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WHAT TYPES OF LOANS ARE AVAILABLE AND WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF EACHFixed Rate Mortgages: Payments remain the same for the the life of the loanTypes 15-year 30-year Advantages Predictable Housing cost remains unaffected by interest rate changes and inflation. Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMS): Payments increase or decrease on a regular schedule with changes in interest rates; increases subject to limitsTypes Balloon Mortgage- Offers very low rates for an Initial period of time (usually 5, 7, or 10 years); when time has elapsed, the balance is clue or refinanced (though not automatically) Two-Step Mortgage- Interest rate adjusts only once and remains the same for the life of the loan ARMS linked to a specific index or margin Advantages Generally offer lower initial interest rates Monthly payments can be lower May allow borrower to qualify for a larger loan amount
WHEN DO ARMS MAKE SENSEAn ARM may make sense If you are confident that your income will increase steadily over the years or if you anticipate a move in the near future and aren't concerned about potential increases in interest rates.
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF 15- AND 30-YEAR LOAN TERMS30-Year: In the first 23 years of the loan, more interest is paid off than principal, meaning larger tax deductions. As inflation and costs of living increase, mortgage payments become a smaller part of overall expenses. 15-year: Loan is usually made at a lower interest rate. Equity is built faster because early payments pay more principal.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are offering to bail out a financially strapped program in the federal health overhaul, one that's a lifeline for uninsured people with medical problems. Truce in the health care wars? Not!
The GOP bill, headed for a vote Wednesday in the House, would divert billions from another program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a transfer Democrats say would undermine broader goals.
Caught in the middle are the so-called uninsurables, people like Susan Zurface, a small-town lawyer from Ohio with a recent diagnosis of leukemia, no health insurance and medical bills piling up. The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) was designed to offer them a path to private coverage.
"For people like me who can't afford the insurance, it doesn't matter where the Republicans want the money to come from or where the Democrats want the money to come from — it has to come from somewhere," said Zurface, who lives in the rural southwestern Ohio community of Hillsboro. She has a slow-growing form of the blood cancer and wants to start tackling it now when she is in her 40s and otherwise in good health.
"I'm starting to feel that sense of panic because I have no idea where the money is going to come from to pay for this," added Zurface, a solo practitioner who focuses on representing children caught in family breakups.
PPACA was supposed to banish such fears forever by requiring health insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing medical problems. But those consumer protections don't take effect until Jan. 1, along with a mandate that virtually every American must get coverage, expanding the insurance pool to try to keep costs in check.
Until then, the pre-existing conditions plan — known as PCIP — was supposed to help. It guarantees private coverage at average rates to people who had problems getting insurance because of a medical condition and were uninsured for at least six months. It would disappear in 2014.
But Congress allocated a limited amount of money. And in February, the Obama administration said it would stop taking new applications to ensure enough money would be left to cover more than 100,000 people already enrolled.
Zurface said her completed application was sitting on a table at home, ready to go out, when she got the news. She had no inkling the program was in financial trouble.
PCIP patients have turned out to be sicker and costlier than anticipated. But in his budget, Obama did not ask Congress for emergency funding to keep the program going.
House Republicans say they want to help Zurface and others like her by providing up to $3.6 billion to not only keep the doors open for new patients, but also expand it by eliminating the requirement that applicants be uninsured for six months before they qualify. Meant to deter people from dropping private coverage to take advantage of a government-sponsored plan, that particular feature has been criticized as a stumbling block for patients.
The money would come from another program in the health care law, the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which is supposed to be used for public health activities. In the GOP bill, called the Helping Sick Americans Now Act, all unallocated money from the prevention fund for 2013-2016 would be diverted.
That's no mere bookkeeping transfer because the Obama administration plans to use at least $300 million from the prevention fund to publicize the new health insurance exchanges coming this fall under the health care law.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she has had to resort to using the prevention fund because congressional Republicans have refused to provide the administration with the financing needed to put the health law into place. Sebelius says prevention money can legally be used for educational and community outreach purposes.
People who don't already get coverage on the job will be able to buy private insurance with new tax credits to help pay premiums. Nearly 30 million uninsured Americans are eventually expected to gain coverage through the broader law.
"The prevention fund is essentially a slush fund for Secretary Sebelius," said Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas. "How about using some of the money to take care of people outside your door?"
Burgess said the PCIP program is an "Obamacare" poster child: "big promises to people, and at the end of the day it's not delivering."
But Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., called the Republican measure "a gotcha bill." She said Democrats also want to keep the PCIP program going, but they want to pay for it by rolling back some oil and gas company tax breaks.
Democrats point out that the Republican bill takes about $800 million more out of the prevention fund than would be needed to finance continued operation of the insurance plan for people with medical problems. Republicans say that just reduces the deficit.
"They've spent more than a year trying to undo the Affordable Care Act, and now they are just trying to chop it up," Capps said of the Republican majority in the House.
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Startseite | Migration, Flucht und Gesundheit | Materialien | Error rates for unvalidated medical age assessment procedures
Petter Mostad, Frederik Tamsen, Technische Chalmers-Universität Göteborg
Asyl- und Migrationsrecht,
During 2014-2015, Sweden received asylum applications from more than 240,000 people, of which more than 40,000 were termed unaccompanied minors. In a large number of cases, claims by asylum seekers of being below 18 years were not trusted by Swedish authorities. To handle the situation, the Swedish national board of forensic medicine (R̈atts-medicinalverket, RMV) was assigned by the government to create a centralized system for medical age assessments. RMV introduced a procedure including two biological age indicators; x-ray of the third molars and magnetic resonance imaging of the distal femoral epiphysis. In 2017, a total of 9617 males and 337 females were subjected to this procedure. No validation study for the procedure was however published, and the observed number of cases with different maturity combinations in teeth and femur were unexpected given the claims originally made by RMV. We present a general stochastic model enabling us to study which combinations of age indicator model parameters and age population profiles are consistent with the observed 2017 data for males. We find that, contrary to some RMV claims, maturity of the femur, as observed by RMV, appears on average well before maturity of teeth. According to our estimates, approximately 15% of the tested males were children. These children had an approximate 33% risk of being classified as adults. The corresponding risk for an adult to be misclassified as a child was approximately 7%. We determine uncertainties and ranges of estimates under reasonable perturbations of the prior.
International Journal of Legal Medicine, Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-018-1916-3Die Studie steht online zur Verfügung unter:https://link.springer.com/...
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Mr. Speaker, many families in Mauricie have had their lives shattered by the pyrrhotite crisis—a crisis that could have been avoided.
At a press conference today, the NDP called on the federal government to take immediate action to help those families.
In 2011, the Government of Quebec announced $15 million in assistance, hoping that the federal government would do the same. However, federal assistance has not been forthcoming.
We have three clear requests for the government. First of all, we ask that the federal government match the funding allocated by the Quebec government. The NDP is also calling on the government to create a loans program for the victims. Lastly, we would like the government to change the standard regarding the quality of the aggregates used in concrete.
If this standard had been changed sooner, the pyrrhotite crisis would not be what it is today. The government now has an opportunity to help the affected families.
We must not leave these families to deal with this problem on their own.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Last week Microsoft announced a new licensing schema for SQL Server 2012. If you are interested in an extensive discussion of the new licensing scheme, Denny Cherry wrote a great blog post about that.
I'd like to comment about the new BI Edition license. Teo Lachev already commented about the numbers and I agree with him.
I generally like the new licensing mode of SQL 2012. It maintains a very low-entry barrier for SSRS/SSAS/SSIS (Standard Edition). It has a reasonable licensing schema for 20-50 clients. I've read on Twitter that Donald Farmer is happy, too: probably QlikView feels that Microsoft is not too much aggressive for them, because BISM Tabular model is not available in Standard edition. However, there is already a free to use product, which is named PowerPivot for Excel.
Probably everyone was expecting an introduction of BISM Tabular in the Standard Edition, maybe with some limitations (like no partitions, for example). This will be not the case. I'm not sure this is a bad news, having BISM Multidimensional with a lower entry price than BISM Tabular could be better, at the end. We will see the customer reaction in a few months.
