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..consider doing it on Turbo Tax and just having the preparer check it(they will do this for a bit less than the full fee). The education you get investing a few hours a year into your biggest expense is worth it.
Software review: TurboTax
I wasn't looking forward to doing my taxes this year. They were going to be more complicated than in years past, because I left my regular job and started working full-time as a writer. I also had some other new complications. TurboTax handled it all without difficulty.
I should mention that I've used TurboTax (and before that, its predecessor MacInTax) since 1995. This year I got a free review copy. I wrote a bit about the new features in TurboTax back in January.
Me and tax expertise
Back in 1981 there were some major changes to the tax code. Since I was just out of college, working at my first job, I paid some attention--this stuff was going to matter to me. There were lots of parts of the tax code that I didn't understand, but I felt like I had a pretty good handle on the ordinary stuff as it applied to ordinary people earning a salary.
The rules changed a bit every year, which was annoying--I'd put a lot of effort into understanding all this stuff, and here they were still screwing around with it--but I was keeping up okay. Then, in 1986, there was a big rewrite of the tax laws. Practically all the stuff I'd learned in 1981, and then kept up on for the next four years, was changed.
There'd been a brief period there when I was, if not a tax expert, at least a resource for my friends and coworkers. They could ask me stuff about the rules for IRAs or 401(k)s, and I'd often know the answer.
After 1986, though, I gave up. Not only was it impossible to keep up with the changes, it really wasn't worth arranging your finances to take advantage of special rules, unless you got an advantage in that same tax year: several special rules that I'd been counting on were eliminated in the 1986 tax reform--before I'd had a chance to take advantage of them.
Since then, I pretty much don't say anything about taxes without prefacing the statement with, "Well, I'm no tax expert, but...."
This year's taxes
Here's how things went.
The old stuff
TurboTax still has the good stuff that it's had for years. It gets the information from last year's tax files, so you don't have to retype your name, address, social security number, or bank account direct deposit information. It also remembers things like what 1099 forms you had last year, and tells you if one is missing this year--very handy if you're trying to do your taxes early, unaware that there's a form or two yet to come.
Speaking of 1099s, they've improved the process for entering them. For a long time, they've been set up to walk you through them in batches--all the 1099-INTs, all the 1099-DIVs, all the 1099-OIDs, etc. In my case, though, several of my 1099s (the ones from fund families and brokerage accounts) combined two or three or four different kinds of 1099, which meant that I had to go through the same form two or three or four different times. Much better for me to just put the stack of 1099s next to my keyboard, and go through it one time, entering all the information off each form. Once I've gone through my stack, I know I've got all the information. The latest version of TurboTax makes it quite a bit easier to do it that way.
The new stuff
The last time I thought I understood the home-office deduction (which was probably back in the 1980s, although I might have tried to figure it out again during the period when I owned a home in the 1990s), the rules were more strict than they seem to be now. Back then, I think, you could only deduct whole rooms as a home office. If any part of the room was used for non-business purposes, no deduction was allowed.
With that as my recollection, I wasn't too sure if the space I use for my writing qualified for a home office deduction. Happily, TurboTax is set up to help users figure that sort of thing out, asking questions to make sure you meet the rules. (As near as I can tell, I do.) Once it verified that, it gathered the information on deductible expenses and did all the calculations to pro-rate the home expenses by the fraction of the home that my office uses. (It also has a page to gather home office expenses that shouldn't be pro-rated, but I didn't have any of those.)
The other new (for me) thing was that I had a Health Savings Account. That was a bit complicated--the rules about how much I could put in had changed last year, after I'd already arranged (back in October of 2006) to fund it via payroll deduction. Also, while I'd been working, my employer had contributing, but that ended when the site closed. Those contributions were pre-tax (hence not deductible), but I also contributed a chunk of after-tax money to bring my total contribution up to the IRS maximum. TurboTax sorted out the pre-tax and post-tax contributions, deducted the deductible parts, and verified that I hadn't gone over the maximum. All very handy.
For years, I resisted electronic filing. (I figured I'd go with electronic filing as soon as they'd do it for the cost of a stamp.) About three years ago, I finally came around, and I've been pretty happy with the e-file process. No need to make photocopies of the forms. No need to sort out what goes in the envelope. No need to make a trip to the post office. Get proof that you filed. Get your refund much earlier. It seemed like it was worth the $16.
This year, though, it was more like $18.
So, I compromised. I filed the federal return (where I'm getting a refund) electronically. But I'm sending the state return in via regular mail.
There are a couple of reasons why this makes sense. First, in Illinois, the state taxes are very simple--just a couple of pages--so there's not so much to send in. Second, I'm not getting a refund, so it's easy to send in a check with the return.
Bottom line
Basically, I'm entirely pleased with TurboTax. I got a free copy this year. (It didn't come with free e-filing, though, so Intuit still made a little money off me.) Next year, I expect I'll once again buy my own copy.
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I too used TurboTax this year. I did the online edition for those of us who qualify for the FreeFile. Totally pleased!
Personally, I actually prefer to do my taxes by hand, filling out the forms and adding manually. I've used tax software before (Turbo Tax and a Quick Tax) but I just like the simplicity of filling out a bundle of papers.
Just be warned that *if* you run into a problem with their software, their support is next to non-existant. I'd used Turbo Tax for the last five years or so with great luck, but this year it miscalculated my tax and it was incredibly difficult to resolve the situation. My husband has a Health Savings Account through his employer, so we are required to submit a form 8889. That form became corrupted somehow ~ it calculated excess contributions (and figured tax on the excess) even though our contributions were $2K below the limit. All the figures I had entered were correct, and no amount of deleting and reentering them would fix it. To make my aggravation level worse, the problem didn't emerge till after I paid. I searched the help files, FAQS, and support forums extensively and tried every suggestion I could find, but nothing worked. My posts on their "support forums" were answered only by others having the same problem, not Turbo Tax staff, and my emails were essentially blown off with "well, form 8889 seems to work for us". The only phone number I could find on the site came with a $30 price tag, which I hated to pay since I'd already given them over a $100. Finally, in response to my fourth contact attempt, they emailed a phone number for free support. The tech on the phone was able to quickly fix my problem by directing me to a part of the site I hadn't found on my own and having me delete the form 8889 altogether. When I started the interview questions over it worked like a breeze. If I had been able to talk to this tech when the problem first popped up, it would have been solved immediately. But instead I got no response from Turbo Tax for three weeks, and spent more hours trying to resolve the situation than I had with all the rest of the return combined.
I will not use TurboTax again. Last year I completed the return successfully online but was unable to print it, and their help desk could not help me or print it for me. This year I was all done, checked and double checked the numbers, and just as I pushed the button to send my return to the IRS, it doubled my income! There was no way to retrieve it so I had to file an amended return - which, of course, I couldn't do on the site. I had to find the paper forms at my PO and go to the trouble of re-filing, which I could have done in the first place and which will delay my refund for some weeks. What a waste of time and money.
It doubled my income right after I e-filed!!!
What happened to you after it got filed? Did the IRS reject it? According to TurboTax I have to pay an outrageous 24,000 in tax and I don't have that in my bank account, this will mess up my account if it goes through.
