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This fall American police were confronted with something they hadn't seen in 40 years: prolonged, simultaneous political protests across the country. In most cities, police showed restraint. But there have been exceptions — sometimes involving copious amounts of pepper spray. Those flashpoints have become a cause for concern.
Chuck Wexler runs the Police Executive Research Forum — a private think tank. It puts out reports, holds conferences, and a couple of months ago, it held two conference calls for police departments to compare notes on the "Occupy" protests. Because of those calls, Wexler soon found himself being accused of being the mastermind of a nationwide crackdown.
"I don't know where that comes from," Wexler says.
Blogs and indie news sites speculated that Wexler was delivering marching orders to local police chiefs. The very notion makes Wexler sigh. "Look — you can't tell Mayor Menino in Boston what to do or Mayor Bloomberg — policing is a very decentralized thing."
No National Crackdown
Wexler points out that each city had a different dynamic with the local Occupy protests, and he says it's absurd to try to find evidence of a national crackdown. If anything, he says, there was a national trend toward police restraint.
"I think it's a sign of the times that the police are much more patient and willing to wait another day and maintain good communications with the leaders," Wexler says.
Look — you can't tell Mayor Menino in Boston what to do or Mayor Bloomberg — policing is a very decentralized thing.
Communication, he says, was the key to peaceful interactions between police and Occupy in places like Boston and Los Angeles. LAPD public information officer Andrew Smith describes a "working relationship" with the people camped outside City Hall.
"I would walk through there on a daily basis, sometimes two or three times, get to know people, and then they'd let us know, 'Hey, we're planning a protest, and planning on having people be arrested,' and we'd facilitate that," Smith says.
Police departments also learned to monitor the Internet. At a recent Occupy march to the port of Seattle, the crowd was organized by a protester with a bullhorn as it grew.
The bullhorn guy established color-coded zones — a green zone for protesters who wanted to stay safe, a yellow zone for those wanting to live a little more on the edge and a red zone with a higher risk of arrest.
As the protesters organized themselves, they were also live-streaming on the Internet with iPads — and the audience included the Seattle Police.
Lieutenant Eric Barden runs the department's criminal intelligence section, downtown.
"And that's information we pass on to the operational folks. Because the people that are down in the street, the incident commanders and the field commanders that are responsible for deployment for personnel at the event — they aren't everywhere at once," Barden says.
Monitoring Chatter
Police departments across the country say Occupy's livestreams, Twitter feeds and other open Internet chatter have been a big help in judging ahead of time the size of a demonstration, and whether it might become confrontational. Daniel Ojalvo, a volunteer with Occupy in Seattle, says this sort of police monitoring doesn't bother him.
"I think that's a good thing! We're non-violent; we don't have anything to hide," Ojalvo says.
But Ojalvo rejects the notion that police departments have tried to communicate with Occupy. And, as far as he's concerned, the police have actually shown very little restraint.
"We've been noticing a lot of violence against protesters engaged in non-violent civil disobedience and even protesters who are just exercising their First Amendment rights," Ojalvo says.
In Seattle, the poster-child for police violence is Dorli Rainey — a diminutive 84-year-old who was marching with Occupy in November when police broke out the pepper spray.
"The pepper spray started coming indiscriminately — it was a big flow, like a fountain. And I got it full-face," Rainey says.
News photos captured cops applying geysers of pepper spray — and Rainey's stricken face, dripping with the foaming liquid. "The pain is excruciating," she says.
Seattle, New York, University of California Davis — the pepper-spray incidents are now notorious. But are they the exception, or the rule?
Lorie Fridell, an associate professor of criminology at the University of South Florida, studies the use of force by police.
"We actually found that four in ten agencies around the country authorized the use of pepper spray or other kinds of chemical weapons against passive resistors," she says. By "passive," she means people who go limp, but don't fight or evade officers in any way.
"Now what's important to point out is that means six in ten agencies have decided that using that type of force is inappropriate. I'll point out that only one in five agencies would allow for Taser use in a passive-resistance situation," Fridell says.
So there's no national standard — each department has its own rules. But what concerns Fridell is that the rules themselves are coming under attack.
In the last few years, she says, there's been a movement away from something called "use of force continuums" — basically, formulas that instruct cops to start with a minimal amount of force, and then work their way up the ladder.
She says continuums have reduced police violence in recent decades, but now many police unions and trainers call the rules too restrictive. So in many cases, not only is there no national policy on things like the use of pepper spray, but in many departments, that policy is often left to the judgment of individual officers.
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At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At work executives text during board meetings. We text (and shop and go on Facebook) during classes and when we're on dates. My students tell me about an important new skill: it involves maintaining eye contact with someone while you text someone else; it's hard, but it can be done....Toward the end, she takes a completely different tack. It's not that we don't do live conversation, it's that we don't know how to be alone:
[I]n our rush to connect, we flee from solitude, our ability to be separate and gather ourselves. Lacking the capacity for solitude, we turn to other people but don't experience them as they are. It is as though we use them, need them as spare parts to support our increasingly fragile selves.If you don't need people to be really here to be with them, then you don't ever have to be alone. Almost everyone now has — without particularly trying — become the kind of person who would say things like I'm never alone when I have a book, and that used to be an oddball, a possibly admirable oddball, or an genuinely admirable intellectual. But now that it's everybody, it's a problem. Everyone's reading and writing all the time.
We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. If we are unable to be alone, we are far more likely to be lonely.

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each morning with $86,400,
carries over no balance from day to day,
allows you to keep no cash balance,
and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you
had failed to use during the day.
What would you do?
Draw out every cent, of course!
Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost,
whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.
It carries over no balance.
It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the records of the day.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back.
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You must live in the present on today's deposits.
Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health,
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The clock is running. Make the most of today..
To realize the value of ONE YEAR
Ask a student who has failed his exam.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE DAY
Ask a daily wage laborer who has ten kids to feed.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet or . . .
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE
Ask a person who has missed the train.
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Ask a person who has survived an accident.
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Ask the person who has won a silver medal in Olympic.
Treasure every moment that you have!
And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special..
special enough to have your time...
and remember time waits for no one ...
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A survey into the representation of sculpture and how photography has played a vital role in capturing the image.
The year 1839 marked a progressive shift in the very definition of what an image was or could be conceived to be. Almost simultaneously two very different men, one working in France and the other active in England, invented two photographic processes that have forever altered our idea of how an object, a scene, or a person can be visually represented. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot, through their experiments with chemicals and light, respectively created the daguerreotype and the negative/positive process. Neither could have imagined the influence that their inventions would have on future generations of artists, let alone on the world as a whole. As a subject sculpture was an ideal starting point for early photographers – its very inertness allowing for prolonged exposure times and denigrating the very transient nature of the human subject.
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, opening this August at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, examines the way that the photograph has been used to document sculpture in all its forms, from Auguste Rodin's The Kiss to one of Barbara Kruger's layered photographs, such as Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face). The exhibition, which brings together over 100 works, illustrates the way our ideas of what a sculpture is, have been altered by the photograph. Sculpture has gone through an art historical revival via the photographic process and, simultaneously, the paradigms of what constitutes a sculpture have shifted, allowing for the performing body, the architectural structures of cities, and even the detritus left on the floor, to be included within these rapidly disappearing boundaries.
The Original Copy is thematically arranged around ten central concepts, of which the inanimate, immobile sculpture as photographed is but one aspect. Roxana Marcoci, curator of the exhibition, has brought together a diverse range of artists – some who we would identify solely as photographers or sculptors, and others who bridge the gap between the two artistic mediums, evading the boundaries of categorisation. Cyprien Gaillard, Horst P. Horst, and Bruce Nauman, are just a few of the artists selected to illustrate this. Starting from a historical viewpoint, with photographers who chose as their subject actual classical sculptures, and progressively moving onto nature, society, the body, and the gaze, and how they intersect with the camera, The Original Copy showcases the quest for a new idea of the authentic copy.
The exhibition begins with the preservation of the subject through its photographic copy. This is an enviable element of photography and one that appealed to early photographers, such as Charles Negré (1820-1880) and Henri le Secq (1818-1882). Negré and le Secq photographed France as it existed and was identified through its many cathedrals, monuments, sculptures, and society. Perhaps most famously, they documented the sculptural elements of Chartres Cathedral – the door jambs, the tympanum, the buttresses – examining the cathedral not just as an architectural edifice, but as a work of art. Though working almost 100 years later, the viewer can see that same quality in the work of contemporary Swiss duo, Fischli/Weiss, whose sculptural works are photographed with a solemnity reminiscent of Negre and le Secq. Utilising light, angles, and the crop, these artists force the viewer to look at objects, whether it be a sculpture of a saint, or of two chairs precariously balanced upon one another, from an entirely different approach.
