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I'm not expert, but it seems inaccurate that Iceland is listed as part of the RG Nordic area, considering that there aren't any submarine power cables connecting Iceland to anywhere else. The map on the Synchronous grid of Continental Europe article shows it as a separate grid, and even explicitly states that "The networks of Iceland, Cyprus, and Malta are not yet interconnected with the other grids." Should this be changed? -- Phantom784 (talk) 04:49, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I agree Phantom784. Iceland is not part of the RG Nordic. It's far away across the sea. The map needs revising. 18.104.22.168 (talk) 09:04, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Energy efficiency of regional grids[edit]
Can someone help me verify some data presented in the "Major existing networks" section of this article? If my math is correct, then the electricity used by an average person per day varies widely by region. Below are three such regions:
- NORDEL: ~43 kWh/person/day (i.e., 43 = 390x10^12 / 25x10^6 / 365 / 1x10^3)
- UCTE: ~15 kWh/person/day
- IPS/UPS: ~13 kHw/person/day
Is it really possible that the average Scandinavian uses nearly 3 times as much electricity as the average, say, German? That doesn't seem right. Or, is my math wrong and/or I am missing something? --Thorwald (talk) 23:15, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, that sounds about right. There are several reasons why the Nordic countries use much more electricity than central Europe:
- The main reason is that due to a high proportion of hydroelectric power the Nordic countries have much cheaper electricity than central Europe. (Sweden gets almost 50% of its electricity from hydroelectric power. Norway has an even larger share.)
- The Nordic countries have large mines and lots of forest, thus we have many large ironworks and paper mills. Those industries use huge amounts of electricity. Due to the cheap electricity the later stages of the processing is also often done in the Nordic countries. Also, the Nordic ironworks usually use electric induction to heat the ores and metals, where the German ironworks use coal or natural gas.
- Due to the pricing electricity intensive industries such as aluminium production is placed in the Nordic countries instead of in Central Europe.
- Due to the pricing many Nordic houses are heated with electricity. While for instance German houses usually are heated with natural gas or coal. (Germany is connected to the gas fields in the North Sea and Russia through pipelines.) Germany uses lots of natural gas, while the Nordic countries don't use much gas at all. Up until recently Sweden wasn't even connected to the European gas pipelines. So if you want to compare Nordic and Central European energy usage, you need to also count in the gas and coal usage.
- Since the Nordic countries have a large part hydro power we don't have problems with peak power consumption. While in Germany there are special much higher pricing when an industry uses peak power. Thus many factories in Germany have their own gas or diesel powered electric generators that they use during their peak consumption, like when they start their heavy machinery in the morning. That generation of electric power is not counted into the official electricity statistics.
- In the 1980's I travelled around Europe by train. I noticed that the German railways still used diesel locomotives on many lines, while Swedish railways were already fully electrified since decades. Again, the reason probably is the cheaper electricity in the Nordic countries.
- Due to the pricing Nordic countries "waste" much more electricity. For instance, when my German relatives come and visit me in Sweden they are usually astounded by how well lit the Swedish cities are.
- I could list many more examples of how the Nordic Countries use more electricity than Central Europe. Or that we use electricity instead of gas, coal and diesel. In most cases the reason is that the Nordic countries have cheaper electricity.
- --David Göthberg (talk) 16:08, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
European Frequency[edit]
It was my understanding that Western Europe was 60Hz, while Eastern Europe was 50Hz. LorenzoB (talk) 16:39, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
- Nope, all of Europe uses 50 Hz, and has done so for a long time. --David Göthberg (talk) 16:15, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Is "When [china's planned grid is] complete, its generation capacity will dwarf that of the UCTE Interconnection." really unnecessary? It seems like bragging to me. --Test35965 (talk) 09:00, 25 November 2012 (UTC)


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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050707 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050707 Firefox/1.0+
According to the SVG spec, the <a> element should support a target attribute
that directs the browser where/how to load the linked-to document. For instance:
<a xlink:href="newdoc.html" target="_top">...button graphics here ...</a>
However, Mozilla ignores this attribute and loads the newdoc.html into wherever
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<embed> tags...
Reproducible: Always
Actual Results:
Linked-to doc was loaded into the object frame of the parent doc.
Expected Results:
Linked-to doc should be loaded into the top frame of the browser.
Will attach test-case files...
Created attachment 189384 [details]
Run this file with targetbug2.html and targetbug.svg in the same directory
Run this file with targetbug2.html and targetbug.svg in the same directory to
demonstrate the bug.
