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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A World War I gas mask stolen from the Wyoming Capitol and missing for almost a century is on display in Cheyenne again after a South Dakota pawn shop donated it back to the state.
The German gas mask originally got to Wyoming by way of U.S. Army Sgt. Robert O. Pennewill, who served in the war. The gas mask was part of a large collection of World War I items displayed in the Wyoming Capitol in the years after the war.
Records show some of the items were stolen either while they were being displayed or stored elsewhere in the building in the 1920s, according to Wyoming State Museum officials.
Now, 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, the gas mask is the Wyoming State Museum's artifact of the month. It remains in outstanding shape.
"It's surprising, considering it's been out on its own for so long," Wyoming State Museum manager Helen Louise said Thursday.
Museum officials said they recently got wind that Presidential Pawn in Rapid City, South Dakota, was selling the old gas mask on eBay. A tag on the gas mask is labeled "Pennewill Collection" and indicates it was found in the Belleau Wood in northern France.
Presidential Pawn owner Chris Johnson said his shop often buys and sells historic military items and acquired the gas mask in April from a man who'd owned it a long time. He estimated its value at $300, but he said he took down the eBay posting immediately after hearing from the museum in May.
"Any time we hear that something has been stolen, it gives us a little bit of a sinking feeling," Johnson said. But he added that he was pleased to be able to donate it to the Cheyenne museum.
"You can't put a price tag on giving something back to the rightful owners," Johnson said.

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After a rocky start, Facebook's life as a publicly-traded company has settled down a bit. Despite healthy skepticism about its prospects in light of a $100bn valuation, its stock price has stabilised (for now) while industry observers and investors are taking stock of its actual -- not hypothetical -- business.
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Sparking the sell-off in Zynga shares is a report that the company, which is behind popular social games like FarmVille and CityVille, saw its active daily users on Facebook decline by a notable 8.2% in the past month.
For obvious reasons, that news has spooked investors who are not only wondering whether Zynga's games have hit a slump, but whether social games on Facebook have jumped the shark. At least one analyst believes it's the latter, writing "we now additionally believe that interest in Facebook-based gaming may have reached a negative inflection point."
But is the news really so bad? Chances are if you ask Zynga, it's not.
After all, Zynga has been trying to diversify. Like other social gaming companies, it's moving aggressively into mobile gaming, which is a potentially far more lucrative market. And for its web-based games, it built Zynga.com, which it hopes will also become a Facebook-like platform for other gaming firms. If Zynga is successful in making sure that all its eggs aren't in the Facebook basket, it will naturally derive less and less from the world's largest social network.
The immediate problem, of course, is that the rapid, precipitous decline in its Facebook audience appears to be occurring so quickly that it's necessary to ask: if Zynga makes less money from Facebook as a result, are its non-Facebook investments paying off quickly enough to offset the loss in Facebook revenue? The answer may very well be no, and with the investments it will need to make in its own platform and mobile to remain competitive likely to be substantial, the economics of Zynga's business may be in for a dramatic change in the near future.
For all of Zynga's well-documented faults, its rise from nothing to billion-dollar powerhouse in a few short years is remarkable. Arguably, one of the reasons it was able to grow so quickly, and successfully navigate the challenges that come with nearly-unprecedented growth, was that it was a private company and had the flexibility to break all the rules. Now that Zynga faces challenges that will realistically require it to make big changes, it's not clear whether it will be so capable as a publicly-traded company.
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Royals singer Lorde is laughing off a planned protest outside her upcoming Missouri concert by members of ultra-religious group the Westboro Baptist Church, urging her fans to hug the extremists.
The activists, who regularly demonstrate outside the gigs of music acts they disapprove of, have attacked the teenager for taking the Lord's name in vain - and adding an E.
And they don't like the fact she has become a huge star, adding, "New Zealand came forth with a young lassie that doesn't have enough sense to put in a thimble. Now the world has elevated her to the status of an idol."
So they're planning a protest outside the Midland Theater in Kansas City prior to Lorde's show there on Friday (21Mar14), prompting the singer to urge fans to welcome the WBC members.
In a tweet to fans, she writes, "Everyone wear rainbow clothing to that show. Everyone try to kiss church members who are same sex as you they will so love it."
The extremists, led by Fred Phelps and his son Nate, are fervently opposed to homosexuality and have staged many protests against artists who are gay or who promote same sex relationships.


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Show You Suck (real name: Clinton Sandifer) aims to buck traditional notions of what it means to be a rapper in 2013. From his lyrical content--which contains heavy doses of hardcore rock, comic books, and cartoons--to his proudly straight-edge lifestyle to his affiliation with the Treated Crew--a seemingly never-ending association of rappers, artists, DJs and the guys from Good Charlotte--he's not the rapper even rap fans are used to encountering. "Dudebro," ShowYouSuck's new EP dropping Tuesday, solidifies this approach with glowing tributes to breasts from back in the day ("'80s Boobs") to guest appearances from the Hood Internet, Javelin, P.O.S. and the Unstoppable Death Machines.


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By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been a rough offseason for the Washington Redskins, and not just because of the knee injury to star quarterback Robert Griffin III.
The team's nickname, which some consider a derogatory term for Native Americans, has faced a barrage of criticism. Local leaders and pundits have called for a name change. Opponents have launched a legal challenge intended to deny the team federal trademark protection. A bill introduced in Congress in March would do the same, though it appears unlikely to pass.
But a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that nationally, "Redskins" still enjoys widespread support. Nearly four in five Americans don't think the team should change its name, the survey found. Only 11 percent think it should be changed, while 8 percent weren't sure and 2 percent didn't answer.
Although 79 percent favor keeping the name, that does represent a 10 percentage point drop from the last national poll on the subject, conducted in 1992 by The Washington Post and ABC News just before the team won its most recent Super Bowl. Then, 89 percent said the name should not be changed, and 7 percent said it should.
The AP-GfK poll was conducted from April 11-15 and included interviews with 1,004 adults on both land lines and cell phones. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
Several poll respondents told The AP that they did not consider the name offensive and cited tradition in arguing that it shouldn't change.
"That's who they've been forever. That's who they're known as," said Sarah Lee, a 36-year-old stay-at-home mom from Osceola, Ind. "I think we as a people make race out to be a bigger issue than it is."
But those who think the name should be changed say the word is obviously derogatory.
"With everything that Native Americans have gone through in this country, to have a sports team named the Redskins — come on, now. It's bad," said Pamela Rogal, 56, a writer from Boston. "Much farther down the road, we're going to look back on this and say, 'Are you serious? Did they really call them the Washington Redskins?' It's a no-brainer."
Among football fans, 11 percent said the name should be changed — the same as among non-fans. Among nonwhite football fans, 18 percent said it should change, about double the percentage of white football fans who oppose the name.
In Washington, debate over the name has increased in recent months. In February, the National Museum of the American Indian held a daylong symposium on the use of Indian mascots by sports teams. Museum Director Kevin Gover, of the Pawnee Nation, said the word "redskin" was "the equivalent of the n-word."
