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Skip to comments.Rick Santorum now TRASHES candidates he SUPPORTED in September
Posted on 12/07/2010 11:27:00 AM PST by Moseley
BEFORE the November 2, election, Rick Santorum defended Christine ODonnell in her US Senate race in Delaware (though trying to have it both ways to some extent).
Now, AFTER the election, Rick Santroum is now trying to jump on the bandwagon and attack the GOPs losing candidates. Goal: NOT win elections, NOT learn how to win elections, but simply for personal aggrandizement by Rick Santorum.
On September 21, 2010, Rick Santorum defended Christine ODonnell as a candidate on Greta Van Sustrens On the Record Rick Santorum
Santorum famous for dumping Pat Toomey overboard in 2006 in favor of Arlen Specter was clearly trying to have it both ways in Greta Van Sustrens interview. But pressed by Greta, Rick Santorum was forced to line up behind Christine ODonnell shortly after Christine ODonnells September 14, 2010, primary victory.
o Santorum started to praise Christine ODonnells qualifications and abilities saying LOOK, IVE KNOWN CHRISTINE ODONNELL FOR YEARS (before Greta interrupted) clearly with a tone of praising Christines abilities and qualifications.
o Santorum said that Christines challenge in the US Senate race in Delaware was:
So, the question is whether Christine ODonnell in a very compressed window Sharon Angle had MONTHS, Christine ODonnell has WEEKS can she do the same thing [as Sharon Angle]?
o Santorum said that Sharon Angle had SEVERAL MONTHS in which to convince and win over voters.
o Santorum said that Christine faced a difficult challenge of a very compressed window and Christine ODonnell has WEEKS (only) to accomplish what other candidates had MONTHS to do in other States.
o Santorum said that Christines challenge in the election was Republicans not supporting the Republican nominee
o Santorum implicitly endorsed Christine ODonnell as qualified, while discussing Gretas question What does it mean to be qualified? Santorum explained Christine ODonnell is qualified if the voters believe she is qualified . it is up to the voters.
o Santorum said that Christine ODonnells challenge was that They are trying to discredit her.
And: If you look at what theyve done to Christine. They have put her outside of that. Theyve said no, shes a shes a, you know, shes a whacko. Shes someone who is out there on the extreme. Shes NOT. And people will find that out.
In response to those precise criticisms, Santorum said SHEs NOT. And people will find that out.
o Santorum said: If she is given the opportunity to do it, which she will be. Greta interrupts: She may. I think she will [turn it around]. And tonights interview from everything Ive heard [interrupted]
o So Rick Santorum predicted that Christine ODonnell would be able to turn it around and overcome the negative attacks against her, and Rick Santorum predicted that Christine ODonnell would turn it around.
Apparently there are two theories on elections in the Republican Party:
(a) Hard work, application of mental and physical effort the old fashioned way to win over supporters and do work
(b) DO NOTHING, sit back, and then fight over the credit for the winners and throw stones at the losers.
Choice (b) is dangerous because it FAILS to actually win elections. Republican elites are not interested in doing the hard work of rolling up their sleeves and running election campaigns. They simply want to posture for the maximum personal benefit.
Republican elites have abandoned the task of running successful election campaigns and instead are simply sitting back and throwing stones at their own candidates, and attacking those with the courage to go into the arena and fight for what we believe.
While this hypocrisy among Republicans is wrong and unfair to those who valiantly try to take power from liberals, it is also destructive to the Republican party because the elites are abandoning the efforts needed to actually win at the ballot box.
o Sharon Angle took on the Senate Majority leader the most powerful Democrat in the country besides the President. For any Republican to unseat the incumbent Senate Majority Leader was the longest of long shots. The fact that the tea party movement (even before Sharon Angles nomination) made Harry Reid unpopular and brought Sharon Angle close to winning is incredible.
o Christine ODonnell ran for US Senate in Delaware with 110,000 more Democrat than Republican registered voters. GOP elites in Delaware sat on their hands while the Democrat party increased Democrat voter registration by a stunning 11% from 2008 to 2010. While people note that Christine ODonnell has run before without success, Christine ODonnell took on JOE BIDEN in 2008 an almost impossible target.
In 2010, Christine ODonnell again sought to win the last 4 years of Joe Bidens 6 year terms won in 2008 in a special election on November 2, 2010. Joe Biden is the Vice President of the United States, and it was his seat in his home state that Christine ODonnell was seeking. Why did the IRS issue an erroneous tax lien, and then promptly admit they were wrong and withdraw it but damage done? Why did the national news media come down so hard on Delaware? Having the Vice President of the United States potentially embarrassed in his own home State had nothing to do with this?
Those willing to hunt the big game in blue states deserve our greatest honor and utmost respect. Those who aimed for the easy victories in Republican-leaning States are heros, too. But no one deserves greater honor and greater respect than Christine ODonnell and Sharon Angle who charged the beach at Normandy. While others picked off easy victories, Angle and ODonnell stormed the enemy at their strongest points and put pressure on the Democrats on their home turf.
Real Santorum? This tells all, imo:
"Santorum famous for dumping Pat Toomey overboard in 2006 in favor of Arlen Specter"
Gosh you guys. Maybe he is disappointed in the way she ran the campaign. He supported her when it counted and now thinks she either could have done better or ran a poor campaign. I don't see why this is news or that he should be bashed after analyzing her loss and coming to this conclusion. We are VERY hard on folks who give opinions on certain people.
Yes. Rick Santorum was a good man, and reliably pro-life and pro-family. He was persuaded by Bush and Rove to support Arlen Specter, whom they insisted had a better chance to win than Pat Toomey.
