.
The centers met rigorous criteria for staffing, training, facility features, and protocols for care in a program that aims to raise the level of children's surgical care across the country.
The initiative began certifying centers in 2015 that could show continuous efforts to improve surgical quality, prevent complications, reduce costs, and save lives.
The verification requires a site visit by a panel that includes an experienced pediatric surgeon, anesthesiologist, and nurse, which reviews the program for a multidisciplinary approach and a unique focus on each patient.
The center also participate in a national data registry to track and compare its processes and outcomes and devise ways to improve them as part of the requirements.
The Level I centers must offer multiple medical and surgical specialties with procedures for major congenital anomalies and complex diseases.


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Implied Author, Authorial Audience, and Context: Form and History in Neo-Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory
The Ohio State University Press
Volume 21, Number 2, May 2013
10.1353/nar.2013.0006
Implied Author, Authorial Audience, and Context: Form and History in Neo-Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory1
Dan Shen (bio)
Neo-Aristotelian rhetorical theory has been mainly developed by the second and third generations of the Chicago School of criticism. It is widely believed that all three generations of the neo-Aristotelians share a concentration on textual form and a preclusion of the historical context of creation despite the fact that the first generation is concerned with poetics (i.e., the text) while the latter two, by contrast, with rhetoric (i.e., author-audience communication). As far as the critical practice of the three generations is concerned, this belief is well grounded, since no matter whether the concern is the poetic or the rhetorical, neo-Aristotelian critics in general have consciously precluded consideration of the historical context of creation (see Shen, "Neo-Aristotelian"). However, the picture is quite different when we explore the theoretical potential itself. If we examine carefully the relation between the theory of the first generation and that of the latter two and come to grips with the central rhetorical concepts of the "implied author" and the "authorial audience" ("implied reader"), we may discover that the theory of the latter two generations differs essentially from that of the first in that this later theory, in fact, has an "unseen" or unacknowledged contextual requirement, implicitly calling for the consideration of the historical context of literary production and reception.
I will start with a defense of the rhetorical concept of the "implied author" against recent attacks. Based on the defense, I will reveal the implicit contextual requirement [End Page 140] of this concept and the essential difference of the latter two generations of the neo-Aristotelians from the first in terms of the relation among author, textual structure, audience, and context. Then I will proceed to discuss the contextual requirement of the rhetorical concept of the "authorial audience" and show that some historicized challenges to the rhetorical approach can be viewed as realizations of the implicit rhetorical call for paying attention to the context of literary creation and reception.
Implied Author: Writer of the Text
Neo-Aristotelian rhetorical theory was pioneered by Wayne C. Booth, who, in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), put forward the key rhetorical concept of the "implied author" (IA), which has aroused heated critical debate for the past several decades. In 2011, Style devoted a whole issue—entitled "Implied Author: Back from the Grave or Simply Dead Again"—to this concept and presented arguments for and against the implied author. The guest editor, Brian Richardson, observes in his introduction to this issue, "Most new concepts in narrative theory either wind up gradually incorporated or quietly ignored; the debate over the implied author, however, has become rather entrenched" (1). As I argued in my paper appearing in this special issue, the entrenchment is to a large extent to be attributed to the misunderstanding of the referent of the "implied author," resulting primarily from the misinterpretation of Booth's metaphorical expression in various forms that the real author "creates" the implied author. When putting forward the concept of the "implied author," Booth writes:
To some novelists it has seemed, indeed, that they were discovering or creating themselves as they wrote. As Jessamyn West says, it is sometimes "only by writing the story that the novelist can discover—not his story—but its writer [the novelist himself in the writing process], the official scribe, so to speak, for that narrative."7 Whether we call this implied author an "official scribe," or adopt the term recently revived by Kathleen Tillotson—the author's "second self "8—it is clear that the picture the reader gets of this presence is one of the author's most important effects. However impersonal he [the novelist himself in the writing process] may try to be his reader will inevitably construct a picture of the official scribe who writes in this manner. . . . His different works will imply different versions, different ideal combinations of norms. Just as one's personal letters imply different versions of oneself, depending on the differing relationships with each correspondent and the purpose of each letter, so the writer sets himself out with...


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Chelsea Martin (born 1986 in California) is an American author and illustrator.

Early life
She received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2008.

