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How do you feel about Congress enacting a sales tax on all internet sales?
You may have read or heard about it already, but congress is likely going to be passing a federal sales tax bill when they return from recess. Whether you are a merchant, an affiliate marketer or a customer, it will affect everyone. Do you favor or oppose such a sales tax and why?
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It was my understanding that sales tax was for local use. It's to fund local municipal improvements. How are they going to allocate those funds? I am opposed to Federalizing sales tax as a de facto new tax, as there is not currently (to my knowledge) a Federal sales tax. Furthermore, it is likely to be mind-numbingly complicated, as sales tax laws vary from state to state. For example, in Texas, food other than "convenience foods" are not subject to sales tax. This can be complicated. For example, when I buy a scoop of ice cream at Marble Slab Creamery, it is taxed, but when I buy a quart it is not. A slice of cake is taxable, a whole cake is not. Texas sales tax is high partly because of this exemption. Meanwhile in neighboring New Mexico, sales tax is lower, but food is taxable. So if I order food from New Mexico to be delivered to Texas, it is taxed and at whose rate? What if the company is officed in New York, but ships my box of chile verde from NM to TX?
Oppose, and not for the reason you think. I don't know if it is still taught (quite apparently not), but I still remember "no taxation without representation". Proponents always try to use some weird definition of 'fair', claiming that B&M stores have to pay it, so it is 'fair' to make an entity from another state pay it too. Well, why does the local brick and mortar pay it? Because they use the roads, the water, the fire and police, etc etc, all the 'infrastructure' that our taxes are supposed to cover. Merchant XYZ in New York does NOT use the infrastructure in North Dakota, so I keep waiting for someone to explain to me how it is 'fair' to expect them to pay for the roads, water, fire, police, etc there. And before someone tries to say "they ship their product, therefore they do so use the roads"...are you seriously trying to suggest UPS/FedEx/etc don't pay that? They are the ones who actually use the roads, and they do in fact already pay the taxes.
Are you talking about the Internet sales tax bill? That's not a Federal sales tax. It just gives states the ability to levy taxes on internet sales to its residents. A Federal sales tax would be a much different animal.
I wouldn't like more taxes but if they did then I'd just have to take it into account when figuring if it were cheaper to order on the internet or local B&M.
Currently if things are about even I purchase B&M to give them the business adding a sales tax on internet sales will only drive more of my purchases local. Of course many things I order online I cannot find local for those a tax will just cost me more :(
@90mcg. Yes, there is a pending bill that grants states the authority to impose sales tax on internet sales. But there is also a bill in the hopper that is being developed through committee that would replace individual state sales tax with a federal sales tax on internet sales. Amazon, although they are opposed to individual state internet sales tax where a nexus exists between a merchant and an affiliate that has a presence in that state, Amazon supports a federal internet sales tax that could/may supercede a state by state nightmare for merchants. http://mikeyounglaw.com/amazon-internet-sales-tax/. This is more what I am referring to by my question.
If a company has a B&M store or a distribution center (as an example) in your state, you should pay taxes on everything you order. They are using tax payer dollars to support the infrastructure that their business depends on (roads, street lights, police, etc). Now if you order from a site that does not have any presense in your state, what do they need to pay taxes on? I already paid for the delivery of the goods which goes to the parcel delivery company who pays taxes on that charge.
It just smells of greed and nothing else
I'm fine with it. Tax law needs to catch up to the new internet sales machine eventually. Especially as more and more people are buying stuff online from out-of-state companies instead of at local shops, sales tax revenue has fallen dramatically and it shows. The thing about the bill is that it just moves the burden of reporting/collecting the tax from the individual (use tax, yes, you're supposed to pay it on untaxed purchases already), where it never gets collected/reported, to the business, where it will. It'll be a little rocky at first as companies figure out the best way to calculate the tax they're now expected to collect, but in the long run it's a good thing.
All the whiners will just have to get used to gasp paying the taxes they're supposed to be paying already, but don't.
The real problem with the probable law is the reporting for small businesses. A small business must collect and distribute the appropriate tax. There are over 6500 different sales tax entities (states, cities, counties, etc.). There is no possible way that an individual can do this. I am one of them, and as soon as my sales reach a certain level, I will be forced to hire an accountant or lawyer to do this. That immediately cuts my profit to a level that it may not be worthwhile to be a small business. This means that I must artificially limit my possible income. What a terrible enticement to grow a small business. There will now be tons of people selling under a million dollars worth of goods and services and no possibility of growing.
Amazon would get exactly what they want, a multitude of tiny competitors that would have no way of really competing. (The law is championed by Amazon and being fought by eBay).
I am automatically against it, as I don't want to pay more. However, assuming there was a practical way to actually implement it, I see it as a reasonable step.
@morriea: There are several companies that offer a sales tax compliance service already.
Use one of them instead of throwing out red herrings about needing to hire accountants and lawyers.
I oppose it. Sales tax is for items I purchase from retailers that have a physical presence in my state.
Lobbyists should be loaded into a canon and shot at the sun. They ruin our economy and our government. I can't wrap my head around why it's legal. Unfortunately, the people that can vote to do away with them are the very people benefiting from their existence.
Honestly, I don't think we should have Congress or a Senate anymore either. All they do is screw up everything that is good. With our modern technology and communications, we don't need to pay someone for the rest of their life to vote on things in a way that only benefit them for a period of 2 or 4 years. We the people can place our votes and waste money on our own.
@stryker4526: Those ARE accountants and lawyers. There is a price that must be paid, or are you suggesting that they will do it out of the goodness of their hearts for free.
Here is the very first example that I found through Google...
"Do you have a specific tax question or questions about our tax services? Take advantage of our first hour free consulting service by emailing your question to XXXXXX"
In other words, I will be charges for each additional HOUR. This is NOT a red herring. If YOU have a small business and have someone to suggest, I am all ears. The cost must be within reason.
@capguncowboy: Yeppers!
@moondrake: " For example, when I buy a scoop of ice cream at Marble Slab Creamery, it is taxed, but when I buy a quart it is not. A slice of cake is taxable, a whole cake is not. Texas sales tax is high partly because of this exemption."
The reason for this is you're actually being charged tax on the service of cutting and serving the ice cream. Not the product itself. The cut piece of cake vs the whole cake. someone had to cut it. Someone had to actually scoop the ice cream.
It's the same in grocery. the deli sliced meat, taxed. the sliced meat in containers by the package bacon. not taxed.
State sales taxes are charged at different rates from state to state. What state would Amazon pay? What about ebay sales, you expect some 2nd income ebay seller to keep up with ever changing sales tax?
@caffeine_dude: They're required to collect whatever sales tax is appropriate for the taxing district in which the buyer lives. My county, for instance, has a half-cent sales tax that the county immediately south of me does not. Tax-calculation software that can sort out all this carp by zip code is available, but I suspect the sheer amount of paperwork for businesses that do more than $1million but, say, less than $10million in sales will be overwhelming. As I understand it, the current bill excludes the $1mil sellers but there's an attempt to amend the exclusionary floor to $10mil. Amazon, attempting to kill off small businesses, supports the former; eBay, attempting to assist its mid-size sellers, supports the latter. Either way, buyers will get kick in the pants.
@stile99: I have been remiss in my research (I've pretty well assumed it's a lost cause for buyers and have therefore paid the issue little attention), and I want to thank you for the use-of-infrastructure argument that I hadn't thought of.
@triplebud: Florida sales-tax statutes differentiate "food," which is generally not taxable here, from "food for immediate consumption," which generally is taxable. Under statute, neither packaged bacon nor sliced deli meat is taxable, as both are considered "food." On the other hand, I'm still trying to figure out from the statute itself if a half-quart container of potato salad, sold sealed and without eating utensils, is food or food for immediate consumption. Next time we shop, I'll check the receipt and ask the cashier.
At any rate, in Florda the sales tax on ice cream in a quarter container vs. in a cone has nothing to do with the service involved in making the cone; it's all about the "immediate consumption" aspect. The definitions occasionally get seriously heated (translation: lobbists get paid a big bundle) as manufacturers try to keep their products untaxed.
For funsies: http://www.miamidade.gov/taxcollector/library/guidelines/food-beverage-taxes-state-statute.pdf
@moondrake: The amount of tax to be collected by online companies will be based on the home address/ZIP of the buyer.
At least in the four or five states I've lived in as an adult, the sales tax in any state is either a State tax that goes to the State for distribution or a State tax plus a local tax, divvied up at some point and by some entity between the State and the locality.
For instance, my county has a half-cent sales tax added for 20 years by local vote and dedicated to funding certain specific local projects. (There's also some sort of cap on certain items, such as cars, so that buyers here don't go one county south to make such purchases.)
I think all the sales taxes collected are remitted to the State, which then remits the local taxes collected back to my county, but I'm not sure of that mechanism.
None of this is federalizing the tax in any way, though.
Oppose...but of course they'll do it because they can't create a budget and live within in so they must go after more money from us tax payers.
@morriea: Do you not know what a database is? This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that you could easily build a database for to integrate with your e-commerce site.
Or do you expect me to believe that you do over a million in sales per year and you can't afford something like http://www.zip2tax.com/shopping/z2t_services.asp#PageSection3 and a simple database creation? Heck, I'm sure if you wanted to spend the time doing so, you could compile a list of sales taxes by zip code all on your own, spending nothing but time on it.
No, you do not need to have accountants and/or lawyers on retainer to have up-to-date tax info per zip code.
@stryker4526: you don't understand how small businesses operate at all, do you? Or how many zip codes there are? Or the compliance issues? Or or or....
Calm the heck down. I hate sales tax as much as anyone, but realistically:
1. Congress isn't going to be taxing anyone with this bill, it's simply requiring sales tax to be collected for the locality in which the buyer lives.
2. It's not ALL INTERNET SALES as you proclaim, it only applies to people who have a sales tax where they live. Not every state has a sales tax.
3. Like it or not, the rules have to be set at the federal level because there are too many different policies now.
4. If you live in a state with a sales tax, that state already requires you to pay the tax on your own; This will make it simpler for the buyer in that IF they want to stay within the law, they no longer have the hassle of adding up every non-taxed transaction and filling out the appropriate state forms. Now, are you admitting to cheating on your state taxes...
5. This proposed legislation doesn't apply to ALL ONLINE MERCHANTS, from what I've read only ones that have more than $1 million in annual sales
6. Additionally, from what I've read, the merchant will only required to collect and remit sales tax to the individual states that provide FREE software for calculating and collecting the state and local sales tax. It won't be as burdensome on businesses as many fear. If a state doesn't offer the free software to the merchant, then that merchant will not be required (under the proposed law) to collect tax for residents of that state. The state will then process the local sales tax funds on behalf of the cities/counties that have a sales tax, so the merchant still will only make payments to one agency per state.
@magic cave: So I am required to pay taxes for online purchases and I may or may not..
With the change: The seller would need to send taxes to, potentially all 50 states, not to mention each states required paper work that would accompany this revenue. Seems like a small business killer to me.
This sucks, but it was going to happen sooner or later. Governments never deal with less, they always must have more (money, power, land, everything). There was too much money floating around the internet for them not to stick their paws in there.
One snarky question for the supporters of a retailer in Arizona (for example) collecting Georgia sales tax: do you think that this "new" money will result in lower taxes here? Or are the politicians here going to take the money and use it to buy more votes?
@kamikazeken: So will I (as an internet buyer) still be required to pay taxes from vendors with less than $1 million in annual sales?
Against. Congress got its yearly raise again, which oddly enough they let them vote on.(Since 1990, congressional pay has increased from $98,400 to $154,700 in 2003) The average member of the house of representatives makes $174,000 and we somehow have a problem with taxes? They need to nerf the pay for all those elected officials before we start worrying about how many pennies joe blow will be out of because he lives in Minnesota and decided to purchase something online from somewhere else.
If they paid those crooks minimum wage and somehow banned lobbyists from "donating" cough cough (i mean bribing) to their "campaign" funds we might actually have a shot at a balanced government. As long as we continue to line their pockets they will continue to vote themselves raises and create loopholes to help the financiers that got them there...
@triplebud: No, at Marble Slab they have to scoop the ice cream and "cut-in" your choice of flavorings before packing it into the quart container. It's the exact same process as when you buy a scoop. It's not a service tax, it has to to with whether the food is considered a "convenience" food or a food that you are going to eat at home. Sodas are taxable in any sized container. Milk is not taxable in the gallon, but the little single serves are.
All for it.
People, they are NOT, let me repeat since so many people will only listen to the right wing talking points, Congress is NOT enacting a new or increased tax.
All they are doing is requiring that the vendor collect the sales tax that YOU are already, by law, required to pay. It's just that most of us don't bother to collect all our receipts and pay the sales tax on items that we weren't charged it for when it comes tax day.
It's worth repeating..... This is NOT a new or increased tax. You are ALREADY required to pay it.
That said, Congress does need to enact a small tax on all high speed financial trades. A tiny tax, 0.03% on these trades, which most of us have nothing to do with, would bring in $352B over the next 10 years and also have the side effect of making some of these companies think twice about some of their risky stop/limit orders. We saw what one tweet from a hacked AP account can cause.
@kamikazeken: Good summary. On a personal level, I don't want to see this. I likes my tax-free internet shopping!
Realistically, things have changed so much since the days of mail-order catalogs that it's time that the law caught up with the times.
My understanding: This isn't a new tax. This is just giving states a chance to collect the monies that they are owed.
In some states, if the seller does not collect and remit the sales tax, then the buyer is supposed to pay with their income tax. There is a line "use tax" that one uses to pay your state all the taxes you owe. I suspect that this line is used rarely, if ever. ;-)
I like this approach better that what some states have tried to do, which is get a database of all purchases that a retailer (Amazon) has shipped to the state so that they can collect said tax retroactively.
Even with states providing free software, it's still going to be a nightmare. There are at least 45 states with sales tax.
@stile99: You do realize it's the customer that pays the sales tax, NOT the business, right?
The business simply collects it and forwards it onto the state. The state then splits it with the city/municipality, if they have a separate tax.
So, using your own argument, it is right for these businesses to collect the tax, which the customer is already required to pay by law, just on their own, because it's the customer that DOES use the local infrastructure, schools, etc, etc, etc.
And it's such a simple process for the businesses to pay it. I collect sales tax in 23 states and it takes me less than 30 minutes once a quarter, so only 2 hours a year, to pay them all. A federal repository would be even better. That way the business pays it once and the fed forwards it to the states, the same way they do with income & payroll taxes.
@magic cave: And @triplebud: "At any rate, in Florda the sales tax on ice cream in a quarter container vs. in a cone has nothing to do with the service involved in making the cone; it's all about the "immediate consumption" aspect."
It is this way in Texas as well. I don't know where this 'tax the service' thing came from, but trust me, it comes as a complete surprise to everyone in Texas. Basically, the intent is "we don't want to tax groceries, but we want to tax fast food". So say you go to CostCo and buy a pizza. Did you get it from the freezer? No tax. Did you get it from the food counter? Tax.
@stryker4526: Can you please take the time to estimate the cost and time involved in handling the paperwork from and processing remittance checks to each of the taxing districts in which the customers of a $9million business live?
To make things easy, what about a flat tax (say 2 or 3 %) that would go to the home state of the buyer, to be dispersed from there to local entities. Simple to add to checkout. None to the feds, unless your state is exempt. Might be to easy for the government though.
@mschauber: A couple of points of curiosity, please. You say your sales tax collection takes only two hours per year. Does that include completing any required paperwork for each of the approximately 9600 taxing districts, or do the separate 23 states just tell you how much to pony up? (And why does your company deal with only 23 states?) Does that "two hours per year" include bookkeeping costs of cutting checks each quarter? Is your operation run and handled solely by you, or do you have additional back office staff?
@stryker4526: "Heck, I'm sure if you wanted to spend the time doing so, you could compile a list of sales taxes by zip code all on your own, spending nothing but time on it.
No, you do not need to have accountants and/or lawyers on retainer to have up-to-date tax info per zip code."
There are approximately 9600 taxing districts in the US. Compiling a list of each of them would take a significant amount of time, and if you're running a business, your time is money.
It seems pretty evident that you're not real familiar with running a business.
@spicyaprons: Whomever writes for that website is full of hot air and nothing else. The idea of a federal sales tax is as old as this country and hasn't been seen yet despite having been proposed is every legislative session for decades. The only change we MAY see is that online merchants will be required to collect the sales tax we are already supposed to pay and transmit it to the states.
Opposite of Progress is Congress! Enuf said!
@magic cave: There's one time paperwork for each state when you apply for a sales tax ID. Some states have annual renewals, but that's either a couple of clicks on their website or signing a sheet a paper and mailing it in. You do not apply to collect tax for each municipality. NH is the only state that has no state or local sales taxes. Collection is easy and payment is easy, you don't separate out local and state, the state does that. I'm required to collect sales tax in any state I do business in. It's such an easy process that I decided to get resale certs for a few extra states even though I haven't had clients there yet. I'm small enough that I do my own bookkeeping. QuickBooks makes it very simple. Setup your tax rates once and you're good to go. I check once a year for any changes. I rarely cut a check, I use EFT or bank bill pay via QB 95% of the time. Paper checks are a waste of time and money. BTW: Most states let you keep a small % of what you collect for your trouble.
I say give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. The free lunch of tax free internet stuff had to end. I'm not saying how they are going to do it is the best, but it was bound to happen some time. States/munis have to collect money to hire teachers, police officers, have libraries, etc. And with millions of $ being spent online and not at B&M stores, state tax revenue has decreased dramatically. As far as I see it, there are 2 options:1) Cut sales tax entirely and move fully to an income tax (which is what our Fed government does) or 2) figure out a way to tax sales on the internet. They went with number 2.
For all the people concerned about the 9600 taxing jurisdictions (which is a legit concern), it will be handled by software. Tax collection etc is handled by software already for a large portion of businesses. Really, this will just be an extension of that. Added cost, probably some.
Perhaps instead of complaining about this, we should try to come up with a better solution.
@stile99: About your initial comment. It would be valid if business's payed sales tax. They don't, the consumer does. You pay sales tax to fund those roads and services. Business's are there because there is demand. They get taxed as well for using those services, but if this is a discussion about sales tax, that is strictly on the consumer.
@magic cave: That's exactly how wrong information is disseminated and fears get stoked. You don't pay each municipality separately. When you file with the state you list how much was collected for each jurisdiction and then pay the state. The state then separates the payments out to the munis, in whatever method they use. Part of running a business is doing the work required to maintain the business. Whether a small business like I have, a medium size like it sounds like you are talking about, or a large corporation. For people to just complain because they have to do some work they don't like, is ridiculous. SMBs can bitch and moan all they want about too much regulation, too much paperwork, too much oversight, etc. The fact is there isn't nearly enough. And the fact that you've gotten away with something for so many years, doesn't mean you shouldn't be doing what's right. Without taxes there would be no roads, no telephones and no internet!!!!! But plenty of West, TX's.
@mschauber: "Without taxes there would be no roads, no telephones and no internet!!!!! But plenty of West, TX's."
Nice strawman. So your opinion is increased taxes would have prevented a private business from having an established history of disobeying regulations, resulting in the explosion?
Interesting. Challenge: defend.
@magic cave: Your ignorance of how stuff like this actually works (you pay the state, once, who handles remittance to each of those taxing districts, NOT file paperwork and cut a check [a paper check? what is this, 1995?]) doesn't give you a whole lot of credibility when you try to say that I have no idea what's involved with running a business. Your complete ignorance of how simple it would be to incorporate this information into a database that could be integrated with an e-commerce site doesn't help, either.
Keep on keepin' on that chicken though, I'm sure it's worked out real well for ya.
The Professional Marketing Association (PMA) offers some great (accurate) information about the various tax issues affecting the internet. Those who may have a serious concern regarding online sales tax laws might find them helpful. My intention in posing the question was not to be political but simply to see how others in our community might feel about internet sales tax collection. ;)
Opposed . . .
Most state laws are written in such a way that any sale or trade, barter, etc. by a person living in that state, that person is required to pay sales tax on that transaction. Because states are not bringing in enough money, this law has been proposed requiring all retailers to collect the tax that is due the individual states. Just think of the amount of paperwork required to keep in compliance with all 50 states (read "added expense").
Just like it won't do any good to add more (anti) gun laws, this is taking away our freedoms.
What will be the effect? The one that worries me the most is that it will be far more difficult to start online businesses resulting in less choice for the consumer. On top of that add the added expense of the extra paperwork that will get passed along.


