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"Works of the Law" in Paul
The definition of Paul's phrase "works of the law" is one of the more significant disagreements between N.T. Wright and the Reformation understanding of justification by faith alone. On what basis can Wright claim that Paul does not have works-righteousness in view?
Wright maintains that the chief issue of Paul's epistle to the Galatians is not works-righteousness (legalism) but table fellowship. Wright contends that the Jewish Christians at Galatia were perplexed as to how Gentiles could now sit with them and break bread. True enough, Christ had come to save both Jews and Gentiles, but how could these Gentiles be considered part of Abraham's family unless they bore the marks of being Jewish — circumcision, the food laws, and Sabbath observance? These Jewish Christians were prepared to allow Gentiles in their midst but only if they bore the "works of the law" and submitted to circumcision, ate the proper food, and observed the Sabbath. Hence, according to Wright, Paul wrote to the Galatians so they would understand that Christ had done away with the "works of the law" and that Gentiles could be Christians without these Jewish identity markers. Jesus had lowered the flag of the works of the law and raised a new one in its place — faith in Him — to identify the people of God.
The problem with Wright's view is that he takes matters that are in the background of Paul's letter and moves them to the foreground (as Doug Moo put it). In other words, Wright takes Paul's message about salvation and how one is declared righteous in God's sight and places it on the back burner. He then takes a secondary matter, that of table fellowship, and moves it to the front burner almost to the point that he eclipses the message about sin and salvation.
Observe some of the following points. First, why would Paul be exercised over table fellowship to the point that he would warn the Galatians of damnation for embracing a false gospel (Gal. 1:8-9)?
Second, when Paul uses the phrase "works of the law" he certainly has in mind circumcision, food laws, and the Sabbath. But he also has many other things in view. The triad of Jewish identity markers is but one small sliver of the pie of the Law. When Paul condemns reliance upon the "works of the law" he quotes from Deuteronomy in Galatians 3:10: "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them" (emphasis mine; see Deut. 27:26). Paul not only condemned relying upon circumcision, food laws, and Sabbath, but he also included everything written in the Law. That is, anyone who tries to offer his own obedience to the Law in the effort to be approved and declared as righteous (as obedient) in God's sight would instead bring a curse upon himself.
Third, when Paul illustrates what it means to rely upon works versus faith, he appeals to a time before God instituted circumcision, food laws, and the Sabbath. Paul appeals to Abraham and Sarah's sinful efforts to bring about the divine promise by their sinful efforts rather than by faith alone in the seed who was to come — Jesus Christ (Gal. 3:16; 4:21–31).
And fourth, Wright opposes circumcision, food laws, and Sabbath against faith as the identity markers of Old and New Testament respectively. Wright's definition, however, sets the Bible in opposition to itself. Was faith not an identity marker of the Old Testament saints? As the great hall of faith tells us in Hebrews 11, faith in Christ has always been the way to identify the people of God.
The choice of the proper definition of the phrase "works of the law" is not one between Wright and the Reformation but one ultimately between Wright and the apostle Paul — indeed, between Wright and Scripture itself. Paul goes to great lengths to refute the Judaizer's sinful reliance upon their own obedience (their works of the law) because it was a matter of their salvation, not simply table fellowship. Paul's extended argumentation in Galatians can be distilled into a statement from his letter to the Ephesians: "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast" (Eph. 2:8–9). In a word, it is Christ's works that are the legal ground of our declaration of justification, not our own good works. The proper definition of the works of the law means the difference between justification and condemnation, heaven and hell.
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1923–27: The Early Years
Brothers Walt and Roy Disney began their careers as animators making flip-books in their uncle's garage, occasionally receiving a penny or two from passerby. In 1923, Walt created Alice's Wonderland, a twelve minute short film consisting of six minutes of unique footage. The plot circled around a young girl named Alice who dreams about living in a magical, cartoon world, creating a seemingly upbeat story. In the end, however, she falls off a cliff and dies. The film landed Walt and Roy a job producing animated comedies for Magaret J. Winkler, after which Walt created a new character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a cute little bunny who never seemed to lose a game of blackjack. The cartoon, however, was so boring that everyone on Walt's staff left his animation company and began working for Winkler's husband.
1928–54: The Golden Years
In 1928, after the failure of his earlier creation, Walt Disney gave birth to Disney's now-infamous mascot, Mickey Mouse, a half-naked rat that somehow appeals to children. Though Mickey Mouse was in a way Disney's first original character,[1] he was nowhere near the best,[2] similar to how Superman was the first superhero, yet The Green Hornet is by far the crème de la crème. Nevertheless, the creation of Mickey marked the beginning of Disney's success.
Soon after the creation of Mickey, Disney released their first full length feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937. The film was an immediate hit, earning the company enough money to build its present-day headquarters. Its protagonist Snow White, a really attractive 14-year old girl that loves singing, has delighted audiences around the world. It was not long before Disney began releasing more feature films. Pinocchio, Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, and various anti-Japanese propaganda films earned Disney a great reputation and some currency to boot.
1955–71: The Pretty Good Years
In the 1950s, Disney began to invest in the creation of its own independent nation, hoping to gain political dominance over the unimportant nations of Zimbabwe, Somalia, Moldova, and Eritrea, as well as any other country with inexpensive sweatshops. In 1955, the company unveiled Disneyland, dubbed "The Happiest Place on Earth with 'Land' in It's Name."[3] However, instead of becoming a prominent political power like Disney had intended, Disneyland was mistaken for a theme park, and thousands lined up to enjoy the various attractions, originally created for diplomatic negotiation. Its capital building, the Sleeping Beauty Castle, was soon modified to host dioramas and also served as a popular tourist trap, luring in unsuspecting children and brainwashing them into returning to the park year after year.
