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Annotations have become a popular mechanism in PHP to add metadata to your source code in a simple fashion. Their benefits are clear: They are easy to write and simple to understand. Editors offer increasing support for auto-completing and auto-importing annotations. But there are also various counter-arguments: Annotations are written in documentation blocks, which may be removed from packaged code. Also, they are coupled to the source code. Whenever an annotation is changed, the project needs to be rebuilt. This is desirable in some, but not in other cases.
For these reasons, Symfony always committed to supporting annotations, XML and YAML at the same time – and with the same capabilities – to let our users choose whichever format is appropriate to configure the metadata of their projects. But could we take this one step further? Could we build, for example, XML support directly into the Doctrine annotation library?
Last week, I read a post by Beau Simensen about resource location in PHP. It was interesting, because I had already pondered over this topic in the context of Symfony2. Thinking about how to make Beau's proposal work for Symfony2 brought me to a result that hit me like a stone. Both he and Amy Stephen made me realize how much this could change not just Symfony2, but the PHP ecosystem as a whole. After PSR-0 and Composer, this is the next important step to ensure interoperability between PHP libraries. And it could almost completely replace the new and hotly debated autoloading PSR. Let me take a few minutes of your time to explain why.
Recently, Aura is creating some buzz that components of PHP frameworks should not have any dependencies. To quote Paul M. Jones' recent article on Aura:
The distinction is that all Aura packages (with the exception of the Framework package) are completely independent, and have no cross-package dependencies, whereas at least some of the components from Symfony2 and ZF2 have dependency requirements.
Or, quoting this article on replacing Silex with Aura.Micro:
I was recently working on a small project that used Silex. As I browsed my vendor folder, I realized how much extra "stuff" I had inherited with Silex. There were a bunch of other components required when all I wanted was some quick and easy routing, micro-framework style.
I think this needs some urgent clarification before this way of thinking becomes mainstream and PHP creeps back into its NIH-hole.
Every once in a while, I get into an argument about extending PHP's
Traversable interface instead of the
Iterator interface in custom interfaces. The confusion seems to result from the official documentation of
Traversable. Let me clarify why you should give
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You are joining the Symfony Live conference in San Francisco this year? Good! I will be giving a talk about the Symfony2 Form component and you have the unique opportunity to vote on what I will be presenting. Today I have put up a survey with 23 topics that may find their way into my talk. These topics include questions such as:
- How can I access the entity in buildForm()? I want to customize my form based on some property.
- How do I create a collection field with JavaScripts to add/remove rows?
- There are so many events, when should I use which one?
Which of these topics I will present is entirely up to you. So please take the survey and help me improve your experience of my talk. Oh, and if you take the survey there will be a prize, and a raffle, and one very lucky person… :)
You aren't joining the conference in San Francisco? Then I also warmly invite you to participate in the survey. Pretty much one year after the first release of Symfony 2.0 and shortly before the release of version 2.1, we are eager to learn what our users are happy about, what they struggle with and what they would like to see improved, both in the usability and the documentation of the Form component. Unfortunately, you won't be able to participate in the raffle during the conference, but your feedback will tremendously help us to improve future releases of the framework and its documentation.
Symfony2 features a brand-new Form component that, to my knowledge, supersedes most existing PHP form libraries in functionality and extensibility (not counting the still lacking, native JavaScript support). It has been in development for two years, even though I was already thinking about it since 2009 and earlier. It is becoming more and more stable recently, with a first completely stable release expected for Symfony 2.2.
This post was partially triggered by the release of the new Zend Framework 2 Form RFC because I think that a lot of duplicated effort is going on there. I completely understand that Zend Framework 2 needs a form layer that is tailored to the components delivered by the framework. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate that the Symfony2 Form component is perfectly suited for this requirement. Symfony2-specific functionality can be unplugged, leaving only the raw core dealing with form processing and abstraction. As a replacement, functionality can be developed for supporting Zend's or any other framework's components.
Creating a generic form library that elegantly solves all the various use-cases that can be found in web form construction and processing has been a challenging, long-lasting and complex task that is not over yet. Cooperating and continuing development from this common base on seems like a big chance to make form handling in PHP more powerful – and easier – than it has ever been before.
Stumbling over a post in the symfony-users list I wrote down some information on how we manage mobile sites in our ullright platform:
There's an old blog post about creating an symfony iPhone view:
Most of it is still valid and it works.
But there is one serious drawback: You have to provide a mobile template for each action.
That's why we created a tiny patch to provide a fallback to normal templates in case there is no special mobile one.
Here are the required parts:
Mobile detection: This belongs into your project configuration:
Symfony patch enabling fallback to html templates: (Patches sfView.class.php)
Finally provide a mobile template (or not):
Normaly you would put your template in apps/frontend/modules/myModule/templates/myActionSuccess.php
Now you can provide a mobile template by creating the following file: apps/frontend/modules/myModule/templates/myActionSuccess.mobile.php
This also works for layouts, partials and components. Example: apps/frontend/modules/myModule/templates/_head.mobile.php
Here's the original post: http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users/browse_thread/thread/9da0a9fe3cf3ff77
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Although most modern literature agrees that testing is essential for successful software projects, testing has to be done right. Several bad habits can be identified that not only negatively affect testing performance, but also reduce your development speed. One of the first mistakes people make when they first discover testing is trying to reach 100% code coverage. I was no exception. Read the rest of this entry »
Unit testing can be a blessing and curse at the same time. Once you start doing it on a regular basis, it can become an addiction. You test everything, you feel the satisfaction of 110% test coverage giving you confidence in your code. But after a while, testing suddenly seems to slow you down. Everytime you make a change in your code you have to adapt several unrelated tests. Adding a
<ul>-tag to your template becomes a matter of minutes, rather than seconds. And, worst of all, your test suite is slow.
What happened? Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday I returned back to Vienna from Symfony Day Cologne 2009. The conference was amazingly well organized and many people deserve credits for making it such a great experience.
Thank you Andreas and Dennis for putting uncounted hours into planning the event, guiding us around the city, spending the night before fixing the wireless connection and for taking care of all the other small things that usually go by unnoticed. Thank you Isabelle for your Cologne crash course and for organizing our flights and the perfect accommodation. Thank you Nicolas for your many thoughtful advices, I really appreciate them. Thank you Xavier, Stefan, Jon and Sebastian for your refreshing company; I really enjoyed the lengthy walks around the city, even though my foot complained somewhat. Thank you all the attendees who gave me feedback about my work and my presentation. Thank you Interlution for letting us take part in your 10 year anniversary party. And thank you all the other people involved in making this event a success.
