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Detroit's Emergency Manager Must Enforce Rules City Officials Ignored
(Editor's note: This commentary originally appeared in The Detroit News on March 19, 2013.)
While some argue that the appointment of an emergency financial manager for Detroit demonstrates a state takeover of a democratically elected local government, it's actually the final step to enforcing state rules that city officials have repeatedly shirked.
All local governments are creatures of state policy. Michigan's Constitution requires a balanced budget for state expenditures, and likewise the state requires local governments to live within their means. The emergency financial manager law is the final step to ensuring that when a city pledges its residents' resources, the promises are fulfilled.
Detroit is on the verge of insolvency — not being able to pay the bills when they are due. This is above and beyond the $9.3 billion due in long-term debt or the $5.7 billion the city is expected to pay in optional retiree health care.
Cities are not supposed to be in this situation. If Detroit followed the budgetary rules that every other city works under, it wouldn't be in this position. Local governments are required to draft budgets that stop them from running deficits. Cities are required to pass budgets that accurately reflect revenue and expenses. Detroit's done neither.
Indeed, the city's deficits — amounts that Detroit owes beyond what it has the resources to pay — have existed for a decade.
When municipalities fall into deficit, they must submit a plan to get back into balance. The city has filed a number of these plans, but implementation has not been adequate. After these failures, the state tried to craft an agreement to get Detroit to fix its problems, but the city is again expected to run out of cash this spring.
Problems in financial management mean that even a state bailout would only perpetuate the city's financial crisis. It may allow temporary payment of urgent expenses, but without fixing financial mismanagement, the relief would only be temporary.
The state's final option to enforce its solvency rules is to appoint an emergency financial manager. We now know that is Kevyn Orr, a bankruptcy attorney who represented Chrysler during its financial difficulties.
If Orr is not up to the task, he can take the city into federal bankruptcy, where a judge has the power to negate many of the city's financial obligations. But an emergency financial manager's abilities can be even more potent than a bankruptcy judge's.
Orr needs to first fix the city's mismanagement. Specifically, the material weaknesses its auditors repeatedly point out. Not only does the city not follow state financial rules, it doesn't follow its own rules. For example, the city is supposed to take an annual stock of its assets — buildings, parks, fire trucks, etc. Not every department does this as city policy requires, according to the state financial review team's findings. In other words, the city doesn't even know what it owns.
Problems with financial controls are like problems with a person's central nervous system — the proper messages don't get sent to the head. Until these problems are fixed, it's difficult to successfully negotiate with city unions or even seek bids from private vendors on city services and assets, as Mackinac Center analysts have argued several times in the past that Detroit should do.
Orr may not be able to solve all of Detroit's deep financial issues, but it's the last option the state has available to get Detroit into balance.


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A man was killed Saturday morning after being run over by a CSX train between South 11th Street and Crescent Drive, according to the DeFuniak Springs Police Department.
DEFUNIAK SPRINGS�A man was killed Saturday morning after being run over by a CSX train between South 11th Street and Crescent Drive, according to police.
Rolando Chavix Jocon, 25, of DeFuniak Springs, appeared to be sleeping in the middle of the tracks before being struck, according to a news release from the DeFuniak Springs POlice Department.
Police responded to the scene at about 4:15 a.m. Railroad police and CSX officials also were called in.
The train was traveling from New Orleans, La., to Waycross, Ga., said Bob Sullivan, a CSX spokesman. It was made up of two locomotives and 85 freight cars.
Police believe the train was traveling at normal speed for populated areas, the news release reported.
The train's engineer could not stop the train until just east of Crescent Drive. The last car spanned across 23rd Street.
It can take a mile or more for a freight train to stop, Sullivan said.
The Medical Examiner's Office will perform an autopsy on Jocon, who suffered injuries to his head, hands and legs. A toxicology screening will be done, but there was no evidence of alcohol use at the scene.
Police will continue investigating the accident, but no charges are anticipated, according to the news release.

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The Count and Sinden | 11/06/10
Debut LP, Mega Mega Mega, released on 23rd August 2010
Mega Mega Mega, the much anticipated debut album from The Count & Sinden, is ready for release this summer on 23rd August 2010. Mega Mega Mega is a meeting of minds between two friends - both producers and DJs in their own right - collating their vast range of musical influences. This was an album The Count (aka Hervé) & Sinden simply had to make.
Following the ethos of their huge club nights of the same name, The Count & Sinden reject the idea of enlisting A-list stars, and instead call in friends and fresh new talent. Indie mavericks (and the duo's neighbours) Mystery Jets collaborate on highly addictive lead single After Dark (released August 16th); M.I.A protégée Baltimore-based Rye Rye lends her vocals to Hardcore Girls; rising UK star Katy B features on the ragga punk love story Hold Me and the unmistakable voice of grime king Bashy appears on Addicted To You. The opening track, Do You Really Want It, featuring the breathtaking rapping skills of Trackademicks, is a suitable call to arms – all twitching synths and alien throbs.
Every sound imaginable is fed into The Count & Sinden's visceral mix - house, techno, dancehall, hip hop, electro, ragga, garage, afrobeat, booty bass, Latin funk, baile... The result is an authentically British album jam-packed full of anthems for a party loving generation; a record which is unapologetically honest, playful and hedonistic. This is a new chapter in the history of forward-thinking, electronic dance music, as written by The Count & Sinden.
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Mega Mega Mega will be available on CD (WIGCD217), LP (WIGLP217) and via digital download (WIG217D). The tracklisting is as follows:
- Do You Really Want It - feat. Trackademicks
- After Dark – feat. Mystery Jets
- Desert Rhythm
- Hardcore Girls - feat. Rye Rye
- Roll Out – feat. 77 Klash
- Elephant 1234
- Hold me – feat. Katy B
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Special forces have raided a prison in central Israel, killing a notorious prisoner who was serving time for a gruesome murder carried out in the US.
Police identified the inmate as Samuel Sheinbein, an American who fled to Israel after murdering and dismembering another man in Maryland in 1997 and whose case sparked a high-profile row between the two allies.
Police special forces said they rushed to the prison in central Israel after Sheinbein stole a weapon and shot three guards, wounding two of them seriously. He then apparently barricaded himself inside the compound where a stand-off ensued, with counter-terrorism units dispatched to the scene.
The inmate then opened fire again, wounding three more guards, before the forces shot him dead, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
Hospital officials said one of the wounded guards was fighting for his life. Police and the Israel prison service have opened investigations into the incident. Sheinbein's lawyers told Israeli TV that their client was under duress and that the Israeli prison service has ignored their warnings.
