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Total Newbie on exploits so sorry (I tried searching but couldn't find a topic)
Now If I understand this correctly Exploits are code written in either C or Shell that exploits a vulnerability on a server that (depending on what exploit) can give you root or super admin access.
I know where to get them.
The problem I'm having is how to execute them
I mean take a exploit in C (ntpd-exp.c)
How do i execute it on a vulnerable server?
Don't I have to have some access to the server (I mean wouldn't I have to log into the server to run it)?
Lets say I don't have access to the server (I don't have an account on it)
How would I exploit it (or run the exploit to get access)?
Maybe I'm missing something here?
How does Shell (a shell account) play a roll in exploits. How can I connect to a Target server with my shell account and run a exploit from there (say I wanted to run an exploit on a system I don't have access to. How would I get access to the target server to run it) ?
So confusing.
Where can I get help? or is someone willing to help a new b who just wants knowledge.

subset: commoncrawl


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queue-repaint [Generic Function]
Summary: Requests that a repaint event for the region region be placed in the input queue of the sheet sheet . A program that reads events out of the queue will be expected to call handle-event for the repaint region; the method for that generic function on repaint events will generally call repaint-sheet .
handle-repaint [Generic Function]
Summary: Implements repainting for a given sheet class. It may only be called on a sheet that has an associated medium. sheet and region are as for dispatch-repaint .
repaint-sheet [Generic Function]
Arguments: sheet medium region
Summary: Recursively causes repainting of the sheet sheet and any of its children that overlap the region region . medium is the medium to use for the repainting; if it is nil , handle-repaint will allocate a medium and associate it with the sheet. handle-repaint will call repaint-sheet on sheet , and then call handle-repaint on all of the children of sheet .


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As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambesis arrested in murder-for-hire plot
Updated 10:15 PM ET
SAN DIEGO Divorce documents show that the lead singer of metal band As I Lay Dying had an amicable split with the estranged wife he's now accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill, but she was concerned about how recent changes in his behavior would affect his parenting.
Meggan Lambesis, the wife of Tim Lambesis, said in the court papers obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday that she worried about his ability to care for their three adopted children, but she gave no indication she felt in danger.
Law enforcement officials said they arrested Tim Lambesis after receiving a tip last week that the 32-year-old singer -- who is covered in tattoos and known for his growling voice -- was plotting to kill his wife, who filed for divorce in September.
Authorities said Lambesis tried to hire an undercover detective he believed was a hit man, and he was arrested Tuesday while shopping at a store in Oceanside.
The couple adopted the children -- ages 4, 8 and 10 -- from Ethiopia, and Tim Lambesis continued to see them for about 10 hours a week when he was not on tour, even though the couple was no longer living together, according to court documents.
Meggan Lambesis said her estranged husband had become "obsessed with bodybuilding" and was distracted while with the children, often texting or talking on the phone. She noted he had fallen asleep while watching them at the beach or near the pool and said they need a "stable parent" to help them adjust to their new life and country.
She said he tours six months out of the year and had traveled across the country twice in one year to visit a girlfriend. She said he also had spent thousands of dollars on tattoos. Both had agreed to private mediation to discuss the children's custody.
Tim Lambesis' comments about his Grammy-nominated band's latest album, "Awakened," indicate he may have been struggling.
The band's website says the album -- released the same month his wife filed for divorce -- is a "far darker, more pessimistic beast" compared to previous albums.
"On this record, I wasn't purposefully trying to be negative, but I think sometimes we have to be honest with some of the darker and more difficult times of our lives to get back to that positivity," Lambesis is quoted as saying. "While the lyrics do perhaps seem like a dark window into my soul, they're written that way specifically because I want to move on and transcend those difficult moments in life."
Authorities said a task force from several law enforcement agencies launched an investigation that led to the arrest late Tuesday. The department would give no further details.
A man who answered the phone at a number listed in the singer's name in Del Mar said the family was not commenting at this time.
Lambesis was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Vista. His attorney could not be reached for comment.
As I Lay Dying formed in San Diego in 2000 and has released six albums, including 2007's "An Ocean Between Us," which reached No. 8 on Billboard's charts. A single from the album, "Nothing Left," was nominated for a Grammy for top metal performance.
The band, which plays in an aggressive style that features metal guitar riffs at the furious pace of hardcore punk, was scheduled to tour the country this summer.
Its record label, Metal Blade, said in a message posted to the band's fans that "there are many unanswered questions, and the situation will become clearer in the coming days and weeks."
"We'll keep you informed as best we can," the message said. "Our thoughts right now are with Tim, his family, and with everyone else affected by this terrible situation -- and with our fans, whom we love and draw strength from."
Lambesis recently did an interview with heavy metal website, Blabbermouth, about his new side project, Pyrithion. Check it out below:
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Eyes on the prize, we are; the human race that's always striving and reaching for the next greatest thing. We race through our lives, our days and hours with little thought to what is happening around us. We watch traffic, we keep track of our kids, we watch the weather to see if we need a sweater, an umbrella or our sunglasses. We keep watch over our house, our To-Do lists and our spouses. We watch out for each other. We're focused, with razor sharp precision. And life goes beating a pulse by us, days that we miss because we're just watching out for what's next, what's going to happen tomorrow. Our view of our lives is only what we can fit inside a neat little box, with occasional forays into a view that's maybe a bit different, or unusual.
Living in Minnesota is living with a palette of seasons that changes almost daily. This is one of those times, this particular season, that the best view comes from looking up, surrounded by the glory that is called October.
Although we can see quite a bit of what makes life so beautiful in this season even when our eyes are on the ground.
It's important for perspective to look around too, not just ahead at what's to come, or down to avoid stumbling over any hazards. By looking around, we catch those almost imperceptible moments where we realize there isn't just one path to follow.
But then again, when we glance down to be sure we aren't treading on unstable ground, we might catch sight of something that we realize is bigger than what we ever could have imagined.
Or we discover a gift left behind, a way of showing us that we're not alone.
I'm reflective, yes. October does that to me. Transition does that to me. The job is over and right now, there is nothing else to fill my time. For a short amount of time, laziness will be welcomed but that won't last. I will need to work again. Yet this season, this glorious thing called October beckons me to run out into it's blazing sunshine and enjoy every moment I can grasp. And I do.
So on an unseasonably warm October day, a trek through my favorite regional park was the perfect balm for getting the last throes of my chaotic summer out of my system. I had written a post about my job back in early September, nearly 1300 words that spilled out of me in about 4 seconds flat, but as I read over what my mind churned out, I realized that it was written solely for me, a purgatory means to end that stranglehold. I both loved and hated this past summer and I'm still figuring it all out, it's purpose in my life and what I can take away from it. I may never be able to verbalize it or even make sense of it because a great deal of life's lessons come to us at inopportune times, when we least expect our brains to wake us up to what really happened.
But I can make sense of right now, right here. I can stop the crazy Merry-Go-Round of life with it's clanging calliope of noise that's impossible to shut off. I can ignore the To-Do list. I can take some time for myself. I can go on my rigorous hike through the woods, seeing it as a metaphor, something that applies seamlessly to where I am and use it to keep centered. Life isn't about always keeping a forward face, never looking back or wearing blinders through your days. It isn't always about keeping to a schedule, checking e-mail or looking over the calendar to see what's coming. We miss some pretty glorious moments by being far too focused. We miss out on the season, the one that's happening right now, in a stupendous and beautiful way.
There's quite a perspective to be found when walking through tranquil woods, surrounded by towering trees and a shower of leaves with each gust of wind. And nothing makes you feel quite so humble as laying back, and really seeing what is above you.
And of course, there's food too. I can't just wax poetic about Autumn in Minnesota- well, I can, yes- but the best part about being away from the confines of my job is that I am bowled over with the urge to get back in the kitchen, the kitchen where Kate is most comfortable and the vehicle for this entire blog. I want to cook again, and I'm so eager to share all of it with you.
So, let's start with this typically Fall muffin. I happen to be resurrecting it from a post back about a year or so, but it's no less relevant now. And it's perfect for this time of year.
These delicious and moist muffins can help with an attitude adjustment too, and be a great means for using up the bounty of squash that's available this time of year. Although the recipe calls for sweet potato, any type of squash will do. Chock full of oats and cinnamon, they speak softly of the visual blaze of October and are perfect for lunch boxes and after school snacks.
Oatmeal Sweet Potato Muffins
from the Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission
1 c. old fashioned rolled oats
1 c. flour (AP or Whole Wheat, or both)
1 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1 t. ground cinnamon
1/2 t. ground nutmeg
1 T. ground flaxseed
1 c. cooked and mashed sweet potato
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/3 c. canola oil
1/4 c. skim milk
1 large egg
1 t. pure vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 400°. Line two standard muffin tins with paper liners.
In a medium bowl, whisk oatmeal, flour, baking powder and soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and flaxseed. In another small bowl, combine sweet potato, brown sugar, oil, egg, milk and vanilla, whisking to blend well. Pour over dry ingredients and stir to combine. Mix until just moistened. Scoop into muffin tins and back for 15-20 minutes. Check at the 15 minute mark- these bake up quickly.
This recipe doubles really easily. I doubled it using both AP and whole wheat flour and the result was nice and firm. You can substitute pumpkin for the sweet potato, or use garnet yams. Be sure that the vegetable is cooked and mashed well. I used soy milk in mine and it works just fine. For one batch of these, I added 1/2 c. of flaked coconut, and I think chopped and toasted pecans would be wonderful in these. As always, the ground flaxseed is optional.
For an extra level of flavor, you can top these with a crumb topping made from 1/4 c. oats, 1/4 c. flour, 1/4 c. brown sugar, 1-2 T. softened butter and 1 t. vanilla extract. Combine these well and sprinkle over the muffins before baking. I have not used it, but imagine it would be excellent.


