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Sorex dispar
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Sorex dispar Batchelder, 1911
Common Name(s):
Sorex gaspensis Anthony & Goodwin, 1924
|Taxonomic Notes:
|French and Kirkland (1983) concluded from morphological data that S. dispar and S. gaspensis are not conspecific. However, the only significant difference between the two taxa is size, with S. gaspensis smaller than S. dispar (Kirkland and Van Deusen 1979, French and Kirkland 1983). Yet Sorex dispar exhibits a south to north decreasing cline in body size, suggesting the possibility that S. gaspensis is not a distinct species but rather simply represents the northern extent of the S. dispar cline. Accordingly, Rhymer et al. (2004) found that the apparent distributional gap between S. dispar and S. gaspensis is not as large as previously believed (if in fact it exists at all) and that a morphological cline between dispar and gaspensis cannot be ruled out. Additionally, using mtDNA d-loop sequences, Rhymer et al. (2004) found that S. gaspensis and S. dispar cluster with no taxonomic or geographic structure, suggesting that they are conspecific. Hutterer (in Wilson and Reeder 2005) considers S. dispar to be distinct but this is probably because Rhymer et al. (2004) was published too late to be considered by Hutterer (in Wilson and Reeder 2005).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|NatureServe (Whittaker, J.C., Hammerson, G., Master, L. & Norris, S.J.)
|Amori, G.
Listed as Least Concern because it is a widespread species with no major threats and its population is not declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species occurs in the Appalachian Mountains, from Nova Scotia (Scott, 1987) and southeastern New Brunswick, Canada southward along the mountains to North Carolina and Tennessee in the United States (Kirkland, in Wilson and Ruff 1999). Recent data indicate that populations formerly recognized as Sorex gaspensis actually should be included in S. dispar, so the range of S. dispar extends northeastward to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada (Rhymer et al., 2004).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Canada; United States
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|It is an Appalachian Mountains endemic with a habitat that is not often suited for human use and development. Due to the difficulty of trapping this species, there are probably more occurrences than are currently known. The long-tailed shrew is, therefore, apparently secure and likely stable over most of the range, but few population data are available.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|It occurs in mountainous, forested areas (deciduous or evergreen) with loose talus. Rocky damp areas with deep crevices covered by leaf mold and roots are preferred. It may occur along small mountain streams. It will use artificial talus created by road construction and pit mines. Trapping results reported by Richmond and Grimm (1950) suggest that long-tailed shrews spend most of their time in the labyrinth of spaces between rocks about a foot beneath the surface. Nest sites are usually associated with natural subterranean tunnels among boulder crevices. Breeding occurs in spring and summer, possibly late April to August (Kirkland and Van Deuen, 1979). One or two litters may be produced from May through August, with two to five young per litter. Sexual maturity is reached in less than a year. Like other shrews, this species probably does not survive beyond about 18 months.
The shrew's partly subterranean existence among rocks makes observation, direct or indirect, very difficult. Virtually all data comes from trapping. Nothing is known of territoriality or home range size. The same predators that feed on other shrews probably take long-tailed shrews, e.g., weasels, snakes, hawks and owls, but there is no specific information. External parasites include fleas, ticks, mites and chiggers. While no internal parasites have been reported, nematodes and tapeworms are common in other shrew species. Examination of the digestive tracts of long-tailed shrews indicates a diet primarily of small invertebrates. Some better-known species of shrews are reported to consume approximately their own weight in food daily, and, with their high metabolic rates, may die within a few hours when deprived of food.
|Generation Length (years):
|Major Threat(s):
|Overall there are no major threats to this species throughout its range. Habitat destruction is a localised threat, but less so than for many rare species because the preferred habitat, talus, is often unsuitable for development, and provides a very uniform subterranean environment that is not highly vulnerable to disturbance. However, ski area expansion may be a threat to some populations, as in Vermont (Fichtel pers. comm., 1992). Highway construction may create more habitat than it destroys, as long-tailed shrews have been collected in the artificial talus slopes of road cuts (Conway and Pfitzer, 1952). Logging is unlikely to adversely impact this shrew; Kirkland (1979) showed that shrews persisted in recently clearcut red spruce stands in West Virginia. Shrews feed on invertebrates and may accumulate and concentrate pesticides and heavy metals in their tissues.
|Conservation Actions:
|Many populations are in national forests, parks, or other public lands, and many are in areas protected by their remoteness. Protection of habitat from gross disturbance is the primary protection need. Habitats for these shrews should be protected from contamination by heavy metals and pesticides.
|Errata reason:
|This errata assessment has been created because the map was accidentally left out of the version published previously.
|NatureServe (Whittaker, J.C., Hammerson, G., Master, L. & Norris, S.J.). 2016. Sorex dispar (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T41394A115183478. . Downloaded on 20 September 2018.
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It is often reported that users find GNUstep difficult to install. This may be a result of lacking information.
Generic installation instructions
To install a standard configuration you need only 3 steps:
- Download the package "GNUstep Startup" (i. e. gnustep-startup-0.18.2.tar.bz) from the download page (http://wwwmain.gnustep.org/resources/downloads.php). Unpack it into a directory of your choice.
- cd into that directory. To build and install, type: sudo ./compile-all
- add the following line to your ~/.bashrc: . /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
This is all.
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By JEFFREY COLLINS
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AIKEN, S.C. (AP) - Sen. Lindsey Graham is showing no signs of changing how he operates as he faces the biggest challenge of his political career.
Willing to buck the public tide in South Carolina, Graham has backed military action against Syria, an immigration overhaul that sets a path to citizenship for some in the U.S. illegally and President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominees.
His three Republican challengers, Nancy Mace, SC Sen. Lee Bright, and Richard Cash are coming at him from the right, arguing that he's not conservative enough. They're also noting that the 58-year-old lawyer has been in some political office since 1993 and shows no sign of stepping down soon unless he gets voted out.
To win, they face their own hurdles. Graham remains popular with less die-hard Republicans and has $6.3 million in his campaign bank account.
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Ambiguous genitalia is a birth defect where the outer genitals do not have the typical appearance of either a boy or a girl.
The genetic sex of a child is determined at conception. The mother's egg cell (ovum) contains an X chromosome, while the father's sperm cell contains either an X or a Y chromosome. These X and Y chromosomes determine the child's genetic sex.
Normally, an infant inherits one pair of sex chromosomes -- one X from the mother and one X or one Y from the father. The father "determines" the genetic sex of the child. A baby who inherits the X chromosome from the father is a genetic female (two X chromosomes). A baby who inherits the Y chromosome from the father is a genetic male (one X and one Y chromosome). The male and female reproductive organs and genitals both come from the same tissue in the fetus.
If the process that causes this fetal tissue to become "male" or "female" is disrupted, ambiguous genitalia can develop. The genitalia makes it difficult to easily identify the infant as male or female. The extent of the ambiguity varies. In very rare instances, the physical appearance may be fully developed as the opposite of the genetic sex. For example, a genetic male may have developed the appearance of a normal female.
