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"Utterly Uncouth And Unqualified": Donald Trump Is A Middle Finger To The Entire Political System
Is the key to Donald Trump's success just old-fashioned racism? He surely stokes race hatred among his followers and even more-or-less openly panders to anti-Semitism. Yet he also seems to feed on economic desperation. He has won running against trade, his support tracks inversely with educational attainment, and he's posted his biggest margins in some of the most desperate counties in America; surely economic anxiety has something to do with his rise.
This has led to various attempts to untangle race from economic factors in predicting Trump's support. An effort from The Washington Post found some of both, with racial resentment something like twice as important in predicting Trump support. Yet one should not end the analysis there: Trump also represents bitter hatred of the political system, driven by the shredding of the American social contract over the last 40 years.
The thing about Trump is that not only is he the most openly bigoted presidential candidate since 1968 (or perhaps even 1948), he's also utterly uncouth and unqualified. Unlike William F. Buckley, his racism is not genteel or hidden behind polite words, and unlike George Wallace or Strom Thurmond, he has precisely zero political experience. Even against his Republican primary opponents, he was a boorish jerk, insulting their wives and boasting about the size of his penis.
In other words, Trump doesn't just express bigoted views, he also has utter contempt for the traditional norms of political decorum, and in previous times would have been considered a completely laughable choice for president. But his followers revel in it.
The rise of Trump is worth examining in the context of this brilliant article by Matthew Stoller, detailing the change in the American social contract from the postwar generation to today. In brief, for 30 years after World War II, there was a strong political-economic consensus around a high rate of unionization, shared productivity growth, strict financial regulation, and low unemployment — all centered around homeownership as the bedrock of middle-class status and wealth.
Starting in the mid-'70s, this social contract was slowly ripped apart. First unions were deliberately crushed in the Volcker recession, and low unemployment was gradually discarded as a political goal. This severed the link between productivity growth and wage growth. Meanwhile, Wall Street was slowly unchained, resulting in repeated financial bubbles, each one larger than the last (and each with concomitant sprees of fraud).
Yet growing consumer spending was still needed for economic growth. Thus American women went to work, and American families levered up. They took out credit cards, and drew down their savings. "Finally, they liquidated their financial assets, including their home equity," Stoller writes. A new, much less egalitarian social contract emerged, where wages were replaced with credit.
But this contained the seeds of its own destruction. Eventually Americans had reached the absolute limit of how much debt they could take on, while simultaneously Wall Street blew up the biggest bubble yet, and this time around the key asset for ordinary families. When home prices collapsed, middle-class America got it right on the chin, and tens of millions were ruined outright.
As David Dayen's new book details, the Obama administration rescued Wall Street from its self-induced problems but basically ignored foreclosures, figuring that eventually the system would unclog and normal operation of the mortgage and homebuilding sectors would return. They didn't, because the administration fundamentally misunderstood what was happening. Home equity collapsed for years, and while it has since recovered to some extent, drastically fewer are represented: The homeownership rate has steadily fallen to levels not seen since the mid-'60s.
The Reagan-era social contract has collapsed, and nothing is on the horizon to replace it — indeed, it's hard to imagine a "social contract" whereby a largely parasitic financial and executive class makes off with virtually all income gains, a rapidly vanishing middle class is increasingly locked out of wealth creation, and the political class is all but owned outright by Wall Street. Such a society would be more about coercing consent from the restless masses through surveillance, mass incarceration, and highly militarized police than it would be about obtaining it by social spending and quality services.
A white backlash to the first black president is a very important part of Trump's rise. But the fact that he represents a raised middle finger to the entire American political system is, I submit, about equal in importance.
Now, it's worth noting that the old postwar days were by no means perfect. Homeownership is a highly problematic bedrock for middle-class wealth, particularly in the dispersed, suburban style typical of America. Worse, a great many demographics were left out of the good times — minorities and women especially.
Yet it is unquestionably true that those days had much more enthusiastic buy-in from the broad mass of the population than today. Trust in the federal government has fallen from 77 percent in 1964 to about 20 percent today. The approval ratings of the Supreme Court and especially Congress have also plummeted.
Back in the '50s and '60s, minority activism to get a piece of what the white middle and working class had was a sensible goal. Now it seems inadequate, as more and more white folks are careening down to meet their black brethren at the bottom of the social ladder.
What is needed is a new social contract that restores some fairness and decency to American society. Without it, the politics of rage and contempt will only grow.
By: Ryan Cooper, The Week, May 24, 2016
May 26, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Donald Trump, Middle Class, Racism	| Anti-Semitism, Bigotry, Economy, Financial Crisis, Trump Supporters, Unions, Wage Stagnation, Wall Street, William F. Buckley | Leave a comment
"A Fraud And A Danger To The Republic Itself": 'National Review' Goes To War Against Donald Trump
National Review, the most prominent conservative magazine of the past 60 years, has now gone to press with a new issue dedicated to a single topic: Stopping the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, declaring him to be a fraud and a danger to the republic itself.
"There are understandable reasons for his eminence, and he has shown impressive gut-level skill as a campaigner," the editorial states. "But he is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries. Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones."
From a magazine that in its founding era officially supported white supremacy and segregation — as well as endorsing the fascist Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, among many other sins — these are certainly strong charges.
The editorial signifies a greater problem for the right, beyond just one candidacy: Once upon a time, the inmates took over the asylum — and now after all the paranoia, ginned-up outrage, and barely-veiled racism they have engineered over these many decades, a whole new generation of inmates are revolting against them.
Trump was quick to respond — on Twitter, of course:
National Review is a failing publication that has lost it's way. It's circulation is way down w its influence being at an all time low. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016
Very few people read the National Review because it only knows how to criticize, but not how to lead.
The late, great, William F. Buckley would be ashamed of what had happened to his prize, the dying National Review!
In its editorial, the magazine declares:
If Trump were to become the president, the Republican nominee, or even a failed candidate with strong conservative support, what would that say about conservatives? The movement that ground down the Soviet Union and took the shine, at least temporarily, off socialism would have fallen in behind a huckster. The movement concerned with such "permanent things" as constitutional government, marriage, and the right to life would have become a claque for a Twitter feed.
Trump nevertheless offers a valuable warning for the Republican party. If responsible men irresponsibly ignore an issue as important as immigration, it will be taken up by the reckless. If they cannot explain their Beltway maneuvers — worse, if their maneuvering is indefensible — they will be rejected by their own voters. If they cannot advance a compelling working-class agenda, the legitimate anxieties and discontents of blue-collar voters will be exploited by demagogues. We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP, but that doesn't make the mogul any less flawed a vessel for them.
Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him. Count us out. Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself.
NR has also included a "symposium" piece, composed of short notes from various conservative activists decrying Trump and what he stands for — many of them carrying their own levels of irony, from people who helped to foment the paranoia that now fuels The Donald's rise.
As just one example, let's take a look at this plaintive cry from Bill Kristol:
In a letter to National Review, Leo Strauss wrote that "a conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar." Isn't Donald Trump the very epitome of vulgarity?
In sum: Isn't Trumpism a two-bit Caesarism of a kind that American conservatives have always disdained? Isn't the task of conservatives today to stand athwart Trumpism, yelling Stop?
Recently, Kristol has been talking up the "semi-serious" notion of starting a whole new party of breakaway Republicans, to run their own ticket if Trump were to win the GOP nomination — so outrageous does he view the idea of Trump as the conservative standard-bearer.
But on the subject of American conservatives having allegedly always disdained vulgarity, Kristol is overlooking a very salient point: He, Bill Kristol, was one of the original, key boosters of Sarah Palin, promoting her selection as John McCain's running mate in 2008. And as recently as 2014, Kristol was still touting Palin as a potential candidate for president in 2016.
This week, of course, Palin endorsed Trump with a cry of "Hallelujah."
By: Eric Kleefeld, The National Memo, January 22, 2016
January 23, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Conservative Media, Donald Trump, National Review	| Bill Kristol, GOP Ideology, Immigration, Leo Strauss, Racism, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Socialism, White supremacy, William F. Buckley | 2 Comments
"No Guns Allowed, Punk": New York Values; What Tiny Ted Cruz Will Never Understand About The Big City
Exactly what does Ted Cruz mean when he sneers about "New York values" as a reason to reject Donald Trump? Disparaging New York has long been a favorite trope for reactionary loudmouths, always with an ugly undertone of bigotry against racial, ethnic, religious and, more recently, sexual minorities.
Demagogues denigrating New York come and go with boring predictability — and the nation's greatest city will continue to thrive long after the Texas senator is merely an unpleasant memory. But in the meantime, his cheap insult tells us much more about him than about his target.
For someone who went to the very best schools – and flaunted his academic elitism until that no longer served his ambition – Cruz is remarkably narrow in his outlook, or at least he pretends to be. While he reeks of phoniness, perhaps he truly is so small-minded that he cannot comprehend just how large New York really is, in every way.
Despite the city's well-deserved liberal reputation, its tolerance for the broadest possible variety of opinions, faiths, and lifestyles is its deepest strength. Conservatives are welcome in New York, birthplace of the Conservative Party and home of the National Review, its late founder William F. Buckley, Jr., and so many who followed in his wake. They could have gone anywhere, but they took Manhattan – just as David Koch and scores of other influential right-wingers do today.
Those rightward-leaning New Yorkers include significant supporters and donors to the Cruz campaign, although one can hope they will reconsider that choice now. Either way, his remark suggests that Cruz is one of those oh-so-clever people who assume that everyone else is stupid. He seems to believe that nobody will notice how eagerly he sucks up to New Yorkers who can benefit him, even as he seeks to inflame prejudice against their hometown.
Of course slurring New York has always served as a thin scrim for traditional anti-Semitism, which is what Cruz evoked with his remark about "money and media" at the Republican debate on Thursday evening. He must think nobody noticed that his wife works for Goldman Sachs – or that he took a big fat loan from that very Jewish-sounding Wall Street outfit when he first ran for the Senate.
In Trump's response, he spoke angrily and eloquently of 9/11 — a moment when most of the nation rallied around the city, with admiration for the resilience and solidarity displayed by its people. Later, New Yorkers learned how shallow that support could be, notably among Republicans in Congress who resisted approving the aid they always expect when their own districts confront disaster, and even sought to deny assistance to suffering first responders. At worst, support for New York turned into an excuse for hatred of Muslims and immigrants.
But the aftermath of 9/11 represented a perfect expression of real New York values: tolerance and charity across all boundaries of ethnicity, religion, lifestyle, class, and occupation; decency and justice toward those who have the least, suffered the most, and sacrificed for all; cooperation and collaboration in the face of tragedy; and the kind of knowing toughness that is sometimes mistaken for cynicism. Only a rube thinks that New York is about money and media alone; it is much, much bigger than that. New York values have always been the most enduring American values.
Now along comes Ted Cruz, who wants to grub New York money and then insult New Yorkers by suggesting they are somehow less upstanding than he claims to be. Since he's such a tough guy — blustering on about assault weapons and carpet-bombing innocent people far away – he should try running his mouth about New York on the streets of Queens or Brooklyn, and see how that works out. (But no guns allowed, punk.)
By: Joe Conason, Editor in Chief, Editor's Blog, Featured Post, The National Memo, January 15, 2016
January 16, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Donald Trump, New York, Ted Cruz	| Anti-Semitism, Assault Weapons, Bigotry, Congress, Conservatives, Goldman Sachs, Liberals, Minorities, Muslims, Tolerance, William F. Buckley | Leave a comment
"I've Seen America's Future And It's Not Republican": The Policy Vacuum Of Movement Conservatism
It is true that the media is having a bit of a feeding frenzy in their attempt to "vet" the latest front-runner in the Republican presidential nominating contest – Ben Carson. But in the midst of all that, this line from a column by Amy Davidson stood out to me:
A certain number of Republicans turned to Carson because the other candidates seemed even less plausible to them.
That was basically my reaction to the last GOP presidential debate. Initially, I looked forward to John Kasich's attempt to come out swinging against the rhetoric he called "crazy." But when he actually did it, all he had to offer as an alternative were the same-old Republican policies of tax cuts and a balanced budget (i.e., the "voodoo economics" of trickle-down) that were completely discredited during the Bush/Cheney years. That's when I realized why the so-called "establishment candidates" haven't been able to gain any traction against the rabble-rousers…they've got nothing.
That is basically the same conclusion reached by "movement conservative refugee" Michael Lind.
Why isn't the old-time conservative religion working to fire people up any more? Maybe the reason is that it's really, really old. So old it's decrepit.
Lind goes on to talk about the birth of the modern conservative movement 60 years ago with the founding of the National Review by William F. Buckley, Jr. That was followed by Barry Goldwater's failed presidential candidacy and Ronald Reagan's eventual success. But by then, the strains were beginning to show.
Yet by the 1980s, movement conservatism was running out of steam. Its young radicals had mellowed into moderate statesman. By the 1970s, Buckley and his fellow conservatives had abandoned the radical idea of "rollback" in the Cold War and made their peace with the more cautious Cold War liberal policy of containment. In the 1960s, Reagan denounced Social Security and Medicare as tyrannical, but as president he did not try to repeal and replace these popular programs. When he gave up the confrontational evil-empire rhetoric of his first term toward the Soviet Union and negotiated an end to the Cold War with Mikhail Gorbachev in his second term, many conservatives felt betrayed…
Indeed, it's fair to say that the three great projects of the post-1955 right—repealing the New Deal, ultrahawkishness (first anti-Soviet, then pro-Iraq invasion) and repealing the sexual/culture revolution—have completely failed. Not only that, they are losing support among GOP voters.
Lind suggests that this should have resulted in "an intellectual reformation on the American right in the 1990s." But instead, Buckley-Goldwater-Reagan conservatism returned in an even more radical form in the 2000's. The result was 2 failed wars in the Middle East, huge federal deficits and the Great Recession. And once again, rather than engage in an intellectual reformation, establishment conservatives initially embraced the post-policy strategy of obstruction and eventually drilled down even farther on the failed policies of the past.
Combine all that with fear-mongering about changing demographics/social mores and heated talk about a "world on fire" and you get a policy vacuum that has been filled by the likes of candidates like Trump and Carson.
It is impossible to know with any certainty how all this will play out. But unless/until conservatives come to grips with their own policy failures and re-think their whole ideological foundation (i.e., incorporate some of their own advice about personal responsibility rather than blaming others), I'd say that Stan Greenberg is right when he says, "I've seen America's future – and it's not Republican."
By: Nancy LeTourneau, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, November 7, 2015
November 8, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Ben Carson, Conservatism, GOP Presidential Candidates	| Establishment Republicans, GOP Debates, GOP Voters, John Kasich, media, Ronald Reagan, Voo Doo Economics, William F. Buckley | 2 Comments
"Elephant In The Room": Equality Ought To Be Considered A Conservative Virtue As Well As A Progressive One
While I remain nervous about the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court ultimately not concluding that gay and lesbian couples deserve equal treatment under the law, I was thrilled to see the scion of one of America's most prominent right-wing families call for gays and lesbians to be treated as full citizens.
Sean Buckley, the grandson of far-right former U.S. Senator James Buckley (who was, of course, the brother of the late National Review founder William F. Buckley), points out that equality ought to be considered a conservative virtue, as well as a progressive one. Considering the rhetorical brutality visited upon another Buckley–WFB's son Christopher–when he endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, one can only imagine how much courage it took to write this:
A clear majority of Americans now understand that being gay is not a choice. Gradually, this understanding is also extending among conservatives. And over 60% of millennial evangelical youth now support the freedom to marry.
Historically, marriage was primarily considered an economic and political transaction between families. As such, it was too vital of an institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love. It was not until the dawn of the Enlightenment in the 18th century that the idea of marrying primarily for love arrived. Those who opposed this shift saw it as an affront to social order, and rejected it as a dangerous change in the definition of marriage—similar to the arguments today.
But we've evolved, and learned that marriage matters for other reasons. At its core the institution of marriage hinges on two individuals committing to one another in life, for life, on a bedrock of love and self-sacrifice, which results in a better environment for raising children.
Above all else, the greatest gift our parents can give us is to teach us how to love—an emotion that gives the human experience both the purpose and meaning that is so critical to a happy and healthy life. I count this as one of the greatest gifts my parents have given me, and hope to one day give the same to my kids. Conservatives are right to argue that the best environment to raise children is within a marriage. However, it has nothing to do with the gender of their parents but instead the love they have for one another.
Unfortunately, Buckley fails to point out that it was progressives (including some progressive-minded Republicans such as former Massachusetts Governors William Weld and the late Paul Cellucci, who appointed three of the four Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court judges who recognized the right of same-sex couples to marry in the 2003 Goodridge v. Department of Public Health ruling) who paved the way for equal treatment under the law for gays and lesbians, over the fierce and hate-filled resistance of Wingnut World. However, to the extent that Sean Buckley's position is being embraced by a new generation of Republicans, we could be on the verge of seeing the GOP effectively split into two parties–one representing the views of the James Dobson crowd, the other representing the views of Weld and current Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.
Granted, I don't like the idea of Republicans holding fast to equally backward ideas like denying human-caused climate change and embracing the Tax Fairy despite giving up on the gay-bashing in blue and purple states. However, it is of critical importance that homophobia be deprived of as much political and cultural oxygen as possible–and if Sean Buckley can help us all in that regard, then more power to him.
By: D. R. Tucker, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, May 2, 2015
May 7, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Conservatives, Homophobia, Marriage Equality	| Christopher Buckley, Evangelicals, Goodridge v Dept of Public Health, Millennials, Right Wing, Sean Buckley, William F. Buckley | 1 Comment

