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Would you be willing to answer a few brief questions about PlayStation Forums?
I'd say call support and they should be able to give you some information. I read a few people still weren't able to get online. I experienced the Black Ops 2 server not connecting yesterday along with the 2K servers for NBA 2K13 not connecting today. Don't know what's going on to be honest.
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David Smail - Biographical Note
Born 23.4.38 at Putney, London, David
Smail studied philosophy
and psychology at University College London, and was awarded a PhD
in psychology there in 1965.
He entered the National Health Service as a clinical psychologist in 1961,
and in 1964 joined Tom Caine's psychology department at Claybury Hospital in
Essex, which was at that time pioneering the 'therapeutic community' approach
to the treatment of mental disorder. There followed a fruitful period of collaboration
with Dr Caine, resulting in a number of research publications supporting therapeutic
community methods.
David Smail moved to Nottingham in 1968, where he remained as head of clinical
psychology services until 1993. He retired fully from the NHS in 1998. He held
the honorary post of Special Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University
of Nottingham from 1979 until 2000.
He is married with a son and a daughter and has five grandchildren.
David Smail on depression, 1989
he explains some of his doubts about psychotherapy
Interview with Paul Moloney, 2004


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Speed-Andrews is available to talk about her research that was recently published in the journal Cancer Nursing. She plans to add an additional component to her research once the next session of Iyengar yoga classes begin this September and wants to examine how Iyengar yoga affects these women's joint range of motion, upper body strength and balance. Speed-Andrews also hopes one day to study how this type of yoga might benefit women with advanced-stage breast cancer.
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BSU researchers are working on developing a computer chip based on the human brain, funded by a three-year National Science Foundation grant. "By mimicking the brain's billions of interconnections and pattern recognition capabilities, we may ultimately introduce a new paradigm in speed and power, and potentially enable systems that include the ability to learn, adapt and respond to their environment," said BSU Prof. Elisa Barney Smith, who is the principal investigator on the grant. She's working with fellow electrical and computer engineering faculty members Kris Campbell and Vishal Saxena; Cambell's Boise State lab is one of only half a dozen in the world that's capable of the project, BSU reports.
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The men's basketball coaches at Boise State and the University of Idaho have new contracts. The Idaho Board of Education on Thursday approved contracts for BSU coach Leon Rice and UI coach Don Verlin. Rice's five-year deal pays him a base salary of $482,110 next season, with 3 percent raises each year. It also includes bonuses for the team's success both on the court and in the classroom, including a $15,000 bonus if the Broncos win the Mountain West Conference tournament championship. Verlin's three-year deal has his base pay starting at $156,832 and increasing to $169,629 by the final year. He will receive $60,000 in media payments each season and is eligible for bonuses based on his team's success.
Leading Civil War scholars from around the nation will gather at Boise State University on Oct. 25 for a day-long conference entitled, "Why The Civil War Still Matters." The conference is sponsored y the Andrus Center for Public Policy, the Idaho Humanities Council and the Idaho Council for History Education. Advance registration is required; the $25 registration fee, which includes lunch, will be waived for any current high school or college student.
Marc Johnson, president of the Andrus Center, said the conference marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. "If you are a Civil War buff, a student of history, or just want a better understanding of how a conflict 150 years ago shaped, and continues to shape, our history, this event should be on your calendar," Johnson said; there's more info here.
Boise State University is expecting more than 70,000 people on its campus Thursday, as events collide, from regular classes, to two performances of "Les Miserables" at the Morrison Center, to a 4 p.m. women's volleyball game, to the 7 p.m. football matchup against BYU. The campus has 7,700 parking spaces.
As a result, BSU is declaring Thursday to be "Give Your Car a 'Brake' Day," encouraging alternate transportation and offering parking tips in advance of the big crunch. Click below for the university's full news release.
David Adler, a longtime political science professor and constitutional scholar at Idaho State University who for the past two years has served as director of the University of Idaho's James A. and Louise McClure Center for Public Policy Research, has been named the new director of the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University – completing an arc across of all three of the state's universities.
"With our designation by the State Board of Education as Idaho's public affairs university, Dr. Adler's appointment allows us to realize the full extent of our public affairs mission," said Boise State President Bob Kustra. "It not only recognizes the contributions Cecil Andrus has made to his state and nation, but it also allows us to carry out our public affairs mandate with the leadership of such a distinguished teacher, author, lecturer and administrator as Dr. Adler."