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Tim Hanna is charged with several counts of "theft by deception." State Police and other investigators say more charges are pending.
Sheila Kees lost her husband less than a year ago to heart failure.
"My husband said when I die you going to get my body," recalls Kees.
Tim Hanna said he'd be honored to prepare his body for burial, now, the Kees are out $3,000, the funeral home is shut down, and they are strapped for money.
"We have nothing; $3,000 is a lot of money."
Hanna has a long history with Kees family, that's why they're shocked such a good man could be so deceitful.
"He'd probably turn over in his grave, he probably would, and my dad would too," says Kees.
Hanna used Hickory Hill Florist owned by Darlene Ferguson for funeral services.
Ferguson says Hanna owes her a lot more than just a few floral stands.
"He owes me quite a bit of money," says Ferguson.
Money she worked hard for, and says she'll never see.
The Kees also don't believe they'll see the thousands of dollars Hanna owes their family, and will be a lot more cautious when dealing even with family friends.
"If he had done it one time, I could forgive him," says Kees.
Tim Hanna is in the Warren County Jail.
Kentucky State Police, the Logan County sheriff's Office, the Attorney General, and the Logan/Todd County Commonwealth Attorney, do not want this to happen to you!
They are urging any victims to call the Kentucky State Police at 270-782-2010.
You can also call the Commonwealth Attorney's Office at 726-4300, or the Attorney General's Office at 502-696-5399.
The investigation concerns only pre-paid. Pre-arranged funeral plans and trust funds acquired through Memorial Funeral Home in Russellville.