For the sculptor, Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the photograph was not just a method of preserving his work, but a necessity of survival. Brancusi moved to Paris from Bucharest in 1904 and, as a relatively unknown artist without an art dealer, photographs became the easiest way of getting his work known. From an early period he refused to allow anyone else to photograph his work and, on his death, left behind over 560 negatives and 1,000 photographs. His interest lay not just in the photographic image, but in its ability to capture the different juxtapositions achieved through the careful, but often sporadic, sculptural arrangements he achieved in his studio. Staged studio works such as View of the Studio: Maiastra, Princess X, an Endless Column, and Sleeping Muse II (before 1917), demonstrate his talent as an object-based sculptor as well as a performative artist. His sculptures invade the studio space, creating an entirely new body of work.
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), working almost concurrently with Brancusi, abandoned the art historical view of what constituted "art" and, like Brancusi, began to produce a new body of work – that of "Readymades". Duchamp took ordinary, mundane objects – chosen for their form and availability rather than their rarity – and through their recontextualisation within the gallery negated that quality of mass production. A white ceramic urinal fixed to a wall signed "R. Mutt" became a sculpture of a fountain, the context of placement and exhibition, determining its value as an art object. Duchamp stated, with reference to his pseudonym "R. Mutt": "He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object." This is one of the main underlying themes of the exhibition; all the artists selected have, through various processes and engagements, created a new thought for an object. The traditional idea of what constitutes a "sculpture" is void, with artists such as Duchamp and Robert Smithson literally moving the outside world into the art historical rhetoric of language.
This shift, from the classical sculpture to non-conventional forms, truly came into being during the early 20th century with artists such as Bas Jan Ader, Man Ray, and Henri-Cartier Bresson. The interplay between the performing subject and the camera is inherent to the work of artists like Ader (who died a premature, tragic death, lost at sea). He utilised his body as the primary subject of much of his work, either performing actions unto himself or onto objects. On the Road to a New Plasticism, Westkapelle, Holland (1971), a series of 4 c-type prints, shows Ader lying on a country lane in four different, but carefully arranged, compositions – his body is arranged in the same position in each image, but they vary by the addition of a blue blanket, then a yellow jerry can, and finally by an emergency red triangle in a red cover. Alluding to the neo-plasticism movement, specifically the works of Piet Mondrian, the photographs capture transitory moments made static. Ader creates a dialogue between himself and the viewer, in much the same way that David Goldblatt and Lee Friedlander do with their photographs of historically important monuments. Goldblatt, Friedlander, and Ader require the viewer to actively engage in a conversation utilising the lingua franca of art history. Ader chooses Mondrian as his inspiration and point of departure for the work, thus requiring his audience to have the basic vocabulary necessary to decode the image. Mondrian, who stated in a 1921 essay that: "Sculpture and architecture, until the present, destroy space as space by dividing it. The new sculpture and architecture must destroy the work of art as an object or thing," proves an interesting artist for Ader to choose as he supported the blurring of, if not the outright destruction of, the delimitating boundaries of art. Is Ader perhaps alluding to this by disproving the preconceived historical notion that the live body cannot be a sculpture, and that a photograph cannot be a valid representation of that sculpture?
Unlike Friedlander and Goldblatt, Ader, along with Wurm, is reliant on the photograph as evidentiary proof that the act, the performance, occurred. Wurm's One Minute Sculptures (1997-1998) capture passing movements, gestures often so fleeting that the viewer calls into question the temporal actuality of the movement. These are specific acts done solely for the camera – they are not the product of a calculated decision to photograph a particular subject, as were the works of Eugene Atget, Negré, and le Secq. The art critic Craig Owens succinctly states that: "Photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image," and goes on to argue that Atget, along with Walker Evans, makes that desire the subject of their images. It is this desire to both document and preserve that makes photography such a vital art form with regards sculpture, especially during the late 19th and early 20th century when so many cities were rapidly growing and changing during the post-war building boom. Concurrent with change is the fact that something of a city, especially in terms of its architecture, is inevitably lost or destroyed. Robert Frank's St. Francis, Gas Station, and City Hall, Los Angeles (1956) exemplifies this concern, juxtaposing an antique sculpture set amidst the reality of industrialisation and expansion.
The reconstruction and development of cities meant that the recognisable geographical attributes of the metropolis ceased to exist. Sibylle Bergemann's 1986 image, The Monument, East Berlin, visually articulates the rapid change that could and was occurring within the late 20th century as a result of shifting politics and ideologies. Monuments were literally being moved away from the public arena or, in some cases, left to deteriorate. Lee Friedlander was especially prolific, photographing monuments and memorials throughout the United States and demonstrating the often fleeting, yet majestic importance we place upon political and cultural icons. Friedlander preserved in her nation's memory those icons for perpetuity.
The importance of Atget as a leader in this preservation of a disappearing reality is solidified by Marcoci lending an entire room to his work, specifically concentrating on his series at Saint-Cloud, Paris and at Versailles. Though at the time he was competing against major, established French photographic firms such as Neurdien, he established himself as a prolific, talented photographer, choosing as his subjects the slightly more mundane and often overlooked aspects of Parisian and French society. Atget's photographs demonstrate the interest of artists in light and its variable effect on the subject being photographed. There is an almost Turner-esque aspect to his work in his ability to capture the atmospheric, mysterious quality of light, whether represented via an image of a door knocker (Door knocker, 120 rue de Faubourg Saint Honoré, 1921) or of a classical statue at Saint-Cloud. At the same time that he is creating works of art, he is also making permanent the objects and edifices of everyday life by capturing them: these images have, in some cases, become the original rather than the copy, as the original no longer exists in the form it may have done during his lifetime. Martha Buskirk writing in The Contingent Object in Contemporary Art said: "The ability of the photograph to facilitate comparisons among scattered works has also played a crucial role in assessing the authenticity of the unique originals that remain bound in time and place. Early art historians were avid collectors of photographs, which could convey information about texture and materiality that far surpassed the descriptive value of the reproductive prints they supplanted." The photograph could, and does, surpass the print in capturing the reality of the subject it depicts, but more than that, as Buskirk would argue, it enables illustrated art history to be a cohesive whole rather than existing fragmented units.
Walter Benjamin famously theorised in 1935: "For the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an even greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility." The Original Copy takes this statement and expands upon it, illustrating how photography negates the idea that a sculpture can only be a sculpture as it is an object taking up space. The reproduction of sculpture, in all its forms, through the photographic image, enables us, as an audience, to view a new work of art – one that could not exist without the other.
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today opened 1 August – 1 November 2010. www.moma.org.
Niamh Coghlan


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Allowing entrepreneurs' relief on gains made before dilution
It was announced that a consultation would be launched in relation to a possible change to the qualifying conditions for entrepreneurs' relief.
In some cases, an individual may lose eligibility for entrepreneurs' relief when their company's fundraising efforts and strategy for growth result in their shareholding becoming diluted below 5%. This may act as a barrier to growth for some firms.
The proposals include a new process by which individuals may remain entitled to entrepreneurs' relief on gains on shares in, or securities of, a company that relate to the time before the individual's shareholding became diluted. The government proposes this may be achieved through:
- allowing individuals to elect to be treated as having disposed of and reacquired their shares at the then market value
- allowing individuals to defer the taxation of this gain until an actual disposal of the share.
Taxation of self-funded work-related training
One focus of the government is to create a more skilled workforce, which has led to a consultation on the extension of tax relief for self-funded training by employees and the self-employed to support improving their skills and retraining.
At present, tax relief for employees or the self-employed who pay for their training can be highly restricted.
For example, a self-employed individual can normally deduct the costs of training incurred wholly and exclusively for their business where it maintains or updates existing skills, but not generally when it creates new skills.
This consultation is at an early stage and does not specify how to extend the existing scope of tax relief for self-funded work-related training.
Extension of security deposit legislation
At Autumn Budget 2017, the government announced it would extend existing security deposit legislation to include corporation tax and the construction industry scheme (CIS) deductions from April 2019. This consultation seeks to determine the most effective means of introducing this change.
HMRC considers most businesses meet their tax obligations and pay the right amount of tax at the right time, but a small minority choose not to pay the tax they owe or seek to unfairly reduce their tax bill. HMRC already has the power to require high-risk businesses to provide an upfront security deposit, where it believes there is a serious risk of non-payment of tax.
This approach may be taken by HMRC where a significant amount of revenue, relative to the size of the business, is at risk. For the rules to apply, there must have been a failure to comply with return filing and payments of tax, or alternatively may apply where the personnel actively involved in the current business failed to pay the taxes due in another business.
Businesses that experience genuine difficulties are not the target of any of these measures. Instead, these measures target businesses that will not, rather than cannot, pay the tax that is due.
