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The Edelbrock Road Tour Blog 3 - We make it to the Salt
On Thursday morning, with great rockabilly music from the party at Bo Huff's still ringing in our head, the Road Tourians gathered for a group picture at the hotel in Price, Utah. We had become a large group with 35 vehicles and over 50 people. The weather had cooperated all week and all of our spirits were high. Today was the day that we got to Wendover and the Bonneville Speedway for Speed Week..
The trip from Price took us through some beautiful canyons and on to I-15 then I-80 west to Wendover. As you approach Wendover you see the Bonneville Speedway sign on the right. Very far away in the distance out on the salt there are tiny figures visible. The course itself is about 3 miles from the highway. As we got to "the end of the asphalt" we were very excited to see and hear that the salt this year was very hard and very dry. What all this meant was that it would be OK to drive our cars onto the salt and to the course. In past years at times the salt has been moist and would cake onto the underside of the vehicles. This year, if you kept the speed down there was no salt build up. As we rolled on to the salt we got word that the runs were halted temporarily due to high winds on the course. It was still great to be able to see all the cars and teams and activities that surround this spectacle that is put on by Southern California Timing Association. Everyone at SCTA was super friendly and helpful. They seemed to enjoy seeing our street rods as we made our way on the salt. Runs did not resume on Thursday but the town of Wendover was full of activities on Thursday evening. All of the hotels were filled with race cars and spectator vehicles that created a car show everywhere you looked. The Road Tourians had rooms at Montego Bay Resort and the Rainbow, two of the nicest places in town. Thursday evening the city of Wendover, Utah and their City Council put on the first Racer's Appreciation Dinner. Councilman Mike Crawford was instrumental in working out the details for this event and many of the Road Tourians stopped by to say hi.
Friday morning I was up before dawn and out to the salt. There is nothing in our sport that can match the sunrise on the salt at Speedweek. It starts as a glow of red and as the sun rises the men, machines and their mission become very clear and bright. Friday was absolutely indescribable as we spent the day watching cars and motorcycles head down the course in search of a record run. I saw may friends and wished them well. A number of the Road Tourians had pop-up tents and we set up a base camp near the pits. It was a fantastic day and fulfilled the expectations and dreams of all of us that made the journey on the Edelbrock Tour.
Saturday the activities on the Edelbrock Tour continued as we gathered at the Montago Bay Resort parking lot. Plans had been made to get an upclose tour of the new Miller Motorsport facility in nearby Tooele, Utah near Salt Lake City. The folks at Miller were kind enough to send their pace car over to Wendover to lead the pack on the 90 mile run to the track. Dixon Hunt from Miller Motorsport was our tour guide as we got a look at their incredible facility. At noon we were actually able to take a lap in our cars around the 3.5 mile, 24 turn road course. It was a real thrill. After the time at Miller Motorsport we all made a quick stop at our hotel. Saturday evening we went to the Totem Club in Salt Lake City where we met some of the local street rodder and had a great meal.
Sunday morning it was time to go. Folks from back east had headed out earlier for their long journey home. For the west coast folks the trip would be shorter. I headed west as planned. I am leaving the Speed33 at our office in Los Angeles and flying home to Ohio. I will fly back to LA for the final two Road Tour of the season as we travel from Pomona to the NSRA Golden State Nationals on the Sacramento Vintage Ford Tour and then to the California Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield on the NHRA Museum Tour. Check our website or call the Road Tour hotline for all the details on how to join in the fun.
The Edelbrock Tour to Bonneville from the Woodward Dream Cruise was one for the record books. Our thanks go out to all the people and shops that welcomed us along the way. It was an incredible journey down the Yellow Brick Road to the Land of OZ and all who came along will never forget the trip. We are making plans for all the Road Tours next season. It is not official yet but because our fantastic adventure this year it looks like we very well may be making the jouney to the salt again next year.
Hope to see you on a Road Tour,Jerry Dixey


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ROME, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Silvio Berlusconi has recanted a threat to fell the government of Mario Monti, saying his political party would not campaign against the Italian prime minister.
The former premier was convicted last Friday of tax evasion and issued the threat Saturday, Italy's ANSA news agency reported Thursday.
Berlusconi said even though his center-right People of Freedom party would not actively work against Monti, "we are convinced that austerity measures imposed by the European Union have put the economy on an endless, downward spiral."
Italy's financial crisis forced Berlusconi to resign last year.
Berlusconi's threat had drawn criticism from within his own party.
House whip Fabrizio Cicchitto said attempts to bring down the government could shake investor confidence and cause Italy's borrowing rates to go up.
Party secretary Angelino Alfano distanced himself from Berlusconi's remarks Monday, stirring rumors of a party fracture if the ex-premier carried out his threat.
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WASHINGTON - The wait is over. The NFL officially is back in business, collective bargaining agreement and all.
That 4 1/2-month lockout? A thing of the past in every way.
All those players with new contracts who had to sit out practice for a few days? They hit the field with all of their teammates shortly after word spread that football finally had a completely done deal Thursday.
"Were we going to have the opportunity to step on the field today? Was this thing going to linger?" new Minnesota Vikings quarterback Donovan McNabb said, explaining his thoughts while waiting for the OK to fully participate. "Good thing we got this thing settled. And now here we are."
Players ratified a new, 10-year CBA on Thursday, hours after it was finalized, and two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press the contract allows the NFL to eventually become the first major U.S. professional sports league to use blood testing for human growth hormone.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made about the details of the CBA.
Players would be subject to random testing for HGH, in addition to annual checks — as is the case for all banned substances in the league's drug-testing program — only after the union is confident in the way the testing and appeals process will work.
"We have to see if we agree with the test," Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Rashean Mathis said. "If we agree with the test, then it's legit. If not, they have to come up with another one."
The aim is to have everything worked out in time to start HGH testing by Week 1 of the regular season, but that is not guaranteed.
"Everyone in this game has championed making sure drugs aren't involved in our game. So we are finding our way through this," said Indianapolis Colts centre Jeff Saturday, who was one of the players' key negotiators in recent months. "It hasn't been easy, just understanding all the ins and outs of it."
Most of the deal to end the NFL's first work stoppage since 1987 was agreed to last month, but certain elements still needed to be ironed out after the NFL Players Association re-established itself as a union. The union — which dissolved itself in March, when the old CBA expired, allowing players to sue the league in federal court — was again formed by last weekend. Final CBA language was in place Thursday afternoon in talks between the sides' lawyers in Washington.
Not every player welcomed the new CBA with open arms.
"We felt like it was getting shoved down our throats," Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Willie Colon said. "Our players reps (weren't) comfortable with it ... We're not going to just file it away the way other teams do."
When the union informed the league that the NFLPA's team reps voted to approve the final agreement, it meant players who signed contracts July 26 or after — and had been forced by NFL rules to sit out practices for days — could join teammates in drills Thursday, as the new "league year" officially began.
"We were like little kids in Pop Warner who didn't make weight, just standing around," said McNabb, who restructured his contract when he was traded to Minnesota by the Washington Redskins.
A little after 5 p.m., the NFL's website about the labour dispute was shut down. Later Thursday evening, the federal court in Minnesota that was the venue for the antitrust suit filed by Tom Brady and other players, as well as a TV networks "lockout insurance" case, officially deemed those cases dismissed.
As a final, formal step, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith will sign the CBA at the front steps of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on Friday morning. That's where the only game cancelled by the lockout was supposed to be played Sunday between the Bears and Rams.
