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NY Post: "Peeved Obama Trumps Paterson's Race Card"
Filed under: Obama,Politics,Race — DRJ @ 7:05 pm
The New York Post has an interesting article on political wrangling about race between NY Gov David Paterson and the Obama White House. During an interview on WRAL talk radio, Paterson blamed his abysmal poll ratings on attacks by white-dominated media that he claims also target Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and President Obama's health care. Paterson said the health care debate shows America is "not a postracial" society.
The response from the White House was swift:
"Aides to Obama were angered by Paterson's tirade on liberal talk-radio station WWRL on Friday, sources said.
Paterson blamed his political woes on racially slanted coverage and predicted the president would be the next "victim" of biased media.
Obama's team delivered a pointed message to Paterson within hours of the morning broadcast, multiple sources said.
It came in a call from White House political director Patrick Gaspard, who has deep ties to the New York political scene, to Larry Schwartz, the governor's first deputy secretary.
Gaspard wanted to know "why [Paterson] was dragging the president into" his troubles, said one source."
It's not easy to lead, at any level.
114 Responses to "NY Post: "Peeved Obama Trumps Paterson's Race Card""
Why are there so many racialists in the Democrat Party?
AD - RtR/OS! (12f8f2) —	8/23/2009 @ 7:12 pm
Patterson responded by saying "Well, you all were accusing critics of the President, so I figured it was supposed to do…"
Gespard then said "I'm over here, Governor…"
Scott Jacobs (d027b8) —	8/23/2009 @ 7:21 pm
Surprised that he talked to a Raleigh station.
Unless he imagined a forgiving nature among Southerners for adulterous governors.
steve (d85e8a) —	8/23/2009 @ 7:31 pm
Maybe Paterson figured Obama would say the media was acting stupidly. Shoot, Obama did it for Gates.
daleyrocks (718861) —	8/23/2009 @ 7:37 pm
A little insight into Obama'a "leadership:.
Larry Sheldon (86b2e1) —	8/23/2009 @ 7:55 pm
Mayhap Obama has finally understood that the Dem/MSM racial demagogy is backfiring.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) —	8/23/2009 @ 7:58 pm
Oh, LOL, that phony racism attack was okay, but he just shouldn't have involved the president!
What a bunch of creeps.
Patricia (29a01d) —	8/23/2009 @ 8:16 pm
Paterson blamed his abysmal poll ratings on attacks by white-dominated media that he claims also target Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick…
As a citizen of Massachusetts, I sorely wish someone in the media would raise a voice against Deval Patrick. He is beyond inept, yet the Boston Globe and other local media give him a pass.
givemapass (806ffa) —	8/23/2009 @ 8:26 pm
"Well, you all were accusing critics of the President, so I figured it was what we were supposed to do…"
Damnit…
Race you to the race card!!
rls (e58293) —	8/23/2009 @ 8:31 pm
Governor Paterson, there only so many race cards in a deck. President Obama played a number of his during last year's campaign and already this year. He does not appreciate you trying to drag him into a situation where he might be forced to use another card from his deck.
Heaven forbid Governor Paterson actually experience a media not in the bag for the Democrats.
And heaven forbid, he actually consider the very distinct possibility for his political woes: he simply sucks at the job.
Dana (0f0b2e) —	8/23/2009 @ 8:52 pm
That's funny, right there.
Gazzer (6d46a4) —	8/23/2009 @ 8:59 pm
I'm also from Massachusetts and Paterson and Patrick might be number one and two as the two worst governors in the U.S.A. He doesn't know what bias, bigotry, and racism is in today's world; try being a white heterosexual male, taxpaying Christian conservative! We can't do anything right, and even when we do we still eventually become a pinata and scapegoat for the media. Hey Governor Paterson, you can blame me! We're used to it. It's my fault!
Dave B (0fdb1a) —	8/23/2009 @ 9:06 pm
He does not appreciate you trying to drag him into a situation where he might be forced to use another card from his deck.
especially since he's not playing with a full deck to begin with, and it appears the only other cards in it are jokers. %-)
redc1c4 (fb8750) —	8/23/2009 @ 10:27 pm
Obama played the race card with his pal Henry Louis Gates not long ago, so why does the governor of New York have to be any less of a nitwit?
Mark (411533) —	8/23/2009 @ 10:51 pm
Yeah, I guess some people, such as Henry Gates, are more worthy of a race-card party than others.
Paterson doesn't offer The One enough street cred or something to qualify.
I'm surprised the White House got all wee-weed up about the issue — would love to get a copy of The One's Race Card Play Guidelines.
Anonymous (45ddc4) —	8/24/2009 @ 4:13 am
Blind Man Patterson would do well to remember who selected him for Lieutenant Governor, the man with the ego the size of the Empire State Building, Elion Spitzer. The last thing the ego maniac Spitzer wanted was anybody with either talent or personality who would detract from him. Think of Patterson has the Empire State's version of Spiro Agnew.
DavidL (02e14f) —	8/24/2009 @ 4:25 am
"Think of Patterson has the Empire State's version of Spiro Agnew."
I think of him as the Empire States version of Joe Biden!
lonetown (d7ec3b) —	8/24/2009 @ 4:39 am
He is beyond inept, yet the Boston Globe and other local media give him a pass.
Comment by givemapass — 8/23/2009 @ 8:26 pm
The racism of lowered expectations.
RickZ (c06fbc) —	8/24/2009 @ 4:42 am
Obama to Patterson: it's okay to play the race card, just don't drag me in.
Rich (b98823) —	8/24/2009 @ 5:08 am
I wonder if they are thinking about the fact that John Conyers, whose district has to be 80% black, is now losing in the polls about re-election. Maybe there are some blacks who will vote no when the black politician is corrupt or bad enough. That has to worry Patrick and Patterson. Even Massachusetts has to have a limit to tolerance.
Mike K (2cf494) —	8/24/2009 @ 5:29 am
I'm not shocked that the race card is being played like a violin by the Dems…
I'm just shocked they have adopted the early and often approach.
What will they do in 2010 and 2012? Fake lynchings? Have guys in white face show up with guns at their rallies?
the bhead (a31060) —	8/24/2009 @ 5:57 am
[…] mean, I wouldn't want to get referenced during the casual race-baiting of the Governor of New York either, but it happened. Heck, it happened to me, too – at least, in […]
Moe Lane » POTUS's pushback/non-pushback on Paterson racism smear. (da2344) —	8/24/2009 @ 5:59 am
POTUS's pushback/non-pushback on Paterson racism smear. - Moe_Lane's blog - RedState (b8f4ec) —	8/24/2009 @ 6:00 am
Difficult it is for incompetents to accept responsibility.
Demonize enough people and push-back you get.
Turning myself in for racist comments I am.
Yoda (85dcd7) —	8/24/2009 @ 6:22 am
Use the Force David, let it flow through you!
GM Roper (85dcd7) —	8/24/2009 @ 6:23 am
This one is kind of surreal.
JD (1255f0) —	8/24/2009 @ 6:54 am
The infantilization of the poor, picked – upon Black politico has to end in order to truly get beyond a "post – racial society." With folks like Obama, Patterson and my own hacky – hack Burris, we've still got a long way to go. BTW, did anyone see the accompanying picture in the Post? The guy's decrying "wasicm!" while partying with…Paris Hilton?
Dmac (e6d1c2) —	8/24/2009 @ 7:02 am
Playing the race card is becoming a losing proposition as it shows that their political position is indefensible.
jack (339b13) —	8/24/2009 @ 7:09 am
Supercache is teh suxXor