Career
She is the author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (Future Tense Books, 2009), The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (Sunnyoutside, 2010), Kramer Sutra (Universal Error, 2012), and Even Though I Don't Miss You (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2013), which was named one of the Best Indie Books of 2013 by Dazed Magazine and was a small press bestseller. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals including Poetry Foundation, Hobart (magazine), Lena Dunham's newsletter Lenny Letter Vice' and the Alt lit Anthology ''40 Likely To Die Before 40.''

Her work has been described as "emotionally honest", "provocative and disturbing", and, "less disaffected than the Alt lit peers she's associated with." Her work has often been compared to that of Harmony Korine.

Nylon Magazine said her work "feels like a meditation on consciousness, feeling, and of course, the absence of both," and Publishers Weekly called The Really Funny Thing About Apathy "a fixation on fleeting incidents in the life of the young and fearful."

Works and publications
Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (Future Tense Books, 2009)
The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (Sunnyoutside Press, 2010)
Even Though I Don't Miss You (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2013)
Mickey (Curbside Splendor, 2016)
Caca Dolce (Soft Skull Press, 2017)
Tell Me I'm an Artist (Soft Skull Press, 2022)

Other work
Martin is a comic artist. Her comic Heavy-Handed was published bi-weekly on The Rumpus in 2012 and 2013. She is also the illustrator of the book of poetry Four-Letter Poems by Joshua Brandon (Universal Error, 2011).

In 2010, Martin founded the art collective Universal Error, where she is currently Creative Director.

Martin has self-published several chapbooks and comic books, and is a proponent of self-publishing.

References

External links
Official website
Universal Error
McDonald's is Impossible at The Poetry Foundation
Heavy-Handed
Interview on The Rumpus
Interview at Word Riot
Dream Date on Pequin

21st-century American poets
American female comics artists
Alternative literature
American women short story writers
1986 births
Living people
21st-century American women writers
American women poets
California College of the Arts alumni
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The uncanny mechanisms that monarch butterflies use to navigate thousands of miles each year, back and forth from their wintering grounds in Mexico has long baffled scientists. A new study suggests how they may process information to determine which way to go.
A monarch butterfly rests on a visitor's hand at the Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, California in this December 30, 2014 file photo.
Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles from the northern United States and southern Canada to spend the winter in more temperate climates in southern Mexico. The insects may not have a GPS to navigate their way south, but they do have a compass of sorts.
Previous research found that the insects use the position of the sun in the sky combined with an internal clock to determine which way is south, in what's called a time-compensated sun compass.
But scientists puzzled over how this information was integrated and turned into action inside the butterfly's brain. So a team of researchers set out to create a model that might explain the neurological mechanism. That model is described in a paper published Thursday in the journal Cell Reports.
"We have the pieces. They have to connect someplace," one of the researchers, Steven Reppert, a neurobiologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, tells The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview. Now, "we have an idea of how those connections should potentially occur."
As a monarch butterfly flies along on a sunny day, its eyes are constantly registering where the sun is in relation to the horizon. Although the sun travels east to west, the butterfly needs to be able to determine which is which at a given moment. That's where the circadian clock comes in.
Embedded within the insect's antennae are these biological clocks. They help the butterfly determine what time it is. So if the sun is close to the horizon, these clocks indicate whether it is rising or setting and therefore if it is in the east or west.
Then, if the sun is in the east, for example, the butterfly flies with the sun on its left to go south.
But how those two sets of data work together to create a directional adjustment in the butterflies has been unclear, and that's where this new research comes in.
"This work provides a big step forward in thinking about how these different pieces of information that we knew had to talk to each other are likely to do that," Marcus Kronforst, an ecologist at the University of Chicago who was not part of this study, tells the Monitor in a phone interview.
These two senses feed into the center of the butterfly's brain, into a sort of compass. But what are the signals that enter the brain and how do they interact?
The researchers fed the data they already knew about how this whole navigation system works into their computational model. Using those parameters, they developed what might be the neural mechanism.
As the receptive fields in the eyes detect the sun's position, an oscillating neuronal signal is sent through to the brain. Meanwhile, the circadian clock is also sending oscillations.
The rate and combination of these neuronal signals tell the brain what signal to send to the body to adjust course. It dictates how much of an angle to change and whether it should turn left or right.
And if a butterfly is blown too far away from the necessary southerly direction, they adjust in a more dramatic way.
The researchers found that if the butterflies are pushed off course past a certain angle (which changes throughout the day), they will actually rotate their bodies around in a full circle as a sort of resetting method. Interestingly, that angle is tighter to the southerly track during the morning and evening, so the researchers suggest these rotational corrections likely occur more frequently then.
This phenomenon didn't just appear in the model, the first author of the study, Eli Shlizerman, an applied mathematics researcher at the University of Washington, tells the Monitor in a phone interview. When they tested the actual butterflies, they would see them perform similar rotations to adjust.
But that's not all. What happens when the butterflies need to return north for the summer?
When the researchers were investigating what different arrangements of neuronal wiring might fit the data to explain how the butterflies navigate, they found just two viable options. One helps the monarchs fly southwest, and the other helps it return northeast.
And, as Dr. Kronforst explains, the butterflies don't fly around aimlessly to find their initial direction when it is time to migrate. Instead, they set off in the right direction right away. So these two wirings likely appear somehow in the neurobiology of the monarch butterflies.
This model doesn't explain all the mechanisms likely involved in monarch migration navigation, admits Dr. Reppert. This model just looks at the mechanism for when the sun is in clear view in the sky. But the butterflies are known to be able to use polarized light on partly cloudy days to calculate the position of the sun. And they still fly in the right direction on completely overcast days. This is likely thanks to a sort of magnetic compass also in the insect's brain, Reppert says.
It's still unclear how these different mechanisms work together, Reppert says, but the sun compass is likely the primary cue that the butterflies use to determine direction.
To confirm their model, the researchers will next need to dig into the biology of butterflies and see if the model matches the structures actually in their brains.
"It is really an incredible feat that these little butterflies are able to make that amazing long-distance migration," Kronforst says. "That's why it's important for people to try and understand how this happens."
This research won't just help scientists understand monarch migrations, he adds. It also could yield clues into the navigational tools of other migratory animals too.
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Genetic factor in osteoporosis discovered
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Spanish researchers have confirmed there is a genetic risk factor for osteoporosis and bone fractures. Although more studies are still needed, these findings will make it possible to take preventive measures.
Scientists from the University of Barcelona (UB) have discovered that the genetic variant 677C>T (a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that is very well known in genetic studies) is linked to osteoporotic vertebral fractures, which many women suffer from after the menopause.
"In this genetic variant, the women that displayed a TT combination (or genotype) had double the risk of suffering from osteoporotic fractures than women with the other possible combinations (CT and CC)", Susana Balcells and Daniel Grinberg, lead authors of the study and researchers at the UB, tell SINC.
The new study, published in the journal Calcified Tissue International, reveals that osteoporotic vertebral fractures can now be added to the list of illnesses (including Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular disease) that are related to 677C>T.