HMRC remains committed to helping businesses which want to pay on time.
For those who are struggling, HMRC may provide a range of flexibilities, including time to pay arrangements.
Businesses with a poor compliance or payment record in relation to corporation tax or CIS may be required to make security deposits, putting additional pressure on cashflow.
Cash and digital payments
The review aims to find out more about removing barriers to digital payments, to better understand more about the costs and disincentives in making digital payments and what role the government can play in addressing these issues.
The government is using the consultation to determine how it can ensure cash remains accessible, especially for those groups who use cash for legitimate purposes.
Of course, the government is also seeking to determine what more can be done to clamp down on the minority who use cash to evade tax or launder money.
As part of this process, the government wishes to review large cash transactions and determine why these are used, plus assess the impact on businesses of adopting the approach taken by other countries to limit these transactions. Such impacts include the consequences for tax compliance.
Tackling the plastic problem
This consultation seeks to explore how changes to the tax system or charges could be used to reduce the amount of single-use plastics wasted by reducing unnecessary production, increasing reuse, and improving recycling. There will also be a focus on driving innovation in this area to achieve similar outcomes.
The intention is to review the whole supply chain, from production and retail, through to consumption and disposal.
Therefore, many stakeholders may have a particular interest in this consultation, as opposed to only one part of the supply chain.
Online platforms' role in ensuring tax compliance by their users
Online platforms and marketplaces have created avenues for individuals to earn money, but they may never have earned money without an employer to act as an intermediary between them and HMRC before.
The consequences of this are that these individuals may find it difficult to understand and meet their tax obligations.
The term online platform can be quite broad but in essence will cover platforms that:
- facilitate the sharing economy, for example, by allowing people to earn money from resources they are not constantly using, such as cars or parking spaces
- assist the gig economy, for example, by allowing people to use their time and resources to generate income; or more simply
- connect buyers with individuals or businesses offering services or goods for sale.
The consultation aims to develop a better system to help these individuals comply with their tax obligations and limit opportunities for the minority who seek to avoid paying tax.
Enterprise investment scheme knowledge-intensive fund consultation
The purpose of this consultation is to aid knowledge-intensive firms which have high growth potential but are research and development and capital intensive and, therefore, they may have the most difficulty obtaining the capital they need to scale up.
It attempts to review the possibility of a new enterprise investment scheme fund structure aimed at improving the supply of capital to such companies.
There is a need to build the government's understanding of the capital gap that knowledge-intensive companies face, and the consultation seeks views on the best way of closing that gap.
Business rates
The government announced plans at Autumn Budget 2017 to reform the business rates revaluation cycle by increasing the frequency of valuations to every three years following the next revaluation.
The chancellor announced at Spring Statement 2018 that the next revaluation of business rates would be brought forward by one year to 2021, four years after the last revaluation. The aim is that ratepayers can supposedly benefit from three-year revaluations at the earliest point. It will be based on market rental values on 1 April 2019.
Corporate tax and the digital economy
The consultation process regarding corporate tax and the digital economy had already closed by Spring Statement 2018.
However, an updated position paper was published by the government which highlighted several key points and views from the review.
The participation and engagement of users is an important aspect of value creation for certain digital business models, and is likely to be reflected through several channels, such as the provision of content or as a contribution to certain intangibles such as brand.
The preferred and most sustainable solution to this challenge is reform of the international corporate tax framework to reflect the value of user participation.
It is important the members of the OECD's Inclusive Framework make progress in developing multilateral solutions. To assist this process, the paper sets out some of the government's initial considerations on what this could include.
As set out at Autumn Budget 2017, in the absence of such reform, there is a need to consider interim measures such as revenue-based taxes.
The paper explores some of the important considerations regarding the scope and design of an interim measure, and the steps that could be taken to ensure it is well targeted and protects startups and growth companies.
The government still thinks there are benefits to implementing an interim measure on a multilateral basis and it intends to work closely with the EU and international partners on this issue.
VAT registration threshold
The government is concerned that the current design of the VAT registration threshold may be dis-incentivising small businesses from growing their business and improving their productivity.
The chancellor has previously reported that the UK had the highest threshold in the OECD and the government had concerns about the cliff-edge nature of the threshold.
In general terms, if the taxable turnover of a business in a 12-month period exceeds the threshold (currently £85,000 until March 2020) the business must register and account for VAT.
There is growing evidence that the cliff-edge nature of the VAT threshold acts as a disincentive for small business owners who want to expand. This call for evidence and review is split into three parts:
- how the threshold might currently affect business growth
- the burdens created by the VAT regime at the point of registration, and why businesses might manage their turnover to avoid registering
- the possible policy solutions, based on international and domestic examples.
VAT collection
The government seeks to ensure a level playing field, by removing any unfair advantage overseas businesses may have over UK businesses.
HMRC estimates growth in online shopping has resulted in significant losses of VAT. It is estimated that between £1 billion and £1.5 billion was lost in 2015/16.
The government introduced packages of measures at both Budget 2016 and Autumn Budget 2017 to tackle the issue of overseas businesses selling goods to UK consumers without paying the correct UK VAT.
In March 2017, HMRC published a call for evidence, seeking views on the feasibility of a 'split payment' collection method for VAT as a further step in preventing this type of non-compliance.
A new consultation has been launched on VAT split payment, which seeks to determine steps that could be undertaken to allow VAT to be extracted from overseas sellers.
The thrust of the measure will be to harness new technology in the payments industry to collect VAT on online sales in real time and transfer it directly to HMRC.
There appears to be little immediate impact for businesses which conduct their trade entirely within the UK, but businesses trading internationally could face additional VAT compliance issues.
VAT, air passenger duty and tourism in Northern Ireland
Tourism makes a valuable contribution to the economy in both Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. Concerns have been raised about the impact of VAT and air passenger duty (APD) on tourism, particularly in Northern Ireland.
The geographical situation of Northern Ireland, with a shared land border, and lower rates of VAT in the Republic of Ireland on certain tourism related items and no air travel tax (the Republic of Ireland's equivalent of APD) are particular concerns.
The government wants further evidence to understand the concerns about the sector, that demonstrates the significance of any impacts of VAT or APD on tourism, or that helps show how VAT or APD might be used to support the growing success of tourism in Northern Ireland.


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The mobile orbiter is a big project. I committed to pay an Indian developer with Symbian experience to port the mobile orbiter to Symbian series 3 and after 6 months he petered out. It was too much for him.
The Pluto guys can give a lot of help in what is required and how it works.
The biggest problem is that the Orbiter is based on moving graphics across to the device. OK across a network. Lousy with bluetooth and not good over gprs.
However I'm ready to support such an effort. I bought on Nokia e50 I'll never see again for this so I'm serious about my support.
i provided a Makefile for that. It is in the trunk. Just make sure you provide JWTK.It spits out the .jad and the .jar.best regards,Hari
colin, yes, yes, yes, and NO. lolyou have an understanding of what needs to be done..to get the trunk, you need subversion, apt-get install subversion will do that for you...BUT,at the rate Hari's going, it'll be MUCH easier for you to simply wait...Daniel mentioned that he has the server farms up and running pretty much.. so soon, you'll be able to simply download the file from your phone.Actually, the file needed to download to your phone is called a MIDlet.. which is a .jad file with a wrapper.you need to 'package' the .jad (or is it .jar, can't remember) into a .mid.for more info, check out http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3724381HTH, Dan
hehe, it sends me a picture:Code: [Select]ReceiveLong: got byte: 102ReceiveLong: got byte: 0ReceiveLong: got byte: 0ReceiveLong: got byte: 0ReceiveLong: long result: 102Get BD_CP_SHOW_IMAGE
ReceiveLong: got byte: 102ReceiveLong: got byte: 0ReceiveLong: got byte: 0ReceiveLong: got byte: 0ReceiveLong: long result: 102Get BD_CP_SHOW_IMAGE
... and your style is not very recognizable ...
then all you have to do is comment the code clearly and everything's OK.
THIS MESSAGE IS NOT FROM AN ADMINISTRATIVE STANDPOINT.Instead of stating the obvious, I dug in and helped hari with the api..I'm no java programmer, but I can read it.. and I have had some experience with J2ME. Hari, don't worry about 'commenting' your code for now, YOU know what it does, hell, I looked at it for 1/2 hour, and I know what it does..it's NOT rocket science here, it's simple class structures, I wish people would stop b*tching about 'how' it's SUPPOSED to be done, 'preferably in this or that format', 'not very recognizeable' and get their HANDS DIRTY.Code doesn't just MAGICALLY apear, SOMEONE has to make an attempt at it.IF the code needs to be changed, THEN it will be changed. You can't CHANGE something that does not exist!If this sounds like I'm going off a bit, well, yes, I am.I 'm pissed about the lack of RESPECT from certain users here. Intended, or otherwise.If your not going to submit you OWN code for scrutiny, I think you have NO BASIS to say 'how' things should be done.You want it 'more readable'? DO IT. Till then, PRAISE those of us who ARE contributing. If you want praise, CONTRIBUTE.I'm not talking about spending $30.00 on a license, ANYONE can do that. I haven't seen you (yes you) in the IRC channel AT ALL.There. It's said.Hari, keep a stiff upper lip, I know it's hard sometimes.
