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- Jah Sun
- Los Angeles, CA
- United States
CEO, Water Charity
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What alternatives are there to the current economic system? Should global capitalism fail, what would be the best model to replace it?
There are a ton of people who are dissatisfied with how our current system operates. Quite a few people are coming to the conclusion that this system is endemically flawed.
The Occupy movement is merely the most obvious and vocal outgrowth of a sentiment that many feel very strongly... namely that our Capitalist model of resource and labor management is unfair, environmentally unsound, inefficient, and unsustainable.
The fact that the people who profit the most in our system are often people who do little or no actual work is fairly self-evident. The hardest work, like toilet cleaning, often garners the most minimal of recompense, while investing in abstract economic instruments like the S&P Index can net one millions of dollars in a 10 second phone call placed from a poolside lounge chair in a 5-star resort.
Given that any system, no matter how well designed, can be improved... this debate is an attempt to spark a rational conversation on what we could do to make the exchange of goods and services more just, more effective, and more healthy for the biosphere.
There are scant few models out there that even propose any clear alternative. Most of the writing on the subject amounts to either pure critique of the current system, or pie-in-the-sky Utopian idealism with no clear path to get from here to there.
So, brilliant TED lovers... anyone got any good ideas?
We can discuss the pros and cons of such extant alternative models as The Venus Project, the "Basic Income" (ala B.I.E.N.), some of the ideas presented in Pinchbeck's latest Evolver essay compendium "What Comes After Money?" or any other relevant topic that tickles your fancy. Feel free to defend global capitalism if that is how you feel.
Let's keep it civil and worthy of this esteemed venue. Logic, clarity, rationality, and respect are paramount.
It is worth pointing out that what is better or best, in this case, will be considered in light of all people and the biosphere we share.
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It has been quite an interesting exploration.
Inspiring , frustrating, informative... but most of all, it has brought certain things into sharp focus.
The basic question of "what alternatives to the global economic system are there?" has been only cursorily addressed, because the answer is that there really AREN'T any that are ready for prime time. We've seen plenty of good fixes, adjustments & modifications... some quite striking & comprehensive... but nobody has been able to put forth a clear model of what we could actually do INSTEAD of the current status quo, should this model fail.
And, fail it could... make no mistake about that.
Also, I don't think the focus should be on what is best for US Citizens (or any single nation state or group of nations). The problem is already trans-national. National solutions to trans-national problems tend to prove disastrous. Unilateral actions & heavy handed moves in one nation's interest should become a thing of the past as people wake up & realize that we all share this one Earth, that national boundaries are imaginary lines drawn by people who often never even visited the place in question, and that humanity is going to have to work together if we want to solve the major issues of our time.
As far as short term fixes go, fractional reserve banking & debt based currency need to go. Lara posted this link: http://issuu.com/margritkennedy/docs/bue_eng_interest to an e-book which does a good job showing how this monetary system is crippling us.
The data that Richard Wilkinson put forth in his TED talk (linked in the intro) argues for us to recognize that economic inequality hurts everyone... even the ones at the top. The most equal societies are clearly the healthiest & most successful.
I think the Basic Income Guarantee is a good place to start in addressing the remorseless & uncivilized blight of abject poverty.
It is clear that we need to redress our priorities as a society.
Another conversation will follow.
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Nov 4 2011: i still haven't seen any logical relationship between the problems of our time and capitalism. though many seems to simply accept that as a fact. we have many distortions to capitalism today. it is just as logical to address problems to distortions. it is not enough to claim. we need analysis.
the notion that cleaning toilets would be the hardest work is wrong. granted, it is a work with great discomfort. however, virtually every person on the globe can clean a toilet. however, writing computer programs, like i do, is a work that requires constant, brain tiring thinking, and needs 10+ years of learning. and to be a world class mathematician requires 20+ years of learning and exceptional talent. one can not judge the hardship of a work by the physical.
not that this matters much. it is not the discomfort that determines what you get. rather, the value of your contribution. surely, a man who grows apples provide much less than a man who heals the sick. if you can provide something that is greatly demanded, you can ask for more in return. if you can offer something that is relatively abundant, you can not ask for too much. this is fair. why would you get more than you gave?
another problem with your reasoning is too much abstraction. you want to find the value of investing in a financial derivative for 10 seconds. it is not your job to find that. it is not your money they took. they engaged in voluntary exchange with other people. what is the benefit for society? what is the benefit for society if you buy an apple in the store? it does not have to. it has benefit for you and the store owner. story ends. nobody else is involved. we can find social function though, apple is healthy, food is required, etc. but we can also find the social function of derivatives: they determine the value of firms, bonds, etc. the derivative market distributes capital, which is a very important role.
Nov 4 2011: Unfortunately, the value of one's contribution to society is completely unrelated to one's income. It is your value to a capitalist.
Toilet washing may or may not be as valuable to society as computer programming, but it certainly requires more effort than e-trading. It also doesn't cause families to live under bridges when done unethically.
Investing in commodities & stocks is a kind of gambling that can be justified perhaps in setting the value of actual things... namely corporate shares and physical items like gold and frozen concentrated orange juice. The farther away from this you get (futures, options on futures, options on the indexes of futures and so on) the more it becomes just gambling.
And while nearly every state in the union sees fit to limit your right to play craps or bet on sports games, the betting of people's pension money and retirement funds on abstractions that can be easily manipulated is fairly well unregulated.
I am not calling for regulation. Merely recognizing that derivatives & the poolside gambling of millionaires nearly collapsed our economic system. We are still reeling from the greed of the financial sector. Europe still teeters on the brink of collapse, and people are still living in tent cities.
Capitalism started out as a reaction to the unfairness of the Feudal system. It provided upward mobility, and enabled people to simplify the trading of goods and services. Investment banking today, however, has very little to do with this. Many people in the financial sector make their money by siphoning it out of the economy, playing middlemen, and gambling with other people's money.
If you see no logical relationship between the problems of our time and global capitalism, I urge you to visit an Asian sweatshop, one of the many sprawling tent cities, a metropolitan landfill in Guatemala, a factory town where the factory was moved south of the border, or a clearcut in the Amazon Rainforest and its displaced indigenous population
Nov 4 2011: to be even more precise, one's income is not dependent on his contributions to "society", but to those who employ him. it is of course possible that they judge it incorrectly, but it is their fault and their loss. if a broker earns a million, it meas that someone considered it a worthy payment for some services of him. you don't have to worry though, it is not your million.
the farther away you get in derivatives, the less you understand it, but it does not lose its reality. futures actually came from farmers, not money markets. futures were invented for seasonal products like wheat and corn. all these financial tools were invented to fulfill real needs, they serve real demands. they pave the road for capital to move around easier.
capitalism did not start as a reaction to unfairness. capitalism is a stage in the constant struggle for freedom. also a step in technological progress.
the notion that middleman is unnecessary is rather unfair to wholesalers. middlemen do work.
suppose i visit such places, but still don't understand how capitalism caused it. can you tell me?
Nov 5 2011: It is not your million? Are you serious?
