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Helen Thomas, the irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill nine presidents -- often to their discomfort and was not shy about sharing her opinions, died Saturday. She was 92.
Thomas, who died at her apartment in Washington, had been ill for a long time, and in and out of the hospital before coming home Thursday, according to a friend, Muriel Dobbin.
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Thomas made her name as a bulldog for United Press International in the great wire-service rivalries of old, and as a pioneer for women in journalism.
She was persistent to the point of badgering. One White House press secretary described her questioning as "torture" -- and he was one of her fans.
Helen Thomas' harsh anti-Israel comments
Her refusal to conceal her strong opinions, even when posing questions to a president, and her public hostility toward Israel, caused discomfort among colleagues.
In 2010, that tendency finally ended a career which had started in 1943 and made her one of the best known journalists in Washington. On a videotape circulated on the Internet, she said Israelis should "get out of Palestine" and "go home" to Germany, Poland or the United States. The remark brought down widespread condemnation and she ended her career.
In January 2011, she became a columnist for a free weekly paper in a Washington suburb, months after the controversy forced her from her previous post.
In her long career, she was indelibly associated with the ritual ending White House news conferences. She was often the one to deliver the closing line: "Thank you, Mister. President" -- four polite words that belied a fierce competitive streak.
Helen Thomas with Obama (Photo: AP)
Her disdain for White House secrecy and dodging spanned five decades, back to President John F. Kennedy. Her freedom to voice her peppery opinions as a speaker and a Hearst columnist came late in her career.
The Bush administration marginalized her, clearly peeved with a journalist who had challenged President George W. Bush to his face on the Iraq war and declared him the worst president in history.
Thomas with George W. Bush (Photo: AP)
After she quit UPI in 2000 -- by then an outsized figure in a shrunken organization -- her influence waned.
Thomas was accustomed to getting under the skin of presidents, if not to the cold shoulder.
"If you want to be loved," she said years earlier, "go into something else."
There was a lighter mood in August 2009, on her 89th birthday, when President Barack Obama popped into the White House briefing room unannounced. He led the roomful of reporters in singing "Happy Birthday to You" and gave her cupcakes. As it happened, it was the president's birthday too, his 48th.
Thomas and Ronald Reagan in 1981 (Photo: AP)
Thomas was at the forefront of women's achievements in journalism. She was one of the first female reporters to break out of the White House "women's beat" -- the soft stories about presidents' kids, wives, their teas and their hairdos -- and cover the hard news on an equal footing with men.
She became the first female White House bureau chief for a wire service when UPI named her to the position in 1974. She was also the first female officer at the National Press Club, where women had once been barred as members and she had to fight for admission into the 1959 luncheon speech where Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev warned: "We will bury you."
The belligerent Khrushchev was an unlikely ally in one sense. He had refused to speak at any Washington venue that excluded women, she said.
Thomas fought, too, for a more open presidency, resisting all moves by a succession of administrations to restrict press access.
"People will never know how hard it is to get information," Thomas told an interviewer, "especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp TOP SECRET on the color of the walls."
Born in Winchester, Kentucky, to Lebanese immigrants, Thomas was the seventh of nine children. It was in high school, after working on the student newspaper, that she decided she wanted to become a reporter.
After graduating from Detroit's Wayne University (now Wayne State University), Thomas headed straight for the nation's capital. She landed a $17.50-a-week position as a copy girl, with duties that included fetching coffee and doughnuts for editors at the Washington Daily News.
United Press -- later United Press International -- soon hired her to write local news stories for the radio wire. Her assignments were relegated at first to women's news, society items and celebrity profiles.
Her big break came after the 1960 election that sent Kennedy to the White House, and landed Thomas her first assignment related to the presidency. She was sent to Palm Beach, Florida, to cover the vacation of the president-elect and his family.
JFK's successor, Lyndon Johnson, complained that he learned of his daughter Luci's engagement from Thomas's story.
Bigger and better assignments would follow for Thomas, among them President Richard M. Nixon's breakthrough trip to China in 1972.
When the Watergate scandal began consuming Nixon's presidency, Martha Mitchell, the notoriously unguarded wife of the attorney general, would call Thomas late at night to unload her frustrations at what she saw as the betrayal of her husband John by the president's men.
It was also during the Nixon administration that the woman who scooped so many others was herself scooped -- by the first lady. Pat Nixon was the one who announced to the Washington press corps that Thomas was engaged to Douglas Cornell, chief White House correspondent for UPI's archrival, The Associated Press.
They were married in 1971. Cornell died 11 years later.
Thomas stayed with UPI for 57 years, until 2000, when the company was purchased by News World Communications, which was founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church.
At age 79, Thomas was soon hired as a Washington-based columnist for newspaper publisher Hearst Corp.
A self-described liberal, Thomas made no secret of her ill feelings for the final president she covered -- the second President Bush. "He is the worst president in all of American history," she told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, California.
Thomas also was critical of the US-led invasion of Iraq, asserting that the deaths of innocent people should hang heavily on Bush's conscience.
"We are involved in a war that is becoming more dubious every day," she said in a speech to thousands of students at Brigham Young University in September 2003. "I thought it was wrong to invade a country without any provocation."
Some students walked out of the lecture. She won over others with humorous stories from her "ringside seat" to history.
In March 2005, she confronted Bush with the proposition that "your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis" and every justification for the attack proved false.
"Why did you really want to go to war?" she demanded.
When Bush began explaining his rationale, she interjected: "They didn't do anything to you, or to our country."
"Excuse me for a second," Bush replied. "They did. The Taliban provided safe haven for al-Qaeda. That's where al-Qaeda trained."
"I'm talking about Iraq," she said.
Her strong opinions finally ended her career.
After a visit to the White House, David Nesenoff, a rabbi and independent filmmaker, asked Thomas on May 27, 2010, whether she had any comments on Israel. "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine," she replied. "Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. It's not Germany, it's not Poland," she continued. Asked where they should go, she answered, "They should go home." When asked where's home, Thomas replied: "Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else."
The resulting controversy brought widespread rejection of her remarks. Obama's White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called them "offensive and reprehensible." Many Jews were offended by her suggestion that Israelis should "go home" to Germany, Poland and America since Israel was initially settled in 1948 by Jews who had survived or escaped Hitler's attempt to kill all the Jews in Germany and in neighboring conquered countries.
Within days, she retired from her job at Hearst.
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Ahead of a judge's decision on whether to release Oscar Pistorius on bail, South African police on Thursday appointed a new chief detective in the murder case, replacing a veteran police officer who was himself charged with attempted murder.
The sensational twist in the state's troubled investigation fuelled growing public fascination with the case against the double-amputee Olympian, who is charged with premeditated murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in the early hours of Valentine's Day.
Pistorius, a sporting icon and source of inspiration to millions until the shooting a week ago, is backed by a high-powered team of lawyers and publicists. The abruptness of his fall, and its gruesome circumstances, have gripped a global audience and put South Africa's police and judicial system under the spotlight.
The man at the centre of the storm sat in the dock during his bail hearing, mostly keeping his composure in contrast to slumped-over outbursts of weeping and sobbing on previous days in court. In front of Pistorius, defence lawyer Barry Roux pounced on the apparent disarray in the state's case, laying out arguments that amounted to a test run for the full trial yet to come.
Roux pointed to what he called the "poor quality" of the state's investigation and raised the matter of intent, saying Pistorius and Steenkamp had a "loving relationship" and the Olympian therefore had no motive to plan her killing.
Pistorius, 26, said he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot her through a locked door in a bathroom in his home.
Prosecutors believe the shooting happened after the couple got into an argument, and prosecutor Gerrie Nel painted a picture of a man he said was "willing and ready to fire and kill."
Much of the drama Thursday, however, happened outside the courtroom as South African police scrambled to get their investigation on track.
In a news conference at a training academy, National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega said a senior detective would gather a team of "highly skilled and experienced" officers to investigate the killing of 29-year-old Steenkamp, a model and budding reality TV contestant.
The decision to put police Lt. Gen. Vinesh Moonoo in charge came soon after word emerged that the initial chief investigator, Hilton Botha, is facing attempted murder charges, and a day after he offered testimony damaging to the prosecution.
Botha acknowledged Wednesday in court that nothing in Pistorius' version of the fatal shooting of Steenkamp contradicted what police had discovered, even though there have been some discrepancies. Botha also said that police had left a 9 mm slug in the toilet and had lost track of allegedly illegal ammunition found in Pistorius' home.
"This matter shall receive attention at the national level," Phiyega told reporters soon after the end of proceedings in the third day of Pistorius' bail hearing.
Bulewa Makeke, spokeswoman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority, said the attempted murder charges had been reinstated against Botha on Feb. 4. Police say they found out about it after Botha testified in Pistorius' bail hearing Wednesday.
Botha and two other police officers had seven counts of attempted murder reinstated against them in relation to a 2011 shooting incident. Botha and his two colleagues allegedly fired shots at a minibus they were trying to stop.