Quote from: Matthew on February 18, 2008, 03:22:04 am... and your style is not very recognizable ... Again, give hard facts like "it would be better if you do that this way..". Just telling me it's wrong but not what's wrong does not help.What do you think is wrong with the style? The bracing or indenting?
I didn't mock you. I briefly mentioned that your code did have some problems, confirming what you'd mentioned about its limited quality, then I asked the real question needed to help, then saw you say actually had better code (because it worked, which wasn't clear from what you first said), and congratulated you. Then I offered some advice which, though you say it's "obvious", you didn't apply in that code. So it wasn't obvious to me.
FWIW, I'm far from the only one remarking that the attitude towards people in this community doing anything other than writing code has become hostile.


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Kerry: 'I Have Big Heels To Fill' At State Department
New Secretary of State John Kerry reported for duty Monday, acknowledging that as Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor he has "big heels to fill" and promising to protect U.S. foreign service workers from terrorist attacks overseas.
On his first day at the office in his new job, the former Massachusetts U.S. senator and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate was greeted with loud cheers by employees of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
As the first man in the post in eight years, Kerry referred to his two most recent predecessors, Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, by asking in jest: "Can a man actually run the State Department?"
"I don't know," he answered. "As the saying goes, I have big heels to fill."
Kerry told his new agency's employees that he and President Obama needed their help to make America safer and the world more prosperous and peaceful.
And after noting the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, Kerry said the protection of American diplomats would be a top priority.
"I guarantee you that beginning this morning when I report for duty upstairs, everything I do will be focused on the security and safety of our people," he said.
Kerry, 69, is the son of a diplomat and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 28 years — chairman since 2009. He spoke of his childhood time in Germany and learning the virtues of freedom.
As a 12-year-old in postwar Berlin of the 1950s, Kerry recounted how he could have caused a diplomatic incident by riding his bicycle around the destroyed and divided German capital, past the burnt out Reichstag and the Brandenburg gate and — using his first diplomatic passport — into the Soviet-controlled eastern part of the city.
"If the tabloids today knew I had done that, I can see the headlines that say, 'Kerry's Early Communist Connections!' " he joked, before describing more seriously how he explained to his irritated parents why he felt the need to cross the Iron Curtain.
"There were very few people. They were dressed in dark clothing. They kind of held their heads down. I noticed all this," Kerry said. "There was no joy in those streets. And when I came back, I felt this remarkable sense of relief and a great lesson about the virtue of freedom and the virtue of the principles and ideals that we live by and that drive us."
Kerry is likely to spend much of the week reaching out to foreign leaders. Over the weekend, he spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as well as the foreign ministers of Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Canada and Mexico.
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A new entry from Professor James Franco on The Huffington Post. This time, he writes about his teaching method. Yes. His teaching method. Of course, because his teaching method is the best, like everything else the Artist Franco does, his students are excelling, and he takes the opportunity to brag about how they're going to a film festival, not out of pride in his pupils, but in service of himself, to congratulate himself.
Blah blah blah...
Franco educating us. And, whenever he can, reminding us of his talent. Like during the part about On The Road, and how he and Josh Hartnett auditioned for it a few years ago:
"I saw On the Road at the Toronto Film Festival. I remember auditioning for that movie three or four years ago opposite Josh Hartnett -- needless to say neither of us got the roles based on young Kerouac and Cassady. I played young Ginsberg in Howl soon after that. It has taken a long time for On the Road to come out and over the course of those 50 years the material has changed, because we have changed."
This sentence "I played young Ginsberg in Howl soon after that" -- is it necessary to the paragraph and the point? Please. No. That sentence is ALL ego. And only a fangirl editor would have left it in.
Franco goes on to compliment On The Road director Walter "Salas". The correct spelling is "Salles". But Professor Franco, as always, is so confident in his belief that 1.he knows everything and that 2.he's never wrong that, pfffft, why would he bother with Google?
And finally, per Professor Franco:
"I also hear that I've been dating Selena Gomez, Kristen Stewart and Ashley Benson. Hot damn, am I a lucky guy. I wish I had actually gotten closer than the 13th row of the theater in Toronto where Kristen gave her On the Road Q and A, but I didn't; not only did I not talk to her, I didn't even go to the SoHo house where I supposedly asked her out on a date. As for Gomez and Benson, those are Bieber's girls and I wouldn't dare tangle with the Biebs. I heard he wants to kick my ass. Yikes!"
Everyone is taking this to mean that that's a denial of dating Ashley Benson. Is it really? Like word for word interpretation, can you pull out a denial there? Click here if you want to read his entire essay.


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - United States officials examined flight information recorders and began investigating the crash of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that burst into flames upon landing in San Francisco, killing two young passengers and injuring more than 180 people, officials said on Sunday.
There was no immediate indication of the cause of Saturday's accident, but Asiana said mechanical failure did not appear to be a factor. The airline declined to blame either the pilot or the San Francisco control tower.
Mr Eric Weiss, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said the plane's "black boxes" - the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder - had been recovered and were being sent to Washington for analysis. The Federal Aviation Administration also was investigating.
NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman said on Sunday there was no indication of a criminal act, but it was too early to determine what went wrong.
"Everything is still on the table," she said on NBC's Meet the Press show. Witnesses said the tail of the plane, which was coming in from Seoul, appeared to hit the approach area of the runway that juts into San Francisco Bay. One witness said the plane appeared to be coming in too low and too fast.
The tail came off and the aircraft appeared to bounce violently, scattering a trail of debris before coming to rest on the tarmac.
Pictures taken by survivors showed passengers hurrying away from the wrecked plane. Thick smoke billowed from the fuselage and TV footage later showed the aircraft gutted and blackened by fire. Much of its roof was gone.
The dead were both teenage female Chinese nationals who had been seated at the rear of the aircraft, according to government officials in Seoul and Asiana.
The crash was the first fatal accident involving the Boeing 777, a popular long-range jet that has been in service since 1995. It was the first fatal commercial airline accident in the US since a regional plane operated by Colgan Air crashed in New York in 2009.
"For now, we acknowledge that there were no problems caused by the 777-200 plane or (its) engines," MR Yoon Young Doo, the president and chief executive of Asiana, told reporters on Sunday at the company headquarters on the outskirts of Seoul.
Asiana said the flight, which had originated in Shanghai, had carried 291 passengers and 16 crew members. The passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 61 US citizens and one Japanese citizen, but the airline did not give the nationality of the others.
Mr Dale Carnes, assistant deputy chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, said 49 people were hospitalised with serious injuries. Another 132 suffered moderate and minor injuries.
Five people were in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital, according to spokesman Rachael Kagan. She said a total of 52 people were treated for burns, fractures and internal injuries. Three people were in critical condition at Stanford Hospital.
San Francisco International Airport, a major West Coast hub and gateway to Asia, was shut down for several hours after the crash as scores of safety workers scoured the airfield for debris.
Survivor Benjamin Levy told a local NBC station he believed the Asiana plane had been coming in too low.
"I know the airport pretty well, so I realized the guy was a bit too low, too fast, and somehow he was not going to hit the runway on time, so he was too low... he put some gas and tried to go up again," he said in a telephone interview.
"But it was too late, so we hit the runway pretty bad, and then we started going up in the air again, and then landed again, pretty hard."
Mr Levy said he opened an emergency door and ushered people out. "We got pretty much everyone in the back section of the plane out," he said. "When we got out there was some smoke. There was no fire then. The fire came afterwards."
Photos and TV images showed that emergency chutes had been deployed from at least two of the aircraft's exits.
Ms Ying Kong of the Bay Area city of Albany, who was waiting at the airport for her brother-in-law Fawen Yan, 47, from Richmond, California, said he telephoned her after surviving the crash to say it had been "really smoky and scary".
"He feels it difficult to breathe, but he's okay," she said. "He said a lot of people had to run."
Mr Vedpal Singh, a native of India, was on board the flight along with his wife and son when the aircraft struck the landing strip.
"Your instincts take over. You don't know what's going on," said Mr Singh, who had his arm in a sling as he walked through the airport's international terminal and told reporters he had suffered a fractured collar bone.
"I'm very, very thankful to God," he said.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said on Saturday night: "It is incredible and very lucky that we have so many survivors."