Events like this one are really important for the community. They put faces behind names, make friends, open up new opportunities and spread ideas. They are what open source truly is about.
As another result of the conference, this blog features a new page Talks where I included the slides of my presentation Best Practice Testing with Lime 2. And to those who annoyed me about Twitter – apparently some new account @webmozart has been created over there. Don't know who it is, but don't expect him to tweet too much.


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(Going to post some pics of the New Meadowlands in successive order, Inside the stadium photos will be up shortly) We headed to the New Meadowlands last night for Bon Jovi's christening. We were late getting to our limo so we were dropped off and headed in. Did not get to examine parking and traffic patterns.
We were in sec 114, row 12. The good? The seats are comfortable. If you are sitting in the one hundred level for football - you will be very close to the field. Right on top of it.
The bad? Pretty much everything else. The sections were not well marked. Not all individual sections had their numbers clearly marked. Quite a few people were unsure of where they were sitting.
Yesterday's concert was the worst sounding Bon Jovi concert I've been to. (Though folks say the sound was worse when they were with Nickleback at Giants Stadium last time) In other words, I disagree completely with the NY Post's Dan Aquilante when he writes, "There was enthusiasm in the seats and on the stage at nearly every turn in the two-hour-plus show..." The acoustics just didn't work. There was no flow. Have never seen people sitting during a Bon Jovi event. There were plenty sitting at times last night. The poor sound and the songlist containing a lot of new stuff helped. Have reports from 2nd level and upper bowl that the 'sound sucked' up there as well. Makes you wonder how the J-E-T-S chant will sound despite literally being right on the sidelines. (Sound completely going dead during Runaway was a fun opening day glitch)
Bathrooms around the 114 sections were few. Ladies complained that the nearest women's room had only 8 stalls. Upper bowl reported larger bathrooms with scattered smaller ones up there as well. Elbow room? Little. Winds? Whipping.
The beer concession outside 114 was awful. Taps were set up island style. As you waited on line on the side nearest the field you could see beer bottles but when you finally got to the register? Nope, beer bottles are only sold on the other side of the island. What? They're right behind you! Nope, had to go around and get back on line if you wanted the bottle.
We didn't do any walking around due to time constraints so I can't tell you what the rest of the concessions where like.
Very interesting was this report from SF who was 8 rows from the top in the upper bowl: "you rocked up there - not rocking out - but the floor moved - a bit scary - never go up high like that again....." And that was with a not electric crowd...
SF added, "Sound sucked - girls next to us got into a HUGE fist fight... kicking in the face!!!! CRAZY" There was also a chick fight on the floor where NJ State Troopers were needed. Sorry, no video.
Sorry, not enough improvements were evident (and enough things we didn't like were evident) for the day-to-day fan to justify trashing Giants Stadium and building this for $1.6 billion dollars. Actually made this scene sad:
And then on top of the $1.6b, Bloomberg reports:
The New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority spent almost $1 million to lock up season tickets for the New York Giants and Jets, seats that will be used by VIPs including elected officials. The state agency secured 142 season passes in the National Football League teams' new $1.6 billion stadium in East Rutherford by paying an $854,000 one-time license fee and $221,600 for actual tickets to 20 games set for 2010. The agency also paid $275,000 for a luxury suite. The costs were provided in response to a public records request by Bloomberg News.
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N. America, Asia Named Government-Backed Energy Storage Hot Spots
Government investments in energy storage and related areas, such as the smart grid, continue to bear fruit, particularly in the North American and Asian markets, according to a report from Navigant Research.
While Asian economies are moving toward advanced battery technologies, with the intention of developing export industries, the North American market, meanwhile, is characterized by a policy of funding innovation and, consequently, remains the most technologically diverse region in the industry, according to Energy Storage Tracker 3Q13. Meanwhile, European economies are focusing on integrating renewables at both the bulk and the distributed level, Navigant says.
Another key development in the energy storage market is the increasing specialization and repositioning of firms in the supply chain. Some technology vendors have repositioned themselves as systems integrators, and in some cases, integrators are entering the sector from other industries. This is a critical time for the advanced energy storage industry – in order for the industry to mature and scale up, more systems integrators are needed, Navigant says.
The top three energy storage technology vendors account for 48 percent of the measurable market, the report says.
Navigant Research was able to compile technology vendor market share data for 61,732 MW of installations, which represents 37 percent of the overall market.
Alstom controls 19 percent of the market, Voith controls 16 percent and Gridflex controls 13 percent of the market. The remaining 52 percent of the market measured by Navigant is controlled by 12 different vendors.
The total number of energy storage projects worldwide – including announced, funded, under construction, and operating facilities- reached 714 in the last quarter of 2012, according to a tracker report from Pike Research in December.
Energy storage projects are increasing steadily, both in terms of the project pipeline and the number of projects deployed and operating. Two factors are influencing that expansion: first, demand for energy storage is increasing as utilities learn more about energy storage technologies and become less risk averse, and second, as the economic outlook brightens, companies are more willing to invest the capital frequently required for energy storage, according to Pike.
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Virtual Computer recently announced the availability of their NxTop product for free for up to five users. NxTop combines centralized virtual desktop management with a "bare-metal" client-hypervisor to make managing many desktops as easy as managing one. But, you may ask, what can a client side hypervisor do for me? The answer – solutions such as Virtual Computer's NxTop can be utilized to effectively manage your desktop environment, provided they have a functional management interface. That said, bear in mind this is a developing technology, but it is a technology that offers you the opportunity to manage your desktops with virtualization without the larger infrastructure requirements of VDI but that doesn't mean to say it wholly replaces SBC solutions: but it is a useful option to consider.
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PhD Virtual has gained its second round of funding with investment from Citrix amongst others as discussed within our post News: esXpress is no more but what does this mean for XenServer? Up until this point it looked like Citrix was out of the server hypervisor wars and backing Microsoft's Hyper-V play. Yet this looks on the surface like a basic shift to that direction. Yes, XenServer was placed into the OpenSource community and the latest improvements, such as the Open VSwitch integration and a new releases emphatically say that XenServer is alive and well and that its ecosystem is growing for that matter so is Hyper-V's.
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If your organisation has remote users – consider that the impact of centralisation on their desktop experience can be very different: and not always in a happy way. Citrix's ICA protocol has been joined by the likes of Quest's vWorkspace with EOP Xtream, or Ericom Blaze. There are a number of hardware solutions for WAN optimisation with the likes of Expand Networks focusing specifically on solutions to support VDI implementations. Don't allow poor network performance and user experience to sabotage your desktop virtualization project.
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VMware, Citrix, EMC, NetApp and Intel have all reported strong earnings for Q1/2009. This suggests that virtualization is helping the technology sector lead the economy out of the recession. This trend should continue as economies improve worldwide and these vendors can start to chalk up global growth.
