I am not the only one. Here is some company.
New York Times had this painful article about how job openings for workers are shrinking. It made me do a chart of job openings/pool of unemployed workers in the US. The ratio was 0.16. There is only one job opening per six unemployed worker. I wonder if the Federal Reserve acknowledges its role in bringing about this state of affairs. I do not recall any mea culpa from the current Federal Reserve Chairman. This great article in Washington Post adds another 'feather' to the Federal Reserve's cap. The Federal Reserve simply chose not to regulate mortgage lenders even after they were acquired by banks.
I wonder what would happen to all the cheering that the Fed chairman gets for supposedly rescuing the US economy (and the world economy) from the brink if the asset price bubble that has been re-ignited bursts next year with disastrous consequences? Bubbles? Some readers might scoff at the notion as many stock indices and commodity prices are below their previous peaks. That is a flawed basis. A bubble in asset prices is a deviation from fundamentally derived prices – movement in price that cannot reasonably be attributed to fundamentals that normally determine those prices. If the global crisis and de-leveraging have re-calibrated those fundamentals (earnings in the case of companies or demand in the case of commodities) to lower levels, then the level of asset prices at which a 'bubble' definition is triggered would consequently be lower as well. A bubble is not defined by the level of stock prices but by its relationship to its fundamental determinants.
The extent of the write-ups is difficult to predict because of banks' complex balance sheets and uneven use of accounting rules, but some experts believe the rallying credit markets could pave the way for billions of dollars in accounting gains.
It is not only the use of accounting rules that make a judgement difficult. We do not know the value at which banks are carrying these assets in their books. Most of the banks moved these securities from 'Held for Trading' to 'Held for maturity' and marked them at par. Second, the rally in high-yielding assets including that of bank debt actually forces banks to write up the value of debt issued, thus having to give up the gains they booked when the value of the debt they issued fell. That is indeed a strange accounting rule but enough has been written on that one.
While FT reports that Presidents Hu and Medvedev both warned on the impact of the crisis on the world and on the rising fiscal cost of it in general terms, it is good to focus on specific developments in both countries. Bloomberg has this news on Russia and this is Wall Street Journal's piece on one of China's asset management companies (AMC) extending deadline to redeem a bond by a small matter of another ten years. See this too.
These bonds were issued in 1999 when AMCs were set up to buy up bad loans from Chinese banks. The article says that they had managed to recover only 20% of the loans! Now, imagine what would be the recovery rate on all the bad loans that might arise from the recent loan binge, if China enters a era of lower growth.
There is an interesting discussion over at Real Economics on 'Economist.com' on whether central banks should prop (asset bubbles) and pop, not prop but pop, neither prop nor pop, etc. I have posted a comment too under 'jeevatma'. The comments by a 'central bank staffer' cited from Bradford de Long's is extremely good. Do not miss that.
I think the policymakers' intent or statements are one thing but the action is going to be the key. My guess, at this stage, is that withdrawal of stimulus – monetary and fiscal – would be delayed. This would become evident in 2010 and that would set the stage for the next round of action in bond market and currency markets. But, I think this is the story for 2010.
In a world of proliferating G-groups, the one to watch is that nicknamed "G2" between the US and China.
Many in Pittsburgh have remarked upon the size and sophistication of China's delegation compared to any other participant barring the US.
surplus countries – China, Germany, Japan and oil exporters – urged to raise domestic demand and deficit countries asked to reduce budget and trade deficits once the world has secured a recovery.
Evidently, they have not seen this thoughtful piece by Gideon Rachman. If the elections on 27th September in Germany throw a surprise (i.e., Left parties doing better), then it would set the cat among pigeons in the global capital markets.
This report filed in India's Business Standard makes for amusing reading. It makes it sound as though India drove the G-20 agenda! Of course, it can be seen here and here too. So, it appears that the Indian Government got the media to sing in one voice.
Interestingly, came across this link in Bruegel (European think-tank) to a conference held in New Delhi recently on the International Co-operation in times of global crisis with views from G-20 countries. Looks like some rich pickings are there. Have not gone through them yet.
Does not the extension of support to non-banks, and even to affiliates of commercial firms, undercut the banking/commerce divide, ultimately weakening the commercial banking system?
Will not investors in money market mutual funds find reassurance in the fact that when push came to shove, the Treasury with an extreme interpretation of its authority, took action to preserve those funds ability to meet their declared commitment to pay their investors at par upon demand?
As a general matter, I would exclude from commercial banking institutions, which are potential beneficiaries of official (i.e., taxpayer) financial support, certain risky activities entirely suitable for our capital markets.
The point is not only the substantial risks inherent in capital market activities. There are deep-seated, almost unmanageable, conflicts of interest with normal banking relationships – individuals, businesses, investment management clients seeking credit, underwriting and unbiased advisory services. I also think we have learned enough about the challenges and distractions for management posed by the risks and complexities of highly diversified activities.
I do not know if Mr. Volcker would have approved of this letter but I am sure he would have relished reading it as I did.
I do support his support to the Administration's proposal to vest all regulatory powers within Federal Reserve, the institution, even if some market participants have legitimate doubts about the philosophical leanings of certain individuals who have led the institution and are still at the helm.
The reason is that I do believe that regulators' information on the state of the banking system should inform monetary policy and vice-versa. It is more efficiently feasible only if both responsibilities reside in one agency.
But, both functions should be assigned equal seriousness in terms of calibre, staffing, scope of mandate and autonomy of mandate. Further, both monetary policy-makers and regulators should be asked to specifically spell out (if not to the public) as to how they exploited the synergies of information they come across and diagnosis that they arrived at.
This framework would only enhance the credibility of both the regulatory process and monetary policy-making process. Suffice to say that the Federal Reserve is not there yet but that is no reason to propose a solution that does not address but compounds the problem. So, the great central banker is right on this one.
On Thursday, the U.S. Federal Reserve released its quarterly flow of funds data. Quite a few trumpeted the USD2 trillion recovery in household networth forgetting that it is still about 11 trillion below the peak. More interesting is the outright contraction in household and business debt levels. Of course, business debt has just come down in the second quarter whereas household debt has been falling for the last four quarters. Never in the last (nearly) six decades has household debt contracted.