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A New Look at Board Game Central
We're proud to unveil the new Board Game Central!
If you've been here before, you'll notice that everything looks different, but hopefully not unfamiliar. You should still be able to find what you're looking for without too much trouble.
The goals for the redesign were:
#1: Make the site more pleasant to use. The old design was functional, but was definitely showing it's age. The new design is more modern, more attractive, more functional, and should be easier to maintain.
#2: Make the site more useful. Board Game Central began as a simple portal, a collection of links to other board game sites on the web. Helping you find the best board gaming sites on the web is still a major part of our mission, but we want to expand on that, adding unique, interesting, and compelling content of our own.
#3: Focus more on online games. At this site's inception, online gaming was pretty primitive, so we chose to focus on board game software that you download to your computer. Today, online games are a major part of the board gaming experience, more so than downloads. We plan to expand this section considerably over time.
#4: Clear out the dreck. Over time, web sites come and go. As a webmaster, it's difficult to keep on top of that. The result: broken links. The new site will hopefully make it easier to monitor and fix link rot. (If you find a broken link, please let us know!)
Here are some additional things that have changed with the new design:
- A new logo!
- An easier-to-use dropdown menu system.
- Added a bunch of new links (and plan to add many more).
- Improved site search.
- Transitioned the board game news section to a custom blogging platform, to hopefully make it easier to maintain.
- You can now comment on most pages (not just the news), which will allow you to ask questions and discuss games.
- Improved and streamlined feedback and submission forms, which should make it easier to suggest new games, report broken links, and ask questions.
- Easier to share content from this site with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking sites.
- Easier to track new board game releases.
We're pretty proud of the way the new site looks and feels, and hope that you agree. We look forward to makign this a place you'll want to visit often!


