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Tax Rates And The "Small Business" Zombie Lie
Conservative media figures have long insisted that top marginal income tax rates effectively target small businesses. This "zombie lie" has sprung up throughout President Obama's first term as an argument against Democratic proposals to renew the Bush-era rates only for middle- and low-income Americans. Despite continual efforts by experts to debunk this claim, media figures continue to repeat these lies in the 2012 edition of the fight over high-income tax rates.
They Said It In 2008...
October 2008: America's Election Headquarters Co-Host Asserts That Three Quarters Of Top Marginal Rate Payers Are Small Businesses. On the October 24, 2008 edition of Fox News' America's Election Headquarters, co-host Brian Sullivan said:
Seventy-five percent of the people that make over $250,000 a year are small business owners. At what point do those people simply give up because for every marginal dollar they create for the economy, they're penalized for. [America's Election Headquarters, 10/24/08, via Nexis]
October 2008: Karl Rove Alleges Three Of Every Four Taxpayers Affected By Raising Top Rates Are Small Business Owners. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, columnist Karl Rove wrote:
So while Mr. Obama says that only the top 5% will pay higher taxes under his proposals, many voters are skeptical. Nearly three out of every four filers who'll pay higher taxes under a President Obama are small businesses, the source of most new jobs and growth. An Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center study found that 663,000 (73%) of the 912,000 filers hit by Mr. Obama's tax increases will report business income -- i.e., they are small business owners. His tax hikes will affect every worker at those enterprises. [The Wall Street Journal, 10/2/08, via Factiva]
August 2008: Glenn Hubbard Claims Candidate Obama "Is Committed To Raising Taxes On Successful Small Business Owners." In a 2008 Wall Street Journal op-ed, former Council of Economic Advisers head Glenn Hubbard wrote:
If Mr. Obama is going to increase spending, will he raise the money by higher business taxes instead? He has already distanced himself from John McCain's call to reduce America's corporate tax rate, and he is committed to raising tax rates on successful small business owners who pay individual as opposed to corporate income taxes. [The Wall Street Journal, 8/21/08, via Factiva]
...It Was Echoed By The GOP Presidential Campaign...
October 2008: McCain Chief Economic Adviser Says That Small Businesses Are "In The Crosshairs" Of Increases In Top Income Tax Rates. From the October 14, 2008, edition of MSNBC's Race For The White House, McCain-Palin 2008 Chief Economic Adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said:
Well, Steve has got a point in that it's not just tax policy. But tax policy is important. And the ideological drive to raise those top tax rates are catches in the crosshairs, the small businesses that in this economy, a very weak and damaged economy have created 331,000 jobs this year. Those top two tax rates hit the companies that create 56 percent of small business income, 84 percent of Americans work in small businesses. Why would you have the judgment to attack the one strong point in the U.S. economy? [Race For The White House, 10/14/08, via Nexis]
... And It Was Wrong Then
Center On Budget And Policy Priorities: Raising Top Tax Rates Affects A Small Number Of Small Businesses. In a February 2009 report, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that only 1.9 percent of small businesses would be affected by raising the top two tax rates. As Media Matters noted in October 2008, the top two tax rates would include all households making more than $195,850. Since President Obama's proposal was to increase taxes only on incomes over $250,000, this figure slightly overestimates the percentage of small businesses affected.
[Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2/2/09]
They Said It In 2010...
July 2010: WSJ's Moore Claims High-Income Tax Rates Target Small Businesses. On the July 26, 2010, edition of On The Record, Steve Moore, editorial board member of The Wall Street Journal, said:
I think the big problem is even the higher income tax rights which Tim Geithner said he wants to raise, it turns out over half of that income is income of small business owners and operators and investors. You can't create jobs if you tax those people more.
And another thing to think about, if we allowed the top tax rate to go to 40 percent, small business operators and owners are going to pay a higher tax rate than ExxonMobil or Disney or major corporations, because the corporate tax rate is 35 percent. There's not a lot of fairness in that. [On The Record, 7/26/10, via Nexis]
September 2010: AEI Researchers Say Nearly Half Of Small Business Income Will Be Hit By Higher Taxes. From a Wall Street Journal op-ed by the American Enterprise Institute's Kevin Hassett and Alan Viard:
The impact is far more severe than Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Biden suggest. In fact, the sound bite about 3% of small businesses, which has been picked up by numerous pundits, is one of the more misleading statements in the long history of economic propaganda. The 3% figure, which is computed from IRS data, is based on simply counting the number of returns with any pass-through business income. So, if somebody makes a little money selling products on eBay and reports that income on Schedule C of their tax return, they are counted as a small business. The fact that there are millions of people in the lower tax brackets with small amounts of business income may be interesting for some purposes, but it is irrelevant for the assessment of the economic impact of the tax hikes. The numbers are clear. According to IRS data, fully 48% of the net income of sole proprietorships, partnerships, and S corporations reported on tax returns went to households with incomes above $200,000 in 2007. That's the number to look at, not the 3%. [The Wall Street Journal, 9/3/10]
November 2010: Fox's MacCallum Interrupts Guest To Insist That Half Of High-Income Taxpayers Are Small Businesses. From the November 12, 2010, edition of America's Newsroom, Fox News host Martha MacCallum had the following exchange with Democratic strategist Maria Cardona:
MARIA CARDONA (Democratic Strategist): Well I think a couple reasons. First of all because I know that Republicans like to argue that the tax cuts for the top income earners are going to affect small businesses, but in fact, that's not true. Ninety-nine percent of small businesses do not fall into the top one percent of income earners in this country -
MARTHA MACCALLUM (Host): No, That is not true, actually. In fact, half of the people that make -
CARDONA: No. It is true -
MACCALLUM: Wait, Maria. Hold on, I'm going to call you on that because half of the people who make over $250,000 a year in this country are running a small business. Half of them. So, you know, this notion that it's not going to make a difference - and if you talk to small business owners across the country, which, you know, I do whenever I get the chance to, they'll tell you I'm not hiring, I'm worried about health care, I'm worried about this. So why not pull the brakes off of them and help them out? [America's Newsroom, 11/12/10, via Media Matters]
November 2010: Fox's Bolling Asserts That "Half Of The Filers Over $250,000 Will Be Small Business." From the November 19, 2010, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
BILL HEMMER (Host): Lay it out, what happens here?