In reality, what Microsoft really changed is that the Server+CAL licensing of Enterprise Edition is no longer available and it is now called Business Intelligence. Because more advanced SQL Server features will be available only in Enterprise Edition (core-based license only), we will finally see the real numbers of Business Intelligence back-end sold by Microsoft. Until today, in fact, the numbers were always hard to get (also for Microsoft, I think): it wasn't easy to understand the real adoption and usage of single features. With SQL Server 2012 Microsoft will have clear numbers about what is the real money generated by its Business Intelligence stack.
I think that even if it could appear just a name change, it could be more than that. Having a Business Intelligence license might improve the perception of something that is more valuable and not just a "free add-in to the SQL engine". Only time will tell!
I found it a bit strange that BISM Tabular won't be part of the Standard Edition in any way, where as BISM Multidimensional will; Based on the road map entry from the SSAS team about a year ago, BISM Tabular was supposed to be like C# where as Multidimensional mode was supposed to be like C++... As such, Multidimensional targets more complex environments that require more "mature" functionality. Following this logic, you would think BISM Tabular would be part of Standard Edition as smaller environments could benefit from faster time of development... (as in the C#/C++ analogy)
"I generally like the new licensing mode of SQL 2012. It maintains a very low-entry barrier for SSRS/SSAS/SSIS (Standard Edition)"
I am of the opposite opinion. The lack of the simplier Tabular model in Standard edition is criminal, although the status quo serves to maintain a comfort zone for BI Pros. The lack of column-store indexes/compression in the BI Edition is also mind-boggling.
"However, there is already a free to use product, which is named PowerPivot for Excel."
Please. The add-in is free (assuming that you plan to use the additional apps in Office Pro in the first place), but solutions that use PowerPoint aren't. SharePoint Enterprise and/or BI edition are high entry points for any small business. The issue is obviously is inconsequential for anyone who doesn't work with, or care about small enterprises.
@Javier - good point, the C++/C# analogy is in trouble now.
@Colin: This is controversial, I know. I am attracted from two opposite forces. From one side, the lack of BISM Tabular in Standard implies a lower adoption of this new engine. Bad point. On the other side, many questions like "should I use Multidimensional or Tabular?" will be avoided in this way, because the choice will be to use Multidimensional.
I think that 80% of scenario can be covered by both technologies and BISM Tabular, in this first release, lack of many features that are important in Corporate BI scenario.
I personally would prefer BISM Tabular to be available in the Standard Edition. This would help my job as consultant and author, too. But I see the good point of having a separate edition of SQL Server just for BI, in terms of market's perception.
That said, I think that everyone (me included) would have expected BISM Tabular to be included in standard edition, without partitioning and maybe with some other limitation.
Finally, I agree with you that SharePoint is not a good value proposition for small enterprises. The new licensing mode don't change so much for these companies. There are other products on the market (also based on SSAS as an engine and Excel as a designer). That said, I know companies that prefer to use just Excel and nothing else, because they don't want to relies neither on SharePoint nor on another third-party tool. For these companies, already using Office, PowerPivot is for free.
But there are other options out there, just not 100% Microsoft. If only MS didn't killed ProClarity, the MS BI ecosystem today would be much better.
First of all I'd like to apologize for the tone of my previous response. It was written while I was still very steamed over the licensing. I'm sure that I would have exercised better decorum had I allowed for a cooling off period :)
Anyway, thanks for the response, and for better outlining your position.
"From one side, the lack of BISM Tabular in Standard implies a lower adoption of this new engine. Bad point. "
This is a key point. Given that AS-MD is the only common denominator across all platforms, what's the incentive for seasoned pros to adopt Tabular? Microsoft hinted many times that pros must jump on the Tabular bandwagon, but its lack of universality makes me wonder why.
"On the other side, many questions like "should I use Multidimensional or Tabular?" will be avoided in this way, because the choice will be to use Multidimensional."
This statement just adds to argument against adopting Tabular. Perhaps there should be a low cost Tabular only version (with RS & IS), but that might also cause confusion.
"But I see the good point of having a separate edition of SQL Server just for BI, in terms of market's perception."
In theory I agree, but the licensing fees for the BI edition gives me pause.
"That said, I think that everyone (me included) would have expected BISM Tabular to be included in standard edition, without partitioning and maybe with some other limitation."
The most obvious reasons it should be in Standard are: 1)Much less sophisticated and easier to use than MD, 2)It lacks functionality that's present in MD and other more mature competitive products, and thus doesn't deserve a premium position in the product line, 3)It would be a perfect entry-level server solution, with models developed either directly in BIDS, or imported in BIDS from PowerPivot.
"I know companies that prefer to use just Excel and nothing else, because they don't want to relies neither on SharePoint nor on another third-party tool."
This isn't a great solution, but I've done a lot of reporting work like this in the past using Excel/SQL queries/VBA.
"For these companies, already using Office, PowerPivot is for free."
I was under the mistaken impression that Office Pro was required. I guess that you only need Pro if you're publishing to SharePoint.
"But there are other options out there, just not 100% Microsoft. If only MS didn't killed ProClarity, the MS BI ecosystem today would be much better."
Very true. Another option for smaller businesses that want to stick with Microsoft would be a cloud-based solution.
By the way, love your MDX to DAX post. It was also very timely. I hope that you plan to follow up with "Next Steps." Given that DAX isn't an option for SQL Server Standard, after prototyping some models in PowerPivot, I'll need to convert from DAX to MDX!
don't mind, I like passionate discussion!
I agree on your point and it will be very hard to explain to a customer why Tabular has less features than Multidimensional and, despite this, it costs more.
The cloud-based solution could be a good idea, but we have to wait and see what will be offer, and its cost.
I can confirm that PowerPivot only requires an Excel license. The only exception is "Office Starter", which is preinstalled in some PC.
More info here: http://powerpivot-info.com/forum/4-powerpivot-and-dax-forum/78-how-much-powerpivot-for-excel-and-sharepoint-cost
Finally, another big issue is the lack of SQL partitioning in Business Intelligence License and the migration path from 2008R2 Enterprise Server to 2012 Enterprise by Core. It seems that MS left a door for companies that want to save 70% of an Enterprise core license. I want to investigate more on that and I will blog my conclusions very soon.
I think the core based licensing is a bit crazy, although I can see how it might simplify things from a VM perspective.
Enterprise licensing could get a lot more expensive with core based licenses. Our production system is a 32 core, 4 processor server. There is a statement about a 20 core per server maximum. Does that mean we would only need 20 core licenses, not 32? If this is the case it will make the license changes a bit more palatable.
I understand that the 20-core limit is just realated to the upgrade of an Enterprise Server license to 2012. In case you have up to 20 core, you get an Enterprise Core license (within the Software Assurance terms), but over this limit you have to contact a Microsoft Account in order to discuss it.
You might be right, but this statement suggests to me that it also applies to new purchases of SQL 2012:
"*SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition server licenses - whether newly purchased or upgraded with Software Assurance - will be subject to a 20 core per server license maximum."
If this is correct it will make the core based licensing easier for us to live with. If it's not correct, our license fee for our 4 CPU, 8 core server has just doubled!
It's actually a lot worse than that though. In 1-2 years time, it's likely we would upgrade our database servers. I'd probably be expecting to go from 8 core CPUs to 16 core CPUs - our license fee would double again if we did. With the trend for CPUs to get more cores instead of faster clock speeds, core based licensing is going to cost people a lot more money. Either that or it will keep people on SQL 2005/2008 for a lot longer...
Good point, but Microsoft people I talked with clarified me that the 20-core limit is just for switching from Server+CAL licensing to "core" licensing. I agree that the information available is not clear in this regard. I suggest you to contact Microsoft Account in order to understand what the option are. I also know that raising up the number of cores, the prices should be lowered, too...
Another clarification: the "newly purchased" refers to the following case.
(excerpt from MS licensing page)
New server licenses for EE will only be available for purchase through 6/30/2012. Additional EE server licenses in the Server and CAL license model will not be sold thereafter. EA/EAP customers will have until their next EA/EAP renewal after 6/30/2012 to
purchase additional server licenses for EE to complete currently planned projects. After that, all new EE licenses must be purchased per core.
Hi Marco,
Thanks for clearing that up.