Among the CBA elements that were settled this week: parameters for penalties associated with on-field discipline and new disability program guidelines. Under a new neuro-cognitive disability benefit, for example, players do not have to prove that their mental disability was related to playing football.
For on-field offences — which grabbed headlines last season when the league made a point of enforcing existing rules about illegal hits more strictly — the NFLPA must be consulted before a player is suspended or fined more than $50,000. And players now will be able to argue on appeal that a fine is excessive if it exceeds 25 per cent of one week's pay for a first offence or 50 per cent of a week's pay for a second offence.
The off-field conduct policy remains largely unchanged and in Goodell's hands.
The most significant new item in Thursday's agreement, though, is the HGH testing, which was the last topic holding things up.
Goodell has been keen to have players tested for HGH, saying in an interview with the AP in August 2010: "It's about the integrity of the game."
"We think it's important to have HGH testing, to make sure we ensure that we can take performance-enhancing substances out of the game," Goodell said then.
Preventing athletes from using HGH is considered a key target in the anti-doping movement. The substance is hard to detect, and athletes are believed to choose HGH for a variety of benefits, whether they be real or only perceived — including increasing speed and improving vision.
Last year, Major League Baseball implemented random blood testing for HGH in the minors, making it the first U.S. professional sports league to take that aggressive step against doping. Baseball was able to impose that on players with minor league contracts because they are not members of the players' association, which means blood testing is not subject to collective bargaining.
Gary Wadler, who until this year led the World Anti-Doping Agency's committee that considers which substances should be banned in sports, cautioned Thursday that it will be important to find out the specifics that eventually are agreed to by the NFL and players.
"You can get a sound bite out of saying the NFL and NFLPA have adopted a blood-testing policy. You can say, 'That's pretty good,' and forget the rest of the story," Wadler said in a telephone interview. "But the devil's in the details. The rest of the story might be equivalent to having no testing at all."


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We're very pleased to announce that the winners of this year's Emerging Talent Competition are Leeds band Ellen And The Escapades, who wowed the judges on Saturday night with their beguiling alt-folk. The band win a main stage slot at this year's Festival.
Said the band: "When we got the call telling us we'd won, the reaction was shock first, then tears, manic laughter and whoops of joy! Massive thanks to everyone there: we loved the whole Pilton experience and winning is the sweetest icing on an already awesome cake!"
Said the judges: "The standard of the acts was fantastic over the whole weekend, but in the end it was a unanimous decision. Ellen And The Escapades gave a wonderful performace, driven by great songwriting and Ellen's stunning voice. We're really looking forward to seeing them down here at the Festival in June."
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Spinal Tap stars reunite for series
Chris O'Dowd is to head the cast of a new BBC "mockumentary" series which will reunite the stars of hit movies such as This Is Spinal Tap and Best In Show.
Family Tree, which is to be screened by BBC2 next year, will also feature actress and ventriloquist Nina Conti.
The film will once more bring together Spinal Tap stars Michael McKean and Christopher Guest, who co-wrote and created the series. Other names who have figured in their films, such as Fred Willard and Don Lake, are also in the cast of the eight-part series.
It follows character Tom Chadwick, played by O'Dowd, who tries to unravel his family history after inheriting a box of belongings from a relative.
Guest - who created and scripted the show with British actor and writer Jim Piddock - is noted for his documentary-style, semi-improvised films.
Family Tree, a co-production with US firm HBO, is currently being made in the UK and it will be screened in the spring.
Irish star O'Dowd said: "I'm terribly excited and monumentally under-qualified to work on an improvised show with Chris Guest."
Guest joked: "Chris O'Dowd has been on my radar ever since he was a child actor in Wales."
BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow said: "I am delighted to welcome Christopher Guest to BBC television. It will be his first television series for British audiences and one I am proud to have here on the BBC."
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This small wooden panel is possibly an engagement portrait of Princess Emilia of Saxony (1516 - 1591). In 1532, at the age of sixteen, she married Georg Hohenzollern, the second son of the Margave of Ansbach-Brandenburg. Saxony was a powerful German dukedom which traditionally appointed one of the seven Electors of the Holy Roman Emperor. Ansbach, although a smaller state, was growing in importance through successful alliances and advantageous marriages. Georg (1484 - 543), in addition to being a Hohenzollern was related to the Hapsburg family through one grandmother. He was also related to Emilia through his other grandmother, Anne of Saxony. The marriage was presumably beneficial to both families.
The picture may have been painted some years before Emilia's marriage. It was not uncommon at this time for both royalty and the aristocracy to betroth their children to potential allies whilst they were still very young. The actual marriage would take place when children reached maturity. The portrait becomes therefore almost a legal record of the betrothal.
Husband and wife portraits were often painted in pairs. It is possible that there was a matching picture of Georg that is now lost. However in such pairs of portraits it is usual for the wife to face to left or right as though looking towards her spouse. Emilia's very direct frontal gaze suggests that this was a single commission and not one of a pair. In the unromantic, calculating brokering of dynastic advantage that surrounded the union of Emilia and Georg, is it possible that her beloved kept the picture whilst he awaited her growth to maturity?
There are several symbolic indications in the portrait of Princess Emilia's engagement and of her impending absorption into her future husband's family. On her bodice there are a pair of clasped hands, indicative of love. It has also been suggested that it is possibly the badge or insignia of a religious fraternity or brotherhood to which her future husband Georg belonged. One of her necklaces is made of a series of rings that also include clasped hands. Another necklace includes enamel badges of the coat of arms of her husband interspersed with gold decorated bunches of wheat or corn that are suggestive of the hoped-for fertile outcome of the marriage. On her hat there are other metal - possibly silver - badges with her initials and those of her husband's title.
Princess Emilia is very fashionably dressed in this portrait. Her dress is made of rich brocade. Her high forehead - shaved to accentuate its prominence - was also fashionable. Her hat has a circle of very expensive black ostrich feathers.
Stylistically the portrait is very reminiscent of the portraits of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) who was court painter to the Elector of Saxony from 1505. Cranach's distinctive large-headed, high-foreheaded, narrow-shouldered smiling women became almost the standard type of female portraiture in parts of Germany and Austria during the first half of the 16th century. The style was carried on by Lucas's two sons who also worked for various German courts. It is worth looking at the mythological painting by Cranach entitled 'The Nymph of the Fountain' which can be seen hanging on the opposite wall to this picture. The face of the nymph is similarly proportioned to that of Princess Emilia. A triple portrait by Lucas Cranach of Emilia, aged 19 and her sisters Sidonia and Sibylla was painted in 1535 and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In the Vienna portrait Emilia wears a similar large 'figure of eight' type of necklace to that in the Walker's picture.
Hans Krell (1490-1565), to whom this picture is attributed, was never as famous as his great contemporary Cranach. During his lifetime, however, he too enjoyed considerable patronage in both Bohemia and Germany. His ability to adapt his style to the dominant fashions in portraiture may have been advantageous.
In 1537 Emilia gave birth to Georg Friedrich Hohenzollern, who succeeded as Margave of Ansbach upon the death of his father in 1544 and also became Duke of Prussia in 1577. With his death in 1603 this older branch of the Hohenzollern family died out. The branch of the family that then came to prominence were subsequently rulers of Prussia and ultimately Kaisers of Germany.
