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I'll be honest: I was really, really hoping that the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 would be solved by today and I wouldn't have to write about all the second-guessing.
Unfortunately, that's still (hang on, checking the news one more time) that's still not happened.
So, let's go over what we know. All times are Malaysian local time.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, codeshare China Southern Airlines Flight 748, was a scheduled passenger flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China.
On the 8th of March 2014, at Flight Level 350, the Boeing 777 disappeared with 239 souls on board less than an hour after take-off.
Unlike Air France Flight 447, there were no known system failures. The last engine data transmission was received at 01:07.
(Yes, I know about the Wall Street Journal piece. Those were not engine data transmissions. We'll get to that.)
The flight crew ended communications with Kuala Lumpur air traffic control and should have contacted controllers in Vietnam but never did.
The aircraft disappeared from radar at 01:30.
This was the search and rescue forces as of the 12th and 13th:
Now the guessing games begin. The problem is, this is a mystery and we love mysteries. So everyone wants to try to solve it, to figure out what happened. And right now, we simply don't have enough data.
One of my favourite articles so far on the subject is this parody in the Onion:
Malaysia Airlines Expands Investigation To Include General Scope Of Space, Time | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA—Following a host of conflicting reports in the wake of the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last Saturday, representatives from the Kuala Lumpur–based carrier acknowledged they had widened their investigation into the vanished Boeing 777 aircraft today to encompass not only the possibilities of mechanical failure, pilot error, terrorist activity, or a botched hijacking, but also the overarching scope of space, time, and humankind's place in the universe.
I'm seeing a lot of speculation, second-guessing and even anger that "they" have not yet found the plane, thus "they" are clearly not trying hard enough. Frustration is building because we haven't been able to solve the mystery and find the plane. Communication has been bad, there's no question, but this is partially because it is very hard to hold press conferences and updates when there is nothing new to say.
In addition, we are looking at different types of facts.
- facts from governments
- facts from those apparently close to the investigation
- facts from media
- facts from data that is freely available on the internet
Note I've neglected to mention facts from arm-chair investigators like me. We don't have any facts, only possibilities. It's important to remember that.
Let's debunk some information first. We'll start with the "last-minute turn" on the Flightradar 24 data.
You can replay the actual flight on their website:
Bear in mind times on Flightradar are in UTC, not local time to the flight.
Much has been made of the turn the aircraft made shortly before disappearing, which can be seen on the Flightradar 24 data. The implication is that this was the aircraft turning back or heading to an unexpected location. Here's Flight Radar's statement on this:
Here is a #MH370 situation update from Flightradar24 because of the many questions we get.
The ADS-B transponder of an aircraft is transmitting data twice per second. FR24 saves data every 10-60 second depending on altitude. On cruising altitude data is normally saved once per 60 seconds. By analyzing all our databases and logs we have managed to recover about 2 signals per minute for the last 10 minutes.
The last location tracked by Flightradar24 is
Time UTC: 17:21:03
Lat: 6.97
Lon: 103.63
Alt: 35000
Speed: 471 knots
Heading: 40
Between 17:19 and 17:20 the aircraft was changing heading from 25 to 40 degrees, which is probably completely according to flight plan as MH370 on both 4 March and 8 March did the same at the same position. Last 2 signals are both showing that the aircraft is heading in direction 40 degrees.
Today there are reports in media that MH370 may have turned around. FR24 have not tracked this. This could have happened if the aircraft suddenly lost altitude as FR24 coverage in that area is limited to about 30000 feet.
FR24 have not tracked any emergency squawk alerts for flight MH370 before we lost coverage of the aircraft.
Earlier in the week, much was made of the fact that two passengers on the jet had boarded with false passports. In the meantime, the two people who had been using the passports have been identified by Malaysian police and dismissed as unlikely to be terrorists.
The popular idea that this flight suffered the same fate as Helios Flight 522 in which the pilots lost cabin pressure and did not put on their oxygen masks seems unlikely. We never lost contact with Helios Flight 522 and in fact tracked it until the final crash. It was a ghost plane with all systems functioning.
In contrast, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared. If it were the same scenario, the pilots of Flight 370 would have had to turn off the comms and transponder as a final act before submitting to hypoxia. It's possible, but it just doesn't seem very likely.
For the aircraft to disappear from radar like that, it would have been a case of explosive decompression, where the differential pressure at 35,000 feet actually broke up the aircraft. If this were the case, there would be no peaceful drifting of the aircraft until it ran out of fuel.
A bomb on the aircraft would have a similar effect. I'm leaning against terrorist activity because there's been no verifiable claim of responsibility and for a terrorist action to hold weight, people need to know that it happened. That leaves assassination and I just can't help but think there are easier ways to get rid of someone than to sneak onto a plane with a bomb and blow yourself up.
Hijack gets complicated fast because not only do you have to overwhelm the cabin crew and get control of the cockpit, you also have to deal with 227 passengers all of whom have mobile phones. Silencing the aircraft and all the passengers is technically possible but again, the ability to disappear without a trace is complicated and seems unlikely. That would also mean that the hijackers not only managed to disappear an aircraft without a trace, but also landing a Boeing 777 without anyone noticing. It seems unlikely unless there's a conspiracy of the hugest kind.
OK, so now we get to the WSJ article.
Satellite Data Reveal Route of Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 – WSJ.com
Malaysia Airlines MH370 missing jet transmitted its location repeatedly to satellites over the course of five hours after it disappeared from radar, people briefed on the matter said, as searchers zeroed in on new target areas hundreds of miles west of the plane's original course.