Licensing is going to get a lot more expensive with the new core based licensing system. I can only hope there are going to be substantial discounts when buying a larger number of cores.
The core licenses are 1/4 of the cost of the old processor license. This is about right if you are looking at a desktop PC - 4 cores is about the average for desktops. For servers, 8core+ is readily available on entry level systems. Maybe they should be charging 1/8 or 1/10 the price of a processor license instead.
This is an useful link to a description of SQL Server 2012 licensing.


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By Elise Labott
Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he had some ideas on how to change Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's thinking about remaining in power, which he hopes will persuade the embattled leader to negotiate with the opposition on an end to the violence.
"We need to address the question of President Assad's calculation currently. I believe there are additional things that can be done to change his current perception," Kerry told reporters after meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, adding: "I've got a good sense of what I think we might propose."
Kerry didn't elaborate, but said he planned to discuss the ideas during his first official overseas trip. He is expected to visit European and Mideast capitals later this month, although the trip has not yet been announced
But his stated desire to find a new approach toward Syria belies a reluctance from the White House to become more actively involved. The United States has limited its support to humanitarian aid and nonlethal aid to the opposition, ruling out military intervention and arguing that supplying weapons to the rebels would only further militarize the conflict and risk arms ending up in the hands of extremists.
A day earlier, during his State of the Union address, President Obama pledged to keep pressure on the Syrian regime but did not renew calls made since August 2011 for al-Assad to step down. In a recent interview with New Republic magazine, the president signaled he is loath to bog the United States down in the Syrian conflict.
Warning about the dangers of the "implosion" of the Syrian state with continued violence, Kerry said the Obama administration wanted to see a negotiated solution to the conflict resulting in al-Assad's departure. Kerry noted comments by Syrian opposition leader Mouaz al-Khatib, who has said he was willing to talk with the regime about a political solution.
"It may not be possible. I am not going to stand here and tell you that's automatic or easily achievable," Kerry said. "There are a lot of forces that have been unleashed here over the course of the last months."
But he pointed to an inevitability of al-Assad leaving power, which "hasn't sunk into him yet."
Kerry said part of al-Assad's "calculus" of staying in power centers around the financial and political support he enjoys from Russia, despite international criticism over its stance. Kerry said he was hopeful there "may be an equation where the Russians and the United States could, in fact, find more common ground than we have yet with respect to that."
Kerry's recent comments signal a clear desire to inject new ideas into U.S. policy toward the conflict in Syria, which after almost two years of violence has killed nearly 70,000 Syrians and seen the country spiraling into sectarian strife. Last week during a meeting with Canada's foreign minister, Kerry said the United States was evaluating new options to reduce the violence.
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Kerry was an early interlocutor for the Obama administration with al-Assad, even traveling to Damascus to meet with the Syrian leader. He eventually withdrew his support for al-Assad when he began using violence against the Syrian people. Kerry has since floated proposals to create safe havens for the opposition and arming rebel forces.
It is unclear whether Kerry still supports arming the opposition. Last week he refused to comment on a plan by former CIA Director David Petraeus, backed by his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to supply weapons to rebel forces.
Citing the threat of Jabhat al-Nusra - recently designated a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department - and the influx of fighters from al-Qaeda in Iraq, Kerry stressed the challenges of a more activist approach.
"It is a very complicated and very dangerous situation," he said. "And everybody understands it is a place that has chemical weapons, and we are deeply concerned about that."
Still, Kerry's comments on Wednesday may raise expectations for his upcoming trip, where he is also expected to try to reactivate the stalled Mideast peace process.
"The window is closing on this possibility, the region knows it," Kerry said Wednesday. "It deserves our utmost consideration and it will get that."
His upcoming visit to the Mideast will lay the groundwork for a trip by President Obama to Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan in the spring. But Kerry warned against major breakthroughs, noting that it would be arrogant to propose a peace plan before hearing from leaders in the region.
"The president is not prepared at this point in time to do more than listen to the parties, which is why he has announced he is going to go to Israel," Kerry said. "I think we start out by listening and get a sense of what the current state of possibilities are and then begin to make some choices."
Kerry has signaled an early push to rekindle peace talks. His first calls in office were to Israeli and Palestinian leaders and during his confirmation he said he planned to renew efforts to bring the parties to the negotiating table.
But just as on Syria, Kerry's peace efforts will be limited by the political will of a White House that seems preoccupied with domestic issues, particularly the economy.
The newly minted secretary of state is bringing a new sense of urgency, said one administration official who follows the Middle East. "He sees there is some fresh thinking required. It's just a question what the political leadership in the administration will tolerate."
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Keep Premier Assad. The opposition brings al kieda? and extremists with them. There's got to be a way of working with the present government.
The extrem muslim regimes are finding every way to take over. Do Not Let Them!!!!
@Elaine Lopez,Assad is worse than Al Quada would ever be and who do think these Muslim extremists are working for but Assad himself..Get with the program lady you're outta touch and you know there is a Santa Claus right!!
I hope our new Secretary of state is not going to make same mistake Clinton did..
Assad is not going no where. It is the best interests of this country he stay where he is.
Those days that we could dictate to other what to do or not to do is gone..
There are other supper power on this earth. WE should be worrying about our economy and our national deficits, and immigration problem. We should let the Syria and other countries mind their own business. It is not for us to decide who stays and who goes. Our priority should focus on arab israeli cinflict. We impose that jews on arabs and it was a big mistake. We are paying for that mistake and will for years to come unles we dispose israel all together.
US did not impose Jews on Arabs.It was the UN .Who gave the Jews a nation.Are they angry because the Jews build a great nation out of the Desert.God gave this land to them long ago.Haven't you read that they are his chosen people.And now Arads are killing Arads.
If military intervention is the only solution to the Syrian conflict, I believe every Arab-Muslim nation on earth has a military. Plus many of these nations are oil rich. Its time the Arab league does its job and leave us alone. Plus we're still trying to finish the wars the GOP left unfinished.
To Blah blah the wheel's off your trailer: AGREE!
It was the Democrats and Republicans that started the wars there.I suppose you would have sit by and done nothing.I will agreed it should have been handled a different way.We don't need to get involved with boots on the ground.But we do need to imposed a no-fly zone.I know you liberals have no thought for human life.But when people are being slaughtered.Don;t you think they need protection.
What was that you said about the United States Army a few years back, Mr. Kerry?
Do you still have that same feeling about our armed forces, Sir?
If you do, do you think that it is in the best interest of this nation that you should occupy the position of Secretary of State for the United States?
The US is very interesting place...we work hard to keep the guns out of extremist hands over seas but we arm our own local extremist to the Teeth....That's just insanity....
al-Assad to Kerry "DON'T TAZE ME BRO!!"
There are rumors that Kerry will be visiting Damascus next week to meet President Assad. I hope he will visit Damascus to discuss his political solution.
I'll take Kerry over Rumsfeld ANY DAY.
No kidding !!
Rummie was an arrogant d u m b a $ $.
Oh, yeah, and like Lurch here is going to do anything? I'm sure he was for this war before he was against it, huh?
Not to be mistaken with Clinton-era SECDEF William Cohen who was also an arrogant dumbazz, saudi-sheik-but-kizzer.
Why is it any of our business what is happening in Syria. We continue to stick our nose in other countries business and tell them we do not like their leader whether elected or not and then we wonder why everyone hates us.
Stay out of the middle east and let them resolve their own problems and use that saved money to address problenms here. That money would sure be nice for American students to get a college education for example.
the first part of your statement is correct, we shouldn't stick our noses where it doesn't belong
however the second part of your statement was tried throughout the 70's and 80's and 90's, guess what happened??
Yeah, like being practical. Tell him that we support an Allowite state, give him and his people a way out.
I have some advice for Mr. Kerry. Want the teapublicans on board? Give them a bottle of water. Its the most effective way to avert more conservative water-gate.
wow, we have a brainiac here, and to think , in their mind, they believe the post is brilliant lol
Dear Blah Blah ... please take a little more time, figure out what point it is you're trying to make, and then report back to us with some words that express it well. Thanks, looking forward to it.