The Asiana flight left Seoul at 5.04pm Korean time and touched down in San Francisco at 11.28am Pacific Daylight Time, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flights.
Asiana, South Korea's junior carrier, has had two other fatal crashes in its 25-year history.
A senior Asiana official said the pilot was Lee Jeong Min, a veteran pilot who has spent his career with the airline. He was among four pilots on the plane who rotated on two-person shifts during the 10-hour flight, the official said.
Boeing expressed concern for those on board and said it will provide technical assistance to the NTSB investigation.
A San Francisco airport spokesman said that a component of the facility's instrument landing system that tracks an incoming airplane's glide path was not working on Saturday.
Pilots and air safety experts said the glide path technology was far from essential for a safe landing in good weather.
A British Airways 777-200ER crash landed a few yards short of a runway at London's Heathrow Airport in 2008. All on board survived. Investigators blamed the crash on fuel blockages caused by ice particles formed during the long flight from Beijing - a finding that led to changes in the design of the Rolls-Royce engines used on some 777s.
The Asiana 777-200ER that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday was powered by engines from Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies.


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So today I'm giving it a whirl.
And the windows are full of goodies one can yearn for just as much as any box of macarons.
How many watercolor boxes do you have? I've lost count but it's more than 10.
You can usually find interesting paint brushes abroad. So many art companies have globalized, it can be hard to find something different, but in the brush arena you can.
This "artists" smock is a decidedly European necessity.
Rest assured that there are many more erasures on the other side of the pond. I know you really care about that :)
How many art shops you frequent are featured in a fabulous guide to Paris. It's well worth a look inside even if you don't paint on Sundays or any other time. Plus there's tons of galleries nearby and gorgeous views of the Seine.
Here's the jewel in the window - this mini (but British) Rowney travel paintbox. The prix..ahem, is not mini.
Quite a few of you have asked me, where can I find an art class in Paris? The best place is to check out the signs posted on any art shop's door or inside. You won't be disappointed.PSPlease let me know what you think of these new Parisien facade paintings..?


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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
More Edible Irony: Sloppy Joes, Not that Sloppy
That's right, after extensive research (I checked Wikipedia), I've determined that this ground beef masterpiece was created at Sloppy Joe's Bar, which was probably named for some guy named Joe, who would get a little too loose after a few cocktails.
So, despite the name, the secret to a great Sloppy Joe is a thick, rich, almost dry consistency, which allows it to be eaten two-fisted, sans fork, as God intended.
I believe over the years the idea that the name was a description of the optimum texture helped this evolve into its usually much runnier form. As you'll see in the video, I like to start with lots of liquid and slowly simmer it down into a fine, thick, tender paste.
Spice it up, toss it onto some soft sesame seed hamburger buns, and make sure there are lots of Tater Tots within reach. Enjoy!
Ingredients for 4-6 servings:
1 1/2 pound extra lean ground beef
1/2 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 diced green bell pepper
3/4 cup ketchup
dash of Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
2 cups water
1 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
cayenne to taste
63 comments:
I'M SO GONNA MAKE THIS TONIGHT - March 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- Louise (artofcuisine.com) said...
I love retro dishes, especially sloppy joes. out of a can has so many extra junk you just don't need. thanks for the recipe-
- March 30, 2010 at 8:24 PM
I always thought sloppy joe filling was a thicker form of bolognese sauce but then again I have absolutely no frame of reference beyond what Ive seen on tv. Extra lean ground beef thats not used in a stirfry. Whodda thunk?
- March 30, 2010 at 10:04 PM
I always thought sloppy joe filling was a thicker form of bolognese sauce but then again I have absolutely no frame of reference beyond what Ive seen on tv. Extra lean ground beef thats not used in a stirfry. Whodda thunk?
- March 30, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Would you believe I was sitting in my kitchen thinking "what can I make with ground beef?". Ended up eating week old pasta...today is lost, but tomorrow...IS SLOPPY JOE DAY!!
Thanks Chef!! - March 30, 2010 at 10:40 PM
- Livia said...
I'm sitting here drooling. It's time for my midnight snack. Will somebody please bring one of these for me? ...No? Well, then I will just have to make it myself!
Thanks for the tantalizing video and recipe! - March 30, 2010 at 11:27 PM
- Kelly Toon said...
Ooooh, yes. I want that with sliced dill pickle and red onions on the side, maybe with a schmear of hot mustard. And a beer!
Chef John, I need your help. I will be attending my first Easter experience at a church, and I would love to bring the Easter bread. Whole Foods doesn't carry Anise extract, and if they don't have it, I don't know who would (do you?). Do you think using an Anise liqueur of some kind would suffice?
The weather will be gorgeous here tomorrow so we'll be grilling Salmon with chimichurri sauce! I can't wait to taste it.
Thanks for all that you do, Chef. - March 31, 2010 at 12:17 AM
- Chef John said...
surprised about whole foods since I've always just gotten it at any grocery store. Safeway, Wegmans, etc.
- March 31, 2010 at 12:25 AM
chef, can i omit the Worcestershire sauce and the mustard? never like the taste. would that effect the taste of the joes?
thanks for the recipe. - March 31, 2010 at 2:36 AM
- Chef John said...
i sure hope it effects it, otherwise ive been putting it in for nothing! You can leave it out, but it's so little you really won't know its in there.
- March 31, 2010 at 2:56 AM
- rosemary said...
I assume the tater tots were home made? May we have your recipe please?
- March 31, 2010 at 4:39 AM
- Unknown said...
Hey Chef, I fell in love with your videos! You're awesome! Btw, could you please make a video on how to make easy TENDER pan fried chicken breast? I don't have a grill at home. Thanks so much! ..... ^___^
- March 31, 2010 at 5:14 AM
- Chef John said...
do a search for Chicken Breast, we have a few pan fried recipes. Chicken marsala etc.
- March 31, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- Chef John said...
home made tater tots?? Never! Only use the frozen ones.
- March 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM
- Rita said...
we love sloppy joe's! we have some tater tots in the freezer, and some dill pickles. all we need are some buns, and we're good to go! thanks for this awesome recipe. hubby wants me to make this ASAP!
btw, don't forget a good bottle (or 2) of beer to go with that. - March 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- Jesse from Detroit said...
My tater tot question has already been answered... how lovely.
- March 31, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- averagebetty said...
I don't know why, but around my house we called them Sloppy Jones'... sure does bring back memories :) Can't wait for the cookbook, Chef!
- March 31, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- Chef John said...
thanks! I believe the real question is, a 100 years from now, what will be known as the "Average Betty?" And, will it have a stick in it?
- March 31, 2010 at 6:45 PM
- J. Jones said...
Made these last night. They were excellent. Great flavors, Chef.
- April 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- Chris K. said...
Awesome! I just made sloppy joes and tater tots last week, thinking, "When was the last time I had sloppy joes and tater tots?"
We like to serve them on toasted onion rolls. It's kind of like putting lipstick on a pig, but hey - if you like pigs, why not make 'em purdy?
You know what else is good? Jalapeno ketchup on your tots. Yes! - April 1, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Jesse from Detroit said...
Made these last night but forgot to buy green pepper at the store... Definitely was missing something. I felt like it needed a little acid, maybe citrus? Something tangy.. Awesome texture though... and wonderful sweetness.
- April 1, 2010 at 10:31 AM
- Jesse from Detroit said...
Made these last night but forgot to buy green pepper at the store... Definitely was missing something. I felt like it needed a little acid, maybe citrus? Something tangy.. Awesome texture though... and wonderful sweetness.
- April 1, 2010 at 10:31 AM
Introducing my kids and their friends here in Spain to the sloppy joe experience was so cool. They LOVED it! They couldnt believe that I used to eat this stuff in school. They dont exist here. Neither do Tater Tots. I made them myself though and they came out just about perfect.
- April 3, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- Amy Lynn said...
Hi Chef John!
I made this last night, exactly as written, except for the cayenne, and it was fabulous. You have cured me of my aversion to mustard and Worcestshire! My boyfriend said it was amazing! - April 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- Mike said...
If you must make your own tater tots (sacrilege). Search for Chef Johns Potato pancake recipe and just form them into "tots" as they were. I assume they are just nugget sized hash browns. Cheers! - April 3, 2010 at 7:23 PM
Chef John,
Can you substitute tomato sauce for the water or a combination of, or add tomato paste to the water to give the dish a more acidic/tomato flavor and balance out the sweet? Or would that mess up the evaporation process? - April 5, 2010 at 3:27 PM
- Chef John said...
You can, and many do!
- April 5, 2010 at 4:50 PM
I tried out this recipe today! It came out a little sweeter than I had expected. So I tossed in some garlic powder and crushed red peppers.... mmmmm!