The satellites also received speed and altitude information about the plane from its intermittent "pings," the people said. The final ping was sent from over water, at what one of these people called a normal cruising altitude.
The data transmission they are talking about is the Aircraft Communications and Reporting System (ACARS).
ACARS is a continuous data monitoring system which transmits data automatically. It is what alerted us to the icing situation on Air France 447. And it is that last data received from the engines at 01:07 as the Malaysia Airlines 370 was in the climb for a cruise at 35,000 feet.
ACARS data is event driven, so the silence from 01:07 to 01:30 when the aircraft disappeared is not meaningful. There was simply nothing to report. The last transmission indicated that the aircraft was operating normally.
So when the Malaysian officials insist that there was no further data transmission from the engines after 01:07, that is completely correct.
However, apparently US sources have found that satellites received "faint pings" from the ACARS system, which appear to be the standard "are you there" broadcast which an ACARS system puts out every thirty minutes.
The Boeing's ACARS communications connected through VHF. There is an additional fee for an ACARS satellite communication link, which Malaysia Airlines did not pay for. So no data would ever have been transferred from the aircraft to the satellite.
Now, if the aircraft was functional but out of VHF coverage, the ACARS system would automatically try to connect through the satellite communications. However, as that was not a service that the aircraft was signed up for, the satellite would not accept the connection.
This can be compared to going out of coverage with your mobile phone. The phone will continue to try to connect and every network which is not your network will reject those connections.
Now, what the Wall Street Journal is reporting is that eight such connection attempts (pings) were found on the log of the satellite. As those pings happen every 30 minutes, that implies that the aircraft had power four another four hours after it disappeared.
If this is correct (and it has not been verified by anyone actually involved in the investigation, so it might not be), then presumably the aircraft continued to fly for some time after the disappearance. If so, this absolutely implies a manual disabling of the comms system, rather than a systems failure.
Recent reports have jumped on this and come up with theories fit for a Dan Brown novel as to how the aircraft was stolen for nefarious purposes.
Today, various newspapers have claimed that the aircraft may have turned towards the Andamans islands and landed there in secrecy; however that still leaves the slight plot-hole that no one has seen an unexpected Boeing 777.
The editor of the Andaman Chronicle says there is no aircraft there.
"There are no chances that such a big aircraft coming to the Andaman islands can be missed." And yet the headlines continue.
As long as there is no hard news, speculation and guessing will remain in the forefront. Everyone has a pet theory, ranging from pilot suicide to government plots. My favourite crazy ending to this tragedy so far is the only one that would give us a happy ending: that the disappearance is part of a viral advertisement for a new season of Lost.
I hope that the search parties find some evidence of the aircraft soon. My personal opinion is that the aircraft suffered some catastrophic failure at the beginning of the cruise and is now at the bottom of the ocean. But honestly, until we actually have more data, actual verifiable facts, there's no real point in guessing.


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May 19, 2012
ATHENS, Ga. --- Needing a top-5 finish, the 24th-ranked Georgia men's golf team secured a berth in the NCAA Championships with a fourth-place effort on Saturday in the Athens Regional at the UGA Golf Course.
The Bulldogs finished at 12-over 864 with a 12-over 296 in the final round and next will play in the NCAAs May 30-June 3 at the Rivera Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Also advancing from the Athens Regional were Alabama (828), East Carolina (853), North Florida (858) and Iowa (866). Long Beach State's Philip Chian (210) claimed the regional's individual berth.
"At the beginning of the year, knowing all the new faces we were going to put in the lineup, I didn't even know if we'd have a chance to make it to the regionals," Georgia coach Chris Haack said. "To be able to not only make it but finish fourth and move on, I'd say it's been a great year. No matter what happens, it's been a great year."
"Luckily we had enough clutch pars to get it done," sophomore Joey Garber said. "Whether you're first or fifth you're going, so we're happy about that."
The Bulldogs, sporting a lineup of one junior, three sophomores and a freshman, advanced to the NCAAs for the 14th time in 16 seasons under Haack. Georgia won the 1999 and 2005 NCAA titles and came in second in 2007 and 2011.
On Saturday, the Bulldogs got a 2-over 73 from junior T.J. Mitchell, 3-over 74s from Garber and freshman Nicholas Reach, and a 4-over 75 from sophomore Brian Carter. Sophomore Keith Mitchell had the Bulldogs' non-counting score of 7-over 78.
T.J. Mitchell came in seventh individually at 2-under 211, seven shots behind medalist Justin Thomas of Alabama (204). Carter placed 18th at 3-over 216, Garber finished 29th at 6-over 219, Reach came in 45th at 8-over 221 and Keith Mitchell placed 51st at 9-over 222.
"My heart lost a few years again and I'll probably have a few more gray hairs," said Haack, whose 2010 Bulldogs lost in a regional playoff and whose 2011 squad advanced by one stroke. "It is such a stressful week. To be able to get through it and make it, that's all we needed to do. We probably made it a little tighter than we needed to make it, but the guys came through. We're all excited, we'll have some fun and get ready for nationals. ... This is a great learning experience for these guys and it will pay dividends down the road."
Additional quotes:
Alabama coach Jay Seawell: "They fought hard and I'm very proud of them. I thought they competed well again today; the pin placements just made it hard to get birdies. ... We're pretty confident, and this will help even more. We're comfortable with who we are and what we can accomplish."
Alabama medalist Justin Thomas: "We practiced really well, got prepared, and it's really cool to get the win as a team and move onto nationals. Going 1-2-3 is just a big bonus."