Hey nightwriter, I'm reporting back to you. Let me see if I can make my point clearer...Syria is Iran's water-gate to the sea. Feel better now?
Yes, Syria is a conceern but to me, not as great as Iran or North Korea. I know NK talks a lot of s**t but they are advancing every day. I don't trust anyone's "calculations" about their capabilities. Where I'm from, if you talk too much smack about someone and make desciptive threats, you'll get yours first and unannounced.
Since WWII all our current politicians know how to negotiate is a surrender, raise the white flag and run. We all know how well that works.
$28B for Heinz ketchup. Not bad, not bad at all for starters.
@tarura,if you read any the Kerrys Heinz involvement was only about 1% so they didn't get the big money everyone dreamed they got,but still 1% of actually 23 billion ain't chicken feed either is it!!
The word 'bloodbath' was President George H. W. Bush's description of what to expect in his debate with William J. Clinton. I did not see the definition of that word used until John Kerry's three debates with President George W. Bush. Thank Goodness he was not voted in as President since he makes a MUCH better Secretary of State! With him at the helm, America will enjoy a bright future.
He will fall right in line with what his deity wants. Otherwise he will be fired.
john kerry is irish kerry is a irish surname therefor he is the enemy.
John Kerry is a joke.
Although we don't know if the US Secretary of State John Kerry believes that Syrian al-Assad government does trust him or if he believes that he does trust them, he sounds great, doesn't he?


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When it comes to wedding dresses, white (okay, and ivory) has long been the standard. But last year's blush gowns—and on the other side of the spectrum, Vera Wang's black wedding dresses—totally broke the mold of bridal fashion.
This season, blushes, peaches, and even prints reign as major departures from typical white. However, brides who want to make a major statement have another bold choice, according to this year's runways: Red.
In Chinese culture, rocking a crimson dress is traditional, so the idea of being a lady in red on your wedding day isn't actually new. But a brightly hued gown would certainly turn heads as you walk down the aisle—dontcha think?
As a bride-to-be myself, I love the idea of doing something totally different with my dress. But, sadly, I am not so brave: I went with good ol' white—soft white, to be specific—for my big day. (I dunno, I figured this is the one time I can wear a frothy, white dress, so why not go for the classic?)
But what do you think of red—and black!—as bolder bridal looks? Would you dare to wear them?
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Waialua House is Smart Nouveau
It may look like a remodel, but this Waialua plantation-style house ain't from the '40s, it's you-won't-have-to-replace-anything new.
It's smallish, only 1,400 square feet, but all the construction is thoughtful: windows are placed for ventilation and rooms feel open and light because of the hardwood bamboo flooring and vaulted ceilings. Things like deep sinks and stone walk-in showers make small spaces seem less small. And the owner, who is also the realtor, added touches like mango wood cabinetry and custom stonework so the house feels high-end.
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Milwaukee native will help choose next pope
Cardinal James Harvey prepares for papal conclave
One person who will help pick the successor to Pope Benedict XVI is a Milwaukee native.
Pope Benedict XVI delivered his final Sunday blessing from the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square. His resignation takes effect Friday.
Among those praying at St. Margaret Mary Parish at 92nd Street and Capitol Drive in Milwaukee on Sunday were the mother and sister of Milwaukee native and Cardinal James Harvey.
Harvey's mother, Ruth Harvey, was asked what it was like to be someone who raised a man who will help make such a major decision.
"Well, I think it's wonderful," Ruth Harvey said.
Ruth Harvey said she talks to her son once a week, but they haven't discussed the upcoming decision.
"You know, we never did that because that's his business," Ruth Harvey said.
Ruth Harvey said the Catholic church has always fascinated her son.
"He was really sincere about it," Ruth Harvey said.
The cardinal's sister, Kathy Braun, said he always wanted to go into ministry.
"It was always his thing. He always wanted to become a priest," Braun said.
Braun said her brother appreciates the gravity of his upcoming vote.
"I think it's an incredible responsibility that he has, and it's very prayerful. I know he's really praying about this, and it's guided by the Holy Spirit," Braun said.
The cardinals are expected to make their decision in March.


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I2P dev meeting, April 4, 2017 @ 20:00 UTC
Quick recap
- Present:
atoi, echelon, manas, orignal, randomrng, str4d, z3r0fox, zzz
Journal IRC complet
20:00:05 <zzz> 0) Hi
20:00:05 <zzz> 1) 0.9.30 update (zzz)
20:00:05 <zzz> 2) UI branch status - (str4d)
20:00:05 <zzz> 3) I2P Summer Dev plans - (str4d)
20:00:05 <zzz> 4) EdDSA update - (str4d)
20:00:09 <zzz> 0) Hi
20:00:12 <zzz> hi
20:00:28 <manas> Hello
20:00:33 <eche|on> hi
20:01:00 <zzz> 1) 0.9.30 update (zzz)
20:01:24 <zzz> ok, things going well, testers are finding some problems which is great. Jetty 9 going pretty smoothly so far
20:01:35 <z3r0fox> Hi! o/
20:01:54 <zzz> I've identified the plugins that need updating on zzz.i2p... for best results those need to be rebuilt before the release
20:01:56 <eche|on> mostly yes
20:02:04 <eche|on> except for old jetty config files
20:02:24 <zzz> glad that we are doing it now so we will be ready for stretch and zesty
20:02:36 <eche|on> yes
20:02:56 <zzz> thanks to echelon and others for testing. Will probably mark a dev build as -rc sooner than usual to get more testing
20:03:12 <eche|on> ok
20:03:20 <orignal_> hi
20:03:34 <zzz> I have set the checkin deadline for friday april 28, release first week of may
20:03:54 <zzz> anything else on 1) ?
20:04:15 <atoi> when will Java have GOST signatures?
20:04:41 <eche|on> 2019
20:05:01 <zzz> atoi we haven't agreed to the proposal yet, if we do, best guess late next year due to priorities
20:05:02 <eche|on> bu fine with 1, good we have postponed UII
20:05:54 <zzz> but I've made some other proposals (136 and 137) to make the introduction of new sig types easier
20:06:00 <zzz> anything else on 1) ?
20:06:02 <atoi> can't wait to have GOST working
20:07:22 <zzz> 2) UI branch status - (str4d)
20:07:35 <zzz> str4d, what's the latest on your ui branch?
20:07:53 <str4d> UI branch has been relatively stable for the last few weeks
20:08:28 <zzz> plan is to prop in early may for .31 ?
20:08:57 <str4d> There's some theme updates I need to integrate and push addressing some feedback, but in terms of structure it's basically there
20:09:08 <str4d> Yeah
20:09:13 <zzz> ok great
20:09:19 <zzz> anything else on 2) ?
20:09:24 <eche|on> can´t wait to test it^^
20:10:00 <str4d> If anyone wants to test but doesn't want the hassle of building, I'll throw up an i2pupdate.zip once these next theme changes are in
20:10:18 <eche|on> I wait for prop...
20:11:02 <zzz> 3) I2P Summer Dev plans - (str4d)
20:11:19 <zzz> str4d what are the plans?
20:11:47 <str4d> Okay, sadie and I threw around some ideas, and what shook out was that for this Summer Dev, we should focus on speed
20:12:37 <str4d> Because a) it's a logical extension of last year (we made it easier for apps to use I2P, but now we need to make them *want* to), and b) it covers about half of our existing roadmap already
20:13:37 <zzz> ok, where might we find these plans, and how do we find people to do them?
20:14:06 <str4d> sadie took notes from my rambling, so I'll pester her for them :)
20:14:18 <str4d> I'm basically thinking this means:
20:14:51 <str4d> - Push forward the various proposals that affect speed (LS2, newer E2E encryption, massive multihoming)
20:15:24 <str4d> - Get something running similar to Tor's bwauth that we can use to start collecting metrics specifically about network speed
20:16:27 <manas> I was thinking of writing some code to test I2P speeds with different programs (rsync, torrents, sftp etc)
20:16:34 <str4d> - Expose tunnel selection through I2CP (a la psi's lua stuff)
20:16:51 <manas> I can share that if it will be useful/interesting
20:16:51 <randomrng> massive multihoming <3
20:17:00 <zzz> sounds good. should we put this on the agenda for next month's meeting to get an update?