The Walker's picture, like several others from this period in the gallery, was originally owned by the Liverpool philanthropist, banker and scholar William Roscoe. Roscoe bought it in 1812 from a dealer for seven guineas, at which time it was entitled 'A portrait of The Artist's Wife' by Lucas Cranach.
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On days of inclement weather, there is the possibility of starting school two hours late. By doing so, it makes for much safer travel - it allows the county and state road crews more time to clear roads and provides increased daylight for children walking to and from bus stops and school.
If the weather worsens, there is always the possibility a late start could be changed to a school closure.
If weather becomes inclement after school has started, a decision may be made to close school early. At the elementary level, students will not be released from school until direct contact has been made with an adult authorized on the student's enrollment form.
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A two-hour delay will mean that your bus will be at each stop two hours later.
NOTE: Whenever there is a two hour delay on late start Wednesdays, Lincoln High School follows the Wednesday late start schedule - School starts at 10 a.m. Port Angeles High School/Stevens buses will run on a regular-day schedule, just two hours late, if a two hour delay is called on late start Wednesdays.
After-school programs, extra-curricular activities and special events are on hold status until a determination is made by the Superintendent and Athletic Director. There will be no preschool programs.
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Baker Farm Rd and Monroe Rd.: Rt. #14 High School/Roosevelt- will pick up at Monroe and Draper Rd. at 7:10 a.m. Rt. #4 Stevens - will pick up at Monroe and Draper Rd. at 7:43 a.m.
Golf Course Road South of Lindberg: Rt. #5 Roosevelt/Stevens will be picked up at Golf Course and Lindberg at 7:17 a.m.
Ennis Creek Road: Rt. #16 High School will pick up at Hwy 101 & PUD 6:52 a.m. Rt. #5 Roosevelt will pick up at Baker and Ennis Creek Road at 7:21. Rt. #3 Stevens will pick up at Baker & 7th at 7:39 a.m.
Mt. Angeles Road South of Scrivner: Rt. #6 High School/Stevens/Franklin will turn around at Scrivner Road and Mt. Angeles Road at 7:00 a.m.
Lake Dawn and Hurricane Ridge Road: Rt. 6 High School/Stevens/Franklin will pick up at Mt. Angeles Road and Campbell Avenue at 6:55 a.m.
Old Mill Road South of Rhodes Road: Rt. #6 High School/Stevens/Franklin will turn around at Old Mill and Rhodes Road at 7:19 a.m.
Black Diamond Road South of 702 Black Diamond Road: Rt. #9 High School/Stevens/Dry Creek will pick up at Black Diamond and South End of Old Black Diamond Road at 6:58 a.m.
Eden Valley Road: Rt. #11 High School/Stevens/Dry Creek will pick up at Eden Valley and Hwy 112 at 6:45.
Dan Kelley Rd: Rt. #11 High School/Stevens/Dry Creek will pick up at Dan Kelley and Hwy 112 at 6:55.
Herrick Road: Rt. #12 High School/Stevens/Dry Creek will pick up at Herrick Road and Hwy. 101 at 6:50 a.m.
Bluffs Area: Rt. #1 High School/Stevens/Roosevelt - No Montrose Place; will pick up at Juan de Fuca Way & Bluffs @ 6:56 a.m.


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MyNetFone's CEO has rebuked Malcolm Turnbull's claims the Coalition could deliver a cheaper model for the National Broadband Network (NBN), stating the cost of maintaining the copper network will add to a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment.
While Rene Sugo conceded the shadow minister for communications and broadband's approach of using fibre-to-the-node would be cheaper, he has called on the Coalition to provide analysis and research on what speeds would be guaranteed on a FTTN network.
"There are lots of issues around using the copper which will add cost or degrade the level of service that will be delivered by a fibre-to-the-node solution," he told Computerworld Australia.
Turnbull has consistently stated the Coalition could deliver a cheaper NBN – and sooner - than the one currently being rolled out by the Federal Government via fibre-to-the-node (FTTN), which would result in cheaper prices for consumers as NBN Co would not need as high a return on investment.
"Fibre-to-the-node, around the world, costs between one quarter and one third of fibre-to-the-premises. That is the experience in North America and Europe. And in Australia with very high labor costs the differential would likely be even more," he said in a blog post.
Turnbull did not state how much cheaper the Coalition could deliver the NBN.
Not only will a FTTN deployment also result in higher long-term costs, Sugo also said the quality and validity of Australia's copper network, which provides the last mile between the network node and premises, is one of the biggest challenges for ISPs at the moment.
"The copper is very old. In some areas there isn't enough of it. In other areas it's really bad quality and if it rains you get service issues. Sometimes you get people up the road from one another having totally different speeds available and it's all because of the copper," he said.
"I think the reason we need a new NBN is to provide a truly universal service … If you're looking at relying on the existing copper network you're going to inherent all of the quality issues that we have today. I don't see a way around it."
Sugo also cited the availability of the copper network as an additional issue, with companies like Telstra using pair gain technology which allows the telco to provide two phones on one piece of copper.
"Once you have pair gain technology you can't offer DSL or any form of broadband out of that copper," Sugo said.
"Telstra's also using what's called RIMs, which is a remote module. If there's a new estate built out in [the] metro surrounding the city, they'll put a RIM in there. RIMs don't have 100 per cent capability to offer DSL or broadband."
Sugo said wireless is also an unviable solution for connecting a large number of premises to the NBN due to spectrum limitations, particularly in high density areas.
"You've got to keep in mind if [regional] areas do over populate with houses or apartment blocks you will need to start putting fibre in at some stage in the future," he said.
"Certainly fibre-to-the-node in a lot of areas around Sydney, Melbourne or [any] capital city where the copper is old, unless they're planning on replacing the copper, I think they're going to have problems."
Turnbull also argued that if technology can deliver broadband requirements to premises at the moment, it makes sense to deploy it now instead of waiting to deliver maximum potential bandwidth. However, Sugo said Australia needs scalable NBN technology which will help the country plan for broadband growth.
"We need technology that is scalable and the beauty about fibre and optics is that it's almost infinitely scalable. You can use DWDM [dense wave division mulitplexing] technology [and] they're improving the bitrate on fibre all the time as well so there's so much technical advancement there," he said.
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There have been many cases in which foreigners were able, perhaps because they tend to be more objective, to identify risks earlier than locals. Despite the claims of the traditional China bulls, there is a great deal of worry among China economists living and working in China about the sustainability of the current growth model, and top officials too have made it obvious that they see the need for reform as urgent.
The Chinese growth model, as I have pointed out many times before, is not radically new. It is based primarily on the growth model developed by Japan in the 20th Century. It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the "American System" of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years. There is, in other words, actually quite a lot that we know and understand about the model, even if many of us seem to have forgotten much of it – including its typical weaknesses, one of the most obvious of which is the tendency for over-investment in the late stages of the miracle-growth period leading to an unsustainable increase in debt.
More importantly, the claim that "foreign" skepticism lacks credibility precisely because it is foreign has very little historical support. There have been many cases in which foreigners were able, perhaps because they tend to be more objective, to identify risks earlier than locals. The real estate boom in the US before the 2007-08 crisis, for example, was widely discussed by worried European economists for years, and Paul Krugman, a foreigner, was famously skeptical about the Japanese and Asia miracles at a time when most analysts, local or foreign, regarded such skepticism as evidence of either ignorance or ulterior motives (his work was based at least in part on earlier work by Alwyn Young, another foreigner).
