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College Football 2013: 5 Big Questions for Week 1
In just a few short hours, college football season will officially be here. It's that happy time when everyone is undefeated and every team just knows it is finally their year. But the good times can't last forever. Here are five burning questions as we enter the 2013 football season:
Can Anyone Stop Alabama?
After winning the last two national championships, the Crimson Tide are a heavy favorite to become the first team in history to win three consecutive titles. It's easy to understand why, as Alabama comes into the season loaded with talent (four preseason All-Americans) and a very favorable schedule. Aside from an early test in Week 3 at #7 Texas A&M, the Crimson Tide will not face another ranked opponent until November and they avoid all the SEC East powers (#5 Georgia, #6 South Carolina and #10 Florida) during the regular season.
But don't start engraving "Alabama" on that trophy just yet. Second-ranked Ohio State ran the table last year and, finally freed from NCAA probation, looks to continue its undefeated run. #3 Oregon and #4 Stanford will battle for Pac-12 supremacy as well as a potential national-title shot. And the rest of the SEC certainly isn't ready to anoint the Crimson Tide just yet, with #5 Georgia, #6 South Carolina, #7 Texas A&M and #10 Florida all waiting for their chance to dethrone the defending champs.
What Will Happen With Johnny Football?
On Wednesday afternoon, the NCAA announced it had reached an agreement with Texas A&M to suspend superstar quarterback Johnny Manziel for the first half of the Aggies' season opener against Rice. And while that mystery is now over with, another big question still looms: after a tumultuous offseason, how will Manziel handle the bright spotlight as a returning Heisman Trophy winner? Can Johnny Football possibly put together the kind of season he did last year? Or is he looking at the dreaded sophomore slump?
Who Can Take Home the Hardware?
Speaking of Manziel, who will walk away with this year's Heisman? Can Manziel become just the second player in history to win the coveted award twice? It's almost a given that the top skill-position player from the nation's best team gets an invite to New York, so it's probably a good bet that either quarterback A.J. McCarron or running back T.J. Yeldon will be there to represent the Crimson Tide. Braxton Miller can cement his Heisman front-runner status if he leads Ohio State to another unbeaten season.
While Ndamukong Suh and Manti Te'o have come close in recent years, South Carolina's freakish defensive end Jadeveon Clowney may have the best shot yet for a full-time defensive player to break through and win the award. (When Michigan's Charles Woodson won in 1997, he was primarily a cornerback but also returned punts and played occasionally at wide receiver.) Louisville's cupcake schedule should help quarterback Teddy Bridgewater post some huge numbers that will get Heisman voters' attention. And while those are some of the big names to watch, look out for a dark horse—remember, this time last year, very few people outside of College Station had ever heard of Johnny Manziel.
Which Big-Name Program Can Bounce Back?
A year ago, USC was the preseason #1 team, with a four-year starting quarterback as the early Heisman favorite. But a promising season took a nose dive as the Trojans lost five of their last six games and limped into the offseason with a 7-6 record. Despite the dreaded vote of confidence from Athletic Director Pat Haden, coach Lane Kiffin is squarely on the hot seat and looking for a season that gets USC back among the nation's elite. Unlike Kiffin, Texas coach Mack Brown at least has an experienced quarterback (David Ash) as the Longhorns look to climb back to the top. After a nine-year span in which he won 101 games and a national championship, Brown has struggled of late, going just 22-16 the last three years. More importantly, he has gone just 11-15 in Big 12 play in that span and lost three straight to archrival Oklahoma by a combined score of 146-58. While most Texas boosters still support the coach, another subpar season could raise the temperature under the head Longhorn.
How Will the New Concussion Rules Impact the Game?
It was called the Hit Heard 'Round the World and made Jadeveon Clowney a YouTube legend. But it could get him ejected if he does it again this year. Under new rules aimed at reducing the number of concussions, defensive players who target a defenseless player and hit him above the head or who lead with the crown of their helmet on a hit will be automatically ejected and suspended for the next game. As you can see, the problem is that the terms "defenseless" and "target" inherently involve a split-second judgment call made by officials on the field. While these calls can be reviewed, the penalty will still stand and it will require indisputable proof to overturn an ejection. So not only could the new rule result in potentially game-changing penalties and ejections, some coaches are concerned it will have the unintended consequence of causing more knee injuries as defensive players go low to avoid making contact with a ball carrier's head.


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Book Review: The New New Deal Finds that Weatherization Works
This is personal. When I heard reports about rampant waste and abuse in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that turned out to be false, I thought of all the people I know who worked tirelessly to meet one goal of ARRA—to weatherize 600,000 homes before March, 2012—and it made me very angry. The men and women of the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) met and exceeded that goal, with minimum fraud, abuse, and waste. In fact, they reached 1-million homes weatherized with money from ARRA as of September 30, 2012. According to federal auditors, the amount of waste out of the approximately $800-billion effort to stimulate the economy was about $7.2-million, an amazing 0.001% of the total. Can any organization in government or the private sector claim that kind of record?
And because of ARRA, those 1 million weatherized households are saving $400 a year on energy costs.
When I picked up and read Michael Grunwald's book The New New Deal my anger turned to pride at being a very small part of the weatherization efforts. (Home Energy magazine exists to provide practical and useful information to those working to make homes energy efficient, affordable, healthy, and comfortable.) I was also pleased that a well-known and respected journalist with a national audience took a long sober look at ARRA and found it to be more successful than anyone believed at 1) stimulating the economy and 2) creating a path and taking the first steps on that path to a sustainable economy. Whether or not we will continue on that path, or return to the status quo depends on the outcome of next Tuesday's election.