The problem is that the variant confirmed is one of perhaps 100 that entail a heightened risk of osteoporosis. Analysing them individually is of limited predictive value, and experiments need to be carried out. "This is why we're asking diagnostic laboratorios to be prudent", the authors explain.
SNPs are polymorphisms that affect a single nucleotide in the DNA sequence. There are two possible versions in human populations (alleles) for each SNP. In order to find genetic factors linked to susceptibility to common illnesses, these variants must be analysed. There are around 10 million SNPs in the human genome, spread throughout all the chromosomes.
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Osteoporosis is the most common form of bone disease. The human organism is not able to build enough new bone, and old bone is absorbed by the body. One in every three women and one in every 12 men aged over 50 have osteoporosis, an illness that causes millions of bone fractures each year. Post-menopausal women, who have reduced levels of oestrogen and other hormonal deficits, are most at risk.
Bone loss starts from the age of 35. Calcium and vitamin D deficiency, tobacco, alcohol and caffeine consumption and a sedentary lifestyle all raise the risk of osteoporosis. According to the experts, sports and calcium supplements before the menopause can help to maintain bone mass. In some cases, hormonal patches can be used, as long as this is done under strict gynaecological supervision.
References: Lidia Agueda, Roser Urreizti, Mariona Bustamante, Susana Jurado, Natalia García Giralt, Adolfo Díez-Pérez, Xavier Nogués, Leonardo Mellibovsky, Daniel Grinberg, Susana Balcells. "Analysis of Three Functional Polymorphisms in Relation to Osteoporosis Phenotypes: Replication in a Spanish Cohort". Calcif Tissue Int (2010) 87:14-24, julio de 2010. DOI 10.1007/s00223-010-9361-4
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Another Weak Year? Don't Ask.
I've heard some grousing about 2018 being another weak Oscar year. Too much talent and creativity has gone over to cable/streaming, they say. The serious heft and weight that manifests in Best Picture contenders now and then is therefore less likely to occur. And so the pickings are a bit slim. To be perfectly candid, it does kinda seem that way. Maybe.
What do I actually know? Next to nothing but my insect antennae are humming. I can feel stuff happening. Faint electric signals from just over the horizon…beedee-beep-beep.
I still think it's way too early to be feeling pessimistic about anything. Mid June, for God's sake. At least wait until Venice, Telluride and Toronto have unspooled.
Okay, yes…I've been picking up hints and signals and indications here and there, and the only film that even begins to sound like serious Best Picture rocket fuel (as in allegedly "beyond great") is Alfonso Cuaron's Roma. A Spanish-language film, yes, and shot in radiant black-and-white, but the Academy has nominated subtitled films before. Michael Haneke's Amour ('12) was the last foreign-language film to be so honored.
I don't know enough about Martin Scorsese's The Irishman — I haven't read it — but if it was slated for a late fall release, it would be in an excellent position to at least land a Best Picture nomination. Probably. Depending on the usual factors, of course. A shame it's a 2019 film. It should open this year. A bit less than seven months between now and December 31st and they can't get the CG together?
The only Oscar season flick that I know is a keeper for sure (because I fell for it at last year's Toronto Film Festival) is Bjorn Runge's The Wife (Sony Pictures Classics, 8.17). A tight, smartly written, well-honed film. Glenn Close is a lock for a Best Actress nom. I said that last year, I know, but it still goes.
I'm not saying why or dropping any hints, but there may be reasons to feel a degree of caution or uncertainty about some of the fall releases.
That trailer for Damien Chazelle's First Man, a space drama about Neil Armstrong and the first landing on the moon (Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke). seemed to give some a feeling of pause. I thought it was fine. The script is disciplined, steady and straight.
I've been told "not so fast" on Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born.
Felix von Groeningen's Beautiful Boy is mainly a performance thing, or so "they" say.
I've heard that Josie Rourke's Mary, Queen of Scots is a little Game of Thrones-y.
Jonah Hill's Mid '90s might be up to something cool.
I don't know anything about David Lowery's The Old Man and the Gun but it feels courtly and civilized and agreeable.
Steve McQueen's Widows is said to be fairly heavy in a "Black Lives Matter" sense.
Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk is said to be art-housey and very devoted to James Baldwin's book.
Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody may be a fan film.
Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria…who knows?
Many films in the hopper, no one really knows anything, it's too early.
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Some statistics indicate that over 50 percent of users check their email on their mobile devices at least once a day.
At present, are you aware of how your company is distributing messages through this channel?
The user's experience gains paramount significance to achieve success with messages.
Ever wondered how to increase conversion rates for the offers that you distribute via email?
The answer to this question is: a good balance.
Let's take a closer look at a possible strategy to achieve said balance.
The truth is that the era when it was all about design is in the past. Today, the message that yields the best results is a message that can be viewed all at once, without major technical requirements, rather than a fancily designed piece.
The technological format we use to put together those pieces can guarantee the right visualization of messages, for both mobile and desktop users, and can increase our communications' open rates.
Here, we should assess the various screen sizes and whether it's appropriate to use images in the piece.
In most cases, email software –both computer-based and web-based– prevents the visualization of images, which impedes the correct understanding of messages if users don't disable the image blocking option.
This is where we apply the good balance approach. We design and put together the pieces keeping in mind what the user is going to view at once as well as the parts that require the user's action to complete the reading.
The text sizes and the width of the pieces are important aspects to consider within this balance. When we design, we must take into account the whole universe of mobile devices or desktop computers used to view the messages.
A well-balanced email marketing piece is one that, above all, makes users feel attracted to the first thing they see.
This is accomplished through communication effectiveness and the right use of the design and the html format. Of course, once these first two requirements are met, it is essential to use the right graphic design in order to convey the spirit of your products to users, and elicit the action you expect from them as part of the conversion process.
Now that you are aware of the main benefits of working on email marketing using the good balance strategy, how would you go about it?
At IRIS we work to give your clients a better experience of your products and services. We recently incorporated new responsive design tools for mobile devices, which entirely guarantees the right visualization of messages. In these times, correctly applied strategic creativity can help you to achieve the conversion rates you wish for.


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Stuffed Shells just the way everyone likes them…filled with Italian Sausage, Spinach, Ricotta, topped with a homemade Tomato Sauce, Parmesan, and melting Mozzarella…but here, they are heart healthy and vegan! Please don't stop reading if vegan is not your cup-of-tea, simply make this exact recipe and use the authentic ingredients instead of the substitutes that I am suggesting. Either way, this is one satisfying dish.
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Q: Skipping Bytes During Stream Read Was curious if it was possible to skip bytes during a stream read of a binary file? I'm trying to read in 32 bytes then skip the next 6 bytes all the way and repeat all the way towards the end of the file. Size of file is around 10mb. Here's the relevant code I have right now where I'm getting an out of bounds error.
            byte[] tempBuff = new byte[FlashSize];
            int numBytesToRead = FlashSize;
            int bytesRead = 0;

            while(bytesRead <= numBytesToRead - 38{
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Thanks to Henk I also realized I need to skip 14 bytes after I read in every 10000. Is parsing on the fly with a stream still a good option at this point?

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Madonna Week concludes with another amazing performance by the pop superstar… MADONNA will "Take a Bow" with one more epic tune!
You will "cherish" every moment this Friday on Ellen!
Next to the 'regular' German 2 track cd single, a limited run of a UK 4 track cd single to Living For Love has been pressed.


We're back at Little House in the Rockies.
So beautiful. Puts me in mine of wintertime, and bring it! I am so ready for its icy beauty!
Thank you! And to you, as well. We're getting close to your birthday – happy Birthday Week!


getting the boat ready for extensive cruising.
I would like like to put my hands on some SSB equipment.
I have a preference for Icom but open minded.
Definitely worth checking ebay, as you can often find nice radios like the Icom 706-mkII being disposed off. Also worth asking any local ham groups, as they do disposals for 'silent keys' which often turn up nice kit.
The 706 MKIIg is definitely on top of my list.
I will look in those directions also.
Seriously, you should look at some of the Ham sets. Kenwood, Yeasu to mention a couple. The various regulations that surround manufacturing licensing marine SSB has stunted any development and the prices remain very high. A ham set opened up for marine use will cost significantly less and be technologically far superior. You will not have DSC but on a sailing boat you are unlikely to make use of this.
Don't know how I missed that. Sounds like you are already on the case.
I have an ICOM M700 for sale. Complete with tuner, microphone and manuals. Make me an offer.
Lots of them to be found on Ebay.
Great radio but I need to transmit in the 14.000's which the 700 does not support. In my knowledge at least.
Otherwise it is the kind of system I am looking for. Complete and working all together.
I will keep an eye on those as well.
i have an ICOM SSB that I bought used about 10/12 years ago. I immediately took it to a marine electronics shop and had it completely checked out. Everything was functioning properly. I still have the receipt where it was checked out. My plans changed and it was never mounted. I don't know what is a fair price but I'd like to see someone get some use out of it. It's heavy and shipping will not be cheap for you but tell me what it's worth to you and chances are very good it'll be yours. Radio is in storage but I can send you photos and the model # if you're interested.
I have a perfect used ICOM SSB Tuner for sale.
Bought it for an SSB project but decided to go for an Iridium Go instead.
Barely used, full working order, please see photos for cosmetic condition.
I have found a complete system.


