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Study in Ghana - African Music, Arts & Culture Workshop, July 2016
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Music 597B/C: UMass African Drum & Dance Cultural Field Study in Ghana
Jeremy Cohen, Adjunct Faculty & Founder/Director of ThisWorldMusic
Study in Ghana, West Africa! Participants live for 2 weeks at the Dagbe Cultural Institute & Arts Centre, taking studio classes with local artists in traditional African music, dance and craft making. During the remaining week, the Study in Ghana group explores Kakum National Park rainforest, historic Cape Coast Castle, and the capital city of Accra.
Enrollment is open to students, both undergraduate and graduate, as well as to the general public. Residents of Canada are also welcome to apply. Learn more at: Study in Ghana.
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We are very excited to announce the 6th Annual University of Massachusetts Amherst Conducting Institute!
Conducting Participants (limited to 16) will conduct either the UMass Summer Wind Ensemble or Institute Choral Ensemble each day and participate in all sessions. This track is designed for conductors that have completed undergraduate conducting courses and/or possess a Bachelor's degree in music.
Auditor Participants participate in all of the sessions, but do not conduct the ensembles. Enrollment for the Auditor track is open and recommended for musicians of all levels and abilities. Auditors are an invaluable part of this workshop!
Registration closes May 15, 2016.
For registration and further details:
Wind Conducting track: http://www.umasswindstudies.com/conducting-workshop/
Choral Conducting track: http://blogs.umass.edu/choirs/2016-umass-conducting-institute/
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This is a course in thinking about and thinking "in" music. You will learn to read and interpret music notation, and study the patterns typical of musical pitch and rhythm. In gaining familiarity with this system called "music theory," you will acquire many logical and algorithmic reasoning skills.
Homework, quizzes, and a final exam will assess and evaluate your ability to solve music theory problems, using the concepts and skills you have learned.
Survey of music of the European classical tradition. Music fundamentals, forms, and styles from the Medieval period to the 20th century. Listening to representative recordings of various stylistic periods. Concert attendance outside class time required.
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June 26-30, 2016 at UMass Amherst
Learn about teaching Music Theory from six leading authors and scholars.
To apply, visit www.umass.edu/summer/precollege.html
Music & Technology, July 24-29
Taught by UMass & Five College Music Professor Robert Eisenstein
With little more than a computer, a microphone and a midi keyboard it is possible to explore all the wonderful ways of making music electronically. In this one week course we will focus on the principles of recording, editing and mixing digital audio as well as electronic synthesis and sequencing. In the process we will consider the basics of composition and arranging. No prior experience is required, but more advanced music students are welcome as well. We will all compose our own music in our favorite and other styles! Mornings will be spent in lab class, learning software and techniques, and afternoon sessions will be devoted to individual work on projects/compositions. Each student will have his/her own workstation. There will also be a field trip to a professional recording studio in the area. Come with open ears and a willingness to experiment and play!
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Once the Nativity was set up we noticed a Wise man was missing. We have not seen him since last year, so we had to go on a search for a wise man. Immediately thoughts went to where to find a wise man. They of course turned to the Scoutmaster.
Nope, he was not the wise man they sought, Assistant Scoutmasters on the scene couldn't help either.
Where to find a wise man?
We find wise men in our daily lives. The search for our wise man, while funny, took us to the back of our church where he is currently standing.
A Scout is Reverent. Reverence to our God and the things he created.
It is Christmas time. A time of rebirth in many ways, a time to start over, a time to reflect on the past and look to the future. A time when we take stock in our lives and see what we can do to emulate our Saviour.
God gave Jesus to us as a gift. A gift that ultimately took away the sins of the world. A gift that keeps on giving.
So for just a minute, forget about the malls, the parties, and the over commitment of shopping and dressing up in fancy clothes. Think about why we celebrate Christmas. Give thanks for the birth of Jesus Christ.
Weather you are a believer or not, Jesus Christ, the man, changed our world. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, changed everything! A part of the continued gift.
Merry Christmas and Happy Scouting!
Even without a cessation of war for Christmas, family and friends of the soldiers wanted to make their loved ones' Christmas special. They sent packages filled with letters, warm clothing, food, cigarettes, and medications. Yet what especially made Christmas at the front seem like Christmas were the troves of small Christmas trees.
On Christmas Eve, many German soldiers put up their Christmas trees, decorated with candles, on the parapets of their trenches. Hundreds of Christmas trees lighted the German trenches. The British soldiers could see the lights but it took them a few minutes to figure out what they were from. British lookouts reported the anomalies to their superiors. Could this be a trick? British soldiers were ordered not to fire but to watch them closely. Instead of trickery, the British soldiers heard many of the Germans celebrating.
Time and again during the course of that day, the Eve of Christmas, there were wafted towards us from the trenches opposite the sounds of singing and merry-making, and occasionally the guttural tones of a German were to be heard shouting out lustily, 'A happy Christmas to you Englishmen!' Only too glad to show that the sentiments were reciprocated, back would go the response from a thick-set Clydesider, 'Same to you, Fritz, but dinna o'er eat yourself wi' they sausages!
In other areas, the two sides exchanged Christmas carols.
"They finished their carol and we thought that we ought to retaliate in some way, so we sang 'The first Noël', and when we finished that they all began clapping; and then they struck up another favourite of theirs, 'O Tannenbaum'. And so it went on. First the Germans would sing one of their carols and then we would sing one of ours, until when we started up 'O Come All Ye Faithful' the Germans immediately joined in singing the same hymn to the Latin words 'Adeste Fidéles'. And I thought, well, this was really a most extraordinary thing – two nations both singing the same carol in the middle of a war"

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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Beauty and the Bike Premiere
"Why do British girls stop cycling? By simply asking this basic question, the film reveals the damage that has been done by 50 years of car-centric transport policies. Whilst we fill our lives with debates about risk assessment, cycle helmets, cycle training and marketing strategies to try to persuade people to cycle more, the basic barriers to cycling remain untouched - generous urban planning towards the car, and the resultant poor motorist behaviour towards cyclists. Is it any wonder that most people find cycling unattractive in the UK, but attractive in cycling-friendly towns and cities? It's the infrastructure, stupid!"
Darlington Cycling Campaign has been closely involved in the Beauty and the Bike project, which has already resulted in a successful bid to Bike Hub for funding to expand the Bike Pool established by the film project.
The film is being released on DVD, together with an accompanying book. Details are available on the Beauty and the Bike website.
10 comments:
- Paul Simms said...
What a fantastic film (seen the clip) I'd love to go to the premiere too.
I will link this on my blog, and post it on a cycling forum that I use.
- 10:41 pm, November 22, 2009
Brilliant – Absolutely first class and a credit to all those involved.
How many of these bikes are now "On the road"?
- 10:31 am, November 23, 2009
- Inconvenient Truth said...
