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Should Backyard Chicken Coops be Allowed in Bolingbrook?
Nearby towns Downers Grove, Plainfield and St. Charles allow their residents to raise hens in their backyards.
Whether Bolingbrook residents should be allowed to raise chickens in coops in their backyards has "never come up," according to Bolingbrook Village Attorney James Boan.
However, Downers Grove, Naperville, Lombard, Westmont and St. Charles all allow residents to have backyard chicken coops. Plainfield most recently gave the go-ahead for backyard chickens in October.
Boan said he's seen the trend in nearby communities, but "there's been no request by anybody to raise a chicken in their backyard" in Bolingbrook.
Currently, raising chicken and chicken coops are prohibited in Bolingbrook's municipal code, along with goat pens and the raising of turkeys, donkeys, sheep and other animals.
As in Plainfield and other communities, the municipal code would need to be revised to allow backyard chicken coops. In Plainfield, roosters are still prohibited and residents must follow certain requirements in building their shelters.
Should Bolingbrook residents be allowed to have backyard chicken coops? Tell us in the comments.
Here's what Bolingbrook Facebook readers had to say:
Courtney O.: Not a bad idea...cost effective and great health initiatives.
Dawn L.: Don't even get me started. My back neighbor had some. What a nightmare for us.
Beth G.: Are you serious! With all the stink and diseases. That is absolutely crazy!! Go live in the country if you want chickens. Definitely not here.
Ellen K.: Absolutely! If you look at the type of requirements Plainfield put in place, they are doing their part to reduce problems. Properly cared for, chickens have no more risk of disease than any other household pets, plus they can provide nutrition with their eggs. If you're concerned, please do some research on suburban chicken coops. There are a lot of successful urban coops out there, and Bolingbrook would be wise to look into giving residents the option.
Bethany S.: A well tended coop does not stink at all. Backyard birds are great producers of healthy eggs, and can be wonderful education for all of us. We should not have to live in the country to be able to provide our own, healthy food.
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7:25 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Plainfield allows up to 4 chickens in a coop. Nobody I know raises chickens, however it is there if need be.
7:57 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Definitely should not allow Front Yard chicken coops.
Moved here in 1968
8:01 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Plainfield used to be a farming community. Downers Grove has unincorporated wooded areas where exceptions have been made. Bolingbrook is a suburban dense (crowded) population with a high percentage of below average incomes and a minority group that would capitalize on this tenfold. I am already troubled by the corn stalks growing over fences, what I would call and excessive backyard farming. What's next allowing tents and trailers as homesteads? This can NEVER happen. Not here. Plus, my mind is at ease as our Mayor, a class act, would never allow the question to even come up. This newspaper beckons trouble on Bolingbrook when there needn't be.
Despiser of Obama
8:35 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
4-5 chicken limit in a backyard is fine with me.
Moved here in 1968
8:57 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
DISREGARD "Disciple" comment. Lives in Naperville. No basis.
Despiser of Obama
9:52 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Moved here you have no idea who I am or where I live. By the way a few chickens will not hurt anyone in Bolingbrook, as there are a certain group of animals living there already.
3:10 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
I wish it wasn't so built up here..Moved here in 1990 I love all the farm fields.. I have a movie Theater in my back yard. I know people in Naperville with chicken coops. It is very educational and fun for the whole family if maintained properly. Some can be noisy.. If that's the case then call them dinner! If Residents have the room for one on their property then who gives a cluck! :)
Vicki Ivancevic
9:09 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I think that backyard chicken coops, when on the small side and well-maintained, would be fine. I had investigated it myself but was stymied by the Village ordinances.
As far as vegetable gardening, I am all for it. The more the better. Turf grass is a waste of money and valuable resources, especially with our obscene water rates. We all could learn how to be a little more self-sustaining.
Laura Mcfarland-Taylor
9:53 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I agree with Ms. Ivancevic. I would love the opportunity to be more self-sufficient.
I remember when Bolingbrook was mainly pumpkin fields and horses were kept on Boughton Road so small urban and suburban farming has always been here whether "Moved here" likes it or not.
Despiser of Obama
10:01 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I used to love seeing horses and cows in Bolingbrook. Before the vast expansion of the Village, does anyone recall the horses and cows that used to get out of the property at Boughton&Janes and got onto the roadway when Boughton was only a two laned roadway.
Bolingbrook Joe
10:36 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
$50.00 permit, maximum 4-5 hens, no roosters and the coop should be no closer then 30 feet from a property line is fine with me. Children in 4H that are raising the chickens to show in a County fair should receive a discount on the permit.
A more important issue to vote on is allowing residents to have pitbulls. Many of these dogs are bred for fighting exclusively, they are a danger to our community and should not be allowed. I heard far too many stories of these dogs attacking Bolingbrook residents.
Laura Mcfarland-Taylor
10:43 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I could not disagree more with your comments about pitbulls (http://www.dontbullymybreed.org/). But that is a thread for another day.
Bolingbrook Joe
11:00 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
@Laura McFarland-Taylor
Despiser of Obama
11:03 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Pitbulls are nothing more than a weapon for drug dealers and gang bangers.
Despiser of Obama
11:53 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
NO harm, no fowl! Let there be chickens in the brook!
Despiser of Obama
2:25 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Elden what's with the upside down American flag? What's wrong with a few chickens? It's much better than same sex marriage!
3:17 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
My Dad always told me an upside down flag is a sign of distress... http://www.selectsmart.com/DISCUSS/read.php?16,810990,810990
It's and interesting read..
Mom of 2
3:44 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I say no! It's just a front for cock fighting!!!
4:46 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
They don't have enough man power for code enforcement as it is now! Who exactly is going to make sure all the restrictions, maintenance, health codes were being followed so it wouldn't become a noise, stink, health problem?
As for the pitbull comments...ANY dog can become vicious if it's owner is a butthole! First it was Dobermans then rottweilers, now pittbulls, who knows what the next "bad" breed will be. As soon as it becomes cool to have a mean guard dog in the movies or videos or with celebrities people jump on the ban wagon and ruin a breed's reputation. Yes, bigger dogs are more dangerous but not because of their temperament, but because if and when they do bite they have bigger jaws, teeth and muscle which causes more damage! The dogs are not the problem, it's the owners!
Verbal Sniper
8:55 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Code enforcement is severely lacking.Overnight street parking,inoperable vehicles in driveways,overgrown lawns,recreational vehicles parked in residential driveways.It's a disgrace.What happened to the Bolingbrook I grew up in?Fear not,the mayor will not have chicken coops in the Brook.
Despiser of Obama
10:15 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Verbal Bolingbrook has been like that for at least 30 years now!
7:15 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
We already have people that can't take care of their homes and now there's talk of adding chickens??? It will look like a third world country with chickens all over the place.
Despiser of Obama
7:25 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Don't forget people your ancestors had chickens and other animals on their property and they weren't even farms!
Despiser of Obama
8:33 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
As long as your backyard is black, it's fine!
9:29 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
If the coup is maintained/built to code, I don't see a problem. I think we all need to learn to be a bit more self sustaining. Do some research on how GMO foods are killing us. Chickens that eat GMO foods lay eggs that are bad for us. I think having our own garden and fresh eggs is a great idea as long as done responsibly. I think we are going to see this more and more in the years to come. A welcome change!
10:37 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
So, what brought this issue up in the first place? Is this truly a burning controversy in Bolingbrook or is it once again the media trying to make the news instead of just reporting it?
9:32 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Absolutely! Backyard chickens make wonderful family pets and have their own personalities just like dogs cats and rabbits. Raising your own chickens allows you to know exactly where your food is coming from plus its cost effective and teaches kids responsibility at a young age. Where can we go to request a change to allow chickens here in Bolingbrook?