Your software on this is terribly flawed for people who pay quarterly estimated taxes, federal and state. You assume everyone makes the same income every quarter and penalize those who seemingly underpay. In my case 1) I am an actor. My income various from month to month., sometimes with no income for weeks or even months 2) Most of my income comes in December. Typically, I make my required minimum distribution from my retirement fund (IRA or Keogh) in this month. Futhermore, even more of my annual income comes from distributions from my various mutual funds and they occur usually in mid-December or towards the end of the year. However, your erroneous assumption forces interest payment on me every quarter, especially with the federal return which I cannot file without inclusion of your assessesed interest. This is wrong, unjust and inequitable.
I actually have another article specifically on doing estimated taxes for people with irregular income:


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I have a frame which has tabs (code is below)--
In the Option class (given above when adding tabs) I have a textfield where user will enter text and that text will be set as title of window.private JPanel mainPane; private JFrame fr; public TabClass(){ super("change this title"); fr=new JFrame(); mainPane=new JPanel(); JTabbedPane jtp=new JTabbedPane(); this.setContentPane(mainPane); jtp.addTab("General", new General()); jtp.addTab("Options", new Options()); mainPane.add(jtp); setVisible(true); setSize(600, 600); } public static void main(String[] args) { TabClass jp=new TabClass(); }
I did not get how to set title of frame from another class. The code of Option class is as below
When I run above code a new widow is created and its title is set as text entered by user. Please tell me how to set frame title from another class? Any suggestion will also be appreciated.public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){ if(e.getSource()==btnSetName){ String getCompanyName=txtName.getText(); TabClass tb=new TabClass(); tb.setTitle(getCompanyName); }}


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I was out of the net for the last week and could only follow the market on my Blackberry . . . and not much happened . . until... SSCCQ has suddenly got legs.
What is going on with this one. I still have a chunk of shares . . . and am trying not to be greedy . . . but... wow.
Still holding on to my BEHL and BCLE . . . I think it will be longer than we think for these two to wake up . . but I have time.
Also still happy with my OCNF . . . seems to have a wall at 1.80
I would talk about my financial stocks.... but it would just make me weep. I have faith that they will someday awaken....
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Zuke's "Diet" Salad From 'The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home'
This hearty salad from The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home was a creation by Nick Zukin as a Seinfeld-related inside joke—while the salad does contain lettuce and cucumbers, it's far from a low-calorie lunch. An ample scoop of chicken salad, a generous pour of creamy blue cheese dressing, and a plethora of crisp bagel chips make this truly a salad for salad haters.
Why I picked this recipe: I'm a fan of large hearty salads; this one reminded me of my favorite childhood salad, the Cobb.
What worked: Once you've got the chicken salad, chips, and onions made, this salad is a snap to throw together. The easy blender blue cheese dressing makes for an addictive spread, even sans salad.
What didn't: Be judicious with the cayenne pepper—between it, the blue cheese, and the garlic, the dressing can become mighty potent.
Suggested tweaks: Feel free to play with the proportions here for your desired balance of sharpness and richness.
Reprinted with permission from The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home by Nick Zukin and Michael Zusman. Copyright 2013. Published by Andrews McMeel. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
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- Yield:Serves 4
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- Dressing
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled
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- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Pinch of cayenne pepper
- 4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
- Kosher salt
- Salad
- 4 hearts of romaine lettuce, coarsely chopped
- 2 cups Classic Chicken Salad
- 1 large cucumber, trimmed and thinly sliced (about 60 slices)
- 1 cup Pickled Red Onions
- 4 hard-boiled eggs, thinly sliced
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To make the dressing, cook the garlic in a small pan of boiling water, or in a microwave-safe bowl half filled with water on medium power, for 30 seconds to mute the harsh garlic flavor. Drain the garlic and place it in a blender along with the milk, sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar, lemon juice, and cayenne. Blend until smooth, about 30 seconds. Transfer the dressing to a small bowl, and then stir in the crumbled blue cheese. Taste and adjust the seasoning, adding salt if desired. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour to allow the flavors to meld. The dressing can be made up to 3 days in advance.
To make the salad, put the romaine in a very large bowl. Pour the dressing over the top, and use tongs to toss the salad until the lettuce is evenly coated. Divide the salad evenly among large bowls. Arrange 1/2 cup chicken salad, about 15 cucumber slices, 1/4 cup pickled red onions, 1 sliced egg, and 10 bagel chips in an attractive semicircle around the inside rim of each bowl. Serve immediately.
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Two new exhibitions, Literature and Sport and Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive open today at the Ransom Center.
Sport holds a sacred place in Western culture and literature. Writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Norman Mailer, Marianne Moore, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace have written about sport.
Drawn exclusively from the Ransom Center's collections, Literature and Sport showcases the literature of sport through fiction, essays, poetry, and plays. Organized by sport, the exhibition highlights some of the finest examples of literary writing about baseball, football, boxing, tennis, cricket, bullfighting, and other sports. From Bernard Malamud's The Natural to Norman Mailer's The Fight, great literary works capture the appeal of sport and its ability to transform both the individual and society, all the while demonstrating how writers elevate language to literature.
Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive was created in cooperation with the Lakes Were Rivers collective, an Austin-based group of artists working in photography and video. Members of the collective created a body of work influenced in some way by the Ransom Center—its space, its purpose, its collections. Approximately 50 new works are displayed alongside Ransom Center collection materials chosen by the artists, including photographs by Ansel Adams and Man Ray, manuscripts from the E. E. Cummings archive, William Blake's Songs of Innocence, an embellished Maurice Ravel score, and props from the Robert De Niro collection.
Both exhibitions are on display through August 4 and can be seen in the Ransom Center Galleries on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended Thursday hours to 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays.
Beginning June 18, free docent-led tours are offered on Tuesdays at noon, Thursdays at 6 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Join us for an "All-Star Evening," the opening celebration for the summer exhibitions Literature and Sport and Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive, this Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Become a member now to receive complimentary admission and valet parking at this event. If you are not yet a member, tickets are available for $20 at the door (valet parking not included for non-members).


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Two Chicago police officers were hospitalized after their unmarked police car was struck by another vehicle that ran through a red light in the Loop this afternoon, police said.
The crash, involving two female tactical officers, happened at the intersection of Clark and Van Buren Streets at about 2:40 p.m., police said.
The unmarked police vehicle was traveling westbound on Van Buren Street when it was struck by a tan-colored Chevrolet Impala traveling south on Clark Street, police said.
An officer at the scene of the accident said the driver of the Chevrolet told police that he was reaching for a cup of coffee before realizing he had blown through a red light and struck the police car.
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Kirk Bloodsworth, the first American death row inmate to be exonerated by DNA evidence, has lived to see something he never could have imagined -- an award named after him, and its first recipient a Democratic senator from Vermont.
Tuesday night, at a Washington gala, Sen. Patrick Leahy receives the Kirk Bloodsworth Justice for All Award as an "outstanding champion of justice" for his sponsorship of the 2004 Innocence Protection Act, which, among other things, provides states with funding for DNA testing in criminal cases to avoid, or undo, wrongful convictions.
The funds come through a program that Senator Leahy named the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program.
So, as you can see, the Dickensian name of Bloodsworth has gained association with things noble and progressive in the time since the ex-Marine from Maryland was convicted of the 1984 rape and murder of Dawn Hamilton, a little girl from Baltimore County. It seems like the whole world has changed since then.
