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0.052833 | <urn:uuid:b3634c61-ee16-4979-895b-15c68d883723> | en | 0.862417 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
It says "FacebookSDK/FacebookSDK.h file not found"
Yet I can jump-to-definition on the #import and it takes me to the file.
And once I added the #import it now knows what FBFriendPickerDelegate is and it now doesn't have an error on that line.
I have the facebookSDK.framework in my project and in the right folder. It's SDK 3.1. I tried adding search paths to /FacebookSDK and /FacebookSDK.framework and /FacebookSDK/Versions/A/Headers etc. I also tried #import "FacebookSDK.framework/Versions/A/Headers/FacebookSDK.h" and it still says it can't find it. I also tried clean and restarting. I have the latest version of Xcode.
// FacebookView.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <FacebookSDK/FacebookSDK.h>
@interface FacebookView : UIViewController <FBFriendPickerDelegate>
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First, you have to remove your FacebookSDK.framework from your Project. Then start over again with these 5 steps. DO NOT re-link the framework.
1. Go to Build Phases in your Project Target.
2. In Link Binary With Libraries, click the "+" button.
3. Click on "Add Other..." button
4. Browse your FacebookSDK folder. Generally in ~/Documents/FacebookSDK/
5. Clik on (select) "facebookSDK.framework" and then OPEN.
That's it.
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I did that. The only way I got it work is by doing #import "FacebookSDK.framework/Versions/A/Headers/FacebookSDK.h" – curtis Oct 15 '12 at 18:26
First, you have to remove your FacebookSDK.framework from your Project. Then start over again with those 5 steps. DO NOT re-link the framework – Fede Cugliandolo Oct 19 '12 at 17:05
Thanks @FedeCugliandolo that worked for me – bkbeachlabs Jan 26 '13 at 1:43
i did this and getting this error ld: framework not found FacebookSDK clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) – khalil Apr 9 '13 at 2:34
@khalil I got that error, and fixed it by restarting Xcode. This overall answer didn't work for me, though. – Greg Krsak Jun 29 '13 at 18:45
I tried this but it did not work for me. I had to go into the Build Settings for the project and manually fix the FacebookSDK Framework Search Paths to find the FacebookSDK.
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shareKit also error with this info :'FacebookSDK.h' file not found – zszen Mar 9 '13 at 17:42
This helped! Projects where you work with other developers often missing $(SRCROOT) and has 'hard' paths to Libraries and Frameworks instead. – Eugene Dubinin Dec 23 '13 at 9:59
Perfect Boss... I set using (SRCROOT) in Framework Search Path it work in all system. – Siten Mar 19 at 4:52
No need to remove anything.
In your project go to: "Build Settings”, then “Search Paths". Look for "Frameworks Search Paths". You probably have something fixed like this:
Frameworks Search Paths: /Users/john/Documents/exampleappxyz
Change it to:
Frameworks search paths: $(PROJECT_DIR)
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Your solution works as charm. And I believe this is the right answer. – Vincent Mar 20 at 2:11
I also think it's the right answer, but don't work for me; may still has others issue in my project. By the way, I copy the project from another machine. – Stony Oct 17 at 7:47
How to remove facebook sdk links:
For those who like myself improperly added the facebook sdk. to remove the facebook SDK from your project,
check the link inside your frameworks folder, delete any facebook sdk link in there
go into Build Phases -> Link Binary With Libraries and delete any facebook sdk in there
Right click on the frameworks folder and select "show in finder" and delete any facebook sdk in there
Now follow "Fede Cugliandolo"'s steps and re add the facebook sdk
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Ok guys, I think i got the answer. Follow the steps given below.
1. Copy your framework into your project.
2. Make sure it is under some directory. e.g.$(PROJECT_DIR)/project_name/Resources/Frameworks
3. Click on the target.
4. Goto Build Phases->Link binary with Libraries
5. Add the custom framework by clicking "Add Other"
6. Verify in the project navigator that the framework exists only once.
7. Now goto Build Settings->Search Paths->Framework Search Path and make sure that it has the following two things. (a) $(inherited) (b) $(PROJECT_DIR)/project_name/Resources/Frameworks. Not to remind the framework exists inside the "Frameworks" folder
8. Make sure that there is nothing in the library search path.
9. Now click on the project (above target)->Build settings and repeat steps 7 and 8.
10. Now clean the project and build the project.
Hope it works. Please remember not to keep any folder names with spaces. If you have kept them, make sure that you provide the correct escape characters.
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I use xcode 5 and when add sdk it not correct write self address in "project.pbxproj".
Instead local address for sdk it save global address.
I open "project.pbxproj" and finde the places of it and leave address only for sdk in project.
<project name>/src/external/facebook
<project name>/src/external/testflight
to edit the entry was as follows
/Users/<user Name>/myProjects/.../ios/<project name>/src/external/facebook
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You have to change the property "Framework search path" in your build settings, and specify where the file FacebookSDK.framework is located (you can then use the SRCROOT variable to point to the root of your project directory, and thus, avoid using absolute paths ;)) e.g. :
this is normally done automatically by Xcode when you import a third part framework, but it messes sometimes, (eg: when your modify your project directory tree...)
Hope that helps...
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besides adding the search path I also had to set the paths to recursive and remove "*.framework" from the "Sub Directories to Exclude" option for this to work.
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This happens if you have imported the facebookSDK twice and after having deleting some files.
For example, I imported the facebookSDK in $project/framework but I deleted it for some reasons. Then I imported it via ~/Documents/FacebookSDK but Xcode kept the old folder and search in it by default.
I have to remove all references and files of the old import to resolve my issue.
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I ended up checking my project directory, remove any old references to the framework file. Then, remove it from Build Phases/Search paths. Also remove the linked Framework. Restart Xcode, and do the process over again: drag Framework to Frameworks, don't copy in. Check the Build Phases/Search paths. include "#import ". Finally worked. Whew.
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Follow the instruction At step 4 Configure your Xcode Project I think you missing something. Delete the Facebook.sdk in your project and try again.
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I had the same issue when I updated XCode, but in my case I didn't want to make any manual changes to the project settings as I use CMake to create it. You can find the way I fixed it here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25564152/525873
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I got this problem today.
It turns out I need to have my Framework search path in all three places:
1) Project Build Settings
2) App Target Build Settings
3) UnitTests Target Build Settings
My search path is:
After ensure that, the error disappeared for me.
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I am trying to create a program to monitor a game and detect when a specific player (me) gets a kill.
I am specifically looking at Dota2. When a kill occurs, the name of the killer and victim is displayed as text on the screen (see link to in-game screenshot).
enter image description here
I am completely at a loss as to how to start figuring this out. What are some suggestions on how to accomplish this? I am guessing that I'd have to make a program that grabs a screenshot every specified time interval and parses all on-screen text to determine whether or not I got the kill. However, I don't even know if I am going in the right direction or even how to execute that.
I am very open-minded when it comes to specific languages or frameworks. I'd just like to get this project off the ground.
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Well i've been working on something similar as well. I think there might be 2 solutions.
1. Connect a bot to the game and parse messages from the game protocol. The bot receives each package from the game server that tells it to show the message with the kill made.
2. Create a dissecting program for this particular game and save its data into a db. Then do whatever you want with the db.
There's also a solution that doesn't work for live games : having the replay parsed and showing it's messages.
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0.825405 | <urn:uuid:2a9ddcf3-7ca0-4842-9e89-ec7cb09b6364> | en | 0.910385 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Is pointer conversion considered expensive? (e.g. how many CPU cycles it takes to convert a pointer/address), especially when you have to do it quite frequently, for instance (just an example to show the scale of freqency, I know there are better ways for this particular cases):
unsigned long long *x;
/* fill data to x*/
for (int i = 0; i < 1000*1000*1000; i++)
A[i]=foo((unsigned char*)x+i);
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Types only exist at compile-time. That said, these kinds of pointer conversions are often not a good idea. – R. Martinho Fernandes Jan 23 '13 at 11:31
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In most machine code languages there is only 1 "type" of pointer and so it doesn't cost anything to convert between them. Keep in mind that C++ types really only exist at compile time.
The real issue is that this sort of code can break strict aliasing rules. You can read more about this elsewhere, but essentially the compiler will either produce incorrect code through undefined behavior, or be forced to make conservative assumptions and thus produce slower code. (note that the char* and friends is somewhat exempt from the undefined behavior part)
Optimizers often have to make conservative assumptions about variables in the presence of pointers. For example, a constant propagation process that knows the value of variable x is 5 would not be able to keep using this information after an assignment to another variable (for example, *y = 10) because it could be that *y is an alias of x. This could be the case after an assignment like y = &x.
As an effect of the assignment to *y, the value of x would be changed as well, so propagating the information that x is 5 to the statements following *y = 10 would be potentially wrong (if *y is indeed an alias of x). However, if we have information about pointers, the constant propagation process could make a query like: can x be an alias of *y? Then, if the answer is no, x = 5 can be propagated safely. Another optimization impacted by aliasing is code reordering. If the compiler decides that x is not aliased by *y, then code that uses or changes the value of x can be moved before the assignment *y = 10, if this would improve scheduling or enable more loop optimizations to be carried out.
To enable such optimizations in a predictable manner, the ISO standard for the C programming language (including its newer C99 edition, see section 6.5, paragraph 7) specifies that it is illegal (with some exceptions) for pointers of different types to reference the same memory location. This rule, known as "strict aliasing", sometime allows for impressive increases in performance,[1] but has been known to break some otherwise valid code. Several software projects intentionally violate this portion of the C99 standard. For example, Python 2.x did so to implement reference counting,[2] and required changes to the basic object structs in Python 3 to enable this optimisation. The Linux kernel does this because strict aliasing causes problems with optimization of inlined code.[3] In such cases, when compiled with gcc, the option -fno-strict-aliasing is invoked to prevent unwanted optimizations that could yield unexpected code. [edit]
What is the strict aliasing rule?
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This code doesn't break the strict aliasing rule because unsigned char* is a specific exception (one of the very few). – MSalters Jan 23 '13 at 11:38
But, IIRC, char types can safely alias any other type. So the OP code is still correct. – rodrigo Jan 23 '13 at 11:38
@MSalters Yeah, I just realized that. I suppose they still prevent optimization though. – Pubby Jan 23 '13 at 11:39
Most of the time casting is a no-op. However, casting up and down a multiple or virtual inheritance class hierarchy in C++ may involve some additions or subtractions to generate a pointer that does indeed point to the correct part of memory. – user420442 Jan 23 '13 at 15:25
On any architecture you're likely to encounter, all pointer types have the same representation, and so conversion between different pointer types representing the same address has no run-time cost. This applies to all pointer conversions in C.
In C++, some pointer conversions have a cost and some don't:
• reinterpret_cast and const_cast (or an equivalent C-style cast, such as the one in the question) and conversion to or from void* will simply reinterpret the pointer value, with no cost.
• Conversion between pointer-to-base-class and pointer-to-derived class (either implicitly, or with static_cast or an equivalent C-style cast) may require adding a fixed offset to the pointer value if there are multiple base classes.
• dynamic_cast will do a non-trivial amount of work to look up the pointer value based on the dynamic type of the object pointed to.
Historically, some architectures (e.g. PDP-10) had different representations for pointer-to-byte and pointer-to-word; there may be some runtime cost for conversions there.
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unsigned long long *x;
/* fill data to x*/
A[i]=foo((unsigned char*)x+i); // bad cast
Remember, the machine only knows memory addresses, data and code. Everything else (such as types etc) are known only to the Compiler(that aid the programmer), and that does all the pointer arithmetic, only the compiler knows the size of each type.. so on and so forth.
At runtime, there are no machine cycles wasted in converting one pointer type to another because the conversion does not happen at runtime. All pointers are treated as of 4 bytes long(on a 32 bit machine) nothing more and nothing less.
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It all depends on your underlying hardware.
On most machine architectures, all pointers are byte pointers, and converting between a byte pointer and a byte pointer is a no-op. On some architectures, a pointer conversion may under some circumstances require extra manipulation (there are machines that work with word based addresses for instance, and converting a word pointer to a byte pointer or vice versa will require extra manipulation).
Moreover, this is in general an unsafe technique, as the compiler can't perform any sanity checking on what you are doing, and you can end up overwriting data you didn't expect.
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0.406505 | <urn:uuid:342b0460-aa23-403d-8693-62c8b592bd3f> | en | 0.803909 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm currently working on notification centers.
I read that there are 4 types of Notification Centers are there.
1. NSNotificationCenter
2. NSDistributedNotificationCenter
3. DarwinNotificationCenter
4. TelephonyNotificationCenter
In which NSNotificationCenter I'm familiar with. TelephonyNotificationCenter is private and not provided for developers.
My question is about NSDistributedNotificationCenter and DarwinNotificationCenter.
What is the use of these two notification centers ? Is it available for developers ? If available how can I use them ?
What I tried:
1. Googled, got two reference (DarwinNotificationConcepts , NSDistributedNotificationCenter). But confused after reading.
2. Read the iOS books available on this link, get a overview. But nothing in details
Thanks in advance
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You are aware that NSDistributedNotificationCenter and DarwinNotificationCenter are not available in iOS (a least not to Apples documentation) – rckoenes Jan 29 '13 at 12:30
@rckoenes: No, i was not aware. thanks for the information :) – Midhun MP Jan 29 '13 at 12:43
for DarwinNotificationCenter under ios see stackoverflow.com/questions/14229955/… – AlexWien Jul 9 '13 at 23:07
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up vote 3 down vote accepted
Both DarwinNotificationConcepts and NSDistributedNotificationCenter are OS X specific and are not available under iOS.
The Darwin Notification Concepts article refers to the Unix under pinnings of MacOS X. Darwin being the Unix subsystem. It's best used for IPC between an application and a daemon and relies on notifyd to work.
NSDistributedNotificationCenter has the same basic working as NSNotificationCenter but works between processes. Available since OS X 10.0
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Thanks for your answer :) – Midhun MP Jan 30 '13 at 5:38
This post shows how to access the DarwinNotificationCenter in iOS – AlexWien Jul 9 '13 at 23:06
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0.119455 | <urn:uuid:b5abbaba-103f-41d3-800b-64b4c85afde6> | en | 0.857738 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I am working on an old MFC application. There is a TreeView control in the application. OnItemExpanding function is overridden. I am getting children of a TreeViewItem by it is expanded. If a node is expanded for the first time its children are populated. If there are no children to an item then the expand icon (+ sign) removes from the TreeViewItem.
Now problem is that I expanded one node which doesn't have children. After doing some work children are added to that node. But now I cannot get newly added children as expand icon is missing. How I can refresh that particular node in the TreeView. I have created a refresh button. In that I am able to find my current selected node in the TreeView, but what next.
Here is the code.
void CMyTreeView::OnItemExpanding(CTreeCtrl& tree, NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult)
//This is only called when I click on expand (+ sign)
//some check here which populates children.
void CMyTreeView::RefreshNode(CTreeCtrl& tree, HTREEITEM selectedNode)
// What should I do here?
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You have to set cChildren of TVITEM to 'one':
TVITEM tvItem = {0};
tvItem.hItem = selectedNode;
tvItem.cChildren = 1;
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Thanks, it worked. I can see expand (+ sign). – Faisal Hafeez Mar 7 '13 at 11:33
You are trying to reinvent what common controls library already can do for you.
What you need to do is, when you insert a "folder" item set itemex.cChildren = I_CHILDRENCALLBACK which will tell the tree to send you TVN_GETDISPINFO notification when it needs to know if the item has children. It will then similarly send TVN_GETDISPINFO for every individual child.
It will only send the notifications when it is absolutely necessary, so you won't need to do any expensive stuff in vain.
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I would say, you need to change the ItemState: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ce034e69%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
BOOL SetItemState( HTREEITEM hItem, UINT nState, UINT nStateMask );
Take a look at the HTREEITEM:
typedef struct tagTVITEM {
UINT mask;
UINT state;
UINT stateMask;
LPTSTR pszText;
int cchTextMax;
int iImage;
int iSelectedImage;
int cChildren;
LPARAM lParam;
cChildren Type: int
Flag that indicates whether the item has associated child items. This member can be one of the following values.
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I intend to plot x-y coordinates of a traced object with scatterplot.density to use colour to show the density of points in the scatterplot instead of just displaying the points in a smooth scatterplot (smoothScatter). When I run the following short segment of the trace:
x <- c(69.8, 69.8, 70.07, 70.87, 70.87,72.48,73.02, 73.02, 74.36, 74.63)
y <- c(97.99,97.45,96.91,96.11,96.91,96.91,97.72,99.06,100.94,103.36)
par(mfrow = c(1, 1))
scatterplot.density(x, y)
I get the following error:
Error in image.default(x = 1, y = z, z = matrix(z, nrow = 1, ncol = length(col)), : increasing 'x' and 'y' values expected
I can blot the points in a smoothScatter without a problem, but this would not help once I add the full trace with 1500 x-y coordinates.
Any suggestions and help with the scatterplot.density problem would be highly appreciated! Thanks!
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What I've found is that if the argument num.bins is high enough to seperate each point into a single bin then you will recieve the error. Try
scatterplot.density(x, y, num.bins=11)
scatterplot.density(x, y, num.bins=10)
the default is 64. That means 64 bins in the x axis and y axis. You either need to be lower you're bin number, add more points, or be content with the error. Hope that helps.
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Thank you! That solved the problem. Also after including all other data points, it became obvious that 64 bins would be too detailed for the trace anyway. – user2510541 Jun 22 '13 at 0:33
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I have been trying to run this query in PyDev environment for a while, but it just hangs there.
The tables involved are large (tweets around 700,000 and user about 400,000). I have all the indexes sorted out. I tried to run the query at Workbench and it works perfectly within seconds, but just hangs while executed in Eclipse...
cursor.execute("SELECT id, user, hashtags FROM users JOIN tweets ON users.user_id = tweets.user")
It seems that I don't understand the buffering associated with executing at Workbench vs any other environment...!
Any thoughts or ideas?
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What part hangs? You might check the DB logs and see if you can see the query execute. Also, are you listifying the results? Or are you pulling them one at a time in a while loop? – BenDundee Jul 22 '13 at 18:56
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I'm trying to make a struct that contains another struct with multiple arrays. I need to dynamically allocate those arrays too, so I think I need another pointer still.
int arraysize;
typedef struct Array{
int *size = arraysize;
unsigned int val[*size];
unsigned int x[*size];
unsigned int y[*size];
} Array;
typedef struct Image{
int height;
int width;
int max;
Array *data;
} Image;
OK, so once I finally figure that out, I still need to figure out how to dynamically allocate that memory using malloc. I'm totally lost there too. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: more clarification: I'm using the arrays to store three pieces of information that are all connected. Think of a chessboard, you could say knight E4, which tells you that on the 4th column of row E, there is a knight. If you started this process at A1 and ended at K10 you'd have a full chessboard right? The image struct is analogous to the chessboard, the Array is analogous to a list of a bunch of squares that compose the chessboard and the contents of those squares. (E.g. A1 null A2 knight a3 bishop etc...) Unfortunately, I don't know what kind of board will be passed through, it might be a 3x7 board or a 9x2 board etc. So I need to dynamically allocate the memory for those possibilities. Once I have the memory allocated I need to store information about the location and the contents of all of the "squares." Then I need to let a program pass through the height of the board, width of the board and the list of contents and I'd be done the hard part.
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I think you need to take this one step at a time. Find out how to do a single dynamically allocated array first. – Vaughn Cato Sep 24 '13 at 22:13
There is a tutorial here that should answer your questions. – ryyker Sep 24 '13 at 22:16
The most glaring mistake is the first one is not valid code. The second is also invalid, but only because the first one is likewise. – WhozCraig Sep 24 '13 at 22:19
What exactly is your question after all? – Filipe Gonçalves Sep 24 '13 at 22:22
A structure that contains multiple arrays is naturally called MultipleArrays and not Array, innit? – n.m. Sep 24 '13 at 22:25
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What you actually meant was:
typedef struct data {
unsigned int x;
unsigned int y;
unsigned int val;
} Data;
typedef struct image {
int height;
int width;
int max;
Data* data;
} Image;
and somewhere:
Image i;
i.height = 10;
i.width = 20;
i.data = malloc(sizeof(Data) * i.width * i.height);
// one of the ways how to access Data at 2nd row, 3rd column:
*(i.data + i.width * 1 + 2).val = 7;
i.data = NULL;
But what you actually need is some good book ;)
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^ Doesn't that only put in 1 set of data values for each image? I need one set of "Data" per height*width (E.G, if height is 2 and width is 2 there are four different locations where I need to store the x y and val of the Data.) Only I need height and width to be variables so I don't know how many sets of Data I need. I tried to build a struct that compiles the three pieces of information in arrays with pointers so that I could dynamically plug in the size when the program gets it and then fill in the arrays with meaningful data. I just don't know how to implement this the right way. – TheDebaser Sep 24 '13 at 23:59
@TheDebaser: But that's something different that you described in original question. See my edit. – LihO Sep 25 '13 at 5:47
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0.957894 | <urn:uuid:d253b5f2-e33b-4d77-a26b-4b264319f39c> | en | 0.810587 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have a text in database which is "computer-hardware". I used that code to split
' string seperated by colons '-'
Dim info As String = strcotegory
Dim arInfo As String() = New String(3) {}
' define which character is seperating fields
Dim splitter As Char() = {"-"c}
arInfo = info.Split(splitter)
For x As Integer = 0 To arInfo.Length - 1
Response.Write(arInfo(x) & "</br> ")
but now I want to get "computer" in textbox1 and "hardware" in textbox2.
please guide me
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If I understood you correctly, replace the For loop with the following lines of code:
textbox1.Text = arInfo(0)
textbox2.Text = arInfo(1)
By the way, initializing arInfo (... = New String(3) {}) is not necessary, since you overwrite the value of arInfo anyway (arInfo = ...).
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I'm using Aptana3 to deploy my python project to AppEngine. There are some huge design files that I want to keep inside the project but don't want to deploy to app-engine. Is there any configuration in Aptana that I can set and it automatically excludes my design files when deploying to App-engine?
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You can cloak files by type and they won't sync: stackoverflow.com/questions/7842237/… – Sarah Kemp Dec 17 '13 at 23:16
I don't have deploy option in right click menu, probably cuz it's an appengine project. Interestingly, when I want to go to publish on the menu, publish gets grayed out – Pooya Dec 17 '13 at 23:45
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You need to configure it in app.yaml. Look here for more details.
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Great, Thanks Sandeep! – Pooya Dec 19 '13 at 19:46
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I need to access the internal binary representation of a loaded XML DOM... There are some dump functions, but I not see something like "binary buffer" (there are only "XML buffers").
My last objective is to compare byte-by-byte, the same document, before and after some black-box procedure, directly with their binary (current and cached) representations, without convertion (to XML-text representation)... So, the question,
There are a binary representation (in-memory structures) in LibXML2, to compare dump with current representations?
I need only to check if current and dumped DOMs are equivalent.
It is not a problem of comparing two distinct DOM objects, but something more easy, because not change IDs, etc. not need canonical representation (!), only need access to internal representation, because is very faster than convert to text.
Between "before and after" there are a black-box procedure, ex. a XSLT Identity transform that affects (or not) some nodes or attributes.
Alternative solution...
1. ... To develop a C function for LibXML2 that compares node-by-node the two trees, and return false if they are different: during the tree traversal, if tree structure changes, or some nodeValue changes, the algorithm stops the comparison (returning false).
2. ... Not the ideal, but helps some other algorithms: if I can access (in LibXML2) the total number of nodes or the total length or size or md5 or sha1... Only to optimize frequent cases (for my application) where the comparison will returns false, avoiding the complete comparison-procedure.
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Warning for reader using answered solutions
The problem is about "to compare before with after a back-box operation", but there are two kinds of back-boxes here:
• Well-known and controllable ones, like XSLT transforms or use of a known library. You must known that your black-boxes will not change attribute order or ID content or denormalize spaces (or etc.).
• Full-free ones, like use of a external editor (ex. online-editor changing a XHTML), where user and software can do anything.
I will use a solution in a context of "well-known" black-box. So, my comments at "Details" section above, are valid.
In a context of "full-free" back-boxes, you can not to use a "comparison of binary dumps", because only a canonical representation (C14N) is valid to compare. To compare by C14N-criteria, only "Alternative solutions" (commented above) are possible. For alternative-1, you must, among other things, sort before compare a set of attribute-nodes. For alternative-2 (also discussed here), to generate the C14N dumps.
PS: of course, use of the C14N criteria is subjective, depends on application: if, p. ex., for your appication "change attribute order" is a valid/important change, the comparasion that detects it is valid (!).
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You do know that XML is a text format, so the binary representation would just be a sequence of characters in whatever encoding the XML is in. – Joachim Pileborg Jul 24 at 17:42
@JoachimPileborg, yes, the nodes are "text nodes", but there are no (binary) tree representation? I think there are (!)... I not see there (some graphic documentation?) what the name of the C data-structure for this main tree, that is distinct from a "XML-text dump". – Peter Krauss Jul 24 at 17:44
Yes there is a binary representation, and if the XML is UTF-8 encoded the binary representation is a sequence of UTF-8 code points. What would the binary representation of e.g. <xml><something attr="5">some data</something></xml> be if not the binary representation of the characters making up the XML, in other words the characters themselves. – Joachim Pileborg Jul 24 at 17:50
Or do you mean the actual in-memory structures that libxml2 uses? – Joachim Pileborg Jul 24 at 17:51
You can't do a byte-by-byte comparison of the internal representation of two DOM documents to see if they're the same. Two DOM documents created from the exact same XML document will compare differently because of various bits of data used in the internal representation (like pointers) are specific to the particular DOM document instance. – Ross Ridge Jul 24 at 18:00
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I would like to get a list of Active Directory users along with the security groups they are members of using SQL Server 2005 linked servers. I have the query working to retrieve records but I'm not sure how to access the memberOf attribute (it is a multi-value LDAP attribute).
I have this temporary to store the information:
sAMAccountName varchar(30),
UserGroup varchar(50)
Each group/user association should be one row.
This is my SELECT statement:
SELECT sAMAccountName,memberOf
FROM OpenQuery(ADSI, '<LDAP://hqdc04/DC=nt,DC=avs>;
I get this error msg:
OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'ADSDSOObject' IRowset::GetData returned 0x40eda: Data status returned from the provider: [COLUMN_NAME=memberOf STATUS=DBSTATUS_E_CANTCONVERTVALUE], [COLUMN_NAME=sAMAccountName STATUS=DBSTATUS_S_OK]]. Msg 7346, Level 16, State 2, Line 2 Could not get the data of the row from the OLE DB provider 'ADSDSOObject'. Could not convert the data value due to reasons other than sign mismatch or overflow.
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Looks like this is a limitation that cannot be directly overcome: - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1766061/tsql-how-to-get-a-list-of-groups-that-a-user-belongs-to-in-active-diretory. OpenQuery cannot handle multi-valued attributes.
I ended up writing a .NET CLR job to handle this.
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I'm in need of some clarification. I've been reading about REST, and building RESTful applications. According to wikipedia, REST itself is defined to be Representational State Transfer. I therefore don't understand all this stateless gobbledeygook that everyone keeps spewing.
From wikipedia:
At any particular time, a client can either be in transition between application states or "at rest". A client in a rest state is able to interact with its user, but creates no load and consumes no per-client storage on the set of servers or on the network.
Are they just saying don't use session/application level data store???
I get that one goal of REST is to make URI access consistent and available, for instance, instead of hiding paging requests inside posts, making the page number of a request a part of the GET URI. Makes sense to me. But it seems like it is just going overboard saying that no per client data (session data) should ever be stored server side.
What if I had a queue of messages, and my user wanted to read the messages, but as he read them, wanted to block certain senders messages coming through for the duration of his session? Wouldn't it make sense to store this in a place on the server side, and have the server only send messages (or message ID's) that were not blocked by the user?
Do I really have to send the entire list of message senders to block each time I request the new message list? The message list pertinent to me wouldn't/shouldn't even be a publicly available resource in the first place..
Again, just trying to understand this. Someone please clarify.
I have found a stack overflow question that has an answer that doesn't quite get me all the way there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2641901/how-to-manage-state-in-rest which says that the client state that is important should all be transferred on every request.... Ugg.. seems like a lot of overhead... Is this right??
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@S.Lott: I don't think it's intentionally misleading. I think it is a misunderstanding because of confusing terminology. – JUST MY correct OPINION Jun 24 '10 at 3:23
@JUST MY correct OPINION: Interesting guess. I could not believe such a thing, myself, since it is obvious from that "stateless" means the REST protocol itself is stateless; which says nothing about the underlying application state and updating it with PUT, POST and DELETE requests. – S.Lott Jun 24 '10 at 10:18
@S.Lott : The HTTP protocol itself is stateless. From what we've discussed below, REST is a viewpoint of how to build your app while not having the webserver handle session state (as opposed to other kinds of state in things like the DB). I didn't even think REST was a protocol, but rather a view on how to use the HTTP protocol. I thought you guys cleared it up that it was about how to build your application to scale by having the client side store all client specific session data, and making URI accesses as idempotent as possible, except where they shouldn't be. Maybe not... :( – Zak Jun 24 '10 at 18:35
"Maybe not.." What does that mean? Do you have a new question? Feel free to search SO for it. If it doesn't exist here, then ask it. – S.Lott Jun 24 '10 at 23:16
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By stateless it means that the web server does not store any state about the client.
That does not preclude other services that the web server talks to from maintain state about business objects, just not about the clients connection state.
The clients state should never be stored on the server, but passed around to every place that needs it.
That is where the ST in REST comes from, State Transfer. You transfer the state around instead of having the server store it. This is the only way to scale to millions of users.
The load of session management is amortized across all the clients, the clients store their session state and the servers can service many orders of magnitude or more clients in a stateless fashion.
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@Zak: Because millions of sessions is millions of sessions. The point is to avoid the overhead of all this session management. – S.Lott Jun 23 '10 at 20:45
it is not boldness it is experience – Jarrod Roberson Jun 24 '10 at 2:18
Thanks. That's a nice, clear explanation. – Dogweather Jun 8 '13 at 2:01
It seems like for an application that you only expect to have, say, 10,000 concurrent users it would be more efficient to use sessions though. 10,000 sessions shouldn't be an issue for one server, and that way you avoid the necessity for database access (user validation) with every request. Shouldn't you move to full REST when your application requires it? – CorayThan Jul 27 '13 at 20:12
Nothing in my answer implies a solution based on database access on every request, if you think it does, it is a failing on your part to understand authentication and authorization at that scale. The authentication can be implicit in the state, do you think that facebook does a "database access" on every request of its REST API? Or Google for that matter? hint: no – Jarrod Roberson May 31 at 15:56
Statelessness means that every HTTP request happens in complete isolation. When the client makes an HTTP request, it includes all information neccessary for the server to fulfill that request. The server never relies on information from previous requests. If that information was important, the client would have sent it again in this request. Statelessness also brings new features. It’s easier to distribute a stateless application across load-balanced servers. A stateless application is also easy to cache.
There are actually two kinds of state. Application State that lives on the client and Resource State that lives on the server.
Resource state is the same for every client, and its proper place is on the server. When you upload a picture to a server, you create a new resource: the new picture has its own URI and can be the target of future requests. You can fetch, modify, and delete this resource through HTTP.
Hope this helps differentiate what statelessness and various states mean.
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No. They aren't saying that in a trivial way.
They're saying do not define a "session". Don't login. Don't logout. Provide credentials with the request. Each request stands alone.
You still have data stores. You still have authentication and authorization. You just don't waste time establishing sessions and maintaining session state.
The point is that each request (a) stands completely alone and (b) can be trivially farmed out to a giant parallel server farm without any actual work. Apache or Squid can pass RESTful requests around blindly and successfully.
If the user wants a filter, then simply provide the filter on each request.
Wouldn't it make sense to ... have the server only send messages (or message ID's) that were not blocked by the user?
Yes. Provide the filter in the RESTful URI request.
Yes. How big can this "list of message senders to block" be? A short list of PK's?
A GET request can be very large. If necessary, you can try a POST request even though it sounds like a kind of query.
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It seems this violates the lazy programmer principle. Why keep sending the same state over and over if you can just do it once? It seems like you will have to do all authentication over again each time, as well as all role lookup, filter setup, etc... – Zak Jun 23 '10 at 20:54
BTW, thank you for the answer. It seems like I'm hearing, "because that is what we have found works well in practice." And that is always a very good reason :) – Zak Jun 23 '10 at 21:01
@Zak: I have no idea what "lazy programming" is. Sending things "over again each time" is simpler -- do the same thing -- no weird cache management or server affinity or anything. It is simpler to have each request totally stand in it's own. And -- as a lazy programmer -- I prefer that. Just process the request and be done with it. – S.Lott Jun 24 '10 at 0:34
looking up something over and over is way more expensive than having it given to you when you need it. Plain and simple Database systems and especially RDBMS systems will ALWAYS be the bottleneck in a web based application. It is less complicated, and less code, and less code means less bugs, and less bugs means less maintenance, and that means less money to support the system. If don't believe us go implement a system that has 12 million concurrent users and get back to us on how your server side session management for 12 million current users works out. – Jarrod Roberson Jun 24 '10 at 2:18
@JarrodRoberson - I don't understand you comment: "looking up something over and over is way more expensive...". Isn't that exactly what is happening by providing credentials everytime? The server needs to authenticate the user upon each request - ie: query the DB, validate credentials and retrieve the user privileges. I realize that a good L2 cache can mitigate the query against the DB itself, but is that not more effort than being able to retrieve the state from a simple session? – Eric B. Feb 14 at 4:27
You are absolutely right, supporting completely stateless interactions with the server does put an additional burden on the client. However, if you consider scaling an application, the computation power of the clients is directly proportional to the number of clients. Therefore scaling to high numbers of clients is much more feasible.
As soon as you put a tiny bit of responsibility on the server to manage some information related to a specific client's interactions, that burden can quickly grow to consume the server.
It's a trade off.
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plus1 good point – zencv Nov 6 at 14:08
Historical view of user application state management
Sessions in the traditional sense keep the user's state in the application inside the server. This may be the current page in a flow or what has been previously entered but not persisted to the main database yet.
The reason for this need was the lack of standards on the client side to effectively maintain the state without making client specific (i.e. browser specific) applications or plug-ins.
HTML5 and XML Header Request has over time standardized the notion of storing complex data including application state in standard way on the client (i.e. browser) side without resorting to going back and forth between the server.
General usage of REST services
REST services are generally called when there is a transaction that needs to be performed or if it needs to retrieve data.
REST services are meant to be called by the client-side application and not the end user directly.
For any request to the server, part of the request should contain the authorization token. How it is implemented is application specific, but in general is either a BASIC or CERTIFICATE form of authentication.
Form based authentication is not used by REST services. However, as noted above REST services are not meant to be called by the user, but by the application. The application needs to manage getting the authentication token. In my case I used cookies with JASPIC with OAuth 2.0 to connect to Google for authentication and simple HTTP Authentication for automated testing. I also used HTTP Header authentication via JASPIC for local testing as well (though the same approach can be performed in SiteMinder)
As per those examples, the authentication is managed on the client side (though SiteMinder or Google would store the authentication session on their end), there's nothing that can be done about that state, but it is not part of the REST service application.
Retrieval requests
Retrieval requests in REST are GET operations where a specific resource is requested and is cacheable. There is no need for server sessions because the request has everything it would need to retrieve the data: authentication and the URI.
Transaction scripts
As noted above, the client-side application itself calls the REST services along with the authentication that it manages on the client side as well.
What this means for REST services [if done correctly] is to take a single request to the REST server will contain everything that is needed for a single user operation that does everything that is needed in a single transaction, a Transaction Script is what the pattern is called.
This is done through a POST request usually, but others such as PUT can also be used.
A lot of contrived examples of REST (I myself did this) tried to follow as much of what has been defined in the HTTP protocol, after going through that I decided to be more pragmatic and left it to GET and POST only. The POST method does not even have to implement the POST-REDIRECT-GET pattern.
Regardless though, as I had noted above, the client-side application will be the one calling the service and it will only call the POST request with all the data when it needs to (not every time). This prevents constant requests to the server.
Though REST can be used for polling as well, I won't recommend it unless you have to use it because of browser compatibility. For that I would use WebSockets which I had designed an API contract for as well. Another alternative for older browsers is CometD.
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Stateless means the state of the service doesn’t persist between subsequent requests and response. Each request carries its own user credentials and is individually authenticated. But in stateful each request is known from any prior request. All stateful requests are session-oriented i.e. each request need to know and retain changes made in previous requests.
Banking application is an example of stateful application. Where user first login then make transaction and logs out. If after logout user will try to make the transaction, he will not be able to do so.
Yes, http protocol is essentially a stateless protocol but to make it stateful we make us of HTTP cookies. So, is SOAP by default. But it can be make stateful likewise, depends upon framework you are using.
HTTP is stateless but still we can maintain session in our java application by using different session tracking mechanism.
Yes, We can also maintain session in webservice whether it is REST or SOAP. It can be implemented by using any third party library or you can implement by our own.
Taken from http://gopaldas.org/webservices/soap/webservice-is-stateful-or-stateless-rest-soap
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Have a look at this presentation.
According to this pattern - create transient restful resources to manage state if and when really needed. Avoid explicit sessions.
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The whole concept is different... You don't need to manage sessions if you are trying to implement RESTFul protocol. In that case it is better to do authentication procedure on every request (whereas there is an extra cost to it in terms of performance - hashing password would be a good example. not a big deal...). If you use sessions - how can you distribute load across multiple servers? I bet RESTFul protocol is meant to eliminate sessions whatsoever - you don't really need them... That's why it is called "stateless". Sessions are only required when you cannot store anything other than Cookie on a client side after a reqest has been made (take old, non Javascript/HTML5-supporting browser as an example). In case of "full-featured" RESTFul client it is usually safe to store base64(login:password) on a client side (in memory) until the applictation is still loaded - the application is used to access to the only host and the cookie cannot be compromised by the third party scripts...
I would stronly recommend to disable cookie authentication for RESTFul sevices... check out Basic/Digest Auth - that should be enough for RESTFul based services.
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You have to manage client session on the client side. This means that you have to send authentication data with every request, and you probably, but not necessary have an in-memory cache on the server, which pairs auth data to user information like identity, permissions, etc...
This REST statelessness constraint is very important. Without applying this constraint, your server side application won't scale well, because maintaining every single client session will be its Achilles' heel.
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Is it safe to do this?
double darray[10];
vector<float> fvector;
fvector.insert(fvector.begin(), darray, darray + 10); // double to float conversion
// now work with fvector
VS2008 gives me a warning about the double to float conversion. How do I get rid of this warning? I don't think it makes sense to cast darray to float* as that would change the step size (stride) of the pointer.
Update: I know what the warning indicates. But unlike the "afloat = adouble;" scenario where I can easily apply a cast, I am unable to eliminate the warning in this case.
Edit: I've edited the code so that darray is no longer a function argument. Thanks to all those of you who pointed it out.
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Use std::transform() this allows you to provide a conversion method.
Then you just need a conversion method that does not generate a warning:
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
struct CastToFloat
float operator()(double value) const { return static_cast<float>(value);}
int main()
double data[] = { 1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10};
std::vector<float> fl;
std::transform(data, data+10,
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In my opinion there is an other problem. The vector has not enough space...
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Why? A vector<> grows automatically to have as much space as it needs. – Gorpik Jul 9 '10 at 7:57
The .insert family of methods will allocate extra space if required. After the call the vector size will have grown by std::distance(darray,darray+10), i.e. 10. – David Rodríguez - dribeas Jul 9 '10 at 7:59
Sorry. It's hot in Germany today. :-) Was thinking of std::copy. – user331471 Jul 9 '10 at 9:02
The warning is about loss of significant digits without an explicit cast. You should get the same warning for
double d = 1.0;
float f = d;
You can disable the warning for the assignment (see #pragma warning in MSDN).
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If the compiler is smart, it should know that 1.0 is represented exactly in doubles and also floats. With 0.2 however, which cannot be represented exactly, it should warn. – Peter G. Jul 9 '10 at 13:34
I expect the optimizer to folde the two assignments into one (unless d is used later). However, I do expect capabilities of the optimizer to not affect compiler diagnostics. if there is a warning, I want it for 1.0 and for 0.2. – peterchen Jul 9 '10 at 14:18
You get the warning because you are losing precision in the double to float conversion, that's all. Assuming that you really need fvector to be a vector<float> and not a vector<double>, it is clear that you can live with this precision loss, so the warning is not important.
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+1 Yes. Either disable the warning or use std::transform and provide explicit cast in transform function. – Tomek Szpakowicz Jul 9 '10 at 8:18
void some_function(double *darray){
vector<double> fvector;
void some_function(float *darray){
vector<float> fvector;
Or overload your function with both variants, or make it a template
template<typename RandomAccessIterator>
void some_function(RandomAccessIterator it){
typedef typename iterator_traits<RandomAccessIterator>::value_type value_type;
vector<value_type> fvector(it, it + 10);
Of course, it's not a good idea to assume a fixed 10. Notice that neither your original code is safe, because the 10 in the parameter list of your function has no meaning. It's simply ignored. So better document it clearly, that the iterator or pointer needs to provide access to sufficiently many values.
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I'm wondering how to implement immutable data structures in C++ (or C). I'm searching for a book or paper (or a relatively simple and documented implementation) on the subject and I haven't managed to find one for now so I decided to ask for hints. Thanks in advance for your answers.
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Maybe you're looking for Persistent data structures (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure)? If so, you can take a look at immutable collections in .net for some other hints as well (blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2012/12/18/…) – Sergey Teplyakov May 12 '13 at 19:43
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I think you may take an idea from another languages. For example in Java and C# immutability implemented following way. Instead of creating "mutators" (functions that "mutate" objects' state), we create functions that return new "changed" instance:
class Foo
Foo(int i)
: i_(i)
int GetI() const {return i_;}
Foo SetI(int i) const {return Foo(i);}
const int i_;
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That exactly what I meant by "immutable", but what I'm searching for hints on how to efficiently implement immutable collections (eg: Clojure collections), particularly how to share part of the structure to avoid unnecessary copying. – fokenrute Oct 13 '10 at 21:16
@fokenrute I think that is the real question, sharing the part of the immutable structure. In garbage collected languages that is quite straightforward. – Ghita May 12 '13 at 6:36
You can either declare objects as const like:
const std::string x("My Const String");
This is a common way of using the const keyword to make an object immutable.
