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Looks like I need to do things faster. All the stuff I've been talking about really needs to happen, which I've known all along but seems to be getting impressed upon me by observing various things. No sleep this weekend...
Looks like I need to do things faster. All the stuff I've been talking about really needs to happen, which I've known all along but seems to be getting impressed upon me by observing various things. No sleep this weekend...
Pushed another lazy_buddy out the door and testers/reviewers are nowhere to be found. Maybe I should just keep moving until they do chime in. Shared pagetables, here I come...
Looks like openlogging.org fell off the net and I can't bk commit anything. Which is somewhat painful as I'd like to avoid batching unrelated things together in a given changeset.
The bugreporter seems to have indicated that the rmap13 bug was created by an independent patch used in combination with it. What a relief!
A number of strategies seem to have surfaced for dealing with kva exhaustion:
Making fork() not copy pte's for file-backed vma's seems to have some very difficult to trace issues. As best as I can tell things somehow end up faulting in garbage.
Poking around fault paths and such has led me to consider beautifying it somewhat by fleshing out the segment driver -like approach and some pure non-semantic beautification of rbtree manipulation code. I might also try using a different kind of tree if I feel like going in for the long haul. Not that I haven't done that before.
pagemap_lru_lock things are going well. Just taking it slowly from here so bugs I may have missed don't show up in larger groups than can be effectively handled, and not feeding stuff to riel until after the issues from the last batch of things sent to him have been handled. There's an annoying one where the bugreporter has vaporized and I can't get anything close to useful info as to what happened that I'd like to get a grip on, but short of literally flying out to meet the guy, sitting on his doorstep until he reappears, and borrowing his box to debug on (which isn't going to happen) I'm not sure what can really be done.
It looks like rmap is getting close to (or at) parity on NUMA-Q now with a rollup of the pending changes so I'm slowing that down and keeping things stable. Now I'm helping to chase highmem stability issues and have some fork() efficiency issues on at a lower priority. Highmem is evil. Very evil. It's going to take a bunch of us grinding away at it full-time to make this stuff work. The niceness of direct-mapping the kernel virtual address space turns into a kva-exhaustion horror beyond imagination as dynamic:direct ratios go up. There will be much pain.
Trying to debug the races with the pagemap_lru_lock breakup all week. Mostly just singlestepping and trying to debug the simulator. Nothing to see here, move on.
So nothing really got done this weekend. It wouldn't have helped to run the benchmarks without having the analysis code I wanted to use the benchmarks as testcases for ready for the occasion. Reimplementing math libraries there aren't free equivalents of is a big PITA.
I got a real profile instead of a description and the signs point to too many calls to add_timer(), mod_timer(), and del_timer() as opposed to cache-blowing in cascade_timers(), which surprised me but relieves me of the burden of writing the umpteenth priority queue. It also appears to be specific to ip_conntrack which I'm not sure is one of my priorities.
Following the yellow brick profile...
mbligh managed to get some testing in on the pte_chain_freelist racefix, and it appears to survive booting and running some benchmarks. Per-zone freelists should now follow after poking around for further races in the rest of this round of auditing.
Looks like the rest of today will be spent on entertainment types of things. Maybe some code will come out late tonight.
Found a race in an audit of one of the pagemap_lru_lock breakups that appears to be common to all of them, but it's unclear whether it's the only one left. After the pagemap_lru_lock was broken up the pte_chain_freelist, which is global, was left naked. Apparently after I survived that one then one of the init_idle() races came out and I ran out of time on the machine.
Discovered in some additional testing that the incomplete gamma function for the chi^2 CDF had convergence problems when either a or x > 7, so it appears that will need the continued fraction expansion for that domain. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov CDF code is spewing complete garbage, and the other CDF's are on the back burner.
The queue is propagating things upward and downward and finding the right levels to put things at, but the stratified trees that are supposed to be what gets bubbled around still need to get plugged in. There appear to be some bugs with respect to using the right chain field at the right time with them. Basically when it's time to bubble the things down from one level to another, or when things need to be chained off each other by insertion in a tree of a deeper nesting level, something is getting the nesting level of the tree node wrong.
Found two more classes of bugs in another audit of the waitqueue code. One is that the leader against which other waiters on an object are chained is not actually considered an element of the list by the list_head routines, but rather only a sentinel, which caused the reference to it to be lost, and the other is that some of the code assuming it had a unique reference to the queue wasn't actually removing it from the comb list.
Some more people I've never heard of chimed in on the hashing thread and put in a few words to perpetuate the confusion between "random" and "uniformly distributed". This is never going to end. I didn't actually bother answering the post because I'm going to hold out until I have some hashtable analysis code others can use to reproduce my results and speak in numbers. As long as it's rooted in terminology and anecdotes no one will ever admit what's going on.
Minimal progress on the stratified trees but some pointy haired issues came up that distracted me for a while.
Reviewed some small changes from Sam Ortiz that look pretty as far as getting SGI's discontigmem stuff to play happily in combination with removing ->virtual. It's not clear whether it will perform well as it apparently takes some doing (in terms of CPU cycles, the code is not that bad) to remap mem_map array indices to page frame number offsets. Hopefully that won't be too bad, but if it is, ->virtual is #ifdef'd and can be brought back by that method.
Tried to take a harder look at the discontigmem thing itself but there's quite a bit there to wade through. I think I'll be waiting for the separated patch so I don't need to guess at which chunk corresponds to which feature it's trying to implement. If it were smaller (which I'm not sure it can be) it'd be easier to get a full picture, but it'll only get smaller by becoming multiple patches.
Finally got a look at Pat's NUMA-Q discontigmem patch and was very impressed, the code was very clean and very readable. I'll have to take a harder look to be sure I've done due diligence with respect to it not breaking other things but it's very nice.
The hashing flamewar apparently degenerated to the name-calling level, though the name-caller does not have a particularly good reputation. I don't care. I'll continue collecting hash table metrics and their measurements from test runs. Sounds like I might be having a benchmark weekend. Again.
Signed up for advogato after some guy posted a lame spelling flame in response to my kerneltrap interview and then slapped a silly thing about it into his diary here. Looks like an interesting way to log the various things I'm doing.