Mr. Bloodsworth won his freedom in 1994, after having served more than nine years in prison. He now works for the Justice Project, which is putting on the "Justice For All Gala" at the Four Seasons in Washington tonight and honoring Mr. Leahy.
Still living on the Eastern Shore, Mr. Bloodsworth travels around the country telling his story and talking about DNA evidence. He's been the subject of a book, too. He's appeared on Oprah.
I caught up with him the other day after his name slipped back into the news again. Ann Brobst, the veteran prosecutor in Baltimore County who got two murder convictions against Mr. Bloodsworth -- the first was overturned by Maryland's Court of Appeals -- has been appointed as a judge of the Circuit Court by Gov. Martin O'Malley.
That's another thing Mr. Bloodsworth probably never could have imagined -- the woman who prosecuted him ascending to the bench.
Over a 30-year career, Ms. Brobst has presented the state's case against hundreds of defendants, many of them violent, but the Bloodsworth case might, unfortunately, be the most notable. Or is the word notorious?
On the phone Saturday, Mr. Bloodsworth, at first, seemed to want to express freely his feelings about Ms. Brobst becoming a judge. But he quickly changed his mind and refused to comment further. Instead, we talked about his friendship with Mr. Leahy -- the senator used the same term for their relationship during his advocacy of the Innocence Protection Act -- and his work with the Justice Project, a Washington-based organization that pushes for reforms in the criminal justice system to avoid wrongful convictions.
In 1993, new DNA testing proved Mr. Bloodsworth could not have killed Dawn Hamilton. In December of that year, then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer pardoned him, and a few months later the state gave Mr. Bloodsworth $300,000 in compensation.
Still, Mr. Bloodsworth lived under a cloud of suspicion. Sandra O'Connor, the Baltimore County state's attorney at the time, famously said, ``I believe that he is not guilty. I'm not prepared to say he's innocent."
Mr. Bloodsworth had trouble keeping a job. "He lived in a world where people questioned his innocence," Mr. Leahy told his colleagues in the Senate in 2003, "where rumors followed him everywhere he went, and where he was unable to find stable employment."
It was nearly 10 years before prosecutors checked DNA evidence from the crime against the state's database of convicted felons. That led to the real killer, a convicted sex offender who was charged with the heinous crime.
When that occurred, Ms. Brobst went to the Eastern Shore with two county detectives, met Mr. Bloodsworth at a fast-food restaurant in Cambridge, told him the news of the real killer's arrest and apologized for her role in his wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
That was the first time anyone from the Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office, which had twice prosecuted Mr. Bloodsworth, acknowledged his innocence.
Monday, Ms. Brobst said the encounter in 2004 with Mr. Bloodsworth and the apology were her idea. She also said she had a role in the push for post-conviction DNA testing of evidence in the case, despite being pressured not to.
A lot of people familiar with Ms. Brobst's work would say that, on balance, she has done far more good than bad over 30 years in the courts -- so the focus on Mr. Bloodsworth is unfair.
Monday, she spoke candidly about the case and about being identified in the press as "the Bloodsworth prosecutor." She accepts that, despite having smartly prosecuted so many other criminals who deserved to go to prison, Mr. Bloodsworth seems to be the case that sticks to her -- at least it did last week in reports of her appointment to the bench.
"Obviously, what happened to him should not have happened to anybody," Ms. Brobst said. "It's something I think about every day -- I mean that, every day. It certainly changed me ... It shook me."
I asked how.
For one thing, Ms. Brobst said, that a jury could be persuaded to convict the wrong man went from being an intellectual understanding to something real, with a name and a face. "It made me a better prosecutor," Ms. Brobst added, "and it's going to make me a better judge. We made a colossal mistake in a case I believed in -- and in which there was a lot of evidence -- and it has made me more mindful of how powerful the criminal justice system is and the harm it can cause."
So Ann Brobst, with all her years of experience and her lessons learned, prepares to become a judge. Kirk Bloodsworth, exonerated and a free man for 15 years, prepares for Tuesday's gala and the award ceremony and more speeches on the value of DNA testing. The real killer of the little girl sits somewhere in a Maryland prison. That all sounds something like justice.
Dan Rodricks' column appears Thursdays and Sundays in print and online, and Tuesdays online-only. He is host of the Midday talk show on WYPR-FM.
Kirk Bloodsworth, the first American death row inmate to be exonerated by DNA evidence, has lived to see something he never could have imagined -- an award named after him, and its first recipient a Democratic senator from Vermont.


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STAMFORD -- While waiting to meet with a reporter who was engaged in a conversation, Schadrac Casimir arrived at the Trinity Catholic gymnasium earlier this week, put down his belongings, picked up a basketball and took three shots before returning to be interviewed.
When the Crusaders warm up before practice, Casimir always combs the metal bin for the ball that is partially worn, with a patch of rubber exposed. It is the one that normally would be removed and given to a large dog to use as a toy. It is also the ball that Casimir used to score 50 points against Greenwich earlier this season.
As Trinity Catholic sets out Saturday afternoon in search of its first FCIAC title since 2008, all eyes will be focused -- as they have been all year -- on Casimir, the 5-foot-8 inch guard who has taken the state by storm with his explosive play. Casimir is leading the conference with a 25.8 scoring average, but has dominated in an unassuming style, as evidenced by his decision not to select the newest, shiniest ball.
"He doesn't have the ego, he just shows quiet confidence," Trinity coach Mike Walsh said. "He's a really hard worker. All of our great players have been hard workers, and he's no exception."
It is a testament to Casimir's play that the Crusaders are 19-1, the lone loss in overtime to St. Joseph. Perhaps even greater evidence is how Walsh often uses Casimir's name in the same sentence with Rashamel Jones, John Smyth, Craig Austrie, Dave McClure and Torey Thomas, the greatest players in the program's history.
"I don't think any of them made as many clutch shots in clutch situations as Schadrac has," Walsh said.
Casimir's eyes widened when his coach's words were repeated.
"That's definitely the best feeling," Casimir said. "I looked up to them growing up. They were celebrities."
Casimir, in his own arena, has earned the same status, respected for being a scorer who is equally content sharing the ball. He is averaging 4.8 assists per game, as well as 3.2 steals while making 41 percent of his 3-point shots.
"I don't really mind who gets the points," Casimir said. "If my teammates do good, that's fine. I feed off of my teammates, and my teammates feed off of me."
Casimir is a favorite both in the Trinity locker room and throughout the entire school community.
"He deserves it all," said Trinity guard Tremaine Fraiser. "He's always working. He's not the kid who wants to go to the party. He'd rather go to the gym."
Casimir recently won a blog poll asking readers to name the FCIAC's most valuable player this season. When Casimir erupted for three straight 3-pointers in a win last week against Westhill, the Trinity fan section began a loud chant of "MVP, MVP."
"That was probably one of the best feelings ever," Casimir said with a smile. "It was kind of crazy. I actually grew up more with Westhill and Stamford kids than Trinity, so to have that happen against them was fun."
While Casimir's rise appears to be meteoric, Walsh and the other Trinity players agree Casimir could have been a more assertive player last year, but subjugated his game on a team that was beset with a few personality clashes.
"The chemistry is better," Casimir said. "Last year we didn't complement each other. Talent-wise we could have won a championship. Chemistry wins out over talent any day."