Business debt did towards the turn of the 1990s. Business debt contraction has happened despite record bond issuance this year. Total Corporate Debt raised in the U.S. this year until last Friday exceeds the total raised in the boom year of 2007. But, bond issuance is not feasible for SMEs. So, a real cleavage is developing in the American society, I guess. Plus, when government borrowing crowds out private sector borrowing by such a long distance, it is hard to see animal spirits returning to the underlying economy. The stock market level is a marvel, really.
FT Alphaville has two posts with excerpts from David Rosenberg (now with Gluskin Sheff in Canada and formerly with Merrill Lynch in the US as their North America Chief Economist) on the levitation of the US stock market (that applies to most stock markets and other so-called risky assets, actually). The facts cited (compiled by him) are hard-hitting. Investors beware.
Separately, this post in defence of Barclays' Protium Deal left me shaking my head. Is it a private sector solution when you move things from your right hand to your left hand? The question is at what price and why now, if the recovery is for real?
On the 17th September, C. Rammanohar Reddy had an interesting Op-Ed. on the approach of the Government of India to World Bank for a a loan to recapitalise public sector banks. He has concluded that it would come with conditionalities for financial sector liberalisation. Perhaps, perhaps not. It is good to sound the bugle. The government needs to be transparent. In my view, the chances of that happening are low. Conditionalities on IMF/World Bank loans have come down these days. Of course, I have to admit that I found myself shaking my head at the uncritical references to financial liberalisation in this IMF working paper. Habits die hard.
Second, the Government of India does not have the resources to do so, with its huge deficit. Tapping into central bank reserves is not the answer. The government has to borrow from the central bank.
However, terming Raghuram Rajan committee recommendations 'market fundamentalist' is a bit rich. He is not a fundamentalist although he would believe, like most other people, that on balance well-functioning, well-regulated and competitive markets do a better job than governments in creating prosperity. Any one who has read his book, 'Saving capitalism from capitalists' would not call him a fundamentalist.
Good friend Sushant had sent me the IE interview of Dr. Y. V. Reddy on the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. I, for one, do not hold the Federal Reserve or the U.S. government guilty of having erred on that. It is easy to be wise in hindsight on these matters. Some, of course, see a conspiracy to aid Goldman Sachs's competitive position. We have no proof except conjectures – somewhat reasonable – but still conjectures.
In any case, I think Dr. Reddy correctly notes that "if Lehman did not occur, some other thing would have happened. Lehman was a symptom of a disease".
What is interesting is that the preface to the interview refers to Dr. Reddy as the man who was hailed as having saved India from the full impact of the financial crisis because of the policies he followed. But, one week ago, Shekhar Gupta had a gratuitous dig at the RBI while commenting on Indo-China relations. SG was treading on slippery slope (to put it gently) when he compared China's fiscal policy and aggressive (reckless?) bank lending responses to the crisis to what he termed as the 'guarding the bureaucratic turf' response of the Indian central bank.
I am not sure if he had a chat with P. Vaidyanathan Iyer before he wrote that paragraph. He may have a valid case against the control mindset at the RBI on other areas. But, forestalling the financial crisis was clearly a success story. RBI does have some lessons to teach other central banks and, finally, it is way too soon to write the final judgement on either the efficacy or the sustainability of China's crisis response. For starters, he can read these remarks by the chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission.
As Op-eds. go, I found this one by Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the LKY School of Public Policy in Singapore, rather interesting, particuarly for its last paragraph.
Gilian Tett's piece (h.t Christopher Wood of CLSA) in FT on the new vehicle that Barclays is setting up makes for very interesting reading. She uses the right word to describe this: Chutzpah!
I would check out this programme from Channel 4, 'Middle Class and Jobless'. They do a good job of investigating the true state of the labour market in the UK. They follow a few individuals over 3 months to see if they land up with a sustainable, decently paid, full-time job. At the end of 3 months, the score was zero.
Similarly, BBC 2's 'Love of Money' is interesting. I watched Episode 2. Gordon Brown brags about his 'light-touch' regulation in 2006. But, in 2008 or 2009, when interviewed for the programme, he talks of the need for regulation. I am not sure why there was no cross-examination. Merwyn King's remarks on the response of media and society even if the central bank tries to lean against the wind with verbal warning and admonitions was a thoughtful one. It appears that we are genetically programmed to boom-bust cycles, then.
Interesting omission was Bernanke while Bush was hauled over the ropes through the reference to the founder of Ameriquest, an aggressive mortgage lender whose founder turned a Republican Party donor and was later appointed ambassador to the Netherlands.
In addition, the US has acted as a locomotive driving global economic growth because of its strong demand for imported goods. However, should US consumers step up the process of debt reduction, the country might no longer be in a position to maintain this role, particularly since there is no other source of domestic demand that could fill it.
Former Chief Economist of the BIS, William White, has written an interesting article in FT. He is one of the very few who had a global systemic overview and saw what was coming. All the BIS annual reports and working papers that he authored or co-authored warned of the cataclysm that followed. He is still at it. The German magazine, Der Spiegel, did a good piece on him recently.
The FT article says that some forest fires should be allowed to burn as it would prevent the growth of underground and also future major conflagrations. In other words, central bankers should allow for some long-term structural adjustments to take place instead of dousing each and every fire with liquidity.
This is in line with the views expressed in another article, written by one James Rickards in Washington Post in October 2008 when he talked of how ski operators would set off mini-avalanches to forestall a big one.
William White has written a piece for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in which he answers the question of whether central bankers should lean or clean. I have not read it yet. You can find it here.
In the meantime, it just struck me that the September Purchasing Managers's index of the New York region showed inventories contracting still. Today, we received the older Philadelphia Federal Reserve Manufacturing diffusion index. New orders dropped, inventories took a big dive and yet employment is shrinking faster than in August. Yet, the headline number showed a big jump! The expected business activity in six months dropped back to levels last seen in May. The stock market is up again and again and again.


