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Q: Json serialization issue when using Struts2-Json plugin I have an action class with 3 properties. I am using Struts2-Json plugin to serialize the action class. I am able to serialize the String selectedCompany as per my expectations
The problem
The People ArrayList<Person> property is serialized with empty values. I don't seem to find where I have made a mistake.
Json_Response:

Action Class:
package json;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.Preparable;

import dao.DataAccess;

public class Json extends ActionSupport implements Preparable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -8415223624346993447L;
    private ArrayList<String> list;
    private String selectedCompany = "Buhin Engineers";
    private ArrayList<Person> people;

    public ArrayList<String> getList() {
        return list;
    }
    public void setList(ArrayList<String> list) {
        this.list = list;
    }
    public String getSelectedCompany() {
        return selectedCompany;
    }
    public void setSelectedCompany(String selectedCompany) {
        this.selectedCompany = selectedCompany;
    }
    public ArrayList<Person> getPeople() {
        return people;
    }
    public void setPeople(ArrayList<Person> people) {
        this.people = people;
    }
    public String execute(){
        list = new ArrayList<String>();
        list.add("Yamaha");
        list.add("Hero Honda");
        return SUCCESS;
    }
    @Override
    public void prepare() throws Exception {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        populatePeople();
    }
    private void populatePeople() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        DataAccess da = new DataAccess();
        setPeople(da.retrievePeople());

    }
}

struts.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
    "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
    "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
    <struts>
        <constant name="struts.devMode" value="true" />
        <package name="default" namespace="/" extends="json-default">
            <action name="Json" class="json.Json">
                <result type="json">
                    <param name="includeProperties">selectedCompany,people,list</param>
                </result>
            </action>
        </package>
    </struts>

A: The List are published as array so you need to define the array to be included. like
people\[\d+\]\..*,list\[\d+\]\..*

If the List is the type of objects (instead of simple String) you can narrow your result to selected properties like:
employee\[\d+\]\.lName,employee\[\d+\]\.fName,

If the List objects has inner objects you can do as:
//The employee\[\d+\]\.address.addressline1 is not enough !!
//May be one can suggest better idea here :)
employee\[\d+\]\.address,employee\[\d+\]\.address.addressline1

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Video Diary: Kurt Brunton gets accepted on the CAR-T trial Video supplied Kurt Brunton.
A terminally-ill New Zealand father has been accepted into a potentially life-saving cancer treatment trial after travelling to the United States.
On Sunday Kurt Brunton departed from Auckland Airport saying "goodbye for now" to his wife Janelle Brunton-Rennie and 1-year-old daughter Sage.
This morning he announced in a video update he had been officially accepted on to the CAR-T trial.
"Everything went as well as we could have hoped," Brunton said.
"I am pretty excited about what is coming up."
Brunton, a 41-year-old Remuera software accountant, has been battling an aggressive form of blood cancer since January. About a month ago his condition escalated dramatically, spreading to five tumours around his body.
Brunton had been officially accepted onto the CAR-T trial this morning and would commence treatment on September 19.
The process would involve harvesting Brunton's T-cells, which would spend three to four weeks being genetically engineered before being reintroduced.
Before he left New Zealand his doctor had begun prepping him for palliative care as there was no further treatment available for him in New Zealand.
Now, thanks to the ground-breaking immunotherapy treatment in Boston, the family had been given one last hope.
Thousands of New Zealanders have been getting behind Brunton's fight with more than $194,000 raised on his Givealittle page in the past two weeks.
With the steep overseas treatment cost, more than $1.5 million is needed.
The Herald will be posting regular video updates from Brunton as he embarks on the biggest fight of his life.


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This 96-year-old man wrote the most heartbreaking song of the year
Fred Stobaugh's poignant tribute to his late wife of 72 years, "Oh Sweet Lorraine," captures a lifetime in a song.
Austin Powell
Published Aug 25, 2013 Updated Jun 1, 2021, 8:15 am CDT
The most genuine country song you'll hear all year came from the least likely songwriter.
Reeling from the death of his wife of 72 years in May, Fred Stobaugh, 96, sought a way to deal with his grief and loneliness. Despite lacking any musical experience, he could hear the song he wanted to sing to her—the melody, the lyrics, the longing refrain—just beyond his reach.
He jotted down the details in a letter he mailed to Green Shoe Studio, a production company that was hosting an interactive competition meant to spotlight YouTube videos by emerging singer-songwriters. Taken aback by the intimacy of the letter, Green Shoe's Jacob Colgan not only tracked down Stobaugh to hear his story in Bartonville, Ill., but the producer worked with him to put his words to music.
Their collaboration, "Oh Sweet Lorraine," reminds me of Johnny Cash's American V: A Hundred Highways, an album he recorded in fading health and in the shadow of his wife's passing. Green Shoe went one step further, bringing in a professional crew to cut the track and give it some Nashville polish. That version is now available on iTunes and Google Play.
The entire process was captured in a short, staggering documentary, A Letter From Fred, that serves as a tribute to the couple's enduring love.
"She gave me 75 years of her life," Stobaugh reflects in the film. "She was the prettiest girl I ever saw."
Screengrab via Green Shoe Studio
*First Published: Aug 25, 2013, 2:15 pm CDT
Austin Powell is the former managing editor of the Daily Dot. His work focuses on the intersection of entertainment and technology. He previously served as a music columnist for the Austin Chronicle and is the co-author of The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology.
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The veil is an historic piece of clothing with many symbols and suggested origins. Roman brides wore a large, brightly coloured veil to repel any evil spirits lurking. In Judaism, the veil dates back to biblical times and symbolises the grooms promise to protect and clothe the bride; and some say shows that the groom is demonstrating that even with her beauty covered, the bride is still worthy of everlasting love. In more recent time, covering of the hair and face seems to have signified virginity, and the lifting of the veil is significant as symbolic consummation.
Most brides in the modern world opt for some for of hair accessory or head covering, although the tradition veil is slightly less popular than it once was. The major deciding factor is likely to be your dress – a good bridal parlour should be able to advise on what will both match and enhance your chosen dress, and should have plenty of examples for you try different styles.
A look that's both modern and classic is the narrow headband. Adorned, singly, in pairs or plain, a satin band can suit either an 'up' or flowing hairdo, add a tinge of colour and keep unruly hair in place for the day.
The tiara has been bang on trend for some years, offering you the chance to go for glitteringly beautiful swarovski crystals and a true princess style; or if you prefer, something elegant and understated, perhaps studded with pearls. A specialist headgear supplier should also offer metalwork tiaras, and even hair vines, exquisite tiara style head dressings which are usually fklexible and allow you to create intricate and secure styles with minimal effort.
A jewelled comb will be securely attached into teased hair and can come with any adornment you can think of.
Fresh flowers do look fantastic, either tying in with your bridal bouquet or adding a splash of the exotic. Speak to your florist about the types of flowers which will survive the day without water, and how they can be securely fixed, be it on a comb, wire or band. It might be an idea to ask the florist to create two, in case your beautiful accessory gets bruised during all the celebratory hugging!
Silk flowers have come on a long way; and have all the benefits of fresh but with added durability. A bridal parlour will likely be able to supply or help you to find a supplier, and don't forget to check out the internet (and our accessories pages!) for likely stores.
Almost every bride nowadays opts for some form of headwear or tiara to go with her beautiful wedding dress. Headwear can be a tiara, a veil, a hair pin, a hair slide, or anything that you can accessorise your wedding dress, or bridesmaids with. Headwear and tiara designers take a lot of time to create some absolutely beautiful headwear items that you can keep as a memory forever. Some designers use Swarovski crystals in their tiara pieces, where as others use fresh water pearls. The designers who are crafty with metal can also create some unusual and very lovely headwear pieces for your wedding day.