Did some more tweaking for code cleanliness of treap implementation for the bootmem patch and some more testing on segment_tree.h. The main issues are mostly testing and purifying the code to eliminate macros. Page stealing and type tagging are still pretty far off. Bootmem is really a background task.
The waitqueue vs. printk bootstrap ordering issue doesn't appear to be the only one. My suspicion now is an error committed while doing insertions on the comb lists corrupting the structure of the collision chains.
Stratified trees appear to be a bit of work to think out properly but it looks like when the code is boiled down to its essence it will actually be very simple.
Laid out some C code to get the Lyapunov exponents of hash functions and the entropy of the bucket distribution. Also started translating some of the other scripts I wrote to C. It'd be a little easier if there were something to check it against but for the entropy at least there are some analytically calculable results whose input distributions will work as test cases. For the Lyapunov exponent some more reading may be required. I seem to be having a little trouble getting the C version of the Anderson-Darling statistic's CDF to converge too, but that's a bit much for one day. This is pretty easy stuff to do but actually running the tests to get results to analyze the statistics of is so time-consuming it doesn't feel like it will ever get a decent timeslice.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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Top Ten Summer Readings for 2013
Ahhhh, summer! Finally, some time for a bit of pleasure reading. Got a gift certificate you've been hanging on to? (Ha. Mine are gone minutes after they hit my hands.) Or maybe you are just overwhelmed with choices and don't want to waste precious free time on something that isn't so great. Well, we at eNotes want to help you get the most out of your summer reading
Here are ten suggestions offered by my very well-read friends who occasionally hang up their tweed jackets and loosen their professorial buns (no, not hair). Here you will find a combination of new and older works, both fiction and non-fiction, serious and comedic. So pick a few and let us know what YOU think!
1. Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue by Jane Maas
Are you a fan of AMC's Mad Men and Peggy and Joan in particular? Curious about what life was really like on Madison Avenue in the '60s? Then you will enjoy Maas's exploration of life in the ad game in the 1960s and beyond .
2. Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend by Lynda Curnyn
A good beach read by a first time novelist. A friend says it is "the only romance novel I've ever finished."
"Suddenly single when her aspiring screenwriter boyfriend takes off for a hot job in L.A., bridal magazine editor Emma Carter is forced to reassess her appearance, her job, and her prospects-and take action. A diverse cast of engaging, occasionally offbeat characters, the hilarious sayings attributed to them, and a fast-paced style facilitated by Emma's pithy sound-bite "confessions" add to the fun in a lively Manhattan-set story that, while not a true romance, leaves the heroine happily pursuing her dreams and involved in a satisfying romantic relationship. This work may appeal to those who enjoy Bridget Jones-type books and like their stories urban, trendy, and slightly ambiguous. Curnyn is a fiction editor and lives in New York. This is her first novel. " – Library Journal

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Tiger Tail in Blue (Frank V. Ross | USA | 80 min.)
Frank V. Ross is a true American independent: his playfully meandering films are blatantly low-cost affairs with a precise style that reflects the filmmaker's control. While essentially character studies, Ross' movies draw you into the flow of behavior with an observational technique that recalls Robert Altman; the narrative emerges from watching people go about their often-frantic lives.
Tiger Tail in Blue, which was nominated for the Gotham Awards' Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award last fall, presents the finest qualities of Ross' perceptive approach to conventional dramas. Ross stars as Christopher, a struggling writer whose nights are consumed by a deadbeat waiter gig, preventing him from spending anything but a few hours with his wife (Rebecca Spence), a teacher. As a result, he latches onto the flirtatious advances of his co-worker, who, for the most part, is curiously played by the same actress. This subtle reality twist is a sign of Ross' low-cost methods, allowing the two leads to develop a deepening rapport, but moreover the move is a Bunuel-like psychological trick, leaving the viewer to wonder if Christopher is genuinely infatuated with his co-worker, or if he is merely needy, missing his wife in their off-hours relationship.
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Wasn't going to try out, but
His sister made him.
Has a nice voice but
They may only have said yes
Due to sympathy.*
*Amy Brumfield lives in a tent in the woods.
Made up a weird dance
Called the "joy-hop." Randy said:
"The right kind of crazy."
Okay voice. The boys
Let her through because she's hot.
Sage J-Lo said "no."
Back again this year
Wasn't going to try out, but
His sister made him.
Did I just get cruised
By a 12-year-old? Why, no.
He is 17.
Cute 16-year-old.
Will it help that she knows how
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The segment on her
Work with disabled adults
Made me want to cry.
Sang Stevie Wonder,
Got Steven to make his weird
Melted Botox face.
Can't sing at all, but
Entertained viewers when she
Felt up Steven's ass.
Throaty, flat and bad.
Randy stared and blinked for days,
Then cried out "awful!"
Looks like Ryan Seacrest,
But this doesn't help him sing.
Come back when Ryan's dead.
Butchered Jason Mraz,
Then freaked out at cameras when
Judges told him no.
West African guy,
Not as good at country as
He believes he is.
Tried to bring in folks
To vouch that he's really good,
But it didn't work.
Quit his job so he
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Thread: Another Swivel Seat
Another Swivel Seat
I went with the thread that Newty posted, I know someone else did it too but I could never get their pics to download on my computer, for some reason I can't always get the attachments included in some threads. I got the Bass Pro seat swivel for 9.99 ( I'll see how it holds up), I got a 5/16" aluminum plate 9"x13" at Metal by the foot and 1" angle cut 9" long, costing $30. I used a cheap poly cutting board that I got at Walmart for $3, I cut that to match swivel and took Newty's advice and cut another piece to double up the spacing. I think the cutting board was 5/16" thick. I got all bolts and nuts at Lowe's, The screws that go into boat seat attaching 2 pieces of cutting board and swivel are 1/4-20x 1 1/2" and are perfect once you tighten 'em down with driver- if you screw in by hand they appear too long. Step by step goes like this: 1- remove seat cushion and remove seat.