Dismissing the credibility of skepticism about the Chinese miracle because it is foreign, in other words, has little in the history of economic analysis to support it. But the real reason why it is completely nonsensical is that it is simply not true. Among China economists living and working in China there is a great deal of worry about the sustainability of the growth model, and this has been the case for many years – so much so that former Premier Wen groused publicly about these issues long before most foreign analysts had doubts about the sustainability of the growth model, and he did so based on Chinese analysis, not foreign. Just as clearly, Premier Li has made it obvious that he sees the need for reform as urgent, and it is hard to believe that he would consider this to be such an urgent need if Chinese economists as a group were as oblivious to the risks and as optimistic as the traditional China bulls claim they are.
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In fact I think until the recent shift in sentiment abroad, there was even more skepticism about the long-term functioning of the growth model within China than abroad, and one has only to read magazines like Caixin, and even the occasional article in the People's Daily, to see how vigorous the debate is. It is true that sentiment abroad has shifted remarkably in the last year or two, but this reflects, in my opinion, the fact that foreign observers are not as close to events on the ground as are locals. Until about 2009-10, it was widely believed abroad that China's growth model was functioning well – brilliantly, in fact – and that China would continue to grow at 9-10% a year for the next decade or longer.
Within China, however, most economists that I speak to were far more pessimistic. I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior US or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions. In those days, I would argue, skepticism was disproportionately to be found among Chinese economists, and not foreign economists.
The Real Difference In Opinion
This is a good thing, of course. If Chinese economists were nearly as oblivious to China's problems as the China bulls claim they are, we would have reason to be truly worried about the country's prospects. In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.
It is important to note however that nothing has really changed substantially in the past few years. The problems China is facing today should have all been expected, but we shouldn't be so quick either to expect an imminent collapse in the Chinese economy or, even as China continues to slow sharply, an awful impact on the rest of the world.
The former bulls are using this shift in global sentiment to shift the goalposts somewhat. They now claim that the fundamental disagreement between China bulls and China skeptics is that the skeptics have been predicting an imminent collapse in the Chinese economy for several years – which of course has not happened – and that they are demanding that Beijing take policy steps which will force an adjustment in the Chinese economy such that consumption will immediately surge and investment immediately drop to "acceptable" levels.
But the serious debate has not been about whether or not China's collapse is imminent. The disagreement was whether or not investment misallocation and the repression of household income growth were fundamental to the Chinese growth model. The bulls argued that they were not, and that while poor investment decisions and low consumption growth could indeed exist, these could be addressed administratively within the model and did not require radical reforms that would essentially result in an abandoning of the growth model.
The skeptics argued that these were indeed fundamental to the model, and that worsening imbalances and an unsustainable rise in debt would be the inevitable and automatic outcome of maintaining current policies. For the bulls, although only after it became clear that debt was indeed growing too fast, debt problems are specific and localized problems created by irresponsible behavior on the part of individual actors, and they can be addressed by administrative measures on the part of the regulators. The skeptics, however, disagree. It doesn't matter how strongly the regulators clamp down on one sector or the other, high growth rates – the skeptics argue – necessarily mean that debt is rising at an unsustainable pace no matter how vigilant the regulators. Our conclusion was that unless the investment-driven growth model were abandoned, it would lead inexorably to a debt crisis.
The heart of the bull argument until one or two years ago was that a radical adjustment was not necessary. The skeptics argued that it was, and, against the fervent advice of the bulls, they warned that the longer it took to implement the necessary adjustments the more difficult it would be. It is precisely the disagreement over whether or not major structural adjustments were even necessary that separated the skeptics from the bulls.
I wish this were just about bragging rights, but it is not. The bulls have been forced to recognize the inevitable consequences of the existing growth model, although some have resisted longer than others, but many of them still don't get it. They don't seem to understand that what is needed is not implementation of the "right" administrative strategies to fix the problems of debt, investment and consumption, and they mistakenly believe that China has plenty of time to implement these strategies.
Most dangerously of all, the bulls think that China can fix its problems while growing at 7% or 7.5% – which is better than the 8% they used to think is the minimum acceptable, although worse than the 6% they will undoubtedly cite next year as the minimal acceptable growth rate. But these growth rates, the skeptics argue, are impossible. In order that Beijing get its arms around credit growth and reduce the extent of wasted investment, GDP growth rates – the skeptics argue – must drop considerably, although since rebalancing means that household income must grow faster than GDP, it will not be nearly as painful as the bulls think it will be.
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The issue about how much China's GDP growth must slow in order to accommodate the necessary adjustment is probably the key difference between the bulls and the skeptics. Contrary to the new argument put forward by the old bulls, the problems of debt, investment and consumption in China are not new and unexpected, they are not just the normal growing pains associated with rapid growth in an otherwise healthy developing economy, they are not simply individual problems caused by irresponsible behavior, and they cannot be addressed except with far more radical changes than the bulls acknowledge.
Radical Change Versus Administrative Change
What's more, and the various skeptics' analyses have explained why, the changes China needs will necessarily create strong political opposition within the system. Arguments by former bulls that the real debate between the bulls and the skeptics is all just about whether China collapses in the next few months or not, weaken the case for reform and will, I suspect, make it harder for Li and the reformers to force through the necessary changes. These changes – and I don't know if the bulls understand this or not – must come primarily at the expense of the political and economic elite, and I don't just mean that there must be less corruption, as New York Time columnist Tom Friedman, another former bull, and among the most excitable of the lot, is now arguing.
Anyone who understands the fundamental problem with the growth model that China has pursued, which has many historical precedents, and why its great success in the 1980s and 1990s could not be sustained once certain parameters were breached, as they inevitably must be, also knows that until those parameters were breached, the interests of the elite and of overall growth for the economy were more or less aligned. Since then, they are in opposite directions. This is why the period of adjustment after rapid growth has always been the most difficult stage for a developing country, and one that very, very few countries have successfully managed, and why it will be particularly difficult for China, and this is why corruption – although perhaps of enormous social and political consequence – is not the fundamental problem.
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The debate about China continues to rage, although it has taken a strange twist. No one doubts anymore that China's imbalances threaten the success of the growth model and some are even insisting – very prematurely, in my opinion – that China has clearly failed and will face a collapse (whatever that means). I think the key division now, however, is over debt and over the recognition of previous losses. The bulls have retreated from many of their more fantastic predictions but they mistakenly think that the problem of debt is localized, and not systemic, and can be administratively resolved by the regulators. They also seem to ignore the possibility that there is an enormous amount of mispriced assets on the balance sheets of the banks and that these losses have to be assigned to some sector of the economy or the other, and that this assignation is at heart a political process.
The skeptics believe that an unsustainable rise in debt is key to continued growth in the economy and do not believe that it can be resolved administratively. High growth means, by definition, that debt is rising unsustainably. The bulls say that growth has bottomed out at 7% or 7.5% and that China can restructure the economy, rebalance towards consumption, and arrest the credit expansion while keeping growth rates above 7% or close to 7%. The skeptics argue that this is impossible, and to the extent that Beijing takes steps to keep growth rates high, it simply increases the risk of a debt crisis and economic collapse.
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Last year in one of my posts I argued that although I remained very skeptical about the sustainability of the China growth model I nonetheless believed that China bulls could make a plausible argument but were failing to do so largely because they did not address the three questions that were fundamental to the debate on the sustainability of the Chinese growth model. These questions are:
- How much debt is there whose real cost exceeds the economic value created by the debt, which sector of the economy will pay for the excess, and what is the mechanism that will ensure the necessary wealth transfer?
