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ok installed lament flooring in house over radiant floor heat. after one year i have several gaps in floor some as much as one inch in spots . i have flooring left but am hestant to put down new replacement if its going to happen again what would you suggest for replacement?? it is 10 mm lament flooring
Where did you get the information to put radiant heat under laminate?....
HOME DEPOT i was swaying towards ceramic or porcelain tiles .. they told me laminate was better choice
Actually, it's not the heat that shrinking the wood, it's the UNEVEN heat. If the floor were to heated evenly throughout, it would expand and contract evenly. Hydronics create notorious issues with hot spots, etc.
See if you can get your hydronics installer to better balance the system so you don't have wide temp swings.
...or, you bought cheap laminate that didn't last! :)
10mm is pretty good. Did you stagger your seams 12" apart? Perimitar gap along walls?
oh yes i did .. i even went out and bought thicker baseboard to cover the extra space i left... the floor is just junk... it even scratches very easy....
yup i learned a valuable and costly mistake.....looks like i will have a very big (expensive ) bond fire
im slab on grade with 8 inches of cement and the heat is in the middle of the cement no bringing it up.... floor has to go ..
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text: UL Softball: Breaking Down The Lafayette Regional By Steve Peloquin May 14, 2012 8:03 AM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter For the first time since 2002, Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun softball team will be hosting an NCAA Regional, this weekend, as they welcome the Stanford Cardinal, Baylor Lady Bears, and Mississippi Valley St. Devilettes to Lamson Park. The regional will will kick-off on Friday, May 18, at 3:30, with Baylor squaring off with Stanford, before Louisiana takes on Mississippi Valley St. at 6 o'clock. Other than the top-seed, the NCAA doesn't officially seed the rest of the field, but based on their records and rpi rankings, we can safely call Stanford the second-seed, Baylor the third-seed, and Mississippi Valley St. the fourth-seed. Let's take a little bit of a look at the four teams playing in the Lafayette, La. Regional this weekend: Photo Courtesy: ragincajuns UL's Christi Orgeron LOUISIANA RAGIN' CAJUNS (49-4): Louisiana is certainly the favorite is this regional. The Cajuns have been ranked in the top ten most of the year, and are 26-1 at Lamson Park this year. Louisiana, who won the regular season Sun Belt Conference regular season championship, and finished as runners-up in the Sun Belt Conference post-season tournament, is an impressive 16-1 against teams in regional play this year, and are the most balanced team in their four-team regional. The Cajuns have power, with outfielder Christi Orgeron, shortstop Nerissa Myers, and second baseman Paige Cormier, all of who have double-digit home runs on the year. UL has plenty of speed, with Myers, outfielder Katie Smith, third baseman Katie Smith, and designated player Erikka Murphy, all swiping double-digit stolen bases during the year. Finally, Louisiana has a fantastic duo in the circle, with senior Ashley Brignac and freshman Jordan Wallace, who combined to win 46 games this season. The Cajuns, based on what they've done this year, their talent, and the fact they're playing at home, are the favorites to win the regional. That doesn't necessarily mean that they will, only that they should be considered the team to beat. Photo Courtesy: gostanford.com Stanford pitcher Teagan Gerhart Stanford Cardinal (38-17): Stanford is a tough team to figure out. They jumped out to a 25-3 start, but have gone only 13-14 since. Does that have more to do with the fact that Stanford played most of those 27 games in the second half against teams from the brutal Pac-10, or is it because they simply played their best softball over their first 28 games? The Cardinal is only 5-10 on the road, but most of those games were played against ranked teams out of the Pac-10, and they do have road wins over UCLA and Arizona to their credit. The strength of the Cardinal looks to be their offense. Lead-off hitter Hanna Winter is the spark-plug, with her .420 batting average. Stanford has only one player (Jenna Rich-10) with double-digit homers on the year, but they have a line-up that's capable of giving them some pop at any given time. Jenna Rich is one of the more underrated players in the country. She's hitting a .372, with ten homers, and 62 RBI's. And that's against the best pitching in the country in the Pac-10. Stanford is hitting a .322 as a team, and they have other capable performers, such as Leah White and Ashley Hansen (National Player of the Year in 2011), but the whole key to holding them down is to keep Winter off the base paths and Rich in the ball park. Pitching-wise, Stanford doesn't look strong statistically, but that could be misleading. Junior Teagan Gerhart has won 30 games, but she has a disappointing 2.77 era., and she's allowed an alarming 39 home runs. Gerhart's troubles are really head-scratching. She was 22-6 in 2010, with a 1.65 era., and followed that with a great sophomore season in 2011, going 26-13, with a 1.74 era. To give you an idea of how the long ball has hurt Gerhart this year, she's allowed 19 more homers in 20 less innings pitched this year, compared to last season. Nyree White is Stanford's number two pitcher, but they'll live and die with Gerhart, who started 39 of the 55 games this year. I think the whole key the Stanford winning this regional is Gerhart. If she's the Gerhart of 2010 and 2011, then they have a shot. If she's the inconsistent Gerhart of 2012, then I don't see them advancing. Photo Courtesy: baylorbears.com Baylor pitcher Courtney Repka Baylor Lady Bears (33-20): Baylor only went 10-14 in the Big 12, and was only 5-9 on the road. They struggle to score runs at times, but they are capable, as evidence with their victories over Oregon, North Carolina, and Texas. I mentioned the struggles of the Lady Bears offensively, they only have two players on their team with more than 50 at-bats that have a .300 or better batting average, and they have only 14 home runs as a team this year. Baylor scores runs by running the bases. They've stolen 94 bases in 104 attempts, and second baseman/lead-off hitter Kathy Shelton sets the tables for them. Shelton is hitting a .333, with 28 stolen bases. It's really pretty simple. If Shelton gets on, Baylor has a chance to score. If she doesn't, then they struggle mightily to score. The Lady Bears have two solid pitchers, in junior right-hander Courtney Repka, and sophomore right-hander Liz Paul. The duo have combined to win 27 games, and both have era's hovering around 2.00. While solid though, neither are strikeout pitchers. Repka has 81 strikeouts in 184.2 innings, and Paul has 74 k's in 133 innings. With both being pitch-to-contact pitchers, it will be difficult for them to work out of potential jams. Losing Whitney Canion for the year really hurt Baylor, as it would anybody. I don't think that Baylor has enough, overall, to win the regional. I just don't think they'll score enough runs. They've scored only 180 runs all year. By contrast, Louisiana has scored 384 runs, and Stanford has scored 325. But Baylor is a program that has had post-season success in the past, so they know how to win. Again, I don't think Baylor will advance, but the Lady Bears are more than than capable of ruining the party for one the other three teams in any given game. Mississippi Valley St. Devilettes (34-17): Mississippi Valley St. romped through the SWAC, with a 16-0 record, but went only 18-17 outside of league play. Cajun fans may snicker at the Devilettes. After all, UL did defeat MVSU, 21-0, early in the year. But the Devilettes have wins over Ole Miss and Memphis this year, as well as Troy, who handed Louisiana one of their only four losses. Alicia Lorenz is a solid little pitcher for MVSU, going 15-3, with a 1.46 era. Granted, she likely won't put up those numbers against the caliber of competition this weekend, but she is capabale of throwing a solid game. Offensively, Nicole Burr has six homers. Other than that, there's not much to get excited about for Mississippi Valley St, offensively. I don't give MVSU much of a chance at all of advancing. It should be a fun weekend at Lamson Park, with some really outstanding players on center stage. If you like softball, don't miss it! Filed Under: baylor bears | louisiana's ragin' cajuns | mississippi valley state | stanford cardinal | ul softball Category: Local Sports | Sports Share on Facebook Share on Twitter More Leave a comment Send to a friend! Print this page Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr! 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For the last couple years the city of Auburn has been working on streaming the weekly City Council meetings live. City Clerk Chuck Mason tells Finger Lakes News Radio citizens will be able to watch the meetings on a number of different devices once it's rolled out.