ERIC BOLLING: OK, so, we have the Republicans who say, let's let all the tax cuts go forward forever. The Democrats are saying no, only the middle-class tax cuts, the people making over 250,000, those people can't have the tax cuts go forward. The problem here is, guys, this is it, right here: Half the filers over $250,000 will be small businesses. [America's Newsroom, 11/19/10, via Media Matters]
December 2010: According To Fox Nation, "Dems Vote To Raise Taxes On Small Business, Job Creators." On December 2, 2010, Fox Nation used the following headline for an article on a House vote on the Bush tax cuts:
[FoxNation.com, 12/2/10, via Media Matters]
... And It Was Wrong Then, Too
Tax Expert William Gale: "The Vast Majority Of Small Businesses Will Be Unaffected" By Higher Rates On Top Earners. William Gale, co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, explained how the idea that "allowing the high-income tax cuts to expire would hurt small businesses" was a "myth." From The Washington Post:
If, as proposed, the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire for the highest earners, the vast majority of small businesses will be unaffected. Less than 2 percent of tax returns reporting small-business income are filed by taxpayers in the top two income brackets -- individuals earning more than about $170,000 a year and families earning more than about $210,000 a year.
And just as most small businesses aren't owned by people in the top income brackets, most people in the top income brackets don't rely mainly on small-business income: According to the Tax Policy Center, such proceeds make up a majority of income for about 40 percent of households in the top income bracket and a third of households in the second-highest bracket. If the objective is to help small businesses, continuing the Bush tax cuts on high-income taxpayers isn't the way to go -- it would miss more than 98 percent of small-business owners and would primarily help people who don't make most of their money off those businesses. [The Washington Post, 8/1/10]
American Enterprise Institute's Viard : Actually, Most Of These "Small Businesses" Are "Very Large." Two weeks after co-authoring an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, in which he argued that top income tax rates do have a "severe" impact on the small business community, AEI's Viard was quoted in The Washington Post acknowledging that Republican rhetoric about small businesses is politically motivated and based on a "fallacy" :
A separate analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found that only about 10 percent of business income above the threshold was reported by sole proprietorships, with the rest coming from partnerships and S corporations, which can be extremely large. Alan Viard, an economist in the Bush White House who is now at the American Enterprise Institute, agreed that many firms represented in the top tax brackets are hardly small. Economically, that doesn't matter, he said: Obama would still be raising taxes on a significant source of jobs and economic activity. Politically, however, it's a very different matter to raise taxes on a Wall Street hedge fund than it is to tax your neighborhood dry cleaner. Which is why Republicans continually define pass-through entities of all sizes as small businesses, a position Viard called a "fallacy." "How can it be that 3 percent of owners are accounting for 50 percent of small business income? Those firms they're owning can't be all that small," Viard said. "And that's true. They're very large." [The Washington Post, 9/17/10]
They Said It In 2011-12...
September 2011: "Surely This Tax Hike Will Reduce Small-Business Hiring" Because "Roughly Half The Income Of Small Businesses" Would Be Hit By Top Marginal Rates. From Charles Krauthammer's nationally syndicated column:
Now that he's president, Obama has actually gone and done it. He's just proposed a $1.5 trillion tsunami of tax hikes featuring a 'Buffett rule' that, although as yet deliberately still fuzzy, clearly includes raising capital gains taxes. He also insists again upon raising marginal rates on 'millionaire' couples making $250,000 or more. But roughly half the income of small businesses (i.e., those filing individual returns) would be hit by this tax increase. Therefore, if we are to believe Obama's own logic that his proposed business tax credits would increase hiring, then surely this tax hike will reduce small-business hiring. But what are jobs when fairness is at stake? Fairness trumps growth. Fairness trumps revenue. Fairness trumps economic logic. [The Washington Post, 9/22/11, emphasis original]
January 2012: Rove Claims "Most Of The People That You Are Trying To Raise Taxes On Are Actually Small Businesses." On the January 25, 2012, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Karl Rove said:
Because it's going to require somebody on the Republican side to step up and not simply make the economic argument. The economy is fragile. It shouldn't be raising taxes on anybody. Not the efficiency argument. Most of the people that you are trying to raise taxes on are actually small businesses filing on the individual chart. We ought to make the moral argument that there has to be a limit to what the government can take from anybody. Because if they can take it from somebody, they can take it from anybody. [The O'Reilly Factor, 1/25/12, via Nexis]
April 2012: Fox Business' Willis Agrees With Norquist That "Most Small Businesses Pay" Individual Income Tax At Top Marginal Rates. On the April 17, 2012, edition of The Willis Report, host Gerri Willis had the following exchange with Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform:
GROVER NORQUIST: Yes. It's over $100 billion. Year one. So, it's a huge, huge hit. Then, on the individual level, the tax rate goes up to 39 1/2, plus the Obamacare tax. So, approaching 45 percent. That's also the tax that most small businesses pay. Most 80 percent of small businesses aren't corporations. They're partnerships --
GERRI WILLIS: Absolutely.
NORQUIST: -- and subchapter-S companies. So, they pay the personal income tax which is going up to 45, even as some moderates say, well, why don't we take the corporate income tax down from 35. They may, but for most small businesses, for the people employ a majority of Americans, they're looking, if Obama gets reelected, if you have a Democratic Senate, up to 45 percent. [The Willis Report, 4/17/12, via Nexis]
October 2012: CNN Fact-Checking Segment Endorses Claim That Top Tax Rates Target Small Businesses. From CNN's coverage of the October 11, 2012, vice-presidential debate:
JOHN BERMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, the candidates continue to war on taxes with Paul Ryan claiming that President Obama wants not just to raise them on small businesses, but to put them over 40 percent.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: What President Obama wants to do is raise the top tax rate on our successful small businesses and our manufacturers to much higher tax rates than our foreign competitors, above 40 percent.
BERMAN: So, what are the facts here? The top rate paid by top earning small businesses would rise to nearly 40 percent if the Bush tax cuts expire on those top earners as President Obama wants. Many small businesses are taxed as individuals.
Now, the rate on small businesses would go above 40 percent if you included additional Medicare taxes on the wealthy. So, our verdict here is mostly true. Some small businesses at the very high-end could end up with a tax rate of more than 40 percent. [CNN, 10/11/12, via Nexis]
November 2012: CNN's Piers Morgan States Small Business Income Tax Myth As Fact. On the November 9, 2012, edition of Piers Morgan Tonight, host Morgan said: "One of the problems, of course, if you do raise taxes, is a lot of Americans who would then be brought into that bracket are small business owners. And they are concerned, quite naturally, that that may slow down their ability to grow and to create jobs." [Piers Morgan Tonight, 11/9/12, via Nexis]
... And It's Still Wrong
CBPP: "Claims That Letting The High-Income Bush Tax Cuts Expire Would Harm Small Businesses Are Vastly Exaggerated." A post on the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Off the Charts blog noted that "history refutes the doomsday claims" that "letting the high-income tax cuts expire would seriously harm small businesses" :
For starters, the frequently cited claim that letting the high-income tax cuts expire would seriously harm small businesses relies on a highly exaggerated definition of "business" that treats any filer with any pass-through income as a business owner. (A pass-through entity passes its profits through to its owners, who pay tax on them at the individual rate.)