The Andrus Center, founded by former four-term Idaho governor and U.S. Interior secretary Cecil Andrus, has focused since 1995 on providing a forum for non-partisan policy discussions on major issues in Idaho and the West. With Adler's appointment, the center will expand its programming to include the Constitution, civic engagement and education, political civility and the American presidency.
The UI has temporarily named Marty Peterson, the just-retired special assistant to the president and the university's former chief lobbyist, as interim head of the McClure Center; you can read my full Sunday column here at spokesman.com, which also includes a look at how North Idaho GOP legislative candidates answered the state party's platform survey.
Idaho's state Board of Education has signed off on a new five-year, $11.7 million contract for Boise State football coach Chris Petersen, the Associated Press reports; the board unanimously approved the new contract at its meeting today in Moscow. Petersen's new package includes a bump in base pay each of the five years plus a series of incentives, according to the AP; they include a $250,000 annual licensing payment for use of Petersen's name and image. Earlier this year, the board approved giving Petersen a $375,000 raise for 2012. The contract is designed to keep Petersen's salary competitive and retain him as the head of the Broncos highly successful football program.
Boise State University will offer classes in Meridian starting in August, at a site formerly occupied by the University of Phoenix. Classes that BSU previously offered at Columbia High School in Nampa will be at the new Meridian site, along with graduate programs in bilingual/ESL education and literacy education; all are aimed at allowing BSU students who live in the west end of the Treasure Valley to complete some bachelor's or master's degrees without traveling to the Boise campus for classes.
"Our desire is to complement and support the courses being offered at College of Western Idaho in Nampa and ease the transition for students who transfer to a four-year program at Boise State," said Peter Risse, associate dean for BSU's Division of Extended Studies. "The new site is ideal with easy access off the interstate and Eagle Road." It's located at 2950 Magic View Lane, Suite 188, in Meridian; there's more info here.
The continued popularity of blue-and-orange Boise State Broncos gear will result in $700,000 for scholarships to BSU this year, the university announced today. "It's been growing," said Mike Reed, BSU bookstore director, with the biggest jump coming in 2007 when Boise State's football wowed the nation at the Fiesta Bowl. That year, merchandise sales from the bookstore and "Bronco Shops" around the area resulted in a record $800,000 for scholarships; it's been in the $600,000 to $700,000 range ever since, Reed said, up from just a couple hundred thousand in the late '90s.
The bookstore and its affiliates return a portion of all profits to the university each year for scholarships. This year's payment will support a freshman-retention scholarship program for BSU students entering their sophomore year in the fall, and two other scholarship programs, for Idaho high school students and for high-achieving students.
Boise State University is receiving the largest charitable gift in the university's nearly 80-year history: A $13 million donation from Micron Technology to the College of Engineering to start a Ph.D program in materials science and engineering. Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, said, "A doctorate program focused on materials science and engineering will strengthen Boise State's ability to develop breakthrough technologies and help create the associated broad-based economic and societal benefits." BSU President Bob Kustra said, "This landmark gift will position Boise State's materials science program as one of the top research engines in the region and we are grateful for Micron's continued support." You can read the university's full announcement here.
Boise State University has set an all-time record with its enrollment this year of 19,993 students, up 5.6 percent from last fall. At the same time, the number of new student applications is up 16 percent. BSU's enrollment has grown 21 percent since 2000 and 48 percent since 1990; there's more info here.
Here's a news item from the AP: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Athletic officials from Boise State and Idaho are talking about options for keeping the rivalry alive after the Broncos switch conferences. Boise State is moving from the Western Athletic Conference to the Mountain West Conference next season. The change could spell the end of a gridiron rivalry the Broncos have dominated in the last decade. But leaders from the two schools are at least talking about future matchups. Vandal Athletic Director Rob Spear said he was contacted last week by Bronco Athletic Director Gene Bleymaier. Spear says Bleymaier is working on a proposal to schedule games beyond 2011. For now, the Broncos and Vandals are slated to meet one more time — in Moscow Nov. 12.