If you live near a military base or post, approach military personnel about volunteering a little of their time to umpire some games for your league. Military personnel are always looking for community involvement activities to list on their fitness reports or on their annual evaluations.
Contact other associations, such as fire departments, search and rescues, etc. Those type of community based organizations can and sometimes will be able to put you in contact with some volunteers who are willing to umpire.
When umpire meetings are scheduled, ask all those who plan to attend to bring someone along with them, especially a manager/coach.
A league may chose to use manages and or coaches to umpire in divisions in which they do not manager or coach. If the local league chooses to use managers/coaches, they should umpire with a qualified umpire.
Each team should recruit one or two parents to umpire.
Many local newspapers will offer public service advertisements to youth groups. Many radio stations and TV stations have avenues for public announcements for non-profit organizations. The local leagues should contact these venues and advertise the need for volunteer umpires, clinic dates, etc.
During the local league registration periods, volunteer forms are used to ask parents and others what they would volunteer to do to help the league. Make sure the UIC or board member personally ask those who volunteer to umpire and get a possible commitment from that individual. The UIC should attend these registration periods in uniform whenever possible and try to put together a CALL list from the volunteers that attend.
Many high schools around the country require their students to perform some type of community service before they are allowed to graduate. Get the UIC or board member to the high school and interact with the guidance counselors to get names of those who may be willing to help with umpiring.
Use basketball, football or other sport officials. While attending a game at a high school event or another sport event contact the officials after the game and ask them if they would be willing to give to the Little League program one or two nights a week.