I'm sorry he did that, because I think it lost him the next election, because his conservative base was angry with him. He did it at the urging of the party leaders, Bush and Rove. And he also said he did it out of loyalty because Specter had earlier supported him.
I blame Rove for that as much as anybody. Specter was predictably a disaster, and Rick lost the election for doing what he was asked to do by the party leadership.
Since the Tea Party revolt, people have been more willing to revolt against the party elite, but that was not the case back then.
Still, I don't know what possible purpose Santorum can have for saying this stupid stuff now. I think he's hoping one day to get his job back. But this ain't the way to do it. Not now.
Maybe he is disappointed in the way she ran the campaign. He supported her when it counted and now thinks she either could have done better or ran a poor campaign.
As a Delaware resident, I can testify very well that she could have campaigned harder and more aggressively. Some criticism was certainly deserved. It wasn't a forward and active enough campaign to really show that she meant to win.
AND lost ALL credibility at the time in doing so. Has he ever explained or apologized for that?
Of course, GW Bush also campaigned for Specter during that very same primary.
Rove trashed her before she even got out of the starting gates.
But Santorum was his best to sell very weak candidate, since she was the nominee.
But do we want a roster full of Christine O'Donnells? I don't think so.
What else do you want from him?
Right you are! Nevada and Maryland are RAT states. While I respect both Angle and O'Donnell for their attempts, they were, at the end of the day unelectable for any number of reasons. During their campaigns (and I really watched Nevada because we have business interests there) I cringed on almost a daily basis when I read what came out of the mouths of these two. They were so wedded to their personal philosophies that they thought that every looney statement they made was a plus, when it was a minus for most of the voters. If you didn't know anything about the election and showed up to listen to the candidates, you just had to get the feeling that both of these women were too nutty to be elected. It's really too bad for all of us because despite these foibles, they would have been good legislators.
I like Santorum. He was a good Senator here. I am dumbfounded by his action the last few years. It seems he got a real shell shocked after the Toomey/Specter race in '04 and his loss to that loser Casey. He needs to get his act together.
He made a political mistake but he is still right on policy.
He also said in 2007 The only one I wouldnt support is McCain.
"They were so wedded to their personal philosophies that they thought that every looney statement they made was a plus, when it was a minus for most of the voters."
Conservatives can win everywhere once they start acting like responsible adults and not like radio talk show hosts.
Never been a Santorum fan. Hope he doesn't run for POTUS.
I don't see how he will matter either way.
> AND lost ALL credibility at the time in doing so. Has he ever explained or apologized for that?
No and despite some (what I think) feigned support (he's running for something?) for _certain_ tea party candidates, he still really is an anti-libertarian, anti-small gov., anti-truly free market. Like hinckley buzzard says - pro-life is about it.
"I am not a witch" was certainly a FUBAR campaign item.
> Still, I dont know what possible purpose Santorum can have for saying this stupid stuff now. I think hes hoping one day to get his job back. But this aint the way to do it. Not now.
Yours was possibly the best spin on where Santorum stands, but I'll never forget his comments on libertarians even before the Toomey thing. He's in the John Kasich traitor territory for me... Kasich got the first assault weapons ban passed for Clinton.
Santorum made his choice six years ago when he supported Arlen over Pat.
Arlen's Democrat vote was the extra vote needed for Obama-Care to make cloture,IIRC.
I voted for Santorum in 2000 and thought he had solid conservative values, in 2006 I grudgingly voted for him again(I loathed Casey) but he strayed and now I'm done with him.
As far as I'm concerned he's an arrogant opportunist who sucks up to the Rob Gleason-Brabender-Cox Republican establishment big government crowd.
We used to fly the same flight to DC for years, before he moved his family to DC.
He was a very sincere, honest, young congresscritter with real values.
Unfortunately, young Rick, the honest congresscritter, has lived too long in DC and has too much political dogshit on his shoes.
I think that the old saying, that laying down with dogs will earn you fleas, is too true.
I don't say he is corrupt, but he has certainly become more of a DC "Lifer" than a young man with principles.
Ricki Santorum is a wimpish Loser! Don't ever consider him for a national office,EVER!
I believe those two... especially O'Donnell, kept the glare of media off Rand Paul, giving him some needed breathing room so he could steady his campaign against Conway. COD had better be on Rand's Christmas gift list.
So was the "I am you!" ad.
Who wrote her stuff?
We have to remember, though, it was 2006 -- a "wave" election -- that carried a lot of weight toward his loss. We lost a high number of GOPers that year. Plus.. Bob Casey disguised himself as a pro-life "moderate," giving PA voters an illusory alternative to Santorum.
True. But I remember a lot of Freepers back before that election were saying that they refused to vote for Rick. And I was saying that Bob Casey was not his father's son when it came to abortion, that he was lying on several issues, so they should hold their noses and vote for Rick. But they didn't.
He made a big mistake agreeing to endorse Specter. But his voting record was good as long as he was in the Senate.
YOu would have liked it better if he had said she had no chance of winning? No, he said exactly what people say when they are trying their best NOT to be fingered as someone who is hurting a candidate's chances.
She was NOT a good candidate. She proved it. She may be a great person, but she has not been, and was not, and probably will never be, a good candidate for Deleware.
But she will enjoy playing with the almost $1 million she still has in the bank after her campaign ended.
If McCain turned against republicans in 4 years, and became a democrat, I doubt anybody here would hold it against Sarah Palin, so I don't know why they don't understand what you explained about Rick Santorum.
I don't think he's the best conservative in the world, but he seemed a good enough guy not to be dumped on by conservatives like he is.