#16, #30, #23 and others are sort of on – but if I remember from my days of playing spades – uhno I said spades – you don't trump the 3 with the Ace – thats all Obama is saying – if you're going to pick up the trick don't waste your high cards – as I remember team spades is a tricky game and when not played correctly leads to losing quickly.
bandit (36701c) —	8/24/2009 @ 7:34 am
I guess they ran out of race cards before Ken Gladney was beaten.
Patricia (29a01d) —	8/24/2009 @ 8:07 am
Paterson's a loser. His first mistake was wasting the Hillary/Robert Kennedy seat on Gillibrand. Cuomo will kick his can.
In other news, I see that some of you couldn't resist rehashing the Gates arrest. That's not predictable at all.
I like how some of you supposed "conservatives" support police arresting a man at his own home for running his mouth. I thought you were worried about government takeover (re: health care)?
I guess certain kinds of government intrusion are OK — Teri Schiavo, Gates arrest, etc. — as long as you agree with the reasons for the intrusion.
Why must people be so small?
Big ideas should transcend party lines and petty racial bickering. Either you support property rights or you don't — no matter the race of the property owner, or the race of the person who impinges on those rights.
Reverse the race of Gates and Crowley, and some of you would switch sides in the debate. But my opinion would not change.
There's a reason the charges against Gates were dropped in less than 24 hours, and the Cambridge Police called the arrest "regrettable" and "unfortunate."
Lastly, I would suggest more people read news stories sometimes and not the Talking Points.
Myron (6a93dd) —	8/24/2009 @ 8:50 am
Reverse the race of Gates and Crowley, and some of you would switch sides in the debate.
Unlikely. Acting the way Skippy Gates did will usually land anyone in handcuffs.
Yeah, it's called "Well-connected member of Harvard".
Scott Jacobs (6aff37) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:01 am
Oh sweet, un-intentionally irony, how I love thee so…
Actually, Scott, there were two other gems in that post:
"…Big ideas should transcend party lines and petty racial bickering…."
Wow. Simply wow. At the "Sham-Wow" level. Either this person is a cynical troll, or has the most amazing Magic Mirror at home.
Eric Blair (a88004) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:07 am
Do you know what goes on when a one-man police car requests assistance to investigate a "possible burglary in progress, check well-being of occupant"? Eight squad cars were racing to Gates's house to possibly save his crippled, old ass, and to back up their fellow officer. Meantime, he was dusting off his only qualification for being on Harvard's faculty — Doctorate in Being Black.
nk (c004f4) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:11 am
Meantime, he was dusting off his only qualification for being on Harvard's faculty — Doctorate in Being Black.
The Daily Show did a GREAT burn on the Gates-gate thing over just that issue…
Scott Jacobs (218307) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:19 am
The race card works with maybe 10% of the voters. The other 90% percent will say this. LINK NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
People who go to vote for their state's well-being and their children's future are mostly smart enough to understand when an irrelevant non-entity like Paterson tells them "it's not because I'm a talentless hack, who lucked into the Governorship because Spitzer couldn't keep in his pants, it's because I don't look like 'all the other Presidents on the dollar bill'".
Somehow, Myron missed the many discussions here about the Gates case, which went well beyond the talking points. He also seems to be missing that people can separate their opinions about the wisdom of the arrest in the Gates case from the issue of whether race had anything to do with it.
Karl (f07e38) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:25 am
Myron, the people have agreed that Obama handled the Gates matter terribly. He's a race hustler. That's part of why he's mad that Patterson isn't as good at race hustling… now's the time to lay low for a while until people forget about Obama's awful behavior.
You accuse us of racism again. You say we support Crowley only because he's white and Gates is black. That's asinine. You just can't stop, can you?
Gates was being a jackass to be rude to cops trying to help him, and that's suspicious. They suspected he was just being a jackass, but needed to make sure, so they investigated his home. When Gates interfered, they arrested him. It's not serious enough to prosecute, but it was a lawful arrest, and Gates is a criminal.
Juan (bd4b30) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:26 am
From the outside looking in, the Dems in NY are a mess – even for them. And Paterson looks way out of his depth.
JEA (0ccd61) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:37 am
Nice try,Scott Jacobs. That's not the issue whether it will. The issue is whether it should. If you believe in property rights, the answer in the Gates case should be obvious to you. If you do not believe in personal property rights, then we have nothing further to talk about.
Myron (ba9235) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:50 am
Eric Blair: You've nothing to add, least of all anything that my debunk my comment. So you resort to what? Humor? If that's what you're calling it. Anyway, have at it.
nk: You address none of my points, but thanks for the nice imagery.
So let me make it simpler: What did Gates do to merit arrest? Talk? Yell?
I remember reading an interview that Crowley gave. Crowley said that Gates "just wouldn't stop." I thought, "Wouldn't stop what? Talking?" A man can talk, even loudly, on his own property.
Comment by Myron — 8/24/2009 @ 9:50 am
Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures…
The point is, the search of the premises, and Skippy's arrest for "interfering with an officer performing his duties", were not unreasonable!
AD - RtR/OS! (cbe8a1) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:57 am
Acting the way Skippy Gates did will usually land anyone in handcuffs.
Depends on where you live.
Sunburn (5d93e3) —	8/24/2009 @ 9:59 am
Juan: I am saying nothing more than this:
If Gates was a white birther — in his own home — yelling racial epithets at a black officer, and that officer arrested him, and then Obama backed the arrest,I would still say the officer and the president were in the wrong.
I honestly don't believe many people here could say same. They would be calling Obama a jack-booted thug.
Sometimes, thinking people turn off the partisanship. Too many people on both sides are unable to do so.
And the people have not "agreed" to what you think they agreed to. I saw Obama criticized for using the word "stupidly" more than anything else. The president never backed off his central point that the arrest was not warranted, nor should he have.
Yes. He made it difficult for the police to just turn their backs on him or just go away and leave him there while the froth in his mouth increased and he went and burned down his neighbor's house. In other words, he did not behave like a person you would trust with other people around.
So the police, to be safe, and for the safety of the other people who live in the neighborhood, instead of hitting him over the head with the barrel of their .44, as they would have done 50 years ago, took him to the station where lawyers and a judge could sort it out.
nk (c004f4) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:05 am