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Brendan O'Neill speaks sense on Gay marriage in the OZ
A great piece today in the Oz from my favourite Marxist Brendan O'Neil where he succinctly explains why some otherwise sensible conservatives are taking the plunge to support this seemingly innocuous err, cough, splutter, "reform".
Of course I expect that our learned friend will be onto this piece like a starving hound would be onto the fox, with a great deal sound a fury (signifying nothing) but we only have to look to Canada to see just how bad the repercussions will be if this so called reform is ever to be made manifest if the activists and fag hags ever get their way.
So lets leave the marriage well enough alone and if homosexual relationships need any sort of legal recognition and social acknowledgement then lets do it through other legal and social instruments like some sort of civil union or relationship register.
I have just read the revelation in the Oz that Tony Abbott's sister is herself both Gay and in a committed relationship and more importantly that this has not meant that she has become persona non grata at the Abbott household where she has been welcome with her partner on numerous occasions.
Isn't this a perfect example of just how wrong it is to insist that those who oppose the concept of gay marriage do so because they hate or fear homosexuals?
Cheers again Comrades
Update the second
As predicted our learned friend has produced a rant about Brendan's piece in the OZ and also as predicted he is very hound like in his he desire to attack and maul the fox here but I think that he has just ended up with a mouth full of straw and dead air:
Now I am actually a student of our learned friend's rhetoric and usually he tries to at least find something in the text which he can twist and turn to his purposes but on this occasion he goes one step further and totality invents and argument that O'Neill is not even making:
O'Neill actually argues that – get this – the government stopping trying to encourage gay people to marry straight people (which seems cruel to the straight people who marry them, to be honest) is "an invitation to yet more state interference" in our lives.
Yes, there's less state control of our lives when the government arbitrarily tells us whether we can marry that man or that woman, purely on the grounds of our gender.
It's the most bizarre black-is-white up-is-down argument I can remember ever seeing.
I may be wrong, but after reading the O'Neill piece in question five times I can't find where he argues this at all. of course Our leaned friends fans uncritically accept his argument without question
Worse still our learned friend totally misrepresents O'Neill's actual argument as well by a mixture of selective misquoting and derision:
Brendan goes on to give us some even sillier stereotyping and false assertions ("A gay relationship is fundamentally one of romantic love, far more so than traditional marriage is"), absurd claims ("In Canada… the words husband and wife, even mother and father, have been airbrushed from official life") and dishonest strawmen ("Collapsing together every human relationship under a mushy and meaningless redefinition of 'marriage'"), but that backwards freedom-is-slavery line appears to be his main point, and, unlike the above common furphies, a line I've never seen before.
If our learned friend had actaully done some research about the situation in Canada he would discover that there is nothing made of straw or dishonest about the way that official nomenclature has been altered in reference to family and parental roles in the wake of gay marriage there. Unlike our learned friend Brendan O'Neill actaully knows what he is talking about when it comes to the situation in Canada.
The rest of Sear's rant is just his typical foaming at the mouth wild hound dog raving he is desperately trying to get a mouthful of that O'Neill fox but all he has managed to get is teeth around is a few handfuls of rather rank straw. In typical totalitarian style he declares himself winner as if asserting something will make it so and all the while the fox is sitting there doing a bit of indifferent grooming and leading the chorus of laughter at our learned friend's foolishness. What a lovely way to wake up to a beautiful day!
Cheers times three Comrades
CLE on Same Sex Marriage and Civil Unions (lawprofessors.typepad.com)
The U.K.'s Marriage Equality Debate Heats Up (newwaysministryblog.wordpress.com)
Homosexual Partnership. (iangardnerdotcom.wordpress.com)
"Why gay marriage is a very bad idea" (ebougis.wordpress.com)
What Effect Will Gay Marriage Have? (queerlandia.com)
Gay marriage: The fight is on, but who is calling the shots? (independent.co.uk)
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By Iain Hall in Australian Politics, Domestic life, Federal politics, Gay issues, Gender Issues, Journalism, Law, Leftism, Life and Work balance, Living with Nature, Men and Women, Political Correctness, the Law on April 7, 2012 .
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Ian Gardner says:
Quite so! It is also a perfect example of an individual prostituting himself
at the altar of politics.
Nigel Featherstone says:
Iain, the last time I looked Canada hadn't gone to hell in a handbasket because of its pro-gay-marriage stance. What do you know that I don't?
Brendon O'Neill's argument is disingenious. Is my long-term gay marriage only about romance? No, it's about companionship, intimacy, sex, love, connection to family and community – in short, it's exactly the same as the relationships of my straight friends.
So why should I be turned away by the Births, Deaths, and Marriages office? Why shouldn't the State (i.e. not the church) accept my relationship as being exactly the same as anyone else's?
Iain Hall says:
Hi Nigel
Is my long-term gay marriage only about romance? No, it's about companionship, intimacy, sex, love, connection to family and community – in short, it's exactly the same as the relationships of my straight friends.
The thing is most straight couples do one thing together that no Gay couple can do without the intervention of either a third party or medical science and that is to make and raise the next generation of people as O'Neill points out that is the primary purpose of marriage.
I agree that you shouldn't be turned away Nigel but I would argue that another separate legal instrument other than the marriage act should be created to cover relationships like yours.
Iain,
– it's a pedantic point, but most straight couples rely on medical sciene to give birth, too; sure many don't have to do, but they do, regardless. Also, many straight couples require science to aid procreation.
– if we take a purely legal definition of marriage, as in the Marriage Act, where does it say that the primary purpose is to raise childern? That is a religious definition, which is fine, but religion shouldn't apply to matters of the state.
– if we did a straw-poll of the average person in the street, the vast majority would say that they got married/or want to get married to beat lonelineness.
– if we take religion away from matters of the state, why should there be a need for a separate document to cover homosexual relationships? There is only one honest answer: some people aren't comfortable with seeing two men or two women getting married; they see it as an afront to their own lives, no doubt the same way that some peope decades ago didn't want black people to swim at the same beaches as white people.
Let's look at the maths for a moment: between 2 and 5% of the population are gay (and the science tells us that it's genetic). Of those, perhaps only half are in long-term relationships (but that figure would rise if they had an appropriate legal avenue to recognise their unions), and not all those would want to get married, as not all straight couples want to get married. So let's just give this group of people the respect they deserve, acknowledge their relationships in the Act, give them – and their children – the protection they beed, and then we can all get back to living our lives.
