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The incandescent light bulb. The turbine engine. The telephone. The automobile. These are all innovations that have changed the way we live. Pulitzer Award-nominated author and journalist Nicholas Carr believes that we aren't generating enough "big ideas" like these any more. Instead of the electrical grid, the steam engine and the polio vaccine, we're creating products like Facebook, Groupon and Instagram. Carr believes this is a major problem. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, he called for a return to the groundbreaking, culture-shifting, far-reaching and high-minded innovation of the past. He believes our future depends on it, and stopped by Q to explain why.
Carr believes that innovation is a response to what the public cares about. And when the public cares about big ideas — about transportation, energy and the environment — innovators and entrepreneurs look for gaps in those fields to fill. But when people care about being able to "publicize ourselves" and "modify our moods" — areas Carr deems self-serving — the innovations that pop up and are celebrated are in those fields. Carr isn't denying that Facebook and Google have had a huge impact on the way we communicate. But he thinks those kinds of innovations are self-serving and ultimately trivial.
"We're not enthusiastic and we're not willing to pay for the kind of big innovations that push transport forward or energy efficiency," Carr said to Q host Jian Ghomeshi. "There's certainly work in all those areas, but that's not the focus of innovation today, and we risk losing out on the kind of progress that sets the stage for ongoing prosperity."
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Nick BaumannJun. 3, 2009 12:54 PM
Back in 2006, Salon published 279 photos and 19 videos depicting detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But the website was quick to warn readers of the images' "limitations"—the Army's Criminal Investigation Command [CID] had produced two reports, one in Tikrit, Iraq on June 6, 2004, and one a month later in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
The Tikrit CID report analyzed some 1,300 images and over 90 videos of possible detainee abuse. But only around 280 videos and 19 videos were analyzed in the second report—numbers that correspond to the images Salon published. "It remains unclear," Salon warned in 2006, "why and how the CID narrowed its set of forensic evidence to the 279 images and 19 videos that we reproduce here." But if the Pentagon ever had more images of Abu Ghraib abuse, it doesn't have them now. "The Department of Defense is unaware of any images or video of potential abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib that have not already been made public," a Pentagon spokesman tells Mother Jones, echoing earlier statements.
I speculated yesterday that the discrepancy might stem from the Pentagon's claim that many (separate) images that the ACLU is seeking in a lawsuit depict what at first glance appears to be abuse but was determined not to be—pre-existing bruises or injuries to detainees, for example. That could still be the case. I've asked Salon's Mark Benjamin, who first asked the Pentagon about whether there were more Abu Ghraib photos and got a similar response, if he can help me figure out what happened to the images from the first CID report. I haven't heard back yet, but I'll post his response if and when I get one. I'm also following up with the Pentagon.
Nick BaumannJun. 3, 2009 11:43 AM
On Tuesday, Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty said he will not run for reelection in 2010, fueling speculation that he is clearing his schedule in order to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Pawlenty also promised that if the Minnesota Supreme Court orders a certificate of election when it rules on Al Franken and Norm Coleman's battle for a Senate seat, he will "not hold it up" or "delay in any fashion." (Franken is almost certain to win the court fight.) There's still some speculation that Pawlenty might break his promise and delay Franken's certification so as to appeal to the GOP primary electorate, but it's pretty far-fetched—Pawlenty made a clear promise that would be hard to break, and holding up Franken probably wouldn't help him anyway. The Economist's anonymous Democracy in America blog explained last month:
The conservative argument is that Mr Pawlenty, if he wants to run for president in 2012, would boost his chances if he blocks Mr Franken. That's just not true. Becoming identified with a partisan election count is the political equivilent of biting down on a cyanide capsule. What was Katherine Harris's reward for verifying the Florida election count in 2000? Two terms in Congress, sure, but a total party abandonment in 2006 when she ran for Senate. What was Ken Blackwell's reward for protecting George Bush's Ohio campaign in 2004? More disrespect from his own party, which tried to deny him the 2006 nomination for governor and then abandoned him. If Mr Pawlenty wants a political second wind, it's good news for Mr Franken.
The conservative argument is that Mr Pawlenty, if he wants to run for president in 2012, would boost his chances if he blocks Mr Franken. That's just not true. Becoming identified with a partisan election count is the political equivilent of biting down on a cyanide capsule. What was Katherine Harris's reward for verifying the Florida election count in 2000? Two terms in Congress, sure, but a total party abandonment in 2006 when she ran for Senate. What was Ken Blackwell's reward for protecting George Bush's Ohio campaign in 2004? More disrespect from his own party, which tried to deny him the 2006 nomination for governor and then abandoned him. If Mr Pawlenty wants a political second wind, it's good news for Mr Franken.
If The Economist is right, you can expect to see Senator Franken strolling around Capitol Hill by early July.
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Citizens of Reykjavik, lock your doors! Iceland is no longer safe! Well, not as safe as it was last year, according to the third-annual Global Peace Index, released Tuesday. The brainchild of Australian tech entrepreneur, Steve Killelea, the study takes after similar annual ventures, such as Freedom in the World, and purports to be the world's only quantitative measure of global peace. Iceland topped the list in the first two years, but the global recession--a particularly dramatic event for the island nation, which led to the complete implosion of its government and banking system--has shuffled the deck. Still, the results are pretty much what you'd expect. The three safest countries on Earth are New Zealand, Denmark, and Norway--all relatively small, affluent, and democratic nations. Island countries also fair well. At the bottom end of the scale there are no surprises. Iraq remains the worst place in the world to go in search of peace, followed by Afghanistan and Somalia. But unless those places are on your vacation agenda, you should probably be alright. Full results of the report are available here.