Sheinbein, 34, was tried in Israel in 1999, two years after he fled to the country and successfully sought refuge from extradition, enraging Maryland authorities and briefly threatening US aid to the Jewish state.
An Israeli court sentenced him to 24 years for his slaying and dismemberment of 19-year-old Alfredo Enrique Tello Jr. Sheinbein was 17 at the time of the killing and could have faced a life sentence in Maryland. His extradition to Maryland was blocked after a year-long battle between Israel and the United States over an Israeli law that prohibited it.
Following that embarrassment, Israel changed its laws to allow the extradition of Israeli citizens on condition that they are returned to Israel to serve any sentence imposed.
Sheinbein, of Aspen Hill, Maryland, confessed to strangling Tello with a rope and hitting him several times with a sharp object. Sheinbein then dismembered the body with an electric saw and burned it, authorities said. Another teenager charged in the killing, Aaron Needle, committed suicide while in jail in Maryland.
Sheinbein fled to Israel days after Tello's remains were found in a garage. He successfully sought refuge under a law that prevented the extradition of Israeli citizens to foreign countries. Sheinbein had only passing contact with Israel, but his father, Saul, was born in the country and Sheinbein qualified for Israeli citizenship.
Israel refused to extradite Sheinbein, prompting protests from senior officials, including then-Attorney General Janet Reno. Some congressmen who had otherwise been friendly to Israel threatened to cut aid in response.
Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, who represented Sheinbein in 1997, bemoaned the "terrible tragedy" that befell the families of both the wounded guards and the shooter and challenged the system for how it has handled her client.
"When he was sentenced, he was 17, without a criminal background, a kid from a normal background," she said. "It is hard to understand how after all these years in prison it was not able to help him rehabilitate."
Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler, who tried to extradite Sheinbein back to the US as a state's attorney in the 1990s, said Sheinbein was a troubled young man whose mental health issues continued into adulthood.
Gansler said the timing of Sheinbein's prison outburst was most striking because he was close to serving two-thirds of his sentence and becoming eligible for parole.
"He's on the brink of being released from jail and then he goes on what basically seems to be a suicide rampage," Gansler said. "So this was a young man who was still very troubled, and this ends a very tumultuous life."
Gansler said Sheinbein's death "brings actual closure" to the gruesome Maryland murder case. He expressed sympathy for the families of the Israeli guards, "and hopefully they all survive."
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Allen Sessoms Appointed to NCAA Division II President's Council
Nov 03, 2011, 03:58 ET
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- University of the District of Columbia President Allen L. Sessoms has been appointed to the NCAA Division II President's Council. The appointment exemplifies his leadership and experience in athletics and demonstrates the university's overall commitment to athletics and the role it plays in student life.
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President Sessoms has extensive experience with intercollegiate athletics and the NCAA. He is a former NCAA Division II member of the NCAA Presidents' Commission, having served on the President's Council transition team. Under his leadership, the Athletic Department has dramatically built up its administrative bench with the hiring of associate athletic directors in NCAA compliance, internal operations, external affairs, academics and marketing and communications.
In July 2011, Sessoms, along with Director of Athletics, Patricia Thomas, guided the University of the District of Columbia into membership in the East Coast Conference (ECC), marking the university's first conference membership.
"This is a great time for the University of the District of Columbia and the entire East Coast Conference," said ECC Commissioner Bob Dranoff. "Even though [the University of the District of Columbia is] one of our newest members, Dr. Sessoms is extremely committed to Division II and has a strong understanding of the value of intercollegiate athletics to the college community."
"President Sessoms' vision and leadership have made a tremendous impact on intercollegiate athletics at the University of the District of Columbia," said Director Thomas. "His commitment to our student-athletes, coaches, staff, alumni, and supporters is significant. His appointment to the President's Council demonstrates that our university's athletics program is definitely headed in the right direction."
The NCAA Division II President's Council is a fifteen-member body of chancellors and presidents from the Division II membership. The council provides structure for priorities in Division II intercollegiate athletics matters. It implements policies adopted by the Association Executive Committee, directs policy of Division II, establishes the strategic plan for Division II, approves recommendations of Management Council and can ratify, amend, and rescind actions of the Management Council. The Presidents Council also approves the budget and use of funds allocated to Division II.
As the only urban land-grant institution in the United States, the University of the District of Columbia (www.udc.edu) supports a broad mission of education, research and community service across all member colleges and schools, which include the Community College, College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business and Public Administration, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and David A. Clarke School of Law.
The University of the District of Columbia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action institution. Minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For a full version of the University's EO Policy Statement, please visit: http://www.udc.edu/equal_opportunity.
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The ALS ice bucket challenge has gone presidential.
Former President George W. Bush was challenged by several people, including his daughter Jenna Hager Bush and golfer Rory McIlroy, to donate money toward researching the disease or dump a bucket of ice water over his head as part of a cause that's taken over social media.
In a video posted to Facebook, Bush said he didn't think it was "presidential" to be doused with ice water so he planned to write a check instead.
But in the middle of writing out his check, former first lady Laura Bush appeared and dumped a bucket over water over Bush's head anyway.
So who's he extending the ALS challenge to now? None other than former President Bill Clinton.
"Yesterday was Bill's birthday and my gift to Bill is a bucket of cold water," Bush said.


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As we plan our calendar of upcoming events many factors affect the feasability to setup an Expo in your area. We look at past Expo experience, support from the local region, requests for new areas, feedback from attendees, speakers, bloggers, and exhibitors. Of course conference center rentals, fuel costs, meals and lodging all play a part in the decisions we make. We also depend on you to tell us what you want to learn, where you want us to come, and how you can assist in the success of the event.
As we near the end of July we want to let you know what we have planned for the rest of 2012 and give you a sneak peek into 2013. Not all events you see here will be listed on the website. We want you to be among the first to know!
Illinois Expo ~ Springfield
AUGUST 3-4, 2012Conference Hotel – Crowne Plaza Springfield
3000 South Dirksen Parkway, Springfield, IL 62703
Cost – Online registration $69 & at the Door $99
Additional Options – Printed Handouts (CD Syllabus Handouts included with registration)
The two-day Illinois Family History Expo will feature the nation's top genealogists, researchers and some fun bloggers. The keynote address is free to the public, as is an exhibit hall filled with professionals demonstrating the techniques, tools and technology to trace family roots.
