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Buhari with Obama in Oval Office
Muhammadu Buhari has won Nigeria's presidential polls, in the country's first election victory by the opposition.
His party said his opponent, the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, admitted defeat and congratulated him.
Gen Buhari was ahead of Mr Jonathan by at least two million votes.
Observers have generally praised the election but there have been allegations of fraud, which some fear could lead to protests and violence.
However, a spokesman for Gen Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC) party praised Mr Jonathan, saying: "He will remain a hero for this move. The tension will go down dramatically."
"Anyone who tries to foment trouble on the account that they have lost the election will be doing so purely on his own," the spokesman added in quotes carried by Reuters.
Finally the long wait is over. The opposition's Gen Buhari has won this pivotal contest.
This is a hugely significant moment in Nigeria's history. Never before has a sitting president lost an election and it feels as though Nigeria has turned a corner.
Since independence from Britain in 1960 there have been numerous coups and rigged elections. This poll has brought to the surface dangerous religious and regional differences. The outcome may be disputed by some and there is still a fear of violence.
But many Nigerians feel for the first time they have the power to vote out a government that is not performing well.
Results at 18:00 local time (18:00 GMT) showed Gen Buhari with 15 million votes, and Mr Jonathan with 12.8 million votes.
Mr Jonathan had led Nigeria since 2010, initially as acting leader before winning elections in 2011.
Nigeria has suffered from several attacks by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people in its drive to establish an Islamic state.
Many voters have said that they believe Gen Buhari is better positioned to defeat Boko Haram.
The Igbo people around the country and South East political zone in particular will ultimately decide who will be next Nigerian president. The arithmetic is quite easy to understand and the only zone that does not necessary connected directly to the main political actors is the South East political zone. There are no Igbo vying to be president or vice president in any of the major political parties in the country. Therefore the process and the interim development empowers SE zone and Ndi-Igbo to be the centre of attraction and the deciding factor in the election.
The political party, be it Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or All Progressive Congress (APC) that is able to convince the Igbo people and South East political zone will definitely, comfortably and reliably win the presidential election in February 2015.
Geography also favours Ndi-Igbo in the fort coming election. The Igbo people are one group in Nigeria that are evenly distributed and naturally placed around the country. There is no state or geo-political zone in Nigeria that Igbo people are not a secondary major group after the indigenous population. The interesting thing is how the Igbo have methodically and assiduously assimilated in every corner of country, living peacefully and comfortably with rest of other groups and fellow Nigerians. The Igbo love of Nigeria and adaptation is pointing to future of Nigeria that is devoid of tribalism and nepotism. As far as Ndi-Igbo are concern the entire Nigeria is home be it north, south, east or west.
With this patriotism and Nigerian –eccentric comes a unique advantage that Igbo people enjoyed in Nigeria more any other group. They participated in all diverse cultures of Nigeria and speak almost all the major languages in Nigeria. At the core of Ndi-Igbo is a true Nigerian that accepts Nigeria as one nation. Therefore in 2015 election, Ndi-Igbo will reap the benefit for residing in every nooks and corners of Nigeria. For the path to victory must go through the contours of Igbo political landscape.
In Northern Nigeria despite the threat of Boko haram, Igbo people are still residing in all major centers of the northern Nigeria and they are fully assimilated and speak Hausa, Fulani and other indigenous northern languages brilliantly. In the south West Igbo people reside populously in Lagos, Ibadan and other parts of south western Nigeria.
No matter the propaganda in the media and on internet, Ndi-Igbo and SE have not made the final decision on who will get their precious votes and support. The battle ground for election decision and victory will not be in the North or South West because both parties PDP and APC have active presence in those regions and in the geo-political zones. Therefore the final battle ground is in South-East political zone; and whichever political party that sweeps the SE area and have the support of majority of Igbo will ultimately win the presidency in the forth coming election.
First and foremost, what do I mean by 21st century Nigeria?
The word 21st century is now ubiquitous and superfluous in any political and economic dialogue but its significance have not diminished nor become pliable.
21st century has been called the century of possibilities and at one point it has been called the African century. The 21st century is anticipated to be a century that Africa will put her house in order and take her place under the sun. Nigeria being the largest economy and most populous in Africa is expected to be in the vanguard.
The antecedent century was marked with African humiliation of conquest by European invaders, swiveled around slavery and colonialism. Therefore with the emerging 21st century, Africans in general and Nigeria in particular must assert themselves with innovative breakthroughs and scientific ideas in high technology, modern education and high standard of living to achieve sustainable freedom and true independent.
All things being equal, it is necessary, if not indispensable that the 21st century Nigeria must be a century of possibilities and political rebirth consolidated with enlightenment and optimum economic development. So, whatever happens in Nigeria politically could determine the sustainability of the country's progress in 21st century,
Nigeria is gearing and getting ready for an important 2015 election in February. The two rivalry parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its major opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC) have finally produced their presidential candidates. The incumbent Nigerian President Jonathan of PDP will be challenged by retired General Buhari of APC.
This is a serious election due to the circumstances that Nigeria found herself. Nigeria has surprise both her friends and foes on her economic and political sustainability especially on her continue existence as a corporate entity. Contrary to the proposition forwarded and propounded by naysayers Nigeria must continue to exist as a united country beyond their 2015 prediction of disillusion and meltdown. That is where the question of leadership comes in; Nigeria needs an intelligent, prudent, reliable, patriot, peaceful and unity conscious leader.
President Jonathan or General Buhari: who is the best candidate suited to be called the leader of 21st century Nigeria and who can lead Nigeria to the promise land. As I have aforementioned Nigeria is in a unique position. Economically speaking and despite the falling oil price, Nigeria has achieved an affirmative and quantifiable macroeconomics stability. Nigeria at the moment is the largest economy in Africa, no matter how you look at it, it is a great achievement. The economy is projected to grow at above 5 percent and inflation rate is below 9 percent and attraction of foreign investments conyinues.
Although, the nosedive of oil price is nibbling on the strength and value of naira due to overvalue US dollar and fervent aggressive currency speculators, the streams of foreign investments have not waned. Nigeria continues to have its low debt ratios which make it attractive to investors and inducement to leverage capital.
On the other side, Nigeria has some traceable and intractable problems with poverty and unemployment. The huge issue of Boko Haram and its destructive tendencies are threat to political stability especially in the north east of Nigeria in particular and the entire northern Nigeria in general.
The triumph over corruption must be comprehensive and long term. The defeat of corruption becomes sustainable when the political and social infrastructures are set up and effectively managed. The civic institutions including the security apparatus, courts and media must be independent and incorruptible. The citizens must be empowered to participate in creating a corrupt free society. The clergy, schools and moral leaders must be employed in the eradicating corruption. Our children and next generation of Nigerian leaders must be taught in schools on how corruption annihilates and minimize the wealth and wellbeing of a nation.
Nigeria needs a leader that understands and formulates economic policy that can be effectively communicate to investors and can be able to speak the language of economics to capitalists and potential investors. Nigeria needs a leader of purpose that can unite the country's diverse population for the greater good of our country. Nigeria needs a visionary leader that comprehends how the 21st century world works and understands that a local action and decision have an international implication.
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Link to a USA Today story on a $22,180.96 Parlee
Link to a breakdown of the bike
Dr. D, how much would you charge for that paint job?
$22k+ and is it just me or are the handlebars a little high for a "race bike"?
Link to a USA Today story on a $22,180.96 Parlee
Link to a breakdown of the bike
Dr. D, how much would you charge for that paint job?
$22k+ and is it just me or are the handlebars a little high for a "race bike"?
Last edited by Allen; 07-16-07 at 01:46 PM.
Damn nice bike! Would not even consider commuting on it though.
1 bronze, 0 silver, 1 gold
Gee, there is like 12.5K in frame and wheels alone.Originally Posted by AllenG
Bet you don't use that as a daily commuter.
It's a beautiful piece of machinery and art.