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Drink of the Week: Hot Buttered Rum
Butter…mmm…not the most common of classic cocktail ingredients but hot buttered rum is not your ordinary cocktail. A Christmastime favorite in many places, the history of today's DOTW likely goes back as far as prior to the U.S. Revolutionary War, when New England was awash with rum due to the deeply unfestive Triangle Trade.
Now, I have to admit that, prior to this week, hot buttered rum existed to me only as an occasionally referenced warmer upper on 1970s sitcoms and 1950s rom-coms. The good news is that, I have to say, I'm sold on it. This version is simple and sweet and pretty surefire, though it's definitely best if you can get it all down while it's still hot.
One proviso: some ultra-purists may sniff at this recipe since it doesn't call for you to heat this drink with, get this, a red hot poker removed directly from a fireplace. (I used a microwave.)
Hot Buttered Rum
2 ounces dark rum
2 teaspoons sugar, preferably dark brown or raw
5-7 ounces boiling water
1 pat of butter (unsalted or salted)
Ground cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and/or cloves to taste
Put butter, sugar, and a dash or two of any or all of the suggested seasonings in mug, ideally pre-heated. Pour about 1-2 ounces of your boiling water in. Stir until the butter is melted and the sugar and spices have dissolved. Add two ounces of room temperature dark rum and top of with your remaining not-quite boiling but still extremely hot water.
Stir again and sip gingerly. It should be about the perfect temperature but better safe than sorry. Try not to spill any on your Snuggie.
A couple of quick notes. Most recipes call for unsalted butter, but I was too lazy, cheap and hateful of waste to run to the store for a product I would never use for any other purpose. Salted butter worked fine, though I would stay away from any other obvious substitutions. ("Hot margarined rum"?) Also, most recipes say to add the butter last, but I found it melted easier my way and I still got a nice buttery coating on top.
As usual, there are an enormous number of ways to make hot buttered rum. A lot of recipes substitute super-hot apple cider for water, which I'm sure is pretty tasty but adds a lot of calories. Some versions throw ice cream into the mix, which just kind of blows my mind. Seriously, though, if you use a nice dark rum and dark brown sugar or raw sugar — both of which include molasses, the stuff they make rum out of — this drink should be plenty sweet.
Speaking of dark rum, you may find that with all the light, amber, and spiced varieties available, regular dark rum might be a bit harder to find in your price range than you'd think. BevMo here in California's OC offered only two varieties of true dark rum. Myer's Rum which was about $19.00 for a fifth and Whaler's Original Rum, which was about half that price and turned out to be perfect for getting all hot and buttered.
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Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook downplayed a suggestion that the company might issue a special dividend to shareholders with some of the $285 billion in cash that the company is now able to bring back from overseas.
At an annual shareholder meeting at Apple Park in Cupertino on Tuesday, Cook responded to a question on whether the company might double its dividend in the wake of changes to United States tax laws that allowed corporations to bring back overseas cash at lower tax rates than before.
Apple to release software update to resolve iPhone slowdown
"Special dividends, I'm not really a fan of," Cook responded. "But in terms of annual increases in the dividend, it is something that this board and management are committed to doing."
Cook said the company would provide an update on its capital return program during its April earnings call with investors, as it has done for the past several years.
At the meeting, shareholders defeated two shareholder proposals, one asking that rules allowing shareholders to nominate directors to the board be eased, and another asking for a human rights committee at Apple.
The proxy access measure asked Apple to reconsider its rules for shareholders to nominate directors; the rules say that a group of no more than 20 shareholders must hold 3 per cent of Apple's stock in order to nominate a director for one of the eight director positions. The proposal did not pass, with 67.8 per cent of shareholders voting against it.
Apple confirms 'no service' issue with iPhone 7
Another proposal urged Apple to create a human rights panel to oversee issues such as workplace conditions and censorship in China and to report results back to the public. The proposal was defeated, with 94.4 per cent of shareholders voting against it.
Apple had recommended that shareholders vote against both of the measures.
Shareholders approved four measures put forth by the company, including a required "say on pay" vote to approve pay for executives and a measure on re-electing the current directors.
Shares of Apple were up 0.1 per cent at $162.84.
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Eight big travel predictions for 2017
Inspired by a wealth of data, traveller endorsements, reviews, preferences and insights as well as industry leading understanding and innovation in e-commerce travel technology, the experts at Booking.com shed light on 8 major travel predictions for 2017. Read on to find out what holiday makers and business travellers can expect to experience in the year ahead.
1. Instant Gratification 2.0
Technology is fuelling a more demanding and impatient traveller. 44% of travellers already expect to be able to plan their holiday in a few simple taps of their smart phone and over half (52%) expect their use of travel apps to increase in 2017. With this, we're increasingly looking to technology to eradicate any and all on-the-road niggles, deliver answers to our specific needs in the moment and enhance our experience with recommendations and short-cuts we haven't even thought of. The coming year will see this expectation addressed in an unprecedented way. From finding the nearest ATM or available Wi-Fi to queue jumping at top attractions and getting on-the-go advice on how to get over jetlag, meaningful functionality in palm-based technology will abound. And with all of the exciting new developments in machine learning and AI, our favourite go-to apps will go beyond mere functionality and evolve into real companions—travel besties, if you will, capable of predicting our own unique needs and catering to them before we even have to ask. Use of smart, instant message technology that moulds to our preferences to solve every question and wish in real-time, regardless of where we choose to stay, will become second nature. Seamless assistance at your fingertips.
2. Getting to Business
The 'bleisure' boom is well and truly underway, and 2017 will see a further upswing not only in the blurring lines between leisure and business travel, but in the value we attach to workplace travel opportunities. Of the 40% of global travellers who journeyed for business this year, 46% think they will travel even more for business in 2017.More than business suites and PowerPoint presentations, 49% of business travellers already extend their business trips to further enjoy the destination, while three quarters (75%) intend to do so the same or more in the coming year. No longer seen as lost time or a career inconvenience, business travel is increasingly appreciated as an opportunity to expand horizons, find inspiration and progress in a career. So much so that 30% of travellers would even accept a lower paid job if it meant they could travel more for work.
3. Appetite to Discover
The discovered world has many undiscovered places and 2017 promises to see travellers unleashing their inner explorer like never before. 45% plan to be more adventurous in their choice of destination in the coming year, while 47% would like to explore corners of the globe that none of their friends have been to. Whether it's trekking into a remote mountain village or finding a gem of a guest house on the other side of tracks, we're seeing evidence all round of an ever-growing appetite to embrace undiscovered environments in an authentic way. 56% of travellers would like to do more independent travel in 2017, a trend particularly prevalent amongst those from Brazil, India, the United States, China and Thailand. Top destinations where can indulge their pioneering spirit include Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
4. Mind, Body and Soul
In a hectic world, people are increasingly seeing travel as a way to bring balance back into their lives. Almost half (48%) see going on holiday as a moment to reflect and make better lifestyle choices. The coming year will see many travellers prioritising health conscious trips that promise harmony for the mind, body and soul - particularly those from India, China and Thailand. 44% are interested to experience spa/relaxation travel and 38% in a health/wellbeing travel experience in 2017. The days of leaving paid holidays on the table at the end of the year are fading even in the most demanding work cultures, with over half (51%) intending to take more of their annual leave in the coming year than this year. Accommodations across the world are upgrading their offerings to match this growing demand. In 2017, it won't be uncommon to find a diverse range of SanctuStays, accommodations ranging from villas to apartments, resorts and more, offering complementary meditation facilities, health spas, wellness workshops and outdoor facilities to promote a holistic lifestyle and clearer path to self-discovery.
5. Go Green or Stay Home
Sustainable travel means many things to many people, but there's no denying the trend for both travellers and accommodations becoming more environmentally and sustainably aware as well as responsible. The coming year will see over a third (36%) of travellers planning to choose more eco-friendly travel options than they did in 2016 and nearly 2 in 5 (39%) interested in an eco-tour travel experience. This mirrors the way in which people are increasingly finding ways to fulfil their aesthetic travel needs while maintaining cultural and environmental integrity by taking longer, more scenic routes and modes of transport. Eco-friendly stays are no longer the preserve of the few, but an expectation of the many. As the year progresses we will likely see increased discussion around economic incentives such as tax breaks for eco travellers (41% of travellers would be in favour[i]), introduction of an international standard for sustainable accommodation (41% in favour) and transport providers giving travellers more information about carbon offsetting (26% in favour).
6. Simple Pleasures
Travellers in 2017 will be inspired by their own aspirations rather than material possessions. If fact, 58% of travellers plan to prioritise spending on experiences rather than material possessions while they are on holiday in 2017. Travellers are also becoming less interested in fancy embellishments and more interested in the small moments and simple pleasures of a journey. Only 10% of travellers said that a butler/concierge service was essential to enjoy their travel experiences in 2017. Fancy, high-end toiletries also appear to be a thing of the past as only 13% of travellers said that these would be essential to enjoying their travel experiences in 2017.
7. The Human Touch
As the ying to technology's yang, interacting with amazing staff and forging genuine relationships on holiday will be an increasingly important hallmark of travel in 2017. 42% of travellers assert that they wouldn't stay in an accommodation without friendly/helpful staff, while accommodations such as B&Bs and Ryokans look set to continue as the most highly rated by visiting travellers. Our reliance on those who've gone before remains undiminished with 40% of travellers confirming that they would not stay in an accommodation with more than three negative reviews. 2017 travellers are starting to understand that human touch is irreplaceable and crave this human interaction to make their holiday memorable. As a result, we can expect to see meaningful human interactions becoming the currency of travel in the months ahead, prompting huge advances in chat bot technology to match the warmth, personality and spontaneity of real human communication and connections.
8. Fly Me to the Moon
Travel has become a lifestyle, not a luxury for increasing numbers, and it's unsurprising that we are starting to see people's desires to explore go beyond this world. In fact, 44% of people see a future where we'll be holidaying in far flung corners of the galaxy or deep under the ocean, which may not be as far off as one might think. , High-speed rail continues to advance and is scheduled to connect travellers to the remote corners of northern Africa. NASA is investing in a supersonic passenger aircraft that will allow for faster, greener, safer and quieter air travel. Not to mention, a Tesla autopilot-enabled vehicle is scheduled to "drive" from Los Angeles to New York in the summer of 2017. These advances are steadily stoking our imaginations, as well as our collective desire to explore beyond the horizon - who knows what new additional frontiers will open up for us over the coming year…
"Experiencing the unknown, encountering different people and cultures, and testing new limits has always been at the core of what drives us to travel and 2017 is certainly shaping up to be an exciting year," said Pepijn Rijvers, Chief Marketing Officer at Booking.com. "2017 travellers will have an insatiable appetite for adventure, but are also mindful of the impact those experiences can have on the local culture and issues surrounding sustainability. While we crave highly personalised human interaction and familiar comforts, we're also expecting emerging technologies to enhance our experiences and get us closer to the things we care about faster and more intelligently. Whether it's the other side of the planet or just down the street, we want to dig deeper, seeking authenticity and a real sense of connection at every step along the way. For us at Booking.com, it's not just about the destination in 2017, it's about the entire journey, and finding new ways to empower travellers through technology to express and savour their own unique travel lifestyle at every possible moment."
[i] According to data collected by Booking.com across 10 markets in March 2016, with 1,000 respondents in each. Respondents had to be 18 years of age or older, had to have travelled at least once in 2015 and be planning at least one trip for 2016. All respondents had to be at least part of the decision-making process when planning most of their trips.
According to data collected by Booking.com with 12,781 respondents across 13 markets in September 2016. Respondents had to be 18 years of age or older, had to have travelled at least once in 2016 and had to be planning at least one trip for 2017. All respondents had to consider themselves part of their travel decision-making process.


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If you're a working mama like me (you're multitasking while reading this, there's laundry on the dining room table, and the bathroom garbage needs to be emptied... but that's beside the point), you've probably got one or more little ones heading to daycare each morning. Before this year, I had two. At our daycare the kids have a main teacher, but are really cared for by many members of the staff. Since daycare is open long hours, half way through the day teacher two comes in to relieve teacher one. There's another person who covers lunch breaks. Floaters and assistants pitch in on the playground, in the halls, and at nap time. And, there's an office staff who give out lolly pops on Fridays (okay, they do other stuff too but that's all the kids care about). It's a well-oiled, child care machine and I am grateful!
Because it really is a small village that cares for my not-so-baby while I'm working, bringing in one gift for his main teacher just doesn't work for me. So, every year we deliver a bunch of goodies for the entire staff to share... lotions, manicure kits, chocolate, gum, supplies, etc. This year is no different except I cranked it up a notch.
Instead of a holiday gift bag that's just going to either get tossed or regifted next year, I went to Target and got a Rubbermaid Bento Organizer. Oh la la. Even my simple, inexpensive gifts (hit up the dollar section while you're at Target!) look special packed up in their little bento compartments. And, when the gifts have been distributed, they can use the Rubbermaid Bento to keep the office organized. Double giftage!
The little flaps on the inside pop out to make a couple different configurations. I popped them both out to keep all of our goodies separated. (You gotta keep 'em sep-ar-ated!... am I showing my age with that song reference?) Candies and gum, office supplies, pampering goodies all tucked away. No mosh pit of cheer... everything neat and pretty for delivery. AND, if you click here, there's a Target coupon for $1 off the organizer. Our Target here had several sizes and patterns available.
My little elf packed everything himself.
Tie it up.
Head out with your box of joy (and try not to eat all the chocolate before it gets there).
So, what are your go-to, stress-free teacher gifts you put together each year? I'd love to hear your ideas! They're always so creative. Happy gifting.