The economic catastrophe we are all suffering from was a direct result of the actions of bankers, investors, and trans-national corporations. Their negligence and greed has cost all of us huge sums of money. Debt based money & fractional reserve banking cost all of us.
Our currency has dropped, our national credit rating has been lowered, the values of our houses have diminished, pension plans have been gutted, and now they want to strip away vital elements in the safety net to pay for the handouts and bailouts we already gave to these capitalists...
I humbly suggest that your concept of Capitalism is somewhat short sighted. If you are unable to understand how our economic system is responsible for vast problems that the mass of the 7 billion human beings on the planet face, I suppose I could help you to see it... only I am guessing the 2000 characters per post rule here would not be sufficient.
You say Capitalism did not start as a reaction to unfairness, and then you say it is a stage in the constant struggle for freedom... which is it? Capitalism is not a step in technological progress.
Middlemen do work... for themselves.
Personally, I understand derivatives just fine. I have even designed neural networks to trade them back in the 90's. What you fail to recognize is that the value of the currencies, commodities, and indexes have nothing to do with their actual worth anymore, but rather the emotional (and heavily manipulated) perception of their worth.
Large money holders can create runs, manufacture bubbles, sell short and then tank the market on purpose... Futures are not necessarily bad, options on futures and indexes, either, But what we have is packaged debt, falsely valued and sold as if it was something real. We have people gambling with other people's future.
I am sure there is a tent city near to where you live or work. Go check it out and think about what you are saying.
Nov 5 2011: That's not a good argument. The reason the economy at large suffered is because finance is the blood of the economic organs. The shock to the financial industry was like an economic heart attack, so the whole body went into shock and money immediately flowed to mainly the most 'vital' parts as determined by some ingrained idea that has evolved over time; in this case everyone kept their own money in their own pocket, because this Randian deregulation that allowed the crisis was driven by that value system in the first place.
Additionally, the "tent cities" are, at least in the U.S., an entirely contrived media spectacle. Many people may have lost homes, but they are not the people showing up in the tent cities. Since OWS is predominantly anarchist, I'll use their term: those tent cities are a "simulacrum" of truth. They do not deserve the name given to the tent cities of the great depression, which were predominantly homeless people gathering together so they could be seen by society, because we are talking about ideological warriors masquerading as "the 99%". No matter how 'right' they might be, acting is still just acting.
Nov 5 2011: Danny...
For the record, homelessness is not a contrived media spectacle. There are REAL people, really suffering in the streets, alleys, and out of the way places of most major metropolitan areas worldwide.
It is rather cavalier of you to dismiss the undeniable reality of poverty and destitution that exists.
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Nov 5 2011: there are many theories about the financial meltdown and its causes. if you start to dig it up, indeed, the first layer will be financial corporations, mainly american, trading derivatives. however, it is advisable to dig deeper, and ask, how could that happen? why nobody saw it? why now, and not decades earlier, or a hundred years earlier. so far, the only coherent and believable explanation i've found is the austrian business cycle theory. it nails misguided government policies as the cause.
also please bear in mind that neither money nor the public debt is a capitalist thing. they are both managed by the state.
freedom's opposite is control, slavery, dictatorship, etc. not unfairness. capitalists never wanted fair system. they wanted freedom to act on their own behalf, as they can, undisturbed.
to maintain civility, clarity and logic, i would rather skip reflecting the rest of your reply.
Nov 5 2011: I suppose I am most interested in hearing about ways to improve our situation.
New ideas about how we could deal with resources, labor, goods, services etc.
I am not anti-capitalist per se.
It just seems prudent to imagine what OTHER ways we could organize our species, biosphere, and local solar system... given the fact that the current system is teetering on the edge of an abyss.
Think of it as a brain teaser.
scott leeNov 6 2011: I've heard a lot of people blaming the government instead of the private sector for the recession, but I only agree in a limited fashion. Its true, certain mortgage lending practices and derivative practices should have been illegal under sound financial regulation. However, the government did not FORCE mortgage brokers to lend irresponsibly. The government did not FORCE financial institutions to bundle those debts into derivatives, raise their credit rating and sell them around the globe. The people that did those deeds are still responsible for those actions.
Furthermore, it takes a certain degree of double think to say it is the governments fault the recession happened in one breath and call for deregulation in another. Calling for the government to take responsibility and prevent such things from happening is essentially a call for stronger regulation. The recession happened due to lack of sound regulation.
In Canada, where I live, we had strong financial regulation. We have stricter requirements for mortgages, and the banks more are limited in how much they are allowed to lend compared to how much liquid assets they must keep on hand. It is our regulations that insulated us and resulted in not needing to bail out any Canadian banks.
As was mentioned earlier, the 100% pure austrian school capitalism doesn't exist, and probably never will. Furthermore, if it did exist, it would most likely fail miserably. Regulations we have on capitalism exist out of necessity.
The problem with the austrian school of economics is the rationalist approach. In reality, economics is too complicated to be understood by "arm chair reasoning". Only empirical observation of businesses in action and in history can develop a realistic understanding of economics.
Nov 6 2011: Jah Sun; responding to your comment; 'Unfortunately, the value of one's contribution to society is completely unrelated to one's income. It is your value to a capitalist.'. The teacher is a very good example of this. Traditionally teachers have been highly valued in human society, but since education is only useful within certain elite spheres of capitalist monopolistic structures and an educated workforce could even be considered detrimental to the capitalist greed machine, we see that teachers continue to fall behind other professions annually.
Was not feudalism just another example of a monopolistic, aka capitalist, economic structure? Sure back then, people used the simple idea of birthright (which could be bought) to hold the reins of economic power, whereas today's free marketeer has to tap dance around democracy and a constitution in order to hold power. The outcome, polarisation of wealth, wide gaps between rich and poor, exploitation and devaluing or of human rights, seem to me, to be the same.
Nov 6 2011: Hi Danny...were the bodies floating down the streets after Katrina also actors? Honestly. There comes a point where trying account for the financial collapse in the U.S. and the consequential human suffering with arguments like 'The reason the economy at large suffered is because finance is the blood of the economic organs. The shock to the financial industry was like an economic heart attack,' is delusional. Reuters did a story in September 2011 that 45000 people, one every twelve minutes, die each year due to not having access to healthcare in the U.S. How much further evidence would it take to convince you that free market capitalism is extraodinarily destructive, and inhumane?
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33 Sweet and Savory Things to Do When You Have Too Much Jam
Have you been a busy Canning Bee this summer, filling your cupboards with row upon row of jam jars? Are jars of peach, blackberry, apricot, strawberry, raspberry, fig and their many variations and combinations spilling out everywhere? Then you may have already had that moment when you've stepped back and said thoughtfully to yourself "Wait a minute. How often do I actually have toast and jam for breakfast?"
If your answer isn't "seven mornings a week" and you've already gifted every friend and neighbor, brought jars to the office, to church, to your book club, and to your last hair appointment, then you may be in need of some new ideas. Here are 33 ways, both savory and sweet, to use jam.
- DIY Pop Tarts.