In 1966, Walt Disney died of complications relating to lung cancer. Though the general public, at first, could not decide whether this was a good or bad thing, it was eventually concluded that Walt's death was indeed a sad event, as Disney really seemed to go downhill after he passed away. Roy Disney followed his brother's suit five years later, marking the end of his life.
1972–83: The Relatively Bad Years
Throughout the '70s and '80s, Disney released many instant classics such as Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), Take Down (1979), and The Black Hole (1979), whose names alone have become iconic. Sadly, the quality of Disney products began to decrease as the company got older, similar to how the radioactive carbon-14 isotope decays over time, halving its mass every 5,730±40 years. 1983 marked the launch of Disney Channel, essentially a poor man's Nickelodeon,[4] and possibly the most horrid thing Disney had ever created.[5] The network was originally a means of exposing children to documentaries and mediocre foreign films, but this would change in due time.
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In the mid-1980s, Disney's incompetent management was sacked and given a new CEO named Michael Eisner. Under Eisner's leadership, Disney entered an era referred to by many as the "Disney Renaissance", where they produced such box office juggernauts as The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), and Tarzan (1999) — each of which featured a triple-platinum soundtrack sung by Elton John and Phil Collins.
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By the turn of the millennium, however, Eisner's ego began to get the better of him. Believing 2D animation was a thing of the past, he ordered Disney to cease producing 2D features, instead switching to teenybopper media such as High School Musical, Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, and Demi Lovato, as well as CGI talking animal pop culture-fests that poorly attempted to ape Dreamworks and Pixar. After becoming popular among teenage girls, Disney launched Radio Disney, which has become a popular form of torture at Guantanamo Bay.
There have been some complaints regarding the originality of many Disney films, considering that almost every good movie produced by Disney was based on a previous short story, fairy tale, novel, or play. However, recent documents have shown that the supposed "literary sources" that inspired these films were indeed written by Walt and Roy's ancestors, showing that they had true Disney origins. Through complex DNA analysis, the Brothers Grimm, the original authors of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, were found to be Walt's great uncles, initially referred to as the Brothers Disney, and Peter Pan was found to be Walt's great-great grandfather, who had written the screenplay for the film Peter Pan as a sort of autobiography.
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On several occasions, conspiracy theorists and religious organizations have accused Disney of inserting subliminal messages into their feature films. The Lion King, for example, contains a scene in which Simba lies down on the edge of a cliff, throwing up a cloud of dust which supposedly spelled out the letters S-E-X. Parents were outraged, claiming that the letters were an acronym for Start Eating Xanax and that animators had slipped them in after being paid off by drug companies.
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Your pinkies are not exactly your most...adept fingers. I don't mean to imply that I'd be happy to lose mine, but I'm also not exactly happy that the standard QWERTY keyboard sticks keys like Shift, Return, Delete, Tab and Escape out of the way where you need to stretch your pinkies to whack them. If you're an emacs user and have remapped Caps Lock to Control, things don't exactly get easier for your poor left pinkie.
As I've been starting to research keyboard design, I came across a tidbit about the placement of the Shift keys -- The earliest Remington typewriters (the ones by the guy who devised QWERTY) were strictly uppercase affairs. The competition added lowercase through a simple if somewhat...brute force hack. They added a second keyboard. Remington contrived something else - they welded lowercase type to the same hammers as as the uppercase letters and contrived a mechanism to literally shift the typewriter's platen up so the lowercase type would make an impression rather than the uppercase type.
As you might guess from that sort of a solution, there was an engineer involved. Apparently, an engineer who didn't want to spend time reengineering something they'd already built. So, when they went looking for a place to put their new platen shift keys, guess what they did with em? They bolted them on the side and a little out of the way.
And that, my friends, is why Shift lives where it does.
Another paper I was reading alluded to a study that said that one can not properly touch type on a keyboard with more than 50 keys. Looking down at my macbook air's keyboard...yeah. A few more than 50.
Even a happy hacking has more keys than that:
So I set about trying to figure out a keyboard layout that wouldn't put so much emphasis on your least awesome fingers. I'm working from the ErgoDox keyboard design I wrote about earlier.
Those of you who are big into counting might count just over 75 keys there. But the basic layout of the keyboard is what I currently have to work with.
The layout I'm currently using is pictured below. What I've done is to eliminate all but a single column for each pinkie in favor of an additional "blue shift" layer. So far, I'm finding it fairly comfortable and getting used to it pretty quickly. I'd love comments and questions, though.
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One of the worst U.S. flu seasons in a decade has created shortages of vaccine and the Tamiflu treatment for children, raising the prospect that people considered at high risk of getting the flu might not get the protection they need.
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Walgreen Co, which provides flu shots in some of its pharmacy locations, said on Wednesday it had given 5.7 million doses so far this flu season, up from 5.3 million a year ago. Walgreens is the largest distributor of flu vaccines in the United States other than the government
Jason Gurda, a healthcare equity research analyst at Leerink-Swann, said in a research report this week that 2,255 flu-related hospitalizations have been reported since October 1, 2012, up 735 from the previous week but below the 6,896 hospitalizations in the 2009-2010 season.
He said that could have a "modestly positive impact" on first-quarter volumes for hospitals and said that many companies, including HCA Holdings and Tenet Healthcare, had hospitals in the states most affected so far.
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Most of the United States is nearing peak infection levels seen during moderately severe flu seasons, according to the CDC. The agency estimates the percentage of people seeing health care providers for influenza had increased during the previous four consecutive weeks to 5.6 percent. That compares with 2.2 percent the previous year, when flu was mild.
More than 15,000 cases have already been reported in New York State, nearly triple the number last year, though 2011-12 was an extremely mild flu year and not at all typical. Hospitalizations are up 169 percent.
Manufacturers planned to produce 137 million doses of the vaccine and as of late last year, 112 million people had been vaccinated, the CDC said. Sanofi produced 60 million of those doses and GlaxoSmithKline PLC had planned to make 25 million doses.