Sharon Angle WAS electable, she simply made too many mistakes against a well-oiled democratic machine. Appealing to hispanic voters by telling them they look asian was probably just the last straw.
O'Donnell never had a chance, both because of her lack of any experience at all, and her inability to stand up to scrutiny, defend herself, and articulate a message. Which was wierd because she was a great speaker, she just didn't speak the message.
When your first words to introduce yourself to the general election audience is "I am not a witch", you have already lost the race. (I know, Nixon managed to come back after his "I am not a crook" speech, but that wasn't a campaign advertisement, and it took a while).
But she never had a chance. She was 16 points down before she stepped out of the gate, and then she decided to hang around in the gate for 3 weeks, collecting millions and cementing "Senator Coons" in the voter's minds.
stupid is as stupid does.
Santorum must want the RINO insider support.
"Gosh you guys. Maybe he is disappointed in the way she ran the campaign. He supported her when it counted and now thinks she either could have done better or ran a poor campaign. I dont see why this is news or that he should be bashed..."
I agree with you entirely. Personally I thought O'Donnell was an inadequate candidate who had no chance of winning, but once she won the nomination you shut up, be a good team player, and get behind her and support her like Santorum did, no matter what you think, not throw stones like Rove or Krauthammer.
We'd be better off with half a conservative than no conservative at all. Castle was a lock to win, and had a 54% rating from American Conservative Union. Coons is 0% conservative with 100% chance of beating O'Donnell; O'Donnell is a 100% conservative with 0% chance of beating Coons. Either way it works out to Zero.
O'Donnell should have run for mayor of something and built at least a minimal record of achievement, not going straight from Kindergarten to the Major Leagues. Then go after the Senate slot when Castle retired.
I don't know who wrote her stuff. Worse yet, he/she got paid partially with money I sent to O'Donnell campaign :-(
Cheer up. Maybe O'Donnell's advertising person does not have your money.
It was announced yesterday that she is still sitting on a million dollars of campaign donations.
Do you know if they are going to pursue charges against her or drop them since she lost?
Whether a candidate has won or lost will have nothing to do with whether charges are pursued.
Charges will not be pursued because they are totally frivolous and without any merit.
I don't think she violated any laws. I think those stories were overblown opposition attacks. I just think she was a poor candidate. I don't think she was a crook.
There are legal ways a candidate can live off campaign contributions — for example, she could announce a run for the other senate seat, and then pay herself a salary for the campaign, up to the amount she would make if she WON the election.
My GUESS is that she will use the money in support of other candidates. At least, that's what she SHOULD do, and it is a legal way to use the money. She can also return the money if she wants.
Sorry, while I agree with your assertion that a party is responsible for defending candidates, in the end getting elected in the personal responsibility of the candidate.
And if we are going to have a tea party, and it is going to challenge the establishment, and push candidates that will oppose the establishment, we have to get candidates who can win election without much help from the establishment.
You can rail against the establishment all you want, and complain that they didn't help us topple them out of power, but I believe it is absurd to expect entrenched political powers to help us decapitate them. We either play with them and get the best candidate they can support, or we rise up against them, in which case we need candidates that can make it with our help alone.
IN this specific case, there was nothing the delaware establishment could have done to save O'Donnell. They might have made the race closer, but it is absurd to think that even a perfect republican committee can rescue a fatally flawed candidate in a state that is 2/1 democrat.
If it was that easy, we'd never win elections.
Christine O'Donnell proved herself to be a fairly principled conservative on issues, and a failure as a candidate getting her message out and making it appeal to the voters of Delaware.
She had $6 million, and only got 5% more of the vote in this election (against a placeholder democrat candidate in a wildly republican year) than she did in 2008 against Joe Biden, in a year she had no money.
If she had lost by a few points, like Sharon Angle, I think you could argue that a full-court blitz of support, AND a quick endorsement by the other primary candidate, might have been enough to swing the election.
But this was a rout, it was always going to be a rout, and that is because the candidate was a poor choice.
It's a pretty bizarre world where what is "wrong with politics" is people who see a candidate lose by 16 points, and after the loss point out that they were a lousy candidate.
I sent her money, even though I knew she couldn't win. I would like to have had her win. I don't think she would have been a bad senator, and she was mostly right on issues (I was always nervous with her love affair for Hillary Clinton though). But it was easy to see she had no chance of winning. General elections aren't primaries, where the electorate is your base.
That is the lesson the tea party movement has learned in this election, and they are already working around the county to vet and pick better candidates to support.
I believe the evidence is very clear--if she didn't violate the laws, then there must be some odd explanation. She should share that explanation if she wants to concince anyone that what her filings show is in line with the law and FEC regs. But look how she has dealt with issues over and over--red herrings. She evades the question and if pinned down just denies things without giving any evidence why we should believe her.
Maybe I'm letting other information and her repeated dishonesty bias my look at this issue, but in any case, if she were a Dem, nobody here would give her a pass on things half as bad.
There are legal ways a candidate can live off campaign contributions [...]
Heaven forbid she actually goes out and gets (and keeps) a real job, gaining some experience that might help her be competent at something like dogcatcher.
A good start might be to get a job where she could pick up some tips on managing money, if she wants to have a job that affects the finances of all Americans.
But I think that CREW's accounting of her violations is wrong--I think they missed that she made a few minor paybacks on the rent/utilities issue, for example.
I am not a witch....great campaign strategy./s
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With the 22nd pick, the Vancouver Canucks proudly select... ???