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You'll remember he started a firestorm when he tweeted about wishing Desmond was dead.
Thank goodness! I've been waiting for Scott Torgerson to get fired or die so I could listen to 97.1 The Fan again!
He tweeted himself right out of a job.
Hint to people in the media, it probably is not a good idea to wish death upon someone else in the media or anyone for that matter, cause it's you know......death.
I have to admit I'm looking forward to the response by Torgerson. He said he wished someone would get fired and he ended up getting fired. It will be interesting to see how he handles it.
Desmond is alive and well, but Scott here has a dead career.
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it's comical that so many people in the media and public life still can't get it through their thick skulls that once you hit "send" you're no longer in control of your message, or your life. Fuckin' idiot.
I am NOT defending this idiot but I do feel a little bad for him as he's paid the ultimate career price for a stupid post I'm sure he wishes he could get back. And if the guy has a family he's now probably got to move to get a new job in radio which means they're now facing a significant life change. I'm sure the guy has been kicking himself since he sent it (thought it was clever and didnt take a second look at how it would be read before hitting "send") but he can't get that shit back in the baby so to speak.
I know i've posted some stuff through the years that was influenced by anger, alcohol, stupidity or a lethal combination of all three that I damn sure wish I could get back.
Posted at work....no issue with Torgerson - hell I've never even heard his show and I think he deserved to be fired.
Just a guy with a family imagining how much it must suck to be him right now having to explain to his wife he just got fired and then having to let the kids know they're going to have to move so dad can get a new job. And knowing it was because you were monumentally stupid and have no one to blame but yourself.
I've gone through getting fired once. Not for this obviously but for something I could've and should've done something about and trust me.....it is NOT a pleasant conversation with the family.
And can you imagine telling them you lost your job over a Twitter account? That really sucks.
Not saying he deserved the job after apparently saying several questionable things over the years, but losing a job over Twitter has to sting.
Go Blue!
I can relate to getting fired for something stupid I could have avoided. It was not a pleasant experience to say the least. I had to move from Illinois to Texas to take a job and resume my career. It was one of the worst experiences of my life.
Bud & Sparky say GO BLUE!!
I'm sure he'd like it back, not because it feels bad about it or because he realized later he showed poor judgment, but because he got FIRED! Several of his past tweets have also shown poor judgment. It was not a one-time mistake but a pattern. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
"Is There Anybody Out There?" Pink Floyd, The Wall.
There's a big difference between schmucks commenting on a blog and a media professional letting loose on Twitter.
Yeah, for him and his family, it sucks that he was canned. It is unfortunate but completely deserved. As a pro, he should know better.
I definitely feel for anyone who loses his job, but this was 100% his own fault. Nobody said he needed to write that, and frankly if he had stopped at "firing" it probably would have been fine. But to wish someone to die because you don't like seeing him on TV is just self-inflicted idiocy. His family may suffer, but he's paid to be a professional and he wasn't here.
He didn't even apologize. I have no sympathy for this man.
Untrue. He went out of his way and contacted the Howard family to apologize. He also released a statement apologize.
Formerly akron_wolverine and columbus_wolverine. New home, new name. A year in Columbus was enough.
The bottom line is that Torgerson is a professional and supposedly knows better. It's not like he is some anonymous internet puke who can post "DIAF" with no consequenses.
More people ought to follow the example of Harry Truman. He was famously hot-tempered and foul-mouthed, and as was normal back then, he wrote a constant stream of letters to public and private recipients. He was in the habit of dashing off angry and vituperative letters to people who pissed him off for one reason or another, but he had the good sense to not mail many of the letters right away, waiting for his temper to subside. Eventually somebody collected a bunch of the letters he wrote but never sent and made a book out of them.
"Strictly Personal and Confidential offers a unique look at a man reacting naturally to enormous pressures. Truman often had second, more prudent thoughts about what he called his 'spasms.' Sometimes he would scribble furiously and then stuff the result into his desk while he cooled off; on other occasions, he dictated blisterers to Rose Conway, his longtime personal secretary, and then returned the typescript with a diplomatic directive: 'Rose, file it. H.S.T.' —Time
"He also had the good judgment-- once he had dictated and reviewed a letter to some notable-- to at times keep a particular letter from the mail, and save it exclusively for his own files. Truman spared himself countless embarrassments using this discipline."
I didn't konw that about Truman, really need to get onto reading a biography on him.
I read something similar about Lincoln, he would write angry letters to his generals and wouldn't mail them until his anger subsided, and then would instead file them away. Including times when McClellan horribly f-ed up a situation.
Twitter may not be your friend, but it is a fine tool that plenty of public figures use completely responsibly and to great effect. There are plenty of websites, writers, professional groups, etc that I follow on Twitter who use it professionally and responsibly.
Twitter itself is not the problem. A tendency to say stupid things in public is a bigger issue.
It's simply amazing how many "grown men" cannot differentiate between real life and the world of sports. Desmond Howard never did anything to this guy personally. He played football against his beloved Buckeyes and now he has some face time on ESPN every Saturday talking about way more teams than OSU or Michigan. Torgerson is a pathetic excuse for a grown man and a human being.
Cpt. Ass-Hat
I hope that Desmond does not someday land himself in a similar jam due to one of his Tweets.
Twitter + Desmond Howard = High Risk Public Relations
As someone who follows him on Twitter, he's pretty good at it. He'll get into things with people who attack him, but he always stays clean
If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?
Ironically, I think Herbie is more apt to get himself into trouble via the Twitters.
You got that right. I'd bet money that Desmond will put his foot in his mouth eventually.
I hear Iacono's in Shawnee Hills is looking for a driver and I think Torgerson would be ideal..
It was an extremely stupid tweet, and Torgerson deserves the response, but I actually liked the Common Man and the Torg. They had a good rapport. I'm disappointed. I'm sure this will be marked flamebait, which it is not, but what's an opinion if you decide to tailor it to the masses.
Desmond, the other day, some osu fan called him a has been. Desmond told him he'd rather be a has been than a never was, like the person saying that to him. I got a kick out of that
Follow me on Twitter @gfraley05
It's pretty fucking stupid to call a retired athlete a has been. It's like, no shit. You know who else is a has been? Dan Marino. The guy hasn't thrown a TD pass in who knows how long.
Unlike all the OSU athletes who go on to prestigious 65 year pro careers and die gloriously on the field/court? What a stupid fucking argument. The moron caller essentially is telling Desmond he got too old to play his sport anymore, duh.
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
Maybe the Twitterz rule should be that no OSU players or fans use it. And MSU players/fans for that matter.
Disgruntled former moderator. I got a lot of problems with you people!
What took so long (for ST to get the axe)?
Nobody home...
I'd expect this type of behavior from the Common Man but I thought Torg was better than this.
/s (I just wanted to work Common Man into this thread. I find the name of that show to be hillarious.)
Wow, I'm sure the fans in Columbus lamenting and gnashing their teeth over this turn of events must number in the dozens.
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
I've listened to enough of his crazy anti Michigan rants and logic for far too long. I am glad he is gone.
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Oct 11, 2012 4:46 PM
2 questions - please respond to either / both - thanks
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1) the tuner on my Shortboard doesn't seem anywhere near as accurate as the one on my Pod. Is there a way to calibrate / modify?
2) I cannot find anything in the manual about how you really use Stomp, Delay, Reverb or Compression foot switches - any suggestions ?
Thanks much
Number two depends on what device you are connecting to. The buttons don't do anything on certain amps for example
The tuner is not in the shortboard, it is in the amp or other device you are plugged into.
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Does anyone know the purpose of these or how it even determines if you are happy or sad? What if you're angry?! >.< LOLYeah, I have no idea how it's determined. At first I thought you clicked it to add a "vote", but I have no idea idea lol.I think it's used for the comments on posts on the main site - probably an accident that it's showing up here at all!Needs more :|Aaaahhhh sneaky!
They are for posts that are favourited or buried by Chris.woah that's weird, I'm not sure how they are being applied here. It's some jQuery that dynamically adds that. Is it just this thread or what is the pattern that gets them to appear?@ChrisCoyier - I only noticed it on this thread when Mottie had first posted it. What about making a test post with the same exact words @Mottie has used to see if it renders?@chriscoyier - @Mottie hardcoded the divs into his post, that's why they are showing up.her? o.O
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This weekend, artists and the thousands of patrons who appreciate their work will converge upon the 3.5 picturesque acres of the Rehoboth Art League Campus for the 39th Annual Outdoor Fine Art and Fine Craft Show. Proceeds from the show benefit the nonprofit Rehoboth Art League, who for nearly 75 years has provided artistic space, classes, events, and education to the community.
Over 100 artists from the Mid-Atlantic region who work in a variety of mixed mediums will showcase their works, surrounded by a historic backdrop featuring the Peter Marsh Homestead, a well-preserved 1743 home, the 1780 Paynter's Studio, lush gardens, and ancient trees. The setting provides an extension of the arts—the marrying of natural beauty with manmade historic architecture and a wonderful assortment of contemporary art.
The show, according to Rehoboth Art League Executive Director, Shelia Bravo, was created to permit artists to showcase their work to a large audience, and is one of only a handful of Fine Art shows in the entire region. The organization of the event is really a collaboration between the League and the artists, says Bravo,
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"Participating artists actually help us plan the show – to ensure we are meeting their needs, and leveraging their experiences from other shows."
The show is a two-weekend event and started last weekend, August 10th-11th. First time exhibitor Robert Weston (Booth #115), who works with wood, expressed his pleasure following the first weekend of the show, stating in an email to the Art League,
""I have been a professional cabinetmaker most of my life. I know how to sell; I know how to produce. Nothing could have prepared me for my first weekend as an exhibitor in your August Outdoor Show. The exposure to art-loving people was enough to justify the preparatory expense and work. But add-in the fact that I sold 25% of my displayed work and I am just overwhelmed."
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Weston is joined by roughly 115 other artisans who work in a range of artistic mediums including: pottery, clay sculpture, ceramic art tile, silver and fused glass, ceramics, fiber, jewelry, metal, forged iron, mixed media, painting, photography, watercolor, and wood. Patrons are welcome to browse through the artists' booths, appreciate their works, and purchase any pieces they simply can't leave without.
Over 5,000 people attend the Outdoor Show over the two weekends it's held. Those who attend can further their experience by dining on delicious eats from Nage restaurant, or drinking a number of coffee beverages roasted on-premise at the Point Coffee and Bake Shoppe, while sitting in the tranquil gardens, listening to music from the likes of Marv Ashby and High Octane, or the Delmarva Dandies, a strolling barbershop quartet.
The Annual Outdoor Fine Art and Fine Craft Show is a signature program for the Rehoboth Art League. It is underwritten in part by Echelon Custom Homes, Ocean Atlantic Sotheby's, and Tidewater Mortgage Services.
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- Rehoboth Art League 39th Annual Outdoor Fine Art and Fine Craft Show
- Saturday August 18th 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Sunday August 19th 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Located on the Rehoboth Art League Campus 12 Dodds Lane Henlopen Acres
Directions: From the traffic circle on Rehoboth Avenue, take Columbia Avenue going northeast. At 2nd Avenue, turn left (north). Follow 2nd Avenue, which becomes Dodds Lane, directly to the Art League, on the right.
Admission: $5 per adult (no fee for those under 18), and can be applied to either a one-year membership to the Art League, or purchases over $100.
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Weeping Pistorius faces premeditated murder charge
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — In a courtroom, not an Olympic stadium, there was no click-click-click of Oscar Pistorius' prosthetic limbs. His only sound Friday was loud, uncontrollable sobs as prosecutors charged him with premeditated murder in the shooting death of his model girlfriend.
"Take it easy," Chief Magistrate Desmond Nasir told the Olympic star-turned-murder-defendant as his father, Henke, and his brother, Carl, reached out to touch his shoulder to comfort him.
The 26-year-old Pistorius, the double-amputee sprinter who won world acclaim by competing in last summer's London Olympics, did not speak or enter a plea. He held his head and wept as he heard the charge, which carries a life sentence.
A statement released later by his family and agent said Pistorius disputed the murder charge "in the strongest terms."
The track star's arrest in the Valentine's Day killing of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp shocked South Africa, where Pistorius was a national hero dubbed the Blade Runner for his high-tech prosthetics and revered for overcoming his disability to compete in the London Games.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said he would pursue a charge of premeditated murder against Pistorius in the slaying of Steenkamp, a leggy blonde model with a law degree who had spoken out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women.
She was discovered in a pool of blood before dawn Thursday by police called to Pistorius' upscale home in a gated community in the South African capital of Pretoria. Authorities said she had been shot four times, and a 9 mm pistol was recovered at the home.
Throngs of reporters, photographers and videographers filled the brick-walled Courtroom C in Pretoria Magistrate's Court, where Pistorius appeared. Nasir's first ruling focused on the press as he dismissed requests from the state broadcaster and a private television station to air the hearing live.
Nasir also ordered that no photographs be taken while court was in session. That left dozens of photographers kneeling less than a yard from the sobbing Pistorius to simply stare at a man many had photographed previously sprinting on his famous carbon-fiber blades.
Police said investigators had conducted an autopsy on Steenkamp's body but the results would not be released. Continued...
Pistorius' family left quickly after the hearing, without speaking to journalists. In a statement later Friday, the family and his London-based management agency questioned the criminal charge the athlete faces.
"The alleged murder is disputed in the strongest terms," the statement said, without elaborating. It added that Pistorius wanted to "send his deepest sympathies to the family of Reeva."
"He would also like to express his thanks through us today for all the messages of support he has received — but as stated our thoughts and prayers today should be for Reeva and her family — regardless of the circumstances of this terrible, terrible tragedy," the statement read.
Since news of the slaying, shock waves have rippled across South Africa, a nation of 50 million where nearly 50 people are killed each day, one of the world's highest murder rates. U.N. statistics say the nation has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, behind only Colombia.
Many wore black Friday to demonstrate against the high levels of violence against women in the country.
Others focused their attention on Pistorius and his fascination with fast cars, cage fighting and firearms.
Those who knew Pistorius, including a former girlfriend, weighed in on social media.
Trish Taylor, mother of Pistorius' ex-girlfriend, Samantha Taylor, wrote on Facebook: "I'm so glad Sammy is safe and out of the clutches of that man."
But another ex-girlfriend, Jenna Edkins, took to Twitter to defend him.
"All I am saying is let him speak, let his side be heard without jumping to conclusions," she tweeted, offering "love and support" to the Pistorius family. Continued...
"I have dated Oscar on and off for 5 YEARS, NOT ONCE has he EVER lifted a finger to me or made me fear for my life."
At the defense request, the chief magistrate delayed a bail hearing until Tuesday for Pistorius, who was ordered held in a police holding cell, rather than transferred to a prison.
In seeking a premeditated murder charge against Pistorius, prosecutors appear to be claiming they have evidence the athlete planned the killing ahead of time, said William Booth, a prominent Cape Town defense lawyer.
Such a serious charge makes it more difficult for Pistorius to successfully apply for bail, Booth said, though it could also be a challenge to get a conviction.
"It's quite difficult to prove that in a situation where there isn't a witness," the defense lawyer said. "If I just plan it in my mind and I arrive at somebody's house and there's no witnesses and I shoot the person, it's really tough for the prosecution to show that planning."
Pistorius made history at the London Olympics last year when he became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete at any games. He didn't win a medal but did make the semifinals of the 400 meters and the final of the 4X400 relay, propelling the world's best-known Paralympian to the level of an international track star and one of the world's best-known sportsmen.
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Problems fixed, Pandora build here
Also linux and windows builds there, but old ones.
*** Thanks!***
I'm currently working on a Pandora build of Panjoust. This one is not polished yet, but 95% functional, and i'm curious if it works, if so how much, and in the absense of much problems, the performance. BUT one small problem remains...
On my linux box i downloaded the arm-2009q3 libs from CPasjustes script a while ago. Now the project is compiling nicely, but in the build messages i read some files are missing.
Some are present in my main usr/lib folder, can i just copy those? (suppose not)
2 are missing completely
in usr/lib
* libSDLmain.a
* libSDL.a
* libSDL_ttf.a
* libfreetype.a
* libz.a
Not Present
* libts.a
* libvorbisidec.a
Although of all files i have .la and .so files in the arm-2009q3 folder somewhere. Can i do something with those? :S
Don't flame please, this is all relatively new to me, only tried cross-compiling with PandoraPanic, and that was mostly preconfigured by PokeParadox.
Unfortunately, i currently no longer have internet connection on the linux box, so if downloading files is required, a download site, or a mail to me, is preferred over a download script. usb-stick copying is all that is available atm...
All advice appreciated, and that build is coming!!
p.s. Since i want to try and have a testbuild online asap (tonight), i though this is an acceptable way to draw attention to the last remaining obstacle. Will use this topic for the build itself ofcourse.
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So if 22 million people are receiving R$70 per month, that is a total annual of R$18.5 billion.
So where is the other R$11,500,000 going every year.
LAST week Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, made an audacious claim: extreme poverty in Brazil will soon become extinct. Brasil Sem Miséria (Brazil without destitution), a federal programme, has already added 2.8m extremely poor people to a new, single list of potential welfare recipients since its launch in June 2011. A total of 22m people have been given additional cash benefits to bring them above the absolute poverty line, currently set at 70 reais ($35) per household member, per month. By adding a further 770m reais to annual federal welfare spending, currently around 30 billion reais, the government will be able to do the same for the remaining 2.5m very poor people it knows about, the president said. She asked mayors to help seek out the Brazilians still sunk in deep poverty who appear on no government list, and receive no federal aid—probably another 2.5m people.
Brazil, an upper-middle-income country, has been late in weaving a social safety-net. Over-65s whose household income per person is less than a quarter of the minimum wage (that is, under 169.50 reais) are entitled to a non-contributory pension equal to the minimum wage (currently 678 reais). But many poor families have no old person living with them. If they have children and live on less than 140 reais a month per person, they can apply for the Bolsa Família, a discretionary, and much less generous, monthly stipend paid in return for sending children to school and keeping up with basical medical requirements, such as getting them vaccinated. In November, recipients with under-15s in their households were guaranteed at least enough from the programme to bring their household per-person income above 70 reais a month. That guarantee has now been extended to all social-welfare recipients.
Well-off Brazilians are fond of complaining about assistencialismo (welfarism), which they fear undermines work incentives and weakens Brazil's economy. Such criticisms miss the mark by a mile. It is certainly easier to get people into social programmes than back out of them—but that is true everywhere. And part of the programme's budget goes on job training and microfinance, or in rural areas, training in more productive farming methods, which should help wean recipients off hand-outs. And the cash amounts are not large enough to encourage people to sit around doing nothing. There is strong evidence that recipients of the Bolsa Família keep their children longer in school—and that those children end up better educated and eventually in better jobs. By supporting consumption, it has brought businesses and jobs into some of the poorest corners of Brazil, setting in motion a virtuous cycle of economic growth.
Others criticise Brasil Sem Miséria for being not too generous, but too stingy. In Brazil's bigger cities, 70 reais per person does not go far. For someone who lives on São Paulo's outskirts it is barely enough to cover the costs of travelling into the city centre each day in search of work. And many of those the government boasts of rescuing from destitution were brought from just below the poverty line to just above it. But a family of subsistence farmers living on their own land in the Amazon region will find a cash top-up of 70 reais per person a big help. Brasil Sem Miséria might not spell the end of extreme poverty in the country, but it certainly represents another step towards it.
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So if 22 million people are receiving R$70 per month, that is a total annual of R$18.5 billion.
So where is the other R$11,500,000 going every year.
I´m not against welfarist measures in Brazil, such as Bolsa Familia or Brasil sem miséria. Brazil have always had enormous poverty levels that justify this kind of politics. They have had some success in order to achieve social integration and to improve the domestic consumption. The problem to me is that this is the easy part for a Government. And this is the part with a better electoral profit. But this is not enough. And I feel, Brazilian governments since Lula have wasted a favourable conjunction to bring deep progress to Brazil as it was the Plano Real. It is acceptable a dose of populism in governments. The problem is when there is nothing beyond. Times of prosperity are bad for reforms and vice versa. But Brazil has a stifling tributary system, excess of bureaucracy, old fashion work laws, a failed penitentiary system, high level of violence, bad public education and healthcare and an alarming lack of infrastructures. All these problems are harder to resolve than just making new programs to give money, now that the State is wealthy. But in the long term, Brazil will pay the prize, loosing important trains as it´s already happening.
Bolsa Família is just Bolsa Escola, a hand-out program launched by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) which was renamed and dizzily expanded by President Lula da Silva (2003-2010). But, Dilma, the incumbent President elected by Lula's decision, brags that the enormous number of recipients hand-outs is still growing and boasts the success of her Party's "methodology against poverty". Lasting so long, costing so high and beeing so politically exploited, these hand-outs smell like vote buying. The real success will be if someday the costs and number of recipients eventually go down.
Vote buying and intense marketing appears to be working for PT. Real reforms such as giving property title to slum dwellers and landless farmers breaks the dependency relationship and is anathema to the corrupt politicians of all parties.
Just for a change some ideas from a fellow worker:
Poverty is a lack of productivity, although some of the programs will help with this the idea that it will eliminate poverty is a fool's dream. No matter how low the living standard provided by public dole there are those that will accept it rather than work. The more the dole the larger that number is. Human nature cannot be legislated out of existence.
The staff pseudo party workers are struggling even less!
The latest jokes about patents in Brazil are: 1-The brand iphone, which does not belong to Apple. 2 - The patent for digital book flip pages 3 - The patent for equipment with round corners rounded corners! The industry wants the patents to patent the power button, but the competition is very fierce! Long live open source! The latest is that poverty in Brazil is being patented as political currency! $ 35.00 can not be the limit of poverty, we need a machine to print dollars!
"And part of the programme's budget goes on job training and microfinance, or in rural areas, training in more productive farming methods, which should help wean recipients off hand-outs".
"There is strong evidence that recipients of the Bolsa Família keep their children longer in school—and that those children end up better educated and eventually in better jobs".
If there is a meritorious deed in favor of the poor (though appropriate for political purposes) the shares in favor of a more productive economy, through education and training, still leave much to be desired.
I suggest that journalists more and better inform themselves about the quality of what is offered as outflow effective poverty in Brazil.
Governments in Brazil live in a perennial ADHD state. They are very hyperactive with surreal projects like bullet trains and nuclear submarines. They totally lack attention and focus to finish anything as demonstrated by the COMPERJ and Abreu Lima refineries, transposition of the Sao Francisco river, many hydroelectric projects, etc. The filthy airports with broken equipment will not be ready in 2014. Air travel in Brazil is among the most dangerous in the world.Right now it is raining in Rio and many areas are flooded because nothing was ever done to control this recurrent problem going back decades.decades. Recentle a couple was burned by fire in the expensive Leblon neighborhood because firefighters lacked appropriate equipment despite confiscatory property taxes. There is no lack of money for the governor Cabral to party in Paris and Monaco with his cronies. Brazilian government embarked in a populist project where the growth of slum dwellers voting for PT and allies is suffocating working taxpayers and they could not care less for this declining population.Venezuela, Argentina and Cuba are the guideposts.
Nuclear submarines? What for?? The rationale behind using nuclear power on submarines (and nuclear ships in general) is that they do not need to refuel in a long time, therefore increasing by a lot their operational radius. This is very useful for long range projection of naval power, but ABSOLUTELY useless for coastal protection, which seems to be Brazil´s objective. If you want to do naval power projection, you need a carrier group.
well the comments definitely got more interesting. At first I thought that there is no diversity of opinion
This scheme was started by president Henrique Cardoso and misapropriated by Lula da Silva. It helps somewhat but it is a scheme to buy votes by making these folks perpetually dependent on handouts. A serious policy would give land titles to the slum dwellers and campesinos in addition to loans and education for entrepreneurship setting them free. Instead, subsidized loans go to cronies such as Eike Batista only to be squandered without showing any socioeconomic progress in Brazil.
Very well put ! YOU hit the nail on the head. These are plans to have a large number of dependent folks, happy to live with little and never looking for real jobs, like assisted dummies.
Of course, the ultimate goal is to guarantee votes by the millions.
Like reversed corruption.
I have a ton of bad things to say about the way Brazil is governed - past and presently.
But I must say that among all items these assistance programs are the best application of the tax money by far - at least they are helping a lot of people who have never had a chance. I know this is attacking mainly the symptom rather than the disease but it's a start and attacking the disease will take time (you cannot educate dozens of millions in less than at least one generation).
And I would rather see money spent in social programs than on weapons and / or silly military dreams of supremacy.
Still, the question remains: How many Reais does it cost to actually get one Real into the hand of a recipient of these programs (or how many reais get 'lost' in the process, if you get me)?
Dreams of Supremacy (1)- World Cup and Olympics back to back. Courtesy in part by Mr."X"
The greatest proof is the mocking Brazil done about the Superbowl. Brazilians forget that
the U.S successfully hosted both in past decades. (Read link below)
Dreams of Supremacy (2)- Even if you don't open the link. The link is self-explanatory
Dreams of Supremacy (3) - Tell global powers to allow autocrats rule. Iran wants Nuke? No problem
if Brazil is an UN Security Council Permanent member. Assad wants to stay in power? No problem
if Brazil was an UN Security Council Permanent member. It would have voted with China and
Russia to keep Europeans and others from helping the Syrian people fight for their freedom.
North Korea wants to sell nuclear secrets to anyone with money? No problem if Brazil was an
UN Security Council Permanent member. Ah! Brazil would say I don't see a problem with
"Capitalism" from North Korea. No wonder Brazil was rejected at the League of Nations. The
Europeans then were wise. The ones now are too awestruck and enthralled by bunda, bola and
carnaval, and B.S. propaganda(Brazilian Sugarcoating) to see the reality on the ground.
Dreams of Supremacy (4)- Controlling global F&B supplies in order to control Brazilian style.
Can't create a brand from scratch, but the desire to control is very Brazilian.
Silly Military dreams of Supremacy - Brazil does not invade other nations. Yes. However,
it has killed more people inside Brazil than if it had actually invaded another nation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21648501<---war on poverty with hot lead
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34324717/ns/world_news-americas/<----extrajudicial killings
Due to some "Span feelter" the links had to be modified. Copy and paste on google to
see those articles above.
Where are Danilo1980's comments??
Oh, sorry, I forgot he's on government payroll and only works Monday to Friday (or was it Thursday?).
Miss me? Don't cry. If I knew you'd be so sad, I'd have told you I was enjoying my vacation.
Your last sentence is a serious accusation (where do I get my money from? Could you repeat?), and proves (again) how desperate some people like you get, as they can't argue and only repeat the same old BS over and over.
Hey genius, most people work from Monday to Friday. LOL
Seeing you and the other "tapados" flooding every thread with your rage against Brazil is hilarious. NUNCA SERAO. hahaha
The Japanese donated money to clean Guanabara bay in Rio several years ago. The money was stolen, nothing was done. Floating faeces are a common occurrence in Rio's beaches. The idiots in power in Brazil follow the communist crap doctrine of Cepal, "Open Veins of Latin America" and other idiocies. Jim Chanos got it when he said Brazilians want investments and the gringos to pay for it.
The Japanese also donated for the cleanup of Tiete River (that open-air sewer you won't get around when first getting into Sao Paulo after arriving in Guarulhos airport, Brazil's gateway to the world). The result is the same as in Guanabara Bay...
If such fierceness would be coupled with work for the nation... boy oh boy.. we would go far!
MME4 said brilliantly:
"Dilma must be desperate or out of her mind thinking that the freak show composed of 'top Brazilian government officials' will attract investment. Does she really think the hostility against free enterprise and deteriorating business environment have gone unnoticed?
She's in for a rude awakening when she notices that the investors they will pitch to are not fooled by colorful ads with smiling people dancing."
Couldn't agree more.
Here's the caliber of "top officials" that they send abroad.
Tell me if anyone would trust a brazilian "top official":
As many of you know I've lived many years in China.
When I first got there I naively thought hanging out with the consulate crowd
was a good idea. Hey, like minded entrepreneurs chasing the golden dragon dream, right?
So I was invited to this meeting where a second in command of the Ministry of Exports
or something like that would show up in China and gives us this enabling and motivating speech.
The redneck who showed up (sporting a PT star in his greasy polyester suite, even though he was serving Brazil and not PT) didn't have a clue.
Remember: number two in the ranks.
His brilliant solution to the trade deficit with China was to promote Brazilian artifacts to the Chinese population
(small berimbaus made of paper clips and wire, wooden figas and lucky charms, senhor do bomfim bracelets, …).
He thought the Chinese would OH LOVE Brazilian artifacts and would solve all our problems!
Because hey EVERYBODY love us, right (except that the Chinese think Brazilians are inferiors, which economically and educationally speaking they are).
Needless to say that was my one and last meeting with these 'tards. Never again.
That's what happens when the people you put running things run things because of who they know instead of what they know.
Arrognorance: arrogance + ignorance that permeates most Brazilians in a position of power / education.
Gone are the days when articulate and presentable people like Pedro Malan, Pedro Parente and Arminio Fraga were representing Brazil globally.
Now we have Mantega, Amorim, Salvatti and thirty-odd other ministers whose names I prefer not to remember, because it's Sunday.
Russian Officials and government are just like Brazil.
At Manzhouli, China, the Russians sell RAW MATERIALS (timber) to the Chinese.
The Chinese sells MANUFACTURED GOODS to the Russians such as iPad knock offs,
all sorts of electronics and clothing. Chinese shopkeepers and staff speak Russian
fluently while the Russians generally speak only English and Russian. The Chinese
even sell MATRYOSHKA DOLLS MADE IN CHINA to the Russians. HAHAHAHA...LOL...
BTW, the all caps is only for visuals not as an angry reply for I agree with your post
Brazilians are clueless when it comes to global trade. It would not surprise me if the
berimbaus you mentioned would be designed and made in China and sold in Salvador,
Bahia to a clueless and naive population.
Hank, I've got something for you. Soccer jerseys Made in Taiwan from recycled plastic bottles.
Guess which jersey is featured on the link below...hehehe... http://www.taiwanembassy.org/public/Data/06102059871.JPG
Os Brazucas tapados nao so nunca serao.
Thieves and clowns are in power in Brazil now. Communist ideology and hostility to free enterprise permeate the government.
Brazil is already in stagflation. Dilma is just another idiotic communist who thinks the freak show will attract foreign investments with the style "give us you money and perhaps you will get 10% of it back". There are all sorts of restrictions. Laws and contracts are not respected in Brazil. Just ask any international corporation if they can fire workers when economic conditions indicate the need to do so. Brazil is all about sloganeering, creating deceptive advertising. They live in a perennial ADHD state, with grandiose plans, some starts soon abandoned amidst cost overruns and massive corruption. Waste and theft are pervasive.
Social Programmes?????? Where the money is going to come from???
The real social side of the Brazilian economy (in quotes with links)
"Mr. Mantega and other top Brazilian government officials have embarked on a global tour to attract foreign investment, with coming stops in London and Tokyo. It is an unusual position for Brazil. Up until recently, the country was feted in international markets as a successful growth story, a proud member, alongside Russia, India, and China of the "BRIC" countries that were expected to drive global economic growth for years to come.But investors are beginning to cool on Latin America's biggest economy."
(if article above does not open, just google: Brazil makes it pitch for growth
"From an international relations perspective, this approach reveals a great deal about Brazil's lack of a sophisticated project in terms of both influence and prosperity.Present-day Brazil, where significant economic expansion has been at bay for more than two years, is the result of a political economy of ideological preferences, with a strong accent on political affinities and less attention to economic pragmatism."
"The flipside is that low unemployment raises the cost of wages for industry, making it less competitive and discouraging investment. Coupled with rising salaries, it also creates inflation, which is hovering near the top of the central bank's range of 4.5 per cent plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Until now, industry has been reluctant to lay off workers because of the labour shortage. But unless the government can find a way to lower Brazil's costs and increase labour productivity, it will end up with rising inflation and low growth – stagflation – and the employment honeymoon will end."
.."But with GDP growing just 0.9 per cent in 2012 – rather less than Mantega's initial and persistent projections of 3 to 4 per cent – his relentless optimism is doing nothing for the government's credibility."
Dilma must be desperate or out of her mind thinking that the freak show composed of 'top Brazilian government officials' will attract investment. Does she really think the hostility against free enterprise and deteriorating business environment have gone unnoticed?
She's in for a rude awakening when she notices that the investors they will pitch to are not fooled by colorful ads with smiling people dancing.
While James' post is necessary as it is full of content, references and detail, by contrast, you have summarised it so succinctly.
Beautiful imagery, beautiful use of English... BRAVO!!
It's pretty funny to see comments in this page that are old repetitions of classic "paulist middle-class arguments" to criticize Bolsa Família. The thing is that this arguments have already been proved to be a fallacy(as TE said: "they miss the mark for a mile").
If the "coronelism" logic was right, Dilma should have kept Lula's 60% of votes from the 2006 election and São Paulo should'd have elected Haddad as it's mayor. If our economy was geeting weeker we were supposed to have bankrupted at least 2 times in the last 10 years. And if FHC's economic policies were all right, we should'd have bankrupted three times in 8 years.
The fact is that a very nice couple of Cardosos's policies are pretty right, our economy had to find a position where the state is not omnipresent nor away. At first he choose right on what to do and made the economy to get better and stronger, at second he exaggerated and did the right things in a wrong way. The great merit of Lula was to cut this exaggerated actions and start to govern for the entire country, the northeast population does not vote because of the welfare programs, but because people see that things are being done here and the region is not being forgotten.
CSavoy - the 60% figure you use applies to all voters, not only those receiving money from the government. Those on the programs definitely voted for Dilma, just check the correlation between number of recipients and % of votes for Dilma.
Sao Paulo elected Haddad due to appealing alternatives and also as a result of PT's successful undertaking to portray PSDB as incompetent in the public security context (which is not the city's responsibility), in the context of the cop killing campaign promoted by PCC (PT's armed branch??).
Brazil would have had a much bigger chance to go bust in a scenario where Lula could not have taken advantage of the commodity boom. In fact, and you know that, Lula's success was only possible because of the windfall earnings from exporting commodities and the capital inflows from the 'Bric'-story - PT claims that it was all their merit, when all they had to do was sit back doing nothing (and in Lula's case drink heavily, as described by almost-expelled NY Times journalist Larry Rohter). The prior 8 years stand in stark contrast, with very fundamental adjustments being conducted, starting with staying the course of the economic stabilization and strengthening of democracy, independence of the Central Bank. Still, more could and should have been achieved by FHC, but ten years of PT's achievements are a far cry from even one year under FHC - grossly negligent underperformance.
One thing that is conveniently forgotten is that rights come with obligations, but in Brazil unfortunately Gerson's Law gets in the way. Only rights for everyone (particularly those affiliated to the government) and the Southerners and Paulistas will have to pay up.
PCC PT'S armed branch? Where do you think you're living, in Orwell's 1984 or perhaps just in Matrix? They still say "petistas" are the ones that lay the blame on anyone else but PT, but then they come here to suggest that PCC, just the most extreme demonstration of the high level of organization that criminals achieved in São Paulo (not the most violent state anymore by any stretch, but certainly one of those with the most organized crime gangs and mafias), is nothing but an armed militia designed to make PT candidates win in São Paulo's elections. Ludicrous.
Oh, and stop complaining, because São Paulo is no poor victim having to "pay" for everyone else's rights. Its economy has been one of the most successful in the last years. States that have underperformed are, for instance, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, but they have been in relative decline for at least 2 decades, and São Paulo is not one of them. São Paulo has just grown more slowly than some other states for obvious reasons: its market economy is already more developed, and new "frontiers" of economic growth have been found, and that's good for everyone, including paulistas.
Surely,MM4E, they are, and that's not a bad thing. They are not forced to vote on the candidates of the PT(Labour's Party), they vote for recognizing that something is being done for them. It's the same situation of FHC at 1998, his reforms were sucessful, because of that he was relected, but he was acused of making the Plano Real just a thing to make him win the election.
Your theory of Lula just "sitting back and doing nothing/drinking" is, for me(and for many other people), a mistake. Saying this is like saying that Getúlio Vargas was only sucessful because of the USA's loans, and not by his own competence. In a internatinal crisis, you can't survive of exportations and offshore investments, the creation of a inner market was an incredible act and was what really boomed our growth. Without this, Brazil would have lived his 90's Crisis situation again.
The Central Bank on the FHC Era was theorycally independent, but wasn't in practice. So was the STF and the Legislative. Besides, stability is partial when you see the many times we had to call for the FMI help in 8 years. Also, I may disagree with you: in 8 years of Lula Brazil reached a very good international position, one that was never before seen(and that not my words, it's international words and some national too).
PCC being PT armed branch is ridiculous. And, for what I saw from the São Paulo election, it was not just the security sector that the PSDB was incompetent. Without counting that the cop killing campaing happened after the election and public security is responsability of the city(that's hy there's Policia Municipal).
I don't see how Gerson's Law apply here, so I preffer not to comment that now. And, sinceraly, all states contribute with Federal Taxes and these are used to develop the country in general, and there are UFs that need more money than São Paulo. And it's not because only the Paulistas work and other don't, it's because for decades the Southern region was the only one to receive great investments, meanwhile other states were kept in underdevelopment. Why do you think there was massive immigration to São Paulo? Because it was there that the government was present.
You are right. With the growth of favelas and social programs distributing taxpayers money to PT voters they eventually will run out of other's peoples money, like MT would say.
Congratulations. That was an excellent comment. I was going to reply myself, but I've run out of time (I am not like certain trolls who can spend the whole week writing dozens and dozens of comments about the very same magazine article, LOL) and you summed up what I think in very clear terms, so thank you for that.
Rousseff's "Brasil Sem Miséria" came out just when her competitor's to the 2014 presidential elections started upping their campaigns.