Nick BaumannJun. 2, 2009 5:01 PM
I've been following Mark Benjamin's excellent reporting in Salon on the photos being withheld by the Obama administration. After the Telegraph reported Gen. Antonio Taguba's allegations that photos exist that "show rape" of detainees, Benjamin spoke to Taguba, who did not withdraw his claim that the photos exist but clarified that he was not talking about the photos Obama is withholding, which he hasn't seen. In the course of investigating Taguba's claim, Benjamin asked a Pentagon spokesman whether there were any more photos of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib beyond those that Salon already published in 2006. The official said no. But I've read Salon's summary of the 279 photos and 19 videos it published in 2006, so I did a double-take at this passage from Benjamin's article Tuesday:
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While the press have been investigating Gen. Antonio Taguba's claim that photos existed that "show rape" of detainees by Americans, Congress and the Obama administration have been working behind the scene to pass a law allowing the executive branch to summarily withhold any photos of detainee treatment it wants for an effectively unlimited time. Salon's Glenn Greenwald reports that the White House is "actively supporting" a bill called The Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009 that would pre-empt the ACLU's court battle with the administration and allow Obama to pre-empt any future efforts to force the government to disclose evidence of torture.
It's one thing for the president to fight in court for the ability to withhold these specific photos in this specific instance. It's another thing entirely to lobby for detainee treatment photos to get blanket immunity from the Freedom of Information Act. But that's what Obama's doing.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and usual suspect Joe Lieberman (I-CT), would allow the administration to easily suppress "photograph taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009 relating to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside of the United States" as long as the Secretary of Defense claimed it was to protect the troops. The bill is reportedly sailing through Congress. "What kind of a country passes a law that has no purpose other than to empower its leader to suppress evidence of the torture it inflicted on people?" Greenwald asks. Indeed. What kind of a president says "Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," and then supports such a law?
David CornJun. 2, 2009 3:12 PM
The White House Twitter feed has--as of this writing--233,182 followers. But apparently not too many are within the White House itself.
At today's daily press briefing, a reporter asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs if the White House would use Twitter to disseminate the speech on US-Muslim relations that President Obama is set to deliver later this week in Cairo. Laughing, Gibbs said, "that would be awkward"--perhaps thinking that the reporter meant Twittering it before it happened. He then added, "we can't get" Twitter on the computers in the White House.
Really? When it was my turn to ask a question, I queried Gibbs on the George Tiller murder (he said Obama had nothing to add to his previous statement and indicated the president was not contemplating any additional steps to take), and I asked about the case of two American brothers who were imprisoned in Saudi Arabia after apparently participating in a religious protest (Gibbs said he was unfamiliar with this incident and did not know if Obama would raise it with the Saudi king when he sees him this week). Then I realized I had forgotten to ask about Twitter. And my turn was over.
After the briefing, I found a press aide who informed me that White House aides working on new media do have access to Twitter on their office computers, but that he and others in the White House press office did not. "Security?" I asked. He nodded.
So much of the White House is Twitter-free. That may be good for productivity. But Gibbs and his crew are missing a lot in the Twittershpere. Still, I wonder if Obama can get secret tweets on his BlackBerry.
Of course, I tweeted this story as it unfolded.
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Slate columnist Will Saletan wrote in the New York Times in February that he believes that we can end the culture wars by encouraging birth control and discouraging abortion. This week, in the wake of the murder of late-term abortion provider George Tiller in Kansas, Saletan returned to that argument, writing that while abortion is not "murder," it's "something less, a tragedy that would be better avoided," and we should look for ways to prevent it. On the way to that conclusion, Saletan stumbled on an interesting point:
Nick BaumannJun. 2, 2009 11:53 AM
Given Barack Obama's game-changing use of new media during the campaign, there's been a lot of excitement about how his team might use technology now that he's President. Unfortunately, there seems to be some disagreement about what exactly the White House should be doing. The Center for American Progress, for example, has a new memo out on the White House new media strategy that could hardly be more off base.
David CornJun. 2, 2009 10:56 AM
With the murder of Dr. George Tiller, Randall Terry is back in the news. For years, he has been one of the leading antiabortion extremists, and he has at times directed his fury at Tiller. On Monday, while essentially justifying the slaying of Tiller, Terry compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1998, I wrote a profile of Terry for The Nation. At the time, he was running for Congress in upstate New York. He didn't win the seat, but while campaigning he was--as he often is--quite candid about his fundamentalist views. Terry revealed a world view shared by a number of radical fundamentalists--perhaps including Scott Roeder, the antigovernment, anti-abortion fundamentalist who is the key suspect in the Tiller murder. Here are some excerpts from that article.
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HealthEquity, which provides a platform for managing health savings accounts, plans to raise $100 million by offering 9.1 million shares at a range of 10 to 12.
It follows a string of companies focused on providing technology platforms for the health care sector to announce terms for an initial public offering.
HealthEquity said its HSA platform is used by 20 of the 50 largest U.S. health plan providers. For the year ended Jan. 31, revenue rose 35% to $62 million from the previous year, with net income of $1.2 million.
It plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol HQY, with JPMorgan and Wells Fargo Securities as the lead underwriter.
HealthEquity follows Imprivata, which announced terms for its IPO on June24. Imprivata provides secure access-management software for the health care industry. It plans to raise $75 million by offering 5 million shares at a price range of 14 to 16. The company's OneSign platform allows physicians, nurses and staff secure access to health care systems across devices.
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Noob - Does difficulty really alter the shooting percentage? I always sim and play on Superstar; I tend to have a fewer SV% when I play but that's compensated by me allowing fewer shots. The CPU's SV% usually stays around the same as in the sims. Overall, scoring is still below real life values despite me maxing out penalties and simming with 0 on Goaltending reflexes (not sure if it makes a difference).
Strictly talking CPU vs. CPU, I had to make the following changes:
- Reduce shot accuracy to 0/6 for all 3 categories (which still resulted in an 11.6% shooting percentage over the 10 test games)
- Reduce period length to 10 minutes (to reduce # of shots per game)
Now, part of that is because the AI is better at setting up plays, so there are better scoring chances, but there is definitely a notable difference in terms of shooting accuracy, passing accuracy, pass reception, etc. even on 0/6 for all those sliders. On 1/6 on all-star, many point shots go wide by a foot or two just like in real life, but pretty much every point shot on 0/6 superstar hits the net.