– it's a pedantic point, but most straight couples rely on medical science to give birth, too; sure many don't have to do, but they do, regardless. Also, many straight couples require science to aid procreation.
Its not the giving birth part I was referring to, rather I was pointing out the obvious that a same sex couple can not produce offspring that are the fruits of their union.
– if we take a purely legal definition of marriage, as in the Marriage Act, where does it say that the primary purpose is to raise children? That is a religious definition, which is fine, but religion shouldn't apply to matters of the state.
I'm not making my argument on nor is it inspired by a faith position. While I tend to agree with you that the state should not be imposing any sort of religious notions on its people I don't see the definition of marriage as being something between one man and one women entered into for life as at all religiously based, rather is is a recognition of the commonly understood meaning of marriage.
– if we did a straw-poll of the average person in the street, the vast majority would say that they got married/or want to get married to beat likeliness(loneliness?).
As I see it the urge to form a pair bond is both visceral and not something that is always honestly described I don't don't think that your straw poll would really get to the heart of the matter.
– if we take religion away from matters of the state, why should there be a need for a separate document to cover homosexual relationships? There is only one honest answer: some people aren't comfortable with seeing two men or two women getting married; they see it as an affront to their own lives, no doubt the same way that some people decades ago didn't want black people to swim at the same beaches as white people.
You answer your own question to some extent here Nigel, there are a lot of people who are very uncomfortable that very small group of heterodox individuals want to change an institution and its legal instruments to suit their particular desires. And they are also rather unhappy that for merely objecting to the notion of Gay marriage they are subject to vilification on the basis of a hatred that they don't feel or intend towards homosexuals. Creating some form of civil union can address all of the relationship recognition that is desired without pissing off people who would otherwise be very supportive of anyone who is gay.
Let's look at the maths for a moment: between 2 and 5% of the population are gay (and the science tells us that it's genetic). Of those, perhaps only half are in long-term relationships (but that figure would rise if they had an appropriate legal avenue to recognise their unions), and not all those would want to get married, as not all straight couples want to get married. So let's just give this group of people the respect they deserve, acknowledge their relationships in the Act, give them – and their children – the protection they need, and then we can all get back to living our lives.
I really don't think that there is any reason to believe that the ability to marry is going to alter the number of gay people who are in long term stable relationships, it certainly does little to keep people together in straight ones!( I have been with the same woman for thirty years whereas all around me friends an family have had a every changing serries of differing patetneships. But I agree with you about giving people the respect they deserve when they make a long term go of their relationships I just don't think taht changeing the definition of marrige is going to do it for Gay couples unless they can actaully do the hard yards of sticking together through thick and thin.
Ray Dixon says:
some people aren't comfortable with seeing two men or two women getting married; they see it as an afront to their own lives, no doubt the same way that some peope decades ago didn't want black people to swim at the same beaches as white people.
There it is … the "bigot argument". If you are in any way opposed to the current heterosexual Marriage Act being changed to include same-sex relationships, you are somehow as much a bigot as those who refused to mix with blacks, according to Nigel et al.
That's a poor argument, Nigel, and one that won't get you anywhere in your quest for so-called equality.
The fact is that the existing 'Marriage Act' was framed specifically to cover the marriage of men & women, to each other. It does not deal with homosexual couples and was never intended to. So, if same sex couples want a law passed to allow them to be formally married too then why the necessity to change the existing hetero Act when a separate Act would cover that? QED.
GD says:
Nigel said:
give them – and their children – the protection they need
Oh really? Are gay couples endangered now by current laws? Don't they already have the same rights as heterosexual couples in law?
BTW good comment, Ray and as Nigel states:
between 2 and 5% of the population are gay… Of those, perhaps only half are in long-term relationships
So on that basis, we should overturn the institution of marriage, which for thousands of years has been between a man and a woman and always had the propensity to procreate, and instead replace it with a 'one on one' relationship which subjugates procreation to secondary status. After all, you can always buy eggs, sperm and injections. That's what parenting is really about isn't it?
This is a minuscule portion of the population demanding that we change the marriage law so they can pretend to be parents, pretend to be, husband and…husband, or wife and wife. Given that this minuscule portion aren't actually asking for this, but that activists, mostly heterosexual, are the ones demanding it, it seems odd that this issue is taking prime position in the media, rather than the issues that concern the general populace.
Less than 5% of Australians are gay. It stands to reason that a smaller percentile desperately need to call themselves 'married'.
At the minute, over 60% of Australians disagree with the Carbon Tax. A larger percentile are disgruntled with Labor, and most people would prefer that Julia wasn't in charge of our nation.
Is gay marriage really an issue at this time? Yes, we can walk and chew gum at the same time, but gay marriage really is an afterthought for most people.
Iain et al,
The cold harsh reality is that the Marriage Act in Australia does NOT reflect the reality. It has never been and will never be a ticket to procreate.
As to the 'bigot argument'. If a bigot is someone who is 'strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ', then I completely and utterly suggest that this is what this argument is about for many people.
As to numbers: I am simply suggesting that allowing same-sex couples to marry will never undermine marriage as the 'bedrock' (as John Howard ludicrously but hilariously put it) of society.
And just because the Indiginous population is so small – roughly about the same size as the gay community – we shouldn't have had the '68 referendum?
A mature, honourable society would abolish the Marriage Act and have a Civil Union Act, which would be the only legal instrument to recognise adult relationships. Then, if people want to have their celebration in a church and call it marriage, they could do so. Yes, that's what a mature, hobourable society should do.
Do you want to keep sending a message to gay and lesbian youth that their relationships are second-class?
Firstly good on you for the civil debate you have been offering here.
Sure people have children all the time without the benefit of wedlock, but that does not change the fact that the underlying intention of the institution of marriage is all about protecting the interests of the children of that union rather than endorsing the relationship of its participants. The essential thrust of the Gay marriage advocacy is all about wanting society to endorse and validate same sex unions. Well I think that this can be achieved through an legal instrument other than the marriage act.