AD: Either you didn't read up on this case, or you're just making stuff up. The search was over and done when the arrest was made. Read up and try again.
Myron (ba9235) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:07 am
Barack Obama is a lot over having to represent all the time. He for real believes he's a transcendent figure and if you tar him up with negritude he feels diminished. I don't know why… I didn't make up his mythologies. You might could ask the media what that's all about.
happyfeet (71f55e) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:08 am
Jesus, nk — what the hell are you doing bringing that n*&!*% crap in here? I can't believe I clicked on that.
You're a sorry excuse for a Christian, if you are one, and the reason people get mad when I call myself a conservative and a patriot.
/relurk
Tom (d0b474) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:12 am
Myron, I am not happy either that our police behave like town tamers in the Kansas City cow towns. But that has been going on for a long time now and it's because we have given them that authority so we can watch American Idol in peace.
Comment by Tom — 8/24/2009 @ 10:12 am
*rolls his eyes*
If you can't laugh at Blazing Saddles, you really should just lock yourself in your room and never, ever come out again…
Scott Jacobs (6aff37) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:16 am
OK, nk. Thanks for the fuller explanation. Let me address this point:
He made it difficult for the police to just turn their backs on him or just go away
Say what? Gates, who walks with a cane, was not restraining anyone. All they had to do was walk away. The search was done, the premises were secure. All they had left was a loud-mouth accusing them of being a racist, which is his right.
If Gates had laid one finger on him — one pinkie — I think the arrest could have been justified. But he didn't.
What's irritating about this case is that officers walk away from loud-mouths and people who try to provoke them all the time, and this incident gave yet another public impression that they act out of emotion and are quick to slap the cuffs on somebody who is smart-mouthing them. That is a media-popularized MYTH.
BTW, I should add I think the officers acted properly up until the arrest. They responded in the way police are supposed to respond and helped protect the neighborhood, Gates' own neighborhood (which in fact, had been victimized by recent break-ins).
But there was no cause to arrest the man.
That was from a movie called "Blazing Saddles", Tom. It made fun of a lot of things including racism. It was made by Mel Brooks, who is definitely not a Christian. He's a Jew. You know, "those people" will do anything for a dollar.
Myron,
You rarely, if ever, call people racist directly. It makes it easy to feign surprise and offense when called on it. It doesn't work though. By saying that people would respond differently if the races were reversed you're calling them racists. I wish you would let go of the stereotypes you learned long ago and understand that we don't want race to matter in anything… jobs, law enforcement, education, or anything else. It shouldn't matter.
As far as Professor Gates being arrested, the charges being dropped does not mean he was in the right. There are many reasons not to pursue a trial, not the least of which is the mere arrest solved the immediate problem and further prosecution will not advance the interests of anyone involved.
If Professor Gates was white, had acted like an ass in public, on his own property, in response to police officers trying their best to help and do their job in good faith, I would not object to the arrest. His race doesn't matter. He wasn't in his own home, he was on his property out in public and creating a disturbance. The arrest put a stop to the disturbance and was in no way racially motivated.
If I am on my property and decide to play music loud enough to be heard three blocks away, refuse to stop when told to by the police, and generally act like a fool, should I be immune from arrest because of some flawed idea you have of what property rights are? Even more, if the police are called into my neighborhood for something else and I begin to play that loud music after they arrive, aren't I inviting arrest?
Stop calling people racist when it's just not true. When someone comes here and spouts some racist BS, it's usually a drive-by (and probably a Moby) who is quickly and soundly criticized. People are not racist until proven innocent except for someone like yourself. The sad thing is, they can never prove themselves innocent because you will always, every time, say that getting defensive about it proves at least unconscious racism. It definitely says more about you than anyone else here.
Stashiu3 (ed6467) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:22 am
I dunno. I think Gates sealed it when he brought the cops mom into it.
Seriously, that NEVER ends well.
Gates, I repeat, was arrested for "interferring with an officer" (you do not have to be physical to be interferring – the same thing happened here in SoCal with a minority city councilman who represented himself as the lawyer for the subject of an investigation, and who refused to disengage with the officers when told to do so, so he too got the bracelets); that Gates was not charged in court was entirely political, and it will be a lesson that will be lost on him.
AD - RtR/OS! (cbe8a1) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:37 am
AD,
The arrest for was Disorderly Conduct, not interference (which may have been appropriate also).
I'm not talking about Mel Brooks or what he said, I'm talking about you, what YOU said, and what you meant. I wish you'd take responsibility for yourself — no, actually, I wish there was a third political party I could join so I don't have to share yours.
Stashiu3, do you consider nk a drive-by or a moby? Because n*&*!@ing up the conversation is making it hard for me to get the President out of office.
Holy ass of Moses, man…
"Lighten up, Francis."
Because n*&*!@ing up the conversation is making it hard for me to get the President out of office.
Buddy, if we have to rely on you to do that, we are all well and truly fucked.
Scott Jacobs (218307) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:55 am
No, I consider him someone I occasionally disagree with, usually agree with, and has a blunt sense of humor that I understand but would rarely use myself… unlike yourself who apparently has no sense of humor. I mean really, Blazing Saddles? How you can take that as anything but making fun of political correctness taken to absurd levels shows that you are just looking for a reason to be upset. He even gave a content warning, what more evidence do you want? Ever seen Chris Rock's "How Not To Get Stopped By The Police"? Find it uncomfortable?
nk is not a racist, so get over it and maybe you'll get his point.
Also "Tom", you do know that sock-puppeting is against the rules here, don't you? Pick a name and stick with it.
Tom, you are the drive-by Moby. I have been commenting here since 2005. You would know that, "lurker", were this not your new assignment from DailyKos. Or is it Gleen Ellersburg?
RACISTS !!!!
Good Allah, Myron's mendacity never ceases.
JD (0d395c) —	8/24/2009 @ 11:07 am
I'm not calling you a moby, nk, I've seen your posts. I'm just saying that the nigger thing and now the Jew thing are counterproductive when I'm trying to read real news about people playing the race card.