[H]istory refutes the doomsday claims. The arguments against allowing the high-end tax cuts to expire on schedule echo those made against President Clinton's proposed 1993 tax increases, which set marginal rates at the levels to which they are set to return when the Bush rate cuts expire. Critics claimed at the time that those tax increases would seriously harm economic growth. As it turned out, job creation and economic growth proved significantly stronger following the 1993 tax increases than following the 2001 Bush tax cuts. Further, small businesses created jobs at twice the rate during the Clinton years than they did under the Bush tax code. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 7/19/12]
U.S. Congress Joint Committee On Taxation: 3.5 Percent Of Small Business Taxpayers Will Have "Marginal Rates Of 36 Or 39.6 Percent Under The President's Proposal." A memorandum from the Joint Committee on Taxation, a congressional panel that analyzes tax proposals, explains that "3.5 percent of all taxpayers with net positive business income" will face higher rates. All other small businesses that pay taxes as an individual will pay the lower rates. From the Joint Committee On Taxation:
The staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that in 2013 approximately 940,000 taxpayers with net positive business income (3.5 percent of all taxpayers with net positive business income) will have marginal rates of 36 or 39.6 percent under the president's proposal, and that 53 percent of the approximately $1.3 trillion of aggregate net positive business income will be reported on returns that have a marginal rate of 36 or 39.6 percent. [Joint Committee On Taxation, 6/18/12]


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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - So far, U.S. President Barack Obama has not received much of a bounce yet in popular support from the Democratic National Convention, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Thursday.
The latest daily tracking poll found Republican Mitt Romney still clinging to a narrow lead of 45 percent to Obama's 44 percent among likely voters. Romney had led by 46 percent to 44 percent in Wednesday's poll.
"We're not seeing a sort of glimmer, at this point, of a bump," said Ipsos pollster Julia Clark.
The online survey included questions to voters on Wednesday before former President Bill Clinton's well-received speech on the convention floor, so Clinton's influence has not yet been taken into account.
Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, delivered an electrifying speech on Tuesday, and those polled for the Thursday poll would have had the chance to have heard her.
Obama addresses the convention on Thursday night.
Clark said Obama could get a delayed bounce. Romney began his Tampa convention last week behind Obama, 46 percent to 42 percent, before taking a small lead.
"I do think we probably will see a small bump still. Maybe we won't start seeing it until Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I think it will be very modest," Clark said.
The findings are from an Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters from September 2-6. For the survey, a sample of 1,623 American registered voters was interviewed online.
The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points for all respondents.
While conventions normally produce a tick up in support for candidates, this year seems different with many Americans having already divided into opposing sides.
Clark said Obama needs to lay out a plan for economic recovery in order to appeal to independent voters who may decide who wins the November 6 election, and needs to convince disaffected voters who voted for him last time to vote for him and not stay at home on Election Day.
"This election will be a 'game of inches' and turnout will play a major factor in determining a winner," she said.
For Romney, Thursday's poll was good news. He is holding steady so far despite rampant criticism of him at the convention.
"He's treading water but that's not a bad place for him to be right now," said Clark.
In 2008, Republican candidate John McCain got a bump of about 6 percentage points after his convention in part because he announced his choice of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate just days before the gathering, bolstering enthusiasm for the ticket. Romney announced running mate Paul Ryan three weeks before the convention.
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – March 1, 2006) Attorney General Terry Goddard today cautioned Arizona consumers to beware of an Internet "phishing" scam using emails that appear to come from the Internal Revenue Service, asking for personal financial information.
Many of the phony emails involve what looks like a 1099 form detailing non-payroll income in an attempt to gain consumers' attention and their financial data. Consumers are also receiving fraudulent electronic mail with what appears to be an IRS letterhead that says the taxpayer is eligible for a refund and providing what it says is an IRS Web site to visit for more information. The site is phony.
"This is a seasonal scam, aiming to exploit the fact that at least half of all taxpayers will file their returns electronically this year, and many are eager to receive refunds," Goddard said. "But the IRS will not contact taxpayers by email, and consumers should know what 1099 forms they will be getting to file with their tax returns. As the April 15 tax deadline approaches, people can expect to see more of these phony notices."
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Notice of Public Hearing
Executive Policy Committee
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Time: 9:00 A.M.
Location: Council Building, 510 Main Street
Lord Selkirk West Kildonan Community
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File: DASZ 30/13 and SPA 1/13
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Expropriation a bumpy road
Would-be purchase prices rejected for CentrePort route
More than one-third of the owners of properties expropriated to make room for CentrePort Canada Way have balked at the purchase price -- setting the stage for the highway's property-acquisition budget to exceed the provincial target.
Since 2010, the province has expropriated 261 hectares of land in northwest Winnipeg and the RM of Rosser to make room for a $212-million highway to serve CentrePort, an industrial development taking shape near Richardson International Airport.
The new road, which remains under construction, runs from Inkster Boulevard and across Sturgeon Road before connecting to the Perimeter Highway.
The province expropriated a total of 31 parcels of land to make room for the highway and proceeded to attempt to negotiate purchase prices with the former property owners, according to the provincial Crown Lands and Property Agency.
Those negotiations have resulted in only two settlements to date, while 16 others have yet to be negotiated and may wind up in a contested hearing before the provincial Land Value Appraisal Commission.
-- Rocky Neufeld, a land appraiser who represents some of the property owners
Another 13 properties are already heading into contested hearings, which were supposed to begin in May but have been pushed back to September.
"It may be that in and of itself says something about whether or not people feel they're being offered a reasonable amount for their properties," said Antoine Hacault, a Manitoba lawyer who deals with expropriations and represents some of the property owners.
Crown Lands has set aside $7.1 million to compensate the owners of all 31 properties and has already spent $5.4 million on preliminary payments, according to the province.
Rocky Neufeld, a land appraiser who represents some of the property owners, said he doubts the remaining $1.7 million will be able to cover the negotiated or contested settlement of the 29 other parcels of expropriated land.
"It's a tremendous shortfall someone has left them with," said Neufeld, surmising the cash-strapped province will be forced to find the money somewhere else.
But Crown Lands maintains it's offered a fair price for the expropriated land.
"We've done a thorough investigation of the properties. Our appraiser has done his work. We're comfortable in the numbers," said Ken Dzogan, the agency's former land-acquisition officer, earlier this year.