Makeke indicated the charges were reinstated against Botha because more evidence had been gathered. She said the charge against Botha was initially dropped "because there was not enough evidence at the time."
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On Thursday, Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair asked the defence of Pistorius' bail application: "Do you think there will be some level of shock if the accused is released?"
Defence lawyer Roux responded: "I think there will be a level of shock in this country if he is not released."
Prosecutor Nel suggested signs of remorse from Pistorius had nothing to do with whether he planned to kill his girlfriend.
"Even if you plan a murder, you plan a murder and shoot. If you fire the shot, you have remorse. Remorse might kick in immediately," Nel said.
As Nel summed up the prosecution's case opposing bail, Pistorius began to weep in the crowded courtroom, leading his brother, Carl Pistorius, to reach out and touch his back.
"He [Pistorius] wants to continue with his life like this never happened," Nel went on, prompting Pistorius, who was crying softly, to shake his head. "The reason you fire four shots is to kill," Nel persisted.
Earlier Thursday, Nair questioned Botha over delays in processing records from phones found in Pistorius' house following the killing of Steenkamp.
"It seems to me like there was a lack of urgency," Nair said as the efficiency of the police investigation was questioned.
Botha is himself to appear in court in May to face seven counts of attempted murder. Botha was dropped from the case but not suspended from the police force, Phiyega said, and could still be called by defence lawyers at trial.
Pistorius, in the same grey suit, blue shirt and grey tie combination he has worn throughout the bail hearing, stood ramrod straight in the dock, then sat calmly looking at his hands.
Roux said an autopsy showed that Steenkamp's bladder was empty, suggesting she had gone to use the toilet. Prosecutors say Steenkamp had fled to the toilet to avoid an enraged Pistorius.
"The known forensics is consistent" with Pistorius' statement, Roux said, asking that bail restrictions be eased for Pistorius.
But the prosecutor said Pistorius hadn't given guarantees to the court that he wouldn't leave the country if he was facing a life sentence. Nel also stressed that Pistorius shouldn't be given special treatment.
"'I am Oscar Pistorius. I am a world-renowned athlete.' Is that a special circumstance? No." Nel said. "His version [of the killing] is improbable."
Nel said the court should focus on the "murder of the defenceless woman."
Botha testified Thursday that he had investigated a 2009 complaint against Pistorius by a woman who said the athlete had assaulted her. He said that Pistorius had not hurt her and that the woman had actually injured herself when she kicked a door at Pistorius' home.

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The Amilcar Notes (Part 1): Zine Ben Ali's Sorry Legacy
The Amilcar Notes (Part 2): Tunisia — Emerging Democracy or Just a Facade?
The Amilcar Notes (Part 3): Tunisia's Forgotten Socio-Economic Crisis
The Amilcar Notes (Part 4): Tunisia — Profoundly Islamic
The Amilcar Notes (Part 5): Election Exhilaration in Tunisia
The Amilcar Notes (Part 6): Tunisia — U.S. Recognizes Need to Change Its Mid-East Policy
The Amilcar Notes (Part 7): Tunisia's Jews Then and Now (1 of 2)
The glory that was: Tunisian Jewry
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind
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Carthage Dermech — Andre Abitbol
He wore thick glasses.
He was standing in front of me at the Café Uranium where we agreed to meet, but couldn't see me. His first words, and, as I recall, also his last, were apologies. He told me in French, "I don't see very well, excuse me." I was sitting right there but couldn't hear him because my hearing is going. What a team! But we managed to find each other anyway. Call it fate, but more likely the element of luck entered into it too.
Admittedly, it is the case that Abitbol might not be able to see right in front himself. That is not important; he might not be able to see the present, none of us really can see the future, but when it comes to the past, to Tunisia's 3,000 year old Jewish history, Abitbol has x-ray vision. It is no small skill these day to see back into history. Might even be worth as much as looking forward and in some ways, less depressing!
Even from our brief encounter of less than an hour, I sensed that his knowledge of the subject is encyclopedic. He knows the details, "the facts" as they say. But facts are of little consequence without context. Abitbol has that too, what I would call a feel for the flow of history, for the richness of it all. He understanding the dialectic of Tunisian Jewish history; he understands it "without blinders" and that is something quite special. So it was a delight to sit with him, was very stimulating and if I never see the man again, he's touched, or better yet, rekindled something in me. Thanks, Andre Abitbol.
He has his theories too, about how Tunisian Jewry came about, about, the connection of Tunisian Judaism to the Phoenicians, its role influencing the birth and rise of Christianity, its growth and flourishing in its three Tunisian Judeo-Islamic centers of learning: Tunis, Kairouan and the island of Djerba, its contribution to the intellectual explosion that characterized Moorish Spain and its historic "trialogue" between Averroes, Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas, the situation of Tunisia's Jews under the Ottoman and French colonialism, and a bit about "the unraveling" that took place after the 1956 independence of Tunisia.
And all that in less than an hour!
Jacob Lellouche
Fortunately I had heard the same outline with slightly different emphasis a few days before from Jacob Lellouche who runs "Mama Lilly's" restaurant in La Goulette. My great hopes of playing the taped interview on KGNU in Boulder, even though it was in French, were dashed by, well let's just call it "my technical incompetence." So hearing the rap a second time was not such a bad deal. Besides they have different emphases. Abitbol concentrated on the early history – I can't emphasize how fascinating I found it. Lellouche on the other hand is more the modernist emphasizing the past 200 years.
I'll come back to it in a moment.
I knew a little of Abitbol's hypotheses, particularly the connection between the Phoenicians and ancient Israel at the time of Solomon and their combined role in the founding of Carthage. But I am more familiar with Lellouche's description of the Jewish Community's post-1850 history, some of which I have taught, and most specifically the period of "unraveling" (my term) that led to the exodus of the bulk of Tunisia's Jews to France, Israel, Italy , USA and the community's rapid decline thereafter.
Therefore it was easier to follow Lellouche as I had more intellectual historical markers with which to gauge his commentary. It appeared that Lellouche does this often, that he has the rap down and it was more or less the same talk he gives to groups of tourists (he told me that). Ok. Still it was stimulating and I learned something…quite a bit actually.
Point one: the general aspect of Tunisian Jewish history
Abitbol produced a short 4- or 5-book bibliography. The books are quite old but I'll find them. I should have little problem retrieving these books from the University of Denver library or through inter-library loan. I want to read them, to learn more of the 3,000 year history of Tunisian Jewry, because it is fascinating in and of itself, and because its story is much less familiar that that of European Jewry, because North African -Moorish Judaism, Sephardic Judaism, has an older and in some ways more intellectually vibrant character than the Medieval European Judaism, which owes its intellectual origins to it. And because, on some fundamental level, it is my story too!
Although reduced to little more than a rump community today, Tunisian – more generally North African – Jewry encompasses to my mind one of the great human cultural traditions anywhere, anytime. It has produced great intellectual works, philosophy, history, medicine as well as a whole magnificent body of music, art and poetry. The complete cultural package. It kept renewing itself, in different ways, again and again and again and was able to do so in large measure because of its own great emphasis on education, a bedrock of Jewish culture throughout the ages, on the one hand. On the other, throughout this long period, it was not an isolated culture but one that was in every way connected to the broader world around, so much so that I think it something of a misnomer even to speak of "Tunisian-Jewish" culture.
For here in the Mediterranean, a kind of "fused cultural model" exists, where different streams are in constant interaction with one another – giving and taking at will. Judaism in Tunisia has given so much to Tunisian Islamic culture – and Islamic culture to Tunisian Judaism that it is impossible to separate the two historically. It is not, for example that the traditions merge into one, although I do think the generic term of "Mediterranean culture" has some merit, but that they feed off of each other in so many ways that it is virtually impossible to cull out one tradition from another.Take for example the way that Averroes, Thomas Aquinas and Maimonides all took from each other, from the Greeks, from wherever, synthesizing the traditions into a kind of philosophical and sociological intellectual couscous (not an original analogy by the way in any sense). Jews, Arabs, Christians, Greeks, Phoenicians, Egyptians, French, Italian, Byzantine all draw from one another and give back as well. It's quite an extraordinarily rich integrated heritage. In the same manner, the notion that "European culture" – that which is often dated from the medieval period and the Renaissance – can somehow be separated from the Islamic/Ottoman tradition is an equally false assumption.
Over the past half century an intellectual acknowledgement of the interplay between cultures of the Mediterranean and beyond have appeared. I only mention a few of the better known works which have enriched my thinking: William McNeil's The Rise of the West, Braudel's The Mediterranean World of the Sixteenth Century (in two volumes, although I should add here anything by Braudel), Janet Abu Lughod's Before European Hegemony. There are many others. Why these particular more global works? Because it is within the great traditions and historical shifts that these books detail and analyze where "Jewish history" becomes alive, where Judaism becomes alive as an integral creative element of a broader cultural/historical tradition.