An international academic seminar on Basque immigration will be held at Boise State University July 28-30, at the height of the once-every-five-years "Jaialdi" celebration of Basque culture. The seminar, held in a different European or U.S. location each year, will include scholars from the U.S., Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Spain, France, Italy, Iceland and the Madeira Islands, and presentations will cover everything from the status of the Basque language in America to the origin of Basque surnames.
The symposium is entitled "Euskal Herria Mugaz Gaindi," or "Basque Country Beyond Borders." "It is an honor, but quite appropriate, for Boise State to host such a gathering of the world's leading Basque scholars," said Alberto Santana, director of BSU's Basque Studies Program. Boise State has the largest Basque studies program in the world outside the Basque country.
The Jaialdi festival is scheduled for July 27 to Aug. 1, and several popular downtown Boise hotels already are sold out. The event draws thousands of attendees from around the world; there's more info here.
Boise State University and the University of Idaho will meet on the football field this Saturday amid all the usual rivalry, but a day earlier, the presidents of the two universities say they'll set rivalry aside to talk research. UI President Duane Nellis and BSU President Bob Kustra are scheduled to meet with faculty researchers on Friday for discussion and lunch, joined by state Board of Education members, focusing on collaborative research work between the schools on water and energy issues. Those collaborative efforts include work by the Center for Advance Energy Studies, the Idaho Network for Biomedical Research Excellence, the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research in Idaho, according to the schools.
The research discussion will take place at the Stueckle Sky Center, which, of course, is at Bronco Stadium - the same place the two schools will clash on the field a day later.
A BSU associate professor of physics, Byung Kim, has been awarded a three-year, $240,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his novel scanning probe microscope. "It will be the first instrument of its kind in the world," said Kim. The Korean-born BSU professor has been working on the concept for five years, and recently published a paper about his work in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
The instrument is called a "cantilever based optical interfacial force microscope," or COIFM. It's a radically new twist on interfacial force microscopes that were invented in the 1990s.
"The original tool is innovative, but it is limited to measuring the interaction of a huge number of molecules," Kim explained. "COIFM's single molecular measurements will provide a better understanding of intermolecular interactions, which could lead to the development of drugs and other biomedical applications." The BSU prof has involved undergraduate student researchers in his work.


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Hardware stores 'gaining momentum,' says NPD study
Consumer research from Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group indicates that the home improvement industry grew 2% in the 12 months ended September 2011 compared with 2010. Specialty retailers and online shopping are making significant gains, and hardware stores are also "gaining sales momentum," the research showed.
Home improvement, as tracked by The NPD Group, includes categories in hand tools, power tools, outdoor power equipment, storage and organization, faucets and shower heads, lighting and electrical, fans, and caulk/glue/adhesives.
Specialty retailers increased 18% across the home improvement categories tracked by NPD in 2011 versus 2010 dollars. The categories with the most noteworthy increases in the specialty channel -- storage and organization, and lawn and garden products -- both experienced strong double-digit growth over the past two years.
Hardware stores increased 4% on a dollar basis, compared with the 12 months ended September 2011. While other channels, like warehouse home centers and warehouse clubs showed modest growth in the 12 months ended September 2011, it wasn't enough to keep up with specialty and hardware store growth, the study said.
Online shopping has also seen significant growth, with dollar sales up 24% over 2010. Online now represents 5% of all home improvement sales, but it is even more important in the specialty channel, representing 20% of those sales, with kitchen and bath specialty stores leading the way in the 12 months ended September 2011. Though still accounting for the lion's share of the market, home improvement brick-and-mortar sales are down over the last two years.
According to The NPD Group's consumer tracking service, while price continues to be the top factor in selecting a retailer, a quarter of home improvement consumers now tell NPD their primary reason for shopping at a given retailer is that it is close to their home. And, for consumers shopping in specialty stores, selection and availability are more important than proximity to their homes.
"Since the start of the economic downturn we've entered a new mind-set as consumers," said Kevin Gilbert, director, The NPD Group. "People are getting back to their roots and putting an emphasis on supporting local, homegrown businesses. The aging population is becoming disinterested in traveling outside their home town to a large store, especially with rising gas prices."