Created attachment 189385 [details]
SVG file demonstrating the problem when embedded in targetbug.html
Created attachment 189386 [details]
Test Case zip file
Sorry about the first two attachments. This is the first time I'm attaching
This is a zip of all three files used to demonstrate the bug. Run index.htm
once unzipped to see it.
I can confirm this too. The <a> element is however mentioned in the
implementation notes for mozilla's svg (here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html ) and also on the wiki (here:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/SVG:Linking ). I also cannot get the suggest javascript
work around to work either, but thats another story.
I can reproduce this problem too. Our application embeds SVG within an HTML page using <object>. The embedded SVG contains links such as:
<a xlink:title='View details of this milestone' xlink:href='/Ketura/Projects/ProjectF.xml?ProjectPlanId=1000' target='_parent'>
...SVG graphics...
The idea is that the user clicks the link graphic, and is taken to a different HTML page, just as if they had clicked a normal HTML link in the page. At present, however, the embedded SVG object is replaced with the target HTML page. This is useless.
Note also that it is not possible to achieve the desired result using xlink:show -- the only options with that seem to be the behaviour described above or opening a new, separate, window. Neither is suitable for our application.
This problem is particularly inconvenient, because it is inconsistent with the behaviour of the Adobe SVG viewer, which works as desired.
As James Tomlinson mentioned, the work-around described at http://wiki.mozilla.org/SVG:Linking does not work
with Firefox 1.5. However, the following does:
<?xml version="1.1" ?>
<g onclick="window.top.location.href='page2.html'" cursor='pointer'>
<!-- link graphical elements here -->
Unfortunately, although that works for Firefox 1.5, it doesn't seem to work with the Adobe SVG Viewer 6 beta. A
little experimentation produced the following:
<a xlink:title='View details of this milestone' xlink:href="javascript:window.top.location.href='page2.html'"
xlink:show='replace' target='_top'>
<!-- link graphical elements here -->
That's _really_ ugly, but works both with the Adobe SVG Viewer 3 and 6 beta under IE, and also Firefox 1.5 with
the built-in SVG support.
I'd like to request that if anyone has any other workarounds, they post them here for the benefit of the
As an aside, I had a problem with the SVG not rendering when embedded using <object> and viewed with IE+Adobe
SVG Viewer 3. I had previously been using <embed>, but Firefox 1.5 doesn't support this (why not?). I worked
around this by using <iframe>, as discussed at http://www.webmapper.net/svg/serve/'
Daniel Neades
More and more people will become amazed at how many problems there are with realistically deploying HTML + SVG today between ASV, Fx 1.5 and Opera 8.
Go see http://www.codedread.com/ for an actual example of this (the menu on the left). Fx doesn't like embed, nor does Opera, but ASV doesn't like object - so I use some JS to switch the DOM objects (an alternative is to use IE's - you have to use JS to switch the types, or use IE's conditional brackets:
<!--[if !IE]> -->
Your browser ...
<!-- <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE]>
Next, there's no scripting SVG in Opera 8, so I need to use framebusting JavaScripts for Opera. It's all there in the page, but frankly it's one giant mess...it's almost enough to make one give up on integrating SVG and HTML...
*** Bug 323601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Interesting, but even if I use <object data=...> and I have
a xlink in the svg document, the target document does show only inside a iframe ( where the first svg was ). So I mean embed or object makes no difference for a correct work of xlink.
The trick with
does work.
Still, this problem with xlink should be corrected.
About the embed and object I use
<object data=...>
<embed src=.../>
Which workded for me.
Created attachment 209772 [details]
svg with link (to be embedded)
Created attachment 209773 [details]
html link target
Created attachment 209777 [details]
svg with link (to be embedded)
Created attachment 209778 [details]
Created attachment 209784 [details] [diff] [review]
initial test
This works, but I still need to figure out if the other two occurances of TriggerLink need the same treatment and how to best check that we are dealing with <svg:a> here.
Created attachment 209789 [details] [diff] [review]
This is close. We really want to check that we're dealing with an SVG <a> element here, but I'm not sure how best to do that. Suggestions?
The other two locations where TriggerLink are used are for xlink:actuate="onLoad" and for scrolling to make sure pseudo classes work (broken for SVG anyway, and not something I think we should fix on branch).
Created attachment 209791 [details] [diff] [review]
patch with namespace check
This XBL madness has to stop. Couldn't we just break out the code from nsGenericHTMLElement::HandleDOMEventForAnchors into some support function and call that from both html and svg?
Absolutely. But do we want to land that on branch? This is something for branch to help the poor sods who want to embed SVG for use as navigation buttons, or anything else that requires their SVG links to load in _top rather than in the embed. Kind of a show stopper for interoperibitity for a lot of people. Once this is tested on trunk and checked in on branch I'll be nuking the XBL binding crap by implementing nsSVGAElement properly for trunk. That stuff is just a little too scary for branch thought since it requires moving the XLink stuff up to nsGenericElement etc.