I think that you miss the point that we are making here that to play the "bigot card" essentially ends up alienating those who would otherwise be very supportive of homosexuals and their right to live and love as they please.
Lets go back a step here and consider what is being sought here. I think that the underlying desire here is for social validation and acceptance of homosexual unions, which I agree is a desirable thing, where I disagree is that the notion of the small tail wagging the rather large dog will not achieve that end.
And just because the Indigenous population is so small – roughly about the same size as the gay community – we shouldn't have had the '68 referendum?
The referendum of 68 had an amazingly positive response of more than 90% for the proposition to include indigenous people in the Census. If a plebiscite on Gay marriage were to get a similar result I would consider changing my position but I suspect that the result would be far less decisive.
A mature, honourable society would abolish the Marriage Act and have a Civil Union Act, which would be the only legal instrument to recognise adult relationships. Then, if people want to have their celebration in a church and call it marriage, they could do so. Yes, that's what a mature, honourable society should do.
This is the tail wagging the dog territory once again Nigel a mature society would meet the needs and desires of homosexual couple with legislation that create civil unions for them. As it stands now there is no reason that a gay couple can't have a big party and declare their intentions and commitment to those who matter (their friends and family)
Its not a matter of first or second class its a matter of two good things having some fundamental differences rather like the differences between driving a car and a motorcycle, each will get you to your destination but each requires a different skill set to drive and a different licence.
That's a very confused perspective, Nigel. Firstly, the Marriage Act has nothing to do with religion and churches. People can be married in a registry office or by civil celebrant if they choose, and many do. The church service with a Minister pronouncing 'man & wife' is merely ceremonial and not part of the legal process of marriage. Secondly, saying that the existing Marriage Act should be "abolished" seems to suggest this is as much about envy and a desire to tear down established institutions than actually reform them.
I just think that people who oppose same-sex marriage should reflect on why they have issues with this, and be honest with themselves. Covering up bigotry by overlaying complex but ultimately vacuous arguments isn't the way to go. Obviously there are people out there who have harsher views on this matter than you express, or Ray expresses.
And the gay community, too, or those who are pro same-sex marriage, should also reflect on why this matters so much.
To me it comes down to this scenario:
Two couples go to the Birth, Deaths and Marriages office. Both couples have been together five years. Both couples have children: Couple A has a child through artificial insemintation; Couple B has two children from a previous relationship. Both couples want to get married so they can have their relationship – and their respective children – to have the full protection and acknowledgment of the law, and to stand up in front of their community and say, We're serious about this, and we want everyone to know that, and to have your support if and when we need it. However, the Birth, Deaths and Marriages office turns away Couple B, because it is a union comprised of two men. The office is turning them away because of gender – that one of them isn't a woman. Why should the office, which is an instrument of the state, make judgements based on gender in the context of adult and committed relationships?
One solution – the one I advocate – is for both couples to be not turned away, that there is one Act which applies to both couples. The solution that many soft progressives advocate is for Couple A to have access to the Marriage Act but Couple B has access to a Civil Union Act (which, in a related sub-option, could also be available to Couple A, as it would be for all relationships regardless of gender).
There is some pragmatic sense in Australia moving to a Civil Union Act as a first step. Everyone will see that it does no harm to anyone; they will get used to going to same-sex marriages, perhaps even seeing them reported on the TV. It will become a normal part of society, and a new generation will see it simply as not a big deal. And that generation will then move to strike out one of the Acts, and have it open to all.
But why should we wait a generation or two for full equality when we could achieve it now, and then focus our attention on other important matters?
PS Iain, the tail-wagging-the-dog argument can never wash with the politics of social reform, because otherwise there'd be no reforms for any minority!
I have, as you suggest, reflected long and hard on this issue and I sincerely believe that my reasons for opposing any changes to the way that we, as a society, define marriage are not in any way vacuous. It boils down to a couple of things, firstly the "if it ain't broke then don't fix it" principle. marriage may not be perfect as an institution but on the whole the traditional view that it is a one woman one man partnership works to the benefit of society and (more importantly) to the benefit of the children that we need to continue the species and if we are to change this then we had better do our darnedest to make sure that there are not adverse unintended consequences. Secondly I think that homosexual relationships will not get the desired social acceptance by forcing a change to the marriage act and there may in fact be much more to lose for "gay rights" than will be gained. Thirdly I think that since the changes to remove discrimination against same sex couples wrought by the Rudd government there is no practical need for such changes.
I agree with this Nigel 😉
The Birth, Deaths and Marriages office already administer and supply different legal instruments and there is no reason that they would be unable or excessively burdened by also doing the same for civil partnerships. Further with the very common circumstance of blended families any new relationship does not need or imply that a parent's new partner will take on any parental responsibility with their union.
Yep the Birth, Deaths and Marriages office could do all of that.
The longest journey begins with one small step Nigel and it never pays to jump too far ahead. You see as I have got older (and I'm nearer to sixty than to fifty) I have become far more keen to hasten slowly lest I make a misstep and stumble than I was in my youth and I cling to aphorisms such as "softly softly, catchie monkey" above urgings to "go for it"with out due thought to what could possibly go wrong.
No, of course I disagree with that because the tail has to convince the dog that wagging is a great idea rather than just shaking the hound before it is ready to oscillate. 😉
Iain, about long journeys and due thought: there have been numerous parliamentary inquiries about this issue over the last decade. Enough's enough. We shouldn't ruin another generation of young people just because we can't see that legalising same-sex marriage is a healthy and respectful action to take.
As I have pointed out before I am rather sure that one way or another the issue of Gay marriage has very little to do with the acceptance homosexuality per se.
If you want to achieve that then it will take time for people to see that there is nothing to fear from Gay people living and loving openly.Evolution rather than revolution if you like. I suspect that you and your partner are doing more good in your day to day life in the community than all of the angry activists who confront and intimidate those of us who disagree with Gay marriage