District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray, a Democrat, suggested that the team would have to consider changing the name if it wanted to play its home games in the city again. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who represents the district in Congress, said she's a fan of the team but avoids saying "Redskins." Just this week, a D.C. councilmember introduced a resolution calling for a name change, and it appears to have enough support to pass, although the council has no power over the team.
"We need to get rid of it," said longtime local news anchor Jim Vance in a commentary that aired in February. Vance, of WRC-TV, revealed that he has avoided using the name on the air for the past few years.
Other media outlets have done the same. The Washington City Paper substitutes the name "Pigskins," and DCist.com announced in February that it would avoid using the name in print. The Kansas City Star also has a policy against printing "Redskins."
In March, a three-judge panel heard arguments from a group of five Native American petitioners that the team shouldn't have federal trademark protection, which could force owner Daniel Snyder into a change by weakening him financially. A decision isn't expected for up to a year, and the Redskins are sure to appeal if it doesn't go their way. A similar case, ultimately won by the team, was filed in 1992 and needed 17 years to go through the legal system before the Supreme Court declined to intervene.
Several poll respondents told AP that they were unaware of the ongoing debate.
"If we're going to say that 'Redskins' is an offensive term, like the n-word or something like that, I haven't heard that," said David Black, 38, a football fan from Edmond, Okla., who doesn't think a change is necessary.
George Strange, 52, of Jacksonville, Fla., who feels the name should change, said people might change their minds if they become more educated about the word and its history.
"My opinion, as I've gotten older, has changed. When I was younger, it was not a big deal. I can't get past the fact that it's a racial slur," Strange said. "I do have friends that are Redskins fans and … they can't step aside and just look at it from a different perspective."
There's precedent for a Washington team changing its name because of cultural sensitivities. The late Washington Bullets owner Abe Pollin decided the nickname was inappropriate because of its association with urban violence, and in 1997, the NBA team was rechristened the Wizards.
Other professional sports teams have Native American nicknames, including the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and baseball's Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians. But former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, who is Native American, said "Redskins" is much worse because of its origins and its use in connection with bounties on Indians.
"There's a derogatory name for every ethnic group in America, and we shouldn't be using those words," Campbell said, adding that many people don't realize how offensive the word is. "We probably haven't gotten our message out as well as it should be gotten out."
Numerous colleges and universities have changed names that reference Native Americans. St. John's changed its mascot from the Redmen to the Red Storm, Marquette is now the Golden Eagles instead of the Warriors and Stanford switched from the Indians to the Cardinal.
Synder, however, has been adamant that the name should not change, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has said he supports the team's stance. General Manager Bruce Allen said in March that the team isn't considering a new name.
Following the symposium at the museum, the team posted a series of articles on its official website that spotlighted some of the 70 U.S. high schools that use the nickname Redskins.
"There is nothing that we feel is offensive," Allen said. "And we're proud of our history."
AP Sports Writer Joseph White, AP Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
Follow Ben Nuckols on Twitter at https://twitter.com/APBenNuckols.
The questions and answers from the poll: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com
How the AP-GfK poll on the Washington Redskins was conducted
The Associated Press-GfK poll on the Washington Redskins was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from April 11-15. It is based on landline telephone and cellphone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,004 adults. Interviews were conducted with 601 respondents on landline telephones and 403 on cellular telephones.
Digits in the phone numbers dialed were generated randomly to reach households with unlisted and listed landline and cellphone numbers.
Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish.
As is done routinely in surveys, results were weighted, or adjusted, to ensure that responses accurately reflect the population's makeup by factors such as age, sex, education and race. In addition, the weighting took into account patterns of phone use — landline only, cellphone only and both types — by region.
No more than 1 time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 3.9 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all adults in the U.S. were polled.
There are other sources of potential error in polls, including the wording and order of questions.
The questions and results are available at http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com.
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York Deeds, Book 11, Part 2, 1722-1726York Deeds (1642). The earliest deeds are those recorded in Gorges' Province of Maine. In 1652 Massachusetts enforced her claim to southern Maine as far east as Casco Bay, organizing this territory as Yorkshire or York County. Her jurisdiction was gradually extended eastward, and the charter of 1691 gave her the whole of modern Maine to the St. Croix River. All this was comprised in York County until Cumberland and Lincoln Counties were set off in 1760Book 1-18 covers the period 1642-1737Vols. 1-11, published under the direction of: Maine Historical Society, v. 12-16: Maine Genealogical Society, v. 17-18: published for the State by E.C. BowlerIssed by the Register of Deeds for York County
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What happens in your bed when you're on vacation?
- June 20, 2012
- 5.3m Views
Rob RiggleActor
Lizzy CaplanActor
Jake JohnsonActor
Kathryn HahnActor
Lauryn KahnWriter/Director
Funny Or DieExecutive Producer
Alex RichanbachProducer
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Starring - Rob Riggle, Kathryn Hahn, Jake Johnson, Lizzy Caplan
Writer/Director - Lauryn Kahn
Producer - Alex Richanbach
DP - Jonathan Nicholas
Editors - Josh Salzberg & Collin Pittier
Production Design - Martin Vallejo
Hair and Makeup - Emily Rae
Gaffer - Nathan Carballo
Assistant Camera - Erin Olesen
Electric - Steven Albovias
Sound - BoTown Sound
PA - Ross Buran
June 20, 2012
[Music Playing]
Jake Johnson: Happy anniversary.
Lizzy Caplan: Happy anniversary, handsome.
[Kissing Sound]
Jake Johnson: This vacation was so overdue.
Lizzy Caplan: Oh! Tell me about it. I mean, we've earned this.
Jake Johnson: You know, I really love you.
Lizzy Caplan: [Whispers] Hey. Hey. I love you, too.
[Door Creaks Open]
Kathryn Hahn: [Gasping]
Jake Johnson: Go, go, go go!
Lizzy Caplan: Okay! Okay!
Kathryn Hahn: Honey! Hey! Honey!
Rob Riggle: What? What?
Jake Johnson: N-no no, no no, no.
Rob Riggle: Hey, hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Lizzy Caplan: W-w-wait!
Rob Riggle: Who the hell are you guys?!
Lizzy Caplan: Shh! Shh!
Rob Riggle: What the hell are you doing in here?!
Lizzy Caplan: Shh!
Kathryn Hahn: Okay, okay! So, what are you trying to...
Jake Johnson: Shh! Rory. Sally. We just had sex in your bed.
Kathryn Hahn: Why? Why did you?
Rob Riggle: What the hell is going? You know what? Don't move!
Lizzy Caplan: v Jake Johnson: No! Wait! Wait!
Rob Riggle: I'm calling the cops!
Jake Johnson: [Screaming] SHUT UP!
Kathryn Hahn: [Screams] Ahh!
Jake Johnson: [Screaming] You wanna get crazy?! Let's get crazy! [Normally] Why are you on your knees?
Rob Riggle: Oh my God. Oh my God.
Jake Johnson: This isn't...
Rob Riggle: Don't shoot. Do not shoot.
Lizzy Caplan: Why do these girls always get on their knees?
