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- :: - V '-.: - .;•: nHnnMMnnHi Minneapolis Indian program directors object to restrictions on Phillips funds By Gary Blair The American Indian component of the Phillips Neighborhood Revitalization Plan (INRP) is drawing criticism from nearly all of the community's Indian program directors, except for the American Indian Opportunities and Industrial Center (AIOIC) organization. The nearly $200 million in revitalization funds appropriated by the Minnesota Legislature to assist Minneapolis' poorer neighborhoods are similar to those of the "Pilot City" days. Only this time the lawmakers are demanding more accountability of potential grantees, and our so-called Indian leaders are complaining about the increased restrictions. The INRP purposed budget, as revised July 2, 1995, calls for $3,688,019. Those funds are to be matched by each grantee from other sources. After more than 25 years oflndian programs in Minneapolis that were supposed to help Indian people, "according to their promoters." Page two of the INRP introduction reads in part as follows, "Several recent studies indicate that today's housing situation for Indians in the Phillips Neighborhood is worse than Minnesota reservations and other areas of the city. Poor health and the highest citywide infant morality rate combine with large numbers living below the poverty level in a neighborhood with the highest population density to keep Indian people in the Phillips Neighborhood at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale. "It is fair to say that the condition of American Indians has served to attract countless government and private dollars to Phillips. Each time a new federal or local policy was developed for relieving the pains of poverty, the quality of life for Indians did not improve. Many Indian families have lived in the Phillips Neighborhood for three or more generations and deserve direct involvement in the planning and development of the neighborhood. Indians can no longer be treated as an 'add on.' or used for their poor socioeconomic characteristics to become incidental to neighborhood planning." These are the words of Indian program directors who in the last ten Funds cont'd on 3 Fond du Lac RBC defies constitution to block referendum vote By Jeff Armstrong In a move which could have repercussions throughout the six- reservation Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Fond du Lac's Reservation Business Committee last week refused to recognize a petition to compel a reservation vote on the RBCs planned construction of a $9-15 million administration building. Submitted July 3 and signed by 269 resident eligible voters, the petition would require that any RBC expenditure of $400,000 or more first be approved by a referendum vote of Fond du Lac members. While not disputing the fact that the number of signatures exceeds the constitutional requirement of "20% of resident voters of the reservation," the RBC denied the petition, which it claimed "would bring all activity on the Fond du Lac Reservation...to a standstill." The RBC said such a move toward democratization could jeopardize annual per-capita payments, a statement which opponents called a thinly-veiled threat. Defending their action in a July 11 letter to reservation members, the five RBC members wrote, "It is not a reasonable understanding of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Constitution that Article XIV would enable 269 out of over 3500 members of the Fond du Lac Band to stop the Band from operating." But Fond du Lac member Kelly Smith, who singlehandedly obtained the petition signatures, said the RBC is flouting the constitution in order to barpopularparticipation in allocating the reservation's wealth. "The more money that comes in, the more they want to keep it closed so we don't have any say in how it's spent," said the 29- year-old Smith. Vote cont'd on 3 Dakota arraigned on charges of conspiracy and tax fraud MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) _ The chairman of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community pleaded innocent to all charges in a 54-count federal indictmentaccusing him of conspiracy and tax fraud. "It's been a difficult year for me," Fred Dakota told WLUC-TV in an interview Thursday, when he was arraigned in LT.S. District Court in Marquette. "All I can say is I'm very glad that I'm able to go into court and prove that I am innocent and not be tried by this media." Jerrold L. Polinsky, 65, of Atlantic City, N.J., was arraigned with Dakota and also pleaded innocent to all charges. Each was released on $150,000 personal recognizance bond. Trial was scheduled for Oct. 28. The indictment accuses Polinsky of paying Dakota for agreeing to lease video gaming machines for the tribe's Ojibwa Casino in Baraga from International Gaming Management, a Minnesota corporation. Dakota accepted more than $125,000 inpayments fromMay 1991 through December 1993, "intending to personally benefit and enrich himself through the receipt of kickbacks," according to the indictment. Dakota and Polinsky each are charged with one count of conspiracy and 25 counts of proscribing thefts or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. Dakota, 59, of Baraga also is charged with three counts of filing false federal income tax returns. If convicted on all counts, Dakota faces up to 264 years in prison and $6.8 million in fines. Polinsky faces up to 255 years in prison and $6.5 million in fines. Assistant U.S. Attorney Judd Spray told WLUC that the government is confident of its case. Dakota's attorney. Mark Stevens* said defending his client has been difficult because of adissident