However, that bike will never be commuted on, or raced on, or really ridden very much. Some rich older dude will don his assos bibs, and ride it gingerly less than one mile each way from his McMansion to the coffee shop in a very toney suburb. At which point he'll sit and loudly swap bike war stories from his last charity ride with his other pals who also cruised over from 3 blocks away on their $12K bikes, and in their assos kits.
Also, none will be wearing helmets, and they won't tip the barista.
I've seen it. It's happens in Wayzata Minnesota every weekend.
^^Little judgmental there?
Anywho, there is room to spend more. There is also a diminishing return on road bikes past about $2k. Dude has the coin and likes nice bikes then he's free to support the bike industry. Lord knows I can't keep up with that kind of budget. As to saddle height, perhaps it hasn't adjusted for the rider.
For 22k, I would want streamers coming out of the bar ends. Made of unicorn hair.
Someone needs to invent lightweight water for that bike. $500/l.
You ride a bike, we GET IT, no need to rant about it or look down on others....its JUST A BIKE...get over yourselves.
Someone needs to invent lightweight water for that bike. $500
Dude. A little re-branding, a little marketing, a killing could be made.
No powercranks?
I'm sorry, but that kind of money spent on a bike, or $100,000+ on a car, or $1mill on house all bring the word "profane" to my mind. I don't care how cool it is, it's ridiculous.
"Pain is weakness leaving the body"......yea, right!
You aren't from around HERE, are ya?Originally Posted by kjmillig
What sells for a million bucks around here is a SHACK!
Granted it's a quaint little 1/1 fix-er-upper, in the far corner of Carmel, but still a "shack" in my book!
One of twelve new "houses" being built on Monterey beach can be had for ONLY...
4.75 million dollars.
Or heck, Allen Fundt sold his property at Bixby Bridge for $35 million a few years back.
In fact, realtors around here speak differently . . .
Oh, that house is One Two. Or in the example above; four seven five.
Our house is seven fifty. Which is LESS! it's only $750,000!
Granted our mortgage is on 1/3 of that. Bought it in '91!
If it were seven five, THAT would be million$!
If I didn't grow up here, I wouldn't be able to afford to live here!
And come August, the place is thick with million dollar CARS! (The Pebble Beach Concourse d'Elegance)
While driving a taxi a couple of years ago I asked the fair what their favorite marquee was. Ferrari was the answer. And as we came to a stop at Ocean & Carpenter, ther were SIX other cars at the intersection.
ALL FERRARI'S!! Bet you've NEVER that happen in YOUR town!
Anyway, I'm derailing here. (I'm also a train collector)
I'll check the link and get you a quote for the paintjob!
$ $ $!
Weeeell, if I didn't have the article quote, I'd probably say around $600. But then I can be a "cheapo" sometimes. $800 isn't out of line, but it's not really THAT tricky of a paintjob.Originally Posted by AllenG
THIS paintjob is $4,000 though!
(sorry, I tried to get the picture to show up without clicking on it, but no go)
Each little piece of tape was cut using a small pair of Swiss Army knife scissors.
Took about 4 1/2 months to get the whole frame/fork & stem done. It took 3 days to remove the tape!
Of course, that one was from a few years ago, so maybe it should be $6,000 now?
I'll have to send my card to that shop in Mill Valley.
Last edited by Dr.Deltron; 07-16-07 at 10:38 PM.
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Originally Posted by Dr.Deltron
There ya go.
That's astounding.
Thank You!Originally Posted by AllenG
Thanks again!
Amazing. Methinks $4000 is a bargain for a paint job like that.Originally Posted by Dr.Deltron
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OOOOOOH! AAAAAAAH!Originally Posted by Nicodemus
Now THERE'S a bike I could ride out to the Concourse d'Elegance and actually GET NOTICED!
(Spyker is a Dutch company that makes exotic CARS, including the soon to be released D-12 Peking-to-Paris, a 500 hp W12 powered SSUV. That's Super Sports Utility Vehicle)
And the wheels on the bike have the same look as the wheels on the CAR!
I wonder if the bike can do 0-60 in 6 seconds too?
It sure would teach a driver and their insurance company a lesson if you get hit on one of these.
Dr. D. Love your paint job, you make the American Chopper painters look like a bunch of hacks!!
Thank you so much!Originally Posted by Nicodemus
I only got a B on it for a graphic design class.
The musical notes actually LOOK like something identifiable!
The instructor marked you down if the design wasn't pure "graphics", ie; no identifiable elements beyond lines, circles, triangles & squares/rectangles.
Actually the seattube is a kind of "Totem Pole".
Starting at the bottom it's;
The road leading to the grassy field where the music is playing and the sun is shining and the bees are buzzing.
From ME? NOT yet! I still can't get pics to load the way others do.Originally Posted by Nicodemus
(as you can tell from the fact that someone ELSE posted my picture all big and bold and chit!)
To see the pics of the paintjob in question, you have to click the link to the article, then click the "What goes into making a $22K bike" link. Then click to picture #3. Smoked Coffee paint; $800.
Again, I don't know how to get it from there to this thread!
THANKS b2m!!!Originally Posted by bike2math
But due to the fact that bicycles & motorcycles are TOTALLY different canvas's, I think Nubs does a pretty dang nice job. He's alot better with freehand airbrushing than I am. His "Dragon" paint for the Aragon bike was awesome!
Too bad there's nowhere on most bicycle frames to do such art!
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Has anyone heard of being able to tell if its a boy\girl depending on the rate of the heartbeat?
Has anyone heard of being able to tell if its a boy\girl depending on the rate of the heartbeat? I've heard many different sides to this, and I have even compared this to other people that have recently had babys. I've heard the faster the heart beat, the more likeliness that its a girl, is this true? The first doctors appointment, the babys heartbeat was 168 beats per minute.
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Pretty much everything you have heard about how to determine the sex of an unborn child is not true. The only SURE way is to get an ultrasound done. I will tell you from my experience that it is best to wait until you are at the 20 week mark. I went and had a 3D-4D ultrasound done at 17 weeks and I was told I was having a boy. Then I went to my regular doctor and was told by a normal 2D ultrasound that I was having a girl... so if you don't want to go through that emotional anxiety, wait!posted 11/18/2010 by firefightermommy27
Thank you for all your answers! I do appreciate them all. I should be finding out in 3 weeks whether It is a boy or girl. I will be 19 weeks.posted 11/18/2010 by kenzalator15
My baby girl's heartrate ranges from 133-155. Its just an old wives tale.posted 11/18/2010 by heathercolburn
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ATHENS, Ga. - Sophomore Courtney McLane and freshman Alexa Guarachi bowed out of the 2010 NCAA Doubles Championship Friday with a 6-3, 6-2 loss in the Round of 16 to Stanford senior Lindsay Burdette and junior Hilary Barte. The Cardinal duo now moves on to the Quarterfinals on Saturday.
"We had opportunities today," head coach Jenny Mainz said. "Stanford is a very proven team with a great record. They were very proficient. As soon as we made unforced errors they capitalized immediately. We played a solid first few games, however they are very disciplined and give up nothing. We lost to a very good team. We had to do the right things the entire time to have a chance to win. We started that way, but we didn't end that way."
The first set was on serve through four games before Barte and Burdette broke for the 3-2 lead. Guarachi and McLane would hold in their next service game setting the score at 4-3, however the Stanford team went on to win the final two games of the set, including a break in the ninth game, to take the first 6-3.
In the second, Barte and Burdette broke in game two for the early edge. With a 0-40 lead in the third game it appeared Alabama would break back, but the Cardinal duo rallied to win and take the 3-0 advantage. The duration of the set remained on serve until Barte and Burdette delivered one final break to take the second 6-2.
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Candy-colored Weinstein Company film "Populaire," starring Deborah Francois, Romain Duris and Berenice Bejo, centers on the world of 1950s competitive typing, and is sitting with generally solid reviews from critics.
All the hotness in "Adore" (Robin Wright, Naomi Watts and Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville as the women's hunky sons) can't bring reviewers around to the title, directed by Anne Fontaine; Time Out New York writes that one "can barely stifle a laugh" through the film, which probably isn't what the sexual thriller is going for.
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Populaire Dir. Regis Roinsard, France | Weinstein Company | Cast: Deborah Francois, Berenice Bejo, Romain Duris | 71% Fresh | Slant Magazine: "Candy-colored to a potentially cavity-causing degree, the film is a bubbly regurgitation of retrograde romantic comedy tropes and reactionary sexual politics."
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A Teacher Dir. Hannah Fidell, USA | Oscilloscope | 38% Rotten | Cast: Lindsay Burdge, Will Brittain | The Hollywood Reporter: "What makes the film work is that this potentially lurid material is treated at all times with sensitivity and probing psychological seriousness."
Salinger Dir. Shane Salerno, USA | Weinstein Company | 33% Rotten | Entertainment Weekly: "At two hours and nine minutes, Salinger is at least 40 minutes too long, suffering, just like the book, from its creators' obsessive zeal. Only here, you can't page ahead to the next chapter." | Our TOH! review
Touchy Feely Dir. Lynn Shelton, USA | Magnolia Pictures | 33% Rotten | Cast: Rosemarie DeWitt, Scott McNairy, Ellen Page | Variety: "Trading her improv-based filmmaking style for a more traditional screenplay-grounded model, Lynn Shelton delivers an uneven mix of half-formed conflicts." | Our TOH! video interview with Lynn Shelton and Rosemarie DeWitt