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Secondly, I gotta say thanks to everyone for linking up, and: I'm having a hard time holding off on sharing the Easter Goodies that y'all have linked up at the Spring Fling so far. I can't wait to feature them on Monday for the Easter Parade!
The good news: I get to share some great projects right now for this week's features. The most-viewed link was:
New Look for Old Jeans by Making It Feel Like Home.
Keeping to the blue theme...
I've got the Blues by Elegant Economies.
Mary's Meanderings shares her Copy Cat Confession for this beautiful lace organizer!
Under a Pile of Scrap pours it on with a Chalkboard Water Can.
In The Old Road celebrates the first day of Spring on the Porch
Creatively Living shared Decorating Shelves Using This and That.
I also shared some of these and more great projects {My 1929 Charmer, Neverland Nook, Under A Pile of Scrap, Sew & Dippity} on Facebook.
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The SWAS panels are designed with best-in-class instrumentation to keep the integrity of your water steam circuit safe at all times and to protect your plant from corrosion and scaling. As a result, you save maintenance costs, minimize downtime and prolong the operational life for your plant. A safe data management provides proof of your water quality at all times. All SWAS panels are easy to install, to commission and to operate and can be combined as desired thanks to their modular design.
Your benefits
- A longer plant lifetime, reduced maintenance costs and minimized process downtime thanks to best-in-class instrumentation
- Flexible engineering for an application specific, customized solution
- User-friendly documentation tools improve quality management and simplify plant asset management
- Seamless system integration into existing PLCs with certified digital communication and remote capabilities
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Depending on your measuring task, you can choose between various sample preparations for water or steam cycles. The selection of the "right" sample preparation depends on pressure, temperature, the number of parameters to be measured and the applied safety standards. Of course, custom-made sample preparation panels are available upon request. Our experienced application team supports you with the best choice for your process.
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A woman who was arrested for attacking two people in Hallandale Beach, Florida, told a bond court judge she was merely a misunderstood street artist who was "trying to do some artwork."
25-year-old Arlene Mena was spotted outside her condo building Wednesday morning looking "like a very drunk person" and "trying to direct traffic" in the middle of State Road A1A.
The self-identified stripper, who was wearing a tank-top, cut-off jeans, and tall boots, gave up after a while, and threw a traffic cone at a passing motorist.
She struck Dieter Heinrich's car, breaking the vehicle's side mirror to the tune of $300 in damages.
Heinrich confronted Mena, who proceeded to spit in his face as his kids watched from the back seat of the car. A passer-by, Noel von Kauffman, tried to hold Mena back, but she attacked him and scratched his wrist.
After von Kauffman and Heinrich finally managed to subdue Mena, she tried to excuse her behavior by claiming to be involved in a candid camera TV show that was currently being filmed. When that failed, she told the two men she was a federal agent and that she was friends with the mayor of Hallandale Beach who would make trouble for the two if they didn't release her.
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As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
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The Red Zone
By Amie Knight
Release Date: May 30, 2019
They say the red zone is the hardest place to score.
But for me, those last twenty yards were my sweet spot.
They didn't call me Lukas "Last Minute Lucy" Callihan for nothing.
I was at the top of my game...until life sacked me harder than any linebacker ever could.
Losing my mom was devastating and left me as the sole person responsible for my little sister.
Taking care of Ella and juggling my career was like playing the hardest game of my life.
My only saving grace was Scarlett Knox, Ella's sexy, red-headed, no-nonsense teacher.
She loved Ella. She hated me.
She thought I sucked at this parenting thing, and she wasn't wrong.
But whenever she was around I got the same earth-shattering, heart-stopping feeling I did when I was only twenty yards from the goal line.
She made me feel like I was back in the red zone, a place I'd never fumbled.
Until now.
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Amie Knight has been a reader for as long as she could remember and a romance lover since she could get her hands on her momma's books. A dedicated wife and mother with a love of music and makeup, she won't ever be seen leaving the house without her eyebrows and eyelashes done just right. When she isn't reading and writing, you can catch her jamming out in the car with her two kids to '90s R&B, country, and showtunes. Amie draws inspiration from her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina, and can't imagine living anywhere other than the South.
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By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers at the National Institutes of Health saw the first, long-sought evidence that our brains may drain some waste out through lymphatic vessels, the body's sewer system. The results further suggest the vessels could act as a pipeline between the brain and the immune system.
"We literally watched people's brains drain fluid into these vessels," said Daniel S. Reich, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the senior author of the study published online in eLife. "We hope that our results provide new insights to a variety of neurological disorders."
Dr. Reich is a radiologist and neurologist who primarily uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders which are thought to involve the immune system. Led by post-doctoral fellows, Martina Absinta, Ph.D. and Seung-Kwon Ha, Ph.D., along with researchers from the National Cancer Institute, the team discovered lymphatic vessels in the dura, the leathery outer coating of the brain.
Lymphatic vessels are part of the body's circulatory system. In most of the body they run alongside blood vessels. They transport lymph, a colorless fluid containing immune cells and waste, to the lymph nodes. Blood vessels deliver white blood cells to an organ and the lymphatic system removes the cells and recirculates them through the body. The process helps the immune system detect whether an organ is under attack from bacteria or viruses or has been injured.
In 1816, an Italian anatomist reported finding lymphatic vessels on the surface of the brain, but for two centuries, it was forgotten. Until very recently, researchers in the modern era found no evidence of a lymphatic system in the brain, leaving some puzzled about how the brain drains waste, and others to conclude that brain is an exceptional organ. Then in 2015, two studies of mice found evidence of the brain's lymphatic system in the dura. Coincidentally, that year, Dr. Reich saw a presentation by Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Virginia and an author of one the mouse studies.