group's 11-month occupation of tribal headquarters in Baraga. Tribal officials have set up offices in the Ojibwa Casino, several miles away. Stevens said documents pertinent to his client's defense are in the building occupied by members of Fight for Justice. Dakota cont'd on 5 Blocked casino plan shows lobbies, politics in action By Greg Gordon and Dennis Cassano Minneapolis Star Tribune Staff Writers WASHINGTON D.C. - Minneapolis lobbyist Patrick O'Connor, a former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), put his Washington connections to ful 1 use last year while seeking to block three small Indian tribes from opening a casino in Hudson, Wis. In a letter to the White House, O'Connor boasted that he had chatted privately with President Clinton days earlier, and that the current DNC chair was assisting him. He noted that his clients—several Minnesota and Wisconsin tribes that opposed the casino—were longtime Democratic campaign donors. Paul Eckstein, a lawyer pushing for the casino, said O'Connor and Minnesota's congressional delegation had succeeded, at the behest of the rival tribes seeking to protect their own casino revenues, in killing the proposal. Nor was he amused when he found out that the opposing tribes have showered the DNC with more than $80,000 in donations over the past 14 months and also contributed cash to Clinton's reelection campaign. The blend of money and power surrounding the Interior Department's July 14,1995 decision tooverrule two staff recommendations and reject the casino application has led to a full blown flap. The three losing tribes last year sued the department, alleging that politics unduly influenced the outcome of what would have been an obscure policy battle. The department won a decision from U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb in Madison, Wis., last month blocking the Chippewa from questioning department officials and others about political influence. She ruled that, although the bands "have shown that congressional and presidential contacts were made with the Department of Interior, they have not shown that the contacts could be deemed improper." Blocked cont'd on 5 Babbit says direct funding option for tribes unworkable By Philip Barsher WASHINGTON (AP) _ Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt attacked a plan by Senate budget writers to accelerate the move toward direct funding of American Indian tribes. , Tribes already can get direct grants for selected Bureau of Indian Affairs programs if they qualify through the agency's "self-determination" process. But the plan approved by a Senate Appropriations subcommittee last week would allow tribes to skip the qualification procedures. Tribes would be required to take direct funding forall BIA's law enforcement and social programs. They could no longer pick the programs they wanted to run. Babbitt said Monday that the plan wasn't workable and that many tribes weren't prepared to run all BIA programs. "This is an all-or-nothing deal," he said in a telephone interview. Some tribes "feel they can handle some of these services but want to retain the BIA for others." The plan represents a shift in strategy for the subcommittee's chairman, Sen. Slade Gorton, who last year tried to sharply cut funding for BIA, one of the most criticized agencies in the federal government. The Washington Republican thinks that direct funding would save money in administrative costs, aides say. The plan is similar to a BIA reorganization bill approved by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Under the self-governance process, tribes take control of selected programs, such as law enforcement, while letting the BIA continue to administer others. Babbitt, who oversees the BIA, said the Senate plan also could have a result Gorton doesn't intend _ forcing the government to spend more money. Congress is required by law, for example, to provide aid to poor Indians, and if tribes didn't spend some oftheirfundingforthat purpose, lawmakers could be required to appropriate extra money, Babbitt said. "The concept is good. ... What they're attempting to do is accelerate the process and they're tripping all over themselves," Babbitt said. The plan is included in the subcommittee's proposed budget for the BIA for fiscal 1997. The budget would provide $1.58 billion for the agency, down from $ 1.59 billion this year. The House provided $1.54 billion for BIA. "I believe there would be some mixed feelings out there through all the tribes," said Richard Sangrey, chief of staff for the Chippewa Cree tribe in Montana. He said it could "lead to the BIA central office being totally gutted, which wouldn't be good." LLRBC reimb. of $14,000 rest. chk. to M. Ellis/ pg 8 Power struggle at Leech Lake/ pg 1 Fond du Lac RBC defies Mpls Ind Prog Dir(s) obj. to funding restrictions/ pg 1 Pow Wow Trails/ pg 6 Voice of the People 1 Native Fifty Cents Ojibwe News We Support Equal Opportunity For All People Founded in 19BB Volume O la 40 July 19, 199B 1 A weekly publication. Copyright, Native American Press, 1996 Tribal elder Bernie Rock speaks in support of newly elected chairman Eli Hunt to the more than 500 Leech Lake enrollees at the public meeting at the Palace Casino last Monday. Photo by WJL Power struggle at Leech Lake By Nate Bowe Bemidji Pioneer Staff Writer CASS LAKE — Apparently intent on influencing the power struggle under way between newly elected Tribal Chairman Eli Hunt and the rest of the Leech Lake Tribal Council, hundreds of people attended a tribal council meeting Monday at the Palace Casino Paradise Room. At the contentious four-hour meeting, Hunt offered to resign if the rest of the council would follow suit, and he directed