My father had a particular affection for Italians. He loved them. As a boy of 12 or so, I would ask him why but he couldn't explain. He tried once by telling me that in so many ways, Italians are like Jews, which made no sense to me at the time because if they were like "us," then why did they have names like Macaluso, Corraggio, Fabrizzi and Napolitano (names of childhood friends)? My entire life I've lived in proximity with them, from when I was a child to today. Then one day, not long before my father died when I was visiting him, I looked up on his shelf and there was…Braudel, the great three-volume history of 16th century capitalism (different from the books cited above). My father had read Braudel and not only that, he understood it, had absorbed it, not so surprising because, as a Jew, even one who had changed the family name from Prensky to the amorphous "Prince," he'd lived it.
In the end Italians, Jews, Tunisian Arabs, Lebanese, Greeks, those Catalans who think they are not in part Spanish, the Armenians, the Turks, the Slavs, the Turks, the Egyptians, the Syrians and others I have left out, shared a common world, and in some broad ways common values. They still do. The Odyssey, in a sense is not simply a Greek story. It is a Mediterranean story and it is no accident that in the telling a good part of the Mediterranean is touched.
One last point on this first point. All of these people have a rich experience in long distance trade. High risk, high gain stuff certainly in the past. But also something else, it is the trading peoples I am convinced that more likely to produce the sciences, social or hard. This is so not because trading peoples possess more intelligence or any other stupid racist explanation for their insights.
It is because they have travelled.
Traveling people can make comparisons; have the ability to understand that there is a life, a way of doing things beyond their own culture because they have seen it with their own eyes. Explaining the differences between peoples, the comparisons between people – whether it's Ibn Khaldun or Montaigne or Franz Boaz doing it – that gives rise to technical innovation, to art, philosophy and the world's great religions.
And who has traveled more in this world than "the wandering Jew"…and for most of history we have not traveled "first class." The history of Tunisian Jewry is a part of this great historic movement through time. Not even the community's continued dismemberment will ever be able to undo that.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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81 comments:
Perhaps you could post your thoughts on what the upcoming budget will look like, or comment on it after its released.ReplyDelete
Excellent blog by the way, I always look forward to new posts. I wonder what percentage of your readers are within India vs. outside
Excellent Blog, Ajay !ReplyDelete
Perhaps you could post about your views on career for Indian finance professionals in the fields of Financial Engineering / Risk Management / Derivatives
It fluctuates by time of day. In Indian time there are more Indian readers. As of 10 PM on Sunday (25 February) the distribution of "recent" users is: India (53%), US (14%), Australia (6%), UK (5%), Hong Kong (4%), etc.ReplyDelete
But these numbers reflect visitors to the blog on the web only. A lot of dissemination is happening in ways that I can't count. I put the full text of the blog entry into the RSS feed, which is getting pushed out into various RSS feedreaders, RSS->email, republication of the RSS feed by other services, etc. I believe most of my readers never show up at this web page. So one really doesn't quite know where it's going.
I believe that roughly two-thirds of the readership is in India.
Excellent, incisive blog. Always top class analysis on financial markets. You provide a high level view. I think You are the right person to give a road map for Indian finance professionals in the areas of financial engineering,Quantitative finance. I think most of the finance courses in MBA are bland lacking in sophistication, rigor and intellectual depth. Any universities offering computational finance or financial engineering. You remind me of NN Taleb of fooled by randomness.ReplyDelete
Hi Ajay - Came across your blog while browsing some comments on FRBMA. Excellent work and really good analysis. I work as Economist for BMR & Associate. In fact it is a coincidence of sorts that yesterday only my senior Mukesh Butani and I were appreciating your recent article in BS.ReplyDelete
Best regards
Tanmoy Chakrabarti
Do let us have your thoughts on outcome budget. De-finance the contribution, if you like. Lets see Ajay Shah contribute to the welfare administration.ReplyDelete
Good work!ReplyDelete
Hi Mr Ajay Shah,ReplyDelete
I am a researcher and nowadays dealing with Indian economy. I need some basic information about the monetary policy of RBI. I have looked at it s web page several times but could not find general statement of MP. I mean main frame or model.is it using inflation targeting or something else and besides what is the exchage rate policy what are the operational tools and so on.
thanking you in advance.
Excellent Blog, Ajay !ReplyDelete
Perhaps you could post about your views on career for External Commercial borrowings.
I appreciate your blog indeed!
Mr Ajay Shah I was lucky to be your class where in you had delieved a lecture in Goa on while I was doing my post graduation, thought it was just one hour it was really fascinating to be in that part ...ReplyDelete
then after 4 years i am in touch through urs blog its nice please enlight all the reader on net with your power of thoughts looking forwards
CNBC does a good job of bringing experts views to junta at large (like me) but most of the times the experts do a poor job of explaining the world around and taking a clear stand. More annoyingly, a huge recency effect reflects in their analysis.ReplyDelete
In that background, your comments on credit policy today were refreshingly insightful. I wish more experts could be like you.
Looking you up landed me at your blog which I realize, is a great source of learning on key economic and financial issues in our country.
Hats off !!
- A fellow BITSian (only a decade younger)
I really like your blog and always look forward to a new post every day. I am one of your non-India users who uses RSS feed to read the blog and actually hardly visit your page!ReplyDelete
I really like your latest post 'Don't sweat the quant stuff'. Keep it coming!!!
Am based in HK and would like to send you some questions for a magazine feature on the Indian economy - what is your mail id?ReplyDelete
The tragedy of cotton farmers committing suicide in Maharashtra and not Gujarat is discussed very well. There are lessons to be learnt for the public policy in the country. Circulated the article to the candidates going for the IAS interview.ReplyDelete
Thanks a lot Mr.Ajay Shah.
God Bless You
srirangam sriram
It takes me hours to figure out what you write. Why don't you put less strain on your brain and write simpler English, atleast you can try to.ReplyDelete
Oh well, I can too try to improve my vocabulary.
Perhaps, we can try both.
Higher education means higher brain torture and the torture never stops, though I still love the torture and many people round the globe too, just like you seem to enjoy.
I am a regular reader of your excellent blog! It has kept me follow the trends in money, banking,economics and public policy and overall economy...ReplyDelete
Keep the thread going...
naraynan sethurao
Dear AjayReplyDelete
I want to know what are the parameters for the stock exchanges putting a stock on trade for trade. It is very frustrating for an investor like me to buy into a stock based on technical signals only to see it being transferred to trade for trade in an entirely arbitrary manner. I had written to the exchanges also but have not received any reply as yet. Since you are so well versed in these matters I was hoping you could shed light on this matter
Ashok Thakwani
one word for ur blog - AWSOME ! keep it up !ReplyDelete
Your blogs are excellent.ReplyDelete
I look forward to reading each one of them as soon as they get published .in fact I read old ones again to enjoy .
Rahul Banerjee
Great work sir...ReplyDelete
Indeed the best blog & collection, i have ever seen on such a interesting topic...Keep it up
HI Ajay, I am jinesh, I accidentally drop in to your blog and I found it very much informative and interesting. The way you have presented the topics is simply fantastic. I am especially interested in the Forex market and I got so many article on currency market. I am interested in making my career in to the currency market. Thanks for creating such a useful blog. I also wanted to ask form where I can get the book tittled "Around the World on a Trillion Dollars a Day" by Gregory J. Millman.ReplyDelete
Hi Ajay.....ReplyDelete
I was surfing google and finally landed into your blog..
its nice and lot of information...
Hi Ajay,ReplyDelete
My name is Pierre Fitter and I write for Businessworld magazine. I would like to speak with you about an article I am writing. Please let me know how I can contact you at pierre(dot)bw(at)gmail(dot)com
Thanks a lot,
Dear AjayReplyDelete
great blog...rich reportorie of finance subjects. i am more interested in insurance and pensions...
one query which i wanted to post is,
1) Do u think pension companies have to consider mortality rate? it assumes more significance cuz of higher life expectancy rates now a days. As per my knowledge in 'annuity for life' cases, companies dont take into account life expecatncy of the customer and the annuity rate thus turns out to be unjustified and perhaps inadequate...can i have more light on this issue?
just for the intro, i am pursuing MBA prog from IMT Ghaziabad. I worked for 5 yrs in pvt life insurance sector.
Regards and thanks
Diju Jose
hello dr shah,ReplyDelete
can we have your thoughts on the sub prime woes in the US market and its contagious effects in Europe now . Alos is it the testing time for CDO markets ?
HI ajay, You seem to be very knowledgeable on Indian Markets. I need some clarity. Is it possible to get in touch with you other than by way of this blog? will be more obliged than you can imagine. Please CONTACT ME AT email@example.com
Dear AJAYReplyDelete
I must say your blog is just the best. The areas being covered and the the way they have been classified is absolutely great.
