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CHARITY runners Jane Chapman, of Bingley, and Hester Stefanuti, of Baildon are taking part in the Great North Run on September 7 to raise money for Grace Hitchens and Martin House Children's Hospice.
Nine-year-old Grace, of Eldwick, Bingley, has a life-limiting condition called Niemann-Pick Type C and has an on-going appeal in her name.
And while she has a twin sister Emily who is unaffected and she also had a brother Harry who lost his fight against the same condition when aged seven.
The day of the Great North Run falls on what would have been Harry's 11th birthday.
"Martin House has supported Harry, Grace and Emily and her family from the day that the disease was diagnosed," said family friend Jane Chapman, a teaching assistant at Ben Rhydding Primary School, Ilkley.
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She and Hester, an office worker at the same school are both members of Baildon Runners club and have taken part in the the Great North Run several times before.
Niemann-Pick Type C is a condition which eats away at the brain's control of body functions. It affects only about 50 children in the UK
Grace's parents Carl and Fiona Hitchens have given up their jobs in the computer industry to care for her.
Last November they started an appeal called Grace's Wish to raise £12,000 so she and her twin sister can swim with dolphins in Florida while she still can - and pay a visit to Disney World as well as to provide her with a specially adapted bike and support Martin House hospice and Niemann Pick-UK .
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Mrs Hitchens said: "We want to fill her life with joy, as she does ours, and let her live life to the fullest while she can.
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE: Boss backs depleted Swindon Supermarine
6:00am Wednesday 27th February 2013
By Andy Warren
6:00am Wednesday 27th February 2013
By Andy Warren
DAVE Webb's squad will be tested to the limit when Supermarine host Abingdon United this evening, but the manager has backed his makeshift side to pick up where they left off last time they faced the Oxfordshire club.
When the two teams met in January the game was called off due to heavy fog with Marine 2-0 up at the break, after Ashley Edenborough and Chris Taylor had given the home side a commanding lead.
The South Marston club are without captain Dave Bampton who has work commitments and the suspended Danny Allen, as well as the injured Sam Morris and Jordan Roberts for the game at the Webb's Wood Stadium.
All four are regularly involved in the first team, but Webb has backed whichever side he selects to secure a vital win in the quest for promotion back to the Southern Premier.
"All four of those players are always pushing for a place, but I have always said we have a good squad of players at the club to deal with things like this," he said.
"We were always going to be tested over the run-in until the end of April, we have to play every Tuesday and every Saturday until the end of the season, so we knew how difficult it was going to be.
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"People will look at games like this and think it is one Supermarine really should be winning, but it will be a difficult game I'm sure, and I'm not taking Abingdon lightly one little bit."
Elsewhere this evening Highworth are in Floodlit Cup action against Cheltenham Saracens, in a game manager John Fisher admitted he and his club could probably do without.
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Paranoid anti-gunners have given all Americans something to fear because they refuse to protect even little elementary school kids. I guess they care more about their agenda (total government control) than they do about actually saving the kids. Blood is on the hands of you liberals.
I noticed someone said that there was an armed guard at Columbine. The guard was doing other duties. You have to remember nothing like that had happened in those days. Besides, they were students and had no problem walking in with long coats. I live in Colorado.
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More gun control? How about mandatory, non-suspended jail time for crimes committed using a weapon? Then add on the other charges and keep the criminal in jail and off the streets.
Next year, instead of laptops, give all of the students handguns. That way, we know no one would ever attack another school, and this would stop bullying in its tracks. Make fun of someone, and you get shot. Sounds reasonable to me.
Local media deliver a report recently about a rash of similar and possibly linked apartment robberies, ask citizens to "be vigilant" but fail to provide even a basic description of the perpetrators (i.e., sex/race). This is completely irresponsible.
Guns don't kill people, abortion does.
Even the left-wing liberals should be very skeptical of why most of President Obama's advisers and cabinet folks are jumping ship.
The mayor … (has suggested) to spend $100,000 to move the General (Anthony) Wayne statue across the street (to the Courthouse Green), but there is no money to run a firefighter academy class to fill all the openings? Guess we see where his priorities are.
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For our first collaborative effort it has been suggested by several users that we implement a Role-Based Access Control system using Design Patterns and Best Practices. There is an official ANSI spec for Role-Based Access Control here:
I think we should start with the domain model and then move onto the data model (database design) which will include a mapping between the two. Once we have a solid Domain Model and Data Model we can start talking about whether we want a service layer, what the application layer would look like, and finally the presentation layer. I think that making a service layer would be nice enhancement because then we could have a Web-based presentation layer and build some Web services on top as well. I think we could purposefully start out simple and go through some refactoring to illustrate how that process fits into the picture.