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Lagerfeld Confidential
|Release Date: October 24, 2007
|Running Time: 90 mins.
|MPAA Rating: None
|Box Office: $66,510.00
|Genre: Documentary, Foreign
Karl Lagerfeld
Nicole Kidman
Rodolphe Marconi
Grégory Bernard
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Summary:This is the first time fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has agreed to let anyone document his life. Fascinated by the "man behind the sunglasses," Rodolphe Marconi allows us to see beyond the "Karl Lagerfeld mystery." The confrontation between the "image" created by Karl Lagerfeld and the image hidden behind the glasses questions the modern media: with the raw and sensational "reality image" on one hand, and the artificial, supernatural fashion image on the other. Today Karl Lagerfeld is part of a worldwide heritage. He is revealed as an intellectual insomniac with a thirst for literature, films and paintings; a fan of Art Deco and contemporary art; a lover of aesthetics in the extreme as wel... Full Summary >>


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Sowing seed for the garden
Have you started sowing seed for your vegetable garden? For your perennial garden? For annuals in the coming season?
There is a science to being successful in this endeavor. Remember this key statement when attempting to sow any seed for your landscape: "There is an optimal or best temperature for every species or kind of seed. At the optimal temperature, you get the highest percentage of seed that germinates or sprouts."
Most common garden annuals and vegetable seed need a period of dry storage before they will germinate. This is according to the research of Dr. Norman Deno, published in his work titled "Theory and Practice of Seed Germination."
Their germination temperature is placed at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The following is a list of seed that germinates precisely at 70 degrees Fahrenheit: New Zealand spinach, leeks, celery, celeriac and salsify.
Those crops which germinate best at 75 degrees Fahrenheit are as follows: asparagus, lettuce, onion, parsley and pea.
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richy, what turnaround? I have nothing against Vettel all i have ever said is that he has been driving better cars than the rest and that the RB7 made him look better than he is in 2011 but any f1 fan can see that he is a top driver and must be regarded as the second best German driver in F1 behind Nico.


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Image rights hold up Mourinho deal
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ASU police officer on leave after professor Ersula Ore's arrest
TEMPE, AZ - A campus police officer accused of using excessive force on an Arizona State University professor during an arrest is on paid administrative leave.
The school said Wednesday that a preliminary review found Officer Stewart Ferrin neither racially profiled English professor Ersula Ore nor used excessive force in the May 20 arrest.
The university has asked the FBI to determine if there were any civil rights violations.
ASU police say Ore was stopped for walking in the middle of a street near campus and refused to show officers any identification.
They say Ore resisted arrest and kicked an officer in the shin after being handcuffed.
Ore says she was walking in the street because construction work obstructed the sidewalk.
Ore's supporters say simply putting the officer on leave isn't good enough.
"The officer needs to be removed from the force. You can't have an officer manhandling a professor," Bishop Jeffrey Metcalff said.
ASU police say the Maricopa County Attorney's Office will review the case.