The CentrePort Canada Way property acquisition amounts to one of the largest sets of involuntary expropriations Crown Lands has ever made, added Dzogan.
His agency prefers to settle expropriations through negotiation, he said. "We recognize this is an expropriation. No one came to us and said, 'Please buy my land.'
"The owner didn't come to us with an offer to sell, so they ought to receive every vehicle they're entitled to. At the same time, we're keenly aware we're paying taxpayers' dollars."
In theory, property owners are entitled to compensation for the cost of hiring lawyers, land appraisers and planners to assist their side of the fight. Neufeld said in this instance the province has not covered those fees for his clients, who are left with mounting costs while the contested-hearing process crawls toward resolution.
"It could be years before these cases are ever brought forward," said Neufeld, claiming this is a deliberate provincial tactic. "They're using non-payment to negotiate: 'Take my offer or you won't get paid for years.' It's what someone would do in private practice, but governments should be held to a higher standard.
"Legal counsel, the owners and appraisers want these things brought forward in an expedient fashion."
In a statement, the province said compensation issues are complex and it's attempting to work out fair settlements as quickly as possible.
Hacault, the expropriation lawyer, said the province must balance the needs of taxpayers with those of the property owners.
"From my perspective, people should be entitled to the reimbursement of their reasonable expenses on an ongoing basis," he said.
Property owners who reject provincial purchase offers have two years to appeal to the Land Value Appraisal Commission. The province is obliged to pay whatever amount the commission determines must be paid.
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Trotter comments, agents, Mannino
I spoke with Brock Trotter today over the phone and we're running a rather big story in Monday's paper. You'll have to wait until then to read his response when asked why he left DU, but here's one quote I can throw out now:
"I had a good relation with a lot of people there, and I'm definitely going to miss them," Trotter said. "But I've moved on. I had a really good time. I'm here in Hamilton right now, and there's a good bunch of guys here, too."
Some parts of Monday's story isn't going to make the paper. Such as:
Trotter's former teammates at DU seem to be generally proud of him, and senior goalie Peter Mannino is not critical of his midseason departure or the precedent he and former Minnesota forward Kyle Okposo may have established.
"Stuff happens all the time and people move on. I don't think it's a bad thing to leave the door open," Mannino said. "You can understand both sides of the situation."
Trotter hired agent Wade Arnott. I couldn't reach Arnott on Sunday but he told The Canadian Press that DU suspended Trotter before he decided to leave.
"He was forced to make a decision," Arnott told the paper. "He didn't walk away from the team or the university."
Denver-based agent Kurt Overhardt has clients that include former DU players Wade Dubielewicz (Islanders) and Matt Carle (San Jose Sharks) and minor-leaguers Geoff Paukovich, Ryan Dingle and Glenn Fisher.
Overhardt, who is serving as the family advisor for Wisconsin freshman Kyle Turris — the No. 3 overall selection in the 2007 NHL draft — said he never would advise a client to leave mid-season.
"We don't believe players should switch teams or leagues, and if someone is committed to playing college hockey, they need to stick with the other 20 guys in the room, and deal with it," Overhardt said. "Our job is not about working with the player that wants to leave mid-stream. Our job is about advising the client, to stick with the commitment they made to the team, the teammates, and the school, and deal with adversity in a positive manner."


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Melisandre of Asshai - by John Picacio ©
The red woman[1]
Red witch[2]
The king's red shadow[3]
Lady Red[3]
|Faith of R'hllor
A Clash of Kings (appears)
A Storm of Swords (appears)
A Feast for Crows (mentioned)
A Dance with Dragons (POV)
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Melisandre is a red priestess of R'hllor and a shadowbinder, hailing from the city of Asshai in the Further East of Essos. She has joined the court of Lord Stannis Baratheon of Dragonstone, believing him to be Azor Ahai reborn, a hero destined to defeat the Great Other. She has become an influential advisor to him and his family.[5] In the television adaptation Game of Thrones she is portrayed by Carice van Houten. She becomes a POV character in A Dance with Dragons.
Appearance and Character
- See also: Images of Melisandre
Melisandre is regarded as a beautiful woman by many.[5] She has long hair the color of burnished copper and pale, unblemished skin. She is slender and graceful, and taller than most knights. She has full breasts, a narrow waist, and a heart-shaped face. She has a deep voice, with an eastern accent.[5]
As is the custom of the red priests of her faith, Melisandre always dresses in long robes of red fabric.[1][6][7] She is never without a red gold choker containing a ruby which fits tightly around her neck.[5] When Melisandre works magic, the ruby setting glows with power,[8] and it may be able to burn her if the magic worked is particularly demanding.[4]
Melisandre has the ability to see visions in the flames, and completely trusts in the power of her god, R'hllor. Although she acknowledges that visions can be misinterpreted,[8] she has faith in her ability to correctly interpret visions, even if the vision does not entirely agree with the proposed interpretation.[4] Melisandre is careful to present herself as mysterious, serene and powerful, and pretends that several acts of magic are much easier than they are in truth. Although she is genuinely skilled with magic, she enhances this with various smokes and powders that she keeps concealed in her robes. Melisandre has practiced her art for "years beyond count".[4]
As a slave called Melony of "Lot Seven", Melisandre was sold to a red temple at an early age.[4] She has learned the Common Tongue, High Valyrian, and the tongue of Asshai.[1]
At some point before the War of the Five Kings started, Melisandre travels to Dragonstone on her own[9] in search of a prophesied prince, Azor Ahai, who will lead the war for the dawn against the Great Other, the enemy to her god, R'hllor.[10] She is convinced that Dragonstone is the place of smoke and salt amidst which Azor Ahai shall be reborn.[11][12] Melisandre comes to believe that Stannis Baratheon, the Lord of Dragonstone, is Azor Ahai reborn,[10] and becomes a confidant to Stannis's wife, Selyse Florent.[13]
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A Game of Thrones
At the crossroads inn Lord Tywin Lannister tells his son Tyrion that according to one of the rumors Lord Varys has heard, Lord Stannis Baratheon is bringing a shadowbinder from Asshai to Dragonstone,[14] possibly in reference to Melisandre, although she had arrived on Dragonstone some years ago.[13]
A Clash of Kings
Melisandre resides at Dragonstone, where she has converted Lady Selyse Florent to the faith of R'hllor. She is feared by most of the servants, who call her "the red woman" as they do not dare to say her name.[5] Melisandre believes that Stannis fulfills an ancient prophecy from Asshai, and is Azor Ahai reborn.[1] Determined to stop Melisandre's "madness" from spreading beyond Dragonstone, Stannis's maester, Cressen, proposes a toast between himself and Melisandre, using poisoned wine. Melisandre drinks most of the wine and remains unharmed, but Cressen dies drinking the remaining fluid.[5]