"I was completely surprised. In medical school, we were taught that the brain has no lymphatic system," said Dr. Reich. "After Dr. Kipnis' talk, I thought, maybe we could find it in human brains?"
To look for the vessels, Dr. Reich's team used MRI to scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or cancer. The dye molecules are small enough to leak out of blood vessels in the dura but too big to pass through the blood-brain barrier and enter other parts of the brain.
At first, when the researchers set the MRI to see blood vessels, the dura lit up brightly, and they could not see any signs of the lymphatic system. But, when they tuned the scanner differently, the blood vessels disappeared, and the researchers saw that dura also contained smaller but almost equally bright spots and lines which they suspected were lymph vessels. The results suggested that the dye leaked out of the blood vessels, flowed through the dura and into neighboring lymphatic vessels.
To test this idea, the researchers performed another round of scans on two subjects after first injecting them with a second dye made up of larger molecules that leak much less out of blood vessels. In contrast with the first round of scans, the researchers saw blood vessels in the dura but no lymph vessels regardless of how they tuned the scanner, confirming their suspicions.
They also found evidence for blood and lymph vessels in the dura of autopsied human brain tissue. Moreover, their brain scans and autopsy studies of brains from nonhuman primates confirmed the results seen in humans, suggesting the lymphatic system is a common feature of mammalian brains.
"These results could fundamentally change the way we think about how the brain and immune system inter-relate," said Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D., NINDS director.
Dr. Reich's team plans to investigate whether the lymphatic system works differently in patients who have multiple sclerosis or other neuroinflammatory disorders.
"For years we knew how fluid entered the brain. Now we may finally see that, like other organs in the body, brain fluid can drain out through the lymphatic system," said Dr. Reich.


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1. To cycle the slide of a semi-automatic gun. Usually refers to the procedure of operating a handgun where complete cycling of the slide ejects an empty cartridge case (if present) from the chamber, while moving a new cartridge from the magazine into the chamber. This action basically clears the chamber of an existing empty, or full, cartridge and prepares the gun for firing a new cartridge. Repeated 'racking' of the slide will eventually empty the gun of all cartridges. Racking the slide is also used to clear jams or malfunctions. On the range, or in a competition, a command to rack the slide may be used in a couple of different circumstances. When a semi-automatic gun is first loaded, the slide must be racked to load a cartridge into the chamber so the gun is prepared to fire. Second, a range officer may issue a rack the slide command when shooting is finished to verify that a gun is empty.
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For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Updates page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter.
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Blue Line
Due to Expo construction work after 8:15pm, trains run every 30 minutes.
Northbound trains leave Transit Mall at 8:16pm, 8:46pm and every 30 minutes through 10:46pm, then 11:21pm. Trains from Transit Mall to Wardlow leave at 11:43pm, 12:13am, 12:43am, 1:18am, 1:25am and 1:43am.
Southbound trains leave 7th St./Metro Center at 9:15pm, 9:45pm and every 30 minutes through 11:45pm, then 12:20am, 12:27am and 12:45am.
Dates: through September 9
Gold Line
Due to maintenance occurring 10am to 2pm, trains will run every 20 minutes via the southbound tracks at Southwest Museum, and via Platform 2 at Heritage Square and Lincoln Heights.
Dates: through September 9
Line 28
Trips starting at Olympic & Muirfield at 3:13pm, 3:15pm, 3:19pm & 3:21pm will not operate. Please refer to the timetable for the regular schedule or call 1-800-266-6883 for general service information.
Dates: through September 10th
List of ongoing service advisories after the jump.
Line 30
The westbound stop at 1st St. & Judge John Aiso will be relocated one block north to Judge John Aiso and Temple St at existing stop serving Lines 40 and 42.
Dates: ongoing
Line 201
Effective March 15 and lasting approximately 4-6 months, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) will close Silver Lake Dr. between Angus St. and Rowena Ave. During this time, bus stops along this portion will not be served. The detour route below will be in effect.
Line 201 will use Silver Lake Blvd. from Silver Lake Dr. to Glendale Blvd. Buses will use Line 92 stops in both directions along the detour route.
Work schedules are subject to change. Look for brochures titled 'Line 201 Service Change' on buses. Click here to view map and additional information
Dates: ongoing
Line 460
Northbound Line 460 serving 37th Street Station will be rerouted due to Expo Light Rail construction at Adams Blvd & Flower St. Southbound buses are unaffected and will continue to serve 37th Street Station southbound platform.
Northbound buses will detour via 39th Street HOV off ramp to Figueroa St. Buses will make a northbound stop on Figueroa St at 37th St – Exposition Blvd, far side at existing stop serving Lines81, 102, 200, 442, and Metro Silver Line.
Dates: ongoing
Line 577X
Line 577X will be rerouted due to major construction activities at the interchange of the I-10/I-605 Freeways. At El Monte Station, passengers will now board and alight on the Lower Level Bus Plaza. Please note this line will no longer serve the Upper Level Bus Plaza at El Monte Station. Click here to view map and additional information.
Dates: ongoing
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A Fort Wayne man has been charged with animal cruelty after police say he repeatedly kicked a stray cat.
Allen County prosecutors filed an animal cruelty charge Friday against 54-year-old Larry Knox. Knox couldn't be reached for comment Saturday because his phone number was unlisted.
Court documents say Knox called police Dec. 4 to complain the cat had gotten into his home. A police officer and an animal control officer found the cat hiding behind a bed and asked Knox why it was stunned. Knox allegedly laughed and said he kicked the animal in the face, dislodging one of its teeth, and continued to kick it after it fled into a bedroom.
Knox allegedly told the officers he didn't like cats.
The cat was taken to a shelter for treatment.


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Remember the new hot dog menu that debuted earlier this month in Tomorrowland? Well, the sign guys have been busy again, and the menu's been updated already. Looks like the Rueben dog has been pitched to the curb and we're left with Taco and Philly Cheese Steak dogs.