20:17:00 <str4d> - ElGamal speedups for the short term
20:17:17 <str4d> Yep.
20:17:35 <zzz> I note that most of what's on the .30 roadmap, set only 3 months ago at CCC, is total fiction and will be pushed out. I'll be updating it shortly.
20:18:10 <zzz> anything else on 3) ?
20:18:16 <str4d> We have two months until it will officially start. I'll continue chatting with sadie to flesh out a plan, but what we *really* need is people to pick things they want to work on
20:18:32 <str4d> manas already has a head-start there ;P
20:18:35 <orignal_> what kind of speedup?
20:18:48 <str4d> orignal_, the table precomputation
20:18:48 <manas> :)
20:19:03 <orignal_> mine or something else?
20:19:09 <zzz> if you and sadie document a framework and options that will help people pick things
20:19:22 <str4d> +1
20:19:30 <zzz> anything else on 3) ?
20:19:35 <str4d> orignal_, Won't be yours, because that directly leverages OpenSSL which we don't have access to
20:19:52 <orignal_> I mean basis
20:20:03 <orignal_> not implementation
20:20:28 <str4d> Oh, yes likely based on yours (although I'd want to understand the mathematics myself)
20:21:03 <zzz> 4) EdDSA update - (str4d)
20:21:10 <orignal_> good to know :)
20:21:13 <zzz> str4d, what's going on with EdDSA?
20:21:39 <str4d> I just pushed EdDSA-Java 0.2.0, over a year after the last release
20:22:28 <orignal_> what's a difference?
20:22:37 <str4d> Includes various cleanups, the soon-to-be-standard encoding for PKI, fixed JCA naming, a Security Provider, and should actually be constant-time now thanks to a third party that had it audited
20:22:59 <str4d> I've pulled the code into i2p.i2p.zzz.test2
20:23:26 <orignal_> any speed improvements?
20:23:30 <str4d> But what it now needs is testing to check that everything still works fine
20:23:45 <zzz> how much testing have you done?
20:23:58 <str4d> orignal_, speed decrease in signing due to making it constant-time (but not that much)
20:24:06 <str4d> zzz, the EdDSA code itself is well-tested
20:24:20 <orignal_> constrant time of signing or verifing?
20:24:32 <zzz> I'm still a skeptic about constant-time, but if we don't do it everybody will complain
20:24:39 <str4d> signing (verifying has never been constant-time, as there's no secret info)
20:25:01 <zzz> str4d, you targeting 31 or 30?
20:25:02 <str4d> What I *haven't* tested yet is how it interacts with the rest of I2P, specifically relating to the JCA naming fixes
20:25:39 <zzz> as I posted on zzz.i2p I think it's a fool's errand to chase the naming guidelines from some RFC
20:25:47 <str4d> Probably too close to 30 to pull in as we're using the code directly instead of the library
20:25:50 <orignal_> the performance botlleneck is verification
20:26:22 <str4d> For my library, it made sense to fix things before 0.2.0 because there wasn't a Provider before, so no one was using the JCA names
20:26:26 <zzz> str4d, the prop will also be merge hell due to the javadoc changes you made that I already fixed in .29, wont be fun
20:27:14 <str4d> Okay, sounds like the plan is to merge i2p.i2p into .test2, fix the merge conflicts, then get people testing it
20:27:25 <zzz> but we've always had a provider. your changes in test2 tended to prefer some github PR over what I already did to accomplish the same thing, so I'm a little skeptical about the whole thing
20:27:42 <zzz> you could prop that way if you want, or just defer the pain until the prop the other way
20:28:23 <str4d> Yes, but if we're honest, I doubt anyone was using it
20:28:31 <zzz> as I said, I defer to you, it's originally your code, but I still want to stare at it
20:29:11 <zzz> I have one router with a EdDSA family key to test. can't remember what format. Remember I made all these fixes almost 4 months ago, since then we've been waiting for you and your RFC friends :)
20:29:11 <str4d> (who wasn't already directly importing i2p.jar, and would already have migrations to do when they upgrade)
20:29:32 <zzz> anything else on 4) ?
20:30:08 <str4d> Not from me :)
20:30:13 * zzz looks for the baffer
20:30:19 <zzz> anything else for the meeting?
20:31:20 <str4d> Tor's next tor-dev meeting in September-ish is likely to be in Montreal
20:31:33 <orignal_> when?
20:31:53 <z3r0fox> Neat
20:31:55 <str4d> ------------------------------------^
20:31:56 <zzz> anything else for the meeting?
20:32:14 <str4d> I'm planning on going
20:32:28 <zzz> thinking of switching teams?
20:32:47 <str4d> Just aiming to influence them ;)
20:33:14 <zzz> save yourself the plane ticket money, that's not going to happen
20:33:24 <manas> Ya Montreal is nice :)
20:33:27 <str4d> Also hoping that, as Summer Dev will have just finished, we'll have some nice speed improvements to talk about there
20:34:28 * zzz *BAFS*** the meeting closed


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By Evan Ackerman
Remember back in 2007 when the Chevy Volt was just a wicked looking concept car with the same sort of "sure, we're going to be producing this in the next 3-5 years" dreams as many other concepts? There have been some changes along the way, certainly, but there are now Volts coming off the assembly lines at GM factories. These particular cars are called "pre-production" since they'll be tested to make sure the production process is up to snuff, but for all practical purposes, GM is actually producing Volts now, and I for one am impressed.
It remains to be seen, I suppose, whether or not I will remain impressed when GM announces the final pricing for the Volt, which I'm guessing will be a little bit too close to $40,000. They seem to be on track for a late 2010 commercial release, and hopefully production will be such that the non rich and famous like you will be able to buy one in a dealership by early 2011. Me, I'm famous (I write for OhGizmo), so I'm pretty sure they'll be sending me one for free.


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Core Data provides a lot of tools and capabilities to handle almost any type of data. The downside is that has a lengthy learning curve.
Note: In the accompanying sample application, all Core Data code is located in the source files GB_CarsCoreData.m and .h.
SQLite is an open source, lightweight, robust, well-supported, self-contained, cross-platform, relational database that is very popular. You have probably used SQLite at some point in the past it is a very good option for storing application data. The SQLite website is worth taking a moment to browse. Unlike many open source projects, SQLite documentation and support is excellent. SQLite version 3.7.13 is supported on iOS 6 and 7. SQLite is also supported on Android and Windows phone, which is a huge benefit. If you are developing a mobile application targeting multiple platforms, you'd be crazy not to use SQLite.
SQLite stores data in tables, where a table contains one or more columns, each column contains data for a specific data type. One of the tasks RDMS are good at is handling a normalized data set. Instead of each table containing all of the possible columns of data, resulting in duplicated data for each table row, the tables are typically organized to reference another table (via a key), that contains the duplicated data. In the sample application, the manufacture information is kept in a
separate mfg_info table which is referenced by the car table.
Your application interacts with SQLite via the SQL language and the SQLite C API (see sqlite.h). This means that to insert data into the database an
insert SQL statement must be created along with the data to insert. The following snippet shows the
insert statement used by the sample application.
"insert into car (model, msrp, year, mfg_id, cartype_id, cardetails_id) values ("Pinto", 17000, 1970, 1, 2, 3)"
Predictably, to fetch data a
select SQL statement is needed. For example, the following snippet shows how a
select statement is used to fetch all of the car records:
"select * from car"
This is the simple case where all of the car table information is fetched; however, things get complicated quickly when you want to get all of the information for a specific car. In the sample application, this means multiple
join statements as show below:
"select car.model, car.year, car.msrp, cardetails.detailgroup, " "cardetails.info_1, cardetails.info_2, manufacturer.hq_location, " "manufacturer.name, manufacturer.num_employees, cartype.type, " "cartype.type_desc from car inner join cartype on " "car.cartype_id = cartype.id inner join cardetails on " "car.cardetails_id = cardetails.id inner join manufacturer on " "car.mfg_id = manufacturer.id where car.id = %@"
As you can see, even a moderately involved data set requires a solid understanding of SQL syntax and behavior. Another drawback to SQLite is the tedious nature of ensuring that the columns and data are in the correct order. For example, when iterating through the
SELECT results, if you make a mistake for the column number in the
sqlite3_column_*() call, the wrong data will be fetched. This can easily happen when additional columns are added or removed later.
