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Cowboys tight end Jason Witten set the single-season record for catches by a tight end with 103. He elevated an already excellent 10-year career. Is he a Hall of Famer, though?
We agree Tony Gonzalez is the standard, right? He has four 1,000-yard seasons in 16 seasons. Witten? Three in 10. Gonzalez has 9 seasons of 900-plus yards. Witten already has seven.
Gonzalez also has 103 touchdowns. Witten has 43. To put that in perspective, New England's Rob Gronkowski has 37 in three seasons.
His numbers are better than Shannon Sharpe, too. (Hey, it's not Witten's fault he doesn't play with a John Elway or Ray Lewis in his prime.)
Witten will finish the season with more than 9,000 career receiving yards. Sharpe had just over 10,000 -- in four more seasons.
If games were won by yards, the Buffalo Bills might be in contention. You've got to get in the end zone. That's been the one knock on Witten's career. He has five seasons with 4 or less TDs.
How about we consider Witten with Antonio Gates, who came into the league the same year. He only has, oh, 149 more receptions than Gates. Did I mention he just broke a record, with 103?
Did I mention Gates has 82 touchdowns - including 6 this season, four more than Witten? He is a Hall of Famer, but his lack of TDs will prompt debate, especially compared to peers like Gates.
C'mon, this isn't about touchdowns. That's fantasy football. My guy can play without a punctured spleen. And did I mention -- unlike your guy, Pop Gates -- he can block his a-- off? Goodnight.
I know he can block his a--off. So can Gronk. Think the Pats are keeping him in to max protect in the red zone? Nope. They're using him to win and get to the playoffs.


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The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers studied misdemeanor courts and procedures in 21 Florida counties and recently released a report entitled Three Minute Justice: Haste and Waste in Florida's Misdemeanor Courts. This report documents how practices in county courts fail to safeguard the right to counsel and the right to due process of law.
Nearly a half million people, or approximately 3% of the state's adults, pass through Florida's misdemeanor courts each year. While the charges adjudicated in these courts are often viewed as minor, the consequences of conviction are significant. Not only are there direct, immediate costs of such a conviction (fines and/or imprisonment), but often there are also long-term, collateral consequences (employment barriers and possible deportation). Despite these serious stakes, an eight-month investigation of one-third of Florida's counties reveals disturbing evidence that efficiency commonly trumps due process in Florida's misdemeanor courts, particularly in the larger counties.
Most individuals accused of misdemeanors resolve their cases at the first hearing, the arraignment. A large percentage does so without a lawyer, notwithstanding the well-recognized importance of counsel to ensure the accused "may know precisely what he is doing, so that he is fully aware of the prospect of going to jail or prison, and so that he is treated fairly by the prosecution." The overwhelming majority plead guilty. Indeed, 94% of misdemeanor cases are resolved before trial.
On average, these arraignment proceedings lasted fewer than three minutes, even when defendants were pleading guilty. Upon entering a plea, few were advised of their right to appeal or the immigration consequences of entering a plea. Some defendants were informed of their rights by video or rights-waiver form, but in less than 50% of cases were the defendants who were pleading guilty directly advised by the trial judge of the rights they were forfeiting. The NACDL, in conjunction with the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union, recently filed an Amicus Brief in the case of Edenfiled v. State of Florida pending before the Supreme Court of Florida arguing that the practice of using videos and forms to obtain a waiver of the right to counsel is a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
In-custody defendants and defendants without counsel were most likely to enter a guilty plea at arraignment. Defendants who entered a plea at arraignment were three times more likely to be unrepresented. Pleading guilty without counsel occurred more often in larger, rather than small counties. Moreover, defendants who were less informed of their rights to counsel were also more likely to enter a plea at arraignment.
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Yesterday, 10.5 million viewers tuned in to watch Olivia Pope, President Fitz and the rest of the "Scandal" crew on the show's finale. Season three was full of many surprises on and off the screen, and one of the most exciting was Kerry Washington's growing baby bump.
Gladiators got a kick out of watching to the show and finding all the ways producers tried (and sometimes failed) to hide the pregnancy. During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kerry revealed that the "cover up" made this her most challenging season.
MUST READ: Kerry Washington Finds A Way To Bond With Her Unborn Baby On 'Scandal' Set
"I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically and how to stay true to this character. That hasn't been easy," she told the magazine. "It's been an awesome challenge for me as an actor because so much of how I access character is through my body. It's definitely been complicated to say the least. I've learned a lot about other ways to access Olivia and be her."
The 37-year-old beauty added, "I'm just grateful for how hard everybody has worked to maintain the authenticity of this character in this world."
"I'm grateful to [costume designer] Lyn Paolo and all our producers," she shared.
MUST READ: Kerry Washington Was Absolutely Hilarious On 'SNL,' But She Was The Butt Of Her Own Jokes [RECAP]
She added that the decision to separate her real life from Olivia's was all Shonda Rimes' idea. "The decision of whether or not a character would be on similar journey, I had nothing to do with that decision. I trust Shonda with all things," Kerry said. "I feel very grateful that we have such an amazing team that was able to protect the character within the context of what the actress was going through."
As we reported earlier, the TV star and hubby Nnamdi Asomugha are expecting their first child together this year.
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Supporters of same-sex marriage have reason to cheer after last week's election. Supporters of democratic self-government, even those of us who oppose gay marriage, do too.
On Nov. 6, for the first time ever, voters in three states — Maine, Maryland, and Washington — redefined marriage by popular vote. In Minnesota, residents said no to a constitutional amendment enshrining the traditional understanding of marriage as the union of a man and a woman. There is no denying the significance of these results: Previously the issue had gone to the ballot in 32 states, and in all 32 same-sex marriage was defeated. Gay-marriage advocates have insisted for years that it is outrageous to put what they consider a question of civil rights to a vote, but going 4-0 on Election Day presumably made the outrage easier to swallow.
In nearly all of America, of course, marriage still means what it has always meant. Obviously a once-settled consensus has been changing, and last Tuesday may eventually prove to have been a tipping point. At the moment, however, there is no new consensus, and it's anything but clear that the battle to redefine the core institution of human society is a done deal. The votes in Maine, Maryland, Washington, and Minnesota — Democratic strongholds all — were close, and in each one Barack Obama got a lot more votes than gay marriage did. Even in four deep-blue states, in other words, many voters who wanted to see the president reelected drew the line at same-sex marriage.
Plainly the political and philosophical struggle over the definition of marriage isn't going away any time soon, no matter how much gay-marriage backers wish to declare the issue over. But now that gay activists have turned to the ballot and won, perhaps we can finally dispense with the claim that there is something unjust or illegitimate about deciding a question as momentous as marriage by referring it to the people (or to their elected lawmakers).
In a democratic republic, we vote on rights all the time. On Nov. 6, citizens in 38 states voted on ballot questions inviting them to legalize marijuana, end the death penalty, ban affirmative action, permit assisted suicide, bar public funding of abortion, reject an individual health-insurance mandate, or eliminate teacher tenure, to mention just a few. The rights of immigrants, of gun owners, of gamblers, of criminals, of union members, of homeowners, of taxpayers — all of them and more have been the subject of ballot initiatives and referendums in recent election cycles. And they in turn are only a drop in the bucket next to the flood of votes routinely taken by legislators — federal, state, and local — that have a direct impact on the rights of individuals and groups.