- Fill a layer cake.
- Shortbread Jam Tart.
- Top a cheesecake.
- Fill pastries.
- Fill muffins and cupcakes.
- Flavor frostings.
- Make Thumbprint Cookies.
- Fill a cookie (such as Hamantaschen).
- Add to homemade popsicles.
- Filling for crepes.
- Use in a sundae or ice cream sandwich.
- Dehydrate into fruit leather.
- Russian Jam tea (Sbiten).
- Stir into hot black tea to sweeten.
- Use in a cocktail.
- Make a soda.
- Make a milkshake.
- Glaze a chicken or ribs.
- Make BBQ sauce.
- Add to a cheese plate.
- Use in sandwichs, especially turkey, ham or cheese.
- Cumberland Sauce.
- Add to vinaigrette.
- Swirl into yogurt.
- Swirl into oatmeal.
- Topping for pancakes or waffles.
- Stuff french toast.
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I totally do the yogurt thing. That way I can buy one low-fat dairy product (plain greek style yogurt) and use in multiple applications (in place of sour cream, mayo, creme fraiche, dressings, raita, and obvs sweetened with jam for fruity yogurt).
Baked Brie with raspberry jam (or peach or strawberry or any jam) and sliced almonds in puff pastry.
I love a nice jam with savory things. Lately, I've been into quince jam with my cheese and crackers. And I put berry jams on my omelets (more like a crepe than a traditional omelet).
If you can tell me what to do with pepper jelly, that would be fabulous. My stepmother gave me a jar of red and a jar of green pepper jelly and I have ZERO idea of what to do with it and google was not very helpful.
Just finished lunch - toasted everything bagel with goat cheese and blackberry jam. Also made a marinade for some chicken - thinned down strawberry jam and added heat with jalapeno and some depth with fish sauce & a bit of soy sauce.
Barbecue sauce! http://www.coconutandlime.com/2011/10/pepper-jelly-barbecue-sauce.html
@MLH, pepper jelly is traditional around here served poured over a bar of cream cheese with crackers on the side. My family also likes to put it on egg and English muffin sandwiches for breakfast, or use it on bagels with cream cheese instead of a fruit jam. Never heard of green pepper jelly, but I would give it the cream cheese (or other mild cheese) treatment.
I had some strawberry freezer jam that did not set very well, and we have been loving it poured over vanilla ice cream.
The barbecue sauce may be the winner. I've heard of the pour over cream cheese solution, but I don't really have any events planned where that could be served.
"Too much jam" hahahahahahaha
That's like "too much nutella" or "too much butter."
No. Such. Thing.

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OEM dealers and distributors who need parts for high-demand or discontinued equipment often have no choice but to turn to non-OEM manufacturers, DeFeo says.
Many dealerships offer less expensive non-OEM parts as options, but that choice can have unforeseen consequences, Williams says. "If all you want is my cheapest price, I'm not going to be able to offer you the highest level of service."
As manufacturing technology continues to improve, reverse-engineered or copycat products will become more common, Richards says. "The issue is still one of quality and value. The loss of revenue from a non-working vehicle is far greater than the cost savings on a copycat product."
Knockoff mechanical parts are a growing problem, says Mahrt, who notes that Caterpillar, like other OEMs, has seen lots of former employees go to work for rival companies.
"Caterpillar clearly has an edge on electronic parts – for now, anyway," Mahrt says. "We're lulling ourselves to sleep if we think the competition will never have that capability, but they don't have it now. We're the big dog on the block, so we've got a big target on our back. It's a perverse sort of compliment."
READ THE WARRANTY. In almost every instance, using unauthorized parts voids warranties. Even if the warranty has expired, using unauthorized parts poses risks to your business, says Nick Richards of GM Powertrain. "Warranty use is only the beginning of the life cycle of the vehicle."
CHECK ASSOCIATES AND CREDENTIALS. "Buy through a reputable, nationally known or nationally identified truck parts distributor," says Tim Kraus of the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association. Retail chains such as Fleetpride or Truckpro, any manufacturer affiliated with the Council of Fleet Specialists, any distributor in the HDA Parts Network – all pledge replacement parts that meet OEM specifications, whether those parts have OEM brands or not, Kraus says.
FOLLOW THE OEM. Even if you're not buying the part from the OEM, you have the option of sticking with parts makers that supply the OEMs. "Manufacturers don't say, 'OK, we're done making the OEM parts, now it's time to dial down on our quality for the aftermarket.' It's the same part," says Mark Williams of the Technology and Maintenance Council.
ASK ABOUT REMANS. If the price of a new OEM part is giving you sticker shock, ask the OEM about the price of its remanufactured version, says Don Mahrt of Caterpillar. "They typically cost 40 percent less than new, but they're just as good as new," and they offer all the benefits of staying within the OEM system, he says.
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Beavis and Butt-head Do America
Two of the biggest animated slackers around, Beavis (Mike Judge) and Butt-head (also Judge) get a kick-start when two crooks steal their TV. On their mission to find a replacement, Beavis and Butt-head wind up in the motel of Muddy Grimes (Bruce Willis), where a case of mistaken identity has them after his wife, Dallas (Demi Moore). Due to misunderstanding Grimes when he says to "do his wife," the duo travels from Las Vegas to Washington, D.C., not realizing they've been sent on a hit.
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I'd cry and cry to feel,
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But when thy presence came,
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The head of the commission studying the state tax system said this morning the panel will likely recommend expanding the sales tax base and lowering tax rates.
While A.D. Frazier didn't provide specifics, the commission is expected to recommend charging the state's 4 percent sales tax on more goods and services – maybe even groceries – while lowering income tax rates.
Frazier's comments mesh with the thinking of Republican leaders, who have long sought to lower income taxes and make up for the lost revenue by charging the sales tax on more services like oil changes and hair cuts. In addition, some lawmakers have pushed the state to put the sales tax back on all groceries. The state's sales tax was taken off on most groceries in the late 1990s.
Frazier said the panel will also probably call for an elimination of sales taxes on energy used in manufacturing, such as carpet and paper-product production.
Frazier's panel will make its recommendations to legislative leaders in January, and then lawmakers will develop and vote on a proposal to change the tax system.
December 14th, 2010
11:53 am
Raise taxes and fees -Oaky woods must be bought or the whole state goes to H***This is a bad time for all taxpayers especially the limited income.Remember come election time.
December 14th, 2010
11:57 am
Why wait until election time? Let's throw the bums out NOW,before they can do more damage! Can we impeach Deal BEFORE he takes office?
December 14th, 2010
12:09 pm
The head of the commission studying the state tax system is giving his findings. what does this have to do with impeaching Deal? The Gov. elect has not had anything to do with the study.Nothing in this report states what he will do with the plan once it is given to him.
December 14th, 2010
12:41 pm
Taxing groceries is regressive and hits the poor disproportionately.
Which is why it went away, and should stay away. Nothing very Christian in increased taxation on the poor and the struggling.
Deal is in the mix – saying he's going to grant tax cuts to businesses… whilst discussing axing education items. What economic group just said cutting business taxes isn't really going to do anything positive for attracting new companies?