2-cut the cuting board(2) and attach them and swivel to seat, I used the 4 center holes in seat, with 4 sets it gives you a few options to play with.
3- drill holes in plate and attach it to slide rail ( I centered mine)- leave out all 4 poly spacers that were originally there and place 1" angle just forward of the back bolts
4- place the seat and swivel assembly on plate and play with positioning until you get it where you like, then mark and drill holes in the plate
5- attach the plate to the seat assembly
6- attach that entire assembly to the slide rail
7- get a cold brew, swivel around, kick feet up on rear seat and take a drink or 2 or.....
Parts list:
5/16" aluminum plate 9"x13"
1" angle aluminum 9" long
seat swivel- most will work just check bolt pattern on seat bottom (mine is 5x5)
cutting board
4- 1/4-20x1 1/2" machine screw and washers to attach swivel and cutting board to seat
4- 1/4x1" carriage bolt and washers and lock nuts to attach swivel to plate
2- carriage bolts 5/16x 1" to replace the original 2 in front slide holes
I think that's got it,Pics should help.
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Gravity III- 1100 lb. in port locker, 2300 lbs total
IMG_1265.jpgIMG_1268.jpgIMG_1271.jpgOnly problem we had with the non-locking swivel was when surfing the seat wants to turn to the side that is weighted down. It really wasn't a problem for me, but my wife has shorter legs and had to work to brace herself. A comfortable driver makes a better driver, so I decided to add a removable peg to hold seat in forward position if so desired. I used some spare 3/4 aluminum angle bar I had. I mounted that to the holes in the seat on right side that were originally used to mount to the slide rail. I made it long enough to stick out beyond seat about 3", but short enough to be covered up by the bolster when it's down. I then lined up the hole I drilled into the angle bar with the aluminum plate and drilled that hole. Then insert peg and you have a fixed seat again.Attachment 0
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'07 Mobius LSV
Indmar Assault 5.7
Gravity III- 1100 lb. in port locker, 2300 lbs total
Brilliant! This is next on my list after I move my check valves to fix my non-priming issue on my two surf bag pumps. Gotta have me some swivel action.My Mom said I'm not allowed to get wet!
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Nice work, and great pics! For us that haven't done this yet could you just get a locking swivel or would that create other problems? Would another piece of cutting board work in place of the aluminum plate?Dan
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EXCELLENT! I have the swivel and the cutting boards I just need to get the bolts and the metal. This is exactly what I needed to see!
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I used a locking swivel and it works great. It locks in multiple positions all the way around. I think I got it from overtons or some place similar.'08 Mobius LSV, Mods- 1100 lb Rear Sacs, IBS Sac, Center 400 Sac, Dedicated thru-hull intakes and pumps per sac, SeaDek One Piece Mica over Black Roo, EZ Net Cargo Nets, Swivel Drivers Seat, Hot Water Shower, Hinged Wind Block, Bow Cushion Adapter Plate for Drink Holders Access, etc, etc.
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Okay, JT, I realize this is a SW site, you're a SW guy, and this is a thread about SW-related convention questions. But I'm not going to Comic-Con this year, and I would REALLY appreciate someone (maybe someone awesome who sports a Farnsworth avatar?) posing this one to the Joe team. Granted, we don't have all the info, but this looks like one of the biggest clusterloves in a while.
There have been "budget Joes" at dollar stores, Marshalls, etc. They've pretty much always been Valor vs Venom repaints or re-releases on small cards, with a limited number of accessories. They don't get announced at conventions or sold through normal outlets because, well, no one gives a crap about inferior older figures, and it seems like they're more or less a way of making a buck off old molds.
Meanwhile, five easy repaints of existing 25th/ROC/POC/30th-style Joes that people have literally been begging for for years are vintage Snake Eyes IV (which sorta looks like he's wearing a hockey mask, and has four different colors, but looks strangely awesome), vintage Storm Shadow III (a black-and-white outfit he wore during the Ninja Force era, though it debuted slightly earlier), Devil's Due Shipwreck (wearing a ribbed sweater and a beanie--the head exists from the ROC line, and the ribbed sweater torso has been used on multiple figures), vintage Cobra Commander VI (plain-old hooded Cobra Commander, but in solid black), and the basic Cobra Trooper in different color schemes. And Hasbro seems unwilling to make any of them, despite three of them being some of the "we've got to include at least two of these guys in every wave" characters.
The Retaliation figure pics start showing up. I think they look pretty sweet overall, but I appear to be in a minority.
Suddenly, what appears to be a new wave of budget figures, on a new classic-styled small card, show up. Who are they? Snake Eyes IV, Storm Shadow III, Cobra Commander VI, DD Shipwreck, a Cobra Trooper in solid black, and Duke in green fatigues based on the Original 13 (well, ten of them, anyway--not one who was requested, but great for customs, and another of the "have to have two per wave" fellas). No fanfare, no advance notice, just one day a dude finds them in the Philippines, apparently in advance of an American discount store release.
So, what I can't help but wonder: how the hell did five HIGHLY-requested figures who were simple repaints (or minor kitbashes) wind up as budget releases... and appear to be causing far more excitement among collectors than the upcoming Retaliation line? (I'm not saying they were highly-requested just because I wanted them. We're talking the Kithabas and Ben Quadinaroses of the Joe world here. No, I take that back. These are Slave Leias and Smuggler Landos from the time before those figures actually existed, since they're new versions of old standby major characters that we actually want.) Seems like a weird reversal, the regular line being for kids and the budget line for adult collectors, especially since the discount distribution is wonky and uneven, at best.
And, maybe, if they can't or won't answer that, how about the possibility of getting them in a multipack exclusive, or making them available through HTS? (I'll take my chances with any retailer exclusive before trying to get six one-per-case figures at closeout stores, one of whom's an army builder that everyone on Earth, including myself, will want multiples of. Even K-Mart. No joke.)


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TUPELO – Executive director and founder Jerry Clayton has poured more than half his life into the Alpha House Home for Boys.
Since its inception in 1972, Alpha House has impacted more than 1,000 young men, but will close its doors for good on March 31 of next year.