I came across your name referencing an article you had written about the Farmer Suicides in a blog called India Indeed. So checked your blog out, great stuff! You obviously know what you are talking about!ReplyDelete
excellent article on the SWF funds...i am looking forward for your other posts.ReplyDelete
As a student from IGIDR, I feel great to have taught by Dr Ajay Shah. I was never a voracious reader about financial markets but your blog has made easy to understand and very interesting at the same time.ReplyDelete
Very interesting and brain storming reading indeed!
Ekta Selarka
I came across your blogs today and found them most intersting and informative.Your profile, an excellent rarely found.ReplyDelete
In your today's blog on 'rupee policy' you mentioned about MSS Issuance by RBI, may I request you to kindly explain what is MSS Issuance?
Girish Shah
Superb analysis!..i am also a regular reader of your column, and its always informative.ReplyDelete
Heres my blog
stop by and take a look..
anyfeedback/comments would be great.
I have been reading your blog for abt a month. Its been amazing how much i have learnt thru your blog...Keep posting the way you do, i have only one suggestion, plz expand the variety of your posts (finance is huge!)...but truly yours is the best blog I have ever come acros coz its simple, relevant & current...Thx a tonReplyDelete
Superb Blog!!ReplyDelete
If you remember i met you on the flight to Delhi from Mumbai.You suggested me to read your blog and then i was completely clueless.
Since then i have been reading your blog and it gives great insight into the finance stream to enhance my knowledge of a MBA.
Keep up the good work
Archit Singhal
Hey Ajay,ReplyDelete
I've read your blogs and various articles on NPS..those are really quite informative. There are some serious concerns about the unorganised sector bill, I feel you can throw much light on. Right now I just need to know can anybody become a CRA and operate on its own for the micro segment of the society without any govt approvals?
Congrats! Yours is one of the best blogs on Indian capital markets I have come across. I am a fan of NIFTY BEES myself.ReplyDelete
I liked your article on high fund management costs in India. During my recent visit to a well known Shahrukh-Khan-endorsed bank, they tried to hard sell a ludicrous insurance and MF combo (called ULIP or smth)...the exhorbitant fees made me wonder if the AMCs are getting away with murder in India? I work in a bank myself so have nothing against cross-selling but they should respect the fact that clients do have some IQ.
Not exactly blog-related, but I'm teaching myself maximum likelihood estimation in R, and I found your page on MLE estimation of OLS models to be incredibly helpful in figuring out how to get started. Thank you for posting it on the web!ReplyDelete
Hello Sir,ReplyDelete
I regularly read through your blog( at least skim through it) but most times can't make out much of the financial terms.I'm an engineering under grad but would like to understand the mechanics of our financial systems.Can you suggest some good books which can help me in making sense out of your blog posts.
Thanking You,
This blog is definately a bookmark :)ReplyDelete
Hi Ajay, your blog is a must read for me from time to time - though I also generally catch up on your columns on BizStd.ReplyDelete
Newsweek's recent issue talks of $200/barrel oil. Goldman Sachs has made that prediction. There are blogs out there like seekingalpha etc where some folks have written about a future price of crude oil @ $300/barrel.
I am in disbelief over whats going on in the Crude oil market. This reeks of a global contagion. Sure the Oil rich countries will be richer but something seems to be wildly amiss.
I am scared that the way things stand if $150/barrel oil does come to pass, and the oil bonds issue becomes a Fiscal deficit issue (I havent read about your opinion on the FRBM yet I wanted to write this note first - FRBM Act, I am sure was stillborn anyway). If the new Fin.Min next year has to balance the economy, he will have no choice to keep raising Petrol/Diesel and Gas prices till there is some ongoing balance. This will probably have a highly inflationary impact most definitely. I see that last 5 years of economic growth being reversed in the next 3 years. It may be far-fetched but a recession most likely anyway.
What are your views on this and the big question - Are these oil prices really in a bubble, or we should be living scared about our way of life?? I mean should the mantra be Conserve, walk, cycle, use public transportation and say good buy to my Honda car.
Hi Ajay, what are your views on the illiquidity that persists in Stock Options in India. The traded volume & OI have been continuously dwindling. Can a change in the strike parameters make a change or would physical delivery be an important element ?ReplyDelete
It appears that due to the fear of post market exercise, even for a few ruppes profits by option buyers, the sellers are not coming forward. Would love to hear your views.
Arvind Goyal
Would like to know your views on High crude ; curtailed Dollar movement in indian market by RBI and simultaneous effect in eroding of our Dollar deposit surplus...Will the shift parameter in Globe related with crude and rise of nations with alternate energy search rule the game in future.Doesn't it gives us impetus to strengthen our public transport system and giving tax sops for Hybrid buses for conveyance of staff, or may be going harsh way to remove depriciation on LCVs to corporates.Should govt try to curtail Govt Expenditureand Divest in some of the PSU's to move surplus money to required infrastucture processs and give boost to Exports sector. Also should we not create a draft white paper on How in Next 10 years we as Indian will rule some of the industry as source to World. - AbhinandReplyDelete
Kindly inform us of the seminars and workshops you are conducting / taking part in…..I remember one by you long time back at Taj Palace, New Delhi. It was a CMIE users meet.ReplyDelete
It will be nice of you if could inform us when you will be taking a work shop…...or conducting a seminar.
Your effort to educate us through the blog is much appreciated.
In deep admiration
Anand Kamal
Mobile: 98100-18830 (New Delhi)
Dude, your articles are careful and thoughtful. But there is an underlying assumption that people are sweet and want change for a beautiful future! That is wrong with reference in India. There is an established mafiosi controlling politics in any guise and form, an absence of law, an absence of an honest police force and a preponderance of deceitful rougues in business. Top that off with the average citizen's proclivity to lie and cheat. Maybe when you come down from la la land you will plot that into your equations. (one of these days you should get off the financial high horse and travel through India and get a rude dose of the future)ReplyDelete
Ajay, it was nice to attend your Currency Futures presentation at Delhi today. The last time I heard you was in 1995 when you came to delhi while NSE was being formed. It is always a pleasure to hear you talk.ReplyDelete
Alok Jain
Rohini Capital Services Limited
Ajay, on the context of whether resident indians can trade marginable products, i looked up the RBI site and found point 13.3 pertinent in the folliwng link : http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Mode=0&Id=3637#a13ReplyDelete
Would appreciate your views. I think it clearly prohibits trading in futures. my email is email@example.com. thanks
Alok Jain
I scanned your labels for the word "poverty" and could not find. You seem to a more of a financial economist but still your views on the topic of poverty will be (I guess) worth looking for.ReplyDelete
Poverty is one thing that surprises me so much because, we just haven't been able to tame it(Despite the efforts & resources diverted to it). Some day we will have a pop-in cure for cancer, I am not sure about the same for Poverty. I would like your views on that topic.
Secondly, One suggestion here, you can add the "search blog" feature offered by blogger to your blog, it will make easier for people searching specific information.
Great Blog!
Mr. Ajay,ReplyDelete
Considering your pro-activeness in posting comments on financial matters, I am surprised at your silence on the current trumoil in the global markets.
Any views (review?) on your suggestions on functioning of Central Banks (made in the recent past) especially in the light of the current siutation/actions??
1. Why do so many male economists have a beard ?ReplyDelete
2. Why do most Indian female economists dress so simply and boringly ?
Is it not "cheap signaling"..why define ones profession by the attire..
Excellet blog...ReplyDelete
Could you help me in getting the book on Indian Financial Services penned by you?...
For the book, see here. Or just ask google.ReplyDelete
The financial crisis has seen varied responses from the RBI and the govt- using monetary policy and fiscal policy as tools. Could you throw some light on when would a monetary policy response be more effective than a fiscal policy response and when would the converse be true? Also, what would the govt need to do when both of them fail? If you were the finance minister, how would you respond to the financial crisis(having the benefit of hindsight)- in terms of stimulus packages..etc...?ReplyDelete
Now with every economist and analyst worth his hat forecasting a 4% Indian GDP growth for FY10, I am waiting for a 2% GDP forecast..It seems the trend is 'Smaller the sexier' . Just like fashion, this seems like a race toward size zero..Although economists were never known for their affinity for high fashionReplyDelete
Ajay :ReplyDelete
Excellent Blog ! Kudos.
Can you write/publish something on-How can an Indian Institution/FII borrow money (finance) either onshore (INR) or offshore (USD)against Pledged Indian equities.
Think summarizing the existing conditions and some recommendations will be of hugh interest to your readers.
Dear Sir,ReplyDelete
I would like to know why the RBI uses WPI for its policy purposes instead of CPI to measure inflation ?
It seems almost all countries use CPI and not WPI.
The WPI is declining while Consumers feel the reverse when they go to market.
Is the difference in frequency (CPI- Monthly while WPI- weekly) only reason ?
Surely, the RBI also knows this.
Have been a fan for long. Whenever sanity deserts me, I turn to your blog.ReplyDelete
Best wishes.