Jake Johnson: I don't know!
Lizzy Caplan: Every time!
Jake Johnson: It's so stupid.
Lizzy Caplan: It's wild.
Jake Johnson: If you're on your knees I can still shoot you in the face.
Lizzy Caplan: And why is she in front of him? It's like he's not even protecting his wife.
Rob Riggle: I am totally protecting her.
Lizzy Caplan: How? From behind?
Rob Riggle: [Screaming] GET THE F**K OUT OF MY HOUSE, OKAY?!
[Everyone yelling inaudibly]
Jake Johnson: [Yelling] RELAX! We sleep on our little IKEA bed and a little futon, okay?!
Lizzy Caplan: Yeah.
Jake Johnson: So, when you guys go out of town, we like to sneak in and have sex on your bed. And you're gonna treat us like criminals?!
Rob Riggle: Oh, come on!
Jake Johnson: Why are you guys back on Tuesday? Your itinerary said you were supposed to be back on Sunday night.
Rob Riggle: How do you know that?!
Jake Johnson: 'Cause I hacked into your e-mail, you dumb s*it.
Lizzy Caplan: We didn't want to run into you.
Jake Johnson: Change your password.
Lizzy Caplan: This was not the plan.
Jake Johnson: One through nine is the dumbest password.
Kathryn Hahn: [Yelling] THAT'S YOUR PASSWORD?!
Rob Riggle: [Yelling] YES!
Kathryn Hahn: Wow.
Rob Riggle: It's called hiding in plain sight. No one would ever...
Jake Johnson: Or the dumbest.
Rob Riggle: It's. It's hard to remember all the passwords, so I keep it simple. Okay?!
Jake Johnson: Can I just. Can I say this? Your bed is awesome to have sex on.
Lizzy Caplan: Yeah.
Jake Johnson: And thank you.
Kathryn Hahn: At least somebody is. Heh.
Lizzy Caplan: What was that?
Kathryn Hahn: I said at least somebody's having sex on this bed.
Rob Riggle: Would you please shut up?
Lizzy Caplan: [Gasps]
Jake Johnson: Honey. When was the last time you guys?
Rob Riggle: It's none of your business what we do or don't do. Thank you very much!
Kathryn Hahn: Guess how many times in the last year.
Rob Riggle: They don't need to guess, honey.
Lizzy Caplan: How many times? Well...
Kathryn Hahn: Okay, last year. Let me tell you.
Lizzy Caplan: Okay. Total?! Five in a year?!
Jake Johnson: Five in a year...
Kathryn Hahn: In a year.
Rob Riggle: That's not. That's not!
Lizzy Caplan: A calendar year?
Rob Riggle: God! This has nothing to do with them. Would you please shut up?!
Jake Johnson: Question.
Lizzy Caplan: Did you guys have sex on vacation? I mean, you went to a romantic spot.
Jake Johnson: For sure. You guys, you guys had sex.
Rob Riggle: There's a lot of times we do things that aren't necessarily intercourse, but...
Jake Johnson: What does that. What does that mean?
Lizzy Caplan: Yeah?
Rob Riggle: Mutual masturbation. A lot of times, she's as tired as I am and, and, and I wake up, and, you know, our schedules are like... [Yelling] GET THE F**K OUT OF MY HOUSE, OKAY?!
Jake Johnson: Kiss each other on the mouth.
Kathryn Hahn: Never!
Rob Riggle: Never.
Jake Johnson: Touch each other sexually.
Kathryn Hahn: v Rob Riggle: NO!
Jake Johnson: Turn around and kiss.
Kathryn Hahn: That's disgusting!
Jake Johnson: I can put a gun on you and make you guys watch us have sex!
Kathryn Hahn: Yes.
Rob Riggle: No.
Jake Johnson: She's saying yeah, you're saying no.
Kathryn Hahn: I would love to.
Lizzy Caplan: This got dark. You guys are dark.
Rob Riggle: What do you mean you want to, what are you saying?
Kathryn Hahn: I would love to see someone else having sex!
Rob Riggle: Ugh!
Jake Johnson: Everybody calm down.
Lizzy Caplan: Can we wash your sheets? We feel bad, we would have washed them, you never would have known.
Jake Johnson: For what we did on those sheets, we should wash them.
Lizzy Caplan: Exactly. Usually...
Rob Riggle: Oh, God! Just go, all right?! We'll burn the sheets for all I care!
Lizzy Caplan: All right, fine. It's your robe, but I, listen, I was wondering if I could keep it.
Kathryn Hahn: I don't care. Just take it and go.
Lizzy Caplan: Well, you don't seem too happy about giving it...
Jake Johnson: She said keep it.
Lizzy Caplan: I know, but I feel like, guilty about taking it.
Rob Riggle: What is your problem? Just take the thing!
Jake Johnson: You have a thing with gifts like this.
Lizzy Caplan: I know!
Jake Johnson: You have to learn to accept them.
Lizzy Caplan: You're right. You're right. You're right. Thank you.
Jake Johnson: With that in mind big guy, can I keep your shirt and the boxers?
Rob Riggle: Fine! Just get out!
Jake Johnson: I have two pairs on, 'cause the first one was just to stop drippage. The second one, 'cause I like these.
Rob Riggle: I don't care! Just go! Please, go!
Jake Johnson: Question, and this is on the real.
Rob Riggle: [Screams]
Jake Johnson: Is it a keeper for us, or do you guys want the second half?
Rob Riggle: That's a seventy-six Rothchild you animal!
Jake Johnson: Do you guys want it?
Lizzy Caplan: We just opened it...
Rob Riggle: Get out! Take the Rothchild and go!
Lizzy Caplan: Don't take it. I don't like...we shouldn't drink and drive.
Kathryn Hahn: Take it! Just take it and go! Please! Please! Leave us alone!
Jake Johnson: We're gonna change this tone, and I want you guys to ask us to stay.
Rob Riggle: Okay. Uh, uh, uh, would you, would you please consider staying?
Jake Johnson: No, thank you.
Lizzy Caplan: Better things to do.
Jake Johnson: You guys don't seem like the kind of friends we wanna be friends with.
Lizzy Caplan: Yeah. Not interested.
Kathryn Hahn: Bye.
Jake Johnson: I'm gonna take off with this lady, and we're gonna go f**k in other peoples' beds.
Lizzy Caplan: There it is.
Kathryn Hahn: [Whispering] Just go. Please.
Rob Riggle: Get out. Please.
Kathryn Hahn: You're welcome.
Lizzy Caplan: All right. Bye, guys!
Jake Johnson: Dance! [Laughs] I'm not gonna shoot you. Idiots.
Rob Riggle: A**hole.
Kathryn Hahn: [Crying] Hold me.
Rob Riggle: No, I'm not gonna hold you. What did you tell them all...
Kathryn Hahn: Please, hold me.
Rob Riggle: I've gotta call the cops.
Kathryn Hahn: You are not getting out of here until you stick it in me!
Rob Riggle: What are you doing?! Stop! I don't wanna have sex!