Although Stannis is not as committed to R'hllor as his wife and the queen's men in his court, Melisandre convinces him to burn the statues of the Seven from the castle sept of Dragonstone in sacrifice to R'hllor.[1] Outside of Dragonstone's gates, Melisandre proclaims Stannis to be Azor Ahai reborn and has him pull a burning sword from the fire, declaring it to be the legendary sword Lightbringer.[1] He eventually creates a new sigil for himself, the fiery heart of the Lord of Light.[15]
In King's Landing, Lord Petyr Baelish reminds the small council that some years past, Varys had reported that Selyse had taken up with a red priest. The councilors decide to use Melisandre's religion and the greyscale of Princess Shireen Baratheon to discredit Stannis.[13]
Stannis's brother Renly, Lord of Storm's End, has also declared himself king, and has gathered the support from most stormlanders and men from the Reach. When Stannis sets sail from Dragonstone to besiege Storm's End, Melisandre accompanies him. She urges Stannis to meet with Renly and give him a last chance to swear his loyalty to Stannis.[16] During the meeting, she serves as Stannis's standard bearer.[15] Melisandre had previously seen Renly's death in her flames,[5] and outside the walls of Storm's End creates a shadow assassin looking like Stannis which kills Renly the morning he is to march to battle against Stannis.[17]
Stannis begins to have terrible nightmares after Renly's death, and only Melisandre can soothe him to sleep.[6] Although many stormlords join Stannis after Renly's death, some loyal forces continue to hold Storm's End, while Ser Loras Tyrell returns to Bitterbridge to take control over eighty thousand men Renly had left behind. The castellan of Storm's End, Ser Cortnay Penrose, refuses to yield. Stannis tells Ser Davos Seaworth that Melisandre has fore that Cortnay will die within a day. He also reveals that she has seen Renly smashing Stannis's forces beneath the walls of King's Landing, but Stannis believes that Renly's death has prevented that scenario from happening. At night Stannis has Davos sail Melisandre underneath Storm's End, where she births a shadow assassin[6] which slays Cortnay.[18] After Lord Elwood Meadows surrenders Storm's End to Stannis,[19] Melisandre has her king burn the castle's ancient godswood.[20]
With Storm's End taken, Stannis is ready to march on King's Landing. By stating that men might say Stannis owes his crown to Melisandre's spells if he allows her to take part in the battle to come, Lord Bryce Caron convinces Stannis to send Melisandre back to Dragonstone, where she resides while Stannis and his forces fight at the capital.[21] Stannis is defeated in the Battle of the Blackwater, however, after the arrival of the armies of Lords Tywin Lannister and Mace Tyrell.[22][23] Ser Garlan Tyrell, leading Tywin's vanguard,[24] wears Renly's green armor during the charge of the newcomers,[25] making Melisandre's vision of Renly in his green armor defeating Stannis's forces underneath the walls of King's Landing[6] come true, after a fashion.
A Storm of Swords
Melisandre and Selyse burn Lord Guncer Sunglass and the surviving sons of Ser Hubard Rambton as sacrifices to R'hllor while Stannis is attacking King's Landing.[24]
When Davos returns to Dragonstone from Blackwater Bay,[26] Stannis refuses to see anyone but Melisandre. Davos is determined to kill Melisandre,[24] believing her to be responsible for the defeat on the Blackwater and subsequently the deaths of his four eldest sons.[24] According to Melisandre, she learned of this plan through her flames,[11] and Davos is arrested.[24] She later visits Davos in his dungeon, and admits to him that she dare not make another shadow son with him, as it might kill Stannis. Melisandre suggests making one with Davos, but Davos refuses.[11]
Melisandre tells Stannis there is power in a king's blood, and she wishes to sacrifice Edric Storm, the acknowledged bastard son of the late King Robert I Baratheon, to "wake the stone dragon". Both Melisandre and Stannis are convinced of the need to quickly unite the Seven Kingdoms under one king, in preparation for the battle against the Great Other, about whom Melisandre has shown Stannis visions in the flames.[16] Stannis refuses to allow Melisandre to sacrifice Edric, however, and the king instead throws leeches filled with Edric's blood into the flames while stating the names of the "three false kings:" Balon Greyjoy, Robb Stark, and Joffrey Baratheon.[16]
In time, Balon falls from Pyke[27] and Robb is killed at the Red Wedding.[28] Melisandre claims it was R'hllor's doing and warns that "false kings" will take up the crowns of those who have fallen.[8] When Davos points out that Joffrey is still alive, Stannis refuses Melisandre once more. However, Stannis implies to Davos that he will be willing to sacrifice Edric should Joffrey die.[8] When Davos learns that Joffrey has died at his own royal wedding,[29] he enlists the help of some king's men to smuggle Edric from Dragonstone. Davos reads Stannis and Melisandre a letter from Maester Aemon at Castle Black, informing the realm of the threats the Night's Watch is facing and asking for aid,[30] which neither Stannis nor Melisandre knew about.[8]
When Stannis sails for the Wall, Melisandre sacrifices Lord Alester Florent to her god to gain favorable winds for the voyage north.[31][32] Riding west from Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, Melisandre kills Orell's eagle with fire, making the skinchanger Varamyr go mad from pain and lose control of his other animals during the battle beneath the Wall.[33][7]
Melisandre holds her nightfires at Castle Black.[7] She brings Jon Snow to Stannis, and when Stannis offers to make Jon Lord of Winterfell, she urges Jon to burn the weirwoods and accept Winterfell as a gift from R'hllor. Stannis claims to Jon that Melisandre has seen in her flames that the wildlings will return.[7]
In a meeting with the high officers of the Night's Watch, Melisandre informs the black brothers that they have to hold nightfires at their gates as a way to battle their enemy. Maester Aemon recognizes she is speaking about the war for the dawn, and asks about the prince that was promised. Melisandre informs him Stannis is the prophesied prince.[34]
A Feast for Crows
With Stannis intending to have Mance Rayder executed, Melisandre plans to sacrifice him to R'hllor to wake a dragon with the blood of Mance, the King-Beyond-the-Wall.[35] Jon sends Maester Aemon to Oldtown, fearing that Melisandre might otherwise eventually give Aemon to the flames, since he is the son of King Maekar I Targaryen.[35] Jon makes the wildling girl Gilly, who has been nursing both her own infant son and Mance's infant son, accompany Aemon. He secretly forces Gilly to take Mance's son with her, pretending he is her own child, to save Mance's son from Melisandre's flames.[36][37]
A Dance with Dragons
Melisandre walks atop the Wall every night with Stannis.[38] She is present for a meeting between Stannis and Jon Snow, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and walks Jon back to his chambers afterwards. Melisandre tells him that she will ask R'hllor for guidance about what to do with Mance, whom Stannis plans to burn, after Jon insists that Mance could be useful to them. She warns Jon to watch out for enemies, stating that she has seen him surrounded by enemies in her flames, and daggers in the dark.[38]
Despite Jon's efforts to change the king's mind, Stannis is determined to sacrifice Mance. Melisandre places a glamor over him, making him appear to be the wildling Rattleshirt. Rattleshirt, in turn, is glamored to look like Mance, and killed in his place.[4][39] Melisandre also destroys the so-called Horn of Joramun.[39] She keeps Mance disguised at Castle Black, and offers his service to Jon Snow, who refuses in the impression that Mance is Rattleshirt.[3] Stannis and Melisandre allow the wildlings south of the Wall, making them swear to R'hllor.[39] The wildlings feign loyalty to R'hllor, however, and in secret keep faith in the old gods.[40]