SQLite implements a C API; thus, you will have to convert between
NSStrings * and
char * strings when your application interacts with the database. There are Objective C wrappers for SQLite the most popular being FMDB. For most applications, using the SQLite API directly is not overly cumbersome. The attached sample application uses the SQLite API directly.
Differences between Core Data and SQLite
Core Data and SQLIte are fundamentally different, so it is difficult to compare the two technologies directly. However, from a developer's viewpoint, you can gauge how these differences manifest themselves in an application. What is the cost and benefit of each approach? The accompanying sample iOS iPhone application is designed to test both technologies. From the main screen, select either Core Data or SQLite, create the desired number of records, and select the
Car tab to fetch the records. The memory usage number is for the entire application and is updated once per second. The storage size is the size of the actual persistent file.
Using this test application, let's look at a few key metrics. An iPhone 4s and 5s were tested, both running iOS version 7.1.1. The type of iPhone used, 4s or 5s, for a result is show within parentheses. For exampe (4s) denotes test results for an iPhone 4s, (5s) is for an iPhone 5s.
Memory Usage
Core Data uses more memory, from 40% to 100% more than SQLite. This makes sense considering how Core Data is designed (specifically, how the
NSManagedObjectContext tracks all of the objects), where each object has a memory footprint of some size depending on whether the object's contents have been faulted in (realized in memory versus being a fault).
Record Type
50,000 Recs
100,000 Recs
200,000 Recs
Core Data
32 MB (5s)
24 MB (4s)
53 MB (5s)
38 MB (4s)
91 MB (5s)
67 MB (4s)
21 MB (5s)
16 MB (4s)
29 MB (5s)
22 MB (4s)
46 MB (5s)
36 MB (4s)
Table 3: Numbers after application start up and fetch of all Car records.
There is something to note about memory testing. When creating records, the entire
Car record is created in memory and the higher memory usage reflects this. However, most user scenarios do not involve creating a large number of records. A better measurement of the memory usage is at application start up and with a fetch of all of the
Car records. This is what Table 3 reflects. To get this measurement in testing, the application was restarted (terminated versus put in the background) and the records were re-fetched.
Storage Size
Core Data uses more storage space a lot more storage space approximately 4x more than SQLite, see Table 4.
Record Type
50,000 Recs
100,000 Recs
200,000 Recs
Core Data
6532 KB (5s)
6412 KB (4s)
13296 KB (5s)
13180 KB (4s)
27004 KB (5s)
2,912 KB (4s)
1676 KB (5s)
1676 KB (4s)
3364 KB (5s)
3364 KB (4s)
6824 KB (5s)
6824 KB (4s)
Table 4.
Both Core Data and SQLite are fast when fetching records. For the iPhone 5s, the differences are slight. However, for the 4s, Core Data is nearly 2x as fast. Table 5 shows just one operation, fetching all of the
Car records.
Record Type
Number of Records Fetched
Core Data
107 msec (5s)
397 msec (4s)
230 msec (5s)
850 msec (4s)
475 msec (5s)
1644 msec (4s)
140 msec (5s)
730 msec (4s)
280 msec (5s)
1447 msec (4s)
580 msec (5s)
3077 msec (5s)
Table 5.
Here are some final key points about SQLite and Core Data to keep in mind:
- SQLite is, as advertised, lightweight.
- SQLite uses less memory and storage space.
- SQLite can be tedious and error-prone to code.
- SQLite is supported on Android and Microsoft Windows Phone.
Core Data
- Longer learning curve: it takes some study to understand.
- Objects are easier to work with.
- Underlying storage details are handled atomically (support for iCloud).
- Undo and Redo features.
No one technology, framework, or diet pill will make your life instantly better. When designing an application, a lot of criteria must be considered. This article provides some guidance when selecting a storage approach for your next iOS application. I encourage you to download the sample application and take it for a spin.
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CRESTVIEW � The new arts academy for third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Northwood Elementary School is a few steps closer to reality.
�It�s all starting to fall in place,� Craig said.
The academy will use unoccupied classrooms at Richbourg School next door for some of the new courses.
The idea was brought before the Okaloosa County School Board just before Christmas break. The board didn�t formally vote on the academy, but approved a construction program for it. That was all Craig needed to move forward.
After speaking with residents and her staff, she said next year�s focus has been set. The school will offer students opportunities to explore music, dance and art, as well as science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called STEM subjects.
�We�re going to really focus on the arts piece next school year,� Craig said.
The STEM programs will be added later, she said.
Bell schedules and necessary teacher certifications also are being reviewed, Craig said.
To help ease the transition, Superintendent of Schools Mary Beth Jackson recommended moving Barry Blackburn, assistant principal at the Northwest Florida Ballet Academie, to Richbourg School.
Blackburn, who did his teacher training at a magnet school, has taken up his new post and said he�s optimistic about the opportunities the program will provide to students in the north end of the county.
�For so long we�ve been cutting (art programs) out of our classrooms,� he said. � � (But) I don�t think you have to take away from your core classes to incorporate the arts.�
Craig and Blackburn said they anticipate bringing the full program before the School Board in March for a vote. If approved, Craig said they will send letters to the homes of students at the four neighboring elementary schools to gauge interest.
Northwood will have 88 open seats for students from the other schools. The selection process is still under discussion, Craig said.
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It came from former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson [see the video of the endorsement and a transcript of it below this post].
Thompson's endorsement may not actually make many Republicans turn around and say that Thompson's support of Gingrich finally gives them a reason to support Newt over Romney and Santorum, but what it does do is provide many conservatives with enough cause to seriously consider jumping on the Gingrich bandwagon that is now commonly referred to as "Newtmentum".
Despite his failure to show up for owen presidential campaign in 2008, Fred Thompson is considered a true voice of commonsense conservatism. The actor turned politician in the late 90's, has been a consistent advocate of anti-establishment leadership and conservative fiscal and social values. Part of his draw was his commanding ability to articulate conservative solutions with a dose of down-to-earth, folksy common sense that cut through the bureaucratic jargon that overwhelms the Beltway and attempts to complicate the issues with distractions and distortions.
It is that style and ability which was responsible for initially unleashing the greatets amount of spontaneous enthusiasm for any single Republican presidential candidate in 2008, when Thompson made a late Summer entry in to the contest. But conservatives lost their enthusiam for Thommpson just as quickly as they became enthused by him, after he ran what, to put it nicely, was a lethargic campaign that had few campaign events, little money, and a candidate who was less energized than his supporters. Some have suggested that Thompson's entry in to the race was merely a political stratgey meant to take enough support away from Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, to allow John McCain to squeak by and win the nomination. Having been there myself, I tend to believe that.
While that is quite disappointing if true, it still does not take away from the favorable opinion that many have of Fred Thompson, myself includeded. In fact, I dare say that if Thompson had wanted the nomination in 2012 and actually wanted to run a real campaign for it, he would be the frontrunner today. Which is why his endorsement of Newt Gingrich matters. Especially now.
As Floridians prepare to nomiante their choice for President, Thompson's endorsement carries more weight than others do, perhaps even more so than Jeb Bush. While Jeb is certainly popular in Florida and would have a very substantial conservative candidate in his own right if he ran for the nomination, he is still largely perceived as a part of the establishment. Fred Thompson is not. And it is the anti-establishment vote which is largely driving the momentum behind Newt Gingrich.
The anti-establishment vote drove the historic Republican takeover of the House in 2012 midterm elections, and while some on the left try to deny that anti-establishment sentiment represented by the TEA movement is still alive and well, it continues to have a significant effect on politics. Ask Romney, and off the record, he will confirm that. On the record of course, he will tell you that his support from the TEA Party is strong, Unfortunately for him though, South Carolina proved that not to be true. Based on the exit polls in that race, you can rest assured that Romney would not bet $10,000 on whether the TEA Party supports him over candidates.