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Midwest Expo ~ Kearney
SEPTEMBER 7-8, 2012Holiday Inn Convention Center
110 South Second Avenue, Kearney, Nebraska 68848
Cost – Online Early Bird registration $39 (Expires Aug 14)
Online registration $69 & at the Door $99
Additional Options – Mormon and & California Trails Tour, Printed Handouts (Handout CD included with registration)
If you are from the Midwest, have heritage in the Midwest, or just plain want to network with family history enthusiasts don't miss this event. This Expo is especially of interest to family history enthusiasts, businesses and volunteer organizations who cater to history minded individuals and families. The Midwest Family History Expo is "THE PLACE" to network with like minded people.
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October Salt Lake City Family History Library Retreat
OCTOBER 22-26, 2012Retreat Hotel – Salt Lake Plaza Hotel (right next to the FHL)
122 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
Cost – Online Early Bird registration $399 (Expires Sep 4)
Online registration $499 & at the door $600
Come join us in Salt Lake City for a whole week of family history research dedicated to your very own research families with personal assistance from our professional genealogists (our pros have more than 1,000 hours experience in the collections at the FHL).
Your family history starts here! With the largest family history collection under one roof anywhere in the world with access to records from countries throughout the world and most counties and cities in the USA. This Retreat will have an emphasis on U.S. & British Military Records. Researchers often overlook the value of these documents, they are full of exceptional and often unexpected information.
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Georgia Expo ~ Duluth
NOVEMBER 9-10, 2012Gwinnett Center
6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097
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Arizona Expo ~ Mesa
JANUARY 18-19, 2013Mesa Convention Center
263 N. Center Street, Mesa, Arizona
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St. George Family History Expo
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1835 Convention Center Dr., St. George, UT 84790
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April Salt Lake City Family History Library Retreat
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How's your summer? Busy? Hot? Here in our office we've been putting our heads together over how to make things better. And one of those things was making one of our ebooks all new and revamped. We even changed the title! Still means the same, now with less boring.
Aggregating Global Content will now be known as Network Home Pages. Already purchased it? No worries, you're still in the same group (must be logged in), AND you get access to the newly revamped ebook in the downloads section (must be logged in) of the product's support area. And? We've now bundled Network Home Pages with Custom Registration and WP Curator, so previous purchasers get free upgrades to BOTH of those groups. Cool beans!
Also? We added a nifty plugin that makes a very organized home page layout of each site in your network with the latest posts from that site – just like I have on my personal network at AtypicaLife.net, and that many people have asked how to do.
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David has just created an update to the great chart describing the mishegas that is the Local Search ecosystem. The chart elegantly captures the flow of data from the top tier data suppliers through the directories and into Google and the other search engines. The complete set of charts detailing the relations can be found at A Closer Look at the Local Search Data Providers.
If you ever wondered why it takes so long for a citation to show up in Google, this should answer the question.David Mihm's Updated Local Search Ecosystem Infographic by Mike Blumenthal


text: Wreck-It Ralph was surprisingly terrific, doing a lot of clever stuff with the "video game characters have a life away from the screen" trope. So it's great news that studio execs are reportedly talking about a sequel. And this time around, director Rich Moore wants to find a way to include Mario from Mario Bros. Can't wait! [MovieHole]


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BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Alan Hicks divides long days between the insurance business he started in the late 1970s and the barbecue restaurant he opened with his sons three years ago. He earned more than $250,000 last year and said taxes took more than 40 percent. What's worse, in his view, is that others — the wealthy, hiding in loopholes; the poor, living on government benefits — are not paying their fair share.
"It feels like the harder we work, the more they take from us," said Mr. Hicks, 55, as he waited for a meat truck one recent afternoon. "And it seems like there's an awful lot of people in the United States who don't pay any taxes."
These are common sentiments in the eastern suburbs of St. Louis, a region of fading factory towns fringed by new subdivisions. Here, as across the country, people like Mr. Hicks are pained by the conviction that they are paying ever more to finance the expansion of government.
But in fact, most Americans in 2010 paid far less in total taxes — federal, state and local — than they would have paid 30 years ago. According to an analysis by The New York Times, the combination of all income taxes, sales taxes and property taxes took a smaller share of their income than it took from households with the same inflation-adjusted income in 1980.
Households earning more than $200,000 benefited from the largest percentage declines in total taxation as a share of income. Middle-income households benefited, too. More than 85 percent of households with earnings above $25,000 paid less in total taxes than comparable households in 1980.
Lower-income households, however, saved little or nothing. Many pay no federal income taxes, but they do pay a range of other levies, like federal payroll taxes, state sales taxes and local property taxes. Only about half of taxpaying households with incomes below $25,000 paid less in 2010.
The uneven decline is a result of two trends. Congress cut federal taxation at every income level over the last 30 years. State and local taxes, meanwhile, increased for most Americans. Those taxes generally take a larger share of income from those who make less, so the increases offset more and more of the federal savings at lower levels of income.
In a half-dozen states, including Connecticut, Florida and New Jersey, the increases were large enough to offset the federal savings for most households, not just the poorer ones.
Now an era of tax cuts may be reaching its end. The federal government depends increasingly on borrowed money to pay its bills, and many state and local governments are similarly confronting the reality that they are spending more money than they collect. In Washington, debates about tax cuts have yielded to debates about who should pay more.
President Obama campaigned for re-election on a promise to take a larger share of taxable income above roughly $250,000 a year. The White House is now negotiating with Congressional Republicans, who instead want to raise some money by reducing tax deductions. Federal spending cuts also are at issue.
If a deal is not struck by year's end, a wide range of federal tax cuts passed since 2000 will expire and taxes will rise for roughly 90 percent of Americans, according to the independent Tax Policy Center. For lower-income households, taxation would spike well above 1980 levels. Upper-income households would lose some but not all of the benefits of tax cuts over the last three decades.
Public debate over taxes has typically focused on the federal income tax, but that now accounts for less than a third of the total tax revenues collected by federal, state and local governments. To analyze the total burden, The Times created a model, in consultation with experts, which estimated total tax bills for each taxpayer in each year from 1980, when the election of President Ronald Reagan opened an era of tax cutting, up to 2010, the most recent year for which relevant data is available.
The analysis shows that the overall burden of taxation declined as a share of income in the 1980s, rose to a new peak in the 1990s and fell again in the 2000s. Tax rates at most income levels were lower in 2010 than at any point during the 1980s.
Governments still collected the same share of total income in 2010 as in 1980 — 31 cents from every dollar — because people with higher incomes pay taxes at higher rates, and household incomes rose over the last three decades, particularly at the top.