Thanks! We've got 14 on the road right now, a waiting list of 12 more, and preparing arrangements with Bike Hub to fund 60 more. Ultimately aim for 100 in Darlington, enough to have a visible impact on a small town.
But as the girls say, they need the infrastructure if this is to succeed. I believe it's called "community partnership" between groups like ourselves and the local authority.
- 10:46 am, November 23, 2009
- Nipper said...
Great short film. I will have to get the DVD when it is out. Will the film be shown on TV?
As you say, it is infrastructure we need, the comment about would you take your family out on a main road was very telling. All the training in the world would not be enough for me to let my small children anywhere near the nutters driving cars and lorries. We are able to go out cycling as a family only because we use separated paths (not just paint but the real paths with physical separation). However due to the lack of suitable paths we sometimes have to ride the pavements.
Good luck in Darlington!
- 4:00 pm, November 24, 2009
- Tim Beadle said...
You can hear a voice near the end, saying "Oi! You can't come in here with those bicycles" or similar. What was going on there?
(Great project, by the way)
- 12:45 pm, November 25, 2009
- Inconvenient Truth said...
It was the guy at the door of the conference building - but he later said it was for a bit of fun....we thought we should keep it in.
- 12:47 pm, November 25, 2009
Attracted the attention of the Guardian newspaper cycling blog:-
A tadge negative in parts which supprised me.
- 12:19 pm, November 27, 2009
- Inconvenient Truth said...
They've come back and apologised. They realised they hadn't actually seen the film before writing, and will now hopefully rectify by doing a proper review.
- 12:22 pm, November 27, 2009
- 1:05 pm, November 27, 2009
- Inconvenient Truth said...
Good review of the film in today's Northern Echo, though not yet online.
The premiere is now sold out, but anyone wanting to see the film tonight can always attend the 8.30 screening.
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Spend your evening enjoying live entertainment provided by local artists and musicians such as Project Genesis and Tye Dye Rhymes. Local director Stephen Massar will present his short film, America Street, starring Tyler "Tye Dye" Davidson and Rico Orr. After the showing and performances, stay at King Dusko for the Silent City Sounds' silent disco. King Dusko, 451 King St. Friday, 8pm. $3. (843)603-3274, www.kingdusko.com


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I'd like to thank all those who have certified me oh so long ago, back before the time where I forgot about this account.
I'm starting up an article, called Bloat, about how bloated and clunky software is. I suppose I'll make diary posts and work on SVTK in the mean time. Please excuse the unkempt, unproofread nature of this entry.
While I ponder this, I'm working on an object oriented framework in Objective-C, SVTK. This framework will be pretty bloated itself I guess; but I'll still make it well made. We're talking about 44 inherant bytes in the base SVObject; plus two pthreads_key_t and two pthread_mutex_t locks gotten with malloc(), however big those are.
NOTE: All numbers ahead are approximate and qualitative; do not take them as actual statistics. I gathered approximations with a few testcases and `time`.
The need for this mass comes from my need to support fault recovery. The overhead from this should be low (very low). Let's tally:
-retain -lock swizzle lock (8) -lock retain lock (6) -incriment retain value (1/2) -unlock retain lock (6) if(in_threaded_mode) (2) -read specific key (4) -incriment value (1/2) -unlock swizzle lock (8) Total cost: 35 Thread safety costs: 12 Swizzle safety costs: 16 Fault tolerance costs: 6.5
We'll call (j = k) temporally 1, so the numbers above are in relation to how long it takes to do (j = k), approximately.
Outside threaded mode, locks are cheap. Also, with swizzling disabled permenantly on an object, the swizzle locking is cheapened due to lack of need. The new calculations are as follows:
-retain -lock swizzle lock (2) -lock retain lock (2) -incriment retain value (1/2) -unlock retain lock (2) if(in_threaded_mode) (2) -read specific key (0) (not executed) -incriment value (0) (not executed) -unlock swizzle lock (2) Total cost: 10.5 Thread safety costs: 4 Swizzle safety costs: 4 Fault tolerance costs: 2
These numbers aren't achievable in a threaded environment; because real locks are used when threaded, the thread safety cost becomes 12; fault tolerance becomes 7.5; total becomes 25.
In truth, I'm going to have to sacrifice the equivalence of 12 lines of (j = k) to be thread safe, 16 if you want to be able to swizzle an object, and 6.5 to clean up after faults in the program. This is a total of 34.5 simple assignments; 22.5 in members that don't need to do special locking (this will be most members).
This isn't including message passing overhead. It's also based around simple, single-assignment lines of code; the line, if (my_field == anArg->field), is probably ~5-7 on this scale. Also, these estimates are extremely arbitrary anyway, and give no accurate measure of how much overhead I'll be adding to do this.
This is complex shite. I supply this all to make the programmer's life simpler. The actual swizzling process that these facilitate is a major operation with a lot of overhead, which would likely be impossible to actually code above the framework.
Let's finish up with fault tolerance. The fault tolerance stuff is there to make sure that if a thread is killed off--or whenever a thread ends really--it will attempt to release retained objects and unlock held locks. It costs a menial level of overhead; but it does one magical thing: It prevents memory leaks and deadlocking.
Deadlocking is when a program encounters a blocking lock which is held by a thread which is either itself waiting for that lock to unblock, or which has ceased to run. In either of these situations, the body of code having locked the lock is no longer executing; and thus, the lock can never be unlocked. Any code encountering this lock will deadlock, and never continue.
My threading object will take a void*(*function)(void*) function pointer and the void* argument as arguments to create a thread. It will encase these in a structure, and pass that structure and a pointer to the condestructor for threading to the pthread_create() function (or whatever native equivalent there is).
The condestructor will de-encapsulate the structure it is passed and execute the initializer with the argument. Upon return, it will release all local autorelease pools and then return whatever the initializer function returned.
In the event of a memory leak or deadlock scenario, such as when an exception terminates a thread, the condestructor will be either returned to during this state OR called with NULL as the argument. In the latter case, it will simply proceed through to releasing the autorelease pools and then return an error.
Once the autorelease pools are free, we can proceed to release retained objects and unlock held locks in any order we please. This will have the pleasant effect of ensuring that excessive releasing will not occur from releasing objects and then letting autorelease pools re-release them; and at the same time releasing objects that are retained by the thread. It will also unlock held locks, allowing other threads waiting on those locks to continue.
I am pondering adding an sv_trash() to put data in a thread-local "trash bin" which upon thread termination is emptied. This would facilitate avoidance of memory leaking from regular malloc()ed data.
Ah well. I should shut up now. This post is poorly written and covers much of just me talking to myself. :)


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Just stumbled across this statistic:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...cmp=latestnewsThe COLA also affects benefits for more than 3 million disabled veterans, about 2.5 million federal retirees and their survivors and more than 8 million people who get Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for the poor.
It is no wonder that the system is going broke ... intended for retirees, most coverage goes to non-retirees. And we have just been reading about how much fraud there is in SSI claims.