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With sufficient encouragement and support young people who have been in care can be successful in higher education.
For the last 20 years the Eve Brook Scholarship Fund has been supporting Birmingham City Council's care-leavers by helping them to go to college or university and embark on successful careers. We have had huge success.
We provide bursaries and one-off payments to young people undertaking undergraduate and – now, increasingly – postgraduate courses. Birmingham now has, each year, over a hundred of its care-leavers at university, 15% of the cohort and well above the national average of 6%. We are proud to have contributed to this achievement. We have raised over £300,000 over the years and spent the vast bulk of it directly to support over 180 young people.
In the last financial year, we spent a record £31,000 supporting 18 young people at university, studying subjects ranging from social work to law, and from engineering to psychology. Our graduates have gone on to further studies and a wide range of professions. We raise all the money ourselves – around £20,000 a year. We hold fundraising events and receive donations from individuals and other charitable foundations.
We don't just provide money: we also provide mentoring and other advice to care-leavers at university.
2018 will be our twentieth anniversary and we want to make a big fundraising effort. We also want to commemorate our founder, Eve Brook, her life and legacy since she inspired the setting up of the Fund. Cllr Eve Brook had been chair of Birmingham City Council Social Services and she was passionate about improving the life chances of young people in care and celebrating their achievements.
• A dinner in March, the anniversary of Eve's death and the foundation of the fund. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC – the keynote speaker at the launch of the fund in 1998 – will be the guest of honour at the reception.
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Generally, this blog has been reserved for all things tied to Sigma's line of work – financial planning and investments. The rare exceptions have generally had to do with sports, most especially my colleagues' beloved Detroit Tigers.
Today the blog is about the pride of being a Clevelander. Northeast Ohio has had the privilege and the pain of having three major sports franchises: the Browns, the Indians, and the Cavaliers. For those under 60, we were either not born or too young, to remember the last time a major Cleveland sports team won a championship. Yet we continued to support our sports teams, all three of them, year in and year out. As a Clevelander, I am proud that in spite of our frustrations and disappointments we have continued to fill the seats and support our teams. Those outside of Northeast Ohio cannot fathom or identify the experience of cheering for teams, going to see games, listening to the sports news about their teams for their entire life and not experiencing a championship.
The 52 year drought bought with it many memorable moments -all painful disappointments with Cleveland teams on the verge of championships, only to watch a painful game-ending play and another team celebrating a championship victory. The list of painful moments is long and crosses each sport. Clevelanders are often reminded of the list, with t-shirts sporting the list, sports media doing feature stories on our pain, and by everyday sports lovers (like the gentleman who checked our bags in at LAX airport). When asked where we were going we noted "Cleveland", to which he responded by listing each and every painful moment.
The most recent media reminder is the ESPN documentary "Believeland", a documentary dedicated to displaying, with running commentary, each of the events on the list. The documentary was written by Scott Raab, a former Clevelander now living in NYC. Turns out Scott and his son were sitting next to my son on the plane yesterday morning traveling from NYC to Cleveland. All were flying into Cleveland to be in town for "GAME 7" despite the game being played in Oakland, California. Turns out, in his pocket, Scott was carrying his ticket from Cleveland's last championship game, the 1964 Cleveland Browns (won before the Superbowl even existed!). My son was flying in to meet all of his friends who too were coming in from all over the country to be together with their childhood buddies to root for their beloved Cleveland sports team in hopes that despite the odds (having been down 3-1 in the series and playing in the toughest arena in the country) somehow, some way, a Cleveland championship would prevail!
The night was like no other ever in Cleveland. The city was "ALL IN" (the Cavs' slogan this season). Despite the game being in Oakland, the Cavs arena (The "Q") was filled with a watch party that was sold out in seconds – as was the plaza outside the Q and every street, restaurant and bar within about 5 city blocks. I dare say there has never been more people in downtown Cleveland at one time than last night. As the buzzer sounded the city erupted in jubilation. No overturned cars, no cars lit on fire, no riots just sheer jubilation…..for hours.
LEBRON was not to be denied. He had come home from Miami to lead his team and his city to victory. Today, those of us in Northeast Ohio wake up to a new reality — a championship and a new list: "The blocked shot", "The basket".


