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Getting back to the essence of Afrobeat is the central aim of Femi Kuti's No Place for My Dream, the seventh album in the world-renowned Nigerian singer's 26-year career. But how does one define the essence of such a complex music—one that, since its creation in the late '60s by Femi's father, Fela Kuti, has blended funk, jazz and African folk.
Femi Kuti was born Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti on June 12, 1962 in London. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, where, at 15, he started playing saxophone in his father's band, Egypt 80. In 1986 he formed his own band, the Positive Force. His first record was released in 1995 by Tabu/Motown, followed four years later by Shoki Shoki (MCA), which garnered widespread critical acclaim. In 2001 he collaborated with Common and Mos Def on Fight to Win, an effort to cross over to a mainstream audience, and started touring the United States with Jane's Addiction.
In 2004 he opened The Shrine, his club, where he recorded the live album Africa Shrine. After a 4-year absence due to personal setbacks, he re-emerged in 2008 with Day by Day and Africa for Africa in 2010, for which he received two Grammy nominations. In 2012 he was both inducted into the Headies Hall of Fame (the most prestigious music awards in Nigeria), was the opening act on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' European arena tour and became an Ambassador for Amnesty International. He continues to expand the diversity of his artistry on his new album (2013) No Place for My Dream. Femi Kuti is now a judge on Nigeria's huge TV show Nigerian Idol.


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Draft Kings: Where I Find My Edge with Alvin Zeidenfeld
Draft Kings Pro Alvin Zeidenfeld shares some of the areas where he finds an edge in Daily Fantasy Sports.
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Caitlyn takes a break from the tournament to show you around Montreal!
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WPT Raw Deal analyst Tony Dunst and poker pro turned 2nd generation commentator Kane Kalas catch up with Caitlyn with their view from the WPT Livestream on the WPT Montreal final table.
partypoker WPT Season XIII Montreal Champion!
"It doesn't get better than this". Caitlyn catches up with the newest WPT titleholder, Jonathan Jaffe, after dominating the final days of WPT Montreal 2014, and he isn't in it for the money or the WPT belt he will be taking home.
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The rail hits the bar for a beverage as the final two players break before the heads up battle and Caitlyn catches the buzz from friends and fans on the final day of WPT Montreal.
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After enduring our first winter in our new home, electrcity & propane costs competed directly with my ability to put food on the table
Remembering what it was like to be a kid at Grandma's house made me revisit the idea of staying warm with Coal. I started searching the internet. I stumbled across this forum this summer.
My priorities were:
Direct Vent (no chimney)
Capacity to heat my garage & tap into existing duct work
Computer control of stove controls
I ended up purchasing a Leisure Line Stove Sept 23 2006.
Pioneer LE Backvent
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Coal-trol thermostat
The biggest suggestion I could give to anyone considering investing in any coal fired heating system is to thoroughly research the product.
Don't blindly trust the dealership salesman you talk to. I went to five different dealers & looked at several different manufacturer's stoves.
I called the factories when I had narrowed my choice down to two competeing models.
This is what made up my mind.
I've got the comfort of electric heat with the abillity to maintain the comfort of the house to within 1 degree of the desired setting with out the price per kilowatt. Coal in my area is relatively inexpensive if you own a pick-up.
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Australia are on track to win the Boxing Day Test inside three days after Sri Lanka went to lunch at the MCG teetering at 4-43 still 261 runs from forcing the dominant hosts to bat again.
Earlier on Friday, Australia were dismissed for 460 in reply to Sri Lanka's miserable first innings of 156 with Mitchell Johnson left stranded eight short of a second Test century.
But any momentum the tourists held quickly disappeared as Johnson (1-7) and Jackson Bird (2-10) dismantled their flaky top order.
Sri Lanka had dramatically slumped to 4-13 midway through the session before unbeaten pair Kumar Sangakkara (22) and Angelo Mathews (17) stemmed the bleeding.
Johnson started the rot with the run out of Dimuth Karunaratne (one) in the first over and removed Tillakaratne Dilshan (zero) the very next ball when Ed Cowan pouched a catch at square leg.
Debutant Bird made matters worse for the besieged hosts when he bowled Mahela Jayawardene for a duck and trapped Thilan Samaraweera lbw for one.
Light showers delayed the start of play by 15 minutes on Friday morning before Australia added 20 runs for the loss of Nathan Lyon, caught at short mid-wicket for one, and Bird, comprehensively bowled by Eranga for a duck, leaving Johnson 92 not out.
The number seven, who claimed 4-63 including his 200th victim in Sri Lanka's first innings, hit seven boundaries in his 184-ball knock.
Shaminda Eranaga (3-109) and Dhammika Prasad (3-106) were the leading bowlers for Sri Lanka.
Victory would see Australia retain the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy with the third Test in Sydney still to be played.
But they will have to achieve it without pace-bowling all-rounder Shane Watson, who is unlikely to bowl again this match after suffering his second calf injury of the summer.
Watson is in doubt for next week's Sydney Test and has played only three matches in the six-Test summer against South Africa and Sri Lanka.


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"I can't believe it," my friend Felicia groaned. "You have more than a hundred channels and there's nothing on! TV really stinks."
I pushed the button on the remote and kept searching for something Felicia, our friend Rachel, and I would all enjoy. But Felicia was right. There wasn't anything on. Just a bunch of old cartoons, new shows, baseball, and home shopping. Sunday afternoon TV can be pretty lousy. But it was raining, so we were stuck inside.
"You want to play Monopoly?" I asked my friends.
"We played that last time we were here, Jenny," Felicia reminded me. "You beat us both pretty badly."
I smiled. That was the truth. I'm a whiz at Monopoly. Donald Trump has nothing on me.
"I'm not into losing today," Felicia told me.
"Do you have any good movies?" Rachel wondered.
I shrugged. "None that the three of us haven't seen like, a billion times," I told her.
"We've sure been friends forever," Felicia said with a laugh. "Sometimes I feel like there's nothing we haven't done or seen together.
That was the truth. Rachel, Felicia, and I had been friends since kindergarten, and now we were in sixth grade. That meant we'd gone through almost seven years of birthday parties, sleepovers, chicken pox, phone conversations, and Rachel's bad jokes together.
"I always love being at your house, Jenny," Felicia said.
"Even on rainy days. Remember that time in third grade when it rained on Easter and your folks had their Easter egg hunt inside?"
"I was the one who found the egg that was hidden in the toilet paper roll!" Rachel exclaimed proudly.
"Only because you had to go to the bathroom right in the middle of the whole thing," Felicia reminded her.
"Yeah, but Rachel won the chocolate bunny, anyway," I said. "My dad gave it to the person who found the egg that was hidden in the hardest place."
"Those were good times." Rachel smiled, remembering. "That chocolate bunny was delicious."
"I think we have that Easter egg hunt on tape somewhere," I said. "My mom's big on filming stuff like that. She's kind of like Marc that way."
Rachel and Felicia nodded. They knew what I meant. Our friend Marc doesn't go anywhere without his digital camcorder. He wants to be a movie director one day, so he spends a lot of time practicing.
"You guys want to watch the tape?" I asked them.
"Totally!" Rachel exclaimed.
"I love home movies," Felicia added.
'Speaking of movies, did you guys hear the one about the woman who brought her dog to a movie theater?" Rachel asked Felicia and me with a grin. We both shook our heads, so Rachel continued her joke. "After the film was over, a man stopped her and said, 'I was amazed at your dog. He really seemed to like the movie. He even yawned when it got kind of boring. Don't you think that's unusual?' The woman nodded. 'Very unusual,' she told the man. 'Especially since he hated the book.'"


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For a country that teaches its toddlers to play hockey on backyard ice patches, Canada still seems somewhat naive about the price it must pay to keep its beloved NHL teams at home.
Canadians want their professional hockey, but they want to be practical about their passion. They'll stomach higher ticket prices, but they won't approve government subsidies. And maybe that's the right reaction to what some see as sports extortion--extracting juicy tax breaks from municipalities eager to land a big-league franchise.
Caught in the middle, though, are the six Canadian teams of the National Hockey League, which must struggle to compete against stronger and richer American rivals. While many U.S. teams play in arenas that are at least partially subsidized by local taxpayers, Canadian owners have to dig into their own pockets to build new facilities. The Montreal Canadiens and Vancouver Canucks each fork over more in taxes than all of the American teams combined.
In addition, players, who can end up losing almost 50% of their income to taxes, are getting owners to make up the difference between what they would have to pay in the U.S. and what they must pay under the higher tax rates in Canada. To make matters worse, while Canadian teams generate revenue in Canadian dollars, player salaries, their biggest expense, are paid in U.S. dollars.
With so much pressure on their cost structure, four of the six remaining Canadian NHL teams--Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Ottawa--face constant economic crises. Only Montreal and Toronto, original NHL members, have not been at least entertaining the temptation to pack up and move south to U.S. cities like Portland and Las Vegas that are eager for a hockey club.
A recent federal overture to help pro hockey stay in-country was, by all measures, a sensible response to a seemingly intractable problem. Ottawa was prepared to contribute up to 25% of the combined total of all municipal, provincial, and NHL subsidies to each team. That would have meant about $2 million to $4 million annually per club, on top of the more than $42 million in Canadian dollars that the league has kicked in for currency equalization since 1995--a subsidy that has no guarantees past 2002. "It is a temporary, modest package to try to get some time for Canadian teams to continue in the NHL," Industry Minister John Manley said of the federal proposal.
Yet at the thought of tax monies being forked over to keep unprofitable hockey ventures wheezing along, the public cleared the benches, dropped its gloves, and beat the plan to death. Just 72 hours after his announcement, Manley played coroner to his own offer: "This proposal is dead," he said.
The flap did have one positive side effect. After the public backlash against the bailout, the Ottawa Senators, projected to lose $7 million to $10 million this year alone, challenged the local community to accept higher ticket prices and help save the team. It worked. The club triumphantly announced late in February that it would be staying put after 87.3% of current season-ticket holders renewed for the next year at higher prices and 1,500 new season tickets were sold in a 19-day campaign.
AWFUL TRUTH. Prices and pride in having a hometown team have limits, however. And the irreconcilable public mandates to save pro hockey in Canada and to deny financial support have left teams with little room to maneuver. If Canada really wants to prevent more clubs from migrating to receptive cities in the U.S., it needs to acknowledge that it is part of a system--however flawed--in which municipalities go to extraordinary lengths to lure and keep major-league franchises.
Certainly, opting out of that system sends a pointed message. But it's one that is no doubt being received with glee by U.S. cities hungry for hockey. The awful truth these days is that taxpayers can holler and pundits can carp about the lunacy of giving away the public store to bag a team, but at the end of the day, O Canada, you gotta pay if you want to play.


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In article <7sa4ru$mc7 at smc.vnet.net>, "G. Raymond Brown" <gbrown at cau.edu> writes:
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Doc Hollis Woodfired Hot Tubs Ordered a custom wood Hot tub and he built one for $500 down and it was very poorly built, rough edges and cheap wood. Would not refund deposit. Littleton New Hampshire
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Doc Hollis wood fired Hot Tubs charged me $500 as down payment on a 6x3 1/2 foot hot tub. whan done a picture was sent and it was real rough on top edge, splinters in the butt rough. I cancelled it and did not receive my $500 back. I spoke to other builders of fine hot tubs and they claim he is over priced and builds very poor quality hot tubs. Avoind Doc Hollis!
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Doc Hollis offered explanation
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Doc Hollis contacted me and offered an explanation on the photo of hot tub he sent me. I cannpt remove the original review, but his explanation was helpful. He stated that the tub was in "unfinished" condition and not "finished" as I thought. He stated it was filled with water to water test it and then emptied for bench installation and then they sanded the top edge of the tub. I was not aware of that. He stated that the downpayment is restocking fee and that he had to cut 6 inches off the top of the tub which he has sold. I end this complaint.
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Doc Hollis is correct in that Pay Pal decided to not refund my deposite.
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Ingredients (Dry Skin Wash): aqua (water), cocamidopropyl betaine (coconut), glycerine (vegetable), decyl glucoside (corn or potato starch and coconut), hydroxypropyl starch phosphate (corn), lauryl glucoside (vegetable based), benzyl alcohol (jasmine or almond oil), stearyl citrate (vegetable based), salvia sclarea (clary sage) extract, citric acid (citrus fruit), dehydroxanthan gum (corn or soy), sodium hydroxymethylglycinate (amino acid derivative), propanediol (corn)
Directions: Apply to wet skin. Massage in gentle circular motions, rinse thoroughly and gently pat dry. For best results, use in conjunction with Natralia Nourish Dry Skin Lotion. Store below 30 degrees Celsius.
Claims: Made from naturally derived ingredients including a Xerophyte plant extract, known for its immediate hydration ability. Formulated with all natural cleansers it is designed for dry, sensitive, rough, itchy or flaking skin as well as skin prone to Eczema, Psoriasis and Dermatitis.
Comments: It doesn't foam as easily as those other commercial body wash (such as Palmolive). I need a strawberry size onto my shower puff for it to start to foam. It is free from sulfates, parabens, artificial colours and fragrances. It is also soap-free. You cannot smell the product. Kinda remind me of Cetaphyl, water-based face cleanser.
I also ran a product report on SkinDeep website. Unfortunately It scored an average 4 out of 10 on toxicity. You know the drill by now. I highlighted toxic ingredients in red. For more information on why, you just have to go to the link and double-click on the ingredient to take a glimpse at the scientifc studies.
Compared to Cetaphyl and QV, I prefer this one. The others on the shelves contains some nasty stuff such as Propylene Glycol (a skin ageing agent), petrolateum/mineral oil (not suitable for those with body acne), PEG or synthetic presevatives (parabens). No wonder why my aunty complained she still suffer from skin irritations from using QV body wash. I didn't personally suffer any irritation from using this shower gel. If I haven't seen the product report, I would have purchased the 1L pump.
Ratings: 3/5
Ingredients (Dry Skin Lotion): aqua (water), caprylic/capric triglyceride (coconut), glycerine (vegetable), cetearyl alcohol (coconut),glyceryl stearate citrate (vegetable), glyceryl stearate (plant derived emulsifier), cera alba (beeswax), salvia sclarea (clary sage) extract, simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) seed oil, magnesium aluminum silicate (clay), xanthan gum (glucose), propanediol (corn), caprylyl glycol (coconut), 1,2-hexanediol, tropolone.
Directions: After cleansing with Natralia Nourish Dry Skin Wash, gently massage Natralia Nourish Dry Skin Lotion
Claims: Nourish Dry Skin Wash & Lotion contain naturally derived ingredients that provide effective relief from dry skin. Designed to be suitable for dry, sensitive, rough, itchy or flaking skin as well as skin prone to Eczema, Psoriasis & Dermatitis. Nourish Dry Skin Wash and Lotion are also free from Sulfates, Parabens, Artificial Colours and Fragrances and are clinically tested to be non-irritating and deeply nourishing on the skin.
Comments: It's truly as fragrance-free as still water. It's less thick than sorbolene cream. It's easy to apply as Nivea Smooth Body Lotion and doesn't leave a white paste more you rub it onto damp skin, which happens with Sorbolene cream. It will wit on my skin for about 30 minutes. Since I don't have dry skin, I can't guarantee a Wow result. After I touch my arm after 2 hours, it felt like my normal skin. Well I guess it's alright.
I ran a product report on SkinDeep website. I am pleased to say that it has low toxicity.
I don't like the 250ml container. I need to make it stand on its cap. It's sometimes difficult to get the product out So I would recommend to buy the 1L pump.
Personally I would recommend it to my family and friends suffering from skin allergies. One of my aunts still suffered from skin irritation while using QV body wash and moisturiser. I think this body lotion is much safer to use than QV, Cetaphyl, Rosken and Redwin body lotions as I spotted ingredients that shouldn't be on there like petrolateum, mineral oil, parabens, mineral oil and propylene glycol.
If you don't like fragrance-free products, Natralia Nourish also has a Deep Nourish Skin Oil that has an Evening Primrose scent that I like and I'll review later.
Watch out for 20% off discounts at Priceline stores. I'll definitely buy 1L pump bottle one for my mum to use. The pump one is more expensive like AUS$22, I believe. The 250ml bottle was less than AUS$10, I think.
UPDATE: I bought the 1L bottle, the first 2 bottles' pumps failed to open. On the third try, I ensure I could open the pump before purchasing it. When your bottle reaches 1/3, somehow it stopped pumping out product (the product consistency ressembles more a body butter than body lotion without the greasiness). In this situation, remove pump and tap bottom of bottle onto a hard surface a few times before replacing the pump. I had to do it a couple of times....I'm up to my third bottle.


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Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and was a guest on both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
After my first appearance on The Colbert Report a student remarked: "you'd better retire now, professor—you'll never be able to top that." I have appeared on many TV shows, from Donahue back in the 1980s to Charlie Rose, The Open Mind, and others, but judging from the notoriety one achieves (for twenty-four hours), The Daily Show and Colbert Report are different. Of course, these are comedy shows. But even in this unusual venue it is possible to say something useful about history.
For my appearance on The Daily Show, I was interviewed at length in my office at Columbia by Rob Corddry about the history of race and racism in America. Only a tiny fragment of the interview ended up on the air, in a segment in which he played a neo-Nazi. I had no control whatever over the snippet selected or the context in which it appeared and had to rely on the protection of a former student who worked for the show and assured me, "Don't worry, professor, I won't let them make you look like an idiot."
Things were different on The Colbert Report. In two appearances, I was interviewed for a few minutes by Steven Colbert himself during a taping immediately prior to the broadcast, and almost everything I said ended up in the show. To the extent that I managed to remain vaguely coherent and informative during these appearances, this resulted from adhering to a few firm resolutions: 1—Do not try to be funny. There is only room for one comedian on the show. The professor should act like a professor, not a comic. 2—Do not be thrown off by odd-ball questions, challenging remarks, and interruptions. I did my best to remain relaxed during the interviews. 3—Decide in advance what one or two points you wish to make and then make them, whatever the actual questions. My first Colbert appearance concerned the Texas textbook guidelines controversy. I insisted that while historical interpretations are always changing, it does a disservice to students to excise parts of our history (such as the idea of separation of church and state) that do not fit a contemporary political agenda. The second had to do with my book on Lincoln and slavery. Knowing that Colbert himself is from South Carolina, I went on determined to point out that while people today debate whether slavery was the fundamental cause of the Civil War, secessionists had no doubt about this—just read South Carolina's Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession.
The Stewart and Colbert programs are not the venue for complex discussions of historical ideas. But they do enable historians to make one or two points to an audience we don't often reach. Given the current level of historical literacy among American citizens (not to mention political leaders), it is an opportunity not to be missed.
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I find Kahn's book as a whole less coherent than some others have. One issue I want to raise is the specter of American exceptionalism that haunts the book. Haunts, actually, may be too mild a word, since Kahn enthusiastically embraces the exceptional nature of American politics and law, and does so in absolutist terms (perhaps this is just the unfortunate sign of the legal mind at work, as is also the case in Schmitt).
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Each contributor [to Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age] delivers a reading of Taylor's work, helping to evaluate its significance, critical flaws, and lingering questions. They are companion pieces, then, and work best with a knowledge of the book. Their strength as a whole lies in the seriousness with which they address Taylor's grand narrative and the sprightliness with which they point puzzled readers to related topics and avenues. Does Taylor's book deserve such scrupulous attention? I am inclined to weight this question from the opposite side. Some of the essays in Varieties are so thought-provoking that I feel grateful to Taylor for having occasioned them, even if his own book is rather more exasperating than, as some of his readers would have it, major or magisterial.
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John Milbank, in his recent essay "Against Human Rights" (PDF), contends that Christian thought demands a notion and practice of justice as objective "right order," and resolutely does not provide the theological basis for a doctrine of human rights qua the subjectively grounded rights of the claimant, as Nicholas Wolterstorff argues in Justice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton UP, 2009). A political order grounded solely in subjective rights is, for Milbank, anathema to Christian justice.


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I was emailed and spoke with barry Shapiro. Sent a check for 3000 overnight to them. I was told someone who woidle set my appointments would call me and I would get a list of the people they were calling. i was called by victo. Hamilton a week later and I immediately asked for a refund. I kept calling Barry who eventually blocked my number and spoke with multiple people from the company who I named earlier but im convinced they are all one in the same a sleez ball from Ohio. Who knows if or which of these is a correct name. i was given 4 "leads" i showed up for these set appointments and noone was there. I called the supposed appointment and the people say they aren't and we're never interested. I heard them setting appointments and what they say to the possible appointments is so sleezy. They say they are dropping something off about their exhisting annuity never tell them a brand new agent wants to do A review. I'm going on 2 months plus with not one appointment. When i call the number no one picks up and if they do they pretend I have the wrong number. Thomas mcmillan, victor Hamilton Barry Shapiro whoever you are please send my money back this is complete theft. Everyone out there run from any of these individuals or companies named above. Worst rip off out there
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I only spoke with Robbie goldsmith or victor hamilton one time since and he offered me weed instead of a refund. I gave these guys 3000 dollars and went on zero appointments. They are scam artists who cant set appointments. please do not even contact these guys they are terrible human beings
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I spoke with victor who sent me to Harold Goldstein who sounds suprising like everyone else at the company. Wants me to put up that it is resolved and it is not. This is the slimiest company ever please if you need leads or appointments dont trust any of these guys they will rob you and steal from you. They want me to write that its resolved however it isnt resolved and I am still out 3k and didnt go on a single appointment. Please do not trust or do businesss with this company it is a SCAM!
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I received in the mail what is titled Official Directive No.0031 offering six different items to order.I ordered the 32-Pc
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Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?ptc-1368288 Sep 28, 2001 12:00 AM (in response to ptc-1178444)Your explanation is jargon to me, you are too advanced. Don't think I would like entering the subject, however 3 sparks come back:
1_Some time ago, Hubert gave us the maximum array allocation: what was it 2 millons ? 8 millions ?
2_Somewhere, about numerical derivatives, Mathcad says "Table will display only 50 first values". So, for more values Mathcad is using some magic twist of its own.
3_In the Romberg numerical integration, it tabulates only 32 values but it can split up to 94. If you tabulate for the 94 values what you see in the 32 places table are the remaining of the values. Here again, mathcad is doing right but not apparent to the user.
Those 3D with lot of points, you will never see the entire array of values, but the plot is OK.
Eventually, the pointer you are talking about may look misplaced but calculations are right.
Sorry for the perturbation.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?ptc-1178444 Sep 28, 2001 12:00 AM (in response to GuyB)Hi,
I've also encountered memory allocation errors since the introduction of Mathcad2001. I've observed that when I allocate a complex return array using MathcadArrayAllocate I get different types of behavior depending on the array size. If I use the VC++ debugger and look at the data pointers I find that everything is fine for small matrix dimensions, for example 10x10. As I start increasing the matrix dimension (more than 100x100) I reach a point where the pointers that I get from MathcadArrayAllocate are confused, that is, CArray->hReal and CArray->hImag are different addresses but these two addresses point to the same memory address (the first element of the array). Consequently, the real and imaginary parts overwrite each other.
For even larger matrix dimensions (say 640 x 480) one of the allocated pointers (hReal) points to an address that points to a null pointer, causing a GP which is reported in Mathcad. I've signaled this to Mathsoft when 2001 came out and even provided an example DLL but so far I haven't had any feedback. This has forced me to revert to other tools to perform certain tasks.
Regarding your specific problem a possible solution is to use GlobalAlloc and GlobalFree inside your function. This works fine to allocate temporary memory buffers at function scope.
FYI, I've also been able to setup a DLL that possesses global variables outside of the scope of the functions called by Mathcad. Hence, it is possible for one function to generate data, store them in a global buffer allocated using GlobalAlloc and return to Mathcad (without deallocating of course). I can then call other functions within the same DLL and they all have access to the data. A simple example is a function that loads a large data file in memory (I send the file path to the DLL using str2vec). Once done verifying the data and loading it into the global buffer, the function returns to Mathcad. I then call different functions to extract various parts of the data or process various subregions, etc. This has worked under Mathcad8, 2000 and 2001. For "cleanliness" I have a function that can deallocate the global buffer but I've found that since it resides in the DLL memory space, the buffer gets deallocated cleanly when Mathcad exits.
Xavier Colonna de Lega
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?GeraldN.Fischer Sep 4, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to ptc-1178444)Hello Xavier,
I read your post of September 28 and immediately recognized the likely cause my recent problems with DLL's crashing Mathcad. I have written a dozen successful dll's for Mathcad 8 on Windows NT using Visual C++ 5.0 and recently began using Mathcad 2001 on Windows 2000 Pro. Some of the same dll's now crash and new ones written with the most recent versions of the include and library files crash too. The problem is most common with large return array sizes. Just before I read your post I tried not allocating the imaginary portion of the array (because I am passing only real numbers): (code example follows) // allocate memory for the output ....
if ( !MathcadArrayAllocate( Matrixout, 2000000 , 3, TRUE , FALSE ))
and it seemed to help. You wrote "As I start increasing the matrix dimension (more than 100x100) I reach a point where the pointers that I get from MathcadArrayAllocate are confused, that is, CArray->hReal and CArray->hImag are different addresses but these two addresses point to the same memory address (the first element of the array). Consequently, the real and imaginary parts overwrite each other." Have you found more info about the problem? Is my simple solution (no imaginary part) reliable? Does Mathcad 2001i have this problem? Did Mathcad 2000 have this problem? I noticed your solution of using "GlobalAlloc" and I wonder if you could send me some sample code that uses this solution.
Thanks very much,
Gerald Fischer
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?ptc-1178444 Sep 4, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to GeraldN.Fischer)Yes, the problem appeared with 2001 and was fixed in 2001i.
I had functions in 2001 that used to return a complex array. I wrote new functions that returned only a real array, but that didn't work for larger arrays (for example 640 x 480). I also observed at the time that some of my functions would sometimes work, that is, the first call in Mathcad would return a memory allocation error but hitting F9 would get the call the succeed. I then tried to trap this condition from within the DLL but that also failed (successive memory allocation attempts until the array pointer was valid). So I pretty much gave up on 2001 - Mathsoft acknowledged the problem and promised it would get fixed, which happened in 2001i. I can only recommend you do that.
Regarding GlobalAlloc: I'm not sure if you're considering this as a possible solution to your memory allocation problem. As far as I know, you can't use GlobalAlloc to create a Mathcad return array. I use this only to allocate a permanent memory buffer in the DLL address space. One of my DLL functions creates this buffer and fills it with data from a file. Other DLL functions can then perform various tasks on the data without having to reload the file. The benefit for me is that a 100MB binary file where each sample is a byte requires a 100MB memory buffer, whereas if the file was loaded as a Mathcad array a 800MB chunk of memory would be required...
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?GeraldN.Fischer Sep 4, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to ptc-1178444)Xavier and Robert (and Mr. Guy Beadie if he still reads these),
Many thanks for your posts. I am so relieved to be able to contact people who have a better idea what's going on (than Mathcad support).
Regarding the memory allocation problem, I seem to be having pretty good luck with only allocating the real part. Even with arrays that are 3 x 1 million. Perhaps Mathsoft fixed it in SR2 of 2001. I have a call into them and perhaps they will clear this up. My company presently does not supply 2001i but maybe this will be a sufficient reason to change that.
Thanks again.
Gerald Fischer
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?radair Sep 4, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to GeraldN.Fischer)I switched to Mathcad 2001i to get rid of this memory allocation problem. I have only observed it to be an issue in 2001. There is no fix for that version of Mathcad.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?radair Sep 4, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to GeraldN.Fischer)Let me mention one other thing I noticed with dll's in case people are seeing other artifacts with 2001. A new "official" string variable was introduced that allows one to pass a string variable into a dll. It works just fine as long as all variables passed into the dll are string, but it doesn't work with mixed variable types where, for example, one of the function variables might be a complex scalar. The response I got from Mathsoft on this issue is that the string type is not supported even though it is in the official release package. When I need to pass strings into a dll, I do it through an element of a matrix. This is also not officially supported, but I haven't had any problems.
If people need to pass string variables back out of the dll, the only way I know to do that is to use the scripted component interface. This interface, however, has the problem that it won't allow passing complex variables (it's a bug, not a design), and it's not nearly as handy as the dll for basic functions.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?ptc-1178444 Sep 5, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to radair)For exchanging strings back and forth I use the brute force approach:
(1) From Mathcad: use str2num(...) to create an array that is passed to the DLL. The DLL then needs to extract the ASCII characters and rebuild the string.
(2) From the DLL: generate an array with MathcadAllocate and fill it with the ASCII codes of the string. Use num2str in Mathcad.
All those operations are supported since we're only passing regular arrays.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?GuyB Sep 12, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to ptc-1178444)Hello, Gerald.
For what it's worth, I was able to use GlobalAlloc() successfully for all my DLL memory allocation in Mathcad 2001.
Once I substituted GlobalAlloc() for MathcadAllocate(), everything worked fine. I never totaled up the dynamically allocated memory, but some of the return arrays of real doubles were as large as 6 x 32000 and 56 x 1000.
And Xavier - thank you again for your help!
- Guy
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?radair Sep 12, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to GeraldN.Fischer)Does anyone know who frees the GlobalAllocate() memory when Mathcad is done with it? I've never checked.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?ptc-1178444 Sep 13, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to radair)On 9/12/2002 8:20:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
>Does anyone know who frees the
>GlobalAllocate() memory when
>Mathcad is done with it? I've
>never checked.
I think the whole point of using MathcadAllocate instead of malloc or GlobalAlloc is that Mathcad takes care of freeing memory buffers when it's done with them. When you use malloc or GlobalAlloc your DLL is in charge of doing the garbage collection, Mathcad won't do it. In practice, if you don't take care of it the memory will remain allocated until you exit Mathcad, which is no big deal for small buffers. In my case I've added specific functions to my DLLs to free up the larger buffers that are statically allocated in the DLL address space.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?GeraldN.Fischer Sep 12, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to GuyB)Guy (and Xavier and Robert),
I haven't tried GlobalAlloc() yet, but I have now had a week of experience with simply not allocating the imaginary part when using MathcadAllocate(). (I set the second true/false argument to false). Two of my dlls which formerly catastrophically crashed with return arrays as small as 100,000 x 1 (complex values) now work with arrays as large as 1,000,000 x 3 (real values only). And I can make repeated calls to the dll and use the F9 key repeatedly. I noticed in another thread that someone reported that inserted components also seem to have problems returning complex numbers and the reported solution there was to simply not do it (and return the imaginary part in another portion of a real array if the imaginary part is really required).
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?ptc-1178444 Sep 13, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to ptc-1178444)I'm sorry, I realize that this previous post of mine is not very accurate.
A typical DLL function you write should by default use MathcadAllocate to create memory buffers and MathcadFree to destroy them just before exiting the function. I believe that MathcadAllocate is nothing else than a wrapper that allows Mathcad to keep track of memory buffers allocated by the user. Hence, if your function does not call MathcadFree upon exiting, Mathcad is still in a position to free these user buffers in a garbage collection phase. However, if you use malloc or GlobalAlloc, Mathcad is not aware of the existence of user buffers and won't be able to release them if the function doesn't.
Now, GlobalAlloc becomes useful in the case where you want to allocate memory having a lifetime longer than the lifetime of a DLL function call. In that case you can create a bunch of functions in your DLL that know how to access this persistent memory buffer. It's in this case that it may be useful to write a function that specifically releases the global buffer. If you never call such a function this memory is released once you exit Mathcad and its address space is freed.
Hope this makes more sense...
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?radair Sep 13, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to ptc-1178444)Thanks for the clarification. I was wondering if Mathcad somehow automatically grabbed ownership of the allocated memory like some clipboard functions would. I've toyed with the idea of using global allocation to return strings to Mathcad and having the dll keep internal track of the memory allocation, but I haven't found a very pretty solution.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?GuyB Sep 26, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to radair)(Sorry for the delayed reply...)
In response to freeing memory after using GlobalAlloc(), I was always careful to deallocate any dynamic memory myself. I balanced every call to allocate an array with a call to free the array when I was done with it.
I should point out that I still used MathcadArrayAllocate() for the final return array, but I always used real arrays. My problems originally stemmed from using MathcadArrayAllocate(), even with real numbers, to define arrays used during calculations. After a certain number of allocations, the arrays started writing over themselves.
As an added safety measure I also made sure that the return array, FinalVals[], was allocated at the end of all the calculations. The only steps I perform after the call to MathcadArrayAllocate() are inserting the proper values into FinalVals[] and deallocating the remaining dynamic arrays, used to hold the final values during computation.
Sticking to those guidelines kept me from running into any further trouble with the memory problem.
- Guy
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?ptc-1178444 Sep 26, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to GuyB)That's interesting. I usually allocate the return array first (with MathcadArrayAllocate) and then allocate the required local memory buffers using MathcadAllocate or malloc. I can't remember if I tried allocating the return array at the end of the processing when I was having these problems in 2001.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?evgen-disabled Apr 1, 2010 12:00 AM (in response to ptc-1178444)On 9/13/2002 11:31:00 AM, xcolonna wrote:
>I'm sorry, I realize that this
>previous post of mine is not
>very accurate.
>A typical DLL function you
>write should by default use
>MathcadAllocate to create
>memory buffers and MathcadFree
>to destroy them just before
>exiting the function. I
>believe that MathcadAllocate
>is nothing else than a wrapper
>that allows Mathcad to keep
>track of memory buffers
>allocated by the user. Hence,
>if your function does not call
>MathcadFree upon exiting,
>Mathcad is still in a position
>to free these user buffers in
>a garbage collection phase.
>However, if you use malloc or
>GlobalAlloc, Mathcad is not
>aware of the existence of user
>buffers and won't be able to
>release them if the function
>Now, GlobalAlloc becomes
>useful in the case where you
>want to allocate memory having
>a lifetime longer than the
>lifetime of a DLL function
>call. In that case you can
>create a bunch of functions in
>your DLL that know how to
>access this persistent memory
>buffer. It's in this case that
>it may be useful to write a
>function that specifically
>releases the global buffer. If
>you never call such a function
>this memory is released once
>you exit Mathcad and its
>address space is freed.
>Hope this makes more sense...
This is very useful if you need to load large
amount of data that is reused with every call.
I have a question - how do you address
the memory that was allocated in previous call.
Isn't the created by GlobalAlloc pointer dynamic - you would need to access its actual value to find where the memory block is?
Could you post a C++ example of doing this?
You have these nice DLLs WriteGlobal and ReadGlobal, which I guess would be a good example
(except they dont have a call that clears the memory).
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?mzeftel Apr 1, 2010 12:00 AM (in response to evgen-disabled)Yevgen,
You are responding to posts from 2001. Go to More.. in the Menu, then My Profile, and change the settings so that the more recent posts show up on top.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?mzeftel Apr 1, 2010 12:00 AM (in response to evgen-disabled)Yevgen,
You are responding to posts from 2001. Go to More.. in the Menu, then Edit My Profile, and check Reverse Topic Order, so that the more recent posts show up on top.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?GuyB Apr 3, 2010 12:00 AM (in response to evgen-disabled)On 4/1/2010 11:31:24 AM, evgen wrote:
>I have a question - how do you address
>the memory that was allocated in
>previous call.
>Isn't the created by GlobalAlloc pointer
>dynamic - you would need to access its
>actual value to find where the memory
>block is?
If you are asking about how to use memory allocated by GlobalAlloc, it follows the normal rules of C or C++.
If you are asking about creating memory space in the first call to the DLL that stays static, and can be accessed in another call to the DLL I cannot help you.
I only defined temporary arrays - arrays that were deleted when I finished executing the DLL code.
- Guy
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?radair Sep 26, 2002 12:00 AM (in response to ptc-1178444)I understand now. I guess I never ran into these sorts of problems because I only use the Mathcad memory allocation functions to return data to Mathcad. My normal language is c++ which I think uses malloc in the new function. I started using the Mathcad memory functions in my functions once upon a time, but I got away from that because I quickly found that c++ handled complex numbers better as well as enabling me to use arrays that cleaned up after themselves.
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?evgen-disabled Apr 1, 2010 12:00 AM (in response to mzeftel)Mona,
it is intentional. I just found this message in the search. There was no other messages related
to global memory allocation.
Btw could you direct me to such message
or other material that answer my question?
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?PhilipOakley Apr 1, 2010 12:00 AM (in response to evgen-disabled)Have a look at radair's posts. He helped me a lot on
a recent problem with doing wavelets.
One side issue is that the header files aren't quite
right as it is possible to accidentally overwrite
the input data (an extra 'constant' qualifier is
Philip Oakley
Memory leak in MathcadAllocate()?PhilipOakley Apr 3, 2010 12:00 AM (in response to GuyB)The normal mathcad 'policy', is not to have side
effects. You pass data in, then get all the
results back out.
Hence all the routines are set up on that
The only problem I found was that there wasn't a
proper definition for passed-in arrays in that a
'constant' was missing. have a look at radair and my
postings on that.
Philip Oakley


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"Here in the States, we lose our sense of direction. Things aren't cool all of a sudden, so we trash them," says Choi. "In Melbourne, you can be thorough, be honest, be pure, care about something all the way. If you act like you're too cool for school, you get figurative eggs thrown at you."