I really question whether it includes food, transportation, energy and medical care! I am astonished all the time by the increase in the cost of certain items in the grocery store. Isn't everyone always griping about the increases in the cost of health care? Maybe recreation cost has gone down because fewer people can afford any? Cost of homes may have decreased, but rents continue to rise.By law, the cost-of-living adjustment is based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W, a broad measure of consumer prices generated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It measures price changes for food, housing, clothing, transportation, energy, medical care, recreation and education.


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Family: Fringillidae, Finches view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has bright pinkish red plumage overall, palest and grayest on belly and flanks. Dark wings have two broad white wing bars; tail is blackish. ADULT FEMALE Has streaked, dull olive-yellow plumage overall, but dark wings show similar pattern to male. JUVENILE Brownish and heavily streaked, paler below than above; wing bars are less distinct than on adult. First-year male recalls adult male but red elements of plumage are bright pinkish yellow. First-year female is similar to adult female.
Dimensions Length: 6-6 1/2" (15-17 cm)
Habitat Fairly common resident of northern coniferous forests, especially favoring larch and spruce. Occurrence is hard to predict: wanders in search of ripe cones.
Observation Tips Feeding flocks can be hard to find.
Range Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, New England, Western Canada, Great Lakes, Northwest, Rocky Mountains, Eastern Canada, Plains, Alaska, Southwest
Voice Song is a series of vibrating trills and whistles; flight call is a sharp chip-chip.
Discussion Cross-tipped mandibles and bold white wing bars make for easy recognition (wing bars are much more striking than on variant Red Crossbill). Forms roving flocks outside breeding season. Sexes are dissimilar.


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Student entrepreneurs present business plans, April 21
Posted April 19, 2001; 12:15 a.m.
The Princeton Entrepreneurship Club will sponsor its Third Annual Business Plan Contest Saturday, April 21.
Ten teams will compete for a total of $10,000 in cash prizes. Four finalists selected during a morning competition will present their plans in a public session beginning at 1 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. Thirteen venture capitalists and entrepreneurs -- more than half of them Princeton alumni -- will judge the event.
For more information about the contest or how to become involved, contact Adrienne Clark '02, co-director of the contest, at (609) 986-8189 or firstname.lastname@example.com . Or visit the club's web site at Entrepreurship Club .
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Quote from: ruvy on Jan 09, 2013, 10:58 amHi all,is there a simple way in the setup to recognize if a led is connected on a digital out?Thanks for any hints,RudiNo, there is no easy or indeed difficult way to do this.
Hi all,is there a simple way in the setup to recognize if a led is connected on a digital out?Thanks for any hints,Rudi
What are you trying to do Rudi ?
Heres a plan that might work to see if your sensor box is plugged in :-If you run the LED from an Analog pin , which is set to input, and high ( so as to set its pullup resistor ) you could then AnalogRead the voltage on the pin.If there is no LED to ground you will get 5v, but if the LED ( red?) is connected you will see 2v.The LED will probably glow from the current of the pull-up resistor, but once you have established the LED is there, you can switch the pin back to output to turn on the LED when you want.
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Chapel rededication service planned, Feb. 10
Posted January 31, 2002; 01:55 p.m.
The University Chapel will be rededicated in a service at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10.
Since February 2000, workers have been restoring the stained glass windows and repointing and repairing the stonework and masonry. The project was completed in December.
Leading the service will be the Rev. Thomas Breidenthal, who recently came to Princeton as dean of religious life and dean of the chapel. The service, which will include orchestral and choral music, will be followed by a reception in Murray-Dodge.
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Interview: Meshuggah Discuss Their New Album, 'Koloss'
It's 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, and Sunset Boulevard is filled with the type of scenery native to few places outside of West Hollywood: groups of guys with fancy jeans, designer shoes and artfully mussed hair, and packs of tanned girls in impossibly short skirts, high heels and tiny tops are bouncing from bar to bar, indulging in the Cinco de Mayo festivities.
Guitar World is witnessing this roving party from the outdoor deck of the House of Blues, a several-story, faux-ramshackle building fashioned in the style of old tin-roof blues shacks. We can't help but laugh at the reactions of the shiny, happy people of L.A. as they attempt to navigate past the growing mass of shaggy, black-clad metal acolytes that are lined up in front of the venue. While the passersby may be on the hunt for tequila and tacos, the concert crowd has come out for some decidedly heavier fare: Meshuggah, Sweden's leaders of technical groove metal, who are at the House of Blues tonight to perform in support of their newly released seventh album, Koloss.
"Do you know tonight is Cinco de Mayo and the supermoon?" asks Fredrik Thordendal, as he steps out onto the deck. The Meshuggah guitarist has just been informed that, by some twist of astrological fate, the group's show not only falls on Cinco de Mayo—the hard-partying holiday on which people of all ethnic backgrounds celebrate Mexican culture—but also aligns with a cosmic phenomenon in which the full moon is at its closest point to the Earth, causing it to appear significantly larger and brighter than usual. To Thordendal and his bandmates—co-guitarist Mårten Hagström, vocalist Jens Kidman, bassist Dick Lövgren and drummer Tomas Haake—the synchronism is alarming. Says the guitarist, "It's gonna be crazy!"
Which is appropriate, given the occasion. When Meshuggah unleash their live musical juggernaut on even the most inauspicious of days, it's like witnessing an elemental force of nature—a sublime convergence of down-tuned eight-string guitars, relentlessly creative rhythmic propulsion and brilliantly savage energy. Meshuggah's power and influence within the extreme metal scene is undeniable.Witness the popularity of the metal subgenre known as "djent": the movement, which includes bands like Periphery and Animals as Leaders, takes its name from the vocal approximation of the sound produced by Thordendal and Hagström's high-gain, palm-muted guitar work.
So with the stars lining up, a sci-fi–worthy moon floating on the night's horizon, and Meshuggah poised to deliver a one-and-a-half hour set to a fanatical sold-out crowd, one can only imagine what form of creation, or perhaps chaos, is about to be unleashed. Guitar World has been given exclusive access to this evening's proceedings to shadow Meshuggah, get the story behind Koloss—their most accessible, grooving album to date—and document what happens when a Swedish metal band and its horde of fans overtake West Hollywood.
The strange scene begins to unfold a few hours earlier at load-in amid a cloud of burning rubber and the arrival of a tow truck that, like the rising moon, is bizarrely oversized.
2 p.m.Load-In
When the bus carrying Meshuggah pulls up to the side entrance of the House of Blues, the group finds that the bus belonging to opening band Baroness is stuck on the nearly 30-degree incline and is partially blocking the load-in area.
In an unfortunate miscalculation, Baroness' driver has pulled too close to a barrier at the end of the incline and is desperately trying to correct the situation by backing up the hill. But because the angle is so steep, the bus can't gain enough traction to reverse, and with every attempt the vehicle skids closer to colliding with, and most likely destroying, some massive concrete planters. After a few headshakes and eye-rolls, Meshuggah's techs jump to the task of off-loading road cases filled with racks of guitars, drums and amps, as well as the elaborate stage props and lighting setup, while the band makes its way into the venue. The techs complete the task just as a massive tractor-trailer tow truck—the biggest we've ever seen—arrives to extract Baroness' bus.