If you know you have an object that you do not want to allow anything to be changed in and this should be part of the behavior of every instance of that object, you can make an object with all const members.
class Immutable
Immutable() :z(10), y(20)
Immutable(int zVal, int yVal) : z(zVal), y(yVal)
int getZ() const;
int getY() const;
const int z;
const int y;
Note that you must set the values of const members within an initialization list. (which you should be using anyway as best practice)
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const is your friend - objects with all data members const are hard to alter.
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Have a look at the Phoenix Framework.
Phoenix extends the concepts of FP to C++ much further. In a nutshell, the framework opens up FP techniques such as Lambda (unnamed functions) and Currying (partial function evaluation).
So it goes beyond simple immutable structures, but I assume that is the direction you're headed.
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Does it also allow structure sharing? – CMCDragonkai Dec 18 at 4:00
Hint: Declare a struct as follows:
struct Immutable
Immutable& operator =(const Immutable& other);
This locks down the assignment operator. Now make sure the struct has no public or mutable member variables and that all its public methods are const:
int get_quux() const;
void foo(int bar) const;
And you have something very close to an immutable type. Of course, the lack of sealed/final in C++ means that someone can derive a less immutable type from yours anyway.
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Immutable doesn't mean non-copyable. You don't have to worry about the object being copied. – RC. Oct 13 '10 at 18:15
You're absolutely right, one only has to worry about the object being assigned to. Answer updated accordingly. Thanks for the heads-up. – Frédéric Hamidi Oct 13 '10 at 18:20
Depends what you mean by "immutable data structure".
If you mean, a type where variables of that type can't be assigned to otherwise modified, then see the other answers here (removing access to assignment operator, using const, or simply having a reference or const data member).
If you mean, a type where values of that type can't be modified,e.g. like a Java or C# or Python string, but where variables of that type still can be assigned, then it's more tricky. Your best help there may be boost::intrusive_ptr to manage an internal mutable state. The reason for intrusive_ptr as opposed to e.g. shared_ptr is that intrusive_ptr allows more optimizations, one of which is crucial for e.g. "immutable strings", namely, constructing such a beast from a literal with no dynamic allocation at all.
I'm not aware of any general framework for doing the latter kind of "immutable data structure" in C++.
So, it seems that you've put up a good idea! :-)
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I found a project on Github called gorgone, which contains a C++ implementation of PersistentVector (based on Rich Hickey's Java implementation in Clojure) and RRBVector (based on more recent work by Phil Bagwell).
The maintainer of that project is no longer pursuing it, but I am. See my fork here: https://github.com/sandover/gorgone
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I can't help to recommend this article Immutable C++ stack - thoughts and performance, the code review and answer is really awesome!
Also, for getting started with persistent data structures or functional data structures in C++, read this post Functional Data Structures in C++: Lists.
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See here: http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
Does anyone have any experience or remarks about this javascript? Is it worth including? Do you recommend it?
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I've never used it, but it looks pretty sweet.. thanks for the link. :) – Alex Fort Dec 31 '08 at 13:59
I am looking to just fix the <button type=submit> problem using the ie8.js, so I don't want the other stuff. Anyone have any experience in removing unused functionality? – slolife Feb 10 '11 at 8:41
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I know many people, myself included that are using various IE hacks to get transparent PNG support. THis looks like a little bit more help, and as long as it works, and the size is fairly small, I wouldn't see much against using it.
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Agreed. If it contains a significant amount of workaround code that you would otherwise have to write yourself, use the library. – daughtkom Dec 31 '08 at 14:06
As long as you are aware of exactly what it fixes, I would say go for it. I'm not sure about this lib exactly, but some libs get very expensive if you have a large DOM, as they tend to hook in HTC file base behaviors on EVERY DOM Element. This causes the dreaded "Loading x of y" status bar message to flash constantly on the initial load, and any newly generated DOM content.
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I know that there are some tools for fixing the transparent PNG problem which are more flexible than this. For instance, the jQuery plugin ifixpng2 will support background position, which ie7-js doesn't do.
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well its beautiful and works grate way u can use cs3 features like li:hover. we did lost of project last time using ie8.js and it works great way.
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It works, but its worth keeping in mind that ie7.js and ie8.js do much more than provide transparent PNG support. Even with the transparent PNG support, its worth keeping in mind that transparent background images cannot be tiled (repeated) using background-repeat or positioned using background-position. This hinders any ability to use CSS rollovers using background-position. I've only used it on one site I've done, and now that I'm updating the site I can't remove the ie8.js because if I do the entire website breaks layout in IE. I don't believe I'll be using it in the future, and instead rely on simple CSS hacks or simply allow my sites to "degrade gracefully" in IE6.
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I've used it before, and my results are mixed. Those scripts cause IE to churn for a bit on page load. Basically, you have to think of it as iterating through Elements and stylesheet rules to apply "fixes" for areas that are deficient in that particular rendering engine. In some cases, depending on how complicated your markup or stylesheets are, that can take a bit of time and you will see the browser hang.
That said, if you can trade off that performance cost, you will save development time as you'll spend less time hacking around IE6 quirks; IE7/IE8 will provide enough missing functionality that you can avoid certain edge cases, can develop using standards better (min-width/min-height, multiple className selectors, etc.), and certain rendering issues will disappear.
However, if you just need 24-bit transparent PNG support, use a tool built for that. Including IE7/IE8.js for PNG support alone is like pounding in a nail with a tank. Use DD_belatedPNG for that.
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I know the html5 audio stuff is all very new, but is there a way to change the left/right balance on a sound?
Something like this:
var snd = new Audio("test.mp3");
snd.balance = -1; // only left
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It seemes, that channel balance isn't supported at all in html audio tag. – kirilloid Feb 26 '11 at 0:01
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Currently, this is not supported.
You can check the w3c spec for supported properties and methods. Note that browsers often provide more / less or different things. But in this case: no browser supports audio balance changes.
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Here is my implementation of Problem 25 - Project Euler (see comments in code for explanation of how it works):
#include <iostream> //Declare headers and use correct namespace
#include <math.h>
using namespace std;
//Variables for the equation F_n(newTerm) = F_n-1(prevTerm) + Fn_2(currentTerm)
unsigned long long newTerm = 0;
unsigned long long prevTerm = 1; //F_1 initially = 1
unsigned long long currentTerm = 1; //F_2 initially = 2
unsigned long long termNo = 2; //Current number for the term
void getNextTerms() { //Iterates through the Fib sequence, by changing the global variables.
newTerm = prevTerm + currentTerm; //First run: newTerm = 2
unsigned long long temp = currentTerm; //temp = 1
currentTerm = newTerm; //currentTerm = 2
prevTerm = temp; //prevTerm = 1
termNo++; //termNo = 3
unsigned long long getLength(unsigned long long number) //Returns the length of the number
unsigned long long length = 0;
while (number >= 1) {
number = number / 10;
return length;
while (true) {
getNextTerms(); //Gets next term in the Fib sequence
if (getLength(currentTerm) < 1000) { //Checks if the next terms size is less than the desired length
else { //Otherwise if it is perfect print out the term.
cout << termNo;
This works for the example, and will run quickly as long as this line:
if (getLength(currentTerm) < 1000) { //Checks if the next term's size is less than the desired length
says 20 or lower instead of 1000. But if that number is greater than 20 it takes a forever, my patience gets the better of me and I stop the program, how can I make this algorithm more efficient?
If you have any questions just ask in the comments.
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The max value of an 128bit unsigned long long is something like 3*10^38. That's much too small to hold a thousand-digit number. – Mat Jul 11 '11 at 5:14
@Mat: Do you have any suggestion on what to do about that? – Bair Jul 11 '11 at 5:15
Generally speaking, a long long will be 64-bits - the largest number that can be represented by such a type (if it's unsigned) is 18446744073709551615, which has 20 digits. There's no way to represent a number that has 1000 digits with that type (which is why it's taking your program forever - it can't be done). To find a fibonacci number with 1000 digits, you won't be able to just use long long types - you'll need represent the numbers in some other way, – Michael Burr Jul 11 '11 at 5:16
For C bigint libraries, see "'BigInt' in C?" and "What is the simplest way of implementing bigint in C?" – outis Jul 11 '11 at 5:34
The goal of project euler is to have fun while looking for a solution, asking for help will just spoil the fun IMHO, for your problem, quick way is to use python which handles big number natively – Bruce Jul 11 '11 at 5:58
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There is a closed formula for the Fibonachi numbers (as well as for any linear recurrent sequence).
So F_n = C1 * a^n + C2 * b^n, where C1, C2, a and b are numbers that can be found from the initial conditions, i.e. for the Fib case from
F_n+2 = F_n+1 + F_n
F_1 = 1
F_2 = 1
I don't give their values on purpose here. It's just a hint.
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Just to let people know: I decided to port to Python. And up-voted the answers that helped with efficiency and accepted this one because it helped me the most. – Bair Jul 11 '11 at 23:19
nth fibonacci number is =
where g1 = (1+sqrt(5))/2 = 1.61803399
g2 = (1-sqrt(5))/2 = -0.61803399
For finding the length of nth fibonacci number, we can just calculate the log(nth fibonacci number).So, length of nth fibonacci number is,
log((g1^n-g2^n)/sqrt(5)) = log(g1^n-g2^n)-0.5*log(5).
you can just ignore g2^n, since it is very small negative number.
Hence, length of nth fibonacci is
and we need to find the smallest value of 'n' such that this length = 1000, so we can find the value of n for which the length is just greater than 999.
n*log(g1)-0.5*log(5) > 999
n*log(g1) > 999+0.5*log(5)
n > (999+0.5*log(5))/log(g1)
n > (999.3494850021680094)/(0.20898764058551)
n > 4781.859263075
Hence, the smallest required n is 4782. No use of any coding, easiest way.
Note: everywhere log is used in base 10.
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fyi, your formula yield 4787 – Rasman Jul 11 '11 at 17:48
I wrote wrong value. I have editted it now. Hope it helps. – Gurpreet Singh Jul 12 '11 at 6:36
A description of the above method is given here – poorvankbhatia Oct 28 '12 at 17:15
This will probably speed it up a fair bit:
int getLength(unsigned long long number) //Returns the length of the number when expressed in base-10
return (int)log10(number) + 1;
...but, you can't reach 1000 digits using an unsigned long long. I suggest looking into arbitrary-precision arithmetic libraries, or languages which have arbitrary-precision arithmetic built in.
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You could try computing a Fibonacci number using matrix exponentiation. Then repeated doubling to get to a number that has more than 1000 digits and use binary search in that range to find the first one.
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using doubles, you can come to a solution knowing the highest exponential is 308:
get the sequence to the exp of 250, then divide your two numbers by 1e250. Restart the algorithm with those two numbers
if you do this 4 times, you'll get the right answer
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I have a diagonal line and I have also a circles having a 100 meters in distance. The problem is that the circles are not really to the center of the line. I know this is quiet easy but I'm just confused on how to do it.. Could someone help me how to put the circles at the center of the line?
Here's what I've tried so far :
public void paint(Graphics g)
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
int x0_pixel = 0;
int y0_pixel = 0;
int x1_pixel = getWidth();
int y1_pixel = getHeight();
int x0_world = 0;
int y0_world = 0;
double x1_world = 2000; // meters
double y1_world = 1125; // meters
double x_ratio = (double) x1_pixel / x1_world;
double y_ratio = (double) y1_pixel / y1_world;
int xFrom = 0;
int yFrom = 0;
double xTo = x1_world;
double yTo = y1_world;
int FromX_pixel = convertToPixelX(xFrom, x_ratio);
int FromY_pixel = convertToPixelY(y1_pixel, yFrom, y_ratio);
int ToX_pixel = convertToPixelX((int) xTo, x_ratio);
int ToY_pixel = convertToPixelY(y1_pixel, (int) yTo, y_ratio);
g2d.drawLine(FromX_pixel, FromY_pixel, ToX_pixel, ToY_pixel);
double theta = Math.atan(yTo / xTo);
int len = (int) Math.sqrt(xTo * xTo + yTo * yTo);
int interval = 100;
final double cosTheta = Math.cos(theta);
final double sinTheta = Math.sin(theta);
for (int distance = xFrom; distance <= len; distance += interval)
double distance_x = distance * cosTheta;
double distance_y = distance * sinTheta;
int x_circle_pixel = convertToPixelX(distance_x, x_ratio);
int y_circle_pixel = convertToPixelY(y1_pixel, distance_y, y_ratio);
g2d.drawOval(x_circle_pixel, y_circle_pixel, 50, 50);
private static int convertToPixelY(int y_offset, double y_world, double y_ratio)
return (int) (y_offset - (y_world * y_ratio));
private static int convertToPixelX(double x_world, double x_ratio)
return (int) (x_world * x_ratio);
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Some comments and descriptions about what your code is doing would help a lot. Also an SSCCE would offer your best hope for a quick helpful answer. – Hovercraft Full Of Eels Oct 11 '11 at 2:11
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When you draw an oval, the first two parameters are the upper-left corner of the rectangle that holds the oval. The next two parameters are the width and height of this same bounding rectangle. Your current code places the upper-left corner on the line itself, but what you actually want is that the center of the bounding rectangle be placed on the line. The solution to your problem is to simply shift the upper-left corner over by 1/2 the diameter. Your code should have something like so:
public class GraphicsFoo extends JPanel {
// avoid using magic numbers:
private static final int CIRCLE_DIAMETER = 50;
// override a JComponent's paintComponent method, not its paint method
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
// make your graphics smooth
// ...
final double cosTheta = Math.cos(theta);
final double sinTheta = Math.sin(theta);
// *** here's the key: ***
x_circle_pixel - CIRCLE_DIAMETER / 2,
y_circle_pixel - CIRCLE_DIAMETER / 2,
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sorry for the late response, actually my problem is the only part in drawing the oval and you give me the exact code for that.. tnx.. it works.. I accept your answer.. ;-) – sack Oct 11 '11 at 10:33
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As I iterate through the rows of a mysql table, there are 2 values in each table (x,y) that I need to see what interval those two values fall between.
For example if x=-21.1 and y=52.4, x would be in the -30..-20 interval and y would be in the 50..60 interval.
So based on these intervals, I would have a hash or something containing that interval combination (-30..-20 and 50..60) and increment it by one. Then I would go through the rest of the rows in the mysql table and do the same so I have a count of all occurances of the interval combinations.
There will be 36X36 combinations (interval -180..180, divided in 10s). I think this is supposed to be done by using multidimensional hashes, but I'm not sure. Can anyone help me out?
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How about doing it in MySQL itself?
SELECT FLOOR(x/10)*10, FLOOR(y/10)*10, COUNT(*)
FROM yourTable
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Thank you so much! This works quite well and easily implementable in my Perl code :) – user1001715 Oct 18 '11 at 18:26
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How can I detect the end of a fling event within a HorizontalScrollView?
Using a GestureDetector, I can determine when onFling has started, but I can't figure out how to tell when it has completed. Is there any callback function or similar trick that I'm missing?
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This answer is late but probably useful with the similar requirements
My approach is to override scrollTo of the View. With I reschedule a delayed message using a Handler. The effect is that as long as scroll call happens the message will not be delivered. But when no scroll call happens the message will be delivered and could be used to signal the end of "flinging"
Did you get the idea?
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Thanks for writing after so long! I worked around the issue long ago, but this is an interesting solution. Unfortunately, I don't have time to test it right now, but I'll mark it as the answer since it seems like the "cleanest" solution. I'll keep this in mind if I need to do something like this again someday. Thanks again! – PhilaPhan80 Mar 12 '12 at 1:18
I think it is better to override View.onScrollChanged: it is called in response to scrollTo and scrollBy. – brillenheini Aug 9 '13 at 15:37
Probably by detecting an over scroll
How about this :
Use a combination of onFling() and onScrollChanged(). When an fling event occurs AND a scrolling event follows, you will get the exact amount of change.
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That might work if the fling sent the view beyond its boundaries (overscroll), but there may be cases where it's a really long view and the fling stays within those boundaries. I'm looking more for an event that's triggered or a flag that's set, etc. – PhilaPhan80 Nov 5 '11 at 15:48
In addition, OnOverScroll() API is not available on older API levels such as 8, etc. – harikris Nov 14 '11 at 7:03
From what i see, onFling() gets triggered after a series of onScroll() when i fling the HorizontalScrollView – harikris Nov 14 '11 at 18:59
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Anyone know how to select a certain amount of items in a List to bind to a DataSource? Basically I'm getting back 10 items (which I don't have control over) and I only need to show 5. Originally I was thinking of using a loop and adding 5 items to a new list but that seems like a lot of code. Is there an expression that I can use to select the first 5?
//Returns a List<DataItem>
MyDataListControl.DataSource = Helper.GetDataItems(); //<= Possible expression?
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You may take a look at the Skip and Take LINQ extension methods. So in your case if you wanted to take only the first 5 elements of some IEnumerable<T>:
MyDataListControl.DataSource = Helper.GetDataItems().Take(5).ToList();
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What about List's GetRange method? Have you tried that? I don't the internal workings of the method; whether it also creates a new list or not.
GetRange(int index, int count)
Here is the msdn link for it.
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I just checked and the efficiency of the method is O(n) where n is the count: number of elements you want, in your case 5. But since you said 'it seems like a lot of code' and you are not so worried about the time efficiency then this method reduces your code – nbz Jan 21 '12 at 18:30
RemoveRange will probably be best as you won't have to instanciate a new list, unless that happens internally anyway.. Just make sure you're always getting 10 items or you'll potentially get an ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
list.RemoveRange(5, 5);
That should leave you with the first five items.
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I'm running into a weird thingy here. I'm trying to add a JLabel inside a JTable cell. Label icon may change based on some criteria. I created a dummy project following specs from here: http://javanepal.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/adding-jlabel-in-jtable/
And it works fine. I changed the TableModel to extend from AbstractTableModel instead of DefaultTableModel and when adding a row now I get this if I inspect the Object []:
iconTextGap=4,labelFor=,text=Row 1,Col1,verticalAlignment=CENTER,
verticalTextPosition=CENTER], whatever....]
The code is this, for the TableModel:
public class MyModel extends javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel {
Object[][] row = {{new JLabel("Row 1 Col 1"), "Row 1 Col 2", "Row 1 Col3"},
{new JLabel("Row 2 Col 1"), "Row 2 Col 2", "Row 2 Col3"},
{new JLabel("Row 3 Col 1"), "Row 3 Col 2", "Row 3 Col3"},
{new JLabel("Row 4 Col 1"), "Row 4 Col 2", "Row 4 Col3"}};
Object[] col = {"Column 1", "Column 2", "Column 3"};
protected Vector<Object> data;
public void addRow(Object o[]) {
if (o[i] == null) {
o[i] = new String();
fireTableRowsInserted(data.size() - 1, data.size() - 1);
public MyModel() {
data = new Vector<Object>();
//Adding rows
for (Object[] r : row) {
public Class getColumnClass(int columnIndex) {
if (columnIndex == 0) {
return getValueAt(0, columnIndex).getClass();
} else {
return super.getColumnClass(columnIndex);
public int getColumnCount() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return 0;
public int getRowCount() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return 0;
public Object getValueAt(int arg0, int arg1) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
Here is the code for the testing class:
public class MyTableTest extends JFrame {
public MyTableTest(String title) {
public void showGUI() {
JTable table = new JTable();
table.setModel(new MyModel());//invoking our custom model
table.setDefaultRenderer(JLabel.class, new Renderer());// for the rendering of cell
JScrollPane jp = new JScrollPane(table);
setSize(500, 300);
public static void main(String[] args) {
MyTableTest t = new MyTableTest("Table Custom");
I'm really confused why this happens, the message is not very clarifying regarding the issue.
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You did not post the message, nor what the problem is. But just looking at your code I can already remark a number of issues
1. Why bother storing JLabel instances in your TableModel. If you want to render the contents of your TableModel by using JLabel instances, you can do this in the renderer
2. Your TableModel implementation returns 0 for both the model and row count (see your getColumnCount() and getRowCount() methods)
3. Your getValueAt always returns null, leading to a NullPointerException in your getColumnClass method since you use getValueAt(0, columnIndex).getClass()
4. Please call the contents of your main method on the EDT
Solve these first and see what happens
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hehehe put both answers together and right now will be there valuable answer, +1 – mKorbel Jan 26 '12 at 23:54
@mKorbel Indeed. It seems we both missed some points (or left it for the other to share the upvotes). +1 for your answer – Robin Jan 26 '12 at 23:56
@Robin Well the code is a mix of the example and the table I'm actually using and did it before going to bed, was really tired and didn't bother about unimplemented methods. The first point is absolutely right and lead me to the solution. I'm just checking the column index in the Renderer and return a JLabel instead of a String. Thanks! +1 and correct answer :) – AlejandroVK Jan 27 '12 at 8:46
@mKorbel Hi, I don't really get your first 2 points. And the 3rd, what is the problem of using Object[][] in an AbstractTableModel, specification says nothing wrong about that...docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/…;, please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway thanks for you time and help :), really appreciate it. – AlejandroVK Jan 27 '12 at 8:48
1) you can't put JLabel to the Cell, Cell by default returns JComponent/JLabel
2) you can't put Icon to JLabel, put Icon to JTable directly
3) your AbstractTableModel has mistake ýou declare for Object[][]/Object[] and Model is based on Vector, by changing Object[][] to Vector<Vector<Object>> / Object[] to Vector<String> you can remove this issue
4) don't use AbstractTableModel, no reason if you can't restrict or override methods from DefaultTableModel
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If use JXTreeTable, i will set column 0 is a label type
ArrayNode dataRow = new ArrayNode(new Object[]{new JLabel("text",icon), ...});
// add Root --> Set TreeTableModel
jxTreeTable.setTreeCellRenderer(new TreeCellRenderer() {
public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(JTree tree, Object value, boolean selected, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int row, boolean hasFocus) {
AbstractMutableTreeTableNode data = (AbstractMutableTreeTableNode) value;
if (data.isLeaf()) {// Is Leaf as Label
return (JLabel) data.getValueAt(0); // Value 0 is a label
} else if(data.getValueAt(0)!=null){ // Is Root
return new JLabel(data.getValueAt(0).toString());
}else{ // IsRoot, but is Cell Null Value
return new JLabel("");
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Missing a } bracket. Alo, would You care to comment, how is it actually related to the question? – Kamiccolo Dec 17 '13 at 16:25
Thanks! Kamiccolo – Vu Duy Hao Dec 23 '13 at 7:49
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For a function that I am writing, the output is a dataframe. But how do i assign the values that are in one of the columns of my dataframe to objects?
For example, if I have 2 vectors that I cbind into a dataframe
>numbers<-c(33, 44, 55, 66)
>names<-c("A", "B", "C", "D")
>MYdataframe<-data.frame(cbind(names, numbers))
I will get this:
names numbers
1 A 33
2 B 44
3 C 55
4 D 66
But how do I assign the numbers (e.g. 33) to objects (e.g. A)
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What programming language are you writing in? Please tag the question accordingly. – Matt Ball Feb 3 '12 at 1:13
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It does not look like a very good idea: your function would be assigning variables in the global environment, or in its parent environment, instead of returning something. If you want to return several values, you can put them in a named list, e.g., list(A=3.14, B=2.71), or a vector if they all have the same type (they do, if you can put them in a data.frame).
In addition, in your example, cbind converts the numbers into factors: I am not sure this is intentional.
However, if you really insist, this can be done with assign.
d_ply( MYdataframe, "names", function(u)
assign( as.character(u$names[1]), u$numbers, envir=.GlobalEnv)
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+1 Caution is very strongly encouraged. R has no serious checking for whether or not the user is going to do something bad with an assignment. – Iterator Feb 3 '12 at 3:39
If you really wanted to use the character values as names and the numeric values as "names' for a numeric vector then this would do it:
names(numbers) <- names
# A B C D
#33 44 55 66
# A
# 33
Maybe you should say what you really want, as well as choosing names for your objects that are not function names (names is a function) will help us keep things sorted out in our heads.
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How can I remove a substring from a string using Perl? For example, $URL contains http://xyz.com/Main#abcd.aspx
And I want to check and strip out 'Main#' from $URL Can anyone help me out?
Well first I need to check that whether the string Main# exist or not. If it exists, then strip it; otherwise nothing needs to be done. So only an if statement.
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Next time, don't community wiki the question. Thats not what it is for. – Kent Fredric Jun 14 '09 at 21:47
I am sorry! didnt knew that! – Subho Halder Jun 14 '09 at 21:55
@KentFredric this seems I was right making this a community wiki question, since this is a basic question, viewed by millions now !! – Subho Halder Aug 13 at 16:30
No. SO editors can still edit any question they have permission to. Lots of viewers doesn't mean anything in terms of "is it wikiable". It is a finite question, and there are finite, non-subjective right answers. Thus, it is not really "wiki" material. "I'll make this a wiki" was a bit of an "I'm new here, this sounds like a good idea" newbie mistake in 2009. – Kent Fredric Aug 14 at 7:40
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use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::Split qw( uri_split uri_join );
my $str = "http://xyz.com/Main#abc.aspx"
my ($scheme, $auth, $path, $query, $frag) = uri_split( $str );
That will give you the URI as a series of tokens, but beyond that, the specifics of what you want to do are a bit unclear.
1. Are you trying to extract the Path so you can use it?
2. Are you trying to recompose the URI without a path?
3. Are you trying to extract only a specific node in the path?
4. Are you trying to recompose the URI without a specific node in the path
5. Are you trying to filter out only the literal string 'Main' , not anything else?
Well first i need to check that whether the string #Main exist or not, if it exist then strip it otherwise nothing to be done, so only an if statement
if( $str =~ /#Main/ ){
$str =~ s/#Main//g;
This will remove the literal string '#Main' from anywhere in the url if it exists. This could also just be written as
$str =~ s/#Main//g;
Because if it doesn't exist, no replacements will be done.
Notable Complications
If you are trying to retrieve a URI from a web-client, as in, it is a request string, you'll likely find the #.* part, also known as the document fragment, is already removed from the URI when you get it. This is how in my experience web-clients behave.
I'm pretty sure there's an RFC somewhere specifying this to behave like this, but lazyness--
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$URL =~ s/Main#//;
Which is a no-op if "Main#" isn't present.
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'perldoc perlop' -- look in the s/// section
'perldoc perlre'' -- read the entire document
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$URL =~ s/Main#//;
will strip out the first instance of Main#. Adding g after the last / will make it strip out all instances. Stripping out the last instance is less trivial; here are a couple of ways:
$URL = reverse($URL);
$URL =~ s/#niaM//;
$URL = reverse($URL);
$URL =~ s/^(.*)Main#/$1/;
my $index = rindex( $URL, 'Main#' );
if ($index >= 0) { substr( $URL, $index, 5, '' ) }
If you want to do more complex things (like strip out "com" everywhere except in the hostname) you may want to parse the URI with the URI or URI::Split modules.
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Sifting through the charred remains of self-fulfillment,
fruitless efforts to appease an intangible yearning.
Standing on the brink of death, petitioning the value of this pallid life.
What is there that is left to live for?
This all consuming feeling that there's something more?
An internal vacuum; frozen desperate, lonely.
Waiting to be filled by the breath of life.
Ingrained desire for completion, imprinted in creation, the handprint of design.
Restoration awaits a desire to seek; an openness to embrace the intended fulfillment,
willingness to relinquish the shackles of betrayal, to cast off the chains of self-imprisonment.
Living water will quench the intangible thirst (never too thirst again),
calm the churning tides, still the tempest, and part the seas.
Delivering a drowning man to solid land.
Divine compassion lies in wait for the opportunity to bring restitution.
The hand of wrath, empowered to serve justice in light of the defiling of truth,
has been stayed by the deliberate had of mercy.
The debt was channeled through mortal pain and death,
once through one, the risen one, once and for all, for the restoring of all.
Pervasive grace pierces through darkness revealing light.
All that remains is a step in faith, to make a choice.
For too long I've entertained these lies. Self reliance has blinded my sight.
As I turn my eyes towards the fire, a voice beckons to me as I cry.
Relinquish fear, you no longer must hide. Let this Fire, within you reside.
Tempering the fortitude of life, annealing power of light be glorified.
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Audi RS cars are powerhouses. They're brutish, powerful, comfortable, and excessive to the fore, so why should the latest RS 6 break tradition?
The family estate car (or station wagon) has to be a multi-faceted tool. It has to transport parents to work and social events; it needs to be good looking so its owners don't have a metal monolith on the drive reminding them that their choice of car is dull; its boot needs to swallow plenty of 'things' so children and dogs won't get bored; and it really should be a giggle to drive.
Most people will probably look at the likes of Audi, BMW and Mercedes for their estate kicks and, somewhat predictably (in Europe at least), end up going for a quick-but-oh-so-frugal 2.0-litre diesel.
For those seeking something a little extra, Audi's got a car with more than a little extra 'go' up its sleeves -- the RS 6.
This isn't the first generation RS 6, it's the third. Naturally it's the quickest of the lot, too. I'm not talking quick in Golf GTI terms, but in Ferrari terms. See, the guys in the RennSport division take your average Audi and push it as far as it can possibly go; in the case of the RS 6 that means 189 mph. Faster than a Porsche 911.
It's powered by a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V-8, a far cry from the 2.0-litre diesels that make up the bulk of A6 sales, and pushes out 550 bhp. That amount of power isn't out of place in a supercar, a fact noticed by the UK's Daily Mail.
The RS 6 made headlines in the UK's most controversial rag, which asked whether it was too much and whether we needed a family car with near 200 mph capabilities on UK roads. For that reason alone, the RS 6 put a smile on my face.
To drive, the RS 6 is a heavy beast but hides it well. It wears vertical stripes made of sheer power and lag-free throttle response. The RS 6 was made for the Autobahn, not for twisty country lanes, so its power is punishing and instant, while its handling can be a little off -- its steering is its Achilles heel, though not by any great measure.
If you want something that changes direction like a stuck pig, get an M or AMG. If you want a 155mm artillery shell with fine upholstery and an interior that'll outlast your entire family, get an RS 6.
The RS 6 has one job to do: get you places quickly with minimum fuss. And it manages it, all while pinning you to the back of your seat and making you grin like a loon. A loon with 550+ bhp under their right foot. Perfect.
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Those of you who splashed out on the disappointing FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup have been lumped with only half the package. The name on the box should actually have read 'FIFA 06: Road To The Proper World Cup Game We'll Be Releasing Before You Can Load Your First Friendly'. Several months later, if you feel like you've been duped into buying the wrong game, don't say that we didn't warn you!
Less than six months later and the follow-up has landed, coming packed with all the footie goodness that FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup should have had. We're talking about a healthy 127 international teams, 12 stadiums and more gameplay modes than we can be bothered to count. The main course is obviously the FIFA World Cup mode, in which you pick your team and work your way from the qualifying rounds right through to eventually winning the final in Germany and watching your virtual Beckham thrust the shiny World Cup into the air. That should take you a fair amount of time to tackle your way through, and when you've done that, you'll have loads more options to take on.
The standard Play Now mode lets you set up friendly games between any of the 127 teams available, as well as providing a quick way to jump into any stage of the World Cup tournament that you've already reached in the World Cup mode. It's a great way to relive the glory of the finals playing as a different team without the hassle of trawling through the preliminary qualifying rounds over and over again.
Moving further down the Main Menu you'll find a brand new mode called Global Challenge, which throws you into one of 40 famous moments in international football history and lets you change the outcome of the matches. Apart from simply winning, you're set special objectives like finishing a match four goals ahead, and having the ninja skills to complete these objectives will unlock legendary players and old kits which are bound to fill dads and older gamers with nostalgic joy.
There aren't enough old players in here to make a whole team, though, which almost ruins the idea. You can play the heartbreaking 1990 World Cup semi final that England were cheated out of by the Argies - only you're playing it with the current England team instead of the Bobby Robson's 1990 warriors.
Still, put it all together and you have more than enough football to keep you kicking about until EA's next footie instalment arrives which, judging by their current release rate, could be out within the next two weeks or so. But if your Xbox 360 is wired up to Xbox Live you could be playing this for much longer because 2006 FIFA World Cup has a fairly hefty online mode, too.
You can now have up to eight players in a single kick about, increasing on FIFA 06's pitiful maximum of four players - which is great. The coolest thing is being able to host or take part in online World Cup tournaments. If you land yourself in a league full of good-spirited players that don't quit half-way through a losing game, you can have a fantastic time competing in these virtual World Cups. You'll quickly find that these one-chance-only matches against human players are far more tense and a lot more exciting that playing against the AI has ever been before.
But that's only if you're a fan of FIFA's gameplay. We could bang on all day about the game's feature-packed modes and numbers of official things crammed into the disc because that is what EA does best. But it's the core football gameplay that matters most, and it's in that area that FIFA games always seem to fall short. Yes, you already know what football game we're going to mention now, don't you. We can almost hear the sighs of arrogant FIFA buffs, but it's the question that's vital to all football-game-reviews by law. Does it play as well as Pro Evo?
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My premise is A-OK.
I'll say it again:
"You own your stuff on your own property, of course."
The topic is America.
I used Disneyland as I thought you could make the connection. I'll try again.
DDucks is managing Disneyland when someone sneaks over the fence. Dducks lets the guy hang around using most of the facilities and eventually gives the guy a lifetime membership and benefits.
Open borders is not a principled position, because half the country is NOT privately owned, and it is wrong to take it from citizens to give to non-paying foreigners.
I heard the following from Dr. Ron Paul, to paraphrase: "If you don't protect the borders, you don't really have a country, do you?"
The following quote from Ron Paul is from
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RE: What are the chances
By omnicronx on 6/7/2010 12:11:11 PM , Rating: 3
and I would just like to know..
How many birds do you think die a year as a result of a single high rise building with reflective windows? I bet the numbers are comparable..
RE: What are the chances
By Steve1981 on 6/7/2010 12:29:24 PM , Rating: 5
I'd suspect the issue isn't with generic bird deaths, but the types of birds that are more liable to be killed. Killing a few hundred golden eagles in their environment has a lot more consequences than killing a few thousand pigeons in a city.
RE: What are the chances
By omnicronx on 6/7/2010 1:53:50 PM , Rating: 3
Anyone can play devils advocate by throwing around stats like these.
Power lines alone will kill exponentially more raptors and birds of prey each year than wind turbines ever will.
For example a french study found that over 3 years along 180 miles of power lines, they found around 700 carcases in which 30% were birds of prey, including 6 eagles.
The point is these stats are a drop in the bucket compared to other man made ways that even birds of prey can die.
AND FYI I'm not even a wind proponent (i find it a massive waste of space in areas in which other power sources are feasible, i.e it should only be used when not close to a water source), I'm just anti enviro scum. The only people holding back clean energy more than the oil giants..
RE: What are the chances
By Steve1981 on 6/7/2010 2:11:17 PM , Rating: 3
Perhaps; however, I wasn't trying to make some big environmental statement so much as point out the fallacy of comparing bird deaths in a city due to high rise buildings versus raptor deaths in the wild.
RE: What are the chances
By omnicronx on 6/7/2010 4:20:12 PM , Rating: 1
Sorry, was not meant to be a personal attack, was more or less responding to the article not your comments ;)
I'm not one to shoot the messenger ;) You were just reiterating what they were trying to get across, I was merely attempting to play devils advocate against those statements.
RE: What are the chances
By Steve1981 on 6/7/2010 5:37:12 PM , Rating: 2
Not to worry. I'm no hardcore enviro-nut, although I do like a good discussion.
Although if we're playing devils advocate, I would opine that your argument is an example of the two wrongs make a right fallacy, ie since power lines and predators kill raptors, it's ok for wind turbines to do the same.
There is the matter of scale; however: suppose you have a million and one dollars. Say some dastardly person steals your million in the middle of the night. Later that night, in spite of the fact that I can clearly see you've been robbed, I take your last dollar. Obviously, taking that last dollar is wrong, but its arguably all the worse because I'm kicking you when you're down.
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I agree. Its a collaborative problem.
RE: What are the chances
By mcnabney on 6/7/10, Rating: 0
RE: What are the chances
By Reclaimer77 on 6/7/2010 9:36:38 PM , Rating: 4
You just revealed that you know absolutely nothing about wind power. Turbines take up zero real estate since they are either offshore or scattered around fields of crops or grazing cows.
In their current super-limited implementation, sure. But the only way for wind power to provide enough energy for a significant number of people, is to take up MASSIVE amounts of land or oceanfront.
RE: What are the chances
RE: What are the chances
By Iaiken on 6/7/2010 12:33:58 PM , Rating: 3
Just one pair of buildings is responsible for over 7000 bird deaths over the course of a 10 year study here in Toronto:
There are numerous buildings along various flight paths and the last gross estate I heard was somewhere in the 90,000 birds a year range in the greater Toronto area.
It is an especially large problem here, because The Great Lakes are a barrier to most small birds. Many of them follow the coasts until they reach the Niagara peninsula and Windsor regions. Because the coast is built up from Scarborough, Toronto and Mississauga all the way around to Hamilton, you're looking at a 100km long gauntlet of often reflective skyscrapers and tall buildings.
RE: What are the chances
By FaceMaster on 6/7/2010 1:10:05 PM , Rating: 2
Natural selection in action.
RE: What are the chances
By MrBlastman on 6/7/2010 12:53:29 PM , Rating: 5
I think this is great.
Just the other day I noticed one of the screens on our screened-in porch was dented in at the top and now I have to fix it. It is obvious a bird caused it, and I'm sure they cause this all across America in many homes.
These Wind Farms are not a problem at all, the environmentalists just aren't looking at it properly. With all the talk of unemployment in America, lack of proper healthcare and lackluster jobs growth, these people need to re-assess their studies. Wind Farms are providing many benefits that clearly can be seen if you look a little further into it:
1. America eats birds program: People near these farms are STARVING! Not only do they need affordable power, they also need food! Dead birds=food... for cheap! They already have paid their power bills, now they get discounted birds in their supermarkets (or, they could drive up and participate in an "America eats birds" program.
2. Scrounging hour: This will also help the wind farms cut costs by allowing the people to come onto the lots on "scrounging hour" to pick the best of the bunch to fill their bellies.
3. Cash-For-Feathers program: Look, shelter capacity is at an all time demand lately and we just can't afford to open any more of them. These birds have a lucrative byproduct other than their organ meat. They have feathers! If you allow Americans to trade-in their feathers (after they eat the rest of the bird) in the "Cash-For-Feathers" program, our Government can then use these feathers to fill pillows and mattresses in shelters across the country.
I feel horrible for all those that are impoverished these days and this is the least our government can do to capitalize on this untapped resource.
4. Stylin' for America: In this program, citizens can turn in the beaks of the birds they eat in to our Government so it can subsidize Shampoo and Skin-Care products for everyone! Keratin is vital for revitalizing our beauty. Now there will be no excuse at all for Americans not looking their best.
And most importantly,
5. Hot Dogs n' Ballparks for kids: When our economy is down, more Americans should be watching Baseball, our national pasttime (who knew?!). With the advent of inflated ticket prices due to athletes being paid absurd amounts of money (they work really hard!), it has become grossly harder for the average family to afford the essentials of a good game: peanuts and hot dogs.
Well, we can fix that, America! With the Hot Dogs n' Ballparks program, all Americans who consume birds from these Windfarms can use a Government™ Nitrate Rectal Extration Kit™ to pull valuable nitrates straight from the dead birds and send it in to dramatically reduce Hot Dog processing costs! This will lower expenses at ballparks around our great country and help fill the stands, letting us forget about the hard times that are upon us. People from afar can come 'sportin their new do's and bring their Government™ stuffed cushions to sit on.
So, what did we learn here, kids? Think! That's right environmentalists, this is an opportunity! Help America be strong, help their problems... fly away.
RE: What are the chances
By FrankJBones on 6/9/2010 9:41:52 AM , Rating: 2
You tried WAY too hard and made it pathetic instead of funny.
I would only recommend watching baseball to those in the population who need non-invasive lobotomies. Looks like you already got yours. One down, a few million neocons and born-again christians to go.
RE: What are the chances
By Clenathan on 6/7/2010 3:02:01 PM , Rating: 2
So because wind farm-related deaths may be lower than high rise building deaths it's ok? Let's keep doing harmful things as long as they aren't as bad as the existing ones. Just another reason for nuclear.
RE: What are the chances
By kd9280 on 6/8/2010 7:44:02 AM , Rating: 2
It's not that they're lower. It's that they're insignificant.
Using the low end of the bird deaths from hi-rises (according to the American Bird Conservancy) we have just about 100 million deaths annually. The low end of bird deaths from Wind Farms is 10,000 deaths annually. That's 1 death from a wind farm for every 1000 deaths from hi-rises.
Using the high end, it's even more ridiculous, almost 25000 deaths from hi-rises to every 1 death from a wind farm.
All it is is scare tactics and attempting to influence from fear.
RE: What are the chances
By kd9280 on 6/8/2010 7:44:47 AM , Rating: 2
Whoops, math fail - 1 death from wind farms for every 10000 deaths from hi-rises.
RE: What are the chances
By muIIet on 6/8/2010 11:07:13 AM , Rating: 3
I fault Windex not the building.
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November, 2005: Functional Programming in Java
Mark is a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He can be contacted at
Although Java supports composition of classes and interfaces through the "extend" and "implements" features, it does not allow composition of functions. Functional programming languages such as Haskell (, support composition of functions because functions are first-class objects and support currying. When functions are first-class objects, they may be assigned to variables, passed as arguments to other functions, and returned as the result of functions. Currying allows function arguments to be applied one at a time, creating a new function with one less argument.
Java 1.5 has recently been released with generics (see "Generics in the Java Programming Language," by Gilad Bracha, Generic Java (GJ) lets you further specify the typing of classes and objects. This is used to guarantee type safety at compile time, rather than guaranteeing type safety at runtime by using casts. Generics are types that exist at compile time only, and that makes them different than C++ templates that instantiate new types that exist at runtime. Nevertheless, there are similarities in what can be achieved; the main influence for this work came from examples in C++ (see "Making C++ Ready for Algorithmic Skeletons," by Jörg Striegnitz;
Currying and Function Objects
Currying allows passing one parameter at a time to a function. For example, in Haskell, a function to add two numbers would be:
add :: Int -> (Int -> Int)
add x y = x + y
where the first line is the type of the function, and the second line is the implementation of the function. The function type shows that add takes an Int as its first argument, an Int for its second argument, and returns an Int as a result. But what if only one Int is passed to add? Then a new function is created that takes an Int for its argument and returns an Int as a result. For example, you can define a new function:
inc :: Int -> Int
inc = add 1
so function inc takes an Int for an argument and returns an Int as a result. It increments its argument by one to get its result.