So, let's start with the domain model.
Here is the progress that has been made so far:
The core spec identifies the following entities:
There is a many-to-many relationship between Users and RolesThere is a many-to-many relationship between Roles and Permissions.There is a one-to-many relationship between Users and Sessions.There is a many-to-many relationship between Sessions and Roles.There is a many-to-many relationship between Objects and Operations.There is a containment relationship between Permissions and (Objects and Operations).
A session is really just a set of active roles for a particular user.
Does anybody want to whip up a quick UML diagram to illustrate this or is the drawing in the spec sufficient? This is a nice spec BTW.
I think maybe is not that necessary as you commented the spec is very good (y) but maybe including a diagram from the spec for examplecould do ?
The application will need to do the user assignments and permission assignments as well as CRUD for each entity identified above.
A permission is really just a container of objects and operations on those objects. So we want to be able ask the system questions like:
Does this user have permission to do this operation on this object?
if ($user->hasPermission('edit', 'article')) {
// do edit on article
} else {
// error: you do not have permission to edit this article
agreed :tup: .
Now what about using the proposed function/method names and prototypes by the spec ?
I believe that the only tricky part of this, considering that there is already an evolved spec, is to come up with a solution or implementation that is flexible, highly reusable and adapted to target the web development environtment.
more later....
Your preliminary schema looks good. I was hoping that we could tackle the object model first and then proceed to the database design, but it appears that you have captured the core relationships in your data model.
So we have the following entities for core RBAC:
The spec also defines the following "functions":
Administrative commands:
AddUser DeleteUser AddRole DeleteRole AssignUser DeassignUser GrantPermission RevokePermission
Supporting system functions:
CreateSession DeleteSession AddActiveRole DropActiveRole CheckAccess
Review functions:
AssignedUsers AssignedRoles
Advanced review functions:
RolePermissions UserPermissions SessionRoles SessionPermissions RoleOperationsOnObject UserOperationsOnObject
So now we have the task of determining the classes, attributes, and methods from this information.
Guys, please stop! :eek:
You've started off with a huge spec, but no goal or context. You will end up with a design that is overkill and then takes ages to code. Modern development is iterative, not waterfall, and this could turn into a worst practices thread rather than a best practices one. Already it's too complicated for just about any web app. I've ever seen. Here are some places where things have gone overboard...
The spec includes methods for setting up roles and permissions for a continually running system. With PHP you can do that by editing a file. It looks very much to me like a spec. for a centralised authentication and authorisation server, rather than a single application. Is that what you want? If not then just edit a single web page and so doing ditch over half the methods.
What do you want the client code to look like? The only operation an authorisation system ultimately has to accomplish is this...
$permissions = $authenticator->getPermissions($username, $password);
if ($permissions->can_edit()) {
Everything else is complication and coupling. The management of the logins would be handled by a separate interface, say an authorisor.
You are jumping straight into a model. Who says the essential entities are those listed above? They may exist as something (being conceptual they probably will), but that something could just be the act of one referencing the other. You have started with a relational DB schema. Who says we need a relational database? Authorisation data is read often, but written rarely. This opens up lot's of possibilities. It is probable that an RDBMS system will still be used, but it is still an implementation decision that can be put off.
Just suppose that we do indeed want an authentication system that could be remoted. Here is one facade and one memento that will do the trick just following the spec. given...
class Authoriser {
function Authoriser() { ... }
function getOperations($username, $password) { ... }
function addUsage($username, $password) { ... }
function dropUsage($username);
function addRole($role) { ... }
function dropRole($role) { ... }
function grantOperation($role, $operation) { ... }
function revokeOperation($role, $operation) { ... }
class Permissions {
function Permissions(&$authoriser, $username, $password) {
$this->_allowed = $authoriser->getOperations(
$username, $password);
function __call() { ... }
Because the permissions are read only after they are fetched, the getOperations() method can pass a simple list (memento pattern) that the dynamic proxy can make into an object. Everything else can be either a SOAP interface or a local interface without affecting the client code. In fact even simpler is to replace all of the twiddly granting and revocation with a simple XML list of roles and operations...
<rbac version="214">
<role name="superuser">
<operation name="edit"/>
Now the first part of the interface is...
class Authoriser {
function Authoriser() { ... }
function getOperations($username, $password) { ... }
function addUsage($username, $password) { ... }
function dropUsage($username) { ... }
function queryAccessList() { ... }
function commitAccessList($xml) { ... }
This has the advantage of making the access system more resilient to changes later on.
This is all worst case of course. No one has said that we will ever need remote access.
yours, Marcus
I believe the goal here should be to implement the Core RBAC spec. The spec is huge, we only need the core for now. The core is pretty simple as I have outlined above. What I think we need to do is define what classes we are going to have and how the operations fit into those classes. I already have a DomainModel in my head that should accommodate the core RBAC using the entities above. If we find that the entities are insufficient, we can always create different one's. My idea was to start with the spec and diverge if necessary.
Here is a set of simple interfaces and some ideas of where I think the various functions belong.
// User class will contain a set of Sessions.
// User Assignment (UA) associates this User with a particular Role.
class User {
function User($name) {}
function createSession() {}
function deleteSession(&$session) {}
function assignUser(&$role) {}
function deassignUser(&$role) {}
// Session class will have a set of active Roles.
class Session {
function Session($name) {}
function addActiveRole(&role) {}
function dropActiveRole(&role) {}
function checkAccess($operation, $object) {}
// Role class will have a set of Permissions.
// Permission Assignment (PA) says that Permissions are granted and revoked to/from Roles.
class Role {
function Role($name) {}
function grantPermission(&$permission) {}
function revokePermission(&$permission) {}
// A Permission is simply an Operation on an Object.
class Permission {
function Permission($operation, $object) {}
// The client code would look something like this:
$session =& $user->createSession();
if ($session->checkAccess('edit', 'article')) {
// user is allowed to edit the article
} else {
// error
Comments on this design are welcome (appreciated).
Hi,first of all I don't have much experience so pardon my (future) mistakes :D, as lastcraf says maybe we should state what is going to be the goal or context for this project or tutorial or whatever :tup:
I never thought to implement all the entire spec but instead adapt it to web applications. I believe the client code will be very similar to the one seratonin and lastcraft posted.
By skimming the spec you can realize that there are at least 2 sets of functions for core rbac: one for the end user and one for the rbac system administration and yes you could say it is very basic and easy to implement because it is. The complexity increases with the other levels of rbac like Hierarchical RBAC, SSD relation and DSD relation for which I still haven't seen a use in web development.
I really find it very easy to code an rbac system the wrong way so this thread is a great oportunity to do the oposite
So where should we start ? maybe a list of requirements ? ......mm I'll remove the db schema
First I think we should divide the functions/classes on
1) client side - the programmer who wants to implement rbac on a new or existing application
2) administration side - this is the interface that interacts with the objects and users of our new or existing application, creating, editing, assigning roles, creating and assigning permissions, etc.
To clarify an object could be for example: the authoring suite of Serendipity then the possible operations would be create, edit or delete entries.
Now about the interfaces ... on the client side
ideally IMO our rbac implementation shouldn't have to know anything about authentication nor sessions. You could authenticate to an LDAP server or via SOAP, or you could have file or db sessions with you own Session class. I know you can have wrappers to integrate everything but I think that that task should be left to the end user.
So for example using the proposed functions we just need:
/* mm what about using functions instead of a class ??? */
class RBAC {
* LoadRoles should only be called once commonly at the start of
* an authenticated user session
* @param UserID - your mapping to your users system/table
function &LoadRoles($UserId) {}
function CheckAccess(&$session, $operation, $object) {}
// some very basic simplistic example for an application that requires
// a user to be authenticated
session_start(); // or Session :: start() or $session->start :p
if (!$_SESSION['auth']) {
require 'auth.inc.php';
$authenticator =& new Authenticator($username, $password);
if ($authenticator->isAuthenticated()) {
$_SESSION['permissions'] =& RBAC::LoadRoles($_SESSION['user_id']);
//later in other part of the app
if (RBAC::CheckAccess($_SESSION['permissions'], 'add', 'comment')) {
// do it
what do you think about this ?
seratonin :in your Session interface regarding your methods addActiveRole and dropActiveRole, I don't think we're going to need those because usually a user is authenticated only once and at that moment all the roles corresponding to the user are loaded (is this a good or bad thing ?). Also I believe that this methods are part of the higher levels of RBAC
about your user and session interfaces see my comments above and tell me what you think
I never thought to implement all the entire spec but instead adapt it to web applications.
As Marcus has said - my interpretation - to implement the whole specification would be way over the top ?
Also, I think the original purpose of this thread, we should remain OO all the way, to design with OO and Proc Prog would proberly do more harm than good for those who are interested in learning OO Design, Design Patterns and Refactoring, et al.
//later in other part of the app
if (RBAC::CheckAccess($_SESSION['permissions'], 'add', 'comment')) {
// do it
Not to happy with this. In my view, it could be a class method that fetches the permissions, as it is not set in stone that you'd be using SESSIONs ?
This requirement could change from application to application is what I'm saying I suppose
Let's say we started off with a more course-grained, "service-oriented" approach and we treated the core RBAC functional specification as a set of "use cases".
We would have:
class RBAC {
// Admin Functions
function AddUser($name) {}
function DeleteUser($name) {}
function AddRole($name) {}
function DeleteRole($name) {}
function AssignUser($user, $role) {}
function DeassignUser($user, $role) {}
function GrantPermission($object, $operation, $role) {}
function RevokePermission($object, $operation, $role) {}
// System Functions
function CreateSession($user, $session) {}
function DeleteSession($user, $session) {}
function AddActiveRole($user, $session, $name) {}
function DropActiveRole($user, $session, $name) {}
function CheckAccess($session, $operation, $object, $result) {}
// Review Functions
function AssignedUsers($role) {}
function AssignedRoles($user) {}
// Advanced Review Functions
function RolePermissions($role, $result) {}
function UserPermissions($user, $result) {}
function SessionRoles($session, $result) {}
function SessionPermissions($session, $result) {}
function RoleOperationsOnObject($role, $object, $result) {}
function UserOperationsOnObject($user, $object, $result) {}
Obviously that is quite a "god" class, so we could break it down further into (where the classes are more like groups of related transaction scripts):
class RBACAdmin {
// Admin Functions
function AddUser($name) {}
function DeleteUser($name) {}
function AddRole($name) {}
function DeleteRole($name) {}
function AssignUser($user, $role) {}
function DeassignUser($user, $role) {}
function GrantPermission($object, $operation, $role) {}
function RevokePermission($object, $operation, $role) {}
class RBACSystem {
// System Functions
function CreateSession($user, $session) {}
function DeleteSession($user, $session) {}
function AddActiveRole($user, $session, $name) {}
function DropActiveRole($user, $session, $name) {}
function CheckAccess($session, $operation, $object, $result) {}
class RBACReview {
// Review Functions
function AssignedUsers($role) {}
function AssignedRoles($user) {}
class RBACAdvancedReview {
// Advanced Review Functions
function RolePermissions($role, $result) {}
function UserPermissions($user, $result) {}
function SessionRoles($session, $result) {}
function SessionPermissions($session, $result) {}
function RoleOperationsOnObject($role, $object, $result) {}
function UserOperationsOnObject($user, $object, $result) {}
Even that still seems too procedural for my taste. I know that we might want a service layer later, but I what I was trying to do is come up with a Domain Model -- something that encapsulates both the data and the behavior of the system which brought me to create the set of interfaces in my previous post. Now, I can see how you would create permissions, assign those permissions to a role and then assign roles to users with that model, but it is still lacking and that is where I was hoping others might help improve it.
After reviewing the original specification and the various posts, I think we should refine/descope the spec a little bit. As Marcus stated in his post, ultimately the client needs to be able to ask the system the following question:
"Does this user have permission to do this operation on this object?"
The original spec calls for "sessions" but I don't think that is necessary for our treatment. I think we should focus on User, Role, and Permission (where a permission contains an operation and an object). Now, typically there are two stages, authentication and authorization. Authentication usually happens once and Authorization will happen many times once the user has been authenticated. So if we want to include authentication, our system must also ask:
"Is the user authethenticated?"
and also provide some mechanism to authenticate the user.
We could have two stateless classes that are responsible for these two activities:
Or we could somehow integrate the behavior directly into our Domain Model. I think that we can expose the functionality with Authenticator and Authorizer interfaces but have then directing calls to the Domain model (User, Role, Permission) which behind those interfaces. Now keep in mind I have not even begun to think about the admin functions (create user, create role etc).
I can see how you would create permissions, assign those permissions to a role and then assign roles to users with that model, but it is still lacking and that is where I was hoping others might help improve it.
I would from this quotation, create 3 classes from it, no ? ie
CreatePermissions { ... }
AssignPermissions { ... }
ManageRoles { ... }
As, for example, when you create a permission, you'd then need to be given to a role(s) - which has nothing to do with Roles in it's self, it's a standalone entity as I see it
Just my thoughts.
I like the idea of breaking things up a bit so that we don't have any "god" classes but those classes (at least by the names) sound more like they should be a group of related domain logic in some domain model. Okay. So we have these administrative functions. Who or what would normally take care of these functions? Most likely it would be a system administrator. If we put the functionality in the User Domain Model, then you will have a bunch of functionality that is not used by 99% of the users. Where to put the administrative functions... Well, we could have an Administrator class which has the functions addUser, deleteUser, addRole, deleteRole, assignUser, deassignUser, grantPermission, revokePermission. So we would have three classes:
class User {
function User($username, $password) {}
function authenticate() {}
function isAuthenticated() {}
function hasPermission($operation, $object) {
$flag = false;
foreach ($this->permissions as $p) {
if ($p->getOperation() == $operation && $p->getObject() == $object) {
$flag = true;
return $flag;
// read-only container
class Permission {
var $operation;
var $object;
function Permission($operation, $object) {
$this->operation = $operation;
$this->object = $object;
function getOperation() {
return $this->operation;
function getObject() {
return $this->object;
class Administrator {
function addUser($user) {}
function deleteUser($user) {}
function addRole($role) {}
function deleteRole($role) {}
function assignUser($user, $role) {}
function deassignUser($user, $role) {}
function grantPermission($role, $permission) {}
function revokePermission($role, $permission) {}
// client code (administrative functions)
$admin =& new Administrator();
// create a new user
$admin->addUser('John', 'username', 'password');
// create a new role
// create a permission (operation/object pair)
$perm =& new Permission('edit', 'article');
// grant the permission to the new role
$admin->grantPermission('author', $perm);
// assign the role to the user
$admin->assignUser('John', 'author');
// client code (general)
$user =& new User($username, $password);
if ($user->isAuthenticated()) {
if ($user->hasPermission('edit', 'article')) {
// do edit
} else {
// error
} else {
// redirect to login
It seems like a simple enough interface...


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Portishead is one of the bands I really love because they sound like Portishead. Nothing else really sounds like they do and to top it off they sound great. Dark, romantic and painful. Right up my alley. The cherry on top is they use a lot of real analog synths. Band member Adrian Utley shows us some of what they have in the video above.
"Portishead are a band formed in 1991 in Bristol, England. The band is named after the nearby town of the same name, 13 km (8 mi) west of Bristol. Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on Dummy and Portishead." – Wikipedia
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Body modifications: body-dropped to the doors, one-off cowl hood, shaved tailgate handle, spare tire rack, roof rack, rear door handles, antenna, James Cashman airbrush and pinstriping
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Project completion date: sometime 2007
Wheels/tires: 20-inch KMC Zippers on Nitto 55 Xtreme 225/35ZR20
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Body mods: shaved handles, third brake light, tailgate handle, taillights, smoothed bed, tubbed inner and outer rear fenderwells, tubbed firewall, tilt bed on air cylinders, suicide doors
Interior: Stewart Warner gauges, B&M floor shifter
Misc: 355 small-block Chevy built by George Montgomery, MSD ignition, full-size axle and rotors
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'Constantine' Adds Actors From 'Lost,' 'True Blood,' And 'True Detective'
Now that NBC's Constantine series has its title character in place in the form of Criminal Minds' Matt Ryan, it's filling out the rest of the cast with a few actors who have appeared in shows that share Constantine's occult, macabre, and supernatural overtones.
Charles Halford, who True Detective fans know as the memorable Reggie Ledoux, will play John Constantine's old friend and confidant Chas. Also joining the cast are Lost's Harold Perrineau, who will play an angel named Manny tasked with overseeing Constantine's actions, and True Blood's Lucy Griffiths, who will portray the female lead, Liv (just like The CW's Vertigo Comic adaptation iZombie will star a woman in supernatural turmoil - get it? Liv? Live? harharhar), a woman marked for death by a demon.


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Al Hunt doesn't get it wrong so much as he just doesn't get it at all:
During a focus group in Denver last week, Jeffrey Penny laid out his "criteria" for giving President Barack Obama his vote this year as he did in 2008.
"I just want to see specifics and quit the trash talk," the 31-year-old web designer and construction worker says in the session conducted by the pollster Peter Hart for the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. "Just get down to business and figure this thing out."
Private conversations with a half-dozen of the smartest Democratic political thinkers — all of whom have played at the highest levels of national campaigns, are genuine Obama backers, and almost never are consulted by the campaign — reveal a consensus of advice for the president: Stop trying to tell voters they're doing better, offer an optimistic sense of how, if re-elected, you would lead America to more prosperous times, and challenge Republicans with specifics.
There is no intervention that can fix this problem because the candidate is Barack Obama and his reelection campaign is ultimately run by Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton was a different political animal. He cut his teeth on the McGovern campaign, but after losing the governorship of Arkansas in aprt due to excess progressivism, he came back as a New Democrat. That is largely how he campaigned and won the presdency in 1992. The client groups of the Democratic party pushed him leftward during his first two years (e.g, gays in the military, tax hikes, gun control and midnight basketball, Hillarycare), resulting in the first GOP Congress in 40 years. Bill Clinton then triangulated his way to reelection by a margin larger than would be predicted by the economy alone. However, as Jay Cost details in his new book, Spoiled Rotten, the Dick Morris prediction that the party would follow him never panned out. As Jay notes at the Weekly Standard, "what we have then is a history of the Democratic party being skeptical of Clinton, then pushing him so far to the left that he lost public opinion, then rebuking his vice president, and then his wife in the 2008 election."