There are now many more millionaires, in other words, paying more than they did in 1980, but they are paying less than they would have if tax laws had remained unchanged. And while they still pay a larger share of income in taxes than the rest of the population, the difference has narrowed significantly.
The trend can be seen by comparing three examples:
¶A household making $350,000 in 2010, roughly the cutoff for the top 1 percent, on average paid 42.1 percent of its income in taxes, compared with 49 percent for a household with the same inflation-adjusted income in 1980 — a savings of about $24,100.
¶A household making $52,000 in 2010, roughly the median income, on average paid 27.7 percent of its income in taxes, compared with 30.5 percent in 1980, saving $1,500.
¶A household making $22,000 in 2010 — roughly the federal poverty line for a family of four — on average paid 19.4 percent in taxes, compared with 20.2 percent, saving $200.
Jared Bernstein, who served as chief economist to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said the Times analysis highlighted the need to raise taxes on the affluent and cut taxes for the poor. He cautioned that the middle class most likely would need to pay more, too.
"When you look at these numbers, you understand why we're not collecting the revenue we need to support the spending we want," said Mr. Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal research group. "We've really gutted the system."
But Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a prominent conservative economist, said the changes in taxation over the last three decades reflected a conscious and successful strategy to encourage economic growth that should be reinforced, not reversed.
Mr. Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office who is the president of the American Action Forum, said government should reduce deficits primarily through spending cuts, particularly to Medicare and Medicaid, the health programs that are the largest source of projected increases in the federal debt.
"We can't grow our way out of it, and we can't tax our way out of it," he said of the government's fiscal predicament. "We have a spending problem, period."
Mr. Hicks, like many residents of Belleville, views this debate with unhappiness. He would like the government to cut spending but not reduce services. He is certain that the government should not raise taxes on the middle class, a group in which he includes himself, but he is ambivalent about asking anyone to pay more. Higher taxes would hurt his businesses, he said, so raising taxes on those who make more money seems likely to hurt their businesses, too.
"At this point, I guess it's inevitable in order to get us out of this hole," Mr. Hicks said of higher taxes. "Illinois is in bad shape, along with a lot of the nation. But I don't feel like we should tax the middle class any more than we are right now. There's going to come a point where they take the incentive out of working hard."
If the government cut his taxes, Mr. Hicks said, he would use the money to put a roof over the picnic tables outside the restaurant, expanding the year-round seating area. He already employs 14 people; then he could hire more.
And if taxes rose? Would Mr. Hicks, who started working when tax rates were higher, really choose to slow down?
He smiled. "No," he said. "I like it. What else would I do with my time?"
Cutting From Both Ends
The federal income tax, which will turn 100 next year, is in decline.
Congressional Republicans and Democrats have repeatedly voted to reduce the share of income that people must pay. Over the last decade, annual revenues from federal taxation of individual and corporate income averaged just 9.2 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, the lowest level for any 10-year period since World War II.
The recession and new rounds of tax cuts further reduced revenues, to 7.6 percent of economic output in the 2009 and 2010 fiscal years. Stronger economic growth has produced a modest increase in tax collections, but the White House budget office estimates that collections for the fiscal year that ended in September will total 9 percent of economic output, still less than before the financial crisis.
Federal spending, meanwhile, grew faster than the economy over the last decade — particularly during the recession. To pay those bills, the government borrowed more money than it collected in income taxes in each of the last three fiscal years, something it had not done in even a single year since World War II, federal data show.
Congress could have eliminated those deficits by cutting spending. It might also have averted those deficits by leaving the tax code unchanged. The government on average would have collected an additional $800 billion in each year from 2006 to 2010 if the 1980 code had remained in effect and economic activity had continued at the same pace, the Times analysis found. The annual federal deficits during those years averaged $714 billion.
Leaving the tax code as it was in 1980, however, would not have solved the nation's long-term fiscal problems. Increases in federal spending, driven primarily by the rising cost of health care, are projected to outstrip even the revenue-raising capacity of the 1980 tax code in the coming decades, necessitating some combination of spending cuts and tax increases.
The income tax stands apart from other forms of taxation. It is the reason that upper-income households pay a larger share of their income in taxes than the rest of the population. The combined burden of all other federal, state and local taxes takes roughly the same share from all taxpayers. And many Americans — even in a middle-class, Democratic stronghold like Belleville — have misgivings about imposing higher tax rates on the affluent, an important reason that income taxation has declined.
The share of Americans who said high-income households paid too little in taxes fell from 77 percent in 1992 to 62 percent in 2012, according to Gallup, even as income inequality rose to the highest levels since the Great Depression.
Some people in Belleville subscribe to the argument that higher tax rates impede economic growth by discouraging investment. For others, it is a matter of fairness.
Anita Thole, a middle-income safety supervisor for a utility contractor, is not wealthy. She does not expect that she ever will be. She is a single mother with a daughter in college, and she said she regarded the wealthy with a mixture of envy and admiration. But she does not want them to pay higher taxes.
"They work their butt off to get what they got," she said. "I wouldn't want them to pay more so that I can pay less."
Do they work harder than you?
"What? No. I work my butt off," Ms. Thole, 46, said. "But you got to believe in the American dream. You got to love them for what they did, for what they made of themselves and for being more aggressive than me."
Ms. Thole, like many in Belleville, is also convinced that governments could avoid raising taxes by adopting more frugal habits.
"There's some days we stay home and we eat peanut butter," she said.
What would she like governments to cut?
"I really like it when they cut the weeds along the highway," she said. "I like it when there's good roads to drive on. The schools, I don't know, I don't want to pull back from the schools. I don't have the answer of where to pull back.
"I want the state parks to stay open. I want, I want, I want. I want Big Bird. I think it's beautiful. What don't I want? I don't know."
To Tax or Not to Tax?
William L. Enyart is a rarity in Belleville: he wants to raise his own taxes.
Mr. Enyart and his wife are lawyers, although for the last five years he led the Illinois National Guard. The couple made $380,587 in 2011 and paid $104,864 in federal taxes. His conviction that they should have paid more may not be shared by many of the area's higher-income residents. But as the newly elected Democratic congressman for southwestern Illinois, Mr. Enyart, 63, is also the only man in town with a direct vote on federal tax policy.
Mr. Enyart, who won the seat of a retiring Democratic congressman, campaigned in part on his support for Mr. Obama's tax plan. He defeated a Republican candidate who opposed it, 52 percent to 43 percent. But Mr. Enyart said he heard little enthusiasm for tax increases in his district. What has changed, he said, is that people are increasingly concerned about cuts to government benefits and services.