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The Country's Jihadist Minority
"They are armed, I am not going to fight a losing battle and kill my men over a demolished shrine," said Fawzi Abd al-'Aali, the former Libyan interior minister, before he "resigned" last August. He was referring to the armed Salafi groups that were accused of destroying Sufi shrines. One of the accused groups was the Ansar al-Shariah Brigade, which was quick to support the demolition, but denied any responsibility for it.
Ahmed Jibril, Libya's deputy ambassador to London, has now accused the Brigade, headed by Muhammed Ali Al-Zahawy, of perpetrating the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, which killed the American ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three other US personnel, as well as Libyan guards. Others have quickly embraced and promoted Jibril's allegation. But the picture is more complex.
Self-proclaimed guardians of the Sharia
The Brigade denied responsibility in a written statement, as well as in a brief interview with its spokesperson, who at the time was in charge of guarding Al Jala Hospital in Benghazi.
Like its statement on the destruction of Sufi shrines, it denied involvement in the attack on the US Consulate, but stressed the gravity of the insult against the Prophet that putatively triggered it.
The Brigade attracted public attention last June as well, when around 300 armed members staged a rally in Benghazi, sparking outrage among Libyans. "We wanted to send a message to the General National Council members," according to Hashim Al-Nawa', one of the Brigade's commanders. "They should not come near the Shariah. It should be above the constitution, and not an article for referendum."
But was the Ansar al-Shariah Brigade really behind the attack on the US Consulate? The nature of Libya's post-revolution armed Islamist forces is by no means straightforward. Salafi jihadism is not an organization, but an ideological trend based on the core belief that armed tactics of all kinds are the most effective – and, in some versions, the most legitimate – method of bringing about social and political change.
Last year, its adherents did play an important role in the removal of Libya's brutal dictator, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi. Many subsequently matured politically, revised their worldview, and shifted from armed to unarmed activism, forming political parties and contesting elections.
Electoral deafeat for the Islamists
The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, for example, has produced two main political parties. Al Watan (The Homeland) is led by former LIFG and Tripoli Military Council commander Abd al-Hakim Belhaj. The other, Al Umma al-Wasat (The Central Nation), is led by Sami al-Saadi, the group's former chief ideologist, and Abd al-Wahad Qaid, an LIFG military commander and the brother of the deceased Al Qaeda commander Hasan Qaid (Abu Yahya al-Libi).
Both parties fared poorly in the election in July of a new General National Congress, with only Qaid winning a seat. Indeed, the GNC elections were in many ways a defeat for Libya's non-violent Salafi parties (such as Al Asala), as well as for the post-jihadists.
Other armed Islamist formations, including Salafi groups, accepted integration into Libya's new state institutions, such as the Supreme Security Committee (interior ministry) and the Libyan Shield Force (defence ministry). The National Guard, headed by the former LIFG deputy leader, Khaled al-Sharif, absorbed more than 30 brigades, mostly from the west and southwest.
But several armed formations, such as Ansar al-Shariah and the Imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abd al-Rahman Brigades, still reject the transition to party politics and integration into state institutions. These organizations are numerous, but small. Some were not invited – or given sufficient incentive – to join official bodies.
"Nobody asked us to join the army or the police," Sufian bin Qumu, Ansar al-Shariah's commander in Derna and a former Guantánamo detainee, said in an interview last April. "They did not even give me or any of my men a reward for fighting." Bin Qumu has a small paramilitary force training in the Bou Musafir forest on the outskirts of Derna. He insists that if the head of the boy scouts or the city's clan leaders asked him to disband the training camp, he would do so.
De-legitimization of militias
The tragic death of Stevens and his colleagues has engendered wide public outrage in Libya, adding to the isolation and de-legitimization of the armed groups.
Dozens of Libyan activist groups have uploaded videos paying tribute to Stevens, as well as issuing statements against terrorism and Al Qaeda. One of the Muslim Brothers' Web sites includes such a statement, and Libya's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadeq al-Gheriani, also condemned the attack.
Two issues remain critical in Libya to prevent future tragedies. The first is the need to capitalize on public support and continue the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration process that started under the National Transitional Council but was never completed. Second, the government must enhance its communication strategy.
Arab Spring governments condemned the outrageous movie smearing the Prophet of Islam, but they should have stressed that American official and unofficial bodies had nothing to do with the film's production. Collective punishment and targeting the innocent is forbidden in the Koran in more than 20 verses: "That no burdened person (with sins) shall bear the burden (sins) of another" (The Star Chapter 53:38).
Omar Ashour
© Project Syndicate 2012
Omar Ashour, Director of Middle East Graduate Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements and Security Sector Reform in Egypt: Dilemmas and Challenges (forthcoming).
Qantara.de editor: Lewis Gropp


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CHICAGO -- The Chicago White Sox have agreed to a $950,000, one-year contract with catcher Tyler Flowers.
Flowers hit .195 with a career-high 10 homers and 24 RBIs in 84 games this year. He is a .200 hitter in 192 career games over five seasons with the White Sox.
The 27-year-old Flowers had season-ending right shoulder surgery on Sept. 5, but is expected to be ready for spring training.
Flowers' deal leaves the White Sox with three remaining arbitration-eligible players: second baseman Gordon Beckham and outfielders Dayan Viciedo and Alejandro De Aza.
Chicago also announced on Monday that it did not tender a 2014 contract to right-hander Dylan Axelrod, who went 4-11 with a 5.68 ERA in 30 games last season, including 20 starts.


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"It took a momentary, cursory glance at the internet," said Phillip Schofield, explaining the list of suspected paedophiles he handed over to David Cameron yesterday.
Schofield's List made good television, as the presenter dramatically handed over the names on a This Morning branded card. But it didn't make sense. And it wasn't good journalism.
This was the moment when internet rumours and "cursory glances" became good enough. What did it achieve, this handing over of names from a few websites? It didn't tell Cameron anything he didn't already know; but it did make This Morning the biggest story of the day.
In the fallout from the Jimmy Savile revelations, there's been a growing hubbub about suspected paedophile stories. There are several strands: delving into the murky past of light entertainers; looking at the sinister-sounding connections between Savile, the police and powerful people; and occasionally tying everything together into a giant conspiracy.
Normally rational internet folk have been linking to the likes of David Icke, suggesting that a man with an outlandishly unrealistic worldview could be near to the truth with this particular conspiracy theory. Names of former Prime Ministers have been dragged up and linked to paedophilia. Former ministers have been accused. Links to freemasonry, serial killers and the occult have been made. It is an overwhelming, astonishing story, if true.
If true.
But where is the evidence, the real evidence?
Newsnight's report began the latest deluge, though it was not directly responsible for it. However, the existence of the programme escalated the obscene guessing games which had previously focused on Savile's entertainment contemporaries, and switched the focus to politicians.
At the heart of the report was an earnest attempt to establish what had been going on in care homes, and sensitive interviews with survivors. But that must now be seen in the light of today's mistaken identity story in the Guardian – which is not an attack on the victim at the heart of the story, or a "rowing back" from the investigation, but an attempt to ascertain facts. Facts are all that we as consumers have to go on, and it's vital that those broadcasters and old media that we still trust value them as deeply as possible.
If we are not careful, the facts recede into the distance amid all the lurid speculation and rumour. A "momentary, cursory glance at the internet" brings up all kinds of accusations: the bizarre, wrong, lying, deliberately smearing and occasionally correct.
Sometimes big stories can be ignored by news organisations because there is corruption, and sometimes because they simply can't be stood up. Sometimes names are not made public – not out of deference to powerful perpetrators, but because there's not enough evidence.
All the speculation diminishes the kernel of the story, which is that many people who have been horribly exploited and abused are finding the confidence to come forward. It is right that they are not disbelieved, and it is right that the way in which previous allegations were dealt with should be investigated; but it doesn't necessarily follow that there was a massive cover-up. Nor does it follow that every single allegation is true, regardless of evidence. Perhaps some confusion arises when readers and viewers don't realise that you can say what you like about the dead, but not about the living.
Now, more than ever, we need our traditional news outlets to be absolutely certain before they publish or broadcast, given the mass of wrong and misleading information out there. It's what we as readers and viewers deserve, and should demand as a minimum standard. If we don't, there will be no difference between "a cursory glance on the internet" and news.