- What projects can we identify that will allow hundreds of billions of dollars, or even trillions of dollars, of investment whose wealth creation in the short and medium term will exceed the real cost of the debt, and what is the mechanism for ensuring that these investments will get made?
- What mechanism can be implemented to increase the growth rate of household consumption?
I think these continue to remain the key questions if the bulls are going to be credible.
No More Stopped Clocks, Please
Before closing allow me – perhaps a little foolishly – to display a little peeve. For many years before 2007-9 a few analysts have warned that rising consumer credit in the US and peripheral Europe was unsustainable. They warned that rising debt to support misallocated investment in China was also unsustainable. They warned that soaring US mortgages backed by little more than the hope that land prices could only rise would lead to a real estate crisis. They warned that commodity-exporting countries that did not hedge their bets would find themselves in serious trouble when commodity prices collapsed.
Of course you could not have had a bubble unless the majority of analysts disagreed with these warnings, and most analysts did indeed disagree. So what happened when the warnings turned out to be right? Obviously enough the mistaken bulls publicly acknowledged that their models were incorrect and promised to hit the economic history books so that they never again would be so foolish.
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Just kidding. What actually happened is that the former bulls immediately trotted out the stopped-clock analogy. The reason the worriers turned out to be right, they earnestly explained, is that they are perma-bears, and as everyone knows a stopped clock will always be right twice a day. This doesn't mean, however, that models used by the worriers were right and the models used by the bulls were wrong, so of course there is no need for the bulls to change their models.
As China's growth continues to slow and as its debt problems become obvious to even the most bullish, the stopped clock analogy is working overtime. How does it work? First, we must assume that there are only two possible positions one can take on China's economy. The "bull" position is that China is in very good shape and is more or less doing everything right, even though (the remaining bulls have been adding lately) its economic growth must slow down a little. The "bear" position is that China must collapse within six months.
Second, we then point out that China hasn't collapsed yet, and so the fundamental analysis was wrong. Of course China is slowing, as even the most fervent bulls acknowledge, and just as the bears said it would, but this, the bulls claim, had to happen eventually and has nothing to do with the analysis.
Of course this is just dumb. There are other far more likely alternatives for China that involve neither perpetual double-digit growth nor collapse. For example, I have been skeptical about the sustainability of the Chinese growth model since at least 2006-7 but I have never argued that China would collapse, let alone collapse within six months. My argument is that China's growth model, which is not at all unique and for which there are many historical precedents, is usually wealth enhancing in its early stages, and then becomes wealth destroying once capital is systematically misallocated. When that happens, debt rises at an unsustainable pace until we reach debt capacity limits, in which case the country will have a debt crisis. I have usually estimated that it would reach debt capacity limits around 2016-18 but now I think it is likely to happen earlier.
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However I never believed China would hit those limits, or have a debt crisis, because I was fairly sure that Beijing would begin adjusting earlier. It is during the adjustment period that I expected growth to drop sharply, to 3-4% as the upper limit.
Regular readers know how often I gripe about the superficiality of those analysts who don't see why describing a growth model that is generating an unsustainable increase in debt is not the same thing as predicting a collapse in six months. Debt can rise unsustainably for many years before the debt burden itself becomes unsustainable – after all it is not true that those who worried about the rise of consumer credit in the US in the mid 2000s were "wrong" until the stopped clock eventually was right.
This strikes me as an incredibly superficial analysis, explained only by the fact that many of us expect economic analysis merely to predict whether the stock market will rise or fall this week. Those who worried about rising consumer credit in the US were not wrong every single year until 2007-8, when they accidentally became right. They were right every single year, and were proven right in 2007. Those who have been arguing that China is experiencing an unsustainable increase in debt have not been wrong every quarter that China has not collapsed. They are almost certainly right and it is hard even for the most foolish of bulls any longer to deny it.
An analysis that points to an unsustainable trend is always right if the trend turned out indeed to be unsustainable. The fact that it may have taken many years before the limits were reached is not an indication that the model was wrong. It is simply how the economy works.
This is why I get very annoyed with people who were obviously wrong when they dismiss people who were obviously right by referring to the stopped clock that is always right twice a day. Whenever a bull defends himself with the stopped-clock analogy, it suggests to me that he is likely to be an economic illiterate – and completely wrong to boot.
By Michael Pettis
Michael Pettis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Asia Programme and professor of finance with Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. Pettis previously taught at Tsinghua University and Columbia University, and worked on Wall Street in trading, capital markets and corporate finance.
This is an abbreviated version of The changing debate over China's economy republished with permission from China Financial Markets.
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How To: Change a Sprinkler Nozzle (Part 2)
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The items that we will be using for today's project include an assortment of nozzles, and then the tool for the appropriate nozzle, and then finally there's a collar. You can find these tools at a local dealership that specializes in irrigation equipment or at someplace like Lowe's or Home Depot.
Alright. So, now we're in the field, and this head has already been installed. So, it's in the ground, and what I need to do is change the nozzle on it because I did have the wrong size nozzle initially. It's probably a number 2 nozzle, and that wouldn't be big enough for a 360 degree radius - which is what we are using. Instead I'm going to put in a number 6 nozzle, so I've selected a nozzle. It's a number 6 nozzle.
And, we are going to go ahead and use the little tool. This happens to be a K-Rain. So, I'm gonna use the tool for picking that up. We'll lift it out of the ground, and in order to make it easier to make that installation, I am going to go ahead and use this collar to hold this in the upright position. So, I'll set it down here, and it's going to drop down to the point where it hits the collar. So, it's going to be hard to see.
So, I'm going to unscrew the little set screw that's in there until it gets to the point where I can remove the nozzle. It feels like it's up high enough. I'll take a quick look at it. I think I'll lift this up. What we do is, we'll grab the nozzle, and then just kind of gently pull it out. So, there's the old nozzle, and we'll take the new one with the little wings up toward the top - the tabs. And, that screw of course has to go in where those tabs are. So, we want to make sure that we put it in so that it kind of lines up with the screw tabs. So, it's right about there, and then we push it in all the way. Such that when we turn the screw in it will hold that in place. I'll turn this around, and then we'll look at it to see that it's going to the right place. Push it in a little further. Okay. I'm going to keep going. Uh, looks like that's down far enough to hold it in place. Shouldn't be any problem. I'll take the collar off and let it pop down.
So, that's the way we adjust the irrigation heads. I'm Peter Gallagher with State-by-State Gardening.


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This easy, 30-minute lasagna soup gives you all the rich flavor of your favorite lasagna minus the work. The soup is hearty and comforting but not as heavy as traditional lasagna, and just like traditional lasagna it tastes even better the next day after the flavors marry. Juicy tomatoes are combined with onions, garlic, oregano, basil, and parsley for great depth of flavor. The melted cheese on top just makes my day. I used hot sausage to provide a big boost of flavor, but use mild sausage if you prefer. Make sure to salt your soup to taste
YIELD: about 10 cups PREP TIME: 10 minutes COOK TIME: about 20 minutes TOTAL TIME: 30 minutes
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 pound Johnsonville Fresh Italian Hot Ground Sausage (de-cased Johnsonville Fresh Italian Hot Sausage Links or mild sausage may be substituted)
- 2 cups sweet Vidalia or yellow onion, peeled and diced small (about 1 large onion)
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely minced
- 48 ounces (6 cups) low-sodium chicken broth
- one 14.5-ounce cans diced tomatoes and juice (I used petite diced, no-salt-added)
- one 14.5-ounce can fire roasted tomatoes and juice
- 2 rounded tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 or 3 bay leaves
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 1 to 2 teaspoons salt, or to taste
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, optional and to taste
- 8 ounces lasagna noodles (about 10 noodles), broken into bite-sized pieces
- 1/3 cup fresh Italian flat-leaf parsley leaves (discard stems), finely minced
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
- 1 cup parmesan cheese, divided
1-To a large Dutch oven or stockpot, add the olive oil, sausage, onions, and sauté for about 8 minutes over medium-high heat, or until sausage is cooked through and onions are lightly golden browned.