It's obviously a smart political electoral card, even TE should be able to see and tell that !!!
It is not true. Her campaign program had already spotted the need for more action, and the idea had been there before she even won the election.
@ Riobaldo,
"Her campaign program had already spotted the need for more action, and the idea had been there before she even won the election".......
.......and your evidence for that is?
Actually, I know for sure that a study intended to identify where and how the most destitute people live and to define the actions needed was begun in 2011, and the specific program "Brasil Sem Miséria" was being developed as early as the beginning of 2012. I doubt the "2014 race" was already at its full speed by the early 2012. Anyway, nowadays anything that really benefits people or a group of people is called "eleitoreiro" (i.e designed specifically and only to win votes in the following elections) in Brazil, as if setting actions and programs that do something agreeable to the electorate were not a basic and normal consequence of how any democratic system functions. It seems as if no government action could be applied at least 2 years before the next voting, lest it will be bashed as "eleitoreiro".
Here is the decree that instituted the program "Brasil Sem Miséria": http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2011-2014/2011/Decreto/D7492.htm. It dates from June 2nd, 2011. Six months after Dilma Rousseff became Brazil's President. And here BBC Brasil reports the studies and actions that were being made to develop the aforementioned program, dating from February 16th, 2012: http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/noticias/2012/02/120208_piaui_miseria_jc.... However, by May 2011 the Brazilian media was already reporting about the "Brasil sem Miséria": http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/politica/brasil+sem+miseria+busca+levar+d.... So, just stop believing you know better than The Economist.
read the irst sentence of the article, which I reproduce hereunder
"LAST week Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, made an audacious claim: extreme poverty in Brazil will soon become extinct"
so that's last week for feb28th, you still smart ?
never mind the official dates, my reference was to rousseff's new effort using "Brasil sem Miseria"
Last week Brazil's President MADE AN AUDACIOUS CLAIM, but you didn't refer to that. You said: "Rousseff's "Brasil Sem Miséria" came out...". And your comment on that was simply not true. "Brasil Sem Miséria" didn't begin only when Rousseff decided to make that audacious claim, it is logic.
One aspect never touched is how many reais are used (or 'disappear') to actually get R$1 into the hand of a handout recipient.
I am sure the number would be staggering, for the governmental machinery and paraphernalia gobble up an obscene proportion of tax revenues and since corruption is rampant, it certainly also is in the social programs.
Also, what would an estimate of total amount charged as 'commissions'/kickbacks by corrupt officials to get people enrolled in the programs. Again, there's obviously no official number, but it would certainly shock everybody.
Don't agree, believe this model used by the PT is to guarantee votes, actually this part of society is the main suporter of the party. This program is nothing more than a continuism of and old culture of the north east called "coronelismo"' with a nice face.
Brazil really needed actions which could promote business, work and education on poor areas, but that's not quite what seems the will, since educated people don't vote on cheap talk politicians.
The country would be doing far better, with less state, less public employed, and less taxes. But you can not put the fault on the PT or politicians of this country, its on brazilians and its culture. The major dream is to be aproved in a public career, with high salaries, estability, and no pressure to work.
Spot on: PT took the place of the Coronel, effectively acquiring recipients' votes and everything else remains the same.
Plus, there are plenty of employed people within the ranks of handout recipients. They could get off the welfare programs, but they work informally, readily incorporating Gerson's Law into their lives. Why reliquinshing that extra money if you can keep it, right?
Congratulations to Fernando Henrique Cardoso for stabilizing the economy and for starting most of these programmes.
Not even PT with its corruption and incompetence could destroy his legacy.
Wow, this is really the first time I've seen a program so good that it actually only got much better after incompetent and corrupt thieves started to govern it! LOL! Come on, if we were in 2006 I could still give you the benefit of doubt, but in 2013, 10 years after PT started to govern the country (a longer time than Fernando Henrique Cardoso spent in his two tenures as President!), it sounds ludicrous, an incredibly unreliable myth. And it's not only 10 years, but 10 years of faster economic growth and much, much faster social advancements. And you want us to believe they are all due to political decisions made 15 or more years ago, which miraculously thrived in the following government? And you want us to believe you are just a realistic critic of Brazil and its administration?!
You forget that some Brazilians are more angry that the PT didn't screw it up than they would be if they did...
So, you are saying that if inflation was 80% a month anything that PT is doing now would have been possible? You do realize that inflation hurts poor people much more than rich people right?
Let me see if I get your thought process: if something bad exists today it's because of say the military dictatorship. If something good happens however, it is 100% merit of PT, right?
And let's not forget Carta aos Brasileiros, a fundamental letter Lulla wrote before the 2002 elections where he committed not to touch FHC's economic policies. This per se is cabal proof of the impact of FHC.
And as posted here before: Guido Mantega's prediction of the impact of Plano Real was THE OPPOSITE of what ended up happening i.e. if it wasn't for FHC and Carta aos Brasileiros we would be back at 80% inflation per month.
Ironically the best thing PT ever did was to not touch the economic policies of FHC.
So, you are saying that if inflation was 80% a month anything that PT is doing now would have been possible? You do realize that inflation hurts poor people much more than rich people right?
Let me see if I get your thought process: if something bad exists today it's because of say the military dictatorship. If something good happens however, it is 100% merit of PT, right? So, tell us: when can we "blame" something on a past administration and when can't we? What's your "criteria"? Do you have any?
And let's not forget Carta aos Brasileiros, a fundamental letter Lulla wrote before the 2002 elections where he committed not to touch FHC's economic policies. This per se is cabal proof of the impact of FHC.
And as posted here before: Guido Mantega's prediction of the impact of Plano Real was THE OPPOSITE of what ended up happening i.e. if it wasn't for FHC and Carta aos Brasileiros we would be back at 80% inflation per month.
Ironically the best thing PT ever did was to not touch the economic policies of FHC.
I am quite sure you are in the PT dole considering you think they "didn't screw up".
Next you will tell us PAC is a success, right?
Of course I didn't say anything of that, but then the importance of tackling inflation and who's guilty for today's Brazilian problems are not the immediate subject here. Let me remind you: you are the one claiming that FHC alone stablized the economy and started the programs and that that legacy is so good that even the supposed incompetence and corruption of PT couldn't destroy it, thus implying PT has nothing to do with the good economic and social advances that have happened ever since FHC's government ended (and that as if his government ended in a very comfortable situation, and not with the country experiencing two years of economic crisis and a rebound in inflation). This lame argumentative recourse - to divert one's attention to what was NOT told - won't work for me.
You seem to think that the course a country takes is like changing the tecnico da selecao: just call in new ministries and have a few trainings and boom, NEW COUNTRY!
Reality is a little bit different unfortunately.
One president inherits what his predecessor did and adjusts / complements as well as he can and the political environment allow. To deny the impact of FHC (while often talking about how the military dictatorship or the Portuguese had such an impact) is ridiculous.
The fact PT did not touch FHC's policies is clear proof FHC was right all along, period.
I don't think anyone with a gram of intellectual and ideological honesty will deny that. If you can't recognize that I feel sorry for you. Oh wait, I don't.
The net effect of FHC's government was stabilization. PT was against every single change FHC promoted until they realized that FHC was right all along and his policies were producing results. Thus PT can't claim jack for anyone with a memory span longer than a mosquito's: they were against everything that worked but didn't change things when they had a chance i.e. they TWICE admitted FHC was right (even expanding his best policies as the article makes obvious). If this can't convince you at least of the value of stabilization (instead of FHC's legacy, which seems to be too much for you to swallow), then arguing with you is a waste of time (which is quite obvious).
I won't even talk about how PT in their first 8 years of government tried to not go ahead with privatizations until they fully conceded defeat lately. Gee. Thanks for another 8 years or so of riding that crappy car known as Brazil with the parking brake on.