I'm fine with landing this on branch-only. Though unfortunatly I think we'd want to bake it on the trunk before landing it there.
Well I'm almost finished my patch for nsSVGAElement that would nuke it on trunk, so it would only need to bake there until we agree it's cooked.
Comment on attachment 209791 [details] [diff] [review]
patch with namespace check
Cool, thanks for doing that work!
>Index: mozilla/layout/svg/base/src/resources/content/svgBindings.xml
>- <xlink:xlink xbl:inherits="xlink:href xlink:show" xlink:type="simple">
>+ <xlink:xlink xbl:inherits="xlink:href xlink:show target" xlink:type="simple">
Since this is our own attribute we should name it as such. How about
xbl:inherits="... xlink:_moz_target=target"
>Index: mozilla/content/xml/content/src/nsXMLElement.cpp
> #include "nsLayoutAtoms.h"
>+#ifdef MOZ_SVG
>+#include "nsSVGAtoms.h"
Just use nsLayoutAtoms instead they're all the same these days. Or even better, use nsGkAtoms.
>+ nsAutoString target;
>+#ifdef MOZ_SVG
>+ nsIContent* parent = GetParent();
>+ if (parent->GetNameSpaceID() == kNameSpaceID_SVG &&
>+ parent->Tag() == nsSVGAtoms::a) {
>+ GetAttr(kNameSpaceID_None, nsSVGAtoms::target, target);
>+ }
And then always support the _moz_target attribute, no need to check for parent svg:a. You don't even need the #ifdef IMHO. In fact, the more I think about it the less I think we need to back this part of the patch out once we get a real svg:a implementation.
r=me with that
Created attachment 209909 [details] [diff] [review]
patch with sicking's changes
I love it. :-) Here's the patch.
Comment on attachment 209909 [details] [diff] [review]
patch with sicking's changes
Checked in on trunk. I'll request approval for 1.8.1 and 22.214.171.124 once it's baked for a while.
I'm pretty sure this checkin made the Camino tinderboxes burn!
Nope, it was just tinderbox weirdness.
Checked in on 1.8 branch.
*** Bug 315389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Firefox 2.0 still ignores the target attribute. Should this bug be reopened?
(In reply to comment #29)
> Firefox 2.0 still ignores the target attribute. Should this bug be reopened?
I take my comment back, the attribute target is recognized correctly in FireFox 2.0. Sorry for the confusion!
target="_top" works in 2.0, but xlink:target="_top" doesn't work. Shouldn't it work too?
No, XLink doesn't have a target attribute.


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Saturated Fat 0 g0%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
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The Supreme Court issued a decision in Reichle v. Howards this week, a case involving a confrontation between then Vice-President Richard Cheney and a member of the public, Steven Howards.
Howards was arrested by members of the Secret Service, agents Reichle and Doyle, after he interacted with the Vice President at a mall in Colorado. Howards was critical of the Vice President, asking him "how many kids he killed that day," and he also touched the Vice President on the shoulder. When Howards lied about touching the Vice President during subsequent questioning by the Secret Service, he was arrested.
Charges against Howards were dropped, but Howards sued the Secret Service agents, Reichle and Doyle, petitioners in the Supreme Court, claiming his constitutional right to free speech was infringed by the arrest, which he saw as a retaliatory act, resulting from the expression of his political views.
The legal issue of the case at a preliminary stage was the immunity from liability that Secret Service agents should be accorded in the conduct of their official duties. The court accepted certiorari on two related issues concerning such liability.
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Both of my earlier podcasts on this case, at the certiorari stage and again at the oral argument stage, focused primarily on the question of whether the legitimate grounds for arrest (probable cause) provided a basis for absolute immunity. As it turns out, the Supreme Court decided not to decide this issue, despite a split of authority in the Circuit Courts of Appeal on this point.
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The High Court reversed the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, which had held that the law was clearly established, and that probable cause did not automatically defeat a First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim. Thomas noted that his approach "comports with our usual reluctance to decide constitutional questions unnecessarily."
In an opinion marked by subtle distinctions, Thomas explained that "courts may grant qualified immunity on the ground that a purported right was not 'clearly established' by prior case law, without resolving the often more difficult question whether the purported right exists at all."
Thomas explained the court's reasoning: "This clearly established standard protects the balance between vindication of constitutional rights and government officials' effective performance of their duties, by ensuring that officials can reasonably anticipate when their conduct may give rise to liability for damages."
Thomas also noted that the Supreme Court's position on retaliatory prosecution in Hartman v. Moore – a case finding qualified immunity existed in the context of retaliatory prosecution — "injected uncertainty into the law in the tenth as well as other circuits because of the similarity between retaliatory prosecution – for which Hartman held probable cause was a basis for immunity — and retaliatory arrest for which Hartman did not make a determination.
Thomas was careful not to suggest that the instant case decided the issue of absolute immunity either. Instead, he said only that clearly-established law governing liability did not exist at the time of the incident.
Justice Ginsburg, in a concurrence joined by Justice Breyer, agreed that Secret Service agents such as petitioners Reichle and Doyle, were entitled to qualified immunity, saying that their responsibilities protecting officials necessitated immunity so long as their decisions were rational, but Ginsburg would not recognize qualified immunity based on lack of clearly-established law for ordinary law-enforcement officers. Ginsburg distinguished Hartman because retaliatory prosecution was different than what ordinary law enforcement officers consider in terms of arrests. Hartman was inapplicable and thus did not add any confusion to the law as it concerned ordinary law enforcement officers.
The majority found that the clearly-established law standard was not satisfied in the context of First Amendment liability for retaliatory-arrest claims. Uncertainty existed where the Supreme Court had never recognized a First Amendment right to free speech in the face of probable cause for arrest, and there was a split of authority in the circuits on the issue.
Thomas also considered whether there might be clearly-established law within a federal circuit despite conflicting decisions in other circuits, but found, "assuming arguendo that controlling court of appeals authority could be a dispositive source of clearly established law in the circumstances of this case, the Tenth Circuit's cases do not satisfy the clearly established standard here."
Justice Kagan did not participate in this case.
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Bond vs. The United States
The US Supreme Court accepted certiorari this week in the case Bond vs. The United States. In 2011 the high court decided, as a preliminary issue in the same case, that petitioner Carole Bond of Pennsylvania had standing to challenge her prosecution under federal law. Bond had been prosecuted in federal court under the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act, which criminalized the use of chemicals as chemical weapons under American law in conjunction with the adoption and implementation under international treaty of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The facts, which led to Bond's prosecution, concern her attempt to injure or kill a former friend after the woman was discovered to have had an affair with and to have had a child with Bond's husband. Bond was a microbiologist and when she decided to harm her former friend, she relied on her professional expertise to employ toxic chemical compounds in her assault. Over a period of three months Bond repeatedly applied two different chemical compounds on the victim's house and car door handles and mailbox. The victim observed and avoided the chemicals on several occasions. She alerted the local police but the police did not identify the chemicals or find evidence that linked them to Bond. At one point the victim did receive a minor burn on her thumb from contact with the chemicals. A federal investigation by the postal service determined that the substances were toxic chemicals 10-chlorophenoxarsine and potassium dichromate and traced the evidence to Bond. Bond was arrested and prosecuted by federal authorities and eventually pled guilty to violations of the chemical weapons implementation act and was sentenced to six years in prison, although she reserved her right to appeal.
After the Supreme Court decided that Bond had standing to challenge her federal prosecution, her case was remanded to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. There Bond argued that her case was essentially a local criminal matter appropriately subject to state criminal law relating to assault. Her constitutional claim was that the federal government did not have power to step into the area of state criminal law and to prosecute her under the Chemical Weapons Act.
Bond is not disputing that there are federal crimes, such as an attack on a federal official. But Bond argues that the government must derive its authority in federal criminal law from the substantive federal issue involved. Here the only federal issue was that there was an international treaty and the substantive federal legislation had been enacted to implement the treaty.
Bond argued that the Chemical Weapons legislation was meant to prohibit the use of chemicals in warfare. This would be a legitimate federal purpose as the federal government has authority through the constitutional roles of the executive and congress related to warfare. However, in applying the Chemical Weapons law outside of the context of war in an area of criminal law where the states had traditional authority, Bond argued the prosecution violated the 10th Amendment protection of state authority from encroachment by the federal government.
The Chemical Weapons Act law does not only regulate the type of chemical that are so dangerous that they are only found in military stockpiles. It applies broadly to any chemical that "through its chemical action on life processes can cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm to humans or animals."
However, the Act is limited by an exclusion of chemicals that are used for any "peaceful purpose related to an industrial, agricultural, research, medical or pharmaceutical activity or other activity.
Bond claimed that her prosecution under federal law violated the constitution because the facts of her case should not be seen as presenting use of a chemical weapon. Since the government did prosecute her under that theory, Bond argued the federal chemical weapons statute intruded on state authority in its application to her.
The Court of Appeals rejected Bond's challenge to her prosecution. The Third Circuit found that the fact that Congress had enacted the Chemical Weapons Implementation Act in order to meet the government's obligations under the treaty was sufficient to confer federal authority. Congress has the authority to enact legislation to implement a valid treaty under the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause. The Third Circuit did not consider there to be limits on that authority once conferred. The third circuit decision raised the question of whether it made sense for such an expansion of federal authority based upon a treaty negotiated with another country, and this was expressly contained in a concurrence, but the Court believed it was bound by an earlier Supreme Court case, Missouri v. Holland from 1920, which stated in dictum that "if [a] treaty is valid there can be no dispute about the validity of the statue [implementing that treaty] under Art 1, Section 8, as a necessary and proper means to execute the powers of the Government." The Third Circuit concluded that principles of federalism "will ordinarily impose no limitation on Congress's ability to write laws supporting treaties."
Dictum is language in an opinion or decision by a court that is not fundamental to the holding of the case. Dictum is not given the weight of precedent, but where the dictum is from a Supreme Court decision lower courts look to the language of the high court for the Court's reasoning and interpretation.
In fact, there is a split of authorities in the circuit courts of appeal as to whether a valid treaty can expand the federal governments constitutional authority beyond enumerated powers. The Ninth Circuit considered a closely related question of the effect of a treaty's impact and concluded, that "treaty provisions which create domestic law and have the same effect as legislation must be subject to the same substantive limitations as any other legislation." The 2nd and 11th circuits have followed Holland, while other circuits not. In addition, Holland was decided in 1920 and more recent judicial trends towards federalism and states rights call in to question the applicability of the language contained in Holland.
The Supreme Court will hear argument on Bond v. the United States later this term.
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Tagged Bond vs. The United States, Chemical Weapons Ban, Hague Convention
On Innovation
My response to the White House's Advise the Adviser outreach, February 9, 2011:
Differentiate between infrastructure that serves consumers and infrastructure of innovation. Invest in infrastructure for innovation. That is education, basic science, and public or public-private programs that make technological leaps that are then capitalized on by the next generation of entrepreneurs and by society. NASA and Star Wars are perfect examples. Whether going to the moon or a missile shield were important or successful, the resulting advance in science caused by these programs served business and society. I am not saying anything new here except that infrastructure for consumers — roads and bridges for example, are not necessary for innovation in the 21st century and thus are actually to some extent government spending that removes money from the possibility of innovation.
On the other hand, all the money spent on medical information systems, as the President has already suggested, will serve innovation, business prospects and societies worldwide.
When you cut spending on roads, car travel may become more difficult and more expensive. But that may be as it should be. Of course, the government is the engine for public infrastructure. But don't think that this creates innovation, jobs, and the next advance in standard of living. People can innovate over the Internet, over the phone, in their garage. Real innovation comes from having purpose, opportunity, drive, ability, etc.
From a PR perspective, I don't think the President has made this distinction clear. Similarly, the worldwide community can participate in American innovation through the Internet. We can be the engine of technological advance. What we need is the proper goals and investment in areas that will be productive.
A Mission to the Moon project or Manhattan project devoted to alternative energy, global education, medical information collection and organization, pharmaceutical basic science, are all areas that could bring leaps of innovation resulting in prosperity at home and eventually abroad.
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Podcast FCC v. AT&T
By Marc Seltzer; the following podcast was originally broadcast at via iTunes on January 16, 2011 at Supreme Podcast.
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This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case titled Federal Communications Commission v. AT & T.
The case comes out of the third Circuit, which includes the states Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, after a three judge appellate panel there decided in favor of AT&T, and the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, petitioned the Supreme Court for review.
The case concerns the potential release of documents contained in an FCC investigation file.
The FCC, a federal agency, conducted an investigation into potential overcharging of the government by AT&T on a technology project for the New London school district. AT&T had called the billing issues to the government's attention after its own internal investigation and subsequently reached an agreement to resolve the issue. However, a trade association, including competitors of AT&T, filed a Freedom of Information Act request, commonly referred to as a "FOIA," seeking release of the FCC file. The file included internal e-mails providing pricing and billing information, the names of employees involved in the billing issue, and AT&T's internal assessments of the employee's violations.
The FOIA request required government officials to turn over documents unless an exemption applies.
AT&T asserted that a law enforcement investigation exemption, #7, applied to information in the government's possession, which is private, and if released would be an "unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
Supreme Court precedent on FOIA generally has embraced a balancing act. In one recent noteworthy case, United States DOD v. ACLU, over the release of photographs of prisoner abuse by the US military, the high court explained:
Congress established in FOIA a "basic policy"
favoring disclosure, but it simultaneously recognized
that "important interests [are] served by the exemptions."
Those exemptions embody Congress's commonsense
determination that "public disclosure is not always
in the public interest." For that reason, the "Court consistently
has taken a practical approach" in interpreting FOIA's
exemptions, in order to strike a "workable balance."
The FCC reviewed AT&T's request to keep the government's files secret and decided that the personal privacy exemptions did not protect corporations from the release of private information: "A corporation, as a matter of law, has no 'personal privacy.'"
AT & T challenged the FCC decision by filing a lawsuit in federal district court, claiming that Exemption 7 for personal privacy applied to corporations. AT&T argued that "person" is defined in the FCC exemptions to include an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or public or private organization other than an agency." If person included corporation, AT&T argued, it followed that personal privacy would include corporate privacy. However, the district court agreed with the FCC, finding that a corporation could not claim protection of a personal privacy exemption. Person may be defined as corporation, but personal was not defined, and neither case law nor common usage conceived of personal as applying to corporations.
On appeal, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, agreeing with AT&T that the use of the world person included corporate or other entities and the words personal privacy included information of a corporation such as AT & T. Neither the Third Circuit nor the district court conducted the second part of the exemption inquiry to determine, if the law protected corporations' privacy interests, did the evidence in this instance require withholding documents in order to protect those interests.
The US supreme court will now decide if the FCC was right in rejecting AT&T's claim to a personal privacy interest.
In oral argument, the justices appeared skeptical of AT &T's attempt to include corporations or other entities within the language of personal privacy, especially given no traditional of doing so. Discussing why the issue did not appear to have come up before, Justice Breyer said:
"Well, one reason might be that this has really never been a problem because all the legitimate — or most of them, anyway — that these organizations that have interests in privacy are actually taken care of by the other 17 exemptions here."
Justice Scalia: "Another reason might be that personal — nobody ever thought that personal privacy would cover this."
AT&T's counsel, Jeff Kleinberg, raised the issue of the use of FOIA by commercial competitors.
"Increasingly, FOIA is being used by – by competitors and legal adversaries to obtain information, not about what the government is doing, not about what the government is up to, but about what evidence the government might have gathered from private parties."
But Justice Ginzberg asked: "Is that a reason to change what was the understanding of Exemption 7?"
The justices then inquired into the understanding of the exemption at the time that FOIA was created.
Attorney Kleinberg:
Well, Your Honor, the –Attorney General Levy's memorandum did not go into a long discussion or description of the analysis. It simply said it does not appear or does not seem to apply to corporations.
Justice Scalia, somewhat rhetorically looking for congressional intent stated,
"But if Attorney General Levy's description, which was — which was issued for the purpose of telling all the agencies of the Federal government what this new statute meant — and it had a lot of ambiguities in it — if that was wrong about -about this subject, you would have thought somebody would have objected.
I mean, did some members of Congress who -who had passed FOIA say, this is outrageous; what about the personal privacy of General Motors? I'm not aware of any objections along those lines."
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Making Sense of Obama's Tax Compromise
By Marc Seltzer; originally published at care2.com on December 8, 2010.
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The Obama compromise, which renews existing tax rates for middle class and wealthy Americans and continues tax incentives aimed at speeding economic recovery is not as simple as it seems.
At first it appears that the President allowed wealthy Americans, who have done exceedingly well in the past decade and generally survived the economic crisis with losses, but not foreclosures or unemployment, to win a battle in class warfare. It is true that letting the Bush tax cuts (for Americans earning more than $250,000) expire would have forced the wealthy to contribute significantly more to the public budget when high unemployment and underemployment were causing a great deal of stress and suffering to middle and lower class workers. In a simple contest over redistribution of wealth, wealth won.
In the larger context, the President's compromise may have been a significant achievement. The President is working to stimulate the economy to speed economic recovery. The best way that he could have done this without continuing tax cuts for upper incomes would have been to let those tax cuts expire and separately to provide a major new stimulus to the economy. This could have taken the form of a half-trillion dollar infrastructure program or multi-year green-energy committment to make American energy consumption more efficient and take a leadership role (now held by China) in developing green-energy technology. However, there was not enough support in Congress, let alone the public at large, for such a major new stimulus program.
Without new stimulus spending, the higher tax rates, as Bush tax cuts expired, would have taken money out of the private economy. This money would go as tax revenue to pay down the deficit, but would not create new public spending or jobs without additional stimulus legislation.
This is the real problem. The economic recovery is not yet fast enough or strong enough to endure, without harm, tax hikes, absent a corresponding increase in stimulus from another source. Yet no other stimulus was politically available.
This put the President in the position of having to accept a renewal of all the Bush tax cuts, to keep the economy from losing steam, at least while the economic recovery was weak. The two-year tax-cut extension was the estimate of that vulnerable window of time.
Importantly, the high-income tax cuts were not the whole deal, they were only the Republicans' bargaining chip. As David Leonhardt reports in the New York Times, the President got unemployment benefits extended, a cut in the payroll tax and some business taxes and college tuition tax credits in addition to continuing the lower tax rates for middle income earners. The President's package amounts to significant new stimulus over and above continuing the Bush tax rates. Economists like Paul Krugman and Christina Romer have said, since the financial crisis, that more stimulus was needed to keep the economy growing and to support employment. The fight in Congress and in the general public has been about how much to spend on stimulus, in light of the deficit and the Republican preference for free-market solutions and lower stimulus spending.
Seen in this light, the President was able to provide significant governmental support for economic and job growth, at the cost of lower tax rates for the wealthiest two percent of Americans than was the President's preference. The President ran for office asserting that wealthy Americans should pay a greater share of the nation's tax burden to insure that all Americans could afford health care and the continuance of social safety-net programs. However, the economy was not yet in crisis, the unemployment rate not near 10%. In the current circumstances, the President must focus first on supporting the economy with stimulus and spending, even in the face of the deficit and his stated belief that wealthy Americans should, in the long term, contribute more.
As the growth rate improves, and unemployment comes down, it will be appropriate to cut spending and raise taxes to balance the budget and make decisions about fair contributions from different income earners in society. For those that believe in a more progressive income tax with higher earners paying more than the historically low levels they pay today, the real fight will be in two years' time, when the economy is stronger, and the primary consideration of a tax hike on the affluent will be social justice and the great disparity in incomes between rich and poor, rather than the impact on the overall economy.
Economists will still argue about how much impact tax hikes on wealthy Americans will have on the wider economy and politicians will continue to argue about the social justice goals of a progressive tax system, but the context should be quite different. Hopefully, substantially more of the millions of unemployed Americans will be back at work and the growth rate will have continued to improve.
UPDATE DECEMBER 11, 2010: Bill Clinton discusses tax compromise
Marc Seltzer is also a contributor to SupremePodcast.com, a weekly U.S. Supreme Court case review podcast.
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Tagged Bush Tax Cuts, compromise, economic growth, economic recovery, stimulus, taxes
Airport Security Protests Fizzle and Inspections Continue as They Must
By Marc Seltzer; originally published at care2.com on December 6, 2010. (The original posting received more than 100 comments, often strongly disapproving, which can be seen at the care2.com link.)
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Protests against airline security procedures did not materialize last week despite a media campaign in which a variety of hopeful instigators clamored that the public would not tolerate the invasion of privacy. While the new procedures — x-ray technology that sees through clothes and pat downs that include private parts — are bound to make people uncomfortable, the vast majority of passengers accept that the threat of attack is serious and the security measures reasonable.
The sniping at the Obama administration and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and claims that TSA procedures are unconstitutional on the one hand and misguided on the other don't hold up to scrutiny. First of all, flying is optional. We choose to do it by paying for a ticket and accepting the rules that go with the privilege of flying. The government, rather than the private airline companies, conduct security operations, but no one is forcing passengers to get in line. Second, flying is not something you do in the confines of your home, where you would expect the most 4th amendment protection from government search and seizure. The question of whether it's reasonable to conduct these admittedly invasive searches in an airport security line depends on the level of protection needed and the availability of other options.
While the U.S. has been lucky that the shoe bomber, underwear bomber and other attempts have failed to bring down a plane, there is a clear threat to aviation security. The procedures are the best that experts can come up with at this moment. No doubt less invasive, and more effective, machines are on the drawing board.
Another argument is that the scanners and pat downs can't stop every conceivable threat. True, but the new procedures increase the chances of a successful inspection for dangerous materials. They take more time, they see more, and they make it more difficult to plan and carry out an attack. That is enough to justify their use, even if something slips through.
The people in aviation security, from front line screeners to administration decision makers, deserve credit for doing a difficult job where a single mistake can cost many lives and the enemy actively tries to exploit errors and weaknesses.
Marc Seltzer is also a contributor to SupremePodcast.com, a weekly U.S. Supreme Court case review podcast.
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President Barack Obama has hailed the climate-change bill, saying it would create jobs in the alternative-energy industry and minimize U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. "The nation that leads in the creation of a clean-energy economy will be the nation that leads the 21st century global economy," he said. Backers say the bill would save 240 million barrels of oil by 2020 and create 1.7 million jobs, but Republicans, including Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, say the bill would "ship millions of jobs to competitors like China and India. We should be creating American jobs, not destroying them."
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If you are keen to see combination between rice terrace and mountain this will be the right place. We came here for lunch
This is a nice relaxing stop on the way in or out of Besakih temple. The food is ok but there really isn't enough for vegetarians. They've put Egg and chicken in everything. It works for us but won't for many others.
The fruit eating Bat is worth the visit alone. You can feed it. You must feed it. You...
Overpriced and disgusting food. Rubber sate and chips are among a limited buffet. Kroepoek was among the most edible.
The view is nice, and the juice fresh. Would not recommend this on any account: it's a tourist trap for sure. A local would never eat here!
On clear days, the view to Mount Agung and the rice fields are very beautiful from this restaurant. The buffet is tasty with good option. Step to the next door garden for free tea and coffee testing.
Great value for money & nice view on Mt. Agung. Soups were delicious; large aqua is enough for 2 ppl
The views from this restaurant are amazing. The food itself was just average but the flies made it very uncomfortable to even think about eating. The bat situated out front was super cool. We were told the staff feeds him fruit to keep him around and its a nice touch. The prices were average but I think this place is...
Buffet lunch in this restaurant is very good value, and besides, you have magnificent view to the verdant valley with the rice fields and dense forest around and on clear days the Mount Agung is clearly visible from here.
We had lunch here as family with 5 kids. The view from the restaurant is amazing, looking out over the rice fields. Was buffet with salad, Chop choy, rice, nasi, vegetables, Spring Rolls, french fries and as dessert fruit, banana beignets, black rice. Tea and coffee included. Decent food, friendly staff and as said before amazing view. Worth stopping.
We visited early in the month of July in the afternoon for lunch. The views are absolutely fantastic. The Ginseng Coffee is absolutely amazing. Very much recommend for everyone visiting Bali
Our family of 4 had lunch here on our tour of Pura Besakih and the Sidemen area. Without knowing the location of this restaurant I bet it wouuld be impossible to find on your own! But you are awarded with a fanastic view of the Agung volcano and below it a twisting valley of green lush fields. This only adds...
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concretenoun [ U ]uk /ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/ us /ˈkɑːn.kriːt/
B2 a very hard building material made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, and water:
reinforced concrete
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- The bomb shelter has concrete walls that are three metres thick.
- The foundation of the house is built from rubble overlaid with concrete.
- A row of reinforced concrete pillars supports the bridge.
- Weeds were pushing up through the cracks in the concrete.
- Don't walk on the concrete until it has set.
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concreteverb [ T ]uk /ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/ us /ˈkɑːn.kriːt/ UK
C1 clear and certain, or real and existing in a form that can be seen or felt:
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- It is sometimes easier to illustrate an abstract concept by analogy with something concrete.
- He drew attention to the absence of concrete evidence against the defendant.
- I have a suspicion that he's having an affair, though I don't have any concrete proof.
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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Old English gristel, gristle ("gristle, cartilage"), formed from a diminutive of Old English grist ("a grinding"), from Proto-Germanic *gredaną ("to crunch"), equivalent to grist + -le. Cognate with Old Frisian gristel, gerstel ("gristle, cartilage"), Middle Low German gristel ("gristle").
gristle (countable and uncountable, plural gristles)
- Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- When you're chewing on life's gristle
- Don't grumble, give a whistle
- And this'll help things turn out for the best...
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- (figuratively, from obsolete scientific theory) Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work.
- 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage,
- And it is a hard and cruel thing thus in early youth to taste beforehand the pangs which should be reserved for the stout time of manhood, when the gristle has become bone, and we stand up and fight out our lives, as a thing tried before and foreseen; for then we are veterans used to sieges and battles, and not green recruits, recoiling at the first shock of the encounter.
- 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede,
- Look at Adam through the rest of the day, as he stands on the scaffolding with the two-feet ruler in his hand, whistling low while he considers how a difficulty about a floor-joist or a window-frame is to be overcome; or as he pushes one of the younger workmen aside and takes his place in upheaving a weight of timber, saying, "Let alone, lad! Thee'st got too much gristle i' thy bones yet"; or as he fixes his keen black eyes on the motions of a workman on the other side of the room and warns him that his distances are not right.
- 1885, Ada Sarah Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice,
- It. must be borne in mind that the bones of a young infant are little more than gristle, and are liable to bend, and so become deformed.
- 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rodney Stone,
- "The young 'un will make his way," said Belcher, who had come across to us. "He's more a sparrer than a fighter just at present, but when his gristle sets he'll take on anything on the list.
- 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage,
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