Walsh agreed, also tapping a word more associated with science class than the basketball court.
"I just think the chemistry on the court last year was not good, and probably took away from Schadrac's talents," Walsh said. "Looking back at it, it's a shame. He's a good kid who cares more about the team. Without one or two players last year, we would have had more success and a better chance to win a state title, but that's looking back."
The Crusaders are legitimate contenders to win league and state titles this year. Brandon Wheeler and Fraiser have both exceeded expectations, while a number of role players have made unsung contributions.
But the undisputed leader is a player who said his personality is different from what others would assume.
"I'm really kind of a quiet kid," he said. "I do get angry but I will go sit by myself because I don't want to make a scene. But I think people don't know me. They think I am serious. I'm pretty funny."
Casimir laughed when making another confession.
"I love the cartoon Avatar on Nickelodeon," he said. "I watch it a lot. It's embarrassing, a 17-year-old kid watching it all day. When people read this they are going to laugh."
About the only people who fail to find humor in Casimir's presence are the opponents whose task it is to slow him down. It has proved a futile endeavor thus far, and Casimir's plan is to continue to flourish, now at the most important time of the year, and beyond, all on his terms.
"I think I have a lot more growing to do, on and off the court," he said. "I don't think I'm anywhere near my prime yet. I'm not surprised with the way the team stepped up," he said. I think we can go all the way. No matter what happens, this has been the most fun season for me."
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Airport grounds crew works in frigid temps
Even in brutally cold temperatures, high winds, work goes on
On one of the busiest travel days of the year, no matter what the weather does, the men and women working the tarmac at Lincoln's Municipal Airport are on the job.
The job comes with a lot of excess baggage, moving luggage into and out of planes so you can get to your destination on time.
"When it is zero degrees, it's OK," said Kelly Dodd, who has worked at the airport for seven years. "But then, the wind starts blowing. It starts cutting through the clothes, and it starts getting really cold."
Dodd said when planes come in, the crews have to stay out, sometimes for an hour and a half, no matter what.
It means layers and layers of clothing that is usually shed as the crew works up a sweat and then put back on a few minutes later.
"You just kind of try to block it out," Dodd said.
Passengers, who expect no delays despite extreme conditions, usually don't notice, but Shirley Frasier said she does.
"It's so cold and I really feel for them, but they get the job done," Frasier said.
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Welcome to a slightly adjusted theme to this blog, that I love. I still believe in and love and eat healthy whole food. I cook this way in my regular life and I want my kids growing up knowing that carrots taste great with a little dirt on them and raspberries in season are better than any processed anything they will ever eat. However, I'm working a few contracts downtown right now and realistically I'm spending a lot more time booking dinner reservations and mixing drinks. Time to embrace it on the blog. So perhaps some recipes will be happily interspersed, but for now, you get Calgary foodie reviews, where to go, what to eat etc. It's gonna be fun.
Which brings me to this week's adventurous night out…For those of you who know Calgary, you may remember about 10 years ago when 17th Ave was the. place. to. be. It kind of disappeared for a while but in the last few years some incredible places have opened up: Una Pizza and Wine, Ox & Angela, Chilitos Taco House, Cibo, 80th & Ivy, just to name a few. We went, this week, to National, which has been open for a few months. I've been a couple of times with "the girls", but Sexy Husband and I thought we would check it out and actually eat something.
National is set up like a German Beer House, with long communal picnic tables, a huge patio, and a stock exchange style screen of the 100+ beers you can try. As people order a beer, it moves up on the screen in popularity. So fun. We met some friends and shared about 100 oysters (by we I do not mean me, because of an inconvenient shellfish allergy). Then we had a green salad, which was served in a mixing bowl large enough to feed the table. It had some great and surprising tastes including toasted walnuts and thinly shaved fennel with a really light buttermilk dressing. Delish. Then we got some deep fried pickles. Why oh why do I have to love deep fried pickles so much. And we topped things off with their classic poutine. It was a) an enormous portion, perfect for sharing, and b) the best chicken gravy I've ever tasted. Loved it. Other people ordered burgers and fish tacos, all which looked delicious. We finished the night with deep friend mars bars. They were yummy but pretty tiny and I've made better ones at home.
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Welcome to the Picture Scene website!
Picture Scene has been picture framing in Worcestershire for 10 years. We started as a picture hire company, supplying pictures and frames for top interior designers that they used in their show-homes for new building schemes.
We are a very friendly husband and wife team. Gill has been both an artist and art teacher for many years, so is experienced in putting together colours and designs. Kelvin is a highly-skilled and inventive craftsman.
We are based just outside Pershore in the small village of Birlingham. Click here for a link to GoogleMaps. We are within easy reach of Pershore, Worcester, Evesham, and the many surrounding villages. Car parking is available.
It is easy to find our workshop. Just follow the signs to The Swan Inn on Church Street, and we are signposted on the right. Why not combine a visit to us with a drink or meal at The Swan?
An alternative is for us to come to you with samples. We will always offer a collection and delivery service if required.
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We are very flexible with our opening hours – we are open week-days but some customers prefer to visit us in the evening or at weekends. It is best to phone first.
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NASCAR driver penalized for tweeting that turban-wearing man should get cavity search
NASCAR has placed Richard Petty Motorsports development driver Corey LaJoie on indefinite probation and will require him to undergo sensitivity training for an insensitive tweet.
The 22-year-old LaJoie, the son of former Busch Series (now Nationwide Series) champion Randy LaJoie, competes part time in the NASCAR K&N East Series as well as in ARCA. He is expected to run Nationwide races next year for RPM.
MORE: Petty: Parrott had to be fired | Justifying Danica's ride | No. 43 switched to No. 41
NASCAR did not release Wednesday what LaJoie was penalized for, but LaJoie received some backlash for this tweet Oct. 15:
"Is it stereotyping to ask TSA to cavity search the gentleman with a turban and a gray beard? I didn't think so either"
The tweet was deleted from LaJoie's timeline. The tweet elicited a handful on responses on Twitter telling LaJoie that it was a stereotypical statement.
NASCAR's code of conduct rule states that no NASCAR member shall make a public statement "that criticizes, ridicules, or otherwise disparages another person based upon that person's race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or handicapping condition."
"Corey LaJoie recently issued an insensitive and intolerable communication that has no place in our sport," said George Silbermann, NASCAR's vice president for regional and touring series. "Each of NASCAR's 2013 series-specific rule books includes our code of conduct that unequivocally states our stance specific to the use of demeaning language. We expect our entire industry to adhere to that code."
LaJoie issued a statement Wednesday apologizing for the tweet.
"I am very sorry for those offended by my recent remark," LaJoie said. "It was an immature and insensitive comment. I'm upset with myself and how this has affected what has been a very positive year in my career."
The penalty continues a rough seven days for RPM, which released Todd Parrott after he failed a NASCAR drug test and was put on indefinite suspension by the sanctioning body.


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A two-year prison term was handed down Monday for a 26-year-old Los Angeles man who pleaded no contest to stalking "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John S. Fisher imposed the maximum term allowed against Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr. as a result of his March 9 plea.
The judge also issued a protective order that requires Uzomah to stay 500 yards away from Seacrest and his workplace for 10 years, according to Deputy District Attorney Wendy Segall.