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What is the working title of your book?The Children of Anu, Book Two of the Karen Wilson Chronicles.Where did the idea come from for the book?This being the second book in the series, I wanted to write about the concept of a lesser evil keeping a greater evil at bay. When that lesser evil was defeated in the first book, what greater evil rises to take its place?What genre does your book fall under?Dark Urban Fantasy.Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?There are only a few actors I had in mind for the characters. Most of the visages of my characters are based loosely on people I know.Karen – 20's brunette Jennifer Lawrence Aaron – 20's Michael Shanks (SG-1)David – 20's Adam Rodriguez (CSI: Miam)John Corso – 30's Johnny DeppLuke Coleman – 30's Gary ColeWhat is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?When one evil falls, another one takes its place and threatens the city of Kendrick itself and all of the supernaturals within it. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?Self published. It will be published by Apocalypse Ink Productions (my company), edited by John Helfers, with cover art by Amber Clark of Stopped Motion Photography who did the cover of Caller Unknown.How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?As it was originally a serial short story collection told over twelve months… it took about ten months to write the thirteen stories in this book. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?I'd like to say Seanan McGuire's October Daye series… but there's not enough fairies for that. Or the Kat Richardson's Greywalker series… but it's not detective enough for that. I think it is closer to Jim Butcher's Dresden Files with all of the different creatures, supernaturals, and secret societies… but there are no vampires in the Karen Wilson Chronicles at all. I mean… none. Who or What inspired you to write this book?The story inspired me. The idea of a continuing storyline told in a collection, a mosaic novel. This being the second in the series, its theme is "Consequences." The first book's theme was "Revelations." I wanted to tell the story of what happens after the heroes win. All actions and revelations have consequences. I wanted to see where that would go now that places were set, secrets revealed, and deeds done.What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?The Children of Anu is a book about the bad guys doing what they planned to do and the heroes trying to figure the plan out. The heroes don't know what's going on. Not every ally is good. Not every villain is evil. Also, Kendrick is rich in conspiracy, hidden worlds, and supernatural creatures. This is the kind of story that could be going on around as you walk out your front door. The Karen Wilson Chronicles is my love letter to the supernatural Pacific Northwest.Caller Unknown is available now. The Children of Anu will be out in August 2013.I'm tagging: Ivan Ewert, Erik Scott de Bie, A.E. Marling, Lily Cohen-Moore, and J.L. Doty
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I am at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Canterbury campus. See the rest of the Social Policy and Sociology teams.
My work focuses on embodiment. In The Body in Health and Social Care, Palgrave 2006, I reflected on the relevance of new theorising in relation to the body for a series of policy relevant areas. These included: age and ageing, disability, medicine and health care, diet and health, social care, public and private space.
The main focus of my current work is clothing and age. I have a series of interconnected projects that explore the role of clothing and dress in the changing constitution of age. These are described in greater detail below and the Clothing and Age website.
I have also been particularly interested in analysing carework as a form of bodywork. I am co-editor with others of a special issue of Sociology of Health and Illness on bodywork.
I joined the teaching department at Kent in 1996. Previously I had been in the Social Policy department of the University of Hull. My earlier social policy career was in two research units: Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of York, and Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at University of Kent. Originally I trained as a sociologist at LSE where I did my Masters and PhD on vegetarianism.
I completed my PhD in Sociology and MSc (Econ) Sociology with conversion year at the London School of Economics and my BA Hons in History at the University of Durham.
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The main focus of my work is embodiment and age. My interests cross the sociology/social policy divide. Much of my recent work has been concerned with bringing sociological insights to areas of social policy that are not traditionally analysed in these terms, notably social care.
My current work is located in cultural gerontology. I am co-editing for Routledge The Handbook of Cultural Gerontology which will bring together key authors and subjects in this emerging field.
I am the joint convenor, with Dr Wendy Martin of Brunel University, of the British Sociological Society Study Group BSA Study Group: Ageing, Body and Society. The group has an active programme of seminars and day conferences with international speakers.
Clothing, age and the body
I am currently engaged in a series of interconnected research projects addressing the role of clothing and dress in the changing constitution of age.
The research I am currently writing up, funded by ESRC, explores the intersection between ageing, the body and dress from the perspectives of both older women and the fashion system, addressing debates about identity and consumption.
Related papers (PDF files):
Consumption, babyboomers and later life
The research in conjunction with Dr Shinobu Majima and funded by British Academy, explores the spending patterns of cohorts of older women, 1961-2006, in relation to clothing, hairdressing and cosmetics.
Dementia and dress
I am starting a new ESRC funded project on dementia and dress, exploring questions around embodiment, identity and the self.
