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A federal jury today convicted former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin of bribery, wire fraud and other charges, making him the first mayor in the city's 296-year history to be convicted of corruption.
The 12-person jury in New Orleans took two days to find Nagin, 57, guilty on 20 of 21 counts of federal corruption charges. During the nine-day trial, prosecutors used more than two dozen witnesses and reams of evidence to detail how Nagin, a Democrat, accepted more than $500,000 in cash bribes and first-class trips from business leaders in exchange for lucrative city contracts.
The verdict marks the end of a tumultuous period for New Orleans, beginning with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and ending with Nagin's indictment eight years later, says Ed Chervenak, political scientist at the University of New Orleans. Nagin was the very public face of the city after levees failed in the wake of the storm, killing hundreds of residents and submerging much of the city.
FIRST TAKE:Nagin's spectacular fall
"This is a chapter in New Orleans history that people want to close and move on," Chervenak says. "They definitely want to put the Ray Nagin years behind them."
"It's Shakespearean in its proportions," says political analyst Clancy DuBos. "This is the guy who came in as the big corruption fighter. He actually invited the feds over to City Hall to investigate the previous administration."
Nagin will remain free on bond awaiting his sentencing. He faces up to 20 years in prison for some of the charges. Nagin's wife, Seletha, sobbed in the courtroom as the somber-looking former mayor left to consult with attorneys.
During the trial, prosecutors showed the jury that Nagin accepted a variety of cash and gifts from would-be contractors with the city, including a first-class trip to Jamaica, private jet travel to New York City and Chicago, money and free granite for his sons' granite countertop business. He also took direct cash payoffs totaling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Using e-mails, bank statements and witness testimony, prosecutors showed how business associates showered Nagin and his family with a $6,500 trip to Jamaica and $5,400 worth of mobile phones, according to testimony updates by nola.com. Those associates would later win million-dollar contracts with the city.
Nagin also racked up thousands of dollars on city credit cards for personal use, including $300 steak dinners at a Dallas steakhouse, nights at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlanta and a trip to Las Vegas for his wife, according to nola.com. For Nagin's 50th birthday, a contractor doing business with the city paid for a birthday bash at a New Orleans restaurant costing more than $1,000.
In 2004 alone, federal agents said, Nagin spent $55,000 on city credit cards for purchases that had nothing to do with city business, including $14,000 in hotel stays, $19,000 in meals and $1,000 for clothing, according to nola.com.
Nagin took the stand in his own defense and rebutted the allegations. His attorney, Robert Jenkins, suggested to the jury that many of the government's witnesses were facing their own prosecutions and fabricated stories to lower their punishment. Jenkins called only five witnesses to the stand, including Nagin. Prosecutors called 26 witnesses.
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Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE) is a server-oriented distribution of the official Ruby interpreter, and includes various additional enhancements:
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A copy-on-write friendly garbage collector. Phusion Passenger uses this, in combination with a technique called preforking, to reduce Ruby on Rails applications' memory usage by 33% on average.
An improved memory allocator called tcmalloc, which improves performance quite a bit.
The ability to tweak garbage collector settings for maximum server performance.
The ability to inspect the garbage collector's state and the object heap state, for debugging purposes.
The ability to obtain backtraces for all running threads, making it easier for one to debug multithreaded applications.
Thread scheduler bug fixes and performance improvements. Threading on Ruby Enterprise Edition can be more than 10 times faster than official Ruby 1.8.
Various memory management tweaks so that the Ruby interpreter uses less memory on average, even when copy-on-write is not utilized.
Some of these features are gathered from third party Ruby patches: RailsBench, Sylvain Joyeux's object allocation patch, caller_for_all_threads, Darryl Gove's and Miriam Blatt's Sparc optimization patches, Brent Roman's MBARI patch set.
2. Installation and uninstallation
2.1. Installation via Debian package or source tarball
To install REE, download either the source tarball or the Debian package from the REE website. The source tarball contains a cross-platform installer. Installation instructions are available on the download page.
Note that this installer is written in Ruby, and thus requires a Ruby interpreter to run. Because not all systems come with a Ruby interpreter by default, the source tarball also contains a number of precompiled Ruby interpreters for various platforms, with the purpose of running the installer. The installer script will automatically use a precompiled Ruby binary for the current platform, if available. Precompiled Ruby interpreters for the following platforms are included:
x86 Linux
x86_64 Linux
x86 FreeBSD 6
MacOS X and most FreeBSD systems already come with a Ruby interpreter by default.
So if you notice that the installer fails to start, please install Ruby first, then re-run the installer.
|It is not recommended to install REE into /usr because it can overwrite your existing Ruby installation in a way that the system doesn't expect. You should install REE into an isolated place such as /opt.
2.1.1. Installation options
Disabling tcmalloc
If you experience problems with the tcmalloc memory allocator, then you can install REE without tcmalloc by passing --no-tcmalloc to the installer.
Non-interactive installation
You can install REE non-interactively either by using the Debian package, or by passing --auto=DIRECTORY to the REE installer. The latter will instruct the installer to non-interactively install REE into the specified target directory.
More options
You can read about all of the available installation options by passing --help to the REE installer.
2.2. Manual installation (for experts)
If you wish to install REE from source, but do not wish to use the included installer, or if the installer doesn't work, then you can install REE manually. Please follow the instructions below.
Note that these instructions do not cover installing RubyGems.
2.2.1. Prerequisites
You need to have the following dependencies installed:
A C and C++ compiler, preferrably gcc.
The make tool.
The patch tool.
C development headers for zlib.
C development headers for OpenSSL.
C development headers for GNU Readline.
yacc or bison.
2.2.2. Step 1: Download and extract the source tarball
tar xzvf ruby-enterprise-x.x.x.tar.gz
A directory called ruby-enterprise-x.x.x will now appear.
2.2.3. Step 2: Decide the prefix you want to install REE to
Please decide on a prefix to install REE to, and put this directory name into the PREFIX environment variable. We'll need this value later in these instructions.