Melisandre remains at Castle Black when Stannis marches for the northern mountains,[3] attended to by greybeards and cripples. Judging that Davos has lost enough sons, Melisandre requests Stannis to leave Devan Seaworth, Davos's eldest surviving son, at Castle Black as well, to keep him safe.[4]
Melisandre's powers are much stronger at the Wall, and she constantly searches her fires for visions. When she looks into the flames, she sees a "wooden face, corpse white" with a thousand red eyes, accompanied by a boy with a wolf's face. She assumes that they are servants of the Great Other. She asks to see Azor Ahai, hoping for Stannis, but sees only Jon surrounded by skulls, his face changing between that of a man and that of a wolf.[4] She continues to hold her nightfires every evening, but as Stannis has taken most of his men with him, not many people attend.[41] Shortly after Jon receives a letter announcing the upcoming wedding of Ramsay Bolton and Arya Stark, Melisandre informs him that she has seen Arya in her flames, a grey girl, fleeing from her marriage on a dying horse. She tells Jon that she can show him how to use his "power", but he remains wary of her. She then warns Jon that she has seen that three of the nine rangers he has sent out will die, and that she has seen their faces with empty sockets, weeping blood.[41]
Melisandre tells Mance they can only win Jon's trust by rescuing his sister. Melisandre finds Jon north of the Wall, where the heads of Black Jack Bulwer, Hairy Hal, and Garth Greyfeather have been impaled by the Weeper, making the first of her predictions come true. Jon asks her to look in her flames for the other six rangers. He informs her that Ser Denys Mallister at the Shadow Tower believes the wildlings might try to force their way across the Bridge of Skulls, and Melisandre tells him that she has seen towers by the sea submerged beneath a black and bloody tide. Though she acknowledges to herself that the towers in her vision do not look like those at Eastwatch, Melisandre claims the attack will fall there when asked by Jon.[4] She takes Jon to her chambers, where she suggests sending "Rattleshirt" south to save Arya. When Jon protests, she reveals Mance's true identity to him.[4] Claiming to be a bard named "Abel", Mance travels to Winterfell with six spearwives to rescue Arya.[42][43]
Melisandre's second prediction comes true when Alys Karstark—not Arya—arrives at Castle Black, fleeing from her cousin Cregan, who wants to force a marriage between them as to lay claim on Karhold.[44] Selyse Florent, who has arrived from Eastwatch, agrees to marry Alys to Sigorn, the Magnar of the Thenns, and Melisandre performs the ceremony.[45]
When Jon plans to send men to Hardhome on a rescue mission, Melisandre urges him not to,[12] claiming it is a lost cause and that she has seen that none of Cotter Pyke's rescue ships will return.[46] Despite Melisandre's warnings to Jon, he is betrayed in the mutiny at Castle Black.[46]
Quotes by Melisandre
Davos: Are you good or evil, my lady?
Melisandre: Oh, good. I am a knight of sorts myself, sweet ser. A champion of light and life.[6]—Davos Seaworth and Melisandre
These little wars are no more than a scuffle of children before what is to come. The one whose name may not be spoken is marshaling his power, Davos Seaworth, a power fell and evil and strong beyond measure. Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends. Unless true men find the courage to fight it. Men whose hearts are fire.[16]—Melisandre to Davos Seaworth
When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.[11]—Melisandre to Davos Seaworth
Melisandre: When I gaze into the flames, I can see through stone and earth, and find the truth within men's souls. I can speak to kings long dead and children not yet born, and watch the years and seasons flicker past, until the end of days.
Jon: Are your fires never wrong?Melisandre: Never ... though we priests are mortal and sometimes err, mistaking this must come for this may come.[38]
—Melisandre and Jon Snow
We all must choose. Man or woman, young or old, lord or peasant, our choices are the same. We choose light or we choose darkness.[39]—Melisandre before the execution of "Mance Rayder"
—Melisandre's thoughts
With Stannis gone, her bed saw little use. She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night. She would sooner sit bathed in the ruddy glow of her red lord's blessed flames, her cheeks flushed by the wash of heat as if by a lover's kisses.[4]—Melisandre's thoughts
Quotes about Melisandre
Melisandre, whose madness must not be allowed to spread beyond Dragonstone.[47]—Cressen's thoughts
Half my knights are afraid even to say her name, did you know? If she can do nothing else, a sorceress who can inspire such dread in grown men is not to be despised. A frightened man is a beaten man. And perhaps she can do more. I mean to find out.[1]
Lady Melisandre wore no crown, but every man there knew that she was Stannis Baratheon's real queen.[39]—Jon Snow's thoughts
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 10, Davos I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 17, Jon IV.
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 31, Melisandre I.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 A Clash of Kings, Prologue.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 42, Davos II.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 76, Jon XI.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 54, Davos V.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 So Spake Martin: Asshai.com Interview in Barcelona (July 28, 2012)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Melisandre.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 25, Davos III.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 53, Jon XI.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 15, Tyrion III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 69, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 31, Catelyn III.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 36, Davos IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 44, Tyrion X.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 45, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 52, Sansa IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 58, Davos III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 62, Sansa VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 65, Sansa VIII.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 10, Davos II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 5, Davos I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 63, Davos VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 75, Samwell IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 9, Davos I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 73, Jon X.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 78, Samwell V.
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 15, Samwell II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 35, Samwell IV.
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 3, Jon I.
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 39.4 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 10, Jon III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 21, Jon V.
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 28, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 35, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 37, The Prince of Winterfell.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 44, Jon IX.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 49, Jon X.
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 69, Jon XIII.
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 A Clash of Kings, Prologue.


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Gov. Mark Dayton declined to endorse a specific site for the proposed new Vikings stadium Wednesday and said questions remain about the financial viability of the Vikings-preferred site in Arden Hills.