We head inside the House of Blues and navigate through its many anterooms until we stumble upon Meshuggah's third-floor dressing room, where Thordendal and Hagström are settling in. The two guitarists are visions of Nordic pedigree: tall, massive men with strong features and long dark hair. It's not a jump to imagine we're meeting a pair of ancient Vikings—just swap out the eight-strings for battle-axes and you're almost there. The guys might cast an imposing shadow, but within minutes of exchanging hellos, it's apparent that they are exceedingly accommodating and gracious hosts, and very excited about tonight's show.
For this evening's gig, Meshuggah will be delivering an epic set that draws from nearly every stage of technically intoxicating metal in their 25-year career, including Koloss. They'll also be unveiling their recently reinvigorated live act, which features an over-the-top theatrical light show and larger-than-life presentations of the album's cerebral, tripped-out artwork.
"We've been talking for a while about how we wanted to incorporate a better light show and better scrims with a really good set," Hagström says as he takes a seat in the dressing room and prepares to film a demo for his new Ibanez M8M guitar. "At this point in our career, we have the catalog for it and we had the time to make some good informed decisions about the presentation. It feels really inspiring to deliver something better."
Along with debuting four new tracks—"I Am Colossus," "Demiurge," "Do Not Look Down" and "The Hurt That Finds You First"—the guys will be treating fans to some lesser-performed gems, like "Dancers to a Discordant System," from 2008's obZen, and a 15-minute excerpt from their 2005 concept albu Catch Thirtythree. "We decided to challenge ourselves and think about what songs we hadn't played that we'd like to," Hagström says. "We've never been this organized with a set list. The first four tracks are right after each other, and then we have a break. We ordered it so that it allows us to have natural breaks and an up-and-down flow to the set. It challenged us, but we're having a lot of fun playing it."
This tour also marks the first time that the entire band is using in-ear monitors with a click track, allowing each member to hear the song lead-in counts while offering no audible preparation for the audience. So when out of nowhere Meshuggah launch into one of their crushing grooves, it's like getting dropped into a stampede of elephants. "We were a little nervous because of all the technology coming into play," Hagström admits. "But we also feel like we're finally doing it properly. We were really out to structure the dynamics and go for a thought-out show with a good overall vibe."
As Hagström waits for the Ibanez crew to set up the cameras for the demo, he gives us the rundown of the new production-model M8M. The eight-string was modeled after the custom-shop guitars Ibanez created for Meshuggah eight years ago, which have since become Hagström and Thordendal's workhorses. Thordendal sent his original to an Ibanez factory in Japan, where luthiers cataloged every spec of the custom guitar, including the Lundgren Model M8 pickup, alder body, and 29.4-inch maple/bubinga through-neck. When the guitarists received the first M8M prototypes, they were unexpectedly surprised by the results. "It's basically the same guitar, but for some reason they are actually a little better than our original custom-shop versions," Thordendal says. "Which is really weird, because usually it's the other way around."
We stay for the first few takes of Hagström's demo, then retreat downstairs to the bar for a little refreshment.
Meshuggah Live at L.A.'s House of Blues
Guitar tech Kent Eriksson with Thordendal and Hagstrom's custom Ibanez Iceman eight-strings (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
Setlist (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
A rack of Fractal Axe-FX Ultras (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
Meshuggah's road cases (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
Marten Hagstrom (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
Fredrik Thordendal (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
Marten Hagstrom (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
Meshuggah (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
Marten Hagstrom & Fredrik Thordendal (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
Meshuggah soundcheck (photo by Jimmy Hubbard)
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Note: Most user interface tasks can be performed in Edge Classic or the New Edge experience. For an overview, getting started topics, and release notes specific to the New Edge experience, see the docs.
Use Java to customize an API
This cookbook topic shows how to implement a policy that executes Java code in the context of an API proxy flow.
This feature may not be available in all Edge plans. To see which pricing plan includes this feature, see https://apigee.com/about/pricing/apigee-edge-pricing-features.
For the supported versions of Java, see Supported software.
Download and try out the sample code
Sample code: We recommend that you download and try out this topic's sample code from Github. The sample is called java-cookbook, which you can find in the doc-samples folder in the Apigee Edge API Services samples repository in Github. For information on downloading Apigee Edge samples, see Using the sample API proxies.
Instructions for deploying and calling the API are provided in the README file that comes with the sample. You can also find brief deployment instructions here: Deploying and testing samples.
About this cookbook example
Apigee Edge provides a range of out-of-the-box policy capabilities that address common API management requirements. However, there are some cases where your API requires custom behavior that is not implemented in the out-of-the-box policy palette. In these cases, Apigee provides several options that enable developers to script or code customized API behavior. One approach is to implement the desired behavior in Java.
This topic illustrates how to create a simple JavaCallout policy that executes your custom Java code within the context of a proxy flow. Java code can examine or manipulate any aspect of the request or response message, and can raise faults, or set or retrieve context variables. The Java code in this example is simple: it reads a query parameter from the inbound API request, performs a simple lookup, and the modifies the in-flight HTTP request by inserting a new query parameter. This modified request is the one that will eventually be sent to the backend target. In this case, the backend API called by the proxy is the Yahoo Weather API.
The proxy is called like this:
The Java code executes in the ProxyEndPoint of the proxy flow. It maps the city name that is passed in as a query parameter to a location id (or WOEID) for that city. At this point, the execution of the Java callout completes. (See! Told you it was simple.) Control then transfers out of the Java code to the proxy flow. Later, the proxy calls the Yahoo Weather API with that WOEID. The API then returns weather information for the city.
While this example shows Java code mediating the inbound Request, Java code can also be used to inspect or modify the Response. This example does not cover that, but the approach is similar.
After working with this cookbook example, you will understand how to implement, compile, and deploy custom Java code for a proxy.
- Most system calls are disallowed. For example, you cannot perform local network I/O, or filesystem reads or writes. The callout cannot get information about the current process, the process list, or CPU/memory utilization on the machine. Although some such calls may be functional, they are unsupported and liable to be actively disabled at any time. For forward compatibility, you should avoid making such calls in your code.
- Reliance on Java libraries that are included with Apigee Edge is not supported, though Apigee Java Callout samples may use them purely to make them work as non-production illustrations. Those libraries are for Edge product functionality only, and there's no guarantee that a library will be available from release to release.
Before you begin
Before you explore this cookbook example, you should also be familiar with these fundamental concepts:
- What policies are and how to attach them to proxies. For a good introduction to policies, see Policy attachment and enforcement.
- The structure of a proxy flow, as explained in Flow configurations. Flows let you specify the sequence in which policies are executed by an API proxy. In this example, several policies are created and added to the proxy's flow.