Obama beat Hillary Clinton in large part by running to her left, as the representative of the Democrat client groups (esp. its antiwar faction). Obama was entirely comfortable doing so. After all, despite the best efforts of the establishment media to downplay it, Obama's political career in Illinois showed him to be a man entirely comfortable with far-left and downright radical figures. He racked up one of the most liberal voting records in the U.S. Senate.
Running for office in Illinois and against the mavericky John McCain amid a financial crisis catapulted Obama to the Oval Office without ever having had to take conservatism or libertarianism seriously. The Democrat majorities swept into Congress following the Wall Street panic allowed him to delegate the task of legislating to the most senior, most client-driven members of his party. He passed an unpopular economic "stimulus," an unpopular extention of the bank bailouts, and the unpopular Obamacare.
As with Bill Clinton, the economy failed to recover quickly and robustly, and the Democrats were again shellacked in midterm elections, losing control of the House. However, unlike Bill Clinton, there was and is nothing in Barack Obama's political DNA that counsels triangulation (which is how Rahm Emanuel and Bill Daley end up on the outs while Valerie Jarrett remains close to the president).
Barack Obama's campaign is a series of panders to Democrat client groups because that is who he is and what he does. His recent camapign speech in Cleveland was not the advertised "reset" not only due to message discipline, but also because he is proud to offer nothing new. Contra the delusions of the establishment, Obama is a progressive ideologue. He believes he already has the answers. New solutions are not required. Indeed, beyond picayune gimmicks like the "Buffett rule," any solutions Obama has to offer are likely as unpopular as his other big ideas. There is no intervention which can fix that problem now.
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Trade talks between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Clippers involving Celtics coach Doc Rivers and big man Kevin Garnett may not be dead after all.
The Los Angeles Times, citing NBA executives who were not authorized to speak publicly, reported late Friday that the Clippers will try to resume negotiations Monday, contrary to a report that said the talks were finished.
"I think there is still some life left in it," an executive told the Times. "The door is not closed yet on getting a deal done."
A source told Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports that negotiations were "completely dead" and Rivers would either stay with the Celtics or take a TV job.
The Celtics canceled a scheduled press conference with Rivers and team president Danny Ainge on Friday; the Times reported that the meeting has been tentatively rescheduled for Monday.
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Denholme's Rebekah Tiler warmed-up for her international debut this Saturday in Sweden by breaking five British records in the Northern Schools' Championship at Ashington in Northumberland.
The Year Nine Bingley Grammar School Student snatched 75kg and clean and jerked 96kg for a total of 171kg.
This weekend's trip is the first of several overseas competitions which Rebekah is set to compete in, having made rapid progress in the sport.
She will represent England at junior level in the Tri-Nations Tournament in Landskana, which also features the host country Sweden and Norway.
Her mum Emma said: "Rebekah is excited about going abroad to represent her country. She feels it is a great honour."
Rebekah (pictured), who only turned 14 this month, is being lined up for the European Youth Championships in Lithuania in September and the Commonwealth Championships in Malaysia in November.
If things go well, despite her young age, she could be considered for the Common-wealth Games in Glasgow next year.
Meanwhile, her younger sisters Sophie and Lisa, who also train at Mytholmroyd Weightlifting Club, also took gold in the Northern Schools' Championship.
Sophie, a Year Five student, snatched 17kg and clean and jerked 25kg for a combined 42kg, and Lisa, who is a Year Three pupil, snatched 16kg and clean and jerked 24kg for a total of 40kg.
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For you folks that have issues with LabVIEW and strings, think about doing string operations in a language like Perl or Tcl/Tk.
I have an old package I wrote to let me call Tcl/Tk from LabVIEW. I dump the string into Tcl, then hit Tcl with whatever string operations are needed. Tcl is lightning fast with lists, strings, and regular expressions (uses Perls regexp 5 code). When the result is found, I suck it back into LabVIEW and dump the Tcl session. This keeps memory management clean and allows the vastly superior string memory manager in Tcl to pull the heavy load. This process also cuts down on speggetti LabVIEW code to do the string manipulation.
Another suggestion is to open a memory-locked file and pass big blocks around that way. Windows treats it like shared memory between processes. Dump in your data, call some other program via ActiveX (and yes, IPC is painfully slow when limited to ActiveX), let the other program pull the data from the shared memory and compute. Pull the result back in from shared memory in LV and move on. This works well with complex data types and big(!) data sets that ActiveX would choke on. Think DSP functions.
BTW, LabVIEW rocks, keep up the good work NI! I regularly win contests with my peers who tell me that LabVIEW is slow. While they're still coding their version, I walk up with the answer and blow them away. It's not about run-time speed, it's about time-to-solution, don't lose the formula.
Just want to highlight the last part of Underflow's post:
Which default installed services from NI can be safely turned off to free up memory/processor? Obviously, there is a dependency system, but what SW components are dependent on what services? Is there a management component for these services?
This kind of thing has been a major pet peeve for me the last several years. Not just NI software, but pretty much ALL big-company software. Every time I do an install, I have to chase it around with a virtual pooper scooper. Delete the shortcut off the desktop & the top level of the start menu, stop the items in the system tray and find the option that keeps them from going back there again, set the option that makes it stop nagging me to let it be the default application associated with a bunch of my files, check the task manager for services and processes that are running and use msconfig or the admin console to experiment at stopping and/or disabling them, and so on, and so on, and so on.
It's like every piece of software thinks it should be the one running your computer instead of you. And I actually understand a bit how we've gotten here -- as time has gone one, computers are more and more like a home appliance that everyone owns. And that has only happened *because* software tries to run things for you. People who aren't computer-savvy wouldn't buy a computer, or a printer, or a digital camera, or an iPod, etc., if they needed a lot of tech knowledge before using it. So I see why the software vendors setup all these annoying defaults -- I just wish they'd show more respect to the power users among us, and make it easier to selectively install only the stuff we want.
So that brings me back to NI, whose user base is signficantly more tech-savvy than the general population. But even with NI, I keep disabling the USB device detector in the system tray because I don't use any of the USB DAQ devices. And I often disable some Lookout and Citadel stuff with no obvious ill effects on the theory that I'm not using them either. There are still at least another 5-10 more services and processes I'm not sure about, and it sure seems that in the Task Manager, just about every process listed thinks it needs to hoard 4 MB or more. I can generally google the microsoft services to find out what to disable, but haven't found similar info about the NI services. I'd like to stop and disable whatever is unnecessary, but trial-and-error hasn't been a very effective way to figure that out.
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I think if graphing could be faster, that would help. Escpescially STFT graphs.... the FFT algorithms are pretty fast, no complaints from me about those, but the graphing is somwhow doubling my execution time. Also the amplitude spectrum VI is about twice as slow as the power spectrum VI .. why .. when I use the sqrt function to achieve the same result, it doesn't slow it down that much!
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Set List: Lucinda Williams At The Echoplex
Welcome to The Set List. Here you'll find the latest concert recaps for many of your favorite, or maybe not so favorite, artists. Our bloggers will do their best to provide you with every detail of the show, from which songs were on the set list to what the artist was wearing to which out-of-control fan made a scene. Hey, it'll be like you were there. And if you like what you read, we'll even let you know where you can catch the artist on tour. Feel free to drop us a comment and let us know your concert experience. Oh, and rock on.
By Crystal Larsen
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It's been more than 30 years since she released her first album of original material, but as GRAMMY winner Lucinda Williams said at her sold-out concert at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on Feb. 25, "As you can see, I haven't slowed down."
The comment came just before Williams announced that her untitled 11th studio set will be a double album and released "maybe in July." Williams recruited a multitude of talented musicians to play on the album, including longtime Wallflowers guitarist Stuart Mathis, who joined her onstage. Filling out the band were drummer Butch Norton and longtime Williams collaborator bassist David Sutton.
With 10 studio albums under her belt (plus approximately 34 songs that were recorded for her forthcoming new album), Williams was anything but short of material. After taking the stage a full 30 minutes after her expected start time, Williams, with her trusty lyric book situated on a music stand that was within reading distance, opened with a new song, "Something Wicked This Way Comes" — a swampy blues number that was apparently inspired by the late science fiction/horror author Ray Bradbury.
If there's one thing Williams does very well (other than singing, writing songs and thanking her audience) it's telling stories through songs. She didn't spend too much time on anecdotes about what inspired her songs and who they're about, but that's likely because they're so well-written it's impossible not to develop vivid images of the stories she's telling, or at least your own interpretation of them. One performance highlight was "Bus To Baton Rouge," which Williams mentioned she wrote about her grandmother's house and the memories there — "some good and some not so good." And as she sang of her memories about beautiful lamps and fig trees, she gritted her teeth when she sang, "There are other things I remember, as well/But to tell them would be just too hard."