to be read aloud a statement issued by the council accusing Hunt of overstepping his authority and trying to use "mob rule" to establish a "dictatorship" on the reservation. Hunt, a former tribal health director, was sworn into office in late June after defeating former chairman Alfred "Tig" Pemberton in the June 11 tribal elections. Hunt set of the standoff with the Tribal Council on July 8, when he fired executive director Roger Aitken and replaced him with Gerald White. He also appointed Linda Johnston to take the place of former deputy director Donna Murray and chose Burton Howard to take over for George Wells as gaming controller. A crowd of hundreds applauded Hunt's action at a Tribal Council meeting the next day, but the council was not pleased. At a meeting held July 12, after Hunt adjourned the meeting and left the building, the council and tribal attorneys developed an issue statement charging that: "Chairman Hunt violated the 'Leech Lake Band of Chippewa Tribal Council Rules of Operation and Procedure' by his dictatorial action in terminating the three employees. Chairman Hunt further violated his own rules by appointing hand picked individuals, again ignoring personnel policies and the resolution he signed on July 2nd, to replace the employees he terminated without due process." Hunt acknowledged that he signed the new procedures policy but argued that tribal law, which authorizes the chairman to "exercise general supervision of all (non-Tribal Council) Band officers and top supervisory band employees" supersedes the policy. Hunt said that opinion is based on conversations with tribal members and with attorneys Robert Fairbanks, a Leech Lake Band member, and Zenas Baer of Hawley, long active in issues on the White Earth Reservation. In a resolution passed July 12, the council called Hunt's actions illegal and "beyond the scope of his authority," since it was "not taken as a result of direction or instruction of the Tribal Council." It nullified the Struggle cont'd on 3 Indian communities building hotels, centers at whirlwind rate (AP) Indian communities in Minnesota are building hotels and convention centers at a whirlwind rate in an attempt to attract more business for their casinos, but economists say they should proceed with caution. New buildings worth at least $80 million are planned or completed. The building boom started last fall and is predicted to run into next year. Tribes in the Twin Cities metropolitan area want to compete with the Mall of America in Bloomington and Canterbury Park racetrack in Shakopee. Those in rural areas are planning more hotel rooms for tourists and business meetings. "What we're looking for are boat shows, farm machinery shows," said Tribal Chairman Roger Prescott in explaining why his Lower Sioux Community just opened a convention center near Morton, about 100 miles west of the Twin Cities. The center and hotel are connected to the tribe's Jackpot Junction Casino. Court upholds payments to non By Bob Egelko SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Millions of dollars in partial compensation for the United States' violation of treaties with Sioux Indians must go to nearly 2,000 descendants of 19th century tribal members rather than current Sioux tribes, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an Interior Departmentdecision that 1,969 people were lineal descendants of a Sioux tribe that was dispersed after an 1862 military conflict. The court also said payment of part of the settlement to non-tribal members does not violate the tribes' rights. A 1972 federal law gave those descendants 25 percent of a settlement reached in 1967 by the federal government and three Sioux tribes in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. The settlement was for U.S. appropriation of 27 million acres of tribal land in Iowa, Minnesota and But some economic development advisers say the tribes could find themselves in debt, particularly those located in rural areas. "The worry that comes to mind is that tribes would take on a great deal of debt and the gambling bubble would burst," said Jerry Reynolds of the First Nations Development Institute in Fredericksburg, Va. Hoping to create a stopover spot for vacationers headed north, the Fond Building cont'd on 3 -tribal members South Dakota in the 1860s in violation of earlier treaties. The 1,969 people, none of them members of the current Sioux tribes, were awarded $746 each in 1968, compared with $372 each for tribal members under the settlement. The payment to non-members has been sitting in a government account collecting interest since 1968 and now totals about $13.5 million, said Bertram Hirsch, a lawyer forthe tribes. Payment cont'd on 3
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Title | Native American Press / Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 1996-07-19 |
Preceding Titles | The Ojibwe News |
Edition | Volume 8, Issue 40 |
Date of Creation | 1996-07-19 |
Publishing Agency | Native American Press Company (Bemidji, Minnesota) |
Language | English |
Minnesota Reflections Topic | American Indians |
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Locally Assigned Subject Headings | American Indians; Native Americans; Ojibway; Ojibwe |
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I know this was stated earlier in a previous post, but one of the reasons that BibleWorks is such a great program is because of what it includes in the main program without extra costs. Sure there are modules that you can buy to expand the program, but the program itself provides a plethora of Biblical texts. Then with BW 6 Josephus and the Apostolic Fathers were added, with no additional costs to the user.
