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The Fate of Syria
"Cut Into Pieces and Thrown in the River"
by Raymond Ibrahim
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2922/syria-christians-fate
Should "rebels" get their way and topple the Assad regime, the same brutal pattern experienced by Iraq's Christian minorities will come to Syria, where an anti-Assad Muslim preacher recently urged Muslims to "tear apart, chop up and feed" Christians to the dogs.
What is the alternative to Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria? Just consider which groups in Syria are especially for or against Assad—and why.
Christian minorities, who, as 10% of the Syrian population, have the most to gain from a secular government and the most to suffer from a state run by Islamic Sharia law, have no choice but to prefer Assad. They are already seeing aspects of the alternative. A recent Barnabas Fund report, "Christians in Syria Targeted in Series of Kidnappings and Killings; 100 Dead," tells how "children were being especially targeted by the kidnappers, who, if they do not receive the ransom demanded, kill the victim." In one instance, kidnappers videotaped a Christian boy as they murdered him in an attempt to frame the government; one man "was cut into pieces and thrown in a river" and another "was found hanged with numerous injuries."
Accordingly, it is understandable that, as an earlier report put it, "Christians have mostly stayed away from the protests in Syria, having been well treated and afforded a considerable amount of religious freedom under President Assad's regime." After all, "Should Assad fall, it is feared that Syria could go the way of Iraq, post-Saddam Hussein. Saddam, like Assad, restrained the influence of militant Islamists, but after his fall they were free to wreak havoc on the Christian community; hundreds of thousands of Christians were consequently forced to flee the violence. Many of them went to Syria."
In short, should "rebels" get their way and topple the Assad regime, the same brutal pattern experienced by Iraq's Christian minorities—who have been likened to, and killed off like, dogs, to a point nearing extinction—will come to Syria, where an anti-Assad Muslim preacher recently urged Muslims to "tear apart, chop up and feed" Christians who support Assad "to the dogs." From last week alone, some 70 additional Christian homes were invaded and pillaged, and "for the first time in the history of the conflict in Syria, an armed attack has been made on a Catholic monastery," partially in search of money.
And who are these "rebels" who see and treat Christians as sub-humans to be exploited and plundered to fund the "opposition" against Assad? Unfortunately, many of them are Islamists, internal and external, and their "opposition" is really a jihad [holy war]; moreover, they are acting out anti-Christian fatwas that justify the kidnapping, ransoming, and plundering of "infidel" Christians.
As in Libya, al-Qaeda is operating among the Syrian opposition; Ayman al-Zawahiri himself "urges the Syrian people to continue their revolution until the downfall of the Assad regime, and stresses that toppling this regime is a necessary step on the way to liberating Jerusalem." Both the influential Yusif al-Qaradawi and Hamas -- the latter supported by Assad's ally, Iran— back the "rebels." This overview should place the "opposition" -- who they are, what they want — in a clearer context.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Obama, who was remarkably reticent when Iranians seeking Western-style freedom tried to revolt against the oppressive Islamist regime of Iran, made it a point during his recent State of the Union Address to single out Assad by name as needing to go (not that the Republican presidential candidates seem to know any better; see Andrew McCarthy's recent article where, drawing on America's other misadventures in Islamic nations, he shows how the U.S. has little to gain and possibly much to lose by supporting the anti-Assad opposition).
The lesson here is clear: while it is true that not all of Assad's opposition is Islamist—there are anti-Assad Muslims who do not want a state that will be run by Islamic Sharia law —the Islamists are quite confident that the overthrow of Assad will equate with their empowerment. And why shouldn't they be? Wherever Arab tyrants have been overthrow—Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, and so on —it is Islamists who are filling the power-vacuums. Just ask Syria's Christian minorities, who prefer the dictator Assad to remain in power—who prefer the devil they know to the ancient demon their forefathers knew.
Raymond Ibrahim is an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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It is frightening to see how easily Obama drops statesmen he hosted in the White House due to the Arab Spring, which we all know has turned into a harsh winter. Obama does not learn from his mistakes: his speech in Cairo and his dropping of all the Arab presidents and prime ministers he hugged and kissed before are evidence of this. Now he does the same with Assad, saying that his time is limited and that he should go. In the meantime, Obama has issued no word of warning or threathening to the real trouble makers (Jihadists, Hamas, Fatah, and other radical Islamists). The only warning goes out to Israel about futilities like building a few houses, meanwhile Mahmoud Abbas is the real obstacle to negotiations.
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Habib Boularès (), né le  à Tunis et mort le  à Paris , est un journaliste, écrivain et homme d'État tunisien.

Biographie

Études et militantisme
Né le  à Tunis, il étudie au Collège Sadiki puis effectue des études supérieures de langue et littérature anglaise à l'Institut britannique du Caire. Il obtient ensuite un diplôme d'études supérieures en économie monétaire de l'École pratique des hautes études de Paris et un diplôme d'études supérieures en journalisme de l'université de Strasbourg.

Il est, en 1953, réfugié politique au Caire. Il assure alors le secrétariat de la section tunisienne du Bureau du Maghreb arabe, créé en 1947 dans la capitale égyptienne, et milite pendant cette période pour la cause algérienne.

Journaliste
À l'aube de l'indépendance tunisienne, il entame une carrière de journaliste et devient, entre 1955 et 1960, rédacteur en chef du quotidien Assabah, responsable de l'édition au secrétariat d'État à l'Information et rédacteur en chef du journal de la radio nationale, puis directeur du quotidien El Amal entre 1960 et 1967 et président-fondateur de l'agence Tunis Afrique Presse entre 1961 et 1962.

Il occupe ensuite la fonction de directeur général de la RTT entre 1962 et 1964. Il collabore également à l'hebdomadaire Jeune Afrique entre 1975 et 1981.

Carrière politique
Il entre pour la première fois dans le gouvernement tunisien le  comme ministre de la Culture et de l'Information ; il quitte ce poste un an plus tard.

Après une « traversée du désert », durant laquelle il dirige le Centre de recherche sur le tiers monde à l'École internationale de Bordeaux, anime des conférences à l'université de Paris-XII et enseigne à l'Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, il siège comme député entre 1981 et 1986. Ambassadeur de Tunisie en Égypte, il est nommé ministre de la Culture le  et ministre de la Culture et de l'Information le , puis ministre des Affaires étrangères en août 1990 et brièvement ministre de la Défense en 1991 avant d'être élu à la présidence de la Chambre des députés. Il quitte le perchoir en 1997.

En 2002, il est désigné par les chefs d'État maghrébins pour occuper le poste de secrétaire général de l'Union du Maghreb arabe. Il décide de prendre sa retraite en février 2006.