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Clint Eastwood's epic flim J Edgar hits theaters this weekend, painting a grim portrait of legendary FBI director J Edgar Hoover. It's appropriate that Hollywood has finally produced a biopic focusing on Hoover's life, since he spent so much of it obsessing over film and TV actors, producers, and writers. Along with monitoring the production of such FBI based shows as The Untouchables and The FBI, Hoover reportedly targeted much of Tinseltown for what he considered "subversive activities." In the years since Hoover's death, evidence has come to light showing that Hoover investigated, and occasionally persecuted, any Hollywood celebrity who crossed him. Here are seven of the most notable Hollywood icons Hoover had in his crosshairs.
Charlie Chaplin is widely considered one of the greatest comedic performers to have ever lived. Unfortunately J. Edgar Hoover wasn't known for his sense of humor (except that time he wore white after Labor Day). Chaplin was known for supporting left-wing causes, and this led Hoover to bar his re-entry in to the Untied States after Chaplin attended the London premier of the film "Limelight" in 1952. Chaplin took the hint and made himself comfortable in Europe for the remainder of his life, except for his return to the U.S. in 1972 to accept an honorary Academy Award. This occurred one month before Hoover's death, which makes it one of the coolest "f*ck you" moments in history.
Actress Jean Seberg appeared in everything from "Breathless" to "Airport." Along with being well regarded by critics and audiences, she was a major supporter of The Black Panthers. Hoover wasn't on board the soul train, apparently, and in 1970 he had false stories planted in the media accusing Seberg of infidelity. This occurred during Seberg's first marriage and pregnancy, and preceeded the death of her infant child and her eventual suicide in 1979. So in addition to developing law enforcement techniques for the 20th century, J. Edgar Hoover also paved the way for the Internet bully.
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Ten days before the death of England's poet laureate, Ted Hughes, on the 28th October 1998, the London Times published a piece of poetry by Hughes that was known only to a chosen few among the poetry readership.. It was a poem titled "The Offers" which belonged to the collection Howls and Whispers which Hughes had written in the same year as his famous Birthday Letters. However, either due to a poetic perversion on Hughes's part or due to the 11 poems' great significance within Hughes's "restoration" of his relationship with his muse, Sylvia Plath, which began with the 88 poems of Birthday Letters, these poems were published in a Gehenna Press limited and …
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book reviewBy Anna Rabin
Although short on solutions, biologist Chris Jennings persuasively argues that AIDS did not originate in Africa and that its spread is vastly overestimated.
When a book's statement of purpose is to "reconfigure the conceptual paradigm of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, such that resource allocations and health care interventions better serve the populations at need - both those with and without HIV/AIDS - worldwide", expectations are high. Although successful in making waves within the realm of HIV/AIDS research, Jennings' efforts largely fail to step outside this research paradigm and address the issue of resource allocation and healthcare priorities.
Nevertheless, the overall message Chris Jennings is trying to convey is never lost, despite the Harvard-educated biologist's attempts at writing for laypeople being sometimes overshadowed by large sections of scientific jargon.
HIV/AIDS: The Facts and The Fiction argues that the AIDS epidemic first began in New York City, that the HIV virus was not discovered in an African green monkey, and that the media alongside international and national bodies have grossly overestimated how many AIDS victims there have been.
Jennings's accompanying book, HIV/AIDS in South Africa: The Facts and the Fiction further highlights the dangers of estimating the number of HIV/AIDS victims in the country reported to be home to the largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world.
Where did it all begin?
Contrary to the widely held belief that AIDS originated in Africa, Jennings makes a convincing case that the first 'legitimate' cases of AIDS were in the United States - specifically New York City, then in Los Angeles. 72% of these first one thousand victims were gay men. And, although the first ever AIDS victim in the US was an African-American man, Jennings is quick to point out that the next 25 victims were Caucasian.
Jennings goes on to argue that the first connection between Africa and AIDS was made shortly after its initial outbreak in the US. One third of early sufferers were also infected with Kaposi's sarcoma, an opportunistic virus which takes advantage of the weakened immune system. And in 1981 - just two years after the first ever AIDS patient was diagnosed in New York City - the Morbidity and Mortality Week Report published an article stating that although Kaposi's sarcoma was very rare in the US, it accounted "for up to 9% of all cancers" in an " endemic belt" across equatorial Africa. Jennings asserts that the reiteration of this point by the New York Times planted the seed for future misconceptions about the links between Africa and AIDS.
The spread of AIDS
Jennings's portrayal of how AIDS spread to become a global epidemic is also unorthodox. Contrary to the widely held assumption that AIDS travelled from the African jungle to urban centres from which it permeated the Western world, Jennings argues that the spread of AIDS exemplifies his theory that "disease follows trade routes". He claims the first cases of AIDS were seen in the US, before the disease appeared throughout Europe, with the majority of the early victims having had homosexual relations in the US or with an American citizen. Jennings also highlights the fact that the first two confirmed AIDS victims in South Africa were two gay men who had travelled to the US.
Nevertheless, throughout this section of the book, Jennings fails to properly investigate the possibility that the virus existed in Africa but was not widely acknowledged for reasons such as traditional medical practices, the lack of central HIV reporting databases, and the possibility of diseases common to developing countries including tuberculosis, being diagnosed in place of the AIDS virus.
This shortcoming aside, his argument that the disease followed trade routes carries some weight. The fact that, as the virus began to ripple through the Caribbean and Europe, there was a virtual absence of the disease in Cuba and the Soviet Union, seems to confirm linkages between disease and trade routes, or a lack thereof, during the Cold War era.
Monkey business
Further to Jennings's version of the spread of AIDS, he goes on to clarify that an AIDS-like virus was not in fact located in an African green monkey in 1985, as initially reported by a group of researchers from the School of Public Health at Harvard. He explains that the scientists' findings came as a result of lab contamination and suggests that the lack of media coverage surrounding the researchers' retraction of their initial findings was just another incident of the media propagating a one-sided story that AIDS originated in Africa.
Indeed, the role of the media in supporting what Jennings refers to as the 'African fallacy' is a common theme throughout the book. On numerous occasions, Jennings refers to specific newspaper headlines to give examples of the media both propagating and inflating the idea of AIDS originating from, and decimating, the African continent. New York Times headlines such as "AIDS in Africa: A Killer Rages On" and "AIDS Is Everywhere, but Africa Looks Away" are provided as examples of such alarmist journalism. While Jennings makes mention of similar coverage appearing on the BBC and the Chicago Tribune, his overarching focus on the New York Times (a whole page of the book is dedicated to listing the publication's headlines) is quite puzzling and skewed at times.
Statistical searching
Jennings's investigation into the statistics that surround HIV/AIDS prevalence in Africa is nothing short of alarming. In particular, HIV/AIDS in South Africa provides a provocative and compelling analysis into a country he believes is the "principal exemplar of the discrepancy between modelled HIV/AIDS estimates, surveillance data, and death counts". His analysis questions both the methods used for diagnosing HIV/AIDS and the validity of country-wide estimates made by international organisations and South Africa's Department of Health.
Jennings is quick to point out the belief that South Africa has "the largest [HIV/AIDS epidemic] in the world" is based on estimates, not actual data. Before 1996, South Africa calculated the number of people living with HIV/AIDS using actual surveillance data. 12,825 cases were reported in 1996.
In estimates for 1997, however, the World Health Organisation (WHO) published figures suggesting there were 2.9 million people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and that 140,000 had died from the disease in 1997 - a marked difference from the 6,235 deaths reported.
In 1992, African countries reported 211,032 cumulative AIDS cases; WHO's estimate was 7.5 million. Throughout his statistical review, Jennings gives adequate weight to potential reasons for underreporting, but claims this alone cannot justify such an extreme difference in the data. Throughout HIV/AIDS in South Africa, Jennings provides an interesting and well-presented statistical summary that will leave readers questioning the validity of internationally-approved estimates.
Jennings also argues that the rate of false-positive HIV/AIDS tests in South Africa is absurdly high. The inappropriate use of diagnostic assays used to confirm cases of HIV/AIDS in a patient exhibiting signs of suffering from an opportunistic infection are being used on larger populations to test for the disease. Jennings asserts that this method of testing can be highly inaccurate, saying: "it is generally understood that medical assays are likely to generate more false-positives than true-positives in a large healthy asymptomatic population". As testing mechanisms become more sensitive, they are also more susceptible to producing false-positive readings.
Who is tested is also of concern. Instead of using the highly sensitive diagnostic assays on a random sample of the population, South African estimates are based on a survey of approximately 30,000 women who are pregnant for the first time; a group not representative of the population at large.
Jennings argues that such high rates of incorrect readings can be detrimental to fighting curable diseases because a large portion of health budgets in African countries is being spent on treating HIV/AIDS, when many presumed to suffer from the disease may in fact have other, more easily combated, illnesses.
An insight into AIDS
HIV/AIDS: The Facts and The Fiction and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: The Facts and The Fiction provide interesting insights into the myths and realities of the origins and scale of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Jennings's discussion surrounding the origins of the disease is controversial, yet quite plausible. Although his analysis of the media coverage may be slightly flawed, his overall argument never wavers. When read one after the other, the two books can become quite repetitive, but his country specific analysis on South Africa effectively reinforces Jennings's hypothesis and is persuasively argued.
However, besides fleeting references to the fact that government budgets to treat HIV/AIDS patients in African countries dwarf those to treat curable diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, Jennings does not succeed in providing alternatives. A discussion into more appropriate resource allocation would have both broadened the scope of his studies and enhanced their practical purposes.
Anna Rabin has a Masters in African Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies. She has a particular interest in East Africa and demography.


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Plant breeders strive to introduce the shiniest, 'must have' perennial. We are lucky to be able to share The Perennial Diva's current picks of promising plants. Stephanie Cohen says it's getting more and more difficult to pick winners and losers. She's brave and kind enough to offer a few suggestions here.
Let's have a drum roll. We are putting down the green carpet. Each plant vying for contention will strut its stuff before entering the garden arena. They have been primped, the PR is out, but the question remains; Can they perform as well in the garden to get us excited about them? Here are a few more plants for inspiration.
We'll start with a rather diminutive beauty that has just come into sight down the carpet. The small shade emperor takes center stage. You can here the buzz. Yes, it's the trend-setter and jet setter-Hosta ' Cherry Tomato' new this year, but it is working its way to being a top selling hosta. It flaunts long lance shaped leaves that are creamy yellow to white with wide dark green margins. Attractive red petioles and purple flowers make you want to take a second look. Besides there is a cuteness factor. It is a miniature sport of 'Cherry Berry' who looks upset by our choice.
The sun goddess who will not let the Hosta steal its thunder is the Hemerocallis. The day lily quote,"A garden without dailyness is like a day without love". We never exclude one of the most popular perennials when it demands center stage. The 'Earlybird Cardinal' is the progeny of Dr. Darrel Apps.
It has large watermelon flowers that scream buy me! Garden centers need this now! It flowers a month earlier than other lilies. It stops traffic! If you already have one, don't despair there is Kansas Kitten It has a rich lavender purple flowers with a black eye zone. This is no kitten, but a tiger in disguise. Check out the black eye. This ferocious grower will take on all comers!
The plant quivering in the corner is Salvia officinalis 'Silver Sabre'. It is extremely nervous because it is a perennial herb. It moves onto the green carpet and wows the crowd. It is a brilliantly variegated edible sage. It stands up straight to show its great habit. The pink swirls in spring against the white variegation are fantastic. It would love to be in your perennial border basking in the sun. It hopes it's not relegated to the herb or vegetable border. It wants to be a trend-setter!
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2. Embroidery Floss
3. Rubber Cement
4. Pencil
5. Scissors
6. Scrapbook Paper Scraps
7. Floss Organizer (for template) or draw up your own design!
8. (not pictured) Hole Puncher-optional
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Trace your template onto your cardboard. I try to fit as many as possible onto one piece. This limits your waste and gives you the highest return on pieces. Make sure to leave a little room between them to allow for the next couple steps.
Cut the pieces out into squares. I like to wait till later before cutting them down to their actual shape. This makes the next few steps easier.
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Using your rubber cement (or any other adhesive you have lying around) afix your cutout with your tracing facing out. This helps you know where to cut. Make sure you let the glue dry fully before proceeding to the next step.
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Cut out your template a second time, cutting as close to the cardboard as possible to maximize your scraps and minimize waste.


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Text File I/O
File I/O allows applications to access (store or retrieve) persistent information. With normal applications that use variables to store information in memory, we lose any information after the application is finished. If we turn off the machine that is running the application, all the information stored in memory will be lost (it will be reinitialized the next time that we turn on the machine).
With file IO, we can store information on the hard disk or floppy; that information will not be lost when the application finishes or when the machine is rebooted.
When we want to use file IO in our application(s), we need to decide:
1 - Whether we want to store information in the disk or to read information from the disk.
2 - Where in the disk do we
want the information (if we are storing) or where do we have it (if we
are reading from it)
Writing to files:
In the first example, I will write a small demo program to write the name of a user and a password to a file called passwords.txt
#include <iostream>
int main()
<< "Enter user name (can't have spaces): ";
<< "Choose a password (can't have spaces): ";
// Now that we have all the information, we store it in the file
pwd_file ("passwords.txt");
pwd_file << user_name << ' ' << password << endl;
Notice that sending information to a file is very similar as sending information to the screen. Instead of cout, you use the variable associated to the file.
This program has one minor flaw (actually, it's not that minor!).
For instance, suppose that you run ths program on a diskette that is write protected. Or on a hard disk that is full, or on a network drive for which you don't have privileged access. In any of these cases, the line in which we open the file (ofstream pwd_file("passwords.txt")) creates the file if it doesn't exist. However, any attempt to create a file given any of the above conditions will fail! After that, the program is simply assuming that the file was succesfully opened (created) and that we can go ahead and store information in it.
An improved version of that simple program would be the following, where we include validation for the attempt to open the file, and print an error message in case it failed:
#include <iostream>
int main()
<< "Enter user name (can't have spaces): ";
<< "Choose a password (can't have spaces): ";
ofstream pwd_file ("passwords.txt");
The variable pwd_file can be used as a condition, and it evaluates to true or false depending on whether or not the attempt to open the file succeeded or not. Notice that alternatively, we could have done the following:
if (! pwd_file)
pwd_file << user_name
In this case, we are using the ! operator (not) to check if the file open went wrong. If it did (go wrong), we exit (that is, we quit the program immediately); if not, then the execution continues normally.
If you tried that program, then you should have now a file called `passwords.txt' on the same directory where you ran the application. If you are using Linux/Unix, you could use the cat command to display its contents (cat is a unix command used to display the contents of a text file). If you type this command at the Linux prompt:
[... web1]$ cat passwords.txt
Then you would see the line of text displayed on the screen.
Also, you could use the Text Editor (the same editor you use to edit your C++ files) and do File/Open and select the file `passwords.txt'. In either case, you will see the contents of that file according to what you just sent to it.
If you are using Windows, then you could use the type command (type in Windows is similar to the cat command in Linux) from a DOS command prompt:
C:\...> type passwords.txt
Or you could use the Notepad
and do File/Open and select your file. Again, in either case you
will see the contents of the file, according to what your program stored
in it.
Appending information to files:
Another inconvenience of that program is that each time that we execute it, the existing data is overwritten (remember that when you open a file for output -- i.e., as an ofstream variable -- if the file does not exist, it is created, and if it does exist, it is destroyed and created again). In a situation like this, what the program should do is add one line with a new user/password each time it is executed (as opposed to replace the one line in the file with the new one).
To do that, the file should be opened in append mode. That is, we should setup the access to the file passwords.txt specifying that we are going to append information to the contents that is already there. If the file indicated already exists, then all the information that we store in it will be stored after the information that was originally in the file. If it doesn't exist, then it is created and information is output to it normally.
The previous example can be modified to append to the file as follows:
#include <iostream>
int main()
<< "Enter user name (can't have spaces): ";
<< "Choose a password (can't have spaces): ";
fstream pwd_file ("passwords.txt", ios::app);
Notice that the only difference is in the line where we open the file. Instead of ofstream, we use fstream, and we must indicate a second parameter, ios::app.
However, notice that we still
must be careful and check if we could succesfully open the file
(remember, nobody can guarantee that the disk will not be full or write-protected,
or that we have privileged access to the file or to the directory or the
network drive where we are trying to open the file).
Reading information from files:
The previous examples showed how to write information to files (creating them and updating them). Other applications may need to read the information to the file(s) and do something with it. For example, in the case of the users and passwords, we may have an application that creates the passwords file and allows users to register (thus, updating the contents of the file), and then another application would need to read the information from that file to verify if a user is registered, or to verify the password and decide if the user should be authorized or not.
To read information from a file, we need to open the file in input mode. This can be done by declaring the variable attached to the file as an ifstream variable (instead of ofstream or fstream). In the example below, one line of text is read from the file passwords.txt:
#include <iostream>
int main()
This simple program will read one line from the file and will display it.
Of course, we could have read the user and password into two separate variables, instead of reading the whole line into a single string variable:
#include <iostream>
int main()
ifstream pwd_file ("passwords.txt");
That is, we use getline if we want to read one entire line (without stopping at spaces), or we use the >> operator (as we did with cin) if we want to read individual pieces separated by spaces (or tabs, or newlines).
Both versions of this example have an important inconvenience: they only read the first line of the file! In a real-life example, we would want to check if a user is registered, or validate a user name/password pair to grant or refuse access, etc. In that case, we would need to read all of the lines of text that the file contains. That can be done by placing the read statement in a loop. Notice that it has to be a while loop, and not a for loop. We don't know how many lines the file contains, which means that we shouldn't use a for loop.
The following example reads and displays all the registered users and their passwords, as per the passwords.txt file:
#include <iostream>
int main()
ifstream pwd_file ("passwords.txt");
(! pwd_file)
// print header
// now loop reading and printing every user and its password
Notice that the same instruction that reads from the file acts as the condition to continue! It will return a boolean value indicating if the read operation was successful. If it was, we continue in the loop. If it wasn't, that means that the end of the file was reached, and there are no more text lines; thus, we stop the loop and the execution of the program finishes.
Now, what if we wanted to display only the user names? You have to be careful about the following detail: your program would still have to read both user name and password, except that it will only display the user name. This has to be done like that because the file contains the passwords, that you want to display it or not! The example below shows this:
#include <iostream>
int main()
ifstream pwd_file ("passwords.txt");
(! pwd_file)
cout << "Registered users:" << endl << endl;
// now loop reading user and password, and printing only user name
Thus, if the file contains the following lines:
Then the first time, carlos will be read into the variable user_name and carlos_pwd into the variable password. Only carlos will be displayed, as the program only prints user_name, and not password. The second time, john will be read into the variable user_name, and pwd_johnny into the variable password.
Notice that if we mistakenly write the following:
(pwd_file >> user_name)
The output of the program would be something like:
User name:
Since each pass of the loop we only read one piece (one word, or token) into the variable user_name. The next pass of the loop, we will read the next word in the file (the password, then the user name in the next line, then password, and so on).
In this final example, the program asks the user for their user name and verifies if the user is registered (only checks if the user is registered, without validating the password or asking the user for it):
#include <iostream>
int main()
<< "Enter your user name (no spaces): ";
ifstream pwd_file ("passwords.txt");
(! pwd_file)
bool user_registered = false;
(pwd_file >> user_name >> password && !user_registered)


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The US government has unveiled a plan to tighten controls on genetically modified foods. Companies will have to notify the Food and Drug Administration before they put GM food on the market. The FDA will also draft guidelines for food makers who want to label products GM-free. But consumer groups aren't satisfied. "They still don't mandate any testing or labelling," says Andrew Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety in Washington, DC.
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Album Rating: 4.5mi amor
Album Rating: 4.5enrique hopes to go down on some srs bzns with totsy right now and wants to get butthurt
Album Rating: 4.5or enrique wants to get butthurt by totsy's srs bzns rn
that works too
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI like the new art, the booklet has pretty pictures amidst wtf drawings.
^ The album art is pretty awesome.
So yeah album rules and has since I found it like a year ago lol, but I'm definitely buying this soon.
2nd para:
attractive girl whose talented in
Album Rating: 4.5Holy crap this is amazing. Probably a 4.5... top ten albums of the year just got a little more complicated for me.
Album Rating: 4.0Thanks for pointing that out, qwe3. Must've gotten mixed up in my lone re-write, I think I originally said "whose talent shines through blablabla shitty bands"
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffNeed to give this more listens. I really like Sayer of the Law and Lost at Sea right now...those seem to go by under-appreciated but they're two of my favorites.
i agree sayer of the law is fantastic
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffRight now my favorites are the first three and last two songs.
i think i like kid cancer the best
Album Rating: 4.5
Right now my favorites are the first three and last two songs.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffKid Cancer is the best.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI THINK my favorite is Megaloblastic Madness atm but the whole album is really good. I don't find that it drags at all, which surprises me a little.
Album Rating: 4.0A Man of Science = best
Digging: mewithoutYou - Pale Horses
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThe lyrics are weird as fuck though. Which like coke said is kinda a good thing.
Also I like this way more than The Always Open Mouth.
Album Rating: 4.5briggs actually started with guitar first and writes everything on his guitar before he goes to his bass guitar. this album is so damn weird and i wanna get into it and i dont have a hard time "trying" to relisten to it, which means there is hope for me liking it a lot. if that made sense. its just the vocals are so hard to deal with.
shoulda had steve wilson do guitar and had dan do his thing with bass. that would = awesome.
Digging: Native Construct - Quiet World
Album Rating: 4.0I don't think Man of Science has weird lyrics though. I think they just juxtapose science and religion and the fierce dependency with which each "side" leans on its beliefs.
Album Rating: 3.0Seems too nerdy to check out
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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They're not? Ok, I actually didn't know that, I mean I know they're a different species and they generally don't produce honey, in the traditional sense of a worker bee.
Wasps are not bees. o_O
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
A Guest Post by Kimberly Derting
EARNING MY PhD IN TEEN STUDIES???
One of the questions I get asked A LOT is why I write YA. Or in other words, why I write for teens?
I think it would be easy to say that maybe it's because, in my head at least, I'm still that same uncertain 16-year-old girl I've always been…a little immature, a little cocky, a little…you know, ridiculous.
But, really, I think it has less to do with me, and more to do with my surroundings. As in, I have teenagers around me…All. Of. The. Time! I have for years. And, to be honest, there is No. End. In. Sight!
Let's do some math here. Yeah, yeah, math sucks, I get it! But bear with me for just a minute…
My oldest daughter is 23 (Okay, don't do too much math, you don't need to be playing the guess-the-author's-age game!), and that means I've had a teen in the house for 7 of those past 10 past ten years. Oh yeah, and she's a girl, which meant I always had T-E-E-N-S (with a capital "S") in the house. They travel in packs, you know.
And guess what? Teens, especially girls, like to talk. All it took on my part was a little eavesdropping…err, I mean, "research" to find out more than I ever wanted to know about teens and teen lifestyle.
But she's not a teen anymore, so what about now, you ask?
You're right, she's not, but here's the deal, she has a younger brother…16 years old, to be exact. So for three years now I've had teen boys to study, and trust me when I say, they are an entirely different kind of research project. I've learned more about bodily functions than anyone ever should…eww! Oh, and by the way, my son brings teen girls over (with strict parent supervision, of course) so there's that to consider!
Now maybe you're thinking my YA days are coming to an end, three maybe four years tops, right? Wrong! Cause there's still one more, and she's turning nine this month. And by the time the boy is out of his teen years, she'll be just starting them.
So, here's where the math comes in:
7 years of teen girls + 3 (so far) with the boy + 4 more until he's officially no longer a teenager + and then my youngest is a teen and I have another 7. That equals TWENTY ONE years of teenagers!!!!!!
Seriously, after that many years, I'll be like a Pro, a Master, a Doctor of Teen Studies. Maybe even a Black Belt.
Or a Ninja.
You'll never even see me coming…
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Park University Announces Austin Campus Center GraduatesTuesday, May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 — Park University's Austin (Texas) Campus Center held its commencement ceremony on May 16 at the Great Hills Baptist Church. The University had 81 students eligible to participate in the ceremony — seven students earned a master's degree, 69 students received their bachelor's degree, 12 students earned their associate's degree, one student earned a graduate certificate and two students earned an undergraduate certificate.
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The Electoral Commission (EC) has advised Parliament to enact electoral laws in time to enable proper planning budgeting, timely procurement and implementation of electoral activities.
This recommendation is contained in the report on the Referendum 2000 on political systems in Uganda. In the foreword to the report published last week, EC chairman, Aziz Kasujja, stated that the original programme for the implementation of the referendum was to run for nine months with effect from October 1999.
However, the late enactment of the enabling laws left six months for execution of the numerous tasks such as civic education, updating the voters' register, distribution of election materials and training of election officials, which greatly affected effective and efficient implementation.
Despite all the shortcomings and challenges faced at various stages of the referendum, it is gratifying to note that the commission was able to conduct the referendum within the stipulated period and in accordance with the law," the report states.
The referendum exercise was implemented using several legislations, of which only three were in place. The rest of the enabling laws were belated and legislated at different stages during the referendum process, causing time constraint, the report said.
The referendum was held on June 29, 2000 and the Movement political system won with 4,322,901 votes, representing 90.7% of the total votes, compared to 442,823 (9.3) in favour of the multiparty political system.
Although the EC had requested Parliament to authorise payment of Shs 18.57bn to run the whole exercise, the electoral body received Shs 13.33bn, including a supplementary of Shs 600m. This was about 30% short of the budgeted figure.


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Baby boomers' top health concerns? Cancer, memory loss
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"This is how we spent our 4th this year. On a Royal British ship in support of Operation Unified Protector. Needless to say the only thing the Brits had to say about us flying our flag on flybys was 'F'."
Britain is one of our many great allies…no offense is meant by this photo.
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This crap is supposed to be the chick flick antidote to Super Bowl fever. Ha! show more
Zellweger takes an otherwise passable mainstream comedy and all but ruins it with her lack of effort. show more
To say that New in Town is the worst movie of this fledgling year is to damn it with faint praise. It may be one of the worst movies of any year. Not content to be merely inane and predictable, it is downright insulting, humorlessly deriding those who choose to live in rural America, labor in factories or have a strong Christian faith. show more
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good story,Really enjoyed this movie. one more thing do people under stand the stars
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Really enjoyed this movie. It was pretty much predictable, yet it was sweet and as mentioned before, no dirty language. What we really liked was that the outdoor scenes were actually in the cold. Hate when movies are supposed to be in the cold and no steam comes out of their mouths when they talk. You could tell they were cold. Made for a nice peaceful evening of movie watching.