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by Whitney Spaner, 02/29/2012
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Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St.
Every day is a weeper at this new musical based on the 2006 indie film about two aspiring musicians who meet, are magnetically drawn to each other and begin a creative partnership that limns a romantic dalliance. As the characters develop an emotional connection, the songs they write, perform and eventually record capture the sentiments they feel, both for each other and for their own lost loves. The musical version gained a following Off-Broadway last year and is now opening on Broadway featuring the affable Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti as the protagonists simply named "Guy" and "Girl." Bring some tissues—this has the potential to be a very teary, but lovely, night.


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April 2, 2014 | Volume 101 / Number 14
The 2014 baseball season is coming up fast with Babe Ruth and American Legion signups behind us and practices ready to start.
With an astounding growth in local interest, while other Montana cities can't field teams, we had over 50 kids sign up this year and we're not done yet.
That makes for two American Legion teams and three Babe Ruth teams. While the numbers of kids signing up is increasing, the number of fields we have to utilize isn't quite there.
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Anyone else seen this? I just saw it tonight, and I really enjoyed it. It is not going to win awards, but the kid actors did a pretty good job, and the monster reveal was kind of cool, if typical for Spielberg.
What kind of movie is it? Scary?
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What kind of movie is it? Scary?
Its got a few suspenseful shots, but it is not too bad. It is definitely not horror. It is a pretty good personal drama wrapped in a Spielberg and Abrams plot. I don't want to give too much away, as it will ruin some of the film.
You mean the hotel chain? Or what?
Hit the matinée this afternoon, I enjoyed it. And the kids did a great job.
Going to see it in about an hour. I cant wait.
C.John, I hate your avatar. I've smacked my screen on three separate occasions.
My family really liked it.
Quite good.
Carrying the banner for ISU.
I enjoyed it a lot
while not like the goonies, the kids on the movie kind of reminded me of the goonies movie.
Originally Posted by CtownCyclone
You mean the hotel chain? Or what?
The hotels are probably scarier than this film.
I just got back from seeing it. Great movie all-around; writing, action, story, effects. It all worked perfectly.
It is definitely not horror.
No, but there certainly were some moments that made the audience jump.
"The fact that anybody can say anything does not mean that anything anybody says is worth hearing"
I just got back from it too! My friend and i enjoyed it..there are some suspenseful parts.
Just saw it. The military took it in the snoz again. They bungled it again.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
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Just saw it. The military took it in the snoz again. They bungled it again.
movies always get the truth wrong about Jedi's, Starship Captain's and mullet wearing LA supercops as well.
Damn you Hollywood!!!
*shakes fist*
Super 8 is to E.T. as Slingblade is to Forrest Gump.
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Posted by Norm Wattenberger on 11 June 1998, at 12:57 p.m., in response to Only bet big on MINUS counts!, posted by D-M on 11 June 1998, at 2:44 a.m.
I have a much easier system. In my system, there is no TC conversion and you reset the count every hand which reduces errors. 9, ten and Ace are -1; 2-6 are +1. If you have a count of +2 or -2 you bet one unit. On a count of zero, you bet the max. The secret is that you only count the two first cards that the dealer gets. So, if the dealer is going to get a ten and a six, you have a count of zero and bet the max.
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Golden Globes: 5 Big Things We Learned About The 2014 Awards Season
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Its almost impossible to look at the Golden Globes as anything but a marker for how the upcoming Academy Awards will go. Considering how little they utilized hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, you could hardly call it an intentionally funny three hours of television. But viewers certainly got a good idea of how the Oscar race might pan out, and not all of the winners were quite who we expected though most of them were. I, for one, will be picketing next years event for not recognizing my thousands of write-ins for Keanu Reeves in 47 Ronin. Meanwhile, here are five things we learned while watching this years Globes.
Story Trumps Direction For Best PictureI dont think anyone was too surprised when Alfonso Cuarons name was called as the Best Director for his nailbiter of an outer space thriller Gravity, as his efforts in achieving such amazing cinematography outweighed those of his competition. But Gravity didnt take home the trophy for Best Picture, which went to Steve McQueens slavery drama 12 Years a Slave. That really isnt too big of a surprise as well, as just the words "slavery drama" immediately bring the words "Oscar bait" to mind. 12 Years was a film that McQueen directed with precision, certainly, but it was the story that won the award tonight.
That said, how interesting was it that 12 Yearss story still wasnt the most interesting one in the minds of the voters, as Spike Jonze took home the Best Screenplay trophy for his script for Her. Is there something to be read into this? Maybe so, but we dont want to be the guys saying a story about a relationship with an electronic voice is more important than the true story of a man who lost part of his adult life to unforgivable monstrosities. We will say, however, that Gravity's Best Picture Oscar might not be as much of a guarantee as some previously thought.
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Reviews continue to roll in for Paul Greengrass' "Captain Phillips," following its New York Film Festival premiere. The breathless thriller stars Tom Hanks in the title role as a real-life cargo ship captain contending with Somali pirates. The positive if tempered reactions from early reviews have ratcheted up to glowing praise with this new batch of write-ups: the Telegraph calls Greengrass "at the top of his game" and Hanks' performance "outstanding," while the New York Daily News claims the film is "the most gripping based-on-fact film this year."
In first reviews from early September, Variety wrote that it was a "kinetic docudrama that always impresses without ever connecting emotionally" in the same way as Greengrass' previous films, and Indiewire claimed it does justice to the tense material -- but still plays generally by the book.
The Wrap asserted that the Somali pirates are filmed more like zombies than humans, giving the proceedings a whiff of Rudyard Kipling.
The film hits theaters October 11. Check out the new trailer, after the jump.
Four years after it made headlines, the harrowing ordeal of commercial shipping captain Richard Phillips gets the bigscreen treatment care of verite specialist Paul Greengrass in "Captain Phillips." The result is a kinetic docudrama that always impresses without ever connecting emotionally in quite the same way as the helmer's prior "Bloody Sunday" and "United 93," with which "Phillips" forms a loose trilogy of average Joes and Janes caught in the throes of politically motivated violence. Setting sail with an opening-night berth at the New York Film Festival (where another seafaring epic, "Life of Pi," launched last year), this impeccably well-made, gripping but grim survival tale should spark a flurry of awards buzz for star Tom Hanks and powerful Somali newcomer Barkhad Abdi, but may prove too grueling to make major waves with Academy voters or the multiplex crowd.
It's hard to imagine "Captain Phillips" in the hands of any other filmmaker -- and "Captain Phillips" in the hands of Greengrass looks exactly like anyone familiar with his work would expect. It does justice to the material even while playing too conscientiously by the book. For better or worse, Greengrass' virtuous approach is a thinkpiece on imperialism that's been smuggled into commercial escapism. "I know how to handle America," the head kidnapper asserts. The outcome, it seems, suggests that America feels the same way about him.
From "Gravity" to "All Is Lost" and "12 Years A Slave," 'tis the season for survival stories and another good one joins this classy club with Captain Phillips, a pulsating account of the kidnapping of the captain of an American cargo ship by Somali pirates. Something of a companion piece for director Paul Greengrass to his superb United 93, which was based on the real-life takeover of one of the 9/11 aircraft, this immaculately made reconstruction of a chaotic incident will have a much better time of it commercially than the earlier film due to the presence of star Tom Hanks and because it has a happy ending.
But while Phillips comes off as resourceful, brave and dedicated, his captors more often than not resemble zombies — Greengrass often shoots them in a way that makes their eyes invisible, rendering them soulless. The group's leader Muse (Barkhad Abdi) gets in a few lines about how his people are victimized by larger nations (who have overfished the waters) and the local warlords (who pocket whatever fortunes these pirates manage to pilfer), but he mostly comes off as a mere monster, constantly chewing khat leaves and glowering.
Greengrass is obviously no colonist — his "Bloody Sunday" was an impassioned tale of Northern Ireland bearing the brunt of British violence — but his portrayal here of a noble white officer suffering at the hands of insidious black pirates smacks of Rudyard Kipling.
British director Paul Greengrass has the rare gift of working with action-thriller material and making something cohesive, layered and complex from it. He did so superbly in United 93 and in his two Bourne films: and with Captain Phillips, an account of Somali pirates boarding an American cargo ship and kidnapping its captain, Greengrass remains at the top of his game.
The film also features an outstanding performance by Tom Hanks, who has been handed his strongest lead role in years: both he and Greengrass should find themselves short-listed for awards in coming months.


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Executive Perks: Alive and Well
CEOs continue to enjoy such perks as personal jet use, country club memberships and even lavish home theaters.
As shareholders scrutinize larger pay issues – among them, heavy stock grants – other goodies are flying under the radar, according to a story in Monday's Journal.
Fewer companies eliminated perks last year than in 2010 or other recent years, according to a Hay Group analysis of proxy filings by 300 U.S. public firms. Among a few of the more notable perks that survived the cuts:
- $63,106: In apartment fees for John Madden, the brother of shoe mogul and CEO Steve Madden and a longtime board member at Steven Madden Ltd.
- $500,000: To build a "dedicated" TV and film screening room at the home of CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves.
- $1.7 million: In security services for Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos at "business facilities" and during "business-related travel."
Steven Madden, CBS and Amazon did not return requests for comment.
"You just look at some of this stuff and it's just crazy," says Michelle Leder, editor of Footnoted.com, who scrutinizes corporate filings on her site. "You think, wow, how did they get this approved?"
The most popular perk categories last year included personal jet use (68% of companies), security personnel and services (30%), country club memberships (17%) and spectator events, such as the Super Bowl (14%).


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Hey! How are you?
Just wanted to drop by and let you know that the fans are putting together a birthday video for Jacoby! Here's the link so you can check it out and be a part of it!
Spread the word to your friends! Thanks, and hope you have a good day/night!
Aww that's a shame poor coby wasn't well enough to come back out, its a good thing we didn't wait around all night like we were going to! ooh did you manage to get pictures with all of them? haha tony got wasted /after/ the gig? a bit odd, but ok! its great that they're all lovely guys though, i cant wait to meet and picturise them all up close :) but now that you've met them all, you need something new to aim for!
Heya - we met at the brixton show at about 1am! dont know if you remember, i just came across your profile randomly and remembered! did you wait outside until jacoby came back out? or did he even come back out? he was kinda collapsing all over the place before he went back in, poor bloke :(
hope you had a great time at whichever gigs you had lined up (my memory's awful!) im sure we'll meet again at the next PR gig! you're as dedicated as we are! more, by the look of your tattoos!


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Seton Hall Pulls Away From Minutemen, 104-79
Dec. 11, 2010
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AMHERST, Mass. - Behind 60 percent shooting from the floor, including 11-of-22 from 3-point range, Seton Hall set a Mullins Center record for points in a game as it defeated UMass, 104-79 on Saturday night. Anthony Gurley led all scorers with 26 points for the Minutemen (7-3), while Jordan Theodore (17 points) led seven Pirates (4-4) that scored in double figures.
The previous Mullins Center record for points in a game was 102, set by Fresno State on Dec. 10, 1996, and matched by UMass on Feb. 28, 2007 against La Salle. The 56 second-half points by the Pirates was tied the opponent record set by Providence on Dec. 7, 2000.
UMass shot 34.7 percent in the game, but were 9-of-22 (40.9 percent) from 3-point range. Freddie Riley (14 points) was 4-of-10 from behind the arc and Gurley was 3-of-5.
Herb Pope had a double-double for Seton Hall with 11 points and 13 rebounds, while UMass was led on the boards by Sampson Carter's career-high 10.
Seton Hall tied a Mullins Center record for opponent points in half with 56 in the second period. The Pirates opened up a 24-point lead, 93-69 with 4:44 to go and the lead reached its largest, 27 points, on a Fuquan Edwin 3-pointer with 1:36 left, 104-77.
The Pirates used a 15-4 run over a four-minute span in the second half to turn a six-point lead into a 17-point advantage, 73-56 with 12:05 left. Patrik Auda scored eight points in the run, including a pair of 3-point plays. The Seton Hall lead reached 21 points on back-to-back transition lay-ups by Keon Lawrence to make it 83-62 with 8:56 remaining.
Terrell Vinson opened the second half with back-to-back hoops inside as UMass started the half with an 8-2 run to pull within seven, 50-43 with 18:26 left. After a pair of Pirates 3-pointers put them back up by 13, the Minutemen scored seven-straight as they forced two turnovers in a row with their fullcourt press. A Gurley lay-up made it a six-point game, 58-52 with 15:48 left.
After UMass pulled within four, Seton Hall closed the first half by scoring seven-straight points to take a 13-point lead to the locker room, 48-35. Gurley led all scorers with 15 points in the first half as the Minutemen were 6-of-10 from 3-point range, but made just 5-of-26 from inside the arc. Robinson led the Pirates with 10 points as his club shot 50 percent in the opening 20 minutes and blocked six UMass shots.
3-pointers by Gurley and Riley sandwiched two free throws by Sampson Carter as UMass went on an 8-0 spurt to cut what was a 15-point deficit to seven, 35-28 with 4:20 left in the first half. That turned into a 15-4 Minutemen run as an acrobatic hoop in the lane by Gurley made it a four-point game, 39-35 with 2:51 on the clock.
The teams traded the lead four times and were tied four times in a back-and-forth first nine minutes of the game, but Keon Lawrence's 3-pointer with 10:37 left in the half started an 18-3 run that saw the Pirates build a 15-point lead, 35-20 with 5:54 left in the first half.
Gurley asserted himself early in the contest, scoring 10 of UMass' 13 points in the first seven minutes, including back-to-back 3-pointers that gave the Minutemen a 13-11 lead with 13:02 left in the first half.
The Minutemen do not return to action for 11 days. They host UCF on Wednesday, Dec. 22 at the Mullins Center in a 7 p.m. tip.
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public final class ClientGateway {
private static ClientGateway instance;
private static List<NetworkClientListener> listeners = Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<NetworkClientListener>());
private static final Object listenersMutex = new Object();
protected EventHandler eventHandler;
private ClientGateway() {
eventHandler = new EventHandler();
public static synchronized ClientGateway getInstance() {
if (instance == null)
instance = new ClientGateway();
return instance;
public void addNetworkListener(NetworkClientListener listener) {
synchronized (listenersMutex) {
class EventHandler {
public void onLogin(final boolean isAdviceGiver) {
new Thread() {
public void run() {
synchronized (listenersMutex) {
for (NetworkClientListener nl : listeners)
This code throws a ConcurrentModificationException But I thought if they are both synchronized on the listenersMutex then they should be executed in serial? All code within functions that operate on the listeners list operate within syncrhonized blocks that are synchronized on the Mutex. The only code that modifies the list are addNetworkListener(...) and removeNetworkListener(...) but removeNetworkListener is never called at the moment.
What appears to be happening with the error is that a NetworkClientListener is still being added while the onLogin function/thread is iterating the listeners.
Thank you for your insight!
EDIT: NetworkClientListener is an interface and leaves the implementation of "onLogin" up to the coder implementing the function, but their implementation of the function does not have access to the listeners List.
Also, I just completely rechecked and there is no modification of the list outside of the addNetworkListener() and removeNetworkListener() functions, the other functions only iterate the list. Changing the code from:
for (NetworkClientListener nl : listeners)
for(int i = 0; i < listeners.size(); i++)
Appears to solve the concurrency issue, but I already knew this and would like to know what's causing it in the first place.
Thanks again for your continuing help!
Exception: Exception in thread "Thread-5" java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.ArrayList$Itr.checkForComodification(ArrayList.java:782) at java.util.ArrayList$Itr.next(ArrayList.java:754) at chapchat.client.networkcommunication.ClientGateway$EventHandler$5.run(ClientGateway.java:283)
EDIT Okay, I feel a little dumb. But thank you for all your help! Particularly MJB & jprete!
Answer: Someone's implementation of onLogin() added a new listener to the gateway. Therefore(since java's synchronization is based on Threads and is reentrant, so that a Thread may not lock on itself) when onLogin() was called we in his implementation, we were iterating through the listeners and in the middle of doing so, adding a new listener.
Solution: MJB's suggestion to use CopyOnWriteArrayList instead of synchronized lists