If I could get realistic results with Superstar, I'd do it (for the smarter, more fluid AI) but I can't seem to get it without going back to super goalies making Save of the Year calibre saves multiple times every game.
The other interesting tidbit is that when I had that 14-0-1 streak going last season, that was ALL on Superstar. As soon as I turned it back to All-Star, Columbus came crashing back down to earth. It was completely bizarre that Columbus turned into this unstoppable force on the higher difficulty setting. The first game was 9-4 Columbus with 81 combined shots (Superstar, 12 min periods, 1/6 shooting accuracy) and then I tweaked from there until I got the # of shots down, but over those next 10 games, as I mentioned, the combined shooting percentages were far too high on 0/6 accuracy.
If you're simming, the sliders don't seem to have much (if any) effect on simulations.
Playing on Superstar seems different than CPU vs. CPU/Coach on Superstar from what I've observed, although I don't have the data to back that up (I can't stand playing on Superstar). I notice that you don't see the same garbage on CPU vs. CPU like Hal Gill outskating Sidney Crosby in a race for the puck or a player reaching through an opposing player to get the puck and then pulling it back through him. I'm guessing EA turns off/tones down the bias factor when it's CPU vs. CPU/Coach Mode.
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And yet if you asked 100 Jews this morning whether there was anything special occurring today the likelihood is that 97 would have no idea that it was Holocaust Remembrance Day.
I would venture to guess that the NCAA Tournament finals taking place tonight would be a fairly common answer instead.
That fact is of course not surprising as people have extremely short memories and are much more focused on the day-to-day than they are on history, even if that history includes the slaughter of 6 million Jews!
Ask those same 100 Jews what the recent study conducted by The Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry found and the same 97 or so would likely have no idea that global anti-Semitic incidents rose 30% in 2012.
"A considerable escalation in the level of violent and vandalistic acts against Jews was recorded in 2012. The combined number of 686 such acts represents an increase of 30 percent over the 2011 figure of 526."
For Jews around the world the scourge and plague of hate continues to exist and proliferate, but many of us put their heads in the ground and continue to say that what happened mere decades ago could never happen again!
If that is your position take another look at the 2012 statistics and then ask yourself whether the facts make your opinion at all credible?
Here are links to Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 and my take on the fading memory of the phrase Never Again!
If Barack Obama has taught us anything it is that rhetoric and phrases are nothing more than that. What actually matters is the reality of what is taking place around us. To ignore that, is to put your head into the ground!
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This invention relates generally to interpretive runtime environments and more particularly to generating code in a compiled language for execution in an interpretive runtime environment.
A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. The following notice applies to the software and data as described below and in the drawings hereto: Copyright� 1997, Microsoft Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
Interpreted languages are widely used to make computer programs portable across diverse hardware platforms. The same interpreted language program can be easily moved from one type of computer to another; only the runtime environment which performs the interpretation must be tailored specifically to the underlying hardware.
This benefit of an interpreted language is also its greatest drawback. A program written in an interpreted language executes significantly slower than the same program written in a compiled language on the same computer. Previous solutions to the problem all contain major flaws.
For example, native code compilers have been implemented which convert the instructions of the interpreted language into equivalent instructions in a language native to the specific hardware. The native code program is then executed. However, because the compiled native code program does not execute in the interpretive runtime environment, any functions provided by the runtime environment are unavailable to the program. Such a program is also frequently much larger than the interpreted language program, resulting in resource issues on minimally configured computers.
Another approach taken was to convert the interpreted language program, as a whole, into a program in a compiled language which accomplishes the same functions. Such efforts have proved highly complex to implement and result in inefficient compiled code.
Therefore, what is needed is a way to increase the performance of an interpreted language program while providing access to the functions of the corresponding runtime environment, and to do so in a fashion that converses system resources.
The above-mentioned shortcomings, disadvantages and problems are addressed by the present invention, which will be understood by reading and studying the following specification.
An inlining code generator, executing external to a runtime environment, reproduces the processing of an innerloop of an interpreter for the runtime environment. The inlining code generator processes a program in the interpreted language and produces a corresponding program in a compiled language. The compiled language program is compiled into a native language program using a standard compiler specific to the underlying hardware. The native language program executes within the runtime environment in the same fashion as if it had been interpreted by the interpreter.
The inlining code generator eliminates the overhead associated with running interpreted code programs by exporting the processing time for the innerloop to the code generator. Because the inlining code generator accepts existing interpreted language programs as input, the portability benefits afforded by those programs remain, while, at the same time, the execution of those programs be optimized when they are run on a particular computer. Furthermore, because the resulting native language program operates within the framework of the runtime environment, functions and routines provided by the runtime environment are available to the native language program.
The present invention describes systems, clients, servers, methods, and computer-readable media of varying scope. In addition to the aspects and advantages of the present invention described in this summary, further aspects and advantages of the invention will become apparent by reference to the drawings and by reading the detailed description that follows.
FIG. 1 shows a diagram of the hardware and operating environment in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced;
FIGS. 2A-C are diagrams illustrating a system-level overview of an exemplary embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method to be performed by a client according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a system level diagram of an exemplary Java embodiment of the invention; and
FIG. 5 is a diagram of a method state data structure for use in an exemplary implementation of the invention.
In the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration specific exemplary embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention, and it is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and that logical, mechanical, electrical and other changes may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is defined only by the appended claims.
The detailed description is divided into five sections. In the first section, the hardware and the operating environment in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced are described. In the second section, a system level overview of the invention is presented. In the third section, methods for an exemplary embodiment of the invention are provided. In the fourth section, a particular Java implementation of the invention is described. Finally, in the fifth section, a conclusion of the detailed description is provided.