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Citrix has released XenApp 6 which finally provides support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 – what is available in this new release for your business. Besides R2 support, what does XenApp 6 offer your business, what WOW factors are provided to help justify the cost of using XenApp6 to springboard your x64 Presentation Virtualization implementation – be that a new implementation, or a migration from your existing environment.
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Virtual Computer's release of NxTop version 2.0 of this month continues to prove their leadership in client-side virtualization by delivering robust features to meet the needs of the corporate desktop. The delayed release of Citrix' XenClient and VMware's Client Virtualization Platform (CVP) to the market has left few options for customers whose virtual desktop implementations need to address a larger offline or disconnected use case.
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In a slightly strange "didn't they already have Xen in the kernel" kind of way, Novell has certified Suse Linux Enterprise Server as a "perfect guest" running on Citrix XenServer, allowing joint support of the combined solution. The deal is asymmetric (it wouldn't really make sense to run XenServer on SLES) but it reflects an open approach characteristic of the way Novell operates, in embracing the reality that customers will want to use one of a number of possible hypervisors, and that Novell has to get along with everyone. In return Novell is starting to push it's PlateSpin Recon product through the Citrix channel.
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Project Virtual Reality Check have released their Phase 2 white paper on Terminal Server/RDS workloads running on the latest generation Intel processor: the Xeon 5500 series (Nehalem). Besides providing some great figures to support the adoption of Intel's Nehalem to drive high demand virtualized workloads, this is an interesting and important comparison document for those considering centralised desktop virtualisation.


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Smiley Alarm Clock is how the selfie generation wakes up
Capitalizing on the selfie craze, the Smiley Alarm Clock aims to start your morning off with a smile. Unfortunately, the app, which requires iOS 7.1 and works on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, leads to frustration and general annoyance. The concept is simple. When the alarm goes off you grab ...
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The Dallas-Haiti Project, a ten year old organization which focuses on humanitarian aid, education, health care, and emergency funding for poor communities in Haiti, has teamed up with Urban Dog Coffee to present the two-artist show Ase Anpil. Featuring clay pottery by Leslie Showalter and black and white photography by Libby Beall Goff, the exhibit will raise a percentage of sales and contributions to be donated to the Dallas-Haiti Project to fund the production of school uniforms for Haitian children in Port-au-Prince. Ase Anpil is on display now through the end of the month at Urban Dog Coffee, 2720 Oak Lawn Avenue. Hours are 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays. Call 214-219-5511 or visit urbandogcoffee.com.
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The Theater at BAX has an intimate atmosphere. Somewhere between a loft and a black-box, this theater allows audiences and artists to enjoy a creative dialogue unlike any other in NYC.
We present over 50 performance evenings and matinees each season featuring work by our Artists In Residence (AIR) and Space Grantees, Visitor's Programs, Guest Curated Performance & Discussion Series, the Upstart Festival, and the work of young artists from our arts education programs and beyond.
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Missionaries for the 21st Century
by Thomas Kemper
From the March-April 2012 Issue of New World Outlook
Missionary service in the 21st century follows the New Testament's mission mandate to move outward from Judea into all parts of the world. Strongly influenced by the 19th century Protestant mission initiative that originated in Europe and North America, missionary service--especially in the Methodist tradition--combined spiritual piety with social ministry. In the 19th century, parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America were considered to be suitable areas for mission. However, mission theology and practice today--and, I suspect, in the future--are being shaped primarily by a global, ecumenical impulse that respects cultural diversity, promotes mission partnerships, and understands that mission and missionaries must come from everywhere and be sent everywhere. This is certainly true of United Methodist mission.
The biblical imperative is a constant factor, affirming that "mission is not created by the church; rather it is given to the church by God's saving action in and on behalf of the world." (Grace Upon Grace: The Mission Statement of The United Methodist Church, Graded Press, 1990, p. 5.) Arriving at the affirmation of mission from everywhere to everywhere required a shift away from the missionary model followed in the first half of the 20th century, but it was not an abandonment of mission's biblical roots. As Dana Robert has stated, speaking of the missionary work of Saint Paul: "the cross-cultural spread of the message, including translating it into terms that made sense to a Gentile audience…created a religion able to transcend cultural differences." (Dana L. Robert, Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, p.14) Much of that translating was and still is done by a special group of professional Christian workers: missionaries.
This article briefly sketches the history of the missionary model shift, discussing how it affects our United Methodist understanding of mission theology and service as we move deeper into a new century. These are matters of great significance to the spiritual and organizational welfare of our whole church; for Methodism is essentially a mission movement, teaching the world about God's grace and love in Jesus Christ. A new poster from the British Methodist Church aptly calls Methodism "a discipleship movement shaped for mission in a global relationship."
Our current United Methodist global missionary community, I am happy to report, incorporates and transcends cultural differences. Of our more than 200 missionaries in international service, slightly more than 40 percent come from outside the United States. Our biggest challenge today is the need for even more missionaries to serve in cross-cultural partnerships extending from everywhere to everywhere.
"Give Us Friends"
The more than 1,200 delegates to the 1910 World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland, were white people from Europe and North America. They assumed that missionaries would be like them. Only a handful of conference participants were from the parts of the world where Protestant missionaries were preaching, teaching, starting churches, and organizing needed services.
The masculine language that dominated Edinburgh 1910 might suggest that virtually all missionaries were men, which was not the case. From the outset, women played major roles in the 19th century missionary movement--not only as supporters or spouses but as missionaries themselves. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, organized in 1869, dispatched both Isabella Thoburn, an educator, and Clara Swain, a medical doctor, that same year. Although women were not represented in proportion to their mission importance, more than 200 women were delegates at the Edinburgh conference.
Edinburgh 1910 predicted that missionaries from the "Christian nations" of Western Europe, along with the United States, could evangelize the "non-Christian" lands in a single generation. Little attention was given to the gospel potential of "younger," mission-founded Christian churches--though a lone participant from India made a dramatic appeal acknowledging their credibility and mission potential. V.S. Azariah-- soon to be elected an Anglican bishop in India--spoke on "The Problem of Cooperation between Foreign and Native Workers." He acknowledged the great deal of energy and resources that Western mission agencies put into missionary sending, but he made an impassioned plea for missionaries who functioned not as lords and masters but as friends. "We ask for love. Give us friends," he said.
It is fitting that such an appeal would come from India. In the modern missionary movement, the first Protestant missionary was Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, a German sent to India by the Danish-Halle Mission in 1706. He developed a great appreciation for the Tamil language and culture in Tranquebar, learning the language and translating much of the Bible into Tamil. He also took detailed notes about local social and cultural realities. However, his efforts failed to gain the approval of his European sponsors, who seemed to expect the Indians to become good German Lutherans.