The process of streaming those meetings will be pretty easy.
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Tom Cleverley is said to be part of the list of players that Louis van Gaal is considering giving the boot after he failed to make an impact ahead of the new campaign. Aston Villa have already tabled a bid to sign the English midfielder and a deal could be struck in the coming days with the deadline slowly closing in.
With Cleverley likely to leave, Manchester United will definitely be on the lookout for some extra reinforcements that could easily slot into his role in the middle of Van Gaal's starting XI.
Shunning the more high profile signings such as Arturo Vidal, Kevin Strootman and William Carvalho (we've already heard enough about them) here are SIX players that could step in to replace Tom Cleverley.
Name: Jordy Clasie
Age: 23
Position: Central Midfielder
Nationality: Netherlands
Club: Feyenoord Rotterdam
Price: £7-10million
Jordy Clasie looks to be the perfect replacement for Tom Cleverley in central midfield because Manchester United are currently lacking a fast-paced talent to be the link between the defenders and the more advanced playmakers, in this case Juan Mata.
Despite scoring only one goal, he did manage to create eight goals, supporting the fact that Clasie can be the second playmaker United currently need. Having already worked under Louis van Gaal, the Dutch boss will know exactly how to get the best of him.
Name: Nigel de Jong
Age: 29
Position: Defensive Midfielder
Nationality: Netherlands
Club: AC Milan
Price: £8–12million
Manchester United are currently going through a midfield crisis, so by using Nigel de Jong ahead of Tom Cleverley, the squad will be reinforced both in defence as well as in attack. The Dutch midfielder is capable of stopping opponent plays in their tracks and works the ball down the opposite side hoping to catch teams on the counter.
With the speed of Angel di Maria now a possible outlet, Louis van Gaal can fully exploit his ability to turn defence into attack. Given the 3-5-2 formation, De Jong can easily slot into a more central midfield role having already experienced it first hand with the Dutch national team.
Name: Joe Allen
Age: 24
Position: Central Midfielder
Nationality: Wales
Club: Liverpool
Price: £15-20million
Joe Allen is another candidate that can aid Manchester United's midfield crisis, but the only problem with this potential move is the fact that Liverpool hardly ever sells their players directly to the Red Devils.
Louis van Gaal is said to already be monitoring the likes of Allen and has been interested ever since he saw him play for the Welsh national team during his time in charge of the Netherlands squad. His passing and vision could come in handy given the lack of creativity at Old Trafford.
Name: Daley Blind
Age: 24
Position: Centre-Back, Left-Wing Back, Defensive Midfielder
Nationality: Netherlands
Club: Ajax
Price: £10-15million
Daley Blind was linked with a move to Manchester United ever since Louis van Gaal was still in charge of the Dutch national squad. However, when everybody focussing on Arturo Vidal, any other transfer rumours were quietly pushed aside. As a move for the Juventus star likely to not happen before Monday, United are now turning back to the like of Blind.
The addition of Blind will be a huge boost to Van Gaal because he can fit into all the area the team needs work on. He can play as a centre-back, a left wing back, and even as a midfielder, meaning the Red Devils can solve three positional problems in one go.
Name: Alex Song
Age: 26
Position: Defensive Midfielder
Nationality: Cameroon
Club: Barcelona
Price: £10-13 million
Alex Song is almost surely on the verge of leaving Barcelona after Luis Enrique revealed that he will not feature in his plans for the new campaign. His move to the La Liga completely halted his career after he hardly got any game time following his move from Arsenal.
His defensive as well as attacking qualities are surely there; just that he hasn't had any time to showcase them. With Manchester United needing to add some holding midfielders to the squad before deadline day, the experience of Song could be just the thing they need. Plus, a potential linkup with Robin van Persie once again will be hard on the eyes for any Gunners fan.
Name: Wesley Sneijder
Age: 30
Position: Attacking Midfielder
Nationality: Netherlands
Club: Galatasaray
Price: £14-18million
Wesley Sneijder is probably the most attacking option out of all the names mentioned, but given his experience, Louis van Gaal may revert him into a more central role, but allowing him to slot into attacks when the opportunity arise. He can instantly replace Tom Cleverley, who hasn't found any decent form as of late in the heart of the Manchester United midfield.
Much like how Liverpool limited Steven Gerrard's duties in midfield, Sneijder can be given a very similar role to that of the Red's skipper. He could serve as a deep lying playing, capable of unleashing a killer pass to the strikers, or to other attacking outlets such as Angel Di Maria or Juan Mata.


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When I create a new article it sometimes isn't linked from anywhere except the "popular places without articles" list. I sometimes forget to link the new article from other articles. If this happens the only way to find the article is by looking at all the articles under a certain subcategory, is that correct? Can this be done?
Finding all articles in a certain category sort of mandates the correct use of the isin-tag, what if I eff that up too?
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Formula One voted last week to move to smaller turbo powered engines from 2014 - but how will the new designs change the cars and will it make the sport more attractive for manufacturers again?
Turbo engines were banned in F1 in 1989 and since then a number of differently sized normally aspirated units have been run, first a 3.5-litre, then 3-litre and, since 2006, the standard 2.4-litre V8 design used currently by all engine manufacturers.
The fixed engine format has proved to be a cost-effective solution, with limited development allowed year on year, and a move to a new formula will come with great expense. But the manufacturers have driven the change, demanding the sport reduce engine size to become more relevant to the automotive industry as road car engine designs become more and more efficient.
Initial plans to go for an in-line four-cylinder layout in 2013 proved too extreme, so the engine bosses have settled on a compromise to introduce a new format one year later, in 2014, with a V6 1.6-litre turbo limited to 15,000rpm, with one turbocharger, controlled fuel flow and an increased amount of energy recovery.
So, what does that mean for F1's future?
The aim of the new regulations is to create engines that develop the same amount of power but more efficiently - and that will be done by a reduction in volume, the addition of a restricted turbo and the introduction of a fuel flow limit.
The decreased volume of the V6 unit compared to the V8 would naturally reduce the amount of power attainable, but an unrestricted turbo would increase it beyond what it is now. Restrictions both the turbo boost levels and the amount of fuel available per second, however, are specifically designed to limit the engine to around 600hp.
The current units run at around 750hp, and the regulations then aim to generate the additional power through increased energy recovery - both via KERS (which will increase from 60kw to 120kw) and from the new turbo technology of exhaust recovery.
Overall, it is understood the aim is to cut fuel expenditure to 65 percent of the amount used in each race this year (which is estimated at between 175 and 180kg) and engineers will have to work hard on reducing internal friction to improve engine efficiency.
Meanwhile, the FIA have stated a durability target of 4,000km per engine, which compared to the current lifetime of around 2,200km per unit means that the amount of engines used per year could drop to around four or five for each car.