The announcement was made at a press conference at the Franklin Street home on Monday.
"This is one of the saddest days of my life," Clayton said. "I just want people to know that this was not our choice. The Alpha House has been a refuge for young men, a place for them to change the direction of their lives."
Changes in child placement and regulations make the closing necessary, he said, along with increased competition for funding.
Sitting in the warm parlor of the house – decked with Christmas trappings, presents for the home's children crowding the base of the tree – Clayton recalled memories of camaraderie with his boys.
"They are like college friends or old army buddies," he said. "The older ones used to tease new boys by convincing them the house was haunted. They even got one of the maids to believe it."
He said Christmas is a special time around the house. It's a tradition that the boys have their own stocking with their name stitched on it.
"I remember one of the boys walked in from school one day and saw his stocking," Clayton said. "He turned to one of the other ones and said, 'Man I'm glad I live here, aren't you?'"
Success stories of Alpha House boys abound. One boy came to the house after being abandoned by his parents at a service station and living in a junkyard. Now he works for NASA as a genuine rocket scientist.
One of the boys currently residing at Alpha House aspires to become an Olympic boxer. The southpaw trains with the Police Athletic League and holds a place on Tupelo High School's honor roll.
"People often ask me about success stories," Clayton said. "And it depends on how you measure success. I measure success by a young man meeting his potential, becoming a good citizen capable of assuming his responsibility as head of his own household. By that measure, the Alpha House has been extremely successful."
Clayton has served every role imaginable in the house, from chef to chauffeur to someone to simply ask how their day went when the boys get home from school. Working closely with his staff of nine, he instills habits of manners and responsibilities that give them confidence to function and succeed.
"At Alpha House, the most important thing I tell them is 'You are somebody. Don't let anyone tell you that you're not important,'" he said. "A kid has to feel good about himself before others can feel good about them."
Clayton is proud of the fact that the home has never housed the child of a prior resident.
Clayton, then Lee County chancery clerk, got the idea for Alpha House while working as Youth Court referee. At the time, only one judge presided over an eight-county district. To help with the workload, the judge was allowed to appoint a referee, who would prepare court orders to be signed by the judge.
"I got the idea when I saw that I couldn't make a good disposition because there were no options," he said. "Kids from bad homes shouldn't have to go back."
Funding for the Alpha House has always been tight, said Clayton, who took no salary for his work at the House until 1988, but expenses were always met by local donors and businesses.
However, the regulations imposed by the Olivia Y vs. State of Mississippi lawsuit have stretched the home beyond sustainability, he said. The Alpha House's board of directors voted last Tuesday to close the home.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in 2004 by New York-based advocacy group Children's Rights, sought to reform the Mississippi Department of Human Services' Division of Family and Children's Services.
"Under the new restrictions, someone has to be awake in the house seven nights per week," Clayton said. "In addition, children cannot be placed more than 50 miles from their home. Our boys are from all over the state."
Clayton also said that foster homes and the homes of relatives now take precedence in court over a boys home like Alpha House when determining where to place a child. Fundraising has also become more difficult due to the increase in non-profit agencies in North Mississippi.
As for the Alpha House's current roster, Clayton said placement for these boys has already been determined. The building on Franklin Street will revert to Lee County.
"I can't thank the community that made the Alpha House possible enough," Clayton said. "Hopefully other organizations will rise to meet this need. I have faith in the spirit of Tupelo."


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Another phase in the 2014 election cycle ended at noon Friday, Aug. 15, when candidate filing wrapped up for four Lancaster City Council seats, four Lancaster County school board seats and the Cane Creek Watershed Board.
Filing in the nonpartisan (no political party affiliation) races, which started Aug. 1, had some last-day activity with two candidates coming in to file, said Lancaster County Director of Elections Mary Ann Hudson.
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According to a Lancaster County Sheriff's report, when deputies arrived the homeowner was standing in front of the residence and informed firefighters "he had extinguished the fire and they did not need to get the hose off the truck."
A request from a local church to waive a building permit fee launched a discussion amongst county officials last month about exempting all religious institutions from similar fees.
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The Special Olympics Flame of Hope torch will make its way through Grant County on May 27 on the journey to Richmond for the 2010 Summer Games.
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Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel responded to China's announcement of its Air Defense Identification Zone, which includes territories administered by Japan and South Korea. On December 5, 2013, The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent the Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai a letter urging the Chinese government not to implement an Air Defense Zone in the East China Sea. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report on January 14 , 2014 to analyze China's purpose in announcing its ADIZ.
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The United States is deeply concerned by the People's Republic of China announcement today that it is establishing an air defense identification zone in the East China Sea. We view this development as a destabilizing attempt to alter the status quo in the region. This unilateral action increases the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculations.
"This announcement by the People's Republic of China will not in any way change how the United States conducts military operations in the region.
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It's Not (All) Your Money
Original post made by stephen levy, University South, on Sep 15, 2011
We all have faced situations where we would like to say "I don't want to pay for" (fill in the blank--the Iraq war, high speed rail, education for the children of unauthorized immigrants, subsidies to oil companies).
But that is because we don't approve of the programs and have been outvoted but not because it is "all our money".
Most of us have benefited from freely available public education, from subsidized tuition or federal grants at college, from federal funding for basic science research that helps our industry, from publicly funded infrastructure like highways, and from the security of being defended by our men and women in the military (even if we don't like every war).
And we have benefited by the taxes paid and investments funded by governments in our parents' and grandparents' generations.
Anyone who thinks that he or she has done it all on their own so it is all "their money" is either very special or not recognizing the role that public programs and investments have made in our opportunities and our earning power.
One problem (besides truth) with the assertion that half of the families don't pay taxes or that our earnings are "all our money" is that it divides us at a time when we desperately need to find a way out of this finger pointing stubbornness that is paralyzing our ability to move forward and address our challenges.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Sep 15, 2011 at 6:15 pm
If you don't want to live in a civilized society, using the benefits the society provides for you or your company, then take the obvious choice to not pay taxes.
Buy an independent island and move there.
Or move to a tax free country like Dubai or Somalia, the libertarian paradise.