In Effective Java Programming Language Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Joshua Bloch gives a description of using a class containing only one function, then using an instance of the class to represent that function. The term "function object" can be used to describe this concept. Because Java does not allow first-class functions, function objects may be used instead.
What should the syntax of calling one argument at a time look like in Java? In Haskell, function arguments are delimited by spaces, so that adding 1 and 2 would look like add 1 2. C++ has operator overloading for parentheses so that passing arguments one at a time to add could look like add(1)(2). In Java, you invoke a method of a function object to emulate a call of one argument at a time. To minimize syntax, I picked a one-letter method named x for the next argument. Calling the add function object in Java would be add.x(1).x(2). The syntax of the three languages is:
add 1 2 -- Haskell
add(1)(2) // C++
add.x(1).x(2) // Java
Functional Programming in Java
I have implemented classes to support functional programming in Java and give some examples before describing the implementation.
A new function object derives from a function object base class, and implements a call method. There is a different function object base class needed for functions requiring different numbers of arguments. The function object base class for functions requiring two arguments has the name Function.O2. It has generic-type parameters indicating the type of each argument, and a final type parameter indicating the return type of the function. The add function earlier would be written as Example 1(a).
In Haskell, the type of a function is indicated by the syntax A->R, where A is the argument type of the function, and R is the result type of the function. The type of a function with two arguments would look like A1->(A2->R), where A1 is the type of the first argument, A2 the type of the second argument, and R the result type. In GJ, this can be emulated with Fcn<A, R> representing a function object needing one argument, and Fcn<A1, Fcn<A2, R>> representing a function object needing two arguments. The function object type of the Add function object just mentioned would be Fcn<Integer, Fcn<Integer, Integer>>. An increment function object, inc, would then have type Fcn<Integer, Integer>, as in Example 1(b).
A more interesting example might be incrementing every element of a collection. The Transform function object takes a function and applies it to a collection. It takes three arguments: a function object, an input collection to which the function will be applied, and a new collection in which the final result will be placed. Example 1(c) is an example of using the Transform function object to increment all the elements of a collection. Notice that in Example 1(c), there was no need to write new functions. Instead, results were achieved by combining existing function objects.
The mechanics for function objects is achieved through five classes and one interface. The interface Fcn is used to type function objects. The abstract class Executioner aids in the mechanics of implementation. The class Nil is used to terminate argument lists. The main implementation is split into three parts: argument lists, partial functions, and function object base classes. These parts are:
• Fcn is the interface for all function objects. It is key to typing all function objects by their argument type and return type. It also declares the x method for processing the next argument; see Example 2(a).
• Executioner contains one method that will execute the requested function. It has just one argument, which is assumed to be an argument list. It unfolds the argument list into its individual arguments to make the actual function call; see Example 2(b).
• Nil is an almost empty class used to terminate an argument list; see Example 2(c).
Three main classes supply the implementation that allows for function objects to exist in Java.
• Argument Lists are implemented by class ArgList (see, available electronically; see "Resource Center, page 4). This class keeps track of arguments as they are passed in one at a time. It is a heterogeneous list, as each argument could have a different type.
• Partial function objects are implemented in class Partial (see, available electronically). This class holds several classes, each representing the number of arguments left in a function call. A partial function object is a function that has some of its arguments applied, but not others.
• Function object base classes are implemented in class Function (see, available electronically). This class holds several classes, each representing the number of arguments in the original function. A function object base class is an abstract class with an abstract call method containing the specified number of arguments. A user creates a new function object by extending from a function object base class and implementing its call method.
Argument Lists
Because arguments are accumulated one at a time, a data structure is needed in which to keep the arguments. The first thing that comes to mind is the Java Collection's class LinkedList. Unfortunately, class LinkedList has the same type for every element of the list, whereas an argument list has a different type for every argument. Inspired by Andrei Alexandrescu's Typelists in Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied (Addison-Wesley, 2001) using C++ templates, a similar structure can be built using GJ. Class ArgList has two type parameters, the first representing the first element of the list and the second representing the rest of the list. By convention, the rest of the list is either empty (represented by class Nil) or includes another ArgList with two more types. Arguments are always added to an arglist at the front. For example:
new ArgList(an, arglist)
where an is the current argument being added, and arglist is the existing argument list. Because of this, the arguments always end up in reverse order in argument lists. Thus, the type of an argument list with three arguments of types T1, T2, and T3 would be:
ArgList<T3, <ArgList< T2, ArgList<T1, Nil>>>
Static accessor functions are supplied that retrieve the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth elements of an argument list. A static function is used because it forces an object of type ArgList to be passed as an argument. Passing an object as a function parameter allows us to infer the type of the object, and each of the accessor functions infers a different type. (available electronically) shows the ArgList class and its static accessor functions.
Partial Function Objects
Partial function objects are function objects that have received at least one of their arguments and have at least one argument that has not been specified. Each partial function object keeps an argument list of arguments that have already been passed and an Executioner object that knows how to execute the required function when the argument list is complete. There is a different partial function object for each number of arguments left in a calling sequence. Each partial function object needs to implement the x method given by the Fcn interface. A partial function object with one argument left, Partial.O1, as in (available electronically), executes the required function when its x method is invoked after prepending the final argument to form the completed argument list. A partial function object with two arguments left, Partial.O2, has an x method that prepends its argument to the argument list and then creates a new partial function object needing one more argument. Partial function objects with three or more arguments left are similar to a partial function object with two arguments left. Each additional argument requires another generic type parameter, and each x method creates a new partial function object with one less argument left.
All of the implemented partial functions are in (available electronically) as members of class Partial. Each is named by the letter O for object, which is followed by the number of arguments left before making the function call. Partial function objects O1 through O4 have been implemented. shows that the x method does not create a new partial function object directly, but instead calls a static make function that creates the new partial function object. The make method is able to infer the proper type parameters through its argument list.
Partial function objects extend from the appropriate function object base class, implementing the inherited call method so that a partial function object may have its argument list completed all at once. Another advantage of partial function objects extending from function object base classes is that the function object base classes may be used for typing function objects. Rather than using the more verbose type for a function with three arguments, Fcn<A1, Fcn<A2, Fcn<A3, R>>>>, the simpler form of Function.O3<A1, A2, A3, R> may be used.
Function Object Base Classes
Usually a new function object is derived from one of the function object base classes. There is a different function object base class for each number of arguments in the original function call. Every function object base class has an abstract call method that is the function that will eventually be executed when all parameters are present. The function object base class for functions of one argument, Function.O1, is simpler than function object base classes with more arguments. It implements the x method from its inherited interface Fcn by simply calling its abstract call method.
The function object base class for functions of two arguments, Function.O2, sets the pattern for function object base classes with more than two arguments:
• It has three generic arguments, <T1, T2, R>, indicating the type of each function argument, T1 and T2, and the return type, R, of the function.
• It has an abstract call method that accepts two arguments of the correct type representing a function that gets executed.
• It implements interface Fcn<T1, Fcn<T2, R>> with an implementation of method x that creates a partial function object needing one more argument for a complete argument list.
• Because it creates a partial function object, it needs to supply an Executioner. It does this by extending the Executioner and implementing the calls method. Notice that the arguments are in reverse order from the list. The calls method calls the abstract call method.
Higher Order Function Objects
Higher order function objects are function objects that take other function objects as arguments. In doing so, they allow functions to be combined, creating new functionality without writing new functions.
A simple example would be function object Twice. It takes two arguments: a function and an argument for that function. It then applies that function twice to the argument. This is demonstrated by the Haskell code:
twice f z = f(f(z))
The type of twice says that its first argument is a function whose argument type and return type are the same. Using this information, the equivalent Java function object could be written as:
public class Twice<A>
extends Function.O2<Fcn<A, A>, A, A> {
public Twice() { }
public A call(Fcn<A, A> f, A z)
{ return f.x(f.x(z)); }
For example, you could use this to increment a value twice:
System.out.println("Twice inc 5 = ",
(new Twice<Integer>()).x(inc).x(5));
As a convenience, a static make function can be added to class Twice that will infer the argument type and return type given the original function:
public static <A> Fcn<A, A> make(Fcn<A, A> f) {
return (new Twice<A>()).x(f);
Now it is easier to print out the example:
System.out.println("Twice inc 5 =" + Twice.make(inc).x(5));
Another higher order function object is composition, where the composition of two functions is defined as applying first one function and then another. The Haskell code would look like the following:
(f . g) z = f(g(z))
This defines ".", dot, to be the composition operator. It takes two functions and a value. It applies the second function to the argument and then applies the first function to that result. The argument type of the first function must be the same as the return type of the second function. Because Java does not have overloaded operators, I chose the name FoG to stand for F of G. The FoG function object is as follows:
public class FoG<A, B, C>
extends Function.O3<Fcn<B, C>, Fcn<A, B>, A, C> {
public FoG() { }
public C call(Fcn<B, C> f, Fcn<A, B> g, A z) { return f.x(g.x(z)); }
As with Twice, a static make function can be written that will take the first two arguments and infer the type of the function object:
public static <A, B, C> Fcn<A, C>
make(Fcn<B, C> f, Fcn<A, B> g)
{ return (new FoG<A, B, C>()).x(f).x(g); }
You may notice that using FoG with the same function twice has the same effect as using the Twice function object:
System.out.println("FoG inc inc 5 = " + FoG.make(inc, inc).x(5));
Transform is the final higher order function object described here. This is similar to the Haskell map function, but because the map name is already used by the Java collections, I borrowed the name "Transform" from the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). The Haskell map function is defined as:
map f [] = []
map f x:xs = f(x) : map f xs
The map applies the function passed as its first argument to every element of the list passed as its second argument and returns a new list. In Java, there are many collection types, not just lists, so the Transform function object takes any Java collection as its second argument and takes a third function argument, which will be the output collection. (available electronically) shows the implementation of the Transform function object. An example of the Transform function object was presented earlier in Example 1(c).
More Efficient Higher Order Function Objects
Combining function objects through higher order function objects can ease the task of programming, but this abstraction can be expensive in time and space. Arguments are put on argument lists, and partial function objects are created. It is therefore worth some effort to create more efficient function objects. The higher order function objects offer a good example. Each higher order function object has a static make method that builds a partial function object given one or two initial arguments. Instead of creating a partial function object, a specialized function object for the task at hand can be written. This technique is demonstrated in class Transform of There is an internal class FcnObject that has a constructor with one argument, the function to be applied. Its call method takes two arguments, the collection with the inputs and the collection that receives the outputs. The static make method creates one of these objects.
Another advantage for the Transform function object is that it is easier to type the function object. For example, using the Fcn<T, R> function, typing the type of the function object returned from Transform.make would be:
Fcn<Collection<Integer>, Fcn<Collection <Integer>, Collection<Integer>>>
incList = Transform.make(inc);
It might be somewhat easier to give the type using Transform.FcnObject:
Transform.FcnObject<Integer, Integer>
incList = Transform.make(inc);
Functional programming allows for greater expressiveness through higher order functions that allow functions to be combined, creating new functionality without writing new functions. With the aid of GJ, function objects with curried arguments can be created that allow for higher order function objects and extend Java to have some of the features and advantages of a functional programming language.
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Most Arabs left Jaffa after the city's leaders and those who could afford it had left. Most Arabs left what is now Israel in 1948 mostly at the request of their current hosts whilst they attempted to “push the Jews into the sea”. A former Syrian Prime Minister, Khaled al-Azm, writing in his memoirs, published in 1973, confirmed that, “Since 1948, it is we who demand the return of the refugees while it is we who made them leave. We brought disaster upon a million Arab refugees by inviting them and bringing pressure on them to leave. We have accustomed them to begging…all this in the service of political purposes.” Israel invited them all to return in 1948 to live beside them in peace but they, or their representatives, wouldn’t.
Of all the millions of displaced persons following WW2 the Palestinians should have been the easiest to settle. They shared the culture, religion, language and race of their host communities who had plenty of room for them. Indeed many were from what is now Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria originally.
The role of the UN in all this has been a crime against humanity. Through UNWRA, an agency that exists solely for the maintenance of the Palestinian’s refugee status, the claims of a “right of return” have been kept alive while leaving Palestinians locked into an impossible limbo that denies Israel’s right to exist. This has been accomplished for sixty years by pouring in millions to underwrite all or most of their housing, food, education through university, medical care and social services whilst colluding with their hosts to prevent them from leaving or obtaining citizenship. Compared to the millions of refugees settled in the year or two after WW2 none had a set up remotely as generous and it continues to this day. On top of UNWRA assistance, the Palestinian Arabs also receive a total of a billion dollars a year in aid from other United Nations agencies, the United States, the European Community, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, and Iran.
The contrast with the treatment of the 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands could not be starker. They were mostly resident in Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, etc. since before Islam was invented but ejected with nothing and no UN help. These Jews were made citizens of Israel, given tents, food, medical care and work. There were no complaints. They just got on with it. An exchange of population had occurred; the Arab nations got their people and Israel got theirs so that should, in a sane world, be it. They effectively doubled Israel’s population and to this day, Jewish refugees from Arab lands and their descendents make up more than half the population of Israel.
Whilst the Jews went on to build the biggest economy and the most civilised society in the Middle East their counterparts in Arab lands were left to fester, denied citizenship, travel or work, manipulated by Arab despots like Assad and Nasser. Stolen from by their trusted representatives like Arafat and forced into human shields by the most violent terrorists in the world. After 60 years they are still political tools, kept as a human wave to overrun Israel for when the Arabs destroy Israel. Well, Israel is not about to let that happen.
Reading this article, one would think the poor Arabs of Jaffa were peacefully coexisting with the Jews, when the ruthless Jewish militias suddenly decided to ethnically cleanse the city.If the author had even a minimal amount of decency, he should have mentioned that the Arab inhabitants of Jaffa (and the British mandate in general) started an all-out war to eradicate the Jewish inhabitants, and that Jaffa was used numerous times as a base for mortar attacks against Tel-Aviv. This was the reason for the Irgun's attack on it (which succeeded, as Jaffa was retaken by Irgun forces with Haganah assistence, despite the intervention of the British forces on behalf of the Arabs).Unlike other human catastrophes, especially the Holocaust, here the "victims" were very much to blame for their plight.
As a relatively moderate Israeli, this article has lots of mistakes.
First of all, no mention that the arabs didnt accept the Partition plan, with more or less all the middle eastern countries sending their soldiers to abolish the new jewish country, not that i have any problems with that, if i would be arab i would probably do the same, the problem is that the writer of this article makes it sounds like the crazy jewish terrorist attacked the city while arabs putting their white flags and growing their oranges, if you declare a war and lose there are consequences, if you win, you win, if you lose you pay a price (Even the pacificist Swedish made a hit song called "the winner gets it all")
Once again the Holocaust is mentioned as a parallel to the "nakba", well, with all the respect i wont even start to explain the diffrences, i didnt expect the writer to do a parallel between the nakba and the violent deportation of jews from arab countries (My father tells me that we have a very big home in Baghdad 50 years ago, he doesnt care about it, neither do I, thats the diffrence between moving on and hating)
So, let this writer keep on writing and feeding us information that is by the least uninforming, send him to gaza to tell us how the israeli occupation has to do with the violent slaughter Hamas executed against his brothers from the Fatah, send him to Iraq so he can explain how the mystified Nakba has to do with arabs targetting their own brothers in terrorist attacks, send him to Lebanon to inform us all of the Israeli occupation has to do with those machine guns going off in the streets, send him to London and Madrid to explain how the Nakba has to do with frustration of young Muslims attacking their own country.
The Economist is better than this emotional uninformative Blog, so many facts here are out of order, the editor is on a break? :)
The city of Jaffa is, literally, thousands of years old. The Arabs who resided there prior to 1948 were certainly not it's "original inhabitants" nor were they descendants of them nor were they, even, lords of the land. Rather, they are descendants of Arabs who moved there from other parts of the Ottoman empire after the Ottoman conquest of the land of Israel and both they and the city's Jewish inhabitants were subjects of the Ottomans. The tide of the middle East has now turned, the Jewish people have regained control of their homeland, Jews who resided in Arab lands have returned home (largely expelled by their Arab neighbors - a little point which the Economist chooses to overlook) and the Arab residents of Jaffa have returned to the Arab lands whence they came (after failing in their attempt to massacre their Jewish neighbors - another little point which the Economist chooses to overlook).Such injustice as exists in the story of the 'Palestinians' comes later, when their own people refused to allow them to resettle as citizens in Arab lands, sequestering them and all their descendants for generations in refugee camps and subjugating them to poverty and humiliation, in stark contrast to the manner in which tiny Israel welcomed and assimilated the flood of Jewish refugees from Arab lands. This is all very convenient for Arab leaders as the artificial plight of the 'Palestinians' deflects public attention from their despotic regimes.
Everyone knows emotions run high on this topic. However, I believe the author's primary point is to lament the loss of connection between people and place.
Everyone also knows that Jews have been expelled from almost every home they have ever inhabited. This story merely highlights the fact that Palestinians also know this particular pain.
The difference is that the Jews have been compressed into a new homeland, while the Jaffans have been expelled out. The cost of this awkward process has been so high that Jews, Arabs, and the wider world continue to pay it. That sadness, I think, is what compelled this writer to tell this tale.
Istrob:The unprovoked Israeli attack on Jaffa was only the beginning of 60 years Palestinian suffering. And the UN has been powerless to help.The role of the UN in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has indeed been a crime against humanity. While Palestinians are expected to submit meekly to any and all Israeli-imposed degradation, humiliation and all-out aggression, America's blind political and military support as well as its automatic anti-Palestine veto at the UN has crippled any attempts to apply a fair and lasting solution to the conflict.Worse yet, in gross violation of the Oslo Accords, Jewish settlements keep growing and expanding like a cancer on Palestinian land. The Israeli apartheid system purposely keeps water supplies and the most fertile plots in Jewish hands therefore forcing Palestinian farmers to abandon their remaining land. Israel systematically, and in clear violation of international law, applies collective punishment to the Palestinian population in the form of fuel boycotts, its purposeful destruction of civilian infrastructure and its ongoing economic stranglehold of Gaza. The current Israeli regime launched over a million cluster bombs against civilian targets in southern Lebanon in 2006 after a cease-fire agreement had been reached, rendering more than one quarter of the cultivatable land useless. Numerous Israeli prime ministers have been accused of terrorist atrocities and war crimes during countless attacks on their Palestinian subjects and invasions of neighboring Arab countries.These facts (and this is only the tip of the iceberg) clearly illustrate that the primary intent of the Israeli government is to prevent the creation of a viable Palestinian state through the forcible elimination of the original Arab inhabitants. Indeed, Israel's strategy in Palestine has been a carbon copy of the colonisation of America and Australia where waves of foreign-born colonists with religious grievances and vastly superior weaponry simply liquidated the original inhabitants and left those remaining to rot on small patches of unproductive land.Perverse as it may sound, the rise of Iran as a regional power will bring about peace in the region. Given Israel's enormous military advantage, only a balance of power will result in the stalemate which is the prerequisite to peace. When Iran demonstrates a nuclear weapons capability to counter Israel's existing arsenal, the Palestinian people will finally have a realistic chance of throwing off the yoke of Israeli oppression.
im ern:Regarding your rather astounding claim that : " the Israeli state is founded upon the basis of being an exclusively jewish state ... one that is purely jewish and had no place for the then current residents of that godforsaken land" I find it almost embarrassing to point out the easily checkable fact that some 25% of the citizens of Israel are not Jewish but are, in fact, Muslim, Christian, Druze, Bahai etc. All 'Palestinian' Arabs who remained in Israel were given Israeli citizenship. Yes, Israel is a Jewish state (as all Arab states are Arab and, generally, also Muslim) but, from its inception, Israel has had a place for non-Jews: a place that includes full citizenship. As an aside allow me to ask you to compare that to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries which a Jew may not even visit, let alone become a citizen of.
In May 1948 I was still in the British Army, stationed in the Canal Zone of Egypt. I heard on Egyptian radio President Naguib, Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Army, repeat the following pronouncement incessantly: "Dalat ayam fi Tel Abib. (In three days we will be in Tel Aviv.) Moslems of Lod, Ramleh and Jaffa, leave your homes for a few days. The Egyptian Army will pass through your towns on the way to Tel Aviv and after you have left only Jews will remain there. We will drive them all into the sea."
rchrenko:Clearly, we have very different views of the nature of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict but I think that we will certainly get nowhere unless we can agree on the facts. And by 'we' I don't only mean the two of us. I won't attempt to debate all the factual claims you have made in your posts in a single post of my own but allow me to reply to, what seems to me to be, your central question: "So why doesn't Israel take the bold step of trying to *help* Palestinians rather than further oppress them?" Well, rchrenko, the obvious answer is that Israel has, almost ad nauseam, done exactly that, only to have the 'Palestinians' use whatever help Israel gave it (territory, arms, money, political backing, freedom of movement, release of terrorists, etc., etc.) to attack and murder Israelis. Having gone through this ritual many, many dozens of times Israelis are rather reluctant to go through it again unless they see a real possibility of a different outcome. The root problem here, rchrenko, is that the 'Palestinians' have not yet come to terms with the existence of Israel and still persist in pursuing its destruction. They won't succeed (and shouldn't) but until they finally make peace with the fact of Israel's existence they will give israel no peace and will receive none in return. The problem is that given the massive incitement against Israel and the wall-to-wall denial of it's right to exist (which starts with some pretty creative historical revisionism) in 'Palestinian' society, the chances that the 'Palestinians' will come to accept Israel and cease to dream of its destruction in the foreseeable future seem virtually non-existent. "So just what", you ask, "is the motivation for Palestinians to stop shooting?" The answer is: a viable Palestinian state in most of the West-Bank and Gaza, as Israel has been offering them for a long time now. Until they truly accept that as being enough we can look forwards to nothing but more of the same.
Zionisms "disregard" of the Arabs was a grave mistake, but not a significant mistake. The present conflict is not based solely on cultural "misunderstandings".Islam does not accept the existence of a free and democratic Jewish state in the midst of Muslim dictatorships". So they fight to remove this undesirable thorn. So understanding and good relations would have been very pleasant but would not have changed the FUNDAMENTAL agenda of Islam to have Israel removed.
im ern (continuation):Next. After extolling the virtues of Jewish life under benevolent Muslim rule you lament that in Israel, Arabs are, at best, second class citizens. Well, second class citizens they are certainly not: they are afforded all of the rights given to Jewish citizens while being exempt from the duty of military service (although, and this is a telling point, quite a few Arab Israelis waive their exemption, volunteer to serve in the IDF and do so with distinction). This does not mean that on the informal level no Arab Israeli has ever been given cause to feel prejudice - certainly, they are checked more thoroughly at security checkpoints than are most of their fellow Jewish citizens - but that is an unfortunate consequence of the nature of the situation, is openly apologized for and in no way makes them second class citizens. If you'd like to know what second class citizens are, go back to the last paragraph of my previous post.Next. You ask: "do you not agree that palestinians were actually living in the rest of the country when jewish immigrants began to arrive?" Well, im ern, the answer to that is: No, the vast majority of the land was uninhabited and utterly barren, Yes, there were several hundred thousand Arabs living in the land at the advent of the Zionist movement, No, they had no separate national identity or culture, No, they had no sovereignty over the land, No, they were not alone - Jews were also living in the land (and had been doing so for far, far longer than the land's Arab residents) and Yes, of the small number of people who resided in the land prior to the advent of the Zionist movement, there were more Arabs than Jews (although, even then, there were towns with Jewish majorities). Finally, you take umbrage with the fact that Israel has 'walled-off' Gaza (although what you think that has to do with Israeli Arabs I do not claim to understand). Well, life is short my dear im ern, so let me just note that 'fenced-off' would be the more exact bon mot and ask you if you can really think of no legitimate reason that Israel might have for doing this - I await your answer with fascination.Salaam, im ern.
im ern:Well, I'm glad to see that we are making some progress her. In your original post you claimed that: " the Israeli state is founded upon the basis of being an exclusively jewish state ... one that is purely jewish and had no place for the then current residents of that godforsaken land". After I pointed out that that is patently incorrect as some 25% of Israeli citizens are not Jewish at all you have responded by saying that: " arabs were only given israeli citizenship because it was impossible to banish them all from their previous homes" which, tacitly, admits my point (an open admission would be appreciated, henceforth, but we take what we can get in these forums). But, in your dauntless effort not to grant anything to Israeli goodwill you have added two very interesting claims, namely, first, that the Arabs who remained in their homes were allowed to so by the Israelis only because the Israelis found it impossible to banish them from there homes and, second, that the Israelis were then forced (seemingly against their will) to grant the remaining Arabs Israeli citizenship.Lets start with your first claim. The Israeli version is quite straightforward: with very few exceptions, the Arabs who left the land did so of their own choice (and, largely, at the advice of their leaders) while those that chose to stay were allowed to do so. Your version begs the question: what, historically, stopped the Israelis from banishing the Arabs that remained? A lack of transportation or a shortage of gas? Neither answer is likely as it was quite easy to walk from most remaining Arab settlements to the (1948) border; nor, for that matter, have I ever come across so much as a hint of such an historical event. What then? The Arab armies certainly did not prevent it - on the one hand they, themselves, were calling on their brethren to leave the land in the early stages of the war and, in its later stages (and, certainly at its end) they were in no position to stop the Israelis from doing anything at all; nor, once again, have I ever come across so much as a whiff of such an historical event. What then? Has Arab historical revisionism manufactured a brave 'Palestinian' battle of resistance: an alternate history in which the Israelis came to expel them but they fought and prevailed? I'd be very interested to read the full descriptions of all those (heretofore) unheard of battles. I'm making this point in some detail to show you, im ern, that the patent falsehood of your claim (it's not of your own making, I know) does nothing but highlight the veracity of the Israeli position.On to your second point. Who or what, in your opinion, 'forced' the Israeli's to grant citizenship to the Arabs (and, I might point out, that this citizenship was already assured to those of them as wished it in the Israel Declaration of Independence)? The Israeli version is, once again, clear and straightforwards - no one 'forced' such a measure upon them; rather, it is a natural extension of Israel's ideology and goodwill. As you seem to disagree, I'd be very interested to learn the details of just who twisted the Israeli's arm and how it was accomplished. It will, I don't doubt, make for fascinating reading.Onwards. You make the (oft repeated) Arab claim that: "the ottoman empire and preceeding arab dynasties were some of the only in the world to allow jews to worship freely and be safe from persecution". Well, the Jews openly admit that, generally, things were a lot worse for them under Christian dominion than they were under Muslim, but the Jewish memory of this period is nowhere near as bucolic as the Arab memory. Jews under Arab rule lived under continuous fear of violence (which was often practiced against them, although not, admittedly, with the same ferociousness and frequency as under the Christians) and forced conversions to Islam (under the threat of death, whoops, more violence and what were you saying about freedom of religion?). They were deemed, as a matter of course, to be inferior human beings: 'sons of apes and dogs' was (and still is) a fond Muslim phrase for them and a million little humiliations were de rigueur - they were, for instance, required to give right of way upon meeting a moslem on the road, pay extra taxes etc. (it is, in fact, this very supposed inferiority of the Jew that makes the Arab defeats at Israel's hands so unbearable for them). And, with the advent of Zionism, things got even worse. And so, when the 'Palestinians' made the Jews the kind offer of taking over all the land and allowing them to remain under their benevolent rule, the Jews were understandably reluctant. Oh, there was also that pesky little point of the Jews wanting self-determination, i.e., a country to call their own, in their own homeland. But we stray.To be continued (Inshaalla).
Sir:Your correspondent notes that 'In January 1948 the Stern Group, the extreme Zionist militia, blew up the New Seray building on the corner of Clock Tower Square, home to Jaffa's municipal offices and a soup kitchen for poor children.' In fact, the Serai building served as the headquarters of the Palestinian forces which were attacking Tel Aviv at the time and the Palestinian fire was being directed from it.
This article continues the long standing Economist tradition of discussing feelings and suffering of only one side of what is now a political dispute. Bagehot would be ashamed!
The article reminds me of the following story:
A biker was riding by the zoo, when he saw a little girl leaning into
the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabbed her by the cuff of her
jacket and tried to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes
of her screaming parents.
The biker jumped off his bike, ran to the cage and hit the lion square
jumped back and let go of the girl. The biker then took her to her
terrified parents, who thanked him endlessly.
A reporter saw the whole scene, and addressing the biker, said, 'Sir,
this was the most brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life.'
'Why, it was nothing,' said the biker, really. The lion was behind bars.
'I noticed a patch on your jacket,' said the journalist.
'Yeah, I ride with an Israeli motorcycle club,' the biker replied.
'Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed.
I'm a journalist with the
New York Times, you know, and tomorrow's papers will have this on
the front page.'
The following morning the biker bought the paper to see if it indeed
brought out the news of his actions. On the front page was the headline:
Michael Goetze
It may be true that the Palestinians were better off under Insraeli rule but somehow it reminds me of a favoured argument used here in Apartheid South Africa.
"You blacks are better off under us than elsewhere in Africa so shut up and stop asking for political rights"
typingmonkey:I read your summation of the article with some interest. You write: "The author shares with us another example of two peoples coming together to create a vibrant community of prosperity and beauty for all. In doing so, he both mourns its passing and invites us to ask ourselves "Can it not be so again?" My answer is that it is already so, and has never ceased to be so. If you ever have the opportunity, you may wish to visit Jaffa which, you will find, is a mixed city of Jews and Arabs who have been coexisting peacefully and fruitfully since 1948. Not all the Arabs ran, you see, and those who remained are simply Israeli citizens. The fact that this was not not clear to you from reading the correspondent's diary is not your own fault but rather that of the learned (and wholly unbiased, I'm sure) correspondent who spread so much sweet nostalgia on his viewfinder that you could not help but think that he was showing you a view of the distant past.
aamir k
Arab urban leadership always despised its rustic masses, but they
proved to be poor leadership. and by the way, till 1948 "Palestinian"
was nor a common term, Palestinians were both Jews and Arabs
Sir,Your correspondent has missed his true calling. He should be writing soap operas. I live in Tel Aviv, not far from Jaffa. I am in Jaffa several times a week - I shop there, do business, go to the beach, restaurants etc. - and have been doing so for quite a few years now. Many (if not most) of the people I meet and deal with are Arabs. I am friends with several and have had innumerable conversations with many. I have never, ever, in real life, met the angst and pathos which your correspondent is laying on so thickly and passing off as a description of the mood of the city.
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By a miracle of Soviet diplomacy the whole lot—including Ivan the Terrible's solid gold drinking bowl—was returned to communist Dresden in 1958. Some of the pieces have been on show since 1974, and two years ago 1,000 of the best works were given a new home on the first floor of the schloss which is the centrepiece of an increasingly sumptuous baroque city. But it has taken nearly half a century for 3,000 more pieces to be put on display one floor below, in the original Green Vault.
The Historic Green Vault—not to be confused with the two-year-old New Green Vault upstairs—has been lovingly restored in every detail. Visitors today are taken, five at a time, to another world in space and time. This is almost exactly what the nobles and other paying guests to Augustus the Strong's treasury would have seen 274 years ago.
The vivid vermilion walls in one room and the malachite green of another have been matched molecule for molecule with the originals. So have the mercury-backed mirrors which softly reflect only 60% of the light. The only concessions to modernity are the electric lighting, and a combination of non-reflective glass and infra-red beams to protect the exhibits.
It is not just a stunning display of opulence and craftsmanship—the New Green Vault upstairs is the place for that—but also like being on stage in a Baroque opera without the music. The number of visitors is limited, and tickets are booked months in advance, though early birds can queue for the small quota of tickets that is sold on the day.
The opera progresses, from a barely lit chamber laden with amber, to one of ivory, then silver and silver-gilt—do not miss a silver-gilt plate by Elias Geyer, from which two horses literally prance from a hunting scene—to the pièce de resistance, a vaulted chamber of 200 square metres, dubbed the Pretiosa room. The mirror-clad columns, hiding the original green which once gave the vault its name, the gilded mouldings, the full-length princely portraits let into each window bay showing off the thickness of the castle walls, are a backdrop for hundreds of artefacts, cabinets, carvings in rock crystal, extravagant coffee sets, bejewelled nautilus shells and ostrich eggs. The highlight is the “Throne of the Great Mogul”, a tableau in miniature, by one of Dresden's greatest designers, Johann Melchior Dinglinger. There are more of his works upstairs, including the astonishing “Throne of Aureng-Zeb”.
Next is a sobering panelled room devoted to coats of arms in metal, some of them reduced to scorched fragments in the firestorm of 1945. Then a room of sumptuous gems—whole cases of rubies, emeralds, sapphires, carnelians and diamonds set into brooches, buttons, epaulettes and swords. (Dresden's legendary green diamond is upstairs.)
Two final rooms of Baroque and Renaissance bronzes complete the tour. There is a small but imposing equestrian statue of Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, who built the Green Vault in the 1720s, inspired by youthful trips to Versailles, where he sat at the feet of the Sun King, Louis XIV; Florence, where he saw the Medici treasures in the Uffizi Palace; and Vienna, home of the Habsburg Schatzkammer.
Without the dedication of two and a half generations of restorers the Green Vault would just be history. Overall, the collection has led a charmed life: several times before 1942, during the second Silesian and the Napoleonic wars it was packed up and stored at Königstein. There have also been less fortunate moments: the silver, and most of the silver-gilt, was melted down in 1772 and made into coin. The jewellery was pawned twice in Amsterdam to pay for various wars and each time redeemed at a punishing premium.
Today, Dresden is beginning to vie with Paris, St Petersburg and Vienna as a centre of Baroque pomp. The Frauenkirche, rebuilt from mere rubble, was opened last October, and the now-complete Green Vault is another jewel in the crown.
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How do I get the fishing pole?
On the game Harvest Moon Island of Happiness, How do you get the fishing pole?
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Cocoa_Canoe answered:
Giving Taro grass or turnips is the fastest way to get his hearts up. They need to be at 2 to get the fishing pole.
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doneill10 answered:
Befriend taro and give him the magic flowers avaible during the fall
he will eventually just show up at your house with one
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CRMagic answered:
Befriend Taro. That's it. Giving gifts always helps, and he likes just about anything from your farm. You should be able to get the pole before summer is over.
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doobz answered:
Ttalk to Taro for 7 days and then give him some magical grass any color keep giving it to him and after a while hell give you a fishing pole
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marshmallonk answered:
Also i f you win a animal compition it worked for me the day after taro appeared with a fishing rod
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To unlock the fishing pole. You must at least talk to Taro, once for 3 to 5 days! Depending where you are in the game, he likes the grasses you find around. But, if you consider giving him the grass. Save before you do so. Because, if you attempt to give him a gift before hes at the stage or accepting it. The days you have to talk to him till he'll take a gift, will reset. You'll end up having to do it all over again.
Also, pet food and fodder is a good gift for Taro. Once You've gotten to the point you can give him a gift. If you use grass, it should take you 3 days till he gives you a fishing pole. Don't worry though, the event will activate on its own. If you attempt to get the fishing pole in the very beginning of the game. You don't have to go through the trouble of talking to him so you can give him a gift.
You may gift him the first day possible. And continue to, as long as you speak to him and gift him. If you ignore him a day or 2. He'll stop taking gifts. This goes for anyone. If someone new arrives, you may give them gifts the first day they arrive. And every day, as long as you talk to them at least once a day. Twice, is usually perferred. [ Even for Taro. ]
The earilest you can get a gift, is on the 10th day of spring. I wish you good luck~!
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Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías’s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed “exquisite“ (Publishers Weekly), “gorgeous” (Kirkus), and “outstanding: another work of urgen ...more
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Poison, Shadow and Farewell is the valedictory volume of Javier Marías's spy novel whose prose style represents a calcification of the novelist's poetic images, lines, phrases, and symbols, all unfolding in slow motion in the pedantic mind of its narrator. In the 1,200-page opus Your Face Tomorrow, we find Jacques Deza, recently separated from his wife Luisa in Spain and employed in London as an interpreter and as a kind of behavioral consultant under the tutelage of his boss Bertram Tupra, an e ...more
Allow me to be cinematic. Imagine me with a Montepulciano handy; my right leg could be pistoning (but I am not the type); my soul is on fire ( I am that type). Have you been there, after you close the book, but before you shelve it: wanting everyone to read it right now; wanting to start again from the very first page; not wanting to let go?
tis, tis, tis
This is an old man's story, and a younger man's life. There was a drop of blood in Vol. 1. There was a drop of blood in Vol. 2. In Vol. 3, the
Justin Evans
There's a select group of novels in my reading history: the first time I read them, I would occasionally become deeply envious of people who hadn't started them, because that meant they had something amazing to look forward to. The first time it happened was with War & Peace. It also happened with The Magic Mountain, Gravity's Rainbow (although I was sick when I read it, so it might have just been a fever), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Gerard Woodward's sort of memoir trilogy. That's not ...more
I FOUND THIS TODAY AT THE ALBANY, CA LIBRARY BOOK SALE! Amazing! They didn't have the first, or the second, but THIS ONE, the third, a gorgeous hardcover in perfect condition and only $1!
The reality is this: if you are lucky as a reader, you will find that writer who is a mirror of yourself, who pens the sentences and stories you would pen, had you the nerve, the time. Marias, for me, is that writer, so it is with great narcissism that I award him five stars and recommend any and all to read him. Of course, many won't, and the pity is that he has such a long eye reaching both back and forward...he understands our sins, and he casts both aspersions and patience on them. I put thi ...more
Mike Puma
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Your Face Tomorrow--which is not to say it's a title easily recommended. I had the luxury of reading all three volumes one after the other and over a relatively short period of time (I think my enjoyment was enhanced by this opportunity). The individual volumes are not episodic or self-contained. I suspect readers who picked up these volumes as they were translated/published were probably left wondering what what they had got themselves into. The books are not volume ...more
Ilona Cieniuch-Lonardo
Imagínate que vas a estar unas cuantas semanas en una isla desierta. ¿Qué libro llevarías contigo? Piensa en un libro que ha sido muy importante para tí, un libro que ha dejado una huella, ha cambiado tu manera de pensar, te ha hecho soñar, reír, llorar, un libro esencial.
No debería uno contar nunca nada, ni dar datos ni aportar historias ni hacer que la gente recuerde a seres que jamás han existido ni pisado la tierra o cruzado el mundo, o que si pasaron pero estaban ya medio a salvo en el tuer
I was initially excited by the structure of Your Face Tomorrow, seeing in it something like the inverse of Paul Auster's foray into detective fiction in The New York Trilogy: instead of starting with a distinctly framed genre story and then dissolving its conventions, Marías seems to begin in a fog of abstraction and obsession through which the alluring outlines of a spy novel occasionally coalesce (before again being obscured by the narrator's ruminations).
I was also interested to see how the
This three-volume series just blew me away. I read the second and third volumes back to back – and what a joy it was. The first volume was heavy on introspection and reflection. The plot gets going in the second volume (one incident in one night) and thickens in the third which is the largest volume. As I said in the review of the first one, you shouldn’t read Marias for the plot, even though this turns out to be not a bad story. The writing (props to Margaret Costa for a superb translation) is ...more
Should one never tell anyone anything? How responsible are we for the consequences of our actions, our words, our thoughts? Do we really know ourselves, and, if we think we do, how long will this self-knowledge last? Are we ever the same tomorrow as are today?
Having spent a couple of years with *Your Face Tomorrow* (I read each volume pretty much as they were released), I’m still not sure I know the answer to any of these questions, which permeate the whole of the text. But therein lies the won
Hard to describe such a monumetal work of literature ( am talking about whole trilogy, not just part III ). Truly, truly a magnificent achivement. Impressions are still strong. For sure an all-time classic. Every single sentance has a meaning, is powerful and sticks to you. Reading Marias, one gets a feeling that the story itself can be just about anything, for he puts in his thinking and discovering of human relations and (allready mentioned in the review of Part I, which is actually meaningles ...more
Michael Fraser
The last 250 pages almost make the entire slog through the trilogy worthwhile. The philosophical ruminations in the first half don't really stray beyond the ground covered in the compelling first or slow poorly edited and paced second book. But then things get interesting, the editor seemingly returns from long absence, and Marias largely delivers on the potential established in the first two volumes. The writing in the second half was a actually good enough it wiped away my regret at having inv ...more
Sep 08, 2008 Enrique rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Recommends it for: Everybody
Esta es la última entrega de la Trilogía "Tu rostro mañana" de Marías, la cuál cierra con broche de oro. Tanto la historia como la forma de escribir de Marías es muy original e interesante, realmente este libro entrelaza todos los hecho de los dos anteriores de esta trilogía, en realidad es un gran libro en tres entregas el cual tiene un final totalmente impredecible y muestra la transformación de el personaje de María de un solitario ex catedrático de Oxford a un hombre sin escrúpulos. En lo pe ...more
Editorial Alfaguara
�Uno no lo desea, pero prefiere siempre que muera el que est� a su lado, en una misi�n o una batalla, en una escuadrilla a�rea o bajo un bombardeo o en la trinchera cuando las hab�a, en un asalto callejero o en un atraco a una tienda o en un secuestro de turistas, en un terremoto, una explosi�n, un atentado, un incendio, da lo mismo: el compa�ero, el hermano, el padre o incluso el hijo, aunque sea ni�o. Y tambi�n la amada, tambi�n la amada, antes que uno mismo.� As� arranca Veneno y sombra y adi ...more
The third volume of a single novel (NOT a trilogy), this one moved at a breakneck pace compared to Part 2, which took place largely in one night in a disabled persons' bathroom stall at a disco. I'm not going to get into that, or the plot, because I'm lazy, but all three volumes of Your Face Tomorrow are an amazing, sardonic read. The main character, Deza, returns to Madrid and his estranged wife in this final installment, and finds out more about her, himself, and those at the shadowy secret ag ...more
alle 3 bände zusammen betrachtet war das eine durchwegs fesselnde und faszinierende lektüre. hatte marias, nachdem ich in den 90er jahren drei seiner romane gelesen hatte, schon ganz aus den augen verloren - und es hat sich definitiv geloht, zu ihm zurückzukehren (sogar für insgesamt 1600 seiten). der dritte band ist der stärkste, die unterschiede sind hier aber nicht wirklich dramatisch. geringfügige längen gibts höchstens am ende der ersten bzw. zu beginn des zweiten bandes. seinen themen, sch ...more
Oh what a long strange poisonous fever dream it's been, oh what a shadowy dance with death (and war and violence). And still is, because it's like my head's all foggy and I'm having trouble gathering my thoughts. It's as if they're caught in Marías's intricate web of interrupted stories and conversations, citations (and self-citations) and repetitions.
