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Why I Like The Verbosity of Java
Java is too verbose, they say. You can find comparisons of Hello World programs that take 2 lines in ruby and 10 lines in Java, and in order to read a file you need 20 lines in Java and just 1 in php.
Even though the examples are often exaggerated (for example counting imports), it is true Java programs requires more lines of code. But this is not a bad thing at all. On the contrary – it is something I actually like. In fact, it is not about the verbosity of the language – apart from anonymous classes-insteadof-closures, there is nothing else that the language is too verbose about. It is about the core libraries. So – I like the way the core libraries are written in terms of verbosity. Two examples:
- take the java.io. package. Reading and writing files, streams, etc. It is a bit hard to graps, and in the beginning you copy-paste long snippets of code to simply read a file. But it forces you to understand the abstraction of streams and readers. Other languages have simply:
var contents = readFile("path")Cool, but you are never forced to understand how the I/O management works. What happens if reading fails? Is partial reading of the file sufficient for you? Can you nagivate the file? Should you close resources or they are automatically closed? You don't need to answer these questions for a hello world program, but you will need to know about them pretty soon. And the less-verbose languages hide them from you and postpone this "abstraction revelation".
- the servlet API. At first it looks to have some hairy classes and interfaces. But soon enough you realize how the whole thing works – not only in Java, but the general lifecycle of an http request. Because you need a Servlet object, and request and response objects, and output streams to write to, you understand the whole request-response cycle. I have a personal example here. I've been writing PHP for one year (in school). Then one month of Java and servlets made it completely clear for me how the whole thing works. PHP was very easy to use –
$_GET['foo'], session_start()and a bunch of HTML in between. So I didn't bother to understand the underlying mechanics. Java forced me to.
You may argue that – fine, it forces you to learn these important concepts and abstractions, but it should also give you an easy way to acomplish things. But if the core libraries themselves had these options, all the tutorials would show these options, and the lower-level APIs would be forgotten. So the solution is – 3rd party libraries. Apache and Google give you these. With guava and apache commons you have all these one-liners.
Joiner.on(",").join(array), etc. But you don't start with these libraries, and you learn how things function on a slightly lower level – a level that you will be required to know anyway.
40 Responses to "Why I Like The Verbosity of Java"
I do too, like the verbosity of java, reading source code gives comprehensiveness to the application.
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" What happens if reading fails? Is partial reading of the file sufficient for you? Can you nagivate the file? Should you close resources or they are automatically closed? "
That's what errors (or error codes) are supposed to tell you.
Even on C++ is simpler to read a single damn file than in Java. All that verbosiness is useless.
It doesn't force you to understand nothing, just to remind all the lines or to make a macro/snipper/whatever you named to make it work for you, fast and simple.
That's interresting, and sure the java API with its verbosity force you to learn lot of things.
You could say that from nearly every language and technology. You always learn something. I really enjoyed my assembly course for example despite many where thinking it to be too low level. And even if I'am now a java dev for a living, studying clojure in my freetime, it is still usefull.
Now the question is should I take care of dealing with the stack content at each function call like you have to do in assembler code if all I want is to make a web application?
Low level API are good, but theses java API are not just low level, they are used everywhere and increase the verbosity of most java programs.
The standard pushed by Oracle is JEE with JSF, JMS and EJB. Not guava or apache commons.
The cost of that verbosity among all java user is in the billons dollars figures accumulated over the years.
cool, then it should be taught at universities alongside something not-o-so-verbose and the something 'better' should be used more. I'll give you just a few simple examples that irritate me almost every day:
String str = new String() -> why???? isn't 'str = new String()' or 'var str = new String()' if you need a keyword first. just simpler and as clear as java. even better, drop 'new' and do it like python. gets even cooler with generics 😉
the string manipulations… the horror, the horror. 3rd party libs help a bit but still gets me depressed. Same with collections 🙁
you've already mentioned the closures but the lack of treating a method as an object that can be easily pass around and used just generates more useless interfaces and then classes, anonymous or not depending if you prefer to get a headache from 3 billion files or a line starting at column 20+
there are many little things like that, both in API and syntax, that make java seems verbose to me. every time i come back after a week on not seeing java code but for example python i feel the the cart at my sweatshop is suddenly getting heavier for some unknown reason…
@catty, if you ask why "String" is needed in "String s = new String();" you probably never used a statically typed language (Java, C++, C). You may be used to dynamic typing (PHP, Python, etc) but complaining about static typing just shows your own ignorance.
Where is the supposed verbosity in EJB and JSF?
In e.g. EJB I typically only put a *single* annotation on a bean and it's an EJB and fully transactional among others. Can you please explain where the verbosity is there? Please show an example, I'm really curious!
Sorry, above posting is @Nicolas
@Flavio: sorry mate but this has nothing to do with dynamically typed thingy. the compiler/whatever has all it needs to resolve the type when you write x = String(). the example with 'var' is from C# 3.5 which is statically typed, also check out scala. btw i'm proud of my ignorance, couldn't quite live without it
@Henk thanks for defending my point.
@catty – yes, this type inference within the same method is just some syntactic sugar that may be often confusing. It bothers you to write "String" instead of "var"? That's some mechanical reduction of symbols that makes the code a bit harder to read. var foo = getFoo(); What is foo? You have to go and check the return type.
I also like the verbosity of Java first because the code is simpler to understand and second because it gives you more control.
I prefer seeing an algorithm in one page than in one line, it's much easier to understand, modify and debug.
In fact I hate those examples that do way to many things in just one or two lines of code in other languages.
If you are one or just a few smart and experienced programmers working on something relatively simple then languages that offer "compressed code" are good, but for large applications with many programmers with different levels of knowledge a simpler more verbose language is much better.
I agree too. It's like talking in real life to someone. There's "ya can do da ding?" or there's "Could you please go ahead and clean the kitchen?".
Dynamic languages are like the former.
Great for a short script when the context is understood since it's so small.
Static/strongly types languages are like the latter. Great for larger systems where you can't even begin to have the entire context in your head and the code must be clear in isolation.
I love Static Typing, Java verbosity is good but sometimes I wish I could have type inference. For local scope variables type inference is the way to go as C#:
public void sayHello() { var myString = "Hello World"; System.Console.WriteLine(myString); }
As you see I dont need to go around to check what is the type because I know is just local to that method is there we can see it but I typed less. But also not go so far as Dynamic languages that is a mess to find the types or when come from that spaghetti.
Java needs:
1.Type inference
3.More easy way for parallelism
4.Jigsaw looks promising for java modularity
All this should be resolved by Java 8 or Scala.
The big trouble I see with Java is that, since it takes several steps to open a file, people consistently use the wrong steps.
At least 2/3 of the time that a junior programmer implements something in Java, they don't use the correct character encoding. Everything looks like it works, until days, weeks, or months later you find data is corrupted because Unicode characters have scrambled.
Oddly, people are much more likely to write correct Unicode programs in a language like PHP which NEVER CORRUPTS DATA rather than Java which CORRUPTS DATA BY DEFAULT.
Java corrupts data? What are you smoking
Sorry for disagree but I don't like the verbosity of Java at all, but I think that is a personal taste after all. As a C++ programmer too I would run away from C++ just to increase my productivity. I rarely have any memory management problem so if Java is just as verbose as C++ then I don't see a real incentive to code in Java other than client's requirements.
It's true that verbosity allows you to pick hidden concepts on most high level programming languages but then why would you have that overhead when you have those concepts clear?
Its hard to believe that 'verbosity' is a real issue for people. What about design and reusability? I write a -lot- of Javascript as well as Python, Groovy and of course plenty of Java. Of all those languages, I prefer Java because it is allows our team to produce maintainable, readable code. When we write a large app in Javascript, it starts looking like Java (and if you take a look at many popular JS frameworks, you will notice the same). It seems like optional typing is the way people solve the 'verbosity' issue- take a look at Dart, for example.
@Miloskov java corrupts files by default because when you do new XxxReader the encoding parameter is optional.
@Paul Houle That said, php also corrupts data by default because it does not support UTF-8.
I think I agree with the post as soon as the syntaxic sugar of Eclise xtend is implemented natively in java (http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/xtend/)
The most important IMHO :
* Closures
* Extension methods
* Type inference in the local scope
* Better switch (string notably, the switch case on the class is useless)
Not as important :
* operator overloading
Should avoid :
* multiple dispatch (this is not backward compatible and may cause more harm than good)
Also, we really need a real modules paradigm in java so that I can avoid all these deprecated methods, the date / calendar implementation (give me LocalDate as Joda please !), and all that stuff that is kept for BC
As someone who started with Ruby/Python and is now learning Java, I have to disagree. It is certainly true that programming in Java forces you to learn more deeply how the low level mechanics of your program are working. But for that matter, so does programming in LISP, or for that matter, Assembly.
When you're actually producing software for use in a commercial environment, the thing that matters most is "suitability for the task", i.e. giving you exactly the power you need to accomplish your goal while consuming the least amount of resources. From this perspective, the mandatory verbosity of Java is expensive. It takes more time to code (and leads to more keystroke, worsening the risk of RSI which is a real threat to any programmer), and it's naturally more error-prone leading to more time tracking down missing semi-colons or type errors that Ruby would sail past.
I'm a strong believer in Einstein's "things should be as simple as possible, and not one bit simpler" dictum; sometimes you do need the customization power that verbosity affords. But much of the time, default behavior would suffice perfectly well. What would really be nice to see would be optional verbosity (along the lines of Rails) — verbosity / customization when you need it, convention when convention will suffice.
I agree w/ http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=742#comment-11134 . In C++ you can learn the low level stuff, then abstract them away (like a HLL is supposed to do). Also it looks nicer/is easier to read. Take operator overloading for example. We all know (s/all/most of us) know how .equals() works; now can we please just use `someObj == otherObj`? Java simply refuses to add new syntax, I'm not sure why; probably something to do with entry level programmers.
Have to agree with bawb here.
The reasons you give for liking verbosity might apply to people learning the language/framework. It doesn't apply to people trying to make a living using it.
That's akin to deliberately trying to drive screws with a hammer, because it lets you appreciate the way screws work.
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I'm glad I "sparked" a discussion. I'm far from the idea that Java is the perfect language, and I deliberately used a subjective title – I like that particular thing. Whether it's good in the long run or not – it has been for me, it's certainly been bad for others.
As for C and Assembly – I wrote "slightly lower level". The idea is that you won't need memory management for your general-purpose Java CRM, but you will certainly need some advanced I/O. That, of course, differs depending on the project.
But overall, the verbosity is not something that should drive you away from the language/platform.
Watch this ->
Greg Wilson mentions that there a reliable studies which makes the point that on average, a programmer writes the same number of lines of code regardless of the language used. So a less verbose language with more expressive power can make a lot of difference. And as for the low/high level debate: "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. –Alan Perlis"
Actually I just don't understand, why there aren't conveniance functions within the Standard Libraries. Yes, you need the low jevel APIs, but in most cases it would be more useful to have the simplifications of Apache Commons or Guava etc. within the JDK.
The need for 3rdParty libs to solve standard use cases with Java is extremely high. Unfortunately junior level or even advanced developers don't know all the frameworks they should have been using. Ans therefore they use the rudimentary, powerful, difficult low level JDK methods. And so the make errors. And you need "consultants" or "architects" to guide them through the framework jungle.
Sorry, but these are things that were solved better in Python et.al. I have to say that affter working in large team environments with Java for 12 years now.
+1 to that last comment. You become more of a 'code plumber' than anything when you work with Java for too long. Also, memory mgmt in c++ isn't difficult with the proper use of destructors, then scope takes care of the rest. I'd recommend trying c++. There seems to be a lot of syntax at first, but this leads to much less code once you learn to use it. If you don't want to try it, why not take a look at operator overloading? (here: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/classes2/ ). In the example they 'add' vector classes, which is (imo) easier to read than the equivalent that uses v1.add(v2)
Nicely put! +1 for mentioning "apart from anonymous classes-insteadof-closures" though. I'm really looking forward to Java 8!
Verbosity is bad in natural and programming languages. For an example try to read "Kritik der reinen Vernunft" by Kant in German. It's long verbose language makes it nearly impossible to comprehend. A lot of (German) philosophy professors advice their students to read the English translation as it uses a less verbose language. 🙂
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I find your commentary interesting and informative in most of your articles, but I disagree strongly on this issue. The problem with one liner libraries is *precisely* that newbies won't understand them, and there will be a lot of duplication of effort, because they aren't part of the programming language.
Verbosity is not a good thing in programming languages, because it increases the maintenance burden, and makes it harder for programmers to reason about programs in a modular way.
Functional programming languages largely handle this issue much better, such as Erlang. It encourages a relatively uniform use of concise idioms, while not supporting the ones most likely to intimidate novices (such as currying). Even though it is not by default a statically typed language, I use its type system in all my programs, and they are still very short.
I'd say if ML dialects (such as Standard ML, F#, Ocaml, Ur/Web, etc) were mainstream, people would see the true benefits of having concise code, although those are bit harder to learn than Erlang (but well worth the learning curve).
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Came across this during a random Google search and wanted to point out that you and people that think like you are making the world a horrible place to live in.
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… fha.write('beautiful is better than ugly\n')
Did you actually read the post? There are enough libraries that give you these one-liners, and they are widely used. Nobody writes a 10-line file-reading. But everyone knows all the underlying details, because when learning the base libraries, he had to understand it.
Java verbosity is not forcing you to learn important concepts, it forces you to learn the name of a bunch of classes. And then someone else comes with an IDE so that you don't have to learn them anymore.
Code is (hopefully) written once and read hundreds of times. Verbosity wastes coders' time always.
"There are enough libraries that give you these one-liners"
1. Yes, because all the underlying abstractions are horrible and really make no sense to be exposed.
2. "enough libraries" implies "more than one", think about this: why?
"Nobody writes a 10-line file-reading"
Not only that, I see people prematurely optimizing the size of the buffer in their BufferedWriter _all_ the time.
"But everyone knows all the underlying details"
No, as you pointed out sane developers will use the one-liner implementation. Fools won't.
Honestly, if you want to write files the "right way" you'd have to forget completely about using the JVM which calls the OS which calls a driver which chooses which surface and sector to write to and do it all yourself.
Otherwise default is best.
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NEW YORK — Claire Danes has been tapped to host the 20th anniversary Nobel Peace Prize concert in December.
The Emmy-winning "Homeland" actress will host the Dec. 11 event in Oslo, Norway.
The concert will celebrate the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was awarded the prestigious honor earlier this month.
The watchdog agency works to eliminate the world's chemical weapons and received the prize days after OPCW inspectors started arriving in war-torn Syria to oversee the dismantling of President Bashar Assad's chemical arsenal.
The Nobel Peace Prize concert typically attracts top celebrities. Past luminaries have included Paul McCartney, Rihanna and Tony Bennett. The lineup for this year's concert has yet to be announced.
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LOS ANGELES — An invasion of privacy lawsuit that LeAnn Rimes filed against two northern California women has been dismissed.
Los Angeles court records show the actress-singer's suit against Kimberly Smiley and her daughter Alexis Smiley was dismissed Monday. The dismissal prevents Rimes from refiling the case.
Rimes sued the women in August 2012 claiming they recorded a phone conversation with her and posted it online. She said the recording damaged her reputation and relationships, and caused her emotional distress.
Kimberly Smiley denied wrongdoing in an interview after the suit was filed.
Steve White, an attorney representing the Smileys, says the two sides resolved their differences and he could not comment further.
Rimes' lawyer, Larry Stein, was not immediately available to comment.
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LOS ANGELES — Two of Marvin Gaye's children sued Robin Thicke and his collaborators on the hit song "Blurred Lines" on Wednesday, accusing them of copyright infringement and alleging music company EMI failed to protect their father's legacy.
Nona Marvisa Gaye and Frankie Christian Gaye's suit is the latest salvo in a dispute over Thicke's hit and whether it copies elements of Gaye's song "Got to Give It Up."
Their lawsuit seeks to block Thicke and collaborators Pharrell and T.I. from using elements of their father's music in "Blurred Lines" or other songs.
Thicke has denied copying Gaye's song for "Blurred Lines," which has the longest streak this year atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and has sold more than 6 million tracks so far.
Much of the lawsuit focuses on claims that EMI should have pursued a copyright infringement claim. It accuses the company's executives of using intimidation to try to stop the Gaye family from pursuing a lawsuit.
The suit claims EMI, which is owned by Sony Music Entertainment, has allowed a conflict of interest between the family's rights and the profits it is earning from "Blurred Lines" sales.
"This conflict has resulted in EMI's intentional decision to align themselves with the ('Blurred Lines') writers, without regard to the harm inflicted upon the rights and interests of the Gaye Family, and the legacy of Marvin Gaye," the lawsuit states.
A phone message seeking comment from Sony Music was not immediately returned.
Thicke and his collaborators filed a case in August asking a federal judge to rule that the singers did not copy "Got to Give It Up" for their hit.
Howard King, who represents the singers, said the Gayes' countersuit was not unexpected, but he said their decision to sue EMI demonstrates the family lacks the appropriate authority to pursue the case against his clients.
He rejected the notion that EMI turned a blind eye to improper copying of Gaye's music. "EMI is in the business of collecting money for infringements," King said.
The company likely consulted a musicologist who found nothing improper, the attorney said.
King said his firm consulted three music experts who determined the notes in the two songs were different.
Gaye's son Marvin Gaye III also might pursue legal action over the song, but he is not included in the federal court suit filed Wednesday.
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — A jury on Wednesday found a northern California teen guilty of stealing celebrity chef Guy Fieri's Lamborghini sports car from a San Francisco dealership.
The Marin County panel found Max Wade, 19, guilty of commercial burglary and auto theft, after hearing evidence that Wade had rappelled into British Motors in 2011 to purloin the $200,000 convertible. The car was in the shop for repairs at the time.
Wade was also found guilty of attempted murder and firing a gun into an occupied vehicle in an unrelated drive-by shooting of a man who was dating a girl Wade desired. The man wasn't injured.
Marin County prosecutor Yvette Martinez said Wade had stolen the yellow Lamborghini to impress the girl and was willing to kill to get her attention.
Wade pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. He now faces up to 30 years in prison.
Detectives testified during the trial that they found the gun used in the shooting, two assault weapons and shotgun shells, as well as climbing gear.
Fieri, a star of Food Network, testified during the trial that he had never met Wade and never gave him permission to drive his car.
The teen made news again last year after at least two people tried to break into Marin County's juvenile hall with sledgehammers in an unsuccessful attempt to free him.
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What more security do they need in protecting their security process, with the exception of getting their employees to make sure the 4473 is filled out properly [ which most of them fail miserably at at WalMarts ].
These processes merely provide us, as a retailer, an additional mechanism to assist law enforcement when illegal activity occurs.
I think that policy protects them from their employees mistakes, not the buying public. If they are doing their job, the license information will match the 4473 form, and LE could track them down quite easily from there with DOB, address, SS# [ optional on form ], even if the information was out of date for some reason.


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The A&S IX Collection features journals in the social sciences with an emphasis on business, plus archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economics, population studies, and political science. Notable titles include American Economist, American Sociologist, Challenge, Geography, International Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Polynesian Society, Review of Social Economy, Science & Society, and Scottish Archaeological Journal.
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WMC Review: Underworld at the Ultra Music Festival
Underworld at Ultra Music Festival
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Even after 10 years of the Ultra Music Festival and 23 years of Winter Music Conference, it's still sometimes difficult to fathom the onslaught this week brings to Miami. I mean, really. Pulling myself outta Moby's set in the Carl Cox tent to catch Pete Tong wrap up for Underworld? Who coulda thunk it?
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Cool guy that I claim to be, I don't so much go for tent sweat, so my drive-by for Moby was brief and fleeting. Likewise I didn't dance it off for Tong, though the thousands who did do so did left my heart skipping along.
But Underworld got my ticker skipping to a whole 'nother beat, then doubling back in on itself. Forget the earplugs that the security cat in the pit instructed me to get – I should've had a bass-proof vest, 'cause at the foot of the stage where I stood the low-end was loud beyond imagination.
Pump, thump and slam, it went straight into the thicket of my soul and never left. "Crocodile" crunched, "Rez/Cowgirl" cranked, "Spoonman" slammed, and – yes! – "Born Slippy" swelled like a live-action soundtrack on steroids.
Gadget-cats Rick Smith and Derrick Price, naturally, manned enough gadgetry to slay both Kubrick and Clarke, and frontman Karl Hyde, supernaturally, had more moves than an asteroid on crack. But it was the mega-crowd which really propelled this merry-mad band of fest vets, and it was for the crowd that Underworld came. – John Hood
Personal bias: Trainspotting, the movie version on whose soundtrack "Born Slippy" famously appeared, was always my idea of a bloody good time.
Random Detail: At one point during "Born Slippy" it seemed as if every single foot at the fest left the ground at exactly the same time.
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US Bishops Cherry Picking Political Battles
(MintPress)— When it comes to being vocal on political issues in the US, American Catholics seem to be struggling to sing in unison. Some issues, such as a proposed birth control mandate in the US have recently been decried by Catholic officials in the US, while other issues, like economic disparity and health care have not received so much attention.
On Tuesday the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB,) rejected a compromise on birth control coverage that President Obama made after Catholic groups argued the mandate, which would require religiously affiliated institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities to offer birth control to employees, was an attack on religious freedom.
The USCCB announced plans to "fight the president's plan" which was reworked in an effort to find a way for employees of Catholic hospitals, universities and service agencies to receive free contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans, without the Catholic Church's direct involvement or financing.
In a statement the group said the new plan was "unacceptable and must be corrected" because it still infringed on the religious liberty and conscience of Catholics.
Internal criticism
In a video posted on the group's website, Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan, who also is president of the USCCB, commented, "Never before has the federal government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience. This shouldn't happen in a land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the Bill of Rights."
But some Catholics are raising questions about why Dolan and other Catholic leaders in the US seem to be cherry picking political battles. While he has been very vocal about the birth control mandate, his views on US involvement in warfare, economic disparity – key issues tied directly to Catholic Social Teaching – and health care have been more subdued.
The Washington Post published a piece examining the birth control mandate debate in which Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo writes, "Many Catholics asked why the lobbying effort did not include other moral issues, like income disparity, for instance. Millions around the globe already had picked up this injustice in the Occupy Movements and would find echo in Vatican pronouncements. Including both religious liberty and economic injustice in bishops' lobbying, I think, would have questioned the ideology of both political parties, and thus have put the bishops in non-partisan mode. Instead, the bishops pushed a full-throated campaign that was inescapably anti-Obama."
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Stevens-Arroyo reports that the measure is part of a larger effort orchestrated by the USCCB to "push Catholics toward the Republican party."
However, writer and University of Michigan professor and politcal analyst Juan Cole argued, referencing Republican presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, "The right wing Republican politicians who have been denouncing the requirement that female employees have access to birth control as part of their health benefits as an attack on religious freedom completely ignore the church teachings they don't agree with."
And not all Catholics agree that the birth control mandate is morally wrong. Marjorie Clifton, National Editor of GoVote.com, who describes herself as a product of 14 years of Catholic school and a practicing Catholic, actively involved in the church all her life, recently questioned the motives behind the Church's vocal opposition to the mandate. Clifton said in an article she authored that as a woman with a career in politics and women's leadership, she has quietly worked within the church to make change and has cautiously offered her voice only when she felt it "essential".
"But, I can be quiet no longer," Clifton continued, writing
"there is an important yet often overlooked reality about Catholic moral teaching: it mandates that Catholics make decisions with an "informed conscience." This means that we must educate ourselves about the issues so that we understand Catholic social teaching and make decisions based on reflection, prayer, and counsel."
Catholic Social Teaching 101
Catholic social teaching is a body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on matters of poverty and wealth, economics, social organization and the role of the state.
Clifton does not believe the mandate violates Catholic doctrine, because as she pointed out, "Just because an option is there, does not mean we have to take it. If an informed Catholic woman does not believe that she should be taking birth control, she shouldn't and doesn't have to. But that does not mean the option should be unavailable to others. To further illustrate the point, the Catholic Church has established policy (referred to as "indirect or remote cooperation") to address precisely this sort of issue. This allows Catholics to indirectly provide support to activities that diverge from Catholic social teaching — such as paying taxes that fund wars or the death penalty. If we are not directly contributing, it is acceptable under Catholic doctrine."
In addition to birth control, there are other issues where Catholics disagree over politically touting. In 2009 Dolan and other US bishops raised opposition to President Obama receiving an honorary degree at Notre Dame University, citing his stance on several issues which were in opposition to Catholic doctrines. Critics within Catholicism were quick to point out that Dolan did not raise opposition to when President George Bush received an honorary degree from the institution in 2001, despite the fact that Bush had no opposition to the death penalty, signing 152 death warrants in his six-year tenure as Governor of Texas, a record for any governor of any state in the history, and led the US into the Iraq War.
When asked about his lack of opposition to Bush, Dolan explained "There are some issues, where the Church has weighed in, that one must be very sensitive to the morality of some issues, but they're not intrinsically evil. Intrinsically evil means they're always wrong. A case can be made for just war and the death penalty."
However, leading Catholic figures – such as both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, expressed major opposition to the United States' war in Iraq. Pope John Paul II spoke out against the war several times, and said that a war against Iraq would be a "disaster" and a "crime against peace."
While the USCCB has long advocated health care for all, and in their pastoral letter, Health and Health Care, called for a "comprehensive health care system that will ensure a basic level of health care for all Americans. " All of the Republican presidential hopefuls have expressed opposition to universal health care.
Recently the Catholic bishops of the European nations published a 25-page position paper on the concept of what they term a "social market economy." Fr. Kenneth Weare, writing on the topic explains, "Following in the line of modern Catholic social teaching, the bishops straightforwardly criticize any economic model that focuses solely on the accumulation of capital. They emphasize that such a profit oriented economic model "threatens to overshadow the social and ecological dimensions of quality of life, which often cannot be directly expressed in monetary terms, and ignores the impact of economic activity on others, especially the generations to come."
And in the US last month, bishops called for an increase in the federal minimum wage in a Jan. 8 letter to Congress.
"Congress needs to make budget and policy choices that will ensure adequate funding to help families escape joblessness, move beyond welfare, choose decent education for their children, gain needed health care coverage, and overcome hunger and homelessness," said Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, chairman of the bishops' Domestic Policy Committee in the letter, also noting that current minimum wage, at $5.15 an hour, is $10,700 a year for a full-time worker — nearly $6,000 below the poverty level for a family of three. "The minimum wage needs to be raised not just for the goods and services a person can buy but for the self-esteem and self-worth it affords. We urge you to support H.R. 2, the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007" the letter read.
The measure was widely opposed by Republicans.
As Jim Murphy in the Albany, New York Times Union Sun urged, "When free market economics and rugged individualism are seen as ordained by God, and dropping drones on people wherever our country deems it necessary is presumed right, surely, there should be as loud and clear a voice from the bishops confronting violence and injustice as there is over sexual behavior."
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How to make a proper Fedor
Well, Fedor is just too good to be done with the in game CAF, you don't have enough points. So you have to do it using the career mode.
I got this from a thread at Gamefaqs, but it was to maximize the fighter, to 105+. I have changed it to something a little different to make it for a more "real" Fedor.
First of all, always play on Beginner, you'll get easier fights and (I think) sparring.
At first, just maximize your attributes: Strength, Speed and Cardio. The original guide had it to get to 100 str first, but Fedor isn't that strong. A more realistic approach would be something like 70-75-80 (str-spd-car). Don't do any spar sessions, just attributes and training camps.
As you play on beginner, you wouldn't even need to fight at 100% stamina, so you can get an additional training session there.
Once you get your attributes right, start sparring until you get the stats you think your Fedor should have. Start with standing strikes and ground strikes, so you can get quick KOs and not lose a lot of stamina after the fights.
Here is a sample of what I would do:
Standing strikes offense: 80
Standing strikes defense: 95
Standing kicks offense: 50
Standing kicks defense: 90
Clinch striking offense: 88
Clinch striking defense: 90
Clinch graple offense: 96
Clinch graple defense: 94
Takedown offense: 70
Takedown defense: 82
Ground striking offense: 87
Ground striking defense: 85
Ground graple offense: 92
Ground graple defense: 90
Submission offense: 94
Submission defense: 97
Techniques: Boxing/Judo
Once you have the stats you want, you can just retire.
that's pretty cool. I was thinking of making a Fedor (along with Dana White and Joe Rogan). Do you have pics?
You can actually be better than 99? My welterweight guy is 97 overall and I thought he was as good as it gets... now I have to see he could be a lot better? :thumbsdown:
I'm using this method to create a HW Sagat (from Street Fighter). I'm in year 2 and I'm almost done maxing attributes. I'll let you guys know what the final rating is once I retire.
I've finished each weight division now, Usually they end up at 97 or 98.
Wow, awesome.
how do you get your guy passed 100?
I think the camp bonus percentages knock you over a hundred if you're close enough. Don't see how you could get the strenth/speed/cardio up that high though, wish I did.
my Nick Diaz (101) would whoop your Fedor ;)
This thread has been hi-jacked, So ill keep it going. My one and only CAF was an 83 overall. I didnt realize and missed about half my camp invites. My CAF before was a middleweight, didnt know you were forced to retire so I didnt spar much. Initially was worried about getting my guy strong fast and good cardio. All my other skills lacked. Im starting a new one today.
Now to bring it back. As soon as I bought the game I made a created Fedor. He looked really close, I didn't have him in the Career mode though.
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I will definitely putting all my funds into that for that year. I'll be re-wearing costumes for everything else that year. lol
I've been putting Queen Isabella from The Fountain off, but know I can seriously do some fabric hunt for the harder to find textile for her (particularly the earthy upper sleeve flower pattern that has alluded me) and yeah the wig. O__o Unless I see something else that catches my eye like the Red Queen did (and promptly shoved Isabella to the side).
Considering I have one (and will only have one) BJ Doll I should strive to enter the Doll contest for costumes. Damn thing was expensive enough as much as I love her.
$65 is what FanExpo will be for a full 4 days probably at the door so I don't feel like it too out of the ball part. I'm curious as to where it will be held. I would love it to in the down town core so that we want walk the streets and "freak" people out. That's one of the things I do enjoy about FanExpo.
$65 for FanExpo??? You're talking basic passes right? it was $80 for THREE days deluxe... I'm picturing them jacking it up to at LEAST $90 if not $100 >.<
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Challenges faced by general practitioners and allied mental health services in providing mental health services in rural Queensland
Bambling, Matthew, Kavanagh, David, Lewis, Gisela, King, Robert, King, David, Sturk, Heidi, Turpin, Merrill, Gallois, Cindy, & Bartlett, Helen (2007) Challenges faced by general practitioners and allied mental health services in providing mental health services in rural Queensland. Australian Journal Of Rural Health, 15(2), pp. 126-130.
Objective: To examine the views of rural practitioners concerning issues and challenges in mental health service delivery and possible solutions. Design: A qualitative study using individual semi-structured interviews. Setting: Eight general practices from eight rural Queensland towns, three rural mental health services and two non-government organisations, with interviews being conducted before recent changes in government-subsidised access to allied health practitioners. Participants: A sample of 37 GPs, 19 Queensland Health mental health staff and 18 participants from community organisations. Main outcome measures: Analysis of qualitative themes from questions about the key mental health issues facing the town, bow they might be addressed and what challenges would be faced in addressing them. Results: There was substantial consensus that there are significant problems with inter-service communication and liaison, and that improved collaboration and shared care will form a critical part of any effective solution. Differences between groups reflected differing organisational contexts and priorities, and limitations to the understanding each had of the challenges that other groups were facing. C onclusions: Improvements to mental health staffing and to access to allied health might increase the ability of GPs to meet the needs of less complex patients, but specific strategies to promote better integrated services are required to address the needs of rural and regional patients with complex mental health problems. The current study provides a baseline against which effects of recent initiatives to improve mental health care can be assessed.
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Hey i was wondering what kind of tools you bring to the mountain and what brand tuning accessories you use. Are the waxing irons the same or are there ones that are better than others? This is my first year with brand new gear and i want to take care of it. (My second year over all snowboarding). Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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I don't bring any tools to the hill! :eek: Been snowboarding 20 years and only NEEDED tools at the hill once or twice. The on site shop always has tools you can use.