Thanks to reader Evan D., who took time out of his WDW trip to send this photo my way today!


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text: Bill Donnella of Indianapolis, Ind., a frequent voice on the public address at USAC racing events for many years, has passed away at age 83. A news anchor and broadcaster for several Indianapolis radio outlets, including Indianapolis Indiana baseball games and the Indianapolis 500, Bill announced many USAC events, including indoor races in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. His widow, Marge, presented the trophy to Gene Hartley at the first USAC race ever held, in January of 1956 at Fort Wayne. Bill was also the original p.a. announcer for the Indiana Pacers basketball team.


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One of the simplest mods that were featured in DIYP is the lightstand to backdrop holder mod.
It is fast to make, has some PVC in it – PVC ROCKS – and it is a can be a cheap and easy alternative for on location instant backdrop.
Martin Kimeldorf (Flickr) who is the master mind behind this simple-yet-genius contraption has been busy. Taking in the great reader comments on the original post, Martin has improved his original design. I was really happy when I got the note in the mail asking to share the new generation of the Light Stand Backdrop Holder.
The first improvement was to rebuild the backdrop holder so it will fit in a 3 feet long bag. So the T arms are slightly shorter now. The other thing was that the arms were curving a bit with the weight of the canvas. To make the stronger and be able to hold the backdrop without getting a curve Martin added wooden dowels inside the cross-bar to strengthen it. See the image below.
The other improvement was to make sure that the thing will not turn around like a carousel when using it.
You can do this by cutting slits vertically, then line the inside with black tape to reduce the inside diameter. Then using a hose clamp with a thumb screw you can tighten the stem and secure its position, even though it is slightly larger than the original PVC used. Again, see the image below to get it clear.
Now, this whole process of making something and giving it to the photography community and then getting great feedback, implementing it and giving it again, really makes my heart warm inside. This is what DIYP is all about.


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AURORA | James Holmes is accused of carrying out one of the worst mass shootings in recent U.S. history, but police say there was nothing illegal about the guns and ammunition he allegedly used during a Colorado movie theater attack.
The four weapons recovered following the shootings that killed 12 and left nearly 60 people injured at a suburban Denver theater were purchased by the suspect from retail gun stores in Colorado in the last two months, authorities said Friday.
A federal law enforcement officer said Holmes bought one of the four guns — the first of two Glock pistols — on May 22 at Gander Mountain in Aurora, Colo. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe into the shootings is ongoing.
Larry Whiteley, a Bass Pro Shops spokesman, said records show that its Denver store followed federal rules in selling a shotgun and a Glock pistol to Holmes.
"Background checks, as required by federal law, were properly conducted, and (Holmes) was approved," Whiteley said in a statement.
Gander Mountain, which sold an AR-15 assault rifle believed to be used in the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, said the company was in compliance with state and federal laws and that it was "fully cooperating with this ongoing investigation."
A second federal law enforcement official said Holmes had a high-capacity ammunition magazine in the assault rifle. Oates said a 100-round drum magazine was recovered at the scene.
The type of ammunition magazine Holmes is accused of using was banned for new production under the old federal assault weapon ban, said Daniel Vice, senior attorney for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
When the ban expired in 2004, gun manufacturers flooded the market with the type of high-capacity magazines Holmes used Friday, Vice said.
Oates did not specify the type of rifle but said that experts told him "with that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50 to 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute. And as far as we know, it was a pretty rapid pace of fire in that theater."
Oates said Holmes purchased ammunition over the Internet, including thousands of rounds and multiple magazines for the assault rifle.
Authorities have said that Holmes had on an all-black ensemble of protective gear at the time of the shooting. An online seller of tactical police gear told the St. Louis Dispatch (https://bit.ly/Pssg9H ) that it sold more than $300 of equipment, such as an assault vest, magazine pouches and a knife, to Holmes on July 2.
Chad Weinman, the CEO of Missouri-based TacticalGear.com, said Friday that Holmes had purchased two-day shipping for the items. He said the expedited timing for the items showed "some relevance as to what kind of mindset he was in." A message left after business hours Friday by The Associated Press was not immediately returned.
Holmes is also believed to have hurled two gas canisters into the theater before opening fire.
Holmes' gun purchases include:
— On May 28, six days after buying the first Glock, he purchased the shotgun from Bass Pro Shops in Denver.
— On June 7, Holmes bought the AR-15 assault rifle at a Gander Mountain store in Thornton, Colo.
— On July 6, Holmes returned to the Bass Pro Shops store in Denver and bought the other Glock pistol.
Associated Press writers Alicia A. Caldwell, Pete Yost and Eileen Sullivan contributed to this report from Washington.


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Centre for Conflict Studies Established by MIIS Professor
Monterey Institute professor Pushpa Iyer has announced the formal opening of the Centre for Conflict Studies (CCS), a nonprofit organization with the mission to promote deeper understanding of conflict and peace. CCS provides a forum for research projects, working papers and fellowships as well as a platform for networking between scholars and practitioners from the field of conflict studies.
Before coming to the United States, where she earned her Ph.D. at George Mason University, Professor Iyer did pioneering work in conflict resolution and community-based development in Gujarat state, India, working to build peaceful relationships and economic cooperation between the divided Hindu and Muslim communities there. She has consulted for a number of nongovernmental organizations and institutions, including the World Bank, in areas including India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
More recently, professor Iyer's work with Monterey Institute students specializing in conflict resolution has taken her to Cambodia and Sierra Leone, where she led and mentored students through efforts to understand and support peace-building efforts in both nations. "What makes this news so exciting," says professor Iyer, "is the fact that many of the MIIS conflict students and alumni are so actively involved in the day-to-day running of the Centre."
The first issue of the CCS's quarterly magazine Reflections features articles about peace-making in Darfur, the challenges ahead for Southern Sudan, and the death of bin Laden.
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Subaru's Impreza line of cars was perhaps its greatest triumph. It allowed the company to forget about the SVX and Justy in the North American market and offer a car with more versatility than a Swiss army knife. One of its best kept secrets is the little gem known as the '98-'01 2.5 RS. Here are a few simple reasons you should own one.
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5. It's rare.
The GC8 generation Impreza 2.5 RS isn't a rare car by regular production car standards, it's more rare than some exotic supercars. I'll give you a quick example: The most popular Ferrari in the late '90s and early '00s was the Ferrari 360. In its 5-year run, over 16,000 cars were made. Subaru, on the other hand, produced just over 14,000 examples of the 2.5 RS in its 4-year run, including both 4-door and 2-door variants. That means that if you're driving a 2.5 RS and get into a fender bender with Doug DeMuro, you're more likely to find his front bumper in a junkyard than your rear bumper.
This rarity only increases as time goes on, because unlike a Ferrari, a Subaru Impreza isn't a priceless heirloom that gets passed down from hard-working parent to entitled trust fund baby. It's a cheap daily driver for the vast majority of its owner base, which means that it gets totaled by newbie drivers in numbers that GM would describe as "concerning". For this reason, it's one of the rarest 90's Japanese cars on the used car market in good condition, although even finding a rough example is a bit of a challenge.
A decent unit would set you back around $5000, with the "unicorns" (read: doesn't exist) going for nearly twice that, although cars that are one check engine light away from the junkyard can be had for less than $2000, but they'd likely require more reconditioning than the car is worth. Try to find one on Ebay, I dare you.
4. It's the most "Subaru" looking car ever made.
If you asked anyone born in the early '90s to describe a Subaru, they would likely show you a picture of the GC Impreza WRC rally car. Either that, or describe something that can be driven comfortably in crocs.
Photo by Tony Harrison on Flickr
The GC Impreza is the car that gave Subaru a firm grip on not only professional motorsport, but the entry-level car market. It defined the brand, and no car since then has been able to capture the initial wonder and inherent Subaru-ness present in the simple, yet iconic lines of the GC chassis.
The 2.5 RS's rally-inspired front end, with its huge fog lights, enormous hood scoop and wide-mouth opening is, in this writer's opinion, one of the best looking of any car ever made in the last 2 decades. Although the RS didn't get the wide fender wheel arches that the 22B WRX STi in Japan got, there are plenty of aftermarket manufacturers that offer kits that transform your pretty run-of-the-mill Subaru into a unadulterated knockout.
Photo by Kontra Zoltán on Flickr
3. Its All Wheel Drive system is fantastic.
Before torque vectoring and electronic differentials were all the rage, Subaru came up with an ingenious solution to make a car go around a corner without understeering hilariously into something fortunate, or seriously into something unfortunate. Their system was called Symmetrical All-Wheel-Drive. Without becoming too technical (you can read about that here), it means that the torque coming from the engine is split evenly between front and rear axles, where a traditional system would give either the front or rear a significant bias. The drivetrain was also placed in the physical center of the car, giving the car's handling more predictability than 35-year marriage.
In the 2.5 RS, this means that the car won't hesitate to get you home in a snowstorm, light flood, or those surprise rally stages that happen from time when no one's looking.
2. It's Versatile.
At the very base of the 2.5 RS is an economy car that's made for many hundreds of thousands of miles, through tough seasons exposed to the elements. It's made for baby seats, melted crayons, and the occasional drink spill. It can do a cross-country trip at a moment's notice, and doesn't mind driving all the way back because you forgot your Kenny G collection. You can likely fix it on a 2-figure budget, and rebuild it on a 3-figure budget. Its parts are easily accessible and the aftermarket support rivals anything made for popular Toyotas, Hondas, or Nissans. With the right suspension and tire setup, it can give you an experience that requires a chiropractor afterwards, all while returning just shy of 30 miles per gallon and having the ability to make one hell of an awesome and iconic exhaust note.
It's the darling of nearly every type of motorsport, from autocross to the loud new kid on the block - drifting:
Photo by Aatomotion on Flickr
It's embraced by the oddball stance kids, 1/4 mile racers, and car show presenters. Odds are, if you can do it in a car, the Subaru 2.5 RS is the car to do it.
1. WRX/STi Engine swaps
The stock 2.5 engine, in both the single cam and dual cam versions weren't bad powerplants by any means, putting out a max of 165 horsepower, but they were overshadowed in every conceivable way by the WRX and STi turbo variants, which are to this day, some of the most sought after engines in all of tuning culture. Subaru's ingenious method of making nearly all of their drivetrain parts interchangeable make the STi/WRX a no-brainer for anyone that wants to transform their 2.5 RS into something that will have the BRZ owner frantically running back to the dealership for a refund. There are tons of tutorials and hundreds of possible combinations of engine mods for a variety of budgets and styles, culminating in a car that can give you neck-snapping grip and more usable power than anything offered by Subaru today.
It's a diamond in the rough, and if you can find one, get it, because it certainly won't be around for long. What are you waiting for? Go get one!
Tavarish is the founder of APiDA Online and writes about buying and selling cool cars on the internet. He owns the world's cheapest Mercedes S-Class, a graffiti-bombed Lexus, and he's the only Jalopnik author that has never driven a Miata. He also has a real name that he didn't feel was journalist-y enough so he used a pen name and this was the best he could do.


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Opinion analysis: Genetic link not enough for Social Security survivors benefits
on May 22, 2012 at 4:27 pm
The following contribution is by Kristine S. Knaplund, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. Professor Knaplund has written extensively on the legal and ethical issues that arise when children are conceived and born years after a genetic parent has died, including articles in the Arizona Law Review, Kansas Law Review, the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal. She is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and serves as Vice Chair of the ABA Elder Law, Disability Planning and Bioethics Group.