- How a proxy project is organized on your filesystem, as explained in API proxy configuration reference.
- A working knowledge of Java.
If you have downloaded the sample code, you can locate all of the files discussed in this topic in the mashup-policy-cookbook sample folder. The following sections discuss the sample code in detail.
Going with the flow
Before moving to the JavaCallout policy and Java code, let's take a look a the main flow of our example proxy. The flow XML, shown below, tells us a lot about this proxy and how the JavaCallout policy is called.
In the sample download, you can find this XML in the file doc-samples/java-cookbook/apiproxy/proxies/default.xml.
<ProxyEndpoint name="default"> <HTTPProxyConnection> <BasePath>java-cookbook</BasePath> <Properties/> <VirtualHost>default</VirtualHost> </HTTPProxyConnection> <FaultRules> <FaultRule name="MissingCityName"> <Condition>fault.name = "ExecutionReturnedFailure"</Condition> <Step> <Name>Fault.MissingCityName</Name> </Step> </FaultRule> </FaultRules> <Flows> <Flow name="forecast"> <Condition>(proxy.pathsuffix ~/ "/forecastrss") and (request.verb = "GET")</Condition> <!-- for every request lookupCityName policy --> <Request> <!-- Java extension--> <Step> <Name>cityLookUp</Name> </Step> </Request> <Response/> </Flow> </Flows> <RouteRule name="default"> <TargetEndpoint>default</TargetEndpoint> </RouteRule> </ProxyEndpoint>
Here's a summary of the flow's elements.
Note: This is a ProxyEndpoint flow. The ProxyEndpoint configuration defines the inbound (app-facing) interface for an API proxy. When you configure a ProxyEndpoint, you define how apps invoke the proxied API.
- <Request> - The <Request> element consists of several <Step> elements. Each step calls one of the policies that we'll create through the rest of this topic. These policies are concerned with creating a request message, sending it, and parsing the response. By the end of this topic, you'll understand the role of each of these policies.
- <Response> - The <Response> element also includes <Steps>. These steps also call policies that are responsible for processing the final response from the target endpoint (the Google Elevation API).
- <HttpProxyConnection> - Specifies details about how apps will connect to this API proxy, including the <BasePath>, which specifies how this API will be called.
- <RouteRule> - This element specifies what happens immediately after the inbound request messages are processed. In this case, the TargetEndpoint is called. We'll discuss more about this important step later in this topic.
Referencing the Java class in a JavaCallout policy
Before we take a look at the Java implementation, let's see how to reference a Java class (or classes) in a policy. In this cookbook sample, there is a policy called cityLookup.xml. You can find it in the standard policies directory inside the apiproxy folder. If you downloaded the code, you can find the policy XML here: doc-samples/java-cookbook/apiproxy/policies/cityLookup.xml.
<JavaCallout name="cityLookUp"> <ClassName>com.apigeesample.CityLookup</ClassName> <ResourceURL>java://CityLookup.jar</ResourceURL> </JavaCallout>
This is a very simple, straightforward policy! Besides a name for the policy (cityLookup), the policy configuration specifies the name of the Java class, and a JAR file. As you might expect, the class file must be available in the the JAR.
If you refer back to the flow, you will note that the cityLookup policy is called in the <Request> stage of the ProxyEndpoint. This means that the Java class is executed at that stage in the flow.
Some additional notes about class loading and activation: Edge creates one instance of your callout class per deployed proxy revision, in each Java Virtual Machine. (You should aware that the Edge runtime is multi-node and distributed, which means there will be multiple Java VMs running your code concurrently. Each inbound request is handled by one of those Java VMs.) The callout is loaded via its own Java classloader. When you undeploy the API Proxy, all of your code and its context gets garbage-collected, unless your code does something unusual to prevent that.
Let's look at the Java class next, and then at how it is compiled, packaged, and deployed.
Coding the Java class
This example Java class is deliberately simple and trivial. However, it illustrates some fundamental concepts common to any Java code that is executed through a JavaCallout policy.
In the sample download, you can find this Java source file in doc-samples/java-cookbook/java/src/com/apigeesample/CityLookup.java.
The package name prefixes
com.apigee.* and
io.apigee.* are reserved. To avoid collisions and errors, don't use these in your Java Callout package names.
package com.apigeesample; import com.apigee.flow.execution.ExecutionContext; import com.apigee.flow.execution.ExecutionResult; import com.apigee.flow.execution.spi.Execution; import com.apigee.flow.message.MessageContext; public class CityLookup implements Execution{ public ExecutionResult execute(MessageContext messageContext, ExecutionContext executionContext) { try { int w = 0; String cityName = messageContext.getMessage().getQueryParam("city").toUpperCase(); if (cityName.equals("MILAN")) w=718345; else if (cityName.equals("ROME")) w=721943; else if (cityName.equals("VENICE")) w=725746; if(w>0) { messageContext.getRequestMessage().setQueryParam("w", w); } else { // default to Villafranca di Verona, Italy messageContext.getRequestMessage().setQueryParam("w", 20148584); } return ExecutionResult.SUCCESS; } catch (Exception e) { return ExecutionResult.ABORT; } } }
The most important things to remember about this Java implementation are:
- Imports classes from the com.apigee.flow.execution and com.apigee.flow.message packages. These packages must be included in the JAR file that is packaged and deployed. For information on uploading Java JARs, see Resource files and Java Callout policy. In the cookbook sample download, you can find these packages in doc-samples/java-cookbook/lib.
- Implements Execution. Any Java code that is executed within an API proxy must implement Execution.
Brief detour: error handling
The execute() method in our Java class throws an exception if it can't recognize the city query parameter (only three Italian city names are valid: Milan, Venice, and Rome). On error, the method returns an ExectionResult.ABORT status. To handle this error situation, we added a RaiseFault policy to the flow. If you refer back to the proxy flow shown previously, you will see that this policy, called Fault.MissingCityName, is added to the policy's <FaultRules> element.
Here is the policy XML. If you downloaded the sample code from Github, you can find this policy XML here: doc-samples/java-cookbook/apiproxy/policies/Fault.MissingCityName.xml.
<RaiseFault name="Fault.MissingCityName"> <IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>false</IgnoreUnresolvedVariables> <FaultResponse> <Set> <Payload contentType="application/xml"> <error> <httpResponseCode>409</httpResponseCode> <errorCode>error_409</errorCode> <errorMessage>Missing City Name in Query Parameter</errorMessage> <errorMoreInfo>Valid cities are venice, milan, and rome. </errorMoreInfo> </error> </Payload> <StatusCode>409</StatusCode> <ReasonPhrase>Conflict</ReasonPhrase> </Set> </FaultResponse> </RaiseFault>
The policy simply sets an error code and provides information about the error. This information is sent to the client. You can read more about the structure of RaiseFault policies in Raise Fault policy.