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Life Chain will be held from 2 - 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 7 on 7th St. (U.S. 54) between Cliff Dr. and Lulu St.
Life Chain is a pro-life social movement with participants standing along the roadside, peacefully, prayerfully, and politely for one hour holding a sign.
The community is invited to participate in this national event.
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I'm working on a document that is a cross of user's guide and a technical manual. I describe a system which has variables that I handle normally, then introduce an R package that I've written which deals with some of the same variable. My question is how to deal with the computer package-related components. For (1) the name of the package, (2) function (method) names, and (3) variable/parameter/argument names: Should they be set in a
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Wrigley Field upgrades still locked in rooftop squabble Wrigley Field upgrades still locked in rooftop squabble Looking at the A's proposed waterfront stadium Looking at the A's proposed waterfront stadium Gallery: Pitchers with multiple no-hitters Gallery: Pitchers with multiple no-hitters Gallery: Happy birthday, Ebbets Field Gallery: Happy birthday, Ebbets Field gallery with links do NOT pub gallery with links do NOT pub Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More The Strike Zone Stan Musial by the numbers by Jay Jaffe Add Favorite Favorite Added Twitter Email Posted: Sun Jan. 20, 2013 Stan Musial compiled one amazing hitting accomplishment after another during his Hall of Fame career. (AP)On Saturday, a day when the baseball world was already mourning the loss of Hall of Famer Earl Weaver, an even bigger icon passed away as well: Stan Musial. Elsewhere at SI.com, Cliff Corcoran hit the highlights of Musial's remarkable career and Ben Reiter examined how Musial was and is a model for athletes everywhere. The Internet is full of obituaries and tributes, particularly at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which published a 14-page print tribute to the passing of the city's greatest athletic hero, treatment worthy of heads of state. Numerous accounts paint Musial as a better man than an athlete — "The Man," in fact.Without wishing to diminish the importance of that, I think Musial's numbers often go underappreciated, in part because of their historical distance. After all, he debuted over 71 years ago, in September 1941, and retired over 49 years ago, in September 1963. Given that, I thought it would be worthwhile to take a stroll through the stats, because they're truly something to savor.In a 22-year career with 12,717 plate appearances, Musial hit .331/.417/.559. Roughly speaking, that's about one-and-a-half times the career of Albert Pujols (.325/.414/.608 in 8,103 PA so far) without any dropoff due to aging. Among batters with at least 8,000 PA, Musial's batting average ranks 18th, his on-base percentage 14th, his slugging percentage 11th; raise the bar to 10,000 PA — a level which only 68 players have reached — and he rises to ninth, seventh and fourth.If his raw rate stats aren't enough to grapple with, consider his counting stats. Musial's 3,630 hits ranked second only to Ty Cobb's 4,191 (since revised downward to 4,189) when he retired in 1963. Since then, only Hank Aaron (3,771) and Pete Rose (4,256) have surpassed that mark. Serendipitously, in Musial's last plate appearance, he hit an RBI a single past Rose, then a rookie second baseman for the Reds. Musial's 6,134 total bases rank second only to Aaron's 6,856; Willie Mays (6,066) is the only other player with more than 6,000. His 475 homers rank "only" 28th, but when he retired, that total ranked sixth behind Babe Ruth (714), Jimmie Foxx (534), Ted Williams (521), Mel Ott (511) and Lou Gehrig (493). Musial is also in the top 10 in games (3,026, sixth), plate appearances (12,717, eighth), runs (1,949, ninth), RBIs (1,951, sixth), doubles (725, third) and times on base (5,282, sixth).He was well-decorated. Musial won seven batting titles, tied with Rogers Hornsby and Rod Carew, and trailing only Tony Gwynn (eight), Honus Wagner (eight) and Cobb (12). He led the league in on-base percentage and slugging percentage six times apiece, had 10 separate seasons in which he led the league in at least one of those three slash categories, and two — 1943 (.357/.425/.562) and 1948 (.376/.450/.702) — in which he led in all three. He reached 200 hits six times, and led his league in hits six times. Although he never led his league in homers, he did lead in total bases six times as well. His 429 total bases in 1948 ranks sixth overall, and second in NL history; it still stands as the highest total since Foxx's 438 in 1932, when offensive levels were higher.He's one of 10 players to win at least three MVP awards (1943, 1946 and 1948), and was the runner-up another four times. He played in 24 All-Star Games, behind Aaron (25) and tied for second with Mays. That total is inflated by the twice-annual games from 1959-1963, which boost the numbers of those three players as well as Mickey Mantle, the only other player to appear in at least 20 All-Star Games. Musial rose to the occasion often in the Midsummer Classic; his six All-Star home runs are a record, while his 20 hits and 10 RBIs both rank second.Musial was part of four pennant winners (1942, 1943, 1944 and 1946), and three World Series champioons ('42, '44, '46), though he hit just .256/.347/.395 with one homer in 99 Fall Classic plate appearances overall. Only once did he have a great World Series. In 1944 against the St. Louis Browns, with whom the Cardinals shared a home park, he hit .304/.360/.522 with his lone Series homer.In considering his numbers, it's worth remembering that Musial spent his first five seasons playing in an all-white game, and most of his career in an offense-friendly era. Additionally, he was helped by his home parks, hitting .336/.427/.582 at home, compared to .326/.407/.537 on the road. His hits were split evenly between home and away, with 1,815 apiece, while 252 of his 475 homers, 53 percent, came at home.Baseball-Reference.com has a stat called AIR which indexes the park and league scoring environment of a player's season or career, with 100 being average. Musial's 104 career AIR isn't remarkable relative to a modern-day Rockies player such as Larry Walker (116) or Todd Helton (123, the record), but it's right around that of Pujols (105, and likely to continue falling in Anaheim; it was 92 last year), and a bit higher than Barry Bonds (102).All of which is to say that it's worth looking at the advanced metrics as well. In terms of True Average, which expresses runs created per plate appearance on a batting average scale after adjusting for a player's park and league scoring environments, his .340 ranks 10th among players with at least 8,000 PA, and fifth among those with 10,000:RankPlayerTAvPA1Babe Ruth.400106172Lou Gehrig.37496603Ted Williams.37497914Rogers Hornsby.35894645Mickey Mantle.35399096Jimmie Foxx.35196707Barry Bonds.350123858Ty Cobb.345130689Stan Musial.3401271210Willie Mays.33912493In terms of Wins Above Replacement (Baseball-Reference.com version), Musial's career total of 123.4 ranks ninth among position players:Rank Player WAR 1Babe Ruth159.22Barry Bonds158.13Willie Mays150.84Ty Cobb144.95Hank Aaron137.36Tris Speaker127.87Honus Wagner126.28Rogers Hornsby124.69Stan Musial123.410Ted Williams119.8Musial led NL position players in WAR four times (1943, 1944, 1946 and 1948), ranked second another three times, third twice and in the top a remarkable 15 times. He led in offensive WAR — with no consideration of defense at all — a staggering eight times.Musial served as a regular for at least one season at four different positions, so figuring out where he fits for the purposes of JAWS is a bit of a challenge. JAWS classifies a player's primary position by where he accumulated the most value — not the most games — during his career, after a first-cut infield vs. outfield distinction. Even classifying by games is murky; while he played more at first base (1,016) than any other position, he played more in the outfield (1,890) than at first. He played 929 games in leftfield, 785 in rightfield and 331 in centerfield, often moving from one position to the other during games to accommodate substitutions.It wasn't as though Musial migrated across the defensive spectrum from the toughest position to the easiest over the course of his career, either. Here's a look at the Cardinals' regulars at the four positions during his career (excluding his 12-game 1941 stint, and his 1945 season in the military), as well as his annual Wins Above Replacement totals:Year1BLFCFRFWAR1942HoppMusialMooreSlaughter5.11943SandersLitwhilerWalkerMusial9.31944SandersLitwhilerHoppMusial8.81946MusialDusakWalkerSlaughter8.41947MusialSlaughterMooreNorthey4.41948JonesSlaughterMooreMusial10.81949JonesSlaughterDieringMusial8.91950NelsonMusialDieringSlaughter6.91951JonesMusialLowreySlaughter8.71952SislerRiceMusialSlaughter7.81953BilkoMusialRepulskiSlaughter7.51954CunninghamRepulskiMoonMusial6.81955MusialRepulskiVirdonMoon5.81956MusialRepulskiDelGrecoMoon5.21957MusialMoonBoyerEnnis5.81958MusialEnnisFloodGreen3.91959MusialWhiteFloodCunningham0.11960WhiteMusialFloodCunningham1.71961WhiteMusialFloodCunningham2.41962WhiteMusialFloodJames3.41963WhiteMusialFloodAltman1.1Musial spent seven seasons as the Cardinals' regular first baseman, mostly late in his career, eight as the team's regular leftfielder, including his first and last full ones, one as the regular centerfielder and five as the rightfielder, including all three of his MVP seasons. Nine times he wound up playing more at a different position than he had in the previous season. He compiled 44.6 WAR in his seasons where he was mainly a rightfielder, 24.5 when he was mainly a leftfielder and 33.6 when he was mainly a first baseman. That information suggests he should be classified for JAWS purposes as a rightfielder, though until I shifted my system over from Baseball Prospectus' Wins Above Replacement Player as the underlying value currency, he was classified as a leftfielder.Because Retrosheet's play-by-play coverage goes back only to 1954, his actual batting splits at each position are incomplete. Baseball-Reference publishes only those position splits for which it has such play-by-play data, which account for just 67 percent of his total plate appearances. Retrosheet's splits, which break down by games started at the position where information about mid-game moves between position aren't available, cover about 97 percent of his career and break down as follows:PosGPAAVGOBPSLG1B10164393.324.409.549LF9293771.329.409.552CF3311076.329.424.520RF7862984.338.429.586PH156156.278.394.365Musial's numbers in rightfield, which make up about 24 percent of the total, are superior to those at the other positions by 20 points in terms of on-base percentage and about 35 points in terms of slugging percentage, which lends additional credence to the decision to classify him in rightfield. Based upon all of that information, he ranks third in career WAR and JAWS among rightfielders, behind only Ruth (who played considerable amount of leftfield as well) and Aaron, and second in peak WAR (62.7) behind only Ruth. He sits eighth in JAWS among all outfielders and first basemen pooled together:Rk CareerPeakJAWS1Babe Ruth159.282.5120.92Barry Bonds158.171.1114.63Willie Mays150.871.5111.14Ty Cobb144.967.3106.15Hank Aaron137.358.597.96Tris Speaker127.860.193.97Ted Williams119.867.693.78Stan Musial123.462.793.19Lou Gehrig108.565.787.110Mickey Mantle105.563.084.2Musial's career was about more than the numbers. He was an icon, a role model, a hero, "baseball's perfect warrior," in the words of commissioner Ford Frick on the day he retired in Sept. 1963. Even so, his numbers add another dimension to his greatness, and reassert his spot in the pantheon among the game's best. More The Strike Zone