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"This is a very difficult situation for people when they're stalked," the judge said.
Fisher noted that Uzomah was on probation at the time of the crime last Oct. 30 -- for a confrontation about 1 1/2 months earlier with a security officer assigned to protect Seacrest after a charity event at Children's Hospital of Orange County -- and said state prison was the appropriate punishment for the latest offense.
The judge's ruling followed a 90-day psychiatric evaluation by state prison officials.
Two misdemeanor charges against Uzomah -- disobeying a court order and attempted disobeying of a court order -- were dismissed as a result of his plea.
Los Angeles police Detective Rosibel Smith, of the LAPD's threat management unit, testified at a Jan. 19 hearing that Seacrest told her he was "very intimidated by Mr. Uzomah's presence, by his size" after being informed that the 6-foot-4 inch, 200-pound defendant had shown up to see him at the E! building in the 5700 block of Wilshire Boulevard.
"He was very much in fear of him," Smith testified of Seacrest's reaction, noting that Seacrest knew Uzomah had been carrying a knife when arrested following his September 2009 encounter with the defendant at the Orange County event.
Seacrest recalled that Uzomah demanded an autograph from him -- a request with which he complied -- then stepped up and blocked his path until security intervened and pushed him in a waiting car to keep him away from the defendant, Smith testified.
According to the detective, Seacrest said he looked in his rear-view mirror and saw Uzomah involved in a physical confrontation with a security officer.
Uzomah also had a pocketknife with him when he was searched after his Oct. 30 arrest at the E! building, the detective testified at the hearing in January.
Seacrest said he was also informed that Uzomah came to the KIIS-FM studio in Burbank last Oct. 2 to look for him, Smith testified.
The detective noted that Uzomah's probation conditions for the Orange County run-in required him to stay away from Seacrest and Children's Hospital and not to own, use or possess any dangerous or deadly weapons.
Seacrest's attorney, Blair Berk, told reporters outside court, "Ryan is extremely appreciative of the work of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office in this matter."


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Liberty DII takes down Hoyas
December 7, 2012 | Lynchburg, Va.
At home Friday night the Liberty Flames Division II men's hockey team defeated the Georgetown Hoyas 6-2.
Liberty struck first and laid it on heavy from there, beginning with a goal by Clinton Nigh barely one minute into the game off the John Cotton assist. Brad Docksteader scored the next two Flames goals, first at 11:32 in the opening period off a Drew Muir assist and again five minutes into the second from a Peter Kazmierczak feed.
At 9:21 in the second the Hoyas found the back of the net, but Caleb Allision restored Liberty's three-goal margin with 2:37 remaining.
The Flames put two more points on the board early in the third to lock down the lead and eventual victory. Richie Johnstone scored 30 seconds into the final frame and just over a minute later Kyle Davis made good on a feed from Bobby Cervone. Another minute later Georgetown scored but the Flames held on and claimed the win.
Liberty finishes the 2012 block of its season at 11-5-1 and will host Penn State on Jan. 11 to open 2013 play. Game time is at 7 p.m.


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As many of you know, I often travel the country speaking to agriculture groups on a number of topics. One of the most requested is social media training. From developing an "elevator speech" (which is a concise presentation deliverable in the time it takes for an elevator ride), to teaching producers how to use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest to promote agriculture, there's certainly a lot to discuss when developing new advocates for agriculture.
One of the tips I often give is to use your other passions and hobbies to share your agriculture message. For example, Bill Broadie and the All-American Beef Battalion, BEEF magazine's Trailblazer award winner, host steak feeds to support the troops. This is Broadie's way of sharing his passion for beef and combining it with his respect for those serving our country.
Another great example is ranchers who actively compete in races as members of Team Beef. Over the years, I have worn my Team ZIP (zinc, iron and protein) jersey when I have competed in half- marathons and 5Ks. We are seeing a surge of more producers wanting to share the beef message with athletes across the country.
Several state beef councils have created their own Team Beef groups, including: South Dakota, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. You can check out these respective states, and their sponsored events, on TeamBeef.org.
I've had several people in South Dakota and neighboring states ask me about joining my state's team, so I thought I would post a reminder that the deadline to apply is March 15. Fill out the application here.
Like what you are reading? Subscribe to BEEF Daily for industry news in your inbox every Monday-Thursday.
Another deadline that you should be aware of is a great opportunity to take advantage of free Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certification. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI) is offering more information on this great program at www.BIVI-BQA.com, and the deadline to apply is March 15. Another resource is www.animalcaretraining.org, which offers a $25 training program.
Without a doubt, BQA helps the cattle industry provide a safe and high-quality beef product for consumers to enjoy. It helps us be consistent and safe when handling cattle. Becoming BQA-certified lends credibility to your operation, by illustrating to your customers and consumers that you practice proper animal handling techniques and are focused on caring for the animal, as well as producing a great beef product.
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With these deadlines quickly approaching, don't miss your chance to be a part of these two great industry programs! Are you a member of Team Beef? Are you BQA-certified? Share your experiences about either of these programs in the comments section
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Funds run low for health insurance in state 'high-risk pools'
Tens of thousands of Americans who cannot get health insurance because of preexisting medical problems will be blocked from a program designed to help them because funding is running low.
Obama administration officials said Friday that the state-based "high-risk pools" set up under the 2010 health-care law will be closed to new applicants as soon as Saturday and no later than March 2, depending on the state.
But they stressed that coverage for about 100,000 people who are now enrolled in the high-risk pools will not be affected.
"We're being very careful stewards of the money that has been appropriated to us and we wanted to balance our desire to maximize the number of people who can gain from this program while making sure people who are in the program have coverage," said Gary Cohen, director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. "This was the most prudent step for us to take at this point in time."
The program, which was launched in summer 2010, was always intended as a temporary bridge for the uninsured. But it was supposed to last until 2014. At that point, the health-care law will bar insurers from rejecting or otherwise discriminating against people who are already sick, enabling such people to buy plans through the private market.
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Ruby Jean's Hash from 'True Blood'
There are plenty of breakfast and brunch recipes in the True Blood cookbook—perhaps from all of the late nights spent running from evil vampires, witches, and the occasional possessed doll. Ruby Jean's Hash stands out as a simple yet soul-satisfying take on a morning-after meal. Andouille sausage peppers this hash of potatoes, onions, and green peppers, and the whole mess is adorned with a voluptuous poached egg. Lafayette says the hash is most popular with "rednecks down at Merlotte's," but I don't think you need to drive a raised pick-up to scarf down this dish.
Why I picked this recipe: Spicy sausage, poached eggs, and crisp potatoes are just what I want to eat the morning after an epic Halloween party.
What worked: The andouille was a great addition to what is a fairly standard line-up of hash ingredients. Using leftover potatoes makes the dish super fast and easy, too.
What didn't: I found myself adding more oil and turning up the heat on the hash as it cooked to up the browning factor (5 to 6 minutes on medium just didn't do it for me).
Suggested tweaks: Hash is kind of a kitchen sink dish, so feel free to throw in bits and pieces of things floating in the fridge. If you've got any leftovers, the hash is particularly tasty re-fried with scrambled eggs and served in tortillas with a bit of salsa. Hash-tacos anyone?