Stir and flip intermittently.
2-Add the garlic and sauté for 1 to 2 minutes. Stir intermittently.
3-Add the chicken broth, both kinds of tomatoes and juice, tomato paste, bay leaves, oregano, basil, salt, pepper, optional cayenne pepper, noodles, and bring to a boil. Allow mixture to boil gently for about 15 minutes, or until noodles are tender and done. If at any point the overall liquid level looks low or you prefer your soup to have more broth, add 1 to 2 cups of water or additional chicken broth; you'll adjust the salt and seasoning levels at the end. Stir intermittently.
4-Add the parsley, stir to combine, and boil 1 minute.
5-Taste soup and add salt to taste. This will vary based on how salty the sausage, chicken broth, tomatoes, and tomato paste are, and personal preference. Make any necessary seasoning adjustments (i.e. more salt, pepper, spices, etc.). Remove bay leaves.
6-Preheat oven to the broiler setting.
7-Ladle soup into oven-safe bowls and top each bowl with about 1/3 cup mozzarella and 2 tablespoons parmesan. Place bowls on a baking sheet and set under the broiler. Broil for about 1 minute or until cheese is melted and is as lightly golden browned as desired. Keep a very watchful eye so that it doesn't burn which can happen in seconds.
8-Serve immediately. Ungarnished soup (no cheese added) will keep airtight in the fridge for 5 to 7 days or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Recipe from Averie Cooks.


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Pac-12 Morning Five: 01.11.12 EditionPosted by AMurawa on January 11th, 2012
- Washington had all sorts of trouble finishing off "the best 3-10 team in America" on Tuesday night, as they were tied with Seattle with less than five minutes to play before sealing up an eight-point win. The Huskies made their hay by getting to the line. Repeatedly. No really. A lot. Like 59 times. The fact that they missed 22 of those attempts certainly kept the game a lot closer than it should have been, but give credit to Seattle and their head coach Cameron Dollar (who will someday be a head coach in the Pac-12, mark my words) for fighting to the end. Tony Wroten shook off an awful game against Utah on Saturday with 24 points and 18 trips to the free-throw line, but he still turned the ball over six times and made a couple bad decisions down the stretch. C.J. Wilcox also bounced back from his worst game of the season by going for 25 points and drilling four threes. The Huskies get back to conference play on Saturday by hosting Washington State.
- In a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Herb Sendek touched on his decision to dismiss Keala King from the Arizona State team. His comment that "sometimes when you're a part of a team, you have to make sacrifices and play positions that maybe aren't ideal" indicates that King was upset at having to play the point after freshman Jahii Carson was declared ineligible and transfer Chris Colvin didn't pan out as the lead guard. King wasn't really cut out to be a point guard (he turned the ball over on more than 28% of his team's possession – a far sight better than Colvin's 34%), but he appeared to be the best of a bad lot. Now, Sendek turns to junior Trent Lockett at the point. Lockett isn't an ideal candidate for the point either (he turned it over 11 times in ASU's two games last weekend, but did hand out eight assists), but at this point, he's the only legitimate option Sendek has.
- For the first month, maybe five weeks, of his freshman year at Arizona, Nick Johnson looked like anything but a freshman. He played with a confidence and a consistency that belied his year. But, here we are in January and Johnson has but up clunkers in four of his last five games and seems to have lost all confidence in his jumper last week in Southern California, hitting just three of his 15 field goal attempts and missing all six of his three-point attempts. But Johnson remains cool and collected and expects to work through this slump and come out better for it on the other side.
- Johnson's teammate, Kyle Fogg, has seen a slump or two in his day too, but now a senior, he is climbing up all manner of career lists in Tucson. When he started on Sunday against USC, it was his 101st career start, moving him into ninth place on the all-time Wildcat list, tied with Steve Kerr and Reggie Geary. If he continues to start the rest of the year, he'll have a good chance to pass Salim Stoudamire and Channing Frye to move into fifth place, but Jason Gardner's record of 135 career starts is completely safe.
- Beginning to look ahead to the weekend, Oregon point guard Jonathan Loyd is questionable for the Ducks' Thursday night game at Arizona State, after sustaining a bruised knee in Sunday's loss to California. He may test his knee in practice today, but it looks like he may be a game-time decision tomorrow night. If Loyd is unable to go, Devoe Joseph and Garrett Sim will be the only two guards available to Dana Altman who have averaged more than 10 minutes per game. Freshman Brett Kingma, a three-point specialist who has struggled with his shot, would be the guard most likely to pick up the extra minutes if Loyd is out.


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Shares of software development tools vendor Progress Software (PRGS) are down 65 cents, or 3%, at $21, after the company this afternoon reportedfiscal Q1 revenue that slightly missed analysts' estimates, and profit that was in line with consensus, projected revenue and profit this quarter below expectations, but forecast the year's revenue higher.
Revenue in the three months ended in February fell 11%, year over year, to $74.5 million, yielding EPS of 28 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $76 million and 28 cents per share.
CEO Phil Read remarked that "While our first quarter financial results fell short of our expectations, we remain confident in our strategy and in the value that our technologies provide to customers and partners."
"We continue to invest in our business as we review areas where we can improve our execution. We remain committed to creating shareholder value and achieving our goal of becoming a leading PaaS and on-premise solutions provider."
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue in a range of $78 million to $80 million, and EPS in a range of 32 cents to 35 cents. That compares to the average estimate for $82 million and 35 cents.
For the full year, the company sees revenue of $331 million to $338 million, which is above the average estimate for $332 million.


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Friday Traffic Updates and Construction Delays
Northwest Arkansas (KFSM) :
Fayetteville- Armstrong Ave. – Stone Bridge Road will see delays in construction zones while crews widen State Highway 16 from two lanes to four lanes with sidewalks and bike lanes. Traffic signals will be installed at three intersections. Should be complete by early 2015.
I-49– Slowdowns expected in Washington County as crews work to widen the Johnson Mill Blvd. overpass and access ramps on Interstate 49. This project is expected to be completed later this year.
Hwy 112-Spur will see delays. It's being widened from two to four lanes. Construction will continue until the end of 2014.
Fayetteville- HWY 112 (Razorback Rd) is under construction for widening from MLK to Nettleship.
Fayetteville- Weir Rd between Howard Nickell Rd and Salem Rd will be closed through September 16th.
Fayetteville- Spring St between School Ave and West will be closed as well as School Ave between Dickson St and Spring St until June 30th, 2015. A new parking garage is under construction.
Hwy 16– near Porter Rd. will see delays. The project plans to widen portions of I-49 to six lanes.