December 14th, 2010
1:58 pm
Oh Intown Writer…
December 14th, 2010
12:41 pm
Taxing groceries is regressive and hits the poor disproportionately
Everyone needs to pay taxes. Right now the bottom 47% pay no income taxes at all. When everyone has some skin in the game then maybe we can take a look at what the government should and should not be doing.
December 14th, 2010
2:09 pm
td: Right now the bottom 47% pay no income taxes at all. Do you follow the Limbaugh script and just say this over and over again? I have no doubt you also believe in "trickle down"
December 14th, 2010
2:44 pm
rural education
December 14th, 2010
2:09 pm
Read it for yourself if you do not believe me. Will you come back and say I was right after you read?
December 14th, 2010
2:49 pm
Since you libs think the conservatives do not know what we are talking about then ow about the below information: Deny the facts.
Tax Year 2008
Percentiles Ranked by AGI
AGI Threshold on Percentiles
Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid
Top 1%
Top 5%
Top 10%
Top 25%
Top 50%
Bottom 50%
Note: AGI is Adjusted Gross Income
Source: Internal Revenue Service
December 14th, 2010
2:50 pm
I am confused. Raising taxes here and eliminating taxes there will only get you back where you started. Do these guys know what a circle is? Everyone should pay taxes and I mean everyone!! I think that corporations and rich folk really going to like the "new" tax system her in Georgia.
December 14th, 2010
2:59 pm
December 14th, 2010
2:50 pm
Corporations do not pay taxes now!!!! If they are taxed then they just pass the tax along to the consumer buying the product. This makes the service or the product increase in price and therefore we are paying the hidden tax. The benefit of them not paying taxes means that they could charge less for their product, which in turn would create a bigger demand for the product and would make the corporation have to hire more workers to keep up with the higher demand. These newly hired workers (who are currently receiving either unemployment or welfare) would then be able to get off the social programs and start paying taxes. The result would be that the state would be able to collect more tax dollars, pay out less benefits and be able to spend the money on such things as education or infrastructure improvements.
This is basic economics 101. I can not belief we have so many libs on this board that do not understand these simple principles.
December 14th, 2010
3:24 pm
TD I am no liberal. As i stated everyone should pay their fair of taxes. Poor-middle-Rich. I am a republican but I am not brainwashed into thinking that all that they do is right.
The Bush Tax Cuts have been a whammy on America's economy. Poor people who saved a little on their taxes went down to Wally Land and spent it on Chinese imports. Rich people who saved a ton on their taxes invested the money in Pacific Rim countries. Never created a job in America but did create jobs in Asia and China.
December 14th, 2010
3:48 pm
December 14th, 2010
3:24 pm
I do not think I know a Republican that has ever expressed that point of view. What wing of the party do you belong too? I am not a Republican. I am a conservative with libertarian leanings.
December 14th, 2010
5:08 pm
The Carpet and Paper industry in Georgia must be the biggest contributors to those who were elected and will create the laws. The Georgia Power Company name means to lawmakers that money buys you the highest rate increase in history. Thanks Georgia Legislature for selling out to big business!
December 14th, 2010
5:29 pm
I am a common sense republican. I use plain old common sense and not useless, grandstanding, rhetoric. Make no mistake about it TD, I do respect your opinion and you seem to understand what you are talking about. I am semi-conservative but I refuse to lock myself down into a certain way of thinking.
December 14th, 2010
5:52 pm
Just a few points/questions for clarification:
Can you please re-explain the economic principle that would motivate corporations to lower prices if they were not taxed (that potentially conflicts with the principle of maximizing shareholder value)?
Hire more workers to meet increased demand…hmm…would these be domestic manufacturing (middle class) workers or (lower wage) service/retail staff?
What do you consider to be an acceptible number of jobs held to maintain a basic quality of life?
Just curious…Thx.
December 14th, 2010
6:47 pm
FMX@2:50p.m.: "Do these guys know what a circle is? "
Yes, they do. They use it for circular firing squads and circle-j**ks.
December 14th, 2010
9:04 pm
Yes, this is a FANTASTIC idea! Let's try to be more like Alabama…a perpetually broke state which relies almost exclusively on sales taxes. Excellent! If we think things are bad now, wait until we go through a recession with sales taxes floating public business. I swear, I thought this half-baked idea was locked away with Glenn Richardson, oh well…I guess we can use the crazy guy's ideas.
December 14th, 2010
9:31 pm
Well it didn't take long at all… you Republican Voters can be happy… yo mama and daddy is about to loose 7% of their income to pay taxes so your rich (R) after their name can suck-up to their owners… keep voting Republican… Before you smart back at an old man; people on pensions spend their income and most pay very little Income Tax…
December 14th, 2010
9:48 pm
I see people arguing about the state of Georgia's tax plans using federal data. What are the numbers for Georgia? I see the mixed arguments and it is apples and oranges. Our income tax is flat rate so I bet the numbers are significantly different.
December 14th, 2010
10:25 pm
so much for our very progressive income tax. the beginning of the end for our middle class. Anyone want some bananas to go with their republic?
December 15th, 2010
5:34 am
The scum is going take our money one way or the other……..I bet they give themselves raises before too long!
December 15th, 2010
8:11 am
wonder how many old folks will be living w/ their kids?
December 15th, 2010
8:19 am
I guess all us dumb but workers will just not consume anything.Let corporations consume their own product.Dont buy the junk they want to force feed u.
December 15th, 2010
8:59 am
td: " Right now the bottom 47% pay no income taxes at all. "
According to your/the chart those that make less than $33,000 pay 2.7% of the taxes collected. 2.7% does not equal zero!
I also question the AGI of the top 1%. These people make more than $1 M per year and have an adjusted income of $380K. Maybe we should just do away with deductions!
Also have you tried to live in today's world on $33K /yr?
December 15th, 2010
9:51 am
TD is "curiously" silent.
His economics entail that if you lower the tax burden on corporations that Prices for products manufactured by that corporation will fall.
Name one example
December 15th, 2010
9:56 am
Librals certainly are whiners and poor losers aren't they?
December 15th, 2010
10:21 am
It's foolish to rely on consumption taxes to fund government. In time of recession, government revenues plummet just as the services it provides are most needed.
But it does have two advantages: (1) it's great if you're rich, and (2) it's great if you think government is evil and should be starved and shriveled into nothingness. And if you're a fan of (2), may I suggest a visit to southern Mexico or the Sudan?
December 15th, 2010
10:23 am
Observer …. Especially those librals(sic) on Fox News and AM radio. That angry fat man on the radio complains all the time. That pinhead, lawyer from Atlanta screams at everybody. Fox News spent the last two years complainin' 'bout everything. Yep, them whiny, librals(sic).
December 15th, 2010
10:50 am
The GOP legislature plays the tax shell game that only the business lobby can win.
December 15th, 2010
11:25 am
stay in bed w/ corporations , soon u will be working for plug nickels.Thats how other countries do it, thats why they took their companies elsewhere cheap labor.They will not make any new industry in this country people will not work for pennies.This is why we have no jobs.