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My wife has been trying to book a trip all night, and the first time she tries it the price goes down. Then she tries again and it says her credit card info is incorrect and I know that can't be the case because she probably tried doing it like 10 times tonight. She called Customer Service and they said they were putting it in correctly.
Then she'll try to pull it up again and the offer disappears. If you clear the cookies the offer is there again.
Is that just a total scam to get people there? She's really frustrated right now.
I think I used it before, but it was a few years back. I don't think I had any problems, but things do change.
I use it regularly. It's legit.
Used it many times for hotels, a few times for rental cars, and once many years ago for a flight. Never had an issue.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ~ George Carlin
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year olds life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves Orcs. ~ John Rogers
I have used it a lot. No problems at all.
I've tried them, Travelocity, etc. a couple of times. Every time I've got the same or better rates by calling the hotel directly.
The only thing about using Hotwire for hotels is that there's no guarantee you'll get a room preference -- ie non-smoking. Ran into that this spring. Otherwise, got a good rate...
Yeah Hotwire hotels you're not really sure what you get if you take their special deal or whatever, but we've scored some sweet deals. Last year we got a room in the tall tower of the Millennium Hotel in STL that faced directly into Busch Stadium for $68/night. Got to see the Cards workout on an off day from the hotel and the next night were sitting in the stadium watching a game. A few weeks ago we stayed at a newly re-opened/refurnished hotel near MoA in the Twin Cities (4-star hotel I think) for $73/night.
It's kinda hit or miss with the deals, but we've never had problems with Credit Cards or any of that stuff.
I'm a Kayak(tm) man, through and through.
I especially like putting a notification on a certain set of dates and then they tell me when the prices move.
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Well whadya know: Women consider their economic circumstances, rather than their waist-to-hip ratio, when deciding whether to bring another hungry mouth into their families. Women who might continue their pregnancies in a better economy are deciding that the costs of raising a child are too much to bear right now. And poor women have always had to take that into consideration. Unfortunately, the economic downturn has forced some women's clinics to close their doors, leaving abortion-seeking women in an even tougher bind. Furthermore, not all insurance companies will cover the cost of abortion, and enrolling in Medi-Cal, California's healthcare system for the poor, can be a long process. By the time some women are able to find the money to pay for abortion, they find it's too late to obtain one (or even more expensive). Lopez says women who had decided to terminate early often find themselves choosing between second-trimester abortions or going through with the unwanted pregnancy.
The only bright spot I can find in this news is that, according to a recent Gallup Organization survey, one in five women is more conscientious about using birth control now than they were a year ago. At Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, requests for IUDs were up 83 percent in the first quarter of 2009, over the same period in 2008.
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As the Bali conference winds up, I'm wondering – will anything *really* be achieved, or was it just talk about talk about talk? I guess it was a bit of both; but perhaps more of the latter.
On the positive side of things, Australia made some progress in finally taking necessary steps to ratify the Kyoto Protocol; putting additional pressure on the USA which now remains the only developed country not to do so. But Bali was really about beyond Kyoto. It was great to see many countries banding together, recognizing the seriousness of the situation and really committed to the hard road ahead.
Unfortunately, Australia has stopped short of backing a very important inclusion of a target for developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by between 25 and 40 per cent by 2020; which was widely accepted by other countries.
This stance has only helped to bolster a handful of other recalcitrant nations. Our excuse was basically that our new government hasn't had the time to crunch the numbers yet after the previous government's inaction of 11 years on the issue of climate change.
There's certainly some validity in that excuse, but if you're diagnosed with cancer and have to make a choice about chemotherapy, most people don't put it off for a year. Is that an overreaction to the serious nature of climate change on my part? Perhaps, but Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned delegates during the conference: "We are at a crossroad, one path leads to a comprehensive climate change agreement, the other to oblivion. The choice is clear."
Sure, we've indicated agreement to even larger cuts by 2050, but it's a long way off, isn't it. Far off enough to sorta sweep things under the rug for a few years or perhaps not be as diligent as we should. Maybe we don't have a few years – think critical mass in terms of climate change. If we hit a tipping point, there's no turning back – maybe we're already there.
The other major disappointment is the USA's continued stance against the 2020 targets, along with Canada and Japan . The attitude by the current USA administration is dividing the global community to the point that the EU has threatened boycotting U.S.-led climate talks scheduled for next month. In a world that needs to pull together especially now, this is very disappointing.
The odd thing about all this is the 25 and 40 per cent by 2020 statement in the draft wasn't going to be binding.. it's just draft. However, having included it would have put on some pressure.
All this talk about cuts we *need* to make *now* affecting the economy adversely reminds me of the fear of the computer revolution in the 80's and 90's. People said the same thing then. The difference this time is there's a lot more at stake, even more reason that we should be doing much more and more quickly.
As I'm writing this, negotiations are expected to continue into the night as delegates struggle to reach consensus on a final declaration for the Bali climate conference. I just hope sanity prevails and those interim targets do somehow make it in – I've just read that multiple drafts are still being considered by negotiators from the 189 countries participating.
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An intelligent guide to the tarot
and related subjects
The Tarot, that miraculous work which inspired all the sacred books of antiquity, is the most perfect instrument of divination, by reason of the analogical precision of its figures and numbers. It can be employed with complete confidence.
Its oracles are always rigorously true, at least in a certain sense, and even when it predicts nothing it reveals secret things and gives the most wise counsel to its querents.
Alliette, who, in the last century, from a hairdresser became a Kabalist, and kabalistically called himself Etteilla, reading his name backwards after the manner of Hebrew, Alliette, I say, after thirty years of meditation over the Tarot, was on the threshold of discovering everything that is concealed in this extraordinary work; but he ended only by misplacing the keys, through want of their proper understanding, and inverted the order and character of the figures, though without entirely destroying their analogies, so great are the sympathy and correspondence which exist between them.
The writings of Etteilla, now very rare, are obscure, wearisome and barbarous in style; they have not all been printed, and some manuscripts of this father of modern cartomancers are in the hands of a Paris bookseller who has been good enough to let us examine them. Their most remarkable points are the obstinate perseverance and incontestable good faith of the author, who all his life perceived the grandeur of the occult sciences, but was destined to die at the gate of the sanctuary without ever penetrating behind the veil. He had little esteem for Agrippa, made much of Jean Belot and knew nothing of the philosophy of Paracelsus; but he possessed a highly-trained intuition and great persistence of will, though his fancy exceeded his judgement. His endowments were insufficient for a Magus and more than were needed for a skilful and accredited diviner of the vulgar order. Hence Etteilla had a fashionable success which a more accomplished magician would perhaps have been wrong to renounce, but assuredly would not have claimed.
When delivering at the end of our "Ritual" a last message upon the Tarot, we
shall show the complete method of reading and hence of consulting it, not only
on the probable chances of destiny but also, and above all, upon problems of
philosophy and religion, concerning which it provides a solution as invariably
certain as it is admirable in its precision, if explained in the hierarchic
order of the analogy of the three worlds with the three colours and the four
shades which compose the sacred septenary. All this belongs to the positive
practice of Magic, and can be only indicated summarily and established
theoretically in the present first part, which is dedicated to the doctrine of
Transcendental Magic and the philosophical and religious key of the exalted
sciences, known, or unknown rather, under the name of occult.
(Note: The above extract is provided for historical reference purposes. It is difficult reading, but this is not owing to anything being taken out of context; many occult books of this period were written in an equally dense style. --Ed.)
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Interest in HTML5-based apps breeds new cottage industries
Developers have long complained of the fractured nature of mobile app development, requiring them to rebuild apps for each specific mobile platform they want to target. And although Apple's iOS and Google's Android cover 90 percent of the mobile market, even just Android is a puzzle. For example, 28.6 percent of Android users are running Ice Cream Sandwich, 16.6 percent are using Jelly Bean and 44.1 percent are using Gingerbread. HTML5 has been touted as the solution--a way to create content once and publish everywhere, giving users the content they want on whatever device they are using.
However, there are still problems with implementing certain types of apps in HTML5. For one, HTML5 has its own fragmentation issues to deal with: Chrome, Safari, Firefox and other browsers support different HTML5 features. In mobile the same problems emerge.
Further, mobile app developers agree that HTML5 can only support the most basic functions and not high-powered games and other complex apps.
So it's not surprising that a cottage industry of businesses has sprouted up help developers and mobile content providers bring their apps to a wider audience. I spoke to two players in this market, Sencha CEO Michael Mullany and Ludei President Joe Monastiero, about how their respective companies work to make it easier for developers to build HTML5 apps. "What we want is ubiquitous distribution. We want the world to be able to take a single project and deliver that everywhere," said Monastiero.
Ludei is a development and publishing company that helps developers port HTML5 games and apps to the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store or Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Play. The company offers its CocoonJS, which essentially adds an acceleration technology to HTML5 games that Ludei said allows the games to run as quickly and as smoothly as if they were built natively. The company's CocoonJS is then combined with the developer's HTML5 code in an app wrapper that can then be sold through Google Play and the App Store. "We give the developers that want to sell a cupcake or a strawberry the ability to do that with a single API," Monastiero said.
While Ludei focuses on HTML5 gaming, Sencha works more with enterprise-grade apps. "The notion that you can write your applications in HTML5 and no matter what platform becomes popular, whether it's Tizen or Firefox OS or Windows Phone 8, your app investment is safe, which is really appealing especially to enterprises," said Mullany.
Mullany explained that Sencha and companies like it are seeing businesses increasingly interested in mobile Web development. He said that companies that spent time and money creating apps for BlackBerry 5 or BlackBerry 6 don't want to go through that entire process again for a new operating system. Similarly, companies with BYOD programs that invested in iOS apps do not want to redevelop their apps when employees begin coming in with Android devices.
However, Mullany explained that there are still certain things that companies like Sencha can't help developers do natively. For example, he said HTML5-based apps still can't easily access a device's NFC capabilities. HTML5 apps also can't easily display 3D content.
Both men agreed that one thing developers need to understand is that currently Web and native apps just aren't in the same place today. Mullany noted that "the Web platform tends to lag native by a couple years," while Monastiero said "objectively, in 2-3 years, there's no reason that Web can't be on the same footing as native." Monastiero guessed that CocoonJS (including its APIs) will be relevant for that timespan.
The gap between native and Web apps is closing. As mobile browsers become more sophisticated and powerful, users will be able to use HTML5-based apps for an increasing number of purposes. If in two years HTML5 apps reach the level of sophistication that native apps are at now, then who knows what types of features native apps themselves will have by then? HTML5 apps have a shot if they can find a way to exceed the capabilities of native apps, not just match them.--Sandhya