Though Azariah's appeal went unheeded at Edinburgh, it was remembered later as prophetic. The optimistic expectation of a world for Christ in one generation eroded over the next 40 years. During this time, two world wars were fought, separated by a global economic depression that pitted "Christian nations" against one another. New mission starts were limited in this period. Meanwhile, the "younger" churches (known today as the "Global South") were maturing.
Partnership in Obedience
By the time of the world mission conference in 1947, attitudes were changing. The Christian world was attempting to put itself back together after World War II. The 1947 event--held in Canada at Whitby, Ontario--dropped the terms "Christian nations" and "non-Christian nations" in favor of an understanding of church unity that crossed national, cultural, and racial boundaries. The Whitby conference endorsed the concept of mission as "partnership in obedience" to God. The word partnership indicated an equal relationship between missionary "sending" and "receiving" churches.
The Whitby conference had as its theme "Christian Witness in a Revolutionary World"--an acknowledgment that, in the post-World War II world, revolutionary mission thinking was evolving. The conference's message emerged from the consolidation of drafts from two subgroups representing "older" and "younger" churches respectively. The conference recognized the right of the younger churches to have a role in the placement and acceptance of missionaries. It was nothing short of revolutionary when, under the rubric of "partnership," Whitby participants agreed that the younger church "should have the right to issue, or to withhold, an invitation to [a] missionary to return to its service after the first period of leave in his home country." (Renewal and Advance: Christian Witness in a Revolutionary World, Edinburgh House Press, 1948) Whitby delegates also urged missionaries to identify with--even to join--the churches to which they were assigned.
Appreciation for the languages and social customs of the cultures in which younger churches existed was slowly on the rise, but it would take another 30 years to gain firm traction. As colonialism in Africa and much of Asia ended in the 1950s and 1960s, missionaries from earlier years were too often dismissed as pawns of political and economic empire-builders. By the 1970s, the idea of a moratorium on the sending of missionaries was openly discussed. However, the younger churches were looking for missionary transformation, not termination. They sought greater multicultural awareness and partnership, including a recognition of the contributions they could make to the whole mission enterprise once the church realized that missionaries could come from everywhere and could go everywhere. As newer churches grew, they needed personnel and resources. What they wanted--in an echo of Bishop Azariah--were missionaries to work alongside indigenous Christians as equals in God's mission.
Some of the newer churches became ardent in mission. For example, the Protestants of South Korea probably send as many missionaries today as all the US mainline denominations combined. Both older and newer Christians share the obligation to "send" in response to their faith. Thanks to God's grace, United Methodists can now both send and receive missionaries across national, cultural, and racial boundaries.
The concept of partnership set forth at the Whitby conference assumed a missional relationship between older and younger churches. In this respect, Whitby did not address "pioneer" mission and evangelism: church starts and social outreach in places with few or any Christians. Not until the Cold War ended in the early1990s did United Methodists launch any new initiatives.
Mission relations with an existing church in, say, Liberia (where Methodism arrived in the 1830s) are by nature different from those involved in starting an entirely new mission initiative in Vietnam, where United Methodist work began in 1998. Yet the same principles of multicultural respect and collaboration apply in both cases. In new locales, "pioneer" missionaries must start out with an openness to and appreciation for local culture; they must seek out local partners interested in the objectives and services proposed. Most importantly, original intent must include local leadership development, with the long vision of an indigenous church or worshiping fellowship moving toward home-grown leadership.
From Everywhere to Everywhere
The General Board of Global Ministries has made a good start toward building a truly international, multicultural, and interracial community of missionaries. We have missionaries from Africa serving in Southeast Asia; ones from China, Mexico, and Brazil serving in the US; and ones from the Philippines serving in Japan, Liberia, and Cambodia, to name a few. Still, we have not yet overcome all the challenges that a philosophy of missionaries from everywhere to everywhere presents. Here are some of those challenges:
Crossing Frontiers
The late South African theologian David J. Bosch made a significant evaluation of the shift from European- and North American-dominated mission to a model embracing cultural diversity and partnership. A landmark in his work was the book Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission in 1991. In an earlier book, Witness to the World, Bosch delved into what he saw as a "crisis in mission" brought on by Euro-American attempts to control what is really God's mission. The church as the community of Christ, he said, "owes" the world faith, hope, and love. We fulfill that debt through mission, living the example of Jesus, who said of himself in Luke 22:27: "I am among you as one who serves."
Missionaries are agents of faith, hope, and love, following the example of Jesus. They are the faces we see in Bosch's definition of mission as "the church-crossing-frontiers-in-the-form-of-a-servant."(David J. Bosch, Witness to the World: The Christian Mission in Theological Perspective, John Knox Press, 1980, p. 248)
Thomas Kemper is the general secretary and chief executive officer of the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church.
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The problem with Merlot (in California)
This is broken off the thread entitled "Best Merlot" -- see http://www.chowhound.com/topics/480608
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Steve Timko wrote: "There can be good merlot, but I think the big problem is the grape itself. Unless you get a really good climate and soil, it's just a blending grape"
Herein lies the problem with Merlot in California.
Merlot has been planted with Cabernet Sauvignon in Bordeaux for centuries, and in fact, there is more Merlot planted in Bordeaux than there is Cabernet Sauvignon. None of the classified growths, or any other well-known château, produces their Bordeaux wine without at least some Merlot in the blend; several do not use any Cabernet Sauvignon.
But Cabernet Sauvignon is a member of the "Royal Family" of grapes. (Tradition holds that Caberenet Sauvignon is the "King of Red Wines," while Pinot Noir is the "queen"; Chardonnay and Riesling hold these roles on the white side of the spectrum.) And certainly beginning as early as the mid-19th century, Cabernet was the "king" here in California, with plantings located in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Santa Clara Valley, in both Napa and Sonoma counties, and even in the Sierra foothills. It was also planted as early as the 1830s in what is now downtown Los Angeles.
So California has a long tradition of producing Cabernet Sauvignon.
The very first varietally-labeled Merlot wine produced in California was the Louis M. Martini Winery "Edge Hill Selection" Lot 1968-70 Merlot. A few months later, Sterling Vineyards released their 1969 vintage Merlot. Both these wineries made excellent wines from Merlot, and both these wineries made tremendous marketing mistakes upon releasing these wines to the public. In an attempt to explain to Americans what seemed like a brand new grape, both wineries described Merlot as "a blending grape -- the French use it to blend into Cabernet Sauvignon to soften it up and make it smoother."