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The Liberal Democrat challenges for 2012: Wealth taxation
By Mark Pack | Fri 6th January 2012 - 8:50 am
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To mark the start of 2012, we're running a series of posts over consecutive days on the main challenges for the Liberal Democrats in 2012. I've already written about the four priorities for the party's new Chief Executive, Tim Gordon, but as the Liberal Democrats are more than just the one man whilst he has four, this series sets out six for the party.
To re-cap:
As with many other liberals, Nick Clegg is strongly motivated by the issue of fair taxation of wealth. In addition, pursuing the issue provides three neat political benefits. First, it offers a clear distinction from at least part of the Conservative Party and one on which, if done right, the Liberal Democrats will be on the popular side of the divide. Second, it raises money and so provides more scope for favoured tax cuts, averted spending cuts or even spending increases.
Third, it side-steps the internal debate in the Liberal Democrats between those who are primarily concerned about social mobility and those who are primarily concerned about social inequality. Although pretty much everyone in the party agrees the two are linked, there is a big difference of emphasis between those who believe that increasing mobility is the priority, and will anyway lead to reduced inequality, and those who want inequality reduction up front. Wealth taxes appeal to all sides in that debate.
Moreover, the country's tight financial situation may even be a help, for it places an extra premium on finding a source of extra revenue in order to pay for your own preferred piece of extra spending or tax cutting. That makes increased wealth taxation more attractive than in times when there has not been the same overall financial pressure.
There are, however, two problems to be overcome: what sort of wealth taxation (an issue on which there is not a clear consensus within the party) and can enough Conservatives be persuaded to support it in order to make it a reality?
You can read the full set of challenges as they are published on Lib Dem Voice here.
* Mark Pack is Party President and Co-leader of the party. He is editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.
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Jonathan Price 6th Jan '12 - 8:59am
A wealth tax would be highly unpopular here as it has been in France and would lead to all sorts of new avoidance activity, which would tie HMRC staff in knots trying to deal with it. A much better idea would be a simplification of the existing tax code combined with a general anti-avoidance rule. Why not get wealthy individuals and businesses to pay what they are supposed to under the current rules?
A good place to start would be the replacement of Dave Hartnett as head of HMRC. He has lost all credibility because of his sweetheart deals with Goldman Sachs and others and because he stepped in to stop the investigation into Viscount Rothermere's non dom status. Why should the owner of the Daily Mail get away not paying proper tax? (One might ask the same question of the owners of the Telegraph as well).
Dane Clouston 6th Jan '12 - 5:34pm
How good to see the subject of fair taxation of wealth raised! We have, of course, to distinguish between annual income and accumulated wealth, and then between accumulated wealth created, earned, saved or made by its owner and wealth received by way of lifetime capital gifts or inheritance unearned by the beneficiary.
The time to redistribute wealth is at the point of transfer from each generation to the next, not suddenly to take away from people wealth that they themselves have legitimately created, earned, saved or made and on which they have paid income and capital gains taxes.
As things are, vast inequalities of unearned inherited wealth make a mockery of any calls for greater equality of opportunity. How can life be fair in each new generation if some inherit billions and others inherit nothing?
We need to change the world for the better – not to replicate its inequalities over and over again in each succeeding generation. Thanks to exemptions from Inheritance Tax, a third of all land is still owned by the families that plundered it in the Norman Conquest.
It is time to replace Dynastic Capitalism – a hangover from feudalism – with Liberal Universal Inheritance Capitalism – in which all UK-born UK citizens inherit at least a basic minimum inheritance of capital at the age of 25, financed by imaginative and logical reform of Inheritance Tax including abolition of its unlimited exemptions.
This is the way to create a truly property owning democracy in line with the traditional Preamble to the Liberal Party Constitution calling for Liberty, Property and Security for All.
Andrew Duffield 6th Jan '12 - 8:15pm
@ Jonathan Price
Land Value Taxation is regarded by almost all economists as completely unavoidable. The socially created wealth that accrues to landowners is exactly what government should be collecting – in lieu of transactional taxes on earned income, goods, services and productive trade.
@ Mark
Not sure why you think there is no "clear consensus" on the form of wealth taxation we should pursue. LVT was affirmed as party policy – in the longer term – a few years ago. Thankfully, the longer term gets shorter by the day.
Paul K 6th Jan '12 - 9:10pm
Wealth tax generally is problematic, because it leads to avoidance if not evasion and encourages wealthy people to leave the country, which is not something we want!
I would support a land value tax as long as it is proportionate and broadly fits with the existing Council Tax rates. An excessively high rate of tax, starting at an arbitrary threshold such as £2m, would lead to gaming and would not pass the broad test of fairness. Many of the people who were against the mansion tax would have accepted a return to something more proportionate like the rates for example.