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Re: How to Lose Readers (Without Even Trying)
Sam Harris has an awesome post in response to the anti-tax anti-statists (who often seem to be anti-humanists, especially the Randian types). There was a particular part that caught my attention (emphasis is mine):
"And lurking at the bottom of this morass one finds flagrantly irrational ideas about the human condition. Many of my critics pretend that they have been entirely self-made. They seem to feel responsible for their intellectual gifts, for their freedom from injury and disease, and for the fact that they were born at a specific moment in history. Many appear to have absolutely no awareness of how lucky one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, to not have cerebral palsy, or to not have been bankrupted in middle age by the mortal illness of a spouse.
"Many of us have been extraordinarily lucky—and we did not earn it. Many good people have been extraordinarily unlucky—and they did not deserve it. And yet I get the distinct sense that if I asked some of my readers why they weren't born with club feet, or orphaned before the age of five, they would not hesitate to take credit for these accomplishments. There is a stunning lack of insight into the unfolding of human events that passes for moral and economic wisdom in some circles. And it is pernicious. Followers of Rand, in particular, believe that only a blind reliance on market forces and the narrowest conception of self interest can steer us collectively toward the best civilization possible and that any attempt to impose wisdom or compassion from the top—no matter who is at the top and no matter what the need—is necessarily corrupting of the whole enterprise. This conviction is, at the very least, unproven. And there are many reasons to believe that it is dangerously wrong."
That is what socialism has to offer us. Socialism reminds us that humans are inherently social animals. Humans literally can't survive without others. Many infants die if they aren't touched, despite how well they are fed.
It was odd that Sam Harris had to or even wanted to explain that he wasn't a socialist. He clarified his position by pointing out that he is a libertarian in many ways:
And I say this as someone who considers himself, in large part, a "libertarian"—and who has, therefore, embraced more or less everything that was serviceable in Rand's politics. The problem with pure libertarianism, however, has long been obvious: We are not ready for it.Judging from my recent correspondence, I feel this more strongly than ever. There is simply no question that an obsession with limited government produces impressive failures of wisdom and compassion in otherwise intelligent people.
It was disconcerting how many people felt the need to lecture me about the failure of Socialism. To worry about the current level of wealth inequality is not to endorse Socialism, or to claim that the equal distribution of goods should be an economic goal.
His reponse just goes to show you how little socialism is understood. Chomsky is both a socialist and a libertarian. Chomsky explains that libertarianism arose out of the the socialist workers movement.
To put it simply, socialism promotes an egalitarian society that is fair and just. Socialism, however, doesn't necessitate the equal distribution of goods. It only requires the equal distribution of opportunities and equal public benefits for public investments. Socialism is the opposite of our present plutocratic socialism. Instead of redistribution to the few, the benefits of our shared society go to benefit to all who are a part of that society. It's the simple understanding that no person is self-made. Even Sam Harris understands this despite apparently, in his defensiveness, not realizing that socialism isn't such a crazy idea.
August 26, 2011 Benjamin David Steele	Ayn Rand, fiscal conservatives, Libertarians, minarchists, Objectivists, progressive taxation, Sam Harris, socialists, tax cuts for the rich, taxes on the rich	2 Comments
Tax Cuts: Reagan vs Bush
I've been thinking about Republican presidents recently. I had a particular thought comparing Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Reagan is remembered as great by conservatives and remembered as less than perfect by liberals. Either way, the best liberal argument is simply that Reagan would be considered a RINO by today's Repbulicans. Bush jr is the closest these far right purists have come to their ideal of a 'real' Republican. That is a sad state of affairs.
I only want to point out one detail: tax cuts. Both Reagan and Bush campaigned on fiscal responsibility and both implemented tax cuts once in office. The comparison, on this point, ends there. Both Reagan and Bush faced economic problems after having implemented tax cuts, but they responded differently. As everyone knows, Bush kept the tax cuts to the bitter end. Neither 9/11 nor the wars following could stop Bush from implementing and maintaining his tax cuts. It is hardly fiscally responsible to massively increase spending while cutting taxes. I realize Starve the Beast seems like a wonderful policy to wealthy Republicans, but it can't honestly be called fiscal responsibility.
So, what did Reagan do when it became obvious that tax cuts were failing and the economy was in trouble? He increased taxes. I was just reading that Reagan raised taxes 16 times. These tax increases also included the largest, at least at that time, tax increase during peacetime. Reagan was imperfect in his fiscal responsibility. He made the same mistake of increasing defense spending just because a big military gives rightwingers a hard-on.
Both Reagan and Bush followed the policy of Starve the Beast. The difference is that the latter did so with more enthusiasm. For Bush, reality was less important than ideology. That is what the American public gets when they elect a born-again fundamentalist. Reagan must be given blame for creating the deficit we now have, but his relative moderation kept him from having created an even greater deficit had he refused to increase taxes.
This is centrally important. Republican politicians haven't shown they've learned any lesson from Bush's failure and Reagan's willingness to compromise. I was just listening to Boehner speak and he basically said that Republicans don't plan to change which seemingly implies that there perfectly fine with the Republican policies during the Bush administration. Like Bush and unlike Reagan, they would want to keep all tax cuts (especially tax cuts for the rich) no matter what is going on with the economy and no matter how many wars are going on. They want to push Starve the Beast to its inevitable conclusion of economic crisis and broken budget. The Tea Party's platform seems to fit perfectly into the vision of Starve the Beast. The Tea Party turned out just to be a maneuver for the GOP to reign back in former Republicans who strayed away because of Bush's unpopularity.
Sadly, most of the American people and most of the American media won't see past the GOP rhetoric. The resignation and cynicism right now is overwhelming. Even Obama doesn't seem to genuinely believe in the hope he campaigned on.
September 23, 2010 Benjamin David Steele	fiscal conservatism, fiscal responsibility, George W. Bush, RINO, Ronald Reagan, starve the beast, tax cuts, tax cuts for rich, tax cuts for the rich	Leave a comment
Public Opinion On Government & Tea Party
I'm endlessly confused (and curious) about trying to understand public opinion and where it's heading (see some of the posts on my US Data page), but it usually seems clear to me that Americans are becoming more liberal on at least social issues. Issues of the government and economy are a bit more complex. When I listen to the conservative rhetoric about fiscal conservatism, I'm left deeply confused considering how it compares to the Republican record. I really don't see a clear connection between fiscal responsibility and fiscal conservatism. I've even argued that liberals are the new 'fiscal conservatives', although I don't mean to dismiss the few fiscally responsible conservatives such as Ron Paul.
The main confusion is that the data I've seen shows that most Americans identify as conservative. I even think I've seen data showing the number of self-identified conservatives has been growing. But on many specific issues most Americans are becoming more liberal and progressive. I suppose there are many ways to make sense of this seemingly contradictory data. First, it's not really contradictory. Labels of self-identification don't necessarily have any relationship to the actual social and political positions people hold. Labels such as liberal and conservative are relative. Since the data shows the country moving left, it wouldn't be surprising if most Americans were to some extent aware of this trend. So, maybe most Americans feel 'conservative' relative to the increasingly liberal direction the country is going in. However, compared to the conservatism of the past, most Americans today are definitely liberal.
Anyway, the reason I'm writing yet another post about this topic is because I've come across new data that confirms the previous data I've seen. Here is the new data:
http://projectvote.org/voter-poll-results
I came across this polling data from this site:
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=9F4259A9B9DBBAC1A619FD723F6ECE38?diaryId=20244
The poll looked at the 2008 voters and looked at the different demographics.
"We wanted to learn more about the views of the black, youth, and low-income voters who overwhelmingly participated in 2008 election," said Lorraine C. Minnite, director of research for Project Vote. "These voters represent roughly a third of the electorate, they will play an increasingly important role in American politics, and they fundamentally believe in a government that does more, not less. Yet their voices are largely ignored, and their views are not being represented."