The Do-Nothing Congress
Grunwald interviewed dozens of public and private sector experts and authorities in preparation for writing his book, including Office of Management and Budget Watch director Gary Bass. Bass is quoted from Governing magazine: "The stimulus has done more to promote transparency at almost all levels of government than any piece of legislation in recent memory." The responses of the some Congressional leaders to ARRA told a different story.
"If he was for it," explains former Republican senator George Voinovich of Ohio, "we had to be against it."
"A lot of Republicans thought the stimulus was necessary," [Senator Arlan] Specter says. "They just wanted it to pass without their fingerprints. It was all so partisan. You had the sentiment: 'We're going to break Obama.'"
The right-wing media also chimed in and sometimes got personal. When John Stossel appeared on Glenn Beck's show, he made a startling claim. "We found that the head of the weatherization department of the Department of Energy is sleeping with the vice president of policy for the company!" The company Stossel was speaking about is efficient window manufacturer Serious Windows, which got some green tax credits, like other window manufacturers, but produces windows that are just too expensive for the Weatherization Program.
Cathy Zoi, the head of DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which includes Weatherization, was sleeping with an executive of Serious Materials—because she was married to him. And Zoi wasn't with DOE when Serious Windows was recognized by the Obama administration.
There are many other examples in the book that may make your blood boil. It did mine.
What a Nightmare
The book does not glaze over the problems with Weatherization's efforts during the ramp up from weatherizing 30,000 homes a year to 30,000 per month. One section in The New New Deal is titled "What a Nightmare." The ramp up was slow at first and rife with problems. It took months to resolve the issue of pay for weatherization workers when the Department of Labor decided that these workers would be subject to the Davis-Bacon laws, which requires workers on projects receiving government funds be paid the local prevailing wage. But prevailing wage for who? Construction workers? Laborers? And the Weatherization bureaucracy at DOE, after nearly a decade of neglect by the Bush Administration, had become rigid and needed some serious shaking up. Top people in the government and at DOE were calling the Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program the Turkey Farm.
In an e-mail conversation with the author, I asked him why he was so hard on the Weatherization Program. Grunwald wrote me back, "The main point of the weatherization story was that with better leadership the so-called Turkey Farm got the job done." Fair enough. And I was peeved at President Obama, for not speaking up about the success of the ARRA efforts, including Weatherization. I asked Grunwald why he thought Obama had not mentioned the word "weatherization" in public since 2009. "Well, his administration has said the word. DOE is pretty proud of getting 1-million homes weatherized. I think in general the president has been reluctant to talk about 'the stimulus,' because it became so politically toxic, but I don't think he's got anything against weatherization in particular. He just moved on to other issues after the stimulus—the auto bailout, health care, Wall Street reform, etc." Again, fair enough.
Read It!
The New New Deal covers much more than the Weatherization Program. It gave me a sense that I was in the room when the ARRA legislation was being prepared and debated, and after reading it I know more about the personalities of the decision-makers, both the heroes and the villains. I learned every other word out of the mouth of Rahm Emanual, Obama's former Chief of Staff, is the f-word. And Joe Biden is kind of a quirky but likeable guy, who was passionate about ARRA and lead the effort out of the White House, and that he likes to say "literally," a lot—literally.
If you can, try to pick up the book and read it this weekend. It may influence how you vote next Tuesday.
The New New Deal by Michael Grunwald, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2012 is available here.
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No, I have no idea what it means.
I've never heard of Lalataw. And I don't know why someone would, or wouldn't, want to be active in it.
Or what it has to to do with a stable guy admitted for a headache, anyway.
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
a friend helped me out, coz I couldn't figure it out: active inhalation (really? wheres the o?)
anyway - with all those posts, when I get to the hospital - im going to write in all CAPS ALL THE TIME!
No active inhalations.
Even with what I think it meant to say:
0 active inhalation
It doesn't make sense. Maybe someone has a better guess. This bothers me, how many patients have suffered incorrect treatment because the order wasn't legible.
No active inhalation?
How about "no active inhalation"
0 Active Inhalations?
I thought of that, too, except it doesn't correlate with anything going on with him.
I will jump on the bandwagon as well, with "No active inhalations."
Then again, maybe he meant -- and this is especially scary if all the patient had was a headache -- "No active interventions."
Not in La-La Town, anyway.
I have no medical background ... no active inhalation, to me, says he's not breathing!
"Not active in Lala Town" - i.e., he's on bedrest in Los Angeles.
No Active in(crease)in Alat...something..&w? (<Alat&w) whatever Alat is! Is the L a < sign?!The 'a' almost like a shorthand for with/which/who or even be/by/been, if my terrible school shorthand memory serves me correct!?! Or does he really just mean 'lala town'? They write in excellent hieroglyphics or secretarial shorthand ?! Anyways, let us know if you find out - great sleuth puzzle post!:-)
I don't know what it is, but it has a facebook page.id-id.facebook.com/public/lala-taw
So maybe he smokes but doesn't actively inhale? Only passive smoke for him.
The person who wrote this was watching and then inspired by "Arrested Development", which has a lawyer on it named "Bob Loblaw".
Hey Dr G. Come work in the pharmacy with me for a day - you'll have enough bad doctor's handwritting material to last for at least the next few months.
Perhaps het meant Lalaland = sleepwalker -> lack of sleep -> headache?
And here I was thinking lactation ;)
I read it as "no active inhalation" which would be an odd but technically correct description of someone who is apneic as part of a brain death exam. But Dr. Grumpy says that's inconsistent with this patient's condition, so maybe not.
As one who reviews hospital records quite frequently, things like this make me love EMRs.