Now another opportunity to make BibleWorks even better is coming up. I've contacted Harry Plantinga, the operator of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and I've asked him if it would be okay to use the Church Fathers texts that are online at that website to incorporate them into a database for use with Biblical studies computer programs. He said that was perfectly okay. To my knowledge, the works at that website are public domain and with his assurance that this is so, I think it's time to take a step forward.
I'm asking for volunteers of those who are interested in using the CCEL Church Fathers texts to make them into a format that would work in BibleWorks. This would entail picking a specific work and converting it into a plain text format that BW's Version Database Compiler would then integrate into BW. I'm sure I make it sound easier than it is. I honestly don't have any experience with making this happen, but I know we can figure it out because the same process was used by BW users to get the Apostolic Fathers database into BW in the first place. The biggest thing is just to be able to spearhead activities and make sure we're not reduplicating work. I'm not entirely sure how long this project would take, but I know the more people who are willing to help out, the quicker it would go. A lot of the texts include copious footnotes. BW will allow footnotes in its text as well, but it will take a little bit of work to type them in the text in the right order.
If you think you have more skill or time than myself and would like to coordinate this project, let me know. If you would like to volunteer to be involved also let me know. This is a no glory project. No one's going to make any money on it, but it's for the collective BW public own benefit. This stuff is out there and free, it just takes a little bit of grunt work to put it on BW in a way that would pay off big.
In the future we could also include original languages to these works, but since that text is less freely available, that's an option down the road. If anyone knows of a great repository of original language works that would be in public domain, certainly speak up.
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Web edition: July 26, 2012
Print edition: August 25, 2012; Vol.182 #4 (p. 9)
Climate change may spur the destruction of ozone in unexpected parts of the globe.
In a warming world, many scientists believe, severe weather will become more common. That could be a problem in part because powerful rainstorms have the potential to erode ozone above the United States, researchers report online July 27 in Science.
"For 30 years, we've studied the problems of ozone loss and climate change separately," says team leader James Anderson, a Harvard atmospheric scientist. "Now it's pretty clear that climate change appears to be linked directly to the loss of ozone." High-altitude ozone acts as a protective shield, blocking ultraviolet rays that can cause skin cancer.
Anderson and his colleagues stumbled on the unexpected connection while studying strong summer storms fueled by rising heat. During missions from 2001 to 2007, NASA planes flying close to the edge of space spotted water spewed high into the sky by convective storms over the U.S. The goal was to gather useful measurements for figuring out how high-altitude clouds form and trap heat.
But the data also revealed a possible threat to ozone molecules floating 15 to 20 kilometers up. Large storms often left behind extra water vapor in this part of the stratosphere, the remnants of melted ice crystals propelled upward.
That vapor could set the stage for a chemical chain reaction, Anderson says. Aerosol particles swollen with water can dissolve airborne hydrochloric acid. The acid can then react and form other chlorine compounds, including pairs of chlorine atoms. Sunlight cleaves those molecules, spitting out unstable chlorine atoms that break down ozone.
"It's the same chemistry as that going on above the Arctic and the Antarctic," says Anderson. Chlorine from human-made chemicals has chewed seasonal holes in ozone above Antarctica and caused thinning above the Arctic. These ozone-destroying chemicals are being phased out under the 1987 Montreal Protocol.
The team's calculations suggest that the havoc wreaked by water vapor could continue for days after a storm, as humidity levels slowly fall. As much as 25 to 35 percent of ozone, over a horizontal distance of 100 kilometers, could be annihilated in a week.
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For now, the danger exists only on paper. Actual measurements tracking chlorine compounds in the stratosphere would help to confirm whether the damage is taking place and, if so, how widespread the problem may be. And while many climate simulations do call for more strong storms as temperatures continue to rise, the future is still somewhat fuzzy. A warmer atmosphere would hold more moisture but would also weaken the wind shear that whips up extreme weather.
"It's a bold idea that raises more questions than it answers," says Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University in College Station. "But this is what great scientists do; they come with ideas that spur people to start working on new things."Citations
J. Anderson et al. UV dosage levels in summer: increased risk of ozone loss from convectively injected water vapor. Science. doi:10.1126/science.1222978.
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How the U.S. Army taught its soldiers to tell Japanese and Chinese people apart
Have you ever wondered how to tell Japanese and Chinese people apart? The American army in Asia in World War Two sure did, since one was the enemy and the other was an ally. Since Asians are apparently so hard to tell apart, the army gave its soldiers a pocket guidebook containing a helpful comic, now reproduced online, called How to Spot a Jap. And by "helpful" I mean "appallingly racist".
It's interesting how they assigned all the more "othering" or inferior characteristics to the Japanese, while the Chinese get all the good, more humanizing or closer-to-white-people characteristics. E.g. Japanese are supposed to be shorter, hairier, have slantier eyes and buck teeth, shuffle when they walk, etc. I wonder: if history had been different and the Japanese were our allies and the Chinese our enemies, would this pamphlet have assigned all the same qualities in the opposite way?
It's weird that anybody ever thought you could tell people's nationality apart this way with any degree of accuracy, as if people were different species of birds or something. As if the normal huamn range of variation didn't exist in both populations. You would think that, being in a war and all, they would be very careful to teach people only the most accurate and reliable ways to identify the enemy, but apparently the need to dehumanize the enemy trumped any strategic concerns.
The only thing in the pamphlet that I've ever noticed to be remotely true in real life is the difference in accents (e.g. Chinese speakers have no trouble separating R and L sounds, Japanese speakers do.) Maybe the thing about the geta toes was true back then, I don't know.
Apparently the army realized it wasn't working, because they took the comic out of the second printing of the booklet, probably trying to forget it ever existed.
It's also interesting how they published this but they never published a guide to telling French and Germans apart, eh?


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Edit Feb 8 8:53: After playing around a bit more with the functions, I've added another caveat dealing with the function volatility.
Some time ago, I wrote about session variables in PostgreSQL. I've been using the solution for some time to address the problem of performing a more-or-less-automatic audit trail for certain important tables when using accounts defined by the system and not the database, and it's been working pretty well so far. However, I've always been concerned about the idea of potentially creating a new table for every transaction, even if it's temporary. The database in question is a very small low-throughput system just used internally, but being inefficient just cause nobody will notice doesn't seem like a good enough excuse.
As Rails is our front-end and it uses connection pooling, there's a possibility that two subsequent pageviews would use two different connections to the DB. While that doesn't always generate a new table (the second connection could have already had the temporary table created), it does necessitate resetting the values in the table that I use for auditing (current_user and audit_notes) every time, just to be sure. I'm unsure where on the scale of efficiency it would fall to validate that an update must occur before actually doing it, but it seems, due to the fact that I must validate the table as a whole exists before trying to do anything, that this is the least of my problems.
However, I recently had the magic of Tom Lane shine down from on high in this recent thread on the pgsql-sql mailing list, wherein he made mention of a feature of which I had been previously unaware: custom GUC variables. I'm not actually sure what the GUC stands for, even. However, what it provides is a namespace into which you can throw arbitrary variables. It's designed for modules that are loaded at run time and need configuration (like plperl.use_strict).