Instead, the new report says, over the past two years the opinions and values of these populations have been drowned out by the anti-government rhetoric of more affluent, older, and mostly white Americans who have organized under the "Tea Party" banner.
"The winning coalition in 2008 included an unprecedented number of young voters, who were more racially diverse than any cohort in the history of American politics and more progressive than any young voters since the 1960s," said Peter Levine, director of CIRCLE (Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement). "The new poll from Project Vote provides essential information about these young people's hopes and beliefs in 2010."
That verifies other data about the Tea Party. The average Tea Party supporter is slightly more white, older, and wealthier than the average American (and so it's not surprising that the Tea Party is prejudiced against marginalized groups). But the biggest difference is seen in the positions they advocate. Ignoring the demographic data, Tea Party supporters simply don't represent the views of the average American.
The poll finds that the policy preferences of these three voting constituencies are far more closely aligned with the views of average Americans—represented by the poll's national sample—than the minority views of the self-identified Tea Party sympathizers.
Most helpful from the second link is the summary of the specific views supported by majorities of black, young, and low-income voters:
Increasing taxes on investment income, increasing social security taxes on incomes greater than $107,000, and ending combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as a means to reduce the deficit.
Spending money on infrastructure, as do two-thirds of all 2008 voters.
Spending the same or more on income support programs such as Food Stamps for less well-off Americans. Two-thirds of Tea Party sympathizers support spending less.
Tea Party sympathizers, while almost universally dissatisfied with the way the country is going, report they themselves are doing very well: more than three out of four say their personal economic situation is fairly good or very good.
Meanwhile, one in five young voters, and nearly two out of five black voters and low-income voters, reported that there were times in the past 12 months when they did not have enough money to buy food for their families. Just over one in 20 Tea Party supporters said the same.
Strong majorities of black voters, young voters, and low-income voters agree that government should work to provide for the needs of all citizens. Half of all voters agreed with that sentiment, while only one in five Tea Party sympathizers agreed.
Together, the three "surge" groups represent a larger portion of the electorate than those who self-identify with the Tea Party.
At the same time, I came across some other data:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1735/political-compromise-unpopular-neither-party-favored-on-economy-four-in-ten-say-cutting-tax-cuts-for-wealthy-hurts-economy
The first thing I noticed is that mostly Republicans identify with the Tea Party. No surprise there, but what was rather telling is that most Independents identify with the Democratic Party, more than identify with the Tea Party. So, the Tea Party can't honestly claim to be the party of Independents.
The one area that the American public leans slightly conservative is in being less supportive of compromise. This piece of data is significant in another context because it substantiates the claim that Democrats are in reality more bipartisan than Republicans (which I spoke about in a previous post: Republicans Support Big Government… just as long as Republicans are in power)
One of the areas where the liberal view predominates is the American public's view on tax cuts for the rich. Most Americans state they want the tax cuts for the rich to end. This new data shows that most Americans don't think ending the tax cuts for the rich will hurt the economy. They either think it will help or that it will have no impact at all. According to this data, Republicans are the only demographic that has a majority opinion of it hurting the economy. However, going by the various polls, even the Republicans are split on whether the tax cuts for the rich should end or not.
September 22, 2010 Benjamin David Steele	demographics, Independents, minorities, Pew, Pew Research Center, polls, Project Vote, public opinion, tax cuts for rich, tax cuts for the rich, tea party	9 Comments
Rich Use Tax Cuts To Invest Abroad
September 21, 2010 Benjamin David Steele	investment, job growth, tax cuts, tax cuts for rich, tax cuts for the rich	Leave a comment
Public Opinion on Tax Cuts for the Rich
I've written about tax cuts for the rich in some other posts, but I don't think I've mentioned the aspect of public opinion. I don't have any commentary. I just wanted to post the data showing a majority Americans want the tax cuts for the rich to end.
Fifty-three percent of Americans agree with Mr. Obama that the tax cuts for the wealthy should be allowed to expire, while 38 percent do not, according to the poll, conducted Sept. 10-14.
Two of three Democrats think it is a good idea, and most independents (55 percent) agree. Most Republicans (57 percent) think it is a bad idea.
A small minority of Americans (19 percent) think it is a good idea to let the tax cuts expire for households earning under $250,000 a year – a policy no elected official in Washington is promoting, given the state of the economy.
Meanwhile, one third of Americans believe the Obama administration has raised taxes. Fifty percent think taxes have stayed the same, but only 8 percent think taxes have gone down. In fact, most Americans received a tax break in 2009.
This poll shows the majority of Americans support Obama on the issue of taxes. And yet it also seems to show most Americans are oblivious of the fact that they agree with Obama. They're unhappy with Obama because they think he has raised taxes, but he hasn't. This is the product of the right-wing spin machine. Conservatives are good at tellng a narrative so compelling that people either ignore the facts or just assume the facts agree with the narrative.
As for tax cuts for the rich, even the Republican party is closely split with 43% of Republicans wanting them to end. I don't know of any polling data of Tea Party supporters. They're more conservative than the average Republican and I'd guess they're for continuation of tax cuts for the rich because that seems to be the position of Tea Party leaders such as Palin and Beck. However, the Tea Party likes to portray itself as independent. Polling the Tea Party would be a good test of their claim of being independent considering a majority of independents also support the ending of the tax cuts for the rich.
And it's not just one poll showing this majority. Apparently, a majority of polls show this majority.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/09/dear_dems_you_can_win_the_argu.html
* A new National Journal poll finds that 56 percent support ending either all the Bush tax cuts or just the ones for the wealthy, while barely more than a third want to keep them all.
* The new Gallup poll shows that 59 percent of Americans — and a majority of independents — supports either ending all the Bush tax cuts or just the ones for the wealthy.
Indeed, Gallup finds that Obama's proposal — ending the tax cuts for the wealthy but not for everyone else — has the support of 44 percent, more than any other solution.
* A CNN poll in late August found that a majority, 51 percent, favors ending the tax cuts for the rich, and another 18 percent favor ending them all.
It also found that among independents, 44 percent favor ending the tax cuts for the rich, while another 21 percent favor ending them all. Letting the tax cuts for the rich expire has majority support in all regions of the country except the south.
* A recent CBS poll also found a sizable majority, 56 percent, think the tax cuts for the wealthy should expire.
[…] Here's another one: A recent Newsweek poll found 52 percent support letting the tax cuts for the rich expire, while only 38 percent support keeping them in place.
The CNN poll found the Republican party was 50/50 split on continuing tax cuts for the rich, but most interestingly Republicans showed the stronger support than even Democrats in ending all tax cuts. So, Republican voters are being true to their fiscal conservative ideology while the Republican leadership is being hypocritical and not representing those who voted them into office.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/20/only-50-of-gop-supports-e_n_689326.html
Only half of all Republicans and self-identified conservatives favor extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, a new public opinion poll shows. Fewer say they favor extending the Bush tax cuts just for those making less than $250,000 a year.
A study released by CNN on Friday suggests that Republicans face a curious public opinion deficit in their efforts to keep tax rates at current levels for income groups across the board. The party's base isn't entirely sold on keeping the rates in place. But they also don't favor raising them on the wealthy and no one else.
Top officials in the GOP have said they will fight the president's proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts for the lower and middle classes while allowing those for the wealthy to expire. But few voting blocs appear to back that approach.
According to the survey, only 26 percent of self-identified moderates back extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Only nine percent of liberals said the same thing. Conventional wisdom would hold that Republicans would be the chief proponents of the proposal. But only 50 percent of conservative respondents said they want tax rates for the wealthy kept in place — the same percentage of Republicans support a full extension of the Bush tax cuts.
As for extending the tax cuts for those making under $250,000 a year, 69 percent of liberals support that approach, 53 percent of moderates, and only 36 percent of conservatives.