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I am using Fortify 360 to analyze my code's security. Fortify has identified a Hibernate based delete method to perform a delete based on an object that has been passed in. My understanding of hibernate is that hibernate will delete a row in the table the object is associated with based on the objects id (the id is a number). Fortify has flagged this as SQL Injection:Hibernate(Input Validation and Representation, Data Flow). Fortify does not seem to like that Hibernate is executing a dynamic SQL statement using unvalidated input. Would a certain fix be required or just caveat this as a mitigated risk?
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I can't find much documentation on using XML-RPC and custom post types.
I have a specific requirement that remote posting and management (the client has an in-house cms) must be used for a custom post type.
I can't find much documentation on using XML-RPC and custom post types.
I have a specific requirement that remote posting and management (the client has an in-house cms) must be used for a custom post type.
@keatch is correct that out-of-the-box WP XML-RPC does not support post types other than 'post' and 'page'. However, a quick stroll through the code indicates that this may be relatively easy to change.
In WP 3.0.4,
And ... that's about it for insert. At line 2196 the data is wrapped up and inserted, and at line 2213 the custom fields are attached to the post and nothing else seems to care about
There are probably a few more places to extend for other commands, but just search on
Note well: this is a core WP file and any hacks thereto are going to get overwritten by the next update to core. On the other hand, these are mostly trivial changes and you could make sure that the client notifies you before they do an update to core.
Reply to Comment: Life is more complicated than Rarst's comment would make it seem. And the excellent answer he pointed to is solving a problem significantly simpler that what your question appears to be asking about. In kongo09's comment to Rarst's own answer in that thread he observed that 'there is probably no help' coming in this area.
Custom Posts are a bit of an afterthought in the WP code. When you look at the logic in a number of places you see code that originally said "do this thing with a post". When pages came along that code had to be expanded to deal with posts and pages. And then it had to be expanded again to deal with customs posts. This is a classic programming evolution: 1, 2, many.
The xmlrpc code is one of the places that is stuck at "2" (and sometimes even at "1"). In trying to add functionality to core code, you are stuck choosing between several possible paths, all of which have their downsides.
You're probably going to be forced to do #3 or #2 in spades because the more you look at the WP section of xmlrpc, the more you realize how haphazard it is regarding what you can do with what type of objects E.g. using the WP xml interface you can only create a page, but the MW method
Update - 2 weeks later: So a friend just asked me a question that was almost exactly the same as Jeremy's. It forced me to take a really hard look at the XMLRPC code to see how we can make the changes but avoid the "modify core" problem raised by Rarst. It turns out that there are a very large number of undocumented
I still maintain that the XMLRPC code is a swamp, but this particular
It has been included in Wordpress 3.4. You can access custom type post through thoses functions :
http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp report the documentation of XML-RPC and is a little outdated.
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php is the actual XML-RPC server. At a quick look, seems that posting to a custom post type is not supported!