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Some operations and data, available from one or more ADF Data Controls, are useful across the application. From just abaout anywhere in the ADF Faces Web Application, you may want access to such operations and data. Typically, we work in the context of a JSF page that has an associated PageDefinition (ir BindingContainer at run time) and we have all bindings in the BindingContainer at our run time disposal. One way of making services available at any time in any situation any state in the application, is adding bindings for those services to every PageDefinition. It is not attractive: adding one or more bindings to all PageDefinitions is a lot of work, especially when the definition of those bindings has to change or one is added or removed.
We are looking for a way to bring all generic bindings in a single PageDefinition that we can use across the application. And it turns out to be quite simple to do so.
The steps:
1. create a new JSF page called something like GenericServices.jspx
2. drag all services we require to the page, dropping them as whatever we like. Remember: all we care about is the PageDefinition we are thus creating, not the page itself. Note that any refining of the service bindings can be done in the GenericServicesPageDef.xml file
Now the BindingContainer is available in theory. However,
it has to be initialized. ADF will initialize all BindingContainers for the normal JSF pages that are accessed. We have to take control over initializing our GenericService BindingContainer as it is not directly tied to any page. There are several strategies for this:
– add a ServletFilter to act right after the ADFBindingFilter
– extend the FacesPageLifecycle and override the prepareModel phase to initialize the generic binding container
– add a JSF PhaseListener
There are some differences between these methods when it comes to the exact moment of initializing the binding container. Let's just try one: extending the PageLifeCycle.
3. Create a class (OurExtendedADFPhaseListener) that extends oracle.adf.controller.faces.lifecycle.FacesPageLifecycle (or, when you are using JHeadstart's runtime infrastructure, oracle.jheadstart.controller.jsf.lifecycle.JhsPageLifecycle). In the class, override the prepareModel() method. Have it call the super.prepareModel() and then initialize our special BindingContainer.
4. Register the extended LifeCycleClass:
When using JHeadstart: simply register the new PageLifeCycle in faces-config.xml
<managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>jhsPageLifecycle</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>nl.amis.adf.controller.faces.lifecycle.OurExtendedADFPageLifeCycle</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>
:
that in combination with the standard configuration entry
<phase-listener>oracle.jheadstart.controller.jsf.lifecycle.JhsADFPhaseListener</phase-listener>