The governor said he spent the weekend reviewing Vikings stadium proposals. Last week, Dayton told reporters that he might endorse a site if one stood out as the most desirable and feasible.
Dayton said Wednesday that he thinks there are three potentially viable options for the new football stadium — the Arden Hills site, the current Metrodome site, and the Linden Avenue site near the Basilica of St. Mary.
The governor said the state Legislature's opposition to proposed tax increases makes the Arden Hills proposal unworkable unless Vikings officials are willing to pay a bigger share of the project. Dayton also said the Linden Avenue site in Minneapolis has potential development advantages over the Metrodome site, but he highlighted unresolved issues with both Minneapolis sites.
"In conclusion and regrettably, there is not yet a stadium proposal with a complete and sufficient financial plan, one which assigns equitable obligations to the Vikings, the local partner and the state of Minnesota," Dayton said at a news conference Wednesday. "And no site sponsor has adequately resolved the major unanswered questions in order to merit approval to proceed."
Dayton raised several concerns about the proposed Arden Hills site and said it's unlikely the state legislature will allow Ramsey County commissioners to increase the general sales tax or the food and beverage tax to help fund the stadium without a voter referendum. He said that would leave the Arden Hills stadium with just two funders — the state of Minnesota and the Vikings.
Under that scenario, Dayton said, the team would need to contribute $700 million of the $1.1 billion cost of the Arden Hills project.
The governor also urged the Vikings to disclose how they plan to develop the 170 acres of the Arden Hills site that would not be used for the new stadium.
"If the Vikings truly want to be in Arden Hills, they have thus far missed their opportunity to inspire decision-makers and the public with their vision for the site's entire development," Dayton's office said in a statement released shortly after the news conference.
Vikings Vice President Lester Bagley later said the team will not increase its share of costs for the Arden Hills site. "If Arden Hills is not achievable, we will work with state leaders and the city of Minneapolis to try to negotiate an agreement that would work in Minneapolis," he said. "We're not there yet."
Dayton said that of the proposed Minneapolis sites, the Linden Avenue location is perhaps the most viable, in part because of its proximity to downtown restaurants and bars.
That suggestion was met with opposition from the Basilica of St Mary, a church close to the proposed site. At a news conference later in the day, Pastor John Bauer cited concerns about noise, traffic flow and the impact on historic buildings. He said the church may consider legal action to block construction if the Linden Avenue site is selected.
Bagley, of the Vikings, described the Linden Avenue site as an "intriguing opportunity." He said the Metrodome site presents challenges, but is workable.
The Metrodome plan attracted some criticism from the governor, who called the proposal "meager" and said the cost savings from building on the same site would be "relatively inconsequential." Dayton also questioned whether building a new stadium on the Metrodome site would led to significant economic benefits. "The Metrodome has proven to be largely unsuccessful in stimulating other economic development nearby," Dayton said.
The governor dismissed a proposed plan to build the new stadium in Shakopee, saying the plan's financing depends too heavily on income from gambling revenues. Dayton said passage of legislation to permit gambling "is uncertain and would likely face court challenges."
Despite the lack of an endorsement, Dayton said he thinks the stadium issue could be resolved in this year's legislative session. "I think we're at the five yard line, first and goal," he said.
Dayton ended the news conference by calling on the state Legislature to resolve the issue during this year's legislative session.
"I'm passing on where I stand today to the Legislature and it's their prerogative as to how to proceed," he said.
Dayton's announcement is the latest development in a months-long debate over the location of the new Vikings stadium. The football team is nearing the end of its 30-year contract at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
The Vikings have repeatedly pushed for the stadium to be built in Arden Hills in Ramsey county, on the site of a former munitions plant. Minneapolis officials presented three possible stadium sites.
The governor relied in part on a study completed on behalf of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission.
A copy of the report, obtained by Minnesota Public Radio, showed that the so-called Linden Avenue site would be the best long-term option for the Vikings. It could also require nearly $100 million more in state support, and a $450 million contribution from the Vikings.
The team has pledged only $425 million so far, with about half that coming from a loan from the NFL. The plan would allow the team to keep playing in the Metrodome while their new stadium is built. The site is now home to an Xcel Energy facility, a city of Minneapolis public works garage and a pump manufacturer.
The study concludes that a Ramsey County bid would ultimately require a referendum, and that a defeat would make a stadium unaffordable. A rebuild of the Metrodome would be the cheapest option.
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Denver City Council on Tuesday will begin discussions on whether to impose a 5-cent bag fee as a way to push people to use reusable bags.
The issue will be heard in the council's Health, Safety, Education and Services committee Tuesday afternoon, brought by Councilwoman Debbie Ortega. The plan is to charge customers 5 cents per bag that is provided by the store, with 2 cents being retained by the retailer and 3 cents going to the city.
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- Peer Review
- Accepts criticism of their code and is always trying to improve.
- Gives criticism. And not the drive by 'This sucks. Make it better', demeaning, vulgar criticism. Something that can actually help that person improve their code. 'This code is bad because X. Try Y instead.'
- Knows when not to give criticism. Nobody cares that your favorite language is XXXX, and you think everyone should code everything in it. Or even specific things in specific languages. Language is irrelevant. Specs are not. If someone wrote a beast IRCd in Whitespace, what you should be focusing is on the word 'beast'. Not 'Whitespace'.
- Your Attitude
- Doesn't act elitist. Acting elitist is an excellent way to get your co-workers to hate your guts. Especially because they've seen and tested your code, and know it's not true. Everyone can improve somehow, and you're no exception.
- They're always willing to pick up new, more efficient and/or effective habits and ideas. Refusing to even try new methods will quickly drive you into the ground.
- Can take even the vulgar criticism and do something positive with it. However, note the word criticism.
- Your Actions
- Google's decision to drop H.264 support in Chrome is a perfect example of a bad decision. What would make Google think that the entire internet would bend to their will and surrender a more efficient technology (ignoring Acer's 3.5% increase) that's already widely used in production software for a less efficient one? Similar results for quality occur in H.264 vs. Theora as well.
- Sharing
- While most everyone is thinking I'm going to write something about how awesome open source is here, I'm not going to. That's because of the people who call themselves programmers, and don't fit my definition in all the worst ways. I actually had somebody tell me this:The IRCd wrote:<Person> Plus, people would demand open source. *sigh*
<bren2010> :/
<bren2010> Why not open source?
<Person> Because people no longer thank you, they criticise you.
<bren2010> Look at Microsoft. They get criticised anyway.
<Person> I'm talking from personal experience.
<Person> Making software is fine, and people thank you for it, until you make it open source, then they pound your code to hell with criticism without a single thank you.