FIG. 1 is a diagram of the hardware and operating environment in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced. The description of FIG. 1 is intended to provide a brief, general description of suitable computer hardware and a suitable computing environment in conjunction with which the invention may be implemented. Although not required, the invention is described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer, such as a personal computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc., that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types.
Moreover, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention may be practiced with other computer system configurations, including hand-held devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based or programmable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, and the like. The invention may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote memory storage devices.
The exemplary hardware and operating environment of FIG. 1 for implementing the invention includes a general purpose computing device in the form of a computer 20, including a processing unit 21, a system memory 22, and a system bus 23 that operatively couples various system components, including the system memory 22, to the processing unit 21. There may be only one or there may be more than one processing unit 21, such that the processor of computer 20 comprises a single central-processing unit (CPU), or a plurality of processing units, commonly referred to as a parallel processing environment. The computer 20 may be a conventional computer, a distributed computer, or any other type of computer; the invention is not so limited.
The system bus 23 may be any of several types of bus structures including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, and a local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures. The system memory may also be referred to as simply the memory, and includes read only memory (ROM) 24 and random access memory (RAM) 25. A basic input/output system (BIOS) 26, containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within the computer 20, such as during start-up, is stored in ROM 24. The computer 20 further includes a hard disk drive 27 for reading from and writing to a hard disk, not shown, a magnetic disk drive 28 for reading from or writing to a removable magnetic disk 29, and an optical disk drive 30 for reading from or writing to a removable optical disk 31 such as a CD ROM or other optical media.
The hard disk drive 27, magnetic disk drive 28, and optical disk drive 30 are connected to the system bus 23 by a hard disk drive interface 32, a magnetic disk drive interface 33, and an optical disk drive interface 34, respectively. The drives and their associated computer-readable media provide nonvolatile storage of computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules and other data for the computer 20. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that any type of computer-readable media which can store data that is accessible by a computer, such as magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, digital video disks, Bernoulli cartridges, random access memories (RAMs), read only memories (ROMs), and the like, may be used in the exemplary operating environment.
A number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk, magnetic disk 29, optical disk 31, ROM 24, or RAM 25, including an operating system 35, one or more application programs 36, other program modules 37, and program data 38. A user may enter commands and information into the personal computer 20 through input devices such as a keyboard 40 and pointing device 42. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 21 through a serial port interface 46 that is coupled to the system bus, but may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, game port, or a universal serial bus (USB). A monitor 47 or other type of display device is also connected to the system bus 23 via an interface, such as a video adapter 48. In addition to the monitor, computers typically include other peripheral output devices (not shown), such as speakers and printers.
The computer 20 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as remote computer 49. These logical connections are achieved by a communication device coupled to or a part of the computer 20; the invention is not limited to a particular type of communications device. The remote computer 49 may be another computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a client, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the computer 20, although only a memory storage device 50 has been illustrated in FIG. 1. The logical connections depicted in FIG. 1 include a local-area network (LAN) 51 and a wide-area network (WAN) 52. Such networking environments are commonplace in offices, enterprise-wide computer networks, intranets and the Internet.
When used in a LAN-networking environment, the computer 20 is connected to the local network 51 through a network interface or adapter 53, which is one type of communications device. When used in a WAN-networking environment, the computer 20 typically includes a modem 54, a type of communications device, or any other type of communications device for establishing communications over the wide area network 52, such as the Internet. The modem 54, which may be internal or external, is connected to the system bus 23 via the serial port interface 46. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the personal computer 20, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. It is appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of and communications devices for establishing a communications link between the computers may be used.
The hardware and operating environment in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced has been described. The computer in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced may be a conventional computer, a distributed computer, or any other type of computer; the invention is not so limited. Such a computer typically includes one or more processing units as its processor, and a computer-readable medium such as a memory. The computer may also include a communications device such as a network adapter or a modem, so that it is able to communicatively couple to other computers.
A system level overview of the operation of an exemplary embodiment of the invention is described by reference to FIGS. 2A-C.
FIG. 2A shows the logic blocks of a generic computer language interpreter 200 that executes in a runtime environment in a computer such as computer 20 in FIG. 1. The interpreter 200 causes instructions in the interpreted language, commonly called "byte codes," to be executed as instructions in a language native to the runtime environment. In general, byte code and interpreted language code are referred to as "runnable" code because they are executed by the computer without needing to be compiled. Similarly, native language code, such as machine language code, is also runnable code.
When a program written in the interpreted language is run in the runtime environment, the interpreter 200 reads each byte code in the program and branches to a routine specific to the type of byte code (logic block 201). The interpreter then executes a native language instruction, or set of instructions, which performs the operation specified by the byte code (logic block 202). The process repeats until all byte codes in the program have been run.
A different type of interpreter called a "just-in-time"(JIT) compiler 210 is illustrated in FIG. 2B. Instead of interpreting each byte code and performing its operation immediately, the JIT compiler 210 converts all the byte codes in the program into equivalent instructions in a native language (logic blocks 211 and 212). These instructions are then collected into a native language program (logic block 213) and executed (logic block 214). The logic blocks 211 and 212 collectively are referred to as the "innerloop" of the JIT compiler.
FIG. 2C illustrates one embodiment of an inlining code generator 220, executing external to a runtime environment 221, that reproduces the processing of the innerloop of the JIT compiler 210. A byte code program 222 is input into the inlining code generator 220 to produce a corresponding program in a compiled language 223. The compiled language program 223 is then compiled into a native language program 225 using compiler 224. When the native language program 225 is executed by the runtime environment 221, it appears to have been generated by a JIT compiler. Because the native language program 225 operates within the execution framework of the runtime environment 221, functions and routines provided by the runtime environment 221 are available to the native language program 225 as shown by the phantom connection between the inlining code generator 220 and the runtime environment 221. Moreover, because the compiler 224 is specific to the computer, it can optimize the generated code to remove redundant instructions and perform additional code optimizations for the hardware.
In one exemplary embodiment, the inlining code generator 220 outputs source code instructions for a high-level compiled language, such as C, and the compiler 224 is specific to that language.