Is the patient a lawyer? "Not active in law at all" written by a very sleepy, dyslexic resident.
Hospitalized for a HA?!?!?! Waz up wid dat???
I thought it meant o activity in lala town as in guy cant sleep lol
Ask a Filipina nurse.
So I guess since it's a guy lactation is out too . . .
Okay, so some of you big city folks might find our little town to be a bit too sleepy for your taste, but the folks here are friendly and it's a great place to raise your children.
This is a terrible situation indeed. It must be rectified immediately, lest Grumpyville and all its inhabitants be consumed in flames and lava and earthquakes and lightning and hydrofluoric acid and antimatter when the great god Lalataw manifests Himself on earth. Save yourselves while you still can.
" No Active Inhalation"-
Obviously the patient is none other than Bill " I didn't Inhale" Clinton.
nicotine patch?
Has not inhaled his Activo [notebook]?
No active lactation?
No active intubation?
Inquiring minds want to know!
You obviously never had a severe migraine.
An accurate note that belongs in somebody else's chart?
Maybe he used to huff paint, but now he has no active inhalations.
BTW, the Google images for "huffing paint" are priceless.
Almost certainly 'no active inhalation' meaning that whoever wrote it doesn't think it is a carbon monoxide case.
If they were on a ventilator, I'd assume that meant they weren't breathing over the vent, that the machine was donig all the work for them. If not on a vent, well then I'd call a coroner.
I think evitafjord (June 27, 2013 at 7:08 PM) got it right:
"Maybe he used to huff paint, but now he has no active inhalations."
Besides huffing paint, could also refer to sniffing glue, (or other toxic substances) any of which could trigger a migraine; such as diesel fumes; strong perfume, etc.
No active Lalaland...obviously passed their mental health test! Yippeeeeee!!!
Active inla(w) in tow. I'd say the poor guy's mother-in-law is a problem....
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Final Tips on Using Log
I've been using an interesting technique that lets you compare different runs by actually
diff'ing the log files from each run. This is especially useful when you have no idea what could be wrong and why you get different results when running the same code:
Just turn the verbosity to maximum detail level (remember, because the logging is so light, you already have a lot of log statements on
logDEBUGx in your code), run the application in the two different contexts, remove the timestamps from the log files (using, for instance, the sed program), and compare the two outputs. Even though the output files can be huge, it is the difference between them that matters, and that difference tends to be small and highly informative.
Another nice outcome of using this log framework was combining the logging of multiple different applications (or multiple instances of a single application) in a single unique file. Just open the same file from several applications in append mode, and voilanicely interleaved logs from various processes! The resulted log file is still meaningful and (on a decent operating system at least) preserves log lines as atomic units.
I've done some measurements to actually see how fast the runtime mechanism is (versus the compile time). The results turned out to be very good. I ran the same code in three different configurations:
Each configuration was run multiple (20) times (to eliminate the possible random errors). Figure 1 and Table 1 illustrate the results. As you can see, the runtime performance (25.109 sec) matches the compile time (25.109 sec). That means you really will pay for logging only if you are going to use it.
I found very useful in practice to also output the thread ID from where the output comes from along with the timestamp and logging level. This is a real help when reading a log file that comes from a multithreading application.
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Hungary became a Christian kingdom in A.D. 1000 and for many centuries served as a bulwark against Ottoman Turkish expansion in Europe. The kingdom eventually became part of the polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire, which collapsed during World War I. The country fell under communist rule following World War II. In 1956, a revolt and an announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact were met with a massive military intervention by Moscow. Under the leadership of Janos KADAR in 1968, Hungary began liberalizing its economy, introducing so-called "Goulash Communism." Hungary held its first multiparty elections in 1990 and initiated a free market economy. It joined NATO in 1999 and the EU five years later. In 2011, Hungary assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the EU for the first time.
Central Europe, northwest of Romania
Geographic coordinates:
total: 93,028 sq km
country comparison to the world: 110
land: 89,608 sq km
water: 3,420 sq km
Area – comparative:
slightly smaller than Indiana
Land boundaries:
total: 2,185 km
border countries: Austria 366 km, Croatia 329 km, Romania 443 km, Serbia 166 km, Slovakia 676 km, Slovenia 102 km, Ukraine 103 km
0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims:
none (landlocked)
temperate; cold, cloudy, humid winters; warm summers
mostly flat to rolling plains; hills and low mountains on the Slovakian border
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Tisza River 78 m
highest point: Kekes 1,014 m
Natural resources:
bauxite, coal, natural gas, fertile soils, arable land
Land use:
arable land: 47.24%
permanent crops: 1.97%
other: 50.79% (2011)
Irrigated land:
1,409 sq km (2007)
Total renewable water resources:
104 cu km (2011)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
total: 5.58 cu km/yr (12%/83%/5%)
per capita: 555.9 cu m/yr (2007)
Environment – current issues:
the upgrading of Hungary's standards in waste management, energy efficiency, and air, soil, and water pollution to meet EU requirements will require large investments
Environment – international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography – note:
landlocked; strategic location astride main land routes between Western Europe and Balkan Peninsula as well as between Ukraine and Mediterranean basin; the north-south flowing Duna (Danube) and Tisza Rivers divide the
country into three large regions
People and Society
noun: Hungarian(s)
adjective: Hungarian
Ethnic groups:
Hungarian 92.3%, Roma 1.9%, other or unknown 5.8% (2001 census)
Hungarian 93.6%, other or unspecified 6.4% (2001 census)
Roman Catholic 51.9%, Calvinist 15.9%, Lutheran 3%, Greek Catholic 2.6%, other Christian 1%, other or unspecified 11.1%, unaffiliated 14.5% (2001 census)
9,939,470 (July 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 88
Age structure:
0-14 years: 14.8% (male 760,253/female 714,868)
15-24 years: 11.9% (male 608,369/female 574,013)
25-54 years: 41.6% (male 2,074,975/female 2,063,952)
55-64 years: 14.2% (male 645,529/female 762,489)
65 years and over: 17.5% (male 646,244/female 1,088,778) (2013 est.)