Found out about your blog at http://inforum.in/blog/2009/05/12/15-must-read-indian-blogs-about-investing-business and it is really good. I also have a financial blog at http://desimoney.blogspot.com do you mind doing a link exchange?ReplyDelete
really good job.ReplyDelete
best regards from germany.
Your blog is like being in touch with an intellectual all the time....every time i turn up to it i came out learning something..thanks sir.ReplyDelete
Congratulations Mr Shah for getting noticed. But what I didn't like is that you got NOTICE-d in more than one way. Wish you the best in 2010. May the truth prevail..ReplyDelete
Ajay: Enjoy reading your posts. Just thought I would point you and your readers to this interesting piece by Chris Blatman, featuring a new study involving a randomized experiment on largeish Indian textile plants in Maharashtra. The study is fascinating at two levels: First, its results. Second, as a pointer to where (a part of) the literature seems headed in terms of methodology.ReplyDelete
Rana, Thanks for your comment. I did endup writing about it: see here.ReplyDelete
How about providing a market based solution for saving tigers from extinction. though it may sound absurd, but privatizing the animal under certain supportive regulation can help increase the number of tiger. what i mean to say is that treating the tiger just as one treats the horses, the only thing would be to have a cage and people with farm houses- the really rich one would be easily afford it. this may have its own undesired consequences but it is certainly and idea to be considered.ReplyDelete
critics and comment invited.
Hi Ajay,ReplyDelete
Excellent Blog. I do not know how many politicians apart from me are looking at your blog. I hope there are atlest some...
Keep up the good work.
-Weekend politician
Just a question - are there any ETFs based on the NSE Govt Securities Index?ReplyDelete
Thanks in advance for the response and pointers!
Dear Ajay SirReplyDelete
RBIs todays hike in repo rate is justified(BY THEM) thru the inflation figures.
Please give us a perspective on use, effectiveness and effciency of the "monetary policy/tools" in current Indian Economic Structure-State.
I am glad to have found your writing Mr Shah. Your analyses of economy and institutions are sorely needed. Please could you elaborate on what the principles of a good infrastructure for India would be?ReplyDelete
I was very lucky to 'read' your Paper "Black, Merton & Scholes----"ReplyDelete
(Econ & Polit Weekly 1997) It would take time to digest such Scholarly Papers.
I wish to be benefited by your explanation for the following:
1. While you use the general term 'economic agents', I felt woth reference to Capital Markets, the 'Economic Agents' of any importance are 'Buyers', 'Sellers' and the 'brokers'.
2.'The Use of Derivative Markets is welfare-enhancin' (last line of subject (1) titled Financial Derivatives)
It seems to me that Your concept of 'WELFARE' needs to be defined in this context.
YOu have correctly (I feel) explained "through these Methods, Risk is not destroyed, it is only transferred from one economic agent to another"
If this is so, any number of agents participating, does not destroy the risk but by the (uneven) distribution of the Risk
in a vague manner (not as yet can be explained even by Stochatic Methods for a REAL-WORLD Market)
As such, Welfare is not enhanced, but because the misery (losses) are shared by a grat number of agents, theoretically the 'misery' might be diminished to an individual agent (and all this, in a IDEAL MARKET with so many implausible assumtions)
3. On p.12, you quite rightly say that "they brought about the new field of 'Continuous time Finance'
I wish to add that since Black-Scholes Model' has an application for Option-pricing in real markets located in various geographic-locations, it is,in practice, a new field of "Continuous-time" Finance applied at 'discreet intervals of time'! (Alike to analysing a 'nonlinear system' as a combination of 'locally-linear' systems and as a B.Tech. in Aero Engg, surely you know.
It is stupid on my part to request these clarifications after 14 years but the motive is to learn from an Erudite Scholar like you:
If you are likely to be very busy to attend to mundane queries, I request you to pass on the Questions to any of your student-researchers to elucidate.
With best regards
Hi, I just read your article on rupee depreciation...and you explained it like a professor. I aspire to be an economist and your articles really helps me to understand complex attributes of economy, quite easily.please continue this good work. By the way, I have a question. I got admitted in a University in Japan, and my classes would start September next year. Yen has been appreciating for more than a year. Will the depreciation of Rupee against dollar mean, rupee will have faster depreciation against yen too?ReplyDelete
Dear SirReplyDelete
I read your joint paper with Ila Patnaik titled "Did the Indian capital controls work as a tool of macroeconomic policy?" The conclusions derived in the paper are that capital controls imposed in India are very porous, and were incapable of achieving the desired macroeconomic goals.
Sir, I wish to know, whether Full Capital Account Convertibility, will have any effect on rate of flows? I am asking this because of the conclusion in the paper that capital controls have very low effect
Raj Anmol Singh
I thought you would have something to say on the budget. No links to interesting reads as well?ReplyDelete
Listened to your interview on CNBC today. Was good to see someone talking a lot of sense, being able to uncover the underlying trends prevailing in the country (by overlooking what is meaningless even though the media constantly forces that data down one's gullet), and presenting it in simple language for laymen like me!ReplyDelete
The optimistic closing note wrt India's long-term future was also welcome (and hopefully true!).
Dear Sir,ReplyDelete
I am working with Member of Parliament (Loksabha, MP)as his legislative advisor
I am attached to MP through an fellowship called LAMP fellows its an innitiative of PRS legislative research (a unit for center for Policy research) I want to ask some question to you. I would request you to please send me your mail ID on email@example.com
Thanks & Regards,
Legislative Advisior to MP
Dear Ajay:ReplyDelete
If you come across assessment of the damage done to India's GDP on account of the UK disaster, that would be great thing to share.
Warm regards,
Dear Ajay,ReplyDelete
I am listening to your interview on ET Now via youtube. Your analysis of the RBI response to the rupee slide is both insightful and correct. The problem with the CAD is fundamentally structural in nature and the slide in the rupee is simply a symptom and also stems from a lack of confidence in the govt's management of the economy. The RBIs introduction of capital controls demonstrates how desperate they are for short term fixes and the willingness to roll back many years of moving towards an open economy.
I predicted these problems in 2011 by simply observing the complacent response and lack of urgency to the looming issues confronting India.
It is very refreshing to listen to your straightforward and candid opinion on these issues.
Best Regards
Kwabena Smith
Orun Energy
www.orun energy.com
Let us know what do you think of equity index based on median price change for the whole market: www.mexequityindex.comReplyDelete
www.mexequityindex.com currently calculates and displays median equity index for India: MEXi
Dear Ajay,ReplyDelete
Its been quite some time since we last received your "interesting reading" post. I look forward to it eagerly!
Congratulations on your selection on committee on common clearing system for all commodity exchanges.ReplyDelete
I can see new changes coming.
Waiting for your comments on views expressed by RBI Guv on FSLRC.ReplyDelete
expected an enlightening article from you on the concerns over unhedged forex exposures of corporates. Wonder who will abosrb the risk if hedging is made compulsory?ReplyDelete
Hi....what happened to the B Tech aeronautical engineering from iit bombay?....not an iota of aviation in your life after it? Good blog nevertheless....ReplyDelete
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Thank you for your letter reminding me that my census forms are coming, and asking me to fill them out when they arrive.
Government waste is a universal phenomenon, and certainly this country is no exception.
But I have to wonder, how much money did it cost to send "your census is coming, please fill it out" forms to EVERY FREAKING HOUSEHOLD IN AMERICA?!!!
You guys have been running TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, newspapers, and billboards about this for months already. Not including the many news features about the census coming. You'd have to be living under a rock NOT to know the census is this year (every 10 years, for my non-U.S. readers).
Wouldn't it have saved money, and made a hell of a lot more sense, to include this letter WITH the census, saying "here is your census, please fill it out"? Do you really think sending an advance letter will make a difference? Do you really think anyone is going to remember the first letter by the time the REAL census forms show up? Do I really think that me writing this will make a difference?
Your's truly,
Ibee Grumpy, M.D.


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Il8n and l10n
Reaching a broad audience of users and developers requires that your software can be translated and otherwise shaped at runtime to be linguistically and culturally relevant to whomever is sitting in front of the computer. This is the realm of localization and this tutorial steps you through what is needed to make your application localizable.
What is Internationalization and Localization?
Internationalization, or i18n ('i', followed by 18 letters, then an 'n'), is the process of writing your application so that it can be run in any locale. This means taking into account such things as:
- textual messages that are displayed to the user;
- data input from the user, files and other sources;
- format of dates, numbers, currency, dates, etc.
Localization, or l10n ('l', followed by 10 characters, then an 'n'), is the process of taking an internationalized application and adapting it for a specific locale.
Generaly speaking, programmers internationalize their applications and translation teams localize them.
Why is This Important?