Vie privée
Il est marié avec Line Boularès, une Française originaire de Nancy, maître de conférences à l'université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris-VI). Il est père d'une fille prénommée Alya.

Il meurt le  à Paris à l'âge de , à la suite d'une longue maladie. Ses obsèques ont lieu le 23 avril au cimetière de Sidi Abdelaziz de La Marsa.

Distinctions
 Grand officier de l'ordre de la République tunisienne.

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Ministre tunisien des Affaires étrangères
Ministre tunisien de la Défense
Ministre tunisien de la Culture
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Député tunisien
Journaliste tunisien
Écrivain tunisien du XXe siècle
Écrivain tunisien du XXIe siècle
Écrivain tunisien francophone
Grand officier de l'ordre de la République (Tunisie)
Élève du Collège Sadiki
Élève de l'École pratique des hautes études
Étudiant de l'université de Strasbourg
Collaborateur de Jeune Afrique
Naissance en juillet 1933
Naissance à Tunis
Décès en avril 2014
Décès dans le 15e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 80 ans

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The K-12 OER Collaborative recently announced that it had awarded $1.3 million to 10 content developers to develop 2-3 week open academic units in English/language arts and math.
Those resources, designed to align with the common-core, are expected to serve as the foundation for more extensive, year-long academic materials.
But while some open licenses, such as the one used by EngageNY, give the original, open content developers a route to commercialize their work, the K-12 OER Collaborative goes much further. Its license allows any entity—for-profit or nonprofit—to distribute, remix, and build upon that original work, as long as they credit the original source.
In using that license, the K-12 OER Collaborative's goal is to not only allow schools to benefit from the free, open materials, but to also give other audiences—no matter their affiliation—the chance to try to improve upon the materials, said Cable T. Green, the director of global learning for Creative Commons, which is supporting the collaborative.
Commercial publishers' interest in the K-12 OER Collaborative's resources will likely depend on their quality and usefulness to teachers, said Jay Diskey, the executive director of the pre-K-12 division of the Association of American Publishers.
"Are they creating yesterday's textbooks," Mr. Diskey said, "or something that's a viable product in today's market?"
While it's true a for-profit company could benefit from taking the collaborative's free and open resources, the organization's model includes built-in checks and balances on that activity, said Jennifer A. Wolfe, a partner with the Learning Accelerator, a nonprofit helping fund the effort.
Since free, open resources will be available through the collaborative, a vendor will have to justify to consumers why its product is superior and schools should pay for it, Ms. Wolfe said in an e-mail.
Yet if a vendor makes changes to the open content that are so attractive schools demand to buy it, she added, that's "exactly the kind of innovation we are trying to encourage."
Coverage of the implementation of college- and career-ready standards is supported in part by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Education Week retains sole editorial control over the content of this coverage.
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Severance payments can help many out-of-work professionals bolster their savings while they look for new jobs, go back to school, or invest in professional development. But severance pay is taxable, and recipients are required to report these earnings to the IRS when they file their tax returns.
Severance pay is money that many companies remit to their employees upon involuntary termination, such as a layoff. It's typically calculated based on the length of time you worked for the terminating organization. Employers are under no obligation to grant severance pay to terminated employees, but many choose to do so. Severance pay is negotiated between the employer and the employee at the time of termination.
Severance pay is taxable in the year of payment, along with any unemployment compensation you receive and payments for accumulated vacation and sick time. Employers usually simplify the tax payment process by including the amount on your Form W-2 and withholding the appropriate federal and state taxes. These taxes are typically withheld from severance payments:
12.4% Social Security tax (6.2% each from the employer and the employee)
2.9% Medicare tax (1.45% each from the employer and the employee)
Federal income tax withholding (varies by your tax bracket and filing status)
State income withholding tax (varies by state, tax bracket, and filing status)
6% federal unemployment tax (FUTA) paid by the employer on the first $7,000
Several options exist if you're hoping to minimize your severance pay tax bill.
Put the Money in Your HSA
Contributing to a health savings account (HSA) is a great way to both minimize your tax burden and save for future health and medical expenses. HSAs are pre-tax accounts that can be used toward health or medical needs. The 2022 HSA contribution limit stands at $3,650 for individuals and $7,300 for families.
Save for Retirement
You might also want to consider contributing to an individual retirement account (IRA). You can contribute up to $6,000 a year to an IRA as of 2022, and this money isn't taxed until it's withdrawn in retirement. You can also contribute funds to a Roth IRA, which is taxed when you deposit the money but not upon withdrawal. IRAs can help reduce your federal tax payments either way.
You may even be able to contribute to your employer's 401(k) plan, which has an annual limit of $19,500 in 2021, plus an additional $6,500 for individuals over 50 years old. This limit increases to $20,500 in 2022, although the extra $6,500 boost remains the same.
Spread Out Your Payments
Consider negotiating a staggered severance payment with your employer. Spreading a severance package out over two or more years can help ease the burden of having to pay a single large tax liability.
Staggered payments also can lower your tax bracket and corresponding tax rate.
Help Pay for Education
Some recipients of severance pay choose to put the money into a 529 plan. These plans are tax-advantaged savings vehicles that are typically used by parents to save for their children's educations. Rules for these plans vary by state, but the earnings aren't subject to federal and state income taxes (although the contributions are). The funds can be used to cover the costs of kindergarten through higher education.
How Much Is Severance Pay?
Severance pay is often calculated as a function of salary and time spent at the company. You might be paid 10 weeks' wages if you worked for a company for five years and they offer two weeks of pay for every year of employment.
Employers often continue health insurance benefits for a limited period of time as part of a severance package. The ultimate severance value is agreed upon between the employer and employee.
Who Gets Severance Pay?
Employees receive severance pay from their employers if the terminating employer decides to offer a severance package. Employers most frequently offer severance pay in layoff situations.
It's unusual for companies to pay severance to employees who were terminated "for cause" or for conduct reasons. Employers will frequently require the terminated employee to sign a separation agreement in exchange for the severance pay when they do pay it. These agreements often bar the separated employee from speaking negatively about the company, divulging confidential information, or accepting a job with a competitor.
How Does Severance Pay Affect Unemployment?
The effect of severance pay on unemployment depends on the state. Individual states administer unemployment benefits, and they each have their own unique sets of rules.
"It's crucial to examine your state's unemployment policies as they relate to severance," Robert Premselaar, senior manager of tax and audits at Mach & Associates in New Jersey, told The Balance by phone. "In some states, like Texas and New York, unemployment benefits can be lessened or delayed by the receipt of severance benefits."
Check with your state's unemployment office to determine its policy. You may have to check with two states if your state of employment differs from your state of residence.
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W hether you are a Santa Collector or looking for that special gift for any occasion, you are sure to delight in these Santas. As distinctive as they are as Christmas decorations, these Santas hold yet another appeal. They are depictions of legendary, old world gift bringers of Christmas long ago; extensively researched, carefully created, reviving Christmas memories of many heritages . . . possibly yours!
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If you travel the Kansai area of Japan, you are most likely to visit Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe. But, like Kamakura in the Kanto region, there is a quiet place with great cultural assets on the doorstep of the huge Kansai metropolitan region. It's called Himeji.
This old castle town in Hyogo Prefecture is just about 60 kilometers west of Kobe. As the description "castle town" suggests, Himeji is most famous for its old, Japanese-style castle, which I can assure you is as beautiful and impressive as it looks in pictures. Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to the Kansai region, and I definitely do not regret visiting Himeji.
Himeji is easily accessible by train from the east and the west. It is along the Tokaido Shinkansen route running from Tokyo to Fukuoka and is a pleasant trip from Tokyo/Yokohama (about 3 hours) and eastern Japan alike.
The town can also be accessed from Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe either by Shinkansen or by the JR special rapid train, which takes about 90 minutes from the Kyoto station, one hour from Osaka, and 40 minutes from the Sannomiya station in Kobe.
The most popular draw in Himeji is its huge, white castle. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site and a Natural Treasure of Japan. It is said to be the most beautiful castle in Japan today. Initially built as a small fort in 1333, Himeji castle was transformed into its current state through several expansions and restorations. It is nicknamed "white heron castle" due to its color. In 1945, the city of Himeji was heavily damaged by allied air raids, but the castle miraculously survived almost unharmed.
The castle features several buildings and gates within its walls. The most interesting place to see is probably the main keep of the castle. You can go all the way up and enjoy the nice view of the city, as well as pray at a small shrine in the highest accessible room.
Himeji castle has a deep connection to the city, which can best be seen in the choice of its city mascot, called Shiromaru Hime (literally, white, round princess). This mascot wears the castle on its head, decorated with blooming sakura, and is frequently visible throughout the city on warning signs and other things. The best time for visiting Himeji castle is, as its mascot suggests, is during the sakura season, when the great number of cherry blossom trees around the castle are in full bloom.
The inner parts of the castle are available only during the daytime and require payment of an entrance fee (¥1,000 for an adult). However, some areas around the castle and within the castle moat are accessible 24/7. The illuminated castle at night can be as beautiful as during the daytime.
Himeji castle is easily reached by bus or a short 15-minute walk from the JR Himeji station.
The Engyou-Ji temple at the top of Mount Shosha is another highly-recommended stop on any visit to Himeji. This temple complex of the Buddhist Tendai school was founded in 966 and is beautifully incorporated into the natural mountain environment.
Engyou-Ji temple not only has a calm, historic feeling due to its beautiful buildings, but you can also enjoy the peaceful, nature-filled atmosphere, especially in the early morning. It provides a nice contrast to the more touristic Himeji castle. If you have seen the movie The Last Samurai, you might recognize parts of the temple grounds, since some scenes were shot at Engyou-Ji.
The fastest way to get to the top of the mountain is by ropeway, which can be reached by bus from the Himeji station (last stop of the Shinki Bus). The cheapest way is to buy a combination ticket for ropeway and bus for about ¥1,400 at Himeji station's bus ticket office. The entrance fee for Engyou-Ji is ¥500, but since the temple complex covers a wide area and the walkway to the main temple can be quite adventurous, it might be a good idea to cut some time and take the temple bus for another ¥500.
Both Himeji castle and Engyou-Ji temple are relics of old Japan and clearly show the beauty of its architecture—one build for war, the other for religion and peace. Starting your visit early is highly recommended, since both sites close around 4:00 or 5:00 PM and can be quite crowded due to many tourists visiting the town.
Visitors to the Kansai region who want to take a break from large metropolitan areas—or just like big Japanese castles (or cute mascots)—will definitely find that Himeji is a worthwhile stop on their journey.
Luca Vogel is a former exchange student at Waseda University and intern with JAPAN Forward. He is originally from Hamburg, Germany.