"Nobody likes to pay taxes. Nobody wants to raise taxes on anybody," Mr. Enyart said. "But nobody wants to cut veterans services, nobody wants to give up that Interstate highway, nobody wants — pick the service that you like. These are necessary services, and they need to be paid for."
The tax increase proposed by Mr. Obama, on taxable income — income after deductions and other adjustments — above $250,000 a year, would pay for only a small part of those services. It would reduce the projected deficit over the next decade by a little less than 10 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Nonetheless, Mr. Enyart said that he did not support broader tax increases. The focus, he said, should be on requiring the rich to pay more.
"We have the greatest disproportion of wealth since 1928, and I don't think that's a healthy thing," he said. "How much money is enough? Do hedge fund traders really need to make a billion dollars a year and pay only 15 percent in taxes when we have teachers making $50,000 and paying 20 percent?"
John Siemens, who did not vote for Mr. Enyart, said that kind of "raise taxes" talk was a crowd-pleasing distraction from the need for painful spending cuts.
Mr. Siemens and his wife, Jan, both 59, own a company with a pair of factories in southwestern Illinois where workers assemble dollar-bill scanners for vending machines, dashboard lights for automobiles, magnetic probes for hospitals and other electronic equipment. They earned about $250,000 last year, so Mr. Obama's plan would not have increased their income taxes. But it would raise the estate taxes they would have to pay to pass the company to their children someday.
Like many opponents of the president's plan, Mr. Siemens thinks higher taxes will discourage investment and slow economic growth.
"There's some tax rates that probably do need to be raised," he said. "There are some that need to be lowered. But the politicians are not having an honest discussion. Is it fair or not fair is not the question. The question is, If you want to raise revenues, does that make sense or not?"
He noted as an example that interest on municipal bonds is tax-exempt, which encourages the wealthy to lend to local governments.
"Those lower tax rates were put into place for a reason," he said. "It's not just, let's give the wealthy a break."
Mr. Siemens does have a concern about fairness. He believes that lower-income households are not paying enough in taxes.
"By any measure, the wealthy are still paying a disproportionate amount of their income in taxes," he said. "Is that fair or not fair? I don't know, but I have an issue with the dramatic reduction of taxes at the low end because I think everybody needs some skin in the game."
The debate is no longer theoretical here in Illinois. Facing perhaps the deepest budget crisis of any state, the Illinois legislature last year raised the state income tax rate to 5 percent from 3 percent. Unlike the federal income tax, Illinois taxes all income at the same rate.
Mr. Enyart said that the state needed more revenue, but that it should move to a tax system that imposed a heavier burden on high-income households. Mr. Siemens said the state should have cut spending.
The higher taxes have increased his costs and given an advantage to competitors in other states. And there are broader ripples, too: he said he was planning to buy some used machines, rather than new ones, to save money.
"We feel the burden of that, but it hasn't gotten to the threshold of pain yet where we would move," Mr. Siemens said. "There's a lot of expense that would be incurred in moving, including a disruption of the work force, which you are always loath to do."
View From the Lower End
Taylor McCallister, 20, works the front window at Mr. Hicks's barbecue restaurant, taking orders from customers. She also works a second job and attends Southwestern Illinois College. She earned about $30,000 last year and, like her boss, she wishes the government would take less of that money.
"When I see my check it's like, damn, that's a huge chunk that was taken out," she said. "I could have been making $450 instead of $378."
Mitt Romney's remarks about the "47 percent" focused public attention on the rising share of Americans who do not pay federal income taxes, a trend that has encouraged the public perception that lower-income households are getting a sweetheart deal. The share of Americans who think lower-income households pay too little in taxes increased to 24 percent in 2012 from 8 percent in 1992, according to Gallup.
But low-wage workers like Ms. McCallister still pay federal payroll taxes, which provide financing for Social Security and Medicare. They still pay sales taxes. Even if they are renters, they still bear the cost of property taxes in the form of higher rents.
And those taxes have climbed most quickly in recent decades.
The average American in 2010 paid 30 percent more of income in payroll taxes than in 1980, even while paying 27 percent less in federal income taxes. As a result, revenue from the payroll tax almost equaled income tax revenue before a temporary payroll tax cut took effect in 2011. The cut is scheduled to expire at the end of this year.
The rise of the payroll tax reflects the general movement away from requiring upper-income households to pay a larger share of income in taxes. All workers pay the same Social Security tax on wages below a threshold, which stood at $106,800 in 2010. The Medicare tax imposes a single rate on all wages, without a threshold.
Some experts argue, however, that payroll taxes are a special case because workers are entitled to Social Security benefits based in part on the amounts that they pay in taxes — a system more akin to a pension plan than an income tax.
In Illinois, the average burden of state and local taxes rose to 10.2 percent of income in 2010 from 8.8 percent in 1980, even before the latest round of tax increases last year.
And Illinois, like most states, takes a larger share of income from those who make less. Illinois households earning less than $25,000 a year on average paid 14.3 percent of income in state and local taxes in 2010, while those earning more than $200,000 paid 9.4 percent, according to the Times analysis.
Ms. McCallister said she and her friends worry about the nation's financial problems. Their answer is simple: Someone has to pay more, and the affluent can best afford to do so. She said it was time to reverse a trend that had been going on so long it predated her birth by a decade.
"I want to know honestly how the more wealthy feel," she said between tending to customers. "You'd think that they would want to help. We're working these kinds of jobs and that's what we have to do to make it through, and there's other people making all this money. I don't get it, honestly.
"I feel that maybe people who don't make as much shouldn't have to pay as much in. But who makes the rules?
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Hi, could somebody please explain to me how to search an array that will find the index that contains the closest object to another object, then move to it? I have an array with 8 gameObjects (circles with 50 radius) and a single 'playerObject' that must move over the top of the nearest circle in the array and then move over the top of the next nearest circle until all circles (gameObjects) have been 'eaten'. I would like to use the Euclidean distance. One more thing the positions of the gameObjects (Array) and the playerObject is randomized at each start of the program.
So basically determine which is the closest barrier(gameObject) from the current position of the player object.
All I have so far is a loop going through the array and some pseudo-code
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We freely offer all the software tools that are necessary to explore our electronic documents or to create electronic documents yourself.
At the Stanford Exploration Project, we have combined various software tools to an software environment for research of seismic data processing. The Figure on the left shows the electronic version of a reproducible research document. Such an electronic document represents a directory that contains the traditional document and all the software needed to compute the included results.