Meanwhile, every single age group polled by CNN favored extending tax cuts for just the lower brackets over extending them for all groups (including the wealthy). So too did respondents from every single region of the country.
I'm not sure what all of this means. Tax cuts used to be popular. Does this represent a shift? Even Tea Party supporters who are the most right-wing of the American public have grown critical of the Republican leadership and yet the Republicans in Washington keep pushing the unpopular tax cuts for the rich. Will this issue be a turning point in public opinion? Will the GOP be forced to return to the fiscal conservatism last seen during Eisenhower's administration?
Previous posts with data, commentary or videos related to tax cuts for the rich:
MSNBC w/ Cenk: Reich – Middle Class & Wages
Cenk Uygur on Tax Cuts for the Rich
Reaganomics & Tax Cuts for the Rich
National Debt, Starve the Beast, & Wealth Disparity
Failure of Conservative Morality in Politics
Liberals are the New Fiscal Conservatives
September 17, 2010 Benjamin David Steele	poll, public opinion, survey, tax cut, tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich	32 Comments
TAX WEALTHY – INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND SCHOOLS
August 12, 2010 Benjamin David Steele	domestic spending, education, infrastructure, investment, schools, tax, tax cuts for the rich, taxation, taxes, wealthy elite	19 Comments
Cenk Uygur has been slowly breaking into the mainstream for a while. He now has his own segment on Ratigan's show.
It's interesting that Cenk Uygur used to be a Republican. This makes obvious why he left the Republican party.
The question I wonder about is: What is the motivation for Republicans being for and Democrats being against tax cuts for the rich? Many like to argue that both parties are in the pocket of the wealthy elite. But if that were the case, Democrat politicians should support tax cuts for the rich as much as Republicans do.
July 20, 2010 Benjamin David Steele	Cenk Uygur, economy, tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich, taxation, taxes	10 Comments
Reagonomics & Tax Cuts for the Rich
Rich and defenders of the rich (who have an unfounded belief that one day they will be rich) love to argue for tax cuts for the rich. Afterall, they earned it. The people working in the factories didn't earn it. The indigenous who were living on natural resources the rich took away didn't earn it. The taxpayers (which excludes some of the wealthies US companies that pay no taxes at all) who bail out the rich didn't earn it.
Who owns most of the wealth? The best way to determine this is to add all wealth and invested wealth. The only factor that should be excluded is the wealth invested in the houses people live in because it can't easily be translated into tangible wealth and in this market many people lose their homes after investing lots of money into them. So, going by all wealth accept for homes, the top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 95%.
How do wealthy people get their wealth? Most wealthy people are born into and grow up with wealth. Most wealthy business owners received larged start-up money, inherited a business, or inherited other forms of wealth.
Another way of thinking about wealth is wealth disparity. Ever since Reagonomics, the wealth disparity has increased to the highest in the developed world.
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"At the simplest factual level, it is not accurate that Reagan's tax policies were responsible for bringing inflation down, from an average rate of 8.2 per cent under Nixon, Ford and Carter, to 4.6 per cent under Reagan. The main force here was the stringent monetary policies imposed by then Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker. Volcker was appointed not by Reagan but by Jimmy Carter in 1979… Volcker did indeed break the back of persistent and rising inflation brought on primarily by the four-fold oil price increases in 1973-4 and again in 1979. But he achieved this at a very high cost… real wagesi.e — . the buying power of your dollars of wages — peaked in 1973, the period of high inflation. Average real wages fell sharply throughout the Reagan presidency. The average figure for those eight years, at $15.72 per hour (in 2005 dollars), was 7.6 per cent below the average hourly wage under Carter of $16.95, and 9.6 below the Nixon/Ford peak of $17.39.
…This decline in real wages, beginning in the late 1970s and accelerating sharply in the 1980s under Reagan, is also a crucial link in understanding why inflation did not rise up as unemployment fell in the 1990s, contrary to expectations of virtually every single economics textbook. The standard theory held that when unemployment gets too low, workers gain in bargaining strength. They then push up wages, and businesses pass along these additional costs in the prices they charge consumers. This means rising inflation. But beginning in the 1990s under Clinton, unemployment fell, to as low as 4.0 per cent in 2000, but inflation stayed low. What happened?
Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan's own answer to this question (as reported by Bob Woodward in Maestro, his book-length hagiography of Greenspan) was that U.S. workers had become increasingly "traumatized" in the 1990s, and as such did not feel sufficiently secure to attempt to bargain up wages even at low unemployment. …if one would have to pick the single most important turning point over the past 30 years in the treatment of U.S. workers, I would choose Ronald Reagan's decision to summarily fire more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who, as members of PATCO, the air traffic controllers' union, went on strike eight months into Reagan's presidency, in August 1982. This early attack by Reagan was followed by eight years of relentless hostility to the organized working class.
But Reagan did not attack the organized working class only. More broadly, Reaganomics entailed a dramatic new framework for fiscal policy, the area in which Mr. Roberts was likely to have primarily involved as a Treasury official. Reagan's fiscal program was fundamentally about tax cuts for the rich, a massive expansion in military spending, sharp reductions in social expenditures, and an acceptance-or better still, an embrace-of large-scale federal government fiscal deficits on these terms. All of this should have a familiar ring to those who have followed the course of economic policy under George W. Bush.
No doubt Mr. Roberts recalls President Reagan's frequently recounted stories about "welfare queens" driving to pick up government checks in their Cadillacs. It was through repeating stories like this that Reagan was able to build support for an assault on even the minimal welfare state programs that had been operating prior to his taking office. It is no surprise that the individual poverty rate rose from 11.9 per cent under Carter to 14.1 per cent under Reagan. ..large-scale fiscal deficits create persistent pressure for a permanent contraction in social spending by the federal government… Remember the Reaganites, as with the Bush group, apparently experienced few qualms about throwing more money to the military while cutting taxes for the already overprivileged."
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This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. So that's what you'll do next. The passphrase can be changed later by using the -p option. This option may be specified multiple times. If a certificate becomes invalid after a limited time frame, it will need to be re-issued with a new validity lifetime. This option will read a private. According to the man page, valid algorithms are rsa, dsa, ecdsa and ed25519.
When to revoke computer authentication certificates?
The options that are valid for user certificates are:. . Pp The resultant certificate will be placed in. This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. The reason that I want to do it this way is so that I can manage the ssh keys better and to allow me to revoke them if they leave the company so that they cannot access that server anymore. The default conversion format is.
The passphrase may be empty to indicate no passphrase host keys must have an empty passphrase , or it may be a string of arbitrary length. This section may appear multiple times. Fl G option for safety. The default serial number is zero. The public key is stored in a file with the same name but. Op Fl f Ar keyfile. The program will prompt for the file containing the private keys, for the passphrase if the key has one, and for the new comment.
The program also asks for a passphrase. By default, each candidate will be subjected to 1. This section may appear multiple times. This allows for automatic revocation of certificates in case managing the Key Revocation List overlooks an intended removal. For our example, we will assume it is network isolated.
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What are some of the problems with this solution? Finally, certificates may be defined with a validity lifetime. Pp Additional limitations on the validity and use of user certificates may be specified through certificate options. This option will not modify existing hashed hostnames and is therefore safe to use on files that mix hashed and non-hashed names. It Fl K Ar checkpt Write the last line processed to the file. Hashes in this section must appear in numeric order, treating each hash as a big- endian integer.
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Removes all keys belonging to. Key Revocation Lists, and to test whether. This option does not modify existing hashed hostnames and is therefore safe to use on files that mix hashed and non-hashed names. Signing Host Keys The most straightforward use of your new signing key is to sign host keys. Dq -4w:+4w valid from four weeks ago to four weeks from now ,. Specifies a serial number to be embedded in the certificate to distinguish. If want to avoid issuing a certificate at all, you can include a non-existent domain name in your commandline, which will cause issuance to fail while still validating the other, existing domain names.