The chassis regulations that were due to come in for 2013 were based around the smaller four-cylinder engine concept, with some radical aerodynamic tunnel underbody solutions intended to maximise downforce from ground-effect.
In May, however, these concepts had already been tamed down and with the larger and wider v-shaped engine, the amount of scope for this will be further reduced - meaning the chassis regulations will have to be further developed to match the new engine concept.
One important design challenge now eliminated, however, is that of the engine as a stressed member of the chassis. Adrian Newey recently said that the four-cylinder turbo is "not a nice engine to install" as it cannot be a fully structural part of the car and would need additional support. The V6 unit, however, is strong enough to work structurally in the same way that the current V8 units do.
The sidepods and internal sidepod layout is also likely to see some significant changes, as the cooling requirements for the V6 turbo engine will be significantly different to the current V8 units. Also, the air intake above the drivers head is designed to pressurise air flowing into the engine as well as feeding air to cooling elements, but with the turbo V6 there will be no need to provide this pressure, meaning roll hoops could open up and engine covers be lowered.
The switch to the V6 engine still seems some time away (and plenty could still change!) but the 2014 season is only two and a half years away, and some teams will be beginning to develop overall car concepts for that season as early as late-2012.
The switch in engine regulations already comes after most manufacturers had committed resources to conceptual development, with Renault (the most staunch supporters of the four-cylinder unit) claiming to have spent around £10m already.
Ferrari pushed hard for the V6 as it is more relevant to their sports cars, whereas Renault is more efficiency-driven and even the likes of Mercedes are working towards smaller engines for their road cars, with most road car engines in 2014 expected to be reduced volume.
Ross Brawn made a good point in his recent comments on the situation, explaining: "The technology in the automotive field is changing and the big question is how relevant do we need to be and how relevant do we want to be."
The current V8 normally aspirated engine is seen as a rather antiquated concept, while the four-cylinder, while much more aligned to road cars, is, for many, just was not what Formula One is about.
The V6 compromise of smaller engines with turbo power and integral KERS systems is middle ground, and compared to current specs it speaks much more to the kind of manufacturers that Formula One is trying to lure back into the sport.
And if, as suggested, there is a resource restriction on development of these new units, new manufacturers could be enticed by the challenge of innovative engineering at a fixed budget - especially with the extended 2014 deadline giving them more time to develop.


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She had begun to idealise Fritz, but how could she go on idealising him?
Surely you idealise him, Mark, and see in him the reflection of your own good self.
They treat women rather well in his country—in fact, they seem to idealise them now and then.
They are not to blame because the bards have, with one accord, combined to idealise them.
Women of many attachments are prone to idealise one among them.
idealise to the full, but idealise the real, else the picture is a sham.
That you have begun to idealise it, the very luxury of deep grief often vaguely hints, sometimes clearly shows.
We know that people can idealise a great deal, but they cannot idealise as much as this.
The great imaginative poets, in their delineations of man and nature, do not idealise; they see: or they see before they idealise.
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After taking the day off work, I embarked on my two hour drive over to the quaint town of Winter Park, FL. Winter Park is right outside of Orlando, and is definitely the neatest area I've seen in this state. It just has a very different vibe, and that's probably due to it housing a lot of cool independently owned shops and restaurants. I wandered around for a few minutes looking for Suite 102. I got lucky that Mike Wilkie spotted me due to the Oak Street Bootmaker Trail Oxfords on my feet, or else I would of continued wondering in the complete wrong direction. He called me over and then invited me into the Makr Carry Goods studio. I walked in the door to hear the general hustle & bustle of a workshop. Three gentleman were sitting at work-benches working on wallets, card holders, and even some leather risers the Makr skate decks.
The first thing I noticed was the overwhelming (in a good way) smell of the Horween leather from the shop, and the fact that they were listening to Explosions in the Sky. I felt at home right away. I walked around the studio and shot a few photos of some of the bags that Jason has designed, some of this stuff is not out yet, and some of it is is already available at the Makr shop. The attention to detail in these bags surpasses anything I've seen before, and after sitting with Jason and viewing the design process – I have a whole new level respect for the products he's creating. These bags are fine tuned, sample after sample, to be absolutely perfect. In the end product, it definitely shows.
I started chatting with Jason while he was working on designing something from his new line of products, and all I can tell you right now is that you should save your money. It's really, really good stuff that is super efficient, and super simple. We were chatting about the time that goes in to running something like Makr, and as expected it's a whole lot of late nights, and even more weekends spent in the studio. Which in this case, is not that bad of a place to be.
Thanks again to Jason and everyone else for having me out and taking the time out of their busy schedules to let me take photos, and chat with them. I'll definitely be back soon.


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Walking in downtown Salt Lake City last week, I was panhandled by a young street gal with a puppy. She got all of my annoying spare change. I was happy to be rid of it. She was way happier to have it.
Here's the thing: The spare change was my money and my call on how to dispose of it. What if it wasn't my money?
Thursday night, I took TRAX downtown. When I bought my ticket, the machine kicked out a dollar in change from the previous transaction.
I found the rightful owner on the train. She was surprised and appreciative when I returned the money to her. This proves what a great guy I am, right?
No. It's easy to be generous and honest when it's spare change, when the amount in question doesn't really have the capacity to seriously change your life. But what if it did? Would I have the same good-character qualities?
Thursday night, I attended the 33rd annual gala of the Salt Lake City Police Department, where officers and civilians received awards for exemplary service. Among the honorees were Hank Stewart and Landon Carlson.
While hiking a Wasatch trail in August 2011, Hank and Landon found a backpack containing $25,000 in cash. Unless you're Donald Trump, we're not talking spare change anymore.
Because no one else was around, Hank's and Landon's find could have amounted to $12,500 for each of them or $25,000 for whichever of them was willing to hit the other in the head with a large rock. Friends have killed each other over less.
Instead, Hank and Landon called the police and gave the money to them. It turned out to be loot taken in a bank robbery. Local cops passed it along to the FBI, who in turn sent it back to the U.S. Treasury, which in my book is the same thing as letting a goat eat it.
Whether Hank and Landon did the sensible thing with the money depends on your point of view, and that says a lot about what you're willing to let money do to you.
What if their decision wasn't entirely altruistic? What if Hank and Landon simply didn't want to bother with the worry of a drug cartel looking for them to get their money back? Forget honesty. How much is your peace of mind worth?
Would I have kept the money? I don't know. I like to think I would have called the police, but $25,000 in a mysterious backpack isn't a dollar in a coin return. I could do a lot of good (or bad) with 25 large.
As of Friday, the pot for Saturday's Powerball lottery had reached $600 million. Most of us would like to believe winning or finding that kind of money wouldn't change us. We would be fooling ourselves.
Money isn't a benign thing. It's real power. It not only enables us to live, it also dictates how well we live. That can do bizarre things to your life and the lives of those around you.
Would I spend my lottery winnings on building orphanages and cancer treatment centers or would I blow it all celebrating my next birthday on the Russian space station?
How much would it cost to get Creedence Clearwater Revival back together again? Yeah, I know one of them is dead. Would that cost more than $600 million?
I think I'd rather be the guy who doesn't mind giving away his spare change. I don't want to know what kind of character I'd have if I suddenly came into millions of dollars worth of doing whatever I wanted.
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Testimony of Rory Stewart, Senate on Foreign Relations Committee Hearing
September 16th 2009
The Future in Afghanistan
The administration's new policy on Afghanistan has a very narrow focus – counter-terrorism – and a very broad definition of how to achieve it: no less than the fixing of the Afghan state and defeating the Taliban insurgency. President Obama has presented this in a formal argument. The final goal in the region is 'to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future'. A necessary condition of the defeat of al-Qaida is the defeat of the Taliban because 'if the Afghan government falls to the Taliban, that country will again be a base for terrorists who want to kill as many of our people as they possibly can.' He, therefore, proposes a counter-insurgency strategy, which includes the deployment of more troops 'to take the fight to the Taliban in the south and the east' and a more comprehensive approach, which aims to 'promote a more capable and accountable Afghan government . . . advance security, opportunity and justice . . . develop an economy that isn't dominated by illicit drugs.'
This policy is rooted in the pre-set categories of counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, state-building and economic development. These categories are so closely linked that policy-makers appear to put them in almost any sequence or combination. You need to defeat the Taliban to build a state and you need to build a state to defeat the Taliban. There cannot be security without development, or development without security. If you have the Taliban you have terrorists, if you don't have development you have terrorists, and as Obama informed the New Yorker, 'If you have ungoverned spaces, they become havens for terrorists.' These connections are global: in Obama's words, 'our security and prosperity depend on the security and prosperity of others.' Indeed, at times it seems that all these activities – building a state, defeating the Taliban, defeating al-Qaida and eliminating poverty – are the same activity. The new US army and marine corps counter-insurgency doctrine sounds like a World Bank policy document, replete with commitments to the rule of law, economic development, governance, state-building and human rights. In Obama's words, 'security and humanitarian concerns are all part of one project.
The fundamental problem with the strategy is that it is trying to do the impossible. It is highly unlikely that the US will be able either to build an effective, legitimate state or to defeat a Taliban insurgency . It needs to find another way of protecting the US against terrorist attack.
We claim to be engaged in a neutral, technocratic, universal project of 'statebuilding' but we don't know exactly what that means. Those who see Afghanistan as reverting to the Taliban or becoming a traditional autocratic state are referring to situations that existed there in 1972 and 1994. But the international community's ambition appears to be to create something that has not existed before. Obama calls it 'a more capable and accountable Afghan
government'. The US, the UK and their allies agreed unanimously at the Nato 60th anniversary summit in April to create 'a stronger democratic state' in Afghanistan.'
Whatever this state is, it could come only from an Afghan national movement, not as a gift from foreigners. As we have seen over the last seven years – and most starkly in the recent election – Afghan government is certainly unlikely in the next five years to reflect US ideas of legitimacy, legal process, civil service function, rights, economic behavior or even broader international assumption about development. Even an aim as modest as 'stability' is highly ambitious. Afghanistan is a mountainous country, with strong traditions of local self-government and autonomy, significant ethnic differences, but strong shared moral values. A centralizing constitution may well be combined with de facto local independence and Afghanistan is starting from a very low base: 30 years of investment might allow its army, police, civil service and economy to approach the levels of Pakistan. And Pakistan clearly still does not have whatever mixture of state-formation, legitimacy, accountability or effectiveness that is apparently necessary to prevent the Taliban and Al Qaeda from operating.
Nor is it clear that even if stronger central institutions were to emerge that they would they assist US national security objectives. Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. He chooses to be there precisely because
Pakistan can be more assertive in its state sovereignty than Afghanistan and restricts US operations. From a narrow (and harsh) US national security perspective, a poor failed state could be easier to handle than a more developed one: Yemen is less threatening than Iran, Somalia than Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan than Pakistan.
Secondly, it is highly unlikely that the US will be able to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. The ingredients of successful counter-insurgency campaigns in places like Malaya – control of the borders, large numbers of troops in relation to the population, strong support from the majority ethnic groups, a long-term commitment and a credible local government – are lacking in Afghanistan.
Nor is Afghanistan, comparable to Iraq. There are no mass political parties in Afghanistan and the Kabul government lacks the base, strength or legitimacy of the Baghdad government. Afghan tribal groups lack the coherence of the Iraqi Sunni tribes and their relation to state structures: they are not being driven out of neighbourhood after neighbourhood and they do not have the same relation to the Taliban that the Sunni groups had to 'al-Qaida in Iraq'. Afghans are weary of the war but the Afghan chiefs are not approaching us, seeking a deal. Since the political players and state structures in Afghanistan are much more fragile than those in Iraq, they are less likely to play a strong role in ending the insurgency.
A strategy of 'clear, hold and build' seems particularly implausible in Afghanistan. In Iraq – which is a much more urban society –it was possible for US and Iraqi security forces around Baghdad to 'clear and hold' ground because the geographical area was relatively limited. Afghanistan has an overwhelmingly rural population scattered through an inhospitable terrain, the size of Texas and encompassing perhaps thousand villages. Even a hundred thousand US troops would be far too few to hold or garrison even a fraction of such a vast area. In Iraq, a tradition of strong central government and a much more educated population with an indigenous resource base at least allowed for the possibility of 'building', following the 'clear and hold.' In Afghanistan the lack of the most basic education and capacity and will in governmental structures (and even in the private sector) means that very little of substance could be 'built' during the time that the US and its allies attempted to 'hold'.
Meanwhile, the Taliban can exploit the ideology of religious resistance that the West deliberately fostered in the 1980s to defeat the Russians. They can portray the Kabul government as US slaves, Nato as an infidel occupying force and their own insurgency as a jihad. Their complaints about corruption, human rights abuses and aerial bombardments appeal to a large audience. They are attracting Afghans to their rural courts by giving quicker and more predictable rulings than government judges. They can now easily exploit the corrupt practices in the election to portray the Kabul government as fraudulent and illegitimate. But our inability to inflict a final defeat on the Taliban may not be as dangerous as policy-makers imagine.
If the administration cannot create an effective, stable, legitimate state and cannot defeat a Taliban insurgency it must find another method of protecting US national security and fulfilling our obligations to the Afghan people. And if it is impossible to build a state or defeat the Taliban, there is no point in deploying a hundred thousand troops or spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Afghanistan.
The best Afghan policy would be to reduce the number of foreign troops from the current level of 90,000 to far fewer – perhaps 20,000. In that case, two distinct objectives would remain for the international community: development and counter-terrorism. Neither would amount to the building of an Afghan state or winning a counter-insurgency campaign. A reduction in troop numbers and a turn away from state-building should not mean total withdrawal: good projects could continue to be undertaken in electricity, water, irrigation, health, education, agriculture, rural development and in other areas favoured by development agencies. Even a light US presence could continue to allow for aggressive operations against Al Qaeda terrorists, in Afghanistan, who plan to attack the United States. The US has successfully prevent Al Qaeda from re-establishing itself since 2001 (though the result has only been to move bin Laden across the border.). The US military could also (with other forms of assistance) support the Afghan military to prevent the Taliban from seizing a city or taking over the country.
These twin objectives will require a very long-term presence, as indeed is almost inevitable in a country which is as poor, as fragile and traumatized as Afghanistan
(and which lacks the internal capacity at the moment to become independent of Foreign aid or control its territory). But a long-term presence will in turn mean a much lighter and more limited presence (if it is to retain US domestic support). We should not control and cannot predict the future of Afghanistan. It may in the future become more violent, or find a decentralised equilibrium or a new national unity, but if its communities continue to want to work with us, we can, over 30 years, encourage the more positive trends in Afghan society and help to contain the more negative.
Such a policy can seem strained, unrealistic, counter-intuitive and unappealing. They appear to betray the hopes of Afghans who trusted us and to allow the Taliban to abuse district towns. No politician wants to be perceived to have underestimated, or failed to address, a terrorist threat; or to write off the 'blood and treasure' that we have sunk into Afghanistan; or to admit defeat. Americans are particularly unwilling to believe that problems are insoluble; Obama's motto is not 'no we can't'; soldiers are not trained to admit defeat or to say a mission is impossible. And to suggest that what worked in Iraq won't work in Afghanistan requires a detailed knowledge of each country's past, a bold analysis of the causes of development and a rigorous exposition of the differences, for which few have patience.
The greatest risk of our inflated ambitions and fears, encapsulated in the current surge is that it will achieve the exact opposite of its intentions and in fact precipitate a total withdrawal. The heavier our footprint, and the more costly, the less we are likely to be able to sustain it. Public opinion is already turning against it. Nato allies are mostly staying in Afghanistan simply to please the United States and have little confidence in our objectives or our reasons. Contemporary political culture tends to encourage black and white solutions: either we garrison or we abandon.
While, I strongly oppose troop increases, I equally strongly oppose a total flight. We are currently in danger of lurching from troop increases to withdrawal and from engagement to isolation. We are threatening to provide instant electro-shock therapy followed by abandonment. This is the last thing Afghanistan needs. The international community should aim to provide a patient, tolerant long-term relationship with a country as poor and traumatized as Afghanistan. Judging by comparable countries in the developing world (and Afghanistan is very near the bottom of the UN Human Development index), making Afghanistan more stable, prosperous and humane is a project which will take decades. It is a worthwhile project in the long-term for us and for Afghans but we will only be able to sustain our presence if we massively reduce our investment and our ambitions and begin to approach Afghanistan more as we do other poor countries in the developing world. The best way of avoiding the mistakes of the 1980s and 1990s – the familiar cycle of investment and abandonment which most Afghan expect and fear and which have contributed so much to instability and danger - is to husband and conserve our resources, limit our objectives to counter-terrorism and humanitarian assistance and work out how to work with fewer troops and less money over a longer period. In Afghanistan in the long-term, less will be more.
About Rory Stewart:
Rory Stewart, Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, studied at Oxford and served briefly in the British army before working in the diplomatic service in Indonesia and as British representative to Montenegro. From 2000 to 2002 he walked 6,000 miles on foot from Turkey to Bangladesh – a journey described in his New York Times bestseller, The Places in Between. In 2003, he was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority deputy governor of two provinces in Southern Iraq, a period described in his second book, The Prince of the Marshes. He has presented BBC documentaries, been a visiting columnist for the New York Times and written extensively on intervention. In 2005, he moved to Afghanistan where he founded the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, an NGO dedicated to Afghan traditional crafts and the regeneration of the historic commercial center of Kabul.


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Discussion in 'Marketplace Archive 1 (Posts count)' started by GetSome681, Oct 3, 2002.
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They look nice, but I'm more looking for something that would accomodate a 5.25" drive (ie- cdrw, etc.). Seems like the place you referred me to only makes 3.5" ones. Thanks though.


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Bogle Vineyards Receives High Honors
Congratulations to Bogle Vineyards of Clarksburg, which was named the "2013 Winery of the Year" at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium in Sacramento.
Spokeswoman Jodi Bogle says its an industry-wide honor.
"We have a great consumer fan base that really seeks out, and finds our wine, shares our wine, enjoys our wine with others," Bogle said.
Bogle shipped more than 2 million cases in 2013 and is now ranked as the country's 13th largest winery.
Food store sales have been a major factor for revenue growth. The average bottle of a Bogle wine sells for under $10.


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Any one else nervous
This has been, and may continue to be, a unique and wonderful forum to share information, and debate boat-related issues.
Unfortunately like all commercial enterprises, the Sailnet forum exists at the mercy of the marketplace, and may just suddenly disappear.
If the rumors of Sailnets imminent or extant demise are true, we can expect the forum to simply disappear without warning - perhaps at month-end (billing period).
I dont expect that the CruisersForum will necessarily fill the needs of this membership, nor replace the Sailnet board, but it may provide a meeting place to stay in touch with developments - and to tag up with each other. I will endeavour to maintain a clearing-house of information at http://cruisersforu.com
Specifically at the thread: http://cruisersforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2059
Titled: SAILNET Message Board
Under the Blue Water Cruising divider, at the heading Books, References, Links & Website Announcements
Heres hoping the rumors are false, and the Sailnet Message Boards remain up & active.
If not, check in at the CruisersForum
Best regards,
Gord May
Any one else nervous
Found this on the usenet this AM...buyer beware!
Over in the binary group alt.binaries.pictures.sports.o*cean I have posted
the pictures of my visit to Sailnet''s main headquarters in N Charleston
TWICE this morning, just to make sure. Their hours were 0830-1700 ET so I
went there at 9AM. While I was in the parking lot, another sailor drove in
and said he couldn''t get them on the local phone, get emails answered or
FAX them, either. He came to see what I saw.
At 9AM, as you can see in the pictures, the building was locked, a sign
said CLOSED stuck to the front door, the building was dark save for one
night light in the lobby, but, curiously, right inside the front door was a
running copy machine, which may also be the FAX machine. Its LCD display
was lit up. There''s still power to the building.
Well, after going nowhere at 9AM, I walked across the parking lot to
Hospice of Charleston in the next building over and talked to the nice
ladies who were watering their sidewalk garden. I asked them if they''d
seen anyone at Sailnet, recently. One lady said she hadn''t seen anyone in
the parking lot for "some time", as she put it. I walked around to the
County Clerk of Court''s office in the back of the building and talked to
the ladies through the prison bars that protect them from angry voters.
They hadn''t really noticed any activity, but weren''t looking much.
Government employees, they run in a vacuum it seems. I wondered as I left
if they would have even notice the building burning they were in.
I went off to shop my local favorite thrift shop (found a brand new
fishtape, first class quality for $5). As it was after 10AM, I wandered
back to Sailnet to see if anyone had shown up. They had! There was a
nice, grey Mercedes C-230 sports car (see photo) parked in the closest slot
to the building, so I got out of my car, again, and went up to peer into
the darkened building. I knocked and knocked on the front door...no
answer. I walked around to the side of the building where their other
business, something called Oroton-something, and found the keyless entry
door also locked and no response to my knocking. I kept an eye on the
front of the building while I sat in the car, but finally gave up as
whoever was inside never appeared at any of the windows I could see. Maybe
he was contemplating Peggie Hall''s latest suggestions while sitting on a
Porta-Pottie in the employee lounge. Maybe he was hiding, afraid I''d punch
out his lights for not delivering my stuff...(c;
Note to Scott - No rigging and no answers to many poundings. Sorry I can''t
get to your rigging. If you need to have it picked up and can get the
building opened, I''d be glad to take it away for you to have it picked up
at my place.
I''m not saying Sailnet is history. Maybe they''re relocating to palacial
new facilities in some posh industrial area, with 4 times the floor space.
But, from what you and I can see today.....it looks like they are DOT
If you''re waiting for delivery on your credit card orders, better call your
card company and warn them. If you look at the Mercedes in the picture,
you''ll see I handily photographed the LICENSE NUMBER, a SC tag that can be
traced to a person. Two places come to mind who might be interested in
your fraud case:
Charleston County Sheriff''s Office - 843-554-4700
North Charleston City Hall/Cops - 843-554-5700
Ask them what they know and let them know you got no response.
If any of you are already members of Sailnet''s webpage forums, you might
want to copy and paste this message and the pictures to their forum pages.
From reading a few of the posts, most people there don''t even know usenet
exists, much less these newsgroups.
Any one else nervous
For those interested in another informative, polite board, try sailboatowners.com. They have a lot of forums there and seem to be pretty busy.
Any one else nervous
All of us should email the editor at SA...
This came up in one of the other forums about the long term viability of the Sailjazz model vs. having Sailing Anarchy host these forums and owners lists.
Yes, actually I do. Sailjazz has no visible business model for long term funding, while the SA crowd is bouncing between 80,000 and 100,000 DAILY visitors. Their advertisers are already paying $$ for that reach, so adding this traffic is easy. I KNOW how much it costs for big-time bandwidth, and good intentions will not keep this running.
On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Walt Leutwyler wrote:
The good folks at SailJazz, Sam Boyle and Cheryl Boyle, have a Newport list already in place no need to create something new. Do you have some concerns about SailJazz? In an e-mail to me yesterday Cheryl wrote "I understand folks are concerned if SAILjazz is here for the duration and I am saying yes!"
On Jul 20, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Howard wrote:
fyi: Sailnet is about to sink into history...so most of the Beneteau list
subscribers are switching over to sailjazz because the founders ran Sailnet until they were taken over by their investors.
Hopefully Sailjazz will do better than Sailnet... Sam & Cheryl Boyle have
probably learned their "dot com" lessons....
The Sailjazz email forums are identical to Sailnet...really no surprise to
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:00:31 -0700:
Subject: World''s largest sailing website WANTS to host our email lists
These guys show up as THE sailing website with the largest volume of traffic. They heard about the good owners lists and message boardshere, and Sailing Anarchy is thinking about offering to host all these lists & message boards (in SEPARATE forums from the wild and wooly racing boards).
I''ve been very impressed over the years with their access at the very top of the sport.... where else do you find Robert Perry talking about his design work and while playing guitar that night at in a bar in China. Many, many posts from the TP52''s, Pyewacket, Sidney-Hobart crews and lots of others.
From the SA front page
We have heard from a number of sources that SailNet is or is about to close their doors. We tried to get in touch with them, but got nothing but voice mail hell - in fact the sales voicemail said don''t leave a message - not exactly a ringing endorsement for business. Here is what was sent to us today:
Someone who lives close to Sailnet has posted a series of pictures showing that the Sailnet sign has been taken down, the parking lot is empty, and the building is locked up, with a closed sign in the door. He went once at 9 am, and then when he returned a little later, there was a Mercedes parked near the door, but despite pounding on the door, there was no response. He asked around at a few other buildings nearby, and was told it''s been mostly deserted there.
Ouch. Things don''t sound any better over at their forum (which we have never visited but hear is pretty good). If anybody can verify, please do. Btw, we''d be happy to take over the message boards as a distinct entity here at SA. If anybody knows about them, get in touch with The Ed
SA Kicks...
From an advertiser: Over 30% of my traffic comes from your site, while your least favorite competitor delivers under 2%. I''ll be back.
No surprise to us - the SA community is an active one that spends money and isn''t afraid to do so with advertisers who support this site. We have become the #1 most visited sailing site because of you eaders who are down with the SA scene. Thanks y''all.
Any one else nervous
Had a problem with sailnet a few months ago... Billed twice, after cancelling one order. Got almost no response until one day someone on the phone eluded to the fact that the business had changed hands and the problem was almost immediately taken care of. I haven''t heard of anything new happening, it would be ashame b/c it looks like it started to turn around.
Any one else nervous
Sad to say, I''ve seen this pattern played out many times before in the armouring community. The behavior described is "to the letter" what happens to many an armourer''s internet business right before they disappear for good... usually leaving many upset customers in their wake.
They usually never show up again.
I wouldn''t order a single thing off SailNet until they shape up and resume communication... and even then I''d wait awhile. This smells alot like a vanishing act.
Any one else nervous
I have already put in a dispute with my credit card company for items sent to me in error. Note that this procedure requires you to first attempt to correct the problem with the vendor so in any letter or document for your dispute clearly state that you have attempted to contact the vendor by e-mail or message attempts at their phone number and that you have received no response.
I would recommend that anyone who hasn''t received items or have been having problems with an order for more than a week or two to get this procedure rolling immediately.
Any one else nervous
I´d like to make a suggestion to both those of you with pending orders who are getting poor Sailnet customer service (or none at all...) and/or those who wonder what´s going on and would like a better sense for whether or not to place future orders.
There are several Chambers of Commerce and a SC state consumer protection agency that could be contacted, any one of which would accept a query or a query and follow-up with Sailnet. The local Business Chamber in their area (I´m without much connnectivity right now while in a small Spanish cyberhut, so you´ll have to dig it up yourselves) has an active website and would be an especially suitable place to inquire. If only a few of you replying in this thread were to contact them, via email or better yet phone, I´m guessing you could either coach a Sailnet owner to respond to one of these threads OR you could pass along the email reply you receive.
Good luck to those of you left hanging. FWIW I experienced some of these same problems years ago and so they may not alone suggest that Sailnet is going under...but it surely does sound shaky at the moment and not the place to put orders.
WHOOSH, lying Ria de Arousa, Galacia, Spain
Any one else nervous
I have been a Sailnet Member for several years now.
Having received an EMail about the clearance sale, I placed a $300 order a week ago.
My CC has been partially charged (including the full $35 shipping amount), but several items are missing from the order status page and no tracking # has been provided.
As with the other comments in this thread I have called and EMailed several times to no avail.
Sad to see what was once a fine organization come unglued like this.
Also nervous...
Mark Mulrooney
Houston, TX
HC38T ''Arcadia''
Any one else nervous
I have been attmpting to raise Sailnet customer service or sales for two weeks. I have had similar results as some of the other folks who have posted. I even tried to contact folks in Charleston to find out if they heard about whether Sailnet''s ship is sinking. Nothing yet. Like everyone else, phones are not answered, voice mail is full, emails are ignored. I have orders that have not arrived, prior to which incorrect orders were sent. I will not retutrn these until I hear from Sailnet in fear that I will loose more money. I suggest everyone stop ordering from Sailnet until they resurface AND appologize for this unconscionable act. I guess there is always West Marine or Defender.
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Among 2.7 million employees eligible for 401(k) investment plans, the median rate of return last year was minus 28.3 percent.
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Ceiling Paint not what I expected
I've read a few topics on SW Brilliance which I've just used for my bathroom. I'm not a pro but I really think this paint is not right. We did the walls in Superpaint which is awesome and the bead/chair rail in SW ProClassic. Everything looks great except for the ceiling. When I purchased the paint, I didn't put much thought into the ceiling. They just handed me the Brilliance and off I went. It's been a while since I did a ceiling but I really took my time with what I feel was a decent technique. I think most ceilings in my house are BM ceiling white. While most people wouldn't notice the imperfections, I'm pissed I paid a good amount for ceiling white and had some strange textures appear. Thankfully most of it is fine. I distinctly remember having my roller soaked with paint, rolled out a small section and the texture was different from the previous roll. In my opinion, Brilliance is a rip off and not easily applied. The thing that bothers me is that I'll have to hit up another paint store for ceiling paint for future projects. Thanks for letting me vent. :mad:
Did you do 2 coats on the ceiling? Brilliance demands it.
yea its the paints fault :whistling2:
your using s/w that's what i use:), personally i would have used super paint satin on a bath ceiling:yes:. but if a flat was desired then i would have used super paint flat its much more durable than a dead flat ceiling paint . hey go head and vent, every body should vent now and then.in fact i think i need to vent:huh:
MJ, I've had lots of trouble with Brilliance which is a reformulation of Classic 99 which I loved. ChrisN gave me a suggestion to try Pittsburgh Paints Ultra ceiling paint. I did, and it was great. Covered up a ceiling in ONE coat.......dead flat. No more Brilliance for me.
What nap roller cover did you use?
I think the ease of use of Brilliance and issues with it have been debated here enough to clear you mj. I'll echo ltd and say I hope a flat in the bath won't be an issue down the road, ceiling fan or not. I'm going to check to see if I can get PPG ceiling ultra, but my go to's for ceilings are BM Muresco, Super Spec flat, and their new waterborne, which I'm using right now. I tried Coronado SuperKote flat, but had too many issues with it. It's a vinyl acrylic that I didn't care for. Muresco is a vinyl as well, but it's a better quality, though I think that's changing. It doesn't seem to be the dead flat it once was, and I've cut back my use of it.
I didn't think to do a satin finish. Good idea. The bathroom is vented but wouldn't want moisture issues down the road. One problem is that everything else is done (walls trim etc.). I'd be a little worried about getting ceiling paint splashed on the walls and cutting in ceiling to wall. It's a small bathroom so I guess if I took my time, it'd be fine. Should only take a few hours. Any tips on taking this on?
Alright, so last night I was taking a shower :eek: and noticed some spots particularly on the ceiling cut in that I missed or the paint didn't cover. Alright, I havn't done a ceiling in about 4 years so I will take the blame (although I still dislike Brilliance). I did a coat of primer and 2 coats of Brialliance. Within the spots that didn't cover well, I could see steam/water build up. This is a new small bathroom, new exhaust, window etc. The fan does work really well. Everything missed was more noticable with regard to the ceiling. I've decided that I'm going to go over it with an eggshell or satin paint. Should I do Perma-White eggshell or something else? I'm assuming it wouldn't be an issue going right over the existing paint. Thanks!
no problem going over existing paint, but you REALLY should let it dry for at LEAST a couple days
Any experience with Zinseer ceiling paint? Having a hard time finding perma white in eggshell so I was thinking of using the Zin ceiling paint in my bath. Since there is a coat of primer and 2 coats of paint, I thought this would be fine. It goes on pink and turns bright white flat. Thanks.
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This was such a wonderful service for our family trip to Disney. We rented a condo for four nights and did not have to go to shop for any groceries while we were there. I always dread a "grocery run" on vacation because they seem to talk twice as long as my normal trips at home. Garden Grocer communicated with me quickly, had a very easy to use website for placing my order, and then delivered my groceries on time. The groceries were waiting in the condo's reception fridge when we arrived on the first day. Such a perfect time to spend a little extra to save me the time and hassle of having to go to the store! Garden Grocer allowed me to have a full vacation day with my family.
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Discussion in 'Other Hoops Talk' started by roscoe36, Feb 8, 2007.
Sure, it's not much money, but what a great life - nothing to do all day but play basketball and get into bar fights with drunken cowboys.
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1. Re: What exactly is the "cell factory?"jsmith Jan 19, 2013 10:17 AM (in response to KonradZuse)Cell factories create cells. A cell is a Labeled Node which contains some extra properties and methods for maintaining an editing and selection state and a link back to a cell value. Cells are used in a few places in JavaFX, for example in ListViews and TableViews, as well as TreeTables and ComboBoxes. The Cell is the visual representation (Node) which corresponds to a backing data item. The trick is that there is not necessarily a static one to one correspondence between cells and data values.
Let's take an example. Here is an empty ListView in a Scene. When I run the app, it displays the ListView at it's preferred height, with 17 rows.
Each one of those 17 rows is empty. No Cell Factory has been set, yet you can see alternating light and dark shaded rows. Each one of these rows in the ListView corresponds to a Cell and each cell has been generated by the default ListView cell factory. When I drag the stage's bottom border to increase the size of the stage, the list view increases in size. When I drag the stage's bottom border to decrease the size of the stage, the list view decreases in size. When the list view increases in size, more rows are visible. Each of the new cells for the larger list view are generated by the cell factory on an as needed basis; i.e. the cells were not created when the app was first run but only created as there was a greater visible area available to the ListView in which the ListView could display more cells.
import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.ListView; import javafx.scene.layout.*; import javafx.stage.Stage; public class ListViewSample extends Application { @Override public void start(Stage stage) { ListView listView = new ListView(); VBox layout = new VBox(); VBox.setVgrow(listView, Priority.ALWAYS); layout.getChildren().addAll(listView); stage.setScene(new Scene(layout)); stage.show(); } public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } }
Now everything is pretty boring so far. Let's add some data, using the following line of code:
Now you will see the strings "apple", "orange" and "pear" rendered in the first three cells of the ListView again by using the default cell factory for the ListView. Again this is pretty boring.
listView.setItems(FXCollections.observableArrayList("apple", "orange", "pear"));
What we will do now is add some mutators which will change the observable list backing the list view in response to some user actions:
OK, now we have some extra buttons, the "Add guava" button will create a new item ("guava"), the "Sort" and "Reverse Sort", buttons will change the sort order of the backing list. Now to understand what happens behind the scenes when we use these buttons, let's take a look at the source code for the default list cell factory.
import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.collections.FXCollections; import javafx.event.*; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.*; import javafx.scene.layout.*; import javafx.stage.Stage; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.Comparator; public class ListViewSample extends Application { @Override public void start(Stage stage) { final ListView<String> listView = new ListView<>(); listView.setItems(FXCollections.observableArrayList("apple", "orange", "pear")); ListViewSorter listViewSorter = new ListViewSorter(listView).invoke(); VBox layout = new VBox(10); VBox.setVgrow(listView, Priority.ALWAYS); listView.setMinHeight(0); layout.getChildren().addAll( listView, HBoxBuilder .create() .spacing(10) .children( guavaCreator(listView), listViewSorter.getSorter(), listViewSorter.getReverser() ) .build() ); stage.setScene(new Scene(layout)); stage.show(); } private Button guavaCreator(final ListView<String> listView) { final Button guavatron = new Button("Add Guava"); guavatron.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() { @Override public void handle(ActionEvent actionEvent) { listView.getItems().add("guava"); guavatron.setDisable(true); } }); return guavatron; } public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } private class ListViewSorter { private final ListView<String> listView; private Button sorter; private Button reverser; public ListViewSorter(ListView<String> listView) { this.listView = listView; } public Button getSorter() { return sorter; } public Button getReverser() { return reverser; } public ListViewSorter invoke() { sorter = new Button("Sort"); sorter.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() { @Override public void handle(ActionEvent actionEvent) { Collections.sort(listView.getItems()); } }); final Comparator<String> REVERSE_SORT = new Comparator<String>() { @Override public int compare(String s1, String s2) { return -1 * s1.compareTo(s2); } }; reverser = new Button("Reverse Sort"); reverser.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() { @Override public void handle(ActionEvent actionEvent) { Collections.sort(listView.getItems(), REVERSE_SORT); } }); return this; } } }
This code is doing one of three things. If the list cell is empty, it sets the text and graphic to null, so you end up with a blank cell (the alternating light and dark grey bars are generated by the ListCell's parent setting differing style classes on alternate cells). If the item is a node, it sets the graphic to the node - this is the mechanism which allow you to place nodes directly in the backing list for the ListView and have the ListView display them OK. Otherwise a toString is called on the item to set the item's text (this is the case which is occurring for our simple example of Strings in the backing list).
new ListCell() { @Override public void updateItem(Object item, boolean empty) { super.updateItem(item, empty); if (empty) { setText(null); setGraphic(null); } else if (item instanceof Node) { setText(null); Node currentNode = getGraphic(); Node newNode = (Node) item; if (currentNode == null || ! currentNode.equals(newNode)) { setGraphic(newNode); } } else { setText(item == null ? "null" : item.toString()); setGraphic(null); } } };
Now the important thing to note about the ListCell implementation is that the clever logic of translating the backing item for the cell to a visual representation is occurring in an updateItem call. This updateItem method is invoked by the JavaFX system on the ListCell whenever the backing item for the cell has been invalidated, for example the item has been edited, a new item added, or the items in the list have been reordered.
So when somebody presses, the "Add Guava" button, a new ListCell is not created, instead updateItem is called on an already existing empty cell. This is because when we started the application, there was space for 17 rows, so 17 cells were already created, it is just that most of them were empty because we only had 3 items in the backing list for the ListView.
Now, if we press one of the sort buttons to reorder the backing list, it will cause the existing list cells to become invalidated, and updateItem will be called on each of the cells according to the change permutations in the ObservableList. Note that as each item is updated, a new Labeled display node for the item is not created, instead the setText method is invoked which changes the text for the existing Labeled.
There are a couple of extra cases to understand. Our backing list currently maxes out at 4 items. Let's say we drag the bottom of our stage up so that the available space for the ListView was made really small (e.g. only 2 rows high). In this case, you will two rows (cells) and a scrollbar you can use to scroll up and down. As you scroll up and down it seems that some rows are scrolling off the screen and some are scrolling on the screen. What is actually happening though is that the same two cells are remaining on screen and their contents being continually updated and replaced as backing items come in and out of view. This is the magic of how the ListView is able to achieve it's efficiency when dealing with potentially very large collections or collections where not all of the required data is available on the client at the current time. Instead of creating visual cells for all of the possible items which can be placed in the list, instead the ListView creates cells only for the visible items and updates the content of those cells on an as needed basis. This concept is known in the List Cell creators jargon as a Virtual Flow in a Virtualized control.
OK, so that was a little more interesting, but there have been a lot of words so far, and no custom cell factory. This was partly on purpose - there is lot you can do with the default cell factory without needing to create your own custom cell factory.
But sometimes you do actually want to create your own cell factory when you want fine control over the look or behaviour of the cells.
Let's say you want to show each item in the list with a capitalized friendly name "Apple", "Orange" and "Pear" and an icon - a picture of the corresponding fruit. To do this you would create a cell factory - something that can produce the visual representation of these things from the corresponding data values.
Here what the cell factory has done is to check what value of the backing item for the cell is whenever that item has been updated, and set some customized label text and graphic representation for the cell.
import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.collections.*; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.*; import javafx.scene.image.*; import javafx.scene.layout.*; import javafx.stage.Stage; import javafx.util.Callback; public class ListViewCustomCellFactorySample extends Application { ObservableMap<String, Image> iconMap = FXCollections.observableHashMap(); @Override public void init() { iconMap.put( "apple", new Image( "http://uhallnyu.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/green-apple.jpg", 0, 32, true, true ) ); iconMap.put( "orange", new Image( "http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/03/10/orange_iStock_000001331357X_540x405.jpg", 0, 32, true, true ) ); iconMap.put( "pear", new Image( "http://smoothiejuicerecipes.com/pear.jpg", 0, 32, true, true ) ); } @Override public void start(Stage stage) { final ListView<String> listView = new ListView<>(); listView.setItems(FXCollections.observableArrayList("apple", "orange", "pear")); listView.setCellFactory(new Callback<ListView<String>, ListCell<String>>() { @Override public ListCell<String> call(ListView<String> stringListView) { return new LabeledIconListCell(); } }); VBox layout = new VBox(10); VBox.setVgrow(listView, Priority.ALWAYS); listView.setMinHeight(0); layout.getChildren().addAll( listView ); stage.setScene(new Scene(layout)); stage.show(); } public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } private class LabeledIconListCell extends ListCell<String> { @Override protected void updateItem(String item, boolean empty) { super.updateItem(item, empty); if (item != null) { String friendlyText = item.toString(); if (item.length() > 0) { friendlyText = item.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + item.substring(1); } setText(friendlyText); setGraphic( StackPaneBuilder .create() .prefWidth(55) .children( new ImageView( iconMap.get(item) ) ) .build() ); } else { setText(""); setGraphic(null); } } } }
As a minor point, for efficiency, and because there are only a few of them, the required images are loaded and scaled up front so that they don't been to be reloaded every time the cell is updated with a different value (which if the image loading was within the cell's updateItem call could mean that the same image could potentially get loaded multiple times.
My personal take on this is that it is powerful but complicated. Often people will gravitate towards using the complex ListView and TableView APIs when they don't necessarily need all of the functionality and virtualization efficiency capabilities that the virtualized controls offer. In many cases, simple layout mechanisms such VBoxes and Grids can be a better choice. However, if you have a need for the virtualized functions, then it's good to know that things like ListView and TableView are there if you can work out how to use them well in your case.
Also note that JavaFX 2.2+ has numerous convenience methods for creating different kinds of cells which you may be able to use in standard cases to avoid some of the overhead in creating your own, for example the CheckBoxListCell, the ComboBoxListCell and the TextFieldListCell. And there are many more such simplifying higher level abstractions in the DataFX library.
One other point worth observing is that if you have a list of mutatable objects, for example Person objects with a changable last name field, then you need to make the object an Observable object with an invalidation implementation if you want the updateItem call in the cell factory to be invoked automatically whenever the object is mutated.
A cell factory and a cell value factory are different things, but that is probably a topic for a different post.
I realize this was a round about and lengthy explanation - hopefully it served some purpose and helped to explain some of the mysteries of cell factories.
2. Re: What exactly is the "cell factory?"KonradZuse Jan 19, 2013 7:53 PM (in response to jsmith)Damn you went really hard on this one, thanks! So it seems it's like I was thinking, just a way to edit the data in the cells, and every table HAS a DEFAULT cell factory? From the API it seemed like it was something seperate, but maybe they meant a custom cell factory with the check box.
Basically all I need is to be able to have column headers as people's names, and then under it have their score(for a game I'm creating). Nothing really fancy. I've used Swing Tables before without needing a table model, so it seems like it's about the same with regards to how the FX table is used. Graphics seem awesome, but I don't think they are needed.... MAYBE later....
I appreciate your time spent on this Q, I will run your code later when I have some time :).
Also I was curious, why did you use a map for the images?
I have only used Stacks, Queues, Trees, LinkedLists and Arrays for Collections(Data Structures) but I've been curious about hash maps and the few other cases, but those seem rarely used(At least from what I've seen). Why are we using a hash map for the images?
Thanks again for everything!!!!