Trinity development happens primarily in English as this allows the broadest reach into the development and translation communities. However, English is not the primary language of most people on the planet. In fact, fewer than 8% of humanity speaks English and less than 5% speak it as their mother tongue. Even on the Internet, only 35% people who are online use English as their primary language and as more and more of the world gets wired this number is only decreasing. Additionally most languages, including 9 out of the 10 most common languages, use non-ASCII characters in their written form. It is easy to see, then, why it has become a necessity to provide localized software.
As an international project that spans the globe such localization is a core value within the Trinity culture. In fact, while many Trinity developers write their software in English they use the desktop in their native locale.
Translatable Code Using i18n()
To ensure applications are ready to be localized they have to follow a few simple rules. All user-visible strings in the application should be translated before they are displayed on the user's screen, exceptions to this being debugging messages, configuration keys and similar types of text data.
Trinity provides the TDELocale class as part of libtdecore to facilitate the technical details of localization. TDELocale makes it as easy as possible for developers to make their code i18n aware, but there are some things they need to be aware of so that applications are usable in other languages and countries.
Access to a global TDELocale object is provided via
TDEGlobal::locale(). This TDELocale object is created automatically by TDEInstance and takes care of all user i18n related settings. It is deleted automatically on application exit.
Translations are made possible by the
TQString i18n(const char*) method which must wrap all strings that should be displayed. The TQString returned by
i18n() is the translated (if necessary) string. This makes creating translatable widgets as simple as in this example:
TQPushButton* myButton = new TQPushButton(i18n("Translate this!"), 0);
TQString's native Unicode support ensures that all translations are represented correctly. All string handling done by your application should therefore use TQString.
Tip: If the string to be translated contains any non-UTF8 characters, use the
utf8() method to get a
i18n() method requires that a TDEInstance (e.g. TDEApplication) has been created. For any strings that are created prior to this there is a macro provided:
I18N_NOOP(). This allows one to mark strings that should be translated later as such.
When you want to actually translate the string at runtime, you still have to use
i18n() with exactly the same string.
I18N_NOOP() is typically used for strings given to TDEAboutData, because it is constructed before the TDEApplication and you can use
i18n() only after the construction of the TDEApplication. Other than these special cases, it is always safe to use
i18n() if you are sure that the code will be executed after construction of TDEApplication or some other TDEInstance.
Adding Context
There is an extended version of
i18n() which takes two
const char* arguments. The first argument is an additional contextual description of the second, translated string. The first string is used to find the proper corresponding translation at run-time and is shown to translators to help them understand the meaning of the string.
Use this variety of
i18n() when the purpose of the text might be ambiguous without further context. For example, consider a context menu in a file manager with an entry called "View" which opens a viewer for the currently selected file. In this context "View" is a verb. However, the same application also may have a menu called "View" in the menubar. In that context "View" is a noun. In the English version of the application everything looks fine, but in most other languages one of the two "View" strings will be incorrect.
Additionally, translators sometimes need extra help in understanding what the text is actually referring to during the translation purpose. Use this form of i18n whenever the string to translate is short or the meaning is hard to discern when the context is not exactly known. For example:
TQString up = i18n("Go one directory up in the hierarchy", "Up");
QString relation = i18n("A person's name and their familial relationship to you.", "%1 is your %2").arg(name, relationship);
Note: There is also a
I18N_NOOP2("context","text") macro for providing untranslated strings with a context.
Plurals are handled differently from language to language. Many languages have different plurals for 2, 10, 20, 100, etc. When the string you want translated refers to more than one item, you must use the third form of
TQString i18n(const char* singular, const char* plural, int number). For example:
msgStr = i18n("Creating index file: 1 message done",
"Creating index file: %n messages done", num);
This form of
i18n() gets expanded to as many cases as required by the user's language. In English, this is just two forms while in other languages it may be more depending on the value of the
number parameter.
Note that this form should be used even if the string always refers to more than one item as languages use a singular form even when referring to a multiple (typically for 21, 31, etc.). This code:
i18n("%1 files were deleted").arg(numFilesDeleted);
is therefore incorrect and should instead be:
i18n("%1 files were deleted",
"%1 files were deleted",
Formatting Dates and Numbers
When displaying a number to the user, your program must take care of the decimal separator, thousand separator and currency symbol (if any) being used. These symbols differ from region to region. In English speaking countries a dot (.) is used to separate the fractional part of a number, while in some European countries a comma (,) is used instead. Below is a short summary of functions that will help you format the numbers correctly, taking the local conventions into account for you.
|Formats a..
|From a..
|Function Prototype
TQString formatNumber( const TQString & numStr )
|Integer, double
formatNumber( double num, int precision = -1 )
formatMoney( const TQString & numStr )
formatMoney( double num, const TQString & currency, int digits = -1 )
formatDate( const TQDate & pDate, bool shortFormat=false )
formatTime( const TQTime & pTime, bool includeSecs=false)
|Date and time
formatDateTime( const TQDateTime &pDateTime, bool shortFormat = true, bool includeSecs = false )
Similar functions exist to read information provided by the user at runtime in their localized format, e.g.
readNumber() or
Developing applications dealing with dates and time, such as calendars, is a very complex area. Not only may the displayed string containing a date or time may look different based on locale, but one also has to take care of other aspects such as:
- which day in the week is the first one (cf.
int weekStartDay());
- how many months in a year there are;
- "era"-based calendars;
- whether to use 24-hour time format (cf.
bool use12Clock()).
TDELocale provides, among others, these methods:
|Formats a..
|From a..
|Function Prototype
formatDate( const TQDate & pDate, bool shortFormat=false )
formatTime( const TQTime & pTime, bool includeSecs=false )
|Date and time
formatDateTime( const TQDateTime &pDateTime, bool shortFormat=true, bool includeSecs=false )
Generating translations
Translation rules are contained in CMakeL10n.txt files in each directory in the source tree.
You can (re)-generate translation templates (.pot files) by running:
$ cmake -P CMakeL10n.txt
The translation macros require some tools to be installed, most notably a version of gettext with a set of KDE 3.x-specific patches. You can install the last version with APT if you are using Debian/Ubuntu/etc., or else get it here, apply patches from the Debian packages and then compile it yourself.
Further Information
You might find some useful generic information at the KDE's i18n pages.


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Showtimes for Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage» Live Hollywood-style musical
Disney Junior - Live on Stage!» Live show for children
Fantasmic!» Mixed-media nighttime spectacular
Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!» Movie-stunt demonstration and action show
Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple» Outdoor stage show
Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show» Auto stunt show
Mulch, Sweat, & Shears» Live Rock and Roll Music
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Comic Con is the pop culture Thunderdome. Every year, studios bring dozens of their massively expensive properties to the San Diego Convention Center, and only some will emerge with victory. Comic Con can't make or break a project — but it can generate tons of buzz, which is a priceless commodity. So which movies and TV shows did the most important tastemakers, the fans, seem to love or hate this year?
Here's our list of the biggest buzz winners and losers of Comic Con 2012.
Top image: Getty Images.
Obviously, there's nothing scientific about this list. This is based on our own subjective impressions, plus walking the floor and having hundreds of conversations with randomly selected fans and other journalist-types. We also trawled the internet for people's tweets and reactions to stuff. This is us sticking a finger in the wind.
And it bears repeating: a movie can win at Comic Con and still lose at the box office. Comic Con buzz doesn't guarantee anything — just ask Scott Pilgrim. (Although, I think John Carter might have gotten a lot more early buzz going if it had had a Comic Con panel last year.)
After Earth
Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan team up for a new post-apocalyptic movie that's obviously meant to be a vehicle for Smith's son Jaden. But neither Smith nor Shyamalan showed up for the panel, which happened in a smaller room instead of Hall H. (If you're going to have a panel for the new Will Smith movie, it really ought to be big, or not happen at all.) And After Earth's overcomplicated mythology came across as both contrived and awkward, with fans shaking their heads in confusion and consternation.
The Host
Stephenie Meyer's only non-Twilight book was a huge bestseller, and we actually kinda liked it. And director Andrew Niccol, who's adapting this novel, is one of our favorite film-makers — yes, even after Now. But the first clips from this movie seemed to fall really flat — we didn't hear anybody buzzing about them afterwards, not even the Twilight fans. The notion that Melanie, whose body is possessed by an alien parasite, will be shouting her "thoughts" at the alien in a voiceover, seemed really silly. And Meyer seemed a bit too emphatic that she won't be writing any sequels to her novel — which leaves a ton of stuff up in the air, and probably means no movie sequels, either. (On the other hand, the Twilight footage was boss, even if you didn't like Breaking Dawn Part 1.)
666 Park Avenue
Sorry, Flocke. The show about an evil Terry O'Quinn corrupting the residents of a fancy Manhattan apartment building seemed to land with a pronounced thud. Maybe it's the fact that there aren't really any memorable characters in the first hour, or that it's not clear what the arc is, other than "everybody gets seduced into evil by the apartment building Devil." In any case, the only thing we heard people saying about this show was that it seemed kind of bland. Even New Yorkers who envied that amazing real estate.