What Fred Thompson's endorsement of Gingrich does is make it more difficult for Romney to gain the support of anti-establishment Republicans. While it may not be the determining factor that makes Floridians flock to Gingrich, it adds to the positive psychological atmosphere that is growing around Newt Gingrich and reinforces the Newtmentum that according to the latest polls, is building.
For that reason, Fred Thompson's endorsement of Gingrich is quite valuable.
And the way the endorsement was delivered happens to have been odne extraordinariliy well. It was based on more than just platitudes. In his 5 minute pro-Newt testimonial, Fred Thompson articulates an extraordinarily deep rationale for supporting Newt.
At one point in the endorsement video, Thompson even strikes upon the chord that is critical to what differentiates Gingrich from all the other candidates and is one of the key elememts to his succes. Thompson states;
"We don't need to just manage the way Washington works. We need to fundamentally change Washington. It would be a major setback for our party and our country if we elect a president who is not up to that challenge. We need someone who has the courage and ability to communicate the truth to the American people."
Those words sum of the very sentiments that tens of millions of Americans have when it comes to politics and our government. They articulate the thinking of a vast majority of Americans who are disatsfied by, and disgruntled with the status quo and seeking not fundamental change in American values, but fundamental change in an American government that seeks to enforce its bureaucratic values on Americans.
What Thompson's words do is help to shape the debate and articulate the rational for supporting Newt Gingrich and while Newt may not have the money it takes to turn Thompson's video endorsement in to a 5 minute ad that runs across the conservative rich Northern and Western section of Florida, he can take Thompson's words and target these regions with the Thompson's message. And if Thompson is willing to put a little more energy in to it that he did for his own 2008 presidential campaign, hitting the campaign trail with and for Newt in the Sunshine will also help open up minds to the thought of supporting Newt while helping to add to Newt's existing momentum.
Transcript of Thompson's Endorsement;
I am one of the countless number of Americans who know firsthand that, in this country, a person may be born into modest circumstances, but that he comes into the world blessed in ways that have been unimaginable to the vast majority of people who have ever lived. We are born with the birthright of freedom and opportunity – free to make our own choices about the important things in life and the opportunity to fulfill our God-given potential.
The greatest fear that I have for my country is that our government now has us on a different path. Instead of freedom and opportunity, it is one of debt, dependence division and decline – a path that will weaken our country and sap the vitality of the American people. We have moved from an era of balanced budgets, to a time of debt as large as our entire economy and of lost credit ratings. In 2001, when I was chairman of the Senate Government Affairs Committee, I released a report "Government On the Brink," in which I laid out the extent to which our government was bloated, growing, wasteful, subject to massive fraud, and basically out of control.
A decade later, it is worse. Today, federal bureaucrats think they can tell a family where they can build their home and a business where it can locate. I believe that how one views the condition and trajectory of our country determines how one views the strengths of our presidential candidates. For me, I believe that we are at a tipping point, one from which we may not return. To avoid these disastrous consequences, our country needs leadership that is fearless and confident – a candidate who can give voice to the concerns and frustrations of the American people …someone who understands – and will never apologize for American Exceptionalism.
We don't need to just manage the way Washington works. We need to fundamentally change Washington. It would be a major setback for our party and our country if we elect a president who is not up to that challenge. We need someone who has the courage and ability to communicate the truth to the American people. Someone who will explain the hard choices that we must make if we are to give our children and grandchildren the same opportunities our forefathers bestowed on us and avoid the fate that other great nations have suffered throughout history. I believe that person is Newt Gingrich. And that is why I strongly support him. I came to Washington in 1995, in part as a result of the political revolution that Newt conceived and led. Over the next few years we were able to balance the budget, pass welfare reform, and begin to rebuild a weakened military. So we know it can be done.
Unfortunately, some on our side lost their way, became divided, and fell into recriminations and finger pointing. Sometimes, success is a difficult thing to handle. I believe that most of us have learned from our mistakes and are now focused on the future and the dangers and opportunities that lie ahead for our country. President Obama's strategy is simple…avoid the hard realities his failed policies have created over the past three years, divide the country, pander to and organize his various constituencies, and eek out another victory. I believe he fails to see what so much of the political establishment and the Washington insiders on both sides of the aisle fail to see – that these past few years have changed our people and our country.
People in America don't want to be told what to do, and they certainly can't be told what to think. They see for themselves what is happening in Europe with Greece, Spain and the lot, do not want it happening on our shores and are spontaneously organizing in towns all across America. They realize that on our present course we may not recognize our country in a few years. They are waiting to be inspired and energized to a cause that will conserve those first principles that made us the envy of the world. This cause cannot be led by glossy flip charts, processing data, or reams of talking points poll-tested by a roomful of consultants.
It must be led by someone who can forcefully make our basic case for the economy … for example … how lower taxes benefit all Americans, and can raise revenue for the legitimate and limited functions of the federal government. Someone who is able to articulate the message of growth, free enterprise and freedom. Someone who knows that bold ideas have preceded every major achievement of mankind – including the United States of America. I believe that Newt Gingrich is that person.
Please join me and Newt in this effort to renew America's Exceptionalism. Go to Newt.org and show your support.
Thank you.
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The scientific approach to consciousness is a relatively new pursuit, but it has already revealed some startling facts about the cavalcade of feelings, images and thoughts that stream through our heads every waking moment. Jay Ingram will present some of the most surprising of these in a talk based on his best-selling book, Theatre of the Mind. Jay Ingram is the author of several bestselling books, including The Science of Everyday Life, The Barmaids Brain and The Velocity of Honey. He is producer and co-host of the Discovery Channels award-winning show Daily Planet, and also contributes a weekly science column to the Toronto Star. He holds two ACTRAs, the Royal Society of Canada McNeil Medal, the Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute, the Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion and three Canadian Science Writers Awards.


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Just as all humanistic study of ancient texts is enhanced by the application of computing technologies, the modern study of biblical texts is increasingly being transformed by the microcomputer revolution. In particular, electronic digital media and computer programs are ideally suited to the tasks of organization, manipulation, storage, and dissemination of textual information. The democratization of "personal computer" technology enables anyone who uses a computer for writing or accounting tasks to explore scriptural texts with associated linguistic data bases and reference tools in a digital environment.
Manuscript Collation and Production of Critical Editions.
Computer programs help scholars reconstruct whole "texts" from ancient manuscript fragments in the same way that programs assist archaeologists in reconstructing ceramic vessels: once the physical and textual features of manuscript fragments are described, pattern‐matching programs may be used to hypothesize text reconstruction based upon groupings and physical joins. When individual texts are restored and fully encoded, programs using "genetic" knowledge may be used to suggest stemmatic (genealogical) and typological relationships, dividing texts or recensions into families. Manuscript evidence may then be manipulated programmatically to create critical editions of the text, whether on a small scale or in the production of a major edition. The advantages of creating paper critical editions from electronic data bases are great: far fewer mistakes are made in printing, and the logical and physical formats of print editions are entirely negotiable, being defined in variable sets of rules similar to electronic style sheets. (See also Printing and Publishing, articles on Production and Manufacturing and Economics.)
Data Bases for Linguistic and Literary Annotation.
Biblical texts held in simple electronic format are immediately useful since they may be edited, queried, and displayed in various ways. More subtle inquiry into the text requires that words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, pericopes—even individual characters within words—be supplied with linguistic and literary description. Computer programs have been used to "parse" texts, assigning lexical and grammatical features to words, but in general these annotations must be made manually. Morphological data bases have been created for the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Septuagint, and related corpora. Each word might be lemmatized (given a normalized spelling and dictionary form), augmented with a morphological description and similar linguistic‐literary annotations. Literary structural markers are placed within the texts, in addition to markers used in canonical referencing schemes such as chapters and verses. Once descriptive enhancements are made to the text, scholars may frame queries in terms of lexical, grammatical and syntactic textual features, not merely in terms of a fixed character stream. Of course, all assignment of literary and linguistic markup is subjective, so the results of searches, however quantified, must also be qualified. In addition to the widely accessible linguistic data bases for biblical texts, rich collections of rabbinic, Greek and Latin (classical, medieval, epigraphic‐ephemeral), Muslim, and Buddhist text materials are also publicly available.
Dynamic Concording.