December 15th, 2010
11:30 am
td why no outcry on the oakey woods or did i miss it……and can you explain why the wealth disparity is growing so rapidly and what are the consequences? i agree everyone should have some skin in the game but when the guys at the top give themselves big raises for holding down the average joe so they can be competitive globally, something seems amiss. doubt that foreign companies pay their execs as lavishly as ours. if everyone needs some skin in the game, then everyone should make decent wages/benefits. any monkey at the top can say hold wages, scare the sheep at thought of losing job, why getting big bonuses and golden parachutes. do you really think those folks in washington (lobbyists) and wall st (blanktards) are deserving of their compensation?
December 15th, 2010
11:37 am
Cut corporate taxes by one-third and nickle and dime everyone else. Makes sense to me. When will we Georgians stop voting against our own best interest? I know some of you will immediately pounce on me with the cut taxes on businesses and create jobs mantra. Haven't any of you noticed that we have been doing that over and over while the hole grows deeper and public works is crumbling and educational quality is hanging on by a thread.
December 15th, 2010
12:36 pm
It's called cost-shifting plain and simple.
Ga GOP – "We cut taxes before we raised them."
December 15th, 2010
2:05 pm
I say instead of taxing food, lets tax all football games extra 2.00 dollars per game.I beleive thats a better cost shifting plain, since most poor people do not go to games because its not in their budget,but most rich people can afford!
December 15th, 2010
4:02 pm
Real Athens
December 15th, 2010
9:51 am
TD is "curiously" silent.
His economics entail that if you lower the tax burden on corporations that Prices for products manufactured by that corporation will fall.
Name one example
Where do you think the money comes from now for corporations to pay taxes? Do they hold down their profits to pay the taxes? Do they cut salaries to pay for the taxes?(I guess this has to be no since you all are saying they get their raises and bonuses, although they could be cutting the wages of lesser employees to pay the taxes) Maybe, they pass those tax expenditures along to the consumers that buy their products?
All you libs are doing by demanding higher corporate taxes is taxing yourselves and all the consumers indirectly buy paying higher cost for these goods and services. The poor even have to pay these extra (embedded taxes) so I guess you all are responsible for these regressive taxes?
To answer you question about name a corporation. Let us take the tobacco industry. You libs (in the name of the public good) have taxed the heck out of tobacco products at the federal and state levels. What has been accomplished? Are the corporations profit margins decreasing? No. Is the consumer paying these increased taxes? Yes, and have we dramatically decreased the use of tobacco products in this country or have we just put a regressive tax on the poor (majority of users)?
December 15th, 2010
4:10 pm
December 15th, 2010
11:30 am
First, I agree that the price paid by the state for Oakey Woods is outrageous and it will take some time for the Tea Party folks get rid of all of these corrupt people out of the party but at least they are working on it. Why are there not more libs joining this cause instead of just whinning about it.
Second point for you to consider. Oakey Woods is a drop in the bucket compared to all the money we waste every year in fraud committed in the Welfare department, Medicaid, Medicare and other social programs. Where is the outrage for this waste of money from you libs?
December 15th, 2010
4:17 pm
@ td: Tobacco use in the USA has decreased every year since 1998.
December 15th, 2010
5:15 pm
td, i agree but you need more auditors to go after these folks……you just can't declare it, you need staff to get these folks. the public sector could provide the tools but i think you need state staff to lower the boom on them.
you did not address income inequality and ability to pay income taxes
December 16th, 2010
8:18 am
If they tax legal services then I'm moving. It's hard enough getting a fee without having to add a tax to it.
December 16th, 2010
1:25 pm
The Oddball
December 15th, 2010
4:17 pm
@ td: Tobacco use in the USA has decreased every year since 1998.
Has it reduced for the group it was intended for (young people)?
December 17th, 2010
9:08 am
Let's try this again as someone at the AJC seems bent on censoring my posts ….
@td regarding, "I agree that the price paid by the state for Oakey Woods is outrageous and it will take some time for the Tea Party folks get rid of all of these corrupt people out of the party but at least they are working on it."
You can't just make things up td. The folks in power now and soon to be were chosen by the GOTP. There's nowhere to run now and you folks have been and will be holding the bag. Keep that in mind as we watch Deal keep up Purdue's good work with the blessing of GOTP folks just like you.


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Title: Memorable
Category: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Character: Leo V., Echo
Words: 3,068
Genre: Romance/General
Rating: Rated: K+
Summary: You can't fade into shadows for absolutely everyone, right? Oneshot.
He was determined never to forget Echo's face. She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was. Leo closed his eyes, but the memory of her smile was already fading.
-Leo, page 99, The Mark of Athena
It was by series of odd, intricate occurrences that could be called miracles that Echo had come back to life after the War with Gaia.
Factors, factors- that's all there was to the story apparently. The Underworld had been so big that Hades had been sure that there 'could be one sneaky soul who "accidentally slipped out"'. The gods were tired and that was when they became merciful. The Seven were still so pissed about the whole ordeal that deities were scrambling to calm down the century's most influential demigods.
The Seven had huddled up and talked it over once Hades had made his suggestion. They'd considered bringing back parents, but had decided that that wouldn't do. Emily Zhang had died the death she'd have wanted to die (if her timing was good or not was another story), Esperanza Valdez had accepted her fate and was comfortable in Elysium, and Marie Levesque would have taken too much effort to condition to twenty-first century life and, according to her daughter, didn't deserve it.
It was impossible to choose from the legion or Camp Half-Blood's ranks- how did you justify saving one guy's sister but not this other girl's brother to your close friends? How did you pick a face to save among all your friends? Who deserved to be alive more?
Echo's name had come up finally, and Echo's name had lingered- no pun intended. So here she was, living at camp and getting used to its chaotic style, to jeans and to t-shirts and to the one and only Leo Valdez.
He showed her how to connect wires together when she snuck into the forges with interrogation marks in her eyes earlier that day.
"Gentle with the X-acto knife, don't cut yourself." He said grabbing her hands before she took off her skin instead of the rubber on a wire. She still didn't understand electricity, much less wires obviously.
She put everything down and sighed.
Leo grinned.
"It's not as complicated as it looks. I'm just being too protective about you cutting off your digits. Sorry."
"Sorry, sorry, sorry," Echo said shaking her head.
Leo started laughing.
Echo was still shaking her head and her hair was falling in her face. Her hair was a colour stuck between grey and brown. It didn't sound particularly nice, but when she wasn't blending in with dried grass or whatnot, it stood out. It was nice. It had a shine to it.
"Hey E, want a marshmallow?" Leo asked passing the bag to her after it started making its rounds again, once three Ares kids had retrieved it from Cabin Eleven's custody.
"Marshmallow?" Echo repeated. Her question didn't have a yes or no answer, it was filled with genuine conclusion. She was frowning.
"Oh man, don't tell me you don't know what a marshmallow is…" Leo said.
"Don't know," Echo repeated sadly.