Resolving thorny legal controversies through the political process can be frustrating and upsetting, all the more so when people feel that their fundamental rights are at stake. But the only alternative is to resolve them through fiat, as the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did in 2003 when it conjured a right to same-sex marriage out of the state constitution. Or as the US Supreme Court did 30 years earlier, when Roe v. Wade purported to settle the question of abortion by taking it away from voters and legislators. Abortion, you may have noticed, is more unsettled than ever. Stifling the political process rarely leads to democratic harmony.
"Rights should not be put to a vote," same-sex marriage advocate Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry, was still insisting the day after the election. But I suspect we'll be hearing that argument less and less, as activists embark on fresh ballot campaigns to amend the many state constitutions that now block same-sex marriage. Unless, of course, the Supreme Court intervenes, and tries once again to impose a resolution by short-circuiting the workings of democracy.
I don't claim that voters are always right, or that the people can't make mistakes. By my lights, voters in Maine, Maryland, Washington, and Minnesota made a grave one last week. I believe same-sex marriage is a bad idea. But I also believe political legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed. "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves," Thomas Jefferson said. Gay marriage shouldn't be treated as sacrosanct, too lofty for mere politics. Let the debates, the struggles, the compromises, and, yes, the votes continue. Until the people work it out politically, this issue will never be settled.
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62 S.Ct. 1168
86 L.Ed. 1611
JOHNSON, Treasurer of State of California.
No. 1125.
Argued May 5, 1942.
Decided June 1, 1942.
Messrs. Francis R. Kirkham and Felix T. Smith, both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.
Mr. Adrian A. Kragen, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.
Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.
The California Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax Act1 imposes a license tax, measured by gallonage, on the privilege of distributing any motor vehicle fuel. Section 10 states that the Act is inapplicable 'to any motor vehicle fuel sold to the government of the United States or any department thereof for official use of said government.' The appellant, a 'distributor'2 within the meaning of the Act, sold gasoline to the United States Army Post Exchanges in California. The State levied a tax, and the appellant paid it under protest. The appellant then filed this suit in the Superior Court of Sacramento County seeking to recover the payment on two grounds: (1) That sales to the Exchanges were exempt from tax under Section 10; (2) that if construed and applied to require payment of the tax on such sales the Act would impose a burden upon instrumentalities or agencies of the United States contrary to the federal constitution. Holding against the appellant on both grounds, the trial court rendered judgment for the State. The Supreme Court of California affirmed. 19 Cal.2d 104, 119 P.2d 329. Since validity of the State statute as construed was drawn in question on the ground of its being repugnant to the Constitution, we think the case is properly here on appeal under Section 237(a) of the Judicial Code, 28 U.S.C.A. § 344(a).
Since Section 10 of the California Act made the tax inapplicable 'to any motor vehicle fuel sold to the government of the United States or any department thereof', it was necessary for the Supreme Court of California to determine whether the language of this exemption included sales to post exchanges. If the court's construction of Section 10 of the Act had been based purely on local law, this construction would have been conclusive, and we should have to determine whether the statute so construed and applied is repugnant to the federal constitution. But in deciding that post exchanges were not 'the government of the United States or any department thereof', the court did not rely upon the law of California. On the contrary, it relied upon its determination concerning the relationship between post exchanges and the government of the United States, a relationship which is controlled by federal law. For post exchanges operate under regulations of the Secretary of War pursuant to federal authority. These regulations and the practices under them establish the relationship between the post exchange and the United States government, and together with the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions from which they derive, afford the data upon which the legal status of the post exchange may be determined. It was upon a determination of a federal question, therefore, that the Supreme Court of California rested its conclusion that, by Section 10, sales to post exchange were not exempted from the tax. Since this determination of a federal question was by a state court, we are not bound by it. We proceed to consider whether it is correct.
On July 25, 1895, the Secretary of War, under authority of Congressional enactments3 promulgated regulations providing for the establishment of post exchanges.4 These regulations have since been amended from time to time and the exchange has become a regular feature of Army posts. That the establishment and control of post exchanges have been in accordance with regulations rather than specific statutory directions does not alter their status, for authorized War Department regulations have the force of law.5
Congressional recognition that the activities of post exchanges are governmental has been frequent. Since 1903,6 Congress has repeatedly made substantial appropriations to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War for construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings for post exchanges. In 1933 and 1934, Congress ordered certain moneys derived from disbanded exchanges to be handed over to the Federal Treasury.7 And in 1936, Congress gave consent to state taxation of gasoline sold by or through post exchanges, when the gasoline was not for the exclusive use of the United States.8
The commanding officer of an Army Post, subject to the regulations and the commands of his own superior officers, has complete authority to establish and maintain an exchange. He details a post exchange officer to manage its affairs. This officer and the commanding officers of the various company units make up a council which supervises exchange activities. None of these officers receives any compensation other than his regular salary. The object of the exchanges is to provide convenient and reliable sources where soldiers can obtain their ordinary needs at the lowest possible prices. Soldiers, their families, and civilians employed on military posts here and abroad can buy at exchanges. The government assumes none of the financial obligations of the exchange. But government officers, under government regulations, handle and are responsible for all funds of the exchange which are obtained from the companies or detachments composing its membership. Profits, if any, do not go to individuals. They are used to improve the soldiers' mess, to provide various types of recreation, and in general to add to the pleasure and comfort of the troops.
From all of this, we conclude that post exchanges as now operated are arms of the government deemed by it essential for the performance of governmental functions. They are integral parts of the War Department, share in fulfilling the duties entrusted to it, and partake of whatever immunities it may have under the constitution and federal statutes. In concluding otherwise the Supreme Court of California was in error.
Whether the California Supreme Court would have construed the Motor Vehicle Fuel License Act as applicable to post exchanges if it had decided the issue of legal status of post exchanges in accordance with this opinion, we have no way of knowing. Hence, a determination here of the constitutionality of such an application of the Act is not called for by the state of the record. Cf. State of Minnesota v. National Tea Co., 309 U.S. 551, 557, 60 S.Ct. 676, 679, 84 L.Ed. 920. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment and remand the cause to the court below for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
Cal.Stats.1923, pp. 572, 573, 574; 1927, p. 1309; 1933, pp. 1636, 1637; St.1935, p. 1696; 1937, p. 2219, Gen.Laws 1937, Act 2964.
Section 7 of the Act provides: 'For the purposes of this act all motor vehicle fuel sold, donated, consigned for sale, bartered or used shall be deemed to be distributed * * *.'
Act July 15, 1870, 16 Stat. 315, 319; Act March 1, 1875, 18 Stat. 337.
G.O. 46, Hdqrs. of the Army.
United States v. Eliason, 16 Pet. 291, 302, 10 L.Ed. 968; Gratiot v. United States, 4 How. 80, 117, 118, 11 L.Ed. 884.
Act March 2, 1903, 32 Stat. 927, 938.
Act March 4, 1933, 47 Stat. 1571, 1573; Act June 26, 1934, 48 Stat. 1224, 1229, 31 U.S.C.A. §§ 725g to 725k. See Hearings, House, War Department Appropriation Bill, 1934, 72d Cong., 2d Sess., 648.