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La boule bretonne à un plomb est une variante du jeu de boule bretonne pratiquée dans le Finistère, en Bretagne. Il existe trois associations de boules à un plomb situées à Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch, à Telgruc-sur-Mer et à Quimper.

La boule bretonne à un plomb est inscrite à l'Inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel en France.

Historique
L'usage de boules plombées en Bretagne remonte probablement au moins à la fin du  : la  est en effet déjà qualifiée de  par Charles Le Goffic en 1922.

Pendant l'entre-deux guerres, ce type de jeu est notamment pratiqué à Brest :

A l'origine, les allées de jeu étaient dans les cafés, et l'on s'y retrouvait le dimanche pour jouer aux boules. A l'époque, les boules étaient en bois, aujourd'hui elles sont en résine, et ce depuis la fin des années 1960. Par la suite, les cafés ont commencé à fermer et les allées se sont faites de plus en plus rares. C'est pour cela qu'en 1972, l'association « La Boule Douffine » a vu le jour à Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch. Les membres ont obtenu un bâtiment et ont construit une allée en terre battue, refaite à la fin des années 1980. Un nouveau local fut construit par la municipalité en 1987. Il existe également un club à Telgruc-sur-Mer.

Règles du jeu
Le but du jeu de boules bretonnes à un plomb est rapprocher ses boules le plus près possible du petit, appelé « boulic ». La partie se déroule en équipe, de deux à quatre joueurs. Les boules mesurent entre 9 et 12 centimètres de diamètre et sont plombées afin de les déséquilibrer d'un côté et leur imprimer une trajectoire courbe permettant de contourner les boules déjà jouées. La partie débute par la lancer du boulic, qui ne doit pas se situer plus loin que le milieu de l'allée, et à plus de 1 mètre du fond. Ensuite, c'est l'équipe adverse qui lance ses premières boules, jusqu'à ce qu'elle obtienne l'avantage. Elles doivent obligatoirement rouler lors du lancer. Si elles touchent le fond de l'allée mais ne touchent aucune autre boule, elles sont éliminées. On compte les points à la fin de chaque mène. L'équipe qui a ses boules les plus proches du boulic remporte un point. La première équipe qui arrive à 10 points remporte la partie.

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Voir aussi
Boule bretonne
Boule bretonne des Côtes-d'Armor
Boule plombée du pays de Morlaix
Jeu de boules
Jeux traditionnels bretons
Sport breton