In another exemplary embodiment, the inlining code generator 220 outputs instructions in a compiler intermediate language. A compiler intermediate language is used to communicate between language-specific compiler logic and hardware-specific compiler logic. The intermediate language instructions produced by the inlining code generator are passed to the appropriate hardware-specific compiler logic, i.e., compiler 224, to produce the native language program.
The system level overview of the operation of an exemplary embodiment of the invention has been described in this section of the detailed description. An inlining code generator implements the innerloop of a JIT compiler external to a runtime environment to eliminate the overhead associated with running interpreted code programs.
Because the inlining code generator accepts existing interpreted language programs as input, the portability benefits afforded by those programs remain, while, at the same time, the execution of those programs will be optimized when they are run on a particular computer. Furthermore, the inlining code generator generates code which utilizes any functions exported by the runtime environment. While the invention is not limited to any particular embodiment of an interpretive innerloop, for sake of clarity the high level functions of a JIT compiler innerloop have been described.
In the previous section, a system level overview of the operations of exemplary embodiments of the invention was described. In this section, the particular methods performed by a computer executing such exemplary embodiments are described by reference to a series of flowcharts. The methods to be performed constitute computer programs made up of computer-executable instructions. Describing the methods by reference to a flowchart enables one skilled in the art to develop such programs including such instructions to carry out the methods on suitable computer (the processor of the computers executing the instructions from computer-readable media).
Referring first to FIG. 3, the acts to be performed by a computer executing the inlining code generator 220 are shown. Starting at block 301, the first byte code in the program is read in. A unique label for the byte code is generated (block 302) as explained in more detail below. The type of byte code is determined (block 303) and the byte code is converted into its equivalent compiled language instruction or set of instructions (block 304). The inlining code generator 300 continues processing each byte code in the program until all the byte codes have been converted (block 305). As will be immediately understood by one skilled in the art, the type of instructions produced at block 304 depend on whether the inlining code generator is outputting compiled language source code or compiler intermediate code.
In most byte code programs, when the logic needs to jump to a byte code that is out of sequence, a branch instruction specifying an offset for the target byte code relative to the branch instruction is used. Because the inlining code generator 300 creates a label for each byte code, the block 304 converts the offset value in the branch instruction into the label for the target byte code. In one embodiment, each label generated at block 302 comprises its offset relative to the beginning of the program. The inlining code generator subtracts the relative offset specified in the branch instruction from the offset in the branch instruction's label to calculate the label for the target byte code. Alternate ways of equating the original byte codes with the labels generated for the equivalent instructions, such as using an array to manage all the labels, will be readily apparent to one skilled in the art. In an alternate exemplary embodiment shown in phantom in FIG. 3, the code generator "prunes" the unused labels after all the byte codes are converted (block 306) so that only labels which are referenced by the final generated instructions are present.
As explained in the previous section, the code generated at block 304 has access to any global variables and/or functions that are exported by the runtime environment.
The particular methods performed by computer executing an exemplary embodiment of the invention have been described. The methods been shown by reference to a flowchart including all the steps from 301 until 306.
In this section of the detailed description, a particular implementation of the invention is described that is specific to the Microsoft Corporation implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of the inlining code generator 401 of the present invention in conjunction with JVM 402. The JVM 402 is made up of three main components: a Java interpreter 403, a Java JIT compiler 404, and a runtime system 405. Because the JVM is a stack-based system, all objects created by programs executing in the runtime system 402 are stored in a stack 406. A constant pool 407 provides variables for the programs. Both the stack 406 and the constant pool 407 are managed by the runtime system 405. The runtime system 405 also provides specialized functions 408, such as background garbage collection of objects which are no longer in use.
A Java programmer creates objects and methods that act on the objects in Java source code ("java" file) 409, passes the java file 409 to a Java compiler 410 which produces the Java byte codes ("class" file) 411. When the inlining code generator 401 is used, the class file 411, and any Java class libraries 412 which contain methods referenced by the class file 411, are passed to the code generator 401. Compiled language code is generated by the code generator 402 and passed to a hardware-specific compiler 413 which produces an executable file (DLL) 414.
When an external method is invoked by a program executing in the runtime system 405, the JVM 402 determines if the method is in a byte code class file or in an executable DLL file as explained in more detail below. If the method is in a class file, the JVM 402 routes the class file 411 along with the necessary class libraries 412 to either the Java interpreter 403 or the Java JIT compiler 404 for conversion to executable code. The executable code is then routed to the runtime system 405 for execution. On the other hand, if the method is in a DLL file produced from the inlining code generator 401, the JVM 402 simply routes the DLL file 414 to the runtime system 405 for execution.
The JVM 402 also exports certain runtime system variables and methods to the code generator 401 so that the executable code in the DLL file 414 is able to obtain and manipulate the state of the JVM 402.
Table 1 below illustrates the C language instructions which are generated by the innerloop of the JIT compiler 404 for a subset of the Java byte codes. The C language instructions contain pointers to the stack 406, the constant pool 407, methods 408, and local variables in the runtime system 405 which have been exported by the JVM 402. The innerloop is coded as follows:
while (pCode++)
switch (*pCode)
. . .
case LDC
[corresponding C instructions as shown in Table 1]
. . .
case BEQ
[corresponding C instructions as shown in Table 1]
. . .
case IADD
[corresponding C instructions as shown in Table 1]
. . .