Y'all can say it's some kind of send-up of political correctness — which is the sort of thing that I'm actually here for — but the way I read nk's post is that 90% of Americans would end this debate by yelling nigger. That's supposed to be an amusing exaggeration — I get it — but it basically comes down to someone trolling the debate over racial equality (real racial equality, for whites and blacks) with 'heh heh nigger'. I hope this is what Stashiu means when he says he 'doesn't always agree' with nk.
but the way I read nk's post is that 90% of Americans would end this debate by yelling nigger
First off, if that's how you read it, you fail at reading.
Second, you take EVERY opportunity to write the n-word. I mean, that comment alone had you using the word 3 times, none of which you actually needed to use.
I hope this is what Stashiu means when he says he 'doesn't always agree' with nk.
Hope away, but I don't have a problem with nk on this because I understand what he was doing. So, we can assume you're sticking with "Tom" now?
Well, for today, at least…
"Tom" is a progressive using another ID, which makes him a Moby and a sock-puppet in my book. However, if he sticks to one name from this point, it will probably be tolerated. He shouldn't be using that language while pretending to be conservative though (or at all really, but he won't understand that).
Wait, I can't say it but nk can? Or more weirdly, Mel Brooks can but neither nk nor I can?
You guys are crazy!
Tom is a dork. Paterson is a whiny bitch loser. A quintessential American in Barack Obama's America.
I don't have anything nice to say I'm gonna have another cup of coffee.
You sir, are no Mel Brooks.
That was actually pretty funny.
Tom (d0b474) —	8/24/2009 @ 12:05 pm
Comment by Stashiu3 — 8/24/2009 @ 11:56 am
I know it's not completely accurate, but for the comedic effect, you neglected to include:
I know Mel Brooks,
Mel Brooks is a friend of mine, and …..
AD - RtR/OS! (cbe8a1) —	8/24/2009 @ 12:22 pm
Stash – "Tom" shows up usually in the "wingerz are racist" threads.
JD (d3f3ab) —	8/24/2009 @ 12:23 pm
Different sock JD, but just as smelly.
AD, I knew that and wanted to avoid the accusation of dishonesty. He got the point. 😉
Stashiu3 (ed6467) —	8/24/2009 @ 12:26 pm
Well, I would have just put it in quotes.
Even when the good Senator from Texas dropped that turd into the Vice-Presidential punch-bowl, I liked the line…though it was a non-responsive response to a valid point that Dan Quayle had made.
Tom, anyone who posts that word here multiple times has already lost their argument, not that you ever had one in the first place. Now go back to your KosHole and come back with more updated Talking Points.
BTW, why does anyone bother to respond to Moron anymore? He's demonstrated abundantly that he never comes here for honest debate, only TrollBotting. And some mighty bad Trollbotting, at that.
Dmac (e6d1c2) —	8/24/2009 @ 1:34 pm
Why, Dmac! Myron is the Voice of Calm Reason™, who is never partisan and never insults! He is judicious and bipartisan!
Didn't you get the memo?
Eric Blair (0b61b2) —	8/24/2009 @ 1:50 pm
Oh Boy, EB is having delusions again (sarc).
AD - RtR/OS! (cbe8a1) —	8/24/2009 @ 2:12 pm
… we have given them that authority so we can watch American Idol in peace.
Myron (6a93dd) —	8/24/2009 @ 2:24 pm
JD (3f1cb1) —	8/24/2009 @ 2:32 pm
Stashiu, addressing your points:
" had acted like an ass in public .."
He was not charged with disturbing the peace. Therefore, this is not relevant to this situation. He was charged with the dubious, catch-all "disorderly conduct."
"… in response to police officers trying their best to help and do their job in good faith, I would not object to the arrest."
You SHOULD object to the arrest, b/c Gates did nothing I can see as illegal. The "good faith" of the officers is not relevant in this case.
His race doesn't matter.
As far as the initial incident, I mostly agree with you. I think this was more about two men refusing to back down and both wanting what they felt was their due respect. There is little in Crowley's background that would suggest he would treat someone unfairly based on race. Just the opposite in fact: He educated other officers on issues of racial profiling. Ironically, that might make him uniquely susceptible to what he would see as a very unfair charge of being called a racist.
Still doesn't justify the arrest. We all get our feelings hurt, sometimes.
But I continue to believe that "race matters" when people view this through their own lenses. Some people, anyway.
He wasn't in his own home, he was on his property out in public and creating a disturbance.
You're stretching. An officer could use this standard to put a chill on any speech, someone talking loudly on his property. Also, Gates and the officer have conflicting accounts on whether the professor was yelling.
The arrest put a stop to the disturbance and was in no way racially motivated.
Of course, you don't know that, any more than I do (thought I might agree with you on this point.) Your opinion has no more relevance than someone who thinks otherwise.
If I am on my property and decide to play music loud enough to be heard three blocks away, refuse to stop when told to by the police, and generally act like a fool, should I be immune from arrest because of some flawed idea you have of what property rights are?
I don't know. But Gates was not playing music, so this is not relevant. Some cities do have noise ordinances. Gates was not charged with violating those.
I think Gates sealed it when he brought the cops mom into it.
Ha, all legal issues aside,I agree. Crowley is a human being, and few dudes are going to act without emotion when their mom is brought into it. Gates was trying to get a reaction and he got one.
That's what struck me about this whole incident, from Gates to Crowley to Obama, everyone over-reacted. I just think it's more nuanced than "Obama backs Gates b/c he's black" which is what some of the comments have implied by saying it was a case of the president playing the race card.
Gates, I repeat, was arrested for "interferring with an officer"
AD: The house had been checked and was secure when the situation came to a head. No interference.
Eric Blair: I noticed you still have said nothing of substance on this topic.
I have noticed, btw, that people who talk constantly of "trolls," "mobys" and "sock puppets" usually fall back on those trite insults b/c they cannot defend or competently advocate points.
It's weak. It's like someone who curses all the time b/c they don't know many words.
Comment by Myron — 8/24/2009 @ 2:42 pm
Well, since I was incorrect in asserting that Skippy had been arrested for "interference", when in fact he had been arrested for "disorderly conduct", your rejoinder is not germane, but Skippy was interferring with the officers since he was still trying to "get in their face" while they (appearantly) were attempting to dis-engage. And, since this was late at night, and I'll venture to say at a fairly high decible level in a public place, he was at least "disturbing the peace", which can be considered a "disorderly conduct".
But, I don't think the "your Momma's" had anything to do with his arrest.
I believe that he entered upon that slippery slope when he uttered those immortal words:
Do you know who I am (or words to that affect).
Myron, I wasn't being insulting or guessing with Tom, so what you think you've noticed is wrong. I agree it would be different if I just tossed it out there without being sure. That's not the case. Wouldn't you agree that someone who has vehemently advocated a progressive cause under one name and then pretended to be a conservative under another is both a Moby and a sock-puppet?
You've also decided that what you don't agree with is not relevant. So be it. You really should stop calling people racists though, even if you can't bring yourself to believe it.