Cam Davie
June 24 2009 10:19PM
There are two big questions for the Canucks leading up to Draft Day. #1-So who's it gonna at 22? #2-Is Mike Gillis going to be wheeling and dealing to make another "bold" move?
Let me address question #2 first. No, Gillis won't be making any moves, but not for lack of trying. I just don't believe that Gillis has any truly valuable assets with whom he's willing to part. His priority so far this off-season has been signing the Sedins and, for better or worse, that is handcuffing him for going after other free agents or trade requests.
I still think that Gillis should offer the Sedins and Luongo the same type of contract - a front-loaded 7 year, $40m deal, or something close to that.
Now, on to the draft. I don't think the Canucks will move up or down in the draft and will be drafting, as originally positioned, at the 22nd spot.
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If they get a gift from the Gods, John Moore will somehow get overlooked and fall into the Canucks lap. However, he's projected to go in the mid-teens, so it would take a minor miracle for Vancouver to have him available at 22.
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Draft Day is always a lot of fun. I love seeing the deals, the speculation, the shocks, the head-scratchers. Let's hope we get to see all of that and more on Friday night.
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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.0.4, 2.1, 2.2
Component/s: HTML Editor (TinyMCE)
Testing Instructions:
- Test editor filters ############
1. Log in as Admin
2. Turn emoticons on (Site administration -> Plugins -> filters -> Manage filters -> Display emoticons as images)
3. Turn editing on
4. Select a course
5. Click settings -> Edit settings
6. Click on emoticon icon and add an emoticon in course summary
7. Save course
8. Turn emoticons off for the course (Settings -> Filters -> Display emoticons as images )
9. Click settings -> Edit settings
10. Emoticon icon should not be visible, but text version of emoticon should be shown.
11. Select another course and click settings -> edit settings
12. You should be able to see emoticons button in course summary editor.
13. Try perform similar test for cohort
- Test editor filters ############
test category:
1. Create a category
2. turn off emoticon filter
3. Add a subcategory and emoticon button should not be visible
4. Add course and emoticons should not be visible
5. Turn emoticon "on" on category
6. repeat 3 and 4, and emoticon button should be visible.
Test editor filters ############ 1. Log in as Admin 2. Turn emoticons on (Site administration -> Plugins -> filters -> Manage filters -> Display emoticons as images) 3. Turn editing on 4. Select a course 5. Click settings -> Edit settings 6. Click on emoticon icon and add an emoticon in course summary 7. Save course 8. Turn emoticons off for the course (Settings -> Filters -> Display emoticons as images ) 9. Click settings -> Edit settings 10. Emoticon icon should not be visible, but text version of emoticon should be shown. 11. Select another course and click settings -> edit settings 12. You should be able to see emoticons button in course summary editor. 13. Try perform similar test for cohort test category: 1. Create a category 2. turn off emoticon filter 3. Add a subcategory and emoticon button should not be visible 4. Add course and emoticons should not be visible 5. Turn emoticon "on" on category 6. repeat 3 and 4, and emoticon button should be visible. Test files ############ 1. edit category and insert image 2. Save category and edit again, image should be visible 3. Try create multiple categories and sub-categories and repeat step 1,2. 4. Try test the same in cohort, course, assignment, feedback, lesson, wiki, workshop and user
- Test files ############
1. edit category and insert image
2. Save category and edit again, image should be visible
3. Try create multiple categories and sub-categories and repeat step 1,2.
4. Try test the same in cohort, course, assignment, feedback, lesson, wiki, workshop and user
- Test files ############
Affected Branches:MOODLE_20_STABLE, MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_22_STABLE
Fixed Branches:MOODLE_20_STABLE, MOODLE_21_STABLE
Pull from Repository:
Pull Master Branch:wip-mdl-27896
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While integrating
MDL-27500 and playing with new code was detected that the course->summary editor was not observing the filters status for the course context, causing the emoticons button (tinymce plugin) to be shown / hidden incorrectly.
After a nice trace session with David, it seems that we need to:
1) Add the missing 'context' element to the editoroptions array in course/edit.php
And also we have agreed it would be great to have some central check in order to find anomalous situations like that, so we have decided to:
2) Modify file_prepare_editor() (not used in all forms but in a hight %, and it's the only central point where both $options and $context are available) to:
2a) missing both OK
2b) $context !== $options['context'] then EXCEPTION
2c) missing one of them DEBUGGING_DEVELOPER
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Hello Eloy,
While creating editor (using file_prepare_standard_editor), currently we pass context and editor options.
can't we do something like:
1. Give preference to $option['context']
2. If not available and $context != null, then $option['context'] = $context(so we don't lose context)
3. If missing both then no problem.
4. If both are present and different then DEBUGGING_DEVELOPER
Please advice
Adding David here, because I remember we looked to a lot of combinations / possibilities and, at the end we finished with the proposed here being the best (BC, proactively warning devs, exception on clearly wrong situations...).
Tomorrow I'll refresh my mind with this, but surely David will fix my bad memory-storage :-P
Hi Rajesh,
it sounds to me that we explored the idea of using only one of them (give preference to it, your 1. above) but at the end it was not clear why one should get preference not why code should "fix" anomalous situations at all. If we follow the "give preference" approach, wrong caller code will continue working without ever noticing it.
I think that's the ultimate cause for deciding about our radical 2b and 2c above. If the context differs it's clearly one exception, no way that code can have 2 different contexts at the same time. Needs fixing on callers for sure. And if one of them is missing it means that "something" (the smilies, or the files... or whatever) won't work ok in the editor, so we debug info about that.