Java Byte Code
C Instruction(s)
LDC <index>
*pStack++ = m_pMethod−>m_pClass-
move from constant pool to
stack; increment stack
*pStack++ = pLocals[1];
CMethod * pMethod = m_pMethod-
>m_pClass−> FindMethod(index);
If (ExecuteStaticMethod(pMethod, pStack)
//exception occurred
if (LookupException( ) == TRUE)
goto label_<exceptionhandler − offset>
return FALSE;
BEQ <offset>
If (*pStack) goto label_<current − offset>
branch on equality to byte
code offset
*(pStack − 1) += *(pStack);
add 2 stack values together &
place result on stack;
decrement stack
Using the following Java byte code program as an example,
the code generator 401 generates the following C language program:
if (*pStack) goto label_1;
Because the executable code 414 is created outside the JVM 402, the JVM 402 does not have to loop through the innerloop of the JIT compiler 404 at runtime, thus significantly increasing performance over an identical byte code program which passes through the JIT compiler 404. Furthermore, constant pool 407 references are specifically coded by the code generator 401 so that the compiler 413 produces more efficient code for that portion of the C language program than the JIT compiler 404 which outputs code that is generic in nature. In an alternate exemplary embodiment in which the compiler 413 is an optimizing C compiler, the number of byte code equivalent instructions is reduced to a minimal set of compiled instructions.
Certain Java byte codes need to call back into the JVM 402 and so cannot be represented by C language instructions alone. The resulting generated code is illustrated in Table 1 by the INVOKESTATIC <Index> byte code which performs a call to another Java method. The generated code must first call FindMethod to get a pointer to the method (pMethod) which has been exposed by the JVM 402. Then the generated code must call the exported method, ExecuteStaticMethod, to execute the invoked method, and LookUpException to handle any exceptions which result from the execution. In an alternate exemplary embodiment, the instructions for both ExecuteStaticMethod and LookUpException are generated inline in the C language code for INVOKESTATIC.
In the exemplary embodiment of the JVM 402, two flags, a native methods flag 501 and a JIT flag 502, for each method indicate the "state" of the method. The flags 501, 502 can be stored in an internal, in-memory representation of the class or can be persisted in a data file. An exemplary data structure containing the flags is illustrated in FIG. 5. The JVM 402 uses the flags 501, 502 to determine how to load a method invoked within the runtime system 405.
When neither flag is set, the JVM 402 loads the byte codes for the method and calls either the interpreter 403 or the JIT compiler 404 to process the codes. This case represents a Java to Java call.
If only the native method flag is set, the JVM 402 loads the corresponding DLL, searches through the DLL for the entry point for the invoked method, and calls the method through a native method interface, such as JNI or RNI. This case is handled as a call to "imported" code.
If only the JIT flag is set, the JVM 404 recognizes that the method is already compiled into machine code, jumps directly to the method's entry point in the corresponding DLL file, and executes the appropriate code. Executable code generated and compiled using the present invention is handled in this fashion.
Other location that can be used to maintain the state of each method will be readily apparent to one skilled in the art. For example, in one alternate exemplary embodiment, the state of each method is stored within the corresponding class file itself. In another alternate exemplary embodiment, the J/Direct extension, which maintains a private set of data to point to the entry point of a method, is employed.
This section has described an inline code generator that converts Java byte codes into equivalent instructions in a compiled language. The compiled language instructions are then passed to a compiler which produces executable, machine language code. The executable code can then be called directly from the current Java runtime system, and since it obeys all of the stack operations of the interpreted byte code, the existing garbage collector and other runtime features operate as normal. The executable code only needs to update the JVM's information of what equivalent byte code it is executing when a function call is being made or an exception being thrown. Because of this, and the fact that basic stack operations can be optimized by the compiler to use registers, the inlining code generator speeds the execution of Java byte code significantly over an interpreter or JIT compiler.
An inlining code generator has been described. Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that any arrangement which is calculated to achieve the same purpose may be substituted for the specific embodiments shown. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the present invention.
For example, those of ordinary skill within the art will appreciate that all while all Java Virtual Machines are stack-based, not all JVMs have a constant pool as described in the previous section. Because the term "constant pool" can be applied to any collection of available variables that hold constants, equivalent structures to the constant pool include variable stores which are implemented within a class files and decoded into a hash table at load time.
Furthermore, those of ordinary skill within the art will readily appreciate that different runtime environment will export different methods, i.e., exception handling, invocation of methods, and/or memory allocation, which can be utilized by the generated code. Therefore, the generated code will be specific to the runtime environment, as is true of code created by a interpreter or a JIT compiler, and limited only by the inherent limitations of the runtime environment in which the inlining code generator is implemented.
The terminology used in this application with respect to is meant to include all runtime environments, both past, current and future. Therefore, it is manifestly intended that this invention be limited only by the following claims and equivalents thereof.
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It would really help if on the first screen, when you are looking at the first page for the Calendar, if it can also state BALANCE DUE: $1,200.00, along side the booking number, name and property. Can this be added?
I see that you can see everything on the GRID side.


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Brush Collection Progress Can Be Tracked Through Interactive Map on City Website
NAPERVILLE, Ill. - The City of Naperville's 2016 curbside bulk brush collection program begins the week of May 16. This program is an opportunity to dispose of large quantities of unbundled branches and tree trimmings at no cost.
The City is divided into four collection districts corresponding to the weekly curbside garbage collection schedule. Each district collection takes one full week to complete. The schedule for May/June 2016 is available at www.naperville.il.us/brushcollection.aspx.
Brush must be placed on the parkway the Sunday before collection begins in each area. Brush collection crews will make only one pass through each neighborhood. Brush put out after the crews have passed will not be collected.
Residents will once again be able to view the City's interactive bulk brush collection map at www.naperville.il.us/brushcollection.aspx to track collection progress in their neighborhoods. The map will be updated daily and allows users to zoom in on an area of interest and see detail on the streets where collection has been completed, is in progress or has yet to begin. The public is also encouraged to sign up to receive notifications regarding brush collection via the City's notification system Naper Notify, which delivers messages through a phone call, text message, email or smartphone app. To sign up, visit www.napernotify.com.
Brush must be properly prepared for collection and meet the following specifications:
• Branches must measure between three and eight feet in length and be no greater than six inches in diameter. Shorter lengths may be bagged or bundled and placed out on garbage day with a yard waste sticker attached.
• Branches should be stacked neatly on the parkway in front of a home with cut ends facing the street. Brush piles that are badly tangled will not be collected. Branches with thorns should be placed in a separate pile.