If you clicked on the link to the thread, you'll realize that Tom suggested this as a solution to the very problem I had built my "variable" temporary table method to address. The requested solution involved transaction-level isolation, but as ActiveRecord doesn't seem to like using them unless you beat it thoroughly about the head, I'm more concerned with connection-level isolation. Fortunately, it looks like this does both! Instead of my big long complicated functions, you can simply include "custom_variable_classes = 'audit'" in postgresql.conf, reload, and in any connection do "SET audit."current_user" = 'whoever';" There are a couple of small caveats worth noting, however:
- This is not the usage for which the GUC system was designed; as such, it is somewhat a Bad Thing to do, as it can potentially cause screwing around with modules that are loaded. This is particularly notable if you have multiple databases in your server, as it's a global setting. Each one of your users will have that variable namespace. As far as I know, that's not a security concern, but rather a nuisance concern, if they've never asked for such a thing. However, I think it'd be charitable to describe the situation where it's problematic as an extreme edge case. And as far as the loaded modules, it would seem fairly trivial, unless you have millions being loaded and unloaded all the time (I don't even know if you can unload without a server restart), that assigning a unique name to your variable class should not be a problem.
- SET statements in PostgreSQL allow for setting string literals with optional quoting. This may not be obvious if you've never used the SET command (which I tend only to use for search_path), but it means you can't set the value using variable substitution, i.e. in a function call. You'll have to compile the query at runtime of the function using EXECUTE and that can be unpleasant for everybody if you're not careful about it. That is, use pg_catalog.quote_literal() to make sure your variables are safe, because any characters PostgreSQL can't figure are part of the string will cause errors. You shouldn't bother using pg_catalog.quote_nullable(), for why, see the last point.
- Certain values of variables must be ident-quoted. So far I've found that to be true of "user" and "current_user" at least (so, set audit."user" instead of audit.user), and I presume there are others. Someone smarter than me may have an answer for this.
- If you want to access the value of a variable via a function, the function must be declared as VOLATILE. IMMUTABLE is clearly out because it doesn't depend on inputs, and for some reason that I'm unaware of STABLE is also out. This is probably a function of the SHOW command rather than of custom GUC variables in particular. Speaking of SHOW…
- Retrieving the value of the variable, say in a PL/pgSQL trigger, can be done via "SHOW audit."current_user" INTO some_variable;" – I'm not sure if there are more efficient ways but that's the one I've found that works. At least, most of the time…
- Retrieving the value of a configuration variable that has not been set yet causes an exception to be raised. This is not an insurmountable problem, as you can simply trap the exception, but as the documentation warns, an exception-trapping block in PL/pgSQL is far more expensive than a regular block, so it shouldn't be done if you can avoid it, which would be easy except…
- SET statements do not allow you to assign NULL values to configuration variables. This is problematic if, like me, you want to allow someone to optionally insert some notes to go along with any auditing for a particular chunk of work ("I just changed the received time on this log because it turns out that was a 2 not a squiggled-out number"), but don't want a pile of empty strings littering everywhere. You can handle it in one of two ways: have your trigger functions call NULLIF() and always assign the return value of the variable you want to NULL if it's set to ", or just trap any exceptions from unused variables and return NULL. While I think NULLIF() is probably the cheaper option (without any benchmarks backing this gut feeling up), the trapping exceptions method is probably the Right Thing to do.
So, for all those things to be kept aware of, the end result can be just as simple as:
CREATE FUNCTION audit_user(OUT TEXT) LANGUAGE PLPGSQL AS $$BEGIN SHOW audit."current_user" INTO $1; EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN $1 := NULL; END;$$; CREATE FUNCTION audit_notes(OUT TEXT) LANGUAGE PLPGSQL AS $$BEGIN SHOW audit.notes INTO $1; EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN $1 := NULL; END;$$;
I trapped the exception OTHERS for two reasons: one, I assumed that OTHERS would be faster than comparing against a specific case; and two, I plain just don't know what specific exception gets raised when this happens. I also did not create a function that would set the auditing variables, as I figured there would be little point to creating a function that would basically just be wrapping a SET call. It's all clearly much shorter and more sane than the temporary table solution, not to mention it seems it's likely to be a lot faster.
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John B. Barranco, the former education official under criminal investigation for allegedly siphoning more than $10 million from a Merrimack Valley agency for special needs children, will begin collecting his $10,000 monthly teachers pension again, at least temporarily, after a decision reached last week by a Middlesex Superior Court judge.
The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System had cut off Barranco's pension checks in October 2011, concluding that he had already collected more than $750,000 in pension funds he was not entitled to receive. At the time, the board said it would withhold Barranco's pension for 6½ years to recoup the money.
WHY do state employees who steal very large sums of money not get prosecuted?