Act June 16, 1936, 49 Stat. 1519, 1521, amended by Act Oct. 9, 1940, 54 Stat. 1059, 1060, 1061, 4 U.S.C.A. § 12.


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- This week's must-read essay: Ben Davis on the art world's lack of diversity. [ArtInfo]
- If you're looking for a good review of the new James Bond movie, Karina Longworth's is the best we've read. It's perhaps a little cynical—it's hard to criticize a franchise as simply a set-up for its sequels—but the review is well-argued nonetheless. [L.A. Weekly]
- Lisa De Kooning has died at the age of 56. No one knows the cause of the death yet. [Gallerist]
- Adam Lindemann refutes Sarah Thornton's 10 reasons why she will never write about the art market again. Hilarious. A paraphrased example: [Thornton] Oligarchs and dictators are not cool. [Lindemann] Yes, they are. [Adam Lindemann]
- Holy. Shit. With access to a 3-D printer, you can now download a fucking gun off the internet. [Daily Mail]
- In which Jonathan Jones learns that "Sex Pictures do not have to be sexy, after all." Ain't that the truth. [Guardian]
- On Venice Beach, a police officer has been tasked to walk around determining what is and is not art. Already, he's tossed out the last fifty years: no objects with a utilitarian function, no mass production (aka, stencils), and no performative selling. [WSJ]
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AUGUSTA — A LePage administration plan for making schools accountable for their performance is raising concerns for teachers and some lawmakers.
But a Department of Education budget document that refers to legislation that would authorize the state to "take over failing schools" is inaccurate, the administration says.
The proposed Office of School Accountability, funded by a $3 million appropriation, is in Gov. Paul LePage's two-year budget for the Department of Education.
The proposal surfaced on Tuesday, when Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen gave lawmakers a document that detailed part of the proposed education budget.
The document included a request for $3 million for "funding to put an Office of School Accountability into place to parallel the legislation we'll advance empowering the state to take over failing schools."
Bowen told Rep. Helen Rankin, D-Hiram, a member of the Legislature's Education Committee, that the department would provide additional details later.
The related legislation was not introduced Wednesday. Education department spokesman David Connerty-Marin said the language in the document distributed by Bowen was in error.
"There are a lot of ideas and a lot of language that get floated," Connerty-Marin said. "I'm not sure how that got in there, but (taking over) struggling schools is not the plan."
The actual plan, he said, is to establish a division in the education department to help struggling schools by providing state-level guidance and coaching to administrators.
He said the initiative would be similar to the federal School Improvement Grant program. The state uses the program now to identify low-performing schools and then provides assistance.
While the wording of the initiative caused concern, some members of the Education Committee accepted the administration's explanation.
Rep. Brian Hubbell, D-Bar Harbor, said the proposal seems "benign and commendable" but questions remain about how the education department would define and identify struggling schools.
"I'm curious about what sort of discretion (the department) has," said Hubbell. "All I've heard is that they have discretion."
Hubbell said the mention of taking over failing schools is a sensitive topic.
Connerty-Marin said the department hasn't established the criteria yet for defining struggling schools.
LePage has said he intends to create a system for evaluating school performance and assigning each school a letter grade, from A to F.
That proposal, coupled with the language in the budget document, raised concerns Wednesday for the Maine Education Association, the state teachers union.
"When we start using a grading system and we start using words like 'taking over public schools' or closing down challenged schools, that raises an obvious red flag for us," said Lois Kilby-Chesley, the union's president.
Kilby-Chesley said other states have deemed schools ineffective, then taken them over and fired administrators, staff members and teachers.
That happened at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island in 2010. The school was deemed chronically underperforming by the state's education commissioner. Reform efforts came to a head when the school superintendent embraced a federal incentive that called for firing 93 staff members.
The action, endorsed by the Obama administration, triggered protests by teachers. Later, an agreement between the union representatives and the school district led to rehiring the fired staff in exchange for additional teacher evaluations and other performance measures.
The situation was considered a test case for new education reform efforts that states are considering to gain federal dollars.
The LePage administration has embraced some of those reforms, including school accountability measures.
Kilby-Chesley said Wednesday that there is concern that the school accountability effort will dovetail with the grading proposal and lead the state to take over schools and fire employees. The MEA hasn't yet taken a stance on the report card proposal.
"We don't know what the criteria is, we don't know if there's a rubric or some sort of chance to improve," she said. "All we've heard is that there's a report card.
"Obviously, it causes us some consternation when we don't know what our schools are going to be judged on," she said.
Connerty-Marin said the planned accountability office wouldn't "take over" struggling public schools. Instead, it would use state funds to assist schools that don't qualify for federal assistance under Title I, the program that puts money into economically disadvantaged school districts.
Connerty-Marin said the initiative wasn't originally intended to dovetail with the administration's grading proposal, which was drafted before the accountability office idea came to fruition. However, he said, the two proposals could ultimately support each other.
Kilby-Chesley said teachers are wary of the potential stigma associated with a grading system.
However, she said, teachers could support a plan that puts more state dollars into public education.
"If a school is struggling and it doesn't qualify for Title I funds, of course we would like to see more money go to that school," she said. "That's what we hope for every school."
Democratic lawmakers have criticized LePage's $6.3 billion state budget proposal for the next two years for flat-funding education while diverting money to other initiatives.
Kilby-Chesley said Wednesday that the governor's plan to provide more than $815 million in state aid to public schools in the year beginning July 1 is $109 million less than the amount allocated in 2008.
She said the budget is shortchanging public schools, especially when coupled with LePage's plan to shift 50 percent of teachers' retirement costs onto school districts.
"Put a few more dollars into the education budget," she said. "That would be a nice change, to see the budget improve and more money going to our schools."
The LePage administration counters that it has increased education funding while diverting money into efforts to reform the system.
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Multitasking: It's here, finally. It's handled with a simple task switcher: double click your home button, and you get a list of running apps. Select, switch, done. Multitasking is limited to audio streaming, VoIP and GPS apps, as well as a few other allowances: they can finish specific, important tasks in the background, for example. As far as non-music/nav/VoIP apps, those can be suspended in the background, but not left running. (See below.) Full details here.
Fast app switching: With iPhone 4's multitasking, most apps aren't actually running in the backgroundjust certain functions of the app, like an audio stream or a GPS lock. But! All apps can now be frozen, in full, so that when you reopen them, they're restored to exactly the state they were in when they were closed.
Local notifications: Notifications can be sent between apps on the phone, not just from remote servers. In other words, if something important happens in an app you've opened and moved away from, a notification will pop up in whatever app you're using at the time, effectively saying "switch back to me!" It's a fairly clever way to keep track of multiple apps without the need for a start bar or dock-type interface. From Apple's dev guidelines:
The advantage of local notifications is that they are independent of your application. Once a notification is scheduled, the system manages the delivery of it. Your application does not even have to be running when the notification is delivered.
Apple's official line:
iPhone OS 4's new multitasking offers users a new way to quickly move between apps, and provides developers seven new multitasking services to easily add multitasking features to their apps. These services include background audio, so apps like Pandora can play music in the background, and VoIP, so VoIP apps can receive a VoIP call even when the iPhone is asleep or the user is running other apps. iPhone OS 4 provides multitasking to third party apps while preserving battery life and foreground app performance, which has until now proved elusive on mobile devices.