For example, if you want to install REE into /opt/ruby-enterprise, then run:
Please note that the rest of this document assumes that REE is installed into /opt/ruby-enterprise. If you installed REE into a different directory then just replace /opt/ruby-enterprise with whatever the real prefix is.
2.2.4. Step 3: Install tcmalloc
Tcmalloc is a memory allocator which is usually more efficient than the platform's native memory allocator. REE doesn't require tcmalloc, but it will work better if tcmalloc is installed.
Compile tcmalloc as follows:
cd ruby-enterprise-x.x.x/source/distro/google-perftools-* ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --disable-dependency-tracking make libtcmalloc_minimal.la
If compilation fails, then skip to step 5. REE will work fine without tcmalloc.
After compilation, install tcmalloc as follows:
sudo mkdir -p $PREFIX/lib sudo rm -f $PREFIX/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal*.so* sudo cp -Rpf .libs/libtcmalloc_minimal*.so* $PREFIX/lib/
MacOS X noteInstead of typing libtcmalloc_minimal*.so*, type libtcmalloc_minimal*.bundle*.
|The reason why we don't instruct you to type make and make install is because compiling tcmalloc with make usually doesn't work on 64-bit platforms. The above instructions are a little bit more complex, but they work on all platforms where tcmalloc is supported.
2.2.5. Step 4: Configure REE
Change the current working directory to ruby-enterprise-x.x.x/source. If you were previously in the google-perftools directory, then type:
cd ../..
Run the configure script:
./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-mbari-api CFLAGS='-g -O2'
2.2.6. Step 5: Compiling and installing the system_allocator library (MacOS X only)
If you are on MacOS X, then compile and install the system_allocator library:
gcc -dynamiclib system_allocator.c -install_name @rpath/libsystem_allocator.dylib -o libsystem_allocator.dylib sudo install libsystem_allocator.dylib $PREFIX/lib/
2.2.7. Step 6: compiling and installing REE
Open Makefile. Search for a line which starts with:
Append the string $(PRELIBS) to the part after the = sign. For example, on Ubuntu 8.04, the 'LIBS = ' line becomes:
LIBS = $(PRELIBS) -ldl -lcrypt -lm $(EXTLIBS)
Save the file. Now we can proceed with compiling REE:
make PRELIBS="-Wl,-rpath,$PREFIX/lib -L$PREFIX/lib -ltcmalloc_minimal"
If you did not install tcmalloc, then you can omit the -ltcmalloc_minimal part.
If you are on MacOS X, then you need to append -lsystem_allocator to the PRELIBS option.
If you are on FreeBSD, then you need to append -lpthread to the PRELIBS option.
Now that REE has been compiled, install it with:
sudo make install
2.3. RubyCocoa compatibility and --enable-shared
In order to use RubyCocoa, the Ruby interpreter must be compiled with --enable-shared. By default, Ruby Enterprise Edition's interpreter is not compiled with --enable-shared. You can compile the Ruby Enterprise Edition interpreter with this flag by passing -c --enable-shared to its installer, like this:
./ruby-enterprise-X.X.X/installer -c --enable-shared
Please note that enabling --enable-shared will make the Ruby interpreter about 20% slower. It is for this reason that we don't recommend enabling --enable-shared on server environments, although it's fine for desktop environments.
2.4. Tcl/Tk compatibility and --enable-pthread
In order to use Tcl/Tk with threading support, the Ruby interpreter must be compiled with --enable-pthread. By default, Ruby Enterprise Edition's interpreter is not compiled with --enable-pthread. You can compile the Ruby Enterprise Edition interpreter with this flag by passing -c --enable-pthread to its installer, like this:
./ruby-enterprise-X.X.X/installer -c --enable-pthread
Please note that enabling --enable-pthread will make the Ruby interpreter about 50% slower. It is for this reason that we don't recommend enabling --enable-shared on server environments, although it's fine for desktop environments.
2.5. How REE installs itself into the system
By default, REE installs itself into a directory in /opt. If you already had a Ruby interpreter installed (typically in /usr; let's call this the system Ruby interpreter), then REE will have no effect on it: REE lives in isolation and in parallel to the system Ruby interpreter. This also means that:
If you have any software which depends on the system Ruby interpreter, then that software will not break. It will continue to work like before.
REE has its own set of Ruby libraries, and its own set of gems and its own set of commands. If you install a new gem using the system Ruby interpreter, then that gem will not show up in REE's gem list, and vice versa.
When running Ruby programs, the system Ruby interpreter will be used unless you explicitly configure the system to use REE by default.
2.5.1. Why doesn't REE use the system Ruby interpreter's gems?
REE does not use the system Ruby interpreter's gems because it can cause problems with native extensions, e.g. RMagick, Mongrel, Hpricot, etc. A native extension compiled for one Ruby installation might crash when used in a different Ruby installation. This is why you must reinstall your gems in REE.
2.6. Upgrading
To upgrade REE through the Debian package, just install the Debian package.
To upgrade REE through the source tarball, run the installer in the source tarball and specify the same destination prefix directory that REE is currently installed in. For example, if REE is currently installed in /opt/ruby-enterprise-20081215, then specify /opt/ruby-enterprise-20081215 in the upgrade source tarball's installer.
2.7. Uninstallation
If you installed REE through a Debian package, then uninstall the Debian package with dpkg or with apt-get.
If you installed REE through the source tarball, then you can uninstall it by deleting the directory in which REE is installed. For example, if REE was installed to /opt/ruby-enterprise-X.X.X (the default), then just delete that directory. It is for this reason why we recommend installing REE into its own directory.
3. Using Ruby Enterprise Edition
3.1. General usage
Normally one would run a Ruby program by invoking the Ruby interpreter with a source file as its first argument:
$ ruby some_program.rb
To run the same program in REE, invoke the equivalent command in REE's bin folder:
$ /opt/ruby-enterprise-X.X.X/bin/ruby some_program.rb
The same applies to other Ruby commands such as gem, irb and rake. For example, if you want to install Ruby on Rails for REE, invoke:
$ /opt/ruby-enterprise-X.X.X/bin/gem install rails
3.2. Using REE with Phusion Passenger
To use REE in combination with Phusion Passenger, you must run the Passenger Apache 2 module installer that's associated with REE. The REE installer installs the Passenger gem by default, so you just have to run the Passenger Apache 2 module installer:
Then follow the instructions that the installer gives you.