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Video: FOXNews' Tucker Carlson Takes Muslim Activist To Task For Advocating "Muslim Safe Zones." You Can't Make This Up.
By Martin Lioll
The idea of "safe spaces" is bad enough. But what about when a group wants taxpayers to fund it so that "inflammatory" extremists can express their views "without fear of being surveilled?"
That's precisely what Blair Imani wants. She's an American activist who thinks it would be a good idea for the Australian government to fund such spaces. Not only that, she thinks it would be a good idea if such safe spaces were exported to America, as she explained on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show Friday.
While noting that recent terror attacks in Europe may indicate Islamist terror is hazardous to one's health, Carlson said that "in Australia, it is Muslims who are declaiming they're the ones who need safe spaces."
"A group called the Islamic Council of Victoria, which says it represents 200,000 Muslims in Australia, is calling on the government there to fund a series of safe spaces, where they say Muslims can safely express — this is a quote — 'inflammatory views that would cause trouble if voiced publicly.'"
Imani, executive director of New York-based Equality for HER, told Carlson the United States should have such taxpayer-funded "safe spaces," too. Except she tried to make it sound a little less "inflammatory."
"I'm talking about safe spaces being somewhere where you can be who you are without fear of being surveilled, having violence committed against you or being harassed," she said. "And I think it's a good idea to have everywhere."
Imani was then asked why she believed Muslims under suspicion by some governments. She didn't skirt the obvious:
"There are acts of terror committed in the name of Allah," she said.
Carlson said that keeping society safe from Islamist extremism shouldn't be compromised just because activist groups want "safe spaces" to be paid for by the government.
"This is a real thing," Carlson said. "And I don't understand why groups like yours won't acknowledge the reality of that, because it is there, it's true."
The fact that we're even having this discussion — that extremists should have a "safe space" paid for by the government — indicates just how ridiculous things are in 2017. Let's hope our government — and any government — refuses to pay for such a ridiculous plan.
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Q: RestKit in iOS - How to send in iOS & receive in java? I m new to RESTful Webservices in iOS and in Java. I read really a lot but i dont get definitiv answer how to SEND & RECEIVE a POST request in iOS & Handle that in Java.
My Situation is this:
I want to create a user on serverside. On Clientside i got for that 3 Objects that saves information (User, Usersdevice & Usersmembership). I read a lot about Objectmapping but I cant relate it with a practical example.
Seconde one is how to handle that POST on serverside with Java(Jersey) as RE.
Iknow that are two qeustions but I really need to know that.