Dependency ratios:
total dependency ratio: 46.8 %
youth dependency ratio: 21.5 %
elderly dependency ratio: 25.3 %
potential support ratio: 4 (2013)
Median age:
total: 40.8 years
male: 38.6 years
female: 43.2 years (2013 est.)
Population growth rate:
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country comparison to the world: 213
Birth rate:
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country comparison to the world: 204
Death rate:
12.71 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 23
Net migration rate:
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country comparison to the world: 51
urban population: 69.5% of total population (2011)
rate of urbanization: 0.51% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban areas – population:
BUDAPEST (capital) 1.705 million (2009)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.85 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.59 male(s)/female
total population: 0.91 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth:
28.2 (2010 est.)
Maternal mortality rate:
21 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
country comparison to the world: 136
Infant mortality rate:
total: 5.16 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 179
male: 5.43 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.88 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.24 years
country comparison to the world: 95
male: 71.5 years
female: 79.19 years (2013 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.41 children born/woman (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 204
Contraceptive prevalence rate:
note: percent of women aged 18-41 (1992/93)
Health expenditures:
7.7% of GDP (2011)
country comparison to the world: 72
Physicians density:
3.408 physicians/1,000 population (2010)
Hospital bed density:
7.2 beds/1,000 population (2010)
Drinking water source:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population (2010 est.)
Sanitation facility access:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population (2010 est.)
HIV/AIDS – adult prevalence rate:
less than 0.1% (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 158
HIV/AIDS – people living with HIV/AIDS:
3,000 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 128
HIV/AIDS – deaths:
fewer than 200 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 103
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: intermediate
vectorborne diseases: tickborne encephalitis (2013)
Obesity – adult prevalence rate:
27.6% (2008)
country comparison to the world: 37
Education expenditures:
5.1% of GDP (2009)
country comparison to the world: 67
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99.2%
female: 98.9% (2011 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 15 years
male: 15 years
female: 16 years (2011)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
total: 26.1%
country comparison to the world: 36
male: 27.2%
female: 24.6% (2011)
Country name:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Hungary
local long form: none
local short form: Magyarorszag
Government type:
parliamentary democracy
name: Budapest
geographic coordinates: 47 30 N, 19 05 E
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Administrative divisions:
19 counties (megyek, singular – megye), 23 urban counties (singular – megyei varos), and 1 capital city (fovaros)
counties: Bacs-Kiskun, Baranya, Bekes, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen, Csongrad, Fejer, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hajdu-Bihar, Heves, Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok, Komarom-Esztergom, Nograd, Pest, Somogy, Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg, Tolna, Vas, Veszprem, Zala
urban counties: Bekescsaba, Debrecen, Dunaujvaros, Eger, Erd, Gyor, Hodmezovasarhely, Kaposvar, Kecskemet, Miskolc, Nagykanizsa, Nyiregyhaza, Pecs, Salgotarjan, Sopron, Szeged, Szekesfehervar, Szekszard, Szolnok, Szombathely, Tatabanya, Veszprem, Zalaegerszeg
capital city: Budapest
16 November 1918 (republic proclaimed); notable earlier dates: 25 December 1000 (crowning of King STEPHEN I, traditional founding date); 30 March 1867 (Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy established)
National holiday:
Saint Stephen's Day, 20 August; note – commemorates the date when his remains were transferred to Buda (now Budapest)
25 April 2011, effective 1 January 2012
Legal system:
civil legal system influenced by the German model
International law organization participation:
accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; accepts ICCt jurisdiction
18 years of age, 16 if married; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: Janos ADER (since 10 May 2012)
head of government: Prime Minister Viktor ORBAN (since 29 May 2010)
cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers prime minister elected by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the president; other ministers proposed by the prime minister and appointed and relieved of their duties by the president
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elections: president elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 2 May 2012 (next to be held by May 2017); prime minister elected by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the president; election last held 29 May 2010
election results: Janos ADER elected president, National Assembly vote – 262 to 40; Viktor ORBAN elected prime minister, National Assembly vote – 261 to 107
note: to be elected, the president must win two-thirds of legislative vote in the first round or a simple majority in the second round
Legislative branch:
unicameral National Assembly or Orszaggyules (386 seats; members elected by popular vote under a system of proportional and direct representation to serve four-year terms)
elections: last held on 11 and 25 April 2010 (next to be held in spring 2014)
election results: percent of vote by party (5% or more of the vote required for parliamentary representation in the first round) – Fidesz-KNDP 52.7%, MSZP 19.3%, Jobbik 16.7%, LMP 7.5%, other 3.8%; seats by party – Fidesz-KNDP 263, MSZP 59, Jobbik 47, LMP 16, independent 1
note: composition as of mid-April 2013 – seats by party – Fidesz 226, MSZP 48, Jobbik 43, KNDP 37, Democratic Coalition 10, Dialog for Hungary 8, LMP 7, independent 7
Judicial branch:
highest court(s): Curia or Supreme Judicial Court (consists of Curia president and 8 judges); Constitutional Court (consists of 15 members)