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In the spirit of Glenn Becks Original Argument comes a lively manifesto on the need to recover the original meaning of the Constitution.
From law school classrooms to the halls of Congress, Americas elites have come to regard the Constitution as a mere decorative parchment to be kept under glass at the National Archives. In The Naked Constitution, conservative legal scholar Adam Freedman defends the controversial doctrine of originalism as the only way to restore the Founding Fathers vision of American liberty. Freedman argues that the fashionable Living Constitution theory has been used by judges and politicians since the Progressive Era of the early 1900s to centralize power in Washington and to threaten individual freedom.
The Naked Constitution explains the fundamental themes animating Americas founding charter: limited government, federalism, separation of powers, and individual liberty. Freedman explores the nature of each of the three branches of government as well as the key individual rights enshrined in the Constitution to show how original meaning can help answer the most pressing questions facing America today: Can the president invade another country without the approval of Congress? Can he assassinate or spy on American citizens in the name of fighting terror? Do corporations have the same free speech rights as individuals? Can the federal government coerce states to adopt particular policies, or force individuals to buy insurance? Ultimately, Freedman calls for a new constitutional convention that will free the nation from capricious courts and idiosyncratic judges, and limit the growth of government for decades to come.
About the Author
Adam Freedman is one of America's leading commentators on law and holds degrees from Yale, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. He is also the author of The Naked Constitution: What the Founders Said and Why It Still Matters. A former columnist for the New York Law Journal, Freedman covers legal affairs for Ricochet.com. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two daughters.
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"A compelling response to the 'living Constitution'--a fradulent theory that allows judges and politicians to rewrite the Constitution at will...to centralize power and erode basic freedoms. Most importantly, he explains how we can return to the Founders' principles of individual liberty and limited government."
-Mark Levin, author of Med in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America
"Brilliant, lively, pugnacious, and very ambitious. Freedman intends to reclaim our founding document for us, the layment, the ordinary citizens whom the Constitution was intended to serve, andm asterfully does so in this lucid and accessible book."
-Peter Robinson, fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Reagan speechwriter
In this very entertaining and informative book, Freedman skewers those who have judicially rewritten the Constitution at the expense of our individual liberties. Well-researched and full of historical insight, The Naked Constitution explains the Founders' original meaning, and demonstrates the urgency of reclaiming America's founding ideals. Well done.
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WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Public Service District Board will consider whether to proceed with the extension of sewer lines to three areas in the second phase of the Eldersville Road sewer project or to attempt to parlay funds received for it into a larger project.
Randy Watson of Thrasher Engineering, the engineering firm for the project, told the board Wednesday he's estimated a $1.3 million Small Cities Block Grant awarded to the district may be used to extend sewer lines to 50 homes in the community of Louise and several others on Latimer Lane and at the end of Grimms Lane.
Watson said the Grimms Lane extension should be advertised for contractors as an alternate bid in case there aren't enough funds to do it.
He added the project area also depends on whether the West Virginia Development Office wants the district to use the grant as leverage for a state loan that would enable it to serve a larger area.
Watson said that area could include about 40 homes on St. John's Road from Black's Hollow north where the first phase of the sewer project left off.
Barb Zimnox, a community development specialist with the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Planning Commission, said she will consult the state development office about the matter.
The board used a $9.8 million federal grant awarded to the district in 2001 for the extension of sewer lines to Mahan Lane, Eldersville Road and Bruin Drive to secure a $2.5 million loan and $775,000 grant for additional homes in that area.
But the move, as well as negotiations with three potential wastewater treatment providers, resulted in the project being delayed for several years.
Watson noted 80 percent of easements for the project area must be obtained before the project may be advertised.
The task of acquiring easements normally falls to the board's attorney, Wayne Mielke.
This summer Mielke said the board indicated it planned to hire a new attorney after the first phase was completed. He said his contract with the board calls for him to serve as legal counsel for the entire project.
Board member Archie Doll said the dispute hasn't resulted in litigation at this point but the second phase of the sewer project will be delayed until the legal issue is resolved.
"We're just investigating our options at this point. But we're going to move forward (with the project). We're not going to lose the money the Governor (Earl Ray Tomblin) gave us," he said.
In other business, the board discussed with Follansbee City Attorney Michael Gaudio and City Manager John DeStefano a proposed intergovernmental agreement through which the city's crews would read meters for the new sewer customers who receive water from the city, and to terminate service to those customers for non-payment, if needed.
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AWS EC2 WordPress Blog sample application
By llaszews on May 31, 2012
Deployed the WordPress Blog to my EC2 and the performance is so slow. Actually it is unusable. This is a well known issue when using the free AWS EC2 free micro instance. If you can get to it, here is my wordpress implementation:
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Alfred Hitchcock 10 DVD Set (12 Movies) for $16.99 + free shipping
This 10-DVD collector's edition set includes twelve unedited full-length movies from the Master of the Macabre, featuring all the action, heart-pounding suspense and visual artistry that he is famous for.
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37 Alfred Hitchcock Cameos over the years in one place:
@shpiders: Wonder what a box set like that would cost? They could probably slap them all on a single blu-ray since they're all low def.
@markfenix: I'd love massive standard definition collections on Blu-Ray, but that won't happen on a legitimate release. Part of the format's specs is that main content is presented in high definition.
sold out on this site but walmart.com has it for $14.96
These are all his early British films. Most are public domain and free to watch online. None of these are the popular movies everyone knows him for making. I wouldn't waste the money.


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Penny Shooter for $5
The Penny Shooter does just as the name says. The fold-up magazine allows you to load up to ten US pennies and fire them off in rapid succession. The card measures 2" x 3.5". In order to accommodate the pennies it has a hefty .09" thickness without the rubber bands. Watch the video embedded through the link the Penny Shooter in action.
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How does this look like a good idea to anyone.
@dominantdin: It's throwing away money. Bound to happen anyhow, but after the initial investment, the money is retrievable.


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Beck Earns Second-Team Honors, Trojans Picked 10thJanuary 27, 2014
ROCK HILL, S.C. – With the 2014 baseball season beginning on Saturday, the South Atlantic Conference has announced its annual Preseason Baseball Coaches Poll and all-conference Teams, as Anderson University baseball was projected 10th and junior right-hander Landon Beck was named to the second team, announced by the league office on Monday.
Beck, who was named to the All-SAC Second Team at the conclusion of last season, finished his 2013 campaign with a 3.09 ERA and eight saves. Currently, Beck is nine saves from tying the school record held by Nick Wates (2000-03) who totaled 19.
With Beck's Preseason All-SAC honor, it marks the third straight season AU has placed a player on the preseason second team, as Erick Sanderson was named to the season-team a season ago and Thomas Padro in 2012.
The Trojans finished with 20 points in the poll, as Catawba, last season's regular season champion, was tabbed the preseason favorite with 97 points and nine first-place votes. Tusculum and Wingate each finished with 78 points to draw even for second-place, while SAC newcomer Coker, which advanced to last season's Division II College World Series, was projected fourth with 76 points.
Newberry came in fifth in the poll, while grabbing the final two first-place votes. The Tennessee tandem of Lincoln Memorial, which won last season's SAC Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, and Carson-Newman finished sixth and seventh, respectively.
Finishing eighth was Lenoir-Rhyne with 42 points and Brevard followed in ninth-place with 22 points, two ahead of the Trojans, who placed 10th in the preseason poll for the second straight season. Mars Hill rounded out the rankings, finishing 11th and with 19 points.
Anderson begins its 2014 season at home on Saturday when it welcomes Peach Belt Conference member to Anderson Memorial Stadium. First pitch of the doubleheader is set for 1 p.m.
1. Catawba 97 (9)
2. Tusculum 78
Wingate 78
4. Coker 76
5. Newberry 71 (2)
6. Lincoln Memorial 53
7. Carson-Newman 49
8. Lenoir-Rhyne 42
9. Brevard 22
10. Anderson 20
11. Mars Hill 19
First Team
C – Josh Clark, WU
1B – Albert Baur, NEW
2B – Julio Zubillaga, CAT
SS – Evan Rogers, MHU
3B – Ryan Cranmer, NEW
OF – Thomas Spitz, WU
OF – Ivan Vieitez, L-R
OF – Keaton Hawks, CAT
DH – Eric Barbieri, NEW
SP – Jonathan Rosenberger, NEW
SP – Olen Little, WU
SP – TJ Rinoski, WU
RP – John-Austin Shepard, TC
Second Team
C – Chas Goodwin, NEW
1B – Fico Kondla, COK
2B – Bo Ausmus, C-N
SS – Shea Bell, COK
3B – Blake Prince, WU
OF – Paul Kronenfeld, CAT
OF – Jermale Paige, NEW
OF – Blake Houston, CAT
DH – Scott Miller, LMU
SP – John Tuttle, CAT
SP – Andrew Goot, COK
SP – Ben Currie, WU
RP – Landon Beck, AU


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In the first part of my series (I ask medical professionals and e-patients about how they use social media presented through practical examples and suggestions), a rheumatologist told us how he uses social media day by day. Now here is Kerri Morrone Sparling, one of the most famous diabetes bloggers in the world, with her own examples and habits. Kerri has been a major voice in the global diabetes community for years and she has amazing views on how social media can help diabetic patients. Enjoy!
- What social media channels do you use in your work and for what purposes?
I use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and my own blog to connect with other patients who are living with diabetes. I use these channels daily, and even though it seems like a big commitment, there is so much empowerment to interacting with kindred spirits. My blog reaches a wide audience, and discussions about "real life diabetes" take place every day. There's so much of an emotional health benefit to knowing you aren't alone, and that there are others out there who "get it."
- What does your doctor think about social media? Does he use it?
My doctors know what I do, in the diabetes advocacy space, and they think it's cool. My medical team understands that the 15 minutes I see them for every few months isn't enough to sustain the physical and emotion health needs of some patients, and they encourage me to connect with my fellow patients. They love the ides of patients sharing their tricks for hiding their diabetes devices into their day-to-day lives. However, while my medical team has an overall social media presence, they do not have individualized representation.
- What social media sites do you think point towards the future of healthcare?
I think that Twitter, and micro-blogging in general, is a powerful resource for patients, providers, and all health care professionals. Committing to blogging, or to running a specific community, can be a lot of work, but there's something very satisfyingly simple about bite-sized bits of information that can be requested, received, and shared on micro-blogging platforms. Everyone's lives are becoming busier and busier, so the simpler the sharing becomes, the more people can, and will, share.
- What do you think about the curated Diabetes and Social Media selection on Webicina.com? For what reasons did you use it?
The diabetes online community is huge – from social networks like TuDiabetes to Twitter chats like #dsma to the hundreds of individual diabetes blogs … diabetes is well-represented in the social space. Sometimes this condition is so well-represented that it can be a little overwhelming for someone new to exploring the community – there's so much that you don't know where to jump in! I love the Webcina diabetes selections because it's a whittled-down list of some of the best social sites for diabetes, and it gives you solid sites to help introduce someone to the community.


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I'm very sorry if this has been asked before, but I cannot find a relevant post that could help me.
Here's the problem:
Windows 7 seems to be able to boot from it's own HDD and bootloader, but then when trying to run it through grub or burg it goes back to post from the windows logo.
It also gets detected as Windows 8, and I haven't installed that ever.
My layout is as follows:
1TB - Windows HDD - no bootloader. 320GB - downloads - somehow has the windows bootloader on it? 250GB - Ubuntu HDD - Grub/Burg.
Now I can boot fine from windows bootloader, but swapping around in bios to go to windows/ubuntu is a pain.
I've tried using the grub customiser to sort out the windows boot, but it keeps crashing when clicking on "ok".
Tried re-installing the windows bootloader, to no effect.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Ben.


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This is going to be a quick guide for our customers who are looking to utilise FTP to upload and manage their content. If you're not already a customer and are interested in learning more about our various CDN solutions, you can find contact details at the bottom of this article.
For those who've never used it, FTP uploading could seem like a daunting task but in reality it's actually very straight forward and offers you a more effective way to manage your content. There are a few things you need to do before you can start uploading but we will cover these in a step by step fashion below. Firstly however, I will give you a brief description of how FTP works.
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is a means of sending files over the internet for storage at a remote location. It shares similarities with HTTP which is the protocol for which content and websites are delivered from a server to a web browser – however, FTP is only utilised for the transferring of files.
A great way to visualise how FTP works is to look at your 'My Documents' folder on your computer. If you access your 'My Documents' folder, you will find numerous files and folders which were all saved locally by you on your machine. FTP is a solution that allows you to utilise the internet to view and interact with storage folders much like your 'My Documents' folder but in other remote locations. In this case you will be using FTP to access your folder which is located on the Limelight CDN. When you connect to the folder, you create a direct link from your local machine to the CDN so files can be transferred over the internet for remote storage.
So moving forward, here are the steps you need to take to get uploading.
Step 1 – Download an FTP client.
An FTP client is a piece of software that allows you to interact with the files stored on the remote folder. It works much like Windows Explorer – Windows Explorer being the utility that you use to navigate your files on your PC.
All you have to do is give the FTP client some connection details and it will connect to your remote folder so you can chose files from your local machine to upload. You can also use the FTP client to create additional folders and generally manage your files.
There are a number of different FTP clients you can use but for this guide, we are going to use FileZilla which is a free, simple to use, open source FTP client. You can start the download by clicking this link: http://player.mydeo.com/filezilla.exe – when installing, please beware of the options you're clicking as to avoid any unwanted bloat ware. Follow the instructions and install the FTP client.
Once you've installed, open your FTP client and you should see something that resembles this:
Step 2 – Connecting and managing your FTP folder
You should have received from us a welcome letter introducing you to your new FTP credentials. You will now need these credentials to connect to the FTP folder. You need three things: Host address, Username and Password. Towards the top of the FileZilla windows, you should see some boxes where you can enter information. These boxes are labelled: Host, Username and Password – Place the information you have in your welcome letter into the respective fields and then click the button labelled 'Quickconnect' – you don't need to worry about the 'Port' field. Assuming the connection was successful and you entered your details correctly, your FTP folder and its contents should appear on the right hand side. See below:
As you can see, we only have one file stored in our FTP folder called 'welcome.txt'. This serves as a test file which we will come onto later. Looking again at the image above, on the left you can see files on my local machine. In this particular folder I only have a singular files called 'aFile.txt'. If I wanted to upload that file, I could either drag and drop or right-click and state upload. After a few second, the file would appear in the right had box (my remote FTP folder). So always remember, your local items are on the left and your items stored in the remote FTP folder are on the right.
If you want to create folders to separate your content, you can simply right-click in the white space of your remote FTP folder and select 'Create directory'. A new folder will show up which you can rename as normal. We find that our customers utilise different folders for different projects or clients because it's much easier to manage than having just a long list of files.
Step 3 – Creating the URL for delivery over the CDN.
Once you've uploaded a file to the FTP folder, it is immediately available for super-fast CDN delivery but you need to create the URL first. This is actually easier than it sounds and involves using your Prepend URL found in your welcome letter. The Prepend URL is linked directly to your master FTP folder. If you have a file in your master folder, this will be accessible via the Prepend URL followed by a '/' and then the full filename and extension as it appears in your FTP client. Remember the welcome.txt test file we mentioned before? Well this file is found in the master folder of HTTP11 which is one of our test FTP folders. The Prepend URL for HTTP11 is: http://mydeo.vo.llnwd.net/o1/http11 – to access welcome.txt, we simply have to add a '/' to the Prepend URL along with the full file name and extension. The full URL will therefore be this: http://mydeo.vo.llnwd.net/o1/http11/welcome.txt. Feel free to copy this into your browser and test.
If your content resides within a folder that's in your master folder, you simply have to add a reference to the folder in the URL… Imagine welcome.txt was actually found in a folder called 'testFolder'. The URL would need to reference 'testFolder' between two '/' before the file and extension. Here is an example: http://mydeo.vo.llnwd.net/o1/http11/testFolder/welcome.txt – for your benefit, I created 'testFolder' in the HTTP11 directory, feel free to test the URL above. In my FTP client it looks like this:
And that's it! Once you've uploaded a few files and created some new directories (folders) you'll get the hang of it in no time.
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I'd like to read more about design decisions, optimizations, scaling techniques applied during development.
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Jeff and Jarrod posted self-deprecating answers, but as an outsider, let me tell you that the database code and schema are really tight. (And I should add that has absolutely nothing to do with me, hahaha.) If you're going to scale a SQL Server database fast to a large audience at a low cost, you don't want any extraneous business logic in the database. No triggers, no UDFs, no CLR code, no record-by-record operations.
Normally when I do performance tuning for clients, I start tracing queries with a duration of more than 10 seconds. At Stack Overflow, I have to crank my filters down to 150-200 ms just to see any activity. It always gives me a grin.
Just generally speaking, application servers are cheap, and SQL Server is expensive ($5k-$25k per CPU). Even if you use open source databases, it's easier to scale application servers than it is to scale database servers. Every added web/application server is relatively easy to implement with a load balancer - every added database server, not so much. Every time you have to do anything even remotely CPU-related, do it in the web/application tier, not the database tier.
A typical night of development:
I wouldn't have it any other way.
You should definitely listen to the podcasts - Jeff gives away a lot of stuff in them.


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I reworked this quite a bit. First off, just chop your veggies; don't try using a food processor. Second, unless you really, really love thyme, only use ONE teaspoon. Otherwise it overpowers everything to the point of ruin. The first time I made this, I nearly threw the whole batch out for this reason. GLUTEN-FREE readers: use brown rice pasta and substitute cornstarch for the flour and you'll be good to go.
Hamburger Buddy
From EatingWell: September/October 2007, EatingWell for a Healthy Heart Cookbook (2008)
Very finely chopping onion, mushrooms and carrots in the food processor is not only fast—it makes the vegetables hard to detect for picky eaters. They also form the base for the sauce of this ground beef skillet supper. Make it a meal: Serve with a green salad.
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This was a terrible recipe. First off- the food processor cannot be used for this. Just by pulsing for a second it purees the mushrooms, way too quickly, turning them into paste. Definitely would not use the FP, instead just chop everything yourself.
The taste is very bland too- just terrible.
I'm sorry I had to give this recipe even one star in order to enter my review. It deserves no star at all. My entire family and I were totally disgusted and disappointed in this dish. I cannot imagine anyone actually liking this hideous concoction. First of all, putting all those veggies and nice fresh mushrooms in the food processor completely destroyed their textures except for the uneven chopping of the onion, which overpowered everything. The finished product resembled and tasted like (I would imagine) Alpo or a disgusting Hamburger Helper creation. And, the final, ridiculous garnishing of this bear sh_t with chopped chives was like putting a tiara on Golda Meir. I would not have the audacity to recommend this recipe to anyone and feel so ashamed that I had subjected my poor family to this turd of a meal. Do not waste your time, energy and $$ on this crap. I am so repulsed that I will NOT be testing any further recipes from this site and will stick to my usual repertoire and use only recipes from my tried and true sites from now on. THANKS FOR NOTHING!
This was a very good recipe to make - and it makes alot! Next time I will cut in half. Although I felt the dish was heavy and starchy, it had good flavor! Thanks for sharing!
I ommited the thyme because I just did not think it would go well, and glad I did. It was very tasty and hearty meal. I made it with ground turkey and fat free sour cream and lots of vedgies chopped up. I did not use a food processor so it too some time to chop all the vedgies small enough to disolve into the sauce. Very good and my fiance, who is from Italy was satisfied for a week night meal!


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Cited: Emily N. Weeks, 18, 1119 Marshall St., Weirton, improper backing; Anthony W. Barnwell, 50, Rochester, N.Y., one way street; and Dennis Hasak, 67, 213 Braybarton Blvd., failure to control.
Arrested: Jeffrey S. Ball, 39, Cameron, W.Va., felony theft and possession of drug paraphernalia, Saturday.
Theft: House entered in the 500 block of Arden Avenue and video games and jewelry taken, Sunday.
Arrested: David Pickford, 44, 818 McLister Ave., Mingo Junction, domestic violence and assault, Sunday.
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Break-in: House in the 100 block of Woodmont Road, Steubenville, broken into Sunday and laptop computer taken.
Arrested: Jeffrey L. Kelnor, 56, 2160 U.S. Route 250, Adena, domestic violence, Sunday.
Arrested: Brent Montenery, 26, 310 Lawrence Ave., Tiltonsville, trespassing and menacing, Sunday.


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Former Ft. Campbell soldier Milo Rodgers has been awarded a $2.2 million dollar judgement in a case involving alleged police brutality by the Oak Grove Police Department.
According to Rodgers, he was rushing his son to the hospital for treatment on October 21, 2000 when 2 Oak Grove police officers pulled him over for speeding. The officers ordered Rodgers out of his car at gunpoint, then, allegedly pushed him to the ground, grabbed his wrists, and stomped on his neck.
Rodgers' head and wrist injuries were so severe that the former tank mechanic was forced into a medical discharge from the Army in 2002, and he and his wife and 3 kids now live in North Carolina, where Rodgers is a cookie-baker.
The jury found Officers Jeff Ford and Jason Pelfrey used excessive force during the stop. Rodgers alleges Oak Grove Police Chief Milton Perry was on the scene during the incident, but did nothing to stop it.
Ford and Pelfrey no longer work for the department, but Perry remains as police chief.
Bowling Green attorney David Cole, Jr. represented Rodgers in the case, and says the Rodgers family turned down a $250,000 settlement offer to go to trial because "they always knew they were right, and would win," Cole said.
Cole says he expects the city of Oak Grove to appeal the ruling, but is confident his case will stand up on review.
The Oak Grove Police Department declined comment and referred to city hall for representation, but WBKO was unable to reach anyone at city hall for comment.


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Katie Holmes, Face Of Ann Taylor, Coming To A Billboard Near You
- Ann Taylor replaced Heidi Klum with Katie Holmes for the spring season. The brand says it sought Holmes, who's also modeled for J. Crew and been the face of Miu Miu, for "her intellect, kindness and enduring personal style." [WWD]


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L. Ron Hubbard's 5 Most Impressive Lies (Besides Scientology)
Some things are self-evident: Murder is wrong, kindness is good and 75 million years ago, a ruler of a Galactic Confederacy rounded up billions of his own citizens and shipped them to Earth (then called Teegeeack), tied them to volcanoes and used hydrogen bombs to blow up their bodies. Adultery is bad. Lying is wrong.
Yet somehow, some statements made by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, even those having nothing to do with the religion, have actually come into question by critics who often refer to them as "exaggerated" and "laugh out loud retarded."
#5. On His Native American Upbringing ...
He Said:
It seems L. Ron really, and we mean really wanted to make it clear that he had some extraordinary credentials when it came to his understanding of spirituality. And what do most of us require in a spiritual leader? Nothing less than full membership in a Native-American tribe.
Lucky for L. Ron, the Blackfoot Indian tribe of Montana recruited him and made him a blood brother in a really cool tribal ceremony that probably featured a whole lot of feathers and peace pipes and dancing and whatnot. And, oh yeah, that was when he was just four years old. Those injuns must have really recognized great perception and timeless wisdom in little L. Ron when he wasn't crapping his pants.
And then, as if his followers wouldn't be crapping their pants in excitement over his Blackfeet Indian connections, L. Ron also insists that he spent his adolescence sitting at the feet of shamans of the Orient, eventually applying their ageless wisdom to produce--TA-DA!--Scientology.
But Actually:
L. Ron lived in Helena, Montana when he was four. The nearest Blackfoot Reservation was over 100 miles away. Still, he could have made the trek for the blood brother ceremony ... if the Blackfoot tribe actually conducted that sort of ritual. But oops, they didn't. As our friends at Wikipedia point out:
"The white Blackfeet historian Hugh Dempsey has commented that the act of blood brotherhood was 'never done among the Blackfeet,' and Blackfeet Nation officials have disavowed attempts to 'reestablish' Hubbard as a 'blood brother' of the Blackfeet."
Probably just an innocent misunderstanding. But what about his travels to Asia, you ask?
There is some authenticity to Hubbard's story. His father, Harry Hubbard, was actually stationed in Guam at the US Naval Base, so, yeah, young Hubbard did have the opportunity to spend some time in Asia. What did Hubbard learn from the wise men there? From his actual diary:
"They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here."
Not Pictured: Enough white people for Hubbard.


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5 Diabolical Animals That Out-Witted Humans
Whether or not humans are the smartest species on the planet really depends on which animals and which humans you base it on. After all, sometimes when people match wits with members of the animal kingdom, it doesn't turn out well for the humans.
#5. Mud Creek Grizzly vs. Scientists
What's the most badass job in science? Yeah, we guessed Mr. Wizard too, but that was before we knew there was such a thing as "grizzly bear trapper." Back in the late 90s, a team of these badass biologists were doing their thing in the Glacier National Park, managing to capture and release grizzly bears without getting their soft, academic bodies torn to shreds in the process. And then they ran into the Mud Creek Grizzly (MCG).
Like the other notable smart bear Yogi, the MCG found maiming to be pedestrian, and preferred the more subtle route of professional sabotage. Unlike Yogi, this grizzly was not content with being smarter than your average bear or park ranger. He wanted to outsmart some fucking scientists.
The researchers set up their bear catchi- um, bear research station, complete with traps, bait and cameras. Waiting until the researchers had completed their work and left the fully equipped we're-gonna-catch-us-some-bear site, MCG quietly slipped out of his hiding place and began his work.
First, he tore down the markers left to show the path to the site--we assume this is because he didn't wish to be disturbed while he wreaked his revenge on his tormentors. He then gathered an arsenal of stick and stone weaponry and used it to set off each of the food-laden traps, collecting the bait and thus earning himself a free dinner in the process.
Once his work was done, MCG stopped and scanned the crime scene. "Fuck," we like to think he said to himself. "Forgot about CCTV."
That's right; our grizzly hero, despite being from a part of the world where surveillance cameras are relatively uncommon, spotted and pulled down the camera and beat the shit out of it. He did this until the back of the unit sprang open, so he could remove and fuck up the film roll.
A bear? Holy shit, we know people who wouldn't have figured out how to do this.
And if you're thinking this is something he did in a random, mindless rage, well that's what the researchers probably thought, too. The team continued to set up their stations, but every single time, the bear returned and performed the systematic destruction of the entire site.
We like to think that somewhere, a team of grizzly bears in lab coats and glasses nodded and took notes.
#4. Crows vs. Japan
Wherever you find humans, you find food and where there is lots of both, you find crows. Their tendency to hang around populated areas has created a generations-long struggle in places like Kagoshima in Japan, where the man vs. crow battle has reached a fever pitch.
Deciding that stealing food from humans was no longer a challenge, the crows began helping themselves to stretches of fiber optic cables, bulking up their nest building material with pieces of wire and building their nests snuggled tightly amongst the cables supplying electricity to the city.
And they walk among us!
As you can probably imagine, this wreaks absolute havoc with the city's power grid. The crows have caused a spate of blackouts around Japan. On one occasion in 2007, a crow-manufactured blackout led to the high speed bullet train being shut down.
Something needed to be done, and the Kyushu Electric Power company decided to form an organization dedicated to outsmarting the pesky birds. Thus, the Crow Patrol was born. Its mission: to seek and destroy any crows' nests built in an electricity-laden location.
In the first three years of its existence, the Crow Patrol undertook twice-weekly rounds in an attempt to rid Kagoshima of its bird plague. They removed some 600 crow homes from the cables.
But the crows had wised up to the Patrol's mission, and deciding the territory was well worth defending, formed their own cunning plan. Operating on the "needle in a haystack" premise, the crows started spamming the area with dummy nests, to the point that the fake nests outnumbered the real ones.
It was an ingenious plan. First, it meant that while the Patrol went about their work of clearing the city, there was only a small chance that the nest they removed was going to have been lived in by a crow family. Second, if the Crow Busters did strike it lucky and destroy an actual home, there were a multitude of empty nests ready and available to move into. And finally, more nests meant more blackouts, leaving the crows added time to build new homes while the humans scrambled to get power back up.
"Oh no, please don't knock THAT one down. Nah, I'm fucking with you, you're way off."
So with it looking like the crows are there to stay, at least we can look on the positive side and say that Japanese crows are much smaller and less aggressive than the American cro... oh, no that's not right. They have a wing span of up to a meter, scary fucking beaks and sharp claws, and there have been a number of occasions where children have been attacked by Japanese crows for the candy held in their innocent little hands.
Holy shit. It might be time to just move out of the city and let them fucking have it.
#3. Karta the Orangutan vs. Adelaide Zoo
Karta is a 27-year-old orangutan, who spends her days swinging around her enclosure and entertaining visitors of Adelaide Zoo. Known for being an intelligent and rather difficult ape to manage, in May 2009 she actually managed to pull off a stunt so spectacular the whole zoo had to be shut down for the day.
Suddenly contemplating a problem she had not previously recognized, Karta realized that, holy shit, she was trapped in an enclosure in a zoo. She apparently decided that wouldn't do and that she wanted to travel the world. Or see the rest of the zoo. Either way, this ape wanted out.
Carefully watching the zoo staff operate, it soon became apparent to Karta that she wasn't going to be able to plan a surprise attack, knocking her keepers senseless and making a dash for the door. Neither were the keepers careless with leaving their keys lying around which would have allowed her to make a more subtle escape.
So she examined her enclosure. Electric fencing, and beyond that, high walls made from concrete and glass. First, the fence. She somehow figured out that she needed to stop the current flowing through it. Knowing full well the keepers weren't so stupid as to build the on/off switch within her reach, Karta came up with a cunning plan. The orangutan took a branch from her enclosure and twisted it into the hot-wires, causing them to short circuit.
With a quick shimmy, she was over the fence and into the no-man's land between the barrier and the outer walls of her enclosure.
Now for the problem of climbing the sheer walls, which were designed to stop her from doing exactly that. Once again thinking with a logical clarity that most of us can't manage on a good day, Karta started gathering vegetation from the boundary of her exhibit.
Anyone watching and wondering what she was up to soon caught on to the fact that this smart-ass ape was actually building a fucking step-ladder. Within no time, Karta was sitting on the wall which was meant to separate her from her adoring public.
Despite being confident that Karta wasn't an aggressive character and wasn't likely to attack members of the public, the zoo elected to err on the side of caution--understandable, considering this appeared to be some kind of evil orangutan genius--and closed the entire zoo on one of the busiest days of the year.
But Karta, apparently having glimpsed enough of the outside world to be unimpressed by it, nonchalantly climbed back over the wall, down the ladder and wandered back home to her enclosure.


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I've heard that our body burns carbohydrates when we begin exercising, and after 20 minutes the body will burn fat instead. Is this true?
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With a healthy pancreas, and an eating plan that allows it, your body will start burning fat 6 hours after you have your carbs. If your diet is very high in carbs and your pancreas is having a hard time keeping up, it will never burn fat. I suppose a more complete answer would be in terms of glycemic impact instead of blanket carbs.
I wish I had some reference material to link to. The information I have was from a registered nurse that oversaw the diet plan I was on. The most common time that all of us have with at least 6 hours of no carbs is while we are sleeping. Yet another reason for a good night's rest. NOTE: according to the same source, your body can take up to 12 hours to break down complex carbs and turn it into sugar for the body to use. That's why runners will carb up the night before a race, and not the morning of. They need the boost of energy after the carbs are processed.
As to what your body burns during exercise, it's a function of your heart rate. Zone training is built around different thresholds of what that exercise does for you. The bottom line is that the lower the heart rate the more fat you burn, and the higher the heart rate the more sugar you burn. If your goal is to lose fat, it's better to walk on a treadmill for an hour keeping your heart rate in zone 1 than it is to run a 5k. There are other benefits to the higher heart rate zones, so a balanced cardio plan will have them all covered.
Summary of zones:
I've heard somewhere that as you're warmed up during the exercises, you could stop and maintain your body temperature so that lipids enter the bloodstream. Then as your system cools, you'd start your light exercises again. Lather, rinse, repeat. All without trying too hard, just being consistent.
Mix that with Berin's advice to do this before consuming carbs in the morning, and you've got yourself a winning formula.


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I've just bought a gaming mouse, and had to disable the acceleration (windows settings) for decent movement.
My question is, are there any tools available where I can find optimal settings (dpi)?
I thought about something where I would have to move to targets like little boxes, circles or something like that.