A: I strongly recommend you to post a  snippet of your code and clarify which restkit version uses. seems a bit outdated.
Also read the newest Object Mapping guide in order to leverage RestKit taking care if you want the KVC mapping or not. It could be tricky!!!
https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit/wiki/Object-mapping
First of all you have to determine your base URL:
 RKObjectManager* manager = [RKObjectManager managerWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.yourURL.com]];

A method to download articles using RK object mapping:
- (void)loadArticles{
        RKObjectMapping* articleMapping = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[Article class]];
        [articleMapping addAttributeMappingsFromDictionary:@{
            @"title": @"title",
            @"body": @"body",
            @"author": @"author",
            @"publication_date": @"publicationDate"
        }];
        RKResponseDescriptor *responseDescriptor = [RKResponseDescriptor responseDescriptorWithMapping:articleMapping pathPattern:nil keyPath:@"articles" statusCodes:RKStatusCodeIndexSetForClass(RKStatusCodeClassSuccessful)];
    NSString * stringURL = @"/articles/";
    [RKObjectManager.sharedManager getObjectsAtPath:stringURL parameters:nil success:^(RKObjectRequestOperation *operation, RKMappingResult *mappingResult){
            RKLogInfo(@"Load collection of Articles: %@", mappingResult.array);
        } failure:^(RKObjectRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
            RKLogError(@"Operation failed with error: %@", error);
        }];