text:
package cloud

import (
	biinstall "github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-init/installation"
	bosherr "github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-init/internal/github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-utils/errors"
	boshlog "github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-init/internal/github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-utils/logger"
	boshsys "github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-init/internal/github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-utils/system"
)

type Factory interface {
	NewCloud(installation biinstall.Installation, directorID string) (Cloud, error)
}

type factory struct {
	fs        boshsys.FileSystem
	cmdRunner boshsys.CmdRunner
	logger    boshlog.Logger
}

func NewFactory(
	fs boshsys.FileSystem,
	cmdRunner boshsys.CmdRunner,
	logger boshlog.Logger,
) Factory {
	return &factory{
		fs:        fs,
		cmdRunner: cmdRunner,
		logger:    logger,
	}
}

func (f *factory) NewCloud(installation biinstall.Installation, directorID string) (Cloud, error) {
	cpiJob := installation.Job()
	target := installation.Target()
	cpi := CPI{
		JobPath:     cpiJob.Path,
		JobsDir:     target.JobsPath(),
		PackagesDir: target.PackagesPath(),
	}

	cmdPath := cpi.ExecutablePath()
	if !f.fs.FileExists(cmdPath) {
		return nil, bosherr.Errorf("Installed CPI job '%s' does not contain the required executable '%s'", cpiJob.Name, cmdPath)
	}