judge selection and term of office: Curia president elected from among its members for 9 years by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the president of the republic; other Curia judges appointed by the president upon the recommendation of the National Council of Justice, a separate 15-member administrative body; all judges serve until the normal retirement age; Constitutional Court members elected by two-thirds vote of the National Assembly; members serve 12-year terms
subordinate courts: regional courts of appeal; county courts, including the Municipal Court of Budapest; local courts
Political parties and leaders:
Christian Democratic People's Party or KDNP [Zsolt SEMJEN] Democratic Coalition [Ferenc GYURCSANY] Dialogue for Hungary [Benedek JAVOR, Timea SZABO, co-chairs] Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Alliance or Fidesz [Viktor ORBAN, chairman] Hungarian Socialist Party or MSZP [Attila MESTERHAZY] Movement for a Better Hungary or Jobbik [Gabor VONA] Politics Can Be Different or LMP [13-member leadership; some positions currently vacant]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
Air Work Group (works to reduce air pollution in towns and cities)
Danube Circle (protests the building of the Gabchikovo-Nagymaros dam)
Fourth Republic (Negyedik Koztarsasag) or 4K! (anti-Orban, pro-democracy Facebook movement emerged from a Facebook group, One Million for Freedom of the Press or "Milla," and plans to form a leftist political party)
Green Future (protests the impact of lead contamination of local factory on health of the people)
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (Tarsasag a Szabadsagjogokert) or TASZ (freedom of expression, information privacy)
Hungarian Helsinki Committee (asylum seekers' rights, human rights in law enforcement and the judicial system)
Szolidaritas ("Solidarity," formed in October 2011 by three trade unions and an NGO – anti-Orban government)
"Egyutt 2014″ ("Together 2014," a political electoral alliance bringing together Milla, Szolidaritas, and "Haza es Haladas," an association headed by former PM Gordon BAJNAI, to contest Fidesz and Viktor ORBAN in the 2014 parliamentary elections)
Civil Osszefogas Forum ("Civil Unity Forum," nominally independent organization that serves as pro-government mass organization, supporting ORBAN government's policies)
Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (Magyar Madartani Egyesulet) or MME
Green Alternative (Zold Alternativa)
International organization participation:
Australia Group, BIS, CD, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA (cooperating state), EU, FAO, G-9, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Gyorgy SZAPARY
chancery: 3910 Shoemaker Street NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 362-6730
consulate(s) general: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York
Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires M. Andre GOODFRIEND
embassy: Szabadsag ter 12, H-1054 Budapest
mailing address: pouch: American Embassy Budapest, 5270 Budapest Place, US Department of State, Washington, DC 20521-5270
telephone: [36] (1) 475-4400
Flag description:
three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and green; the flag dates to the national movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, and fuses the medieval colors of the Hungarian coat of arms with the revolutionary tricolor form of the French flag; folklore attributes virtues to the colors: red for strength, white for faithfulness, and green for hope; alternatively, the red is seen as being for the blood spilled in defense of the land, white for freedom, and green for the pasturelands that make up so much of the country
National symbol(s):
Holy Crown of Hungary (Crown of Saint Stephen); turul (falcon)
National anthem:
name: "Himnusz" (Hymn)
lyrics/music: Ferenc KOLCSEY/Ferenc ERKEL
note: adopted 1844
Economy – overview:
Hungary has made the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with a per capita income nearly two-thirds that of the EU-27 average. The private sector accounts for more than 80% of GDP. Foreign ownership of and investment in Hungarian firms are widespread, with cumulative foreign direct investment worth more than $70 billion. In late 2008, Hungary's impending inability to service its short-term debt – brought on by the global financial crisis – led Budapest to obtain an IMF/EU/World Bank-arranged financial assistance package worth over $25 billion. The global economic downturn, declining exports, and low domestic consumption and fixed asset accumulation, dampened by government austerity measures, resulted in an economic contraction of 6.8% in 2009. In 2010 the new government implemented a number of changes including cutting business and personal income taxes, but imposed "crisis taxes" on financial institutions, energy and telecom companies, and retailers. The IMF/EU bail-out program lapsed at the end of the year and was replaced by Post Program Monitoring and Article IV Consultations on overall economic and fiscal processes. The economy began to recover in 2010 with a big boost from exports, especially to Germany, and achieved growth of approximately 1.7% in 2011. At the end of 2011 the government turned to the IMF and the EU to obtain financial backstop to support its efforts to refinance foreign currency debt and bond obligations in 2012 and beyond, but Budapest's rejection of EU and IMF economic policy recommendations led to a breakdown in talks with the lenders in late 2012. Since joining the EU in 2004, Hungary has been subject to the European Commission's Excessive Deficit Procedure; Brussels has requested that the government outline measures to sustainably reduce the budget deficit to under 3% of GDP. Ongoing economic weakness in Western Europe as well as lack of domestic investment and demand caused a GDP to fall 1.7% in 2012. Unemployment remained high, at more than 11%.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$198.8 billion (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 57
$202.2 billion (2011 est.)
$198.9 billion (2010 est.)
note: data are in 2012 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate):
$126.9 billion (2012 est.)
GDP – real growth rate:
-1.7% (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 206
1.7% (2011 est.)
1.2% (2010 est.)
GDP – per capita (PPP):
$20,000 (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 71
$20,200 (2011 est.)
$19,900 (2010 est.)
note: data are in 2012 US dollars
Gross national saving:
19% of GDP (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 81
20.4% of GDP (2011 est.)
19.8% of GDP (2010 est.)
GDP – composition, by end use:
household consumption: 54.2%
government consumption: 20.6%
investment in fixed capital: 17.2%
investment in inventories: 0.3%
exports of goods and services: 94.7%
imports of goods and services: -86.9%
(2012 est.)