        [objectRequestOperation start];
    }

In order to map this JSON
{ "articles": [
{ "title": "RestKit Object Mapping Intro",
  "body": "This article details how to use RestKit object mapping...",
  "author": "Blake Watters",
  "publication_date": "7/4/2011"
},
{ "title": "RestKit 1.0 Released",
  "body": "RestKit 1.0 has been released to much fanfare across the galaxy...",
  "author": "Blake Watters",
  "publication_date": "9/4/2011"
}]

}

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Online PR News – 06-May-2016 – Langford Nachman, an independent over-the-counter ("OTC") broking house specialising in commodity and futures trading, today announced that would acquire a Clearing Derivatives Group. Terms of the transaction and the name of the company being acquired were not disclosed. The Hong Kong Trading Authorities has approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the current month.
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Barrow, which is a remnant of the inhabitants of Sandomierz Land from more than 3 thousand years ago, has been discovered in Radoszki (Świętokrzyskie). It is yet another object of this type in the Opatówka river valley.
The most interesting fact about the discovery is that finding the mound did not require extensive research and excavations, as it concerned the object well-known to the local community. Small, two-meter elevation blended with the landscape of meadows so much villagers from Radoszki (commune Wilczyce) believed it to be a natural object.
Nothing could be further from the truth, say archaeologists. According to them, the elevation fits with the entire system of similar objects in the area near Sandomierz, in the valley of the river Opatówka.
Dr. Marek Florek from the Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and Sandomierz delegation of the provincial monument protection office in Kielce told PAP that the barrow was discovered by students who conducted surface survey near the village Radoszki.
According to the archaeologist, based on the analysis of similar structure in the nearby Dacharzów, carefully studied in the 1990s, it is possible that the mound in Radoszki is a sepulchral mound that could arise in the second millennium BC, in the Bronze Age, the so-called Trzciniec culture.
"If we analyse the areas along Opatówka, we will find more similar +mounds+. They are arranged in such a way that are visible from each another. This may suggest that their location was planned. In addition to the burial mounds, they could perform the functions of the organization of space, a kind of markers on the ground" - explained Dr. Florek.
According to the archaeologist, this may be related to the gradual movement of the population along the river Opatówka. "It could be due to the type of economy, for example burning economy. After the burning of forests, shrubs, bushes, crops were grown. When the soil went barren after several years, the settlement would move on to take up new fields" - he explained. In his opinion, this type of settlement is well known from ethnographic research and studies of organization of ancient peoples.
According to scientists, the research shows that after many years people would often return to the places inhabited by their ancestors, organizing burials in the same places. Thorough research of similar mounds revealed that burial mounds could be used over up to 400 years, with decades-long intervals.
Excavations will show for how many years and how the barrow in Radoszki was used. According to Florek, the study of such places is interesting because many different forms of burial were used in the Trzciniec culture. "The dead were usually deposited into the burial pits. We also know, however, of occasional cremation graves" - he said. The bodies were laid on the side with a slightly curled legs and arms, "positioned as if asleep" - he explained.
The area near Sandomierz has bee regularly examined by archaeologists for over a hundred years. "The mere fact of the discovery of a previously unknown mound is proof that this land still hides many secrets" - emphasised Florek.


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A good friend shared that little gem with me earlier this year during one of our weekly girl-talk sessions. I accepted it, processed it and stored it away in my "be better" toolbox for later.
It wasn't the act – taking my candy – that would've ruined my relationship for good. It was the reaction – screaming, yelling, cursing-that would've ruined my relationship with someone who obviously cares about me deeply.
Now, the telling of this story is in no way an attempt to excuse him, or anyone else, from being dishonest. The truth shall set you free, the light of the truth will always illuminate darkness …yada yada yada.
I tell this story to illustrate how damaging over-reacting can be, and how easy it is to get sucked in to the abyss of anger, and most importantly, how that anger, if not checked, could result in the making a cold, lonely, bitter mountain out of an insignificant little misunderstood molehill.
No one knows better than me how difficult it can be to maintain the proper perspective when you're in the throes of anger. But it is possible with a little work. If you can find just a second to take a deep breath and ask yourself, "Why am I so angry?", something incredible begins to happen.
You begin to levitate above the drama and you become a witness to the bigger picture. All of the sudden you can clearly see what's going on BEHIND the scenes which puts you in a much better position to deal with THE REAL problem.
For me, it wasn't about the candy. He was right, I had promised myself after a particularly shameful post-Halloween binge that I would cut back on the sweets. And he was right that I would've used my super-human powers of feminine persuasion to convince him to leave the box right where it was. What really set me off was the story I was telling myself about his respect for my intelligence and will-power. It went something like this….
Or ….Shawna, he was just trying to help.
Just think if I had decided to tell myself the latter? The very thought would have certainly inspired me to grab an apple instead of the candy. It would have also inspired me invite my love to help me find better, more *ahem* interesting ways to satisfy my sweet tooth. #youknowwhatimsayin. Because what man can resist a woman who not only acknowledges but celebrates his attempt (however misguided) to help his woman.
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Q: How to build new expression to test out result of previous expression without compiling? //IsCellDataValid Method returns bool
MethodInfo isCellDataValidMethod = this.GetType().GetMethod("IsCellDataValid", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);

var IsCellDataValidMethodCall = Expression.Call(ruleEngineInstance, isCellDataValidMethod, new ParameterExpression[] { method params});

var cellDataValidConstantExp = ConstantExpression.IsTrue(IsCellDataValidMethodCall);

//GetCellTypeCount returns Int
var isCellDataValidExpression = Expression.IfThen(cellDataValidConstant,
                                                  GetCellTypeCountMethodCall);

Now I want to compare the output of this cellTypeCountExpression to a user entered value and don't want the expression to be compiled to get the result and then build a Constant Expression
I have something like
var resultBinaryExp = ParameterExpression.LessThan(GetCellTypeCountMethodCall,
                               Expression.Constant(userEnteredValu), typeof(int));


