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"Not since Flags of Our Fathers--no, make that, Not since Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory--no, make that, Not ever--has an American nonfiction writer reached into history and produced a testament of young men in terrible battle with the stateliness, the mastery of cadence, the truthfulness and the muted heartbreak of James Carl Nelson in The Remains of Company D. I wish I'd had the honor of working on this book with him. But then, he didn't need me."---Ron Powers, New York Times bestselling ...
"Not since Flags of Our Fathers--no, make that, Not since Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory--no, make that, Not ever--has an American nonfiction writer reached into history and produced a testament of young men in terrible battle with the stateliness, the mastery of cadence, the truthfulness and the muted heartbreak of James Carl Nelson in The Remains of Company D. I wish I'd had the honor of working on this book with him. But then, he didn't need me."---Ron Powers, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Flags of Our Fathers and author of Mark Twain: A Life
"A beautifully crafted anthem to doomed American youth, James Carl Nelson's The Remains of Company D is a must-read for World War I enthusiasts and those looking for a damn good war book."---Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of The Longest Winter and The Bedford Boys
"War is always hell, but the unprecedented carnage on World War I's Western Front was the stuff of nightmares. The American boys of Company D were on the front lines, and James Carl Nelson has combined previously unpublished first-person accounts, prodigious research, and vivid, you-are-there prose into one of the great books on the subject. This is a Band of Brothers for World War I."---James Donovan, author of A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn--the Last Great Battle of the American West
"James Carl Nelson's book is a great contribution to AEF history. He has done an incredible amount of research in order to convey the experience of one group of doughboys...and to tell their story through their own words.….He reminds us that these long-forgotten battles of ninety years ago were as hard fought as any before or since, and that our country was well served by the young men who fought them. Get this book. It puts a very human face on the experience of Americans on the Western Front."---Dr. Paul Herbert, executive director of the Cantigny First Division Foundation
Haunted by an ancestor's tale of near death on a distant battlefield, James Carl Nelson set out in pursuit of the scraps of memory of his grandfather's small infantry unit. Years of travel across the world led to the retrieval of unpublished personal papers, obscure memoirs, and communications from numerous Doughboys as well as original interviews of the descendents of his grandfather's comrades in arms. The result is a compelling tale of battle rooted in new primary sources, and one man's search for his grandfather's legacy in a horrifying maelstrom that is today poorly understood and nearly forgotten.
The Remains of Company D follows the members of Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, United States First Division, from enlistment to combat to the effort to recover their remains, focusing on the three major battles at Cantigny, Soissons, and in the Meuse-Argonne and the effect these horrific battles had on the men.
This is an important and powerful tale of the different destinies, personalities, and motivations of the men in Company D and a timeless portrayal of men at war.
"One of the best. Nelson is an excellent stylist…he knows how to tell a story with a capital 'S'." –The Star Tribune
"A beautifully-crafted anthem to doomed American youth, James Carl Nelson's The Remains of Company D is a must-read." —Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of The Longest Winter and The Bedford Boys
"Not since Henry Berry's Make the Kaiser Dance has there been an intimate history like this one to illustrate the doughboys' contributions in World War I. The story of Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, First Division, is one not soon to be forgotten…The author's meticulous and persistent research in tracking down the descendants of the combatants to uncover their letters and diaries makes his work the standard for research into the story of the American Expeditionary Force. Essential for all students of modern war." –Library Journal
A Doughboy
He never made it to Berzy. Hell, he never even made it to Ploisy.
He went lights-out somewhere just beyond the Paris-Soissons Road, while the air rained bullets and his company—the survivors, anyway—rolled on through the German line, shooting and yelling and swearing and falling, and disappeared into the smoke and dust and fading evening light of a hot July day.
He took his last look at them, at their sweat-stained, khaki-clad backs and their tin hats, as the shadows began to lengthen across the wheat, as the pup-pup-pup of the machine guns rose to a ghastly cacophony, as the rolling barrage he was chasing raced farther out of reach, like a carrot on a stick, and as a single machine-gun bullet pierced his blouse just above his left pelvic brim, bounced off his spine, rattled through his intestines, and then exited above his right hip.
And it was then, as he would tell some insurance clerk in 1919, he fell unconscious in the wheat, as his "unit"—to which he'd belonged for just a month—stepped over him and continued its advance down the sloping, deadly vale into the village of Ploisy, and slightly beyond.
He would awake hours later to the sound of—what? "Intermittent machine gun fire," one report says. To the sounds of a blubbering confession, my father would tell me many years later, as another from his company who lay paralyzed, too, there in the wheat poured out to the Old Man his confessions to having performed every kind of criminal perversion, rape and murder and God knows what.
In the morning, as the sounds of battle rose steadily with the sun, John Nelson had been roughly kicked by an Algerian stretcher-bearer searching for life among the brown clumps of young Americans in the wheat, and he had groaned, and achieved his random salvation on, and his escape from, that terrible battlefield, the one just south of Soissons, where the tide of war was turning in the Allies' favor even as he was being hustled to the back lines.
He was carried to a field station in a cave at Missy-aux-Bois, and then trucked to Field Hospital No. 12, in the village of Pierrefonds-les-Bains, where blood-spattered, exhausted surgeons plied their scalpels and bone saws in an old hotel and, before the battle was done, on tables spilled into the streets.
Once he had been patched together, there ensued an odyssey through hospitals in France as well as the United States, and on April 1, 1919, the army deemed him okay, and handed him $60 and an honorable discharge, and a swift kick out of the gates of Camp Grant.
He returned to his $32-a-week job as a painter in Chicago, to which he'd first traveled in 1911, after leaving Sweden and hopping the Lusitania from England to the gates at Ellis Island. And he would live long enough to send his own son into another, second, world war, and to wear lime-green pants with white shoes and to watch men walk on the moon, and to have six grandchildren, of which I was the last.
But in all the days I knew him, he never talked about them, never mentioned his fellow Swede, Swanson, whose body wasn't found until 1933, just a collection of bare bones by then, wrapped in burlap and scattered with three unknowns in a shallow grave in Berzy-le-Sec.
He never mentioned the Norwegian, Eidsvik, whose body went home by boat though the fjords in 1922, nor did he talk of Ralph Pol or Orville Ballard, or any of those with whom he had crossed the Paris-Soissons Road that day and who had also lived—Baucaro and Bronston and Vedral, the tough Bohemian sergeant. He talked a little about that day over the years, but words weren't his currency, and so he had left us with the happy ending, and no beginning or middle, and kept the seamy part, the details of that day, to himself.
On the day he turned one hundred years old I surprised him, and found the ancient doughboy daydreaming in his tiny cell at the retirement home. He was stretched out on his bed, hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling when I walked in. He had never weighed more than 150 pounds, and he was shrunken now with great age, his body a tiny island in the sea of his bed, and lost as well in the blue wool sweater he always wore, no matter the season.
His senses were shot, his eyesight blurred with cataracts, but his mind was still sharp, and he knew someone was there. He startled and sat up as if he'd been caught doing something wrong, and directed me with a wave of his hand to a chair, on which sat a box full of cards and letters. "Read them to me," he said.
There were cards from the few old Swedes back in Chicago who hadn't yet faded away, some from old neighbors, some from God knows who, and it struck me for the first time that he'd lived a whole life I knew little of, though I'd known him thirty-six years by then.
All of those names, all of those unknown well-wishers, added up to a map of where he'd been, touchstones gathered over a century, remnants of his small immigrant drama, people who'd somehow been touched by him enough to remember a birthday and buy a card and walk it down to the post office and acknowledge an old man imprisoned by time, and by his memories.