Throughout her two-hour-long set Williams traveled through 22 songs, and surely many more memories. She didn't move around the stage much, unless it was swaying back and forth while playing her acoustic guitar at the mic, or tapping her foot and clapping her hands during one of Mathis' solos, but she didn't need to. Her fans cheered loudly after literally every song, but you could have heard a pin drop while she sang.
As she closed the "L.A. encore" night of her SoCal tour (she played the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Feb. 18), she brought back her opening act, Southern Rockers the Kenneth Brian Band, for performances of "Joy," her GRAMMY-winning "Get Right With God" and an epic cover of Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World." I left right before the end of the performance so I wouldn't get trampled by the hordes of fans, but as I exited the small venue I was still within earshot of her final words: "Peace, love and independence."
Set List:
"Something Wicked This Way Comes"
"2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten"
"Drunken Angel"
"World Without Tears"
"Lake Charles"
"Bus To Baton Rouge"
"I Lost It"
"Burning Bridges"
"Little Rock Star"
"Real Live Bleeding Fingers And Broken Guitar Strings"
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"Rockin' In The Free World" (Neil Young cover)
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Kerry calls foreign officials in first day on job
WASHINGTON (AP) - New Secretary of State John Kerry had a busy first full day, calling officials in Israel, Turkey, Canada and Mexico.
The State Department says Kerry spoke with Israeli President Shimon Peres (shee-MOHN' PEHR'-ehs) on Saturday about the formation of the country's new government and the Mideast peace process.
Kerry got an update from Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu (AH'-meht dah-voot-OH'-loo), about the investigation into Friday's suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.
Among the issues that came up during Kerry's conversation with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird were Iran, Mali and the proposed oil pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas.
Kerry and Mexico's foreign minister, Jose Antonio Meade, discussed the deadly blast at the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company.
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I like it anytime a journeyman has a flourish, even it only turns out to be a short flourish. Baseball, for a player, is all about believing you can succeed in the faces of constant failure. So it's nice to see Hairston enjoying a mini-reward for his faith in the face of crushing disappointment.
Though if you really want to appreciate a Hairston, check out his dad. The guy has one of the most fascinating backs of a baseball card ever. He spent 14 seasons as a backup OF with one club. You are NEVER going to see anything like that again. Even in Hairston Sr.'s day that was an anomaly. Ed Kranepool was similar, but he spent a few seasons as the Mets' primary 1B. Hairston never got more than 274 PAs in a single season.


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I am seeking advice on this surgery that is now performed in the US, and it is extremely difficult it seems to find answers. Nobody knows something precise about this, although everybody has heard of it. I have a relative that has become almost completely blind after a car accident, and I am trying to help her. We found out about this surgery that it is done, through which there is a cip implanted in the eye and then through some glasses with a video camera incorporated the patient can see. The patients could even drive cars after the surgery. This procedure is new and we want to know if it can be done and how much cost is involved. Please respond if you can give me more information about this! Thank you!
This procedure is in the very much experimental stages at this point. The technology won't be available for public consumption for at least another 10 years, maybe more. The only way to get involved in this research is to enroll in a study where the procedure is being done to test its feasibility as a vision rehabilitation correction method.
The National Institutes of Health funds eye studies that may be able to direct you further.
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Also, large research hospitals are usually doing research in pioneering areas of care. Places such as John's Hopkins Hospital, Cleveland Clinic/Cole Eye Institute, Mayo Clinic, Massachuttets Eye & Ear Hospital are a few that may be involved in such research. You would have to contact each of them individually to inquire about current research.
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This should be a lot of fun! DJ Nova is 1/2 of Nacional Recording artists Pacha Massive. He will do about an hour long set at Nativo! this Wednesday. Also spinning that night will be Mexican Dubweiser, Mando Fever, Sloe Poke and yours truly, Gomez Comes Alive! Also, we will celebrate the birthday of Jennifer Cuevas. So, you ask, "Who is Jennifer Cuevas?" Well, she is responsible for not only bringing Nativo! to you every week, but also Descarga once a month as well as being one of the people responsible for keeping The Root Down up and running. She also happens to be my roommate and anyone who can tolerate me as a roommate is cool in my book. Not only is it her birthday, but she going to get some sort of commemoration from The City of Los Angeles for her services to the city. Maybe she'll be mayor for the day...hmmmm...how can I use this to my favor????
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I guess this is more of a foot fault question. But it's been digging at me for a few weeks now.
The question is, is it a legal jump putt if your jump lands you inside the 10M circle? For instance if the disc is just outside or on the edge of the 10M line.
Had a guy in league who brought it up a few weeks ago and I wasn't sure...Thanks in advance.