Hwy 265- Delays are expected while crews widen portions of Hwy. 265 from E. Joyce Blvd in Fayetteville to the Hwy. 412 exit in Springdale. This project is expected to be completed in mid-2015.
Highfill (XNA)- North entrance to airport will be limited to one lane due to a construction project. Allow extra time if you're headed to the airport. Project completion date is set as August 25th.
Hwy 264– Delays are expected near the Wagon Wheel exit of Interstate 49 due to an ongoing Hwy. improvement project. The purpose of this project is to widen 2.5 miles of Interstate 49 to three lanes in Benton County.
Prairie Grove- Portions of the Hwy. 62 bypass will see delays while crews work on construct east and west connections. This project will be completed in Mid-2014.
Bella Vista Bypass- Delays are expected on Hwy. 72 due to a highway land widening project. This construction is expected to conclude in early 2016.
Centerton- Delays are expected near Greenhouse Road on Hwy. 102B while crews widen nearly two miles of the highway.
Huntsville– One passing of lane Hwy. 412 in Carroll County is under construction. Expect delays.
Avoca-North Garfield- U.S. Hwy 62 is being widened to five lanes. The project is expected to be finished by early 2015.
West Fork – Crews are working to overlay a 2-mile stretch of U.S. Hwy 71.
River Valley (KFSM) :
I-40- A resurfacing project will bring possible delays until late 2014 from mile marker 25 to mile marker 44 near Ozark.
Hwy 71-Hwy. 22- Delays are expected on this 5.8 mile stretch while crews work to pave Hwy. 71 near Fort Chaffee south of Van Buren in Sebastian County. This project will be completed in mid-2014.
Hwy 59-Expect delays between Poteau and Howe due to a resurfacing project.
Hwy 22– Crews will be overlaying more than 2 miles of Highway 22 at Fort Chaffee.
Seeing slowdowns? Let us know, just tweet: #5traffic


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Lilly Wachowski has come out as a transgender woman.
The 48-year-old filmmaker formerly known as Andy Wachowski penned a lengthy statement in the Windy City Times after tabloid reporters threatened to disclose her transgender identity.
"I'm transgender, and yeah, I've transitioned. I'm out to my friends and family. Most people at work know too. Everyone is cool with it. Yes, thanks to my fabulous sister [Lana Wachowski] they've done it before, but also because they're fantastic people. Without the love and support of my wife and friends and family I would not be where I am today."
U.S. & World
Wachowski's sister, Lana, first appeared publicly as a woman in July 2012.
"The 'news' has almost come out a couple of times," Lilly said in the statement. "Each was preceded by an ominous email from my agent – reporters have been asking for statements regarding the 'Andy Wachowski gender transition' story they were about to publish...My sister Lana and I have largely avoided the press.
"I find talking about my art frustratingly tedious and talking about myself a wholly mortifying experience. I knew at some point I would have to come out publicly. You know, when you're living as an out transgender person it's...kind of difficult to hide. I just wanted–needed some time to get my head right, to feel comfortable. But apparently I don't get to decide this."
"The Matrix" director added, "To be transgender is something largely understood...So I will continue to be an optimist adding my shoulder to the Sisyphean struggle of progress and in my very being, be an example of the potentiality of another world."
Nick Adams, GLAAD's Director of Programs for Transgender Media, released the following statement following Lilly's essay:
"GLAAD is thrilled that Lilly Wachowski is able to be her true and authentic self today, however, she should not have been forced to disclose her transgender identity before she was ready to do so. Journalists must learn that it is unacceptable to out a transgender person, in the same way it is unacceptable to out a person who is gay, lesbian, or bisexual."
The Wachowskis' Netflix series "Sense8" is in production for its second season.


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For those of you who are new to this tutorial series, we have been learning about how to use Caliburn Micro to build WPF application with a robust MVVM architecture. Caliburn Micro is a framework used to help build .NET applications (WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7) using several popular UI patterns including MVVM, MVP and MVC. It provides lots of neat ways to reduce the amount of work you need to do for common tasks such as setting up bindings and hooking up events. The various features of Caliburn Micro make it easy to have a clean line between the model objects and the UI. That means your application is easy to test and maintain. Here are links for the previous blog posts:
Part 1: Getting Started
Part 2: Data Binding and Events
Part 3: More About Events and Parameters
In this week's tutorial we will be learning about how to use the event aggregator included with Caliburn Micro. The event aggregator is a service that makes it easy for multiple parts of your application to send messages to each other. This is useful when your application is made up of several view-models that need to communicate. To do this, you subscribe objects (such as view models) to the event aggregator and specify what type of message they should listen for. You also define what the object does when it receives such messages. Then, when another part of the application publishes a message, the event aggregator makes sure the appropriate subscribed objects receive it and perform the appropriate action. Throughout this tutorial we will be extending the application we made in the getting started tutorial. (You can download the application here.)
Although the event aggregator is more useful for larger applications that have multiple view-models, we will be keeping our tutorial application rather small. Also be warned that this tutorial has a lot more to digest compared to the previous ones! By the end of this tutorial, we will have an application that displays two views, each with their own view-model. One of the views will be displaying some radio buttons, each representing a different color. When a radio button is clicked, we'll publish a message that includes the appropriate color. The second view will listen for these messages and change the color of a Rectangle. We will do this in 4 steps: Adding another view to the application, implementing the IHandle<TMessage> interface, subscribe one of the view models to an event aggregator and finally publish events from the other view model.
Step 1: Adding Another View and View-Model
In order to demonstrate the event aggregator, we will need at least 2 view models in our application. We already have one (AppViewModel), so lets start by adding another one. Remember the naming convention described in the getting started tutorial? Add a new class called ColorViewModel, and a UserControl called ColorView. Lets also change the background of the ColorView so that we at least have something to see when we first add it to the application. In terms of the visual structure, we are going to get the existing AppView to contain the new ColorView. (Views do not need to be nested in order to use the event aggregator; a view-model can listen to messages being published from anywhere in the application.) To do this, AppViewModel will need a property of type ColorViewModel which we will set in the constructor like this:
public class AppViewModel : PropertyChangedBase { public AppViewModel(ColorViewModel colorModel) { ColorModel = colorModel; } public ColorViewModel ColorModel { get; private set; } }
In AppView.xaml, we will split the grid into 2 columns and display the ColorModelView in the first column. AppView.xaml will now look like this:
<Grid Width="300" Height="300" Background="LightBlue"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ContentControl Name="ColorModel" Margin="10" /> </Grid>
See what's going to happen here? We have set the name of the ContentControl to be the same name as the property we just added to AppViewModel. From this, Caliburn Micro will kindly bind the Content property of the ContentControl to the ColorModel property for us. When we run this up later, Caliburn Micro will make sure that an instance of ColorView is displayed for the ColorViewModel.