At the least, quite whining and move to a low tax state such as South Dakota or Texas.
c ya!
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Sep 15, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Thank you for being a much needed voice of sanity. Your astute, carefully reasoned pieces always make my day.
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 16, 2011 at 2:54 am
The most absurd thing is talk of devastating government cuts at the federal level when the overall federal budget is still increasing (along with the debt). Only in Washington can the same budget be called a cut or an increase in spending depending upon whether you are a Democrat or Republican... on the Democrat side , a draconian "cut" seems to be anything that is a reduction from the expected or desired rate of increase. They turn on Obama when he dares to acknowledge the unsustainable trajectories of beloved programs. On the Republican side, there is so much fear and loathing of expanding government that they can't acknowledge that taxes are going to have to increase if only to pay for the unfunded excesses of the past. I don't have much hope of people being able to "move forward and address our challenges" when two polarized sides can look at the same facts and reach completely opposite moral (I would say "religious") conclusions. For example, the rhetoric of the rich "not paying their fair share" according to the Democrat side. This way of framing the tax issue is clearly intended to divide. This "fact" can be seen from the other side as some "rich" people paying more taxes in a year than many will pay in a lifetime. The top x% of taxpayers pay y% of all taxes (sounds like the "rich" definitely paying their fair share because x is small and y is large). The top x% of taxpayers control y% of total wealth in the country (sounds like the "rich" aren't paying their fair share because x is small and y is large.). Interpretation of these facts depends upon your viewpoint and I don't see a whole lot of common ground expressed by anyone in the media these days. Most commentators seem incapable of accepting that any viewpoints other than their own are valid and I think this accurately mirrors much of the populace. I find it is both terribly interesting to read other people's views and also terrifying to see that viewpoints I assume would be universally held are far from universally held. There seems to be roughly a 50-50 fundamental divide in the country on many fronts.
While I seldom find Stephen Levy expressing views that I share, its interesting to hear a contrasting viewpoint. To close, the government investments that he mentions here seem cherry-picked ... most, like highway infrastructure and basic science research, accounting for smaller and smaller portions of the government expenditures. Look at what goodies went into the last huge "stimulus" bill (credit card charge). The long term ROI for that stimulus appears to have been remarkably low as investments go. So I am skeptical of the government throwing our collective tax "revenue" (and national debt) at the problem. The latest jobs plan looks like another ill-conceived cash-for-clunkers. i.e. not an "investment" but rather just more borrowed money redistributed to consumers to temporarily prop up the consumer economy and kick the can down the road as to who is going to pay for it. A majority of the people support raising taxes... as long as someone one else "rich" is paying for their clunker. It will be interesting to see what happens to the politician who finally admits that a family earning more than $40k has to be considered rich in order to solve the budget problems on the current government trajectory.
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 16, 2011 at 3:01 am
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The question is the appropriateness of any particular expenditure. While I can see the value of the whole public supporting public streets and highways, I question that same largess toward roads that are essentially the extensions of private driveways. Many neighborhoods in PA have been configured to be of no use to the general public. Why should I be taxed for private gain. This is just one example of the ongoing question of appropriateness of any particular public expenditure.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 16, 2011 at 6:17 am
How on earth did we survive without the Federal Tax that began about 100 years ago? No education, no roads, no science? We must have been a horrid country back then.
No, we are not a democracy where the mob rules. We are not 2 wolves and a sheep voting on dinner plans. We are a Republic, with a Constitution that is founded to protect individuals AGAINST a government, whose job is to defend and protect individuals. We are 2 wolves and a sheep where the sheep is protected from being eaten.
It IS our property, our money and "we" have decided to give our powers away to a government farther and farther away from home. When we all banded together to hire the local teacher..ok, fine. When we all banded together to hire the local sheriff, ok, fine. But slowly the power of those choices have been driven to a locus further and further from home, so that now we have folks in DC deciding what happens to OUR money, what local banks can and can't do with OUR money, which of OUR roads gets fixed, how we treat OUR teachers. Soon, they will decide OUR firefighters, OUR police, ..the creep of power to DC must stop.
That is what this is all about.
Return power of decision to the people who pay. Take it from the Feds. I have no problem with being "divided", wolves against sheep, no problem with the "problem" of discourse and decision making, no problem at all with trying to reverse our course.
No, enough.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 16, 2011 at 6:28 am
Dan: "On the Republican side, there is so much fear and loathing of expanding government that they can't acknowledge that taxes are going to have to increase if only to pay for the unfunded excesses of the past"
False assertion. No, taxes don't "have to" increase. Amazingly enough, we had more tax revenue in real dollars in 2006 than ever in the history of the nation..AFTER massive tax cuts. Amazingly enough, and counter-intuitively, the higher the tax rate, the less tax revenue there is as the pool of taxpayers shrinks either through private companies moving out of the country, or shrinking in defense of more taxes per person, or individuals deciding it simply isn't worth making "more" to pay half of the increase to someone else.
As Rubio put so succinctly, we don't need more taxes, we need more tax payers. Like drops filling up Lake Tahoe, we all need to get back to work, and all pay our "drops".
BTW, inflation is coming in the next "fast and furious", which will also pay down our debt, while being a form of "tax" on all of us. Haven't you noticed how you are already paying about 20% more for food at the store? This is not going to change anytime soon. Buckle up.
If "more taxes" were the answer, why doesn't Greece simply increase its taxes? If "more taxes" were the answer, why don't we just decide to let the government simply take everything over $75,000/year that anyone makes? The answer leaps out at that point, doesn't it? Carry that in increments backwards, and you will see why "more taxes" decreases tax revenue overall.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Sep 16, 2011 at 9:50 am
from another thread:
"With the huge Recovery Act tax cuts and the enormous December 2010 tax cuts combined, President Obama has already signed into law tax cuts amounting to more than $900 billion from 2009 through 2012. Even after accounting for legislation that the president signed that increased revenue during that period, President Obama has cut taxes by more than $850 billion in his first term, or approximately 1.5 percent of GDP." Web Link
"How the cuts differ
Of course, there are two major differences between President Obama's tax cuts and President Bush's.