And now that I know some of the story, more than he ever let on, I wonder what it was he'd been thinking of when I walked into his room, just a few hours before the little party, with coffee, and cake, and balloons, and all the family, even his wife of seventy years, Karin, who was mostly confined to a separate, darker wing of the home since a series of strokes had taken most of her memory.
I wonder now if he'd been thinking of them, the others, the ones who hadn't ever figured in his short, sweet story of near death and salvation on a foreign battlefield long ago; I wonder if he was conjuring the faces of the other boys and all that he saw at the Paris-Soissons Road, images caught from the corner of the eye while running headlong to oblivion: the dead ones, the wounded, the dying horses, and perhaps a broken, smoldering tank.
And I wonder if he was retracing his last few steps, going over his tracks in the wheat, following a wave of khaki soldiers stretched out from north to south in front of him, some stumbling, some toppling, some staggering back with hands to their throats, others on their knees, bleeding.
I wonder now if his one hundred years had been condensed into those few terrifying snapshots, images he'd tamped down over the years into his subconscious, demons let loose like a creeping barrage only in moments of weakness, of which I believe he had very few, though I know now that he had some.
I wonder if he was thinking of these things that day, of the other boys, of Misiewicz and Ballard and Cole, and of the great turn that had been made in his fate, and of how strange and wonderful it had been that he had made it through. I wonder if he was thinking of these things, but of course now I'll never know.
My outfit started advancing on July 18 and moved forward several miles in the first two days. About six o'clock on the 19th I was struck by machine gun fire from our flank, was knocked unconscious and did not come to until about midnight. Was picked up by stretcher bearers in the morning and taken to a first-aid station.
What was left of John Nelson's division, the 1st, was home and parading in Washington on the day he told the above brief story of woe and near disaster to a clerk with the department of war-risk insurance.
Broken, and still hobbling on that day in 1919, he'd come to seek recompense for having crossed the Paris-Soissons Road and seen the things he saw, and for having spent that long night in the wheat among the dead and dying. It wasn't until after he died that I found the record, and it struck me how little the story had changed, how so very little had been added to it, in the seventy-five years he'd had to tell it, again and again.
He had never shown much weakness, even for life, always displaying just the tough crust developed in another century, another millennium, enveloping layers that had their start in childhood, on a small farm in southern Sweden, where he was born on March 15, 1892, the sixth of eleven children sired by Nils Jonsson, who in maddening Scandinavian symmetry was the son of Jon Nilsson, who was the son of Nils Jonsson, who was the son of yet another Jon Nilsson, the son of a Nils whose last name is lost to history, all of whom had labored on a small patch of ground called Kangsleboda, outside of the flyspeck village of Langhult.
This had gone on for generations, at least since 1735, when John Nelson's great-great-grandfather and namesake had been born at Langhult. All I know of this Jon Nilsson was that he lived to be eighty years old and that when he died in 1815 he had amassed a fortune consisting of twenty-four clay pots, no cash, no silver, fourteen animals, a smattering of copper, brass, and iron tools, and two books—one, no doubt, being a Bible.
The local church records say that it all went to his wife, Ingeborg, and his son Nils and daughter Sophia. "Widow to keep all except husband's clothes that now belong to the folks to auction off," his will said, and someone had added the note: "Sophia is lame. She cannot take care of herself. Nils has decided to take care of her and her property as well as he can. If not some other relative to do so."
Hard times hadn't softened much by the time Kangsleboda was passed to Nils Jonsson, my great-grandfather, in the 1870s. He had by then married Ingrid Kristin Bengtsdotter, who was the daughter of Bengt Jonsson, who of course was the son of Jon Bengtsson, son of Bengt Jonsson.
The couple's firstborn, Pelle August, arrived in 1876, and lived just two years. Bengt—who else?—followed, as did Pelle Johan, Axel, Amanda, Olivia, Jon, Carl Olaf, Viktor, Ernest, and lastly Sven Alfred, spit out when the well-worn Ingrid was forty-six years old and Nils was fifty-three.
At the age of twelve, Jon Nilsson's parents obtained an apprenticeship for him with a local painter, and so he began his life's work, and it was while engaged as a house painter that he saw his first automobile, a rare, shared memory which always brought a guffaw and the line, "I nearly fell off my ladder."
By nineteen a journeyman painter, and with his older brother Axel already having left for America to lumberjack in the Northwest, Jon Nilsson decided it was time to seek his own fortune. He sailed for London and then for the United States, and walked up the dock at Ellis Island on May 5, 1911.
And before too long, and for peculiarly American reasons, Jon Nilsson became John Nelson, alien resident of the United States of America. He traveled first to Chicago, where there was a friend of a friend with whom to stay, and at some point, in 1914 or so, he moved to Denver and hung flocked wallpaper in saloons and boarding houses for fifty cents an hour.
But when he heard he could earn an extra nickel an hour back in Chicago, he returned to the Windy City—which is where the draft caught up with him in October 1917. And so it was that he became a doughboy—and it was from such origins that so many doughboys came—and was trained at Camp Grant, in northern Illinois, and then shipped to France, and patriotically took his bullet, and was left for dead, as a battle raged over and beyond him, on the second day of the Allied offensive that turned the tide of the war.
He was taciturn, almost silent, a five foot eight inch tower of measured indifference, and as a child I feared him as much as I wondered at the few relics that suggested his story—the army-surplus grenade on the mantel we all wanted to believe had come from his war; the Purple Heart hanging in his den over a picture of Lady Liberty and a kneeling doughboy I was certain was him; and the queer, circular dog tags, with his ridiculously simple name and the numbers 2061839 etched in the silver.
And for many years it was those few things, and his few words about Soissons, that seemed the sum of his great, long-ago adventure.
But I know now there was much more to the story than he'd ever let on, that it loomed in his consciousness throughout each year, throughout all of his many years, and that it was most certainly there every July 19, when Karin would arrange for someone else to watch the kids, and she and her husband would take the day to be alone, to go for a drive in the country, maybe to picnic, maybe sit by a river and just be, just breathe, watch the clouds, and listen to the humming mosquitoes, no words of that day spoken, and none needed.
I didn't know that they did this until I was in my midtwenties, when my grandmother casually mentioned it in a note of thanks for a book on the First World War I'd sent to John Nelson, and it struck me as so odd, yet so pure, such a lifting of a veil.
And I was stunned, and pleased, somehow, to discover that John Nelson kept a rite, a personal Easter—and I was just as happy to find that the heart of a sentimentalist beat somewhere deep down beneath that hard crust.
And thinking now of that small anniversary he kept, that second birthday, I like to think he kept it as well for the others, that maybe he said a few words to himself those July nineteenths when he rose, and thought of a face, or half a name, and of what had happened as they crossed the Paris-Soissons Road. I like to think that keeping July nineteenth sacred was as much for them as it was for himself, but of course I'll never know.
John Nelson lived to be one hundred and one, dying on a cold December day in 1993, with no stretcher bearers around to save him this time, not even a pallbearer to lift his frail form and lay him down to the sound of taps. Instead they shipped his body to Chicago, where he was buried without ceremony.
When he died, I inherited his dog tags. His story, as well, passed to me. It was mine to do with as I wished, to improve upon and maybe finish, or to just let alone. But for reasons I still can hardly articulate, the image of him there in the wheat has haunted my own life, as it certainly haunted his.