Now one can indeed make the argument that it's actually Cabernet that is blended into Merlot, but given the familiarity the American public already had with Cabernet, that wasn't going to work very well. The problem lies with the three-word phrase, "a blending grape." Immediately that casts a shadow upon Merlot as an inferior grape only good for blending* and not really good on its own.
And what's wrong with a blending grape? Well, nothing EXCEPT that -- given the American system of varietal labeling -- we have the perception that wines are 100% varietal, when in fact relatively few grape varieties actually show their best when produced as pure, unblended wines (this is the "Ivory Soap Syndrome"). After all, California's best wines are those named after a single grape, while those inexpensive "jug wines" carry names like "Burgundy," "Chablis," or "Rhine Wine."
Keep in mind that back when both these wines were first released, a) this was long before non-varietally labeled wines like "Insignia," "Dominus," or "Opus One" ever saw the light of day; and b) the minimum required grape content for varietal wines at this time was only 51 percent.
So Merlot was handicapped from the very beginning with the epithet "blending grape," and had to work hard to overcome that image. And it did, BUT . . .
Because of its softer mouthfeel, it wasn't long before it joined Chardonnay as everyone's house wine/"by-the-glass" pick. The problem was there wasn't enough Merlot planted in California to satisfy the demand.
As a result, wineries were demanding more and more Merlot. The prices were high -- in many cases, they were higher than Cabernet -- and so growers rushed to plant more. That, unfortunately, takes time, so the immediate solution was to overcrop -- to increase the tonnage per acre and satisfy the wineries' demand for more grapes. That this had the added benefit of getting more money from existing plantings was also a big plus.
What happens when vineyards are overcropped? The quality of the fruit goes down. The intensity of flavor diminishes, and the resulting wine is dilute, weak, watery, and --well, yucky. But no one complained, because Merlot was the #1 selling red wine in restaurants, you couldn't keep it in stock, and thousands of cases were being poured by the glass!
The result became a decline in the overall quality of Merlot wines in California. Sure there were still some individual wines that were great, but by and large it was getting pretty dismal. Prices fell, and -- well, yuck!
So in order to explain the sinking quality of Merlot in California, people brought out that old epithet and said, "Well, you know it's just a blending grape -- what did you expect?"
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Q: Why do you think Miles was so "anti-Merlot" in the film "Sideways"?
A: For several VERY good reasons!
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This problem has never affected Washington State, mainly because there are no large wineries (a la Kendall-Jackson, Glen Ellen, Charles Shaw, etc., etc.) in the state and so there was never the same sort of pressure upon Washington's growers to overcrop their vineyards. This is a key reason (but not the only one) why the overall quality of the Merlot wines produced in Washington State is so much higher than the overall quality of those made in California.
Just my 2¢ -- worth far less -- keep the change.
Jason, thanks for that info. I've always avoided Merlot for exactly those reasons, thin, flabby, etc. But this post and the previous thread, where the "best" Merlots are discussed, has really got me rethinking how I look at it.
Thanks a lot for that primer on this recent American history of Merlot. I usually avoided it and recently had some good merlots, which made me wonder why it is so much maligned. I had a great one from South Africa at a good price about a year ago and wish I knew then how hard it would be to find good merlot again.
re: Icantread
You know the old Yogi Berra line about that restaurant (or was it a bar?) that was so popular that, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
That's kind of like Merlot. It's still selling, but no one seems to drink it. ;^)
Speaking to Merlot's popularity, I remember tasting wine at a retail store in Claymont, Delaware. A customer standing next to me at the tasting table was offered a taste of a red wine by the store rep. The customer responded, "oh, what is it, Merlot?" The rep says "it's Montepulciano from the Italian region of Abruzzo". The customer then follows up asking, "So what is it, Merlot?"
In addition to Jason's discussion of overcropping, I think Merlot in much of California suffers from not being planted in the right places. My overall opinion of 100% CA Merlot is that while it may taste good while it's in your mouth, it falls totally flat at the finish. There are exceptions, such as St. Supery's Merlot (the favorite varietal of the current winemaker) but not too many.
OTOH, when you take the grape to Long Island or to Washington State, it becomes another animal entirely! Kinda like Malbec in Argentina.
Jason, wouldn't you consider Columbia Crest and Chateau Ste. Michelle "large wineries?" imho both make some really tasty Merlots.
re: ChefJune
CSM, and its sister winery, Columbia Crest, are large by Washington State standards, but far less so by California standards.
The KJ label alone sells 3.5 million cases of wine, and the "KJ Family" (ranked 9th in the US in total volume with 5 million cases) owns 14,000 acres of vineyards. In contrast, while Ste. Michelle Wine Estates is right behind at 10th (4.2 million), Chateau Ste. Michelle itself is much smaller than KJ, and the combined acreage of all 22 wineries is 4,200 acres (both in Washington and California).
Neither of these wineries' "regular" Merlot wines would be my personal pick as a "favorite" Merlot of mine, but both are regularly in my list of "Recommended Merlots" and - IMHO -- offer great QPR (quality-price ratio) to the customer, i.e.: great bang-for-the-buck.
I think that, taken as a whole, Washington Merlots are consistently better than California Merlots, but there are specific individual wines produced in both states that are indeed excellent.
Hope that makes sense.
re: Scuppernong
For YOU maybe, but a) great Pinot Noir/Burgundy is seductive, not powerful and overwhelming, and certainly not as tannic and abrasive as Cabernet Sauvignon/Bordeaux can be; and b) your "gender reversal" goes against at least 150+ years of writing on the subject. But -- hey -- who am I to disagree with some who (presumably) likes Scuppernong?
re: Scuppernong
Pinot Noir powerful (!?), yeah, I can't quite wrap my head around this concept, I do have an array of boutique Syrah blends in my small cellar with 15.9% alcohol, something like that is definitely "powerful" at least for my palate. Pinot (I admit not me favourite variety) definitely has 'female' qualities for subtleness and delicateness.
Hi, Jason:
Thanks for this, and I agree almost completely with the analysis of Merlot-as-Bridesmaid.
But I have to take issue with the statement that "[T]here are no large wineries (a la Kendall-Jackson, Glen Ellen, Charles Shaw, etc., etc.) in the state and so there was never the same sort of pressure upon Washington's growers to overcrop their vineyards."
Ste. Michelle Wine Estates produces something north of 5 million cases/year, and in 2011 was ranked as the ninth largest winery in the country (most of the top ten are in reality holding companies comprised of multiple "wineries"/negociants. http://yongjiwine.blogspot.com/2011/0...