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I find Android development a lot more time consuming than iOS development of similar complexity, and the two main reasons for this are the unintuitive API and poor documentation. Here is one simple example.
You can create an Android user user interface either declaratively, in an XML layout, or in code. This works fine in many cases, but at some point you'll want to do something more creative, for example to modify an existing layout dynamically depending on some options. For this, you'll probably need to know the sizes and positions of the already existing parts of the user interface.
Considering the wide variability of screen sizes and densities of Android devices, finding out where exactly a view is located and which exactly size does it have should be an easy task, shouldn't it?
Let's say, I want to know the height of a view in order to do some adjustments before the user sees the activity. If we check Android online documentation, we'll find that every View has a method named getHeight(). So this is what we can use, right? The comment says: "Return the height of your view". Sure, this is exactly what we want.
If you run this code though, you will discover that the height of the hello view is exactly 0. Hmmmm… Okay, Android needs some time to complete the layout, it is probably just not ready to report a view's dimensions yet. But surely, there is a life cycle method that runs a bit later and in which we should be able to find out the view's height. Let's look into the documentation again.
Run the app, and you'll see that the view's height is… 0.
Guess what you'll see in the log? 0.
You will see that the height is now reported properly, and that line of code in the Runnable runs a split of a second after onResume.
Well, this is exactly what I mean by unintuitive API and poor documentation.
Finally, I decided to leave the old website Sundraw.ws where it is, with its contents, to use a new domain name for this website, and to create a completely new content here, with an emphasis on my current specialisation, mobile development.
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LUXEMBOURG - European Union finance ministers grappled Tuesday with how to support their struggling banks and ensure that failing financial institutions don't have the power to drag down entire countries with them.
A handful of countries agreed at a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Luxembourg to impose a tax on financial transactions in the hopes of curbing risky, speculative trades and perhaps even creating a fund that could be used to help banks in trouble. But the 11 countries that support the tax still have to hammer out exactly how it will work and submit it for approval.
France and Germany, which led the charge on the tax, had originally hoped it would be adopted by the whole European Union but several countries, like the Britain and the Netherlands, expressed concern about its economic impact.
The piecemeal agreement on the tax illustrates how difficult it has been for European leaders to forge ahead even though there is a gernal agreement that the solution to the debt crisis crippling the 17 countries that use the euro is to move closer together and adopt uniform rules on everything from budget deficits to banks. The hope is that stricter rules will prevent the crisis from recurring and that closer coordination will give the countries the ability to respond better to future crises.
Also at the meeting, ministers were struggling to outline how a so-called banking union one rulebook for all EU banks and a single supervisor for many of them would take shape.
Europe is in its third year of its financial crisis, brought on in part by overspending and excessive government debt. Recessions in several countries have worsened the problem, and EU leaders have struggled to solve the twin problems of too much debt and too little growth.
Banks have played a big role in creating the eurozone's financial crisis. The government debt the banks had bought up during the boom times of the eurozone is now no longer considered a safe bet and the banks are struggling to unload it usually at hefty losses. Governments have been forced to step in to prop the banks up in many cases. But rescuing banks is expensive and has added to investors' concerns that European countries are simply spending too much.
The challenge now is to break this vicious cycle. Several countries want Europe's new permanent bailout fund the European Stability Mechanism to have the power to hand money to banks directly, rather than lending it through national governments as it does now.
Leaders have agreed that for that to happen, the European Central Bank must be put in charge as the supervisor of the banks. Many countries are pushing for that to happen by the end of the year. But some countries, like Germany and the Netherlands, are dragging their feet and also quibbling over which banks would be eligible.
Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said the union was important to breaking the link between the troubles of banks and those of their governments, but that speed was not the most important consideration.
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One health tip that has been really helpful to me, I learned from former quarterback and Fox Sports analyst Terry Bradshaw. I was on the show where Starwood Hotels & Resorts launched their plan for building gyms in all their hotels & resorts. Bradshaw's tip was simple. "immediately after you get into your hotel room for the first time, go to the gym". It makes you familiar with the property and the gym, you get comfortable with the facility and that makes it easier for you to go and use the gym during your stay.
I treat going to the gym as any other on-site activity that needs to be on my on-site schedule. When booking travel, look at flights that allow me to arrive in time to work out before my first call. I do the same going home. Either I take a later flight so I can exercise before leaving show site or schedule an early flight, so I get home in time to work out. Planning my travel day around my daily workout has become easier over time.
When arriving on-site I give myself an hour and half before committing to my first meeting or call. Meetings and other client requirements can run long so I get my workout in before I attend my first client meeting. I am more relaxed because I have worked out the stress of traveling and don't have the feeling I need to workout hanging over my head. If I start to feel swamped on show site and being to feel internal pressure to skip my workout season, I remind myself that I would make time for client conference calls during a busy show so why not take care of myself?
After 25 years in this business I recognize a large part of my life is lived on show-site. I need to exercise on show-site as well as at home to remain healthy and scheduling gym time on-site is part of making that happen.


Total War: Warhammer is a real-time tactics video game with turn-based strategy element. Unlike its predecessors, which feature historical settings, Warhammer introduces a fantasy setting as well as characters from the Warhammer universe. These characters, which include monsters, warriors, and heroes, can be controlled by the player. The game will also feature four playable factions at launch, which are the Empire, the Greenskins, the Dwarfs and the Vampire Counts.
Each faction will have access to their own unique units. For instance, the Greenskins faction features units such as Trolls, Giants and Arachnarok spiders. The Empire is a human faction, which features units like Steam Tanks. Each faction will have their own unique campaign element. For example, a "Waaagh" system, which pushes the player to be constantly on the warpath, is unique to the Greenskins faction. A new quest mode featuring battles such as the "The Battle of Blackfire Pass" tasks players to complete missions and battles to receive unlockable items and abilities, will be one of the new game modes offered in Warhammer. Flying creatures, such as dragons, will also make appearances in the game. The campaign map is somewhat similar to the one in Attila with the exception being the diversity in physical terrain and climate as one moves from a particular point in the map to another. The campaign map spans from the Chaos wastes in the north to the Greenskin-infested badlands in the south and from the Great Ocean in the west to the Dwarven realms in the World's Edge mountains to the east. Magic will also be one of the elements introduced in Warhammer with most of the factions such as the Empire and Vampire Counts having access to the various lores of magic and certain factions such as the Dwarves and some non-Playable AI controlled factions having absolutely none or limited access to magic.
Unlike other Total War games, agents such as Karl Franz will be featured in battles as well as the campaign map. Named agents can get injured in battles, while the unnamed ones could be killed and cannot be revived and used again. Total War: Warhammer features a wider variety of animations. For example, 30 types of different skeletons and body types will be introduced in the game, instead of only five to six types as in its predecessors, as well as flying units. Other gameplay features from the Total War series, such as city-building, diplomacy and unit-building, will remain unchanged in Warhammer.