The fact that it took my a while to finish the book doesn't help either. In fact, it took me a really long time to finish the trilogy as a whole,
This book, which is the third part of the trilogy which is in fact one long (1500-page) book by Marias, took me 18 months to finish, as I read 100 pages then lost interest and left it on the shelf of partly-read/to-read books which has pride of place on any decent bookshelf. The book(s) have been widely praised for being 'Proustian', which I cannot corroborate as I have only got to p. 37 of ARDTP (another casualty of my policy of bibliographic promiscuity), but which may allude, one can only gue ...more
I took a long time to read this book - the most time of the three - despite the fact it had the most "action" (which is not a lot, although action is not something I care much about). It is good. I don't think I love this book (obviously - just gave it 3 stars), but I do think it is good and it echoes around in my head, and I think reading it is important for understanding the contemporary world, as told in literature. This book is about consequences, but I didn't find the ending very convincing ...more
Llevaba un par de meses buscando el momento adecuado para ponerme con este libro, quería terminar la trilogía antes de que se me empezaran a olvidar los detalles de las dos primeras entregas, pero me daba muchísima pereza por ser el volumen más gordo de los tres y porque la prosa de Javier Marías es bastante lenta (escribe de maravilla pero al principio cuesta acostumbrarse a su estilo). Al final ha sido el que más he disfrutado y sus 700 páginas han pasado casi sin que me diera cuenta; esperaré ...more
Finally made it! So little time to read recently... But now I feel fullfilled, I was waiting for the Polish edition about a year or more. And when the whole 'your face tomorrow' adventure is over, I am full of doubts. The only thing I'm sure is the genius of Javier Marias's writing. The main question is: how much of the story is true? How many facts did he use or borrow from his father's and his friend's biographies? Have to figure it out. Although it's a pity that the story of Tupra and Perez-N ...more
Gerald Camp
This is among the five best books I have read in more than 60 years as a reader. Though it runs 1250 pages, divided into three volumes,I raced through it as if it were a thriller. And in a way it is: a James Bond novel minus the bad guys as if written by James Joyce in the style of Ulysses. Everything in all three volumes pulls the reader toward the climax in Vol.3, so if it seems nothing is happening in Vol. 1, keep going for the payoff. But don't forget anything you read in Vol. 1 or Vol.2 bec ...more
Vol.3 completes the story and the style -- the volumes are a single work and amazing separately as well as as a whole. Here's a quote from an interview w/J.Marias: "I have used, in my books - within the same book and also from book to book - what I have sometimes called a system of echoes," he explains, and goes on to liken this to the way certain details are threaded through a piece of music. "In music it's often very moving to recognise something that you listened to before." And here's a revi ...more
Mat Sletten
I've praised the previous 2 volumes of this book, and this cemented what I already suspected while reading the first volume - this is one of the best books I've read. It is not action forward, but the writing is filled with obsessive detail and fantastic insight that I looked forward to every moment I had with the story. It's best to indulge long sits with these volumes as that is how they work best for a reader. I can't get over much Marias writing has changed how I read character. At it's hear ...more
Finally finished the whole thing! Not an easy read but worth the effort - Marias really is THE writer of our age.
Reading Your Face Tomorrow reminded me of struggling through Thomas Mann longer works - Magic Mountain and Joseph and His Brothers - when I was young.
Volume 2 has some heavy violence so this is not everyone's cup of tea. And no, you cannot read just some of the books and or start with Volume 3, despite the repetition. It is really one novel in three volumes, not a trilogy.
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¿Y qué dice uno finalmente cuando la historia se concluye, cuando aparentemente todo se resuelve? Porque una de las lecciones más insistentes es que decir cualquier cosa puede traer consecuencias nefastas (paralelo a la idea que alguna vez tuve que hagase lo que se haga alguien saldrá perjudicado con nuestros actos). Me parece que no hay cierres tan definitivos como se creería, pero esto es bastante coherente con el nebuloso contenido de la novela, en la que nada está tan demarcado como podría. ...more
This book is a symphony of betrayal.
The three volumes are really one long novel. As with other books by Marias, it is packed with ideas and carefully crafted to focus on ideas and themes that act as a multiplier to the relatively straight forward plot. Stories and ideas drop off, only to resurface later...even after it appears that a particular episode is completed.
This book is not a fast read and will frustrate many readers, but ultimately it is an accomplishment of letters that is worth the e
Volumen tres. Llegar hasta acá hace que todo haya valido la pena. Jaime ya sabe de qué se trata su trabajo. Todos entendemos de qué se trata. Aquí los dos tomos pasados se unen magistralmente y dan forma al presente del personaje, que se enfrenta a un nuevo rostro más complicado de leer: el suyo. ¿No a todos nos pasa? Nuevas reacciones, nuevas herramientas, nuevas formas de usar nuestro pasado, nuestra historia, y nuevo equipaje con el que habremos de cargar.
Dit derde deel van de trilogie leest veel prettiger dan de andere. Er wordt nog steeds heel veel gefilosofeerd, maar er zit wat meer verhaal in. De eindjes worden a.h.w. aan elkaar geknoopt. Weer veel terugblikken op de Spaanse Burgeroorlog en de 2de wereldoorlog. De belangrijkste vraag lijkt of we allemaal in staat zijn tot geweld, als dat nodig mocht zijn. Het antwoord is duidelijk ja, vooral voor de hoofdpersoon, die dat niet van zichzelf had gedacht.
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Javier Marías was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco. Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in ...more
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"Clearly universities are not making their campuses safe for women," Comedy Central's Jon Stewart noted in a recent segment focusing on rape and sexual assault on campus.
There's nothing funny about sexual assault. But the absurdity of how some colleges respond to it can make you laugh.
This week, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart became the latest comedian to crack wise about the rape crisis on America's college campuses: Reports are up, yet many schools still fail to adequately address the problem.
Stewart called the segment "The Fault in Our Schools," riffing on the hugely successful book-turned-movie, The Fault in Our Stars, by author John Green.
"Even the classic Virginia safety school is no longer safe," Stewart said of James Madison University, where a woman alleges university administrators merely gave a slap on the wrist to the men she says assaulted her on a spring break trip. The students' punishment: expulsion upon graduation.
Stewart, along with correspondents Jessica Williams and Jordan Klepper, ran through a fast-paced primer on how the unofficial rules for staying safe on campus differ for women and men.
For men, Klepper advised: "This is a big one, guys: Don't pass out on the couch. Someone might draw a d - - - on your face."
For women, Williams said: "Do not pass out on the couch, ladies. Someone will put their d- - - on your face, at the very minimum."
"Let's be real here, Jessica," Klepper jumped in. "You're telling me that women just spend the whole day navigating an obstacle course of sexual menace?"
"Yeah, pretty much," Williams responded, without a hint of sarcasm.
Klepper: "Sorry, but not all men are bad. Some are still gentlemen."
Cut to Williams: "I'll keep that in mind the next time a guy says he wants to lick my back while I'm walking to work."
Her visible exhaustion at running through the long list of rules for surviving college likely felt familiar to any woman who has had to sit through a freshmen orientation.
But, if you're an advocate working hard to end sexual assault and rape on campus or worse, if you're a victim was this shtick funny?
"I definitely laughed. I really appreciated the mainstream portrayal of campus sexual assault in a way that makes it more accessible for wider audiences," says Wagatwe Wanjuki, who was sexually assaulted by a fellow student at Tufts University.
There's a difference, Wanjuki says, between making a rape joke and making a rape culture joke.
"When we talk about humor in regards to rape, we have to be really careful about who is the butt of the joke. Are we making fun of rape victims?"
That, she says, crosses a line.
"Rape and sexual assault is about power," she explains. "If you're making fun of the people who are already disempowered, then I have a problem with this joke."
The Daily Show bit worked, Wanjuki says, because it gave voice to "the absurdity that I and my friends have been trying to highlight and combat all this time." In short, Stewart and Williams specifically gave voice to the powerless.
Sophie Karasek is a University of California, Berkeley, senior who went public with her allegations of rape and sexual assault. She is one of several dozen current and former Berkeley students who filed federal complaints against the university for mishandling sexual assault investigations.
The Daily Show clip, she says, actually made her feel better, because it highlighted "how ridiculous the oppressors, if you will, in the situation are being."
"Even though it's horrible what they're saying, it reminds me why I'm doing the work in the first place. Because it's just so ridiculous that this is even a problem," Karasek says.
The Onion, the satirical news website, echoed similar themes in its parody coverage of the campus rape crisis. One headline read: "Date Rapist Tossing His Mortarboard Into Air 3 Rows In Front Of You."
The kicker:
"At press time, sources reported that the proud alum, who has a history of forcing young women into unwanted sexual situations without their consent, was beaming as he posed for pictures with professors and college officials."
"This is too real," was Wanjuki's immediate response to the story. "It was just very on point."
In another attempt at humor, headlined "College Rape Victim Pretty Thrilled She Gets To Recount Assault To Faculty Committee," The Onion quoted a fictitious student:
"Don't get me wrong, it was great being interrogated by the local and campus police, but this way I get to tell university officials who have a vested interest in minimizing campus rape statistics and ensuring the steady inflow of alumni donations what exactly I was drinking and why I could have misremembered events."
Humor like this, Karasek says, can be both hard to read and a powerful coping tool.
"Sometimes it just gets to be so much for us. We just have to laugh at it sometimes. If we didn't, we just wouldn't be able to function."
But, as Buzzfeed suggests, poking fun at tough topics may require a feather-light touch. It's easy to go too far.
Last summer, The Onion published "Adolescent Girl Reaching Age Where She Starts Exploring Stepfather's Body." The post stirred outrage online.
Here's a typical response, from The Frisky's Jessica Wakeman:
"This piece isn't mocking Craig the incestuous stepfather at all; he's barely in the piece at all," Wakeman wrote. "Had he been in the piece, saying something entitled and creepy and dumb, maaaybe the piece would have been cringe-inducingly funny. Instead, it's mystifyingly uncomfortable. What's the punchline here? Sexual abuse is terrible? Adolescent girls are preyed on by older men? HA HA!"
Sophie Karasek says that when it comes to riffing on campus rape and assault, comedians have to be careful not to cross the line.
If the humor is "making fun of survivors, it would be a totally different story. If the pieces were making fun of the struggles that we go through and the struggles that we go through with our universities, that wouldn't be OK," she says.
In short: Just about anything can be played for laughs. It all depends on the execution.
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In light of what Hoess said about selections and about Doctors looking
at people as they marched by we have the following from a Doctor
Major Winwood (defense) examines Fritz Klein(page 183):
Fritz Klein, . . . , I was born on 24th November, 1888, at Zeiden near
qualified as a doctor in Budapest . . . .
Q: Where did you go in December, 1943?
A: I went to Auscwitz where Hoess was at that time Kommandant. Dr.
Wirtz was a senior doctor and told me where I had to work. I started
camp, then in the Jewish mixed family camp and finally in Auschwitz I.
There were seven or eight doctors in Auschwitz.
Q: Will you tell us what happened on selections?
A: Dr. Wirtz, when the first transport arrived, gave orders to divide
of fifteen. One looked at the person and, if she looked ill. asked a
Q: What happened to those people who were selected as capable of work?
A: The doctor had only to make the decision. What happened to them
afterwards was nothing to do with him.
Q: What happened to those people whom the doctors selected as unfit
A: The doctor had to make a selection but ad no influence on what was
to the gas chambers and the crematorium.
[ . . . ]
Q: Was your work completed when you had divided the transports into
fit for work or unfit?
A: Yes.
Q: Did you ever go down to the gas chamber yourself?
A: Yes, once, when it was not working. I had no duties to perform
Q: What was your personal opinion about this gas chamber business?
A: I did not approve, but I did not protest because that was no use at
[ . . . ]
Cross-examined by Colonel Backhouse (page 186):
Q: Dr. Klein, you are an educated man and were educated at a
did you not realize that that was murder?
A: Yes.
Q: Is it not true that those who were not fit for work were simply
A: Yes.
Q: Those who were fit to work were beaten to their work, starved and
not true?
A: I have not seen it happen, but if it did happen it was not right.
Q: Whilst you have been at concentration camps you have seen many
people beaten by the S.S.?
A: No, I have not seen that myself. I have received people into the
by Kapos and other inmates. I made a report to the Lagerfuehrer with
every beating.
[ . . . ]
Q: Have you seen S.S. women on these parades?
A: Yes.
Q: You, as a doctor, divided those who were healthy from those who
were to die, and S.S. marched them off?
A: Yes.
Q: Did none of them ever try to escape?
A: Sometimes.
[ . . . ]
Q: When the Hungarian transports arrived was the gas chamber working
day and night then?
A: It might have been.
Q: Were they not sent to the gas chamber?
A: I do not know exactly, but I believe so.
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Who has Teaching Authority in the Church? The Bishops, or High-Profile Catholic Politicians?
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How do Catholic politicians come to the conclusion that it’s A-Ok for them to vote, speak and advocate for abortion?
How do Catholic politicians decide that it’s not a big deal for them to vote for discriminatory laws against whole swaths of humanity?
How do Catholic politicians develop the belief that they can vote and speak for the HHS Mandate and not be attacking their own Church?
How on earth do Catholic politicians come to believe that, even though John Paul II expressly wrote a whole letter telling them flat out that politicians who vote for gay marriage are committing grave sins, that it’s still ok for them to vote for gay marriage and that they can march right up to the front of the church and take communion afterwards?
Where do these elected officials get the gas to denounce a bishop for having the temerity to teach the teachings of the Church? What is the source of the arrogance that allows a member of the Catholic laity to proclaim that a bishop’s teaching, which is based on papal documents and the constant teaching of the Church, is “a tragedy?”
Where do politicians who essentially tell bishops of the Church to “mind your place” when they teach Church teaching acquire their overbearing attitudes towards their religious leaders? Where did the princes and princesses of Western democracies get the nerve to lecture the Church on what constitutes a state of grace and who would be taking communion unworthily?
It has grown past scandal and become a broad cultural reality that dissenting high profile Catholics deliberately and publicly thumb their noses at Church teaching by deciding, with a clear knowledge of what they are doing, to cast votes, make speeches, accept awards and publicly advocate for abortion and gay marriage. These actions have been specifically defined as mortal sins by the popes.
Who brought this beast of arrogant Catholic politicians who oppose and attack their own Church to life? Who feeds it?
While there are multiple factors and causes involved in the exploits of such a large group of people, one thing that stands out in my mind is the actions of the Bishops themselves. I understand that telling a group of people that they may not take communion unless they repent, as in the situation of politicians who cast a certain vote, is a difficult call, primarily for reasons of justice.
Votes can be misleading simply because there are procedural methods of killing a piece of legislation or of working to get at it, which can look one way to the outsider and are really another thing altogether to someone who understands the process. Lawmaking in a democracy is a wild West process where anything that works, goes.
Added to this is the fact that the bishops themselves seem to have little more than a high school political science understanding of how legislating works. A few years ago, I watched an EWTN broadcast of a meeting of the USCCB as they tried to iron out what would have been simple parliamentary procedures for an elected official. It was funny stuff. But it also taught me that these guys don’t understand what politicians do for a living.
That is why these cases have to be taken individually and why a repeated practice of voting a certain way, added to public statements is the best method for a bishop to determine if he is dealing with an elected official who just fell off the horse, or who even may be doing the right thing with a confusing procedural move, or, if the politician in question is a hardened dissenter who is committing mortal sins without compunction.
Even though examples of obvious, high-profile cases of the latter are easily found in American politics, both at the federal and the state level, I do not want to see star chamber Catholics with their desire to use communion as a club to beat people they don’t like to rule the day. I appreciate the caution of good bishops in a matter as serious as telling someone to refrain from taking communion.
But if they want to lead their people, the bishops are going to have to get together and do something. They should have done something a long time back. It needs to be consistent, cohesive and understandable. It also needs to occur in non-election years so that there is no taint of electoral politics to it.
This penchant for openly committing grave sins and then denouncing anyone who says that it is, in fact, a sin, has become a mass revolt in the public at large, and it is being led by large numbers of Catholic politicians.
I know that it is difficult for a bishop to talk to each one of these offending politicians personally and advise them of the gravity of their situation. I also understand that a certain number of the politicians in question will make the whole thing public and milk it for all it’s worth. There will inevitably a public outcry and excoriation of the bishops for their “intolerance” when they advise someone to refrain from taking communion until they repent and go to confession.
But the fact is that the reason there are so many Catholic politicians doing this is that the bishops have failed Catholic elected officials in this matter for a long time.
Elected officials are not just things with power. They are human beings. They are immortal souls. If they are Catholic, their religious leaders are their pastor and their bishop. If both these men do not take note of public dissent against Church teaching in grave matters when it is manifesting and step in to advise the person of the danger to their soul in what they are doing, then that pastor or bishop is failing this person.
It really is as simple as that. Bishops who allow high profile Catholics to run amuk and commit equally high-profile mortal sins without at least making sure that their pastors talk to them about it are failing these people. What’s more, they are failing them in an area which strikes to the core of what a bishop is, which is their role as the shepherd of souls.
If the pastor or bishop allows this behavior to continue unchallenged until it becomes a public scandal — as it will — then they have not only failed this one individual, they have failed all those who observe this politician’s defiance and decide that it must be ok for them to defy the Church in matters of mortal sin, as well.
In this way, the pastor and bishops are training both elected officials and the rest of the laity to defy the Church and ignore its teachings. The bishops are indirectly teaching that mortal sin is not mortal sin and the Eucharist is simply a social rite which may be taken by the force of public approbation and criticism.
We’ve just been given a startling example of this by the Catholic Bishops Conference of England.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of England basically did exactly what I’m talking about in a recent letter in which they made it clear that, insofar as the Church is concerned, the Catholic MPs who voted for gay marriage did not commit a serious sin with that vote.
They didn’t say this explicitly, of course. What they said was that there were no plans to deny communion to those MPs who had voted for gay marriage. So far as the public is concerned, this is the bishops’ imprimatur on the power of Catholic politicians to commit any sin they chose with their offices and not have to count it as sin.
Again, the bishops didn’t explicitly say that, but there is enough past experience here, and they all have to be intelligent well-educated men who are fully aware of the consequences to this sort of thing that I’m certain they know how people will see their actions. They also have to know that the effect of their little letter will be more dissent in the future.
Where do you think dissenting politicians come from? They are empowered and enabled by bishops like these.
From LifeSiteNews:
LONDON, April 2, 2014 ( – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales assured Catholic Members of Parliament this week that there are “no plans” to refuse them Holy Communion after they voted to support the “gay marriage” legislation that came into effect yesterday.
Greg Pope, head of parliamentary relations at the conference and a former Labour Party MP, wrote to MPs assuring them that comments by the bishop of Portsmouth, Philip Egan, on the Church’s Code of Canon Law forbidding Communion to “manifest grave sinners,” would not be applied to them.
Portsmouth Bishop Philip Egan
Today the media office of the bishops’ conference confirmed with LifeSiteNews that the letter was addressed to the Catholic MPs with the bishops’ full authorization. “Many thanks for your mail. Mr. Greg Pope was speaking as a spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales,” a spokesman with the bishops’ Catholic Communications Network said. Greg Pope was chosen as the liaison between the English Catholic bishops and Parliament despite his consistent voting record in opposition to traditional moral teachings. Pope has supported abortion, adoption by homosexual partners, and artificial contraception.
“The statement was approved by the General Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference after appropriate consultation. ‘There are no plans by any Bishops in England and Wales to deny communion to Catholic MPs who voted in favour of same sex marriage legislation last year,’” the spokesman said.
Pope’s letter came in response to a LifeSiteNews interview with Bishop Philip Egan in which he said that denying Communion to someone engaged publicly in grave sin is an “act of mercy” and a “medicinal” remedy for Catholics.
He said, “When people are not in communion with the Catholic Church … in terms of the teachings of the Church on marriage and family life – they are voting in favour of same-sex marriage – then they shouldn’t be receiving Holy Communion.”
“When people are not in communion with the Catholic Church on such a central thing as the value of life of the unborn child and also in terms of the teachings of the church on marriage and family life – they are voting in favor of same-sex marriage – then they shouldn’t be receiving Holy Communion,” he said.
Bishop Egan refused to be intimidated by the possibility of opposition, saying “Nobody is forced to be Catholic.”
Here is how the discussion began, also from LifeSiteNews:
PORTSMOUTH, UK, April 1, 2014 ( – An openly gay Catholic MP who voted for same-sex “marriage” in Britain has said he “feels unable,” in the words of The Telegraph, to receive Communion after his local bishop said that those who vote for legislation that is contrary to Church teaching on marriage and family make themselves unworthy to receive Holy Communion.
Conservative MP Conors Burns called Portsmouth Bishop Philip Egan’s remarks a “tragedy.”
Portsmouth Bishop Philip Egan
“I have been a practising Catholic and communicant within the diocese of Portsmouth since I arrived at Southampton university in 1991 before anyone in Portsmouth Diocese had ever heard of Philip Egan,” Burns told The Telegraph.
He voted for the same-sex “marriage” legislation that came into effect last month, even though he had voiced prior reservations to redefining marriage.
“If the arrival of this bishop means that I can no longer be a practising Catholic within the diocese, that is a tragedy,” hetold The Tablet last week.
Burns co-chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Britain’s relations with the Holy See and is considered to be one of the country’s most senior Roman Catholic MPs.
Despite his high ranking, Burns appears to have missed his bishop’s main message.
Egan made it clear in a video interview last month with LifeSiteNews that denying Holy Communion — which Catholics believe to be the body of Jesus Christ —to Catholic politicians not believing and practicing the faith is not a punitive measure, but “always an act of mercy.”
It is done to “encourage someone to come back to seek communion with the Lord with the truth and say I’m sorry I got lost,” he said. It is done “with the hope and prayer that that person can be wooed back into full communion with the Church.”
However, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has responded to Egan’s remarks by assuring Catholic politicians that Canon 915 will not be enforced. The bishops’ head of parliamentary relations, Greg Pope, has written to Catholic MPs that Communion will not be denied to those who supported gay “marriage,” reported The Telegraph.
American Cardinal Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court, known as the Apostolic Signatura, has strongly advocated the use of canon 915 in the case of Catholic politicians who publicly support abortion and same-sex “marriage.”
In a recent interview published exclusively in English by LifeSiteNews, Burke said denying these politicians Communion is a “prime act of pastoral charity,” since it helps the person in question to “avoid sacrilege and safeguard[s] the other faithful from scandal.”
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The Supreme Court Just Made it Easier for Rich Folks to Control our Government
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The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, has lifted the cap on how much an individual donor can put into political campaigns for federal office.
It left in place a $5200 cap on how much a single candidate can receive from an individual donor, but removed the $123,200 cap on the amount an individual can contribute to federal campaigns in the aggregate.
That means that the uber rich can plow literally billions of dollars into federal campaigns, all across the country. Even though the cap on the amount of money they can put in any one campaign remains, if they are “directed” in their giving by special interest groups and political parties, (as they most assuredly will be) their influence on future legislation, government policy and anything else government can do for them will be overwhelming.
We already suffer from too many puppet people legislators who vote according to the party line without individual thinking, regard for the needs of their constituents or the common good. The Supreme Court increased this by powers of ten.
Make no mistake about it. This decision will affect your life in ways that you most likely will not understand, but which will devastate you ability to earn a living, live in peace and look forward to a secure old age.
Will Rogers used to joke that we had “the best Congress that money could buy.” He was an optimist. What we already have and what is going to become even more pronounced, is the Congress that money has bought and owned. You can forget the “best” part.
From CNNPolitics:
Washington (CNN) – If you’re rich and want to give money to a lot of political campaigns, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that you can.
The 5-4 ruling eliminated limits on much money people can donate in total in one election season.
However, the decision left intact the current $5,200 limit on how much an individual can give to any single candidate during a two-year election cycle. Until now, an individual donor could give up to $123,200 per cycle.
The ruling means a wealthy liberal or conservative donor can give as much money as desired to federal election candidates across the country, as long as no candidate receives more than the $5,200 cap.
While most people lack the money to make such a large total donation to election campaigns, the ruling clears the way for more private money to enter the system.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco
This is Catholicism 101.
Everybody who knows anything about the Church knows this.
Lean not on your own understanding, the Scriptures tell us.
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The CIA lied to Congress and the American people about the brutal interrogation methods it used during the Bush administration.
The agency lied about the severity of the torture it inflicted on detainees, as well as the quality of information that these methods garnered.
Why would the CIA want to torture people, even if it wasn’t effective? The answer to that probably goes back decades and is intertwined with areas of activity that our government has engaged in that the American people know very little about.
Something as monstrous as the government-sanctioned use of torture doesn’t spring fully grown from the head of the government Zeus. It grows through long years of mortal compromises, piled one on top the other. One of the many disturbing things about all this is that only the lowest level people involved have ever, or will probably ever, be brought to anything resembling justice.
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It turns out, that the Pope backed the US Bishops in his discussions with our president. Hopefully, something got through.
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The YotaPhone isn't the only new Android handset being announced today by a company that's likely new to many U.S. residents, as Oppo has officially taken the wraps off of its new Find 5 handset in China. Fans of high-end Android hardware will want to get acquainted with Oppo and the Find 5, as the new device touts a 5-inch 1920x1080 display, which equals out to 441 pixels per inch. Packed inside the Find 5's body is a 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm APQ8064 processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB storage, NFC and a 2,500mAh battery providing the juice for the whole show. The rear camera is of the 13-megapixel variety, and there's secondary 1.9-megapixel front-facing shooter. Also included is Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
When it comes time to connect the Find 5 to some sort of network for making calls and sucking down data, the Find 5 features UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+/HSPA+42 support on the 850, 1700, 1900, 2100MHz bands, as well as GSM/EDGE on the 850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz bands. There's also support for 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi baked in.
Oppo says that the Find 5 will begin launching in "selected markets" starting early in 2013. While the company's official press release doesn't mention any U.S. release or pricing details, a rather bare web page from Oppo lists the Find 5 as coming here in an unlocked form for $499. That's not a bad price for an Android handset with a 5-inch 1080p display and quad-core processor, though the lack of LTE and a microSD slot will likely be deal breakers for some. If neither of those deficiencies deter you, stay tuned and we'll give you a shout once we get more information on the Find 5's U.S. availability.
Via Engadget (1), (2), Oppo (1), (2)
OPPO Find 5 Unveiled With 5" 1080P Screen, 13 Megapixel HDR Camera and More
BEIJING -December 12, 2012 -At the OPPO Find 5 "The Fifth Element" Launch Event held in 798 Art District today, OPPO introduced one of this year's most mysterious and anticipated mobile products, the OPPO Find 5. The all new, industry leading OPPO Find 5 was announced to an audience of over 500 members of the international press, OPPO fans, developers, and partners, in what marks a spectacular end of year for the mobile industry.
See - like you've been blind all along
The OPPO Find 5 features a 5.0" 1080p IPS screen with a staggering 441 PPI pixel density, allowing you to experience a world of crystal clarity and the most realistic colors. With OGS technology that combines touch sensors with display, colors are more vivid and lifelike, and you'll feel as if the screen contents are floating on its surface.
Touch - and your fingers won't stop
Cherish and share, the beauty from every journey
Listen, and rhythm will touch your heart
Love, for it is the Fifth Element
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Processor: Qualcomm APQ8064 Quad-Core 1.5GHz
Display: 5.0" 1080P 441PPI IPS (1,080x1920)
Memory: 16GB ROM, 2GB RAM
Battery: 2500 mAh built-in lithium-ion battery
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• Think it felt cooler this summer? You're right.
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• Think it felt cooler this summer? You're right.
Think it felt warmer this summer? You're also right.
Stockton experienced fewer 100-degree days than normal, for the third year in a row. But average high temperatures, while not extreme, stayed consistently toasty leaving the city with a warmer than average summer across June, July, August and September.
"We certainly had our stretches of heat at times," said Eric Kurth, a National Weather Service forecaster. "It wasn't an extraordinary summer. One thing I've noticed, though, is that people consider this to be very hot partly because last year was so cool. Frequently, you're judging the weather by what you experienced recently."
Indeed, Stockton saw just seven days at or above 100 degrees last year and just 11 days the year before that. The years 2005 through 2009, however, ranged from 20 days to 31 days of triple-digit heat.
So in that sense, we've been spoiled.
Then again, this year the city saw fewer cool spells over the course of the summer, which ended Saturday. Even now, as fall kicks in, daytime temperatures have stubbornly remained in the 90s when they should be falling into the 80s.
So far, this September is 3 degrees warmer than usual.
There's no reason to expect any more 100-degree days, however, even though they have historically arrived as late as Oct. 4.
Bill Patzert, an oceanographer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, has said Stockton's relative lack of extreme heat in recent years is most likely related to cooler than normal ocean currents. That phenomenon can cause a stronger Delta breeze, which cools down the Valley at night and helps to control those long, drawn-out heat waves.
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Yooo, why is your bitch all up in your face about some shit? BBT man.
by mjjj897 March 26, 2011
Big Blunt Tuesdays.
A tradition coming from my group of friends, only a few easy directions.
1. Grab your friends with bud.
2. Everyone throws down some nugs.
3. Roll a big blunt.
4. ???
5. Enjoy the rest of the night.
1. Hey man, happy BBT!
2. Hey, you coming over for BBT later?
by dsslayer1210 June 29, 2010
BBT, Commonly referred to as "Bitches be Triflin" a term meaning that a human of female gender who is seen to the public as a socially unacceptable girl commiting an act of great ignorance.
Examples of this ignorace include but are not limited to:
Stealing, Jealously, Overprotectiveness, Whipping, Obsessive Thoughts, Controlling, Backstabbing, Gossip Spreading, Rumor Starting, Whorish, ETC.
This Acronym was started by non-other but the Weavegame God (See Weavegame) Who goes by the name of Gilbertchrist (See Gilbertchrist) and continues to be spread in the god's current local town and online as a Clan tag, (Maybe as a reference to how women's rights are a joke to many or referring to how in general women naturally suck at videogames like elderly people.
"Dude I was playing MW2 last night and some guy in the BBT clan was owning everyone!"
"BBT? What does that mean?"
"I don't know but whenever I asked, he said I was a BBT."
"You should totally set that as your clan tag then!"
by Domino Killz April 18, 2010
Be back time
Hey CJ, what would be your BBT
by Celes_Valt December 02, 2009
Back Bench Toppers
Guys who always sit at back benches, but ace the tests. They dont give a shit about what the lecturer is shouting coz they know they are smarter. They often bunk classes, usually will be writing journal, reading novel, SMSing, listening to iPod, etc when they do attend classes for attendance sake.
Bookworm 1: Tim and Dave hardly attend any classes, but have better grades than us. I wonder how?
Bookworm 2: They're BBTs you know. They dont have to..
by Silvrado June 04, 2009
Be Back Tomorrow (similar to bbs or bba)
i'll bbt
by Bungle July 03, 2004
BBT is an acronym for bubble tea
Guy 1: lets go get some BBT!!
Guy 2: ok!
Guy 3: I'm gonna go eat some BBT!!
Guy 1: I'm gonna go drink some BBT!!
Gu 2: I'm gonna go inhale some BBT!!
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Police and fire crews responded after receiving a call at 7:44 a.m. Monday. Rescue personnel were seen rappelling down the side of the building to check on the man, but he was already dead. The body was retrieved shortly after 9 a.m.
The coroner's office will conduct an autopsy to determine the official cause of death. It is not releasing the man's identity until his relatives are notified.
Bentovoja said the man did not appear to work for the building.
Formally named the 1201 K Tower, the building houses offices for lobbyists, public relations businesses and law firms that do business two blocks away at the Capitol.
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0.217119 | <urn:uuid:5e0d913f-bd11-4f14-ac40-a4e3357840c4> | en | 0.91041 | Hi, I am quite new at the field of semantic web and i need some help in order to conduct my research. I came up with the idea of a tangible interface which would take as an input the physiological sense of the user and recognize the emotion of it and the system can recommended simultaneously a playlist of songs and a collection of pictures. My basic idea is when for example a user is sad, the system can recommended a playlist of happy songs and a collection of pictures that provides positive feelings to the user. As for the methodology of the system, I thought about align 3 ontologies together (emotion, music, pictures). Is it right the way that I am thinking or there is another way like tag acquisition? If it is possible, what sources shall i look into? And about the recommendation method, should i look for the semantic-based recommendation?
Also, in the recommendation machines why knowledge base(construction of ontologies) is an important component?
Thank a lot for your valuable help, Debbie
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Hi in my opinion what you are actually thinking on it's a machine-learning system, so ontologies here are not needed and could be somewhat countert intuitive to use. For example stereomood: http://www.stereomood.com/ uses an approache based on machine learning, if i'm not wrong. The task it's interesting and there are many research on that since some years, the basic approach could be:
1. analyze features in the signal / lower abstraction point of view
2. analyze features from simbolic point of view in the music domain (here one could think about music ontology and MusicXML serialization, and some musical analysis regarding "functional" harmonies etc)
3. analyze the relations between different metadata schema. In that context i think you could use the three taxonomy you think (i think you intended them as taxonomies, but maybe i'm wrong)
4. design a tagging component in your system, so user should provide their own feature to your learning and/or inference phase.
Starting from here there are a lot of options to be considered to the actual implementation: i think you basically need a machine learning engine (suche as weka, for example), in order to collect emerging evidence from the data and the metadata, that you could use in some kind of cluster drive approach (with information retrieval) or to map them into a commonsense ontology (which i think it's really hard to construct on topic so fuzzy and personal by means of definition)
I hope this help
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Seralf, thanks so much for your valuable information.
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Nebulas and iPads
tech failure
Surfacing to say two things, since I need a break.
Jack, the Giant Killer.
He got his cred the hard way, though, and the crowing didn't start until AFTER the deed was done. Maybe the iPeed and the Droid should take note?
I already agreed with you once, I agree again!
In no way do a need a huge, not-as-cool iphone.
I don't believe I've ever commented to your journal, but I have to say that I would be tickled to death to see The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland chosen for the Norton award. There is no way to describe how highly I think of it without gushing like a schoolgirl and embarrassing us both to no end. People with more SFWA cred than me: go vote that sucker in!
I was hoping for a challenger to Cintiq. Cuz you know, there's tablets for computers for artists, and silly me, I thought that would be a good market to keep in mind. But no, a closed system running apps from the app store. Yay.
And no stylus, which probably would have sold it for me. The fact is, there is no way in which this is an active device for creating content--only for consuming it.
I suspect that the iPad is going for the netbook market, but that will all depend on what the price is.
I haven't been following this, but my boyfriend has and according to him it STARTS at $200 more than a Netbook and has much less memory. If that's the case I don't see how that's any competition. Seems like Apple's trying to create something for a market that doesn't exist.
At the moment, it's way high. And doesn't do a lot of the things a netbook does.
I also don't think I have much use for the iPad, as least in its current incarnation. But I haven't heard anyone say it's going to OMG destroy publishing; I've been hearing it's going to OMG save publishing. Which I don't think is true either, but still, that's the meme I've been seeing.
I might be reacting to the long twitter debate I had on the subject that made me very cranky.
Putting your book up for Weekly Book Promotion - I'm doing these more often since I got Hemmingson's book out by May (and the Bible book out at the end of the year and your advance sooner).
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Speaking of Latkes... Brisket Recipes?
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I don't eat brisket myself, but I volunteered to make the brisket this year. Grandma loves her job as latka guru. Does anyone have any great recipes for brisket? My mom used to cook it, starting by inserting garlic cloves into slits all over the brisket, but I don't think hers will be the way I'll go. I remember when I was seven that I had a friend whose Mom made fantastic brisket (when I still ate beef :) ). I've searched epicurious and allrecipes, but I'd like to hear what the hounds have to say on this one!
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1. This is extremely easy. Buy a flat cut brisket. The size doesn't really matter although it should fit flat in your pot. The ones at Costco are way too big. Buy two onions and slice them both thinly. Saute the onions in a Dutch oven in some vegetable or canola oil, until lightly browned and softened. (A Le Crueset is perfect if you have one.) Remove the onions and set aside. Salt, pepper and generous garlic powder on both sides of the brisket, then crank up the heat to medium-high, lay the brisket into the pot and sear on both sides. Turn the heat down to low, pour in around 3 cups of water and add 3 bay leaves. Add about 1/2 of the sauteed onions. Cover and cook for around 3 hours on the stovetop on low heat, spooning the liquid over the meat occasionally and flipping the meat a couple of times and also making sure that some of the onions are on top of the meat while cooking. You have to judge whether it needs more water, but mine usually doesn't. When it seems almost tender, add the rest of the sauteed onion. Remove from heat, remove the bay leaves, and slice against the grain. It might even be tender enough to partially fall apart when slicing. You can do this the day before serving and reheat gently and it will be even better, plus you could skim the fat if you want. The liquid makes a wonderful gravy and doesn't need any doctoring. This would be great with latkes because the latkes are so labor intensive, and the brisket is quite the opposite. However, the latkes don't need gravy so I actually tend to make mashed potatoes!
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1. re: Debbie W.
I also use a flat cut brisket and my recipe is very similar but I brown/sear (using a dutch oven) over mdedium high heat and then when the second side is almost seared and a nice dark brown, I add two sliced onions. Both sides should be a very dark brown. If there is not enough fat on the brisket, then I would add some olive oil to the dutch oven before browning. This should take about 15 minutes or so. Then I add liquid to the pot, maybe some water, maybe some beef broth and some wine. Let cook over low heat for 2-3 hours or even more. Just keep spooning the broth over the meat and occasionally turn the meat over. Also keep a lid on it but not tightly. You will know when it is finished cooking by inserting a fork in the meat. Once it is tender, let the meat sit on a plate for a while before slicing.
It makes the best sandwiches!!
1. re: Debbie W.
This sounds very similar to one I learned from my mother. The major difference is that I don't use water - just LOTS of onions - 4-6 large yellow onions, and fresh garlic. Brown the salt and peppered brisket on both sides in a heavy dutch oven. Remove it from pot and, in the same pot, brown chopped onions and garlic - adding oil as needed. When onions are nicely browned, return brisket to pot, smoosh the onions/garlic all around it - on top and underneath. Cook, covered over low heat for about 1.5 hrs. Remove brisket and slice 1/4 in. thick, across the grain. Return the meat to the pot, cover it again, and cook until the meat is fork soft - perhaps another 1.5 hrs. It will make its own gravy from the onions and meat juices. Serve it with applesauce, kasha varniskes and LeSeur canned peas - my daughter's favorite meal!!!
2. I have served this many times for the holidays:
It's not too sweet, and a little more party-ish than the regular Sunday pot roast fare.
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1. re: Susan
I have to agree with Susan on this one. I make it every year and it's delicious. It's also very easy and I make it a day or 2 ahead of time, so you just have to throw it in the oven on Christmas to reheat. It's always a big hit with my family.
2. Surely the raison d'etre of brisket is tsimmes? Both for its taste, and the pleasure one derives from periodically exclaiming during the three hours of cooking, "Oy, the tsuris I go to for tsimmes!"?
Any interesting takes on the soft, caramelized veggies, stewed in simmering meat juices, that is to brisket what applesauce is to latke, matzo ball is to chicken soup, and haroset is to matzo?
1. I just started making brisket a few years ago. Very simple. Get a brisket. Brown on both sides. Mix one cup of red wine and one cup of tomato paste. Pour over the meat. Add water to cover. Cover and cook until tender(2-3 hours). You can add onions and potatoes during the last thirty minutes if you want.
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Forgot to say: If you want to make it even easier, when the liquid covering the brisket reaches a boil, cover and transfer to a 325 oven. Ignore for several hours. Go get a coffee, read a book.
2. I generally smoke mine with oak, but when cooking inside this is my favorite recipe.
¾ c. soy sauce
¼ c. oil
¼ c. lemon juce
4 tbls. Worchestershire
2 or 3 dashes liquid smoke
2 tbls. Onion
1 tbsp. Black pepper
1 tsp. garlic powder
½ tsp. sage
½ tsp oregano
Jalapeno peppers
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For other uses, see Caster (disambiguation).
Two wheeled Casters on a desk chair (no fork)
Rigid casters[edit]
Swivel casters[edit]
A swivel caster.
Additionally, a swivel caster typically must include a small amount of offset distance between the center axis of the vertical shaft and the center axis of the caster wheel. When the caster is moved and the wheel is not facing the correct direction, the offset will cause the wheel assembly to rotate around the axis of the vertical shaft to follow behind the direction of movement. If there is no offset, the wheel will not rotate if not facing the correct direction, either preventing motion or dragging across the ground.
When in motion along a straight line, a swivel caster will tend to automatically align to, and rotate parallel to the direction of travel. This can be seen on a shopping cart when the front casters align parallel to the rear casters when traveling down an aisle. A consequence of this is that the vehicle naturally tends to travel in a straight direction. Precise steering is not required because the casters tend to maintain straight motion. This is also true during vehicle turns. The caster rotates perpendicular to the turning radius and provides a smooth turn. This can be seen on a shopping cart as the front wheels rotate at different velocities, with different turning radius depending on how tight a turn is made.
The angle of, and distance between the wheel axles and swivel joint can be adjusted for different types of caster performance.[1]
Industrial Casters[edit]
In early manufacturing, industrial caster bodies were typically fabricated from three separate, stamped metal parts, which were welded to the top plate. Today, many industrial caster bodies are made by laser cutting the body from a single metal blank and then using a press brake to shape the legs to the required ninety degree angle, thus producing a mechanically stronger device.
Various factors affect industrial caster performance. For example, larger wheel diameters and widths provide higher weight capacity by distributing the load's weight across a larger wheel surface area. Also, harder wheel materials (e.g., cast iron, high profile polyurethane) are less sensitive to and tend to not track dirt and debris on floors.
Braking and locking casters[edit]
A swivel caster with a wheel lock. The vertical swivel on this type of caster can not be locked in position.
Caster central locking mechanism on an old Stryker hydraulic stretcher. Shown in the locked position with the center cam rotated downward.
Swivel Caster with Poly Brake
A more complex type of swivel caster, sometimes called a total lock caster, has an additional rotational lock on the vertical shaft so that neither the shaft can rotate or the wheel can turn, providing very rigid support. It is possible to use these two locks together or separately. If the vertical shaft is locked but the wheel can still turn, the caster becomes a directional caster, but one which may be locked to roll in one direction along any horizontal axis.
In some cases it is useful to be able to brake or lock all casters at the same time, without having to walk around to individually engage a mechanism on each one. This is accomplished using a central lock mechanism, which is engaged by a rigid ring encircling each swivel caster, slightly above the wheel, that lowers and presses down on the wheel, preventing both wheel and swivel rotation. An alternative method is the central lock caster, which has a rotating cam in the center of each vertical caster shaft, leading down to a braking mechanism in the bottom of each caster.
Caster flutter[edit]
One major disadvantage of casters is flutter. A common example of caster flutter is on a supermarket shopping cart, when one caster rapidly swings side-to-side. This oscillation, which is also known as shimmy, occurs naturally at certain speeds, and is similar to speed wobble that occurs in other wheeled vehicles. The speed at which caster flutter occurs is based on the weight borne by the caster and the distance between the wheel axle and steering axis. This distance is known as trailing distance, and increasing this distance can eliminate flutter at moderate speeds. Generally, flutter occurs at high speeds.
What makes flutter dangerous is that it can cause a vehicle to suddenly move in an unwanted direction. Flutter occurs when the caster is not in full contact with the ground and therefore its orientation is uncontrollable. As the caster regains full contact with the ground, it can be in any orientation. This can cause the vehicle to suddenly move in the direction that the caster is pointed. At slower speeds, the caster’s ability to swivel can correct the direction and can continue travel in the desired direction. But at high speeds this can be dangerous as the wheel may not be able to swivel quickly enough and the vehicle may lurch in any direction.
Electric and racing wheelchair designers are very concerned with flutter because the chair must be safe for riders. Increasing trailing distance can increase stability at higher speeds for wheelchair racing, but may create flutter at lower speeds for everyday use. Unfortunately, the more trail the caster has, the more space the caster requires to swivel. Therefore, in order to accommodate this extra swivel space, lengthening of frame or extending the footrests may be required. This tends to make the chair more cumbersome.
Caster flutter can be controlled by adding dampers or increasing the friction of the swivel joints.[2] This can be accomplished by adding washers to the swivel joint. The friction increases as the weight on the front of the chair increases. Anytime the caster begins to flutter, it slows the chair and shifts weight to the front wheels. There are several online anti-flutter kits for retrofitting wheelchair casters in this manner. Other methods of reducing caster flutter include increasing swivel lead, using heavier grease, reducing the mass of the wheel, or increasing friction with the ground by changing materials.[3]
Ergonomic Designs[edit]
A twin wheel rigid ergonomic[why?] caster
Wheel diameter, wheel width, and tandem wheels[edit]
Load capacity may be increased by using wider wheels with more ground contact area. However, when rotating a wide swivel caster in-place, the center part of the wheel-to-ground contact patch rotates slower than the regions further out to the sides. This difference in rotation speed across the base of the wheel contact patch causes wide wheels to resist rotation around the swivel, and this resistance increases as weight loading increases.
An alternative way to increase load capacity while limiting swivel-rotation resistance is to use multiple narrow wheels in tandem on the same wheel axis. Each wheel has a comparatively narrower ground contact patch than a single wide wheel, so there is less resistance to turning in place on the swivel.
Other related wheels[edit]
There are four main classifications of wheels:
• A standard wheel has a center rotating hub (or bearing) and a compliant material on its outer side.
• A caster is a wheel mounted to a fork, with an optional, additional offset steering joint.
• An omni-directional wheel (Mecanum wheel, Omni wheel, or Swedish wheel) is made of a large central hub with many additional smaller wheels mounted along the perimeter such that their axes are perpendicular to the central wheel. The central wheel can rotate around its axis like traditional wheels, but the smaller wheels can also enable movement perpendicular to the central axis.
• A spherical wheel is omni-directional and is generally a spherical ball mounted inside a restraining fixture. An example is a ball transfer unit.
See also[edit]
1. ^ Siegwart, R. and Nournakhsh, I. "Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA , 2004. 321 p. ISBN 0-262-19502-X
2. ^ 12 Making the Front Wheels, Center for International Rehabilitation Chapter
3. ^ Causes and Corrections of Caster Flutter Caster Concepts' Solutions
4. ^ Focus on Ergonomic Design Improvements Caster Concepts' Solutions
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Oh, and a woman chained up behind a false wall.
Soon the squad is falling apart emotionally and physically as they run in circles attempting to figure out what exactly happened to their predecessors and why the strange woman was imprisoned so harshly. Paranoia, suspicion, and physical ailments tear them down one by one as they come face to face with an evil that can’t be stopped with mere firepower. The writing is on the wall, both figuratively and literally, and it portends an unpleasant demise for everyone involved.
It’s clear something bad is going on here. It’s clear the woman was in the wall for a reason. And thanks to repeatedly teased memories of one soldier it’s clear the squad was part of something bad that went down prior to their arrival at the outpost. Slowburn films are fine when both the journey and the destination are worthwhile and engaging.
The Squad barely manages the former and misses the latter completely.
At least the film looks pretty though. Director Jaime Osorio Marquez works the atmosphere and general creepiness at every opportunity, and cinematographer Alejandro Moreno fills the frame with images that keep viewers on edge. There are lots of depth of field shots featuring a close up in foreground and blurry image in background that hints at something just out of sight. Stretches of silence are matched with darkness that hangs like an ominous veil across the remaining hours of their lives.
But films don’t work on pretty pictures alone, and it’s the script that’s to blame for The Squad‘s failures. These men are isolated and increasingly frightened for their lives, but there’s not a character among them worth caring about. Too much of the action happens off screen and we’re simply told about it as if that should be enough to engage our interest.
Ultimately the eponymous squad is left to fend fend for themselves against the unknown and each other, but their real demise comes at the hands of an enemy they never saw coming…the filmmakers.
The Upside: Eerie atmosphere; effective imagery.
The Downside: Slow build with little to no payoff; predictable in many ways; more frustrating than entertaining.
Grade: C-
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An unidentified man who could have proudly responded "yes" to the question "is that a $2 million check in your pocket" is probably very unhappy today after having that check stolen from him on the subway.
The wallet, which also contained the man's California driver's license and some credit cards was found jammed between two doors on a Madrid Metro train by a maintenance worker.
After the train was rerouted to a maintenance yard over complaints that two doors weren't closing properly, a worker inspecting the car quickly identified the obstruction: A brown leather wallet with a $2 million Bank of America check post-dated to January 2014 stuffed inside.
"We have his name. We're trying to locate this person," a National Police spokesman told CNN. "We won't just hand it over. We have to verify that the origin of the money is not illicit."
Police believe the man's wallet was stolen from him, but that the thief overlooked the check before tossing the wallet away.
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Cliff Floyd pregame interview
How does it feel today Cliff?
CLIFF FLOYD: Pretty good. Going to go out there and try to win a ballgame.
When were you told that you were on the roster?
CLIFF FLOYD: I actually told them. Does that make sense?
Yeah. When did you tell them?
CLIFF FLOYD: Yesterday. I had a couple questions for the doctor and he reassured me on a couple things, and here we are.
What convinced you that you could be on the roster?
CLIFF FLOYD: Whether I was pinch hitting or playing the field or playing a nine inning game, I could help so much. That wasn't, you know, etched in stone that I could play, just, you know, they asked me if I could hit, and I feel pretty good hitting right now.
What assurances did you need from the doctor, about further damage or something like that?
CLIFF FLOYD: Yeah, just further damage, or maybe something he saw differently.
What's it going to be like playing in the outfield?
CLIFF FLOYD: Probably like what you've seen lately. It's not my call to go out there and play. I told him what I'm capable of doing and let him make that decision. It's not my call to be hitting sixth and playing left field. It's Willie's call. My feeling was I could hit, do some of the things he needed me to do, and that's what we're going by.
Do you have any concerns about the weather, about it being so wet if this game does get played tonight?
CLIFF FLOYD: Yeah, but you know, to be on this roster was important to me, and I feel like I can help this team. Johnny Franco would definitely want me out there if he was pitching, I would hope.
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There's a half dozen guys on your team that played with Cory Lidle at some point or another in their career, how affected is your clubhouse this afternoon? Were guys watching this thing, coverage of this thing?
CLIFF FLOYD: Well, I think everybody in baseball is affected in some way, regardless if you played with him or not. It's a tragedy, an accident, and our prayers go out to his family of course. These type of situations, you just never know. You come to the park and you feel bad health wise and you turn on the TV and see this type of tragic accident, it's mind boggling some of the things that, you know, happen. Unless you know, regardless of who you are again, anything can happen any given day.
Would you have made this roster as a pinch hitter per se, if Willie wanted to kind of conserve you and give you limited duty in the field and make you a pinch hitter, or do you think it had to be all or nothing?
CLIFF FLOYD: That, I don't know. I told him how I felt, and that's the one thing that the trainers and I talked about, was just letting him know how you feel, what you can give. And then he went with that. I told him I would love to be on the roster to help this team. I feel pretty good. You know, I don't feel great, of course, but I haven't felt great in a while, you know. It's been a crazy year. Just thank God that we are in the post season. And this is a huge time, and you just want to be a part of it to help, not to be a part of it just because it means a lot, you know, it's post season. You want to be a part of it to help this team win. It might be my last season playing with the Mets, so I don't want to go out that way.
Did you wait to see the lineup card or did you know you were going to be in it at that point?
CLIFF FLOYD: I didn't. I walked in with him today, so he basically was just like, you're playing, hopefully get some swings before you get on the field. But of course, rain, Mother Nature, took its course.
Would another day off help you?
CLIFF FLOYD: No, it's the same. I'm hot, ready to go. My mindset is to stay ready, stay focused on playing the game. So regardless of what happens, I'm ready to play.
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Please, does anyone have a 7 speed Shimano road cassette knocking about in their workshop etc that they might be able to pass on?
Ideal ratio would be 11/24 but thereabouts would be fine.
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My company recently implemented a content filtration system (Websense) which ranges anywhere from mildly irritating to enraging depending on what useful website it's blocking and what program I have to configure proxy settings on in order to get my work done.
As a developer, I'd definitely say that it's caused me to lose a lot of perfectly good time implementing workarounds and generally causing me to lose my "flow" as I work. I'm sure hundreds of other employees at my company have had similar experiences, so it's easy to see the enormity of the number of dollars being thrown away if you figure each interruption can cause developers to lose on the order of 15 minutes of productivity.
Personally, I'd love to see the whole thing removed and have the company trust its employees not to be evil in using resources. Of course, this would probably never fly because the higher ups probably imagine everyone would be on social networking and music sites all day, and that people would be downloading programs loaded with viruses and spyware.
Given all this, is there any non-intrusive automated system (not manually-entered blacklists) out there which will satisfy management and developers at the same time? Preferably one that doesn't yell at me for trying to download Firefox? I'd love to recommend it to our IT department.
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I can't provide you with a "solution", but since you didn't mention it in your post, I thought I'd point this out:
Your company (assuming it's in the United States) is filtering access to the Internet, probably in large part, because they want to show their "due diligence" in protecting against claims of a "hostile workplace environment" (see http://www.fcc.gov/owd/understanding-harassment.html). Most likely, it has very little to do with "trusting employees", and more to do with fear of legal claim.
I'd love to not have to use filtering software / hardware at my Customer sites. It would make life easier for me, and would be one less point of failure for the Customer. If / when the legal climate changes, that might be a possibility.
Legal issues aside, I have been in favor, for some time, of using management to solve managemnet problems. Websense, as a example, is able to generate reports that can be supplied to managers to help them monitor their staff's Internet usage. To my mind, it's not the IT department's job to decide the appropriateness of an employee's Internet usage. That's what their manager's job is-- managing that employee and making decisions about their continued employment based on their performance.
Talking about "downloading Firefox" gets into desktop support issues. That's a huge can of worms, and one that's bigger than your question. You may need "Administrator" access to your computer to do your job, but there may be good reasons why that's not feasible either. There are corporate liability concerns associated with allowing users to download and install any software they want, and there are productivity concerns associated with not.
I don't think there's an easy answer, nor will there be.
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Actually, I do have administrator access on my PC, and until recently, there was no filtration at all (which is odd, for a large company). I must admit, though, that I didn't think about the legal issues and "due diligence" before I saw your answer. – dss_so Jun 29 '09 at 17:32
The company may have had a close call w/ a potential claim and decided it was worth it to spend money to filter. I see more companies filtering in order to avert potential claims than to "save money" in "improved" worker productivity. I'd also echo the statements made by others - Webesense is perfectly capable of doing good, but it sounds like the configuration is locked down too far. I'd encourage you to communicate a list of those sites that you're being blocked from accessing to IT or your manager, so that the specific configuration of Websense can be reviewed. – Evan Anderson Jun 29 '09 at 17:36
I just wanted to add - this is more of a policy/legal issue than an actual technical issue. You may want to go to management with your concerns about how the web filtration is leading to a decrease in productivity. If they are a company worth their salt, they will probably listen to you and you may be able to negotiate at least your or a certain number of developer's machines unfettered (or at least less restricted) access. – Dave Drager Jun 29 '09 at 18:31
First off... hang on. You say this is "recent" - all such systems take a while to bed in, and folk to get their usual sites correctly categorized. Give it a month.
Secondly... cut the IT some slack. I work at SmoothWall, and the hardest web content filtering problems we hit when people use our filter is looking after technical staff. It is a tough thing to balance, especially (and no offence intended here) as tech staff often have a better opinion of their honesty/integrity than non-tech staff. Maybe this is because they tend to be skilled workers.
Lastly... many solutions (SmoothWall and Websense included) allow for "soft block" or "warn" mode. This is good for tech staff - it pops up a block page saying "We'd rather you didn't visit this site, it is probably in violation of the AUP" but allows the user to click through. This is logged, so a user abusing the system can be spotted.
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You might want to have a chat with the individual/group responsible as there may be reasons why those are blocked.
For example, you cited that you can't download Fx - that is blocked where I work as well due to the fact that the web-based software used in the company is only certified by the vendor for use in IE. Stupid? yup. Sucks? certainly. But that's what the vendor has done, and by using anything other than what they have "certified" we can be denied support even if it is blindingly obvious that that component isn't what is causing the problem. We (and possibly you) are being held technologically hostage. Or we'd at least be using IE8 instead of IE6...
That aside, while I can't speak for large organizations, I have set up some small networks for the local fire departments, and I have them using OpenDNS. The admin can set the filtering options, and it can be tweaked as needed. They have a process in place for getting exceptions to sites that shouldn't be blocked but are. You may want to see if that is an option too.
Lastly, no IT Security has gotten fired for being too paranoid. ;)
You would think you could trust people to act like adults, but as a recent event where I work has shown, that just isn't the case.
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Websense is a good program ... I suspect the issues you are attributable to having related to how websense is configured rather than to problems with websense. More candidly .. if the current admins implemented something else (like Astaro), they would configure it with similar restrictions.
One note .. you need to have clean hands. If your issues are around chat, Twitter, BitTorrent, or personal stuff, get over it. You might be able (with embellishment) to justify why you need to be able to IM, because developers are special, but the admins won't budge on that sort of stuff. These restrictions and filtering programs came about for a reason, most admins hate them, and most would much rather set them to filter porn only and be done with it. But the business reality doesn't allow that.
I suggest the following ...
1- keep a log of what (specifically) you are doing that is getting blocked or causing you interruption or workaround.
2- After a week or so, take this log to whoever administers the system, and show them how the restrictions are causing you trouble and slowing you down.
With rational conversation and evidence, you may well be able to get them to loosen things up for you.
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I don't use any social sites, and certainly wouldn't use them at work. The thing that bugs me is when I search for the solution to a specific problem on Google which links me to an article or blog entry on a blocked site. For some of these sites, Websense shows the warning page and does provide the option to visit the site, but it's still annoying and intrusive in my opinion. – dss_so Jun 29 '09 at 17:36
It's not the system it's the configuration. Replacing websense with a different web content filter system is not going to resolve all your issues if it's not configured properly.
Where I work we only block adult material. And you would be surprised how many false positives that generates. I think sometimes it tags any web traffic coming from a particular IP or subnet as pornography. Hosts that live on shared hosting accounts tend to get blocked as well as blogs from time to time. We just have an system where an employee can put in a support ticket to get a particular url white listed.
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I should add that we are not using Websense. – 3dinfluence Jun 29 '09 at 17:22
I think you're taking the wrong approach. You really need to sit down and talk (in as friendly and civil a manner as possible) to your administrators about this. If you have a clear business case for downloading Firefox or other software, or accessing technical sites that would be blocked for the general user populace, then something needs to be done about the policy implemented (which I suspect may be one of the out-of-the-box defaults from the sound of it).
Websense isn't an "all or nothing" solution, there are very granular levels of policy which can be set to apply to different groups and users. When you make your case (in as friendly and civil a manner as possible, remember), you will be wanting to request an access policy for yourself and other developers that does block genuinely objectionable material but that leaves access open to technical sites and software downloads.
It's also worth bearing in mind that the Websense site database is provided externally, and that your admins have no control over the site categorisation in it, aside from the ability to override it for specific named sites. Websense have been known to make mistakes in the past, and at least some of the frustration you're experiencing may be nothing more than an honest accident.
Finally, and the real clincher, is that your admins may be utterly powerless to do anything here. They may be in a position where they have a strict directive from on-high, and they may have already pleaded the case and failed. So don't go too hard on them.
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I have a project using CoreData. I use Mogenerator to generate the subclasses.
When I set the value of a property, this value isn't actually assigned. Each subsequent time I try to set the value, the previous value I set it to was not assigned.
This worked fine as my underlying data framework was Mantle, but since moving to CoreData, this stopped working. I rely on KVO to keep some UIView objects up-to-date with the model.
Again, the ivars of a CoreData NSManagedObject subclass do not seem to take the values I assign them.
Consider the following interface:
@interface Light : _Light{}
Light / Color Properties
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat brightness; // 0...1
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat hue; // 0...1
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat saturation; // 0...1
@property (nonatomic, assign, getter = isEnabled) BOOL enabled;
@property (nonatomic, readonly) UIColor *color; // derived from the above
- (void)setHue:(CGFloat)hue saturation:(CGFloat)saturation; // it often makes sense to set these together to generate fewer KVO on the color property.
and the following .m file:
@interface Light ()
CGFloat _hue, _saturation, _brightness;
UIColor *_color;
@property (nonatomic, assign) BOOL suppressColorKVO;
@property (nonatomic, readwrite) UIColor *color;
@implementation Light
@synthesize suppressColorKVO = _suppressColorKVO;
BOOL dirty = NO;
if (saturation != _saturation) {
// clamp its value
[self willChangeValueForKey:@"saturation"];
_saturation = MIN(MAX(saturation, 0.0f), 1.0f);
[self didChangeValueForKey:@"saturation"];
dirty = YES;
if (hue != _hue) {
[self willChangeValueForKey:@"hue"];
_hue = MIN(MAX(hue, 0.0f), 1.0f);
[self didChangeValueForKey:@"hue"];
dirty = YES;
if (dirty) {
if (!_suppressColorKVO) {
[self setColor: self.color];
// other stuff... the color accessors are also custom. Derived from the h, s, b values.
I assume I'm not playing nice with CoreData, but I have no idea what's wrong. These hue, saturation, brightness are all 'transient' (not in the core data sense) because they are constantly updated by some hardware we are interfacing with so there's no need to save their state.
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What does '[self setColor:self.color]' ? That looks strange, have you overwritten the color getter method? – Volker Feb 2 at 21:22
yeah don't worry about that. ;-) Both are custom and I did that because color is derived, and setColor so it would send KVO. That's not the problem. It works just fine. It's the ivars that aren't keeping the value I set on them. – horseshoe7 Feb 3 at 7:49
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If hue and saturation are properties in your model then you should be setting their values using setPrimitiveValue:forKey: (or the associated generated primitive methods).
That said, your code all looks custom as model attributes would be NSNumber instances and mogenerator would create value methods for you. So I'm going to guess that these attributes you have aren't backed in the model and that's why they aren't being stored.
So, add the attributes to the model and access the values using the appropriate methods.
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I will do that later today when I get to it. Not being a CoreData expert at all, are you saying that keeping my own ivars "outside of a CoreData model" (i.e. not declared, and managed by my own accessors, as if it were a direct subclass of NSObject) will not work ? I would have preferred to do it that way as they are really so temporary I thought to just leave CoreData out of it. – horseshoe7 Feb 3 at 7:51
That isn't how a managed object is designed. If you want to do that you should be using a plain object. – Wain Feb 3 at 8:15
Can't use a plain object. At any rate, in an effort to really track down the source of this problem, I took this problem behaviour, isolated it from the rest of my app's functionality, put it into a test / sandbox project, and noticed I'm not seeing that problem anymore. So I'm guessing the problem I describe above isn't the whole picture. I will update when I track down the source of the problem. – horseshoe7 Feb 3 at 9:55
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In the end it had nothing to do with CoreData. This approach above DOES work with CoreData objects. You can have in a subclass some "transient" properties that exist outside of the CoreData NSManagedObject and you can create your own ivars for them, and your own accessors, and it cooperates.
In relation to this question, I have a complex system that also sends some commands to some hardware, and the hardware returns a response whether it accepted the command with the current status. It turns out I had a bug in that handler which was setting these values back to some unexpected value.
What helped me debug it were using watchpoints in the debugger. Really handy feature! You set a watchpoint and it will break in the debugger whenever the memory address of your variable is set with a new value. (A tiny bit more on that here)
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For some reason the following C# Console program always outputs:
What am I doing wrong?
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Globalization;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToUInt32("0x20", 16));
UInt32 wtf = 0;
NumberStyles.HexNumber, // I've tried also AllowHexSpecifier
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, // I've also tried CurrentCulture
out wtf));
Console.WriteLine("wtf={0}", wtf);
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IIRC, Java has the same silliness. – leppie Jul 20 '11 at 13:05
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You need to drop the "0x" prefix. Please see this blog entry
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You're absolutely right. So, does every C# programmer manually "trim-off" any "0x" (if present) or is there a short-cut? BTW: I'll accept this as solution as soon as SO allows me :-) – S.C. Madsen May 10 '10 at 9:27
Wow. That's close to a bug I would say. – kenny May 10 '10 at 9:53
@S.C. Madsen: I think I did "trim-off" "manually" when I needed this functionality in an earlier project. Not pretty, but worked well... – Peter May 10 '10 at 11:40
Peter: I've gone and done the same in my application. I really think this is a major short-coming of the TryParse() method. – S.C. Madsen May 10 '10 at 17:54
From NumberStyles Enumeration, AllowHexSpecifier: Strings that are parsed using this style cannot be prefixed with "0x" or "&h". – DavidRR Sep 11 at 20:25
// stupid but effective way to improve the parsing
char[] _trim_hex = new char[] {'0','x'};
int temp;
if (int.TryParse(value.TrimStart(_trim_hex), NumberStyles.HexNumber, null, out temp))
// temp is good
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Get rid of the leading "0x" in the string you're trying to parse.
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See also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kadka85s%28v=VS.100%29.aspx In the example at the bottom of the page:
Attempted conversion of '0x8F8C' failed.
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This is an image of a blackboard:
enter image description here
I would like to reduce its height while its width, and all its four wooden borders (top, bottom, left, right) should stay unchanged.
Could anyone kindly suggest how this can be done in Photoshop/Fireworks?
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I just started learning Fireworks (sort of like a lighter, more web-oriented version of Photoshop) a few weeks ago, and I found a pretty cool feature called 9-slice scaling. Basically, you can fix this problem easier in Fireworks with 9-slice scaling. You can tell Fireworks exactly where the borders are located with 9-slice, and scaling it will only scale the parts of the image that aren't the borders.
If you need to learn more about 9-slice scaling, just Google it. And you can get a free 30-day trial of Fireworks from Adobe's website.
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Thank you so much for your information. I will have a look at it and report back later. – bobo Aug 10 '10 at 12:28
Your suggested method is very useful and it can be done in a minute saving so much time. Thank you very very much for your help. – bobo Aug 10 '10 at 15:38
Not a problem. :) – Nicolas McCurdy Aug 11 '10 at 1:19
I got my question answered by doydot here, many many thanks to him and his answer should be useful to other people:
Doydot wrote:
Each side will have to be separated in order for this to happen (including blackboard) The left and right borders need shortening by free transform and dragging by the middle not side to keep the width of the border. Do the same for the blackboard. Line everything into place.
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I need to extract a few field contents from a large XML file. I currently do this though a combination of xmlstarlet and a Python script (using ElementTree). The idea was to trim the XML file from useless data with xmlstarlet and then process the smaller file with Python (using Python directly on the file was not doable - memory and CPU were hogged and some files never got processed). It basically works but:
• it is not efficient
• it is not particularly flexible
• it is quite ugly (the least of my concerns, but a concern nevertheless from a maintenance perspective)
I am looking for advice on how best to handle such a case (the amount of extracted data is about 5% of the initial file). I am open to anything reasonable (a specific language, maybe dumping the XML file into a DB and then extract what I need before dumping the DB?, ...)
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Are you using ElementTree's iterparse? It should be able to efficiently handle large inputs without parsing the whole tree in-memory (which is usually where the wheels come off an XML parser).
You can find plenty of use cases and examples on stackoverflow.
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No, I am not. Thanks for the hint -- I will read & implement and be back with feedback (and mark the question as answered) – WoJ Jan 30 '13 at 11:46
The solution with iterparse works great. It improved the parsing time by at least an order of magnitude. I stumble, however, on a problem but I will open a separate question – WoJ Feb 2 '13 at 23:06
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Can you explain that with some basis besides just making a simple meaningless statement?
As I mentioned in post #13.
I worked LE in the revolver era and as we transitioned to semi auto's kicking and screaming. I worked for the Ft Worth, Texas PD and the US Border Patrol in El Paso, TX during the 80's and 90's. I saw lots of people shot with lots of guns. In the 1980's RG revolvers in 38 special were very popular with the folks in the inner city. These people would usually buy their ammo one bullet at a time from a pawn shop, and they bought the cheapest. The cheapest usually translated to target wadcutters.
Most people I saw shot with wadcutters were angry, a significant number refused medical treatment articulating that it was "only a 38" and refused to press charges vowing revenge instead. Those folks usually did not do so well after a night of internal bleeding and some toxemia thrown in.
Call me a liar if you want, but I know what I saw, investigated and experienced.
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AUSTIN - The man with the crazy athletic ability apparently has even crazier judgment.
He can run away and leap over USC defenders, but he can't stay out of a pecan farm in a merged community called Little River Academy.
Details from early Sunday morning are pretty sketchy, so it's hard to vilify Texas running back Ramonce Taylor for that single incident.
Unfortunately for Taylor, there was plenty of background to go on before Sunday.
Check the team picture taken at the White House when the national champs went to visit George W. Bush. You won't see Ramonce.
Ask anyone who was at the ring ceremony shortly after the Rose Bowl. They didn't see Ramonce.
There's a reason for those absences - Mack Brown.
Back in mid-January, the Texas coach asked Taylor to stay away from the team for a while so he could get his grades up and take care of some off-the-field issues. At the time, not much was made of the news, because the Texas PR machine said Taylor would be "excused" from spring practice. At the time, it seemed like they were doing Taylor a favor. Letting him concentrate on his schoolwork, so he could remain eligible.
Now, it seems more likely that the excused absence was a warning from Mack: Stay away from my football team until you get your life straight.
The news from Sunday morning sounds as if being "excused" from the team wasn't a strong enough warning.
Here's what we know from the police report: Sheriff deputies got a report at 1:34 a.m. Sunday about a large fight at a Little River Academy pecan farm. Minutes later, Taylor called the police from a nearby convenience store to complain about a window on his vehicle being broken during the melee.
Officers at the fight scene warned the deputies that Taylor had threatened to return to the party with a gun.Taylor allowed the deputies to search his vehicle, where they found a live .40-caliber bullet and a backpack stitched with "Big 12 Conference" containing about 5.3 pounds of marijuana. From there, Taylor was charged with possession of marijuana and released from Bell County jail on $5,000 bail.
According to the Austin American-Statesman, the farm's owner, who says the party was a graduation celebration for his daughter, says Taylor crashed the party and tried to sell drugs to the revelers.
According to Taylor's attorney, Taylor was racially harassed at the party, and a brick or rock was thrown through his vehicle's window. More importantly, the lawyer says the marijuana doesn't belong to his client.
All those details will have to be sorted out in a court of law, not in this newspaper.
But, if nothing else, Taylor is definitely guilty of poor judgment.
Long before Taylor visited the ill-fated pecan farm, his coach was scheduled to speak to sports editors from across the state at an annual convention. Brown lived up to that obligation Monday morning and was as pleasant as ever.
He couldn't discuss much about Taylor because of legal issues, but his facial expressions and the tone of his voice told everyone what he likely was thinking: He'd like to go up to Taylor's house and give him a kick in the butt.
He wouldn't do it for what Taylor's bad decisions are doing to his football team, but for how Taylor is wasting his athletic ability.
Even if Taylor thought all that green stuff in his backpack was parsley and he merely was visiting Little River Academy looking for ingredients for a fantastic pecan pie he was planning to make his mom for Mother's Day, it doesn't seem likely Taylor will ever play at the University of Texas again.
Too many bad decisions. Too much wasted talent. Too bad.
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"Look who coming over here Dani!" Lorane elbowed Danielle as Ree and Tev were walking up to them. "Oh man, but why they walking like that?" Danielle egged on with a silly grin plastered across her face. "Hahaha. They are bonified examples of irrelevance!" Lorane and Danielle were laughing hysterically as Ree and Tev finally made it over to the table. "Sooo, what the hell is so funny?" Tev asked. Lorane and Danielle continued to laugh. "Yo wtf I know damn well yall heard my boy ask yall a question! Aint not s*** that damn funny!" Ree said as he slapped the table..adding rediculous dramatic effect. "Aint not s***?" Danielle repeated Ree's incorrect grammar. "Ummm when you pass the distant learning year round class on BACK HALL, that's when you come back and converse with us!! hahahaha" Lorane said as she and Dani continued to laugh. "Man f*** yall!" Tev uttered. "Yeah we out!" Ree chimed in. "BYE!" Dani and Lorane stated in unison. Just as Tev and Ree were about to try and say something else Lorane spotted <a href="">him</a> . Him being none other than Maurice. Maurice and Lorane locked eyes and normally Maurice was the first person over at the table talking and sitting with Lorane during lunch. Lately he was acting distant ever since the first day <a href="">Tev and Ree</a> started coming over. Lorane was happy to see him but as he did weeks up until now he kept walking past the table and sat with the immature females that she didn't like behind her. Danielle looked up in time to catch what had happened and looked at Lorane. "Aite yall we gone catch yall later tho." Ree and Tev announced as they decided to leave. Hugs were exchanged and they departed.
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Climate Change and Well-Informed Denial
Across all these regions, he consistently found the following phenomenon: Democrats and Republicans who claimed to know less about the climate issue were more like one another in terms of whether they accepted the science. Democrats and Republicans who claimed to know a lot about the issue, by contrast, were vastly polarized—with knowledgeable Democrats overwhelmingly accepting the science, and knowledgeable Republicans overwhelmingly denying it.
Political polarization is greatest among the Republicans and Democrats who are most confident that they understand this issue,” writes Hamilton. “Republicans and Democrats less sure about their understanding also tend to be less far apart in their beliefs.”
Thus it really makes a lot of sense that those who are paying less attention to the climate issue, whether nominally Democrat or Republican, are less polarized and less sure of themselves. They’re not working nearly as hard at reaffirming their convictions, and refuting the convictions of the other side. (Hamilton’s study implies, though, that that they may have a different problem—they know so little that they may be more likely to be buffeted by the weather in terms of how they think about climate. If it’s hot out, maybe they’ll worry. If it’s cold, they’ll scoff.)
Overall, the big picture is that our society is not making up its mind in anything like a rational or scientific manner about climate change. That’s unfortunate–but it would be a form of denial itself at this point to reject the finding.
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Well goody goody they understand the physics of climate - NOT. Its not that simple the only reason they cling to the CO2 teat is it’s something that can be taxed.
CO2 is a TRACE gas and by Occam’s Razor does not drive climate variability in the absence of compelling and provable evidence to the contrary.
Occams razor points to the simple non-taxable drivers of climate variability. Solar irradiance, cosmic irradiance, orbital mechanics, water vapor, clouds, etc. CO2 is nothing, too small to be of any significance to the physics of climate.
These scientismists are running a con game for libtards
Again, just because YOU are venal and small minded doesn’t mean that everyone else is. Even though this means you’re not the fine upstanding fellow you see yourself as. Live with it.
CO2 is a TRACE gas”
So? As far as IR goes, it’s NOT a trace gas. But you don’t understand anything when your comfort depends on disbelief in it.
“in the absence of compelling and provable evidence to the contrary.”
It’s there. Go read
“Occams razor points to the simple non-taxable drivers of climate variability.”
This should be good.
And it is:
“Solar irradiance”
Sun is less active, temperatures are rising. So it’s not the sun.
“cosmic irradiance”
There’s very little energy imparted to the earth by cosmic rays. so it’s not cosmic irradiance.
“orbital mechanics”
We’re heading away from the Sun, so it’s not orbital mechanics.
“water vapor”
Falls out as rain, so can’t drive the climate, but it CAN be a feedback. Plus H20 is a trace gas.
Nitrogen (N2) 780,840 ppmv (78.084%)
Oxygen (O2) 209,460 ppmv (20.946%)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) 390 ppmv (0.039%)
Nope, clouds require more relative humidity. And water falls out of the sky. So it’s not clouds.
So you believe. Yet all your other effects are nothing. Too small to be of any significance. Yet we’ve increased CO2 and 78% of the global temperature trend can be explained by the log of CO2 concentrations.
We have causation: IR absorption
We have correlation: 78% of the temperature trend correlates
You just don’t want to believe that the capitalist system ever fails in anything.
A proper member of the Church of Ayn Rand.
RE: “it’s there. Go read”
Untrustworthy: Its a UN political propaganda site run my the worlds despots, the same ones who want the US to transfer more cash to these self-same despots. The UN ignores genocide in Rwanda, did secret oil deals with Iraq’s tyrant Saddam, condones rape by its soldiers. And most importantly twists all legitimate science for its benefit in order to promote its political aims. The UN is a despicable organization unworthy of anyone’s trust.
RE: “Sun is less active, temperatures are rising. So it’s not the sun.”
Proved to me that you or anyone else can track the composite thermal energy of all of the earth’s fluid molecules. The atmospheric measurements are of an infinitesimal unevenly distributed ethereal wisp of the earths fluid molecules. Oceans are the largest portion of the earths fluid molecules and hold 780 time the thermal energy of the atmosphere per unit volume. Its impossible and anyone who says he can do it is no more reliable than someone who reads the future in tea leaves or chicken entrails. I have no faith in their gibberish.
RE: So? “As far as IR goes, it’s NOT a trace gas.”
Prove it! not in a glass jar, but in the context of the entire atmosphere which is endlessly complex.
RE: “There’s very little energy imparted to the earth by cosmic rays. so it’s not cosmic irradiance.”
Wrong, cosmic rays play a large role in atmospheric physics, particularly in cloud formation with alters the earth’s albedo. You of course have to dismiss this because you can’t tax cosmic rays.
RE: “Falls out as rain, so can’t drive the climate, but it CAN be a feedback. Plus H20 is a trace gas”
1) yes it can be a regulating feedback; more water vapor->more clouds->greater albedo->lower temperatures->less water vapor. You need to dismiss this regulation because you cant tax water vapor.
2) CO2 “falls out” as plant food->more plants->more albedo->lower temperature. Cant tax trees and phytoplankton so you need to dismiss this.
I could go on, our faiths are different your religion is the cult of scientism as practiced by scientismists, mine is in liberty and real predictive science.
“Untrustworthy: Its a UN political propaganda site”
False. It merely collates the science papers. You insist it is political since you know no science.
And isn’t your scare story alarmism? If not, what makes alarmism?
Temperatures are rising. You use a thermometer for this, not a molecular trap.
“The atmospheric measurements are of an infinitesimal unevenly distributed ”
Assertion. Proof needed.
“of the earths fluid molecules.”
False. The atmosphere is a gas, not a fluid.
“Its impossible”
To you. But statisticians have been solving the problems of sample statistics for centuries. You’re about 280 years behind.
Prove it!”
I did. N2 and O2 are not IR active. They make up 99% of the atmosphere. Therefore CO2 is 1/10th the atmosphere as far as IR radiation is concerned. And the absorption cross-section of CO2 is larger than that of H2O.
It’s been measured.
CO2 is not a trace gas in the IR.
“Wrong, cosmic rays play a large role in atmospheric physics”
It plays a role, but the role is tiny. The sun’s effect is much much larger. This should give you a start.
“particularly in cloud formation with alters the earth’s albedo.”
And therefore would cool. If CCN are caused by GCRs then we’d be seeing more clouds (where are they?) and cooling temperatures.
You seem to be arguing against your own case: Cosmic Rays would cool the planet.
Which means less cloud and warmer temperatures. Therefore it needs a force other than the water vapour to start the change in temperature, water vapour just amplifies the change.
CO2 doubles gives 1.2C change in global average temperatures. Water vapour inflates that to more than 3C per doubling.
“You need to dismiss this regulation”
Regulation is why water vapour cannot be a forcing.
You need to make up problems to avoid clear thinking that would ruin your case.
“2) CO2 “falls out” as plant food”
CO2 doesn’t fall out. And plants don’t eat CO2. They use Carbon to create sugars that they can use to generate energy when the sun is no longer available.
And if “more plant food” was true, why is the level of CO2 not increasing?
Maybe the plants are “full” and can’t “eat” any more CO2.
But you have to ignore this fact in order to maintain your faith in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Plus additionally, plants aren’t solid carbon. Where are all the other bits going to come from if all we do is increase CO2?
It didn’t seem to do that during ice ages. We know CO2 wasn’t sufficiently effective at stopping an oncoming ice age once. It’s also clear that the level of CO2 in earlier times has almost identical variations that temperature had some 800 or more years BEFORE the CO2 dance.
Finally, CO2 level has been advancing steadily for at least a couple of hundred years. It was 280ppmv at the start. Meanwhile there were a few cooling durations (mentioned earlier). Again, no apparent correlation between CO2 increases and temperature.
There are also a few scholars out there who have come up with other models that explain most or all of our recent warming; that is, apart from other already well identified periodical cycles.
Badger, do some reading of the references you so generously point out to me, and explain skepticalscience position on this.
Source: “CO2 lags temperature - what does it mean?” Intermediate version by John Cook, Skeptical Science, June 26, 2010
Badger: I don’t think that’s relevant. (But, what I should have added is that level of CO2 during those 3 ice ages mentioned was many times higher than now, my point being that CO2 doesn’t appear to have much influence on temperature. (It was also many times higher going into one ice age.
As explained below, changes in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere both preceded and followed high temperatures during the last eight glacial cycles. Reputable climate scientists understand and readily acknowledge this fact.
“Over eight glacial cycles in 650,000 years, global temperature and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere have gone hand in hand. When temperatures are high, so are CO2 amounts and vice versa. This obvious connection is part of a coupled system in which changes in climate affect CO2 levels, and CO2 levels also change climate. The pacing of these cycles is set by variations in the Earth’s orbit, but their magnitude is strongly affected by greenhouse gas changes and the waxing and waning of the ice sheets.
“Despite these large natural CO2 variations, atmospheric CO2 variations remained relatively stable over the 12,000 years from the end of the last ice age to the dawn of the industrial era, varying between 260 and 280 ppm. Methane, too, was stable during this period varying from 0.6 to 0.7 ppm. These trace-gas concentrations are well known from analyzing air bubbles trapped in ancient snowfall. This relative stability came to an abrupt end with the onset of the industrial era. At that point, we started transferring to the atmosphere carbon that had been stored in underground reservoirs for millions of years. These modern increases have occurred in a geologic blink of the eye, dwarfing the rate of increase coming out of the last ice age. Plotted on the same graph as the ice age change, the industrial era increases look like vertical lines.”
Source: “Climate Change: Picturing the Science”, Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe, W.W. Norton Company Ltd, 2009.
Over hundreds of thousands of years the correlation between CO2 and temperature is astounding. But the original samples of the two were not sufficiently refined to notice which came first. Later sampling, some of which picked up both data from both CO2 and temperature from the same sample showed a time series correlation. There’s no doubt about that relationship. Temperature variations were mimicked later almost exactly by the same in terms of atmospheric level of CO2.
Temperature variations were first. The same variations in the time series show up 800 to 2500 years later (depending on what p[eriod of time you investigate.
Oceans are a big participant in the carbon cycle. Oceans are much slower at warming or cooling than the atmosphere. (Water is much denser, and the oceans are deep. When the oceans have cooled, the outgas (give up some CO2 among other things. When the oceans are warm, the absorb CO2 among other gases. (Right now the oceans appear to be cooling somewhat.
I don’t think even the CRU folks would deny those facts. (They may not like to talk about it tho’)
So is your thesis that temperature causes CO2?
Please, let us know your causation.
Where is the temperature spike 800 years ago from your graph. Note this CO2 concentration graph:
Please also check out:
And note also that we are pumping out CO2, so is our fossil fuel burning only enabled by temperatures increasing 800 years ago?
You’re flailing to try to hold on to your cherished beliefs.
Source: FAQs, Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Global Monitoring Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
1) Carbon 13 is a stable isotope of carbon it does not decay or suffer depletion with age.
2) Carbon 14 populations are created by cosmic radiation and therefore dating by carbon 14 depletion (about 6000 year half life) assumes a constant level of cosmic radiation which we know is not constant. If you don’t know how much is created you can tell how much of it has been depleted.
3) All of your factoids assume that the trace gas carbon dioxide is a significant driver of climate variability physics. This is an absurd assumption. The earth is not a greenhouse; there is no glass partition in the atmosphere.
4) CO2 is the source food of all plant life on earth which in turn feeds animal life Carbon dioxide makes our planet a planet of life. More CO2 = more life until a new equilibrium is established in the sea and in the atmosphere.
5) The whole point of calling CO2 variability a danger is to grow government at the expense of liberty. Anyone paid by the government loves big government and will pounce on any object they can use to grow it, Therefore all government study grants are biased towards anything that enlarges government. There is zero demand for private “climatologists” Only government can feed this snake; ie the re-incarnation of the theocratic state.
– Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia 1781
That’s why you keep posting the same tripe over and over again, applesauce.
As does poptart with “These papers show skepticism of AGW alarmism”. Except there is no “AGW alarmism”. But poptart keeps repeating it. If there were AGW alarmism, there’d be no need to repeat the unsupported statement. Just as you repeat your unsupported statements.
PS why is it you insist it’s only governments that lie?
Is that because you’re a libertard?
I don’t believe any credible skeptic argues that CO2 hasn’t increased. And it seems fairly certain that increase began about the time of the industrial revolution. Part of it may be land use, but most seems to be due to fossil fuel useage. But there is no evidence of a link between that and the temperature. As stated earlier the increase is very small, in recent years about 2ppmv per year. (that’s 2 parts per million by volume).
The problem is that the accrued increase should (theoretically) be having more and more impact on the temperature. But that’s not what we’re seeing. (It was steadily increasing thru the entire period form 1940 to 1975 - a cooling period. One can argue that some of the other periodic influences on climate may have offset that. Certainly possible. Temperature has been flat again from about 1998 to now. Those arguments about which year has been the hottest for the planet are bogus. (Even Hansen of NASA admits it.)The differences are a small fraction of one degree and it is just not clear that we can obtain a single meaningful temperature for the planet to such accuracy.
The problem is how to figure out the interacting feedback mechanisms, and there doesn’t seem to be an answer to that. (In an earlier feedback I provided a recent document by Denis Rancourt, a physicist who rules out the possibility of CO2 having a significant impact (at least at anything near it’s current or end of century projections.
There are other scientists who clame that the current CO2 levels were almost at “starvation” levels (from a plant’s perspective).
There is no evidence that CO2, even at twice its current level, which will take quite a long time to attain, is no problem for humans and great for plants.
In short, there is no evidence CO2 is having any impact on the planet’s temperature. If it is, we should be able to determine how much, and we have more than a little time to do that. No reason for politicians to take drastic action at this point, which may well be worse than the problem.
“But there is no evidence of a link between that and the temperature.”
There is:
It’s just you don’t like it.
The problem for you is that there is.
Without the effect of CO2, the temperature drop 1940-1970 would have been higher.
“Temperature has been flat again from about 1998 to now.”
1) You cannot determine a climate trend over such a short time
2) There is a positive trend:
Taking a 30 year time series:
Cherry picking is the way you deny the truth you hate to hear.
“In short, there is no evidence CO2 is having any impact on the planet’s temperature.”
In short you deny any evidence of CO2 having an effect. This is why you’re called a denier.
We’re still at square one.
The AGW proponents BELIEVE that CO2 has caused our current warming.
The skeptics ask for evidence, and show that, in any event, there is still plenty of time to collect data and figure out what’s going on. And clearly it doesn’t hurt in the meantime to do what we can to cut back on fossil fuels where possible. But right now it looks like nuclear power took another hit. Lots of natural gas (also a fossil fuel) in the U.S. but the techniques necessary to get to a lot of it may threaten wells and acquifiers, so more investigation needed. Windmills are not likely to ever provide much energy. In addition,in most locations an entire fossil fuel infrastructure would have to be in place as backup. Solar also has problems, but there’s some chance of scientific breakthroughs there. Numerous very small nuclear power plants may turn out to be plausible.
There is a large part of civilization is in poverty because they don’t have a fossil fuel infrastructure. To deny them the advantages of that would relegate them to poverty and sickness forever.
China is growing by leaps and bounds (india probably next), and neither shows any interest in limiting their growth. The western societies could go back to the caves and it would hardly make a difference in the CO2 growth. There’s no chance that this is going to happen. Even in the face of very firm evidence, we probably couldn’t impose sufficient rstrictions, so it’s pretty much a moot point.
Goodnight, and …. good luck !
“The AGW proponents BELIEVE that CO2 has caused our current warming.”
Nope, the science shows that CO2 has caused the majority of the current warming.
Denialists believe anything other than mankind is responsible and therefore project a belief like theirs on the supporters of science.
“There is a large part of civilization is in poverty because they don’t have a fossil fuel infrastructure.”
They are in poverty because they don’t have any resources, not because they don’t have any fossil fuel infrastructure. They don’t have any fossil fuels either, so unless we’re going to gift them with it, they’re stuffed even if your strawman was correct.
They’re starving because the weather is too hot to grow food and AGW will make it worse, while you in your comfort are innured from it.
“The skeptics ask for evidence”
Then when given it, they accept the evidence. This is why YOU are a DENIER.
“and show that, in any event, there is still plenty of time to collect data”
Nope, deniers do that to delay any change in their lifestyle because they are self-centered.
Show there’s plenty of time. Go ahead. Show evidence. “we can’t be sure” is evidence that we DON’T have enough time.
Indeed, China is the primary producer of renewable resource exploitation and accelerating ahead.
Yet you want the west to continue with 18th or 20th century technology whilst China works with 21st Century tech with a future.
Why are you sabotaging the west’s capabilities?
The above are the first two sentences of a letter sent to each member of the US Senate on Oct 21, 2009 by the heads of 18 prestigious national scientific associations in the United States:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Meteorological Society
American Society of Agronomy
American Society of Plant Biologists
American Statistical Association
Association of Ecosystem Research Centers
Botanical Society of America
Crop Science Society of America
Ecological Society of America
Natural Science Collections Alliance
Organization of Biological Field Stations
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
To access this letter in its entirety, go to:
The opening statement above is meaningless. Climate change is ongoing, and further, always has been. “Climate change” and “climate disruption” are much to general to be applied to the only aspect of climate in question at the moment — namely “anthropogenic global warming”.
Since there’s been no global warming for more than the past decade one can hardly talk about AGW (one warmist paper declares no warming from 1980 until 2008 - how’s that grab you?)
Those societies are known as the “culture of power”. A small group of administrators, running each are making the claim. In cases where the membership of the group has any interest, it turns out that large numbers object to what the association has claimed. Once again it’s just more arguments by authority and not facts. Please understand that some of these associations (being nonprofit) are enjoying government grant. Grants to these types of organizations buy their cooperation.
Your cut and paste jobs are not providing any useful information.
You cannot assert a trend over one or two decades of global temperatures. Therefore your statement that there has no warming over the past decade is false because it’s unproven.
And from 1980 to 2008:
A positive trend.
You lie and lie because the truth refutes your faith.
“Once again it’s just more arguments by authority and not facts.”
Arguments by authority are not the facts being denied by you. Another strawman to allow you to ignore and deny any evidence.
Oddly enough, you rely on authority to tell you what to say.
Real science never refers to authority simply because all science is simply a provisional predictive model of natural behavior. All current science must assumed to be wrong even if somewhat useful.
Science that describes an unreconstructed past is simply myth in the same way history and religions are myth.
We agree that myths can be important for social cohesion but lets not be so arrogant to assume we really understand the events that precede our own observations.
Why the reference to Gallileo?
You’re making stuff up to hide your deceptions.
“Science that describes an unreconstructed past is simply myth”
You mean like “The glaciers are retreating from when they covered North America”?
Seems like your skepticism needs recalibrating…
Will a few degrees warming have a significant impact on our climate?
“The world has warmed 0.7°C in the past century. Scientists are confident that the world will get warmer in the 21st century due to further increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, with globally averaged surface temperatures likely to increase by 1.1-6.4 °C from 1990 to 2100. Warming of a few degrees may seem minor compared with day-to-day or seasonal variations in temperature. However, in global climate terms it is much larger than any of the climatic changes experienced during the past 10,000 years.”
“During the last ice age, which was at its maximum about 70,000 years ago, surface temperatures were on average about 5°C lower than today, and much colder in the polar regions. Sheets of ice covered almost one-third of the world’s land. The global warming projected in the 21st century would occur at a time that is already one of the warmest for hundreds of thousands of years, with current levels of carbon dioxide not exceeded for the past 650,000 years, and not likely exceeded during the past 20 million years.”
“A few degrees of global warming will lead to more heat waves and fewer frosts. In Australia, the projected average warming of 0.4 to 2.0°C by the year 2030 would lead to a 10-50 per cent increase in days over 35°C at many places, and a 10-80 per cent decrease in frosts.
Source: Science-Fact and Fiction, Australian Government, Dept. of Climate Change
A general comment about “scientists” about what will happen in the future is not worthy of discussion. In particlar, in climate science many claims are immediately negated by another bunch of scientists who have, from any unbiased spectator’s position, as much credibility as the first group. That’s the entire problem. Falling back to general claims without a lot of backup detail (including evidence) is worthless.
The half degree increase over the past century may be accurate, or at least there is some agreement on it, but …. so what?
We’re still within the bounds of natural variation (and temps could continue to increase yet more. (I haven’t heard that Greenland’s coast is anywhere near ice free yet.)
“another bunch of scientists who have, from any unbiased spectator’s position, as much credibility”
Is not fact.
if you count these other fringe scientists equally, then AGW is still more credible than non-anthropogenic GW.
It’s only among the biased, like yourself, where you inflate the value of 1% a hundred fold or more to create “it’s not proven” for your own beliefs to be assuaged.
“We’re still within the bounds of natural variation”
Nope, natural variation would have a trend of zero over 30 years.
proves we’re outside the bounds of natural variation.
I guess you don’t play craps, do you.
If you roll snake-eyes 1000 times in a row, losing your shirt, the fact that you are still rolling between 2 and 12 which is the variation in the total of two six-sided dice is, to your limited intelligence, no proof you’re being scammed.
Your credulity and gullibility does, however, show why you and your ilk are always afraid of the scam: you’re so much of a sucker for them.
You will have to explain in your own words what your “woodfortrees” website is claiming. I’m not interested in chasing around web references.
To repeat, it’s pretty tough to over-rule 963 peer-reviewed studies on the MWP. The MWP had to be natural variation. No industrial activity back then. Followed by a 500 year little ice age. Warmists must on the one hand reject all of these scientists work, and accept instead accept a much smaller group where which has a couple of obvious agendas. One player at the UN admits that climate change is all about moving wealth from the industrialized nations to the poor countries. Many others are known for being firm believers in the “one-world” concept. (You can’t get there unless there’s some “crisis” which requires that the world be put under one organization, presumably the UN.) The IPCC has a vested interest in remaining viable. If man is not impacting the planet’s warming, they’re out of business.
The CRUs numerous egregious actions are sufficient to reject out of hand anything they have done.
But, the game goes on. Now some of our government agencies are cooperating on a new venture to change the definition of sea level.
Anybody using a website with a name like “WoodForTrees” and not recognizing what position such a group is likely to have is, to put it politely, naive ! adios
The data is the HadCRUT dataset and it plots that data for you. That graph shows that the trend is not zero and is , in fact, significantly above it. Therefore your assertion that we’re within natural variability is proven false.
With facts.
“The CRUs numerous egregious actions”
Only exist in the fevered imaginations of conspiracy nuts or denialists like yourself.
You can, however, change the dataset.
The trend is still positive and disproves your statement.
With facts.
Ocean sea level is not temperature, by the way.
James M. Taylor is managing editor of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly publication produced by the Heartland Institute think tank, and devoted to “sound science and free-market environmentalism,”
So he’s a free market fundamentalist paid by a fossil fuel funded lobbying group.
He’s been paid to say what you want to believe is true.
“The MWP had to be natural variation.”
Indeed. And forest fires happened before mankind existed. Therefore arson doesn’t exist?
You have no qualms about lying and making any story up as long as your randian belief system remains inviolate.
Ah, so who is this one player? And why do you believe them but not any of the others.
Your 953 papers are wrong, outdated and misrepresented by yourself to present a result you want to make heard. Just like your “one warmist paper” that has been shown false here today.
Ah! ‘Warmists’ eh! Explains the lines you take, more rhetorical drivel from the ideologically blimkered.
Try this:
Medieval project gone wrong
Posted on 30 April 2011 by Hoskibui
With regularity, you might hear skeptics mentioning a website called CO2 Science and its Medieval Project. It is a front for a research center called Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and their goal is to distribute:
The website is run by the Idso family (Craig, Sherwood, Keith and Julene).
Medieval Project
One of the Idsos’ main projects collects temperature reconstructions of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) that claim to show local warming and then posts them on their website with the Idsos’ interpretation. They conclude that current warming is not unprecedented since there were warm periods in the past in various geographic locations around the globe.
The site is flooded with lots of references, but do the references say the same thing as the Idsos? CO2 Science has a powerful interactive map and by clicking on the dots on the map you get to a page where a summary of that study is displayed - or rather the CO2 Science interpretation of the study.
CO2 Science has also been a useful resource for other skeptics, see for example the Science Skeptical Blog * which has also available an interactive map (pictured below):
Interaction for healthy skeptics?
For people with healthy skepticism these interactive maps are quite good. It is crucial that those maps are viewed with a critical mind. On Skeptical Science (as opposed to Science Skeptical Blog) we have looked before at common graphical tricks used to exaggerate the Medieval Warm Period, which include the following:
Hide the temperature scale and/or the temperature values
Pick one area or location of the world
Cut out or ignore recent warming
The total effect of those maps is what is most effective for the casual reader. All of the selected articles on the map show at some point a period that can be interpreted as “Medieval Warming”. The quotation mark is because in some cases the research is only about the period itself - but not the temperature. For example we can find graphs showing changes in precipitation, like, Zhang et al 2003 - astudy from Tibet, which states in its abstract (emphasis mine):
… We find that the annual growth rings mainly reflect variations in regional spring precipitation. The greatest change in spring precipitation during the last two millennia seems to occur in the second half of the 4th century. The North Atlantic MWP was accompanied by notable wet springs in the study region during AD 929–1031, with the peak occurring around AD 974. …
Few of the graphs in Figure 2 contain temperature data past the mid-20th Century, and thus do not reflect current temperatures; in addition the MWP is rather ill-defined. Usually the MWP is the period between 950-1250, but when you look at the graphs you see some inconsistency. In it you see a warm period during 800 AD, 1100 AD or even 1400 AD; that warming is - by their opinion - indication of a global warming during the MWP. For example if you take graphs from two separate locations you can see some difference. Here we have one graph with a proxy for temperature in Greenland (Johnsen et al 2001) and the other one for New Zealand (Wilson et al 1979):
I’ll leave the remainder for you to discover by paying a visit at the link at the start of these quotes else you may miss important ideas.
‘The CRUs numerous egregious actions are sufficient to reject out of hand anything they have done.’
And those errors would be?
Name them and describe how they are errors.
Hint: I have provided some hints in posts further up.
Wake up anymouse!
‘But, the game goes on.’
So it would appear but the only ones playing a game are you tedious twerps!
National Academy calls on nation to “substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions” starting ASAP
Final report warns, “Waiting for unacceptable impacts to occur before taking action is imprudent because … many of these changes will persist for hundreds or even thousands of years.”
Record Heat in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma; Earliest 100° at Wichita
Update: Century-Old Records Also Broken By Wide Margin in Nebraska, Iowa
and more
and from
‘Where Have All the Seasons Gone?’
Delhi Platform, along with the Gujarat Agricultural Labour Union
published a 48-page report ‘Where Have All the Seasons Gone? Current
Impacts of Climate Change in Gujarat’. It focuses in particular on the
impacts of climate change on small and marginal farmers, and on
agricultural workers in parts of Gujarat.
A summary of the report is pasted below.
Anyone interested in the full printed copy, please contact us at
[email protected] Those in Delhi are welcome to come to our
up a copy.
In solidarity,
Nagraj Adve, and others,
Delhi Platform
understand better how people across gender, caste and class divides in
different regions and ecosystems are being impacted by climate change;
direction, because to address the issues meaningfully, participatory
This report reveals the already considerable impacts of global warming
on small and marginal farmers, and on agricultural labour in northern
and eastern Gujarat. A joint team comprising activists of Delhi
the Gujarat Agricultural Labour Union (GALU), Bandhkaam Mazdoor
Sanghatan and Disha, visited villages in Banaskantha and Sabarkantha
districts in northern Gujarat and the predominantly adivasi Dahod and
Panchmahal districts in eastern Gujarat in late-November, early
December 2010. This report is based on our conversations with
residents in villages there; discussions with activists; interactions
with those knowledgeable about Gujarat’s social structure, agriculture
and water systems; and on relevant primary data and secondary
Residents in villages told us about a range of climate change effects
winter temperature and a consequent loss of dew (atmospheric moisture)
southwest monsoon and a decline in rains in June; more intense
these reported changes are in keeping with changes elsewhere in India;
Secondly, whereas people in villages had expectedly a clear idea of
changes in rainfall and other climatic patterns, there was very little
awareness about why it was happening or that anthropocentric global
warming was to blame.
The impacts of climate change on small and marginal farmers (chapter
3) have been varied:
sharply reduced yields or farmers even having to leave their lands
fallow. Those without access to well water in eastern Gujarat are
poorest households.
b. Warmer winters are also resulting in the increased incidence of
pest attacks in both regions. Consequently, farmers are being forced
to incur a further burden of higher input/pesticide costs.
c. Irregular rainfall events are harming agriculture in different
groundnut and potato was devastated in 2010-2011 due to excessively
and unprecedented rains until late November. These extensive rains,
very likely caused by climate change, extended for hundreds of
kilometres beyond Gujarat, to southern Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Rajasthan, etc.
d. The extraction of groundwater by farmers has accentuated greatly
with the increasing cultivation of market-driven cash and
this intensifies, it has serious implications for the farm economy
generally, in particular for poorer farmers directly and landless
labour indirectly through the reduced demand for labour.
e. Milk production – which is central to household economies,
particularly among poor households, both in eastern Gujarat but
particularly in Banaskantha and Sabarkantha – is getting hit due to
thermal heat stress faced by local and hybrid cow breeds. The
availability of fodder, free or at least inexpensively, has
diminished, putting more pressure on households least able to cope
reducing the price at which milk can be sold.
suffer, wiping out possible short-term gains from Green Revolution
migration to factories or construction work in western and south
Gujarat. For sharecroppers (bataidars) and agricultural workers in
engages in agricultural labour. It meant migration, but thousands of
the first time that impacts of climate change on agricultural workers
in India are being presented in a published report.
Climate change cannot be viewed in isolation from social processes.
The capacity to absorb the impacts of climate change is crucially
dependent on two factors in any agrarian setting: land ownership and
husbandry, given its centrality for household economies. The social
structure and land ownership, the extensive tapping of groundwater in
northern Gujarat and its relative absence in adivasi areas of eastern
Gujarat; the development of milk cooperatives and the interconnections
between these three elements of the agrarian economy are discussed in
groundwater, policy variations in electrical supply over the last 20
years, the development of contract farming more recently, and how
north and eastern Gujarat differ in many of these.
farmers for loss in crop yields, and possible sources for such
compensatory payments. Regarding cushioning the impacts of, and
the better distribution of water and electricity, in developing and
maintaining ponds; check dams; development of grasslands, revival of
forests, water harvesting, etc.
The chapter also discusses crucial wider questions that the issue of
global warming revives, without which no meaningful long term solution
groundwater? It would include snapping the link between access to
arrangements in place at the community level that ensure that even the
these and related questions, we briefly discuss some earlier struggles
in Maharashtra and elsewhere around equitable distribution of water.
Climate change is only one among a range of ecological crises that
humanity has created and needs to tackle with urgency. Global warming
relations within human society. It forces us to rethink our entire
development trajectory itself. The need to tackle global warming hence
we hope, play a small part.
Same coming to, or already arrived at, farms near you in the US.
Stop playing silly mind games GF!
… as the glaciers advance once again, but in unison, I have no doubt that the warmist/alarmists will be calling it climate disruption and blaming the oncoming ice age on man.
If there’s no room for you in the power structure, invent a religion, the Church of AGW, and become one of its witch doctors.
you have a brick in your hand?
Please name all glaciers that are advancing in unison against a background number for the total of glacier numbers and how many of those are retreating.
There you go again on about Church of AGW etc., What a frigging boor you are!
Uh, what glaciers? Given your history of making stuff up, how are we supposed to know what you’ve said is even microscopically true?
Glaciers are retreating. Unless you are hunting around looking for one that is increasing and skipping all the rest (which would be falsification of data), and changing which glacier you consider at any given time. And that would be fraud.
The only religion is the faith-based one that, no matter what it may be, global warming is NOT anthropogenic.
NOTE: despite trying to claim “skepticism”, the proponents of one of the several score reasons for warming never take to task any of the others, as long as they too agree with the central tenant of their faith: it isn’t me, guv.
RE: “Glaciers are retreating.”
They have been for ten thousand years when Ice over a mile deep covered the greater majority of the North American Continent. All of this when humans lived at their margins.
When should have we rung the alarm bell, when they were only half a mile deep?
Note: the end of the last glacial period was 8-10,000 years ago. It’s retreating now far faster than ever before.
Plus also, for the education of those actually open to ideas, note how that before it was “the Glaciers are growing”.
Now, note, it’s all “yes, they’re retreating from the last ice age!”
Note that no self-styled “skeptic” or “doubting thomas” has noted this change of tack.
This is how you can spot denial: everything is accepted as long as it says “AGW is not happening”.
As long as the mode is “cut & paste” rather than intelligent discussion, here’s one for you:
The Global Warming Doctrine is Not a Science: Notes for Cambridge
English Pages, 10. 5. 2011
I have expressed my views about this issue in a number of speeches and articles presented or published in the last couple of years all over the world. My book “Blue Planet in Green Shackles”[1] has been translated into 17 languages. I spoke about it several times also here in Great Britain, in Chatham House four years ago[2], and most recently in the Global Warming Policy Foundation[3]. Some relevance had my speech at the UN Climate Change Conference in New York in September 2007.[4]
Or do you have nothing to say that isn’t given to you by your manager?
“The Global Warming Doctrine is Not a Science: Notes for Cambridge”
Yup, a propaganda piece you’ve cut and pasted. I bet you don’t even know anything about it other than what you were passed by your pals.
So what would he know about science?
“What follows is my attempt to summarize my reading of this doctrine:”
Which is then followed by a doctrinaire declaration of his feelings. Not facts.
Remember: economists didn’t know that the economic crash would happen. Shows how well they understand predictions, doesn’t it.
You haven’t managed to say what glacier has retreated, nor whether this is a trend or an instantaneous reading nor whether it still holds true.
Heck, you haven’t even shown that it exists.
Instead you come out with a huge long gish gallop of something COMPLETELY UNRELATED to glaciers.
That you haven’t managed to substantiate your claims shows that your claim is false and you know it.
This is known as lying.
But your fellow denialists will forgive you, as long as you ensure that you don’t tell them they’re wrong.
Note that I am actually posting material that is germane to the discussion of climate change. Then you respond with a rhetoric laden rant from an ideologue and one who quotes Plimer. Well he torpedoes himself by even citing Plimer who has been exposed as a fraud:
Plimer exposed as a fraud
Category: Plimer
Posted on: December 15, 2009 12:18 PM, by Tim Lambert
Ian Plimer’s performance in his debate with Monbiot has to be seen to be believed. Rather than admit to making any error at all, Plimer ducks, weaves, obfuscates, recites his favourite catch phrase, tries to change the subject and fabricates some more. When confronted with the fact that the USGS says (backed with scientific papers) that human activities emit 130 times as much CO2 as volcanoes, Plimer claims that the USGS doesn’t count underwater volcanoes. When told that the USGS specifically said that they do count undersea volcanoes, Plimer invented a story about how the nature of the rocks under the ocean proves that there must be unobserved emissions. Needless to say, this is not acceptable conduct for a scientist.
The University of Adelaide’s code of practice on research misconduct states:
Misrepresentation : A researcher or reviewer shall not with intent to deceive, or in reckless disregard for the truth:
(a) state or present a material or significant falsehood; (b) omit a fact so that what is stated or presented as a whole states or presents a material or significant falsehood.
Elsewhere, James Randerson interviewed Plimer and
Randerson has an another example of Plimer refusing to admit to even the most blatant error:
Elsewhere in the book, Plimer appears to have conflated a US temperature record and the global average temperature. On page 99 he writes “Nasa now states that […] the warmest year was 1934.” The Nasa dataset he is referring to covers the US only but he seems to be referring to the world average.
Again, Plimer does not appear to accept that the world is warming. But in fact, the hottest year on record is 1998 and eight of the 10 hottest years ever recorded have occurred this century.
When I put the mistake to him he responded: “The 1930s in North America and probably the rest of the world were a hot period of time.” But what about increased global average temperature since then? “That has been disputed by many of my colleagues who I have a great regard for because they’ve been the people involved in putting measurements together … I do dispute that as do many other people who are far more qualified in atmospheric sciences than I.”
Bob Burton tracks down the story of how the AAP reported Plimer’s speech before it happened. As you might have guessed, the journalist did a cut and paste from a press release put out by a PR firm.
On Saturday the Sydney Morning Herald printed a report from Copenhagen by Ian Plimer on a news page. My letter to them:
Please cancel my subscription to the SMH.
The SMH simply does not care about the accuracy of what it publishes. You obviously did not bother to check whether there was any basis to Ian Plimer’s dishonest smears of climate scientist, allowing him to falsely accuse them of fraud and “mafia-type thuggery”.
I don’t know why you think your business model should involve deceiving your readers, but I’m not buying it or your paper any more.
The effects around the world being of the utmost importance for those who, like you, seem to have your head up the bum and cannot discern the obvious. The obvious as as I have repeatedly demonstrated. Did you bother reading any of it?
You moan about be sending you all over the internet, well you started that modus with your GOOGLEDOCCROC..
The problem is you see that this is a topic that involves complex science and mathematics in many disciplines and thus cannot easily be explained by posting other than the bare essentials in a blogg such as this.
But of course you realise that and take advantage. It matters not how we present the information you still sneer. That tells me that you are not the least interested in the truth and are therefore either too stupid, perhaps suffering from cognitive dissonance, to understand the bigger picture or are so ideologically driven and ethically suspect that you are lying and know it. Thus you are nothing but a troll.
OTOH Maybe you are a honey pot hoping that one of us will write something that your heroes can pick up on to sue.
PS. And the US once had as president a George W Bush—look how that turned out—the worst US president in living memory and that is saying something given the legacy of Richard Nixon and Ronald Raygun.
Hey, GoFigure:
I wasn’t aware of this address by Vaclav Klaus. Thanks for the information. Klaus (among others) is a powerful voice of reason in the AGW issue. Because AGW is being used to fuel political objectives, politicians care not whether AGW causes harmful climate effects. In my estimation, unless some scientist makes a game-changing CO2 discovery, it would be more appropriate for skeptics to denounce AGW from a political viewpoint. Why? The deck is stacked in favor of AGW supporters for many reasons, all of them political, such as:
1. Government throws billions at AGW research and nothing at natural causes.
2. Funding for research on natural causes of warming is miniscule and universally proclaimed by Warmers to be “dirty” money.
3. The vast majority of scientists working in the field of climate change receives and depends on government AGW grants for their livelihood.
4. Key AGW scientists have conspired to “doctor” AGW science and suppress publication of contradictory research.
5. Skeptical scientists have been vilified, sacked, libeled and slandered by AGW supporters.
6. Climate models MUST assume that clouds amplify the effect of pure (benign) CO2 warming in order to show harm to the environment. Assumption is necessary because scientists cannot agree on what effect clouds actually have on CO2 warming. If this assumption isn’t made, the models do not predict any measureable manmade warming.
7. A sympathetic mainstream media feeds alarming AGW pronouncements to an audience interested only in bad news.
8. Politicians who lead us from calamity tend to get reelected.
You quoted Klaus as saying: “If someone wants to reduce CO2 emissions, he must either expect a revolution in economic efficiency (which determines emissions intensity) or must start organizing a world-wide economic decline.”
Klaus is essentially correct, except that government is doing both.
Government refuses to fund the R&D to find a 24/7 replacement for carbon fuels. They essentially fund production of windmills, solar cells, and Ethanol… which cannot replace carbon fuels (this is a great subject to discuss separately). After saying that carbon fuels are a threat to humanity, I would expect government to make a concerted effort to find a new energy source to replace carbon fuels. Why isn’t this happening?
Government is intent on taxing carbon, as “Cap and Trade” or by any other name. The idea is to force energy users to switch to a carbon free energy source that government refuses to provide. This makes no sense to me. As government would strangle our economic output with added costs of carbon credits, we would see our GNP decline, see manufacturing go overseas, and see job losses. Perhaps this is part of a master plan. The industrialized countries would lose manufacturing and jobs, and developing countries would gain them. This is likely a part of the Global Warming Doctrine (GWD) referred to by Klaus.
As I see it, government is using the AGW lie to scare us into accepting its proscription for radically altering our way of life. But because government won’t try and find a replacement energy source for carbon fuels, the lie is revealed. Government is doing nothing that can save use from any threats of manmade CO2. How can CO2 actually be harmful? Why would government lie to us?
Sound reasoning
“anonymous. +0; Fri, 2011-05-13 12:11; Good Information ”
That is one of the most extreme reds under yer beds unfounded pieces of crap I have ever read.
“But because government won’t try and find a replacement energy source for carbon fuels, the lie is revealed.”
What a sec. So the reds under yer beds right wing nutters like yourself & Gareth are saying this & “sound reasoning” & AGW is “socialism”, yet you guys want government to find a replacement energy source & not the free market provide it to us? Sounds like socialism to me.
It’s a bit hard when you have right wing nutters like Gareth screaming down with big government at every election & whingeing that the government is too much a part of our lives. Yet now you whinge that the government hasn’t found an energy replacement source for carbon fuels, the lie is revealed?
And Gareth like a typical unthinking drone says “sound reasoning”.
1) No, that is your paranoia. All scientific research is conducted in an unbiased objective manner. If something is natural, they say it’s natural, if man has something to do with it, they say so. It’s obvious you believe the results are more harmful to your ideology than the planet you live on.
2) Then why have faith in the poptech list of 900 papers? Either they exist or they don’t exist. The dirty money is in reference to the tiny amount of media circuit scientists with ties to the fossil fuel or mining industry that speak at fossil fuel or right wing conferences to spin propaganda & falsehoods.
3)Just like most scientists in most fields of science for the past few hundred years…amazing discovery! Do you expect us to not learn about our own planet? I bet you never doubted them until the companies that fund your political party said they would be affected. Say about 7-10 years ago?
4)No, what it showed was that deniers had little clue about what they were talking about & took everything out of context. The documents were freely available to anyone, but McIntyre chose to use FOI to delay or tie up Jones research. Straight out of the corporation playbook where they used to subpoena people constantly to shut them down. FOI is the newest weapon. McIntyre, Eschenbach, Watts & CA was exposed for what they are. Amateurs & delayers. Jones was vindicated.
5) They give as much as they get. Provide examples.
6)The effect of clouds has long been understood, catch up.
7) What?..Are you saying they shouldn’t be allowed to report a flood, cyclone/hurricane, tornado, drought,snow event?
8) Like in Canada? Like the U.K? Like New Zealand? Like France?
and for the shoring up of the randian faith system that enables greed as a good attribute.
He’s bought and paid for by secretive commercial interests.
AGW is a solid theory that has stood the test of GENUINE skeptics. It is accurate in its predictions and sufficient in its explanatory power to describe the current and past climate.
Burbling on about light and “it’s a word we give something” which even he has decided was too crazy to continue with has only managed to show his internal confusion.
And the explanation of the climate that fits the evidence, withstanding many and varied attempts to test or refute the explanation means that we must take steps to avoid making the climate change disastrously for our civilisation.
However, Titas believes that the world is His plaything and that he has a mandate from God to stuff it up.
And to protect his comforting lies, he is going very publicly insane.
Google “Ptolemy theory” sometimes know as Almagest. Around 150AD.
We have climate change. If you think CO2 isn’t a cause, how do you think you get weather?
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How do I track what religion a family practiced after leaving the family religion?
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The Martins came over from England w/ the Quaker group who immigrated to Pennsylvania. They then migrated to NC, VA, KY, and then throughout the U.S. in the 20th century. At some point in the 1800s, they blended in w/ the religion of the local region where they were living. How do you go about accessing that information? The Canadian census listed "religion" but ours does not.
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by kotiroma on 2010-11-25 09:42:41
Hi, some churches do keep records of parish business and you pay to view them. I would check out the region where they lived and start looking for local history of the district, they usually mention churches etc. Perhaps if you checked out the library of that area, some provide online access to local history of the region. Maps of the time can also provide vital information.
If they were still active members in old age then maybe the death certificate will provide burial details.
Good luck
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User avatar #191 - nucularwar (03/23/2013) [-]
Two men, two women, two people of different religious beliefs have the same potential level of emotional maturity. 15 year olds can't be trusted to make good decisions.
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#202 to #191 - asderition (03/23/2013) [-]
Some can, depends on the upbringing. And also the gender. Women mature faster than guys, 3 years by debate. 18 year olds make pretty dumb decisions though too...
#215 to #202 - makethingsworse (03/23/2013) [-]
>girls mature faster than guys
HAHAHA! HAHA! HA! That is some funny **** right there!
#209 to #202 - bronywhat (03/23/2013) [-]
The girls in my high school just slept with whatever guy bought them more weed.
User avatar #204 to #202 - talosknight (03/23/2013) [-]
While you are right about the maturity, that is more physical. I've known girls to date older men "because he buys me stuff." That was super common in high school. In reality, I see it as a lot of guys just using a lot of these girls as poor cum dumpsters.
In conclusion, maturity, either mental or physical, does not account for young naïvety.
#206 to #204 - asderition (03/23/2013) [-]
I dated a younger girl, it was aight, but kinda awkward because everyone judged. Honestly, age is one of those, either you care or not, type of things.
#222 to #206 - urbemarmis (03/23/2013) [-]
the lowest i dated down was 14 years old when i was 16. (2 years difference) and i still noticed a different level of maturity with her. she was still going thru the "i want my life to be a soap opera" phase so shed start **** just to argue and be able to say those dumb ass things that you hear on tv. i **** you not she actually said "this constant arguing is tearing us apart" once while we were arguing over the phone. i laughed hung up and 4 hours later she called back saying sorry. there is a huge maturity gap that i just dont see anyone wanting to deal with
User avatar #214 to #206 - Katzie (03/23/2013) [-]
I used to know a nineteen year old dating a fourteen year old.
I have a list of people I would fight on the spot if I ever saw them,
He is the list.
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User avatar #17 - comexx (12/23/2014) [-]
Here's my opinion on this whole thing: I don't care wether you are a Bosnian, Croat or Serb, if you still say things like: "hurr durr, my country is better, your country did this and that, my country has these, your doesn't..." you're a fucking idiot. I don't give a shit about what happened in the past and I don't see why anyone should. Shit happened, everyone had their better and worse moments. Instead of pointing them out, we should concentrate on making this shithole called Balkan a better place, by actually doing something to improve ourselves and possibly others. P.S. The GTA IV argument was kinda stupid, I mean, do you really think everyone bought the game because the protagonist was Serbian? No, they didn't, he could've been from Madagascar and people would like the game just as much. Roman is a Serb too, you know.
User avatar #28 - wottafella (17 hours ago) [-]
You do realise that it was all based on money, the whole war is down to money and power, NATO just needed an excuse to do it, they chose a poor excuse and everyone still believed it
User avatar #14 - kikx (12/22/2014) [-]
I'm a croatian but +1 nigga
User avatar #12 - ballsmcfrenz (12/22/2014) [-]
yeah you tell that filthy bosnian what's up
#4 - salihzzz (12/22/2014) [-]
ooh my ceto alert, what is the problem here
no history? We've got the same History you do, came down from proud slav North, built a kingdom fought the turks gave em hell lost (fuck it we fought gud) fought the austrians (lost fuck it we didn't fight that gud but still proud) fought the axis ( fought like a motherfucking wolverine caught on fire while on beserker drugs (still lost tough), fought cetos and ustashas for destroying yugoslavia (won but no more yugo so kinda lost) pic related
No heritage? you're talking about bloodline? corats got fucked by austrians they got a lot of euro blood now, serbs got fucked by everyone (mongols, tatars, shiptars, gypsies, eastern balkan tribes, greek and turks) you barely have a drop of yugo blood left in you
Culture? we have just as much original yugo culture as you do, we're pretty much the same except we like turkish culture, and you got assfucked by russian orthodox culture, both sides chose a big player at the end but the rest of the line is pretty much the same. every culture is derived from differant nations all the culture that yugos created we still have them we just dont need any orthodoxx or western european culture in bosnia
like a bitch asking for foreign aid? when the war started only serbs and croatians got aid, when the war was over serbia and more in particulat beograd was ruin and completely rebuilt with foreign aid, your country is literaly taken over by jews.
you're a bunch of animals, war starts, serbs start massacaring croats and bosnians in bosnia and croatia like fucking rabbid dogs, while the bosnian population in navi pazar remaind peacefull
Proud yugo masterrace you serb shits had to ruin it
User avatar #27 - wottafella (12/23/2014) [-]
All the battles fought against the Ottomans were lead by Serbia, WW1, led by Serbian generals, Balkan wars, led by Serbian generals with the exception of Montenegro leaders fighting with Serbs. Bosnia? I don't think so, nothing has proved Bosnians glorious other than the fact that the nation decided to convert religions, we never had a problem with the Islamic populace growing, the problem occurred when these converts decided to claim land which was not rightfully theirs, all for the need of religion, you Bosnians eventually started crying for aid and what did you get? Aid, with a war debt equal to all the other six nations of Yugoslavia, Serbia had no part other than peacekeeping, Croats had played a role of peacekeeping but coming to the end they started to chase people out of 'Croation Lands.' Bosnians decided to attempt to fuck shit up and ended up getting fucked up, along with the rest of a strong nation forged from the shits of WW2.
Bosnian history = derived from other cultures including Serbian
Serbian history = fucked shit up in the name of fatherland and religion, defended the Austrians from the Ottoman invasion from the east and in return, Croatia was gifted, WW1, 3 Austro-Hungarian attempts to capture Belgrade, failed, Germans tried 2 attempts, failed first time, successful second time, with the Serbians having this speech in their minds.
"Soldiers, exactly at three o'clock, the enemy is to be crushed by your fierce charge, destroyed by your grenades and bayonets. The honor of Belgrade, our capital, must not be stained. Soldiers! Heroes! The supreme command has erased our regiment from its records. Our regiment has been sacrificed for the honor of Belgrade and the Fatherland. Therefore, you no longer need to worry about your lives: they no longer exist. So, forward to glory! For the King and the Fatherland! Long live the King, Long live Belgrade!"
-Dragutin Gavrilovic
User avatar #7 - mephiblis (12/22/2014) [-]
hahahahahahahah ahahahahahaha AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Bosnian turds converted to islam and started sucking turk cock 17 nanoseconds after turkscum invaded. You people are worse than shiptars, worse then Serbs, worse than Croats, probably even worse than Greeks. Stain on the glorious Balkan is what you people are.
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User avatar #19 - salihzzz (12/23/2014) [-]
sushort history lesson?
Kosovo is like holy land because serbs fought turks there and lost, today its so overrun by albanian kebab that you even lost that part completely, sure sebs verry stronk
User avatar #20 - mephiblis (12/23/2014) [-]
>Implying I'm a Serb
Every country on the Balkans has been a piece of shit at one point or another, some more than others, but Bosnians... holee fuq, Bosnians have betrayed their race, their fate, their people, their neighbors and so on and so forth. Spineless, wretched people.
Srebrenica, best day of lyf, remove quasi-turk kebab.
#18 - anonymous (12/23/2014) [-]
yes and bosnian men were not sent to their wars only yours were, in the mean time the turks were having funn with your bored women look it up serbs have more turk blood than any yugo nation
User avatar #11 - tealcanaan (12/22/2014) [-]
But is he worse than a Macedonian? That is the real question.
User avatar #21 - mephiblis (12/23/2014) [-]
Damn Macedonians, how dare they exist!?
User avatar #22 - tealcanaan (12/23/2014) [-]
I guess it's more a Greek thing to hate Macedonians.
User avatar #23 - mephiblis (12/23/2014) [-]
Everyone needs a hobby i suppose :^)
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I figured it might. Nikola Tesla never patented a design.
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share games many said were "bad" but were actually "good"
#91Bloodmoon77Posted 2/16/2013 6:26:48 PM
FF13. It's f****** gorgeous and relatively challenging.
#92vigorm0rtisPosted 2/16/2013 6:29:41 PM
Pr0t0typeG0d posted...
Brutal Legend is amazing, though. I didn't realize people thought it was "bad."
Yeah. it sold terribly. Brutal Legend 2 is my dream sequel of this gen.
#93invertedlegdropPosted 2/16/2013 7:03:25 PM
Gotta say the Mosou games too. I love them to death, and i love that reviewers hate them but they sell over a million each time. I could put 100s of hours into some of them.
I actually considered paying $60 for the new Fist of the North Star one, but i had to have Fire Emblem:Awakening.
#94Carribean_CoolPosted 2/16/2013 8:49:27 PM
Alpha Protocol for sure. Could you imagine if there was a sequel and it had an import feature? Suck we'll never see a Beta Protocol, Delta Protocol, Gamma Protocol.... it goes on....
Mass Effect 1's mako and combat.
#95Zohar_MetatronPosted 2/16/2013 11:56:30 PM
bpcarter posted...
Saints Row: The Third - People who played 1 and 2 think it sucks, people new to the series love it
I played the first two and I quite liked 3, actually. I think it's a step back from 2 in terms of content, but that's very different from being bad.
Lords of Shadow: First Castlevania since SotN not to be outright terrible. (To be fair, Lament of Innocence is okay. Curse of Darkness, meanwhile, might be the single worst game ever developed.)
Brutal Legend: It's a bit half-baked in both gameplay styles, but you can do no better for aesthetic and it doesn't play poorly at all. The way the game got treated, both in development and after, is downright criminal, and I say that as someone who very rarely pays attention to the metal genre.
Bionic Commando: I sort of wish they'd either gone with the planned goofier style or had the time to drop some of the sillier plot elements that were supposed to go with it, but it's actually just fine.
Koei's Warriors games: Still fun. A sucker for the settings, though, I'll admit.
Splatterhouse: It sucks so very, very hard we won't get a sequel to this. Technically janky, definitely, not a lot to the combat, but damned if it didn't hit every note it was aiming for. (The ending is a war crime, though, in light of how it's not gettin' a sequel.)
Sonic '06: Okay, so "good" is a stretch, but honestly if they had time to finish the silly thing it would've been at least as good as the Adventures, and certainly better then Heroes.