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First, a comment on this week's title, a restatement of what used to be our national motto, E Pluribus Unum (from many, one), a sentiment that served us well from our founding, until the 1950s when Republicans who controlled congress decided we weren't worthy of our mutual trust and ought to trust their god instead. It occurs to me in this political season that they are still at it, dividing us at every opportunity, shoving their own shepherd-god into our face at every opportunity, on our currency, into our pledge of allegiance, into our textbooks and into our politics.
That said, my photos this week are a variety of black and white scenes, which, in their diversity, present a more unified narrative of where I've been and what I like.
I'm still not happy with my new poems so, while I'll use a few this week, mostly I'll be pulling old stuff from my travel book, Places and Spaces. The book is an accounting of five extended drives I made through different parts of the county, including straightforward narratives of where I went and what I did, interspersed with more lyrical (I hope) reactions to what I saw.
There are five extended poems in the book, covering five different trips. The poems are titled On the Cusp of Confederate Winter, Ruidoso, To the Rockies, Sleeping with Andy Devine, Silver City and Beyond. The Book also includes two short pieces, an opening poem, Well Begun, and a closing, And in the End, Well Done.
As usual, the book is available wherever eBooks are sold, this one priced, at least on Amazon, $3.99, cheap at half the price.
Reading through Places and Spaces, my book of travel poems, this week has left me nostalgic for the days when I could just climb into my car and go. These days, I can't do it so much, the days doing 400 to 500 miles a day are past. Aching bones limit me to only 100 to 200 miles. Takes a long time to get anywhere at that rate, especially when you're starting from central Texas.
I start poems from my library this week with Federico Garcia Lorca, from Poet in New York, first published in 1940. My edition in in the eighth printing by Noonday Press in 1995, with translation by Greg Simon and Steven F. White.
Born in 1898, Lorca, the great Spanish poet, playwright and theater director, was murdered by Nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He was 38 years old at the time of his death.
That sailor whose throat was just cut.
Those dark boundaries of the breeze.
That keen blade, my love, that keen blade.
The four sailors wrestled with the world.
With that sharp-edged world that all eyes see.
With the world we couldn't traverse without horses.
was alone in the sky.
The world alone in the lonely sky.
Hills of hammers and the thick grass's triumph.
Teeming anthills and coins in the mire.
and the air where all the villages end.
and they were all singing - alleluia.
And I stand with empty hands in the murmur of the river's mouth.
calms the blood lust of those who watch the naked man.
What matters is this: emptied space. Lonely world. River's mouth.
Oh, my throat just cut open!
Oh, my breeze's boundaries that are not mine!
Oh, the keen blade of my love, oh, the cutting blade!
First, these are several "moments" from On the Cusp of Confederate Winter, first of the poems from Places and Spaces. The trip took me on a roundabout route through the southern states to Columbus, Ohio, where I picked up my wife, then to Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway and back home through more southern states.
The first problem with going anywhere from Texas is getting out of Texas, requiring the better part of a day's travel. On this trip I made it from San Antonio to Little Rock before calling it a day. This moment was on Interstate-30, between Dallas and Little Rock.
The beautiful day marred in my mind because after two days I could not find national news anywhere.
Next from my library, two short poems by Cyril Dabydeen, from the anthology Breaking Silence, an Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets. The book was published in 1983 by The Greenfield Review Press.
Born in Guyana, the poet and short story writer has published six books of poetry and one of short stories. In addition to poetry and short story collections in progress, he was also working on a novel at the time the anthology was published.
Back to On the Cusp of Confederate Winter, the longest of the five poems in my travel book, Places and Spaces. Earlier we left the poem in Charleston, West Virginia. The new day's trip would take me to Columbus, Ohio, where I would pick up my wife at the airport so that she could continue the journey with me.
About an hour out of Charleston I got lost, knew the road I was supposed to be on, but couldn't find it. Eventually I succumbed to the "ask directions" imperative at a little country store, finding for my troubles that I was on the right road, just heading in the wrong direction for about 25 miles.
Finally, on my sixth day out, back down through Ohio and through West Virginia again to Roanoke.
A slave holder as he was a tobacco farmer, hating both but doing both anyway because he needed the money from both to keep his holdings and lifestyle viable.
Now, here's James Richardson, from his book, By the Numbers, Poems and Aphorisms. A National Book Award Finalist, it was published in 2010 by Copper Canyon Press. A poet and critic, Richardson is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University where he has taught since 1980.
the god (the high god) of too excited to sleep.
This is the third and final collection of excerpts from On the Cusp of Confederate Winter, first and longest of the five travel poems from my book Places in Spaces.
Stopping often, the storm finally gets far enough ahead that we can't drive out of it.
Upon the advice of a Waffle House waitress, we avoided the heights and went straight away between the snow powdered peaks to the lower lands of North Carolina and Alabama.
Next from my library, this poem by Paula Rankin, from her book, Augers, published in 1981 by the Carnegie-Mellon University Press. I couldn't find information on the poet on the web except for her obituary showing her death in 1997 at the age of 57.
with something green, dried, fibrous.
and ground's collection of shoes, shirts, dwellings.
is needed when we open the air and step out.
The next poem from Places and Spaces is Ruidoso based on a spur of the moment visit to Ruidoso, a city in southern New Mexico I had never been to. Not especially impressed by Ruidoso, I extended the trip to places beyond.
And home, depending on Dairy Queen stops, less than 4 hours.
John Engels is my next poet. His poem is from his book Sinking Creek, published by The Lyons Press in 1998. Born in 1931 in South Bend, Indiana, the poet died in 2007. A winner of many awards and honors, he was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
on the doors, and no voice to trouble me.
Back to Places and Spaces, with selections from the third poem, To the Rockies, a trip to Denver. As usual, I drove with my canine companion until we got to Denver where my wife flew in to meet us. After a couple of days in Denver, Dee flew back home while Reba and I headed back several days to home.
As usual, the first day is about the 500 miles it takes to get our of Texas.
On the sixth day, homeward bound, Dee in her airplane, the dog and I starting the drive home, a westerly course, gradually ascending to the two mile high Vail Pass, then descending for over a hundred miles to Grand Junction.
And the last day, passing El Paso in the very early morning, a full day's drive back to San Antonio.
This short poem is by Nikki Giovanni, from her book My House, published in 1983 by Quill.
Next, selections from Sleeping with Andy Devine, fourth poem from my travel book, recounting a drive to Lake Tahoe, four days there and three days back.
As usual it takes all day to get to El Paso for the night. Then day two, pushing through New Mexico toward Arizona.
"but I was always afraid of cows"
Finally, getting close to Nevada, the night in Kingman, Arizona, a comfortable hotel on Andy Devine Trail.
Then, up early, onto and through Nevada, a larger state than I imagined, with mountains, not all flat desert as I had also imagined.
And finally home, ten days and five states, snow in four of them.
The next two short poems are by Daisy Zamora, taken from her book Riverbed of Memory, published by City Lights in 1988. Born in 1950 in Nicaragua, she later became involved in the revolution against the dictator Somoza. Spending years in exile, she joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front, serving as a combatant and the voice and program director for Radio Sandino and served as Vice Minister of Culture for the victorious Sandinista government in 1979.
It is a bilingual book, with translation to English by Barbara Paschke.
when you spoke with a voice that wasn't yours.
Now, excerpts from Silver City and the Beyond, the last poem from the book of travel poems, another trip taken on the spur of the moment just to go someplace I hadn't been before.
Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is next from my library. The poems are selections from his book Stone. My edition published by Harvill Press in 1997. It is a bi-lingual book, with translation from the poet's Russian by Robert Tracy, who also provided and extension introduction and notes.
Born in 1891 in Poland, Mandelstam lived through pre-revolutionary Russia, as well as after the revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union. He died in 1938 at a transit station on the way to a Siberian gulag.
To rise out of deep grieving.
For I've seen no other country.
Back to new poems before I expected to be, I wrote this last week.
I'm going back now to the anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets for this poem by Dwight Okita. Born in 1958, Okita describes his poems as like something you might find in a whiskey bottle along the shore.
with the mail: ready, waiting.
and shout my name as loud as it will go?
I open my and and feel for rain.
Here we go, hold on.
All the roads she says.
all the reasons she came.
like pencils and see if they write.
and I am part of them. See you at 6:00.
Here's another from last week.
Next from my library I have this poem by Samuel Hazo. The poem is from his book, A Flight to Elsewhere, published by Autumn House Press in 2005.
Born in 1928, Hazo is a poet, professor, playwright and essayist. Director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Pennsylvania in 1983, among many honors he has received.
hall to hear the message.
that must be the problem.
and sealed it with a resurrection.
and no one did it earlier or ever.
on one and never out of date.
It's strongest when it's most subdued.
I'll take my Jesus straight.
And here's another from last week.
Better known for her prose than here poetry, the next poem is by Alice Walker. The poem is from her book Once, published in 1986 by The Woman's Press.
After several cold and wet consecutive days last week, we were presented near the end of the week with a beautiful spring day, bright sunshine and warm weather. Sitting at my normal coffeehouse writing station, looking out the window at such a wonderful day I just couldn't wrap my mind around the idea that I had to write a poem. Luckily our poem-a-day rules allow for occasional punting.
Next, I have a poem by Jack Marshall, from his book Spiral Trace, published by Coffee House Press in 2013. The book is a series of 85 numbered poems on the experience of aging.
Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Marshall has received numerous literary awards including a finalist nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.
Again from last week, looking out my coffeehouse windows, such wonders to behold.
The last piece from my library this month is by James Galvin and it's taken from his book X: Poems, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2003.
Author of seven books of poetry, Galvin is also published prose and a novel. He is winner of many awards and honor and was on the permanent faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop for many years.
Here's the last poem for the week, a quiet and restful end to the post.
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choos an identity- may i?
Poetry or prose? - the least interesting thing one can ask about a piece of writing. Did you feel something? Did you learn something? Were you ennobled, amused,moved or in some greater or lesser way changed by the reading? Poetry or prose? that's the kind of irrelevancy lesser talented creative writing professors are paid to talk about.