Specifying the default target endpoint
Our final task is to specify the Yahoo Weather API URL on the proxy's TargetEndPoint. If you downloaded the code, you can find the policy XML here: doc-samples/java-cookbook/apiproxy/targets/default.xml. Here is the source code:
<TargetEndpoint name="default"> <HTTPTargetConnection> <Properties/> <URL>http://weather.yahooapis.com/</URL> </HTTPTargetConnection> </TargetEndpoint>
Testing the example
Before you can deploy and test this sample, you must first compile the CityLookup.java class and generate a JAR file that contains that class plus the required packages that the custom class requires. The required libraries—which are for local compilation only (they are available in the Edge runtime)—are
expressions-1.0.0.jar and
message-flow-1.0.0.jar, and they are located in the doc-samples/java-cookbook/lib folder.
If you have not already done so, try to download, deploy, and run the java-cookbook sample, which you can find in the doc-samples folder in the Apigee Edge API Services samples repository on Github. Just follow the instructions in the README file in the java-cookbook folder.
To summarize, you can call the API as follows. Substitute {myorg} with your organization name. This example assumes you are using the test environment.
curl http://{myorg}-test.apigee.net/java-cookbook/forecastrss?city=venice
The response includes weather information for Venice in XML format. Here are the first few lines of the response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:yweather="http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"> <channel> <title>Yahoo! Weather - Venice, IT</title> <link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weather/Venice__IT/*http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/ITXX0085_f.html</link> <description>Yahoo! Weather for Venice, IT</description> <language>en-us</language> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 3:54 pm CET</lastBuildDate> <ttl>60</ttl> <yweather:location city="Venice" region="VN" country="Italy"/> <yweather:units temperature="F" distance="mi" pressure="in" speed="mph"/> <yweather:wind chill="46" direction="" speed="" /> <yweather:atmosphere humidity="76" visibility="3.73" pressure="29.85" rising="0" /> <yweather:astronomy sunrise="7:35 am" sunset="4:26 pm"/> ...
Remember that the Java class is hard-wired to recognize only Venice, Milan, and Rome. Try invoking the API with a city that is not in this list, like Sacremento.
curl http://{myorg}-test.apigee.net/java-cookbook/forecastrss?city=sacramento
This call results in an error and the JavaCallout policy follows it's Fault path. The resulting message returned is generated by the RaiseFault policy, discussed previously:
<error> <httpResponseCode>409</httpResponseCode> <errorCode>error_409</errorCode> <errorMessage>Missing City Name</errorMessage> <errorMoreInfo>Provide a city parameter in the querystring e.g. city=venice</errorMoreInfo> </error>
This cookbook topic explained how to use the JavaCallout policy and implement custom Java code using the JavaCallout Java API. While this example showed Java code mediating the inbound Request, Java code can also be used to inspect or modify the Response. We also looked at error handling using the RaiseFault policy.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three suspects charged with setting up a gas explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood and killed two people were ordered Monday to be held without bond.
A Marion County judge entered not guilty pleas for Monserrate Shirley, her boyfriend Mark Leonard, and his brother, Bob Leonard at their initial hearing. They are charged with murder, arson and other counts in the Nov. 10 blast.
Prosecutors allege the three, who appeared in court in orange jail jumpsuits and handcuffs, rigged the massive gas blast at Shirley's house so they could collect a big insurance payout.
Shirley, 47, was facing mounting financial woes, including $63,000 in credit card debt and bankruptcy proceedings, court documents say. And a friend of Mark Leonard's told investigators that Leonard said he had lost about $10,000 at a casino some three weeks before the explosion. A probable cause affidavit says Shirley filed for bankruptcy this year but stopped making her court-arranged payments. The home's original loan was for $116,000 and a second mortgage was taken out on the home for $65,000, the affidavit says.
Mark Leonard told the judge that he couldn't pay for an attorney because all his cash was inside Shirley's house when it blew up, leaving him with about $500 in a checking account.
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The judge appointed public defenders for the Leonards.
Randall Cable, Shirley's attorney, didn't address the charges at the hearing Monday and didn't speak with reporters afterward.
The fiery blast destroyed five homes, including Shirley's, and damaged dozens of others in the Richmond Hill subdivision in the far south side of the city. The explosion killed Shirley's next-door neighbors, John Dion Longworth, a 34-year-old electronics expert, and his 36-year-old wife, second-grade teacher Jennifer Longworth.
Several of Shirley's neighbors and relatives of the Longworths were among about 25 members of the public who attended the hearing.
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McFarland also had eight assists without a turnover.
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We hear good things about Salsarita's but don't get your hopes up yet.
Important to note from the press release – this is a five year plan and no sites have been secured. The developer says he wants to open two locations in North Mississippi next year and Tupelo might be on the list.
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Sun-Kai to have buffet AND menu ordering on final day
Sorry, Sun-Kai fans, but Tupelo's oldest Chinese restaurant is still on schedule to close on Saturday, Dec. 22.
Biz Buzz dropped by on Friday to get some sweet and sour shrimp and the Four Happiness, and we were told the restaurant will have its first and only buffet on Dec. 22 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
But because a lot of loyal customers said not all their favorites could possibly be on the buffet, Sun-Kai will have it's finale from about 3:30 p.m "until" for those who want to order off the menu for one last time.
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I found this report over at FilmForce about the possibility of a GB3. They say there have been scripts but the project seems to be dead. What do you think of the possibility of there being a sequel and what do you think of the Hellbent story?
I was a fan of the first two movies and really enjoyed them, but I'm not to sure about this story, and it won't be the same without Bill Murray who said he wont do another!


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In the wake of the General Service Administration's conference-spending scandal that erupted in April, many more agencies are suddenly under examination for conference costs. The Defense Department may be next on the list of organizations to receive the financial scrutiny, according to CQ.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is asking Pentagon leadership to provide detailed spending information on 64 conferences held in recent years that exceeded the roughly $823,000 price tag of the Las Vegas conference over which GSA was criticized. The Veterans Affairs department is facing similar criticisms over two conferences held in Florida in 2011.
In an Aug. 22 letter Issa called on Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to furnish by Sept. 5 further information on a number of specific conferences held by DOD that surpassed the "benchmark" cost of the GSA conference in Las Vegas. Events costing more than GSA's are automatic red flags for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which Issa chairs and which is investigating federal agency conference spending in response to what happened at GSA.
"GSA's 2010 conference in Las Vegas cost taxpayers more than $3,000 per attendee…in other words, it cost more than $500 per attendee, per day for the five-day conference. The committee used these figures…as benchmarks to identify conference held by DOD where wasteful or excessive spending may have occurred," Issa wrote.
Issa went on to specify a list of dozens of DOD conferences that have raised the committee members' suspicions.
"Documents provided by DOD in response to the committee's April 10, 2012 request for information showed the department held 64 conferences for which the cost per person exceeded that of the infamous GSA Western Regions Conference in Las Vegas," he wrote. "As part of the committee's ongoing investigation into government-wide spending on conferences, I request additional information about those conferences."