"Oh, no don't be sad. Just… wow… geez. A marshmallow is basically ambrosia that you can't overdose on," Leo explained. "It's pure sugar with no nutritional value."
"Sugar," Echo repeated approvingly.
"You bet your socks off," Leo said. "Anyways, you just stab it with a stick and… wait hold on a second."
Leo got up on the bench and unclipped from his belt the walkie-talkie that was usually reserved for communication with siblings at the other end of the forge, or in another bunker.
He used a special Leo-style feature to amplify his voice.
"Attention semi-godly population, attention."
Everyone froze and starred. Partially because they didn't know how Leo was amplifying his voice, partially out of curiosity, and not at all because he was dignified.
"Yes, so, I'd just like to know where the good roasting stick is. Chris, you've got it? Okay, I'm going to have to ask you to cough it up 'cause Echo here's never had a marshmallow before-"
This created a small uproar.
"Yeah, I know right? Anyways, her first one needs to be the best thing that's ever happened to her. I'm talking about marshmallow perfection needing to be achieved, here."
Chris passed the stick along and Annabeth –her mom was the goddess of strategy after all- helped Echo find the right place to roast her marshmallow.
The marshmallow was golden brown, the colour associated throughout camp with joy and success.
Echo took her first bite. She obviously had no idea what kind of consistency to expect, and so melted white marshmallow guts oozed from her lips. She rushed a hand under her chin, and her eyebrows shot up as her taste buds died and went to heaven.
Her whole face melted with the marshmallow and Leo laughed.
He'd never noticed how thin her eyebrows were, and how expressive her face was. Well, he imagined that there was no way around it when you couldn't talk- it was as if her expressions spoke for her. They were as vivid as a mime's. And her eyes were just as expressive. They were bright blue –like, bluer than Leo had ever expected them to be. How had he missed all of that?
"She likes it!" He declared to camp.
Everyone cheered and Echo blushed a bit. Her eyes shone, though. Another expression they showed: pride at being part of something other than a lousy fan club for an overrated jerk.
Leo was sitting at a tilted drawing table in Bunker Nine. Blueprints were spread in front of him, but Leo wasn't working on those. He was working on a scrap of paper on which he was drawing. Not a robot, like, a person. Scary thought indeed.
The face was thin and ageless –like most nymphs. Her features were the generic pretty type, but there was that pizazz or crookedness that made her not-generic. Imperfect and cute was more like it. Her hair was wavy and it fell across her shoulder in tangled strands.
That was how Echo had looked like when they'd been at the beach earlier, and she'd come out of the water after Leo had pushed her in and they'd splashed around for a bit. He'd just been doodling and poof, a nymph on his paper.
Her fingers were wrapped around his wrist as she taught him how to skip stones across the canoe lake.
They'd been at it for twenty minutes and Leo's skill level and competence was sinking with the rocks he experimented with.
Echo laughed at him and moaned and sighed at the hopelessness of the pupil she'd taken on. Finally she stood behind him and held his wrists and arms, kicking his feet so they'd move until he stood right, and gesturing the expert toss she was trying to teach him to try and make him understand.
He looked down at her hands. Her skin was as smooth as the rocks she was helping him throw (and that he was sinking like a serial killer) or the lake before they'd started this lesson. Her fingers were long and elegant. Her nails were short and someone –probably an Aphrodite girl who hadn't given her the option of 'no' to repeat as an answer- had painted tiny daisies on her nails.
She had nice hands. It was a stupid thing to think, but Leo was pretty concentrated on that at the moment.
She took another nice hand to push his chin back up so he'd look at the lake, just like she was telling him to.
He hadn't shown up to at lunch since he'd been busy working on the Watchamacallit 2-2-9 and hadn't wanted to leave the project alone because he wasn't sure how effective the off button was yet.
Echo wandered into the forge and presented herself to his usual work table with a basket under her arm and a stern look on her face, eyebrows furrowed. She pointed to the picnic basket.
"What's that?" He asked.
"That," she repeated taking out something wrapped in waxy red-and-white checked paper. The basket resting in the crook of her eyebrow, she unwrapped one end to show Leo a sandwich. Pita bread with lettuce and tomato and strips of beef and –was that tzaziki? Holy smokes, she'd gotten him Greek food! A gyro! He hadn't had that in forever!
"I know, I know. No need to lecture me E, I missed lunch." Leo asked.
He was afraid of physically drowning in his drool.
"Missed lunch," Echo said with the same tone of voice with which you'd condemn a criminal.
"That looks good," he said looking at the food.
"Good," Echo repeated. Leo reached out his hand, but she put the gyro back in the basket.
"But… but…" Leo stuttered like a baby.
Echo pointed to the door and walked out. Leo put down his tools and followed her- or rather he followed the food.
He followed her across camp, getting no answer out of her as to what she was doing, until they were on Thalia's hill. She sat down on the grass, put down the basket and motioned to it as if it was a game show prize.
"Oh, a picnic," Leo said. "Okay, sure. I'll eat outside with you."
Echo nodded.
He dug into the sandwich and she produced all kinds of foods- grape juice, chips, leftover pizza…- from her magic basket. Leo supposed that when you were a nymph it wasn't hard to get friendly with the kitchen harpies.
"Hey, funny question, have you ever heard a knock-knock joke?" Leo asked after licking the lid of a pudding cup clean.
Echo's face was a priceless give-away. Leo laughed.
"Okay, so the joke is that someone's knocking on a door and you have to ask 'who's there' to know who it is. Then they'll say something, and you repeat that and say 'who?' like you're trying to find out their last words. Then there's a pun and it's funny."
She didn't look convinced.
"Okay, here's one." Leo said. Since she had no idea what these were, he could use all his bad knock-knock jokes and work his way up to the good stuff. He'd make them last for her.
"Knock, knock." Leo said.
Echo lifted her hands as if to ask a question. Leo took it as a 'who's there'.
"Boo," Leo said. He whispered 'who?' so that she'd be able to echo him.
"Boo who?" Echo asked.
"Boo who? Aww, Echo, why are you crying?" Leo asked.
Echo burst into laughter. Her laugh sent chills up Leo's spine. It wasn't creepy or anything, it was just so… full and happy and genuine and innocent. A person with that laugh couldn't possibly have ever seen anything bad in the world.
"So? Knock-knock jokes, right?" Leo asked.
Between two fits of laughter she said "Right" approvingly. She was holding her stomach as if she had a cramp, and Leo couldn't help but feel like he'd just won an Olympic gold medal at something.
But still… It bothered him that that laughter hadn't stuck with him. Like, he must've heard Echo laugh before, right? So why had it stricken him as so full and fantastic?
He remembered the first time he'd met Echo. He hadn't remember anything at all about her after he looked away- not the outline of her face, barely the shades that coloured it… Now he did. Her eyes were blue –like, seriously blue-, her hair was brownish, her skin was fair…
He looked up at her and yeah, he had it right. Since she'd been at camp and he'd started spending time with her, it was like Echo was a puzzle whose pieces were starting to fit in one at a time to create the bigger picture. A nice picture.