Stashiu3 (ed6467) —	8/24/2009 @ 3:19 pm
"You SHOULD object to the arrest, b/c Gates did nothing I can see as illegal."
Myron – Are you a lawyer and a constitutional scholar? I have not seen you claim to be so your claim that you can't see Gates doing anything illegal carries zero weight based on your track record here.
Your ludicrous claim of a 4th Amendment violation was debunked shortly after the event occurred and even the lunatic libertarians gave up arguing that angle based on established precedent and police procedure.
I suggest you read the arrest report and the applicaple Massachusetts statute which curiously seem to parallel each other. They apparently hire smart police in Cambridge. Then I suggest you flush your head in the toilet to cool down and out of embarrassment for wasting everybody's time here on a topic which was settled a month ago.
Zoe Baird (718861) —	8/24/2009 @ 3:35 pm
Zoe was me.
Myron – Why do you hate black people?
Myron is a Democrat Progressive, that's why.
Said by the Troll who's called the commenters on this site "wacists!" on at least three separate threads. Talk to the douche at your own peril, you'll get nothing of substance in return.
If Myron has a problem with the disorderly conduct statute, he should take it up with the appropriate governmental entity in MA.
I love how Myron likes to try to act like he is above the fray, while insinuating that everyone else is racist. He does not have the stones to come out and say it. Chicken-racist-caller.
JD (42a8c3) —	8/24/2009 @ 4:03 pm
Myron has pulled the oldest liberal trick in the book: redirect from the topic. I still haven't seen any evidence offered by Myron to back up the claims by Paterson that the media is biased against him because of his race. Instead he distracts us by bringing up something that has already been hashed out. If anything, Paterson is the racist by throwing out the accusation without any facts backing up the claim, and expecting no questions from those he accuses, which is exactly what happened.
Piping Plover (53eae9) —	8/24/2009 @ 4:47 pm
I concur that 90% of white conservatives see no problem with dropping n-bombs in threads and then trying to back out of it with "see, it was only a joke!!" This thread about proves it.
And that is why over half the country voted against the white conservative candidate last year. The election, um, last year proved THAT.
To cite another Mel Brooks classic – "keep firing, a$$holes!"
David Ross (3f9a71) —	8/24/2009 @ 5:58 pm
AD: You are also incorrect about the time of day of the incident, again suggesting that you're not even familiar with some of the basic facts of what we're talking about. The officer responded to the incident around 12:44 p.m. in the afternoon.
I'm going to leave off commenting on your remarks, if that's OK.
Meanwhile, if you want to maybe weigh in on this subject in the future, here's the Smoking Gun link to the police report, just to get you started.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html
Myron (ba9235) —	8/24/2009 @ 8:10 pm
Stashiu: When I have "pretended to be a conservative"?
Are you assuming that anyone who comments on a conservative blog is masquerading as a conservative?
Unlike some, I actually sometimes tune in on what the other side is saying.
JD: The Cambridge prosecutor dropped the charge. So he or she might have a problem with the "disorderly conduct statute," too.
Or let me suggest that he concluded — and I can concur — that the charge simply had no merit?
Not you Myron, sorry if that was unclear. "Tom" is the sock-puppet/Moby. There is no doubt in my mind that you comment as yourself consistently. I apologize if it appeared otherwise.
I concur that 90% of white conservatives see no problem with dropping n-bombs in threads and then trying to back out of it with "see, it was only a joke!!"
Who said it was a joke? I don't like being called a racist anymore than you like being called an n-word. So up yours, _____!
nk (b17d90) —	8/24/2009 @ 8:23 pm
People went over, at length, why an arrest can be legitimate, but a prosecutor would choose to not proceed, Myron. Hell, even a couple prosecutors around here explained it. Kudos on your "look, something shiny" diversion.
That Ross-thingie must be a parody. Well done.
JD (19728f) —	8/24/2009 @ 8:29 pm
See, Myron, this Ross person at least has the stones to come out and make his ridiculous claims. You, on the other hand, like to be coy, toss it out there, and act like you didn't.
Chicken-race-baiter
The very fact you raise the lame canard about the "n" word being the motivating force behind a political discussion — instead of legitimate, non-racial liberal versus conservative sentiments — merely proves you're projecting your own deep-seated bigotry (or I'll label it "racial insensitivities") onto others.
You're one of those "progressives" who I immediately think of when I muse that if 90% of black America suddenly became truly centrist to rightwing instead of 90% leftwing/Democrat, you'd start pining for the days before civil-rights marches, school desegregation, fair-housing laws and diversity in the workplace.
Mark (411533) —	8/24/2009 @ 8:31 pm
I haven't commented here in quite some time, due in part to circumstances beyond my control. But some fools here have given me the urge to provide a link to The Democrat Race Lie. The link is to the originator; however, I duplicated it on my site with written permission of the black man who originated the article.
Any libturd who throws out the claim, willy-nilly that "90 percent of white conservatives" are hunky-dory with usage of the "n" word is not only exhibiting blatant racism but also adamantly demanding his/her right to be arrogantly ignorant of the facts. Need I remind you that Sen. Byrd (D-WV), the one who single-handedly paved all of WV on the tax money of residents of the other 49 states and various US territories, was a Grand Kleagle of the KKK?
Need I also remind you of my experience on "Sadly, No!" where those "all-inclusive" libturd extremists agreed any black person who was a conservative was a race traitor?
The only people, now and over the past 40 years in my experience, who have used the race card have been libturds. Conservatives don't care about race. In fact, there are some conservatives who don't believe in the concept of "race," and I am one of them. All people can trace their lineage back to four men, a father and three sons. Since all people can trace their lineage back to a single family, there are no races other than that of that single family.
As far as the n-bomb goes, it is perfectly acceptable if you have the appropriate amount of melanin but unacceptable if you lack enough melanin, or so it goes in certain limited circles of melanin-enriched people.
Please do research my own blog, which I haven't updated in eons due to the aforementioned circumstances beyond my control, for my views on race and other matters if you are new enough to not know any of my background.
Signed, a proud grandparent of a red-boned fetus.
John Hitchcock (3fd153) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:08 pm
Welcome back stranger!
daleyrocks (718861) —	8/24/2009 @ 10:16 pm
Thanks, but I'm not necessarily "back." I'm borrowing a zero-bar wifi access from a neighbor 2 blocks down the street who gave me unintentional after-the-fact permission to borrow his wifi since my provider cut me off due to lack of payment. At least I no longer get calls from my creditors, since my internet provider was also my cable and telephone provider. 😉
Perhaps Myron should watch a few episodes of "Cops". Might learn a thing or two.
PatAZ (9d1bb3) —	8/25/2009 @ 5:26 pm