Jackie Chan
Every year, there's a living legend who goes into Hall H unprepared, and this year it was Jackie Chan. He was following some of the biggest panels of the year, and almost everybody stayed to see what Chan had brought from his new movie Chinese 12 Zodiac. Since we'd all heard this was a return to traditional action movies, using whatever objects were handy to wreak havoc, we were excited — but Chan brought no new footage and seemed not to want to say much about the movie. He was mostly interested in ragging on the fans who came up to ask questions.
Resident Evil: Retribution
This is the fifth Resident Evil movie, and the burden was on the film-makers to explain why this series is still continuing. What aspect of the games, or of the zombie apocalypse, have they failed to capture in the first four films, that they really want to get at this time around? Sadly, the footage felt more of the same, and the panel was utterly forgettable. Literally — as in, people who were in Hall H for this panel didn't remember much about it afterwards. On the plus side, there was tons of insane viral marketing for this film, including all those severed human limbs being handed out.
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Sam Raimi is one of our favorite directors — but nobody seemed excited about his Wizard of Oz prequel, featuring James Franco as the Wizard. Even after we saw there were flying monkeys. Maybe it's the fact that it's the tired "total jerk goes on a journey and grows to be the hero everybody thinks he is" story. Or maybe it's just the fact that the footage looked a bit too Avatar-ish, mixed with a dash of Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Or maybe it's just that nobody was clamoring for a Wizard of Oz prequel focusing on the wizard, specifically.
The Lone Ranger
Meanwhile, this is a project that already had terrible buzz before coming to Comic Con — and the fact that they rolled the footage in the middle of a popular panel, without explaining what it was first, was clearly aimed at creating a huge sensation and changing the story. And... it just didn't work. It's not as if this movie's buzz got any worse coming out of Comic Con, but it didn't get any better, either. Johnny Depp looked just as silly as Tonto as you'd expect from the still photos, and the action looked incredibly generic and boring.
The Vampire Diaries
We yield to nobody in our burning love of The Vampire Diaries — and we're super excited about the new season, what with the huge changes that happened in the last season finale. But there's no doubt TVD blew a huge opportunity at Comic Con — the show had a panel in Ballroom 20, right before True Blood, so the room was packed with True Blood fans. Fangbangers really ought to be fans of TVD, if they're not already. Sadly, everyone I talked to agreed the Vampire Diaries panel was one of the most boring at the con, with the stars just joking amongst themselves. "Panel is boring as all hell," tweeted S_Monro. "The Vampire Diaries panel is DUMB, tbh," tweeted IllusiaNation.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Turtles put on a full-court press at Comic Con — with a truck handing out hats, and free comics and other shwag everywhere. And given that their movie future is up in the air, with the Michael Bay-produced reboot apparently in limbo, reminding people of their existence was a good idea. But the TMNT animated reboot didn't win people over — it's great that it's a retelling of the original series, but then they threw in some bizarre character changes. And the cartoony footage didn't match the style of the art they claimed they were trying to live up to. The animated series seemed to want to rope in older fans, but then the actual product seemed like it was only for small kids.
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost
Some of the worst buzz went to this animated movie filling in the gaps between the second and third Mass Effect games — which premiered its trailer at Comic Con. The overall response was pretty damning. Kristin Bomba tweeted, "I honestly can't believe FUNi showed that awful Mass Effect Paragon Lost trailer at SDCC. Boring and badly narrated. WTH?" Forbes' Carol Pinchefsky wrote, "I was really looking forward more Mass Effect…but then I saw the trailer. Sadly, the animation isn't very polished. (I'm thinking 1990s work.)"
John Scalzi
His novel Redshirts came out pretty recently, and it was one of the main things we heard people randomly buzzing about — the io9 panel on "science fiction that can change your life" turned into a fight over who loved Redshirts more. And he was everywhere, doing signings and panels, and performing at W00tstock with Patrick Rothfuss.
And the recent announcement of a new Old Man's War novel was also on people's minds.
They screened the entire movie at SDCC, and reaped the rewards. People were going nuts for the ultra-violence and surprising cleverness in this dystopian cop movie, not to mention Lena Headey's psychotic turn as the villain Ma-Ma. And the fact that Karl Urban successfully pranked everybody with his "new Star Trek footage" trick, paradoxically, helped too. This film was on people's minds a lot — and actually lived up to the hype.
Marvel Studios
There's no way around it — we almost want to make Iron Man 3, Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy three separate items on this list. Marvel basically owned the con, with a nonstop razzle-dazzle spectacle. Even if you'd been in line for Hall H and then sitting in Hall H for a collective 24 hours straight, the sight of Ant-Man using his size-changing to beat up goons, and Robert Downey Jr. dancing in character as Tony Stark, was an amazing thrill. To the extent that anybody was questioning whether Marvel could follow up the Avengers' success with more excitement, they more than silenced the doubters.
This Batman Begins-inspired reboot of Green Arrow charmed the heck out of everyone we talked to — star Steven Arnell is pretty much the perfect mix of cuteness and darkness for superhero show on The CW. Anybody who was thinking of this show as Smallville Year 11 came away from Comic Con with a clear sense that this show has its own distinct identity — and it looks like being a fun ride.
With Joseph Gordon-Levitt on board, this movie already looked like a huge winner — but the new footage at Comic Con just blew everybody away. And the "noir time travel crime movie" concept seemed to be winning people over. With Dark Knight Rises just around the corner, I overheard more than one conversation about JGL owning the con — and Looper was the main beneficiary of this.
The Walking Dead
Even if people went into the con with mixed feelings about last season, the new footage seemed to silence any misgivings. The first glimpse of Michonne and the Governor was every bit as great as you'd hope — and it seemed pretty clear that the new season was going to be a lot more dark and relentless. At a con with tons of zombie stuff including a zombie race and various zombie flash mobs, the main piece of zombie culture that people seemed stoked about was Walking Dead.
The Hobbit
We saw so much footage from this movie, and it was all so gorgeous — and Martin Freeman really did own the role of Bilbo Baggins. The scenes where Bilbo is talking to Gollum and Gandalf were just so beautifully acted and compelling, it swept you along. And even after all the years Peter Jackson and his collaborators have been working on Tolkien adaptations, they still glowed with love and excitement for Middle Earth. Oh, and the display of the huge Troll statues on the Floor also pretty much won the Con.
The other new TV show that seemed to get people most excited was this post-apocalyptic adventure, where everything electrical on Earth stops working. Thanks to some pretty heavy marketing, including the side of the Hilton hotel covered by a poster, this show was on people's minds. And anyone who saw the pilot screening was left with no doubt that Supernatural creator Eric Kripke had worked his magic a second time. This is a fun, fast-paced show that manages to steer clear of the usual post-apocalyptic tropes.
Pacific Rim
All Guillermo del Toro has to do is get on stage and start swearing, and he's already won Comic Con. Pretty much. But there's no denying that the footage of massive, huge, giant robots punching enormous monsters was epic. I was dying to be able to freeze-frame those clips and stare at every detail of the armor and the monsters' snaggle-tooth faces. The notion that we were the only ones who'd be seeing anything of this movie until the end of the year... people were pretty much transported with excitement.
Unlike Lone Ranger, this is one surprise screening that worked — the glimpse of Godzilla trashing a city did absolutely everything you wanted it to do. And Godzilla looked absolutely massive and powerful, able to take down entire buildings with one sweep of his claw. This was this year's Tron Legacy moment: surprise footage that got everyone talking for days afterwards.
Legend of Korra
This was an example of a show whose panel was largely attended by people waiting for other stuff — and a bunch of people were blown away by the tons of concept art. And by the live script reading, in character, of the show's pilot. People actually got up on the mic and said they'd never seen Korra, but now they were going to start watching. This is what happens when you show amazing stuff and give newbies a great taste of the show's world. Plus Comic Con was just packed with amazing Korra cosplay! It was the cartoon that ruled as much as Adventure Time did last year.
District 9 dominated Comic Con two years in a row — one year with clever bathroom signs, the next with a full screening. So it's not surprising that director Neill Blomkamp won over the con again, with Elysium. But the fact that this movie's footage looked so fresh and amazing, and the dystopian future seemed so carefully thought out, really kicked people's asses. Plus the concept art at the movie's booth was incredible.
It's not like Joss Whedon's cowboy space opera needed more fanatical devotion — it's pretty much already the Pope of TV and movie franchises. But the 10-year reunion panel was the hot ticket of Comic Con, and both the stars and audience members were in tears. This was one of the most emotional, intense events of the con, and it made everybody remember all over again why we all love Firefly so much, and why it was such an important show.
Neuro Kitty Ears
The $100 brain-controlled cat ears were one of the big hits of the con — everywhere we went, people were wearing them.