And some more technical details, again from Apple's developer guidelines:
An application can request a finite amount of time to complete some important task. An application can declare itself as supporting specific services that require regular background execution time. An application can use local notifications to generate user alerts at designated times, whether or not the application is running.
App folders: Now you can sort your apps into folders! That's homescreen clutter solved, just like that. Apple's description:
Folders help users better organize and quickly access their apps. Simply drag one app icon onto another, and a new folder is automatically created. The folder is automatically given a name based on the App Store category of that app, such as "Games," which the user can easily rename. Using folders, users can now organize and access over 2,000 apps on their iPhone.
2160, to be exact.
A new Mail app: Unified inboxes, multiple Exchange accounts, fast inbox switching, threaded messages: These new features are actually a huge deal, since the iPhone's mail client has barely changed since 2007, and Apple doesn't allow alternative mail apps. Apple's pitch:
iPhone OS 4 delivers the best mail experience on a mobile phone with its new Unified Inbox, allowing users to see messages from all their email accounts displayed together in a single inbox. With just a few taps, users can quickly switch between inboxes to see messages from any single account.
iBooks: Oh hey, that iBooks ebook reader app and accompanying ebook store we first met on the iPad has ambled on down to the iPhone. Nice, since you can now take your books with you wherever you go, as oppose to wherever you go with your iPad.
Custom backgrounds: Jailbreakers have them. Hell, the iPad has them. Now you can choose a persistent background for your iPhoneand not just for the lockscreen.
Game Center: Apple's going to roll out a centralized gaming servicea multiplayer network like PSN or Xbox Liveto help connect games to one another, by the end on the year. There are 3rd-party services that already do this, like OpenFeint. They will probably die. Full details here.
iAd advertising: It looks like Apple's finally making use of Quattro, that mobile ad company it gobbled up a few months ago, by rolling out its own advertising platform, a turnkey ad plugin for app developers called iAd. The theory here is that instead of relying on links to external websites, which pull users out of apps whenever they tap on an ad, developers can use Apple's new tools to keep people in the app while still showing them advertisingsort of like popover browser windows. You can watch videos, play games, and even buy apps from within these ads. This is in the iPhone OS 4 developer tools, but it's not explicitly a part of OS 4, so you won't see apps with iAds until later this year. Full details here.
5x digital zoom: Could this hint at a higher quality camera in the next hardware? 3.2 megapixels seems a bit low for 5x digital zoom.
Bluetooth keyboards: Another carryover from the iPad, Bluetooth keyboard support will finally come to iPhone 4.
A bevy of other new developer features, including 1500 new APIs to play with: See here for more details.
The Hidden Features
Now that we've had a few days to use the OS, we've compiled a huge list of features not covered in the keynote.
Which Devices Get It, and When?
When the software ships in the summer, iPhone 3GSes and iPod Touch 3rd-gens devices will get all of the new features. The iPhone 3G and Touch 2G will get "many things," which doesn't include multitasking. I repeat: the iPhone 3G won't get multitasking, ever. iPhone 2Gs will be left on a hillside somewhere to die of exposure, or something.
Apple didn't drop any clues about the next iPhone's hardware, but it's a fair bet that we'll see some changes come June.


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Beltway politicians like to pretend that smaller spending increases amount to spending "cuts." As Dan Mitchell has pointed out numerous times (see here for one example), that's baseline budgeting baloney. Now that the 2011 Budget Control Act's spending caps are in place, politicians are making an even more ridiculous claim: the so-called "cuts" have alreadyoccurred.
The caps apply to spending over ten fiscal years – the last year being 2021. We are obviously not in the year 2021, so it's impossible for the so-called "cuts" to have already been implemented. Yet here are two examples from a recent Politico article where politicians suggest that to be the case:
"There are people that think we need to cut more," House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) acknowledged in an interview. McKeon said he's been pushing back against budget hawks in the GOP conference by pointing to the nearly $600 billion in spending cuts that the Pentagon has already absorbed in recent years — and that's before sequestration would even begin.
"I think there's spending that can be taken out of all departments," said freshman Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.). "And I've talked to people from the Pentagon. There's just areas that, yeah, we can pull back a little more, even though they did their $470 billion already. They said it hurt, but we possibly could."
I'll cut Rep. Yoho a little slack because the article indicates that he's open to cutting defense. Rep. McKeon, on the other hand, deserves no such leniency. (Why McKeon said $600 billion and Yoho $470 billion I have no idea.)
The following chart illustrates why it is ridiculous to act as if smaller future increases in projected spending amount to realized spending cuts. The chart shows the Congressional Budget Office's August 2001 baseline estimate of defense spending from 2002 to 2011 versus the actual outlays:
The combined difference turned out to be $1.8 trillion.
But, you might respond, those estimates were published a month before the attack on September 11th, 2001, so of course they turned out to be way off!
And that's my point. With the exception of Keynesian economists, no one can predict the future. All it will take is another major terrorist attack or another war and it's adios spending caps. I would argue that such unfortunate scenarios are a distinct possibility given the Beltway crowd's love for empire, but I'll leave that topic to Cato's foreign policy experts.
- Grand Bargains and Budget Battles - August 8, 2013
- Feds and the States Tag-Teaming on Corporate Welfare - July 29, 2013
- Economic Development Administration Goes 'Rambo' on Itself - July 12, 2013


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But what's not talked about quite as often is whether a startup or corporate job is better for your career in the long run. Think about it: A startup may provide more flexible hours now, but will it give you the ability to move up into a senior management position in the future? A corporate job may be the perfect place to get structured on-the-job training, but will it give you the creative thinking skills you need to open your own business in a few years?
After working in both environments, I've been exposed to the benefits and shortcomings of each option. So, if you're undecided about which path to take, consider these questions to help you make the most of your career—both now and in the future.
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When I worked at a startup, I had a lot of roles: I managed a team of employees, wrote training manuals, designed internship flyers, answered the phone, and interviewed prospective employees (and that's only the beginning!). We only had a few people on the team, and we were all expected to pitch in wherever needed. And at the time, that was great—because I had no idea what I really wanted in a long-term career.
When I made the move into a corporate position, I had a better idea of my talents and the things I enjoyed doing—and so, I was able to take a more focused position, without having to wear all those other "hats."
Overall, corporate positions tend to have narrower roles: If you're a manager, you manage. If you're a business analyst, you create reports. And so, if you already know the role you want or the direction you want to go in, this type of environment can really help you grow and hone those skills—without having to focus on a bunch of other responsibilities.
If, on the other hand, you're not quite sure what kind of gig you want to end up in, a startup role can help you gain skills and insight into multiple positions. (And, you may just decide that's exactly what you want in the long run—a dynamic job with a variety of responsibilities.)
What Resources Do You Need to Reach Your Goals?
Even though I graduated from college with a degree in management, I still felt like I didn't quite know what I was doing when I landed my first leadership role. And since it was in a startup under a boss who didn't have much more experience than I did, most of my mentoring came from management books and online resources; I didn't really have an in-office mentor.
When I entered a corporate position, I found that I had many more resources at my disposal: My co-workers had a wealth of knowledge, my bosses (and their bosses) had years and years of experience, and there were guides and manuals for everything.
Now, here's where the big difference comes in: What do you personally need to succeed? If you thrive on taking risks, taking initiative to get the resources you need, and learning from trial and error, you may not need the resources of a corporate position to reach your eventual career goals.
But if you prefer that readily available vault of knowledge and experience—and need it to advance to the position you want in the timeframe you expect—you might find a corporate position more helpful. It all depends on how you work and learn best.
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I'll admit, I was naive when I entered the corporate world. Even though I knowingly entered the company at the bottom of the organization, I didn't expect to get so frustrated with my lack of influence—but the reality was, I essentially had no say when it came to decisions that were made about me and my team. This was, of course, after I'd left behind a position at a startup, where I had much more authority over and visibility into business decisions.
In general, you're going to have a lot less influence in a big corporate office than you would in a small company. And if you have a C-level position in your sights, it'll probably take you a lot longer to get there.
On the other hand, you'll probably have much more insight into the inner workings of a startup office, as well as the ability to voice your opinion—and actually have it heard. However, moving up in rank may look a lot different. If the position above yours is CEO, it may not open up—ever. And so, you may have to expand your role in other ways, making the route a lot less straight to get to your eventual career goal.
What Environment Will Really Help You Succeed?
Overall, you have to consider which factors are essential to help you work toward your goals. Will you do better with an always evolving, "think outside the box"-type mentality, or a structured environment that allows you to methodically work toward your goals? Neither is better than the other—just different. And it completely depends on your personality, work style, and unique needs to determine which will be the best for you and your career.


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Book "Another world on Mask"
Heading out on competition day
Wild brown trout
Mr. Patsy Bradley RIP well known boatman and fisherman
Mask 1954 - final decisions!
Writing up the weights 1954
This is the border between County Galway and Mayo. You can see Lough Corrib to the left and Lough Mask in the middle. The tip of Lough Carra is at bottom left. Click on image for larger version which can be purchased from the website listed below. .
Competition day 1954
Caher, Lough Mask, Ballinrobe
Cushlough December 2010
Peter Staunton
Cuslought Bay with Partry mountains in background
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Some feathered friends at Cushlough, Ballinrobe
I was sent this article recently with no author's signature and having checked it out discovered it appears on the local Angling Club's website.
I suspect it might have been written by Mr. Denis Kelleher, an avid and very successful fly fisherman. Denis is also the author of "Another World on Mask" which provides a fascinating insight into the many sided history of the World Wet Fly Angling Championships of over the years on Lough Mask close to Ballinrobe see: http://worldcuptroutfly.com/
Denis writes:
My earliest recollection of preparations for An Tóstal festivities in 1953 was the painting of our neighbours' wall in a green colour, which I did not regard as overly attractive at the time. An Tóstal gave it's name to one of the forty shades of green and "Tóstal" green paint could be purchased in a large number of small hardware shops in our towns and villages for a long time afterwards. An Tóstal was celebrated by hosting cultural and sporting events throughout the country and special An Tóstal committees were established. The Ireland of the 1950s would not be regarded as a particularly colourful one and widespread emigration was rampant. Perhaps the thinking behind the celebration of An Tóstal was to eliminate some of the gloom and doom that an economically depressed economy visited on the country at that time. In Co Mayo every club and organisation of note had arranged attractive programmes to ensure the success of what was seen as our first National Festival.
In Castlebar the late Paddy Howard and Gussie Wynne decided to visit Tom Coucill with a different idea in mind to mark the celebration of An Tóstal in that part of the country. All three had a common interest in trout angling and were prominent officers of a very active Castlebar Trout Anglers Association –
The Castlebar Club was set up in 1928 and total membership for 1952 was 41. The fact that 21 committee meetings took place in that year would indicate that it was a very vibrant club. Release of fry from the hatchery in Pontoon to Loughs' Conn, Carra, Tuckers', and Church Lakes had taken place and the club was hosting the National championships on Lough Mask on 16th May 1953. The "Inland Fisheries Trust Inc" was set up in 1952 by Government for the development of angling; in particular brown trout angling in Ireland and one of the first operations undertaken in the west was the transfer of trout from Lough Feagh near Newport to Lough Conn in a joint operation with the Castlebar Club. Paddy Howard and Gussie Wynne met Tom Coucill and told him of their great idea, namely a competition on Lough Mask with 500 pounds in prizes. Tom enthusiastically agreed to the idea and immediately rallied to their aid the local and national Press and Radio. Paddy Howard, who was chairman of the Club, had earlier distinguished himself by, as a member of Ireland's International team, winning the International for Ireland on Lough Leven and becoming Ireland's captain for that year.
Arrangements were made with the Boatmen's' Association on Lough Mask for the provision of boats for the event. The Committee of Castlebar and District Anglers were as follows:
President: Mr PT Moran, Vice Presidents: Mr JP McCormack and T.P.Flanagan. Chairman: Mr Paddy Howard Hon Sec.: Tom Coucill, Hon Treasurer: Mr C Hanley, Committee: B Gillespie, R Gillespie, G Smith, G Mc Nally, C O'Driscoll, G Wynne, M Dunne, P Quinn, I Kelly, Weigh-in Stewards: Sergt. Glynn and Mr D Carroll. Official Timekeepers and Referees: Rev Dean Jackson, Ms PJ Quinn and TP Flanagan.
In an editorial in "The Connaught Telegraph" on June 6th 1953 reference was made to the event "By far the biggest event, however is the International angling competition commencing on Saturday April 4th (Easter Saturday). A grand and very representative entry has been attracted for the event including anglers from abroad, and in thus attracting visitors, the Castlebar club has succeeded in fulfilling the object behind An Tóstal far better than has any other club, association or organisation in Mayo, perhaps in Ireland. Far more is it to their credit indeed that the idea behind the attractive event was not merely one of popularising competitive angling; neither was it, unlike the majority of clubs, one of making money - in fact the club will lose by it, believe it or not."
The Connaught Telegraph, published a booklet for the occasion with the official An Tóstal stamp bearing the inscription " An Tóstal" April 5th-26th 1953 (Ireland at home) and advertising the "World Cup" on Lough Mask. Nine Co Mayo angling clubs were listed in the publication and in addition to Castlebar the three more closely identified with Lough Mask were listed with the following representatives.
Westport Anglers: P O'Connell, J Stack
Tourmakeady Anglers: T Molloy and
Ballinrobe & District Anglers: J.J.Leydon, B.Daly.
John Hynes, County Jeweller, Castlebar supplied the "World Trout Fly Fishing Competition Perpetual Cup" for the event and 50 years later the same cup adorned with the names of all winners on the base is one of the most sought after prizes in Irish angling.
Paddy Howard and his committee made the necessary arrangements for the inaugural competition and the late Mr M. Moran T.D., later to become a Minister had sought extension to closing hours for the final international banquet in the Imperial Hotel. A very interesting exchange had taken place between himself and the Judge Mr Moran: " As I have stated it will be an unusual type of dinner because of the fact that the competitors will have to go to their own hotels and then come on to Castlebar. There are special circumstances in this case as, for instance, the competitors will have to change out of the great number of pullovers that are necessary for braving the storms of Lough Mask and then would only arrive in Castlebar at closing time". Judge replies: " They will not be fishing in the dark. If l give this you will be back next year telling me that I gave it last year". Mr Moran, also a keen angler was successful in his application, which was granted until 11.30pm, and the day was saved.
The Qualifying heats were run over two days with 82 anglers competing each day and 58 fish were weighed in. A northeast wind drove snow over the lake at times and the hills on every side of the lake were inches deep in snow. Among those who braved it out for the full fishing time were three octogenarians, namely 87 year old Mr PT Moran, Castlebar, 84 year old Mr McGovern from Garrison and 83 year old Mr J Meldon from Kent. One must remember that the era of super light carbon fibre rods had not even been dreamt about at this stage and split cane, greenheart and rods were likely to be the order of the day. Following the final on Easter Monday in which 20 anglers participated in brighter weather conditions, the anglers were rowed back to Cushlough Bay by the hardy boatmen of Lough Mask. For the record 5 fish were weighed in for the final. Seven countries were represented in this competition and the winner was the late Jack Stack of Westport with one fish of 2 lbs 2ozs.
A system of substitutes prevailed and the second placed Mr M Mongavaun, whose sub was Mr S. J. McCormack, Castlebar with 2 fish for 1 lb 12ozs. Among those present at the International Banquet in the Imperial Hotel in Castlebar was Mr Gerald Bartley, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture. At the final banquet a Mr George Waters from Cork made reference to the fact that the oldest man in the room was Mr PT Moran, President of the Castlebar Anglers. He also apologised for the fact that there were not more anglers from Munster. There were six entries from Munster and he had trained two of them and both got into the final, but unfortunately at Moran's hotel in Ballinrobe the hospitality was so great that they dined well but wined unwisely. Although they did fish next day the bags were empty. Forty five anglers from Castlebar competed and the 4 anglers from Ballinrobe were:
The late Bernard Daly, Malachy O'Haire, Dr J. McDarby and Jack Murphy.
I have not succeeded in finding any reference to the enormous role which must have been played by the boatmen in an era which did not include outboard engines, all movement was by use of oars which must have taken huge effort on a lake of Masks' stature. Of necessity, the distance an angler could hope to cover, especially in rough weather must have been greatly reduced. However, far from being confined as an event, which was organised for An Tóstal in 1953, the competition was to become an annual event that became increasingly popular.
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Baylor holds on to down No. 17 Oklahoma, 78-73
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The first two times that Baylor played Oklahoma this season, the Bears struggled through the opening minutes and failed to get on track until it was a bit too late.
This time, they delivered the opening blow.
The Bears roared to a 21-point lead early in the second half Thursday night, and then held off a frantic rally by the Sooners for a 78-73 victory in the Big 12 tournament quarterfinals.
Isaiah Austin finished with 18 points for the seventh-seeded Bears (23-10), who became the first lower-seeded team to win in this year's tournament. Baylor will face third-seeded Texas, a 66-49 winner over No. 6 seed West Virginia, in the semifinals Friday night.
''They beat us the first two games, and coach always says it's hard to beat a team three times,'' said Cory Jefferson, who added 14 points and 11 boards for Baylor. ''I'm sure they knew that. They were prepared and we were going to make sure we were prepared.''
Cameron Clark scored 19 points and Buddy Hield had 15 for the second-seeded Sooners (23-9), who spent most of the second half frantically rallying from a 52-31 deficit.
They got within 72-68 on Hield's 3-pointer with 1:27 left, and had a chance to get even closer when Royce O'Neale turned it over for Baylor. But a 3-pointer by Jordan Woodard with about a minute left was off the mark, and O'Neal came through with a pair of free throws.
Oklahoma had a couple of open layups on the ensuing possession, but opted to toss it out to Clark for a 3-pointer. He missed it, the Sooners had to foul again and Brady Heslip - one of the best free-throw shooters in the Big 12 - knocked down two more to help the seal the win.
''Baylor from the start was more aggressive, and dictated, and I thought we were reacting most of the first half,'' Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger said. ''They played with more urgency.''
O'Neal wound up with 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Bears. Kenny Chery added 12 points and seven assists, and Heslip also finished with 12 points.
''That's when we're at our best,'' Chery said, ''when we're sharing the ball.''
It was the ninth win in 10 games for Baylor, which has gone from NCAA tournament bubble to knocking on the door of the Big 12 title. The Bears are in the semifinals for the fifth time after ending a four-game skid against the Sooners that included a pair of losses this season.
It also gave Baylor coach Scott Drew his 201st win, moving him into a tie with Bill Henderson for the most in school history, though he preferred to deflect the attention to his players.
''Any coaching honor is a direct reflection of the players,'' Drew said. ''None of us coaches have made any buckets. It's all the players' work.''
The Sooners came into the game tied for the Big 12 scoring lead at better than 82 points per game, but they shot 38 percent in the first half and were thoroughly dominated on the glass.
Baylor took advantage of the cold start to score the game's first 10 points. It maintained that comfortable advantage until the closing minutes of the first half, then used a 10-2 run that helped the Bears carry a 47-31 lead into the locker room.
''They hit us first,'' the Sooners' Ryan Spangler said. ''They got on a roll and it was hard to stop.''
The lead grew to 21 points in the opening minutes of the second half, the Bears capping a surge with an alley-oop dunk by Austin that brought their smattering of fans to their feet.
Oklahoma finally started to show a pulse, though.
Isaiah Cousins hit a 3-pointer and Clark scored three straight baskets, the last on a stylish dunk in transition. By the time Tyler Neal scored on a nifty scoop shot in the paint, the Sooners had embarked on a 13-2 run.
The Bears answered with a flurry of their own, but a basket by Cousins with about three minutes left and a 3-pointer by Hield - who had been 1 for 7 from the arc at that point - got the Sooners within 69-64 and started to give them reason to believe.
It turned out to be false hope. Baylor promptly shut the door on their inspired comeback.
''The second half, most teams are going to compete like crazy when you dig yourselves a hole,'' Kruger said, ''and our guys did that.''


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Hicks signed a two-year deal with Chicago that included $5.5 million in guaranteed money last offseason. The defensive lineman outperformed the contract, recording a career-high 71 tackles and seven sacks in 16 starts. Hicks was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance versus the San Francisco 49ers on Dec. 4, when he recorded 13 tackles, two sacks and one forced fumble.
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Above are the two published X-rays of John F. Kennedy's skull, the left image showing a frontal view and the right image showing a lateral view. The Clark Panel, as did the HSCA, concluded that they show the upper right portion of the skull missing--most of the right parietal bone--with the back of the head intact except for several large fractures. One would be hard pressed to match these conclusions to those two images. Indeed, they don't even seem to show the same damage between the two views. The back of the head and forehead look intact in the lateral view, yet one or the other appears blown out in the frontal view.
The X-ray images only appear that way. Several factors contribute to a misleading appearance of the X-rays. This document will attempt to make sense of these images, show that they are compatible with each other, and demonstrate that they support the HSCA's conclusions.
The Assassination Science images in these web pages are used with the permission of Jim Fetzer.


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By now we know that yoga isn't just for women. But we should also know that yoga isn't just for recovery days. In fact, it's is wonderful for your body to take a day to focus on recover and flexibility, but those are things that you can work into your everyday routine and they can be particularly helpful if, before you pick up anything heavy, to employ a few of the same postures you might see in your typical yoga class.
"Yoga is such a great compliment for any lifting or training routine," says Y7 Yoga teacher Nick Neglia, Teaching Support Manager, East Coast. "Most of the yoga poses all full flexion and extension of the joints. This is great because when you are training or lifting, you're isolating a very specific joint movement in order to build muscle. In combination with yoga, you are using your body to full potential."
Not only that, but when you're performing big compound movements, for example, you often demand full flexion and/or extension to generate power. Flexibility is also a key component to performing things like squats and deadlifts and other Olympic lifts like cleans and snatches.
You don't have to settle in for an entire "flow" to reap the benefits. Neglia says you should thinking about executing poses like some of yoga postures he shared with us, in between rest periods, the way that you might break for a drink of water.
An important thing to note is that yoga isn't the typical static stretching that some researchers have said can decrease performance. Yoga postures instead focus on flexibility and mobility set to breathing patterns that ultimately prime muscles for activity. Yoga is also restorative, so if you're an athlete consistently pounding your body with heavy weights and intense workouts, employing this practice on off days or recovery days can help speed up your recover process.
We asked Neglia to give us a few postures that hit every major body part and you can practice them daily.
1. Modified Pyramid Pose
Focuses on: Hamstrings
Lengthen the front leg and move the back leg close enough so that the heel can easily press into the floor. With an emphasis on anchoring through the back leg, the front hamstring can safely lengthen to whatever degree it feels supported, Neglia says. Bonus point if you can flex your foot, with the toes moving in toward your body. That will stretch the calf as well.
2. Eagle Arms
Focuses on: Back, traps, upper spine
Three rules: Shoulders down. Elbows forward. Forearms up. This will give a release to the back of the shoulders.
3. Forward Fold With Bent Knees
Focuses on: Low spine
Bending the knees is the latest way to release the low back. In a forward fold with the knees bent means that you are not limited by the flexibility in the hamstrings. Instead, you can release the low spine (which is where tension usually finds itself later in the day). Taking an opposite hand to elbow grip will provide extra weight to the front of the body, allowing the low spine to lengthen even more.
4. Seated Pigeon Pose
Focuses on: Hips
The perfect pose to do when watching TV. The biggest rules, Neglia says, is to make sure that the top foot is flexed so that you don't add unwanted pressure into the ankle or knee. Once you have the figure four shape, spend a few moments deep breathing and improving your posture (high heart and low shoulders). If you ever feel any pain in your need, slowly back out of the pose.
5. Yogi Squat
Focuses on: Hips and knees
If your hips are tight, you have two options. You can either sit on a block, or widen your stance. Heels should be as wide as the body (shoulder-width) with toes pointing out at 45 degrees. Similar to seated pigeon, work on lifting the heart high and sinking the shoulders down low. Yogi squat gives the knees a 100% bend without putting any pressure into the actual knee joint. it is perfect for runners and people who sit all day at work. Most of us only bend our knees 90 degrees, here Neglia says, they can bend a full 180.


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The launch of Maori and Welfare resulted in quite a few interviews (with more to come), and a great deal of discussion on talkback, most of which seemed positive when I was able to monitor it. Disappointingly, but probably not surprisingly, John Key and Paula Bennett ran for the hills.
But how did Maori respond?
At the launch of Maori and Welfare last Monday, a number of Maori leaders were present and asked questions after I had spoken. I don't believe I offended anyone present; some agreed with my description of the problem privately but there is also a sense off weariness and wariness about what to do. John Tamihere was on the list of expected attendees and I was sorry he couldn't make it. We have talked briefly on radio before and he apparently gave the paper positive publicity on his Radio Live programme the next day.
Although we had hoped to have the Minister of Maori Affairs attending, Pita Sharples, another commitment prevented that happening. It now appears the Maori Party, or Tariana Turia at least, has decided to ignore me according to the closing sentence in the following report from the Wanganui Chronicle which says Tupoho find my paper insulting. This is my response sent to the editor, and copied to the Maori Party MPs adding that I was sorry on both of our behalfs', theirs and mine, that the paper has been misinterpreted. But it sadder still for young Maori because the status quo is not a happy prospect;
Tupoho say that my paper, Maori and Welfare, is insulting to Maori (Wanganui Chronicle, 22nd July.) It certainly wasn't intended to be.
Statistics show that at least half of Maori single parents currently on welfare started on a benefit as a teenager. My opinion is that many young women default to welfare because their alternatives are not bright, having failed to acquire qualifications or skills. The same could be said of the non-Maori population. The Maori teenage birthrate however, is more than three times that of non-Maori and the teenage birthrate in the poorest decile areas is ten times higher than in the wealthiest. A majority of teenage mothers go on welfare and many stay there for years. Long term dependence on welfare has been shown to produce poor outcomes for both mothers and children in terms of education and health.
My paper explores the historical discrimination and separatism Maori experienced as a reason why welfare has had a disproportionate effect on that ethnicity. Maori were more vulnerable to the damaging aspects of welfare because they have been historically economically disadvantaged. Welfare incomes can equate to an unskilled wage but they create a false economy. Although money flows into a poor community there is no commensurate economic productivity. People are not engaged in producing goods or services. Communities stagnate.
Each year the inflow of young Maori people into the benefit system continues unabated. Stopping that must be a priority for Maori. Hence my suggestion that the DPB be replaced with strictly temporary assistance signalling a strong message that welfare can no longer be viewed as a lifestyle. The paper does not recommend cutting off assistance to those already in the welfare system. It also discusses ways in which Maori could find their own solutions via organisations like Urban Maori authorities if that is what Maori want. There are 6 or 7 suggestions put up for debate. Loans instead of benefits was part of a separate proposal, 'opting-out', which although canvassed, I specifically stated may not best suit most Maori at this time.
Even in a recession there are opportunities. For instance NZ has a chronic shortage of childcare yet 50,000 single parents on the DPB have just one child. They could be employed in community or workplace crèches caring for 3 or 4 other children. Before the DPB Karitane hospitals routinely employed young single mums as staff who could combine their child care responsibilities with work. We just aren't being creative enough when we approach the problem of welfare.
In my work with beneficiaries as a community volunteer I have seen lives transformed by moving off a benefit and into work. It isn't just about financial independence. People gain a great deal from the purpose and friendships that working brings to their lives.
Finally, the paper was extracted from a larger body of work about welfare and the general population. It would be a mistake to give the impression that I consider welfare a problem only for Maori. It is a problem for anybody that gets trapped early and finds getting out nigh on impossible. I cannot accept that anybody believes we do young people a favour by letting this happen.
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The S&P 500 hit a five-year high last week, and now some experts are saying that stocks are overpriced and that the overall market is vulnerable to a 20% drop this year. There are certainly plenty of things to worry about, from a lousy economy and political gridlock in Washington to the possibility of a financial crisis in the euro zone. But there's an equally compelling case that stocks could do quite well in 2013. Indeed, it wouldn't be hard for the Dow to sail through its all-time high of 14,164 and go on to top 15,000 before the year is out – a gain of 10% or more from current levels.
There's no denying the economy's current problems. Since the recession ended more than three years ago, growth has been consistently disappointing for a recovery. Moreover, the economy has actually been slowing down recently – from a 3.1% annualized growth rate in last year's third quarter to less than 1.5% in the fourth quarter. In addition, analysts project that the fiscal cliff deal, combined with attempts to cut the deficit, will knock as much as a full percentage point off GDP growth in 2013. In short, this year's economy figures to be just as sluggish as last year's – and maybe worse.
But the pessimists' case for a bear market is based on more than a limping U.S. economy. They think the bull market – up more than 100% over the past three-and-a-half years – has run its course. They expect a global slowdown that will cause 2013 corporate profits to fall short of expectations. Finally, they think the Federal Reserve's extreme easy-money policies will either lead to inflation, or that the Fed will have to raise interest rates. Either way, it would send the prices of Treasury bonds into a tailspin and unsettle the stock market as well.
Whew! That's a lot to worry about. But today's bearish commentators are making one crucial incorrect assumption – that share prices move in lockstep with the economy. It's true that over the long term, share prices follow corporate profits and that corporate profits reflect the economy. But that relationship doesn't necessarily hold in the short run. Here are six reasons to question the gloomy outlook:
1) Trends in corporate profits can diverge from the economy as a whole. Sluggish GDP growth tends to keep costs down, especially labor costs. So even with only moderate sales, companies can enjoy rapidly expanding corporate profits. And that's exactly what has happened since the recession ended.
2) The level of inflation can count for more than changes in corporate profit growth. The level of stock prices is normally gauged by comparing them with company earnings. When inflation is above 3% a year, these price/earnings ratios tend to be subpar. Deflation – consumer prices that are actually falling – isn't good for stocks either. But inflation of 1% to 2% can support P/E ratios that are one and a half times normal. Over the past 12 months, inflation has averaged a nearly perfect 1.7%.
3) The Fed's easy-money policy can go on for some time. Quantitative easing – the modern-day equivalent of printing money – can be maintained until the economy speeds up enough for all the extra cash in circulation to translate into inflation. As long as there is minimal inflation, the Fed can continue its easy money policy, which keeps interest rates low and supports stock prices that are higher than normal. Indeed, today's rock-bottom rates could theoretically justify P/Es in the 40s – or almost double today's levels. As long as current conditions continue, the Dow should be able to keep moving higher.
4) Flows of funds are likely to be positive for stocks. Any cash that flees a falling Treasury bond market or a euro zone crisis will be looking for a safe haven – and U.S. stocks will offer a prime shelter. In addition, corporate cash holdings have reached a record high ($1.73 trillion as of Sept. 30), because companies don't need to reinvest much in an economy that is growing very slowly. That cash will be available to raise dividends, buy back shares or acquire the stock of takeover targets.
5) Stock prices are by many measures still quite moderate. If you compare current prices to estimated 2013 operating earnings (i.e., without nonrecurring items), the P/Es of blue chips have risen by about 30% from their 2008 lows, but are a similar distance below their highs at the 2007 market peak. By some other measures, prices are a bit above average. But they certainly aren't insanely overvalued.
6) The long-term outlook is getting better rather than getting worse. Since share prices already reflect most of what's known about the economy, the key question is how conditions are likely to develop in the future. The economy is continuing to grow, however weakly. Unemployment has been coming down consistently, if painfully slowly. And home prices seem to have hit bottom and turned up a little bit.
Ultimately, in other words — and as perverse as it may sound — a mildly disappointing economy can be quite good for stocks. High unemployment keeps labor costs low and corporate profits fat. Low potential returns elsewhere could encourage money to flow into U.S. stocks. As long as there's no recession, no really terrible crisis overseas, and no pickup in inflation, stock prices could continue to move up – at least for another year or two. Unless stocks get to levels where they are clearly overvalued – 17,000 or 18,000 on the Dow – it makes sense for most investors to stick with their long-term portfolio strategies and not try to outguess the market.


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This Way Out #1,312 Program Rundown:
Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity . . . . . . . . . . 1:07
SEGMENT #1 – "NewsWrap": The annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) is observed on May 17th by the United Nations [with brief comments by U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER NAVI PILLAY and SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON], and in a variety of events across Asia, but police shut down an IDAHOT march in Nairobi and a rally on the same day in St. Petersburg, while several people are injured as religious extremists violently attack an IDAHOT rally in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, and anti-gay demonstrators in Kiev succeed in getting a proposed bill in the Ukrainian parliament to ban sexual orientation-based workplace bias shelved indefinitely; according to a largest-of-its-kind survey by the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency, virtually one in two LGBT people on the continent have been discriminated against or attacked during the last year for being who they are; a young Russian man is brutally tortured and murdered in Volgograd after reportedly coming out to two of his drinking buddies, although one news source says his parents claim that he wasn't gay; a near-unanimous ruling by Brazil's National Council of Justice virtually opens civil marriage to same-gender couples in Latin America's largest country, while President Francois Hollande signs legislation to open civil marriage and extend adoption rights to French same-gender couples the day after a ruling by the nation's highest court clears the way, and Governor Mark Dayton's signature officially makes Minnesota the 12th U.S. state with marriage equality; Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta quashes a proposal by his own Equality Minister Josefa Idem to create some form of legal recognition for lesbian and gay couples, but Italy's lower house of parliament extends health insurance coverage to its members' same-gender partners, and a court in Milan recognizes the British civil partnership of an Italian gay couple as a legal union (written by GREG GORDON, produced this week by WENZEL JONES & STEVE PRIDE, & reported by JASON PROCTOR & NATALIE PEOPLES) . 10:38
SEGMENT #2 – Billboard for Linda Harvey and Riley Roberts features [:11] + MINNESOTA voters defeated a proposed constitutional amendment last November to make marriage exclusively heterosexual, and barely six months later the state House of Representatives passed a bill to open civil marriage to same-gender couples. "This Way Out" correspondent DIXIE TREICHEL (from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul) was at the Capitol in St. Paul on May 13th when the state Senate cast its final vote on the bill (with comments by "out" REPRESENTATIVE KAREN CLARK and SENATOR SCOTT DIBBLE, MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR R.T. RYBAK, and people outside and inside the chamber) [4:38] . . . . . . . . . 4:49
SEGMENT #3 – MSNBC news commentator RACHEL MADDOW tracks the history that led up to marriage equality in Minnesota . . . . . . . . . 3:52
SEGMENT #4 - "TWO" I.D. by human rights activist CLEVE JONES [:10] + While much of the U.S. seems to be on a steady roll into a future of equality, some segments of society are spinning in a counterclockwise direction. Based in the U.S. Midwest, MISSION: AMERICA has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its president and founder LINDA HARVEY used her weekly radio show recently to spew an ignorant screed about the "dangers" to impressionable young people posed by online information about LGBT people (with brief intro music from "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by THE MONKEES) [2:58]. . . 3:08
SEGMENT #5 – Linda Harvey's sugarcoated hate speech and bizarre distortions fly in the face of the lived experience of real LGBT families. Stories like the one told by 18-year-old RILEY ROBERTS of RENO filled the hearing room when a NEVADA State Assembly committee heard testimony in support of marriage equality on May 9h (with brief intro/outro music from "Love Is All It Takes (To Make A Family)" by ROMANOVSKY & PHILLIPS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:52
Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:33