Typically, ambiguous genitalia in genetic females (babies with two X chromosomes) has the following features:
In a genetic male (one X and one Y chromosome), ambiguous genitalia usually include the following features:
Ambiguous genitalia is usually not life threatening (see Causes section for exceptions), but it can create social problems for the child and family. For this reason, a team of experienced specialists, including neonatologists, geneticists, endocrinologists, and psychiatrists or social workers will be involved in the child's care.
Because of the potential social and psychological effects of this condition, parents should make a decision about whether to raise the child as a male or female early after diagnosis, preferably within the first few days of life. This is an important decision, so parents should not rush it.
You are concerned about the appearance of your child's external genitalia, or your baby:
These can all be signs of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
Ambiguous genitalia may be discovered during the first well-baby examination.
The doctor will perform a physical examination, which may reveal genitals that are not "typical male" or "typical female," but somewhere in between.
The doctor will ask medical history questions to help identify any chromosomal disorders. Questions may include:
Genetic testing can determine if the child is a genetic male or female. Often a small sample of cells can be scraped from inside the child's cheeks (this is called a buccal smear). Examining these cells is often enough to determine the genetic sex of the infant. Chromosomal analysis is a more extensive cell study that may be needed in more questionable cases.
Endoscopy, abdominal x-ray, abdominal or pelvic ultrasound, and similar tests may be needed to determine the presence or absence of the internal genitals (such as undescended testes).
Laboratory tests may help determine how well the reproductive organs are functioning. This can include tests for adrenal and gonadal steroids.
In some cases, laparoscopy, exploratory laparotomy, or biopsy of the gonads may be needed to confirm disorders that can cause ambiguous genitalia.
Depending on the cause, surgery, hormone replacement, or other treatments are used to treat conditions that can cause ambiguous genitalia.
Sometimes, the parents must choose whether to raise the child as male or female (regardless of the child's chromosomes). This choice can have a big social and psychological impact on the child, so counseling is usually recommended.
Note: It is often technically easier to treat (and therefore raise) the child as female (it is easier for a surgeon to make female genitalia than it is to make male genitalia), so in some cases this is recommended even if the child is genetically male. However, this is a difficult decision. You should discuss it with your family, your child's doctor, the surgeon, your child's endocrinologist, and other health care team members.
Diamond AD, Yu RN. Sexual differentiation: Normal and abnormal. In: Wein AJ, ed. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 133.


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Proposed Canon
Dirtamancy is one of the three disciplines of the magic class Stuffamancy, which is aligned to the element of Matter. Dirtamancy is aligned with the axis of Erf.Erf-b1-p038a
It is apparently a rare discipline and highly valued around the Magic Kingdom. Conversely it seems to be under-appreciated outside of the Magic Kingdom.
- Moving and digging through solid stone.
- Creating and healing Dirtamancy golems such as
- Creation of booby traps. (Could be solely the application of enhanced digging or tunneling abilities.)
- Construction and demolition of buildings and similar battlefield and civil engineering tasks.
- Building walls, tilling gardens, digging foundations, making stone paths, etc.
- Alteration of terrain type. (Accomplished by a Dirtamancer linked by a Thinkamancer to a Croakamancer.)
Known Dirtamancers
Sizemore Rockwell in the service of the Plaid Tribe.
Dirtamancer Bonuses
A Dirtamancer is also known to give a substantial combat bonus to Dirtamancy golems under his or her command.
A Dirtamancer present in the city at the time of an upgrade also substantially reduces the cost.
A Dirtamancer that is present when a city upgrades dictates the look of the city and the livery (if any) present within.
As a form of Stuffamancy, Dirtamancy is aligned with Matter, but not with Life or Motion. However, most of the abilities which a Dirtamancer commands seem to allow him to either grant matter a magical substitute for Life (as in the creation of golems), or to involve the movement of matter, (such as in the construction of tunnels.)
Natural Dirtamancy
The building and upgrading of a city is a form of natural dirtamancy, as is sacking a city by an enemy.


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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Strategic Electoral Agreements
I did some digging on my own, using the 2008 riding results, which does present a huge potential, if people looked beyond their narrow partisan perspective. Quantifying all ridings where a Liberal or NDP finished second to either a Conservative or Bloc MP, you see the absence of the other could have tremendous impact.
The Liberals finished second in 107 ridings, the NDP 53. What I found surprising, just how many of those ridings were close enough, that the elimination of one party would probably flip the seat. Many of these second place considerations are mute, given the landslide percentages for the incumbent MP, but a large percentage are not. A healthy percentage of NDP second place numbers include very distant totals, wherein any agreement would have little effect. A general thesis, the NDP clearly hurt the Liberals, more than the Liberals hurt the NDP, which in and of itself probably isn't attractive. That said, any agreement would increase NDP seat totals, relative to no arrangement, so there is a self interest consideration for both parties.
In the last election, there were 35 seats where the Liberals were within 10% of the Conservatives. Everyone of them would flip, if the NDP candidate wasn't present, and one assumes were that vote would largely move. That is just the starting point, because a quick review shows many more seats in play, if the Liberals and NDP weren't competing, to the advantage of the Conservatives. If the two parties simply agreed to not run candidates where they have no chance of victory, Stephen Harper would be gone, it's as simple as that.
Back to reality for a second, the major obstacle to this proposal, beyond partisan interests- our public funding system virtually negates this possibility. Parties receive money based on votes, which means not running a candidate is counter productive. Hard to believe the NDP would agree to a disproportionate "stand down", because even though they would win more seats, their vote percentage would fall and the coffers would suffer. For the Liberals, a deal is less offensive on this score, because they are an almost non factor in the majority of NDP second place ridings. Any loss in support would probably be made up by cultivating NDP votes in those ridings where they didn't run. Almost a wash for the Liberals, a decided disadvantage for the NDP overall.
Philosophically, an agreement has a "no brainer" quality, if people are truly interested in seeing a center-left dominated Parliament. The NDP would hold the balance of power, the Liberals would be in government and Stephen Harper would be gone. However, while I find that scenario attractive, you can see how any such talk would be quickly derailed, primarily because the idea necessitates a "greater good" mentality, and that is more wishful thinking than practical probability.
34 comments:
- fern hill said...
I so wish for this to happen.
But if money is at stake, as you say, probably it's a no-go.
If it's the NDP who'll suffer most, how about we -- well, some of us -- pledge to send dough if they do this?
- 10:33 AM, February 20, 2010
- The Jurist said...
As Malcolm has pointed out, there are serious questions as to whether a pact involving candidates withdrawing from races would actually result in any positive results. It would take a near-complete transfer of all opposition parties' votes into the selected camp to shift enough seats to make a difference, and past efforts at a pre-election arrangement have never come close to that result.
Which is why I've followed up by suggesting that the NDP, Libs and Greens instead work on some coordination of on their campaign messaging, with each party agreeing not to engage in the types of campaigning which tend to lead to opposition-party squabbling, and thus presumably allowing more of the campaign narrative to focus on each opposition party's critique of the Cons. Any interest in that from your perspective?
- 10:49 AM, February 20, 2010
- fern hill said...
I have an idea.
Vote for the strategic candidate, come home, donate $1.75 to the candidate you would have voted for. Presto! Money made up.
- 11:01 AM, February 20, 2010
- Jerry Prager said...
It took Liberals and Labour to defeat corporatism in 1935, and it will require the same again.
- 11:05 AM, February 20, 2010
- The Jurist said...
Jerry: Actually 1935 saw the emergence of a stronger party to the left of the Libs than existed in the previous election (when the Cons won power in a two-party race). So if anything, it signals that the key is to make sure the defining messages of a campaign work against the Cons, not to try to clear the field against them.
- 11:37 AM, February 20, 2010
- ottlib said...
This split handed Brian Mulroney government in 1988.
Five years later the NDP was almost wiped out in the Liberal sweep.
This happens every so often in Canadian politics. Progressive Canadians get tired of the Liberals so they go elsewhere.
Some of the more conservative ones vote Conservative. The more left leaning ones vote NDP leaving the rest for the Liberals. The result every time is a Conservative government, usually a majority government.
After a few years all of those progressives get tired of the Conservative government and go back to the only party they believe can govern, the Liberals.
I have not seen any evidence that this pattern has been broken. The Liberals are still considered the most likely alternative to the Conservatives. This is demonstrated in polls and in the election results for the last three elections.
My suggestion to Liberals is to wait it out.
The Conservatives are past their best before date and they are quickly taking on a funky odor. It won't be long before the desire for change hits critical mass and changes the political dynamic in this country.
Hell, I am even thinking Quebec might be in play again with the statements of Mr. Bouchard last week. For the last 15 years Quebecers have walked away from Canadian politics by voting for the Bloc. If Mr. Bouchard's statements begin a change in that dynamic the Liberals will be in the best position to capitalize because Quebecers, when they decide to get involved in Canadian politics, always vote for the party they think will become government.
A voting pattern that has existed since the formation of the CCF is still in existance. One of the best ways to change that pattern, to the long-term detriment of the Liberals and to the long-term benefit of the Conservatives, would be for the Liberals to stop running candidates in every riding.
- 11:45 AM, February 20, 2010
- 900ft Jesus said...
the other problem I see with not running candidates in certain ridings is that some voters are denied a chance to vote for the party they normally would have voted for. Could cause resentment, and I don't find that very democratic, either.
It should be accomplished, in my opinion, by the Libs and NDP working together and encouraging their constituents to vote strategically. Harder to do, since not all voters will understand, or even be reached.
With strategic voting, the party of your choice may not get your 1.75, so that would have to be addressed as well. Not enough to simply vow a donation of 1.75 since you may have given that financial support to a party you don't really want to support.
Massive campaigning, on-line and off would be needed. I know it was tried last time without success, but it may have a better chance this time around, considering the political climate change brought on by Harper.
- 12:39 PM, February 20, 2010
- 900ft Jesus said...
oh yeah...Green can piss off, as far as I'm concerned, after May pulled that "I won't be the Ralph Nader of Canada" thing then turned around and did just that when she saw her popularity climb.
Green should have the care for Canadians to step aside for the next election.
- 12:41 PM, February 20, 2010
- Skinny Dipper said...
I understand the logic of uniting the so-called left. However, there are many differences between the Liberals, NDP, and Greens. Also, with some of the parties, they don't get all of their votes from the Conservatives. While the Liberals and Greens can get support from people who might vote Conservative. The NDP gets a lot of support from people who might vote Liberal. People who vote Green aren't automatically going to support the NDP as a second choice.
I do think all of the parties can attack the Conservatives. By having some sort of strategic voting means that there would be less effective parties and more likely that either the Liberals or Conservatives will receive a majority. As much as I do not want a Conservative dictatorship, I do not want a Liberal one either.
I won't mention which party I may support or if I will vote in the next election. Don't assume it will automatically be the NDP. I'm not a member of the party.
I do look for a party that advocates democratic principles (beyond just anti-prorogation). The other promises do sway me also. So far, none of the parties appeal to me as democratic reforms to my liking are not high on their priorities. I won't be voting in the next election if no partt advocates and demonstrates democratic improvements.
- 12:42 PM, February 20, 2010
- DL said...
Its actually a fallacy to say that the Liberals can never win of the NDP is relatively strong. In 1968, the Liberals under Trudeau won a landslide and the NDP also took 17% of the vote. Let's look at an even better example, in 1980 Canadians were fed up with Joe Clark and everyone waned to throw the Tories out. So Trudeau won a majority government - but the NDP also won 32 seats and 19% of the vote. The Liberals and the NDP were able to both gain seats at the Tories expense.
In the UK, after Thatcher and Major won four straight majorities with 41-42% of the vote, there was similar hand wringing about how we would NEVER be rid of the Tories unless Labour and LibDems made some sort of an electoral accord etc.... well guess what? no accord was ever agreed to - but in 1997 when people finally had had enough of the Tories in Britain, not only did they give Labour over 400 seats - but they also double the seat total of the LibDems and gave them their best result ever. Once again - when people want the Tories out - ALL opposition parties get to feast on the pickings.
The key to getting the Tories out of power is to get people to stop voting Conservative. We have to get away from this defeatist attitude that its impossible to get anyone who voted Tory in 2008 to vote Liberal or NDP next time. In the 2004 election, the Tories took 29% of the vote against a scandal ridden Liberal government - there is no reason why they can't be driven back to 29% or lower in the next election.
What I do think is an idea worth exploring is a very simple reform of the electoral system where we have Australian-style preferential voting and people get to rank all the candidates - that way I can vote NDP but if my candidate comes in third, I can direct all my votes to the second place Liberal. Just imagine the possibilities - Liberal and NDP rallies across Canada peppered with people waving signs that say "Rank Tories last!"
- 1:08 PM, February 20, 2010
- Steve V said...
I'm not sure about the complete transfer required, because the spread is tight in dozens of ridings.
As for the suggestion, sounds fine from here, but really I don't think it would have much effect. From the Lib perspective, they pretty much ignore the NDP in campaigns anyways, apart from the requisite "unite the left" chant in the last few days. I frankly don't see much impact from that. You may recall, in the debates, everyone went after Harper, little "squabbling", and we all know how that turned out.
Truth be told, if I was in the OLO, I would be putting out feelers to try and poach a few high profile, moderate NDPers. I shouldn't say this, but really the end game here is to marginalize other alternatives.
I also think that people need to view the Liberal Party as poorly defended entity. If NDP and Green activists were to pour into this party, you could overwhelm it in short order, and with that influence achieve the progressivism you want. You would still see a compromise, but that's the best case scenario anyways, should any formal governing agreement ever come to pass.
- 1:09 PM, February 20, 2010
- Steve V said...
"In the 2004 election, the Tories took 29% of the vote against a scandal ridden Liberal government - there is no reason why they can't be driven back to 29% or lower in the next election."
Not sure that's the best analogy for a couple of reasons. You had a 4% Green vote, plus you had a utterly non existent Tory party in Quebec.
I see absolutely zero possibility of the Cons falling below 29%(it was actually 30%) in the next election.
- 1:14 PM, February 20, 2010
- DL said...
In any case, we don't need the Tories to go below 30% for them to be out of power. I think that if their popular was even just peeled back to 32/33 percent - which I think is LIKELY - then they would almost certainly be out of power. Even if they still had a plurality, I think that if you had an election where the Tories lost 20 seats and the election was interpreted as a rebuke to them and if the Liberals made somewhat of a comeback and if the Liberals and NDP together had more seats than the Tories - I think that Harper would be out. Period.
As for the Liberals trying to poach "moderate" NDPers - i guess that was the idea behind getting Bob Rae and Ujjal Dosanjh - but all that did was saddle the Liberals with the two most unsuccessful NDP politicians of all times - and there is no evidence that the voters were at all impressed.
Anyways, my point is that our electoral system is not the problem. There are already more non-Tory MPs in the House than there are Tories. The issue is figuring out how to use that advantage.
- 1:25 PM, February 20, 2010
- Steve V said...
Not sure DL, they're peeled back to that now, and the Cons would still likely retain power. You'll note the Libs no longer rise to 36% when the Cons fall to 30%. The landscape is changing...
- 1:28 PM, February 20, 2010
- Gene Rayburn said...
"but all that did was saddle the Liberals with the two most unsuccessful NDP politicians of all times"
Hilarious, apparently winning a provincial election or being a premier constitutes failure.
- 1:45 PM, February 20, 2010
- DL said...
Its up to the opposition to get its act together after the next election and defeat the Tories in Parliament. If the number of anti-Harper MPs exceeds the number of pro-Harper MPs then there is no reason for him to remain in power. It's as simple as that. Though apparently it was too complicated for Ignatieff to figure out a year ago.
I realize that in the next election campaign, the Liberals will have to walk a very fine line. On the one hand, you want people to get the impression that the ONLY way to get rid of Harper is to elect more Liberals and that voting NDP or Green or whatever wont do it. On the other hand, you can't be too categorical about that because in fact probably the likeliest prospect after the next election is a significantly reduced Tory plurality - and of course the Liberals would be stupid to say anything really categorical where they disqualify themselves from trying to form a government if they have slightly fewer seats than the Tories but are wayyyy more able to win a confidence vote in parliament. So its a dilemma.
Ultimately though, its all abut getting LESS people to vote Conservative. If less people vote Conservative - things will sort themselves out.
- 1:47 PM, February 20, 2010
- A reader said...
Two points, Steve:
"From the Lib perspective, they pretty much ignore the NDP in campaigns anyways, apart from the requisite "unite the left" chant in the last few days."
Not true. The Liberal central campaign viciously targetted and attacked the NDP in daily emails to the national and regional media, and deliberately sought to undermine NDP candidates, to some clear success. Also, Bob Rae was sent on a fairly constant tour to target possible NDP gains in western Canada. Talk about short-sighted.
Anyways, good luck with trying to poach any more NDPers after the way you guys have treated Rae. You've pretty much proved that you'll use them to attack their former colleagues, but you'll NEVER EVER let them be leader, even when they're clearly the better choice.
Anyways, I appreciate that you're starting to think this through, but you guys have some big trust hurdles to overcome with your putative future partners based on past behaviour, to say the very least.
BTW, to whoever is still citing the $1.75 per vote ... with the inflation adjustment, it's now up to $2.00.
- 2:04 PM, February 20, 2010
- Steve V said...
Thanks for the kneejerk, boring analysis, per usual. Don't ever change, it would actually frighten me.
- 2:07 PM, February 20, 2010
- A reader said...
Well, certainly always happy to oblige, Steve.
- 2:40 PM, February 20, 2010
- DL said...
Yeah, I'd forgotten about how Bob Rae was the great poster boy for Liberal/NDP cooperation when he went on his little tour of Tory/NDP marginal seats in western Canada and urged people to vote Liberal. I wonder if the Tories paid his airfare to Saskatoon where he went to Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar and pleaded with people to vote Liberal to "stop Harper" - this in a riding where the Tory defeated the New Democrat by less than 200 votes and the Liberal took less than 10% of the vote.
What was he thinking???
- 2:47 PM, February 20, 2010
- Steve V said...
You guys really want to play that game? You'll lose you know.
- 2:51 PM, February 20, 2010
- A reader said...
"Philosophically, an agreement has a "no brainer" quality, if people are truly interested in seeing a center-left dominated Parliament. The NDP would hold the balance of power, the Liberals would be in government and Stephen Harper would be gone. However, while I find that scenario attractive, you can see how any such talk would be quickly derailed, primarily because the idea necessitates a "greater good" mentality, and that is more wishful thinking than practical probability."
Proving your own point already, I see.
- 3:01 PM, February 20, 2010
- Steve V said...
You're like the tryptophan of commentary.
- 3:18 PM, February 20, 2010
- RuralSandi said...
Well, there's an issue that Libs and NDP should think hard about. We have an aging Supreme Court which could leave Harper able to appoint a very, very right wing Conservative court.
This sure as hell frightens me.
I think the NDP people should really give this a thought.
- 3:19 PM, February 20, 2010
- A reader said...
At the risk of putting Steve completely to sleep, Sandi, I'll point out that we've been thinking about it plenty, and have been waiting for a willing partner.
For your information, that doesn't mean that we will bend over and accede to the Liberals on every point, nor follow your lead.
I agree with you that the potential retirement of that many members of the bench in the next few years is a very frightening prospect indeed, and should not be dismissed lightly.
- 3:29 PM, February 20, 2010
- A reader said...
Sorry, I think I meant to write "should not be *taken* lightly". I don't think you were dismissing it; it just seems like the wrong word rolled off my keyboard.
See, I may even be putting myself to sleep, Steve.
- 3:31 PM, February 20, 2010
- Steve V said...
You're incredibly potent today, maybe a boomerang effect?
- 3:40 PM, February 20, 2010
- Kim said...
The voters could send $1.75 to the political party that stepped out. Dammit Janet's idea. Even I could afford that!
- 3:41 PM, February 20, 2010
- A reader said...
Again: it's not $1.75 anymore -- it's up to $2.00 now.
(Maybe this will finally sink in via hypnotic suggestion.)
- 3:50 PM, February 20, 2010
- DL said...
Although the two people Harper has already appointed to the Supreme Court have been very uncontroversial, mainstream appointments and so far they have not taken positions on any issues that have deviated from all the judges appointed by Chretien and Martin.
- 3:54 PM, February 20, 2010
- fern hill said...
Two bucks, is it?
I think my budget would stretch to that.
- 4:45 PM, February 20, 2010
- Robert said...
No simply put no. Liberals had their chance at cooperation and hey threw it under the bus. Now that it looks like Iggy can't beat Harper they want it again? Come up with some progressive ideas and we will talk maybe.
- 11:21 AM, February 21, 2010
- Tof KW said...
"No simply put no. Liberals had their chance at cooperation and they threw it under the bus."
Because if they did, the Liberal party would be dead in western Canada - for good. The coalition with the NDP wasn't the issue so much, it was working with the Bloc. I credit Ignatieff that he saw this and was reluctant to sign on in the first place. The whole coalition thing should have been thought through more back in 2008, but then again they had to think quickly thanks to Harper's stupid partisan tactics.
Also, Skinny Dipper wrote:
" I understand the logic of uniting the so-called left. However, there are many differences between the Liberals, NDP, and Greens. Also, with some of the parties, they don't get all of their votes from the Conservatives. While the Liberals and Greens can get support from people who might vote Conservative. The NDP gets a lot of support from people who might vote Liberal. People who vote Green aren't automatically going to support the NDP as a second choice."
There were plenty of differences between the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform/Alliance, though the underlying thing which united them was that they really didn't like the idea of endless Liberal governments. Hell, I fell in that camp. If Harper manages to continue splitting the vote and remains PM for the next decade …I'm sure everyone's attitudes here towards merger would be very different then. Not sure that would be a good thing however. A hard swing to stupidity is was what made prevented me from following the new CPofC …a more pro-union / anti-business merged Lib-Democrat party would be just as distasteful to me.
I'm thinking the real solution may in fact be to study proportional representation. I was in disagreement with it in the past, though Harper's reign made me see the potential logic in it. The Libs would be a looser though in that they'd probably never see a majority again, but then the Cons never would either. For certain if this were to see the light of day, Canadians had better get used to understanding coalition governments. However the biggest stumbling block towards adopting PR isn't the Conservatives, it is Quebec. I can see the Bloc screaming blue murder, and using it as that 'crisis' they praying for that can raise up the separatist ghost. Sorry I don't see any good solutions here except for ottlib's view of the average voter…
" Some of the more conservative ones vote Conservative. The more left leaning ones vote NDP leaving the rest for the Liberals. The result every time is a Conservative government, usually a majority government. After a few years all of those progressives get tired of the Conservative government and go back to the only party they believe can govern, the Liberals. I have not seen any evidence that this pattern has been broken."
I tend to agree. There is only one thing that would drive the CPofC's numbers down below 30% (as Steve mentions that's their base, it doesn't get any lower) and that is a real '5-alarm' scandal. The Grits should wait it out and play the long game. The more time you give Harper, the more dirt he wears until the inevitable occurs. In the meantime, the Libs should consider some long-term policies, one of which I seriously suggest is meaningful parliamentary reform. This has the potential of being their next 'red-book' as the anti-prorogue protests clearly showed Canadians are sick and tired of the current system.
- 12:21 PM, February 22, 2010
- Steve V said...
I don't consider dead enders like yourself part of the equation to be honest. The bitter left isn't the audience.
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JCA gateway 1st prototypeTomohisa igarashi Apr 4, 2012 2:18 PM
Hi all,
I have written a prototype for JCA gateway, only support message inflow at first.
Configuration model
Almost same as SCA JCA binding. Ommitted some parameters right now though.
And I have added two elements for SwitchYard
- binding.jca/inboundInteraction/endpointClass: the name of concrete Endpoint class
- binding.jca/inboundInteraction/transacted: boolean value that indicates the delivery should be transacted or not.
Key classes of JCA component
Related Repository: components
- org.switchyard.component.jca.deploy.InboundHandler: This is the SwitchYard ServiceHandler and also implements JCA MessageEndpointFactory. This performs JCA Endpoint activation and set up the Endpoint proxy to pass to the ResourceAdapter.
- org.switchyard.component.jca.EndpointProxy: JCA Endpoint proxy implementation. This class sets up the common facilities like transaction, concurrency control, and ClassLoader for actual Endpoint implementation.
- org.switchyard.component.jca.endpoint.AbstractInflowEndpoint: Base class for the concrete JCA Endpoint implementation.
- org.switchyard.component.jca.endpoint.JMSEndpoint: A concrete implementation of JCA Endpoint for JMS messaging. We need to set the binding.jca/inboundInteraction/endpointClass configuration parameter as the name of this class to use.
Injecting ResourceAdapterRepository from AS7 service
Related Repository: core, release
I have added the addResourceDependency() method on org.switchyard.deploy.Component and inject ResourceAdapterRepository into JCAComponent via SwitchYardComponentService.
I'd appreciate if you let me know anything you have noticed. I will add testcases and maybe a quickstart until then.


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I've been using it from time to time. A little fantasy, some pulp/horror, mostly in the PL4-8 range.
I'm in the process of putting some house rules up on the Articles/Blogs section of the site. The first bits should be ready in a few days.
I was just curious if anyone play's Mutants and masterminds here? There doesn't seem to be a large community. I guess if it doesn't say wizards d20 it doesn't deserve a chance LOL. Thats trully a shame for such a great system.
For those who do some how draw your selves from the norm and do play M+M. Tell me about your campaign, what are your characters like, what you like about the system, and tell me what you don't like. Lets face it not everyone agrees even in democracy. So give me your rants and raves
I've been using it from time to time. A little fantasy, some pulp/horror, mostly in the PL4-8 range.
I'm in the process of putting some house rules up on the Articles/Blogs section of the site. The first bits should be ready in a few days.
The official forums are home to hundreds of currently active M&M players. They even have a player locator section which is quite popular. The game is published by Green Ronin and is very still much in its infancy as far as pen and paper games go. It is backed by an awesome company and even has its own form of D20 (superlink) where other people can publish M&M products. I've heard plenty of rave reviews of it but haven't had the pleasure of playing it myself. I'd really like to hear more as well from players who visit this board.
If I recall, someone even figured out how to derive True20 characters from M&M. So I guess if you want greater flexibility in character creation, go to M&M; if you want something a little more traditional for NON-superheroic play, go to True20.
(Note: I've yet to play either, but they both look interesting.)
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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
- Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)
I haven't seen True 20 myself, but M+M alone is a solid system by it self. I'm just having hard enough time trying to find players to try something new even in a town with two million plus people. My take on it is most gamers won't touch anything that doesn't say Wizard or White Wolf on the cover *LMAO*.
Other than this forum, have you tried to find players locally? Craigslist.com is a great place to find people in your area, especially if your in/near a large city like I am. The website for M+M is budding with gaming possibilities. I highly recommend you put a game together, even if it is short term or just for testing purposes (mention that in the post), and trying to recruit some players through the Campaign Invetations forum
True 20 was something of a disappointment to me. While I liked, and have stolen some bits, (challenges, removal of ability scores), overall, it was too close to d20 for me.
(P.S. - The first section of my house rules should be going up later tonight.)
I'm not at home, so I won't give you a rule-by-rule difference, but here's a rough idea.
As a general rule, the intent of M&M is to build and play superheroes, with superpowers and gagdets and so on. True20 cleaves more closely to d20's roots: classes, levels, feats, and skills.
M&M characters start with a point budget roughly correlated to the "level" of the campaign, arbitrarily set by the GM but defaulting to 10. This "level" also caps certain powers, notably attacks; for example at Level 10 you can only have up to 10 levels of Power Blast (or whatever it's called ... again, no books handy.) You buy everything with points: basic stats (often well past 18), feats, skill ranks, superpowers, super-gadgets ... anything and everything that defines your character. As with other point-buy systems, you can also sell down your stats or take on Weaknesses (is that the term?) that can hamper you at critical points.
True20 characters use point-buy for their basic stats (which, in a departure from d20 are in the range -4 to +4 or more ... think of the stat bonuses attached to d20 stats in the usual 3-18 range). Then they pick a "role": Adepts may choose a supernatural Power instead of a Feat, Experts have extra skill ranks and one better-than-average save of their choice, and Warriors have the best BAB and decent saves. Each role also has access to role-specific Feats. At each level, a character may acquire a different role freely -- essentially, multiclassing -- with BAB, saves, and skills accruing from the levels in each role.
Both use the Toughness mechanic instead of hit points, and both borrow heavily from the d20 combat system and other rules. M&M is way more flexible, but the complexity might be daunting at first. True20 is simpler for "typical" RPG worlds, but can be constraining if you're not doing typical Fantasy/Scifi/Horror with human-scale characters or find level-advancement constraining.
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
- Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)
So in essence M&M is a supers game, built on a point buy system, that is extremely complex, but tailored heavily for super settings right? That is True20 is better suited for fantasy and other class based settings right?


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The Service Interface & Data Types Editors project is a proposed open source project under the WTP Incubator project.
This proposal is in the Project Proposal Phase (as defined in the Eclipse Development Process) and is written to declare its intent and scope. We solicit additional participation and input from the Eclipse community. Please send all feedback to the Webtools incubator forum.
The Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) 1.1[1] has been used world-wide for the definition of Web Services ensuring well-defined, system-independent and interoperable contracts for reliable communication among different structures and organizations thus being the foundation of many industry specific solutions in the area of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM). The primary type-system, utilized for definition of data types within a WS interface as part of an operation signature, has been the XML Schema Definition (XSD) [2][3]. As such the XML-based WSDL 1.1 and XSD artifacts are integral to the development of scalable business (A2C, B2B, etc.) solutions in distributed environment. In addition the XSD has become a prominent way to describe and validate XML documents in many use-cases, which are outside the scope of the Web Service provisioning one, e.g. data-base schema description, arbitrary XML documents validation, etc.
Yet the complexity of the aforementioned XML dialects imply considerable difficulties and a steep learning curve when it comes to the definition / modification of WSDL 1.1 and XSD models. The currently existing tooling in the Eclipse WTP project, although full-featured in terms of specification-support, does not do much to hide this complexity and has been considered to be too technology-centric by the average SOA developer. In addition it seems to be distributed in several editors and views, which to some extent makes the navigation a bit harder.
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The Service Interface and Data Types editors are Eclipse form-based editors, which fully satisfy these requirements, providing easy-to-use, unified user interface and facilitating developers with quick and efficient application development in all WS and XSD related areas. In order not to restrict WSDL and XSD experts to the visual-editing capabilities of the tooling they also provide feature rich text-editing capabilities based on the WTP Structured Text Editor.
The project is based on the Graphiti, which is also a proposed open source project. Graphiti is a framework based on GEF and EMF for creating graphical diagram tools. The JPA editor project provides a graphical diagram editor as part of the Eclipse IDE, which allows the user to create, view and edit her business model as part of Java EE application project.
Providing the JPA Diagram editor as integral part of the JPA Dali tools is in the scope of this proposal.
Extending the existing Dali API is out of the scope of this proposal. The editor will use the Dali API, but it won't change and/or extend it.
This editor is targeted to Java EE (and particularly JPA) developers who use Eclipse and provides them with a graphical tool for visualizing and manipulating Java EE application business model.
Service Interface EditorA standalone, multi-page, form-based Eclipse editor for modification of WSDL 1.1 documents, which gives UI modeling access to selected features of WSDL 1.1 aiming to provide exceptional ease-of-use and to boost developers' productivity. It opens files with *.wsdl extension contained in the Eclipse workspace.
- Service Interface modification
- Define namespace
- Define operation
- Define input/output/fault messages
- Select type for input/output/fault
- Documentation field
- Embedded Data Types Editor for advanced Data Types manipulation of inline types
- Source tab (WSDL 1.1 source modification)
- In-place / document validations
- WS Interoperability
- Refactoring
- Re-use of externally defined data types
Data Type Editor A standalone, multi-page, form-based Eclipse editor for modification of XSD documents, which gives UI modeling access to selected XSD entities aiming to provide exceptional ease-of-use and to boost developers' productivity. It is also embedded in the Service Interface editor and is utilized for UI modeling manipulations of the in-line XSD schemas, contained in a WSDL document. It opens files with *.xsd extension in the Eclipse workspace.
- Types creation, modification, inheritance
- Simple & structure
- Elements
- Attributes
- Define type name & namespace
- Define type cardinality and constraints
- Documentation
- Source tab (XSD source modification)
- In-place / document validations
- Refactoring (Renaming of all possible entities, Copy & Paste of all possible schema entities, etc.)
- Re-use of externally defined data types
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The Service Interface & Data Types Editors are form-based WSDL 1.1 and XSD editors based on Eclipse EMF, MDT XSD and WTP.
They consist of
- Data Types Editor - a standalone XSD editor
- Service Interface Editor - a standalone WSDL 1.1 editor embedding the Data Types Editor for providing capabilities of visualizing and manipulating inline XSD schemas and their underlying entities
Technical Dependencies
- Eclipse Modeling Framework
- Core
- Model Query
- Model Transaction
- Validation Framework
- Eclipse Model Development Tools XSD
- Eclipse Web Tools Platform
- WST WSDL Model
- WTP Source Editing
Initial Contribution
The initial code contribution will come from SAP where the Service Interface & Data Types Editors have been originally developed. They will provide the functionality described in the Description section.
The following individuals are going to be proposed as initial committers to the project:
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- Emil Simeonov
The following Architecture Council members will mentor this project:
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The following individuals, organizations, companies and projects have expressed interest in this project:
Project Scheduling (Sample Proposal, i.e. TBD)
- July - August 2010 – Project proposal
- August - September 2010 – Infrastructure setup, initial contribution
- October 2010 – First Milestone release
- October 2010 – February 2011 – respond on community feedback, graduate in the Web Tools Platform
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Syrian Economics 101
My only squabble with Ehsani concerns two points in his critique. First, he discounted the social grievances as somehow frivolous in the grand scheme of economic reform. Second, and despite his very poignant title "The Sin in Syria is Low Wages" he absolved the private sector from this sin in the same manner a priest gives the Sacrament of Penance to a serial rapist.
The primary contention of my post was that the private sector is not only cheap and by cheap I mean greedy, base, mediocre, rotten and meretricious but that it is brutal, heartless, destructive, parasitic and hugely culpable for the rapid deterioration in the standard of living of most Syrians and for the further erosion and eventual disappearance of the middle class. I will not go any further in a game of numbers. I'd rather leave that to the experts since they themselves cannot justify it except by stating that the stakeholders would not pay anyone more than he or she is worth (to them). If there is a consensus among economists about the human validity of the above argument then the field of economics is the only social science that is openly void of any moral values.
Since the debate veered into private banking in Syria, shouldn't I ask what did these banks contribute to the country and its economy. I could care less about the voraciously bovine shareholders being happy. Emperor Nero was happy too while Rome burned to the ground after he set it on fire. Besides channelling money back and forth between Syria and Lebanon and funnelling untraceable and untaxed cash profits to foreign accounts for the "big" clients what added value (a service that was not and is not already offered by the state owned banks) did these banks bring to the average Syrian?
"Fulfill your dream and buy an LCD screen with 24 easy instalments."
"Now you too can have a laptop."
Yes I know I'm punching below the belt but what is the real motivation behind these grand services? Are they provided in good faith to the millions of Syrian consumers with petty dreams of big screen television sets and portable computers or to the VIP clients, the importers of these consumer products? Let's not kid ourselves, Syrian private banks are segregated institutions with long lines of lowly customers waiting for the next available teller and posh offices for the distingué clientele. The lines and the tellers are a front, a money-making one for sure, but it takes too much valuable real estate. Make the waiting area as small and intimidating as possible, populate the desks with unsmiling and unfriendly faces, hire a security prick with a bullying stare and here you have it ladies and gentlemen, the proverbial Syrian private bank. The LCD screens and laptops, in addition to fattening the bank accounts of the monopolist importers, are useful PR gimmicks too. Oh, give me a break and stop whining, an erudite reader might interject, banks are like this all over the world and not only in Syria. Well they are, but the point is that in Syria the private banks are serving the top 1% (in term of wealth) of the population. For all the rest, for the remnants of a once thriving and formidable middle class and for the poor masses, private banks are nothing but groveling and corrupt business outfits. That being said and out of the way, a few private bank managers are among my good friends. My verbal barrage was never against any person or persons employed in the banking industry but rather against the conceptual framework behind their debauched economic raison d'être in a country like Syria or anywhere else where the "social" price behind the board members' profits is unacceptably too high.
From private banks to private schools the picture remains as bleak as ever. The mere fact that government owned banks and schools offered inferior services and education is not a license for these private institutions to be mediocre and ineffectual. Since free market economists are trying to convince us that highly-paid bankers are as hard to find as rocket scientists or brain surgeons what about school teachers? There are plenty of those around, aren't there? From Algeria to Oman Syrian teachers have always been on the forefront of education in the Arab world. There are private schools and universities popping up everywhere in Syria now and charging premium tuitions (let's not talk numbers). They could, if they wanted to, recruit and hire these highly skilled teachers and professors. They could lure them into leaving high schools in Saudi Arabia and colleges in the United States and bring them back to their own country to teach in style and dignity. Private schools are offering obscenely low wages, lower still than the government, and hiring inexperienced green teachers to save money and increase their profits. Private universities continue to enlist the part-time services of local PhD's already employed by the state universities because they are required to have them on their faculty roster by the Ministry of Higher Education while throwing the bulk of the actual instruction on Master's degree holders because they cost even less.
Once we realize that the board members of private banks in Syria, the founders of private schools, the board of trustees of private universities, the importers of consumer products, the sole agents for various brands of automobiles and the filthy rich merchants (new and old) are the same people we begin to understand the Syrian economic reform's failings in a crystal clear way. The Syrian economy is driven by an avaricious elite, say the top three or four hundreds big names of the private sector. All the government can ever do is attempt to impose a speed limit in order to reduce the number of casualties. I leave it to the experts to evaluate government performance but for one who has been living in Syria for the last 24 years I can only state the obvious. We moved from bad to worse socially and economically. The poor are poorer and more numerous. The rich are richer and fewer. The Syrian private sector is indeed a socioeconomic farce.
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Dear Abu Fares,
I salute your courage in saying the obvious without trying to sugarcoat the truth that with or without any degree in economy the average Syrian 'Abu Ahmad' not only understand it but he also live with it everyday.
I asked the same question you asked:
"Since the debate veered into private banking in Syria, shouldn't I ask what did these banks contribute to the country and its economy."
I got no proper answer because obviously there is none. It's funny how the people's mentality change, asking such question will make you sound 'bad' as if doing good to Syria is something Taboo that nobody should ask and we should be ashamed of!!?
My friend, we are living in a Mad World and the answer to your big and dangerous question of:
"If there is a consensus among economists about the human validity of the above argument then the field of economics is the only social science that is openly void of any moral values."
is YES, in economics there is no place for Morals it has only Values and we the very few left average middle class Syrians are the big losers :)
Thank you.
- abufares said...
Thank you for commenting (here and there). I appreciate your visit rather than agreeing with me.
I think that my point of view is shared by the vast majority of Syrians. Very few would rather stick to a state controlled economy and if anyone understood that I'm actually promoting going against the "reform" flow then they have terribly misunderstood me. However, I'm accusing the private sector (and I clearly mean the BIG Fish, the top two to three hundreds businesses) of evading not only taxes but their social responsibilities and obligations while at the same time fueling the resentment toward them.
I call them as I see them and I admit that there must be exceptions to my generalization. But by and large, very few of the large businesses in Syria are honest and innocent enough not to be responsible for the worsening economic conditions.
We can't blame it all on the government anymore.
Again, Many thanks.
- Dubai Jazz said...
Habibi Abu Fares, awesome post. I couldn't have said it better.
First of all, thank you for an intelligent and healthy debate.
I understand where Ehsani is coming from. Having lived in a unapologetically capitalist country for the last few years, having listened to, debated, and had verbal shouting matches with the Ayn Rands of the UAE, and grappled with their Atlas Shrugged-ed ideologies; I understand where he comes from.
However, the bit that baffles me is that the concept of lassize faire economics, which Ehsani and others are advocating, is applicable as a whole in a free market society: emphasis on free. And I ask myself: to what degree are we free from our superstitions? To what degree are we free from incompetence? To what degree are we free from lopsided regulations? To what degree are we free from favortism and slanted assessments and credit ratings? I could ask more questions but I'll desist. The libertarian 'let the free market decide' concept is worth experimenting with but in the current conditions of Syria, we'd be fooling ourselves to think it could be applicable. The rich can't have their cake and eat it.....