First, President Obama's tax cuts are much more targeted at the middle class. The Bush tax cuts were heavily skewed toward the wealthy with more than half of the entire benefit going only to the richest 20 percent. President Obama's tax cuts, on the other hand, are distributed more evenly. Eighty-five percent of the benefits of the Making Work Pay tax credit, for example, went to the bottom 80 percent of households, and because the very wealthy don't pay payroll taxes on all of their income, the payroll tax cut, too, benefits the middle class much more than the Bush tax cuts did."
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Sep 16, 2011 at 9:55 am
I think you are wrong. In fact, I think looking at your earnings as anything but "your money" is dangerous. It is so important for every person to express their views on how the government is spending "their money." Why should you be resigned to let the government spend money on a war, or a social program, or anything else?
It is time for individual people to demand accountability as to how their money is being spent! How worthwhile is every single social program? How necessary is every single weapons system or military deployment!
Mr. Levy your are suggesting that we simply be resigned to let this "politcal class" which includes both parties continue to be influenced by a relatively small amount of groups which have entirely too much power (corporations, labor, interest groups.)
Every individual has a stake, and we should never, ever become complacent and be nothing more than just a "battery" to provide power to the force and will of the government.
You seem to think that moving forward and meeting our challenges just means giving an even greater share of working people's money to the government? Why should we? When the government at all levels is so rife with outright fraud, inefficiency and corruption?
Don't believe for a second that the government has a claim on your earnings. Instead, realize that long ago individual people granted limited powers to the government, and provided money for that government to function. Of course, it needs revenue to survive and function - but it has gone so far beyond that, and that is what people are so upset about.
The irony wiht your last paragraph is that you claim to eschew "finger pointing," but your column is really just another form of "stubborn finger pointing."
If there is a middle ground to be found, I believe it should start with people realizing they are stakeholders in the government. Whether you believe in any given form and amount of spending, you should realize it is your money, and you do have a say. Stop being part of "movements" and "labels." You are an individual and you have a say just like everyone else. Honestly this goes for both sides of the political spectrum.
a resident of University South
on Sep 16, 2011 at 10:54 am
If you are truly middle of the road, that is the best place to see.
However, the tone of your piece gives too much comfort to the Tea Pary people who are trying to destroy the government. The true middle should be holding the government accountable, not try to destroy it.
Do you want to eliminate the EPA or reform it? Do you want to go back to the days of liars loans or do you want an efficient government to regulate the finacial and real estate sectors?
How long do you think the Republicans could control the government before they get thrown out? George HW Bush slid in on Reagan's coattails and couldn't get reelected. The country couldn't wait to get rid of George W Bush.
How long will Rick Perry last before he wears out his welcome?
Jer, you really need to identify specific fraud, waste, and corruption and get out of your fantasy world. You and the Republicans will find it is not as easy running an effective government as you think. Enjoy your flirtation with Rick Perry.
a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive
on Sep 16, 2011 at 11:10 am
I am paid by an employer, or legally made the money by investing in real estate, or a small business, or large business, or whatever.
Who's money is it?
The city's? The state's? The US congress'? The king's?
Some international organization?
You are essentially claiming that money isn't owned at all. That it is some kind of position in a point system assigned by government.
You aren't, by any chance, funded by government?
I would think that someone funded by government would have the view that it would be good if government gets more money.
Is that a fair characterization of the primary underlying assumption in every one of your posts?
a resident of University South
on Sep 16, 2011 at 12:27 pm
stephen levy is a registered user.
What I said is pretty simple but apparently hard for some posters to accept at face value.
"Most of us have benefited from freely available public education, from subsidized tuition or federal grants at college, from federal funding for basic science research that helps our industry, from publicly funded infrastructure like highways, and from the security of being defended by our men and women in the military (even if we don't like every war).
And we have benefited by the taxes paid and investments funded by governments in our parents' and grandparents' generations.
Anyone who thinks that he or she has done it all on their own so it is all "their money" is either very special or not recognizing the role that public programs and investments have made in our opportunities and our earning power."
If your earning power is supported by public education, public science and teachnogloy research, public infrastructure and public safety spending, then you didn't do it "all by yourself". Most of us had lots of help even if our politics refuses to let us acknowledge the connection.
There is also a generational connection and debt. Kids don't pay for their K-12 schooling and all the other public programs that support them to thrive. A previous generation did that as we need to do for our children and grandchildren.
I don't think of this as a Republican or Democratic point or about Obama or Bush.
To me it is the American tradition and I am thnakful for the support I received.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Sep 16, 2011 at 12:38 pm
and "If your earning power is supported by" any company, then think of the effect of the court systems in protecting your income. Courts are used disproportionally by businesses. Half the lawsuits are "B2B", whether over IP, collections, etc.
The other half of the cases also include a lot of "B2C" cases with some "C2B". Don't believe the chamber of commerce talking points that the courts are clogged with just a bunch of ambulance chasers suing the poor, abused corporations.
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 16, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Walter_E_Wallis is a registered user.
I believe it was McGovern who proposed taxing everything over $15,000/year at 100%. I was for that since I would quit work in August.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Sep 16, 2011 at 1:27 pm
"I believe it was McGovern who proposed taxing everything over $15,000/year at 100%"
Reality, and the google, don't seem to back up your memory.
a resident of Green Acres
on Sep 16, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Alice Schaffer Smith is a registered user.
In Sweden all citizens' incomes are posted. And taxed with almost no exemptions. In England they eliminated the property home mortgage deduction and have universal healthcare. Housing in Europe is a fundamental right, as is education. Employment also should be a fundamental right. The right to work, to have a job and healthcare.
If we start with fundamental rights, then we should figure out how to finance these. Taxes are the means to that end. Some propose a flat tax. I believe in a graduated income tax which has few, if any deductions. Cut the tax code to a simple formula that everyone can understand. The English tax form (go look at it on line) is about 30 pages long. It is a questionnaire. If you say yes, you put down the amounts. Taxes are withheld at source and you get back refunds.
Of course VAT is regressive, but in some countries it does not apply to children's clothing under 16, to food or other basis necessities.
