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Monday, January 11, 2021 1:00pm
By Joseph Claypoole, Washington State Journal
This might be the most accessible Legislative session in history, thanks to online tools provided by the state.
McKenna Troje, 22, a graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle, participated in a one-person experiment this weekend to see how difficult registering to testify remotely on a bill would be during this year's state legislative session, which launches Jan. 11 and will be run mostly online in accordance with the state's COVID-19 public health guidelines.
"That was pretty easy," Troje said.
Troje hasn't attended a committee hearing before nor has she ever visited the state Legislature's leg.wa.gov website.
So she started by Googling how to testify on Washington legislation, and the first result took her to a page on the Legislature's website that provides detailed instructions on what to do before, during, and after testimony, as well as what participants can expect when joining online.
Rep. Shelley Kloba, D-Kirkland, said that a bonus to this year's remote session might be that a larger number of residents from all over the state will participate in the lawmaking process.
"It [remote testimony] has enabled us to enhance openness, access, and transparency," Kloba said. "Not only will this make participation more equitable for those who cannot take a day off of work but also for Washingtonians who live farther from Olympia."
Lawmakers at a press event on Thursday said they've been holding practice sessions for weeks on how best to conduct routine legislative activity online, working out kinks and establishing best practices in running committee hearings and floor debates and votes in the House and Senate.
Sen. Joe Nguyen, D-White Center, celebrated opportunities the online session might provide.
"You can see live, exactly what's happening at all times," Nguyen said, pointing to the live TVW broadcast that will stream on cable and online.
If you can watch YouTube, he said, you can watch — and participate in — the legislative session.
It's unclear, however, how much commonplace but unofficial legislative activity might play out, including the quiet exchanges and sidetalk among lawmakers that can shift a vote or the way lobbyists in hushed hallway conversations make their cases. Those kinds of interactions may well become even less visible to the public this year.
Amongst the difficulties that come with an online session, lawmakers will still be debating across the aisle with contentious issues like COVID-19 relief, affordable housing and reforming the governor's emergency powers.
More information on how to provide testimony or just watch hearings can be found at https://leg.wa.gov/legislature/Pages/Testify.aspx.
The Washington State Journal is a non-profit news website managed by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation: wastatejournal.org.
FWPS rethinks approach of in-person learning for elementary students
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Sound Transit to close portion of State Route 99 this weekend
All lanes between S. 204th Street and S. 208th Street closed Friday night to Sunday night; detours available.
South King Fire, Federal Way Police receive COVID-19 vaccines
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Fallen tree crushes car in Federal Way after storm
No injuries reported.
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Tickets with prizes worth $120K and $420K expire this month.
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AMR ambulance bursts into flames in Federal Way
Investigators classify Jan. 2 incident as "reckless act."
NE Tacoma man charged in Federal Way bank robbery
The suspect passed a note to the teller stating he had a gun and would begin to shoot if he did not receive the money.
Inslee announces new COVID-19 reopening plan for Washington
Some restrictions will be eased beginning as soon as next week, the governor said.
Federal Way driver fires multiple shots at WSP troopers during pursuit
The 25-year-old driver attempted to elude troopers around 1:20 a.m. Jan. 6

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The Trump administration released its proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year on Monday, calling on Congress to enact the massive boost in military spending indicated in a bipartisan budget deal last week, but withhold the funding for domestic programs approved under the same agreement.
An addendum to the budget, prepared in response to the bipartisan deal, calls for Congress to spend $6 billion on the opioid crisis and forgo any other increases.
Given that Trump signed the bipartisan spending framework into law last Friday, and that both the House and Senate are already working on appropriations bills based on it, it is unlikely that the White House appeal to renege on the domestic side of the agreement will have any effect on current spending.
Nonetheless, the priorities laid down in the massive budget document indicate the outlook and intentions of the financial oligarchy in regard to fiscal and social policy. It wants virtually unlimited increases in military spending combined with dramatic cuts in domestic spending, particularly on the so-called entitlement programs, for which spending is driven by the number of people enrolled and qualified for benefits, not specific appropriations by Congress.
Last week's bipartisan agreement, passed with the support of the congressional Democratic leadership, and with a critical 73 Democratic votes in the House of Representatives, called for $716 billion in military spending for the current fiscal year, which ends September 30, an increase of $80 billion. The military would get an additional increase of $85 billion in fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1, as well as $140 billion in off-budget funding over the two-year period for "overseas contingencies," budget jargon for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
The Trump budget incorporates all this money for the Pentagon, and for further increases in the "out-years," from fiscal 2020 through fiscal 2027 (by law, the federal budget projects spending over a 10-year period).
In contrast to this bonanza for the US military machine, the world's largest by far, the Trump budget calls for slashing more than $1 trillion from entitlement programs over the next 10 years: $554 billion from Medicare, $250 billion from Medicaid, and $214 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the formal name of the food stamp benefit.
The cuts in Medicare would include $47 billion to come from a reduction in subsidies for prescription drug costs, forcing the elderly to pay more, and $34 billion through the elimination of "facility fees" for some hospital-owned medical practices, which would lead some hospitals to turn away Medicare recipients in favor of more lucrative patients.
Both Medicaid and food stamps are joint federal-state programs, and many of the cuts would come from allowing states to enact harsher eligibility and work requirements, thus driving poor people off the programs and into even deeper poverty.
Other cuts are more vaguely described, including $1.5 trillion over 10 years to come from reorganization and a reduction in the number of programs by 2 percent per year, or a reduction in "improper payments," otherwise undefined.
There would be draconian cuts directed against the jobs, living standards and benefits of federal government workers. Specific agencies for which the Trump White House has a special animus are targeted for the most dramatic cuts: a 26 percent cut in the State Department, for example, and a 34 percent cut in the Environmental Protection Agency. It is unlikely that either of these cuts will actually be enacted this year, but the intention is clear.
Even within the framework of last week's bipartisan budget agreement, there is ample room for reactionary measures. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Mulvaney said: "Take the money that the Democrats want to put to these social programs, and move it to things like infrastructure, move it to things like opioid relief, move it to things that are in line with the president's priorities, so that—if it does get spent—at least it gets spent to the right places." This would include, among other things, using funds intended for the opioid crisis to pay for more police and prisons rather than addiction treatment or Narcan emergency resuscitation.
Besides the huge military build-up, the Trump budget calls for an additional $18 billion over two years for building a wall along the US-Mexico border, as well as $5 billion for additional Border Patrol and ICE officers, and a 25 percent increase in the number of beds in immigrant detention facilities, bringing the total daily capacity to 52,000, the highest ever.
The budget also assumes the complete repeal of Obamacare this year, although the Republican-controlled Congress failed to do so last year, repealing only the individual mandate. Other items on the Trump wish list include such ultra-right perennials as shutting down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and eliminating the tiny federal subsidies for the arts and humanities.
The budget document acknowledges that even the drastic cuts proposed in domestic spending over the next decade would not suffice to eliminate the federal budget deficit because of the impact of the tax cut for the wealthy enacted in December. While during the congressional debate on the tax cut plan, the White House claimed that the steep reduction in taxes on corporations and the wealthy would unleash so much economic growth that it would pay for itself, the budget document drops this pretense and admits that federal tax collections will be far lower every year for the next 10 years.
Overall federal debt will climb by $7 trillion during that period, and that is with economic assumptions considered absurdly optimistic by most economists—economic growth averaging 3 percent or more a year and interest rates on federal debt never exceeding 4 percent. More realistic models suggest trillion dollar deficits every year, rising to more than $2 trillion a year by the mid-2020s, with annual interest payments alone topping $1 trillion.
Along with the budget document, the White House released Trump's program for rebuilding US infrastructure, a proposal that is as full of holes as the aging bridges Trump claims he will begin repairing.
The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that $4.59 trillion is needed through 2025 merely to repair existing infrastructure. The Trump plan offers a drop in the bucket, $200 billion over 10 years, which the administration claims would "stimulate" another $1.3 billion in private and state government investment, a figure widely derided by analysts outside the White House.
Trump proposes not one dollar of actual new funding, calling for the $200 billion to come from cuts in other programs, including existing infrastructure spending such as federal aid to mass transit. Some of the proposed spending would be in the form of block grants to states, provided they came up with sizeable matching contributions—not at the current 50-50 standard, but a much lower federal share.
Far from a genuine effort to rebuild the corroded infrastructure of roads, bridges, airports, mass transportation and water and sewer systems, the Trump plan is a pretext for waiving environmental and safety regulations—in the name of expediting construction and repair—and privatizing what remains of the public infrastructure, handing it over to corporations that will charge exorbitant fees, including tolls on roads and bridges, and sky-high bills for water and sewer services.


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Oct. 20, 2019	HBO
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ActionCrimeDramaMysterySci-Fi
Angela Abar
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Judd Crawford / Looking Glass
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Pirate Jenny
Manson / Marionette
Set in an alternate history where "superheroes" are treated as outlaws, "Watchmen" embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
Original title Watchmen
First air date Oct. 20, 2019
Last air date Oct. 20, 2019
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Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship Jan. 21, 2021
She Was Killed by Space Junk Jan. 21, 2021
If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own Jan. 21, 2021
Little Fear of Lightning Jan. 21, 2021
This Extraordinary Being Jan. 21, 2021
An Almost Religious Awe Jan. 21, 2021
A God Walks into a Bar Jan. 21, 2021
See How They Fly Jan. 21, 2021


Thanks for all the visits so far!!! I hope this year would be a good year once again!
I've read a ton of posts regarding anime(s) of 2008 such as the best and top things like OP and ED sequences, characters, etc. Sadly, I've just started anime blogging this year during the mid-Spring season so I'm afraid that I just can't give any assessment during the whole span of year. I'd be glad to give my top "something" for the whole year if only I was industrious enough to view flashbacks and sample of the anime aired during the late winter of 2007/8 but anyway, I'll certainly do one for this year luckily enough if I'll be able to stay alive in the anime blogosphere for around another one year ^^V.
As a start, I have FIXED (care of my brother) the div settings of the header and finally enabled my header rotator plugin. The headers are not yet finalized though and some of them are just to show off but I'll certainly fix some texture anomalies later on XD. My favorite header so far is the one featuring the giraffe from School Rumble. And so, I'm here to have some blabber and final thoughts regarding the shows I have watched throughout the year.
I'm really impressed with Miyuki Sawashiro's voice acting. From Senkouji Hagino in Blue Drop to Tsugumi Aoba in Kannagi. I mean, wow. hehe. I really didn't know that she voiced Shinkuro Kurenai in Kure-nai till I checked ANN for the credits. LOL!
Wah, I didn't expected that since I never really focused in the credits. Anyway, I think all the main characters did a great job in voice acting prior to the short filler opera episode.
I'd love to see more of this anime since the light novel is still ongoing.


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                   first_name:        {type: :string, readonly: true},
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                   clio_connect:      {type: :boolean, readonly: true},
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                   co_counsel:        {type: :boolean, readonly: true}
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                    :polymorphic => true, :accepted_types => %w(Person Company))

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SOURCE: Intellectual History blog
Marty Sklar, Giant in History, Has Passed Away
Historians in the News
tags: economics, Sklar
by James Livingston
James Livingston teaches history at Rutgers.
Martin J. Sklar (b. 1935), one of the great historians of the 20 century, died last week in Harrisburg, PA. Here is something I wrote about him back in 2012 but refrained from publishing until now. I was trying then to guarantee that his intellectual legacy wouldn't be reduced to his late rantings about the Obama administration. Now I'm just hoping.
The first time we stopped talking for ten years—this was the winter of 1979—I figured I'd never see the man again. His parting shot was "You've always been locked in an Oedipal struggle with me, Livingston." My response was, "What else is new, you're my teacher, what does a student do except try to kill off his figurative father? But I don't want to fuck your wife, and my mother is dead." I was nowhere near sober when I said it. Neither was he when he heard it. (Among other things, we were disagreeing about how I had replaced him as the editorial writer at In These Times: he thought I was breaking his one-man strike against the publisher, I thought I was doing good.)
But I knew this old mole would haunt me. Altogether we haven't spoken for at least twenty years of a forty-year acquaintance; that's half of the time since we met. No matter. He's always there, in my head, an ancient superego—I almost said spirit—with unlimited access to every waking dream I write. His name is Martin J. Sklar. I have elsewhere said that he's the most original and profound thinker I've ever encountered, in print or in person, and by now this roster runs from Aristotle to Zizek.
But I write this preemptive memorial because Sklar has recently published an e-book called Letters on Obama (From the Left), a document that could disfigure his intellectual legacy, as a late codicil to a will can obliterate its original intent. I write in sorrow—I feel like I've been disowned all over again—but also in the hope of restoring, or at any rate clarifying, this legacy.
The Letters are, in fact epistolary—they are dated documents sent to unnamed friends (with the exception of Ronald Radosh) and to avowedly right-wing pundits, celebrities, and lawyers, among them Norman Podhoretz and John Yoo. There is also the inevitable letter to President Obama, telling him what must be done to save the economy and the nation. The tattered, hasty, digressive quality of the letters make the book seem urgent, suggesting that the first person form of address must matter to readers. But in fact its urgency derives from Sklar's performance as a voice in the wilderness—he believes that his warnings about the totalitarian and fascist implications of the "Obama regime" have been ignored, and that all his previous thinking has led him to this crossroads.
I met him in 1971 because I was getting involved, as an undergraduate at Northern Illinois University, in the social-democratic successor to SDS and the wider Left called New American Movement. He and James Weinstein (also John Judis, Nick Rabkin, and others affiliated with Socialist Revolution, a new journal out of San Francisco) were the intellectual heavyweights of this moment. I was introduced to the mix by my mentor Marvin Rosen, a young faculty member of the History department at NIU. Like everybody else on the scene, he had been thoroughly radicalized by his glancing experience of the cultural revolution made by the New Left, and had been galvanized by Sklar's arrival in DeKalb, Illinois—Marty had taken a job as an assistant professor at NIU in 1970, with a mere M.A. from Wisconsin but ecstatic endorsements from William Appleman Williams, Eugene D. Genovese, Hayden White, and Christopher Lasch, not to mention Howard Beale and Fred Harvey Harrington or the backing of old friends like Carl Parrini, another Wisconsin alumnus, in Northern's department of History.
With New American Movement, Marty and Jimmy, et al., were trying to put political-institutional flesh on the intellectual skeleton they had assembled first at Studies on the Left, the Madison-based journal they moved to New York in 1963; then in the "seminars" they convened in 1968 along with Genovese, Williams, Lasch, and Gar Alperovitz; and then again at SR. NAM was a vital organism until 1975. We held the organization's annual meeting at the NIU Student Center in the summer of 1974—the summer of Nixon's resignation!—when my (then) wife was elected to the National Interim Council because she was a non-white female who also happened to be smart, funny, and deeply committed to the cause. Then it bled out, neatly punctured by the old intellectual vampires of the New Left, flowing quickly toward variations on the laughable themes of "workplace organizing" and Marxist-Leninist purity.
The intellectual skeleton Sklar and Weinstein had assembled wasn't very complicated, but it was incredibly controversial on the Left of that moment. Its spine was made of these vertebrae: socialism wasn't a foreign import, Marxism was already the mainstream of intellectual discourse (see: the humanities, NYRB, TNR), mere radicalism was insufficient to the task of revolution, electoral politics would be essential to the success of the Left, liberalism wasn't the antithesis of anything important, and all of American history—every goddamn speck of it—was a potentially usable past, right down to constitutional jurisprudence and ruling-class consciousness. SR became the display case for these fragile bones until Jimmy and Marty revealed their next project, the new Iskra, which they called In These Times. Take a cursory look at SR ca. 1973-1977, and you'll find a lot of articles, letters, and manifestoes by members of the DeKalb chapter of NAM, by myself among others.
Sklar left NIU in 1976 to write editorials for ITT, once again hoping to make a difference on the Left, and for the Left, construed as a real movement reaching beyond the campus. The History department had voted overwhelmingly in favor of his tenure even though he lacked a PhD and had expressed no interest in getting one. (He could have through the University of Rochester, where he was ABD, but he told me later that he suffered through the 70s from writer's block; it didn't show in the brilliant editorials he wrote). Carl Parrini and I had collaborated on a ten-page letter endorsing tenure for Marty, noting the various uses to which his unpublished work had been put by established scholars and lesser mortals without proper acknowledgment (for example, an undergraduate paper written for Merrill Jensen on Alexander Hamilton and manufacturing). Al Young had written an even longer letter to the same effect. But we all knew he was gone, and some of us followed him—one of the benefits of graduate school at NIU was the opportunity to participate in the discussion and articulation of ITT's founding principles.
In that last year at Northern, Sklar taught a year-long reading/research seminar called "The Corporate Reorganization of American Society, 1896-1914." The syllabus ran more than 50 pages—every week was densely packed with a dozen readings from the period and more contemporary takes on this so-called Progressive Era. It was an event. I couldn't stand it. Don't get me wrong, I learned a lot, and you could say that my dissertation book of 1986 on the Fed was one result of that seminar; you could say the same about his book of 1988. But as I told Marty in December of 1976, then again that winter day in 1979, I dropped the course after the first semester because I believed he was teaching us what to think, not how—I was sure that everybody in the class, myself included, approached each reading with one question in mind: what does Sklar want us to make of this?
Most people have one big idea in their lives, and they pursue it more or less relentlessly, albeit unconsciously. I don't mean that Isaiah Berlin was right about hedgehogs and foxes. I mean instead that most of us don't change our minds often enough to have a new idea, or even a fresh insight, so we're pretty much destined to be hedgehogs, always rooting in the first intellectual territory we claimed.
Martin J. Sklar is different, but he's not a fox as Berlin would classify this intellectual species. No, Marty has had at least four big ideas in his eight decades on this earth. I'll list them, and let them sink in: (1) corporate liberalism, ca. 1900-present; (2) the disaccumulation of capital, ca. 1919-present; (3) post-imperialism as a dimension of American/Open Door diplomacy, ca. 1900-present; (4) the mix of capitalism and socialism in the development of the US, ca. 1900-present.
Sklar coined the term "corporate liberalism" in his seminal essay on Woodrow Wilson, first published in Studies on the Left 1 (1960): 7-47. Over the next ten years, the term—the concept—entered the lexicon of the New Left, in both its activist and its academic guises, to the point where SDS manifestoes ("America and the New Order" [1963]) and scholarly monographs (including Weinstein's own Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State [1968]) routinely deployed it. (Jeffrey Lustig's eponymous book of 1986 remains a mystery to me because it contains no mention of Sklar and no trace of the larger "oral tradition" that sustained both intellectual and political interest in the concept after 1960—where did he think this idea came from?—but then he was a political scientist.) In subsequent decades, the concept also became a point of contention for social/labor historians who mistook it for a claim that corporate liberals were omniscient rulers from the capitalist class, and who, accordingly, disputed its explanatory scope in the name of working-class agency and insurgency. By the 1980s, however, diplomatic historians up against old-school Wisconsin revisionism, particularly Melvyn Leffler and Michael Hogan, had started using "corporatism" to characterize the Cold War alliance forged between internationalist businessmen, politicians, scholars, and State Department policy- makers, having somehow forgotten that this concept carried the anti-liberal connotations of syndicalism, statism, and fascism.
Sklar tried to correct everyone in The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (1988), the book that issued from his Rochester PhD dissertation of 1982, which was "supervised" by his old friend Gene Genovese. (Sklar left ITT in 1979, in a dispute with Weinstein over control of the editorial pages, quit smoking, then reanimated his academic career by returning to the legal history of anti-trust which had preoccupied him in the 1960s.) In this now neglected book, he stressed that corporate liberalism was (a) the cross-class social movement that created corporate capitalism by accommodating small business, absorbing—not annihilating—Populism, and addressing socialism; and (b) the cross-class ideology that preserved and renewed the two core liberal principles of American politics, viz, the supremacy of society over the state (the sovereignty of the people) and the priority of individual identity over any functional, occupational, or ethnic group. In short: it wasn't a ruling-class conspiracy, and it wasn't corporatism.
Sklar clearly failed to convince anyone, most notably himself, that the distinction he made between corporatism and corporate liberalism was worth maintaining—for he now denounces what he calls the "Obama regime," the center-left coalition that obviously upholds Woodrow Wilson's vision of "positive government," as a totalitarian band of gangsters and fascists bent on merging the Party and the State, thus erasing the difference between state and society. I am not making this up, but don't take my word for it: see Letters on Obama, Part I.
What Sklar hasn't learned from his own close study of American politics is that the difference between the American and, say, the German response to the catastrophe of the Great Depression was the liberal inheritance that insisted on the priority of the individual and the supremacy of society over that state. The expiration of the NIRA in 1935 signifies the end of FDR's experiment with state-centered syndicalist planning, and the end of American flirtation with fascism. The closest we have since come to a quasi-fascist reprise occurred when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney claimed the powers of a "unitary executive" under cover of a "war on terror": the Party and the State of War did then merge, but only briefly and tentatively, in the moral darkness of Guantanamo. Note that the military, normally the armature of fascist dictatorship, fought back against the violations of liberal principle proposed and enacted by the Bush administration. So did Republicans in the Senate.
To suggest, as Sklar now does in the Letters, that Obama and his apparatchiki are fascists, that the ferociously anti-statist opinions of Tea Party Republicans represent the last stand of our liberal inheritance, or that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney represent a robust left wing of the political spectrum, is to repudiate what he has so painstakingly taught us. It is to sacrifice historical judgment on the altar of political purpose—exactly what he has always said he can't abide.
I have no objection, mind you, to redrawing the ideological map that locates Left and Right. As Sklar's sort-of-student, acquaintance, and part-time translator, I've long been urging us to relinquish the ideas that have petrified our thinking on this very difference, particularly the idea that liberals, radicals, and conservatives have nothing in common (cf. Corey Robin on the reactionary mind as radicalism in reverse). But his recent Letters ignore, invert, and distort these categories. It's one thing to put them in motion, keep them in question. It's quite another to render them meaningless.
If you want to revisit the arguments of the 1988 book, which seem quaintly dignified in view of the Letters, you can read my review for In These Times—"It was worth waiting twenty years for," Weinstein said when he asked me to review it—or see my "How to Succeed in Business History Without Really Trying" Business & Economic History 2 series (1992). Or go to the book itself, but make sure you memorize pp. 6-9, 29-35, 362, and 436-37 before deciding where you stand.
Long before the book, while a PhD student and SDS leader at the University of Rochester, Sklar had invented the notion of disaccumulation: see his "On the Proletarian Revolution and the End of Political-Economic Society," Radical America (May-June 1969): 1-41, reprinted in The United States as a Developing Country (1992). It's not an easy read. Suffice it here to say that Sklar used Marx's theory of accumulation to show that in the second and third decades of the 20 century, output and productivity began to increase without additional inputs of either capital or labor—for the first time in human history. In other words, growth proceeded as the function of a declining volume of net private investment, on the one hand, and a technologically driven extrication of living labor from goods production, on the other.
The implications of these trends are momentous. To begin with, the labor theory of value becomes moot, as "socially necessary labor" recedes and workers become mere watchmen and regulators in a production process in which they were once the main characters. The capital-labor relation that created class conflict and consciousness recedes accordingly, changing social relations (including consciousness) to the same extent. Moreover, any intelligible relation between the production of value through work and the receipt of income is now obscured at best. And consumer expenditures no longer represent a constraint on economic growth because their proportional reduction of saving and investment no longer matters—again, growth proceeds as a function of declining net investment.
A half-century ago, Roy Harrod and Evsey Domar translated John Maynard Keynes's General Theory (1936) into a theory of growth, which is, by definition, a theory of crisis as well. The result, the "Harrod-Domar model," is still part of the macroeconomics curriculum, probably because it draws so heavily on the Marxist sources and tangents of the Keynesian Revolution, including Michal Kalecki and the Soviet planning debates of the 1920s. You might say that John Judis and I are the Harrod and Domar of Sklar's concept of disaccumulation; for we have tried, over the years, to translate it into a theory of growth and crisis. The results are not yet part of any curriculum I know of, but you can sample John's efforts at The New Republic as recently as 2013 and mine in Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution (1994) or Against Thrift (2011).
In view of the trends specific to disaccumulation, the worst possible fiscal policy is to reduce taxes on corporate or business profits, in the hope that higher profits will induce more private investment, thus more jobs, higher productivity, and increased per capita incomes. This policy will always and inevitably produce bubbles, because once disaccumulation commences, profits become more or less superfluous—they aren't required to drive growth via investment, so they flow toward speculative markets, as in the 1920s, and as in the long boom-bust cycle following the Reagan Revolution, ca. 1983-2009, when transfers of income shares from labor to capital made not just for inequality but for economic crisis, or rather produced crisis by enhancing inequality.
To suggest, as Sklar now does in the Letters, that a tax-cutting, pro-business fiscal policy must be the cause of the (liberal) Left is to ignore the economic history of the 20 century illuminated by his own theory of capital disaccumulation—and to consign the majority of Americans, not just the young and the old, to a future in which penury becomes normal and business cycles become unmanageable. The last time I spoke to Marty (on the phone in 2003), we argued angrily about the probable effects of the Bush tax cuts. I said another bubble, another crash, he said solid growth. If we may judge from the Letters on Obama, not even the Great Recession has changed his mind, despite the fact that it was a phenomenon made predictable and preventable by his own intellectual efforts of 40-plus years ago.
Sklar's brother Richard, a political scientist at UCLA (now emeritus), is credited with the concept of "post-imperialism," which he introduced in 1976. Richard developed the concept as a way of sketching a de-centered, post-colonial, trans-national order managed, but not dominated, by a corporate bourgeoisie without borders—think Hardt & Negri's Empire (1999) minus Spinoza and you've got a grip on the argument. Richard was interested mainly in what a post-imperialist order would mean for the new nations of Africa and, by analogy, the developing countries of Asia. His brother saw a bigger picture.
Marty had already made original contributions to the revisionist cause with his M.A. Thesis on Wilson and the China consortium. William Appleman Williams said as much in the 2nd (1962) edition of The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959), when he cited Sklar's analysis of John Hay's third installment of the Open Door notes (see also Ivan Dee's essay in Lloyd Gardner, ed. Redefining the Past [1984], a festschrift in honor of Williams, as well as Gardner's introduction).
The key to that analysis, in the thesis of 1960 and after, was the significance Hay accorded to investment in defining "a fair field and no favor" as the goal of an Open Door world. To my knowledge, Sklar and Parrini are the only revisionists from the Wisconsin school convened by Harrington and Williams who have understood and emphasized this dimension of modern American imperialism, as theory and in practice. Scholars from other disciplines, particularly economics (Bill Warren, Jeffrey Frieden), have also understood it, but none so thoroughly, and none, save perhaps Hardt & Negri, have grasped its post-imperialist implications. (Long story short: Hobson and Hilferding notwithstanding, once investment rather than trade drives imperial goals, the "transfer of technology" becomes the material means of hegemony, and this transfer must reduce the quotient of exploitation in the relation between imperial powers and host nations. Dependency and "world systems" theories make sense as far as they go, in other words, in explaining uneven development as a consequence of free trade, but when investment supersedes trade as the key variable in international economic relations, their explanatory adequacy wanes.)
In a short published piece of 1999, Sklar examined those implications, suggesting that as early as 1900, US policy-makers were designing and implementing, to the extent American power permitted, the post-imperialist world order they called the Open Door. In doing so, he was both preserving and transcending what Williams had wrought in Tragedy, and what his brother had written in 1976. He wasn't the first to go beyond Williams or to broaden the chronological scope of "post-imperialism"—Keith Haynes did that—but he was the first to recast modern American diplomacy as an intellectual continuum animated by the quest for a world in which imperialism was a relic of barbarism.
You will laugh out loud at this proposition, and reach for Noam Chomsky or Andrew Bacevich when your diaphragm has returned to normal. I still think Sklar was right, and that this big idea of his needs elaboration. The trouble is, he doesn't.
Since 2001, he has instead been railing against "the Islamists" and their threat to western civilization in the clinically hysterical rhetorical mode made familiar by Paul Berman, Christopher Hitchens, and Dick Cheney: those terrorists might as well be Nazis, therefore we need to take the fight to them as we did in the 1940s when confronted with a comparable existential threat! And as we did in (the farce of) 2003. The Letters accordingly depict the inevitable military withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq as appeasement of the enemy, and indeed cast Obama as a stealthy infiltrator—as someone trying to tilt the world in favor of the Islamo-fsacists. The alternative to such appeasement, according to Sklar, is more boots on the ground in the Middle East, permanently, and more power to a president willing to rely on John Yoo's tortured rendition of the Constitution. Again, I am not making this up: see for yourself in the Letters, Parts 2 and 3.
Sklar has, in this sense, repressed and mutilated the intellectual legacy offered him by the policy-makers he studied, by Williams, and again by his own brother: he has disowned himself. For if they taught us anything, and if the catastrophe called the 20 century has any lessons still worth learning, it is that military superiority means nothing in the long run—maybe even in the short run, from the Gulf of Tonkin, say, to the Tet Offensive—and that the expansion of executive power inevitably means the decay of democracy.
Sklar denies that his concept of "the mix"—the interpenetration of capitalism and socialism in the development of the US in the 20 century—has any genealogical roots in the postwar notion of a "mixed economy" (a notion that had social-intellectual sources in the idea of a "post-industrial society," which was, however, a form of resistance to the idea of totalitarianism). He might have a point. His definitions of socialism and capitalism are deeply informed by historical consciousness and evidence rather than moral categories and imperatives. Still, I wish he had acknowledged some of these bourgeois roots, as I wish he had acknowledged them in developing the concept of disaccumulation.
But there is no doubt that "the mix" as Sklar presents it makes us think differently about the relation between capitalism and socialism. If you take him seriously, you can't believe that these are the terms of an either/or choice, or stages of a necessarily linear historical progression. You have to start looking for socialism in places you wouldn't expect to find it because you begin to understand that it has no predictable political valence—it can be democratic, it can be despotic, it can be both—and that it can never simply replace capitalism.
In analyzing the causes of the Great Recession, Sklar suggests that the socialist components of "the mix"—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, among others—were as culpable as the capitalist components. Here again he might have a point, if only he made it. Instead, he writes as if the necessary regulatory corrections contained in Dodd-Frank are at best onerous and at worst evidence of the Obama regime's quest for statist command of the market. And once again a tax-cutting, pro-business policy becomes the cure for everything that ails us.
One of the crucial moves that Sklar made in explaining "the mix" was to claim that socialism and statism aren't identical, or, to put the same proposition another way, that socialism resides in and flows from markets, commodities, and price systems—in and from what we typically associate exclusively with capitalism. Regulation of the market in the name of social goals is of course a result of public policy enforced by state power and judicial rulings, but it's also the result of price systems managed, modulated, and changed by non-governmental organizations such as trade unions, interest groups, and consumer boycotts.
I would like to take Sklar as seriously as I have in the past, but he has now decided that every policy proposed by the Obama regime enlarges the regulatory role of the state, and thus distorts "the mix" between public and private enterprise—as I suppose any fascist regime would do. He has chosen to ignore the vast and still mounting evidence that shows the president is perfectly willing, indeed eager, to accredit and subsidize private enterprise in seeking both economic recovery and long-term growth.
I would go to court to challenge this spastic codicil, these Letters on Obama, if there were such a place to register my disapproval and disagreement. But there's no such place, and if there were, how would my standing be measured? I'm not Martin J. Sklar's heir apparent any more than Ronald Radosh or John Yoo is.
I write to restore your memory, not mine—I don't want you to let this late deviation determine your approach to the rest of what the man has given us. I'm not asking you to overlook it, as if you need to forgive him for a "senior moment." I'm asking you to ignore it.
As I have elsewhere argued, Gene Genovese's political odyssey makes sense—he could never locate a source of redemption or renewal in the actually existing social relations of his time, so he posited a world elsewhere that was the intellectual's equivalent of religious faith. Marty Sklar was, until recently, too Hegelian for that—socialism was immediately practical and eminently plausible, he insisted, or it was pie in the sky. As both Hegel and Marx taught us, either we assume the ethical principles we live by are at least faintly legible in the historical circumstances we live with, or we become utopians (radicals or reactionaries) seeking escape from the world as it is.
In a tragic parody of Genovese, Sklar has turned himself into another reactionary utopian, desperate to find a principle of hope in a world elsewhere. He's able to register the political decadence of actually existing socialism—but he locates it "domestically," unlike Genovese and every other leftist, in the "fascist" denouement of the New Left carried out by the "Obama regime," rather than in the "deviations" of a Stalinist Soviet Union or in the more recent vandalization of socialism in the People's Republic. Meanwhile Sklar is unable to recognize the atrocities generated daily by actually existing capitalism: these are figments of the Left's deluded imagination. As a result, he has no historical grounding for his arguments except the epoch of Civil War and Reconstruction, where, as you might imagine, Obama is cast as Tilden, not Lincoln.
So "the mix" still has a verifiable, empirical significance for Sklar, but the intellectual balance the concept once gave him are gone. When socialism becomes fascism, capitalism looks like the moral high ground. No wonder he now searches for validation on the Right by writing fan letters to Podhoretz and Yoo—where else can he turn?
Martin J. Sklar was one of the great historians of the 20 century. For much of that century, he was also a faithful servant of the Left at its very best. He tried to change its course, to make it a self-consciously mainstream movement rather than a marginal collection of individuals devoted to dissent—which is to say, defined by faith in another world, which would appear after capitalism, after exploitation, after this life in these times. In 1957, in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Hungary, Marty founded the Socialist Club in Madison with that mainstream possibility in mind; it was soon the most popular student organization on campus. With the same possibility in mind, he founded Studies on the Left, Socialist Revolution, and In These Times. In this sense, I guess, he, too, was a man of faith. He believed in what was evident yet unknown, and acted upon it. He conveyed, no, he lived, the conviction of things unseen. But until very late in his life, he was in and of this world, without apologies. Thank God, he was not a beautiful soul.
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UFN, 2017,	Volume 187,	Number 2,	Pages 159–172	(Mi ufn5615)
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Material surface ablation produced by ultrashort laser pulses
A. A. Ionina, S. I. Kudryashovabc, A. A. Samokhind
a Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
b St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
c National Engineering Physics Institute "MEPhI", Moscow
d Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Abstract: Various basic mechanisms of material surface ablation produced by ultrashort laser pulses are considered in the order of increasing the supplied laser fluence: low-threshold ultrafast plasma expansion at the electron dynamics stage, spallative ablation, and explosive hydrodynamic supercritical fluid expansion, including the related sequence of basic relaxation processes.
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Russian Science Foundation 15-19-00208
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation 074-U01
The work of A A Ionin was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 15-19-00208). The work of S I Kudryashov was supported by the Government of the Russian Federation (grant no. 074-U01) via the ITMO Visiting Professorship Program.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3367/UFNr.2016.09.037974
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La BMW M4 G82 est la deuxième génération de M4, coupé plus sportif de la gamme Série 4 de la marque bavaroise.

Historique
En septembre 2020, BMW dévoile la seconde génération de BMW M4. Esthétiquement parlant, la BMW M4 G82 évolue profondément. Elle adopte une nouvelle calandre, beaucoup plus imposante que celle de sa devancière, et des phares affinés.
Comme la génération précédente elle est équipée d'un 6 cylindres en ligne turbocompressé de 3 litres. Il développe 480 chevaux et jusqu'à 510 chevaux dans sa version compétition.
BMW propose une boîte de vitesses mécanique à 6 rapports ou une boîte automatique à 8 rapports (à convertisseur de couple).
Pour la première fois sur la M4, BMW introduit une version 4 roues motrices. Dénommée M xDrive, cette version équipée d'une transmission intégrale permet de passer en propulsion.

Les premières unités sont assemblées en novembre 2020, les livraisons mondiales débutant début 2021.

Motorisations

M4 CSL
La version CSL de ce coupé sportif est présentée le 20 mai 2022.

La M4 CSL est basée sur la M4 Compétition. Elle est la BMW de série la plus rapide de l'histoire sur le circuit du Nürburgring. La M4 CSL est produite à 1 000 exemplaires, dont 29 pour la France.

Cette version est plus légère d'environ 100 kg par rapport à une M4 standard. Cela est permis grâce à l'utilisation de carbone (capot, lame avant, volet de coffre, sièges), la suppression de la banquette arrière, les jantes allégées et le remplacement de la ligne d'échappement d'origine par une ligne d'échappement à silencieux titane et clapets.

Le moteur de la M4 CSL atteint une puissance de 550 ch, soit 40 ch de plus que la M4 Compétition. La gestion de boîte est modifiée, et la M4 CSL est rabaissée par rapport aux autres M4. En outre, les jantes sont spécifiques et les freins sont en carbone-céramique. On peut également noter que la pression des turbos de la M4 CSL est augmentée.

Série limitée
 BMW M4 50 Jahre (2022).
 en hommage aux 50 ans de BMW M.

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 BMW M4 (G82), sur bmw.fr

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Are these people as amateurish managing other people's assets as they are in their organizing and communications? Probably, yes. You know, dear reader, we'll stay with the lingo for today and offer you a real insider secret. For free! Read on:
We all make mistakes. We do too. And we always learn something from them. Because, if we make a mistake writing something about a company or people that are for real, you know, like serious business people or whatever, they will normally write a polite email, point out the error, and we'll just correct it. Maybe there are some questions back and forth, but that's it. Nobody gets hurt.
On the other hand, there are those who start yelling and screaming at you immediately, calling names, make (legal or other) threats. One common and rather boring ingredient is also to question if your author is a "real journalist", usually wrapped in some petty attempt at smartness or snark. These communications, if you can call them that, always make up in drama for what they lack in facts. They accuse you of writing things that you didn't write, try to feed you a load of gibberish or just omit anything even remotely factual in favor of lies and distractions. At some point there is the inevitable "nobody reads your website so we're not worried", usually after a full day of extremely worried hysteria.
Here's the secret: With those individuals or companies, there is always something very wrong. Rule of thumb that has never failed us. When they start with screaming at you, wake up the investigative desk.
With our escapees it's the same pattern. First thing I hear from them is they're raving on Facebook and trying to post angry rants right here in the comments, containing all of the above. Even the legal threats came out immediately: This Paolo character wrote in an email that, "I am not some asshole that threatens lawsuits, and plus we are not in the US so who the fuck knows what the laws even are here, but in the US, you would potentially be in big trouble." And then something about how we would have "defamed the officers and owners of Global Wealth Protection." And that while we didn't even name them.
Conclusion: Something is very rotten with this Escape Hatch Houdini crowd. Participate in this wacky event at your own peril.
Global Escape Hatch and Panama Wave Scheme & Hustle Holiday Bash!
Whether you choose the shady people of Global Escape Hatch or the hustling of Panama Wave, there is enough for lots of holiday season fun for the whole family this year!
"Patriot" militia radio personality to expat investment hustler
This is a repost of an older story from The Panama News that had mysteriously disappeared from the web, about fraud artist and gambling cheat Mark Boswell a/k/a Rex Freeman, financial columnist for Don Winner's "Panama Guide".
Wacky expats revive HSBC scandal
If anything, the case demonstrated beyond doubt that Panama is not a safe place to bank and that various asset protection schemes using foundations and corporations aren't worth the paper their founding documents are printed on.
7 thoughts on "Buy Now into the Global Escape Hatch and meet the IRS!"
Thomas Jervis on March 11, 2014 at 8:33 pm said:
That slimebag Bobby Casey …almost convinced me to put my retirement savings into a crooked Panana credit Union..that went tits up…
Okke Ornstein on March 11, 2014 at 10:15 pm said:
Oh, was he selling those COACECSS accounts as well? The whole scheme that involved Friesner and Straub and all those other gems?
Bobby Casey on March 12, 2014 at 12:55 am said:
My apologies Thomas. One of the law firms we used to work with in Panama City wrote that article and we published it a few years ago. Its unfortunate but true that credit union went bust. I'm not sure how we would have convinced you since we didn't do that work but only published an article by that lawyer in our free newsletter. If you were actually a client we would never recommend putting 100% of your savings in any one vehicle. That's just ludicrous.
Okke Ornstein on March 12, 2014 at 1:07 am said:
Right Bobby, so you complain and complain about how we don't do our research and similar ludicrous claims, then you're proven wrong on just about everything you say and now you're here basically saying that you didn't do any due diligence on the stuff some Panamanian lawyer (!) submitted to your newsletter about a credit union deal that many more astute people saw for what it was already years ago – a recipe for disaster. Are you guys for real, with that wealth protection stuff?
faustino detal on March 12, 2014 at 5:18 pm said:
"so who the fuck knows what the laws even are here"…
and this is a quote from the guys that are going to manage your funds in Panama?
Okke Ornstein on March 16, 2014 at 5:20 pm said:
Yep! Buy Now!
Benfatto on March 17, 2014 at 5:46 pm said:
Even the more respectable investment/retirement conferences are basically the same deal as these clowns: they want your money.
If you really want to get insider information, study investment and tax-planning strategies, and try to get into a business conference. No hysteria about the latest opportunities, just hours and hours of (mostly boring) international tax law explanations. And you'll see that it is a lot more complicated to make significant tax savings. Though it is possible with people who do give a fuck about what the laws are.


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Search - Yardbirds :: For Your Love
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
For Your Love - The Yardbirds, Gouldman, Graham
I'm Not Talking - The Yardbirds, Allison, Mose
Putty (In Your Hands) - The Yardbirds, Patton
I Ain't Got You - The Yardbirds, Carter, Clarence [1
Got to Hurry - The Yardbirds, Gomelsky, Giorgio
I Ain't Done Wrong - The Yardbirds, Relf, Keith
I Wish You Would - The Yardbirds, Arnold, Billy Boy
A Certain Girl - The Yardbirds, Neville, Naomi
Sweet Music [Take 3] - The Yardbirds, Bowie, W.
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - The Yardbirds, Williamson, Sonny B
My Girl Sloppy - The Yardbirds, Farrell, Wes
Baby What's Wrong [*] - The Yardbirds, Williamson, Sonny B
Boom Boom - The Yardbirds, Hooker, John Lee
Honey in Your Hips - The Yardbirds, Relf, Keith
Talkin' About You - The Yardbirds, Berry, Chuck
I Wish You Would [Long Version][*] - The Yardbirds, Arnold, Billy Boy
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Got to Hurry [Take 4][*] - The Yardbirds, Gomelsky, Giorgio
Sweet Music [Take 4][*] - The Yardbirds, Bowie, W.
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Paff...Bum [German Issue][*] - The Yardbirds, Bardotti, Sergio
Questa Volta - The Yardbirds, Dinamo, Johnny
Paff...Bum [Italian Issue] - The Yardbirds, Bardotti, Sergio
Digitally remastered reissue of the band's second album, originally released on Epic in 1965 & now with liner notes by Jim McCarty & Chris Dreja and 13 historic bonus tracks, 'Baby What's Wrong' ('63 Version), 'Boom Boom',... more » 'Honey In Your Hips', 'Talkin' 'Bout You', 'I Wish You Would' (Long Version), 'A Certain Girl' (Alternate Take - Demo Version), 'Got To Hurry' (Take 4), 'Sweet Music' (Take 4), 'Heart FullOf Soul' (Sitar Version), 'Steeled Blues', 'Paff Bumm' (German Issue), 'Questa Volta' (Italian Version) and 'Paff Bumm' (Italian Version). 24 tracks total. Also features the original cover art. Digipak. 1999 release. « less
All Artists: Yardbirds
Title: For Your Love
Label: Repertoire
Album Type: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
Styles: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, British Invasion
Digitally remastered reissue of the band's second album, originally released on Epic in 1965 & now with liner notes by Jim McCarty & Chris Dreja and 13 historic bonus tracks, 'Baby What's Wrong' ('63 Version), 'Boom Boom', 'Honey In Your Hips', 'Talkin' 'Bout You', 'I Wish You Would' (Long Version), 'A Certain Girl' (Alternate Take - Demo Version), 'Got To Hurry' (Take 4), 'Sweet Music' (Take 4), 'Heart FullOf Soul' (Sitar Version), 'Steeled Blues', 'Paff Bumm' (German Issue), 'Questa Volta' (Italian Version) and 'Paff Bumm' (Italian Version). 24 tracks total. Also features the original cover art. Digipak. 1999 release.
Not what I was expecting, but worth a buy
M. Campbell | Manhattan Beach, CA United States | 05/31/2003
"Being familiar with the Yardbirds only via their widely played pop hits such as the title track and "Heart Full of Soul", I was surprised to find that many of the songs on this album sound like Anglicized covers of blues tunes sung by skinny guys (like me) with thready voices. Then I remembered why I bought this album in the first place: I wanted to hear the roots of Rock by a band that was experimenting with American blues (Boom Boom, I Wish You Would, Got to Hurry) and going beyond the blues to form a new sound (For Your Love).
This Yardbirds post-Clapton album is a wonderful sample of Music in Transition, and it is definitely worth the money, especially with the extensive bonus tracks such as a sitar version of "Heart Full of Soul" and "Steeled Blues" featuring amazing steel guitar work by Jeff Beck."
Not the original album
W. D. Cohen | NYC | 06/24/2007
"The original version of "For Your Love" did not contain all these tracks, and in spite of the cover photo showing Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton was the guitarist on the title song. You can also hear Clapton's guitar work in the live cuts on what used to be the B side of "Having a Rave Up." Clapton left the Yardbirds in March of 1965 because he thought they were becoming too "pop"; by that time, Beck was already rehearsing with them in the studio."


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The Colts used their quintet of selections to strengthen their depth and versatility. in 2014 along the offensive and defensive fronts.
I like the pick of OLB Jack Mewhort at pick #59 in round 3 because he can play all four tackle and guard positions. He has the potential to do so he did that in college. He also played on the undefeated Ohio State team last season. His natural position is supposedly RT, so he might be a key role player in the preseason if the Colts audition any journeyman southpaw signalcallers. However, can he work hard on every play and drive defensive players off the line? He had trouble in college with consistent effort. He was only beaten out by five offensive linemen in the 40, so he is not a burner. He's going to have trouble with the faster pro tempo.
The 4.4 40 time of Mississippi's WR Donte Moncrief and his 11 foot broad jump that topped the Combine charts make this 90th draft pick a steal for the Colts. Perhaps T.Y. Hilton exceeded Moncrief's 39.5 inch vertical when he heard the 6" 1' target was chosen. Moncreif has game-breaking speed and should provide some protection for Hilton, who was a little banged-up after he had to be the Colts' top target because after the season-ending injury to Reggie Wayne during the Denver game. Wayne should help the newest Colts stallion refine his route running. Like Wayne and Hilton, he runs well in the open field, 13 of his TDs came from 20 yards or more. I think the Colts drafted a starter opposite Wayne or Hilton.
The Colts selected Ball State DE Jonathan Newsome with their 5th rounder selection. Newsome said that he had good chemistry with Colts scouts and he wanted to be drafted by them. Like Robert Mathis, he has good speed off the edge, but he lacks strength. But, the Cardinals did run a lot of 3-4 and Newsome responded well enough at outside linebacker to garner 16.5 sacks and 116 tackles, so he might be a step ahead in training camp. Newsome is a Ohio State transfer and the first Ball State player ever to be chosen by the Colts at the 166th pick.


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Q: React Native I can not store an array with AsyncStorage I am newbie in React Native and I am trying to store and get an array with AsyncStorage in ReactNative.
I have two problems.
First, I do not know why but when I storage data, it only works the second time but I am calling first the set of useState.
const handleAddTask = () => {
    Keyboard.dismiss();
    setTaskItems([...taskItems, task]);
    storeData(taskItems);
  };

Second, how can I call the getData function to get all the data and show it? Are there something like .onInit, .onInitialize... in ReactNative? Here is my full code
const [task, setTask] = useState();
const [taskItems, setTaskItems] = useState([]);

  const handleAddTask = () => {
    Keyboard.dismiss();
    setTaskItems([...taskItems, task]);
    storeData(taskItems);
  };

  const completeTask = (index) => {
    var itemsCopy = [...taskItems];
    itemsCopy.splice(index, 1);
    setTaskItems(itemsCopy);
    storeData(taskItems);
  }

  const storeData = async (value) => {
    try {
      await AsyncStorage.setItem('@tasks', JSON.stringify(value))
      console.log('store', JSON.stringify(taskItems));
    } catch (e) {
      console.log('error');
    }
  }

  const getData = async () => {
    try {
      const value = await AsyncStorage.getItem('@tasks')
      if(value !== null) {
        console.log('get', JSON.parse(value));
      }
    } catch(e) {
      console.log('error get');
    }
  }

A: Even if you're update state setTaskItems([...taskItems, task]) before save new data in local storage, storeData(taskItems) executed before state updated and save old state data.
Refactor handleAddTask as below.
  const handleAddTask = () => {
   Keyboard.dismiss();

const newTaskItems = [...taskItems, task]
    setTaskItems(newTaskItems);
    storeData(newTaskItems);
  };

A: Updating state in React is not super intuitive. It's not asynchronous, and can't be awaited. However, it's not done immediately, either - it gets put into a queue which React optimizes according to its own spec.
That's why BYIRINGIRO Emmanuel's answer is correct, and is the easiest way to work with state inside functions. If you have a state update you need to pass to more than one place, set it to a variable inside your function, and use that.
If you need to react to state updates inside your component, use the useEffect hook, and add the state variable to its dependency array. The function in your useEffect will then run whenever the state variable changes.

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But how do you incorporate these grains into your diet? The following table gives you some tips on preparing in including these grains in your everyday diet. Just remember to check the Monash App for low FODMAP serving sizes.
Bring water to a simmer. Add pinch of salt. Pour in polenta. Stir constantly for approximately 20-25 minutes. Serve as a side with meat or vegetables or make polenta chips. May spatter as it cooks, so use a long-handled wooden spoon. Cook over a low heat and stir constantly to remove lumps and avoid sticking. Cook in low FODMAP stock for extra flavour.
Place quinoa in a saucepan of cold water, then bring to the boil. Simmer for 10 to 12 minutes. Salads, quinoa porridge. Rinse before cooking.
Eat raw or add milk and microwave for a few minutes. Biscuits, slices, porridge, muesli.
Nil. Cereal, muesli, biscuits and slices.
Soak in boiling water for approximately 30 minutes, then drain or boil for approximately 12 minutes then drain. Salads. Rinse before cooking.
Boil for approximately 15 minutes, then drain and rinse. Salads, millet porridge. Rinse before cooking. Cook in low FODMAP stock for extra flavour.
Nil. Shortbread, biscuits, slices. Rice flour is unlevened, so baking powder or soda may be needed if rising is important.
Nil. Biscuits, cakes, slices, batters. Higher fibre than other fibres, so extra moisture may be needed (extra egg, butter or milk). Binds well without the addition of guar or xanthium gum. Naturally sweet flavour so less sugar may be used.
Nil. Wraps, sandwiches, pizza base.
Heat oil in a saucepan. Add popcorn kernals and cover with the lid. Cook for 3-4 minutes until popping subsides. Remove from heat. Plain popcorn, spiced popcorn, caramel popcorn.
Eating healthy doesn't have to be tricky. Here are some simple ideas that anyone can start with. Eat healthy food 80 percent of the time and your body and mind will thank you!
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Ellen Miller | Getting to The End
September 13th, 2013 | Guest Bloggers
My friend Susan McPherson recently introduced me to Ellen Miller, one of the bright young stars at Fenton Communications. Ellen has decided to move to Boston and is on the hunt for a new adventure/job. In early August, we breakfasted at Henrietta's Table and had a wide-ranging conversation that went well beyond her job search; she was even kind enough to listen to me practice my Inbound Bold Talk. At which point I asked Ellen to guest blog.
"Goodnight sweetie," my parents would say, tucking me into bed before turning off the lights and shutting the door behind them. I waited a couple painfully long minutes before proceeding to untuck myself, tip-toe out of bed and turn the lights back on. I was 7, and sneaking out of bed to work on my novel had become a nightly ritual.
It was bliss. On the floor, surrounded by a stack of crisp computer paper and assorted Crayola markers, I entered the world of Amy, Jan, and Janie—a world unbeknownst to anyone but me. Each night, I took Amy, Jan and Janie on a different adventure until finally, 80 nonsensical pages later, I announced to my family: "Hey everyone, I wrote a novel."
It was a proud moment indeed, and my parents and four older sisters all made sure to tell me what a wonderful read Amy, Jan, and Janie was. But as soon as I ceremoniously untucked myself from bed that night, my heart began to sink: what was I supposed to do now?
Without Amy, Jan, and Janie there to keep me company, I felt a profound sense of loss and had no idea what to do with the stack of paper and Crayola markers sitting on the bookshelf in my room. It wasn't just that there were no more pages to write—it was also the sense that I had given up a secret by inviting readers into a world that used to belong exclusively to me. So, there being no other viable option, I decided to start a new story. Then, another new one. And by midnight, I began a third.
Within weeks, my floor was covered with twelve different story piles, which I happily hopped between night after night. But unlike Amy, Jan and Janie, none of these stories would ever get finished. And they would never be read by anyone but me.
It's been a while since those marathon bedroom floor-writing sessions, but my passion for the craft remains. Unfortunately, so does my inability to finish any of the stories that I begin.
Browse my computer, and you'll meet hundreds of characters. A young Orthodox Jew named Charlie Greene who gets paired with a gay roommate his freshman year at NYU. A Red Bull-addicted college student named Ivy who wakes up at 4:30am to fly home for a mysterious family emergency. A spritely grandmother who moves to New York to find her granddaughter a nice Jewish husband.
Hundreds of beginnings, dozens of middles—but no endings.
That pattern has followed me throughout my life, a consistent roadblock to making my writing dreams come true. I'm not sure why my "inability-to-end" problem exists, but I think it might have something to do with fear. Several fears, actually.
Fear of finality: If a story never ends, its characters are always open to revision. I can make them funnier, add in new vignettes, and adapt outcomes as I please. As long as the story is alive, so is the possibility of going back to it, and there's something stifling yet comforting about that.
Fear of exposure: When a story is finished, what follows, ideally, is that people read it. The world you've spent so long building—the place and the people you know so well—isn't yours anymore. Vulnerability can be terrifying, and particularly terrifying if the last piece of fiction you shared widely was written by your 7-year-old self. What if it sucks?
Fear of what's next?: Let's say I do finish a story or a screenplay. Then what? If my dream is to finish a piece of writing, what happens when I actually accomplish it? The only way to know what's next is to finish a story, but perhaps my anxiety about the "what's next" is part of what's holding me back.
These fears began developing after the completion of Amy, Jan, and Janie, growing in intensity over the years and seeping into other aspects of my life. But for the first time I am acknowledging them in writing.
I can only hope that doing so—coming face to face with the truth behind my writer's block—is the first step toward The End.
Ellen Miller is a marketing and new business strategist with a knack for writing and a passion for changing the world. At Fenton, a leading social change communications agency, Ellen uses a blend of creativity and strategy to increase the firm's visibility and generate new business. She is also experienced in creating strategic outreach and engagement campaigns for social-issue films. A (very) amateur screenwriter and enthusiastic event planner, Ellen just moved to Boston from New York and is on the prowl for her next adventure. Find her on Twitter: @LN226.
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Q: Calcular distancia entre dos coordenadas android quisiera saber como puedo hallar la distancia entre 2 coordenadas en kilómetros en trayecto vía automóvil, estoy usando la API de google maps.
Agradezco cualquier aporte.

A: Usando función distanceTo de GoogleMaps
Googlemaps dispone de la función distanceTo documentación oficial de Location
Ejemplo:
Location locationA = new Location("punto A");

locationA.setLatitude(latA);
locationA.setLongitude(lngA);

Location locationB = new Location("punto B");

locationB.setLatitude(latB);
locationB.setLongitude(lngB);

float distance = locationA.distanceTo(locationB);

El valor devuelto es en metros.
Usando CalculationByDistance
O bien puedes probar esa función, extraída de la respuesta SO
public double CalculationByDistance(LatLng StartP, LatLng EndP) {
        int Radius = 6371;// radio de la tierra en  kilómetros
        double lat1 = StartP.latitude;
        double lat2 = EndP.latitude;
        double lon1 = StartP.longitude;
        double lon2 = EndP.longitude;
        double dLat = Math.toRadians(lat2 - lat1);
        double dLon = Math.toRadians(lon2 - lon1);
        double a = Math.sin(dLat / 2) * Math.sin(dLat / 2)
                + Math.cos(Math.toRadians(lat1))
                * Math.cos(Math.toRadians(lat2)) * Math.sin(dLon / 2)
                * Math.sin(dLon / 2);
        double c = 2 * Math.asin(Math.sqrt(a));
        double valueResult = Radius * c;
        double km = valueResult / 1;
        DecimalFormat newFormat = new DecimalFormat("####");
        int kmInDec = Integer.valueOf(newFormat.format(km));
        double meter = valueResult % 1000;
        int meterInDec = Integer.valueOf(newFormat.format(meter));
        Log.i("Radius Value", "" + valueResult + "   KM  " + kmInDec
                + " Meter   " + meterInDec);

        return Radius * c;
    }

A: Te recomiendo usar la clase Location de android, ya tiene implementado un método para eso
Location location = new Location("localizacion 1");
location.setLatitude(0.00000);  //latitud
location.setLongitude(0.00000); //longitud
Location location2 = new Location("localizacion 2");
location2.setLatitude(0.00000);  //latitud
location2.setLongitude(0.00000); //longitud
double distance = location.distanceTo(location2);


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Two weeks before my root canal, the pain underneath tooth number 29 ratcheted up. Big time.
I woke up at 4AM, my lower jaw throbbing with a crushing pain. It felt like my jaw was being squeezed by a vice. My big mistake was not reaching for some tylenol or ibuprofen right then and there. I decided to go back to sleep, but I was unable to get comfortable. I had a fitful few hours before I got up. I had some ibuprofen with my morning coffee.
The pain remained constant. Some hours it was almost forgettable, but other hours it was front and center. I inserted tylenol into my regimen, two hours after my ibuprofen dose. And in between, as needed, I swabbed tooth number 29 with Orajel. All of this dulled the pain, and allowed me to sleep better. And when I did, I dreamed about the root canal.


The Dermot Weld-trained Emulous ran a cracker to finish second to Latin Love in the nine-furlong listed fillies' race at The Curragh on Sunday. Slightly hampered early on, she was probably further back in the field in the early stages of the race than rider Pat Smullen would ideally have wanted, and she had to make her ground up the home straight among horse and on the outside, yet she still came there looking a likely winner at the two-furlong pole, quickening up nicely and moving over towards the far rail to almost join Latin Love. In fairness to the David Wachman-trained winner, she quickened up nicely for Ryan Moore on the far side, she is obviously talented, especially on easy ground, but she had enjoyed a perfect run through the race on the rail just behind the pace. It never looked like Emulous was going to catch Latin Love once she quickened up inside the final furlong, but Smullen wasn't that hard on her when it was obvious that her winning chance had gone, he just punched her out to the line, and she just held on to the runner-up spot from the fast-finishing She's Our Mark, who didn't enjoy an ideal run through the race either.
This was just Emulous's third ever run. She ran a really well on her racecourse debut at The Curragh last October, when she was drawn poorly in stall 22, yet was able to get over towards the stands rail just behind the pace, picked up impressively and kept on well to get the better of Dance Hall Girl (the three horses who chased her home were drawn in stalls four, five and six respectively) with the pair of them coming clear of a field that included several useful maidens. On her second run, her debut this season, she ran well to finish second to Kitty Kiernan, when she had subsequent listed winner Croisultan and subsequent Group 3 winner Air Chief Marshal well behind in third and fourth places respectively. The ground was probably faster than ideal for her that day, and the distance of seven furlongs may have been on the sharp side. Conversely, the nine-furlong trip on Sunday may have just stretched her, for all that she didn't get the run of the race, and she could be seen to best effect dropped back down to a mile. She is progressive and she is talented, and she should be worth following for a little while more at least. She is in the Group 3 Desmond Stakes, run over a mile at Leopardstown in mid-August. She would be taking on older horses and colts in that, but she could well be up to it. Looking further ahead, her entry in the Group 1 Coolmore Matron Stakes back at Leopardstown on Irish Champion Stakes day in September may not be a windmill-tilt.