3.3. Configuring REE as the default Ruby interpreter
It is possible to configure REE as the default Ruby interpreter, so that when you type ruby, gem, irb, rake or other Ruby commands, REE's version is invoked instead of the system Ruby's version.
To do this, you must add REE's bin directory to the beginning of the PATH environment variable. This environment variable specifies the command shell's command search path. For example, you can do this on the command-line:
$ ruby some_program.rb # <--- some_program.rb is being run # in the system Ruby interpreter. $ export PATH=/opt/ruby-enterprise-X.X.X/bin:$PATH $ ruby some_program.rb # <--- some_program.rb will now be run in REE!
Invoking export PATH=... on the command-line has no permanent effect: its effects disappear as soon as you exit the shell. To make the effect permanent, add an entry to the file /etc/environment instead. On Ubuntu Linux, /etc/environment looks like this:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
Add REE's bin directory to the PATH environment variable, like this:
PATH="/opt/ruby-enterprise-x.x.x/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
4. Garbage collector and object space
4.1. Copy-on-write friendliness
By default, REE's garbage collector is not copy-on-write-friendly, just like a stock Ruby interpreter. Copy-on-write-friendliness can be turned on during runtime by calling:


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September 12, 2010, 05:59:15 PM »
I graduated from a T1 school in 2008 and I've been working in small firm litigation ever since. I actually try cases, I'm not doing the big firm document review.
I'm thinking seriously about getting some transactional experience going, because I can't see myself in litigation for much longer. The constant adversarial role, your life revolving around the docket, the mindless depositions and pre-trial motion hearings are becoming a bore.
BTW, I have some knowledge of the transactional side, because prior to law school I worked as a paralegal at a mid-sized real estate transaction firm.
I was thinking of attempting a joint LLM/MBA if that is even possible. Would it make a difference? Long term, I would like to work for a mid-sized to large firm in the transactional group and eventually move to a much smaller boutique transactional firm.
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September 13, 2010, 10:20:10 AM »
I sure that any decent-sized school that offers an LLM in Tax would also offer an MBA through their business school. My guess is that most of those schools do not have a joint LLM/MBA program, although maybe some do. Either way, you can always enroll in both separately. As to whether that would help, all it will do is give you credibility. There is nothing you will learn in an LLM program that you can't learn from a treatise. I cannot say the same for an MBA; however, much of what is taught in an MBA program will probably be outside the scope of what a transactional attorney's job description. You'll learn a great deal of finance, most of which will be informational and provide background. I doubt you'll ever use it. Also, you can get the same info from reading trade journals. It really comes down to whether are not you are willing to incur the debt and loss of wages (assuming that you cannot attend part-time). I suppose it will depend on where you want to work (market) and how prestigious of firm for which you apply. The more prestigious of a firm, the more weight they will give to an MBA degree. Honestly, I have heard that the LLM carries more weight at the botique firms than the large firms because there is always a resident tax expert at the large firms to mentor you. At the botique firms, you have to be that expert. I don't think you need either degree, but either will be helpful, especially for prestigious firms where you have to distinguish yourself from other blue-chip applicants.
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September 13, 2010, 05:22:54 PM »
You make good points, but also anything I learned in law school could have been learned just be reading caselaw. The degree itself is more valuable than what you actually learn most of the time.
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September 14, 2010, 09:01:05 AM »
Law school is really meant to teach you think like an attorney. In the same way, I bet a tax program has its own nuances to analysis of tax and other transactional issues. That thought process will help you more than the material that you learn. Whether or not you can learn that on a job and whether or not the degree will get you either jobs or higher salaries that you would not get without it is a matter of risk assessment. I think you are probably right that the degree will be worth the money and time expended; yet, I guess that depends on how much of your time you want to spend in tax work.
I was an accountant before law school. I did some tax but mostly a great deal of securities regulation work. I found that the attorneys in those fields were truly experts in those fields. I worked with attorneys who had LLMs in either tax or securities regulation along with attorneys who had neither degree. I did not see any difference in the level of knowledge between those who got a formal degree and those who learned on the job. I don't know if this is dispositive of anything, though. However, the attorneys that learned on the job tended to be entrepreneurs more than the attorneys who sought the formal education.
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This exercise strikes me as most likely a waste of time and money.
LLMs can be used to whitewash a JD from a bad school, but you already have a degree from a good school. Other than that, LLMs are mostly for folks with academic ambitions. If you just want to learn more about tax law, you can do that the way you learn everything else on the job: read up. You won't learn how to be a deal lawyer in an LLM program - as you know, that just isn't what they teach in law school.
The MBA studies would be a little more useful, but here also I believe you will pick up what you need to know on the job. An MBA does look nice on the resume, but it doesn't make THAT much of a difference - certainly, IMO, not enough to justify taking a couple of years out of your career. And again, there is nothing stopping you from auditing a class or two on your own time, if you just want some exposure to MBA-think. Heck, these days a lot of schools publish recordings of their classes - I've been listening to podcasts of econ lectures in the car.
I know there can be a desire to collect degrees, but degrees don't pay the bills, and degrees mostly impress the people who aren't worth impressing.
Bottom line: you will learn transactional practice the same way you learned litigation practice: on the job. You need to find a firm or senior attorney willing to train you, and you will probably take a seniority hit in the short term as a result.
More importantly: As a transactional lawyer myself, I say welcome, and good luck. Life is better once you leave the dark side.
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I tend to agree with Morten Lund's analysis. School is basically little more than a vocabulary lesson. Because an L.L.M. program is considered more of an academic than a professional degree, I doubt it will be very practical. Law school is not very practical. However, I will say that both tax and securities regulation are very rule-heavy. The familiarity with the rule structure will be helpful. I don't know how helpful familiarity with the tax code or with securities regulatioin will translate into job skills given that both codes change regularly. Generally, I think L.L.M. programs are really designed to make money for law schools. I don't know what value they serve outside of academia.