	cpiCmdRunner := NewCPICmdRunner(f.cmdRunner, cpi, f.logger)
	return NewCloud(cpiCmdRunner, directorID, f.logger), nil
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Home News They Got A Name For ...
They Got A Name For The Winners In The World
By Peggy Shinn | Nov. 08, 2012, 4 p.m. (ET)
If bobsled doesn't work out for Aja Evans, the 24-year-old former track athlete could probably make it as a wide receiver. If the NFL would have her.
Aja (pronounced "Asia," after the 1977 Steely Dan album and song) is the younger sister of Fred Evans, a 6'4" 305-pound defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings. But in Lake Placid, she's the standout rookie on the U.S. bobsled team this year and is a strong candidate to make the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team. So chances are good that bobsled will work out.
A 2010 graduate of the University of Illinois and NCAA five-time All-American in shot put, Aja decided to give bobsled a go in March 2012. After almost a two-year break from track, she missed being an athlete. And in the middle of the night last March, bobsled popped into her head.
Her track coach had mentioned bobsled to her during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. He was watching the bobsled heats on TV and learned that the combine test for making the U.S. bobsled team — timed sprints, broad jump, shot toss, and squats — were similar to the events that the track team used to gauge fitness.
"You could kill it," he told Aja.
But Aja, who competed at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in track & field, was focused on shot put at the time, not a sport done on an icy track in a far-off land. She forgot about bobsled. Until that night seven months ago.
When she woke up, she looked up bobsled's combine test. Sprints: 60 meters in 7.5 seconds, check. Broad jump: 3 meters, check. Shot toss: 15 meters, check (she set Illinois's outdoor school record at 17.03 meters). Squats: 130 kilograms (286.6 lbs), check.
"You know, I think I can do this," she thought.
Aja walked into work at EFT Sports Performance outside Chicago and over lunch asked the facility's founder, Elias Karras, what he thought. "Sure!" he responded. Training in the mornings and working in the afternoons, she could be ready in time for a July tryout, he said.
So Aja began working out with her brother, who's five years older, and other NFL players, like Bears cornerback Tim Jennings and running back Matt Forte.
"That was my training group, all NFL players and me," said Aja by phone a few days after she was named to the 2012 U.S. bobsled team.
Working out with them, she picked up a few pointers. "My brother helped me stay focused," she said. "They have no room for excuses. You have to put in that work, but they make the environment really fun at the same time. It's like a family environment, like training around all your brothers."
Aja showed them a few tricks as well. Like how to box jump.
"They couldn't touch me in the box jumps," she said, with quiet pride. "I'm really explosive. I have powerful legs, so on the dynamic days and the lower lift days, I was really able to keep up with them pound for pound."
Check out her seated box jump. Seated in a chair on the floor, she can leap straight up four feet and land on her feet on top of a box.
Asked if she had ever beaten her brother Fred before, she laughed, then said yes. Years ago, in an impromptu sibling race down the street, she was beating him. As he tried to surge by his little sister, his pants split, ending his bid for sibling dominance. At least on that day.
In July 2012 at the combine test in Lake Placid, Aja squatted more than 130 kilograms in warm-up. She had no idea that this was the maximum amount needed to score a perfect 100. In the broad jump, she out-jumped the "perfect" 3 meters. In the shot toss, she threw farther than a perfect 15 meters. She only missed six points (out of 800) in the sprint when she triggered the clock before the official start.
So it was no surprise when she won the U.S. Bobsled Push Championships in early October, beating last year's push champion Katie Eberling. Three weeks later, Aja and Jamie Greubel broke the Lake Placid bobsled track's start record during selection races. She helped get their two-woman bobsled up to speed faster than summer Olympians Tianna Madison and Lolo Jones could power their sleds off the start.
It was only her third day sprinting on ice. Aja wasn't even fully comfortable careening down the track yet. But the track record erased any doubts about whether or not bobsled was for her or not.
"After that, I became hungry for the sport," she said. "I was ready to get back out there and keep working at it."
Now she wants her brother to experience bobsledding.
"He's so competitive, he's crazy," said Aja, as only a sister could. "He'll definitely want to try it. I just don't know if he'll fit!"
Peggy Shinn is a freelance contributor for TeamUSA.org. This story was not subject to the approval of the United States Olympic Committee or any National Governing Bodies.
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"There's an Alternative to the Hierarchical, Top-Down Capitalist Corporation"
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Janine Jackson,
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Janine Jackson interviewed Richard Wolff about democracy at the workplace for the August 10 episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
JANINE JACKSON: When we spoke with Richard Wolff earlier this year, I noted that news media don't even present economics as a contested realm. Richard, it's as if there's only the system as we currently have it, so it's very difficult to think about making changes in that system.
Richard Wolff: No, you know, it's always struck me as bizarre, even if you are a great lover of capitalism, our system, and you just think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Even if you're like that, if that's your point of view, the fact is that places, like, I don't know, let's pick one: the People's Republic of China—for the last 25 years, that economy, which is organized in ways that are different from the one we have here in the United States, that People's Republic of China has achieved the most rapid economic transformation from poor country to superpower economically, that we have ever seen in the history of the human race. OK…. That alone would mean we ought to be exploring, in our classrooms, in our media: What's that about? How did they accomplish that? That's something that most of the world's people dream of, and so it's an important matter.
And now you add another couple of other considerations. That it's the largest country by population on this planet. And it is a superpower, has nuclear weapons and all of that. And you'd say, any rational person would understand: Of course we have to look at that model of how you do economics, how you organize an economic system, to ask the logical, rational question: not necessarily that we must copy them, but are there things about what they do, and how they organize, that we might be able to learn something from?
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I like to point out to my students sometimes that the world's largest debtor country is the United States, and that the largest creditor country of the United States is the People's Republic of China. If nothing else, that should provide a hint—and I'm trying to be polite here—a hint that we ought to explore.
And your question is exactly right, because in 99 percent of the curricula of the United States in economics, there is nothing of the sort; there is no program, no course, certainly no sequence of courses (which is what you would need to do a proper exploration, over a year or two or three), there's nothing of the sort. So that when I go and try to explain to people how that economy is different, I'm starting from scratch. They haven't the faintest idea of what I'm talking about, and worse than that, they don't know, in that they have no sense in their heads that there's anything there they ought to have been taught, they ought to have learned, as just being a citizen and making rational decisions.
Another way to put it: We have an economic system in which the enterprises of this country are pretty much organized in the same way. At the top of each enterprise is an owner; the owner can be an individual, can be a family, can be a partnership. But most of the business in America is done by an owner that's called a "corporation." It has shareholders, the shareholders elect a board of directors, usually 15–20 people, and they operate the enterprise. There can be a few hundred employees, there can be a few hundred thousand employees, and everything in between. Now that's a very interesting way of organizing business. Not the way feudal manors were organized, it's not the way slave plantations were organized; it's peculiar to capitalism.
But here's a simple fact which ought to illustrate, in a sense, the question you've asked: This is an extremely undemocratic arrangement. What do I mean? Well, the number of people that make all the key decisions in American corporations, and by that I mean deciding what to produce, deciding how, deciding what technology to use, deciding the physical geographic location—will it be produced in Cincinnati or in Shanghai, etc.—and finally, what to do with the profits that the labor of all the people working there have helped to produce? All of those key decisions, that shape the lives of everybody involved in the company, and indeed everybody in the larger community, are made by tiny groups of individuals, the major shareholders, that 1 percent who own three-quarters of the shares, or two-thirds of them, and the boards of directors that they choose. This is a tiny minority sitting at the top of every corporation, looking and acting pretty much like kings and queens once acted when there were monarchies instead of democratic parliamentarian systems.
And we don't question that, we here in America, with our commitment to democracy. We seem not to be able to ask the obvious question: If we like democracy, as we say we do, if we insist on some sort of accountability of the political leaders who make decisions that impact us, why in the world do we not make the same demand—democratic accountability—of the economic leaders in our society, the people who run these enormous corporations, that are the dominant economic factor in our society? And we don't.
And the funny thing is that, of course, there is an alternative; just like there was an alternative to monarchy—namely, political democracy—there's an alternative to the hierarchical, top-down capitalist corporation. And it has a number of names, because it's very old; the one that's being used much these days is "worker cooperative," or "producer cooperative," and the basic idea is, we would have a different economy if we organized our enterprises in an alternative way.
Namely, instead of hierarchical or vertical, with a tiny, unaccountable leadership at the top, we didn't do that. We said, there is no leadership. Or to put it differently, if there is a leadership, it has to be elected by the workers in an enterprise; they have to have the right to recall these people. In other words, that the workers in a place have democratic rights in the workplace, that are roughly analogous to the politically democratic rights we have in the communities where we live. If you did that, all the decisions that we have lived with, and that have produced the economic problems with which this conversation began, would be different.
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Janine Jackson is FAIR's program director and and producer/host of FAIR's syndicated radio show "CounterSpin." She contributes frequently to FAIR's newsletter Extra!, and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s (Westview Press). She has appeared on ABC's "Nightline" and "CNN Headline News," among other outlets, and has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her articles have appeared in various publications, including In These Times and the UAW's Solidarity, and in books including Civil Rights Since 1787 (New York University Press) and Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (New World Library). Jackson is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has a master's in sociology from the New School for Social Research.
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text:
package com.smartlogic.classificationserver.client;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;