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Go Vote Now! update: looks like the vote button opens a popup to a Facebook app. this is required to vote :(
For the full writeup on our entry, go here!
As you can see above, our entry into the contest was a set of giant dueling mazes.
We took the idea of a table top marble maze and expanded that to be much larger. Each team races to finish the maze first. That alone was actually really fun, but we also wanted to add a way for the teams to interact with each other. To do this, we put in a trap system. There are magnets that activate to trap the ball for a few seconds and gates that can force your ball into a more difficult path. These are all controlled by your opponent.
The game is very fun to play. We were all amazed by the end that we managed not only to pull it off, but to make it actually enjoyable! I'll be writing up a detailed post on how to construct these with tons of pictures, but for now, GO VOTE!
If you want to see all of the entries in the contest, go here and check them out… then vote for hackaday.


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Clarkson University's Project Challenge, a unique academic program for local high school students, returns this winter with a choice of nine five-week courses. The popular program is designed to offer area students in grades nine through 12 an opportunity to participate in classes that are not commonly offered in their high-school curriculum.
Clarkson faculty and administrators teach the courses on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. until noon for five weeks, under the direction of The Clarkson School. This winter's program begins on January 14.
This year, the program offers four new courses: Emerging Leaders 101, Engineering for Life, How to Write a Short Story, and Intro to Entrepreneurship.
Emerging Leaders 101, with Brenda Kozsan and Kevin Lobdell, will focus on learning about the characteristics of an effective leader and developing skills through personal assessment, role playing, team- building, and interacting with invited guest speakers who will share their experiences.
Engineering for Life, with Melissa Richards, will be for all those students who have ever wanted to design and build their own rocket, tractor, roller-coaster, automobile, or robotic arm. In this class, students will learn how engineers are able to design the devices we see everywhere around us. They will even have the opportunity to design and build their own "Rec-Rube-y."
How to Write a Short Story, with Joseph Duemer, will teach students the basics of fiction writing by the drafting and revising a short story. In each class session, they will read aloud one short story and consider how it is put together. Using these insights regarding plot, point of view, setting, and characterization, students will then work on producing their own work of short fiction.
Intro to Entrepreneurship, with Erin Draper, will be for all students who have ever thought about owning their own business. This fast-paced course will focus on the entrepreneurial spirit of students and allow them to apply classroom concepts in a "real-world" context. During the class, students will be exposed to leadership principles, team building, ethical decision making, financial statements, and marketing principles.
Blood and Guts: Medical History through the Ages, with Stephen Casper and Karen Buckle, will provide students with an opportunity to explore a number of different case studies from actual historical medical records and advance medical problem-solving skills. Whether students want to become a doctor or surgeon, enter a physician assistant program, work in physiotherapy, or are just fascinated by old stories of blood, guts and gore, 'Medicine through the Ages' will have something interesting for you.
Contemporary Moral Issues, with William Vitek, will have students examine a number of contemporary moral issues that challenge us as individuals and as a society. They will begin by exploring the nature of a moral issue, as opposed to a legal or scientific issue, and discuss the nature of a moral argument and outline a method that will assist in resolving moral dilemmas.
Know Your Computer: How to Make Your Home Computer Work for You, with Jeanna Matthews, will have students see what kind of data goes over the network when they surf the Web or use AIM, as well as look at traces of common attacks like viruses or worms. They will write their own Web page and learn to install an operating system from Windows.
Real Medicine, with instructors from Clarkson's new Physician Assistant Program, will provide students with an opportunity to learn about the real world of today's medicine. Students will visualize X-rays of fractures and some splinting of the arms and legs. They will learn how to put stitches in, test their blood sugar and find out what happens when someone has a heart attack or stroke, and much more.
Saturdays with Grey's Anatomy, with Mary Alice Minor and graduate students from the Physical Therapy Program, will provide hands-on instruction on diagnosing injuries and the study of anatomy and physical therapy. Each session will consist of active participation in the anatomy lab and 'hands-on' activities and/or exercises for the focused area.
Project Challenge courses will begin on January 14 and continue through the next four Saturdays from 9 a.m. until noon until February 11, with a possible snow date of February 18.
Schools that have participated in the past include Alexandria Bay, Brasher Falls, Brushton-Moira, Canton, Chateaugay, Clifton-Fine, Colton-Pierrepont, Edwards-Knox, Gouverneur, Herman-Dekalb, Heuvelton, Indian River, Lisbon, Lyme, Malone, Massena, Morristown, Ogdensburg, Parishville-Hopkinton, Potsdam, Sackets Harbor, Salmon River, Saranac Lake, and Thousand Islands.
Interested students should first contact their guidance counselor to see if their school is participating. Participating high schools may sponsor all or part of the students' tuition. If the school is not participating, the out-of-pocket expense for the program is $140 per student. Enrollment in all courses is now available, but space is limited.
For more information, contact Brenda Kozsan or Annette Green at 315-268-4425 or email@example.com.
Photo: Students in last year's Real Medicine course practice their newly learned suturing skills.


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Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2012. 97mins
In 1994 Winterbottom made Family, a four-part TV series written by Roddy Doyle, each section focusing on a different member of an Irish working-class family. Once it was edited to feature length, the filmmaker became a known force to watch. Now he's back to a related scenario, a novel approach to the subject of family with the superb Everyday, an observation of the life of a struggling working-class mother, father, and their four young children, but in England.
Here there is glory in the lives of simple, unprivileged folk and the more-or-less banal events of their daily lives.
He filmed it occasionally over five years for authenticity in the kids' performances (all are real-life siblings), whom we see grow and develop in untenable circumstances. The shooting strategy allows him to address the passage of time without formal trickery like jump cuts and flashbacks.
The film is probably best shown on TV or viewing in the intimate atmosphere of one's home. Of course there is much here that could be termed "downer," so any distributors, theatrical or television, have their work cut out for them. The rewards, however, are plentiful—even if anything like the profits of some of Winterbottom's multiple features will be lacking. This is not a project meant to be lucrative.
The father, Ian (Simm), is incarcerated for some unspecified drug abuse; the mother, Karen (Henderson), resides in a different kind of prison. She must serve the brood as both both parents, eking out a living tending bar in a pub, dealing on her lonesome with the problems that come with young, growing children, adjusting to life without a partner. Eddie (Tighe), a pub pal of Ian's, becomes her lover, but he is more of a father surrogate for her kids than anything else. Winterbottom is, as usual, comfortable in a proletarian milieu, his affection undeniable.
The opposition of Ian's confined life in a cell and the open landscapes that the rest of the family take for granted is never schematic. The director finds alluring ways to visualize it—sheep in meadows, wild plants, forests, and beach—and to even call attention to it with outstanding music, short stanzas by Michael Nyman that link the dichotomous settings.
Classical compositions with only a few instruments, they come on at unpredictable moments, reinforcing some narrative point or reinforcing a mood. Here there is glory in the lives of simple, unprivileged folk and the more-or-less banal events of their daily lives. The only other recurring music is the song The Look of Love, which must be a testament to the viability of Karen and Ian's remaining together as a couple through all this.
Karen's life is comprised of early morning lengthy train rides to the prison for a quick visit, sometimes with the children, then a drop-off at their school, going to her job, and at the end of a long day, cooking and cleaning. Multitasking is a necessity for this small bird of a woman, but she handles it well, as maybe only a Shirley Henderson can do so credibly.
Simm has the weaker role, an absent father who is becoming more and more estranged from the kids. It is irritating to hear Ian say "Good to see you" to a four-year-old, but then he is not privy to their everyday activities and interests: There is not much to say. Simm milks his considerable charisma to add some depth to the man. In spite of the circumstances, Karen and the two daughters and two sons live life, whereas the best Ian can do is look at photos of them at school functions or playing outdoors.
He is more someone everyone is waiting for, once the day passes turn into release. He has no job lined up, he and Karen argue, but the final sequence offers hope for a permanent reunion. In spite of the odds, it seems that this family just might be reconstituted.
Production companies: Film4, Revolution Films
International sales: Bankside Films, www.bankside-films.com
Producer: Melissa Parmenter
Executive producer: Andrew Eaton
Screenplay: Laurence Coriat, Michael Winterbottom
Cinematography: James Clarke, Sean Bobbitt, Marcel Zyskind, Simon Tindall, Ann Marie Lean Vercoe
Editors: Mags Arnold, Paul Monaghan
Music: Michael Nyman
Main cast: John Simm, Shirley Henderson, Shaun Kirk, Robert Kirk, Katrina Kirk, Stephanie Kirk, Darren Tighe