Linebacker Prince Shembo hails from Charlotte, NC. He played his college ball at the vaunted Notre Dame, where he played in all 13 games of his freshman season. In 2014, the Atlanta Falcons drafted him in the fourth round. His Wonderlic Test Score was 19. Since his college days, Shembo has seen legal troubles, among which is a charge that he intentionally kicked his girlfriend's dog to death in 2015. In the wake of that controversy, Atlanta waived Shembo after one season.


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Q: Replace a string's character other than first two and last two characters with asterik in Robot Framework using regexp What is pattern used to replace a string's character in Robot framework except that my first two and last two characters alone are retained and only all others characters are replaced.
Example:

My Input: RAHMAN/MD SANDID MSTR CHD

My Output: RA*********************HD

Please help on this.

A: You can do this:
def starify(string):
    if len(string) <= 4:
        return string
    head = string[:2]
    tail = string[-2:]
    middle = "*" * (len(string) - 4)
    return head + middle + tail

note that you will also have to define what do do when the string is too short (in this case I return as-is, but you might want to raise an exception, or turn the whole sting into * or something.

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Q: How to access route parameters in node.JS? I want to access the route parameters in Node.JS and I am using the following syntax:
app.get("posts/:postName", function(req,res){
  console.log(req.params.postName)
});

Is something wrong in the syntax? The error I get in the browser is, "Cannot GET /posts/print". Over here, print was the key-word I chose.

A: If you're using Express (I think so for your syntax), you're doing it right:
http://expressjs.com/en/api.html#req
Could you paste more code or create an online example to see If you're instantiating correctly express?

A: Your code is missing /

app.get("/posts/:postName", function(req,res){
  console.log(req.params.postName)
});

A: make sure you have one get rout if dont what to use "?" at the end this will make sure your this value of post name is in the rout or not and them put them in a sequence like

app.get("posts/:postName?", ( req, res ) => {})
as first rout is with no data in rout and rout below has data in rout with specific attribute

A: To access route parameter you have to use req.params.parameterName and access query string you have to use req.query.parameterName
Please modify your route like this -
app.get("/posts/:postName", function(req,res){
  console.log(req.params.postName)
});

Suppose if you are trying to access page and limit from  url like this http://example.com/**?page=2&limit=20**, then for page use  req.query.page and for limit use req.query.limit


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Q: Choosing colors for application What is the best way to choose colors for LoB app, i need to style TreeView, dropdown's, textboxes and a pivot grid, so i need a bunch of colors, tried Kuler but it gives only 6 colors.
So the question is how to do it without designer?
PS. It's a silverlight app.

A: Talking as an ex-graphic designer - ask yourself carefully if you really need more than 6 colours. Using too many colours is likely to make things look like a mess. There is a reason why tools like Kuler don't suggest large numbers of colours.
If you absolutely require (which IMHO is unlikely) more than 6 then use them as base colours and make lighter/darker variations (something like this or this online tool will do this - a google for colour scheme or colour wheel and you'll find plenty of tools like this out there).


I awoke this morning with a smile of smug satisfaction. For today I was not the one being smacked around by my offspring with a so called "bolluvönd" at 6 in the morning.
Lest you forget, I am the mother of three children and back in the day the beating could be quite merciless – especially the older the children became!
In fact the words 'frenzied' and 'sustained' come to mind as I write this.
How many times the child manages to hit the parent (before they fully awaken and come to their senses), equals the number of cream filled buns the child gets to eat. Hit too hard, and the child risks being at the receiving end of a venomous, verbal retaliation. Too lightly and the blow doesn't count. They learn fast.
When they are little, its super cute. When they are older it gets a little more risky and restraint needs to be mindfully enforced.
Once puberty hits, it becomes an extremely dangerous activity for both the parent and the child.
I can only speak for how things were conducted in our household – no doubt there are other "Pollyanna" versions out there. But here is my story..
The attacks were usually planned meticulously by the children the evening before, at around the same time as I, their loving mother, was spending my evening baking up a storm in the kitchen. Whipping up around 25 to 30, cream and jam filled, chocolate covered, puff pastry delights.
There were too many to keep in the fridge and so these 'stunning creations' were laid out on baking trays in the utility room, where it is coldest. Temptingly awaiting their early morning fate.
The attacks took place at around 06.00, sometimes earlier, and once the children realised they had reached the point at which they were in serious physical danger (usually after about 3 or 4 well aimed blows at me, their sleeping mother…) they would then run, shrieking, to the utility room for safety and to stuff their faces with as many cream buns as was physically possible before heading off to school – delighted with the success of their morning's team efforts.
This week is one of the most highly anticipated in the Icelandic calendar, especially by children. It celebrates the count down to Lent and, what used to be, a period of fasting. The week kicks off with today's bun fight 'Bolludagur', tomorrow is 'Sprengidagur' or 'explosion day' and Öskudagur is on Wednesday.
I am just off to soak the lentils ahead of tomorrow's traditional soup making endeavours. Tomorrow's menu is: Boiled, salted lamb. Served with mashed swede, potatoes and a thick, yellow, lentil soup, spiked with bacon on the side. Yes.. tomorrow is 'explosion day!?
I look forward to keeping you posted.