Inheritance tax is too high at 40% and leads to massive avoidance. Instead of raising the threshold to £1m as suggested by the Tories, I suspect we would collect almost as much in the long term if we reduced the rate to 20%, and perhaps started taxing lifetime gifts as well, because there would be less avoidance.
"Inheritance tax is too high at 40% and leads to massive avoidance. Instead of raising the threshold to £1m as suggested by the Tories, I suspect we would collect almost as much in the long term if we reduced the rate to 20%, and perhaps started taxing lifetime gifts as well, because there would be less avoidance"
Quite agree. Inheritance Tax is at too high a rate for ordinary people, but at too low a rate for the wealthy, because of all the scandalously unlimited avoidance exemptions for lifetime gifts more than a few years before death and for assets such as agricultural land, businesses and Alternative Investment Market Shares.
Inheritance Tax is also the wrong name for a tax on the wrong total, being a tax on lifetime giving and bequests from estates, not on lifetime inheriting and receiving unearned capital.
I have also recently realised that the problem with Inheritance Tax is that it tries to cover with one tax intergenerational transfers each of which has two different characters. The goodie Dr Jekell character is the luxury expenditure of generous giving and bequeathing; The baddie Mr Hyde character is the cumulative lifetime receipt by beneficiaries of unearned wealth beyond the dreams of avarice.
Logic would prevail, and avoidance be reduced, if Inheritance Tax were reformed into two taxes in tandem, with one deductible from the other.
One tax, to be paid by generous Dr Jekell, would be an Inheritance Tax renamed as what it truly is, a Capital Donor Tax, with major lifetime and oher exemptions abolished and the rate dropped from 40 per cent to 10 per cent for giving and leaving to UK tax payers, but retained at 40 per cent for giving and leaving to non-UK tax payers not subject to the second tax. This Capital Donor Tax would record what is given or left, and to whom.
The other tax, to be paid by Mr Hyde, accumulating unearned fortunes beyond the dreams of avarice, would be a cumulative Lifetime Unearned Capital Tax. This would be at progressive rates from the same 10 per cent upwards to 40 per cent. This would encourage the wider spread of generosity by Dr Jekell to less fortunate beneficiaries.
Capital Donor Tax would be deductible from the Lifetime Unearned Capital Tax, so that beneficiaries of modest lifetime totals would pay no more tax than the 10 per cent paid by the Dr Jekell generous donors. Two taxes in tandem are harder to avoid or evade than one on its own. The Inland Revenue would cross refer between the two.
The proceeds of these taxes in tandem should be used as capital, not as annual income. Whenever possible the UK national family assets should be redistributed amongst the next generation of UK citizens, so that all have a basic minimum inheritance to start them off in our liberal market economy.
Given that the average wealth of every adult and child in the UK is of the order of £100,000, the rates above would more than suffice to finance a UK Universal Inheritance of £10,000 for all UK-born UK citizens on reaching the age of 25. The amount should be introduced gradually from a low base, so that no one year group loses out by too much.
Ideally, the amount of UK Universal Inheritance should rise to the level of three years' of the lowest university tuition fees, to be used for education, enterprise, home ownership or whatever, and to reduce alienation, financial and social exclusion (all would need a bank account to receive it) and young adult poverty.
Alex Sabine 7th Jan '12 - 4:42pm
I had been hoping that one of the Lib Dem challenges for 2012 would be 'wealth creation', as the party seems to spend a lot of time talking about how to tax or redistribute wealth but not nearly enough about how to create it in the first place.
And while it could be argued that a switch towards greater taxation of wealth could finance lower taxes on income, this is not the same thing as encouraging wealth creation – certainly not if it took the form of a 'wealth tax', which as Wikipedia tells us, is "generally conceived of as a levy based on the aggregate value of all household holdings actually accumulated as purchasing power stock (rather than flow), including owner-occupied housing; cash, bank deposits, money funds, and savings in insurance and pension plans; investment in real estate and unincorporated businesses; and corporate stock, financial securities, and personal trusts".
Cutting personal income tax may be desirable as a means of incentivising people to move from welfare to work or to work more hours, but long-term prosperity depends on capital investment and accumulation, not simply taking home a slightly higher pay packet to finance present-day consumer spending.
For this reason the idea that raising capital gains tax is a good thing in itself – as opposed to a means of preventing 'leakage' in the income tax system by wealthy individuals – is deeply misguided.
Indeed, as economists have long argued, ideally we would not tax the return to saving at all (since saving is simply deferral of consumption, and consumption tomorrow shouldn't be taxed more highly than consumption today). Capital income is also taxed at the level of the corporation, and the effect of a high CGT without indexation is to tax capital itself rather than the income from it – a form of arbitrary wealth tax.
I'm not sure what the best solution to this is. In principle you could raise CGT to the same level as income tax IF you also abolished corporate-income tax and introduced an indexation allowance to ensure that only real rather than paper gains were taxed. In any event the solution won't be arrived at by starting from the economically illiterate premise that the accumulation of wealth (as opposed to economic rent, as in rising land values) is a Bad Thing.