I think that was more or less the rationale against our 2a...2c proposal above. Unluckly, I've tried to access to my chat history with David but it's soooo big that causes my jabber client to die, grrr. Perhaps David can confirm/revoke some of my comments above.
Of course, this will nee careful integration + testing, something like:
a) implement the agreed patch, surely master only.
b) run a BIG test over ALL forms in Moodle, looking for exceptions & debugging, annotate them
c) fix the "wrong forms" in master, but backport changes to those forms in 21_STABLE when possible.
d) optionally, backport the a) patch to 21_STABLE
So at the end, based on a) and b) we'll detect the offending editors and will fix them both in master and 21_STABLE, but without including the "radical" patch there. Only when all the forms are ok we could consider backporting the a) patch from master to 21_STABLE (although I don't think we'll do so).
And that's all, feel free to share/comment the problem there. Perhpas they are only 2 forms, who knows! I bet they will be, at least, 3, lol!
Hi! Eloy,
I agree that there can't be two context and that's what we should warn the developer about.
At the same time it seems like, having approach 1, 2 (a, b) is like a band-aid to the broken functionality.
As, we are passing $context to the function, the function should not expect $option['context'] at first place itself and should override it in all cases and pass it as $option['context'] to use_editor() (which expects context to be in $option['context']).
As a counter measure, we can throw error if any caller function try to pass context via $option['context'] to detect wrong usage of it and later can be removed easily (As, this is something which file_prepare_standard_editor() should not expect at all.)
My main concern for all this is why to pass duplicate parameters and confuse ourself of which is right and which is wrong (Which is happening now.).
Please correct me if I am missing any point here.
Thanks again for all the help.
Hi Rajesh. Please see the chat record attached. It is where this bug was spotted and analysed. We concluded first that a single place is the best way, too. But then we realized that the $editoroptions is used later again. And because we can't change APIs on stable branches (so we can't drop the $context parameter from the function), we must live with both.
It's not nice at all, I know.
Thanks David,
That helped .
Can we consider this in other way:
1. file_prepare_standard_editor() is a general function and should get $context as one of the parameters (which it is taking now). Putting context in editor_option might make developer miss context (which happened in courses.) - In short leave it as it is.
2. Now $option['context'] being an optional parameter, should be removed from all calls as this is a replication (And is confusing in long term)
3. Add warning if $option['context'] is passed and leave that for few versions till we are sure that file_prepare_standard_editor() is used in correct way.
4. Assign $option['context'] = $context, making sure we pass context to editor whenever required.
This way we can safely get rid of wrong code usage, without breaking it and keep it simple so that no newbie (Like me) have doubts about what to pass and how.
Please advice, which solution would you like me to go for
I like the general idea. There is one small problem, the "invalid_parameter_exception" is used for invalid parameters of web service or externallib functions. It means somebody in non-core code submitted invalid parameter. IN this place I think it would be better to use standard "coding_exception"
Thanks for the patch anyway.
Raj, thanks for the patch. I agree with Petr - we should throw coding_exception here.
Comparing context objects may become tricky in the future when we eventually replace stdClass with a context class. Maybe we should compare $context->id here.
Also, IIRC the discussion with Mr. Lafuente, that silent assignment to $options['context'] = $context; may be tricky because the caller, who passed the $option, could use it later and the context is not there. Are we aware of that?
Raj, can you please grep through the code base for the places where the file_prepare_standard_editor() and friends are used and make sure that the context are passed correctly there? If not, please apply the same fix as in course/edit.php.
Thanks Petr and David,
I will fix this.
@David, When I greped for file_prepare_standard_editor(), I found the usage has been very inconsistent.
Probably, I can make consistant calls to this api(as part of this fix).
Please advice if this has to be a different Bug or it's fine to have it all fixed in this.
Thanks Raj. I would focus on this issue only in the patch. However, the idea was just to try and detect similar places that set the context in one place only, as the course/edit.php does. If you realize it's difficult, never mind. We can go and fix them as the debugging will appear.
Thanks for all the help David
I have integrated following inputs:
- replaced invalid_parameter_exception with coding_exception
- Now comparing $context->id and not objects.
- Removed silent assignment to $option['context'], (Although this was not silent - as we were alerting developer, But I agree there might be some use-case exceptions, so forcing this behavior is not Good)
- Fixed all use-cases for file_prepare_standard_editor.
Can you please peer review the changes, before I send them for integration review.
If you are creating new category, course, activity or a block the context does not exist yet, but the filepicker/tinymce might want to know at lest the parent context. I suppose it would be ok to pass the parent context in $options['context'] and null in $context. I am not sure, maybe we should pass it as a separate parameter.
Please discuss this issue with Dongsheng, I created the $context part, he is responsible for the filepicker internals.
Thanks for pointing this out Petr
I had a chat with Sam and Dongsheng, and there seems to be a potential problem with my initial solution.
I need some time to trace back this, as it hits couple of modules and need to be looked closely
Modified the following:
- Added relevant context to all the modules. If current context is null then parent context is used (default is system context).
- Check is added in file_prepare_standard_editor to grab wrong context usage.
Looks good to me, thanks for fixing the context chaos
Dongsheng Cai
Hi guys,
I'm reopening this issue this week sorry as I really think this needs to be closely looked at and properly reviewed and presently I am out of time.
Looking at the changes it appears we are becoming more strict on passing contexts around and I see many place have already been upgraded by this patch to ensure that context has been set, however other areas directly creating editors or directly using the lower level API's have not been looked at, should they?
Another thing I have noticed having only spent a brief time looking at code is in cohort/edit.php context is now being passed as an arg to file_prepare_standard editor and is either the system or a course category context. However in the form itself you can change the level the cohort is being created for and essentially switch the context the editor should be using.