The conferences in question took place between December 2006 and September 2011. Many were held stateside, including in and near Washington, but others took place overseas in locations like Burkina Faso, Thailand, Belize and various parts of South America and Europe.
DOD isn't the only agency being ordered to produce detailed conference spending data: nine other agencies face the same request to provide details on a total of 89 conferences, according to Federal Times. Among them are the Social Security Administration, U.S. Agency for International Development and the departments of Education, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Interior and Health and Human Services. Those are in addition to the 64 DOD conferences in question.
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Capitol Hill IT modernization champion Will Hurd reintroduced a bill to support the retirement of legacy technology and the shift to cloud and managed services.
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While DOD Conference spending is being targeted, why not look at DOD and Government Contractor spending as a real eye opener of tax payer dollars wasted.....
Rep. Issa is trying to get reelected by attacking the 'wasteful' spending of government agencies. Just because DoD conferences exceeded the GSA conference, doesn't automatically mean they overspent. What he coudl have done is ask all agencies to send a report on the last 2-3 years and show the total costs for conferences attended and breakdowns of how many attended, what the cost per attendee was, exactly what events were being hosted, and other relevant info. Then if it looks like too much was spent, he could ask for more details or go further back. If there are agencies that overspent, dpending on the amount, it could have been unintentional. He should have guidelines written up for budget submissions that show a more detailed breakdown of the amount of money being requested so it can be justified.
Because of the GSA instance, certain persons in Congress are pushing for investigations on the cost of conferences for the last 5-7 years at multiple Government agencies. I'm sure that they 'may' find some cost-abuse or, at least, something to question. However, there are required checks already in place for conference costs. Have those processes been ignored or are the processes working but none of the findings have been news-worthy up until now? Are members of Congress spending more money requiring the agencies to immediately file new type of reporting on all these conferences? Since there was reported only one issue, in one service of one agency, what could be the justification for requiring ALL these agencies to go through an investigative process....could it be election time?
I wonder if Congress will scrutinize itself too. Their pandering amazes me.
I suggest Congressmen be subject to the same public and hyped inspection of their 'conferences' and other boondoggle trips.
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Day 2: I managed to find a couple optimizations. It's almost as if the code is speaking to me! Also, switched to clang 5.1 and got an extra 8% performance boost with the LLVM toolchain. Awesome!
Day 4: My cryptocurrency generation is going quite well! I'm hoping to have enough to pay my tuition at Miskatonic University by the fall term.
Day 9: A quiet scraping noise seems to be coming from one of my hard drives. I should maybe have sprung for SSDs to save my coins.
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Credit Suisse upgraded AutoNation Wednesday, saying the segment bellwether's valuation is attractive given the demand for car parts and services.
AutoNation also reported a 10% increase in June sales wednesday. AutoNation (AN) shares rose 1.7%, to $45.33, in morning trading. The stock is up roughly 18% over the past year, underperforming a cluster of auto-parts-related stocks, but its performance is in line with the the broader market in the same period.
Genuine Parts (GPC), which sells wholesale parts for a host of vehicles, is up 0.55% after a nice jump yesterday. On Tuesday, Ford Motor (F) reported a 13% increase in sales of light cars and trucks. General Motors (GM) reported a 6.5% increase in sales. Ford shares are up nearly a point today, while GM shares were flat.
Credit Suisse raised its rating on AutoNation to Outperform from Neutral, and increased its price target price to $53 from $50, saying "two aspects of the story have changed, making us more bullish." They write:
- "The impending parts and service cycle should translate into meaningful earnings upside. At 40% of gross profits, each incremental point of parts and service comp produces $0.07 of earnings per share. Our recent meeting with management boosts our confidence in the potential strength of the upswing and the resulting profit lift, both of which seem to be underappreciated. … We are raising our '14 estimate to $3.30 (from $3.25) and believe earnings power may be north of $3.70 given the positive profit mix shift from parts and service.
- Second, the stock has relatively underperformed lately and is trading at a valuation low (13 times 2014 estimates). The weakness seems to stem from interest rate concerns, regulatory worries (CFPB)" and share distributions from Eddie Lampert's hedge fund ESL Investments … " issues we believe are overblown."
Billionaire Lampert has been selling AutoNation shares over the past year, noted in this Forbes story, and "further ESL share distributions are an ongoing risk," Credit Suisse says, adding it "would continue to take advantage of them" because of earnings strength. CS says management has balanced share repurchases, acquisitions and investments (a shared service center and e-commerce platform is one example.)
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|From Kid Rock to Paris Hilton, see more of the happiest celebrity police photos.
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|In November 2007, Shia LaBeouf went from savior of the Earth in "Transformers" to intoxicated Walgreens shopper. The actor, who was 21 at the time, allegedly ignored the repeated requests of security guards in a Chicago Walgreens and was then busted for misdemeanor trespassing. Despite his run-in with the law (and the fact that it was around 2:30 a.m.) LaBeouf cracked a goofy grin when it came time for his mugshot, landing him on some "Adorable Celebrity Mugshots" lists.
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|In one of the classiest celebrity arrests in recent memory, musician Kid Rock (né Bob Ritchie) was arrested in 2007 after a Waffle House brawl in Atlanta. Hours after playing a sold-out show, Rock allegedly confronted a restaurant patron who recognized a woman in Rock's group, leading to an exchange of harsh words and then a fight. Rock and five of his entourage members faced misdemeanor charges of simple battery—so then why the smug mugshot grin? Maybe it was because the man he fought with faced a much heavier charge: a felony for smashing one of the restaurant's windows. Rock's smile also lasted through his release the next day, as he signed autographs for fans on his way out of jail.
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|Sporting a flamboyant shirt and a bizarrely trimmed mustache, Mickey Rourke looked blissfully unaware of the trouble he was in when booked for driving a Vespa scooter under the influence in November 2007. The Wrestler star was caught making an illegal U-turn and weaving wildly across a Miami street—and if his smile is any indication, he got quite a kick out of it.
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|With crazy hair and a winning smile, the "godfather of soul" James Brown bared his teeth for the camera (in what was presumably meant to be a smile) for his mugshot in 2004. Brown was charged with domestic violence after allegedly pushing his wife to the ground during an argument at their South Carolina home, leaving her scratched and bruised. The smile comes as part of a tradition of James Brown mugshots—when he was first arrested in 1998, he flashed the camera another (albeit more sane-looking) smile.
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|Paris Hilton is hardly a newcomer to the mugshot scene. Having been arrested a grand total of three times, this heiress turned socialite knows how to work the camera, in and outside of the courtroom. Her most recent offense was in August 2010, when a small bag of cocaine dropped from her purse and landed in front of a police lieutenant, according to the Daily Mail. There's no such thing as bad press…right?