You can't exactly blame him. There are plenty of the kind of people I'm talking about that will tear his code to shreds and give him hell for every line.
Perhaps later if developers have more reason to open source, I will.
Something to note I did not say: "Take pride in your work"
While you can and should be proud of what you've written, do so in moderation.
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For the past several weeks I've been building a USB device using a PIC18F2550. This time around I wanted to wrap up with a discussion of the host software. After all, if you build a USB device, it stands to reason that you want to use it from some host computer software, right? If you built something that looks like a standard device (say, a mouse) then that's easy. You just treat it like you would any other mouse.
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However, it is simpler and more flexible to build a HID (Human Interface Device) and that's what I did. I mentioned these earlier in this series, and it is true that a mouse (and a keyboard) is a HID. But not all HIDs act like standard input devices.
You could write a complete USB driver, but that's a lot of work. Not to mention you'd have to write a fresh driver for every operating system. That's part of the beauty of using the HID design: All major operating systems already have a driver for HIDs. Your job is to interact with it from simpler-to-write user software.
There are a few options. The libusb library I've talked about before. It is very flexible, but it also is a little complex to work with when you don't need all of its capabilities. In addition, the Windows support was limited until recently (this is the 1.0 version, not the older version which is a little quirkier).
The other option is to use the HIDAPI library. This provides a uniform interface between Linux, Mac, and Windows via different back ends. First up, I wanted to write a simple command-line interface to prove I could talk to the device.
#include <stdio.h> #include "hidapi.h" int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int state=0; float v; unsigned char buf[65]; hid_device *handle; if (hid_init()) return; printf("Hid init\n"); handle=hid_open(0x4d8,0xf83f,NULL); // our PID if (!handle) return; printf("Hid opened\n"); buf[0]=0; // send a command buf[1]=1; buf[2]=1; int rv1=hid_write(handle,buf,3); printf("Write returned %x\n",rv1); buf[0]=0; // send a read command buf[1]=2; hid_write(handle,buf,2); hid_read(handle,buf,sizeof(buf)); // read data back v=(buf[3]<<8|buf[2])*5/1024.0; // convert to voltage printf("Voltage=%f\n",v); buf[0]=0; buf[1]=1; buf[2]=0; hid_write(handle,buf,3); hid_close(handle); hid_exit(); }
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hid_init function sets up the library while the
hid_open call opens my specific device. The
hid_write, and
hid_close commands all do what you think they do. Finally,
hid_exit cleans up anything left behind.
Quite simple. Of course, you can do plenty more, but the code from this series will allow you to do a surprising amount of USB development with a minimum of fuss.
If you are interested in more about USB, I'd suggest you start working through the Microchip examples (or the similar examples from your vendor of choice). Jan Alelson's book USB Complete is another great reference (not to mention her resource site at http://www.lvr.com/usb.htm). If you aren't interested in more about USB, then good news. I'm done with the USB code. At least for now.


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Pointer's only bucket of the contest helped the Red Storm move to 9-3 headed into Big East play. The Red Storm has now won three-straight and five-of-six with only a hotly contested five-point loss to No. 2 Syracuse on December 15 interrupting that stretch.
"Our maturity was on display at the end of the game," said head coach Steve Lavin. "This is the type of game we would have lost the past two years. Down the stretch our team showed poise and purpose in going on a run of our own to salt the victory away."
Pointer finished the contest with four points, five rebounds, three blocks, two steals and an assist in 25 minutes, evoking thoughts of another Lavin nickname for the junior – "Costco" – extolling Pointer's ability to supply anything the team needs.
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Electricity Ministry spokesman Musab al-Mudaris said Tuesday that the four-year deal stipulates that Iraq buy 850 million cubic feet a day of gas at international market prices.
Al-Mudaris added that the gas will be shipped through a pipeline which will be completed in the coming two months. He said the gas will feed a power plant in Diyala province east of Baghdad and two others in the capital to generate 2,500 MW. The deal was signed in Baghdad on Sunday.
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Ok – there is actually a lot more then just new windows at this point – but I need to take better photos. So far we have the building (mostly) wrapped and ready for stucco, new windows in the front, new sliding glass doors in the back, swinging glass doors (two installed, three to go) and tomorrow the wood siding should go up on the exterior!
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We are into the final hours of finishing up the work for the exhibition at Sprueth Magers… This is the last show that will be fabricated in the shipping container studio. Goodbye waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of rain and having to run outside in my PJs to put plastic over everything in the wet cold blowing wind! Goodbye not being able to work eight hour days because it gets freezing outside when the sun goes behind the hill! Goodbye running out of space and having half of the work outside, precariously vulnerable to windstorms while it waits to ship!


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Houston stayed the hottest team in the MLS with its second blowout win in four matches. Brian Ching netted his fourth goal of the season, Joseph Ngwenya scored twice, and Stuart Holden added a goal and two assists. Holden's goal came after a pass from Nate Jaqua, recently acquired from LA, and it earned Holden Goal of the Week honors. The Dynamo held New York without a shot on goal.
New York Red Bulls (6-5-3) vs. Houston Dynamo (8-5-2)
July 05, 2007 -- Robertson Stadium, Houston TX
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Joseph Ngwenya 4 (Stuart Holden 3)
HOU -- Brian Ching 3 (unassisted) 31
HOU -- Joseph Ngwenya 5 (Stuart Holden 4)
HOU -- Stuart Holden 2 (Nate Jaqua 1)
New York Red Bulls -- Ronald Waterreus, Hunter Freeman, Carlos Mendes, Jeff Parke, Kevin Goldthwaite, Markus Schopp (Santino Quaranta 68), Seth Stammler, Claudio Reyna (Sinisa Ubiparipovic 55), Dave van den Bergh, Juan Pablo Angel (Clint Mathis 55), John Wolyniec.
Substitutes Not Used: Jon Conway, Chris Leitch, Dane Richards, Joe Vide.
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Craig Waibel, Ryan Cochrane, Patrick Ianni, Wade Barrett, Brian Mullan, Richard Mulrooney, Dwayne De Rosario, Stuart Holden (Corey Ashe 82), Brian Ching (Nate Jaqua 78), Joseph Ngwenya (Chris Wondolowski 85).
Substitutes Not Used: Zach Wells, Mike Chabala, Nick Hatzke, John Michael Hayden.
Misconduct Summary:
NY -- Kevin Goldthwaite (caution; Professional Foul) 27
Referee: Tim Weyland
Referee's Assistants: Corey Rockwell; Jason Cullum
4th official: Oscar Ortiz
Attendance: 14,072
Weather: Cloudy-and-81-degrees
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial