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A single horsepower doesn't mean much in the automotive world, but it means a lot in the horse racing world.
So it made a lot of sense -- horse sense, really -- for Maserati to put its name on a jockey's britches for the running of the Kentucky Derby over the weekend. The patch of advertising included the mud-spattered trousers of jockey Joel Rosario, who urged Orb to victory .
Selling high-price luxury cars is all about being wherever rich people gather. Putting aside the hoi polloi of the infield, the stands at Churchell Downs are filled with just the kind of people that Maserati would love to reach.
They include women in fabulous bonnets and men in blazers and slacks sipping mint julips, all betting big money on the ponies.
While the derby is a celebration of the brute force of a single horse, Maserati couldn't help making the comparison to its own four-wheeled thoroughbreds. The new Quattroporte sports 523 horses under the hood, and is arguably cleaner and quieter than the derby contenders.
The Quattroporte, they would say, deserves the Triple Crown of motoring.


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By Leo Barraclough
LONDON — The BBC has cancelled period crime series "Ripper Street," which stars Matthew Macfayden, due to poor ratings.
The gritty detective drama, which airs Stateside on BBC America, has run for two seasons, but there will be no third season, according to press reports.
The second season of "Ripper Street" on the pubcaster's flagship channel, BBC One, had been attracting solid audiences of around 4 million, until the latest season of jungle challenge show "I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!" launched on commercial channel ITV in the same time slot, after which "Ripper Street" lost 670,000 viewers. Last Monday's episode of "Ripper Street" took 3.26 million compared with 8.2 million for "I'm a Celebrity."
A BBC spokeswoman told the Daily Mirror: "We are very proud of 'Ripper Street,' which has enjoyed two highly ambitious series on BBC One. However, the second series didn't bring the audience we hoped, and in order to make room for creative renewal and new ideas it won't be returning."
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One of the show's actors, Jerome Flynn, revealed the show was being axed during an interview on the radio station BBC London on Tuesday.
Flynn said: "We found out this week that the third series of 'Ripper Street' isn't going. We're all in shock.
"It was up against 'I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!,' and that's been cited as one of the reasons in terms of viewing figures.
"We're all in absolute shock because it's a wonderful job and we feel like it's kind of this unfinished work. So we're hoping it will turn around if anyone from the BBC is listening.
"There's these wonderful storylines which Richard (Warlow) and Toby (Finlay), the writers, have marked out and it's one of the most captivating characters I've played, and also been part of in terms of the story, so it is suddenly like a marriage being broken."


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I have hit the ground running this week on the home-front so a blog post is forthcoming hopefully sooner rather than later.
The short story is that it was a great day to get down and dirty on the muddy trails of Huntsville State Park last Saturday. I achieved a new PR for the 50 mile distance at 12:07.
For some great blogging on the race itself, I invite you to head over to Richard's blog, Jakeb's blog, Ken's blog, and Maryann's blog for excellent recaps of their time on the trails!
Run with joy in your heart!!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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2. Hillary Clinton will not replace Joe Biden as Vice President.
3. Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee.
4. The Vice Presidential nominee will be Chris Christie, Rob Portman, or Bob McDonnell not Marco Rubio or any of the individuals that ran for the Republican nomination.
5. The unemployment rate will be 8.0% on Election Day.
6. The Democrats will retain the majority in the Senate but it will be smaller than the current one.
7. The Republicans will retain the majority in the House but it will be smaller than the current one.
8. Ron Paul will not run for President as an Independent. No Independent candidate will get more than 5% of the vote.
9. Elizabeth Warren will defeat Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
10. The world will not end.


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text: This HD Remake of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Is Sure Looking SharpEvan Narcisse10/01/12 9:30amFiled to: oddworldOddworld Abe's Oddysee HDOddworld Abe's Oddysee: New 'N' TastyPlaystationPlaystation vitaPsvitaPS3XblaKotakucore871EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink As of this August, we had only seen one screen of the HD remake of cult favorite Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. But Oddworld Inhabitants unveiled pre-alpha footage of the work-in-progress at Eurogamer Expo this weekend. Along with a look at the game, it was announced that the remake's official name is Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - New 'N' Tasty and that the game will be available on the PS3, PlayStation Vita and Xbox Live Arcade. Man, just looking at the shiny new coat of paint on an old classic is making me nostalgic. And very impatient.


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Just got turned on to the Windows Phone 7 XAML Design Templates. These are essential. The Blend team have done the hard work to figure out all the common layout scenarios and provide templates for usage. This makes doing layout for Windows Phone 7 apps brain dead easy. Love it. Here's a pic to give you a sense; video below.
BlogEngine.NET does a great job with mobile devices, rendering its content with a default skin whenever it detects a mobile device. Unfortunately, this behavior doesn't work on the iPhone or iTouch. However, the fix is easy. Simply add iphone and ipod to the BlogEngine.MobileDevices key in web.config, as follows:
<add key="BlogEngine.MobileDevices" value="(iphone|ipod|nokia|sonyericsson|blackberry|samsung|sec\-|windows ce|motorola|mot\-|up.b|midp\-)"/>
Once you've done this, the default mobile theme will render on the iPhone and iTouch.
If you are looking for even a prettier theme I also found the BETouch iPhone theme, which looks great. Simply add the theme to the themes directory and then change the mobile theme to BETouch in admin settings.
I'm now using it for this blog!
Installed the Windows Phone Developer Tools. Then tried to run the emulator and it failed with "Error: Connection failed because of invalid command-line arguments." The solution? (1) Reboot. (2) Run as administrator.
Also been reading Creating High Performing Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone. Awesome content. Tons of ideas and information. Essential reading.
Lastly, just starting to dive into the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7. Documentation is on the web here. Could be promising.
Check out this post by my designer colleage, Tim Aidlin, on how to use Glimmer to create jQuery animations, in this case the hero graphic up at http://archivist.visitmix.com. Here's the screencast itself:
I was playing around with the Windows Phone 7 tools and noticed that there are some system styles available for text. For example, I noticed the following XAML that referenced PhoneTextTitle1Style in one of the Visual Studio project templates:
<TextBlock x:Name="ListTitle" Text="{Binding LineOne}" Margin="-3,-8,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>
I then wanted to figure out what all the system styles were. How to do it? Expression Blend! By going to the Assets tab and then clicking Styles --> System Styles, I was able to see all the styles:
I then wanted to see what they looked like, so I double clicked each one, which created a textbox. To correlate the look with the name, I replaced the default text with the name of the style, producing this:
Perhaps this graphic/tip will help someone out there!
I am using the XDomainRequest object in IE8 and IE9 to do cross domain posting. However, I hit an issue where I couldn't seem to get at the data I was posting: the Request.Form collection contained nothing yet I was clearly sending it. I then found this post:
which states: "we restricted the content type to text/plain but didn't allow the caller to specify that the data was in application/x-www-urlencoded form. This is problematic because server-side frameworks (e.g. ASP, ASPNET, etc) will only automatically parse a request's fields into name-value pairs if the x-www-urlencoded content type is specified.
To workaround this issue, server code that currently processes HTML Forms must be rewritten to manually parse the request body into name-value pairs when receiving requests from XDomainRequest objects. This makes adding support for the XDomainRequest object more difficult than it would be otherwise."
Okay, so how does one do that? Well, turned to be pretty simple. I just had to access the Request.InputStream directly, as follows:
//set the header to support XDomainRequest
Response.Headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
//now extract the data out of the stream
System.IO.Stream str;
String jsonContents;
Int32 counter, strLen, strRead;
// Create a Stream object.
str = Request.InputStream;
// Find number of bytes in stream.
strLen = Convert.ToInt32(str.Length);
// Create a byte array.
byte[] byteArray = new byte[strLen];
// Read stream into byte array.
strRead = str.Read(byteArray, 0, strLen);
// Convert byte array to a text string.
jsonContents = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(byteArray);
I needed to serialize Request.ServerVariables to JSON. I tried both JavaScriptSerializer nor DataContractJsonSerializer without any luck. But I thought both would work, as Request.ServerVariables is of type NameValueCollection and the docs on MSDN state that both serialization engines support dictionaries. The solution? Convert (manually) the NameValueCollection into a dictionary.