takes care of putting the desired lifecycle class in place.
for plain ADF Faces applications, we also need to override the ADFPhaseListener and have it override createPageLifecycle()
protected PageLifecycle createPageLifecycle()
 {
 return new nl.amis.adf.controller.faces.lifecycle.OurExtendedADFPageLifeCycle();
 }

and register it ourselves in faces-config.xml:
<phase-listener>nl.amis.adf.controller.faces.lifecycle..OurADFPhaseListener</phase-listener>

The code for initializing our central generic BindingContainer is something like this:
BindingContext bindingContext = (BindingContext)JsfUtils.getExpressionValue("#{data}");
 DCBindingContainer container = bcx.findBindingContainer("GenericServicesPageDef");
 container.refresh(DCBindingContainer.PREPARE_MODEL);

Note: in the PageLifeCycle class we can also get to the BindingContext from the LifeCycle Context:
BindingContext bcx = lfContext.getBindingContext();

if we have access to a live bindingContainer, we can also get the BindingContext from there:
DCBindingContainer bindings = (DCBindingContainer)JsfUtils.getExpressionValue("#{bindings}");
 BindingContext bcx = bindings.getBindingContext();

In this case, I am using JHeadstart and simply extending the JhsPageLifecycle class. My class looks like this:
public class OurExtendedADFPageLifeCycle extends JhsPageLifecycle {
 public OurExtendedADFPageLifeCycle() {
 }

 public void prepareModel(LifecycleContext lfContext) {
 super.prepareModel(lfContext);
 BindingContext bcx = lfContext.getBindingContext();
 DCBindingContainer container = bcx.findBindingContainer("GenericServicesPageDef");
 container.refresh(DCBindingContainer.PREPARE_MODEL);
 // now we have to make our BindingContainer available to the rest of the world
 // we set the genericBindinga managed bean to our initialized bindingContainer
 ValueBinding genericBindings = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().createValueBinding("#{genericBindings}");
 genericBindings.setValue(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(), container);
 }
}

Note how I have set the managed bean reference #{genericBindings} to refer to the initialized GenericServices binding container. This managed bean has been configured in faces-config.xml as:
<managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>genericBindings</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>oracle.adf.model.binding.DCBindingContainer</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>

Example of using the GenericServicesBindingContainer – application wide access to SYSDATE!
Now for one of the simplest and most useless examples of leveraring this generic services BindingContainer: have (the database server's current date and time) sysdate available on all my pages!
1. Create view object SysdateView, based on the query select sysdate from dual
Add the ViewObject to the GenericService ApplicationModule.
Add SysdateView.Sysdate to GenericServices.jspx (or rather to the GenericServicesPagteDef.xml file):
Note: what this is about is not the JSPX page – that will never be displayed – but the underlying PageDefinition that is created/extended.
We could also just have added the iterator and attributeValues definition to the pageDef without bothering with the JSPX.
We can now, in any page in the application, refer to the Sysdate through #{genericBindings.SysdateViewSysdate.inputValue}, such as:
<af:outputText value="#{genericBindings.SysdateViewSysdate.inputValue}" />

It is now easy to add the sysdate to for example a global region that is included in every page in the application, without having to add the SysdateView to the PageDefinitions of all those pages.
Notice the subt
le date reference in the upper right
hand corner (note: displaying the date in web application is not commonly done using SYSDATE as source of that date):
and this other page in the same application:


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Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. Until now it's been about 4 years, so about 1460 days. With maximum 200 reputation per day, that means since the beginning of SO, the maximum reputation is about 292k for a "genius as god" user.
- How is it possible to have a user with more than 300K reputation?
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The following is a list of our regularly scheduled conferences. Didactics on specific rotations are described under description of rotations.
Conferences are given by Family Medicine faculty, attending specialists and subspecialists, guest lecturers, and residents.
Conferences are held daily from 8:00am - 9:00am, and from 8:00am - 1:00pm on Fridays. All conference time is blocked and protected from clinic and rotation schedules to ensure attendance.
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Michelin Presents Wallpaper Wednesday: The Ultimate Getaway Car
Earlier today we discussed getaway cars. In regard to that earlier story, a Corvette probably isn't the right choice. On the other hand, when it comes to a car that is great for getting away from the daily grind, the Corvette Stingray is among the best choices out there. If you're feeling too caught up in your daily routine, use this week's Wednesday wallpaper as your means of escape.
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By Andy Choi
Since both Correa and his wife have full time jobs they decided that the robot was needed for their dog named Darwin. Correa has training in robotics and engineering and managed to build the 'telepresence' robot surrogate which they now use to play with the dog from work.
The DarwinBot as Correa called it uses a Parallax EDDIE chassis and is programmed with the beta version of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4. The robot can dispense treats for Darwin, has a ball launching ballista, a ball retrieving arm and even speakers for Darwin to hear his master's voice.
Using the 'onboard' tablet PC Jordan Correa can interact with Darwin over Skype using a pan and tilt webcam. The whole robotic assembly is controlled by an Xbox 360 controller over the internet.
Say what you may about the strange noises that the dog may hear the robot making, but it is one way to keep your lonely dog entertained while you are away at work.
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