- April 11, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- Unknown said...
Chef, I made this recipe tonight for the second time, and I found that smoked chipotle pepper makes for a wonderful substitute for cayenne if you don't have it. But then again, what self respecting chef has smoked chipotle in their cupboard but not cayenne? Anywho, the smokiness and spicyness of the chipotle works wonders to counter the sweetness of the ketchup and brown sugar. As always, thank you so much for all your hard work coordinating this food blog. I have watched nearly every single video on here (mainly because I'm an aspiring culinary arts graduate) and I have learned so very much from watching your videos. As soon as I get around to having some extra money, I'm definitely donating to you to pay you back for all of your hard work. Thanks again!
- April 14, 2010 at 10:13 PM
- Unknown said...
Hello Chef John,
I made this dish last week and instead of cayenne pepper I used a finely chopped jalapeno pepper, but the spicyness was undetectable. Would cayenne come through better, or should I use a habanero pepper? - April 17, 2010 at 5:41 PM
- Chef John said...
cayenne is much hotter than jalp ...why not use both? hab good, but very hot.
- April 17, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Hi Chef!
I've never had sloppy joe's until now. OMG!!! It was so freakin' good. Very flavorful. My husband loved it too. He went back for 2nd and 3rd. My 1 yr old enjoyed it too. Thank you so much!!! - November 8, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- Kari said...
Chef John,
These were the best sloppy joes I've ever made. Thank you. My mom's recipe isn't much different from yours, except for the water at the end. That made allll the difference.
Thanks again. You're the best. <3 - November 28, 2010 at 10:50 PM
- Human Orchestra said...
I strongly recommend you toast your buns a bit. So much better when they're a bit hot and crispy, but not too much!
- February 12, 2011 at 6:56 PM
I made this recipe last Christmas. I ate 2 and half (had to share)sandwiches and couldn't get enough. Had to redo it for New Year's Eve, so I did.
- February 16, 2011 at 2:11 AM
- Unknown said...
I was so skeptical when my mom found this recipe on YouTube and invited me to dinner. I've never been a sloppy Joe fan but I have been converted to a sloppy Joe lover! I had TWO sandwiches, they where so good. You are now my "go to" guy for everything. So far have made three other recipes and all have turned out just like you said. I'm going to try the pulled pork next and the no stir yeast rolls. Yum. Thank you so much for the recipes.
- March 13, 2011 at 9:03 AM
Dear CJ,
I wish you would show us how to make tater tots...we don't have them over here :(((
As for the Sloppy Joe recipe, it turned out great! Thanks so much!!! - March 21, 2011 at 5:05 PM
- mialatina said...
Chef John!! I made this last night! Another successful meal!! High five myself....I am getting way more comfortable in the kitchen!
- October 18, 2011 at 10:38 AM
I've been meaning to make this recipe for a few months now. Finally got to make it! It's so simple and amazing! I used only 1 cup of water though. Still delicious - LOVE ITTTTT!!!! Thanks John! :)
- November 5, 2011 at 8:51 PM
- ChefJohnsBiggestFan said...
is it against the law to add some extra sharp cabot white cheddar aged 3 years to the top of that steamy mound of deliciousness? (you don't have to really answer that. I know you will say "SURE") hehehehe
- January 10, 2012 at 2:34 PM
I tried the recipe, as a bit of a sloppy joe afficianado. My wife thought it was the best I've made in a long time. For me, I prefer another way to get the initial beef cook and crumble. I put it in hot simmering water. It seems to fall apart into finer little 'crumbs' better, and without getting dryed out. I guess this way doesn't really brown the meat as well, but overall I prefer it. Second, I would use 50% more ketchup, to better differentiate this from a 'loosemeat' type recipe, and use somewhat less sugar. Next time, that's what I'll do...
- March 22, 2012 at 4:44 PM
- Gretchen in NOLA said...
Just out of curiousity, do you fry your tater tots or put them in the oven? they look so nicely browned.
- April 4, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- Chef John said...
- April 4, 2012 at 9:30 PM
I will never buy sloppy joe mix in a packet or can again! Fantastic recipe! Thank you for teaching me how to actually cook!
- June 23, 2012 at 6:40 PM
- whitterbug23 said...
I just made a half batch of these and I was disappointed by the lack of sauce (I love extra saucy sloppy joes), but one bite took away any doubt I had. These are the best sloppy joes I have ever had. Thanks for another delicious recipe Chef John. I can't wait to make them again.
By the way I must object; sesame seed buns pale in comparison to a kaiser roll cut in half, buttered, sprinkled with cheddar and fried in a pan. - July 7, 2012 at 5:43 PM
- Unknown said...
I and my husband love this recipe for sloppy joes. I have been using this recipe for a few months now and it always comes out wonderful.Cooking time takes a while but good things come to those that wait. Thanks Chef John !
- September 25, 2012 at 10:25 PM
i really love this recipe and i can't wait to make it.
thanks chef john!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - October 6, 2012 at 2:13 PM
- Heidi said...
I made this today. I added red bell peppers, diced carrots and accidentally added 2 tbsp of yellow mustard. It was still really good though! thanks chef :)
- December 8, 2012 at 9:09 AM
- Angee said...
Delicious!!! Any suggestions on making it a little "saucier?" My guys said they loved these, but missed the extra sauce. Another winner from you, Chef John!! Gracias!!!
- February 26, 2013 at 10:29 PM
- Unknown said...
the only problem with this recipe is that my 7 year old son would eat the whole recipe if I let him, so there's not enough for me ;-;
- April 15, 2013 at 5:41 PM
- foxmarks said...
Made this for the first time yesterday. Will be making it again!
I left out the brown sugar (paleo-friendly version), and added a good squirt of tomato paste with the water.
As a condiment, try a little creamy horseradish. OMFG!!! Delicious! - June 30, 2013 at 12:46 PM
- Larry said...
Made this 2 days ago. They were fantastic. Had left overs today, they were also fantastic. This is joining my Chef John File. It would take too much time to list your recipes that we love but covers most of the meals we eat..
Thank you very much for posting.
As usual, with your recipes, I didn't change a thing. - August 26, 2013 at 12:19 AM
- Unknown said...
These are so by far the best sloppy joes I've ever made or tasted. I've sent this link to so many people and they've all been bowled over by how easy and good it is. Can't wait to try more of your recipes!
Thank you!
p.s. I've made them several time and one night I had some leftover gazpacho I made in my Vitamix and threw it into the mix. It tasted great. - August 16, 2014 at 7:43 AM
- Krista said...
I made this and my family loved it! While eating, my kids said they wanted Sloppy Joe's for their birthday dinner.
Thanks for the great recipe! - April 5, 2015 at 2:28 PM
- Unknown said...
I made your sloppy joes but i put them in the middle of biscuits and baked them in the oven... They are still cooking so i dont know how they will turn out, but i am feeling pretty confident they will be delicious.
- October 25, 2015 at 7:54 PM
- beemo said...
Once again I seem to find myself out of step with most of the western world; I just finshed making this recipe and I found it much too sweet. And that was AFTER halving the recommended amount of brown sugar and backing off a bit on the ketchup.
However, this is an easily corrected problem for next time, and otherwise this stuff really is delicious.
My whole family is of the same persuasion. We've travelled around the world and eaten the fine cuisine of many parts of the globe, and after all that, we all find that the typical cooking of common anglo-saxon folks (not to mention a few others) pretty much makes us sick to our stomachs. Chef John usually gets things right, but now and then he throws a bone to the common people, who are, after all, rather numerous =) - February 7, 2016 at 4:09 AM
- Unknown said...
My god..how pretentious...
- July 14, 2016 at 9:48 PM
- NessaDowner said...
Just made these tonight for the hubby.... Doubled the recipe so he could have it at work..... DAMNNNNNNN!!!! Never made sloppy's from scratch,,, will never deviate from this recipe!!! More comfort food Sir John!!!! That's right, you are a knight of the chef realm!!!
- November 29, 2016 at 11:56 PM
- savvysage said...
We made this! It is so good! Only we used 1.5 cups of regular Coca-cola in place of the water, and omitted the brown sugar. Add a little cinnamon for a Cincinnati chili 3-way over pasta with cheese or a 4 way with onions and cheese.
- January 13, 2017 at 5:28 AM
- Unknown said...
Why extra lean beef?
- February 15, 2018 at 10:51 PM
- ScienceSusan said...
Delish! Changed a few things. The only grass-fed beef available is probably 20-80. Used way more veg. Subbed tom paste for ketchup. Added a teaspoon of molasses instead of brown sugar and used Old Bay for my S&P. Today I will use the bonus fat to roast some tiny potatoes. I served the sj's on buns from the gas station. Delightful! No Tater Tots, though. Just beer.