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Wild Artefact Locations
All Wild Artefacts - Video Walkthrough
Wild Artefact Locations
There are 10 Wild Artefacts found across time. One for each of the 10 Wild Artefact Gates.
- Bresha Ruins 005 AF Reward for the Moogle Hunt tutorial quest
- Sunleth Waterscape 300 AF When riding on the back of the beast from north to south, look for it on the left side roughly halfway through the ride.
- Oerba 200 AF On the ledge on the right side of the building north of the large tree (the tree in the middle of the road between buildings). Throw Mog to get to obtain it.
- Serendipity ??? AF Purchase for 10,000 casino coins or 7,500 if you have the Bargain Hunter fragment skill.
- The Archylte Steppe ??? AF The very far west side of the map, in the Clearwater Marshes, is a ledge with this artefact. Have the camera looking down as you look along edge to see the ledge below – it can be easy to miss if you're not looking for it. Throw Mog down there to get it. Try to aim for hitting it or Mog might bounce over the edge. (see below for how to reach this area)
- Bresha Ruins 300 AF Obtained from the Iridium Ring quest. Use Moogle Hunt on the red silhouette of the man walking around in the cemetery. He will give you the quest.
- Augusta Tower 200 AF Look to the north of the middle ring of floor 50 (not the side with the sphere). Walk over or throw Mog to obtain.
- Yaschas Massif 100 AF Complete the red orb quests until a temporal rift appears on the ground near the statue/face. Resolve the anomaly by completing all the clock puzzles and you'll receive the artefact.
- Academia 4XX AF Find Chocolina on the east side of Academia. Directly south of her is a back alley area. There's nothing really notable about the place except for a sphere on a very short flight of steps, so it's easy to miss. Best route is to find Chocolina near the gate then take the flight of steps to the east of her then immediately take the blue walkway. Take an immediate left into a back alley area (the music will change once you walk down the steps here). Go straight until you can turn left. You'll find the artefact near some boxes where the ground changes from black and copper to gray. Use Moogle Hunt to obtain.
- A Dying World 700 AF After completing this area in the story, return via the historia crux to the place where Noel last saw Yeul in his nightmare. During the Live Trigger, answer with, "I can do this" for the artefact to appear.
How to reach the Clearwater Marshes in The Archylte Steppe ??? AF:
- Use the gold Cactuar statue. Set the weather to windy/dusty (up, up) then looking on the north edge of for a small dust devil tornado. Go investigate the small tornado to reveal the statue.
- Use the Anti-grav Jump (obtained in Serendipity after A Dying World 700 AF) to cross the gap.
- Use a chocobo to jump the trench. (Granted in order to get chocobos you must have been in the marsh at least once already.)


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You Gotta Protect The One's You Serve
Remember these promises during Barack Obama's campaign?
Followed by some action during the bank bailouts… when populist pressure was mounting:
Pledging to take "the air out of golden parachutes," President Obama announced Wednesday that executives of companies receiving federal bailout money will have their pay capped at $500,000 under a revised financial compensation plan.
But whaaaaaa, not so much when no one is looking:
"The Obama administration is engineering its new bailout initiatives in a way that it believes will allow firms benefiting from the programs to avoid restrictions imposed by Congress, including limits on lavish executive pay, according to government officials.
Administration officials have concluded that this approach is vital for persuading firms to participate in programs funded by the $700 billion financial rescue package."
Oh, and remember how he was opposed to Bush's consolidation of powers in the executive branch and the NSA wiretapping program:
Turns out that once you get those powers, you aren't so opposed to them, so now…:
The Obama administration formally adopted the Bush administration's position that the courts cannot judge the legality of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) warrantless wiretapping program, filing a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA late Friday.
This is in essence a tacit endorsement of Bush's policies saying the judicial branch cannot shut down warrantless wiretapping, so better check your phone to make sure no one's listening.
See Also: Obama Administration Seeks to Help Wall Street Circumvent the Executive Pay Restrictions that Obama Has Been Advocating in Public, Very, very bad from Obama Administration, Obama = Worse than Bush, No Comment, Obama invokes "State secrets" over wiretapping lawsuit, Decoding Obama Law, TARP May Cost $167 Billion More Than Estimated, Former S&L Regulator: Absolutely A Banking Bailout Coverup, Some Changes I Can't Believe In, US watchdog calls for bank executives to be sacked, Once You're TARPed There's No Going Back, Bailout Protestors March Near Wall Street, Obama Looking to Launder Bailout Money to Avoid the Pay for Performance Plan?, and Resist or Become Serfs.
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(visited by Richard F)
08-Aug-2006 -- On a bright sunny summer day, 8 August 2006, I completed my first confluence visit in Qinghai Province, western China. 33N 97E is just on the outskirts of the town called Yushu, also known as Jyekundo. It is in a mountainous region, quite high altitude. The confluence itself is at 3740 m above sea level.
Yushu is mainly an agricultural town, as well as being home to a large Buddhist monastery and another smaller temple quite close to the confluence. The population is probably about half-half Han Chinese and Tibetan, with a small number of Hui Chinese to bring it up to 100 per cent. There are a lot of yaks, too!
I reached Yushu from Sichuan Province, to the south, coming north up the road and over a 4700 m pass from Shiqu. It is also easy to reach by a long, long bus journey from Xining, the capital of Qinghai, far to the east.
The afternoon before my visit, I climbed to the top of the hill where the monastery oversees the whole town. I was pretty sure I could see where the confluence would be, across the other side of town and hopefully on the green slopes of a hill, rather than in the winding brown alley-ways of that part of town.
Setting out from my hotel the next morning, I had only a 2 km walk ahead of me. As I got closer, I started to worry that the confluence would be in someone's house. My Chinese is pretty elementary, and I didn't think I'd be able to explain what I was up to. But with about 500 m to go, I came out onto the field behind town, and then saw that the spot might actually fall inside the walls surrounding some communications antennae.
Under the watchful eyes of a nearby yak, I followed the arrow on my screen until I found the exact confluence, only a meter or two from the wall surrounding the communications facility. Success! The GPS stated an error of plus-minus 6 metres.
I took my photographs and made a swift but happy departure. Foreigners are few and far between in this part of China and I worried that someone might see me photographing the communications facility and marking its location with GPS. You can never tell what a bored local policeman might think of such activity!
I never came within reasonable distance of another confluence on the rest of trip, but I look forward to future visits when the chance presents itself.