The window at the left displays a TeX document. Any figure caption in that document comprises a push-button that when pressed issues a system command to the displaying computer. By default that system call starts the graphical user interface that is shown to the bottom right of the screen-dump. The graphics interface allows a reader to choose several actions: by default the reader can remove, build, and view the figure. Additionally, a reader can clean the directory of all unnecessary, intermediate files or individually inspect the files underlying the document.
A typical project at SEP starts with an idea and a seismic data set to test the idea. The data set usually is already stored in our prefered, home-brewed SEPlib format. SEPlib refers to the seismic processing software package that researchers at SEP developed. An input data set would be processed by a sequence of simple, standard SEPlib routines that are governed by command line parameter specification and combined by UNIX pipes. Often a researcher's creative new idea requires a new, special processing program. If implementing this program in C or Fortran, the researcher can take advantage of a rich subroutine library that allows him to seamlessly integrate his own program in the SEPlib processing sequence.
The author stores the commands that constitute such a processing sequence in a GNUmakefile. The GNUmakefile includes all the rules to husband the resources the author needs. These resources may include a C or Fortran compiler, perl interpreter, or various preprocessing programs such as Ratfor. To avoid that every user needs to rewrite the same rules over and over again, every GNUmakefile includes a set of common rules and variable definitions. These standard rules comprise rules governing the reproduction of a documents results.
Additionally, authors write a LaTeX document that describes their research and their findings. As in many fields of computational sciences, the results in seismic processing are illustrated by examples of processed data that are included in the document as figures. At SEP special TeX macros include a push-button in any figure caption. That push-button when pressed issues commands to the GNUmakefile of the document's underlying software directory. It is that connection that allows a reader efficiently to inspect and reuse an author's software.
The following list gives an overview of all the software tools needed to implement the SEPlib research environment. Each item has a local link to a dedicated html page that gives more details about that that particular software and its purpose at SEP. Many of these resources you may have already on your particular system. If you do you only need to complement them with the missing tools.
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A habit, once formed, can be a tough thing to break. I like to think that CFL's and my activity streak is a good habit! I'll confess that when I first broke my arm I had a tough time motivating myself to get outside and do something. But once I got used to my new temporary "normal," I stopped feeling sorry for myself over my inability to run or cycle. I discovered that I enjoyed the challenge of finding interesting new ways to move for several miles each day.
During the first several days after my injury I was happy just to walk on a flat paved surface. Together we walked several sections of the Olympic Discovery Trail. I know that trail very well from many hundreds of running miles, but it's been nice to slow down and share it while engaging in long, slow conversations.
Although I wasn't able to capture them on camera (I struggle getting off quick one-handed shots), at the Morse Creek bridge we saw three adult bald eagles and a river otter. As a consolation prize I'll offer you a long, slow look at the shadows on the bridge.
After five days and 28 miles of this leisurely walking, I was ready to try a bit more.
First up was a short hike to the always-spectacular Sol Duc Falls. It's only 1.8 miles round-trip on a mostly level trail. Thanks to all the recent rains, we passed several raging streams on our way to the falls. The scale is difficult to capture in a photograph because the trees are so huge, but this stream is about 20 feet across.
Sol Duc Falls itself was as high as I've ever seen it, with four cascades instead of the usual three.
I must thank CFL for the spiky hairdo he gave me when he put on my headband for me.
Sol Duc Falls served as a warm-up. That same day we also hiked several miles on a new (to us) and mostly level trail not far from this one.
The next day we chose a trail that soon turned into an impassible marshy puddle. We were disappointed with our low-mileage day, so the next day we covered 12.5 miles on the ODT before rewarding ourselves with local craft beer downtown.
Over the weekend we hit the hiking trails again. On our 11.5 mile meander along the Spruce Railroad Trail, we enjoyed the impossible-to-photograph deep ultramarine blues of Lake Crescent. We also spotted our first calypso orchids of 2014!
Yesterday we drove way out to the Pacific coast to hike the Ozette Triangle. This trail starts at Lake Ozette and runs west 3 miles through the forest to the beach, then 3 miles south along the beach, and finally 3 miles back through the forest.
I did fine on the first leg. When we got to the beach, I felt like I had just stepped into a calendar photo.
We stopped to snack and enjoy the view. There were many kinds of waterfowl, including dozens of black oystercatchers with their distinctive whistles. We heard sea lions barking at a near-shore island. We saw several gray whale spouts just beyond the surf line.
We then set out to walk along the beach. At first it was mostly sand and cobbles, but we didn't get far before we found ourselves stepping from boulder to boulder and scrambling over driftwood logs. I quickly realized that this was going to be too tough to navigate with my arm in a sling. We reluctantly turned back. By the time we got back to the car, we'd covered 7.5 miles, but I was very tired. Still, it occurred to us that we were the oldest people out on that trail that day — by far. I was also the only person out there with a broken arm! So we congratulated ourselves on our attempt.
All told, I've walked (on pavement) and hiked (off-pavement) nearly 72 miles in the first ten days since breaking my arm. I may have been slowed by this injury, but I shall not be stopped.
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. Coco Chanel
Visitin' The Metropolitan Museum of ART
New York has a lot of places to visit,I decided to visit The Met and other places. It's a paradise fot creative people and it can inspire you a lot) You can see pieces of art of different cultures,you can stay in ancient part of Museum or move to pictures by famous artists. I was happy to see the Asian Art , Egyptian Art,European paintings,sculpture and decorative Arts,Medieval Art,Greek and Roman art.
and also to see world famous paintings by S.Dali, C. Monet,V. Gogh, Matisse...I have some old pictures,and I want to share my happiness with you my friends....yes,such places can inspire everyone and should be visiting...hope you like)
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I still believe there is hope. Sources have told me some team managers have contacted a few high-profile players and advised that the PLPA was standing in the way of a deal. While I find it upsetting that it looks like an attempt to divide the players, at least it seems to indicate that the door of opportunity is still not closed
If the PLPA is an approved union orginization, I have a vague recollection that such conduct that is described might violate certain labor laws. But since I dont' practice labor law, and the last course I took in it was over 18 years ago, I'm certainly not positive.


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- 16 ounces frozen unsweetened raspberries (about 3 cups), thawed
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Puree raspberries in processor until almost smooth. Transfer to fine-mesh strainer set over medium bowl. Using silicone spatula, press on solids to extract puree. Discard seeds in strainer. Transfer 1/3 cup puree to small bowl; add 2 tablespoons sugar and stir until sugar dissolves. Cover; chill for sauce.
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HIV. HIV can be spread even through unprotected oral sex.1 Another common way of getting the virus is when injecting drugs and sharing needles with someone
who is infected with HIV.