import static com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.client.WireMock.*;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

public class ClassifySimpleTest extends ClassificationTestCase {

	@Test
	public void testSimple() throws ClassificationException {
		wireMockRule.stubFor(post(urlEqualTo("/"))
				.willReturn(aResponse()
						.withHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml")
						.withBody(readFileToString("src/test/resources/responses/csResponseSimple1.xml"))));

		String title = "This is the document title";
		String body = "This is the document body it talks about softball and soft drinks as well as soft tennis ";
		Map<String, Collection<ClassificationScore>> classificationScores = classificationClient.getClassifiedDocument(new Body(body), new Title(title)).getAllClassifications();
		assertEquals(3, classificationScores.get("IPSV-Health, well-being and care").size(), "run 1 - IPSV");
	}

	@Test
	public void testSimpleWithFileName() throws ClassificationException {
		wireMockRule.stubFor(post(urlEqualTo("/"))
				.willReturn(aResponse()
						.withHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml")
						.withBody(readFileToString("src/test/resources/responses/csResponseSimple1.xml"))));

		String title = "This is the document title";
		String body = "This is the document body it talks about softball and soft drinks as well as soft tennis";
		String filename = "A label to go in audit log";
		Map<String, Collection<ClassificationScore>> classificationScores = classificationClient.getClassifiedDocument(new FileName(filename), new Body(body), new Title(title)).getAllClassifications();
		assertEquals(3, classificationScores.get("IPSV-Health, well-being and care").size(), "run 1 - IPSV");
	}

	@Test
	public void testSimpleWithResults() throws ClassificationException {

		wireMockRule.stubFor(post(urlEqualTo("/"))
				.willReturn(aResponse()
						.withHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml")
						.withBody(readFileToString("src/test/resources/responses/csResponseSimple1.xml"))));

		String title = "This is the document title";
		String body = "This is the document body it talks about softball and soft drinks as well as soft tennis \0xc3\0xb3";
		Map<String, Collection<ClassificationScore>> classificationScores = classificationClient.getClassifiedDocument(new Body(body), new Title(title)).getAllClassifications();
		assertEquals(3, classificationScores.get("IPSV-Health, well-being and care").size(), "run 1 - IPSV");
	}

}


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News & Politics » Community Notebook
by Ann Braybrooks
Last Updated: 08/13/2013 3:29 pm
"We'd never been to Woodstock before," says former Manhattanite Jeff Cuiule.
"And we'd had no intention of ever coming to Woodstock," says Audrey Cusson, his wife and business partner. "It was not really a draw for either of us. It wasn't on our radar."
Yet in spring 2000, the high-achieving, highly stressed couple—Cuiule was a senior vice president in advertising, Cusson a senior vice president of marketing at a large publishing house—left New York City and purchased Mirabai of Woodstock, a bookstore founded 13 years earlier by Anne Roberts for people interested in exploring different kinds of spirituality, with the ultimate goal of improving themselves and the lives of others.
The store's mission dovetailed with the couple's own "spirit journey," a term that Cuiule uses. "I was, for many years, quite content," he says. "But the more time we spent in our jobs in the city, the more I realized that what I was doing was not really meaningful to me anymore. It was accomplished, but it wasn't really meaningful."
Cuiule says that the process of "getting out of my head and into my heart" began in 1984, when he and Cusson adopted Lucy, a German shepherd that, as the result of a marital dispute between a couple in Pennsylvania, had been chained in a yard, set on fire, and left for dead. Although the dog had been helped by a veterinarian, she needed more surgery and constant looking-after to fully recover. The intense, selfless experience of aiding Lucy "sort of started us on the road to getting Mirabai," says Cuiule.
Lucy's presence also helped the couple reconnect in their marriage, along with the work they were doing with a marriage counselor who lives in Saugerties and commutes parttime to New Yotk City. On the last day of counseling, the therapist asked them to close their eyes and imagine what they wanted to do together, since they had already told him that they wanted to be business partners.
Cuiule said that they "imagined owning a bookstore, living above the store, being in a small town, being in the mountains, being within driving distance of New York, in case we missed it, because we'd lived there so long, but being far enough away, so that it was really a small town." The couple imagined that the store would contain books that changed people's lives.
Says Cuiule, it was "as if a little light bulb went off on top of his head, and his eyes lit up, and he said, 'Oh my gosh, I know exactly the place that you're talking about, because I live in the next town over. There's a store in Woodstock that's been for sale for two years.'"
A week later, Cuiule and Cusson traveled upstate. "A lot of people wanted to buy Mirabai, but they wanted bits and pieces of it," says Cuiule. "Either they wanted to buy the store, but they didn't want the building. Or they wanted the building, but they didn't want anything to do with the business."
Founder and owner Anne Roberts was planning to move to Vermont and "was making her own transition," says Cuiule. "Anne waited for two years because it was very important to her that someone continue what she had established. The store really meant a lot to people."
Roberts and the couple clicked, and soon Cuiule and Cusson became the new "curators" (Cuiule's word) of the "co-created space," referring to the contributions of Roberts, the couple, and the various readers, writers, and teachers affiliated with Mirabai.
Back in New York City, when the couple announced that they had bought a spiritual/holistic bookstore, they found many naysayers. "We were going to be in an industry for which the prognosis was not very good," says Cuiule. "When we decided to buy the store, our lawyer and accountant thought that we were insane." So did their coworkers in advertising and publishing.
The couple ignored them and took on the challenge of running a bookstore that had a core group of admirers but had seen declining sales. During the first year, Cuiule and Cusson infused their own money and did not draw an income. They slowly transformed the store, inside and out, and within the last three years, sales have doubled—quite an achievement when many independents are struggling or have gone out of business.
More than one bookstore has managed to survive in the small village of Woodstock, despite the rise of electronic retailing and the opening of a Barnes & Noble in nearby Kingston. The Golden Notebook has operated as a full-service bookstore for almost 30 years. The Reader's Quarry, featuring used and rare titles (with an emphasis on literature and the arts), has been in business since 2003.
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The EFL weekend is upon us once more, with a full complement of fixtures across three divisions.
Morecambe host Plymouth Argyle this weekend, when they will be hoping to bring an end to a run of seven straight defeats at the Globe Arena.
Standing in their way, however, are the Pilgrims, who arrive in Lancashire on the back of seven consecutive away wins – a new club record.
Those triumphs came during a 14-match unbeaten run in Sky Bet League Two, but back-to-back home losses may well give the struggling Shrimps cause for optimism.
Just a month on from parting company with Milton Keynes Dons, Karl Robinson returns to Sky Bet League One as a manager this weekend.
45.8 - Karl Robinson has a win percentage of 45.8% in League One (114 wins in 249 games, inc. play offs). Appointed.
Charlton Athletic moved for his services earlier this week after his six-year tenure at stadiummk came to an end, and the man who earned promotion with the Dons in 2014/15 is relishing the opportunity.
"I am honoured to have been appointed manager of Charlton and can't wait to get started," Robinson, who will watch from the stands when his new side takes on Sheffield United on Saturday, told the club's official website.
Speaking of Sheffield United, the Blades are the EFL's in-form team, currently riding a 13-game unbeaten run in Sky Bet League One.
One other club are on a double-figure streak, and that's Brighton & Hove Albion, who are 11 without loss. Like Chris Wilder's side, they sit second in their division.
The teams they trail are both on winning runs – Scunthorpe United with five on the bounce and Sky Bet Championship leaders Newcastle United with eight victories in a row.
Steve Evans got off to the perfect start as Mansfield Town manager, winning two games in four days at Field Mill. Now he faces his first away test, with a trip to Carlisle United.
Ian Holloway won on his Loftus Road return last weekend, while Steve Bruce (Aston Villa – six games), Marcus Bignot (Grimsby Town – three games) and Paul Lambert (Wolverhampton Wanderers – one game) are also unbeaten in their new roles.
Meanwhile, at Leyton Orient, Andy Edwards has taken the reins until the end of the campaign following Alberto Cavasin's departure, and he takes the lowly O's to Doncaster Rovers to start his tenure.
Sky Sports are screening three Sky Bet Championship fixtures in this round of matches, all being broadcast live from Yorkshire.
Barnsley versus Nottingham Forest kicks things off on Friday night, before a derby date between Leeds United and Rotherham United on Saturday evening.
And then we have more on Monday, when Huddersfield Town host Wigan Athletic under the lights.


Via Instapundit, an interesting report from Inside HigherEd that talks about an environment that every student is familiar with.
Some professors threaten to confiscate students' cell phones if they go off during class. Laurence Thomas has his own approach to classroom distractions. If the philosopher at Syracuse University catches a student sending text messages or reading a newspaper in class, he'll end the class on the spot and walk out. It doesn't matter if there is but one texter in a large lecture of hundreds of students. If you text, he will leave.
Last week, when a student in a large lecture — in the front row no less — sent a text message, Thomas followed through on his threat (as he had done just a few days earlier). And he then sent the university's chancellor, his dean, and all of the students an e-mail message explaining his actions and his frustration at the "brazen" disrespect he had received in class. In the e-mail, he noted that the student who sent the text message is Cuban, and that last year, two Latino students had started to play tic-tac-toe during his class.
Now, I have voluntarily relocated in a class to get away from incessant text-messaging, so I can understand the professor's perspective. But, as the article goes on to point out, text-messaging is today's version of note-passing; students today live in a persistent, ubiquitous information environment where instant communication with other parties is the rule rather than the exception.
In a time when e-mail is snail-mail, where land-line telephony does not exist, and where the "dead-tree" media doesn't have so much as a toe-hold in the media market share game, perhaps it's time for the professors to quit taking such offence at what is essentially now human nature.
Venor Vinge has an eve-of-the-Singularity scene like this set in a future classroom, where students have adapted wearable technology (contacts and corneal implants with HUD capabilities, constantly wired to the Web), giving them what amounts to virtual telepathy, and the teacher has to keep them on topic and honest. Very interesting idea.
As for human nature… granted. But I've found that if you want to keep a bunch of people's attention, it helps if you take what you've got to say seriously, which also means demanding that they take it seriously too — on pain of humiliation, if necessary. These profs take it too far, but I've stopped silent and waited until people who were talking while I was talking wake up and realize the whole room is staring at them.
In response to your comment, and thanks, by the way, for stopping by, I have seen a professor demand silence from the class. And he got it for the rest of the semester after just one incident. But the vast majority of the professors seem to take a very laissez-faire attitude; as long as the entire class is not disturbed, anything goes. In some classes, students are almost continuously getting up, leaving the room, coming back in, etc. That is more disturbing to me than some guy setting up his next basketball game via text-message. It's almost as if they are afraid to demand respect, attention, and a modicum of self-discipline from the students, who are, by their very nature, testing the limits to every new thing they encounter. By indulging them, the profs perpetuate the behavior, and likely encourage further testing of unknown limits. I like your approach, have seen it work, but…..
After researching other blogs on texting and doing more research on texting in class, I came up with an alternative on my blog lifewithmycomptuer.com – to help work digital messaging successfully into the classroom. Of course it will not stop those who would text for socialization only, but it might offer students another way to communicate in class that they enjoy, for example listening to podcasts for music, in education to hear lectures and course updates. As a professor I tried demanding no cell phones and most of the time was successful, then I became fascinated with the idea of using text messaging in the classroom. Not to mention less frustration for the professors and teachers.
Way to go. Professors who get into a war with their students over this stuff risk alienating their students, or (at best) exascerbating a power differential that gets in the way of estyablishing an atmosphere of mutual respect and learning (at least at the college level). and that's just sad. Ignoring it is a perfectly valid, adult approach (unless it is disruptive or there is cheating going on, which is never to be tolerated, of course). Getting out in front of your students (outsmarting them, or joining them, as it were) is even better.
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Q: Как извлечь текст из span, если нет class? Буду благодарен за подсказку о том, как извлечь текст из тега span, если нет class.
Код:

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Пробую:
brand_names = product.find('span', class_='product-tile-name__text--brand').get_text()
product_names = product.find()

brand_names извлекается отлично, а вот с product_names - проблема...