GDP – composition, by sector of origin:
agriculture: 3.3%
industry: 28.5%
services: 68.2% (2012 est.)
Agriculture – products:
wheat, corn, sunflower seed, potatoes, sugar beets; pigs, cattle, poultry, dairy products
mining, metallurgy, construction materials, processed foods, textiles, chemicals (especially pharmaceuticals), motor vehicles
Industrial production growth rate:
0.7% (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 125
Labor force:
4.391 million (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 85
Labor force – by occupation:
agriculture: 7.1%
industry: 29.7%
services: 63.2% (2011)
Unemployment rate:
10.9% (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 115
11.6% (2011 est.)
Population below poverty line:
14% (2012)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.1%
highest 10%: 22.6% (2009)
Distribution of family income – Gini index:
24.7 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 133
24.4 (1998)
revenues: $58.41 billion
expenditures: $61.04 billion (2012 est.)
Taxes and other revenues:
46% of GDP (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 22
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-):
-2.1% of GDP
country comparison to the world: 90
note: Hungary has been under the EU Excessive Deficit Procedure since it joined the EU in 2004; in March 2012 the EU elevated its Excessive Deficit Procedure against Hungary and proposed freezing 30% of the country's Cohesion Funds because 2011 deficit reductions were not achieved in a sustainable manner; in June 2012, the EU lifted the freeze, reognizing that steps had been taken to reduce the deficit; the latest EC forecasts project the Hungarian deficit to increase above 3% both in 2013 and in 2014 due to sluggish growth and the government's fiscal tightening (2012 est.)
Public debt:
79.2% of GDP (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 29
81.4% of GDP (2011 est.)
note: general government gross debt is defined in the Maastricht Treaty as consolidated general government gross debt at nominal value, outstanding at the end of the year in the following categories of government liabilities: currency and deposits, securities other than shares excluding financial derivatives, and government, state government, local government, and social security funds.
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.7% (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 156
3.9% (2011 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
5.75% (19 December 2012)
country comparison to the world: 41
7% (31 December 2011)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
9.02% (31 December 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 113
8.34% (31 December 2011 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$33.03 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 57
$30.51 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
Stock of broad money:
$74.5 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 59
$86.68 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
$87.29 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 55
$88.6 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$22.9 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 60
$22.8 billion (31 December 2011)
$27.71 billion (31 December 2010)
Current account balance:
$2.146 billion (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 38
$1.209 billion (2011 est.)
$90.23 billion (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 44
$98.83 billion (2011 est.)
Exports – commodities:
machinery and equipment 53.5%, other manufactures 31.2%, food products 8.7%, raw materials 3.4%, fuels and electricity 3.9% (2012)
Exports – partners:
Germany 25.6%, Romania 6.2%, Slovakia 6.1%, Austria 6%, Italy 4.8%, France 4.8%, UK 4.2% (2012)
$87.37 billion (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 37
$95.2 billion (2011 est.)
Imports – commodities:
machinery and equipment 45.4%, other manufactures 34.3%, fuels and electricity 12.6%, food products 5.3%, raw materials 2.5% (2012)
Imports – partners:
Germany 25.1%, Russia 8.8%, China 7.4%, Austria 7.1%, Slovakia 5.6%, Poland 4.8%, Italy 4.5%, Netherlands 4.2% (2012)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$44.67 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 43
$48.84 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
Debt – external:
$202 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 34
$208.7 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment – at home:
$94.9 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 41
$100.1 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment – abroad:
$30.3 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 42
$28.74 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
Exchange rates:
forints (HUF) per US dollar –
225.1 (2012 est.)
201.05 (2011 est.)
207.94 (2010 est.)
202.34 (2009)
171.8 (2008)
Electricity – production:
34.28 billion kWh (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 63
Electricity – consumption:
36.13 billion kWh (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 55
Electricity – exports:
9 billion kWh (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 22
Electricity – imports:
16.97 billion kWh (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 9
Electricity – installed generating capacity:
9.9 million kW (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 56
Electricity – from fossil fuels:
72% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 103
Electricity – from nuclear fuels:
20% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 12
Electricity – from hydroelectric plants:
1% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 141
Electricity – from other renewable sources:
7% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 29
Crude oil – production:
22,560 bbl/day (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 69
Crude oil – exports:
0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 126
Crude oil – imports:
108,500 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 47
Crude oil – proved reserves:
31.72 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 83
Refined petroleum products – production:
167,900 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 59
Refined petroleum products – consumption:
141,100 bbl/day (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 70
Refined petroleum products – exports:
49,010 bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 60
Refined petroleum products – imports:
171,600 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 31
Natural gas – production:
2.072 billion cu m (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 55
Natural gas – consumption:
11.9 billion cu m (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 44
Natural gas – exports:
835 million cu m (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 40
Natural gas – imports:
8.173 billion cu m (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 28
Natural gas – proved reserves:
3.014 billion cu m (1 January 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 93
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
50.39 million Mt (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 60
Telephones – main lines in use:
2.933 million (2011)
country comparison to the world: 51
Telephones – mobile cellular:
11.69 million (2011)
country comparison to the world: 67
Telephone system:
general assessment: the telephone system has been modernized; the system is digital and highly automated; trunk services are carried by fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay; a program for fiber-optic subscriber connections was initiated in 1996
domestic: competition among mobile-cellular service providers has led to a sharp increase in the use of mobile-cellular phones since 2000 and a decrease in the number of fixed-line connections
international: country code – 36; Hungary has fiber-optic cable connections with all neighboring countries; the international switch is in Budapest; satellite earth stations – 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Inmarsat, 1 very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system of ground terminals (2011)
Broadcast media:
mixed system of state-supported public service broadcast media and private broadcasters; the 3 publicly owned TV channels and the 2 main privately owned TV stations are the major national broadcasters; a large number of special interest channels; highly developed market for satellite and cable TV services with about two-thirds of viewers utilizing their services; 3 state-supported public-service radio networks and 2 major national commercial stations; a large number of local stations including commercial, public service, nonprofit, and community radio stations; digital transition postponed to the end of 2014 (2007)
Internet country code:
Internet hosts:
3.145 million (2012)
country comparison to the world: 33
Internet users:
6.176 million (2009)
country comparison to the world: 41
41 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 104
Airports – with paved runways:
total: 20
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 1 (2013)
Airports – with unpaved runways:
total: 21
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 8
under 914 m:
11 (2013)
3 (2013)
gas 19,028 km; oil 1,007 km; refined products 842 km (2013)
total: 8,057 km
country comparison to the world: 26
broad gauge: 36 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 7,802 km 1.435-m gauge (2,911 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 219 km 0.760-m gauge (2009)
total: 199,567 km
country comparison to the world: 24
paved: 76,075 km (includes 1,477 km of expressways)
unpaved: 123,492 km (2010)
1,622 km (most on Danube River) (2011)
country comparison to the world: 48
Ports and terminals:
Budapest, Dunaujvaros, Gyor-Gonyu, Csepel, Baja, Mohacs
Military branches:
Hungarian Defense Forces: Land Forces, Hungarian Air Force (Magyar Legiero, ML) (2011)
Military service age and obligation:
18-25 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; 6-month service obligation (2012)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 2,349,948
females age 16-49: 2,290,568 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 1,902,639
females age 16-49: 1,897,378 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 59,237
female: 55,533 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
1.75% of GDP (2005 est.)
country comparison to the world: 83
Transnational Issues
Disputes – international:
bilateral government, legal, technical and economic working group negotiations continue in 2006 with Slovakia over Hungary's failure to complete its portion of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam project along the Danube; as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Hungary has implemented the strict Schengen border rules
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
stateless persons: 111 (2012)
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and cannabis and for South American cocaine destined for Western Europe; limited producer of precursor chemicals, particularly for amphetamine and methamphetamine; efforts to counter money laundering, related to organized crime and drug trafficking are improving but remain vulnerable; significant consumer of ecstasy


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November 16, 2011
November's Genealogy Challenge
October's Challenge was the "Give 15 Minutes" Challenge - to give 15 minutes of time to photograph tombstones in a local cemetery. In 15 minutes most genealogists can photograph between 30 and 60 burial stones!
Many genealogists told me they were going to do it. Many were enthusiastic about participating in a project that would bring more cemeteries online for all to view. So why was I underwhelmed?
Because only one person followed through. Bobby R. sent me almost 300 photos a cemetery in Missouri. You can see the first video on Olive Tree Genealogy YouTube Channel
Yes that certainly took longer than my suggested 15 minutes challenge, but even if Bobby had only done 15 minutes of photographing burial stones that would have been a great start.
Perhaps October was a busy month for genealogists. I refuse to believe that folks just aren't interested. I know genealogists are among the most giving and generous people there are! And sometimes life just gets in the way of good intentions. Maybe that is what happened in October.
So I'm challenging all my readers once again - please try to find 15 minutes of time to go out and photograph tombstones in a nearby cemetery. Don't worry if you only get 20 photos, or you get half the cemetery but not all. ANYTHING is good!
Just think of how many cemeteries we can bring online if we all make that effort to find 15 minutes once a month. So won't you accept this Genealogy Challenge and help bring more cemeteries online?
If you upload your photos to a photo sharing site such as Picasa Web Album or Flickr, you can easily get them to me for the Cemetery Walk video creation. You can also email them to me at olivetreegenealogy @ gmail.com (no spaces of course in the email address)
16 comments:
- Jen-Gen said...
I love this idea. I'll have to see where I can go near my work to squeeze in the time. I just got the billion graves app on my cell phone and it makes it super easy to get them uploaded too. I'll let you know when I do it!
- Marilyn said...
I didn't know about your Cemetery Walk videos, and have checked out your blog listings. Nice! Do you have a text listing of all the cemeteries you have 'Walks' for?
I'm a volunteer for Find A Grave, so I get about 100-150 photos in an hour's time each time I visit my local cemetery.
While I like the BillionGraves idea for its speed; I'm not a smartphone user so that's not an option for me. As a genealogist, I really prefer that we gravers concentrate our efforts into ONE or TWO main areas - Find A Grave, maybe USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project. I can't keep track of all the new gravestone sites and it seems like our efforts are spread out among too many options. Just my opinion! Like you said, "It's all good."
- Genealogy Blogger said...
Marilyn, those are good points you made. I don't actually agree though that genealogists/volunteers should concentrate on one or two projects.
I had this same discussion when my site Olive Tree Genealogy was bringing ships passenger lists online. I was the first site to do this, but others soon followed. ISTG had way more volunteers and lists came online faster. Then Ancestry began and so on.
But it didn't matter to me that others were also doing passenger lists! My only beef was when other sites duplicated what I already had online. Not for personal reasons but because to me it was a waste of time. If the data is already online why duplicate it?
I've always felt the more the merrier!
With Google and other search engines it's pretty easy to type in the name of a cemetery or a location and find one of my Cemetery Walks, or FindAGrave or whatever location holds the cemetery a researcher is looking for.
