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Wedding & Reception £2400 instead of £5349 for a 50 guest wedding and 75 guest reception including wine and a 3 course meal at Pinewood Hotel, Buckingham – save 55%
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- Your civil ceremony will be held in a beautiful function room.
- Reception includes a 3 course meal of your choice from their selection, 2 glasses of wine, 1 glass bubbly and coffee each.
- Hire of the function room and dance floor until midnight.
- Includes a wedding night room and breakfast the next day.
- Professional wedding co-ordinator to help organise the day.
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- May buy multiples.
- Voucher valid from 2nd August 2012 to 30th March 2013.
- Extra guests are charged at £50 a head, children £25 and under 5's at £15.
- Subject to availability.
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So you've found the dress, chosen the flowers and decided on the date. Now as long as you've got the groom, we'll take care of the rest...
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Situated in 5 acres of beautiful Buckingham countryside, the luxurious Pinewood Hotel is the perfect venue for a stylish and romantic wedding. Included in the package is a wedding coordinator who will work with you on everything from food to seating plan to make sure your special day is hiccup free. The amazing package includes:
- Red carpet welcome
- Civil ceremony room hire
- Welcome drink
- Use of grounds & terrace for pictures
- Guaranteed only wedding on the day
- 3 course meal with coffee
- 2 glasses of wine per person
- White table linen & napkins
- A glass of sparkling wine for the toast
- Function room hire until midnight
- Cake stand & knife
- Evening buffet
- Private function bar
- Dance floor
- Seating plan
- Microphone for speeches
- Professional wedding coordinator
- Duty manager to act as toastmaster
- Overnight accommodation with breakfast for the happy couple, in a feature bedroom
- Special accommodation rates for all guests (£99 double room)
- Max capacity is 130 (In December and January this is extended to 250 people)
- Parking & VAT included
The venue is available on the following dates:
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Yes, in my hubby's family.
You have more than 2 pairs of shoes.
Yes, in my hubby's family.
You have more than 2 pairs of shoes.
You have to pack up several bags of clothing for Goodwill.
You have socks in your household that need to be tossed.
LOL yes, there are always socks that need tossing!
You have been enjoying your local farmers fresh summer veggies, especially corn on the cob.
You have baked and frozen cookies at holiday time.
Baked only
You have always wished you could have gotten your mother's Christmas spritz cookie recipe.
No, but I wish I had my grandma's recipe for her special brown sugar frosting.
You have to leave for a bit.
I don't think she made spritz cookies.
You have been told you resemble your mother.
You have a child that looks like you, and one that looks like your spouse.
"Show a dog an ounce of love and he'll be your friend for life." ~ Stuart and Linda Macfarlane
Both look like both sides of the family.
You have stuff in the refrigerator that really needs to be thrown out.
"Success is getting what you want; Happiness is wanting what you get."

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The decision to introduce high security number plates for vehicles has been stuck in a legal tangle for more than a decade, leaving criminals with enough room to tamper with registration numbers.
Rule 50 of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules was amended mandating the introduction of high security number plates for new as well as old vehicles.
Transport Commissioner Rishi Raj Singh said the proposed high security numbers could be introduced only after a case between two companies in this regard in the Supreme Court was resolved.
To make matters worse, the normal number plates in which black letters are painted on white surface are increasingly being replaced by stickers, making switching to fake numbers all too easy.
A senior Motor Vehicle Department official said that while the Motor Vehicle Rules specify the manner in which the registration number should be displayed - including its dimension, size, thickness, width, and height – it neither mandates the use of painted number plates alone nor bans the use of stickers.
"Anyway, manipulating a painted number plate is not hard. It is possible with a single stroke of brush without even removing the plate," the official said.
Besides, the Motor Vehicle Department hardly has any mechanism to inspect the number plates of private vehicles once they are registered unlike transport vehicles, which will have to be produced again for periodic fitness certificate after registration.
Though the registration number is generated on the same day on which the vehicle is registered, private vehicle owners affix the number plate that catch their fancy a day or two later. "In the case of private vehicles, the violation of Central Motor Vehicle Rules with regard to display of registration numbers comes to light only during routine vehicle checks," the official said.
The proposed high security number plate, he said, was the only solution to all these problems. Its unique features make tampering highly risky and detectable. The chromium hologram-based number plate will have a retro-reflective film bearing a verification inscription 'India' at 45-degree inclination. The alpha-numeric laser numbering helps identification of both testing agencies and the manufacturers. The registration numbers will be embossed on the plate.
The rear registration plate will be fitted with a non-reusable snap lock that will be tamper-proof. A chromium-based third registration sticker will be attached to the windshield specifying the number of engine and chassis along with the name of registering authority. Any attempt to tamper with it will lead to its self-destruction. The front and rear registration plates will be hot stamped with the letter IND in blue colour.
Meanwhile, the MVD has started cracking the whip on vehicle owners not complying with the specifications for the display of registration numbers as per Rule 50 and 51 of the Central Motor Vehicles. Customised number plates bearing registration numbers in different fonts and styles are all too common on roads. "We are registering more than 300 cases daily in this regard across the State. All illegal number plates will be removed in next two months," Mr. Singh said.


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Today is my twelfth anniversary in Developer Tools at Apple!
Still love it, too!Tagged Apple
Today is my twelfth anniversary in Developer Tools at Apple!
Still love it, too!Tagged Apple
A couple weeks back, I tweeted the following:
Turns out a Raspberry Pi now is about 6× as fast as a SPARCstation 20 was 20 years ago. And a Pi 2 is more like 15× as fast.
I was a little low in my numbers, too — they're more like 7× and 16× to 41× as fast — since I was going from memory!
Here's how I came up with that.
The standard benchmark for UNIX systems back in the day was the BYTE UNIX Benchmark, a set of benchmarks originally developed at a university and fleshed out substantially by BYTE Magazine so they could evaluate the new servers and workstations that were coming to market.
Even though BYTE itself is no more (RIP) the benchmark lives on: The most recent version was posted on Google Code and had some additional portability and enhancement work done. These days, the most up-to-date version is on GitHub.
What's useful about this benchmark is that it's scaled, and UNIX hasn't changed all that much in itself, so it's still moderately useful as a way to compare systems with each other.
I'd recently made an offhand comment that the Raspberry Pi, despite feeling "underpowered" by today's standards, was actually extremely powerful — and that it put a decent workstation from the mid-1990s to shame, the kind of system we tended to be jealous of as college students.
Back then, Sun was the biggest UNIX workstation vendor, primarily because both their hardware and baseline operating system were good and they offered a ton of flexibility in their product line.
In 1994, Sun introduced a new lineup of SPARCstation systems that had dramatically improved performance compared to their previous models — the original of which was so iconic that it defined the "pizza box" form factor for desktop workstations — and the SPARCstation 20 was one of their flagships.
Here are some specs for the Sun SPARCstation 20 model 61, which shipped in June 1994:
In 1994, this was quite a substantial system, and it cost $16,195 in its minimum configuration. (That's $25,580 today!) And if you used one, it felt like it: This thign was wicked fast.
This was also the last system for which the BYTE benchmark was re-indexed, defining this SPARCstation 20 to have a score of 10.0.
Actually running the benchmarks under Raspbian Jessie on my Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 2 was trivial, literally just a matter of cloning the git repository and running the script.
Here are the results. Note that the Raspberry Pi 2 has two sets of results, because the BYTE UNIX Benchmark runs once to get "single-CPU" performance numbers and another time to get "multi-CPU" numbers. Its single-CPU numbers are really more like "single process" numbers, however, since the other three cores aren't actually disabled while the benchmark is run.
|System Benchmarks Index Values
|SS20-61 Result
|SS20-61 Index
|RPi Result
|RPi Index
|RPi2x1 Result
|RPi2x1 Index
|RPi2x4 Result
|RPi2x4 Index
|Dhrystone 2 using register variables
|Double-Precision Whetstone
|Execl Throughput
|File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks
|File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks
|File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks
|Pipe Throughput
|Pipe-based Context Switching
|Process Creation
|Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)
|Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)
|System Call Overhead
|System Benchmarks Index Score
A lot can happen in 20 years. Even when it comes to things like I/O throughput, where the Raspberry Pi really falls down compared to other systems — because it attaches to everything via USB — it's still way faster than a mid-1990s Sun that we all thought was extremely fast.
In particular, according to the indexes, a Raspberry Pi is about seven times as fast as a baseline SPARCstation 20 model 61 — and has substantially more RAM and storage, too. And the Raspberry Pi 2 is sixteen times as fast at single-threaded tasks, and on tasks where all cores can be put to use it's forty one times faster.
Ideally, this would also mean that even a Raspberry Pi Zero should feel exceptionally fast. However, our software appetite has grown even faster than our appetite for fast hardware, and the feel of systems compared like this can demonstrate that well.
Well, I just got a DragonBoard 410c, which is a quad-core 64-bit ARM board using a Qualcomm CPU, and which doesn't have any of the major design issues of the Raspberry Pi…Tagged benchmarks, embedded, performance, programming, Raspberry Pi
For hacking/prototyping/fun purposes I have a few embedded systems laying around. For example, I have a couple of Raspberry Pi systems, one of the original Raspberry Pi model B boards and one of the new Raspberry Pi 2 model B boards.
And on everything, I have the latest Steel Bank Common Lisp building.
On my Raspberry Pi, which is an
armv6 device, I see the following failures in SBCL's unit tests:
Failure: debug.impure.lisp / (TRACE ENCAPSULATE NIL)
Failure: debug.impure.lisp / (TRACE-RECURSIVE ENCAPSULATE NIL)
Expected failure: packages.impure.lisp / USE-PACKAGE-CONFLICT-SET
Expected failure: packages.impure.lisp / IMPORT-SINGLE-CONFLICT
(62 tests skipped for this combination of platform and features)
On my Raspberry Pi 2, which is an
armv7 device, I see the following additional failures:
Failure: float.pure.lisp / (SCALE-FLOAT-OVERFLOW BUG-372)
Failure: float.pure.lisp / (ADDITION-OVERFLOW BUG-372)
Failure: float.pure.lisp / (ADDITION-OVERFLOW BUG-372 TAKE-2)
Failure: debug.impure.lisp / (TRACE ENCAPSULATE NIL)
Failure: debug.impure.lisp / (TRACE-RECURSIVE ENCAPSULATE NIL)
Expected failure: packages.impure.lisp / USE-PACKAGE-CONFLICT-SET
Expected failure: packages.impure.lisp / IMPORT-SINGLE-CONFLICT
(62 tests skipped for this combination of platform and features)
This says to me that, contrary to what some have told me, SBCL probably does need to distinguish the various ARM instruction set variants.
Is anyone actually working on SBCL on ARM?
I also have a DragonBoard 410c on the way, and it might be nice to have a fast Lisp on ARM64, though I suspect that's a bit further out…Tagged embedded, Lisp, programming, Raspberry Pi
Cupertino is at one edge of the Santa Clara Valley, one of the best places on the continent to grow fruit.
This display is in our Whole Foods, one of the (if not the) largest stores they have. All of the brands are local and don't exist any more, because we paved them over in favor of single-family homes and office parks and fucking lawns.
It's really sad, and would have been easy to avoid, too, by building up instead of out. Instead, there are always new ballot measures in Cupertino to try to limit the "scale" of building – in other words, to prevent building up – and ensure the sprawl stays. And I expect that applies to the rest of the Santa Clara Valley as well, and a huge percentage of the United States as a whole, everywhere a "subdivision" has replaced farmland.
Even if we could build high-rise apartments and offices, it's not certain that the land we've covered with little shitbox houses, chemically-maintained lawns, and asphalt could even be used for agriculture again. The land may well be "used up" and require extensive rehabilitation to even support parkland, much less farming.
Someday people will look back on this as a monumental disaster, an utter failure of urban planning ands demonstration of our society's lack of any capacity for forethought. Probably once all of humanity is facing permanent food and water shortages, later this century.
I've had my car for 10 years, and my odometer rolled over 100,000 miles earlier today.
Time to start thinking about a new car! Maybe a Tesla Model S, in a couple of years…Tagged car
Mac OS X has a number of concurrency mechanisms, and that increases with Snow Leopard. In addition to run loops, threads (both Cocoa and POSIX) and operations, Snow Leopard adds Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), a very lightweight way to represent units of work and the style of concurrency they need, and have the system figure out how to schedule them.
But wait, don't we have that already in NSOperation? It shouldn't surprise you in the least to learn that NSOperation, on Snow Leopard, is built atop GCD. However, there are a number of differences between the two, and for that reason people have started to ask "How should I decide which to use when?"
The straightforward answer is a general guideline for all application development:
Always use the highest-level abstraction available to you, and drop down to lower-level abstractions when measurement shows that they are needed.
In this particular case, it means that when writing Cocoa applications, you should generally be using NSOperation rather than using GCD directly. Not because of a difference in efficiency, but because NSOperation provides a higher-level abstraction atop the mechanisms of GCD.
For example, you can set up a dependency between two NSOperations such that the second will only be run after the first is complete — even if they're run on different queues. You can use KVO to observe the completion (or cancellation) of different operations — and you can create operations that support being cancelled in the first place. You can set a completion block to run after an application has finished. And you can, of course, create operations from blocks using NSBlockOperation.
You'll also fit in better with Cocoa by using NSOperation in your high-level code. If you take a look at new Snow Leopard API on NSNotificationCenter, you'll see one where you specify the NSOperationQueue on which you wish a notification to run a block.
Ultimately, you spend a little bit of overhead to use NSOperation instead of GCD, but you gain significant additional functionality that will be useful as you start to compose operations together. And that's the biggest benefit of NSOperation: You can break up your application in terms of units of work that can not only be run on a queue, but also canceled, observed, and depended upon. This lets you easily define your data dependencies and ensure that you aren't simply running code serially as a side-effect of locking.Tagged concurrency, Grand Central Dispatch, Mac, NSOperation, programming, Snow Leopard, threads
Last week, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released!
Snow Leopard represents a lot of hard work by a lot of folks at Apple and at seeded third-party developers, and it really shows.
Now that it's shipped, I can actually talk about some of the especially cool things this release has for developers.Tagged Apple, Instruments, Interface Builder, Mac, Snow Leopard, Xcode
The Big Nerd Ranch weblog has a new post about Objective-C 2.0 dot notation. They advocate never using it and they're completely wrong.
Given my reaction on Twitter, several people have asked me to write a more in-depth rebuttal.
I've already addressed when and why you should use Objective-C 2.0 properties and dot notation in an earlier post, so I won't go into that here. I'll just repeat my response to their weblog.
Here's what I wrote in response:
I disagree most emphatically. The whole point of dot notation is that, when combined with properties, it's not just an alternative syntax for invoking methods. In fact, if that's how you think about dot syntax, STOP. That's not what it's for at all.
What dot syntax and property declarations are for is separating object state from object behavior. Classical OOP only really defines objects as only exposing behavior but the past 30+ years have demonstrated rather aptly that objects consist of both. C# was actually pioneering in this; its concept of properties is rather similar to what the combination of property declarations and dot syntax enable in Objective-C.
To write idiomatic Objective-C 2.0 you should use
@propertyto declare properties, and use dot syntax to access them. Period. Doing otherwise is a bad idea because it will create code that isn't intention-revealing to other experienced Objective-C 2.0 developers. Teaching students to do otherwise is doing them a disservice, because you're directly contradicting those responsible for the language and its evolution.
In short, Objective-C 2.0 has properties and dot notation as another way of expressing intent in your code. Use them for that, don't refuse to use them just because they weren't in earlier versions of the language, or because they require teaching another concept.Tagged Cocoa, iPhone, Mac, Objective-C, OOP, programming
Various pieces of Mac OS X and iPhone documentation have said for quite a while that the "preferred" method is now to use ISO-639-1 (two-letter) or ISO-639-2 (three-letter) language codes codes for localization purposes. Out of the box, Xcode's project templates still use "English" rather than "en" as their default localization.
How can you use the ISO-639 language codes everywhere in your project, rather than in just your non-English localizations?
It's pretty straightforward, but it does require hand-editing of your Xcode project file. This means that before doing anything else, you must quit Xcode and Interface Builder.
The first step is to rename your existing localizable resource directories on disk from
English.lproj to
en.lproj. You can do it at the Terminal or in the Finder. If you're using an SCM system such as Subversion, use it to do the renaming so it preserves your file history and such as well.
The next step is to adjust how your existing localizable resources are referenced in your Xcode project file. Open the
project.pbxproj file inside your Xcode project in a plain text editor such as TextEdit (rather than Xcode) and replace all but one occurrences of the string
English with the string
en. The one you don't want to replace is in a property under the PBXProject section named
knownRegions: This is an array of localizations Xcode knows about. Just make sure
en is at the end of the array:
knownRegions = (
At this point, this should be the only place
English appears in your
project.pbxproj file.
Finally — and this is the important step, and non-discoverable step — you need to add a property to the
project.pbxproj file to tell Xcode what the Development Region for your project is. Again, this gets put into the PBXProject section before the
knownRegions key from above (Xcode will alphabetize the keys when saving your project for you); it should look like this:
developmentRegion = en;
The default value of this key within Xcode is
English and Xcode won't write the key into the project if the default isn't changed. However, there's no user interface within Xcode for actually changing this property, making it non-discoverable. Furthermore, if you are changing your project to use
en as its default localization, and you don't change this property, you won't be able to add new localizations by inspecting your resources. (This is a known issue.)
At this point, you can save your modified
project.pbxproj file and open your project again in Xcode. There's one more thing you'll have to change, this time in your product's Info.plist file (or your products' Info.plist files), before you can get back to work: You need to change the
CFBundleDevelopmentRegion property to
en rather than
Once you've made that change, you should safely be able to use your Xcode project normally, adding localized variants of your resources, building and running, and so on, and everything should Just Work — now using modern ISO language codes instead of the English language names!Tagged Interface Builder, localization, project model, Xcode
In the past, I've talked about ways to easily write unit tests for Cocoa applications, including tests for user interfaces using target-action and tests for interfaces using Cocoa bindings. There are some strategies you can apply to make writing tests for Cocoa code even easier, though. They're just straightforward object-oriented programming, but sometimes we can forget that all the techniques you might use in your main code base can also be applied to our test code.
So here's one trick that you can use in writing tests for Cocoa user interfaces, especially in ways that will make test-driven development easier.
The first, probably most important thing to do is use your own common base class for your tests. Don't derive your tests directly from
SenTestCase; instead, derive them from your own
MyTestCase class that in turn derives from
SenTestCase. This gives you a place to put all of the customization that's appropriate for your project.
Sometimes you might need a series of assertions to verify some particular state. However, that series of assertions will be the same every time you need to verify that state. Or the assertions themselves aren't very intention revealing so you always wind up putting a comment above them describing what they're really doing.
A simple example of this is checking a target-action connection in a user interface. Say you have a view controller that presents a collection of objects managed by an array controller. Its view has an Add button that should send
-addObject: to the array controller. You might write a test for it like this:
- (void)testAddButtonSendsAddObjectToArrayController {
STAssertEquals([viewController.addButton target], viewController.arrayController,
@"The Add button should target the array controller.");
STAssertEquals([viewController.addButton action], @selector(addObject:),
@"The Add button should send the -addObject: action.");
That's not too difficult to understand, but it could be made simpler — it could be done in a single assertion. You'd just write a method to check both the target and action at once and then use that method from your test, like this:
// in your test base class...
/*! Tells whether the control sends the action to the target. */
- (BOOL)checkControl:(NSControl *)control
return ([control action] == action)
&& ([control target] == target);
// in the tests specifying the view controller's behavior...
- (void)testAddButtonSendsAddObjectToArrayController {
STAssertTrue([self checkControl:viewController.addButton
@"The Add button's action should send -addObject: to the array controller.");
That makes the intention behind the entire test a lot clearer, and it makes writing the test easier & safer since you can't (say) forget to check either the target or the action.
It does lose a tiny bit of information: If the test fails, you'll have to look at your xib file instead of the failure message to determine whether it's because the target or the action isn't set as you've specified. However, the trade-off in making the test easier to read and write is worth it here.
This is even worthwhile for single assertions, such as those you'd use to test that your outlets are connected in the first place. For example, you might initially write a test that your view controller is your table view's delegate like this:
- (void)testViewControllerIsTableViewDelegate {
STAssertEquals([viewController.tableView delegate], viewController,
@"The table view's delegate should be the view controller.");
Rewriting it to be more intention-revealing with a simple check method would make it look like this:
// in your test base class...
/*! Tells whether the outlet is connected to the given destination. */
- (BOOL)checkOutlet:(id)outlet connectsTo:(id)destination {
return outlet == destination;
// in the tests specifying the view controller's behavior...
- (void)testViewControllerIsTableViewDelegate {
STAssertTrue([self checkOutlet:[viewController.tableView delegate]
@"The table view's delegate should be the view controller.");
You're not saving any code by writing your test this way — you're actually writing more — but its complexity has gone down because it requires less effort to see what it's actually trying to do.
This is even worthwhile in situations where you may still need a few extra assertions. For example, Cocoa bindings are specified using a lot more information than just outlets and target-acton connections; you won't always want to check (and specify the value of) all of it, but you can easily make the common parts clearer.
Going back to our Add button example, as is typical its enabled state should be bound to the array controller's
canAdd property. Writing a test to specify this involves using
-infoForBinding: and interpreting the results, which takes a couple lines of code and a couple of assertions:
- (void)testAddButtonEnabledStateIsBoundToArrayControllerCanAdd {
NSDictionary *bindingInfo = [viewController.addButton infoForBinding:NSEnabledBinding];
@"The Add button's enabled state should be bound.");
id observedObject = [bindingInfo objectForKey:NSObservedObjectKey];
STAssertEquals(observedObject, viewController.arrayController,
@"The Add button's enabled state should be bound to the array controller.");
NSString *observedKeyPath = [bindingInfo objectForKey:NSObservedKeyPathKey];
STAssertEqualObjects(observedKeyPath, @"canAdd",
@"The Add button's enabled state should be bound through the 'canAdd' key path.");
This isn't too complicated, but it does start to get tedious, especially given that you have to remember to distinguish between
STAssertEquals (pointer equality) and
STAssertEqualObjects (object equivalence). Let's put the tedium in one place:
/*! Tells whether the object's binding is connected through the given key path. */
- (BOOL)checkObject:(id)source
hasBinding:(NSString *)binding
through:(NSString *)keyPath
NSDictionary *bindingInfo = ;
id observedObject = [bindingInfo objectForKey:NSObservedObjectKey];
NSString *observedKeyPath = [bindingInfo objectForKey:NSObservedKeyPathKey];
return (bindingInfo != nil)
&& (observedObject == destination)
&& [keyPath isEqualToString:observedKeyPath];
// in the tests specifying the view controller's behavior...
- (void)testAddButtonEnabledStateIsBoundToArrayControllerCanAdd {
STAssertTrue([self checkObject:viewController.addButton
@"The Add button's enabled state should be bound to the array controller's 'canAdd' property.");
Much clearer!Tagged agile development, Cocoa, Cocoa bindings, human interface design, Interface Builder, Objective-C, patterns, test-driven development, unit testing, user interface testing, Xcode


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Q & A: 'The Scepter Shall Not Depart From Judah' (Part VI)
Question: As Shavuot is fast approaching – a holiday on which we dwell on the story of Ruth and the origins of the royal house of David – I was wondering if you could help me resolve something. The Mishnah never makes any mention of the Hasmonean kings, the mitzvah to light a Chanukah menorah, or the miracle of the oil that lasted eight days. Some people say that Rabbi Yehudah HaNassi – the redactor of the six orders of the Mishnah and a scion of King David – omitted these topics because the Hasmoneans improperly crowned themselves, ignoring the rule that all Jewish kings are supposed to come from the tribe of Yehudah. They argue that this is also why the Talmud does not include a separate tractate on Chanukah. Is this true?
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Answer: Jacob prophetically blessed each of his 12 sons. Since Judah possessed the necessary qualities to lead his brothers, Jacob blessed him with the words (49:8-10), "The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a scholar from among his descendants until Shiloh arrives, and his will be an assemblage of nations."
Rashi explains that King David's rule will continue until the arrival of Mashiach. Rashbam derives from the words "until Shiloh arrives" that the kingdom will be divided and writes that Jacob's prediction only referred to the time of David until Rehaboam. However, Targum Yonatan b. Uziel states that the divine right of rule over Israel belongs exclusively to the House of David. We asked: If so, how could the first king of Israel, Saul, have come from the tribe of Benjamin?
We noted that according to many commentators Jacob intended that the last monarch of the Jewish people come from Dan, not Judah; he thought that Samson would be the ultimate redeemer, the Melech HaMashiach. We also noted that Moses – who was from the tribe of Levi – would have led the Jews into Eretz Yisrael and become their leader there had he not sinned by hitting the rock and had the spies not sinned by giving a negative report of the land.
But how could Samson have been Mashiach or Moses the Jewish people's leader in Eretz Yisrael if they weren't from the tribe of Judah?
We discussed the Da'at Zekeinim MiBa'alei Tosafot's novel interpretations of Jacob's blessing to Judah. They explain that Jacob's words perhaps mean that the kingship that descends from Judah will not expire until G-d casts off the Tabernacle in Shiloh. Alternatively, the kingship will not depart the House of David until Mashiach arrives at Shiloh, i.e., it will never depart since Mashiach himself is from the House of David. Yet another interpretation: Judah shall not rule over all 12 tribes of Israel until Mashiach arrives at Shiloh – which actually refers to nearby Shechem, for it is there that the kingdom was divided and it is there that it will be reunited.
The Ramban resolves our difficulties. He writes that the Jacob never meant that the kingship would never depart from Judah. Rather, any kingship that would ever exist in Israel from the time of Judah's reign would come from Judah and none of his brothers would ever rule over him.
The "scepter" alludes to King David, the first king from Judah, who possessed a royal scepter, and "Shiloh" refers to Judah's progeny, Mashiach. Although another tribe would reign over Israel, from the time that the scepter of kingship would begin belonging to Judah, it would never depart from him in favor of another tribe.
Last week, we cited the Ramban's explanation of how Saul came about to be the first king of Israel. The Israelites' request for a king at that time was contemptible to G-d who therefore decided not to crown a king from the tribe of Judah, to whom the kingship rightly belongs. He gave the Israelites a temporary kingship instead. The Ramban declares that the kings who reigned over Israel from tribes other Judah after David in fact violated the wishes of Jacob and were usurping Judah's rightful inheritance.
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The Ramban explains that punishment rained down on the Hasmonean kings for usurping Judah's role. They were supremely pious people, and if not for them, the Torah and its commandments would have been forgotten from Israel. Nevertheless, they suffered great punishment. The four pious sons of the Matisyahu, who reigned one after the other, fell by their enemies' sword despite all their might and success.
They were punished to such a great degree that our Sages declared (Bava Batra 3b) that whoever says, "I descend from the House of the Hasmoneans" must be a slave since all the true Hasmoneans were obliterated on account of violating Jacob's command that the scepter shall not depart from Judah. The descendants of the Hasmonean king Simon may have been punished because of their affiliation with the heretical Sadducees (see Berachot 29a and Kiddushin 66a), but all the immediate descendants of the righteous Matisyahu perished only because they violated Jacob's command.
And since they ruled improperly, they were punished middah k'neged middah. G-d gave their slaves dominion over them, and those slaves killed all the members of the Hasmonean family.
The Ramban entertains the suggestion that the Hasmoneans' sin was serving as kings despite being kohanim. Numbers 18:7 states, "Tishmiru et kehunat'chem l'chol d'var hamizbeyach, ul'mibeit laparochat va'avaditem, avodat matanah etayn et kehunatchem – You shall safeguard your priesthood regarding all matters of the Altar and within the Curtain, and you shall serve; I have presented your priesthood as a service that is a gift." The Hasmoneans, therefore, should not have become kings; they should have remained performing the service of G-d in the Temple.
In discussing this matter, the Ramban cites a baraita in the Talmud Yerushalmi (Horayot 3:2) which states that kohanim may not be anointed as kings. R. Yehudah Antoria said the prohibition is based on the verse (Genesis 49:8), "The scepter shall not depart from Judah."
R. Chiya bar Abba, however, bases the prohibition on Deuteronomy 17:20 and 18:1. The first verse states, "…lema'an ya'arich yamim al mamlachto hu u'banav b'kerev Yisrael – …so that [your king] will prolong his years over his kingdom, he and his sons amid Israel." The verse immediately following states, "Lo yi'hiyeh lakohanim haleviyim… – There shall not be for the kohanim, the Levites, the entire tribe of Levi, a portion and an inheritance with Israel." R. Chiya bar Abba sees the juxtaposition of these two verses intimating that kohanim should not be anointed kings.
Therefore, although the Jewish people may – according the opinion of R. Yehudah Antoria – accept a king upon themselves from one of the other tribes for some temporary necessity, they may not anoint them. This way, these rulers won't have the grandeur of official kingship; they will be like judges and officers instead. The reason kohanim are singled out is because kohanim are potentially fit to be anointed as kohanim gedolim. We therefore need to be informed that they can't be anointed as kings. As Horayot 11b states clearly: One must not anoint a king unless he is from the House of David.
The Ramban, however, concurs with R. Chiya bar Abba that a kohen is biblically prohibited from ever serving as a king – even if he isn't anointed.
According to this Ramban, it is entirely possible that Rabbi Yehudah HaNassi purposely omitted any mention of the Hasmonean kings, as well as the mitzvah of kindling the Chanukah lights (the core mitzvah of Chanukah), from the Mishnah to indicate that the Hasmoneans, righteous as they were, erred when they improperly crowned themselves kings over Israel.Rabbi Yaakov Klass
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Do you know how many producing natural gas (NG in brief) wells we have in the US? There are half a million of them. Most of them are called stripper wells as they produce very little gas each day. But collectively, they are important to the supply of NG in the US.
The NG Industry Has a Long Tail!
As I discussed before, all NG wells have their highest production rates when they are first brought to production. After a well starts to produce, its production rate will decline. The production would first decline rapidly, and then settle down to a slower decline that seems to last forever. Thus producers must keep drilling new wells to maintain overall production. See the chart below:
The long term trend of well declines seems to be speeding up, as the industry moves toward shale gas wells with higher decline rates than conventional gas wells. In early 2000, production from existing wells declined at an average of 23% annually. Today the decline is roughly 32%. It means that each year we need to drill enough new wells to replace 32% of the total production, just to keep up.
I pulled monthly NG productions; number of production wells and new development wells drilled each month and other data from EIA. I was able to create a chart of production declines that looks similar:
The number of gas wells drilled each year, and their estimated production rates today are listed below:
|Age of Wells
|Well Count
|Daily Production (BCF/day)
Production Per Well (BCF/year)
|Percentage of Total
|1999 and Older
|All But 2012 Wells
Note in the last row of the table, the production from all wells 2011 or older is only 80.27% of the total. Current daily NG production is about 66.22 BCF/day. Wells from 2011 and earlier account for 53.152 BCF/day. About 19.73% of production comes from new wells drilled in 2012.
The number of existing gas wells is about half a million. More than half of them are wells from 2000 or earlier. Production from these old wells is 11.73% of the total. That is a significant portion of the supply. We could see a NG shortage if this supply is gone.
This is what I called the long production tail of the NG industry.
When Will the NG Industry Lose Its Tail?
The stripper wells can produce gas forever. But producers will not keep them producing forever. When the revenue from a well drops below the well's maintenance cost, the well will be dismantled. Although each stripper well produces very little, collectively they produce a significant portion of the NG supply. So when they are dismantled in large numbers, there will be a big impact on NG supply.
Revenues depend on both gas prices and production volumes. When prices are high, the industry would keep the stripper wells producing longer. But when prices are low, they would abandon the wells prematurely. This is not just a hypothesis. Premature abandonment of oil or gas wells did happen in history.
What is the threshold to dismantle a stripper well? From private emails and other sources, the cost to maintain a well is about $5000 to $7000 per month, not including repairs. With repairs and other costs included, I think $10K/month is a reasonable number.
At current NG spot price of $2.70/mmBtu, to cover $10K/month cost, a well needs to produce 3.7 MCF/month, or 0.044 BCF/year.
When I apply that threshold to the wells, it seems that only those drilled in 2008 or later would produce enough to stay in production. Those wells from 2007 and earlier all need to be abandoned! The abandonment could tally up to 34.8% of existing production, and 84.66% of existing wells!
When will the NG industry abandon the non-profitable stripper wells en mass? EIA reports number of existing gas wells and number of new gas wells drilled each year. With both numbers one can deduce the well abandonment each year. Unfortunately we only know the number of existing wells up to 2010:
|Wells Drilled
|Change of Well Count
|Wells Abandoned
The industry abandoned only 590 gas wells in 2009, thanks to high NG prices in 2008. The abandonment reached a multi-year high of 21402 in 2010, probably due to low NG prices in 2009 and early 2010. As expected, the data suggests that profitability must be the deciding factor in well abandonment.
We do not know how many wells were abandoned in 2011 and in 2012 so far. But given current decade low NG prices, producers should be dismantling a lot of wells lately.
Although stripper wells are costing producers money, they may not be immediately plugged. The reason is that plugging them costs more up-front money. In the long term, producers are better off plugging wells once they become non-economical. In the short term, they may not immediately plug the wells if they are short of cash.
In recent months, NG production has been trending down slowly. The slow pace of production drop suggests that producers are not shutting down the stripper wells massively yet. So the old wells are still draining cash liquidity from producers. If producers do not even have money to shut down old wells, as they should, they are unlikely to spend money to drill new wells to replace the old ones.
NG prices are going up. This may bring relief to the cash liquidity positions of NG producers. If producers have more cash at hands, will they resume aggressive drilling, or will they spend the money to dismantle non-profitable stripper wells first?
I explained that due to capital destruction, producers would not rush back to drill more. Their priority now is consolidation of balance sheets for survival, not aggressive growth. A lot of NG producers are hoping to sell assets to raise desperately needed capital. The money losing stripper wells are liabilities to get rid of, not assets to keep. I believe they would rather spend money to plug wells that are due for abandonment. This will cut production and boost NG prices. This will also make their assets appear more valuable to potential buyers.
Due to the double whammy of NG producers being unable to keep spending money to drill new wells, and accelerated abandonment of stripper wells, I believe we will run into NG shortage later this year.
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The outlook is bullish for both NG and coal. Prices of both energy commodities will go a lot higher. But as I have explained many times, shale gas is not profitable unless NG prices go to very high levels.
Finding a position to directly leverage on higher NG prices is difficult. I do not recommend the United States Natural Gas fund (NYSEARCA:UNG), or any ETF that holds future contracts, as long-term investments. But shorting such paper ETFs, such as shorting ProShares UltraShort DJ-UBS Natural Gas (NYSEARCA:KOLD), might be a good long-term play.
I continue to caution against buying NG producers just because NG prices are rising. A lot of shale gas players probably will not survive. The shale gas industry racked up heavy debts in the rush to the shale gas hype. To pay off those debts, not only shale gas needs to become profitable, but there needs to be sufficient growth as well. The US NG market is a mature market that allows little room for growth. Aggressive production growth leads to destruction of NG prices and loss of profitability. We are learning that lesson now.
The NG industry is stuck with a mountain of debts while it faces poor prospects of profitability of shale gas and limited NG resources to develop and turn into profits. I believe a lot of the debts have to be resolved eventually by bankruptcies, not by profits from gas.
I am studying the debt figures and wish to write more on the issues. I believe that all NG players are in danger. Some of them may not survive. Others will survive but not before taking a heavy casualty. You might be able to pick up the survivors at great discounts in the mid-term future. Right now it is hard to tell who will survive. Making it more difficult to tell is the fact that it is hard to determine the fair value of their assets. Many producers intend to sell assets. It is still not clear who will buy those assets, and at what discounted prices.
Considering the danger, I would not buy any NG players now. Considering the rising NG prices, I would not short NG players, either. So I would advise that people stay on the sideline to watch these names:
- Apache Corp. (NYSE:APA)
- Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE:CHK)
- Constellation Energy (CEP)
- Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. (NYSE:COG)
- ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP)
- Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:APC)
- EOG Resources Inc (NYSE:EOG)
- Devon Energy Corp. (NYSE:DVN)
- Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE:BHI)
- Southwestern Energy Co. (NYSE:SWN)
- Sand Ridge Energy (NYSE:SD)
- Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD)
- Magnum Hunter Resources (MHR)
- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE:KMP)
- Enerplus Resource Fund (NYSE:ERF)
- Carrizo Oil & Gas (NASDAQ:CRZO)
- Callon Petroleum (NYSE:CPE)
- Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE:EPD)
- Goodrich Petroleum (GDP)
- GMX Resources (GMXR)
- IDT Corp (NYSE:IDT)
- Lucas Energy (NYSEMKT:LEI)
- Rex Energy (NASDAQ:REXX)
- Approach Resources (NASDAQ:AREX)
- Natural Gas Services Group (NYSE:NGS)
- Breitburn Energy Partners (BBEP)
- National Fuel Gas (NYSE:NFG)
- Range Energy Resources (NYSE:RRC)
- Petroquest Energy (NYSE:PQ)
- Unit Corp. (NYSE:UNT)
Discussion of NG is relevant to the US coal sector. Currently US coal stocks are trading at very deep discounts. Investors seem to have a common perception that coal is doomed for good, and that cheap and abundant NG will replace coal.
Nothing is further from the truth. NG is neither cheap nor abundant. Early this year, EIA slashed estimate of technically recoverable Marcellus shale gas from 410 TCF to only 141 TCF, or less than six years worth of US demands. Marcellus is almost half of all US shale resources. We don't have 100 years of NG supply as some thought!
Coal is still America's most abundant and most reliable fossil fuel. Meanwhile China's coal imports in the first 5 months of 2012 reached 112.73M tons, up 67.8% from a year ago!
China's coal imports grew rapidly thanks to the fact that domestic Chinese coal is more expensive. The 5500KCal Chinese coal is selling for $120/ton. Better quality US CAPP coal is only $55/ton.
Chinese coal is expensive not only in terms of US dollars, but also in terms of human lives. I am not just talking about coal miners killed in accidents, as Chinese coal mines have the worst safety records. I am talking about millions of Chinese coal miners quietly dying from black lungs, a covered-up fact. I will write about that soon.
In contrast, US coal is dirt-cheap. US coal stocks are selling at rip-off prices. I continue to recommend these great values in coal:
- James River Coal Company (JRCC)
- Patriot Coal (PCX)
- Arch Coal Inc. (ACI)
- Cloud Peak Energy (NYSE:CLD)
- Alpha Natural Resources (ANR)
- Consol Energy (NYSE:CNX)
- Black Hills Corp. (NYSE:BKH)
- Walter Energy (NYSE:WLT)
- Westmoreland Coal (NASDAQ:WLB)
- Peabody Energy (BTU)
- Nacco Industries (NYSE:NC)
- Alliance Resource Partners LP (NASDAQ:ARLP)
- Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSEARCA:KOL)
Kudos to Richard Bloch, Sol Palha, Brian and others for help with this article.
Disclosure: I am long JRCC, PCX, ACI, ANR, BTU.


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Project 2 will combine functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with functional and effective connectivity methods to examine the interactions between regions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and medial temporal lobe (MTL) in humans during tasks requiring context-dependent learning and retrieval. We will use fMRI paradigms in context-based associative and context-based inference tasks closely related to tasks used in patients with selective PFC or MTL lesions (Project 1), in monkeys (Project 3), and in rodents (Projects 4 and 5). Since the homology between the human and non-human primate neuroanatomy provides a framework for our proposed human experiments, we have closely matched the human neuroimaging tasks to the tasks in Project 3.
The first aim i s to use fMRI in combination with functional and effective connectivity analysis methods to examine differences in interactions between the MTL and PFC regions during the learning and retrieval phases of a context-based associative memory task.
The second aim will examine interactions between the MTL and PFC regions during a context-based inference task.
The third aim will examine MTL and PFC interactions using a relational-load task. We will examine patterns of blood oxygenation level (BOLD) activity and functional and effective connectivity associated with different behavioral periods within trials (sample, delay, choice). In addition to using standard univariate fMRI methods for data analysis, addifional functional and effective connectivity methods will be employed to examine functional interactions between PFC and MTL regions. By comparing results in related tasks across rodents, monkeys, and humans, these experiments allow us to examine PFC-MTL interactions and functional homologies across species. The experimental results will guide the development of computational models that integrate these findings across species (Project 6), and the effective connectivity analysis and modeling will be done in conjunction with the Analysis Core.
Characterizing the interactions between PFC and MTL in humans will assist in understanding the pathological changes in brain networks associated with mental disorders including schizophrenia and depression. Also, connections between this project and animal studies will increase understanding of functional homologies of PFC and MTL areas of relevance to translational research on animal models.
|Howard, Marc W; Eichenbaum, Howard (2015) Time and space in the hippocampus. Brain Res 1621:345-54
|Wang, Jane X; Cohen, Neal J; Voss, Joel L (2015) Covert rapid action-memory simulation (CRAMS): a hypothesis of hippocampal-prefrontal interactions for adaptive behavior. Neurobiol Learn Mem 117:22-33
|Brown, Thackery I; Hasselmo, Michael E; Stern, Chantal E (2014) A high-resolution study of hippocampal and medial temporal lobe correlates of spatial context and prospective overlapping route memory. Hippocampus 24:819-39
|Erdem, Ugur M; Hasselmo, Michael E (2014) A biologically inspired hierarchical goal directed navigation model. J Physiol Paris 108:28-37
|Brown, Thackery I; Whiteman, Andrew S; Aselcioglu, Irem et al. (2014) Structural differences in hippocampal and prefrontal gray matter volume support flexible context-dependent navigation ability. J Neurosci 34:2314-20
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|Wang, Jane X; Voss, Joel L (2014) Brain networks for exploration decisions utilizing distinct modeled information types during contextual learning. Neuron 82:1171-82
|Raudies, Florian; Zilli, Eric A; Hasselmo, Michael E (2014) Deep belief networks learn context dependent behavior. PLoS One 9:e93250
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Wild Turkey roast reccomendations
This year I went fancy and got a 'wild turkey' from a local farm, described as having "a more refined taste and contain less fat than the domestic turkeys". After googling I'm not sure what to do with it. Search results for wild turkeys say it can be dry, tough, gamey and should be treated differently, but those are from hunters and my bird may not be that wild. [more inside]
Vegetarian seeking meat.
How do I cook the best turkey (and) and fixings meal for just myself (for a whole weekend)? I'm basically going to put on some Abba, and eat like crazy this weekend. So tell me how I can make the best Thanksgiving turkey and sides! Oh, this is anonymous because I am a vegetarian for moral reasons. Also, I prefer to limit it to just one type of animal, so no bacon wrapped shrimp. Probably no bacon wrapped shrimp. Recipes of good sides preferably not using just turkey.
Overthinking a plate of turkey
We decided to do turkey parts this year, instead of a whole bird, and could only find a boneless skinless turkey breast for the white meat portion of our Thanksgiving meal. How do we cook it? [more inside]
Turkey Meatloaf Muffins, new and improved?
I need more ideas for how to spice up/flavor my turkey meatloaf muffins. [more inside]
i want to eat two turkey legs
what should i do with two turkey legs? [more inside]
Thanksgiving with a twist
Thanksgiving with a twist: I'm looking for recipes that contain "Thanksgiving-y" and "Christmas-y" ingredients (turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberries, pumpkin, pecans, etc.) but that aren't traditionally "Thanksgiving-y", as a whole. Perfect example: sweet potato salsa [more inside]
What to do with leftover turkey
Please share your best recipes for leftover turkey. [more inside]
The most insane Turkey recipe ever.
I'm searching for an completely insane recipe for a "blackened" roasted turkey that David Rosengarten prepared on his old Food Network show, "Taste". [more inside]
What kind of dressing should I use on my turkey?
TurkeyFilter: Last night I tested this year's turkey recipe, and it was a failure. I usually make a maple syrup/butter/broth reduction and use that and cheesecloth to make a wonderful bird - 4 years running. This year, though, I have to make a kosher bird as the meal will be held at a kosher family member's residence. The olive oil-based recipe I tried left the skin dry and soggy at the same time - not an easy feat - and the bird was OK but not special. We've deep-fried before to great results, and I assume peanut oil is kosher; should I adjust for another type of non-butter fat (would margarine work? olive oil certainly didn't) or just bite the bullet and deep-fry?
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Compare Adventist, Baptist, LDS, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Unitarian. Other's will be added in the next edition. This new app takes religions and compares them side by side. Ever wanted to know what the Catholics believe when compared to the Methodist? Now you can. This is a must have for your library!
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Query criteria for Rational RequisitePro Views (Documentation Update)
This technote provides an update to the Infocenter documentation regarding the filters used for the rows and columns in the RequisitePro Views.
When you select requirements for a View in Rational® RequisitePro®, you can add query criteria. Filters are available for the rows, and, when you use traceability matrix views, for the columns as well.
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When you add two or more query criteria, the logical operator AND is assumed between multiple criteria added for the rows. The logical operator AND is also assumed between row and column criteria, providing an independent filtering between columns and rows.
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