Perhaps the most popular computer applications for general users are programs that permit dynamic "concording" of texts and user‐specified displays of text in concordance formats. Whereas printed concordances are static (i.e., based upon a dictionary form or other organizing principle), a computer concordance program is dynamic. Thus, rather than scan excerpted passages containing the single word "compassion," a user specifies the search criteria, limited only by the research goals and imagination. These are some examples of searches: all sentences containing "wine" or "strong drink," as well as "joy"; all verses in the Septuagint containing more than two imperative verb forms; all conditional clauses in the book of Exodus; all interrogative sentences in the NRSV version of the book of Job. Of course, the concordance query may address only those features supported by the data base and search program.
Hypertext and Hypermedia Displays.
Because the Bible has been the object of intensive textual focus for many centuries, a rich network of commentary and linguistic annotation has grown up around it. A relatively new technology for managing this network of knowledge is called "hypertext." Hypertext, and hypermedia, which includes digitized graphic images and other media formats, exploits a primary distinguishing feature of "electronic" text: nonlinearity. An electronic document may be rearranged, compressed, expanded, split into logical subdocuments, or in other ways liberated from its linear‐sequential format as determined in traditional books. The concept of linking primary text with its reference works (grammar, lexicon, encyclopedia, commentary, theological wordbook) and with "parallel" texts has led to the creation of electronic books, usually scanned or keypunched, using standard reference tools. In a hypertext computer environment, each biblical verse or single word of base text is linked to portions of documents in the associated works. A hypertext application with several windows makes it possible to enjoy synchronous scrolling of several parallel texts or text versions or synchronized display of commentary text with base text. Control and navigation within such networks is not yet perfected, but hypertext technology shows great promise for individualized and interdisciplinary study of biblical texts.
Critical Study of the Bible.
Most computer applications described above are general, conceptually simple, and noncontroversial. The use of quantitative and computational linguistics methodologies for the critical study of biblical texts is still immature by comparison. Within small corners of the world of biblical studies, computing techniques have been used to study such historical‐ and literary‐critical features as textual transmission (subtle trends in spelling), authorship (unity or composite character of texts, measuring subconscious parameters of authorial style), metrical systems, translational features in ancient versions, and syntax (word order, clause patterns). The impact on mainline biblical studies has been minimal, though not insignificant. Some of the chief obstacles to acceptance of quantitative and computational methods are the difficulty of providing formal conceptual models and text representation schemes for critical inquiry; the greater appropriateness of currently understood methods to synchronic study of texts, rather than to higher‐order analytic investigation; and the preference of biblical scholars for older, proven methods of research and publishing, with concomitant slowness to embrace newer methods of working in the global electronic workspace.
The growing popularity of international academic networks for collaborative research, the rapidly improving software for electronic publishing, and newer conceptual models for managing multilingual text all promise a bright future for computing in biblical studies. A point of critical mass has already been reached in the popular sector among Bible enthusiasts; the equivalent threshold of scholarly involvement has nearly been crossed. As trends increase toward compact mass storage (one CD‐ROM disk now contains the equivalent of 150 books) and smaller, more powerful microcomputers, the growth of humanities computing appears certain. Current reports on these developments may be found in the conference activities and publication organs of the Society of Biblical Literature's Computer Assisted Research Group (CARG) and the Association Internationale Bible et Informatique (AIBI), and in annual sections of the Humanities Computing Yearbook (Oxford).
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A previously unknown scrap of ancient papyrus written in ancient Egyptian Coptic is pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters September 18, 2012. The papyrus has four words written in Coptic that provide the first unequivocal evidence that within 150 years of his death, some followers of Jesus, believed him to have been married.
If a fourth-century fragment of papyrus that purportedly quotes Jesus telling his disciples about "my wife" is authenticated, it could upend the modern church's understanding of the "son of God."
"If Jesus is a normal human being and he's sexual, that's the real fear," James Tabor, a biblical scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the co-author of books about Jesus and his family, told NBC News. "You can't think of Jesus like that because he's too holy."
The Bible contains no explicit mentions of Jesus being either married or not married, but few churches have room for the idea of a sexual Jesus. The Catholic Church's celibate priesthood is built on the belief that Jesus was not married. Eastern Orthodox priests are often married, but the church teachings don't mention a married Jesus. Protestant ministers are allowed to marry, but there again, it is not common to teach that Jesus himself was married.
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"I would say that the more conservative groups might be more inclined to be bothered by the idea of a married Jesus, and especially that he might have had a child, god forbid, since that would really raise questions about his 'divinity,' since they see him as fully human and fully God," Tabor subsequently explained in an email.
"Can God sleep with a woman and have a child? It just doesn't fit the concept they want for Jesus," he said.
New questions are being raised about whether Jesus was married after Dr. Karen King, a historian at Harvard Divinity School, found an ancient papyrus with words translated to Jesus referencing a wife. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
The Unification Church, however, does believe that Jesus was supposed to get married, and some of the early teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stated Jesus was married and even fathered children, although that belief is not widespread today.
The Mormon and the Unification Church's beliefs, however, have more to do with their own theology of marriage rather than with scripture, Ben Witherington III, a New Testament professor at the Asbury Theological Seminary, told NBC News.
Unlike their modern counterparts, there is evidence that some early Christians -- the Valentinian Gnostics -- believed Jesus was married, according to April DeConick, a biblical scholar at Rice University. The recently discovered papyrus, she told NBC News, would be the second piece of evidence from an ancient Christian gospel that early Christians were not bothered by the idea of a married Jesus. The first piece of evidence -- which DeConick said comes from the Gospel of Philip -- identifies Mary Magdalene as Jesus' wife.
NYT: Historian says piece of papyrus refers to Jesus' wife
Karen L. King, the Harvard Divinity School professor who unveiled the papyrus, cautioned that the discovery does not serve as evidence that the historical Jesus was married.
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Karen L. King, the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University holds a previously unknown ancient papyrus fragment from Egypt that has four words written in Coptic that provide the first unequivocal evidence that within 150 years of his death, some followers of Jesus, believed him to have been married.
"This new gospel doesn't prove that Jesus was married, but it tells us that the whole question only came up as part of vociferous debates about sexuality and marriage," King said in a press release. "From the very beginning, Christians disagreed about whether it was better not to marry, but it was over a century after Jesus' death before they began appealing to Jesus' marital status to support their positions."
The Christians who eventually became dominant, DeConick said, believed celibacy was the route to heaven.
"Catholicism was deeply shaped by monasticism in its formative period," Witherington said, adding that he thinks this belief brought about "a very deficient view of the goodness of human sexuality as a gift from god."
"There's just nothing biblical about that," he argued. But Catholics couldn't imagine Jesus as married, because that would have "tainted" his holy image, he said.
DeConick, who explored sex and gender in early Christianity in her book, "Holy Misogyny," said that in the ancient world, the female body was considered weak, pitiful and wretched.
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"We have so many hundreds of years of an understanding of sexuality that in some way sex is not divine, it's not sacred," she said. "It's going to be a long hard road for people to see a figure that they think is god as being engaged in a sexual activity – even with a wife."
Witherington believes most churches will likely be ambivalent about a married Jesus because the implications are unclear. But he said some liberal Protestants might even accept the idea that Jesus could have had children in the same way as some Protestant churches no longer teach the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary.
"It doesn't mean [the children]'d be as perfect as dad," he said. "That would be a hard act to follow whether you're a wife or a kid."
The public, however, appears more open to the idea of a married Jesus. Ongoing for centuries, the debate about the possibility that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene was also the subject of author Dan Brown's bestseller, "The Da Vinci Code." Both the book and the recent discovery of the papyrus fragment that reignited the debate have garnered a positive reaction from the public.
"Maybe it makes him more human for us," Tabor said.
Witherington, who wrote a book debunking some of the statements made in "The Da Vinci Code," said he encountered the same "enormous positive reaction" on his book tour at the time.
"There was such a willingness to believe that what Dan Brown was saying was the gospel about Jesus," he said.
"Jesus was an early Jew. I don't think Jesus had any qualms about marriage," Witherington added. "But [Jesus] also thinks it was perfectly viable for an able-bodied man to become single for the sake of [god's] kingdom."
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