Leo froze and looked at the laughing girl in shock and somewhat terror.
Holy Hephaestus.
He had a crush on a legendary nymph with a speech malfunction.
"Geez, you sure know how to pick them," Jason said as they walked around New Rome. Every now and then Jason had to high-five a little kid who came up to him wide-eyed, or give his salutations to a veteran or ex-Centurion. It was surprisingly hard to have a decent conversation with an on-duty praetor of Rome. "First a goddess, than my eternally-maiden sister… I guess that Echo was the next logical girl."
Leo thought that that was rich coming from the Roman dignitary who'd fallen for a Greek and was now carrying out a long-distance relationship with said Greek.
"Not funny man," Leo said.
"I wasn't being funny," Jason said. "I'm serious. It makes sense that you like Echo. She's sweet."
"Well hurrah for logic Miss Chase, but what do I even do?" Leo asked.
"You tell her," Jason said. "That's, like, what happens when you like someone. You either stay there and watch them from the sidelines forever and feel horrible around a person you used to be super comfortable with, or you get brave for thirty seconds of insanity and confess."
"Since when are you the expert on girls?" Leo asked.
"I'm not, I'm just logical." Jason said.
Someone knocked on the door of Bunker Nine. Leo looked up.
"Oh hi E," he said pushing his safety goggles onto his forehead.
"Hi. Hi. Oh Hi."
"I know I promised to help you out since tonight's your first capture-the-flag, but guess who was put in charge of fixing the stupid flag that Cabin Four broke this week? It shouldn't take long though. You can sit down," he said waving his hand towards the tilted table he always sat at.
"First, sit." Echo repeated distractedly. When she was distracted there wasn't a filter to what she echoed. Leo had made her say some pretty stupid things that way. Like 'pineapples are attractive' or 'what if pandas were a pest'.
She sat down at his chair, her legs stuck together. She used her toes to swivel herself around. Turning chairs and chairs on wheels were a twenty-first century miracle that Echo was still learning to appreciate and benefit.
He was nearly done welding the flag back together. It just took forever to heat up the only burner that had gas in it, and he'd had about five minutes of warning about having to do this urgently after Nyssa said 'oh by the way Chiron said he wanted you to go find him before tonight's game'.
He looked back and Echo was looking at the stuff on his desk. That was cool, whatever.
Just as he was finishing, he heard frantic tapping on his desk.
"Echo?" He asked looking over his shoulder. She was looking at something that was apparently scaring the heebie-jeebies out of her.
He rushed to her side.
"What is it? What's wrong?"
She was looking at the quick little sketch Leo had made of her.
"Oh. Yeah, that. It seems stalkerish now, doesn't it?"
"It," Echo said pointing towards it.
"What?" Leo asked.
Echo looked around his desk frantically and grabbed a pen. In the corner of the drawing, in Ancient Greek letters, she scrawled down quickly:
You drew my face perfectly. That's the first time anyone's ever been able to do that since I was cursed.
"Yeah, well…" Leo said. He remembered what Jason had said. You either stay there and watch them from the sidelines forever and feel horrible around a person you used to be super comfortable with, or you get brave for thirty seconds of insanity and confess.
Losing Echo, again, just seemed stupid. That wasn't something he needed to do again (no pun intended).
"You're memorable to me," Leo said.
She looked at him, her blue eyes in her pretty face framed by her gorgeous hair stunned.
"The more I get to know you, the more I'm happy I know you. The more you make an impression on me the more you're… like… an actual impression. Seared in my mind and… well, in my heart too I guess. See, I kind of have this massive crush on you." Leo said.
Echo didn't respond. Leo panicked. Maybe there was nothing in there that she could repeat as an answer. Not 'crush' not 'happy'…
"E?" He asked.
She blinked.
"I'll just ramble off some words," Leo said, "And you tell me which one fits best what you want to say. Okay… here we go."
He took a deep breath. His thirty seconds was so up.
"You disgust me Leo Valdez. Good to know. Ewe get away from me you repelling bug. Owe- my virgin ears. Sorry I'm in love with your best friend. It burns. You're like a brother to me. Let's just be friends. Why would you say something like that? Let's pretend this never happened…"
Echo stayed still.
"Not on the list?" Leo winced.
Echo shook her head and got up. Leo thought she'd run away and fade away from his mind again- gods, he didn't want that. His heart stopped beating.
And then she kissed him. Now that hadn't been on the list at all.
She pulled back.
"I second that," Leo said smiling goofily.
Echo's face, that memorable face, pulled into a smile too.
"Second," she nodded before kissing him once again.
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Halina Makała, Michał Olkiewicz, Piotr Moch
Abstract: The aim of the studies was to compare raw material composition, chemical parameters and evaluation of sensory quality of Bologna-type sausage, coming from Polish and Italian market. The studies were conducted on two samples of Polish and Italian sausage and included determination of basic chemical composition (content of water, total protein, fat, sodium chloride, ash, starch, collagen and total phosphorus) and sensory profile analysis. The results of the evaluation of declared raw material composition and of chemical tests indicate a considerable differentiation of raw material as well as of the evaluated parameters of the studied assortments. In the basic raw material composition of Italian sausages, application of meat, stomachs and pork fat was declared whereas Polish sausages were declared as containing pork or beef meat, mechanically deboned poultry meat and pork fat, and in the both discussed assortments – functional additives were de-clared. Italian Bologna-type sausages were characterized by significantly lower content of water, starch and carbohydrates as compared to Polish products and significantly higher content of protein, fat, chlorides, ash and collagen, resulting from the raw materials, used in production and from the level of the employed functional additives. The evaluated products were characterized by a differentiated sensory profile of texture and desirability of the evaluated discriminants. Italian sausages were characterized by significantly higher hardness, springiness and desirability of consistence as compared to Polish market prod-ucts from the same assortment group. Significantly higher fat content in Italian Bologna- -type sausages has not been reflected in higher sensation of fattiness, sensorilly evaluated. In Italian Bologna-type sausages, a rich flavour profile was defined.
Keywords: Italian Mortadela, Polish Mortadela, raw material composition, sensory profile
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Makała H., Olkiewicz M., Moch P., 2006. Characteristics of sensory quality of bologna-type sausage derived from polish and Italian market. Acta Sci.Pol., Technol. Aliment. 5 (2), 107-115
Makała H., Olkiewicz M., Moch P., 2006. Characteristics of sensory quality of bologna-type sausage derived from polish and Italian market. Acta Sci.Pol., Technol. Aliment. 5 (2), 107-115
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Inversion of Control in a Nutshell
Inversion of Control is a software design in which objects are bound together at run time. They are not known during compile time. There are several type of inversion of control:
- Factory Pattern. A class method accepts a parameters in order to return requested object after initializing it.
- Service Locator Pattern.
- Dependency Injection.
- Constructor Injection like in Asp.NET MVC
- Setter injection like (Properties in C# and setter method in Java)
- An interface injection.