There has been *plenty* of pressure to overcrop Merlot in Washington among non-estate growers. A huge percentage of the production from Wahluke Slope AVA (2100 hectares in vines) goes to Ste. San Michelle/Columbia Crest. The Merlot berries I have bought from growers who service these big two wineries show no signs of undercropping, let's put it that way.
re: kaleokahu
Not to nit-pick, but a) keep in mind this was written over SIX YEARS ago; and b) yes, if anyone is pushing growers to overcrop it would be Ste, Michelle Wine Estates, but please keep in mind that "SMWE" is comprised of multiple wineries: Chateau Ste. Michelle, Columbia Crest, Domaine Ste. Michelle, Northstar -- indeed, according to your own link, "The company has 23 wineries [including several in Californai and Oregon], some with multiple brands." I would say that makes it one of those holding companies . . .
My point being merely that it's not one winery. When I referred to "Kendall-Jackson," I indeed meant KJ, and not Jackson Family Estates; the wines bottled under the Charles Shaw label, and not the others that Bronco owns; etc., etc.
re: zin1953
Hi, Jason:
I believe Chateau San Michelle itself produces >2 million cases a year and Columbia Crest does 1.7 million under its label.
And I believe K-J produces around 3 million under its own label.
So what definition of 'large' were you using in writing there are "no large wineries in Washington"?
re: kaleokahu
Again, the original statement above was made six years ago, and that was prior to SMWE making some rather serious acquisitions. I am more than happy to include CSM if it makes you happy.
The fact remains that Chateau Ste. Michelle is Washington State's largest producer at 2+ million cases per year. That doesn't come close to what is produced at the largest California.
In their 2013 report, Wine Business Monthly listed the following:
1. E&J Gallo, 72 million cases annual sales.
2. The Wine Group, 62 million.
3. Constellation Brands, 50 million.
4. Trinchero Family Estates, 17 million.
5. Bronco Wine Co., 16 million.
My comment was directed more along the lines of that sort of size. "Large" is a word that certainly applies to SMWE, and CSM specifically, but in a world where you're making single-digit millions, you're still tiny compared those making 10x that much! ;^)
re: zin1953
Hi, Jason:
No matter how you attempt to reconcile it now, 2 million cases a year is large by any sensible definition.
If, as was implied, that 2 million cases/yr (3.7 if you include Columbia Crest) is not sufficiently large to cause pressure on contract growers to overcrop, my question remains unanswered: What is your threshold for large enough to cause that pressure?
I can look up the numbers for 2008, but are you saying that Chateau San Michelle and Columbia Crest (as labels, not the holding company) have grown from small to large in 6 years? I doubt it.
Also, you took me to task upstream for citing the ranking of the CSM holding company as #9 in the U.S., but now you are back to doing the same thing in your latest post. I thought you wanted to compare production by label. Do you or not? Is K-J big or not?
FWIW, my definition of large enough to pressure overcropping is when I see a continuous stream of tractor-trailer rigs from the same grower's blocks going to one winery. I have seen this Washington overcropping with mine own eyes. And not just since 2008.
re: kaleokahu
I happen to agree that 2 million cases is large, at least by my standards. My typical wine purchases are from places that produce no more than 10,000 cases. Perhaps we need more adjectives - big, huge, monster, itp. Gallo is definitely a monster producer.
re: olasek
Just a reminder that in the original statement, Jason referred to labels not "large" in the abstract, but specifically as large AS "Kendall-Jackson, Glen Ellen, Charles Shaw, etc."
How suggestible the US wine-buying public seems to be!
Jason (or anyone else), do you remember in 1981 when 24 California wine experts and writers got together (incl. Norm Roby, Earl Singer, Richard Paul Hinkle, Shirley Sarvis, Ron Batori, Andre Tchelistcheff, and A. Dinsmoor Webb) and did a big double-blind tasting, leading to Harvey Steiman's long, sensational Sunday newspaper article helping to popularize Merlot? "Merlot: The Coming Red Wine Evolution." I'm looking at a photocopy of the original article as I write this.
Recommended labels like Duckhorn and Clos du Val flew off the shelves, and suddenly the hip were all pointedly ordering Merlots.
That was near the start of Merlot's US fashion "arc," and of course the movie _Sideways_ was the other end. But both times, the public was influenced by experts telling them both what they should like, and what was hip. That's another part of the history that stands out to me.
re: eatzalot
Well, I do feel like I have to say there ARE some really excellent Merlots *still* made in California. However, either one has to pay through the nose, *or* find small(er) producers that focus on small vineyards/lots that are from less that the most famous areas, and don't overcrop. Even then, the price puts the wine(s) out of "supermarket" range.
re: zin1953
"However, either one has to pay through the nose, *or* find small(er) producers that focus on small vineyards/lots that are from less that the most famous areas, and don't overcrop. Even then, the price puts the wine(s) out of "supermarket" range."
Well said but one could certainly argue that it applies to all varieties.
re: jock
IDK, Jock -- it depends upon the varietal (in some cases), but also it's highly dependent upon the consumer . . . after all, there are people who, for example, find Charles Shaw wines to be delicious -- case after case (OK, I am presuming here one does not by cases of Wine X unless one actually enjoys it) -- while others, such as myself, who generally thinks the stuff is swill. After all, there *is* a current thread on sub-$5 wines with some 75 posts . . .
I don't have a minimum price that I *must* spend for wine. But over the past, say, five years or so, I've found any number of what I consider to be great buys¹ in the $15-20 range, with some as low as $12 or so, if on sale. Occasionally these CAN be found in my local supermarket², and I do peruse the shelves there from time to time -- but far more often, these wines are found on the shelves (and in the emails) of dedicated wine merchants . . .
¹ "Great buys" defined (by me) as wines providing exceptional quality and enjoyment for the money; as having high "QPR"; as "fighting above their playing weight."
² For those in the SF Bay Area, my local market is Andronico's (not Safeway), but similarly great wines in this same price range can be found at (e.g.) Draeger's, Shopper's Corner, and many others too numerous to mention here.


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Upon driving by, the entire site appeared to be closed and surrounded by a chain-link fence.[Jeff Rusbridge, 09/09/2014]
The fence blocks off the parking lot, but the gate appears to be open during business hours. The statue stands in the back garden, so it can't be visited when the Center for the Arts isn't open. Definitely a place to call before visiting!
In Atlanta for business and took a drive to check in on Tupac. I made it during open hours and immediately stopped at the visitors center to say hi. The gentlemen that greeted me was more than friendly and helpful. He even showed me the best access to the garden. I spent about 20 minutes looking around. I stopped back into the VC again on my way out -- inside are some of Tupac's records and memorabilia, in addition to things for purchase.