• Brush will only be collected from the front of each residence, not from rear or side yards.
• Brush piles must not be tied or bundled.
• Willow whips, vines and shorter branches must be bundled or bagged in paper yard waste bags with a yard waste sticker affixed for collection on a resident's regular garbage collection day.
• Brush that is tangled, tied or contains nails, metal, stones, vines, willow whips, root balls, stumps, plant material or lumber will not be collected. If brush contains anything other than branches, it will not be collected.
• Tree trunks, roots, root balls and logs are also not accepted but may be disposed of with regular garbage according to City regulations. Please note that there is a 32-gallon can and 60-pound weight limit.
A tag will be affixed to any brush pile that is not picked up explaining why it was not collected. From now through December 9, residents may also dispose of bagged or bundled brush each week through the City's yard waste collection program. More information can be found at www.naperville.il.us/yardwaste.aspx.
For complete information on the bulk brush collection program, visit www.naperville.il.us/brushcollection.aspx or call the Department of Public Works at (630) 420-6095. For more information on the City of Naperville, visit www.naperville.il.us.
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Ask me
There's a light in your eyes I try to reach for.
Maybe it would burn.
It hurts just to hold you ,scalds my tiny fingers.
And you don't ask the right questions.
Why break, why burn, why die a little more?
I love you.
I hear seagulls in my head, that's how I know it's real
Brings me back home
I want to stay here and remember the magic of innocence.
Not feel it wretched from me all over again!
I crave affection.
You give me nothing.
But always willing to take.
But isn't that always the way
Boys becoming Men
But never human
Shed my tears
Cool rain on your skin.
But you never ask the right questions.
Maybe you think you know all the answers,
Or worse you just don't care.
Ask me why I keep coming back for more.
Ashes on the inside.
Yet here I am again.
Asking you to hold you once more.
Ask me why.


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The World Rally Championship promoter saga is very likely to be resolved before the next round in Sweden, according to FIA president Jean Todt.
This weekend's season opening Monte Carlo Rally is taking place without the WRC having a promoter in place, following the collapse of the deal with former promoter North One Sport.
Todt addressed the media about the situation on Friday morning, and he said he is "very optimistic" that a full-time promoter will be in place before Rally Sweden begins on February 9.
When asked if there is a solution to the issue of finding a promoter, Todt said: "Yes. We are working very hard on that. We had one emergency to cover, which was the Monte Carlo Rally.
"We are working to have a satisfactory agreement for the rest of the championship and for the following years. We are very optimistic that we are able to find proper solutions before the Swedish Rally."
Todt stressed that it was vital for the FIA to make the right choice when securing a new promoter, and he believes it will take five years to take world rallying back to where it should be.
"We have a fantastic opportunity to have a better WRC and a better rally sport," he said. "It's not to be achieved in one day, but if we work well together with the new promoter, which will be chosen with the organisers of the events, the competitors, the manufacturers, we will be able to go back to a very strong championship.
"This won't happen in one year, I think this is a five-year programme. We are now starting in 2012 and I really feel 2013 will be the next step, 2014 a further step, and I'm optimistic we will be where we want to be."


text: Delicious Dulles Airport dining Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, our two hotel restaurants are open everyday for your convenience. Kick off your morning with a bountiful breakfast buffet at Chantilly's or enjoy popular dishes like sandwiches and pasta at O'Malley's Pub. Room service is available from 6 am to midnight, or you can come down for a drink and tasty snack. When it comes to hotels near Dulles Airport, we have whatever you are hungry for. Chantilly's Restaurant This contemporary American eatery serves a hearty breakfast every morning. Enjoy a wide selection of morning favorites like omeletes, pancakes, yogurt, cereal, fruit juices and freshly brewed coffee. This hotel breakfast is the perfect way to kick off your busy day! O'Malley's Pub Come for a tasty lunch or dinner at our casual hotel restaurant. Serving pub classics like burgers, steaks and salads, the kitchen also specializes in Irish dishes like sheperd's pie and pub-style fish and chips. Watch the big game or enjoy a round of drinks with friends or clients.


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Ronchi è Abitare tel. +039 388878
Created by Alberto Minotti in the 1950s, and carried to success in the seventies and eighties by the brothers Renato and Roberto, Minotti has become the company adored by refined, discerning customers, thanks also to the contribution of architect Rodolfo Dordoni. Minotti is still one of the largest producers of furniture and upholstery today, owing its great success principally to two elements: technology and tradition. Machines are used to create a durable product with an excellent structure, after which products are finished by hand by expert craftsmen.
This means that every piece leaving the company is surrounded by a modern, innovative, sophisticated aura, but also retaining the full flavour of its roots – a know-how passed down from father to son, from hand to hand. A winning formula that Minotti applies to every item of furniture and to every divan in his collection. There's no way that a brand like this could be omitted from the Ronchi è Abitare showroom. When you think of Minotti sofas, thoughts cannot but go to Rodolfo Dordoni, architect and creative director of the Minotti collections. A partnership that started in 1997 and leading to the production of the large items of furniture produced by the Milan house. Due to a highly-efficient well-organised company structure, Ronchi è Abitare operates as a dealer of Minotti divans, providing consultancy services, order fulfilment, and shipments to any part of the world, from Europe (Switzerland, Germany, France, UK – United Kingdom..) to Russia (of emerging markets, Russia is one of the most active in the purchase of luxury furnishings) and Asia, with deliveries by land, air and sea, even to China.
One Minotti divan that merits a special mention is the Hamilton seating system: a modular system with a linear design dreamt up by Rodolfo Dordoni. Hamilton is composed of a number of modules, fixed divans and other fitted units. The special feature of the Hamilton divan is its final composition that is always original and complete. Hamilton, Hamilton Sofa and Hamilton Modulo, are the trio of components composing this divan in continual evolution, that has made of its own flexibility its strength. It is incredible when you realise that a simple divan can represent the perfect synthesis of applied technology coupled with creative charm: the Hamilton divan is customisable according to personal choice, and can be adapted to any type of living context, while retaining all the while its strong personality and character.