Yesterday the Court issued its decision in Astrue v. Capato. In an unanimous opinion by Justice Ginsburg, the Court sided squarely with the Social Security Administration, thus giving Chevron deference to a federal agency's interpretation for the seventh time in the past five years. The case involved two children conceived after their father's death using his frozen sperm; their application for Social Security survivors benefits was denied on the ground that they did not qualify as his "children" because they were not entitled to inherit from him under applicable state law. The Third Circuit reversed, holding that the undisputed biological children of a deceased wage earner and his widow are the wage earner's "children" within the meaning of the Social Security Act.
At issue was the meaning of the term "child" in the Act, which states in Section 402(d) that "[e]very child (as defined in § 416(e) of this title) … of an individual who dies a fully or currently insured individual … shall be entitled to a child's insurance benefit." Section 416(e), in turn, defines "child" as "(1) the child or legally adopted child of an individual." The Third Circuit agreed with the Capatos that the meaning of "child" in the statute was plain: it meant the biological child of a married couple. The Supreme Court found some "conspicuous flaws" in this definition. First, nothing in the statute demonstrates that Congress meant to include only the children of married parents; similarly, the Court found no indication that "child" was limited to biological offspring, as the Third Circuit had found. Finally, the Court noted that, even if the Third Circuit definition had been adopted in this case, "it is far from obvious" that the Capato twins would be included. In Florida, as in many states, death ends a marriage, and so they would not qualify as "marital children" in any event.
The Court then turned to Social Security's interpretation of the word "child." In the agency's view, a third section of the Act — Section 416(h) — must be considered in addition to Sections 402(d) and 416(e). Section 416(h)(2)(A) provides: "In determining whether an applicant is the child …of a fully or currently insured individual for purposes of this subchapter, the Secretary shall apply such law as would be applied in determining the devolution of intestate personal property by the courts of the State in which such insured individual … was domiciled at the time of his death." Although Section 416(e) does not specifically reference Section 416(h), in the Court's view there was "no need to place a redundant cross-reference." It cited earlier versions of the Act and similar provisions for determining a spouse, surviving spouse, or parent of an insured individual, none of which included such a cross-reference. Thus, being the genetic child of the wage earner is not sufficient to qualify; the child must satisfy one of the provisions of Section 416(h), such as demonstrating that she is entitled to inherit in intestacy. The SSA's interpretation, the Court continued, furthers the core purpose of survivors benefits, which are designed to protect dependent family members "against the hardship occasioned by [the] loss of [the insured's] earnings." While not all children who inherit in intestacy under state law will be dependent on the wage earner, the Court called this a "workable substitute" in place of individual determinations.
Does this mean that postmortem conception children are "treated as an inferior subset of natural children who are ineligible for government benefits simply because of their date of birth and method of conception," as the Capatos argued? Not in the Court's view, or in the view of several courts of appeals: treating these children differently is rationally related to the government's interest in targeting benefits to those dependent on the wage earner. It also minimizes the administrative burden of proving dependency on a case-by-case basis.
Finally, the Court found that the SSA's interpretation was at least reasonable, and thus entitled to deference under Chevron.
The Court's decision resolves a split among the courts of appeals regarding the appropriate definition of a "child" for these benefits. All circuits will now look to one of the gateway provisions of Section 416(h) in making this determination. Ironically, however, the ultimate disposition of these cases will still vary from state to state, in part because state laws of intestacy are far from uniform, and in part because many states have yet to address the specific issue of inheritance by children conceived years after a parent's death. Seventeen states have enacted laws on this issue: thirteen states allow postmortem conception children to inherit in intestacy, while four states do not. In another five states without specific statutes, courts have split on the issue: three have allowed inheritance, while two have not. That leaves twenty-eight states in which the outcome is uncertain. The SSA has received over one hundred applications for survivors benefits from children conceived postmortem, with the rate of applications increasing significantly in recent years.
Even though the issues of parentage and inheritance have traditionally been left to the individual states, the peculiar case of postmortem conception children would benefit from a national standard. The purpose of the benefits is to replace the deceased wage earner's income, in cases in which the children could reasonably have expected to rely on that income. A postmortem conception child, by definition, has been conceived long after the insured's death, and has no legal claim to support from the decedent. The states that allow such children to inherit in intestacy, and thereby qualify for Social Security survivors benefits, do not advance that purpose.
Plain English Summary
The United States Supreme Court decided unanimously that a child conceived and born after a parent's death cannot rely solely on a genetic connection to the deceased parent in order to qualify for Social Security survivors benefits. Siding with the Social Security Administration's interpretation of the law, the Court held that all children, including those born via assisted reproduction technology, must either demonstrate that they would be eligible to inherit from their late parent under state law or satisfy one of the statutory alternatives to that requirement. The SSA's interpretation was more consistent with the core purpose of the Act, which is to protect family members who depend on another family member's income from hardship if that family member dies.


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I am wanting to run audio only throughout the house to in ceiling speakers in each room/zone from multiple soundcards installed in the core. Each output would then go into an amp or multizone amp, with volume controlled by either a conventional dial in each room, or by remote adjusting the volume at the soundcard. This to me is a much more elegant solution for whole house audio than having a stack of MD's or streambox's in the basement (where all the wiring runs to) sitting next to the core. It's also the cheaper solution Jason
Rob,I'd like to take a look at the code, maybe even try to add support for a jack output driver. Do you know what all hand tweeking was needed on the core?Jason


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NVIDIA Quadro® Plex VCS Server Combines Four Quadro GPUs in a Standard 1U Server Configuration for Remote Graphics and Offline Rendering Applications
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SIGGRAPH 2007—SAN DIEGO, CA—August 7, 2007— NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) continues to smash through visual computing performance barriers with the introduction of NVIDIA Quadro® Plex Visual Computing System (VCS) Model S4, a graphics server featuring a record number of graphics processing units (GPUs) in a standard 1U server form factor. The new server contains more Quadro graphics processing power in less space than has ever been achieved before, enabling interactive visualization of extremely large-scale data sets by multiple users with a minimal footprint.