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Giovanni Pellerito is an institutional and international relations manager, an expert on strategic communications.
He is the owner of GPHolding Comunicazione, registered in Italy.
During his twenty-years career he has taken care of the brand management strategies and the institutional and international positioning for the most important Italian institutions and for the major Italian brands.
In 2000, he wrote some insights that received great appreciation from the financial community , such as: " New Economy or death of Capitalism" (April, 2000) – "Journey in finance cibernethica " (October, 2000).
In 2005, he published "Svolta a SUD-Focus sul Mezzogiorno", (Turning southward, focus on Mezzogiorno ), a focus on macro-economic data of Southern Italy, on behalf of the Italian Minister of Development and Territorial Cohesion.
In 2007, he received the MEDIABLE Award as the best national institutional online communicator.
In 2010, he founded BENVENUTA ITALIA, a quarterly magazine in Italian and English language, dedicated to the great Italian excellence in the world; it is considered as one of the most successful magazines of Italy brand management sector.
In 2012, he was responsible for the communication of some of the most important Italian Institutions and major brand in London for the Olympic Games London.
Since 2012 he is responsible for the communication about Master's Degrees at some prestigious Italian Universities and for international strategies about international clusters of innovation and high-technology.
He is the designer of the Project "SI PARTE-Scienziati Italiani Patrimonio dell'Umanità" (Heritage of Humanity Italian Scientists), presented at eighth symposium of Italian scientists in the world, held in Houston, on december 2012. A platform thataims to network Italian universities with Italian scientists, who operate with their talents in other nations all over the world, in order to create a growth of the Italian universities, thanks to theirgenius of thought and action.
In 2013, he was in charge of the institutional communication of the Year of Italian culture in the United States on behalf of the Embassy of Italy.
Since 2013, he is in charge as international strategist on behalf of ITA (ITALIAN TRADE COMMISSION)
In 2014, he created the "Italian Brand Ambassador Award", in conjunction with the ITA and the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, which recognizes important American characters bringing up the Made in Italy with passion and foresight.
From September 2015 Giovanni Pellerito held the position of Brand Positioning Advisor of the Italy America Chamber of Commerce of New York
From Dicember 2015 It was named as Speaker di Reputation Marketing and Brand Positioning dal Queens College – City University New York
From May 2016 is Senior External Relations Advisor Lamborghini

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Q: How to persist values across a numpy ndarray I have a time sorted pandas dataframe, where the columns are dates with boolean values as the rows as to whether a person was present at that date. If they are, I want to persist that 'present' to all the following columns (the columns are sorted chronologically).
I've reduced the problem to a simpler numpy problem. Say I have ndarray:
ndarr = np.array([[0.0, 0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 0.0, 0.0], [1.0, 0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 1.0, 0.0], [0.0, 1.0, 0.0]])
array([[ 0.,  0.,  1.],
       [ 1.,  0.,  0.],
       [ 1.,  0.,  0.],
       [ 0.,  1.,  0.],
       [ 0.,  1.,  0.]])

How do I make it so that if a one appears in one column, it's persisted to the right?
My current solution iterates over the columns in python and I'm wondering whether there is a more elegant solution.
Current solution:
nd_store = np.ones(ndarr.shape[0])
for i in reversed(range(ndarr.shape[1])):
        tmp = np.copy(ndarr[:,i])
        ndarr[:,i] = nd_store
        nd_store = (tmp != nd_store) * 1.0

array([[ 0.,  0.,  1.],
       [ 1.,  1.,  1.],
       [ 1.,  1.,  1.],
       [ 0.,  1.,  1.],
       [ 0.,  1.,  1.]])

A: Use np.logical_or.accumulate.  .accumulate() basically makes any ufunc work like cumsum() for addition or cumproduct() for multiplication.
nd_store = np.logical_or.accumulate(ndarr, axis = 1).astype(ndarr.dtype)
nd_store
Out[]:
array([[0., 0., 1.],
       [1., 1., 1.],
       [1., 1., 1.],
       [0., 1., 1.],
       [0., 1., 1.]])

A: You can iterate over the rows like so:
for r, c in zip(*np.where(ndarr==1)):
    ndarr[r,c:] = 1

A: I would do this :
df[df==0]=np.NaN

df.ffill(axis=1).fillna(0.0)