You have an increased risk of becoming infected with HIV through
sexual contact if you:
People who inject drugs or steroids, especially if they share
needles, syringes, cookers, or other equipment used to inject drugs, are at
risk of being infected with HIV.
Babies who are born to mothers who are infected with HIV are also at
risk of infection.
HIV may be spread more easily in the early
stage of infection, when the first flu-like symptoms
of HIV (acute retroviral syndrome) are present, and again
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Man arrested after meth lab bust at McDonalds
Bust happened in Benton County parking lot
After a two-month investigation, the Benton County Sheriff's Office arrested a man on felony charges of manufacturing methamphetamine.
Anthony Stobaugh, of Elkins, is also charged with possession of paraphernalia to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
For two weeks, narcotics detectives and patrol deputies were monitoring his moves. They found Stobaugh in the parking lot of a McDonald's at I-540 and Hwy 264 on Feb. 26.
Investigators said they found makings of a meth lab in the front passenger area of his car. In the cargo area of the vehicle they found a suspected active drug lab.
Officials said fumes coming from the vehicle were so strong they had to rope off a portion of the parking lot for a couple of hours while detectives disposed of the lab.
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Dr Norman Lewis is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Wireless Grids Corporation, USA. Prior to joining WGC, he was the Director of Technology Research for Orange, UK. Prior to this Lewis was the Director of Technology Research for the Home Division of France Telecom and of Freeserve.com. He is the Chairman of the International Telecommunications Union's TELECOM Forum Programme Committee.
He was an executive Board member of the Communication Futures Programme at MIT and has acted as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organisation on issues related to the Digital Divide. He was the founder and Director of Globalisation and Power in the 21st Century (GAP21); a not-for-profit organization set up in 1999 that aimed to bring industry, government, academia, policy makers, and civil society together to debate the social impact of information and communications technologies on 21st Century society.
Lewis holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Sussex, UK. Before going into the private sector he lectured at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Sussex. He still lectures to the M.B.A. program for visiting Chinese post-graduate students, senior civil servants and Executives at the Institute for Higher and Continuing Education, Oxford University.
He serves on the Advisory Boards of a number of new and disruptive start-ups in Europe and the USA.
He is completing a book with leading UK sociologist, Professor Frank Furedi on the subject of digital children and their encounter with innovation in a risk-averse culture to be published later this year.


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Wide-Format Inkjet Printer
Roland DGA
Roland DGA (www.rolanddga.com) bills its XF-640 as one of its most revolutionary large-format digital printers to date. It features dual eight-channel piezo inkjet heads with 180 nozzles/channel. According to Roland DGA, the printheads are offset to promote image quality and create a larger print swath that dramatically increases speed—up to 1098 sq ft/hr (102 sq m/hr). Roland DGA says the XF-640's newly designed printhead produces smaller droplets and, by firing a finer dot, delivers rich, bold color and deep image saturation on a much broader range of media. The printer uses Roland's Eco-Sol MAX 2, formulated to dry quickly and offer durability. It also features Roland's Intelligent Pass Control technology to controls dot placement between passes.


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Arp-EG classic is a MIDI arpeggiator, play arpeggios on all your instruments. All the VST instrument you like and even your hardware synth (using your DAW MIDI out) can now play arp sequence with Arp-EG.
Use the six playback mode and the four octave range to create complex arpeggio, speed up or slow down your arp sync on the beat of your DAW.
Control the groove using the shuffle and gate function, the expression with the transpose function. Give to each note his one velocity, play polyphonic chord or notes sequence.
Assign all the parameters to your MIDI controller easily. Click on "Learn" on the parameter, move the control on your MIDI controller, and that it's!
Randomly generate your arpeggio with a single click. Undo your changes on all the parameters, just as easily.


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EDF Energy is one of the UK's largest energy companies in the UK and is the new name for the merged London Electricity and Seeboard Group of companies.
EDF energy generate around 7% of the UK's electricity and over a quarter of the UK Population depend on them for their electricity. The company employ 11,3000 people and supply energy to approximately 5 million customers through their retail brands.
EDF Energy encompasses London Energy, SWEB Energy and Seeboard Energy as well as having its own EDF Energy customers which were formerly Virgin HomeEnergy customers.
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- Offer priority services to elderly and disabled customers.
- Points for Nectar card holders.
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There are two gas tariffs depending on whether you only have your gas supply with EDF or whether you are a duel fuel customer. For both tariffs you pay a set rate for the first 1465 kWh you use each quarter then a lower amount from any additional units used. There are discounts for paying by Direct Debit and if your gas supply is part of a duel fuel arrangement.
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Make life easier by putting in your meter readings and changing account details online.
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Benefit from discounts when paying your bills by direct debit
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Take both gas and electricity from EDF Energy and get a discount when paying with cash, cheque or prepayment. Benefit from further duel fuel discounts when paying by monthly Direct Debit in addition to your monthly Direct Debit discount for each fuel.
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After installation of a prepayment meter, customers can pay for their gas and electricity as they use it with no need for bills or meter reading. Prepay customers pay for their energy at exactly the same rate as other customers, so are not penalised for their choice of payment method.
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"The Avengers" movie will have to assemble without Jon Favreau.
The "Iron Man" and "Iron Man 2" director, who had been rumored to take the helm for the Marvel super-team's big screen 2012 debut, "will not be available" for the job, he told MTV News.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: First Look: 'Iron Man 2'
"They'll have to [find a different director]," he said, explaining that he'd still be involved. "It's something I'm being the executive producer on, so I'll definitely have input and a say."
The film will be preceded by three other Marvel movies – "Iron Man 2," "Captain America" and "Thor," all of which will set the stage for the super-team.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Spectacular Superheroes
"We want to reinforce a lot of the stuff we started to tip off," Jon said. "'The Avengers' is a much larger concern for Marvel and Kevin Feige, who runs Marvel. They're going to be doing 'Thor' and 'Captain America,' and the way we might start to tease those things in ['Iron Man 2'], some of it is stuff that we've discussed [and] some of the stuff you do last-minute as you figure out how that stuff is coming together."
He's hoping the details will stay top-secret – though as he discovered with "Iron Man" and its secret Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) cameo, it's difficult to keep things off the Internet for long.
"It's an evolving, amorphous thing. If we decide and commit too early, the secret always gets out," he said. ""As soon as we shot the Nick Fury thing — we had a closed set and nobody was supposed to know about it — week later somehow it was all over the internet. It's a little bit of a cat-and-mouse game."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Robert Downey Jr.