Lastly we need to consider whether we backport this or not.
I think the patch is looking perfect, sweet.
About the backporting concerns, really we are only throwing errors if the 2 contexts are defined and different (that is, indeed, one real bug). In the rest of cases, we are, simply, debugging if the editoroptions context is missing and the files context is defined. No changes in any other situation, so impact for users should be minimal and limited to real bugs. So, based on that, my +1 for this to be spread along all supported branches.
More yet, I'd be happy if we get stricter along the time (2.2, 2.3...) and detect more and more situations or, why not, analyze if we can end suppressing the $context and use only the editor one or so. Really having 2 is far from optimal. But that's another story.
Back to the current patch, there are some places where I'm not sure if we are doing ok or no. And those are the places where the context is used in a variable way (course/edit, course/editcategory, user/editadvanced, cohort/edit) or can be "moved" by the form (i.e. the UI allows to move the entity to another course category...). So I would suggest to:
1) Add explicit testing instructions for those variable/movable places. With new entities (course, user, cohort..), edited ones and moved ones.
2) user/editadvanced.php is using one $coursecontext for new users, not sure why.
3) course/edit.php, on new course creation is passing the category context to the editor. Check it does not affect how/where files are handled/stored.
So, +1 for one more iteration, but I think we are 99% in the way, thanks!
Thanks for the feedback Eloy
- I have updated test instructions and tested most of the movable/variable places and it works as expected.
- In user/editadvanced.php $coursecontext is used because it was set on top.
if ($course->id == SITEID) {
$coursecontext = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM); // SYSTEM context
} else {
$coursecontext = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_COURSE, $course->id); // Course context
- tested files and there seems to be few things which I am still looking at. We are passing itemid as 0 in file_prepare_standard_editor (course/editcategory.php). As such passing $context to file_prepare_standard_editor is not going to effect files. They are just draft files and finally when they get copied we have the exact context where the file needs to be moved (file_postupdate_standard_editor). Hence all seems to be fine in file area...
Still testing further to make sure all works as expected.
Thanks Sam for all your support
Some more findings:
Passing context in cohort is not a problem, because itemid = null and if either $context or $item == null then both are explicitly set to null in file_prepare_draft area.
Is it acceptable to pass 0 as itemid in file_prepare_standard_editor?
With my changes we were respecting parent category context for new categories, which tend to load parent files in file draft area. So the last check-in actually respect parent context making sure the parent files are not moved to draft area.
Rest of the changes are safe as they just add context for editor and have no effect on draft area files/contents.
I presume it's now safe to integrate this patch
This has been integrated, with one little extra commit fixing one whitespace occurrence.
Note to testers, please test it into STABLE branch!
Tested: I was able to add emoticons everywhere and control them with filter settings, including sub-categories where the parent category had a different setting.
I was able to add images to descriptions all over the place, except to cohorts. I've launched this as a separate bug.
Such an effort has get its prize. Universal Award to the very-best Moodle developer in the family. Thanks!
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48 here … 🙂ReplyCancel
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Aw, is 37 Maja with her pup? Super cute.
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hi 56!ReplyCancel
These reader photos are by far the worst thing about this site. It's pathetic that so many people are so hungry for recognition of any kind that they'd even send photos in. And why on God's earth would anyone care about photos of people they don't even know?ReplyCancel
Robert – really? happy new year to you too! sending love and light your way.
it's not about getting recognition – it's about getting to know the people that regularly post here. we see blogger avatars (or whatever you want to call them). this is a way for the CDAN family to *see* one another.
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Robert – I was gonna slam you until I read your profile. You seemed to do a fine job of it just being yourself. (A 58yo male who is a fan of Kstew? Really? Seriously? That's not creepy. Nope).
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"It's pathetic that so many people are so hungry for recognition of any kind."
Says the poster who specifically took time to troll, knowing full well what kind of response he was going to get.
You've been pretty easy-going here in the past Robert. Bad Day?ReplyCancel
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Yuffie, #33 here. I get that a lot; I must have one of those faces 😉ReplyCancel
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She is unusually mellow in this picture, she's normally a royal pain in the butt! *L*
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A generation or two ago, Dr. Kildare and Perry Mason inspired kids to study medicine and law. They may have been among the first, but there's never been a shortage of fictional doctors or lawyers on TV or in the movies.
In contrast, scientists have been a pretty rare sight, especially on the small screen. And, when they do appear, it's almost always in one-hour drama shows. CSI and Numb3rs are known for their positive portrayals of scientists and mathematicians; CSI has even sparked growing demand for degrees in forensic science.
But until Big Bang, there hasn't really been a character on a sitcom who made a living as a scientist – unless you count Ross Geller on Friends. Ross had a PhD in archeology, and a few storylines did focus on his work. For example, one episode took place in a museum, and in another, the publication of his dissertation was not actually cause for celebration. But Ross' occupation was not the focus of Friends.
Science, however, is what The Big Bang Theory is all about. And, according to a recent New York Times article, the sitcom has been making scientists squirm. Not because the science on the show is portrayed inaccurately (it's not), but because most of the jokes come at the expense of the profession. "[P]hysicists are [seen as] geeky losers, overwhelmingly male and ill at ease outside the world of Star Trek."
Chances are the show wouldn't be so successful if the writers weren't getting it right. The stereotypes are all there, week after week. These fictional scientists lack the looks, social skills, and female companionship that make most sitcom characters appealing to their audiences. And, they're all white guys, except for one who's from India and speaks with an accent.
Also on the show, the work of science itself is most often represented by a poster covered with rows of neatly written equations that occupies a prominent position in the living room of Sheldon and Leonard. When the two discuss their work, they speak in a language that only another scientist could understand, leaving viewers with the impression that science is anything but exciting or glamorous, just the opposite of how medicine, law, and about every other profession are portrayed on TV.
To their credit, however, the show's writers have been making the effort to make the characters likable, endearing, and even lovable. A few years ago, the reality series Beauty and the Geek got its audience to embrace the social misfits on that show, and Big Bang has certainly done its part on behalf of nerd acceptance. Leonard even got the girl, Penny, the pretty blonde waitress who lives across the hall. Just like other sitcom couplings, they now seem to be involved in an on-again, off-again kind of relationship.
The characters also seem to love what they do for a living. They feel passionately about their work, and the audience does get the impression that science is important – and can be fun, as evidenced by an episode that featured the staging of a robot race.
Nevertheless, scientists aren't sure that the show doesn't represent a setback when it comes to improving the public's image of their profession. Children especially are greatly influenced by what they see on TV. If characters don't come across as attractive, cool, and successful, kids may be turned off by what they see on the small screen. That means they're less likely to consider science a desirable career. Over the years, "Draw-a-Scientist" tests have shown just such an image problem, that is, the stereotypical image of a scientist has been well-established in the minds of children. "The charming and charismatic scientist is not an image that populates popular culture."
So, what do you think? Are scientists benefiting from the exposure? Is it enough that scientists, long underrepresented on TV, are finally prominently featured in a successful and critically acclaimed sitcom that reaches millions of people? Or, is the show doing a disservice to the science community and society in general by reinforcing already well-entrenched negative stereotypes? The Exchange would like to hear your thoughts.


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They seemed cool and they have something like the 3D sound switch I like so much on my headphone amp.
I only heard them briefly, I thought my audio technica's had better noise cancelling and sound, but I don't really know the music, so hard to say. But they did great for the "out of head feel"I bought my headamp for.
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Center for Energy and Environmental Security research analyst Elias Leake Quinn proposes a regulatory and a technological solution. The regulatory solution ensures that "databases are used only for their principle [sic] purposes: informing efficient electricity generation, distribution, and management." The technological solution "must come in two parts: one addressing the security of the database as aggregated and kept by the utility, and the other addressing the security of transmitted data." With regard to the latter, "One possible approach might be to aggregate and encrypt the data being sent from smart meters back to the utility by putting additional hardware on each transformer. This would basically anonymize an individual's information to roughly the scale of a city block."12 Whichever solutions prevail, it is clear that energy optimization and privacy need not be mutually exclusive goals.
6.8 billion is the number of megabytes that would need to be stored and managed once the smart-grid infrastructure hits 40 million advanced meters.
Security concerns. While the privacy issue has naturally emerged as a major concern, there are other potentially serious challenges to building out not only smart, but also secure, infrastructures. For example, the deployment of smart meters leads to enormous amounts of data sharing and interoperability of systems within electricity grids. As this heightened two-way connectivity between energy producers and end-users grows, so, too, inevitably, will concerns surrounding the potential exposure of smart grids to cyber attacks. Such vulnerabilities could cover a broad spectrum—from an individual home's smart meter being hacked by a petty criminal, to a cyber-terrorist intent on blacking out an entire city. As smart infrastructures proliferate, steps are being taken to harden systems and add layers of security to best guard against cyber vulnerabilities. Clearly, proofing smart infrastructures against criminal or malicious attacks not only poses a serious mandate to utilities but also has emerged as a national priority.
Defining your role in emerging smart-infrastructure markets
For some companies, successfully entering a smart-infrastructure market has meant forming alliances or making acquisitions. The smart-grid and electric-transportation sectors will likely produce a new crop of major cleantech players, but a strong trend suggests that this will be achieved through cross-industry collaborations. Making the right alliance or acquisition at the right time during this dynamic phase will benefit companies intent on securing a foothold in the smart-infrastructure markets.
Sustaining cleantech's second wave. Government support and incentives—in the form of tax credits, mandates, ARRA grants, and loans—have done much to grow the first wave of cleantech industries, including wind and solar energy generation and biofuels. It may be that similar government support and, just as important, further consumer and commercial buy-in will sustain the second wave of cleantech players currently emerging. Key to companies' spotting and acting early on potentially significant opportunities in existing and emerging smart-infrastructure industry markets will be their fixing a vigilant eye on current and anticipated federal and state government support, as well as on consumer and commercial adoption of new and next-generation clean technologies.
Customer is key. For smart infrastructures to grow, customers must accept them. Therefore, it is critical that all stakeholders who are building out these infrastructures develop programs that accommodate customers' needs and preferences. If the build-out of these infrastructures is not focused on customers, they likely will not adopt them.
Smart infrastructures as a national industrial policy. As part of its drive to stimulate the economy, the Obama administration has focused on energy generation, management, and consumption as key beneficiaries of government stimulus money. Indeed, this administration has laid the groundwork to modernize the nation's electricity grid as well as to spur growth in the electric-transportation sector. These initiatives follow cues already taken at the state level and signal the beginnings of a national industrial policy—with the development of smart infrastructures at its core. Going forward, continued momentum of this policy (in the forms of ongoing stimulus disbursement and a possible carbon cap-and-trade system) would likely open more opportunities for companies—big and small—that can deliver products and services needed to create modernized infrastructures.