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"Petroleum", a novel by BESSORA
Paris: Denoël, 2004. (336p.).
ISBN: 2 207 25616 2.
Book review by Jean-Marie Volet — June 2009
If fluctuating petrol prices at the bowser and polluting barrels of crude oil escaping from super-tankers summarize the extent of your knowledge of hydrocarbons, Petroleum by Gabonese writer Bessora is a novel for you. This highly entertaining detective novel proposes an unusual take on oil exploration and extraction in Gabon, set amidst political intrigues, skulduggery, supernatural forces and the overbearing influence of Elf-Gabon. A profiler sent from Paris tries to elucidate the reason for an explosion that occurred aboard the Ocean Liberator at the very time her crew is reaching oil, eighteen hundred metres below the surface of the sea. Is it due to human error ? to a malicious attempt to sabotage the new well ? to political intrigue ? Solving the enigma is not a straight-forward proposition : many people have an axe to grind with the company's activities.
Jason, the cook on the Ocean Liberator, has disappeared at the time of the accident and his past designs him as the obvious culprit. He was raised by an auntie who was wary of the spiritual disturbance engendered by successive generations of geologists who had profaned the land and water since they first arrived in Gabon in 1928. In the early 1990s, Jason had taken part in a demonstration that demanded the country's emancipation from Elf-Gabon and the placard he held read: "If Elf does not leave, we'll blow up Port-Gentil!" (p.100). Although he never put his words into practice, the French army called to quash the rebellion shot him in the back and nearly killed him. Jason is clearly a prime suspect, but is he really the perpetrator of a violent crime? As one knows, the guilty party is not always the one we think.
Etienne, the second in charge aboard the Ocean Liberator is the only casualty of the explosion, but his drinking problem and suspicious behaviour just before the accident makes him a suspect too. He has been working in the narrow circle of Elf-Gabon for thirty years and time has taken its toll. The young shop steward who, early in his career, fought for more equality between expatriates and local workers has been subdued by corporate might and, in an atmosphere of soul searching and regrets, the sequel of an old love affair catches up with him. Was it to much to bear for a lonely soul whose wife once said to him: "Despair blinds those who are not enlightened by hope" ?
Alidor Minko belongs to the "clan of Elf managers" and he is now the Director of the Company Public Relations. He has risen to this enviable position from a modest background, but like his old friend Etienne, success and wealth have come at a price: madness is lurking behind his well polished appearance. His loyalty to the company seems absolute, but too many earth-shattering and contradictory experiences during the course of his life have sown the seed of confusion in his mind: his strict missionary education from the age of two, his taxing initiation to the spiritual world of the Bwitis, his subsequent association with Freemasonry, the racist attitudes of expatriates, the paternalistic attitude of Elf and the collective delusion of their employees have left him morally confused and subject to irrational fears. But is that a enough to make him an intriguer ready to rock the boat ?
And there is the geologist Médée, head of operations on the Ocean Liberator. She was poached by Elf from British Petroleum because her drilling successes were above those of the other prospectors. She is about to prove once more her outstanding ability, but her attraction to the oil-rig workers in general and to Jason in particular makes her suspect, especially when she embarks on a search for her vanished cook in downtown Port-Gentil; she asks too many questions and ends up in jail, accused of being an accomplice of the missing man.
By a twist of fate, Médée ends up in the same cell as the official profiler from Paris whose investigation comes to an abrupt end when a parent of an under-aged girl accused him of sexual molestation. Answers to the inquiry won't come from him but the truth will still come out... nothing but the truth, if not the whole truth, as one can never be sure of knowing all the elements that led to a catastrophe, especially one that Jason's auntie attributes resolutely to the ire of the gods.
Sleuthing for facts explaining what happened on the Ocean Liberator is entertaining, but linking people's actions, beliefs and behaviours to the influence of a close-knit community that organises and regulates every aspect of personal, social and political life is fascinating. And although Bessora's story comes under the label "Novel", one gets the distinct impression that the author is well-informed and speaks from a position of knowledge. Not only did the author write a thesis titled "Oil memory in Gabon", but a few pages on the web seem to indicate that her father was a former Deputy Managing Director of Elf-Gabon and General Secretary of OPEC who fell from grace when he entered politics and later, imprisoned on dubious charges.
Bessora's outline of oil exploration in Gabon is also fascinating as it is irreverent in tone and full of humour despite the seriousness of its theme. It puts the spoliation of the region in the context of French colonial determination and Gabon's inability to resist the multi-pronged onslaught on the country. Bits of trivia meshed with precise dates of oil exploration, well discoveries, barrels of oil extracted and locals' attitudes towards the newcomers: "In 1928, the search begins on the orders of the Governor of French Equatorial Africa. Trackers, porters, drillers and carpenters survey the streams for the French Republic, under the direction of geologists who come from France and Russia ... They walk straight ahead. They go up. They go down. They drink vodka. They cross streams of clear and transparent water. They drink Ricard. They collect stones. They take notes. They draw maps ... The tracker's name is Zéphyrin. He guides the explorers across the bush. He knows full well that he is disturbing the spirits of the forest and the jinns ... but how can one teach the traditional etiquette to the geologists ?" (p.60).
Petroleum tells the story of a country that has been taken hostage by its rich mineral resources, yet Bessora's novel does not present this dependence as ineluctable: for better or for worse, there is life after crude oil and that is the truth Medée and Jason discover as the dust settle on the deck of the Ocean Liberator. Definitely a title worth reading.
Created: 06-June-2009.
https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/revieweng_bessora09.html


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Palats "Oekrajina" (Oekraïens: Палац "Україна", ) is een station van de metro van Kiev. Het station maakt deel uit van de Obolonsko-Teremkivska-lijn en werd geopend op 30 december 1984. Het metrostation bevindt zich onder de Tsjervonoarmiejska voelytsja (Straat van het Rode Leger), ten zuiden van het stadscentrum. Zijn naam dankt het station aan de nabijgelegen concertzaal Palats "Oekrajina" (Paleis "Oekraïne"). Tot 1991 werd het Tsjervonoarmiejska genoemd, naar de bovenliggende straat.

Het station is zeer diep gelegen en beschikt over een perronhal die van de sporen wordt gescheiden door met rode mozaïeken versierde arcades. De wanden langs de sporen zijn bekleed met wit-geel marmer. Op een wand aan het einde van de centrale hal beeldt een mozaïek een Oekraïense revolutionair uit. De toegangen tot het station bevinden zich op de kruising van de Velika Vasylkivska voelytsja en de Voelytsja Telmana. Een toegangsgebouw heeft het metrostation niet, de stationshal ligt ondergronds.

Externe link
  Stationsinformatie op de site van het metrobedrijf

Metrostation in Kiev

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Q: How to initialize a property with an object within side a trait using php? The environment I have set up is using MAMP with php version 7.2.14 and PhpStorm. Based on the PHP: Trait - Manual,

traits are mechanisms for code reuse in single inheritance languages...

I have created a ValidationHelper.php trait to help validate form data. Pear has validation functionality like email($email_addr) that accepts an email address to validate. Calling this class statically appears to no longer be ideal, so I am attempting to instantiate it. Php throws an error if you attempt to initialize a property with an object, therefore, I added a constructor to instantiate the object. The PHP: Trait - Manual also states that

It is not possible to instantiate a Trait on its own.

On its own being the key phrase for ambiguity. With that being said, how would you add a constructor that initializes some property, or instantiate an object using a trait?
Can Traits have properties...Constructors is where I read that traits can have these members. I do see that they included a constructor, but not 100% sure how it works.
include_once 'Pear/Validate.php';
trait ValidationHelper
{

    protected $validate;

    public function __constructor(){
        $this->validate = new Validate();
    }

    public function validate_email($email){
        return $this->validate->email($email); //$validate is null
    }

}

A: @Kevin Wiggins
It seems that there is a misunderstanding.
As mentioned in the first answer of Can Traits have properties...Constructors

Traits can have a constructor and destructor but they are not for the trait itself, they are for the class which uses the trait. Therefore I wouldn't recommend to do this.

This means that if you declare a constructor / destructor in the included trait this function acts as if it was declare in the class itself. So this will only work, if the only class vars added to the class are defined in the trait.
A trait itself can not be instantiate at all. It is only a grouped piece of code which is injected in a class and therefore behave as it was written in this class itself.

A: Instead of trying to instantiate an object within a trait, instantiate it within your hierarchal system.
include_once 'Pear/Validate.php';
class My_Object_Class
{
    protected $validate;
    public function __construct(){
        $this->validate = new Validate();
    }
}