[Music Playing]
Kathryn Hahn: Ugh! They stained the sheets!
Rob Riggle: Don't touch the semen. Don't touch anything.
Kathryn Hahn: I don't wanna contaminate the evidence!
[Music Playing]


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According to the Fed's Other Inflation Measure, Inflation's at an 11-year High
According to the Fed's Other Inflation Measure, Inflation's at an 11-year High
What the Burgeoning Trade War Really Means for Entrepreneurs
President Donald Trump followed his announcement of steel and aluminum tariffs with a declaration that "trade wars are good, and easy to win" -- a stance economists and members of his own political party immediately challenged. Not long after the U.S. announced its tariffs, international trading partners threatened retaliatory fees against American goods such as bourbon, blue jeans and Harley-Davidson.
As governments clash in big battles, small businesses are left to worry about how they might be affected by a trade war. The White House claims it's acting in the interest of American businesses and is willing to put tariffs on more than $500 billion of imported goods (per CNBC), but not all American companies benefit from nationalistic policies. The Washington Post reports that farmers, for example, will receive $12 billion in federal aid to offset any negative effects of this trade war.
Many companies will need to pass costs on to consumers, as reported by The New York Times. These increases might seem small at first, but small price hikes across the board will leave consumers' wallets thinner from every purchase. This will be particularly problematic for individuals who cannot afford to buy American-made products and instead purchase cheap goods from China, the Atlantic reports.
For entrepreneurs, trade wars create an uncertain and often problematic situation. Which endeavors will succeed, and which will feel the tariff squeeze? How can small business owners protect their livelihood? Thankfully, entrepreneurs don't have to wait to find out. Through proactive management, entrepreneurs can persevere in an economically volatile climate
Read the full article at Entrepreneur.com
60 Years of 'Government - An Ideal Concept'
In 1958, Foundation for Economic Education guiding light, Leonard Read, presented a series of lectures in Argentina against the backdrop of an economy decimated by mis-government which shares a great deal with the same country six decades later. The lectures became a small book-- Why Not Try Freedom?—an excellent encapsulation of Read's thought.
Particularly interesting is his first chapter, "Government—An Ideal Concept," because in a world where "each man must actually live his own answer to the challenges posed by his existence," knowing the appropriate ideal for government is an indispensable guide to growth and social cooperation. Sixty years later, that deserves revisiting, as the ideal is almost unrecognizably distant from current reality.
The problems of man, society, and government are approached most constructively…within a moral and spiritual frame of reference.
Man's purpose is…to come as close as he can to the realization of those creative potentialities peculiar to his own person.
Any behavior, personal or collective, which tends to retard man in his pursuit of the ideal life is, in my judgment, ipso facto bad, evil or immoral. Any behavior, personal or collective, which tends to promote or complement this objective is, in my judgment, ipso facto good, virtuous or moral.
Any person has a moral right to inhibit the destructive action of another or others. However, no person has a moral right to forcibly direct or to control what another shall invent, create, or discover; no right to dictate where he shall labor, how long he shall work, what his wage shall be, what and with whom he shall exchange, or what thoughts he shall entertain. No single person has any such moral right. No combination of persons has any such moral right. No agency, political or otherwise, has any such moral right.
There are no moral sanctions for government to intervene in any manner whatsoever with productive or creative actions. The moral sanction for establishing government springs from the right of the individual to inhibit or prohibit or restrain the destructive actions of others.
It is necessary to know why government should exist--what it is for--in order to gain an awareness of what it is not for. We must know government and its purpose…to limit it to its purpose.
An ideal theory of government and liberty is to be derived from the necessity for the free, uninhibited flow of all creative human energy .
We are all dissimilar. However, we have …one common necessity if we are to live and progress. It is that prohibitions against, or restrictions upon, the release and exchange of our creative energies be at the lowest minimum possible…this removal of inhibitory influences--the kind imposed by man on men--serves to benefit all of us in common.
Each individual in his own upgrading…builds only upon free will and volition.
Inhibitory influences are fraud, violence, misrepresentation, and predatory practices. All are immoral, be they done legally or illegally. The problem here is to remove inhibitory actions. This can be accomplished by restraining aggressive force.
No individual has the moral right to use aggressive force against any other individual. He has the moral right to use only defensive or repellent force.
If a person has a right to life…he has a right to protect and to sustain that life, the sustenance of life being nothing more nor less than the fruits of one's labor—one's honestly acquired property…the rights to the fruits of one's own labor involves the restraint or the removal of obstacles to…one's own exchange, but also the obstacles to other people's exchange.
If one has a right to life and livelihood, every other person has a similar right… the requirement that life and livelihood be protected are coterminous with society .
The source of all creative and variable human energy…rests in…the individual, in such voluntary and cooperative actions as he may freely choose to take. This is the province of the individual and not of society. This is the vast, unlimited area of liberty, of self-reliance, and of self-discipline.
If the purpose of man on earth is self-realization…it follows that the law, the book of rules and prohibitions for social administration, can logically serve only the purpose of deterring man's destructive actions for the sake of giving full flower to his creative actions…no just object beyond removing social obstacles to the release of the human spirit. An organized arm of society, within its proper bounds, can be but the handmaiden of liberty; government, within its proper bounds, can be but the protective servant of all individuals equally against antisocial marauders.
Cooperation for creative purposes must be left to voluntary action. Men can cooperate to use force, but they cannot be forced to cooperate…However, cooperation for creative purposes requires, as an auxiliary, cooperation to annul destructive purposes. Cooperation for creative purposes requires that inhibitory influences against creative action be neutralized.
Society's political apparatus…[is] to inhibit, repel, restrain, penalize. [Members] can do everything else better outside the apparatus than in it. What should be inhibited, restrained, penalized? Those actions of man which are characterized by aggressive force, namely, those actions which themselves inhibit, restrain, destroy, or penalize creative effort. Defensive force may be used to neutralize aggressive force, and such a use of forces serves a social end. This use of defensive force should be the guiding principle of the political agency.
Cooperation is required among members of society to perform the negative function of prohibiting obstacles to production, communication, and exchange… limited to those actions which have a common benefit to creative effort. Ideally, the only dissenters would be those who want to live by predation.
Any logical and just organization by society derives its existence from…the common need for every man to protect himself against those who would limit his creative opportunities. Every human being is born with as much right to live his life creatively as any other man. Man, however, is incapable of protecting his life as a personal, individual project, and at the same time of realizing his human potential…By reason of this social circumstance, he is committed, in principle, to cooperating with his fellow men in the protective project…that should make no distinction whatever as to persons…where all ought to be regarded as equal… where special privilege should be unknown.
In short, the law's limitation inheres in its justification. Force is a dangerous thing. Therefore, society's organized arm is a dangerous instrument. It is not, as some assert, a necessary evil. When limited to its proper defensive scope, it is a positive good. When exceeding its proper limitations and becoming aggression, it is not a "necessary" but a positive evil.
Aggressive force…is always evil. There are no exceptions. No man has any moral right to use aggressive force against any other man. Nor have any number of men, in or out of societal organizations, any moral right to use it.