Though as a child I'd repeated his tale by rote to anyone who would listen, and often on hot, restless nights when sleep wouldn't come thought of him lying there, it took years, and my own ascent into manhood, and the birth of my own children, to finally grasp the import of the story, and how it had shadowed his seemingly endless days afterward, and how my family's otherwise banal immigrant saga had been interrupted, and almost curtailed, at a place called Soissons.
But it wasn't until he died and let go his ownership of the experience that I felt free to pursue the story. And it was while pursuing it that I stumbled upon the names of the others, and realized I had perhaps stumbled upon the rest of his story, and some of the things he would not, or could not, articulate about what had happened to him there, in the wheat, on that hot July day.
The names had come from a museum, and were there on a muster roll for Company D of the 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, dated August 1, 1918. The Old Man was there, listed as "Missing since recent operations," but his was just one of scores and scores of names who'd gone missing, and the roll, with its names typed so neatly in black ink on white paper, said more about that day, and the next few days, than the Old Man had ever been able.
Livick, Maine, Meyers, Michaud, Manitu, Misiewicz, Moore, McIntyre, Miller, Nichyporek, Nonortovage, Olencak, Orlich, Pate, Person, and Pol had all gone missing, and their names filled just half a page on the roll. There were others—Pringle and Robbins and Rothbart, Adams and Ayer and Ballard and Baucaro—all lying out there in the wheat somewhere. The ink was bold and seemed fresh, and for a minute I thought they might be there still; but I caught myself, and reconsidered, and realized all the time that had passed, and I knew that they must have all passed on, as had the Old Man.
I wondered, though, who among them had known him, and who among them had perhaps seen him there, seen him fall that day, and maybe even stepped over his body as Company D pushed on to Ploisy. I wondered who, if any, among them might be able to finally tell me what had happened that day, and on the days before and the days that were to come, in that long-ago war.
I wondered about these doughboys, and what to do with their war, and with them, those other boys who were sent off to save the world and who did that, for a while, until their sons and nephews had to go back to finish a fight that began in a storm of shells at Cantigny and petered out at the gates of Sedan when the world said, finally, Enough; that's enough for now.
And it was while perusing the list of names that I resolved to finish his story if I could, and find them, the others, who perhaps still lay in the wheat at Soissons, or in the hills of the Argonne where they died in the mud and the rain, or at Cantigny, where their young bodies were pummeled and pounded deep into the earth. I resolved to find what remained of Company D, for him, and for them, and for myself, as well, and complete a story begun on a hot July day so long ago, when young men raced across open fields toward machine guns and disappeared into history.
Excerpted from The Remains of Company D by James Carl Nelson.
Copyright © 2009 by James Carl Nelson.
Published in October 2009 by St. Martin's Griffin.
All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright laws and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Permission to reproduce the material in any manner or medium must be secured from the Publisher.
Acknowledgments xi
Prelude: Soissons, France, July 19, 1918 1
1 A Doughboy 3
2 War Fever 11
3 "What Are You Going to Do Now, Young Man?" 28
4 The Armies in Heaven 48
5 "It's Easy to Lick the Kaiser" 64
6 Zero Hour 81
7 "I Wonder How Deep It Went In" 98
8 "They Thought We Were Only Children" 115
9 No Man's Land 133
10 "I Wish I Had Two Lives" 150
11 Into the Wheat 166
12 "Kamerad!" 180
13 The Paris-Soissons Road 195
14 "Shooting, Yelling, Swearing" 213
15 "Most of the Old Crew Have Been Killed" 231
16 Montrefagne 252
17 Hill 263 273
18 "In the Interest of Humanity" 294
19 "To the End of Your Days" 319
Notes 325
Bibliography 339
Additional Archival Records 344
Additional Interviews 345
Newspapers, ca. 1917-1991 346
Internet Resources 349
Index 351
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Posted May 22, 2012
Let me just say that this book by James Nelson is just outstanding, I read a lot kind readers, I mean a lot, and this story just flat out pulls the reader into the story....For thouse of you who enjoy hiistory and a fact based account of what these soliders did, I'm telling you this book worth your time to read....James Nelson knows how to tell a good story, his style of writing is really something, Just read the first chapter kind reaaders and yoou willl see what I mean. His style of writing just flows like butter, I finished the book in four day's, and I cleaned out a place on my book shelf for this top notch read....My name is Jim Breitbeck.
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Posted May 9, 2010
In America far too long the Great War of 1914-1918 has been an after thought by historians, writers, and readers. Regardless what the English and French say, the arrival of fresh young American Doughboys saved Europe from falling to German militarism domination. James Carl Nelson in Company D has taken one small unit of the American citizen army to describe the horror and humanity of the trenches. Consider the mud, cooties, and confusion as well as German veterans of three years of fighting. "Making the world safe for Democracy" was not foremost in Doughboy minds. Nelson has given the reader a micro-study of what it was like to "go over the top" into interlocking machinegun and artillery fire.
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Posted May 28, 2013
I received this book for Father's Day 2012, and at first I was a little reluctant to read anything about WWI. Never before had I any interest in
WWI, but this book changed my interest. The author did an excellent job in putting all of this together, and made the book an excellent read.
I learned a lot about the war, and about how it was fought, and how the American's became involved. The book opened my eyes wide with
tons of information on many aspects of the war. The book was very intense, and when the battles started I could hardly put the book down.
For anyone interested in learning something about WWI, this should be a must read.
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Posted February 10, 2013
A must-read. Simply the best view of what Americans faced in combat in WWI. The standard by which all others will be measured, Nelson weaves letters, diaries, and the historical narrative seemlessly into a compelling story of the American Experience!
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Posted October 24, 2012
This book is well written and easy to read. It is a very powerful story. The author showed how violent the war was, and what the soldiers went through. It was well researched and told the story of his grandfathers unit during WW1. Excellent read!
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Softball, Swimming,
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"I had no 'issues'. Then I lost my mind."
Rebecca Wait explains how her own experiences dealing with depression have few into her novel The View on the Way Down...
I was a happy child and a cheerful teenager. I had no "issues". I liked school, I had a loyal group of friends and my home-life was remarkably happy. I was not what you might describe as "high-risk".
Then I lost my mind.
The word "breakdown" is not seen as a medical term these days. It's fairly accurate, though, for describing the chaos of depression and anxiety that can rise up out of nowhere to take someone apart. A breakdown: the dismantling of a personality.
It didn't, with hindsight, come entirely out of nowhere for me, but here is not the place to retrace that particular mental odyssey. What was most interesting was the outcome. I feel like I've become something of an expert on mental health these days. A friend recently described mental illness as my "thing" (oh, cheers). But as a teenager, I didn't have a clue. Depression was something that happened to other people, and even then, not other people I knew.
This was a new kind of horror. It happened over several months, a creeping sense of dread that accompanied all my waking moments, a flickering terror that couldn't be resisted because it couldn't be explained. Long before I fell apart, the shadows were starting to gather. If I had realised what was happening – if anyone had realised what was happening – perhaps we might have been able to head it off. As Jamie reflects in the novel, the signs were there, if only we had known how to read them. I had become tearful and anxious a lot of the time. Whilst I'd previously been excited by the future, now I was afraid of it. But depression can be hard to spot if you've never experienced it before.
I find "breakdown" a useful word because it captures the suddenness of the final descent. When my illness came to a head (oddly, I remember the exact date), I ceased being able to function. I had horrifying panic attacks. I couldn't eat, couldn't think, couldn't bear it. Depression is being crippled by terror and misery every moment you're awake. I haven't forgotten the shock of it: a strange kind of wonder that it was possible to feel this bad, and that I'd had no idea up till now. And the real kick in the teeth? The illness brings with it its own reality: you believe you will never get better.