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GAMGI supports the following objects: Text, Orbital, Bond, Atom, Direction, Plane, Group, Molecule, Cluster, Cell, Arrow, Shape, Graph, Assembly, Light, Layer and Window.
GAMGI supports both wired (stroked) and solid (extruded) 3D fonts.
Stroked fonts are needed to show information (as measurements and object identification) on the screen, which needs to be three-dimensional because it will be linked to molecules and other three-dimensional objects. Stroked fonts are relatively simple, so characters can be drawn fast. Measurements and object identification must work in both manual and automatic modes. In the automatic mode, measurements of distances and angles must be recalculated and the results updated in the text objects in real time, while the user manipulates the objects.
Extruded fonts are designed to provide the highest possible visual quality to text objects. These fonts work well with lights and can be relatively complex, so they are much slower than the stroked fonts.
Text objects can own other text objects only, so they are recursive objects. This gives the user maximum flexibility to manipulate different text fragments separately and compose them to obtain the final result. Text objects can be owned by any other GAMGI object except lights and windows.
Only the low-level engine infra-structure of orbital objects is implemented so far. The goal is to describe: 1) simple hydrogen-like orbitals, s, p, d, f, etc., and its hybridisations, sp, sp2, sp3, etc.; 2) complex representations of the electronic clouds surrounding the nucleus, commonly provided by combinations of Gaussian, Slater and plane wave analytic functions; 3) combinations of numerical functions usually described by spline line coefficients; 4) pseudo-potentials electronic descriptions.
The main difficulty with orbitals is to collect the data from files with completely different formats, provided by Gaussian, ADF, DSolid, Plana, etc. and build a common way to handle all this information. This problem must be correlated with the way GAMGI handles input/output data.
Orbitals can own text objects, so for example the name of the orbital can be attached to it.
GAMGI handles bonds between atoms as objects owned by these atoms. Each atom can have an unlimited number of bonds. Each bond must have two parent atoms. Bonds can own orbitals and texts.
Atoms are the most important objects in GAMGI. They can own orbitals, texts and are the only objects that can own bonds.
Direction objects were designed primarily to handle crystallographic directions but they should provide useful functionality even in the absence of periodic cells. Currently, crystallographic directions can be viewed directly in space or represented as poles or traces in stereographic projections. Important properties such as the distance between nodes or the angles between directions and planes can be determined just clicking on the objects.
Futurely users should be able to choose directions of atoms in cells, clusters or molecules, automatically producing direction objects reproducing those directions, including the atoms and its child, bonds, orbitals and texts, and then handle these new direction objects as totally independent viewing and building tools.
Direction objects can own atoms, orbitals and texts.
Plane objects were designed primarily to handle crystallographic planes but they should provide useful functionality even in the absence of periodic cells. Currently, crystallographic planes can be viewed directly in space, in the reciprocal lattice, or represented as poles or traces in stereographic projections. Important properties such as the distance between planes, the area per node or the angles between planes and directions can be determined just clicking on the objects.
Futurely users should be able to choose planes of atoms in cells, clusters or molecules, automatically producing plane objects reproducing those planes, including the atoms and its child, bonds, orbitals and texts, and then handle these new plane objects as totally independent viewing and building tools.
Implementing x-ray and electronic diffraction patterns, showing crystallographic planes as circular spots, represents a high priority project for the future.
Plane objects can own directions, atoms, orbitals and texts.
Group is an object container designed to handle a fragment of a molecule, a residue of a protein, a mero of a polymer chain, or other chemical species. Group objects can own an unlimited number of other chemical species as groups, atoms, and related objects as texts, orbitals, directions and planes. A group is therefore a recursive object, with unlimited nested levels, and its properties should reflect the child chemical features. For example, an amino-acid has amino NH2 and carboxylic acid COOH groups, the later in turn contains an hydroxyl group OH. Currently Group objects can be created only from XML files. Mechanisms to measure length, angle and torsion measurements in groups of atoms are already in place and tested. Algorithms and tools to modify length, angle and torsion values, in both open and cyclic structures have been implemented and fully tested. Everything else is not done yet.
Molecule objects are essentially containers, objects whose primary purpose is to own other objects, as atoms and bonds. Molecules can own groups, planes, directions, atoms, orbitals and texts. Currently Group objects can be created only from XML files. Mechanisms to measure the point symmetry in molecules are already in place and tested. Everything else is not done yet.
Cluster is an object container, designed to contain an unlimited number of chemical species as child objects, including other clusters, molecules, groups, atoms and related objects such as texts, orbitals, directions and planes. A cluster is therefore a recursive object, with unlimited nested levels, and its properties should reflect the child chemical features.
Clusters are currently used in the Voronoi tesselation of an arbitrary set of atoms.
All the GAMGI functionality related with atomic structures with periodic boundary conditions is handled by cell objects. Crystalline structures can be created indicating either a crystalline lattice and a motif or a space group and the asymmetric unit atoms. The 14 Bravais lattices can be represented by Conventional, Primitive and Wigner-Seitz cells, plus Rhombus and Sphere volumes. Users can choose the number of cells, the volume size, the cell positioning, the type of cell borders, solid or wired cell representations, and the cell color. Any Cluster, Molecule, Group, Atom or even Orbital, Text object can be used as a valid motif to construct a periodic structure. GAMGI provides powerful yet simple pattern rules to indicate which lattice nodes should be filled, this way allowing users to create complex mixed structures that can be used to study liquids and other non-periodic systems. In particular, these pattern rules can be used to build 2D and 1D periodic and non-periodic structures.
Arrow objects include different types of 2D and 3D arrows, which are not text objects but are very useful to prepare images containing atomic structures, graphs, text, etc., for presentations at seminars or school teaching, or for producing printed images for articles or books. Arrow objects can own text objects (only). This is useful for example to add an equilibrium constant over a double arrow symbolising a chemical equilibrium. The low-level engine infra-structure required to handle arrow objects is fully implemented but everything else is not done yet.
Shape objects describe backgrounds, boxes, circles, ellipses, diamonds, etc. designed to make an image for a presentation more clear and pretty. The aim is therefore to fill the gap between text and arrow objects. Shape objects can own text objects only. This is useful, for example to include a message in a box. Nice functionality to have in GAMGI shape objects includes: 1) several styles should be provided for shape objects, including solid, contour, partially transparent, etc.; 2) mechanisms should be provided to allow users to choose and apply OpenGL textures, in 2D and 3D shape objects; 3) mechanisms should be provided to allow users to make textures, namely profile gradients, as in the GIMP. The low-level engine infra-structure required to handle shape objects is fully implemented but everything else is not done yet.
Graph objects will be used to describe all sort of graphic information usually related with atomic structures, including for example radial distribution functions and electron density maps. In particular, graphs will be used to represent the copious amount of data often provided by ab-initio and molecular mechanics calculations. Graphs can own text objects only, which will be used for captions, titles, labels, etc. The low-level engine infra-structure required to handle Graph objects is fully implemented but everything else is not done yet.
Assembly is an object container, designed to be fully flexible. An assembly can own any GAMGI objects, including other assembly objects, except lights, layers and windows. An assembly object is therefore a recursive object, with unlimited nested levels. For example, an assembly can be used to associate a graph with a molecule and a cell, to manipulate all of them at once. Currently Assembly objects can be created only from XML files. The graphic interfaces to properly link Assembly objects are not done yet.
Everything related with lightning in GAMGI is handled by light objects. GAMGI lights implement all the functionality provided by the OpenGL specification. This includes directional, positional and spot lights, ambient, diffuse and specular light components, and axial and radial light attenuations. The maximum number of lights that each layer can own is fixed by the graphics library used with GAMGI. In Mesa this number is currently 8, the minimum required by the OpenGL specification. However, as the number of layers that each window can own is unlimited, the same is true for the total number of lights per image. Lights are the only objects in GAMGI that cannot own other objects.
GAMGI supports multiple, unlimited, layers for each window, allowing users to move and copy objects between different layers and see multiple layers simultaneously. A layer can own all kinds of GAMGI objects, except bonds, windows and layers. In particular, layers are the only GAMGI objects that can own lights.
Functionality currently implemented includes perspective and orthographic projections, full control over projection and model view (like a photographic camera) parameters, inside and outside visibility, background color, plus undo and save history mechanisms to keep and recover the whole contents of each layer, for as many levels as previously defined.
Perspective projection is better to simulate realistic views but the orthographic projection (mostly used in architecture) is usually preferred for most work related with building and viewing structures, because these are not distorted by perspective. The projection parameters, that control the matrix transformations related with the projection of the 3D space on the screen, are fully controlled by the users.
GAMGI supports multiple, unlimited, windows, which allow users to easily move and copy objects between them. Window objects are truely independent, so they can be opened and closed in any order. Windows can own layer objects only, which can be moved or copied between different windows.