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|Rush Limbaugh has a particular zest for Oxycontin, hydrocodone, and other painkillers. In April 2006, Limbaugh was charged with doctor shopping in an attempt to hoard overlapping prescription pain medications from multiple doctors. After publicly acknowledging his addiction to these drugs, the conservative talk-show host turned himself in to authorities and entered a rehabilitation program. According to his housekeeper, Limbaugh took as many as 30 Oxycontin pills a day. Perhaps that explains this more-than-zealous mugshot.
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|Kimora Lee Simmons, the queen bee of the Baby Phat franchise, was arrested in July 2004 for failing to comply when police requested she pull over while driving her Mercedes Benz. According to CNN, the police pursuit ended after a two-mile chase and the cops eventually finding a small amount of marijuana in Simmons' vehicle. Other misdemeanors include careless driving, tailgating, and having a taillight out. Her then hubby, hip-hop billionaire Russell Simmons immediately cried foul play, arguing the arrest was a result of racial profiling. Whatever the cause, this fashionista is all smiles when it comes to her criminal record.
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|When you hear the words anti-Semitic, sexist, and tirade all in the same sentence, there's only one man who comes to mind. Mel Gibson's infamous screaming match with police occurred after he was pulled over for drunk driving in July 2006. We wonder how he could be smiling after uttering, ""F---ing Jews ... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," according to CBS News. Since then, Gibson pleaded no contest to battery of his baby mama, Oksana Grigorieva, in 2010, when a recording was leaked of what is supposed to be Gibson threatening to abuse and even kill Grigorieva. You keep on winning, Mel.
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|John Edwards was indicted in June 2011 for allegedly using nearly $1 million in illegal campaign funds to help cover up an extramarital affair he had while seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, according to court documents. This shot of Edwards, which features a well-groomed haircut and schoolboy grin, could double as a profile picture for Match.com. Evidently cheating on your cancerous wife, fathering a love child, and allegedly spending lots of dough to cover it all up warrants a smiling face.
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RE:The price performance balancing point
Great perspectives John, I really hope the price points come down soon. I suppose I will always lust after the high end no matter what happens.
One plug: if you haven't already cast the Sage DS2 10wt, try it at the show. It's one of the few 10wt's you could cast for 8-12 hours without requiring rehab afterwards. People notice right away that the 9wt DS2 feels much lighter than some of the stiffer and heavier 9wt's out there, but no one disagrees that it is perfectly matched with the 9wt line. For additional lifting power on boats or for heavier setups, the 10wt DS2 is a great deal for the money at just over $200.
RE:The price performance balancing point
Juro and Gang,
My feeling is that there is a revolution coming in the Flyfishing Industry. People cannot continue to pay 500 to 600 dollars for a rod and 450+ for reels. There is just not an endless supply of folks that can afford that. This is where there is the shift in the industry as some manufacturers recognizrd people will not pay these charges anymore. I know that St. Croix, Redington and others have come out with very good rods, etc...at a better price point for most folks.
Now, here is my personal spin........there is in most cases a difference between rods. I like TandT's and feel for me, the feel the most comfortable for my casting style. The warranty is important, also.
As far as reels go, I think there is a much grayer area.
Is the Redington reels as good as Abels and Tibors ?? If you want to go thru and rip apart the reels you probably see the differences. In the big picture, most likely a $175 reel will perform comparibly with a $550 reel.
End result is to buy the best equipment you can afford and know that it "may" have some limitations. Remember that the equipment is only part of the experience !
RE:The price performance balancing point
I definitely agree on the reel side; rods are a funny thing though. I have three rods, none of which retailed for over $300 and none of which I paid over $140 for (yes I am a bargain hunter). If I didn't know that there were better rods out there I could probably be satisfied with these rods for ever. But, then I fished a couple of "sweeter" rods with friends or guides and realized that i can get greater performance out of some these rods, that happen to cost closer to $500. With a lifetime guarantee, buying an expensive rod is not a bad deal if you amortize the cost over the life of the rod--the trick is finding one that you really love AFTER you have settled into a certain casting style that won't dramatically alter too much.
If I had the chance to cast 20 different rods in a day, and found one that I really loved and that fit my personally style and clearly stood out compared to the rest, I'd have no problem paying top dollar for it. I think the reality is that most people don't get to do this though, and will just naturally adjust their casting style to what ever rod they end up with.
In the end, i think the best deal is what ever rod makes you happy, performs well in most conditions, has a good guarantee, and doesn't constatnly make you wish you had a nicer one--be it $140 or $540... For instance, I have a medium fast, mid flex 10 wt. that is simply the most verstile rod I have ever fished--it throws any sized fly in almost any condition, and still bends enough on a 4 lb schoolie to make catching them fun, but can handle 20lbers. I paid $140 for it and I'll never get rid of it.
Unfortunately for me, I have "outgrown" two of the other rods I have...but they have paid for themselves ten times over already and next time I'll know exactly what I want--and I have a bad feeling it's going to cost me. Now the trick is just trying everything that's out there!
The price performance balancing point
We often talk about the "best deal" in reels and rods. I feel this is at the point where you get something worth keeping for many years, yet you don't need to mortgage the house to get it. For rods and reels, I feel this is at the $200-$300 range for each item on average. For instance, the Redington reels, Orvis Battenkill L/A, Teton, Lamson, Old Florida, etc. Rods: Sage DS2, the new Scott, St.Croix, Redington, Diamondback Backwater, Loomis GL3, etc.
This is a tough recommendation to make, although I always tend to make it to save people from buying 6 or more setups that are quickly obsoleted by the owner. I feel a wise investment level price is $400-600 dollars, where less will require upgrade and more is prestige.
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Thread: 6 month old doesn't enjoy solids
15th November 2012 05:01 PM #1
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6 month old doesn't enjoy solids
My 6 month old daughter hates eating solids. Should I force her or do I just wait for a couple of months and try again?
18th November 2012 05:37 AM #2
Hi Maria,
My babies weren't interested in solids until they were at least 8 months old. I even had one that wasn't interested until she was one.
I would not be concerned because she will get all the nutrition she needs from breast milk or formula until she is one year old. Food should be fun for her (even like play) until she is one, at which time the milk will still be a large part of her diet, and then will gradually taper off until she is getting the bulk of her nutrition from solids.
There is an excellent book called "Baby Led Weaning" and we have discussed this a lot in the forums. Here's a great video showing you how Baby Led Weaning works. This baby is 6 months old.
18th November 2012 02:39 PM #3
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Thanks Kate!
18th November 2012 04:41 PM #4
I agree with Kate, only one of my four was interested in solids that early. During the first year of life, food is more for practice than actual nutrition. Your baby should get everything they need nutritionally speaking from breastmilk or formula. The addition of food is fine, but it is not anything to stress about. Your little one may not be developmentally ready for solids and pushing them on her will do little good for anyone.
18th November 2012 10:42 PM #5
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Hi Angela! It's such a relief knowing that it's nothing to stress about. Thanks