BELLEVUE — Bellevue City Schools administrators and school board members said they were honored to award a Redmen who served our country.
During Thursday's board meeting, Thomas Gardner received his diploma from Bellevue High School. Gardner left the school early to serve in the Vietnam War. He was in the class of 1967.
A) Mr. Gardner is a current resident of the state of Ohio.
B) Mr. Gardner left Bellevue High School prior to graduation in order to serve in the armed forces of the United States.
C) Mr. Gardner received an honorable discharge from the armed forces of the United States.
D) Mr. Gardner has not been granted a high school diploma under this provision of the law.
Now therefore, it is with tremendous gratitude that the Bellevue City School District is honored to award Vietnam veteran Thomas Gardner his diploma from Bellevue High School on this day, Nov. 16, 2017.


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Juan Suárez Barquero (Madrid, 15 de agosto de 1971) es un locutor,  guionista de radio y actor de voz español que inició su aprendizaje en Radio Vallekas de Madrid. Su trabajo se desarrolla en Radio 3 de Radio Nacional de España.

Historial y programas

Tras un periodo autodidacta de experimentación creativa en La Luna Hiena, en las madrugadas libertarias de Radio Vallekas, fue fichado por Carlos Faraco para presentar junto a Sara Vítores un nuevo espacio despertador en Radio 3: Chichirichachi, que estuvo en antena de 1997 a 1999.

Su aportación más interesante a la radio creativa se materializó en la puesta en escena del serial fantástico Cuando Juan y Tula fueron a Siritinga, del que fue coguionista y productor, además de poner voz a su protagonista: Juan de Olarcos.

Dirige LaLiBéLuLa de Radio 3  desde 2008. Además del mencionado Chichirichachi, presentó junto a Alfredo Laín el cultural La ciudad invisible (2002-2008) tras la salida del mismo de Marta Echeverría, y ha colaborado en: El ojo de Ya Ve, 180º y La Salamandra, por ejemplo. Forma parte del cuadro de actores de los Radioteatros de RNE. Como narrador-guionista participó en la obra colectiva Trelatos. Ficcionario de Radio 3.

Véase también
 Cuando Juan y Tula fueron a Siritinga

Referencias

Actores de radio de España
Actores de voz de España
Autores de radioteatro
Guionistas de radio de España
Locutores de Radio Nacional de España
Productores de radio de España
Nacidos en Madrid

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Did he seriously just come here to make faces at me??
I'm actually cautiously optimistic about Minerva. She has been annoyed with me, but she hasn't physically told me off in, what, almost three weeks now. She purrs, she doesn't mind it when I move her, and I feel comfortable picking her up. I'm still cautious around her - I'd be silly not to - but I can almost hear her say "oh that was so yesterday"
I can't help but wonder how she would do with other cats. She was aggressive to my crew when she had her own kittens, but seems highly interested in them now that she's dealing with someone else's kittens. I guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it.
Also, a side note, my little bumblebee found a wet food she found worth eating. And not only was it worth eating, it was worth growling at her siblings to keep them from eating it!! I went from shocked to laughing watching her smack Amy away from her food.
loves those little "food agressive" kittens....they make me laugh as well. Sounds like Minerva makes a little bit of progress every day.....good for her!
Oh, that was a look, in the first pic. LOL.
So what was the canned food that little miss bumblebee decided she loved?
it was a Wellness pouch. Turkey and Duck actually. I fed it a few other times and it wasn't all that well received, but then Donna took a liking to it.


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Double-win delight for Clark
PUBLISHED: 09:07 07 April 2009 | UPDATED: 14:58 14 July 2010
Jeremy (Jez) Clark began his defence of the 2009 Porsche Club Motorsport Championship with two dominant wins at the first two rounds at Donnington Park on Sunday.
His new Porsche 944 S2 class 2 car was only completed the week before the race meeting and, with no time or money to test it, there was a nervous team awaiting the start of the first qualifying session.
After spending a few laps bedding in the new brakes and tyres, Clark quickly set to getting to grips with the more powerful engine and brakes than last year's class 3 car, and set his fastest lap time on the final lap of qualifying with a time a full second quicker than his nearest class 2 rival.
To the surprise of all concerned, this placed the County Classics Racing Porsche in sixth place overall on the busy 27-car grid.
From the start of race one Clark fought against the more powerful Class 1 cars, finally finishing the Class 2 winner by 16 seconds and finishing in eighth place overall in front of nine of the Class 1 racers, and setting Class 2 fastest lap in the process.
The paddock was buzzing following the astounding result and the fact that the car had been so fast 'straight out of the box,' a testimony to the skill and expertise of County Classics Racing Ltd.
However, all was not plain sailing in race two as during the preparation for the second event the team found that the left rear shock absorber had failed, and with little time available before the race it was decided to push on for another Class 2 win.
Starting this time from fourth on the grid, Clark hounded the leading cars for 5 laps, swopping places with the top six cars until eventually deciding to protect his Class 2 win.
Finishing seventh overall and with another fastest lap in the bag, he has acquired the overall lead in the 2009 Porsche Club Championship, but with 16 races still to go, the team will now need to focus on the next event at Anglessey on April 18.
Jeremy is currently funding his racing himself, though this cannot last, therefore team are still offering low-cost advertising space on the Porsche for advertising partners wishing to join with the team for the 2009 season.
Meanwhile, Porsche GB have confirmed that Jeremy's 2008 Porsche Championship award, a fully supported 'one off' drive (with TV coverage) in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB will take place at the British Touring Car Championship meeting at Snetterton on between July 30 and August 2.
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I was looking for my slow cooker. I haven't used it in years, but I received a request for cocktail wieners wrapped in bacon covered with brown sugar. (I know, I know... But try to think of it as protein and carbohydrates as opposed to heart disease and diabetes.)
Anyway, I needed to find my slow cooker so I pulled a chair over to the cupboard, climbed up on the seat and peered into the dark recesses of the top shelf. Christmas napkins, birthday paper plates, a plethora of old cups collected from various sporting events over the years (do we really need to keep a plastic Minnesota Wild cup from 2001 with all the writing completely rubbed off except for the L? Well, I checked with my son and apparently we do), an assortment of vases for flowers I received decades ago (and yes, I know they're from decades ago because that's the last time I got flowers; and yes, I know it's pathetic that I bothered to keep them and move them with me every time I changed residences now that I think about it), and a bottle of wine.
What??? A bottle of wine? A BOTTLE OF WINE! Eureka!!! But wait. This is a bottle from two Christmases ago - could it possibly still be good? (If you bought cheap wine, this is a question you'd have to ask yourself.) Yes. Yes, it's still good - the initial glass confirms it. The second glass immediately makes me more glib, clever, and entertaining than the first. (Granted, I don't actually have confirmation of this; it's simply a personal observation.)
My son comes home at 6:00pm and asks incredulously, "Are you drinking wine?" I instinctively go on the defensive: "Yes. Yes, it's wine. So what?" I don't drink by myself. At least, I didn't until today. Now I understand why people do it. You feel happy - artificially, of course, but happy, nonetheless. Is it any wonder people get drunk every night? No, it's not. (At this point we could delve into the reasons some sorry individuals are so miserable they find it necessary to self-medicate on a regular basis, but let's not. It would really harsh my buzz.) Alcohol makes us feel good. Troubles melt away and we instantly become scintillating conversationalists and sages of wisdom. I have it on the finest authority.
I have a third glass. I'm on a roll. (Hard to believe when I first opened the bottle I was fretting over how many days it would keep without being refrigerated; there's nothing worse than refrigerated red wine. Fortunately now that wasn't going to be a problem.)
I have a fourth and fifth glass and finish off the bottle.
This is a brilliant new discovery. I make a silent pact with myself to start drinking every night. Hell, I'm unemployed; let's make it every day - all day!
Hold on. I have the hiccups and my stomach doesn't feel so great. This is no good.
I want a new drug.
One that won't make me sick
One that won't make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick
I want a new drug
One that won't hurt my head
One that won't make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red.
One that won't spill
One that don't cost too much
Or come in a pill
One that won't go away
One that won't keep me up all night
One that won't make me sleep all day
One that does what it should
One that won't make me feel too bad
One that won't make me feel too good
One with no doubt
One that won't make me talk too much
Or make my face break out
Clearly, after having consumed a bottle of wine, I have become a Grammy-winning lyricist. The words came to me as effortlessly as if I'd heard them a thousand times before.
This, however, pales in comparison to the earth-shattering revelations which occurred under the influence of cannabis many years ago. I know this for a fact because I still have the matchbook to prove it. At the time, I was standing in the center of a hazy room filled with people in various states of altered consciousness. It was completely quiet. I held an imaginary baton in my hand and began directing with the dramatic, fluid, sweeping, graceful motions of Toscanini. Those who were awake were absolutely mesmerized; staring at me in wonderment and awe (or perhaps in a confused stupor - it's hard to say). You could have heard a pin drop. This spellbinding air ballet went on uninterrupted for at least ten minutes (or perhaps it was only thirty seconds - it's hard to say). Recognizing a magical moment when I saw one (if I do say so myself) the incident was forever preserved on a matchbook cover upon which I scribbled the profound words: I was conducting the silence.
Sheer genius.
(Just out of curiosity, how is it that I can remember that night like it was yesterday, when I can't remember yesterday?)
Sadly, the pure joy of that idyllic evening was soon shattered by the unfortunate event which followed. We ordered a pizza and thirty minutes later when the sound of the doorbell suddenly pierced the tranquility of our bucolic bubble, I panicked and in a moment of utter paranoia flushed all the pot down the toilet. "What? It was just the pizza delivery guy? Oh, geez. Sorry." It could happen to anyone.
Then of course there were the cocaine aficionados. They rarely came up with anything intelligent or life-altering or important to say (even though they talked incessantly) and they seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time discussing when, where, and how to get more cocaine. They did, however, do everything fast. I guess there's something to be said for that.
P.S. Totally forgot about the slow cooker. Made spaghetti instead.
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Eurozone bailouts should aim to restore growth, report for ESM says
JAN STRUPCZEWSKI
June 11, 2020 11.06.2020 • 15:50
Future eurozone bailout programs should aim more at restoring economic growth rather than focusing mainly on fiscal tightening, and their length should be set accordingly, an independent report commissioned by the bloc's bailout fund said.
"Besides the necessarily ambitious fiscal adjustments to restore budgetary and public debt positions, fostering endogenous growth must be one of the key objectives of every financial assistance program," the report writers, who looked at three eurozone bailout programs for Greece, said.
Greece lost market access in 2010 after it emerged that its budget deficit in 2009 was equivalent to 15.4% of GDP rather than the 3.7% forecast earlier. Athens had to rely on cheap loans from eurozone governments for almost nine years to finance itself.
The three-year bailouts, designed jointly by the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund, imposed tough reforms and triggered a lot of Greek resentment as they focused strongly on restoring the viability of the country's public finances.
Already in recession in 2008 and 2009, Greece suffered four more years of contracting output after the collapse of its public finances in 2010.
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They also said future bailouts should limit the number of economic problems they are aimed at solving and focus on just a few priorities. There should be less infighting among institutions involved in setting the bailout conditions and better monitoring of continued reform implementation after the bailout ends.
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