Here's the code:
Dictionary<string,string> d = new Dictionary<string,string>(); foreach (string s in Request.ServerVariables.AllKeys) { d.Add(s, Request.ServerVariables[s]); } //DataContractJsonSerializer DataContractJsonSerializer serverVariablesSerializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Dictionary<string,string>)); MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); serverVariablesSerializer.WriteObject(ms, d); string json = Encoding.Default.GetString(ms.ToArray()); Debug.WriteLine(json); //JavaScriptSerializer JavaScriptSerializer serverVariablesSerializer2 = new JavaScriptSerializer(); string json2 = serverVariablesSerializer2.Serialize(d); Debug.WriteLine(json2);
What's interesting is that the output is different between the two serialization engines. JavaScriptSerializer is smart enough to turn the key into the key in JSON, whereas DataContractJsonSerializer creates a key called "key" with the value of the key and then a key called "value" with the value of the value. Kind of annoying. The winner? JavaScriptSerializer
Here's the output BTW:
DataContractJsonSerializer: [{"Key":"ALL_HTTP","Value":"HTTP_CONNECTION:Keep-Alive\u000d\u000aHTTP_ACCEPT:*\/*\u000d\u000aHTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:gzip, deflate\u000d\u000aHTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:en-us\u000d\u000aHTTP_COOKIE:email@example.com&url=&country=us; WT_FPC=id=18.104.22.168-177222816.30061129:lv=1277910617997:ss=1277910147666\u000d\u000aHTTP_HOST:localhost:4135\u000d\u000aHTTP_USER_AGENT:Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident\/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)\u000d\u000a"},{"Key":"ALL_RAW","Value":"Connection: Keep-Alive\u000d\u000aAccept: *\/*\u000d\u000aAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\u000d\u000aAccept-Language: en-us\u000d\u000aCookie: email@example.com&url=&country=us; WT_FPC=id=188.8.131.52-177222816.30061129:lv=1277910617997:ss=1277910147666\u000d\u000aHost: localhost:4135\u000d\u000aUser-Agent: Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident\/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)\u000d\u000a"},{"Key":"APPL_MD_PATH","Value":""},{"Key":"APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH","Value":"C:\\stuff\\WebApplication1\\WebApplication1\\"},{"Key":"AUTH_TYPE","Value":"NTLM"},{"Key":"AUTH_USER","Value":"REDMOND\\karstenj"},{"Key":"AUTH_PASSWORD","Value":""},{"Key":"LOGON_USER","Value":"REDMOND\\karstenj"},{"Key":"REMOTE_USER","Value":"REDMOND\\karstenj"},{"Key":"CERT_COOKIE","Value":""},{"Key":"CERT_FLAGS","Value":""},{"Key":"CERT_ISSUER","Value":""},{"Key":"CERT_KEYSIZE","Value":""},{"Key":"CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE","Value":""},{"Key":"CERT_SERIALNUMBER","Value":""},{"Key":"CERT_SERVER_ISSUER","Value":""},{"Key":"CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT","Value":""},{"Key":"CERT_SUBJECT","Value":""},{"Key":"CONTENT_LENGTH","Value":"0"},{"Key":"CONTENT_TYPE","Value":""},{"Key":"GATEWAY_INTERFACE","Value":""},{"Key":"HTTPS","Value":""},{"Key":"HTTPS_KEYSIZE","Value":""},{"Key":"HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE","Value":""},{"Key":"HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER","Value":""},{"Key":"HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT","Value":""},{"Key":"INSTANCE_ID","Value":""},{"Key":"INSTANCE_META_PATH","Value":""},{"Key":"LOCAL_ADDR","Value":"127.0.0.1"},{"Key":"PATH_INFO","Value":"\/Default.aspx"},{"Key":"PATH_TRANSLATED","Value":"C:\\stuff\\WebApplication1\\WebApplication1\\Default.aspx"},{"Key":"QUERY_STRING","Value":""},{"Key":"REMOTE_ADDR","Value":"127.0.0.1"},{"Key":"REMOTE_HOST","Value":"127.0.0.1"},{"Key":"REMOTE_PORT","Value":""},{"Key":"REQUEST_METHOD","Value":"GET"},{"Key":"SCRIPT_NAME","Value":"\/Default.aspx"},{"Key":"SERVER_NAME","Value":"localhost"},{"Key":"SERVER_PORT","Value":"4135"},{"Key":"SERVER_PORT_SECURE","Value":"0"},{"Key":"SERVER_PROTOCOL","Value":"HTTP\/1.1"},{"Key":"SERVER_SOFTWARE","Value":""},{"Key":"URL","Value":"\/Default.aspx"},{"Key":"HTTP_CONNECTION","Value":"Keep-Alive"},{"Key":"HTTP_ACCEPT","Value":"*\/*"},{"Key":"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING","Value":"gzip, deflate"},{"Key":"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE","Value":"en-us"},{"Key":"HTTP_COOKIE","Value":"email@example.com&url=&country=us; WT_FPC=id=126.96.36.199-177222816.30061129:lv=1277910617997:ss=1277910147666"},{"Key":"HTTP_HOST","Value":"localhost:4135"},{"Key":"HTTP_USER_AGENT","Value":"Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident\/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)"}]
JavaScriptSerializer: {"ALL_HTTP":"HTTP_CONNECTION:Keep-Alive\r\nHTTP_ACCEPT:*/*\r\nHTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:gzip, deflate\r\nHTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:en-us\r\nHTTP_COOKIE:firstname.lastname@example.com&url=&country=us; WT_FPC=id=220.127.116.11-177222816.30061129:lv=1277910617997:ss=1277910147666\r\nHTTP_HOST:localhost:4135\r\nHTTP_USER_AGENT:Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)\r\n","ALL_RAW":"Connection: Keep-Alive\r\nAccept: */*\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nAccept-Language: en-us\r\nCookie: firstname.lastname@example.com&url=&country=us; WT_FPC=id=220.127.116.11-177222816.30061129:lv=1277910617997:ss=1277910147666\r\nHost: localhost:4135\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)\r\n","APPL_MD_PATH":"","APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH":"C:\\stuff\\WebApplication1\\WebApplication1\\","AUTH_TYPE":"NTLM","AUTH_USER":"REDMOND\\karstenj","AUTH_PASSWORD":"","LOGON_USER":"REDMOND\\karstenj","REMOTE_USER":"REDMOND\\karstenj","CERT_COOKIE":"","CERT_FLAGS":"","CERT_ISSUER":"","CERT_KEYSIZE":"","CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE":"","CERT_SERIALNUMBER":"","CERT_SERVER_ISSUER":"","CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT":"","CERT_SUBJECT":"","CONTENT_LENGTH":"0","CONTENT_TYPE":"","GATEWAY_INTERFACE":"","HTTPS":"","HTTPS_KEYSIZE":"","HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE":"","HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER":"","HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT":"","INSTANCE_ID":"","INSTANCE_META_PATH":"","LOCAL_ADDR":"127.0.0.1","PATH_INFO":"/Default.aspx","PATH_TRANSLATED":"C:\\stuff\\WebApplication1\\WebApplication1\\Default.aspx","QUERY_STRING":"","REMOTE_ADDR":"127.0.0.1","REMOTE_HOST":"127.0.0.1","REMOTE_PORT":"","REQUEST_METHOD":"GET","SCRIPT_NAME":"/Default.aspx","SERVER_NAME":"localhost","SERVER_PORT":"4135","SERVER_PORT_SECURE":"0","SERVER_PROTOCOL":"HTTP/1.1","SERVER_SOFTWARE":"","URL":"/Default.aspx","HTTP_CONNECTION":"Keep-Alive","HTTP_ACCEPT":"*/*","HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING":"gzip, deflate","HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE":"en-us","HTTP_COOKIE":"email@example.com&url=&country=us; WT_FPC=id=220.127.116.11-177222816.30061129:lv=1277910617997:ss=1277910147666","HTTP_HOST":"localhost:4135","HTTP_USER_AGENT":"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)"}
I've been playing with the new window.msPerformance that's part of IE9 as explained in this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/06/28/measuring-web-page-performance.aspx. Of course, the main thing you want to do is capture this data. The blog post mentions that you can use the stringify method to serialize the object to JSON and then send the diagnostics back to the server. Well, I tried this with no luck. Here's what my code looked like:
<script type="text/javascript" > function test() { if (window.msPerformance != null) {
var json = JSON.stringify(window.msPerformance.timing); alert(window.msPerformance.timing); alert(json); } }</script>
Even though the performance object was populated, the serialization to JSON failed.
I did some digging around and learned that the native JSON method in IE9 doesn't successfully stringify native objects, like anything hanging off window or document. However, I was able to work around this by using Crockford's JSON class from here: http://www.json.org/js.html. The one thing I had to do was to change the prototype to JSON2 so that the browser's native JSON prototype wasn't called. Then it worked!
Well, the project I've been working on for quite a while just went live to the world: The Archivist at http://archivist.visitmix.com. Go give it a whirl and let me know what you think. The intro article is here: http://visitmix.com/LabNotes/Intro-To-The-Archivist and you can download the source code here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/archivist.
Been quite an adventure building and shipping this puppy -- looking forward to seeing what happens now that it is out in the wild.
Just hit an issue where I was using the WCF REST Starter kit and their wrapper methods for handling HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse for consuming ATOM. All was fine -- until I deployed. Then I was getting a securtiy exception. So, I ported the code to use raw HttpWebRequest and all worked. My guess is that my provider has configured something to explicitly allow for HttpWebRequest but not wrapper methods around it. Or something. Anyway, here was my old code:
private SyndicationFeed GetFeed(string url) { using (HttpClient http = new HttpClient()) { using (HttpResponseMessage resp = http.Get(url)) { resp.EnsureStatusIsSuccessful(); return resp.Content.ReadAsSyndicationFeed(); } } }
And here's my new code:
private SyndicationFeed GetFeed(string url) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url); using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) { if (response == null) return null; if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK) return null; using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(response.GetResponseStream())) { try { return SyndicationFeed.Load(reader); } catch (Exception) { return null; } } }


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Roubini: Too Big To Fail Banks Are Worse Than Before
Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, sat down with Tom Keene and Sara Eisen on "Bloomberg Surveillance" this morning to talk the global economy and U.S. politics. Roubini said that too big to fail banks are "worse than before" and the only solution is for them to "break up."
Bremmer said that if Obama wins the election, it is "not primarily because Romney is a horrible candidate," but because of three people: John Roberts, Angela Merkel and Ben Bernanke.
Roubini on why the Federal Reserve keeps issuing quantitative easing:
"We're in the process of very painful deleveraging in advanced economies. We started the crisis with too much private debt and now we have too much public debt and deficits. Research suggests that usually a deleveraging cycle can last up to a decade. The crisis in 2007, now we are in 2012 and therefore the process of deleveraging in the United States, in the euro zone, in the U.K. and Japan is barely mid-stream. In the U.S. we postponed the deleveraging of the public sector and the housing sector, and therefore, economic growth will is anemic. Therefore, the only thing we can do, given we don't have the fiscal tool, is use the monetary policy."