By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings.
#96masked_yazooPosted 2/17/2013 12:12:35 AM
Records of Agarest War
Idolm@ster 2
Resident Evil 6
#97Garbage_DayPosted 2/17/2013 5:25:26 AM
bpcarter posted...
Operation Darkness - People complain about the graphics, but it's a SRPG, so graphics don't really matter, and one of the best in that genre on 360
#98Carte360Posted 2/17/2013 5:35:21 AM
Aliens: Colonial Marines.
So much unwarranted hate.
Why would Microsoft worry about exclusives when it has the awe-inspiring Kinect to sell consoles. - MrRGerk
#99TrugamerPosted 2/17/2013 7:51:33 AM
All Pro Football 2K8 is a better playing football game than Madden 13 don't believe me get the demo and see for yourself
Also Rise of the Argonauts is my favorite overlooked sleeper this gen , good story with a cool Greek myth theme , interesting characters , good combat and leveling progression
#100SocratoPosted 2/17/2013 9:37:23 AM
Risen & Two Worlds.
Both I & II for each.
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#1NoodlesVr6Posted 10/2/2010 10:55:22 PM
Those were the days....
I think at one point it was Copper to Diamond..
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#2SinrothPosted 10/2/2010 11:55:50 PM
It was never Copper to Diamond >_>
#3NeedMoreMoneyPosted 10/3/2010 12:18:06 AM
Copper to Plat.
Yeah I remember, I was copper than I got promoted to bronze than I was like :D than later I found higher leagues during the beta and was like D:
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#4DanTheTimidPosted 10/3/2010 5:45:33 AM
Made more sense to me. Copper is almost never used for awards and has limited (but still some) value, thus it made sense for a starting point. Bronze, silver, and Gold are all awards and generally recognized in respective values so they were things to aim for if you started from copper, to work your way up to bronze, then silver, and ultimately gold. Finally platinum is generally recognized to be even more valuable then gold (and unlike copper-gold league its symbol had a picture on it instead of just bars making it unique) and thus was this extra supreme league for the best of the best to strive for.
The new system starts you in bronze by default, taking away the value of bronze as a reward, has gold in the middle which doesn't make much sense for what is generally considered "the best" award, then has both plat and diamond, two materials whose values in relation to each other aren't necessarily common knowledge. It may be because of my own ignorance but if you'd asked me prior to starcraft 2 which would be a higher prestige, to get a platinum award or a diamond award I'd have been unclear and probably have guessed platinum. Further, both plat and diamond have unique pictures for their league symbol, again adding ambiguity to which is better as well as just taking away from the "special" factor plat originally had.
So yeah, I'm not going to start a petition or anything to get it changed back, they can call the leagues whatever the heck they want, but I personally felt the original system with copper and no diamond was the superior one.
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Things some of the grandchildren may never remember, except through songs they sing about her. Now, almost a year later, the family wants to change the tune. They want justice. "It'll be a relief for us once it's all said and done," said Marissa Flores. "And we know that this person is behind bars."
The case remains open, it also remains unsolved. "They have been working leads as they come in," said Commander Hank Peeters from the Indio Police Department. "And we haven't had anybody recently come in with any new information."
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ILikeBirds Sat 09-Mar-13 13:14:00
I thought this sort of thing has always gone on. I know people who had two E offers to go to Oxbridge (and this was from a state school background).
In the current system can you keep an unconditional offer in reserve?
Universities used to be able to see what other places you'd applied to, I know the university I went to used to give higher offers to those who'd applied to Oxbridge on the basis that they didn't want their offer to be used as a reserve. If you can't keep an unconditional offer in reserve then maybe this is something similar?
NewFerry Sat 09-Mar-13 13:14:17
Creamteas - thanks, thats very interesting ref the students applying who already have their results and confirmed what I had thought was probably the case.
I think I read that unis could take (practically) unlimited numbers of AAB students last year, is that the case this year, or has this changed?
Also, I too would be interested to know whether the Jan A2 results are down, given DS did very badly in one of his modules scoring a C when he had been scoring 90%+ on mock papers
MariscallRoad Sat 09-Mar-13 13:24:07
Cream Birminham requires 2 sorts of entry requirements. The general ones which include 3 A Levels - or other kinds - so one must do them; and also the ’specific entry requirements’ for the chosen course and I understand the issue is there. However, a student who does not perform well in A2 but already has an unconditional they would struggle from the start of the academic course; and I ve known some universities to offer good support to those students with extra tuition so as to avoid dropping off.. So if one has difficulty they expect to sort it. What we parents find most unfair is 9K, fee which rose to that level at once.
Birmingham is in the QS 100 top list and has v good rep.
creamteas Sat 09-Mar-13 13:27:30
Ilike yes some unis used to make unconditional offers but usually only when a separate entrance exam and/or interview had taken place. As far as I know, no, you only get an unconditional offer if Birmingham is your firm. And no, at this point in time, universities can't see where else applicants have applied to.
New last year AAB+ students were deemed to be outside of student number controls and this is changing to ABB+.
Last year went badly wrong for many of the top unis because the number of students getting AAB+ dropped and it was not possible to fill the places with students of lower grades as they then would be fined by the government (HEFCE worked out the number of AAB+ students expected and deducted these places from universities, but had obviously not talked to Gove/Ofqual who are on a mission to reduce grades).
webwiz Sat 09-Mar-13 13:28:12
There is a thread on the studentroom about this, the students seem a bit wary of accepting the offers though:
Also there's a telegraph article
For Maths you need to be predicted A* A* A* which a lot of schools would be reluctant to predict. Also if you were predicted that Birmingham wouldn't be the natural choice of university to study at. For the unconditional offer you need to put Birmingham as your first choice so they may pick up some risk averse students who would normally have had them as a back up choice as best.
ILikeBirds Sat 09-Mar-13 13:30:05
Do they not interview either then? I had interviews for all the universities I'd applied to
MariscallRoad Sat 09-Mar-13 13:31:41
NewFerry, An exam performance involves for some students stress and might produce different results than those of a mock test where the student might feel differently. Not all students though are the same or feel the same.
webwiz Sat 09-Mar-13 13:32:29
Quite rare to be interviewed these days ILikeBirds - just for some courses eg medicine
creamteas Sat 09-Mar-13 13:36:55
Like all unis, the reputation overall doesn't mean anything about the quality of teaching in different subject areas. It certainly does not have a good reputation in my subject area. It is also currently in the middle of an dispute over redundancies, with potential strike action, so is not necessarily a good place to either work or study at the minute.
FellNel Sat 09-Mar-13 13:37:44
I was just about to say exactly what lily said in the very first response!
It sounds to me, if they're asking AA*A predictions, as if they are trying to cream off excellent students before they're snapped up elsewhere?
FWIW, in my subject Birmingham has a great reputation - it does vary a lot, I'm sure. I can imagine this might be a poor idea for students studying something Birmingham isn't great for, but might be good for, say, someone who is tossing up between Oxbridge with a tough offer, or early certainty here.
FellNel Sat 09-Mar-13 13:43:37
I know what creamteas means about Birmingham. My son got an offer from them for BBB, but all his other offers were for AAB. He choose a two non RG universities over Bham in the end, because they both had a better reputation by far, for his specific degree.
MariscallRoad Sat 09-Mar-13 13:46:48
I also agree that some students get they As easily and some others work strenuously to get Bs. And perhaps the grades of some students does not tell much about their academic ability/aptitude for a course and neither tells us the difficulties they encountered in school or learning or other... Perhaps The grading system is not meant to grade ability allways. Some universities know this and use a load of their own testing for selection.
I have a DS in y12 and was under the impression that uni offers were based on AS results - have I got this wrong?
Wasn't there a fuss recently when Michael Gove was threatening to abolish AS levels altogether and return to A levels taken at the end of year 13? If I recall the universities were against the idea because they believed that AS results were a more accurate measure of ability than teacher prediction?
creamteas Sat 09-Mar-13 14:34:57
secret Uni offers are made looking at grades achieved so far, but have usually always been on the basis of A2 results. In other words your offer is conditional on you achieving certain grades in your A2s.
In this case, Birmingham's offers are unconditional, that is if they are accepted, they can attend regardless of their A2 results.
Thanks creamteas.
MariscallRoad Sat 09-Mar-13 15:31:41
Bhm says 'Pupils taking up maths places must be predicted to score three elite A* grades'. Now, this is a hard condition to achieve.
Not all elite universities teach every course perfect in all degrees. A lot of things might make a difference in the decisions of parents and students where to study -not just the status. for example B advertise v well themselves how well they support students: they offer a mentor all to all students not just those with specific needs. That makes a difference in the study.
titchy Sat 09-Mar-13 15:39:24
The proposal to not have AS as an interim qual for a levels is for current year 9 cohort so you should be ok secret!
Creamteas - Hefce intend to redistribute the number control for 14/15 based on 13/14 intake numbers so maybe that's why Bham is takin this approach? Also interesting is the fee charged by one of the new unis Bedford maybe? Half price if you pay up front!
There are crappy departments in all universities.
webwiz Sat 09-Mar-13 15:46:14
For Maths any students with those sorts of predictions would be looking at the universities with the best reputations for Maths and Birmingham certainly is not considered as on a par with Oxbridge/Imperial/Warwick/Durham/Bath. The only way that Birmingham would have applications of that calibre is if they are a 4th or 5th choice university or if someone doesn't have further maths which will make it difficult to get into one the top universities listed.
I think one university acting in a unilateral way like this distorts things a bit and means that students may make a decision that isn't the best for them in the long run.
fussychica Sat 09-Mar-13 16:35:20
When DS applied to B'ham 2 years ago- the last year of low fees - he was given an low offer well below the standard entry requirement without interview, although at the time they stated they always interviewed for his subject area. It didn't make him change his first choice and he rejected the place. They seemed miffed and unlike the other Uni's he rejected they followed it up, which was suprising.
Similarly, in this case it appears a number of the students who have received these offers are very wary of accepting because they a fairly sure they can meet their offers from what were/are their preferred Uni.
I don't think B'ham are sending the right signals to the students or about their establishment but they obviously feel there is a need to do this to try to secure numbers. Looking at the subjects concerned and the student room comments I don't think other uni's have much to be concerned about.
MariscallRoad Sat 09-Mar-13 22:10:06
web it is hard to get a place in the colleges you mentioned even with 3xA*s. A grades are not sufficient. Some universities require their own maths/physics test to be taken followed by test at interview. About half to 3/4 in certain cases might pass the test but fewer of those are likely pass the interview. There re people with with A*s who did not apply to a university bec of the cost. But is poss that there are those who would put the place as a top choice.
webwiz Sat 09-Mar-13 23:44:32
But if you are predicted 3A* you should be targeting the top universities for your subject. Maths has high entry requirements and can include extra exams like STEP but it isn't so hard to get into that a good mathematician will end up be rejected by lots of courses (unless of course you only apply to the absolute top unis).
DD2 didn't actually consider Birmingham so I don't know anything about Maths there but if you were a top student it would be an insurance type choice rather than a firm.
I'm sure there'll be a rush of applications to Birmingham next year with people hoping for the unconditional offers rather than receiving them unexpectedly like they have this year.
I can imagine if you were someone who gets very nervous about exams, you might find Birmingham's offer attractive enough not to want to go to the slightly better places, though. People are different in terms of how they feel - every year some students will decide to go for a course they're technically over-qualified for, or will decide not to apply for places they might be able to get into, because they don't want to go. Maybe that's what Birmingham is hoping for?
MariscallRoad Sun 10-Mar-13 10:27:32
Web I do not disagree with you that people with 'predicted' A*s should look at Oxbridge and the colleges you mention. Success rate though, at Ox for example, is about 18 pc. The rest should look for a safe alternative.
It appears Bhm’s hopes to attract are realistic: a % of A* predictions and offers in maths were not achieved in one uni mentioned; so these applicants need to have another place to go. Many candidates become aware that it is very hard to study in some of these unis. Their exams are v stressful and system is different from the rest . Some students feel this is not where they would want to study even if they have the grades. Still they can study well elsewhere and get a good degree. Finally, I agree some people can get nervous of exams. Stress affects performance in some.
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who is your dad?
where were you born?
why are you doing this?
why do you take away the people we love so much?
why do you leave people as ophans?
why do you take away the true leaders?
what colour are you? (i think it's black)
what poems do you like? (i hope it's death)
you are so painful.........
you are something that does not care........
each and every day 'death' has taken away people,
were ever you are,
whatever you are doing you must always know that igama lakho lingcolile..ngenxa yemisebenzi yakho emibi.....
e-end lives
t-take away people in their
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence (Impact Factor: 3.14). 02/2005; 77(1):71-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2004.07.008
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ABSTRACT The optimum dose of buprenorphine for acute inpatient heroin detoxification has not been determined. This randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, pilot study compares two buprenorphine sublingual tablet dosing schedules to oral clonidine. Heroin users (N = 30) who met DSM-IV criteria for opioid dependence and achieved a Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) score of 13 (moderate withdrawal), were randomized to receive higher dose buprenorphine (HD, 8-8-8-4-2 mg/day on days 1-5), lower dose buprenorphine (LD, 2-4-8-4-2 mg/day on days 1-5), or clonidine (C, 0.2-0.3-0.3-0.2-0.1 mg QID on days 1-5). COWS scores were obtained QID. Twenty-four hours after randomization, the percentages of subjects who achieved suppression of withdrawal, as defined by four consecutive COWS scores <12, were: C = 11%, LD = 40%, and HD = 60%. Generalized estimating equation regression models, controlling for baseline COWS and time, indicated that COWS scores over the course of 5 days were lower in both LD and HD compared to C (chi(2)(2) = 13.28, P = 0.001). Similar analyses examining scores over time on the Adjective Rating Scale for Withdrawal (ARSW) and on a Visual Analog Scale of Opiate Craving (VAS) indicated an overall treatment effect on the VAS accounted for by a significant difference between HD and C, but no overall treatment effect on the ARSW. There were no discontinuations due to treatment-related adverse events. Both HD and LD regimens are safe and efficacious treatment for opioid detoxification, but HD demonstrated superiority to C on a greater number of measures. | http://www.researchgate.net/publication/8121911_A_double-blind_double-dummy_randomized_prospective_pilot_study_of_the_partial_mu_opiate_agonist_buprenorphine_for_acute_detoxification_from_heroin | dclm-gs1-234380000 |
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By Todd Martin
All students in Kentucky are now aligned to take five tests, although not each test each year, that are part of the state accountability tests.
Juniors take the ACT college entrance test, sophomores take the PLAN test that measures college-readiness in English, math, reading and science, eighth-graders take the EXPLORE test, which also measures college readiness in the same areas.
Then there are the two new areas of testing with the new standards: End-of-course exams and the Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP).
What are End-of-course exams?
End-of-course exams included for state accountability are given in high school in English II, Algebra II, Biology and U.S. History, and in Shelby County they currently count as 10 percent of the student’s final grade. The state suggested 20 percent, and Shelby County’s plan is to gradually work the percentage up to 20.
The exams include multiple choice, short answer and open response. Each section has between 35 and 38 multiple-choice questions that can be administered in two 45-minute sessions. The short answer and open response question will consist of 1-3 questions that can be administered in 45 minutes.
The exams provide alignment to state and national college readiness and common core and show the progress of a student, school and district.
What is K-PREP like?
These new tests are given in grades 3-8 to gauge proficiency in reading, math, science, social studies and writing. The tests provide the ability to compare students to each other and to determine how well students have learned the skills. In Shelby County, the focus is on mastery of skills.
Part of the tests are purchased and built to be used to compare nationally, while the other portion of the test is customized for Kentucky.
The assessments will consist of multiple choice, short answer and open response questions.
The tests align with common core standards and show the progress of a student, school and district.
When are the tests?
The EXPLORE and PLAN tests are still given in the fall and the ACT test remains in March for juniors. K-PREP tests are administered during the final 14 days of the school year, and end-of-course exams occur when the material has been covered. In Shelby County, end-of-course exams began this week and, along with students taking Advanced Placement tests, end on the last day of school. K-PREP tests start for elementary schools on Monday and end Friday and middle and high school testing is May 21-29.
Will there be writing tests?
Yes, for grades 5-6, 8, and 10-11. Those tests will include on-demand writing and editing/mechanics.
How will results be reported?
Each school will receive individual student and school-based reports. Those reports will include national percentile scores from that portion of the test, and a ranking of novice, apprentice, proficient or distinguished from a combination of the national and Kentucky-specific portions of the test. End-of-course assessments, which are provided by ACT, can link performance to national results. | http://www.sentinelnews.com/content/primer-new-state-testing-schools | dclm-gs1-234410000 |
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I liked the office, until they went on the Writer's strike. Now I'm more used to my Thursdays without TV. I don't know where they can go from here on in. Frankly, I'm kind of getting bored. dwight will always do weird thingsjim will always play pranksmichael will always be stupid. maybe for the series finale, the office park burnt down...
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May 7, 2008 4:58PM EDT
omg r u serious?? i think these last episodes of the office are HILARIOUS!!!! if ur getting board of it then just stop watching and let all the normal people enjoy!!
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May 12, 2008 9:30AM EDT
The post-strike episodes ARE taking awhile to get their stride back, but they're doing it. There's no doubt about it, the strike DID take the wind out of the sails of many fans, and killed much of the momentum the series had. On camera, the actors are all very gracious towards the writers and understanding of why they had to strike, but the fact is, the strike screwed a lot of things up. All for the greater good, long-term improvements in quality and emotional investment, yadda yadda yadda, but The Office had a good thing going that stopped cold with the strike. The more the characters break out of the office environment, the more like a standard sitcom it becomes. A once-in-a-while foray is refreshing, not world-changing, but the formula that was The Office's strong suit was in-office shenanigans. Smart writing and character studies can keep it fresh, even when set indoors. I just don't want the series to jump the shark any time soon. My biggest worry is that it'd happen when Jim & Pam get married--there's such a thing as too much resolution. Gotta keep it tense somehow... | http://www.sidereel.com/posts/36869-news-get-the-dirt-on-the-office-finale- | dclm-gs1-234430000 |
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Garrett Cook is 27. For now. Who knows what will happen in the future? He lives in the Northwest Suburbs of Illinois with his girlfriend of five years. They hope to own property together someday, so tell everybody you know about this book, even people that you don´t think will like it very much. He is a member of the Bizarro fiction movement and is the winner of the First Annual Ultimate Bizarro Showdown. His books Murderland Part 1: H8 and Murderland Part 2: Life During Wartime have been published by hacker warlord Emperor Needle and his Evil Nerd Empire. He works for them as Sanitizer Overlord, which is every bit as awesome as it sounds. He still feels deeply connected to his past, but would rather it leave him alone. He is prone to strange fancies and dark moods. He is paranoid and a worrier. He is virtually unemployable, but he tries, dammit. He is happy sometimes, he is sad sometimes, he is human all of the time, more so than anything else, so don´t judge him as harshly as he does or as Clyde does.
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In an primeval jungle-city state, Bernard, a test subject for science experiments, is showing side effects. Greater levels of Objectivity cause his consciousness to merge with his surroundings until finally he hears the call in the mind of a tyrannosaurus. Archelon Ranch, a paradise like no other, is summoning Bernard on a quest that wil reveal the truth behind the absurd world that surrounds him.
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I must lock in my final decision tomorrow. Help me with the color choice.
You are going to basically get all types of opinions on colors... go with your gut. That being said, Black is quite classy when clean and polished (nose cone and pano roof match as well). This coming for a Black/Black Leather owner. :)
You can't go wrong with any decision!
I got black but I saw the blue at the King of Prussia, PA show room and it was awesome. Very dark, rich color. Is it extra cash??
Those are all safe colors for any luxury sedans.
On the other hand, if you feel adventurous then go with RED all the way.
I love my grey, but I was also considering the blue and I still think it looks great.
@FrankenWC; yes, $750 for the blue, but she sure is pretty...
Still Grinning ;-)
Blue with the tan interior with Matte finish is awesome!
Brown with tan. Classy elegant and uncommon. Sounds terrible looks fantastic in person.
I saw my first Red this weekend. It was amazing. Absolutely beautiful. The contrast between the Silver 19's, the black nosecone and the black of the Pano roof made the Red that much Redderrrrrr. I have Pearl White and its so deep and bright. I would have had to wait on Red. If I had known how "HOT" it was when I got mine, I would have waited the wait everyone had to wait to get the first reds. I don't think you could be unhappy with RED. I have White and I would vote Red.
I swung back and forth between pearl and black, until I gave the car a name - Ninja - so black it is!
So if you'd like to give the car a name, the name may help you find the color :-)
@bob: +1
..and I own white!
I can also pick the options for the luxury car you're going to buy. Let me know!
I was in the same situation as you. I end up picking white with pano roof and black leather interior. It's the pano and black interior sold my wife on the color. Blue was her first choice but we like the color contrast from the pano and white. Of course, you can't go wrong with those choices.
By default (and default only), roadsters should be black, Model S's white and the Gen III's should be blue. This was practically written in the stars.
I ordered mine yesterday (white) and confirmed the order this afternoon. However, 3 hours later, I changed my mind. I want RED (my wife thought it was really cool). So I called and emailed. Hopefully, they will be able to changed the color. If not, I will be totally happy with white - because it is a TESLA!!!
Just picked up my white/tan with CF interior, pano, and spoiler. Love the color and contrast.
It's silly enough that OP wants a bunch of deranged, obsessive strangers to pick his color for him but you can't even stick to the three he's considering? :-)
Black.. Looks awesome when clean. Saves money on initial buy.
@jtodtman - Opinions are free in this forum and the OP is getting plenty of it here. If a prospective owner can't decide between 3 color choices, what's 1 or 5 more? ;)
Well, monkeys are fickle. /;)
I LOVE my metallic pearl. At dusk it glows.
@Mathew & Brian H
My bad.
@teslamonkey. Why aren't you considering the green?
@Mathew & Brian H
My bad.
@teslamonkey. Why aren't you considering the green?
I"m like emoflash--I got the blue with tan interior and matte finish. Spectacular. I punched up the wheel centers with red inserts available from one of the Tesla owners.
I've seen the white and think it looks great--especially with black interior. :)...ask the man who owns one..
Blue looks like black in anything other than full sunlight.
Mine is blue
Black on black for us also. Her name is Gertrude
Just ask anyone who has seen one. (or as JPPTM so aptly put it, owns one!)
I had considered the Blue. Then a Tesla showroom guy pointed out that the blue mostly looks black except when in lots of light and when well washed. In normal day-day accumulated haze it will just look like a dull black. He really recommended the brown or grey instead if you want a somewhat lighter color than black.
After than I noticed the same thing on the freeway. Newly washed Black or Blue Model Ses looked awesome. But most of them looked kinda dull.
The brown or grey models show well and of course the RED is killer if you can handle that look.
The white is pretty nice IF you like the contrast with the nose cone. I consider the nose cone as boring and uninspired, so I'm trying to find a color that hides it as much as possible.
Signature Red is the PERFECT color, alas no longer an option... :-(
Always bet on black!
(I have red, and I don't want any more people getting it! Black was my second choice. It looks awesome when clean.)
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PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
by Rob Brezsny
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You can contact Rob at [email protected].
LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): "Dear Rob: I have to say that you unfailingly tune in to my manic and riotous subconscious screams every single week and help me transform them into something beautiful, fresh, and worthy of serious amusement. How do you do it? Can you teach me how to perform the same service for myself? —Leo Longing for Self-Mastery." Dear Future Self-Master: You may not realize it yet, but in the past few weeks you Leos have acquired scads of data that could provide excellent fodder in your quest for self-mastery. I suggest that you pore over your recent past and gather up the rich clues.
VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): On the third anniversary of America's invasion of Iraq, many protests took place. But they were mild, not wild—more like Sunday picnics than the fierce mass demonstrations that raged in 2003. New York's rally drew a mere 1,000, Washington's 300. The march near where I live was a small affair led by two octogenarian women riding cream-colored scooters. They snacked on cookies and sang "This Little Light of Mine." I was shocked and awed by the lack of passion, especially since now it's even more appallingly obvious how stupid the war is than it was in the beginning. Don't you dare allow a similar apathy to creep into your own fight for justice, Virgo. For the sake of your future, you've got to redouble your righteous, ingenious anger.
LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): The coming week should include a lot of back-and-forth, give-and-take, and to-and-fro. It will be a favorable time to jump into spirited debates and seek clarification through good-natured arguing. Dynamics that might feel uncomfortably adversarial at any other time could be invigorating now. In fact, I encourage you to bring up touchy subjects that everyone has been avoiding, because it's likely you'll finally be able to deal with them in candid and constructive ways. Your power symbol for the week is a child's seesaw.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): In the Bible's Book of Exodus, 34:14, God says His name is "Jealous." Literally. Why isn't this fact more widely discussed by people who care about religion? In his book 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, Russ Kick says it's because America's Pledge of Allegiance would have to be altered to say, "one nation, under Jealous," which would lead to a redesign of U.S. currency, in which the motto "In God We Trust" becomes "In Jealous We Trust." Your assignment, Capricorn, is to withdraw your support for any deity that calls himself or herself Jealous—even as you also renounce any impulse in you that indulges in jealousy. It's time to drive home to yourself how insane it is to compare your life to anyone else's. You're perfect the way you are.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20—Feb. 18): Years ago I had a girlfriend who was a performance artist. At Easter time every year, she did a show in which she walked barefoot on top of a spiral of 22 colored, uncooked eggs without breaking more than a couple of them. Being 5-3 and 102 pounds helped her accomplish this semi-miraculous feat, but it still required great skill and concentration. I believe you have a comparable task ahead of you, Aquarius. Better start practicing.
PISCES (Feb. 19—March 20):Here are your words of power for the coming week, Pisces: finagle, serendipitous , tinker, ad-lib, revise, crafty, balance , rectify. I urge you to carry out actions that embody the spirit of all those terms. Once you do, I believe you'll be in perfect alignment with the cosmic forces coming to bear on you, and will therefore have prevailed upon those cosmic forces to provide you with the metaphorical equivalent of a skeleton key, universal password, or Swiss army knife.
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A court hearing challenging Canada’s anti-polygamy law on religious freedom grounds resumes Wednesday in British Columbia and will eventually include testimony from men and women who are living in multiple-partner marriages.
The hearing will not immediately change the status quo, as British Columbia Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman’s ruling will not bind any courts.
But his ruling will address questions about whether polygamy is a criminal activity under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and, if it is illegal, under what circumstances. Observers predict that if Justice Bauman’s ruling is appealed, the issue could end up before the Supreme Court of Canada, which could make a binding ruling about polygamy.
The legal hearing revolves around the British Columbia community of Bountiful. Formed in 1946, its 400 or so members belong to a breakaway Mormon sect that permits men to have multiple wives.
The challengers of Canada’s anti-polygamy law say that the nation’s 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives people the right to practice “plural marriage.”
For believers in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, “celestial marriage” — i.e., plural marriage — “is an essential FLDS religious principle,” and “[u]nless the faithful participate in it, they cannot enter into the fullness of glory in the kingdom of heaven in the afterlife,” William John Walsh, an expert on FLDS, said in an affidavit to the court.
The FLDS long ago split from the mainstream Mormon Church, which formerly practiced polygamy but ceased the practice in 1890 and condemns the FLDS as heretical.
But former members of polygamous communities have complained to Canadian authorities that they were victims of crimes, such as sexual exploitation and forced marriages, often when they were still minors.
If a religious activity harms the fundamental rights of others, it does not receive religious protection, Craig Jones of the British Columbia Attorney General’s Office said when the hearing began in November. Also, no rights can be advanced “where doing so discriminates against women,” he argued.
Mr. Jones noted the social ills that accompany polygamy, or more correctly, polygyny, in which a few men have multiple wives. The FLDS does not marry women to multiple husbands. These include social pressures to drive excess males out of the community, while preparing younger females for marriage, regardless of their ages or wishes, Mr. Jones said.
In the next few weeks, men and women who are practicing polygamy will be allowed to testify without revealing their identities.
The hearing is being watched closely both for its relevance to religious freedom issues and same-sex marriage. The Vancouver lawyers said Canada’s 1890 polygamy ban is out of step with its modern understanding of marriage, which now includes same-sex marriage and offers protections for co-habiting couples.
Other legal observers suggest that if Canada jettisons its anti-polygamy law, other countries could be affected. If foreign jurisdictions, such as U.S. states, recognize same-sex marriages from Canada, for instance, they could be sued to force recognition of Canada’s polygamous families, too.
The hearing before Justice Bauman stems from a failed prosecution of two Bountiful elders charged with practicing polygamy. The charges were thrown out in 2009. Instead of appealing, the British Columbia government asked the province's high court to examine the constitutionality of the anti-polygamy law. | http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/4/anti-polygamy-law-challenged-in-canada-court/ | dclm-gs1-234710000 |
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that president obama was able to capitalize with women, was able to capitalize with hispanics, with other people who may have felt alien meanted? >> you define yourself. ronald reagan ran as a pro-life candidate. but, again, he defined a certain agenda. he set what is positive things on out there. if you don't, the other side will do it for you. so they got away with war on women and the idea that gm was a choice between liquidation and reorganization xhrks is wasn reorganization, which is wasn't. romney had a good plan that would have saved tax players $30 billion. >> so you don't think the platform of the party will be fundamentally a different platform? >> you don't have to change the fundamentals of your principle. of you have to learn to get the message out there. for example, when romney announced paul ryan, you notice the background, all white. why? that's just stupid if you're trying to reach out to voters. same thing at the convention -- >> you blame it solely on on the candidate himself not -- >> and the party. the candidate and the campaign and some of our senatorial candidates got it
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June 22, 2008
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 pound unsalted butter, chilled
Lemon wedges, capers, parsley
1. Combine breading ingredients in pie plate or shallow dish.
2. In a bowl, toss together all tomato relish ingredients; set aside.
3. Make lemon butter sauce: Combine all sauce ingredients except butter in a pan. Reduce by half (about 15 minutes) at medium-high. Whisk in butter, one tablespoon at a time. (The whisking action needs to be consistent and vigorous.) Strain. Keep warm.
4. Pound chicken breast pieces gently between sheets of plastic wrap to about 1/2-inch thickness.
5. Season chicken on both sides with salt and pepper; dip into cream to coat, then quickly dip and press chicken into breading mix to coat completely.
6. Heat some olive oil in a non-stick pan and add breaded chicken. Cook both sides to a light-golden brown.
7. To serve, spoon some lemon butter sauce onto each of four plates, and top with two pieces of chicken. Top with tomato relish. Garnish with lemon wedges, capers and chopped parsley.
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1. Nice review. One thing you missed out on is their Chinese Chicken Salad. New Moon makes THE BEST. Word is that they are the ones who invented this (although some dispute it) but whatever, it is not like the stuff you find at most places with the sticky, syrupy, overly sweet dressing flooding everything. If you should go back, make it a point to try this dish. For some reason it is also very reasonably priced compared to their other dishes.
1. Two words: Chloe's Shrimp
(OK, plus a Tsingtao or three.)
1. Huh... you've piqued my curiosity.
Let me know if you're planning to go eggroll tasting at Genghis Cohen... I live down the street and around the corner. Would be curious to know how you'd compare the two.
Mr Taster
1. We had a 7pm reservation but came in at 6 hoping to get an early start - we were seated immediately. Calimari appetizer was fantastic, Wor Won Ton soup was great, Chloe Shrimp was good, but not great. Mongolian beef was good but bland. It should always be served on a sizzling platter - litigious state maybe? Service was absolutely perfect - very attentative without being intrusive, thank you Jonathan! Fabulous welcoming atmosphere, great wine/beer list. Perfect place to go with friends. Highly reccomend the appetizer menu. Large portions. It is great to have such a place here in Montrose. My prejudice is that I am half Chinese and my grandmother was a gourmet Chinese cook and I didn't expect gourmet chinese food. This place didn't disappoint at all. The only down side was the food was a bit bland, which doesn't live up to the menu descriptions. However, perfect seasonings are provided to taste - I would rather have bland and be able to add seasoning than have it over seasoned and not be able to do anything about it.
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I wouldn't think it's the litigious nature of our society -- after all, fajitas are served on sizzling plates even at corporate chain outposts like El Torito and (gah) Chevy's... but then I've never had Mongolian beef on a sizzling plate, sounds like it would be good!
I agree about the seasonings, but I asked for chili oil and it appeared in ten seconds flat, so I can't fault them... I'm of your school of thinking, when it doubt underseason and provide a dish of whatever to punch it up. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/351265 | dclm-gs1-234840000 |
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February 13th, 2008
The foul call itself: Edge Villanova
You can essentially say this about the two plays: one was a foul, the other was questionable at best. To call a touch foul eighty feet away from the basket with :00.1 seconds left is absolutely ridiculous. Watching the play, did Jonathan Wallace really look as if he was getting ready to uncork a desperation heave? Or did it look more likely that he was trying to get the ball away from Villanova's basket, thus getting the game to overtime? I say the latter. To call Corey Stokes for that "foul" was simply amazing, and not in a good way.
As for the foul on Kia Wright: that was indeed a foul. A borderline horsecollar tackle that would make Dallas Cowboys safety Roy Williams proud is in fact illegal in the game of basketball. But that's not the question in regards to this particular game.
"Other" Issues: Edge Rutgers
Now, I've heard the idea that maybe Villanova should have been afforded one full second, but you can't really fault the officials on the clock in that one. As for the clock stoppage in Knoxville, someone needs to be reprimanded (or even docked pay) for that disgrace. With the clock down to :00.2 seconds and the ball in Nicky Anoskie's hands, the clock stopped for approximately 1.3 seconds (according to ESPN). In this time, Anosike had the ability to go up for a shot. Now, the standard is that you need :00.3 seconds to attempt an actual shot; anything less can only be tipped.
I've heard it all in regards to this one. The immediate offering on Monday night's "SportsCenter" that maybe an inadvertant whistle stopped the clock. OK if so, who restarted it, and why didn't play stop RIGHT THERE once they realized that the clock was stopped? Tennessee stated that the system they use can only be controlled by the game officials, a charge the inventor of the device refutes (see http://www.nj.com/rutgers/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1202880997300230.xml&coll=1 for his response).
In fact, the device that Tennessee uses has been upgraded, purchased by many schools including, ironically, Rutgers. Tennessee has yet to make that purchase. Hmmm. And the inventor offers in the aforementioned article that in cases such as the one in Knoxville, officials are instructed to watch the replay with a stopwatch to figure out how much time elapsed during the stoppage. Witnesses say that no such protocol was followed. Had they done this, I would think that Rutgers would have been awarded the win.
So, who stopped the clock? I doubt we'll find out for a long time. Remember the Oklahoma/Oregon football game a couple of years ago when people found out who the man was in the replay booth? Things got so bad for him, with the hate mail and even a few death threats, that he quit his job. Therefore, we won't know who, beyond the three officials, was "responsible" for these...hijinks.
Team Situation (and verdict): Edge Villanova
Let's be honest here: as bad as that loss feels for the Scarlet Knights, they're well on their way (unless a massive collapse occurs) of being either a 1 or 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Their robbery occured in a non-conference game. The Wildcats, on the other hand, are currently in 12th place in the Big East. This is the final year of only twelve teams going to MSG, so they really could have used the overtime. Would they have won? Maybe, maybe not, but they should have at least gotten the chance to find out. This why I say that overall the Villanova call was worse.
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German High Court Rules Greek Bailout Legal; Italy's Parliament Votes to Enact Austerity Measures
Aired September 7, 2011 - 14:00 ET
RICHARD QUEST, CNN ANCHOR, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: It's a huge leap forward. Germany rejects a challenge to bailouts.
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I'm Richard Quest. I mean business.
Good evening.
Today we are seeing signs of political will to deal with economic challenges. And the results are being seen in the market. Italy, Germany, Greece, all took steps today to deal with their problems. And you are seeing what's happened. Take a look at the Doe Jones.
Do that properly. Take a look at the Dow Jones in New York, up 217. A strong robust session, not only on the back of what's happening in Europe but also, of course, on the prospect of what President Obama will say tomorrow and U.S. matters; a gain of nearly 2 percent for the market.
In Europe stocks were up extremely sharply. The DAX saw the best of the day. Up 4 percent. With the FTSE up also up 3 percent; big gains bouncing back from a two-year low.
So what was behind it all? Very simply, where there is a will, there is a way. Eurozone politicians facing a battle on the home front, as country, by country, they are now getting to grips with the debt crisis. Or at least that is the way things seem for the moment. The fundamentals are shaking. But without the political will Europe doesn't stand a chance. And that is our focus at least at the start here tonight.
Join me in the library as we go through them. Let's start with Angela Merkel, in Germany. Now forget yesterday's or the weekend's dreadful results for her in the local elections. There was a Germany court ruling today from the constitutional court that basically said the bailout to Greece was legal. In certain circumstance, it said, it is possible for the chancellor to give these monies to other countries. Angela Merkel made it a call to arms speech in parliament. The message was simple and clear. The euro must be defended at all costs.
ANGELA MERKEL, CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY (through translator): The euro is a guarantee of unified Europe, or to put it differently, if the euro failed, Europe failed. And because a democratic and free Europe is our home, the euro must not be allowed to fail. And it will not fail.
QUEST: So the DAX is up 4 percent and stocks like BMW really were very strongly. And indeed, German industrial production was up very strongly as well.
The Greek austerity plan: Greek stocks were up 8 percent. Largely, partly, because their money is secure from the German constitutional court decision, even though parliament has the vote. But Greece is now promising no more twiddling of thumbs. The Finance Minister Venizelos, has hit the turbo button. There will be pledges on faster privatization, more public sector caps, the troika of the IMF, the EC and the ECB, has been unhappy, but now Greek austerity is once again getting serious.
Italy austerity bill faces a confidence vote, which is set tonight, in Rome; 76 billion in cuts. You know the problem. It has been a flip- floppery, flip-flopperoo. From the prime minister, as they have gone backwards and forwards, but now it seems that Italy is about to make the decision on what is to be decided.
Stephen Pope joins me now. The managing partner of the Spotlight Ideas analyst's group.
Stephen, good to have you with us tonight.
Do you get the feeling-do you get the feeling that Europe is at last getting to grips? Or is this just all smoke and mirrors?
STEPHEN POPE, MANAGING PARTNER, SPOTLIGHT IDEAS: No, this political will that we are seeing demonstrated today is being driving by the realities of the come (ph) through from the marketplace.
Germany recognizes that 40 percent of their exports go into the Eurozone. So if they there were no euro a new deutsche mark would accelerate in the same way we see the Swiss franc. It would ruin Germany industry. If you take the Greeks they know now that they can't sort of fiddle around and sort of fudge anymore because the paymasters won't tolerate dalliance on the austerity measures. And In Italy, would Berlusconi have acted with austerity if the markets had not pushed his bond yields above 6 percent. The answer is no. But now we have to see him deliver and stop tinkering with this 45 billion budget cut that he needs to make.
QUEST: Which begs the question: Is it temporary, this political will? I mean, what could blow it off course?
POPE: I think what you will see is that behind all of this, the timing of the electoral cycle in each given nation plays a major part. Now, I think what you will find is that if the market suddenly decides that there is some watering down of the austerity program in Greece, suddenly you'll pressure upon their yields. Can the ECB go and buy my bonds? They have already bought 30 billion euros of Italian bonds. If you start seeing any backtracking in Greece, because they are not effective at calculating taxes or imposing cuts, then the markets will react once again.
QUEST: But we have the Dow up 200 points today. We have President Obama speaking tomorrow. And in many ways the U.S. is still the big problem. Because of its failure to grapple with the political un-will and the deficit.
POPE: Yes, I mean, there again, you saw the classic example trying to raise the debt ceiling of playing politics, right to the wire, once again before they finally found a way to raise the debt ceiling so no U.S. default. Now, what we are going to have tomorrow is this big program. But is it going to create jobs? Government cannot create jobs. They do not create wealth. It has to be private sector allowances.
QUEST: So, finally, are you-as you look tonight, and I read lots of your comments, and your daily e-mail. Are you more confident that Europe's governments are getting grips? Or cynical?
POPE: They are getting to grips because they have to. But I remain the ultimate cynic, because I think this is a passing wind-
QUEST: Ah, come on.
POPE: Passing the fairs (ph).
QUEST: Really?
POPE: Yes.
QUEST: It doesn't bode well, for the rest of the month.
POPE: Well, we will have a reaction to this, Germany speaking, it is always a reaction after the event.
QUEST: Stephen, many thanks, indeed. We'll talk more about this in the weeks ahead.
Now, Europe's current climate isn't hampering its strongest economies, when it comes to competitiveness. Despite currency concerns, Switzerland- Switzerland, yes, tops the World Economic Forum's latest rankings. It followed Singapore in the top four, and Sweden and Finland. Worryingly, the United States is down for the third year in a row, slipping one place, to fifth. The report says concerns about government inefficiency and a lack of public trust in American politicians. It is the third year in a row, as I say, that the U.S. has fallen back.
Sixth place Germany dropped one spot as well. The WEF noted, reforms will be key to revitalizing growth.
I asked the World Economic Forum's managing director, Robert Greenhill, how important political will is, to continue our theme, when it comes to improving a country's competitiveness?
ROBERT GREENHILL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: The issue of courageous leadership, to stick to these key competitive issues right now, is probably more important now than ever. If you look at Greece, if we look at some of the tougher areas in the Eurozone crisis, it will be a real test. When you look at some of the issues of the United States, the willingness of Congress to address some of these core economic and fiscal issues, is likely to be critical to where the United States ends up in the next few years.
QUEST: Would you say that when you look at the competitiveness index, and the relationship to it, the importance of political will cannot be overstated, because the absence of it affects everything else, particularly the way society regards its future.
GREENHILL: Absolutely true. And that is the challenge today, as I said, when you look at the politicians in many of the countries today, they are shaken by the economic news, but they haven't been moved to the actual action, or stirred to the action they really need to address these issues.
QUEST: I can think particularly of Europe, where we have had two to three years of talk, summits, communiques, agreements, and yet we are still in this situation that we are in now.
GREENHILL: Look at Germany, from a positive point of view? The last 10 years they have put in place some very structural reforms in their labor markets, in their fiscal situation, so in fact, the core of Europe, in this economy, is actually quite strong now. Stronger than it was five years ago.
The elements that are being put in place in Spain, in Italy, in Greece, in Portugal, in Ireland, are probably the right policies. So the good news is the issues have been identified and are starting to be addressed. The question is can it be done in time to restore the confidence necessary.