One of the most distressing fallacies having to do with government and liberty is the assumption that the State, an agency presumably of the people, has rights beyond those possessed by the people…no reasonable person can logically believe that any such control belongs to a multitude of citizens…It has no derivation. It is an arrogation.
Any person has the natural and moral right to use repellent or defensive force against any other person who would aggress against him. No person on this earth has any moral right of control over any other person superior to the defense of his own life and livelihood.
Every living human being…has a vested interest in the creative emergence of every other human being…in the free, uninhibited flowing and exchange of the energies thus released; the true interests of all, therefore, are in harmony…every individual has a vested interest in common with all other men in restraining all inhibitory influences to creative energy and creative energy exchanges. All else is individual, voluntary, and cooperative as individuals may choose; for all else is creative.
Leonard Read provides a valuable touchstone—the universal liberty to grow or emerge--to understand what should ideally characterize a government of self-owning individuals. That, in turn, reveals a sharp contrast with "What Is and What Should Never Be," (apologies to Led Zeppelin) about government and its impositions in our lives. We have, in many ways, moved farther from the ideal in the 60 years since Read articulated it. But he continues to offer us the wisdom necessary to retrace our mis-steps and reopen "the vast, indeed, the infinite, area of emergence" that is possible to us. And we have a lot to gain if each of us would convert our "massive potential for growth," as Bill Murray put it in Stripes, into reality.
Forget Security Clearance, John Brennan Should Be Prosecuted
In the year 2018, it is not remotely shocking to see media attention shift seamlessly from reality show villains to former CIA directors. The Trump Administration's announcement that it has revoked the security clearance for John Brennan, America's former Communist-sympathetic spymaster, naturally resulted in a race to see who among the professional political class could be most dramatic in their condemnation.
Many, including Brennan himself, bizarrely argued that the Trump Administration's action was a "1st Amendment violation." As Jim Bovard quipped on Twitter, "Can someone show me the asterisk in the First Amendment that says that former govt. officials have a divine right to confidential inside govt. info in perpetuity?"
Most entertaining was the response from ex-VP and amateur masseuse Joe Biden, who tweeted:
In Washington, you can always identify how dependable an ally is by the size of the lies they are willing to tell in your defense.
After all, Brennan's tenure at the CIA was rampant with dishonesty, unaccountability, and hypocrisy – and that's before looking at Brennan's long record of support for war crimes.
It was Brennan's CIA, after all, that was found guilty of spying on Senate computer servers and threatened to prosecute Intelligence community staffers investigating CIA interrogation practices. He then lied about it repeatedly until investigation into the matter made doing so indefensible.
The conduct of Brennan's CIA wasn't limited simply to the Senate. Though in his current capacity as an MSNBC contributor, Brennan is now a passionate defender of the 1st Amendment and free press, his agency also hacked and spied on American journalists reporting on CIA torture.
As the McClatchy reported at the time:
The CIA got hold of the legally protected email and other unspecified communications between whistleblower officials and lawmakers this spring, people familiar with the matter told McClatchy. It's unclear how the agency obtained the material.
Of course it is understandable that Brennan was so interested in keeping CIA torture practices as hidden as possible, particularly since he himself was an advocate for them. These included waterbordering, rectal feeding, beatings, and other sometimes fatal practices. Additionally the CIA's conduct during this period was without any sort of accountability, keeping other government agencies and even the White House in the dark. Inevitably many innocent people became ensnared by the actions of America's rogue spy agency.
Naturally the media and the anti-Trump left would now treat a defender of these practices as a moral defender of American democracy.
If Trump really wanted to act on the Deep State, he wouldn't settle for simply revoking John Brennan's security clearances. He should move to strip his pension and have him prosecuted for his past actions. While it's fair to question whether the current legal system would actually allow anything to happen to Brennan, doing so would force renewed focus on his past actions and help highlight the dangers of leaving the CIA unchecked. Trump is a fan of spectacles, let this one play out for the nation to see.
Then he should do the same for James Clapper.
Bake the Cake: The State of Colorado Is Still Persecuting Baker Jack Phillips
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission is at it again. It's going after Masterpiece Cake Shop owner Jack Phillips for refusing to "make a cake with a pink inside and a blue outside, celebrating a gender transition from male to female."
This comes only months after the US Supreme Court ruled against the Commission's regulatory attack on Phillips for not baking a cake for a gay wedding.
Although the Supreme Court ruled in Favor of Phillips, it nevertheless took a very narrow view.
Instead of criticizing the very existence of laws that trample on property rights by mandating that people be forced — under threat of state violence — to provide services for certain privileged groups, the Court only took issue with the reasoning employed by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission when it ruled against Phillips.
When the ruling came down, I commented on the specifics of the Court's narrow ruling:
The US Supreme Court today ruled 7-2 in favor of a Denver small business owner who has been threatened, sanctioned, and ultimately driven out of business by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The controversy arose when the cake shop owner, Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding, claiming to be motivated by religious beliefs.
The cake shop was hauled up before the Colorado Civil Rights Commission where the commission ruled that the shop must "change its company policies, provide 'comprehensive staff training' regarding public accommodations discrimination, and provide quarterly reports for the next two years regarding steps it has taken to come into compliance and whether it has turned away any prospective customers."
Justices Kennedy, Roberts, Alito, Breyer, Kagan, Gorsuch and Thomas all voted to overturn the earlier appeals court's decision to uphold the Commission's ruling against Phillips. Only Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissented.
In the decision , authored by Justice Kennedy, much of the reasoning centered on the fact that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had demonstrated an apparently obvious bias against religious people, even though "neutrality" is legally required in such cases. The ruling states:
As the record shows, some of the commissioners at the Commission's formal, public hearings endorsed the view that religious beliefs cannot legitimately be carried into the public sphere or commercial domain, disparaged Phillips' faith as despicable and characterized it as merely rhetorical, and compared his invocation of his sincerely held religious beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust.
The SCOTUS ruling also noted that both the Commission and the appeals court largely ignored and glossed over the fact that the Commission had on three prior occasions ruled in favor of bakers who had refused to bake cakes with anti-gay slogans on them. There was an enormous double standard at work.
As Kagan notes in her concurring opinion, the Civil Rights Commission was abandoning neutrality in favor of making decisions "based on the government's own assessment of offensiveness."
In other words, the Commission was deciding, based on the members' own personal prejudices and biases, who shall be forced to bake cakes, and who shall not.
With this ruling, the court took a small step in the right direction by taking exception to the Commission's claim that freedom of religion doesn't exist. As noted by Justice Kennedy, the Commission essentially dismissed the very idea that religious conviction could be a valid reason to claim an exemption from the Commissions rules and regulations.
The Court came back and slapped down this reasoning, but it left the Commission plenty of leeway to rule against Phillips using different reasoning.
Thus, as long as the Commission can manufacture a different rationale for ruining Phillip's business, it is free to do, as far as the US Supreme Court is concerned.
The court's limited approach here illustrates the problem with the Court's strategy on the matter of anti-discrimination law has always been problematic.