Reprinted with permission from True Blood by Gianna Sobol and Alan Ball with Karen Sommer Shalett. Recipes by Marcelle Bienvenu. Copyright 2012. Published by Chronicle. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
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- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 cups diced cooked potatoes
- 1/4 cup chopped yellow onion
- 1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1 cup chopped andouille sausage
- Salt
- Cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon white distilled vinegar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons chopped green onion (green part only)
Heat the vegetable oil in a large, heavy skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium heat. Add the potatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, about 2 minutes. Add the onion, bell pepper, and andouille. Season with salt and cayenne and cook, stirring, for 5 to 6 minutes or until the vegetables are just softened. Remove from the heat.
Fill a medium saucepan with 3 inches of water, add the vinegar, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat so the water simmers gently. Crack an egg into a cup or small bowl, and gently slide the egg into the water. Repeat the process with the remaining eggs, keeping the water at a gentle simmer. Poach for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on the firmness desired. You can test
the doneness by lifting an egg with a slotted spoon and gently pressing a finger on the yolk.
Spoon equal amounts of the hash onto four plates. With a slotted spoon, transfer a poached egg to each serving of hash. Garnish with the green onion and serve immediately.
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Conversion Constructors and Subtle Dangers
explicit keyword when defining constructors with one only (non-defaulted) parameter. Even so, the subtleties of what can go wrong wit...
Pretty much every old C++ war-horse knows to use the
explicit keyword when defining constructors with one only (non-defaulted) parameter. Even so, the subtleties of what can go wrong with the best laid plans of library designers can still surprise.
Recently, a user of the Pantheios diagnostic logging library reported a subtle vulnerability involving conversion constructors in a particular set of circumstances.
For reasons of robustness, Pantheios does not accept arguments of fundamental types -
void*' and so on. All arguments must be of a string type, or one which the Pantheios Application Layer knows how to interpret as a string. Thus, a statement such as the following will be rejected by the compiler:
[Note: all the log statements here would usually be expressed on one line. Limitations of this medium require I split them.]
#include <pantheios/pantheios.hpp> pantheios::log_NOTICE( "secret of life, universe, and everything: " , 42);
To incorporate a fundamental type instance into a log statement a user must first convert it to a string. One (bad) way would be to convert it to a string yourself as follows:
#include <pantheios/pantheios.hpp> char num[21]; snprintf(num, 21, "%d", 42); pantheios::log_NOTICE( "secret of life, universe, and everything: " , num);
There are several reasons why this is bad: it is verbose; it is not practically portable, because it uses
snprintf(), which is "deprecated" by Microsoft's later compilers in favour of so-called safe equivalents (in this case the famous
_snprintf_s()); it is potentially inefficient, because the conversion from
int->string is made even when statements at log level NOTICE are disabled; it requires you to use magic numbers or some kind of
dimensionof() macro.
A better way is to use one of the stock inserted classes/functions provided by Pantheios, in this case the
pantheios::integer inserter class, which may be used to insert all integer types (and with different width, radix, etc.), as in:
#include <pantheios/inserters/integer.hpp> #include <pantheios/pantheios.hpp> pantheios::log_NOTICE( "secret of life, universe, and everything: " , pantheios::integer(42));
Incidentally, if you (understandably) think that's getting a tad verbose, you can use some of the provided namespace/class/function aliases to shorten the log statements, as in:
#include <pantheios/inserters/i.hpp> #include <pantheios/pan.hpp> pan::log_NOTICE( "secret of life, universe, and everything: " , pan::i(42));
Now you know how insertion of an integer should look, let's consider how things should go if you try to insert it directly. With Visual C++ 9, I get a set of compilation errors along the following lines:
h:\freelibs\pantheios\main\1.0\include\pantheios\internal\generated\log_sev_functions.hpp(9998) : error C2665: 'stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_len_a' : none of the 17 overloads could convert all the argument types h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\winstl\shims\access\string\time.hpp(672): could be 'stlsoft::winstl_project::ws_size_t stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_len_a(const SYSTEMTIME &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\winstl\shims\access\string\time.hpp(720): or 'stlsoft::winstl_project::ws_size_t stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_len_a(const FILETIME &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\winstl\shims\access\string\time.hpp(753): or 'stlsoft::winstl_project::ws_size_t stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_len_a(const UDATE &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\winstl\shims\access\string\hwnd.hpp(561): or 'stlsoft::winstl_project::ws_size_t stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_len_a(HWND)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\comstl\shims\access\string\variant.hpp(556): or 'stlsoft::comstl_project::cs_size_t stlsoft::comstl_project::c_str_len_a(const VARIANT &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\comstl\shims\access\string\guid.hpp(298): or 'stlsoft::comstl_project::cs_size_t stlsoft::comstl_project::c_str_len_a(const GUID &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\std\time.hpp(254): or 'stlsoft::ss_size_t stlsoft::c_str_len_a(const tm &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\std\time.hpp(143): or 'stlsoft::ss_size_t stlsoft::c_str_len_a(const tm *)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\std\basic_string.hpp(392): or 'stlsoft::ss_size_t stlsoft::c_str_len_a(const std::string &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\std\exception.hpp(299): or 'stlsoft::ss_size_t stlsoft::c_str_len_a(const std::exception &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\fwd.h(100): or 'stlsoft::ss_size_t stlsoft::c_str_len_a(const stlsoft::ss_char_a_t *)' h:\freelibs\pantheios\main\1.0\include\pantheios\pantheios.h(1459): or 'size_t pantheios::shims::c_str_len_a(const pantheios::pan_slice_t &)' h:\freelibs\pantheios\main\1.0\include\pantheios\pantheios.h(1549): or 'size_t pantheios::shims::c_str_len_a(const pantheios::pan_slice_t *)' h:\freelibs\pantheios\main\1.0\include\pantheios\pantheios.h(1592): or 'size_t pantheios::shims::c_str_len_a(pantheios::pan_severity_t)' while trying to match the argument list '(const int)' h:\publishing\blogs\ddj\code\conversion_constructors\example1\example1.cpp(8) : see reference to function template instantiation 'int pantheios::log_NOTICE<const char[43],int>(T0 (&),const T1 &)' being compiled with [ T0=const char [43], T1=int ] h:\freelibs\pantheios\main\1.0\include\pantheios\internal\generated\log_sev_functions.hpp(9998) : error C2665: 'stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_data_a' : none of the 17 overloads could convert all the argument types h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\winstl\shims\access\string\time.hpp(448): could be 'stlsoft::basic_shim_string<C> stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_data_a(const SYSTEMTIME &)' with [ C=stlsoft::ss_char_a_t ] h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\winstl\shims\access\string\time.hpp(482): or 'stlsoft::basic_shim_string<C> stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_data_a(const FILETIME &)' with [ C=stlsoft::ss_char_a_t ] h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\winstl\shims\access\string\time.hpp(514): or 'stlsoft::basic_shim_string<C> stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_data_a(const UDATE &)' with [ C=stlsoft::ss_char_a_t ] h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\winstl\shims\access\string\hwnd.hpp(529): or 'stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_ptr_HWND_proxy<C> stlsoft::winstl_project::c_str_data_a(HWND)' with [ C=stlsoft::winstl_project::ws_char_a_t ] h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\comstl\shims\access\string\variant.hpp(489): or 'stlsoft::comstl_project::c_str_VARIANT_proxy_a stlsoft::comstl_project::c_str_data_a(const VARIANT &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\comstl\shims\access\string\guid.hpp(256): or 'stlsoft::comstl_project::c_str_ptr_GUID_proxy<C> stlsoft::comstl_project::c_str_data_a(const GUID &)' with [ C=stlsoft::comstl_project::cs_char_a_t ] h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\std\time.hpp(241): or 'stlsoft::basic_shim_string<C> stlsoft::c_str_data_a(const tm &)' with [ C=stlsoft::ss_char_a_t ] h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\std\time.hpp(100): or 'stlsoft::basic_shim_string<C> stlsoft::c_str_data_a(const tm *)' with [ C=stlsoft::ss_char_a_t ] h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\std\basic_string.hpp(226): or 'const stlsoft::ss_char_a_t *stlsoft::c_str_data_a(const std::string &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\std\exception.hpp(223): or 'const stlsoft::ss_char_a_t *stlsoft::c_str_data_a(const std::exception &)' h:\stlsoft\releases\1.9\stlsoft\include\stlsoft\shims\access\string\fwd.h(93): or 'const stlsoft::ss_char_a_t *stlsoft::c_str_data_a(const stlsoft::ss_char_a_t *)' h:\freelibs\pantheios\main\1.0\include\pantheios\pantheios.h(1437): or 'const char *pantheios::shims::c_str_data_a(const pantheios::pan_slice_t &)' h:\freelibs\pantheios\main\1.0\include\pantheios\pantheios.h(1527): or 'const char *pantheios::shims::c_str_data_a(const pantheios::pan_slice_t *)' h:\freelibs\pantheios\main\1.0\include\pantheios\pantheios.h(1574): or 'const char *pantheios::shims::c_str_data_a(pantheios::pan_severity_t)' while trying to match the argument list '(const int)'
Although this is scary at first, it actually holds the essential truth of the problem, something often not the case with C++ compile errors (particularly with moderate-heavy use of templates). The problem is precisely as described (all 17 times!): there are no overloads of
c_str_len_a() and
c_str_data_a() for "the argument list '
(const int)'". These two function overload suites are string access shims, which are how Pantheios meets its design parameters of expressiveness, flexibility, and performance, something I'll get into in more detail in an upcoming article series on diagnostics I will be writing for Dr Dobb's this year. (The articles will also discuss why the library must reject fundamental type arguments, via the absence of string access shims defined for numeric types; for now you'll just have to take my word.) Many string access shim overloads are provided by the STLSoft libraries, on which Pantheios depends, as well as other open-source libraries (and several of my closed-source commercial developments for clients, allowing their types to be succinctly logged).
So far, so good. This behaviour is all by-design, and is actually of benefit to the programmer, being as how it brings potential runtime problems into firm compile-time problems. In all the years I and others have been using Pantheios, this mechanism had never been subverted. Or, at least that was the case until late last year, when a user reported that, after passing an integer directly in a log statement, it had not been displayed correctly in the log. Alarm bells still ringing, we investigated and, lo and behold, it transpired that the integer was indeed being passed to a pair of string access shims, via the conversion constructor of the ATL type
CComBSTR, for which string access shims are defined (although only in wide-string builds, hence
c_str_len_w() and
c_str_data_w()). This only occurred when building when using ATL on Windows and building a wide-string version of an application, in which case the pre-processor symbol
UNICODE is defined. What actually happens is that the integer value is passed by the compiler to the (non-
explicit) single-parameter
CComBSTR(int nSize) constructor, as part of the compiler attempting to find match for the argument. That constructor is used to pre-allocate a buffer of the given size for later use. So what happens in the case of our log statement is that the statement written out is:
"secret of life, universe, and everything: " <<- we are left to ponder ...
What should have been
"42" is actually an empty string, since the secretive
CComBSTR instance is empty of content (although it has a buffer of 42-character ready to receive some content). As you can imagine, had the integer had a very high value we may also have had an unwanted memory allocation failure to go along with the malformed log statement.
Naturally enough, when we'd got to this point, I wondered with some heat why on earth the ATL designers had not seen fit to declare that constructor
explicit. But what to do about it? I cannot proscribe the use of ATL to Pantheios' users. I cannot remove the requisite wide-form string access shim overloads -
c_str_len_w(CComBSTR const&) and
c_str_data_w(CComBSTR const&) - from STLSoft, since they are established and used in other things. I can recommend that users compile a multibyte-string version of their code, as well as the wide-string one they want, to act as a guard, but that is often not possible. One thing I could do would be to remove the implicit inclusion of the requisite STLSoft libraries from Pantheios when compiling for wide-string in the presence of ATL. But anyone using Pantheios under those conditions who wanted to be able to insert
CComBSTR instances into a log statement - a pretty common requirement - would be disadvantaged.
I confess I thought long and hard about this, and came up with several partially-forme, baroque, and long-winded solutions, until the light finally shone on me. I'd even written about such things in the first chapter of my first book, Imperfect C++, back in 2004: the answer is constraints.
So, all that's been required to allow Pantheios once more to claim 100% type-safety in all circumstances is the insertion of constraints along the lines of that shown in the following 3-parameter application layer
log_NOTICE() statement function template:
template<typename T0, typename T1> int log_NOTICE( pan_sev_t severity , T0 const& v0 , T1 const& v1 ) { STLSOFT_STATIC_ASSERT(0 == stlsoft::is_fundamental_type<T0>::value); STLSOFT_STATIC_ASSERT(0 == stlsoft::is_fundamental_type<T1>::value); . . .
The constraint is pretty canonical for these things: a static assertion is used to enforce a compile-time characteristic elicited via a meta-programming type. Specifically, is_fundamental_type is used to verify that the types
T0 and
T1 are not fundamental types. If either of them is, as in the original case, the compiler will fail on that line.
So far, all the compilers that used to support Pantheios are happy with the additional compile-time load - remember, these are compile-time constraints, and make absolutely no different to runtime speed/behaviour - except for GCC 3.x and Digital Mars C/C++, for which the constraints are diluted/elided.
1. When you're designing a library involving C++ classes, be sure that you mark
explicit every one-parameter (or one-non-default-parameter) constructor, unless you explicitly want to allow implicit conversion construction. Yes, I am aware that that's a tongue-twister. And aware too of the irony. But a language as long-lived and successful as C++ has a lot of backwards compatibility to maintain. Such wrong-way-round situations extend to more than just explicit/implicit, and maybe I'll have a carp about them on another day.
2. When you're designing a library involving arbitrary heterogeneous types, remember the utility of constraints (particularly compile-time ones) for controlling how far the envelope of accepted types may be stretched.


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Herschel finds hot gas on the menu for Milky Way's black hole
ESA's Herschel space observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot molecular gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.
Our local black hole is located in a region known as Sagittarius A* – Sgr A* – after a nearby radio source. It has a mass about four million times that of our Sun and lies around 26 000 light-years away from the Solar System.
Even at that distance, it is a few hundred times closer to us than any other galaxy with an active black hole at its centre, making it the ideal natural laboratory to study the environment around these enigmatic objects.
Vast amounts of dust lie in the plane of the Milky Way between here and its centre, obscuring our view at visible wavelengths. But at far-infrared wavelengths, it is possible to peer through the dust, affording Herschel's scientists the chance to study the turbulent innermost region of our Galaxy in great detail.