- August 15, 2018 at 8:57 AM
- armyman said...
Can I substitute for turkey?
- November 6, 2018 at 4:18 PM
- ScienceSusan said...
Next up: BELL BEEFERS!
- September 12, 2019 at 3:40 PM


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36-Hour Chocolate Chip Cookies & Threadless Giveaway!
Cookies. Milk. Afternoon showers. Looking at the shoreline through the window. That was just the medicine needed the other day. Even if just for the enticing aroma of warm chocolate wafting through the house. I did not know the power of chocolate chip cookies until I moved to the US though. We don't really do those back home. We have eclairs, macarons, financiers. These I knew as my pick up-feel better-never let me down treats. Until I met B.
Turns out I married a chocolate chip cookie monster. It does not matter which kind comes out of the oven, a tray usually disappears in its entirety as soon as the cookies are cool enough to handle. And before I am done with the batch I can pretty much start over. His favorites are hands down chocolate chip cookies and I think I have baked 100 different recipes so far. Always in search of the next best one.
I must say, after years of marriage and oodles of batches behind me that I get it. the French have their baguette and chocolate bar as a snack, here it's cookies and milk….and I love that too. Unlike B. I am good after a couple of cookies but I had to find a gluten free recipe now and one that he would not even blink twice about trying. And liking.
I really had not particularly trying to find one until the good folks at Threadless contacted me about a promo they were doing. I have a personal rule not to do product review here, mostly because I hate to commit to a deadline for one when work is already full of deadlines as it is. But it's Threadless tees…I love them. I bought my first one four years ago and probably bought over a dozen for friends and family since then. They are awesome. Different, fun and they promote artists and individual talent.
Before I agreed I checked the selection they wanted to promote, trying to tie it in somehow with this blog and give you something back at the same time in the form of a new recipe. You can guess I fell in love with the Cookie Loves Milk design. And I had the perfect reason to search for that gluten free chocolate chip recipe my repertoire was missing.
I picked the most reliable gluten free source I know, my friend Shauna from Gluten Free Girl and The Chef. I know the extent with which her recipes are developed and the love she puts in making them for us around. If you doubt it, watch this video trailer for their upcoming cookbook. See what I mean? I picked her cookie recipe in the Blog Aid cookbook we both participated in to raise funds for the Haiti this past winter. Tons of your favorite bloggers contributed pictures and recipes! And dorky as I am, I baked in my brand new Cookie Loves Milk tee….
You know what I love about that tee-shirt? It brings a smile on everyone's face. Even the cranky bank teller giggled. Five seconds of giggles in your day and you have already done a great deal for your inner self. Smiling. The good for the soul kind of workout. Something I am definitely happy to promote and stand behind. Not to mention that this tee is so comfortable to wear I almost went to bed with it..eheheh! The flip-flops that came along? Just what I needed for the beach…
But that's not all… Threadless has nicely offered to giveaway a "Cookie Loves Milk" tee shirt to one lucky reader of this blog (they unfortunately ran out of flip-flops) and I am am adding a copy of the Blog Aid – Recipes For Haiti cookbook where the following recipe comes from. To enter:
– leave a comment on this post (why not tell me your favorite cookie?) between today Wednesday August 11th and Sunday August 15th, midnight eastern US time.
– one entry per person, duplicates will not be published
– no anonymous entry. Sign Zorro or Bambi if you must…
36-hour Chocolate Chip Cookies – originally adapted from David Leite from Leite's Culinaria, now adapted from Shauna's version.
Note: Read more about why 36 hours in the fridge makes them better here.
1 cup sorghum flour
1 cup corn starch (you can sub tapioca starch)
1 cup potato starch
1 cup millet flour
1 tablespoon xanthan gum
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 cup plus granulated sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups chocolate chips or chocolate chunks
Sea salt
In a large bowl, whisk together each of the flours and "starches" along with the xanthan gum, baking soda and baking powder.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter and the sugars on medium speed for a couple of minutes. then mix for 1 minute more. Don't overmix. the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well in between each addition and scraping the sides and bottom of your mixer bowl if necessary. Add the vanilla extract and beat an extra 30 seconds.
Add the flour mixture into the batter, 1/2 cup at a time, mixing just until the dry ingredients are coming together. Add the chocolate and mix briefly to incorporate.
Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 36 hours.
When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350°F, position a rack in the middle of the oven and line baking sheets with parchment paper or a non-stick baking mat.
Scoop your preferred size of dough balls onto your baking sheet, 2 inches apart from each other. Sprinkle the tops with the sea salt.
Bake the cookies about 12-15 minutes, depending on the size of your cookies or until golden brown. Let cool the cookies 10 minutes on the baking sheets before transferring to cooling racks.


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What Is Capitalism
What Is Capitalism?
Capitalism is an economic system in which private individuals or businesses own capital goods. The production of goods and services is based on supply and demand in the general market—known as a market economy—rather than through central planning—known as a planned economy or command economy. The purest form of capitalism is free market or laissez-faire capitalism. Here, private individuals are unrestrained. They may determine where to invest, what to produce or sell, and at which prices to exchange goods and services. The laissez-faire marketplace operates without checks or controls. Today, most countries practice a mixed capitalist system that includes some degree of government regulation of business and ownership of select industries. Functionally speaking, capitalism is one process by which the problems of economic production and resource distribution might be resolved. Instead of planning economic decisions through centralized political methods, as with socialism or feudalism, economic planning under capitalism occurs via decentralized and voluntary decisions.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Capitalism is an economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production, especially in the industrial sector. Capitalism depends on the enforcement of private property rights, which provide incentives for investment in and productive use of productive capital. Capitalism developed historically out of previous systems of feudalism and mercantilism in Europe, and dramatically expanded industrialization and the large-scale availability of mass-market consumer goods. Pure capitalism can be contrasted with pure socialism (where all means of production are collective or state-owned) and mixed economies (which lie on a continuum between pure capitalism and pure socialism). The real-world practice of capitalism typically involves some degree of so-called "crony capitalism" due to demands from business for favorable government intervention and governments' incentive to intervene in the economy. Capitalism and Private Property. Private property rights are fundamental to capitalism. Most modern concepts of private property stem from John Locke's theory of homesteading, in which human beings claim ownership through mixing their labor with unclaimed resources. Once owned, the only legitimate means of transferring property are through voluntary exchange, gifts, inheritance, or re-homesteading of abandoned property.
Private property promotes efficiency by giving the owner of resources an incentive to maximize the value of their property. So, the more valuable the resource is, the more trading power it provides the owner. In a capitalist system, the person who owns the property is entitled to any value associated with that property. For individuals or businesses to deploy their capital goods confidently, a system must exist that protects their legal right to own or transfer private property. A capitalist society will rely on the use of contracts, fair dealing, and tort law to facilitate and enforce these private property rights. When a property is not privately owned but shared by the public, a problem known as the tragedy of the commons can emerge. With a common pool resource, which all people can use, and none can limit access to, all individuals have an incentive to extract as much use-value as they can and no incentive to conserve or reinvest in the resource. Privatizing the resource is one possible solution to this problem, along with various voluntary or involuntary collective action approaches.
Capitalism, Profits, and Losses
Profits are closely associated with the concept of private property. By definition, an individual only enters into a voluntary exchange of private property when they believe the exchange benefits them in some psychic or material way. In such trades, each party gains extra subjective value, or profit, from the transaction. Voluntary trade is the mechanism that drives activity in a capitalist system. The owners of resources compete with one another over consumers, who in turn, compete with other consumers over goods and services. All of this activity is built into the price system, which balances supply and demand to coordinate the distribution of resources. A capitalist earns the highest profit by using capital goods most efficiently while producing the highest-value good or service. In this system, information about what is highest-valued is transmitted through those prices at which another individual voluntarily purchases the capitalist's good or service. Profits are an indication that less valuable inputs have been transformed into more valuable outputs. By contrast, the capitalist suffers losses when capital resources are not used efficiently and instead create less valuable outputs.
Free Enterprise or Capitalism?
Capitalism and free enterprise are often seen as synonymous. In truth, they are closely related yet distinct terms with overlapping features. It is possible to have a capitalist economy without complete free enterprise, and possible to have a free market without capitalism. Any economy is capitalist as long as private individuals control the factors of production. However, a capitalist system can still be regulated by government laws, and the profits of capitalist endeavours can still be taxed heavily. "Free enterprise" can roughly be understood to mean economic exchanges free of coercive government influence. Although unlikely, it is possible to conceive of a system where individuals choose to hold all property rights in common. Private property rights still exist in a free enterprise system, although the private property may be voluntarily treated as communal without a government mandate. Many Native American tribes existed with elements of these arrangements, and within a broader capitalist economic family, clubs, co-ops, and joint-stock business firms like partnerships or corporations are all examples of common property institutions. If accumulation, ownership, and profiting from capital is the central principle of capitalism, then freedom from state coercion is the central principle of free enterprise.