Choose the "smartest" partner. As the ambitious roll-out of these smart infrastructures begins, the need for companies to ally and partner with other companies is evident. This has created cross-industry convergences that might have seemed unlikely just a few years ago. However, as technologies develop, some will be the standard-bearers, and others will not. Therefore, choosing the right partners (and the technologies they represent) in smart-grid-related projects will be increasingly important—particularly when that choice means committing to a certain technology.
The winning technologies will be those that will be not only scalable but also easily adaptable to next-generation technologies and innovations. For example, successful smart-meter roll-outs are predicated on their ability to endure through generations of new technologies connecting to them at both ends—into the home and to the utilities. Alliances, then, need to be forged with partners whose technologies will most easily adapt to future innovations. And, as in any fast-growing industry, committing to certain technologies—as a producer or an adopter—will continue to be a challenging undertaking, as more and more players enter the smart-infrastructure space, offering still more technologies and solutions.
Wide adoption equals the tipping point. Finally, smart-infrastructure development likely will reach an economic tipping point when a Moore's-Law-like cost reduction results from wide adoption of technologies—from sensors, to substation automation, to home energy management systems. Clearly, all smart-infrastructure players—from energy management software developers and start-up electric-vehicle-charging-station developers to utilities—will benefit from economies of scale. Companies entering smart-grid and electric-transportation markets are taking a lead and establishing early market share. However, the early and high-growth stages of these markets will likely be the most volatile. Wide and enduring adoption of these technologies will be the key to the maturing of the markets they are creating. Economies of scale will happen—and a tipping point will be achieved—only when industrial, commercial, and consumer adoption of smart-infrastructure technologies becomes pervasive and ingrained.
Tim Carey is PwC's US Cleantech leader.
12 Direct quotes in this paragraph are from Privacy and the New Energy Infrastructure, pp. 40-41. Quinn attributes any merit to this approach to Jonah Levine at the Center for Energy & Environmental Security, University of Colorado Law School.


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heck yes we do!Originally Posted by CzarinaAnya
and I adore Taylor like you wouldn't believe big fan since Vegas baby!
have you seen the article in People Magazine? I loved it.. he was a red head when he was a baby! lol great photos and a great 2.5 page write up
Yes, I did! Those pics are hot! Especially the one where he's holding the mic stand. Wowwee It'll be on the stands, tomorrow! :DOriginally Posted by Tonichelle
Two words: Ewan. McGregor. The man who made Obi-Wan Kenobi HOT. As was said on a journalfen thread, he may very well BE sex itself.
Honestly, right now, most of the other names coming to mind are skaters. *sigh* I will also add: Sean Bean. I don't care if 99 times out of 100 he dies or is the bad guy or both, I watch movies just for him. Goldeneye is my favorite James Bond film EVER. Him and Pierce Brosnan (before Brosnan got all scruffy)--someone somewhere was making a movie just for me.
Sadly the place where I usually go "Oh, he's hot!" is often on BBC America, A&E and the like and the show is from the UK and the actor is a no-name.
Ewan McGregor is so very yummy LOL
love him in just about everything I've seen him in
Jude's personality overshadows anything that is remotely goodlooking about him...
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Oh? What's so different about Jude Law than anyone else listed here? It's hollywood - personalities get checked at the door.
Gotta agree with you there. No gene pool has yet been put together to form anyone gorgeous enough to compensate for THAT much sleaze.....Originally Posted by Tonichelle
Richard Marx. I can't help it ; I have always thought he was mega-cute!
John Cusack
Colin Firth (sigh!)
Before my time but still very cute: Dana Andrews
Ewan McGregor, especially when he's just goin' on in that accent of his!
I also think Hayden Christensen is adorable. Something has to be said about nice, shy guys!
Oh--and my boyfriend!
Ooh I forgot about Colin Firth. How about Liam Neeson when he's not dressed as Aswan?
Sorry can't help myself... :o
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C. Ronaldo
Javier Saviol
David Villa
Alfonso Xavi
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PygLibs.net - 0.93-alpha3
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This is an alpha release of the PygLibs.net networking library.
It was originally meant to be part of that library, but it will not have a new release for some time, so this project has been forked for the time being.
PygLibs.net provides several solutions for fast, threaded, pure-Python servers and clients, primarily targeted at game networking.
There are several different kinds of servers, to fit different needs:
Server/Client - a more complex connection, using two sockets, allowing the server to make requests from the client.
Secured versions of the above, that use an authentication protocol to encrypt/decrypt messages.
And, finally a RPC server/client, and a secure version of it.
Simply download the archive and unzip, the module itself is /net, which can be copied into your program directory itself, or into site-packages.
The docs and tests are in the download, simply go into the /test directory and run any of the tests (they use a bit of fiddling with sys.path to enable them to be run from this directory, and not above the actual net module).
The tests double as a sort of tutorial for each part of the library, though they should have more documentation.
Also, this has not been fully tested as yet, as our server has been down I have only been able to test this on my local machine, and not over a network. So if anyone would like to test this it would be greatly appreciated.
Otherwise, we should have our servers back soon and we can test it ourselves :) Licensed under the LGPL (readme in next release, sorry 'bout that)
A serious bug that rendered the remoteAccess(RPC) clients completely unusable was fixed.
A new chatter test was added, just run as many times as you want clients, if no server has been created it will start one and run it along side the client.
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Horecatel - Professional Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes Fair
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- from Sunday 12 March 2017 to Wednesday 15 March 2017
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Annual meeting for 40000 professionals looking for information, innovation, contacts or new ideas. At the WEX from 09 to 12/03/14.
Some 350 companies will be showing off their skills and presenting their products. Each compete in terms of dynamism and creativity when offering their clients the best deals, services and products.
This 38th edition of Horecatel offers:
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