PS: let's not forget how a few weeks ago you mentioned how Brasil was oh so spectacularly successful because it decreased its infant mortality while ignoring that most of its peers decreased infant mortality much more than Brasil i.e. you are the one diverting attention and "forgetting" things (as your post about Peru below clearly shows).
They didn't?????
It is not irealistics, unfortunately he/she is right. Fernando Henrique Cardoso started most of these programs, but the thing is that an economy boom does not happen from day to night, it takes time,yeah, maybe took too much time, but this is normal in a country with so much corruption to have the results taking over 10 years to be noticeable. Do a little research my friend, but at the end what's the matter who started or not if the most important is that the brazilian people is having a "decent meal" on their table???


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Chalkboard Threat: Teacher Suspended
By: Natalie Martinez, WMAQ
Updated: March 5, 2013
Lake Station Schools Superintendent Dan DeHaven confirmed an Edison Junior-Senior High School teacher wrote a message that read:
A) You are idiots!!!!!!!! B) The guns are loaded!!! C) Care to try me ?????????"
Students snapped a photo of the message during first period Friday and posted it on Facebook, DeHaven said.
The school resource officer saw the photo on Facebook, and the teacher was sent home by 10:30 a.m. that day.
DeHaven told NBC Chicago there is no imminent danger and an investigation is underway. He met with local police Monday and said the situation was being taken very seriously.
"In today's world, you cannot make those references," he said.
Read more: http://bit.ly/Z6JSg2


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5. | kit Kat | ||
where a girl/boy has missing limbs in an obvious part of the body, Kit Kat refers to the amount of limbs the said person has left. ben: yo, did you see that Kit Kat?
harvey: you sick fucking bastard that my girlfriend! ben: oh shit, sorry pal, i didnt know ! |
1. | Kit Kat | ||
When frozen, one of the best chcolate bars in the world! this frozen Kit Kat is the shit!
2. | kit kat | ||
The act of fingering a girl using 4 fingers. brian; i slipped julie 4 fingers last night
mat; wow man, u kit katted her brian; yea man |
3. | kit kat | ||
a slang term for ketamine which is usually in a powdered or liquid form. damn son that was some fire ass kit kat
yea nigga i stay cookin that shit up |
4. | kit kat | ||
a slang term for a police car, found in Jay-Z's "99 Problems" I beat the shit outta that guy, and then he pressed charges, so they threw me into the back of the kit kat.
6. | kit kat | ||
to have sex, coming from the term "breaking off" or "breaking off a piece of that" used in the song "Every Girl" by Lil' Wayne "Kit kat a midget if that ass soft I break her off"
7. | Kit Kat | ||
1. The male organ of copulation in higher vertebrates, homologous with the clitoris. In mammals, it also serves as the male organ of urinary excretion. 2. Any of various copulatory organs in males of lower animals. 3. Penis Kruga wants a piece of that Kit Kat fo sho


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The reason I started New Realities; the company, the interview show and the website was to investigate spiritual transformation. I can trace this inspiration back to a single experience:
The Voice came booming across the room… It was emanating from a woman who said she was not there. This was my crash course intro to metaphysical esoterica and the whole multi-dimensional world of mysticism and spirituality.
I was sitting in an auditorium of about 100 people on west 73rd street, New York City in October of 1981. The body that was channeling the voice claimed that the remarkable event here was not what was coming through that body. The amazing phenomenon was what is coming through those bodies sitting in the chairs in front of her. The Voice beckoned us to inquire: "What is that divine presence that comes through and animates each one of you? Who is that? And where is does that energy issue forth from?"
I thought: "Yeah right, good point, Voice… What is the source of the energy that I call myself?"
My thinking reference at the time, was all physiological and psychological based, as was my cultural framework and my higher education told me it was that way.
Then the Voice and the body that contained it, suddenly turned in my direction and cried out: "What say you beloved entity? How be you this day in your time? You be a most contented entity." At first I thought that the words were being directed to someone behind me. So I turned around only to find there was no one there. My next thought was: "Are you talking to me?" I pointed to myself.
"Indeed" the Voice roared back!
Then a curious thing happened: It was as if I was being lifted up out of my chair, or rather something beyond myself came out of myself and embraced whatever it was, that was coming out of the body of the channel. Then we did this sort of nonphysical meta-hug that I could sense happening in a vague way in the middle of the room. The atmosphere of the room, all of a sudden seem to have a sort of misty fog hue to it. (I guess that is why they call it a mystical, when things like that happen.) It was a very odd transcendent feeling, creating an alternate state of reality for my mind.
It was a timeless, yet momentary exchange. Then I was back in my chair in a normal state of awareness. But forever changed with the knowledge that I and probably everything else, eixst on a greater than physical reality. In other words at that moment I realized that I and all of human beings that I had ever met or will meet were eternal… I knew I was not just the body… We are here to love the body….but who we are is the essence of life that fills the body. And the truth of who we really are - is beyond the body.
Alas, this started me on the great journey, looking for a confirmation of what I intuited that day - of what it was that I truly am! Where does that thing called me 'issue forth from?' It is mystery that I am still discovering 30 years later. Although I had found the state of being beyond the personality, in a momentary of embrace - the inscrutability remains and keeps beckoning me on the wondrous adventure of eternity. It has taken me around the world; to ashrams, holy places, sacred sites, tribal ceremonies, religious rituals and inside myself--- And that has given me the adventure of the Self in the multitudinous of forms.
However, people are always saying to me in interviews or podcasts, that I am the perpetual seeker. But I am not a seeking anything, I am finding… The being of me is a daily revelation of existence…. Almaas of the Diamond Approach, my latest adventure in consciousness, started a recent talk by saying: "The ultimate question is not what we that is, but it is that we are." In regards to that statement, all I can say is: "Exactly!"
There is no arguing with experience. You can read all the meta-spiritual-esoteric text that exist. You can sit with holiest teachers and the highest lamas; you can go to the most sacred of places, but the only thing that will ever give you the sense of that- that is beyond the material world is -- having the experience. Then trusting the experience and knowing that your subjective reality is the only validation that matters in world full of facts and ideas about what is real.
In that awakening moment that I had in the fall of 1981… I knew that I always knew… My realization of the spiritual path, is a stream of consciousness that once you sail upon it, there is no turning back… You can never deny what you know. In the knowing there is gnosis, direct knowing without learning.
In truth we are all on "the road to find out", as Cat Stevens sang. In an unaware state the stream of consciousness flows underground, but still carries us. And when we have the first taste of knowing, the sun shines on the open course of the waters that take into the ocean of Being. This water soaks through all the ways of living. It feeds all our encounters on the current of forever.
The world of knowledge and the world of wisdom are separated by the wall of experience. Only experience validates reality and shifts what is possible inside of us to become what is actual outside of us. The grand adventure on this plane of demonstration is to be the owner of wisdom. This brings fulfillment in our capacity to know the whole of human experience.
At this point my next frontier is: a channel of love has taken me from the river of becoming into the great sea of being. It seems that this feeling of expanding joy is growing to replace that vague abstract term called consciousness… and with this all things seem to be known, because all things are felt…
We become as Dylan Thomas wrote:
"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees..."


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Question:The major candidats for president this year are Republican George W. Bush and Democrat John Kerry. If the election were held today, from whom would you vote?
Answers: ( respondents)George W. Bush 42% John Kerry 47% Don't know 8% Other 3%
Related questions:
NOTE: The number of respondents to an individual question may vary from the number of respondents to the entire survey, as some items are restricted based on previous answers. The poll has an overall 4 percentage point margin of error, although the margin increases when examining attitudes among smaller groups within the survey. The margin for women only, for example, is 6 percent.