So let's tax all services and products, get rid of Proposition 13 exemption which is unequal on its face and stop pretending that we don't need government services.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 16, 2011 at 7:37 pm
I like this from the other topic -
""The Internal Revenue Service tracks the tax returns with the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes each year. The average income on those returns in 2007, the latest year for IRS data, was nearly $345 million. Their average federal income tax rate was 17 percent, down from 26 percent in 1992.""
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 17, 2011 at 6:48 am
No, Mr. Levy, I accept at face value your comments. But I can take it further behind the visage.
I, like all of us, have benefited from tax supported programs. I went to public school. I went worked my way through public college. I received grants, scholarships and loans. I had surgery that may have saved my life. However, the difference is that the programs and surgery I benefited from were locally or privately controlled and funded....schools and roads, and medical advances that were funded through private donations or investments. Fine...
As control of such decisions move further away to DC, our own ability to choose decreases. We have suddenly lurched from most college loans being private to most being Fed backed. Yikes. From innovation in medicine being privately driven to be being suppressed from the Feds or "funded by" the Feds. From local schools making choices of their constituents to the Feds trying to control them. From local roads and bridges being built to the Feds building them.
How much should the Federal government "own" of my time and earnings? At what point are we each responsible for our own lives, our own families? How local should decisions be made for taxes and "benefits"?
I submit that DC taking and redistributing destroys our local abilities to choose, our own individual ability to choose the results of our lives.
Solyndra is a prime example, though by now already far overused. DC choosing to take our local money and distribute it to their cronies is NOT what we need. I prefer individuals choosing who to trust with their investments.
The end of this path is not pretty. I prefer we keep our choices, leave DC out of it.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 17, 2011 at 6:53 am
Alice: Fundamental rights? A "right" to have employment, housing, health care? A "right" to take from others for your desires? What about a "right" to a car, Macy's clothes, and a big screen TV?
Sounds familiar, and has worked so very well everywhere it has been tried, hasn't it?
A "right" is not something bestowed on you by the work of others. Don't get confused on what a "right" is. A "right" to live your life, free from government intimidation and control, free to follow your own path, yes. A "right" to have the path "given" to you, no. A wild pig can be corralled by setting up a feeding trough and building walls and a gate around it. No thanks.
This is the slippery slope we are sliding down, folks.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 17, 2011 at 6:58 am
Perhaps Mr. Wallis got confused with Schumer's threat to simply take 100% of the bonus of CEOs..Why not? Right? Everything belongs to the Feds, right? They can do what they want, pick whoever the enemy du jour is to take from and give it to whoever the friend du jour is.
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a resident of Midtown
on Sep 17, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Walter_E_Wallis is a registered user.
Google failed me, too, but McGovern DID state that, more than $15,000, they just bought another TV or car, they really didn't need it. He said a lot of other crap, but that one impressed me.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 17, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Walter, I believe you. Given how much is not on Google about comments made even a few weeks ago from certain leftists in power, I am sure that one by Mondale has not made it. Too embarrassing.
a resident of University South
on Sep 19, 2011 at 9:54 am
stephen levy is a registered user.
Maybe we could start this discussion over and have people share stories about the public investments and programs that have supported their earning power and quality of life--
Rather than this endless back and forth over politics.
I went to public elementary and high schools. The colleges I attended received large defense and non-defense grants. My work is supported by extensive public data gathering necessary to understand economic and demographic trends.
In addition I receive the benefits we all do from America's military, courts, and public investments in transportation and basic research.
Does anyone else have a story to share?
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 19, 2011 at 10:39 am
Ted Kaczynski tried living away from government services out in the middle of nowhere.
"I receive the benefits we all do from America's military, courts, and public investments in transportation and basic research." Basic research at the taxpayer expense is a huge corporate welfare program.
Besides the education you mentioned, consider the air quality in the 70's. Water quality, as well.
Food safety is still an issue. "In the United States, using FoodNet data from 2000–2007, the CDCP estimated there were 47.8 million foodborne illnesses (16,000 cases for 100,000 inhabitants)"
Compare to France: "In France... 1,210 per 100,000 inhabitants"


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By David Ignatius
WASHINGTON – What kind of secretary of state would Sen. John Kerry make?
That's the question of the moment after U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's surprise decision Thursday to withdraw her name from consideration, making Kerry the likely nominee.
Kerry is a familiar figure to America and the world. He has been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for nearly three decades.
Three qualities make Kerry a good fit for this moment.
First, he recognizes that the world is a mess, starting with the chaotic Arab nations, and that it needs stronger American diplomatic leadership.
When the Arab revolutions began in 2011, President Obama rightly decided not to try to contain the explosion. But we're entering a new period when Arabs need more U.S. help in consolidating their gains.
Kerry, who has been traveling in the Middle East long enough to develop a genuine feel for the region, would be a good and steadying partner.
Second, Kerry appreciates the importance of quiet diplomacy, especially now.
To make progress in brokering a Syrian political transition, exploring negotiating options with Iran, and assessing prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Obama will need a confidential emissary.
Kerry has played that role successfully for him already, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Third, while Kerry sometimes comes across as stiff, he's surprisingly willing to challenge conventional wisdom, especially about engaging America's adversaries.
Kerry's weakness is that, like Hillary Clinton, he lacks a close personal relationship with Obama. To understand the benefits of being a presidential confidante, think about the George W. Bush administration.
Colin Powell was a distinguished, experienced soldier, but he couldn't represent the president with the same authority as his successor, Condoleezza Rice, who had Bush's ear.
If Obama does what White House sources predict and nominates Kerry for State, the two will need to establish a better bond. Maybe Obama and Kerry need to play basketball together, or go windsurfing, or just have a beer.
Over the past several weeks, I have been asking foreign-policy experts and foreign diplomats whom they favor for State. With the exception of White House officials and a few diplomats, my straw poll showed Kerry as the overwhelming favorite.
Perhaps the best thing about Kerry is that he's safe. Ahead is the prospect of intense diplomacy with Iran, Syria, Egypt, Russia, Israel and the Palestinians.