For what it's worth, when I setup my boards I tighten the binding screws down with a cordless drill. I set the chuck to a firm tension that isn't hard enough to start pulling the inserts, but firm enough to ensure they don't back off. Plus most hardware is pre-treated with threadlock. Install it right once and you shouldn't need to keep tightening. I check mine about every 10 trips to the hill just to be sure.
I carry the standard Dakine tool. I don't know what it's called, but it's kind of T-shaped and looks almost like a skate tool. It has come in handy for me and my buddies on more than one occasion.
I would only carry a tool if I was in the backcountry. Every resort has benches. I bet there are over 30 tool benches between Breck and Keystone alone.
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Carried a lock last year and it really annoyed me, thinking the same of a tool, I'll have to check that zip one out. I remember BA talking about the one on the belt, seems like a good idear too.
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Filmmaker As Socialist Anthologistby Williams Cole
Chris Marker's Grin Without A Cat (Le Fond de L'Air Est Rouge)
My father was an anthologist who published dozens of volumes on themes as diverse as eroticism, plants and cats. He was someone who found great pleasure in the largely lost art of the literary anthology. His book collection was rife with obscure volumes, day books and Victorian diaries that he would peruse, noting in pencil on the inside back cover the pages that presented an interesting quote or idea on this or that subject. He would then use these parts to create a thesis of his own.
Perhaps that's why I've always had a fondness for films that use edited clips to create pointed narratives out of the millions of hours of footage found in recesses of news archives and the like. Chris Marker's 1977 film A Grin Without A Cat (finally released on DVD this month, by Icarus Films) is, along with Emile de Antonio's work, one of the defining political "anthology" films of the 60s and 70s (which can also be called a "compilation" or "essay" film if you like). Marker is an esteemed artistic figure and leftist political critic in France best known for his seminal work La Jetee (1962) and Sans Soliel (1982); not surprisingly, he remains largely unknown in America. And, like an anthologist, he shuns auteur status (which is seen these days in the often misleading "A Film By…" under a title). For example, he doesn't even take a directorial credit on A Grin Without A Cat but, rather, lists himself as editor and composer.
A Grin Without A Cat, a title that references a line from Alice in Wonderland, is the film that should be shown to younger generations of Americans whose understanding of the meaning that socialism had throughout the world doesn't go beyond a kitschy reference to mid-1980s anti-communist films like Red Dawn. The film is a—if not the—visual narrative history of the tremendous popular anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements that swept through Southeast Asia, Latin America, and even western industrial democracies in the 1960s and 70s. Marker's work shows incredible breadth and scope. In fact, the original film was four hours but this most recent version has been cut down to three—the first section, called "Fragile Hands," covers the international surge in leftist movements sparked from the Cuban Revolution and the Vietnam War that culminated in the Parisian student riots in May 1968. The second section, titled "Severed Hands," largely deals with the eventual fragmentation of leftist movements and diminution of revolutionary fervor into the 70s and beyond.
A typical sequence in "Fragile Hands" goes from German student radicals vigorously protesting the Shah of Iran to Bolivian leftists to Che Guevara to Black Panthers in the US to Maoists in Peking and then back to Latin America, with each section exhibiting pointed and often extremely rare footage, some shot by Marker, but most culled from archives, other films, friends and who knows where. Some of the many notable scenes include a US fighter pilot who, while napalming the Vietnamese countryside, is downright jolly, exclaiming "That's great fun! We really like to do that!" That is soon followed by footage from a helicopter flying over the jungle broadcasting ghostly recordings on a US Psy-Ops mission, which segues into footage of what looks like water-boarding where you can hear an American accent in the background saying "Hey, don't kill him." Then it's a Neo-Nazi rally in the US where a group is yelling "Bomb Hanoi!"
But Marker's objective is not agitprop. It's rather to create a critical film-essay edited by someone steeped in the complexities of leftist political movements that occurred at the time. He doesn't shy away from addressing the left's endless factions and contradictions or from providing an exegisis, exultation, and obituary of the socialist ideal. For example, there is a lengthy section of cogent criticism by a French businessman on the practical problems of a worker-run factory as well as a searing portrayal of the Soviet invasion of Prague, which includes a clip of Fidel Castro saying that the event "puts every world revolutionary movement in a difficult situation." This historiography can seem weighted down with internal references and theoretical narratives that might at times baffle all but the more erudite history buff. But it nonetheless gives play to the fact that socialism is not some monolithic entity but rather a basis of ideas, the manifestation of which is entirely contextual and often-changing due to internal criticism and debate (or what Marker—borrowing from Régis Debray—calls the "revolution within the revolution"). Grin Without a Cat captures the moment when student radicals and workers came together in western industrial nations, often joining in solidarity with the rebels in developing countries. It's a necessary reminder that not long ago, it seemed like "real change" was going to happen.
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I see it as an appartment block, helipad on top and jet ski as commuting to town. With the cuts, smbc need to return land to private ownership.
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