Agree with Dane and Paul K on some of the problems with inheritance tax, but many of them also accompanied its predecessor capital transfer tax and before that estate duty. Reform here needs to start from first principles looking at the tax system in the round, and the different and often illogical ways in which we tax different forms of income, capital gains and wealth.
Dane Clouston 7th Jan '12 - 10:40pm
For the sake of wealth creattion as well as redistribution, there is a clear logical distinction between income, capital gains and wealth acquired as a result of economic actions by recipients, and wealth acquired as a result of no economic action at all by recipients..
That is why we need to consider taxes on intra-generational income, including actual and notional income from land, and capital gains of wealth, separately from taxes on the intergeneratonal transfer to and receipt of gifted and inherited wealth by each new generation from the previous generation..
Alex Sabine 8th Jan '12 - 1:24am
I agree one can make a legitimate distinction based on how the wealth was acquired, not by making moralistic judgements but by recognising that wealth acquired through the ownership and exclusive use of finite natural resources or other monopoly rights (so-called economic rent) is a special case, as classical economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo recognised.
In principle I agree with broadening the base of inheritance tax and cutting the rate – and/or reforming it into an 'accessions tax' on recipients rather than estates – and with some form of land value taxation to capture economic rent. The Mirrlees review identified some practical problems with both of these, and as a first step advocated a site value tax on commercial but not residential property (which I believe happens to be Lib Dem policy).
What I do not agree with is a punitive attitude towards wealth creation and success; indeed we should be encouraging wealth and job creation through reductions in corporation tax, employers' National Insurance and improving the capital gains tax regime.
As I pointed out, the policy of equalising CGT and income tax rates sounds reasonable enough, but would tax shares excessively since company profits that give rise to capital gains have already been subject to corporation tax; and unless there was an indexation allowance for inflation, it would tax illusory rather than real gains and eventually bite into the capital itself. This would be detrimental to investment and wealth creation.
The coalition's policy of a 28% CGT rate is a kind of rough-and-ready (and not all that satisfactory) means of compensating for these factors, but raising CGT to 50% would be a big mistake. Already the signs are that the revenue from CGT has taken a hit, although it is hard to be sure because you have to look at income tax and CGT revenues together (since the main role of CGT is a backstop to income tax revenue) and the general economic climate means we wouldn't expect to see high returns.
Alex Sabine
The major legitimate distinction is between wealth acquired by economic action on the part of recipients themselves creating, making, earning and saving wealth, and wealth acquired by no economic action at all on the part of beneficiaries who receive capital gifts, bequests and inheritance.
Redistribution of the former is not a good idea. Redistribution of the latter is. It will give greater opportunity to more people in the next generation to set about creating, earning, making and saving wealth.
The same distinction between earned and unearned wealth applies to "Wealth acquired through the ownership and exclusive use of finite natural resources or other monopoly rights (so-called economic rent)".
Land Value Taxation – or Site Value Rating – is actually a tax, not on wealth, but on the actual or notional income (economic rent) from land. It does not redistribute wealth. It reduces the value of land whileit is in operation, but the value of the land would return if another government were to repeal the Land Value Taxation.
The only way to significantly redistribute the ownership of land and other wealth is at the point of transfer between each generation and the next. I argue that this is best done by a 10 per cent Capital Donor Tax on giving and bequeathing, with exemptions from Inheritance Tax abolished, deductible from a cumulative Lifetime Unearned Capital Tax at progressive rates from 10 per cent upwards to 40 per cent. Th proceeds can be used to give all UK-born UK citizens at the age of 25 a basic minimum Liberal Universal Inheritance increasing to £10,000 (itself subject to the tax) and hopefully more in due course, ideally up to the level of three years of the lowest university tuition fees, thereby letting Liberal Democrats off that particular hook.
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Q: Simplest Way to Create a Custom Choropleth Map for a Website? I am working on a choropleth map for a real estate site. My current workflow is:

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*Edit and save SHP file's DBF in Libre Office Calc.

*Load SHP file into Quantum GIS. Set colored breakpoints based on data.

*Load modified SHP file in TileMill (MapBox). Layer it over basic map.

*Push the map to MapBox host.

This whole process is very tedious considering that the choropleth map requires frequent updating.
Now, I am trying to find a more efficient workflow to produce the same result. My intuition is that leveraging Google Maps and Google Spreadsheets may be a better way to go. However, I haven't found a good tutorial that accomplishes my specific needs.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

A: Do the shapefile polygons remain static and only the data changes? If so, this may not completely solve your problem but would improve your workflow a bit by removing shapefiles from the picture after the initial load.
1) Move the shapefile into a PostGIS or Spatialite database
2) Edit your data in there using SQL queries
3) Add PostGIS layer in QGIS to set your colored breakpoints
4) Add PostGIS layer to TileMill
5) Push map to Mapbox host