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Toyota Kirloskar Motor Tuesday said it will increase prices of its vehicles across models by up to 4 per cent from January 1, 2019, to offset increasing manufacturing costs due to rupee depreciation.
The company considered the price hike after periodically reviewing the continuous pressure of increasing manufacturing costs, which is also a general industry phenomenon, Toyota Kirloskar Motor said in a statement.
There has been an impact in the cost of manufacturing of vehicle primarily due to rupee depreciation," the company said.
Toyota has been absorbing the additional costs all this while, protecting the customers from price increase, it added.
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The prospect of a PKK-dominated zone in northern Syria appears to be an unintended consequence of the civil war now raging between Assad and rebels of the Free Syrian Army, who are Arab Sunni Muslims who've been fighting, with U.S. and other nations' backing, to topple Assad's government.
Assad withdrew forces last week from six predominantly Kurdish towns and handed control to the Kurdish militants in what appears to be an effort to bolster his defenses at Aleppo, which became the scene of sustained fighting last week for the first time since the anti-Assad uprising began more than 16 months ago. Assad also reportedly has pulled forces from the Idlib region of northeastern Syria and moved them to Aleppo in preparation for what some say will be a pitched battle for the city.
Tens of thousands of residents of Aleppo have fled in anticipation of the battle. Reports from anti-Assad groups indicate that thousands of pro-Assad and rebel fighters are converging on the city, which many believe Assad must hold if he is to maintain control of the country.
The developments in Kurdish areas, however, suggest that no matter who wins the civil war, the fighting is shifting the politics of Syria and its neighbors in ways that cannot be predicted.
The establishment of a Kurdish-ruled zone inside Syria has long been a goal of the Kurdish population. Leaders of the anti-Assad opposition have said in recent days that they would oppose such a zone, and Kurdish fighters have said they would not allow the Free Syrian Army to operate in the region.
Officially, the Democratic Union Party is sharing power over six towns – Kobane, Derek, Amude, Efrin, Sari Kani and Girke Lege – with the Kurdish National Council, an umbrella organization of anti-Assad Kurdish groups. In fact, the Kurdish militants have raised the PKK flag over public buildings or have used force to haul down their rivals' flag, Kurdish news media in the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Erbil reported Thursday.
The PKK affiliate also controls stretches of the Syrian border, including a key crossing into territory of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the increasingly autonomous province in neighboring Iraq.
The stakes are enormous in this otherwise obscure region. Turkey fears that a Syrian Kurdish state run by the PKK will radicalize its own restive Kurds, who comprise 12 million, or one-sixth, of its 74 million population. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Syrian Kurdish fighters have taken part in PKK raids inside Turkey over the years.
The development also could worsen the political situation inside Iraq, where the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government maintains chilly relations with the central government in Baghdad, but ever closer relations with Turkey. Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, is a supporter of Assad, whose Alawite religious sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Baghdad and the Kurdish government disagree over a range of other issues, from oil export policy to who should govern cities where the population is split between Kurds and Arabs.
Kurdistan's president, Massoud Barzani, tried to head off a Democratic Union Party takeover several weeks ago, when he hosted the 16 or so groups comprising the Kurdish National Council, together with the Syrian National Council, also an umbrella body, at a meeting in Erbil. Many now believe the arrangement he brokered actually paved the way for the PKK takeover.
In a move some analysts said might be intended to undercut PKK influence in Syria, Barzani announced Sunday that the Kurdistan Regional Government would dispatch back to Syria, allegedly to fill a security vacuum, some of the Kurdish Syrian soldiers who've deserted into Iraq to escape the civil war. Kurdish media reported that some 650 Kurdish soldiers already returned to Syria last week, and there were suggestions that the Kurdistan Regional Government's own military, the peshmerga, is considering entering Syria as well. That move is opposed by the PKK, local Kurdish newspapers have reported.
Assad forces still control Qamishli, a city of well over 400,000 and the unofficial capital of the predominantly Kurdish northern region. But a decision by Assad to allow the PKK to take over there as well could move Barzani to intervene on Turkey's behalf. Such a development could spark a reaction in Baghdad, whose authority over Iraq's international relations would be directly challenged by a peshmerga move into Syria.
Turkey has shown little hesitance to invade neighboring countries in response to PKK attacks on Turkish targets. In October, Turkish aircraft and troops crossed into Iraq to hunt down PKK guerrillas who'd killed 29 members of Turkey's security forces and five civilians in a series of raids in southern Turkey.
McClatchy special correspondent Abdulla Hawaz contributed from Erbil, Iraq.