"Iron Man 2" is due in theaters on May 7, 2010.
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Since I keep quoting from this every time I mention the Trojan Horse, I thought I should give it its own post.
And it all ends with Python's classic battle cry, beloved of all those of a practical bent - 'Run away! Run away!'
For anyone who's interested - my lecture on the historicity of the Trojan War


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Rodney Dangerfield made a career out of getting "no respect." His widow contends he's not getting much in death, either.
NY1 television reports that Joan Dangerfield doesn't think a mural in his old New York City neighborhood does him justice.
Artist Francesca Robicci painted the mural last year in Queens, working from a photo provided by Dangerfield.
Dangerfield also donated $1,000 toward the project, which was commissioned by a community group.
U.S. & World
A letter from her lawyer calls the image "less-than-flattering" and says Rodney Dangerfield "deserves nothing but the highest respect."
The artist says she worked for free and is heartbroken but is willing to return to New York City from Italy to do some cosmetic work.
Residents were divided on the comedic controversy.
"I think you could have softened it," Gillian Archer said. "Nobody likes a double chin."
Flynn McLean thinks the mural should stay.
"I would not want to see that mural removed just because it's not the most flattering" likeness, said McLean, who added that Dangerfield "wasn't the best-looking guy in the world."
The comedian, who died in 2004 at 82, obviously could not be reached for comment. But his hangdog shtick still runs amok on the website Rodney.com.
"I tell ya when I was a kid, I got no respect," says one of his famously self-deprecating jokes posted there. "My old man took me to a freak show. They said, 'Get the kid out, he's distracting from the show.'"
There on the website is a big picture of Dangerfield, looking a little bug-eyed and — truth be told — double-chinned. It's next to this apropos adage:
"A Life of No Respect Lives On."


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For a project I want to create a little program that does simple things like export a map from the python command line, but also users are able to edit said map (without having to open arcmap) e.g change font text, replace a street name with another street name, change map layout. I know you can do something similiar in arcpy.mapping from the command line - but what if I use gui tools to create a small program that allows users to do so by pressing buttons (e.g one button exports map, I could then upload a few example maps that can be worked on) - I'm looking at using tkinter.
Does this sound overly complex?
I can remove the gui tools part if its too hard - is it possible to test out python programs somewhere?
like can I upload it somewhere and test it out and do I need html knowledge?
on a second note - does anyone know a way to replace a graphic in all maps - for example, if I want to replace the company logo of all my maps with another logo I've made - I've googled and can't seem to find an answer to it.


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NEW YORK, NY – 17 Jun, 2017 – Dr. Janet Smith Warfield, Award Winning Author, Workshop Facilitator, and Speaker for Word Sculptures Publishing, has been selected as "Top Female Motivational Speaker of the Year" for 2017 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP).
While inclusion with the International Association of Top Professionals is an honor in itself, only one female is chosen for this distinction based on her speaking engagements, keynote speeches given, accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, audience size and contributions to her communities.
Janet will be recognized for this honor at the 2017 IAOTP's Annual Award Gala at the end of this year and IAOTP will be presenting her with the Presidential Crystal Globe honoring her success as a motivational speaker and her 50 years of experience in the Field of Consciousness Education. Janet was a guest of honor and keynote speaker for the 2016 IAOTP's Award Gala at the Garden City Hotel, NY. IAOTP's Vice President Stephanie Cirami stated: "Janet gave a very empowering, motivating and thought provoking presentation at our 2016 award gala. When I had nominated her to our panel for Top Motivational Speaker of the Year, our panel unanimously agreed because we all witnessed Janet in action. She is just brilliant at what she does and she is an inspiration to our members. We hope to spend more time with her at this year Gala."
Watch her give an inspiring speech: https://youtu.be/Uif-GAu6LWo
Janet has launched a provocative webinar series entitled Expanding Consciousness Collective, http://expandingconsciousnesscollective.com/. In addition, she was part of a two-week expedition to New Zealand, https://vimeo.com/178383036, at the beginning of May which included an opportunity for her to speak at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, spend three days and four nights with a pre-Maori indigenous community known as the Waitaha, and train rural farmers on the North Island and inhabitants of the South Seas Island country, Vanuatu, in the use of free water filters to provide clean drinking water.
Janet just finished her first three of six radio interviews with Frank MacKay, www.frankmackaymedia.com. These will air soon on Long Island News Radio, http://linewsradio.com/frank-mackay/, as well as Talk of Gainesville, Talk of the Palm Beaches, and many other global talk radio networks.
Janet is the award winning author of Amazon bestseller and Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner, Shift: Change Your Words, Change Your World. Shift is a creative tool for expanding consciousness. The book is globally distributed and has been translated into four languages. Her article "Freedom from Fear" was featured in J. Kim Wright's American Bar Association bestseller, Lawyers as Peacemakers: Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law. Janet posts blogs on perception shifts and word healing at www.janetsmithwarfield.com
During the Cold War, Janet was selected by the American Field Service as an American exchange student to Berlin, Germany. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Swarthmore College, a Juris Doctor Degree cum laude from Rutgers School of Law – Camden, and practiced law in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for 22 years. She has trained with motivational coaches Mark Victor Hansen, T. Harv Eker, Bob Proctor, and John Childers and has studied with spiritual leaders and visionaries, Matthew Fox, Andrew Harvey, Oscar Miro Quesada, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jean Houston, Joanna Macy, Carolyn Myss, and Ken Wilber.
Janet has been recognized worldwide and has received numerous awards. This year she was selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2016 as Top Professional of the Year in Consciousness Education by the International Association of Top Professionals. In 2015, she was selected as Most Prominent Professional in the Field of Consciousness Education by Continental Who's Who, her photo and award displayed on a Times Square billboard.
In 2006, while living in Panama, she began facilitating interactive workshops. She has been a featured guest on numerous radio and TV talk shows: "Dare to Dream Radio," with Deborah Dachinger; "Waking Up—Learning What Your Life is Trying to Teach You," with John Earle; "Shifts of Mind for a World of Renewal," with John D. Schmidt; "Dancing with Words, Dancing with Wisdom" with Pol Cousineau.
Dr. Warfield attributes her success to her deep love of learning, intellectual rigor, and passion for truth and justice instilled by her educator parents.
For more information about Dr. Warfield please visit http://www.wordsculptures.com
To purchase her book please go to http://www.amazon.com/Janet-Smith-Warfield/e/B002J3LT0G
Watch a video about her here: https://youtu.be/-JSXhONzJ68
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