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How do you explain the Canadian rock trio Rush to someone who's never heard them? Often misunderstood, frequently marginalized and sometimes ridiculed, Rush has to be doing something right after three decades of filling arenas, producing dozens of albums and selling over 40 million records worldwide. Despite these accomplishments they're generally regarded as a nerdy, cult band by the mainstream. Directors Scot McFayden and Sam Dunn ("Metal: A Headbanger's Journey") attempt to both illuminate the unfamiliar and do justice by their fans through a comprehensive examination of Rush with their latest documentary, "RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage," which had its world premiere Saturday night.
The film extensively covers the band's considerable history and backgrounds of members Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart. Starting out as a straight ahead, hard rock band, Rush evolved into a musical entity that is arguably unclassifiable. Their songs often took up entire sides of albums and the lyrics (penned by drummer Peart) progressed from earlier Tolkien/fantasy fare to later albums dealing with heady themes of non-conformism, pathos and social alienation.
As far as proficiency with their instruments, they are all regarded as rock virtuosos. Asking a musician if Neil Peart is a good drummer is like asking an English professor if Shakespeare wrote decent plays.
The film includes fantastic photographs, footage and of course plenty of music, but most entertaining are the insightful interviews with many rock legends and notable musicians sharing their take on Rush. These musicians gush when talking about the band and how influential they were on them as teenagers, and later, as artists. The cavalcade of stars interviewed range from members of mega bands Kiss and Metallica to musician/goofballs Jack Black and Sebastian Bach. The common thread among fans is having identified with a band that spoke to the dreamers and misfits of high school. The popular kids never listened to Rush.
McFayden and Dunn accurately capture the unwavering and intense loyalty Rush fans possess for the band and each other. Just as engrossing are the filmmakers exposing the members of the band for what they are: funny, smart, likable family men. The film has some hilariously telling moments revealing them as the antithesis of hedonistic rock-stars (after playing a sold out arena, they prefer books in their hotel rooms over groupies.)
Perhaps best captured in "RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage" is the band's integral element of progressiveness. Regardless of their ridiculous clothes worn during the 1970s, the skinny ties and synthesizer heavy periods of the 80s, musically and lyrically the band has always tried to remain fresh - uninterested in repeating themselves. They embrace their need for innovation even if sometimes it doesn't always work. But that's fine, Rush and their fans understand and appreciate that. As a wise Canadian drummer once wrote, "changes aren't permanent, but change is."
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Because he locates the stomach as the center of outsized American idealism, Kaufman's probe is more ironic than it is literal, reveling in pointing out inconsistencies from the furthest extremes of eating. Where else but America would the sheer volume of ecofriendly vegetarian books destroy entire forests? What about those diet gurus who promote the live-forever diet and yet die young? And why do Three Cheese Pizza Bagels need to receive a seal of approval from kosher certifiers?
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Amazon's expanded its server footprint for a second time just over a month, this time opening a data center serving customers in South America.
The cloud pioneer that everybody's now racing to catch has opened its first South American Region facility with a server farm running in São Paulo. Amazon arranges the provision of its cloud services into regions based around data-centers running clustered servers; customers can elect to use the region they're in or roll applications and services across multiple regions for additional security reasons, for additional piece of mind, or to balance loads.
The South America Region announcement comes after November's opening of Amazon's fourth region serving customers in the US; the US West Oregon Region data-center.
Oregon joined the existing US West Northern California center and US East center in Northern Virginia and the AWS GovCloud, serving US government cloud customers.
Outside the US, Amazon has the European-Union region, with a data center in Ireland, and two in Asia Pacific with the data-centers in Singapore and in Tokyo.
Amazon said South American customers had been using AWS in the existing regions across the US, Europe and Asia but that this had produced latency delays.
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Opening the Oregon center in November, Amazon used similar rhetoric describing its second west-coast US region as: "A new, low-cost, low latency option for serving customers and applications benefiting from infrastructure located in the Western United States."
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Hosts England and Six Nations champions Wales paid a heavy price for the November defeats that sent them tumbling down the rankings when they were put in a tough pool with Australia in the draw for the 2015 rugby World Cup on Monday.
Holders New Zealand, who have never lost a pool game in the tournament, got a favorable draw as they are scheduled to face Argentina, Tonga and two qualifiers.
Twice-winners South Africa were paired alongside Samoa — for the fourth consecutive World Cup — and Scotland, while fourth seeds France, who leapfrogged England in the rankings to snatch the last top-tier seed, were rewarded with games against Ireland and Italy.
Tournament officials said the draw was made three years ahead of the event to ease planning and logistics, and they now know to organize sizeable venues for the eye-catching Pool A clashes.
England's November defeats by Australia and South Africa sent them into the second tier of seeds, while Wales's precipitous decline since their Six Nations Grand Slam dropped them to the third tier a little over a year after they reached the World Cup semi-finals.
So they now face the toughest group, alongside twice-champions Australia, along with "Oceania 1," possibly Fiji, and the winners of a final playoff.
While the importance of topping a pool can be debated, the fact remains that no team has lost a World Cup match and gone on to win the trophy.
"It is definitely a pretty tough pool," England coach Stuart Lancaster said.
"We might have to change our warm-up games," he added, after England had played Wales in warm-ups before previous World Cups.
"Australia have just beaten us and if you look at the age and profile of their squad, they have got some young lads as well. We will look forward to it," Lancester said.
Australia captain David Pocock said of the rivalry with the host nation: "It runs deep. To play them in the pool, there will be a lot of hype around that game and it's one you look forward to as a player."
One crumb of comfort for the teams in Pool A is that should they top it they would not play world champions New Zealand, who England hammered 38-21 at Twickenham on Saturday having lost the previous nine meetings, until the semi-finals at the earliest.
Wales have also lost their last nine games against Australia, but coach Warren Gatland put a positive spin on the draw.