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Melbourne Restaurant: Attica
Ben Shewry's Attica restaurant, in a Melbourne suburb, has been on the San Pellegrino World's 100 Best Restaurants list for three years running, so I figure it's a must-visit for my eating tour of the city.
A transplant from New Zealand, Shewry grew up on an isolated farm by the ocean. When he moved to Melbourne, he found himself obsessively drawn to the native foods that some Australians might dismiss as "bush tucker." As he walks me through the restaurant's extensive gardens, he plucks a purplish two-lobed fruit from a towering tree. "Pine plum." He peels away the smaller of the two lobes, then hands the other one to me. "It's got this intense aftertaste. Some people don't like it. Try one." The inky juice of the fruit stains my fingers; the flavor starts like a stone fruit, then goes puckeringly piney. It's a challenging flavor, and one you won't taste outside of this region—which is just Shewry's point.
Shewry has described his dishes as "emo," recalling his own childhood memories and eliciting childhood memories in others. After 10 astonishing courses—among them just-picked nasturtium and red basil floating in a rich shiitake broth—I'm presented with a dish that seems as if it were made just for me. It's not that it looks familiar: A straw nest contains one delicately painted dessert called a pukeko egg. Alongside is a picture of the pukeko bird, and a definition: Natives of New Zealand, pukekos are tough birds, foragers, "confident, inquisitive and vociferous."
The eggshell is white chocolate. When I bite into it, my mouth fills with salted caramel, and I'm hit with a memory from growing up: a day when my grandmother slipped me something off my mother's verboten list. Shewry had gifted me with a grown-up version of the Cadbury Creme Egg.
Melbourne Restaurant: Easy Tiger
In Melbourne, there's a superabundance of up-and-coming restaurants. As in New York City, it sometimes seems that there's a different place to eat for every citizen. Smith Street in the suburb of Collingwood is, much like Smith Street in Brooklyn, an energetic strip of restaurants and bars, often run on shoestring budgets by young hopefuls. Among these is Easy Tiger, a relatively new Thai spot. There is nothing fancy about Easy Tiger, with its inexpensive menu of family-style plates, narrow dining room and funky courtyard out back. What's bringing people here is an idea carried out with maniacal focus. Chef Jarrod Hudson is mad for the craziness of Thai food, its complex mix of hot, sweet, bitter and sour.
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After they've eaten, Melbournians wander down alleyways and slip behind unmarked doors or up creaky sets of stairs to one of the city's "laneway bars." Supposedly. I have heard tell of these mythical places but have yet to manage to find one. Tonight, though, I am armed with maps, carefully drawn and marked on the backs of old menus or bar napkins by helpful waiters and strangers. One couple I meet at the beloved tapas bar MoVida leads me six or seven blocks out of their way ("Typical Melbourne," I imagine Roy Choi whispering) to show me Meyers Place, one of the great examples of the genre—but it's not open yet. One of the mysteries of the laneways' bars is the incomprehensible hours they keep. I wander alone, squinting with increasing despair at my cocktail napkins. I pass by the restaurant Pei Modern, which Banjo Plane, the manager of Attica, had recommended. I stay the course, but I worry that I'll never find one of these alleged pocket bars.
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The second largest Renaissance city after Venice, the centre of the French Revolution, and a genuine contender for the gastronomic capital of France, Lyon certainly has pedigree. TripAdvisor's Travellers' Choice 2012 Winner, Lyon is a historical city with a thriving cultural scene. Known as the birthplace of cinema, France's third largest city has an endless array of things to do and see.
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Parc de la Tête de l'Or, Lyon's largest public park, has enough attractions to fill a whole day. Once you've smelled the flowers in its botanical garden and seen the giraffes at its mini-zoo, there's still crazy golf, horse riding and a miniature train to keep the whole family occupied.
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This hilltop amphitheatre was built during the reign of the Roman Emperor, Tiberius (circa 19 AD). With an original capacity of 10,000, the amphitheatre is a remnant of Lugdunum, the Gallo-Roman city which would later become known as Lyon.
Lyon is renowned for its packed calendar of quality festivals. Attracting four million visitors annually, the Festival of Lights is by far the most important event of the year. Starting around December 8 and lasting four days, the festival features stunning light shows by professional artists from around the globe.
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The Silk Museum is a celebration of Lyon's importance as a centre of the silk industry – in fact, the museum is the only place in the world where Jacquard manual looms are still in use. Join a guided tour and you can hear how the regional textile industry has evolved since the late 20th century.
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The Egyptian Production Company has already begun taking on different measures with the start of the New Year aiming to produce better quality films that will surely bring in large profits. The company has taken on the initiative of producing more films that are of high standards presenting a positive outlook towards the Egyptian cinema.
According to the London based Elaph, Mamdouh Al Laithi, head of the cinema organization, said that the rise of the company's capital, which has reached 300 million EGP, a large number of films will be produced that will revive Egyptian cinema that are of excellent quality, adding that this year they will be producing ten movies. Among the first movies to be produced will be "Rasael Bahar" (Letters from Sea), written and directed by Daoud Sa'eed. Egyptian prominent actor Ahmad Zaki and Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram have been nominated for the leading role in the film.
The film will mark Nancy's first acting experience and will taking her into a different direction with regards to her career. It was revealed that Nancy has not confirmed her acceptance of the role as negotiations are supposedly in process.
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