The Minotti house takes great pride in its Hamilton divan, and we too at Ronchi è Abitare are filled with satisfaction presenting this brand in our showroom, in the knowledge that we are not exhibiting a simple divan collection but authentic design objects of unrivalled quality and style. After years of experience in the sector, we have successfully developed an international network that permits us to operate as a dealer for Minotti sofas, offering consultancy services, order fulfilment and shipment to all parts of the world: France, Germany, UK – United Kingdom (London), Russia, China, etc…


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Passive-Aggressive Red Flags
Psychopaths and Ns, as well as other abusers often massively use passive aggressive tactics, as well as overt and covert aggression. They are indicators that the person is not willing to take responsibility for their interactions. They are signposts for us as well…….
How do you recognize a "red flag?" It will be a thought or concern that jumps out at you that you quickly rationalize, excuse, or justify…. They are surfacing for a reason, pay attention when they do….
|Showed no anger
|Did not see it as a problem
|Should have, everyone gets angry, surfaced later; indirectly, covertly…
|Committed Adultery
|Everyone makes mistakes
|Never admitted to making a mistake…When asked why they broke up, said, "she bitched too much."
|Indirectly blamed ex-wife for everything
|Thought how terrible she must have been, she didn't understand him
|Didn't make himself understood, later it was implied that all problems were my fault as well.
|Appeared to have had a lot of misfortune but would not "talk about it".
|Felt very sorry for him, felt that he needed someone to love and treat him well.
|A martyr….carries around old wounds like a badge of honor…
|1st trip together, asked another couple to go along without informing me, or asking me
|Intimacy problems, not to mention no regard for my preferences
|Showed more sensitivity and concern for others than for me
|Thought eventually I would "earn" his respect, concenrn, etc.
|No one should have to earn "respect" for their feelings
|Wouldn't talk about prior relationships/hispast or communicate about our relationship
|Shy, introverted
|Hiding something? Emotionally shut down…Communication is a must in any relationship
|Relative told me that I was good for him
|Boost to my ego
|Should have questioned why he needed someone to "be good for him"
|Another relative said that he was cold and unfeeling
|Again, thought he was misunderstood, was treating me well
|He was cold and unfeeling once we were married…should have questioned why a relative would say that….
|Ask me to sell my home, and move into one he co-owned with a relative which he planned on "giving" to that relative at a later date
|I was very angry when this happened.
|This should have stopped me in my tracks…and sent me running…realizing that I would always be last on the list….
After having a terrible abusive relationship for 11years and finding it difficult to get out. Then I meet an amazing man or so I thought. Then it started similar things as before. Getting angry for an excuse to leave,treating me like garbage. then he threw me across room kicked me. Then said no one would believe me. Funny cause my cell phone recorded it accidentally. Anyway I just wondered what happened to being faithful? Then I find naked pictures of some chick, how conveniant they were taken the day he did those things n left. Worst part is he took them on the old cell I lent him. Now I am alone n hurt at Christmas while he could care less……
My Ns husband and his (I believe to be) Ns daughter have begun meeting for happy hours. I'm sure I have become the bad guy with both of them. And they both relish the 'dirt' they can get on their respective spouses. I am not able currently to leave this relationship although I have minimized contact with both of them as much as possible. I have let him know that I think he is having an emotional affair with his daughter. He was furious and has been avoiding me as much as possible. I am perfectly fine with that. I also posted on FB a good list of 8 traits to look for if you're being abused. I didn't say I was the one being abused although I guess you could say it was implied. (My husband is not a 'friend' and I have blocked him so as far as I know he has not seen this post, although I wouldn't put it past his daughter to give him her passwords, in which case, it's ok if he sees that post) His daughter was furious. I could tell because she posted on FB not 2 hours later about "dirty laundry" not belonging on FB. Hmmmm. Dirty Laundry? More like a crack in her very perfectly constructed perfect life (impression management). I had multiple red flags in our relationship and for years I knew something was wrong but couldn't figure it out. I just passively let him manipulate, hoover me back in (we've separated several times). I have not taken care of myself financially until now. I let him, in the past, control everything. He has let me believe that I get our house if something happens to him (I don't, it will get split with his kids). I sold a piece of property that I had before we were married, it all went to community property. We sold a rental house that was supposed to be for my retirement. It went to community property. I will have 1/2 half of our house and a meager Social Security income to live on if something happens to him (before I knew of an expected inheritance). I am 70 years old and have finally learned to take care of myself although it is a little late. But better late than never. I save every penny of my meager Social Security income (not considered community property, it's in a separate account). I have a good to very good inheritance coming some day (God bless my Dad). I take care of our house, manage the maintenance (he absolutely will not, does not do that, the house would fall down around our ears), take care of our pets, do the cleaning and cooking, food shopping. He works part time. Every penny he makes he spends on himself. He has a good retirement that pays the bills. I have, after a few years of him managing our bills, taken that over again, and am getting bills paid off. Did not happen when he was managing it. He just blamed me for my household money that I control, not being spent the way he wanted. In other words, my fault. Now that I am doing the bills, I still get that household money, and I am saving money and paying off bills. We no longer go out to eat, our only social life. That was always done at my suggestion anyway, I see now so he could blame me for that money being spent. I have read numerous self-help books in my lifetime trying to understand what was wrong. It's been just in the last 3 or 4 years that I finally realized the truth of what was happening: that I was married to a psychopath/Ns and that I have been manipulated, lied to, and used for our entire married life. Information about psychopaths/narcissists is readily available on the internet now. Was I just missing it in the bookstores or is it just not there? The therapists I've been to (admittedly not many) have been expensive and not helpful at all. In the end I feel very fortunate for many things, my Dad (he has given me a world of hope), blogs like this, my health. The best thing? The amazing ability to spot a Ns from a mile away!!!