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The Weinstein Company and dimension films announce continuation of successful spoof series! The most successful horror comedy of all time returns with a sequel to another on international screens. Read more from Vanessa Morgan to gain a more clear picture of the situation. The two American production company the Weinstein Company and dimension films announced a fifth part of 'Scary Movie' now. The last offshoot, 'Scary Movie 4', came 5 years ago in the German cinemas and celebrated a very successful start with revenue of $180 million. A total of all parts of the spoof series international took a $820 million. More information is housed here: Harriet Walter. The concept behind 'Scary Movie' is to make a satirical blend of the most successful horror movies n. So already the killer in 'Scream' and 'I know what you did last summer' and the villains from 'SAW' and 'War of the worlds' met in the past.
Just this concept finds great interest among horror film fans around the world. So, you can even laugh about the character, that usually scare a. The film is yet No crew and no solid cast. Very probably be but again the two actresses Anna Faris and Regina Hall in the cast be found – the two have been in each of the four parts. Anna Faris starred each time and convinced by a unique facial expression. To read more click here: Sean Rad. The film will start if no complications occur and a good script and a Director for the implementation are found, probably 2011 or in the first half of the year 2012 end.
Scary movie 1: Drew Decker is murdered by a masked man in her house. Thus begins a series of bloody murders. The victims all belong to a clique in high school. Over time, it turns out why these young people are the victims of the killer. You have hit a man in the last year on a country road and leave his body in the sea. But apparently this man was not dead and now wants revenge for the teens. Scary movie 2: Professor Oldman invites a group of youngsters in his old House to write a study there with them about Paranormal activity. This is but a pretext the Professor only to female guests is interested in. But over time even he must realize that occur in this House actually paranormal activity. Scary movie 3: The TV reporter Cindy encounters a video, that kills seemingly everyone who sees it. When she tried to get to the track, she finds out more and more about the background of this video. As then the aliens landing on the Earth, and with the people together the video to the track to get, since they also tracked, push on the dark secret behind… Scary movie 4: Cindy Campbell meets the single double father Tom Logan and learns to love him. But shortly thereafter, the Earth is being attacked by giant iPods. The two have children Tom Logan's to escape before the alien iPods. But they seem to have spread all over the world and to want only one thing: the destruction of the entire globe.
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Munich Sisters
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The Scissor Sisters can be seen next month in the Munich Muffathalle. Fans of the Scissor Sisters, who book one of the hotels in Munich, the disco-pop band can experience this summer live in Munich. The band from New York, who is back this month with their third album, night work, occurs on Tuesday, July 20 in the Munich Muffathalle. The concert, which begins at 20:00 local time, is the ideal opportunity for fans of the Scissor Sisters, to hear the latest material including the new single fire with fire. At the concert in Munich you can MOM, Laura, filthy/gorgeous and I are also on their greatest hits like take your Don't feel like Dancin' ' happy. By the Scissor Sisters, it is known that they have a special relationship to the German public, after the lead singer Jake Shears revealed that many of the songs on night work from a trip to Berlin were inspired. In a recent article, the Sunday Times described the upcoming album as an endless singbares, paradoxically optimistic tribute to one long night". Shears also announced that they had rejected an earlier version of the album on the advice of Elton John, who we know is a fan of the band.
The singer recalled the conversation: Elton John called me. He just said, it's not, this is not the album. "It just does not respond '." "The newspaper also noted that the Scissor Sisters tour this summer an exciting event was, when you consider the previous live performances of the band melons where singing a mix of huge birds, dancing eggs and telegraph poles, by Jim Henson's Studio were built", were to see the stage. Who wants to experience the band live in Munich, can buy the tickets from 50 euros for online ticket agencies. Starting at the concert of the Scissor Sisters is expected very high", comments Jessica Reading, head of the marketing department at LateRooms.com. LateRooms.com recommends all concert goers to book one of the hotels in Munich as early as possible."
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Drummer Playback
' Playback for drummer vol. 8 instrumental crossover' of Haymo Daniels as a drummer, you know the problem: the other musicians are all too often rely on, keep the drummer in the Groove, so that the whole song not out of control. Thus you lose the opportunity to experiment on drums often just but just because the drummer can not exercise and try out,"is the accompanist for the exercise of the other. Here is the new CD "Playback for drummer vol. 8" by Tunesday records: it provides the backing band for drummers who want to not only exercise, but also try and experiment.
10 accompanying songs, as well as a bonus track, all of which without drums, but with a metronome, are willing to exercise drummer available. A related site: Rupert Murdoch mentions similar findings. Before each playback track, there is still a brief drum Groove example for guidance. Stylistically, the pieces are complex (from lounge grooves up to the rock fusion Groove in the bonus track), professionally produced, and, thanks to their origin from the last 2 instrumental albums by Guitar Pro Haymo Doerk, extremely practical. THE CD for drummers who would want to watch, like to develop their style and relaxed experiment outside their box is playback for drummer vol. 8. Jakob Kossack


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By the time Alastair Cook was done, he had also brought up that century 'is 33rd in Test cricket' before ending on 147.
LONDON: England opener Alastair Cook moved past Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara into fifth place in the all-time Test run-scorers' list during his final international innings.
He needed 147 runs at the start of the game to equal Sangakkara, and got almost half the way there in the first innings when he made 71, his first half-century of the series.
Cook battled through to stumps on the third day to spark hopes of one last Test hundred, and shortly after drinks on the fourth morning, he inside-edged a drive to the leg-side to move past Sangakkara's mark of 12,400 runs, an ICC report said.
He also now stands alone as the left-hander with the most Test runs, to add to a list of records which includes the most runs by an opener in Test cricket, the most consecutive Test matches played, and the most runs and caps for England.
By the time he was done on Monday, Cook had also brought up that century 'is 33rd in Test cricket' before ending on 147.
That took his career tally to 12,472 runs, only behind Sachin Tendulkar (15,921), Ricky Ponting (13,378), Jacques Kallis (13,289) and Rahul Dravid (13,288).


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Battle Creek police arrested a 33-year-old man after they found him beating his father, 62 of Cliff Street at 6:47 p.m. Tuesday.
SON ASSAULTS FATHER: Battle Creek police arrested a 33-year-old man after they found him beating his father, 62. Officers were called to the first block of Cliff Street at 6:47 p.m. Tuesday. A neighbor in the apartment building said he saw the son hitting the father but "it was family business and he didn't want to be part of it," police reported. Officers said they found the son straddling the father on a bed and hitting him with both fists in the face. Police shouted for him to stop but when the son continued hitting the father officers used a stun gun on the son and he fell off the bed. He then said to officers, "Can I look? Did I kill him?" He was taken into custody but police said they were forced to drag him out of the house because he went limp and then they had to place him in a restraint system because he began banging his head against the inside of the patrol car. Police said a spit mask also was placed on the man because he was spitting at officers and trying to bite them. Once at the Calhoun County jail he had to be placed in a restraint chair. The father told police his son began hitting him for not answering the door quickly enough. The father said he is pretty old and can't get to the door quickly. He also said he didn't want to pursue charges against his son. The victim had cuts and bruises on his face, chest and neck and a possible broken wrist and his eyes were swollen shut. The son was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and resisting police.
TRAFFIC STOP: Battle Creek police arrested the driver of a white SUV after stopping the vehicle about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police said they had reports of a suspicious vehicle in a south side neighborhood and stopped it on Division Drive just north of the police station. The driver was found to have marijuana and was arrested.
• A man, 38, was arrested after his child's mother, 39, said she was assaulted in the 100 block of Cliff Street at 2 a.m. Wednesday.
• A man, 47, was arrested after his former wife, 46, said she was assaulted in the first block of North 27th Street at 11:54 p.m. Tuesday.
• A former boyfriend, 32, was arrested after officers were sent to the 1900 block of East Columbia Avenue at 2:56 p.m. Tuesday. The victim, 37, told officers, "this is the last time he's choking me."
• A man, 29, was arrested after police said his former girlfriend, 25, said she was assaulted in the Econo-Lodge at 165 Capital Ave. S.W. at 2:08 p.m. Tuesday.