If we were to run up the application now, we'd run into an exception saying that the default constructor of AppViewModel can't be found. Hmm, that's a good point: we have included a constructor on AppViewModel that requires a parameter – a ColorViewModel object. To resolve this, we'll need to update our AppBootstrapper as seen below. (Make sure to include a reference to System.ComponentModel.Composition.dll to the application.)
using Caliburn.Micro; using System.ComponentModel.Composition; using System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting; using System.ComponentModel.Composition.Primitives; public class AppBootstrapper : Bootstrapper<AppViewModel> { private CompositionContainer container; protected override void Configure() { container = new CompositionContainer(new AggregateCatalog(AssemblySource.Instance.Select(x => new AssemblyCatalog(x)).OfType<ComposablePartCatalog>())); CompositionBatch batch = new CompositionBatch(); batch.AddExportedValue<IWindowManager>(new WindowManager()); batch.AddExportedValue<IEventAggregator>(new EventAggregator()); batch.AddExportedValue(container); container.Compose(batch); } protected override object GetInstance(Type serviceType, string key) { string contract = string.IsNullOrEmpty(key) ? AttributedModelServices.GetContractName(serviceType) : key; var exports = container.GetExportedValues<object>(contract); if (exports.Count() > 0) { return exports.First(); } throw new Exception(string.Format("Could not locate any instances of contract {0}.", contract)); } }
This is similar to the bootstrappers used in the samples that come with the Caliburn Micro download. So as not to make this blog post too long, I won't be diving into the details of what this code is doing (search for MEF or Managed Extensibility Framework if you need more details).
Next, we need to include an Export attribute on both our view-model classes. This is for the GetInstance method in the AppBootstrapper to work.
[Export(typeof(AppViewModel))] public class AppViewModel : PropertyChangedBase { ... } [Export(typeof(ColorViewModel))] public class ColorViewModel { }
And finally, include the ImportingConstructor attribute on the AppViewModel constructor. This is to indicate that this constructor should be used since there is no default constructor. When Caliburn Micro creates the AppViewModel, it will also create an instance of the ColorViewModel to pass into the constructor for us.
[ImportingConstructor] public AppViewModel(ColorViewModel colorModel) { ColorModel = colorModel; }
Now we can run the application and see that the ColorView is successfully being displayed within the AppView:
Let's add a Rectangle into the second column. This will be the Rectangle that changes color when messages are handled, so its color will be controlled by a property on the AppViewModel like this:
private SolidColorBrush _Color; public SolidColorBrush Color { get { return _Color; } set { _Color = value; NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => Color); } }
<Rectangle Grid.Column="1" Width="100" Height="100" Fill="{Binding Color}" />
Step 2: Implementing the IHandle<TMessage> Interface
We are going to be publishing messages from the ColorViewModel to be picked up by the AppViewModel. To do this we are going to need to implement a class that holds the message information. such a class is usually very small and simple. It mainly needs to have some properties that hold any information that we want to send. Here is the message class that we are going to use:
public class ColorEvent { public ColorEvent(SolidColorBrush color) { Color = color; } public SolidColorBrush Color { get; private set; } }
In order for the AppViewModel to handle the appropriate events, it will need to implement the IHandle<TMessage> interface. In our case, we will be using ColorEvent as the generic type. The IHandle interface has a single method that we need to implement which is called Handle. In the Handle method of our AppViewModel, we will look at the SolidColorBrush sent in the ColorEvent and use it to set the Color property. This will in turn change the color of the Rectangle in the view.
public void Handle(ColorEvent message) { Color = message.Color; }
Step 3: Subscribe
Now we need to subscribe the AppViewModel to an event aggregator so that it can actually listen to published messages. We do this by adding another parameter to the constructor which will be an IEventAggregator. When the time comes to create the AppViewModel, Caliburn Micro will pass in the event aggregator that we set up in the bootstrapper. Now within the constructor, we simply call the Subscribe method like this:
[ImportingConstructor] public AppViewModel(ColorViewModel colorModel, IEventAggregator events) { ColorModel = colorModel; events.Subscribe(this); }
Step 4: Publish
The ColorViewModel is also going to need the event aggregator so that it can publish messages. Add a constructor to the ColorViewModel which takes an IEventAggregator and stores it in a field. Remember to include the ImportingConstructor attribute:
private readonly IEventAggregator _events; [ImportingConstructor] public ColorViewModel(IEventAggregator events) { _events = events; }
Now we just need add the radio buttons to the ColorView, listen to their click event and then publish a message. You may remember from the second tutorial in this series about the quick way to listen to the click event. Simply set the name of the RadioButton to be the same as the method we want to be called. We could of course use event parameters rather than having an action method for every RadioButton, but I have done it like this so you can clearly see what's going on:
<RadioButton Name="Red" Content="Red" Foreground="White" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" /> <RadioButton Name="Green" Content="Green" Foreground="White" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row="1" /> <RadioButton Name="Blue" Content="Blue" Foreground="White" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row="2" />
public void Red() { _events.Publish(new ColorEvent(new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red))); } public void Green() { _events.Publish(new ColorEvent(new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Green))); } public void Blue() { _events.Publish(new ColorEvent(new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Blue))); }
And that's it. Run up the application now and click the radio buttons. See that the AppViewModel is successfully getting the messgaes from the ColorViewModel to change the color of the Rectangle.
One thing to note is that I have been passing around SolidColorBrushes in the messages to set the color of the Rectangle. In general you would pass around more primitive values and then use a converter in the UI to interpret the value as a SolidColorBrush or the like.
The full Visual Studio 2010 project for this tutorial can be downloaded from here. I hope you find the event aggregator useful for orchestrating communication across the various view-models in your application. Check out the documention for more information including how to do polymorphic event subscriptions, custom publication marshaling and unsubscribe from the event aggregator.
Hello Jason,
Another great post about Caliburn. It's a feature that is not specific to an MVVM framework and can server in many scenarios.
Good to mention that you can download it separately from nuget at http://nuget.org/packages/Caliburn.Micro.EventAggregator
A good theoretical explanation can be found at Fowler's site http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventAggregator.html
IMO If overused it can decrease the ease of maintainability but the CM approach is strongly typed so that makes it much better.
Looking forward to more CM posts
Will there ever be another, much, informative article about Caliburn.Micro?
Many, many thanks for these fantastic posts!
How about removing code behind files ColorViewModel.xaml.cs and AppViewModel.xaml.cs?
These files are obsolete with MVVM approach. Makes for cleaner code.
Hello Lubos
This is a good suggestion. Removing the xaml.cs files removes the temptation of writing code behind. There's not much point keeping these files if they're empty.
I really appreciate the effort you have put into your Caliburn Micro articles. The content is clear and concise, and I love the crisp layout / font / etc.
Warmest appreciation, admiration and respect from Scotland.
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Hi Jason,
This is a really good series of articles.
Many thanks for preparing such a good series of tutorials.
Happily working my way through them just now!
How to publish a screen change event
in my application ..contain a common user control ..and 2 other user controls..(welcome screen and login screen)..when executing app…the welcome screen open on commen page(using ContentControl).
the problem is…
the welcome screen contain a welcome message and a button…how to open login screen on the same common screen when click the button on welcome screen
how it will be possible…any idea….
welcome screen to login creen on same user control…
Hello Abdul
I recommend causing the button on the welcome view to publish an event to be caught by the model of the common view. This would be a similar scenario as described in this blog post. The common view model can have a property that exposes which model is currently being displayed. When the common view model gets the event, it can change the property to be a login view model. The common view could contain a ContentControl that binds to this property which would display the appropriate view when the property changes.
AssemblySource does not seem to have a "Select" method defined… Is there something I'm missing here?
Hello Doug
The sample project is still working fine at my end. Are you missing AssemblySource.Instance.Select ?
Also, keep in mind that the version of Caliburn Micro used in these tutorials is a bit out of date.
-Jason Fauchelle
Looking at the sample project I was able to track down the issue. The sample project includes "using System.Linq"
I was just working from the tutorial here and since Linq was never mentioned, I had no idea I needed to include it.