"We put ourselves in this position and our experience of 2011 is that if you come out of a tough group it sets you up for the quarter and semi-finals," said Gatland, whose side lost to South Africa, but beat Fiji and Samoa before overcoming Ireland in the quarter-finals.
"The tougher the group the better. If you look at New Zealand, often they don't get tested enough in the pool stage. Teams sometimes field a second side against them and then they often come undone," Gatland said.
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The facts are these. A 31-year-old dentist was 17 weeks pregnant when she died on October 28 after suffering a miscarriage and septicaemia. Her husband, Praveen, has alleged that doctors refused several requests for a medical termination because the foetus's heartbeat was present. Mr Halappanavar has claimed that following his late wife's appeals, they were told: "This is a Catholic country."
This is a case which clearly needs looking at closely; on the face of it, a refusal to save Mrs Halappanavar's life by inducing her unborn child, when it was clear that her death would in any case lead to the death of the child (this in fact happened in this case), does not seem to be consistent either with Catholic moral theology or, it is now being claimed, with Irish law or the guidelines which govern medical practice in such cases.
The anti-Catholic Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, is predictably, of course, and some would say cynically, exploiting the situation, and has declared that his government will respond by the end of the month to a 2010 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that called for the reform of the Irish abortion law. He said: "This is a tragic case where we have a woman who lost her life, her child is lost and her husband is bereaved. We have agreed to be in contact with the (European) court by November 30."
The fact is, however, that this tragic death by no means justifies any change to Irish law — or medical practice, if it is properly carried out according to Irish Medical Council guidelines. Eilís Mulroy has a comment piece today, also in The Irish Independent, under the headline "Pro-choice side must not hijack this terrible event", asking the obvious question: "Was Ms Halappanavar treated in line with existing obstetrical practice in Ireland? In this kind of situation the baby can be induced early (though is very unlikely to survive). The decision to induce labour early would be fully in compliance with the law and the current guidelines set out for doctors by the Irish Medical Council.
"Those guidelines allow interventions to treat women where necessary, even if that treatment indirectly results in the death to the baby. If they aren't being followed, laws about abortion won't change that. The issue then becomes about medical protocols being followed in hospitals and not about the absence of legal abortion in Ireland."
It looks to me as though Pius XII's ruling on such cases is relevant here (and also as though the ignorance of their religion of those treating Mrs Halappanavar — who refused to save her mouthing the words "this is a Catholic country" — has a lot to answer for): "If," said Pope Pius in 1951, "the saving of the life of the future mother … should urgently require a surgical act or other therapeutic treatment which would have as an accessory consequence, in no way desired nor intended, but inevitable, the death of the fetus, such an act could no longer be called a direct attempt on an innocent life. Under these conditions the operation can be lawful, like other similar medical interventions — granted always that a good of high worth is concerned, such as life, and that it is not possible to postpone the operation until after the birth of the child, nor to have recourse to other efficacious remedies."
This principle has always governed Irish medical practice, and it looks very much as though it should have done here. Eilís Mulroy quotes Professor John Bonnar, then chairman of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, who spoke about the matter to the All Party Parliamentary Committee's Fifth Report on Abortion, saying: "In current obstetrical practice, rare complications can arise where therapeutic intervention is required at a stage in pregnancy when there will be little or no prospect for the survival of the baby, due to extreme immaturity.
"In these exceptional situations failure to intervene may result in the death of both the mother and baby. We consider that there is a fundamental difference between abortion carried out with the intention of taking the life of the baby, for example for social reasons, and the unavoidable death of the baby resulting from essential treatment to protect the life of the mother."
Ireland, in fact, has one of the lowest death rates of mothers in pregnancy anywhere in the world. That didn't help Mrs Halappanavar or her baby, both of whom were lost because normal medical practice in Ireland was not followed after a grossly misplaced application to her case, by those treating her, of a heretical misreading of Catholic moral law. These tragic deaths cannot justify the replacement of the world's most civilised abortion law by the pro-death laws now almost universal throughout Europe. Catholics everywhere should pray for Ireland in these politically dangerous times.


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Mrs. Grumpy and I enjoyed our meal there tonight, as always. I'm glad we got to meet for dinner while I was on call.
Generally speaking, however, if you want to attract loyal customers (as opposed to sending them screaming down the street to dine at the Jade Wong instead) you should NOT repeatedly play certain background music. I'm referring, of course, to tonight's choice of "Air Supply's Greatest Hits of the 80's", played again and again and again overhead.
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Creating Custom Images for Bundling and Uploading to OpenStack
When you see the list of images available to you, you might want to add your own image that suits your needs. To create a custom image, start with an ISO file. You can download ISOs for CentOS, Debian, Fedora, or Ubuntu. Good starter images are available here . They are .tar.gz files that contain the VM image (*.img), a Xen compatible kernel/ramdisk pair (xen-kernel/vmlinuz* and xen-kernel/initrd*) and a KVM compatible kernel/ramdisk pair (kvm-kernel/vmlinuz* and kvm-kernel/initrd*). You can either customize the image from the command line or by using VirtualBox or other virtualization platform like kvm. You can make a .vdi image and convert it to raw using quemu-utils, which contains qemu-img.
You may want to increase the size of the image, add packages such as the Linux standard basics, and so on, to make it more practical for everyday use. Once you have made all your customizations in VirtualBox or any other platform, copy the file to a Linux machine with euca2ools installed. The next section describes how to add your custom image to your OpenStack cloud from the command line using
euca- commands.
How To Add a New Image to OpenStack Image Service (Glance)
After you create a custom virtual machine image, you can store the disk image data in the Image Service and also store metadata about this image in the Image Service.
You can use the Eucalyptus tool set, which is an open source command-line client for clouds that are compatible with Amazon's EC2 API. Install the euca2ools command-line tools and ensure that your environment contains the credentials needed by Eucalyptus.
Upload the kernel and note the Amazon Kernel Image (AKI):
euca-bundle-image -i kvm-kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic --kernel true euca-upload-bundle -b jbbucket -m /tmp/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic.manifest.xml euca-register jbbucket/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic.manifest.xml
Upload the ramdisk and note the Amazon Ramdisk Image (ARI) so you can reference it when you bundle the image:
euca-bundle-image -i kvm-kernel/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic --ramdisk true euca-upload-bundle -b jbbucket -m /tmp/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic.manifest.xml euca-register jbbucket/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic.manifest.xml
Upload the custom machine image, specifying the values from the steps above to specify the kernel and ramdisk:
euca-bundle-image -i centos-5.5-x86_64.img --kernel aki-XXXXXXXX --ramdisk ari-XXXXXXXX euca-upload-bundle -b jbbucket -m /tmp/centos-5.5-x86_64.img.manifest.xml euca-register jbbucket/centos-5.5-x86_64.img.manifest.xml
You may have to wait a short while for it to upload to the image server but then you should see your new AMI available as shown below when you use the Eucalyptus "describe images" command.
euca-describe-images IMAGE ami-reey5wk5 jbbucket/centos.5-5.x86-64.img.manifest.xml myproject available private x86_64 machine ami-f4ks8moj ami-jqxvgtmd
How to Work with Stored Objects Through a UI
You can use a REST API to access your stored objects in OpenStack, but you may just want a nice user interface to drag and drop files to store. Cyberduck, an open source client for both Mac OS X and Windows, provides a user interface for many different protocols from FTP to Object Storage. Since it's open source and cross platform, it is a good interface to an OpenStack Object Storage installation (such as Rackspace Cloud Files). You can download it from cyberduck.ch. In order to use it with an OpenStack installation, you need to change a hidden configuration option. You want to change the context of the URL from the default /v1.0 to /auth/v1.0 changing the values. To change the auth URL in Mac OSX, open a Terminal window and type:
Defaults defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck cf.authentication.context /auth/v1.0
Cyberduck 3.8.1 includes a drop-down for selecting Swift (OpenStack Object Storage) when opening a connection. Launch Cyberduck, and then click the New Connection toolbar button or choose File > Open Connection.
Select Swift (OpenStack Object Storage) and enter the following values:
- Server: Enter the URL of the installed Swift server.
- Port: Enter 443 since users are connecting via https.
- Username: Enter the account name followed by a colon and then the user name, for example test:tester.
- Password: Enter the password for the account and user name entered above.
Figure 5 shows an example Cyberduck Swift Connection.
Figure 5.
Once you've created a container in your Object Storage system, you can use Cyberduck to copy files using drag-and-drop from your Desktop, see Figure 6.
Figure 6.
With this, you can back up all those photos and videos to a massively scalable storage system with redundancy built in.
Getting Help and Moving Forward
If you have questions during setup or testing, or just cannot get a feature to work correctly, the OpenStack community can help. One place to look for help is the "Answers" section on Launchpad.
The Launchpad answers sections are available here:
You can also ask questions on the OpenStack mailing list at https://launchpad.net/~openstack, leave a comment in the documentation , or talk with others on IRC in the #openstack channel.
Rackspace is now offering a series of lab-based OpenStack training classes for developers and systems administrators. Click here to learn more about the classes.
Now that you have the low down on OpenStack, here's to hoping you can stack some clouds up.
Anne Gentle is an OpenStack Content Stacker at Rackspace.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House budget office directed federal agencies on Tuesday to prepare for the possibility of a federal government shutdown should Democrats and Republicans fail to find a budget compromise by the end of September.
With conservative Republicans pushing for spending cuts and attempting to cut off funding for President Barack Obama's 2011 healthcare law, the two sides are having trouble reaching a budget agreement ahead of the September 30 end of the 2013 fiscal year.
White House budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell told federal agencies in a memo to update their plans for keeping a skeleton staff on duty for essential government services.
"There is enough time for Congress to prevent a lapse in appropriations, and the administration is willing to work with Congress to enact a short-term continuing resolution to fund critical government operations and allow Congress the time to complete the full-year 2014 appropriations," she said.
But prudent management requires agencies to be prepared for the possibility of a disruption in funding, she said.
Reporting By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Philip Barbara


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RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com to get on the guest list (be sure to include your Twitter handle) and play Blizzard's specially-released Diablo III beta on the brand-new Samsung 950 Series 3D LED Monitors with Kotaku editors and fellow readers.
While you are there, tweet what you're up to with the hashtag #Samsung950Series, earn the most retweets, and the stunning 950 series with full 1080p and active 3D is yours.*
The party starts at 8pm and goes until 10pm**. See you tonight!


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Big Finish has posted the cover illustrations for both this April's Doctor Who audio play The Kingmaker by Nev Fountain, starring Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant and Caroline Morris (cover illustration by Stuart Manning), and forBuried Secrets, part one of the second Sarah Jane Smith miniseries that is due out in February starring Elisabeth Sladen (cover illustration by Lee Binding). The website has also posted a trailer for "Buried Secrets" as well as one for"Time Works", the March audio release. Click on the cover illustration thumbnails below for larger versions.


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China 'steals wife's freedom' to pressurise Liu Xiaobo
China's Communist rulers are trying to force the country's jailed Peace Prize laureate into going into exile by putting pressure on his wife, who is not well, the BBC has been told.
A source close to the family has told us that Liu Xiaobo will not agree to leave China as that would lead to his voice being marginalised.
But the source said that Liu Xiaobo's wife Liu Xia is "suffering mentally" because she has now spent two years under illegal house arrest and continues to be detained.
It was exactly two years ago when Liu Xiaobo, a soft-spoken academic, won the Peace Prize for his calls for peaceful political reform in China.
He never collected it as he was already in a jail in China, where he remains, convicted of subversion.
His wife Liu Xia, an even softer-spoken poet and photographer, has been similarly silenced. She's being held in her own flat in Beijing.
She's been there for two years, detained just a couple of days after her husband was announced as the 2010 winner.
And Norway too is, it seems, still being punished. The prize has nothing to do with the Norwegian government.
But China continues to snub Norwegian ministers, diplomats and politicians, according to other diplomats in Beijing.
Tight control
But the BBC has spoken to an individual in contact with Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia's families, who has given some new insights into the couple's situation.
The individual asked that we don't name them, and told us that Liu Xiaobo is in reasonable health, but his stomach problem "is getting worse".
China's authorities allow only three people to visit Liu Xiaobo in Jinzhou prison where he's being held: his two brothers who can see him about once every six months, and his wife who sees the Nobel Peace Prize winner every two to three months, the source said.
They have to ask for permission in advance and wait for notification.
"They are not allowed to go and visit him together. Only one person is allowed each time. And the police watch them during the entire meeting," our source told us.
"They are forbidden to talk about anything else other than family matters. The police don't want the family to bring in any information from outside to Liu Xiaobo."
The two brothers did visit together once, in September last year. That was to inform Liu Xiaobo that his father had died. He was then allowed a brief visit home to pay his respects before he was whisked back to jail.
His wife, Liu Xia, meanwhile, has not committed any crime in China but is being held in her home.
"There are two policewomen living with her in her apartment. And lots of plain-clothes police watching the compound constantly," our source told us.
"Liu Xia's health is not very well. Mentally she suffers a lot because of the loss of personal freedom and the worries about her jailed husband."
"She is allowed to go out and visit her mother and meet one of her best friends roughly once a month, escorted by policewomen the entire time. Other than visits to her husband, that's it.
"She is not allowed to go anywhere else, not even to the park or shop. And no-one is allowed to even approach her compound, let alone visit her."
The individual added: "What the government is doing to Liu Xia is illegal. They do this routinely to dissidents in order to prevent them speaking to the press and tainting the government's image.
"Her husband is currently the most famous dissident in China, so she suffers tighter control than other dissidents."
'Very cruel'
His view is backed up by Joshua Rosenzweig, a human rights researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who said he was "not aware of any legal authority for restricting Liu Xia's liberty".
"Her relegation to this ambiguous zone appears to be deliberate, because if you can't treat [her detention] as something sanctioned or even covered by law, then how do you begin to challenge it? Liu Xia effectively ceases to exist, both as a human being and as an issue," he said.
China's government insists Liu Xia is not being held against her will. But Mr Rosenzweig says its aim is to silence Liu Xia, her husband and their families, so there is no news about the jailed laureate.
"One of the few ways the outside world has to learn anything about individuals who have been imprisoned in China is through what their relatives learn and observe during periodic prison visits," he says.
"I don't know the last time that Liu Xia was able to visit her husband, but I am fairly certain that any interaction she has been able to have with him has been under the precondition that she remain silent.
"To the extent that this reflects an official strategy to counter Liu Xiaobo's influence, it would have to be deemed successful. There's only so much interest that can be sustained by a person's continued absence.
"That's why you don't see too many headlines proclaiming 'no news of Nobel laureate again this month'."
And the friend of the family who spoke to the BBC says that, by being so harsh on his wife, China is trying to pressure Liu Xiaobo into cutting a deal to go into exile.
"The government is trying to force Liu Xiaobo to leave China by taking his wife's personal freedom away. At the same time, the government threatens both their families, saying if they try to speak to the media or leak any information their right to visit Liu Xiaobo will be taken away.
"This is very cruel. It has forced the family to keep quiet."
But, the family friend added, Liu Xiaobo will not agree to leave China, despite the fact that his prison term lasts until 2020.
"The government has always wanted Liu Xiaobo to leave China because the fact that a Nobel Peace Prize winner is in jail, is a constant reminder of China's poor human rights situation.
"When previous dissidents have left China their voices gradually fade and their influence disappears. That's why Liu Xiaobo insists he'll stay even if it means staying in jail. Remaining in China is what's significant for him."


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That's not chess, it is a test of autoplay software, which is tremendously advantageous under these circumstances, putting human playing as "centaurs" at a serious disadvantage.
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Read about the new iPad Air and iPad mini 2
Following in the footsteps of its tablet sibling, latest reports have suggested the upcoming Apple iPhone 5 release will see the eagerly awaited handset sport the same A5X dual-core processor as the current new iPad 3.
Running against the grain of recent iPhone 5 rumours that have suggested Apple's sixth-generation smartphone will head to market with a new quad-core processor in tow, latest reports have claimed that yet another leaked iPhone 5 component has all but confirmed the long awaited device will play host to the same processing power found within the market dominating tablet.
Snapped ahead of launch, a claimed iPhone 5 logic board has appeared online suggesting the iPhone 4S replacement will hit retailers with processing power that, on paper at least, falls behind the current quad-core leading Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X offering.
Whilst some potential iPhone 5 owners are sure to be put off by the device's apparent lack of quad-core innards, processing power is of course not the be-all and end-all with the iOS 6 powered smartphone also expected to feature the same quad-core graphical power found within the 9.7-inch iPad 3.
A potentially risky move from Apple, the latest suggestions of dual-core iPhone 5 features are backed up by recent claims that the handset's battery will not dramatically increase in size over its iPhone 4S predecessor, a move that would be expected if the device were to handle the addition juice sapping needs of a four-core CPU.
Far from the first iPhone 5 component to do the rounds ahead of the handset's expected September 12th unveiling, premature outings earlier this week saw a selection of claimed parts pieced together to give a tantalising visual insight into the potential iPhone 5 design with the handset seemingly set to play host to a new, slimmer 9-pin dock connector, improved internal speakers and a 3.5mm audio jack that has been moved to the device's base.
With an iPhone 5 launch expected to follow the company's longstanding traditions and hit retailers within a matter of weeks of the smartphone's tipped early September unveiling, US network provider Verizon hinted earlier this week that a September 21st Apple iPhone 5 release date is on the cards.
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Barbie and her groovy sidekick Malibu Ken steal the show in "Toy Story 3," but this ain't Barbie's first speaking rodeo.
Voice actor Jodi Benson, best known for her vocal embodiment of the little mermaid Ariel in all of her various forms, has spoken as Barbie in "Toy Story 2" and even projects dating back to the 1980s.
Benson tells PopcornBiz that she was "the original voice" and first recruited to do the voice for the iconic plastic doll in 1988 for a claymation work-out video.
"I did the very first Barbie voice," Benson says proudly.
She took a big Barbie break until director John Lasseter recruited her for a bit part in "Toy Story 2." Tour Guide Barbie had a scene-stealing role in the 1999 sequel.
So when Pixar called again for "Toy Story 3," Benson was pretty sure it was going to be another small, but memorable, part.
"I thought it was another cameo," she recalls. "I was like what kind of Barbie is it? Tour Guide Barbie? They said, no it's just Barbie and she actually has a part."
"It's Barbie and she meets Ken. And I thought, 'my God, that's great.' "
While Barbie might look like a ditz, Benson wanted to make sure her personality had depth.
"My feeling was to make her smart and loyal and passionate," says Benson."I wanted to make real. Not plastic. She has this external look. Which is not me and I don't think Barbie sees herself this way."
Indeed, Barbie -- while no Buzz Lightyear -- is one of the stand-up heroes of the movie.
Ironically, Benson found out after she did her voice work that the Pixar creators placed the iconic doll right back into the 1980s. "Barbie wears the same workout gear that my original Barbie wore in the 80s," says Benson. "That was the same outfit I wore, with the legwarmers."
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Innovative Vaccine Trains Immune System to Fight Melanoma
Loyola Recruiting Patients for Clinical Trial
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KEYWORDSCancer Vaccine, Immunotherapy, Melanoma, Metastatic Melanoma
Newswise — MAYWOOD, Il. - Loyola University Medical Center is enrolling melanoma patients in the first clinical trial in the Midwest of an experimental vaccine that trains a patient's immune system to fight the deadly cancer.
A batch of the immune system's killer T cells are removed from the patient and genetically modified in a Loyola lab. Two genes are inserted into the T cells so that they will recognize tumor cells as abnormal.
The patient undergoes high-dose chemotherapy to kill most of his or her remaining T cells. This will make room for the genetically modified T cells when they are put back in the patient. The modified T cells, it is hoped, will recognize the tumor cells as abnormal and then attack and kill them.
"This clinical trial is a unique attempt to manipulate a person's own immune system to attack their cancer in a more effective and specific manner," said Joseph Clark, MD, one of the principal investigators of the trial.
The purpose of the Phase 1 trial is to determine the optimum dose and whether the treatment is safe. Four doses will be tested, with the highest dose consisting of about 5 billion genetically modified T cells. If Phase 1 demonstrates the treatment is safe, investigators will proceed to Phase 2, which will determine whether the treatment is effective.
Melanoma is the sixth-most-common cancer in Americans, and the most common fatal malignancy in young adults. Incidence is rising dramatically. About 1 in 50 people will be diagnosed with melanoma. In the 1960s, it was 1 in 600.
Surgery is highly successful if the cancer is caught early. But if the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, the five-year survival rate is only 15 to 20 percent, according to the American Cancer Society.
"This is a terrible, devastating disease," Clark said. "It starts on the skin and can spread to just about anywhere in the body." The clinical trial is open to patients with metastatic melanoma who are no longer responding to standard therapy. "We need better treatments," Clark said. "Our clinical trial is designed for patients who have no other options."
The experimental immune system therapy was developed by Michael I. Nishimura, PhD, director of the Immunotherapeutics Program at Loyola's Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center. The cells will be prepared in the Robert R. McCormick Foundation Center for Cellular Therapy in the Bernardin Cancer Center. Nishimura is principal investigator of a five-year, $16.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. "Our goal is to create novel therapies for the treatment of advanced malignancies," he said.
Additional funding for the trial comes from a National Cancer Institute grant to Lentigen Corp., which makes the vector that delivers the genes to the T cells, and from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the economic stimulus bill).
Clark is a professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology of Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. Nishimura is a professor in the Department of Surgery and associate director of the Oncology Institute of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Other investigators in the trial are Patrick Stiff, MD, director of the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center; Constantine Godellas, MD; Kelli Hutchens, MD; and Caroline Le Poole, PhD.For more information, please call (708) 327-3221.________________________________________


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4130.0.55.001 - Housing Occupancy and Costs, Australia, 2000-01
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More home owners have a mortgage: ABS
The proportion of owner-occupied dwellings with a mortgage or loan secured against the property increased from 40% to 46% in the five years to 2000-01, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
About one-third of this increase is attributable to borrowing primarily for purposes other than housing i.e., to finance other expenditures such as education, cars, holidays etc.
Housing costs are the largest regular item of expenditure for many households and, in 2000-01, mortgagee households' average housing-related mortgage and property rates payments were $220 per week, or 17% of their income.
Households renting privately paid an average rent of $173 per week, or 20% of their income, while those renting public housing paid an average rent of $73 per week, or 18% of their income.
Housing costs vary considerably between capital cities. Sydney households paid the highest private rents ($246 per week) and highest housing-related mortgage payments ($316 per week). Hobart's average housing costs were the lowest at $77 per week, reflecting relatively low mortgages and rents as well as higher rates of outright home ownership.
Sydney had the highest median dwelling value ($320,000) and Hobart the lowest ($130,000).
Almost 1.1 million households had purchased their home in the three years prior to the 2000-01 survey, with the majority (62%) being changeover buyers. The median price paid by changeover buyers was $200,000, compared to a median price of $155,000 paid by first home buyers.
Nearly 80% of recent home buyers bought established homes with a median price of $170,000, compared to a median price of $220,000 for recently bought new dwellings.
Established homes tended, on average, to be slightly smaller than new dwellings (3.1 bedrooms compared to 3.4 bedrooms) reflecting in part the higher proportion of established flats/units being purchased (9% of all recent purchases of established dwellings) compared to new flats/units (4% of all new purchases).
More details are available on the ABS website in Housing Occupancy and Costs, Australian 2000-01 (cat. no. 4130.0.55.001).
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