Designed for data-centric applications such as off-line rendering, remote graphics applications and embedded visual computing, the Quadro Plex Model S4 server takes visual compute density to new extremes by incorporating four NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5600 professional GPUs in an industry-standard 1U rack configuration; dynamically allocating compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power for optimized GPU performance. GPU computing for visualization solves programming functionality available in the NVIDIA CUDA™ tool suite.
The Quadro Plex Model S4 is designed to serve high-quality interactive visualization of large models to multiple users. Its 6 GB frame buffer (1.5 GB per GPU) can process large textures with full-screen antialiasing while Shader Model 4.0 vertex and pixel programmability delivers ultra-realistic effects for OpenGL and DirectX 10 applications. The server's accelerated 3D texture performance provides greater interactivity for the visualization of large volumetric datasets often required in energy and scientific research.
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Until now, NVIDIA's Quadro Plex product line has consisted of desk side units that can also be mounted side-by-side in a 3U rack space. The Model S4 server complements the rest of the product line by offering extreme compute density in 1U housing for solving the largest visualization and high-performance computing problems.
The Quadro Plex VCS Model II is intended primarily for powering large arrays of monitors. Featuring four Quadro FX 4500 GPUs with a 512 MB frame buffer per GPU, the Model II can power up to eight frame-synched, dual-link DVI displays.
The Quadro Plex Model III adds high-definition SDI output by replacing the GPUs in the Model II with two Quadro FX 5500s with a 1 GB frame buffer per GPU and dual HD SDI graphics-to-video output boards, powering two dual-link DVI displays plus two HD SDI outputs.
The Quadro Plex Model IV is intended primarily for processing and visualization of large data sets desk side, in a workbench environment. It features two Quadro FX 5600 GPUs with a 1.5 GB frame buffer per GPU for processing of larger textures and can power up to four frame-synched dual-link DVI displays.
The Quadro Plex Model S4 is an industry standard form factor optimized for large-scale server deployments. Featuring four Quadro GPUs in a high-density 1U chassis for high-performance remote graphics and offline rendering applications, the Quadro Plex Model S4 offers system monitoring, thermal control and fault notification for efficient integration into data centers.
NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS Models I, II, III, and IV are currently available through NVIDIA and distribution partners worldwide, including PNY Technologies, Leadtek, and Elsa. The Quadro Plex VCS Model S4 will be available in the fourth quarter of 2007. Visit www.nvidia.com for Quadro Plex system configurations and additional product details.
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Australia poll deadlock no closer to resolution
Australia's opposition leader denied on Friday he was manoeuvring to force the country back to the ballot box after a weekend election delivered a hung parliament, with independents holding the balance of power.
Nearly a week on from the August 21 election, Australia is still no closer to forming a government, with neither of the major parties close to striking a deal with cross-bench MPs, raising speculation that another election might be in prospect.
Markets are hoping for conservative leader Tony Abbott to form a minority government so he could deliver on pledges to kill off the outgoing government's plans for a mining tax, a price on carbon emissions and a $38 billion (24.5 billion pounds) telecoms project.
But Abbott has been accused of treating the independent MPs coldly, raising talk that he would prefer another election to negotiating a minority government.
That theory was fantasy, said Abbott, who initially refused to cooperate with the independents and whose Liberal-National coalition has one more seat than Labor.
I think the public and Australia deserves an outcome from this election, Abbott told a news conference in Sydney.
Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Abbott have both fallen short of the 76 seats need to command a majority in the 150-seat parliament.
The conservatives have provisionally won 73 seats, while ruling Labor secured 72. Five independent and Green MPs will now decide who forms a minority government.
But Abbott on Friday said only three sitting rural independents, all former National party members, held the key to the conservative's forming government.
I believe it's important that Australia should have a competent and stable government emerge from this election. Given the position of the three (rural) independent members...I think negotiations with them are the key, Abbott said when asked about whether he could form an alliance with the Greens.
Abbott ruled out doing a deal with the sole Green MP due to his demand for a carbon price, and did not mention a fourth city independent who was critical of a former conservative government's support for the war in Iraq.
Labor probably needs the support of two of the three rural independents, along with the Green MP and independent from the city of Hobart on the island state Tasmania.
Gillard said she held productive talks on Friday with the Greens. Gillard supports a market-based carbon price to combat climate change and a worry for Abbott is that two of the rural independents also support a carbon price.
Greens leader Senator Bob Brown said the talks with Gillard were very constructive. We are working to see if a Labor government can be formulated, Brown told reporters after the meeting, adding Abbott had not yet organised a meeting.
Asked how long Australia should wait for a new government to be formed, Abbott declined to set a deadline.
I understand it is going to be difficult for them to make a choice. I am not trying to pressure them into any kind of timetable, he said.
I just make this point, it is a national government...and it is important that the decision is not unduly delayed.
Australians are betting that any minority government formed in the next few weeks will not last a full term and fresh elections will be called in 2011, said an online bookmaker.
Online bookmakers Sportingbet said the odds were shortening for an early election, possibly in 2011, to sort out the impasse.
Punters know that any minority government would face plenty of problems and the new prime minister, whoever that may be, could be forced to call an early election, Sportingbet Australia chief Michael Sullivan said.
And at least one analyst said a new poll could be seen as a positive development and preferable to an unstable government.
If the alternative was an election or an unstable government where there was no major policy decisions being made, then I think an election would be preferable, Macquarie Bank senior economist Brian Redican said.
(Additional reporting by James Grubel in CANBERRA; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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