Kerry may be that rare politician who is a late bloomer. The awkwardness many saw when he was the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 is largely gone; he has the advantage of having been disappointed in life, losing the presidential race, getting passed over for vice president and secretary of state in 2008.
He wants to lead the State Department now, not just in the sense that an ambitious person wants another life trophy but because he thinks he could do the job well.
He may seem a conventional choice for State, but he could be a very successful one.
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Evercore Partners's Patrick Wang today reiterates an Overweight rating on shares of ARM Holdings (ARMH), arguing that recent rumors about Apple (AAPL) moving its iPhone to a 64-bit microprocessor could boost royalty revenue for ARM.
My colleague Dimitra DeFotis last week wrote that the rumor mill suggests the next iPhone model, which is expected to be unveiled at a media event Apple will host next Tuesday, September 10, in Cupertino, will use a 64-bit version of Apple's custom processor, which Apple builds using technology licensed from ARM.
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Great writing Tim, you thinks like a dog!
Good to see the 4 of you all so happy.
Who's Mac?
Prayers from Kansas.
Great writing Tim, you thinks like a dog!
Good to see the 4 of you all so happy.
Who's Mac?
Prayers from Kansas.
Just for the record I have very fine dogs. Some of the best in the whole country....or at least on my own end of the block.
Looks like Jade has found a wonderful place to be..
Tim... Great that things are working out for you and yours..
Great read! Love it when the dog writes a letter!!!
So happy things are looking up for you.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference! -Winston Churchill
There's those who just TALK about doin' it and those who just DO IT!
Neat stuff! Jade looks happy as heck. I was wondering too, who Little Mac is...
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Tim doesn't know about this yet lets keep it our secret. Little Mac is Pa Tim and Gigi's soon to be one year old Grandson in Austin. I thought the same thing Jen I have no clue how he scored such a beautiful woman. Maybe its one of those fetish things I don't understand and was asking Mac about.
Ms. Vickie helped me attach the pics btw.
I have learned I need these dogs much more than they need me. Tim Bockmon
Hey Jade,
Looks like you've learned some mad typin skillz Good for you. We're glad you're doing well and having fun. Take care of Pa Tim and Gigi. We love you and are proud of you! Love the pictures. Keep in touch.
Love always,
Mom, Dad and kids
So wonderful to hear from you. Pa Tim and me are at the cabin and he just got full of fish, shrimp, and potatoes. He said taters haha. I'm kinda mad he wouldn't give me any.
After he ate all that he got in his recliner and went to snoring. God he snores awful I don't see how Gigi takes it. So I got to steal his computer. I miss you guys but we are having so much fun. Since Friday Pa Tim and Gigi have taken me to 5 ponds, two lakes, and a river.
I miss you guys and look forward to visit you at your new home. Pa Tim said I could visit anytime.
I've got to get back in my and Gracies recliner the old coot, er Pa Tim quit snoring.
Love you all,
I have learned I need these dogs much more than they need me. Tim Bockmon
Had that dog less than a week and she already knows you. lol Glad things have turned around!
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By Robert St. John
Meals are more than just an opportunity to consume food and nourish one's body.
Last week my daughter spent five days serving as a page for Speaker Phillip Gunn in the Mississippi House of Representatives in Jackson. I went along as her chaperone. Initially, I was excited about the prospect of her learning the political system and how our state government works. The trip, however, turned out to be something much different than I planned.
In scheduling her week as a page, I figured we would grab a quick breakfast each day. I would then drop her off at the capitol, she would do her page gig, and I would spend the day working on projects I have in development in Jackson. At the end of the day I would pick her up, we would have dinner, she would do homework, and then we would rest so she could get up and do it all again the next day.
That would have been a good week in my book. Luckily for me, that wasn't how the schedule worked out.
The first morning was hectic, as it was a new schedule for both of us. But everything changed on the morning of the second day. I booked a room at The Fairview Inn because they have large rooms, large bathrooms (important when one's roommate is a teenage girl), and it is close to the capitol. What I had forgotten is that the Fairview Inn serves an excellent breakfast – without question one of the best breakfasts in town, if not the state.
In addition to great food and service, I had the perfect dining companion. I don't know when I have had a more enjoyable morning meal. We had "grown-up" conversations. The entire setting was ideal – no friends, no television in the background, no cell phone, just my daughter, eggs, bacon, toast and me. Perfect.
The breakfast was good, the conversation was great, and the company was even better. She asked questions about how legislative districts were formed and the election process. We discussed policy, we talked about her future, and we talked about my past. My wife, son, daughter and I share meals and conversation all of the time, but this was different.
Throughout the week we had dinner with various friends each night, those were fun, but the highlights of my week – without question – were the breakfasts spent with my daughter.
I thought of the Frank Sinatra quote about drinking: "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
I haven't had a drink in almost 30 years, but that is the exact way I felt about those five breakfasts with my daughter. My day peaked at 8:15 a.m. I knew that whatever happened the rest of my day, nothing was going to top the hour I spent sharing a meal with her.
A family meal at my house might turn into a group therapy session, a comedy show, or an informative parental lesson. They can be informational, instructive and sometimes hilarious. When dining one on one, in a before-your-daughter-goes-to-work setting at breakfast, it opens up new avenues of conversation and topics.
No one was griping about homework undone, grades or curfews. She and I were having adult conversations about real-life situations. She worked hard all week and I was proud.
Sharing a meal with family or friends is one of life's greatest joys. Meals are memory makers. They bring us together. They nourish our souls.
I believe that when most people look back over the most memorable times in their lives, meals were probably involved in some shape or form. Whether you were with friends at an out-of-town dinner, on vacation, at a family reunion, at the deer camp, dining at friends' homes, joining co-workers at a restaurant, or eating Sunday lunch with family. Anytime we come together over food, memories are made.
One day I will reach a stage in my life where I can sit, rock and reflect. I believe when that day comes, those five breakfasts with my daughter – as small and insignificant as they may have seemed at the time – will be some of the fondest memories of all.
Robert St. John is a restaurateur, chef and author of numerous books.