This is a school and a place of business, but very relaxing, low key and welcoming. I'm glad I made the journey.[Jon Hubler, 03/05/2011]
Apparently, the statue not only depicts a "reverent" 'Pac, but also an older one -- the guy we spoke to said the sculptor wanted to represent him as he may have looked at age 65. I'm not sure WHY, but it's def still worth a visit.
Side note: If the Center is closed, you can prob still see Tupac (sculpture is in middle of the park to the left of the parking lot :)[laura, 11/28/2010]
We stopped by the Tupac Center for the Arts last Sunday and were sad to see it closed and surrounded by a tall fence. Exploring the perimeter, we discovered a small entrance to the garden in the back and slipped in for a few photos. It's a beautiful garden filled with roses and a unique cross-shaped fountain with a much larger than life Tupac in the center. The statue is surrounded by plaques with his poetry in bronze.[Bam-Bam, 05/11/2010]
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40,000 sign petition to oust Rep. Paul 'pit of hell' Broun
Proving yet again that the inmates are running the asylum
Things like this make me glad that I'm living in another country where I get to watch this foolishness rather than have to live it.
Feds subpoena Twitter for info on WikiLeaks backer
Comprehension Fail
1) You do realize she's a Finn right? How the hell is she going to get into trouble in Sweden?
2) "hurting" the US, the last I checked was not a crime. Especially when "hurting" only entails posting what US representative actually did or said. This is called reporting and/or journalism, you should look it up.
Megan Fox not world's sexiest woman: Official
Kristen Stewart???
Sorry, but this entire poll must be called into question if Kristen Stewart was anywhere in the running.
Microsoft claims 90m sales of Windows 7
I call BS
They say this for every version they ship (I think they even tried it for Vista for a little bit until they had to admit it was a complete flop). I don't believe this for a minute though as I only know a couple of people who actually have 7, the rest are still plugging away with XP.....
NASA pegs Noughties as hottest decade on record
Not a very good scientist then are you?
Speaking as a scientist myself, you should think of changing careers. Most science I've worked on starts out by trying to make a prediction based on poor data. I then go out, test it, and gather new data. I then go back and look at my original assumptions and refine my experiments. With each iteration my predictions will come closer to matching the data.
"I really am glad I'm not a climate "scientist" (although I am a scientist) because what they are attempting to do is very difficult indeed. In fact, I find it incredible that anyone is even trying to make accurate predictions of future climate (a known hard task) based on a motley collection of heterogeneous historical thermometer readings on which it is now impossible to impose adequate quality control"
Trouser-bomb clown attacks - how much should we laugh?
Common Sense
Great article. Why is it that this obvious common sense is never applied by those in the airline security business?
Software fraudster 'fooled CIA' into terror alert
/me sighs..... Americans
I think we need a palm to forehead icon. This is so sad, and yet so typical of them. Anybody else wondering why we're still not allowed to take liquids onto planes, yup, it's "intelligence" like this.
Watchdog mauls Disney woman's breasts
USA the land of the?
But a tv ad encouraging a user to pump somebody/thing full of bullet holes would of course be OK.
American = Prude
Mozilla squirts out Thunderbird 3
What did they do to the headers???
Just installed TB 3, and I have to say: "What the hell have they done to the headers????" They're huge, and you can't minimize them at all. Somebody sure made a stupid design decision
Windows 7 - The Reg reader review redux
Seems OK, but what new features does it actually offer?
Hi All;
I've tried out Win7 on a new laptop, and it seems to function OK. It's definitely not any faster than XP. But the real question is, what new features does it offer? I couldn't find any benefits over XP, so really, what's the point in upgrading?
Prehistoric titanic-snake jungles laughed at global warming
I second the "Stop with climate change"
The Reg's coverage is always one-sided (fingers-in-the-ears, la, la, la it can't really be happening if I can't hear the evidence) and begins to make me wonder if all the other articles published here, especially concerning IT should be re-examined. After all, if you can be so bloody wrong about climate change, who's to say there is any accuracy in your IT articles?
Minor CO2 issue cuts short ISS spacewalk
Re: But it's natural
Are you pulling a manfrommars?? What on earth are you trying to say/what does it have to do with the article?
Unpatched Firefox flaw lets fox into henhouse
Re: Too many now
I'm sure other people will chime in before me, but what the F#@I are you talking about??? If you compare the amount of security vulnerabilities and the length of time until they're patched FF still beats IE hands down.
NASA data shows 'dramatically' thinned Arctic ice
Commenters make me sad
It really does make me fear for the human race reading so many comments which are so vehement in their denials of global warming. I'm a scientist and I know how our theories change as we get more data. Part of being a scientist is being able to change a theory if the data doesn't support it. Currently, the data does support global warming (to exactly what extent I don't think anybody knows). Putting your fingers in your ears and shouting loudly that it's just not true makes you sound like an ignorant, uneducated buffoon.
Summer debut for Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle
Wireless Signal
What happens if there's EM jamming in the area where the gun is used? Alternately, could somebody send a signal to tell all of the shells in the gun to go off at once, permanently removing the guns owner and any close by comrades?
Judges grant McKinnon extradition review
Re: Justice delayed is justice denied
How long has he been in the legal system ~3yrs? Do those 3 yrs count against any further punishment? How much more can they (do they want to) possibly punish this guy? And what damage did he actually *cause* (ie. not clean-up effort to secure wide-open systems but actual computers he crashed/files he destroyed?)
Mozilla delays third Firefox 3.1 beta
"Right now on my PC Firefox is using over 200MB of RAM with 13 tabs and Internet Explorer is using 2.6MB with 2 tabs open - I actually switch back to Internet Explorer to do some quick task - what a stupid situation. Fix it!"
While I agree that Firefox does have a memory leak problem, how on earth does your IE only use 2.6 MB?? Mine uses 25 MB with zero tabs open.
21 million German bank accounts - yours for only €12m
Can this information actually be used?
I have used the German banking system for some time and have found it light-years ahead for the North American systems. From this article though I wonder if this information has any real use. In order to transfer money you need either a chip and PIN, or a TAN number (one-time password for on-line banking). I have the names, addresses and BLZ (Bank routing number) of several of my friends so that we can transfer money to one another. However, I'd never be able to take money from their account without also possessing either their bank cards, or their on-line passwords and TAN lists.
Bittorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers
Bell Canada
"Upset about Bell Canada's system for allocating bandwidth fairly among internet users"
This is what's started it all. Bell Canada is throttling all users irregardless of congestion. I am not a high bandwidth user. However, on the rare occasions that I do require bandwidth I'm throttled to 30 kB/s for 20 hours out of the day. THAT is what's unacceptable. And our governing bodies have just voted that this sort of behaviour is OK. While I don't agree with Bit Torrent seriously damaging the net at large, something has to be done so that users can actually get the bandwidth that they pay for!