A: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

h = '''

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'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(h, 'html.parser')
brand, title = [x.text.strip() for x in soup.find_all('span')]
print(brand, title, sep='\n')

brand, title = soup.find('p').stripped_strings
print(brand, title, sep='\n')

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A: Помогло очевидное:
product_name = product.find('p', class_='product-tile-name__text')
                      .find_all('span')[1].text

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fayette public library, museum and archives
The Fayette County Record (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 1962
One of 1,570 issues in the title: The Fayette County Record available on this site.
Semi-weekly newspaper from La Grange, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
four pages: ill. ; page 20 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm microfilm.
Sulak, L. J. December 11, 1962.
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Fayette County Area Newspaper Collection and two others and was provided by Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this issue can be viewed below.
Sulak, L. J. Editor-Manager
The Farmers Publishing Company, Limited
Publisher Info: The Farmers Publishing Co., Ltd.
Place of Publication: La Grange, Texas
In 1938, the City of La Grange purchased a 1,500 hundred volume private library housed in the historic Stiehl home. By the mid 1970's the "little old library" held a collection of nearly 10,000 items and could hold no more. Construction of a new library, museum, and archives complex began in 1976 as a community project during the American Bicentennial. The new facility was dedicated in April 1978.
Main Title: The Fayette County Record (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 1962
Serial Title: The Fayette County Record
four pages: ill. ; page 20 x 16 in.
Digitized from 35 mm microfilm.
Published on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Fayette County (Tex.) -- Newspapers.
La Grange (Tex.) -- Newspapers.
Places - United States - Texas - Fayette County
Fayette County Area Newspaper Collection
Located in central Texas, Fayette County's first Anglo settlers arrived in the early 1820s. The county was organized January 18, 1838, with La Grange as the county seat. Beginning in the mid-1840s, a series of short-lived newspapers were published at La Grange.
Tocker Foundation Grant
Collections funded by the Tocker Foundation, which distributes funds principally for the support, encouragement, and assistance to small rural libraries in Texas.
Into Modern Times, 1939-Present
United States - Texas - Fayette County - La Grange
La Grange, Texas (The Farmers Publishing Company, Limited)
or search all 1,570 items in the series: The Fayette County Record
Sulak, L. J. The Fayette County Record (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 1962, newspaper, December 11, 1962; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth986957/: accessed July 16, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.


DIFFERENCES IN AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR BETWEEN ACTIVE STUDENTS AND INACTIVE IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 OF WAY JEPARA.
Aggressive behavior in adolescence is often shown with courageous attitude against parents and teachers, mischief, crime and acts aggressively. This study will look at differences in aggressive behavior between active and inactive students in extracurricular activities in Junior high School 3 of Way Jepara. The method of this study is comparative research, where the instrument that used for collecting the data is scale of aggressive behavior. The population of this research is eighth and ninth grade students of Junior High School 3 of Way Jepara in East Lampung that consist of 180 students. The sample is took by Disproportionate Stratified random Sampling, then it is obtained the sample of 124 of active extra-curricular students, whereas, the non-active extra-curricular student that consist 56. Hypotheses assessment is conducted by independent sample t-test where obtain calculated value of aggressive behavior in 1.360 with significance level of 0.015. Because p < 0.05 so Ho refused. There are some differences between active students and inactive students of extra-curricular.
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Q: setting file path in javascript through codeigniter i am using code igniter 2.1. and
i am using a js file to show a tree view. the view is showing correctly but the linked images are not showing.
in the view i am calling a js file named dtree.js
there the image paths are set as:
this.icon = {

        root            : 'images/Crystal_Clear_user.gif',

        folder          : 'img/folder.gif',

        folderOpen      : 'img/folderopen.gif',

        node            : 'img/page.gif',

        empty           : 'img/empty.gif',
};

and when i am debugging my code in browser it shows that it can't find the actual file path.
the browser reads the code as
<img id="jmytree0" src="img/nolines_plus.gif" alt />

how can i fix this problem. i mean how do change the js files
'images/Crystal_Clear_user.gif'

this to work properly in codeigniter.
thanks in advance.

A: Append a "/" at the beginning of the path
this.icon = {

        root            : '/images/Crystal_Clear_user.gif',

        folder          : '/img/folder.gif',

        folderOpen      : '/img/folderopen.gif',

        node            : '/img/page.gif',

        empty           : '/img/empty.gif',
};

p.s. you list some images as "images" and some as "img" - is that correct?