Image Comics
DC scored one win with the Sandman prequel announcement, while Marvel Comics mostly underwhelmed people with bland panels. But meanwhile, Image made a huge splash, with a slew of announcements — they nabbed a ton of talent that normally only runs with the Big Two, including Matt Fraction, Greg Rucka, Joe Casey, Darick Robertson, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Howard Chaykin, Chris Roberson and James Robinson. Whilce Portacio's Non-Humans sounds awesome, and so does Happy, Robertson's collaboration with Grant Morrison.
Thanks to Lauren, Meredith, Cyriaque, Keith, Evan, Owen, Michael, Annalee and everyone else who helped!


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Test Report: DeVore Fidelity Gibbon 88 Tower Speaker
One of my favorite things about the audio biz is that anyone with a dream and a garage can get in. Accumulate the knowledge to design a speaker or an amp, gather the tools and materials to build it, muster the courage and social skills to sell it, and you've got yourself an audio company! (Unfortunately, a few would-be entrepreneurs skip that all-important first step.)
There's no better current example of this phenomenon than John DeVore, founder, president, and chief designer of DeVore Fidelity. DeVore was a musician and high-end stereo salesman in new York City who'd nurtured a hobby of building his own speakers. When he finally got to the point where he was satisfied with his designs, he started to produce and sell them. His company now builds speakers in the old Brooklyn Navy Yard, which has become a hotbed of artisanal manufacturing.
Of course, no product that's hand-built in Brooklyn from exotic materials is going to show up in a Best Buy circular. You can purchase DeVore's products at only 19 dealers in north America. They ain't cheap, either: The new Gibbon 88 tower speaker sells for $5,800 per pair.
But unlike most products that show up in electronics store ads, the Gibbon 88 is in no way generic. Start with the gorgeous cabinet, which is crafted from solid bamboo instead of the usual veneer-over-MDF that's used for most speakers. DeVore says he chose bamboo partly because it's a sustainable product — "It grows as fast as grass because that's what it is" — and partly because it lets him avoid veneering and gluing. Three bamboo finishes are available, and the front and back baffles are finished in black gloss. To my eye, the look and design of the Gibbon 88 are sophisticated, and to my hand, the fi t and finish are about as good as it gets.
The driver complement is minimal: just a 7-inch treated paper cone woofer and a 0.75-inch silk dome tweeter. My prying hands discovered that the crossover is built into an enclosure inside the speaker with no access door. There's a bass reflex port on the back, about halfway up.
You can tell from reading the "care and feeding guide" (i.e., manual) that DeVore is a serious and sensible designer: He engineered the speaker for a moderate 8-ohm impedance and for a fairly high-rated sensitivity of 90.5 dB at 1 watt/1 meter. It's trendy in artisanal hi-fi to make speakers with higher sensitivity — say, 95 dB or more — so that they can be driven by super-low-powered tube amps, but engineers usually have to sacrifice some other aspect of performance to get that high sensitivity. I'm glad DeVore resisted the temptation.
Here's a design twist every speaker should have: Magnets built into the Gibbon 88's fabric grille will stick to the front or back of the speaker. You can listen without the grilles for the best sound, yet they're always right there in case some ill-behaved kids invade your home.


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Hot fix I9S002 addresses the issue(s) in Base SAS 9.4_M7 as documented in the Issue(s) Addressed section of the hot fix download page:
I9S002 is a "container" hot fix that contains the following "member" hot fixes which will update the software components as needed.
I9N002 updates SAS Compiler and Symbolic Differentiator 9.58
I9P002 updates SAS Thread-safe Compiler and Symbolic Differentiator 9.59
Before applying this hot fix, follow the instructions in SAS Note 35968 to generate a SAS Deployment Registry report, then verify that the appropriate product releases are installed on your system. The release number information in the Registry report should match the 'member' release number information provided above for the software components installed on each machine in your deployment.
The hot fix downloaded, I9S002la.zip, includes the updates required for all components listed above on all applicable operating systems. To apply this hot fix on multiple machines, you can either save I9S002la.zip on each machine or save it in a network location that is accessible to all machines.
Do NOT extract the contents of I9S002la.zip. The hot fix installation process will extract the contents as needed.
The hot fix will be applied using the SAS Deployment Manager. By default, the SAS Deployment Manager will search in the <SASHOME>/InstallMisc/HotFixes/New directory for hot fixes to be applied, but will also prompt for a location if you have downloaded hot fixes to a different directory.
After downloading I9S002la.zip, follow the instructions for applying hot fixes in the SAS Deployment Wizard and SAS Deployment Manager 9.4: User's Guide.
Please review the CONFIGURATION Important Note above concerning proper selection of the "Configure SAS Hot Fix" option in the SAS Deployment Manager.
The hot fix installation process generates the log file
<!SASHOME>/InstallMisc/InstallLogs/IT_date-and-time-stamp.logfor example, IT_2011-10-31-13.18.21.log. Each attempt to apply a hot fix results in the creation of a new log file giving detailed information regarding the installation process.
Postexec log files are created after the installation is completed and identifies the files that were added, backed up, changed and removed. These log files include the 'member' hot fix id in the name of the file and are also written to the <!SASHOME>/InstallMisc/InstallLogs directory. There is one postexec log for each 'member' hot fix applied (member hot fixes are listed at the top of these instructions).
The content of this hot fix is listed in the hot fix manifest.
Required only for distributed deployments:
$ umask 022
$ cd /install
$ /bin/sh ./TKGrid_HF_x86_64_tkcmp02.sh
You should see the following:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing TKGrid...........
running TKGrid/bin_tkcmp_02/hfInstall TKGrid /install
TKGrid HotFix Configuration Utility.
Running on 'gridnode01.orion.com'
Using stdin for options.
Shared install or replicate to each node? (Y=SHARED/n=replicated)
The updated shared libraries will be located in the /install/TKGrid/lib_tkcmp_02 folder.
If necessary, the permissions on the /install/TKGrid folder for all computing appliance nodes may need to be updated for group read/write permissions.
Edit the TKGrid_REP/tkmpirsh.sh file
export TKERSA2_LIB_PATH=$TKMPI_DIR/lib2
export TKPATH=$TKPATH:$TKMPI_DIR/lib2
export TKPATH=$TKPATH:$TKMPI_DIR/lib:$TKMPI_DIR/bin
export TKPATH=$TKPATH:$TKMPI_DIR/lib_tkcmp_02
export TKERSA2_LIB_PATH=$TKMPI_DIR/lib2
export TKPATH=$TKPATH:$TKMPI_DIR/lib_tkcmp_02
export TKPATH=$TKPATH:$TKMPI_DIR/lib2
export TKPATH=$TKPATH:$TKMPI_DIR/lib:$TKMPI_DIR/bin
/opt/TKGrid/bin/simcp /opt/TKGrid_REP/tkmpirsh.sh /opt/TKGrid_REP
This completes the installation of hot fix I9S002 on Linux for x64.
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"Some of the Uses of Electricity in Gynecology," (1901) by William Henry Walling
In 1901, physician William Henry Walling published the article, Some of the Uses of Electricity in Gynecology, in the January issue of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Journal. Walling was a practicing gynecologist who studied electro-therapeutics, or the use of electricity in medicine for the treatment of disease, which was an emerging topic during the late 1800s. Walling stated that proper administration of electrical current to a woman's vagina, uterus, bladder, or rectum could be therapeutic for gynecological diseases.
Format: Articles
Subject: Reproduction, Theories, Publications
"Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children" (2009), by Hannah Cookson, Raquel Granell, Carol Joinson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, and A. John Henderson
In 2009, A. John Henderson and colleagues published "Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children," hereafter, "Mothers' Anxiety," in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Previous studies had shown that maternal stress during pregnancy affects children's health during childhood. The researchers explored the association of asthma in children with maternal anxiety during pregnancy. The cause of asthma is often unknown.
Format: Articles
Subject: Theories, Reproduction, Publications, Disorders
"The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk" (2004), by Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker
In 2004, Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker published "The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk," hereafter, "The Intergenerational Effects," in the Journal of Endocrinology. In their article, the authors assert that cardiovascular disease may develop via fetal programming, which is when a certain event occurring during a critical point of pregnancy affects the fetus long after birth.
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Subject: Publications, Theories, Reproduction


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MARION, Mass. (AP) — A stray cat that spent at least a week stuck in a Massachusetts tree before plunging 80 feet to the ground and fleeing has been found, and all things considered, appears to be in good health.
A Marion Animal Hospital veterinarian said Wednesday it's "unbelievable" that the cat dubbed Fortunate has just a couple of pulled muscles and a possible parasitic infection.
The cat was spotted in a Rochester, Mass., tree on Christmas Eve. Several rescue attempts failed before firefighters cut the branch it was perched on Sunday. Cat shelter founder Pam Robinson finally trapped the skittish feline on Tuesday.
Robinson tells The Standard Times (http://bit.ly/Wngz47 ) she will keep the cat for a few weeks so it can regain weight before putting it up for adoption.