In dependency injection, a class requests all the dependent objects via constructor parameters and assign them to a private field.
public class Samurai { public IWeapon Weapon { get; private set; }
public Samurai(IWeapon weapon) { this.Weapon = weapon; } }
and Binder/Assembler instantiates the class Samurai, passes in Weapon concrete object (instantiated). As you see you don't have any control over when the object will be created so this means you gave the control to the IoC Framework instead of instantiated it in your class at your will.
But there must be a place where you need to tell which types should be bound to which type. That's why modules are here. Each DI Frameworks might have their own way doing this but as we are using NInject here the following code shows the class where we tell the Framework binding instructions:
public class WarriorModule : NinjectModule { public override void Load() { this.Bind<IWeapon>().To<Sword>(); } }
As you can see we're telling the framework to bind Sword class to IWeapon so when we need an weapon, FW will inject Weapon object.
So as you can see there are several benefits of doing Inversion of Control using Dependency Injection:
- When you need to change the implementation details by changing the concrete class, all you need to do is to change the binding in the module instead of changing it everywhere in the project.
- It gives you more centralized location where you can manage your bindings.
- Whenever you need a new object, all you have to do is to request from within method parameter and you will have it.
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Added 3 cups of water before cooking. Yummy! Turned out very well.
Mexican Black-Bean Chili
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Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 1/3 cups)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 362
- Calories from fat: 11%
- Fat: 4.4g
- Saturated fat: 1.9g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.1g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1g
- Protein: 19.5g
- Carbohydrate: 67g
- Fiber: 14g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 7.2mg
- Sodium: 539mg
- Calcium: 168mg
- 1 pound dried black beans
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- 1 cup (1/2-inch) pieces red bell pepper
- 1 cup (1/2-inch) pieces green bell pepper
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 (15-ounce) can Italian-style tomatoes, undrained and chopped
- 1 1/2 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 jalapeño peppers, seeded and chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 cup minced fresh cilantro
- 1 to 2 teaspoons hot sauce
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- Place beans and next 14 ingredients (beans through bay leaves) in an electric slow cooker. Cover with lid, and cook on low heat for 8 hours. Stir in cilantro and hot sauce.
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After the MP4-12C , McLaren has another goodie to reveal: a successor for the legendary F1 supercar . This successor is ramping up for e debut in 2012. According to an AutoCar source, the future F1 will be a "revolutionary hypercar and one which will be instantly recognizable as such."
The new F1 will be a mid-engined model that will be built on a similar carbon fiber monocoque as the MP4-12C. Even if McLaren has adopted this radical design, the future car will still be recognized as a McLaren F1. And it will also come with the same central driving seat as its predecessor.
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Miss. Organizations Launch Enrollment Coalition for Health Insurance ExchangeBy Jeffrey Hess | Published 23 Sep 2013 07:04am |
A new coalition of Mississippi non-profit organizations and public health advocates is launching a state wide outreach effort to encourage residents to enroll in the new Health insurance exchange. Uninsured Mississippians can begin signing up on October first.
An estimated 275,000 uninsured Mississippians will be eligible to sign up for subsidized private health insurance starting in October when the insurance exchange officially opens.
However, Jarvis Dortch with the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program says many don't know what the exchange means to them.
"But the thing is once they are able to start getting their benefits, once they are able to get their tax credits and sign up for private insurance. People will understand that this isn't some scary thing that will take away their health care. It is going to improve their lives and financial condition," Dortch said.
A new coalition of nearly 20 groups is being formed called Cover Mississippi.
They intend to do outreach in churches, colleges, and clinic statewide to educate uninsured Mississippians about the exchange and help them sign up for private health insurance.
One Mississippian that could stand to benefit is Chris Paige, a self-employed Jackson barber who struggles to pay for minimum insurance.
"I got the minimum coverage. I am not covered on a lot of stuff but I got enough so that if something happened it would help me out. But in order to get what I really need, I can't afford it," Paige said.
Only one of his seven employees is insured and Paige says on a scale of one to ten, the concerns about a lack of insurance are a ten.
The exchange is part of the federal health care reform law.
The plans will be subsidized by the federal government in an effort to lower monthly premiums to make them more affordable.
Cover Mississippi faces an uphill battle in the state because the law has seen stiff resistance from conservative state lawmakers and advocacy groups.
Ed Haislmaier with the conservative Heritage Foundation has long warned that the exchange will not allow for the competition that is necessary to drive down rates.
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Mississippi's exchange will be administered by the federal government.
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January is organizing month, so let us continue with that theme on the blog here.
As I mentioned in my previous post, organizing begins with smart storage. It also begins with creative storage, which is what this post is all about. All of the ideas I'm about to show you, I simply love. Unconventional things were used to produce an organizing system and pretty display in the office and bath. Very pretty, I might add. For instance, vintage milk glass, one of my favourite things to collect, keep office supplies at bay on this blue tray:
No more fishing for a pen, or craming drawers with loose supplies, and did you notice the candies too?
Inside the desk, more milk glass holds sewing supplies:
Everything is easy to find, and just darn pretty.
What about those egg cups? Did you ever think they could be used for anything more than eggs? Egg cups also make great office supply storage to corral little things, like paper clips and stamps:
If you really want to get those creative juices flowing, pick up a few empty tin cans, and pretty scrapbook paper, and make your own storage system for school supplies:
Finish them off with labels. Take this idea to the bathroom too for storing cotton balls and Q-tips:
It gives your little vignette some fresh colour and interest.
Lastly, loaf pans are super cute when they are repurposed into a makeup storage kit:
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Pursuant to the bylaws of the Colorado Bar Association, notice is hereby given that the following members constitute the Nominating Committee for the purposes of making nominations of officers to be elected for the 2003-04 administrative year.
Bennett S. Aisenberg, Chairman, 1600 Broadway, #2350, Denver 80202 (presidential appointee)
Federico C. Alvarez, 1441 18th Street, #300, Denver 80202 (presidential appointee)
D.A. Bertram, P.O. Box 9070, Denver 80209 (Board of Governors appointee)
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Elaine T. Johnson, 1070 W. Century Dr., #202, Louisville 80027-1695 (Board of Governors appointee)
Frederic B. Rodgers, 2960 Dory Hill Road, #200, Golden 80403 (Board of Governors appointee)
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Gina B. Weitzenkorn, 1441 18th Street, #150, Denver 80202 (presidential appointee)
John E. Moye, 1225 17th Street, #2900, Denver 80202 (president)
CBA members are invited to send their suggestions for nominations to any member of the Committee. Since the Committee will begin its deliberations in the very near future, you are encouraged to submit your suggestions as soon as conveniently possible. The deadline for submitting names is December 9, 2002.
Nominations will be made for the following offices:
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Vice-President, Third District (Boulder, Larimer, Thirteenth Judicial District, and Weld County Bar Associations)
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The legislation announced Monday is the latest public-health crackdown by the mayor, whose ban on super-sized sugary soft drinks was shot down by a judge last week.
The proposed law would "prohibit display of tobacco products" in most retail shops, Bloomberg said. "Such displays suggest smoking is a normal activity and invite young people to experiment with tobacco."
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