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Paul Krugman, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner does not like bitcoin, has repeated numerous times that it is a bubble that will not last[92] and links it to Tulip mania.[93] American business magnate Warren Buffett thinks that cryptocurrency will come to a bad ending.[94] In October 2017, BlackRock CEO Laurence D. Fink called bitcoin an 'index of money laundering'.[95] "Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money laundering there is in the world," he said.
Ethereum enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications. A decentralized application or Dapp serve some particular purpose to its users. Bitcoin, for example, is a Dapp that provides its users with a peer to peer electronic cash system that enables online Bitcoin payments. Because decentralized applications are made up of code that runs on a blockchain network, they are not controlled by any individual or central entity.
According to the European Central Bank, the decentralization of money offered by bitcoin has its theoretical roots in the Austrian school of economics, especially with Friedrich von Hayek in his book Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined,[132] in which Hayek advocates a complete free market in the production, distribution and management of money to end the monopoly of central banks.[133]:22
Despite bringing a number of benefits, decentralized applications aren't faultless. Because smart contract code is written by humans, smart contracts are only as good as the people who write them. Code bugs or oversights can lead to unintended adverse actions being taken. If a mistake in the code gets exploited, there is no efficient way in which an attack or exploitation can be stopped other than obtaining a network consensus and rewriting the underlying code. This goes against the essence of the blockchain which is meant to be immutable. Also, any action taken by a central party raises serious questions about the decentralized nature of an application.
Most cryptocurrencies are designed to gradually decrease production of that currency, placing a cap on the total amount of that currency that will ever be in circulation.[25] Compared with ordinary currencies held by financial institutions or kept as cash on hand, cryptocurrencies can be more difficult for seizure by law enforcement.[1] This difficulty is derived from leveraging cryptographic technologies.
"While it's still fairly new and unstable relative to the gold standard, cryptocurrency is definitely gaining traction and will most certainly have more normalized uses in the next few years. Right now, in particular, it's increasing in popularity with the post-election market uncertainty. The key will be in making it easy for large-scale adoption (as with anything involving crypto) including developing safeguards and protections for buyers/investors. I expect that within two years, we'll be in a place where people can shove their money under the virtual mattress through cryptocurrency, and they'll know that wherever they go, that money will be there." – Sarah Granger, Author, and Speaker.
Ethereum is also being used as a platform to launch other cryptocurrencies. Because of the ERC20 token standard defined by the Ethereum Foundation, other developers can issue their own versions of this token and raise funds with an initial coin offering (ICO). In this fundraising strategy, the issuers of the token set an amount they want to raise, offer it in a crowdsale, and receive Ether in exchange. Billions of dollars have been raised by ICOs on the Ethereum platform in the last two years, and one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies in the world, EOS, is an ERC20 token.
Venture capitalists, such as Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, which invested US$3 million in BitPay, do not purchase bitcoins themselves, but instead fund bitcoin infrastructure that provides payment systems to merchants, exchanges, wallet services, etc.[162] In 2012, an incubator for bitcoin-focused start-ups was founded by Adam Draper, with financing help from his father, venture capitalist Tim Draper, one of the largest bitcoin holders after winning an auction of 30,000 bitcoins,[163] at the time called "mystery buyer".[164] The company's goal is to fund 100 bitcoin businesses within 2–3 years with $10,000 to $20,000 for a 6% stake.[163] Investors also invest in bitcoin mining.[165] According to a 2015 study by Paolo Tasca, bitcoin startups raised almost $1 billion in three years (Q1 2012 – Q1 2015).[166]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Joshua A. Kroll; Ian C. Davey; Edward W. Felten (11–12 June 2013). "The Economics of Bitcoin Mining, or Bitcoin in the Presence of Adversaries" (PDF). The Twelfth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2013). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016. A transaction fee is like a tip or gratuity left for the miner.
But while cryptocurrencies are more used for payment, its use as a means of speculation and a store of value dwarfs the payment aspects. Cryptocurrencies gave birth to an incredibly dynamic, fast-growing market for investors and speculators. Exchanges like Okcoin, Poloniex or shapeshift enables the trade of hundreds of cryptocurrencies. Their daily trade volume exceeds that of major European stock exchanges.
Both blockchains have the same features and are identical in every way up to a certain block where the hard-fork was implemented. This means that everything that happened on Ethereum up until the hard-fork is still valid on the Ethereum Classic Blockchain. From the block where the hard fork or change in code was executed onwards, the two blockchains act individually.
Many uses have been proposed for Ethereum platform, including ones that are impossible or unfeasible.[46][33] Use case proposals have included finance, the internet-of-things, farm-to-table produce, electricity sourcing and pricing, and sports betting. Ethereum is (as of 2017) the leading blockchain platform for initial coin offering projects, with over 50% market share.
This flexibility makes Ethereum the perfect instrument for blockchain -application. But it comes at a cost. After the Hack of the DAO – an Ethereum based smart contract – the developers decided to do a hard fork without consensus, which resulted in the emerge of Ethereum Classic. Besides this, there are several clones of Ethereum, and Ethereum itself is a host of several Tokens like DigixDAO and Augur. This makes Ethereum more a family of cryptocurrencies than a single currency.
This website is intended to provide a clear summary of Ethereum's current and historical price as well as important updates from the industry. I've also included a number of ERC20 tokens which can be found in the tokens tab at the top right. Prices are updated every minute in real-time and the open/close prices are recorded at midnight UTC. Bookmark us!
A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets.[1][2][3] Cryptocurrencies use decentralized control as opposed to centralized digital currency and central banking systems.[4]
The rapid price increase of Ethereum has not only attracted investors but developers too. Ethereum has tens of thousands of developers in its open source community, each contributing to the many layers of the "Ethereum stack". This includes code contributions to the core Ethereum clients, second layer scaling tech and the "decentralized applications" (dApps) that are built on top of the platform. The appeal of Ethereum to developers is unique in that it was the first platform to allow anyone in the world to write and deploy code that would run without the risk of censorship. The community of developers which have formed around these core principles have led to the creation of technologies that could not have existed without the inception of Ethereum, many of which were never predicted. Some of the major use-cases of Ethereum so far have been:


It was a tough weekend keeping Ken on the sofa ... making sure he was fed, he had his pain medications, the television remote was always within his reach ... just brutal! Actually, the hardest part was convincing Ken to let me do all those things for him and to keep his feet off the floor. Keeping Ken still in the house when it was such a nice weekend wasn't easy. I had to do a little real estate work Saturday morning then buy a few groceries, leaving Ken alone for a while. I was happy to see that he was still on the sofa when I got back home.
Shortly after I came home from my errands on Saturday, I heard something at our front door. When I peeked into the foyer, I found a squirrel ... sitting ON our front door! Evidently, Ken has been having visitors when I'm gone. Well, if the squirrel keeps him from going nuts than I guess it's all good.
After a weekend of terrible television and too much ice cream, I think Ken's gonna survive his recent injuries. It's been almost two weeks and his wrists and the right side of his torso are still real sore, but after doing more research I don't think he's got any internal bleeding since he doesn't have any bruising or discoloration. Yesterday I finished a painting job that he had going on, and he just supervised me and another guy. Today he was going to supervise a small concrete job, so he hasn't been pushing himself as much as he did last week. I don't wanna jinx ourselves, but I think we're going to be able to avoid huge hospital bills and a lot of lost work ... whew!
Just about a month ago some salesmen from Aflac had spoken to our office, trying to sell insurance to us self-employed folks for those times when we get injured and can't make a living ... I had regretted not looking into that a little further these past two weeks. Like the Aflac duck on television (have you seen the recent commercials?), Ken could have been getting paid while recovering from his injuries. Our budget is really tight until our house sells, but after this little incident I'm going to look into this insurance. Maybe we can afford it until our house sells and Ken can quit working so much. Maybe we can't afford not to have this kind of insurance .. hmmm.
Last weekend, we had this rainbow sitting outside our front door. Maybe it's a sign of good things in our near future!
So glad to hear things are going to be alright. You'll get back on track soon. I'm a huge believer in omens and I think that rainbow is your sign. Just make sure he takes it easy for long enough that he gets truly well before jumping back into things. See you out there!
At least Ken is doing better. Slowly but better. Poor guy. Nothing worse than not being able to do that things you want to do.
Glad he's feeling better! Resting is sometimes the most difficult thing to do...lol.
My wife used to sell Aflac insurance. It's actually a very good product, and they've been around for like fifty years! Probably is something to consider given you're self-employed.
Hope his healing continues well...take care.
I'm glad he is taking it easy. I'm always amazed that when people just allow their bodies to do the work of healing, a lot of expense can be avoided. I'm glad it is turning out that way for him. Since I'm self employed, I should look into that insurance, too.
Cheryl - just getting caught up on your latest - bummer. Hope Ken's recovery stays on track.


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