Bremmer on what is needed in Washington to get something done:
"You don't get there until after the elections and you shouldn't, because whether or not Obama is able to take this, the actual outcome, the way that you have Senate and House laid out, that actually matters in terms of the ultimate deal you get. So if you're a Democrat or Republican right now, you have zero incentive to tip your hand on what you really want to do until you know where we're going to go. As soon as we get past those election, a deal is going to happen."
Roubini on whether Bernanke is an asset or liability for President Obama:
"At the margin, he's an asset in a sense of what the Fed has been doing is reduce the tail risk of another double dip recession. QE, QE2, Operation Twist and now QE 3. It is not going to have a huge effect on the economy, but it already has an effect on stock prices. There has been a rally of 15% since December in part because of lower tail risk in the euro zone and in part because of QE3. The margin is beneficial, but only marginally."
Bremmer on November's election:
"If Obama wins, and it is looking very much like he is going to, it's not primarily because Romney is a horrible candidate. It is primarily because of three people. It's John Roberts and the fact that he got healthcare approved. It's Angela Merkel and the fact of the chancellor has been able to keep the euro zone afloat...And number 3, Ben Bernanke. You would not expect these three people President Obama would win with."
Roubini on the banking system in the U.S.:
"It is worse than before, because there has been massive consolidation of the banking system in the United States, JPMorgan took over Bear Stearns. Bank of America took over Countrywide and Merrill Lynch. We had banks that were too big to fail before the crisis and now they are even bigger to fail than before. There has been mass consolidation. The problem has not gone away. The only solution is to break up too big to fail banks. There is no other alternative. We have to go back to Glass-Steagall."
Roubini on what would be the catalyst to break up the banks:
"I would have thought after the worst global financial crisis the decision would have been made. Maybe we need another big financial crisis. For the time being, the politics will not lead us there."
Bremmer on where the leadership will come from to get to a better financial system:
"It will not come soon. What you're really talking about when you talk about too big to fail is the United States. We are too big to fail that has only become more true since 2008. It is the reason why people continue to put more money in our equities and our treasuries."
Roubini on the economic outlook of Germany:
"There was a divergence between economic growth of the core and the peripheral of the euro zone. Germany used to do better, but the latest data suggests a slowdown in German economic growth. It is still positive, but there are two shocks. There are two main markets for exports, China and Asia, are slowing down. Secondly, the recession of the periphery of the euro zone is taking a toll because after all, most of the exports of Germany go to the rest of the euro zone. There is a significant slowdown of growth, even in Germany."


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October 23, 2010
"... Williams can come out of the closet as a full-on wingnut cartoon character."
Sayeth Josh Marshall.
34 comments:
- Rialby said...
Why didn't he just use the phrase he so desperately wanted to...Uncle Tom?
- lucid said...
Josh Marshall hasn't written a true sentence in years.
- Maguro said...
Highly predictable and lacking in nuance, as usual. It's not called Talking Points Memo for nothing.
- Chase said...
Josh Marshall was always a principled lefty, someone that at least tried to reason his way around his points and was shorter on invective and demonizing than most of his contemporaries on the left.
But with a comment like this, he's obviously going too far to the wingnut left. Someone that sees the heated arguments between Juan Williams and Bill Kristol, or Juan and Brit Hume and still believes that Juan is any sort of conservative, much less on the far right, is delusional and probably in need of therapy.
Sad. - 10/23/10, 10:56 PM
- jr565 said...
Funny, cause when Juan comes on fox he almost always parrots the liberal line (though, I'll admit in a less snarky tone than most liberals). So the mere appearance on Fox turns him into a closet conservative.
And he dares to suggest there is one party rule at NPR. after being fired. That suddenly makes him right wing? - 10/23/10, 10:59 PM
- Fen said...
Too funny.
The problem I had with Juan is that he was a weak sister. His arguments were more like John Marshall's than Mara Liason's.
Josh Marshall was always a principled lefty,
Its the hatred. He's behaving like an angry metrosexual bitch. - 10/23/10, 11:05 PM
- El Pollo Real said...
Dan Riehl tweeted this piece about Josh Marshall which I thought very perceptive and timely.
- edutcher said...
Like The Zero said, the Lefties are the racists (sexists/homophobes/etc.) they've been waiting for.
- Synova said...
Yup, double down.
Nothing, not even a rabid right-wing-nut is as bad as a liberal who doesn't submit. - 10/23/10, 11:19 PM
- bgates said...
Josh Marshall was always a principled lefty
He used to be, but high school changes people.
I love the Marshall quote from Pollo's link:
Being president is hard. Being president two years into your first term is hard. And being at the center of the polarizing political storm — as Obama is today and Clinton was 16 years ago — tends to wipe the political genius and midas touch and all the other good stuff right off of you.