Regulators back Bell Canada choking indie ISP traffic
Throttling even when no congestion
From what I've seen and read Bell is throttling regardless of volume, which is what I find the most despicable thing about it!
TSA vows relaxation of carry-on liquid limits
"The TSA is in the process of installing advanced technology X-ray machines throughout the country. The new machines should be in place by the end of 2009, but it will take an additional year for them to be outfitted with software that can identify threatening liquids."
This is the most BS statement I've ever heard.
Yes, there was a viable liquid bomb plot
Speaking as a Chemist
I've been doing chemistry research for ~15 yrs now, and every time I hear these Tang/peroxide bomb comments I simply don't know what to think. I can't think of any conceivable way that this could form a better explosive than a solid explosive (think dynamite). For people who like using google to try to figure these things out. Start looking up peroxide + citric acid (or any organic acid for that matter). Good luck finding any science related articles which refers to their being explosive.
That said, peroxide does have a nasty habit of forming organic peroxides. However, good luck in controllably making them into an explosive device.
Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered
@Dodgy Geezer
"Just one of the huge number of problems associated with climate science as practiced in the 21st century is that the base data is often not made public, but instead 'peer reviewed' by a few of your friends. Then a completely spurious claim is held to be 'proven'."
Speaking as a scientist who publishes papers, I can say that this statement is complete BS. If I ever tried to publish a paper without including the data, it'd be deep-sixed by the journal editors before even making it to the peer review stage.
I'm not sure if the commenter understands how science publications work...
Microsoft hopes third time is lucky with XP SP3 update
Completely Agree
I completely agree with the AC, how are they able to legally do this??
CIA demands UK halts interrogation tactics
April Fools
This is an April Fool's article,,, right?
Democrats refuse immunity for warrantless wiretappers
@ AC: It's NOT an ex post facto law
Errr, I think the first AC was merely stating that the Senate's (and Bush's) version which DID try to grant retro-immunity was in fact violating that principle....
Bush orders US Navy to shoot down rogue spy sat
Hydrazine Excuse is Pure BS
Speaking as a chemist: BS
I would expect that the heat of re-entry would definitely cause the hydrazine to explode while still high in the atmosphere.
Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia
Sometimes wiki is good
The only time I seem to use wikipedia is to find info from the hard sciences. As far as the posted information for science on wikipedia is concerned it is almost always 100% correct. But maybe that's just because it's such an objective topic it's hard to fudge it up.
Lords debate airline liquids ban
Speaking as a Chemist (not a pharmacist for you UK'ers)
I'm just going to ignore that silly "exploding" water bottle, which is just a 2L bottle popping from excess gas pressure.
I believe that the main "liquid explosive" that they were trying to protect against was TATP (Triacetonetriperoxide). And, as anybody who's actually made this knows, it's not easy, especially if trying to do so in a plan washroom. The solid purified form is much stronger, and wouldn't even be screened out.
It utterly boggles my mind that this senseless ban is still in place as it is most definitely NOT based in science, ask ANY chemist (except for a chemist who might be working for an American/UK government think-tank of course).
Italian court rules against HP on pre-installed Windows
@ Alex Barlow
"If a manufacturer decides that they wish to sell something as a bundle only then why should they be forced to break that into its components?"
If the bundle that they sell comes with a message that part of it can be returned if it's not wanted, then who are they to refuse? They're breaking the very terms that they're selling the bundle under.
French court says non to pre-loaded Windows on Acer laptop
I can't believe I had to scroll down so far in the comments section to actually find somebody commenting on what actually happened in this case!?!?! Good Post!
Halo 3 packaging in disk-scratch rumpus
I played HALO on PC and then tried on the console. It felt so slow and unresponsive it was like playing in molasses. I think I'll stick to the keyboard/mouse combo....
NASA boffins resist intrusive security probe
Correct me if I'm wrong but..
Isn't it true that the political appointees working at NASA and even members of congress etc. are exempt from these checks?
Sweden may block Pirate Bay over child porn
Three guesses as to who reported the "child porn"?
Hmmm, I wonder if it could have been the record companies that found such nefarious, evil, website blacklisting files??
Wouldn't it be a lark if somebody found that it was them actually uploading said content in an attempt to have the Bay shut down?
US court says just viewing child porn is not a crime
One Question about the UK Law
So if you had a grudge against a co-worker/boss etc. in the UK, could you simply send them a link that you know would display child porn images, and then have them arrested? Even if they had no intention of ever viewing such images?
I don't understand how looking at an image is a crime, a person can't help what is put before their eyes. The act of searching out child porn required intent however, and makes more sense as a crime....
Investigators find secret White House email accounts
Re: The democrats really can't.....
I love your reasoning.
The White House and their staff should be allowed to conduct all of their illegal government business without any record!
That way the illegal business would never have existed, now would it......
Hear no Evil, See no Evil......
Paris Hilton dragged back into court
Re: Let's Hope
Hear, Hear!
Google pulls essay adverts
If you need to cheat you're not good enough
Somebody has already said it, but it needs to be said again. Not every person is cut out for university. I started in a program with 400 students, only 12 of us graduated 4 years later. If you find the program you are in is too hard for you, then it means you don't have the natural ability to be doing it and you have two choices:
1) Switch to another program more suited to you
2) Work harder to EARN your marks
I can't stand cheating students (I've caught several now) and I also can't stand students who whine that since they paid for their degree they should get it!
Sorry for the rant, but cheating students devalue my degree which I had to work to earn!
US Navy malware infection risked submarine prang
Hardly Seems Fair
Ok, just let me get this straight. This guy purposely sabotages Navy computers which are critical to the US Navy and only gets 12-18 months whereas Gary McKinnon is facing up to 45 years in jail for looking for aliens while not sabotaging any critical computers???
Does this make any sense??
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The inventory update load has been reduced, thereby reducing the overall load on the system. (Bug #18671895)
The name of the agent is now displayed in the Delete Connection dialog for bad connections. (Bug #18361685)
The agent.sh/agent.bat help output has been improved. (Bug #17592046)
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The MySQL Enterprise Monitor Agent installer assumed umask=0022. If a more restrictive permission set was used, such as umask=0077, the agent failed to start. (Bug #18867946)
The y-axis of the Slow Queries graph was incorrectly labelled Queries/Minutes. As of this release, it is correctly labelled Queries/Seconds. (Bug #18748920)
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The Service Manager did not automatically reflect Daylight Savings Time. (Bug #18384580)
Agent queries failed if they were run on a MySQL instance with sql_mode="ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY". An error was returned.
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