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Leave the same way you came.
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I realized that when you're in this creative space, it's so difficult to separate your feelings and your imagination. It's like one influences the other and the more you try to compartmentalize the two into separate boxes in your mind, the more you feel like you're not being genuine with yourself and with others. And the reason we create is to express ourselves in our truest form. At least that's why I do it and it's flows very naturally. Sometimes I am so brutally honest about my feelings and my thoughts, that I only think about what I have said/written after I have said/written it and sometimes it's after the damage is done.
Then today, I watched this Ted Talk video by Ory Okolloh. I stumbled upon it when I was scrolling down my Twitter timeline. I happen to be quite fond of her online persona for some reason, though I don't know her in real life. So, I clicked on it to watch why she became an activist. I feel like I've watched it before, but this time the message was somewhat louder. She was speaking to the people bickering in the backseat i.e. Me.
She uses her personal stories to highlight the different issues that Africans are facing while in Africa of course. I love the simplicity in which she shares her stories, because I could literally relate to everything that she was talking about because it's our truth. From issues of poverty, corruption, diseases, lack of access to resources, and so on. Those are the things that we without privilege go through and fight for every single day. And her passion for changing the narrative is so profound.
I mean, if you've seen her in her element, doing what she does in both small and big ways. Whether it's highlighting the wrongs in the society, questioning the irregularities and in such an intelligent and aggressive way that she cannot be ignored; or it's creating platforms that will enable us to right these wrongs or finding practical and working solutions to the problems we face as a country/continent. How profound?!
Her vision is that an African child born today, can be whoever they want to be here, without having to leave. And they can have the possibility of transcending the circumstances in which they were born.
Today she has inspired me to break out of the cocoon that I had retreated to. I was feeling like I am washed out, and I still do. It's not like it this feeling has disappeared in thin air. But after watching the video, I just thought that most of the time you may think that your life is nothing, or that it's just so ordinary or mundane and there's nothing really to write home about. But sometimes, it's in the ordinariness of it that we find the extra and it's from that extra that we continue to be and continue to do. That we create the influence necessary to make another life better and another life worth living. So,
Speak your truth, at least when you have the chance to. Don't feel the need to ever exaggerate it or devalue it. Because when the truth becomes obscured by the mind's discernment, your reality becomes hazy.
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Wiggins and Froome pre-Tour race programmes unveiled
Team Sky leaders, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome, could race together as early as next month.
In a statement revealing the riders' likely pre-Tour de France race programmes, Team Sky have indicated that the duo will line-up together at the Tour of Oman.
In March, Wiggins is expected to contest the Volta ao Algarve while Froome heads the team's challenge at Tirenno-Adiratico.
Wiggins and Froome will ride together again next month
Wiggins will take his turn on Italian soil in April, where he is expected to race in the Giro del Trentino as final preparation for his attempt at a second Grand Tour victory, when he contests the Giro d'Italia in May.
Froome, however, will not contest a Grand Tour until July. He is scheduled to make final preparations for the Tour at the Criterium du Dauphine: a race won by team-mate Wiggins for the last two years.
Both men are expected to race in the Tour de France. Wiggins has issued conflicting statements about his intentions for the race, indicating that he will attempt to defend his title, and, more recently, that he will ride in Froome's support.
Team Sky will continue to pursue the philosophy of holding stage race training camps throughout the season: an approach that yielded dividends for Wiggins last year.
Tim Kerrison, the team's head of performance support, has warned that the race programmes outlined above are subject to change.
As a statement of intent, however, it will leave Team Sky's rivals in little doubt that the British team plans to retain its status as the world's best in 2013.
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Q: Use DidSelectRowAtIndexPath to change a NSMutableArray I thought I figured out myself how to do this question, but it won't work. The code I used:
-(void) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPath
{
     //timedText = a NSString

    [timed replaceObjectAtIndex:1 withObject:timedText];
    [SpelerTable reloadData];
}

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Also, I'd like to not use "replaceObjectAtIndex:1" but use the selected cell.
Thanks in advance.

A: Why index 1 and not indexPath.row?  Plus you don't need to reload the whole table; just the row that changed:
[timed replaceObjectAtIndex:indexPath.row withObject:timedText];
[spelerTable reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath]
                   withRowAnimation:UITableViewAnimationAutomatic];

A:     [timed replaceObjectAtIndex: indexPath.row withObject:timedText];

A: To use the cell:
UITableViewCell *cell = [self tableView:self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

A: Try This code
-(void) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPath
{
     //timedText = a NSString

    [timed replaceObjectAtIndex:indexpath.row withObject:timedText];
    [SpelerTable reloadData];
}

if everything right in your other code thn it will work.

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For the search screens i wanted to keep the results and the way you search the same as the iPhone version but instead of loading a new screen i used the callout to display the results.
The content within the callout can be scrolled but the amount would be restricted so that the user doesn't have to scroll through lots of results.
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Fusion Maia is a spa hotel in its purest form, in the sense that the spa and hotel are one and the same. Everything about Fusion Maia is designed to cleanse, invigorate and inspire. A balanced diet here, for instance, is not an afterthought to diversify your meal, it is a progressive awakening of all five senses. In keeping with this concept, the resort also runs a genius policy of having 'breakfast, anytime, anywhere'. Which is exactly what it sounds like. Wherever you are in the resort and whenever you want to have breakfast, book it, and it will come. It is exactly this sort of easygoing attitude coupled with such doting service that makes a stay at Fusion Maia not only luxurious but also refreshingly leisurely – taken completely at your pace.
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Two victims could have died
They could have died had they not received prompt medical treatment.
The court heard on Wednesday that two of the three men that Micheal Garing, 25, and Tony Imba, 34, allegedly assaulted and robbed had suffered potentially fatal injuries.
l sandeep singh, 27, cleaner He suffered multiple slash wounds and an open skull fracture.
Dr Sharon Low, registrar from the department of neurosurgery in the National Neuroscience Institute, testified yesterday that Mr Singh's brain was also exposed, and small bone fragments were embedded inside.
Dr Low, who operated on the Indian national, added that bacteria could have seeped into his exposed brain and cause death.
She removed the bone bits and inserted a titanium plate into his head to treat the fracture.
Ang Jun Heng, 22, student The Singaporean suffered multiple wounds, including one on the back of his neck. His neck injury, which was very deep, missed his spinal cord by one to two millimetres. Forensic pathologist Dr Paul Chui said Mr Ang could have died if infection had set in.
Egan Karuppaiah, 42 The Indian national was wounded on his hands and face. Although his injuries were not potentially fatal, they could have led to infection and disfigurement, Dr Chui said.
Mr Egan, who used to be a pipe-fitter but is now jobless, testified on Tuesday that the attack has left him unable to fully make use of his hands.
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