By limiting Philipp's free use of his property only to cases in which he can prove some sort of religious conviction, the Court — and the law in general — relies essentially on mind reading in determining whether or not Phillips should be allowed to use his property as he sees fit:
This has led to a number of absurd legal and legislative acrobatics in which property owners must prove that their business decisions are motivated by artistic choices or religious conviction, but not by some other motivating factor. Thus, government commissions and courts are required to read the minds of business owners and determine whether or not their internal feelings and religious views fall under some government-approved motivation for refusing some sort of business service.
Proving or disproving internal motivations, of course, has always been an extremely sketchy way of doing things. After all, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission concluded that Phillips was using his religious views to justify unlawful discrimination. This, of course, requires that the commission members somehow have certain knowledge about the thoughts in Phillips's head.
This sort of reasoning also has the habit of working against business owners who hold views that are held only by small minority or otherwise might be considered especially idiosyncratic. One might argue that one is religiously opposed to providing some sort of service. But unless those views are recognizable to judges and bureaucrats as part of a known religious movement, the business owner is likely to be accused of simply making up an ad hoc religion to "mask" unlawful discrimination.
Ultimately, this sort of subjectivity invites just the sort of corruption and bigotry we see on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
There's a far less complicated way of protecting rights in these cases, however, we should stop talking about "freedom of religion," and focus on ordinary property rights instead. In practice, freedom of religion can only be truly protected by protecting property rights overall. After all, all rights — including freedom of speech and freedom of religion — depend on the ability to exercise control of one's own body and property.
As Murray Rothbard has demonstrated, rights to religious expression and speech are simply types of property rights. Consequently, religious liberty and free speech can be protected with a more general respect for property rights. By saying that Phillips ought to be forced to bake a cake, the Commission is asserting that Philipps does not enjoy ownership over his own body, or the shop and tools he acquired by using his body to perform labor.
Having refused to acknowledge these property rights, though, the Supreme Court has empowered the Colorado Civil Rights Commission to continue its war against small-time bakery owners who are no threat to anyone and impose their views on no one. The Commission already knows how it's going to rule. Its hostility to Phillips is apparent, and there's not reason to believe the Commission will stop until it has succeeded in ruining him. The challenge the Commission faces, however, is in reverse engineering a ruling that can survive a legal challenge. I'm sure that with the help of a sufficient number of taxpayer-funded lawyers, the commission can succeed in this endeavor.
Congress Has Become Very Good at Spending Money
This week President Trump signed the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, increasing America's war budget to a whopping $717 billion. For comparison, this is roughly equal to the next 11 highest military budgets combined.
In fact, the $107 billion increase from last year alone is roughly equal to the total military spending of Russia and Germany together.
Congress isn't done spending taxpayer money yet though. Next up is a spending bill that will fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Defense, because the Pentagon apparently can't get by with a humble $717 billion. This will be the third "minibus" to pass Congress in 2018, the result of which has been the US running its highest deficits in years.
Of course reckless Federal spending isn't anything new. What is particularly noteworthy about Congress's recently behavior is that it has now become extremely efficient at passing these spending bills.
Congressional budgets are broken up into 12 different bills. When this next package clears the Senate – as expected – it will have passed 9 of the 12. As Axios notes, the Senate "has already passed the majority of spending bills by early August for the first time since 2000." Should Congress continue on this pace and complete all 12 budgets by October, it will be the first time this has occurred since 1996.
None of this is surprising. As Ryan McMaken noted prior to the 2016 election, no one spends money more liberally than a Republican-controlled Federal government. Ideas like fiscal responsibility (and political decentralization) makes for great rhetoric in a political minority, but are extremely inconvenient when in a position of political power.
What makes this all the worse is that the GOP's fiscal irresponsibility will inevitably result in blow back for some of its better policy victories, such as last year's tax cuts.
Already progressive outlets are trying to peg last year's reforms as the reason for historically high deficits, even though tax cuts have (unfortunately) increased government revenue. As such, when the Democrats next find themselves in political power, we can count on a push for tax increases to address America's fiscal ills – likely while advocating for a new list of new government programs.
This cycle will continue to play out until the power to spend is taken away from Washington. The question is whether it will be due to a debt and monetary crisis, or pro-active restraints placed on it from the states.
The Mission of the Mises Institute, In One Paragraph
The mission of the Mises Institute, as presaged by Ludwig von Mises in his 1962 review of Murray Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State:
If we want to avoid the destruction of Western civilization and the relapse into primitive wretchedness, we must change the mentality of our fellow citizens. We must make them realize what they owe to the much vilified "economic freedom," the system of free enterprise and capitalism. The intellectuals and those who call themselves educated must use their superior cognitive faculties and power of reasoning for the refutation of erroneous ideas about social, political and economic problems and for the dissemination of a correct grasp of the operation of the market economy. They must start by familiarizing themselves with all the issues involved in order to teach those who are blinded by ignorance and emotions. They must learn in order to acquire the ability to enlighten the misguided many.
The entire review is fantastic, and demonstrates the degree to which Mises considered the young Rothbard an eminent and pioneering economist — nothing less than an "epochal" contributor to the science of praxeology. High praise indeed.
h/t Bob Robert.
Mark Thornton Joins the Tom Wood Show to Discuss The Skyscraper Curse
Recently Mark Thornton joined the Tom Woods Show to discuss his new book The Skyscraper Curse, and How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century.
Trump vs. His Own Administration?
Are President Trump's senior cabinet members working against him? It's hard not to conclude that many of the more hawkish neocons that Trump has (mistakenly, in my view) appointed to top jobs are actively working to undermine the president's stated agenda. Especially when it seems Trump is trying to seek dialogue with countries the neocons see as adversaries needing to be regime-changed.
Remember just as President Trump was organizing an historic summit meeting with Kim Jong-Un, his National Security Advisor, John Bolton, nearly blew the whole thing up by making repeated references to the "Libya model" and how it should be applied to North Korea. As if Kim would jump at the chance to be bombed, overthrown, and murdered at the hands of a US-backed mob!
It seems that Trump's appointees are again working at cross-purposes to him. Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that he was invoking a 1991 US law against the use of chemical weapons to announce yet another round of sanctions on Russia over what he claims is Putin's involvement in the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK.
The alleged poisoning took place in March and only now did the State Department make its determination that Russia was behind it and thus subject to the 1991 sanction law. Was there new information that came to light that pointed to Russian involvement? According to a State Department briefing there was none. The State Department just decided to take the British government's word for it.
Where do we get authority to prosecute Russia for an alleged crime committed in the UK, by the way?
President Trump's own Administration is forcing him to accept the State Department determination and agree to sanctions that may well include, according to the 1991 law, a complete break of diplomatic relations with Russia. This would be a de facto declaration of war. Over unproven allegations.
Trump has authority to reject the imposition of new sanctions, but with his Democrat opponents continuing to charge that he is in league with the Russian president, how could he waive sanctions just before the November US Congressional elections? That would be a windfall for the Democrats seeking to take control of the House and Senate.