QUEST: If you are right, and there is no reason to believe you are not, what has gone wrong for the United States?
GREENHILL: Well, in a sense, while they are doing very well on things sophisticated business, great universities, they are missing on the basics. Their physical infrastructure isn't as good as other countries. Their investment in primary and secondary education isn't good. And actually the trust in government and other institutions has dropped a lot. So trust in the effectiveness of politicians, they have dropped from 21st to 50th place in the last few years.
QUEST: But why does it matter? Why does it matter.
GREENHILL: Well, it matters a lot in terms of whether the government is seen as being an effective partner in the development when companies are looking at where they are going to invest around the world. If we look at what recently happened with the challenge around the debt ceiling and in Congress. That was a great example of where people no longer trust that the system works. The challenge is that it is not clear that politicians yet reacted to any kind of shaken by the news, but not yet stirred to action.
QUEST: All right. And if we look within the European Union countries, as well.
QUEST: I mean, again, they are middling around. France moved quite a bit.
QUEST: But frankly, the U.K., and Germany, and it didn't move much, one place in either direction.
GREENHILL: Well, the interesting thing about-there is almost two Europes. You actually have the ones on the periphery, the Italys, the Spains, the Portugals, who are very weak competitors (ph). But you have the core, the Nordic nations and Germany, that are actually doing well, and improving. And that is a good sign for Europe at a time when people are wondering if it can hold together.
QUEST: The question of competitiveness and the political will moving forward.
In a moment, imagine expanding your business from two countries to more than 40, and you do so in a little more than a week. The Netflix founder Reed Hastings, who has taken his movie streaming business beyond North America. After the break, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS, good evening.
QUEST: The online move and TV provider that dominates the American market is now going south of the border. This week Netflix introduced its streaming service in Brazil as part of a push into Latin America. It will include more than 40 countries over the next few days. It is a big challenge, no doubt. Before we hear from the chief executive and we hear about Netflix, I need to tell you we were talking a moment ago about the Italy report.
Italy's senate has approved the government austerity package.
It has just been announced in Rome. That is the package that increases VAT, it includes the wealth act, it alters the retirement age, amongst many other things. But Italy's senate has now approved the government austerity package, which has just happened. We'll get more details on that.
While we wait to get more details, returning to Netflix. So, Netflix has expanded into Latin and Central America. As Felicia Taylor reports, the company's founder has defied the critics.
FELICIA TAYLOR, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Once the nerve center of Netflix's thriving empire, DVD mail order centers like this one are now giving way to online streaming for its 25 million subscribers.
ADAM HANFT, BRAND STRATEGIST: Netflix has had an incredible run in the last couple of years. It wasn't long ago when every analyst was saying to write Netflix off, because it would never be able to pivot their business. But they defied all odds and they really navigated that transition beautifully. They've got a lot of content. They made a lot of streaming deals.
TAYLOR: At the helm is this man, CEO Reed Hastings, who founded the company after being charged $40 for a late DVD. And industry pioneer, he was named "Business Person of the Year" by "Fortune" magazine.
HANFT: He is a classic entrepreneurial, driven founder, who loves his business. Eats, drinks, sleeps, breathes the business. And is thinking about the business in some innovative ways.
TAYLOR: But now, the company has hit a roadblock.
JOHNNY DEPP, AS CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW: There should be a captain in there somewhere.
TAYLOR: Negotiations with Starz, the provider of Disney and Sony content have broken down, leaving questions over future deals. It comes as the firm launches in Brazil, the first stage in an ambitious plan to expand into Latin America.
QUEST: Felicia Taylor reporting there. And I've just received and e- mail from Jorge Balatan (ph), who tells me that Netflix is in Argentina since today. Well, as Netflix embarks on that expansion there will be new challenges. It will have to contend with patchy broadband in some areas, and established competitors in others. As you just saw, the company founder, Reed Hastings, has overcome obstacles before. And I asked him, what sets his service apart, if anything?
REED HASTINGS, FOUNDER, CEO, NETFLIX: You know we focused on steaming from the very beginning. And so we have developed lots of very specialized technology for to make the streaming experience great over various bandwidths. We have also invested heavily in our partnership with Samsung and LG and Sony, to be built right into the smart TV. So we are very focused on this.
But you know, in the United States, as an example, us and our competitors are all growing. So broadband creates such a big opportunity for online video that I think all the companies in Latin America and Brazil are going to continue to grow.
QUEST: We can't mention Netflix, you can't Google Netflix, you can't Google your name on Netflix, at the moment without seeing the naysayers and doomsayers telling me that the loss of the Starz contract on content is going to be your Achilles' heel, and you may as well switch the lights off.
HASTINGS: You know, that is the great thing about the news, you want to hear contrary opinions. The Starz deal is only in the United States and it is less than 10 percent of our content. So, you know, it is something, but it is not a huge deal. And we are actively working to replace that content by next March, when the Starz content goes off. So we are feeling great about that and our ability to replace it. And again, that is in the United States only.
QUEST: Who has the whip hand in all of this? Is it the content providers, who have the material that you so badly want and demand, or is it yourselves as the distributors, because let's face it, fewer of us are going to movies and we are watching more at home. I'm trying to decide-I can't decide.
Who actually is in the driving seat here?
HASTINGS: Well, I'd say the content owners are really in the driving seat. We put forth offers to license that content for millions of dollars per year. And then it is up to them if they have a better offer or want to accept our offer. So mostly it is us making offers to them.
QUEST: When do you trans-Atlantic? When do you go to Europe? Which is a much more closed environment in many countries; it is a more regulated environment. And some would say it is a much more expensive environment to do business in.
HASTINGS: You know there is great opportunity for streaming and online video, really, around the world. We haven't figured out the exact timing. We are working on that now. But over the next two to four years we want to offer our service anywhere in the world. So we are figuring that out, country by country.
QUEST: Final question to you, Reed, on a big, big picture thought, if you like. The Internet is so much of a global marketplace. Do you get frustrated by national boundaries that prevents me, in the U.K., from accessing your site?
HASTINGS: The opportunity ahead, as the Internet, as you said, as a global medium, is really amazing. Because more and more subscribers are going to be able to access content, anywhere in the globe. They will pay for a Netflix subscription, a very modest fee, and with that be able to access content. And so, bit by bit, the world coming together, getting more interconnected through services like Netflix that eventually offer a fully global service.
QUEST: Reed Hastings of Netflix, who was joining me then, from San Paolo.
Some news coming into CNN. There have been strong tremors that have been felt in New Delhi, in India, by residents. Our sister network, IBN, affiliate network, in India, says a magnitude 6.6 quake appears to have hit in New Delhi. We are waiting for more information. Any pictures, any damage, all of those sort of things, which will come in the next few moments. And we will bring you-or I'll bring you and update you, the moment some more details-the tremors, apparently, although they were felt in New Delhi, were also felt in Kashmir Province and Utra Province, as well.
Now, when we return, we are going to return to a very naughty, thorny, controversial subject. What is the right amount of tax in a time of economic crisis? A leading economist tells us why Britain's 50 pence tax rate should be scrapped, in a moment.
QUEST: Now, that is a 50 pence piece. A battle is brewing in the United Kingdom over the 50 percent tax rate. That was introduced by the last Labour government and it has been confirmed by the current conservative coalition government. The tax rate of 50 percent remains for anybody earning over 150,000 pounds a year. It's about $225,000, $230,000 a year.
Now in a letter to the "Financial Times", 20 leading economists have called for the 50 pence rate to be scrapped. Saying it damages Britain's competitiveness. Professor Keith Pilbeam is a professor of economics at City University in London. He helped, and wrote the letter, and signed it. He told me why 50 pence isn't working.
KEITH PILBEAM, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON: I actually want to create jobs in this country. And it is a globally competitive economy now. And you send a very bad signal to the rest of the world, even when you have a 50 percent tax rate it is up there with the Belgiums and the Netherlands of this world. And, you know, Switzerland offers them 11 percent, well, that is far too low, in my view.
So, you know, you deter people coming into the country. And they bring in money and jobs for the rest of us.
QUEST: If you do reduce the 50 pence, the majority of people who would benefit would be the high-paid professionals, the city workers, the lawyers, the accountants.
PILBEAM: Yes. That is probably the case. But also there are many entrepreneurs that earn 400,000, 300,000 a year, that actually have 50 employees. And if they decide to go out of this country because they don't like the tax rate, not only are we not getting their taxes, we are-you know, we have 50 people who loose their jobs. And they are unemployed and the tax rate goes up for the rest of us.
QUEST: The TUC has not surprisingly said that what you are suggesting is monstrous at a time of cut backs and hacking back on things like health and the provision of social services. You can certainly see that your idea is poor politics.
PILBEAM: I'm not a politician, I'm an economist. And I'm trying to look at the medium to long-term prospects of this economy. And yes, in the short-term we might get a few extra pound out of it. But in the medium to long-term we send out an extremely bad signal to the rest of world, don't come to Britain, we'll tax you. And if these executives-do you think a Japanese executive wants to come here and pay 50 percent tax and put factories in this country, when they have to be subject to 50 percent. I don't think so.
QUEST: The government has said it is temporary. Or George Osborne said it was temporary. The last Labour government said it was an emergency measure. If I understand, or I'm guessing, forgive me. But you probably think what is temporary often becomes permanent.
PILBEAM: Not only that, not only will it become permanent, but also, you know, it is affecting us now. Investment is actually falling. People are not investing in Britain. And we need investment because we haven't got the domestic demand, at the moment from, you know, the domestic economy is suffering.
QUEST: I was reading many of the blogs and the Web sites, and not surprisingly your idea is completely and utterly excoriated as being, you know, a bastion for the rich. But I suspect you, and the other authors of this letter knew that when you wrote it.
PILBEAM: Yes, but I don't justify bankers salaries, yet there are bankers salaries are too high. Yet, that is a separate issue from the taxation issue. We mustn't get into the politics of envy.
QUEST: All right. So, the politics of envy, fine. But finally, why did you decide to pop your head over the parapet on an issue like this that is so clearly unpopular and not going to win you any friends?
PILBEAM: Well, because I actually think we need to create jobs and people need jobs in the British economy at this moment. And if we deter the decision makers, you know, that make for decisions, that can put that investment in Britain. And we send them a signal, don' come here. Then everyone is going to suffer; You, me, and everybody.
QUEST: Professor Pilbeam, we are making sure of course, I got the 50 pence piece before anybody else managed to steal it around here.
The head of Starbucks says more than 100,000 people have joined his campaign to force U.S. politicians to stop squabbling and deal with the national debt. Howard Schulz previously called on Americans to stop donating to politicians until the deficit problem was dealt with. He held an open phone conversation with thousands of people last night in the U.S. And this morning he spoke to our good friend, CNN's Ali Velshi about the crusade.
HOWARD SCHULTZ, CEO, STARBUCKS: There is something wrong in Washington. And when we look at what happened with the debt debacle. And we look at the fractured of confidence that exists in American, and now around the world, as a result of the leadership in Washington. We have to ask our selves a question, and that is: are these people really there and representing the values and a direction of the country that we think is best for us.
Last night we had 100,00 people across the country, on a telephone conference call.
ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR: This was an online-a call that you-
VELSHI: -were part of?
SCHULTZ: Yes, 100,000 people. It is not just 140 CEOs that have signed. We are getting thousands of people who are trying to say, listen, we are better than this. There is a fracturing of trust and confidence. There is a crisis in America. It is not-it is no longer a situation where we can just sit by and allow Washington-
VELSHI: But you are taking a moderate position.
VELSHI: When in fact, typically, corporations have backed positions to lobby for something that is a special interest. I mean, can you get to a point where you compete with that? There are still more CEOs working to keep that gridlock that we have in Washington going?
SCHULTZ: Well, the point is this. That what we are watching is a situation in which ideology is the rule of the day.
SCHULTZ: And what I'm saying, and I think a lot of people are feeling is, this is more about citizenship than partisanship, than any other time in our history.
VELSHI: Uh-huh?
SCHULTZ: And as a result of that we need Congress and the administration to reach a long-term deal. And we have to have a laser focus on job creation and growing the economy in America.
QUEST: That is Howard Schultz of Starbucks. Continuing our theme tonight of political will. Twitter gives us all a chance to weigh in. For "Tweets From The Top" we hear the political will and we have gone straight to the top.
So first of all, Nouriel Roubini, the economist and NYU professor, has the Tweeted today.
"Battle underway for soul of United States of Europe." Controversially, of course, United States of Europe, but he's a controversial professor.
Jeff Joerres is the chairman of Manpower, the group Tweets: "Has been a challenging few weeks for jobs market companies still seek people with right blend of tech and soft skills." We talked about that on our program last night.
And finally, Carl Bildt is Sweden's foreign minister. He Tweets quite a lot, our dear ol' Carl Bildt. "Sweden replaces U.S. as world's second most competitive economy, according to WEF." We reported on that. "Great! Our task now is to make it last in a fast-changing world."
Oh, I see, not to make Sweden last, but to make it last.
You see the difference?
Read that the wrong way around and you really could end up in a very nasty mess.
Tweets from the Top of this program.
If you want to chat with me on Twitter, it is That's where you and I have our dialogue.
Some of the world's brightest minds are gathering to fight one of the world's darkest problems. CNN's Freedom Project will look at the anti- slavery summit as an enlightening location.
Good evening.
QUEST: Hello. I'm Richard Quest, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS.
And the breaking news that I was telling you a moment or two from India, CNN's sister network, IBN, is reporting an earthquake in New Delhi. It's a 4.2 magnitude earthquake that was felt in the Indian capital a few months ago.
Tremors have been felt in Kashmir Province and many further places away. We are waiting for further news of any injuries or damages to buildings.
But let's get some anecdotal reporting.
Sumnima Udas is our CNN producer in Delhi and joins me on the line now -- Sumnima, tell me, what -- I suppose, what happened?
What did it feel like?
How bad was it?
Yes, it was actually quite major. I mean all my cabinets here in my apartment shook. My statues on the windows shook. Everyone sort of ran out as soon as it happened. I saw all my neighbors running down outside and we were just sort of waiting around, wondering what was going on.
And, you know, there was a bomb blast this morning. So -- so a lot of people thought maybe it's another explosion. We weren't really quite sure about what I was. But then eventually, we all walked back in and turned on the television. And we were told it was an earthquake.
Originally, our sister network was saying that it was a 6.6 Richter scale. But now the Metropolin -- Metropolitan Department here has told IBN that it's actually on a 4.2 on the Richter scale.
QUEST: Right.
UDAS: And it's tremors were felt as far away as in Kashmir.
But in Delhi, it's, you know, it rocked Delhi mostly. Right now, we don't know if there's been any injuries so far.
QUEST: All right. OK. Refresh my mystery, if you would, please.
Is this particularly prevalent?
Do you get many of these tremors frequently?
UDAS: Well, Delhi is actually on a high seismic zone. But to be honest, we haven't felt anything like this in the past few years. But it has happened in Kashmir before, even at Uttarakhand, which is a neighboring state, but not in Delhi, at least not so big.
QUEST: All right. Sumnima, where we have more to report, when you're getting some details of the damage or casualties, come back immediately, please, and we'll talk more about it.
The other main headlines this hour.
Indian police are working to chase down leads after a briefcase bomb at the Delhi High Court. Sumnima was just referring to that a moment ago.
Sketches have been released of the suspects based on eyewitness descriptions. Claims of responsibility have been received from an Islamic extremist group, which are being investigated. Eleven people were killed, 76 were wounded.
At least 43 people have been killed in a plane crash at Russia's Yaroslavl Airport and many of them were hockey players. Two people survived and are in intensive care. The plane was carrying a Russian hockey team to Belarus. A Russian aviation official says the plane didn't reach altitude fast enough after taking off.
As the smoke clears in Tripoli, warehouses full of empty boxes like these are being found. They used to contain powerful Russian-made surface to air missiles. And now those missiles are unaccounted for.
The advocy -- advocacy group, Human Rights Watch, says it's worried that looted weapons could fall into the wrong hands.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is back in court. The ailing 83 -year-old former Egyptian president was wheeled into the Cairo courtroom. He's accused of ordering the killing of protesters. Egypt's military leader and other top Egyptian figures will testify next week. It will be behind closed doors, a part of the trial.
Shares in Yahoo! are up more than 5 percent today, as investors breathe that little sigh of relief. The chief executive, Carol Bartz, was unceremoniously fired.
The Internet company supposedly used old school technology to break the news. In an e-mail to staff, Bartz said she was fired over the phone.
Miss Bartz herself chose to inform colleagues of her departure through her iPad. She leaves after failing to turn the company around. The company's share prices failed to recover to levels it sought in a botched buyout deal with Microsoft some years ago.
Shareholders said the company risked the exodus of talent if Bartz stayed in place. That is the situation. Yahoo!, Google, Facebook and the inability of Carol Bartz to perhaps translate and transmit Yahoo!'s vision. Yahoo! had taken a battering from all corners since the deal. Its market cap in more than eight times smaller than Google. And, of course, its been long overtaken by sites like Facebook, which I hear it once tried to actually buy for a billion dollars back in 2006.
Where we have these sorts of stories, we need to hear from Shelly Palmer, who makes good sense on these sort of issues.
And Shelly is in Los Angeles, where, good lord, it's -- it's a little on the early side.
But, Shelly, good to have you with us.
Should Carol Bartz have been surprised that she was shown the door?
I think you have to ask Carol if she was surprised. I don't think she should have been. The only persons who probably should have been let go in advance of this were the entre board, as well. It's just the most ineffective board I've seen in a major company.
And Carol Bartz being shown the door, that's -- it's a little -- it's too little and too late, Richard. They've had a...
QUEST: All right...
PALMER: -- they've gone, I think the high of the stock was around $33 a share. It's down, what was it, $13 this morning, off about...
QUEST: Well...
PALMER: -- 6 percent?
QUEST: But Shelly, Shelly, let me ask you, did she do anything -- I mean, did she get fired because she didn't do anything well, because she didn't do anything at all or because she's just carrying the can for a board that's bordering on incompetence, in your view?
PALMER: Can I choose all the above?
QUEST: Of course you can.
PALMER: OK. I choose all the above then. I think, look, I -- I like Carol Bartz personally. I think she's a wonderful human being. I think she's been a fairly ineffective CEO. Her vision for the company, well, there is no vision for the company. By the way, second only to the board's lack of vision for the company.
So, yes, this is a company in huge trouble with a massive identity crisis, a massive identity crisis. And they have to do something to get the Street to understand that something good will happen.
I've got to tell you, you -- you know the Street loved it. The Street, it took it up 5, 6 percent immediately. Everybody thinks that with some new blood in there, this is going to be a -- a better Yahoo!.
QUEST: OK. But is Yahoo! -- I mean, look, I -- and I can feel the Yahoo! management about to flame me with e-mails and with -- you know, with criticisms.
But who uses Yahoo! and what do they use it for?
QUEST: I mean, you know, not -- look, I'm not saying...
QUEST: No, I'm not being rude here. You know, it's like...
QUEST: -- you know what I'm saying here.
PALMER: I do. By the way, Their finance...
QUEST: Great. Yes.
PALMER: -- content is awesome. All right, they -- there are some little pockets of Yahoo! that are truly fantastic. And what they have not been able to do is take the places where they're really strong and make them stronger and go out of the businesses that they shouldn't be in. They've had no good way of separating the wheat from the chafe...
QUEST: All right.
PALMER: -- and you know what, it's finally -- it's weighing them down.
QUEST: Right. Well, thank you for reminding me. I -- I happen to agree, Yahoo! Finance, excellent for graphs and -- and interactive stuff. You're quite right to remind me.
A quick final question. AT&T and T-Mobile and the Justice Department. A judge says that he's going to hear submissions on this. You're -- you're always on -- you're -- you're never on the fence on these things.
Does this feel collapse?
PALMER: I -- sadly, I think this deal is going to be so skewered by DOJ that it's not going to be worth doing. I hope it doesn't go that way, but it looks, unfortunately, like the two -- and by the way, DOJ is not the only problem, Richard. The FCC isn't really happy about this, either. Julius Genachowski is not that interested in having a two horse race.
So I fear that this deal is -- is close to dead, if not actually dead.
QUEST: Somebody is sending you an e-mail or a text or you're just getting a message.
Shelly Palmer, we thank you for joining us.
Shelly joining us from Los Angeles.
How can technology be used to fight human trafficking?
It's the question technology leaders, including Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, will try to answer in an anti-slavery forum in Silicon Valley next month.
Steven Rice from Juniper Networks, the summit host, joins me now from Sunnyvale, California.
Thank you for joining us.
What will your fundamental message be for how the summit, how technology, how it can all be made to work to the benefit?
We believe that technology, the technology that Juniper Networks builds around bridging and connecting devices, information and content, and linking that to the work that Not For Sale is doing is absolutely at the heart of how do we start to lead and drive innovation around ending world slavery.
QUEST: All right, Steven, I understand the principle. And I understand what you're saying. And it sounds very good.
But how are you going to do it?
What does it involve?
That's just words.
RICE: Well, it's -- you know, it's -- it's a movement. And we believe that if you give individuals the power to make choices at a consumer level, that you will make the right choices based on a set of criteria that Not For Sale is driving supply chains around the world, being able to create jobs for individuals in these countries where individuals can actually start to build lives and capabilities that don't exist today.
And the form allows spot leaders from this area to come together, talk about not only what's being done today, but also, what are some of those strategies that we can use technology to drive innovation and bring people together in different ways than they've had in the past.
QUEST: Isn't one of the real issues here -- and, you know, CNN's Freedom Project has been going for eight or nine months now. And we've -- and I -- I -- I have tried to tie down numerous CEOs on this issue.
CEOs of manufacturing companies, of different groups, they pay lip service, but they don't want to take a stand. They don't want to come out and be brutal and say this is what we believe in and what we're not going to do.
RICE: And that's why I think that Not For Sale is doing a very grassroots effort, working with companies like Juniper Networks to come in and help us actually survey and understand our supply chains in a new and different way that allows us to actually not only -- allows us to actually walk the talk. And I do think that's the way that Juniper Networks is bridging that, in the way they're approaching that problem, with many manufacturers. I do think it's a breakthrough.
QUEST: Finally, Steven, what's your barometer of success for this summit and for this meeting?
How are you -- how will you judge whether or not you've actually made a difference?
RICE: I believe that the 1,000 plus individuals that we're bringing to Silicon Valley, in the heart of innovation and creativity, that some of the measures for us are, one, how do we truly appreciate and understand what the global reach and challenges that the world faces today around human trafficking. That's one.
QUEST: All right.
RICE: How do we bring leaders like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jack Dorsey from Twitter, Jeremy Affleck, the San Francisco Giants, as well as Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York...
QUEST: All right...
RICE: -- bringing those individuals together that can actually influence and help drive change that's required across the world.
QUEST: Steven, many thanks for joining us.
Steven Rice joining us from Juniper Networks.
Now, after the break, they came to help, not to die. New York's former fire commissioner will never forget the colleagues he lost on September the 11th. We'll hear his memories of that day in just a moment.
QUEST: All this week, we're building up to a day of reflection and remembrance, 10 years on from September the 11th, 2001.
Three hundred and forty-three -- let me repeat the number -- 343 New York firefighters died on that day.
Now, leading them was the fire department commissioner, Thomas Von Essen.
He was inside the North Tower, responding to the first attack when the second plane hit.
He joined me earlier this week and recalled the first thing he heard on a day that obviously he would never forget.
THOMAS VON ESSEN, FORMER NEW YORK CITY FIRE COMMISSIONER: A small plane crashed into the North Tower. That was our original report.
But as soon as you got there, you knew it had to be more. And the chiefs had some firefighters that got up to the upper floors very quickly when the elevators were still working.
They gave them more accurate information, the amount of damage up there. They realized it had to be a commercial plane.
QUEST: And then, of course, the second plane.
VON ESSEN: The second plane...
QUEST: You were -- you were on the site by that stage?
VON ESSEN: I was in the North Tower and we felt the vibration. And we all thought that there was an explosion on the upper floors. The reports came in then that a second plane had hit the South Tower. And I think that's when all the chiefs or the best fire experts you're going to find in high rise buildings, they all knew this was going to be something that was overwhelming, because they had to split all their top commanders. They had to now send in a second fifth alarm, which gives you more and more units.
QUEST: As commissioner, how do you lead but don't get in the way?
You know what you're doing, but you -- is there an element of panic in all of that?
VON ESSEN: No. I don't think anybody had any sense of panic. The chiefs, like I said, are really good at high rise firefighting. We've had serious incidents before. But we've never had so many all at once, so much all at once.
QUEST: But was there a moment when you had to take a decision that you can now look back on and say, I had to make that decision, it was one of the most difficult decisions I've ever had to make?
VON ESSEN: No, I didn't have to do that that day. And that's probably why it's been easier for me to -- to survive, you know, without a lot of some of the survivor guilt and everything that some of the top level chiefs had, because they really had to make quick decisions on how many people to send up, how many people to try to get out as quickly as possible.
QUEST: There is nothing worse than hindsight and, at the same time, there is nothing greater than hindsight.
What would you have done maybe differently or what do you wish had been done maybe differently?
VON ESSEN: Well, I've always hoped that if we had that opportunity, that we would have had maybe less people in the building. But, you know, as the -- as the troops kept coming in and the reports of the damage on the upper buildings was as severe as it was, they that they needed more help.
QUEST: It's fascinating, though, isn't it, because it's those ethical decisions that -- in the luxury of a cocktail party in a -- at a dining room table, you know, would you pull them out, how much is one life worth and all those sort of things that people can pontificicate -- pontificate about over dinner parties, but are real decisions.
VON ESSEN: That's right. When -- that's why it's difficult to criticize...
VON ESSEN: -- chiefs like that, you know, a fire -- a fire, police officers, soldiers in combat. When your life is on the line or when you're responsible for the lives of other young men who -- who came to work wanting to help, but not to die, it's -- it's a critical decision that you're making.
QUEST: As you look back on what happened -- and you've been asked this a gazillion times, but as you look back on what happened, what do you take from it?
VON ESSEN: Well, you know, I -- I've always tried to find some good came out of it. People say that, you know, good comes out of everything and there's a meeting and I don't know, I -- I've never found anything to feel good about from this.
I -- I look at the growth of volunteerism. I think that's been a great thing, probably all around the world. And I hope and I think one thing, I've seen a tremendous increase in the respect and admiration, empathy and compassion for firefighters and the role of first responders all around the world because of the sacrifice my guys made that day.
And I think if anything, that's -- their memory or the sacrifice they made has really raised the level of support for firefighters and military and other first responders all around the world.
That's one good thing.
QUEST: The former commissioner of New York.
That is Thomas Von Essen.
Ten years after 9/11, first responders who breathed in the dust and the fumes at Ground Zero are suffering the effects of exposure.
CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, examines the consequences of that dust and what it might mean if disaster strikes again. "Terror in the Dust," a CNN documentary, Thursday morning. It's at 10:00 a.m. in Hong Kong, 10:00 p.m. Eastern, Wednesday, for viewers in the Americas.
And here's a clip from that documentary.
ERNIE VALLEBUONA, FIRST RESPONDER TO GROUND ZERO: One of my friends, he's a captain. He had multiple myeloma. Another lieutenant who worked in vice with me, he has the same lymphoma I have.
And he goes, wait a second, let me take a look at your case.
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: How many people, just off the top of your head right now, can you think of that fall into that pattern, that developed cancer?
VALLEBUONA: There are so many, I hear of, you know, every -- every month there's just a couple more.
GUPTA: Every month?
DR. JACQUELINE MOLINE, WTC MEDICAL MONITORING PROGRAM: We do know there were carcinogens in there. Even in the dust there were carcinogens.
The question is, how long does it take for people to develop cancers after they've been exposed to these compounds? GUPTA (voice-over): It's a question that science has struggled to answer. But Ernie Vallebuona has no doubt. He believes there's a connection between his cancer and the dust.
VALLEBUONA: I firmly believe that.
QUEST: And our reflections and remembrances of 9/11 will obviously continue in the days ahead.
Back in a moment.
QUEST: Let's go to the markets.
For so many days, we have told you how awful things have been.
QUEST: Well, look at that. A rollicking strong session, up 255 for the Dow Jones, 2 percent -- 2.3 percent, 11395.
Now, look, is there a specific reason why, on this random Wednesday in September, the Dow is up so strongly?
Not really. Anymore than if you take Europe's stock markets, which were up also sharply.
The DAX in Europe gained 4 percent. The FTSE is up 3 percent.
Now, one of the things that did, of course, really boost the market was the decision by the German constitutional court that -- the German constitutional court that bailouts to Greece were legal in most scenarios.
The markets were boosted, of course, by that ruling. The ruling defended the legality of the bailouts. Angela Merkel made her call to arms speech to parliament. And it was the message, of course, that the euro must be defended at all costs.
ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translator): The euro is a guarantee of a unified Europe. Or, to put it differently, if the euro fails, Europe fails. And because a democratic and free Europe is our home, the euro must not be allowed to fail and it will not fail.
QUEST: So that's Angela Merkel.
And, in fact, wherever we looked pretty much today, whether it was Greece or Germany, and, indeed, this evening, as I told you at the beginning of the program, Italy, the senate in Ital -- in Italy has confirmed its passed its austerity measures.
Now, when I come back, a Profitable Moment.
Good evening.
QUEST: Tonight's Profitable Moment.
Europe has never been an easy sell for politicians. Euro skeptics are lurking everywhere. They're in the pubs of the United Kingdom, the saunas of Finland, wanting collateral for bailouts.
And right now, they might be smiling. The European experiment is crumbling all around us. It's up to politicians like Angela Merkel to remind us why it's worth saving.
Now, her defense of the Eurozone was strong -- as the euro goes, so goes Europe. Protecting the union has been an article of faith for the continent's politicians since the whole experiment began.
But the catcalls and the heckles in the parliament today go to show how much has changed. You only need look at the United States to see what happens when politicians aren't pulling in the same direction.
It's the world's most powerful economy can get a downgrade, you can bet your last euro that Europe can go the same way.
The hard sell is only going to get harder.
And that is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS for tonight.
I'm Richard Quest in London.
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Artist's rendering of the fire, by John R. Chapin, originally printed in Harper's Weekly; the view faces northeast across the Randolph Street Bridge.
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km2) of Chicago, Illinois, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.[1] Though the fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of the 19th century, and destroyed much of the city's central business district, Chicago was rebuilt and continued to grow as one of the most populous and economically important American cities. The very night the fire broke out, an even deadlier fire annihilated Peshtigo, Wisconsin and other villages and towns north of the city Green Bay.
The fire started at about 9:00 P.M, October 8, in or around a small barn that bordered the alley behind 137 DeKoven Street.[2] The traditional account of the origin of the fire is that it was started by a cow kicking over a lantern in the barn owned by Patrick and Catherine O'Leary. In 1893, Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who wrote the O'Leary account, admitted he had made it up as colorful copy.[3] The shed next to the O'learys' was the first building to be consumed by the fire, but the official report could not determine the exact cause.[4] There has, however, been some speculation that would suggest the fire was caused by a person, instead of a cow. Some testimonies stated that a group of men were gambling inside the barn so they would not be seen by others. The lamp that they were using was accidentally knocked over, which is what started the fire. Little evidence has been presented to prove whether or not this is true. There has been speculation as to whether the cause of the fire was related to other fires that began the same day. See Questions about the fire.
The fire's spread was aided by the city's use of wood as the predominant building material, a drought prior to the fire, and strong winds from the southwest that carried flying embers toward the heart of the city. More than ⅔ of the structures in Chicago at the time of the fire were made entirely of wood. Most houses and buildings were topped with highly flammable tar or shingle roofs. All the city's sidewalks and many roads were also made of wood.[5] Compounding this problem, Chicago had only received an inch of rain from July 4 to October 9 causing severe drought conditions.[6]
In 1871, the Chicago Fire Department had a force of 185 firefighters with just 17 horse-drawn steam engines to protect the entire city.[7] The initial response by the fire department was quick but due to an error by the watchman, Matthias Schaffer, the fire fighters were sent to the wrong location allowing the fire to grow unchecked.[7] An alarm sent from the area near the fire also failed to register at the courthouse where the fire watchmen were located. Additionally, the firefighters were tired from having fought numerous small fires and one large fire in the week before.[8] These factors combined to turn a small barn fire into a large scale conflagration.
Spread of the blaze[edit]
By the time firefighters finally arrived at DeKoven Street, the fire had grown and spread to neighboring buildings and was progressing towards the central business district. Fire fighters had hoped that the South Branch of the Chicago River as well as an area that had previously thoroughly burned would act as a natural firebreak.[9] All along the river however were lumber yards, warehouses, and coal yards, along with barges and numerous bridges across the river. As the fire grew, the winds from the southwest intensified and became superheated, causing structures to catch fire from the heat as well as from burning debris blown by the winds. Around 11:30 PM, flaming debris blew across the river and landed on roofs and the South Side Gas Works.[10]
With the fire across the river and moving rapidly towards the heart of the city, panic set in. About this time, Mayor Roswell B. Mason sent message to nearby towns asking for assistance. When the courthouse caught fire, he ordered the building to be evacuated and the prisoners jailed in the basement to be released. At 2:20 AM on the 9th, the cupola of the courthouse collapsed sending the great bell crashing down.[11] Some witnesses reported hearing the sound from a mile away.
As more buildings succumbed to the flames, a major contributing factor to the fire’s spread was a meteorological phenomenon known as a fire whirl.[12] As overheated air rises, it comes into contact with cooler air and begins to spin creating a tornado-like effect. These fire whirls are the likely causes of driving flaming debris so high and so far. Such debris was blown across the main branch of the Chicago River to a railroad car carrying kerosene.[13] The fire had jumped the river a second time and was now raging across the city’s north side.
Despite the fire spreading and growing rapidly, the city’s firefighters continued to battle the blaze. A short time after the fire jumped the river, a burning piece of timber lodged on the roof of the city’s waterworks. Within minutes, the interior of the building was engulfed in flames and the building was destroyed. With it, the city’s water mains went dry and the city was helpless.[14] The fire burned unchecked from building to building, block to block.
Finally late into the evening of the 9th, it started to rain but the fire had already started to burn itself out. The fire had spread to the sparsely populated areas of the north side having consumed the densely populated areas thoroughly.[15]
The sculpture on the site of the origin of the fire, with the Chicago Fire Academy in the background
A marker commemorating the fire outside the Chicago Fire Academy
Municipal Flag of Chicago. The second star commemorates the fire.[16]
PROCLAMATION, Chicago History Museum
Relief for the destitute, Chicago History Museum
To the Homeless of the Chicago Fire, Chicago History Museum
Once the fire had ended, the smoldering remains were still too hot for a survey of the damage to be completed for many days. Eventually the city determined that the fire destroyed an area about four miles (6 km) long and averaging 3/4 mile (1 km) wide, encompassing more than 2,000 acres (8.1 km2).[17] Destroyed were more than 73 miles (117 km) of roads, 120 miles (190 km) of sidewalk, 2,000 lampposts, 17,500 buildings, and $222 million in property—about a third of the city's valuation. Of the 300,000 inhabitants, 100,000 were left homeless. 120 bodies were recovered, but the death toll may have been as high as 300. The county coroner speculated that an accurate count was impossible as some victims may have drowned or had been incinerated leaving no remains.
In the days and weeks following the fire, monetary donations flowed into Chicago from around the country and foreign cities, along with donations of food, clothing, and other goods. These donations came from individuals, corporations, and cities. New York City gave $450,000 along with clothing and provisions, St. Louis gave $300,000, and the Common Council of London gave 1,000 Guineas as well as ₤7,000 from private donations.[18] Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Buffalo, all commercial rivals, donated hundreds and thousands of dollars. Milwaukee, along with other nearby cities, helped by sending fire-fighting equipment. Additionally, food, clothing and books were brought by train from all over the continent.[19] Mayor Mason placed the Chicago Relief and Aid Society in charge of the city’s relief efforts.[20]
Operating from the First Congregational Church, city officials and the Aldermen began taking steps to preserve order in the city. Price fixing was a key concern. In one ordinance, the city set the price of bread at 8¢ for a 12-ounce loaf.[21] Public buildings were opened as places of refuge, and saloons closed at 9 in the evening for the week following the fire.
The fire also led to questions about the developments in the United States. Due to Chicago’s rapid expansion at this time, the fire led to Americans reflecting on industrialization. The religious point of view said that Americans should return to a more old-fashioned way of life, and that the fire was caused by people ignoring morality. Many Americans on the other hand believed that a lesson that should be learned from the fire was that cities needed to improve their building techniques. Frederick Law Olmsted attributed this to Chicago’s style of building:
Olmsted also believes that with brick walls and disciplined firemen and police, the damage caused and deaths would have been much less.[22]
Almost immediately, the city began to rewrite its fire standards, spurred by the efforts of leading insurance executives and fire prevention reformers such as Arthur C. Ducat and others. Chicago soon developed one of the country's leading fire fighting forces.
Land speculators, such as Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, and business owners quickly set about rebuilding the city. The first load of lumber for rebuilding was delivered the day the last burning building was extinguished. By the World's Columbian Exposition 22 years later, Chicago hosted more than 21 million visitors. The Palmer House hotel burned to the ground in the fire 13 days after its grand opening. Its developer Potter Palmer secured a loan and rebuilt the hotel to higher standards across the street from the original, proclaiming it to be "The World's First Fireproof Building".
Questions about the fire[edit]
The cow and fire story is the story which puts the blame on Catherine O’Leary; it is explained by Richard F. Bales. A fire broke out in the barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary and began to spread through Chicago. As the fire was still burning the fingers began to be pointed at Mrs. O’Leary and her cow. The story states that the fire began as Mrs. O’Leary was milking a cow and the cow kicked over the lamp which began the fire by setting the straw on fire which set the barn on fire. This was denied by the O’Leary household stating that they were already in bed before the fire started, but stories of the cow began to spread across the city. O’Leary was later exonerated.[26]
Chicago Tribune editorial
The amateur historian Richard Bales has suggested the fire started when Daniel "Pegleg" Sullivan, who first reported the fire, ignited hay in the barn while trying to steal milk.[27] Anthony DeBartolo reported evidence in the Chicago Tribune suggesting that Louis M. Cohn may have started the fire during a craps game.[28] According to Cohn, on the night of the fire, he was gambling in the O'Learys' barn with one of their sons and some other neighborhood boys. When Mrs. O'Leary came out to the barn to chase the kids away at around 9:00, they knocked over a lantern in their flight, although Cohn states that he paused long enough to scoop up the money. Following his death in 1942, Cohn bequeathed $35,000 which was assigned by his executors to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The bequest was given to the school on September 28, 1944, along with his confession.
But as meteorites are not known to start or spread fires and are cool to the touch after reaching the ground, this theory has not found favor in the scientific community.[31][32] A common cause for the fires in the Midwest can be found in the fact that the area had suffered through a tinder-dry summer, so that winds from the front that moved in that evening were capable of generating rapidly expanding blazes from available ignition sources, which were plentiful in the region.[33][34] Methane-air mixtures become flammable only when the methane concentration exceeds 5%, at which point the mixtures also become explosive.[35][36] Methane gas is lighter than air and thus does not accumulate near the ground;[36] any localized pockets of methane in the open air would rapidly dissipate. Moreover, if a fragment of an icy comet were to strike the Earth, the most likely outcome, due to the low tensile strength of such bodies, would be for it to disintegrate in the upper atmosphere, leading to an air burst explosion analogous to that of the Tunguska event.[37]
Surviving structures[edit]
Related events[edit]
In popular culture[edit]
• The City of Chicago and Redmoon Theater partnered up to create The Great Chicago Fire Festival. The festival was held on October 4, 2014 with the intention of it possibly becoming an annual event, however the festival itself fell victim to technical difficulties as replicas of 1871 houses on floating barges in the Chicago River failed to ignite property due to electrical problems and heavy rain on the proceeding days.
See also[edit]
Panorama of Chicago after the 1871 Fire[edit]
Image attributed to Nick Bernhard.
3. ^ "The O'Leary Legend". Chicago History Museum. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
5. ^ {|Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire. U.S.A: Scholastic Inc, 1995. Book.|}
12. ^ Abbott, Karen. "What (or Who) Caused the Great Chicago Fire?". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
23. ^ Chicago Landmarks. retrieved December 14, 2006
26. ^ Richard F.Bales, "Did the Cow Do It? A New Look at the Cause of the Great Chicago Fire, "Illinois Historical Journal 90 no.1 (Spring 1997): p. 2,3,11.University of Illinois Press,
28. ^ DeBartolo, Anthony (1997 & 1998). "Who Caused The Great Chicago Fire: The Cow? Or Louis M. Cohn?". Hyde Park Media. Chicago Tribune. Check date values in: |date= (help)
31. ^ Calfee, Mica (February 2003). "Was It A Cow Or A Meteorite?". Meteorite Magazine 9 (1). Retrieved 2011-11-10.
37. ^ Beech, M. (November 2006). "The Problem of Ice Meteorites". Meteorite Quarterly 12 (4): 17–19. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
38. ^ WBEZ: Cider House Story []
39. ^ WBEZ: Cider House Story []
41. ^ a b Wilkins, A. (2012-03-29). "October 8, 1871: The Night America Burned". Gawker Media. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
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In multiplayer, when you reach SR-130, can you change the specialization name displayed below your Spartan? For example, if you choose Stalker as your last specialization, will it be set to "Stalker" forever or can you freely switch it to another specialization name?
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After some of the more recent patches (CSR patch I think) it will now display Mastery as the specialization for anyone who has finished all specializations and hit the SR-130 rank
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+1 and updated to correct answer – turbo May 25 '13 at 21:20
As of February 26th, at the latest, the space where specialization names appear is blank when you reach SR-130. I noticed this while playing last night.
According to this article, you can't:
After reaching the maximum SR level in Halo 4, Deuce does have a couple of suggestions. For starters, let whatever Specialization title you want to be the the last one you play before reaching the cap. He discovered that you cannot change your title once you've reach the cap and he is now stuck as a Pathfinder.
This article was posted back in November, so perhaps it's been updated since then. If anyone is SR-130 and can provide evidence proving otherwise I will accept that answer instead.
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From what I've heard in the community it is not possible to change the name once you hit SR130. What you choose as your last specialization is what shows up on your playercard. So yes it will say "Stalker" forever unless they release a patch that changes that, but from my knowledge there hasn't been any patch, and I've heard this from people that know others that are SR130 and were complaining about that feature.
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