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Happy New Year! After clearing the holiday fog from my brain, it is an awakening experience to think about Densho's upcoming milestones in 2014. For example, in February we are at Angel Island conducting our 16th and final teacher workshop for a two-year National Park Service grant. This project allowed us to create and conduct all-day workshops with over 600 teachers from 24 different states -- the largest ever teacher training effort about the WWII Japanese American incarceration experience. Later in April we launch a bigger and more advanced digital collection of historic photographs, documents, and newspapers. This updated collection will include over 50,000 images, a big step up from our current 12,000 online collection, and feature better search and social media sharing capabilities. And in the summer we launch version 2.0 of the Densho Encyclopedia which will include over 1,000 online articles, creating the most up-to-date, comprehensive resource on the World War II Japanese American experience. Behind the scenes, we will be designing and creating new multimedia online courses about the WWII Japanese American experience, digitizing another 100,000 historic photographs and documents, and conducting and digitizing 60 more oral history interviews add to the 770 interviews already available online. 2014 will be a busy year for Densho's staff of 10!
We are inspired to work with urgency because as we create more online materials, we immediately see more people, especially youth, learning and understanding the injustice of what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II. Densho's goal is to keep this story alive so similar mistakes are not made in the future. Our simple strategy is to create compelling, accurate content on the internet and to help millions of people find and use this information.
Your support helps us this work. Donations from individuals increased 43% from $195,151 in 2012 to $278,353 in 2013. This increase in giving fueled a 42% increase in our programs work over the last two years. In other words, your donation translates into us doing more. If you like what Densho is doing and didn't make a donation in 2013, please consider an online donation today. Your donation will be put to use right away to add another oral history interview, digitize a historic newspaper edition, train a teacher, add an encyclopedia article, or create an online education course. Once this work is done, it will last for generations to come. And please send me a note at [email protected] when you make your donation. Your gift is a personal acknowledgement of the work we do and I want to thank you!
Michiko Frances Chikahisa was a social worker in Los Angeles and Chicago directly after World War II. In this clip, she talks about the types of problems she observed among Japanese American youths and their parents upon returning home after the war. Michiko Frances Chikahisa's full interview is available in the Densho Digital Archive.
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This is the last of a series of 16 workshops conducted over the last 18 months. The ratings for these workshops have been excellent, receiving an average score of 4.9 out of 5 with the 570 teachers who have participated.
This workshop will examine how to use primary source materials to develop analysis and reasoning skills. The workshop is designed around thinking routines and content about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Funding for the workshop is provided, in part, by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.
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Densho is looking for one or two volunteers to help with a mailing project in the next couple of weeks. The project involves packaging a large number of books and DVDs for shipping. The project will take one to two days, and volunteering must be done during regular business hours on a weekday. If you are interested, please contact Naoko Magasis ([email protected]) for more information.
The Manzanar Committee launched an online petition drive calling on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to halt its efforts to build a proposed Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch, a 200-megawatt solar energy generating facility that would consist of solar photovoltaic panel modules and associated infrastructure. The approximately 1,200-acre project site would be located on City of Los Angeles-owned property east of the Owens River, but in a direct line of sight with the Manzanar National Historic Site, which lies to the immediate west, in California's Owens Valley.
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Men's college report: No more unbeatens as No. 2 Michigan falls to Ohio St.
| January 13, 2013 | Updated: January 13, 2013 11:58pm
Photo By MIKE MUNDEN/FREOhio State's Aaron Craft, left, and Michigan's Trey Burke vie for a loose ball Sunday as part of a spirited confrontation between the point guards that saw Craft hold Burke to 15 points on 4-for-13 shooting.
Deshaun Thomas had 20 points to help the No. 15 Buckeyes beat the second-ranked Wolverines on Sunday, denying Michigan its first No. 1 ranking in more than 20 years.
After Trey Burke, who led the Wolverines (16-1, 3-1 Big Ten) with 15 points, hit a 3-pointer to open the game, the Buckeyes (13-3, 2-2) took the lead for good, although there were many nervous moments by the finish.
Burke had a shot to tie the game with 17 seconds left, but it rattled out.
Michigan was the last remaining unbeaten team.
Michigan St. 66 Nebraska 56
Derrick Nix made two late free throws and finished with 17 points to help the No. 22 Spartans pull away from the Cornhuskers at home.
The Spartans (14-3, 3-1 Big Ten) have won three straight and kept the Cornhuskers (9-8, 0-4) winless in Big Ten play.
Spartans reserve Adreian Payne scored 14 points, and Branden Dawson had 12 points.
Evansville 71 Wichita St. 67
Colt Ryan had 24 points and eight assists, and the Purple Aces made seven free throws in the closing minutes to hold off the No. 23 Shockers in Evansville.
Evansville (11-6, 4-1 Missouri Valley Conference) took advantage of a season-high 22 turnovers by Wichita State (15-2, 4-1) to win its fourth straight conference game.
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Vaughan Trading Company, Inc. filed as a Domestic For-Profit Corporation in the State of Texas on Friday, September 25, 1987 and is approximately twenty-eight years old, according to public records filed with Texas Secretary of State. The filing is currently active as of the last data refresh which occured on Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
Artie Vaughan serves as the Director and has interests in other corporate entities including Vaughan Funeral Homes, Inc. located in Donna, TX
Anna Lax was the Director of Vaughan Trading Company, Inc.. Anna's additional corporate interests include Vaughan Family Investments LLC located in Alvarado, TX . Anna's past corporate affiliations include Aaron's Discount Grocery, Inc.
The registered agent for the company is Arrdeen Vaughan. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.
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Artie A. Vaughan
Director, President
Anna Lax
Director , President
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|Friday, September 25, 1987
|Registered Agent
|Arrdeen Vaughan
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