The only way Russia could avoid the second, most extreme round of these sanctions in November is to promise not to use chemical weapons again and open its doors to international inspections. What government would accept such a demand when no proof has been presented that they used chemical weapons in the first place?
Certainly it is possible that President Trump is fully aware of the maneuverings of Bolton and Pompeo and that he approves. Perhaps he likes to play "good cop, bad cop" with the rest of the world, at the same time making peace overtures while imposing sanctions and threatening war. But it certainly looks like some of his cabinet members are getting the best of him.
If President Trump is to be taken at his word, that he welcomes dialogue "without pre-conditions" with leaders of Russia, North Korea, Iran, and elsewhere, he would be wise to reconsider those in his employ who are undermining him every step of the way. Otherwise, it is hard to believe the president is sincere. Let's hope he does choose dialogue over conflict and clips the wings of those under him attempting to push him in the other direction.
"FDA Approval" is a Monopolist's Scheme to Limit Competition
Charging the price of an expensive car for a garden-variety amino acid, one we eat every day.
A year ago, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) approved a "drug" called Endari to treat sickle cell disease, which afflicts about 100,000 Americans of African descent and around 25 million more outside the US. Price tag: $28,000 a year.
So what is Endari? Anything approved by the FDA legally becomes a "drug." But some have noted this "drug" is just a higher dose of L-glutamine, a common amino acid that is in our food and that our bodies also make. Indeed, The agency itself describes this "drug" as "L-glutamine oral powder." Amino acids are the building blocks for protein and we also use them for other purposes.
So here we have a "drug" intended to help Americans of African descent, but because it has been approved by the FDA, now costs more than $500 per week. Normally "drugs" benefit from two government monopoly grants: first a patent and then FDA approval. That ensures no competition and the ability to charge more than would be the case without a government-restricted market.
Glutamine, being a natural substance, cannot be patented stand alone, but the FDA approval still guarantees a monopoly, because nobody else will want to pay the cost of entering the market. The total cost of gaining approval averages in the billions. Even Endari, approved under the "Orphan Drug Act," would have cost enough to keep a competitor out, and in addition the FDA would not look well on a second application under that Act. FDA approval is also crucial because Medicaid and Medicare and Veterans will then pay for it. They will not pay for a supplement, even if it is the same thing, even if it costs less than a tenth as much.
There is still an existing drug for sickle cell disease called hydroxyurea, which also costs less than a tenth as much as Endari, but which has serious side effects. The insert warns of anemia and leukemia, and in addition it may not work. Nevertheless, some insurance companies are telling doctors to continue to use hydroxyurea first. They are not of course telling doctors to do the logical thing which is to use the supplement form of glutamine.
Facebook Censored Me, Criticize Your Government and It Might Censor You Too
Responding to Russian-funded political advertisements, Facebook chairman Mark Zuckerberg declared last month that "we will do our part to defend against nation states attempting to spread misinformation." But Facebook is effectively sowing disinformation by kowtowing to foreign regimes and censoring atrocities such as ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. In the name of repressing fake news and hate speech, Facebook is probably suppressing far more information than Americans realize.
Facebook blocked a post of mine last month for the first time since I joined it nine years ago. I was seeking to repost a blog article I had written on Janet Reno, the controversial former attorney general who died last year. I initially thought that Facebook was having technical glitches (no novelty). But I checked the page and saw the official verdict: "Could not scrape URL because it has been blocked."
"Pshaw!" I said, or some other one-syllable epithet. I copied the full text of the article into a new blog post. Instead of using "Janet Reno, Tyrant or Saint?" as the core headline, I titled it: "Janet Reno, American Saint." Instead of a 1993 photo of the burning Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, I substituted an irreproachable official portrait of Reno. Bingo — Facebook instantly accepted that crosspost. I then added a preface detailing the previous blockage and explaining why I sainted Reno. The ironic headline attracted far more attention and spurred a torrent of reposts by think tanks and other websites.
I contacted Facebook's press office to learn why the initial post was blocked. Facebook spokeswoman Ruchika Budhraja checked into the matter and notified me that I would be permitted to post that link. "But why was it blocked?" I replied. She responded: "There was an image in the post that incorrectly triggered our automation tools. That issue has been corrected."
So when did showing the home of more than 70 people engulfed in flames after a FBI assault become beyond the pale? Facebook presumably blocked everyone who sought to share that image from the most vivid law enforcement debacle of the 1990s.
This was not the first time Facebook erased an iconic image that the U.S. government would be happy to see vanish. Facebook likely deleted thousands of postings of the 1972 photo of a young Vietnamese girl running naked after a plane dropped napalm on her village. After coming under severe criticism last year, Facebook announced that it would no longer suppress that image. Unfortunately, Facebook is unlikely to disclose a list of the images it bans. Because most Americans are clueless about current events and recent history, they will have little idea of what vanishes into the Memory Hole.


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HTML5 includes the Drag and Drop API , which gives us the ability to natively drag, drop, and transfer data to HTML elements. Up until now, JavaScript libraries have commonly been used to achieve something similar, such as jQuery UI's Draggable and Droppable plugins or Dojo.dnd. What libraries such as jQuery UI or Dojo can't do, however, is interact with other windows, frames, and applications (to and from the file system) or have a rich drag data store.
Marketers like to brand all things HTML5 as shiny and disappointingly then, the HTML5 Drag and Drop model has roots in . Ian Hickson, the HTML5 specification editor, reverse engineered the Drag and Drop API from Internet Explorer. The best thing it had going for it was the fact that it was already working in IE, and to some extent Safari and Firefox had implemented it. It may not be the most elegantly designed part of HTML5, but the paths had already been paved .
Before you get too excited, a word of caution: the current cross-browser landscape isn't pretty. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer all implement some form of Drag and Drop, but violate the spec in many different ways. Certain parts of the API, like the attribute, are only implemented in Opera. Cross-browser drag and drop is going to be tricky (though not impossible) until all the browsers work through their implementation bugs.
Drag and drop is supported now in Opera 12 and to some extent in current versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox and will be in IE10. With time, we hope all browsers will move towards compatible implementations , or that the spec will be changed to match implementation reality . As always, please remember to file bugs with the browser vendors!
Without further ado, let's dive into the main Drag and Drop API features, and see what you can do with them.
The quickest way to get started with drag and drop is to add to an element.
The attribute indicates to the browser that an element is eligible for dragging with three possible values: , , and . For example, in the following list of items, the first is draggable, the second isn't, and the third may or may not be depending on the user agent's default behavior.
Keep in mind that text selections are always draggable by default, as are images and links. You can set their attributes to false to prevent this, which may not be very nice for your users.
Here's the markup for the previous example:
The attribute allows you to indicate in markup draggable elements may be dropped — and to some extent what to do with them they are dropped.
The attribute takes a list of space-separated items with the following possible values: , , , , and .
The , , and values, which correspond mostly to , indicate the kind of operation that is allowed as the result of a drop.
The and values allow the author to restrict the type of data that can be dropped by adding a data type — it has to be at least one letter long, and can't contain spaces:
This example will put data from content that gets dragged in, or from PNG images dragged from the file system or otherwise obtained via the File API, into the drag data store.