Strange that he'd skip over the intervening decade and a half without even a word for the troubles of Jacques Chirac or Gerhard Schroeder. - 10/24/10, 1:32 AM
- dick said...
Gotta admit that his link is interesting. Tomaskey disses Juan Williams for being on Fox because what sort of non-conservative would appear on that channel. Don't look at the other channels to count the number of conservatives they let appear. Only look at Fox and diss the libs for even appearing they and then diss Fox for not being unbiased. Don't look at MSNBC and mention that the whole staff is white liberal extremists. Don't look at NBCABCCBSMSNBCCNNMTV and note that there are no conservatives at all. There don't need to be; all the news you need to hear is from the liberal perspectives.
The liberal mind is a terrible thing to behold. How anyone can believe anything they say is remarkable. - 10/24/10, 2:24 AM
- New "Hussein" Ham said...
"Don't look at MSNBC and mention that the whole staff is white liberal extremists."
The staff of MSNBC are all white extremists doing exactly what their boss Jeffery Immelt tells them to do.
MSNBC is the public face of General Electric ... one of the world's largest conglomerates and whose shareholders are some of the the richest recipients of your tax dollars.
GE supports tax increases ... because they know they'll get the money. They then launder your tax dollars back to the Democrat Party in the form of campaign donations.
MSNBC "news analysts" therefore support tax increases because if they don't, they'll be taken off the air. And they know it.
Pretty simple really ... just follow the money.
If you buy GE washers and dryers or any other GE products then you deserve what you get. - 10/24/10, 6:07 AM
- New "Hussein" Ham said...
No conference needed. Here's why Barack Obama can't fill a high school gym with supporters any longer:
1) He lied to liberals about ObamaCare. Barack Obama claimed he was against the individual mandate and that Hillary Clinton was wrong to support it. So liberals gave the nomination to Barack. But he was lying to them. Now progressives feel betrayed.
2) Obama lied to liberals about closing Guantanamo Bay. He claimed he'd shut it down within his first year in office by Presidential Directive. And so they voted for him because that's what they want him to do. But he was lying to them. They feel betrayed.
3) Barack Obama lied to liberals when he said he'd bring the troops home. Instead, he signed up 30,000 more to put boots on the necks of brown people in Afghanistan. He's expanded the war to Pakistan and is now ordering the deaths of people with drone aircraft/missiles. Barack Obama lied to liberals to trick them into voting for him. They naturally feel betrayed.
4) Barack Obama promised he'd end government spying on Americans. Instead, he's expanded the Patriot Act and upped the ante by illegally ordering the United States military to murder an American citizen with no due process. Barack Obama tricked liberals and progressives into supporting his candidacy and now they feel betrayed.
I could go on and on and on but I think the point is that if you fuck people over enough times, they won't show up for your rallies and they won't vote for you.
Barack Obama tricked liberals. They feel betrayed and so they're not going to ever vote for him again. - 10/24/10, 6:19 AM
- The Drill SGT said...
short version:
Marshall goes Alinsky on Williams - 10/24/10, 6:54 AM
- damikesc said...
Josh Marshall? Talk about closeted.
- traditionalguy said...
Juan Williams never says right wing views, so I doubt that he has any in him. His thought crimes were limited to the non-verbal. His easy friendship with and acceptance of conservative friends like O'Reilly grated on the "Us vs. Them" Ultimate Fighting Cage mentality behind the MSNBC success story. His new boss lady at NPR was a CNN trained manager. She saw Juan fraternizing with the enemy as a diplomat on a mission...but has become all war now and diplomats are baggage NPR does not anticipate ever needing again.
- Michael said...
Every time I think about making an incisively cutting and devastatingly brilliant comment about the intolerance liberals are displaying right now...
...I remember that it's basically saying that they're boycotting the most-watched news network to preserve the ideological purity of radio that has to get a government subsidy to survive.
In other words, the two Goth weirdos in high school want it to be known that they absolutely will NOT date the most popular cheerleaders. - 10/24/10, 7:52 AM
- Fletchersc said...
"Why didn't he just use the phrase he so desperately wanted to...Uncle Tom"
cause someone beat him to the punch.
But don't worry. It's not racist for this privileged white man to say it. He is a liberal - 10/24/10, 8:01 AM
- Dave said...
Joshua Micah Mackey Paisely Marshall clearly never watched Juan Williams on Brit Hume's show. Juan's not even center-left, he's left.
- Quayle said...
"Only look at Fox and diss the libs for even appearing they and then diss Fox for not being unbiased. "
Yeah, this is quite a trick: attack Fox for not having liberal views, then attack any liberal who dares go on Fox which might give Fox the liberal views they say are missing.
They hate the devil but they sure don't want the devil to repent.
And the reason must be that they need the devil always, so that they can show us how they are the saviors.
(I note that Christian conservatives who actually believe in the existence of the devil can attach said devil without attacking their fellow citizens. Secular lefties can't. Getting at the devil for a lefty always involves attacking another person.) - 10/24/10, 8:44 AM
- Ignorance is Bliss said...
Someone that... still believes that Juan is any sort of conservative... is delusional and probably in need of therapy.
Shorter Chase:
Josh Marshall's opinion of Juan should be 'between him and his psychiatrist.' - 10/24/10, 9:27 AM
- Moneyrunner said...
Quayle said: Yeah, this is quite a trick: attack Fox for not having liberal views, then attack any liberal who dares go on Fox which might give Fox the liberal views they say are missing.
That brought to mind this veru fresh headline fromthe Boston Herald: "Muslims Fear Juan Williams' Ouster Will Fan Hostility
You just can't please them. Muslims are always the victim. When Juan Williams remarked that he felt some fear when he saw Muslims in Muslim dress on planes (remember 9/11?) his ouster was demanded. Now that he has been ousted, Muslims claim to be afraid that their demands have been met. - 10/24/10, 9:34 AM
- Kevin said...
You gotta love the way a bunch of mostly Jewish, well-off Manhattan-DC-axis pastyfaces nominate themselves to decide who is and who isn't authentically "black." And the way a bunch of weenies who have neither seen 30 nor ever broken a story get to decide who's an authentic "journalist."
Poor Juan, laboring under those delusions all these years until the highly verbal, right-diploma sunken chests of Journolist straightening him out.
There's nothing a poseur like Josh Marshall treasures more than authenticity. He gets it by osmosis, when his deep concern opens up his membranes to the experience of "the other." - 10/24/10, 9:35 AM
- Christy said...
Michael, you made me laugh, dare I say it, out loud.
I stopped reading TPM two laptops ago (last time he was on my bookmarked list) when I could predict everything he said. - 10/24/10, 9:45 AM
- Fen said...
Qualye: attack Fox for not having liberal views, then attack any liberal who dares go on Fox which might give Fox the liberal views they say are missing.
They hate the devil but they sure don't want the devil to repent.
This. - 10/24/10, 10:03 AM
- pst314 said...
Talking Points Memo? The very name of the blog telegraphs that its purpose is partisan hackwork, not honest analysis.
- richard mcenroe said...
The "liberal" "progressive" left (except that liberals aren't and progressives don't) is going all in on this one bad hand called the 2010 midterms, trying to desperately to fill an inside straight, and willing to sacrifice all their credibility, self-respect, decency and hard-win behind the scenes influence just to stay in the game for one more hand.
Don't think we haven't noticed. - 10/24/10, 11:01 AM
- Peter said...
What is a Josh Marshall?
- Paul Hogue said...
I'm a conservative. As such, I know wingnuts. I've worked with wingnuts. Juan Williams is no wingnut.
Josh Marshall on the other hand, well...is simply not as smart as he'd like to think. - 10/24/10, 4:13 PM
- spongeworthy said...
Joshua Micah Mackey Paisely Marshall
Polite golf clap. - 10/24/10, 7:08 PM
- Henry said...
And for NPR: No more living a lie as an advocacy campaign playing a fake news organization on the low end of the dial.
- Blue@9 said...
Josh Marshall was always a principled lefty, someone that at least tried to reason his way around his points and was shorter on invective and demonizing than most of his contemporaries on the left.
Yeah, you know they're done when it's apparent that politics is no longer about ideas and policy, but it's just about the game. It's just sad to see this kind of commentary: all Marshall cares about is whether a person is on his team or on the other team. - 10/24/10, 11:22 PM
- Blue@9 said...
Juan Williams never says right wing views, so I doubt that he has any in him. His thought crimes were limited to the non-verbal.
I think this is what bugs the shit out of the left. He's a liberal gadfly to the left, kind of like Mickey Kaus. No one could plausibly say that Kaus and Williams are not liberals, but they train their guns on other liberals, which drives most Democrats nuts. - 10/24/10, 11:25 PM
- Marshal said...
It is interesting that in the early days of TPM Marshall was considered honest. I think blogging does polarize one's views so many bloggers become more radical over time. But Josh's branding was a lie from day one.


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Salas v. Sierra Chemical Co., S196568 (June 26, 2014): On June 26, the California Supreme Court issued a decision holding that federal immigration law does not preempt a California law that extends state law protections to all workers regardless of their immigration status. However, the court held that federal law does preempt state law on the issue of liability for lost wages for any period after an employer discovers that an employee is not authorized to work in the United States.
Vicente Salas worked as a seasonal employee for Sierra Chemical Company since 2003. Twice he injured his back at work and, after the second injury, filed a workers' compensation claim. In 2006, he was laid off and not rehired, allegedly due to his disability. Salas filed a lawsuit against Sierra Chemical, alleging disability discrimination in violation of California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and retaliation. During the course of litigation, the employer discovered that Salas was not authorized to work in the United States and had been using another person's Social Security number.
Sierra Chemical argued that it would not have hired Salas if the company knew that Salas was using a false Social Security number. Based on this "after-acquired evidence," Sierra Chemical asked the trial court to dismiss the case by summary judgment. It argued that since Salas was not authorized to work in the United States, he is be precluded from recovering lost wages. The employer also argued that the doctrine of "unclean hands"—according to which a party that acted in bad faith should not be entitled to a recovery—would prevent Salas from recovering from his claim.
The trial court initially denied the petition for summary judgment but after an appeal on the motion, granted the dismissal by summary judgment. Salas appealed the judgment.
The Court of Appeal agreed with the dismissal, holding that the after-acquired evidence and the doctrine of unclean hands go to the heart of Salas's employment relationship with Sierra Chemical. The court said that Salas misled his employer regarding his work status and is barred from recovering lost wages. In its analysis, the Court of Appeal considered a California law enacted in 2002 under Senate Bill 1818 that declares that all protections, rights, and remedies available under state law are available to all individuals who have applied for work in California regardless of their immigration status. However, the court held that the statute does not require awarding backpay in a case where after-acquired evidence and the doctrine of unclean hands would otherwise preclude the employee's claim. Again, Salas appealed.
The California Supreme Court considered the issue of whether federal immigration law preempts California's Senate Bill 1818. The state high court disagreed with the Court of Appeal, holding that (1) federal immigration law does not preempt Senate Bill 1818, which expands state law employee protections and remedies to all workers regardless of immigration status, except to the extent that it allows an award of lost wages for any period after an employer discovers that the employee is undocumented to work in the United States; and (2) the doctrines of after-acquired evidence and unclean hands are not complete defenses to an employee's claim for violation of FEHA or state public policy, but can be a factor in limiting the employee's recovery. The state supreme court explained that "not allowing unauthorized workers to obtain state remedies for unlawful discharge . . . would effectively immunize employers that, in violation of fundamental state policy, discriminate against their workers."
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Future litigation concerning both parts of the Salas decision will likely follow.
The first part of the Salas decision appears to run counter to the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB (2002) 535 U.S. 137—a point well-made by Justice Baxter's scathing dissent. Hoffman concluded that federal immigration policy is undermined when an alien who is unauthorized for employment, and who obtained it by criminal means, seeks unearned wages for being terminated from the job he or she was never entitled to have. In Hoffman, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to allow backpay awards to illegal aliens. It said: "awarding backpay to illegal aliens runs counter to policies underlying IRCA [the Immigration Reform and Control Act]."
Yet, in Salas, the California Supreme Court held that employees who are not eligible to work in the United States can still recover lost pay damages under the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act up until the point that an employer discovers the employee is not authorized to work in the United States. In essence, the California Supreme Court is saying that awarding backpay to illegal aliens does not run counter to policies underlying the IRCA, at least not in all instances. This holding appears to present a conflict in how the California Supreme Court and Supreme Court of the United States interpret federal immigration policy and the propriety of backpay awards to employees who are not authorized to work in the United States.
The second part of the decision is equally troublesome. The court held that the doctrines of after-acquired evidence and unclean hands are not complete defenses to an employee's claim for violations of FEHA or state public policy, but can be a factor in limiting the employee's recovery. Yet, the court did not explain how these defenses should be applied to limit recovery. So, on this critical second point, the decision created uncertainty.
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What Abnormal Results Mean
Abnormal joint fluid may look cloudy or abnormally thick.
Blood in the joint fluid may be a sign of injury inside the joint or a body-wide bleeding problem. An excess amount of normal synovial fluid can also be a sign of osteoarthritis or cartilage injury.
Synovial fluid analysis Risks
- Infection of the joint -- unusual but more common with repeated aspirations
- Bleeding into the joint space
Ice or cold packs may be applied to the joint for 24 to 36 hours after the test to reduce the swelling and joint pain. Depending on the exact problem, you can probably resume your normal activities after the procedure. Talk to your health care provider to determine what activity is most appropriate for you.
El-Gabalawy HS. Synovial fluid analysis, synovial biopsy, and synovial pathology. In: Firestein GS, Budd RC, Gabriel SE, et al., eds. Kelly's Textbook of Rheumotology. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 53.
Parrillo SJ, Marrison DS, Panacek EA. Arthrocentesis. In: Roberts JR, Hedges JR, eds. Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Saunders; 2009:chap 53.
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This week's cozy, comfy pattern comes courtesy of Beehive Handknits for Men. Doesn't Johnny Pompadour just look snug as a wee, sweatered bug in this? As someone who currently spends most of their existence working Morlock-like in the icy wastes of an unheated concrete basement, this Grandpa sweater is the sort of thing I dream about.
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It is perfect! Just the sweater I have been looking for to make for my father!
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