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Text::CSV_PP - Text::CSV_XS compatible pure-Perl module
use Text::CSV_PP; $csv = Text::CSV_PP->new(); # create a new object # If you want to handle non-ascii char. $csv = Text::CSV_PP->new({binary => 1}); $status = $csv->combine(@columns); # combine columns into a string $line = $csv->string(); # get the combined string $status = $csv->parse($line); # parse a CSV string into fields @columns = $csv->fields(); # get the parsed fields $status = $csv->status (); # get the most recent status $bad_argument = $csv->error_input (); # get the most recent bad argument $diag = $csv->error_diag (); # if an error occured, explains WHY $status = $csv->print ($io, $colref); # Write an array of fields # immediately to a file $io $colref = $csv->getline ($io); # Read a line from file $io, # parse it and return an array # ref of fields $csv->column_names (@names); # Set column names for getline_hr () $ref = $csv->getline_hr ($io); # getline (), but returns a hashref $eof = $csv->eof (); # Indicate if last parse or # getline () hit End Of File $csv->types(\@t_array); # Set column types
Text::CSV_PP has almost same functions of Text::CSV_XS which provides facilities for the composition and decomposition of comma-separated values. As its name suggests, Text::CSV_XS is a XS module and Text::CSV_PP is a Puer Perl one.
This module is compatible with Text::CSV_XS 0.80 and later.
On parsing (both for getline () and parse ()), if the source is marked being UTF8, then parsing that source will mark all fields that are marked binary will also be marked UTF8.
getline ()
parse ()
On combining (print () and combine ()), if any of the combining fields was marked UTF8, the resulting string will be marked UTF8.
print ()
combine ()
These methods are almost same as Text::CSV_XS. Most of the documentation was shamelessly copied and replaced from Text::CSV_XS.
See to Text::CSV_XS.
(Class method) Returns the current backend module version. If you want the module version, you can use the VERSION method,
print Text::CSV->VERSION; # This module version print Text::CSV->version; # The version of the worker module # same as Text::CSV->backend->version
(Class method) Returns a new instance of Text::CSV_XS. The objects attributes are described by the (optional) hash ref \%attr. Currently the following attributes are available:
An end-of-line string to add to rows. undef is replaced with an empty string. The default is $\. Common values for eol are "\012" (Line Feed) or "\015\012" (Carriage Return, Line Feed). Cannot be longer than 7 (ASCII) characters.
If both $/ and eol equal "\015", parsing lines that end on only a Carriage Return without Line Feed, will be parsed correct. Line endings, whether in $/ or eol, other than undef, "\n", "\r\n", or "\r" are not (yet) supported for parsing.
The char used for separating fields, by default a comma. (,). Limited to a single-byte character, usually in the range from 0x20 (space) to 0x7e (tilde).
The separation character can not be equal to the quote character. The separation character can not be equal to the escape character.
See also "CAVEATS" in Text::CSV_XS
When this option is set to true, whitespace (TAB's and SPACE's) surrounding the separation character is removed when parsing. If either TAB or SPACE is one of the three major characters sep_char, quote_char, or escape_char it will not be considered whitespace.
So lines like:
1 , "foo" , bar , 3 , zapp
are now correctly parsed, even though it violates the CSV specs.
Note that all whitespace is stripped from start and end of each field. That would make it more a feature than a way to be able to parse bad CSV lines, as
1, 2.0, 3, ape , monkey
will now be parsed as
("1", "2.0", "3", "ape", "monkey")
even if the original line was perfectly sane CSV.
Under normal circumstances, CSV data makes no distinction between quoted- and unquoted empty fields. They both end up in an empty string field once read, so
1,"",," ",2
is read as
("1", "", "", " ", "2")
When writing CSV files with always_quote set, the unquoted empty field is the result of an undefined value. To make it possible to also make this distinction when reading CSV data, the blank_is_undef option will cause unquoted empty fields to be set to undef, causing the above to be parsed as
("1", "", undef, " ", "2")
Going one step further than blank_is_undef, this attribute converts all empty fields to undef, so
(1, undef, undef, " ", 2)
Note that this only effects fields that are realy empty, not fields that are empty after stripping allowed whitespace. YMMV.
The char used for quoting fields containing blanks, by default the double quote character ("). A value of undef suppresses quote chars. (For simple cases only). Limited to a single-byte character, usually in the range from 0x20 (space) to 0x7e (tilde).
The quote character can not be equal to the separation character.
By default, parsing fields that have quote_char characters inside an unquoted field, like
1,foo "bar" baz,42
would result in a parse error. Though it is still bad practice to allow this format, we cannot help there are some vendors that make their applications spit out lines styled like this.
In case there is really bad CSV data, like
1,"foo "bar" baz",42
1,""foo bar baz"",42
there is a way to get that parsed, and leave the quotes inside the quoted field as-is. This can be achieved by setting allow_loose_quotes AND making sure that the escape_char is not equal to quote_char.
The character used for escaping certain characters inside quoted fields. Limited to a single-byte character, usually in the range from 0x20 (space) to 0x7e (tilde).
The escape_char defaults to being the literal double-quote mark (") in other words, the same as the default quote_char. This means that doubling the quote mark in a field escapes it:
"foo","bar","Escape ""quote mark"" with two ""quote marks""","baz"
If you change the default quote_char without changing the default escape_char, the escape_char will still be the quote mark. If instead you want to escape the quote_char by doubling it, you will need to change the escape_char to be the same as what you changed the quote_char to.
The escape character can not be equal to the separation character.
By default, parsing fields that have escape_char characters that escape characters that do not need to be escaped, like:
my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({ escape_char => "\\" }); $csv->parse (qq{1,"my bar\'s",baz,42});
would result in a parse error. Though it is still bad practice to allow this format, this option enables you to treat all escape character sequences equal.
If this attribute is TRUE, you may use binary characters in quoted fields, including line feeds, carriage returns and NULL bytes. (The latter must be escaped as "0.) By default this feature is off.
If a string is marked UTF8, binary will be turned on automatically when binary characters other than CR or NL are encountered. Note that a simple string like "\x{00a0}" might still be binary, but not marked UTF8, so setting { binary => 1 } is still a wise option.
{ binary => 1 }
A set of column types; this attribute is immediately passed to the types method below. You must not set this attribute otherwise, except for using the types method. For details see the description of the types method below.
By default the generated fields are quoted only, if they need to, for example, if they contain the separator. If you set this attribute to a TRUE value, then all defined fields will be quoted. This is typically easier to handle in external applications.
By default, a space in a field would trigger quotation. As no rule exists this to be forced in CSV, nor any for the opposite, the default is true for safety. You can exclude the space from this trigger by setting this option to 0.
By default, a NULL byte in a field would be escaped. This attribute enables you to treat the NULL byte as a simple binary character in binary mode (the { binary => 1 } is set). The default is true. You can prevent NULL escapes by setting this attribute to 0.
By default, the parsing of input lines is as simple and fast as possible. However, some parsing information - like quotation of the original field - is lost in that process. Set this flag to true to be able to retrieve that information after parsing with the methods meta_info (), is_quoted (), and is_binary () described below. Default is false.
meta_info ()
is_quoted ()
is_binary ()
This is a quite controversial attribute to set, but it makes hard things possible.
The basic thought behind this is to tell the parser that the normally special characters newline (NL) and Carriage Return (CR) will not be special when this flag is set, and be dealt with as being ordinary binary characters. This will ease working with data with embedded newlines.
When verbatim is used with getline (), getline () auto-chomp's every line.
Imagine a file format like
M^^Hans^Janssen^Klas 2\n2A^Ja^11-06-2007#\r\n
where, the line ending is a very specific "#\r\n", and the sep_char is a ^ (caret). None of the fields is quoted, but embedded binary data is likely to be present. With the specific line ending, that shouldn't be too hard to detect.
By default, Text::CSV' parse function however is instructed to only know about "\n" and "\r" to be legal line endings, and so has to deal with the embedded newline as a real end-of-line, so it can scan the next line if binary is true, and the newline is inside a quoted field. With this attribute however, we can tell parse () to parse the line as if \n is just nothing more than a binary character.
For parse () this means that the parser has no idea about line ending anymore, and getline () chomps line endings on reading.
Set to true will cause error_diag () to be automatically be called in void context upon errors.
error_diag ()
If set to a value greater than 1, it will die on errors instead of warn.
To check future plans and a difference in XS version, please see to "auto_diag" in Text::CSV_XS.
To sum it up,
$csv = Text::CSV_PP->new ();
is equivalent to
$csv = Text::CSV_PP->new ({ quote_char => '"', escape_char => '"', sep_char => ',', eol => $\, always_quote => 0, quote_space => 1, quote_null => 1, binary => 0, keep_meta_info => 0, allow_loose_quotes => 0, allow_loose_escapes => 0, allow_whitespace => 0, blank_is_undef => 0, empty_is_undef => 0, verbatim => 0, auto_diag => 0, });
For all of the above mentioned flags, there is an accessor method available where you can inquire for the current value, or change the value
my $quote = $csv->quote_char; $csv->binary (1);