Feudalism the Root of Capitalism
Capitalism grew out of European feudalism. Up until the 12th century, less than 5% of the population of Europe lived in towns. Skilled workers lived in the city but received their keep from feudal lords rather than a real wage, and most workers were serfs for landed nobles. However, by the late Middle Ages rising urbanism, with cities as centres of industry and trade, become more and more economically important. The advent of true wages offered by the trades encouraged more people to move into towns where they could get money rather than subsistence in exchange for labour. Families' extra sons and daughters who needed to be put to work, could find new sources of income in the trade towns. Child labour was as much a part of the town's economic development as serfdom was part of rural life.
Mercantilism Replaces Feudalism
Mercantilism gradually replaced the feudal economic system in Western Europe and became the primary economic system of commerce during the 16th to 18th centuries. Mercantilism started as trade between towns, but it was not necessarily competitive trade. Initially, each town had vastly different products and services that were slowly homogenized by demand over time. After the homogenization of goods, trade was carried out in broader and broader circles: town to town, county to county, province to province, and, finally, nation to nation. When too many nations were offering similar goods for trade, the trade took on a competitive edge that was sharpened by strong feelings of nationalism in a continent that was constantly embroiled in wars. Colonialism flourished alongside mercantilism, but the nations seeding the world with settlements were not trying to increase trade. Most colonies were set up with an economic system that smacked of feudalism, with their raw goods going back to the motherland and, in the case of the British colonies in North America, being forced to repurchase the finished product with a pseudo-currency that prevented them from trading with other nations. It was Adam Smith who noticed that mercantilism was not a force of development and change, but a regressive system that was creating trade imbalances between nations and keeping them from advancing. His ideas for a free market opened the world to capitalism.
Growth of Industrial Capitalism
Smith's ideas were well-timed, as the Industrial Revolution was starting to cause tremors that would soon shake the Western world. The (often literal) gold mine of colonialism had brought new wealth and new demand for the products of domestic industries, which drove the expansion and mechanization of production. As technology leapt ahead and factories no longer had to be built near waterways or windmills to function, industrialists began building in the cities where there were now thousands of people to supply ready labour. Industrial tycoons were the first people to amass their wealth in their lifetimes, often outstripping both the landed nobles and many of the money lending/banking families. For the first time in history, common people could have hopes of becoming wealthy. The new money crowd built more factories that required more labour, while also producing more goods for people to purchase. During this period, the term "capitalism"—originating from the Latin word "capitalis," which means "head of cattle"—was first used by French socialist Louis Blanc in 1850, to signify a system of exclusive ownership of industrial means of production by private individuals rather than shared ownership. Contrary to popular belief, Karl Marx did not coin the word "capitalism," although he certainly contributed to the rise of its use.
Industrial Capitalism's Effects
Industrial capitalism tended to benefit more levels of society rather than just the aristocratic class. Wages increased, helped greatly by the formation of unions. The standard of living also increased with the glut of affordable products being mass-produced. This growth led to the formation of a middle class and began to lift more and more people from the lower classes to swell its ranks. The economic freedoms of capitalism matured alongside democratic political freedoms, liberal individualism, and the theory of natural rights. This unified maturity is not to say, however, that all capitalist systems are politically free or encourage individual liberty. Economist Milton Friedman, an advocate of capitalism and individual liberty, wrote in Capitalism and Freedom (1962) that "capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. It is not a sufficient condition." A dramatic expansion of the financial sector accompanied the rise of industrial capitalism. Banks had previously served as warehouses for valuables, clearinghouses for long-distance trade, or lenders to nobles and governments. Now they came to serve the needs of everyday commerce and the intermediation of credit for large, long-term investment projects. By the 20th century, as stock exchanges became increasingly public and investment vehicles opened up to more individuals, some economists identified a variation on the system: financial capitalism.
Capitalism and Economic Growth:- By creating incentives for entrepreneurs to reallocate away resources from unprofitable channels and into areas where consumers value them more highly, capitalism has proven a highly effective vehicle for economic growth. Before the rise of capitalism in the 18th and 19th centuries, rapid economic growth occurred primarily through the conquest and extraction of resources from conquered peoples. In general, this was a localized, zero-sum process. Research suggests average global per-capita income was unchanged between the rise of agricultural societies through approximately 1750 when the roots of the first Industrial Revolution took hold. In subsequent centuries, capitalist production processes have greatly enhanced productive capacity. More and better goods became cheaply accessible to wide populations, raising standards of living in previously unthinkable ways. As a result, most political theorists and nearly all economists argue that capitalism is the most efficient and productive system of exchange.
Capitalism vs. Socialism :- In terms of political economy, capitalism is often pitted against socialism. The fundamental difference between capitalism and socialism is the ownership and control of the means of production. In a capitalist economy, property and businesses are owned and controlled by individuals. In a socialist economy, the state owns and manages the vital means of production. However, other differences also exist in the form of equity, efficiency, and employment.
The capitalist economy is unconcerned about equitable arrangements. The argument is that inequality is the driving force that encourages innovation, which then pushes economic development. The primary concern of the socialist model is the redistribution of wealth and resources from the rich to the poor, out of fairness, and ensuring equality in opportunity and equality of outcome. Equality is valued above high achievement, and the collective good is viewed above the opportunity for individuals to advance.
The capitalist argument is that the profit incentive drives corporations to develop innovative new products that are desired by the consumer and have demand in the marketplace. It is argued that the state ownership of the means of production leads to inefficiency because, without the motivation to earn more money, management, workers, and developers are less likely to put forth the extra effort to push new ideas or products.
In a capitalist economy, the state does not directly employ the workforce. This lack of government-run employment can lead to unemployment during economic recessions and depressions. In a socialist economy, the state is the primary employer. During times of economic hardship, the socialist state can order hiring, so there is full employment. Also, there tends to be a stronger "safety net" in socialist systems for workers who are injured or permanently disabled. Those who can no longer work have fewer options available to help them in capitalist societies.
Mixed System vs. Pure Capitalism
When the government owns some but not all of the means of production, but government interests may legally circumvent, replace, limit, or otherwise regulate private economic interests, that is said to be a mixed economy or mixed economic system. A mixed economy respects property rights, but places limits on them. Property owners are restricted with regards to how they exchange with one another. These restrictions come in many forms, such as minimum wage laws, tariffs, quotas, windfall taxes, license restrictions, prohibited products or contracts, direct public expropriation, anti-trust legislation, legal tender laws, subsidies, and eminent domain. Governments in mixed economies also fully or partly own and operate certain industries, especially those considered public goods, often enforcing legally binding monopolies in those industries to prohibit competition by private entities. In contrast, pure capitalism, also known as laissez-faire capitalism or anarcho-capitalism, (such as professed by Murray N. Rothbard) all industries are left up to private ownership and operation, including public goods, and no central government authority provides regulation or supervision of economic activity in general. The standard spectrum of economic systems places laissez-faire capitalism at one extreme and a complete planned economy—such as communism—at the other. Everything in the middle could be said to be a mixed economy. The mixed economy has elements of both central planning and unplanned private business. By this definition, nearly every country in the world has a mixed economy, but contemporary mixed economies range in their levels of government intervention. The U.S. and the U.K. have a relatively pure type of capitalism with a minimum of federal regulation in financial and labor markets—sometimes known as Anglo-Saxon capitalism—while Canada and the Nordic countries have created a balance between socialism and capitalism. Many European nations practice welfare capitalism, a system that is concerned with the social welfare of the worker, and includes such policies as state pensions, universal healthcare, collective bargaining, and industrial safety codes.
Crony Capitalism
Crony capitalism refers to a capitalist society that is based on the close relationships between business people and the state. Instead of success being determined by a free market and the rule of law, the success of a business is dependent on the favouritism that is shown to it by the government in the form of tax breaks, government grants, and other incentives. In practice, this is the dominant form of capitalism worldwide due to the powerful incentives both faced by governments to extract resources by taxing, regulating, and fostering rent-seeking activity, and those faced by capitalist businesses to increase profits by obtaining subsidies, limiting competition, and erecting barriers to entry. In effect, these forces represent a kind of supply and demand for government intervention in the economy, which arises from the economic system itself. Crony capitalism is widely blamed for a range of social and economic woes. Both socialists and capitalists blame each other for the rise of crony capitalism. Socialists believe that crony capitalism is the inevitable result of pure capitalism. On the other hand, capitalists believe that crony capitalism arises from the need of socialist governments to control the economy.
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(Peak) A Phase 3 Randomized Trial of CGT9486+Sunitinib vs. Sunitinib in Subjects With Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
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