I was co–convener of the ESRC Seminar series: Bodywork: Critical Themes and Future Agendas. Bodywork here is employment focusing directly on the bodies of others whether patients, clients customers – manipulating, touching, assessing, cleaning adjusting and otherwise managing bodies. Such hands-on work is a component in a variety of occupations. I am co-editor with Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Cohen and Sarah Nettleton of the 2011 Monograph and special issue of Sociology of Health and Illness on this subject.
The body in social care
I have a particular interest in the body in social care and in 2000 published an analysis of the provision of personal care: Bathing, the Body and Community Care, Routledge. This was based on an ESRC-funded study of personal care that looked at provision from the viewpoint of both providers (careworkers and recipients), older and disabled people.
Informal care
I have written on informal or family based care, particular in relation to the presence or otherwise of support for carers and its effectiveness: Carers Perceived: Policy and Practice in Informal Care, Open University. (PDF) I have also engaged in comparative work on this subject.
Food and diets
I have a long term interest in the sociology of food. I have written on the history and ideology of the vegetarianism in Britain in the nineteenth end twentieth centuries. I have recently contributed to an historical analysis of Modern Asceticism that encompasses food practices. I interested in obesity and eating disorders, the control of the body and food, and food and older people.
I have undertaken research on a range of subjects including:
My interests cross the borders of sociology and social policy and I am keen to supervise students in the areas of my past and current research, as well as in fields where I have a reading and research interest but am not currently doing research. These include:
I would be particularly interested in supervising studies on the following:
If you have a proposal in these areas and you are interested in studying at the University of Kent, please email me to discuss further.
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I teach a variety of subjects across the school. My specialist areas include: The Social Politics of Food and Social Care. I also teach on postgraduate courses and act as a PhD supervisor.
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Thomas Frank does not like Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln. Not one bit. The heroes are not pure in motive; the 13th amendment was not born from a virginal doctrine of racial equality. The President and his team had to bribe their way to victory, forcing men of conviction like Thadddeus Stevens to disclaim their own core beliefs in order to assure the amendment's passage in Congress. Well, never. Frank's specific beef is with historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin, who seem to celebrate corruption and pass on to future generations the idea that Great Ends are indeed justified by their unclean means.
But when has American politics ever been clean? Not in 1800, after the death of George Washington, when every faction Washington worried about was let loose, and when such grand men as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson cut deals to secure their own power. Teddy Roosevelt was an incorruptible police commissioner of New York City, but he sold his soul to politics when he backed the notably corrupt James Blaine in the 1884 presidential election over the genial but less reliable Grover Cleveland. "The magnificent liar from the state of Maine" won Roosevelt's vote because Roosevelt's political career would have been over had he not done so.
And so on, and so forth, with liberal heroes like F.D.R. and Lyndon B. Johnson being supreme commanders of the art of American politics, where a little bit of grift and graft has always greased wheels.
I don't like corruption, and I don't celebrate it. These days, we rightfully police corruption and many of our institutions are much more professional than they were. (We have a ways to go.) Today's analog might be deep cynicism and opportunism. But American politics has never, ever been pure. And American politics has worked, too, despite the corruption in some cases, and because of it in others.
What frustrates us now about politics is not a re-emergence of a strain of corruption-cum-cynicism, two pulsating veins the head of the body politic.
What's bothersome is that our familiar politics does not work. Nothing's getting done. The Republican Party's doctrinal and demographic narrowing -- features external to the daily practice of politics -- are gumming up the machine.
So long as politics works, Americans in general seem to tolerate a certain amount of cynicism and petty vote-buying and glad-handling.
When it does not work, those features of the system become paramount flaws. It is those facets of the system that sustain the powerful interests at the expense of the few.
I think that if Barack Obama's health care plan included a public option, the back-room deals that produced it would not be as universally reviled by liberals as they now are. The ends justify the means.
Right now, President Obama is taking time to push for an assault weapons ban that he knows will not pass. Why is he doing this? He is cynical: he wants to secure more meaningful and consequential reforms using the assault weapons ban as bait. So he talks about it and makes it seem more important than it is. That's not pure. And it might not work. But this is his strategy to maximize the real-world impact of gun control.
Politics without dirty deals is not politics. It's something else. It's not something we've seen here; there are no historical antecedents for it. Purely deliberative reasoning, shorn of self-interest, is an academic exercise. Let it by all means by an aspirational ideal. Call out cynicism where you see it, but don't lump all cynicism and opportunism together. Be wary of judging what is with what you think must be. If humanism on a grand scale is your goal, you aren't going to get there without getting mud on your jersey.
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Definitions for NUDEnud, nyud
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word NUDE
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
nudenud, nyud(adj.; n.)nud•er, nud•est
(adj.)naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
without the usual coverings, furnishings, etc.; bare.
(of a photograph, painting, statue, etc.) representing the nude human figure.
Category: Fine Arts
lacking some legal essential:
a nude contract.
Category: Law
of the color nude.
(n.)a sculpture, painting, etc., of a nude human figure.
Category: Fine Arts
an unclothed human figure.
the condition of being unclothed:
to sleep in the nude.
a light grayish yellow brown to brownish pink color.
Origin of nude:
1525–35; < L nūdus; see naked
Princeton's WordNet
nude, nude painting(noun)
a painting of a naked human figure
without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude')
"they swam in the nude"
nude, nude person(noun)
a naked person
nude, nude sculpture, nude statue(adj)
a statue of a naked human figure
bare, au naturel(p), naked, nude(adj)
completely unclothed
"bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
nude(adjective)nud, nyud
not wearing clothes
a nude model
nude(noun)nud, nyud
a piece of art showing a naked person, or the person shown
an unusual watercolor nude
nudenud, nyud
wearing no clothes
He walks around the house in the nude.
A painting, other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting (a) human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.
The marketing rule 'nude sells' spread from verbal to visual mainstream media in the 20th century
(absolute use, with article: the nude) The state of total nudity
without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
of a beige or tan color, evoking bare skin.
Origin: Entered English 1531 as a legal term "unsupported, not formally attested," , from nudus 'naked, bare'.
Webster Dictionary
bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue
naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. See Nudum pactum
Nude is the third studio album by the band VAST, released on Carson Daly's independent label 456 Entertainment. It was released on February 24, 2004 and would be the last album not released on his own independent label, 2blossoms. The album is made up of remastered and remixed demos from the online Turquoise & Crimson releases. A European version of the album was also released, which includes two bonus tracks and a sixteen page booklet housed in a cardboard slipcase. The bonus tracks included are Falling from the Sky and I Woke Up L.A.. With the release of Turquoise & Crimson, the album was made obsolete, because the double album featured all of the songs on Nude, remastered from their unfinished versions released online, and mixed with many new songs. Crosby marketed the album through his own independent label after his unhappiness with 456 Entertainment. He later claimed that releasing Nude on 456 Entertainment was a "disaster, and not a very good idea". During the promotional phase of the album's release, the band played on Last Call with Carson Daly and sung their single "Thrown Away".
The New Hacker's Dictionary
Said of machines delivered without an operating system (compare bare metal). "We ordered 50 systems, but they all arrived nude, so we had to spend an extra weekend with the installation disks." This usage is a recent innovation reflecting the fact that most IBM-PC clones are now delivered with an operating system pre-installed at the factory. Other kinds of hardware are still normally delivered without OS, so this term is particular to PC support groups.
Anagrams of NUDE
Translations for NUDE
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
without clothes; naked.
- naak, kaalAfrikaans
- عارٍ، بِدون ثِيابArabic
- голBulgarian
- nuPortuguese (BR)
- nahýCzech
- nacktGerman
- nøgenDanish
- γυμνόςGreek
- desnudoSpanish
- alastiEstonian
- لخت؛ برهنهFarsi
- alastonFinnish
- nuFrench
- עֵרוֹםHebrew
- नंगाHindi
- golCroatian
- meztelenHungarian
- telanjangIndonesian
- nakinnIcelandic
- nudoItalian
- 裸のJapanese
- 벌거벗은Korean
- nuogasLithuanian
- kailsLatvian
- telanjangMalay
- naaktDutch
- naken, barNorwegian
- nagiPolish
- لخت؛ برهنهPersian
- لوڅ،بربنډPashto
- nuPortuguese
- golRomanian
- обнажённый; голыйRussian
- nahýSlovak
- nagSlovenian
- nagSerbian
- nakenSwedish
- เปลือยกายThai
- çıplakTurkish
- 裸體的Chinese (Trad.)
- голий, непокритийUkrainian
- ننگا، عرياںUrdu
- trầnVietnamese
- 裸体的Chinese (Simp.)
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Discover one of the most spectacular sites in Petra - the treasury. This has been carved out of the sandstone mountain. We will visit the Roman theatre, the Royal tombs and more...
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Visit west Thebes; Valley of the Kings, Memnon colossal statues, and Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Lunch in a nice restaurant in Luxor, and then go to visit the huge temples of Karnak.
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Visit Jerusalem, Mt. Of Olives with its beautiful view over the Old City & the Temple Mount. If possible we will visit Gethsemane where Jesus spent the night before his arrest. Discover this and more!
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Visit Cairo and Luxor; the biggest and most exotic Metropolis in Africa, with the famous pyramids, thereafter Luxor with the world's biggest outdoor museum.
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Try a boat trip with unforgettable snorkeling in Ras Mohamed; the first national park in Egypt. It contains over 130 different sorts of corall reefs and over 1000 different types of exotic fish!
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Under the hood: ActiveRecord::Base.find, Part 3
Posted by Jamis on November 30, 2006 @ 10:39 PM
Dynamic finders are one of my favorite bits of syntactic sugar in Rails. Suppose you have a form that people can use to log into your application. It submits the username and a password, and you then need to take those data and find the corresponding user.
Although there are several ways to do this, the best way is to use a dynamic finder, like so:
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user = User.find_by_username_and_password(params[:username], params[:password]) if user.nil? # no such user, let them retry else # log them in end
In this next installment of "Under the Hood: ActiveRecord::Base.find", we'll explore the implementation of dynamic finders.
The magic, as with most DSL's, occurs in a method_missing hook. However, you'll find that there are actually two method_missing hooks on ActiveRecord::Base. The first is for the class, the second is for instances of the class. For dynamic finders, the class-level hook is used, since we are sending the
find_by_username_and_password message to the class, not to an instance of the class.
A quick review for those unfamiliar with method_missing: any time you invoke a method on an object, and the object does not have (or "respond to") that method, Ruby will invoke a method called
method_missing on that object. The default method_missing implementation just raises a NoMethodError exception, but you can implement your own method_missing method to do some clever tricks, like ActiveRecord does to handle dynamic finders.
As of revision 5593, the class-level method_missing hook is on line 1191 of base.rb. It starts out something like this:
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def method_missing(method_id, *arguments) if match = /find_(all_by|by)_([_a-zA-Z]\w*)/.match(method_id.to_s) finder, deprecated_finder = determine_finder(match), determine_deprecated_finder(match) attribute_names = extract_attribute_names_from_match(match) super unless all_attributes_exists?(attribute_names) attributes = construct_attributes_from_arguments(attribute_names, arguments) #...
Any time an ActiveRecord class receives message (method) it does not recognize, it first tries to match that method against the regular expression you see above. Note the two captures in that regex: the first captures the "all_by" or "by" text, and the second captures the "and"-delimited list of attributes to search by.
If the method name matches, we next try to determine which finder to use. The finder says whether we should find all matches ("find_all_by_xyz") or only the first match ("find_by_xyz"). I'm going to ignore that whole "deprecated" finder part, since those will go away eventually and will no longer be relevant. But let's look at the definition for determine_finder:
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def determine_finder(match) match.captures.first == 'all_by' ? :find_every : :find_initial end
It just looks at the first capture in the match, and returns the name of the method we need to call to satisfy the query. We'll use that later.
Next, the method_missing hook tries to determine the names of the attributes that we are going to query by. It does that by passing the match to extract_attribute_names_from_match, which looks like this:
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def extract_attribute_names_from_match(match) match.captures.last.split('_and_') end
Basically, it just takes the last capture in the match, and splits it on the text "and". This returns an array of strings, naming the attributes in our query.
We don't want to allow just any attribute names, though. We need to make sure they really exist in the table in question, and we do that by calling the all_attributes_exist? method, passing in that array we just built:
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def all_attributes_exists?(attribute_names) attribute_names.all? { |name| column_methods_hash.include?(name.to_sym) } end
The Array#all? method returns true if the associated block returns true for every element of the array. In this case, we're testing to see if every element of the array is included in the column_methods_hash.
If that's all good, we then create a hash that maps attribute names to attribute values, merging the list of attribute names with the list of arguments to the method. This is done via construct_attributes_from_arguments:
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def construct_attributes_from_arguments(attribute_names, arguments) attributes = {} attribute_names.each_with_index { |name, idx| attributes[name] = arguments[idx] } attributes end
This looks like it could be done with Array#zip to save a few lines, but alas, it cannot. The reason is that the arguments list may have one element more than the attributes list—an options hash, such as you could pass to ActiveRecord#find. (Such little details inevitably complicate what you would think should be a trivial solution.)
So. At this point we now have a hash that maps attribute names (username and password, in our case) to values (params[:username] and params[:password]).
Before we go querying the database, we need to consider any extra options that the caller may have passed in. Those extra options will be in the argument slot immediately following the one corresponding to the last named attribute:
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case extra_options = arguments[attribute_names.size] when nil # ... when Hash # ... else # ... end
In our case, no extra options were passed in, so we'll take the
nil branch. If an option hash was passed in, the second branch would be taken, and if anything else was given, the last branch (using deprecated finders) would be taken. We get off easy with our example, though:
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when nil options = { :conditions => attributes } set_readonly_option!(options) ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silence { send(finder, options) }
We build the options hash trivially, just setting the :conditions key to the attributes hash we constructed, setting the readonly option based on the current scope settings, and then invoking the appropriate finder (either find_initial or find_every, depending on what the name of the method was—in our specific case, it will be find_initial). Don't ask me why Deprecation.silence is being used there…I have no clue.
The finder call will then come back with the record (or records) that matched our query. In our example at the start of this article, either the user matching the given username and password will be returned, or nil will be returned, and we can test and branch accordingly.
Pretty straight-forward! Alas, this is about the last of the "simple" aspects of ActiveRecord#Base.find that we can investigate. Future articles will delve into more complex aspects, like eager-loading and scoping.
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1. Grant Hutchins said...
Thanks for the continued insights!
Array#zip works for me even when the arrays don't line up, tested in Ruby 1.8.5 at least:
=> ["first", "last"]
=> ["grant", "hutchins", {:contrived_example=>true}]
=> [["first", "grant"], ["last", "hutchins"]]
=> {"last"=>"hutchins", "first"=>"grant"}
2. Zack said...
Speaking of syntactic sugar don't you think the construct_attributes_from_arguments() method screams for a returning clause…
def construct_attributes_from_arguments(attribute_names, arguments)
returning attributes = {} do
attribute_names.each_with_index { |name, idx| attributes[name] = arguments[idx] }
3. Sandro Paganotti said...
Thanks for this article, i found it very interesting ! Just one question: why rails core team used method_missing instead of reflection to generate finders ?
4. Jamis said...
We can't use reflecting to generate these dynamic finders, because they could be any combination of all attributes on the table, and that could be a very large number. Rather than waste cycles building thousands of methods that will (in all likelihood) never be called, ActiveRecord just waits until they are actually called and implements them on the fly via method_missing.
5. Jamis said...
Grant, thanks for pointing that out! I wasn't aware that zip was safe to use with arrays with unequal lengths. That would cut that method down to a single line.
Zack, you're right, it's a prime candidate for Kernel#returning. Though, with Array#zip, the need for it is obviated.
6. Charlie said...
Thanks for the article! One follow up on the reflection question from Sandro. It would seem that you could very easily add the method to the class the first time it is invoked. This would make subsequent calls faster. How much faster I really don't have any idea (might not be worth it).
Just a thought, Charlie
7. Jamis said...
It does make a slight difference in speed, but not, I think, enough to warren the extra machinery involved. If you are calling something like User.find_by_username_and_password over and over, frequently, you would probably do better to use find(:all, :conditions => {}) directly. Myself, I only use dynamic finders maybe once or (at most) twice per request. The bottleneck in most cases is the database, not Rails.
8. Matt said...
Thanks for another great post Jamis! Your under the hood series are always very useful. It's a nice treat that you include comments about why the decisions within the code were made the way they were, as well as showing the call paths.
9. Martin Smith said...
Hi Jamis,
Very nice series.
From a purely selfish point of view could I suggest the next step in this series?
Model creation after query, especially how the columns get turned into attributes and the difference between the normal assessors and the before_type_cast versions.