Herschel has detected a great variety of simple molecules at the Milky Way's heart, including carbon monoxide, water vapour and hydrogen cyanide. By analysing the signature from these molecules, astronomers have been able to probe some of the fundamental properties of the interstellar gas surrounding the black hole.
"Herschel has resolved the far-infrared emission within just 1 light-year of the black hole, making it possible for the first time at these wavelengths to separate emission due to the central cavity from that of the surrounding dense molecular disc," says Javier Goicoechea of the Centro de Astrobiología, Spain, and lead author of the paper reporting the results.
The biggest surprise was quite how hot the molecular gas in the innermost central region of the Galaxy gets. At least some of it is around 1000ºC, much hotter than typical interstellar clouds, which are usually only a few tens of degrees above the –273ºC of absolute zero.
While some of the heating is down to the fierce ultraviolet radiation pouring from a cluster of massive stars that live very close to the Galactic Centre, they are not enough to explain the high temperatures alone.
In addition to the stellar radiation, Dr Goicoechea's team hypothesise that emission from strong shocks in highly-magnetised gas in the region may be a significant contributor to the high temperatures. Such shocks can be generated in collisions between gas clouds, or in material flowing at high speed from stars and protostars.
"The observations are also consistent with streamers of hot gas speeding towards Sgr A*, falling towards the very centre of the Galaxy," says Dr Goicoechea. "Our Galaxy's black hole may be cooking its dinner right in front of Herschel's eyes."
Just before material falls into a black hole, it is heated up enormously and can cause high-energy X-ray and gamma-ray flares. While Sgr A* currently shows little sign of such activity, this could change soon.
Using near-infrared observations, other astronomers have spotted a separate, compact cloud of gas amounting to just a few Earth masses spiralling towards the black hole. Located much closer to the black hole than the reservoir of material studied by Herschel in this work, it may finally be gobbled up later this year.
Spacecraft including ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral will be waiting to spot any high-energy burps as the black hole enjoys its feast.
"The centre of the Milky Way is a complex region, but with these Herschel observations, we have taken an important step forward in our understanding of the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, which will ultimately help improve our picture of galaxy evolution," says Göran Pilbratt, ESA's Herschel project scientist.
Notes for Editors
"Herschel Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Galactic Center. Hot Molecular Gas: Shocks versus Radiation near Sgr A∗" by J.R. Goicoechea et al., is published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, 7 May 2013. Access paper.
The study focuses on a spectral scan towards Sgr A∗ at wavelengths of approximately 52–671 microns taken with the PACS and SPIRE spectrometers, and is part of the PRISMAS (PRobing InterStellar Molecules with Absorption line Studies) and SPECHIS (SPIRE Spectral Line Surveys of HIFI-GT-KP Sources) Herschel Guaranteed-Time Programmes.
PACS spectra between 52 microns and 190 microns were obtained during March 2011 and March 2012. SPIRE observations between 194 microns and 671 microns were obtained during February 2011.
Herschel launched on 14 May 2009 and completed science observations on 29 April 2013.
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.
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University of Houston students don't have to venture into Sherwood Forest or Nottingham to learn about Robin Hood. A new undergraduate literature class is taking aim at the iconic archer antihero using classic texts and contemporary technology.
"Robin Hood: From Medieval Outlaw to Postmodern Media Creature" follows the character's evolution from his medieval beginnings to recent Hollywood adaptations. It also will provide insight on the cultural impact of Robin Hood as an anti-authority figure bent on helping others.
"When students came into class, the first thing I asked them was what they knew about Robin Hood," said Lorraine Stock, associate professor of English. "Nearly all of them responded with 'He robs the rich and gives to the poor.' One of the purposes of this course is to undo this presumption and help students realize how complex this legendary figure is."
Stock and co-instructor, teaching fellow Jason Pitruzzello, engage students in classroom conversations focused on readings and online film and TV clips. Among the movies and television shows students will view are 1938's "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (starring Erroll Flynn), 1976's "Robin and Marian" (starring Sean Connery), 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (starring Kevin Costner), 1993's "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" (starring Cary Elwes), and the 2006-09 BBC TV series "Robin Hood" (starring Jonas Armstrong). She also plans to include clips of this year's "Robin Hood" (starring Russell Crowe) after its Sept. 21 DVD release.
Although film clips will play a large role in the class, Stock will fully explore centuries-old texts that precede the film adaptations. While Robin Hood is perhaps the most popular medieval character to grace the silver screen, scholars often dismiss him, Stock said.
"Robin Hood texts have tended to be overlooked by scholars of medieval literature," she said. "They're not part of the canon like Malory's 'Morte D'Arthur.' For all of the attention Hollywood has lavished on Robin Hood, academics have tended not to go there. I am trying to get more attention to Robin Hood in a scholarly way."
Stock and Pitruzzello also are committed to increasing the research output of undergraduate students. Later in the semester, students will undertake an intensive research project. Student work that is deemed suitable will be included on a comprehensive UH website titled "Robin Hood in Culture." The site is being developed by Stock and Pitruzzello.
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It took little more than a week for the talk of Lindsay Lohan playing a Gotti to go from rumor to imminent reality. This week, she showed up unexpectedly at a New York press conference announcing the start of production on "Gotti: Three Generations," starring John Travolta as John Gotti Sr and directed by Nick Cassavetes.
And although the producers of the film stopped short of confirming her casting, it seemed close to a certainty. So this got us thinking once again if this is the best move for the epically beleaguered starlet. In short: It is.
Right after news broke that Travolta would be playing Gotti Sr, word got out that the Dapper Don's daughter, Victoria, had handpicked LiLo to play her in the film. It seemed almost too funny to be true. But look at them side-by-side and it makes more sense:
This is a huge improvement for Lohan over some of the other roles that have floated her way. The Linda Lovelace biopic "Inferno" was a disaster waiting to happen, with an unproven writer-director set to recreate some seriously degrading moments. This role would put her in the company of pros, playing a Long Island girl.
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"Lindsay is a terrific actress and we're very glad to have her here, and I am in talks to have her in the movie. Nothing has been finalized, but we are in talks," said "Gotti" producer Mark Fiore.
"Gotti" would have Lohan working with John Travolta and Joe Pesci on a regular basis. Say what you will about their recent film choices, they're both pros. Plus, with Travolta keeping a watchful eye on his impressionable daughter (Ella Bleu Travolta has a part in the film) , there is no way Lohan will get away with any mishegas.
"I've always thought she was gorgeous and talented and filled with a lot of depth, so I think whatever she would like to do would be great with me," said Travolta at Tuesday's press conference when asked about the possibility of working with Lohan.
Lord knows Jane Fonda tried to set her straight on the set of "Georgia," but we're guessing Travolta could prove to be a bit more persuasive, especially since he'll be in full "Gotti" mode.
And if Travolta can't get through to her, you can be sure Nick Cassavetes won't put up with a moment of the sort of nonsense that has marked Lohan's every headline for the past few years.
If you caught the 6'6" actor-director's cameo on "Entourage," you know the man can be terrifying. There's a reason he was cast to replace Liam Neeson (who replaced Mel Gibson) as the crazed tattoo artist in "The Hangover 2."
We still don't have final word on Lindsay's involvement, but this could just be the best decision she's made in a while.


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