Collective problems require collective solutions.
Once again, I salute you and Ehsani for this civilized debate.
- abufares said...
It's been a while but it's always nice to see you here:-)
Being an active participant, and a member of the Private Sector (in a small way) had put me at odds with economic government policy for a good part of my working life in Syria. However, what happened later defies acceptance. We were so used to blaming the government then when the culprit actually changed some of us failed to see it. The government is responsible for its part of the damage no one is denying that. But the elite private sector which is actually controlling the Syrian economy today has reached a level of not only irresponsibility but of negligence which effect could be best described as manslaughter rather than premeditated murder.
For so long we cried for the government to take its hand out of the economy but trust me soon enough the people (the majority of the people) will demand a reverse of the trend.
The Private Sector screwed up bad and someone might have to pay. I hope it won't be the average Syrian.
salam Abu fares: I been following your blog on regular basis, (not commenting. You bot had a veiw of the seene, it is bad all over (private and goverment run market) I beleive in some regulation, Look at te mess that we are in here (USA). a lot of people suffered, But not the CEO's (they still make a lot of money despite the bad managment). I beleive in middel class as a powerful and vital player ( sadely the middl2 calss is shrinking everywhere).
Your Jar Gassan.
- abufares said...
Yes the middle class is shrinking at different rates all over.
The transformation to a free market economy is a troublesome path. It shouldn't be taken lightly, casually and "fast". Educating the rich (haves) before the poor (have-nots) is of utmost importance. In Syria where the tax system in primitive and ineffectual a possible solution is to estimate and regulate profits, put a cap on them and tax them fairly.
Let's consider the large importers. In a non-productive market( primitive and/or light industry) trading becomes the major income/profit source. It's possible to account for all imports of a certain company. It's also possible (in the Syrian context) to put a percentage ceiling on profits. Why do doctors, engineers, ...etc. have to adhere to a rate while businessmen don't? And yes I agree with these fixed rates.
Exclusive agency rights in all their forms should be ended once and for all. They want FREE? Let's get rid of the parasitic agents who make a percentage and hold a monopoly over almost all imported products. Syria won't be the first country to abolish exclusive agencies.
The big whales don't like it and will move their investment somewhere else?! Good riddance, several smaller dolphins will move in. We have more social problems today with the economical elite than with the political one.
My ramblings are not valid in the economic circles?! I could care less. Economists already screwed up bad in the US and all over the FREE world as you pointed out. I'm sure these steps I'm advocating are as good as their pseudo-science if not better.
- Karim said...
Dear Abu Fares,
I tend to agree with most of what you said, and I can add a bit of my own experience teaching at one of the private universities. I'm one of the master's degree holders you mention, and the only reason I chose to teach was for a sense of fulfillment - an attempt to give something back; it wasn't for the money, I can assure you (I spent more money on gasoline getting to and from the university than I made in wages). My experience is that these 'universities' are a flawed experiment simply because they are for-profit enterprises Shamelessly, their mantra is 'the customer is always right', so how dare you admonish a student, let alone fail him/her. I'm happy to tell you that I quit after 3 semesters teaching.
As for the public/ private sector argument, I don't believe one is inherently better than the other. What determines how an economy performs is the underlying institutional framework, which in the case of Syria is sadly extremely deficient. Economics is not an exact science, and it is certainly not devoid of morals (although some schools of thought in economics tend to be). For valuable insights, I highly recommend that you read "The Truth About Markets" by John Kay and "Globalization and its Discontents" by Joseph Stiglitz.
- abufares said...
I went for the interview to teach in one of the private universities. Just like you, I hold a master's degree and just like you I wanted the job for a sense of fulfillment. The fact that I had to drive a minimum of 3 hours everyday, have to teach from an absentee's professor's notes and get paid a low salary stopped me from transforming my love for teaching from a dream into a reality.
And you're right neither the public nor the private sector is better than the other. That was my original point. I can't defend feudalism even though my great grand parents were landowners. I can't advocate that the public sector is a victim not a predator although I belong (in a small way) to this group.
Thank you for your reading recommendation. I look forward to it.
Dear Abufares, it is global problem, everything is becoming privet and it is very bad,most lakes riveres where we used to fish are closed and privet, we have to pay the licence to the goverment and pay the fee to fish,
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ya Abufares, when i remember how i was free to fish and hunt wherever i wanted all the Eufates was mine, I didn´t loose time,
just have a look at south america it is the same,
companies should never be more poweful than the governments
- abufares said...
Tell me about it. The government here is taking its hands off almost everything in reality although on the surface it seems the other way.
There's already hardly any free beach left for the people. Me, a Tartoussi for at least 6 generations have to drive for at least 15 km to get to a public beach!
Very sad but true.
the world is becomeing a big cattle
Abufares, do you remember the AKIRA KRUSAWAS´ movei DERSU USALA, if not, just find it and watch it, and you´ll understand where the humans are going
- abufares said...
I haven't seen the movie but asked a friend to get it for me.
I'm sure I'll like it :-)
Thanks for your suggestion.
- Rime said...
Even better than the first post dealing with the economic farce, and that was an excellent post already! Well said ya Abufares!
- abufares said...
Ohhh!!! So nice to see you here. I hope you and yours are doing great. You are always missed you know but what can one say! Sigh!!! Facebook does this to the smartest of us :-)
I'm glad you enjoyed my digressive economics. Rather than being an expert on the matter I am very much a disgusted (not disgruntled) insider. And believe me, it's even worse than I depicted.
Thank you for coming this way again. You're always welcome.


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Parents express pride and confidence as they say poignant goodbyes
Under sunny skies, the chorus of "Is this going up?" rang out again and again as hands reached into the trunks of cars pulling up to the dorms. Upperclass volunteers, in bright T-shirts and with smiling faces, greeted incoming freshmen and their families as they balanced bags of bedding, boxes of electronics and personal affects.
Peter Pizzano of Stoneham, Mass., sat working at his daughter's computer in Kutz Hall, grateful for the help.
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Her mother, Donna, echoed the sentiment, adding with a sad smile: "But it'll be good for her."
Down the hall, Griselle Leon of New York City helped her daughter, Genesis, put away her clothes.
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In less than four hours, the Class of 2016 was moved in. After unpacking, the 820 incoming freshmen and their families wandered through campus Sunday, running errands, meeting classmates and attending a variety of welcome events designed to familiarize them with campus life.
At the Family Resource Center in Levin Ballroom, representatives from a variety of campus services and departments were on hand to answer questions ranging from how to send baskets of edible goodies to your child to how to make sure your child has clean clothes to wear to what religious services are available on campus to how university police ensure students' safety.
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DALLAS – Michael Vick has been named comeback player of the year by the Associated Press.
The official announcement will be made live on NFL Network at 8:30 ET. The Eagles quarterback will be there to accept his award.
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