It is unwise to change these settings halfway through writing CSV data to a stream. If however, you want to create a new stream using the available CSV object, there is no harm in changing them.
If the new () constructor call fails, it returns undef, and makes the fail reason available through the error_diag () method.
new ()
$csv = Text::CSV->new ({ ecs_char => 1 }) or die "" . Text::CSV->error_diag ();
error_diag () will return a string like
"INI - Unknown attribute 'ecs_char'"
$status = $csv->print ($io, $colref);
Similar to combine () + string () + print, but more efficient. It expects an array ref as input (not an array!) and the resulting string is not really created (XS version), but immediately written to the $io object, typically an IO handle or any other object that offers a print method. Note, this implies that the following is wrong in perl 5.005_xx and older:
combine () + string () + print
open FILE, ">", "whatever"; $status = $csv->print (\*FILE, $colref);
as in perl 5.005 and older, the glob \*FILE is not an object, thus it doesn't have a print method. The solution is to use an IO::File object or to hide the glob behind an IO::Wrap object. See IO::File and IO::Wrap for details.
For performance reasons the print method doesn't create a result string. (If its backend is PP version, result strings are created internally.) In particular the $csv->string (), $csv->status (), $csv-fields ()> and $csv->error_input () methods are meaningless after executing this method.
$status = $csv->combine (@columns);
This object function constructs a CSV string from the arguments, returning success or failure. Failure can result from lack of arguments or an argument containing an invalid character. Upon success, string () can be called to retrieve the resultant CSV string. Upon failure, the value returned by string () is undefined and error_input () can be called to retrieve an invalid argument.
string ()
error_input ()
$line = $csv->string ();
This object function returns the input to parse () or the resultant CSV string of combine (), whichever was called more recently.
$colref = $csv->getline ($io);
This is the counterpart to print, like parse is the counterpart to combine: It reads a row from the IO object $io using $io->getline () and parses this row into an array ref. This array ref is returned by the function or undef for failure.
When fields are bound with bind_columns (), the return value is a reference to an empty list.
bind_columns ()
The $csv->string (), $csv->fields () and $csv->status () methods are meaningless, again.
$arrayref = $csv->getline_all ($io); $arrayref = $csv->getline_all ($io, $offset); $arrayref = $csv->getline_all ($io, $offset, $length);
This will return a reference to a list of getline ($io) results. In this call, keep_meta_info is disabled. If $offset is negative, as with splice (), only the last abs ($offset) records of $io are taken into consideration.
getline ($io)
splice ()
abs ($offset)
Given a CSV file with 10 lines:
lines call ----- --------------------------------------------------------- 0..9 $csv->getline_all ($io) # all 0..9 $csv->getline_all ($io, 0) # all 8..9 $csv->getline_all ($io, 8) # start at 8 - $csv->getline_all ($io, 0, 0) # start at 0 first 0 rows 0..4 $csv->getline_all ($io, 0, 5) # start at 0 first 5 rows 4..5 $csv->getline_all ($io, 4, 2) # start at 4 first 2 rows 8..9 $csv->getline_all ($io, -2) # last 2 rows 6..7 $csv->getline_all ($io, -4, 2) # first 2 of last 4 rows
$status = $csv->parse ($line);
This object function decomposes a CSV string into fields, returning success or failure. Failure can result from a lack of argument or the given CSV string is improperly formatted. Upon success, fields () can be called to retrieve the decomposed fields . Upon failure, the value returned by fields () is undefined and error_input () can be called to retrieve the invalid argument.
fields ()
You may use the types () method for setting column types. See the description below.
The getline_hr () and column_names () methods work together to allow you to have rows returned as hashrefs. You must call column_names () first to declare your column names.
getline_hr ()
column_names ()
$csv->column_names (qw( code name price description )); $hr = $csv->getline_hr ($io); print "Price for $hr->{name} is $hr->{price} EUR\n";
getline_hr () will croak if called before column_names ().
$arrayref = $csv->getline_hr_all ($io);
This will return a reference to a list of getline_hr ($io) results. In this call, keep_meta_info is disabled.
getline_hr ($io)
Set the keys that will be used in the getline_hr () calls. If no keys (column names) are passed, it'll return the current setting.
column_names () accepts a list of scalars (the column names) or a single array_ref, so you can pass getline ()
$csv->column_names ($csv->getline ($io));
column_names () does no checking on duplicates at all, which might lead to unwanted results. Undefined entries will be replaced with the string "\cAUNDEF\cA", so
$csv->column_names (undef, "", "name", "name"); $hr = $csv->getline_hr ($io);
Will set $hr-{"\cAUNDEF\cA"}> to the 1st field, $hr-{""}> to the 2nd field, and $hr-{name}> to the 4th field, discarding the 3rd field.
column_names () croaks on invalid arguments.
Takes a list of references to scalars to store the fields fetched getline () in. When you don't pass enough references to store the fetched fields in, getline () will fail. If you pass more than there are fields to return, the remaining references are left untouched.
$csv->bind_columns (\$code, \$name, \$price, \$description); while ($csv->getline ($io)) { print "The price of a $name is \x{20ac} $price\n"; }
$eof = $csv->eof ();
If parse () or getline () was used with an IO stream, this method will return true (1) if the last call hit end of file, otherwise it will return false (''). This is useful to see the difference between a failure and end of file.
$csv->types (\@tref);
This method is used to force that columns are of a given type. For example, if you have an integer column, two double columns and a string column, then you might do a
$csv->types ([Text::CSV_PP::IV (), Text::CSV_PP::NV (), Text::CSV_PP::NV (), Text::CSV_PP::PV ()]);
Column types are used only for decoding columns, in other words by the parse () and getline () methods.
You can unset column types by doing a
$csv->types (undef);
or fetch the current type settings with
$types = $csv->types ();
Set field type to integer.
Set field type to numeric/float.
Set field type to string.
@columns = $csv->fields ();
This object function returns the input to combine () or the resultant decomposed fields of C successful <parse ()>, whichever was called more recently.
Note that the return value is undefined after using getline (), which does not fill the data structures returned by parse ().
@flags = $csv->meta_info ();
This object function returns the flags of the input to combine () or the flags of the resultant decomposed fields of parse (), whichever was called more recently.
For each field, a meta_info field will hold flags that tell something about the field returned by the fields () method or passed to the combine () method. The flags are bitwise-or'd like:
The field was quoted.
The field was binary.
See the is_*** () methods below.
is_*** ()
my $quoted = $csv->is_quoted ($column_idx);
Where $column_idx is the (zero-based) index of the column in the last result of parse ().
This returns a true value if the data in the indicated column was enclosed in quote_char quotes. This might be important for data where ,20070108, is to be treated as a numeric value, and where ,"20070108", is explicitly marked as character string data.
my $binary = $csv->is_binary ($column_idx);
This returns a true value if the data in the indicated column contained any byte in the range [\x00-\x08,\x10-\x1F,\x7F-\xFF]
$status = $csv->status ();
This object function returns success (or failure) of combine () or parse (), whichever was called more recently.
$bad_argument = $csv->error_input ();
This object function returns the erroneous argument (if it exists) of combine () or parse (), whichever was called more recently.
Text::CSV_PP->error_diag (); $csv->error_diag (); $error_code = 0 + $csv->error_diag (); $error_str = "" . $csv->error_diag (); ($cde, $str, $pos) = $csv->error_diag ();
If (and only if) an error occured, this function returns the diagnostics of that error.
If called in void context, it will print the internal error code and the associated error message to STDERR.
If called in list context, it will return the error code and the error message in that order. If the last error was from parsing, the third value returned is the best guess at the location within the line that was being parsed. It's value is 1-based.
Note: $pos does not show the error point in many cases. It is for conscience's sake.
If called in scalar context, it will return the diagnostics in a single scalar, a-la $!. It will contain the error code in numeric context, and the diagnostics message in string context.
To achieve this behavior with CSV_PP, the returned diagnostics is blessed object.
$csv->SetDiag (0);
Use to reset the diagnostics if you are dealing with errors.
If an error occured, $csv->error_diag () can be used to get more information on the cause of the failure. Note that for speed reasons, the internal value is never cleared on success, so using the value returned by error_diag () in normal cases - when no error occured - may cause unexpected results.
Note: CSV_PP's diagnostics is different from CSV_XS's:
Text::CSV_XS parses csv strings by dividing one character while Text::CSV_PP by using the regular expressions. That difference makes the different cause of the failure.
Currently these errors are available:
The separation character cannot be equal to either the quotation character or the escape character, as that will invalidate all parsing rules.
Using allow_whitespace when either escape_char or quote_char is equal to SPACE or TAB is too ambiguous to allow.
Using default eol characters in either sep_char, quote_char, or escape_char is not allowed.
Makamaka Hannyaharamitu, <makamaka[at]cpan.org>
Text::CSV_XS was written by <joe[at]ispsoft.de> and maintained by <h.m.brand[at]xs4all.nl>.
Text::CSV was written by <alan[at]mfgrtl.com>.
Copyright 2005-2010 by Makamaka Hannyaharamitu, <makamaka[at]cpan.org>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Text::CSV_XS, Text::CSV
I got many regexp bases from http://www.din.or.jp/~ohzaki/perl.htm
To install Text::CSV, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm Text::CSV
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Text::CSV
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.


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