For someone determined to be a writer, this was a particularly strange time. I'd spent my childhood and teenage years measuring every experience out in words and weighing the value of events by how well I could express them, but now I found that words failed me. I couldn't explain to the people around me how I felt because I couldn't even explain it to myself. It was so far beyond anything I'd previously experienced. Depression was the darkness beyond language.
A friend recently described mental illness as my "thing" (oh, cheers)
As I recovered, I returned to this problem again and again. How to describe the indescribable. With help, I gradually came back to life. I went off to university and was ridiculously happy, but I was still thinking about that year of being ill, and how I might put it into words. It was both a literary challenge and a personal one: could I begin to understand what had happened to me through writing about it? I dabbled for a while with some short stories about a girl with depression, but somehow it didn't quite work. It was when I decided to make the protagonist male – enter Kit – that I finally began to make progress. It was as if I needed that extra bit of distance from my own experience in order to write about it. I began The View on the Way Down shortly after graduating and finished it within about eight months. The words came quickly now, as if they'd been waiting there the whole time.
I was particularly interested in exploring the impact of Kit's illness on his family. My own family had found it extremely harrowing, especially as it can be so difficult to know how to help. Rose and Joe, I should say here, are not based on my own parents, but the misery and sense of helplessness they experience are.
The other motivation for writing the novel was the evolution of my own attitude towards suicide. Before I experienced depression myself, I had no idea what it felt like to want to be dead. I had viewed suicide as, at best, a kind of madness, and, at worst, unforgivably selfish. Now I was forced to reconsider. I had stood on the cliff-edge myself. Who was I to pass judgment on what level of suffering should be endured by others? What right did anyone have to do that? This is not to downplay the suffering it causes to the people left behind, an enduring grief that is at the heart of The View on the Way Down. But I no longer think that there is anything shameful or cowardly about suicide, and nor do I believe there is necessarily anything irrational about it. For some, it is far from a spur of the moment decision, but the culmination of a long and terrible struggle. It seems entirely reasonable to me that there may come a point when you decide you've had enough – that enduring is not the same as living.
The novel was born out of darkness, but also out of relief and joy. There are many echoes of my friends and family in there, particularly in the way Jamie, Sam and Kit relate to each other, the anecdotes they recall, and countless other things that make life wonderful. I believe there's hope for Jamie and his family at the end of the novel, as they start to lay the happy memories of Kit alongside the painful ones and allow themselves to live again. Nonetheless, I'll always mourn for Kit himself, and others who have suffered like him. It's a sad story, I know, but I think I had to tell it.
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Kochi: The Central Administrative Tribunal, Ernakulam Bench, on Friday stayed the government order suspending Inspector-General (IG) of Police Tomin J. Thachankary from service until further orders. The tribunal directed the government to reinstate him in service forthwith.
The interim order was passed on an application filed by the police officer challenging his suspension.
The IG was suspended on the basis of an inquiry report that he had breached service rules by going abroad without permission from the government. He was also accused of misleading the government by indicating that he was going to Gangtok (Sikkim) on leave travel allowance and then undertaking a trip to Gulf countries. The Director-General of Police had not been informed of his travel abroad.
Counsel for Mr. Thachankary contended that the order was illegal and arbitrary. The counsel contended that the IG had gone abroad after he was granted eligible earned leave. The All India Service Rules did not provide for obtaining prior permission before undertaking personal trips abroad. Earlier, there was a government order requiring officers belonging to all-India service to obtain permission before undertaking personal foreign trips. However, this requirement was done away with and the government had clarified that there was no need to get permission for private visits if the officer had been granted eligible leave. The All India Service Rules were applicable to officers.
The counsel argued that Mr. Thachankary had not violated any service rules and his action did not constitute misconduct, warranting a suspension. The suspension order was actuated by mala fide. Besides, 'hostile discriminatory' treatment was being meted out selectively to Mr. Thachankary. The counsel contended that certain IAS and IPS officers had travelled abroad without permission, but the government had not taken action against them.
Countering the arguments, the special government pleader contended that Mr. Thachankary went abroad without the prior permission of the government. Guidelines issued by the Central government required officers to inform the government concerned of their trips aboard and the source of funds for such trips. Mr. Thachankary had availed himself of leave travel allowance for going to Gangtok, but went to Gulf countries.
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Camille Hayes, communications coordinator for the Sacramento-based California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, said the budget cutbacks will have the biggest impact in rural communities, where money from other sources is limited. She said she's heard of three shelters in Northern California that will probably have to close.
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We spoke to Subir Bhatnagar, Vice President and Global Head – Solutions, AGC Networks on the latest developments in data centers and unified communications.
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NASA has been reportedly closing many of its data centers. Even for the Mars mission by Curiosity, it used the cloud in the form of Amazon Web Services stating that it's current in-house infrastructure in the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) is incapable of handling the volume and throughput of data. For an organization as large and sophisticated as NASA to say this, do you see this as a discouraging factor for SMEs wanting to explore data center solutions?
According to me NASA isn't closing data centers but consolidating them. Any organization today cannot exist without a secured data storage system. Yes every organization does need a cost optimized solution and when the setup is that of an organization like NASA, the data storage bill runs into billions of dollars.
Secondly, the move to use Amazon Web Services to connect Curiosity with world shows the importance of outsourcing non-core operations to a reliable partner who will help optimize expenses by using Cloud and open source Content Management System and help manage large operations more cost effectively. So in this light, I feel there is no discouragement at all and definitely SMEs need not worry on what NASA is moving to but look at solutions available in market which are customized for their geography and their vertical.
In India so far for the current year, the rainfall has not been as much as expected on an average in some areas. This might highlight the need to think about water usage at data centers. Facebook recently released statistics about its water usage efficiency for the data center. Do you think other organizations will follow suit and share best practices?
Yes rains have been less but this is not the reason why data center should move to better water management practices or energy management practices. A physical 15-megawatt data center can use more than 3 lakh gallons of water every day to cool its systems. This and many more are the reason why Data Centers have been emphasizing on shifting to a Green approach. Today data center operators are looking at using low temperature ambient air, evaporating water and free cooling, etc. as measures to manage server temperature and power requirements. They are working on optimizing power distribution, improvising air flow and constantly monitoring PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of the setup. Today's need is not just to adopt best practices but also create new ones as per your setup.
Continuing with Facebook, a data center needs to be designed with clinical precision. It is said that a part of the electrical system for Facebook's Prineville data center was designed in the middle of the night on a napkin in the absence of anything else being available. Surprisingly, Facebook has suffered far fewer outages compared to e.g. Twitter. In any case, what precautions should SMEs take while designing their data center?
Data Center is a specialized field and when largest of enterprises are moving to outsourcing data center management services to experts I feel even SMEs should have this non-core activity outsourced. So that they can best focus on business and its growth. And it won't be precaution but a necessity to see where data is being stored, how secure and accessible it is, how the security measures get updated, etc. while partnering with a data center solution provider.
What are the potential benefits and risks for an SME that chooses to go for an out-of-the-box data center solution compared to a more customized solution requiring complex deployment?
Customization is always costly and it should be evaluated from a business perspective. If the answer is 'yes' and business sees value in it there is no way costs would be a hindrance. But like I said, it should be a business need and nothing else.
Given the current turbulence in Indian telecom policy and legislation (especially cellular), what are the challenges that unified communications have to face in order to gain wider acceptance?
Even if we keep the cellular policies aside, two recent articles said August has been a tough month for telecom companies and 3G services will continue to be poor in India. This raises the biggest issue for UC only. If the 3G services have not been really great, will a telecom company focus on improving 3G services which are yet not the main revenue contributor OR will they go out of the way to improvise 3G services which are the backbone of UC from wireless front? Only time will tell. On a wire line, enterprise UC solutions, adoptions are on a steep rise. Enterprises are moving to work-from-anywhere and BYOD concepts and these will ensure UC doesn't get sidelined.


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|Colorado State at Utah Point Spread Odds, Betting Trends & Injuries
|Written by Anthony Rome
|Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:08
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Salt Lake City, UT - Though his squad is one of 10 undefeated teams remaining in the Football Championship Subdivision, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham still isn't completely satisfied.
The 14th-ranked Utes look to remain perfect while trying for a ninth consecutive victory when they host Colorado State on Saturday in a Mountain West Conference contest.
After a narrow win over BCS-conference opponent Oregon State on Oct. 2, Utah (7-0, 3-0) returned to the MWC and rolled to a 40-7 victory at Wyoming last Saturday. The Utes have won 15 of their last 16 overall and eight of nine in the league, but their coach doesn't want to live in the past.
Oddsmakers from Sportsbook.com have made Utah –21.5 point spread favorites (View College Football odds) for Saturday's game (Game Matchup). Current public betting information shows that 64% of bets for this game have been placed on Utah –21.5 (View College Football bet percentages).
"We think we're heading in the right direction,'' said Whittingham, whose team joins No. 9 Brigham Young in making the Mountain West the only non-BCS conference to have two ranked teams. "But you know we have not played our best football as a team to this point.''
It was hard to tell that from Utah's performance against the Cowboys. Running back Matt Asiata scored two touchdowns, while Sean Smith intercepted two passes and returned one 25 yards for a touchdown to open the scoring.
Brian Johnson was 10-for-19 for 110 yards and a touchdown for the Utes, who rank 18th in the nation averaging 37.5 points per contest. Johnson, who has thrown 11 TDs with six interceptions, was 14-for-21 for 130 yards with two touchdowns in last season's 27-3 win at Colorado State.
Though the Utes have won two in a row and four of five in the series with the Rams (3-3, 1-1), they don't expect to get caught looking past Colorado State.
"The thing is we've lost to every conference opponent since I've been here,'' said Johnson, a senior. "There's not a team in this conference that hasn't beat us before, so we have to know that if we don't come out and play our game every week that everything that we've worked for kind of goes down the drain.''
While Utah appears focused on its next task, Colorado State is in for a second straight challenge after losing 13-7 to TCU last Saturday.
Though senior tight end Kory Sperry caught six passes for 104 yards, the Rams mustered only a Gartrell Johnson 4-yard touchdown run to open the scoring against the Horned Frogs, owners of the nation's top-ranked defense allowing 207.4 yards per game.
Colorado State was held to 199 total yards - 11 on the ground last week - and now faces Utah, which is seventh in the country giving up 259.1 yards.
"I think talent-wise their ability, they're every bit as talented as TCU," Rams coach Steve Fairchild said of Utah's defense.
Fourth in the conference with 521 rushing yards, Johnson, who was held to season-low 30 on 16 carries against TCU, has scored four of his six TDs in his last two contests. He has rushed for 102 yards in two career games versus Utah.
Colorado State has already matched its win total from 2007, and looks to snap a five-game losing streak against ranked opponents dating to a 19-14 victory over then-No. 7 Colorado on Aug. 31, 2002.
"We're still not grooved in to consistently doing it with the accountability I'd like all the time, but we're getting there and we're making some strides," Fairchild said. "We'll just keep working and getting better."
Utah leads 52-22-2 in the all-time series with Colorado State, and is 30-8-2 against the Rams in Salt Lake City.
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|Columbus, Ohio (November 15, 1969)
|Dave Thomas
|1 Dave Thomas Blvd
Dublin, Ohio, United States
|Number of locations
|6,650 stores (2010)
|Area served
|Key people
|Dave Thomas, Founder
Wendy Thomas, namesake
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|US$ billion (2011)[1]2.431
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|Wendy's Company
Wendy's is an international fast food chain restaurant founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The company decided to move its headquarters to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. It has been owned by Triarc (now called Wendy's Company) since 2008. As of March 2010, Wendy's was the world's third largest hamburger fast food chain with approximately 6,650 locations, following McDonald's 31,000+ locations and Burger King's 12,000+ locations.[2][3][4] In 2011, Wendy's sales exceeded those of Burger King for the first time in the company's history. With sales of $8.5 billion (USD), the company ranked number two in hamburger chains, although Burger King still had far more restaurants.[5]
Approximately 77% of Wendy's restaurants are franchised, the majority of which are located in North America. Wendy's and its affiliates employ more than 46,000 people in its global operations. In fiscal year 2006, the firm had $2.469 billion (USD) in total sales.[6] While Wendy's sets standards for exterior store appearance, food quality, and menu, individual owners have control over hours of operations, interior decor, pricing, staff uniforms, and wages.
Wendy's menu consists primarily of hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, French fries, and beverages, including the Frosty, a form of soft serve ice cream mixed with frozen starches. Until recently, the company did not have a signature sandwich, such as the Big Mac or the Whopper. Instead, the square burger patties (which are fresh ground beef rather than frozen patties) were their signature items. Recently, the company introduced a new sandwich called The "W".[7]
The idea for Wendy's "old fashioned" hamburgers was actually inspired by Dave Thomas' trips to Kewpee Hamburgers in his home town of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Kewpee sold square hamburgers and thick malt shakes, much like the well-known restaurant that Thomas eventually founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969. Within a year, Thomas opened a second restaurant in Columbus, featuring what Wendy's claims in its corporate history was "the first modern-day, drive-thru window", added in November 1970.[8] The Columbus location later added a Tim Hortons and was closed on March 2, 2007, after 37 1⁄4 years of business due to declining sales.[9][10] Thomas named the restaurant after his fourth child Melinda Lou "Wendy" Thomas.[11] Photographs and illustrations of her (as well as other memorabilia based upon her) were on display at the original Wendy's restaurant until it closed.
In 1979, Wendy's was the first fast-food chain to introduce the salad bar. Garden Sensations salads were added in 2002.[12]
In response to a 1986 slowdown in the chain's performance, Wendy's restructured its cleanliness standards, menu, and other operational details to ensure that stores met the goals and standards of the parent company so that its franchises would be more competitive in the market.[6]
On April 24, 2008, the company announced a merger with Triarc, the parent company of Arby's. Despite the new ownership, Wendy's headquarters remained in Dublin.[13] Previously, Wendy's had rejected more than two buyout offers from Triarc Companies Inc. Following the merger, Triarc became known as Wendy's/Arby's Group, a publicly traded company.[citation needed] The merger was unsuccessful and Arby's was sold in summer 2011.[14]
Wendy's offers two different hamburger patties, a "Junior" 2.25 ounce (63.8 gram) patty and its "Single" 4 ounce (113.4 gram) patty. 4 ounce patties are sold in single, double, and triple sizes whereas the junior patties sell in single and double patties. The previous size of 2 ounces per junior patty was altered to its current size in 2007 to save on expenses from rising food costs. In August 2011, the junior double stack became discontinued and the new Cheesy Cheddarburger was introduced.
Originally, Wendy's had only two kinds of chicken sandwiches, fried and grilled. The spicy chicken sandwich started out as a promotional sandwich. It was later put on the menu full time in 1996 due to its popularity and the fact that, compared to most promotional sandwiches, it was much simpler to make (it used the same condiments as the standard breaded chicken sandwich).
In 1988, Wendy's was the first fast-food chain to create a single price-point value menu where all items listed on that menu were priced exclusively at 99¢. The menu was restructured in 2007 due to rising costs as the Super Value Menu with prices ranging from 99¢ to $2.00. In 2010, Wendy's introduced the Every Day Value Menu with nine items at $0.99 (eight items at $1.89 in Canada).
In mid-2007, Wendy's began a national debut of its new breakfast menu in its U.S. and Canadian stores. Wendy's experimented with serving breakfast for a short time in 1985, but the endeavor was unsuccessful due to many issues.[15][16] While approximately twelve Wendy's restaurants in the U.S. and its territories have been serving breakfast since then, Wendy's has not had a company-wide breakfast offering.[16][17] The new breakfast menu was expected be fully deployed to all Wendy's in the United States by the end of 2009, but as of July 2010, many Wendy's franchises across the country still do not have a breakfast menu.
The new breakfast menu differs slightly from the one featured in 1985, and it is structured similarly to its lunch and dinner menu, with value meals and various sides like blended fruit.[17] Menu items include several breakfast sandwiches served on biscuits, frescuit (a square biscuit to match their square burger patties), and Kaiser rolls, breakfast burritos and side orders of hash browns, muffins, and cinnamon sticks.[18] In order to avoid the same issues the original 1985 breakfast offerings faced, the new menu was designed for ease of operation, lower costs, and reduced preparation time.[16]
In 2011, Wendy's said the chain plans to change its breakfast menu. Pancakes and omelets have not been successful, because they "aren't conducive to eating on the go."[14]
After successful early growth of the chain, sales flattened as the company struggled to achieve brand differentiation in the highly competitive fast-food market. This situation would turn around in the mid-1980s. Starting on January 9, 1984, elderly actress Clara Peller was featured in the successful "Where's the Beef?" North American commercial campaign written by Cliff Freeman. Her famous line quickly entered the American pop culture (it was even used by Walter Mondale in a debate with Gary Hart in the Democratic primary election) and served to promote Wendy's hamburgers. Peller, age 84, was dropped from the campaign in 1985 because she performed in a commercial for Prego spaghetti sauce, saying she "finally found" the beef.[21]
Peller was soon after replaced by a much less successful "give a little nibble" campaign, which was in turn replaced by Wendy's founder Dave Thomas himself. Soft-spoken and bashful, the "Dave" ads generally focused on Thomas praising his products and offering a commitment to quality service, although there would occasionally be "wackier" ads as well. In 1997, the company pulled its advertising from the sitcom Ellen after the show's main character came out as a lesbian. The result was a boycott initiated by members of the gay community.[22]
After Dave Thomas' death in 2002, Wendy's struggled to find a new advertising campaign. After a round of conventional ads describing the food they serve, in 2004 they tried using a character they made called "Mr. Wendy" who claimed to be the unofficial spokesperson for the chain. These proved to be extremely unsuccessful. After seven months, Wendy's returned to a campaign focusing on the difference between Wendy's square hamburgers and the round hamburgers of competitors.
Wendy's marketing arm engages in product placement in films and television and is sometimes seen on ABC's reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, serving food to the more than 100 construction workers. A recent Wendy's commercial features the tune from the Violent Femmes song "Blister in the Sun."
With their recent "that's right" ad campaign not a success, Wendy's unveiled a new ad campaign, featuring an animated Wendy that's voiced by Luci Christian highlighting certain menu items. The new ad campaign made its debut in late January 2008, with a new slogan: "It's waaaay better than fast food. It's Wendy's."[23] The company's most recent slogan, "you know when it's real", was introduced in 2009.
One of the chain's newest TV ad campaigns, launched in 2011 alongside the introduction of the new "Dave's Hot 'N Juicy" hamburgers, features the chain's namesake Wendy Thomas in some commercials. Since April 2012, Wendy's main ad campaign features Morgan Smith Goodwin as Red, as introduced with Wendy's new slogan, "Now that's better".
Wendy's is the official sponsor of ESPN Football Friday every Friday during football season, getting fans ready with shows throughout the day previewing the upcoming college and NFL games. Also, Wendy's is the sponsor of the NBC Sunday Night Football Postgame show.
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You appreciate the finer things in life: a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, a basket of Vosges Chocolates, an Eames lounge chair. Now, you can add the Contemporary Tahoe Cabin to this list, because it fits with your unique stylish vision. Set against the backdrop of a national forest, with a peaceful mountain stream just a short walk from the back deck, this home is the perfect getaway for the discerning modernist who needs to unplug from society for awhile.
Vacation homes allow families to stay...together. At InvitedHome, we think that's pretty important, so we do everything in our power to make your vacation totally epic. Not only do we choose the best homes in the best destinations, but we make the experience effortless so you can really enjoy yourself. Let us connect you with the best options in town for babysitting, equipment rental, transportation, catering, day trips, shopping, dining, and even stocking your fridge with groceries! We'll do everything in our power to make sure you have the Best. Vacation. Ever.
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at this cabin. I hesitate to call it a cabin since our perspective viewed it as a lovely home. The listing description was right on and location was only a ten minute drive to the center of any attraction you would want to see in South Lake Tahoe.
The photos depict the home exactly as it was in real life and we couldn't have been more thrilled to stay in this home. The home was very clean overall and very well maintained.
We did have an issue upon our arrival since we were given the wrong code to enter the home. However, a quick phone had this resolved within five minutes. We also purchased a lot of groceries on Sunday in anticipation of grilling out and enjoying the home that evening. To our surprise, the gas canister to the grill was empty. Again, a quick phone call to the property management group resulted in a new gas canister being delivered within an hour. We were very impressed with this considering it was a Sunday! I can't stress enough about how great the service was from the property manager.
We would highly recommend this home to any of our friends or relatives. We can't wait to head back to South Lake Tahoe next year and we'll be crossing our fingers that this home is available.
I usually can find some opportunity for improvement, however, nothing really comes to mind with this home. It truly was a delight to stay here and we couldn't be happier with our overall experience.
The house was very nice. We went for a wedding and really enjoyed our stay. We even rented the house for an extra night. There were a couple of cleaning issues we noticed and I did call after we arrived to mention that the floors were very dirty, there were some coffee cups that were chipped and a couple of stained towels. But other than that, we were very pleased with the rental.
The house is beautiful, clean and comfortable. We found everything we needed in the house including a portable high chair for my daughter. It was a really pleasant and relaxing stay
This cabin was absolutely perfect for our company snowboarding getaway. We couldn't be happier with its location, and it was very clean, well maintained and looked as it photographed on this website. The property manager was available when we needed information. We were less then 10 minutes from Heavenly and good places to eat. The overall stay exceeded our expectations, and we can't wait to come back.
When planning our family trip to Tahoe I was looking for a place to stay that would feel like home. This place was definitely it! It's a brand new spacious cabin that was very easy to book. It's in a residential area, but very close to highway 50. The backyard was my most favorite thing about this place. There is no fence, it just leads into the forest. My kids were able to play in the snow to their hearts' content and there was no one else out there. We felt like we had the whole forest to ourselves. When it comes to the photos of this cabin, what you see is what you get. It's all very new and modern and open, very clean and well maintained. The kitchen was well stocked with dishes and pots and pans. It's also very kid-friendly. We had no problems or complaints while we were staying there. It was relaxing and fun, just as a vacation should be.
I've rented many cabins in Tahoe over the years and this one ranks up there. Love the layout and decor of the home. You instantly feel at home here. Everyone that stayed with me agree and truly enjoyed ourselves. Location is very convenient and made getting around town easy. Only wished we had a few more days there. Thanks a bunch.
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There are many occasions when you need to generate all prime numbers upto a specified integer and one algorithm which is most often used to generate prime numbers is Sieve of Eratosthenes. Its an ancient greek algorithm to find all prime numbers upto a given number and named after the famous greek mathematician Eratosthenes. He was the first man to calculate the circumference of the earth and also known for working on calendars with leap years. A prime number is a whole number which is either divisible by 1 or itself e.g. 2, 3 and 5. You can see they are not divisible to any positive whole integer. In other words, prime number doesn't have a factor other than 1 or itself. You can use this algorithm to generate prime numbers from 1 to 100 or up-to any maximum value. In this tutorial, we will not only learn how Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm works but also we will generate prime numbers using this algorithm and verify whether all number generated are actually prime or not.
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Fixing Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 Error in Java
Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 comes when you are trying to run a class compiled using Java 1.8 compiler into a lower JRE version e.g. JRE 1.7 or JRE 1.6. Simplest way to fix this error is install the latest Java release i.e. Java 8 and run your program. If upgrading to Java 8 is not an option then make sure you use Java compiler's cross compilation feature and compile source code for lower Java version by using -target option of javac command. If you have multiple JRE installed make sure that the latest one comes first in PATH environment variable. You can get "java.lang.unsupportedclassversionerror unsupported major.minor version 52.0" while running a Java program explicitly using java command or running a Java Applet in browser or running a Java program from command line but compiled in Eclipse or any other build tool like Maven or ANT. Main reason of this error is that during compilation, you have used a higher version of JDK but during deployment, you have deployed into a lower version of JDK or JRE. Let's understand the cause and solution of Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 Error in little more detail.
TL:DR; upgrade to Java 8 or compile for lower JRE version using java -target 1.6 option.
TL:DR; upgrade to Java 8 or compile for lower JRE version using java -target 1.6 option.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
How to differentiate between an Average and a Good Programmer?
When it comes to interview, goal is to find the most suitable developer for job to get done but its very difficult to judge someone's caliber, experience and expertise in short duration of Interview. There is always a process starting from phone interview, written tests to face-to-face interview, but its still difficult to hire the right programmer. Process can help you to filter candidates but eventually it will come down to your experience and gut feeling. As you take more and more interviews, you will know what to ask and what not and like many other interviewers in the world, you will develop some of your own tips. Similarly, I have developed couple of tips from my experience which has helped me to differentiate an average programmer with a good programmer in past. Today I would like to share one of such tips with you guys, to see if you agree with my observation and hopefully I will get couple of more tips to find right programmers. One of my most used tip is finding gaps in requirement. I have found and learnt it over time that good developers has knack of breaking requirements and finding gaps, which is very important to produce quality software and products. Though this skill comes with experience, a good developer even with less experience has this ability. In this article, I will share my hypothetical interview with two programmers and see what they produced.
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Head coach Jim Larranaga of the Miami Hurricanes puts a hand to his... News PhotoActivity,BankUnited Center,Basketball - Men's College,Basketball - Sport,Clemson Tigers,Coral Gables,First Half - Sport,Florida - USA,Foul,Gulf Coast States,Hand,Head Coach,Jim Larranaga,Miami Hurricanes,Motion,Moving Activity,Sport,Sports Team,USA,Vertical,Waist UpPhotographer Joel AuerbachCollection: Getty Images Sport 2013 Joel AuerbachCORAL GABLES, FL - MARCH 9: Head coach Jim Larranaga of the Miami Hurricanes puts a hand to his head after a foul was called on the team during first half action against the Clemson Tigers on March 9, 2013 at the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables, Florida. The Hurricanes defeated the Tigers 62-49 and won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)


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Speaking to the Washington Post, defense minister says all options on the table to stop Iran from going nuclear, adding there were 'a lot of preparations on the technical level.'
The international community's "paralysis" in the face of ongoing strife and violence in Syria highlights the importance of a unified global front against Iran's nuclear program, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview to U.S. media on Wednesday.
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This is Travel Squadron. Travel Squad is a smaller unit in the Coruscant Guard. From left to right. Commander Heat, Sergeant Medic Red, Commando Crane, and Pilot X. I'll post more about them later.
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Explore contemporary, seasonal spins on indigenous regional cuisine at Arizona's only AAA Four Diamond, Forbes Five Star dining destination. The impeccable service and remarkable desert vistas overlooking the Estrella Mountains only bolster this high-end resort restaurant's natural charms. Experience the full range of Executive Chef Conor Favre's vision and creativity with one of his seasonally curated tasting menus. Dinner only. 5:30-9 p.m. Tu-Thu; 5:30-9:30 p.m. F-Sa.
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Full DescriptionLynx Gas Grills 36 Inch Built In Natural Gas Grill With 1 ProSear Burner And Rotisserie L36PSR-1-NG: This Lynx Gas Grill features two red brass natural gas burners and one ProSear gas burner (total 75,000 BTUs), 935-sq. -in. Grilling surface (610 primary), This lynx grill also has an integrated ignition system with a 9V battery back-up, Control illumination with blue LEDs, Dual Halogen grill surface lights, Temperature gauge, Fluid rotation handle, Lynx Hood Assist Kit, Removable large-capacity smoker box, Stainless steel grilling grates. This Lynx grill also features a dual-position internal rotisserie with heavy-duty, 3-speed motor and rear infrared burner, Ceramic Briquettes facilitate even radiant heat distribution, Firebox separator holds heat around brass gas burners and Heavy-duty welded construction eliminates gaps where grease and moisture can collect. Includes ProSear Burner. Blue LED Control Panel Lights. 3 Speed Dual Position Rotisserie. Integrated Ignition System. Lynx Hood Assist Kit. A Lynx gas grill can elevate your outdoor bbq cooking to new levels, offering unique features and unparalleled performance, only from Lynx.
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Mumbai: The Samajwadi Party's nominee in Mumbai North-West Abu Asim Azmi on Monday filed his nomination here and declared assets at over Rs. 100,09,48,235.
The amount includes Rs. 1,09,509 in cash; Rs. 33,46,174 as deposits in financial institutions and non-banking financial companies; Rs. 4,07,68,028 as bonds, debentures and shares; Rs. 8,11,086 in financial instruments, Rs. 27,16,265 worth of motor vehicles and Rs. 95,31,97,173 as other assets.
Mr. Azmi filed his papers at the suburban Bandra Collectorate.
He was accompanied by party leaders Jaya Bachchan and Amar Singh.
Mr. Azmi has come under the Election Commission's scanner after reports alleged that his brother Shahed distributed money among supporters.
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breathtaking walk to a welcoming placePosted on 02 / 14 / 2014
The bushbar isn't the easiest place to find, we walked uphill lot from Vermont which is the end of the bus line. We needed to ask locals which road to walk up, and it's the last place on that road! But it's a beautiful view from the road.
A welcoming crew when we arrived, and the fresh soursop juice is the only I've ever had that tasted like it was a real juice! (Not a sugar milk mix)
We had some drinks and hung around playing board games and reading their books and discussing until the main food was ready, a couple of hours later. But we were warned of this when we arrived & offered toasted sandwiches in the mean time & the soup was really yummy when it was ready!! Good value, made from local produce.
Really friendly people at the bushbar, in fact the whole neighbourhood is! I would recommend coming here if you are coming to vermont or nearby.
Zen told us you can get a taxi up the hill for 10EC too :)
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LETTER: Right to work guards unions
Robert Adams, Evansville
Right to work guards unions, too
The issue of right to work is the subject of union-sponsored ads, newspaper columns and comments by the governor who supports the law.
The basic reason unions are formed by employees is that they believe they are not treated fairly or paid adequately by their employer. By unionizing, they bargain for wages hopefully to be higher as a group rather than as individuals.
To establish a union, the employees have the right to assemble and vote by secret ballot. Each person can make their choice without fear of retaliation. That is the issue, the right to a secret ballot.
National labor leaders of powerful unions lobbied the Congress to make a law called Card Check. If passed, it would take away the right to a secret ballot vote to unionize.
Under Card Check, employees could be contacted at home, at the grocery and at the workplace parking lot by union organizers even though the employees did not solicit the union for representation. Employees being isolated can be intimidated into signing up. Once the union had enough signatures of the employees they simply informed the company they were unionized.
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Since the guys in Green Day aren't huge gamers, it makes you wonder just how much involvement they had in the making of "Green Day: Rock Band." According to Chris Foster, the project lead on the game, quite a lot. We spoke to Foster recently about what the band brought to the table.
"The band was involved throughout the project," Foster explained. "At the beginning we would brainstorm ideas for venues with them, talk about the set list and then we proposed our set list and they gave us tweaks on that.
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Multi-platinum selling and Grammy® Award-winning group Green Day, along with Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks, and Reprise / Warner Bros. Records today release the standalone music video game Green Day: Rock Band™. The game is for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the Wii™ system from Nintendo.
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Green Day's members are having the time of their multimedia lives.
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Visible Lift Serum Inside Line Minimizing Makeup is still without the UVA-protecting ingredients of titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, avobenzone, Tinosorb, or Mexoryl SX. Therefore, it is not recommended for sun protection. As for the touted Pro-Xylane and Hyaluronic, forget about it. Those ingredients are barely present and have no lifting effect on skin, visible or not. This foundation has great name but is without a formula to support its most tempting claims.
On the plus side, it does have a silky texture that melds with the skin and dries to a soft matte finish. You'll get light to medium coverage and, despite the fact that the target market for this is women with dry skin, the minimally-moist formula is best for normal to oily skin. Out of the shades offered, watch out for those with undertones of pink and peach.
Active: Octinoxate (6%) Other: Water, Cyclopentasiloxane, Nylon-12, Glycerin, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Propylene Glycol, Mineral Oil (Paraffinum Liquidum), Glyceryl Stearate, Glyceryl Isostearate, Dimethicone, Stearic Acid, Stearyl Alcohol, Triethanolamine, Magnesium Aluminium Silicate, Panthenol, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Diazolidinyl Urea, Lanolin Alcohol, Methylparaben, Cellulose Gum, Butylparaben, Retinyl Acetate (Vitamin A), Acetyl Trifluoromethylphenyl Valylglycine, Tocopherol (Natural Vitamin E), Hydroxypropyl Tetrahydropyrantriol, Methylsilanol Mannuronate, Polycaprolactone, Oleyl Alcohol, Pisum Sativum Extract (Pea), Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Sodium Hyaluronate. May Contain: Iron Oxides, Titanium Dioxides
L'Oreal Paris At-A-Glance
Strengths: Budget-friendly prices; good makeup removers; wide assortment of self-tanning options; one of the best, most comprehensive makeup collections at the drugstore, with superb options in almost every category; the mascaras are a tough act to follow.
Weaknesses: Jar packaging hinders some of the skincare formulas; many of the daytime moisturizers with sunscreen and SPF-rated foundations don't provide sufficient UVA protection; lacking in effective anti-acne and skin-lightening products; boring to problematic toners.
Just like its sister company Lancome, L'Oreal doesn't have its act together when it comes to skin-care products. For all their talk of advanced formulas, fancy double-page ads in fashion magazines, and impressive-sounding quotes from scientists at their research and development facilities, most of what L'Oreal offers for skin care is a whole lot of nothing—or at least nothing tremendously helpful for helping skin look and feel its best.
An ongoing issue with L'Oreal (at least in the United States) is the lack of sufficient UVA-protecting ingredients in their daytime moisturizers with sunscreen. Very few of them contain the actives that provide as much UVA protection as you can get from a sunscreen. Yet this major oversight (and it's not just with the older products—several newer sunscreens launched with this deficiency) didn't stop L'Oreal from heralding the FDA's approval of their patented ecamsule (Mexoryl SX) sunscreen for use in the United States. (Mexoryl SX has been approved for years in Europe, and L'Oreal routinely uses it in the sunscreens they sell there.) The attention-getting headline was that Mexoryl SX provides "the best" and "most stable" UVA protection, but that's not entirely true; there are other options. Why didn't anyone in the media point out to L'Oreal that while Mexoryl SX may be great, that doesn't explain why the majority of their other sunscreens leave the consumers who use them vulnerable to UVA damage… Sigh… Inadequate UVA protection is not only unhealthy for your skin, it severely damages L'Oreal's credibility as an international skin-care authority.
Aside from the sunscreen frustrations, L'Oreal's moisturizers are a yawn-inducing, fairly repetitive bunch. A cursory review of their formulas demonstrates that L'Oreal is simply not keeping pace with the competition, just as Lancome isn't at the department-store level. When it comes to moisturizers or serums, just about anything from Dove, Olay, Neutrogena, or Aveeno is preferred. L'Oreal does well with most of their cleansers, along with scrubs and self-tanning products, but given the widespread availability and financial resources of this line they could be doing so much more. (You have to wonder if they're more interested in advertising and public relations than in advancing skin-care expertise.) The makeup has made major strides and now ranks as the best overall color collection at the drugstore—imagine the results if their skin care followed suit!
Note: Unless mentioned otherwise, all L'Oreal skin-care products contain fragrance.
For more information about L'Oreal, call (800) 322-2036 or visit www.loreal.com or www.lorealparisusa.com.
L'Oreal Paris Makeup
L'Oreal's extensive makeup collection retains its stature as the overall best at the drugstore, though they have stiff competition from Revlon and, in some cases, sister company Maybelline New York. In recent years L'Oreal has made significant strides with foundation shades, powder textures, concealers, and, of course, superlative mascaras that rarely fail to impress. Their lipsticks are excellent and you will find many L'Oreal makeup products have a Lancome counterpart, and that the differences are minor, if they exist at all.
L'Oreal's displays in many drugstores have been updated to reflect better-organized products and shade categories (though testers are still scarce). Given the number of lipsticks they sell, it only makes sense to put them in color families so consumers have a better shopping experience. Their True Match products are also sensibly laid out, but the rest of the foundations aren't as organized, likely due to the smaller selection of shades. Speaking of foundations, L'Oreal has made further strides by offering more that provide sufficient UVA protection. Revlon still has the edge for consistently launching impressive foundations with sunscreen, but at least L'Oreal is (finally) catching up. The bottom line is that every category of L'Oreal's makeup has some winning (and in some cases, benchmark-setting) products. They fall short with their powder eyeshadows, but not enough to warrant avoiding them, especially if you prefer sheer eye makeup. Still, with only minor tweaking and consistent adherence to the importance of UVA protection in their cosmetic products with sunscreen, L'Oreal could pull ahead to be the hands-down winner when it comes to shopping for makeup at the drugstore.
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