John B. Barranco ought to be in jail because he STOLE a great deal of money. Michael McLaughlin of the Chelsea Housing Authority ought to be in jail. Former Massachusetts Probation Commissioner John O'Brien ought to be in jail, Thomas M. Finneran, the former House speaker who pleaded guilty to obstructing justice in 2007 ought to have gone to jail . . . the list goes on and on.
Situations like this one make me wish that there was a justice system in place that could restore some dignity to those of us who crave it.
I'm sure there's a quote by Jefferson that would be perfect here but I'm striking out in finding the right one.
It is against this backdrop that the governor aks the taxpayers for more. If this personworked for a bank, the politicians would be stampeding over each other to get to the microphones and cameras. Yet all we hear is...nothing. The financially rapacious behavior these people freely exhibit undermines government's credibility.
Whatever the law provides for the law allows. Doesn't mean they are good laws or fair laws or protect the overall interest of the public at large and yes there is still due process in our great republic, especially when you afford it.
Due process is only afforded to people with money or to the very poor who get free attorneys and that doesn't do too much for them either. Its an old boys club and you can't figure who knows who. Try having a ticket- the kind you figure for a slam dunk and that most people would deem ridiculous - heard at Roxbury Court. They make up their mind by the cut of your jib and the name of the idiot cop who gave you the ticket since he's not required to be there. Meanwhile, you pay a non-refundable $25. for the PRIVILEGE of a hearing. Jaysus, help me. This state stinks to the high heavens.
So, how did this guy escape the scrutiny of the government watchdogs that roam these pages? Come on, who makes $500,000 a year and then lines up for a $10,000 per month pension?
Yet if you are 80 years old, get a $20, 000 a year, not a month, pension your widow's social security pension is reduced because you collect that princely sum. This is madness.
Another pathetic decision by the court, which only feeds into the lawyer/judge revolving door relationship.
A judge with common sense would have ordered the money held in an escrow account until the verdict.
However, reasonable protection of those funds will not occur because the lawyer/judge fraternity will insure that the money goes into the "lawyer/judge fraternity."
Based on this decision, if the verdict comes in "guilty," the money will be gone - divided up by the "boys."
Based on my direct knowledge, many court decisions mask a massive con game, which should be stopped.
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Barranco is 70 years old and has already "earned" over $700,000 in pension payments. Guess what folks? The taxpayers of Massachusetts are funding thousands of such pensions which make public workers MULTI-MILLIONAIRES in retirement. Let that sink in a bit......to generate $100,000 a year income over the course of a likely 20 year retirement a PRIVATE SECTOR individual would have to compile investments exceeding $1,000,000 and average a 7% return. If they can't get 7%? They'd better have a lot more than a million dollars saved. Barranco, at only 70, is already almost past his first million. Does anyone want to bet that he and/or his surviving spouse will live another 10 or 15 years to 80 or 85? That means (at least) another million in investment assets need to be invested TODAY in order to cover the costs of such pensions......oh, and those investments better perform nearly twice as well as most investments have over the last 5 years. Do taxpayers know state workers are functional millionaires at retirement? That's now the compensation standard for public employement? You, literally, get rich working for the state for 25 years and become one of the "One Percent" that, recently, was supposed to be the most dispised class of people in America? Where's the liberal "outrage" over this GREED?
Most public pensions are between $10,000 to $30,000. The money goes to the big shots who get huge pay because they're connected. The rest get dregs. Believe me the pay doesn't compare to the private sector and raises come, if you're lucky, every 5 or 6 years and are pitiful anyway. I am in a position to KNOW. Also, 2/3 of your state pension is taken away by SS if you are a widow. So if you get $1,000 a month state pension (average), $666. of it is removed from your Social Security pension. Wish I knew that, I wouldn't have worked for the government at all. How do they expect people to manage on this? Oh I get it...only the big shots deserve to live.


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As we go through life, we're constantly categorizing (whether consciously or subconsciously) everything that crosses our path. He is this. She is that. These are different. That's the same. Yet, where does this lead us? No day is ever the same. And it's this sense of variety that most of us thrive on and live for. So, why is that when it comes to analyzing our eating habits, we feel the need to categorize them as either "good" or "bad"? Let's dig into this a bit further.
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I think I give people the wrong idea.
I always talk about how hard it was to put on a seat belt and wipe my butt when I was obese.
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