Even with a element declared, in order to accept a drop the drop target needs to listen for the event.
The object of a drag event is how we get access to read from, write to, and clear the data in this data store. Each object is also linked to a object (accessible via the getter), which contains one or more objects (accessible via the index of the object).
Drag and drop introduces seven new events that HTML elements can listen for, all of which bubble. With the exception of and , they are all cancellable.
Drag and drop events are basically mouse events with a data store. Note that you can both read and write to the data store during a event, but it is read-only during .
For items that are dragged, the events are:
For any element that may receive a drop, the events are:
These are fairly intuitive, but let's examine the event sequence exhibited during a Drag and Drop sequence, to help us understand exactly how it works.
When the user starts dragging something, the event fires on the source element, which can be an element with set on it, or any elements that are draggable by default, such as links, images, text selections, etc. The event's handler can now add data to the data store, to be dropped later on. Once the event has fired, a series of events fire every few hundred milliseconds, or every time the mouse moves. They are:
This keeps happening until the mouse passes over a new element. At this point, we see a change: then fires immediately after the last event. If is cancelled, then this new element becomes the current target, fires on the previous target to indicate that it is no longer the target, and the event will fire on the new target. If is not cancelled, then the becomes the current target. If the event is cancelled as well, then the current target element will be allowed to receive the event so the user can now drop the payload being dragged. If not, then dropping will be prevented, as per the spec.
To be compatible with other browsers, we've changed our implementation to now allow the element to become the current target even if is not cancelled. IE still (correctly, per spec) requires this.
So to summarise, the usual repeated event sequence is:
When the user drops what they were dragging, if dropping was allowed in the last repeated sequence, then fires at the current target. The event is allowed to see all of the data that was dropped — the only other event that can do so is the event that created it. If it is not cancelled, then the browser will be allowed to do whatever it would normally do in that case (for example when dropping a file, if you don't cancel the event the browser should try to open the file). After the drag has ended, it fires a event at the source element (even if the drop was not allowed).
This series of events targeted at both the source and target elements allows drags to start in one document and end in another, with both documents being able to monitor the state of the drag. If the drag starts outside the window, or passes from inside it to outside it, then only the events that should be targeted at the relevant document will fire, and the others are assumed to have fired and been allowed or cancelled as needed. If multiple documents are involved, then each receives the relevant events from the sequence.
: this determines which of the three "effects" the user will be allowed to choose from when dropping. Possible values are , , , , , , and . The "compound" values like mean copy move.
: determines which "effect" will be used when the user drops (or in the case of the and events, which one was already used when the user dropped). This will be either the user's choice (if they pressed a modifier key), or the default (depending on what type of element/selection is being dragged), or none (if the user selected a type of drop effect that was not allowed, or dropped somewhere where dropping was not allowed, in which case the event will not fire). Possible values are , , or .
The script events can also write to this property, to override the user's choice. If the final (the last one seen in a event) is not one that is compatible with , the drop will not be allowed ( event will not fire, event sees as the ).
So what's the point of all this? The idea is to allow drag and drop scripts to offer functionality like an OS file manager. You know, drag a file from one folder into another. Does it:
The user can choose by pressing modifier keys (they are different on different OSes, but , and all do something on Windows). With drag and drop, the idea is that the script looks at the property, and offers relevant functionality. For example, if I offer a remote file manager UI using drag and drop, I can allow the user to press keys to select what should happen, and my script could see what they chose and act accordingly.
Now we've explored all the theory, let's put it into practice and look at some working examples.
To see the below examples in action, have a look at our Drag and Drop demo .
The simplest example using the normal events just uses a simple source element (you'll need to use a link if you want it to work in IE as well) with the attribute.
The draggable should listen for the event, and put some data into the data store when it is fired. It can also set , to state whether the user will be allowed to select any of , or using modifier keys. These will be used by the operating system if that's where the drag ends up, or be passed to the drop handler, if the user chooses a permitted effect that is compatible with the drop target's property.
Any potential drop target should then listen for and cancel the and events, and then also listen for the all-important event, and in most cases cancel that too. Working with the dropped data is done in the event handler.
Dragging text selections is easier to handle. The event fires at the parent element, but it does not need a handler to create data. The selected text is added as data. Therefore if we just want to deal with text selections, we can simply remove the event handler from the above example, and just assume there is some text that the user can select and start dragging.
Any microdata items attached to a dragged element, or intersected by a dragged selection, will be included as a JSON string with the mimetype . When parsed, this is represented as a series of objects and arrays, such as:
Currently only Opera supports this.
When files are dropped from the system into a web document (or otherwise obtained via the File API), they appear in the dropped data's collection. Each entry in the collection is a File object, as specified in the File API spec . The contents can then be read using a object.
Nothing in the HTML5 specification currently mentions the security implications of drag and drop operations. At Opera, we've taken a few measures to make things safer for our users.
In Opera's implementation, if a file from the file system is dragged into a page the drop won't happen unless the user explicitly allows it. Figure 1, taken from
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shows an example of this:
In addition to UI considerations, we've proposed (and implemented) the following extensions to :
is a read-only property that returns the protocol, domain and optional port of the origin where the drag started. If the drag was not started on an origin (such as a dragged file from the desktop), or on a URL that is not a scheme/host/port tuple, the value should be the string value .
defines an origin match for sites which may receive the dropped data. If this method is not called, then all sites and applications may be considered dropzones.
Just like , takes one of the three arguments: (matches all origins), (matches current origin), or an absolute URL.
The must match permitted target origins on the data store, otherwise the , , and events are never fired.
is intended to be used by a site (we can call it the source site) that is putting something sensitive inside the data store, and wants to ensure it will not be leaked to untrusted sites. is intended to be used by a site that will activate a sensitive operation when data is dropped, and wants to ensure that only trusted sites started the drag. That is, it is intended for use by the target site.
To demonstrate this, we've created a sample security page . The top-level window includes the following bit of code:
This ensures that the drop can only happen on a document with http://people.opera.com as its origin.
The embedded includes this:
Before we operate on the data, we check the origin of the drop and make sure we trust it.
Both and may be used, or a site may just use one. It all depends on the use case, and what needs to be protected — the data, the action, or both.
This concludes our tour of HTML5 Drag and Drop. Pat yourself on the back if you've made it this far, you deserve it. Please let us know what you think in the comments, and help us improve things by submitting bugs .
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In a second test, we created our own CSV file for contacts. As our contact data samples had no company assigned we have removed the columns SAPERPConsumerAccountId , CompanyId and CustomerName . This time the iFlow raised an error stating that XSD schema is incompatible with CSV payload.
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The mapping is also explained in the attached documents Set-Up Guide and Mapping details.
In further tests, we imported files with a higher data volume – 100000 data sets in one file and almost 1 million data sets. In customer projects, data from many different external systems are imported to the SAP Hybris Marketing system. In our test scenario, we do not have such an external system, so we have created our own sample data for the import with our own tool.
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