After all if volunteers didn't help the smaller sites or smaller projects, folks like me would stop maintaining their sites. What would be the point if we couldn't start a project that interested us, no matter how small?
Just my 2cents worth :-)
I don't have a text listing of all my Cemetery Walks but that's a good idea. Right now genealogists can either go to my youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhee or click on the topic choice CEMETERY WALKS here on my blog. I also post them on Google+
- Genealogy Blogger said...
Jen-Gen - That's great! Keep me posted okay?
- Denise Coughlin said...
I did take photos this weekend (thinking better late than never) and viola! Here's the challenge again!! I'll post/send the photos by this weekend.
Keep up the great work!!
- Genealogy Blogger said...
Denise, that's terrific!
- Claudia's Genealogy Blog said...
I wanted to do that but a week in Williamsburg VA and a week in North Carolina did not leave me much time.
I did go by the cemetery today and tried to figure out when I can take pictures. I need a sunny day.
I can't promise if it will be soon or after Thanksgiving.
- Genealogy Blogger said...
I hear 'ya Claudia. Life gets so busy, sometimes I wonder where the time went.
I'll start off Monday with plans for all the things I want/need to get done, and before I'm finished half it's the weekend!
I forgot the American Thanksgiving is coming up, so I expect everyone will be super busy getting ready for that. Maybe I'll celebrate it this year too, that way I get TWO Thanksgivings!
- Sheri said...
I uploaded 99 photos I took just a few weeks ago to Picasa and shared the link with you privately on Google+
All were taken at Rural Cemetery here in Stockton, California
Take 'em and you go Girl!
- Genealogy Blogger said...
Sheri - As always, you're a doll! These are terrific. Thank you for meeting this month's genealogy challenge!
The only glitch is that the link didn't display on Google+. Instead all 99 photos popped up in my stream but the only way I can get them is to click on each one and download one at a time...
Can I bug you to send me the link to the album in email so I can download the entire album with one click? Yes, I'm lazy!
Email is olivetreegenealogy @ gmail.com
Thanks o' guru of the birthday song! :-)
- Jenny Jones said...
This must be my lucky month! I completed the challenge before I even knew about it - LOL! Last weekend went to Baltimore National Cemetery to visit my great uncle's grave. Spent easily more than an hour photographing US vets from the Spanish-American War up to Afghanistan. Must be at least 100 veterans, their spouses and children. Will try to do the same again in another cemetery before the month ends, so it really counts!
- C & J Genealogical Services said...
Jenny, do you ever get down to Annapolis National Cemetery or know of someone who does? I have a Civil War Vet there, Levi Howard. I have the location in the cemetery.
I have taken hundreds of tombstone pictures in Massachusetts, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Have place many of them on Find-a-grave but some of the cemeteries are not on Find-a-grave. I have contacted them several times about adding the cemeteries but they have not responses. I want to get them on the web. But this is the way to do it.
My mother and I went out and took pictures together after our Thanksgiving meal today. I hate that I missed seeing your post last month, because I have a cemetary on the edge of my neighborhood and am happy to go out anytime the weather isn't too cold. I will be emailing you shortly!
- Jenny Jones said...
Got to Darlington Cemetery yesterday and found many family members, though not direct line.
Cemetery was founded in 1886 and has many very old stones as well as some new, extremely unique markers. Some had solar lights, which I'd never seen before.
Altogether a fantastic day. I'll get them on Find a Grave eventually.
- Cheryl Cayemberg said...
Went to the Central Texas Veterans Cemetery this morning and took some pictures. They all had wreaths on them which was beautiful. I'm heading to do silly PTA stuff, but I'll post them on Picasa and email the link later this evening when I have them up!
Great idea. I hope you get more participation this time. It looks like you might!
- Genealogy Blogger said...
Hi Cheryl - that's great, looking forward to your photos!
I have had a good response so far to November's Challenge and am in the process of getting all the photos online for everyone to see.
Great participation!


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Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
We have found that it is sometimes helpful to define hints so that they print out messages to the terminal when they fire, so you can see what hint was generated and which of your computed hints did it.
To that end we have defined a macro we sometimes use. Suppose you
have a
:hints specification such as:
:hints (computed-hint-fn (hint-expr id))If you defmacro the macro below you could then write instead:
:hints ((show-hint computed-hint-fn 1) (show-hint (hint-expr id) 2))with the effect that whenever either hint is fired (i.e., returns non-
nil), a message identifying the hint by the marker (1 or 2,
above) and the non-
nil value is printed.
(defmacro show-hint (hint &optional marker) (cond ((and (consp hint) (stringp (car hint))) hint) (t `(let ((marker ,marker) (ans ,(if (symbolp hint) `(,hint id clause world stable-under-simplificationp) hint))) (if ans (prog2$ (cw "~%***** Computed Hint~#0~[~/ (from hint ~x1)~]~%~x2~%~%" (if (null marker) 0 1) marker (cons (string-for-tilde-@-clause-id-phrase id) ans)) ans) nil)))))Note that when
show-hint is applied to a hint that is a symbol,
computed-hint-fn, it applies the symbol to the four
computed-hint arguments:
world, and
stable-under-simplificationp. If
computed-hint-fn is of
arity 3 the code above would cause an error. One way to avoid it
is to write
:hints ((show-hints (computed-hint-fn id clause world) 1) (show-hint (hint-expr id) 2)).If you only use computed hints of arity 3, you might eliminate the occurrence of
stable-under-simplificationp in the definition
show-hint above.
Putting a
show-hint around a common hint has no effect. If you
find yourself using this utility let us know and we'll consider
putting it into the system itself. But it does illustrate that you
can use computed hints to do unusual things.